Xeon Owners Club

[Zyll Goliat]

No need to push over 2000 apart for when benching RAM dependant apps.

I agree.....the real benefit is minimal...then still it´s kind of a challenge to reach high memory speed,so I totally understand when ppl. chase that.......

 

[FilipM]

2100 or 2150 is the highest I've had, but with 24GB it is impossible.

 

[lyra]

well rip... took my vrm and northbridge heat sink off to clean all the solidified thermal paste and apply some fresh thermal goop. made a total noob fuck up and put the vrm side of the heat sink on first and didnt get a good even mounting pressure and chipped the corner of the north bridge off... so i guess im looking for a new mobo lol.


god my laptop is sooooo slooooooooooooow

 

[FireFox]

well rip... took my vrm and northbridge heat sink off to clean all the solidified thermal paste and apply some fresh thermal goop. made a total noob fuck up and put the vrm side of the heat sink on first and didnt get a good even mounting pressure and chipped the corner of the north bridge off... so i guess im looking for a new mobo lol.

 

[dorsetknob]

god my laptop is sooooo slooooooooooooow

guess its now faster than your Desktop now
Decent 1366 Boards are getting harder to find for a reasonable price

 

[FireFox]

unacceptable

 

[lyra]

Yep i know they really are getting more and more rare might have to move to a sandybridge i7 or something :'(

 

[lyra]

There is a p6t ws that the bidding is at 60 quid right now. Hopefully i can get that ut im expecting it to douple in price... Damn. I wished i just killed my processor overclocking. They are faar easier and cheaper to replace

 

[FireFox]

Yep i know they really are getting more and more rare might have to move to a sandybridge i7 or something :'(

Do that and i don't know you anymore

The X58 instead obsolet every year they are more expensive.

Edit: Maybe in 10/15 years they will cost a fortune

 

[lyra]

I have no idea what it is about them. It seems not that many people know about the phenomenon price to performance of the platform with xeons and also the xeons are so cheap too. Surely if they where that sought after the xeons would be expensive too still... What a mad market

 

[The Silviu]

Hello everybody!
This is my first time on this forum.

Yah, I agree with you, it's crazy value for the money and the performance is real, as stated on places like YouTube.
I can get crazy overclock values, core ram and uncore, but the reality is that the majority of the pc users are not able even to go inside the bios...

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Hello everybody!
This is my first time on this forum.

Yah, I agree with you, it's crazy value for the money and the performance is real, as stated on places like YouTube.
I can get crazy overclock values, core ram and uncore, but the reality is that the majority of the pc users are not able even to go inside the bios...

Welcome to theTechPowerUp......When it comes to the X58 platform mobo plays crucial role and it´s no wonder why prices are insane as Xeons are still very competitive until these days....from other side it´s possible to find some cheaper boards or Chinese mobos but then could be problematic to do OC and also quality is questionable......Feel free to post some pictures of your RiG/stats/tests.....

 

[lyra]

Do many people have experience with the chinesium boards here? Any horror stories or good experiences or?

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Do many people have experience with the chinesium boards here? Any horror stories or good experiences or?

Here are some on the AliExpress https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesal...liate=y&needQuery=n&isOnlyAffiliate=y&tc=main
check what the ppl. talking about them in the comments,those mobos are ranked better then some others....

 

[FilipM]

Yep i know they really are getting more and more rare might have to move to a sandybridge i7 or something :'(

X79 Xeon? Then you can still be friends with @Knoxx29

 

[Edwired]

Hey everyone just updating my pc with voltage tweaks and timings along with asus gtx 750 ti oc which i got for €73 on ebay where i see a few of the same graphic card going for nearly €100 to €170 it insane really. Anyway back to overclocking the xeon e5450 i managed to get the cpu vid of 1.162v as it currently running at 3.6ghz at 1.168v on the vcore with 8gb muchkins running at 900mhz at 2.20v, the fsb voltage is 1.36v. The result on the cpu the temperature is insane im getting below 40c on the cpu and the cores are hovering around 45c to 50c depending on the load. The fsb on the cpu is running at 450mhz with the multi at 8.0.
As it running on asus p5q premium motherboard

