Back into Overclocking!!

[Killjoy128]

Hi, just wanted to introduce myself onto the forums, been a long time since I used to have a custom W/C loop using an enhiemn aquarium pump and black ice radiator, at least 15 years ago, maybe even longer!
Recently got given an old xeon e5 2687w v2 8/16 and not really knowing much about old server equipment I did a usual scoot about on the interweb and discovered I would need an x79 motherboard. I thought about getting one of those new Chinese x79 boards with the randomised chipsets, but better judgement led me to purchase a second hand gigabyte ga-x79 ud3 rev1.1 board, which has so far been quite reliable. I also picked up 32Gb of corsair vengeance ddr3 1600 and sapphire rx580 8gb SE stuck it all inside one of those weird corsair carbide 600c with the inverted layout, now I know this is all old time gear and knowing these xeons are multiplier locked, I thought I would share my current overclock using a combination of bios settings and bclk adjustments. Currently I'm running 3.78 all cores and boost to 4.1 single core. im running a noctua nh-u14s with 2 fans and have included a screenshot of my prime 95 run as typing this post. I hope you can spare some overclocking love for this old timer and I hope to post back with some more pictures as time and wife/family permit.

 

[Killjoy128]

Yeah I have read a lot of people having problems getting a stable bclk past 105 on any x79 board. Not that many x79 boards about ga x79 ud3 seems to be the most common, perhaps because because they are trying to get rid. However I have the rev 1.1 board and it seems quite stable up to 105Mhz. There is a ga x79 up4 up on ebay at the moment which seems virtually identical to the ud3 except for the 8 dim slots instead of 4. Do you know if the capacitors are a different type on the up4 the whole board looks like it has the same components as the ud3.

I just noticed the ga-x79 up4 is a rev 1.1 board so it might well have had the same problems as x79 ud3 rev 1.0