My best overclocking results were when I replaced the Northbridge/ Southbridge thermal paste and replaced thermal pads. Every time I'd buy an x58 mobo for cheap from someone who was about to throw it away they were all dirty lol so at least northbridge repasting is a must
I am at 4.4ghz with my X5675. I will post the settings later. I am however unhappy with the temps, that exceed 90 degrees after some minutes, so I will try to improve cooling, but mostly I want to reduce the voltage.
@@HardwareShenanigans I managed to increase the clock speed to almost 4.5, and lowered voltages. I have added a fan to cool the ram, and this magically also made the CPU temps decrease. They are now under 90 during a 10 minute stress test, which is fine. 4.4-4.5 should be attainable for most people, Tech Yes City does it for example. The card is a great overclocker, and in Cinebench it performs as well as an i7-7700k at stock speeds.
Sure thing. These cpus are truly special. Right now I am testing a 7700k for an upcoming video and man, I strugle to get past 1050 points in cinebench r15.
Guys 7700k is 4/8 not 6/12, what did you expect? 1050 points are more than better for an 6/12 ,means you have 210+ single core....more than an i5 10400f....
@@HardwareShenanigans Interesting. I've yet to see more than 85 watts in my testing... as I wrote, however, temps w/H/T on were as much as 85-90, which is too much.....
I have an x5670 @ 4,4 ghz on air and i want a silent pc on air. that was bit of a challange.... but with good air cooler. good flow .. and a good 120 mm from the bottom i finaly got it work with low fanspeeds and very silent even under load. max temp in cinebench 80 degrees. asus deluxe v2. vcore 1..330 pll 1,88 1600 mhz ram corsair.. in games there is no much difference for higher ram speed. funfact ... you can put a high end graphic cards in that system and in 4k or 2k the cpu doesnt bottleneck. very funny for that old system. but gpu prices are skyhigh and i must wait for an upgrade. P.S. long live the x58 :-)
Absolutely! These cpu's are sooo good. I tried one with my vega 56 and if I pushed more that 1080p I couldn't see much difference. One of my favourite platform. Maybe just x79 being on top. Anyway thanks for the comment!
@@HardwareShenanigans You welcome and thanks for the video. Yes x79 are good ones. x99 i saw a lot of new cheap chinese boards. But i don t trust them. If u can go cheap fo an old x79. Go for it.. and let us know :-) cheers
Well I tried to get my hands on a X99 board but they are soooo expensive. I managed to get a hold of a 5820k for a steal 50$ but ofc i have no mobo for it. Also looking into X79 boards to retest my 3930k but again no luck. If i manage to get any, I will surely make a video on it.
Can any one tell me how open bios x58 in dell t3500 because when i press dell- f12 it appears different bios . Not like appears in this video. Why ? Any help please
Hey! The bios on your motherboard is different for the ASUS one I have shown in the video. This is normal because different manufacturers use different bios.
I have the x5675 paired with asus p6x58d-e overclocked to 3.91ghz @ 1.264v but with turbo enabled it boosting to 4.25ghz at the same vcore and qpi/dram core volt is 1.26250v blck 170 is this good?
If it is stabile then that should be sweet. You can yes the turbo stability with Asus RealBench and see if the cpu can boost corectly. Anyway thanks for the comment and sorry for the late response.
Firstly, sorry for the late answer. Secondly, QPI is the speed of the CPU - Northbridge interconect. PCIE is linked to the Northbride and has a separate clock on X58. It is called PCIE clock. So if you don't tweak that, the pcie spec will remain the same and the gpu will be fine.
@@HardwareShenanigans Thanks for the info the PCIE frequency is already set to 100mhz which is ok. As for the QPI is where I'm kinda lost as I don't know if I'm suppose to go higher or lower in clock speed as it currently running 3060x2= 6,120mhz because I seen a few sites stating that the Uncore ratio for the xeon x5675 should be 1.5x and other stated 2x. Is there a limit on the uncore ratio where it effect overall system performance or does it bottleneck the performance toward the ram and gpu side of things?
