Xeon vs i5 Better for gaming ?

[icemaker]

Assalamualiakum,
I was planning to upgrade to i5 until i saw "Xeon e3 1231 v3" which has same cores as i5 but double threads infact more threads than i7 and little bit more expensive than i5, . I dont have much knowlege about xeon processors and i to do gaming only. Will my motherboard support it and if yes is it good for gaming?

here is link for this bad boy

ARK | Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1231 v3 (8M Cache, 3.40 GHz)


warm regards,

 

[djkido316]

Assalamualiakum,
I was planning to upgrade to i5 until i saw "Xeon e3 1231 v3" which has same cores as i5 but double threads infact more threads than i7 and little bit more expensive than i5, . I dont have much knowlege about xeon processors and i to do gaming only. Will my motherboard support it and if yes is it good for gaming?

here is link for this bad boy

ARK | Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1231 v3 (8M Cache, 3.40 GHz)


warm regards,

Its SUPPORTED. Read @ ASRock > H81M

 

[roony]

Assalamualiakum,
I was planning to upgrade to i5 until i saw "Xeon e3 1231 v3" which has same cores as i5 but double threads infact more threads than i7 and little bit more expensive than i5, . I dont have much knowlege about xeon processors and i to do gaming only. Will my motherboard support it and if yes is it good for gaming?

here is link for this bad boy

ARK | Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1231 v3 (8M Cache, 3.40 GHz)


warm regards,

as the i5 already has 4 cores, hyper-threading wont really help in gaming. Before games wouldnt utilize more than 2 cores, now more games can utilize 4, but beyond that more isnt needed. If you do video rendering/encoding, yes definitely. But just for gaming, your 4 core i5 cpu will do just fine.

Also the xeon chips dont come with onboard graphics. So in a worse case scenario where your gpu dies, at least you have onboard to run the system (something to consider).

 

[icemaker]

as the i5 already has 4 cores, hyper-threading wont really help in gaming. Before games wouldnt utilize more than 2 cores, now more games can utilize 4, but beyond that more isnt needed. If you do video rendering/encoding, yes definitely. But just for gaming, your 4 core i5 cpu will do just fine.

Also the xeon chips dont come with onboard graphics. So in a worse case scenario where your gpu dies, at least you have onboard to run the system (something to consider).

thanks for help

 

[wankelboy]

Core i5 is the way to go. Get i5 2500 .. Your good to go.