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Dual E5-2430 vs E3 1270v2
I currently have a E3 1270v2(16GB) server but I can get a Dual E5-2430 (24GB) with a little increase in price.
Thinking of upgrading, but noticed the E5 cores have lower clock speeds than the E3. So, wondering if it would degrade performance.
Going to use it as a shared hosting server (cpanel).
Looking for some advice/feedback 
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Go with higher clock speed if you host core intensive tasks, such as game server. For websites - take that sinful dual core.
For web server, dual E5 is definitely better.
Whats your load like now? What is the price difference? 2 x E5-2430 would monster the E3
The dual e5 would probably be around 50% faster than the e3 based on passmark scores.
You'll probably still be limited by IO speeds.
Perhaps a switch to litespeed (enterprise)might speed things up also? Migrated from Plesk to Cyberpanel and never looked back.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2430-vs-Intel-Xeon-E3-1270-v3
That's single vs single cpu. OP is asking about dual e5s.
Simple math.
Single-core performance will stay the same.
Multi-core performance will roughly double.
EDIT:
Typo.
Depends on what you are going to use it for, for shared hosting go with E5s.
For idling I recommend the E3.
They idle very well in my experience.