is there any Dual Xeon Westmere owner?

[PontiacGTX]

I am curious about how It compares to SB in today applications on stock clocks..and if you dont mind i would like to see some benchmarks

 

[DrRamtop]

Going from memory, a single Xeon X5650 (6C/12T/2.66GHz) is roughly equivalent to an i7-2600K in heavily threaded workloads.

 

[PontiacGTX]

i mean but using 2 Xeons in modern games, some games might benefit more fomr ST performance but there are games today that cna use even 16cores

 

[XavierMace]

There's quite a few benchmarks available both here an on the internet in general. Are there specific benchmarks you're looking for?

 

[jihe]

i mean but using 2 Xeons in modern games, some games might benefit more fomr ST performance but there are games today that cna use even 16cores

Those who are on dual westmeres are not gaming on them.

 

[XavierMace]

Those who are on dual westmeres are not gaming on them.

There absolutely are some who are.

 

[DrRamtop]

i mean but using 2 Xeons in modern games, some games might benefit more fomr ST performance but there are games today that cna use even 16cores

There are, but such games are rare. The vast bulk of modern games perform best on 4-6 fast cores, 16 slow cores isn't going to get close.

WM Xeons can be excellent gaming chips, and very good value, but really only if you overclock them - something the dual socket boards won't do. I have an X5660 clocked to 4.5GHz in one of my systems and it does really well, sometimes pulling out a win over my 4790K in newer games.

 

[scannall]

There are, but such games are rare. The vast bulk of modern games perform best on 4-6 fast cores, 16 slow cores isn't going to get close.

WM Xeons can be excellent gaming chips, and very good value, but really only if you overclock them - something the dual socket boards won't do. I have an X5660 clocked to 4.5GHz in one of my systems and it does really well, sometimes pulling out a win over my 4790K in newer games.

The EVGA SR2 is a dual socket board, that you can overclock with. Probably the only one, and good luck finding one. But if you do, it's a really great motherboard.

 

[Zstream]

Doubt I'm much help, but I have a dual L5640 setup 72gb ram (server). What benchmarks are you looking for? It's mainly meant for hosting games, and Hyper-V, but I could swap a drive out in favor of windows 7/10 (if it supports it).

 

[PontiacGTX]

Doubt I'm much help, but I have a dual L5640 setup 72gb ram (server). What benchmarks are you looking for? It's mainly meant for hosting games, and Hyper-V, but I could swap a drive out in favor of windows 7/10 (if it supports it).

how well does it perform in Battlefield 1 with R9 FURY (or Vega underclocked to Fury clocks )or Wolfenstein the new colossus?

 

[XavierMace]

how well does it perform in Battlefield 1 with R9 FURY (or Vega underclocked to Fury clocks )or Wolfenstein the new colossus?

It's going to perform poorly due to it's low clock speed. When it comes to gaming, you can't just throw more cores at it to make up for clock speed. Most the benchmarks I've seen would put an OC'd X5670 around a Ryzen 5 1500X at stock clocks. I've still got several Westmere-EP rigs in the closet here. They were great rigs to be sure, but unless you're overclocking them, they are illsuited for gaming. As others have mentioned there's only one option for a dual socket board that allows overclocking and you can build a new Ryzen rig for cheaper at that point.

If you're wanting core count on the cheap, look at a Sandy-EP/Ivy-EP rigs on eBay.

 

[PontiacGTX]

It's going to perform poorly due to it's low clock speed. When it comes to gaming, you can't just throw more cores at it to make up for clock speed. Most the benchmarks I've seen would put an OC'd X5670 around a Ryzen 5 1500X at stock clocks. I've still got several Westmere-EP rigs in the closet here. They were great rigs to be sure, but unless you're overclocking them, they are illsuited for gaming. As others have mentioned there's only one option for a dual socket board that allows overclocking and you can build a new Ryzen rig for cheaper at that point.

If you're wanting core count on the cheap, look at a Sandy-EP/Ivy-EP rigs on eBay.

I agree but from a core count point of view it should be an upgrade

 

[XavierMace]

So far all you've mention is gaming and you haven't specified what you're upgrading from. Those extra cores don't offset the low clock speed. Games simply don't scale that well.

 

[PontiacGTX]

So far all you've mention is gaming and you haven't specified what you're upgrading from. Those extra cores don't offset the low clock speed. Games simply don't scale that well.

there are games which can

 

[XavierMace]

there are games which can

Not enough to offset the low clock speed.