Xeon Owners Club

Toothless · Sep 5, 2020

phill said:
Guys I'm after a penny for your thoughts....

One of my close friends is rather poorly, I'm trying to do something nice for him as he's locked in at home and can't go anywhere but to hospital so I'd like to try and donate him a PC that I can use my spare parts from and get him something a little special.. Something that's a little me in there for him... I mean by that, completely daft and stupid basically

I'm having a bit of a dilemma with what CPU to put in the rig for him.. I've got a X79 board, so I'm aiming for at least USB 3, as he's never had anything above USB 2.. And I'm looking for a CPU that has a decent amount of cores, that pretty quick and will do pretty much anything he needs.. As he's no gamer I don't believe that full on clock speed would be required, so the low/mid 3.0GHz ish area, I think would be more than enough. It's a shame that I can't give him an X99 board, but I don't have the DDR4 spare So I'm kinda looking around these sorts of CPUs...

Xeon E5-2650 v2 8C 16T 95w
Xeon E5 2658 V2 10C 20T 95w
Xeon E5-2660 v2 10C 20T 95w

My question to you, is which would you put in the rig?? I'll be using a Gigabyte X79 UD3 (I think!) board.. I'm looking at water cooling the CPU and a GPU which has a full block on it.. As I don't happen to have a spare high core count CPU, I'm looking to try and buy one as cheaply but quickly as possible... I also have to remember or find out, if normal DDR3 will work with the Xeon (I'm pretty sure it would??) as I've got some server DDR3, but I'm not sure if it would work with the board... It didn't with my MSI X99 Gaming Titanium sadly...

A penny for your thoughts guys

Depends on the use case. My 2680v2's will go to 3.1 all cores or 3.4 on a few. I won't do any intense gaming on them but for multi threaded or multitask stuff it's great. As others have said yeah the 2650v2 would work however look at the 2678wv2 (I think that's what it's called, or 2687wv2) for best of both worlds.

EDIT: 2687w V2. 4ghz boost on 8c/16t. Just gotta keep it cool with the 150tdp.

KLiKzg · Sep 7, 2020

Can I join in a club with this personal collection?

List is from "asteroids@home":

Zyll Goliat · Sep 7, 2020

KLiKzg said:
Can I join in a club with this personal collection?

List is from "asteroids@home":

As long as you have any of the Xeon's cpu's you are more then welcome in here....dobro nam dosao

masterdeejay · Sep 8, 2020

Huananzhi X99-TF Motherboard Review (Easily the BEST $100 Mobo on Aliexpress!)

https://xeon-e5450.ru/socket-2011-3/huananzhi-gaming-x99-tf/
best price/perfomance motherboard for the 2011v3 Xeons!
but i think the vrm needs better heatsink not two little fans, the bios can be better but there a lot of modded bios for the board.
The second best on my list is the X99Z V102 budget motherboard and the next is X99Z V500 and these two uses the modded TF bios.

bobbybluz · Sep 8, 2020

Does anybody happen to know if the plastic LGA 2011 socket cover is the same as one for a 2011-3? I've found three for a 2011 so far but can't find any of the two I have for a 2011-3 and I need one for a 2011-3 mobo. Never let your wife move things without telling you first.

bobbybluz · Sep 9, 2020

I found the socket cover and have an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 on the way. It appears the E5-2678V3 gives the best bang for the buck ($84 on Ebay at the moment). Any thoughts?

masterdeejay · Sep 10, 2020

bobbybluz said:
I found the socket cover and have an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 on the way. It appears the E5-2678V3 gives the best bang for the buck ($84 on Ebay at the moment). Any thoughts?

That is the best yes. 3.3ghz all core turbo if you use the all core bios hack.

lexluthermiester · Sep 11, 2020

bobbybluz said:
I found the socket cover and have an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 on the way. It appears the E5-2678V3 gives the best bang for the buck ($84 on Ebay at the moment). Any thoughts?

masterdeejay said:
That is the best yes. 3.3ghz all core turbo if you use the all core bios hack.

It's better to use a Xeon E5-2667v3 with that board. 8core CPU that has a higher stock clocks & higher potential OC.

masterdeejay · Sep 11, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
It's better to use a Xeon E5-2667v3 with that board. 8core CPU that has a higher stock clocks & higher potential OC.

