x5365 bottleneck ?

[Diarmuid2]

i have a dual x5365 xeon setup.
i am planning to but a high end gpu
will the cpus bottleneck a gtx 970/980?

 

[James Junior]

With the x5365 with it's stock speed, yes.The GPU will be bottlenecked by the speed of the processor.If you overclock the CPU to 4.2 or 4.5 GHz it will not be bottlenecking anything.

 

[Diarmuid2]

i couldn't find overclocking anywhere in the bios (s5000xvnsatar) is it even possible on this motherboard?

 

[James Junior]

i couldn't find overclocking anywhere in the bios (s5000xvnsatar) is it even possible on this motherboard?

This is a server grade motherboard, and I can't imagine any business or server overclocking their motherboards, so It's most likely not overclockable. The processor shouldn't be too bottlenecky for the GPU with a GTX 950 or 960.But the 980 is far too powerfull for this processor.

 

[James Junior]

P.S.There isn't a option for Overclocking in any motherboard." Overclocking" in a motherboard is called " Multiplyer" and option for Voltage.

 

[MU_Engineer]

i have a dual x5365 xeon setup.
i am planning to but a high end gpu
will the cpus bottleneck a gtx 970/980?

The best answer is that your CPUs should not cause your system to have unplayable framerates in most modern games. Your CPUs aren't the fastest any more but you have at least 4 cores so you should be perfectly fine. Your framerates at 1920x1080 and lower will be lower than guys running 4+ GHz chips but you have plenty enough CPU power to get 60 fps, which is really all you need. Above 1920x1080, your GPU starts to "bottleneck" your system to the point that at 4K, you will have trouble playing many games because you don't have enough GPU grunt, particularly with the GTX 970.

FYI, server motherboards are just about never able to be overclocked. Overclocking can reduce stability/reliability and does increase power consumption, both of which are anathema to actual server operators. The Intel "Skulltrail" D5400XS was the only LGA771 motherboard that stated it supported any kind of overclocking. You could very crudely and hackishly land-mod low-FSB-speed Xeons to overclock them via the BSEL mod but that was very limited and the resulting product was generally no faster than the fastest stock CPU anyway. The EVGA SR-2 was the only board able to overclock dual LGA1366 Xeons. Every Sandy Bridge and later is locked at the CPU level unless you get a very special unlocked engineering sample, which for Intel chips is RARE.