Xeon Owners Club

[Edwired]

Sure take your time with soldering nothing worse if the solder sticks to other parts of the board

 

[Atreides]

Hence the wire glue Ed. It works quite well in my experience and is easily reversible if you mess up.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Righto! Doing the vcore and vdimm first as I have XP's and crap DDR too kill but the thought of killing one the most underrated NF2 overclockers does not sit well.

The road to high clockspeed is littered with dead hardware.
Nobody likes it, but it doesn't change the fact.

 

[Edwired]

Where the fun if all computer parts can not blow out the lovely magic smoke lol

 

[Atreides]

The road to high clockspeed is littered with dead hardware.
Nobody likes it, but it doesn't change the fact.

Yeah but I take killing above killing. XP's are dime a dozen as is DDR. Good NF2 well..

 

[Edwired]

Suppose ya could record a video while blow them all to sky high lol

 

[Atreides]

Suppose ya could record a video while blow them all to sky high lol

You know I do have an NF7-S2G Ed that I could mod to smoke all I bet. Hmmm.

"Ed poked the tiger".

Can't seem to dig up the burn pic but how about the end game of cheap beer and a 1/2 ass single stage mount.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You know I do have an NF7-S2G Ed that I could mod to smoke all I bet. Hmmm.

"Ed poked the tiger".

Can't seem to dig up the burn pic but how about the end game of cheap beer and a 1/2 ass single stage mount.

Got anymore?

 

[Atreides]

Got anymore?

ATM no more beer and plenty of dead hardware.

 

[lexluthermiester]

ATM no more beer and plenty of dead hardware.

No I was referring to pictures of burned Athlon's you were talking about earlier. Those would be interesting.

 

[thenightsky_0102]

I'm very glad that I bought an HP Z600 workstation to replace my old PC

2 5675's, each with 12 threads, so 12 cores and 24 threads total and 24 GB of RAM. I swapped out the Quadro card with my GTX 750 Ti (works fine for my needs - I don't game at all aside from some really old DX9-based stuff) and I put my 4 TB drive in (Windows 10 can only see up to 1.6 TB or so. I initially deleted the partition after stupidly converting the disk to dynamic, but I fixed that rather easily and without issue after buying Partition Wizard.

I bought this primarily for the extra cores and threads since a program I like to use, called Hit'n'Mix, is very CPU-intensive and is designed to take advantage of multi-core / hyperthreaded setups and this machine seemed like a good fit: 100% perfect! It processes whole recordings (3 minutes, give or take) in less than 6 minutes. Compare that to my old 4 core, 4 threaded Inspiron 660 machine I had for years prior; it would take 25 to 30 minutes per file on that! Not to mention I multi-task a lot so this extra power is welcomed (and needed!) by me.


I'll still use the 660 and will be putting some form of Linux on it since I've wanted a reasonably powerful desktop just for Linux and I don't want to dual-boot on this workstation!

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'll still use the 660 and will be putting some form of Linux on it

I'd recommend checking out Linux Mint. You might like it.

 

[Edwired]

Linux is pretty cool i like ubuntu for it interface

 

[Gumby]

Gave my Dell a mem boost.

 

[Edwired]

That insane amount of memory suppose ya could run 10 virtual systems along with 3 games in the background and everything inbetween lol.

The god damn freezing is happening again it stable with adia64 and prime95 but keeps crashing games im beginning either run it stock or keep tweaking "double facepalmed"

 

[Edwired]

The part of the gtl setting in the bios for cpu and northbridge is where i am at a loss as i did read up about the gtl tuning while using prime95 in blend mode which shows if the cpu and northbridge is either stable or unstable. As for now im running af stock settings it still crashing games and random freezing. Wish me luck

As well the bios shows gtl 0/2 is 0.630 stock and max is 0.760 and gtl 1/3 is 0.670 stock and max is 0.800. If anyone know the gtl ratio setting do i increase or reduce the ratio while running stock cpu speed or explain it more as any help would be great

 

[Edwired]

Update i figured out that if i left the cpu gtl 0/2 and 1/3 in auto it resulting crashing and freezing. Now i have it set manually no more crashing next is to fine tune the northbridge gtl. At the moment it running 3.6ghz at 1.152v (vid 1.113v) the max temp on the core is 46c while running prime95 nearly 10 hours last night. The vtt is set to 1.14v it getting better by the day. It looks like im on the right path for more overclock as it seems like i can get more than 4ghz while maintaining a low vcore

 

[Edwired]

