Quote Originally Posted by zoson View Post
The vdroop when Xpower is turned on is most likely
caused by severely high temperatures in the mosfets providing power to the
QPI bus.

Xpower allows significantly higher currents to be utilized for signal
generation. That is for sure. If you sufficiently cool your QPI mosfets, the
vdroop should be minimized. The stock cooler for R3E does NOT cool these
mosfets. EK full coverage, koolance full coverage, and bitspower full
coverage do cool these components.
ok, so hear this i could be stable anywhere from 4000mhz to 4400mhz using
t_balance, and if i go over 4.4 i get bad memory residuals in LinX/IBT no
matter what QPI/CPU voltage i give, now when i enable X_Power i can pass
LinX even 15/17 passes @ upto 4.6Ghz and randomly it just goes BSOD/124

when using X_Power i have gone from 1.32v (QPI) all the way upto 1.58v QPI
no matter what i do i get BSOD/124 i have gone up and down many times
trying to find a stable qpi v, i only need (qpi)1.41v/43 to run 4.2Ghz and ram
@ 2000mhz so i refuse to give qpi over 1.58 just to hump over 4.4HGhz.

now through those finding/experiences i've gone through, i found out (for me)
that even @ stock speeds if i enable X_power i get BSOD/124 or just crash..

now someone came into the thread asking for help, cause they couldnt be
stable even @ low clock speeds with a XEON 3540...(soulblade) i tell him...
be carefull cause i run into a lot of issues when i enable X_Power,
i "believe" it must bridge into the EZPLUG to draw more power or something
i dont have the ezplugs plugged in so it could be my problem.....

immediately you try and jump down my throat coming all the way from left
field trying to catch a catchers fly-ball......asking for prooof or
documentation as to where i got my info from...

now from the minute i posted my power/clock profiles you came asking a question which i felt was biased and a sense of confrontation and i still answered...

since you know so much you should know what increasing the PCI-E freq does.....
now im the one trying to bull people
hey thumbs up
you deserve it.

again what are you trying to prove?
that i am wrong?
or that i gave a legitimize advice based on my experience using X_Power.
does it or does it do not affect Voltage....?
im done you can go and mole someone else.

i clearly stated i could be wrong,
PS i too went to school for CS
by the way, dont pollute the thread anymore.
i will not reply, you can PM or we can start a thread with informative information as to Xpower/T_Balance profiles and how to properly configure it.
im down for that...i would love to stabilize my chip at freq above 4.4ghz