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Jul 17, 2017
Best upgrade I ever made for the money!
2 of 2 found this helpful I went from the i7 920 to this X5670 and the performance difference is night and day. I went from a Cinebench R15 score of 418 to 673cb for the CPU and from 66 to 78fps for the OpenGL test. Once overclocked the scores jumped to 920cb and 103fps respectively. This is running with a Asus Strix GTX 1070. Game performance and workstation performance has improved significantly, especially with CPU intensive programs/games.
I'm running it @4Ghz (22x multi, 1.34vcore, 182fsb, 1.129v qpi) on an Asus P6T Deluxe v1 with the latest bios (make sure to install the latest bios before installing the X5670). Rock solid with a Corsair H80 at minimum fan setting with idle temps of 40 degrees and load of 69 degrees. There's still room for tweaking, but I'm happy with 4Ghz and don't want to add any extra voltage/heat/wattage.
All in all, if you have a quality 1366 motherboard and don't want to fully upgrade yet or spend a lot of money, then this is your ticket out. Once overclocked it will keep up with current cpus and for $60 you can't beat the performance/value.