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1366 X58 Xeon 5650
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The air must be colder where you are
4.6 is a beasty overclock.
I guessed, what is more realistic?
So if I overclock a lower model, a higher one doesn't make sense for "more" MHz?
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I've had a 5650 that won't clock at all. Maybe it was the mobo, who knows. Then I've had a 5670 that did 4.2.
It's a lottery really. 4-4.4 is what most people get. No matter the model.
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Ah ok. Thx
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I ran my trusty x5650 at 4.4ghz daily which is pretty decent, it would do 4.6ghz and stay under 80 degrees on a stress test, but with 1.5v
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1.5v is a bit high but these chips are so cheap you could get another for £8 if it went bang
I'd be more concerned if it took the motherboard with it.
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I think it would throttle or turn off before then.
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I have just upgraded from a x5675 that would do 4.6 but needed around 1.45v
I had it running 24/7 at 4.26ghz with 1.335v - worked flawlessly and still performed really well in all new games etc
I dont have access to the MM, so am just about to list mobo (gigabyte UD5), cpu (x5675), 12gb tri channel ram (corsair vengeance 1600mhz), h50 cooler, 900w Tagan PSU - on a famous auction site
I had it running 24/7 at 4.26ghz with 1.335v - worked flawlessly and still performed really well in all new games etc
I dont have access to the MM, so am just about to list mobo (gigabyte UD5), cpu (x5675), 12gb tri channel ram (corsair vengeance 1600mhz), h50 cooler, 900w Tagan PSU - on a famous auction site
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Honestly?
More boards die than cpus hence why the boards are expensive and the cpus are cheap.
That said i was pretty comfortable with feeding 1.4v to the cpu though i always kept QPI voltage under 1.35 as recomended for westmere.
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Boards are expensive ? My CPUs are always double the price of the board. Sometimes more.
Running 1.5 thought the CPU is very unlikely to kill a board. Benchers will run way more volts through the CPU and not kill either if it's kept cool enough
You may be correct in general, but not with the X58 platform currently.
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Not sure what your referring to? Is something going to change?
My point is if someone wants to run high volts through a £8 chip who cares if it dies? I wouldn't, that's for sure. If temps get to high the system will shut down. If it's kept cool it will just degenerate the CPU resulting in it dying anyway. Very unlikely to kill the board and another can be bought for £8
The chips may be under £20 but the decent x58 MBs often go for around £100 and the boards are more likely to fail with high voltages than the chip, bare in mind capacitors only have a certain lifespan which the boards are probably well past by now being around 10 years old so pushing too much power through them is risky as the cpus can draw over 300w when heavily overclocked.
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Good excuse to upgrade a 10 year old system