GOAT CPU

I'm still running q9550.

>>62424027
>He fell for the i7 meme.

>>62424027
>goat?

>>62424027
Nah senpai, X5670

>>62424066
>>>/reddit/

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>>62424027
>not an i7 950

>>62424027
who else 1600 1600x master race

i7 960 here!!!

>First generation
It was trash. C2Q and sandyvag are the only ones who get to make these threads.

>>62424027
Just upgraded, same socket, went from i7 920 @3.33 to a w3680 @4.00. Geekbench multi shot from ~11k to ~17k. I'm very pleased, and all on a near decade old chipset.

I'm still using a 3570k and I fear the day my MOBO dies since I will be forced to build a entire new computer around it

nope Ryzen 1700 here.

>>62424947
It's not that bad. All you need to swap out is the CPU, motherboard and RAM. Just hope that DDR4 prices are less absurd when you finally upgrade.

>>62424027
I have a 960 sitting unused in a P6X58D-E behind me.
No idea what to use it for.

>>62424998
>CPU, motherboard and RAM.

Well thats 400€ right there

771 to 775 mod using an xeon e5450 clocked at 4.2GHz on an asus p5q motherboard

>>62424998
Not him but I'm also rocking a 3570k, I feel like I'll go amd next round simply because they actually keep sockets forever, so if the mobo dies I'm not fucked anally and forced to buy a shittier motherboard than I'm using that'd be (as a result of intel being all "every new cpu line has a new socket") secondhand and would last who knows how long let alone know if it was working or not.

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Get a cheap x5650 famalam

Update bios and overclock, its ez

>>62425752
Hard to find a MOBO able to run the xeons

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Q9400 !

>>62425862
It should work on most boards

>>62425871
what the fuck

>>62424027
>intel
>ever

>>62424830
R7 1700 reporting in. How does that make you feel?

2500k all day erry day

Had a i7 920, upgraded to x5680, overclocked to 4.2GHz, and upgraded my RAM to 24GB 1600MHz.
>mfw it can support a 1080ti now
>mfw I will probably buy one
>mfw the PC is almost 10 years old

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960 master race reporting in

>>62424947
Just replaced a 3570K with an 1800x. Holy shit the Ryzen is a fucking beast for $350.

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>>62424027

i7-2600k here

>>62424027
I am

my 920 is chugging away happily overclocked at 4.4Ghz since release

still see no reason the upgrade.

So top end i7 from 2010 are still good today even for semi intensive tasks? I might as well buy an old workstation for cheap then

>>62426615
Only if you overclock which a old workstation probably can't do

>>62426615
*Mar/09 Gulftown

>>62426467

but IPC performance is exactly the same, you literally upgraded only for more multiple cores that have same speed of 3570k

>>62426640
Well, yeah, that's the general idea. More , faster, better, etc

My 3570 still works great.
Waiting until either the mobo or CPU dies so I get a whole new PC, but I have
a Gigalel mobo, so I bet the i5 will blow up first

>>62426986
I got a 920, and a Gigalel ex58-ds4
Gonna take that baby to 4GhZ
Wish me luck

>>62426640
That's bullshit though. Ryzen has better IPC than Ivy Bridge. Sure, actual single-threaded performance might be pretty similar if you had a 3570K at 4.6GHz or something, but you're also gaining 12 threads and DDR4 speeds on top of that, along with a healthy future upgrade path. Overall performance is completely uncomparable, unless you're planning to wank to single-threaded benchmarks or play World of Warcraft.

i7-920 @ 3.8 least till zen 2 or maybe coffee lake if it isnt shit

i5 750 here, zen+ might be my next procesor unless intel steps up, unlikely

Another i7 920 here. It's actually my second. I started with the first C0 revision and then switched to D0 about a year later. Kept it at 3.8Ghz on air, but it's been running stock for about a year now, as I barely use my computer anymore. Don't plan on updating in the next year or two. Fuck UEFI and fuck all the botneted new hardware.

>>62424027
I sold my 920 an upgraded to a 980x.

i7 870 here. waiting for 7nm Zen2

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>>62428061
>Ryzen has better IPC than Ivy Bridge

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>>62424027
>tfw i bought an unlocked skylake i7 without any intention to overclock it

BREAKING THE LAW

HI i7 980X here, still at 20% in game, with 24GB ram. but i only have pcie gen 2

that isn't the 2500k ?

>>62429443
Hello rajeesh.

I still have an 8320

Poorfag with an i3 530 here.
Should I upgrade to a Xeon x3430? It's 10 bucks at aliexpress.

>>62424027
Still the best microcenter purchase I've ever made. Handles everything I need it to handle with zero problems.

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UMA DELICIA.

