General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[Troika]

2 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Should be. I had 0 issues with my Rampage III Formula, Extreme should only be better. I'm partial to EVGA Classified boards but the BIOS has a shittier layout and color scheme.

Now only if I could find the custom vrm and chipset block that EK made for it back in the day. I found one for the Rampage II and IV but no III.

[Aveniform]

On 6/22/2021 at 7:02 PM, drevmcast said:

Make sure to post your build here so we all can see it!

Glad to oblige! Here are the specs for now:

 

Xeon X5650

Asus P6X58D-E

Noctua NH-U12P

16GB RAM (1x 8GB, 2x 4GB) DDR3 @ 1,600Mhz

Asus GTX 660 DirectCU II

EVGA 550 B3 80+ Bronze fully modular PSU

120gb Adata SP900 SATA SSD (hidden behind motherboard)

1TB WD Blue HDD @ 5,400rpm

2x 500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD @ 7,200rpm in RAID 0

Fractal Design Core 3500W, 2x 140mm Fractal Design case fans

 

The airflow setup is like so: rear intake 140mm fan, CPU cooler fan set as intake from rear, and top-facing 140mm exhaust fan. I chose this setup over a conventional front intake/rear exhaust setup as I felt the front panel of my case was restrictive for airflow, and because I plan to install more hard drives in the future.

 

Plans for the future:

1) Buy a USB 3.0 controller so I can use my case's front USB 3.0 headers.

2) Buy an NVMe to PCIe adapter so I can boot off my Samsung 950 Pro NVMe SSD.

3) Harvest heatsinks from old RAM sticks and transplant them onto my uncovered DIMMs.

4) Remove the poorly located fan speed controller (in front of my GPU). Install more case fans.

5) Install an optical drive for legacy media.

6) Buy more hard drive rails/cages for even more hard drives.

[Pasi123]

Sad news, my P6X58D-E is now dead because of a thunderstorm. I've tried it with 3 different PSUs (Seasonic M12II-620 Evo, Corsair CV550 and a chinese 550W bomb) with the Seasonic and Corsair it only blinks the power button LED on the board and capslock & scroll lock LEDs on the keyboard. But with the chinese bomb it does boot but shuts down after a while.

I looked at the board and found out the Ethernet controller was blown (which makes sense because our main router died too). If I'm really lucky I might be able to get the board to work by desoldering the controller. Everything else on the board looks fine and I don't think it can be completely dead since it posts with the bomb PSU

If I can't get it to work, I'll probably look for another X58 board.

 

[GrockleTD]

1 hour ago, Pasi123 said:

Sad news, my P6X58D-E is now dead because of a thunderstorm. I've tried it with 3 different PSUs (Seasonic M12II-620 Evo, Corsair CV550 and a chinese 550W bomb) with the Seasonic and Corsair it only blinks the power button LED on the board and capslock & scroll lock LEDs on the keyboard. But with the chinese bomb it does boot but shuts down after a while.

I looked at the board and found out the Ethernet controller was blown (which makes sense because our main router died too). If I'm really lucky I might be able to get the board to work by desoldering the controller. Everything else on the board looks fine and I don't think it can be completely dead since it posts with the bomb PSU

If I can't get it to work, I'll probably look for another X58 board.

 

 

yeouch

[the pudding]

New daily up and about for now, stuff that's coming a bit later: new case (sometime in the next week) and this will be an enthoo pro TG, more ram at some point in the next month, perhaps a treat to me for my birthday  going from 64gb (8x8gb) to 128gb in 8x16 if i get a good deal on 16gb dimms but if not then 16x8gb as I'm already running 8x8gb, a nice beefy custom loop as all I really need are cpu blocks, tubing, fittings and that's about it (will probably ask for some of these bits for my birthday too lul) and last but not least, a shunt mod for my titan Xp 

