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CPU Upgrade Time (From i7 920...)

Kylevdm

Kylevdm

Kylevdm

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Hey all,

I last upgraded my PC properly in 2009 before I went to university, since then I avoided our little (expensive) hobby for a while as I only ever played games and did research for uni.

Now however, I have a job (yay disposable income) and am doing a lot more in the way of CPU intensive work in my spare time. I work as an electronic engineer so do a fair amount of CAD work in my spare time to try and improve my skills as fast as possible. Additionally I am going to be doing a fair amount of image and video processing for my website.

So as I am currently on the i7 920 it is very much time for me to upgrade, I just want to get your opinions on what chip I should go for I am edging towards the 5820k but with the new CPUs due out in Q2 is it worth waiting out for them? I would be looking at the PC lasting another 2-3 years really.

Thanks all!
 
I need a new PC for my latest mod anyway so I am currently thinking about doing the Xeon thing and upgrading to x99 just before Insomnia in the summer
 
wam7 said:
Just as Ste states. Pretty much anybody who has an X58 board and does CPU intensive tasks should pop in a X5650/70, overclock it to say 4.2-4.4 with little effort and enjoy the £400 in their pocket (they can be picked up for ~£50) One guy said my Cinebench score of 1059 for the X5670 I have was more than his stock 5820k.
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I have started browsing the bay for them. It will get watercooled anyway so the overclock shouldn't be an issue.
 
The ones at £57.99 have sold out (44 between midnight and now :() looks like I will go searching and should have just bought one last night!
 
LS_Chao said:
DO NOT get the Xeon if you do CAD, CAD is single threaded and a Xeon x56x0 series would be SLOWER than your current set up. If you value you CAD performance, do not buy a 6 year old server CPU!
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Eagle CAD is multithreaded for the only tool that requires it.
 
It is for designing PCBs, the primary high resource event is routing 1000s of connections between components. It does this by brute forcing them calculating which is most efficient so the more cores the better :)
 
My x5660 has been shipped, as has my GTX970 so am looking forward to doing some clocking. Need to remove my GPU from my loop at the moment though as I have yet to by a new block for it :( but the CPU should be nice and cool with a 360 rad basically to itself
 
Ste said:
I think the best here is 4.6 but I bottled it at 4.5. Some benches online at 4.8 but no idea if they got that stable :)
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I still need a usable PC at the end of the day so I will probably bottle it somewhere near where you did if I really play around. But I would rather have it running nicely with minimal effort until I have a decent amount of time to play.
 
Draeger said:
Likewise m8, which is why I'm going to hang on to my little 920D0 after I've fitted the Xeon, just in case. :cool:
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I may be emotionally attached to my 920D0 it was the first PC I bought all for myself, the others had been gifts from the parents. It has served me very well for the last 6+ years!

Ste said:
4.4 was really easy for me but it took quite a bit to get 4.5.

I do think 4.6 is doable but I'd be at 90c under the stress tests which is a bit much and 100 MHz isn't going to do anything of value. Still probably end up trying it one day though :D
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Hopefully with a full waterloop I should get decent temps as well :)
 
So I have just put it in, upgraded my BIOS to the latest version (using the i7 920) but the thing won't post :(

Motherboard: ASUS P6T Deluxe v2

Any suggestions?

If I put the i7 920 in it will boot just fine.
 
UPDATE

Tried CMOS reset (inc. battery removed)
1 stick of RAM in slot A1/A2
Ram in slots A2/B2/C2
Ram in slots A1/B1/C1

Still nothing :(
 
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