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7:14 Honestly it looks to me like the pin is bent before you even put the CPU in Greg. It seems to sit slightly lower than the rest when I zoom in.
Not sure if this is on you tbh (referring to S04E20 fix or flop)
Couple years back I got this cpu used for 10 dollars from an online auction. I paired it with a cheap aliexpress motherboard and now my mom uses it to do her crosswords.
sounds like retirement home for this once mighty CPU
My wife asked me to build her a gaming computer. She didn't tell me what games she would be playing. Women are like that. The total build cost was nearly $2000. When I watched her playing on it, I was stunned. She was playing MS Solitare.
@@outlet6989easy solution is to communicate and ask what she wants to play
@outlet6989 You built a $2000 PC without asking your wife what games she wanted to play? Sounds like your relationship has communication problems.
No miscommunication. Her PC died, and I built her one using parts from my spare parts bin. Her favorite game is MS Solitaire, which she plays for hours.@@EmergencyChannel
@Greg Salazar, the issue with the build is that the x58 chipset only supports a total of 24GB of memory, in 6x 4GB sticks maximum. The system is getting hung up on the memory issue. If you swap the current kit for a set of 4GB DIMMs you will be fine. I hope this helps. As always great content.
I have a Asus P6T mobo with 48GB of ram installed on it, and it runs with no problems whatsoever.
Multiple sources say that even 96GB of ram is even possible if you use a Xeon CPU.
Good point, but he is using a consumer grade i7. With possible BIOS hacks it may work, but given it was never used, it would default to the 24GB maximum. If you Google the motherboard it states 24GB maximum memory.
thats the first problem i saw when he was building with 8gb per slot. 2010 was simpler times and 4gb is the standard back then
x58 is a lot harder to stabilize with 6 dimms too. I tried 3x4 and 3x2 but it kept not seeing 2 of the dimms for some reason. Not sure if its the x5650 having issues cause I haven't tried any of my other x58 chips with the 18gb configuration yet. I have read though that running 6 dimms is difficult to stabilize if overclocking.@@nathan_tasker
@@opoxious1592 I too have the P6T board that was paired with a i7 930 and a R9 390X. And mine wouldn't post with more than 24gb of ram in it. I have since upgraded to a Xeon X5690 but I no longer have larger than 4gb sticks of DDR3 to confirm that.
Just a note here, the ASUS X58 Sabertooth board does have USB 3.0 on the rear, but no front panel USB 3.0. This was the first generation to have USB 3.0.
Love to see old hardware being used like this though, I have a lot of nostalgia for X58, the Xeons were excellent for this platform in the later years. Just a shame you weren't able to get it working, I wish you luck with figuring it out.
I remember the first generation of motherboards with the USB 3.0 on the rear IO only, there were several cases released at that time that used a pass through cable to have a USB 3.0 front IO.
Could buy a pci e 3.0 and c header adapter card. Just to make the case fully functional.
@@richardfarmer6570 You have a good point there, I've seen a few like that with the passthrough cables, I got into using X58 for systems when the Xeons got cheap, so the solution was either leave USB 3.0 unplugged or use a PCIe card.
It does have rear USB 3.0 as the standard for the header had not yet been invented. Cases of the era all had rear passthrough, many doing it very hackily using the watercooling tube ports that were still common but not often used.
fun fact it has the original NEC chip which was dead reliable. that was later sold to asmedia which AMD later partnered with to design and make their chipsets.
I just add a 5.25 inch usb 3 front panel. We used to run a pass through cable before usb 3 front headers existed.
man this takes me back. I was a freshman in college looking up old linus vids back in the day to build my first pc. I had an i7860 which was on the other platform(lga1156) i think since the i7920/930 or whatever was different. . That paired with the gtx 470 that came out that year, my pc was near top tier back in summer 2010 then. I also remember the huge debacle with hyperthreading back then and how everyone was laughing at "fake cores" or whatever. Those cpus lasted a very very long time and i still stand by my statement from over a decade ago that you were trolling to not get a quad core with hyperthreading.
