Xeon cheper than i7?

[plivnik46]

Hello, I saw a Xeon E3-1230v2, which has 4 Ivy bridge cores with Hyperthreading @3,3 GHz and an i7 also with 4 IB cores with HT @3,4 GHz, but about $80 more expensive.
So the question is why is the xeon so much cheaper if it is just 100 MHz slower?

 

[SSri]

Xeon E3-1230V2 is an enterprise chip; you cannot overclock it, if I am not wrong. The i7 that you mention I believe is i7 2600K, which would allow you to overclock it. The xeon allows ECC memory.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2196434
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1230+V2+%40+3.30GHz&id=1189
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/479/Intel_Core_i7_i7-2600K_vs_Intel_Xeon_E3-1230_v2.html

 

[Cazalan]

No graphics on that chip according to:

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2012/2012010301_Details_of_Xeon_E3-1200_v2_CPUs.html