Xeon X5650 - Workstation Mobo

[Naganick]

Hello everyone,

I recently got my hands on 2 X5650's and I wanted to make a linux box, not having one.

Now I am running into a bit of a hick up finding a Motherboard that is not crushing my wallet.

I don't need it to be a Dual socket, I would prefer a single to be honest. I also have not seen any evidence that X58 chipset will or won't work.

Any recommendations will be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Vicey]

You have two of the CPU's but you only want to use one of them in a single socket motherboard?

But I can tell you this chip will work in an X58 board. Just make sure you get one of the later released X58 boards with the latest bios installed. Also I'd recommend you try to purchase a workstation class X58 board such as the P6T6 or P6T7 by Asus or a Supermicro board. These will be hard to find in shops new but you'll definitely find them floating on ebay.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Single CPU's will work on any X58 mobo dude, dual socket boards are few and far between though :/

 

[hackalive]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=853717&mpage=1&print=true

 

[SnW]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=853717&mpage=1&print=true

Not really sure what you mean with just this link,
but i don't think he want's to spend that kind of money on it,

nor to go dual socket, as he said in his first post..........

 

[Naganick]

Hey guys thanks for all the info, But i have recently been thinking about replacing my 2500k (its giving me a headache). So I would go with the Asus ws board, but do you think the X5650 would perform aswel if not better than a 2500k.

What I do:
Some gaming (LoL, SC2, some MMo)
Streaming
recording and editing
Some Photo Shop

Would this be a viable replacement for my 2500k?

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5650+@+2.67GHz

This shows that it would be "Faster" but in real world application what do you guys think?

 

[jamesriley94]

The way I look at CPU performance is core/core.

Helps me in any argument between Intel and Bulldozer...

the Xeon has 12 threads, whereas the 2500k has 4.
So with that in mind, on a program like benching where all cores are actually stressed, the Xeon only performs like 15% faster than the 2500k, while using 8 more threads...

Baring in mind games and most programs you'll use will only use 2/3 threads/cores you're probably better of with the 2500k for real world usage.

In editing and photoshop I'd guess the Xeon would possibly pull ahead - but it won't be a massive difference from the 2500k - and definitely not worth the cost IMO.

Depending on how much photoshop you're doing you may be better off with a 3770k...

But it's up to you really.

What exactly is the problem with your 2500k?

 

[Naganick]

To put is real straight forward, To much overclock.

It runs okay at stock sometimes boot looping prior to posting, at 3.3

Add any overclock BSOD...

I took it out today, and compared it to the xeon and a E8400, I can notice the outer contacts are darker than the inner ones.

Oh and there is a small whole in the top.

But it runs! (barely)

 

[ruairi.C]

if you already have the processors surely you should use atleast one anyway. I would imagine they help with streaming, editing although for reference Tom did say Vegas didn't care for more cores when rendering it liked it's 3960x but you have a 2500k so I can't confirm anything. Games like sc2/LoL are not a challenge at all to run so I can't imagine you'd be disappointed with any processor you choose really.

 

[Goldskis45]

Go on fleebay and look for used or "new old stock" supermicro boards. as long as you have no hopes whatsoever of overclocking their stuff rocks. I have 3 of their boards, love them.