Xeon Owners Club

[ManGupta]

PCIE route gives lots of modern features lacking in old gen systems be it USB3 or SATA3 or NVME.

 

[sepheronx]

This is a nice Sabertooth:https://www.ebay.de/itm/ASUS-Sabertooth-X58-Motherboard-LGA-1336-Chipset/253961621299

Its a very nice motherboard. Too bad it's stupidly expensive.

 

[FireFox]

Its a very nice motherboard. Too bad it's stupidly expensive.

30£ less and for sure i would buy it

 

[sepheronx]

30£ less and for sure i would buy it

I'm in Canada. So multiply that number by about 1.5 to 2X and that's what it costs here.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

USB3 was never an issue ...... one can always go for Cheap PCIE USB3 Adapter and X58 Mobos comes with good number of PCIE slots ... One can get cheap adapter with 20 Pin Front Panel header and a 4 port Front panel trays that just fits into legacy floppy drive bay ... which is not used anyway.

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Ohh sure no one is saying that is big issue I just state the difference between our two boards because they are basically the same

 

[gizmo613]

Ok, so I'm looking for some help with overclocking this current setup. Gigabyte ga-x58a-ud3r, Xeon x5672 and 16gb ddr3 1866mhz dual channel. Cpu currently has a hyper Evo 212 cooler on it. Any help is appreciated.

It is currently on stock settings.

 

[Bloodwing]

I have a HP Z620 with few upgrades. I do have the the "daughterboard" additional CPU/DIMMS . As well as a GPU upgrade. This is no longer my everyday use/gamer since I recently upgraded to the non Xeon Intel side. It is now my actual server/data storage. Specs are as follows:

2x Xeon E5-2690v2
48GB Hynix DDR3 ECC 1600Mhz
250 GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
2x Seagate 6TB 7200rpm HDD
Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB Mini OC
LG Black 16x Blu-Ray
Everything else is the standard fare. PSU, Mobo, RAID/NAS controllers.

I went nuts with everything but GPU $ was a limiting factor. It was a slow build up to this started with a single E5-2690v1, 16gb RAM, SSD, GTX and a Toshiba 1tb Hdd. Then slowly added bit by bit till this thing emerged. Only thing that slowed it down for AAA games is the GPU since I got it for a song plus I needed something other than whatever came in it, I am wanting to say it was a Quadro K2000.

 

[lyra]

@gizmo613 you should be able to get to 4.2 without much hassle and around 1.3 volt ish. That's where id go for a start point. 25 multi, 162 blclk. Leave your memory under spec until you get your processor dialed in. Dont put too much qpi voltage in. I wouldnt recommend much if any more than 1.2 qpi voltage

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/overclocking-the-x58-a-practical-guide.108526/

This is also a bit of a lifesaver

 

[MasterInvader]

Hey guys I could use some help here, finally got a "good and cheap" server to play with.
My main use will be for a DayZ Standalone Server, Discord/Teamspeak, PleX Media Server and a "few" other things.

It´s better to run/create a few VM´s for each "server" or just run all of them on Win10 Prox64.
Also any chance I can make this CPU run @ full turbo 100% all the time?

 

[agent_x007]

Since you are using standard board (ie. not server), you should be able to increase power and amps to max. (this is a good start).
Option for all core multiplier isn't available ?

 

[Zyll Goliat]

 

[gizmo613]

@gizmo613 you should be able to get to 4.2 without much hassle and around 1.3 volt ish. That's where id go for a start point. 25 multi, 162 blclk. Leave your memory under spec until you get your processor dialed in. Dont put too much qpi voltage in. I wouldnt recommend much if any more than 1.2 qpi voltage

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/overclocking-the-x58-a-practical-guide.108526/

This is also a bit of a lifesaver

So I have made the changes to match what you got there. And I was able to get it to 4.2ghz with 1620mhz ddr3. I loaded up cpuz and noticed that my cousin voltage is 1.376v and NB Frequency is 3564.2 mhz.

Should I be a bit worried about the cpu voltage and NB Frequency?

 

[lyra]

Just drop down the bios voltage till actual voltage is where you want it. They seem to always have a bit of a discrepancy

And id try and get it as low as possible wilst keeping stabikity of course

 

[lexluthermiester]

Folks, I've posted this in a few other threads but it most applies here I think. Very interesting and eye-opening.

 

[FireFox]

Folks, I've posted this in a few other threads but it most applies here I think. Very interesting and eye-opening.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That's the second oops of the day. Sorry didn't see that post.. LOL!

