Quick heads up for you, couldn’t see in the comments. X58 boards have memory controllers on the cpu. If you lose channels on X58 it’s always 99% how the cpu is mounted. I tightened my cooler to hard once, and lost 2 Dimms. Backed off tension and all good again! The more you know!
"The fan didn't fail on its own, it probably had some external force like Darth Sidious or someone dropping Coffee on the fan..." Quite the range of bases you covered.
For the IO Shield issue, look into 3D printing. I bought an X399 mobo from Microcenter (it had been returned and was normally $400 and they wanted $97). I realized later it as missing the IO shield. I had one 3D printed that was perforated so that i could cut out the IO ports myself. It worked out better than i expected and took less time to have made and picked up locally. YMMV on the local print shop, but def look into it.
Printed a io shield for my x58 rampage. Def acceptable, I did just edit a blank shield in tinkercad, printed around 4 to get it perfect but def worth the time! Could not stop staring at the missing shield through my glass panel!
You can find parametric customizable io shield generator on thingiverse to print. You have to use calipers to determine the position and size of the holes and print it. I made some io shields that way
Just dropped in a 5675 on my rampage formula III. 90FPS on apex legend! This entire computer was built new by me when X58 hit retail (with the exception of 1070ti and 1tb ssd). I'd say I got my moneys worth already and it is still fast. I love this system. Its been overclocked since day 1 with I7 950 now X5675. Maintain, monitor, and be nice to your x58 with daily overclocks (no red voltages) and it will still do anything you want fast enough for most use cases BUT its at the end of its usable life span. 1366 is at a dead end pretty much. That is why they're 400 bucks.
That fortnite benchmark, while it didn't improve average FPS, the overclock really increased the 0.1% lows, making an overall smoother experience especially for high refresh rate gaming.
Hey, from WA here. Loving the channel. Still running my Asus TUF Sabertooth X58 board with first gen i7 950. CoolerMaster HAF 932 case and V8 cooler. Had it overclocked for a couple of years and it's still going strong.
I got the same case, and same motherboard, but I have a Xeon X5690, DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX GT BK, and 24GB 1333MHz RAM (6x4GB). No overclocks, I hit 60 FPS high settings in almost any game, just with a GTX 960 2GB. I think I might be able to run 1440P 60 FPS with a GTX 1650 Super ;)
I've been watching this channel for 2 weeks, Im a complete new person to this computer stuff but man ur content is so amazing, so detailed n clear ive learnt so much, thank you
This is why I love this channel. Last year I combined my old system with a m8s and a few cheap new parts like a PSU and SSD to update his gaming rig. 2500k retired in favour of a 3770k (max the MB could take) on LM with some unknown air cooler, 4.8GHz all day long. Put our lowly 8GB 1600 DDR3 together to make 16GB and it still rips through all the latest games without breaking the bank.
Made my first pc build using x58 after watching your videos. X5660 @ 4.6Ghz Asus Premium Deluxe 980ti 48gb ddr3 2400mhz. Spent around $150 using recycled parts.
I JUST upgraded from my X58 system in May. Now it's just sitting here next to my desk unused. It served me VERY well since 2009. It was still running strong with modern AAA titles, was just time for a shiny new upgrade.
Just repasted my whole board and gfx card when installing an $18 X5670. Evga x58 sli micro and Evga gtx970 ssc. Used kryonaut. Still kicking ass from 2010. Old i7 920 DO is relegated to backup now. Stepped up to a Asus 24" 144hz, IPS monitor, super sexy. Hopefully it will keep me happy for a bunch more years. What other platform can last 10+ years and still stay usable for gaming and productivity, wow.
I’ve sold soooo many X58 systems. Mad overclockers. People see the ads and are like ewwww it’s soooo old. So I have to show them the FPS by uploading pictures. Underrated af
Building my first x58 pc hopefully today, and I can’t wait, I’m probably going to try to get 4 ghz, because my cooler would probably melt at 4.2+ lol, I would never have touched something this old if it wasn’t for you. Thanks so much Brian!
There is always a special place for X58 in my heart! :) Have a lot of experience with it. imho the W-series Xeons are actually the best (W3670/W3680/W3690). Because the have unlocked multipliers. And you don't need to raise BCLK as high for an OC (or you could just leave it at stock 133). BCLK is highly dependant on the Motherboard. So with unlocked CPU's you overclock them pretty much like a modern one. You just change the multi's for the cpu cores and cache (uncore) and add voltage. And another interesting aspect is that although X58 has 3 channels the memory bandwidth is actually bottlenecked by slow L3 cache speeds. That's why overclocking the uncore(cache) is more important than the actual memory itself. For exampe next gen CPU's (SANDY/IVY BRIDGE) had the uncore(cache) at the same speeds as the cores themselves. That's why you can see even non HEDT 2nd/3rd gen chips having more memory bandwidth in dual-channel with the same sticks compared to 3-channel X58! :)
I agree, from what i gather W series is for single socket motherboards and X can utilize dual socket motherboards. I'm using a X5690 @ 4.5Ghz Bios overclock + Asus Rog 1070ti on an Asus p6x58d-E. If i see a deal on a dual socket I'll have dual X5690 rig.
I'm about to pick up an Asus board on a sweet deal today and I was thinking about popping in either a x5675 or a w3670 just for value sake. Would you say the w is the better bet there? Also, I don't think I've ever overclocked the uncore... Am I in for a learning curve here?
I have never seen this "technique" with how to apply cooling paste. I have the "Asus P6T", and still works great. I overclocked this mobo from the very first day i turned my PC on (begin of April 2010) And after almost 13 years (from moment of writing), it still runs great while overclocked.
Great Video , X58 still rocks , premium x58 motherboards are still quite expensive but if you get a good deal on one and pair it with a Xeon processor which are quite cheap it's a great machine . One thing I would suggest when buying a old motherboard , always replace the CMOS battery , if its low in power it will give you some issues .
I owned that same mobo for a while, picked up a whole system with one and an i7 for $100, used it for a couple years and still made profit when I sold it, good chunk of cash too! Goes to show how desirable the X58 platform is.
X58 Asus Premium user here. 10 years i7 920 and just upgrade graph (1060 6gb) SSD and 6+12gb of ram (ripjaws). What a machine! 3.6Ghz since new everyday! Runs every game no problem. Now because of Tech YES City I just purchased a XEON W3680 to get that 6 cores and try to get to 4.0 or 4.2. Maybe with your help and your videos ,which i must enjoy, i'll get there! Just love X58!
