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    Slayer3032 got a reaction from Pasi123 in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Figure I'd bump the old thread with my recent X58 stuffs since LTT posted a video with the SR2, shame they didn't try setting affinity the same way all the new hybrid platforms have to.

     
    I pulled the EVGA E758 out of the spare tower corner it's been living in since the board is all tweaked from having one of those Arctic plastic mount coolers on it for probably 15 years and I just can't get it to read the third memory channel. I can see the dimms there and connected but the system just doesn't use it. I picked up a new cooler that advertised 1366/775 support, both of which I have a few boards for. Of course, this was just an incorrect amazon listing. Whatever, it was $13 and my 212 LED that's going into the trash the next time I touch it because it's drawn more blood than any other PC part I've ever owned had a MIR to be $15. Whenever Noctua releases their new D15 cooler I'll give it another shot with the NH-D14 before it goes into the home server to see if a proper backplate resolves the issue.
     
    Had to destructively remove the Arctic cooler because one of the pull clips snapped. New cooler obviously then didn't end up fitting so I tossed my stock i7 930 cooler on it and I really don't remember it running this cool with the i7, maybe I just have really bad memories of my Pentium D and I stuck a NH-D14 on it day 1. Temps look really decent on the X5670. It's still missing the third channel though, which is an issue my Gigabyte board had for a while but a reseat fixed. I might have to try it with an i7 again but with how bowed the board is around the socket area at the top edge I don't have high hopes.

     
    I also stuck a GTX 970 into the old X58 setup, it's just slipping through on it's 550w PSU as it pulls almost exactly 500w under P95/Furmark at the wall. I'll call that build well optimized lmao. The SX8200 Pro that I had used in it but transferred to my personal Ryzen build has also returned after it experienced some file corruption which prompted me to check the old SM951 128GB. Upon getting a BTRFS scrub the drive decided it's to cease functioning entirely. I have it setup for wake on lan and I generally remote into it. I have noticed the random reboots starting to sneak in when it runs like an OBS stream for half a day but still pushing 4680mhz on single thread at 1.425v, I'll just blame it on latest 550 nvidia linux driver/nvenc which broke my suspend/wol as well. It usually isn't in the neglected tower storage corner but where it normally lives has some Haswell junk I was testing some TrueNAS Scale stuff on recently.

     
    I keep looking around for worthwhile upgrades for X58 home server as well but most everything seems like an increase in power consumption or a steep decrease in available pci-e lanes. $20 used nvmes are just so tempting! LGA2011-3 stuff looks fun but I don't have a spare box of DDR4 just laying around like I do DDR3. Feature creep sets in and then IPMI would be great so I don't have to remove an nvme for a GT1030 to configure the boot order because the HBA decides it's more important after a few years and a power loss. Utilizing all of the pci-e slots and lanes right away isn't appealing. Newer built in board features and what do I really need vs. want. Splitting my VM off into a separate SFF box instead, oh look now I need a switch and 10g SFP+ sounds fun.
     
    Ehhh, it's still doing it's job perfectly fine and it could probably use some larger drives again instead.
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    Slayer3032 got a reaction from Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Figure I'd bump the old thread with my recent X58 stuffs since LTT posted a video with the SR2, shame they didn't try setting affinity the same way all the new hybrid platforms have to.

     
    I pulled the EVGA E758 out of the spare tower corner it's been living in since the board is all tweaked from having one of those Arctic plastic mount coolers on it for probably 15 years and I just can't get it to read the third memory channel. I can see the dimms there and connected but the system just doesn't use it. I picked up a new cooler that advertised 1366/775 support, both of which I have a few boards for. Of course, this was just an incorrect amazon listing. Whatever, it was $13 and my 212 LED that's going into the trash the next time I touch it because it's drawn more blood than any other PC part I've ever owned had a MIR to be $15. Whenever Noctua releases their new D15 cooler I'll give it another shot with the NH-D14 before it goes into the home server to see if a proper backplate resolves the issue.
     
    Had to destructively remove the Arctic cooler because one of the pull clips snapped. New cooler obviously then didn't end up fitting so I tossed my stock i7 930 cooler on it and I really don't remember it running this cool with the i7, maybe I just have really bad memories of my Pentium D and I stuck a NH-D14 on it day 1. Temps look really decent on the X5670. It's still missing the third channel though, which is an issue my Gigabyte board had for a while but a reseat fixed. I might have to try it with an i7 again but with how bowed the board is around the socket area at the top edge I don't have high hopes.

