Haswell Xeon

[Bart_Hunt]

Hi

I have seen this cpu on some other site a few times, and I am wondering, would it be any good for overclocking/gaming?
I am upgrading my PC soon and this cpu is in same price range as other Haswell cpu's.
I am just curious, should I add another option to my list of stuff to buy
Anyone care to explain?

Cheers
BH

 

[kefan77]

no for overclocking, good for gaming/productivity.

1230v3, which is the best value, is basically 4770 without the iGPU for price of 4670K.

 

[Phixsator]

You can overclock a Xeon processor but you are only able to do so via baseclock and not the multiplier from what i understand and your results wont be anywhere near what is normally gained(in ghz) from a K series CPU.

 

[Bart_Hunt]

Thanks, that explains a lot

 

[Bart_Hunt]

One more thing that I need to know and so far had no luck with the answers:

What motherboard do you need for Haswell Xeon CPU?
Is it just any motherboard with 1150 socket and 22nm CPU support?
I am asking because I have an Asus Z87I-Pro Mini-ITX motherboard and I am slowly starting to think that Xeon would be a better choice for me.
Just need to know if its going to work together.

Cheers

 

[ALXAndy]

Gigabyte and Asrock usually support Xeons. Just check the manu's site.

 

[mjallan123]

I don't really see the point in them. I mean sure they're a little cheaper but you can't overclock them as well so you miss out on a lot of additional performance. If you're dead set against overclocking, then I suppose they make sense.

 

[kefan77]

I don't really see the point in them. I mean sure they're a little cheaper but you can't overclock them as well so you miss out on a lot of additional performance. If you're dead set against overclocking, then I suppose they make sense.

little cheaper? once again, 4770 performance for the price of 4670K.

you can never make up Hyperthreading by any overclocking.

 

[mjallan123]

little cheaper? once again, 4770 performance for the price of 4670K.

you can never make up Hyperthreading by any overclocking.

To each their own I suppose, but I'd much rather have overclocking than hyper-threading.

 

[ubersonic]

You can overclock a Xeon processor but you are only able to do so via baseclock and not the multiplier from what i understand and your results wont be anywhere near what is normally gained(in ghz) from a K series CPU.

You can overclock Xeon E3's by 4 multipliers, which would give you a 4GHz or so 4C8T Haswell, for the price of an i5, not a bad result IMO.