General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

But then I run into those being bad on the looks department. Stuffing an SR-2 into a server rack and hiding it away would be heresy. 

Who said anything about rackmounting? I can't claim to be a part of stuffing an SR-2 into a rack, that would be all on you.

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Who said anything about rackmounting? I can't claim to be a part of stuffing an SR-2 into a rack, that would be all on you.

 True... actually I should look into server cases, modding one with a tempered glass panel as a lid could make for an awesome horizontal PC if I just slap it on a table and it'll eliminate the problem of GPU sag. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

 True... actually I should look into server cases, modding one with a tempered glass panel as a lid could make for an awesome horizontal PC if I just slap it on a table and it'll eliminate the problem of GPU sag. 

Mod it into your desk, that would be cooler.

[Zando_]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Mod it into your desk, that would be cooler.

*large thonk intensifies*

[Xa3phod]

17 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

It's out of production though. I could get a Cosmos case though, those support XL-ATX. Then for the SR-2 I plan to get this case @TVwazhere found: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7TD8G67254&ignorebbr=1

 

 

Just got rid of my Cosmos I miss it.

 

[SpicySauceRat]

Anyone else have any experience with dual socket Supermicro boards?

I've got a Supermicro x8dal-i with dual E5530's (with dual 5675's on their way) and i seem to have a stuttering issue in most games as well as the windows desktop. 

I've done some research and testing and it seems to be a problem with having both cpus installed. When i removed one the system seems to be cured of the stutter as well as get better fps in games. 

I'm unsure if its just bios settings or something else as i have a lack of experience with there boards.

I'm running the latest bios for this board as well as drivers.

[Razor Blade]

1 hour ago, NoiseyFox said:

Anyone else have any experience with dual socket Supermicro boards?

I've got a Supermicro x8dal-i with dual E5530's (with dual 5675's on their way) and i seem to have a stuttering issue in most games as well as the windows desktop. 

I've done some research and testing and it seems to be a problem with having both cpus installed. When i removed one the system seems to be cured of the stutter as well as get better fps in games. 

I'm unsure if its just bios settings or something else as i have a lack of experience with there boards.

I'm running the latest bios for this board as well as drivers.

Just a guess... Could be a latency issue. If the PCIe slot the GPU is connected to isn't directly connected to the CPU the game is processing on maybe that is causing it to stutter. If you're running Windows 10, try setting affinity for your game to CPU 0,1,2,3 then uncheck the rest and see if that helps. You can find the affinity setting in Task Manager under the Details tab then right click on the program and select "set affinity"

 

You could also try disabling hyperthreading.

[SpicySauceRat]

1 hour ago, Razor Blade said:

Just a guess... Could be a latency issue. If the PCIe slot the GPU is connected to isn't directly connected to the CPU the game is processing on maybe that is causing it to stutter. If you're running Windows 10, try setting affinity for your game to CPU 0,1,2,3 then uncheck the rest and see if that helps. You can find the affinity setting in Task Manager under the Details tab then right click on the program and select "set affinity"

 

You could also try disabling hyperthreading.

I've disabled hyperthreading already with no improvement, however I'll try setting the affinity later tonight and see if that makes an improvement. 

[SpicySauceRat]

Both disabling hyperthreading and setting affinity hasn't made a difference in preformance. However I did install Ubuntu mate 18.04 and it doesn't seem to have the same lag. Could it be a driver issue or a issue with windows itself? 

[Razor Blade]

9 minutes ago, NoiseyFox said:

Both disabling hyperthreading and setting affinity hasn't made a difference in preformance. However I did install Ubuntu mate 18.04 and it doesn't seem to have the same lag. Could it be a driver issue or a issue with windows itself? 

Possibly... I remember Wendell posting a video about how the Threadripper and epyc CPUs had performance issues in certain tasks inside of Windows but not with Linux

[Zando_]

Oooooo got my $99 broken SR-2 running with only one CPU:

 

 

 

Also heck yeah we have 66 pages of replies... *starts shooting Jedi* 

[Zando_]

Barring this being a scam, I just scored an EVGA X58 SLI for $89 vs the $235-385 the others are. 

