Xeon Owners Club

[Edwired]

Yea same here just after ordering a new dmm as mine packed in kept reading higher voltage reading. The dmm i got is richmeter rm102 it have temperature option which is handy for checking air and heat source reading

 

[Deleted member 178884]

t been quiet here is everyone ok lately?

Nowhere near quiet ; ) people have stuff to do and I'm preparing to overclock my clevo x7200 laptop - doing the final windows update etc then it's overclocking time.

 

[Edwired]

Nice i say the laptop is a heavy b@$&h lol sure looking forward to see the results

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Hit a wall, No bclk in the "oc" bios mod AND intel XTU is greyed out everything and not allowing vcore adjustment etc, RIP overclocking since setfsb won't have any headroom without a bigger voltage.

RIP actually overclocking the x5650 in this x7200 - looks like I need a unlocked multiplier cpu?

 

[Edwired]

Ok sounds like something is missing in the bios or the cpu is half supported to run in overclock state but then again i think the clevo x7200 never intended to run xeon in the first place. Find a supported cpu and reflash the bios to confirm that the overclock features are available and see what happens next. Is all the extentions available via cpuid?

 

[Deleted member 178884]

I'm wondering if it's ram - it allows me to oc using a tool called setfsb, there is no vcore adjustment available, this x5650 is bclk only so It probably won't show up with intel xtu anyways probably. finding a "supported cpu" will be fun since I don't want to downgrade.

Tried to get it to 3.1 using set fsb but it bluescreened, I guess it may be the ram that can't handle it.

Time to save for a 980x for this laptop (maybe)

 

[Edwired]

I did see the i7 core X 990 on ebay for about €200 to €260 including postage. What suprise me was the 130w tdp no wonder why the dual psu was considered for that cleveo x7200. I think the x model cpu would be more unlocked than the locked model. I can see where clevo tried to stop people from overclocking

 

[Deleted member 178884]

I did see the i7 core X 990 on ebay for about €200 to €260 including postage.

Here in the UK we have cex - £120 for a tested 980x and 2yrs warranty, a 990x is £170 there though. I'm going to consider it however I'm going to find it hard to justify the price since I'm still saving for tons of other hardware I'd use.

Update: @Edwired was right.
Found this on the internet - looks like it's locked to extreme edition only cpus.

 

[Edwired]

I say time to sell a few things i know the cpu is nearly the price you paid for the clevo x7200 then the bridge adaptor and second psu i would say it abit like a money pit as you wont get the money back when it sold on to someone else. I knew about the extreme editions cpu would be recommend for overclocking but the prices were sky high but it down to the bios and motherboard if it allows the overclocking. But i still think if a bios editor like the delidded site for 771 to 775 mod would kinda gives an idea but i dont know if theres any sort like above be available for bios modding the clevo x7200 to properly run the xeon cpu

Here in the UK we have cex - £120 for a tested 980x and 2yrs warranty, a 990x is £170 there though. I'm going to consider it however I'm going to find it hard to justify the price since I'm still saving for tons of other hardware I'd use.

Update: @Edwired was right.
Found this on the internet - looks like it's locked to extreme edition only cpus.
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I dunno if you found this link
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...7280-overclocking-undervolting-thread.550751/

 

[Gumby]

I picked these servers up on Craigslist a few months ago for free. Very clean machines. Added Usb 3.0 cards and R5240's to both. The Dell is my backup server with 2x 3TB raid 1's. I had to change Perc controller to an H700 to use 3TB drives.

 

[Edwired]

Any pictures

 

[Gumby]

They reside in my garage as the noise is a bit to much for the wife.

 

[Edwired]

The size of it it massive if the noise is too loud time for sound proofing the walls and anti viberating foam on the fans or change them for quieter fans lol

 

[Gumby]

Ya lol. Well she likes loud movies and music but fans not so much.
I cannot complain for free. Both came with 2 SAS drives Hp has 73GB drives and the Dell has 127GB drives.
The Hp I let my son use to do game backups on. I added one of my 4 bay hd boxes to the usb 3.0 port that has 4 1TB drives and using Storage spaces as a Parity Pool so he has 2.5TB of space

 

[Tomgang]

I'm wondering if it's ram - it allows me to oc using a tool called setfsb, there is no vcore adjustment available, this x5650 is bclk only so It probably won't show up with intel xtu anyways probably. finding a "supported cpu" will be fun since I don't want to downgrade.

Tried to get it to 3.1 using set fsb but it bluescreened, I guess it may be the ram that can't handle it.

Time to save for a 980x for this laptop (maybe)

If BLCK overclock is not unlocket in the laptop, X5650 aint gonna move above stock speed. You talk about unlocket multipler, Does the laptop support that?

