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Zarathustra[H];1041013635 said:I'm curious,
What is it about the LGA1366 Xeon's that made those of you who use them pick them over consumer LGA1366 parts? Do they clock higher?
at this moment? cheaper than i7 gulftown, those xeon chips have lower TDP but also have a higher Tcase which let to run at more temperature than for example a 980X they tend to run cooler thats mean more overclock headroom...
Yeah its a killer deal right now. Speaking just for myself. I've been running a i7 920 D0 for many years now. Heard about these xeon's so I made the move. Basically for $70 I took myself from 4Ghz quad to 4.4Ghz hexa. So yes they do OC higher and run cool/need less voltage for same speed as i7. There truly isn't a better value right now. You even have some people debating whether to get 5 year old mobos off ebay just so they can drop a $70 cpu in there. At 4.4Ghz my xeon out benches a stock 3930k or 4770k in most things. Now sure those cpus can be OC'd to re-take the lead but compare the $70 pricepoint for my cpu versus the cost of the 4770k [5x] or the 3930 [6-7x].
Never said a 5 year old cpu would be king of the castle, but we're at least competitive on the cheap.
In this specific benchmark as you see the OC'd Xeon is just ahead of the 4770k, behind your newer hexa of course but anything i5 is destroyed. Again not every benchmark tool is the same margin but there's a reason so many guys clinging to their x58 i7 setups are making the move. Its too good to pass by
Zarathustra[H];1041013062 said:OK.
I'll bite.
Intel Core i7-3930k @ 5.0 Ghz (not sure why it's reading the 3.2Ghz base clock instead of the 5Ghz turbo clock...)
It's 24/7 stable at 5.0 ghz, but if I spent more time tweaking, I could probably get a little bit more out of it. Cooling is one of the ultra rare 180mm sealed water coolers.
Not bad for a CPU I bought almost 3 years ago (got mine right at launch of SB-E).
Interesting thing is, bios updates over time have just improved overclocking. When I first got it, it wasn't stable over 4.6
There really is little reason to upgrade CPU's these days, they just last so long.
The good old EVGA SR-2 can still produce good scores
I have heard lots of stories of troublesome SR-2 motherboards not liking BCLK over 175.
Lucky enough its nothing I have noticed.
at this moment? cheaper than i7 gulftown, those xeon chips have lower TDP but also have a higher Tcase which let to run at more temperature than for example a 980X they tend to run cooler thats mean more overclock headroom...
What is the Tcase on the xeon's?
Coretemp shows 101c for my 970.
The lower TDP only matters if you guys keep them stock which no one here is doing.
Most people are buying them for price its an outstanding deal if your still sitting on 45nm bloomfield.
As for overclocking headroom from what i've seen its still a chip lottery regardless of xeon or Gulftown.
Zarathustra[H];1041031244 said:That is information that I have had a rather difficult time finding for my dual L5640's. Desktop bloomfields could go up to 100C, but the only (unofficial) sources I have found for my low power Xeons say 69.2C or something like that, which seems a bit low...
The X Xeons (performance) may have higher numbers than the L (low power) Xeon's though.
What is the Tcase on the xeon's?
Coretemp shows 101c for my 970.
The lower TDP only matters if you guys keep them stock which no one here is doing.
Most people are buying them for price its an outstanding deal if your still sitting on 45nm bloomfield.
As for overclocking headroom from what i've seen its still a chip lottery regardless of xeon or Gulftown.
[edit - well i mistakenly posted this on this intel thread oh well i'll leave it up as a CB 11.5 datapoint anyways... hope you Intel folks don't mind]
latest score for my quad opty setup: 3112cb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rurcanubh0o
or the "official" run over on hwbot.
very nice score brother.....it don't matter if its amd at all and it my threadvery impresive
Impressive score but for 48x cores not that impressive 2x 5960x would beat that score that's 16x cores vs 48x
no reason to be negative....all things considered very nice for amd setup.....i personally have never seen an amd setup with that much power (not all of us can afford the newest greatest)
i wonder what apps could make use of that many cores,,,,cause i think its way cool Well done rvborgh
4770k / z87 / 32gb 1866 w/ a ramdisk open / stock clocks, chrome & a few other tasks open.