X99, still a USED Value KING in 2024?
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Building an X99 Gaming PC with the i7-6950X, and RTX 3070 Ti in 2024 is definitely something special. However it's even more special when you account for used bargains and then compare the mid-range RTX 3070 Ti on this platform vs the i9-13900K.
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00:00 THIS looks like an interesting combo, X99 and a crazy cheap i7-6950x, Build total with some juicy Deals (thanks marco!)
02:15 Fixing up the Salvaged Focus G Case
03:01 Tuning up an i7-6950x with a Huananzhi Aliexpress motherboard?
07:14 Gaming performance, testing out Fortnite, Spiderman and Robocop
08:01 Benchmark graphs of i7-6950x vs i9-13900K with RTX 3070 Ti.
08:59 Closing thoughts on X99, power consumption and recommendation.
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X99 is back ❤
486 FTW!
Phil and marco back in the comments, the real OGs!@@MarcoGPUtuber and thanks for that salvage board dude!
Hello Phil and Bryan! Can we see a video where you guys absolutely max out the x58 platform? Rampage 3 black, i7-990, 24gb ram, raid ssds, usb 3 add in card, a 20 or 30 series graphics card, heck even a sound card to free up those extra couple of cpu cycles!
X99/C612 was never gone. It is the last truly great platform. Bazonkers core counts, assloads of RAM, a jizzillion of PCIE lanes, RDIMM support. Even today it's still competitive.
@@toseltreps1101 My HP Z440 agrees 😁
I just built 2 systems for less than $1000 with Asus X99 edition 10's and 6950x's with 3070 Ti's. Got every ounce of power out for both setups for my wife and I and we have zero issues playing anything at 1440p. X99 is an amazing budget for power right now.
This is actually quite amazing. Glad to hear that. Seems like one of the better routes to go.
Did the newer Machinist boards support Resize Bar and Above 4G decoding?
@atypicalmale7873 I bought a Mechanist board but I wasn't too impressed so I found a seller on eBay selling several Asus X99 edition 10's and took a chance and they both came in still in the original packaging
@@SteelPenny67 You got lucky with those ASUS X99's. Out of curiosity, did your $1000 spend figure for two systems include PSU, Case, RAM, and/or GPU?
@jb678901 Motherboards, CPU's, GPU's, 850w EVGA power supplies, 500gb 970 evo SSD's, and 2 sets of 32gb 3600mhz Corsair vengeance RGB. The cases, monitors, CPU coolers and peripherals are from old systems and I was able to reuse them. It took a long time and patience but you can get really good deals if you look hard enough
Looking forward for the re-size bar
Awesome as always
Thank you for the video
That's the Fractal Design Meshify C :)
Excellent salvage find!
Been getting ali-chinese x99 mobos for $35-45usd and x99 xeons for $5-10usd (e5 2640 v3 or better). Bios mod to perpetually turbo-boost all cores. Kind of amazing how well they will game without causing a bottleneck. Excellent value for a homelab or editing box too.
Yes its brute force processing and a lot of fun got a xeon 20 core 40 treads v4 and it runs like it nuts work horse all day long ;)
..and unlike the build in this video...can use REEC DDR3 or DDR4 RAM (2133Mhz) in FOUR (4) channel!
PS: the bios mod (with mV offsets) is really easy using MiyConst's Mi899 software...a few clicks of the mouse for a huge library of Chinese X99 motherboards. Easily done.
I got some issues with them, they don´t get on every time, I have to wait or reassemble. Do you know about it?
@@darkmastex7652 okay when I switched to the new prossesor type it worked maybe the main board type is the problem here I got an Chinese one it worked fine Machinist is the way to go I think
I loved my X99 5820K back in the day. I built it new in early 2015 and it was an absolute monster rig. Would totally still be usable today.
Mine still is, though I did upgrade to 64GB of faster RAM, a new pair of 18TB HDDs in RAID1, a new 2TB SSD, and a 4070 last year: all parts that can be reused in my next build, if they're still relevant and working!
I upgraded my old 5820k @4.3 to a Xeon E5 1660 v3 @4.3 but less voltage. My dark rock pro 3 can't handle more heat at this point.
