thining about going down to a lga 1366

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hello so currently my build is as follows

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3gtwTW

what i am looking at doing is going down to the 1366 platform, im looking at a xeon x5650 and an intel x58 board
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-DX58SO-Motherboard-Intel-X58-LGA-1366-ATX-Bulk-BLKDX58SO-No-accessories-/251851242979?hash=item3aa380fde3:g:7pYAAOSw7aBVFsX3 i can get this board and cpu for under 200 tonight with the coupons i have for ebay. then i can sell my current cpu motherboard combo for a 50 dollar profit. i do know that i will be giving up eufi bios, usb 3.0 and sata III, but im not too worried about these as the usb and sata can be added with pci cards if i even choose to do so. but is anyone else in agreement with this idea? the hexa core xeon overclocks easily and shows scores in multi threaded tasks competing with high end cpus coming out now. for those on 1366, does anyone have any suggestions for a different board to look for? it seems like this on is the most popular on ebay and is liked pretty well. on top of this im thinking about selling my dual channel kit of ram, then buying a quad channel kit and selling the 4th stick to accomplish tri channel memory, or i may just stick with dual channel, or take my chances with buying a single stick and hoping tri channel will work. on top of this im looking at getting a corsair hydro h105 or something along the lines to push this cpu even further, any suggestions on this? (definitely expecting a lot more disagreements due to going backwards in time as far as hardware goes)
 
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I guess the biggest question is why? What if you can sell your current cpu/mb for what you think? You mind end up getting less than 200. There is no guarantee that you will get a good chip for oc'ing and it's Intel brand board, not known for the oc'ing and max setting abilities.

Then adding water cooling, it's going to cost more than your current setup.

I guess I don't know why you really posted. If you're determined to do this, then do it. Anything we say like the point above aren't going to deter you.
 
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Yeah I get that there is no guarantee when it comes to what im going to get, but its pretty unlikely that i would lose money transferring to this, i was just looking to see if there were any other points that i may have missed that could keep me form doing this before I actually drop the money on it (as i have 25 dollars off anything on ebay tonight only) the intel board is actually the x58 chipset which overclocks those chips fine, the only thing with the newer xeons is that I wouldnt be able to overclock it, and my OC'd i5 comes close to a non overclocked i7 or its xeon counterpart. those x series xeons though are the only xeons that have an unlocked multiplier, not to mention 6 cores. I feel that as i can get the single core performance high enough for current games that cannot utilize many cores, it will be helpful down the line as more and more cores are being utilized, so even though its older, I feel it should be fine when it comes to gaming, and I also like to stream. As for watercooling, ive been wanted to get a closed loop cooler for quite some time, and if i were to upgrade to any newer processor i would almost definitely get one.
 
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I went hunting for some benchmarks for you and I must confess I was surprised how well those older 1366 CPUs hold up. For a point of comparison here's a 990X vs your 3570K: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/444?vs=701
Essentially the 990X is a higher clocked x5650.

Having said that, with your 290 I'm guessing you're a gamer? Understand that the Xeon will be a significant regression in gaming performance. The single threaded performance is lower. Is multithreaded performance that important to you? Are you streaming or video editing a lot? If you really care about multithreaded performance maybe looking out for a second hand 3770K which will drop in to your current build would be better? Still only four cores, but the higher IPC closes the gap, and the much improved single threaded performance makes it a better solution overall for most tasks.

I echo the question... why? What are you doing with the computer that those extra cores and threads are going to help? It's still surprising just how many even productivity/content creation tasks exist where single threaded performance is the key.
 
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$200 could get you a decent open loop water cooling setup to OC your CPU and GPU on a loop and get better performance all around with a real water cooler.

If you want to do it, go for it. Free world. Just don't see a point, you won't end up any better really, for a lot of work, including reinstalling Windows, and if it's an OEM version of Windows 7 and you're switching MB's, technically you have to buy a new copy as your old one won't activate.

Core's and speed aren't end all, be all, or else there would be no sense in newer chips. Each generation get's better and better performance for the same core's and cpu speed, so going kind of backward is going back in tech too.

Your call, have fun. If I have a working system, I don't tend to buy new parts and redo it all for no reason. Either dead MB or more performance.
 
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streaming is a pretty big factor. not much video editing, but im getting into audio production. but yeah with an overclock i can still get pretty damn good single core performance.

Core's and speed aren't end all, be all, or else there would be no sense in newer chips. Each generation get's better and better performance for the same core's and cpu speed, so going kind of backward is going back in tech too.
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Its not really much of a difference, im going from 22nm to 32nm
 
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