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Hex core Westmere.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I have noticed there seems to be a sudden upsurge of six core socket 1336 Xeon CPUs in the US - it is rumoured some big companies might be upgrading older equipment. I won't say more otherwise the mods might beat me!:(
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Yes there is an influx at the moment, so 1366 prices are just ridiculous.

My chip is brand new out of a tray though, god only knows where the heck it came from !

And yeah it seems the server industry is scrapping a lot of computers in Silicon Valley atm. I don't want this rig to have a massive clock speed because then you generate heat and it will suck down power. I want it for Sketchup, Photoshop and a Steam OS box, none of which require it to be massively fast :)

I'm probably going to end up using the stock cooler after a little modding.
 
Im, running a Westmere Xeon L5639 which is a hex core 60W CPU stock speed is 2.13Ghz. Clocked it to 3.4Ghz no problem at all.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Im, running a Westmere Xeon L5639 which is a hex core 60W CPU stock speed is 2.13Ghz. Clocked it to 3.4Ghz no problem at all.
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Great to know !

Apparently FSB is not down to the board, rather the CPU. So I'm hoping for a good one :)

Bluecube said:
Can anyone recommend a cheap(ish) motherboard for running one of these CPUs? Seems to be ideal for running a VM setup that I have in mind.
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There isn't one. Any one with a I7 system lying around all want in dude. 32nm hex core 12 thread CPU for £48-£100? would you sell yours?

All I can suggest is to hawk a certain site and hope you catch some one out. Just avoid DFI. Gigabyte and Asus seem to support them but the manu can lock them out if they wish. EVGA boards also support them but are hugely expensive.

Ooo forgot to say that mine arrived safely with my friend out in the USA.



He sent that to my phone to tease me lol. It's being sent in a couple of days and should take about a week to arrive :)
 
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I can't say where I got it from obviously. What I can say (I think) is just put the model number into a search engine. Q3NW...

Mine is on its way ;)

 
im looking at building a server for home use just to play around with running game servers, mainly to get some experiencing using different software and just messing about to be honest, as iv got a 1366 board lying about. Would it be worth trying to source one of these?
 
dickie999 said:
im looking at building a server for home use just to play around with running game servers, mainly to get some experiencing using different software and just messing about to be honest, as iv got a 1366 board lying about. Would it be worth trying to source one of these?
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At this price id definitely say yes.
 
Not sure if it helps but i noticed moving from quad to hex core i7 and down to 32nm reduced temps noticeably (even at higher stock clocks).

Not sure if i have a good clocker but my i7 970 runs very cool and o/c's very easily. Much cooler and stabler than my old 950 (same system). Possibly just the silicone lottery tho i guess.:confused:

Disappointed to not see any games using all 12 thread yet tho. Boo!:p
 
Well mine came but my board did not support it. It would boot from a cmos reset but not afterwards.

So I bought a Dell workstation to put it in for photoshop and video editing etc. Can't overclock it but don't really need to. 60w means the rig is as quiet as a mouse.
 
almighty15 said:
Pictures dude!!! And I'm sure you can email your motherboard vender and ask if they'll send you a BIOS that supports it?
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Not likely given that it's basically MSI making them for Dell. Dell don't do anything by request really. The only company ever to respond to my calls for a bios update were Asrock..

Any way the machine is up and running. I've braided most of the wiring and done a few mods to get the hard drives in.



I've also wrapped the internal fascia panel.



The front alu panel is going off to B-Negative to be painted.

As for performance? hmm, tough call. Basically my 8320 absolutely spanks it. It's not even close. I score 804 in Cinebench with my 8320 @ 5ghz, the Xeon comes back with 393.

In Firestrike it was a bit better. The Xeon hit 6900 Physics, my 8320 does around 10k.

However.. Normally I would be bummed out. Thing is, before I even bought the Xeon I had no illusions it would come anywhere close to my FX. But. I would strongly imagine my FX is chomping down a good 200w at least when overclocked. It also ends up resulting in noise, because to tame a 5ghz FX you need a dual length rad AIO with the fans running pretty hard.

The Dell I built is absolutely silent. I mean, you need to put your ears to it and even then it's a whisper. It also uses 60w, which for the power it delivers is very, very good.

The only mishap I had was accidentally pushing in the PCIE lock (it's a plastic thing) and damaging one of the fans on the Lightning. Basically if the fans go over 30% now one of them hits the shroud. The blade isn't snapped, it's just floppy and loose.

After longing for one (480 Lightning) for 6 years and finally getting one this was a real bummer. Basically the 480 Lightning is completely custom. They never re-used the cooler, fans or anything else on any other card. Later they basically slapped the same TFIII (different to the TFIII on the Lightning I may add) on any Lightning, Hawk, Thunder or just regular TFIII card.

So completely stuck (because the fans on it are 90mm and all of the others use 65-80mm) I ended up finding these in Hong Kong...



So I am going to have to mod the card. Not a problem given everything else in the machine is going to be modded but yeah, a little depressing.
 
Flashheart said:
Any news on how these clock?
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Sadly I can't do that given I'm using a Dell board. Even XTU is blocked lol.

There may be another way around it but tbh? I don't really want to clock it. I was a silent workstation with enough balls to throw around images and video and I've pretty much got it.

Years ago I used to design for an emulator that only works properly in XP, so I've set the rig up running XP 64. I did have 7 on it briefly and will put 8 on it when I get another SSD but for right now the machine is perfect for what I needed.
 
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