My issue has to do with overclocking.
I currently have a Xeon X5670, my buddy who lives far away from me is willing to mail me his X5690 for a cheap price (i would then sell my X5670 at a profit)
Over all the base performance difference is not huge but large enough for me consider the upgrade...assuming it IS an upgrade after being OC's.
The passmark rating for the X5670 is about 8200 1350 single threaded and the x5690 is 9200 with 1500 single threaded (identical in multi and single threaded performance to the fx-8350).
That being said the X5690 is clocked at 3.47 ghz stock and 2.95ghz for the X5670, here is my dilemma.
I overclocked my X5670 to exactly 3.47 to match the baseclock of the X5690, however at the same clock speed yielded HIGHER performance for the X5670 which came in at 9600 on passmark CPU benchmark. Am I right in feeling that the X5670 should not be performing BETTER than the 5690 at the same clock speed? I'm wondering if this will affect over all over clocked performance, the X5690 will be OC'd to 4.3ghz permanently (same as my X5670 right now), but I'm actually nervous now that the X5690 will not yield better results and I am not convinced that the X5690 would give me a higher stable OC because it has a higher TDP.
Anyone have experience with both of these chips?
I currently have a Xeon X5670, my buddy who lives far away from me is willing to mail me his X5690 for a cheap price (i would then sell my X5670 at a profit)
Over all the base performance difference is not huge but large enough for me consider the upgrade...assuming it IS an upgrade after being OC's.
The passmark rating for the X5670 is about 8200 1350 single threaded and the x5690 is 9200 with 1500 single threaded (identical in multi and single threaded performance to the fx-8350).
That being said the X5690 is clocked at 3.47 ghz stock and 2.95ghz for the X5670, here is my dilemma.
I overclocked my X5670 to exactly 3.47 to match the baseclock of the X5690, however at the same clock speed yielded HIGHER performance for the X5670 which came in at 9600 on passmark CPU benchmark. Am I right in feeling that the X5670 should not be performing BETTER than the 5690 at the same clock speed? I'm wondering if this will affect over all over clocked performance, the X5690 will be OC'd to 4.3ghz permanently (same as my X5670 right now), but I'm actually nervous now that the X5690 will not yield better results and I am not convinced that the X5690 would give me a higher stable OC because it has a higher TDP.
Anyone have experience with both of these chips?
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