Dual-CPU workstations encountered problems and solutions

The thing is this, due to AE rendering needs, and some special needs. After years of notebooks and AIOs, I returned to the field of DIY Desktop. In fact, the original mac pro can solve the problem just because Aunt Zhang did not find the preferential information and became extremely complicated.

Used AE 2014 all know, multi-core violence rendering is very Niubi, although 2015 does not know why you cut it off, but the brick agency official suggested that if you have a TWIN two-way workstation, it is recommended that the AE2015 editor, go Rendered under AE2014. So my demand for CPU is that the frequency is not high and the core is more. The core of the pile driver that can be bought in the budget is still quite a lot, but there are only four modules and eight cores. Looking at the workstations of other people's homes is a dozen small boxes. When you feel a bite and die, don't stop me. I'm going to map.

CPU this thing as long as it is not really easy to die, so the 2660 is a 95W choice, its price is cheaper than the 2670 dozens of blocks, the performance gap of 10%, but the power consumption is less 20W, the focus is AE2014 multi-core violence rendering a little difference No, really not at all!

700 yuan to buy 16 nuclear 32 small box ah performance end of abuse 5970X ah high cost is there? !

After the trouble is the motherboard, most people choose to hit the stone z8pe-d8 ws in addition to the memory slot is a bit less than nothing bad, comes with usb3, comes with a sound card, more like a home and work with the motherboard.

However, on the Taobao in addition to the selling price of 3K new original warranty, is a lot of so-called work package Lite or disassemble version, due to see comments in many bad reviews that sellers send water wash plate or fly plate, and my renderer is Striving for stability. At least so many components on the motherboard cannot be saved!

So the new insurance is only intel's cheaper, and finally won the Intel S2600CO4 in 1999 three years intel official warranty


Memory, since the S2600CO4 is a 4-channel 16-channel, natural fullness is more attractive, but fortunately, the memory on Taobao is now super cheap, 25X16,400 yuan won 16 4GB Samsung DDR3 1333 ECC REG memory

There are two problems with the motherboard, 1 no sound card, 2 no usb3. Running AE these two are big problems

So you have to buy a useful sound card, Terratec Aureon 7.1 PCI-e on a fish on the 25 received a second-hand, the seller said to be disassembled, is an anchor of the sister said that this sound card does not support electric sound use! Almost new, no traces of oxidation! Checked out a dell workstation using this sound card, no accident is a landlord's hostess sister!

This sound card has so few, 1 PCI-E interface, there is no USB variety of stupid current problems. 2 Support ASIO support Dolby 7.1 and various professional specifications 3 This sound card can be inserted into the standard intel hd audio front chassis panel, I find so many sound cards on this support.

USB3 I bought this, no feature I do not elaborate


Then the video card, because of special reasons I have to use A card, so do not buy 1080, have to buy Su Ma's hot chicken.

Initially selected the previous generation of flagship air-cooled R9 NANO for crossfire, due to the current problems, it is not recommended. Then I will say where the problem lies.

Finally there is the power supply and chassis. Power has ancestral RM850x, feel should be no problem.

However, the motherboards could not fit all, and finally bought a patriot's discovery. There are three pillars that can't be on. EEB and EATX are slightly different, but it's good to use.


This is almost the same thing. Don't ask me why I don't have a hard drive. I will tell you that 1800 pieces of Faya 2T Samsung I shipped it?


Things are almost on these

CPU: Ocean Junk Intel Xeon E5-2660c2 8C16T *2 700 yuan Motherboard: The new 3-year official security package S2600CO4 C602 LGA2011 *1 1999 yuan Memory: Samsung 4G DDR3 ECC REG PC3-10600R 1333MHz * 16 400 yuan Graphics: No shortage Sound card: Terratec AUREON 7.1 PCI-e *1 25 yuan
USB3 expansion card: ORICO PVU3-2O2I *1 69 yuan radiator: Spire seven heat pipe twin towers 2011 CPU heat sink * 2 266 yuan Chassis fan: JONSBO 12020 * 2 35 yuan power supply: American pirate ship RM850x * 1 799 yuan chassis: patriotic The person found black *1 249 yuan

Waiting for receipt

The first is the cpu board and memory, and 16 memory pack more than half the box.

Check the motherboard warranty, by 2020, no problem.

Plug in the effect is still quite good-looking

Take the ancestral light card GTS250

64G memory 32 small boxes

It was all right here, but it was a nightmare.

Let's talk about it here. AMD canceled the CF bridge after R9. Using experience XDMA, as long as there is a PCI-E interface, it can exchange fire.

Then you look at this server board intel.

The two blue pci-e x16s make it easy to think that this is for crossfire, but not.

If you install two other graphics cards, it is not after AMD R9 or nv cards.

You need to select which pci-e to use as the graphics card via motherboard bios.

Although AMD R9 can use two cards together afterwards, it cannot be inserted in this way.

The reason lies in the following picture.

This is intel s2600co4 technical documentation can see that the following blue pci-e x16 gen3 is not directly connected to cpu0 but through the cpi1 qpi bus to cpu0, so the problem is that, although AMD's drive detection Two x16 graphics cards exist and can be exchanged, but the delay is actually very big. In most cases, the efficiency of CF is only 20%, and many games such as Tomb Raider 10 will also have a negative effect, only about 40% of a single card.

Of course, except for games, this does not affect the efficiency of programs that run generic parallel computations.

However, it is not happy, so I put one of the R9 nanos down one by one and they were all connected to cpu0. The efficiency of the exchange was restored.

but! There is no place to insert a sound card or usb3 riser card. Had to insert the usb3 card in the blue interface.

But it can not be used, it will prompt prompt PCI communication unknown device prompts, and then take a closer look at that map, the original only CPU0 received PCH, CPU1 and Southbridge and bus interface. Therefore, devices such as sound cards, usb3 conversion cards or network cards without PCI controllers cannot be inserted.


So, how to solve the tragedy can only wait for my single-tank water cooling to come again, everyone will see you next time~


Next time notice: 1 solve the problem of dual graphics cards 2 spicy chicken win10 can not install 3 server motherboard boot slow solution

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