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[sam_86314]

What 1156 boards are good for overclocking? Might pick up another one of these to try that.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That has a pretty good clock speed on it. I think you'll be quite happy with it.

Right, it's overclockable. The multi is locked, but it will BCLK OC just like the rest of the Socket1156 CPU's.

What 1156 boards are good for overclocking? Might pick up another one of these to try that.

This one is a good MATX board;

MSI H55M-P31, LGA1156 Socket, Intel Motherboard for sale online | eBay

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Another MATX;

ASUS P7H55-M LX, LGA1156 Socket, Intel Motherboard for sale online | eBay

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And another;

MSI H55M-E33, LGA1156 Socket, Intel (7636-010R) Motherboard for sale online | eBay

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And here's a full ATX board;

Evga P55 LE, LGA 1156/Socket H, Intel (123-LF-E653-KR) Motherboard for sale online | eBay

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And another;

ASUS P7P55D-E, LGA1156 Socket, Intel (90-MIBBN0-G0AAY00Z) Motherboard for sale online | eBay

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Those are just a few I found that you might like. Here's the search I used to find them if you want to keep looking;

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[Edwired]

Got an dell optiplex 790 currently upgrading the cpu from pentium g630 to i5 2400 during the week. Any xeon work on this i wonder

 

[sam_86314]

Got an dell optiplex 790 currently upgrading the cpu from pentium g630 to i3 2400 during the week. Any xeon work on this i wonder

I'm sure any Xeon that fits in the socket would work if the BIOS supports it, as (I've read) is the case with my Optiplex 980.

Here's a list of all LGA 1155 chips. The Xeons are at the bottom.

The only reasons you should go with a Xeon are if you need ECC or any of that other server stuff, or the Xeon is cheaper than the equivalent consumer part (the case with my Xeon purchase).

 

[Edwired]

I noticed that it didnt list the i5 2400 and pentium g630 on that list. As well i have an asus all in one et2210 and i didnt realise it 1155 socket as it currently running pentium g620 i know it listed as i3 sticker is on the front screen gonna upgrade that some day just dont have the time at the moment

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Just put the finishing touches on my cMP 4,1. Xeon W3690 arrived today and installed with no trouble. Really makes a big difference over the W3520 it replaced. Took several steps, but I’m also able to run Mojave and an RX 580. System feels pretty modern for my needs.

 

[sam_86314]

Just put the finishing touches on my cMP 4,1. Xeon W3690 arrived today and installed with no trouble. Really makes a big difference over the W3520 it replaced. Took several steps, but I’m also able to run Mojave and an RX 580. System feels pretty modern for my needs.

Do you get a boot screen with the RX 580?

 

[MrGRiMv25]

Just put the finishing touches on my cMP 4,1. Xeon W3690 arrived today and installed with no trouble. Really makes a big difference over the W3520 it replaced. Took several steps, but I’m also able to run Mojave and an RX 580. System feels pretty modern for my needs.

I have the W3680 which replaced a W3550 and would completely agree with you, these older Xeons are awesome for the price, the unlocked multiplier is also great on the W3680/3690 chips, with throttlestop I can get 4Ghz with it which is pretty cool for chip that's 10+ years old.

I keep it at 3.73Ghz as it seems to be a sweet spot for this chip, I have the Alpenfohn Brocken cooler on it and the temps are pretty low. I have the RX570 so graphics are a bit slower than your 580 but it's still good for the few games that I still play.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Do you get a boot screen with the RX 580?

No, I just keep the GT120 around for a boot screen if I need it. I'd been away from the cMP scene for a few years, and it appears the latest boot loaders do help. Once you get to 138.x you can do firmware updates and such without the need to install an Apple card. Mojave won't boot with the GT120 installed, as it requires a Metal GPU.

I have the W3680 which replaced a W3550 and would completely agree with you, these older Xeons are awesome for the price, the unlocked multiplier is also great on the W3680/3690 chips, with throttlestop I can get 4Ghz with it which is pretty cool for chip that's 10+ years old.

I keep it at 3.73Ghz as it seems to be a sweet spot for this chip, I have the Alpenfohn Brocken cooler on it and the temps are pretty low. I have the RX570 so graphics are a bit slower than your 580 but it's still good for the few games that I still play.

Yes, they really do still handle workloads well. The nice thing on the macOS side is that the Intel security mitigation patches don't seem to take as much toll on performance like they do on Windows. I mainly went with the 580 because I found one Open Box at B&H for $140. I don't need the greatest, but the used GPU market can be pretty sketchy, but I was willing to go used from an actual retailer and not some guy on eBay.

 

[Edwired]

I always thought that apple flashed the graphic card to their macos so it seems that it possible to reflash the bios back to default prices are are somewhat crazy lately

 

[sam_86314]

I always thought that apple flashed the graphic card to their macos so it seems that it possible to reflash the bios back to default prices are are somewhat crazy lately

Your GPU needs a custom BIOS in order to get a boot screen on Macs. My dad bought a GTX 680 for his cMP 5,1, flashed a Mac BIOS on it, and it's been working perfectly ever since; boot screens and all.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Yes. I flashed an old 7870 that I had in a previous cMP. I'm not too worried about the boot screens. If I really want to boot to Windows, I just swap out the drives.

 

[MrGRiMv25]

Yes, they really do still handle workloads well. The nice thing on the macOS side is that the Intel security mitigation patches don't seem to take as much toll on performance like they do on Windows. I mainly went with the 580 because I found one Open Box at B&H for $140. I don't need the greatest, but the used GPU market can be pretty sketchy, but I was willing to go used from an actual retailer and not some guy on eBay.

