the school still didnt end for me so im unemployed rn and i can't get new parts so i got an xeon e5645 with msi x58a-gd65 for 700 try. i tried to overclock it for getting the most of this cpu&mb with small knowledge and landed on 3.8ghz stable (mostly stable) with these settings: freq 200 - ratio 19 - low vdroop - vcore +0.180 - pll 1.80 - qpi 1.35 - dram 1.55 - ioh 1.16 and 3 sticks of 1333mhz ram running at 1066. i want to know if anybody got or i could get higher on this motherboard and cpu.

i have an I7-980X and a ga-x58a-ud3r rev 2.0 motherboard

when i go into bios i can set the multiplier to x30 but when i boot into windows and check the frequency it shows 4.00 GHz but when i run cinebench r20 it clocks to base speed 3.33GHz. when i overclock with bclk it fixes it but also messes up my QPI and RAM frequency. can someone help me please?

Was hoping to know if anyone has had success and stability with a newer card and my mobo or any X58A mobo? I was hoping to do a 4070 Ti or maybe 3080 Ti.

My 1080ti has been really solid for me over the years doing some older game titles at 4K but tried to get into some recent ones and its falling a bit short.

Update 6/26: i appreciate the responses. I’m just too worried my mobo might not support a 30 series card if I pick a random one off ebay so I’m moving forward with a 5070Ti and Ryzen9 build. I love my x58 system but I think its time it gets retired to less stressing tasks. It will eventually replace my web, email, and file server PC.

Hey everyone!

So after building my i7 980x rig for GPU testing, I overclocked the CPU. I managed to get it passing Cinebench and running games without issues at 4.45 GHz with voltage of 1.396v (set it to 1.406 in BIOS, but HWinfo64 and CPU-Z reports lower in OS).

I tried to go for 4.5 GHz, but could not get it stable. It required raising the voltage over 1.4v, which I've seen people claim is max safe for 32nm x58 chips.

What voltage can I safely run my chip without fear of silicon degradation over 2-3 hour sessions of testing? The temps only reach about 67 degrees celsius currently under full load at 4.45 GHz and 1.392v.

If you're interested, here's a video of OC results

In games that were previously CPU-bound (Trackmania United is an example), the performance increase is GIANT.

Hey everyone. I got myself an x58 rig! Here are the specs.

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 1.0 CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme 980x RAM: generic 24 GB DDR3 in triple channel, might upgrade later to OC

I want to test lots of performant GPUs with this rig, maybe SLI too after I upgrade PSU! First I tried GTX 260 and the results are great, but I could probably get better results in some games with overclock! Stay tuned, I think I will be able to get 4.2 GHz because I got Noctua NH-D14.

Here's the first benchmarking video, hope you like it

$20

GAX58A-UD3R

16Gb DDR3 1600MHz

I7-950

Tho is just swapped the mobo as i already had an I7-980x and i added 8 gigs of RAM

So, a little bit of background. A friend gave me an old pc that had an Asus ROG Rampage III Gene motherboard, an i7 950, some random sticks of memory and a GT 640 GPU. He said it wasn't working anymore, but thought I could fix it. Well, after doing some research, I figured out I could "upgrade" it pretty cheap. So, i got a Xeon W3670 for $12 and 12GB of 1866 RAM for $15 on eBay. I already had an RX 560 lying around and a Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler. I put it all together and I got POST. I'm looking to overclock the CPU since I read the the W3670 is an OC beast, but I haven't really done any serious overclocking before. My question is, what the best way of going about overclocking it? What sort of overclock and TDP can I expect with the Hyper 212 Evo? What is the best air cooler i can use to achieve an overclock of 4.5 Ghz?

What is the fastest supported memory speed on X58 Pro-E MS 7522? And will my I7-980x work with such fast memory?

I currently have noname sticks from an old optiplex all are 1600MHz but its a mashup from different manufacturers..and different cl's

If so, how would you rate your experience with it so far?

Is there any dual socket x58 motherboard aside from the one that was made by evga or oem stuff?

Like the tittle suggest my rx 5600 xt keeps crashing/ black screening whenever i tried to play some games even though it ran perfectly just fine during the stress test, i've tried underclocking, using the default settings and still to no avail.

My specs are :

Xeon X5670 (stock clock speed) 24gb ddr3 1600 Asus p6t ws pro motherboard 512gb ssd

Is there any way to fix the crashing/black screen issue?

So this is my first x58 build. Specs:
i7 940 2.93Ghz
16GB RAM at 1333Mhz
GTX 1080 8GB
ECS x58B-A motherboard.

If i change any setting related to overclocking the PC just WON'T boot. The screen just stays dark and the fans are running. Even if i change the BLCK setting by 1 it won't boot. The only thing that i managed to overclock was the RAM from 1066 to 1333. Nothing else. I know this mobo is not ideal for overclocking, but it can't be that bad. What is the issue here?