Xeon E3-1285L v3 or I7-4770

[The Paladin]

So I have an Asus Gryphon Z87 Motherboard and this is a workstation, mostly used for Photoshop photo editing, specs include SSD, storage HDD, 32 GB Ram and is running on I5-4690k, and I am considering upgrading it to a I7-4770 because there is no gaming involved and the 4970k are over 300$ now.

I also notice my motherboard can handle the Xeon CPUS in this case specifically E3-1245L V3 or E3-1285L V3, both I found can be had at a lower cost... E3- 1245L for 80$ and E3-1285L for 160$.

I realize these are server CPU, and in all benchmarks I looked up, all say the 1285L is comparable if not faster (single thread for example) than the I7-4770. I have not dabbled with server CPUs because technology was always moving to the next best thing, but since the 4th gen I have been more careful at my upgrade paths.

I realize most Xeon series chipset do not have integrated graphics, but I use dual GTX 970 on that workstation so it matter little to me.

what am I missing? what will not work? opinions? testimonies?

 

[saint19]

Hi and welcome to Tom's forum.

While you re right and the Xeon CPU is a little more faster than the i7 that difference is not really big enough to go for xeon CPU. In this case both CPUs can meet your needs with a very good performance. What would I do? I will go with the i7 since it is more commune and in future it is more "easy" to sell to another person.

 

[The Paladin]

Thank you for the opinion, I am not looking at resell abilities, but when the I7-4790k is about 300$ and the E3-1285L V3 can be had under 200$ for the identical performance, it is attractive, I wanted to make sure I want missing on anything obvious, (i.e. will not run games properly etc. etc.)