X5450 v. E5450

[ChasingPluto]

Intel Xeon X5450 (SLBBE)

Intel Xeon E5450 (SLBBM)

 

So I'm not go into how I ended up with an X5450 and an E5450 but I do need to sort out which one to use. The previous owner of E5450 said he was able to get it to 4 GHz without really pushing the vcore that much.  The X5450 was simply validated by the previous owner.  The E5450 is shipping with the motherboard so I know those work together and I know what kind of a stable overclock I can get. So the question is do I bother swapping the X5450 in and overclocking it and validating it's overclock to see if its better than E5450, or just go the easy route and only overclock the E5450. 

 

Lazy = only E5450

Not Lazy = E5450 & X5450

[abhigyan001]

Not Lazy

[DunePilot]

9 minutes ago, ChasingPluto said:

Intel Xeon X5450 (SLBBE)

Intel Xeon E5450 (SLBBM)

 

So I'm not go into how I ended up with an X5450 and an E5450 but I do need to sort out which one to use. The previous owner of E5450 said he was able to get it to 4 GHz without really pushing the vcore that much.  The X5450 was simply validated by the previous owner.  The E5450 is shipping with the motherboard so I know those work together and I know what kind of a stable overclock I can get. So the question is do I bother swapping the X5450 in and overclocking it and validating it's overclock to see if its better than E5450, or just go the easy route and only overclock the E5450. 

 

Lazy = only E5450

Not Lazy = E5450 & X5450

Real question is what motherboard did you get?

[multifrag]

There is just wattage difference between them. So e5450 might take a little bit more beating. I got mine to 4.4 and I think I could push more. I have x5675

[ChasingPluto]

Just now, DunePilot said:

Real question is what motherboard did you get?

Asus P5Q Deluxe

[ChasingPluto]

Just now, multifrag said:

There is just wattage difference between them. So e5450 might take a little bit more beating. I got mine to 4.4 and I think I could push more. I have x5675

This is sounding a lot like I need to test them both

[comicsansms]

The e5450 is higher binned. I'd just be lazy and hope that intel's binning of CPUs was good.

[ChasingPluto]

Just now, Comic_Sans_MS said:

The e5450 is higher binned. I'd just be lazy and hope that intel's binning of CPUs was good.

Someone give this man a cookie... I'm too lazy to do it myself

[DunePilot]

Save the X for 1.5v and sacrifice it for science.

[ChasingPluto]

2 minutes ago, DunePilot said:

Save the X for 1.5v and sacrifice it for science.

so which one am I sacrificing for science?

[DunePilot]

The X.

[ChasingPluto]

2 minutes ago, DunePilot said:

The X.

Kay. I'll make sure to post my findings