So far it stable for the xeon e5450 @ 3.60ghz. More good news that nvidia graphic card crashing issue looks like it resolved as it related to the scaling mode as default it was using aspect ratio whuch still crashed the gpu i tried using full screen scaling it still crashed the gpu so i ended up using no scaling so far no crashing. Well done nvidia hats off to ya trying to force people to buy new graphic card every time it stop working cause of the default settings doesnt work

 

[Edwired]

Got the e5450 to 4ghz at 1.200v max temp on core 1 was 50c during prime95 as core 2 dropped out about 36mins in with heaven running other than that it not crashing games at all with project cars i been playing it since the temperature on the cpu never went past 38c the gpu barely touch 40c. I seen videos with similar specs putting in between 1.288v to 1.300v on the vcore resulting a very high temp betweec 60 to 70c

 

[Dinnercore]

I´d like to join, first time I´m on intel and I went with a Xeon X5482 for my 2008ish nvidia themed build.
Did the 771 to 775 mod, and I knew the 5482 is 1600 FSB and only has a 8x multi but I thought I might get atleast a little OC out of it and it was free. Turned out it hits a wall already at 3.3GHz / 1650 on my board. I did choose the 780i chipset because of the theme + it runs quad-SLI very well and the boards are still highly available / rather cheap. But they don´t get very far on FSB OC, in best cases they scratch 500/2000 FSB.
This is what I could do, without cranking the FSB voltage to 1.4V (I can only set 1.3 or 1.4, so I decided to stay on the safe side with 1.3). It passed the test, but every attempt on 3.33GHz failed.

Vcore is plenty high, I would turn that back down if I were to keep that chip. But... I will move it to the spare parts drawer and try my luck with this lad:

 

[Edwired]

Cool work there as the vtt on mine is 1.20v as the max voltage according to intel manual stated 1.45vtt where some say safe is 1.36v. The max voltage for vcore is 1.35v. Best keep below that. And also welcome to the xeon owner club

I´d like to join, first time I´m on intel and I went with a Xeon X5482 for my 2008ish nvidia themed build.
Did the 771 to 775 mod, and I knew the 5482 is 1600 FSB and only has a 8x multi but I thought I might get atleast a little OC out of it and it was free. Turned out it hits a wall already at 3.3GHz / 1650 on my board. I did choose the 780i chipset because of the theme + it runs quad-SLI very well and the boards are still highly available / rather cheap. But they don´t get very far on FSB OC, in best cases they scratch 500/2000 FSB.
This is what I could do, without cranking the FSB voltage to 1.4V (I can only set 1.3 or 1.4, so I decided to stay on the safe side with 1.3). It passed the test, but every attempt on 3.33GHz failed.

Vcore is plenty high, I would turn that back down if I were to keep that chip. But... I will move it to the spare parts drawer and try my luck with this lad:

When you say failing is that core stopping after a certain time?

 

[Dinnercore]

Cool work there as the vtt on mine is 1.20v as the max voltage according to intel manual stated 1.45vtt where some say safe is 1.36v. The max voltage for vcore is 1.35v. Best keep below that. And also welcome to the xeon owner club


When you say failing is that core stopping after a certain time?

Thank you

Yeah not just one but two cores are stopping, worker 3 and 4 / core 2 and 3 stop almost instant when I try to run 3.33GHz / 1665 FSB. System is also crashing or freezing. On 1650 however it is stable and I can run hours in p95.

 

[Edwired]

I was having the same problem before on the asus p5q premium i had to adust the cpu and nb clock skew i had to delay the cpu to 100ps delay and northbridge 200ps delay got it stable @ 3.60ghz no freezing or crashing all that on 1.152v. Now im trying to stablize the 4ghz which i will be testing tonight. The funky thing that the asus p5q premium if i left cpu/nb gtl and clock skew in auto it keeps crashing every single time. So as both settings are set manually no crashing at all. It all a balancing act for performance and stability

 

[Dinnercore]

I know, I tried around with different settings too. I tried GTL offsets in various steps up and down, but it did not help. I tried the formular with 0.63 and 0.67 but nothing. I bumped Vcore and DRAM voltage, I tried adding just a little to MCP and HT-link. Nothing changed.

 

[Edwired]

What brand is the motherboard and what power supply are you using? As the x5482 required 150 watt to run stock. Try using hwinfo64 to get better result of monitoring temps and voltage as hwmonitor doesnt detect the core temp correctly as it have the default tjmax at 100c where the xeon 5400 series tjmax is 85c