And where can you buy under 84 usd?

bobbybluz · Sep 11, 2020

I'm going to be using this one for A/V production work. I want the extra cores, I already have a 4.7Ghz 5960X in X99 and two 4.7Ghz 1680 V2's in X79. 12 cores for less than $85 sounds great but now I'm looking at 14 core E5-2683 V3's. Slower clock speed (less heat to get rid of) but two more cores to do work. Things begin to get a rapidly more expensive on Ebay after the E5-2683 V3 as the core count increases. There are several 2683 V3's in the "best offer" category and from past experience sooner or later somebody will take a lowball offer within $20-25 of a 12 core 2678 V3.
With the BIOS mod 3.1 Ghz is possible on all cores. That's fresh territory for me but doesn't look extremely complicated. 12-14 cores @3 Ghz or so for slightly more than $100 sounds like a fun project.

Edwired · Sep 11, 2020

I think it gone mad lately with cpu and gpu prices like example

NEW Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 TI Graphics Cards 11GB GDDR6 RTX2080TI | eBay

NEW Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 TI Graphics Cards 11GB GDDR6 RTX2080TI | Computers/Tablets & Networking, Computer Components & Parts, Graphics/Video Cards | eBay!

www.ebay.ie

Who in the right mind to buy that for that price it insane it daylight robbery

lexluthermiester · Sep 11, 2020

masterdeejay said:
And where can you buy under 84 usd?

Oh wow! Good point. Hadn't checked prices.. and DAMN! They were cheaper not to long ago..

bobbybluz · Sep 16, 2020

I scored a 14 core E5 1683 V3 for $99 off Ebay yesterday afternoon and already have it in my possession. The RAM is due tomorrow and mobo Saturday.

KLiKzg · Sep 19, 2020

Just scored a replacement Intel DP35DP board for my trusty Xeon for $20.

But the Intel board & it's cap just wouldn't give up...can you imagine it still works?

lexluthermiester · Sep 19, 2020

KLiKzg said:
But the Intel board & it's cap just wouldn't give up...can you imagine it still works?

That is fairly amazing. I'd recap it though if you intend to keep and use it.

KLiKzg · Sep 21, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
That is fairly amazing. I'd recap it though if you intend to keep and use it.

Old board is scheduled for recap.

Replacement just got put in the same system, works like a charm. :rockout:

One question though...has anyone here got Q9550S to work with Windows10? ‍ :confused:

lexluthermiester · Sep 21, 2020

KLiKzg said:
One question though...has anyone here got Q9550S to work with Windows10?

Should work fine. Are you expecting any issues?

Toothless · Sep 21, 2020

Need a couple PCI and EPS extensions to tidy up the front and coolers.

masterdeejay · Sep 21, 2020

Today I ordered the cheapest 2011 socket motherboard on ali. If i get it i will post some screenshots, bios, cpu support etc.
X79 V2.73 ITX

MACHINIST-X79-desktop-motherboard-LGA-2011-support-Intel-xeon-processor-DDR3-EC.jpg

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001321699528.html
That is 44 usd with post.
It is cut down version of 2.72.
Chipset is probably C222
Audio is ALC662
Gigabit lan is the same Realtek 8111h as on many chinese boards
M2 Sata/nvme modes jumpers not auto detect.
Ram dual channel 2x16gb max

KLiKzg · Sep 21, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Should work fine. Are you expecting any issues?

Tried to put it in DP35DP Intel board...works just fine with mbo.

Problem is that Windows 10 wouldn't boot.
Even though Q9550S is "low TDP" version of X3360.

Found this: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006105/processors.html
Though for those only normal CPUs don't work, but Xeons work normally.

But now I found out this, maybe I should check it out:

Solved : Upgrade fails with NX bit not supported error on CPU with NX, PAE and SSE2 support as verified by MS coreinfo tool.

And fresh win 10 bootable iso install works fine too, but i cant activate it using my win 7 key since i have an oem pre installed version of windows 7. So win 10 works fine, but i cant activate it

answers.microsoft.com

phill · Sep 21, 2020

Toothless said:
Need a couple PCI and EPS extensions to tidy up and front and coolers.

I just love these boards and setup

What is the case you have there sir @Toothless ?? What do you use the system for?

