Xeon L5639 Overclocking on X58

[MongGrel]

The previous 10 pages. sounds like a lot but it really isn't. Quite a few helpful screenshots and a few methods that are stable. It's going to be trial and error unless you get lucky and can jump straight to what BURPO and I are running or higher. oh, be water cooled.

Yeah, what he said.

A large part of the thread in general are things to try.

Just doing what Trinamo suggested takes less time than you'd think and should yield good starter results.

I'm still on air on air myself with the X5680, almost wish had looked for a X5675 when they dropped, but not going to sweat that one.

I'm cozy with it, you just have to adjust things for your chip at a certain point.

I've been lazy and still haven't put my X5650 in the other room, he he.

 

[Burpo]

Benchmark it first.. (Cinebench)
then overclock..
Benchmark again

 

[ClockHound]

Ah come on you guys...give him some starting points....and not that ritual 1.65V CPU hazing you gave me.

Blue_Max, if your board supports offsets rather than fixed values, I'd start there.

- XMP mode, Speedstep enabled, 22X Mult for the 5650
- BCLK 190(ish)
- PCIE Freq: 102
- DRAM Freq - below the XMP rating to start - no need to overclock everything at once.
- UCLK - auto or to be safe(ish) X2 RAM Freq.
- 4200+ should be easy with < .2V offset and < 1.25V QPI voltage. Leave other stuff on Auto and then tweak from there.

Monitor:
CPUz
HWmon
OpenHardwareMon
Cats

Oh and read the past 30-50 pages... :biggrin:

 

[MongGrel]

Ah come on you guys...give him some starting points....and not that ritual 1.65V CPU hazing you gave me.

Oh and read the past 30-50 pages... :biggrin:

 

[ClockHound]

That's where I'm running also.. With everything enabled, 200bclk is. stable for everything.. It can bench higher, but programs I use start to get wonky (crash to desktop etc.). Rendering blu-rays takes more than an hour & temps are in the 80's the whole time. I'm @ +.250 volts & going any higher, it eventually throttles.

Wait! What?

That screenshot shows the turbo spooling up to 4600 at 1.24V - you really have a platinum coated golden chip. Can you run all six gilded cores stable at 4400 at 1.24(ish) under IBT or Prime???

If the answer is yes, don't answer, I'm not jealous by nature, but there's a limit.

 

[Burpo]

Can you run all six gilded cores stable at 4400 at 1.24(ish) under IBT or Prime???

If the answer is yes, don't answer, I'm not jealous by nature, but there's a limit.

Lol, not hardly.. nothing golden about my chip.. Board's nice tho
Adaptive voltage does hit 1.4v under load..

 

[ClockHound]

Lol, not hardly.. nothing golden about my chip.. Board's nice tho
Adaptive voltage does hit 1.4v under load..

*Whew* - I mean, that's horrible. You poor guy, suffering with the rest us plebs running $1000 server chips 40-65% OC'd on a tenth the budget.

Yes, the really like my Sabertooth too. Other than that one iffy RAM slot.

 

[Haserath]

Anyone know if replacing the TIM on an old board would help stability?

I've actually already done so on the northbridge. I didn't replace the rubber tape that was on the MOSFETs; it held up really well and didn't seem to need replacement(though I might be wrong?).

Took 10-20 minutes to wipe the solid paste off. Looks like I need to get to that sooner next time.()

Figured if anyone else was having instability, this might help?

 

[Trinamo]

*Whew* - I mean, that's horrible. You poor guy, suffering with the rest us plebs running $1000 server chips 40-65% OC'd on a tenth the budget.

Yes, the really like my Sabertooth too. Other than that one iffy RAM slot.

I'm in on this thread just because of the 5650. I'm pulling nearly identical to Burpo using a 5-6 year old Alienware.

 

[Burpo]

Well, my 5650's arrived and plugged in, running stock so far. Would love some advice on:

- best overclocking tips
- best app to monitor the CPU for temp/wattage

What's the word Blue_Max? How's it bench? Have any luck overclocking? Worth while upgrade? Let us know please..

