Xeon Owners Club

[Deleted member 178884]

It's mostly memory management BSODs or whea_uncorrectable errors.

 

[Edwired]

Ok sounds like ram could be the problem as i had a similar issue with my pc with mushkins rams. Northbridge needs a bump in voltage to correct the memory management and whea uncorrectable points to vcore either too low or unstable. Take a few upclose pictures of the clevo bios

 

[Deleted member 178884]

whea uncorrectable points to vcore either too low or unstable.

Which is impossible to change, there's no way this xeon x5650 is passing 3ghz, I will consider a 980x and getting 8gb ddr3 x3, however it seems wasteful to get a 980x considering that clevo/sager decided not to support any decent gpus, even if I were to dual 680m (and spend more than £700+ total) I'd still be bottlenecked by the gpu. I think I'll leave it at stock since it'll do fine with a single 460m, I'm currently ordering some thermal pads for the 2nd 460m.
@Edwired
There is no way of changing vcore, it only has options for the uncore, memory voltage and vid voltage - that's it.

 

[Edwired]

Im quite surpise by that. Only way i see is try memtest86 and test for ram issue then bump up the ram voltage but beware you need to know what ram voltage is used as shown on the sticker and some boards overvolt or undervolt the ram like my asus p5q premium is overvolting to 2.20v by dmm but bios is set to 2.06v. Download hwinfo64 to get an overrall view on the computer and please do check the cpu vid that shown on screen via hwonfo

I did notice that you mention cpu vid that related to the vcore department and uncore is something similar to northbridge or memory controller i could be wrong

 

[SamirD]

I picked these servers up on Craigslist a few months ago for free. Very clean machines. Added Usb 3.0 cards and R5240's to both. The Dell is my backup server with 2x 3TB raid 1's. I had to change Perc controller to an H700 to use 3TB drives.
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Lovely servers! I've got the same pair actually, but I paid about $100 total for both about a year ago.

Check out the x5470 and x5450 processors as I believe that both should be able to take them. (I know the HP can because I upgraded from my 5160s).
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...on-X5470-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5450/1233vs1709vs1296

How easy was the upgrade to the H700? I've thought about doing that at some point but didn't know if it was going to be an easy card swap since the perc plugs into the mezzanine. Looks like you had to change the sas cables plugging into the backplane?

Can you tell a significant difference with the r5240s? Did it affect the drac/ilo? I know on the Dell the drac should end up getting disabled, but I think you have the idrac card so it might have stayed enabled? How about the ilo on the HP?

How did you get power to the USB card and sata in the 2950? I found a molex lead on mine towards the front, but that was about it. Seems like you were able to get power from the motherboard?

Thank you in advance for all the answers! Xeons rule!

 

[Gumby]

The H700 was easy had to remove the plastic lock. Yes had to also swap out backplane cables. Triplite cables. Cheaper cables caused issues.
The main reason for gfx card was so i could use my hdmi switch box instead of vga cables. Now i can watch my br rips also.
The hp disabled onboard video when i installed the new card.
I had to unplug drac card to stop video card issues. I have no use for drac or ilo.
The usb card is self powerd in hp.
I plgged exteion cable into molex and then a molex to sata to power ssd. Molex to power usb on dell.

 

[SamirD]

The H700 was easy had to remove the plastic lock. Yes had to also swap out backplane cables. Triplite cables. Cheaper cables caused issues.
The main reason for gfx card was so i could use my hdmi switch box instead of vga cables. Now i can watch my br rips also.
The hp disabled onboard video when i installed the new card.
I had to unplug drac card to stop video card issues. I have no use for drac or ilo.
The usb card is self powerd in hp.
I plgged exteion cable into molex and then a molex to sata to power ssd. Molex to power usb on dell.

Thank you!

 

[Gumby]

Thank you!

No problem.

