Xeon Owners Club

agent_x007 · Dec 18, 2019

@lyra Gulftown on EVGA is good and all, BUT :

* Westmere processors are only supported natively on the X58 SLI3, FTW3, and Classified3 Models. A product modification may be needed for older models.

Source : https://www.evga.com/support/motherboard/legacy/

lyra · Dec 18, 2019

He is Just stuck at updating bios at the moment let alone sticking the xeon in it

DR4G00N · Dec 18, 2019

lyra said:
Hello everyone. I am back, long time no see.
Havent been doing much with computers much recently cause work got in the way. Sad times.
I have got my die hard amd fan friend to finally get an intel cpu and of course its a westmere xeon cause what else.
He got himself an x5670 and an evga x58 sli motherboard and its all up and running with an i7 920 but we cant work out how to update the bios on it. Does anyone have any experience with this board?

Which board exactly? It'll probably need a hardmod to run the Westmere chips btw.

Updating the bios is just like any other old mobo.
Make a dos bootable flash drive then copy over the files from the bios .iso that you downloaded from evga and rename the bios file to "bios.bin".
after that just boot the drive and type awdflash.exe, it's straight forward after that.

lyra · Dec 18, 2019

Evga x58 sli 132-BL-E758-A1

Zyll Goliat · Dec 18, 2019

Ok guys I get myself at the end that cheap Xeon 2650 V2 and so far it's working absolutely perfectly....I menaged to do BCLK-OC from stocked 2,6Ghz I bumped all the way up to 3,4Ghz(bclk-113) on All cores and Turbo on few cores can go all the way up to 3,842Ghz and everything working smoothly with just 1.1V CPU voltage ,In games and 3DMark my Rx 480 is all the time at 100% load so no bottlenecking there....here some of my results bellow

More or less it almost feels like my old X58 6 core-Xeon with additional 4 more threads,less heat and and much more power-efficiency....

DR4G00N · Dec 18, 2019

lyra said:
Evga x58 sli 132-BL-E758-A1

Yeah, you need to move a resistor around. Could probably get a shop to do the job if your not comfortable with soldering tiny smd parts.
Or return the board for something like an Asus P6T or similar which will work without mods.

Edwired · Dec 18, 2019

Damn i know the feeling when something goes wrong in the motherboard try getting a magnifying glass to see if any of the pins are out of place or missing in the socket

verycharbroiled · Dec 20, 2019

hey can i join the club with a baby xeon? its a Xeon-D 1518 (4c/8t @2.20 ghz, 25 watt SoC) that is my freenas box. 64 gb ecc ram, 4 spinners in Z2, and 3 SSDs in Z1.

lexluthermiester · Dec 21, 2019

verycharbroiled said:
hey can i join the club with a baby xeon? its a Xeon-D 1518 (4c/8t @2.20 ghz, 25 watt SoC) that is my freenas box. 64 gb ecc ram, 4 spinners in Z2, and 3 SSDs in Z1.

A Xeon is a Xeon, welcome to the club!

verycharbroiled · Dec 21, 2019

lexluthermiester said:
A Xeon is a Xeon, welcome to the club!

thanks!

1st xeon for personal use, wanted something for more or less bulletproof network storage and was low power, this (built onto a supermicro x10 board with 2x10gb NICs, plus others) seemed to fit the requirements nicely. stuffed it into a 2U "switch depth" case in my 10U wall rack.

old tech, haswell based i think. buts low power and got the VM support i want.

bobbybluz · Dec 21, 2019

My E5 1680 V2 showed up about 20 minutes ago. I'll be installing it in my Sabertooth X79 this afternoon.

Zyll Goliat · Dec 21, 2019

bobbybluz said:
My E5 1680 V2 showed up about 20 minutes ago. I'll be installing it in my Sabertooth X79 this afternoon.

