[SOLVED] Xeon for Asus P6T Motherboard?

[ManOfArc]

What are some of the better CPUs that will work for this Asus P6T Motherboard for gaming and for productivity work? It has an i7-950 in it now. I'd like to put a 6C/12T Xeon in it but the CPU support list doesn't show any Xeons. (?)
The board has the latest BIOS that Asus released for it (1408).

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

Core i7 Extreme Edition 990X is the highest listed for the motherboard. On this page the xeon cpus that may work with your board are listed. I would look up each xeon cpu with your motherboard and see if people are using them. I have seen some posts that say they do work. http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/P6T_Deluxe_V2.html

 

[gggplaya]

What are some of the better CPUs that will work for this Asus P6T Motherboard for gaming and for productivity work? It has an i7-950 in it now. I'd like to put a 6C/12T Xeon in it but the CPU support list doesn't show any Xeons. (?)
The board has the latest BIOS that Asus released for it (1408).

I have the similar ASUS ROG Rampage II with the X58 chipset. I had a core i7 920 when I bought it brand new and upgraded it to the X5650. Works well for my needs, video encoding. But for gaming I would get the one with the highest clock speed possible, which are the X5680 and X5690. They're not terribly expensive, like $60-$90 on ebay. But you aren't really going to notice much of a difference unless you start fully loading 4 cores and your program needs more. You will notice it for video encoding and things like that.

 

[gggplaya]

However, if you live near a microcenter, you can buy a Ryzen 1600 brand new for $80, and a A320 motherboard for $20 when you bundle it with the processor. That's $100, the problem is then you need DDDr4 memory, which costs another $40 for an 8GB stick. All your other parts transfer over, but the ryzen 1600 has about 30% more performance than the 5680 due to a slightly higher clock speed and better IPC then 1st gen Intel Core parts. The ryzen processor will run much much cooler and allow you to upgrade in the future.
https://www.microcenter.com/product...-am4-boxed-processor-with-wraith-spire-cooler

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

However, if you live near a microcenter, you can buy a Ryzen 1600 brand new for $80, and a A320 motherboard for $20 when you bundle it with the processor. That's $100, the problem is then you need DDDr4 memory, which costs another $40 for an 8GB stick. All your other parts transfer over, but the ryzen 1600 has about 30% more performance than the 5680 due to a slightly higher clock speed and better IPC then 1st gen Intel Core parts. The ryzen processor will run much much cooler and allow you to upgrade in the future.
https://www.microcenter.com/product...-am4-boxed-processor-with-wraith-spire-cooler

Why more people don't jump[ on the AMD wagon is beyond me. There is so much value to performance there. You have a good Idea for him. I would go with what you say, its just cheaper to go with that than try to use old system.

 

[ManOfArc]

Core i7 Extreme Edition 990X is the highest listed for the motherboard. On this page the xeon cpus that may work with your board are listed. I would look up each xeon cpu with your motherboard and see if people are using them. I have seen some posts that say they do work. http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/P6T_Deluxe_V2.html

Unfortunately, I have the plain vanilla Asus P6T. The Asus P6T V2 Deluxe listed above might have different micro code updates to its BIOS. So far I haven't found any searches showing the plain P6T using a Xeon, but I'll keep looking. Thanks.

 

[ManOfArc]

Can I ask a related question? What would be the best graphics card to run with the i7-950? I don't mind wasting a little money on bottleneck if it gives me the best graphics. I do mostly single-player gaming anyway.