Fxconn X58 compatible CPUs

[MAP_Finder]

So I'm looking at some X58 motherboards, and managed to find a decent deal on the Foxconn X58 Flaming Blade GTI. Now I know that X58 is a dead platform and that the CPUs are very power hungry and don't get a lot of work done in 2021 and that I should just go with a Ryzen system or whatever but I think it would be a fun project. So now the question: as far as I know, it was up to the board vendor to determine rather they wanted to support LGA 1366 Xeon processors like the X5690, but because Foxconn no longer makes motherboards I can't just go to the QVL and see if it's compatible. Does anyone know if the X5690 is compatible? And if it is, I'm 90% sure it's overclockable, but just to make sure, does anyone havea 100% on that?

 

And side question, would the X5690 and 12GB of 1600MHz DDR3 bottleneck a Vega 64 too badly?

[Radium_Angel]

22 minutes ago, MAP_Finder said:

Foxconn X58 Flaming Blade GTI

This may, or may not, be helpful

https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Foxconn/FlamingBlade_GTI.html

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Microcode-update-request-for-Foxconn-FlamingBlade-GTI-and-CPUID-206C2

 

[curiousmind34]

39 minutes ago, MAP_Finder said:

So I'm looking at some X58 motherboards, and managed to find a decent deal on the Foxconn X58 Flaming Blade GTI. Now I know that X58 is a dead platform and that the CPUs are very power hungry and don't get a lot of work done in 2021 and that I should just go with a Ryzen system or whatever but I think it would be a fun project. So now the question: as far as I know, it was up to the board vendor to determine rather they wanted to support LGA 1366 Xeon processors like the X5690, but because Foxconn no longer makes motherboards I can't just go to the QVL and see if it's compatible. Does anyone know if the X5690 is compatible? And if it is, I'm 90% sure it's overclockable, but just to make sure, does anyone havea 100% on that?

 

And side question, would the X5690 and 12GB of 1600MHz DDR3 bottleneck a Vega 64 too badly?

Well, you are in luck, the x5690 is a Westmere based cpu and is compatible. It is the most powerful cpu supported on the platform. 
On ebay they seem to be going for around 75 bucks

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 hour ago, curiousmind34 said:

Well, you are in luck, the x5690 is a Westmere based cpu and is compatible. It is the most powerful cpu supported on the platform. 
On ebay they seem to be going for around 75 bucks

From what I found it only i7 and I7 extream Bloomfield, I couldn't find anything about xenon.

[MAP_Finder]

9 hours ago, curiousmind34 said:

Well, you are in luck, the x5690 is a Westmere based cpu and is compatible. It is the most powerful cpu supported on the platform. 
On ebay they seem to be going for around 75 bucks

Nice! For some reason they are a lot cheaper then the 990x and if I remember correctly they also clock slightly higher.

[MAP_Finder]

8 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

From what I found it only i7 and I7 extream Bloomfield, I couldn't find anything about xenon.

I suppose I'll need to look into it some more find out for sure then. Worse case is I go with a 980x which clocks slightly lower and costs a bit more but overall won't effect much.