That specific cpu greg has retailed at $1000 buck during release, i specifically remembered that and was going hell nah. That and my other favorite memory lane event was the following year gpu wise when the gtx 465 came out and everyone was trying to flash them into 470s, man what a time that was
Motherboard probably needs a bios update to support all of that ram, since its likely running an early bios. Most people at that time were using 12gb, even 24gb was kind of rare and overkill. I would try for a post using 4gb dimms and go from there
Just wrapped up the filming of the FoF episode around this one. Wasn't memory or BIOS related, surprisingly :-)
motherboard and ram, X58 6 slot boards only had support for 24GB MAX, it can only a 4GB Stick per DIMM slot 4x6= 24 Max, Greg's configuration is a six 8GB sticks of DDR3 it should totally work it's just the chipset for x58 on 6 slot motherboard's, because the Mac pro 4,1 5,1 used LGA 1366 cpu's running on the X58 chipset with configurations for 8 and 4 DIMM slots that can hold up to hold 196GB of ram, those DDR3 slot's could handle up to 16GB of RDIMM memory, so greg if your eading this you should get six 4 GIG sticks of corsair or any brand with 1600Mhz or higher used market is the best. Good luck hope this helped
im so dumb i didnt see his comment above 💀
the only other hardware-physical thing i could think of would be to reseat the CPU... @@GregSalazar
The good news is Extreme has more PCIe lanes than the regular 115x system, so you can add a USB-C / USB 3 card.
You can see the DRAM light is lit up on the post lights, im watching this vid on the exact same board and a X5680 6-core in there. I suspect maybe the Bios isnt updated if its never been booted, and 48GB was for later revisions, i think 24GB was maxed out in the beginning, i defo could be wrong.... I for one cant wait to see this old but so very very new Tech to be posted and let her breath some of that fresh fresh air bud....
This board supported this CPU out-of-the-box. Confirmed on their website. We figured out what the problem was and will reveal in FoF S4E20 👍
@@GregSalazar Oh i fully understand that sir, its taken for granted alot these days i feel, not so common at all out the box support, as its one of the 1st Gen i-7's...Tbh, this probs time spent tinkering wise, is my most worked on socket i think, LGA 1366...Just love tinkering with all the old kit...Its great dude, I mean compared too todays stuff, its literally , 1 core of say a 10th Gen i-9 would probs beat an all core i-7 980X On cinibench. Holy goodness, that would actually be Comical... 🤣🤣🤣(P.S Salazar Sir) Cant wait to see this episode of F'o'FLOP..... Oh i love it bro, Cant wait to see if ive ever had the problems u have with this board.
I personally appreciate the humble posting of this video. PC building is not always straightforward or easy, so seeing this video is completely understandable. Was a fun watch! EDIT: Looking forward to the fix or flop episode!!
I have an ancient throwback rig. It probably uses that referenced gigabyte motherboard. I use 2 IDE hard drives and 1 SSD. 4 IDE USB drives, DVD burner and Blu-ray player. The cpu is a FX 4170. GPU is a XFX Radeon R7 260X. And finally 12gb ddr3 ram. Thermaltake V3 black edition case.
Former user here with a lot of troubleshooting done on an X58 (Gigabyte G1-Guerilla) Double check the RAM and be sure it's fully seated. Remove all the memory and go one by one installing-checking-installing next. Mine had to have slot 1 populated regardless of how you wanted to configure the RAM so you could have slot 1 populated but if the module was not well seated the PC would not POST even if you had more modules installed. And from my X55 MB. It had USB3, SATA3 and PCI Express16x. It just couldn't have all 3 at the same time. So if you feel the graphics is running a little slow, check if it's running at 8x instead of 16x. I enjoy your videos so keep it up!
It really got me when you said it was over a decade old and you were a freshman in high school. Like, when I was in school, we had 386 and 486 computers and Pentiums weren't a thing until after I graduated High School. lol
Damn I am old.
by far my favorite build you've put together
great job!
X-58 was one of my favourite platforms, i still have one modded with a xeon 5660 and a radeon 590 with 24 gigs of ram,it even runs a win11 lite (spectre) version. It doesnt hold a candle to my modern pc but i still love it.
x58 was an AWESOME platform! I used an x5675 and a GTX 1080 until just a couple of years ago. I think I bought the whole system used for $150 back in 2016ish. Had quad SLI 9500 GTs! Served me well. I think the compatibility with the 6 core xeons and the triple channel memory really helped extend the life of these systems.
Black, no rgb, no frills. The best kind of builds.
