General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[Crunchy Dragon]

7 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

So... Good news and bad news... Good news is I increased my physics score by nearly 2000 points. Be news is that I may have killed one of my Furys

Oh nooo

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

15 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

So... Good news and bad news... Good news is I increased my physics score by nearly 2000 points. Be news is that I may have killed one of my Furys

good luck with the fury, but at least you got another one

[GrockleTD]

Having some issues with stability, any suggestions for that?

[Zando_]

7 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

Having some issues with stability, any suggestions for that?

What board/CPU/RAM and settings? 

[GrockleTD]

4 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

What board/CPU/RAM and settings? 

Sabertooth,x5680, some RAM, 168 Bclk 1.31875 volts and QPI at auto

[bimmerman]

Please provide more detail:

CPU, uncore, qpi, memory multipliers

CPU, VTT, IOH, QPI voltages

load line on/off?

dram settings, voltages, how many gigs, how many sticks, how many channels, etc

bclk

 

also symptoms, what kind of stability issues? Under what circumstances?

 

hard to diagnose without more info.

[GrockleTD]

17 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

VTT, IOH, QPI voltages

auto/stock

20 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

CPU, uncore, qpi, memory multipliers

25, no idea, set to auto, stock

 

21 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

lso symptoms, what kind of stability issues? Under what circumstances?

Blue screening, when gaming or just chilling on desktop

19 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

dram settings, voltages, how many gigs, how many sticks, how many channels

Stock, Stock, 24, 3, 2

 

 

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

4 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

Stock, Stock, 24, 3, 2

not about the cpu oc settings, but for 1366, don't you want 3 channels of memory?

[GrockleTD]

56 minutes ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

not about the cpu oc settings, but for 1366, don't you want 3 channels of memory?

indeed, but slots 3&4 are dead, hence no triple channel

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

1 minute ago, GrockleTD said:

indeed, but slots 3&4 are dead, hence no triple channel

oh, so i guess the ram config is something like 1,2,and 4?

[GrockleTD]

Just now, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

oh, so i guess the ram config is something like 1,2,and 4?

from left to right i use 2, 5 and 6

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

4 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

from left to right i use 2, 5 and 6

that means i was at least right from right to left right?

if not i feel like the biggest idiot to ever be born

[GrockleTD]

9 minutes ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

that means i was at least right from right to left right?

if not i feel like the biggest idiot to ever be born

from right to left it would be 1 2 and 5

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

11 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

from right to left it would be 1 2 and 5

Yup, I’m stoopid

[Zando_]

Up and running with El Cap:

 

CPUs did come, but I'm waiting till I get moar cleaning supplies so I can freshen up this Mac while I've got it pulled apart, so those probs won't go in for a bit. It already pulls 418W from the wall under middling load (counting the tower and monitor together), will be uh.... interesting to see how it does with dual quad cores that each add 40W (120W each vs 80W) IIRC.

[drevmcast]

Some updates to my dualsocket X58 builds. 

The intel board came in last week and I cannot explain how tightly packed this board is. Crazy number of surface mount components on this. I was able to try booting it up with one CPU installed and it posted up just fine. Memory I bought for the build also seemed to work with no issues. I asked some questions about cooling earlier and found that with some 10mm M3 screws I was able to do a bit of a "no-no" and screw through the back of the mounting plate to create some DIY standoffs. So here's one Hyper 212 Black on the board with no issues.

There's a big reason no one recommended this (I don't recommend this either) as I broke off a screw inside the mounting bracket and stripped the threads inside too

.

A fix I have worked up is drilling into it, epoxying something inside it and backing it out with wd40 helping or something, then retapping the threads in the backplate so I can try again. This was the only one I had a problem with though. Now all I have to do is find a case that supports SSI-EEB. I see some options on amazon for not too expensive. ~100 bucks or so.

 

Just found this at the same electronics recycler I bought my P6T7 WS Supercomputer at. Got it at a good deal (with warranty even.) Seems like I spend most of my paycheck there. Can't wait to get back home and finally fire my S5520SC with two processors up too. Super excited. I did do another "no-no" by trying to use two power supplies with one "jumped" to boot up the board and it freaked out hard. I tested it after with one and nothing bad happened so hopefully I didn't kill anything. Fingers crossed but I'm not worried that I killed anything.

[the pudding]

8 hours ago, drevmcast said:

Some updates to my dualsocket X58 builds. 

The intel board came in last week and I cannot explain how tightly packed this board is. Crazy number of surface mount components on this. I was able to try booting it up with one CPU installed and it posted up just fine. Memory I bought for the build also seemed to work with no issues. I asked some questions about cooling earlier and found that with some 10mm M3 screws I was able to do a bit of a "no-no" and screw through the back of the mounting plate to create some DIY standoffs. So here's one Hyper 212 Black on the board with no issues.

There's a big reason no one recommended this (I don't recommend this either) as I broke off a screw inside the mounting bracket and stripped the threads inside too

.

