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What is the general consensus around the probability/timeline of a high price/performance 6 core processor for 1366. I have been very happy with my OC 920 at 3.2 (perfect stability) but I want MORE CORES now that I am doing a lot of Adobe Lightroom 3. I suppose I should look up an make sure lightroom can even use more cores.. maybe I should upgrade to 12GB RAM instead ..
 
The 970 recently dropped IIRC to $600 so I think it'll be that way for a little while.
 
Any hex xeon will run in a 1366 board. They can be had inexpensively.
 
The 970 is cheaper than all hex-core Xeons I can find, unless you buy them second-hand. And the Xeons generally have low clocks as well.
 
Ah, ok. TBH I would still get the 970 just because of the increased clock speed, though performance/power-wise the Xeon would probably be better.
 
As far as I've been told, Xeons are much more capable overclockers. So you can overclock for the same performance.
 
Just to note, that Xeon has an 18x multi while the 970 has 24x
 
Not sure if Xeon is unlocked. If it was, would be great. If not, your gonna have to jack your FSB through the roof to get it OCed
 
Is that bad for OC'ing or good?
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I'm pretty sure that Xeons now all have locked multipliers, so yes, it is bad. It means that you have to overclock by increasing the BCLK rather than the multiplier, which means that a whole raft of other things get overclocked as well rather than just the CPU. This means that even if your CPU is game for a much higher clock than you manage to get, you won't get there because something else is holding it back.
 
If I OC, I want it trouble-free. I OC'd my 920 20%+ and left it that way for a year with not a single issue. Now that is my kind of OC. It was pretty stable at 40% OC, but I never really needed to power as my games were always just fine.
 
Just out of curiosity... why do you want more cores for Lightroom? My 11" MBA does a pretty banging job in Lightroom. I'm just wondering what the hell you're doing with it.
 
I run 4.2Ghz on my 970 all day long and have never noticed any stability issues.
 
00011 said:
Is that bad for OC'ing or good?
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That is bad.

Better to have higher multiplier to achiever higher speeds and lower more stable BCLK.


3.6GHZ will be pushing the BCLK with the max 18x multiplier of the Xeon. The Xeon does have Turbo mode so maby it can go another multiplier or 2 on a few cores. Not sure how the Turbo mode works on it.

The xeon also benefits with higher rated QPI speed and 2 qpi links instead of one.



970 looks like a much easier cpu to push. Find a solid X58MB that can push stable 230 BCLK and the Xeon looks like it would be a solid 4.5GHz runner.
 
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Geno said:
Just out of curiosity... why do you want more cores for Lightroom? My 11" MBA does a pretty banging job in Lightroom. I'm just wondering what the hell you're doing with it.
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I am working in raw with 5D mark II source files at 2560x1600 res. I generate standard preview files (same size) on import and as I am batch sorting photos it gives me the loading warning every 10-15 photos I sort through. It also takes a long time to generate 1:1 previews. I figure it is more likely a storage or memory issue. I also just want to catch the last great 1366 processor before intel changes sockets. I figure it may extend my machine's life (since I am happy with gaming performance finally).
 
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