General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion

[MaratM]

1 hour ago, Xa3phod said:

Ok, I got my X5690. I am surprised that I can't seem to overclock it as well as my X5670. Do I pump in a lot more voltage? I had the X5670 stable at 4.6Gghz. I managed to stabilize the X5690 at 4.5Ghz. The Cinebench score isn't great. I thought this thing was going to be a beast. Any suggestions?

I’ve got a simmilar problem. My x5680 does not want to go any higher than 4.5 ghz and only at very high voltage and temp is shooting throug the rooth. And i’m using a full custom loop setup with 3! 360 rads. On the other hand I saw few x5650 overclocked to 4.5 as a dayly driver on an aircooler.

[bimmerman]

Going over 4.5 with reasonable voltage really requires a golden chip.

 

Mine will do 4.7 if I flood it with volts but it isn't stable for long. I haven't gotten close to a thermal limit even at that level of voltage, it happily chugs along around 80C on my 240 AIO

[Xa3phod]

Going to play with settings and see my max and just sell either the 5670 or 5690.

 

[Xa3phod]

Well, I can see everyone is anxiously awaiting my results.

 

I got it stable at 4.522Ghz. The Memory isn't running at full speed and its running at 1.42 volts.

 

In Cinebench I got 1014. (My 6700K OCed to 4.7Ghz got 1021 and my Ryzen 7 1700 OCed to 3.7Ghz got 1587)

Geekbench: Single: 3727 and Multi: 18186

 

Takes more power to run it, but its neck and neck if not better than the X5670 @ 4.62Ghz. So, looks like with some fine tuning, I may be able to get some more performance out of this thing. Any suggestions on settings on an Asus Rampage III formula?

 

Funny, it sits between the Ryzen 7 1700 and I7-6700K performance-wise. This is an almost 8-year-old chip. I would like to get at least 1100 on Cinebench.

 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

Well, I can see everyone is anxiously awaiting my results.

 

I got it stable at 4.522Ghz. The Memory isn't running at full speed and its running at 1.42 volts.

 

In Cinebench I got 1014. (My 6700K OCed to 4.7Ghz got 1021 and my Ryzen 7 1700 OCed to 3.7Ghz got 1587)

Geekbench: Single: 3727 and Multi: 18186

 

Takes more power to run it, but its neck and neck if not better than the X5670 @ 4.62Ghz. So, looks like with some fine tuning, I may be able to get some more performance out of this thing. Any suggestions on settings on an Asus Rampage III formula?

 

Funny, it sits between the Ryzen 7 1700 and I7-6700K performance-wise. This is an almost 8-year-old chip. I would like to get at least 1100 on Cinebench.

 

I need to pull out my ASUS Rampage III Formula as well, it's got an X5675 on it, I think at 4.5GHz/1.4v or so. 

[Xa3phod]

Zando, give me some settings! There's some setting which I have no idea what they do.

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Xa3phod said:

Zando, give me some settings! There's some setting which I have no idea what they do.

same, I just bump the voltage to 1.4 or so, then mess with the multiplier and BLCK clocks till it's showing the speed I want, then try booting it and see how it goes. I leave pretty much everything else on auto. 

[Xa3phod]

Is it possible my X5670 is just a better chip than my X5690? It runs at higher Ghz with lower volts. Very disappointed. Feel like tossing the whole thing and going X79 or something.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Xa3phod said:

Is it possible my X5670 is just a better chip than my X5690? It runs at higher Ghz with lower volts. Very disappointed. Feel like tossing the whole thing and going X79 or something.

That could be possible. Silicon lottery and all that.

[Ground]

I’ve seen E5620s, E5606s, e5640s and more clock better then W3680s. Best chips for good bins are x5675 and x5690, both are about the same as far as I’ve heard from those binning those. My best chips currently are benchstable at:

E5640: 1.25V/4.5, 1.4V/4.74HT, 1.48V/5.0 (272 BCLK ambient)

E5640: 1.4V/4.78HT (265 BCLK ambient)

E5620: 1.3V/4.72 (256 BCLK ambient)

E5649: 1.4V/4.76HT (269 BCLK ambient)

W3520: 1.28V/4.5 (238 BCLK ambient)

 

comparision:

W3680: 1.4V/3.95HT

 

The E5649 can be dailied at 1.35V/4.49HT, so take these numbers with a grain of salt, stability only for some benches and about 80-90 chips binned for these. 

[Pasi123]

Tech YES City just recently released a video of a X5660 @ 4.5GHz vs i9-9900K @ 5GHz with a 2080 Ti in gaming.

 

[Xa3phod]

I watch him a lot. I play a game called Planetside 2. My X5690 is not as good as my 6700K in gaming. The FPS was around 60 for the Xeon vs 75 (monitor is a 75hz) for the 6700K. It's a very noticeable difference.

[OC-K1NG]

This is the fastest stable overclock I have got on my system that can run 24/7, temps max out at 52 deg C. 

[OC-K1NG]

On 10/27/2018 at 10:15 PM, Pasi123 said:

Most likely server board wouldn't support the i7-920 because it wasn't meant to work in servers.

i7-920 should work in any single socket server board however, it wouldn't generally work in a dual socket board due to the lack of QPI Links (Limited to 1 on all i7 / some Xeon CPUs).

