Xeon Owners Club

[biffzinker]

What am I looking at? The FX @ 5.4 GHz or the i7 4770?

 

[Recon-UK]

Sometimes i like to eat cheese on it's own.

 

[Durvelle27]

What am I looking at? The FX @ 5.4 GHz or the i7 4770?

Haswell i7-4770

Click the image and it will magically grow

 

[jsfitz54]

Question: I have used W7Pro 64 for the Xeon in the past. Will W10Home 64 be able to run all the features of the Xeon?
Any drawbacks?

W10 Home got a big boost in native memory over W7 Home or Home Premium: http://www.ricksdailytips.com/windows-memory-limits/

 

[Recon-UK]

Windows 10 is better at multithread than 7.

Both fresh installs look below.

 

[biffzinker]

Haswell i7-4770

Click the image and it will magically grow

I sense some snarky under tone in the above ^ text, best cut it out or else.

So has anyone done anything with the Sandybridge era Xeon similar to the Westmere-EP?

 

[Recon-UK]

I sense some snarky under tone in the above ^ text, best cut it out or else.

So has anyone done anything with the Sandybridge era Xeon similar to the Westmere-EP?

I'm very brave with my hardware but Cinebenching at silly high clocks on my little ITX cooler may well be suicide.

 

[HammerON]

I know this is not a Xeon, but I couldn't resist:

I hope to join your club when my E5 2683 V3 shows up soon. Going to be a dedicated WCG cruncher.

 

[biffzinker]

I know this is not a Xeon, but I couldn't resist:

Uh huh, sure, if you say so. More like you could NOT resist flaunting your new i7 6900K. Just had to show up and put everyone else to shame.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Uh huh, sure, if you say so. More like you could NOT resist flaunting your new i7 6900K. Just had to show up and put everyone else to shame.

......................

 

[Recon-UK]

It's a nice CPU that 6900K though.

How much was it again?

 

[Recon-UK]

Just overclocked a friends PC from 4.2ghz to 4.5ghz and his GPU to 1520mhz with +260mhz on memory.

i5 2500k
GTX 970.

I did it on team viewer.

I'm such a boss.

 

[Durvelle27]

Got it all figured out guys
Stripped the card down and there was barely any decent TIM contact with the heatsink. Replaced with some IC Diamond and the card now holds constantly at 1370/2100 and runs 10°C cooler

 

[stinger608]

Yep, that is the poster child for "bake out" @Durvelle27

 

[biffzinker]

Got it all figured out guys
Stripped the card down and there was barely any decent TIM contact with the heatsink. Replaced with some IC Diamond and the card now holds constantly at 1370/2100 and runs 10°C cooler

At least XFX didn't make at huge mess with excess TIM all over the organic package subtract unlike some other AIB's have. That still doesn't excuse the poorly baked out TIM contact however since you shouldn't have to take the heatsink off on a new purchase because of suspicious boost clockspeed fluctuations, and the potential thermal issue.

 

[Durvelle27]

At least XFX didn't make at huge mess with excess TIM all over the organic package subtract unlike some other AIB's have. That still doesn't excuse the poorly baked out TIM contact however since you shouldn't have to take the heatsink off on a new purchase because of suspicious boost clockspeed fluctuations, and the potential thermal issue.

Problem goes beyond boost

While monitoring games the GPU clock speed would dip as low as 300MHz causing terrible frame drops

Sometimes it wouldn't even go above 600MHz

 

[dorsetknob]

So has anyone done anything with the Sandybridge era Xeon similar to the Westmere-EP?

Intel circumcised overclocking on their chips after Westmere

 

[FireFox]

@Durvelle27

I would like to see some numbers on Cinebench with your Card!

 

[biffzinker]

Intel circumcised overclocking on their chips after Westmere

My bad, same time frame Clarkdale i3 was the last allowing base clock adjustment.

 

[Durvelle27]

@Durvelle27

I would like to see some numbers on Cinebench with your Card!

 

[biffzinker]

Oh snap! I'm in the lead. Even ran it @ 2560x1440 to match Durvelle27's resolution.

P.S. Durvelle27, you can grab a screenshot of the active/main window in Windows by pressing Alt+Print Screen.

 

[Recon-UK]

I think i need to start charging for my services.. i have some skill clearly.

I got his damn chip to 4.8ghz on a Hyper 212, most people can only manage 4.5 lol.

His 2500k is 60 points from a stock 4ghz i7 4790K in single thread.

He is a good friend i helped around 4 years back now when forums idiot's were telling him to go FX 8150 over a 2500K i stood out among the idiot's at the time.
I have been bought games on Steam, not cheap ones either from this guy, he is an awesome friend and would help him any time for free.

He lives in America and i have officially overclocked a USA Sandy Bridge PC from England lol.

4.8ghz stable.

Overclocked his reference PNY GTX 970 to 1520mhz and 8ghz memory.

CPU max temp 61c
GPU 75c

MSI Z77-G45
Corsair CX600

Not even high end stuff.

 

[FireFox]

My bad, i have to re-run the Bench, i will do it tonight after work

 

[MrTOOSHORT]

My 1680 V2:

 

[FireFox]

My 1680 V2:

My question is why with a Graphic card like that you get those FPS?