Xeon ==> QX9650

[Mir96TA]

I have decided to upgrade CPU from Xeon 3110 to QX9650.

MB is an EP45-UD3R pairing up with 2X2 DDR2 with 7970 GPU with 27' monitor with resolution 2560x1440.
Right now it has 1 TB WD black HDD; I may upgrade to SSD.
I dunno it was wise moment or not; but hopefully I would get extra last mileage out of this platform.
Hopefully it would be good enough for Battlefield 4 Diablo 3 NFS U Tube and able to play blue ray movies to U tube...........
and OS is Win7 64 pro I may upgrade to Win8 Pro 64.
BTW if somebody have a better advise I am all ears!

 

[BUnit1701]

Depends how much you had to pay for it, but with a little overclocking, it should be a good improvement.

 

[ChronoReverse]

I know for certain my Q9450 running at 3.4GHz was HEAVILY CPU-bottlenecked in BF3 (and BF4) even with a Radeon HD6950. I don't think even an overclocked QX9650 will improve it that much (let's say you get 4GHz out of it, that's less than 20% boost and won't be enough to play a 64 player server at all).

If you're paying for this, even an Ivy Bridge i3 matches up to the Core 2 Quads. It's been enough years that it's not really worth clinging to Core 2.

 

[Mir96TA]

I have paid $150 and I am going to run prob at Stock speed; I may increase FSB to 400Mhz..... but that's all.
I don't think I will play on internet....... I am a guy who play skirmish 30 to 45 mins .......... on local computer.....

 

[BUnit1701]

You will get slight improvement at stock, but if you are really wanting to run modern games, you should consider trying to overclock to at least 3.6Ghz. That is part of the beauty in having an Extreme Edition chip, unlocked multiplier makes the overclocking easy, not nearly as much stress on the motherboard as OCing via the FSB.

 

[sm625]

Back in the day they never really quantified what I call "FSB thrashing" but I imagine it would be pretty bad, especially since the northbridge also has to handle all DDR2 accesses as well. Lynnfield and newer also happen to have a PCIe controller onboard. The Q9650 also has to route all video card traffic through the northbridge. The idea that inter-die communication (Q9650 is actually two physical dies), RAM accesses, and video card accesses would all go over the same bus seems awfully bad in retrospect. Benchmarks have shown that increasing the FSB does absolutely nothing for performance

But the inherent latency of the architecture must be the limiting factor. And there's really no way to measure that.

 

[tweakboy]

Prey lol

 

[Mir96TA]

Installed it, it does feel snappy.
However stock Intel LGA 755 cooler can't keep below 70c core temps
Alarm keep going off at Full load.
I have Thermaltake CLW0217 Water 2.0 cooler. I bought for i5 3570 but I am going to use on this CPU. It seems to be this is the HOTEST CPU I have among other.
At this moment Hyper 212 Plus doing a remarkable job keeping i5 3570 and another CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055T keeping Cooled Just Fine.
Once I have proper cooling going then I am going to tested it.

 

[blipblop]

Good choice in processor. I have a QX9750 with the Hyper 212 Plus that I o/c to 3.6Ghz.

I think my next jump will be to a SSD. My system still works well paired with a 7850

 

[Yuriman]

I recently snagged this processor's socket 771 Xeon brother off of ebay for $5 shipped, but I'm waiting on a pin-mod sticker to get here before I install it ($9 shipped).

For what it's worth, even with the bus limitations these chips are still faster per clock than any Phenom chip.

 

[Ieat]

Could have probably got a i5 760 or i7 860 + board for $150. I would have gone with one of those. Or even a q9550/q9650 E0 stepping if you really wanted to keep the board. E0 stepping is superior to the older c0 stepping of the Qx9650.

 

[Torn Mind]

The Xeon E3110 is the equivalent of the E8400, a processor that is competitive with the current Ivy Bridge Celeron G1610. The matter of playing HD video is not a matter of CPU grunt lacking, but rather GPU grunt, as the G1610 or its predecessor, the G550, are both capable of playing 1080p video with no issue. Your system, with that 7970, should be already plenty capable of playing any HD video.

The Core 2 Quads have approximately similar performance to a current AMD A10/A8 GPU.

For a drop-in upgrade, it's not that bad though.

 

[Mir96TA]

Could have probably got a i5 760 or i7 860 + board for $150. I would have gone with one of those. Or even a q9550/q9650 E0 stepping if you really wanted to keep the board. E0 stepping is superior to the older c0 stepping of the Qx9650.

I couldn't found it any used for that price (Toronto)
Plus I had to get New MEM and Reinstall OS ....... to much
Way too much stuff to do.
I may upgrade to 240/256 SSD......

 

[tweakboy]

Youll have to OC it to 3.8Ghz ....... thats gonna get it really hot. Get suggested HSF

 

[aigomorla]

i have yet to see a QX9650 not get 4ghz....

So the first thing one should do is get a very good sink, because lga775 can put out almost 200W of pure heat when overclocked.

And then have fun tuning it to 4ghz or near...

I have had one of those chips... i also have a QX9770.
Both were excellent overclockers... but YMMV... because there is almost no such thing as 2 identical chips... almost...

 

[Mir96TA]

i have yet to see a QX9650 not get 4ghz....

So the first thing one should do is get a very good sink, because lga775 can put out almost 200W of pure heat when overclocked.

And then have fun tuning it to 4ghz or near...

I have had one of those chips... i also have a QX9770.
Both were excellent overclockers... but YMMV... because there is almost no such thing as 2 identical chips... almost...

I will be using Thermaltake CLW0217 Water 2.0 Extreme. This is my first Water Cooling at all. Its close loop and so called Maintenance free......... If I can 4 Gig out of it; I think then my investment in Water cooling is Paid off