Xeon Owners Club

[lexluthermiester]

Since we see a list, and all major OEMs have this, I feel its a pretty basic question which takes all of 1 minute to find the answer.............. just like you managed to do. Thus, easy question if you remove all the speculation about lists not being complete and just look for it.

Generally, I would agree with you. But it actually took a bit of searching for me to find that PDF. The reality is though, not everyone understands that if one model of CPU in a line works, then the chances are that all of that line will work. And sometimes they don't all work. And in the case of that board it's not completely clear.

I can feel the douchebaggery boiling up inside of me and spilling out here. For that I do apologize.

No worries. Didn't come off that way to me.

As I said, I prefer to teach men to fish as opposed to giving them fish.

As general rule, I agree with that school of thought. This situation seemed, to me, to be one of someone who wasn't sure and wanted to gain the insight of peers.

Many a 775 Motherboard could with a BIOS microcode injection be modded to use and run the Xeon 771 Cpu ( with socket mod as well )

I actually did that once, just to see if I could do it. It worked, but what a rigmarole!

 

[EarthDog]

It literally took me less than a minute. I searched the name of the board and clicked 3 times (at the intel site) to reach that same PDF.

I don't trust that if one model CPU works than chances are that line will work. Its all microcode dependent. Some features may not work, etc. Its worrysome to me to say that, though being fairly educated on these subjects, I understand what it can mean. Others may not.

I don't know what he wanted and jumped the gun in my posting perhaps in my curmudgeonly ways. You also thought some dude was faking his CPUz screenshots with absolutely no reason to believe he would do that, so, can't say I have the utmost faith (but some) that we know the underlying ways/meaning.

Again, not really about Xeon's so.. trying to digress here.

 

[lexluthermiester]

@EarthDog
Good points.

So back to @Zyll Goliath ;
Your question intrigued me enough to read into this more and it seems that Xeon's will work on that board just fine. If you were specifically looking to get an X5600 series Xeon for it, it seems a safe bet. As the PDF linked above shows, the board can handle top end 130w 1366 i7's which are almost identical to the top end X5600's. Make sure you have the latest bios revision, but you should be good to go.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Cheers guys.....and Hey off course I google that mobo first .....It´s just happened that I LOVE&appreciate to hear opinions from OLD Xeon owners first .....also I was really curious as I didn´t saw that mobo before and some guy "here" selling that Intel mobo+8Gb(4x2 1600Mhz)+I7 920&StockCooler=115€ which seems like Ok price and possible opportunity.......

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I made up the word Xeonorator a while ago as a name for my X5650 build and thought i would google it


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=x...i61j69i60l2.3708j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

then i clicked on the first link

http://www.rev2.org/items/Mouse-Pad...on-Xeonorator-Iinside-X5650_222077047708.html


then i clicked on the picture

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mouse-Pad...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557



Its the mouse mat i am using now, my mate had it done for me a year ago from a wallpaper @Rezasam1 did.................i wonder if they sold any?

I sent the links to my mate and he reckons he only paid 3 quid for the original


sorry, i cant stop laughing about it and had to share.

 

[FilipM]

Won a bid on an X5670 for 40 eur...many gigahertz soon

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Excellent

Please beat me

 

[lexluthermiester]

Won a bid on an X5670 for 40 eur...many gigahertz soon

That's a good price. And being a 95w part, they OC like mad!

Excellent Please beat me

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Like that!

 

[FilipM]

I've already beaten you, but with an X5660 bud

But yeah, I'd like 4.55GHz at 1.316V

 

[lexluthermiester]

I've already beaten you, but with an X5660 bud

But yeah, I'd like 4.55GHz at 1.316V

Is that why you got the X5670? It might do 4.2ghz@1.325V, but anything above that is going to need at least 1.35, based on my experiences. I believe(and please someone correct me if wrong) that such requirements are the physical limitations of the fab process. It just needs more voltage to go that fast. You might get 4.5ghz@1.3825v if you've won the silicon lottery. Realistically though, you should expect to have to use 1.39 - 1.41v. Do show us what you get when it arrives. It'll be fun to see!

 

[FilipM]

I got it because I was bored, lol. My X5660 does 4.4 at 1.38V rock solid, we'll see what the 5670 does when it arrives. Plus I got one in reserve, if anything decides to go tits up

 

[Zyll Goliat]

You guys should stop teasing me....because of you I pushing my old"MULE" to the limits with this cooling......@4,180Ghz 1,28V......so far no problems in benchmarks....