     
    I also stuck a GTX 970 into the old X58 setup, it's just slipping through on it's 550w PSU as it pulls almost exactly 500w under P95/Furmark at the wall. I'll call that build well optimized lmao. The SX8200 Pro that I had used in it but transferred to my personal Ryzen build has also returned after it experienced some file corruption which prompted me to check the old SM951 128GB. Upon getting a BTRFS scrub the drive decided it's to cease functioning entirely. I have it setup for wake on lan and I generally remote into it. I have noticed the random reboots starting to sneak in when it runs like an OBS stream for half a day but still pushing 4680mhz on single thread at 1.425v, I'll just blame it on latest 550 nvidia linux driver/nvenc which broke my suspend/wol as well. It usually isn't in the neglected tower storage corner but where it normally lives has some Haswell junk I was testing some TrueNAS Scale stuff on recently.

     
    I keep looking around for worthwhile upgrades for X58 home server as well but most everything seems like an increase in power consumption or a steep decrease in available pci-e lanes. $20 used nvmes are just so tempting! LGA2011-3 stuff looks fun but I don't have a spare box of DDR4 just laying around like I do DDR3. Feature creep sets in and then IPMI would be great so I don't have to remove an nvme for a GT1030 to configure the boot order because the HBA decides it's more important after a few years and a power loss. Utilizing all of the pci-e slots and lanes right away isn't appealing. Newer built in board features and what do I really need vs. want. Splitting my VM off into a separate SFF box instead, oh look now I need a switch and 10g SFP+ sounds fun.
     
    Ehhh, it's still doing it's job perfectly fine and it could probably use some larger drives again instead.
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Lunar River in Legacy Ad-Free HBO Max Subscribers to Lose Access to 4K HDR, Max Parent Company WB makes content on competing streaming services worse   
    Is things like this that justify my aversion to anything subscription based.
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    Slayer3032 reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    The W3175X build is slowly coming together, got the aforementioned 3175X in the post yesterday, most of my water bits should be here tomorrow if DHL is to be believed and my coldzero trays/bits are in production now 

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    Slayer3032 reacted to da na in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Xeon X5550 engineering sample sent to me.

    It is recognized as an "Intel                   000" in the BIOS and Windows. It appears to have half the L1 per core of the production chip.

    HWiNFO recognizes it as an X5550 engineering sample despite the wonky brand name. Oddly it is recognized as Nehalem, rather than Gainestown.

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    Slayer3032 reacted to LstpersonalOF in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    Hey, everyone
     
    really nice video, enjoyed it a ton @jakkuh_t, we would really love to know what happened with linus ubiquiti enterprise 48 switch that caught fire and smoke in the video, since its the first time i have seen a ubiquiti product do that...
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Azariel-chan in The Starfield vkd3d Performance Patch is underwhelming   
    First of all, yes, its underwhelming.
    The fix itself doesnt give you much itself.

    Now before i preset my findings, i will enlighten you on what i did and on what Hardware i tested.
    I tested on New Atlantis near the main Hall thing with the High Preset and Motionblur off.
    Software wise ive got a:
    Latest Xanmod-edge-v3 Kernel
    mesa-devel (exact version in Screenshot)
    RADV from mesa-devel 23.3.0
    Proton GE 8.14 (shows up as 8.13, dont ask why wth)
    Now i compiled vkd3d-proton twice, one time with o3 and LTO on and one time without anything flag-wise. The Branch i used is called dgc-conditional-rendering
    Ive labed the Screenshots accordingly.
    The rig i used to test consists of a
    - 5800x @ 4.4Ghz with 360 AIO
    -7900xt
    - 32GB 3600 RAM
     
    The Game was run on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus with the NTFS file-system and the drive wasnt used to boot from while Linux was running on an USB SATA SSD conntected via USB 3.
    Every Screenshot was taken after a 5 Minute waiting period, stopped with an Phone and countdown started after pressing "Load Game" in main Menu" for any possible Temperature Difference yady yada. Just that it wont be affected by randomness or any Services etc. Also the Computer was restarted after every Run. I tried to be as consistent with Room Temperature as i could be.
    I will now talk about my Screenshots and go with the Settings first.
     
    Game Settings
     
    Now we come to the first Screenshot.
    This is the default 2.10 vkd3d-proton without anything done to it. So basically the one, you could download via Releases on Github.
    It hovers somewhere between 61 and 58 FPS.
     
    Default vkd3d-proton
     
    Now the spicy part begins. Now we come to the dgc branch build. This ones as default as you could build it yourself. It sat on a Stable 76-74 FPS throught he whole waiting period.
     
    DGC Branch default Build
     
    Now ive wondered, what i could do to maybe make a difference.
    So ive just played around with some flags and i can preset you my own build with LTO and O3 Flags enabled. If i can find the exact build-flags again, i will post them of course ^-^
    It hovered between 76 and 78 FPS and 78 was hit rarely. Mostly it stood on 77 FPS.
     
