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Just wandering what the process of other peoples cpu and GPU history is with building their own PCs - thought this might be an interesting post
 
CPU for me
 
Pentium 1 120 MHz - Celeron 400A (the myth, the legend!!!) - Athlon XP 1700 - Athlon XP 3200 - Intel Pentium D 945 (i know!! should have gone with core - i was blindsided with clockspeed) - Intel core i7 920 - Xeon x5670 (on x58 also) - Ryzen 2700 - Ryzen 5900
 
GPU
 
Ati Rage Pro 8mb - S3 savage 4 (should have just got a voodoo) - Voodoo 3 (s3 drivers where awful) - Geforce 2 MX 400 - Radeon 9500 pro - Radeon 9800 - Geforce 6600 - Geforce 9800  gt - radeon 5770 crossfire - gtx 950 - gtx 1060 - rtx 3060ti
 
wonder what other peoples is
 
cheers

Just wandering what the process of other peoples cpu and GPU history is with building their own PCs - thought this might be an interesting post
 
CPU for me
 
Pentium 1 120 MHz - Celeron 400A (the myth, the legend!!!) - Athlon XP 1700 - Athlon XP 3200 - Intel Pentium D 945 (i know!! should have gone with core - i was blindsided with clockspeed) - Intel core i7 920 - Xeon x5670 (on x58 also) - Ryzen 2700 - Ryzen 5900
 
GPU
 
Ati Rage Pro 8mb - S3 savage 4 (should have just got a voodoo) - Voodoo 3 (s3 drivers where awful) - Geforce 2 MX 400 - Radeon 9500 pro - Radeon 9800 - Geforce 6600 - Geforce 9800  gt - radeon 5770 crossfire - gtx 950 - gtx 1060 - rtx 3060ti
 
wonder what other peoples is
 
cheers

i run x58 asus p6t pro ws with an x5670, runs fine and oc's 4 ghz + no issues

i run x58 asus p6t pro ws with an x5670, runs fine and oc's 4 ghz + no issues

first decent one on ebay in uk was this
 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gigabyte-GA-X58A-UD3R-Motherboar-LGA-1366-Socket-B-Intel-X58/263571024593
 
some crap/cheap option here, hope it works out,
 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DELL-XPS-435-DX58M01-Motherboard-LGA-1366-Intel-X58-R849J/273032236552
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPERMICRO-C7X58-LGA-1366-ATX-Motherboard-DDR3-6-x-MEMORY-DIMM-2-x-PCIe-2-0-x16/233182632228
 
or cheap 40 - 60 quid chinese stuff, but cut down like on 2 dimm slots
 
hope helps

Finally I finished my X58 watercooled rig
P6T with x5680 OC'd to 4,2 gHz 
GTX 980ti
32GB of Corsair Vengeance at 2000mHz
Samsung 950pro as a boot drive
USB3 Support

Nice rig. I'm still on my original x58 Asus p6t ws, works like a champ and got the Xeon earlier this yr. It's quite a lot better than a 920

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers

Yep, seems this board takes almost all 1366 chips known to man. Some only take the Xeon W chips, which aren't bad at all either.

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers
 

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers
 

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me
 
So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on
 

 
1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds
 
5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??
 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.
 
let me know what you think
 
cheers
 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unexpected-io-error-0xc00000e9/ff4a7cb7-8ea4-4b64-909a-8e2a99d67b80
 
could be a harddrive problem.