dual XEON E5-2690 v2 support (2x10=20 cores)

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dual XEON E5-2690 v2 support (2x10=20 cores)

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Gentlemen,
I guess Core Temp 1.0 RC6 cannot reliable monitor this fairly new 22 nano CPU 's yet, because the XEON 2600 series is not mentioned in the CPU list yet.
Right now the control software of NZXT Kraken X60 Watercooling is only showing water temperatures because for CPU temperatures it is relying on values from "Open Hardware Monitor", which also fails to show Core temperatures (from 1 CPU it only shows loads from 6 Cores, and from the second CPU it does show all 10 core loads, but no temperatures).
I suppose the indirect measurement of the water temperature is good enough to regulate fan speed, but in order to adjust its Fan-Temperature Curve , I feel I should monitor Core temperatures at least manually.
Is this assumption correct ?
Any plans on supporting E5-2690 v2 ?
For the time being, any alternative ideas ?

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Re: dual XEON E5-2690 v2 support (2x10=20 cores)

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Core Temp should work on any new Intel processor, it's possible that some are still not supported properly or there are bugs.
A screenshot showing the problem and a register dump (tools menu) will help me see what is wrong and get it fixed.
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Re: dual XEON E5-2690 v2 support (2x10=20 cores)

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Ok that sounded so promising that I downloaded and installed the latest version.
It actually seems to work slick and without problems. My compliments to you !
Question is if it shows the right temps, or is the algorithm not calibrated to this new CPU yet ?
It seems to show roughly 5°C low at idle ( Bios monitor at idle is around 33 to 35°C, and Water cooling medium also, but Core Temp varies from 25 to 28° C)). But then again accuracy at the ambient end is bound to be less accurate then around stressed temperatures as I recall.
During rendering the two NZXT Kraken X60 double radiators keep the water temperature just below 40°C by 8 Push Pull fans at reasonable silent 1250 rpm ( 2000 rpm max is quite noisy but not yet needed). This seems to be more consistent with Core Temps readings which vary from 38-43° C. At this moderate temperature Intel kept all 20 cores running at 3300 MHz for an hour, which is 50% of Turbo. Not bad without any tweaking on the excellent Asus board yet (especially since it is only running around 90W of its rated 130 W Power).
I also bumped up the fans to their max 2000 rpm, limited the rendering to the even cores in order to give it a chance to cool down some. After 10 minutes it stabilized 3°C lower on water and core temps, but this didn't result in faster frequency. After running 10 minutes on all cores again the water temperature stabilized halfway at 38.3°C ( 1.5°C is not worth the noise of 2000 rpm fans I guess ).


Anyhow , if these core temps are reliable I can probably squeeze some more Watts and MHz through this set up which is already rendering roughly 5 times faster then my single Xeon X5690 6 core Laptop ;-).

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Re: dual XEON E5-2690 v2 support (2x10=20 cores)

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And here is the Register dump (I couldn't figure out how to attach 2 files )
CoreTemp-Dump2.txt
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Re: dual XEON E5-2690 v2 support (2x10=20 cores)

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I'm very happy to see that it's actually working properly. Regarding temperatures, as you said, at the low end of the scale the temperature may be a bit off, but still in the ballpark.
The closer the temperature gets to the TjMax value, the more accurate it becomes, but it is never 100% accurate.
The water temperature sensor may also be off by a little bit, it really takes a difference of a couple of degrees here and a couple of degrees there to see a relatively big difference.
Also, as far as I know power saving features do not always work in the BIOS, so the temperature when you're in there will most likely be higher than when the system is sitting at the desktop idling.
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (True Spirit 140 Direct) / Mobo: Asrock Fatal1ty X470 / EVO 970 500GB + WD Blue 250GB + HDD / GPU: Dell RX 570 4GB / Mem: 2x16GB DDR4-3200 G.Skill 32GTZKW TridentZ - 32GB total / PSU: Seasonic Prime Ultra Gold 650W
NAS:
Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz @ 4.3GHz (Scythe Mugen2) / Mobo: Biostar TP67XE / 2x Inland Pro 120GB + HDDs / GPU: ATi Mach64 VT2 / Mem: 4x4GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill 8GBXL RipJawsX - 16GB total / PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W.
Secondary rigs:
Core i3 7130U / MiniPC / SanDisk SDSSDP-128G / GPU: Intel HD 620 / Mem: 1x8GB DDR3L-1600
Xeon X3430 2.40GHz @ 3.06GHz or Core i3 540 3.06GHz @ 4.0GHz (Freezer 7 Pro) / Mobo: MSI H55M-ED55 / PNY CS1111 240GB / GPU: ATI FirePro V3800 / Mem: 4x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill 4GBRL RipJaws - 8GB total / PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W
AMD Phenom II X4 B93 / Mobo: ASUS M2A-VM / GPU: ATI Radeon Xpress X1250 / Crucial M4 120GB / Mem: 2x2GB DDR2-800 - 4GB total / PSU: Antec 380W.

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