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31 January 2020
Kiss of Life to my LGA 1366 System
3 of 3 found this helpful I run an ancient LGA 1366 socket system, which used to harbor an i7 920. Although still functional, my veteran i7 920 had fell behind in speed compared to the requirements of newer software; CPU intensive games started to bottleneck the system which has a GTX 1070 as the GPU.
After using my i7 920 for years, and couple months overclocked, I decided that I could still benefit and extend the life of the system by upgrading the CPU to a Xeon W3680, one of the last chips running on LGA 1366.
The product arrived in a month or so and I quickly installed it on my Gigabyte X58-UD3R motherboard, which I had confirmed beforehand that it supported the chip. The PC booted perfectly and I instantly saw the benefit of the higher clock speed, in simple day-to-day operations as well as gaming. The W3680 has 6 physical cores, which means a performance increase in hyper-threading and multi-tasking as well. I even managed to overclock the chip to 4.3GHz on air, having load temperatures around 70 degrees celcius.
Overall, pretty happy with the purchase; if this chip dies before my motherboard, I might even order another one just to continue using the system.