 

[AwesomeMarioFan]

Hey,

I installed 2 X5680s in my Dell T5500 today. It went smoothly however I am noticing that one is running hotter than the other (while stress testing with Prime95). I attached an image of Core Temp after a few minutes of stress testing - the maximum temperatures of CPU #1 are about 9 degrees C hotter than CPU #0. I'm wondering though which processor on the motherboard is CPU #1, the one on the board itself or the one on the riser board? (I was planning to redo the thermal paste on it.) The other two photos are of the thermal paste on the CPUs, I am assuming that I either put too much on the one or too little on the other.

 

[Toothless]

I thought I posted in here since I got my server finished, guess not.

Here's my 2680v2 x2 rig. 64GB of ECC goodness.

20 cores/40 threads at 3.1ghz all cores. Yes that is a GT 7800 or something for the GPU, and yes that is a little switch on the left cooler to turn it on.

 

[SamirD]

Hey,

I installed 2 X5680s in my Dell T5500 today. It went smoothly however I am noticing that one is running hotter than the other (while stress testing with Prime95). I attached an image of Core Temp after a few minutes of stress testing - the maximum temperatures of CPU #1 are about 9 degrees C hotter than CPU #0. I'm wondering though which processor on the motherboard is CPU #1, the one on the board itself or the one on the riser board? (I was planning to redo the thermal paste on it.) The other two photos are of the thermal paste on the CPUs, I am assuming that I either put too much on the one or too little on the other.

This is kind of normal in dual cpu setups. I have servers that show about the same difference between processors. You can always try swapping them and see if that helps, but I wouldn't expect it to be any better than 5C difference as I even see that much difference in the same multi-core cpu sometimes.

 

[Edwired]

Hey,

I installed 2 X5680s in my Dell T5500 today. It went smoothly however I am noticing that one is running hotter than the other (while stress testing with Prime95). I attached an image of Core Temp after a few minutes of stress testing - the maximum temperatures of CPU #1 are about 9 degrees C hotter than CPU #0. I'm wondering though which processor on the motherboard is CPU #1, the one on the board itself or the one on the riser board? (I was planning to redo the thermal paste on it.) The other two photos are of the thermal paste on the CPUs, I am assuming that I either put too much on the one or too little on the other.

I wouldnt worry too much about the temperature as my e5450 shows core 1 as 28c core 2 20c core 3 21c core 4 23c during idle it most likely the ihs is not level or the solder or paste under ihs needs to be done to level out the temp that just my thinking

 

[AwesomeMarioFan]

This is kind of normal in dual cpu setups. I have servers that show about the same difference between processors. You can always try swapping them and see if that helps, but I wouldn't expect it to be any better than 5C difference as I even see that much difference in the same multi-core cpu sometimes.

I wouldnt worry too much about the temperature as my e5450 shows core 1 as 28c core 2 20c core 3 21c core 4 23c during idle it most likely the ihs is not level or the solder or paste under ihs needs to be done to level out the temp that just my thinking

Thanks for your replies! Now that I think about it, it makes sense that they wouldn't be the same temperature, since the cooling is a bit different for the motherboard vs the riser board, so that is probably normal then. Would the processor on the riser board be what is referred to by "Processor #1"? (I would assume so since the riser board is optional but wanted to check.) Also, when I searched for the specs for the X5680, I am seeing that the maximum safe temperature for it is 78.5C. Would it be a problem that I am getting 85C under 100% load for one of them?

 

[Edwired]

It best to keep below the safe max temp that stated by intel but again some monitoting software can read the temperature wrong some could be over 15c but do check with hwinfo64 monitoring software to check the tj max core temp by rightclicking max core temp it will show you the tj max number. As the e5450 states 85c in tjmax where some will state 100c.

 

[AwesomeMarioFan]

It best to keep below the safe max temp that stated by intel but again some monitoting software can read the temperature wrong some could be over 15c but do check with hwinfo64 monitoring software to check the tj max core temp by rightclicking max core temp it will show you the tj max number. As the e5450 states 85c in tjmax where some will state 100c.