Toothless · Sep 21, 2020

phill said:
I just love these boards and setup

What is the case you have there sir @Toothless ?? What do you use the system for?

Nanoxia Deep silence 6

Virtual machines and game servers. I had to change the power on to the reset switch since my cat has shut down the entire thing twice because she needs her full food bowl filled.

phill · Sep 21, 2020

I thought it looked familiar... I had one of them a long time ago. I couldn't get on with it with the lack of water cooling space and considering the size of the thing.. Little dissapointed if I'm honest.. Can't for the life of me remember at the moment where it ended up...

Glad to see its getting some good use

In your sig you have a 2680 V2, do you use that for similar things?

(Apologies for being nosey, just interested in what people do with their machines :laugh:

)

Toothless · Sep 21, 2020

phill said:
I thought it looked familiar... I had one of them a long time ago. I couldn't get on with it with the lack of water cooling space and considering the size of the thing.. Little dissapointed if I'm honest.. Can't for the life of me remember at the moment where it ended up...

Glad to see its getting some good use In your sig you have a 2680 V2, do you use that for similar things? (Apologies for being nosey, just interested in what people do with their machines )

The 2680v2 is at my girlfriend's desk for her video editing/rendering and in case we need more machines for games. As for the case I got it off a TPU guy here who is absolutely fantastic to chat and do sales with.

lexluthermiester · Sep 21, 2020

KLiKzg said:
Tried to put it in DP35DP Intel board...works just fine with mbo.

Problem is that Windows 10 wouldn't boot.
Even though Q9550S is "low TDP" version of X3360.

Found this: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006105/processors.html
Though for those only normal CPUs don't work, but Xeons work normally.

But now I found out this, maybe I should check it out:

Solved : Upgrade fails with NX bit not supported error on CPU with NX, PAE and SSE2 support as verified by MS coreinfo tool.

And fresh win 10 bootable iso install works fine too, but i cant activate it using my win 7 key since i have an oem pre installed version of windows 7. So win 10 works fine, but i cant activate it

answers.microsoft.com

Weird, it should still work. I've installed Win10 on a few different Core2Quad systems with no issues. Maybe a bios setting needs changing?

System Name	Veral
Processor	5950x
Motherboard	Asus Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB Elite
Memory	2x16GB G.Skill TridentZ
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil
Storage	Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB
Display(s)	Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W
Case	Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2
Audio Device(s)	Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Mouse	Corsair Nightsword
Keyboard	Corsair K55
VR HMD	HP Reverb G2
Software	Windows 11 Professional
Benchmark Scores	PEBCAK

System Name	Minotaur
Processor	Intel I9 7940X
Motherboard	Asus Strix Rog Gaming E X299
Cooling	BeQuiet/ double-Fan
Memory	64Gb DDR4 2800Mhz
Video Card(s)	1)RX 6900XT BIOSTAR 16Gb***2)MATROX M9120LP
Storage	2 x ssd-Kingston 240Gb A400 in RAID 0+ HDD 500Gb +Samsung 128gbSSD +SSD Kinston 480Gb
Display(s)	BenQ 28"EL2870U(4K-HDR) / Acer 24"(1080P) / Eizo 2336W(1080p) / 2x Eizo 19"(1280x1024)
Case	NZXT H5 Flow
Audio Device(s)	Realtek/Creative T20 Speakers
Power Supply	F S P Hyper S 700W
Mouse	Asus TUF-GAMING M3
Keyboard	Func FUNC-KB-460/Mechanical Keyboard
VR HMD	Oculus Rift DK2
Software	Win 11
Benchmark Scores	Fire Strike=23905,Cinebench R15=3167,Cinebench R20=7490.Passmark=30689,Geekbench4=32885

System Name	Detox sleeper
Processor	Intel i9-7980XE@4,5Ghz
Motherboard	Asrock x299 Taichi XE (custom bios with ecc reg support, old microcode)
Cooling	Custom water: Alphacool XT45 1080 + 9xArctic P12, EK-D5 pump combo, EK Velocity D-RGB block
Memory	8x16Gb Hynix DJR ECC REG 3200@4000
Video Card(s)	Nvidia RTX 3080 FE 10Gb undervolted
Storage	Samsung PM9A1 1Tb + PM981 512Gb + Kingston HyperX 480Gb + Samsung Evo 860 500Gb
Display(s)	HP ZR30W (30" 2560x1600 10 bit)
Case	Chieftec 1E0-500A-CT04 + AMD Sempron sticker
Audio Device(s)	Genius Cavimanus
Power Supply	Super Flower Leadex 750w Platinum
Mouse	Logitech G400
Keyboard	IBM Model M122 (boltmod, micro pro usbc)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64

