Xeon Owners Club

[Edwired]

Ok but what brand was the power supply that was not working?

 

[gizmo613]

Evga 600w

 

[Edwired]

Jeez im surprised that it didnt boot with that power supply did you test it with dmm to see if any of the 12v 5v 3.3v rails are outputting correctly i wouldnt put it into another pc risking another blow out

 

[lyra]

Westmere overclocking is way more fun than harpertown

Also if its onenof those base level cheap 600w evga psus that's the same as what died on me within a week

 

[lexluthermiester]

I had the battery removed for over 24 hours and installed it when I install the i7 920, still no boot, same symptoms. Then I read up on how this MB is picking with power supplies. And......

It was the power supply. I swapped power supply and it booted into bios with the i7 920. It has bios revision FB. It'll need an update to support the Xeon that I have. Just have to remove the old power supply and reroute the new power supply.

Glad you figured it out! Remind us, what Xeon do you have?

 

[gizmo613]

Glad you figured it out! Remind us, what Xeon do you have?

I currently have an X5672 in it right now. But I also have E5520 and E5645.

 

[lyra]

X5672 is what i have, how far does yours clock?

 

[Peter Lindgren]

BTW Anyone have the experience with Xeon E5 2670/2680?How good they are for gaming and how much they could OC on good mobo via BCLK?

I use a 2680v2 which works fine with 113Mhz BCLK. All core turbo at 3.5GHz. Max single core turbo 4.0Ghz. I do think the v1s can´t go past 106Mhz BCLK.

I have been watching these Xeons for over 2 months

Intel Xeon E5-2683 V4 ES 2GHz 16-Core 32Threads

Intel Xeon E5-2690V2 10 Core 20 Threads SR1A5 @3.00Ghz

Intel Xeon E5 2690 V3 ES 2.4G 12 Core 24 Threads

Intel Xeon E5-2695V2 2,4 GHz 12 Core 24 Threads

Only thing that stops me is that i haven't found a valid justification to buy it

The best X79 cpu is the 1680v2 which is not that pricey anymore. The OEM cpu 2696v2 is also very interesting since it has higher all core turbo compared to the 2697v2. It should be possible to have 12 cores at 3.5GHz unless it hits its TDP-limit. The 2690v2 is very good allround CPU since you get 10 cores and 3.7Ghz all core turbo which also makes it good for gaming.

 

[gizmo613]

X5672 is what i have, how far does yours clock?

Its running stock at the moment. Not too sure on what settings to change for overclocking it.

 

[lyra]

I found mine pretty easy, basically maxed multi, 162 bclk and 1.3 ish volts for 4.2 worked well with 1600 memory too as it came 1624mhz

On air too

 

[gizmo613]

Ok small issue, I hope.

I have ddr3 16gb 1866mhz. Bios is set to 1866mhz on xmp profile 2, but post shows 1333mhz, task manager shows 800mhz and cpuz shows 1333mhz. Which is correct? And why doesn't run at 1866mhz?

 

[lyra]

Becareful with ddr3 xmps on westmere chips cause they probably put way too much voltage into the imc and cause rapid degradation. It could be showing you wierd things cause it cant set the uncore high enough as that has to be twice dram freq so its just autoing things down. But manually set frequencies and voltages for things like dram and imc. My 2000mhz ddr3 kit tried to put 1.9v into my imc lol

 

[gizmo613]

Man, how I wished my Asus x58 motherboard was still working, lol. Same chip and ram, that Asus booted right up with no issues other than it died the next day.
I have some ddr3 1333mhz server rams, hopefully, these will work. I don't want to damage my current set. Once I get home from work, I'll get the specs and then I'll be back for some overclock advice. Thanks, everyone!!

 

[FireFox]

Asus x588

 

[lyra]

Is that what comes after x299 now that amd got x399 first?

 

[gizmo613]

Lol, fixed.

 

[Edwired]

Jeez i just had a nightmare trying to get the asus p5q premium to behave as any time i do the aida64 to stress the memory it just keeps failing as i ruled out the voltages, timings none of them fixed the problem. So i did try the skew settings for cpu northbridge and ram turned out the bios messes with the skew so many times so ended up setting the skew manually as for now the ram skews are set to advanced 50ps the cpu delayed 200ps and northbridge delayed 600ps now i have a working pc as i used project cars for testing for any freezes and locks up none ever appears so yeah now the results im getting is the cpu is at 4ghz idle 1.20v loaded 1.21v the temperature is a bonus barely kissed 40c. Now i can chill out with gaming will do more overclocking on the cpu, ram and gpu to squeeze more peformance another day

 

[ManGupta]

Stating just the obvious ...........................

 

[sepheronx]

dunno where one can get a sabertooth for a decent price. Over here you would end up paying close to $300 cad just for the mobo.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

dunno where one can get a sabertooth for a decent price. Over here you would end up paying close to $300 cad just for the mobo.

300 CAD is around 200 €...hmm here in my country are expensive but not that much I saw few from 110€-150€.....

 

[lyra]

God i wish i could get a sabertooth for cheap. A hundred buck a pop for a p6x58de is kinda steep for such an old platform. But i guess its directly all our fault for keeping x58 in demand lol

 

[Zyll Goliat]

God i wish i could get a sabertooth for cheap. A hundred buck a pop for a p6x58de is kinda steep for such an old platform. But i guess its directly all our fault for keeping x58 in demand lol

You have more or less same mobo like me(P6X58D Premium) except I have USB 3 also not sure if you have that on yours...but honestly now I think that I might prefer this mobo over Sabaertooth....just because this 16+2 power phase,it comes handy after all this years of abuse and probably can prolong mobo life expectancy....

 

[lyra]

Mine has usb3 too. No front pannel usb3 header tho but my case is pre usb 3 anyway

 

[ManGupta]

USB3 was never an issue ...... one can always go for Cheap PCIE USB3 Adapter and X58 Mobos comes with good number of PCIE slots ... One can get cheap adapter with 20 Pin Front Panel header and a 4 port Front panel trays that just fits into legacy floppy drive bay ... which is not used anyway.

 

[FireFox]

dunno where one can get a sabertooth for a decent price. Over here you would end up paying close to $300 cad just for the mobo.

This is a nice Sabertooth:https://www.ebay.de/itm/ASUS-Sabertooth-X58-Motherboard-LGA-1336-Chipset/253961621299