General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[Zando_]

Just now, panther420 said:

Also, you might want to take a look at X99 boards right now. As x299 is getting more widespread, Newegg and other sites are clearing out stock of X99 boards. There are also a lot of refurbs floating about, something I did when I bought an ASUS refurbished X99 deluxe off of Ebay for $120. The board is very nice! Xeons are not as cheap on X99 as they are on the X58 platform sadly, though I still thought it was worth mention. 

I don't think you can OC much, if at all tho. But, if you need lots and lots of cores, then X99 is a good platform. 

[Ordinarily_Greater]

2 minutes ago, panther420 said:

Also, you might want to take a look at X99 boards right now. As x299 is getting more widespread, Newegg and other sites are clearing out stock of X99 boards. There are also a lot of refurbs floating about, something I did when I bought an ASUS refurbished X99 deluxe off of Ebay for $120. The board is very nice! Xeons are not as cheap on X99 as they are on the X58 platform sadly, though I still thought it was worth mention. 

Yeah @CUDA_Cores is the master for that chipset in the forum, and i found a $140 X99-A motherboard

[panther420]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

I don't think you can OC much, if at all tho. But, if you need lots and lots of cores, then X99 is a good platform. 

Exactly, since the cheapest xeons are 2xxx series which don't OC. However, my board does have the TPU chip, which can allow me to do the auto overclock. Maybe asus can pull some magic out of its butt and overclock my Xeon better than I can. I will look into it and share the results.

[NoxiousOdor]

15 hours ago, asand1 said:

Include the CPUs to protect the LGA pins in shipping. Damage to the pins on that board would be a deadly sin worthy of a special place in Hell. 

Oh that is a good idea, I hadn't considered the pins. In that case I will just take two cheap xeons and use them as little safety covers

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

Oh that is a good idea, I hadn't considered the pins. In that case I will just take two cheap xeons and use them as little safety covers

Dew it. 

[astranger200]

11 hours ago, panther420 said:

Not bad. Do gigabyte boards oc well? I will be getting an EX58-Extreme soon (hopefully), excited to see what I can push my x5650 to

I have a x58-ud7 and it overclocks like mad

[panther420]

13 hours ago, astranger200 said:

I have a x58-ud7 and it overclocks like mad

Good to know. I’m excited

[Ordinarily_Greater]

6 minutes ago, panther420 said:

Good to know. I’m excited

is that a gigabyte board?

[panther420]

2 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

is that a gigabyte board?

Yep, it’s this one:

I hope no one takes it from the freegeek shop before I do. I just don’t have the money right now, I’m going to ask the person manning the desk if I can reserve it. I know I will buy it at some point.

 

They are selling it in a combo too for a really good price. $95 for an i7-950, 6gb of ocz gold, and the board as well as an intel stock heatsink. Fucking legendary

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 minute ago, panther420 said:

Yep, it’s this one:

I hope no one takes it from the freegeek shop before I do. I just don’t have the money right now, I’m going to ask the person manning the desk if I can reserve it. I know I will buy it at some point.

 

They are selling it in a combo too for a really good price. $95 for an i7-950, 6gb of ocz gold, and the board as well as an intel stock heatsink. Fucking legendary

yeah, those i7 can pretty much handle AA Gaming 

i found Haswell System for $300

i7-4770

B75

16GB RAM

HD 7800 2GB Series

and pretty much other things

[Ground]

Oh wow, that board looks great. Watercooling the chipset might actually make some sense with x58... mine gets quite hot at 240 BCLK already. 

 

Just got 10 e5640s for 12.50€+5€ shipping. Here is hoping at least one of them does 5 GHz as 2 cores less should produce a bit less heat... I’ll also see if I can organise a PCI GPU and some faster RAM so I don‘t have to worry about raising the PCIe clock, as I believe that is currently my limiting factor (I can boot 240 BCLK at 110, and 250 at 115, but I don‘t really want to run the later for longer than a couple minutes). Probably gonna switch out the thermal compound on my Chipset too while I‘m at it. 

[panther420]

43 minutes ago, Ground said:

Oh wow, that board looks great. Watercooling the chipset might actually make some sense with x58... mine gets quite hot at 240 BCLK already. 

 

Just got 10 e5640s for 12.50€+5€ shipping. Here is hoping at least one of them does 5 GHz as 2 cores less should produce a bit less heat... I’ll also see if I can organise a PCI GPU and some faster RAM so I don‘t have to worry about raising the PCIe clock, as I believe that is currently my limiting factor (I can boot 240 BCLK at 110, and 250 at 115, but I don‘t really want to run the later for longer than a couple minutes). Probably gonna switch out the thermal compound on my Chipset too while I‘m at it. 

