XEON x5650

[Novo04]

Hey guys i wanted to know if i can play games with a xeon x5650(6-cores, 2.6Ghz) which is overclocked at 4Ghz?

[sushisharkjl]

You can't overclock Xeons.

[SirDerpsALot]

Judging from a quick scan of Amazon reviews, you should be fine with that assuming you have a decent LGA1366 MB.

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3 minutes ago, sushisharkjl said:

You can't overclock Xeons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/2wv1qh/overclocking_xeon_x5650_on_x58_mobo_hit_38ghz/

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2399723

http://www.overclock.net/t/1531948/intel-xeon-x5650-gigabyte-ga-x58a-ud3

 

[itsmyjobtoknow]

3 minutes ago, sushisharkjl said:

You can't overclock Xeons.

You can, depending on the motherboard. Of course you won't have the freedom to increase multiplier at will, but you can increase the BCLK ever so slightly. 

[sushisharkjl]

Just now, JoeyDM said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/2wv1qh/overclocking_xeon_x5650_on_x58_mobo_hit_38ghz/

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2399723

http://www.overclock.net/t/1531948/intel-xeon-x5650-gigabyte-ga-x58a-ud3

 

*newer Xeons. Didn't realise your Xeon was a 1366 chip. 

 

Given it is a 6-core CPU it will have lower-powered cores compared to a quad core, but if you are able to OC it to 4.5GHz then you'll be more than fine.

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Just now, sushisharkjl said:

*newer Xeons. Didn't realise your Xeon was a 1366 chip. 

 

Given it is a 6-core CPU it will have lower-powered cores compared to a quad core, but if you are able to OC it to 4.5GHz then you'll be more than fine.

Yeah X5650 is 1366. I got 2 L5520's in my server. I was considering swapping for 2 X5650's. 

[Novo04]

i will buy an ASUS P6T Deluxe MB

 

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25 minutes ago, AlexTheRose said:

They're the absolute best value for your money according to CPUBenchmark.net!!!

Which is a garbage idiotic site that uses one benchmark

 

If you really want to know how your CPU does with passmark it's great lol.

 

The x5650 is still a great value.

[Eisenhorn]

I got my x5650 running in a p6t motherboard over clocked to 4.2ghz using the max multiplier (22) and a bclk of like 195 or so at only 1.28volts runs nice and cool. have no problem gaming on it. Apparently overclocked to that speeds they are similar to the 6 core x79 cpu's