Ok good idea - I will find out the the tjmax is then. Is it possible that the thermal paste could be causing the higher temps? The idle temps seem to be ok although they were a bit higher.

 

[Edwired]

Ok what thermal paste are you using as it could be a factor in higher thermal reading?

 

[AwesomeMarioFan]

Ok what thermal paste are you using as it could be a factor in higher thermal reading?

I purchased this thermal paste from eBay. It seems to work well in the other computers I used it on but maybe it's because these are 130W TDP CPUs.

 

[Edwired]

Most likely but the heatsinks you have might be the factor for poor cooling for the 130 tdp cpu.

 

[DR4G00N]

Has anyone tried 8GB FB-DIMM's in the D5400XS mobo? I only have 2GB's total in mine currently and while I don't need 32GB's for any reason FB-DIMM's are dirt cheap ($1/GB) so I figured I'd try to max it out if it takes 8GB dimms.

 

[Edwired]

Just got another problem my computer just crashes the games as i been keeping an eye on it it always the cpu usage spike between 80% to 100% then the game would freeze and dash board to the desktop. Now question is what voltage should i increase or decrease. I kinda thinking the e5450 @ 4ghz wants more vcore or something else on the board need tweaking

 

[SamirD]

Has anyone tried 8GB FB-DIMM's in the D5400XS mobo? I only have 2GB's total in mine currently and while I don't need 32GB's for any reason FB-DIMM's are dirt cheap ($1/GB) so I figured I'd try to max it out if it takes 8GB dimms.

I haven't yet, but I do have some waiting to be installed. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't work as long as the ranking is okay for the bios/board.

 

[Edwired]

Turned out my ram timing was the cause of crashing in games as in tt isle of man i was going good till 2 and a half laps in quick race about 45 mins playing then crash to desktop. So with a minor bump in vcore and ram voltage and 3 or 4 ram timing settings got one click more and was able to finish the race as it took me an hour and 45 mins in checking between game, msi afterburner and hwinfo64 as i wanted to check for temperature, vcore, memory usage, gpu core, fps and frametime. Im getting 60fps in most places and some drops in about 3 places other than that i had good results. The asus gtx 750ti oc was running full tilt at 1.20v, 1346mhz on the core, 2800mhz on memory, max gpu temp got to 60c. I will push more on the gpu core to see how far i can go tomorrow night. As i noticed the cpu max core temp never went pass 40c all this at 1.200v when the cpu vid is 1.113v. Pretty good result for me

 

[mathomas112483]

So today I over clocked a x5675 to 4.51ghz and so far it's stable under every stress test and game. It took me awhile (as always) to dial in the settings but I finally did it!! Anyways I want to post my settings so any pros can look them over and see if I can potentially lower any settings to increase longetivity, mind you in the pic I have already lowered IOH to 1.16, also I'm only running dual channel ram (2x8gb 2400mhz G.Skill) and I have been informed that I don't need to have my unclck so high cuz of this (if I try to bump up unclck it will fail)

Not trying to dbl post here!! I made a thread not realizing this was the proper place to ask!! If a mod can delete my original thread I'd appreciate it!!

 

[Edwired]

More tweaking was done i had to put the performance level to 9 as i think 8 was the limit in resulting the dirt 4 crashing the graphic card every 30 seconds during the race but it did not crash in tt isle of man. I will upload pictures of bios settings and hwinfo64 later tonight

 

[phill]

I thought I posted in here since I got my server finished, guess not.

Here's my 2680v2 x2 rig. 64GB of ECC goodness.

20 cores/40 threads at 3.1ghz all cores. Yes that is a GT 7800 or something for the GPU, and yes that is a little switch on the left cooler to turn it on.

What do you use your Server for @Toothless ?? I got the name reference having not long watched that great film!! Cool name

Having recently bought some X5675's I'll post up a bit later how that went........ or would it be, how it didn't go??