Upgrade from E3-1230 v2?

[Dingleberg]

I've been using the E3 1230 v2 in another build of mine for a while. It's a beast, but I'm getting more into different sorts of rendering, still with heavy gaming.

What would you recommend as an upgrade? I can overclock if we go with a k series, but I'd also be just fine with something locked if price see fit.

I have a 4670k in my main build at 4.4GHz, but I don't feel it performs as well as the xeon, so I'd like to possibly consider another xeon if there's a better one in the same boat as the 1230 v2.

I plan on buying another motherboard as well and I'm open to any suggestions.

 

[CTurbo]

The e3-1231v3 or 1241v3 are the obvious choices IMO. I would get a new H97 mobo to go with.

 

[WhiteSnake91]

I could never put the finger on if my GPU wasn't good enough for ultra on bf4 or if my i5 wasn't good enough, even since I overclocked my i5 3570k I get dips into 30s and 40s on BF4 alot. I'm sure on rendering the Xeon would be better.

The xeon 1230 v2 is ivy bridge if I remember right, you could upgrade to the i7 2600k/i7 3770k and overclock with a good heatsink and see how that goes.


I'm honestly really itching for an upgrade right now, and I may get the i7 2600k, sometimes you can catch one cheap for like 200 bucks, I've never seen i7 3770ks cheap to this day.....even on ebay they sell for as much as a brand new one costs.

There were a couple people talking in a topic a month or two ago saying they switched from an i5 to a xeon and even though the xeon was clocked much lower than their overclocked i5, they got a really good improvement in FPS and also saw less cpu usage during tasks like gaming.


Only problem with going with the older 2600k is no pci 3.0, but honestly unless somebody is running SLI gtx 780ti's pci 2.0 is enough, and even then it would be a tiny fractional difference like less than 5% I'd imagine. I may suck it up and get an i7 3770k, I have an OEM windows 7 and don't want to deal with the hassle of changing motherboards



as for an upgrade to your i5 4670k, the xeon 1230 v3 would fit right in your motherboard, it's 1150 socket haswell.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116906

I experienced stuttering/lag when recording with MSI afterburner on BF4 1080p ultra on 64man conquest on floodzone, I lost several gun battles because of stuttering.....I'm sure a xeon/i7 would of helped take the stress off greatly. The 8 threads would be a monster at multitasking, which I find myself doing alot....I have a godly amount of chrome tabs open right now for example haha.

 

[Dingleberg]

I could never put the finger on if my GPU wasn't good enough for ultra on bf4 or if my i5 wasn't good enough, even since I overclocked my i5 3570k I get dips into 30s and 40s on BF4 alot. I'm sure on rendering the Xeon would be better.

The xeon 1230 v2 is ivy bridge if I remember right, you could upgrade to the i7 2600k/i7 3770k and overclock with a good heatsink and see how that goes.


I'm honestly really itching for an upgrade right now, and I may get the i7 2600k, sometimes you can catch one cheap for like 200 bucks, I've never seen i7 3770ks cheap to this day.....even on ebay they sell for as much as a brand new one costs.

There were a couple people talking in a topic a month or two ago saying they switched from an i5 to a xeon and even though the xeon was clocked much lower than their overclocked i5, they got a really good improvement in FPS and also saw less cpu usage during tasks like gaming.


Only problem with going with the older 2600k is no pci 3.0, but honestly unless somebody is running SLI gtx 780ti's pci 2.0 is enough, and even then it would be a tiny fractional difference like less than 5% I'd imagine. I may suck it up and get an i7 3770k, I have an OEM windows 7 and don't want to deal with the hassle of changing motherboards



as for an upgrade to your i5 4670k, the xeon 1230 v3 would fit right in your motherboard, it's 1150 socket haswell.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116906

I experienced stuttering/lag when recording with MSI afterburner on BF4 1080p ultra on 64man conquest on floodzone, I lost several gun battles because of stuttering.....I'm sure a xeon/i7 would of helped take the stress off greatly. The 8 threads would be a monster at multitasking, which I find myself doing alot....I have a godly amount of chrome tabs open right now for example haha.

I'm not sure if I worded my post right.

I have 2 rigs. One with a 1230v2 and the other with a 4670k @ 4.4GHz.

The xeon is being cooled by an NH-D14 and the 4670k an H100 so heat is no problem.

I'm not really looking to upgrade my 4670k, but if you recommend a good cpu, I'd have no problems with replacing it.

As for the xeon, I'm looking to replace it. I'm using a $50 mATX board and don't want to keep Ivy, so I'm looking for something better.

Any other concerns, feel free to mention them.

 

[CTurbo]

The 1230v3 is roughly 10% faster than the 1230v2 at the same clock speed. The 1231v3 and 1240v3 are 100mhz faster and the 1241v3 is 200mhz faster. That would be a decent upgrade.

 

[WhiteSnake91]

ahh, look into the h97 motherboards since if you got the new 1150 xeon it can't overclock anyway. If you want to go all out, the 4770k and z97 would be the way to go. I'd wait until the devil canyon cpu's come out though, their going to use TIM similar to sandy bridge, so good overclocking potential along with even better stout single core performance.

Thinking more on it myself I dunno if I want a xeon incase of GPU failure, having integrated graphics like the i7 has is a nice backup, although I guess I COULD get a cheap hd5450 as backup, they're usually 9 dollars after rebate, and, at least as good as the hd4000 on ivy bridge certainly >_>

your current heatsink is certainly very good, considered pretty much the best high end air cooler 😛