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I7 930 or Xeon W3520?

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Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:29 PM (permalink)
After taking some time off from benchmarking, I'm starting to get back into it again. Took almost to 2 months to get back a good RMA X58 3-SLi from Evga but looks like I'm good with the one I have now. So now I'm mostly doing 3D benchmarks due to my limited CPU OC vantage tops out around 4.3ghz. I'd like to push into 2D benchmarks more. I've had my 920 D0 for almost 1 year and still not happy with he amount of voltage it takes to get 4.3ghz about 1.42 Vcore. I'm looking to buy a I7 930 or a Xeon W3520. From what I know the 930's are about the same as the 920 D0s. Before spending 200-$300 thought I'd ask around first to get some opinions. I've seen the Xeon W3520's clock well at low volts and was wondering which might be a better Overclocking chip.  Aslo I'm running my current system on a chiller around 70-75f due to warmer room temp for this time of year.
  Thanks for your interest and or comments in advance.


 
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    lehpron
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    Re:I7 930 or Xeon W3520? Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:41 PM (permalink)
    930 is set a 2.8GHz versus 920 at 2.66GHz.  The W3520 is specwise identical to 920 except for ECC DDR3 support, meaning 930 is faster than it.

    Luck of the draw applies no matter what, there is no gaurantee of the handful to dozens of CPUs of one batch overclock well that even if you get that exact batch, yours will do well.  This is especially the case when you don't pay attention to batches, in which many retailer will not cherry-pick for you.

    If the same price, I'd choose 930 only because it is 133Mhz faster.

    For Intel processors, 0.122 x TDP = Continuous Amps at 12v [source].  

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    Re:I7 930 or Xeon W3520? Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:29 PM (permalink)
    Xeon processors use better silicon so on average they are better. But you probably won;t see much better performance.

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    Re:I7 930 or Xeon W3520? Friday, May 28, 2010 1:12 AM (permalink)
    dlb134

    Xeon processors use better silicon so on average they are better. But you probably won;t see much better performance.


    I've read that Xeons have better silicon so if a w3520 gets me higher Oc's I should see better performance in benchmarks right? Rather than a lower 930 overclock...


     
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    Re:I7 930 or Xeon W3520? Friday, May 28, 2010 2:50 AM (permalink)
    threedhero

    After taking some time off from benchmarking, I'm starting to get back into it again. Took almost to 2 months to get back a good RMA X58 3-SLi from Evga but looks like I'm good with the one I have now. So now I'm mostly doing 3D benchmarks due to my limited CPU OC vantage tops out around 4.3ghz. I'd like to push into 2D benchmarks more. I've had my 920 D0 for almost 1 year and still not happy with he amount of voltage it takes to get 4.3ghz about 1.42 Vcore. I'm looking to buy a I7 930 or a Xeon W3520. From what I know the 930's are about the same as the 920 D0s. Before spending 200-$300 thought I'd ask around first to get some opinions. I've seen the Xeon W3520's clock well at low volts and was wondering which might be a better Overclocking chip.  Aslo I'm running my current system on a chiller around 70-75f due to warmer room temp for this time of year.
    Thanks for your interest and or comments in advance.


    Holy crap man 1.42v on a D0 920?!? Something is NOT right there.  You should be able to hit that mark on 1.29-1.3v.  Can you post your bios template?

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