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1 minute ago, Vacras said:

Yo I’m in guys! Why didn’t I see this earlier?! 

Xeon master race! 

Welcome! You didn't see it because it is new since yesterday and it is actually pretty popular!

⬇ - PC specs down below - ⬇

 

The Impossibox

CPU: (x2) Xeon X5690 12c/24t (6c/12t per cpu)

Motherboard: EVGA Super Record 2 (SR-2)

RAM: 48Gb (12x4gb) server DDR3 ECC

GPU: MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

Case: Modded Lian-LI PC-08

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb and a 2Tb HDD

PSU: 1000W something or other I forget

Display(s): 24" Acer G246HL

Cooling: (x2) Corsair H100i v2

Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 LUX RGB MX Browns

Mouse: Logitech G600

Headphones: Sennheiser HD558

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

 

Folding info so I don't lose it: 

WhisperingKnickers

 

Join us on the x58 page it is awesome!

x58 Fan Page

 

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Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

Welcome! You didn't see it because it is new since yesterday and it is actually pretty popular!

Yeah the x58 Xeons have been picking up a lot of affection recently. 

I got mine like 4 months ago so I’m a pretty young owner myself :P

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2 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

the computer I had before I built this was a laptop with an AMD e-350 dual core at 1.6ghz. I had that laptop as my only computer for 7 years and if I can make that work for so long I plan to make my xeons last a long time too

Ouch that laptop sounds painfully slow. Xeons will definitely stay relevant for another few years, even if they're about 6-7 ears old now. I'm hoping to get 2-3 years more. 

Custom pinewood case, Corsair CX 600WRampage 3 Extreme, i7 980x (@4.2ghz) with ML240 Cooler MSI GTX 970, 24gb DDR3, 240gb OCZ Tr150 SSD + 2Tb Seagate Baracuda. 

 

Advocate for used/older hardware. Also one of the resident petrol heads. 

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1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

Ouch that laptop sounds painfully slow. Xeons will definitely stay relevant for another few years, even if they're about 6-7 ears old now. I'm hoping to get 2-3 years more. 

It worked surprisingly well for a long time but over the last few years it very quickly became obsolete

⬇ - PC specs down below - ⬇

 

The Impossibox

CPU: (x2) Xeon X5690 12c/24t (6c/12t per cpu)

Motherboard: EVGA Super Record 2 (SR-2)

RAM: 48Gb (12x4gb) server DDR3 ECC

GPU: MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

Case: Modded Lian-LI PC-08

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb and a 2Tb HDD

PSU: 1000W something or other I forget

Display(s): 24" Acer G246HL

Cooling: (x2) Corsair H100i v2

Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 LUX RGB MX Browns

Mouse: Logitech G600

Headphones: Sennheiser HD558

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

 

Folding info so I don't lose it: 

WhisperingKnickers

 

Join us on the x58 page it is awesome!

x58 Fan Page

 

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3 minutes ago, Vacras said:

Yeah the x58 Xeons have been picking up a lot of affection recently. 

I got mine like 4 months ago so I’m a pretty young owner myself :P

I am a fairly new owner as well, I think I have had some for almost a year now but I only finished my computer a few months ago. I am currently working on building a second one

⬇ - PC specs down below - ⬇

 

The Impossibox

CPU: (x2) Xeon X5690 12c/24t (6c/12t per cpu)

Motherboard: EVGA Super Record 2 (SR-2)

RAM: 48Gb (12x4gb) server DDR3 ECC

GPU: MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

Case: Modded Lian-LI PC-08

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb and a 2Tb HDD

PSU: 1000W something or other I forget

Display(s): 24" Acer G246HL

Cooling: (x2) Corsair H100i v2

Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 LUX RGB MX Browns

Mouse: Logitech G600

Headphones: Sennheiser HD558

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

 

Folding info so I don't lose it: 

WhisperingKnickers

 

Join us on the x58 page it is awesome!

x58 Fan Page

 

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4 minutes ago, Vacras said:

Yeah the x58 Xeons have been picking up a lot of affection recently. 

