Help with xeon x5460

[Calmcacily]

Hello everyone.
I am new to the forum, and just a few moths i start view and eating the LTT videos.
I am from Portugal, and I have an old pc ( all my money can have ).

The board is Asus P5Q3 Deluxe wifi
CPU: Xeon x5460 converted to 775 
Memory: g-skill sniper 2x4gb ddr3
VGC: 2x XFX5850 1gb ddr5

The thing is that i startet just now overcloocking the cpu, and now w8ting for some watercooling ML240L 240mm radiator because i am afraid of the temps.

I mainly use the PC for photoshop and render, but i am feeling that it runs a litle slower rendering the photos, could it be botleneck or is just the pc that is too old?

 

 

I apreciatte all the help and time for reading this.

sorry for my english i kwon it´s a litle broken.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Calmcacily said:

just the pc that is too old?

Most likely, that Xeon is from 9 years ago, and your graphics cards are from about the same time. Hopefully the overclock helps, I know that photoshop likes a faster CPU.

[Radium_Angel]

16 minutes ago, Calmcacily said:

Memory: g-skill sniper 2x4gb ddr3

Depending on support, more memory will help, not much, but a bit. Your system is very old and at the limit of CPU speed.

An SSD for photo storage/rendering would help a bit too, depending on size of your images.

BTW, your English is fine.

 

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, Calmcacily said:

Hello everyone.
I am new to the forum, and just a few moths i start view and eating the LTT videos.
I am from Portugal, and I have an old pc ( all my money can have ).

The board is Asus P5Q3 Deluxe wifi
CPU: Xeon x5460 converted to 775 
Memory: g-skill sniper 2x4gb ddr3
VGC: 2x XFX5850 1gb ddr5

The thing is that i startet just now overcloocking the cpu, and now w8ting for some watercooling ML240L 240mm radiator because i am afraid of the temps.

I mainly use the PC for photoshop and render, but i am feeling that it runs a litle slower rendering the photos, could it be botleneck or is just the pc that is too old?

 

 

I apreciatte all the help and time for reading this.

sorry for my english i kwon it´s a litle broken.

i would recommend a good LGA 771 board (if your case can use it) and a X5355 (unless you want to use a mod)

 

I have 2 X5355s and they work like a charm

[Calmcacily]

thanks for the replies.
Money is not avaible atm because i married and everything was to it hehe ( i do not regret btw) and this is my work computer and i was trying to do something with what i have.

 

i will try to find some ddr3 sticks the same i have to instal and see if it improves something.
I just finished install the 240gb corsair ssd and it is faster no doutbs on that...

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Calmcacily said:

thanks for the replies.
Money is not avaible atm because i married and everything was to it hehe ( i do not regret btw) and this is my work computer and i was trying to do something with what i have.

 

i will try to find some ddr3 sticks the same i have to instal and see if it improves something.
I just finished install the 240gb corsair ssd and it is faster no doutbs on that...

well a X5355 only costs around 30$ in the US (not too bad but i got mine free due to a finding in a ewaste bin)

[Calmcacily]

But I have an x5460 it has a base clock of 3.16ghz the one you say it's a bit slower... I'm I missing something? 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Calmcacily said:

But I have an x5460 it has a base clock of 3.16ghz the one you say it's a bit slower... I'm I missing something? 

Well i was wrong, but if you can spare 16$ on a motherboard you can get 2 x5355 and get a CB score of 7** (* - something) but i dont know if you want to go that route

[StarChild]

What MB would people recommend to purchase, not too costly, for the Xeon 5460?

 

I have an old one, some 1600 memory, the CPU, and a case.  I hate to throw it away so figured I'd make it as powerful as it can be, considering, for an older secondary machine.

 

Also what is entailed in this 771/775 conversion?  Is it done to the CPU or the MB?