Xeon Owners Club

[Toothless]

I have found that the CM Hyper212 works well.

That would be overkill unless you plan on some extreme OCing.

Also overkill unless you extreme OC.

I'd like to get 4ghz on them but right now I can't get past 3.75ghz since I'm so thermally limited. The coolers I have on there perform about as well as 212s.

Is it dual or single cpu set up you thinking of air cooling

CM Hyper212 evo is a better choice had one work really good on cooling as it have direct heatpipes stacked together than spaced out on other heatsinks

Dual. It's the SR-2 build in my sig.

 

[Edwired]

What about undervolting the cpus and go higher on clocks with turbo enabled

 

[Mr.Scott]

I'd like to get 4ghz on them but right now I can't get past 3.75ghz since I'm so thermally limited. The coolers I have on there perform about as well as 212s.


Dual. It's the SR-2 build in my sig.

The coolers you're using are ok. To get any better, you need to go up to 120mm coolers. 4 heatpipes is ok, obviously more would be better.
I'm running a pair of these with good CFM Scythe fans and I have no problem with cooling.

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[Toothless]

The coolers you're using are ok. To get any better, you need to go up to 120mm coolers. 4 heatpipes is ok, obviously more would be better.
I'm running a pair of these with good CFM Scythe fans and I have no problem with cooling.

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I'm tempted to switch out with my other Xeon to see if the 212s do any better. My issue is, well.

And I have mine with two fans in push/pull. I'm thinking I have to go big with how hungry these x5680s are.

 

[phill]

Hey @Toothless

I'm running a single loop, 360mm rad and with a 7970 in the loop as well here's what I'm getting on what I can only imagine was a warm day with my two X5650's...

And then I found a cool day.... lol

I've nothing special in the loop, just a pair of EK Supremacy blocks and some cheap 120mm fans, that aren't really turned up much I think at the time.. (Screen shots are from 2018...)

I believe everything is still hooked up and I've been very bad and not drained the loop, but if you need me to do some testing I will try to do so I have some X5675's in there now, so a little faster I know it's a power hungry beast!

 

[Toothless]

Hey @Toothless

I'm running a single loop, 360mm rad and with a 7970 in the loop as well here's what I'm getting on what I can only imagine was a warm day with my two X5650's...

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And then I found a cool day.... lol

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I've nothing special in the loop, just a pair of EK Supremacy blocks and some cheap 120mm fans, that aren't really turned up much I think at the time.. (Screen shots are from 2018...)

I believe everything is still hooked up and I've been very bad and not drained the loop, but if you need me to do some testing I will try to do so I have some X5675's in there now, so a little faster I know it's a power hungry beast!

I do have the water blocks and everything for this thing, I've just never done custom water before and I'd hate to kill this thing from ignorance by me. I like getting an air can and just clearing the heatsink real quick. If this second stimulus actually comes out I want two big tower coolers for sure.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Your cooling is very good Phill.
My air loads out under 60c and I think that's ok.

 

[phill]

Your cooling is very good Phill.
My air loads out under 60c and I think that's ok.

I think I was lucky @Mr.Scott

Here's a couple build pics I took when I rebuilt the setup, it was a mess when I had it, I hoped I'd done it justice !
A quick before....

And after...

A wattage pic just for fun



And one I find funny...

And the two together...



Anyways, apologies kind of off track there... But as you can see, it's nothing impressive but it does work fine When testing the loop I tend to get everything out the case, and just test it in place, but with the board being so big and such, I just tested it in place. I tend to run the pump from another PSU rather than the one for the system the loop is for just in case. So far I've never had a leak. But the one time I had a leak was with a X48 Rampage Extreme and a GTX 580 at the time, the water poured out from the CPU block barb, all down the board and over the GPU.. Whilst it was running. Water in the slot, down to the bottom of the board, it was a mess.
However, just running distilled water in there, it just carried on going! So after drying it out a bit and putting back together, it worked fine and did do from then on... Was rather strange !! Found that one of the barbs was somehow loose but never any issues after

If there's anything we can do to help with putting a custom loop together, you'll never go back to air cooling (Well, unless it suits! )

 

[stinger608]

That is just f'n sexy @phill

 

[lexluthermiester]

I believe everything is still hooked up and I've been very bad and not drained the loop, but if you need me to do some testing I will try to do so I have some X5675's in there now, so a little faster I know it's a power hungry beast!

What do your temps change to when you apply an OC(which is what Toothless is aiming for)?

 

[phill]

Well depending on the overclock obviously and voltages used, I don't believe I've seen over 60C under a load temp with them clocked to like 4GHz or so.. The X5650's I had weren't the best overclockers but I've honestly not even tried the X5675's.... I'd like to hope that they would hit 4GHz without too much hassle to be honest...

If I can ever get a chance to use the PC and actually get too it, I'll do some testing for you

 

[Edwired]

It easy enough for x5675 to hit 4.2ghz with turbo mode enabled (3.86ghz without turbo mode) at a lower vcore

 

[Mr.Scott]

Pair of x5675's I do 4.3 all cores @ 1.3v, and load temps stay 60c give or take a degree.

 

[uco73]

What do your temps change to when you apply an OC(which is what Toothless is aiming for)?

Why to OC xeon? No need for that.

 

[king of swag187]

Why to OC xeon? No need for that.

Look if youre not going to comment something useful or even close to having a ounce of intelligence just dont next time

 

[Edwired]

I have mine at 1.264v @ 4.20ghz turbo enabled should be capable to lower the vcore depending on silicon quality and batch

 

[lexluthermiester]

Why to OC xeon? No need for that.

Why ask me? Toothless is the one inquiring above...

 

[Toothless]

Why to OC xeon? No need for that.

Because they're unlocked and I can? They're my chips and I do as I please? Who are you to say if there is a need or not if you don't know my needs.

 

[Edwired]

Don't mind the negative comments people there's no need to start a riot at this time of the hour

 

[phill]

I'm not sure of the reasoning but guys lets keep things civil It's hardware after all, it doesn't want to see us fighting

Besides, personally I'm not sure there's anything I own that's not overclocked/tweaked on the CPU in some way! After all we are all enthusiasts

 

[uco73]

Why ask me? Toothless is the one inquiring above...

I didn't ask you. I asked in general. Sorry.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I didn't ask you. I asked in general. Sorry.

No worries. It's all good.

 

[natr0n]

I got a pair of 5687's few weeks ago. These are great chips. I kinda like them more than the 5675's.

Slightly less threads but higher clocks.

I paid $40 for them on ebay. Great value.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I got a pair of 5687's few weeks ago. These are great chips. I kinda like them more than the 5675's.

Slightly less threads but higher clocks.

I paid $40 for them on ebay. Great value.

But you're using them together, yes? That is similar to having an 8core CPU, which is damn good.

 

[natr0n]

But you're using them together, yes? That is similar to having an 8core CPU, which is damn good.

Yes together. I dont know if I should leave HT on. I know I can save a bit of power/electric with it off. With the 5675's I always ran them with HT off for daily stuff.

I need to get a power/watt meter.