trodas Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I would like to share first impressions of using old Intel Xeon X5650 CPU in MSI X58 Pro-E mobo. First at all, the mobo and Xeon is really fool-proof. I was not sure, what base FSB set to boot, so from the 133 - 166 and 200MHz settings I picked the middle. But that X5650 should be run at 133x200 = 2660, not 166x20 But it works just like that... My first Memtest run on MSI X58 Pro-E: Hopefully you guys at least having at least good laugh. When I fixed the settings, I get 10 800MB/sec speeds w/o any tweaking or overclocking, but this first run was kind of fun I had to borrow ram from gaming computer for the testing, the triple channel kit is en route... Also is very surprising, how cold the CPU run. 32°C CPU temp? WTF... But chipset is heating up pretty well, time to remove the gum crap TIM and apply AS2 Since my rams are still on the route, so I was just toying with the mobo. WinXP refused to see my HDD, so I had to install Win7 32bit stripped down version, as I'm starting to navigate in the bios options http://valid.canardpc.com/jksvby SuperPi 1M run is 11.1 something sec, but that is nothing Earthshaking, as typical is 9sec: http://hwbot.org/benchmark/superpi_-_1m/rankings?hardwareTypeId=motherboard_22706&cores=#start=0#interval=20 But the multithreading is, where the Xeon shine: But gosh, this thing IS fast when come to threads! A good example is wPrime 1024M test it pass in 2min 33sec (3664MHz), while the i5 750, overclocked to 3578MHz (as much, as is possible to cool down relatively quietly), need 4min 41sec! http://hwbot.org/submission/2934743_ http://hwbot.org/submission/2587091_ And I did not even start to overclock the Xeon (okay, it is a bit overclocked, but that is nothing), much less use the triplechannel ram subsystem... heck, I did not even installed mainboard and GFX card drivers, lol... 12 threads owns on 6 cores. Yay for Xeon multicores performance :banana: :ws: People really should try these Xeons. Even that they are probably no match in single thread performance for some highly clocked i5/i7 CPU's, the multithreaded benchmarks is theirs arena :woot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basco Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) yeah these are nice cpu´s and it is fun to play with x58. did ya try to undervolt it or do you need 1,320volt for 3,6ghz ? some multis are more easy to oc Edited July 30, 2015 by basco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxbassplayerxx Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Chip should have no problem doing 4.5-4.7GHz through multithreaded benches with enough voltage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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