Xeon Owners Club

[king of swag187]

Sometime you just have to go to the manafacture
If it needs it (not saying it does) then its that or ebay international / Alibaba

Clevo is the ODM (the manufacturer the chassis and other parts) but don't sell them. Your best bet is seeing if you can find a MSI splitter or buy one from a laptop boutique service (Eurocom is a big one)

 

[FireFox]

L5640's

The L5640 were the first Xeons i used for Crunching.

I certainly didn't pay £1000 for them all either and if I'm honest 36 cores and 72 threads for not much cash at all

Nowadays you get the Xeons for almost nothing but a few years ago it wasn't the same

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Your best bet is seeing if you can find a MSI splitter

Any links to what it looks like or what it's called? I can't seem to find any

 

[king of swag187]

I thought you already said you had found one
https://www.lps-gopower.org/power-c...2lNsR4-lkGXiuD4QHnYercbhw-Um6y9gaAlY9EALw_wcB

 

[Deleted member 178884]

I thought you already said you had found one
https://www.lps-gopower.org/power-c...2lNsR4-lkGXiuD4QHnYercbhw-Um6y9gaAlY9EALw_wcB

Well at £56.80 it doesn't seem to be worth it at all, will I even need 2 psus for it?

 

[king of swag187]

Well at £56.80 it doesn't seem to be worth it at all, will I even need 2 psus for it?

Yes, and thats a very good price. You shouldn't need dual PSU's if just running a single 480M

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Yes, and thats a very good price. You shouldn't need dual PSU's if just running a single 480M

Guess I'll pass it for now, if this laptop actually ran 9xx series laptop gpus I would've bought it however clevo decided not to support them.

 

[king of swag187]

Guess I'll pass it for now, if this laptop actually ran 9xx series laptop gpus I would've bought it however clevo decided not to support them.

Its not Clevo's fault, the BIOS would literally need to be rewritten to support them. And again, this is a 7 year old laptop, and even if were only a few years old, Clevo doesn't confirm support, only Eurocom does as I recall

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Its not Clevo's fault, the BIOS would literally need to be rewritten to support them. And again, this is a 7 year old laptop, and even if were only a few years old, Clevo doesn't confirm support, only Eurocom does as I recall

I guess so, however 1366 cpus are perfectly capable of handling 9 series cards, It's a shame nobody who had that skill had already rewritten it and put it online, but I guess I'll just use a egpu when I need the mobile gpu power.

 

[king of swag187]

I guess so, however 1366 cpus are perfectly capable of handling 9 series cards, It's a shame nobody who had that skill had already rewritten it and put it online, but I guess I'll just use a egpu when I need the mobile gpu power.

Again, its not the CPU itself, its the motherboard. It is a shame to see such power wasted on only 680m's I agree, and a eGPU is likely to be bottlenecked by the bandwith, but I wish you luck

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Again, its not the CPU itself

I was just mentioning the fact that xeons are exceptionally capable, I can't wait to receive it and I see how bad the bottleneck is by using my x5650 desktop.

 

[phill]

The L5640 were the first Xeons i used for Crunching.

Nowadays you get the Xeons for almost nothing but a few years ago it wasn't the same

That's why now when I see them I'm so tempted in buying them!! Monster performance for not masses of cash.. Yes power consumption is high, but meh That's what my solar panels take care of

 

[Edwired]

Just updating that i got e5450 to 4ghz @ 1.184v idle, full load 1.192v, pll 1.66v, feb term 1.22v, dram 2.06v, nb 1.38v. Timings are first sub 5-5-5-15-4-50-13-4 second sub 7-5-5-4-5-4-7, third sub 21-5-1-6-6. Running with 4x 2gb gskill f2-8500cl5-2gbpk. It running stable and i can run tt isle of man pretty smooth from ssd no stuttering and if i run the same game from a regular hard drive i get slowdown and stuttering which tells me the regular hard drive cant keep up with the data on parts of the game during a race. I been reading the ram spd spec all wrong before where i used to put the trfc (trc) at 70 this only useful for overclocking the ram pass 1066mhz. Now trfc (trc) 50 im already after seen a big gain in performance. According to aida64 cache and memory benchmark im getting memory read 11525mb/s, write 9295mb/s, copy 9745mb/s latency 73.5ns all this running dram:fsb 5:6 @ 1068mhz

