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1366 X58 Xeon 5650
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My X58 system is still fully working but my wife wanted an upgrade so I did both of ours in one shot. It's definitely snappier when doing lots of stuff at once, e.g. opening Firefox with 20+ tabs is much quicker, transcoding is much faster (although I rarely do this). Gaming is 50/50, some games are identical others are night and day; depends how CPU dependent they are.Likewise my X58 system has been doing well, but it is getting to that point where we should upgrade
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I've been tempted by the 3700x. Would love a m-itx build. Unfortunately can't afford it at the moment
Tried a 5650 I bought from the bay in my daughter’s Gigabyte x58a-ud3r Rev 2.0. Upgraded to latest bios which was still good with i7-920 in. Cleared cmos using button and taking battery out for 30 mins etc.
Wouldn’t post, just power cycling every 3 seconds, so had to put 920 back in.
I assume 5650 was a dud or anyone know if x58a-udr3 won’t work? I had a 5650 in my old x58-ud5 which worked fine. She needs more rendering power for Maya & Photoshop at uni.
Wouldn’t post, just power cycling every 3 seconds, so had to put 920 back in.
I assume 5650 was a dud or anyone know if x58a-udr3 won’t work? I had a 5650 in my old x58-ud5 which worked fine. She needs more rendering power for Maya & Photoshop at uni.
It should work by the looks of it, vid of a guy overclocking an x5650 on the same board.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aAo-qijTo
Guessing your on the FH bios? You could try booting with 1 stick of ram or change the ram if you have any different ddr3 laying around to rule out an incompatibility there.
As you say though it could just be a dud CPU.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aAo-qijTo
Guessing your on the FH bios? You could try booting with 1 stick of ram or change the ram if you have any different ddr3 laying around to rule out an incompatibility there.
As you say though it could just be a dud CPU.
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I've got the same board with 5670 clocked to 4ghz works fine. I use a modded latest bios they've updated the Marvell controller bios also a it flashed the controller bios the first time I did a hard power up after modded bios install, and newer version of data bios controller.
Using three X 8gb modules to get 24gb on triple channel
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Ok guys,i have a question,when i try to overclock now(overclocked fine before)the cpu wont boot at all tryed a few settings also removed the mb battery,Could anyone tell me why this might be?tkx,Also what score should i get in cinabench r20?And does anyone have the best overclock settings for this chipset,Thanks
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Your core voltage seems a little low.
I'm running a X5660 at 4.3 on all cores, CPU-Z reads 1.376v
I'm running a X5660 at 4.3 on all cores, CPU-Z reads 1.376v
Mate could you post you overclock,tks
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I'm not sure if this is right, or it can be done better. This has been running stable for several months.
Thanks mate will give it a try
I'm not sure if this is right, or it can be done better. This has been running stable for several months.
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Those settings are more or less what I had my x5675 on before I sold it - worked flaswlessly for a couple of years.
Fantastic chip given the very low price.
Fantastic chip given the very low price.
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I posted my OC here earlier on, might be of use to you as well.
It shows 1.35V (in BIOS) but I've since upped it to 1.35250V.
Rock solid at 4.4Ghz with 6x4GB sticks of RAM.
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I'm not sure if this is right, or it can be done better. This has been running stable for several months.
If anyone can chime in to how I can improve this, please do. Ratio of 21 is the highest for this chip.
Is it now a case of increasing the BCLK until it fails to be stable?
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My 5650 is still going strong. Still my main desktop PC. I'm still playing the latest game releases on it albeit with a 1060 8Gb card instead of a 760GTX but the games all run superbly at 1080p at max settings.
These chips are just bloody awesome little performers.
These chips are just bloody awesome little performers.
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I just had a look, I bought mine from here on the MM in March 2015!
Can't believe it was that long ago.
Not once have I thought I needed to upgrade it, it runs everything great at 3440x1440P with a 1070.
Awesome chip, only cost me £175 as a bundle with an X58-UD5 and 12GB of RAM.
Has to be my best computer purchase ever.
I'll probably upgrade to a Zen 4 and DDR5 when it comes out, the fact this runs so well is why I wasn't tempted by current Ryzens.
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Worth a try. I remember replying to you before, strange yours is limited to 21x.
even though I have a ryzen 3960x I still prefer and use my x58 for gaming. I have it paired with 1080ti and play 4k and buttery smooth Doom eternal, resident evil 2/3, sekiro, tomb raider and just about every other game I throw at it. May because I am not too sensitive with frame rates, I know some need 120 but me I am happy with anything from 50-60.
Not worth upgrading to be honest.
what a great platform & cup, epic tbh, X58 First bought it in 2011 and going strong in 2020.
Not worth upgrading to be honest.
what a great platform & cup, epic tbh, X58 First bought it in 2011 and going strong in 2020.
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