Feel bad for AMD, but looks good for the old x58 systems come dx12 and more parallell com between system and api+3d engine. I am surprised how much lower the IPC AMD have / clock compared to even 6 year old Westmere cpus. When comparing it to the X5960, I think the result is quite surprising. Yes yes it is STOCK but still. This is a 2014 CPU at 600£ going up against at 60£ from 2010 /edit For the ones looking at the Vcore. CPU idles at 28 Celsius and loaded under IBT with 95% ram used (11gb) it tops out at 61 Celsius on the hottest core, with Tjmax at 87 Celsius iirc.
Your profile says 4.5ghz but yeah great CPUs and great upgrades for x58, must try that benchmark myself, didn't realise there was a comparison feature
It does 4.7 at 1.446 volts but I felt it was a bit much And your right I took it down from 4.55 since it needed 1.43, seem every 100 mhz is 80mv up once above 4 ghz.
Still going strong. I can get 4.5 out of mine at stock volts (1.375), but the thermals get a bit out of hand, really, especially with HT on. Now I run at 4 GHz undervolted to 1.25 ish.
Yah those 980x are quite a bit hotter from what I heard. But the unlocked multi should be handy IF you can cool the cpu enough to start reaching those high clocks using the multi. I tested a run at 4.708k ghz and single thread went up to 1687 and multi 10823, so I was up at same performance you get out of a 5930k and even beating it slightly. But thats on 1.456 volts which is quite high for a 24/7 setting when the cpu according to Intel has a max vcore of 1.35V /edit Kinda crazy though.. From stock 2.67 ghz to 4.708 ghz thats just crazy. 176% OC
It's ACTUALLY a W3680, not a 980X, but effectively the same chip otherwise. Still has the unlocked turbo multi, which is nice, and I can quite readily get the RAM running at 2133.
Yep, those X56xx are still a helluva nice chips. Have one X5675 at other rig running for years @ 4.6GHz since day one with HT on below custom WC, never bothered to go faster than 4.6. Together with Celeron 300A, few cherry picked C2Q Q6600, one fanastic i7-920 C0 capable for 4.2 HT, few i7-920 D0 and of course i7-2600K these X56xx are my favorite OC chips. Sadly my last one favorite OC'er from red team was K7 Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core Liar, my daughter is running at her HTPC one fantastic AMD K10 Sempron 140 unlocked to 2-core and OC'ed to 3.9GHz. Pretty nice speed bump for single core CPU running at stock 2.7GHz if you ask me
Not for nothing the general upgrade path of i7 users on the X58 platform were Xeons, was advised to me too before I built my new rig. Kick ass chips.
Just posted a new thread about results with my X5675. I'm definitely upset I didn't find out about these Xeons sooner!
x58 system is probably the system that live and stay relevant that longest, however after 7 years of owning this platform the time have come for me to say goodbye and move on to 6700K I was really tired by the slow single thread performance, but still very powerful overall even for today's standards.