 

full spec is a pair of E5 2690 V2's, 64gb (8x8gb) of DDR3 ECC reg ram, a supermicro X9DAI motherboard, for now a pair of supermicro SNK-P0050AP4 coolers on the cpus, a titan Xp, an AX760 psu (very nice seasonic OEM unit, has served me well thus far though may need an upgrade sooner or later), an io crest 16x pcie to 5x sata M.2 card with 2 1tb wd blue ssd's on board, a sabrent rocket 1tb nvme on a pcie card, a 256gb sata ssd for windows and for now just a supermicro 4U rack box thing that the system came with, was bought for dirt cheap as a whole server with a pair of E5 2630 V2's and 8gb ram with a basic psu etc etc, swapped out the cpus, ram, psu, added my ssd's and gpu, and it's all up and off to the races 

[the pudding]

So I took part in a raffle on one of my favourite buy/sell pages this week, and I've only gone and won an msi Z590 Pro and a 10700k, will need to sort ram and a temporary cooler before I go water but this is going tk be lovely 

[Crunchy Dragon]

On 7/7/2021 at 12:11 AM, the pudding said:

New daily up and about for now, stuff that's coming a bit later: new case (sometime in the next week) and this will be an enthoo pro TG, more ram at some point in the next month, perhaps a treat to me for my birthday  going from 64gb (8x8gb) to 128gb in 8x16 if i get a good deal on 16gb dimms but if not then 16x8gb as I'm already running 8x8gb, a nice beefy custom loop as all I really need are cpu blocks, tubing, fittings and that's about it (will probably ask for some of these bits for my birthday too lul) and last but not least, a shunt mod for my titan Xp 

 

full spec is a pair of E5 2690 V2's, 64gb (8x8gb) of DDR3 ECC reg ram, a supermicro X9DAI motherboard, for now a pair of supermicro SNK-P0050AP4 coolers on the cpus, a titan Xp, an AX760 psu (very nice seasonic OEM unit, has served me well thus far though may need an upgrade sooner or later), an io crest 16x pcie to 5x sata M.2 card with 2 1tb wd blue ssd's on board, a sabrent rocket 1tb nvme on a pcie card, a 256gb sata ssd for windows and for now just a supermicro 4U rack box thing that the system came with, was bought for dirt cheap as a whole server with a pair of E5 2630 V2's and 8gb ram with a basic psu etc etc, swapped out the cpus, ram, psu, added my ssd's and gpu, and it's all up and off to the races 

-snip-

Nice rig!

 

Man, all these years later and I still wonder if I should have jumped on that Titan Xp I saw on Craigslist...

 

Looking forward to seeing the custom loop

[Aveniform]

None of the upgrades I posted about previously have arrived, but I decided to dabble in overclocking anyways. After fiddling with some settings in the BIOS, I managed to get a Cinebench R15 score of 903 on my Xeon X5650, which is a modest improvement over the 679 I scored at stock.

 

I am running at a stable 4.1 Ghz @ around 80 degrees Celcius (ambient room temperature of ~22 degrees Celcius) with the following settings:

 

BCLK: 205

UCORE: 2,457Mhz

DRAM Freq: 1,228Mhz (I have 1x stick of 1,600Mhz and 2x sticks of 1,333Mhz mixed memory; anytime I exceed 1,333Mhz and the system refuses to POST).

VCORE: 1.35V

Multiplier: x20 (stock settings since this is locked)

 

I tried pushing a higher BCLK (tried most values between 210 and 218), but those refused to POST even if I set a dangerously high vcore of around 1.4V. I'm sure I could perhaps eke out a bit more performance, but I'm happy with what I got so far after my initial foray.

[the pudding]

2 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Nice rig!

 

Man, all these years later and I still wonder if I should have jumped on that Titan Xp I saw on Craigslist...

 

Looking forward to seeing the custom loop

Thanks! 

