Buying an used Xeon E3-1280 CPU - good deal?

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Hi people

I have a rig running a Pentium G850 on a MSI H61M-P21 mobo, and just found a deal on a Xeon E3-1280 CPU for socket 1155. The price is great (about 25% of an i7 4790, considering brazilian prices) and the seller is reliable, but my doubt resides on the CPU lifespan. I know Xeons were CPUs meant to be used on servers and for that very reason, they were built to last, but I've never bought an used CPU before so... Do these CPUs have a long life or the probability of the Xeon dying on me in 1 year is very high?

The rest of my specs is as follows:

4GB RAM - Geil Value Plus
GPU - R7 250e from Sapphire
PSU - Antec Neo Eco 400c
2 x 1TB HDDs

Any help is much appreciated
 
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It's a great deal for such price. If it's working right now then it most likely will work for long time. Remember to stress test your CPU with Prime 95 for at least a couple of hours right after the purchase. Return the CPU if the PC freezes.
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It's a great deal for such price. If it's working right now then it most likely will work for long time. Remember to stress test your CPU with Prime 95 for at least a couple of hours right after the purchase. Return the CPU if the PC freezes.
 
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Thx all for the replies! I thought about using this CPU because from what I've researched it is just like an i7 2600, but without the IGP. I'm not too much of a gamer, but a more powerful CPU would be very helpful when I'm editing photos on Lightroom or Photoshop.

Another doubt I have, if I may: I'm using the G850 with a Cooler Master Hyper TX3. Would this cooler be enough for the Xeon? I'd rather lower the clock speeds or disable turbo boost than buying another CPU cooler, for the time being.
 
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I'm not sure if your serious or not, lol. Were you talking about the performance of the CPUs (which I agree with you, the Xeon is way more powerful than the G850) or implying that the Hyper Tx3 won't be good enough for the Xeon?
 
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Hey there, it's me again. I lost the deal on the Xeon, by the time I went to the buy the CPU it was already sold. When I contacted the seller it seems it was an one of a kind oportunity, given that he didn't have any other Xeons available. That said, the same seller has a i5 2500 for a bit less than the Xeon. Is it still good enough for photo editing in Lightroom and Photoshop? Currently I'm only editing 10 megapixel photos, but sometimes I work with images up to 16 MP.

I feel like the i5 is good, but not as good as the Xeon. Any thoughts?
 
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Yes, you are right, e3-1280 is better than i5-2500, it has hyper-threading and higher clock speed, but the i5 has more than double of G850's performance. So yes, I would still grab it.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52278/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1280-8M-Cache-3_50-GHz
http://ark.intel.com/products/52209/Intel-Core-i5-2500-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz
http://ark.intel.com/products/53491/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G850-3M-Cache-2_90-GHz

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2500-vs-Intel-Pentium-G850/m517vsm2522
 
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Thx again for the answer! I guess I'll go and buy the i5 before it gets sold. Now a question just out of curiosity: I looked at the links you posted and when I used the comparison tool in Intel's website it was shown that the Xeon does not support the Speedstep technology. Is it true? I always thought all modern CPUs had this feature.
 
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