General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[NoxiousOdor]

Just now, Brennan_Price said:

Dawm they are pretty decent coolers too. I need to find a cheap cooler for my second rig with a Xeon E5620 too. I'll turn that build into a video editing rig for my bro eventually though

I have been happy with them so far, I added a second fan to the one that only had the one fan so now they both have two.

 

if you need a cheap cooler the gammax 400 is pretty decent for about $25

[Brennan Price]

7 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

I have been happy with them so far, I added a second fan to the one that only had the one fan so now they both have two.

 

if you need a cheap cooler the gammax 400 is pretty decent for about $25

Haha wish it was but it's more expensive here in the UK. I'll find something for cheaper used, I mean I got my ets-t40 for £15 soooooooo I'm happy

[Xa3phod]

Just a note: To keep this thing from melting down, I have my Evo212 on it, but I switched out the fan for a Be Quiet! Silent Wings 3. It is literally half the noise with twice the performance. Just holding the two fans side by side, its like the difference between a yugo on a rolls royce.

 

[Ground]

5 hours ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

It is amazing what can happen when you decide to go ham. That is really fast

...I'm quite tempted doing the same with my e5649 which does 260 BCLK. If it scales like the e5640 it could probably get even further on clocks (like ~5.73 max, though I doubt that's gonna be bootable under air)

[panther420]

Update on my RAM issue with my EX58-UD5: I swapped my RAM with FreeGeek. The guy I asked came back after I spoke to him about the swap and gave me mismatched sticks, so I guess I'll be running in single channel. not really much better, I was at least expecting matching sticks lol

 

Edit: Might have been smarter to sell my OCZ Gold kit and try to get something like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OCZ-6GB-Kit-3x2GB-PC3-10666-DDR3-RAM-OCZ3V1333LV2G-SYK-Memory/263427898411?hash=item3d5586bc2b:g:s00AAOSw9vlaVQXB

[kelvinhall05]

So after a bit of tweaking, I have managed to bump my i7-950 on an Asus Sabertooth X58 with an H100i V2 up to 3.96GHz at 1.32V. Idles between 45 and 55C, and under full P95 load, it sits in the mid-70s. How good or bad is this? I tried lowering the voltage to see if it would run cooler, therefore quieter, but this is the lowest it was stable at. It's also, AFAIK, the highest multiplier I can "use" in the BIOS (x24), so I'm not sure if I can go higher than 3.96GHz (but please let me know if I can).

Validation: https://valid.x86.fr/etyt9y

[Xa3phod]

I've been enjoying the X5670 which I overclocked to 4.2Ghz. I am doing a fair amount of rendering lately. Do you think it makes sense to go dual CPU (new Mobo and 1 more CPU) or sell what I have and get a new Ryzen 7? Rendering time is very important to me. Takes me 30-45 minutes to render one image, so reducing the time it takes is a big deal.

 

I also have another rig I use for gaming and basic computing. An I7-6700K overclocked to 4.6Ghz. Do the 8 threads on that CPU run quicker than the 12 threads on the X5670?

 

Thanks

[NoxiousOdor]

2 hours ago, Xa3phod said:

I've been enjoying the X5670 which I overclocked to 4.2Ghz. I am doing a fair amount of rendering lately. Do you think it makes sense to go dual CPU (new Mobo and 1 more CPU) or sell what I have and get a new Ryzen 7? Rendering time is very important to me. Takes me 30-45 minutes to render one image, so reducing the time it takes is a big deal.

 

I also have another rig I use for gaming and basic computing. An I7-6700K overclocked to 4.6Ghz. Do the 8 threads on that CPU run quicker than the 12 threads on the X5670?

 

Thanks

It depends on what your program is optimized to work with, if it likes a lot of cores then dual cpu would be fantastic even with not being able to overclock. If it likes single thread performance then maybe the 6700 would be better or ryzen

 

 

PS: If you need a dual socket board and that is what you want to go with, I have a few and I will give you a great deal since I know you from the forums. I want to get ride of these

[Mattias Edeslatt]

@WhisperingKnickers, care to sell internationally? 

 

What MB and Xeon CPU:s do you recommend? Right now i'm rocking a Haswell Xeon E3-1241 V3

[NoxiousOdor]

24 minutes ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

@WhisperingKnickers, care to sell internationally? 

