Which CPU - i5 4690k or a Xeon E3 1231 v3?

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I hope someone can help me choose. I'm planning on upgrade my old CPU and mobo and RAM (from DDR2 RAM) in the next couple of months and being on somewhat of a tight budget my two choices are either a i5 4690K or a Xeon E3 1231 v3. This will be paired with my GTX 750 ti sc which I already have. The main thing I will be doing is gaming.

At first I was going to buy the Xeon because it would be roughly the same price mobo and cooler + it is hyper-threaded which will probably be more benefical in the next years to come. But then I saw this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Bb8iNIVCY

Seeing as i'm going to be GPU bound (i'm not planning to upgrade my graphics card for the next 2 maybe even 3 years) a GTX 750 ti sc + iGPU + i5 4690k combo should be more beneficial FPS wise than a Xeon E3 1231 v3 with just my GTX 750 ti sc, or am I wrong in this assumption?

 
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You cant combine integrated and discrete graphics.
At least until DX12 is available and wide spread.
Games need to developed to use DX12, and you will need windows 10.

Your GTX750ti will be the applicable discrete graphics capability.

I think you would have a better cpu/gpu balance with a I3-4170.
If your cpu budget is in the 4690K range , I suggest the new Skylake I5-6600K and a Z170 based motherboard is the way to go.
The costs are similar, and the performance is better.
And... if ever the integrated graphics can be usefully used, the Skylake integrated graphics is very much better.

 
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Go for the Xeon, as it is identical to the i7, just without the internal graphics :)

Currently running E3-1231V3 on my system, really happy with it. Unless you overclock the i5 to atleast 4.6GHz or more, the Xeon is a winner for gamming :)
 
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Depends how much you have going on at one time. If you're going to do just a couple things and only have 8gb of ram, then the 4690k. If you do alot and have 16gb or more of ram, then the xeon definitely.
 
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Interesting, although i've read this about the iGPU of the i5 6600k; "However, we can work a few things out for ourselves. For instance we know it runs at 350MHz and addresses 1067MHz of RAM via a 128-bit bus producing 34.1GB/s of memory bandwidth. It’s also rated to support DirectX 11.2 – notably, not DirectX 12 – and features 48 unified shaders, 8 ROPs and 16 TMUs producing a pixel fillrate of 2.8GPixel/s and texture fillrate of 5.6GTexel/s."
http://www.trustedreviews.com/intel-skylake-review-core-i7-6700k-and-core-i5-6600k-review-intel-hd-graphics-530-and-z170-chipset-page-2#YQGOCH9fTmBZvjxm.99

Does this mean that the intel HD 4600 integrated graphics wouldn't be usable together with my dedicated GPU?
 
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I would not count on using a second gpu regardless.
First of all, any integrated gpu is puny compared to a decent discrete card.
Next, combining the results of two different speed adapters can lead to tearing or stuttering, depending on how it is accomplished.
Possibly with DX12 supported games, this might change, but, I think you are looking past a 2 year horizon for any real adoption.
Keep it simple. If you need more graphics power sell the old card in favor of a stronger one.
 
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Sure, integrated graphics are kind of a joke compared to dedicated gpu's but take a look at this http://www.anandtech.com/show/9112/exploring-dx12-3dmark-api-overhead-feature-test/4

This shows that performance will be significantly better for iGPU's with DirectX aswell. It's not major if you own top end GPU's, but I imagine they can give you 10-20fps more depending on the settings. Like I've said, I don't plan on upgrading my GPU any time soon.
 
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I would recommend the Xeon, unless you want to overclock (or learn how if you dont already know) and get a really good cpu cooler. Getting the xeon should save you some money because you dont need an expensive cooler and mobo. I was also able to change the frequency on my Xeon e3 1231v3 to 3.6ghz on all cores, and that puts it in between the i7 4770 and the i7 4790.
 
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
Always make sure that you have a good upgrade path with the socket you choose. The LGA 1150 socket is dead, and while the 2011v3 isn't, it's certainly going to be wildly expensive to advance with. That's why I couldn't recommend an AMD setup until the AM4 / AM4+ sockets make their market debut, AM3+ is going nowhere. Anyway, aside from that, the high-end i5s perform the same - and in some cases better than- the i7/Xeons in gaming environments.
Proof
 
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