mihapiha
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Hi guys.
I've been googling for a while to find out whether or not I could overclock a Xeon processor on my motherboard.
Currently I have 4930k installed and I have the system water cooled.
The System is now a little over a year old and I want to improve it a little bit. The graphic card improvement to 980Xs is an option, but I'm not too interested in that option because my system is running just fine with my 3x 290Xs on 4k maxed out.
I ran a stability test just yesterday for these CPU clocks to prove their stability:
That's a little over 1h of Prime95 (still my favorite stress test)
Updating to X99 seems not to worth the effort since I'd have to buy so much new crap and I doubt I'd gain that much. However, my P9X79E-WS motherboard also supports Xeon CPUs, including the E5-2600 v2 gen.
The Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2, 10x 3.00GHz has caught my eye and imagination, but this would only be interesting if I can overclock the CPU a bit. My problem in this case is the CPU strap. On my 4930k I can strap the BaseClock to 125 no problem, and with the multiplier of 36 (turbo) on the Xeon, there are potentially 4.5 GHz to be reached. My 4930k isn't that good of an overclocker and I feel, it is not the best hardware part in my system. With 32 GB memory installed I can't get them to run 2400 MHz which with 16 GB was no problem. Obviously the limitation of the memory controller in the CPU...
The Xeon would easily overpower even the 8-core OC on the X99 chipset. A nice addition for my rending efforts, but a downgrade for my gaming, if the Xeons don't allow a higher CPU strap. Also that would mean I only need to spend 1h on my computer to change CPUs rather than a day, where a full Windows reinstall seems like a good idea.
Does anybody know whether it is possible to change the CPU strap with my motherboard on Xeon processors or is that option entirely deactivated?
It is unfortunately too expensive of an exploration effort I fear, and I rather would look for an alternative to spend my money if the Xeons are not overclockable.
I've been googling for a while to find out whether or not I could overclock a Xeon processor on my motherboard.
Currently I have 4930k installed and I have the system water cooled.
The System is now a little over a year old and I want to improve it a little bit. The graphic card improvement to 980Xs is an option, but I'm not too interested in that option because my system is running just fine with my 3x 290Xs on 4k maxed out.
I ran a stability test just yesterday for these CPU clocks to prove their stability:
That's a little over 1h of Prime95 (still my favorite stress test)
Updating to X99 seems not to worth the effort since I'd have to buy so much new crap and I doubt I'd gain that much. However, my P9X79E-WS motherboard also supports Xeon CPUs, including the E5-2600 v2 gen.
The Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2, 10x 3.00GHz has caught my eye and imagination, but this would only be interesting if I can overclock the CPU a bit. My problem in this case is the CPU strap. On my 4930k I can strap the BaseClock to 125 no problem, and with the multiplier of 36 (turbo) on the Xeon, there are potentially 4.5 GHz to be reached. My 4930k isn't that good of an overclocker and I feel, it is not the best hardware part in my system. With 32 GB memory installed I can't get them to run 2400 MHz which with 16 GB was no problem. Obviously the limitation of the memory controller in the CPU...
The Xeon would easily overpower even the 8-core OC on the X99 chipset. A nice addition for my rending efforts, but a downgrade for my gaming, if the Xeons don't allow a higher CPU strap. Also that would mean I only need to spend 1h on my computer to change CPUs rather than a day, where a full Windows reinstall seems like a good idea.
Does anybody know whether it is possible to change the CPU strap with my motherboard on Xeon processors or is that option entirely deactivated?
It is unfortunately too expensive of an exploration effort I fear, and I rather would look for an alternative to spend my money if the Xeons are not overclockable.
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