4770 or Xeon e3-1230 v3?

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No question, the Xeon. The only reasons to go with the i7 is either for the integrated graphics, or overclocking. The 4770 can't overclock, anyway. It's not worth the extra $60 just for 200Mhz. Plus like i7Baby mentioned, the Xeon uses less wattage and probably runs a little cooler. If you're going to spend the money on this quality of a CPU, you're most likely not going to use integrated graphics, and if you're not going to overclock, there is absolutely no reason to spend the extra $60 on the 4770 to get exactly the same thing, only 200Mhz faster.
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No question, the Xeon. The only reasons to go with the i7 is either for the integrated graphics, or overclocking. The 4770 can't overclock, anyway. It's not worth the extra $60 just for 200Mhz. Plus like i7Baby mentioned, the Xeon uses less wattage and probably runs a little cooler. If you're going to spend the money on this quality of a CPU, you're most likely not going to use integrated graphics, and if you're not going to overclock, there is absolutely no reason to spend the extra $60 on the 4770 to get exactly the same thing, only 200Mhz faster.
 
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Exactly. In my opinion, as soon as you go up to the 1240v3, you're starting to lose the value.

I've only seen one viable reason to go with the i7 over the Xeon, and that was when someone mentioned that if you're into recording game video, some game streaming/recording software can make use of the integrated GPU to offload some of the work from your CPU and dedicated graphics card. I haven't verified that, but that's the only good reason I've seen.
 
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I think AMD is doing this with heterogenous computing where in there APUs they allow you to use the GPU cores to offload work from the CPU. However I don't think any program really utilises this, and I don't think Intel supports it anyway on their current CPU platforms.

 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/367704-28-difference-integrated-graphics

And I think I know what you mean. I'm not entirely sure though.
 
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If you are talking about QuickSync, then the Xeon E3 1245 V3 supports it all while still being cheaper than the i7-4770, albeit only by around $20.
 
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I think that intel doesn't promote Xeon chips for gamers from a marketing point of view. But if you want to play games and have no interest in overclocking you are better of with an e3-Xeon than an i7 because of the better price/performance value . But ofcourse that is my personal opinion.

I'm using a xeon e3-1240v3; Sapphire HD7850 OC; ASROCK H87m-pro4; 16 gigs of 1600 MHz ram. It runs great....
 
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