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Happens on my msi board now and then but I'll reload the OC profile, reboot and all is good again. I noticed it is more prone to this behavior if I disconnect it from the wall socket or turn off power supply (hard off ?!? don't know the expression) but it can be an issue of mine. Btw, it only happens when I near the oc limit on my system. In my case, usually if I go beyond 210 in bclk.

I have a cooler mastrer evo 212 and it suits my needs perfectly. I also did install an inferior cooler caster hyper TX3 in my daughters PC and I can OC her L5639 to 3.9 Ghz with no effort. Also, nice temps.

Has anyone been able to try out bifurcation on these boards? Does this quote from the Intel X58 spec sheet mean that it would need to be something built into a BIOS so it can be configured or would bifurcation just technically work if I use something like a x16 NVMe adapter card?

3.2.2.1
Port Bifurcation
The IOH supports port bifurcation using PEWIDTH[5:0] hardware straps. The IOH supports the following configuration modes:
• The width of all links are exactly specified by the straps
• The width of all links are programmed by the BIOS using the PCIE_PRTx_BIF_CTRL register (wait on BIOS mode

Bifurcation ,what is this?

What are you trying to do?

I have a P6T7 WS mobo with the two NF200 chips and can use a lot of PCIe lanes. Even mentioning the NF200 chips mucks up the whole idea but in the end if I can get away with being able to use bifurcation on the chipset-provided lanes then I could theoretically install multiple ASUS Hyper x16 cards with storage SSD's installed on that and have them run as independent drives. My thought is that the basic design of the ASUS card (i.e. it doesn't have a controller, if relies on board support for it to function) would work on X58 because it would just be a way to link up 4 M.2 drives.

I'm just trying to do any research I can before I attempt to do this. I can theoretically install a 2 or 3 of these (probably would go with 2, run my GPU in x8 and an extra PCIe to sata III adapter card along with that pairing and still be able to use 2 of the Blue PCIe slots in full X16 mode and install 8 NVMe SSD's (thinking less about speed, more about mass storage, I expect to start seeing some 8TB SSD's coming out a little cheaper with QLC becoming a real option).

I've got an Asus p6x58d premium board and a x5670 chip. I run the cooler master hyper 212 Evo and I got my system stable and cool at 4.2 GHz. Multi is 21x and blck is 200. I don't recall the voltage but my temps rarely go above 60 c even on load. The go to 70s when benchmarking but when gaming or using the PC hard (downloading, multiple tabs open, multiple Excel sheets, movie on 2nd screen, transcoding Plex) it's usually in the 50s/60s. It's a perfectly good cooler to hit the 4 GHz area in the $30 range

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Someone just did a nice W3690 overclock on a Dell T3500 workstation at the TPU Throttlestop Overclocking thread.
It's a separate forum because locked BIOS overclocking is very different from normal aftermarket modding. He's posted some Passmark, and Cinebench scores there.
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...0#post-4134599

Hi everyone!
I've been playing with overclocking my X5670 on an ASUS P6X58D-E. After validating and submitting my CPU-Z benchmark score (https://valid.x86.fr/ltg4pu) I was curious how did it compare to others' overclocks.
I checked the X5670's page, when I saw the first place for the CPU has a whopping 8883 Mhz (47*[email protected]) overclock(http://valid.x86.fr/pxu1zi). I think that's just impossible, some CPU-Z bug or something. Anyone encountered a bug like that? The maximum multiplier for the X5670 is 24(25 while turbo single core).
What are your thoughts on this? Can it be reported somehow? I was lazy reading through the whole 1500 pages to find if there was talk about this in the past, I registered just to ask this question. And to share my overclock somewhere

One more quick question: can you make the X5670 to use the 25 multiplier for all of its cores?

I’ve wondered this before too, I’m suspicious of some of the 56xx Xeon validations on cpu-z. Here’s a similar one with an x5650: https://valid.x86.fr/4554he

My guess is these are bogus. I think the upper limits for Westmere x58 under ln2 is somewhere between 5-6ghz.