General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[asand1]

1 hour ago, Ground said:

You quoted the wrong person, I have dozens of Xeons sitting around here 

Lol.

[Ground]

Also did some more testing with my daily CPU again - damn, this thing has to be one of the best, if not the best x58 Xeon I've had in my hands, despite already being degraded by now:

- max BCLK 269.65 under air (degraded to 268)

- max daily-able BCLK 227

- 4.4 GHz stable at ~1.32V (I think in Winter I'm gonna go for 4.5 at 1.4)
- uncore stable at 3.9

- cinebench goes through at 4.8 GHz under air
 

[asand1]

I really like mine with the 24/7 OC of 4Ghz. Mine is my main rig and I've already cooked one X5680 @4.2Ghz. At 4Ghz the x5680 is a really nice general computing CPU that has played any game I've played really well.

[Glasare]

Getting my old Abit IP35-E / X5460 a new house. The Phanteks P300 looks great in white, and I really look forward to get the build going. 

Waiting for a Be Quiet System Power 9 650W, a CM Masterliquid ML240L RGB and a used 970 4GB. This beast just managed 30-50fps in Wildlands with a 1060 6GB. 1440p, Ultra Textures etc etc. Turning "shadows" to medium and "level of detail" to low made the biggest difference I could notice. Actually a very enjoyable and (mostly) stutter free experience. Tho the cores were pretty hammered at 100% usage

 

 

 

 

[Grummkol]

My venerable Asus p6x-58d premium with a xeon w3690 (6 core 12 thread), running at 4.2 ghz nice and quiet will be replaced tomorrow.

I got the motherboard on release (was in Taiwan for work at the time), and intially had a i7-920 on it before grabbing a 2nd hand xeon off ebay donkeys years ago.  The system has been bullet proof and up until recently, everything looked more of a side grade/downgrade rather than an upgrade for a stupid amount of money.

Spectre/Meltdown patches did seem to hit it a bit performance wise, especially around disk access, but the main reason for upgrading was the lack of USB 3.0 ports and the limited PCI bandwidth

And M2 nvme drives.   Got a an amd 1920 tr turning up tomorrow with a couple of nvme m2 drives (512gb for os/apps, 2tb for steam library and elite dangerous) so will have fun building the new system over the weekend.

Not sure what to do with the x58/xeon combo though. They still work great (wouldn't suprise me if they kept going for another 8 years); I already have my old e3-1220 running as a pfsense router.  Maybe turn it into a NAS? (can never have enough storage!)

[Glasare]

26 minutes ago, Grummkol said:

My venerable Asus p6x-58d premium with a xeon w3690 (6 core 12 thread), running at 4.2 ghz nice and quiet will be replaced tomorrow.

I got the motherboard on release (was in Taiwan for work at the time), and intially had a i7-920 on it before grabbing a 2nd hand xeon off ebay donkeys years ago.  The system has been bullet proof and up until recently, everything looked more of a side grade/downgrade rather than an upgrade for a stupid amount of money.

Spectre/Meltdown patches did seem to hit it a bit performance wise, especially around disk access, but the main reason for upgrading was the lack of USB 3.0 ports and the limited PCI bandwidth

And M2 nvme drives.   Got a an amd 1920 tr turning up tomorrow with a couple of nvme m2 drives (512gb for os/apps, 2tb for steam library and elite dangerous) so will have fun building the new system over the weekend.

Not sure what to do with the x58/xeon combo though. They still work great (wouldn't suprise me if they kept going for another 8 years); I already have my old e3-1220 running as a pfsense router.  Maybe turn it into a NAS? (can never have enough storage!)

My X58 boards have USB3, but I also use a pcie-card for the chassi connectors. Haven't really checked the transfer speed, but games load and run fine from an SSD with a USB/SATA cable tho. Not sure about nvme m2, but there should be info on it in this thread.

[toreopp]

MB: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (backup: ASUS P6X58D-E - might be defective as i spilled coolant on it and it has been somewhat unstable after that)

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-975 Processor Extreme Edition @ 3.33GHz (i7 950 and 960 backup)

 

Memory: G.Skill ARES 2133MHz CL9 F3-2133C9D (16+8 GB kit) 24GB @ running at 1800MHz (backup: Corsair Dominator-GT 12GB @ 1866MHz)

 

GPU: GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4GB x2 (SLi) (2x 580 GTX in backup)

 

Sound: ASUS ROG Xonar Phoebus

 

HDD:

OCZ Revo Drive 120GB (SSD PCI-E) (RAID 0)

SEAGATE Barracuda XT 7200.12 2TB  x2 (Raid 0)

Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB x1-4 (dont remember, atleast 1 dead and removed and 2 backup probobly)

Seagate Barracuda 3TB x2

@Think 12TB total+SSD 

 

PSU: Chieftec Nitro Series BPS-1200C

 

Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT LCS 2.0

 

Cooling: 

Bigwater 850GTS water-cooling integrated in case cooling CPU and Motherboard.