Just found this at the same electronics recycler I bought my P6T7 WS Supercomputer at. Got it at a good deal (with warranty even.) Seems like I spend most of my paycheck there. Can't wait to get back home and finally fire my S5520SC with two processors up too. Super excited. I did do another "no-no" by trying to use two power supplies with one "jumped" to boot up the board and it freaked out hard. I tested it after with one and nothing bad happened so hopefully I didn't kill anything. Fingers crossed but I'm not worried that I killed anything.

Yeah I'm sure the screws for the 212 BE are made of cheese, I snapped one of the M4 screw posts in an X79 board lul

 

Maaaaaaaan that board is super nostalgic for me, good bit of kit, i miss mine 

 

1300 G2, the smaller brother of my power supply  

 

 

[drevmcast]

6 hours ago, the pudding said:

Yeah I'm sure the screws for the 212 BE are made of cheese, I snapped one of the M4 screw posts in an X79 board lul

Actually it was the bolts I got a the hardware store that snapped, thankfully. And jesus that 1600 watt psu is crazy. I'm trying to think what my electric bill is going to be, using x58 it was much more expensive than what I am used to .  Also looks like you're remodeling in the background, hope you're having fun!

 

Going to a different electronics recycler tomorrow to see if I can find a case to fit this massive motherboard. The beauty of living in one of the biggest tech cities has to be the nice used computer market. Seems like a lot of x58 is making its way to recyclers now. The more for us I guess.

[the pudding]

1 hour ago, drevmcast said:

Actually it was the bolts I got a the hardware store that snapped, thankfully. And jesus that 1600 watt psu is crazy. I'm trying to think what my electric bill is going to be, using x58 it was much more expensive than what I am used to .  Also looks like you're remodeling in the background, hope you're having fun!

 

Going to a different electronics recycler tomorrow to see if I can find a case to fit this massive motherboard. The beauty of living in one of the biggest tech cities has to be the nice used computer market. Seems like a lot of x58 is making its way to recyclers now. The more for us I guess.

sounds about right, and fortunately im not pulling anywhere near 1600w with any kind of frequency, not remodelling though, just don't have the time or energy to actually get the place painted, been this way for a few years now lul 

oooooooo good luck 

[GrockleTD]

1 minute ago, the pudding said:

don't have the time or energy to actually get the place painted, been this way for a few years now lul 

A relatable feeling

[the pudding]

2 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

A relatable feeling

not ideal is it lul, other half and myself are looking at buying a house next year so I'll do it proper then, this is fine for now 

[drevmcast]

2 hours ago, the pudding said:

not ideal is it lul, other half and myself are looking at buying a house next year so I'll do it proper then, this is fine for now 

I work in a large chain "hardware store"/ warehouse so I thought to ask  . I get a hell of a lot of satisfaction doing handywork like that myself. Congrats on looking for a house!

 

To stay on topic though I did get 2, 3TB SAS drives for 20 bucks a pop a while ago, running in raid 0 on my WS board. Absolutely insane how cheap SAS storage is, and how fast it is to read and write to it. I did a windirstat of the entire pool and it only took no time at all for ~300 gigs. Nothing mission critical on it though, and I am raid 0-ing two almost 10 year old hard drives.

[the pudding]

12 minutes ago, drevmcast said:

I work in a large chain "hardware store"/ warehouse so I thought to ask  . I get a hell of a lot of satisfaction doing handywork like that myself. Congrats on looking for a house!

 

To stay on topic though I did get 2, 3TB SAS drives for 20 bucks a pop a while ago, running in raid 0 on my WS board. Absolutely insane how cheap SAS storage is, and how fast it is to read and write to it. I did a windirstat of the entire pool and it only took no time at all for ~300 gigs. Nothing mission critical on it though, and I am raid 0-ing two almost 10 year old hard drives.

Ahh yeah, normally I'd love to do that stuff myself, but we had like, 6 hours between getting the keys and getting moved so i didn't have time to do it before we moved and I just couldn't be arsed moving everything to do it after, it's fine I guess though

 

oh whew, that's pretty damn good actually price wise, once i rehome my threadripper kit and upgrade I'll be going sas I reckon for the same reason

[drevmcast]

23 minutes ago, the pudding said:

oh whew, that's pretty damn good actually price wise, once i rehome my threadripper kit and upgrade I'll be going sas I reckon for the same reason

I recommend the 8TB helium drives on amazon that are around 100 dollars though. Using a HBA you could configure the pool on bare metal or in the operating system. I think the deals on SAS drives are going to dry up soon, as more and more companies move to PCI storage the number of old server SAS drives will dwindle as time goes by.

[the pudding]

18 hours ago, drevmcast said:

I recommend the 8TB helium drives on amazon that are around 100 dollars though. Using a HBA you could configure the pool on bare metal or in the operating system. I think the deals on SAS drives are going to dry up soon, as more and more companies move to PCI storage the number of old server SAS drives will dwindle as time goes by.

Oh I'm probably just going to grab like, 8 2tb sas drives for like 20 quid a go and have done with it