    DGC branch with LTO and O3
     
    I hope this summs it up a bit and people dont think of it as the holy grail of Performance, because it isnt. Ive seen some insane claims of Gains from this and wanted to double check it all.
    Thanks for sticking with me in this Thread and have a nice day

    Small edit:
    This was now just deleted from PCMR Reddit with no apparent reason, while i was hated in the Comments for using Linux.
    Hope y'all are betterr qwq
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    So I took a bit of a gamble on Ebay, because I was feeling adventurous.
    Bought an Asus X99 Deluxe bundled with an i7-5930K for $115 before taxes, free shipping. Was not listed as "working" or "tested".
     
    Showed up today with a nifty kit of GSkill Ripjaws4 16GB DDR4, and I tested it to find out everything works just fine. Working to swap the new board into the Proxmox Box because I really don't like Gigabyte and I was reminded of that fact when I started working on the Proxmox Box.
     
    Feels like I really stole this one, not gonna lie. From what I could find, X99 Deluxe is one of the better/best X99 boards, and those don't typically sell for less than $150 unless they're broken, and that's just for the board. 5930K is kind of a boss of a CPU still, being 6c/12t at 3.5Ghz with 40 PCIe lanes.
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    Slayer3032 reacted to IkeaGnome in did i get scammed ?   
    Creating the shipping label doesn't mean actually shipped. They probably happened to be at the computer when your purchase went through. 
    I wouldn't call that price too good to be true. It's about average.
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    My turn to buy more workstation hardware.
     
    Have a Xeon E5-2690v4 on the way, plus a kit of 4x16GB DDR4 -- I may upgrade my motherboard in the future, and might want 128GB down the road -- as it turns out, the plan to revive the X99 machine is to rebuild it into a server and run virtual machines. It'll more than likely end up pulling NAS duty as well. I also don't actually have all the parts for the spare CPU cooler I thought I had, so I snagged a replacement and upgrade in the form of a Noctua NH-U12S. Hopefully it'll keep the 135W 14-core monster quiet and happy.
     
    You know the drill. Pictures will arrive as parts do.
    I'm very quickly reminded just how old the Define R5 is as a case. Wow.
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Pasi123 in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    The X5365 is an older 65nm CPU so it's more like a QX6850. The 45nm Q(X)9650 equivalent Xeons would be the E5450 and X5450
     
    I actually have a server with 2x E5450 or X5450 (idk which because it reports as having both lol) but I haven't ran R10 on it so here's R11.5


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    Slayer3032 reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Speaking of xeon dark, snagged this chonky lad for a good deal local 


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    Slayer3032 got a reaction from the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    More hardware has found its way back around to me, X5670 with way too small of a cooler and a EVGA E758 with a 750Ti. The Rosewill PSU is probably faulty as well as the system was always weirdly unstable and was also originally unstable on a Z170 board. However it's also built into my first case purchase, an Antec Nine Hundred which has had my Athlon X2, EVGA 680i/Q6600 and X58A-UD5 in it.
     
    No idea what I'm going to do with it. My best spare PSU is a 550w. I also have a EVGA GTX 970 now as well which would really put my 300w~ at the wall X5675 build at the exact limit of my Superflower Leadex III Gold. I don't ever plan on drawing that absolutely ever on that machine though.
     
    I really wish some X79/X99 stuff would just fall into my lap but that's likely not happening, the P6T/X5660 home server could probably use a bit more of a power efficient platform than X58 lmao.

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    Slayer3032 got a reaction from Pasi123 in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    More hardware has found its way back around to me, X5670 with way too small of a cooler and a EVGA E758 with a 750Ti. The Rosewill PSU is probably faulty as well as the system was always weirdly unstable and was also originally unstable on a Z170 board. However it's also built into my first case purchase, an Antec Nine Hundred which has had my Athlon X2, EVGA 680i/Q6600 and X58A-UD5 in it.
     
    No idea what I'm going to do with it. My best spare PSU is a 550w. I also have a EVGA GTX 970 now as well which would really put my 300w~ at the wall X5675 build at the exact limit of my Superflower Leadex III Gold. I don't ever plan on drawing that absolutely ever on that machine though.
     
    I really wish some X79/X99 stuff would just fall into my lap but that's likely not happening, the P6T/X5660 home server could probably use a bit more of a power efficient platform than X58 lmao.

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    Slayer3032 reacted to Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Starting to hear rumors of EVGA pulling out of the motherboard market. That's a bit spooky, hopefully it isn't so.
     
