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when I completed project Juno chrome that's my dual CPU rig in the background here a lot of people were asking me how I change this thing since there are a lot of tricky settings there in this server motherboard BIOS so today I'm going to be showing you exactly that we're going to be going through what adding cards are use and how I also quickly set things up in Windows welcome back to take care City this is brian coming to you guys today with a sort of tweak tuning guide for your jewel xeon e5 26 CPUs now the motherboard i am using is the as rock EP 2 c 602 motherboard so if your motherboard is different then you may have some settings that appear different though for what it's worth most the settings will be very similar they may just carry slightly different names so once we're in the vise we can move over to the advanced tab here and i have to go down to we configuration and disable that since I'm not using this as a dedicated server going down to CPU configuration I like to make sure and check that all these settings are the same as they are here for instance I've got hyper threading enabled or my CPU cores active and I like to disable virtualization technology since I am not using a virtual machine Northbridge configuration I like to go to input/output hub configuration here go into vtd and input output and disable these and then going down to primary graphics adapter you want to make sure this is on PCI Express and your onboard VGA is disabled if you are using this for a workstation now our Gen 2 speeds here are absolutely fine even though you can set them to Gen 3 I've just found that with my GTX 970 it actually runs slightly better on Gen 2 speeds I don't know exactly why that is but again that's just my trial and error kicking in qpi speed C I like to leave a sock on enabled and the qpi link speed on fast and the other two you can leave them on order it's not going to affect anything in real world memory configuration a very important tab here I like to put my memory mode on independent you can set this to mirroring though it's essentially what that does is make your memory raid 1 so your memory is virtually never going to crash if you have that thing on crazy setting there ECC support I like to disable this since it allows me to overclock my memory better now if you do need ECC for instance if you're doing financial work or whatnot you may wish to have this enabled it can save a crash in a very rare instance but for what it's worth I like to disable it now moving down to the power limit setting here we can put that on one and then moving on to just performance monitoring dfx devices like to hide that and then again the power limit Modell to set that in one which is just on default and then Numa unified memory access I like to start non unified memory access I like to disable that and then M PST support disabled that as well moving down to DRAM frequency you have limited options here though the options available are still plenty enough for us to get a great overclock out of the memory on the server board since the default for this memory is 1333 megahertz by essentially putting that up to 1866 and then disabling the ECC support here I'm able to get my memory like at pretty much a 50 percent overclock which is huge for ddr3 memory especially some of the Gen 1 stuff which this was in that era in 2012 now then you rank channel interleaving we can put that on 4-way and rank into leaving an eight-way which enables this to be octa channel memory which is great with those two jewels eons this so Patrol scrub demand scrub and data scrambling there's our server features you can just disable them unless of course you're using this for a server thermal throttling we don't have to worry about that since we're not playing around with the voltage too much now going down to the South Bridge configuration we can just put the settings on like that if you wish to copy me since I only use one on-board LAN port I don't need the other one enabled I like to disable deep sleep as well since I don't like my computer going to sleep on me a USB configuration have them both enabled ME system that's nothing really to worry about clock generator configuration we can disable the spread spectrum there which unless you are living in a very sort of frequency interrupted area you may wish to leave that enable that's up to you though it will affect performance or overclocking performance slightly so hence I'd like to disable that storage configuration very important tab here I like to put my SATA mode in raid so even if you are not raid zeroing or raid wanting devices you may wish to put this in RAID mode anyway this enables you in the future to change or change drives add in raid 1 and raid 0 drives if you wish to and not have to worry about reinstalling Windows however since I am using two three terabyte drives in raid 0 I do like to have that on and I do like to turn off the Marvel raid side of three controller there which just increases boot times and I don't even use it anyway SCU devices like to disable that as well and then moving down here to super input-output configuration I just disable both these ps2 ports serial port console's console redirection to sable that since I'm not using you see reports anyway voltage control another very important setting I like to as we can see here I've got my memory at one point four volt there honestly for everyday overclocking I like to set it at one point four five volt this is just an overclocking thing where you find a stable overclock and you just give it that next step above what you had an unstable this just makes sure