Awesome CPU....When you get ready&start with OC show us some benchmarks here pls.....meanwhile my Xeon 2650 V2 is 100% stable with anything that I "throw" at him,passing all tests and benchmarks with overclocked BCLK at 113 without any sweating temps are in worst cases somewhere around 60c!!!....and yeah gaming is been also GREAT no trouble at all handling the RX 480.....

bobbybluz · Dec 21, 2019

First test run, pulled the 4960X out and put the E5 1680 V2 in. Had to reset the XMP in BIOS but changed nothing else.
https://valid.x86.fr/p52465. So far all is good.

Zyll Goliat · Dec 21, 2019

bobbybluz said:
First test run, pulled the 4960X out and put the E5 1680 V2 in. Had to reset the XMP in BIOS but changed nothing else.
https://valid.x86.fr/p52465. So far all is good.

4.7Ghz Nice.....Is this water cooled or on air?

bobbybluz · Dec 21, 2019

Water. In Passmark CPU score it got 21,468 which is only 300 points less than my X99 5960X did at the same speed. That's 3,000 points higher than the 4960X did. I doubt you could get a 1680 V2 to run at 4.72GHZ at 76 degrees F maximum temperature on air. The CPU-Z temp is wrong, the one from Speccy is the same as what shows up in the Asus AI Suite.

lexluthermiester · Dec 22, 2019

verycharbroiled said:
old tech, haswell based i think.

Broadwell actually;

Product Specifications

quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

ark.intel.com

For what you want out of it, very solid. Overkill even.

Zyll Goliat · Dec 22, 2019

bobbybluz said:
Water. In Passmark CPU score it got 21,468 which is only 300 points less than my X99 5960X did at the same speed. That's 3,000 points higher than the 4960X did. I doubt you could get a 1680 V2 to run at 4.72GHZ at 76 degrees F maximum temperature on air. The CPU-Z temp is wrong, the one from Speccy is the same as what shows up in the Asus AI Suite.

Ahh...yeah silly me...I am coming from the metric system so I always get messed up with fahrenheit conversion....BTW nice passmark score that's almost good as stocked I9-7900x give us some more benchmark-pictures......

Macio4ever · Dec 22, 2019

Hi, I would like to join the club with my T5500 and 2x X5687 (previously W5590)

Zyll Goliat · Dec 22, 2019

Macio4ever said:
Hi, I would like to join the club with my T5500 and 2x X5687 (previously W5590)

Welcome aboard :toast:

we Xeonist are special kind of breed and we always stick together!!!

lexluthermiester · Dec 22, 2019

Macio4ever said:
Hi, I would like to join the club with my T5500 and 2x X5687 (previously W5590)

Welcome to TPU and to the Xeon club. That's a good pair of CPU's in solid system.

verycharbroiled · Dec 22, 2019

lexluthermiester said:
Broadwell actually;
[...]
For what you want out of it, very solid. Overkill even.

yup thats what i wanted, very solid with a bit of overkill for future/unforeseen tasks.

then i more or less built the right system for what i want? huh. guess when hanging around here you really do learn stuff lol.

Macio4ever · Dec 22, 2019

Zyll Goliath said:
Welcome aboardwe Xeonist are special kind of breed and we always stick together!!!

Thank you. It seems like we are

lexluthermiester · Dec 23, 2019

verycharbroiled said:
then i more or less built the right system for what i want?

I'd say yes. You've left yourself some headroom with that CPU as well as room for upgrades to better CPU's in future.

verycharbroiled · Dec 23, 2019

lexluthermiester said:
I'd say yes. You've left yourself some headroom with that CPU as well as room for upgrades to better CPU's in future.

cpu is soldered in this mobo. mine has a fan on the HS also, the pic here shows no fan.

X10SDV-4C-TLN4F | Motherboards | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.