>>62426467
>Being surprised that a $200 CPU from years ago is slower than a modern $350 CPU

>>62426550
This, though I can only get 4.0 out of mine. Runs like a dream. Whole system is still in great shape too. Only thing I've replaced in a decade of use was the PSU to get a quieter more efficient model.

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>>62425722
>phenom 2 died this jan
>update bios with old athlon
>slot a fx8320 right in there
>preforms worse in every scenario to the phenom
>stutters constantly
>mfw
thank fuck i got a deal on a 6700k before prices went batshit

>>62430028
No

>>62430028
$10? Go for it.

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Who /house fire/ here?

>just upgraded to a sandy bridge i5
>my gaming rig is an old 2008 laptop Core 2 Duo

>>62424054
>he fell for the he fell for the meme

>>62430347
>being unable to read

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>>62426404
>1080ti
nah senpai even a 1070 is bottlenecked by the poor single core performance
still 10/10 platform best I've owned. Probably will go Zen2 next

>>62426174
1800x here
Whats it like to buy a low bin chip?

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>>62424027
Electricity is an expensive way to heat your house here, so I use other methods.

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>>62432360
also managed to push it to 4.6GHz on air kek
did not want to run it at those voltages 24/7 though

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oh shit son, i7 920 reporting in

or so I would say, but I actually replaced it for a Xeon X5680 earlier this year, overclocks higher and dem 6 cores 12 threads. 1600 dollars cpu for $80 on ebay lol

>mfw brainlets "upgrading" from glorious 1366 to faillake and assripper

dont mind me just running all modern games while training DNNs and encoding h.256

I retired my 920 in favor of an X5677 and haven't looked back. The 920 is an oven in comparison.

Might hop over to that X5690 life, though.

>>62424027
Yup, still using mine. Though really disappointed that the motherboard doesn't support GPU passthrough.

Thinking of upgrading to a Ryzen or ThreadRipper, but I don't really need it. I haven't even been running my i7 overclocked

>>62430266
AI LIMÃO

I just threw an SSD in an old Dell prebuilt with a 920 in it. The thing runs better than new. Lovely chip.

>>62424027
i7 970 here. Don't see a reason to upgrade anytime soon

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>>62424027
Got 920 + 10 = 930

Will Xenon run on X58 motherboard?

>>62433457
Nevermind it looks like X58 may with update but I'm not really going to get a Xenon.

>>62433457
Got the same chip as you, anon. Planning to OC to 4.0GHz this week. Just bought some new case fans and arctic silver thermal paste to help with cooling. Just going to OC it cause I'm gonna get a GTX 1070 next month. Otherwise I wouldn't overclock because I'm perfectly satisfied with its performance and see literally no reason to upgrade other than pure consumerism.

>>62431268
>could afford two flagship gpus and a flagship CPU
>in one of the best and most expensive cases
>hasn't upgraded in 7 years

anon what the fuck are you doing did all your cash run out?

>>62424066
lurk moar newfag

>>62433947
Upgrade for what though? Modern video gaymes are trash, so unless he needs a system for heavy rendering work or something, it's pointless.

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>>62434054
if there's even one video game he enjoys from the past 2 years that is in any way GPU intensive he would be served well with an upgrade to even a single 970 or 480. Most people wouldn't shell out the cash for two flagship gpus if they didn't enjoy videogames or render.
the CPU, while serviceable, would be a good upgrade as well if he does any productivity at all. The upgrade from nehalem to SB was non-negligible, and while the jump from SB to the lake-series CPUs the progress was slow there has been at the very least enough to justify an upgrade to ryzen or the upcoming coffee lake.
At least he has an SSD in there.

>>62434155
Name one (1) video gayme from the past five years worth playing.

>>62434171
The most demanding one I can think of if you enjoy western rpgs is the witcher 3. Shooterwise I actually liked battlefield 4 once all the DLC was out and cheap as shit, even if the core gameplay isn't as good as battlefield 2 it's a fun game.
Also insurgency but the 480's wouldn't struggle too hard with that I'd hope.
Some people like GTA V. I don't but whatever.
MMOshitters seem to like FFXIV.

Personally I'm just waiting on a fucking PC port of dragon's crown. Most fun I've had in a game in a long time was on the PS3 and I'm just hoping that I can play it at 4k or some shit in the future.

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>>62425862
you use a sticker and slice the plastic fingers off a 775 socket.
>>62428061
does it though?

>>62434282
I can play all of that on a GTX 460, no bullshit. Although witcher 3 I had to put textures on low due to only 1gb vram and other details on medium, but I play bf4 all the time on high and it runs fine at 40+ fps, and same thing for GTA V, medium to high settings and consistent 40 fps. I bet he would be even better than me on a 480 SLI.
I'm >>62433938 btw

>>62424027
[email protected] master race here

Can you guys play 1080p60 videos smoothly with software decoding?

930 @4.1ghz here
I could probably bump it higher but my RAM is shit and can't keep up.