My system wasn't snappy anymore, and the octo core CPU brought the snappiness back. Best upgrade for less than 100 bucks I could have done, apart for a decent nvme, I'm running a 2TB P5 plus.
I have this x99 extreme 4 + 5820k system since 2018, which was bought from a friend that had it since 2016!
I did this exact swap too, I had it on a D15S though and it was happy at 4.5 but I managed to kill the motherboard which was a very rare Asus mATX board which now goes for like £300 which was more than I paid for the board in like 2016. For that price I might as well just switch to a used AM4 setup as I don't want to deal with janky china boards that only do dual channel and have missing bios stuff as they usually repurpose lower end chipsets without the proper functionality a proper board would have
Not bad yes the E5 1660 V3 is the best fantastic value for X99. What ram speed you using or ECC memory?
X99 platform is a workhorse. I've been rocking a 5930k on a Asus x99 deluxe for 10 yrs. It still kicks A$$.
I love my Huananzhi X99-TF. Had it for 3 years now and she hasn't let me down yet.
great! Do you have turbo boost unlocked BIOS?
@@PCPOV I did when using the 2620 v3 but after I upgraded I reverted back to my board's original BIOS, which has the overclocking features enabled, so now I use it instead of relying on the full turbo boost.
thanks. Do you know how can unlock tbu or oc in X79 for E5 2697 v2?@@NXSProductions
Same. I had initially purchased an X99TF off of a non-official store on AliEx for $99, just "before" COVID hit (Jan 2020). Seller did not respond and I got a refund in early March, whereupon I bought from the HZ official store (~$100). The second order arrived rather quickly...in under 3 weeks. Then, 3 months later in June, the initially ordered board arrived at my door. I basically got two boards for the price of one!
The first board went into a family room build (E5-2678v3, 32GB DDR3) and has been running flawlessly. When my X79 (ASUS P9X79Pro) +E5-1680v2 (up to 4.5Ghz) started to shows signs of age, I decided to upgrade my office PC using the second X99TF with E5-2696v3 ($46, turbo unlocked) and 48GB DDR4. No regrets. This is my home office daily driver and I use it mostly for work, hobbyists photography/video editing, and occasional gaming (WoT). Coupled with an RTX 2080Ti ($220, local/used), it's a solid platform for my use case.
My system runs on air (230W TDP tower cooler) and I have changed out the active cooling fans to the VRM once, when one fan began to make a little noise. This was a very cheap and easy DIY intervention, common with these high speed mini fans. CPU temp never exceeds 52C on full load and VRM temps are quite low (under 45C); with ambient at 20C.
Managed the Re-size BAR on a Dell T5810. Needed to use an external eeprom programmer to first copy the BIOS then flash the modded bios. Otherwise was easy to do and was recognised by the Intel ARC A750.
Im still running a X99 workstation and love it and dont plan to upgrade until something with more pci express lanes coming out wat a reasonable price. I have been meaning to get around to doing the resizable bar mod too. Would be great to see what performance benefits it gives.
Love some x99 content.
I had the black and green version of this board a few years ago and I miss it. E5-2678v3 Xeon with Turbo Boost unlock was so good.
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It absolutely is. I'm still rocking my i7-6950X & MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon since 2019.
It’s still a very powerful CPU. 10 cores 20 threads and massive L3 cache. IPC wise it’s in the middle of Zen+ and Zen 2.
imagine my 10940X now with also 256gigs yep also using a 3090/3070 cuz its a workystation, my good i know the 6950x but X299 stuff is a lot faster tho, keep continue using it a lil bit but be ware its 8 years old, soon gonna be a security issue with a non updated Intel ME in YEAAARS so kmake sure youre on the latzest bios and tryna use Win11 on it if you can THEEN i would give it a go personally :)
appreciate how you include aud prices in your videos, even some other aussie youtubers dont do this
Great vid, Bryan. I like how the answer is typically, "It depends", because the price is the most contributing factor. And its so location dependent; I could go to where my brother lives a couple hours away in the city and there's so many more deals to be had compared to where I live.