X10S, X10SD, X10SDV, X10SDV-4C-TLN4F

www.supermicro.com

bit of a bummer but since the 1518s low power (25w) was around the max i wanted and the build must be a miniITX layout for my 2u short case. so i figure as a NAS with minor addons this should last years.

later i would like to build a fairly grunty vm machine in the same format.. mini or micro ATX server mobo. see what i can fit into 1U maybe.

Auer · Dec 23, 2019

My 1620-0 is about to get relegated to backup, really a great CPU but I'm giving a R7 2700 a try since they more or less are giving them away.

Building a 8c/16t Mini ITX system for peanuts...

System Name	BOX
Processor	Core i7 6950X @ 4,25GHz (1,28V)
Motherboard	X99 SOC Champion (BIOS F23c + bifurcation mod)
Cooling	Thermalright Venomous-X + 2x Delta 38mm PWM (Push-Pull)
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 4x8GB (@3240MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @ 1,48V)
Video Card(s)	Titan Xp Star Wars "Empire" edition
Storage	Samsung SM961 256GB NVMe, 1x WD10EZEX (1TB), 2x HGST HUS726060ALE610 (6TB)
Display(s)	LG 27GP950-B
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Audio Device(s)	Motu M4 (audio interface) + ATH-A900Z + Behringer C-1
Power Supply	Seasonic X-760 (760W)
Mouse	Logitech RX-250
Keyboard	HP KB-9970
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V10/display.php?id=157143230295

System Name	Imouto
Processor	I7 3770k lapped and delidded
Motherboard	Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe
Cooling	Alpenföhn Black ridge lapped
Memory	16gb kingston hyper x fury 1866mhz
Video Card(s)	EVGA 980ti Classified
Storage	2 small SSDs currently. 500gb ssd 1/2tb 2.5" hdd soon
Display(s)	Acer CB240HYK
Case	Kolink Rocket mini ITX
Audio Device(s)	Fostex HP-A3 32bit DAC with Pioneer SE-a1000/beyerdynamic DT770pro headphones
Power Supply	Silverstone sx500LG v2 (Proposed)
Mouse	Tecknet Raptor
Keyboard	VicTop 87 key mechanical
Software	windows 10

System Name	The Banshee
Processor	Ryzen 5 5600 @ 4.65GHz 1.20V
Motherboard	AsRock X370 Taichi
Cooling	CPU + GPU Custom loop
Memory	32GB 4x8 G.Skill Trident Z 3600 CL16 1.35V
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 16GB (Flashed to WX 9100) + GTX 780 Ti For CUDA
Storage	1TB Kingston NV2 & 1TB Mass Storage HDD
Display(s)	LG 25UM57-P
Case	Fractal Design Arc XL
Audio Device(s)	ATH-M20x
Power Supply	Evga SuperNova 1300 G2
Mouse	Evga Torq X3
Keyboard	Thermaltake challenger
Software	Win 10 Pro 64-Bit

System Name	Imouto
Processor	I7 3770k lapped and delidded
Motherboard	Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe
Cooling	Alpenföhn Black ridge lapped
Memory	16gb kingston hyper x fury 1866mhz
Video Card(s)	EVGA 980ti Classified
Storage	2 small SSDs currently. 500gb ssd 1/2tb 2.5" hdd soon
Display(s)	Acer CB240HYK
Case	Kolink Rocket mini ITX
Audio Device(s)	Fostex HP-A3 32bit DAC with Pioneer SE-a1000/beyerdynamic DT770pro headphones
Power Supply	Silverstone sx500LG v2 (Proposed)
Mouse	Tecknet Raptor
Keyboard	VicTop 87 key mechanical
Software	windows 10