>>62434656
What are your temps? What RAM do you have? Is 3x4gb 1333mhz bad if I OC the same chip to 4.0 GHz?

got a Q6600 chilling on my desk
hasn't been used since 2014 when i upgraded to a 4790k

>>62434601
GTA V is remarkably well optimized for GPUs and tends to be more CPU bottlenecked. I recently upgraded from a sandybridge i5 system with a radeon 6950 to a 250 dollar r9 fury and ryzen. While the difference in framerate was pretty huge even with the now maxed settings in most games, the biggest difference was in how smooth things played. This should be the same in any modern quad or hexcore, a jump from the 975 would be huge even with the two 480s.

>>62434588
>does it though?

Yes.

>>62434751
>a jump from the 975 would be huge even with the two 480s
Of course it would, I just thought you were thinking his setup wouldn't handle those games, and gave my machine as an example even though it's weaker.

>>62434814
If that was what I was saying you'd be correct. However I'm really just trying to argue that the huge difference in experience would be worth the upgrade, even to maxwell/ rx480 range. SLI introduces microstutters and is being slowly being phased out by nvidia.
I'm also assuming he has some cash due to the extreme enthusiast nature of the build/generation it was built in.

>>62434732
I haven't checked my temps in a while, I think it's 40 idle and high 70's under continuous 100% load.

Specifically I have this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3R92648
24GB's because that's the max the board actually supports, my manual says
>stem Memory support
Supports triple channel JEDEC DDR3-1333. Officially supports up to
12GBs of DDR3 memory.
so I'm pushing it.

So maybe I shouldn't blame the dimms.

I used to have these
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231247
and I remember pushing to 4.4 easy.

but I run a lot of VMs and shit so I need the space over the speed, I can cope with a 400mhz loss.

>>62434732
>>62434909
Oh I forgot the important bit, I have an h50 cooler, not stock air.

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I picked up a i7 860 workstation for $65. Added $10 HD 6870 to it to make it into a midrange rig. Not bad.

>>62424027
I'm using an i7 930

I bought a xeon for like $100 to replace it, and it's been sitting on my desk for about 2 months

>>62424066
it means Greatest Of All Time

>>62424751
is that pic satire

>>62433938
>>62433457

i'm >>62435057

and the highest OC I could hit was 3.6GHz stable

>>62430451
it actually does not "perform worse in every scenario"
Did you try turning your PC on?

>>62432665
Sush, don't let people know about the xeon secret.
3-4 year old business chips are the way to go. Plentiful and cheap as fuck while blowing out many consumer level chips of today.

Same is true for laptops. Always buy 3 year old Dell/Lenovo business laptops, they're cheap as fuck and are more robust then anything you can buy new for the same price.

>>62434909
>>62434928
Interesting. Funny how you could put more RAM on the mobo than the manufacturer said it actually supports. Your temps are good, but since I'm on air I don't think I'll be able to OC to much more than 3.5 or 4 GHz even though it's an aftermarket cooler.

>>62435085
I thought so. Are you on air? What temps are you getting? Did you have to mess with the voltage?

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>>62424027
It is still doing a very good job for the things I need: watching pornhub while compiling c++ code
Sometimes I convert RAW pictures to JPEG - things work better since I overclocked it.
This thing is also quite durable: the PSU and 2 RAM DIMMs have failed (decreasing from 24 Gigs to 16 Gigs) and it is still running flawlessly

I kind of want want to replace it with a Theadripper because more cores
> falls for LGA 1366 meme
> falls for the more cores meme
I do not even want to learn from my mistakes.

>>62435124
I would upgrade to a sandy bridge version but I have a shit tier p67 msi board which I managed to brick using their liveupdate bios software. Can't even get into the bios to flash it and the chip is soldered onto the board so replacing it is out of my skill level considering I don't own an iron.
>updating the bios from the desktop, ever
I know, I learned the hard way. I just wanted to use a modern gfx card.

>>62435125
I'm on air, using a noctua cooler, my temps are decent it's just crashing that was the issue for me

>>62435125
I spent an autisticly long amount of time adjusting my voltages to attain good temps. vdroop/loadline was the biggest influence in my experience.

I forget how I came to the conclusion 24GB would work, I think since on the x58 platform the memory is handled on the CPU not the mobo and I checked something on ARK.

>>62429896
This. 6 approaching 7 years old, and still going strong.

When it does eventually die, I'll wipe the thermal paste off, frame it, and hang it on my mantle top.

>>62424027
>tfw q6600
>tfw too poor to buy a new computer

>>62435229
turn it into a necklace and become a computer component themed jeweler

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>>62425862
Westmere will work on most x58 motherboards provided the bios is up to date. The only board that will not work I can think of is the EVGA x58 SLI. That issue is limited only to early revisions of the board, and can easily be circumvented with a relatively simple hard mod.

