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Xeon 5690x thermal management system

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07-01-2016, 10:45 PM
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Until I get the parts for my build I'm leaving the dual cpu precision t5500 I picked up to cannibalize for parts intact for amusement. Steadily I've been raising it's R23 cinebenches: cleaning heatsinks, cleaning fans, removing the hard drive rack thing, yanking out every dummy panel & useless part. Now I've upped the scare by 70 points (not insane but not nothing) & made jumps in single core performance dropping my mp from x14.8 to x14.45 (12core system). So it's not thermal throttling, but it's downclocking CPU 1 because it's heatsink is half the size of the heatsink on CPU 2. Since it's my donor PC I don't want to invest in it, but is there anything else free/creative (I have tools, time, & scrap materials galore) that I can do to it to see how I can raise the benches higher? Rn my best idea is the disconnect the primary cooling fans from the motherboard & over power them separately from another power source (ie. A couple nine volts) & see if that spins them faster. Anyone with experience is welcome to weigh in but someone with Xeon, thermal, or precision tower experience would be kick ass to hear from.
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07-01-2016, 10:45 PM #1

Until I get the parts for my build I'm leaving the dual cpu precision t5500 I picked up to cannibalize for parts intact for amusement. Steadily I've been raising it's R23 cinebenches: cleaning heatsinks, cleaning fans, removing the hard drive rack thing, yanking out every dummy panel & useless part. Now I've upped the scare by 70 points (not insane but not nothing) & made jumps in single core performance dropping my mp from x14.8 to x14.45 (12core system). So it's not thermal throttling, but it's downclocking CPU 1 because it's heatsink is half the size of the heatsink on CPU 2. Since it's my donor PC I don't want to invest in it, but is there anything else free/creative (I have tools, time, & scrap materials galore) that I can do to it to see how I can raise the benches higher? Rn my best idea is the disconnect the primary cooling fans from the motherboard & over power them separately from another power source (ie. A couple nine volts) & see if that spins them faster. Anyone with experience is welcome to weigh in but someone with Xeon, thermal, or precision tower experience would be kick ass to hear from.

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