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Limitations to overclocking a poweredge server? Xeon E5 2620 v4

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Hey, the past week i have read absolutely everything regarding this topic, but as it seems there are very little people that are crackhead enough to do this.
I am currently running a poweredge r730 with 2 xeon e5-2620 v4's.
In theory this cpu should be able to boost cores to 3.2 GHz with Intel Turbo boost. (I am fully aware how turbo boost works. I am checking individual core clocks in HWINFO)
But sadly the cpu is stuck at 2,3 ghz.

I have tried many things, the cpu is not power limiting, since the package is allowed 85 watts, but the powerdraw never goes over 40-45 Watts.
The cpu is also not Thermal throttling, I have modded this server to be entirely watercooled and even under 100% load with all cores on 2.3ghz the cpu does not go over 32 degrees celsius.

I have attatched a screenshot of the core clocks when running cinebench multicore.
The screenshot is with The perfect bios settings for performance, Turbo boost enabled, no power per watt settings, C1E and C states disabled, and maximum uncore frequency.

The thing that confuses me: I am unable to modify the clock to go over 2,3ghz aka 100mhz with 23x multiplier.
Am i missing something? Or does anyone have an idea on how to get the cpus to run faster? Intel Turbo boost seems to never actually kick in. No matter the single core / Multi core load.

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As far as I know there aren't any unlocked Xeons... :laugh:

The only thing you could try is FSB overclocking if the board supports it...
 

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As far as I know there aren't any unlocked Xeons... :laugh:

The only thing you could try is FSB overclocking if the board supports it...
Thats true, according to the cpu specifications tho, at least some cores should go up to 3ghz (the 3.2 from the original post was cap its actually 3.0 whoops)
Which they just dont... No core has ever gotten above 2.3...
Do you have any insight on how i can check the status of intel turbo boost? There has gotta be something that is preventing the cpu from actually using it...
There are a few people that just run the bios settings that i am using, which are running up to 3ghz with this exact hardware. So the hardware should be capable :/
 
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