Xeon Owners Club

[MIRTAZAPINE]

The 2p board i have has no o/c options and i wouldnt want it to thankyou very much, it is bitchin' enough !

Intel S5520HC and 2 X5650

View attachment 69304
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/server/s5520hc


these do though

EVGA Classified SR-2
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2010/08/17/evga-classified-sr-2-review/4

Omygod that EVGA board...dual lan too? Cannot comprehend... I want. Dual xeon at 4.5GHz...Imagining. Sad that intel took away the ability to overclock with newer xeons.

Pentium G3258 is a nice CPU in its class. I actually wanted to build a second PC on it with a mini-ITX Z97 board.
Just sold my G3250 and an H81 mobo to start the build, but I think I'll probably go with G4400 and Z170, or i3-6100. Both are nice clockers and do relatively good in games.
BTW, the latest HWBot rookie challenge had top 3 results with G3258 and #1 was some ukrainian dude from Overclockers.ua : 5GHz on MSI Z97-Gaming with H2O.

You can get a Xeon X5650 for approximately the same price, as you paid for G3258. Motherboards are quite expensive, but definitely not what they used to be.

EVGA SR2 can overclock both CPUs but be prepared to spend some cash. That's my dream board and in terms of technological progress it is much cooler than hoverboards and flying cars.

Hwbot challenge? What it is about? I have no luck getting high clocks with my G3258. 5GHz is impressive! A Xeon X5650 is around the same price as a G3258? Really?

 

[dorsetknob]

Yes G3258 they go for about £50 to £65 new shopping around
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=G...d=cr&ei=krhNVvPWDsXWUemKv6gD#q=G3258&tbm=shop

Totally useless tho for upgrading the cpu in a 1366 motherboard

 

[silentbogo]

comparison between stock and overclocked Xeon X5670 on R15 with ASUS ii Rampage

I saved my stock result for X5650. Also using Rampage II GENE:

That's also 50% increase.

I really love what Intel did with hyperthreading since P4 HT. It used to be like this: if you load the CPU 100%, you will get identical results with 2C/2T and 2C/4T.
Since LGA1366 rolled out you get much better benefits of using HT. 6 cores with HT scale to over 8x performance of a single core. Newer CPUs are even better at this.

 

[Silvertigo]

I just paid $120 for a X5650 today, now the hard part - finding a board for it that wont break the bank.

Most X58 boards are selling for a premium on ebay here.

 

[silentbogo]

Where are you from? That's quite high for an X5650...

 

[Silvertigo]

Where are you from? That's quite high for an X5650...

Australia. Thats a reasonable price I believe down here.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I just paid $120 for a X5650 today, now the hard part - finding a board for it that wont break the bank.

Most X58 boards are selling for a premium on ebay here.

Where are you from? That's quite high for an X5650...

that price compares ok with the UK for a single chip, in multiples they are cheaper. They are about 50 quid here, he paid 56

be prepared to pay about the same for MSI Pro E which is a lower tier (but good) board, oops maybe not in AUS, you poor buggers suffer with high heat and high prices, its pissing down in Wales and a lovely 20 degrees in my kitchen.

 

[Silvertigo]

Unfortunately theres not many x58/1366 boards on the 2nd hand market here, sellers can ask big $$ and they sell very quick.

 

[dorsetknob]

Unfortunately theres not many x58/1366 boards on the 2nd hand market here, sellers can ask big $$ and they sell very quick.

getting a reasonable 2nd hand (used ) board for a decent price is not easy but worth the wait in the end

 

[silentbogo]

Holy crap. I just checked recent prices in Ukraine and it seems like we've got the same story. Not only there are much fewer hexacore Xeons on sale, than it used to be, but also the prices skyrocketed.
The place where I usually buy used parts (ukr. equivalent of eBay) has X5650 priced higher than X5670!

I bought mine for around $80 and after a week or two I thought I overpaid a bit (there were many sub $70 options for X5650 at the time). I guess I can consider myself lucky...

 

[silentbogo]

More exciting stuff.

1) Made it to top 20 in HWbot CPU frequency ranking with a whooping 4.8GHz!


2) Trying to find the optimal overclock at the lowest voltages possible.
So far 1.14V VCore at 3.6GHz with HT and all virtualization features enabled. Could probably go lower (~1.1V).
1.5V for my RAM at 1666MHz CL8-8-8-24-1N (SPD has only 1600 CL11-11-11-28 @ 1.5V)



Stress-test after 1 hour bumped my temps to a little over 54°C on one core(~50°C average).

If voltages are set to AUTO, I usually get >1.2V CPU, 1.6V RAM at stock frequencies. Not cool.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

More exciting stuff.

