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I've been looking online and trying to decide which processor is a better processor, any ideas?
4th Gen Intel Core i7-4790
Xeon E3-1241
They both have 8MB cache, but this i7 has a slightly faster clock speed.
I'm not doing any gaming, just applications, and running virtual box, some small video rendering, etc....
It's my main work desktop PC. I'll have a SSD HD, so perhaps the difference in these two processors is minimal?
4th Gen Intel Core i7-4790
Xeon E3-1241
They both have 8MB cache, but this i7 has a slightly faster clock speed.
I'm not doing any gaming, just applications, and running virtual box, some small video rendering, etc....
It's my main work desktop PC. I'll have a SSD HD, so perhaps the difference in these two processors is minimal?
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Dan
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... by the way, I presume you're aware that the Xeon does not have an embedded GPU, while the i7-4790 has Intel's HD4600 graphics embedded in the chip. If you're using a dedicated graphics card that difference doesn't matter ... just wanted to be sure you hadn't overlooked that difference :-)
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how about getting a 6C xeon E5-2609 compared to the ones above?
Is the Ghz speed being that low compared to the higher Ghz on the ones above, would that be better?
Is the Ghz speed being that low compared to the higher Ghz on the ones above, would that be better?
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yes, I don't want an imbeded CPU as I believe it's faster to have a seperate GPU anyways.
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The E5-2609 is a significantly less capable CPU than the two you listed earlier. If you want to go with an E5 series Xeon, I'd use an E5-1650v3, which will nicely outperform the i7 and E3 Xeon -- it scores 13438 on PassMark. [The E5-2609v3 only scores 5918]
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Thanks guys, I'll go with the E3-1241v3, as it's in my budget.