For Xeon users or Experienced people

[󠁳⁧⁧ jucaTHOR]

So.
I've replaced a i5 2500, with a Xeon E3 1275.

I've watched videos on youtube, but I couldn't really find someone with this cpu. The closest I could find, was Xeon E3 1270.

Now, I thought that this would be more powerful than the i5, but I'm a bit dissapointed to see that it is like 10% better.
I somehow think that it is limited.

My question is: Do I have to do something to unlock it's full power, or not?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Xeon generally weren't all that great on single socket boards anyways unless it was a higher end model able to put an i7 to shame. But when they were new the Xeon that could put an i7 to shame were just way to expensive for most consumers to ever consider, especially for just gaming.

Your Xeon is low end, it's still just a 3.4ghz Quad Core

You'd be better off with a 2600K

[󠁳⁧⁧ jucaTHOR]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Xeon generally weren't all that great on single socket boards anyways unless it was a higher end model able to put an i7 to shame. But when they were new the Xeon that could put an i7 to shame were just way to expensive for most consumers to ever consider, especially for just gaming.

Your Xeon is low end, it's still just a 3.4ghz Quad Core

You'd be better off with a 2600K

Thanks!

I've wanted to buy a K processor, to oc it, but my motherboard doesn't support oc, from what I've saw.
Anyways, I didn't really wanted to spend money on this, since I will buy a PC, later on.

[Blaquicat]

That xeon is too old, from the first E5 gen, a little worse than an 2600
The good ones are v2 onwards, v3 and v4 are the way to goo (if you are low on budget), as those already supports DDR4 and newer technologies.

[Illusion of Progress]

That's pretty much a Core i7 2600K spec-wise, minus the fact you can overclock it. All you did was add 100 MHz and SMT to your previous CPU.

I hope you didn't pay more than around $75 to $80 (preferably it'd be no more than $50) for it, because it makes no sense spending more than that for an old and used quad core these days, especially when you already have one. But if you got it for next to nothing, it's still (if only slightly) better than what you had, so no harm is done.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

2600K would still be better; even on a non OC motherboard

[󠁳⁧⁧ jucaTHOR]

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

That's pretty much a Core i7 2600K spec-wise, minus the fact you can overclock it. All you did was add 100 MHz and SMT to your previous CPU.

I hope you didn't pay more than around $75 to $80 (preferably it'd be no more than $50) for it, because it makes no sense spending more than that for an old and used quad core these days, especially when you already have one. But if you got it for next to nothing, it's still (if only slightly) better than what you had, so no harm is done.

Nah, I paid 46 euros.

[nullable]

Originally posted by jucaTHOR:

So.
I've replaced a i5 2500, with a Xeon E3 1275.

I've watched videos on youtube, but I couldn't really find someone with this cpu. The closest I could find, was Xeon E3 1270.

Now, I thought that this would be more powerful than the i5, but I'm a bit dissapointed to see that it is like 10% better.
I somehow think that it is limited.

My question is: Do I have to do something to unlock it's full power, or not?

Xeon's aren't drastically more powerful. They've just got a few features and differences that make them better suited for workstation and server applications. They might have more cores (and lower clock speeds) because some workloads benefit a lot from parallel processing. They might have more instruction cache, which benefits some workloads And so on. All those things have somewhat limited value to consumers and gamers because the things we're doing don't always benefit from those differences.

Xeon's aren't a magic bullet upgrade because "so much powa". Otherwise people would just build their high end gaming system out of Xeon's, there's just not much point typically. It's like using a $5,000 workstation graphics card for gaming. Oh it'll work just fine. It's just not better for games than the equivalent consumer card at 1/4th the price.

[_I_]

the xeons may have more cores/threads
but the bigger feature is ecc ram support, basically verifies anything written to ram, better for system being left on for months/years without reboots

[magarity]

All the above plus if you're using the CPU's graphics you went down from 850Mhz to 650Mhz so video related tasks will seem slower.
On the up side, with 8 logical cores instead of 4 the new CPU will multitask circles around the old one. Consider using it for a database server.

[[☥] - CJ -]

i was also going to say its basically like getting an i7 2600, so 10% difference sounds about right.

You said you cant overclock with your board anyway so you are pretty much getting what you paid for

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Originally posted by jucaTHOR:

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

That's pretty much a Core i7 2600K spec-wise, minus the fact you can overclock it. All you did was add 100 MHz and SMT to your previous CPU.

I hope you didn't pay more than around $75 to $80 (preferably it'd be no more than $50) for it, because it makes no sense spending more than that for an old and used quad core these days, especially when you already have one. But if you got it for next to nothing, it's still (if only slightly) better than what you had, so no harm is done.

Nah, I paid 46 euros.

Too much, that's a significant percentage of the cost of just buying a used but newer system from someone or ebay.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

As long as the board supports a 2600K, this would still yield better performance then a 2600 or 1270/1275 due to the higher base clock and turbo