Xeon Owners Club

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

My X5670 arrived on Saturday and I already installed it yesterday.
So far everything works fine.
I have not overclocked this baby yet but even on stock settings Battlefield 4 runs great and also the benchmarks look promising ;-)

I also want to upgrade the graphic card since I still have a GTX680 with just 2GB VRAM.
Should i go for a GTX1060 (6GB) or a GTX1070 (8GB)?

The GTX 1060 would cost me ~250 € while the GTX 1070 is still at ~400€.

Or should I wait a few more weeks to get a GTX 1070 at a lower price tag (e. g. when AMDs Vega generation comes out)?

get a 970/980/ti ....the Xeons start dragging their heels with the new gen gpus.


I had a GTX 680 2gb which was great with X5670 the lack of vram was the only issue. I wont go any further than the 900 series with the xeon because of what ive learned through members of this club.

 

[FireFox]

because of what ive learned through members of this club.

 

[Ungari]

I've been shopping around, and realize how little I know about Xeon's.
I'd like to get a consensus of which are the best overclocking 1366 mainboards for Xeon's.
Perhaps you already have covered this somewhere, if so a link would be welcome. If not, any suggestions from the community would be appreciated.

 

[FilipM]

Any of the good board will do, I'm on an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and apart from that TDP Limit thing (Which I have not hit yet, even at 4.5) it's a great piece of hardware

 

[Ungari]

Any of the good board will do, I'm on an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and apart from that TDP Limit thing (Which I have not hit yet, even at 4.5) it's a great piece of hardware

What I want to know is what are; "any of the good board". I do know about your ASUS, but not about the others, i.e. OEM server boards like IBM, Dell, SuperMicro, etc.

 

[WiCkEdOnE]

get a 970/980/ti ....the Xeons start dragging their heels with the new gen gpus.


I had a GTX 680 2gb which was great with X5670 the lack of vram was the only issue. I wont go any further than the 900 series with the xeon because of what ive learned through members of this club.

Is a GTX 1060 / 1070 to powerful for a X5670 and the CPU will be the limiting factor?!

The whole point of this upgrade was to avoid buying a new PC setup now and just upgrade the CPU and graphics card.
Then in about ~3 years I wanted to build a completely new system from scratch.

Even with the i920 the GTX680 was the limiting factor most of the time.

Shouldn't an overclocked X5670 be able to run a GTX 1070 now?

 

[Ungari]

Yes.

 

[Capitan Harlock]

Is a GTX 1060 / 1070 to powerful for a X5670 and the CPU will be the limiting factor?!

The whole point of this upgrade was to avoid buying a new PC setup now and just upgrade the CPU and graphics card.
Then in about ~3 years I wanted to build a completely new system from scratch.

Even with the i920 the GTX680 was the limiting factor most of the time.

Shouldn't an overclocked X5670 be able to run a GTX 1070 now?

Hi, as you can see in my system specs i was using as main rig my xeonw3520 and i was wondering too if just jumping on the xeon x5670 would have been enough for using a r9 fuxy x and the aswer was that is not that sure .
I could have occurred in a bottleneck so for the good i buyed newer stuff for use the full potential of the fury x.

Xeon are great but the limit of the achitecture with the newer stuff is what it is .

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I am happy to be contradicted but if memory serves me.

@Durvelle27 had a performance hit with his Xeon 480 combo as did @Knoxx29 with his Xeon 1080 rig.




@Ungari
steer clear of server boards if you plan to overclock
i have had Supermicro, Intel and dell server boards.

I have had two ASUS ROG ii, ASUS P6T deluxe and two MSI Pro-E and they are all pretty similar when it comes to o/c


If i was looking for another 1366 motherboard i would get Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449#ov

 

[Ungari]

@CAPSLOCKSTUCK
I read on another site that unless one already owns a 1366 board, a XEON is no longer an attractive budget option anymore.
Do you agree?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

@CAPSLOCKSTUCK
I read on another site that unless one already owns a 1366 board, a XEON is no longer an attractive budget option anymore.
Do you agree?

No i dont agree but there are limitations which are well documented in this thread. Its getting harder to find motherboards but i think they are still reasonably priced in the US

My mobo, CPU and GPU cost a total of £ 260.00 ($ 320.00) and i dont think i could have matched this kind of performance for the same money on a different socket for 1080p gaming. I run GTA V on very high settings and 4 x AA Vsync on and i get dips to 45 fps.

Like i have said before, the last gpu i will put in this system will be 970/980 and im sure i will be fine at 1080p for a good while yet. I think taking a 15-20 % graphics performance hit when installing a recent gen GPU is too much. Why buy a 1070 when it will give you closer to 1060 performance ?

 

[Ungari]

I think taking a 15-20 % graphics performance hit when installing a recent gen GPU is too much. Why buy a 1070 when it will give you closer to 1060 performance ?

Well, that answers the question for me then.
I will put the money I was going to spend on this towards Ryzen so as to get the most out of my RX480, and then buy a second card for Dual Polaris/ Twin Nitro+.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Well, that answers the question for me then.
I will put the money I was going to spend on this towards Ryzen so as to get the most out of my RX480, and then buy a second card for Dual Polaris/ Twin Nitro+.

i think its the sensible choice and i would do the same.

 

[FR9]

Hello everyone! I have an xeon X5460, i thinking there is no difference from Fx 6300 or something.

 

[dorsetknob]

Another Xeon System for me acquired earlier this week
Duel P3 500Mhz on a Supermicro Super S2DGU
no PSU ( fitted a Spare 400w )
Changed the Mantrox (32mb) graphics card for an >>ATI<< Radon 9200 AGP x4
Boots and Runs Perfectly on win XP ( bugger only got 256Mb ECC Ram ) Would max out at 2 gig (512Mb x 4) if i had any (hint)

gonna try to overclock it to 750 Mhz before i remove it from case and Shelf it ( have plans for the Case ).

 

[GeoDragon]

Is it possible to game with Xeon X5650 and a 970gtx? What would the draw backs be from using this processor?

 

[Durvelle27]

Got some Xeon CPUS if anyone is looking to join the club or add to their collection.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Is it possible to game with Xeon X5650 and a 970gtx? What would the draw backs be from using this processor?

no draw backs.....

 

[GeoDragon]

no draw backs.....

Thank you.

They are from x3650 servers, so would the original MB be okay to use or should I switch to something (if so any suggestions)? I have a total of four of the processors - 6 cores each and I think they are 2.93ghz. also 96gbs ram, and looks like one pcie slot on the MB.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I would recommend an enthusiast level motherboard.....the cheapest and lowest spec X58 one i had was MSI Pro-E......O/C X 5650 to 4.2ghz.

How much do you have to spend?

 

[alucasa]

Keeping a close eye on this ES CPU. Going for it if Zen disappoints.

Cinebench score is 1500, about 15% lower than my E5-2683v3 and shitton cheaper.

E5 2650 V4 ES 12c/24t

 

[GeoDragon]

Depends if I want to still be married............ honestly would like it to stay on the low budget side since I will be building the case myself as well.

 

[cdawall]

Keeping a close eye on this ES CPU. Going for it if Zen disappoints.

Cinebench score is 1500, about 15% lower than my E5-2683v3 and shitton cheaper.

E5 2650 V4 ES 12c/24t

That's what I have

 

[alucasa]

That's what I have

Which mobo do you have for it?

 

[cdawall]

Which mobo do you have for it?

Asrock EPC612D4l