Xeon L5639 Overclocking on X58

[scannall]

I'm hanging on to my SaberTooth awhile also, but I have to admit, the features of the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Rev2 are impressive.. The last of the good legacy boards, with IDE & Floppy, 15 drives supported + USB3 & SATA3.. Pretty rare board.. The guy who bought the last one is using it with an I7-990X.. Must be nice.. Still, Asus SaberTooth overclocks better

I see there are a few of the EVGA SR-2 boards up for auction. It's tempting.... But maybe I should just keep my P6T SE setup until Skylake.

 

[YBS1]

Going to give anyone a wink or a nod when the elusive sale begins?

What volts were you running for the 4.9Ghz?

I believe it was 1.5-1.52. Obviously that was just for e-peen benching, I normally run it around 1.35 (adaptive) at ~4.5.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Those UD7'S were top of the line, Gigabyte's best offering. Had a couple prier UD7'S in socket 775, Awesome boards!

 

[ClockHound]

I believe it was 1.5-1.52. Obviously that was just for e-peen benching, I normally run it around 1.35 (adaptive) at ~4.5.

Oh..understand - hot, swollen e-peen. Thought you had won the e-cialis lottery.

Still, that's a pretty good chip. Is that your 5670 or the 75?

 

[Trinamo]

I'm running 4.9, volts hit 1.52-1.55ish. Been running it for a few months, temps are good with my H110i. No signs of degradation. Alienware board. 5650

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I see there are a few of the EVGA SR-2 boards up for auction. It's tempting.... But maybe I should just keep my P6T SE setup until Skylake.

Where do you see two EVGA SR2 boards at? can you provide links?

 

[scannall]

eBay search for EVGA SR-2

3 of them are coming up atm.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

eBay search for EVGA SR-2

3 of them are coming up atm.

Hmm, I wonder why my search doesn't bring up those boards. I figured 'X58 1366 socket' would be the best way to filter the search.

Thanks

 

[scannall]

Hmm, I wonder why my search doesn't bring up those boards. I figured 'X58 1366 socket' would be the best way to filter the search.

Thanks

Probably because they are SR-2 boards, and not X58.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Probably because they are SR-2 boards, and not X58.

what's funny is X58 search also brings up a ton of Server motherboards; they advertise them that way to get views...

 

[Burpo]

http://www.supermicro.com.tr/press111708.cfm.htm
X58 is also used for server boards. "Design changes, however, have been made to the IOH component of the Intel® 5500 & 5520 chipset and the Intel® X58 Express chipset and will require customers to perform re-qualification. Please see the Intel® 5500 & 5520 chipset OR Intel® X58 Express chipset Specification Update"

Because of this, I took a chance and bought a Kingston 12Gb kit off ebay.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139720

NewEgg priced @ $179, sealed package, for $37 knowing it is Apple ECC memory. I dropped it in my X58 Asus SaberTooth motherboard w/X650 CPU. Granted the ram is 1066, so wasn't expecting to overclock it much, but never changed bios settings from Patriot Sector 7 DDR3 1600 ram. To my surprise, it came right up running 1576Mgz. and passed all benchmarks same as the previous ram. ECC ram (unregistered) does work. New 4Gb sticks @ $12.33 ea. I'm smiling
Kingston Technology Lifetime warranty.
Known Compatibility list for KTA-MP1066K3/12G
Apple Mac Pro DDR3 (Early 2009)
Apple Xserve Xeon DDR3 (April 2009)
Apple - Mac Pro DDR3 (Mid 2010) 1CPU
Apple - Mac Pro DDR3 (Mid 2010) 2CPU
Apple - Mac Pro DDR3 (Mid 2012) Quad-Core, 6-Core, 12-Core

 

[MongGrel]

Finally stuck the X5650 in the bedroom P6T V2, waiting on the SSD to arrive the next couple hours so can get that thing boosted and running right again

It really doesn't need much of a boost.

My inspector needs to get off the frigging table.

Old school chunk of copper on that thing

Still tell the wife she should use it, but she's still happy plinking along on her old Q9650.

We could just use that for a HTPC, but whatever floats her boat I guess.