 

[Peter Lindgren]

Hey guys I could use some help here, finally got a "good and cheap" server to play with.
My main use will be for a DayZ Standalone Server, Discord/Teamspeak, PleX Media Server and a "few" other things.

It´s better to run/create a few VM´s for each "server" or just run all of them on Win10 Prox64.
Also any chance I can make this CPU run @ full turbo 100% all the time?
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Just set Power Plan to maximum performance.

 

[gizmo613]

Just drop down the bios voltage till actual voltage is where you want it. They seem to always have a bit of a discrepancy

And id try and get it as low as possible wilst keeping stabikity of course

I'll lower it later tonight. Which software should I use to help determine stability?

 

[lyra]

Cinebench prime 95 and general use are the ones i use. General use being the important one. I could run cinebench for days at 4.4 and p95 with no errors too but id get nasty crashes in long gaming sessions at 4.4 so i pulled it back to 4.3 and lowered the dram freq too

 

[bi4evah]

I've owned an i7 920 since 2009 and just bought on impulse a Xeon X5675 on Aliexpress for $25 after seeing yet another video showing how that platform is still good bang for the buck. My Intel DX58SO doesn't officially support more than 16GB but I've seen people post that they were able to use a Xeon X56xx and 32GB with this mobo.

However, since I'm considering upgrading my GTX760 to a GTX1060, moving from 14GB to 32GB, and adding a larger SSD since my 128GB boot drive is always full, I'm now thinking I might as well build a new system around the Xeon and hand down the i7 PC as is to my son.

After some research, it looks like getting a good LGA 1366 motherboard at a decent price can be a challenge. It feels like buying a dual-CPU server motherboard might be a better deal, but I want to make sure I don't make a rookie mistake. From what I've seen so far, the main pitfalls are a) form factor (some boards are bigger than ATX so I should get a mid/large tower?) and b) I should get exactly the same CPUs if I go the dual route. Anything else I should take into account? Any specific motherboards recommended for their good price/functionality?

For what is worth, I work from home and I use my PC primarily for RAM and/or CPU intensive apps (e.g. data modeling in Excel, Power BI, SQL Server). I multitask quite a lot with triple monitors, and Chrome alone often uses 3+GB of RAM. I value not having to wait while task switching, launching apps, etc. Something not too noisy would be appreciated. I may lightly overclock but have no plans for crazy water cooling.

I also plan to use GameStream with an Nvidia Shield I just bought. My son will mostly play with his PC if I end up building a second one. We don't need to push the latest games to their extreme settings in 4K though. I pretty much never turn off my PC, though some of its current media sharing duties are going to be offloaded to the Shield.

Any advice from people who've been there and done that is welcome!

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Guys I need advice....I can get some really cheap DDR3 registered ecc samsung memory but I am not sure if it will work on Asus P6X58D Premium with Xeon?
I was looking around and some ppl. said it will others said ain´t work....so...

 

[lyra]

I have the p6x58d-e and it doesnt support ecc. Dont know about the premium but i wouldnt imagine so

I have 24gb on the stuff just doing nothing T^T su h a shame

 

[dorsetknob]

Manual for the P6T Deluxe says no installation says yes (its cpu dependent)

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I have the p6x58d-e and it doesnt support ecc. Dont know about the premium but i wouldnt imagine so

I have 24gb on the stuff just doing nothing T^T su h a shame

Hmm....did you tried different sticks...maybe some reg ECC working....Look at this video bellow

Manual for the P6T Deluxe says no installation says yes (its cpu dependent)

Yeah I know that is CPU dependent but also reg. memory has chip on itself....ecc unbuffered ram should work without the problems.....so seems like some ppl. have lucky on certain consumers mobos and others dont.....

Anyway guys thx for (no) help

I was searching a bit more about this ECC Registered RAM and X58 platform and apparently seems like the Reg memory that was working on some consumer mobos are 2Rx8 and those that didn´t work are 2Rx4.....

 

[phill]

Sorry guys I think I missed something but I'm unsure if it's just an SR-2 thing or not, but I've had zero issues with putting ECC ram in my SR-2 and running that..?? I've not yet tried it in my Gigabyte or Classified boards, but I think that they might require different mods possibly?

I'll see if I can get my mate to send over my PSUs I've ordered, maybe then I can grab myself a bit of testing time with the boards I have here and report back