Xeon Owners Club

[HBSound]

Do what I do is draw on the paper with the wiring diagram of each pin with voltages and colours. As the colors on come cables comes in black might be tricky to know which one does what but the standard atx is the same across the PSU board this is where the digital multimeter (DMM) can be useful to make sure the connections are made. And to custom make the cable shorten or lenghten can be achieved by cutting, soldering and heat shrinks and sleeving the overall cables involving using crimping the pins to the plugs this may not be available to buy depending where it located. So to be honest it a lot more work to achieve tidy cable management. Including measuring the cables and visualizing where everything should go before it even started. As it looks simple on videos but a lot more goes beyond this

I agree with you. I am not new to custom work on PCs and etc. But when it comes to electrical stuff - I will higher a professional. I am in the US. I know a couple of solid US companies that make custom cables to length. I would have them make the cables to the lengths and let them do it. I promise I will not be my error if something faults like that. Way too much $$$$ on the line for this one.

Right now, I am trying to see when that motherboard is coming out and at what price. This motherboard is brand new, and just posted today. I looked at Asrock just yesterday and never saw this. So now I have to be patient and I will start getting some parts!

 

[Edwired]

I agree with you. I am not new to custom work on PCs and etc. But when it comes to electrical stuff - I will higher a professional. I am in the US. I know a couple of solid US companies that make custom cables to length. I would have them make the cables to the lengths and let them do it. I promise I will not be my error if something faults like that. Way too much $$$$ on the line for this one.

Right now, I am trying to see when that motherboard is coming out and at what price. This motherboard is brand new, and just posted today. I looked at Asrock just yesterday and never saw this. So now I have to be patient and I will start getting some parts!

That is understandable. Nothing worse wiring up something the wrong way and damaging something in the process but it a risk that some people would and wouldn't take on new hardware. But cablemod might help you if you can send them the adaptor so they can add it to their list of compatible cables as long you give them the length and color requirements might be worth a shot in the long run

 

[johnspack]

Well dam, there goes my x79 system with a 1680. It just suddenly lost a bunch of ram, from 32 to 16, then to 24, but now my os installs are corrupt. Still have my x99 box with a 2699.
Guess I'll be transferring everything over now. Except now all I have for a gaming box is a dam tr 1920x. This sucks.

 

[Edwired]

Well dam, there goes my x79 system with a 1680. It just suddenly lost a bunch of ram, from 32 to 16, then to 24, but now my os installs are corrupt. Still have my x99 box with a 2699.
Guess I'll be transferring everything over now. Except now all I have for a gaming box is a dam tr 1920x. This sucks.

Seems like bad connections from the socket to cpu or imc degraded. Check if there's pins misaligned?

 

[johnspack]

I haven't touched it since I built it. I'm rather ocd too, so I kept voltages very sane. There is no way it should have degraded. It ran perfectly for a couple years, then all the sudden this.....

 

[Edwired]

I haven't touched it since I built it. I'm rather ocd too, so I kept voltages very sane. There is no way it should have degraded. It ran perfectly for a couple years, then all the sudden this.....

Seems like oxidation build on the pins and gold contact pads had a similar issue on my x5675 as it was intermittent with ram loss and I tried cleaning it with ipa 99% didn't really improve the issue till I used an emery nail board to clean darken gold contact pads since it worked like a charm

 

[johnspack]

Dam, well guess I'll have to take a look then. For now I'm moving my 980ti and drives over to the tr. God, first gen zen. This will be pleasant....

 

[Edwired]

Dam, well guess I'll have to take a look then. For now I'm moving my 980ti and drives over to the tr. God, first gen zen. This will be pleasant....

Let us know how you get on with it
Also don't use the emery nail board in the cpu socket only for the ram slots do it in a up and down motion and compressed air can to blow it out. Spray contact cleaner in the cpu socket to clean out dirt and grime and compressed air can to blow it out and leave it alone for a few hours to completely dry and test it

 

[johnspack]

Trust me... 40 years working with computers... I know how to clean it if that's what's wrong. Not going to do it tonight, I'm too pissed off and a bit drunk....
I'll tackle it in the morning. Or I start moving shit over.... Either way, very annoying heh

 

[Edwired]

Trust me... 40 years working with computers... I know how to clean it if that's what's wrong. Not going to do it tonight, I'm too pissed off and a bit drunk....
I'll tackle it in the morning. Or I start moving shit over.... Either way, very annoying heh

Yeah I see your point don't think too much of it tonight. I can understand as I been there and done that it like me doing alot of headscratching and been drunk at the same time and it never ending

 

[johnspack]

Yeah, mobo is shot. I dropped in a 1660 to see if it was my cpu, and now only 8gbs show. Time for ripping it apart. Cooler goes to x99... all drives and video card to to tr. I'm going to have a busy few days....

