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That Asus board looks pretty tight Asrock would be my second choice
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Anyone here dealt with these ebayers? How do they have so many R3G's? Something about their listing tells me don't buy. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-Rampag..._DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cee3b76c3#viTabs_0
I've still got my xeons I bought a year ago. Still debating picking up a rampage board since they are turn-key.
Any other boards work with these xeons without modding? I don't want to have to count on getting a board with the correct rev. I'd just like to buy one and have it work. Would be really cool to see a list of such boards on the first post of this thread.
edit: I seem to have found a list Currently eyeballing a x58 sabertooth for sale near me.
For kicks and giggles try pulling three of the memory sticks temporarily. Keep the other three in the proper slots to enable triple channel. Seems to me I remember quite a few people having overclocking stability issues back in the early days of X58 with more than three banks populated, due to either boards having a more difficult time with all banks filled or possibly just a cpu with a weaker IMC.Giving the vcore 1.35 enabled boot and even wake from sleep, but the PC crashed as soon as I launched Skyrim, so still no go.
What's the worst that can happen if I remove my RAM and replace it with a single module that's not listed as officially supported? A friend of mine has this stick that I'd like to try out.
Giving the vcore 1.35 enabled boot and even wake from sleep, but the PC crashed as soon as I launched Skyrim, so still no go.
What's the worst that can happen if I remove my RAM and replace it with a single module that's not listed as officially supported? A friend of mine has this stick that I'd like to try out.
Giving the vcore 1.35 enabled boot and even wake from sleep, but the PC crashed as soon as I launched Skyrim, so still no go.
What's the worst that can happen if I remove my RAM and replace it with a single module that's not listed as officially supported? A friend of mine has this stick that I'd like to try out.
You can try to bump the qpi voltage, just don't go over 1.35v
Also have the uncore set to 2 x ram speed or one click lower. See if that helps at all.
Maybe list your system specks and the settings/voltage you have set now in the bios.
Include make model even the psu.
There's diminishing returns with faster memory speeds. Timings tend to be more important than frequency on X58. Memory is also one of the worst areas to spend extra money.
One thing to keep in mind though, faster memory will always give you more options though with regards to memory dividers, etc. Now I'm agreeing with the above poster, don't just waste money to get the fastest memory available, but the fastest, lowest latency, lowest voltage you can find without over paying is always preferable. I do recall a thorough memory "shootout" that was done on X58 a few years back that concluded gains above 1600MHz were minimal at best though.For memory is 1600 enough or should i aim for 1866 for memory?
The more memory you have the more it will stress the IMC and could potentially limit your overclock, best not to way overdo it if you don't actually foresee a situation in which you could use that much memory.with that i want to test to 48G of memory
One thing to keep in mind though, faster memory will always give you more options though with regards to memory dividers, etc. Now I'm agreeing with the above poster, don't just waste money to get the fastest memory available, but the fastest, lowest latency, lowest voltage you can find without over paying is always preferable. I do recall a thorough memory "shootout" that was done on X58 a few years back that concluded gains above 1600MHz were minimal at best though.
The more memory you have the more it will stress the IMC and could potentially limit your overclock, best not to way overdo it if you don't actually foresee a situation in which you could use that much memory.
Those temps aren't horrible with a Mugen 2 and single fan. What is your case airflow like? Have you measured the cooler intake temp vs room temp to see if there's some intake improvements to be found?
I use a Mugen 4 with 2 Noctua P12s on my 5660 at 4255 with similar volts at load (altho it uses offset voltage with my Sabertooth). With IBT or P95 hits the low 60s with core0 the hottest at 65. Ambient temp at 21, cooler intake temp at 23. Idles at 27.
Have you found an advantage to running a high BCLK and low mult? I've had the best success with the x23 Mult and lower BCLK (185).
Who will be upgrading to Skylake?
Who will be upgrading to Skylake?
Meh...
Those temps aren't horrible with a Mugen 2 and single fan. What is your case airflow like? Have you measured the cooler intake temp vs room temp to see if there's some intake improvements to be found?
I use a Mugen 4 with 2 Noctua P12s on my 5660 at 4255 with similar volts at load (altho it uses offset voltage with my Sabertooth). With IBT or P95 hits the low 60s with core0 the hottest at 65. Ambient temp at 21, cooler intake temp at 23. Idles at 27.
Have you found an advantage to running a high BCLK and low mult? I've had the best success with the x23 Mult and lower BCLK (185).
Meh...
Ditto. Skylake-E will probably be my next upgrade. I'm thoroughly amazed at how well x58 and Xeon has kept up to the new platforms.
EDIT: Or another way to word that is that I'm thoroughly amazed at how poorly the new CPU's have scaled with regard to IPC. lol
The X58 platform has had exceptionally long legs and has been given a great boost with these cheap six core Xeons floating around that can clock well beyond their intended speeds, but don't kid yourselves. I have an X58, X79 and X99 and my 5960X even at it's daily settings (4.5GHz) just blisters my X5670 at it's balls out benchmarking setting of 4.9GHz in per core performance to the tune of roughly 20%. It gets even worse if you take into account the two additional cores and if I were to compare it at it's peak benching speed. In fact the 3930K is closer in performance per core to the 5960X than the X5670 is to the 3930K, so headway is being made. I think we're just not noticing it as much anymore due to default clock speeds being stagnated and possibly we've gotten to a point where many cpus which aren't necessarily the fastest are "fast enough" for most anything we ask of them.
The X58 platform has had exceptionally long legs and has been given a great boost with these cheap six core Xeons floating around that can clock well beyond their intended speeds, but don't kid yourselves. I have an X58, X79 and X99 and my 5960X even at it's daily settings (4.5GHz) just blisters my X5670 at it's balls out benchmarking setting of 4.9GHz in per core performance to the tune of roughly 20%. It gets even worse if you take into account the two additional cores and if I were to compare it at it's peak benching speed. In fact the 3930K is closer in performance per core to the 5960X than the X5670 is to the 3930K, so headway is being made. I think we're just not noticing it as much anymore due to default clock speeds being stagnated and possibly we've gotten to a point where many cpus which aren't necessarily the fastest are "fast enough" for most anything we ask of them.
CPU: x5650
Mobo: ASUS Rampage 3 Gene
RAM: OCZ Gold (12 GB)
PSU: Seasonic SS750KM3
Graphics: Gigabyte R9 290x Windforce
No surprise really, a x5670 needs about 4.1ghz or so to equal a stock 3930k (all cores maxed),
I wish I had dropped back in here to help you..I fought so much with the Rampage II Extreme and the RIII Gene that I can recite BIOS settings in my sleep..Glad to see you got it working though!!
This thread makes me sad that I sold my i970 (4.2Ghz from day 1) and Rampage combo, but I have been Very happy with my current 3770K @ 5ghz..I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Overclocking, and prefer to get the max 24/7 clocks then playing with 1 min LN2 runs anymore..
PS, if anyone decides to grab one of these Rampage III+930+6GB combos and wants to sell off some of the 2GB ram sticks, let me know..I would be willing to take 2 or 4 of them to upgrade some dual channel machines that only have 4GB of ram..