Nice. Hopefully the silicon lottery is on your side.

[panther420]

Also, I just remembered that I compiled the newest bioses of most X58 boards into one zip file a while ago. I thought you guys might enjoy it , so I decided to share it here. It also has all the utilities for applying the bioses as well as instructions on how to flash them.

 

I got bioses for boards from Asrock, Asus, Biostar, EVGA, Gigabyte, Intel, MSI, and Sapphire. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ovrrGliZffS3B5TnZHQ0JYUW8/view?usp=sharing

(I think the version I uploaded is missing the MSI eclipse plus, let me know if you want that.)

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, panther420 said:

Also, I just remembered that I compiled the newest bioses of most X58 boards into one zip file a while ago. I thought you guys might enjoy it , so I decided to share it here. It also has all the utilities for applying the bioses as well as instructions on how to flash them.

 

I got bioses for boards from Asrock, Asus, Biostar, EVGA, Gigabyte, Intel, MSI, and Sapphire. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ovrrGliZffS3B5TnZHQ0JYUW8/view?usp=sharing

(I think the version I uploaded is missing the MSI eclipse plus, let me know if you want that.)

Awesome sauce! Gonna add this to the front page. 

[panther420]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Awesome sauce! Gonna add this to the front page. 

Awesome, thank you!

[NoxiousOdor]

1 hour ago, panther420 said:

Also, I just remembered that I compiled the newest bioses of most X58 boards into one zip file a while ago. I thought you guys might enjoy it , so I decided to share it here. It also has all the utilities for applying the bioses as well as instructions on how to flash them.

 

I got bioses for boards from Asrock, Asus, Biostar, EVGA, Gigabyte, Intel, MSI, and Sapphire. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ovrrGliZffS3B5TnZHQ0JYUW8/view?usp=sharing

(I think the version I uploaded is missing the MSI eclipse plus, let me know if you want that.)

 

1 hour ago, Zando Bob said:

Awesome sauce! Gonna add this to the front page. 

You might want to add this one just in case, I'm not 100% sure it is the most recent but it is the most recent I have found so far https://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1920007

 

[panther420]

7 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

 

You might want to add this one just in case, I'm not 100% sure it is the most recent but it is the most recent I have found so far https://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1920007

 

That's probably a good idea. Though there was a reason why I didn't include the SR-2, and that was because it's technically an Intel 5520 chipset motherboard, not an X58. However, it still definitely falls into the same category. I will likely do another for dual socket 1366 or 5520 boards in general. Thanks for pointing out.

[NoxiousOdor]

1 minute ago, panther420 said:

That's probably a good idea. Though there was a reason why I didn't include the SR-2, and that was because it's technically an Intel 5520 chipset motherboard, not an X58. However, it still definitely falls into the same category. I will likely do another for dual socket 1366 or 5520 boards in general. Thanks for pointing out.

Oh I didn't think about that haha. Leave it to me to throw in an odd ball.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

2 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

Oh I didn't think about that haha. Leave it to me to throw in an odd ball.

so the Chipset 5520 is special for servers?

[NoxiousOdor]

Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

so the Chipset 5520 is special for servers?

You've got me man, I'm still learning how all of this fits together. I use dual socket boards but I don't know much about that area

 

@panther420 might know

[Ordinarily_Greater]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

You've got me man, I'm still learning how all of this fits together. I use dual socket boards but I don't know much about that area

 

@panther420 might know

Yeah, we got a pretty great team here, four peoples of X58 Xeons enthusiast

[panther420]

Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

so the Chipset 5520 is special for servers?

Yes, 5520 and 5500. All 1366 platforms use the ICH10 southbridge, which handles "all the other crap" (most of the rear io and stuffz), but the northrbridge/IOH is where it differs. 5520 offers 2 PCIe x16 Gen 2 connections, while 5500 offers only 1. Also 5500 talks to the southbrdige with 2 pcie x4 gen2 connections, while 5520 talks with only 1. Confusing...

[panther420]

1 minute ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Yeah, we got a pretty great team here, four peoples of X58 Xeons enthusiast

Yea!! We rule

edit: although I don't technically own an x58 xeon... only a ryzen lel

[Ordinarily_Greater]

22 minutes ago, panther420 said:

Yea!! We rule

edit: although I don't technically own an x58 xeon... only a ryzen lel

yeah but you have the guts to teach people about this platform

[panther420]

17 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

yeah but you have the guts to teach people about this platform

Can't tell if that's a good or bad thing. Whatever the case may be, I think it's ok to talk about the theoretical mechanics of a platform without physically owning it. I think the only aspect of it that you can't discuss to people until you've actually done it is overclocking though. Youtube tutorials don't always translate to success or good advice