So is a 7 year old X58 system obsolete. Lets get some numbers and see.

[SystemViper]

time to start a new business.......

Yea the X58 debate is so tough, i have a Gig X58A-oc and one day I want to sell it and the next i
look at the board and it's so sweet, i just want to keep it with the x5650 i have. So for now i am
going to see if i could get 5ghz out of the chip..... and just see where it goes from there.

 

[EarthDog]

Good luck on 5Ghz... I hope you have some Dry Ice around to get there!

 

[cdawall]

Good luck on 5Ghz... I hope you have some Dry Ice around to get there!

Or a really strong ss

 

[EarthDog]

Exactly... it won't be done on ambient cooling... well maybe a single core CPUz grab...

 

[damric]

New Skylake i3 for comparison:

Single thread ^^

 

[R-T-B]

Probs not. Small team, big project.

Sounds like similar situations... We just have hardware disagreements but otherwise are pretty alike.

 

[Hokum]

My X58A-OC is currently rocking a X5550, running at 4Ghz, and I picked up a X5660 for £30 yesterday for some 6 core fun. Runs any game I throw at it and the GTX 770 at over 60fps at 1080p.

 

[silentbogo]

time to start a new business.......

Yea the X58 debate is so tough, i have a Gig X58A-oc and one day I want to sell it and the next i
look at the board and it's so sweet, i just want to keep it with the x5650 i have. So for now i am
going to see if i could get 5ghz out of the chip..... and just see where it goes from there.

Easy. On air:

http://hwbot.org/submission/3043343_silentbogo_cpu_frequency_xeon_x5650_5071_mhz

Got stable 4.7GHz with 6c/12t, but temps were a bit too high...

Also my old Rampage II GENE can handle my G.Skill Ripjaws almost as high as 2000MHz!

 

[SystemViper]

Or a really strong ss

I have a very sweet SS, need to dust it off, but i think i am going to start playing again.
I think it's time..... I look forward to seeing your pots back in action. hope you can make the PA overclocking festival

I'll be bringing the Orange (x58a-0c) plus a 775 mobo Gig UD3p that eats up quads and a Asus Maximux V Extreme plus a few more items.
Depending on when we get serious and start talking bout our goals and what we should bring and leave home.
I am looking forward to learning a lot but also just meeting all the people i have talked to for years,,,
it's going to be great.

I am also hoping that a few loudmouths show up, I would love to see them Face to Face,

BAM ! here comes some gold cups...

See you all there.

 

[SystemViper]

Easy. On air:

http://hwbot.org/submission/3043343_silentbogo_cpu_frequency_xeon_x5650_5071_mhz

Got stable 4.7GHz with 6c/12t, but temps were a bit too high...

Also my old Rampage II GENE can handle my G.Skill Ripjaws almost as high as 2000MHz!

That is a sweet Rampage II GENE, i built a system for a friend over 5 years ago with that board and a ES X5670, I know that soon I will be
getting it back with he upgrades,,,,

Those are some nice scores, and on air to boot, very sweet - 220 Bclock that is nice, you got a good one there.

thanks for the post.

 

[SystemViper]

My X58A-OC is currently rocking a X5550, running at 4Ghz, and I picked up a X5660 for £30 yesterday for some 6 core fun. Runs any game I throw at it and the GTX 770 at over 60fps at 1080p.

that is a great price for the X5650, you will love the chip.... But I WANT MORE,,, I AM LOOKING FOR SOMETHING A BIT HIGHER IN THE GHZ DEPARTMENT. oh yes i am yelling

 

[silentbogo]

that is a great price for the X5650, you will love the chip.... But I WANT MORE,,, I AM LOOKING FOR SOMETHING A BIT HIGHER IN THE GHZ DEPARTMENT. oh yes i am yelling

Like this one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...6544fd3&pid=100011&rk=1&rkt=2&sd=171658144633

 

[SystemViper]

no more like this one......