System Name	"The black one in the dining room" / "The Latest One"
Processor	Intel Xeon E5 2683 V4 16c/32t / i7 14700K @5.8GHz
Motherboard	Asus X99 Deluxe / ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 w/4 Silverstone FM121 fans / Arctic LF II 280 w Silverstone FHP141's
Memory	64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 (8x8) / 96GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400
Video Card(s)	EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW3 / Asus Tuff OC 4090 24GB
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus, 1TB Samsung 860, 4 Western Digital 2TB / 1tb, SK hynix P41 Platinum 2tb
Display(s)	43" Samsung 8000 series 4K / 50" Vizio M-series 4K
Case	Modded Corsair Carbide 500R / Modded Corsair Graphite 780 T
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar Essence STX II/ Asus Xonar Essence STX
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200i / Seasonic Prime GX-1300
Mouse	Logitech Performance MX, Microsoft Intellimouse Optical 3.0
Keyboard	Logitech K750 Solar, Logitech K800
Software	Win 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 IoT / Win 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC
Benchmark Scores	https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/display.php?id=202122048229

System Name	"The black one in the dining room" / "The Latest One"
Processor	Intel Xeon E5 2683 V4 16c/32t / i7 14700K @5.8GHz
Motherboard	Asus X99 Deluxe / ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 w/4 Silverstone FM121 fans / Arctic LF II 280 w Silverstone FHP141's
Memory	64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 (8x8) / 96GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400
Video Card(s)	EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW3 / Asus Tuff OC 4090 24GB
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus, 1TB Samsung 860, 4 Western Digital 2TB / 1tb, SK hynix P41 Platinum 2tb
Display(s)	43" Samsung 8000 series 4K / 50" Vizio M-series 4K
Case	Modded Corsair Carbide 500R / Modded Corsair Graphite 780 T
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar Essence STX II/ Asus Xonar Essence STX
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200i / Seasonic Prime GX-1300
Mouse	Logitech Performance MX, Microsoft Intellimouse Optical 3.0
Keyboard	Logitech K750 Solar, Logitech K800
Software	Win 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 IoT / Win 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC
Benchmark Scores	https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/display.php?id=202122048229

Xeon Owners Club

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

KLiKzg

Zyll Goliat

masterdeejay

bobbybluz

bobbybluz

masterdeejay

lexluthermiester

masterdeejay

bobbybluz

Edwired

NEW Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 TI Graphics Cards 11GB GDDR6 RTX2080TI | eBay

lexluthermiester

bobbybluz

KLiKzg

lexluthermiester

KLiKzg

lexluthermiester

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

masterdeejay

KLiKzg

Solved : Upgrade fails with NX bit not supported error on CPU with NX, PAE and SSE2 support as verified by MS coreinfo tool.

phill

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Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

phill

Moderator

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

lexluthermiester

Solved : Upgrade fails with NX bit not supported error on CPU with NX, PAE and SSE2 support as verified by MS coreinfo tool.

System Name	The Blind Grim Reaper
Processor	Xeon X5675 Westmere-EP B1 SLBYL 4.20ghz @ 1.256v
Motherboard	Asus P6X58D-E
Cooling	Noctua CP12 SE14, Redux Noctua 1500rpm fan Arctic F14 x3 for intake and exhaust
Memory	Corsair XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 x6
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SC Single Fan Model
Storage	Crucial mx300 750gb main system + 1TB mx500 for games and music
Display(s)	22 inch samsung curved
Case	NZXT Phantom 530 black
Audio Device(s)	Nvidia HDMI through HDMI adaptor for output sound for turtlebeach x12 headset
Power Supply	Antec HCG 850 watt
Mouse	no brand
Keyboard	normal usb keyboard
Software	Windows 10 22H2 v1 (main is) and Windows 11 22H2 v2 on WD 250gb 7200rpm (testing purposes os)
Benchmark Scores	Cinebench R20 = 2046cb

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(