1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

Does anyone have a list of Xeon hexacores for 1366? Would the Intel ARK site be the way to go with researching such? I know that the OEM specific CPUs aren't listed on there though.

I've seen a lot of this thread but I've lost track. Just wondering in case I get the urge to go further than my current L5639.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Does anyone have a list of Xeon hexacores for 1366? Would the Intel ARK site be the way to go with researching such? I know that the OEM specific CPUs aren't listed on there though.

I've seen a lot of this thread but I've lost track. Just wondering in case I get the urge to go further than my current L5639.
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Intel Xeon X5670 ($100 dollars shipped) is all you need to know....models above it are triple in price and its cheap enough not to go anything slower
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIX-CORE-IN...431?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23462bf5b7
 
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Friend of mine was gifted a P6T Deluxe v2 and an i7 920. x5675's are going for between 150 and 175 list. You can probably send an offer for 125-140 to one of those guys and get one.
 
Zoson said:
Friend of mine was gifted a P6T Deluxe v2 and an i7 920. x5675's are going for between 150 and 175 list. You can probably send an offer for 125-140 to one of those guys and get one.
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What a lucky friend !!

I still cant decide what board to switch to. P6T deluxe, X58 UD3R or the Evga X58 extreme
 
Zoson said:
Friend of mine was gifted a P6T Deluxe v2 and an i7 920. x5675's are going for between 150 and 175 list. You can probably send an offer for 125-140 to one of those guys and get one.
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yea for price that just might be worth it ......never thought of that one:) both are solid choices
 
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I'm definitely looking into hopping onto this train. My 920 D0 has served me well, and I've been feeling the upgrade itch, but I don't want to jump to X99 yet, and everything else seems like I'm moving sideways rather than upwards. Seems like an X5650 or 5670 will give me a nice boost in performance for relatively little.

I have an X58 Sabertooth, and from what I've found through searching, this board seems to do fairly well with these, correct?
 
Hey don't forget the X5660 .. have mine running 3.89Ghz and turbo to 4.2Ghz with HT on at 1.27v
 
fanboy said:
Hey don't forget the X5660 .. have mine running 3.89Ghz and turbo to 4.2Ghz with HT on at 1.27v
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I think I'm leaning more towards the X5650 right now, simply due to the price difference. If I consider the X5660, I figure I might as well jump up to the X5670. The price difference seems marginal.
 
TheOneKnownAsMe said:
I think I'm leaning more towards the X5650 right now, simply due to the price difference. If I consider the X5660, I figure I might as well jump up to the X5670. The price difference seems marginal.
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well the 5670 will break the 4ghz mark fairly easy and with very low voltage....most end up at 4.2 totally stable or better....for the marginal price difference some might appeal to;)
 
and having the ones with unlocked/higher multiplier....and better vrms/phase mobos....most x58 boards average are gonna sit around 190-200 blk highest stable, maybe 210-215 if lucky but probally won't be very stable....better boards well above that easy....
 
I have an X58 Sabertooth, and from what I've found through searching, this board seems to do fairly well with these, correct?
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Yes, though it really doesn't matter which you buy.My 5670 is the worst of the lot. I own a 5650, a 5660 and a 5670. My 5660 is the best by far, hitting 4.2 at 1.28. It'll do 4.6 at 1.36, however
I just choose not to. My 5650 requires 1.28 to do 3.8 and an absurd amount of voltage to do anything higher. My 5670, lets just say that it'll hit 4, but not happily (On the same mb you have). If I were you looking for a performance boost and not an overclock boner, I'd go for a 5650 and be happy with whatever you get. Truth is, 3.8 vs 4.2 isn't all that much different.
 
CruisD64 said:
Yes, though it really doesn't matter which you buy.My 5670 is the worst of the lot. I own a 5650, a 5660 and a 5670. My 5660 is the best by far, hitting 4.2 at 1.28. It'll do 4.6 at 1.36, however
I just choose not to. My 5650 requires 1.28 to do 3.8 and an absurd amount of voltage to do anything higher. My 5670, lets just say that it'll hit 4, but not happily (On the same mb you have). If I were you looking for a performance boost and not an overclock boner, I'd go for a 5650 and be happy with whatever you get. Truth is, 3.8 vs 4.2 isn't all that much different.
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Thanks for the advice! That definitely pushes me more towards the 5650 at this rate.
 