Where I live you can't even get a used 2060 for under $350-400 because there are not many gamers, and we hold onto everything way too long. I finally upgraded from an AMD 580 to a 4090 in October of last year. If I hadn't gotten 25% open box discount and a sweet $100 in store coupon, I would be rocking a 4070 right now.
yea same thing just bought a used 3070 ti for ~$350 and I'm really happy about it cause u usually find 3070's for that price and they go up to $400.
I can totally relate to holding onto things too long I can also appreciate wanting to get your money's worth / value from a high end GPU/CPU purchase. I'm gonna ride that thing out till it stops working. Or it doesn't do what I require from it anymore. Which actually hasn't happened yet. Not since Guild Wars back in the Windows XP days. That was the one game I've encountered where my current PC of the time simply couldn't run it.
@@kevincampbell989 Wow Guild Wars, I never shifted to the sequel after I quit playing the first one.
Nice video! Good information about the licenses website!
the front fans didn't fit with the mesh in beacuase the fans should have been installed on the inside of the cas, not on the outside
At least the person that's gonna buy it can have a longer gpu now.
Edit: My 2070S is very tight with the fans installed
I remember doing the same thing when I first built in my meshify case. Funny seeing him make the same mistake lol. I did eventually realize I was the problem, not the case
Thanks for the updated X99 review. I just revived my old X99-M WS board/system for $350. Fuma 3, 5960X@ 4.5ghz, Asus X99 MATX, 64GB DDR4 2666, 1TB M.2, RTX 3060TI in a Asus Prime AP201 case. Was suprised at how well it runs being as old as it is.
Out of curiosity, what was the room temperature the day of the test? I had an i7-5960X cooled by a Corsair H100i and here in Sardinia I was forced to keep it undervolted almost the entire year, because of the heat produced. They are good value for sure, but depending on where someone live, they can transform the room in an hoven. In the end I decided to move to an AM4 system.
PCIe brackets come in handy, I use one as a GPU bracket. just bent it and sit it under the GPU. works well and blends in, can't even notice it's there.
For sure! I recently did a build with it the same CPU and a 3060 Ti for a customer
i did with x79 and rx 580
Still rocking my x99 platform. Got it in 2019 and it works like a charm.
I use an x99 setup with an rx590 for arcade emulation runs most things very well. Liked the setup you made very interesting 👍
Theres an iBios engineer custom BIOS for this mainboard - you could also try that (although it needs to be flashed with an external programmer)
There is something so majestic about old intel HEDT builds.
Miyconst is a good buddy, I have been on his discord for a while and these Rebar mods AND Turbo unlock mods are VERY popular. Tons of custom BIOS specifically for x99. Rebar is a part of the PCIE 3.0 spec and in THEORY should be possible on those systems. Most manufacturers have only gone back so far. We have seen a few X299, Z370/Z390 for Intel AND AMD B450/B550. Unofficially? TONs of x99 confirmed, and rumors of x79 and old Haswell success.
Fans are supposed to be mounted from inside, with the screws in the front. Also the case is a Meshify C
I have several X99 builds (MSI and Huananzhi). I can confirm that the board you have DOES NOT have a 85w PL. My Huananazhis use 120w and 130w Xeon CPUs at their correct power limits. The 85w limit you mention might be specific to your 'salvaged' motherboard (perhaps a faulty VRM module?). However, the Huananzhi X99s do have a faulty temperature sensor at the VRM (or these sensors send bad data to HW Info64), from the factory. I concluded that the temps can not be 100+C, as I have used my X99s for 24/7 heavy workloads for about a year with no issues.
The wattage the boards report in afterburner is also wildly incorrect
No issue with my X99TF (V1.0; six-phase power) delivering power to my E5-2696v3 (turbo unlocked) with a 145W TDP limit. Measured temps with handheld reader never exceed 50C on the VRM heatsink or nearby caps. Running fine for ~ 3 years.
Hey Bryan good info as always, could you maybe test the x99 platform on emulation? stuff like rpcs3 yuzu, xenia, I'd like to know if they are worth it for that use case
Great vid, bout to max out an old x58 dell workstation build with 6c12t and see how smooth gaming can be on pcie2 with triple channel ram, now I know a great benchmark expectancy for a x99 high end with premium parts to compare to when I find dirt cheap parts on the platform to play with.