Man, this brings up good memories! This babies went up to 4.5Ghz more than a decade ago! X58 was the best PC platform ever made, afaic. As for the POST problem, I bet is the memory; we used 4GB sticks at the time for a total of 24GB.
dude, i always wanted a Sabertooth but couldnt justify the price in getting one, so seeing this was awesome! Thanks for this Greg! 😎
Thanks for watching!
Old tech looks better than modern tech, it just does. Even the boxes of older graphics cards were always so incredible and made you dream/wise there was a game version of it. The cooler itself looked like something out of a video game, the card looks amazing. Everything together just makes it look so great. Modern stuff is just boring with some flashy, pretty lights. The boxes are boring and just says "graphics card. Wow." in plain English. Coolers are just chunks of metal with a fan(almost identical to the stock cooler from the video actually), etc. Love the imagination we had back in the day. Nothing but cold science now.
Laughs with my i5 4460, 16gb ddr3, rtx 3080 10gb PC mine has to take the cake for being hilarious
i have x58 asus with x5675 and rtx 3080 16 gb ddr3 also
Bought the Antec Performance 1 FT (vanilla black) for my build, and i am so eager to start building in it :D
Thanks for yet another awesome video Greg :D hope you are having a good one :)
Watching this made me really happy. Thank you for the video!
i actually admin an X58 facebook group youd be surprised how many people still have love for this old platform
Well built Greg, Merry Christmas. I can't wait to see how u will fix it. Keep well and Godspeed.
Very cool throwback. Thanks for sharing!
Gosh this brings back memories! I built two computers with this motherboard, one was even a used board from Fry's which had bent pins. Got it to work, I ended up using Xeon X5690 and X5680. I remember having to update the bios using slower chips. It seemed to want to work forever! Ended up having to replace the power supplies and the fans on the CPU cooler. Gave both systems away and I know one is still working at a friends house and he does newsletters with it. Solid motherboard!
I used my x58 up until just a few years ago. Ran beautifully, probably still runs.
Same here, used a i7 920 until April 2023 then upgraded. Great platform / build.
Bloody loved this video. Hope to see more like this. Old hardware/new case, old vintage case/new hardware etc would be a fantastic series
Once I saw the red light near the RAM staying on, I knew exactly what the problem was, lol! Definitely doesn’t like the RAM.
Super ironic, just wrapped up building a windows 7 throwback PC on this same board tonight! Threw a Xeon X5660 in there and paired it with a couple of GTX 580’s in SLI. It’ll play anything from that era (2010/2011) extremely well. Modern games, maybe not so much, but those old ones were running great.
Thanks for the video!
That processor brings me way back. It was in the first PC I built for myself. I used it with an Asus P6T MB, 24GB of RAM. and a Radeon HD 5970. So much nostalgia even if the GPU wasn't period-accurate. I really hope you can get it up and running. But since debug LEDs weren't a thing back then it could be a serious pain in the ass. I remember getting so frustrated I ended up buying a debug board that plugged into the TPM header that would allow you to debug the post issues. I was so happy when they started adding debug LEDs and the the segmented displays with post codes.
Swing and a miss! Still a fun video. Merry Christmas, Greg!
very cool video! I haven't watched you since 2017 so this whole thing just felt nostalgic lol
Great video. Can't wait for the Fix or Flop video for this system.
Awesome CPU Greg. 👍
This is as close we can get to time travel. Nostalgia. 😊
I was still using my X58 system until earlier this year. Technically it still runs 24/7 but it's now just running Folding at Home. i7-920 @ 3.6GHz, MSI X58 Pro, 24 GB RAM. One of my favorite builds.
Beautiful case and really interesting video! You were absolutely right this was gonna ba a unique one
Merry Christmas Greg!
i love ur videos man thank u for teaching me alot
This brings me back to when i built my Intel i7 920 back in 2010 Asus P6X58D Premium mother board and 12 Gig triple channel memory. since I built it I am now using SSD's for storage and just put in an AIO Corsair H50. I really injoy watching Fix or Flop. Thanks
Love the case!!!!
My gosh, this was a throwback for me too. My first pc build was in 2011, and I didn't know much. I ended up building with an amd 1090t and I used an antec 1200 V3 and the coolermaster V8.
First, the intel core i7-980X is only rated to handle a maximum of 24 GB of DDR3 1066 RAM (1066 is also the maximum speed). Second, you'll need to update the BIOS using an even older CPU. Since this motherboard has never been used, it probably doesn't have the BIOS updates to handle such a powerful (for its day) CPU.
