Xeon Owners Club

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Excuse the potato quality of picture. A good few years ago I built a x79 system with the i7 3820. A few months ago I was able to purchase a Xeon E5-1650 V2 for £120 off ebay. Can overclock to 4400MHz easily even with my crap cooler. Apparently they are just as fast as the ryzen 5 1600, so it will keep me going for another couple of years.

 

[deathmore]

Excuse the potato quality of picture. A good few years ago I built a x79 system with the i7 3820. A few months ago I was able to purchase a Xeon E5-1650 V2 for £120 off ebay. Can overclock to 4400MHz easily even with my crap cooler. Apparently they are just as fast as the ryzen 5 1600, so it will keep me going for another couple of years.

I bought my xeon mostly because of ram costs with new systems just to expensive. Im hoping to get a few years out of mine as well.

 

[FireFox]

you should try living around here. it sucks -40c with the windchill this morning. i

The perfect weather for me

 

[deathmore]

The perfect weather for me

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you say that now. but once your here you may change your idea.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

With insane costs for new components, finally got a decent upgrade to my i7 920 to a W3680. My first xeon or any server part.

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Welcome to the club!!!Yours W3680 should reach easily from 4ghz to 4,2ghz any day and if you have proper cooling and some nice mobo you can expect speeds above 4,5+Ghz!!!

 

[deathmore]

Welcome to the club!!!Yours W3680 should reach easily from 4ghz to 4,2ghz any day and if you have proper cooling and some nice mobo you can expect speeds above 4,5+Ghz!!!

I got a noctua NH-D14 for cooling. and from my cpu-z file rest of comp. maybe this weekend i'll try for 4ghz. Any good benchmark program to check for stability?

 

[er557]

LinX 0.7.1 intel mkl update 2 2017, nice app for stress testing, and it will give you a ballpark of your cpu Gflops rating as well.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I got a noctua NH-D14 for cooling. and from my cpu-z file rest of comp. maybe this weekend i'll try for 4ghz. Any good benchmark program to check for stability?

Thats an excellent cooler,what is your mobo?
For stability tests I am usually using Aida 64 or prime 95 also SisoftSandra is good......My advice if you hate to wait at least for 20-30 min of testing you can try the following Start prime 95 and then run Cinebench test in the same time(you can repeat 2-3 cinebench runs).....If CPU/Mem "survive" that it´s probably stable,also pay attention on your RAM,QPI and NB Freq as this need to be properly tweaked........GL

 

[FireFox]

you say that now. but once your here you may change your idea.

I lived 2 years in Switzerland where temperatures reached up to -25c and sometimes i went to the mountains at a height of 4500 meters where temps were around -40c.

 

[er557]

I lived 2 years in Switzerland where temperatures reached up to -25c and sometimes i went to the mountains at a height of 4500 meters where temps were around -40c.

I wonder what overclock you could have reached with those temps...

 

[deathmore]

Thats an excellent cooler,what is your mobo?
For stability tests I am usually using Aida 64 or prime 95 also SisoftSandra is good......My advice if you hate to wait at least for 20-30 min of testing you can try the following Start prime 95 and then run Cinebench test in the same time(you can repeat 2-3 cinebench runs).....If CPU/Mem "survive" that it´s probably stable,also pay attention on your RAM,QPI and NB Freq as this need to be properly tweaked........GL

gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5

I lived 2 years in Switzerland where temperatures reached up to -25c and sometimes i went to the mountains at a height of 4500 meters where temps were around -40c.

everyday during winter go outside to -40c to sometimes colder than underground 3200 feet to 24-35c temps so no acclimation to weather makes it seem that much colder when you do go out.

 

[dorsetknob]

I wonder what overclock you could have reached with those temps..

About the Same as he can get now @Knoxx29 Runs a Water chiller cooling loop

 

[Zyll Goliat]

gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5

Thats a SOLID board,I reckon it will be smooth&easy OC beyond 4Ghz,just follow some good OC guide in here......Also don´t forget that now with Xeon you will be able to use up to 48Gb of RAM on that mobo if you ever need it....

 

[deathmore]

Thats a SOLID board,I reckon it will be smooth&easy OC beyond 4Ghz,just follow some good OC guide in here......Also don´t forget that now with Xeon you will be able to use up to 48Gb of RAM on that mobo if you need it....

sounds good. i never got my i7 920 to high. 12gb is enough for now, this is my main computer and is mostly used for gaming and streaming stuff to family members to watch. The computer seemed a bit slugish booting up first time last night with the new cpu. But i was able to play civ 6 and dark souls perfectly fine.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

sounds good. i never got my i7 920 to high. 12gb is enough for now, this is my main computer and is mostly used for gaming and streaming stuff to family members to watch. The computer seemed a bit slugish booting up first time last night with the new cpu. But i was able to play civ 6 and dark souls perfectly fine.

Well that slower boot was perfectly normal as Win is recognized your"new"hardware for the first time......also I hope that you updated your GA-EX58-UD5 mobo bios on the latest version(should be ver. F13)

 

[Edwired]

Hey everyone made abit of good progress on my asus p5q premium with e5450 as i was having issues after issues trying to get the motherboard stable but suffering from poor fps performance. As i have done all the required tactics in ruling out the issues all checked out fine. So i had to remove the xeon e5450 with the 771 to 775 adaptor to my surprise the double sided adhesive was nearly blocking and touching the two outer pins on the adaptor. So i decided to remove the adhesive on the outer part of the adaptor and checked for bent pins on the 775 socket only to find one missing half of the tip and three pins were out of shape. After all that is fixed. The fps performance shot up from 32fps min 50fps max to 70fps min 95max

 

[er557]

That's odd, bent pins and such should have made you not POST at all

 

[Edwired]

That right as it depends on the cpu pcb as 775 have enough contact area for the pins to touch but the main factor is the socket pins are so close to eachother you cant tell either it touching or not touching. So i had an idea last night is to find clear plastic that dont flex and cut it to size of the cpu then apply the force to see the pins move and inspect the ones that are not aligned or touching

 

[mouacyk]

The perfect weather for me

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I lolol'ed

 

[FireFox]

I wonder what overclock you could have reached with those temps...

For sure high

About the Same as he can get now @Knoxx29 Runs a Water chiller cooling loop

Thanks for making it public

 

[dorsetknob]

Thanks for making it public

Its all in that Boasting siggi

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[phill]

Was always tempted by a chiller as thought I could possibly get away with no rads or fans as such but I did wonder how 'large' a chiller I'd need to get the right level of crazy overclocker settings to work.. That said with a quad rad and the right CPU you can possibly get pretty darn close anyways I think... But chillers.. gives me chills thinking about the things I could run faster with

Apologises for the bad joke, it's late and I'm tired from driving to pick up my 5 year old daughter!

 

[FireFox]

with a quad rad

Apologises for the bad joke

Yeap it was a bad Joke

I dont know if Quad Rad will drop temps to -2c

get away with no rads or fans

I have Rad and fans too

 

[Edwired]

That simple put the rad outside the windows. Or the one youtube video linus did with a guetto air conditioner converted to a cpu cooler pretty mad to look at

 

[phill]

When the cold weather hits, the temps drop like a stone I remember the days of my 920 D0 running 4.6Ghz idling at 8C