Earlier this year I took my old Gigabyte x58 , i920 and 12gb of OCZ 1866 I had in the loft for years , bought a Xeon X5670 off ebay for about £12 and built a gaming rig for my stepson using my old WC 980ti and a new £35 case , 650w psu and watercooled the whole thing using all old parts I had lying around (just upgraded my own PC) in total for about £120 and it's an absolute blast at 4.4ghz , plays everything no problem and he loves it and runs so cool. Gotta love X58.
Just finished restoring yet another X58 platform. Had to swap out the system board because lo and behold two caps on the board were gone. Fortunately, I had the identical make and model of system board sitting in storage. The unit runs like greased lightning now. I did have a little trouble with the RAM but after adding one stick at a time and rebooting after adding each stick it finally registered all the RAM. The X58 Legacy lives on!
Still running my UD3R 2.0 overclocked the whole time from new. Started with an I7 930, HD5770 and a Barracuda 7200. It was a sad day when my Barracuda raid bit the dust. Currently running x5675, 2060 Super and Samsung SSD. Case is the old Cooler Master HAF with the big 230mm fans. I swapped out the top fan for a Corsair 280mm AIO. It keeps the CPU nice and cool at 4.1 GHz. As far as the wife is concerned it’s still the same computer I’ve been running for the last 10 years. ;)
I am still gaming on the X58 using the Xeon X5675 now. I keep it at a safer 4.0ghz but it runs my Oculus as well as my Ryzen does. I have a 2009 Mac Pro with dual X5675 for broadcasting races on iRacing motorsports simulation. The old Mac Pro is a beast when it comes to running overlays and all the other apps I have going on. Who would have thought that over 10 year old hardware would still be going this strong.
Before he'd always recommend buying the codes from eBay as they were much cheaper than even key selling sites and he'd never had a problem with them. Then the sponsorship came along and for some reason that doesn't get mentioned any longer.
I recently dragged my old dell t3500 out with a x5687 in it. I disabled c states and put windows in high performance and its locked at 3733mhz now. I bought a rx 470 $70, wifi card $20, and 120gb ssd for OS $20. It's now my htpc I'm having more fun with it than my ryzen 3800x and gtx 1080 ti build. Something about old hardware is fun.
I still use my PC that I built in 2009. Until last month it was my daily computer. It's an i7-920 (overclocked to 3.2GHz for 10 years) on an Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard. Has 12 GB of Corsair DDR3 1600 and a Corsair 1000w PSU. And it all lives in a CoolerMaster HAF932. Except for GPU and SSD upgrades over time, I haven't changed anything on it for over 10 years. And that beast still takes care of business.
Watching this on my X58 system, I have a P6X58D Premium and upgraded with an X5680. Have it overclocked to 4.2. Hard for me to move on, though Ryzen is in my sights. Getting NVME to run on this was a big step up for me.
Waiting on a 1070 I scored for $200 used to come in the mail. I have an X5650, Asus Sabertooth X58 Mobo... hopefully I can tweak it easily to 4.2Ghz at least with a Coolermaster 212 Evo I got it as a combo with the board and CPU. Thanks for giving us some X58 goodness to gauge how modern games perform in 2020!
I still run a spare rig with an Asus Rampage ii extreme, 12gb of OCZ Reaper memory, an X5670, and a 1060. It's still smashing games day in and day out for my teenage children.
The other day I ordered an HP Z400 workstation which is X58 with a 5650 in it and 4 dimm slots, so only dual channel ram. There are great deals on old workstations on eBay right now, so like if you're someone still on a 4 core/4 thread machine looking to upgrade to more cores and threads, finding an old workstation on eBay is a killer price/performance way to go. You can literally type in "6 core workstation" or even "8 core workstation" and find really cost effective results. Mine was $91 USD to get it without the RAM, GPU, and hard drives. Should have all that in by Saturday.
My daily-driven x58a-ud3r / Xeon X5675 / 24gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 is still happily cruising at 4.6ghz.... love this thing, thanks Brian for all your advice :)
@@anthony21893 bclk 200 - 1.52vcore in bios, although bios values and CPUID values do differ with the latter showing below 1.5v Cooled by a Corsair H110i, rarely hits 80°c Also have my rx580 8gb at 1445mhz AIO water-cooled, so it's all dead quiet
@@Borgthespacewalker sorry for the late reply this is crazy I want to try hit those numbers too. If your ok with it I would love a pm with some photos of your bios I want to try and get mine to maybe 4.4ghz :)
I really appreciate your X58 content. I recently revamped first ever build (Asus P6t, originally with an i7 920) for a friend of mine who wanted to get back into PC gaming on a budget. It was sitting around gathering dust, so I got hold of an X5850 for virtually nothing, OC'd to 4Ghz (I did get 4.2, but it wasn't long term stable, could be voltage, could be the fact I was stuck with the multiplier at 20, so the bclck was over 200), and paired with an 8GB RX580. It's great to see my first build still alive and kicking 11 years later, and I owe it all to your content :)
I have had great success with actually lowering the cpu pll voltage on the x5600 xeons, give it a shot, had 4.5ghz fully stable with 1.75v pll. Lowers temp quite a bit too. Love the channel, x58 is my all time favorite platform. So much fun overclocking, and them lanes. All of them lanes.
Hi, good job on this. I have a suggestion for the RAM (from my experience) , use some of those black 4GB MAC RAM sticks SK Hynix 1866MHz PC3-14900E. Sometimes there are very good deals on these on eBay.
Great video Brian, I watch alot of your videos as i find them entertaining and informative so thankyou. I Was lucky/unlucky to buy and x58 system back in 2010, 9 months later the 2600k came out (the unlucky part) I bought a gigabyte UD7x58a MB and an i7930 plus 12gb of 6x2gb sticks of corsair 1600 memory. Was a fantastic purchase and very very forgiving when overclocking and it taught me a lot. I struggled with this board a bit with the 930 and it was always unstable after 4ghz, later down the line i was able to scoop up a 980x for a really great price and that thing was sooo much better to oc, i got it stable at 4.4 but the power consumption and heat was pretty intense, I even benchmarked it at 10 different frequency's and monitored the power consumption, I ended up with 4.1gh where performance and power was at its highest performance per watt. I also went through many gpus - gtx9800+ gtx480 egg cooker - gtx770 - gtx1660ti. Then finally this year i built a new computer finally and just used the 1660ti. I can say the upgrade was massive, the frame rate does not correlate to how smooth the frame time is, but you would know this. Anyways thankyou for the Great videos, keep up the great work and keep on trucking.
