General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[the pudding]

so i forgot the pc at the other halves only has a 500w psu so no pushing the benches for me XD though i did manage to churn out a 19k score with my 4930K 

 

[Zando_]

24 minutes ago, bomerr said:

ASRock Extreme 4. This mobo is way better. Much more stable.

Ooooooooooo ASRock engineers also made modded BIOSes for all ASRock boards AFAIK, enabling PCIe slot bifurcation if you wanna run a 2 or 4x M.2 card (I have one but can only use one slot due to lack of the bifurcation option). 
 

25 minutes ago, bomerr said:

The 1080 Ti is a great GPU. I've actually upgraded from my 4K Monitor to a 21" Sony CRT (1920x1440 or 1600x1200) so I don't even need all this power anymore. 

Indeed. I had a Gaming X 1080 Ti, quite regret getting rid of it. My RVII is more fun to push and has more OC headroom, true, but only on one (1) driver version (last set of Adrenaline 2019 WQHL drivers available for download), and when not on those it's basically a headache everywhere else. Whereas I've never had issues with my Nvidia cards, other than some slight funkiness with my GTX 780s in SLI, but that seems to have fixed itself (and may have been the CPU/mobo combo I was running with them). 

How's the CRT treating you? I've never really used one, heard a lot good about them though. 

[GrockleTD]

I realize this isn't the exact topic, but there is no x79 thread afaik. How would quad channel ddr3 stack up against dual ddr3? (1600 and 3000 respectively)

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

I realize this isn't the exact topic, but there is no x79 thread afaik. How would quad channel ddr3 stack up against dual ddr3? (1600 and 3000 respectively)

I would opt for higher bandwidth over speed most days.

 

I'm only running DDR4-2400 in my X99 system, but I'd choose quad channel 2400Mhz on X99 over dual channel 3000Mhz on Ryzen for example.

[bomerr]

8 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

I realize this isn't the exact topic, but there is no x79 thread afaik. How would quad channel ddr3 stack up against dual ddr3? (1600 and 3000 respectively)

quad ddr = 2 * dual ddr

 

so 2133 quad ddr4 = 4267 dual ddr4

 

 

5960x/1660 v3 OC'd are faster than a Ryzen 7 2700X OC'd. Peole said the IPC of Haswell was higher than Ryzen 1st gen and closer to Ryzen 2nd gen. I'd be interested in seeing OC'd 5960x vs OC'd Ryzen 7 3700X benchmarks. and vs Ryzen 5 3600 because they're the same price now. 

[m4shroom]

Hi guys. 
I have gigabyte ga-ex58-ud5 running with i7 920. I want to upgrade to xeon.Which xeon do you recomend for gaming ?

Edit: Can I use ecc ram with this mobo ?_?

thx for your help ..

[freeagent]

I think certain Giga boards have a hard time seeing Xeon hex cores. I did have a UD7 once with a 970. I cant remember if I had my Xeon back then or not. I do know of someone who had issues on their UD3. No problems on my Asus, other than some memory compatibility issues, could be because mine is an engineering sample.

[Windows7ge]

(Ambient of the room in ℃)

CPU 100% load still at 4.5GHz O.C. all cores sitting at mid to low 30℃ range. Even touching the high 20℃'s.

 

Must. Resist. Urge. To push. Overclock. Even. HIGHER!...

[the pudding]

1 hour ago, m4shroom said:

Hi guys. 
I have gigabyte ga-ex58-ud5 running with i7 920. I want to upgrade to xeon.Which xeon do you recomend for gaming ?

Edit: Can I use ecc ram with this mobo ?_?

thx for your help ..

There are reports of the xeons working fine on this board, with this said the best for gaming would really depend how good your board clocks, but given how cheap they are now I'd say grab an X5670 or an X5675 if you can, I've yet to get an X5670 that can't do 4.5GHz at 1.4v, as for your question about ECC, it's a kinda yes and no, you can use standard ECC (so anything ending with E, 14900E for example) but you cannot use registered ECC and this is a chipset limit so that can't be bypassed, standard ECC usually works fine on consumer cpus and motherboards though since the vast majority of boards just run in non-ECC mode, for example I'm running 32GB of 14900E on my i7 4930K

[Vacras]

4 hours ago, m4shroom said:

Hi guys. 
I have gigabyte ga-ex58-ud5 running with i7 920. I want to upgrade to xeon.Which xeon do you recomend for gaming ?