So as far as I go, I know there is a hardware limit at 8000MT/s and as long as you stay under that, the system should be perfectly fine. That being said, if you can get a bigger QPI speed under 8kMT/s then go for it. Also remember to test the system in prime95 to validate that it is stable
@@HardwareShenanigans I got an Asus Sabertooth a while ago (for the USB 3 and SATA III (well, only two ports and finicky due to the early Marvel Raid controller.) I've added an X5680 and had it clocked to 4620.... temps are high, esp w/CB20 (scores very good at about 2130. Dropped it to 4554 (185x23 ram 1580--3x8 and 3x4) temps still at 85 max. Air cooled Cpu-z 415/3149
Use the same setings as in my video for the X5650 and you should be fine just fine. The x5670 is a better chip and so it can do even higher clocks for the same voltage so play with it a little. Have fun!
Is it even possible to undervolt this CPUs without setting a fixed voltage? my Sabertooth X58 has offset mode, but it only Increases the voltage, I cannot see a 'negative voltage' option, am I missing something or has it always been like this?
I haven't tried to offset OC or UV so I couldn't tell, but I think that the undervolt offset option first came about tin the consumer space. On x58 most people would OC rather than UV. So in conclusion, if there is no option in the bios I am afraid that only fixed voltage will do the trick. Hope I helped.
Interesting CPU you've got. Well considering a 2.13 ghz base clock that means you should shoot for maybe 3.5-3.7 as only bclk will let you increase the clock. Try a 213 Bclk. That should push the cpu up a bit but also make sure to increase the voltage! Hope I helped and keep me posted.
@@HardwareShenanigans aha,Now I use cheap X58.It not over clock.The modified BIOS can support overclocking.But the power supply is only 4+1. Let's try it. :)
C states are not affected by overclocking as they are responsible for power saving while idle-ing. Disable them only for stability testing, but for daily usage keep them enabled.
@@HardwareShenanigans Well. Since you do actually reply. A big thank you btw. I went and got the W3690. Do I baseclock overclock and then play with the multiplier? I haven't gotten an answer from anywhere on that one.
The 25 multi is considered the best. For starters, just play with the BCLK for memory OC. Once you got a satisifying OC on the memory keep the BCLK as is and then use the multi to max out the CPU.
huanahi x58 r3.0 rx550 4gb oc xeon 5660 16gb ram (1x8gb 1600ghz and 1x16 1333ghz) can you help me with this ?? It happens to me that I have some ram at 1333 Mzh and they work at 1060 Mzh I went to the bio and put it to work 1333 fixed, BUT in cpu z it tells me 534 ghz and I do a test in aida 64 and it says 1064 ghz. i want the motherboard bus to run at 1333 gzh u be able to do a little OC. please help
Hmm looks like that motherboards dosent properly support Memory OC. Try to raise the BCLK from 133 to 160, that shold push both memory and CPU. Also another thing that you can try is to set UNCORE to double the ram speed in bios ( for 1333 it is 2666 in bios ) if that is under double the mobo will not be able to apply the Memory OC. Try that first as I had some issues myself with UNCORE. Keep me posted!
hope intel can twick binary for mordern load voltage....since it quite similar with i9....it can reduce voltage pretty similar like i5....lazy to buy new one...same with ram...now technology allow we do that...im blue beam used....you should respect....bunch of lizard in my pc....enternet can reach up to 300 max....not 1.5max...im poor af right now....dont distrub me...and dont follow me....bios actv processor just been update by gene it think....gonna check new old video...they using like polariod filters....viewr years twix
My best overclocking results were when I replaced the Northbridge/ Southbridge thermal paste and replaced thermal pads. Every time I'd buy an x58 mobo for cheap from someone who was about to throw it away they were all dirty lol so at least northbridge repasting is a must
Absolutley. I repasted my P6T before I sold it, and I agree, it a must, for these old boards.
I am at 4.4ghz with my X5675. I will post the settings later. I am however unhappy with the temps, that exceed 90 degrees after some minutes, so I will try to improve cooling, but mostly I want to reduce the voltage.
Well these xeons aren't really known for their efficiency ;). At 4.4 ghz you should consume upwards of 150w so get a beefy cooler.
@@HardwareShenanigans I managed to increase the clock speed to almost 4.5, and lowered voltages. I have added a fan to cool the ram, and this magically also made the CPU temps decrease.
