nice setup(today very few buying expensive VGAs for x58 platform),add it to https://www.modsrigs.com

rjohnson11
This is just awesome. What a fantastic build despite it being the old X58 chipset.

lol.. Thanks, I just cant justify putting it to rest with the performance being where its at.  I just ordered another 12gb of Dominator  (to see if I can get it stable with 24GB) 

warcobra
Nice Setup! Seeing all this X58 action going on lately made me take mine out and get it running again. My board is a EVGA x58 3x Classified 3. Got my W3680 running at 4.6ghz at 1.411v and a NB speed of 4ghz. Memory is at 1.65v 1630mhz 36gb of it. My video card in it right now is a gtx 1060 6gb. This thing still shreds through stuff. I really do miss how much ahead of time this chipset is amazing. Cant wait to see you push yours a bit more with more memory.
 
My 3Dmark firestrike score: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33104630

Cool!  I just ordered another 12GB to see if i can get my overclock stable with 24GB.  My RAM is running around 1800mhz 8-9-8-24 at the moment.  I really wish i could run the 12x ram multiplier as my Corsair Dominator sticks are all rated for 2133mhz.
 
What RAM are you running?

rjohnson11
At one time I believe I had 24GB in my old X58 BUT I had to loosen the timings a bit if I recall.

Same here just couldn't get it stable at 2000mhz had to drop down to 1866mhz

I just bought a 2070 yesturday for my x58 rig (i7-960, 12gb of ram) and this is very good to see..., would be lying if i said i wasn't worried about severe bottlenecking issues.  

ya had my 1080ti in my x58 til i got a chance to head to microcenter nearly 2 years ago.  Had it in there for 2 months before my 1700x upgrade i didnt notice much upper end fps but my lower end was higher from the new processor 

Very nice build !

Reporting back on Operation 24GB upgrade.  Nailed it (not going to lie, i was worried).  Here is how it went down:

• I was using 3 of the 4 sticks from this kit for my 12GB originally: CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 16GB (4x4GB) CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 (9-11-10-27 @ 2133) (overkill i know, but I had timing plans for them later)
• Bought another kit of CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 16GB (4x4GB) CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 (Cost $110)

Set RAM multiplier to 2:8 to drop mem speeds way down, pop 3 sticks from the new kit in.  BIOS reads 20GB (???) Boot to W10, W10 reads 24gb (with 4GB in "hardware reserve").  Lucally i have played this VERY frustrating game for many hours previously when i was trying to get my 12GB set to work (Hint: its not the OS, its not the BIOS version or bios corruption).  Bent socket pins and bad CPU-to-pin contact can cause this, but I know my pins are pristine...  Thinking this might be an issue with the Xeon MEM Controller dealing with 6x overclocked sticks I tried various combos of voltages and bios tweaks, NOTHING worked! 
 
Then I remembered from my previous missing RAM battle, the last thing you would ever think.  RAM STICK COMBOS!  No, not a bad ram stick, just the motherboard has a weird, in-explainable preference for what ram sticks are in what slots!  Popped one stick out, replaced with another, BAM 24GB in BIOS and 24GB available in OS.
 
The end result:
 
4.6GHZ Rock stable (6-hour OCCT, 90% RAM ALL cores) RAM @ 1.65v 1804MHZ at get this 8-9-8-24-96-1T timings (this is why i went for these 2133 GT sticks -- I figured they would run tight timings at lower speeds)! Once again this board DELIVERS.  24GB @ 8-9-8-24-96-1T is quite sufficient for me at this time!
 
Even with my 1080ti/ Chipset/ and MB VRMs in the loop, my full load temps are around 62C, however, I'm thinking of dropping back to 4.4GHZ to get me back to 1.4V Core where I feel no chip degradation will occur (not like the CPU would cost much to replace, but I don't want to have to pull the rig apart again, that would suck).  It looks like my chip OC:Voltage curve is shaping up to something like:
 
Speed        VCORE      VTT                      OCCT     BCLK
4.4GHZ      1.4V         +125 (1.375v)      YES        177
4.5GHZ      1.425       +150 (1.4v)          YES        181
4.6GHZ      1.45        +150 (1.4v)        YES       185
4.7GHZ      *1.475      (untestested)        NA        189  
4.8GHZ      *1.5          (untestested)        NA        193
4.9GHZ      *1.525      (untestested)        NA        197
5.0GHZ      *1.55       (untestested)         NA        201
 
*=Estimated
 
 
What would you do? The RAM is rates to 2133mhz If the temps stay under 70c full load would you run 24/7 @1.45? Higher? lol  I'm curios.
 
 

1,45v will probably work on custom loop
2x 5680  185x25 1,38 volt, 1,35VTT,  IOH 1,3v, HT off.
1,45 is a bit too high for 4600mhz, but all cpus are diffrent.
try lowering cpu volt and test diffrent IOH and VTT and ram settings.
X58 is fast so 4500mhz or more is really good.
 

Well... after a few days of testing Looks like I settled in @ 4.5ghz.  Here is a read-only link to my overclocking google sheet with the setting that were tested:
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U54_N-K5a1FY9W1Z9rEouuyb-JxTUxENoGFggQdcFEc/edit?usp=sharing
 
It might be possible to stabilizer 4.6 but at a considerable voltage cost; chips wants nothing to do with 4.7 lol
 
Any tips out there... Anything I'm missing? Anything i can do to squeeze some more TimeSpy points out of it, lol (QPI link etc)
 
 

nofearek9
how about try 23x200 ,if it works then go 205

Cool ill try that next time i have some time.  Any voltage adjustments to compensate for the high BCLK?

To be honest my chip is a wonder chip. For me I wanted to get all clocks as fast and stable as possible. My w3680 lets me keep a lower Bclk because of a high multiplier so I can push it pretty good. I have had it boot and run one cinebench r15 at 4.8ghz. Voltage was at 1.486v and temps hit 88-91c real quick. But it scored really well lol. But for what I am doing different I would say maybe a good chip and the fact I am working with a w3680 and not the x cpus. Other than that I could when I get a chance take a picture of my voltage and other setting in bios to see if that can help you a bit. The only thing is at this point I think you have done a pretty good job with finding balance with yours and it probably wont get you and gain haha.

Grats to you riddler!! I love it..... stuff like this must make Intel pull there hair out seeing such a old platform spanking there newer releases.  Really showcases what they HAVENT been doing since then.

nice results with not much voltage

Any info on how this runs at 1440p/4K in comparison to newer processors. I got a 1080 Ti too and I'd like to know how much I'm losing on X58. Also got some issues on 3D