Cpu motherboard compatibility

[Nefail Bushi]

What are the chances of Intel Xeon X5690 working with sabretooth x58.

 

[geofelt]

Same socket, but Xeon is not on the motherboard support list:
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

What are the chances of Intel Xeon X5690 working with sabretooth x58.

That CPU isn't compatible with your board according to the site.

 

[Nefail Bushi]

I know that it is not officially supported but i thought there might be a chance since it's the same socket.

 

[william p]

There are a bunch of them running here.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asus-SABERTOOTH-X58/2982
The ones scoring in the +80% range for CPU will all be +4GHz overclocks.
Like this one.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/9194617
Here is a thread on X58 Xeons.
https://www.overclock.net/forum/8-intel-general/1489955-official-x58-xeon-club-1427.html
They will know the specifics for running it on that MB. Generally X58 accepts all the 1 and 2 cpu LGA1366 Xeons, but the 6 cores may require a newer BIOS version.