Next is to push the asus gtx 750 ti oc with bios mods with faster core and memory speed to see where i get to max it out without crashing or artifacting

 

[SamirD]

"In case you are not aware: An ML350 G6 does not have wired PCIe x16. "
That's interesting .... since I have one.... and then a bunch of x8 slots
(Page 81 of HP 'ML350 G6-Service_Manual_59-107-001.pdf' shows a picture of the System Board and labels item 20 as ... 'Slot 4 PCIe2 x16 (8, 4, 2, 1) 75W +EXT 75W4'

I think he meant that while it's got a x16 connector, it's only x8. But gpuz would tell us the truth behind that once a gpu is installed.

I couldn't help myself and bought something I shouldn't have...

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Will put these in my SR-2 at some point and see how they do

Nice! My Dell R410 would love that pair.

I look forward to seeing if they run much cooler or hotter than the X5650's currently sitting in it.. It'll be a little faster for sure, but when crunching it's not so much the speed that's important to me really... But I look forward to testing them out

You should definitely feel it to be a bit faster since the single thread performance is faster:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-X5675-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5650/1309vs1304

 

[FireFox]

X5675 at 4.5GHZ/4.8GHz are monsters

 

[phill]

X5675 at 4.5GHZ/4.8GHz are monsters

I'll see if I can push them a little further if I can

 

[FireFox]

I'll see if I can push them a little further if I can

If you got good overclockable one for sure.

 

[phill]

I will post my findings when I get them put into the board

What do you think a decent CPU will do clock/vcore wise?

 

[lexluthermiester]

I guess so, however 1366 cpus are perfectly capable of handling 9 series cards

Actually, Socket 1366 cards handle the GTX 10x0 series cards just fine. I'm betting that my incoming RTX 2080 will have no issues, though it will be interesting to see of the 2080 is bottlenecked by my X5680. At low res(below 1080p) my Xeon is the bottleneck. At 1080p it depends on the game. At 1440p the GTX1080 is the bottleneck. It will be interesting to see how this Xeon will handle an RTX 2080. It might be time to go back to Socket 2011. If that happens I'll be staying with a Xeon.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Actually, Socket 1366 cards handle the GTX 10x0 series cards just fine

Of course, but it's an absolute pain to see that the clevo is limited by the BIOS to dictate what I could upgrade to. I'm not using my x58 platform much these days. That xeon overclocked is a monster, I had mine at 4.62ghz (x5650) with 1.55v under a 360mm eisbaer and it was hitting 72c max - These cpus are dirt cheap to replace too.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Of course, but it's an absolute pain to see that the clevo is limited by the BIOS to dictate what I could upgrade to. I'm not using my x58 platform much these days. That xeon overclocked is a monster, I had mine at 4.62ghz (x5650) with 1.55v under a 360mm eisbaer and it was hitting 72c max - These cpus are dirt cheap to replace too.

Heck, I don't OC mine and it's still plenty for my GTX1080 at high res.

 

[lyra]

X5672 bottlenecks a 980ti in withcher 1 4k max settings in vizima lmao.

I expect in something like SOTTR a westmere xeon will let a 20x0 card eat

 

[SamirD]

X5672 bottlenecks a 980ti in withcher 1 4k max settings in vizima lmao.

I expect in something like SOTTR a westmere xeon will let a 20x0 card eat

What about dual xeon setups? Would they give cards enough breathing room?

 

[king of swag187]

What about dual xeon setups? Would they give cards enough breathing room?

The amount of cores is too much, so likely not

 

[Zyll Goliat]

What about dual xeon setups? Would they give cards enough breathing room?

Probably not because 99% of the games still depend much more on the IPC

I think he meant that while it's got a x16 connector, it's only x8. But gpuz would tell us the truth behind that once a gpu is installed.

Nice! My Dell R410 would love that pair.

You should definitely feel it to be a bit faster since the single thread performance is faster:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-X5675-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5650/1309vs1304

All 32nm 6-core Westmere Xeons are basically the same CPU´s only difference is the multiplier and their stock speeds....sometimes lowers stocked speed CPU´s on good boards after OC can reach better speeds then others...