The issue isn't that they're hard to come by, it's that they're still kind of expensive. But if you consider what you get with a $100-150 motherboard paired with a $20 x5650, or a $45 x5675 overclocked to the hilt. It's really a pretty damn good deal. Especially if you get a board that supports dirt cheap ECC memory.

>>62433457
If you have the black/gray model with the fin stack on the vrms and fan chipset cooler you will require the mod. I did it on that exact board and was able to effortlessly hit 3.84ghz before I felt the cooling wasn't adequate for more.

>>62434588
They're talking about LGA 1366, not 775.

i7-860 @ stock reporting in

>>62424027
My relative has a Dell PC that's like 5 years old with a 920 i7. I fixed it after their harddrive shit the bed. Nice machine all in all.

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>>62425752
>>62434588
ayy my xeon bros

>>62435193
I see. Looks like you weren't very lucky then, the chip has great overclocking potential, some people even go past 4ghz.

>>62435216
Kek. Sounds just like what I did to my GPU. I've spent hours adjusting the voltages and core clocks to get the best temp/performance possible.

>>62436208
>Looks like you weren't very lucky then

basically

I'm also an OCing noob so I might have done some tweaking wrong

>>62434588
103*41 is 4.2GHz you faget. And a ryzen 4core@4GHz gets more than 620 pointer with new agesa. Nt

>>62431455
> he fell for the he fell for the he fell for the meme

>>62436278
it's not about luck though - these xeon chips are already the highest binned, the chance to get a turd is basically zero
you need to have a methodical approach if you want to get the most out of your chip.
you must at least isolate max bclk, mult, mem freq
might as well throw a dice if you don't.

if you do it the autistic way you'll truly know what your chip is capable of
see:
>>62432405

i5 750 @ 3.2 here
stock cooling
hangs out ~60c during 95% of the games i play
newly added 1050ti uses at minimum 1/3 of the power draw from my 5850@100% fans, always.

I'd buy an i7 that works with P55 socket any day if it were a deal though.

>>62436391
>xeon

I'm talking about my i7 930

my Xeon is sitting in bubble wrap atm

>>62436416
don't bother with the i7s, they get way too hot for high oc (except for the 980x, that's basically a xeon)
the xeons you can beat the shit out of as long as you don't go too hard on vcore, super fun to oc

>>62436455
most people can OC theirs to 4.0GHz and like I said I got 3.6

>>62436293
i5 3550 can only do x39 all cores. that's +4 from 3.5 all core turbo. + his bclk is 4044mhz.

620/580 is only ~7% so maybe haswell/broadwell, my 4690 does 599 at 3.7 all cores.

Rocking a 4770 in my main rig, 3770 in my gfs rig at my house, and a 2600 as a tertiary lan rig. All mostly free with garbage parts from my work. Also have an A8-6600K and A8 (10?) 7890K I threw together to drive a big tv in my room and computer I use at my gfs house. It will be years before I actually buy a new processor but I do like to get a new mid range gpu every other when.

>>62430451
Why would amd release bulldozer if they knew it was bad? I have an 1100T and it runs circles around the FX8350. Why didn't they just shrink thuban down some more and gise us 8 real cores instead? Hell AM3 could theoretically support 12 core 32nm chips on the die, why didn't they do that instead?

>>62436605
I read up on this at some point. They hedged all their bets on servers requiring integer performance, and phenom was already LONG past being salvageable. It needed a new memory controller and a new cache controller, and had been in place for much too long. Die shrink was not an option.

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>>62424027
Yep i am 920 pic related... 30% overclock stable for close to a decade... best purchase ever (that 6gig of tripple channel ram ripped me off)

>>62424900
w680 eh ? nice i was wondering what a good swap would be with the 2nd hand xeon meme

>>62426550
4.4GHZ ? what sorcery is that ? @ 3.3ghz mine crosses to the 90's with all cores doing flac transcodes

>>62429219
3.8ghz... more sensible what cooler ?

>>62429310
yep very little reason to change... damn 2010 was great tech... 920... iphone 4

>>62432665
yep nice... use mine to get shit done too... encoding was painful before the i7 series

>>62432776
more xeon suggestions ... thanks

>>62433938
again 4ghz how ?

>>62435229
>>62435341
i kissed my 920 and said a quiet prayer when i first dropped it in my mobo 7 years ago... will mount it in glass or something when that day comes

>>62424027
Core 2 Due with libreboot on the board, son. No ME up in my ass backdooring my shit.

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I was losing faith in /g/ but this thread makes me happy. 920 & X5650 checking in.

>>62424027
yup, but should probably get a SSD though

Still have an i7 920 that I'm using as a server. It's got a Dell OEM motherboard tho, so no overclocking. Works well for server related stuff like game servers and transcoding.

>>62432390
1950x here u all succ