 

[phill]

Excellent

Please beat me

What board did you use for the test?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

ASUS ROG ii extreme

 

[Techninja]

He guys,

After I sold my intel x58 (which wasn't that great of a oc'er), I kept looking for a reasonably priced x58 (or x79) mobo which is seemingly impossible XD. Though I just missed out on a gigabyte x58 last week with some orange accents

(don't know the specific model)​

that went for $50...

But next week I'll likely get a lga 1156 mobo (I know, very much a anti climax) but do any of you guys have any experience with x34xx or L3426 overclocking? The L3426 has a very low tdp and a very high boost clock but do any of you know if I would be able to lock the multiplier on that cpu (or is this impossible/depend on the mobo)? And would I be better of buying a x3440 or something higher? because anything above the x3440 seems to exponentially increase in costs.​

Thanks again for all the knowledge that will be shared (especially if it's helpful to me or others ​

 

[lexluthermiester]

But next week I'll likely get a lga 1156 mobo (I know, very much a anti climax) but do any of you guys have any experience with x34xx or L3426 overclocking? The L3426 has a very low tdp and a very high boost clock but do any of you know if I would be able to lock the multiplier on that cpu (or is this impossible/depend on the mobo)?

1156 Xeons really aren't any better overclockers than 1366 and they're also getting pricey. You'd be better off going with a 1155 or 2011 motherboard and finding a matching CPU.

On a side note, I now have spare X5650 that was going on Ebay, but I thought I'd offer it to someone here first. Don't want much, say like $35.
If interested, head over here; https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/xeon-socket-1366-x5650.240957/

 

[freakshow]

So I got an Xeon E5-1650 v2 to replace my E5-2630 v1.

My questions is what can I expect from the E5-1650 v2? Can they be overclocked?

BTW the motherboard is an EVGA X79 SLI.

 

[jaggerwild]

I killed my 2630L V3, by trying to fix a Asus X99 with bent pins. Most of you probably already know(as the X99 has been out for some time), God I hate the learning curve! Anyways mines on its way back to China, then ill get another(that I wont be testing boards with).
(incert AH HA"S here)

 

[agent_x007]

My questions is what can I expect from the E5-1650 v2? Can they be overclocked?

You can expect many interesting things from it
But yes, it can.

 

[Techninja]

I know they aren't so great but I got it really cheap so I will try it out and a x3440 is like $20ish so not that bad. Only question left anyone any experience with a xeon in a p7p55d? I saw on gigabyte's site xeons are not officially supported but I found online that they run in p7p55D-e and P55D Lx boards just fine although they aren't supported on these boards either. Would I be able to mod some bios if they aren't supported? I don't it might be risky but that is okay.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I know they aren't so great but I got it really cheap so I will try it out and a x3440 is like $20ish so not that bad. Only question left anyone any experience with a xeon in a p7p55d? I saw on gigabyte's site xeons are not officially supported but I found online that they run in p7p55D-e and P55D Lx boards just fine although they aren't supported on these boards either. Would I be able to mod some bios if they aren't supported? I don't it might be risky but that is okay.

No need to mod the bios. If it posts and boots you're golden.

 

[Techninja]

I'll try and report back who knows

 

[freakshow]

So I said in my last post to got a xeon e5-1650 v2.

Has anybody worked with them overclocking wise? How far have you overclocked it/them? Can't find much on overclocking them well with my motherboard anyways. I use to have 3770k are they the same in terms in overclocking? Is there a different method you have to use on ivy bridge-e? Haven't overclocked in awhile lol.... Feel like a newbie again.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Haven't overclocked in awhile lol.... Feel like a newbie again.

What was the last CPU you OC'd?

 

[freakshow]

What was the last CPU you OC'd?

Technically it was my a10-7860k, but really I dont really consider that my last one cause all I did was change the multi, but I do consider my 3770k last cpu I overclocked cause I actually took time to not just messing with multipler. More and more went to that. Like adjusting vcore, and other settings. To get to my maximum overclocking on it. Plus I was on a custom waterloop on the 3770k.

To add I'm not new to overclocking. been overclocking since Athlon xp 1800+ days lol