Xeon Owners Club

[Edwired]

Believe me i have e6600 and q6600 here at home it like little and big brother to eachother lol. Sure xp is gone but not dead yet as i had to install xp in my pc for one purpose, was asked to convert small camera tapes to mp4 as it important for my friend so trouble started with windows 10 dont support the camera software that where xp came to the rescue

 

[MrGRiMv25]

Asus P5K

That Asus board has got a nice old-school look to it, reminds me a bit of my A7N8X that I had for an Athlon XP 2600+

 

[8BitZ80]

Believe me i have e6600 and q6600 here at home it like little and big brother to eachother lol. Sure xp is gone but not dead yet as i had to install xp in my pc for one purpose, was asked to convert small camera tapes to mp4 as it important for my friend so trouble started with windows 10 dont support the camera software that where xp came to the rescue

The 65nm chips trail behind in performance a bit, but they're still pretty good. Right now I'm on a 1.86GHz quad core Xeon E5320 SLAC8 that overclocked to 3.0GHz at 1.28V. Thermals would've allowed it to go even further but it refused to POST regardless of huge voltage increases.

 

[bobbybluz]

That Asus board has got a nice old-school look to it, reminds me a bit of my A7N8X that I had for an Athlon XP 2600+

I still have a fully functional A7N8X rev 2.0 with a XP 3200+ Barton in it. I fire up the rig it's in every year or so just for grins.

 

[MrGRiMv25]

I still have a fully functional A7N8X rev 2.0 with a XP 3200+ Barton in it. I fire up the rig it's in every year or so just for grins.

Nice, weirdly it's one of the few motherboards I've had that I remember the name of without having to use my brains way-back-machine haha... I had a really horrible Cooler Master Aero-something HSF on it, it kinda looked decent at the time but performance was pretty terrible.

I found a picture of the cooler and board, the pic is so old it's had some corruption over the years, think it was on a HDD that was failing and had to recover data off it.

 

[bobbybluz]

It's interesting that the prices of E5 1680 V2's have fallen so much in the past six months. I paid $150 for my latest one and should be able to get around twice that for the binned 4960X it's replacing.

Nice, weirdly it's one of the few motherboards I've had that I remember the name of without having to use my brains way-back-machine haha... I had a really horrible Cooler Master Aero-something HSF on it, it kinda looked decent at the time but performance was pretty terrible.

I found a picture of the cooler and board, the pic is so old it's had some corruption over the years, think it was on a HDD that was failing and had to recover data off it.
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I have a Thermaltake Volcano 11 cooler on the Barton 3200+, works fine. I'll take pictures the next time I get it out of my basement. I have a couple of Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD's I eventually want to see if I can get working in RAID 0 in it.

 

[MrGRiMv25]

I have a Thermaltake Volcano 11 cooler on the Barton 3200+, works fine. I'll take pictures the next time I get it out of my basement. I have a couple of Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD's I eventually want to see if I can get working in RAID 0 in it.

Cool, I like seeing old coolers for cpu's and gpu's alike, shows how far we've come over the last 20+ years.

 

[Edwired]

I have the POWERCOLOR X1650PRO 512M AGP still working

It was this graphic card that got me into games since the day i bought it

 

[8BitZ80]

I'm yet to be unimpressed by an Arctic cooling product. This cooler works great on the E5450 (now 4.0GHz). The fan bearing was making noise but some cleaning and new lubricant fixed it. The mounting bracket was missing a peg but used some Meccano hardware to fix that too.

 

[bobbybluz]

My second E5 1680 V2 just arrived. I know what I'll be doing tonight...

 

[Zyll Goliat]

My second E5 1680 V2 just arrived. I know what I'll be doing tonight...

Nice....show us some benchmarks.....

 

[bobbybluz]

4.6GHZ @1.32 core volts on the first test run. The CPUz validation hasn't showed up in the email on this PC yet. I'm going to have to mod the case for an extra two cooling fans for push/pull on the Corsair H105. It's in a NZXT H440 I paid $20 for off Craigslist and the top case cover is blocking the output airflow of the two Silverstone FM121's I currently have running at full speed (110cfm each) in push configuration. I'll mount the radiator and fans externally (both of my Corsair 500R rigs are like that, just had to remove the top grille) but I'll have to cut an opening in the top cover to do it. While I'm at it I'll add a Silverstone FHP141 (171cfm at full speed) to the side panel. I already have everything I need to do it here and it'll run much cooler when finished.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Questions:

#1 Does PCIE4.0 GPU's work on motherboards that are only PCIE3.0?

#2 If not, what Xeon Workstation HP Z model has PCIE 4.0 slots?

 

[dorsetknob]

#1 Does PCIE4.0 GPU's work on motherboards that are only PCIE3.0?

