Xeon Owners Club

[FireFox]

@Recon-UK
The Xeon 5640 it's a great Chip but why don't you get a X5675 or X5677?

 

[Recon-UK]

@Recon-UK
The Xeon 5640 it's a great Chip but why don't you get a X5675 or X5677?

Maybe in the near future

 

[FireFox]

Maybe in the near future

In the near future means as soon as possible ( Joke )
BTW if you can get the 5640 at 4.2Ghz try to imagine what could you achieve from a X5675 3.1Ghz or a X5677 3.46GHz

 

[PP Mguire]

So, my next setup coming this weekend will revolve around an E3-1240 V5 and Asus P10S board. Switching off Sandy-E for the greater good, maybe. Anybody have a shot at bclk OCing any of these Skylake E3s?

 

[FireFox]

So, my next setup coming this weekend will revolve around an E3-1240 V5 and Asus P10S board. Switching off Sandy-E for the greater good, maybe. Anybody have a shot at bclk OCing any of these Skylake E3s?

For sure @CAPSLOCKSTUCK, @silentbogo or @dorsetknob could help you, they are the Xeon's Master Overclockers.

I forgot to mention @Recon-UK

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I know nothing about E3-

 

[FireFox]

I know nothing about E3-

E3 and X Version are always Xeons and as you have Overclocked some Xeons at least you could give some advices

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

OK,

an observation then............he aint getting very far with a server board.

https://www.asus.com/uk/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/P10S-M/

 

[silentbogo]

So, my next setup coming this weekend will revolve around an E3-1240 V5 and Asus P10S board. Switching off Sandy-E for the greater good, maybe. Anybody have a shot at bclk OCing any of these Skylake E3s?

Yep... overclocking is out of question, but you still get onehelluvaperformance!
1230 v5 scores about as high as my X5650 in Cinebench R15 @3.5GHz, and that's 4 cores vs 6 cores.
So far there are no OC options, and Z170 does not work with Xeon v5 chips (thx Intel)

 

[FireFox]

I knew I can trust you, that's the Overclocker spirit

Thanks @CAPSLOCKSTUCK and @silentbogo

 

[Caring1]

Yep... overclocking is out of question, but you still get onehelluvaperformance!
1230 v5 scores about as high as my X5650 in Cinebench R15 @3.5GHz, and that's 4 cores vs 6 cores.
So far there are no OC options, and Z170 does not work with Xeon v5 chips (thx Intel)

For a Xeon Processor you will need a Motherboard based on the C232 or C236 Chip set.
The C236 is basically the equivalent of the Z170

 

[silentbogo]

For a Xeon Processor you will need a Motherboard based on the C232 or C236 Chip set.
The C236 is basically the equivalent of the Z170

Almost. There are still some differences, like absent multiplier OC...
http://ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3977
Basically, C236 is almost a Z170 without overclocking features, and C232 is a B150 without Intel SBA and Virtualization

I'd still go for it. If I had a non-overpriced option of going with C232+E3-12xx instead of my current Skylake rig, I'd buy it immediately, even if I have to put on sale some of my toys. Unfortunately the latest components are almost double of what they cost overseas.

 

[PP Mguire]

I got this chip for free, and 32GB of ECC came with it so my option was to buy a board that would support dual cards (Gigabyte wanted too much for their X170 and it's ugly too with that stupid camo). I'm hoping I can get SLI to work without trouble or I'll have to sell the setup.

It's to my understanding that bclk OCing should be doable on Skylake or am I wrong to assume this? I've seen people OCing i3s with bclk and ASRock was bloating about it on their C232 board (which I didn't want). The P10S WS is what I have, with a C236 chipset. I mean if I have to run stock I don't really mind as an OC isn't necessary, just wanted to bench it good.

Woooot.

 

[silentbogo]

It's to my understanding that bclk OCing should be doable on Skylake or am I wrong to assume this? I've seen people OCing i3s with bclk and ASRock was bloating about it on their C232 board (which I didn't want). The P10S WS is what I have, with a C236 chipset. I mean if I have to run stock I don't really mind as an OC isn't necessary, just wanted to bench it good.

The problem with Skylake is that the clock generator is on CPU, and AsRock uses its BCLK Engine to do it externally.
there is only one board on their site that can run Xeon E3 and theoretically overclock: it's Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC

 

[jboydgolfer]

It's to my understanding that bclk OCing should be doable on Skylake or am I wrong to assume this?

i have an Asrock extreme 3 Z97 , and a Xeon 1231V3 and Minor bclk oC is doable, but its not what i would personally consider "worth while"

 

[PP Mguire]

The problem with Skylake is that the clock generator is on CPU, and AsRock uses its BCLK Engine to do it externally.
there is only one board on their site that can run Xeon E3 and theoretically overclock: it's Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC

Yea, that's one board I did not want. Should have board tomorrow so we'll see this weekend.

i have an Asrock extreme 3 Z97 , and a Xeon 1231V3 and Minor bclk oC is doable, but its not what i would personally consider "worth while"

That's Haswell though. I've seen people OCing the snot out of i3s so was hoping I could do the same with this Xeon.

OCing is the least of my concerns though. I can do fine with a stock CPU, I just need SLI support.

 

[PP Mguire]

And so it begins. I'll be installing tonight.

 

[FireFox]

And so it begins. I'll be installing tonight.

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Have fun

 

[jboydgolfer]

And so it begins. I'll be installing tonight.

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Sweet board

 

[Recon-UK]

I have taken my PCI-E from 100mhz to 115mhz stable.... just thought about trying something else.. see if i gain anything, from what i can find i have gained quite a jump in frame rates from the GPU.. ?

 

[silentbogo]

I have taken my PCI-E from 100mhz to 115mhz stable.... just thought about trying something else.. see if i gain anything, from what i can find i have gained quite a jump in frame rates from the GPU.. ?

Don't bother with overclocking PCI-E. It won't help with expanding GPU overclocking bounds, and may cause instability for other devices that use PCI-E bus.

 

[Recon-UK]

Don't bother with overclocking PCI-E. It won't help with expanding GPU overclocking bounds, and may cause instability for other devices that use PCI-E bus.

Well my 670 has gain around 3-4 frames from the OC, and everything else seems to work fine.

 

[Recon-UK]

OK, the only place i observed higher FPS was in 3D Mark 11, if i play games they don't work correctly, i got excellent FPS even in GTA IV.. Vsync off maxed, 66FPS completely stable which was actually very odd since only 50% GPU usage... i'm serious no matter what it was pegged at 66FPS.. smoothest GTA IV i have ever played, however it locks up, so does BF4 and Metro Last Light... the gains are there but not usable in real world cases

Plus i think it bugged GTA IV

 

[PP Mguire]

Spent hours last night moving to the new setup. Something not worky right Spent the better part of the morning trying to diagnose exactly what the issue is.

 

[Recon-UK]

Well good news... my CPU and board are capable of 4.4ghz, though no idea if this is stable, but i was not going to test as my cooler would tell me to politely F**** off!

So erm yeah, i have a Corsair H100 lined up for this beast! gonna go for the highest stable clock possible, i'm thinking around 4.5-4.7ghz... 4.7 being wishful territory