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back in 2008 there was a motherboard architecture called x58 and it was released into the wild and it was quite well received it was i79 20s which were for core a threaded CPUs and they overclocked pretty well and everyone loved him and that was like the way to go back then but in 2018 is x58 and what was released in 2010 which was a 6 quart 12 threaded Xeon still the way to go especially if you're a gamer well today we're gonna be testing this CPU the X 56 60 which you can still get on Aliexpress 420 US dollars or a little bit under that that's free shipping as well and we're gonna putting that on an x58 motherboard overclocking this CPU to 4.5 gigahertz with an air cooler in a sub ideal ambient temperatures this is 27 degrees ambient and we have been testing this with the new king of gaming the RT x 2080 Ti and then we're gonna be comparing that of course against the granddaddy of gaming which is the 9900 K clocked to 5 gigahertz so ladies and gentlemen grab your Xeon capes hopefully 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unlocked multipliers but the multiple that we're using is a Maximus a rampage from Zeus now when it comes to X 58 it is important to choose a good motherboard to overclock these CPUs on some x58 motherboard won't even support Zeon's from the get-go take for example the ud7 which I have here in the studio this thing is complete garbage when it comes to overclocking it only managed to support one skew of memory that we had here and all the other memory just didn't work on this board very weird problem but then we pulled out the Maximus rampage and it was happy days we managed to get the big clock to 214 megahertz and at these settings we could then lock in 4.5 gigahertz without having to rely on Intel's turbo settings and this led to gaming performance which was pretty damn good considering we're coupling it with a graphics card that cost over 1200 dollars that's over 60 times more expensive than the CPU we have here not to mention the 9900 K costs in excess of 500 US dollars so that's an expensive CPU on its own but let's blow up some benchmarks for you guys at 1080p Ultra settings first off we're gonna show the worst case scenario and this is far cry 5 which is still single threaded IPC dependent and what we saw here with these Xeon x50 660 was we got 97 average FPS vs. a hundred and fifty eight on the 99 hundred K so there was a big gap and was one to the likes of around 50% and then we scale it up to 1440p ultra which is a spot arguably you'd want to be with if you're buying a card like an RT X xx atti and here we saw the gap lesson where we got 96 average FPS and then we compare that to the hundred and thirty two on the 99 hundred K so we can see at 1080p we were CPU bound in both cases at least according to the 1440p numbers and funnily enough it showed that the xeon especially at 1440p ultra can still play games with a hundred Hertz monitors which is a fantastic experience especially if you're going with my personal favorite which is an ultra wide 35 inch 100 Hertz and you play at high settings moving on now to dota 2 in the past I've tested this at 1080p low settings because I guess that's where a lot of competitive gamers would be playing this game at but when we step it up to 1080p maximum settings here we actually do expose quite a big gap between these two CPUs we saw the lights of 100 fifty-three average FPS versus 218 on the 9900 kay so that was a difference of around 33% going to 1440p ultra so pretty much the exact same thing happening 148 average FPS versus 215 so the scaling of the resolution didn't really affect performance because the graphics card still has a lot of room to breathe it wasn't being stressed anywhere near 100% in both scenarios however the one percent lows did scale with the CPUs they were really smooth on both the 9900 K and also the X 5660 and then moving over to csgo 1080p ultra settings are no practically no competitive gamers play this game at these settings but we decided to change things up and we saw 355 average FPS with a 1% low of 105 vs. 472 with 123 1% low and then we compare the 1440p numbers and the gap lessons to 279 versus 360 FPS so there was a gap in these first three games definitely it was there and the RT x 28 ETI being a lot more powerful than the 1080 TI does help expose this gap ever so more I'm moving over to GTA 5 1080p maximum settings we saw 108 FPS versus 151 1 % lows were very good on both sides with a 90 100 K actually being a little bit odd in that it does sort of break the engine in this game when it gets too high an FPS bigger but moving over to 1440p ultra settings here's where things start to look more GPU bound and less CPU bound with 93 FPS vs. 98 so there's virtually no difference between the $20.00 CPU and the $550 CPU at 1440p ultra and GTA 5 moving over now to overwatch which is another competitive title with a 300 FPS limit here at 1080p Ultra settings we saw 222 average FPS versus 297 so the RT X 2080 I wasn't being capped at all and the 9900 K could definitely take it to the brink of 300 FPS the 1% lowers were very good on both sides of the fence you can get a very playable experience on both CPUs at 1080p but stepping things up to 1440p Ultra did see a bit of stress on the GPU this time around then we saw 199 average FPS versus 263 so there was quite a gap in this game by about 25% at 1440p and a similar gap at 1080p but we did test this game in pretty much a worst case scenario in a battle with just mass Road hogs everywhere stuff going on and then I was bashed in and I was just going ham and so the trend that we're starting to see is that maybe with the 1080i there wasn't too much of a difference but now we're stepping it up to the r-tx 20 atti so we are now starting to see a gap finally be exposed on the Xeon versus the latest and greatest but let's roll through some more popular twitch games at the moment black ops for Call of Duty and here we have here 141 FPS versus 237 on the exact same spot in blackout mode the 1% lawyers were very controlled on both but did scale in terms of the average FPS to the 1% lows so there