Xeon Owners Club

[lexluthermiester]

Pushed it to 110.

And without pushing voltages too high. Very nice!

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Pushed it to 110. Tried 115, and no go. More difficult to make it hit single turbo when it's higher. Replaced my blown up intake fan... temps are lower.
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Nice...110 on BCLK is also Great....

 

[Edwired]

Been tweaking the Xeon X5675 since adjusting the power plans so I can have three options like power saver, balanced and high performance.
Power saver will lock the cpu clocks to 2.4ghz all cores this with the processor maximum processor state to 5%
Balanced will allow the clocks to move about from 2.4ghz to 3.4ghz regarding the load with the maximum processor state to 83%
High performance will allow the clocks to move about from 2.4ghz to 4.20ghz regarding the load with the maximum processor state to 100% (this one I had to bump up the vcore offset and qpi/dram core voltage by two clicks to get it working correctly)
But before the maximum processor state was 95% resulting 4ghz all cores didn't need to bump vcore offset and qpi/dram core voltage.
Still learning as I go along

 

[johnspack]

Had to beat that darn ryzen....:

 

[lexluthermiester]

Had to beat that darn ryzen....:

Only just...

 

[johnspack]

Stupid ram won't do the 1866 strap... which is just over 2000.... so I'm fd. Thank god I only want to run vms on this thing.
In the end... I want a TR system bad. But this will just have to do for now.....

Had to try my last stable bus oc... 112... got a bit more...

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Stupid ram won't do the 1866 strap... which is just over 2000.... so I'm fd. Thank god I only want to run vms on this thing.
In the end... I want a TR system bad. But this will just have to do for now.....

Had to try my last stable bus oc... 112... got a bit more...
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Nice result....you getting close to my score....

And btw ram speed ain't going to help you that much.....

 

[johnspack]

Yeah, I'll have to figure out what to tweak to get that few more Mhz on the bus. Haven't tried 113 yet... it might do that. Wonder if I should bump vtt up or what....

 

[lexluthermiester]

Wonder if I should bump vtt up or what....

That might work, but careful how far you push the voltages for it.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Yeah, I'll have to figure out what to tweak to get that few more Mhz on the bus. Haven't tried 113 yet... it might do that. Wonder if I should bump vtt up or what....

You can push it as long as he keep awake...my sample refuse to turn on at 116 on BCLK so after that I start fine tuning from 115.9-115.1 where I finally leave it to work...it was actually working fine also on 115.2-115.3 but I decide to put it notch down just to be sure....most of my Voltages are manually tuned so I will take a pic in bios and post it bellow so that you can have some orientation what to tweak...

 

[Edwired]

I decided to push abit more on the cpu multi from x21 to x22 getting to 4.40ghz to see if it can take it while running with bclk 200 ram 1600mhz. Kept getting slapped with the bsod same one keep appearing. Even bumped up the vcore and qpi/dram a couple of notches to no improvements there. I am guessing it pretty much on the limit based on the bclk 200, uncore 3200mhz and qpi link 3600mhz. Anyone have any idea what I can do to make it work or is it a washout in trying for more?

 

[lexluthermiester]

I am guessing it pretty much on the limit based on the bclk 200, uncore 3200mhz and qpi link 3600mhz.

That would be my guess. You may have hit the ceiling for your CPU.

 

[Edwired]

That would be my guess. You may have hit the ceiling for your CPU.

Suppose you are correct on that theory

 

[lexluthermiester]

Suppose you are correct on that theory

This is not to say that with a lower bclk and a high multi you might get a higher overall clock, just that with the config stated above that that your silicone lottry may have hit the limit. And let's be fair, those are damn decent clocks and a solid OC. There's nothing to be sad about there.

 

[Edwired]

This is not to say that with a lower bclk and a high multi you might get a higher overall clock, just that with the config stated above that that your silicone lottry may have hit the limit. And let's be fair, those are damn decent clocks and a solid OC. There's nothing to be sad about there.

