I was going to upgrade to i7 4770k and z97 board because I was sick of the lag in beamng with T series, but I did some research and found out I could actually keep my old x58 board and just upgrade the CPU from my i7 920 to a Xeon 6 core cpu and get nearly the same results (for cpu performance at least) On passmark it seemed like the Xeon 5690 benched to 90% of the performance a 4770k did, so saving more than half my money on this simple upgrade was a good idea. I haven't found anyone who is actually using the Xeon 5690 , but I've seen people use the 5670 so I took a chance and got the 5690 and it turned out great. Cpu runs really well, and finally I am able to run multiple T series and anything else I want (with exception of the big trailers in the truck mod) in beam without any lag, which is amazing. I haven't tried a bunch of vehicles yet, just 3 so far but I"ll run the banana benchmark and see how it goes. I bought a Noctua D15 as well, but don't have the correct mounting kit yet for my old hardware, so waiting on that. So far running factory clock speeds without any OC until I get the noctua cooler on it. I think I can get the truck and trailer mod to run without lag with some OC'ing. We'll see. (imported from here) (imported from here) (imported from here) (imported from here) just figured I'de share, I know the x58 chipsets are ancient but im sure some people here use them. - - - Updated - - - (imported from here)
It's still better with having 2 additional cores and ~800 more Mhz... Also not everyone likes to overclock.
Yea I understand that about the multipliers, im not looking to do anything crazy. I'm pretty happy with it as is, less money on this bs means more money for car parts
I know the x99 series parts have proven severely unstable with just a 10% increase on base clocks. Dunno about the older x58.
