Storm-Chaser

Okay I think everything is more or less sorted. @Avacadosorry about the temps in F! The second CPU is slowly ramping up. The "CPU" portion is slowly creeping up in term s of CPU usage. I had not accounted for that in my last post. So with fan settings on 3 out of 6 which is still pretty quiet I'm getting the following temps. But you are probably right once it fully ramps up CPU usage I will activate takeoff - go around power. Right now cpus sitting at: CPU0: 140*F CPU1: 120*F You can check core temp in the lower right corner and see I'm already pushing 290W

Great, thank you! I'm up an running. However, it appears to only be folding on CPU#0, as my second processor is still sitting idle. Any thoughts?

Okay cool. As you may know the 9600KF is no mas. Thank god. I never liked that rig. But it served it's purpose and performed great for me for overclocking. But this is my main machine now so I feel I can invest some money into seeing as how it more or less will give me decent performance levels for years to come. Once I sell off most of the 9600KF rig, I will more or less be in pretty good standing having spent only about $500 total (out of pocket) on the new rig after all is said and done.

It's all really just for fun no real requirements for this rig other than to get to know the platform. I have a 5700XT gaming X can throw in there if I get bored and want to game, but the problem is it may interfere with my 240mm or 360mm supplemental radiator (If I can get all core turbo hack to work) Where is your 512T machine? I'm patiently waiting....

Little video so you can get an idea of sound - with the fans turned all the way up. Forgive my potato phone.

What am I looking at for an impact on performance with dual rank memory? I'm seeing 3-5% average improvement from a bit of research. In terms of bandwidth. Do two single rank modules work as like one dual rank module?

AIDA64 is one of my staples, you will see. I've been running this benchmark/having competitions with it for years now. So yes, by all means, we would love to see you join in the comp!

In but I'm going to need help from someone to get setup here as I have never folded before please PM me.

9600KF RIP (this was long overdue)

Okay! More performance is left on the table! Thats exactly why I started down this road, I would really like to fully load this thing for maximum performance. Thank you for all this information. This project is starting to get fun. I have to sell my single rank, and I can probably get $300 for it, plus I have some DDR4 C19 4133 kits I can sell which should net me a total of $600 to spend on dual rank memory, next month. I totally dismantled my 9600KF rig. So that whole deal is being retired, I'm going to sell some of the parts off and probably repurpose the 360mm radiator for use in the z840 (If I really need more cooling headroom). Cleaned up my computer area, added a second video card to the Z840, so I could add the third monitor and dismantled the 9600KF rig (it was time). Selling most of it off so if anyone wants anything let me know.

I think CPUz only sees one CPU at a time (as in it assess a single CPU only even if you have a multiprocessor rig when analyzing your systems memory architecture. This means it will only report quad channel because it can only see one memory controller at a time. Since each memory controller has four active channels, it is 8 channel effective architecture as reported accurately in AIDA64.

HP recommends the exact setup I've dropped in. It's actually listed as one of the "best" scenarios for your memory configuration / architecture for the z840.

Liquid metal is awesome sauce. I will never ever go back to conventional thermal paste again. Hard to believe a tiny 80mm x 80mm radiator can deliver the performance like this, but it's real. Makes you wonder about weak AIOs that are twice the size of this one coming short. I just put a 2' classic blue light in the chassis. I will get some pics of that tonight, it's looking really good but not visible except from the front. And hard to believe I get these temps AT IDLE. They very rarely kick about 20%. So the rig is super quiet most of the time. But I tell you what, if you want to jack up the fans this thing is basically insane server level airflow if you want it. With that, I could probably run a 100% load across all CPUs at 4.5GHz or better. In a perfect world. But many people think this rig is loud and that is simply NOT the case. With proper tuning, you can have near silent machine that steamrolls current tech.

I cannot agree with this. It's directly in the HP documentation that the rig supports octal channel memory. And, if you add up the read and write speeds AIDA64 is reporting, you will find that it does in fact use all eight channels to reveal true performance data. (As in my memory architecture is 8 channel effective) @tictoc Does this sound right to you?

Here are the numbers after final tweaking - memory tweaking in BIOS, CPU undervolting, NB set to 3000 MHz using throttlestop. Not bad. Only number I am not happy with is latency, but that's the best I can do until I get the V4 chips next month. It says quad channel in CPUz but it's actually octal channel, because all sixteen DIMM slots are populated. (64GB total)

Ive already figured out my next CPU upgrade path. But it's still probably a couple months out. E5 2698v4 20C/40T 2.2GHz base / 3.6GHz boost TDP: 135W L3 Cache: 50MB x2 So that will be 40 cores vs 36 cores (as it stands now.) Also going from 22nm to 14nm and from 145W TDP to 135 W TDP. The added benefit is that V4 processors support 2400MHz memory, and since I have 2400MHz modules installed, it will allow me to run them at the full speed (as opposed to just 2133MHz for v3 cpus) Also installing an additional 360mm radiator in the bottom part of the case. Not entirely sure how to direct air flow over the radiator but there are two 80mm fans that flow from front to back, so I think I can get that sorted out easily enough, especially if I just remove the pcie slot covers from the back of the case, so the air from the radiators just flows front to back, in line with the direction of airflow through the case. The radiator will have three Noctua NF-12 fans which are totally awesome, very quiet, (except for the color) and hold up really well.

Just confirmed the Z840 will support PCIe Gen 3 NVMe M.2 SSD drives, which is good because I have a spare Samsung 970 PRO to swap in. More details to follow. Have to buy the adapter first.

You can try K10Stat to force the multiplier? Ever heard of that? I used it on some consumer chips related to bulldozer / piledriver IIRC but I honestly don't know if that would work with your hardware.

Can you explain this a little more? Im an Intel guy since Phenom II days so I'm not sure why this would be a handicap?

And to reflect on the above post, you could try reducing heat by: 1) Applying liquid metal as thermal paste 2) Undervolting the processor (if possible)

AMD must have been seeing double when they added the benchmark for CS:GO as a tie. Tunnel vision for that crown I guess.

Liquid metal for the server.

Leaderboard is up 4/18!