1366 X58 Xeon 5650

[Jarrastafari]

Had sleep mode working fine for months then one day it started to do nothing other than light up and whirr when resuming so I've went back to shutting down completely after failing to resolve it.

If you figure out a potential fix please let me know.

 

[AiiR]

Does anyone know how these Xeons compare with AMD's FX 8 cores?

 

[easyrider]

Woooooow, just running at stock 2.8GHz everything is soooo quick and snappy, Ok its running an SSD in SATA 2 but it honestly feels quicker than my 3770k system.

I'm well impressed, and its only cost me £150, thats CPU cooler, CPU and MOBO, I had spare parts lying around.

Still need to get it its own RAM as i've stolen the 8GB that's suppose to be in my 3770k system, but i'm happy to use this for a while

Haha and that's on 32bit Win 7 *Facepalm* my own stupidity for not checking the external cd drive I'm using, I upgraded someone's old netbook from XP to Win 7 and thought it was pointless upgrading it to the 64bit one.

Snappy doing what ? Using Windows?

You'll only notice when doing real stuff that uses all cores to the max .

 

[nick_000000]

Does anyone know how these Xeons compare with AMD's FX 8 cores?

The AMD FX-9590 clocked @ 4.7GHz beats a Intel Xeon X5690 @ 3.47GHz as seen on the below link, but I imagine that once you have clocked any of the X56** to over 4GHz that may close that gap.

There is a list of benchmark scores here - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+FX-9590+Eight-Core&id=2014

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Snappy doing what ? Using Windows?

You'll only notice when doing real stuff that uses all cores to the max .

Using Windows, opening programs, Vegas is the massive improvement, but general use feels quicker than my main system, probably all in my head but either way, well worth the £150 I spent on it.

When I get home from work I'll see its potential, 1v with idle temps below 20c is pretty amazing for the power this thing has, even at stock.

edit

So this is just setting the ratio and bus speed, leaving everything else on auto



I'm happy with just 4GHz, but obviously I want to fine tweak the voltage, so if anyone has some settings for me to try, especially on a P6T Deluxe V1 board, i'm happy as i'm a newbie on this platform, i'm used to just setting CPU multiplier and tweaking core voltage.

Also i'm sure I read the Ratio can go higher than 21 on a x5660 chip?

another edit

Mobo wouldn't let me have more then x23, everything else on stock



Last update for the night

Only tweaked CPU voltage, only real world tests i've used is render using CPU only which uses 100% of the CPU and played a few games, yet to see any freezing or BSODs, idle temps are mid 20s and full load temps are low 50s, so far so good This is what I got so far but i'm ready for bed so tomorrow i'll see how much I can lower the voltage by.

 

[the_jetsetwilly]

mines runs hot, going to need some help if that's ok? I'll get some info together to see if I'm doing something wrong or I got a bad egg.

 

[Kylevdm]

What do you mean by "it's running hot"?

 

[DaGooN]

It's like a Rock at the moment. im sure i could go higher but 4.2 is fine.
4Ghz @ 1.2 is like perfect too. Good chip?

 

[nick_000000]

It's like a Rock at the moment. im sure i could go higher but 4.2 is fine.
4Ghz @ 1.2 is like perfect too. Good chip?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's running at 2.3GHz not 4GHz you need to up the multiplier from 12 to 20 I think no???

 

[Sh4rkie]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's running at 2.3GHz not 4GHz you need to up the multiplier from 12 to 20 I think no???

I would say he's got power saving enabled on the cpu so it's down clocked on idle. You can see in HWmonitor the max clock speed of 4Ghz.

 

[nick_000000]

I would say he's got power saving enabled on the cpu so it's down clocked on idle. You can see in HWmonitor the max clock speed of 4Ghz.

Ah good shout didn't see that .

 

[DragonQ]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's running at 2.3GHz not 4GHz you need to up the multiplier from 12 to 20 I think no???

Nehalem and Westmere CPUs clock down to 12x when not under load.

 

[damodude]

X5660 going for £50 on the bay of E's if anyone is interested 131753393181.

 

[teenwolf]

bought it.
thank you

what sort of overclock can i expect on a p6t deluxe with watercooling ?

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

bought it.
thank you

what sort of overclock can i expect on a p6t deluxe with watercooling ?

So far I'm using a H55 on my 5660 chip on the Deluxe V1 board, I've only touched cpu voltage, multi and base clock, haven't touched any of the other settings since I have no clue what it does xD



There's still more tweaking of the cpu voltage to go since I only had an hour spare and I went to bed, On that voltage idle temps are mid 20s and full load using sony vegas to render using cpu only which uses 100% of the cpu it hits low 50s.

I'm positive it can hit much more than 4GHz but I want stability and cool running, and a 6 core running 4GHz is hardly slow


Separate question, why doesn't windows 10 recognize my overclock? Still displays max speed as 2.8GHz, even though CPUZ shows 4GHz.

 

[Sh4rkie]

Separate question, why doesn't windows 10 recognize my overclock? Still displays max speed as 2.8GHz, even though CPUZ shows 4GHz.

Reads the processor id vs the actual clock speed.

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Reads the processor id vs the actual clock speed.

Windows 10 confuses me, it tells me my 3770k max speed is 5.5GHz, its clocked at 4.4!!!

 

[wam7]

bought it.
thank you

what sort of overclock can i expect on a p6t deluxe with watercooling ?

I have a X5670/ P6T (stock 2.93Ghz) running at 4.6Ghz on a Noctua D14. So I'd be looking at 4.4Ghz+

 

[DragonQ]

You're unlikely to get 4.4 GHz on a P6T Deluxe, unless your board can do 220 MHz base clock. Asus X58 boards employ throttling, which basically means you can either choose between having a fixed 20x maximum multiplier, or a varying 21-23x multiplier that you can't control. I tried the latter but I couldn't get it to be stable because it can spike to 4.6 GHz at any time.

The 22x base multiplier of an X5670 makes things rather easier.

 

[teenwolf]

lets say i get it at 4.2ghz where does that fair upto with todays cpu's ?