Solved Your opinion for Intel Xeon E5620 CPU ( Video editing, gaming )

[Mellon Head]

My CPU even didnt break on 5GHz with 1,65V VCore on Server Motherboard
The Xeon X5650 i have is similar to the E5620 but has 2 cores less
so why should it break?

I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing this. That's almost a 100% overclock on air. It can't be stable 24/7, and if it is, it must throw so much heat into the room it's unbearable. Aside from that, a 7400 RPM fan must sound like a jet taking off.

As Layback said, 1.65 volts is in the toaster range. Even if it does work 24/7, you're running so far over voltage that you drastically shorten the life of your processor. If you're just OC'ing for sport, or to show off, that's fine, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that you can run that rig at 5 GHz for any length of time before blue screening, or shutting down from excess heat. What kind of temps are you getting? What did you use to load test? How long will it run at full load? With exotic liquid cooling or a Pelletier cooler I could accept that it might be plausible to run stable at that speed and voltage.

I need to see a CPU-Z validation before I even start to buy this one, and that will only tell me if you actually hit 5 GHz. It won't tell me if it's stable.

 

[Knogle]

My CPU even didnt break on 5GHz with 1,65V VCore on Server Motherboard
The Xeon X5650 i have is similar to the E5620 but has 2 cores less
so why should it break?

I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing this. That's almost a 100% overclock on air. It can't be stable 24/7, and if it is, it must throw so much heat into the room it's unbearable. Aside from that, a 7400 RPM fan must sound like a jet taking off.

As Layback said, 1.65 volts is in the toaster range. Even if it does work 24/7, you're running so far over voltage that you drastically shorten the life of your processor. If you're just OC'ing for sport, or to show off, that's fine, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that you can run that rig at 5 GHz for any length of time before blue screening, or shutting down from excess heat. What kind of temps are you getting? What did you use to load test? How long will it run at full load? With exotic liquid cooling or a Pelletier cooler I could accept that it might be plausible to run stable at that speed and voltage.

I need to see a CPU-Z validation before I even start to buy this one, and that will only tell me if you actually hit 5 GHz. It won't tell me if it's stable.

Even the Ivy Bridge CPU didnt die on 1,67 as u can see in the CPU-Z picture

i tested the Westmere CPU under Chinebench R15 and LinX
I will search for the CPU-Z Pictures

 

[Knogle]

Ahoy brothers

Just checked out the E5620 on MSI X58 Pro-E

Its possible to run it on 4,4GHz without problems


Check this out

Not broken yet

i will try lower voltages tomorrow..

 

[ThrashZone]

Have fun
http://www.sevenforums.com/benchmarks/

 

[Vladimir 1]

So .. what do you guys think about that ? ^^
All I am concerned now is the power consumption when it's overclocked to that much, I really dont want to increase my electric bills by too much, after all I am not the one who pays the bills so I guess I cant be that selfish, need to be careful with this

 

[ThrashZone]

So far I haven't seen anything as far as bench tests here
Are you going to visit and post benchmarks or what
http://www.sevenforums.com/benchmarks/

 

[Layback Bear]

Over clocking any computer will not raise the electric bill.

When over clocking a cpu your talking tenths of a volt DC.
You won't have a meter at home to measure the difference in wall outlet change because it would be so minute.

Go ahead and over clock it like you have been posting then you can go to the thread that ThrashZone has posted to gather your bragging rights.

 

[Vladimir 1]

@Layback Bear

Sorry but what do you mean by saying overclocking the CPU wont raise electric bills ? I dont quite understand you, as far as I know it happens often that people overclock their CPU / GPU and then end up " declocking " it just because of getting higher electric bills.
Do you mean that the difference will be barely visible or something like that ?

@TrashZone
Basically, the motherboard Knogle used for overclocking his E5620 is mine, I just ordered it on his address just so he can set the overclocking settings to the motherboard for me and he'll send me both the cooler and motherboard, once that's done I wont have to overclock it by myself because it'd be already done, I'll just have to place the new components in my PC case and that's all.

I guess I'll post my benchmark once I receive the components or just let Knogle do that

 

[Layback Bear]

What I mean is a over clocked computer will never show a effect on the electricity bill that one can measure. At lease my two over clocked computer don't have any more effect on my bill that a 50 watt light bulb would and I can't measure that either.

To me not over clocking to save on the electricity bill is foolish.
A while back I did a little research on this subject on line.
Their are all kinds of articles with charts and graphs indicating all kinds of things.

