best xeon for me

[spritbits]

i have a asrock g41c-r2.0 motherboard and im looking at upgradeing from a q9400 to x5460 becuase my cpu is dieing and i have a hyper t2 cooler just saying this is my main gaming pc ik its not good and im on a small budget im looking for somthing better then q9400 and i only got 50 dollars for cpu and a cooler

 

[4745454b]

Just get whatever quad fits in there. It's too old to be a serious gaming machine anymore, and it's not worth spending extra money on a bit of extra cache, etc. I honestly doubt you'll see any real difference between any C2Q clocked at ~3.6GHz.

 

[william p]

You didn't say if that MB supports overclocking or not. W/O OC I would stretch the budget for an X5470.

 

[g-unit1111]

You didn't say if that MB supports overclocking or not. W/O OC I would stretch the budget for an X5470.

I think the old Q9400 series can support overclocking, but considering the age of the CPU it still wouldn't give it enough of a speed boost for it to be viable against the 8700K or a Ryzen 2700X.

 

[4745454b]

For some reason he contacted me via PM, and I found out it takes an i5 750 to pass the Q9550 according to Anands bench. The lower i3s come close, but they remain a step behind. I know his budget it small and if it gets him going again then great. But I also the those Xeons on Amazon and the 5450 was a lot cheaper. (Might have the name wrong.) $15 for that CPU vs $50 for the 5460.

From what he's said I'm also not sure it's a CPU issue. In my experience boards fail before a CPU will. He talks about not being able to clock his Q9400 high, but it's a G41 board which aren't known for OCing. I'm also not sure I'd trust a G41 to power a 120W Xeon. I suspect there are issues here he hasn't considered.

 

[william p]

The Dell Optiplex 380 has a G41 chipset and accepts the 120 W Xeons just fine, but a 340MHz FSB wall is common with G41. So The Xeon may be as good as it gets. It's not uncommon for some newer CPUs the be cheaper, but requires a new MB and RAM to use them.
Here's the closest match I could find. X5470 are running there, and scoring 46% versus 39% for Q9550.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asrock-G41C-GS-R20/20243
It seems to suport both DDR2 or DDR3 RAM so whether his RAM can move forward or not could be inportant.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G41C-GS%20R2.0/

 

[4745454b]

There is a difference between powering it, and powering it well. Many people put the AMD 9590 on 970 and 990 boards. Not all of them were happy about it. Just because it claims it can do it doesn't mean it does it well. If this is his board, I don't see any S771 CPUs on the support list.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G41C-GS%20R2.0/index.asp#CPU

This one however says it will work fine.

https://www.delidded.com/lga-771-to-775-adapter/3/#asrock

I'm sure it's a case of not "officially" supported. In any case I do stand by my initial post. If this is a $10-15 buy that gets/keeps you going, go for it. If you are putting your entire spare money fund of $50 for this, I wouldn't. And I do question whether it's a CPU issue at all.

 

[william p]

OEMs never list LGA771 CPUs for LGA775 motherboards. It's a modification. They don't fit in the socket.
Since that MB supports Core2Extremes which are 130W CPUs a 120W Xeon shouldn't be an issue.

 

[4745454b]

That's what I've been trying to say however. There are 970 boards that claim to run the 9590, but it doesn't turn out well. Just because something claims to run it doesn't mean it does. I'm not sure how else to say this, perhaps I should just stop.

 

[william p]

That's why I posted a link to userbenchmark.com that shows them actually running on that MB.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asrock-G41C-GS-R20/20243

 

[4745454b]