Playin around with old parts has its rewards. You and your channel provide both entertainment and a great place to learn what someone's needs may be for work and gaming. Reliability and performance can be yours at a modest price when you know how older generations of tech work together!
waste of time and money to dump money in an x58. get a used 3rd gen ryzen, it will be like night and day. the 6 core chips on x58 were great like 10 years ago. not anymore.
My server is an HP X58 setup, works great for that
Thanks for another great video mate! Could you link to those fans? How do you get them cheap enough to add so many into your build? Do you buy in bulk? When I scrape the market and get together used parts, I am luck to get my money back when selling my builds. I get perhaps a 50 usd mark up, and that does not cover laber, not to speak about the risk of sometimes getting broken parts etc.
can t wait for the resizabel bar video - your the best . I am still running my i5 6600k (z170) - i am planning to order an i9-9980HK Bga to LGA cpu(AliExpress) (so i can keep my motherboard(the mod bios upgrade will be nerv wrecking - lol) - and with that cpu upgrade i am able to upgrade my gpu - gtx 1070 to an RX6800
I still have my C612 (X99) with 2x *E5-2699A v4s*
Hey Brian. I currently have an i5-10400, 32GB(4x8) ram, RTX 2070 Gigabyte Windforce(undervolted for better temps and power consumption) and a BeQuiet think it was Pure Power 11 Gold rated 500W PSU. I was looking to upgrade the GPU and was looking at a RTX 3070 Ti on the used market. Will the 500W power supply be enough for the 3070Ti upgrade? Also, do you recommend me going with the 3070 Ti or there isn't much performance gain going to that GPU? And do you recommend any other GPU to upgrade to? Would really appreciate if you answer this.
That case is a fractal meshify
And the mi899 tool might have a bios with ReBar ebabled for that motherboard
Your thoughts over the Ryzen 5 7500F?
My Blood pressure hit Nvidia stock levels as I Saw a Tech yes City upload in my notifications. Totally liking this X99 content. Marco you rawk, great mobo there.
Should also note, you can enable resizable bar on these motherboards as well as unlock the turbo frequency to be all core
Definitely do the Turbounlock with E5-2xxxV3. I use MiyConst's free Mi-899 software...a few clicks of the mouse and voila...UNLOCKED!
You can enable turbo hack but only on v3 processors but not on v4. Adding rebar is harder process. Its just not as simple as adding turbo hack.
@@user-up6jy6ks5q Is the resizable bar really that beneficial if running NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti? Happy with the TU on my E5-2696v3.
@@jb678901 it's mostly for amd and intel gpus.
Did you try putting the ram in the right slots? You have the 4 sticks in the wrong ones to do quad channel memeory, plus different brands of ram it seems. I have an x99 godlike gaming it's picky about that just fyi.
I would like to see you bench some 2011 V3 Xeons in that board. That would be useful for people wanting to go even more on the cheap with X99. And since clock speed is usually lacking on the Xeons, see if you could get around that.
Have an Asus X99 A-II, with an E5-2690v4 (14c, 28t), 128GB ECC memory, a Quadro RTX4000 and a 1TB nvme pcie m.2 Samsung 970 Evo Plus and 3 Samsung Evo 870 1TB SSD’s. Running a few years now without a fault or BSOD. Amazing system. I did start with a 6900k and overclocked +30% quite easily, but changed for more cores with the Xeon and ECC memory. X99 is still relevant today for sure. BTW, got a TPM 2.0 off Amazon so I could install Win11, to stay relevant.
You can bypass TPM 2.0 requirement easily
Been using my X99 based system since 2014. Over time the RAM was increased from 16GB to 64GB, an M2 drive was added, and the graphics card was replaced for an RTX 2070 Super, and I recently replaced the 5820K for a 6950X. It plays all games fine at 1080p, though I might move to a 3080ti if I get a bigger screen.
clicked so fast, love from the philippines brian. hope u come here soon.
pinoy pride. i thought i was the only filipino watching. brian, if you're reading this brian you are the reason i am now flipping pc's!!!
@@shoryuguten you're not the only one I'm sure.
Might live in America, but I hope to stop by either later this year or the next. Maybe even move, things are too crazy here.