 

What MB and Xeon CPU:s do you recommend? Right now i'm rocking a Haswell Xeon E3-1241 V3

 

Yeah I could ship internationally

 

 

The two dual socket boards I have available are both LGA 1366 socket for the 5500 and 5600 series xeons. With most dual socket boards not being to overclock I would recommend the x5670 or better. Lower than that and the clock speeds go down a good amount. I use two of the x5690 and at stock I was able to game at 1080p no problem and because there was a total of 12 cores and 24 threads it does great in workstation applications as well

[Ground]

New board again, x58a-oc. Working on figuring out the highest BCLK on my e5649 and I’m once again running into issues with PCIe - my HDD falls out at 121 MHz. So, for now my limit will be 266.5... https://valid.x86.fr/n0v2ux

I think I can work around that issue on the Rampage II Extreme, so I’ll try that in a couple of days. 

[Xa3phod]

WhisperingKnickers, are either of those boards the EVGA SR-2?

 

BTW, its a little disheartening to know that my multi-core Cinabench score with the X5670 is so close to my I7-6700K which is overclocked to 4.5Ghz.

 

956 for the X5670 @ 4.2Ghz

987 for the 6700K @ 4.5Ghz.

 

I paid $350 or so for the I7 not 2 years ago!

[Xa3phod]

Anyone have a cinabench score for dual X5670 (overclocked)? Would like to see how it compares to a Ryzen 1700X overclocked to 3.9Ghz. I saw a video where that were they had an 1710. It creams both by single X5670 and my 6700K by almost double.

[NoxiousOdor]

2 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

Anyone have a cinabench score for dual X5670 (overclocked)? Would like to see how it compares to a Ryzen 1700X overclocked to 3.9Ghz. I saw a video where that were they had an 1710. It creams both by single X5670 and my 6700K by almost double.

goodness that is a big score, I don't have a 5670 sorry, I only have two of the x5690

[Xa3phod]

I'll take the 5690s then. I'm sure my single X5670 @ 4.2 is faster than a single X5690 at stock.

[NoxiousOdor]

11 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

I'll take the 5690s then. I'm sure my single X5670 @ 4.2 is faster than a single X5690 at stock.

At stock dual x5690s will get anywhere from 1550 to 1570 on cinebench

[NoxiousOdor]

Also if you would like to see how your system compares to other systems on cinebench, chech out the LTT forums scores here

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sxzGshuqVtFe_2zgRhN3gXCraR7d8p-NazJ6z0nsGGc/edit#gid=0

[Xa3phod]

Thanks, I will! I'm doing a lot of rendering these days...a 1 minute 30 second rendering clip at the max resolution would take me 5 days on my X5670

[NoxiousOdor]

9 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

Thanks, I will! I'm doing a lot of rendering these days...a 1 minute 30 second rendering clip at the max resolution would take me 5 days on my X5670

That doesn't sound right at all, is there a way to use gpu acceleration?

[Xa3phod]

No. Using the program Sweet home 3D. It uses all your cpu cores.

[panther420]

53 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

No. Using the program Sweet home 3D. It uses all your cpu cores.

I used to use that, that program isn't very well optimized. First of all it runs on the JVM iirc, which for maximum 3D performance, isn't very ideal (cough minecraft cough). I thought you were using something more along the lines of Sketchup or Autodesk, which can make proper use of your GPU.

 

The JVM in general makes very poor use of one's GPU.

[Billy_Mays]

Im trying to get a X5660 on my Gigabyte GA-EX56-UD5, but idk if it'll work, so would it work, I dont have ddr3 ECC just normal ddr3

[panther420]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Im trying to get a X5660 on my Gigabyte GA-EX56-UD5, but idk if it'll work, so would it work, I dont have ddr3 ECC just normal ddr3

Did you read my post on your thread?

 

The board doesn't play well with Xeons (well, at least mine didn't). X5660's are cheap enough though that it wouldn't hurt just to try it.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, panther420 said:

Did you read my post on your thread?

 

The board doesn't play well with Xeons (well, at least mine didn't). X5660's are cheap enough though that it wouldn't hurt just to try it.

Yes I did, thats how I got here, but I dont want to have wasted money, but there is a guy local to me with an LGA 1366 board too, I'll get the model

[bimmerman]

Anyone play around with X79?

 

I've been kicking around the idea of going from X58-> X79 xeons since I would only need to upgrade CPU and Mobo (since DDR3 is used there). Anyone made the jump with noticeable differences? I am sure there are benchmark differences but are there real-world differences?

 

I can't justify a GPU now, but a minor platform upgrade I can swing.