Question about changing cpu

[Evyatar]

Hello
I've got mother board LGA 1366 Gigabyte's X58A UD3R, and I want to upgrade my cpu - core i7 930i to a xeon one... X5680 for example.

Do I need to change the drivers in any way?

 

Thank you.

 

[R3DOPS]

no. windows 10 8 and 7 will work fine. 

[AlphaGamer46]

5 minutes ago, Evyatar said:

Do I need to change the drivers in any way?

No.

 

The CPU doesn't install any drivers on the PC, and if it does than it's all the auto-detect stuff.

 

You should be fine without changing drivers, it really only comes when changing the motherboard or GPU.

[Evyatar]

1 minute ago, R3DOPS said:

no. windows 10 8 and 7 will work fine. 

 

Just now, AlphaGamer46 said:

No.

 

The CPU doesn't install any drivers on the PC, and if it does than it's all the auto-detect stuff.

 

You should be fine without changing drivers, it really only comes when changing the motherboard or GPU.

 

Ok

Thank you very much guys.

 

Oh and an other thing:

I've seen that the max memory on the exon's is like almost 10 times the max memory of the i7.

Can I upgrade the ram to the maximum of the exon's? (once I'll install it) Or am I limited by the motherboard some how?

 

[Lotus]

Have you overclocked your current CPU yet? Also remember that those 6 core Xeons are great for multi-tasking, but unless you can reach a higher OC on them they aren't likely to be large improvements in gaming. That being said, my 3.9 GHz i7-920 is still a perfectly capable gaming CPU even with modern AAA titles.

[AlphaGamer46]

1 minute ago, Evyatar said:

 

 

Ok

Thank you very much guys.

 

Oh and an other thing:

I've seen that the max memory on the exon's is like almost 10 times the max memory of the i7.

Can I upgrade the ram to the maximum of the exon's? (once I'll install it) Or am I limited by the motherboard some how?

 

You are limited by the motherboard.

 

Depending on what mobo model you have, look at the spec page on the manufacturer's website for info about the max RAM you can install.

[Evyatar]

Just now, Lotus said:

Have you overclocked your current CPU yet? Also remember that those 6 core Xeons are great for multi-tasking, but unless you can reach a higher OC on them they aren't likely to be large improvements in gaming. That being said, my 3.9 GHz i7-920 is still a perfectly capable gaming CPU even with modern AAA titles.

Actually this is why I'm upgrading, I need it more for the multitasking more then for gaming.

I don't like OCing since I don't really see the point, but maybe I'll OC the xeon since it's really low...

ps.

In some places I've heard that you cannot over clock xenon. is that true?

 

[Evyatar]

Just now, AlphaGamer46 said:

You are limited by the motherboard.

 

Depending on what mobo model you have, look at the spec page on the manufacturer's website for info about the max RAM you can install.

That's a bummer 6 slots and I'm maxed at 24gb.

 

[Lotus]

If you haven't OC'd, do that first. It's a massive improvement on these chips. I went from 2.6 GHz to 3.9 GHz. It's free performance and not only that, but single-threaded performance as well. It's not that difficult, even though it is a bit more involved than a multiplier based overclock. Seriously, you really need to OC that CPU. You can likely hit 4.2 GHz+ with the right cooler. I was thermally limited by my Hyper 212 Evo. For comparisons sake, that 50% clock speed bump actually translated to around a 50% performance improvement.

 

The reason you can't overclock new processors via BCLK like you can LGA1366 is because LGA1366 is the last socket before they tied the PCIe bus to the baseclock. Raising BCLK in Sandy Bridge and newer will result in PCIe bus instability. Not true with Nehalem/Westmere, so you can increase BCLK. I ran mine at a BCLK of 195.

[Evyatar]

1 hour ago, Lotus said:

If you haven't OC'd, do that first. It's a massive improvement on these chips. I went from 2.6 GHz to 3.9 GHz. It's free performance and not only that, but single-threaded performance as well. It's not that difficult, even though it is a bit more involved than a multiplier based overclock. Seriously, you really need to OC that CPU. You can likely hit 4.2 GHz+ with the right cooler. I was thermally limited by my Hyper 212 Evo. For comparisons sake, that 50% clock speed bump actually translated to around a 50% performance improvement.

 

The reason you can't overclock new processors via BCLK like you can LGA1366 is because LGA1366 is the last socket before they tied the PCIe bus to the baseclock. Raising BCLK in Sandy Bridge and newer will result in PCIe bus instability. Not true with Nehalem/Westmere, so you can increase BCLK. I ran mine at a BCLK of 195.

Thanks for the help man, helped alot!