I got mine like 4 months ago so I’m a pretty young owner myself :P

I got my first X58 system about 4,5 years ago. And my current mobo I got a little over year ago.

Intel Core i9-10900X, Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, 64GB DDR4 3200MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 2TB 970 EVO Plus, 2TB SN570, 8TB HDD, DC Assassin III, Meshify 2

Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 2x 4TB & 2x 2TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

PC 3: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 16GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus GTX 760 DC2 OC, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

Laptop: ThinkPad T440p, Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4c/8t @ 2.7-3.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GeForce GT 730M (GPU: 1006MHz MEM: 1151MHz), 2TB SSD, 14" 1080p IPS, 100Wh battery

Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

Some other PC's:

Spoiler

Some of the specs of these systems might not be up to date

PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

 

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5 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

I am a fairly new owner as well, I think I have had some for almost a year now but I only finished my computer a few months ago. I am currently working on building a second one

 

3 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

I got my first X58 system about 4,5 years ago. And my current mobo I got a little over year ago.

Iv had my Xeon for like 3-4 months now. Used to have an i7 950. 

Custom pinewood case, Corsair CX 600WRampage 3 Extreme, i7 980x (@4.2ghz) with ML240 Cooler MSI GTX 970, 24gb DDR3, 240gb OCZ Tr150 SSD + 2Tb Seagate Baracuda. 

 

Advocate for used/older hardware. Also one of the resident petrol heads. 

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This topic is already in TOP 25 most replied topics on "CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory" :D

Intel Core i9-10900X, Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, 64GB DDR4 3200MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 2TB 970 EVO Plus, 2TB SN570, 8TB HDD, DC Assassin III, Meshify 2

Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 2x 4TB & 2x 2TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

PC 3: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 16GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus GTX 760 DC2 OC, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

Laptop: ThinkPad T440p, Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4c/8t @ 2.7-3.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GeForce GT 730M (GPU: 1006MHz MEM: 1151MHz), 2TB SSD, 14" 1080p IPS, 100Wh battery

Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

Some other PC's:

Spoiler

Some of the specs of these systems might not be up to date

PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

 

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4 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

This topic is already in TOP 25 most replied topics on "CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory" :D

And this is only the second day! If I wasn't at work I could talk to people more

⬇ - PC specs down below - ⬇

 

The Impossibox

CPU: (x2) Xeon X5690 12c/24t (6c/12t per cpu)

Motherboard: EVGA Super Record 2 (SR-2)

RAM: 48Gb (12x4gb) server DDR3 ECC

GPU: MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

Case: Modded Lian-LI PC-08

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb and a 2Tb HDD

PSU: 1000W something or other I forget

Display(s): 24" Acer G246HL

Cooling: (x2) Corsair H100i v2

Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 LUX RGB MX Browns

Mouse: Logitech G600

Headphones: Sennheiser HD558

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

 

Folding info so I don't lose it: 

WhisperingKnickers

 

Join us on the x58 page it is awesome!

x58 Fan Page

 

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I'm hoping to limp mine along at least another year or two. Nothing new has come out that has tickled my fancy enough to throw kilobucks at, and I'll get more realized performance for my needs out of a GPU upgrade than a Ryzen or Coffee Lake chip.

 

It's curious to me how long lived X58 has been, beyond cantankerous hold outs like me who don't need bleeding edge FPS. I really wonder whether X79 and the other HEDT platforms will be similarly long lived given that they don't appear to have easily overclocked cheap Xeons and limitations on PCIE lanes in the newest stuff.

 

For a non-researched purchase on Newegg, I'm pretty happy with how much life I've gotten out of the combo deal!

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2 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

I'm hoping to limp mine along at least another year or two. Nothing new has come out that has tickled my fancy enough to throw kilobucks at, and I'll get more realized performance for my needs out of a GPU upgrade than a Ryzen or Coffee Lake chip.