The good thing with i/o shield is if you own a 3d printer, you can print one of those universal i/o shields and cut them where the ports are and have something that looks clean enough
It's not necessarily the spray and the cleaning that brought the DIMM channels back. With X58, sometimes you need to add ram sticks to each channel one at a time. By that, I mean you slot in the first stick, boot, shut down, install the second stick and so on, until you fill all 3 or 6 slots. Or sometimes the board just does whatever it wants with the ram, sometimes you put in 4 sticks in dual channel config, works without a hitch. Take out all four sticks then put them back in with 2 extra sticks, only recognize one or won't even boot... (I used a ASUS P6X58D-premium board with W3690, damn good find if not a bit overpriced.)
14:30 You're using competitive settings so it's normal for the 10900K to have such a massive lead but the 0.1% lows almost doubled for the 970 which indicates that the experience was smooth enough. If you're playing at 144FPS capped, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference
X58 is the new hero, just like the LGA 775 was, with the q6600 which refused to die for so long! I still have new people asking me questions about the overclocking, that's really impressive!
Great video . Iam glad to see this . I got lucky and found a box at goodwill that was taped up but i could see that it had several sticks of ram . I took a chance and got it for $7 . When i got home it had 2 AIO coolers , 6 sticks of 4GB DDR3 , 2 sticks of DDR4 a Gigabytega'x58a'ud3r and a Asus rampage 3 formula . Both the boards had i7 950. Everything works but i am having the same issue with 2 of the memory slots on the asus . I just ordered 2 x5675. Its my turn to try some X58 Goodness ....
Hey all, I left this as a comment on a quite old video as well, but thought here is a good place to have it as well. Here is what I will be sprucing up after that, A.K.A the old PC: i7 920 will be OC to 4.0Ghz as it uses a Cooler Master V8 tower cooler Asus P6T SE (x58 chipset of course) 2x4GB DDR3 1600mhz corsair xms3 (these will become 3x4 gb and if needed 6x4 GB) 2x2GB DDR3 OCZ (these will go to a third old PC I have laying around and not being used to make it an 8 GB RAM one) GTX 560ti (This will be replaced with the 970 above) The PSU needs a change (Cooler Master 700W), as it started to cut the power to the GPU under load. I've picked a be quiet 500W one (total 436 watts will be needed for the config, so this one should be enough) Will change up the case from a Cooler Master HAF 932 to a Deep Cool Mattrexx 55 mesh, in order to not have my eyes bleeding every time I look at the PC. Will ad a Raijintek 3x120mm RGB fans + controller and a 140mm RGB exhaust. Will switch out the HDDs in it for a system SSD + a 4TB SeaGate Barracuda. Here's what I built about a month ago. Asrock B450M pro4 Ryzen 5 2600 16GB (2x8GB) Team Group T-Force VulcanZ 3200mhz 240GB system SSD 500GB Crucial P2 NVME SSD 650W Seasonic 80+ gold non-modular Cooler Master NR 400 case Cooler Master MF120 pack of 3 2 x Be Quiet Shadow Wings Used a 2tbs old HDD (that will be switched out in a month or so to either a 2TB SSD 2.5 inch ssd + a 1TB m.2 SSD, ot a 4TB ssd direct). Used an old gtx 970 asus strix I had (waiting for the rtx 3000 series, so that I can buy a Palit 2070 super on the cheap). Will add a Be Quiet tower cooler as well in a few months. TL;DR - I have a lot of PCs at home an will need to do a lot of work on them and quite a lot of Tech Yes Lovin' I love the channel eve since I found it a few months ago. You made me keep the old components and will build quite a capable machine with them. THANK YOU!
Loving your content Brian! The X5675, run a pair of them in a Dell R710 server ... yeah, you can't OC them on the Intel 5520 chipset, but still great for a media server / encoder on a budget
Got the w3565...3.2ghz xeon equilivalent to the 970...but got a dell t3500 mobo can't overclock with n would love to..got a deal on mobo cpu combo..ended up with an extra chip ..might just pick up a aftermarket 1366 mobo I can overclock with...and on 1 system I picked up a x5680 Xeon...6core12threads @3.3-3.6 it ran good with a rx570 4gig...love the vids I've learned a lot on older platforms from you! Thanks Brian!! Love the vids buddy!!
Good video man. I have two of these systems. One 920 and one 980x. I have to say the 980x is still a beast. Still use it for gaming. It ran fine with a gtx 780, gtx 1060. Will soon test it with a rtx 3060
@@techyescity yup! She works great! The seller even guaranteed that the board works and I can return it if there are any issues. I have 2 x5675s, should I stick with those or is it worth going with the x5690s?
My birthday is December 22 and I want to buy myself a GTX 1070. I have a similar board-P6T SE, E5645 @ 3.6 GHz and 12 GB of RAM HyperX 1866 MHz)) I hope my computer will live a new life after upgrading my ancient HD5870 😄 Thank you so much for this video, helped with my dilemma! ☺️
x58 motherboard still rocks! I'm currently using x58 system as my main personal PC aside my other systems. i7-950 OCed to 4.2ghz Corsair H100i EVGA E760 SLI Classified 6 x 2gb G.skill Pi 1600mhz CL7 Nvidia RTX 2080 FE Samsung 860 Evo SSD RAID 0 256gb x 2pcs (OS) Samsung 860 Evo 1tb SSD (games) Seagate Ironwolf 2tb (documents & storage) Corsair RM1000i ASUS PG348Q G-Sync
For one build I made my own IO shield. Took one from a broken board, cut out the stuff and dremeled the fitting holes into a piece of sheet metal, then fit it into the rim of the broken one.
I have the same issues with COD Modern Warfare with the DEV errors. Use DX 11 by going into the Options -> Game settings -> and putting in Additions arguements "-D3D11" w/o quotes. Should work. Also set the scaling to Wide 16:9 in game as well
Got that same Noctua cooler bought used from a 10yo old system ! Also You can make DIY I/O Shields for less than they actually worth , you can make them even better and stronger , there's tutorials out there !
I was about to say that you could use 3d printed io shields but im sure it has already been pointed out by the other comments. 😂 You should do a video while using those 3d printed io shields soon. Great content always, thanks!
4:52 Usually, to remove the dry thermal paste i use a silicone based lubricant spray and let it sit for a few minutes. It will soften the dry paste. You can also use it on the chip, but clean it with isopropyl alcohol before puting new thermal paste.
I just upgraded both of my x5670 systems with RTX 2060's and boom I'm set for another few years of gaming, still getting 144+ fps in competitive fps games with competitive settings (you don't need the eye candy for the kills) and easily holds above 60 fps at 1440p in Triple A eyecandy type games like metro exodus etc. I built the systems in Aug 2008 with D0 stepped i7 920's and when the Xeons dropped to $50 on ebay I cashed in. He's right it was the best investment I ever made and it's saved me thousands in upgrading my PC's
i've just replaced my x58 platform for ryzen3. though my x5650 can run at 4.4g, its performance is not enough for some modern games like AC:Odyssey, or for video encoding. but as you said, I had a lot fun on x58, love it
Have 3 x58 boards, a intel board which I despise... Lol. It has a few issues and still works but now retired. A "new" Huananzhi x58 with tripple channel I got cheap online. It's plain but rock solid, very overclockable board. And my favorite I got cheap on marketplace in excellent condition, Asus sabertooth x58. Mixed with i7965 extreme and x5670, I spend more time on these than my newer 1151 build.
