Just wondering if anyone is hanging on to their X58 systems and dropping in an EVGA FE 1080.  I'm picking one up when I can.  Still on X58 with a W3690
 
 
Thanks

jnohnu12
I don't see why it would not wor, how it would p
souls not be bad if you oc the cpu.

Didn't ask if it would work.  I understand what you wrote there but lol could you please explain "how it would p
souls not be bad if you oc the cpu."  lol **** are you typing?

529th
Just wondering if anyone is hanging on to their X58 systems and dropping in an EVGA FE 1080.  I'm picking one up when I can.  Still on X58 with a W3690
 
Thanks

I just put an EVGA 1080 SC in my machine, which runs a Xeon 5680 (6-core, 3.33GHz) on an MSI Big Bang X-Power X58 motherboard. It rocks.
 
I would probably pick up at most 2-5 fps in the games I play by upgrading to a "modern" cpu. Granted, I'll still probably do it fairly soon, but this Xeon 5680 is still chugging along nicely.

bg8780
I'm on an i7 970 @ 4.2ghz. X58 Classified 3. No issues and pretty decent scores.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9412758

I find that interesting. What are your RAM timings if you don't mind me asking? You're running your cpu just a tad higher than mine (4.19 ghz vs 4.13 ghz), your 1080 base clock appears to be the same, and your gpu memory bus is clocked slightly higher than mine (1,377 MHz vs 1,339 MHz). This is about 1.5% higher cpu, 2.8% higher gpu memory clock, and the same generation of cpu, same cache size, etc. I'm curious what's making up the difference in our overall performance in the benchmark.

Very interesting. Our systems are very closely matched. I'm currently running my Xeon 5680 at 4125 MHz. I typically have my 1080 SC running with +100/+350 settings, but for this I nudged it up to +110/+375. I haven't experimented to see what would be a max clock for my card, but it's run dozens or scores of hours at +100/+350 in games and some benchmarks.
 
Here's my Firestrike score:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9512304
 
Your cpu is running only like 60 MHz faster than mine, which is about 1.5%, but your physics score is 3% higher, so I'm still curious what's giving you the narrow advantage in both physics and graphics score. I'm betting it's RAM speed. Your running at 2094 MHz while mine was running only at 1500 MHz, albeit it with more aggressive timings.
 
I'll run the FireStrike Ultra and Time Spy again and post those results. I'll also have to convert this overclock from one derived automatically by MSI's OC Genie (I just push a button on the mobo and the mobo figures out its own overclock) to a manual one. I probably won't crank the cpu much higher, but I'd like to play with the RAM some more and see if I can match your speed.
 
It's extremely satisfying to see how effective these 6-year old Westmere chips still are. I've tried guesstimating based on various benchmarks and whatnot, and I think upgrading to a modern cpu would only net maybe 2-4 fps in the games I play. I'll still probably do it, but for now this machine is running great.