Dual Xeon Build! (LGA 1366 + R9 295x2)

[Octavialicious]

Bad news, turns out Westmere has some oddities about the PCIe Bus or something,  so even though the card outputted a signal, it technically isn't compatible. I tried everything, but I have to sell it and buy a 980/780Ti or something along the lines of that

[Stefan1024]

Bad news, turns out Westmere has some oddities about the PCIe Bus or something,  so even though the card outputted a signal, it technically isn't compatible. I tried everything, but I have to sell it and buy a 980/780Ti or something along the lines of that

That's a shame.

Sometimes I don't like like it to be proofen right.

 

But a 980 is also a good card.

[MrPsych0]

Damn, have fun with the build

[Octavialicious]

Bought a used EVGA GTX 980 SC, it will get here soon

[Norman_the_Owl]

Bought a used EVGA GTX 980 SC, it will get here soon

The used market is so great for hardware right now, it's an amazing market for buyers.

 

Sellers are so fucked though Don't worry 290x lightning, you're valuable to me...

[Octavialicious]

Woo! This build log might start back up sooner than I expected The guy I bought my 980 from is an hour away from me, and he used 1 day shipping!

 

I also sold my SSD, and I will be buying a 2 TB drive from microcenter tomorrow. Looking at a Toshiba drive probably

[tnlich]

Don't worry, it's going to work. If you had 2 R9 290Xs then I might be be a bit concerned, but with the 295x2 the crossfire connection takes place entirely on the graphics card itself, so whether or not your motherboard supports crossfire is irrelevant. The issue Linus had doesn't even apply here because on a hardware level your motherboard will only see that there is one physical card. Its the drivers that tell your computer that there is actually 2 separate GPUs.

They are basically all the same. Just more junk on the 295's is all .

[Octavialicious]

 

USPS one day shipping is dedicated man, 1 AM and they are still driving!

 

With this being said, build log update tomorrow! The 980 gets here tomorrow and I'll be driving by microcenter and picking up a new HDD

[ozziestig]

 

USPS one day shipping is dedicated man, 1 AM and they are still driving!

 

With this being said, build log update tomorrow! The 980 gets here tomorrow and I'll be driving by microcenter and picking up a new HDD

Damn thats commitment.

[ALXAndy]

Damn thats commitment.

 

lulz. Couriers and the mail companies are 24 hour. It's not like some dude has worked 15 hours, it's just the night shift.

[flibberdipper]

I love dual CPU builds. Can't wait to get my grubby hands on my Dual PIII board. When I fix up my X1650 Pro then it'll go to that and I'll have an old gaming PC (assuming there is Windows XP support, otherwise I'll find the fastest card 98SE supports).

[infamous_last]

Great build!
Have been thinking about one of these dual 1366 cpu borads as a dedicated CAD rig, already got a couple of x58 boards with westmere xeons and it's a brilliant bang for buck.

 

Will be interested to see your results.

[Octavialicious]

This thing was wrecking on Cinebench! I wasn't here to sign for the GTX 980, so it will arrive monday. I ordered another H55 because I want to get a really good OC

[alpenwasser]

Dammit people, how many times to I need to tell you to tag me when somebody is

doing a 2CPU build, especially LGA1366?

I am going to overclock the X5660s to 4.0+ GHz

Quick question: How are you going to manage that? Last I checked Xeons have

locked multipliers (well, upwards at least), so you'd need to raise the BCLK,

and as far as I'm aware the only LGA1366 board to ever support that is the EVGA

SR-2. If you've found a way to get around that of course, awesome!

 

 

Looks nice. But are you sure this board supports cross fire? Even if both cores are on the same card, it still technicly cross fire.

Since the borad only has one PCI-E 16x solt, I don't think they have made drivers for this scenario.

*cough* ... get a Fury X ... *cough*

 

Yeah, I'm not even sure if regular Super Micro boards support SLI, since they

tend to specifically mention it on those few boards which do support it (such as

the X10DAX or the X9DAE). Haven't tried it out personally (can't really, since

my X8DT3-LN4F only has one physical x16 slot), so I can't say for sure, but it

would seem odd for them to specifically advertise SLI on certain boards and have

it on others as well without mentioning it.

Not sure about Crossfire though, haven't found anything about that on their

site so far (or overlooked it).

 

Ah yes 1366, amazing socket Definitely following this.

