X58 overclocking club

[phill]

Still have my beloved X58 kit, not the time to play or mess about with it anymore but I still have it

I'll see what I can find any post the results over.. HWbot has most of my overclocking ventures to be honest. I think when I hit X99, I gave up then. Now its making sure its stable and World Grid, good frame rates and hopefully get time to play the games lol

Sadly the images from my X58 build where taken down which sucked, had some major fun putting them together. I'll see if I can grab a few for you all to laugh at

What started all the crazy off..... Way back in 2009......



Then a bit more crazy happened.....



The day I had the EVGA SR-2.....



It definitely needed re-doing, so.......



And then it met up with its smaller brothers......



These are still my main X58 rigs, still have them even now Sadly not used much due to efficiences and such with the World Grid Computing side of things, but always held a special place with me...

I always maintained I had a good 920 D0 CPU...



I'll just keep quiet and grab my coat!! Hope these are acceptable!!

 

[Keullo-e]

Hope these are acceptable!!

You bet! I have also an i7-920, probably a D0. TBH I haven't been very much interested in that since I got that Xeon.. Though I may get a Xeon with higher multiplier and test the i7 then..

As we know, in overall these Xeons are cheap, no matter the model.

 

[stinger608]

Well hell, I guess I better jump in here. LOL

I think I've got about a half dozen or so X58 boards/systems.

I've got a i7-920 in the box with the original cooler as well.

 

[phill]

You bet! I have also an i7-920, probably a D0. TBH I haven't been very much interested in that since I got that Xeon.. Though I may get a Xeon with higher multiplier and test the i7 then..

As we know, in overall these Xeons are cheap, no matter the model.

They are now, dead cheap in fact I think the X5690's where the one CPU to have but would cost thousands! Now I think they are around £100? I might have got that wrong...

Well hell, I guess I better jump in here. LOL

I think I've got about a half dozen or so X58 boards/systems.

I've got a i7-920 in the box with the original cooler as well.

I sure hope you do sir!!

I'm still waiting on a pair of 980X's from my mate in the US... He managed to find them for me, all boxed and with original coolers. 6 core 1366 CPUs he said, did I wish to buy. I think the basics of the conversation went, hell yes!!

 

[MachineLearning]

I am a X58'er also.
I have Asus P6T7 WS SC board and my daily is here. Enjoy.

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Still have my beloved X58 kit, not the time to play or mess about with it anymore but I still have it

I'll see what I can find any post the results over.. HWbot has most of my overclocking ventures to be honest. I think when I hit X99, I gave up then. Now its making sure its stable and World Grid, good frame rates and hopefully get time to play the games lol

Sadly the images from my X58 build where taken down which sucked, had some major fun putting them together. I'll see if I can grab a few for you all to laugh at

What started all the crazy off..... Way back in 2009......

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Then a bit more crazy happened.....

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The day I had the EVGA SR-2.....

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It definitely needed re-doing, so.......

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And then it met up with its smaller brothers......

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These are still my main X58 rigs, still have them even now Sadly not used much due to efficiences and such with the World Grid Computing side of things, but always held a special place with me...

I always maintained I had a good 920 D0 CPU...

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I'll just keep quiet and grab my coat!! Hope these are acceptable!!

God damn... I love the SR-2. That, and the X58 Classified are the last two older boards I yearn for Awesome builds!

 

[freeagent]

I think the X5690's where the one CPU to have but would cost thousands!

I sold my first 1366 chip, a 965 Extreme E.S. to buy an i7 970, I think I had about 5 or 600usd tied up in that deal, could have been CAD but I doubt it. I found the 970 to be a bit of a dud in core clocking, but it had a wickedly strong IMC. I ended up trading the 970 and 600usd to buy a x5690 E.S. from a good guy over at OCForums. Rocked that bad girl for a solid decade. Good times. I miss it because we spent so much time together.. but if I had her back, she would be back on the shelf. I still have my 775 rig, but no real desire to set it up unless its bench time..

 

[phill]

God damn... I love the SR-2. That, and the X58 Classified are the last two older boards I yearn for Awesome builds!

Its why I still have them and haven't sold them. They just have a special place for me for some reason.. That said, I'd still love to find a few more of the Classified boards about that time. Many said I think at the time I had these X58 rigs running, that I should grab a P68/X77 setup or a X79 but never did till way after...

I sold my first 1366 chip, a 965 Extreme E.S. to buy an i7 970, I think I had about 5 or 600usd tied up in that deal, could have been CAD but I doubt it. I found the 970 to be a bit of a dud in core clocking, but it had a wickedly strong IMC. I ended up trading the 970 and 600usd to buy a x5690 E.S. from a good guy over at OCForums. Rocked that bad girl for a solid decade. Good times. I miss it because we spent so much time together.. but if I had her back, she would be back on the shelf. I still have my 775 rig, but no real desire to set it up unless its bench time..

I've a couple Xeon's of that era, most I think got swapped out and switched over in the Dell R710 servers I have... I'm looking forward to seeing what the 980X's are like tho... Hopefully I have a good couple of overclockers!

 

[freeagent]

I'm looking forward to seeing what the 980X's are like tho...

They should be awesome, like my x5690 was.. but you get memory dividers.. :drool:

 

[phill]

They should be awesome, like my x5690 was.. but you get memory dividers.. :drool:

I live in hope to get them sometime Had them over a year now and I still need to get them posted Last time we sent something from the US to the UK, took nearly 3 flipping months!! Unreal.... I'll let you know tho

 

[Keullo-e]

Its why I still have them and haven't sold them. They just have a special place for me for some reason.. That said, I'd still love to find a few more of the Classified boards about that time. Many said I think at the time I had these X58 rigs running, that I should grab a P68/X77 setup or a X79 but never did till way after...

