Intel Xeon E3 1246 v3 or Intel i5 4690k

[Jwoolington]

What is the better purchase here for an overall desktop?

 

[raisonjohn]

Get the i5 if your PC is strictly (or mostly) for gaming.

Get the Xeon if your PC would be used in a mixed number of ways (especially multi-tasking works).

 

[Jwoolington]

Get the i5 if your PC is strictly (or mostly) for gaming.

Get the Xeon if your PC would be used in a mixed number of ways (especially multi-tasking works).

I do zero gaming. It's going to be for web browsing, virtualization, and remote desktop applications.

 

[dudeman509]

Get the i5 if your PC is strictly (or mostly) for gaming.

Get the Xeon if your PC would be used in a mixed number of ways (especially multi-tasking works).

I do zero gaming. It's going to be for web browsing, virtualization, and remote desktop applications.

Xeon it is!

 

[raisonjohn]

Get the i5 if your PC is strictly (or mostly) for gaming.

Get the Xeon if your PC would be used in a mixed number of ways (especially multi-tasking works).

I do zero gaming. It's going to be for web browsing, virtualization, and remote desktop applications.

You'd take advantage of the extra threads the Xeon (and the i7) offers. The i5 does not have hyper-threading technology, meaning, its 4 cores work with 4 threads. The Xeon (and the i7's) have HTT, making their 4 cores work with 8 threads. These threads are a huge advantage in the type of work you will do.

 

[Jwoolington]

Get the i5 if your PC is strictly (or mostly) for gaming.

Get the Xeon if your PC would be used in a mixed number of ways (especially multi-tasking works).

I do zero gaming. It's going to be for web browsing, virtualization, and remote desktop applications.

You'd take advantage of the extra threads the Xeon (and the i7) offers. The i5 does not have hyper-threading technology, meaning, its 4 cores work with 4 threads. The Xeon (and the i7's) have HTT, making their 4 cores work with 8 threads. These threads are a huge advantage in the type of work you will do.

Thank you sir.

 

[Asher2099]

Xeon all the way, hell even if you do decide to game later it will match that i5.