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I'd recommend saving for a AM4 platform, and picking up the cheapest Ryzen CPU. These Xeons are great for workstation use where all the cores are utilised, though are still pretty bad when it comes to single core performance.

Lots of new games still need high single core performance / IPC and will still run badly on a Xeon. You'll also have to overclock it quite hard to get acceptable performance, what CPU cooler do you have?
 
Dave2150 said:
I'd recommend saving for a AM4 platform, and picking up the cheapest Ryzen CPU. These Xeons are great for workstation use where all the cores are utilised, though are still pretty bad when it comes to single core performance.

Lots of new games still need high single core performance / IPC and will still run badly on a Xeon. You'll also have to overclock it quite hard to get acceptable performance, what CPU cooler do you have?
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This is what would concern me, the poor single core performance.
 
DarkHorizon472 said:
This is what would concern me, the poor single core performance.
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for £10 cpu he gets something that will clock to 4.4 and give him much better performance. I am using one now and quite few people are still on the system.

I am playing most games just fine, newer titles would benefit faster cpu but for £10 + £15 cpu cooler you can't go wrong.
 
Bolerus said:
dont have the manual unfortunatly, (had this board for about 6 years). will it say physically on the board
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It should be on the top left or bottonm left of the board. If you can't find it, install CPUZ and post a screen shot of the motherboard tab section. I should be able to tell the revision by the bios number. The rev 2 boards have different BIOS numbers than rev 1. My board is rev 1.
 
AMDPower said:
for £10 cpu he gets something that will clock to 4.4 and give him much better performance. I am using one now and quite few people are still on the system.

I am playing most games just fine, newer titles would benefit faster cpu but for £10 + £15 cpu cooler you can't go wrong.
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That’s handy, didn’t realise they clocked that well.
 
AMDPower said:
It should be on the top left or bottonm left of the board. If you can't find it, install CPUZ and post a screen shot of the motherboard tab section. I should be able to tell the revision by the bios number. The rev 2 boards have different BIOS numbers than rev 1. My board is rev 1.
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thanks mate

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A couple things. Can I run it and passmark are garbage websites. They are at best misleading and at worst flat out wrong. I don't think any game won't run on an i7 930.

Secondly don't waste any money on old intel i5s/i7s. They are obscenely overpriced. However dropping in a hex xeon is fine cause how low the price is.

Thirdly, MW2019 hasn't had it's requirements released, nor has the game been independently benchmarked. Wait before buying based on predicted meaningless requirements.

I'd be saving up for a Ryzen upgrade, R5 1600 as a minimum.
 
Bolerus said:
thanks mate

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Have to be honest here mate, i cant be 100% certain ifyou have rev 2.0 board or rev 1.0. It would seem you have a revision 1.0 board because these board start with a F and then a number like F12, F11, F3 ect, where revision 2.0 start with F and another letter and sometime a third number, like FF1 or FB or FA.

I dont want to tell you to flash a bios and it ends up being the wrong one. On my CPU z it says Bios F13 but I have a feeling this information could be wrong. I would send gigabyte an email to find out if they can distinguish it, if anybody can help it would be them.

In the mean time, i would buy a cpu and just try it with your current BIOS, i have a feeling it will just work out the box like mine did when i bought it. I had no issues with it and did not have to flash the bios but on another UD3 motherboard it required flashing.

contact gigabyte via email and see what they say. Its definitely written on the motherboard if you can look for it.
 
Bolerus said:
dont have the manual unfortunatly, (had this board for about 6 years). will it say physically on the board
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The revision number will be printed directly on your motherboard. I think you should be able to find yours by looking at bottom left area of your motherboard, near the bottom PCIe slot.

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Disco_P said:
A couple things. Can I run it and passmark are garbage websites. They are at best misleading and at worst flat out wrong. I don't think any game won't run on an i7 930.

Secondly don't waste any money on old intel i5s/i7s. They are obscenely overpriced. However dropping in a hex xeon is fine cause how low the price is.

Thirdly, MW2019 hasn't had it's requirements released, nor has the game been independently benchmarked. Wait before buying based on predicted meaningless requirements.

I'd be saving up for a Ryzen upgrade, R5 1600 as a minimum.
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i got the min spec from here
https://gamemaximus.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2019-system-requirements/
but there is no mention that i can see on the activision web site, so i guess ill wait

I have ordered an x5675 , was 12.99 so if that goes wrong and doesent work i havent lost anything, other than a bit of thermal paste putting my 930 back in.

AMD Power, thanks mate, some good advice there :)
 
i bought and installed(tonight) a xeon x5675

I havent overclocked it yet, the i7 930 benchmarked at 5111.5 with passmark, the xeon benchmarking at 8385

plan to play a bit with overclocking at the weekend

I did replace the stock cpu with a artic 7 pro, but I need to get some cpu paste because, i put the xeon in and it didnt work, so had to put the i7 back in and update the bios, which took most of the thermal paste off the new cooler

I wont overclock till i got some new thermal paste on.

passmark is reporting my cpu temp as 33 degrees (after pc has been on fro about 2 hours, but not really doing much)

what is a safe temperature these day?
 
Bolerus said:
i bought and installed(tonight) a xeon x5675

I havent overclocked it yet, the i7 930 benchmarked at 5111.5 with passmark, the xeon benchmarking at 8385

plan to play a bit with overclocking at the weekend

I did replace the stock cpu with a artic 7 pro, but I need to get some cpu paste because, i put the xeon in and it didnt work, so had to put the i7 back in and update the bios, which took most of the thermal paste off the new cooler

I wont overclock till i got some new thermal paste on.

passmark is reporting my cpu temp as 33 degrees (after pc has been on fro about 2 hours, but not really doing much)

what is a safe temperature these day?
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glad you got it all sorted:)

welcome to the exclusive club lol

I would not go above 80C at max, 100%. I would also stay below 1.4v max if its possible. I would not overclock anything until you have some decent contact between the cooler and cpu with proper application of thermal paste.
 
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