There is something wrong with my Intel Xeon L5410

TheEveryDayGuy

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I've bought a xeon l5410 after found out that it can be run on Socket 775 motherboard. After I updated the BIOS and physically modded the CPU socket. It did run , but there are some critical problem that made me have to switch back to my old Cpu, which is a pentium e6500k
First of all, the temperature, In the BIOS its looks fine (30-50 centigrade). But on Windows, Core Temp and MSI Afterburner reported that it was somewhat between 80 to 90 centigrade and it kept rising. That's not the only problem
In game , the performace is weaker, like , with my e6500k Overclocked to 3,8ghz run Dragon Nest at 35 fps-ish. but the xeon l5410 only peform around 20-25. Also all cores doesn't run at 100%, , well, on the e65k it get 80-85% all the time while running that but i think it should be better , since this game prefer cpu power. Maybe because of thermal throttling?
In Video encoding, It's better that that pentium, reduced the time from 25-30 min to 15-18 min, doing a 720p mp4 video.
Maybe the motherboard got problem? I'm running GA-G31-ES2L motherboard.
 
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The Xeon is a 2.33ghz chip with a weaker single core performance, You have to make a decision, Do you need 4 slower cores which do help with video rendering, some newer games, better multi tasking. Or do you take the dual core better single threaded performance which most games like, slower multi tasking, slower rendering.

You got trade offs, I remember my C2D E8400 was beating my C2Q 6600 in most games, but with how things today are becoming multi threaded and the desktop now is used for web browsing and simple stuff, I kept the Q6600 in the system. I don't use it anymore to be honest, I gave it to my grandmother, but the Q6600 just felt a bit more snappy then the E8400 on the same board on windows 10 anyway.
Single-thread performance of the E6500K is substantially better, particularly when overclocked to 3.8 GHz. Are you overclocking the Xeon? You can use Task Manager or CPU-Z to check if the Xeon runs at full speed while gaming, but I presume that it does since it's much better than the Pentium when encoding videos. The Xeon is a good choice for tasks that can take advantage of all threads, but it can't be as good for gaming where single-thread performance usually is important.
 
The Xeon is a 2.33ghz chip with a weaker single core performance, You have to make a decision, Do you need 4 slower cores which do help with video rendering, some newer games, better multi tasking. Or do you take the dual core better single threaded performance which most games like, slower multi tasking, slower rendering.

You got trade offs, I remember my C2D E8400 was beating my C2Q 6600 in most games, but with how things today are becoming multi threaded and the desktop now is used for web browsing and simple stuff, I kept the Q6600 in the system. I don't use it anymore to be honest, I gave it to my grandmother, but the Q6600 just felt a bit more snappy then the E8400 on the same board on windows 10 anyway.
 
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