    Otherwise, I may accelerate my plans and snag EVGA boards on X79, X99, and probably Z690 for good measure while I still can.
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    Slayer3032 got a reaction from Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    More hardware has found its way back around to me, X5670 with way too small of a cooler and a EVGA E758 with a 750Ti. The Rosewill PSU is probably faulty as well as the system was always weirdly unstable and was also originally unstable on a Z170 board. However it's also built into my first case purchase, an Antec Nine Hundred which has had my Athlon X2, EVGA 680i/Q6600 and X58A-UD5 in it.
     
    No idea what I'm going to do with it. My best spare PSU is a 550w. I also have a EVGA GTX 970 now as well which would really put my 300w~ at the wall X5675 build at the exact limit of my Superflower Leadex III Gold. I don't ever plan on drawing that absolutely ever on that machine though.
     
    I really wish some X79/X99 stuff would just fall into my lap but that's likely not happening, the P6T/X5660 home server could probably use a bit more of a power efficient platform than X58 lmao.

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    Slayer3032 reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    What's better than one 7980XE? 
     
    three of them

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    Slayer3032 reacted to Zando_ in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Likely the VRM switching frequency, my EVGA X58 boards allow me to adjust this as well. I wouldn't touch it unless you're down for some exhaustive testing: https://www.overclock.net/threads/fixed-cpu-vrm-switching-frequency.1709130/. It could be helpful if you're willing to sit down and manually find the optimal frequency for your specific VRM transistors on your specific board. I assume it's only useful to folks pushing for world records or on LN2, same as a lot of the advanced OC settings on this kind of board. 
    https://www.overclock.net/threads/cpu-phase-control.793584/. At least for older boards, it seems to control how many phases it uses for voltage delivery, it can drop down to run more efficiently but it won't be as stable under OC load, so the OC.net folks recommend disabling it. 
    Given the info above, I'd assume optimized is using less phases, not more, so it would be worse for OC. It would be great if all OEMs just said what the thing actually does vs slapping some stupid name on it. 
    Not likely unless you're doing extreme overclocking. OCP = OverCurrent Protection, given that name I would assume it raises the OCP limits for the 12v input, which would be useful if you were drawing an ungodly amount of current and it kept tripping. 
    Running the exact same benchmark (and same version of said benchmark) to compare? It likely just wasn't completely stable to begin with and whatever test you're using now exposed an instability you never came across during the original tweaking. Getting chips 100% rock solid stable isn't easy in my experience, I tend to get them to ~98-99% stable but I'll still have a funky issue every now and then and have to re-tweak. That + thermal headroom is why I don't push my chips as hard anymore. 
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    Slayer3032 reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Oh my, that's pretty, love the heatkiller blocks and all, really nice looking system that, with that said though I don't have to worry about rad space 😜 


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    Slayer3032 reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    snagged a brand new X299 micro 2 for 185 shipped 😮 

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    Slayer3032 reacted to RONOTHAN## in Have a question about a bottleneck....   
    If you already own the 5900X, keep using it. It's still a great CPU and should do a fine job with your setup. If you're buying new, I see no reason to go for a 5900X over one of the other CPUs you mentioned, especially if the pricing is similar. 
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    I'm old enough to remember the times of Long Live Sandy Bridge, but I'm really thinking it's actually Long Live Westmere
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    Slayer3032 got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Landline to "Smart" Landline   
    Asterisk might be able to do some of the things that you're looking for, it sounds like you're looking to setup a PBX?
     
    I've never used it and I have absolutely no idea what the hardware situation would even look like so I can't offer any advice beyond that I have heard of Asterisk before.
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    Slayer3032 reacted to matt0725 in NZXT RMA is just creating more e-waste   
    So you'd rather pay to ship it back for them to toss it in the trash rather than you do it?
     
    its defective, and already e-waste, which is unfortunate, but it is what it is at this point. They (hopefully) won't have enough defective units to justify regional repair services (europa, asia, north america, etc.) The fuel used in shipping the defective unit back and forth an extra few times is probably more damaging than tossing the product.

    The radiator could be recycled if you pull the tubing off, and the pump/cooling plate could be recycled as those are pretty solid chunks of metal, so you could pull it apart and do that on your own if you'd like.
     
    edit: a video of destruction is weird for a product of this size/price, but requiring evidence is pretty normal. Anker (i know, i know security) cables require a photo of them cut in half if you make a warranty claim, and I know heavy equipment mechanics who have to provide videos of them destroying parts of equipment when warrantied. 
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    Slayer3032 reacted to Kilrah in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Ooh nice, sharing D14 and that PSU too 😄
     
    PCI card is an old TV tuner
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