Xeon Owners Club

[Russ64]

My Dual Xeon E5645 built back in 2010 and still going strong on WCG 12C/24T

 

[freeagent]

This is my 7 year old sons x5690 E.S. with Le Grand Macho RT on a Rampage III Formula, with 6GB Super Talent Chrome DDR3 2000, GTX 970 FTW, Intel 520 boot and a lot of dust. When it was mine it spent most of its time between 4.2-4.5, and its been benched at 4.8 a few times with an H100 and couple 120x38 Panaflos. The ram is ok too, with 1.65v they do 1600 6-6-6-20 1T, 1800 7-7-7-21 1T, 2000 8-8-8-24 is stock.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

My Dual Xeon E5645 built back in 2010 and still going strong on WCG 12C/24T
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Hey WELCOME!!!Glad to see that is still other people around that is using @E5645......My sample is working flawlessly OC on 4.133Ghz for every day purposes

 

[freeagent]

It’s too late for an edit I guess.. that pic made me feel bad. So I cleaned her up and put her back in her old case. She was in a 690II advanced for a little over a year.

 

[pasnger57]

haha i am now part of the xeon club dubble time just put together a x5450 in socket 771 to a 775 xfx 750i mode (note i did not mod the board shave the notches in the CPU) and just pick up a set of lag sticker to flip the pads

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1115425614327103489

 

[krull]

just get Celsius r920, waiting 930 mobo and 1350 w psu.. will send potos of finished build (Radeon pro duo 32gb testing 1... maybe 3.. maybe 2 & quadro k4200..) x-fi on pci xD, win 10 pro for gamming pruposses...

see u later

S4lu2 Krull

 

[Edwired]

Been testing e5450 clocking @ 4.36ghz with llc turned off for some reason llc on it making the overclock unstable so vcore set in bio 1.40v currently at 1.352v idle but with load it dropped to 1.312v temp hit high 56c during resident evil 2 underground car park as it makes the cpu and gpu nearly 100% load ideal test for stability was playing it under 2 hours didnt get a single crash since

 

[Edwired]

After ordering arctic mx-4 thermal paste and arctic thermal pads for the vrm as it was the stock one that came with asus p5q premium looks abit dry and cracked better safe than sorry gonna give the cpu abit of a lapping some day soon

 

[Edwired]

Just picked up a samsung 24" Full HD Curved Monitor LS24E510CS/XU for €50 that a bargin

 

[Edwired]

Bought some iso 99.9% to give the asus p5q premium a spring cleaning along with the xeon e5450 cpu and anything in between. Was surprise that the motherboard was hiding some nasty gunk under the chipsets, pcie lanes now it 95% alot cleaner now. Just waiting for mx-4 and thermal pad to come in the post during the week hopely. Hoping it will fix the pcie x16 lane problem i was having. Will do some testing once everything is back together. Had the board in a plastic box while it standing with a small plastic cup pouring iso down from top side of the board repeat this number of times help to break down the gunk on the board and once finish pour the iso with the kitchen size tissue to collect the gunk it was between black and brown fairly nasty looking

 

[HUSKIE]

Just finished hardline watercooling set up on x79 Motherboard and Xeon e5 2640 Cpu with that MSI 1080 gpu on nzxt h440 case.

 

[Edwired]

Like the colour theme looks like a american flag lol

Some day i get my hand on watercooling kit some day soon and see if i can fit it in a nzxt phantom 530 as it have 1 360 rad on top and 2 240 one on front and one on bottem. As i have a few ideas would be insane once i plan it out

 

[Edwired]

Just got the mx-4 in the postage still waiting on arctic thermal pad as i got the 145mm x 145mm 1.5mm thick so it be plenty for another build. The board is looking alot cleaner now. Hope it be done at the end of the week miss playing games and tweaking

 

[Edwired]

