piorunz <pior...@gmx.com> writes: > I am glad intel feels breath of competition on their neck and starting > to unlock ECC for *some* customer grade CPUs and motherboards. *Some* being: > "Speaking of Intel’s W680, it is necessary to note that this chipset has > essentially the same features as Z690, but given its workstation nature, > it lacks support for overclocking."
Looks like overclocking is there to at least to some extent but at least what Supermicro W680 boards I could find in the retail channel, they cost 400-550 US dollars so not exactly something I'd like to buy for an all-around motherboard. So, happy with my consumer Asrock board and ECC RAM and Ryzen. > So that's still way behind AMD. I got both ECC and OC. I overclocked ECC > memory from stock 3200 to sweet spot for 5800X CPU - 3600 MT/s. No > hassle, no errors, just few clicks from drop-down BIOS menu. And > disabled aggressive CPU single core boost which takes it to over-spec > ~150W power draw, and also underclocked it a little. Entire system is > very quiet even under heavy 100% 16-threaded load thanks to these > modifications. What do you use for cooling if I may ask? I've found my 5600X reaches a thermal limit pretty quickly with any kind of torture test software and slows down, with the stock cooler. I haven't really checked if that happens in actual use but I already got a beefier Noctua cooler. Unfortunately it doesn't install itself :)