Then there is I7 980X and I7 990X, but there are also a cheaper solution that might wotk out. Xeon W3680 and W3690 is maybe what you want. Those Xeons are rebranded I7 980X/990X and yes they even has the unlocked multipler aswell, but they shut be cheaper to get. Try look them up.

https://ark.intel.com/products/4791...W3680-12M-Cache-3-33-GHz-6-40-GT-s-Intel-QPI-
https://ark.intel.com/products/5258...W3690-12M-Cache-3-46-GHz-6-40-GT-s-Intel-QPI-

 

[Edwired]

How much storage do you have combined on that server? On my computer i have one cruical mx100 256gb as os, wd 500gb back up of important files and software, seagate 1tb for games, music, movies, hitachi 7200rpm 160gb for virtual memory will be swapping it for ssd some day soon. And last a blank wd 500gb which i will set up for the main os cloning as im kinda getting sick of the windows 10 breaking after an update this way i be back up and running in no time. So mine be combined 2.5tb of storage. Will some day i will get bigger hard drives to reduce the power and heat in the nzxt phantom 530 black as it abit warm inside it

 

[Gumby]

Hp has backplane attached 128GB ssd, 1TB laptop hd, 2 75GB Raid 0 sas. 4 1TB hds in a usb box. The Dell has 128GB ssd attached to mb. Backplane attached 2x 146GB sas raid 0, 4 3TB separated into 2 raid 1 drives.

 

[Edwired]

That alot of drives going on there suppose you want to have spares incase any of them pack in or have bad sectors

 

[Gumby]

That alot of drives going on there suppose you want to have spares incase any of them pack in or have bad sectors

I do. 1 each of the 1 and 3 TB. As those die I will move up in TB size. I also do dvd backups for important things such as pics and docs. I learned long ago to have multiple backups. this is how i manage my backups. Used this since it came out.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

If BLCK overclock is not unlocket in the laptop, X5650 aint gonna move above stock speed. You talk about unlocket multipler, Does the laptop support that?

It should do, at least according to the image I sent, that i7 980x went up to 4ghz whilst this x5650 using set fsb will not pass 3ghz without blue screening.

Xeon W3680 and W3690 is maybe what you want. Those Xeons are rebranded I7 980X/990X and yes they even has the unlocked multipler aswell, but they shut be cheaper to get. Try look them up.

Thanks for that - I'm curious if they'd work since the clevo was originally designed for the i7 980x - will that xeon run under intel xtu - it's £53 for the w3680 here, it's more tempting to go for a 980x and just save for one and put my x299 upgrade on the halt (yet again)

 

[phill]

I do. 1 each of the 1 and 3 TB. As those die I will move up in TB size. I also do dvd backups for important things such as pics and docs. I learned long ago to have multiple backups. this is how i manage my backups. Used this since it came out.
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Sync toy is brilliant Use it for my backups on my home Synology kit

 

[Tomgang]

It should do, at least according to the image I sent, that i7 980x went up to 4ghz whilst this x5650 using set fsb will not pass 3ghz without blue screening.

Thanks for that - I'm curious if they'd work since the clevo was originally designed for the i7 980x - will that xeon run under intel xtu - it's £53 for the w3680 here, it's more tempting to go for a 980x and just save for one and put my x299 upgrade on the halt (yet again)

Well something is goin on then so. Cause that I7 980X on your screenshot is BLCK overclock. BLCK is set to 160 while stock is 133. It is not oc by miltiplier at all. Multiplier 25 is the highest before it goin in to turbo mode and shut that laptop not be BLCK locked?

I cant tell you if W3680/W3690 will work or not in that laptop or not, only that they are rebranded I7 980X/990X and has unlocket multiplier to + support ECC memory while the I7 models dosent have that. The motherboard even be a custom made one so that its har to find information about cpu support for it.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Well something is goin on then so. Cause that I7 980X on your screenshot is BLCK overclock. BLCK is set to 160 while stock is 133. It is not oc by miltiplier at all. Multiplier 25 is the highest before it goin in to turbo mode and shut that laptop not be BLCK locked?

Yeah it is 160 - mine allows me to change the bclk - i meant the multiplier is locked, I used setfsb and got it to 3ghz max (see image)
However, beyond that leads windows to BSOD - blue screen, I CANNOT change my cpu's vcore as well which could be the problem as higher clocks need higher voltages, the 980x however seems to allow voltage adjustement, I use a 4gb ram module x1, is that the problem?

 

[phill]

I'm not sure 1 stick of ram is the best case since X58 as I'm sure you know is triple channel but I can't imagine it would hurt massively to your performance.. Is there anything else you have that would test in the laptop?

 

[Edwired]

You would need get whocrashed software which will tell you what causes the bsod or read the event viewer for system bugcheck as it will pop up an error code but dont forget some laptop rams dont overclock at all. Try and loosing up the ram timings abit to see if it helps. As last night got a bsod said something like read to write readonly or something similar like that which tells me one of my timings is either too short or too long