Intel Xeon E5310 ?? Quad-Core for $400?

[Human582]

Anyone know about this? Can these be overclocked? I'd love to pick up a quad core at this price right now. Otherwise I'll wait for the $580 6600 in April.

Thanks!

 

[Duvie]

That needs a sckt 771 mobo....It has been in my experience with server mobo you will not get the bios support you need to do much with them. plus it is a crap shoot on whether clockgen or other windows based fsb overclockers will recognize or support the PPL clock of that chipset and board to even work...

You can do a little reserch at a place like www.2cpu.com. Maybe you will find one that does....I say you have a 10% chance of finding one that will let you OC...and even then it will be very minimum. NOt likely to have a lot of ram dividers, chipset voltage necessary to adjust fsb, etc.


Oh and if you do let me know....


If all you want is quad core then this isn';t the route to go, Most server boards start 250+. PLus you need more expensive FB-Dimm modules as well....If your intent is to run 2x quad for 8 cores then this is the route but rule out OCING...

In most instances you just won have the voltage support you need to do any ocing

 

[Human582]

Thanks for the link. Looks like finding a decent board is key. Total cost for a 5310+MB+mem is still less than a QX setup right now. I also like the idea of 8 cores especially as software is becoming more multi-threaded. The future is definitely multi-core.

 

[Duvie]

The only problem is if you canot overclock I can get a Q6600 in a few months and OC it to 3.2ghz and beat your 8 cores of 1.6ghz.

Unles syou are running 8 instances of something no desktop use I can think of will use 8 cores......Save the fortune you will need in FB-dimm not to bottleneck 2 quads and get a quad...That is more then will likely need...

I only wanted 8 cores to fold, but I grown tired of it and may get back into hot rodding 1 or 2 very nice computers versus maintaining a small farm...

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Duvie
The only problem is if you canot overclock I can get a Q6600 in a few months and OC it to 3.2ghz and beat your 8 cores of 1.6ghz.

Unles syou are running 8 instances of something no desktop use I can think of will use 8 cores......Save the fortune you will need in FB-dimm not to bottleneck 2 quads and get a quad...That is more then will likely need...

I only wanted 8 cores to fold, but I grown tired of it and may get back into hot rodding 1 or 2 very nice computers versus maintaining a small farm...

Who says you can't overclock? It just won't be software supported in the bios most likely, but even Macs have been overclocked. Back to the good old days of breaking out the soldering gun.

 

[Furen]

I don't even wanna think about overclocking FB-DIMMs... I'd say you should wait 'till the April price drops.

 

[Human582]

I've been browsing 2cpu and overclocking 5310's looks doable. MB overclocks are limited but there are software solutions that could at least take these from 1.6 to 2.4 (6600 speeds) and maybe higher. There are even server boards with SLI! LOL These chips are pretty new though so no one has done much testing with them yet. I'm planning on going this route for a total of 8 cores It's been a while since my last upgrade and I will wager that more software will support multi-cores in the future. So this should last me a couple years at least.

 

[jpeyton]

No Intel server boards will let you run SLI. They might have two slots X16 slots, and may even say they support SLI, but in actuality the drivers don't work for their server chipsets.
There is a very easy pin-mod (requires a small piece of electrical tape) that will take your E5310 to 2.0GHz (1333MHz FSB). Beyond that, you'll need clockgen and some luck. You will probably not see 2.4GHz with the E5310s; get the E5320s if you want 2.4GHz.

The models above the E5320 come with a default bus speed of 1333MHz, so the easy pin-mod overclock won't work.

Intel will release LGA775 quad-core Xeons later this year for single-socket boards. They might be cheaper than the Core 2 Quad desktop CPUs.

Unfortunately, Intel doesn't have any dual-socket enthusiast systems on their roadmap. AMD does (4x4), but their quad-core CPUs won't be out until Q2 (Opterons) and Q3 (FX).
That is a shame, because these Clovertowns have a lot of headroom for overclocking; the platform just doesn't support it.