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my custom water blocks from Swift Tech are here but perhaps more importantly my email from Asus giving me the guidance that I need to overclock the 56 core system is also here so what do we stand to gain according to a sis's guidance anywhere from three to nine percent performance and what do we stand to lose $20,000 in CPUs 750 dollars and motherboards and about five grand worth of RAM so what are we waiting for anchors new power wave 7.5 pad and stand both offer faster wireless charging easy alignment for your device and the pad is coated with an anti-slip material check them out on Amazon through the links below so one of the most exciting things about this board to me other than the hilariously broken webpage for it with this placeholder text today is the fact that a soos advertises it as overclocking capable so this is the exact same platform that we had set up from our holy so we've got a system that seems to be locked up and we're back everything seems to be working fine 256 processing cores and completely inadequate cooling so we're getting some baseline readings here so we're sitting at around sixty seven hundred and Cinebench let's go ahead and restart it and key in what asus figures is gonna give us a three percent overclock and then we're gonna go from there so we go into AI overclock tuner set that to manual change this to 103 spread-spectrum gets disabled xeon turbocharger gets enabled and then wow that's not good oh that's not good at all well that didn't work just gonna fire them over a quick email saying thank you for the instructions by the way they were this is one of the challenges with overclocking by base clock rather than by adjusting the multiplier when you adjust the base clock you actually throw a bunch of other system frequencies out of whack including PCI Express and what can happen is if you go too far out of spec you can make it so that certain devices won't be detected anymore I've never heard of 1% out of spec causing a storage controller to stop showing up but our SATA drive is not showing up at a hundred and one base clock I hope it didn't break the drive yeah see there's no there's no dry food options here okay we're gonna go back to 100 and see if this shows up again bear its back see ata device so that's a good sign you know you could get absolutely like shredded if like every time you had to wait around for a server board to post you're just like yeah I'm just that seems like a lot of work no okay here's what we're gonna do is we're gonna switch over to an MDOT to nvme SSD because we know our video card was still working so some stuff still might work okay this is good so our 960 pros here let's go ahead and save our changes and see if at 101 we can boot up into Windows nice okay check this out this is good a hundred and one megahertz seventy-five 94 wait is that much higher Oh looks like just some of the things we've tuned are even without any base clock overclocking forcing the processor to run at a higher turbo frequency let's see if we can push for more so this is it the turbo ratio lock this right here is sort of similar to the multi-core optimization that caused that whole scandal during the coffee lake launch so it was effectively causing higher power consumption but our performance overclocking the processors out of the box now that it's not enabled by default I don't think there's any scandal there but that's why we got so much more performance it was taking the expected turbo for all cores active and just setting it to like a higher turbo that was for not all the cores being active with that said according to a sis's guidance we should expect more than one percent on top of that so we're trying three percent what the reset button stopped working I didn't even touch it there I don't know if this is a good sign yet it's doing this thing where it like keeps trying and it makes a little bit further every time but then it keeps just resetting itself this Ram is already running it like the balls-to-the-wall speed for this platform 2600 maybe we dial that back and if maybe trying to not run the memory out of spec will help us get booted up at 103 and I would have thought it possible but I made it worse postcode zero I got an email from a soos different contact this time jackeline who suggested I try her exact configuration but we're gonna need to make a couple of changes first of all no SATA Drive that's got to go second of all I've got to rip out most of the RAM and she also suggested that I try with the onboard graphics wow these are hot my computer in oh come on the only thing worse than slow posting server boards is when slow posting server boards post and then reset themselves as part of like it I don't know if this is a memory training exercise or somehow no one is doing it just turn off again so now from a second source yeah no problem all I did was dial in these settings and bippity Boppity well well now I'm in even worse position overclocking failed and I have no keyboard detected yes I have another idea we're gonna give it more voltage and we're straight to zero zero so I've got a couple more ideas there are a few other things here that maybe we could look at we could turn on load line calibration stop it good some help it's time for a Hail Mary to be clear I don't think this is thermals related but let's water cool this thing see what happens this brand new nope and whoever put it back didn't put the hardware back with it thank you guys wow this was left over from whole room water cooling Oh gross to be clear the rust isn't from the pump itself these don't these don't rust the worst part is I know everything I'm doing right now is almost definitely for nothing okay come on now - scissors cut my life into pieces and you know what we're gonna go full Hail Mary let's just put all the RAM back in this is an advanced water cooling technique this is known as the the pump and fill look at this mess I better get some good results out of it okay CPUs are still detective all the RAM is still detectives the bad news is on first boot we got an overclocking failed message so that's flippin Wow those are much better CPU temps 30 and 36 so we have dropped just about 30 degrees about 25 degrees off of our CPUs we're going full ham on the CPU voltage let's hit it hey 103 it might have been the auto voltage not going high enough the whole time holy let's head it with a load we're back to the same score we got before we just tuned those BIOS settings and ran it at 101 okay let's try restoring our defaults and keying everything in manually again okay here we go we're at 3.3 gigahertz this time 75 96 okay even if we could get another 4% we wouldn't be able to crack 8,000 but definitely we have to try I mean it's funny like we preached the importance of cooling all the time around here but I've never seen it have this profound an impact and straight to postcode zero zero okay maybe I shouldn't have changed so many things at once so without tooling around with any of that other stuff this time let's go for 105 again come on baby come on baby zero zero all right you can overclock a workstation or a server but you're gonna affect your system in ways that you might not otherwise foresee like making it so your SATA SSD doesn't show up and the performance games are probably fairly negligible my recommendation based on the performance we were able to achieve is just go with some kind of like turbo manipulation like a Seuss's turbo locking thing and if that's stable call it a day rip rip the dream new from mass drop is a new keyboard modeled after the super successful K type it's fully programmable with RGB lighting and qmk firmware which makes it much easier to program and gives you more control at checkout you can choose between Cherry MX chi-wah and halo switches which will affect the pricing depending on your choice and there are a few first production perks that you get if you join this drop now including a free 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