Will the x99 do really well playing gt6 according to specs?
I'm just about to retire my 8 core 7820x coupled with a Strix 1080Ti to TV duties. It served me well over the last 6 years. I still got 120-144fps in Apex Legends with lowish settings. GPU is struggling with AI features in my editing software like LR Classic and Davinci Resolve. So in comes the AMD 7950x and 4090.
I just came from the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 review and thought I'd see what other videos you got. I wish there some teting data out there for the new Asus LC 420 as it claims higher airflow and pressure and is basically made for the case I am buying.
Cool, yeah with the Arctic it doesn't get much better, it's a beast of a cooler, The asus model might be a tad better(?), but will defs cost a bit more.
@@techyescity in 3 days I found ONE actual review. The rest are just ASUS sponsored build vids. Anyway he said it was loud and also didn't do much better than the 360 he tested against. I just ordered the Arctic 420. Plenty trusted reviews and real user endorsements. Never mind the LC costs more than double and I can't see it performing twice as good.
Love the X99 content, I've got a ton of regecc that I'd love to flip in rigs but uncertain of the performance of those ddr3 chips like the 2629 V3, 2678 V3, 2649 V3 etc, the one that interests me the most is the e5 2666 v3. Never get to see reviews on them especially in modern games
I love x99 videos, such a great platform. Do you use a specific brand of case-fans or is any RGB ring-fan setup from Aliexpress ok? How are the noise levels?
Where do you sell your stuff man? Just looking for something to help me tinker with my 3d printer
Ive done that exact same thing with the power supply pci brackets on a X99 build and a old nzxt case LOL.
Honestly x299 is my goto budget platform now. You can sometimes pickup a cpu and mobo combo for around $200. I paid $300 for mine and it came with a mono block and delid tool. Im running 4.8ghz all core and i am on par with a ryzen 9 5900. Id go further but my 360mm aio is completely tapped.
Great video and thanks for the windows discounts!
Nice combo,will this cpu bottleneck a rx 5600x,5700xt or 6600xt,and rtx 3060??
Perfect timing, I wasn't aware of the resizable bar mod. I was looking up x99 builds in 23/2024 last night and couldn't find much info.
I currently have an i7 5930k w/ 1050 ti on Gigabyte x99-ud3p mobo on my secondary machine and want to upgrade the GPU to something I can take into a new build eventually so bottleneck is more of a curiosity than worry at the moment.
I intend to do some gaming but mostly 4k/6k video editing, light VFX,and OBS to take some stress off of my main laptop. I am looking forward to the resizable bar video, keep up the work👍🏾👍🏾
My E5-2696v3 w/turbounlock is a good match for an RTX2080Ti. I would not go much above that in performance. RTX 3060Ti ~RTX 3070, or thereabouts.
dont dump anymore money into this system, its not worth it. just get a used 3rd gen ryzen chip and throw that 1050 ti out. that thing was worthless like 5 years ago.
@@jameszaccardo1520 You should read his comment for comprehension. He wants to buy a GPU upgrade for the future system, using it within his current platform for the time being. Not investing for the long term in his current build, which is a secondary system.
@@jb678901 thanks for your condescension. what they proposed is sub optimal. Maybe you don't know enough to see that.
@@jameszaccardo1520 Could be. Or maybe you could simply purchase a mirror for some self-calibration.
5:59 Is possible decrease the latency of memory
to improve performance ?
Nice setup and clean. X99 for a good price to performance 4sure. I didn't enjoy such low ram speeds but oh well. Glad you back I was worried, thank God you alive and Well. Godspeed.
That isn't a Focus G case. It has a PSU shroud and that weird front intake mesh. I think that's a Meshify C.
Which v3 or v4 cpus are equivalent to a stock(non TB unlcoked) 2696 v3?
Thanks for that rebar tip, the arc 380 is one of the best low profile gpus, but my low profile z240 pc with a xeon 1270 doesn't natively support it. I'm excited to see if I can't enable it.
1270 is sandy bridge, ReBar has been done on some of those boards, but not many.
@@echeese63 yeah, I have a v5, which is skylake. However, I noticed no one has reported z240 as working, and that makes me skeptical.