Of those who has done this upgrade, is anyone sorry they did it?
If so why?

Others that are happy they did, was there an improvement in playing games?
 
Bill1024 said:
Of those who has done this upgrade, is anyone sorry they did it?
If so why?

Others that are happy they did, was there an improvement in playing games?
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I think not one regret i ever heard of......regarding games...well if it get your clock speed up to 4.2 compared to what ever then yes....aside from that it just allows you to run a shit ton on apps while gaming with out any slowdown......do the extra cores really helps games? right now i kinda doubt it unless its using some kind of cpu physics like in skydiver but i never seen that in any game so far....all games are built for consoles which have 8 cores so having 12 cores doesn't really help (so far) but it don't hurt either;)
 
I'm beginning to think I have a bad x5660.

It was showing just 4 cores on my Intel x58SO board and now I have an EVGA x58 SLI (758) and it still shows 4 cores!! The board has the latest BIOS too.


What do you guys think?
 
~ever~ said:
I'm beginning to think I have a bad x5660.

It was showing just 4 cores on my Intel x58SO board and now I have an EVGA x58 SLI (758) and it still shows 4 cores!! The board has the latest BIOS too.


What do you guys think?
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The EVGA has to be a certain version to support the Xeons procs. If you go to the EVGA forums there is a thread explaining which ones it supports.
 
I have rev 1.2 which supports them.

Have you guys ever heard of a Xeon missing cores?
 
~ever~ said:
I have rev 1.2 which supports them.

Have you guys ever heard of a Xeon missing cores?
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Well that has be stumped. If you have the latest bios installed and the proper revision, could be something wrong with the CPU.

How are you looking up the cores? Windows Task Manager? I know Realtemp has issues for me showing all 6 cores.
 
Yes through Task Manager or CPU-Z.

Both show only 4.

I wish I had someone local that could let me pop their 6 core just to make sure its the CPU. Otherwise I would be down for like a week.
 
Did you unplug the PSU, pull the battery off the board hit the start button and clear the BIOS?
 
~ever~ said:
I have rev 1.2 which supports them.

Have you guys ever heard of a Xeon missing cores?
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Yeah, not all of them have all 6 enabled, for example the X5677 is the same wafer (core size is identical, trust me I delidded both a X5677 and a X5670) yet the X5677 is a quad core part so two of the cores are disabled.
 
Maybe I should have been more specific, have you guys seen x5660 or x5670 or x5650 not showing all cores?
 
I'm just trying to see what could be wrong with my system.

The Intel board didn't recognize or shows all cores and this new EVGA board i have is not showing all cores either.
 
~ever~ said:
I'm just trying to see what could be wrong with my system.

The Intel board didn't recognize or shows all cores and this new EVGA board i have is not showing all cores either.
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Just curious did you reinstall windows? Maybe a fresh windows will fix it. Could be software related.
 
~ever~ said:
No I didn't re install windows. Just drivers for the new board.
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There is a possibility it is windows acting up.

could try making a new partition and installing a fresh windows to see if all 6 cores show up.
 
Believe it or not Windows 7 was limiting my CPU to 4 cores.

I changed the setting and I'm now seeing 6 cores, 12 threads !!!!!! F yeahhh :)


Time to overclock muahahaha
 
~ever~ said:
Believe it or not Windows 7 was limiting my CPU to 4 cores.

I changed the setting and I'm now seeing 6 cores, 12 threads !!!!!! F yeahhh :)


Time to overclock muahahaha
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Good to hear :) So it was windows that was the issue.

Good luck and have fun overclocking :)
 
Yea it was Windows but a fresh install is not needed.

If you go into Msconfig, there is a Boot tab, in there you will find how many cores Windows will use. All you have to do is uncheck the box!
 
~ever~ said:
Yea it was Windows but a fresh install is not needed.

