Xeon Owners Club

[Zyll Goliat]

 

[Edwired]

It looks like I found the limit on the gskill f2-8500cl5-2gbpk on 5:6 fsb/dram ratio seems to tap out around 1189mhz that about 495 fsb i think. But managed to knock on 500 fsb on 1:1 ratio and drop the CPU ratio to 8.5 which makes the ram 981mhz but get application error 1000 with 0x0000005 which tells me the ram timings is somewhat unstable if my hunch is correct

 

[Eddielawson666]

Hi Guys,

this is my last creation based on a dual xeon cpu; a very powerful pc that can handle....everything

CPUs: dual cpu xeon 2667 v2
Ram: 64gb di ram ECC DDR3 1600mhz
Motherboard: supermicro x9dri-ln4f+ EE-ATX
Cpu Cooler: N°2 Arctic freezer 33
First Hard disk: SSD Crucial BX 480gb
Second Hard disk: 1tb 2,5" 7200rpm
Gpu: Gainward GTX 1080 GS Phoenix
Psu: Enermax revolution 1000w 80+
Case: deepcool matrexx mesh
PCI-E USB 3.0
PCI-E AUDIO: ASUS XONAR DGX
Usb Bluetooth
Usb Wi-Fi dual band
Fan: N°6 rgb fans + led stripe, all managed by a remote controller

Of course no overclock on this board: the only thing that i could do was setting the power limit to 255; no in games and other applications that requires only few cores frequency is often at 4000mhz.
It wasn't easy to fit all the hardware inside the case; the motherboard is an EE-atx (needs more space in the top of the case), and i had to do holes for 3 motheboard standoffs that were in non standard position.
Anyway all is workimng fine and temps are good; thanks to the frontal mesh cpu temps rise to 65°

 

[Macio4ever]

Great build.

 

[lyra]

Thats a pretty cool system. Perhaps ill go dual socket next in my massive zalman case. Once im bored of this mitx system im building now.
On that note, anyone want some old xeon stuff? I put it away working and it doesnt wanna post anymore and i cant be bothered to troubleshoot cause im gonna downsize anyway.
X5672
Asus p6x58d-e
6x2gb xms3 1600mhz

 

[Edwired]

Why it not posting i wonder

 

[lyra]

Dunno. It always had hissy fits whenever i left it off and unplugged for a while or if i moved house with it. The conditions it was stored in probably where not the best either. Its time for change anyway. Perhaps ill come to westmere if im ever daft enough to buy an sr2

 

[Edwired]

What you going to do with it? Sounds like the cmos battery is dying causing the BIOS setting to reverse to default would be my guess or the cpu isn't happy or not getting along with the motherboard

 

[lyra]

Ill probably hold onto it and play with it one day when i have more time if no one wants it. Try and figure out what was wrong with it.
When powering on it just has the dram light on constantly. Pressing mem ok does nothing to help, clear cmos does nothing to help never gives a video output. I was just gonna keep it and maybe one day do some exotic cooling and overclocking once i had replaced it as my main pc

 

[Edwired]

I wont mind if it was a freebie i take it lol but it up to you how much if your looking to get rid of it? As im in ireland you in cornwall that somewhere wales?

 

[lyra]

Its the other sticky out bit below wales aha

 

[Zyll Goliat]

 

[Edwired]

Well everyone i be getting the the cpu, ram, motherboard from @lyra. Question is what the best and fastest xeon i can get for the motherboard

 

[lyra]

X5690 or x5687 one is 6 core the other is a 4 core with a slightly higher base clock. They held onto their value a bit more cause they are top of the stack. The x5672 you will be getting ran at 4.3 daily but its only a 4 core and now more cores is the way to go

 

[Edwired]

I had a quick look around seems like the x5690 is the same as x990 but did come across x5675 which is 6 core 12 thread that the step up from x5672 as the x5675 is cheaper than x5690. Is there any sort of bios modding needed for it to work or does it work out of the box?

Also just wondering about max voltages for ram and cpu and every other settings as i will be overclocking and what do and dont i mess in the bios?

 

[lyra]

There is a great x58 overclocking guide in the forums here and if you get it all working again that board has the latest bios on it so it should work

 

[Edwired]

Is there any links to that overclocking guide?

