Hiya all,
Got the deal of the century from work - a free Dell Precision T3500 workstation running a quad-core Intel Xeon E5520, 12GB RAM and an Nvidia Quadro FX580 and 2x 1 TB SATA HDD. Yay, lucky me!
Now I'm looking into swapping the quad-core Xeon with a hexa-core Xeon without spending extra bucks on cooling and PSU upgrade. These CPU's, especially the X56xx ones can be aggressive bitches with a TDP up to 130W, so with the stock PSU I'm trying to stay as low as possible with TDP values.
Upon browsing cpu-world.com I learned that the quad-core E5520 runs @2267 MHz with a TDP of 80 W.
The same cpu-world.com tells me that there is a hexa-core L5640 running @2267 MHz with a TDP of 60 W.
Methinks it would be a no-brainer and approx 15 bucks spent on the CPU and a tube of thermal paste with 15 minutes of my life spent on the swap and 12 threads, here we are. Eventually an L5645 would also be a good option too running @2400 MHz and TDP 60 W.
I want a stable system so no need in overclocking and as I said, no high TDP.
Would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
Cheers, Zoltan
Got the deal of the century from work - a free Dell Precision T3500 workstation running a quad-core Intel Xeon E5520, 12GB RAM and an Nvidia Quadro FX580 and 2x 1 TB SATA HDD. Yay, lucky me!
Now I'm looking into swapping the quad-core Xeon with a hexa-core Xeon without spending extra bucks on cooling and PSU upgrade. These CPU's, especially the X56xx ones can be aggressive bitches with a TDP up to 130W, so with the stock PSU I'm trying to stay as low as possible with TDP values.
Upon browsing cpu-world.com I learned that the quad-core E5520 runs @2267 MHz with a TDP of 80 W.
The same cpu-world.com tells me that there is a hexa-core L5640 running @2267 MHz with a TDP of 60 W.
Methinks it would be a no-brainer and approx 15 bucks spent on the CPU and a tube of thermal paste with 15 minutes of my life spent on the swap and 12 threads, here we are. Eventually an L5645 would also be a good option too running @2400 MHz and TDP 60 W.
I want a stable system so no need in overclocking and as I said, no high TDP.
Would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
Cheers, Zoltan
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