Xeon OC

[awesomecdudley]

Out of curiosity, has anyone had any experience / any luck overclocking X56XX xeon CPUs? I'm going to pick some up and I was just mildly curious if I could do it. 

 

P.S. I'm talking dual socket here.

Edited May 25, 2020 by awesomecdudley

[Electronics Wizardy]

Dual socket overclocking needs one of a very few boards to overclock, like the sr2. 

 

Why get dual 1366 now? Id really try to get something newer, dual 2011 isn't much more and much faster.

[awesomecdudley]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Dual socket overclocking needs one of a very few boards to overclock, like the sr2. 

 

Why get dual 1366 now? Id really try to get something newer, dual 2011 isn't much more and much faster.

I may look at that. I've been told that twice now, so maybe I should just bite my lip and take the higher cost. In that case, what about 2011 overclocking?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, awesomecdudley said:

I may look at that. I've been told that twice now, so maybe I should just bite my lip and take the higher cost. In that case, what about 2011 overclocking?

You can't overclock dual 2011 systems. Id really consider a newer desktop platform, like ryzen.

 

What is your goal with the system? Do you need to oc? Do you have a budget?

[awesomecdudley]

1 minute ago, awesomecdudley said:

I may look at that. I've been told that twice now, so maybe I should just bite my lip and take the higher cost. In that case, what about 2011 overclocking?

I was looking at a 2x2011 board that had some weird X8 slots, but I remebered that the chassis I'm using requires risers anyway. I think I'll get this one.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, awesomecdudley said:

I was looking at a 2x2011 board that had some weird X8 slots, but I remebered that the chassis I'm using requires risers anyway. I think I'll get this one.

what chassis do you have?

 

what board were you looking at? 

 

What are you using the system for?

[awesomecdudley]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can't overclock dual 2011 systems. Id really consider a newer desktop platform, like ryzen.

 

What is your goal with the system? Do you need to oc? Do you have a budget?

I don't need OC, I just would like to have more than a handful of cores for rendering and transcoding. That means I can get away with spending $400 on a 16-20 system intead of $1000-$1200

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, awesomecdudley said:

I don't need OC, I just would like to have more than a handful of cores for rendering and transcoding. That means I can get away with spending $400 on a 16-20 system intead of $1000-$1200

Just saying, those are some old cores, so something like a 6 or 8 core ryzen will be faster for about the same price.

 

Id probably stay away from these systems.

 

Also what programs, gpu might be a much better option here.

[awesomecdudley]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what chassis do you have?

 

what board were you looking at? 

 

What are you using the system for?

Supermicro X9DRi-F, and I found a Rosewill RSV-L4000C "bitcoin" chassis for pretty cheap. CAD,  Render and Transcode

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, awesomecdudley said:

Supermicro X9DRi-F, and I found a Rosewill RSV-L4000C "bitcoin" chassis for pretty cheap. CAD,  Render and Transcode

If you got the board, might as well get the chips, but id really try to stay away from these older platforms if you can.

[awesomecdudley]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you got the board, might as well get the chips, but id really try to stay away from these older platforms if you can.

Yeah, I have a 2700 in my system, but I think that Intel sat on their thumbs for so long that Zen+ and Ivy Bridge-E probably have similar IPC.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, awesomecdudley said:

Yeah, I have a 2700 in my system, but I think that Intel sat on their thumbs for so long that Zen+ and Ivy Bridge-E probably have similar IPC.

Its much more than IPC, dual socket scaling isn't that great, and those old chips don't have support for things like avx-2 so you can get a pretty big performance differnce. I have a dual 2011 system, its not slow, but its about the same speed as a 8 core ryzen in most tasks.

[awesomecdudley]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its much more than IPC, dual socket scaling isn't that great, and those old chips don't have support for things like avx-2 so you can get a pretty big performance differnce. I have a dual 2011 system, its not slow, but its about the same speed as a 8 core ryzen in most tasks.

OK. Thanks for the help. I may just try to grab a used 3900x or something, if my VRMs are OK.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, awesomecdudley said:

OK. Thanks for the help. I may just try to grab a used 3900x or something, if my VRMs are OK.

what board do you haave? the 3900x really doesn't pull much power at stock

[awesomecdudley]

ASUS PRIME B450-Plus

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, awesomecdudley said:

ASUS PRIME B450-Plus

that board should be fine for a 3900x without a  crazy oc. THe newer chips are pretty power efficent.

[awesomecdudley]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

that board should be fine for a 3900x without a  crazy oc. THe newer chips are pretty power efficent.

Cool. I'll look into getting one of those.

[Pizuski]

you would need the EVGA SR-2 motherboard. they are expensive and hard to come by. dual socket overclockable competition board. tech yes city has a video on youtube.

im using an asus sabertooth x58 running x5570 quad core at 4.04 ghz

soon will have alienware x58, best chip for the buck is the x5690, goes to 4.5 with 6 cores no problem. im still trying to dial in the quad core oc. cant get higher than 4.04ghz. 

[awesomecdudley]

On 6/6/2020 at 8:10 PM, Pizuski said:

you would need the EVGA SR-2 motherboard. they are expensive and hard to come by. dual socket overclockable competition board. tech yes city has a video on youtube.

im using an asus sabertooth x58 running x5570 quad core at 4.04 ghz

soon will have alienware x58, best chip for the buck is the x5690, goes to 4.5 with 6 cores no problem. im still trying to dial in the quad core oc. cant get higher than 4.04ghz. 

I'll look into seeing if I can get an SR-2, wish me luck!

[awesomecdudley]

31 minutes ago, awesomecdudley said:

I'll look into seeing if I can get an SR-2, wish me luck!

Did not find an SR-2. Would I still be in the clear to go single X5690 with something like a Rampage III Extreme?

[Pizuski]

rampage 3 is good, i like x58 sabertooth and alienware x58

[Pizuski]

10 hours ago, awesomecdudley said:

Did not find an SR-2. Would I still be in the clear to go single X5690 with something like a Rampage III Extreme?

x5690 will hit 4.6 ghz np. very good chip. i just bought a pair for 140, you can b uy them for 65 on aliexpress

[Pizuski]

pair with 5700xt or gtx1070