Hahah, it ended up being neither of these things. The motherboard supports these chips OOTB. Verified on the vendor page.
The Sabertooth X58 is one of the newer X58 boards released after the i7-980X was already out so even the launch BIOS supports it. The i7-980X does unofficially support 48GB RAM but the official limit is 24GB because 8GB sticks weren't out yet when it was released. The memory can also run at lower than rated speed so you don't need to use 1066 sticks
I got an old P6T Deluxe v2 to recognize 32GB of RAM, even when I had 48GB and 36GB installed. NP getting it to work with the illustrious 32nm Xeons once the BIOS was updated.
Asus boards like the x58 Sabertooth, P6X58D-E, P6X58D Premium, and Rampage III were all revised motherboards that came out around the same time the i7-980x came out.
@@m8x425 I always wanted to get 48GB for my P6X58D-E but DDR3 8GB non-Registered sticks are still quite expensive here in Finland.
It's still stuck on 24GB (6x4GB) but I now have a X299 system with 64GB and might later upgrade to 128GB
@@GregSalazar That's interesting. I wonder what it was?
Great video as always ahh the old days Rigs are so great. cya next time.
Nice build, it's like the opposite of a sleeper.
The case looks great, still got my antec 300 from 2009.
Oooh 2min?! Love your vids man keep doing what you’re doing
looking forward to seeing this working
One time back in 2010, Fry's Electronics had the i7-980x on sale for something like $700. I had a gift card so I decided to buy one of these but Fry's was out of stock. I even went there on Friday, mid-day, before the weekend rush.
About three years ago I found the i7-980x, Rampage III Extreme, and 12GB of the OCZ Heatreaper RAM combo on Offerup for around $130. It had been sitting around for over 10 years before the original owner decided to sell it. I actually had trouble getting it to run at first. What got it running was I cleaned the two CPU 8-Pin connectors with CRC Electronics cleaner and a brush. The PSU was a new EVGA 1200w unit so that wasn't the problem.
The i7-980x overclocks surprisingly well, but not as well as my Xeon X5690.
As an owner of at 290 reference, that thing is loud as hell!!!
Antec cases were the GOAT back in the day, still driving my old I7 860 an antec case and fans running strong after 13 years. These new cases look pretty good and are affordable for what you get.
I had an Antec Sonata on my first PC build. I don't remember much about the parts, the processor was one of the last of the single core and the GPU was the 6800GT. Used it for many years.
The Inverse Sleeper Build. Love it!
now that's what i call a tower love the size great stuff. the one you built on the 16 January to weeks after this one co comparison great stuff Greg😀
I have an old X58 rig that I used all the way upto 2019. I have it in a Cooler Master HAF XM with a i7 980X, MSI X58 Big Bang xPower, 24GB of DDR3-2400, and dual GTX 780 in SLI. I loved that machine. I built it in 2016 after college. I got a really good bundle of parts for a cheap price back then. I ran the i7 980X at 4.6Ghz at 1.35V and I managed to get the ram to work at DDR3-2000. That was the hard limit on the IMC. I have heard that if you run 3x8GB dimms instead of 6x4GB dimms, you can get better speeds and tighter timings but I didn't want to spend the money for that. One of my GTX 780s failed so in 2017, I bought a R9 Fury X to replace the SLI pair but since I don't use the rig anymore, I put my two GTX 780s back in just for looks. I might try and get up and running just to revisit it. I do have a pair of HD 7990s now in my collection, which is much more period appropriate for the platform and would look pretty dang baller. :3c
Nice. I used to have a beautiful X58 build in a mostly glass case to show off the components. It was a Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme mobo - with a funky heatpipe/finstack for cooling the chipset - even had fittings for water cooling the chipset!
CPU was a Xeon X5687, six 4GB Corsair DIMMs in blue and black, to match the colors on the motherboard. Had my eyes on a blue Sapphire RX580 Nitro to complete the build, but ended up selling the lot for lack of space.
dang, i remember building a 3970x and 680's sli with 32 gigs of ram back in the day. Love seeing this old hardware!
That Cooler Master V8 was the cream of the crop back in the late 2000s & early 2010s!
Great video
This was a really interesting video!
There's no such thing as failure, Greg, just challenges to overcome. Can't wait till you feature this build in an upcoming fix or flop.
