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[Zyll Goliat]

Thanks for the info.

Still have one more question.

In my others X58 Machines i have W7 installed, what about W10 in the new Machine?

I ask because all drivers are for W8/Win7/Vista/XP, except the Chipset Driver.

any thoughts?

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Well I don´t have any issue what so ever with the win 10,my mobo is Asus P6X58D premium and I recently build this X58 system,so far everything working smooth........

 

[lyra]

so. intel are releasing "xeon W" cpus on their own chipset and the likes. it looks like the end of the second hand xeon bang for buck is gonna die out at x99 then sad times...

they really want people to buy those stupid I9s dont they

 

[dorsetknob]

they really want people to buy those stupid I9s dont they

No they don't if they did they would price them competitively
they are priced with the corperate/workstation loadsmony Crowd in mind

 

[FireFox]

Finally arrived.

 

[FireFox]

I have started building the X58 Machine

Pics:

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Hurry up man...

 

[FireFox]

Hurry up man...

Right now installing W10, after done i need to see if Bios update is required.

Thanks God it booted

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Pic of the splash screen please.

 

[FireFox]

Pic of the splash screen please.

This is all what i can show right now

 

[lyra]

Absolute max voltage i can stick through a westmere ep xeon?

I just realised i hadnt done a new overclock since i got a new psu and right now its semi stable in prime 95 with 30 degrees of headroom to tjmax at 4.5ghz

Ill show cpuz and cinebench scorea when im fully happy its stable

 

[FilipM]

1.4 Vcore, and ~1.35 QPI. Apparently this complies within Intel's max safe voltages in their official spreadsheet. (They say 1.4/1.4, but I wouldn't trust 1.4V long-term on the QPI)

 

[lyra]

Im at 1.392 at the minute, if it fails this stress test i might put some more in. My qpi is still on auto i think so ill do that too if i bsod again

Thanks

 

[FilipM]

Auto at 4.5GHz probably overshoots the 1.4V mark. Use manual voltage, in co-relation with the QPI Speed. 1.35V is enough for 3500-3600 on mine.

Bump IOH to ~1.20V aswell.

 

[lyra]

Qpi set to 1.35

Will set ioh too.

I think at the moment my instability is caused by the dram speed being too high

yeah after playing around and even putting my dram bus voltage to 1.64 i couldnt get a stable boot. im gonna need to get some 1866 memory... (anyone got 1866 dimms going cheap? )

here is my cpuz https://valid.x86.fr/efu6qr

ill run cinebench next. i doubt ill beat my old best score because memory speed

 

[lyra]

ah! i did it! even with slow memory!

excuse the lack of taskbar, i closed down everything i could from task manager including explorer and put cinebench's priority to real time just to get that little edge. when i ran it with other background tasks at normal priority i only get 623!

 

[FireFox]

This is just a test screenshot, for know what you see it is not definitive, i still have to play with voltages, ram speed and a few other things.

 

[FilipM]

QPI speed too low. ^ But 1.388V for 4.6 is damn nice

 

[FireFox]

QPI speed too low. ^ But 1.388V for 4.6 is damn nice

That's because i am using QPI 4.8GT/s if i use 5.8GT/s it goes up to 3700+, i still have to tweak 6.4GT/s because with it enabled the system won't post.

 

[FireFox]

 

[FireFox]

I have a question.

I have never used the QPI PLL VCore, the default voltage is 1.10V i have increased it to 1.30v because i would like to use 6.4TG/s but even with that voltage the Machine won't post, i am stock at 5.8GT/.

The question:
Increasing the QPI PLL VCore voltage will it help to get stable the 6.4GT/s and if the answer is yes any thoughts about the max voltage i could use?

 

[FilipM]

I meant NB speed bud, not the QPI, my bad.

QPi speed wont yield performance gains, but the NB speed will. A chip at 4.4 with 3600MHz NB speed will outperform a chip at 4.6 with 2600MHz NB speed.

 

[FireFox]

I meant NB speed bud, not the QPI, my bad.

QPi speed wont yield performance gains, but the NB speed will. A chip at 4.4 with 3600MHz NB speed will outperform a chip at 4.6 with 2600MHz NB speed.

If i am not wrong the NB can be overclocked?

 

[FilipM]

Of course it can, it's the thing 2X ram speed or 1.5x Ram speed. It might be called differently on your board

 

[FireFox]

Of course it can, it's the thing 2X ram speed or 1.5x Ram speed. It might be called differently on your board

I will fix that as soon as i have time, if my wife let me alone at least for one hour

 

[FilipM]

Well, quality time always comes first