Stock case fans

Memory fan (1 of 2 fans works(or to be exact, dont need help to start  and its noisy)

 

*Backup: things that i have changed out

 

This pc is no longer my main rig, but its still good enogh^

 

 

[GillyMoMo]

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.

 

Found me a nice score on CL the other day:

 

Dual X5675

Tyan S7025 (Still don't understand why the cost so much still)

12 GB DDR ECC RAM

120 2.5in 5400RPM drive

800W I‑Star IS‑800R3NP 

Rackmounted case by Optiview (this will be my 6th rack case)

 

All this for 200$

 

My only thing is that the PSU doesn't have 6 pin connectors for GPU's given that I want to give Unraid a shot (finally) and play around with some things.

[Jeno]

Ahh, X58. I've moved on from the platform, but I had a good run with it. The specs are in my profile since I haven't updated it yet.

 

So, back in 2013, I had this crappy HP G72 laptop I bought in 2010 as my daily driver. Gaming on it was doable, but the experience was less than ideal. I hammered that thing into the dirt for a solid three years before it finally died on me, so I started looking in to getting a new PC. Unfortunately, I was a little destitute at the time, so I couldn't just go and build one, but I found a solid buy on Craigslist: an i7 920 with 6GB of RAM and a GTX 560 in a Foxconn FlamingBlade X58 motherboard, complete with a power supply, for $150. All it was missing was a hard drive.

 

(The seller had upgraded to Haswell, if you were wondering.)

 

That system lasted for a good while, as dated as it was. Things started getting out of hand when the i7 started running waaay too hot, even idling. I did everything I could think of to try and fix it, from new thermal paste to dropping more money than I should have on an H100i. Nothing could get the temperatures under control. It was around this time that I learned about X58 compatible Xeons. After doing some research, I chose the X5677. From there, I upped the RAM to 12GB, and treated myself to a GTX 1060 6GB. I loved that machine so much.

 

Sadly, all good things come to an end. I found a new job, and that job allowed me to step up to a Z370 motherboard and an i5 8600k, which is what I'm using now. However, that old motherboard and Xeon live on in a friend's PC, allowing him to leave behind his AMD FX 4350 behind. Said AMD FX 4350 now powers my Linux box, but I'm thinking of getting rid of that and the motherboard for another X58 and another Xeon. Dual-socket workstations crop up on CL fairly regularly, so I might get one if the price is right and have some fun with VMs, or set up a NAS.

[Xa3phod]

Hey folks. I have not posted in a while, but I've been busy working on my X58 based system. I bought the Mobo from WhisperingKnickers and put in an X5670. I'm running 16 gigs of ram in a dual channel setup (but I have 16 more coming and will play with triple channel for benchmarking). Well, I have it running stable at 4.2Ghz. I get nice results, I just threw in a 600 Watt PSU from EVGA. Here are some of my benchmarks: (enjoy)

 

Geekbench 4: 3231 14665 109833

 

Cinabench R15: 104.47 922 123

Especially in Cinabench, I think a 123 in single core performance is great considering I get a 201 on my 6700K which is OC'ed to 4.7Ghz. I would love to break 1000 in the multi-core test.

 

What do you think?

[MaratM]

9 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

Hey folks. I have not posted in a while, but I've been busy working on my X58 based system. I bought the Mobo from WhisperingKnickers and put in an X5670. I'm running 16 gigs of ram in a dual channel setup (but I have 16 more coming and will play with triple channel for benchmarking). Well, I have it running stable at 4.2Ghz. I get nice results, I just threw in a 600 Watt PSU from EVGA. Here are some of my benchmarks: (enjoy)

 

Geekbench 4: 3231 14665 109833

 

Cinabench R15: 104.47 922 123

Especially in Cinabench, I think a 123 in single core performance is great considering I get a 201 on my 6700K which is OC'ed to 4.7Ghz. I would love to break 1000 in the multi-core test.