 

It's curious to me how long lived X58 has been, beyond cantankerous hold outs like me who don't need bleeding edge FPS. I really wonder whether X79 and the other HEDT platforms will be similarly long lived, given they don't appear to have easily overclocked Xeons and also limited PCIE in the newer stuff.

Well, x79 has the e5-2670, which performs similar in multicore to a x58 6 core at 4.6 GHz (Single core is worse though). Those pretty much drained the supply for cheap boards, and it doesn't seem to get better recently. It actually has unlocked Xeons (1650/1650 v2 (6C/12T) up to the 1680 v2 (8C/16T)), but those are comparable to their i7 counterparts in price. Decent boards currently start at pretty much MSRP, so it'll probably be a while until they are worth considering, especially with ryzen around (3930k+cheapest decent board is about the same price as board+r5 1600, with the 1600 being faster).

x99 might be a bit more interesting, but it probably won't get as popular as x58 with the lack of unlocked Xeons. 

Xeon e5649@4.4 GHz on Asus Rampage II Extreme or Gigabyte x58a-OC (whatever I feel like to set up at a time) , 6x4 GB Kingston HyperX 1600, Gainward GTX 670 Phantom, Samsung 840 Evo 240 GB, BeQuiet L8 530W

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I’m also hoping that my system will last another 2-3 years. My motherboard is really old actually. A friend of mine bought the pc back in 2009/10 and I bought it from him 4 years ago. Since then pretty much every component has been changed apart from the motherboard obviously :S (and some ram sticks)

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7 hours ago, bimmerman said:

It's curious to me how long lived X58 has been, beyond cantankerous hold outs like me who don't need bleeding edge FPS. I really wonder whether X79 and the other HEDT platforms will be similarly long lived given that they don't appear to have easily overclocked cheap Xeons and limitations on PCIE lanes in the newest stuff.

As Data centers upgrade to newer platforms there will be more X79 Xeons flooding the used market just as the LGA1366 CPUs are now.

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Seasonic Focus GM 750, Samsung EVO 860 EVO SSD M.2, Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe, Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon

 

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MSI B450 A Pro, Ryzen 5 3600x, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Silicon Power A55 512GB SSD, Gigabyte RX 5700 Gaming OC, Corsair CX430

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13 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

 

This^^^

 

Also, X58 i7s are the same as their Xeon counterparts, just they include an iGPU. So i7 = Xeon, at least for this platform. Welcome aboard! 

 

And awesome system! What cooler is that? I know @WhisperingKnickers has been looking for a massive cooler. I think he wants the Noctua ones tho. 

only the mobile i7s included a GPU not the desktop ones. None of the lga 1366 i7s had an IGP nor the i5s or i3s even.

7 hours ago, Ground said:

Well, x79 has the e5-2670, which performs similar in multicore to a x58 6 core at 4.6 GHz (Single core is worse though). Those pretty much drained the supply for cheap boards, and it doesn't seem to get better recently. It actually has unlocked Xeons (1650/1650 v2 (6C/12T) up to the 1680 v2 (8C/16T)), but those are comparable to their i7 counterparts in price. Decent boards currently start at pretty much MSRP, so it'll probably be a while until they are worth considering, especially with ryzen around (3930k+cheapest decent board is about the same price as board+r5 1600, with the 1600 being faster).

x99 might be a bit more interesting, but it probably won't get as popular as x58 with the lack of unlocked Xeons. 

none of the xeons for the lga 1366 socket had more than 6 cores. The ones with more cores were for a different socket and controller such as for the 4 socket CPUs.

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3 hours ago, System Error Message said:

none of the xeons for the lga 1366 socket had more than 6 cores. The ones with more cores were for a different socket and controller such as for the 4 socket CPUs.

Where did I say that? I said x79 had 8 cores, but those are either not much faster due to low clockspeeds or are more expensive than Ryzen which is faster. 

