need help Buying an xeon e3 1230v2

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hello, due to some budget limitations i cannot afford to upgrade to a ddr4 dedicated cpu and a whole new motherboard and rams,all i want to do is upgrade my i5 3470.

i saw on ali express that the i7 3rd gen cost for almost 50$ but when searching the xeon equivalent for it (e3 1230 v2) only costs around 20$.

my question is that if i get an xeon e3 1230 do i need to modify some bios settings or it just plug and play like any other cpu's? thanks

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Origineel geplaatst door lsdninja:

Look at that support list, I don't think that board supports the v2 Xeons, only the v1s (which strikes me as weird since it supports Core-branded Ivy Bridge CPUs). That makes things a little worse since you'd be sacrificing the admittedly somewhat slight intergenerational performance uplift you got going from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. I'm not sure even opting for an E3-1275 (essentially an i7-2600K performance wise) would completely overcome that. If you could find an i7 3770 for the right price then that's probably the one you want.

as other commented said that dell optiplex doesn't support xeon but can run them without any problem,i may just take the gamble since nothing can go wrong if it's doesn't work and it's cheap

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It's a bit slower than a Core i7 3770 non-K, and mostly only offers an improvement over your current 3rd generation Core i5 with extra threads (but it's a couple hundred MHz faster as well; a level of change a benchmark might show but you won't see blindly).

So if you're currently lacking performance only because you need a few more threads, but are otherwise satisfied with your current per core performance, then it's a worthwhile change. Otherwise, it will bring absolutely nothing. More threads is like adding more RAM; if you don't actually need them they do nothing. If you need more actual CPU performance it won't do anything so you're going from the same generation to the same generation with barely a clock speed change; per core performance is nigh on identical. So unless you need those extra threads, no increase.

That being said, at only $20 you could certainly waste money in worse ways. Go for it if you want. I switched an old E8600 to a Q9550 for that much a few years back, and while it wasn't the increase I hoped it would be (despite being thread limited), it was fun to do.

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Origineel geplaatst door Illusion of Progress:

It's a bit slower than a Core i7 3770 non-K, and mostly only offers an improvement over your current 3rd generation Core i5 with extra threads (but it's a couple hundred MHz faster as well; a level of change a benchmark might show but you won't see blindly).

So if you're currently lacking performance only because you need a few more threads, but are otherwise satisfied with your current per core performance, then it's a worthwhile change. Otherwise, it will bring absolutely nothing. More threads is like adding more RAM; if you don't actually need them they do nothing. If you need more actual CPU performance it won't do anything so you're going from the same generation to the same generation with barely a clock speed change; per core performance is nigh on identical. So unless you need those extra threads, no increase.

That being said, at only $20 you could certainly waste money in worse ways. Go for it if you want. I switched an old E8600 to a Q9550 for that much a few years back, and while it wasn't the increase I hoped it would be (despite being thread limited), it was fun to do.

yes, im only getting it because it a very cheap upgrade and i can play cs2 far better than the current cpu i have

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I'll let someone familiar with Counterstrike answer, but to my understanding, that game isn't highly threaded and is instead reliant on per core performance. You'd therefore see next to no uplift in the change you're considering doing (or a tiny one from the 200 MHz increase). But I'm not familiar with the game personally so that may be wrong these days (especially with the new release) and I'll let someone else answer for that.

The hardware page lists only minimums.It goes all the back to the very first generation Core CPUs and details four threads though, so I'd personally be thinking that suggests it doesn't thread highly? Hard to say since it lists only a minimum.

Again though, only $20 so either way.

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CS2 is heavier than CSGO i3 1000G1 can run csgo with fps between 60-120 and with the update you get around 40-60 fps. I understand it's a dual core processor with HT, but I think that's a good indicator of increased thread count. Also Valve changed the requirements: minimum 4 cores (i5 750); 4 cores and 8 threads are recommended.

E3 1290 v2 is the fastest LGA1150 CPU

E3 1290 v2 > E3 1290 v2 > E3 1275 v2 = E3 1270 v2 = i7 3770K > E3 1245 v2 > E3 1240 v2 > E3 1230 v2

i7, 1275 and 1245 have iGPUs

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Here's to hoping for the best.

I kind of doubt that it's going to cut it for CS2 though.