I got excited when I saw the R9 290. I got one refurbished in 2014 and built a system around it in an ANTEC GX700.
The Sabertooth motherboard lineup has always had an awesome look to them imo. The x79 and x99 Sabertooth boards look just as good 👍
was the perfect inbetween high enough you could oc but none of that extra garbage to get in the way or die. Its a sad thing they killed off like line. Some of its siblings were the best boards in the era's for budget builds as well. Now we just get 15 different ROG SKU's and cost cut garbage.
looking forward to seeing the fix or flop episode on this
that is a gorgeous pc my lord i love it
After reading some of the comments. I would also have to agree. From what the motherboard manual says. I only see 6gig sticks as being the max size. It actually even says at the top of the manual to use up to 4gig sticks.
Hi greg another banger of a vid love to see but anyway how yall doinggg????
Wait Greg was a freshmen in high school in 2010.... WOW, that makes me feel old. That means I am a decade older than Greg. I honestly thought we were about the same age.
I have that exact mobo, with a 940 and 24 gigs of DDR3....since been put out of use, but still have the motherboard box and everything that came with it.
Just FYI, remove all but 1 module for 1st boot. X58 was weird about training memory like that. Once you get that first POST, you can add the remaining modules.
A word of advice: while you can run 48GB in triple channel, it will run slower with both banks populated as opposed to running single banks in triple channel. I set mine up as 6x4GB DDR3 and the memory performance improved when I switched to 3x8GB.
I'm rocking a Republic of Gamers Rampage III Formula with a i7 990X, 24GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1866, a 960GB Crucial M600 SSD (the R3F has native SATA III), a Strix R9 380 OC, and 10TB worth of 7200RPM Seagate drives, and it's all running in a Lian Li PC-601A Aluminum case that I got while dumpster diving.
Now it's more my NAS, but for 10 years it kept up with everything up to 7th Gen Intel and 1st Gen Ryzen. 5GHZ overclock with liquid cooling; I've since returned it to stock clocks and air cooling.
Once games began requiring new instruction sets, I ended up replacing X58 with an i7 9700K/Z390 system. Been running that just fine for the past 4 years.
I have that exact air cooler as decoration now, used it a lot on my 4790k the thing looks amazing.
That stock cooler is so pretty. Will wait for this pc to run on another video
Thanks!
Greg - "I was a freshman in high school when this released."
Me - "Oh wow."
Greg - "In 2010"
Me - crumbles to dust
At the beginning of the lockdown i pulled out my old 58x rig. It was my first completely new rig i built. Mine had the i7 920 with asus rampage 2 and a hd 5870. I upgraded it with a W3690 @ 4.3ghz and a rx 580. I remember overclocking the 920 but i got a dud and couldn't get past 3ghz.
Was fun to pull the old guy outta retirement and play some old, and some newer games!
Disappointed that the PC didn't work. I don't blame you of course, it's old hardware. Can't wait to see it fixed and running.
I'm glad that the various stages of grief when your PC does not post are universal
That is cool beefy cpu cooler you got there wow!
I've still got a Sabertooth x58 build with an i7 920 and a Geforce 9800gt. It has a WD 1TB drive for boot, and 6 Samsung 2TB drives in a hardware raid 5 array for file storage. Coincidentally, it's in an Antec silent full tower case from the same era ~2010, don't recall the model number. It takes up 10x the space and uses 4x the power of a modern NAS while being considerably slower.
I built a similar system last year. I came across an Asus P6T deluxe mobo on ebay that was basically new and I still had my i7 940 from back in the day and 24gb of corsair 1600mhz ddr3. Bought a new case, a cheap Zalman, off Amazon. I had an evga 650w modular 80+gold psu in my spare parts drawer I used and a spare 1tb ssd. Tossed in my old evga gtx 970. I had the most trouble finding a cooler to work with the lga 1336 socket. After it was done I took it to work to play skyrim and some other older games.
nice looking build
My MSI R9 390 Gaming 8G used to game at a steady 94c, and of course as we all know, there was no hotspot sensor back then, so i can only imagine what that would have read. My friends been using it for the last 4 years since i grabbed the 5700XT at launch, he plays gmod, and gta 5, and halo MCC on it perfectly fine. They run hot, but they sure were built for it.