1) Made it to top 20 in HWbot CPU frequency ranking with a whooping 4.8GHz!
View attachment 69329

2) Trying to find the optimal overclock at the lowest voltages possible.
So far 1.14V VCore at 3.6GHz with HT and all virtualization features enabled. Could probably go lower (~1.1V).
1.5V for my RAM at 1666MHz CL8-8-8-24-1N (SPD has only 1600 CL11-11-11-28 @ 1.5V)

View attachment 69330

Stress-test after 1 hour bumped my temps to a little over 54°C on one core(~50°C average).

If voltages are set to AUTO, I usually get >1.2V CPU, 1.6V RAM at stock frequencies. Not cool.

MEGA dude, i am celebrating for you now....





oddly my cpuz dont show my volts

 

[silentbogo]

oddly my cpuz dont show my volts

Remember, I had the same problem and figured out a solution: delete the cpuz.ini file from the working directory and your volts and timings will come back.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

My sleeping tablets dont work

anyway this is how much 1366 socket xeons are in China, i wouldnt shop there but i thought it was an interesting exersize.

X5650

$ 115
£ 75.50
E 108.00
aus$ 158.90


X5670

$ 160
£ 105.32
E 150.26
aus$ 221.08


X5675

$ 200
£ 131.65
E 187.82
aus$ 276.34


X5690

$ 330
£ 217.33
E 309.90
aus$ 455.97

Flee p+p
http://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-intel-xeon/4.html

 

[FireFox]

Are those Xeons Chinese?

 

[dorsetknob]

Order xeon from china
Pay
wait
receive box/ package from china
Open package find it empty
complain to ebay
seller says xeon gas escape from box when you opened it no refund your problem you ordered xeon you get xeon (gas)

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

Order xeon from china
Pay
wait
receive box/ package from china
Open package find it empty
complain to ebay
seller says xeon gas escape from box when you opened it no refund your problem you ordered xeon you get xeon (gas)

Isn't that supposed to be xenon gas? or neon gas? Those xenon gas in bright flash camera or lamps. Let me overclock those lights for higher nits brightness per second.

 

[dorsetknob]

Isn't that supposed to be xenon gas? or neon gas? Those xenon gas in bright flash camera or lamps. Let me overclock those lights for higher nits brightness per second.

your overthinking the pisstake
but on a serious note Scams like that do happen

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

your overthinking the pisstake
but on a serious note Scams like that do happen

haha I know! It is funny just wanna add on.
Yes misrepresentation scam happen I guess for cpu it is someone relabeling the cpu die with something higher end for low end cpu and selling them out.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

You dont get access to a 25 x multiplier on a X 5670 do you ?

my BIOS only goes up to 24 and all my previous reading has told me the x 25 is unlocked on the X 5690 not the X5670....odd

gonna run Cinebench

thats a bummer, my cpu is at 4.637 ghz running a 25 x multi which it shouldnt be able to do and Cinebench is recording it at 4.09 ghz which is x22

any ideas? I know i cant set the multi to x25 in BIOS

Have i taken too many tablets again or what?

 

[dorsetknob]

Ops potential scandel does this mean your not 3rd in the world

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

no, this is nothing to do with the tablets i take and the recent drug issues in Russian sport.

Anything else on this matter can be taken up with my legal team. Fitmore, Upyour & Crutch.co.uk

We are here to discuss the chip.

 

[silentbogo]

You dont get access to a 25 x multiplier on a X 5670 do you ?

my BIOS only goes up to 24 and all my previous reading has told me the x 25 is unlocked on the X 5690 not the X5670....odd

gonna run Cinebench


thats a bummer, my cpu is at 4.637 ghz running a 25 x multi which it shouldnt be able to do and Cinebench is recording it at 4.09 ghz which is x22

any ideas? I know i cant set the multi to x25 in BIOS

Have i taken too many tablets again or what?

That's normal.
You get a x25 multiplier when only a part of all cores are loaded, I think it was only 2 out of 6, but I'm not 100% sure (see single-threaded benchmarks).
x24 applies when all 6 cores are at full load (this multiplier should be your max value in BIOS).
Cinebench is weird when it comes to reading CPU frequency, so it usually reports it with lower multiplier(x22 in your case).
If you disable all the power saving features in BIOS, you'll get a constant x24 multiplier.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

i had been watching task manager but i only had one screen on when i ran Cinebench.. I know what you are saying is correct but i havent actually witnessed it before. I had no idea about the 25 x being available on this chip though.

I have clocked it back to 180 for the day so we will do a spot of gaming and a lot of surfing at 4.5 today and have a mess around with C-states later on.
I have cleared about 3 sq m of space in the kitchen and i feel some components coming together today.



Ive been thinking of a cheery way to abbreviate @silentbogo

bogs it is
nice one 'bogs

 

[silentbogo]