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Late May, 2019: I ran into a problem for the first time ever with my Intel Core i7-950: it lacked the processing power to simultaneously encode and stream video content in 1080 resolution. I had been running that thing for years & years & had never even bothered to overclock it (wasn't necessary). With an Asus X58 Sabertooth motherboard, I could have overclocked that CPU, but instead, I checked for alternatives. Early June, 2019: I did some research & found that my motherboard would run a Xeon W3680 CPU, and that they easily and thoroughly overclock while running cool, and that they have unlocked multipliers, so I could leave my RAM & the rest of my motherboard running at stock speeds if I wanted to, etc. I bought one on eBay for an astonishing $40 ! (When this model CPU came out a little over 9 years ago, it was $999 !) I ran a test of the CPU at STOCK speed (133x25=3.33GHz). Cinebench R15 multi score: 825. I then left ALL VOLTAGES SET TO AUTO and changed ONLY the CPU's multiplier. Running @ 133x30 (4GHz instead of stock 3.33GHz), Cinebench R15 score rose to: 892. Running @ 133x34 (4.5GHz instead of stock 3.33GHz), R15 score made it to: 987. I have not even bothered to try to push it any further. This score beats those of *many* more modern, way more expensive CPU's running on newer sockets. This is proven faster than an i7-4770K that was overclocked to 4.4GHz ! Let me be clear: I was cooling this with a Hyper212 Evo, which is an AIR COOLER. Summary: I just spent $40 to bump up the performance of my Socket 1366 based PC to above the performance of most CPU's of the NEXT socket that came after it. I changed NOTHING but the CPU. Astonishingly fast, amazingly cheap. What's not to love about this ?Read full review
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Great overclocker. This is the last great x58 cpu. 4.5ghz stable on air. Still relevant for many workloads in 2021.
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Inexpensive 6-core upgrade for a 2010 or 2012 Mac Pro. Unlike the W3670, the W3680 allows the Mac Pro to run RAM at 1333MHz instead of just 1066MHz.
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I'm really enjoying this new 6 core CPU. It is much faster than the 4 core I7-920, and it runs much cooler.
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Arrived fast and super easy install. Works perfect.
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