[faxxe]

Ahoy guys

I am working with the Socket 1366 since 6 years now, also because of my company.
Around 2 years ago i have made a Review in some German Forums and Intel Forums (unfortunately deleted, because they think its not good to support such an old platform)

So i will make it short.


The Socket 1366 was developed in 2005 and 2006, and published in 2006 as Engineering Samples and finally released in 2007.

There are 45nm lithography CPUs available like i7 920, i7 950, i7 xxx... and the mostly unknown 32nm CPUs like Xeon X5650 and Xeon E5620.


So why do i write that?
I want to show you guys that u can get a lot of performance for just a little bit of money.

The 32nm lithography is the same like Sandy Bridge (i5 2500k, i7 2600k)

To proof that all i made some small tests.
I built up several systems

My newest system at the moment can you guys see on the following photo

Its an Intel Xeon E5620 CPU @ 2,4GHz default clock, bought for 10$ and a MSI X58 Pro-E Motherboard for 80$
The RAM is a Kingston 4GB 1600MHz piece for 30 Dollars

So in total i paid around 110$ for the whole System


http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/at...818_180014.jpg

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The cooler was an EKL Brocken, nothing special, with thermal paste from China.


The second testing system is a system with ASUS P6X58D-E Motherboard, and Intel Xeon X5650 for 80 Dollars
So i paid 180 dollars for the Motherboard (i could also use the MSI one for 80$) and 80 Dollars for 80 Dollars and the RAM for 30 dollars

So in total 290 dollars or optionally 190 dollars

Note: The Xeon X5650 is a 6 core CPU, the E5620 a simple 4 core CPU like the i7 3770k or other mainstream CPUs

I will do some benchmarks and we will compare the CPUs to current ones to show you how good this old n rusty and cheap CPUs still are, and why they still are a secret in performance per dollar.

http://www11.pic-upload.de/08.09.15/shh17j3bbvwt.jpg

The max TDP of the Xeon X5650 @ 2,66GHz is 95W, and for the Xeon E5620 @2,4GHz its 80W
But if you can imagine these clocks are so low...

@2,4GHz i reach with the E5620 in the Cinebench Benchmark only 240 Points which is only as fast as a Pentium G3258@ Default clock




But i overclocked them... and see the comparison to other CPUs

Now @4GHz at all cores and 4,4GHz @ 1 core at max workload i reach around 622 points in the Cinebench and 133 points on a single core, which is as fast as an i7 3770k @3,8GHz



Thats nice isnt it? Such a good performance for only 110$? Or only 90$ without RAM, surprised?
Thats only a 4 core CPUs... lets check out the Xeon X5650 which is a 6 core CPU and only some dollars more expensive and quite cheaper than an i7 3770k

At a simple run @3,64GHz it is even faster than the i7 4790k @ 4GHz due to the 2 additional cores and the nigh Northbridge frequency

The total power consumption of those CPUs is with overclocking below 150W, which is less than an AMD FX 8350 for 50% more performance

http://www11.pic-upload.de/08.09.15/mohk8avzwlnx.png

Thats good isnt it?
Such a big performance for only little money.

Even though here a little overview over Cinebench R15 scores @ 4GHz



Here you see a little comparison to a Pentium 4 CPU





I hope you guys like it
If you have questions feel free to ask

[J0sh...]

Stop making threads that use massive pictures. If you want to use massive pictures, LINK THEM.
And a CPU won't make it powafulll!!! You need a GPU also.

[Kapersky™]

"So i will make it short."
really? it's bigger than sscanf's thread. Use links instead of direct pictures.

[faxxe]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kapersky™ "So i will make it short." really? it's bigger than sscanf's thread. Use links instead of direct pictures.

Yeah sorry will be fixed

@the other guy

Yeah GPU is important too but this topic is about CPUs

[Diabloa]

Intel Xeon E5620 is 10 dollars? What the heck? It's 190 euro in my country.

[Ritzy2K]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kapersky™ "So i will make it short." really? it's bigger than sscanf's thread. Use links instead of direct pictures.

No offence but i think having direct pictures is comfortable than clicking links.
It doesnt even matter in the end.

OT: interesting

[faxxe]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diabloa Intel Xeon E5620 is 10 dollars? What the heck? It's 190 euro in my country.

Here a cheap offer

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Intel-XEON-E5...item2a57371de7

[Emmet_]

There's been stories about fake PC products on eBay. For instance, GTX 650's turning out to be a 8800 GTS with different fans. I'd take caution OP.

[faxxe]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emmet_ There's been stories about fake PC products on eBay. For instance, GTX 650's turning out to be a 8800 GTS with different fans. I'd take caution OP.

Lol
I had around 20 Xeon CPUs for my servers and i bought all of them as used
No problems yet

[J0sh...]

Quote:

Originally Posted by faxxe Yeah sorry will be fixed @the other guy Yeah GPU is important too but this topic is about CPUs

Your topic title does not state that this is CPU only. "A lot of Power for little money? Gaming PCs for small budget.." sounds to me a build guide, not a overclocking guide.