Xeon Owners Club

[Arcdar]

You'll want an actual server board. Not these Chinese boards that are salvaged together.

If only your budget was higher, I'd sell you my board and ram.

some of them are actually quite good. I also run one ( HUANANZHI X79 16D - which I payed 105$ for in 2019 I think. Either end of 2018 or early 2019 ) for my dual 2690sV1 no issues at all. Fan-settings only works on the two 4-pin headers (the three-pin run at 100% all the time, no matter what you set) but that's about all the issues I had with it.


Check out Miycost - or his youtube. He tests them quite a lot for gaming and other uses and lists all pro's and con's of them as well as which chipset is actually on the board (not all x79s and x99s are actually X79/X99 or the C610 chipset on Aliexpress) - but if you can find some very decent dual boards with X99 chipset on Aliexpress which get the job done. In general Miycost has some decent reviews and info's on most of the x79/x99 stuff on aliexpress - he started his channel for those who can't order regular stuff (some areas of russia for instance) as well as for those who don't have the money to go "all the new shiny stuff" - and does a great job at that (very detailed reviews in english and his native languate) .

Right now the prices are artificially inflated thanks to the HDD-Mining-Boom which profits from dual-cpu-setups but in general.



I got JGINYUE X99 Dual 2011-3 for a friend in January for 99€ on a sale. He's running two 2678W v3's on it and is super happy. We used a Y-Adapter to connect both CPU-Coolers to one of the 4-pin headers and a cheap 4-pin Fan hub to connect his case-fans to the 2nd cpu-4-pin-fan-header and this way he could set them all up to use PWM and everything runs smooth, quiet and nice . It's not "the best" board - of course I'd also love an Asus WS dual x99 board.... but hey, 99€ vs >300€ ? The price-to-performance definitely goes for the chinese board here. Both NVME M2's run also really well and in general actually was surprised by how well it looked finally assembled. No fancy bling-bling or massive heatsinks. But the IR-thermometer showed everything in good shape/temperature even while running prime - so in general, again, it's a decent little board if you get it for a price close to 120$, looks nice and works. I also already used a HUANANZHI X99 F8D which actually had better memory performance than the one mentioned before , but only one NVME-M2 and also I didn't like the red/black combo for the build I did for another friend .... the pureblack of the Jingyue was way easier and nicer to integrate ... at least as long as you use it at your desktop in a case which has some "viewing my hardware" options ...

Of course you can't use "all core unlock" on the dual-motherboards which you could do on regular 2011-3 with xeon-v3's but whatever.... they run well enough like they are .

 

[Ruru]

I hope that my X58 board arrives tomorrow

 

[lexluthermiester]

I hope that my X58 board arrives tomorrow

I suspect you are going to have some OC fun with that chip.

 

[Ruru]

I suspect you are going to have some OC fun with that chip.

Aiming for 4.4GHz as 4.2 was stable

 

[lexluthermiester]

Aiming for 4.4GHz as 4.2 was stable

Try not to push the voltages to high. 4.2ghz is entirely respectable as a daily OC.

 

[Ruru]

Try not to push the voltages to high. 4.2ghz is entirely respectable as a daily OC.

Cooling of the CPU isn't a problem, I'll put a custom loop with 240x45 rad and I'll have no other components to heat up the loop.

 

[Toothless]

Might grab a 5.25 to 3.5 dock for the hdds, clean er' up a little bit the 1680v2 now has a home, and my girlfriend still doesn't give two cares about it. I think it looks glorious.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Cooling of the CPU isn't a problem, I'll put a custom loop with 240x45 rad and I'll have no other components to heat up the loop.

The warning offered has less to do with heat as much as damage from the voltage itself causing electronic pathway degradation, which is a real problem.

 

[Mescalamba]

The warning offered has less to do with heat as much as damage from the voltage itself causing electronic pathway degradation, which is a real problem.

Ah that, managed to half-toast my non-Xeon with it. Pretty much reason why I ended with x5690.

 

[Ruru]

The warning offered has less to do with heat as much as damage from the voltage itself causing electronic pathway degradation, which is a real problem.

