Building new PC for Gaming help needed

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

Guys which is better configuration for gaming only ??
Thanks

Processor: Intel i5 4670
MotherBoard: Gigabyte H87M D3H
Ram: Corsair Vengeance (8x1) GB DDR3 RAM 1600 MHz
Storage: 1TB WD
Graphics card: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 4 GB
Power Supply: Antec VP650P
Cabinet: NZXT Phantom 410

Processor: Intel E3 1230 V3
MotherBoard: Gigabyte B85M D3H
Ram: Corsair Vengeance (8x1) GB DDR3 RAM 1600 MHz
Storage: 1TB WD
Graphics card: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 4 GB
Power Supply: Seasonic 650
Cabinet: NZXT Phantom 530

Syblemz · Jun 15, 2014

Out of those two, probably the first one.

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

Syblemz :

Thanks
Whats you reason ?

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

Thats actually a much trickier question than it seems. since your builds are basically the same and both CPUs are soo similar (4 cores , ~3.3 ghz) and will play any game no problem at the moment even without overclocking, your basically asking whether in the future you'll achieve better performance from a higher clock or HT (i e more logical cores). I personally an of the mindset that it will be HT that wins the day (since the consoles are moving to higher cored systems the logical cores will start to have a higher impact), but few of us are qualified to make guesses as to the future of an entire industry.

The xeon also marginally out performs the I5 at stock clocks as well, so probably the xeon would be my choice.

Syblemz · Jun 15, 2014

They would both be good, but Xeons are mainly a server type processor since they are designed to run at lower temperatures. The i5 4670 also has a slightly faster clock speed. But yes, both can run games no problem.

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

Syblemz :

Mainly for servers is a bad reason, they have the basically the same clock( 3.3 xeon vs 3.4 i5) and their IPC(instructions per cycle) is the same, you will see no difference at the moment in gaming, since neither come anywhere near bottle necking a card..

What you will see with the 2011 seat however is more memory capacity (64 vs 32 gb) for future upgrades as well as better PCI laning for Xfire if he should want one later.

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

Syblemz :

This doesnt matter either, as they cant possibly be overclocked to reach those higher temps.

Syblemz · Jun 15, 2014

Yeah, okay, my bad I should have expanded on that. And okay.

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

vortical :

i5 4670 or the E3 1230 V3 will work fine for both the mobo i listed above Gigabyte H87M D3H and Gigabyte B85M D3H right ?

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

cydialover :

vortical :

i5 4670 or the E3 1230 V3 will work fine for both the mobo i listed above Gigabyte H87M D3H and Gigabyte B85M D3H right ?

NVM, apparently they are both 1150 seat, but your boards will work

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

I still think that the xeon will have the better future usefulness even without the 2011 seat's perks though.

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

So this would be d best config ?
Processor: Intel E3 1230 V3
MotherBoard: Gigabyte H87M D3H
Ram: Corsair Vengeance (8x1) GB DDR3 RAM 1600 MHz
Storage: 1TB WD
Graphics card: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 4 GB
Power Supply: Seasonic 650
Cabinet: NZXT Phantom 530

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

cydialover :

"best" is relative, they're both almost the same right not, its important you understand that my recommendation is purely off of the fact that i speculate that HT will be more useful to you in the future than the ability to overclock.

And though i work with computers as a profession, i am by no means an industry insider, so take my speculation as just that.

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

vortical :

well i'm not purchasing the 4670k version as i'm not going to overclock so i think Xeon 1230 v3 would be the best choice as you said both will work same today
but in future there may be more game with 8 Core support then the xeon will be more future prroof

vortical · Jun 15, 2014

cydialover :

vortical :

well i'm not purchasing the 4670k version as i'm not going to overclock so i think Xeon 1230 v3 would be the best choice as you said both will work same today
but in future there may be more game with 8 Core support then the xeon will be more future prroof

If you DEFINITELY wont overclock, then there's no debate that the xeon hyper threading will be better over time.

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

vortical :

cydialover :

If you DEFINITELY wont overclock, then there's no debate that the xeon hyper threading will be better over time.

Alright thank you very much
I'll be getting Intel E3 1230 V3 with Gigabyte H87M D3H and R9 290 Tri-X

reesemonster · Jun 15, 2014

Glad we could help!

blademaster123 · Jun 15, 2014

Yeah get the Xeon. By the way, get 2 x 4GB RAM sticks so that you can let them run in dual channel mode. Slightly faster than a single stick.

Rohitdev7736 · Jun 15, 2014

The first one is good.But move from a h series motherboard to a z series motherboard for better gaming performance

Syblemz · Jun 15, 2014

This has pretty much already been solved and sorted. They decided on the Xeon.

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

blademaster123 :

ill be later upgrading ram to 16 GB

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

blademaster123 :

ill be later upgrading ram to 16 GB

cydialover · Jun 15, 2014

Rohitdev7736 :

That seems like somewhat costly then as B and H series are of same price
and i'm already over my budget

Rohitdev7736 · Jun 17, 2014

bUT H SERIES Mb LIMIT YOUR GRAPHIC CARD PERFORMANCE...

blademaster123 · Jun 17, 2014

Rohitdev7736 :

No they don't.

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