In this video, I will show you how to find the best CPU for your motherboard but I will use my
motherboard just as an example you could follow the same technique to find the best CPU in your
case let's get started first we need to understand what's our motherboard for that go to the start
and type in system and then there should be an app called system information select that
in the summary section you could see a motherboard product for me it is called baseboard which is
same as motherboard it is 0xpdfk so that's all we need now come to this website which I’ll provide
the link in the description and then click on motherboard here is a search box and type in your
motherboard's model which was 0x p d f k if you don't see a motherboard in the list don't worry
it's because you should come here to the price and select to include items without the price
and then you can see our motherboard shows up in here if you click on it you can select it
so now our motherboard is selected it is made by dell which is accurate and you can
read a bit more about its specifications so we need to now find our compatible CPUs
for that select compatible CPUs here there are two main manufacturers of CPUs but in this example I
will just show you how to select the best intel CPU so select intel and here is a list of all
CPUs we have two contestants one core i7 seventh generation if you select that you can see it has
quite a good rating and if I will select another one which is Xeon e5 v2 series and we got here
two that we can select that are compatible don't forget you can use this method for any motherboard
but I’m using my motherboard just as an example so if I right click on it and open a new tab
and right click this one and open a new tab you can read a bit more of its specification
you can see that i7 has four cores and each core is 4.3 gigahertz however
the intel Xeon e5 has eight cores so that's twice more as number of cores and it has 1.9
gigahertz but nowadays comparing CPU is much more complicated than checking its clock speed
I made another video which you can follow in the description of this video but for now I want
to show you how to compare these two CPUs and make a decision which one to buy I have made an
excel list of three different CPUs that would be compatible with my motherboard and the first two
are the ones that this website have shown us and you can see number of cores clock speed per core
and if you sum them up you can see that i7 has more clock speed even though it has less number of
cores but I’ve got mine which is x 56 70 which has six cores and each core is 2.93 and gives me the
highest clock speed of 17.58 and you can see the different years of each of the CPUs first I want
to compare the actual performance between i7 and Xeon e5 so we need to come to this website called
technical.city I have searched a lot of websites and this is the best website to compare CPUs
so let's type in the first CPU that we have which was core i7 dash 7740 and then bear in mind there
are two one is with k one is with x in our list it was the one with the x so select that the second
one would be Xeon a5-2440 and then we have two we have to select v2 version and then click on
compare and then gives you a comparison list and you can pretty quickly understand that core i7 has
a better ranking this is actually not a rating it is actually the ranking the lower the number that
means it's better in the packing order so you can pretty quickly understand this is better bear in
mind the type i7 is built for desktop and Xeon e5 is built for server or workstation let's go to the
technical specification you can see the number of threads you can see that cores even though it
has less number of cores it is outperforming the temperature range that it can go and manufacturing
process technology is also very important the most nutrition technology have a lower nanometres here
scroll down and there is a compatibility which we already know is compatible with our motherboard
here's a list of technologies that you can compare against each other list of security virtualization
technologies memory specs again bear in mind even though core i7 is more new the maximum memory
size you can have is 64. but Xeon e5 you can have really a lot again it is because it is built for
a server as compared to a desktop that's why it has much more memory maximum memory bandwidth some
more information here and there are some benchmark softwares that you can use to test and you can see
i7 has almost 43 percent more score in the overall benchmark performance and then in the pass mark is
another tool for benchmarking you can see it's 43 percent more gaming performance and you can
see metric rate is 81 which is not too bad but then you can select the game that you want to try
and the higher the metric rate the better it is and then it says for that game you can see i7 is
performed compared to official system requirements and obviously i7 does still better there so each
game you can select and then just compare and then if you go to the advantages of intel core i7 you
get more information about why would you go with i7 as compared to Xeon e5 higher maximum frequency
for example it is much newer it has hyper trading and so many other things that are much better than
e5 so why would you choose an e5. e5 consumes less power but that's not a lot less so I don't think
that make a big difference but again something to pay attention to there are more advantages but
not as much and this website technical city recommends core i7 now going back to this
table it's this clear that i7 is better than intel Xeon it is was better bought in the clock speed
as well as the performance but what about intel Xeon e5 and Xeon x5670 as you can see Xeon x5670
has a higher clock speed so we would assume that this would perform better but remember this
is four-year older technology than e5 so if I go to the same website and put
these two Xeon processors next to each other and compare the ranking you will be surprised to know
that e5 has a better ranking than Xeon five six seven zero both of them were built for servers
some information here at core six core they are pretty similar so if you go through this quickly
we can get to overall benchmark performance and you can see Xeon e5 version two bear in mind it's
version two it's approximately 12.2 percent better in performance in pass mark also 12.3 performance
and for the game as we select in here it is 14.3 percent better some of the advantages of Xeon e5
as convert to x5670 the point I’m trying to make here is that the higher the clock speed doesn't
necessarily mean a better performance CPU so let's go back to our table that I’ve created
a simple calculations. Obviously, we need to know IPC which is instructions per cycles
to properly understand the actual performance that's another topic which you can learn more in
the description of this video but as you can see in here that with the slight improvement in the
clock speed we get a much better performance of our i7 processor even though our Xeon
567t had a higher clock speed it is still worse than the Xeon e5 which has eight cores it is
clear from these examples that the CPU’s clock speed doesn't determine the CPU’s performance
but instead you have to check various benchmarking websites or softwares to determine your actual
CPU’s performance I hope this video was useful if it was please don't forget to watch my other
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