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  1. Gold197

    Question Does a purchase of a E5-1650v3 make sense today?

    The Xeons are extremely over-designed for mission critical use cases. In my experience Z440s are bulletproof but the BIOS is totally locked. I have never heard of someone modding an HP bios. Increases security but decreases the ability to hack to higher performance. You have to go through...
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    Question Does a purchase of a E5-1650v3 make sense today?

    Yes. It is a lot easier than the HPs. Fewer hoops. I have tried 2 or 3 throttle stop versions and only 9.4.2 worked. First put the computer to sleep then run TS. If you want to do it to a HP z440 then follow the instructions in the link above. If you find a repository for XTU that you are...
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    Question Does a purchase of a E5-1650v3 make sense today?

    Well this is years later but...I am still running a HP z440 and 2 Dell T5810s. The HP I have overclocked with a e5-1660 v3 to 4.4 GHz. On one of the Dells with a e5-1660 v3I have gone to 4.5GHz and gamed for sever hours at 1.26V. On the other I have an E5-1680 v3 but it only clocks to 4.3...