Yes They are Back compatable

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Questions:

#1 Does PCIE4.0 GPU's work on motherboards that are only PCIE3.0?

#2 If not, what Xeon Workstation HP Z model has PCIE 4.0 slots?

Yes they should work fine tho you might lose some performance it will depend on many factors....you can see here bellow some example with 5500XT

 

[RadeonProVega]

Yes they should work fine tho you might lose some performance it will depend on many factors....you can see here bellow some example with 5500XT

I only see maybe 1 o 2 extra fps ha. Thanks for the video/info.

 

[bobbybluz]

Pulled the top cover off the NZXT and added the two extra fans for push/pull. The CPU temp instantly dropped over 25 degrees F. I'll cut the hole in the top cover tonight.

https://valid.x86.fr/0jx749

 

[lexluthermiester]

#1 Does PCIE4.0 GPU's work on motherboards that are only PCIE3.0?

Yes, You'll be fine.

Yes they should work fine tho you might lose some performance it will depend on many factors....you can see here bellow some example with 5500XT

That is solid rubbish. The 5500XT is limited to a PCIE 3.0 8x connection, by design. THAT is it's limiting factor and then only just and that limitation seems limited to the 4GB version of the card as the 8GB version seems unaffected. Please review the following;

PCI-e 3.0 x8 may not have enough bandwidth for RX 5500 XT

As title suggest, RX 5500 XT 4GB may be bottlenecked by PCI-e 3.0. Here is a article in (german) : https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Radeon-RX-5500-XT-Grafikkarte-275529/Specials/PCI-Express-3-vs-PCI-E-4-GPU-1339415/

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Yes, You'll be fine.

That is solid rubbish. The 5500XT is limited to a PCIE 3.0 8x connection, by design. THAT is it's limiting factor and then only just and that limitation seems limited to the 4GB version of the card as the 8GB version seems unaffected. Please review the following;

PCI-e 3.0 x8 may not have enough bandwidth for RX 5500 XT

As title suggest, RX 5500 XT 4GB may be bottlenecked by PCI-e 3.0. Here is a article in (german) : https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Radeon-RX-5500-XT-Grafikkarte-275529/Specials/PCI-Express-3-vs-PCI-E-4-GPU-1339415/

www.techpowerup.com

Well yes but it's still a good example because it's clearly shows that when the 4GB card's VRAM buffer was full, running on a PCIe 4.0 slot improved performance by reducing the impact of using VRAM....as I said above theoretically he might lose "some" performance we do not know yet exactly as it will depend on many factors.....I also doubt it will be anything significant probably more or less is going to be similar like when we switch from PCIe2 on PCIe3 gen.....

 

[lexluthermiester]

Well yes but it's still a good example because it's clearly shows that when the 4GB card's VRAM buffer was full, running on a PCIe 4.0 slot improved performance by reducing the impact of using VRAM....as I said above theoretically he might lose "some" performance we do not know yet exactly as it will depend on many factors.....I also doubt it will be anything significant probably more or less is going to be similar like when we switch from PCIe2 on PCIe3 gen.....

This debate has been going on for many years and it's all academic. u2konline asked if a PCIe4 16x card will be bottlenecked by a PCIe3 16x slot(those were not their exact words but that is what they were asking). The simple and definitive answer is a resounding "no". A PCIe4 card will run perfectly fine in a PCIe3 slot. Full stop, end of discussion.

 

[Edwired]

Finally the Samsung 24in curved monitor packed in for good all it does flashes the screen 3 times and shut off it only cost me €50 no harm done. So I have to find a monitor in the mean time kinda looking around eyeing up Asus vg278 seems nice any pointers?

 

[Edwired]

 

[lyra]

I couldnt stay away for long (mini build is sick though) got an opportunity to get half an old computer with a 920 and a gigabyte ga-x58-ud...(probably 3r) for super cheap. does this motherboard play well with the 6 core xeons? Would it even ecc memory cause i have a ton of that laying around. Thinking i might get it and give it to my mate who i made a 771 xeon build for which wasnt really up to standard. Kinda gimped by slow memory

Anyway are these good boards?

 

[lexluthermiester]

gigabyte ga-x58-ud...(probably 3r) for super cheap. does this motherboard play well with the 6 core xeons?

Yes it does. You need to make sure the BIOS is updated to the latest version, but yes the 6 cores Xeons are plug&play.

Would it even ecc memory cause i have a ton of that laying around.

Not sure on that one, but it will not hurt to try. If they don't work you'll just get post error beeps, it won't hurt the board or RAM.

 

[dorsetknob]

Would it even ecc memory cause i have a ton of that laying around.

Not sure on that one, but it will not hurt to try.

Mem Controller is built into CPU (that Determins what mem works)
So yes you can use DDR3 ECC