i7 950 vs X56xx - time to upgrade?

[TheGermanEngie]

Recently I got this old X58 workstation from my bud's dad who mixed music with it for a while. it's got an i7 950 preinstalled along with 6GB of DDR3 which I upgraded to 16GB. I've been thinking of selling the board and CPU as X58 boards go for quite a bit of money on the second hand market and perhaps I could put that towards a different platform, but a youtuber that I watch by the name of Tech YES City does a lot of budget builds with older X58/X79 Xeons and from his benchmarks they still kick ass even in 2018.

 

The real benefits though come from overclocking the snot out of them. I've overclocked before but X58 is not something to be messed around with when it comes to OC settings, and there aren't many X58 OC tutorials out there. (YES's tutorials aren't much help either, he doesn't really explain what the settings do, just the values they should be at). The board does come with a moderately beefy notcua cooler so I could do a couple megahertz overclock, nothing crazy.

 

Thoughts? Should I sell the board and get something different or does LGA 1366 still have breathing room?

 

Motherboard is an ASUS P6TD Deluxe btw.

[Projex]

Definitely sell it.

[asand1]

My x58 motherboard and X5680 has been running at 4ghz for over a year. If you don't already have something better you would be hard pressed to get anything better without shelling out big bucks. We have a big x58 community here that can help with the OC (it really is easy.)

[Cereal5]

I mean X58 is still plenty good. You can compare prices that will sell for to prices of a cheap Ryzen 3/Ryzen 5 set up. Don't know how well they compare.

[asand1]

You have the most expensive part already. A six core twelve thread CPU capable of 4ghz is only $30. Can anyone build a Ryzen system for $30?

[TheGermanEngie]

10 minutes ago, asand1 said:

You have the most expensive part already. A six core twelve thread CPU capable of 4ghz is only $30. Can anyone build a Ryzen system for $30?

You have a good point. Where can I ask around here for X58 overclocking?

[asand1]

Here is a good video where he explains the settings and how they should all relate.

Look through this thread and speak to the folks in there to glean some knowledge and answer some questions.

@Zando Bob

@Ground

@WhisperingKnickers

[asand1]

$13 USD for a very overclockable CPU.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-X5650-2-66GHz-Six-Core-BX80614X5650-Processor/153252398063?epid=82160987&hash=item23ae8e03ef:m:mTaNEShPxs-OJnnRSu01n6w:rk:3:pf:0&LH_BIN=1

[TheGermanEngie]

25 minutes ago, asand1 said:

Here is a good video where he explains the settings and how they should all relate.

Look through this thread and speak to the folks in there to glean some knowledge and answer some questions.

@Zando Bob

@Ground

@WhisperingKnickers

Wow! Thank you very much, I'm excited to get my hands dirty with the X58 platform.

[GloriousPain]

x5650 or something like that can be gotten cheaply enough if you're on a budget... It maybe more ram and a better cooler can get you plenty of more performance for cheap... but if you actually have a good amount of money just upgrading platforms to Ryzen or Coffeelake is probably better.