LGA771 to 775 mod worth it?

[Fatelinha]

Hi guys!

 

I'm currently running a Q9400 but it isn't able to keep up with my R9 270. Many people reccomended me to buy a Xeon X5460 CPU. I've done some reasearch and I don't think the performance gain will be enough to spend 30€ + the risk of doing the mod. However I keep coming across people who have done the mod and think that it is worth it.

 

Anyone has an opinion on this?

 

 

[colinreay]

I know Tech Yes City did a video on it.  He seemed to like it! It seems to be around 20-30% faster than your cpu right now, at least in synthetic benchmarks. After some quick searching on the webs, this seems like a good reference. (If you haven't read it already.)

[Jumper118]

19 minutes ago, Fatelinha said:

Hi guys!

 

I'm currently running a Q9400 but it isn't able to keep up with my R9 270. Many people reccomended me to buy a Xeon X5460 CPU. I've done some reasearch and I don't think the performance gain will be enough to spend 30€ + the risk of doing the mod. However I keep coming across people who have done the mod and think that it is worth it.

 

Anyone has an opinion on this?

 

 

yes it if if you sell the Q9400 you can upgarde pc and make profit

[PooPipeBoy]

5 hours ago, Fatelinha said:

Hi guys!

 

I'm currently running a Q9400 but it isn't able to keep up with my R9 270. Many people reccomended me to buy a Xeon X5460 CPU. I've done some reasearch and I don't think the performance gain will be enough to spend 30€ + the risk of doing the mod. However I keep coming across people who have done the mod and think that it is worth it.

 

Anyone has an opinion on this?

 

 

I'm doing the exact same thing you're talking about: R9 270X in my case though, and I'm upgrading to an X5460.

I've already done the 771-to-775 socket mod no problems, it's actually pretty easy as long as you're damn careful when working around the motherboard socket pins.

I'm just waiting on the Xeon to arrive in the mail.

[Fatelinha]

3 hours ago, PooPipeBoy said:

I'm doing the exact same thing you're talking about: R9 270X in my case though, and I'm upgrading to an X5460.

I've already done the 771-to-775 socket mod no problems, it's actually pretty easy as long as you're damn careful when working around the motherboard socket pins.

I'm just waiting on the Xeon to arrive in the mail.

Care to share your experience and improvements when finished?

[PooPipeBoy]

43 minutes ago, Fatelinha said:

Care to share your experience and improvements when finished?

Not a problem, I'd imagine the X5460 will turn up in the next week or so, at the moment I'm just prepping to install it.

I've got a thread going for benchmark results with my Core 2 Duo system in gaming performance, and I'll be adding test results for the Xeon when it's installed:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/569095-test-cpu-bottlenecking-in-a-gaming-system/

[PooPipeBoy]

On 3/22/2016 at 11:22 AM, Fatelinha said:

Care to share your experience and improvements when finished?

Alrighty, well the X5460 finally turned up in the mail, it's installed and running good so now I can finally see how it performs in the real world.

In a nutshell, my verdict is.....it's not a huge difference like I expected, but I'd still buy it again.

So there's a few things I want to mention:

• In most games I still got basically the same graphics performance, except Minecraft where my average FPS went up by 25%.
• It's no surprise with a TDP of 120W, but the Xeon runs quite hot, I was seeing temps in the high 60's when gaming at stock settings (and I have a basic aftermarket CPU cooler).

Since I was upgrading from a dual-core, I was expecting a bigger difference.

Considering that you already have a Core 2 Quad, you probably won't see much improvement by going to a Xeon, unless we're talkin' GTA5 or something.

Still an awesome CPU for the price, but as for gaming, any quad core is perfectly fine.

[Fatelinha]

1 hour ago, PooPipeBoy said:

Alrighty, well the X5460 finally turned up in the mail, it's installed and running good so now I can finally see how it performs in the real world.

In a nutshell, my verdict is.....it's not a huge difference like I expected, but I'd still buy it again.

So there's a few things I want to mention:

• In most games I still got basically the same graphics performance, except Minecraft where my average FPS went up by 25%.
• It's no surprise with a TDP of 120W, but the Xeon runs quite hot, I was seeing temps in the high 60's when gaming at stock settings (and I have a basic aftermarket CPU cooler).

Since I was upgrading from a dual-core, I was expecting a bigger difference.

Considering that you already have a Core 2 Quad, you probably won't see much improvement by going to a Xeon, unless we're talkin' GTA5 or something.

Still an awesome CPU for the price, but as for gaming, any quad core is perfectly fine.

Thanks a LOT man