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Would this work perfectly with a asus h97 pro gamer?
Cpu is Haswell and mobo is Haswell refresh

1231 v3 cannot be found in my country. So should I try to find one?

Or should I get a h87 board to put 1230 v3 because it both of the components are Haswell.?

Btw is this better than A i5 4690?

I have Cfx r9 270x I also use this for editing. But mostly gaming.

Btw tell me the difference between 1230 v3 and 1231 v3 performance wise?
 
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You will be fine with the 1230v3. If the 4690 is significantly cheaper for your region, that is perfectly fine as well. Either will perform very well.
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The 1230v3 should work fine. The only real difference is the 200mhz faster base clock on the 1231v3. I'd rather have the 8 thread capability of the Xeon than the extra clock speed of the 4690, but both are going to offer similar gaming performance.
 
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1231 V3 has slightly higher clock speed compared to the 1230 v3. (3.4 Ghz vs 3.2 Ghz - Not much difference).

For gaming the difference between the Intel i5-4460 and Xeon E3 1230 V3 is none, they will perform the same.

So even if you get the Intel i5-4460 you won't be missing out on performance. It's also good enough for editing.

Maybe if more games use more than 4 threads in the future you will see beter performance on the Xeon.
 
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Or if you do any video encoding, recording, streaming or use any other non-gaming applications that are rather demanding, they'll probably benefit from the additional threads. Also, if you do any of those things, plus running a bunch of browser tabs or Skype, while gaming, the extra cores are probably helpful there as well.
 
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It's not WAY better. It's comparable. It really depends on what your doing. As mentioned above. For gaming, any Haswell refresh chips performs pretty well. Even the i3-4360 whups on the FX chips, and does well when paired with high end cards. But the bigger chips offer a little more flexibility and some advantages not found on lower models like higher on chip caches and versus the older Haswell chips, the Haswell refresh chips have slightly higher performance, maybe 5%, and in some cases lower power consumption. For gaming, any of the Haswell or Haswell refresh i5, i7, or the mentioned Xeons have comparable gaming performance.
 
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Thank you dark breeze here's the last question.

Regarding everything hyper threading , gaming, video editing or simply overall,

Which is better i5 4690 or e3 1230 v3?
 
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I have e3-1231V3, this should be equal to 1230V3 or 1230V2.
E3-1231V3 or i7 4790 or i7 4770 (with and without K @ stock speed) is not a big difference for most games, perhaps only 2-3 fps.
Games tend to rely more on GPU than on proc.
There are exception games, which can gain benefit with having more cores/threads but they are very few and the extra fps is also not significant.
Things could change as games in the future might use more than 4 cores and thus makes i7 or E3-1231V3 to be the better investment, but... this is still pure speculation tho'.

If you have the money, do not plan to OC, do not need the iGPU, E3-1231V3, 1230V2, 1230V3 are the better alternatives to the i7.
Looking from price point of view, E3-1231V3 is the better alternative to i5 too. More threads, more tasks, etc.
 
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Actually if it was 1231 v3 which is available here, I would buy it. Unfortunately I can't buy it here.

I live in Sri Lanka. Do any of you know some kinda way to order it from Internet. Only eBay ships Sri Lanka.
 
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Between the i3-4360 and i7-4790k, for gaming only, on a single monitor, there is virtually no difference in performance except on titles that are threaded and of course, where clock speed is a factor. On the majority of games, always considering there WILL be exceptions, the i3-4360 paired with a GTX 980 will perform just as well as an i5/i7 as long as you're not recording, streaming, skyping, etc., in addition to your gameplay.


http://www.techspot.com/review/943-best-value-desktop-cpu/page6.html
 
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