April 4, 20179 yr Hey Guys, These forms are awesome to find the right 'parts' that work very well. In the past I bought the LSI card and HD bays, all working flawlessly. Now I'm back with a question on what processor to replace my existing Core i7 920 with. It's a LGA-1366 running on an Intel board. Reason I want to upgrade it is to get my VMs to function without throwing NMI issues. Not sure where the issue is, tried all I could but could not figure it out. Is this a good bang for the buck? Cost is around $50 (approx). I don't mind spending more to get a good Hex core processor if one exists, and is also lower TDP. Intel Xeon X5650 CPU 2.66GHz 12MB 6.4GT/s Hexa 6 Core Server Processor SLBV3 All ears. Thanks in advance. Daze
April 4, 20179 yr Are you certain your motherboard can take this CPU? If so its a good trade up to be sure.
April 4, 20179 yr I know some older 1366 boards that we built for the first generation i7's could also take a select number of xeon models, check the manufacturers website, you may be in luck and just need a BIOS update.
April 4, 20179 yr Author According to the Amazon listing, it works on the Intel motherboard and general Google search, the CPU works with a similar board called the Intel DX58SO. My motherboard is DX58OG. From Intel's website, the BIOS is the same for DX58SO2 and my motherboard. So its a crapshoot. If I could just get unRAID to spin up VMs without the NMI silliness, I'd be fine with this CPU. I know my Core i7 920 doesn't have VT-d (for IOMMU), but I see the passthrough options listed for the nVidia GPU I have. But it doesn't work. Wondering why IOMMU would be listed if it isn't supported and if that is the cause of the VM problems?
April 4, 20179 yr Author So I was able to find a report of someone getting this processor and DX58OG working (even over clocked, which I won't do). So I pulled the trigger. Definitely a crapshoot, but hey, should be interesting.
April 4, 20179 yr Here is a list of all the processors compatible with your board, there is one quad and one hex core Xeon in the list, however they are older models. http://processormatch.intel.com/Processors/CompatibleProcessors?componentName=dx58og
April 4, 20179 yr Author 17 minutes ago, ashman70 said: Here is a list of all the processors compatible with your board, there is one quad and one hex core Xeon in the list, however they are older models. http://processormatch.intel.com/Processors/CompatibleProcessors?componentName=dx58og I saw that page before. Hence my lack of confidence with the processor, but slight hope here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/277215-29-intel-overclocking-club/page-14
April 4, 20179 yr It just says the guy built it, nothing more. If the CPU is not that expensive, guess you could try it, worse case it doesn't work.
April 4, 20179 yr Author 4 hours ago, ashman70 said: It just says the guy built it, nothing more. If the CPU is not that expensive, guess you could try it, worse case it doesn't work. Exactly. Hope to receive it by Friday.
April 7, 20179 yr Author Installed the new CPU. Seems to be working fine. I'll let it burn in before calling it a success. root@karmic:~# sensors intel5500-pci-00a3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +60.0°C (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +90.0°C) ALARM (HIGH) (crit = +110.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +23.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C) Core 1: +28.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C) Core 2: +26.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C) Core 8: +23.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C) Core 9: +26.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C) Core 10: +24.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
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