Tech Yes City love the videos.. I listen to your videos while driving around the US. The audio content is full of knowledge. One question though. Is that brake cleaner you're using to clean your hardware? I may have to steal that method
X58 Love here too. It just hurts a bit to see that VS550 PSU powering a fine rig. Sure it can do it, but the quality is low. But this is about low cost... i know. As an alternative.. Enermax MaxPro 500W. Those are actually decent low budget (a bit better quality than the Corsair VS at about 10% more cost)
Solid units the X58. I have one as my daily until this day. Dell T3500, XEON W3520, 24GB DDR3 ECC triple channel, 500GB SSD, 1TB HDD, nvidia Quadro P1000. Tempted to possibly put an RTX2060
I've never had too much problems with copy/pasting Battlenet games, only happened a few times. Copy to the location you want it, go into Battlenet and select the game and you will see a link/buttonish saying "Already instaled? Locate the game", select location and click OK. If I had problems it was usually solved by exiting Battlenet and closing Agent.exe, delete the game .exe file, start Battlenet and then select "Scan and Repair".
Thanks for all the support on the X58, awesome to see how good they are and how long they have lasted. Any chance you could do a video on how to resolve the dreaded RAM issues, ive lived with this problem for a couple of years now, where im only getting 4 boots to load windows and 8GB instead of 12gb (on a UD7 with a 5670, 1600 Viper).
I had a similar problem with my X58 system just before I sold it, one of the memory channels had stopped working. I found a glob of dust in the LGA pins, after blowing it out with compressed air and cleaning the underside of the CPU, all the channels were working again.
Love all the x58 videos you make! I am still using x58 ftw3 with my x5690, and it is fucking awesome! I have been using the same Motherboard since 2008. Best purchase of my life, and I can still play all the modern games!
At 12:45 you can see the face of Alex Zanardi, a great Italian F1 champion who lost his legs in a terrible accident, but then he recovered and went on to be a champion in paraolympic sports. Few days ago Zanardi had another incident while riding his handbike, and now he is fighting again between life and death. Let's hope Alex gets better and recovers again!
Hey Bryan, you might benefit from setting up a lancache for downloading games. I set one up using my netgear readynas supplying my raspberry pi with an NFS directory, then running a docker container on it to run lancachenet/monolithic server, which covers steam, origin, and battle.net. It might support epic too, but I have no interest in that. I typically get 50MB/s download on steam when I download cached games on my PCs. It's only limited by your network and storage speed.
I was still using my i7-970 until Ryzen came out. decent processor and x58 was a good platform. My only grievance was that it came out right before USB 3.0 so you needed to use an add-in card to add USB 3.0 if you wanted it. I actually used that exact same motherboard. The P6T just brings back so much memories
If you'd like another comparison, I can run my i7 980X @ 4.8ghz just for more figures. I'm using a rampage III extreme with 24gb of g.skill DDR3. As of now it's paired with 2 GTX 295's, but I can throw my RTX 2080 in it
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x58 Goodness? Xeon madness? TECH YES CITY!
Quick heads up for you, couldn’t see in the comments. X58 boards have memory controllers on the cpu. If you lose channels on X58 it’s always 99% how the cpu is mounted. I tightened my cooler to hard once, and lost 2 Dimms. Backed off tension and all good again! The more you know!
@@AzTheCreator Oh really??? I wonder if this is why I couldn't use the second memory channel on my old X58 board. Oh well that was years ago now. :(
@@AzTheCreator Or if you're overclocked, raising qpi voltage has always done it for me.
idk i prefer x79 boards for xeon adventures
Jacson C What makes X79 better?
X58, The most Tech YES Legendary motherboard ever. IMMORTALITY
Yes he is keeping this platform alive.
My P6T was not immortal 😭
@@WarriorsPhoto and most of us apreciate it :)
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"The fan didn't fail on its own, it probably had some external force like Darth Sidious or someone dropping Coffee on the fan..." Quite the range of bases you covered.
For the IO Shield issue, look into 3D printing. I bought an X399 mobo from Microcenter (it had been returned and was normally $400 and they wanted $97). I realized later it as missing the IO shield. I had one 3D printed that was perforated so that i could cut out the IO ports myself. It worked out better than i expected and took less time to have made and picked up locally. YMMV on the local print shop, but def look into it.
Printed a io shield for my x58 rampage. Def acceptable, I did just edit a blank shield in tinkercad, printed around 4 to get it perfect but def worth the time! Could not stop staring at the missing shield through my glass panel!
Interesting idea, I defs will have to look into that.
I just bought an x299 motherboard at microcenter for $99 bucks with all accessories 👍
You can find parametric customizable io shield generator on thingiverse to print. You have to use calipers to determine the position and size of the holes and print it. I made some io shields that way
Mitja that’d be the more accurate way. Don’t think most will go that route and just want something that somewhat resembles and IO shield.
0:45 that is the best thing I have seen on a tech channel
love this guy ahaha
Good that made me feel sick
He also cleans hardware with his underwear, I love that XD
@@Mizra-dq3lj don't be such pathetic with his underwear! You dirty mind!
Just dropped in a 5675 on my rampage formula III. 90FPS on apex legend! This entire computer was built new by me when X58 hit retail (with the exception of 1070ti and 1tb ssd). I'd say I got my moneys worth already and it is still fast. I love this system. Its been overclocked since day 1 with I7 950 now X5675. Maintain, monitor, and be nice to your x58 with daily overclocks (no red voltages) and it will still do anything you want fast enough for most use cases BUT its at the end of its usable life span. 1366 is at a dead end pretty much. That is why they're 400 bucks.
Not only this, you better add an additional fan to that northbrige cooler.
Then - it's golden!!!!
What have you hit with your 5675?
I'm sitting on 4.6ghz and cooled by a Corsair H110iGT and it rarely sees 75C :P happy days
That fortnite benchmark, while it didn't improve average FPS, the overclock really increased the 0.1% lows, making an overall smoother experience especially for high refresh rate gaming.
Marco you are 100 Percent Correct!
@010 11 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@010 11 it will explode man. 🌪️🥴
Any idea about power consumption stock vs oc?
Hey, from WA here. Loving the channel.
