1155 Socket CPU upgrade assistance

[Mir96TA]

Hi fellows,
I have little dinky desktop, which does lot of HARDCORE stuff.
I am using it for VMs with EXSI 5.1 hypervisor.
I think I have come to the limitation of the my current CPU i5-4570

I was thinking is that possible to have a USED 1150 Socket Xeon CPU installed and have a good usage more Core. Right now I only have 4 Core.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[VirtualLarry]

AFAIK, the Xeon E3 CPUs are the ones that fit the mainstream desktop sockets, and they are from the same dies as the mainstream consumer desktop CPUs. You won't find more than a 4-core Xeon for that socket either. But you could step up to an i7, which would give you 8 threads instead of just 4, due to HyperThreading. But for more physical cores, you would have to replace the whole thing with Socket 2011 (Sandy-E, Ivy-E) or Socket 2011-3 (Haswell-E, Broadwell-E).

Broadwell-E is supposed to have 10 cores for $1500.

 

[Yuriman]

Socket 1155 != Socket 1150

An i7 will give you a small clockspeed bump and hyperthreading - the ability to run 8 threads, while still having only 4 cores.

As Larry says, if you want more than 4 physical cores, you'll need to change platforms. An i7's hyperthreading should help though.

 

[Mir96TA]

Well then it would be cheaper if i just cluster another Machine.
Thanks fellow