🇬🇧 Xeon W-2150B – test in 25 games, RX 7900XT, LGA 2066, Lenovo P520

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05:25 Assassin's Creed Mirage
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[Tavito_de_ARG]

Very technical and detailed as always. Hope you get better !!

[kvathx]

I recently built a system using the Lenovo P520 with a W-2175, 32GB quad-channel RAM, and a RX 6950XT. I also have another system with a E5-2697 V3; both of these are 14-core. In my experience, with the W-2175, I get way better performance in games. The 6950XT doesn’t feel overpowered in any way for the W-2175. I don’t play competitively, so I don’t care for crazy FPS numbers. I'm fine with 120+, which I get in most games. And if I don’t, most of the time, the GPU is the limit. I really enjoy your videos thanks for the content.

[sokmunky]

The new LGA 4677 Xeons might be one to keep an eye on. They are really expensive right now, but there are several models that are unlocked and can be overclocked. Will be interesting to see how those game in a few years.

[DTDSasquatch]

Thank you for the videos on this Thinkstation P520. I recently picked one up for cheap with the Xeon W-2145, along with 8 cheap sticks of 8GB DDR4-2933 (which of course is running at 2666 CL19 in this system). If it wasn't so cheap, I would probably be quite disappointed -- but it's not bad for the money I've got into it.

I watched through both of your videos on this, and I noticed your W-2150B doesn't seem to boost higher than 3800 MHz (I think I saw it reach 4100 just once over the course of your footage), when it should be able to reach a theoretical 4500.

After changing a few options in Throttlestop, my W-2145 (same 4.5 GHz turbo frequency "on paper") measures at 4295 MHz using Afterburner/RivaTuner while playing Counterstrike 2. I'm not sure how much of a difference this makes in the grand scheme of things, but it might be worth your time to look at.

[czos]

That sucks. I was hoping full quad ram would help the 50B's results. Did you have these results with spectre patch and whatnot disabled like the other vid?

I'm looking at a P920 on the cheap locally (hexa-ram, apparently) and apparently multi cpu configs cause an even greater hit even if the ram slots for each are fill with six each.

Thanks for all these vids & info.

[herrfleischwolf]

Hey ho, i know i am late... but do you have experience with socket lga1200 and the w-1250 or w-1350 processor? like in comparison to 2011v3 like 1680v3 or 1660v3 - would cost me both about the same 250-300€ complete system without graphics

[b_]

It's interesting to see that this comparison is almost entirely about cache. 2697 v3 has more, but there's another big difference:

Xeon E5 v4 and earlier uses the ring bus, just like Intels mainstream desktop has since sandy bridge. However, LGA 2066, 3647 and later uses mesh architecture.
Mesh gives (almost) the same latency for every core to every other core, but ring gives much better latency for cores that are physically closer in the CPU die.

Most programs don't really care, but some games really hate mesh. If you look at reviews for 10980xe (for example) you can also see this pattern. 10980xe gets completely stomped by 9900k in some games, but it's almost identical in others.

[richardmarkert]

Thank you for this video, I was looking at upgrading from a Xeon 2670 on X79 to a Lenovo P520 with a 2135. I will be mostly doing video editing and graphic design work using a GTX1080 GPU and light gaming (I have a 12800HX 3070Ti laptop for heavy gaming). I was googling around to see if I could put a 2150B or 2140B as they're massively cheaper than the 2145 or 2155 CPUs. Do you happen to have any benchmarks for CPU-based workloads, like video or photo editing?

[salaciouscreations]

Cant bring myself to part with the x99 platform. Getting thunderbolt isnt worth leaving for me as the external cards dont work on the platform. In high threadcount applications they win the price to performance and can run a 3080ti.

[T.Lspitz]

Your cat is extremely fluffy like my cat is.
We named him Woolley Cattoth(as in Woolley Mammoth but its a cat).
Even has a very similar face too.

Does your cat insist on walking across your keyboard or inspecting everything you touch whenever you are working on computers?

[writetosalman]

Is in Lenovo P520 can we install W-2150B or w-2140B without any modification in BIOS? Because I think both were for Apple systems there may be a change in processor ID...
Second question is Lenovo P520 machine with w-2150B compatible with Windows 11?

[humannik]

Хороший контент. Но Xeon 2100 серии имеет все недостатки архитектуры Core i9-7000 (SkyLake) серии для платформы 2066 благодаря экспериментам Интел с их MESH.

[ThathsaraRajapaksha]

Do you still reccomend xeon v2 cpu with x79 for some normal games like call of duty, battlefield games (not for multiplayer)

[AlejandroMagnoRivas]

What xeon series can defeat 1xxx and 2xxx???
At competitice price? and performance in games likes 5600g 5600x

[diagcolt]

Friend, the xeon e5 v3 works better in Windows 10 or 11, which one would be to install on my x99 system
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[rafaelferreira]

Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 memories work on Xeon 2678v3 with Huananzhi X99 TF?

[gametime]

Very strange that you are getting so much better with the E5. It shouldn't be. The W should be 12-20% faster. I'm puzzled.

[МихаилСпесивцев-ьэ]

Може вас зацікавить, на аліку є такі матері x99 IPM99-VK, цікаво на що вони здатні у порівнянні між китайськими аналогами і брендовими типу МSI, чи є сенс брати такі ОЕМ рішення, ціна зараз +\- 2600грн.

[ThrottleNation.]

I have two options

W2123 or e5 2640 v4. What do you guys recommend for longevity and future proofing

[hugomouteira]

Interesting.... I wonder if my delidded oveclocked at 4.6 Ghz all core i9 7980XE is worse for gaming than a 2697 V3 by looking at these results 😅 Miyconst, can you input something about this?