 

Yeah they're nice cards, but it's really just a founders 1080ti with a  worse vrm and an extra gig if vram near enough, damn nice card still, but it's not worth the titan tax imo 

 

Me too, though the loop is going to loom different than I'd initially thought mind you, I'm probably going to actually use the 10700k bundle I won in the raffle, the old xeons are good value for money but they do lack some in singlethreaded perf, and unfortunately war thunders engine near enough only uses one core lul, so an overclocked and water cooled 10700k will do wonders for that, hopefully I won the silicon lottery as well as the raffle

[Zando_]

6 hours ago, Aveniform said:

I tried pushing a higher BCLK (tried most values between 210 and 218), but those refused to POST even if I set a dangerously high vcore of around 1.4V. I'm sure I could perhaps eke out a bit more performance, but I'm happy with what I got so far after my initial foray.

BCLK is on the mobo northbridge IIRC, the voltage that effects it is not vCore. I forget what one it is tho, haven’t booted up any of my X58 stuff in a year or so, but yeah not vCore. 

 

Upping Uncore as much as possible will help a lot too, improves general snappiness and also ups bench scores slightly. 

 

Though yep, solid first foray, and you’re pulling damn solid numbers already for a 5650, they clock poorly due to being a low bin/locked low multi. 4-4.2 is usually what you’ll get out of them. 

[GillyMoMo]

On 7/7/2021 at 12:11 AM, the pudding said:

New daily up and about for now, stuff that's coming a bit later: new case (sometime in the next week) and this will be an enthoo pro TG, more ram at some point in the next month, perhaps a treat to me for my birthday  going from 64gb (8x8gb) to 128gb in 8x16 if i get a good deal on 16gb dimms but if not then 16x8gb as I'm already running 8x8gb, a nice beefy custom loop as all I really need are cpu blocks, tubing, fittings and that's about it (will probably ask for some of these bits for my birthday too lul) and last but not least, a shunt mod for my titan Xp 

 

full spec is a pair of E5 2690 V2's, 64gb (8x8gb) of DDR3 ECC reg ram, a supermicro X9DAI motherboard, for now a pair of supermicro SNK-P0050AP4 coolers on the cpus, a titan Xp, an AX760 psu (very nice seasonic OEM unit, has served me well thus far though may need an upgrade sooner or later), an io crest 16x pcie to 5x sata M.2 card with 2 1tb wd blue ssd's on board, a sabrent rocket 1tb nvme on a pcie card, a 256gb sata ssd for windows and for now just a supermicro 4U rack box thing that the system came with, was bought for dirt cheap as a whole server with a pair of E5 2630 V2's and 8gb ram with a basic psu etc etc, swapped out the cpus, ram, psu, added my ssd's and gpu, and it's all up and off to the races 

I was just about to ask where you got that case from. I have the C612 version of that board that is EE-ATX. Those cases are mad pricey. 

[the pudding]

17 hours ago, GillyMoMo said:

I was just about to ask where you got that case from. I have the C612 version of that board that is EE-ATX. Those cases are mad pricey. 

It was bundled with the kit I got, I bought it all on ebay for 200 quid, I pretty much only bought it for the board and coolers, it's just some supermicro 4U server box thing and it has the proper mounts for EEATX too, honestly if you were local I'd have just given you it lul, but there aren't many into that stuff round these parts 

[GillyMoMo]

On 7/10/2021 at 3:43 AM, the pudding said:

It was bundled with the kit I got, I bought it all on ebay for 200 quid, I pretty much only bought it for the board and coolers, it's just some supermicro 4U server box thing and it has the proper mounts for EEATX too, honestly if you were local I'd have just given you it lul, but there aren't many into that stuff round these parts 

You know...I'd pay shipping from the UK to the US for it honestly. I am really in need of a case such as that one lol. 

[the pudding]

11 hours ago, GillyMoMo said:

You know...I'd pay shipping from the UK to the US for it honestly. I am really in need of a case such as that one lol. 

I'd have to see if I can find a box large enough for it, but I'll let you know  

[Pasi123]

My main PC is working again, I got a pretty good deal on a P6X58D-E, i7-950, X5675 and Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler. Sadly the X5675 is quite bad, it needs 1.4V to even run Cinebench R15 at 4.4GHz without crashing. I would swap the X5670 from my dead board but I don't have any thermal paste left.

