Xeon Owners Club

[silentbogo]

I actually had a fan adapter for a Dimestech test bench that I was able to make work. Put a high speed Corsair 120mm fan pointed right above the southbridge and now the temp on it is under 70c.

Those heatsinks are made for horizontal airflow. If you look at the right half of @Knoxx29 picture, you will see a bunch of small fans. These fans are supposed to pull the air through fins of both heatsinks (and between RAM sticks) in an enclosed case, so you will get much better cooling if you add a carboard duct to direct the air flow from whatever size fans you have. Also make sure that both heatsinks face the same direction.

Same thing with chipset - there are no mounts for a heatsink but any small aluminium radiator with some thermo-conductive adhesive stuff will probably drop your temps below 70°C (even without a fan).

I'd draw some pictures, but it is getting close to 11 PM and I am getting tired and sleepy.

 

[dorsetknob]

i look like that when i wake up worse when i'm tired

 

[stinger608]

Yea your correct on the horizontal configuration @silentbogo

And actually after closing up the HAF 932 the chipset is steady at 49 to 51c. Huge difference from 110c.

 

[FireFox]

you will see a bunch of small fans

Those small fans are hell loud, there are 4 at (20.000rpm) full load, when those little devils are running it's like when i am at my work place (Airport)
Btw, while ago i tested on that Serve Passive cooling Vs Active Cooling and with Active Cooling i got 7c/10c dropped, the only good thing of the Passive Cooling was that cooled Cpu and Ram.

 

[silentbogo]

Those small fans are hell loud, there are 4 at (20.000rpm) full load, when those little devils are running it's like when i am at my work place (Airport)
Btw, while ago i tested on that Serve Passive cooling Vs Active Cooling and with Active Cooling i got 7c/10c dropped, the only good thing of the Passive Cooling was that cooled Cpu and Ram.

Yep, those fans are supposed to be loud, because that blade is usually located in an enclosed case on the rack inside a room (with other loud stuff) behind a locked soundproof door. For our "unconventional" use of Xeon servers 212 EVO or even Intel box HSF will do better, especially if it is an open case setup.

I can barely handle a pair of 40mm fans at 10,000rmp inside a managed switch... can't even imagine how loud this thing can be

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Its great having the memory span of an amoeba,

i just remembered i bought one of these on friday,

Xeon E5640


i sold a x5650 so it will go in the MSI
with any luck i will remember again tomorrow and get the same buzz all over again......it wont get here till friday

 

[Silvertigo]

get the same buzz all over again

Well I`m experiencing the buzz for the first time (X5650)

Insanely easy to OC, but i can only get to 3.8 on air, so I`m crunching on 3.6 with temps around 60-65C and i`ve lowered
the cpu voltage as far as possible.

I`ll have to wait for winter to return or buy a better cooler. I only have two very ordinary sticks of 2gb / 1333mhz pulled from an old HP machine , no problems there.

 

[dorsetknob]

been looking for a x5675 but they go for stupid money

 

[FireFox]

been looking for a x5675 but they go for stupid money

It's not stupid money it's what they cost.
The cheapest one right now in Germany are the one that i am selling on ebay, ask @CAPSLOCKSTUCK, he was looking for one 5675, you can get it in UK but the come from Germany.

 

[dorsetknob]

cheapest one i found for delivery to uk was £170 there was one guy flogging some for £112 four if i remember right but there was no uk delivery
which was a shame and still over priced ( i've been outbid on X5675 finaly going for £89 free delivery in the UK )

 

[FireFox]

I am selling four X5675 each one 155€ that's around 108£/109£

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

my E 5640 cost £ 17.00 delivered i guess that makes me poor or wise.......

 

[dorsetknob]

155€ = £112.41 like that Other guy in germany but he wont post to UK
even if you did that would push the price to nearly £120 Way to much when i consider £90 a fair Max

 

[Silvertigo]

Woke up this morning to find my Saber rig running but no signal on the monitor.
Upon closer inspection I noticed a damn frog inside the case having a peaceful snooze in the warmth of the case.
Not sure if thats what caused the failure or my tamperings in the Bios before I went to bed
I think I better close up the rest of those adapter slots.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Laughing, laughing, laughing.

i cant imagine that ever happening in Wales, we have frogs, but not ones that hop in during the night and try and fix stuff in BIOS

 

[dorsetknob]

call it kermit and give it a job as your IT tech

here is an overclocking frog

 

[Silvertigo]

I think now that the rig was still crunching, and maybe because the frog was most probably sitting on the video card at some point, thats what shut the video signal down.

I`m just thankful the slimey critter did not short out something and fry the board

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I think now that the rig was still crunching, and maybe because the frog was most probably sitting on the video card at some point, thats what shut the video signal down.

I`m just thankful the slimey critter did not short out something and fry the board

A lot of what goes on with a Xeon rig is

"eye of newt and bum of frog"


lesson learned i reckon, time to put those plates on before you get a snakey thing in there.

 

[dorsetknob]

whats it like to clean out the funnelweb spider webs or the Redback webs

 

[FireFox]

The Xeon E5-4620 is working, it crunch better than the x5675.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Watts vs ppd?
Please.

 

[FireFox]

Watts vs ppd?
Please.

X5675
Power consumption: 175W - 3.6GHz - 6 Cores - 12 Threads

PPD: 5500/6000 - depends how many FAH2 is running.

E5-4620
Power consumption: 133W - 2.4GHz - 8 Cores - 16 Threads

PPD: 7500/8500 - depends how many FAH2 is running.

Price

X5675 - 150€

E5-4620 - 90€

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I am trying to raise my profile to something akin to that of fellow Welshman, the Worlds most expensive soccer player, Gareth Bale

pictured here being successful for Wales


so


i have changed my flag on HWBOT

 

[FireFox]

My CineBench Score

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Xeon E 5620

Thats in my MSI board............i have my ASUS Rampage ii to try as well.