Dual x5650

[Semiprocolt]

I was wondering if there is a way to overclock a dual x5650 set up. I just bought 2 off of Free Geek for like 30 bucks I was wondering if there was a cheap way to build a server/gaming build. They can turbo clock up to 3.06 Ghz but I was wondering if I could at least get them to 3.4 - 3.6 Ghz. I know that there is no way to overclock a server motherboard other than software overclocking, but I don't trust that. Is Clockgen reliable? If this doesn't end up working I'll just run it as a regular server/stream pc. I was wondering what the benefit of doing something like this would be? Are there any other programs to run off a server that could benefit me? I haven't done many things with server work.

[C1intFunWood]

The problem with overclocking on a server grade motherboard is not just the chipset limitation, but you would run into issues such as VRMs that isn't sufficient for overclocking

[Sauron]

No, there is no reliable way. However, that doesn't stop you from building something with them. They won't be blazing fast in games (overclocking them would have made little difference) but for light titles or even heavy ones on low settings they should do just fine. And they should do very well in multitasking, somewhere around the performance of a current locked i5.

[Semiprocolt]

Has anybody made a homebrew dual cpu motherboard that can over clock?

 

[Jarsky]

You'll probably hit voltage issues on server boards - they are designed for stability and enterprise features, not for overclocking.

There is the EVGA SR-2 board but i imagine that if you can even find one, it would be stupidly expensive. 

 

The CPU's are multiplier locked anyway, so you would be pushing FSB frequency so you'll need memory that can handle the increase as well - but i imagine you'll have power issues.

 

 

Edit: here they are on the SR-2 board

 

 

[Semiprocolt]

If worse comes to worse would it at least be able to stream? Right now I have a fx-6300 and it can't stream worth a damn, I say this deal and I thought that I could at least do something of a build for under 300$ I wasn't really expecting to be able to run games very well I was just wondering if there was a homebrew way.

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[Jarsky]

Just now, Semiprocolt said:

If worse comes to worse would it at least be able to stream? Right now I have a fx-6300 and it can't stream worth a damn, I say this deal and I thought that I could at least do something of a build for under 300$ I wasn't really expecting to be able to run games very well I was just wondering if there was a homebrew way.

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By streaming you mean you want to play a game and do Xsplit/OBS to Twitch/SmashCast?

They should be able to handle that. The core count will help a lot - keep in mind the fx6300 is 6 threads, dual x5650's is 24 threads

[Semiprocolt]

No just be able to handle OBS and encode on the fly do you need a high clock-speed for a good looking stream? I'll game on the fx6300 (Which is garbage).

 

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[Jarsky]

5 minutes ago, Semiprocolt said:

No just be able to handle OBS and encode on the fly do you need a high clock-speed for a good looking stream? I'll game on the fx6300 (Which is garbage).

 

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Nope. I've benched my dual X5650's against my i7 3770K @ 4.4Ghz and theyre about the same.

I take it you've already tried using NVENC or AMD VCE to offload the encoding to the GPU with no success?

[Type2501]

I know server motherboard is not designed to overclock, I wonder if I can under clock my Xeon in my file server just to save some power?

[Redicat]

18 hours ago, Semiprocolt said:

I was wondering if there is a way to overclock a dual x5650 set up. I just bought 2 off of Free Geek for like 30 bucks I was wondering if there was a cheap way to build a server/gaming build. They can turbo clock up to 3.06 Ghz but I was wondering if I could at least get them to 3.4 - 3.6 Ghz. I know that there is no way to overclock a server motherboard other than software overclocking, but I don't trust that. Is Clockgen reliable? If this doesn't end up working I'll just run it as a regular server/stream pc. I was wondering what the benefit of doing something like this would be? Are there any other programs to run off a server that could benefit me? I haven't done many things with server work.

Run all applications and games  in X64/ 64bit  and unpark cores will do it will be worth to have 2-cpus instead of 1 the clock speed doesn't really matter too much anymore its the general IPC that does http://coderbag.com/Programming-C/CPU-core-parking-manager-v3

[Me1z]

Like Jarsky said, you'd need to hunt down a functioning EVGA SR-2. And as an owner of an SR-2, even if you can find one, I can say its not worth the headache. They're an absolute engineering marvel and I take pride in the fact that mine has remained about 70% functional after all these years, but these motherboards have basically gone down in infamy for their instability, manufacturing flaws, and lack of reasonable support from EVGA. I've literally seen people get banned from evga forums just for asking when they'll finally release a stable version of the bios. I would just get a normal server board and call it a day

[Jarsky]

7 hours ago, Type2501 said:

I know server motherboard is not designed to overclock, I wonder if I can under clock my Xeon in my file server just to save some power?

 

Theres really no reason. If theyre LGA1366 (Nehalem architecture) or later, your CPUs will downclock with C6/C7 power states when they aren't under load. 

All you're doing is dropping the ceiling for when your CPU's do need that speed. 

 

If theyre LGA775/771 then there is an advantage. You should be able to drop the multiplier - as the multiplier is still a range on xeons its just the max that's locked.