Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 Review

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All the performance of an Intel Core i7-6700K for the price of a i5-6600K. Too good to be true?

Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 Review
 
As a 3D designer who also has a Xeon E3 1230v3 on a Z87 board I'm a bit "meh" about it due to the chipset limitations. At least with the older Xeon setups Z87/97 there was an upgrade path to an unlocked 4770/4790K if you couldnt afford them to begin with but wanted the extra threads. Now you'll have to buy a new mobo as well.

Also a £50 price increase from the previous generation (i paid £180 of my 1230v3), really Intel?

With the frankly silly prices of Skylake the 5820K still looks to be the chip of choice for me in terms of productivity gains for the extra price, pluss the benefits of X99.
 
Did Intel fall asleep at some point? The purpose of this CPU has been lost somewhere... Price, Speed, Cores, Threads, Chipset requirements...

I'm confused? Just who is this aimed at? I think Intel need to reevaluate their logic gates :lol: Xeons used to be a nice alternative to i5 or i7 but the E3-1230V5 seems to live in a world of its own. It's a Limbo CPU.
 
Did Intel fall asleep at some point? The purpose of this CPU has been lost somewhere... Price, Speed, Cores, Threads, Chipset requirements...

I'm confused? Just who is this aimed at? I think Intel need to reevaluate their logic gates :lol: Xeons used to be a nice alternative to i5 or i7 but the E3-1230V5 seems to live in a world of its own. It's a Limbo CPU.

The cynic in me would suggest they are purposefully making it a bit unatractive to people who want threads on a budget by steering them in the direction of a 6700 non K - cheaper than the K but not as much as the Xeon ? I wonder if they were worried the previous gen was canabalising sales of the non K chips?
 
Intel it seems simply wanted to take away the cheap Xeon from budget/consumer oriented CPU chipsets, so they created the C326 (or whatever it is called) chipset.

This move from Intel mean that consumers will need to buy a Server grade motherboard with these CPUs, making the CPUs much less attractive purchases.

If you could use these Xeon CPUs with a lower price motherboards they might be an attractive option, but right now I can easily buy Z170 boards for under £100 or less if I go for a non-overclocking socket.
 
TBF the older xeons this chip replaced were waay too good value for intel to keep on selling with the same gradient of desktop support. These chips still have their server purposes (namely entry level tower severs or high end NAS systems) but its such a shame they made it alot less desktop friendly this time around. I mean, I doubt it ate into i5/locked i7 sales that much with the v3/v2.

Stop being greedy Intel.
 
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