If I remember correctly, X99 was the HEDT platform that was around during Nehalem, which MS Just announced won't be compatible with Win 11 V 24H2. Does X99 make the cut, or is it relegated to "legacy" Windows at this point?
Still rocking my MSI MPOWER X99S (The Bumblebee) mobo today.
Me too amen brother
Hell ya, X99 was one of my absolute favorite platforms
Still have an X99 system, 5820k on an Asus X99 A II and a GTX 980ti twin frizr. Using a mismatched 16gb ram kit consisting of x2 corsair 3000mhz c15 and x2 gskill trident 3000mhz c16. Dodgy sticks in both kits lol.
Great content! I bought a 3090 a few months ago and couldn't get it to work with my 750w corsair sfx. Just keep black screening. Bought a new 4070S in the end but had same issue😮 Issue was the pcie wasn't pushed in enough to psu Then that finally made me realised I only needed a 3rd pcie cable instead of daisy chain the second 🤯. GUTTED! 😢
its needs more like a 1000 watt power supply for a 3090
@@jameszaccardo1520 unless you undervolt 🤪 and have a low watt cpu 👍
@@Jpwinks why would you pair a low watt cpu with a top tier card like the 3090? And an SFX is not really made for this. You don't want to just barely have enough power, you want to have some spare.
@@jameszaccardo1520 nah man don't want to continue this pointless discussion. I'm talking to the guy. Not you.
@@Jpwinks if you thought it was pointless then you wouldn't have replied to me twice.
Yeah! I am think, "Brian! what are you doing with my mobo?" xD I am actually looking at using that mobo for my Homelab
I just built a second PC with my old X99 SOC Champion that was laying around collecting dust. i7 5930k 4.4ghz, GTX 1660S, 600W all for about £200
I see TYC and X99, I instantly hit like
May I ask how was you able to mount that cooler?
i also want to know that, cause official deepcool not write support lga 2011
Great video mate, Thanks for the CD Key!
Still using mine, could do with a CPU upgrade.
I always love these builds man I don't know what it is. But X99 is so freaking cool
In the uk, but I've just picked up a pc from crack generator, £300 for a ryzen 5 5500, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd and a geforce rtx 2060 8gb and a 240aio cooler. Its basically what the gpu and cpu go for secondhand and its all branded stuff like msi inside it. Should be a massive upgrade from my dell xeon 1270v2 and 3gb 1060.
My old PC is an X99, with only a 6800K CPU, and it's fully watercooled with a monoblock, GTX 1080 Ti with waterblock, etc.
Can play most games decently at 1080P.
Switching to 13900K and RTX 3090, all that's left is watercool it as well, I have everything I need, except a bit of time.
Awful market for sellers at the moment
Thats a Fractal Meshify C. Great case
Good video, surely test the 6950x on your asrock board to show what its truly capable of ;)
Thanks!
Thank you too!
trying to get a Godlike x99 board sent in an offer on one that has Bios issues which is unfortunately very common in them (MSI tictoc death counter) planning on flashing reprogramming a new chip and soldering it on if not both bios chips (it has two you can switch between) any who here you can pick up a 14-core xeon and some 18core ones for under $40 used and even $30 used V4 of course... I was eyeing these boards but they just seem way to under whelming plus the Xeons run 135-145watts that and no usb 3.1 it's all just standard IO from early 2000's it feels like. it's awesome they are there, gives an option looking at an E5-2699 V4 E5-2698 V4 and a E5-2673 V4 there is a couple of them I am finding tempting just as a temp use because like said under $40 :)
I had an msi x99a gaming paired with a gtx 1060. I thought i would sell it but then i saw a 20 core e5 2698 for 80$. I bought it and decided to turn it into a workstation. More ram and a few drives later i have a moster of a workstation upgraded for 150$
Noice. You really can't beat the bang for buck peformance of a X99 even in 2024. ECC memory is cheap now. Xeons are still beasts for multithreading tasks. The only limitations is that the BIOs of most X99 motherboards are quite limited.