System Name	KING-XEON
Processor	Xeon 2697 V2(12c/24t) (OC-3,45Ghz-ALL*CORES----TURBO BOOSTING 4,03Ghz)
Motherboard	Sabertooth X79
Cooling	Xigmatek LOKI SD963 double-Fan
Memory	64Gb DDR3 Kingston/Mushkin 1540Mhz Active clocks(9-9-9-24-162-1T)
Video Card(s)	1)RX 5700 Sapphire-1910Mhz***2)MATROX M9120LP
Storage	2 x ssd-Kingston 240Gb A400 in RAID 0+ HDD 500Gb +Samsung 128gbSSD +SSD Kinston 480Gb
Display(s)	BenQ 28"EL2870U(4K-HDR) / Acer 24"(1080P) / Eizo 2336W(1080p) / 2x Eizo 19"(1280x1024)
Case	Lian Li
Audio Device(s)	Realtek/Creative T20 Speakers
Power Supply	F S P Hyper S 700W
Mouse	Asus TUF-GAMING M3
Keyboard	Func FUNC-KB-460/Mechanical Keyboard
VR HMD	Oculus Rift DK2
Software	Win 11
Benchmark Scores	Fire Strike=14610,Cinebench R15=1789,Cinebench R20=3791.Passmark=20689,Geekbench4=32885

System Name	The Blind Grim Reaper
Processor	Xeon X5675 Westmere-EP B1 SLBYL 4.20ghz @ 1.256v
Motherboard	Asus P6X58D-E
Cooling	Noctua CP12 SE14, Redux Noctua 1500rpm fan
Memory	Corsair XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 x6
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SC Single Fan Model
Storage	Crucial mx100 250gb main system + 1TB Seagate for games and music + 500 seagate 7200rpm for back up
Display(s)	22 inch samsung curved
Case	NZXT Phantom 530 black
Audio Device(s)	Nvidia HDMI through HDMI adaptor for output sound for turtlebeach x12 headset
Power Supply	Antec HCG 850 watt
Mouse	no brand
Keyboard	normal usb keyboard
Software	Windows 10 1909 version
Benchmark Scores	Cinebench R20 = 2046cb

System Name	Box
Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	MSI Meg Ace Max 570S
Cooling	Corsair h150i Elite Capellix 360 white
Memory	16 GB Teamforce DDR 4 4500 (2x8) CL18
Video Card(s)	Aorus 1080ti
Storage	NVMe: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, WD_BLACK SN770 2TB, Crucial P5 Plus 2TB, spinners: 3TB, 4TB
Display(s)	Samsung 1080p
Case	Lian Li 011 Dynamic white - fans: 2x140mm, 7x120mm
Audio Device(s)	stock
Power Supply	EVGA G2 850
Mouse	Razor DeathAdder 3.5G
Keyboard	Corsair K68 RGB
VR HMD	Valve Index
Software	Win10 pro
Benchmark Scores	later

System Name	"The black one in the dining room" / "The Beast"
Processor	Intel Xeon E5 2683 V4 16c/32t / i7 12700K Alder Lake
Motherboard	Asus X99 Deluxe / ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 w/4 Silverstone FM121 fans @110cfm ea in push/pull / Arctic LF II 420
Memory	64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 (8x8) / 64G G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3600 C16
Video Card(s)	XFX R9 Fury X / ASRock OC Formula Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus. 480GB MyDigital NVMe, 1TB Samsung 860, 4 Western Digital 2TB / SK hynix P41
Display(s)	43" Samsung 8000 series 4K / 50" Vizio M-series 4K
Case	Modded Corsair Carbide 500R / Modded Silver Stone Cosmos II
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar D2X
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200i / Seasonic Prime GX-1300
Mouse	Logitech Performance MX
Keyboard	Logitech K750 Solar, DiNovo Edge
Software	Win 10 Enterprise LTSC / Win 11 Pro 22H2

Processor	R7 5800X
Motherboard	Asus Rog Strix B550 I
Cooling	Fractal Celsius
Memory	32
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus RTX 4080 OC
Storage	Lots
Display(s)	LG 4k, Dell 1440p
Case	Fractal Nano S
Audio Device(s)	Vintage
Power Supply	EVGA 650 SFF
Mouse	Pwnage SYM2
Keyboard	EVGA Z15

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