X79 or Ryzen??

[Aragorn-]

My kids currently use a cast-off Dell workstation (T3610) which has an E5-1650v2 chip (6 core), 32gb RAM and a Quadro M2000 GPU. Ignoring the GPU for now due to the market, i'm trying to decide where to go with this setup.

 

The 1650v2 is unlocked, but the Dell wont/cant overclock it. Ofcourse these chips are getting a bit dated but can overclock nicely and if you can crank them up into the 4ghz range they perform not too badly.

 

So i'm trying to decide what to do with it. I've seen various chinese X79 motherboards, and ofcourse theres always used X79 boards on ebay etc. I've also got various spares, EG some low end quadro graphics cards and some registered ddr3 ram as well as a worthless locked 6 core CPU that i could swap into the Dell. So i'm thinking i could sell the Dell as a workstation, having removed the unlocked 1650v2 and nice RAM, and pickup an X79 board which will let me overclock.

 

But i also wonder... Do i jump ship and buy something newer?

 

I can probably get £200 easily enough for the Dell workstation with the bits swapped over. A Decent X79 board is probably £100ish and i'd need a case. I've got a decent PSU spare already. So i could swap things about for "free" or potentially even a bit of money in my pocket and end up with a nicer setup that can extract the maximum from this 1650v2. Theres something kinda cool playing with this HEDT hardware too. Stuff that was so completely unaffordable back in the day.

 

But whats the alternative? An R5 2600 and a cheapy B450 board and some DDR4 ram? I can probably just about buy that for £200, maybe a bit more. Will it be faster? Not convinced either way.

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

20 minutes ago, Aragorn- said:

The 1650v2 is unlocked, but the Dell wont/cant overclock it. Ofcourse these chips are getting a bit dated but can overclock nicely and if you can crank them up into the 4ghz range they perform not too badly.

You can overclock via throttlestop

 

You will be limited by voltage but i think you can voltmod your cpu just like you can bsel lga 775, just gotta find the datasheet first and also the pinout

 

21 minutes ago, Aragorn- said:

But i also wonder... Do i jump ship and buy something newer?

Yea just go for something newer

X79 and x99 are pretty garbage unless you want a sht ton of cores for ultra cheap

 

Otherwise just go amd epyc or ryzen

[Aragorn-]

2 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

You can overclock via throttlestop

 

You will be limited by voltage but i think you can voltmod your cpu just like you can bsel lga 775, just gotta find the datasheet first and also the pinout

yeah, i've tried, it immediately power limits to 130w and drops the clocks back down.

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

35 minutes ago, Aragorn- said:

yeah, i've tried, it immediately power limits to 130w and drops the clocks back down.

 

Maybe try this

 

Short tdp limit yeet tutorial to make your cpu boost as much as it wants

 

download throttlestop, pressing the turn on button, going into the tpl menu, set turbo long, short, and pp0 current to 99999 and shove the sliders all the way to the right, clamp, lock, apply, power limits yeeted

 

Btw the chinese x79 also power limit, but you can bios mod them to unlock the power limit