General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[IKnight]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

Yeah I would try adding a fan and see if that helps, it should be okay but it shouldnt be too much trouble to add a fan if you have one handy

Il see if i can dig up an 80mm or smaller one. 

[NoxiousOdor]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Yes, OEM server boards are often like that, since they're servers and cooling is really important, these aren't off for very long (if at all) and they where still on when I took that. 

Here I am with my measly 12 dimm slots..

 

Those looks super cool though that is awesome

[NoxiousOdor]

Just now, ImadKnight said:

Il see if i can dig up an 80mm or smaller one. 

That is what I used to have on mine but my gpu got in the way so I had to get rid of it. I haven't had any issues which is nice

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

Here I am with my measly 12 dimm slots..

 

Those looks super cool though that is awesome

The smaller of the two has a normal SSI EEB form board, so it could be used in any case that suports SSI EEB or even E-ATX. It only has a single 16x slot though. 

[IKnight]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

That is what I used to have on mine but my gpu got in the way so I had to get rid of it. I haven't had any issues which is nice

Ah okay. Hopefully the mobo problem is simple.

[NoxiousOdor]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

The smaller of the two has a normal SSI EEB form board, so it could be used in any case that suports SSI EEB or even E-ATX. It only has a single 16x slot though. 

Oh cool, that would be a lot of fun build into a normal case, I was able to cram my eatx into a mid tower and I love the compact look

 

I have noticed a lot of boards only have one x16 slot, I will temporarily have one that has 3 but almost as soon as I get it I am shipping it off to someone else

[NoxiousOdor]

1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

Ah okay. Hopefully the mobo problem is simple.

As far as mounting the fan, you can superglue it that is what I did. It stays on nicely and it comes off fairly cleanly

[Pasi123]

My X58 systems:

 

My main PC:

 

Processor........: Intel Xeon X5670 @ OC 4.44GHz
Cooler............: Antec C400, 120mm LED
Case..............: Fractal Design Define R5
Memory...........: 16gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz
Motherboard.....: Asus P6X58D-E
Graphics Card..: Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC
SSD................: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB
HDD................: Seagate 2tb
Power Supply...: Seasonic 620W M12II-620 Evo
Sound Card......: Asus Xonar DG 5.1
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional

 

 

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Secondary PC:

 

Processor........: Intel Xeon X5677 @ 3.47GHz
Memory...........: 12gb DDR3 1333MHz
Motherboard.....: HP 0B4Ch
Graphics Card..: Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2
SSD................: Kingston SSDNow V300 240gb
HDD................: WD 1tb, Hitachi 250gb
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional and Windows 10 Pro

 

And my first X58 PC that I bought back in 2013. (Current specs)

 

Processor........: Intel Xeon W3550
Memory...........: 4gb DDR3 1333MHz
Motherboard.....: HP 0AE4h
Graphics Card..: Asus GeForce GT 610
SSD................: Kingston SSDNow V300 120gb
HDD................: Seagate 2tb, WD 1gb, Seagate 500gb

Sound Card......: Asus Xonar DGX 5.1
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional

Desk setup history with my first X58 system:

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2013:

 

30.3.2014:

 

24.8.2014:

 

16.11.2014:

 

25.12.2014:

 

11.7.2015:

 

3.12.2015:

 

And then a few months later I bought my second X58 system, because my old one didn't support 6-core CPUs.

 

 

[IKnight]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

As far as mounting the fan, you can superglue it that is what I did. It stays on nicely and it comes off fairly cleanly

More tempted to zip tie it temporarily. Il actually go over things once I can swap stuff into my (yet to be built) wood case.

[NoxiousOdor]

1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

More tempted to zip tie it temporarily. Il actually go over things once I can swap stuff into my (yet to be built) wood case.

Definitely post pictures of the wood case when you have it that would be awesome

[NoxiousOdor]

2 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

My X58 systems:

 

My main PC:

 

Processor........: Intel Xeon X5670 @ OC 4.44GHz
Cooler............: Antec C400, 120mm LED
Case..............: Fractal Design Define R5
Memory...........: 16gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz
Motherboard.....: Asus P6X58D-E
Graphics Card..: Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC
SSD................: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB
HDD................: Seagate 2tb
Power Supply...: Seasonic 620W M12II-620 Evo
Sound Card......: Asus Xonar DG 5.1
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional

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Secondary PC:

 

Processor........: Intel Xeon X5677 @ 3.47GHz
Memory...........: 12gb DDR3 1333MHz
Motherboard.....: HP 0B4Ch
Graphics Card..: Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2
SSD................: Kingston SSDNow V300 240gb
HDD................: WD 1tb, Hitachi 250gb
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional and Windows 10 Pro
1920x1080 monitor (23")

 

And my first X58 PC that I bought back in 2013. (Current specs)

 

Processor........: Intel Xeon W3550
Memory...........: 4gb DDR3 1333MHz
Motherboard.....: HP 0AE4h
Graphics Card..: Asus GeForce GT 610
SSD................: Kingston SSDNow V300 120gb
HDD................: Seagate 2tb, WD 1gb, Seagate 500gb
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional

That is a good overclock very cool. It is extra fun to find people with multiple xeon machines. Nice rigs!

