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1366 X58 Xeon 5650

I will help you as soon as possible

you set vtt volt so much

Try set vtt 1.290v

Uncore 15 ram 8 dram volt 1.66v

Set Bclk 200 cpu 20

Vcore 1.270

Cpu clock drive 800
pci express clock drive 900

At mch/ich set all volt standard except ioh core 1.160v & qpi pll 1.160v

Don't forget disable all cpu features with power saving

Try with this settings
 
Love this CPU. With a baby coming up I want to save money building a workstation. Could anyone advise on the following please...

HP Z800 WorkStation Dual Socket LGA1366 Motherboard

If I were to socket this with two 5650 (or higher) CPU would it be worth it? I can get that motherboard plus two chips for around 150 quid. Coupled with some teamgroup RAM, a 980TI and a USB3.0 PCIe card I should be looking at a decent workstation/rig, right? Or do I need something special to have this run in a H440 PC case? I don't think I do but wanted to check with you guys first.

Forget that, heh.
 
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Congrats on baby, first one? I get tempted by that motherboard every now and again. Looks like a cheap way to build a 12 core 24 thread monster!

Edit, re-reading andy's blog reminded me why I had second thoughts about it, apart from the ball ache stuff like wiring and the case etc, he had a problem getting his 7970 going, think he though it was drawing too much power though the PCIe bus.
 
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tribz said:
Congrats on baby, first one? I get tempted by that motherboard every now and again. Looks like a cheap way to build a 12 core 24 thread monster!

Edit, re-reading andy's blog reminded me why I had second thoughts about it, apart from the ball ache stuff like wiring and the case etc, he had a problem getting his 7970 going, think he though it was drawing too much power though the PCIe bus.
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Yeah, first ^_^; heh, thanks.

Really would have loved if it had worked out but after seeing how much work would have to be done I decided that I am (lazy) against it. It originally got me real excited though as I thought it would be an easy way to create an epic cheap workstation.
 
Got a pair of 5650's in an SR2 up to 4.4 on water. Blows my 4770k Sabertooth at the same clock out the water. Could probably get more out of it but I'm happy with this as a 24/7 clock :)
 
I have. just bought one.. but wont overclock on my gigabyte board. wont boot above stock so I put my i7 at 3.5 back in
 
Just installed my x5650, which was instantly recognised. However, the thing won't overclock at all. Infact its incredibly flaky. Increasing the base clock by 10 resulted in an 'overclock failed' message upon restart. I'm not the most knowledgable of overclockers, but this board (msi x58m) has my i7 920 at 3.8GHz 24/7, so I don't think the board is the issue...

Currently running everything at stock (2.8ghz turboboosted, 1.1vcore) and it's fine temperature wise, doesn't go above 40c under full load. Do I have a dud chip or am I missing a setting?
 
AiiR said:
Just installed my x5650, which was instantly recognised. However, the thing won't overclock at all. Infact its incredibly flaky. Increasing the base clock by 10 resulted in an 'overclock failed' message upon restart. I'm not the most knowledgable of overclockers, but this board (msi x58m) has my i7 920 at 3.8GHz 24/7, so I don't think the board is the issue...

Currently running everything at stock (2.8ghz turboboosted, 1.1vcore) and it's fine temperature wise, doesn't go above 40c under full load. Do I have a dud chip or am I missing a setting?
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You are using a board I've not seen used before, and it could have derped power delivery being a MATX board.

I know the board you have and it was never considered a very high end board like the Rampage Gene. You may find that because you have six cores now wanting power it may not overclock.

I could be wrong of course, but I just don't see any other reason that it's not clocking. MSI have only really made a name for good boards since Sandy and beyond, their stuff before was just OK with several different AMD and Intel boards being particularly ropey and some would catch fire if you pushed them too hard.

Try and find out what sort of fets and phases your board uses and make sure it has the power delivery to overclock with.
 
If you look at the X58 M you can clearly see that MSI only really bothered cooling the northbridge.



Now if you look at Asus's Rampage Gene you can see that cooling continues on to the fets and so on.



TBH? I would count yourself lucky it even works at all and be happy to run it stock. MSI don't have the best track record when it comes to support, and even some of their 'military grade' boards leave a lot to be desired.

I had their absolute flagship X79 board (the MSI Big Bang Xpower II) and it lasted 11 months before the fets all failed and it could not even hold stock clocks. It used to down clock to 1.1ghz.

Military Grade my anus. Had that been in the field some one would have died.
 
You could try relaxing the memory timings while testing the overclock. I had some that would never post at advertised settings at stock frequency (and no longer buy any corsair memory :p )
 
I'll give it another go later.

Makes no sense that I was able to run the 920 at 3.8 but the 5650 won't go a touch above stock? :(

Edit - I also added an extra 6GB of memory to fill all the slots, could this be a cause?
 
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