Still running my Asus TUF Sabertooth X58 board with first gen i7 950. CoolerMaster HAF 932 case and V8 cooler. Had it overclocked for a couple of years and it's still going strong.
SoR FTW
I got the same case, and same motherboard, but I have a Xeon X5690, DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX GT BK, and 24GB 1333MHz RAM (6x4GB). No overclocks, I hit 60 FPS high settings in almost any game, just with a GTX 960 2GB. I think I might be able to run 1440P 60 FPS with a GTX 1650 Super ;)
I've been watching this channel for 2 weeks, Im a complete new person to this computer stuff but man ur content is so amazing, so detailed n clear ive learnt so much, thank you
This is why I love this channel. Last year I combined my old system with a m8s and a few cheap new parts like a PSU and SSD to update his gaming rig. 2500k retired in favour of a 3770k (max the MB could take) on LM with some unknown air cooler, 4.8GHz all day long. Put our lowly 8GB 1600 DDR3 together to make 16GB and it still rips through all the latest games without breaking the bank.
Old tech is amazing ain't it!
@@MrPugheaven It's crazy.
I actually moved from X58 to Ryzen. X58 still great as a secondary PC.
I just made my move last week
I just bought x58 and I can definitely see why people love it.
@@EvilTurkeySlices hello friend. What mobo did you bought?
@@gjergjkastro9404 a P6T SE that the previous owner flashed as a P6T.
X58! This is the motherboard that made Tech YES City!
Yes it was. Let's not forget X79 as well. That's how I was able to find Bryan. (:
Made my first pc build using x58 after watching your videos.
X5660 @ 4.6Ghz
Asus Premium Deluxe
980ti
48gb ddr3 2400mhz.
Spent around $150 using recycled parts.
I JUST upgraded from my X58 system in May. Now it's just sitting here next to my desk unused. It served me VERY well since 2009. It was still running strong with modern AAA titles, was just time for a shiny new upgrade.
Just repasted my whole board and gfx card when installing an $18 X5670. Evga x58 sli micro and Evga gtx970 ssc. Used kryonaut. Still kicking ass from 2010. Old i7 920 DO is relegated to backup now. Stepped up to a Asus 24" 144hz, IPS monitor, super sexy. Hopefully it will keep me happy for a bunch more years. What other platform can last 10+ years and still stay usable for gaming and productivity, wow.
I have an x5675 @4GHz, 32GB RAM and a GTX 1070. Im lovin' it. Used your videos for the OC.
I’ve sold soooo many X58 systems. Mad overclockers. People see the ads and are like ewwww it’s soooo old. So I have to show them the FPS by uploading pictures. Underrated af
Building my first x58 pc hopefully today, and I can’t wait, I’m probably going to try to get 4 ghz, because my cooler would probably melt at 4.2+ lol, I would never have touched something this old if it wasn’t for you. Thanks so much Brian!
There is always a special place for X58 in my heart! :) Have a lot of experience with it. imho the W-series Xeons are actually the best (W3670/W3680/W3690). Because the have unlocked multipliers. And you don't need to raise BCLK as high for an OC (or you could just leave it at stock 133). BCLK is highly dependant on the Motherboard. So with unlocked CPU's you overclock them pretty much like a modern one. You just change the multi's for the cpu cores and cache (uncore) and add voltage. And another interesting aspect is that although X58 has 3 channels the memory bandwidth is actually bottlenecked by slow L3 cache speeds. That's why overclocking the uncore(cache) is more important than the actual memory itself. For exampe next gen CPU's (SANDY/IVY BRIDGE) had the uncore(cache) at the same speeds as the cores themselves. That's why you can see even non HEDT 2nd/3rd gen chips having more memory bandwidth in dual-channel with the same sticks compared to 3-channel X58! :)
I agree, from what i gather W series is for single socket motherboards and X can utilize dual socket motherboards. I'm using a X5690 @ 4.5Ghz Bios overclock + Asus Rog 1070ti on an Asus p6x58d-E. If i see a deal on a dual socket I'll have dual X5690 rig.
I'm about to pick up an Asus board on a sweet deal today and I was thinking about popping in either a x5675 or a w3670 just for value sake. Would you say the w is the better bet there? Also, I don't think I've ever overclocked the uncore... Am I in for a learning curve here?
The best performance comes from raising the BLCK, so having low multi's is not a problem
Looks good man, still running my daily driver, x58 ASUS Rampage Gene III, with an i7-975x, GTX 1070 FTW and 24GB in triple channel
I have never seen this "technique" with how to apply cooling paste.
I have the "Asus P6T", and still works great.
I overclocked this mobo from the very first day i turned my PC on (begin of April 2010)
And after almost 13 years (from moment of writing), it still runs great while overclocked.
Great Video , X58 still rocks , premium x58 motherboards are still quite expensive but if you get a good deal on one and pair it with a Xeon processor which are quite cheap it's a great machine . One thing I would suggest when buying a old motherboard , always replace the CMOS battery , if its low in power it will give you some issues .
I owned that same mobo for a while, picked up a whole system with one and an i7 for $100, used it for a couple years and still made profit when I sold it, good chunk of cash too! Goes to show how desirable the X58 platform is.
X58 Asus Premium user here. 10 years i7 920 and just upgrade graph (1060 6gb) SSD and 6+12gb of ram (ripjaws). What a machine! 3.6Ghz since new everyday! Runs every game no problem.
Now because of Tech YES City I just purchased a XEON W3680 to get that 6 cores and try to get to 4.0 or 4.2. Maybe with your help and your videos
,which i must enjoy, i'll get there!
Just love X58!
Earlier this year I took my old Gigabyte x58 , i920 and 12gb of OCZ 1866 I had in the loft for years , bought a Xeon X5670 off ebay for about £12 and built a gaming rig for my stepson using my old WC 980ti and a new £35 case , 650w psu and watercooled the whole thing using all old parts I had lying around (just upgraded my own PC) in total for about £120 and it's an absolute blast at 4.4ghz , plays everything no problem and he loves it and runs so cool. Gotta love X58.
Just finished restoring yet another X58 platform. Had to swap out the system board because lo and behold two caps on the board were gone. Fortunately, I had the identical make and model of system board sitting in storage. The unit runs like greased lightning now. I did have a little trouble with the RAM but after adding one stick at a time and rebooting after adding each stick it finally registered all the RAM. The X58 Legacy lives on!