[Ground]

On 10/4/2017 at 12:17 AM, WhisperingKnickers said:

As far as mounting the fan, you can superglue it that is what I did. It stays on nicely and it comes off fairly cleanly

 

I have a 120mm fan stuck to the ends of the heatpipes of my CPU heatsink blowing at my North and Soutbridge heatsinks - my IOH stays at about 59°C under load. 

 

Oh, I just mentioned my CPUs and motherboard in my first post. Current full rig:

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Processor........: Intel Xeon E5649 @ OC 4.2GHz
Cooler............: Alpenföhn Brocken Eco
Case..............:  none/top of a cardboard box
Memory...........: 6x4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 (Samsung DIMMs)
Motherboard.....: MSI x58 Pro-E
Graphics Card..: Gainward GTX 670 Phantom
SSD................: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
Power Supply...: BeQuiet! Pure Power L8 530W
Sound Card......: Asus Xonar DG 5.1 (currently not installed as I'm using a USB headset)
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional x64

 

[NoxiousOdor]

4 minutes ago, Ground said:

I have a 120mm fan stuck to the ends of the heatpipes of my CPU heatsink blowing at my North and Soutbridge heatsinks - my IOH stays at about 59°C under load. 

 

Oh, I just mentioned my CPUs and motherboard in my first post. Current full rig:

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Processor........: Intel Xeon E56490 @ OC 4.2GHz
Cooler............: Alpenföhn Brocken Eco
Case..............:  none/top of a cardboard box
Memory...........: 6x4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 (Samsung DIMMs)
Motherboard.....: MSI x58 Pro-E
Graphics Card..: Gainward GTX 670 Phantom
SSD................: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
Power Supply...: BeQuiet! Pure Power L8 530W
Sound Card......: Asus Xonar DG 5.1 (currently not installed as I'm using a USB headset)
OS..................: Windows 7 Professional x64

 

That is a good way to do it. Even if it was in a case you could probably mode a side panel to have an extra fan on it, or you could even do it without using a side panel but it makes me nervous when people do that.

 

Nice computer! that is a good OC

[Ground]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

That is a good way to do it. Even if it was in a case you could probably mode a side panel to have an extra fan on it, or you could even do it without using a side panel but it makes me nervous when people do that.

 

Nice computer! that is a good OC

If I get a case I'll probably go with custom cardboard airflow shrouds to get all the heatsinks properly cooled. Maybe even a watercooling loop... Not worrying about that just yet though. Budget for PC parts this year is gone already

 

Well, the 4.2 is my daily overclock. For Benching I can do about .4.6, maybe more, but I didn't want to damage my main CPU. The L5640 I've ordered will be tortured just like my e5620 though... That poor thing needed 1.5V to boot into Windows at 4.25GHz - others had it at 4.8 with that voltage...

[NoxiousOdor]

2 minutes ago, Ground said:

That poor thing needed 1.5V to boot into Windows at 4.25GHz - others had it at 4.8 with that voltage

You are a monster, those poor cpus hahaha

[Ground]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

You are a monster, those poor cpus hahaha

Well, its a 5€ CPU, what else should I be doing? Pet it? And it stayed reasonably cool at that voltage, about 60°C. I could have probably gone for 1.6V oO

[Zando_]

23 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Ah okay. Hopefully the mobo problem is simple.

Using a fan should be good, I know my Rampage III Formula (I got it used, so no accessories) came with a fan to cool the northbridge and such when water-cooling. So it's designed to be actively cooled. 

[Lord Nicoll]

8 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

Oh cool, that would be a lot of fun build into a normal case, I was able to cram my eatx into a mid tower and I love the compact look

 

I have noticed a lot of boards only have one x16 slot, I will temporarily have one that has 3 but almost as soon as I get it I am shipping it off to someone else

NEED MOAR RAM

[NoxiousOdor]

1 minute ago, Ground said:

Well, its a 5€ CPU, what else should I be doing? Pet it? And it stayed reasonably cool at that voltage, about 60°C. I could have probably gone for 1.6V oO

Oh wow, I am surprised that it stayed so cool that is really neat. I am very excited to get another 5690 to overclock in the new mobo I got but I don't have the budget to get the rest of the computer right now unfortunately 

[NoxiousOdor]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

NEED MOAR RAM

 

[NoxiousOdor]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

NEED MOAR RAM

That is a lot of ram! that is awesome!

[Lord Nicoll]

7 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

You are a monster, those poor cpus hahaha

hahaha

 

 

 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

That is a lot of ram! that is awesome!

That isn't all of it either

[Zando_]

Anyone else run macOS? I'm currently making a bootable USB for my rig, gonna be a beast in Davinci Resolve (and @AluminiumTech, I can finally get that video done). 

[Ground]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

Oh wow, I am surprised that it stayed so cool that is really neat. I am very excited to get another 5690 to overclock in the new mobo I got but I don't have the budget to get the rest of the computer right now unfortunately 

I was surprised too. But it stayed even cooler at stock speeds.

Don't get a 5690 for overclocking! If you want a CPU to overclock and don't care about budget as much get a W3680/W3690, those are unlocked like the i7 980X/990X. Oddly enough they are cheaper than the x5680 and x5690.

@Lord Nicoll Well, you aren't using Air cooling for that, are you?