Xeon 2690 v3 Issue

[Bronxes Studio]

Hello guys,
We are working with corona render sometime now and we have an issue with our newest machine.
As title says we are talking about a Intel Xeon 2690 v3 @2.4Ghz which is running more than slow on almost everything expect when rendering.
System info:
CPU:Intel Xeon 2690 v3 @2.4Ghz(with hydro)
Mobo:Asus strix x99 gaming
Ram:HyperX 2x16 GB 2133Hz
GPU:Asus turbo 1070 gtx
SSD:Samsung 250GB pro 800 evo

Its running really slow on 3ds max viewport,calcutating GI,material editor and even CS photoshop and any other software.

One idea is that our CPU supports 4 modules of RAM and we have 2 that might lead to a bottleneck but I am not sure that it can cause such a big problem with speed

Thanks in advance

[maru]

Based on some reports it seems that there might be indeed some issue with Xeon CPUs or simply "too many cores" or "too many processors".
It would be great if we could inspect this directly. Would it be possible for you to let us test some things on your PC using TeamViewer? Can you contact us about this at support@corona-renderer.com?

[Jann]

Is that a retail or engineering sample Xeon?
By those 2.4GHz I suspect it to be ES. Many ES chips have much lower turbo clock than retail. So if your Xeon only turbos to 2.6-2.8Ghz even with just 1-2 cores active, it could perform really slow even compared to a 4 core i7 in viewport work.
Run HWinfo64 to see max turbo for all situations.

[Bronxes Studio]

Based on some reports it seems that there might be indeed some issue with Xeon CPUs or simply "too many cores" or "too many processors".
It would be great if we could inspect this directly. Would it be possible for you to let us test some things on your PC using TeamViewer? Can you contact us about this at support@corona-renderer.com?

I don't think is a renderer problem i think its 100% hardware problem, if we found out its something wrong with the program i d glad to let you help

Is that a retail or engineering sample Xeon?
By those 2.4GHz I suspect it to be ES. Many ES chips have much lower turbo clock than retail. So if your Xeon only turbos to 2.6-2.8Ghz even with just 1-2 cores active, it could perform really slow even compared to a 4 core i7 in viewport work.
Run HWinfo64 to see max turbo for all situations.

Hello again . I suspect it must be a sample as i remember i read on the CPU when installed. Here is a photo from HWinfo64 and i see turbo 3.000 thats supposed to be really low for that CPU?

[Jann]

Well 3GHz isn't bad, but that's only with a few cores. Try closing all apps except Max and opening the same scene.
With various apps running in background, the cpu might use more cores and lower clockspeed.

[Juraj]

Trust me, even if you had CPU running at 2Ghz, your PC would NOT feel slow.

Some people think you need single-core turbo into 4Ghz to have fast PC, but it's nonsense. Most of the slow-down is software caused. In 95perc. of cases.

Do you have your PC power state set to "High Performance" ? Do the same for your SSD with Samsung Magician software. Make sure you don't have ton of bloatware running in background.

[Bronxes Studio]

Trust me, even if you had CPU running at 2Ghz, your PC would NOT feel slow.

Some people think you need single-core turbo into 4Ghz to have fast PC, but it's nonsense. Most of the slow-down is software caused. In 95perc. of cases.

Do you have your PC power state set to "High Performance" ? Do the same for your SSD with Samsung Magician software. Make sure you don't have ton of bloatware running in background.

I didn't had it on high performance, just changed it and ill check now the ssd magician soft. My biggest issue is that while i am on interactive and the image cleans very fast as it supposted to be in comparisson of other xeons on benchmark, when i want to change a material or load a bitmap i will have to wait something like 1minute for this, also in every single test render i have to wait for 1 minute plus for calculating GI with a pretty easy scene (one bedroom 4 million polygons 10 lights, which my previous 4790k was half that time for GI) and another example is with viewport that if i have something like 12million polygons i can pan very difficult and i just bought a 1070gtx. (viewport panning i read that is also a CPU based at some point). It just dont make sense.

Is there any way that windows 7 have been installed worng or i need to go with windows 10 or it hasent any influense?

The attached image is while rendering this bedroom for example 12m polygons and some tabs on chrome. Thanks!