Xeon Owners Club

[FireFox]

That MotherBoard if i buy it will be used for Crunching paired with 2 X 14 Cores Xeons, not all slots of Rams need to be populated and if the CPU i pick has dedicated graphic i wouldn't need a Graphic card and in case i need it even a 20€ one would be more than enough.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That MotherBoard if i buy it will be used for Crunching paired with 2 X 14 Cores Xeons, not all slots of Rams need to be populated and if the CPU i pick has dedicated graphic i wouldn't need a Graphic card and in case i need it even a 20€ one would be more than enough.

If you're referring to a pair of E5-2683, E5-2695 or E5-2697's(all V3 Haswell's) that you will have going to do number crunching, it would be well worth buying CPU's with fewer cores, such as E5-2640 or E5-2667(again V3 Haswell's) and shifting the saved money to a capable GPU.
If you're intending to get Broadwell based CPU's, you'll really want to get a pair of E5-2667v4's(8core/16thread) and get a dedicated GPGPU or two for floating point compute operations.
The graphics aren't on CPU, it's on the motherboard; ASPEED AST2400 BMC.
Of course this is general advice I'd give any client of mine. If you know for a fact that most of the crunching you're going to be doing is CPU/RAM bound, then your plan will serve you well and you can expand later should the need for floating point compute become a factor.

 

[er557]

This board, ASROCK RACK EP2C612-WS , also fits the bill, though more expensive, and as a bonus it's bios is a 30 seconds tweak to remove the microcode and apply the haswell-ep turbo hack (40% performance increase for each cpu)

 

[phill]

Looks like a nice board Shame it's not got so very many ram slots I suppose

 

[er557]

Yeah, you need an 8 module kit, I have a regualr ddr4 non ecc and it works fine. 8x8gb, or 8x16gb would be optimal

 

[lexluthermiester]

This board, ASROCK RACK EP2C612-WS , also fits the bill, though more expensive, and as a bonus it's bios is a 30 seconds tweak to remove the microcode and apply the haswell-ep turbo hack (40% performance increase for each cpu)View attachment 94548 View attachment 94549

This is a nice board! And it's SLI/Crossfire certified so there's lots of room for a variety of usage models. I really like the symmetrical layout of the board components. For what you get the current price of $399, as of this typing, is decently good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AI9IZN6/?tag=tec06d-20

 

[er557]

True, and very important if using sli to adhere to the manual in terms of gpu slot placing; I had some trouble when not in the recommended slots

 

[Edwired]

Hi every one i recently upgraded the rams to g skill f2-8500cl5d-4gbpk 4x 2gb and im not getting any errors in the event viewer when i play a game as im getting ramsom lock up it could freeze the display and it locks up the system after that i will upload a few pictures to see if anyone spot an issue with my pc

 

[Regeneration]

Hi every one i recently upgraded the rams to g skill f2-8500cl5d-4gbpk 4x 2gb and im not getting any errors in the event viewer when i play a game as im getting ramsom lock up it could freeze the display and it locks up the system after that i will upload a few pictures to see if anyone spot an issue with my pc

I suggest that you start a new thread about it.

Make sure to set the timings to 5-5-5-15, command rate to 2T, and voltage to 2.1v.

If it doesn't work, try to boost the NB voltage a little.

You don't check DDR stability through the eventlog, but by running MemTest86 or HCI MemTest.

 

[Edwired]

Ok i trying to figure out if memtest shows any issue as i dont get error through that. As i see test 3 goes fast to 10% then slows down to a snail throughout.

Also i have the graphic card in pcie x16 2.0 i dunno if that causing issues as i tested it in pcie x16 1.1 it runs like nothing happened but i get stuttering

 

[Regeneration]

Ok i trying to figure out if memtest shows any issue as i dont get error through that. As i see test 3 goes fast to 10% then slows down to a snail throughout.

Also i have the graphic card in pcie x16 2.0 i dunno if that causing issues as i tested it in pcie x16 1.1 it runs like nothing happened but i get stuttering

Sounds like the Northbridge needs more voltage. Your new RAM uses lower timings and it puts more stress on the Northbridge.

You can verify by running Prime95 blend test with 80% of your RAM and MSI Kombustor all together. This should create enough stress on the Northbridge to see if its causing lockups.

 

[er557]

@Edwired : Let's keep it on topic, this issue should really be in motherboards section or general hardware IMHO

 

[Edwired]

As im running with xeon e5450 as i need help

In my bios
Cpu - 1.38750v
Gtl 0/2 - 0.625
Gtl 1/3 - 0.665
Cpu pll - 1.52
Fsb term - 1.36
Dram - 2.14
Nb - 1.56
Nb gtl - 0.630
Sb 1.20
Pcie sata 1.50

Hardware monitor in bios
Cpu voltage - 1.328v
3.3v - 3.280v
5v - 4.968v
12v - 12.040v

Is that reading too low as i have tested the power supply they are reading in spec

 

[dorsetknob]

As im running with xeon e5450 as i need help

Suggest you start a new thread here
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forums/motherboards-memory.40/
where people can help you directly " rather than clog a Club thread where posts to help you become scattered within the thread"

 

[HUSKIE]

Oppss. Been sold my x5650 CPU and x58 mobo.. but.. waiting for a new toy.... Of course Xeon.. stay tuned..

 

[phill]

Oppss. Been sold my x5650 CPU and x58 mobo.. but.. waiting for a new toy.... Of course Xeon.. stay tuned..

How could you??!! lol

 

[HUSKIE]

How could you??!! lol

waiting for the better one..... hope the post man give me a present today... i will wait even i worked last night... LOL

 

[phill]

A better one eh?? As far as I know, since X58 Xeon boards such as the SR-2, there's never been another overclocking board like it.. But I think that's down to Intel taking it from the CPU's?..... Such a shame..

 

[FireFox]

Well, today i have found in an old box that i had in a corner 2 x Xeon E5530, let's see how far i can push it, i bet i will kill it

Even 3.5GHz will be enough.

 

[dorsetknob]

Presume you have a 771 M/b (duel ) do i smell a homebrew Skulltrail

 

[FireFox]

Presume you have a 771 M/b (duel ) do i smell a homebrew Skulltrail

Sorry my mistake.

Xeon E5530

 

[phill]

I look forward to the mad scientist look when your overclocking these lol

 

[HUSKIE]

for gaming and daily use purposes?

asus p6x58d-e mobo
i7 950 cpu

or

asus p8z77-v
i5 3570k cpu

Thanks

 

[phill]

For me I'd go for the 3570k simply because it's slightly newer and it would be more efficient.. Maybe not that much faster but it would be the system of choice for me.. One of the reasons I'm using my 2600k over my 920's, yes slightly faster maybe and can handle more ram easily, but the 920 eats the power... That said when I was using it at 4.6Ghz, it wasn't that far off a 4770k at stock (with some basic benchmarking tests I had done.. gaming wise anyways) but it was using a load more juice otherwise...

One of the reasons I'd like to get some of the newer Dell servers from work.. More cores, better efficiency and more power to crunch

 

[Durvelle27]

No one every answered my previous questio ?

Is Sandy or Ivy 8C or 10C Xeons LGA2011 worth buying ?

mostly for gaming and streaming. Saw some going around $30 E5-2650