Xeon Owners Club

[lyra]

Well what i was trying to highlight it it all depends. Blah blah single core, multi core, optimisation, type of load, you all know the crack. Dual xeons would only help if extra cores could be leveraged. Like witcher 1 uses no more than one core so F

 

[FireFox]

What about dual xeon setups? Would they give cards enough breathing room?

I used for 6 months one of my SR-2 Classified with 2 x Xeon X5690 overclocked at 4.7GHz with my Evga 1080 Classified and honestly i never had any problems

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I used for 6 months one of my SR-2 Classified with 2 x Xeon X5690 overclocked at 4.7GHz with my Evga 1080 Classified and honestly i never had any problems

Thats awesome machine BTW....but to be honest any of these 6 core Xeons(single)OC on that speed(4,7Ghz) will have more or less same results in games.......

 

[Edwired]

I can understand the clevo x7200 bios would be limited for the 680m graphic card upgrade but im sure theres someone on the internet have done some sort of bios modding to upgrade to a better graphic card. I did have a laptop one time before cant remember what make it was i did try to upgrade the graphic card by driver inf mod by editing the device id and it kinda hard to explain how i did it it kinda worked for abit but when i installed the driver the operating system just refused to work with the graphic card. This was about 6 years ago. If you could check what chipset the clevo x7200 is using im sure theres more info on the internet about the limit of the chipset

 

[king of swag187]

I can understand the clevo x7200 bios would be limited for the 680m graphic card upgrade but im sure theres someone on the internet have done some sort of bios modding to upgrade to a better graphic card. I did have a laptop one time before cant remember what make it was i did try to upgrade the graphic card by driver inf mod by editing the device id and it kinda hard to explain how i did it it kinda worked for abit but when i installed the driver the operating system just refused to work with the graphic card. This was about 6 years ago. If you could check what chipset the clevo x7200 is using im sure theres more info on the internet about the limit of the chipset

Nope, it would require a literal rewriting of the BIOS, and this is one of the rarest machines in the world unfortunately. What you're talking about is driver.inf modding, I know as I have had to due it for a majority of my machines

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Nope, it would require a literal rewriting of the BIOS, and this is one of the rarest machines in the world unfortunately. What you're talking about is driver.inf modding, I know as I have had to due it for a majority of my machines

TIme for me to learn how to write a bios

 

[SamirD]

Check the bios-mods.com forum for bios mods--those guys are wizards.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Check the bios-mods.com forum for bios mods--those guys are wizards.

Thanks for the heads up - Guess I could make a request there, however it's unlikely that'll work and I don't even have a 9xx series mobile gpu unfortunately.

 

[agent_x007]

Just updating that i got e5450 to 4ghz @ 1.184v idle, full load 1.192v, pll 1.66v, feb term 1.22v, dram 2.06v, nb 1.38v. Timings are first sub 5-5-5-15-4-50-13-4 second sub 7-5-5-4-5-4-7, third sub 21-5-1-6-6. Running with 4x 2gb gskill f2-8500cl5-2gbpk.

What is your Performance Level (can be checked under MemSet 4.1) ?

 

[Edwired]

My performance level is 8 any lower it wont boot as it set manually and my digital multimeter packed in as it kept rising voltages reading i thought i had another one laying about but cant find it

Thanks for the heads up - Guess I could make a request there, however it's unlikely that'll work and I don't even have a 9xx series mobile gpu unfortunately.

I dunno about the 9600m that i have in the acer aspire 6935g is that older than the 9xxm model?

Also found some interesting info about mxm card to pcie x16 adaptor
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Euroc...-your-desktop-with-a-laptop-GPU.241042.0.html

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Also found some interesting info about mxm card to pcie x16 adaptor

Thing is that's for a desktop unfortunately, a 980m for example will not run in this clevo x7200 because of the EC apparently - basically thermal management and others are saying the entire BIOS would literally need rewriting

 

[Edwired]

Would u know what bios model is in the clevo? I suppose just bios mod the 680m to overclock it more lol

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Would u know what bios model is in the clevo? I suppose just bios mod the 680m to overclock it more lol

The model I've got in the post has 2 480m's - It's estimated to come on the 10th of October, that's when it's overclocking time.

 

[Edwired]

There a page about bios mods for the x7200 https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thr...-BIOS-MODS-With-Unlocked-Overclocking-Options

 

[Deleted member 178884]

There a page about bios mods for the x7200

Yep - I've already got that bookmarked ; ) that bios mod is for unlocking the overclock options for the cpu as the stock one didn't allow it.

 

[Edwired]

Only question is can the laptop psu can handle it when it been overclocked

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Only question is can the laptop psu can handle it when it been overclocked

Nope, at least with dual 480ms, The psu is around 300w - I'm going to use 1 480m when overclocking to prevent shut offs.

I am considering going dual psu for the laptop however it's hard to justify the cost - £56 for the adapter and £89 ish for a second psu and my main priority is really getting more crunching power - looking at xeon's particularly the ES ones atm - still gotta save though.

 

[Edwired]

Yea it just mental of the cost of the adaptor and psu. Im sure theres some kind of mod using the power supply from a decktop then using some sort of voltage control that can dial the voltage and amp to the correct level like a bench power supply that would overcome the laptop psu problem

 

[Edwired]

What is your Performance Level (can be checked under MemSet 4.1) ?

Why you wanted to know about the performance level?

 

[agent_x007]

Because it tells me how much you pushed your chipset
Or how efficient your RAM is being utilised.
Lower = Better.
"8" is a good value for high FSB and high DRAM frequency (not low enough for stability to require massive volts, and not high enough for perf. to suffer).
Depends on board and memory configuration (if you can stabilise it).

 

[Edwired]

As the ram is 1068mhz by the bios and cpuid is stating 534mhz and the dram/fsb ratio 5/6 as im not overclocking the rams just yet. I did mess about with the ram freq about 3 weeks ago i mananged to boot to bios with 1200mhz but i was only testing to see how high it can go before i can settle for performance and stability

 

[agent_x007]

To be honest, unless you can do it without DRAM/NB voltage increase, it's not worth it.
Also, "locking" yourself to high memory speed is a bad idea for CPU OC'ing (since you can't move RAM without some sort of CPU frequency change).
Like you said, first try to set for max. FSB and max. CPU frequency (with Vcore and temps you are fine with).
Only then try to tweak RAM settings. Even with locked FSB, you can change RAM frequency (multipliers/dividers will prevent those changes from affecting CPU frequency).

PS. You can change/force a Performance level via Transaction Booster (if anyone is interested in how to change it).

 

[Edwired]

By the time the fsb i got to was 479mhz but i noticed that the ram divider will start to run out of options which ends up 1:1 as the last resort really. If i keep the 5:6 and overclock the ram i would get as high 1150mhz and loosing up all the timings and some voltages bumps it could be stable for an hour before it freak out like appications crashing and games be stuttering and crashing to desktop. But im only learning as i go

 

[Edwired]

It been quiet here is everyone ok lately?

 

[agent_x007]

Aye.
Many things to do, but so little time...