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lmao It's been more than 6 years and still Intel has failed to produce an i7 Extreme Edition chip to compete with my 2010 dual X5675 OC setup. It would like be cool and all if Intel would actually care about performance... I'm sure other people would like that too...

BSD / Arch / OSX basically not windows

Final and third pick goes to the 3850 / 3870 series Single Slot GPUs from Sapphire. In a time when the AMD GPU market was beginning to be dominated with dual-slot GPUs, Sapphires 3850/3870 cards were some of the last high-perfomance single slot desktop cards ever made. They also featured a non-standard blue cooler and PCB as apposed to the stock red components form AMD/Ati: Standard HD 3870 for comparison:

GTX 580 Classified would take a close second for me:

GTX 295 Red Editions in SLI: Dual-PCB, wrap-around metal shroud... amazing card

I have a similar setup (LGA 1366). My dual X5675 CPUs @4.5ghz have no problem running even the most extreme hardware (980tis, Quadros, Firepros etc...). If you can get past 4ghz you won't see much of a bottleneck (esp. at 1440p or 4k) A newer, higher-IPC chip would be better for games, but in my use-case I need the most performance available in a <= 12 core package, which at the moment can only be had with a dual six-core OC setup.

near that of a 500mhz celeron. I need to work on multithreading still. Whole thing runs on 5v @2a without a heatsink.

Ill look into it. Right now I am running my own adaptation of lucas-lehmer on an FPGA (spartan-6) as well as Prime95 24/7 on my 24 core system. Might give one of the BIONC projects a shot.

I've had great success with running a 45nm Q8200 at 3.4ghz on an X48 board; not sure about how well 680i can handle that sort of FSB. Any of the QX parts would be a great option as they have adjustable multipliers

apparently not...

Looking to see if anyone had started a GIMPS (great internet search for Mersenne primes) LTT-affiliated team. check here for further information: http://www.mersenne.org/#

inb4 virtual boy 2.0 + wii motion controllers

It should sell for around $40 on ebay. People still want them for retro boxes and SLI setups. I personally use a GTX 260 for CUDA / PhysX

you need to find a cheap 65nm CPU chip supported by the G31 chipset, update the BIOS to be compatible with your 45nm Xeon, and you should be good to go G31 has an iGPU built into the northbridge; it should be enabled by default.

wow this is one awesome guide for beginners! Wish I had this when I got into Linux... Awesome work

according to the benchmarks Ive seen 1080 seems to have a 50-60% advantage over titan X and 2x in VR

1080 is twice as fast as titan X; 1070 is "faster" (how much is unknown)

if the 1070 is faster than the titan X as nvidia is claiming, it will beat 680 SLI regardless of SLI scaling (even in a theoretical 100% scaled game) Even now the titan X is a good deal faster than GTX 690 / GTX 680 SLI basically get the GTX 1070 if its anywhere near what they are claiming

GTX 1050 half-height single slot card prototype Keynote slides surfaced on the internet a few weeks ago but Nvidia was pretty good at DMCA take downing them... so there's that. I don't know how Nvidia would feel about people sharing those now that 1000 series has launched

Built a similar system a few years back; thought I'd share: Started with a Phenom 9750 quad core @2.4ghz on an ECS motherboard (purple PCB!) and 2gb DDR2 with a GTX 260 and an auzentech soundcard. HX1000w PSU and Seagate Enterprise 10k RPM 500gb drives in RAID 1: Later I upgraded from the AM2 platform to LGA 1366 on a Rampage II gene with an i7 930 @ 3.2ghz with 6gb of RAM: Also grabbed an R9 280x and a GTX 750ti for PhysX: In the future Im considering a blackout paint job for the wood board or potentially a carbon fiber wrap. Cheers to @Slick for making this video and bringing some attention to the DIY test bench crowd. I own both a HighSpeed PC tech station for my SR-2 and have built many of my own benches. While I can justify the $120 I spent on my tech station given that no case I could rip apart would support HPTX, I certainly recommend the "repurposed case method" for anyone looking for a test bench.

you can grab cheap alternatives to your PCI card such as a TP-Link WN722N that work over USB while asus / board com sort out the DMA issues. I have had great plug and play success with TP-Link USB cards under windows and linux

oh yeah broadcom drivers have been having DMA issues lately. Check for new drivers or wait it out and use an external card / ethernet