That case is gorgeous.
i like these og build in old thermaltake and cm cases they are awesome
Had the same cpu in my work build in 2012. Lol. Great build. Nice throwback.
I got this on a prime sale for my son. It's a great case. Nifty little temp sensor display but it's tall enough where it doesn't get used much
No Way! I have the 980x and ASUS Sabertooth as well. I just posted my overclock results. That thing gets HOT! But it is still a beast. $1000 CPU back in the day. 😮
When it comes to old hardware like this, its generally good for games released during its time. Like, Skyrim Classic back in 2011 for example. Throwback machines like that generally shine their brightest when running older software. For instance, if I were you, I'd dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 7 on that. XD
so cool
I was expecting that cooler to suddenly say “Autobots, roll out!” Geez what a beast
You'd get a giggle from my full-tower 2nd gen i7 system. It has an old, old Cooler Master case with a built-in-the-top-of-the-case SATA drive bay, many hard drive slots and both 5 1/4 and 3.5" drive bays. And a Fatal1ty motherboard with a dedicated serial-mouse port. That old throwback still runs Unreal Tournament and StarCraft very well indeed.
Three things to try that stand out immediately: RAM, Graphics & BIOS. RAM - I'd start w/ a single stick & work up from there. If it boots, add more. Looks like you Might have doubled what it could handle according to the manual & the many others who hit on that before I got here. Graphics - Drop in a known working card. If it boots, dump the old one into a known working unit & see if it lives. BIOS - There's a chance you might need to hunt down an older chip to flash it to the latest vers. Other than that, it looks like a solid build & I can't wait to see those older parts live again. = )
Need that FoF episode asap!
Very cool, especially that Cooler Master V8 GTS tower cooler! I remember shopping for a Cooler Master Sphere cooler, that thing looked really awesome at the time...!
I believe it needs a BIOS update for such an old motherboard. It may support 6 DDR3 sticks, but maybe it needs a BIOS update for that. You could try booting with a single stick and see what's going on. Apart from that, I really love this build. The motherboard, although it's too old, it's freaking amazing. I love the way it's built, I love the design and the colors. The case is also awesome.
I remember how badly I wanted that Cooler Master heatsink back then. Just looked so cool.
Yoo Greg, what a build and blast from the past. I remember reading about this cpu it was outta my range. So glad you have one well preserved (s.o to Hank).
Interesting build. Looking forward to finding out what the problem was. Would also like to see workarounds that enable older gear to work in newer boxes, like add-on cards to enable USB-C and front panel 3.0, etc.
and you could actually add that stuff since you had a reasonable amount of PCI-E lanes
Wow, great video. I have a 980X rocking in a Asus P6T7 WS motherboard with 24gigs ram DDR3 (24 is the max) and Quadro P2000. I still use it for my plex media player. I will surely be on the look out for the follow up video.
please do more videos like this
Wow, I have seen a regular PCI slot in a long time. Remember when we had to set up the IRQ for each device. LOL
I’ve always used jumper cables (like the ones you get in classes to wire up a breadboard) to rewire front panel headers. Also need to start looking into Antec’s cases. Most of my recent cases are Deepcool but that case does look very nice for a non-tempered glass build
I loved the video. We get so many videos talking about new hardware and upgrade paths but no one EVER upgrades. Most people who bought this platform either maxed out from the beginning or stuck with an i7-920 and sold the platform a few years later. I would love a video showing how to upgrade a platform like this to meet basic modern needs like, an alternative to the power switch, adding USB 3.0 PCIe support, WIFI, and other small quality-of-life upgrades that can be made. Adding a GTX 980 or 980Ti if the R9 290 is the problem. I would love a video showing how a maxed-out 10 - 12-year-old build like this holds up in modern titles at reasonable settings. Awesome video!
Sadly drivers for hardware that age are going to be your biggest issue. For Win10 your running on base built in drivers and thats it. Architectures this old are missing things modern OS's and software assume you have. Also this is SATA II gen still the onboard 3rd party SATAIII was garbage even in its day. Then they carried that same chip over to the X79 version of the board annoyingly.
I have a powercolor r9-290 that I received a decade ago when I went to the AMD 30 years of gaming and graphics event AMD did in Austin, TX. The launched the r9-285 at the event and gave everyone who attended a free r9-290. I replaced my 3 way crossfire 6950 cards with it. It’s a 3 fan card and I’ve never had a problem with overheating.