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Xeon Owners Club

Toothless said:
I think it's just the very fine way the cpu has contact. Like one side has to be tighter than the other and the stars gotta align but only in that one spot 33 miles south of the north most part of the Mississippi river during the spring months
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The CPUs aren't slightly bent or buckled at all??
 
But take your time doing one thing at the time otherwise you be driving yourself mad.
Get a straight metal ruler and check the cpu on each corner to and shine a light behind the ruler to see if it dead flat or bucked
 
Goooood question on both. I'd hate to have to get new chips but you guys have a point. When I get an itch I'll open it back up and check the chips. For now I have some WCG and Rosetta to catch up on.
 
hey, I have a xeon e5 2620 v3, i saw in the BIOS of my mobo that there is support for overclock, but i have no idea on how to do it, any videos or recommendations on what I should look for? I'm kind of lost since I dont know what to search on google :/
 
SenditMakine said:
hey, I have a xeon e5 2620 v3, i saw in the BIOS of my mobo that there is support for overclock, but i have no idea on how to do it, any videos or recommendations on what I should look for? I'm kind of lost since I dont know what to search on google :/
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Only way to OC locked Xeons is by rising the base clock(BCLK)so if you have some decent motherboard you can try and see how far you can go....go slow first try to see if everything is stable on 103,105 BCLK and if it is then go more&more......I personally atm have Xeon 2697 V2 and it is OC via BCLK on 115,2 also before I have Xeon 2650 V2 and it was OC up to the 113,4 so it is possible to reach some more then decent speeds just go easy step by step.....
P.S.Tho' you have X99 so it will be more difficult to do BCLK OC + it is a Chinese motherboard not sure if you have that option in bios settings...Anyway I am 99% sure that you can do Turbo-Hack on those motherboards but you need to be careful if you do that as you will need to do some bios flashing.....
Here is video bellow with your mobo and this guy is an expert and knows what is doing

 
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Zyll Goliath said:
Only way to OC locked Xeons is by rising the base clock(BCLK)so if you have some decent motherboard you can try and see how far you can go....go slow first try to see if everything is stable on 103,105 BCLK and if it is then go more&more......I personally atm have Xeon 2697 V2 and it is OC via BCLK on 115,2 also before I have Xeon 2650 V2 and it was OC up to the 113,4 so it is possible to reach some more then decent speeds just go easy step by step.....
P.S.Tho' you have X99 so it will be more difficult to do BCLK OC + it is a Chinese motherboard not sure if you have that option in bios settings...Anyway I am 99% sure that you can do Turbo-Hack on those motherboards but you need to be careful if you do that as you will need to do some bios flashing.....
Here is video bellow with your mobo and this guy is an expert and knows what is doing

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Wow, thanks man, that's exactly the kind of advice that I needed, gonna post here the results afterwards
 
SenditMakine said:
Wow, thanks man, that's exactly the kind of advice that I needed, gonna post here the results afterwards
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NP check also his website/and on this LINK it's detailed explanation how to do turbo-hack(not sure is this method works for ALL motherboards).....just be extra careful IF you decide to go for it....GL
 
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I find it fascinating that mostly in newer DX12 titles that also use much better more cores/threads Xeon do not fall behind!!!
 
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Dropped clocks a tiny bit and ram came back. I ain't touching A N Y T H I N G anymore. No reboots unless I have to or anything.
 
So what did you do differently that time?
 
Was it the overclock that affected the ram to disappear and appear or was it from stock form
 
Edwired said:
Was it the overclock that affected the ram to disappear and appear or was it from stock form
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I have no clue because I had this issue before with lower clocks, so I really don't know whats going on, what causes what, what stars are in the sky right now, nothing.
 
Strange alright so the question is will it behave normally after certain amount of restart
 
We ain't finding out willingly.
 
Let hope it works out fine in the long run :)
 
Voltage issue in the IMC? :wtf:
 
From how frequent this RAM issue appears on various X58 boards plus especially the SR-2 I think its a hardware / low-level software bug that never got fixed.

Probably was not very prominent during testing, since when these boards came out high density DDR3 was not really a thing. It never seems to be 100% reproducable and it varies sometimes based on clocks, voltages, condition of the pins etc.. but it never fully vanishes or is controllable.

A rough guess I have is that somewhere during early initialisation and RAM detection they did not time a process properly with enough time margin before continuing in the init. chain. And every odd day / boot it happens that some part of the RAM is either still busy with something or not yet pinged while it moves on since there is still the other RAM present and it just assumes things are fine.
This then can worsen with certain frequencies or conditions like slightly dirty contacts that just reduce signal quality a tiny amount and lead to (maybe a training process?) something that would have to be repeated but gets skipped instead.
 
Dinnercore said:
Probably was not very prominent during testing, since when these boards came out high density DDR3 was not really a thing. It never seems to be 100% reproducable and it varies sometimes based on clocks, voltages, condition of the pins etc.. but it never fully vanishes or is controllable.
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OOh! That's right! Might be a thing. @Toothless Do you have 4GB dimms that you can test with? If so, try testing with only 4GB dimms then 8GB dimms mixed 50/50 with 4GB dimms and see what the results are.
 
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I was just going to ask, have you tried upping the clocks again to see if the problem comes back?? Or is that tempting fate a little too much??.....
 
Still have few other LGA775 CPUs to go but I'll end up with Xeon X3230 on that platform, going to have its OC session the last :)
 
phill said:
I was just going to ask, have you tried upping the clocks again to see if the problem comes back?? Or is that tempting fate a little too much??.....
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Hey BTW @phill how do you like that Ryzen 3900X?Are you going to leave our club :D?
 
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lexluthermiester said:
OOh! That right! Might be a thing. @Toothless Do you have 4GB dimms that you can test with? If so, try testing with only 4GB dimms then 8GB dimms mixed 50/50 with 4GB dimms and see what the results are.
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When I first got this, it came with 6x2GB and I added in 4x4GB at times and still had the issue. This was running at stock.


phill said:
I was just going to ask, have you tried upping the clocks again to see if the problem comes back?? Or is that tempting fate a little too much??.....
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Tempting fate a bit much. Maybe when I have some booze to calm my nerves when it does the dumb thing.
 
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