When I got done doing all the figuring the amount of extra my computers used being over clocked in a year I couldn't buy a StarBucks coffee with the difference.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Vladimir:

Everything I've read says that a heavily overclocked system might use about 20 percent more electricity than the same system not overclocked. Many Intel processors can provide a good overclock even when using stock voltage.

How much overclocking would add to your electricity bill depends on your local power rate per KWH, how many hours a day the PC runs, how much you stand on the throttle, and ultimately how many watts the system pulls from the wall socket.

In a non-gaming situation, the typical PC draws under 100 watts most of the time.

You can easily measure it with a Kill-A-Watt device.

 

[Vladimir 1]

I guess I shouldnt be worried for the electric bills, to me honestly 20% more doesnt really seem to be a big deal, but I'll just have to wait until next month when I receive my motherboard and cooler so I can test this on my own and see for once if it makes any noticable difference in the bills.
After all, the frequency can be lowered so .. let's just wait and see

Thank you for your message, ignatzatsonic

 

[ThrashZone]

It's actually funny
You're more worried about the electric bill than frying your cpu :roflmao:

 

[Indianatone]

Intel Xeon Quad Core 2 4GHz 12M Cache E5620 5 86GT s LGA1366 CPU Processor SLBV4 0675901039123 | eBay

When the used CPU cost as little as this I would not be too worried about frying the the CPU except the fact that it might take the motherboard ram and PSU with it. It would be a waste of a good CPU.

 

[Vladimir 1]

I havent yet received my motherboard and cooler so I cant really test this on my own.

I really dont want problems such as frying my CPU and other parts, I guess the PSU plays an important role here so .. could you guys tell me if my PSU is good enough for the overclocked CPU ?

My PSU is Delux ATX-750W P4

Sorry for the blurry picture, it's my phone's camera fault..

Im also thinking about upgrading my PSU to Antec VP500PC 500W
Antec - VP500PC

 

[Vladimir 1]

Anyone .. ?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I'm not sure where a 750w to a 500w psu is considered a upgrade
If referring just in brand name ?
I've never heard of Delux so I guess that's 1 possibility ?

Your o-c is more concerning than anything and the only question there is why are you o-cing it so much :shock:

You haven't done it for any SevenForum benchmark tests so again why ?

 

[Vladimir 1]

Hello,

The current PSU 750W I have is Delux PSU, company that doesnt exist anymore and when it existed it was mostly used in Russia / European balkan countries, so no doubt why you havent heard its name before.
There's nothing you can find for it on internet too.

The thing about this PSU is that it's not actually 750W, the real / continuous rate is like 200-250W and it does not offer any overheating protection etc, it's old and it's not effective. I bought my PC back in 2010, so the PSU is definitely not newer than 2010

The new one Im going to buy is 500W - 500W real power / continuous power and it's certificated for 80 Plus ( 82% effective, 80 plus bronze certificate ).

Anyway, I dont think I can find any better PSU for the money than that so .. I'll go for it

As for the SevenForums benchmark, the only reason why I havent posted benchmark results is because I dont have the components yet, I'll have my cooler and motherboard by the end of this month ( waiting for my brother to come back in my country because he's got my ordered components with him ), once I have them I'll make sure I post benchmark results

 

[Vladimir 1]

Hi there,

It's been a while since my last post in this thread.

Alright so, I finally got my new stuffs.
It took me a bit longer due to waiting for arrival of the new PSU I ordered. So, I bought Cooler Master B500 V2 500W PSU because my previous Delux 750W PSU had about 200-250W real power which is very low and too risky to use for the new components.

Now I have the Intel Xeon E5620 2,4 GHz overclocked to 3,6 GHz ( 50% overclock ) and so far there's absolutely no problems. Voltage is bellow the max recommended and everything else too.
The max temperature on 100% load is 63C ( about 14C less than the max recommended temperature which is 77.6C ) and before overclocking ( at 2,4 ghz base clock ) it was only 42C.

Anyway, I would like to run some benchmark tests which is the reason of my post this time, I would like you guys to recommend me some tests I shall run for my CPU.

Thank you

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Use the top 4 on this thread list would be a good start
http://www.sevenforums.com/benchmarks/

 

[duniek]

@ knogle

i read these tutorials few times, and still dont get it

i have X8DTT-F and also X8DTI-F also intel s5500bc

on first motherboard set fsb should work so no problem (will check later)

now i want to focus on X8DTI-F
bcoz is the same as you have i guess so will be easier to make it

i download RW-everything

i choose clock generator (19bytes)

i want to make 166FSB

which byte i should change? and what value put there?

also maybe for future i need 1,45V so you are using any vmods? or can be done via software (RW or DOS)
whatever