I got a X58 mobo and Xeon CPU and was running it flawlessly for 3 years now. All thanks to the YesMan's earlier videos. Love your content, mate! :)
Still running my UD3R 2.0 overclocked the whole time from new. Started with an I7 930, HD5770 and a Barracuda 7200. It was a sad day when my Barracuda raid bit the dust. Currently running x5675, 2060 Super and Samsung SSD. Case is the old Cooler Master HAF with the big 230mm fans. I swapped out the top fan for a Corsair 280mm AIO. It keeps the CPU nice and cool at 4.1 GHz. As far as the wife is concerned it’s still the same computer I’ve been running for the last 10 years. ;)
I am still gaming on the X58 using the Xeon X5675 now. I keep it at a safer 4.0ghz but it runs my Oculus as well as my Ryzen does. I have a 2009 Mac Pro with dual X5675 for broadcasting races on iRacing motorsports simulation. The old Mac Pro is a beast when it comes to running overlays and all the other apps I have going on. Who would have thought that over 10 year old hardware would still be going this strong.
Thanks for the promo code finally registered windows for 13.40 us good on ya mate
Did well there. Year ago had a month trial of office online, forgot to cancel and microsoft clipped my ticket for USD 100 for annual subscription!
Before he'd always recommend buying the codes from eBay as they were much cheaper than even key selling sites and he'd never had a problem with them. Then the sponsorship came along and for some reason that doesn't get mentioned any longer.
@@voteDC he has to make money somehow. He's not saying that's the only way to buy keys
I recently dragged my old dell t3500 out with a x5687 in it. I disabled c states and put windows in high performance and its locked at 3733mhz now. I bought a rx 470 $70, wifi card $20, and 120gb ssd for OS $20. It's now my htpc I'm having more fun with it than my ryzen 3800x and gtx 1080 ti build. Something about old hardware is fun.
I still use my PC that I built in 2009. Until last month it was my daily computer. It's an i7-920 (overclocked to 3.2GHz for 10 years) on an Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard. Has 12 GB of Corsair DDR3 1600 and a Corsair 1000w PSU. And it all lives in a CoolerMaster HAF932. Except for GPU and SSD upgrades over time, I haven't changed anything on it for over 10 years. And that beast still takes care of business.
I recently got an x58 Asus Rampage Formula III with an i7 970 :) Very keen to start tinkering!! Keep up the great content!
Watching this on my X58 system, I have a P6X58D Premium and upgraded with an X5680. Have it overclocked to 4.2. Hard for me to move on, though Ryzen is in my sights. Getting NVME to run on this was a big step up for me.
0:50 It is only an honour to purchase a Tech YES PC with a thermal paste thumbprint made by the YES Man.
That's a badge you should wear with pride!
It's necessary good, Marco :D
010 11 yes
that's why temperature was 75°C +
@010 11 if i was a queef, thank you and all of them came back to you.
I always enjoy me some Tech Yes Lovin. WTG B for that excellent cleaning job for triple ram. BOO YAH!!!
Hi Brian! It would be really awesome if you did the ultimate X58 compensator! Asus rampage, 24 gb high end ram, rtx 2060, good ssds in raid, etc!
Waiting on a 1070 I scored for $200 used to come in the mail. I have an X5650, Asus Sabertooth X58 Mobo... hopefully I can tweak it easily to 4.2Ghz at least with a Coolermaster 212 Evo I got it as a combo with the board and CPU. Thanks for giving us some X58 goodness to gauge how modern games perform in 2020!
You are the reason I started created content on x58! Still a lot of value there 👌👌
I still run a spare rig with an Asus Rampage ii extreme, 12gb of OCZ Reaper memory, an X5670, and a 1060. It's still smashing games day in and day out for my teenage children.
The other day I ordered an HP Z400 workstation which is X58 with a 5650 in it and 4 dimm slots, so only dual channel ram. There are great deals on old workstations on eBay right now, so like if you're someone still on a 4 core/4 thread machine looking to upgrade to more cores and threads, finding an old workstation on eBay is a killer price/performance way to go. You can literally type in "6 core workstation" or even "8 core workstation" and find really cost effective results.
Mine was $91 USD to get it without the RAM, GPU, and hard drives. Should have all that in by Saturday.
My daily-driven x58a-ud3r / Xeon X5675 / 24gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 is still happily cruising at 4.6ghz.... love this thing, thanks Brian for all your advice :)
Wow that is a crazy OC!!!!! Good stuff man. what voltages do you have the cpu on and what is your base clock?
@@anthony21893 bclk 200 - 1.52vcore in bios, although bios values and CPUID values do differ with the latter showing below 1.5v
Cooled by a Corsair H110i, rarely hits 80°c
Also have my rx580 8gb at 1445mhz AIO water-cooled, so it's all dead quiet
@@Borgthespacewalker sorry for the late reply this is crazy I want to try hit those numbers too. If your ok with it I would love a pm with some photos of your bios I want to try and get mine to maybe 4.4ghz :)
@@anthony21893 what's ur email, pics ready
@@Borgthespacewalker anthony21893@gmail.com Thank you so much
I really appreciate your X58 content. I recently revamped first ever build (Asus P6t, originally with an i7 920) for a friend of mine who wanted to get back into PC gaming on a budget. It was sitting around gathering dust, so I got hold of an X5850 for virtually nothing, OC'd to 4Ghz (I did get 4.2, but it wasn't long term stable, could be voltage, could be the fact I was stuck with the multiplier at 20, so the bclck was over 200), and paired with an 8GB RX580.
It's great to see my first build still alive and kicking 11 years later, and I owe it all to your content :)
Great video! Loved watching it. What is the spray you are using on the MB and CPU. I'd really like to know that...
I have had great success with actually lowering the cpu pll voltage on the x5600 xeons, give it a shot, had 4.5ghz fully stable with 1.75v pll. Lowers temp quite a bit too.
Love the channel, x58 is my all time favorite platform. So much fun overclocking, and them lanes. All of them lanes.
The P6T doesn't let you go below 1.8
I am also a huge fan of X58 still. Glad you are continuing to use these boards sir. Congratulations on three good boards. I am a fan. (:
Hi, good job on this. I have a suggestion for the RAM (from my experience) , use some of those black 4GB MAC RAM sticks SK Hynix 1866MHz PC3-14900E. Sometimes there are very good deals on these on eBay.
@@PeterMarszalkowski Lots of headroom on these sticks and if you're hell bent on max them out you can add some nice heat-sinks.
@@PeterMarszalkowski As for the big difference in frame rate in that game it might be the PCIE 2.0
Great video Brian, I watch alot of your videos as i find them entertaining and informative so thankyou. I Was lucky/unlucky to buy and x58 system back in 2010, 9 months later the 2600k came out (the unlucky part) I bought a gigabyte UD7x58a MB and an i7930 plus 12gb of 6x2gb sticks of corsair 1600 memory. Was a fantastic purchase and very very forgiving when overclocking and it taught me a lot. I struggled with this board a bit with the 930 and it was always unstable after 4ghz, later down the line i was able to scoop up a 980x for a really great price and that thing was sooo much better to oc, i got it stable at 4.4 but the power consumption and heat was pretty intense, I even benchmarked it at 10 different frequency's and monitored the power consumption, I ended up with 4.1gh where performance and power was at its highest performance per watt. I also went through many gpus - gtx9800+ gtx480 egg cooker - gtx770 - gtx1660ti. Then finally this year i built a new computer finally and just used the 1660ti. I can say the upgrade was massive, the frame rate does not correlate to how smooth the frame time is, but you would know this. Anyways thankyou for the Great videos, keep up the great work and keep on trucking.
