Dual AMD Opteron 2427 Workstation - Brief Overview

[mennogamer559]

phenom 2 x6 for vurtual machines.

core i7 for photo and movie working..

[fipsfoxy]

@TurKdiRty hope you got the i7 :)

easy to overclock, better performance - after comparing some benchmarks, it was a no-brainer to go for the i7

[Tbird761]

@TurKdiRty You're probably going to be happier with one of the new Sandy Bridge i7s or a Phenom II X6. The first is probably the better choice performance wise, but the second is still great.

[Tbird761]

@TurKdiRty Unless you're doing highly threaded work, there's no reason to go with a dual socket rig. You'd be better off with a much higher clocked Core i7 or Phenom II X6 1090T. You're not going to find overclocking-friendly Opteron systems.  There is one, maybe two Xeon boards that will let you overclock though if that's the route you're wanting to go.

[igneousphantom]

Is that board actually EATX, or is it SSI EEB 3.x? I guess it doesn't matter since they're both the same dimensions.. just screws in different places. I guess drilling a few new holes isn't too much of a problem.

Also: you have one of the most impressive workstations I've seen on youtube.. and surprisingly not arrogant at all. Most people that post videos of their desktops tend to have a "look at all this crap I have, that makes me better than you" quality. You lack that ;)

[R3AP3R664]

Youve probably sorted it out by now .... but CABLE MANAGEMENT .... lol

Kool RIG ...

[Tbird761]

@R3AP3R664 Heh, you're not the first person to nail me about that. You have to realize though that I hail from a time before anyone gave a shit. It just wasn't done because nobody ever thought about it. Not even OEM machines were well organized internally. Additionally, it's not possible in a system/chassis like this without buying special extra-long cables, using more power extensions, etc. Function trumps pretty any day of the week in my book.

[R3AP3R664]

@Tbird761 I guess i wasnt the first person to mention it but i know from self experiance that having 2 quads ... airflow venting is vital!!!

[darkside59]

Gees!! I love your rig.. I wish I can afford Opteron CPU.. their way over my budget hahaha.. Only one I can afford is AMD Phenom II X4 9 series...

So how those Opteron CPU compare to the newer Phenom II X4 9xx and X6 10xx series CPU??

[Tbird761]

@darkside59 In many tasks this system was just marginally faster than an 1055 or 1090T at ~4.1 GHz.

[obiwankenobi28]

But yeah feel free to give me a demo rofl, but there is no chance I will be isntalling that nTune crap on my systenms ever again rofl, I don't trust it sry man, had a hell with it and I am not planned to do that agin rofl.

Peace.

[obiwankenobi28]

What every you do DO NOT RUN ntune man I had it once and it messed up my system big time, These H8DAE-2's are not made for OCing , not like it's needed either, When i ran NTune the entire system went from stable opperation to massive lockups I almost had to reinstall my frikk'n OS rofl, OCing via software has never been my thing in the old days we had dipswitches and jumpers that was the best and easiest way to OC< but like I said the mobo we used is not made to be OC'ed.

[obiwankenobi28]

Great Motherboard choice man, the Supermicro H8DAE-2 as it looks like :)

This is the motherboard I have been using for a year now with Dual OpteronDP 2380 C2 Shanghai's and yeah it's rock solid.

You must of flashed yours with Bios 3.5 for Istanbul support right?

Well no Istanbuls for me yet, I just upgraded with a second EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition for a Quad SLI setup, I'll upload a video of it later this week.

Great to see another Supermicro H8DAE-2'er around here 8)

[Tbird761]

Rock on, brother. Yes, I had to get R3.5 flashed onto the ROM before using Istanbul CPUs. The board will actually begin to POST, it just won't finish unless the BIOS is up to date. It will go "CPU Mismatch Detected. Fatal Error... System Halted," if not.

How are you doing on the overclocking? From what I gather these boards aren't good past about 230MHz HT ref, similar to the other boards with chipsets designed around the same time (~2006).

A few months back I traded up to an H8DAi+-F

[obiwankenobi28]

@Tbird761

Thing is I never could Overclock with my Supermicro H8DAE-2 because there is option to do so, and it's not like needed, it still runs everything I want it to with supreme frame rates.

There is a way to OC it via some sort of SQL code but I'm like, uhm what ever that is worse than trying to read a lang you never heard of, rofl.

The two GTX 295 RE's are doing just fine in this build, might upgrade to Dual OpteronDp 2439 SE's Q3 next year, it's not like needed yet.

[Tbird761]

@obiwankenobi28 It's possible to overclock on that motherboard via nVidia's nTune or System Performance Tools or whatever they call it.  It is a real pain in the ass and fraught with possible crashes, but you can do it. The board itself maxes around a 230-240 MHz HT reference clock though, so your gains won't be stellar even if you do bother. If you are interested, however, I can demonstrate it to you.

[bmw2go11]

awesome rig, might need some cable management when the install is all done. :D

good luck!

[madzane94]

lol nice m4a79t build... i was gona get that board but i saved money and got a 790x gigabyte board with usb 3 and sata 3 so i can be a lil more future proof

[r8qt7]

hey I'm interested in the AMD Opteron 2427 - have you overclocked the system? if yes how is it working

[Tbird761]

So far I'm stuck on the default vCore of 1.225V so overclocking has been pretty limited. I can do a little above 2.5GHz on both chips. Not sure if it's a NB limitation since it clocks up synchronously.  These old nVidia chipsets are pretty bad. =( No alternatives yet though, but AMD's new RS800 chipsets will be here this fall and should fix this.