I still enjoy my X99 system. Got a Rampage V Extreme with 5930k, 8gb ram and cooler for 100€. Sokd the cooler with a nother x99 system, teh ram aswell. And now i changed the cpu to a E5-2697V3 and the ram with 4x8gb 3600mhz sticks
After bios mod and tweaking im runing 12c/24t active at 3.7ghz all core in games. With 14c active it can only hold 3.5-3.6ghz.
Gpu i use is a RTX 3070 gainward pheonix.
It runs any game i play perfectly but due to lack of info i bought a 1650V4 and 1630V4 hoping i could overclock thoose but you cant.
Sold the 1650v4 with the X99-P4 motherboard and the 1630V4 i used in my sisters pc which is paried with a GTX 1060 6gb.
Yes, the XEON E5/V3 will always be capped to the TDP limit. Hence, I went with the 2696v3 to get the higher 145W TDP. I can disable cores to get toward the 3.8Ghz max, but never all core to the limit under a full load. Under very light loads...up to 17 cores at 3.8Ghz. To get to 3.8GHz under full load, I basically have to disable just over half the cores. Not worth it for my use case.
@@jb678901 I tried 10c amd i was able to also get 3.8 but noth worth it. Sweetspot 12c 3.7
Wait, so the bios mod does work with the Rampage V Extreme ? Nice. The information I had read seemed to state otherwise. I needed more oomph to run Star Citizen this year, so i "downgraded" from 12 core E5, to a 8 core E5-1660 v3 ($22 shipped on ebay), which has an unlocked multiplier, and OC'd it up to 4.3ghz. Now SC runs much better.
@@AdamMontoyaUSA yes the bios V3 unlock works you just need a USB bios programmer. Remove 1 of the bios chips and put it into the programmer, Read the bios off of that bios chip using the programmer. Mod that bios with all the steps which were needed. Then write the modded bios to the bios chip directly. Shut the pc down, put the bios chip back in. Switch the board to read the modded bios chip and there you go. V3 turbo unlock on X99 rampage
@@AdamMontoyaUSA i still personally used the damaged 5930k i got with the board(it had a damaged memory channel) somehow freezing it in the winter cold fixed it and ran 4.5ghz on a 120mm aio stable and it can run 4.7 or 4.8 but cooling too weak
I just built a E5 2650 V2 Xeon on a X79 board. I put a rx 6500 Xt on it and am playing games. I put 32 gigs of memory for $20. I think I invested just over $250 for the whole thing plus a ssd and a new case. The cpu is an 8 core 16 thread. It's doing everything I wanted to do with it, youtube, videos, and some games like warthunder.
I just got a X99-E WS with a E5-2699v3 loaded into her (No RAM, storage, etc) for $100 CAD. Loaded it with 64GB Corsair LPX for $110CAD, and threw my RTX3060 in there. This thing has been being an absolute beast despite its age.
Been playing on my brothers x99 setup for a week now, very few complaints. 4.5 on 5930k with 2070super. I probably payed to much, but it is still capable pc. Modern processors are almost overpowered in a sense. Only all core rendering tasks need the power
Interesting to see X99 still rocking it.
is a 3060 12gb for 229 usd a good deal? what about a 8gb for 213 usd?
Do I spy some Kllisre DDR4?! Good stuff!
Also for your own amusement, try slotting in some Samsung JEDEC 2400MT/s ECC registered memory. The 6950X (and 6900K) have the ECC config registers left open and can run RDIMMs just fine. Might get you to 2400 for even less money.
Great job!
How about Xeons instead of i7, something like perhaps the E5-2640 V4, or how about something like the 14 core 28 thread E5-2690 V4 that may be better value?
Edit: And when it comes to boards, would X99 or C612 be the way to go for value (and quality)?
Few days ago I got an x99 Machinist motherboard with a Xeon E5-2640 v4 for $35 for a second PC
I ordered a Machinist X99 8D Max from aliexpress a couple days ago along with two E5 2698 v3 and 128 gigs of ram...Gonna pair it with an RTX 3080, wish me luck😂
How did it go?
I coincidentally looking at the £25 x99 boards on eBay last night
Awesome X99 build! Over there a i7-6950X is still expensive at around £160. A i7-5960x is around £50. I am sticking with my i7-5960x. Great price on your system though!
Is AMD's one-click undervolt button good, or can you get MUCH better results by manually undervolting the gpu?