If you go into Msconfig, there is a Boot tab, in there you will find how many cores Windows will use. All you have to do is uncheck the box!
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LOL well thats a stupid easy fix.
 
I have an Asus P6T mobo paired with a i7 920. I am looking to upgrade and purcahse a Xeon 5650 CPU and do some overclocking.

Can anyone confirm that the ORDINARY Asus P6T motherboard (NOT the SE version, workstation models or deluxe models) works with Xeon CPUs?

From Google searching some websites state the ordinary Asus P6T motherboard I have is compatible with the Xeon CPUs but the official Asus website does not list the Xeon CPUs as supported CPUs for the P6T motherboard.

Thanks
 
jimbo.jones said:
I have an Asus P6T mobo paired with a i7 920. I am looking to upgrade and purcahse a Xeon 5650 CPU and do some overclocking.

Can anyone confirm that the ORDINARY Asus P6T motherboard (NOT the SE version, workstation models or deluxe models) works with Xeon CPUs?

From Google searching some websites state the ordinary Asus P6T motherboard I have is compatible with the Xeon CPUs but the official Asus website does not list the Xeon CPUs as supported CPUs for the P6T motherboard.

Thanks
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Yes, it's going to work fine, just make sure your motherboard is on the latest BIOS.
 
Yeah man, thinking about picking up Xeon X5650 westmere for this rampage ii gene, but this board is not the ROG board its the one awhile back asus had/offered only for the towers/CG like its like a more stripped down version of ROG etc, regardless they had/have BIOS updates to flash to the full Rampage II gene/other CPU support etc and I'm assuming SLI/Crossfire unlocked right?

The VRMs/mosfets do not have a heatsink..... they have the holes/for one though, Enzotech has a copper post MST 88 heatsink for like the P6/rampage extreme boards....looks very similar but kinda different not sure if it would line up/fit? or not.... and just get like an Antec spot cool fan to put on them etc?, could use a better heatsink but this one I have does pretty decent for a budget heatsink its the thermalright truespirit 90m etc....really need one of those massive 120mm fan/heatsinks, or go water/water block on NB radiators on intake/exhaust, but then I need to get a fullsize case, running all this in an ibuypower arc 647 mid case, and its kind of a pretty small mid case/width really need to modd it take out some of the front bay/dividers messing with airflow....2 top low cfm 120mm fans/exhaust 1 high speed rear/high cfm, and 2 low cfm intakes....5 fans haha, even then airflow is still kinda ill in this case hahaha, it just barely works keeps me from pegging out to 90-100c loads haha
 
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jimbo.jones said:
I have an Asus P6T mobo paired with a i7 920. I am looking to upgrade and purcahse a Xeon 5650 CPU and do some overclocking.

Can anyone confirm that the ORDINARY Asus P6T motherboard (NOT the SE version, workstation models or deluxe models) works with Xeon CPUs?

From Google searching some websites state the ordinary Asus P6T motherboard I have is compatible with the Xeon CPUs but the official Asus website does not list the Xeon CPUs as supported CPUs for the P6T motherboard.

Thanks
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I've got a P6T Base model also, and it worked just fine after I updated the BIOS.
 
jimbo.jones said:
I have an Asus P6T mobo paired with a i7 920. I am looking to upgrade and purcahse a Xeon 5650 CPU and do some overclocking.

Can anyone confirm that the ORDINARY Asus P6T motherboard (NOT the SE version, workstation models or deluxe models) works with Xeon CPUs?

From Google searching some websites state the ordinary Asus P6T motherboard I have is compatible with the Xeon CPUs but the official Asus website does not list the Xeon CPUs as supported CPUs for the P6T motherboard.

Thanks
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Yep, it should work just fine. I've got an X5650 running on a plain P6T, Bios 1408.

Overclocking is pretty solid, but on my board (and I've seen others report this too) the multiplier won't stay locked at x22 with a boosted BCLK, and will kick down to x20 or lower when stressed. Doesn't seem to matter if the C1 states or speedstep is disabled. Best stable settings I've gotten are a 211 BCLK, x20 multiplier, running at 4.22GHz. :D
 
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