that your memory is never going to crash even though unfortunately the increments are quite large on this motherboard I would have had to I would have liked to have had it at maybe one point for two volt the 1.5 volt really isn't that much of a biggie because it is running at 1866 megahertz of 1.5 volt a 1.45 volt which is really good PLL voltage you can leave them on auto since they are at 1.8 volt that's about right for this CPU on this motherboard and then vtt voltage this is essentially the core voltage of the CPUs way to set them a 1.0 5 volt and then PCH voltage I like to have that at one point one volt so now once we're done with the most important tab the motherboard does have some other features like your fan speeds which you can set them which I've done here to level 4 which essentially just makes them a lot quieter and they're still able to work perfectly fine now the CPU idle temperatures here you can see they're 50 degrees that is a little bit warm but again the multipliers since you've got 8 cores and the minimum is runner is 1200 megahertz they are going to get quite hot on idle anyhow so there's nothing to worry about the max temperatures i've seen on even like on full load is about 60-something degrees so they do run a little bit hot nothing to worry about then system event log I like to disable that since it's not a server food options another pretty important setting if you want to speed up your boot times I like to have the from timeout just a one and then also like to disable the fullscreen logo after we've done that we can save changes in exit and we are ready to go into Windows so now once we're in Windows we can stress test this system if you like to and as I was talking about before the idle temperatures really aren't a problem or they shouldn't be a problem so as again I just boot it up so it's taking a little bit of time to load up everything but we can move straight in here to Ida 64 and we can go to just stress test it if you wish to so you can stress test everything in Ida 64 if you wish to stress this to memory stress case stress that with you stress cpu so we can do that for around whatever 10 minutes if you like to are an hour two hours three hours it's up to you and you'll notice here that these statistics you can watch your cpu cores and see if they get hot or not and I think that was a website hot or not calm or something ages ago but we got here we can see that my temperatures are perfectly fine even though I've only been running for 30 seconds but we can just watch that over say an hour and see if our temperatures get that hyped at the max I've recorded I think was like 67 degrees which is perfectly fine on the Sandy Bridge architecture and one thing you have to keep in mind is that I have spray-painted my cooler master C 212 Evo coolers white which is not exactly the best color to be spray-painting heat sinks in it's actually the worst color to spray-paint your heat sinks because it traps the heat in from what I know so now there's just one more little thing I'll touch on and that is with the zone RDG sound car which is a sound card that I highly recommend for a workstation like mine since it is cheap it does have a great onboard mic in port there which you're going to absolutely love if you're using something like I'm using like the V mode of boom Pro now you go if you want to have the sound card working perfectly you go get the latest drivers of years own RDG from this website and then you install it and then after you've installed the sound card you then want to manually extract the driver from C Drive here so C Drive windows and it should be in system 32 and then you go to driver store file repository now you should if you've just installed it it'll be right at the top if you do date modified however for me since I have installed some other drivers since then it's around about here so zone RDG so you'll then want to control copy this and then just for instance just paste it to wherever you want to paste it here so we can just drop it in here this is in my games in temp and now if I uninstall the unified drivers I can then go into device manager and manually install the driver where the zone RDG sound card is so you can see here I've manually installed it so I've got no software I've only got the updated driver for Windows 10 here since the Zeus driver themselves from their website is like back dated to 2013 and it was causing my PC to crash now I'm not sure about the PCI Express model I am using the PCI model and I'm having just absolutely no problems with this sound card in Windows 10 in both games and productivity so I highly recommend it if you install it like I've installed it today anyway that's about it for me today guys if you enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button if you have any questions or comments about the dual CPU rig in the background here then be sure to drop a comb in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can also some other quick things that I'll touch on is the windows power management in Windows I found it didn't really make a difference I like to have mine on balanced and disable those deep sleep settings that's what I've found works best for me your mileage may vary though I found it doesn't work it to make a difference in the workspace also another thing that I do in Windows 10 is I do apply my Windows 10 optimization guide so if you haven't checked that out and you wish to make the windows a little bit snappier and get rid of some of those privacy and basic features then be sure to check out my guide I'll put the link up here for you and I'll catch you in the video very soon these alpha now by