Still rocking my X99 Extreme CPU with 3090ti. This machine (Alienware Area 51 with 64gb of RAM) has been chugging for me since 2017. It’s a gaming beast and in Blender it’s amazing.
I still got mine Huananzhi X99-F8 (literaly same as TF but with 8 DDR4 memory slots instead of 4+4 and black-green color scheme)
and I just love it
running E3-2697v3 with Arc A770 - modded bioses for the win :D
tho... i would not call it "Value King" anymore, :/ price of those boards are getting to the point of naming them RIDICULOUS is not a bad thing
I can get LGA 1700 mobo in many cases for the same price as those X99 boards on second hand market... and even while ordering from ali ;/
When I ordered my first X99TF in January 2020...the delivery failed and I got the full refund from AliEx in early March. Ordered another and it arrived in 2.5 weeks. The first order then arrived at the door 3 months later in early June, 2020. Basically I got two boards for $99 plus $10 in shipping.
I just built my brother a 3060 12GB PC for $290. Got the 3060 in the shop on trade in for $100. Needed new thermal pads and paste. He's using a new Chinese x99 board for $35 and an E5-1650v4. The 1650s/1660s/1680s all have above a 3ghz base and 4ghz boost.
The top processors for the X99 platform, the E5-2689 v4 and i7 6950X (in terms of core/clock) can still handle modern titles on high resolutions while aiming for a 60 fps experience. I have tested an E5-2666 v3 (non-modded) with an RTX 4080 at 5k ultrawide resolution, with the help of DLSS in some cases, and it can keep up with the GPU for most of the time in modern titles that utilize all cores. 4090 is stretching it too far, but a 4080 can still be handled by both these processors for a high resolution 60 fps experience. Too bad that Windows 11 doesn't support this platform officially so I will have to either bypass the check for the processor requirement in the future or switch my OS to Linux as it is still powerful enough for the work I do.
The X99 motherboards I have are ASRock Fatal1ty Gaming i7 and ASUS X99 AII. I would recommend the ASRock one since I have never had issues with it besides one RAM incompatibility recently when I was upgrading it. The first ASUS X99 AII I had died just as an year passed since I had it from back in 2016, but the refurbished one I was given is still alive and I also had no issues so far with it. The processors I had used on them are the i7 6800k which I had for the longest (used for around 7 years and pretty solid even nowadays), the E5-2666 v3 which is great for the current top GPUs as well once the all core boost is enabled on it and the E5-2689 v4 which I consider to be the king of the X99 platform for gaming currently. Buying a used i7 6950X is riskier than buying a used Xeon since you don't know how the previous owner had used the former one due to its overclocking capabilities. But that's my opinion though.
I had the luck to buy the E5-2689 v4 I have for 50 US only which I decided to risk since the seller had a good review score on Ebay. It came to me pretty quickly, even if the seller was on the other side of the world and it looked as if it was brand new, contrary to my expectations. I was pleasantly surprised that I could upgrade my system for so low with an extra 64 GB RAM kit for just ~150 US.
I'm still rocking a 6800K. The issue with X99 is that Microsoft disabled overclocking in Windows 10/11, so now all you can get is stock frequencies. Used to be able to get almost another 1 GHz on all-core. But for $100 a 6950X is worth it, in fact I would upgrade from my 6800K. But I can't find it for that price anywhere, on ebay the cheapest 6950X is around $200 which isn't worth it imo.
Years ago I used to use some OC software (was free) on Windows 10. Really easy to use. Before I got into messing in the BIOS. Not sure if there is a way around your issue.
Look into the 5960x, they tend to be a lot cheaper than the 6950x and have a reputation for being much more reliable overclockers than the 6950x which allows them to perform very similarly
@@ineligible2267 But again the issue is Microsoft dropped support for OC for these chips, I believe in response to meltdown/spectre. You can OC them in UEFI, and then in Windows they just run stock. I haven't found a way around it.
@@dianaalyssa8726 Nope pretty sure that doesn't work.
@@QuantumBraced if it's related to spectre/meltdown does disabling the patches for them solve the problem??
I have also seen this drop of budget pc sales. I have not sold a pc since christmas…. 😢