That EVGA GTX 260 is really old too, but works fine for watching movies on the 37" in the bedroom

 

[MongGrel]

http://www.supermicro.com.tr/press111708.cfm.htm
X58 is also used for server boards. "Design changes, however, have been made to the IOH component of the Intel® 5500 & 5520 chipset and the Intel® X58 Express chipset and will require customers to perform re-qualification. Please see the Intel® 5500 & 5520 chipset OR Intel® X58 Express chipset Specification Update"

Because of this, I took a chance and bought a Kingston 12Gb kit off ebay.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139720

NewEgg priced @ $179, sealed package, for $37 knowing it is Apple ECC memory. I dropped it in my X58 Asus SaberTooth motherboard w/X650 CPU. Granted the ram is 1066, so wasn't expecting to overclock it much, but never changed bios settings from Patriot Sector 7 DDR3 1600 ram. To my surprise, it came right up running 1576Mgz. and passed all benchmarks same as the previous ram. ECC ram (unregistered) does work. New 4Gb sticks @ $12.33 ea. I'm smiling
Kingston Technology Lifetime warranty.
Known Compatibility list for KTA-MP1066K3/12G
Apple Mac Pro DDR3 (Early 2009)
Apple Xserve Xeon DDR3 (April 2009)
Apple - Mac Pro DDR3 (Mid 2010) 1CPU
Apple - Mac Pro DDR3 (Mid 2010) 2CPU
Apple - Mac Pro DDR3 (Mid 2012) Quad-Core, 6-Core, 12-Core

Is what the Skulltrail boards used to use wasn't it?

Heh.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2435

I can use some form of ECC in my P6T7, but have never bothered with it I guess.

 

[MongGrel]

Time to go to work just came in

BBL, reinstalling crap.

Hasn't even tweaked the BIOS any, installing it at 3.8

Maybe should have put it at stock, I used to.

 

[Trinamo]

Quick question, which dictates the max RAM one can have installed. The CPU or the MB? Obviously there are only so many slots but if going from an old i7 that could only support 12gb to the X5650 which can support nuts amounts, could or should I be able to take it higher with 8gb sticks instead of the 3 4gbs I have now? Not that I need it at the moment but it would be useful information to have. Thanks!

 

[MongGrel]

I've never used above 12 myself personally on any.

Might be different these days, but it's really not that big of an increase in benefits, can actually slow you down and make an OC harder.

Depends one what you are doing I imagine, I'd think higher would be more for video editing, etc.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Time to go to work just came in

BBL, reinstalling crap.

Hasn't even tweaked the BIOS any, installing it at 3.8

Maybe should have put it at stock, I used to.

Good luck, man! Let us know how it goes

 

[Burpo]

Nice cooler on that Mongrel! Sweet spare box..
I'll be building soon (just got a Saphire Radeon 6970 w/2gb for $47 )
I'm going really cheap this time with X5550 Xeon & 12Gb ECC ram, a spare 1Tb WD and an old DVD writer (about $235 total for the build

And yes to the other question. With a Xeon CPU, you can use 8gb sticks for total of 48gb

 

[Trinamo]

And yes to the other question. With a Xeon CPU, you can use 8gb sticks for total of 48gb

Actually it'd only be 24GB. triple channel, three slots only. But Thanks Burpo, its nice to know that I should have that head room if I was to need it some day.

 

[Trinamo]

I've never used above 12 myself personally one any.

Might be different these days, but it's really not that big of an increase in benefits, can actually slow you down and make an OC harder.

Depends one what you are doing I imagine, I'd think higher would be more for video editing, etc.

HOLY MOLY Dude!!!!! 17k post! wow! But yeah, HD video editing in the works for me with larger projects on the way. My build has gone a little nuts to the point where I had to purchase a supplemental PSU for my trifire operation

 

[MongGrel]

This thing being a bitch atm, thought I had it easy.

I'll kick it's ass yet

*edit* yeah have it now, time to tweak shit.

 

[Makaveli]

Actually it'd only be 24GB. triple channel, three slots only. But Thanks Burpo, its nice to know that I should have that head room if I was to need it some day.

There is someone on the forum that had 48GB of ram running on gulftown so it works just the manuals say max supported is 24GB.

 

[MongGrel]

Getting there. reinstalling everything atm and trying to OC and update a bit of a PITA atm.

Looks will be a nice fast little clean machine, redoing things at 3.85 on it at the moment posting this.

It'll evolve a bit more of course.

I like a nice new clean install sometimes

 

[MongGrel]

Probably because they are SR-2 boards, and not X58.

Just on a side note, yeah, SR-2s are X58.

 

[MongGrel]

Mini HAF back on HTPC duty in the bedroom at 3.85 Ghz

Just leaving it there for now, it's happy and running more than fast enough for what it does.