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Pondering x5550 change

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I have dual Xeon X5550 on an Intel mainboard S5520HC w/ 6GB DDR3 RAM. Everything runs stock and is stable.
I run -bigadv on that guy pretty much straight up but was wondering if i could get better performance by changing out the mainboard. i think i get about 35k PPD on it running on 2008 R2.

would changing out to an SR-2 and OCing those CPUs give any significant increase in PPD?

thanks!
 
Without a doubt going to an SR-2 would increase your PPD quite a bit. Go for it if you can afford the board and additional RAM, etc.
 
You would more than double the ppd. By how much depends on the OC.
 
Kendrak said:
You would more than double the ppd. By how much depends on the OC.
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I doubt that it will be that much. You should be around 58K ppd now. If you get up to 4.15 GHz with an SR-2, you would see around 92K ppd. I also am not optimistic on a great overclock with those chips. They are very hot-running to begin with. You will need some pretty decent cooling to get them very high.

If you want a free 12K ppd, switch that machine to Linux + BFS + kraken wrapper. Mine does 70K ppd consistently with that setup. I also still use it as a file server.
 
musky said:
I doubt that it will be that much. You should be around 58K ppd now. If you get up to 4.15 GHz with an SR-2, you would see around 92K ppd. I also am not optimistic on a great overclock with those chips. They are very hot-running to begin with. You will need some pretty decent cooling to get them very high.

If you want a free 12K ppd, switch that machine to Linux + BFS + kraken wrapper. Mine does 70K ppd consistently with that setup. I also still use it as a file server.
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I was going 35kpd listed above.
 
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