I hope this P5Q's bundled radial fan fits its VRM heatsink

 

[Arcdar]

I hope this P5Q's bundled radial fan fits its VRM heatsink

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awesome, I also still have the Asus P5Q Deluxe lying around somewhere, including this "amazing little fan"

but what he's talking about has nothing to do with VRM's or the cpu or heat output but electric corrosion if you want to call it that. Too much voltage destroys pathways. no matter if the cpu/VRM/whatever is running "too hot" or not.

 

[Ruru]

awesome, I also still have the Asus P5Q Deluxe lying around somewhere, including this "amazing little fan"

That's actually a fine little helper when you have a watercooled CPU and not much airflow going to VRM/chipset

 

[dorsetknob]

That's actually a fine little helper when you have a watercooled CPU and not much airflow going to VRM/chipset

on my Asus P6 i used same fan (2) one from a Asus p38 and one from my P45 to help cool VRM
2 is better than one especially when using a WC Block on Cpu.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That's actually a fine little helper when you have a watercooled CPU and not much airflow going to VRM/chipset

That is the main reason I like and strongly prefer down-draft heatsinks as the air being blown through will also cool the VRM heatsinks on the board.

 

[Edwired]

Here the video I uploaded it abit shit since it looks perfect on the computer but youtube makes it worse in video quality for some reason but other than it shows abit stuttering but never mind that. In the video the bottom left corner is the vcore reading during TT Isle of Man 2 along with the cpu temps it pretty good for the X5675 with the overclock to 4.20ghz but I limited it to 4ghz with the maximum processor state to 95% (You might have to put the video in fullscreen to see it ). This is with all the Intel C-State features is enabled

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here the video I uploaded it abit shit since it looks perfect on the computer but youtube makes it worse in video quality for some reason but other than it shows abit stuttering but never mind that. In the video the bottom left corner is the vcore reading during TT Isle of Man 2 along with the cpu temps it pretty good for the X5675 with the overclock to 4.20ghz but I limited it to 4ghz with the maximum processor state to 95% (You might have to put the video in fullscreen to see it ). This is with all the Intel C-State features is enabled

Good performance!

 

[Edwired]

Good performance!

Without the video capture the cpu load is alot lower and it nearly butter smooth with a drop frame here and there in some part of the game

 

[lexluthermiester]

Without the video capture the cpu load is alot lower and it nearly butter smooth with a drop frame here and there in some part of the game

External capture hubs can be very useful for that reason.

 

[johnspack]

You'll want an actual server board. Not these Chinese boards that are salvaged together.

If only your budget was higher, I'd sell you my board and ram.

Was planning on a real server board. What do you have to offer? I see supermicros and asus boards going for 100 or so on ebay. And ecc ram is cheap and available.
Like I said, I may get some assistance to pull this off.

 

[Toothless]

Was planning on a real server board. What do you have to offer? I see supermicros and asus boards going for 100 or so on ebay. And ecc ram is cheap and available.
Like I said, I may get some assistance to pull this off.

It's a Supermicro board, and it's massive with custom standoff holes. You'd need an SSI-EEB sized case for it which might be more costly than it's worth.

 

[johnspack]

Well, got a new toy in the mail today.... darn should of resized pic... can't figure out how...

 

[lexluthermiester]

darn should of resized pic... can't figure out how...

PaintDotNet. It's free and very easy to use.

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

www.getpaint.net

However, if you're on Android;

Photo Editor - Apps on Google Play

Photo Editor is a small but powerful photo editing application

play.google.com

If you're on Apple, I'm the wrong person to ask..

 

[johnspack]

I actually use pinta... native linux app. I just didn't bother to set it up right. I am going to see if paint.net will run under wine however.... why not?
Heh, nope.... oh well.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I actually use pinta... native linux app. I just didn't bother to set it up right. I am going to see if paint.net will run under wine however.... why not?
Heh, nope.... oh well.

GIMP?

 

[johnspack]

Heh, yeah, gimp. Time for me to learn how to use it!