1366 X58 Xeon 5650

hornetstinger · 21 Jul 2017 at 13:29

I went for the x5670. Stock 2.9ghz, same as the 950, but overclocks to 3.8ghz on my first go at ocing this chip, haven't bothered to push it higher. Using Noctua D14.

Kryja · 21 Jul 2017 at 13:38

Right okay. The build would be in a 4U server case so I'm guessing I'd be limited to a select few which would be able to fit?

It'd be too hard to get one of these and not overclock it

[Darkend]Viper · 24 Jul 2017 at 18:53

Well not got my x5670 yet but thought i'd throw in a e5540 I had lying around and so far it's gone straight to 3.4ghz, but think memory is limiting me as it's only budget corsair 8500 ddr3, i've got 6 sticks of samsung 1066 but it's unfortunately ecc registered which my board, x58a-ud3r, doesn't seem to like as it wont post at all.

Looking forwards to the x5670 coming and thinking i'm replacing my old akasa eclipse 62 for a newer more modern designed case with better airflow and possibly a watercooling loop, but prob just end up with a AIO, instead of using my hyper 212x which is keeping temps at 60ish degrees.

AiiR · 24 Jul 2017 at 20:54

Advice please...

I have a 5650 running on an Asus Rampage Gene II. It's Prime95 stable at 4.4GHz easy, gets a little hot but no crashes whatsoever. Fire up PUBG and it crashes instantly, lowered the clock to 4.2 and still crashed. I've had to lower it all the way to 3.6GHZ to get it working stable. I haven't tried a fresh install of the game so may try that, but would there be any other reason why the chip is stable in Prime95 but needs to be dropped 800mhz to play PUBG?? Weird..

ocrease · 25 Jul 2017 at 00:58

AiiR said:
Advice please...

I have a 5650 running on an Asus Rampage Gene II. It's Prime95 stable at 4.4GHz easy, gets a little hot but no crashes whatsoever. Fire up PUBG and it crashes instantly, lowered the clock to 4.2 and still crashed. I've had to lower it all the way to 3.6GHZ to get it working stable. I haven't tried a fresh install of the game so may try that, but would there be any other reason why the chip is stable in Prime95 but needs to be dropped 800mhz to play PUBG?? Weird..

I've got an X5670 running on my Rampage Gene II. 4.2GHZ (200*21) @ 1.3v in the bios. DRAM at 1600 MHZ and UCLK at 2400 MHZ. All other voltages are at the minimum the board will allow, hyperthreading and speedstep enabled. DRAM timings set to 9-9-9-24. Oh and I'm running bios version 1405. I'll try take some photos of the bios screens in case you see anything different in yours. What are you guys using to upload photos?

Kelt · 25 Jul 2017 at 01:16

ocrease said:
I've got an X5670 running on my Rampage Gene II. 4.2GHZ (200*21) @ 1.3v in the bios. DRAM at 1600 MHZ and UCLK at 2400 MHZ. All other voltages are at the minimum the board will allow, hyperthreading and speedstep enabled. DRAM timings set to 9-9-9-24. Oh and I'm running bios version 1405. I'll try take some photos of the bios screens in case you see anything different in yours. What are you guys using to upload photos?

Imgur works great.

ocrease · 25 Jul 2017 at 01:36

There you go. Hope it helps. One thing I did disable is the Intel C-STATE Tech. With it enabled Windows 10 was doing wierd things. With it disabled its super smooth.

If anyone spots something thats not right, let me know! Forgot to mention earlier that it's 3x4Gb sticks of ram.

I still have my 3x2Gb sticks of 1600 MHz ram, but its rated for 1.65v rather than 1.5v of my new ram.

Oh and while I'm here, what does CPU differential amplitude do? And is it ok to leave it in auto?

AiiR · 26 Jul 2017 at 00:21

Thanks for those, mirrored those exact settings and the same result. Prime95 stable, but didn't last 5mins in PUBG! Might try another chip tomorrow as I have a spare one running in a server.

Kelt · 26 Jul 2017 at 01:19

AiiR said:
Thanks for those, mirrored those exact settings and the same result. Prime95 stable, but didn't last 5mins in PUBG! Might try another chip tomorrow as I have a spare one running in a server.

You sure it's the CPU crashing and not your GPU?

AiiR · 26 Jul 2017 at 02:01

Kelt said:
You sure it's the CPU crashing and not your GPU?

Fairly sure as the GPU will do several runs of Heaven and Superposition. Just before it crashes the screen starts lagging along with the sound and then it blue screens. I'm yet to try a fresh install of the game too so will try that too.

Kelt · 26 Jul 2017 at 02:23

AiiR said:
Fairly sure as the GPU will do several runs of Heaven and Superposition. Just before it crashes the screen starts lagging along with the sound and then it blue screens. I'm yet to try a fresh install of the game too so will try that too.

Guess it needs a bit more voltage then. I have mine @ 1.35V in the bios for comparison.

ocrease · 26 Jul 2017 at 08:04

AiiR said:
Thanks for those, mirrored those exact settings and the same result. Prime95 stable, but didn't last 5mins in PUBG! Might try another chip tomorrow as I have a spare one running in a server.