1366 is love, 1366 is life. :wub:

And yeah, the fast hexacore Xeons can be had on ebay for pretty good prices

these days, bigger trick is usually finding a motherboard to go with it. We've

had a few people come around the SR-2 owners club on OCN lately asking if any

of us were willing to sell our motherboards for "reasonable" prices, but so far

no dice (I'm certainly not selling mine ). They're about as hard to find as

unicorns these days, and when you do find one, equally as expensive (I looked

for one on ebay last year as a spare, found one in a span of about three months,

and it was 800 USD, used). And depending on the model, Super Micro boards can

still be pretty expensive as well (though there are some good server pull deals

to be had from time to time, I bought my server board like that as well).

[wpirobotbuilder]

1366 is the best for dual-socket builds, so much computing power for so little money, and huge memory support. Show me more!

[Octavialicious]

It is now done! (Officially now)   LIES! GO CHECK PAGE 5 FOR NEW UPDATE

 

I can only say one thing: The EVGA GTX 980 SC is so fucking cool. Under full load, it is near silent and I can barely hear it. It's phenomenal! Not to mention my whole build is SO quiet. The AiO's on the Xeon's have very quiet pumps, and I slapped SP120s onto the rads. I turned them down to the lowest RPM and they are so quiet! My Xeons NEVER hit 40C and I am very satisfied with this whole build. I went with a WD Red 2TB as it was on sale, and it performs well enough for my needs.

 

Here is a better picture of the build itself:

If you look closely, you can see electrical tape on the pumps This is because Fry's ran out of H55s, so I bought a thermaltake water for my CPU. When I say they are the exact same, I am not exaggerating. The only difference is the logo, which I covered with electrical tape (it blends in sooo well, it's only visible due to the flash )

 

All in all, I definitely do not regret switching over from the 4790K. Sure the single core performance is lacking, but it is more than enough for gaming and the multi core performance makes up for it! I am also very pleased with the Air 540, as it took this HUGE board with no problems.

 

I will do any benchmark if you're interested, as long as it's free!  :lol: Just quote this post and leave what benchmark you want and I will get to it. Also, feel free to ask any questions

 

Thanks for reading my build log!

 

If any of you are interesting my setup, I can take some pics of that as well

[Norman_the_Owl]

Dammit people, how many times to I need to tell you to tag me when somebody is

doing a 2CPU build, especially LGA1366?

Quick question: How are you going to manage that? Last I checked Xeons have

locked multipliers (well, upwards at least), so you'd need to raise the BCLK,

and as far as I'm aware the only LGA1366 board to ever support that is the EVGA

SR-2. If you've found a way to get around that of course, awesome!

 

 

 

Yeah, I'm not even sure if regular Super Micro boards support SLI, since they

tend to specifically mention it on those few boards which do support it (such as

the X10DAX or the X9DAE). Haven't tried it out personally (can't really, since

my X8DT3-LN4F only has one physical x16 slot), so I can't say for sure, but it

would seem odd for them to specifically advertise SLI on certain boards and have

it on others as well without mentioning it.

Not sure about Crossfire though, haven't found anything about that on their

site so far (or overlooked it).

There's been modified BIOs' floating around for a few of the supermicro boards that allows BCLK overclocking

 

And AFAIK, nobodies gotten SLI/CF to work on the 1366 supermicro boards. I've known a few people who couldn't get it to work, and nobody that could

[Octavialicious]

There's been modified BIOs' floating around for a few of the supermicro boards that allows BCLK overclocking

 

 

PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS help me find one, I would freaking die of happiness if I could find one!!!!!!

[arnavvr]

@Octavialicous Do Cinebench R15! I would like to see how it performs.

[Octavialicious]

@Octavialicous Do Cinebench R15! I would like to see how it performs.

I will in a bit Harrynowl might make me a custom bios which will let me BLCK overclock, and speaking I have great temps I'm curious to see if I can get a decent OC

[Octavialicious]

@Octavialicous Do Cinebench R15! I would like to see how it performs.

I got 1373, which flat out wrecks the 4770K which gets 822

[ALXAndy]

You won't get SLI to work because it is not supported.

I had a Dell dual socket 1366 board and I only got SLI working by using HyperSLI which IIRC is no longer updated and thus, doesn't work.

[Octavialicious]

You won't get SLI to work because it is not supported. I had a Dell dual socket 1366 board and I only got SLI working by using HyperSLI which IIRC is no longer updated and thus, doesn't work.

SLI? Why is everyone talking about SLI? I have not mentioned SLI at any point during this build

[alpenwasser]

There's been modified BIOs' floating around for a few of the supermicro boards that allows BCLK overclocking

Very interesting. I am intrigued.

[Octavialicious]

Very interesting. I am intrigued.

Me and someone else tried to find one, to no avail He also tried to mod the BIOS, and unlocked a bunch of stuff. But sadly he didn't know enough to add BLCK overclocking :'(