Xeon Owners Club

[Mr.Scott]

No real thing you do will ever push your CPU as hard as any of those tests. All they do is cook your hardware. Test stability with your real life work. If it works for you, it's stable.

 

[Edwired]

No real thing you do will ever push your CPU as hard as any of those tests. All they do is cook your hardware. Test stability with your real life work. If it works for you, it's stable.

Yeah that what I was thinking the same thing. If anyone want to test the cpu test it on a hot frying pan

 

[Toothless]

Yes, the SSD is mounted weird. No I'm not changing it.

The 4.5ghz x5675 has a home finally.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yes, the SSD is mounted weird. No I'm not changing it.

I like it. Creative use of space. Very cool!

 

[Edwired]

Alot of open space there

I would if it was my system I would cut all the important cables and shorten the distance from the power supply then solder the wires and cover all the exposed with heatstrinks and cover it with custom colour sleeves. as well make custom aluminum covers with high stand off to cover the exposed wiring then it be clean looking but that just me in my own mind

Looks like there's windows 11 popping up online with better performance to be had. Even had a read about it not working with non tpm capable board or bios or cpu. But I seen a work around on using it by swapping a specific file from windows 10 to 11. I have a few hard drives on hand to test it out to see how the system will handle it

 

[Edwired]

Managed to get windows 11 working on the xeon x5675 and asus p6x58d-e as I had to swap more files than one just get rid of the secureboot and tpm 2.0 so it can be more installable on older hardware. There's alot of noticeable changes that isn't found on windows 10

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Managed to get windows 11 working on the xeon x5675 and asus p6x58d-e as I had to swap more files than one just get rid of the secureboot and tpm 2.0 so it can be more installable on older hardware. There's alot of noticeable changes that isn't found on windows 10

Same here It's working just fine on X79 Platform with the 12core Xeon....the changes are mostly just cosmetics now Windows looks more like MacOs or Linux something in between....under the hood seems like it 's still just win 10.... I also did some testing and results are the same or maybe just 1-2% better......and yeah you can keep all your old win 10 programs/games/installation no problems there so far tho' then expect more time to complete installation process......

 

[FireFox]

Managed to get windows 11

Windows 11?

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Windows 11?

Yeah...Win 11...tho' this is still "Unofficial"Leaked-Win11 version that is possible to find and tryout.....June 24 will be official Microsoft Release and presentation

 

[Edwired]

Same here It's working just fine on X79 Platform with the 12core Xeon....the changes are mostly just cosmetics now Windows looks more like MacOs or Linux something in between....under the hood seems like it 's still just win 10.... I also did some testing and results are the same or maybe just 1-2% better......and yeah you can keep all your old win 10 programs/games/installation no problems there so far tho' then expect more time to complete installation process......

Spotted something interesting in windows 11 that in dxdiag it have direct x12 ultimate in the menu since I didn't install all the required drivers yet as it shown disabled at the moment where in windows 10 it don't show direct x12 ultimate at all

 

[lexluthermiester]

Windows 11?

Yup, it's a thing, go hit up Google!

 

[FireFox]

Yup, it's a thing, go hit up Google!

Did it already, not worth to try it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Did it already, not worth to try it.

I've been playing with it. It's got some promise. But it's got a few problems too, not unexpected from an OS in alpha stage of development.

 

[Ruru]

X3230 still kicking on my HTPC, haven't got that i3 yet. Cooled by legendary Zalman CNPS 7700AlCu and clocked at 3.4GHz.

 

[Edwired]

There is a good lot of problems with windows 11 that I am getting 1 the right click on task bar is missing which is annoying, 2 can't pin the computer shortcut to work in task bar 3 the start menu is horrible 4 a lot of the explorer box have curved corners. For sure it snappy enough on a regular 5400rpm hard drive. Haven't tested games yet still in the process of trying to fix the event viewer what looks like strange corruption in the menu where it misspelt or scrambled words. Don't know if it related to the problem with the converted iso with removed TPM 2.0 and secureboot. To round up my expected view on windows 11 it needs a lot of work and it shouldn't have to be on a computer with TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled. My mixed feelings is that microsoft will discontinued windows 10 on older hardware down the road someday

 

[Ruru]

Well, don't use a leaked pre-release version?

I install it when it's officially available.

 

[Edwired]

Well, don't use a leaked pre-release version?

I install it when it's officially available.

I know that well enough but it just I need to see what all the hype is about but the outcome is about disappointing as a can of worms due to it asking for TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled only. I do see that Microsoft listed the specs of what computer can run with windows 11 but that where I am not sure if I want windows 11 on my current set up that why I tested it on another hard drive completely on it own without affecting the windows 10 on ssd otherwise I would either restore it back or start from scratch again as I don't have the time to be reinstalling all the softwares I own

 

[Ruru]

I know that well enough but it just I need to see what all the hype is about but the outcome is about disappointing as a can of worms due to it asking for TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled only. I do see that Microsoft listed the specs of what computer can run with windows 11 but that where I am not sure if I want windows 11 on my current set up that why I tested it on another hard drive completely on it own without affecting the windows 10 on ssd otherwise I would either restore it back or start from scratch again as I don't have the time to be reinstalling all the softwares I own

I doubt those requirements... quote on me later

 

[lexluthermiester]

There is a good lot of problems with windows 11 that I am getting 1 the right click on task bar is missing which is annoying

That's a known issue. They've moved that menu elsewhere. Right click on the start button.

I know that well enough but it just I need to see what all the hype is about but the outcome is about disappointing as a can of worms due to it asking for TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled only.

There is a way around that. If you'd like to try it out on bare hardware, PM me and I walk you through it. That goes for anyone.

 

[Edwired]

That a known issue. They've moved that menu else where. Right click on the start button.

There is a way around that. If you'd like to try it out on bare hardware, PM me and I walk you through it. That goes for anyone.

Yeah sure I get back to you on that while I'm sorting out the chkdsk it gave a warning about errors for some reason even the hard drive been blanked out before using win 11. Unless there's a problem with the drive I'm 50% sure I overlooked on it health. God more things to be checked ( Double Face Palm )

Just dawn on me that I picked up the hard drive from my neice's laptop not remembering that hard did have a problem last I remembered it was doing some mad noise like a audible beep noise like it had a speaker going off inside the PC case that when I went checking inside and I pretty much tracked it was coming from that hard drive. Now that the only hard drive causing the BIOS hang for more than 5 seconds when it checking smart status. I might well use another hard drive as I have a few lying around mainly regular 5400rpm.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yeah sure I get back to you on that while I'm sorting out the chkdsk it gave a warning about errors for some reason even the hard drive been blanked out before using win 11. Unless there's a problem with the drive I'm 50% sure I overlooked on it health. God more things to be checked ( Double Face Palm )

The joys of using spare drives..

 

[Edwired]

The joys of using spare drives..

I have a few good ones here some are complete f@£ked some are not detecting, and other have degrading health overall. Have to run them all through HD senital so I can marked each one with black marker so I know which one not to use again

 

[bogmali]

@Toothless

 

[lexluthermiester]

@Toothless

Nice! Pair of Xeons?

 

[bogmali]

Nice! Pair of Xeons?

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