Kelt said:
You sure it's the CPU crashing and not your GPU?

Could it be your RAM instead? I noticed a few posts back that you are running 3x4 + 1x2. I would try it with just the 3x4. What spec RAM do you have?

When you run at 3.6GHz stable, how did you get that? Was it by reducing the multiplier or by reducing the BCLK?

Also, have you tried running IBT on maximum memory and threads set to 12?

AiiR said:
Fairly sure as the GPU will do several runs of Heaven and Superposition. Just before it crashes the screen starts lagging along with the sound and then it blue screens. I'm yet to try a fresh install of the game too so will try that too.

Unfortunately this brings back bad memories of overclocking my old i7 920. Sounds exactly like what I used to get. Never managed to get to the bottom of those issues though!

Kelt said:
Guess it needs a bit more voltage then. I have mine @ 1.35V in the bios for comparison.

If that fails is it worth increasing the QPI/DRAM core voltage or the CPU PLL Voltage? I was surprised that I didn't have to increase those.

ocrease · 26 Jul 2017 at 09:00

Here is a link to my attempt to fix that issue. I think I gave up too early on that occasion.

wam7 · 26 Jul 2017 at 10:38

ocrease said:
I've got an X5670 running on my Rampage Gene II. 4.2GHZ (200*21) @ 1.3v in the bios. DRAM at 1600 MHZ and UCLK at 2400 MHZ. All other voltages are at the minimum the board will allow, hyperthreading and speedstep enabled. DRAM timings set to 9-9-9-24. Oh and I'm running bios version 1405. I'll try take some photos of the bios screens in case you see anything different in yours. What are you guys using to upload photos?

This is one of the reasons why I stopped using Prime95 as stability tester a long time ago. It simply does not test all facets of the system. I would recommend using Realbench stress test and something like Unigine Superposistion/Valley BOTH RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME. You will find out pretty soon if it is just the game playing up or your system is really fully stable at that clock speed.

Uncle_Gravy · 14 Sep 2017 at 15:14

While i'm bored in work, thought i'd have an ask if anyone else has tried it with good results before I put what i'm going to do into practice later on tonight.

I have a x5660 and want to throw my GTX 980 at it, Reasons be, I want to see if I can game and stream on it at the same time, I've had a go at streaming with my 3770k 4.2GHz but unless i turn some settings down in OBS and games, games lag as well as the stream and looks like a blurry mess.

Will the x5660 with a mild overclock bottleneck a 980, if not anyone tried to stream and game on it at the same time with good results?

Cheers.

BongoHunter · 14 Sep 2017 at 15:25

Uncle_Gravy said:
While i'm bored in work, thought i'd have an ask if anyone else has tried it with good results before I put what i'm going to do into practice later on tonight.

I have a x5660 and want to throw my GTX 980 at it, Reasons be, I want to see if I can game and stream on it at the same time, I've had a go at streaming with my 3770k 4.2GHz but unless i turn some settings down in OBS and games, games lag as well as the stream and looks like a blurry mess.

Will the x5660 with a mild overclock bottleneck a 980, if not anyone tried to stream and game on it at the same time with good results?

Cheers.

My dual x5660's were fine with that kind of workload - but the CPU is getting a bit long in the tooth these days - how much memory have you got?

Uncle_Gravy · 14 Sep 2017 at 15:50

Only 8gb sitting it on 1333mhz.

It's just something to try out i guess, the machine sits there now doing nothing

In my head I reckon it'll do the job that i want better than the 3770k.

DragonQ · 14 Sep 2017 at 19:50

AiiR said:
Fairly sure as the GPU will do several runs of Heaven and Superposition. Just before it crashes the screen starts lagging along with the sound and then it blue screens. I'm yet to try a fresh install of the game too so will try that too.

My GPU undervolt was perfect for benchmarks but caused crashes in games. Had to up from about 1060 mV to 1085 mV. I'd definitely try running it at stock first to rule it out.

Dimos80 · 16 Sep 2017 at 11:46

Hello everybody, I'm glad this thread is still active for the trusty x58.
I would like to share my xp with my GA-X58A-UD5 Rev 2.0 board
Last week upgraded from i7 950 to an X5670,and here is my report, hopefully it will be helpful to users with similar builds.

PSU is Coolermaster GX750
I use Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro CPU Cooler
CPU runs at 4.2 Ghz not planning go any further.
I have 4x6 Corsair vengeance DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
My Ratio is 4:1
GPU is Gigabyte GTX770 OC Windforce 2GB (low mem i know hehe)

CPU Idle Temp around 36 in Windows 10 and OSX 10.12.6

In full load when gaming goes around 60 degrees and also when recording/mixing with loads of instruments and plugins on Osx.

All Cpu features are enabled, RAM runs at 1600.

Here are the photos in BIOS:

https://imgur.com/a/U0TN2
I haven't noticed any lag whatsoever, I am open to suggestions from more experienced users, thank you!

Dimos80 · 16 Sep 2017 at 11:47

Just in case the photos are not visible:

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