Xeon Owners Club

[lexluthermiester]

What kind are your memories? I have tried to plug in 48GB too and didn't boot. Mine were 8GB ECC reg, 2Rx4.
Maybe indeed they have to be 2Rx8?

Yours are registered, mine are just straight ECC. Betting the Reg ram won't work in a T3500.

 

[SoNic67]

Update. I have replaced the motherboard with a T5500 one. The 6x8GB, 2Rx4, ECC, Registered RAM is happily working. Signature updated.
As a plus, for this mobo, Dell provided a BIOS update this November (A18) to take care of CPU microcode (Meltdown and Spectre).

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Update. I have replaced the motherboard with a T5500 one. The 6x8GB, 2Rx4, ECC, Registered RAM is happily working. Signature updated.
As a plus, for this mobo, Dell provided a BIOS update this November (A18) to take care of CPU microcode (Meltdown and Spectre).

Nice...anyway this looks like server mobo right?There is no problems for Reg.ECC Ram to functions properly on server mobos....

 

[Phaet0n]

I introduce myself in the forum and in the club with my Xeon build

Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 3.10 GHz 12 cores / 24 threads
Corsair 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL14
Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB + 860 EVO 500 GB
MSI X99A GODLIKE GAMING
EVGA GTX TITAN Signature 6 GB
Corsair H115i
Corsair RM850i 80 Plus Gold
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass



Someday I'll get an E5-2699 v4 for him.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I introduce myself in the forum and in the club with my Xeon build

Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 3.10 GHz 12 cores / 24 threads
Corsair 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL14
Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB + 860 EVO 500 GB
MSI X99A GODLIKE GAMING
EVGA GTX TITAN Signature 6 GB
Corsair H115i
Corsair RM850i 80 Plus Gold
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass

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Someday I'll get an E5-2699 v4 for him.

Feel free to share with us some of yours benchmark results!
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Hmmm....very interesting

 

[lexluthermiester]

Update. I have replaced the motherboard with a T5500 one. The 6x8GB, 2Rx4, ECC, Registered RAM is happily working. Signature updated.
As a plus, for this mobo, Dell provided a BIOS update this November (A18) to take care of CPU microcode (Meltdown and Spectre).

So maybe the registered RAM is a chipset thing?

I introduce myself in the forum and in the club with my Xeon build

Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 3.10 GHz 12 cores / 24 threads
Corsair 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL14
Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB + 860 EVO 500 GB
MSI X99A GODLIKE GAMING
EVGA GTX TITAN Signature 6 GB
Corsair H115i
Corsair RM850i 80 Plus Gold
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass

View attachment 111643

Someday I'll get an E5-2699 v4 for him.

Very nice system, welcome to TPU!

 

[SoNic67]

Updates. My Windows 10 Pro got deactivated and didn't want to get activated again. This is a Windows 7 Pro free upgrade and supposedly tied to my email address that I have used since then to log on, but nothing worked.
Eventually I got to chat to an agent and he started a remote session on my computer. Tried to use my previous Windows 7 Pro key and didn't work either. Then he just used "Activate by phone" option, remotely copied the numbers from my screen to his and input the resulted numbers in my window and... I am again Activated.
Phew...

Anyway, I don't know what to say about memory. I am using the same CPU and supposedly the RAM controller is in the CPU. The south bridge is the same like on the other motherboard - Intel ICH10R. The ECC registered memory that didn't want to work before, now it's working.
Obviously something is different, but can't tell what. CPU-Z says something about Intel 5520 that on the T3500 was X58 (but I might be wrong). Intel 5520/5500/X58 is an I/O Hub PCI Express Root... so it should be irrelevant for the memory controller.

As a side note, CPU-Z can't read the memory SPD. On the other MoBo, it could.

 

[Edwired]

Well havent been on this for a while just alot going on lately. I been testing the e5450 on asus p5q premium as im getting less crashing in project cars still far from perfect i still have to mess around the timings and dram clock skew as those are the only two causing the peekaboo crashing on some games. As project cars will work for 30 mins then crash to desktop stating unhandled error and event viewer showing no error in nvidia driver crashing. Still a small improvement is better than nothing

 

[stuartb04]

Feel free to share with us some of yours benchmark results!
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Hmmm....very interesting

Kinda worrys me.
He also states that elpida ram is the worst ram to get. And i have 4 sticks!!

Time to change it methinks.

 

[sepheronx]

So its entirely specter/meltdown updates that are destroying performance.

There are ways around it from what I am reading but the linux performance is much higher. Maybe move to Linux then as well?

 

[DR4G00N]

Kinda worrys me.
He also states that elpida ram is the worst ram to get. And i have 4 sticks!!

Time to change it methinks.

Pfft, nothing wrong with Elpida DDR3, sure most of it is meh but a good set of BASE Hyper's or BBSE are some of the best DDR3 for benching.

 

[HUSKIE]

Let see how this 10 core performs.