 

[EarthDog]

Is there any links to that overclocking guide?

One of the best here: https://www.overclockers.com/3-step-guide-overclock-core-i3-i5-i7/

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Well everyone i be getting the the cpu, ram, motherboard from @lyra. Question is what the best and fastest xeon i can get for the motherboard

Yeah as the @lyra said is X5690 but in reality ANY of the 6 core X58 Xeons could work Just fine even some could potentially OC better then some X5690 samples the things is that X5690 have BEST mutiplier which will allow you to OC easy but you can OC also +via BCLK so there is a chance that maybe some better samples of X5675 or X5660..etc.could even reach higher clock speed then some X5690 at the end it really also depends on CPU lottery.....But with good quality mobo and a bit of knowledge almost ANY of the 6 core Xeons will reach above 4+Ghz easy.....GL

 

[lexluthermiester]

One of the best here: https://www.overclockers.com/3-step-guide-overclock-core-i3-i5-i7/

This guide easily applies to Core i9 and most of the Xeon range as well, with some technical alterations.

 

[EarthDog]

This guide easily applies to Core i9 and most of the Xeon range as well, with some technical alterations.

Exactly. The high level concepts, voltages, etc... this should be all he needs to get started at least.

 

[masterdeejay]

Budget Build Haswell-Ep 12 core and cheap ddr3 ecc reg ram.
CPUs: Xeon E5-2673v3 ES all core turbo hack (3.1ghz)
Ram: 4x16gb Samsung ECC REG 4Rx4 1066@1866 CAS13
Motherboard: Jingsha X99-8D3 (updated Huananzhi X99-TF russian modded bios)
Cpu Cooler: Alpenföhn Brocken 3
SSD+HDD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb + Kingston hyper 480gb + Wd green 3TB + Wd blue 500Gb
Gpu: Asus Cerberus 1070Ti 8gb stock clocks
Psu: Super Flower 750w platinum switched to eco mode
Case: Cheftek ATX something from trash
Audio: Genius Cavimanus Headset

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Budget Build Haswell-Ep 12 core and cheap ddr3 ecc reg ram.
CPUs: Xeon E5-2673v3 ES all core turbo hack (3.1ghz)
Ram: 4x16gb Samsung ECC REG 4Rx4 1066@1866 CAS13
Motherboard: Jingsha X99-8D3 (updated Huananzhi X99-TF russian modded bios)
Cpu Cooler: Alpenföhn Brocken 3
SSD+HDD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb + Kingston hyper 480gb + Wd green 3TB + Wd blue 500Gb
Gpu: Asus Cerberus 1070Ti 8gb stock clocks
Psu: Super Flower 750w platinum switched to eco mode
Case: Cheftek ATX something from trash
Audio: Genius Cavimanus Headset

Nice build...personally I always trying to avoid Chinese boards but hey seems like some of them ain't that bad after all...don't be shy show us more benchmark results: Passmark,Geekbench 4,5,Cinebench.....

 

[masterdeejay]

Geekbench4

HUANAN Default string - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a HUANAN Default string with an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor.

browser.geekbench.com

GeekBench5

HUANAN Default string - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a HUANAN Default string with an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor.

browser.geekbench.com

Chinese board is cheaper than any brand board and it is stable. (110usd for the board, and 100 usd was the cpu, but i ordered another cpu for 43 usd an early 14 core 2695v3 ES on ebay, the 16gb ram sticks was 17 usd each)
2011v1 is even cheaper 40-50 Usd the motherboard (only dual channel ram, no usb3) and the cpu-s a few dollar. I bought 6 cpu-s on auction (1620 unlocked, 2x 2667, 3x4620) all for 20! usd, some smd damaged but works stable. I will post it soon! For single threads e5 1620 is best buy, unlocked to x43 multi, but it has only 4 core 8 threads witch is today a little weak.
I live in Hungary, where the new harware prices are very high here (thanks to 27% world record VAT).

 

[masterdeejay]

And the power consumption is very good: (measured by EMOS P5821)
Idle windows desktop 59-61w
Prime95 in-place large fft 228-229w
Prime95 Blend 230w
Cinebench R20 running 170w
Star citizen in game flying 150-180w
I use the -50mv undervoltage efi driver.