 

[lyra]

X79 Xeon? Then you can still be friends with @Knoxx29

id be more than happy to move to a later generation of xeon but then id need a whole new processor too :/

also does anyone know what this little thing does on an asus p6x58de board?

the IC next to it not the fan header i mean

EDIT: its a transistor i dug my old broken board out and had a look at it. worst comes to the worst i can always salvage it off my dead board so i think imma not gonna worry about it. funny how there is nothing connected to the drain... i wonder what it could be there for...

 

[Edwired]

That a mosfet looks like burnt in the middle how you test that is a digital multi meter (dmm) on diode mode then touch black on the middle mosfet legs and the red lead on either legs as if both read the same value that needs replacing as one leg should have a low value and the other leg should have a high value. The mosfet should be replace with the same model. Look like ya need a hot air station to take off the mosfet as the pad under that is huge.

Can you see any writing on the burnt mosfet?

 

[The Silviu]

I have some pictures of my current rig...
It's a Asus P6x58D Premium motherboard with, ofecourse, the xeon x5650 currently running at 4.87 something mhz 1.488v
48gb Corsair Dominator platinum @1700mhz.
My gpu is a xfx rx 480 8gb, reference design with a Arctic extreme cooler, backplate still on.
I don't know if it's permitted to post a YouTube link, if so, iI have a channel where i posted some action.

 

[lyra]

this is a picture from an ebay listing. apparently it was an ex display board and some how that fet got chipped. the listing says the board works as intended so i should be covered with the ebay buyer protection if i win and it doesnt work as intended. i got my old board and read the number off that and google said it was an Advanced Power Electronics Corp. AP3310GH P-channel enhancement mode power MOSFET. i cant probably ghetto a hot air station from a hot air gun and some bodgery if i do need to replace it. thanks for the tip on testing if it needs replacing or not

when i looked around the board i can see a lot of these little mosfets with nothing attached to the drain (some being different types of mosfet but all with nothing on the drain) on the middle leg... with my low level of electronics knowledge, a mosfet is a variable resistor between the drain and the source dependent on the voltage on the gate relative to the source. so what is this component doing with nothing connected to the drain?

 

[Edwired]

My custom pc have an upgrade for northbridge cooling which is pretty cool as i modded the xbox 360 fan 3 pin to power it up and controlled by the bios not too noisy and good airflow as well

 

[The Silviu]

Why is the north bridge temp a problem? I think it's enough to repaste it with a fresh and good quality product and it's all set.
Intel stated that on x58 the max temp is 90 Celsius. That is difficult to reach, even with a many yars old motherboard.

 

[Edwired]

It could be addition voltages could be related ram voltage as i wouldnt buy a motherboard with a chipped fets that lost it details. Then again it could be something important. If the replacement mosfet is available to buy why not chance it ya have nothing to lose

 

[Edwired]

Why is the north bridge temp a problem? I think it's enough to repaste it with a fresh and good quality product and it's all set.
Intel stated that on x58 the max temp is 90 Celsius. That is difficult to reach, even with a many yars old motherboard.

Well to be honest i have repasted the northbridge, southbridge, cpu and the graphic card with arctic mx-4. And the temperature are well in check as im doing overclocking on the asus p5q premium so yes more airflow in tight places do help

 

[lyra]

It could be addition voltages could be related ram voltage as i wouldnt buy a motherboard with a chipped fets that lost it details. Then again it could be something important. If the replacement mosfet is available to buy why not chance it ya have nothing to lose

i already have a spare from my dead board infact so yeah totally nothing to lose. it also comes with an i7 950 and the bidding is at 50 quid so yeah doesnt seem like too big an issue also the seller says its working so if it isnt i can always get my money back