X79 and/or rampage IV OC'ing thread for those of us still left....

[dalekdukesboy]

Sorry Tatty...I'm trying lol.

 

[Kanan]

Seems nobody has any problems with their X79 system, because nobody replies anymore - just a thing that came to my mind.

 

[basco]

very mature plattform

 

[Kanan]

very mature plattform

Indeed I never had any real problems, being a late starter on X79 late 2013.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Go pro or go home

 

[Kanan]

Yeah I never liked the mainstream Intel platform, never had it too for the same reason.

 

[Aquinus]

My 3820 is still going strong after 5 years. I am starting to want something a little quicker though but, I might just see if I can pick up something like a 4960X if I can find one for a good price since I'm not really ready to completely overhaul my tower yet. That and a 4k display to replace one of my 1080p displays might hold me over for a little while.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Also lot of life happening for me...not a lot of time or energy to do squat to my platform or comment, but I'm glad people still are, soon things will calm down a bit I hope and I can at least get the side of my box back together....been basically a half open test bed for last few months lol.

 

[Kanan]

Also lot of life happening for me...not a lot of time or energy to do squat to my platform or comment, but I'm glad people still are, soon things will calm down a bit I hope and I can at least get the side of my box back together....been basically a half open test bed for last few months lol.

Well rl is more important anyway. Take your time.

On topic I have news, I'll soon have a 980 Ti to test and will post results here as well for everyone being curious how well it's functioning on X79/SB-E 6 core CPU.

 

[R4E3960FURYX]

My 3820 is still going strong after 5 years. I am starting to want something a little quicker though but, I might just see if I can pick up something like a 4960X if I can find one for a good price since I'm not really ready to completely overhaul my tower yet. That and a 4k display to replace one of my 1080p displays might hold me over for a little while.

Xeon E5 2697V3 better. It was better than Skylake X 7920X

 

[Aquinus]

Xeon E5 2697V3 better. It was better than Skylake X 7920X

I can get a 4960X under 400 dollars and can actually use it on my current setup. I can't drop a v3 E5 Xeon into a skt2011/X79 board since that's intended for skt2011-3/X99 and costs at least 1k used or >2k new. From a performance standpoint, sure, it's better but, it's not better in the sense that I can't use it and even if I could, it costs too much.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Good stuff all...I haven't checked pricing on x79 stuff in a while so I will do that today along with enjoy my weekend I just finished 2nd week of new job training so that is part of my RL "stuff" which is good but yeah I'm tired from getting used to working 40 hours a week plus all the learning that comes with a new job/system/computer program etc...you can teach an old dog new tricks but takes time and heats up and fatigues the brain cells.

Anyway good stuff you posted on 5960x/xeon etc, I will check pricing on the 8 core x79 now and update this when I get a better idea of price range I'm guessing it's dropped a bit more since I last looked.

 

[Aquinus]

I've been at a new job for a little while now and it's paying off some of my debts (student loans and the car,) so I haven't really put any money aside to upgrade. The only upgrade I'm really considering right now is replacing one of my 1080ps with a 4k and maybe a different GPU but, I don't feel very strongly about that at the moment.

 

[Mirkoskji]

Seems nobody has any problems with their X79 system, because nobody replies anymore - just a thing that came to my mind.

Here I am!
I have a problem. My rampage IV black edition won't turn off after shut down command, even if I long-push the button to cause a hard shut down. Windows ends its log off procedure, and the screen goes black, but the system remains on, with fans spinning and drawing 100w from the wall.
Any clue?

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Not sure why or how to fix it, but can you give more details on when this started and if any changes occurred with system before it started occurring? I assume you just unplug it to force it off and restart it, although if you have a switch on your power supply I think you could just turn that off and you'd essentially be doing the same thing with less hassle as a temporary work around.

 

[Mirkoskji]

Not sure why or how to fix it, but can you give more details on when this started and if any changes occurred with system before it started occurring? I assume you just unplug it to force it off and restart it, although if you have a switch on your power supply I think you could just turn that off and you'd essentially be doing the same thing with less hassle as a temporary work around.