They are now under 90 during a 10 minute stress test, which is fine.
4.4-4.5 should be attainable for most people, Tech Yes City does it for example. The card is a great overclocker, and in Cinebench it performs as well as an i7-7700k at stock speeds.
Sure thing. These cpus are truly special. Right now I am testing a 7700k for an upcoming video and man, I strugle to get past 1050 points in cinebench r15.
Guys 7700k is 4/8 not 6/12, what did you expect? 1050 points are more than better for an 6/12 ,means you have 210+ single core....more than an i5 10400f....
@@HardwareShenanigans Interesting. I've yet to see more than 85 watts in my testing... as I wrote, however, temps w/H/T on were as much as 85-90, which is too much.....
I'm at 4.6Ghz on 1.36 voltage at a max of 70 Celcius at full load (Asus P6T)
I have an x5670 @ 4,4 ghz on air and i want a silent pc on air. that was bit of a challange.... but with good air cooler. good flow .. and a good 120 mm from the bottom i finaly got it work with low fanspeeds and very silent even under load. max temp in cinebench 80 degrees. asus deluxe v2. vcore 1..330 pll 1,88 1600 mhz ram corsair.. in games there is no much difference for higher ram speed. funfact ... you can put a high end graphic cards in that system and in 4k or 2k the cpu doesnt bottleneck. very funny for that old system. but gpu prices are skyhigh and i must wait for an upgrade. P.S. long live the x58 :-)
Absolutely! These cpu's are sooo good. I tried one with my vega 56 and if I pushed more that 1080p I couldn't see much difference. One of my favourite platform. Maybe just x79 being on top. Anyway thanks for the comment!
@@HardwareShenanigans You welcome and thanks for the video. Yes x79 are good ones. x99 i saw a lot of new cheap chinese boards. But i don t trust them.
If u can go cheap fo an old x79. Go for it.. and let us know :-) cheers
Well I tried to get my hands on a X99 board but they are soooo expensive. I managed to get a hold of a 5820k for a steal 50$ but ofc i have no mobo for it. Also looking into X79 boards to retest my 3930k but again no luck. If i manage to get any, I will surely make a video on it.
@@HardwareShenanigans Good luck then. :-)
are these settings good for asus P6T SE with x5650 ? also whats the recommended psu wattage for a good 4.2 ghz oc?
You are good with 600+ Watt.
More important is what kind of GPU you are using
Dependingf on your GPU, you need an hihg wattage PSU
Can any one tell me how open bios x58 in dell t3500 because when i press dell- f12 it appears different bios . Not like appears in this video. Why ? Any help please
Hey! The bios on your motherboard is different for the ASUS one I have shown in the video. This is normal because different manufacturers use different bios.
@@HardwareShenanigans thank you for replying . I appreciate that . But can i ask you . Does any way make my cpu xeon x5650 overclock ? And thank you
I have the x5675 paired with asus p6x58d-e overclocked to 3.91ghz @ 1.264v but with turbo enabled it boosting to 4.25ghz at the same vcore and qpi/dram core volt is 1.26250v blck 170 is this good?
If it is stabile then that should be sweet. You can yes the turbo stability with Asus RealBench and see if the cpu can boost corectly. Anyway thanks for the comment and sorry for the late response.
@@HardwareShenanigans I'm wondering is it the qpi link for interacting with the GPU side of things
Firstly, sorry for the late answer. Secondly, QPI is the speed of the CPU - Northbridge interconect. PCIE is linked to the Northbride and has a separate clock on X58. It is called PCIE clock. So if you don't tweak that, the pcie spec will remain the same and the gpu will be fine.
@@HardwareShenanigans Thanks for the info the PCIE frequency is already set to 100mhz which is ok. As for the QPI is where I'm kinda lost as I don't know if I'm suppose to go higher or lower in clock speed as it currently running 3060x2= 6,120mhz because I seen a few sites stating that the Uncore ratio for the xeon x5675 should be 1.5x and other stated 2x. Is there a limit on the uncore ratio where it effect overall system performance or does it bottleneck the performance toward the ram and gpu side of things?
