Finally I got my 10 Gigabit connection working. It took many hours scattered over two months. From the uncertainty that the used hardware may have a bug, over driver to linux kernel issues. But all in all is a 10 GBit home network worth it?
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Teaser: New Networkcards
Today two Brocade 1020 network cards arrived. You may wonder, what’s special about them. They are capable of delivering data rates up to 10 Gbps per port. I plan to upgrade the connection from my PC to my home server. This link is currently limited by the 1 Gbit between them. But let me start at the beginning.
Intel X5650 Overclocking – resulting a 4.37 GHz hexacore
It seems to be a problem that my old Gigabyte EX58-UD4P mainboard doesn’t support a base frequency over 150 MHz with this CPU, resulting a maximum core clock of 3.3 GHz for all cores (Old post). I tried all available bios firmwares, but none was able to POST with a higher base frequency. It was possible to overclock while running Windows 7 using the Gigabyte EasyTune 6 tool. But this solution isn’t satisfying for a daily use.
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Intel Core i7-920 vs. Xeon X5650
Since 2009 I have an Intel Socket 1366 system running. So over the years I overclocked the built in Core i7-920 to (nearly) 3.5 GHz.
eGPU project: wiring diagram
Before anything else, an important note: I don’t have any degree in electrical engineering. So if anything is wrong, feel free to correct me. However here is the guide.
After a few asked, I made a wiring diagram of my eGPU project.