1366 X58 Xeon 5650

SupernovaUK · 28 Aug 2014 at 21:14

She's alive!!

Just joined the X58 Xeon club with a nice little X5675 plugged into my Asus P6X58D-E.

Got some work to do to sort out RAM cause she didn't like 1600mhz, which is the rated speed for my sticks. I'd appreciate some advise on what to tweek to sort that out if anyone's got any guidance?

Also not started with any attempts to overclock yet. Again I might need some hand holding with that as I'm an OC novice

Combat Fighter · 28 Aug 2014 at 21:44

joeyjojo said:
Sorry to dig up an older post but this isn't how you use IBT. "Standard" isn't a stress test.

Without getting into the details, you need to increase the memory usage so that the GFLOPS column is higher, at least 80 at that speed with 6 cores.

It will take longer per loop but will actually be a good stress test then.

Only problem with IBT is that it doesn't come with instructions.

Edit: corrected because it's Gulftown and doesn't have AVX, so GFLOPS = 4 * cores * clock speed, not 8 as it is for SB/IB.

I know mate,

Here you go:

I've only got 6GB of ram at the moment but I'll have 12GB soon.

Perfect_Chaos · 29 Aug 2014 at 00:17

orbit said:
There are some realtime and game benchmarks here

http://www.overclock.net/t/1461359/...eon-l5639-benchmarks-inside-longest-post-ever

Yeah i've seen those but i still have no idea how the game benchmarks compare to newer cpu's because there is no comparison.. Some of those game results look wrong to me though, the minimum frame rates look really low for using 2 gpu's don't they?

mattmos · 29 Aug 2014 at 01:26

Pretty chuffed with these. Got a 5650 running at 4Ghz stable on air, and getting a cpu score of 920 in cinebench 15. Replaced an old i7 920 which was also at 4Ghz, but only getting 580 in CB. Will definitely keep my p6x58d-e running a while longer.

The multi is a strange one though, goes up to 22x but is missing 21x...

tribz · 29 Aug 2014 at 06:53

SupernovaUK said:
She's alive!!

Just joined the X58 Xeon club with a nice little X5675 plugged into my Asus P6X58D-E.

Got some work to do to sort out RAM cause she didn't like 1600mhz, which is the rated speed for my sticks. I'd appreciate some advise on what to tweek to sort that out if anyone's got any guidance?

Also not started with any attempts to overclock yet. Again I might need some hand holding with that as I'm an OC novice

Nice, welcome aboard

Is the ram running at 1333MHz? If so, I'd try upping the RAM voltage a bit, the range is normally 1.5-1.65. Mines currently set at 1.6 and then specifying the ram speed of 1600 in the settings and see if that works.

tribz · 29 Aug 2014 at 06:56

mattmos said:
Pretty chuffed with these. Got a 5650 running at 4Ghz stable on air, and getting a cpu score of 920 in cinebench 15. Replaced an old i7 920 which was also at 4Ghz, but only getting 580 in CB. Will definitely keep my p6x58d-e running a while longer.

The multi is a strange one though, goes up to 22x but is missing 21x...

Thats a great overclock on air

The westmeres run a lot cooler than the gulftowns so that helps with overclocking. That cinebench score is great, what speed is your ram running at? Yeah, those multi's are weird, you can pretty much ignore the top 2 multi's as the 21 wont set and the 22 wont result in the cores reaching max speed anyway.

joeyjojo · 29 Aug 2014 at 09:17

Combat Fighter said:
I know mate,

Looking better. Sorry, very few know to adjust the memory in IBT.

mattmos · 29 Aug 2014 at 11:27

tribz said:
Thats a great overclock on air The westmeres run a lot cooler than the gulftowns so that helps with overclocking. That cinebench score is great, what speed is your ram running at? Yeah, those multi's are weird, you can pretty much ignore the top 2 multi's as the 21 wont set and the 22 wont result in the cores reaching max speed anyway.

The ram is 24Gb corsair vengeance pro silver 1866 but running at 1600 - bus is at 200. Happy enough. Also have one dropped into a gigabyte ud3r, but the bus won't run fully stable at anything over 180.

I wonder how long I'll be happy with these results once the x99 benchies start appearing!

Combat Fighter · 29 Aug 2014 at 13:50

Hey tribz

Any chance you could do a IBT like my post #162 at 4.4?

I'd like to see the difference.

tribz · 29 Aug 2014 at 18:30

Combat Fighter said:
Hey tribz

Any chance you could do a IBT like my post #162 at 4.4?

I'd like to see the difference.

Here you go ...

My first test completed but the temps got into the 90's and then I remembered I was still using the crappy tim that I found in the drawer. A super thin application of MX2 and its back in the 60's. I had to up the vcore to 1.36 for a maximum run, it wouldnt complete at 1.35

Tell me, why does your test complete quicker than mine?

JimboJet · 30 Aug 2014 at 09:33

Tribz, that's a great result. I'm persuaded to get one!

seth1969 · 30 Aug 2014 at 12:25

Just got a x5650, but being such a noob was wondering if I can just swap the chip without reinstalling windows?
The chip has no writing on the ihs and has a small sticker over the capacitor
any help most welcome

tribz · 30 Aug 2014 at 12:29

JimboJet said:
Tribz, that's a great result. I'm persuaded to get one!

Thanks

tribz · 30 Aug 2014 at 12:31

seth1969 said:
Just got a x5650, but being such a noob was wondering if I can just swap the chip without reinstalling windows?
The chip has no writing on the ihs and has a small sticker over the capacitor
any help most welcome

Sure, as long as your motherboard supports it without a BIOS update, just swap it over.

Odd that its got no writing at all on it. Is that sticker on the bottom then? I'd remove it but thats just me

seth1969 · 30 Aug 2014 at 13:54

Thanks tribz, motherboard is sabertooth just updates to latest bios.
Yeh sticker is in the center of all the contacts over the small components.

JBuk · 30 Aug 2014 at 14:27

just banged a 5650 in and got it running except every time I change any mutlipliers in bios even by one step it fails to boot then does an emergency boot at stock settings, anyone got any ideas?

motherboard is a gigabyte x58ud5 rev 1 running f13 bios

JBuk · 30 Aug 2014 at 16:44

Never mind got it all up and running now at 4ghz at 1.325v

joeyjojo · 30 Aug 2014 at 17:21

tribz said:
Tell me, why does your test complete quicker than mine?

That is a good result. It's taken longer because you're both using "max" memory but you've got a lot more memory installed, so the problem size is bigger and it takes longer to solve.

You might actually have used too much and got some swapping because the first loop is quite a bit faster than the rest. You could re-run it with less, maybe 5-8 GB to check.

Peak performance at that clock would be 105 GFLOPS so you want as close to that as poss really.

androo · 30 Aug 2014 at 19:16

My 5650 is up and running in my Gigabyte EX-UD5. I have my memory running at 1600 (increased the voltage to 1.540) and the chip is sitting happily at 4.0Ghz and at a steady 59c.

Considering my i7 920 would barely reach 3.6, this is a pretty vast improvement i'm seeing for very little outlay (I've made 935 on Cinebench).

Best £60 i've spent in a while I think and thumbs up to this thread for planting the idea in my head

easyrider · 30 Aug 2014 at 19:25

Androo

What are you load temps....temps at idle mean nothing....

What cooling are you using amigo ?