X79 would be the only option if I would some day upgrade my old school rig..

 

[80-watt Hamster]

No pics at hand because a) I'm really bad at taking pics and screenshots, and b) am even worse at organizing and retaining them. All that aside, my best on X58 is a stable-ish X5670@4.2 on an X58 Sabertooth. I say "ish" because the heat is under control, but it will crunch WCG for an arbitrary amount of time before the UI locks up. Although this can still happen at 3.8, so the OC may not be the culprit.

 

[Keullo-e]

4.16GHz running Linpack, at least no crash/errors on 30min. I hope I'll get at least to 4.2, I had errors @ 4.14 but bumping the uncore voltage by one step solved that.

Sucks tho that I've been running it for hours and it's getting hot here in my small apartment.

40min Linpack @ 4.18GHz, I hope it stands the remaining 20min. Then it's time for 4.2GHz.

I honestly think that the bclk is being the wall, I can try later with 22x and lower bus.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I honestly think that the bclk is being the wall, I can try later with 22x and lower bus.

What bclk are you running now?

 

[Keullo-e]

What bclk are you running now?

Ran into problems.. But 22x191 (4.2GHz) ran 1hrs of Linpack stable. Now let's try 22x192

 

[Mr.Scott]

K.
Shouldn't be at bclk wall. Most decent boards will go a little over 200 without problems. Over 210 and you start getting dicey.
Bump PCIe bus up. At least 110MHz.

 

[Keullo-e]

K.
Shouldn't be at bclk wall. Most decent boards will go a little over 200 without problems. Over 210 and you start getting dicey.
Bump PCIe bus up. At least 110MHz.

Thanks for the advice, I have PCIe at 101 atm for locking it... I'll increase it on next boot (crashes or not)

 

[freeagent]

In addition to qpi/vtt, for some reason I had to run ioh at about 1.15v to nail down 200bclk. For 200 I was at 1.39vtt. My particular chip did not like it over 205bclk.

 

[Keullo-e]

What's the best PLL voltage? I have it at 1.88V.

4.22GHz Linpack stable.

 

[freeagent]

What's the best PLL voltage? I have it at 1.88V.

4.22GHz Linpack stable.

I just used 1.8 or whatever stock is. Reports were 1.6 is good but I didn’t try much

 

[Keullo-e]

I just used 1.8 or whatever stock is. Reports were 1.6 is good but I didn’t try much

Alright.. running at 4.24 now.

edit: that ran stable

 

[freeagent]

Alright.. running at 4.24 now.

edit: that ran stable

Good!

Now jump to 4300, should be able to do it with 1.375v give or take Or better yet, approach the Linpack limit and shoot for 4400 1.4v and work your way down if you have to

 

[Keullo-e]

Good!

Now jump to 4300, should be able to do it with 1.375v give or take Or better yet, approach the Linpack limit and shoot for 4400 1.4v and work your way down if you have to

I'll have some beers.... I'm already on 1.4V... I'll run more benches soon.

TBH I don't give a fk if the CPU dies, these are cheap. And maybe I'll get a better one if I need to buy a new one? What's your (and others') recommended max uncore voltage?

edit: also, I don't use discord anymore (I can tell the reasons via PM if asked), add me on steam and we'll make a group about X58/retro OC? https://steamcommunity.com/id/b-rabbit90/

 

[freeagent]

TBH I don't give a fk if the CPU dies

Id be more concerned with the board

Hmm max uncore? I don’t remember, I didn’t need more than 1.4 or so. My cpu was a tad finicky.

 

[Keullo-e]

Id be more concerned with the board

Hmm max uncore? I don’t remember, I didn’t need more than 1.4 or so. My cpu was a tad finicky.

Uuh, going at about 1.36... good to know that I have some more room to play around... and nah, isn't my board one of the better X58 ones? At least I've got that feeling after all the praises, some said that this is even better than R3E

And remember, I have the blower on the VRM heatsink

 

[karakarga]

x58 is one step lower than x79 I can admit, it is well indeed. But, it's draw back is, it is based on PCI-ex 2.0 and can not use M.2 drives. (Only Chinese x79 chipset based 1366 socket mainboards's can use M.2 in fact, but only with 2 channel ram.) To catch M.2 performance, the only option is using 8 units of sata SSD's with Raid 0, well for example LSI/Avago 8 channel Raid controller. (A 9311-8i is a good match for example). But, what about CPU power, 1366 socket is too weak without AVX2 and being a 10+ year old micro architecture.

No security based microcode is possible, even for x79 based systems. Currently a CPU without AVX2 is useless, it consumes a lot of power and perform not much. (Sorry....) PCI-ex 3.0 based nVidia 6xx and 7xx are also nearly retired. (Only security is provided lately.) Don't forget Windows 11, it needs minimum 7th. generation high end desktop based on AVX512 processors. Latest security bulletin is here by Intel. https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...-affected-consolidated-product-cpu-model.html

Topaz Video Enhance AI accepts 5th. generation CPU's minimum, Magix Vegas VEGAS.Pro.19.0.0.550_x64 needs minimum 6th. generation CPU's. Those are mostly really essential programs to learn. I have run an Intel Xeon E5-2682 v4 CPU to colorize only one part of Avengers season 4 took a day on Magix Vegas 18 with 16GB ram! There a 26 episodes. So 26 days to run? With Magix Vegas it needs 64GB ram and the time it requires double nearly. Don't ask Topaz Video Enhance. My last run with my GTX 780Ti took 20 days!

Do not fool with x58, really I swear....