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-X58-Classified-Intel-LGA-1366-Motherboard-141-BL-E761-A1/143106717422?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

 

https://www.evga.com/articles/00447/ It's the E761 without the NF200 chip but I'm not likely to need the PCIe lanes anyways and it should be an OC champ. Plus it's ATX so it'll fit in my Enthoo Evolv. 

[NoxiousOdor]

On 1/25/2019 at 8:53 AM, NoiseyFox said:

Anyone else have any experience with dual socket Supermicro boards?

I've got a Supermicro x8dal-i with dual E5530's (with dual 5675's on their way) and i seem to have a stuttering issue in most games as well as the windows desktop. 

I've done some research and testing and it seems to be a problem with having both cpus installed. When i removed one the system seems to be cured of the stutter as well as get better fps in games. 

I'm unsure if its just bios settings or something else as i have a lack of experience with there boards.

I'm running the latest bios for this board as well as drivers.

Try looking through the bios and see what settings are available for QPI speeds. While supermicro boards do not let you overclock, some may let you adjust your QPI speed which can help improve the speeds that your two cpus can interact which might be the problem.

[SpicySauceRat]

On 1/28/2019 at 1:43 PM, WhisperingKnickers said:

Try looking through the bios and see what settings are available for QPI speeds. While supermicro boards do not let you overclock, some may let you adjust your QPI speed which can help improve the speeds that your two cpus can interact which might be the problem.

The old e5530s where locked at 5.6 or something on QPI, I was able to installed both the x5675's I got and get 6.4 QPI and everything seems to be working fine now. 

[Ground]

On 1/27/2019 at 3:11 PM, Zando Bob said:

Oooooo got my $99 broken SR-2 running with only one CPU:

 

 

 

 

 

Also heck yeah we have 66 pages of replies... *starts shooting Jedi* 

whats wrong with it?

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Ground said:

whats wrong with it?

IDK exactly. It was listed as broken so it shouldn't work at all, I derped around with power cycles, some jumpers, removing the CMOS battery, etc. Then it eventually just started booting, but only with a single CPU. 

 

 

also another dank motherboard, got this boi for $89 vs the $235-385 the others on eBay are:

 

Has an i7 920 rn, will need to pick up another X5675 or something for it, but that can wait till after I move. 

[NoxiousOdor]

1 hour ago, Zando Bob said:

IDK exactly. It was listed as broken so it shouldn't work at all, I derped around with power cycles, some jumpers, removing the CMOS battery, etc. Then it eventually just started booting, but only with a single CPU. 

 

 

also another dank motherboard, got this boi for $89 vs the $235-385 the others on eBay are:

 

 

Has an i7 920 rn, will need to pick up another X5675 or something for it, but that can wait till after I move. 

That is such an awesome board, if it ever needs a new home you should let me know

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

That is such an awesome board, if it ever needs a new home you should let me know

I've still got the XL-ATX version but that boi expense. But then also even more of a monster...

[NoxiousOdor]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

I've still got the XL-ATX version but that boi expense. 

Well if either of them need a new home in the future I would be happy to rehabilitate them. Although they seem comfortable in your x58 nature preserve

[lemonmusicrocks]

hello i wanted to know and need a bit of help  i own chinies x58 mb and x5680 and gtx 970.i mostly play cs go but i get massive frame stutters sometimes and that really bad. on fps benchmark i got 240 fps and i want to know if buying new mb and oc it to like 4ghz will give me much better fps and more stable? i want to buy ryzen 5 1600x for cheap but its a bit out of my budget for the time. if anybody has similar gpu i would really appreciate if you can run the fps benchmark and thel me the fps i run 1080p all low settings.

[Troika]

So, I'm having issues with installing windows 7 from a usb. Every time it finishes loading and gets through the windows 7 splash screen, I get a BSOD with a stop code.

MOBO: MSI X58 Bigbang-xPower
CPU: Intel Xeon X5675
Ram: 16GB (2x4 + 4x2) DDR3 1333mhz Samsung
GPU: Radeon HD R7 240
SSD: 60GB Patriot Flare

I know the ram, ssd and gpu all work just fine since they were in other working machines previously and pulled for testing and setting up this board. I'm thinking its just some sort of setting that I'm not toggling or possibly that X58 doesn't like USB installers. I've used the same usb to install windows 7 on older LGA775 boards so I don't know what's up here. Zando Bob was able to get to work just fine with Windows 10 so I know the board and processor also work so I'm just not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I have both Sata controllers set to AHCI, I turned off overspeed protection and Execute bit. Also disable the 2.2TB infinity thing.

