Xeon Owners Club

[Zyll Goliat]

I already posted AIDA64 results of a variety of CPU/FPU benchmarks, so far the performance reduction isn't that bad.

Intel made several adjustments to the microcode over the time. The latest version (0x1F) seems to be better. The previous version dropped 3DMark by 200 points on my system.

Well....first of all TY @Regeneration for your efforts....I changed bios and so far so good....there are are some minor losses,for example in Cinebench R15 when my CPU is OC on 4,1Ghz before I could have around 945 score now is 930,same goes for passmark before was like 10120 score now is 10010,also maybe booting time is few second longer but from other side my System is finally safe

 

[phill]

I managed to have a little something else given to me from work today...

Shall be interesting to see what this might work in

 

[dorsetknob]

Shall be interesting to see what this might work in

Haswell 1150 based Xeon nice especialy for free
I'm sure you got a suitable spare board

 

[lexluthermiester]

Well....first of all TY @Regeneration for your efforts....I changed bios and so far so good....there are are some minor losses,for example in Cinebench R15 when my CPU is OC on 4,1Ghz before I could have around 945 score now is 930,same goes for passmark before was like 10120 score now is 10010,also maybe booting time is few second longer but from other side my System is finally safe

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That's actually not bad. For some reason when I benchmarked my two Xeon systems, each one had a bigger drop in performance, depending on the benchmark/game being run. I wonder, Do you have virtual machine options and HT disabled in your bios?
That CPU has VM and HT features, perhaps that might be it?

I personally disabled the VM features, but left HT on.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

That's actually not bad. For some reason when I benchmarked my two Xeon systems, each one had a bigger drop in performance, depending on the benchmark/game being run. I wonder, Do you have virtual machine options and HT disabled in your bios?
That CPU has VM and HT features, perhaps that might be it?

I personally disabled the VM features, but left HT on.

I don´t use VM so it´s turned off in bios from other side I prefer HT so I keep it always ON.....Also few more things....I noticed that this small "impact" on benchmarks is only somehow noticable when I just enter in win and when I keep it low on other apps in other words when I am ready for benchmarking but soon as I start multitasking and open my browser(50 windows at least) and maybe some other smaller programs and then try the benchmarking result stayed almost the same but before(with regular bios) it will usually be a bit lower(around those numbers that I have now)....so in reality for every day use when I MUST open my browser&few other programs while I playing the games the impact is really negligible....

 

[phill]

Haswell 1150 based Xeon nice especialy for free
I'm sure you got a suitable spare board

I've just put it in my Z97 OCF Formula, seems to work just fine! I wonder if it will perform as well as my 4770k...

Time to get Linux installed and get it crunching I think

 

[Deleted member 178884]

1.55v will push the clocks further.

Sorry for the low res - if you can't read use photoshop or something to enlarge it - forgot to reinstall the nvidia driver for my 560 ti after a windows re installation (Oops)

 

[Regeneration]

Spectre patched BIOSes for more vendors (EVGA, ASRock, Gigabyte) are now available.

 

[FireFox]

@phill where are you?

 

[phill]

I'm always around @Knoxx29 I'm sad to say that my Classifieds have no PSU, so no workie at the moment.. (Plus I really need to get my arse in gear and sort out the bloody loops in those two rigs..)

From what I understand the micro code updates the CPU yes? Is there a way to upload the original micro code on the CPUs??

 

[droopyRO]

Got to play a bit with X5675 overclocked to 4.2Ghz, 8GB RAM 1800Mhz and a GTX 980 Ti:

 

[phill]

They can still keep up with 1440P and 4k 1080P they are a little behind but so glad I've kept mine Amazing systems!!

 

[AlwaysHope]

In this thread, I morphed from non xeon owner to impressed & happy xeon owner, although a bit last decade... nevertheless I ended up with a XEON!

 

[stuartb04]

Hmm.
As some you know that i overclocked my x5650 to a stable 4ghz.

Has been fine ever since this morning though.

Usually i leave my pc on 24/7.but lately have been turning it off at night. Its only on in the evenings.

So turnt it on this morning before work. It turnt on but had not signal going to the monitor.

Hard reset it and it came on. Only to be confronted with the following message.

'Overclocked failed'

So i lowered the dram frequency to the lowest.

Not sure if this helped but i booted back in.

Do you reckon this just a blip or do i need to change something else.