PLEASE UPLOAD MORE X58 build videos Love this Architecture
The good thing with i/o shield is if you own a 3d printer, you can print one of those universal i/o shields and cut them where the ports are and have something that looks clean enough
My 775 build with a 780i board and my og 6600k is my favorite...more than my godlike with an 9900k. Nice video 👍
first hyperthreading was in 2003/4 on the pentium 4 extreme edition
It's not necessarily the spray and the cleaning that brought the DIMM channels back.
With X58, sometimes you need to add ram sticks to each channel one at a time.
By that, I mean you slot in the first stick, boot, shut down, install the second stick and so on, until you fill all 3 or 6 slots.
Or sometimes the board just does whatever it wants with the ram, sometimes you put in 4 sticks in dual channel config, works without a hitch. Take out all four sticks then put them back in with 2 extra sticks, only recognize one or won't even boot...
(I used a ASUS P6X58D-premium board with W3690, damn good find if not a bit overpriced.)
14:30 You're using competitive settings so it's normal for the 10900K to have such a massive lead but the 0.1% lows almost doubled for the 970 which indicates that the experience was smooth enough. If you're playing at 144FPS capped, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference
X58 BOARDS WERE LEGENDS, STILL GOT MINE AND IT STILL RUNS
X58 is the new hero, just like the LGA 775 was, with the q6600 which refused to die for so long!
I still have new people asking me questions about the overclocking, that's really impressive!
I couldn't agree more, my X58 system was the best purchase I've ever made. It even sold well 6 months ago!
Great video . Iam glad to see this . I got lucky and found a box at goodwill that was taped up but i could see that it had several sticks of ram . I took a chance and got it for $7 . When i got home it had 2 AIO coolers , 6 sticks of 4GB DDR3 , 2 sticks of DDR4 a Gigabytega'x58a'ud3r and a Asus rampage 3 formula . Both the boards had i7 950. Everything works but i am having the same issue with 2 of the memory slots on the asus . I just ordered 2 x5675. Its my turn to try some X58 Goodness ....
Hey all,
I left this as a comment on a quite old video as well, but thought here is a good place to have it as well.
Here is what I will be sprucing up after that, A.K.A the old PC:
i7 920 will be OC to 4.0Ghz as it uses a Cooler Master V8 tower cooler
Asus P6T SE (x58 chipset of course)
2x4GB DDR3 1600mhz corsair xms3 (these will become 3x4 gb and if needed 6x4 GB)
2x2GB DDR3 OCZ (these will go to a third old PC I have laying around and not being used to make it an 8 GB RAM one)
GTX 560ti (This will be replaced with the 970 above)
The PSU needs a change (Cooler Master 700W), as it started to cut the power to the GPU under load. I've picked a be quiet 500W one (total 436 watts will be needed for the config, so this one should be enough)
Will change up the case from a Cooler Master HAF 932 to a Deep Cool Mattrexx 55 mesh, in order to not have my eyes bleeding every time I look at the PC.
Will ad a Raijintek 3x120mm RGB fans + controller and a 140mm RGB exhaust.
Will switch out the HDDs in it for a system SSD + a 4TB SeaGate Barracuda.
Here's what I built about a month ago.
Asrock B450M pro4
Ryzen 5 2600
16GB (2x8GB) Team Group T-Force VulcanZ 3200mhz
240GB system SSD
500GB Crucial P2 NVME SSD
650W Seasonic 80+ gold non-modular
Cooler Master NR 400 case
Cooler Master MF120 pack of 3
2 x Be Quiet Shadow Wings
Used a 2tbs old HDD (that will be switched out in a month or so to either a 2TB SSD 2.5 inch ssd + a 1TB m.2 SSD, ot a 4TB ssd direct).
Used an old gtx 970 asus strix I had (waiting for the rtx 3000 series, so that I can buy a Palit 2070 super on the cheap).
Will add a Be Quiet tower cooler as well in a few months.
TL;DR - I have a lot of PCs at home an will need to do a lot of work on them and quite a lot of Tech Yes Lovin'
I love the channel eve since I found it a few months ago. You made me keep the old components and will build quite a capable machine with them. THANK YOU!
Loving your content Brian! The X5675, run a pair of them in a Dell R710 server ... yeah, you can't OC them on the Intel 5520 chipset, but still great for a media server / encoder on a budget
Even if I have those older systems as long as I can game without stutters and lags with a decent frame rate, I'm good to go.
And parts are still cheaply available if you need it, can't go wrong with this platform. Price vs performance can't be beat... save a lot of cash.
ultimate showdown please!... i7 970 owner since 2012 and TYL has extended it's life for sure
Got the w3565...3.2ghz xeon equilivalent to the 970...but got a dell t3500 mobo can't overclock with n would love to..got a deal on mobo cpu combo..ended up with an extra chip ..might just pick up a aftermarket 1366 mobo I can overclock with...and on 1 system I picked up a x5680 Xeon...6core12threads @3.3-3.6 it ran good with a rx570 4gig...love the vids I've learned a lot on older platforms from you! Thanks Brian!! Love the vids buddy!!
Good video man. I have two of these systems. One 920 and one 980x. I have to say the 980x is still a beast. Still use it for gaming. It ran fine with a gtx 780, gtx 1060. Will soon test it with a rtx 3060
I love X58 too with my old Gygabyte X58A-OC the orange-black mobo and i7 980X 4.7GHZ :D
Keep bringing the good old stuff way more fun to get old hardware working good then buying the latest and greatest
I just picked up an pristine EVGA x58 SR-2 dual socket mother board for $80!!! I'm so excited to do a build with it!
damn thats the score of a century, well done, does it work fine?
@@techyescity yup! She works great! The seller even guaranteed that the board works and I can return it if there are any issues. I have 2 x5675s, should I stick with those or is it worth going with the x5690s?
