Looking at an E5-2650 on a Sabertooth

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schizrade

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Anybody here with experience bumping bclk strap on that? Results?
 
I guarantee you that it's not possible. All E5-2600 Xeons are fully locked, both the multiplier and BCLK strap. The best you can hope for as a result is a 5% overclock by increasing the bus speed to 105 MHz from 100 MHz.
 
Interdasting. Can't dump and pump like on 1366?

Will probably still make the trade since I am trading an unused laptop for it. It will be a fun toy
 
Given the fact that this CPU has a maximum all core turbo multiplier of 24x, that means with a 105 MHz overclock on the bus, you'll max out at about 2520MHz. The unfortunate thing is that a basic i7-3930K will clock to about 4.5 GHz with relative ease, and at that clock speed, it'll easily destroy the E5-2650 in all tasks, both single and multi-threaded. It should be faster than the E5-2650 in multi-threaded apps, even at its stock clocks. You'd be much better off performance-wise selling the laptop and buying an i7-3930K.
 
ah crap... lol

Well the dude has so far dropped off the face of the earth, so I guess he doesn't want to trade. Off to look for a 2011 mobo and hex core i7 K.

:D
 
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