Might try a different way of getting to the 4.4pghz by letting the bios take control of the rest of the voltages and timings except dram voltage as I don't want it to overvoltage too much while monitoring the bios voltages through aida64 to see what it doing to vcore and qpi/dram voltage while bumping up blck as started to refresh the bios settings while comparing it to my old settings to see if any improvement or decrease in performance in benchmark tests

 

[lexluthermiester]

Might try a different way of getting to the 4.4pghz by letting the bios take control of the rest of the voltages and timings except dram voltage as I don't want it to overvoltage too much while monitoring the bios voltages through aida64 to see what it doing to vcore and qpi/dram voltage while bumping up blck as started to refresh the bios settings while comparing it to my old settings to see if any improvement or decrease in performance in benchmark tests

Or you could be happy with 4.2ghz. with a 200mhz bclk, 4.2ghz is a snappy OC.

 

[Edwired]

Or you could be happy with 4.2ghz. with a 200mhz bclk, 4.2ghz is a snappy OC.

Yeah something about 200bclk as was having abit of instabilities somewhere between the three which are dram freq, uncore and qpi link. Have to figure out to iron out that sometime soon. As if I lower either the three it loosing performance in ram overall as it hard enough to pick one to increase or decrease the freq to gain or lose

 

[johnspack]

Yeah, hard wall on this 2697 at 113... no point in pushing past 112. I do notice in very single threaded old games... well a win98 one... my fps dropped from 144 to almost down to 100.
Apparently 3800 is not as fast as 4400.... but overall, a dam good cpu that lets me throw more threads into vms and they run much faster!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yeah, hard wall on this 2697 at 113... no point in pushing past 112. I do notice in very single threaded old games... well a win98 one... my fps dropped from 144 to almost down to 100.
Apparently 3800 is not as fast as 4400.... but overall, a dam good cpu that lets me throw more threads into vms and they run much faster!

112bclk is respectable. I'd say the silicon lottery went in your favor there.

 

[Ruru]

Is there a magic trick to enable 21x multiplier on Xeon X5650? Board is Asus P6X58D-E With the latest bios. I can only choose 20 or 22 when choosing a high multiplier with X5650

Running at 20x210 atm.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is there a magic trick to enable 21x multiplier on Xeon X5650? Board is Asus P6X58D-E With the latest bios. I can only choose 20 or 22 when choosing a high multiplier with X5650

IIRC, that multi is locked out because it not in the boost profile and is not a standard operating multi. I might be wrong on that, but I think that is what's happening. With it being a locked CPU it likely will not work.

Just for the sake of argument, what happens when you try to lock the multi to 21 in ThrottleStop? If you haven't tried yet, give it a try and see if it works? If the 21 multi can be accessed by that CPU, ThrottleStop will be able to.

Running at 20x210 atm.

Let's be honest, this is a very solid OC for the X5650. It's not a very high binned CPU so the fact that you are getting 4.2ghz out of it is seriously excellent!

 

[Ruru]

IIRC, that multi is locked out because it not in the boost profile and is not a standard operating multi. I might be wrong on that, but I think that is what's happening. With it being a locked CPU it likely will not work.

Just for the sake of argument, what happens when you try to lock the multi to 21 in ThrottleStop? If you haven't tried yet, give it a try and see if it works? If the 21 multi can be accessed by that CPU, ThrottleStop will be able to.

Haven't tried that, just been wondering that the multiplier selection in BIOS goes from 20x to 22x

 

[Xeon]

If i remember correctly, back in the day i had to crossflash a BIOS from the ASUS X58 workstation on my p6t deluxe v2 to hold that multi. 22X205 to get 4.5 GHz.

 

[Ruru]

If i remember correctly, back in the day i had to crossflash a BIOS from the ASUS X58 workstation on my p6t deluxe v2 to hold that multi. 22X205 to get 4.5 GHz.

I have a P6X58D-E with the newest bios

 

[Xeon]

Does it have "High TDP Turbo Mode"?