Heh, now I'm on a dual core laptop... I have nothing else left. The tr system crapped out, and my old x99 system won't run. I forgot all the issues I was having with them. Guess I'm done now....

 

[Edwired]

Yeah, mobo is shot. I dropped in a 1660 to see if it was my cpu, and now only 8gbs show. Time for ripping it apart. Cooler goes to x99... all drives and video card to to tr. I'm going to have a busy few days....

Heh, now I'm on a dual core laptop... I have nothing else left. The tr system crapped out, and my old x99 system won't run. I forgot all the issues I was having with them. Guess I'm done now....

Jeez sorry to hear bud must be something on the board level components failing or had some missing or burnt components or scratched traces usually behind the board during the install or removal. I say time to test it with a DMM if any of the vrm gone on the dram side as this can cause ram loss

 

[MSDOS Retro]

 

[uco73]

That nuts that it have 256,gb of ram nothing like a game can fill it LOL.

256GB of memory was offered when I bought this computer. I know I will never need that much memory, but it was stupid of me to ask the seller to reduce the amount of memory, because it would not reduce the price of the computer. Even when I run the latest games, the game never takes up more than 12GB of memory.

 

[Edwired]

256GB of memory was offered when I bought this computer. I know I will never need that much memory, but it was stupid of me to ask the seller to reduce the amount of memory, because it would not reduce the price of the computer. Even when I run the latest games, the game never takes up more than 12GB of memory.

Do what I do is sell half of the memory sticks to recoupe some money back

 

[uco73]

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Dual E5-2690 v2 in HP Z400? E5-2690 v2 is 2011 socket, HP Z400 is single 1366 socket. Do you put different MBO in Z400?

 

[MSDOS Retro]

Dual E5-2690 v2 in HP Z400? E5-2690 v2 is 2011 socket, HP Z400 is single 1366 socket. Do you put different MBO in Z400?

Yes i modded the case, so an E-ATX Supermicro X9DRi-F fits into this case

A short buildlog i posted on dutch website:

HP Z400 Dual Xeon 2690 v2

Netjes hoor

techfora.nl

 

[lexluthermiester]

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Are you sure you are using the correct PCIe slot? That card looks one slot low to me..

I find the UI on windows 11 somewhat annoying to be honest

I feel the same way about Windows 10.

 

[MSDOS Retro]

Are you sure you are using the correct PCIe slot? That card looks one slot low to me..


I feel the same way about Windows 10.

as you can see in this layout, it will hit the RAM slots

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Are you sure you are using the correct PCIe slot? That card looks one slot low to me..

as you can see in this layout, it will hit the RAM slots

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All full length slots are listed as X16; would it matter which one graphics was in?

 

[Edwired]

It might depends on the manual stating which pcie slot does what link speed is hardwired or switchable between x16 or x8 via bios some board would have x8 limited pcie as between x16 and x8 the differences in fps is minimal on a graphic card in my opinion

 

[lexluthermiester]

as you can see in this layout, it will hit the RAM slots

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Right! Ok, this was a different board than what I was thinking of. All of those 16x slots are actually 16x. With some dual processor boards, a few of the 16x slots are only 8x electrically.

All full length slots are listed as X16; would it matter which one graphics was in?

Not with that board. With some boards it would. With the board they have, the 16x slots are wired to each CPU independently. Not all dual CPU boards are wired like this one.

 

[HBSound]

Question - There are a lot of Xeon processors second-hand. On ebay, there are QS versions of the processors. Purchasing QS versions saves $$$$. I understand the QS to be a Qualification Sample, and ES stands for Engineering sample.

Would you buy a QS processor off Ebay from a replicable source?

Would you buy an ES processor off Ebay from a replicable source?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Would you buy a QS processor off Ebay from a replicable source?

You mean "reputable" source? Yes and I have.

Would you buy an ES processor off Ebay from a replicable source?

Again, yes and I have.

Engineering and Qualification Samples generally prove to be very reliable and good performers.

 

[HBSound]

You mean "reputable" source? Yes and I have.

Again, yes and I have.

Engineering and Qualification Samples generally prove to be very reliable and good performers.

Thank you so much!
Generally, when these ES/QS models are sold. Is anything performance-wise not included compared to the retail production?