Introduction
We regularly marvel why we’re so decided to make a rod for our personal again. We just lately reviewed the Intel Xeon processors and found that our alternative of cooling wasn’t actually adequate to maintain the temperatures tamed. Eager to see how effectively they’d overclock we due to this fact spent the meantime with the concept of actually letting them run free gnawing away at us. How a lot additional efficiency might we get with some a lot better cooling?
Subsequently we grabbed collectively an EK water cooling system and utilized it to our Intel Xeons. As you’ll see from our leads to a second what that is led to is the invention that our check motherboard just isn’t nearly as good at working excessive energy conditions as we would like, due to this fact the extra highly effective Intel Xeon processor – the w9-3495X – was unable to be overclocked with any type of stability. Right now’s overview, due to this fact, will largely be centered upon the smaller of the 2 Xeons and we’ll hopefully revisit the bigger one with a extra highly effective motherboard sooner or later. Nonetheless we really feel that these outcomes are very attention-grabbing and that you simply’ll be happy to see how a lot efficiency might be gained if you happen to actually throw cash on the downside.
Unquestionably you’ll want a deep pockets, but in addition the need to carry out math-heavy duties, to justify such an expense. In case you do although, and if you happen to’re the kind of one that has a rendering package deal working most of the time, then little else will permit you to accomplish a lot in such a brief interval of down time. Let’s have a look.
Watercooling
Needing to watercool the Intel Xeon CPUs meant that, for as soon as, we have now constructed our check setup in a extra literal ‘bench rig’ fashion than we often do. That is, in any case, a proof of idea as a lot as it’s a testing platform. With the most costly processors round within the system, it made sense to go together with the very best producer of watercooling components there’s, EK.
