So, i7-930 to X5675 Success!

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In short: Totally worth it!!!

Thanks for everyone's input. Including graphic below but it's ugly and hobbled together, sorry about that.

Ok, so after getting the X5675 in, i boosted it to 4.350ghz which seems really stable. Haven't run benchmarks overnight yet though, but it's looking great.

On booting the thing, i can quickly launch firefox, chrome, and start launching applications like i do on my current 3930K machine, it responds just as fast where the i7-930 bogged down. So, right now it appears just as fast as my newer system, albeit clocked a bit higher.

I just used the cpu-z benchmark tool quickly for before/after. I also tried novabench which shows 2250 on my 3930k and around 1900 so more of a difference there VS CPU-Z's report.

So if anyone can score a deal on one of these used Xeons, go for it, the performance increase appears to be quite substantial.

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ioni

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That's good to know. I've got a 5650 otw to replace my 920. Hopefully it'll OC well.
 
Burpo

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Cheap upgrade that was easy wasn't it? just drop it in, change a few settings.. voila! :)

I'm guessing 180Bclk? Volts?
 
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pooptastic

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Burpo said:
Cheap upgrade that was easy wasn't it? just drop it in, change a few settings.. voila! :)

I'm guessing 180Bclk? Volts?
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Been ages, no idea what i'm doing. Think i have it at 193 or something...

Still, really glad i did this, and thanks for all the input. Now i can fidget and want to upgrade both system's video cards instead of just the newer one.
 
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This generation of Xeons are still a great bang for the buck performance processor. Loving my dual X5690s.
 
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the old Xeon X5600 still have a lot of life left especially when used in server environment which needs more cores and memory.

IMHO, the only draw back of the X5600 is power consumption. Even at idle, the CPU draws around 40 watts. in today's standard, that's high.
 
sm625

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My G3258 beats it in single thread lol. But yeah my work machine is a 5550 and I would love to upgrade it to one of those.
 
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i love s1366 CPUs. you can buy the 6 core Xeons for mad cheap on eBay and as far as raw processing power, are an awesome bang for the buck for a budget build. my stepbrother went from an i7 920, similar to what you had, to a similar 6 core Xeon and it was night and day difference (against my advice, he never OC'd the 920).

Glad it worked out for you! Even by today's standards, that chip you got is more than up for the job of most of today's applications!

i actually had no idea you could OC the s1366 Xeon chips. I personally never used one in a desktop board. I upgraded my dual c2q Plex server to dual s1366 6 core Xeons and it was again a huge improvement for simultaneous transcodes! :D
 
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Well, I replaced my 920 with the 5650 I got today. Couldn't OC it though. Maybe it's the mobo since the 920 used to OC but then but then started failing after a while and I had to go back to stock :(
 
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ioni said:
Well, I replaced my 920 with the 5650 I got today. Couldn't OC it though. Maybe it's the mobo since the 920 used to OC but then but then started failing after a while and I had to go back to stock :(
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have you ever played with the voltage even on your 920 to get a stable OC?
 
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ioni

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Not really. I've just used the boards built in auto-OC stuff. I did try some manually OCing too, but left the voltage at auto.
 
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ioni said:
Not really. I've just used the boards built in auto-OC stuff. I did try some manually OCing too, but left the voltage at auto.
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That may be your issue! Those 920 - 950 chips should hit 4ghz. I'm not sure if Xeons OC at all, but I've never tried though. I always assumed you couldn't.

Here's a link for somebody's guide to OC'ing those chips. If the Xeon OC's, you can use it as a reference to help you with that!

http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz
 
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ioni said:
Well, I replaced my 920 with the 5650 I got today. Couldn't OC it though. Maybe it's the mobo since the 920 used to OC but then but then started failing after a while and I had to go back to stock :(
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Which board do you have? X5650 overclocks great. Had mine to 5Ghz for a few bench tests, but totally stable at 4.6ghz.
 
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ioni said:
Not really. I've just used the boards built in auto-OC stuff. I did try some manually OCing too, but left the voltage at auto.
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That is your issue.

view that link and start doing it manually. you will never get good results on auto.
 
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ioni

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Burpo said:
Which board do you have? X5650 overclocks great. Had mine to 5Ghz for a few bench tests, but totally stable at 4.6ghz.
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I've got an MSI x58m. I don't doubt the chip can OC but the RAM and board need to handle it as well. I only had about an hour to mess with it last night too. A weird thing I noticed though was my multiplier was capped at 21. The built in turbo boost goes up to 25, so I thought that was pretty strange.

I'll try following some guides tonight. I'll be happy if I can get it to 3.5, though 4 would be amazing.
 
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Max turbo for X5650 is 23X. 21 is typical "all core" multi.. My Asus will lock 22X "all cores"..
 
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