Well CH, get yours put together yet? Inquiring minds want to know
I just set up a P6T Deluxe with an X5660, both bought off ebay. The thing won't post.
Is there anything special you're supposed to do like a BIOS flash to get it to work?
I've tried resetting the CMOS.
Hello my rig is this asus P6td deluxe with intel xeon l5639@3.9Ghz
Full load 100% all cores at AIDA64 stress test 63oC after 40 minsLooks good what kinda of temps are you getting water cooled at that overclock?
Others have also experienced the noises you hear, usually above 215bclk. I know you're happy with the L5639 (so was I), but selling it and getting the X5650 made me a LOT happier. You can lower buss speed and use 22X multiplier for much better performance, especially single thread. Cost me $15 to change chips and was well worth it. 12 threads rendering @4400 is FAST!
I m thinking this of buying x5650, but i'm also thinking sr-2 it's difficult to decide :hmm:
Keep in mind that the SR-2 generally doesn't hit anywhere near the BCLK of an X58 board. Realistically you're looking to hit somewhere in the 185-190 range.
The BIOS is also quite possibly the worst BIOS in history...
Insane values out of these chips! I should have kept my X58 board, lol.
i agree with you but i also thinking 2nd waterblock from ek 2nd radiator on the roof of stacker and a bigger pump and........messing with a difficult bios....overclockers heaven
I like overclocking as much as the next guy, probably more so (If I wrote down a list, I'd probably have 75% of the enthusiast "go-to" setups from 2001-on) but there's a difference between a challenge and a poorly-designed pain in the ass.
The SR-2 BIOS is squarely in the latter. There are a number of incompatabilities with certain bridged PCIe cards like the ASUS Xonar and the onboard NF200 plex which could be patched out in BIOS, and EVGA did for other X58 boards but failed to do so for the SR-2. Which IMO is both laughable and unacceptable for a board with a +$500 MSRP.
The memory multiplier settings are on par with the industry standard from the P4 era. It's nuts to be figuring out multipliers on one of these setups when every other OEM has gone to having the BIOS calculate the actual memory frequency based on ratio and current FSB. What's worse is that it doesn't even present ratios, it presents the memory frequency if the board were at stock FSB even if it isn't. Which is something I'd expect from an OEM board in an HP desktop. Not a +$500 enthusiast board.
/rant.
If you can line up a good deal on one, there is nothing else like it on the market. Pair it up with L5639s or X5650s and you will have untouchable price/performance assuming that you can utilize all those cores. It is truly a unique tool.
It's just unfortunate the tool is wrapped with rose stems instead of grip tape.
Been lazy and still haven't stuck the L5639 in the computer in the bedroom after I put the X5650 in here.
One of my Memorial Day things to do list finally, I think.
The nice part is these higher end ones keep dropping in price still atm.
Sorry for busting on ya a bit there Terry in one thread I think the other day, bit of difference of opinion maybe and happens.
Probably my bad and beer involved, but immaterial in this one anyways.
Hello,
Just out of curiousity, would an i5 2500k @ 4.0ghz be better or a Xeon X5650 @ 3.6ghz for rendering/productivity? How about gaming?
My dad does some heavy video editing/rendering, and he's been complaining that his dual Opteron 2354's haven't been cutting it due to the low clock speed. I've been reading this thread as a result.
If I were to get one, I wouldn't know if I would keep my i5 2500k, or if I would use the X5650.
I think the answer is no to SB.
Heavy video editing and rending likes many cores, even with the IPC improvements from SB to Westmere it won't make up for the 2 missing cores and the 400mhz clock speed advantage also won't make much of a difference.
Ask your dad what kinda of apps and maybe some of us can run some benchmarks so he you can see some numbers.
Does the X5650 overclocked run similarly to an i7 970 or something? It seems like it's still not as good as an i5 2500k for gaming, which is fine since I will be using the more gaming oriented processor. It's only if the X5650 ran better in games as well where I would be tempted to keep it for myself.
The strange thing is that his computer right now has 8 physical cores from the two 2354's in there right now, but he said that applications are still somewat slower.
I'll ask him what apps he uses when I get off work.
How's your I5 2500k do in Passmark, single thread? Mine runs close to an I7-3770 in single thread & smokes it everywhere else..
The Dual Opteron setup isn't impressive with a Passmark of 4243.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Opteron+2354&id=2031&cpuCount=2
A single OC Xeon 5650 turns 12,000+ (3X faster render)