was quite a difference here and that was actually over 50% so the 9900 K did very well in black ops 4 which is quite a CPU demanding title just as it is graphically when you max the settings out stepping things up to ultra at 1440p saw the gap widened a lot where we saw 124 average FPS versus a hundred and sixty so around 30% at 1440p Ultra and moving over to the last title however Rainbow six siege a very popular multiplayer title also very popular on twitch channel DP ultra settings saw we got 97 FPS with a minimum of 47 then we compare that to the 99 hundred K which scored a hundred and three and sixty five minimum stepping things up to 1440p Ultra saw a 57 average with 36 minimum versus 61 and 46 respectively so there was virtually no difference when it came to maxing Rainbow six siege out between the $20 CPU and the five hundred and fifty dollar CPU a lot aside we can now move on to conclusion time and also throw the Cinebench scores MP you guys where we got over a thousand points on the X 56 60 and around about 137 single-threaded which the single-threaded performance isn't that great but keep in mind this CPU itself is over 8 years old and we compare that to the 9900 K for example that is getting over 2000 CB and also on the single-threaded score over 200 points so is there and I'm glad to see and tell in the last couple of years have definitely picked things up with the 8700 K and now the 9900 K but what comes after this is anyone's guess is the 9900 K is you guys know if you haven't seen the reviews already it's really pushing the limits of the ring box I don't know the thing it's gonna get a whole lot better than this especially considering Intel's new 10 and enemy 2 architecture has been facing delays and whether that will clock to 5 gigahertz like the 9900 K will is anyone's guess but when it all comes down to it we do have 500 megahertz of clock speeds on the 9900 K we do have better IPC and we do have two cores and it is making a difference in games with a graphics card that's costing over 1200 US dollars so the x58 Xeon going into late 2018 and most likely most of 2019 because we haven't really seen a whole lot of development in graphics cards will be still relevant and I'm more interested now after these tests in testing was something like an RT X 2070 or an RT X 2060 when that's released and seeing how well it performs because for $20 the value is phenomenal you're not gonna get this kind of value out of CPU anywhere else in the world and then of course coupled that with the cheaper ddr3 memory in this case we used off sticks we used a red stick and to just random 4 gigabyte sticks and then managed to get them over 1700 megahertz and that was absolutely fine it gave a very smooth and playable experience not just to my eyes but also when we look at the 1% low numbers as well and then of course the motherboards this is the biggest problem facing x58 and it always has you have to get a good motherboard and then you have to get them at a good price but if you guys have seen my previous deal hunts in the past you know that I come across x58 motherboards here and there this one that we actually had on the test bench was given to me as part of the GTX 690 deal that I picked up so that was crazy to see that because he just said I've got no use for this I can't get it working and alls it really needed was a heatsink on the North Bridge otherwise it would have shut off because that silicon on the North Bridge does need cooling just like a CPU would need cooling too and needless to say it's a phenomenal motherboard and it does do the job very well anyway the last thing to talk about is the power consumption itself we had the fire 9900 K in NightA 64 juicing about 280 watts from the wall and then we had the X 5660 juicing around 300 watts from the wall and the CPUs themselves I can't get a reading of the CPU on the X 5660 directly but I'm willing to bet is actually using less power than the 9900 K but because the motherboard has more components on it we're using three sticks of ddr3 memory that's where your extra power consumption would actually be coming from because we have a cooler master cooler here and that handled the overclocks absolutely fine temperatures were around 80 degrees and there are coming in lower than that of the 9900 K which gets up at five gigahertz close towards a hundred degrees with a custom water cooling loop so there you have it the motherboard the z3 knight is gonna be more expensive the water cooling needed to get five gigabits on the 900 K is going to be more expensive and then the CPU itself is going to be a lot more expensive but I guess that's the price you pay when you want the latest and greatest and coupled with an already overpriced RT X 20 ATI when you look at price performance this is one that's shaping up to be a conclusion of when you want premium you're gonna have to pay for it anyway guys with all that aside I hope you enjoyed today's comparison with the x58 Xeon versus the latest and greatest z3 90 and it's 9900 K if you did them sure to hit that like button but I'm thinking to myself maybe a more relevant comparison would be testing the value kings of the new price performance say the risin five twenty six hundred and even overclocking that on a stock cooler and then testing something from the nine series from Intel which is their value King which I'm actually yet to identify which one it would be I'd say maybe the i5 8400 is still the most relevant choice from Intel side but with outside let me know your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below love reading them as always and let us know as well are you still rocking in x58 Xeon because I feel like they're still so relevant even still in late 2018 and especially when we start comparing these two CPUs with more affordable graphics cards for instance look forward to giving you guys these Xeon comparisons because I know you love them but also on that note don't forget to check out today's video sponsor SCD keys if you want a cheap Windows 10 Hiroki then the link is in the description below with the coupon code don't catch an another tech video very soon peace out for now BAE