The cooler is a huge upgrade from my previous one

 

Here is some picture of my system with the mobo swapped. Currently it has a GTX 760 because my GTX 960 is temporarily in my E5-2690 system.

Even though the board is the same model and revision as my previous one the PCB color is a bit different, my old one was noticiably darker. There is some other small differences too like some of the IO ports are made by a different company

 

 

 

[the pudding]

On 7/15/2021 at 4:45 PM, Pasi123 said:

My main PC is working again, I got a pretty good deal on a P6X58D-E, i7-950, X5675 and Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler. Sadly the X5675 is quite bad, it needs 1.4V to even run Cinebench R15 at 4.4GHz without crashing. I would swap the X5670 from my dead board but I don't have any thermal paste left.

The cooler is a huge upgrade from my previous one

 

Here is some picture of my system with the mobo swapped. Currently it has a GTX 760 because my GTX 960 is temporarily in my E5-2690 system.

Even though the board is the same model and revision as my previous one the PCB color is a bit different, my old one was noticiably darker. There is some other small differences too like some of the IO ports are made by a different company

 

Shame about the X5675 not being a nice bin there but it's nice to see that back up and running, I remember those silver arrows though, shame they didn't keep them doing tbh, was around when the D14 came out iirc though so that prolly took a lot of the wind out of its sails 

[the pudding]

New toy the first for today  2070 super, slapped a shunt mod on it and all, scores real nice too, should be a nice upgrade over the titan 

[Aveniform]

I managed to purchase 24GB of HyperX DDR3 RAM at 1,866MHz for a measly price of only $24 USD, so now I can properly run in triple channel at higher RAM speeds.

 

As a result of this, I decided to try and overclock a little bit further - to great success! I managed to score 1,002 points in Cinebench R15 with my X5650 running at 4.4GHz. Now granted, this probably isn't completely stable and not recommended for daily use, but I was able to complete a few Cinebench passes without crashing or BSOD'ing.

 

 

My settings are:

 

Multiplier x22
BCLK 200
DRAM Freq 1,643 MHz
UCore 3,288 MHz
VCore 1.4V
DRAM Voltage 1.4V

 

Overall I am very impressed with this system.

 

 

[Aveniform]

On the off chance that anybody is interested, someone's selling an SR-2 on r/hardwareswap for $500 OBO: https://redd.it/p6id8n

 

Bit too pricey for me, especially since I could get an X399 or super high-end X570 board for that price, but might be appealing to someone else I guess?

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

23 hours ago, Aveniform said:

On the off chance that anybody is interested, someone's selling an SR-2 on r/hardwareswap for $500 OBO: https://redd.it/p6id8n

 

Bit too pricey for me, especially since I could get an X399 or super high-end X570 board for that price, but might be appealing to someone else I guess?

i remember seeing one for 399 with two 5670s and 24 gbs of ram but of course that was at a time I was broke

[the pudding]

so I might be able to post my setup here again soon lul, found 8 cores to be limiting so I'm hoping to move from the 10700k to a 7980xe soon since cex have them for like, not a lot of money

[the pudding]

And so it begins 

[CommanderAlex]

On 8/23/2021 at 1:40 AM, the pudding said:

so I might be able to post my setup here again soon lul, found 8 cores to be limiting so I'm hoping to move from the 10700k to a 7980xe soon since cex have them for like, not a lot of money

You have a X299 motherboard??

[Zando_]

28 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

You have a X299 motherboard??

Those are easy to get, EVGA has em on sale for like $99 sometimes. The CPUs are the expensive part of X299. And I guess a PSU to power them, a 7980XE can pull 700W or more - by itself - when pushed IIRC. 

[the pudding]

1 hour ago, SpiderMan said:

You have a X299 motherboard??

Not at current, but these obtaining them for a reasonable price is trivial round these parts