 

Edit: Fixed it. I threw in a X5650 and I'm currently installing windows. I'll get drivers installed then try the X5675 again to see if its just an installation issue or a support issue.

[MaratM]

Reciently my x5680 started to degrade. It becomes voltage hungry and unstable with sudden unpredictable freezes, sometime  it refuses to boot and so on or it is the mobo is getting old. Something is slowly dying in that rig . It is feasible to get a "new" CPU but i decided to move on. Due to the fact that my coffee lake motherboard died  I have a temperary free i7 8700k and 16GB of DDR3. After watching some videos on youtube I've figured out that it is doeble to pair z170 boards with the coffee lake CPU. After searching ebay and other second hand optiond I found a brand new Asus Maximus viii motherboard for $100US delivered to my door. so I've ordered it. It is a gamble but there is always a back up plan (7700K are not that expensive)

[Zando_]

23 hours ago, lemonmusicrocks said:

hello i wanted to know and need a bit of help  i own chinies x58 mb and x5680 and gtx 970.i mostly play cs go but i get massive frame stutters sometimes and that really bad. on fps benchmark i got 240 fps and i want to know if buying new mb and oc it to like 4ghz will give me much better fps and more stable? i want to buy ryzen 5 1600x for cheap but its a bit out of my budget for the time. if anybody has similar gpu i would really appreciate if you can run the fps benchmark and thel me the fps i run 1080p all low settings.

If you can get a decent overclocking board then you should get pretty good performance out of it for most games. AFAIK it's rare for an X56xx xeon to not hit at least 4.2GHz with proper cooling and a solid mobo, most can hit 4.5Ghz. I ran my X5675 at 4.41 on an ASUS Rampage III Formula (which @Troika has now, along with the MSI board) with my 1080 Ti at 1080p and it kept up pretty well in everything but Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Even there I get about 35-45fps but the frametimes are solid so it's still pretty smooth and perfectly playable. 

 

18 hours ago, Troika said:

Edit: Fixed it. I threw in a X5650 and I'm currently installing windows. I'll get drivers installed then try the X5675 again to see if its just an installation issue or a support issue.

 

Awesome! Though that's weird the X5675 doesn't want to play nice with that mobo, it works fine in the Rampage board and support wise I don't see why a mobo would work with the X5650 but not the X5675. IIRC I updated the BIOS to the latest version while I had the i7 in it, since most of these boards won't support a 6 core if they have an old BIOS. 

[asand1]

This guy is 200 miles away from me in Medford

https://medford.craigslist.org/sop/d/medford-mobo-cpu-ram/6803621669.html

[xXz21Xx]

Hi all. i want to ask to everyone who know about this.

 

this is my history.

i have an old but old rig rigth now.

mobo: Asus Striker II Extreme

Processor: Core 2 Quad Q8300 OC 3.0 GHZ

Ram: 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHZ

Corsair H80 Water cooling close loop

Video: EVGA GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0+

PSU: Cooler Master 550W ATX

1x 300GB wester digital caviar HDD

1x samsung 1.5tb HDD

samsung LED full hd 24'' monitor.

 

i want to upgrade for something economically so i searched for an dell optiplex but after seaching a lot discoverd the Xeon X56xx processor and see many videos with good reviews.

so i go to ebay and found an asus p6t Non deluxe non se just normal. for 50$ in good condition and with all accesories and box so i bougth it after i bougth a intel xeon X5675 for 25$ and bougth and ADATA SSD 240gb for 30$ new.

 

my question is.

is this motherboard going to work with the xeon x5675 without problems? and will my rams work good? i can't found on asus if the motherboard is compatible with xeon processors but i found on google so many people do it with p6t deluxe v1, v2 and se. but just only 1 thread with a guy doing on a P6T normal.

 

im not a hardcore gamer right now like in the past. i play maybe 1 or 2 hours 2 or 4 days at week if possible. so i think this can work for some years for me. 

 

my core2quad get 60fps on ultra on battlefield 4 but on battlefield 1 i can't play on ultra and also BF5 is not going to run on it so thats why i want a cheap upgrade. i hope someone know about this and can help me if it will work without problems for me. thanks.