VIPΣR Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I had the FX-8320 but it and the mainboard died yesterday. So I thought about jumping to intel after my last intel processor being a Pentium E2140. The first processor that caught my eye was the Xeon E3 1231 v3. Yes, I am aware that Xeons don't have a integrated GPU solution but seriously who needs such a thing!? My questions are: How well does GTAV perform on this processor? Is it worth getting instead of the i5-4690K(Xeon has hyper threading[8 threads]/The i5 doesn't)? Fabianprkr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabianprkr Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Really good. I have no problems. VIPΣR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPΣR Posted April 19, 2015 Author Share Posted April 19, 2015 Really good. I have no problems. Good to hear! Seems like I'm getting one. Fabianprkr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabianprkr Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Really good. I have no problems. Good to hear! Seems like I'm getting one. For the future it is really good. VIPΣR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xy-maps Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I got an Xeon X5482 (2x4x3,2Ghz), wich is freaking 7 years old and the game runs very well VIPΣR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPΣR Posted April 19, 2015 Author Share Posted April 19, 2015 I got an Xeon X5482 (2x4x3,2Ghz), wich is freaking 7 years old and the game runs very well Nice to hear that it is future proof. I'm definitely not going to upgrade the cpu for the next 3.5-4 years after Xeon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanBurnsRed Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 If you can overclock it then you wouldn't need to upgrade for several years. I've got a Xeon X5650 overclocked to 4GHz. It was released in 2009 and is still going strong. VIPΣR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo440 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 It's a Celeron/Pentium/i3/i5/i7 with ECC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southparkmayor Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Does GTAV even scale to those many cores? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agni Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 (edited) Xeons are meant for servers, not home PC's. Why not just get an i5 or i7? Edited April 19, 2015 by Agni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southparkmayor Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I got an Xeon X5482 (2x4x3,2Ghz), wich is freaking 7 years old and the game runs very well Nice to hear that it is future proof. I'm definitely not going to upgrade the cpu for the next 3.5-4 years after Xeon. Your sig suggests you like the new battlefront coming out soon. All those trailers and screenshots are CGI rendered on a desktop with 4x titan x in sli and 64 thread xeon. VIPΣR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanBurnsRed Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Xeons are meant for servers, not home PC's. Why not just get an i5 or i7? Xeons are higher binned i7s. They will essentially perform equally if in the same generation. They will usually last a lot longer since they are designed for 24/7 workloads and have a lower TDP. The last good generation for Xeon overclocking is X58 (LGA 1366) from what I've heard. The newer generation of Xeons are typically more locked down. VIPΣR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo440 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) Does GTAV even scale to those many cores? It doesn't have to.. There is no such thing as multi-core programming outside of driver development, despite what the internet and false-advertising books suggest. OS kernels handle it automatically based off image loading and multi-thread characteristics. Same goes for CPU cache. Go build and run any multi-thread C++ program demo source and see for yourself. Again, Xeon is [intel chip here] with ECC.. That's in the other chips too just disabled in microcode. Edited April 20, 2015 by diablo440 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaliBong Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Xeons are great, I have an x3330 which is same as q9400. lower voltage, longer life span, more OC headroom and handles higher temps, don't get an i5/i7 if the xeon is simarlarly priced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo440 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Xeons are great, I have an x3330 which is same as q9400. lower voltage, longer life span, more OC headroom and handles higher temps, don't get an i5/i7 if the xeon is simarlarly priced. Yeah then get sticker shock when there isn't BIOS support and you have to pay 3x for a server board. Again one has ECC and the other doesn't.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaliBong Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Xeons are great, I have an x3330 which is same as q9400. lower voltage, longer life span, more OC headroom and handles higher temps, don't get an i5/i7 if the xeon is simarlarly priced. Yeah then get sticker shock when there isn't BIOS support and you have to pay 3x for a server board. Again one has ECC and the other doesn't.. if the bios supports the equivalent i7 it will support the xeon, trust me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo440 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Xeons are great, I have an x3330 which is same as q9400. lower voltage, longer life span, more OC headroom and handles higher temps, don't get an i5/i7 if the xeon is simarlarly priced. Yeah then get sticker shock when there isn't BIOS support and you have to pay 3x for a server board. Again one has ECC and the other doesn't.. if the bios supports the equivalent i7 it will support the xeon, trust me I have Intel boards that only support about a fifth of the same generation of i7s, and only about a third after bios updates in some cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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