After watched this I decided to moved this xeon v2 over my 6850k.. AHA

Will be updated once build has completed..

 

[phill]

Look forward to hearing all about it

 

[Edwired]

Hey everyone had to take the asus p5q premium out of the case as i still dont trust some of read points for the vdimm as i can see the read point out putting 2.17v above the dimm slot the coils on the back reads 2.16v and the dimm slot read point 2.12v which has the tiny solder point so i came up with an idea which will help me figure out is to cut up a usb cable which have small cables suitable for tight places and desolder a small pcb board which will have holes on it that way i can wire all the important read points to a single pcb board so i dont run into a risk of hitting some parts of the motherboard without shorting. So that would be a great help for me to keep an eye on the motherboard voltages on the hardware level than rather software reading i will up load some pictures some day soon it may look abit ugly but that the beauty of making custom work

 

[SoNic67]

Anyone was able to boot from a PCIe SATA adapter on a T5500 board with A18 BIOS?
I have two SATA controllers, both based on ASMEDIA 106x controller, one PCIe 1x and the other 4x, plugged in the 8x port. During BIOS sequence, their firmware code appears on the screen with "no drive detected".
However, once Windows booted up, I can see the controller in Windows devices, and even an optical drive connected to it.
I have used one of the controllers with Windows 7, on the T3500 board. I have bought another one. And on the T5500 board none is working.

I saw this thread too: https://www.dell.com/community/Desk...cie-card-cannot-configure-as-boot/m-p/4485359
Seems to require "Legacy BOOT" in BIOS. Well... I don't see that option.

I have to mention that I have already a bootable RAID card, but I can't boot from it with the SSD without "initializing" it. That means erasing it. Maybe that's the problem, cannot be two bootable PCIe cards?

Any ideas?

 

[Edwired]

You may have to try a hard drive connected to the sata controller with some sort of operating system to see if it detected by bios but then again it maybe limited to boot from pcie sata adapter via driver inf modding a that be my 2 cents as i have a sata controller the 6421a i think cant think what brand it was as used it for hard drive recovery which was a few years ago. If you have the inf file that can be used to detect the sata controller when installing the windows 10 then the boot will work from the sata controller. Hope this helps
As for the legacy boot that only in the newer bios example uefi where it could be change to suit legacy boot like older operating system some known as secure boot as some bios have different names like csm. Sure post a few pictures of the bios in the dell t5500 i may be able to help you

Here some info base on the question you mentioned
https://www.dell.com/support/articl...e-them-as-a-boot-drive-for-a-dell-pc-?lang=en

 

[SoNic67]

In Windows the adapter it is present, I can see drives attached to it. But it won't boot from it.
I have even tried to disable my other RAID controller BIOS and I have the same result:

 

[HUSKIE]

Is someone tried this e5-2470 8 core cpu on 1366 Motherboard?

 

[dorsetknob]

Different Socket 1356 v 1366 Not sure even if it will fit a 1366 socket
IF IT FITTED THE SOCKET
Its a sandybridge based cpu so Bios work needed on MB
a pinout comparasion would be needed to check the electrical connections
Not heard of a like 771>775 mod.
an interesting idea to play with if one has the Cpu

EDIT
You Can Get no Brand X79 Chipset ( socket 1356) Desktop Motherboards from china/Hong Kong
for about £60 free postage via Ali/ebay ( might be worth a Punt )

 

[Edwired]

Different Socket 1356 v 1366 Not sure even if it will fit a 1366 socket
IF IT FITTED THE SOCKET
Its a sandybridge based cpu so Bios work needed on MB
a pinout comparasion would be needed to check the electrical connections
Not heard of a like 771>775 mod.
an interesting idea to play with if one has the Cpu

EDIT
You Can Get no Brand X79 Chipset ( socket 1356) Desktop Motherboards from china/Hong Kong
for about £60 free postage via Ali/ebay ( might be worth a Punt )

Down side is no overclocking available on no brand but could be used for daily use if the board dies you have to buy another one again

 

[SoNic67]

I have replaced the left cooler with the right one on the T5500.

 

[Edwired]

I have replaced the left cooler with the right one on the T5500.

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That small compared to the left

 

[Susquehannock]

I have replaced the left cooler with the right one on the T5500.

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That is going to be a big improvement. The Dell heatpipe cooler is actually pretty good. Use some zip ties to attach an 80mm fan and you're cool. Lap the heatsink & CPU, apply some good TIM, and you're really cool.
The heatspreader on my W3680 was really warped. No surprise there. Humming along at 4.0ghz and it never goes above 40-c while gaming now. Only way it will go over 50-c is running Prime95 small FFTs.

 

[SoNic67]

Humming along at 4.0ghz

Is the W3680 unlocked?

 

[unclewebb]

Yes. The W3680 has an unlocked multiplier and unlocked TDP / TDC turbo power limits so at full load, it will continue to run at full speed as long as you keep it cool.

http://imgur.com/AJEWPZt