I managed to get my X5650 up to 4.3 GHz stable but I have to turn off all the power saving features to do it and that means it uses nearly 250 W when idle, which is just ludicrous. I actually bought an X5675 the other day so will try that tonight. I highly doubt the outlay for any new system right now would be worth it for me, compared to upgrading the GPU (if I felt the need to). Hopefully Zen 2 and DDR4 prices dropping will change that but we'll see.
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Xeon x5650 to Ryzen 2700x worth it?
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DragonQ, is there anything info wise to say if the higher end x56xx CPU's were any better binned to give merit to them clocking higher at all? I'd probably be happy getting an x5690 if I knew the chances of a stable 4.5+ghz at reasonable vcore were possible.
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My experience is that it is close to pure luck what any given Westmere Xeon will clock to, the stock clocks are no indicator. So rather than buying an X5690 you've probably a better chance of getting a good overclocker by buying several cheap X5650s and then re-selling all but the best one.
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I bought the setup simply because it was cheap and got me back into PC gaming and in no way does it bottleneck my GPU. I play pube-g a lot and my friend has a Ryzen 1700 (@3.9ghz), 16GB 3200 RAM and the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080 and we both play in 1080p with the exact same in game graphics settings and I get higher FPS at the exact points in the game... that's with an old westmere Xeon and a water cooled 1070ti.
What is pube-g? It sounds like something no one wants to play.
It's like 10% lower clock for clock for the same core count and they cost nothing, that's why. If you have a decent X58 motherboard laying around, why not?
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Yep, huge upgrade from my 920, I have had this about 3 years and it’s like a new system still. I play games and video and photo edit. For what I do it’s more than powerful enough.
Gaming performance with a 1080 is amazing! Yes a benchmark might say 10-15% less but I don’t think you can see that and the frame rates I’m playing at.
Best £50 I ever spent!
The only problem is it outputs a lot of heat! But CPU and GPU temps are very respectable.
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