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[johnspack]

Just finished stress testing. Threw some differential amplitude at it now stable at 4.2 24/7, 78 highest stress temp:

May take a day or 2 of idle testing and adjusting, but par for the course!

 

[johnspack]

Day #2 at 4.2... a bit of a snafu with my vid card after extensive gaming testing... stupid 480 only stable at 800mhz. Back to gaming as normal. Set clock skew to 300p to relax tension on my qpi bus. Ready for 4.3 test on air now. I'm
doing these benchies also for 24/7 use, I will be using these settings for daily driver.

 

[johnspack]

Arg, idle bluescreen at 4.2. Not a biggie though, lots of room left. Went back to 4.1, did a 10 min trans-coding job, perfect. Then did about a 25min wim to esd conversion, 6.9g to 3.2g. All 12 threads maxxed, 53c max temp. Extremely stable at 4.1, 1.31v so I'm happy. It gets tricky above 4.1, I'll have another go at it, but for now this thing destroys my old 950 in every way. I think first at this stable setting, I should learn how to use offset vcore so I can drop idle vcore and temps even more.

 

[johnspack]

Heh, finally got top spot for memory latency, been trying for years to beat that dam athlon:

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Arg, idle bluescreen at 4.2. Not a biggie though, lots of room left. Went back to 4.1, did a 10 min trans-coding job, perfect. Then did about a 25min wim to esd conversion, 6.9g to 3.2g. All 12 threads maxxed, 53c max temp. Extremely stable at 4.1, 1.31v so I'm happy. It gets tricky above 4.1, I'll have another go at it, but for now this thing destroys my old 950 in every way. I think first at this stable setting, I should learn how to use offset vcore so I can drop idle vcore and temps even more.

nice temps mate. My X5650 sat at 65 + at 4.1ghz

I am looking for a X5675 ...............any ideas guys?

 

[johnspack]

Indeed, some idle temps for an almost 1.5ghz oced hex core cpu:

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Excellent.

Are you benching at 4.1ghz ?

i just checked HWBOT and my best bench was 3.91 and ive been bumped to 15th in the world in Cinebench R 15. There have been quite a few entrants recently, you should give it a stab.

http://hwbot.org/submission/2886339_capslockstuck_cinebench___r15_xeon_x5650_913_cb/

 

[johnspack]

4.1 is actually my 24/7 oc, I have a lot of transcoding work to do, so I needed to make sure it's dead stable. I did hit 945 in R15, but I need to get this thing stable at 4.2-4.3 so I can get my ram speed back up.
Had my ram stable at 1820 at 4ghz, so I know the imc can do it, but my dividers at 4.1 give me 1640 or 2050, and I can't get my 1866 sticks to run that fast. I'm almost at my qpi limit, I'll have to ramp up qpi volts
to do it.

 

[johnspack]

Was doing some encoding work today, decided to record max temps for 100% load on all cores:

 

[Compgeke]

My desktop, a Precision T3500 with Xeon X5560, 12 gigs ram, R7-240 and 2x 500 GB HDDs on a PERC 6/i. In the future I'll probably throw a 6-core in but haven't had the money.

 

[johnspack]

Got my 6 core for 75us.... grab one!

 

[t_ski]

nice temps mate. My X5650 sat at 65 + at 4.1ghz

I am looking for a X5675 ...............any ideas guys?

I have one, but I'm not quite able to sell it yet

 

[johnspack]

I may fight him for it! This thing is so stable at 4.1, I can torture it for hours on end, no issues. But. 4.2 things break down. My cpu's wall apparently. I got a min temp of 11c on my coolest core this morn, 26c on the hottest.
I love that. This mobo will push much harder I think though, I need a faster chip. For now I'm going to learn how to use offset voltage, see if I can drop idle temps even more.

 

[johnspack]

Starting to understand offset. You use the offset to set your target max vcore under load. At idle it steps down vcore according to speedstep. I believe on my x58 platform LLC should be disabled.
I'm running 1.31v for 4.1, but I see it dropping to 1.124v at idle. Nice. Getting ready to bench it and see if I need LLC or not, not really sure. Tried to capture at lowest vcore, but it bounces a lot:

 

[johnspack]

Arg, have to play with offset more, it seems to decrease performance. I'll have to play with it for a few days. Back to manual volts, tightened my ram timings, brought up my cinebench score:

 

[FireFox]

I am looking for a X5675

Quite expensive here in Germany 150€ second hand, I have spent 1200€ for 8 X5675, no discount

 

[johnspack]

Will be moving into my new house, yes a dam house, after 20 years. Tomorrow. I will be officially looking for an x5680 or 90 at that point. The 80s are cheap now finally dam.
Prefer a Canadian seller. I have interac, visa, mastercard.... and also please god any fellow canucks I need a used 970, and not for what they cost from the states....
Edit: and crap, I'll be offine for 7 days..... Nelson doesn't have enough shaw cable techies around, so I have to go without tv and internet for 7 days. Arg, see you all then.

 

[FireFox]

I will be officially looking for an x5680 or 90

Both are good CPU's, the only thing that i dont like is the 130W

 

[johnspack]

Any of our cpus at that speed will be 130w. Same fab, same die process. On another note, I'm trying to score a gtx970. If I get it, watch for some more benchies!

 

[FireFox]

For me running Xeons is a different history, i uses Xeons CPUs for Crunching so in my case to run a 130W CPU for Crunch would double the power consumption.

 

[johnspack]

Well I'll have to try some more benchies soon. Hexy will have a gtx970 to play with. Finally some proper graphics power! I do want to test my 970 for folding, see if 12 threads helps that or not....

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The mood enhancing medication is finally kicking in..............ebay has helped, not through the purchase of incorrectly spelt foreiegn medicines i hasten to add.

BUT

i have just bought 2 x Xeon X5650 for £64.00 for the pair ( $140.00), which is the best i have seen them for a while. The vendor wanted 50 quid each (but i am Welsh) and only reluctantly pay full price.

They will find a home in a 2 P board and sit in my conservatory as the nights are definitelty chilling off and i havent cured cancer yet, so they will crunch 24/7 as fast as the mofo's will manage.
http://www.crunchersociety.net/

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[FireFox]

Finally the Server is running, for now just one Blade, in a week should both Blades be fully running
Each Blade:
2 × Xeon X5675 3.06GHz - 12GB ECC Ram (Apacer) - HDD Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB (Green)

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The twins have arrived......

it was a painless delivery, i was still in bed so my daughter signed for them !!

They will both be doing sums, all day, every day for


https://www.facebook.com/CruncherSociety

 

[silentbogo]

shwe-e-e-t!