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1 hour ago, Ground said:

Where did I say that? I said x79 had 8 cores, but those are either not much faster due to low clockspeeds or are more expensive than Ryzen which is faster. 

ah, but the x79 cant overclock like you can with the x58 as everything is locked to BLCK on all proceeding intel platforms.

 

If the xeon has an unlocked multipliers on any of the newer platform it would not only be cheaper than the unlocked i7s but would overclock pretty well too.

 

The beauty of the x58 is not only that you can bus overclock, but you can tweak many different things to get very good performance that increases its IPCs.

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8 minutes ago, System Error Message said:

ah, but the x79 cant overclock like you can with the x58 as everything is locked to BLCK on all proceeding intel platforms.

 

If the xeon has an unlocked multipliers on any of the newer platform it would not only be cheaper than the unlocked i7s but would overclock pretty well too.

 

The beauty of the x58 is not only that you can bus overclock, but you can tweak many different things to get very good performance that increases its IPCs.

I never said that, I said they exist but they aren't nearly as interesting due to said constraints. The couple unlocked Xeons (1650 and up to v2) are all as expensive or more expensive than i7s or more modern CPUs.

Xeon e5649@4.4 GHz on Asus Rampage II Extreme or Gigabyte x58a-OC (whatever I feel like to set up at a time) , 6x4 GB Kingston HyperX 1600, Gainward GTX 670 Phantom, Samsung 840 Evo 240 GB, BeQuiet L8 530W

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Just now, Ground said:

I never said that, I said they exist but they aren't nearly as interesting due to said constraints. The couple unlocked Xeons (1650 and up to v2) are all as expensive or more expensive than i7s or more modern CPUs.

that sucks. But being able to get an LGA 1366 for very very cheap and tuning it can actually end up being a very good budget platform for many things, definitely better than an AMD bulldozer based platform for gaming too.

 

I ran a space engineers server before on both an fx 8core piledriver before switching to the lga 1366. At that time the game was single threaded for servers but i got double the performance switching to the lga 1366 xeon that after overclocked and tuned, other players couldnt keep up due to the mods i ran that were compute heavy such as aerodynamics, radar for 3D in flight display which shows terrain and other ships around. Some of the features would drop the sim speed on the fx 8 core at 4.3Ghz to half but on the overclocked xeon at 4.3Ghz it ran around the full sim speed with the occasional drop to above 90% sim speed.

 

Im surprised this was not picked on as a budget performer rig, for the same prices as you could get a bulldozer you get a much much faster CPU with a decent amount of cache (6 cores), can be very well tuned and has 3 ram channels.

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1 minute ago, System Error Message said:

that sucks. But being able to get an LGA 1366 for very very cheap and tuning it can actually end up being a very good budget platform for many things, definitely better than an AMD bulldozer based platform for gaming too.

 

I ran a space engineers server before on both an fx 8core piledriver before switching to the lga 1366. At that time the game was single threaded for servers but i got double the performance switching to the lga 1366 xeon that after overclocked and tuned, other players couldnt keep up due to the mods i ran that were compute heavy such as aerodynamics, radar for 3D in flight display which shows terrain and other ships around. Some of the features would drop the sim speed on the fx 8 core at 4.3Ghz to half but on the overclocked xeon at 4.3Ghz it ran around the full sim speed with the occasional drop to above 90% sim speed.

 

Im surprised this was not picked on as a budget performer rig, for the same prices as you could get a bulldozer you get a much much faster CPU with a decent amount of cache (6 cores), can be very well tuned and has 3 ram channels.

I would only recommend it if a board can be had for under 120$ I think. After that, saving for a more modern platform is probably worth it, as you are still only getting a very old platform. 

 

The 1366 chips are certainly more powerful than piledriver - just look at cinebench. My 6 core at 4.2 is faster than the fastest Piledriver Octa-Core on the forums (5.8GHz), and only a little bit behind in single core. All with a 30€ air cooler...

