Xeon Owners Club

[FireFox]

Not double posting if more than 24 hrs between posts

To remove the edit button wasn't a good idea.

 

[lexluthermiester]

for Overclock get the Asus, if it is just for fun and overclock it is not a priority get Supermicro, i used to have Tyan. I had this here: http://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S7010_S7010AGM2NRF and the S7012 too.

That one is good too. Here's another SuperMicro that I found while being curious about dual 1366 Xeon boards.
https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DAH_.cfm
I have a pair of X5650's that might be fun to built into a single system.
@natr0n Generally speaking, try to get a 5520 chipset based board as that chipset has more PCIe lanes and better memory support.

 

[Regeneration]

Today one of my Gulftowns, that been stable for over a year, gave 0x00000124 BSOD during gaming.

IntelBurnTest ran fine, but it failed at Prime95 blend + LuxMark, meaning... another case of degraded uncore.

Used 1.3v for VTT on that system, but I guess thats too much after all.

 

[er557]

Is it covered by intel lifetime warranty?

 

[Regeneration]

As far as I know, Bloomfield and Gulftown don't have a lifetime warranty.

Its not big a deal anyway, just had to reduce the uncore by 100 MHz.

Be very careful with VTT and those 32nm Xeons. Even 1.3v isn't safe for 24/7.

 

[er557]

you mean my xeons? those are 22nm. according to spec they should be able to cope with 0.65v-1.30v; as to gulftowns, I don't know , I guess earlier generations were more sensitive to vtt. anyways, my board is not tweakable that way and everything is auto anyway. The only thing I tweak is turbo for all cores and tdp. On the asrock boards, the vrm's seem to work all the time in VR efficiency mode and in VR OVP mode, so that's a bit reassuring. If you have an asus board, those are known to overvolt needlessly

 

[FilipM]

1.3625V on VTT here, it has been a year I think, yet to see a Bsod.

 

[Durvelle27]

Any Sandy or Ivy 8 core owners like the 2650

What do you guys think of them ?

 

[lexluthermiester]

As far as I know, Bloomfield and Gulftown don't have a lifetime warranty.

Its not big a deal anyway, just had to reduce the uncore by 100 MHz.

Be very careful with VTT and those 32nm Xeons. Even 1.3v isn't safe for 24/7.

There's a lot of silicon lottery involved in this. But you are correct, 1.3v for the VTT is way high for 24/7 use.

 

[FireFox]

I have it at 1.26V

 

[Peter Lindgren]

The 2680v2s goes cheap now. Check CPU support prior buying. It did not work in my Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3. It works fine in an Asus P9X79.

Turbo on 1 core 4Ghz. Max freq on all cores is 3.5Ghz.

 

[phill]

Question guys, are there many dual socket boards for these CPUs around? I was wondering if they'd be a little more efficient than the 1366 Xeon's I currently run...

 

[er557]

do a search on ebay, should be plenty, I recommend asrock. asus has had a sketchy history with dual socket, though generally more tweakable. there's also supermicro, which is kind of set and forget. Be aware of some dodgy bios settings, may need several trial and error to get the server boards right for stability. And you may need a new case for ssi-eeb compatibility

 

[phill]

Are there any particular models that you might suggest?

 

[er557]

I'm afraid not, as I didn't work with socket 1366 dual boards per se, only with 2011-3

 

[FireFox]

as I didn't work with socket 1366 dual boards

Too bad Too bad

 

[phill]

I'm afraid not, as I didn't work with socket 1366 dual boards per se, only with 2011-3

Well I'd be looking at 2011 or 2011-3 dual CPU boards as I have a couple dual 1366 boards already and whilst they are brilliant, I would like to see if buying something slightly newer is in anyway more efficient and a lot faster I'm kinda tempted to just try a couple Ryzen 1700's as at 65w for 16 threads, I think it's a massive bonus!! Plus, I have a need to buy something new at some point lol

 

[FireFox]

Maybe i am getting this one but its not sure yet

Supermicro X10DRi bulk (MBD-X10DRi-B) Motherboard 2011-3 Dual Xeon V3 V4 ( EUR 250,00 )

 

[phill]

Looka sooo good I'd love to see one with some CPUs in, just so I can get an idea on the pricing!! DDR4 based aren't they Knoxx29??

 

[natr0n]

2011 is ddr3, 2011-3 is ddr4

 

[phill]

I'm still on 2600k systems or older, it's been a long time since I have managed to use any newer hardware!! But thanks, forgot lol

 

[er557]

That supermicro is a plain server board as it seems, not workstation oriented, does it support sli? Also apparent are some crappy vrm heatsinks, and the ram slots block first pcie slot long gpu. Also few usb slots on the back

 

[lexluthermiester]

Also apparent are some crappy vrm heatsinks, and the ram slots block first pcie slot long gpu. Also few usb slots on the back

Funny, I was going to comment that the vrm heatsinks are nice.

 

[FireFox]

That supermicro is a plain server board as it seems, not workstation oriented, does it support sli? Also apparent are some crappy vrm heatsinks, and the ram slots block first pcie slot long gpu. Also few usb slots on the back

You didn't ask for what i want to use it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That supermicro is a plain server board as it seems, not workstation oriented, does it support sli?

After reading up on the specs, I have to disagree. While this board has definite server features, it seems more easily suited for a workstation deployment. All of the PCIe 16x slots are electrically 16x 3.0. While is doesn't seem to be SLI enabled, if it's going to used as an actual workstation, SLI wouldn't be needed. One card could be used for video output and the other two can be used for GPGPU compute, presuming NVidia cards are going to be used. For example a GTX series gpu and one or a pair of Tesla cards. This board could easily perform both jobs, server and workstation, simultaneously. Given the right CPU's, a generous amount of ram and ample storage, it would excel at each.
@Knoxx29 A word of caution, this board pulls a fair amount of wattage fully loaded. Have read in a number of places that a 1000w power supply is recommended, but a 1200w would give a fair amount of wiggle room. Very nice choice of board though.
Out of curiosity, what are going to do with it?