maddesthatter
There is no strap setting like I have on my sabertooth x79, there's just the bclk setting, does this board even take into account trying to just raise the processor?  Is there a strap somewhere I'm not seeing or does it know automatically?

 
The strap setting is directly below the blck mhz input. If it's not there, then it's likely disabled as i dont think Xeons support different straps.
 
The strap settings options are like;
5/5 = 1.00x = 100MHz
5/4 = 1.25x = 125MHz
5/3 = 1.66x = 166MHz
5/2 = 2.50x = 250MHz
 
Make sure you alter the BLCK value accordingly after changing the strap, I forgot this and attempted to boot at 100MHz with 1.25x strap, doesnt work xD (tries to run the rest of the system at 80MHz - well out of the stable range).

maddesthatter
Oooh they call it something weird I tried looking it up and I couldn't find anything on it, that explains it.   I'll try that thanks so much! 

Can you explain the ring thing to me too, i've never seen that before either, and the explanations I've found are just like, try to make it the same as the normal bclk, but it will probably be unstable. lol

No problem, glad it helped :D
 
Ring is the clock speed for Cache and Ringbus,
The Ringbus is a very high speed lane that connects all the cores, cache, memory controller, pcie controller etc together within the CPU itself.
The Cache is literally just that huge lump of L3 cache.
 
Increasing the clock of that will improve memory bandwidths, mostly at higher Memory Clocks though, however due to the board not having the OC Socket, you wont be able to push the Ring clock too high, 3.6GHz is about the limit. There is no need to increase Ring above Core clock, though if its stable i guess there's no harm.
 
Also note that this clock is also affected by the BLCK and it's strap, so if you're running 125 BLCK, you will want to reduce the Ring clock so it does not exceed stock at first, then increase it after you get everything stable at 125 BLCK.
 
Another thing BLCK affects is memory clocks, if you're running 2133 ram, setting a 125 BLCK will boost it straight up to 2666, you may want to underclock the memory first.
 
Note to anyone else attempting to move from 100 BLCK to 125 BLCK, underclock the CPU, Ring, Mem to a couple notches BELOW already stable ones, that way you wont run into issues caused by trying to run that 3200 ram at 4000 or some other silly value because you forgot to notch it down :D

Just read something over from OCN,

E5-26xx Xeons will NOT obey any "multi-core enhancement" order that the board gives it and they can't be forced to run at the max turbo speed for one core active when all cores are in use. The fastest speed they will run at is the max all core turbo speed.

The max all core turbo for your chip, is likely 2.4 ish. Dependant upon workload though, AVX2/FMA3 clocks will be lower as they draw much more power, so the cpu will drop clocks a couple multis to compensate and not exceed the TDP.