Yep, I know what you mean about the security patches, my CPU-Z benchmark dropped from 2610 multi-thread and 343 single-thread to 2527 and 316... I disabled the patches briefly and the scores jumped back to what they were previously.

I got my 570 second hand too but was an eBay find, it was a Sapphire Nitro+ for £90. I suspected it was used for mining as it was a bit dusty and had some corrosion on the heat sink, but had no mining bios flashed to it thankfully. Cleaned it up, put new paste and pads on it and not had a single problem with it, it rarely goes above 50C which is quite mad, the fans almost never spin up so it's whisper quiet.

 

[Edwired]

Well it very easy to flash back to standard bios after the graphic card was mined which could give it a hard time is my guess

 

[MrGRiMv25]

Well it very easy to flash back to standard bios after the graphic card was mined which could give it a hard time is my guess

I think it did have a hard life from the dust and corrosion on the heatsink fins, but I checked the memory timings etc and cross checked it with one from the TPU database and it matched perfectly, either they flashed it back before selling it or never flashed a mining bios to it, one thing I can't know for sure. The corrosion could of just been where it was stored as I looked up the postcode from the tracking number and it was a house in Southall London where a lot of Chinese and bulk sellers seem to come from over here.

 

[Edwired]

Maybe the corrosion is usually caused by moisure in the air or in a damp room as it hard to tell if anything is bad on the board. I only ever seen a few motherboards and graphic cards have rust around the components usual signs of salty water is presented in the air

 

[MrGRiMv25]

I think a damp room was the culprit as well, there was a black dust like stuff on the back-plate which looked like when you get a damp wall in a house, the seller had more than 10 according to eBays stats thingy so they were probably stored in a sub-par environment.

Once I cleaned it up it was looking like a retail card again, not had a single problem with it so got lucky there. It's never gone above 60c, and typically stays around 52-57c. I also got lucky with the UEFI bios only thing (I saw a lot of people getting cards not posting with newer mobo's than mine), the HP mobo has the CSM module so it booted straight up - I was worrying a bit while waiting for it to be delivered due to the UEFI only thing.

 

[Edwired]

Funny you mentioned about the uefi bios not accepting the graphic card. I have the old legecy bios booting the asus gtx 1050 ti oc expedition that have the uefi option displayed in gpuz as it shouldnt matter which graphic card to boot with legecy, csm, uefi bios. Most cases will be the psu is not effiecent enough to provide power to the gpu or the bios/motherboard doesnt switch from onboard to pcie which sometimes can happen sometimes the user have to set the graphic option to pcie before installing the actual graphic and lastly driver conflict between amd, nvidia and intel is my guess. Not everything is plug and play nowadays

I think a damp room was the culprit as well, there was a black dust like stuff on the back-plate which looked like when you get a damp wall in a house, the seller had more than 10 according to eBays stats thingy so they were probably stored in a sub-par environment.

Once I cleaned it up it was looking like a retail card again, not had a single problem with it so got lucky there. It's never gone above 60c, and typically stays around 52-57c. I also got lucky with the UEFI bios only thing (I saw a lot of people getting cards not posting with newer mobo's than mine), the HP mobo has the CSM module so it booted straight up - I was worrying a bit while waiting for it to be delivered due to the UEFI only thing.

 

[MrGRiMv25]

I knew my PSU was good as it's the 600w 80+ from HP which supposedly is a decent unit, which is surprising for an OEM - I think it was the threads I had looked at on reddit saying AMD's RX series were UEFI only that spooked me a bit, I'd been on a solid upgrade path over the years and had a UEFI board since around ~2012 but had a period of owning a potato last year when I had to have a full rebuild done on my GSXR so sold my system to pay for it. I then got the Z400 with an old school looking bios and wasn't sure about the non-UEFI etc thing as hadn't ever had to worry about it before.

 

[Edwired]

Maybe it to do with the gpu you had that time doesnt want to boot or didnt agree with the motherboard. As it could be number of things to be honest as i think most gpu are backward compatible with uefi, csm, legecy bios. Sometimes it could be dirty gold contact strip on the graphic card usually need a rubber eraser to give a clean or vbios needs updating as it could anything is my guess

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Maybe it to do with the gpu you had that time doesnt want to boot or didnt agree with the motherboard. As it could be number of things to be honest as i think most gpu are backward compatible with uefi, csm, legecy bios. Sometimes it could be dirty gold contact strip on the graphic card usually need a rubber eraser to give a clean or vbios needs updating as it could anything is my guess

Oh man, that reminds me of the AGP slot, where the card would just not be seated just right and the system wouldn’t boot.

 

[Edwired]

Agp were a pain as the gold contact were so small it just takes a small misalign to stop working. The pcie slot is alot more easier to work with. Sometime it the dust bunnies that ruins everything lol

 

[lexluthermiester]

Agp were a pain as the gold contact were so small it just takes a small misalign to stop working. The pcie slot is alot more easier to work with. Sometime it the dust bunnies that ruins everything lol

I never had those problems.

 

[Edwired]

Well i did lol

 

[MrGRiMv25]

Maybe it to do with the gpu you had that time doesnt want to boot or didnt agree with the motherboard. As it could be number of things to be honest as i think most gpu are backward compatible with uefi, csm, legecy bios. Sometimes it could be dirty gold contact strip on the graphic card usually need a rubber eraser to give a clean or vbios needs updating as it could anything is my guess

I think a lot of it was to do with Sapphire's particular vbios, it supposedly won't boot on non-UEFI or CSM enabled bios' but I didn't have that issue thankfully. A lot of redditors and other users around the net were having problems but I suspect they either had ancient boards, or an ancient bios.