i7 or Xeon or ?

[cackles]

I am about six years out of date. I havent bothered looking at new gear, except GPU's, in that time because the quad core intel and 8GB of RAM I have is still going strong.

But I need another machine and I see V2 Xeon's coming out, as well as speculation of the IB-E and then there is the i7 that I was originally going to go for.

So, ummmmmmm ... I dunno what to go for and why to go for it ...

EDIT: Yea helps to write the whole post ...

It will be used for gaming and video encoding. With some games I have about 6 instances open at a time and Im running a dual monitor setup.

 

[Pheesh]

What game would you have 6 instances open at a time?

How often do you encode video's?

 

[tarmc]

the i7 would be good for everything youre going to do. ive been reading the xeons can overclock like mad on lower volts. kind of in the same boat, considering upgrading but unsure on what cpu to go with.


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[crazymonkeyzero]

I think the hexcore i7 3930k is a good match for what you want to do. Haswell is around the corner, however, I think you would want more than 4 cores for heavy video encoding/ multitasking , and not just gaming. Xeon should mostly only be considered if you need ECC memory or if you have enough money to spend on the E5 octacore which is about $2000.

 

[crazymonkeyzero]

ive been reading the xeons can overclock like mad on lower volts.

I though Xeons are all locked, and can't be overclocked.

 

[masteryoda34]

I though Xeons are all locked, and can't be overclocked.

The old Xeons could be overclocked (Nehalem generation) but I believe it is true that the current models cannot be.