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Just now, Ground said:

I would only recommend it if a board can be had for under 120$ I think. After that, saving for a more modern platform is probably worth it, as you are still only getting a very old platform. 

 

The 1366 chips are certainly more powerful than piledriver - just look at cinebench. My 6 core at 4.2 is faster than the fastest Piledriver Octa-Core on the forums (5.8GHz), and only a little bit behind in single core. All with a 30€ air cooler...

impossible to be a bit behind piledriver in single core, i got double performance boost switching at the same frequency, unless cinebench uses an instruction set like the SSE or AVX stuff.

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Just now, System Error Message said:

impossible to be a bit behind piledriver in single core, i got double performance boost switching at the same frequency, unless cinebench uses an instruction set like the SSE or AVX stuff.

My CPU does 130 at 4.2 and Piledriver does 144 at 5.9. Small difference in clockspeed can make a difference here :P

Xeon e5649@4.4 GHz on Asus Rampage II Extreme or Gigabyte x58a-OC (whatever I feel like to set up at a time) , 6x4 GB Kingston HyperX 1600, Gainward GTX 670 Phantom, Samsung 840 Evo 240 GB, BeQuiet L8 530W

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Aha!

 

I bought an X5650 on the advice of some folks on here, running on a Gigabyte EX58-UD4P (i discovered UD4 rather than UD3 as i initially thought!)

 

Overclocked to 4ghz without any real effort whatsoever, max temps under load seem to be about 55C and that's with a Noctua NH-D14 running only the middle fan (was too lazy to find the second fan and doesn't look like it needs it anyway).

 

Makes a nice little gaming PC for my living room with a 1050Ti, currently playing PES 2018 @ 60fps on high - yeah i know its not a demanding game but still kicks a PS4's backside!

Build Log : Red N White Army

 

System Specs

NZXT S340

i7 4790k

Z97 MSI Gaming 5

Palit 980 Ti Super Jetstream

16GB HyperX Savage 1866 RAM

Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD

EVGA 750W G2 PSU

Custom Cooling Loop

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Anybody online? I need some quick advice. @WhisperingKnickers @Zando Bob(or anyone else who knows their stuff about the lga1366 socket)

Custom pinewood case, Corsair CX 600WRampage 3 Extreme, i7 980x (@4.2ghz) with ML240 Cooler MSI GTX 970, 24gb DDR3, 240gb OCZ Tr150 SSD + 2Tb Seagate Baracuda. 

 

Advocate for used/older hardware. Also one of the resident petrol heads. 

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5 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Anybody online? I need some quick advice. @WhisperingKnickers @Zando Bob(or anyone else who knows their stuff about the lga1366 socket)

Yep yep yep, me online. 

Intel HEDT and Server platform enthusiasts: Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Megathread 

 

Main PC 

CPU: i9 7980XE @4.5GHz/1.22v/-2 AVX offset 

Cooler: EKWB Supremacy Block - custom loop w/360mm +280mm rads 

Motherboard: EVGA X299 Dark 

RAM:4x8GB HyperX Predator DDR4 @3200Mhz CL16 

GPU: Nvidia FE 2060 Super/Corsair HydroX 2070 FE block 

Storage:  1TB MP34 + 1TB 970 Evo + 500GB Atom30 + 250GB 960 Evo 

Optical Drives: LG WH14NS40 

PSU: EVGA 1600W T2 

Case & Fans: Corsair 750D Airflow - 3x Noctua iPPC NF-F12 + 4x Noctua iPPC NF-A14 PWM 

OS: Windows 11

 

Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel)

Mouse: EVGA X17

Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB

 

Mobile/Work Devices: 2020 M1 MacBook Air (work computer) - iPhone 13 Pro Max - Apple Watch S3

 

Other Misc Devices: iPod Video (Gen 5.5E, 128GB SD card swap, running Rockbox), Nintendo Switch

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