Dual Xeons - worth or not?

[suchamoneypit]

Wow, it looks fantastic, great job!

 

Peeling off the film is the best part! How could you wait? I borrowed a PSU and GPU from a friend on different occasions, and both times I found all the plastic film still on them (these are like 3-4 years old!) and I still shame him to this day about it.

[srmarkovic]

3 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

Wow, it looks fantastic, great job!

 

Peeling off the film is the best part! How could you wait? I borrowed a PSU and GPU from a friend on different occasions, and both times I found all the plastic film still on them (these are like 3-4 years old!) and I still shame him to this day about it.

I have to put sound and video cards and I don't want to scratch plastic window, on this case this plastic is bad quality and everything rest is ok.

[srmarkovic]

[srmarkovic]

Test dual Xeon twice - 2004 and 2000,

second is my i7 2600k @ 4.6GHz all cores, although it is written 3.4GHz  with 767 points

and my laptop (3.4GHz single and 3.2GHz when all cores are active) is third with 542 points.

 

[srmarkovic]

I have strange thermal behavior... When I wide open case temperatures at idle are (there are a lot of sensors on this board but these temperatures are in higher range rest are in 30-35 range) :

CPU1 38

CPU2 40

southbridge 49

Lan NIC  56

Room temperature 29 C degree

(it is hot these days here)

 

When I close case I have:

CPU1 34

CPU2 37

southbridge 42

Lan NIC 52

Room temperature 29 C degree

 

I thought that the best scenario for cooling is open space.

[suchamoneypit]

3 hours ago, srmarkovic said:

I have strange thermal behavior... When I wide open case temperatures at idle are (there are a lot of sensors on this board but these temperatures are in higher range rest are in 30-35 range) :

CPU1 38

CPU2 40

southbridge 49

Lan NIC  56

Room temperature 29 C degree

(it is hot these days here)

 

When I close case I have:

CPU1 34

CPU2 37

southbridge 42

Lan NIC 52

Room temperature 29 C degree

 

I thought that the best scenario for cooling is open space.

It can depend, if the case is closed, especially with two coolers, you could probably get a wind tunnel effect. With an open case, this effect would be lost and air would just be thrown around everywhere mixing.

[srmarkovic]

Short video of my Phanteks Enthoo Pro case

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I am waiting for gtx 1060, but don't know what to do with these cables from audio card.

[srmarkovic]

I have dilema.....

for 377€ or 

 

for 340€ or

for 330€

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[legopc]

5 minutes ago, srmarkovic said:

Doesnt it feel nice to have so much power at you disposal

[srmarkovic]

11 hours ago, legopc said:

Doesnt it feel nice to have so much power at you disposal

Processors clocks are lower than 4.5GHz of my i7 (which has only 750 in Cinebench) and I bought 

for 303€, which is not the best gpu. I got gpu today, I am watching olimpic games (our team win gold in water-polo and I am waiting finale of female volleyball) so I just installed os and drivers and  haven't test this build in real world scenario, and I don't think that it  will be something special. I will know when I try it with GAMES!!!!! I will post results when I play a few games. But it doesn't matter if it performs or not, it looks so good!

 

I know that comments will be that it is build for other purpose. 

I used to work in 3ds and Adobe, I used to write a lot of software and I used VMs for testing,  but now I am lazy  so I just play games and watch movies. Well I was young........

[multifrag]

Nice build. I started out with Intel s5520sc motherboard. It was big, expensive for it's time and awful looking. After 1 year of searching through ebay for EVGA SR-2 I couldn't be more happy. I get the same 2000cb in cinebench but I need to overclock my x5675 to 4.4Ghz to reach that. 

[srmarkovic]

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

FPS:	96.7
Score:	4046
Min FPS:	21.7
Max FPS:	164.2

 

System
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (2593MHz) x16
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 21.21.13.7254 (4095MB) x1

Settings
Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset Custom
Quality High

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[malon]

i have been wondering if it would be possible to have a video beeing renderd with one cpu and recording a game with the other without any of the things that you do beeing ''bottlenecked''

 

[srmarkovic]

1 hour ago, malon said:

i have been wondering if it would be possible to have a video beeing renderd with one cpu and recording a game with the other without any of the things that you do beeing ''bottlenecked''

 

Well Adobe does't use more than 10 cores so I found on net that someone run two instances of Adobe and select cores for each one to get real power of multiple cores. It is probably possible to render with 8 cores and record game with other 8 or render with more and record game with rest. There are 16 cores and 32 ht with 3.3GHz clock, plenty of ram, 84 PCI lanes and 4 ethernet ports so it is even possible to make 2,3,4 machines with unraid. Linus made it with one PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJw8IKVYQ8

so it will be possible to do similar (but not so powerful, he probably had result about 28,000 ) with two e5-2670  CPUs which in my test  had

CPU Mark	19,468

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

 

[srmarkovic]

[srmarkovic]

I haven't finish my build log, but now after more than a year I opened my comp to clean it from dust, so I made a few photos. I also made a list of parts I used. 

Parts I bought
Motherboard:
Intel® Server Board S2600COEIOC (new)                216€
Ram:
64GB (8x8GB) DDR3 1333MHz ECC REG (used)     98€
Processors:
2 x E5-2670 SROKX C2 (used)                                 120€
Case:
Phanteks Enthoo Pro with window case (new)          122€ 
PSU:
RAIDMAX RX-1000AE-B (new)                                 120€
CPU coolers:
2 x LC-CC-120 - CPU cooler (new)                             49€
GPU:
Asus DUAL-GTX1060-O6G GTX 1060 6GB (new)    305€
SSD:
Silicon Power S55 240GB SATA III (new)                    66€
Hard drives:
2 x HDD SATA3 2TB WD Purple WD20PURZ           150€
Sound card:
PCIEx1 7.1 sound card (new)                                      14€
USB 3.0:
PCIEx1  4 x USB3.0 addon card (new)                       13€
Aditional cables and racks:
2 x SAS 4i SFF-8087(sas to 4 satacable new)              3€
2 x Hot Swap Rack (new)                                            30€
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                                                                                1306€

I also added my old parts

SSD

240GB Kingston 
Hard disks:
2 x 1TB WD Green
BlueRay writer
BH10LS30

 

 

I have to made custom holder for PCIe raid card and I used PCIe extension cable because Asus card is 2,5 slots wide.

 

 

Hot swap racks.

 

 

My 2500VA UPS.

 

 

I use LG 49UH610V 4K TV as a monitor.

 

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45cmx70cm workspace

 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/0OLQr0X32BU

 

 

[srmarkovic]

I hope that I will be able to use this machine for custom PC case elements.

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