Xeon Owners Club

[jboydgolfer]

bought it from a local guy for MY daughters PC, since its not a REAL OC board(her mobo is an H97 asrock). i use it for crunching when she's @ school, so i figured i would get a nice cheap 8 thread CPU to slap in there, and i ended up with this sucker

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



hahahahahahahahahaha

Nice one jboyd

 

[FireFox]

I have a E5-2670, i will try to overclock it.

 

[jboydgolfer]

If you look at my cpuZ img above, youll see a VERY tiny oc.

Also @Recon-UK i saw that sandy bridge typo

 

[FireFox]

If you look at my cpuZ img above, youll see a VERY tiny oc.

Also @Recon-UK i saw that sandy bridge typo

Yeah but your is a 3.40GHz and mine is a 2.60GHz

 

[silentbogo]

New faces in our club? I already thought I'm stuck with these crazy guys forever.

 

[Recon-UK]

New faces in our club? I already thought I'm stuck with these crazy guys forever.

Very harsh on the older crazies

 

[Recon-UK]

Where i got my idea to go Westmere from.

Also, this is what i paid for the upgrades.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Theres some good buys there........8 threads @ 4.0ghz for £14.99..............superb.


U.S. prices make me want to puke. If i lived there i would probably own about 20 pcs ( all 1366)

 

[Recon-UK]

Theres some good buys there........8 threads @ 4.0ghz for £14.99..............superb.


U.S. prices make me want to puke. If i lived there i would probably own about 20 pcs ( all 1366)

I expected to pay through the nose for a motherboard, so 95 shipped was not bad for the ASUS board, and well i can't complain, it's got some serious overclocking gonads.

The 670 was a killer deal.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I paid £65.00 for my GTX 680 SC but it came with a manual (knob) fan controller. It runs nice and cool so i never need to adjust the setting. The default low setting on the controller is a tad loud for some but i would rather bag a bargain and turn my speakers up a bit.

It plays all my games really well and it is superior to my HD 7970,s. Even with 2gb mem GTA V looks and plays great.

I just looked on ebay.....my E5620 can be bought for £ 7.50 delivered...........

 

[Recon-UK]

I paid £65.00 for my GTX 680 SC but it came with a manual (knob) fan controller. It runs nice and cool so i never need to adjust the setting. The default low setting on the controller is a tad loud for some but i would rather bag a bargain and turn my speakers up a bit.

It plays all my games really well and it is superior to my HD 7970,s. Even with 2gb mem GTA V looks and plays great.

I just looked on ebay.....my E5620 can be bought for £ 7.50 delivered...........

Other than the fact people need to do a bit of research, i don't understand why XEON is not more widespread as a recommended purchase these days, i mean it takes an FX 8350 to be clocked higher than 4.7ghz to match my whimpy 4.0ghz clock in single thread in the CPU-Z benchmark. For gaming the Westmere CPU's are absolute beasts for the cost.

 

[silentbogo]

Theres some good buys there........8 threads @ 4.0ghz for £14.99..............superb.


U.S. prices make me want to puke. If i lived there i would probably own about 20 pcs ( all 1366)

I'd probably join that server farm. I'm always drooling when I see yet another bulk sale of x58 or x79 workstations on eBay. My brother could probably buy it for me, but there's always a question of smuggling.

Other than the fact people need to do a bit of research, i don't understand why XEON is not more widespread as a recommended purchase these days, i mean it takes an FX 8350 to be clocked higher than 4.7ghz to match my whimpy 4.0ghz clock in single thread in the CPU-Z benchmark. For gaming the Westmere CPU's are absolute beasts for the cost.

That ^^^. Add some liquid cooling or an AIO to a 95W Xeon and you've got an OC potential to catch up with 5820K.
Haswell-based Xeons are also fun - not overburdened with never-used iGPU in a gaming rig.

 

[Recon-UK]

Intel X5650 2.66GHz 12MB 6.4GT/s Xeon Six Core SLBV3 1366........just bought it, it is going in ThugXeon and its gonna crunch.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...llenge-official-planning-thread.212433/page-4

Six H/T cores for £ 72.00 so 6 quid a thread, sounds very reasonable to me.
It was only $1000 new .
http://ark.intel.com/products/47922/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5650-12M-Cache-2_66-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

passmark looks good
https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5650+@+2.67GHz&id=1304

i wont advertise the vendor here but they have more available until Thursday UK if you want to PM
@dorsetknob thanks again for finding it and texting me twice and phoning me when i was sleeping.

I errrrr stole the pic , made me drool, (for my sig) i actually love that style of Core series logo's, i had a laptop with a Core 2 Duo one, i scratched every sticker off my laptop, even the Nvidia one, but never that one

 

[Recon-UK]

Well i have tweaked a lot more and now running steady at 4.2ghz on 1.28v V core.
83c max temp, this is my ultimate limit.
I also scored the fastest intel XEON E5640 on User bench.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/11771/IntelR-XeonR-CPU-----------E5640----267GHz

For unknown reasons my GPU scored lower than before.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/1276522

 

[Recon-UK]

Just need a better cooler now, i'm fairly sure i will manage 4.5ghz+ on this chip, it just loves more mhz.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

with Corsair H 50 ........one fan

 

[Recon-UK]

with Corsair H 50 ........one fan


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What voltage did your chip need for 4.0/4.2ghz? also my RAM is running overclocked with just .5mv increase, usually 9-9-9, it's 8-9-9 1600 right now.

For whatever reason it seems like my chip will run on lower volts vs yours?

 

[FireFox]

Thanks God i don't have a single 1366 socket Board, otherwise I would fried a couple of Xeons

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

What voltage did your chip need for 4.0/4.2ghz?

That was on an MSI Pro - E iirc.

i cant remember the details sorry, and all my info is on the o/s drive on a different pc.

 

[Recon-UK]

OK i need a dashing of help please, my PC is damn strange and right now is performing at it's all time best, only issue is that errr well i got a BSOD point_reference which is a ram issue, so i have used lowest divider (bios reset too) and now the ram is at CL8 1.58v 1290mhz, but my CPU i put at 1.28v and set it up to run at 4.1ghz.

I'm in Windows and the CPU is at 4.3ghz!!!!!!!!!!

I benched it and it's legit? WTFFFFFFFF?

Best of all it seems rock solid stable???? Golden XEON?

 

[Recon-UK]

LOL too good to be true.
Had a gander in the bios, according to the description, i think it was speed step or turbo boost or something, makes the CPU go above rated speeds, turned both off now she hums at 4.1 which i know is rock solid.

Faffing intel, make it simple

 

[FireFox]

My Dual Xeon X5677 Gaming Machine.

 

[Recon-UK]

Really putting my XEON through it's paces

The video you see encoding is a benchmark, it's going up VS my old Phenom II, so look forwards to two quality video's

SP & MP is tested.

 

[Recon-UK]

And well i did say 2 quality video's? hmmm well this is the image quality i could muster with the Phenom II, and no if i run better graphics that bottleneck by the CPU makes it worse... GPU usage goes up slightly but FPS still drops... LOL

Also of note.. 670 won't boost to 1300mhz in BF4.. not that it's much of a big deal though.