HeavenCore

As i understand it, the i5 6500 runs the rift quite well with a 1080 (no first hand experience though - just what i've seen on frontier forums (Elite Dangerous)). This combined with the fact that a 1080 would not bottleneck on PCIe2 - this makes a compelling argument to try it. Problem is, i'm not going to fork out for a 1080 just to find it wont perform on the X58 - Luke & Linus however have a stack of 1080's lying around - would be easy for them to grab an old X58 rig and give it a go - "go on guys, you know you wanna." @Canada EH Took some digging but i found the invoice - £6k! I swear 50% of that was on the 1st gen SSD's and 4870X2's lol

I’ve been following LTT on YouTube for years, and it occurred to me today that the post-NCIX channel is 7 years old now with one of its very first videos being a review of the EVGA X58 board. Back in 2009 I spent stupid money on an X58 rig with the i7 965 Extreme (4 cores + HT), 2 ATI 4870X2’s & 12GB DDR3 – expensive I know, but I’m still using it to this day – only two upgrades have been made in these past 7 years – SSD’s and replaced the 4870X2’s with a GTX 580. The X58 chipset itself is “as-is”, rock solid and super stable. What I am VERY curious to find out however, is how a system such as this would handle modern GPU’s such as the 1080’s or perhaps a titan “xp” – there seems to be lots of debate as to whether the i7 965 & lack of pcie3 would bottleneck it or not? If it can run the 1080, does that mean it could do VR? VR on a 7 year old PC? that would be funny as hell. I would love to see some proper benchmarks on the x58/i7965 with GTX 1080 / Titan vs modern systems (VR?) I was thinking this would be a cool Idea for a simple video perhaps. Would be nice to see how the x58 and “enthusiast mantra” has stood the test of time. J.