Got the arctic thermal pad today and just finished rebuilding the computer. It working alot better now as before the 12v in hwinfo64 was dropping alot from 11.829v to 11.625v during gaming it was bad enough to make things unstable. The power supply is working fine as i ruled that out. Now in idle it 12.040v load is 11.928v which is perfect. It looks like after all i can use the pcie x16 lane without trouble. I tested dirt 2.0 while in replay mode to give the computer a run around while monitoring temps and voltages

 

[Edwired]

Found a site containing bios for a ton of asus boards
http://ftp.tekwind.co.jp/pub/asustw/mb/
Even found the asus p5q premium factory bios 0707 which i was looking for ages as asus site removed it. It have lot of other things in it have a look

 

[Susquehannock]

Found a site containing bios for a ton of asus boards
http://ftp.tekwind.co.jp/pub/asustw/mb/
Even found the asus p5q premium factory bios 0707 which i was looking for ages as asus site removed it. It have lot of other things in it have a look

Found some BIOS for my ASUS a7n8x there. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Edwired]

That good to hear

Managed to flash the bios back to factory 0707 on asus p5q premium as i want start fresh and work my way up to the point where it stable on stock settings without crashing or bsod then try every other bios with same settings while using 4x 2gb gskill f2-8500cl5-2gbpk then again games i tested dont use the full 8gb for some strange reason so might end up with 2x 2gb and might well overclock everything see where it end up

 

[Edwired]

Been testing with vcore on auto and 4ghz overclock it hitting 1.200v loaded idle is 1.192v and the vid is 1.113v. Is this normal as normally i seen similar overclock requires more vcore in the 1.3v range? Vtt is auto reporting 1.36v in hwinfo64

I just passed 100 intel burn test on high setting while running with unigine valley bench everything max nvidia driver crashed about an hour and 10 mins in. As i figured it could be abit of timing issue somewhere in the northbridge and ram clock skew so more testing is needed. I already know the cpu is doing good no issue there just this whole nvidia driver crashing does my head in at times. Temps are well in check max i hit was 62c on core 1, voltages are holding no strange dipping or spiking during intel burn test. Look like im heading in the right direction

 

[Edwired]

Pcie x16 lane still having trouble along with x8 lane no matter what voltages and settings i set had no effect of stopping the nvidia crashing so im force to use pcie x4 1.1 lane which does work fine when intel burn test and valley bench are running every thing set to high no crashing or bsod. I had to bump up the vcore as it loaded @ 1.216v, idle is 1.208v as the llc is on auto it vboosting the vcore up one step. I will be some day replacing asus p5q premium for another same board as i think the board i have is abit flaky when pcie x16 and x8 is used other than that everything else is working. Intel burn test on high i have already ran 300 times no crashing looks like the cpu is stable. Next is ram overclock

 

[Edwired]

Just won an asus p5q pro with 2x 2gb and q9400 for €65 on ebay will swap the asus p5q premium and see how it perform with the xeon e5450

 

[Mr.Scott]

Just won an asus p5q pro with 2x 2gb and q9400 for €65 on ebay will swap the asus p5q premium and see how it perform with the xeon e5450

It will be better.

 

[Edwired]

Got the asus p5q premium lined out still have to use pcie x4 lane which is a disappointing just hoping this asus p5q pro have no issue with the pcie x16 lane and give it a proper clean as it looks dirty in the picture along with new mx-4 paste and arctic pad

 

[Edwired]

Still waiting on the asus p5q pro to come as it coming from austria could be next week i say

 

[Edwired]

I tried my last attempt to get the blue pcie x16 working which i finally got it fixed it turned out the asus atk0110 driver was pissing about with the nvidia driver so i ended up basically uninstalling the asus atk0110 driver and hide the driver from windows 10 update. To my surprise it fixes the wild fluctuations in hwinfo64 monitoring where the clockspeed and fsb would dip and overshoot and it stable now i hope this be the last time i ever had to go through the trouble shooting with this asus p5q premium. I might well sell the asus p5q pro if anyone is interested

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Ohh yeah BTW...I just get myself some cheap ddr3 Kingston RAM... 3 sticks x 2gb so now I have 30Gb in total(all 6 slots ocupied)on my "oldish" X58 platform.....there is never enough ram....