Xeons?!?

[Biggerjaws]

Primarily for gaming. Intel Xeon x5675 or x5687? Thanks mates. (I know their old but for the price they are great!) Picking up an old used gateway fx 6800 for 70$ and I'm probably gonna get an r9 280x to go along with it (also used)

[TidaLWaveZ]

What are the prices?

 

I have an x5675 and it's the best price/performance processor I've ever had but depending on the prices you might go with the x5687.

[colonel_mortis]

Moved to CPUs, Motherboards and Memory

[Biggerjaws]

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

What are the prices?

59$ us for the x5687 and  around the same fore the x5675

[TidaLWaveZ]

Just now, Biggerjaws said:

59$ us for the x5687 and  around the same fore the x5675

You'll get a slight single core performance increase from the 87 which will have a slight benefit for gaming, but I personally would get the 75 for the two extra cores because the single core performance difference is pretty small.

[Biggerjaws]

24 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

You'll get a slight single core performance increase from the 87 which will have a slight benefit for gaming, but I personally would get the 75 for the two extra cores because the single core performance difference is pretty small.

What about if I'm planing on overclocking? How much easier and how much more performance do you think I could squeeze out of it? Thank you

[TidaLWaveZ]

8 minutes ago, Biggerjaws said:

What about if I'm planing on overclocking? How much easier and how much more performance do you think I could squeeze out of it? Thank you

If you've got an X58 with Xeon support you can up the FSB, otherwise no overclocking as the Xeons have locked multipliers.

 

I never really tried to push it that hard but my x5675 was totally stable at 3.8ghz with a raijintek triton 240mm AIO.

[Electronics Wizardy]

what board?

[The Sloth]

overclocking with xeon is not easy you might get an extra 10 or 10 mhz but nothing more but it depends

[doomsriker]

You should be able to google the specs of any motherboards you find before you buy. 

[dexT]

5 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

overclocking with xeon is not easy you might get an extra 10 or 10 mhz but nothing more but it depends

No those Xeons OC high. Like the LGA 2011-3 E5-16xx ones.

[DunePilot]

5 hours ago, Biggerjaws said:

I'm thinking about picking up an old x5675 or x5687 and was wondering if all x58 motherboards support them and if all of them support overclocking. Thank you

Might be better to pick up something new if you don't already have a board but yes they work in most boards with the latest BIOS. The big exception are the EVGA ones which usually require it to be sent in to EVGA to have a BIOS chip added on for the cost of shipping and a 3-4 week delay. If you find some boards you are considering I would post here to request more info on compatibility. http://www.overclock.net/t/1489955/official-x58-xeon-club/10130

 

[asand1]

6 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

overclocking with xeon is not easy you might get an extra 10 or 10 mhz but nothing more but it depends

Weird, I had a 1Ghz OC without knowing what I was doing.

[asand1]

9 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

overclocking with xeon is not easy you might get an extra 10 or 10 mhz but nothing more but it depends

Educate yourself.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1489955/official-x58-xeon-club/0_20

[asand1]

X5680 Goes up to 25X multiplier. You can achieve 5Ghz. I have personally ran a 1Ghz OC for 4.333Ghz.

[Velvet Revolver]

If one is 4C8T and the other is 6C12T and you want to be a gaming baller then you get a slight advantage on the 4C cpu.

[DunePilot]

I'd go with the X5675 and go for 4.3GHz, you can get 4.3GHz on most pretty easy, you need to ramp the voltage a little to get 4.5GHz and even more so for 4.7GHz. Trying to get 4.7GHz is pretty iffy even with good cooling.

[Space Reptile]

you will have to consider that the X5675 is westmere , meaning that its a first gen I7 , so don't expect the greatest per core perf , id advise for an E3 , wich are sandy ,

and boards are cheaper than 1366 boards afaik

[The Sloth]

1 hour ago, asand1 said:

Educate yourself.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1489955/official-x58-xeon-club/0_20

 

nice i was thinking about the new ones. thx for the link. 

[asand1]

13 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

nice i was thinking about the new ones. thx for the link. 

Yeah, after being given a free X58 mobo, the 1366 Xeons were an amazing discovery.