 

[ClockHound]

Yeah, Blue_Max, after how (almost) helpful everyone has been in the past few pages, the least you could do to show your gratitude, is to post some benchies. Or give us a raspberry. :biggrin:

 

[Blue_Max]

Hey, I work 13h days - gimme' a break. I'll try overclocking it on my days off... should have some results in 24h.

...okay... moving up a little at a time... up to 24x multiplier and 150FSB = 3.5GHz

Will keep you posted, I suppose... I had to give up on reading 6 pages in... just too much info at once.

...now 24x and 170FSB ...and climbing. Anything I'm missing?

 

[Burpo]

You have an X5660? Never seen an X5650 @ 24X..

Did you run any bench's at stock? Gonna need to bump volts soon.. Maybe above 185..

 

[YBS1]

You have an X5660? Never seen an X5650 @ 24X..

Did you run any bench's at stock? Gonna need to bump volts soon.. Maybe above 185..

Nothing unusual about that, that's just it's "single/dual core multiplier". I see 25X on occasion with the 5670. Now if he can somehow lock that in with 6 cores under load that would be a neat motherboard quirk.

 

[hasu]

I see 25X on occasion with the 5670.

Is that Intel Turbo Boost? Default multiplier for X5670 is 22x.
Where do you see the current value?

 

[Burpo]

There is NO 24X for X5650.. Max turbo is 23X! He has to have an X5660..

 

[YBS1]

There is NO 24X for X5650.. Max turbo is 23X! He has to have an X5660..

Yeah, I assumed he had a 5660. I'm on my phone, I guess I thought that's what you had in your post I quoted.

 

[Burpo]

Whoa.. AscendTech still has the Foxconn Bloodrage Gti LGA1366 Intel X58 for $120 w/free shipping!
Only 3 slots for RAM & no Firewire, but I like it has Legacy support for FDD & IDE.. and it overclocks!
http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-bloodrage-gti-lga1366-intel-x58_i_mb7foxbloodrage.aspx

 

[scannall]

Whoa.. AscendTech still has the Foxconn Bloodrage Gti LGA1366 Intel X58 for $120 w/free shipping!
Only 3 slots for RAM & no Firewire, but I like it has Legacy support for FDD & IDE.. and it overclocks!
http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-bloodrage-gti-lga1366-intel-x58_i_mb7foxbloodrage.aspx

As much as these X58 boards are going for I'm a little tempted to sell one of my ASUS P6T's.

 

[Burpo]

Whoa.. AscendTech still has the Foxconn Bloodrage Gti LGA1366 Intel X58 for $120 w/free shipping!
Only 3 slots for RAM & no Firewire, but I like it has Legacy support for FDD & IDE.. and it overclocks!
http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-bloodrage-gti-lga1366-intel-x58_i_mb7foxbloodrage.aspx

Add Xeon @ $80 & have the best value desktop setup going. For $200 you get 4.2 hex core goodness.. less than an i5 cpu.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...425?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item54195acad1

 

[Blue_Max]

Well, I SET 24, but I guess it's only registering 23. Told you I didn't know what I was doing and your basic instructions were to "read 20 pages, maybe you'll find it!"

 

[Burpo]

Not my instructions.. What board?

 

[Blue_Max]

23 and 180MHz... still climbing. Holy crap this thing is impressive...

 

[MongGrel]

Whoa.. AscendTech still has the Foxconn Bloodrage Gti LGA1366 Intel X58 for $120 w/free shipping!
Only 3 slots for RAM & no Firewire, but I like it has Legacy support for FDD & IDE.. and it overclocks!
http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-bloodrage-gti-lga1366-intel-x58_i_mb7foxbloodrage.aspx

Looks a pretty nice deal, had no idea anyone was still selling X58's like that.

Makes just building one from scratch almost still viable these days.

As much as these X58 boards are going for I'm a little tempted to sell one of my ASUS P6T's.

Same here actually, but I like the P6T in my HTPC, and the little bit of cash not worth it

 

[MongGrel]

23 and 180MHz... still climbing. Holy crap this thing is impressive...

:thumbsup::thumbsup: