Xeon Owners Club

[lexluthermiester]

Question is my CPU speed correct?
Intel Xeon 2630 v2. When its at full throttle i was wondering was it suppose to be higher, the core speed, looks like its staying at 2.8ghz. But i thought it uses turbo boost 2.0 and it should be reading 3.10ghz or something like that.

That seems to be the all-core turbo limit, so yes right where it should be.

 

[RadeonProVega]

That seems to be the all-core turbo limit, so yes right where it should be.

Thanks, also the best CPU i found is this one is the E5-2680 V2 for my HP420. When the price drops i will grab it, don't feel like spending 80 bucks or 100 dollars on it.

 

[Edwired]

This was quite interesting. I was modding the BIOS on my new Gigabyte P35 DS3P and had installed a Xeon E5440 with the un-modded BIOS. It seemed to perform pretty good and so I made some Minecraft 1.6 framerate benchmarks to test the before-and-after BIOS mod CPU performance. Got the R9 270X installed so there was no issues with GPU limitations.

Standard F12 BIOS:
TEST 1 - 87.6 avg, 46 min, 140 max
TEST 2 - 75.5 avg, 49 min, 92 max

Modded Xeon F12 BIOS:
TEST 1 - 112.6 avg, 53 min, 176 max
TEST 2 - 93.5 avg, 79 min, 121 max

Never expected to see that kind of performance boost. A lot of those numbers went up 30fps (including minimum FPS for Test 2 which was crazy) and it's like a totally different machine now. Also tested Cinebench R15 but it remained identical at 300cb, but not surprising behavior from a synthetic benchmark.
Minecraft isn't the ideal benchmark tool, but it's the only decent CPU-intensive game I've got and it's great for testing LGA775 systems.

Did you make sure you got the latest microcodes from delidded.com 771-775 mods

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Question is my CPU speed correct?
Intel Xeon 2630 v2. When its at full throttle i was wondering was it suppose to be higher, the core speed, looks like its staying at 2.8ghz. But i thought it uses turbo boost 2.0 and it should be reading 3.10ghz or something like that.

Yours MAX Turbo Frequency is 3.1Ghz which means it will most likely use that turbo speed only with 1-2 cores.........

 

[Edwired]

Only way to find out is to run some sort of benchtest like cinebench r20 to see the turbo to pop up unless he has the intel speed step enabled and the turbo enabled in the bios that why it idles on the base clock is my guess nothing to worry about.

Use hwinfo to display everything to see what cores turbo up to 3.1ghz when running cinebench r20

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Only way to find out is to run some sort of benchtest like cinebench r20 to see the turbo to pop up unless he has the intel speed step enabled and the turbo enabled in the bios that why it idles on the base clock is my guess nothing to worry about

Nah Cinebench never go on MAX turbo speed is always use all cores....it's best if he install open hardware monitor or if he use MSI Afterburner/Riva tuner in games and monitor his cores then he can see when some of the core reach that peek.....OHM is good because you can always see your max recorded speed&temps...

 

[Edwired]

I know i only said it as it easier to monitor which cores turbo to 3.1ghz. Cinebench r20 is demanding on cpu than r15 so yes it will make the cpu 100% all cores

 

[RadeonProVega]

Well i use HWINFO, showing the same. At idle and running games/apps, videos the core section says the same at 2893.ghz. it doesnt go any higher than that.
I also notice something starnge, after installing drivers using driverbooster, my computer won't shut off after i click shut off, haha.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Well i use HWINFO, showing the same. At idle and running games/apps, videos the core section says the same at 2893.ghz. it doesnt go any higher than that.
I also notice something starnge, after installing drivers using driverbooster, my computer won't shut off after i click shut off, haha.

Well maybe turbo is turned off in your bios options?

 

[RadeonProVega]

Here is some more info, why does it say the turbo mode is locked?
is something seems wrong to you guys?

 

[8BitZ80]

Did you make sure you got the latest microcodes from delidded.com 771-775 mods

I tried modding my own BIOS but it wasn't working. CBROM for the Award BIOS kept throwing the "not enough space" error (it happens with all P35 DS3P BIOS versions and any number of microcodes) and I couldn't be bothered figuring out the manual method. I found this site and just downloaded the modded BIOS instead http://tanieprocesory.pl/en/bios2-2/. It checked out fine with the extra Xeon microcodes so that's good enough.
Interestingly it seems like both the 2.x and 1.x board revisions all use the same BIOS, at least according to that site. It worked for me.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here is some more info, why does it say the turbo mode is locked?
is something seems wrong to you guys?

You're fine, that's what it should be.

 

[Edwired]

I tried modding my own BIOS but it wasn't working. CBROM for the Award BIOS kept throwing the "not enough space" error (it happens with all P35 DS3P BIOS versions and any number of microcodes) and I couldn't be bothered figuring out the manual method. I found this site and just downloaded the modded BIOS instead http://tanieprocesory.pl/en/bios2-2/. It checked out fine with the extra Xeon microcodes so that's good enough.
Interestingly it seems like both the 2.x and 1.x board revisions all use the same BIOS, at least according to that site. It worked for me.

You know that the not enought space said that there too many microcodes was in the bios you have to remove the celeron and pentium microcodes to make room for the xeon microcodes

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Here is some more info, why does it say the turbo mode is locked?
is something seems wrong to you guys?

That's OK and perfectly normal,thing is that 3,1Ghz for your CPU is ONLY for 1 core turbo boost......for 2 core turbo is 3Ghz and all core turbo is 2,9Ghz or your actual speed as 2893Mhz.....Anyway not sure why you never saw that your CPU doing individual 1 core boost on 3,1Ghz maybe because your CPU load is always high from some reason and then you only have ALL core speed on 2,9Ghz...

 

[storm-chaser]

Well, I crossed the threshold into xeon land with the purchase of these two E5-3696 v2 CPUs. 2.5GHz base, 3.5GHz turbo. 12 Core / 24 Thread

They currently reside in an HP 820z chassis... And I have another z820 which is getting two xeon chips as well, this time with the E5-2673 vs... both are liquid cooled (OEM).

 

[8BitZ80]

You know that the not enought space said that there too many microcodes was in the bios you have to remove the celeron and pentium microcodes to make room for the xeon microcodes

Yeah I know. Not my first time doing the mod but others have worked just fine in the past. Couldn't be bothered figuring out how to manually delete and insert microcodes because then you've got to look up CPU ID's and I don't have that kind of patience this time around.

 

[8BitZ80]

Got everything all cleaned up and installed in an actual case. Xeon E5440 seems good for around 3.4GHz and it's doing alright with the stock heatsink.

I also finally got my hands on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and now I know why the LGA771 Xeons are so good. Overclocked to 3.2GHz (1.3 vcore) with no issues and got 317cb in Cinebench R15. It would've been a beast when it came out in 2007. Only real downside is the power consumption, it was hitting 450W even with the low-power Quadro.

 

[storm-chaser]

We need a Xeon benchmark competition... anyone game for that?

 

[Macio4ever]

Cinabench R15, 2xX5687: 1128 points

 

[storm-chaser]

Cinebench R15: 2x E52696 v2 CPUs, 3011 points

EDIT: Can anyone compete with this? Lets see some good #s!

I will start a competition if we get enough interest.

 

[Mr.Scott]

 

[Edwired]

These are my personal best hey @PooPipeBoy i give ya challenge to try to beat any of these scores

 

[RadeonProVega]

So I'm playing Doom 2016

1607v2 that came with my HPZ420 = Ultra Settings full AA, 1920x1080 = 45-70fps.

New CPU 2630v2 = Ultra Settings Full AA 1920X1080 = 45-70fps

Sleeping Dogs the same, i attached an image, getting the same framerates.

The 2630v2 is better than 1607v 2 right? lmfao

Also to note, after i put the 1607v2 back in , i cleared my bios. I didn't do that when i put the 2630v2 in, but i plan too. Wondering would it fix/or solved it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

So I'm playing Doom 2016

1607v2 that came with my HPZ420 = Ultra Settings full AA, 1920x1080 = 45-70fps.

New CPU 2630v2 = Ultra Settings Full AA 1920X1080 = 45-70fps

Sleeping Dogs the same, i attached an image, getting the same framerates.

The 2630v2 is better than 1607v 2 right? lmfao

Also to note, after i put the 1607v2 back in , i cleared my bios. I didn't do that when i put the 2630v2 in, but i plan too. Wondering would it fix/or solved it.

Turn AA down or off and your performance will dramatically increase, given the card you're running.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Turn AA down or off and your performance will dramatically increase, given the card you're running.

Nah, the performance is not the issue with doom. I'm asking why am i getting the same framerates with two different CPU's, when the 2630 v2 is suppose to be faster. I'm getting the same fps in every game, even sleeping dogs which i just posted from the photo.

Unless the 1607 v2 is faster with less cores?