Unlocked Xeon?

[purple_rider]

So, I was looking around in the OC settings that my workstation motherboard apparently has and it reported the ratio status as "unlocked". Is this true or is it an error? I have a msi C236a workstation and an Xeon e3 1240 v5. Any help would be appreciated.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Can you raise the multipler? If you can i want to see how high you can get it.

[purple_rider]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you raise the multipler? If you can i want to see how high you can get it.

It just gives my a blank box to type numbers in if I click on the ratio box. Will the change be visible in the BIOS. I only have a stock cooler, will that give me thermal problems? Can it be solved by turning the fan to 100%? I'll try it but do not want to kill anything.

 

[thegoogler]

There is such thing as base clock overclocking that can be done on high-end boards. but I am not sure. Like what @Electronics Wizardy said if you can see how far you can push it. 

hope this helped.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, purple_rider said:

It just gives my a blank box to type numbers in if I click on the ratio box. Will the change be visible in the BIOS. I only have a stock cooler, will that give me thermal problems? Can it be solved by turning the fan to 100%? I'll try it but do not want to kill anything.

 

set it to like 40 and see if it lets you. I would be suprised if it ran at the speed and save it, but it might.

[thegoogler]

1 minute ago, purple_rider said:

It just gives my a blank box to type numbers in if I click on the ratio box. Will the change be visible in the BIOS. I only have a stock cooler, will that give me thermal problems? Can it be solved by turning the fan to 100%? I'll try it but do not want to kill anything.

 

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I wouldn't push it if you have a stock CPU cooler. an AIO liquid cooler would do well or beefy tower CPU cooler.

[tiggar47]

2 minutes ago, purple_rider said:

It just gives my a blank box to type numbers in if I click on the ratio box. Will the change be visible in the BIOS. I only have a stock cooler, will that give me thermal problems? Can it be solved by turning the fan to 100%? I'll try it but do not want to kill anything.

 

I recommend you to not try overclock it. You might leave with few dead cores and stuff.

[thegoogler]

Just now, tiggar47 said:

I recommend you to not try overclock it. You might leave with few dead cores and stuff.

I agree with what @tiggar47 said, Don't push it if you only have a stock cooler.

[purple_rider]

Just now, tiggar47 said:

I recommend you to not try overclock it. You might leave with few dead cores and stuff.

1 minute ago, thegoogler said:

I wouldn't push it if you have a stock CPU cooler. an AIO liquid cooler would do well or beefy tower CPU cooler.

That is what I was concerned about. When I get a better cooler I might try. Thanks.

 

 

[thegoogler]

Just now, purple_rider said:

That is what I was concerned about. When I get a better cooler I might try. Thanks.

 

 

 

no problem mate, happy to help.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, purple_rider said:

That is what I was concerned about. When I get a better cooler I might try. Thanks.

 

 

its not gonna hurt it if you have a bad cooler. It will shutdown well before it can damage itsself.

 

Just see if you can oc it before you get a good cooler. There is a good chance you can't oc at all

[purple_rider]

9 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

its not gonna hurt it if you have a bad cooler. It will shutdown well before it can damage itsself.

 

Just see if you can oc it before you get a good cooler. There is a good chance you can't oc at all

The first one is what peaked my interest. I got as high as 37 for the multiplier. 38 was still at 3.7ghz. The last one was to confirm that everything still worked back at stock.

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[thegoogler]

2 minutes ago, purple_rider said:

The first one is what peaked my interest. I got as high as 37 for the multiplier. 38 was still at 3.7ghz. The last one was to confirm that everything still worked back at stock.

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I congratulate you for doing it, good job, sorry if this is stupid but what operating system is that.?

 

[purple_rider]

Just now, thegoogler said:

I congratulate you for doing it, good job 

 

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, purple_rider said:

The first one is what peaked my interest. I got as high as 37 for the multiplier. 38 was still at 3.7ghz. The last one was to confirm that everything still worked back at stock.

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For cpu speeds use cat /proc/cpuinfo. That details page only shows rated speed, not current speed.

 

Bump the multipler to 40, so you know your not just forcing it into turbo mode, and actually ocing it.

[purple_rider]

Ok, back soon.

[purple_rider]

44 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

For cpu speeds use cat /proc/cpuinfo. That details page only shows rated speed, not current speed.

 

Bump the multipler to 40, so you know your not just forcing it into turbo mode, and actually ocing it.

I tried to set it to 40 but it went back to default. So, not unlocked. Is their an issue with the bios? cat /proc/cpuinfo says it was idleing at 3.8.

[asand1]

1 hour ago, thegoogler said:

I congratulate you for doing it, good job, sorry if this is stupid but what operating system is that.?

 

Looks like Ubuntu.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, purple_rider said:

I tried to set it to 40 but it went back to default. So, not unlocked. Is their an issue with the bios? cat /proc/cpuinfo says it was idleing at 3.8.

you can't oc it then.

 

That 3.8 was just the turbo speed.

[purple_rider]

12 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can't oc it then.

 

That 3.8 was just the turbo speed.

That is what I thought, blck still works. I was confused by the "unlocked" ratio status in the bios.

[purple_rider]

34 minutes ago, asand1 said:

Looks like Ubuntu.

Yep, Ubuntu 16.04

[thegoogler]

2 minutes ago, purple_rider said:

Yep, Ubuntu 16.04

lol i got all excited lol, dw man.