Edit: Can I use ecc ram with this mobo ?_?

thx for your help ..

Got the exact same board running an x5670 @ 4.3 GHz

 

[the pudding]

and there we have it, you don't know till you know but there you go now you know 

 

[GrockleTD]

@Windows7ge dew it

[m4shroom]

thx for info guys.I let you know when I install xeon

[Windows7ge]

59 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

@Windows7ge dew it

But it's been a stable O.C. for the past 60 days running 24/7:

Do I really want to ruin that just to push the envelope? 

[GrockleTD]

1 hour ago, Windows7ge said:

But it's been a stable O.C. for the past 60 days running 24/7:

Do I really want to ruin that just to push the envelope? 

Is that a question?

[Windows7ge]

16 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

Is that a question?

It wasn't intended as rhetorical. I suppose it's more of an open-ended question. Respond however you like.

[GrockleTD]

42 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

It wasn't intended as rhetorical. I suppose it's more of an open-ended question. Respond however you like.

I was meaning that I feel that the response was obvious, of course you should go for it

[Troika]

My final ram kit arrived today so I have 24GB of Mushkin Blackline DDR3-2400. Is it worth spending $140 on high end ram for a dead platform? Absolutely not. Is it gonna be fun to be able to push my system as far as it can go? Yes, yes it will. :3

 

I know my system is a touch dusty. I need to get some canned air to get at the dust filter at the front then wipe down the inside with microfiber cloths.

[Windows7ge]

46 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

I was meaning that I feel that the response was obvious, of course you should go for it

Well, extenuating circumstances have brought me to a situation where I may just be strapping a pair of R9 290X's to the rig but I have to verify I can get OpenCL working on Linux from the Terminal. If I can I may try to push the envelope while I'm at it.

[GrockleTD]

@Troika is that a fury?

[Troika]

Just now, GrockleTD said:

@Troika is that a fury?

A fury X, yes. I've been running it for about a year and a half now. I had a pair of GTX 780 3GBs in SLI before but one of them died and the other one is on the way out. I've been using it for 2k gaming and it does it like a champ. I'm 100% sure that it'd be much happier at 1080p but my Pixio PX276 doesn't look as good at 1080p. Besides, 90+ frames on most games at high is pretty solid for a alnost 5 year old card with 4GB of vram.

[Crunchy Dragon]

16 minutes ago, Troika said:

A fury X, yes. I've been running it for about a year and a half now. I had a pair of GTX 780 3GBs in SLI before but one of them died and the other one is on the way out. I've been using it for 2k gaming and it does it like a champ. I'm 100% sure that it'd be much happier at 1080p but my Pixio PX276 doesn't look as good at 1080p. Besides, 90+ frames on most games at high is pretty solid for a alnost 5 year old card with 4GB of vram.

780 is still a beast at 1080p, mine matched a 1060 3GB with a decent overclock.

[Troika]

10 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

780 is still a beast at 1080p, mine matched a 1060 3GB with a decent overclock.

I'm aware of its potential. I had reference models but even those could take a pretty solid oc. My best one could take 200mhz on the core and 450mhz on the memory. In SLI, I could do 180mhz on the core and 400mhz on the memory because the second card wasn't as good of a bin. Honestly, I don't mind the blower cooler either because two of them in a system together looked so baller. The reference cooler looked so nice and that vapor chamber heatsink wasn't a slouch either!

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

780 is still a beast at 1080p, mine matched a 1060 3GB with a decent overclock.

Replaced my 770 for a 980 for 1080p gaming. A vast improvement on triple A titles though..... 50% better performance actually.

[Troika]

11 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Replaced my 770 for a 980 for 1080p gaming. A vast improvement on triple A titles though..... 50% better performance actually.

A 770 would be caparable to a 1050/1050 Ti. Especially if you had the 4gb varient.