New workstation (Xeon E5-2683v3 OEM or E5-2680v1)

[Majeranek]

At the end build looks like this:

1x Motherboard Asus Z10PE-D16 WS
2x CPU Intel Xeon E5-2683v3
2x SilentiumPC Fera 3 HE1224 v2
4x Crucial DDR4 ECC 2133MHz 8gb
1x SSD Samsung EVO 850 500GB
1x Corsair AX760
1x Fractal Design Define XL R2
1x HDD 2TB

One thing is missing - the GPU. I'm thinking of something second hand which will run viewports smoothly. On my current PC I have GTX 760 and it works quite fine and it costs around 100€. What do you think of that? Or maybe there is a better choice?

[Majeranek]

I've finished my build. It runs quite nice. 3200pkt in Cinbench R15 and 58s in 1.3 Corona Benchmark.

Do you overclock your Xeon-s?
Where in that Z10PE-D16 Bios can I find anything connected with CPU Fans setup? Is there any more modern UEFI for that MB?
Also it's taking quite a lot of time for my MB to boot up. Is this normal behaviour of that model?

[Jann]

I've finished my build. It runs quite nice. 3200pkt in Cinbench R15 and 58s in 1.3 Corona Benchmark.

Do you overclock your Xeon-s?
Where in that Z10PE-D16 Bios can I find anything connected with CPU Fans setup? Is there any more modern UEFI for that MB?
Also it's taking quite a lot of time for my MB to boot up. Is this normal behaviour of that model?

Nice results!

You generally don't overclock Xeons. Some can be overclocked a little bit using Bclock, but you risk system instability, while getting very small gain.
The bios is like that on all multi-socket boards as far as I know.
And they do boot up longer than mainstream single cpu boards, so that's normal ;)

[Majeranek]

Thanks!

I've got weird problem with temperatures. When I open CPUID HWMonitor it shows:
SYSTIN 105°C
CPUTIN 96°C
but cores are around 35°C. How's that even possible?

I don't know why but it doesn't show any FAN and I think that CPU fans don't change their RPM.

[Jann]

Thanks!

I've got weird problem with temperatures. When I open CPUID HWMonitor it shows:
SYSTIN 105°C
CPUTIN 96°C
but cores are around 35°C. How's that even possible?

I don't know why but it doesn't show any FAN and I think that CPU fans don't change their RPM.

Try checking temps with other software. From my time with the Z9PE-D8 WS, I remember some monitoring utilities didn't work properly with dual cpu systems.

[Majeranek]

Try checking temps with other software. From my time with the Z9PE-D8 WS, I remember some monitoring utilities didn't work properly with dual cpu systems.

I checked with other programs and search any info about that on the Internet and it's pretty common.
But still I don't know why CPU Fans don't change their RPM... :/

[sten]

use low RPM coolers - and be fine!