Upgrade from i7 950 to Xeon W3690?

[E. C. Yian]

Just purchased a Gigabyte UD7 Rev 2.0 board. It will be here by next week if you still want to fiddle around..

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX (REV 2.0)

Did you receive the GA-X58A-UD7?
Got it used or new?
How are you doing with it?
Does the GA-X58A-UD7 have identical BIOS as my GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2.0)

 

[Nhirlathothep]

Just because the CPU's aren't listed on the manufacturers website doesn't mean they won't work. As I said before, I am familiar with Gigabyte & those processors WILL work in your board & are easily overclock-able. I prefer the 95 watt Xeons as they have more headroom for overclocking and run cooler. Multi thread performance isn't far behind a stock 5820K. Buy what you want, but any hexcore CPU that you drop in will yield a significant improvement over an i7-950. An overclocked i7-950 scores <7.5 in the same cinebench test. Difference is Quad core 45nm cpu w/8meg cache vs Hex-core 32nm cpu w/12 meg cache.

you took it next to my 3970x!

good performance, i had the same mobo and could mantain my old i7 920 d0 on 4.0 ghz from 2008 to last year, so my advice is : don t change mobo-ram

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Did you receive the GA-X58A-UD7?
Got it used or new?
How are you doing with it?
Does the GA-X58A-UD7 have identical BIOS as my GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2.0)

I don't know. I haven't swapped the boards out yet. I think if I do i'd have to re-install windows 7 again then do the upgrade to Windows 10 again, sigh

 

[Burpo]

Just purchased a Gigabyte UD7 Rev 2.0 board. It will be here by next week if you still want to fiddle around..

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX (REV 2.0)

You must have got the one on ebay that belonged to jforce321. If your Windows 7 install is from a dif X58 board, chances are it will work fine after discovering any different hardware.. I keep a Windows 10 drive & swap it around, no issues.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

You must have got the one on ebay that belonged to jforce321. If your Windows 7 install is from a dif X58 board, chances are it will work fine after discovering any different hardware..

No. It was from elarasys. It was insanely cheap and claims to be fully 100% functional. They had 2 listed at 199, or best offer. I should of bought both.

I'll get around to changing it out. If it wasn't for the thermal paste on the cpu clamp it would appear to be brand new. They resealed the anti-static wrapping for the board.

 

[Burpo]

Cool.. I still have 1 here I need to try & fix. The "Spill" returned board.. Probably needs new VRM component. I got 11 of those boards for $660.. yeah I made a few $$

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Nice! I'm excited to try this board out, it's a beauty. I just hope everything works as claimed.

 

[Burpo]

They overclock fairly easy, even with everything on/enabled, but you have to have good ram & limit max volts, or heat becomes an issue quickly. Windows 10 discovers EVERYTHING, no drivers needed..

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Cool. I'll be back when I have it installed and I'm fooling around in the bios. I'm sure I'll have questions. It seems this UD7 Rev 2.0 board was designed with 6 core chips in mind.

it's such a beautiful board

 

[Burpo]

Yes, they're heavy duty, and very hearty. The only one I've seen not revivable, was from a spill. Really good caps & VRM's, thick copper throughout & great cooling. It will handle high current needed for overclocking, but the Asus bios is better tweaked (easier). These take some work

 

[temo-777]

hi.
finally i bought some hours ago W3690 on ebay,
and interesting.
how i know i7 990X has unlocked multiplier,
and how was told W3690 is too not "locked"
how abou X5690? is it locked or???

 

[Burpo]

You got the right chip.
Passmark shows it slightly faster than the other 2..
W3690 scores: 9506, Single Thread Rating: 1565

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+W3690+@+3.47GHz

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-990X+@+3.47GHz&id=867

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5690+@+3.47GHz

 

[mnewsham]

How much faster with the 5820k be over the 950? About 4 times faster?

Easiest way would be to run a benchmark on your current CPU and compare to a 5820k.

I happen to have one sitting here with me that I can clock up to ~4.7GHz (I run at ~4.3-4.5GHz).

In CPU-Z's benchmark tab I get ~13,500 muli-threaded score, and ~2130 single core score.

And here is a Cinebench R15 run where I scored 1282CB

If you run Cinebench R15 or the CPU-Z bench, it should give you a feeling on how much faster the 5820k is.