1366 X58 Xeon 5650

[ED209]

Yeah it's not the cheapest that's for sure, I'm just trying to bag the modules that have been badly listed with no competition, so far I've got 2x4gb for £25, got my eye on 2x8gb sticks, but seems hit and miss as to whether these will work. I'll try and get them anyway and give it a go!

Why not aye, cheap ram is always good.

Still waiting on my processor to arrive

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

My thoughts exactly, I have 24gb of Kingston 1600mhz in at the moment, but the timings on them are quite possibly the worst and slowest batch they ever produced, but I got it all FOC, so can't complain. It would be nice to have the faster memory and tighter timings using XMP, might see if I can squeeze a bit more from the x5650!

Which CPU did you go for?

 

[ED209]

My thoughts exactly, I have 24gb of Kingston 1600mhz in at the moment, but the timings on them are quite possibly the worst and slowest batch they ever produced, but I got it all FOC, so can't complain. It would be nice to have the faster memory and tighter timings using XMP, might see if I can squeeze a bit more from the x5650!

Which CPU did you go for?

I went for the 5650, cost £23 including postage off the bay

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

Nice! Hopefully it's a golden sample! I'm beginning to think the one I got is a bit meh... I need a fair chunk of voltage to get a 4.4ghz stable clock and at 4.8ghz it would post and boot to Winders, but would BSOD in games and needed over 1.45vcore from memory!

 

[ED209]

Nice! Hopefully it's a golden sample! I'm beginning to think the one I got is a bit meh... I need a fair chunk of voltage to get a 4.4ghz stable clock and at 4.8ghz it would post and boot to Winders, but would BSOD in games and needed over 1.45vcore from memory!

I have just got a message saying its arrived!

I haven't done any overclocking in ages so will be fun to see what it can do. I got my I7 90 up to 4.2ghz

 

[ED209]

Had a look st the Xeon and was expecting pins on the bottom and there was none but instead has pads so thought surely that's not right and googled the I7 and this is the same lol

 

[ED209]

Anyone have any joy in getting the Xeon working with a Asus P6X58D-E motherboard? I put the Xeon in and the pc doesn't boot and no display and after putting back in the I7 it works fine.

I have pulled the power and removed the battery to factory reset the bios but still doesn't boot, any suggestions?

 

[keenan]

Anyone have any joy in getting the Xeon working with a Asus P6X58D-E motherboard? I put the Xeon in and the pc doesn't boot and no display and after putting back in the I7 it works fine.

I have pulled the power and removed the battery to factory reset the bios but still doesn't boot, any suggestions?

You would likely need to update your motherboard to the latest bios. Keep the i7 in, flash the new bios and then swap to the Xeon..

 

[ED209]

You would likely need to update your motherboard to the latest bios. Keep the i7 in, flash the new bios and then swap to the Xeon..

Just checked and it's on the latest bios for my board, 0803

 

[Stu]

Officially it does not support Xeon chips, however, you can find user experiences in this short thread.

 

[ED209]

Looks like I am stuck with the I7 then as I cannot get it to work or a dead cpu but don't have any other way of testing. Glad it didn't cost me too much

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

Will that board not cross flash to another bios? I've got a p6t deluxe v2, but I'm using the latest WS Pro bios as it had a couple extras features for overclocking.

 

[ED209]

Will that board not cross flash to another bios? I've got a p6t deluxe v2, but I'm using the latest WS Pro bios as it had a couple extras features for overclocking.

I have not looked into it really, maybe a option

 

[Stu]

I assume all settings in BIOS are set to auto? If not, there could be some manual settings that worked with your old chip that the Xeon doesn't like.

 

[ED209]

I assume all settings in BIOS are set to auto? If not, there could be some manual settings that worked with your old chip that the Xeon doesn't like.

I did a factory reset of the bios to make sure there was no conflicting settings from my I7 to the Xeon but made no difference. Can't tell if it's a duff chip or the bios just doesn't support it as no other way of testing.

Thing powers up and all lights come on but no display which is the same thing I got when I built a 2200g system with a 350 mobo as it needed a bios update to work with the 2200g

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

Invest been looking on Google and your board will take a xeon chip no problem, so it looks like a dead chip to me.

 

[ED209]

Invest been looking on Google and your board will take a xeon chip no problem, so it looks like a dead chip to me.

Yeah, I did look at it before buying but as it's not listed on the supported cpus I cannot be sure to a dead cpu or the motherboard just not supporting it as I don't have another system to test it on

 

[Journey]

Yeah, I did look at it before buying but as it's not listed on the supported cpus I cannot be sure to a dead cpu or the motherboard just not supporting it as I don't have another system to test it on

If you remove all your RAM, do you still get a RAM error post beep, assuming you have a BIOS speaker attached.

 

[Stu]

Yeah, I did look at it before buying but as it's not listed on the supported cpus I cannot be sure to a dead cpu or the motherboard just not supporting it as I don't have another system to test it on

Did you read the thread that I linked to? That should have plenty of information to tell you whether your mobo will work with the CPU.

 

[ED209]

If you remove all your RAM, do you still get a RAM error post beep, assuming you have a BIOS speaker attached.

I don't have a speaker attached so just going by what I can see

Did you read the thread that I linked to? That should have plenty of information to tell you whether your mobo will work with the CPU.

I haven't had chance too yet, as I'm on my mobile I'll take a look at it when I'm at the pc for better reading