First post, by tayyare
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As the topic says which one would you choose to upgade a LGA775 Xeon E5450 system to its limits? Or would you not even bother?
The top thing is X5492 but I think it already became untouchable (went from 90 to 120+ USD just in the last two-three weeks), so these are the next best thing:
Xeon X5470----46USD 3.33GHz 1333MHz FSB 120W TDP SLBBF
Xeon X5482----26USD 3.20GHz 1600MHz FSB 120W TDP SLBBG
The only obvious differences are in FSB and CPU clocks.
Overclock potential is not a concern to me.
Both CPU is already modded for LGA775 sockets, motherboard (P5Q Premium) easily supports 120W and BIOS modded for Xeon support (according to related sites, it supports all Xeons including X5492 and currently working with a E5450)
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000