So as far as I go, I know there is a hardware limit at 8000MT/s and as long as you stay under that, the system should be perfectly fine. That being said, if you can get a bigger QPI speed under 8kMT/s then go for it. Also remember to test the system in prime95 to validate that it is stable
Can I use your guidelines for overclocking a P6X58D-Premium and I7-980X?
You sure can. You are also better off with using higher multipliers (like 22 and 23, even 24) as your CPU is unlocked.
@@HardwareShenanigans I got an Asus Sabertooth a while ago (for the USB 3 and SATA III (well, only two ports and finicky due to the early Marvel Raid controller.) I've added an X5680 and had it clocked to 4620.... temps are high, esp w/CB20 (scores very good at about 2130. Dropped it to 4554 (185x23 ram 1580--3x8 and 3x4) temps still at 85 max. Air cooled Cpu-z 415/3149
i hava x5670, how can i overclock it with safe setting??
Use the same setings as in my video for the X5650 and you should be fine just fine. The x5670 is a better chip and so it can do even higher clocks for the same voltage so play with it a little. Have fun!
@@HardwareShenanigans thanks u
Is it even possible to undervolt this CPUs without setting a fixed voltage? my Sabertooth X58 has offset mode, but it only Increases the voltage, I cannot see a 'negative voltage' option, am I missing something or has it always been like this?
I haven't tried to offset OC or UV so I couldn't tell, but I think that the undervolt offset option first came about tin the consumer space. On x58 most people would OC rather than UV. So in conclusion, if there is no option in the bios I am afraid that only fixed voltage will do the trick. Hope I helped.
I have a L5639 ,How much do you recommend overclocking,The radiator use ProArtist B3 , :)
Interesting CPU you've got. Well considering a 2.13 ghz base clock that means you should shoot for maybe 3.5-3.7 as only bclk will let you increase the clock. Try a 213 Bclk. That should push the cpu up a bit but also make sure to increase the voltage! Hope I helped and keep me posted.
@@HardwareShenanigans aha,Now I use cheap X58.It not over clock.The modified BIOS can support overclocking.But the power supply is only 4+1. Let's try it. :)
Should be fine. Keep the VRM cool, maybe point a fan at it. Good luck!
Do you change any cpu settings. Such as C states?
C states are not affected by overclocking as they are responsible for power saving while idle-ing. Disable them only for stability testing, but for daily usage keep them enabled.
@@HardwareShenanigans oh! Well. Now I know. Thanks.
Glad to hear I helped! Cheers!
@@HardwareShenanigans Well. Since you do actually reply. A big thank you btw. I went and got the W3690. Do I baseclock overclock and then play with the multiplier? I haven't gotten an answer from anywhere on that one.
The 25 multi is considered the best. For starters, just play with the BCLK for memory OC. Once you got a satisifying OC on the memory keep the BCLK as is and then use the multi to max out the CPU.
huanahi x58 r3.0
rx550 4gb oc
xeon 5660
16gb ram (1x8gb 1600ghz and 1x16 1333ghz)
can you help me with this ?? It happens to me that I have some ram at 1333 Mzh and they work at 1060 Mzh I went to the bio and put it to work 1333 fixed, BUT in cpu z it tells me 534 ghz and I do a test in aida 64 and it says 1064 ghz.
i want the motherboard bus to run at 1333 gzh u be able to do a little OC.
please help
Hmm looks like that motherboards dosent properly support Memory OC. Try to raise the BCLK from 133 to 160, that shold push both memory and CPU. Also another thing that you can try is to set UNCORE to double the ram speed in bios ( for 1333 it is 2666 in bios ) if that is under double the mobo will not be able to apply the Memory OC. Try that first as I had some issues myself with UNCORE.
Keep me posted!
i have 1333 mhz ram can itake my xeonx5676 to 4ghz
You sure can. Just make sure that the RAM speed in bios is close to 1333 or try to overclock the ram as well.
hope intel can twick binary for mordern load voltage....since it quite similar with i9....it can reduce voltage pretty similar like i5....lazy to buy new one...same with ram...now technology allow we do that...im blue beam used....you should respect....bunch of lizard in my pc....enternet can reach up to 300 max....not 1.5max...im poor af right now....dont distrub me...and dont follow me....bios actv processor just been update by gene it think....gonna check new old video...they using like polariod filters....viewr years twix