Intel Xeon X5690 6-Core 3.46GHz 12M 6.40GT/s CPU (SLBVX)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...855432?hash=item1c6386af88:g:MHoAAOSwHxVW7GU5

or maybe this because it's a lot cheaper.,...
Up for sale is a single X5680 processor, It is the 2nd best 6 core processor available for LGA1366 equivalent to an i7-980X,

So i can rock 5ghz on water...

 

[SystemViper]

whats the difference between a

Intel Xeon W3680 3.33GHz 12MB 6-Core and a
Intel Xeon X5680 3.33GHz ??????????

besides the price?

 

[silentbogo]

whats the difference between a

Intel Xeon W3680 3.33GHz 12MB 6-Core and a
Intel Xeon X5680 3.33GHz ??????????

besides the price?

QPI links + the amount of supported RAM.

W3680 is a workstation CPU (1 processor only, 24GB DDR3 max), while X5680 can work in dual-socket systems and have a shitton of RAM.

 

[dorsetknob]

also
Physical Address Extensions 36-bit W3680 max mem 24 gig
Physical Address Extensions 40-bit X5680 max mem 288 gig

 

[BigPaPaRu]

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7966021

 

[EarthDog]

I'll bite... why did you post a 3DM11 score with a 4790K in a thread talking about X58?

 

[vega22]

i would guess to show the 25% improvement made in ipc from x58 to x87 gen chips.

 

[EarthDog]

i would guess to show the 25% improvement made in ipc from x58 to x87 gen chips.

Good thinking...

where is the baseline to compare with the same GPU?

 

[SystemViper]

I;ll have to look and find that gpu with a good overclocked x58 to see the 25% improvement.

and i wonder how that translates to real world usage, you get 107 fps vs 85? on a 60hz monitor

 

[EarthDog]

Also, IIRC, 25% improvement was from Sandybridge to Skylake. This is X58 to Haswell... I am thinking its more than that.

Also, since its a modern benchmark, the results are skewed considering the CPU test in these go towards the total score. That same bump doens't translate to games...

Useless post is useless.

 

[silentbogo]

Also, IIRC, 25% improvement was from Sandybridge to Skylake. This is X58 to Haswell... I am thinking its more than that.

Well, since this 3DMark score is already posted, might as well use it for a bit of tricky and speculative math:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10459828

My X5650 @3.6GHz pulls an "overwhelming" 9291pts physics score, while his 4790K @ 4.6GHz does 12600pts.
If I overclock my CPU to 4.6GHz (which in my case is doable, but never tested in 3DMark 11), I should get a 27-something'ish % boost which in theory will translate into 11900pts score.
So, a quad-core Haswell vs hexa-core Westmere gives us somewhere around 25% improvement on per-core basis at the same frequency.

What's really impressive, is that single-core performance improvement is apparent even in the cheapest low-end Haswell CPUs.
Even my recently purchased Celeron G1840 (it was ~$25 used) is near 10% faster in single-core tasks than my X5650 at the same clocks.

 

[SystemViper]

Well, since this 3DMark score is already posted, might as well use it for a bit of tricky and speculative math:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10459828

My X5650 @3.6GHz pulls an "overwhelming" 9291pts physics score, while his 4790K @ 4.6GHz does 12600pts.
If I overclock my CPU to 4.6GHz (which in my case is doable, but never tested in 3DMark 11), I should get a 27-something'ish % boost which in theory will translate into 11900pts score.
So, a quad-core Haswell vs hexa-core Westmere gives us somewhere around 25% improvement on per-core basis at the same frequency.

What's really impressive, is that single-core performance improvement is apparent even in the cheapest low-end Haswell CPUs.
Even my recently purchased Celeron G1840 (it was ~$25 used) is near 10% faster in single-core tasks than my X5650 at the same clocks.

thanks for breaking that down, i am very interested in this conversation...

Very Interesting

 

[BigPaPaRu]

I'll bite... why did you post a 3DM11 score with a 4790K in a thread talking about X58?

Me?

I thought OP asked for results from newer systems to compare with his older system, so that was all I had avail and posted it.