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1366 X58 Xeon 5650

Said goodbye to my Xeon setup last week. Bagged £200 for the chip, board and ram which is collectively more than what I paid over the course of 5 years, not bad!
 
AiiR said:
Said goodbye to my Xeon setup last week. Bagged £200 for the chip, board and ram which is collectively more than what I paid over the course of 5 years, not bad!
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Your Skylake blows it out of the water in gaming. These X58 systems are ideal for workstations etc, not so much for gaming IMO.

Far better to have Skylake/1070 combo, cool and quiet, and insanely fast :D
 
Dave2150 said:
Your Skylake blows it out of the water in gaming. These X58 systems are ideal for workstations etc, not so much for gaming IMO.

Far better to have Skylake/1070 combo, cool and quiet, and insanely fast :D
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A Skylake I5/I7 and a 1070 also come with a big extra price tag, seeing as I've had the same motherboard for 6-7 years now I think the old hardware is keeping up fairly well in both workstation performance and it's not exactly that poor at gaming when overclocked. It may be a bit of a hog when it comes to power draw, but at the moment I can't justify spending around £500 for a Skylake system when it loses two cores. The only thing that kind of tempts me is the upgrade itch of shiny new UEFI, newer version of SATA and m.2 support.
 
Dave2150 said:
Your Skylake blows it out of the water in gaming. These X58 systems are ideal for workstations etc, not so much for gaming IMO.

Far better to have Skylake/1070 combo, cool and quiet, and insanely fast :D
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Blows out of the water? With some exceptions once you're at a gpu limited res then the gap is a lot narrower.

kylew_is_back said:
in case anyone wondering how these xeons compare to skylake I did some benchmarks when I upgrade from x5650 to 6700K.

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AiiR said:
Said goodbye to my Xeon setup last week. Bagged £200 for the chip, board and ram which is collectively more than what I paid over the course of 5 years, not bad!
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Curious to know how your finding your new setup compared to the xeon setup you had.. i was thinking of going skylake at some point myself:)
 
teenwolf said:
x5650 @ nearly 4.6ghz must close the gap more than 4.2ghz.
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In a word no. Clock speed with some exceptions has little impact on gaming fps.

1080p, 1440p and 4k results here between a stock 6700k and @ 4.8:

http://ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?page=3&itemid=3894

I've personally found similar results. At 4k res the difference between a stock Xeon @ 2.66 and 4.2 is less than 1% improvement in avg / max scores and just over 1% in the min fps. It does vary per game, Crysis 3 seeing more benefits from improved clock speed for example.
 
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peahead said:
Curious to know how your finding your new setup compared to the xeon setup you had.. i was thinking of going skylake at some point myself:)
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It's very nice, a good upgrade which only really cost me £120 after selling the x58 setup. Minimum fps has definitely improved which helps a lot maintaining 140+ frames. I only game and could only clock my Xeon to 3.6ghz so was definitely worth it for me.
 
I'm not sure how much of a bottleneck the CPU is for me.

I run a GTX1080 at 3440x1440 and so probably GPU limited in most circumstances...

I think my next upgrade will be a secondhand x99 setup and a 5290k. I don't wanna lose the two cores. But for now it's really quite impressive. Might do a 3D mark run soon...
 
Ste said:
I'm not sure how much of a bottleneck the CPU is for me.

I run a GTX1080 at 3440x1440 and so probably GPU limited in most circumstances...

I think my next upgrade will be a secondhand x99 setup and a 5290k. I don't wanna lose the two cores. But for now it's really quite impressive. Might do a 3D mark run soon...
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I wouldn't be so worried, my i5 6600k at 4.6GHz nearly matches my older Xeon in Multithreaded apps and that's minus 2 cores and 12 threads.
 
Dave2150 said:
Your Skylake blows it out of the water in gaming. These X58 systems are ideal for workstations etc, not so much for gaming IMO.

Far better to have Skylake/1070 combo, cool and quiet, and insanely fast :D
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Please take anything Dave says with a large does of sodium chloride. His exaggeration, hyperbole and outright fabrications often only serve to distort and mislead.

In a previous thread where he also said "Skylake destroys Xeon 56XX's in games" he stated that:
Dave2150 said:
As I see it, these chips are great for a workstation PC on a budget. They are very popular with eastern European enthusiasts for that reason, they allow them to get some work done on a very small budget.
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Little did he know that when he fabricated this statement that there would be somebody that could "blow it out of the water":
wam7 said:
​I've been working as an IT Consultant/Engineer in of all places, yes, Eastern Europe for the past 8 years (spending a good amount of my time there), my long term girlfriend is Eastern European our son is half Eastern European and I speak fairly well an Eastern European language. So, I can talk with a small amount of confidence when I say, that statement is really pure and utter nonsense. Xeon X5650 are far, far more popular here in the U.K and in States (btw my Dad lives in the US).
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Over the past week or so I thought I would do some empirical data gathering myself and so I asked my many computer savvy Eastern European friends (and got them to ask there computer enthusiast friends) as to how many of them

a) Owned or new anybody that owned a X58 motherboard.
b) Had ever heard of the Xeon 5650 etc

I got 68 replies in total and of that amount only 1 had a X58 motherboard
and non had heard of the Xeon 5650 etc.

Dave's statement that they were popular in Eastern Europe appears to be pure fabrication. X58 motherboards were relatively expensive when they came out and would never have been popular due to the cost. My policeman friend back at the time when X58 out was earning 300 euro's (£230) a MONTH. Most computer enthusiasts simply could not afford a high spec quad core and they either had lower cost dual cores or used laptops.
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You only have to look at the table a few posts above and you can see that at 1440p which is the current resolution of choice for a gamer, the difference is ~10%. Which hardly qualifiers anybody using statements such as "blows out of the water" and "destroys".

I suggest any time you see the name Dave2150 in this thread make sure you have your salt shaker nearby.
 
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I have doom, gta5, ROTR, 3dmark installed at moment with an 1080gtx if any benchmarks could help your arguement there :)
 
Hey guys, who runs LLC enabled here? Pretty sure I read it's not the best for these chips, but it really helped my old 920 when it experienced the same anomalies as my current setup; 'stable through tests, but random shutdowns anywhere from a day to a week of use.'


Oops, current Setup is different from sig, i'm trialling 4.44ghz static with turbo 25x multi, 185bclk [4.6ghz ] but at 1.424-1.44 v
 
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