Pasi123

Which slot you put it in? The slot under the CPU socket is PCIe 3.0 x4 while the bottom one is x2. Though your read speed is above what x2 could do but way below what x4 should do. Have you tried other tests like CrystalDiskMark?

I would replace the 2GB stick with the other 8GB stick. With the 2GB stick in the system only 8GB will be in dual channel (flex mode). With 2x 8GB + 2x 4GB that would be 16GB But if you don't need more than 16GB RAM in total then it would be best to go with just 2x 8GB sticks Since you have a Z68 board you could overclock the CPU a bit, assuming you don't have the small stock pancake cooler. 4c/8t 2600(K)/2700K/3770(K)/Xeon E3 v1/v2 would be a pretty big upgrade if you can find one for really cheap

That CPU only works on old high end server motherboards. CPU-L has the different boost clocks listed for it

Have you already tried to disable BD PROCHOT with ThrottleStop?

I don't need to imagine because that's what my main PC has

That's not true, my sister's PC has the same motherboard and it can do 2933MT/s without any problems. Though I haven't tried setting it higher because it only has a Ryzen 3 1200 but with a newer CPU it should be fine at 3000MT/s or higher

I've been on the same platform since 2013 (Intel X58) but my next system might be AMD. I will most likely stay on X58 for few more years or possibly switch to using my LGA2011 system as my main PC. Currently the newest AMD systems I own are K10 based. AM3 system with an Athlon II X3 and a dual Socket F (LGA1207) system with 2x 6-core Opteron 2419 EE

The lower base clock of the E5-2667 v2 shouldn't be a problem because it's probably never going to run at that speed thanks to turbo.

Most 1050 Ti's shouldn't require UEFI. That is not the right model number. Here is Intel's guide for indentifying their boards. Or if your system boots then you could use CPU-Z https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005663/boards-and-kits.html

Do you just want to know what would have been the best back then or are you planning to buy them? Don't expect to find them for cheap. Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770 ASUS Rampage Extreme X48 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3, or 16GB (4x4GB) which is not officially supported but should work. If you want to buy a LGA775 retro rig then I'd recommend getting a Q9550/Q9650 and a P35 or P45 board instead

You should be able to boot from a M.2 NVMe SSD on a PCI-E adapter by using DUET+Refind. https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/guide-nvme-boot-for-systems-with-legacy-bios-and-uefi-board-duet-refind/32251

Dell used BTX up to LGA1156 (OptiPlex 980)

What CPU it has currently? It most likely doesn't bottleneck the GPUs in old games and new games wouldn't run on it anyway

I've seen some people using 4x 4GB on that board but because it doesn't officially support 4GB sticks there is no guarantee it works. Some sticks might work while others don't

Fujitsu Ergo Pro x564 with 3x random 64MB sticks 440BX system with 3x random 128MB sticks IBM ThinkCentre S50 with 2x 1GB DDR400 Lenovo ThinkStation S30 with 4x 16GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC Registered

The Retro Web seems to have that board but there isn't much info about it https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/sidus-386-486c64l-sid

It does lack some cores compared to the i5-2300. The 4570T and 650 are 2c/4t while the 2300 is 4c/4t

How?! I'd expect it to be completely fried after that

It might be thermal pad residue or whatever it's called

E7-8890 v4 is LGA2011-1 which is not compatible with X79 (LGA2011) nor X99 (LGA2011-3) boards. LGA2011-1 was only used in high-end servers with up to 8 sockets

My T440p with an i7-4800MQ did the same. I used ThrottleStop to disable BD PROCHOT and haven't had that problem ever since

The E5-2667 v2 doesn't have any i7 equivalent because there never was any 8c/16t i7's for that platform. The 1650 v2 at 4.0GHz or above (something like 4.2GHz should be pretty easy to hit) is most likely better for gaming than the 2667 v2 at stock because games usually prefer higher single core performance over higher core count at lower clockspeed.

Now that I looked at it the E5-1650 v2 seems to be more like the i7-4930K because it has 12MB cache. But yeah, the Xeons and i7's are pretty much the same but with different features like ECC support enabled and might have a bit different clockspeed. Fun fact, the older Sandy Bridge-E(P) based 6c/12t i7-3930K and i7-3960X (and Xeons like E5-1650 0) used the same die as the 8c/16t Xeons, for example E5-2690 0, even though there never was a 8c/16t i7 for that gen. You can see the disabled cores in this image. The die also has 20MB cache so some of it was disabled for the 6c/12t CPUs.

LGA2011 or LGA2011-3? And what motherboard? The best one for LGA2011 would be the Xeon E5-1680v2 which is a overclockable 8c/16t CPU. For cheaper options there is a 6c/12t E5-1650v2 (i7-4960X) which can be overclocked or E5-2667v2 8c/16t which is locked but has quite high clocks by default. Some older revisions of OEM systems don't support Ivy Bridge-E(P) so for them the best ones would be 6c/12t E5-1650 0 (i7-3960X), 8c/16t E5-2690 0, or 8c/16t E5-2687W 0. I don't know much of what's available for LGA2011-3 but there is at least some 8c/12t and 10c/20t core i7's like the 6900K and 6950X

I can easily use that much RAM with few Chrome tabs open. My RAM usage is pretty much always maxed out (I have only 24GB) and my CPU usage is around 0-5% when I don't have Genshin Impact or any other game open in the background. If I do then it's around 30% or so. The highest RAM usage I've had was a bit over 100GB (physical + virtual). So I wouldn't call 48GB useless on X58.