 

What do you think?

get a giant cooler, overclock the cpu to 4.6 and you will break 1000 cinebench, but you might also degrade you cpu with 4.6gHz in a long run 

[Xa3phod]

Using an Evo212 with a Noctua fan on it. The case has 6 fans additionally. At full load, temps hover around 80C.

[Razor Blade]

10 hours ago, Jeno said:

Ahh, X58. I've moved on from the platform, but I had a good run with it.

*snip*

 

Same here... I built a new work/gaming computer about a year ago. I only recently got back into it when I started messing with retired servers. Now I'm having a blast messing with old workstations and servers. Maybe eventually I will get a newer server but the X58 platform is so cheap...and more than enough for what I need it for.

[frankle]

Still running my EVGA X58 Micro that I purchased new with an i7 930 sooooo long ago! I am however running an i7 970 now that I picked up cheap about 2 years ago.

It's in one of my favorite unassuming cases, the Antec NSK3480.

It's had a variety of GPU's over the years, currently a GTX 970 Mini but before that it was a GTX 960, GTX 670, GTX 570 (SLI briefly when I picked up another one cheap) and I think it might have started off with the only AMD/ATI I've owned, a 5870.

 

I think it's now running at stock speeds (3.2GHz) but I've had it happy at 3.8GHz, would have liked to hit 4GHz but honestly haven't had the time and doing it wouldn't change how I play games on it anyhow.

 

Seriously considering the upcoming 9900X, I've normally gone with the thought that it's only worth upgrading if you can get double the performance and I think it's about time for the CPU. With my GPU upgrades each upgrade gave me a noticeable increase in FPS (not always double) but every time I thought about CPU upgrades it wasn't going to give me the bump I wanted.

 

Considering over the years I've built my kids a pair of SG05 gaming machines with i7 3770's and GTX 960's to play The Sims, Minecraft and web games I think I'm about due for an upgrade. Only issue is that I'm hesitant to part with the old trusty workhorse and I already have quad core NUC's for VM's and a QNAP NAS with 10GE... It needs a good home, it might get donated, but we'll wait and see what the 9900X and 11 series of GTX brings.

[Xa3phod]

Ok, I put in another stick of ram, so it's running in triple channel.  The Geekbench scores were better, but the Cinebench scores were slightly lower. Any idea this would happen? Have 24 gigs of DDR3 1600 ram in there. Going to put in another stick and go 32 gigs but double channel and see the scores.

[Xa3phod]

Update: I changed my method of overclocking. I dropped the multiplier to 21 and raised the bclk to 200. The performance was seriously worse. Cinebench dropped from 922 CPU to 863. So, going to drop the bclk

The ram is at 1602Mhz. How high should I go on DDR3 1600? What voltage? 

[lemonmusicrocks]

is it still woth buying x58 motherboard for 100 eiro? not he chines one its Genuine quality

[Zando_]

1 hour ago, lemonmusicrocks said:

is it still woth buying x58 motherboard for 100 eiro? not he chines one its Genuine quality

What model and maker?

[lemonmusicrocks]

23 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

What model and maker?

ASUS P6T SE on aliexpress

[lemonmusicrocks]

1 minute ago, lemonmusicrocks said:

ASUS P6T SE on aliexpress

 

25 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

What model and maker?

and there were also one not se version

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, lemonmusicrocks said:

ASUS P6T SE on aliexpress

That should be a decent mobo, price seems a little higher but then I got my mobo (higher end ASUS one, the Rampage III Formula) and CPU for $120 USD by meeting the guy and paying in cash. No deals on higher end mobos on eBay or anything?

[lemonmusicrocks]

4 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

That should be a decent mobo, price seems a little higher but then I got my mobo (higher end ASUS one, the Rampage III Formula) and CPU for $120 USD by meeting the guy and paying in cash. No deals on higher end mobos on eBay or anything?

nop i live in baltic states and i have to check UK ebay to see good prices US will cost 2x just for shipping

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, lemonmusicrocks said:

nop i live in baltic states and i have to check UK ebay to see good prices US will cost 2x just for shipping

Oof. I'd wait to see if any of the experience overclocking bois here weigh in, then go for it if they don't have any objections.

[lemonmusicrocks]

8 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Oof. I'd wait to see if any of the experience overclocking bois here weigh in, then go for it if they don't have any objections.

i still have 1 week till my paycheck so we will see what other people think. and if anybody has it please tell me your experience.

[Xa3phod]

Benchmarks! Ok, here are some benchmarks from different machines I have. Enjoy.