my custom water blocks from swiftech are here
but perhaps more importantly my email
from ASUS giving me the guidance that i need to overclock
the 56 core system is also here so what do we stand to gain
according to ASUS's guidance anywhere from three
to nine percent performance and what do we stand to lose twenty thousand dollars
in cpus 750 dollars in motherboards and about five grand worth of RAM
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hilariously broken uh web page for it
with this placeholder text in it is the fact that jesus advertises it as
overclocking capable so this is the exact same platform that we had set up
from our holy so we've got a system that
seems to be locked up and we're back everything seems to be working fine so
56 processing cores and completely inadequate cooling so we're
getting some baseline readings here so we're sitting at around 6 700 and
cinebench let's go ahead and restart it and key in what ASUS figures is gonna
give us a three percent overclock and then we're gonna go from there so we go
into ai overclock tuner set that to manual change this
to 103. spread spectrum gets disabled xeon
turbocharger gets enabled and then
wow that's not good oh that's not good at
all well that didn't work just going to fire them over a quick email saying thank you
for the instructions by the way they were this is one of the challenges with
overclocking by base clock rather than by adjusting
the multiplier when you adjust the base clock you actually throw a bunch of
other system frequencies out of whack including pci express and what can
happen is if you go too far out of spec you can make it so that certain devices
won't be detected anymore i've never heard of
one percent out of spec causing a storage controller to stop showing up
but our SATA drive is not showing up at 101 base clock
i hope it didn't break the drive yeah see there's no there's no drive
boot options here okay we're gonna go back to 100 and see if this shows up
again there it's back see ata device
so that's a good sign you know you could get absolutely like
shredded if like every time you had to wait around for a server board to post you're
just like yeah i'm gonna do some crunches
that seems like a lot of work though okay here's what we're gonna do is we're
gonna switch over to an m.2 ndme SSD because we know our
video card was still working so so some stuff
still might work okay this is good so our 960 pro is here let's go ahead and
save our changes and see if at 101
we can boot up into Windows nice
okay check this out this is good
101 megahertz 75.94
wait is that much higher oh
looks like just some of the things we've tuned
are we even without any base clock overclocking forcing the processor to
run at a higher turbo frequency let's see if we can push for more
so this is it the turbo ratio lock this right here is sort of similar to the
multi-core optimization that caused that whole
scandal during the coffee lake launch so it was effectively causing higher power
consumption but higher performance overclocking the processors out of the
box now that it's not enabled by default i don't think there's any scandal there
but that's why we got so much more performance it was taking the expected
turbo for all cores active and just setting it to like a higher turbo that
was for not all the cores being active with that said according to ASUS's
guidance we should expect more than one percent on top of that
so we're trying three percent
what the reset button stopped working
i did i didn't even touch it there i don't know if this is a good sign yet
it's doing this thing where it like keeps trying and it makes a little bit
further every time but then it keeps just resetting itself
this RAM is already running at like the balls to the wall speed for
this platform 2600 maybe we dial that back
and see if maybe trying to not run the memory out
of spec will help us get booted up at 103 and
i would have thought it possible but i made it worse postcode
zero i got an email from ASUS different
contact this time jacqueline who suggested i try her exact configuration
but we're gonna need to make a couple of changes first of all
no say to drive that's gotta go second of all i've gotta rip out most of the
RAM and she also suggested that i try with
the onboard graphics wow these are hot cut my computer into
pieces it is a piece of chin
oh come on the only thing worse
than slow posting server boards
is when slow posting server boards
post and then reset themselves as part of like i don't know if this is a memory
training exercise or something i don't know what it's doing did it just turn off again
so now from a second source yeah no problem
all i did was dial in these settings and bippity boppity
well well now i'm in even worse position
overclocking failed and i have no keyboard detected
yes i have another idea we're going to give it more voltage
and we're straight to zero zero so i've got a couple more ideas stop it
there are a few other things here that maybe we could look at we could turn on
load line calibration extreme
phase stop it
three again get some help it's time for a hail mary
to be clear i don't think this is thermals related but let's water cool
this thing let's see what happens
is this brand new nope and whoever put it back didn't put the
hardware back with it thank you guys
wow this was left over from whole room water
cooling oh gross to be clear the rust isn't from
the pump itself these don't these don't rust the worst part is i know everything i'm
doing right now is almost definitely for not okay come
on okay
ouch ah
got myself in the scissors cut my life into pieces and you know what if we're
gonna go full hail mary let's just put all the RAM back in
this is an advanced water cooling technique
this is known as the uh the pump and fill
look at this mess i better get some good results out of it
okay cpus are still detected all the RAM is
still detected bad news is on first boot
we get an overclocking failed message so that's flipping wow those are much
better CPU champs 30 and 36 so we have
dropped just about 30 degrees about 25
degrees off of our cpus we're going full hem on the CPU voltage
let's hit it hey 103. it might have been
the auto voltage not going high enough the whole time holy let's hit it
with a load we're back to the same score we got
before we just tuned those bio settings and ran
it at 101. okay let's try restoring our defaults and
keying everything in manually again okay here we go we're at 3.3 gigahertz
this time 75.96 okay even if we could get another four
percent we wouldn't be able to crack eight thousand but i mean we have to try
i mean it's funny like we preach the importance of cooling all the time
around here but i've never seen it have this
profound impact
and straight to postcode 0-0 okay maybe i shouldn't have changed so many things
at once so without tooling around with any of
that other stuff this time let's go for 105 again
come on baby come on baby
and zero zero
all right you can
overclock a workstation or a server but
you're gonna affect your system in ways that you might not otherwise foresee
like making it so your SATA SSD doesn't show up
and the performance gains are probably fairly
negligible my recommendation based on the performance we were able to achieve
is just go with some kind of like turbo manipulation like ASUS's turbo locking
thing and if that's stable
call it a day
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