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Pasi123

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  1. Not really worth it unless you already have a X99 board (or want to play around with one), but even then for gaming a 8c/16t Xeon E5-1660v3 or E5-1680v3 would be better because they can be overclocked.
  2. That board doesn't have a M.2 slot but it does support NVMe boot so that is something that could be easily added with a PCIe card. Though like you said if it's running fine there is no need to upgrade. The difference between NVMe and SATA SSDs isn't that big in normal use. Another thing mentioned in this BIOS update is support for a USB 3.1 (10Gbps?) add-on card, but for upgrading to that to make sense you'd need to have some USB devices that benefit from speeds faster than USB 3.0 5Gbps. Same thing for network cards, you'd need a network faster than 1Gbps for any 2.5Gbps or faster NIC to make sense.
  3. Have you tried all of the sticks and slots individually? Just because all the sticks show up in BIOS doesn't mean they all work
  4. While you can install Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs without needing any bypass if you have a TPM 2.0 module, you will not be able to install the yearly updates (like going from 23H2 to 24H2) through Windows Update because it checks if you have a officially compatible CPU (Which would be Intel 8th gen or newer or Ryzen 2000 or newer). There is ways to bypass that but it doesn't differ from not having TPM 2.0 so IMO it's completely pointless to buy a TPM module for Windows 11 compatibility if you have an unsupported CPU. Newer CPUs have Intel PTT or AMD fTPM so no TPM module is required on the motherboard or if you have a CPU without TPM but TPM 2.0 module then that would be fine too. Though I'm pretty sure all of the officially supported CPUs have PTT or fTPM
  5. I had a GTX 660 as my main card in 2014-2016 paired with an i7-920 and later i7-950. Anything from 2010-2015 should run fine at 1080p above 30fps. The Kepler architecture didn't age that well so a lot of newer games don't run as well as on some other cards that are comparable to the GTX 660 in older games. In some games cards like a GTX 960 can perform similarly to a GTX 780 (Ti) or even beat it, and of course there's games that won't even boot on the Kepler 600/700 series cards due to lacking proper DX12 support. I have recently tried Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail on the GTX 660. Both of them run fine on it, 1080p around 60fps with low to mid settings. Though Genshin is a bit CPU intensive so even an i7-3770 @ 4.22-4.43GHz was hitting over 50% usage. Though what you can play on your PC also depends a lot on what CPU you have.
  6. The lower PCIe x16 slot is electrically only x4 according to the manual
  7. Yes, the E5-1680 v2 is better than the E5-1650 v2. Both of them are overclockable and the E5-1680 v2 has 2c/4t more than the E5-1650 v2. It also has 25MB L3 cache instead of 12MB. But if you run them at stock then the locked, but cheaper, E5-2667 v2 would be tiny bit faster. Overclocked E5-1680 v2 would of course be quite a bit faster
  8. UEFI didn't became a common thing until 2011-2012 on Intel 2nd and 3rd gen. Though some LGA1155 boards didn't have UEFI. But even then that was over a decade ago. Nowadays it's best to disable CSM unless you have some hardware or OS that doesn't work in UEFI mode In the early Ryzen days (2017-2018) Windows would default to install in legacy mode but as far as I know it should now default to UEFI mode because of all the Windows 11 requirements etc.
  9. Windows 10 (and 11) is extremely slow on hard drives, the last one that worked fine on HDDs was Windows 8.1 but even then the speed difference between SSD and HDD was huge. The 4GB RAM makes it even worse because the OS can't cache things in to RAM when there's barely enough RAM for the OS and programs. And when the system is out of physical memory it uses the page file on the slow HDD. SSD is a must for modern operating systems and so is 8GB RAM. For more modern PC's I'd say 16GB is the absolute minimum. Even though the i5-2500 is now 13 years old it should still be powerful enough to not feel slow doing normal tasks. Though of course it won't be as snappy as decade newer CPU's
  10. The iGPU in the 4th gen i3 is much better than the GeForce 210. The 210 is a display adapter from 2009 and uses a really low end GT218S chip from 2007
  11. That would only be a problem in newest of the newest games. My X5670 @ 4.4GHz + GTX 1080 had no problems running older games games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. And newer but lighter games like Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail run great at max settings
  12. If you are happy with the performance of the i7-9700 I don't see any reason to upgrade now. GTA 6 release is still so far away we don't even know the exact release date let alone the system requirements. Right now my guess would be that the i7-9700 can run GTA 6, but who knows if there will be a huge jump in CPU performance in the near future leaving the 9700 far behind. GTA 5 was released for PC in 2015 and it was playable on a 2007 Core2 Quad Q6600 but not perfect as there was some pop-in when driving fast. First gen i7's like the i7-920 had no problems running the game. But that game released during a time when mainstream CPUs had been stuck on 4c/4t and 4c/8t for years.