Never happened before and pretty much game everyday.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Hmm.
As some you know that i overclocked my x5650 to a stable 4ghz.

Has been fine ever since this morning though.

Usually i leave my pc on 24/7.but lately have been turning it off at night. Its only on in the evenings.

So turnt it on this morning before work. It turnt on but had not signal going to the monitor.

Hard reset it and it came on. Only to be confronted with the following message.

'Overclocked failed'

So i lowered the dram frequency to the lowest.

Not sure if this helped but i booted back in.

Do you reckon this just a blip or do i need to change something else.

Never happened before and pretty much game everyday.

Silicon has degraded - you'll need more voltage or spend on a new one.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Silicon has degraded - you'll need more voltage or spend on a new one.

I doubt that his chip have problem due to the degradation it´s more likely that he didn´t OC his X5650 properly as he just recently get this CPU.....my advice is to check again bios settings and start doing some more serious testing(prime 95,IBS) before he can conclude that his CPU&NB&memory are stable on that current frequency.........

 

[stuartb04]

I doubt that his chip have problem due to the degradation it´s more likely that he didn´t OC his X5650 properly as he just recently get this CPU.....my advice is to check again bios settings and start doing some more serious testing(prime 95,IBS) before he can conclude that his CPU&NB&memory are stable on that current frequency.........

strange that i have never had any problems whilst gaming.also tested with cinebench.passed fine.

only instance this morning whilst booting up.

cinebench reads 3.6ghz whilst testing.

 

[DR4G00N]

Silicon has degraded - you'll need more voltage or spend on a new one.

Yeah, that's not it. Much more likely that the Asus board is just being finicky.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

strange that i have never had any problems whilst gaming.also tested with cinebench.passed fine.

only instance this morning whilst booting up.

cinebench reads 3.6ghz whilst testing.

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First of all don´t worry Cinebench have known issue reading true CPU speeds use CPU-Z for accurate check of your current speed....now if your CPU is OC on 4Ghz that Cinebench score(802) is a bit off and it´s should be much more closer to the 900 points also Cinebench and games are not great indicators for overall CPU stability as I said you should do more serious testing with prime 95 or IBS running stable for at least 15-20 min....GL

 

[stuartb04]

Yeah, that's not it. Much more likely that the Asus board is just being finicky.

yea i have just read that asus boards can do this at boot up.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

yea i have just read that asus boards can do this at boot up.

Ok also now I saw your NB Freq. speed which is also very low(2183Mhz) and I can advice you to try and OC this a bit higher..... for example my NB Freq is at 3543Mhz do not go higher then 4000Mhz

 

[stuartb04]

First of all don´t worry Cinebench have known issue reading true CPU speeds use CPU-Z for accurate check of your current speed....now if your CPU is OC on 4Ghz that Cinebench score(802) is a bit off and it´s should be much more closer to the 900 points also Cinebench and games are not great indicators for overall CPU stability as I said you should do more serious testing with prime 95 or IBS running stable for at least 15-20 min....GL

Stress testing with prime95 now.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Stress testing with prime95 now.

Pay Attention on your TEMPS due the prime 95 test and do not panic if they reach 80c-90c but if temps go higher then 95c I advice you to stop testing!!!

 

[stuartb04]

Ok also now I saw your NB Freq. speed which is also very low(2183Mhz) and I can advice you to try and OC this a bit higher..... for example my NB Freq is at 3543Mhz do not go higher then 4000Mhz

Pay Attention on your TEMPS due the prime 95 test and do not panic if they reach 80c-90c but if temps go higher then 95c I advice you to stop testing!!!

just tested for about 35 mins. no errors at all. temps did hit 80c max.

so can say its quite stable.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

just tested for about 35 mins. no errors at all. temps did hit 80c max.

so can say its quite stable.

Well thats a good news and that temps are OK for the prime 95,some ppl. leave the prime 95 to work for many h I do not prefer that but I instead like to do shorter multitasking-tests while prime 95 is working example prime&cinebench or some video editing&prime 95 also try to do IBS(Intel Burn Test) and then I could be sure that CPU is stable but even then sometimes if PC froze or some other instability happens you should tweak your core V or go a bit higher or a bit lower on your frequency because sometimes cpu-memory-NB simply do not like to work on certain speeds ....so you can try and go a bit higher on CPU speed but also you must tweak your mem speed /timings and the NB freq. and then do more testing.......GL