My birthday is December 22 and I want to buy myself a GTX 1070. I have a similar board-P6T SE, E5645 @ 3.6 GHz and 12 GB of RAM HyperX 1866 MHz))
I hope my computer will live a new life after upgrading my ancient HD5870 😄
Thank you so much for this video, helped with my dilemma! ☺️
x58 motherboard still rocks! I'm currently using x58 system as my main personal PC aside my other systems.
i7-950 OCed to 4.2ghz
Corsair H100i
EVGA E760 SLI Classified
6 x 2gb G.skill Pi 1600mhz CL7
Nvidia RTX 2080 FE
Samsung 860 Evo SSD RAID 0 256gb x 2pcs (OS)
Samsung 860 Evo 1tb SSD (games)
Seagate Ironwolf 2tb (documents & storage)
Corsair RM1000i
ASUS PG348Q G-Sync
i really enjoy your videos :)
Wanna be friends?
For one build I made my own IO shield. Took one from a broken board, cut out the stuff and dremeled the fitting holes into a piece of sheet metal, then fit it into the rim of the broken one.
I have the same issues with COD Modern Warfare with the DEV errors. Use DX 11 by going into the Options -> Game settings -> and putting in Additions arguements "-D3D11" w/o quotes. Should work. Also set the scaling to Wide 16:9 in game as well
Got that same Noctua cooler bought used from a 10yo old system !
Also You can make DIY I/O Shields for less than they actually worth , you can make them even better and stronger , there's tutorials out there !
I was watching the video and didn't notice that this was uploaded a few minutes ago LOL, the video was too good and i was focused on it
I was about to say that you could use 3d printed io shields but im sure it has already been pointed out by the other comments. 😂 You should do a video while using those 3d printed io shields soon. Great content always, thanks!
He finally said it! X58 and X79 vs Ryzen, cannot wait.
P4's had Hyper Threading and Athlon 64's had Hyper Transport well before the I7 did.
4:52 Usually, to remove the dry thermal paste i use a silicone based lubricant spray and let it sit for a few minutes. It will soften the dry paste. You can also use it on the chip, but clean it with isopropyl alcohol before puting new thermal paste.
Tech Yes City - the best channel for hardware review ♥♥♥
I just upgraded both of my x5670 systems with RTX 2060's and boom I'm set for another few years of gaming, still getting 144+ fps in competitive fps games with competitive settings (you don't need the eye candy for the kills) and easily holds above 60 fps at 1440p in Triple A eyecandy type games like metro exodus etc. I built the systems in Aug 2008 with D0 stepped i7 920's and when the Xeons dropped to $50 on ebay I cashed in. He's right it was the best investment I ever made and it's saved me thousands in upgrading my PC's
i've just replaced my x58 platform for ryzen3. though my x5650 can run at 4.4g, its performance is not enough for some modern games like AC:Odyssey, or for video encoding. but as you said, I had a lot fun on x58, love it
Love the videos, love the journey, and love the peaceful Techno Yes City music! relaxing
Have 3 x58 boards, a intel board which I despise... Lol. It has a few issues and still works but now retired. A "new" Huananzhi x58 with tripple channel I got cheap online. It's plain but rock solid, very overclockable board. And my favorite I got cheap on marketplace in excellent condition, Asus sabertooth x58. Mixed with i7965 extreme and x5670, I spend more time on these than my newer 1151 build.
Tech Yes City love the videos.. I listen to your videos while driving around the US. The audio content is full of knowledge. One question though. Is that brake cleaner you're using to clean your hardware? I may have to steal that method
X58 Love here too.
It just hurts a bit to see that VS550 PSU powering a fine rig. Sure it can do it, but the quality is low.
But this is about low cost... i know.
As an alternative.. Enermax MaxPro 500W. Those are actually decent low budget (a bit better quality than the Corsair VS at about 10% more cost)
Orange labeled vs550 are dogshit
I sneeze near an LGA socket and the pins bend, hats off to you using a brush on the pins you are very brave
Solid units the X58. I have one as my daily until this day. Dell T3500, XEON W3520, 24GB DDR3 ECC triple channel, 500GB SSD, 1TB HDD, nvidia Quadro P1000. Tempted to possibly put an RTX2060
That's funny, have exactly the same problem same board, only x2 right hand slots working. Will try cleaning the cpu pine, super video
I run an x58 asus p6t board with a Xeon 5675 chip. It has been running almost 24/7 at a very stable 4.3 GHz
I do have a 2010 mac pro with dual x5690's so I give x58 and xeons love. x99 is looking interesting with dual x99 motherboards on ailexpress.
I've never had too much problems with copy/pasting Battlenet games, only happened a few times. Copy to the location you want it, go into Battlenet and select the game and you will see a link/buttonish saying "Already instaled? Locate the game", select location and click OK. If I had problems it was usually solved by exiting Battlenet and closing Agent.exe, delete the game .exe file, start Battlenet and then select "Scan and Repair".
Thanks for all the support on the X58, awesome to see how good they are and how long they have lasted. Any chance you could do a video on how to resolve the dreaded RAM issues, ive lived with this problem for a couple of years now, where im only getting 4 boots to load windows and 8GB instead of 12gb (on a UD7 with a 5670, 1600 Viper).
I had a similar problem with my X58 system just before I sold it, one of the memory channels had stopped working. I found a glob of dust in the LGA pins, after blowing it out with compressed air and cleaning the underside of the CPU, all the channels were working again.
Love all the x58 videos you make! I am still using x58 ftw3 with my x5690, and it is fucking awesome! I have been using the same Motherboard since 2008. Best purchase of my life, and I can still play all the modern games!
x58 is a beast!!! you can still run top game and great for render as well with a cheap xeon. Love it!
At 12:45 you can see the face of Alex Zanardi, a great Italian F1 champion who lost his legs in a terrible accident, but then he recovered and went on to be a champion in paraolympic sports. Few days ago Zanardi had another incident while riding his handbike, and now he is fighting again between life and death. Let's hope Alex gets better and recovers again!
Hey Bryan, you might benefit from setting up a lancache for downloading games. I set one up using my netgear readynas supplying my raspberry pi with an NFS directory, then running a docker container on it to run lancachenet/monolithic server, which covers steam, origin, and battle.net. It might support epic too, but I have no interest in that. I typically get 50MB/s download on steam when I download cached games on my PCs. It's only limited by your network and storage speed.
My gaming rig still is a X58 with a Xeon 5680 clocked at 4.6 GHz and a GTX 1070. Works out for me.
I was still using my i7-970 until Ryzen came out. decent processor and x58 was a good platform. My only grievance was that it came out right before USB 3.0 so you needed to use an add-in card to add USB 3.0 if you wanted it. I actually used that exact same motherboard. The P6T just brings back so much memories
If you'd like another comparison, I can run my i7 980X @ 4.8ghz just for more figures. I'm using a rampage III extreme with 24gb of g.skill DDR3. As of now it's paired with 2 GTX 295's, but I can throw my RTX 2080 in it