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

21 minutes ago, OC-K1NG said:

This is the fastest stable overclock I have got on my system that can run 24/7, temps max out at 52 deg C. 

4.7? DAMN

you almost beat my system (dual X5650's) with one cpu! i have no words. 

[OC-K1NG]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

4.7? DAMN

you almost beat my system (dual X5650's) with one cpu! i have no words. 

Haha, thanks... That's the most stable OC... I have managed into 6Ghz before but it's not stable and pushing 1.65v Core

 

Dual CPU, guess you're on a server board then, so no OC?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, OC-K1NG said:

Haha, thanks... That's the most stable OC... I have managed into 6Ghz before but it's not stable and pushing 1.65v Core

HOLY FFFFFF

1 minute ago, OC-K1NG said:

Dual CPU, guess you're on a server board then, so no OC?

yes. it's a HP ProLiant ML350 G6. no overclocking indeed, but it's really stable. i don't really want to overclock anyway, it's plenty powerful for me as it is. 

[OC-K1NG]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

HOLY FFFFFF

yes. it's a HP ProLiant ML350 G6. no overclocking indeed, but it's really stable. i don't really want to overclock anyway, it's plenty powerful for me as it is. 

Yes, stability sometimes is key, depending on load/use overclocking isn't always required or wanted... but not often  

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, OC-K1NG said:

Yes, stability sometimes is key, depending on load/use overclocking isn't always required or wanted... but not often  

i care more about stability than anything else. like, i use my pc for school, and if i need to do homework or anything that's on a deadline i can't be messing with my pc trying to get it to work. 

 

that said, for anything that's not my main system, so a system i can have fun with, i like overclocking. i got my project pc with a Q9550 in it to 3.7ghz  

[OC-K1NG]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

i care more about stability than anything else. like, i use my pc for school, and if i need to do homework or anything that's on a deadline i can't be messing with my pc trying to get it to work. 

 

that said, for anything that's not my main system, so a system i can have fun with, i like overclocking. i got my project pc with a Q9550 in it to 3.7ghz  

Nice going, that's a good stable clock on the Core 2Q architecture.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, OC-K1NG said:

Nice going, that's a good stable clock on the Core 2Q architecture.

it got to 3.8 but couldn't boot Windows  

 

i'm not sure it will get to that OC again though... about a year ago the PSU in the system blew up, taking the motherboard with it.. i've since replaced the board and psu, and it posts, but that's it for now. i've been too busy to mess with it. i know the chip can get to that clock, but i'm wondering if the replacement board can. 

[NoxiousOdor]

If anyone is fluent in the ways of ddr3 overclocking please help our x58 friend here

 

 

[Slayer3032]

So my X5675 has continued it's instability, I feel like I keep adding vcore and it makes it stable for about a month or two and then I have to add more again. I started out at 200x23@1.375v and that was fine for a couple months, now I was still at 4.6ghz but unstable at 1.406v. I dialed it back to 200x22 and it seems to work fine at that clock. I left my computer on downloading some stuff and it had some kernel related bsod and was probably hardlocked for hours and hours. I some of my recent crashes have been driver related though as I was seeing some IRQ bsod's until I uninstalled some drivers.

 

I've tried raising and lowing the PLL voltage, IOH voltages(only the pair of them), Uncore multi and nothing seems to work. In specific it seems to be very erratic, usually it will happen when playing CS:GO now which in the past always ran flawlessly with unstable overclocks while Rust or Sea of Thieves would demolish an unstable Uncore or Vcore. Now it seems like it's power related since I'll usually get a few days of stability then I'll take it out of sleep or boot it up, everything will be fine and then as soon as I go into CSGO for a match I'll hard lock right around the start of the first round. Then after restarting it will be fine for a long period of time.

 

The most recent thing I've done is go down to 4.4ghz at like 1.3875v, lower my Uncore to I think 3000mhz at 1.335v, neither seemed to do anything. Running the PLL at 1.7v currently but tried 1.88v and that didn't help. 1.2v on the IOH voltages from 1.18v didn't help either. I'm currently trying to take my junk ram from 1600 down to 1200mhz to see if that's it and so far I haven't had a crash but this has been driving me insane for months. I've tried hitting the ram with Aida64's memory test for like an hour and that didn't do a single thing. Maybe my ram is degrading? The G.Skill Pi Series never ran at the XMP speeds with my Nehalem and it's paired with the cheapest 3x2gb Samsung ECC 1333mhz memory I could find but I've been running it at 1600mhz 8-8-8-20-1T for like a year.

 

What is recommended for testing memory overclocks and stability?

[Pasi123]

 

[Xa3phod]

I put my Vega56 into the X5670 overclocked to 4.6Ghz with 1.40Volts.

Totally stable. Runs perfectly.

 

Only issue it: Too slow! I run a 75hz monitor and not once could it achieve 75fps. It floated from 45-65, but 95% of the time, it was under 60fps. I think I've reached the end of the X58. if I can't play my game (Planetside 2) at 75Hz at max settings, it won't work for me. My 6700K overclocked to 4.6Ghz plays at 75Hz all day, never going over 60C. If you play at 60FPS with medium settings, then this CPU will work for you. For me, its game over (pun intended). New Project time.