It has been years on this particular motherboard, i even tried with a different psu, without any luck. It just started to happen. Every time I have to reach for the back of the PC and use the switch on the PSU. I had two different CPUs over the time, a i7 3820 and Xeon e5 1660 v1. Now I'm OK with the problem since the platform cost me 300 euros in total. It's probably a motherboard related problem, but I was looking for some advice from someone more expert than me in these problems, I can even work with solder if necessary, only I don't have any Intel about where to look for.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Interesting....not sure exactly what would cause the board to stay on when windows/hdd is off etc...I've never had that happen to me that I can recall have had many other issues etc but that isn't one of them. But unless it's some component even the PSU doing something odd to cause it I'd assume it's something on the board that's fried that is part of what it needs to trigger a proper shut down sequence.

 

[johnspack]

Still love my old x79 system. Since I enabled gen3 on it, my asus strix 970 runs at 1533 now. Not sure why, but I can't complain about the higher fps!

 

[BarbaricSoul]

this is how I've been running my 3930k (in sys spec), any suggestions? These setting are WCG 24/7 crunching stable, but I wouldn't be opposed to some more tweaking. I'm far from being an "expert" OC'er. My main concern is heat. My system is in my bedroom, and I don't need a heater this time of year. I'd like to increase the OC while not increasing the heat output, or possibly even decreasing the heat output.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

thats a pretty good voltage for 4Ghz (i think....)

but you could still....

 

[warup89]

Being a long time user of this specific chipset makes me glad to see an active x79 thread. Anyways, I was wondering if I'm missing something here.


Im been able to have a (as of yet) stable OC of my 3930k at 4.5Ghz with 1.41v, but If I raise to 4.6 Its seems to eat way more voltage since the chip is not even stable with 1.45v. I have x4 Ram sticks and my cpu is under water averaging at 45C idle to 77C load. Are there any other settings I should look into?

 

[johnspack]

Try 1.100v fixed for SA and IO. You may or may not need a pll bump. Mine's at 1.83v. This gets me 4.7ghz with 1.35v vcore. I use a mild vdroop setting, not sure what yours are as my mb is an asus.....

 

[warup89]

Thanks,

I just tried those settings and no go, I got to bump up the Vcore up to 1.45v to get into Windows (but fail Prime right away), I guess my 4.5Ghz OC I have now should hold me up for a while. Im using an odd ball of a motherboard, "MSI big-bang x-power", I should've gotten an Asus.

 

[jaggerwild]

Well that stinks, but at least you won't waste your time testing components to see what isn't working.

Just got this to boot up, I noticed a three prong header for Vregs. Put a jumper on it, she fired right up, connected 1 thing at a time to make sure. Done!

 

[Aquinus]

Im been able to have a (as of yet) stable OC of my 3930k at 4.5Ghz with 1.41v, but If I raise to 4.6 Its seems to eat way more voltage since the chip is not even stable with 1.45v. I have x4 Ram sticks and my cpu is under water averaging at 45C idle to 77C load. Are there any other settings I should look into?

this is how I've been running my 3930k (in sys spec), any suggestions? These setting are WCG 24/7 crunching stable, but I wouldn't be opposed to some more tweaking. I'm far from being an "expert" OC'er. My main concern is heat. My system is in my bedroom, and I don't need a heater this time of year. I'd like to increase the OC while not increasing the heat output, or possibly even decreasing the heat output.

With my 3820, I've been able to get as low as 1.25v at stock (1 core at 3.8, 1 at 3.7, 2 at 3.6,) and I can sometimes get away with ~1.28 at 4.0 but 1.3 is usually a good bet. At 4.2-4.3, I need about 1.35v. In order to hit 4.5 and higher, I need to use bclk straps but, I almost always require at least 1.45v for anything north of 4.5ghz and 1.5v to be able to boot at 5Ghz which is incredibly unstable and not even worth the effort. What I'll sometimes do is use a negative voltage offset but, use additional boost voltage to push more through the CPU when it clocks up. It lets the CPU use a little less when it clocks down but, what is a little tricky is testing the machine in a way that will ensure that non-full load situations are still stable if it's not using as much voltage at partial load.