Hi all

Im New here i have been gaming a while but its time to look at the pc again after a motherboard failure. I am having trouble picking a CPU

thoughts at this stage are

intel Xeon E3-1240 v3
Intel 4670k
Intel 4770
Intel 4770k

I like the 4670k for its price and unlocked multiplier
i Like the Xeon E3-1240 v3 for reliability and a little cheaper than the 4770 for similar performance
I Like the 4770 for hyperthreading i believe that in real world it will help ( wont benchmark and better tho )
The 4770k benchmarks the best but not sure real work it will be any better

The reason i am not sure about the 4670k and 4770k is the lack of hyper threading
the reason against the intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 and 4770 are the locked multiplier

System specs are

2 gigabyte GTX660 OC in SLI ( From old machine )
1100w Quality PSU ( From old machine )
nochta D14 cooler ( From old machine )
Mushkin redline frostbyte 1600mhz DDR3 Ram 16GB ( From old machine )
Sandisk 256gig SSD ( From old machine )
Gigabyte Sniper-5 Motherboard (got for the right price )

Any body with any real world experience with these processors there feed back would be appreciated

cheers

76t

i have an Intel 4770k in this thing and although technically it doesn't have HT, it still has 4 cores or 8 threads so it might just be that the instruction set was integrated into the cpu at a lower level

4670k All the way. Best bang for buck, particularly if you want to OC.

i checked that before posting and it shows 8 and 4/8 in cpu-z

it's not like you'd go around writing about a cpu having a DX coprocessor so it can do things like plot a hyperbola or whatever, but the addition of it on the die is probably still there in some form if you could shuffle through the processor schematic advances

but back in the day that was a big selling point on capability

which is why i reckon it's just quietly been engineered closer to the execution cores

i checked that before posting and it shows 8 and 4/8 in cpu-z

And you have a 4770K or 4770?

Must be the first K I've seen with 8 threads. Super special series.

is it?

http://i.imgur.com/E61GSnw.jpg

i could swear that yesterday this page had it shown as not having HT
http://ark.intel.com/products/75123

but maybe i got it confused when comparing to the 4670k
http://ark.intel.com/products/75048/intel-core-i5-4670k-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3_80-ghz

so Scrubber the 4670k doesn't have HT but the 4770k does

Interesting yesterday it did say that i did not support hyperthreading so really now its a two horse race. Do i need hyperthreading or will my wallet win wit the cheaper CPU

New egg ships to Australia. Anyway I just posted that to show it has HT, was from the intel site.

I Registered an account Put several cpus into the cart and tried to check out and it wouldnt let me. So i gave up and moved on with life New Egg lost me as a customer it was all to hard after that. Amazon was exactly the same. I believe that it is intel that wont allow them to sell to australia. Now i am just waiting on stuff from ebay lol

i was pretty interested when i heard newegg shipped to australia last week but unfortunately newegg only ships specific stuff - u have to click some international tab and select from that stuff - half of it isnt in stock and the rest is stuff you dont want or a very limited selection

They ship the 4770k to Aus.

In the recnentisth past there was a time when the Xeon gave good bang-for-buck performance wise. At the moment though, the 4690 or 4690K are best bang-for-buck. If you feel games are suffering from not having 8 full cores eventually you can upgrade to an i7.