1366 X58 Xeon 5650

easyrider · 26 Sep 2015 at 17:07

If you can pick up a bargain x58 combo then it offers massive bang for buck

_lecro_ · 1 Oct 2015 at 22:35

Just got a x5670 off da bay for a tad under 90 bah.
will be doing a little refit this weekend.
has there been any results from benchmarks .. i.e valley / heaven ?

LiGhTfasT · 1 Oct 2015 at 22:50

Just got my x5660 today and stuck it in, I was orginally stuck and not getting passed 3.33ghz but after changing the uncore multipler to 12x as per a few posts back. Now running sweet

I set the bios with turbo on to 4ghz and it shows as 4392 on bootup and in windows which I assume is the turbo? voltage I've set to 1.35v and will lower this next.

Bargain chip, massive performance and cool on air too

Kelt · 1 Oct 2015 at 23:17

They really are cracking chips aren't they.

No wonder Intel have locked down current Xeons.

AiiR · 1 Oct 2015 at 23:19

Jealous at all these people that don't have an absolute garbage motherboard!

Kelt · 1 Oct 2015 at 23:28

AiiR said:
Jealous at all these people that don't have an absolute garbage motherboard!

Must be worth looking to get a better mobo.

AiiR · 2 Oct 2015 at 00:10

Kelt said:
Must be worth looking to get a better mobo.

Too much hassle for the sake of ~800mhz sadly, the plan is to sell up around Christmas and upgrade to a Skylake i5.

kayomani · 2 Oct 2015 at 00:18

Just done that upgrade, I am in the process relegating my x5650 to be a plex server - nicely multithreaded to take advantage of the thread count!

Kelt · 2 Oct 2015 at 00:21

AiiR said:
Too much hassle for the sake of ~800mhz sadly, the plan is to sell up around Christmas and upgrade to a Skylake i5.

I'd be looking at an X99 system personally. People who say more than four cores aren't being used in gaming are wrong. And it only going to get better as time goes by.

Would never go back to a quad-core now.

Stu · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:18

AiiR said:
Jealous at all these people that don't have an absolute garbage motherboard!

I'm not sure that you'll really notice any difference between 3.7 GHz and 4.2 GHz, so I would forgot about the mobo and enjoy.

DragonQ · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:23

4 GHz works for me, my motherboard really hates going above 200 MHz BCLK and leaving the multiplier at 21-23x is too big of a margin for stability (throttling prevents me setting it to 22x permanently).

tribz · 6 Oct 2015 at 15:15

_lecro_ said:
Just got a x5670 off da bay for a tad under 90 bah.
will be doing a little refit this weekend.
has there been any results from benchmarks .. i.e valley / heaven ?

Some old benchmarks here that I did last year ...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=26809830&postcount=140

kylew_is_back · 6 Oct 2015 at 18:58

DragonQ said:
4 GHz works for me, my motherboard really hates going above 200 MHz BCLK and leaving the multiplier at 21-23x is too big of a margin for stability (throttling prevents me setting it to 22x permanently).

I am sure the Asus P6T Deluxe V2 can go above 200 MHz BCLK. have you try change the multiplier of the uncore and ram?

DragonQ · 7 Oct 2015 at 10:38

kylew_is_back said:
I am sure the Asus P6T Deluxe V2 can go above 200 MHz BCLK. have you try change the multiplier of the uncore and ram?

I don't remember how much fiddling I did with it but I think I could get to 203 MHz BCLK without needing excessive voltage. My RAM doesn't like going even slightly over 1600 MHz so when doing >200 MHz BCLK I always have to drop it to x6. I tried Uncore at one step above 2x RAM and also on "auto".

So even if I could get it stable above 200 MHZ BCLK, I'd have to choose between 4 GHz with 1600 MHz RAM and 4.2 GHz with 1260 MHz RAM (for example).

essm1988 · 7 Oct 2015 at 12:14

DragonQ said:
I don't remember how much fiddling I did with it but I think I could get to 203 MHz BCLK without needing excessive voltage. My RAM doesn't like going even slightly over 1600 MHz so when doing >200 MHz BCLK I always have to drop it to x6. I tried Uncore at one step above 2x RAM and also on "auto".

So even if I could get it stable above 200 MHZ BCLK, I'd have to choose between 4 GHz with 1600 MHz RAM and 4.2 GHz with 1260 MHz RAM (for example).

try uncor 1.8x ram or 1.5x ram

try set ram volt to 1.66v without drop

try set ioh 1.2v

maybe will stable above 200Bclk

DragonQ · 7 Oct 2015 at 12:41

essm1988 said:
try uncor 1.8x ram or 1.5x ram

try set ram volt to 1.66v without drop

try set ioh 1.2v

maybe will stable above 200Bclk

But I don't want to.

Strife212 · 10 Oct 2015 at 06:36

AiiR said:
Jealous at all these people that don't have an absolute garbage motherboard!

Kelt said:
Must be worth looking to get a better mobo.

Hard to get decent X58 mobo these days.

Kelt · 10 Oct 2015 at 10:14

Strife212 said:
Hard to get decent X58 mobo these days.

Yeh, guess they're pretty rare and/or expensive nowadays.

Glad I got mine from the MM when I did.

_lecro_ · 10 Oct 2015 at 22:37

Glad i never upgraded .. hehe

4.2 stable after 2nd attempt ..

ive got a week off so will be upto 4.4 soon

RynceWynd · 14 Oct 2015 at 21:34

I wish i had never upgraded. I replaced my bloodrage x58, i7 920 and crossfire 5850's with an AMD P2 1055t and 6970

i've regretted that for years.

However i put a cheeky bid on a full pc auction on sunday and won. So I now have a new toy for the test bench.

The guts of the pc had an asus saberooth x58 board with an i7 960 and 6gb ram, and oem copy of windows 7 pro.

The antec 300 case, antec 600w modular psu, 500gb hd, gts 450, and i7 960 will all be offloaded to offset the cost.

i also picked up an x5660 for £49, i'm looking forward to see how it compares to my 4770k. it's all up and running on my coolermaster lab, with an ssd thrown in, just need to find my socket 1366 fitting for my aio corsair cooler, otherwise i'm going to have to dig out my old custom loop i used on the 920.

I'm looking forward to tinkering.