Xeon E5-2670v1 Support for Asus P9X79 motherboard

[giftbasket]

I'm looking to upgrade my i7 3820 to the Xeon E5-2670v1 cpu, It says on the ASUS support site that only v2 of the cpu is supported.

But this guy is running my board + that cpu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr8HF5ID5XY

Any thoughts?

 

[bambiboom]

I'm looking to upgrade my i7 3820 to the Xeon E5-2670v1 cpu, It says on the ASUS support site that only v2 of the cpu is supported.

But this guy is running my board + that cpu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr8HF5ID5XY

Any thoughts?

giftbasket,

On Passmark Performance Test baselines, there are 11 systems with Xeon E5 2670 on Asus P9X79 motherboards plus one system using the v2.

Results appear to be very good: An E5-2670 (v1) / P9X79 system has the highest CPU mark of 14137 while the one v2 example scored 13573. The Passmark average score for the v1 is 12502 (18459 for dual CPU) so the ASUS P9X79 gives very good performance.

With the sudden appearance of hundreds of E5 2670's on the market, at $50-70, it's an amazing bargain. Do keep in mind that these are coming out of decommissioned servers.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

 

[Karsten75]

On Passmark Performance Test baselines, there are 11 systems with Xeon E5 2670 on Asus P9X79 motherboards plus one system using the v2.

Hey Bambiboom, can you please link or show me how to find the results you reference? That seems to be a handy way to search through Passmark, but I can't seem to find a way to search by processor and motherboard combinations. 🙁

 

[bambiboom]

On Passmark Performance Test baselines, there are 11 systems with Xeon E5 2670 on Asus P9X79 motherboards plus one system using the v2.

Hey Bambiboom, can you please link or show me how to find the results you reference? That seems to be a handy way to search through Passmark, but I can't seem to find a way to search by processor and motherboard combinations. 🙁

Karsten75,

I refer to the Passmark baselines often. To do Advanced Searches you need to install Passmark Performance Test (new version 9.0 in a month or so).

You can have a free, full function, 30-day trial and then buy for $27 :it's an incredibly good value. Then you can test your system and component to others by system rating, CPU, 2D, 3D, Memory, and Disk performance. If you're thinking of buying something, you can see how that component performance works with a particular CPU, motherboard, GPU, disk and so on. Enter each component by make and model into the search dialog box and set the search to sort in order of score for the part under consideration.

Passmark also publishes fantastic searchable charts for: CPU's, Graphics Cards, and Hard Drives

Passmark of course are relative ratings, but I think it's saved me 10X the cost or more by being able to understand the performance of each part and in systems. They have a lot of other specialized applications and even test hardware- sophisticated network analysis and so on.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

 

[Karsten75]

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I refer to the Passmark baselines often. To do Advanced Searches you need to install Passmark Performance Test (new version 9.0 in a month or so).

Thank you for a thorough reply, I actually have a paid V8 of Performance monitor. I guess I didn't spend enough time figuring out the user interface, so I didn't know I could do that.

I also am aware of the online results and use it frequently. Unfortunately I can't get the same data there as what you indicate I can get from the desktop application.

I will look into it a bit more. Thanks for your help.

 

[bambiboom]

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I refer to the Passmark baselines often. To do Advanced Searches you need to install Passmark Performance Test (new version 9.0 in a month or so).

Thank you for a thorough reply, I actually have a paid V8 of Performance monitor. I guess I didn't spend enough time figuring out the user interface, so I didn't know I could do that.

I also am aware of the online results and use it frequently. Unfortunately I can't get the same data there as what you indicate I can get from the desktop application.

I will look into it a bit more. Thanks for your help.

Karsten75,

To get the same parameters' data as mentioned use the CPU Mega Chart as this shows the average CPU rating, plus, single, threaded results, cost, power rating and a cost/performance parameter "Single Thread Value". The highest single-thread rating is the $350 i7-4790K 4-core at 2528 while than a Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 at $3645 has a single thread rating of 1924 so it's easy to see the comparable value to the use- the i7 will much better for gaming than the Xeon costing 10X as much, but the calculation rating of 22197 of the Xeon mean it will better at computation.that the i7 at 11204. It's also possible to see in the chart when sorted by single-threaded rating that for 3D CAD, a Xeon E5-1620 has about the same single-threaded performance as the E5-2698 v3. That is a $70 CPU on Ebay US, but then so is an E5-2670 8-core, so the core count and single-thread score of 1709 becomes the deciding factor. But, Passmark is providing all the information necessary.

If the CPU is dual configuration Xeon such as the E5-2670, it's necessary to go the searchable CPU Benchmarks page and the search will indicate the dual CPU list results for the target CPU.

So, a bit fussy, but the CPU information in combination with system baselines with motherboard and drive combinations allows thorough good cost /performance analysis.

Passmark is perfect except that the baselines don't indicate the drives connected in RAID configurations, only the type of RAID or the RAID controller is listed. Passmark says they have no way to detect the drives and are not keen on having the users list them.

Cheers,

BambiBoom