  13. Blocking VP9 and AV1 with h264ify browser plugin might help a bit with video playback since the GT 520 has H.264 hardware decoding, if you have hw decoding enabled in your browser. I personally wouldn't go with anything slower than a Q9550 2.83GHz or Q9650 3.0GHz, maybe a Q9450 2.67GHz. C2Q Q9650 3.0GHz would of course be the optimal one because it's literally two E8400's on one CPU. I also wouldn't go with the Q6600 because it's older generation and lacks SSE4.1, and even at 3.0GHz it's only comparable to a Q9400/Q9450 2.67GHz. Q9505, Q9500, Q9400 and Q9300 only have 6MB L2 cache while the Q9450, Q9550 and Q9650 have the full 12MB. The lower end Q8400, Q8300 and Q8200 are even worse with only 4MB cache. Though I'm not sure how much that affects real world performance but technically the 6MB and 4MB quads are a downgrade from the E8400 6MB when it comes to cache per core. I still use a Q6600 @ 3.0GHz (with a Radeon HD 6570 and Ubuntu 18.04) in my HTPC and it plays 1080p YouTube videos fine when hardware decoding is enabled, and newer codecs disabled with h264ify. It is also usable without hardware decoding but the CPU usage is of course higher and there might be some dropped frames when playing 1080p60 videos. My other C2Q system with a Q9550 does a bit better and I don't remember it dropping frames even without hardware decoding
  14. i7-6700(K) is the fastest 6th gen LGA1151 CPU
  15. The Xeon E5-1650 v3, E5-1660 v3 and E5-1680 v3 have unlocked multiplier and can be overclocked. The newer v4 Xeons are multiplier locked.
  16. Fast CPU with modern instructions sets for LGA1366. Or a Tualatin Celeron 1.4GHz for Slot 1 and for it to work on Diamond Micronics C400 without needing to mod the BIOS. I'd also like to get it installed on my 440BX system in 2006. It would be a nice upgrade from the Celeron 333MHz (Mendocino) I had. It is actually possible to put a PGA370 1.4GHz Tualatin on it but it would require a hard to get Tualatin compatible slotket or a modified slotket, 2Mbit BIOS ROM for newer BIOS versions and adding the microcode to the BIOS. That's not something I could have done as a kid in the 2000s.
  17. The 2x 32GB 3200MHz Kingston Fury Beast kit was 155€ and the 4x 16GB version would have been 178€. The cheapest 4x 16GB 3200MHz kit is 162€ Corsair Vengeance LPX. 8x 8GB would have been 192€ for two 4x8 kits or 255€ for the cheapest actual 8x8 kit. I wouldn't want 8x8 anyway because there wouldn't be any room to upgrade, I often had over 60GB RAM usage on my X58 system which has 24GB physical + 120GB SSD for the page file. This time I'd prefer to have enough RAM to not need to constantly wear an SSD with the page file. This is what the 120GB SSD health looks like after around 4 years of abuse
  18. 2x 32GB was cheaper than 4x 16GB and it leaves a bit more room to upgrade if I ever need 256GB RAM The temps are around 80-85C when pulling 250W on Cinebench. I haven't tried any actual overclocking yet, I've only changed the mesh to 3000MHz and played around with the power limit. With the power limit raised it seems to run at 4.5GHz all-core on non-AVX loads and most cores drop to around 4.2GHz under AVX loads
  19. I finished my X299 build few days ago. CPU: Intel Core i9-10900X 10c/20t Cooler: DeepCool Assassin III Case: Fractal Meshify 2 Memory: 64GB Kingston DDR4 3200MHz (just 2x 32GB in dual channel for now) Motherboard: Asus TUF X299 Mark 1 Graphics Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Strix Advanced SSD: 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus (OS and programs) SSD: 2TB WD Blue SN570 (games) HDD: 8TB Seagate Exos 7E10 Power Supply: Seasonic Focus GX-850 OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2021 (with a GTX 760 for testing) GTX 1080 inside the case. The case has a dark tinted glass so pretty much the only visible things are the RGB LEDs on the GPU and motherboard
  20. I might have bought a X299 board + CPU. I still need to order more parts for a complete build but for now I put it in to the case of my Z77 system. Current specs: Intel Core i9-10900X at stock Asus TUF X299 Mark 1 8GB DDR4 2400MHz single channel (it's the only DDR4 stick I have lol) Asus GTX 760 DC2 Antec C400 with an added ID-Cooling fan Antec Sonata III 80GB Seagate HDD from 2009 Windows 11 Pro (originally installed on an Asus P5B with a C2D)
  21. OP has a Fujitsu office PC, most likely Esprimo P720 (tower) or E720 (SFF), with a Q85 chipset so it definitely doesn't support 5th gen. The i7-5775C requires a H97 or Z97 chipset. The motherboard most likely has non-standard power connectors so the PSU can't be easily upgraded. There does seem to be a version of the board with normal ATX power but that's probably a less common one. Both the Esprimo P720 and E720 use the non-standard one with a 250W PSU. I'd recommend saving a bit more money and then do a complete upgrade. The CPU is already the fastest one the board supports and the GTX 1650 is still one of the better cards that don't require an additional power connector. There is the RTX A2000 which can be found for around 250€ on eBay but it's a bit overkill for an i7-4790 system
  22. I ran it again on the i7-4800MQ and i7-5600U but this time also ran the single core test. I also managed to run it on an i3-4150 with only 8GB RAM i7-4800MQ MC 188 SC 49 i7-5600U MC 98 SC 52 i3-4150 MC 114 SC 51
  23. Cinebench 2024 on my X5670 @ 4.4GHz. I had to run it in a macOS VM because the Windows version requires AVX2 while the Mac version only needs SSE4.2
  24. Cinebench 2024 on a X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz in a macOS VM because the Windows version requires AVX2 319 pts.
  25. The Windows version of Cinebench 2024 requires AVX2 and I only have 3 computers which have it and only 2 of them have the minimum RAM requirement (16GB). macOS version only needs SSE4.2 and I've confirmed it does run in a VM on a system without AVX2 i7-4800MQ 183 pts. i7-5600U 93 pts.
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