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I still use Nova launcher prime

The Xeons are from decommissioned servers and workstations so there is a lot of them. Usually the i7's are expensive because they are the best CPUs for the socket and many people don't know there is Xeon variants of the same CPU for cheaper. i7 K variants will always be more expensive because they are unlocked and there are less of them than the locked non-K variants or Xeons. Xeons for mainstream platforms usually aren't as cheap as similar ones for HEDT because the mainstream sockets are only used in low end single socket workstations and servers while the HEDT sockets are also used in dual socket systems. And low core count Xeons for HEDT platforms are dirt cheap because there is way better CPUs available for the platform. No one wants a 4c/8t CPU on X58, X79, X99 or X299 But the high core count Xeons with high clockspeed aren't anywhere near as cheap

My main PC is working again, I got a pretty good deal on a P6X58D-E, i7-950, X5675 and Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler. Sadly the X5675 is quite bad, it needs 1.4V to even run Cinebench R15 at 4.4GHz without crashing. I would swap the X5670 from my dead board but I don't have any thermal paste left. The cooler is a huge upgrade from my previous one Here is some picture of my system with the mobo swapped. Currently it has a GTX 760 because my GTX 960 is temporarily in my E5-2690 system. Even though the board is the same model and revision as my previous one the PCB color is a bit different, my old one was noticiably darker. There is some other small differences too like some of the IO ports are made by a different company

Sad news, my P6X58D-E is now dead because of a thunderstorm. I've tried it with 3 different PSUs (Seasonic M12II-620 Evo, Corsair CV550 and a chinese 550W bomb) with the Seasonic and Corsair it only blinks the power button LED on the board and capslock & scroll lock LEDs on the keyboard. But with the chinese bomb it does boot but shuts down after a while. I looked at the board and found out the Ethernet controller was blown (which makes sense because our main router died too). If I'm really lucky I might be able to get the board to work by desoldering the controller. Everything else on the board looks fine and I don't think it can be completely dead since it posts with the bomb PSU If I can't get it to work, I'll probably look for another X58 board.

Is there any faster Core2 Quads available? Q8200 is one of the slowest ones But even the Q8200 should be fine for video playback. I have an old HP dc7900 SFF as my HTPC with a BSEL (tape) modded Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, originally it had a Pentium Dual Core E5200 which wasn't good enough.

Depends on the laptop. On some laptops it's really easy but nowadays it's quite common for laptops to use soldered memory, especially on low end models

Intel 945G is Core2 Duo compatible but not Core2 Quad. But the ThinkCentre M52 doesn't seem to have BIOS suppprt for any Core2 CPUs. The best CPU for it would be some Pentium D

I have mixed DDR3 and DDR3L in my i7-4800MQ laptop

T2700 is Core Duo which means it's 32-bit.

I have a really similar board. I've had mixed ECC and non-ECC sticks on it for years, currently it has 4x Corsair XMS3 1600MHz non-ECC and 2x Kingston 1333MHz ECC and they all run at 1600MHz 9-9-9-24 without any problems. Most cheap ECC sticks are Registered, those don't work on these boards. But non-Registered ECC will work just fine. X58 uses triple channel memory so 32GB wouldn't be optimal. The optimal configuration would be either 24GB or 48GB depending on how much memory you need.

I use computers to heat my room during winter. Folding with few GPUs is enough. I live in Finland so we have quite cold winters

SpeedFan should still work on XP

If the system was bought almost 13 years ago (late 2008) it probably has old BIOS version which doesn't support the 2010-2011 CPUs. So make sure to update the BIOS to the latest one before installing the new CPU And if you need help with overclocking you can ask in this thread:

The ThinkStation P700 has quad channel memory per CPU so optimally you should use a total of 8 sticks in the white slots. I can't find which are the recommended slots when using only 4 sticks but it shouldn't really matter since all of the white slots are in different channels

Definitely the Xeon X5675, it's 32nm 6c/12t while the i7-975 is 45nm 4c/8t. Do you already have a X58 motherboard? They are still quite expensive. If you do, which one is it? It's the best 4c/8t i7 for the platform but not the best 4c/8t CPU for the platform. Xeon X5677 and X5687 are higher clocked and they are 32nm

Almost all 478 CPUs are 32bit and they don't have NX bit so Windows 7 32bit is the newest Windows version that officially works on them. Window 7 runs decently on higher clocked Pentium 4's if it has enough RAM and supported GPU. If you want something that has support, Lubuntu 18.04 would be pretty good choice. It's the last 32bit Lubuntu version and has two years of support left. Or you could use something Debian based, even the newest versions still have 32bit versions. If it has less than 1GB RAM, use Windows XP. The LGA775 P5E-VM DO is a Q35 chipset board from 2007 or 2008 so it could have anything from Pentium 4 to Core2 Quad. Core2 Duo or Quad with enough RAM (and SSD) can run Windows 10 or any modern Linux distro without problems.

This is an old thread. And no, it won't work on the Rampage IV. LGA2011-1 (Socket R2) isn't compatible with LGA2011 (Socket R) nor LGA2011-3 (Socket R3). Xeon E7's are normally used in 4 or 8 socket servers. Servers with that socket are quite hard to find.

i7-990X from 2011 and older don't have AVX. Most Intel CPUs have had AVX since 2nd gen except Pentiums and Celerons. AMD FX (Bulldozer) and newer have AVX. SSE4.2 has been on most CPUs since Intel 1st gen and AMD FX (Bulldozer)

I have 24GB in my main PC. 24GB was common on X58/LGA1366 because it has triple channel memory. For dual or quad channel 24GB isn't optimal.

Now I have a Xeon E5-2690 in this C600/X79 system. That 80GB RAM it currently has isn't really optimal (4x16GB 1600MHz + 1x8GB 1333MHz + 2x4GB 1333MHz + empty slot) but Cinebench doesn't care much about RAM speed so the difference in the scores would be pretty small. Cinebench R15: 1139 cb Cinebench R20: 2358 pts Cinebench R23: 6051 pts multi, 686 pts single For comparison my X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz: Cinebench R15: 1015 cb Cinebench R20: 2138 pts Cinebench R23: 5464 pts multi, 695 pts single So in Cinebench multicore the E5-2690 8c/16t is ~10% faster than the X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz

Xeon E5-2690 Cinebench R15: 1139 cb Cinebench R20: 2358 pts Cinebench R23: single core 686 pts, multi core 6051 pts

For mining and F@H CPU doesn't matter much. Usually mining rigs have Celerons or Pentiums. And I've seen some people folding with modern GPUs on old dual core Athlons

I've been on X58 since 2013 and since 2016 I've had a 6c/12t Xeon X5670 in my main PC. Westmere-EP/Gulftown IPC isn't that far from Sandy Bridge-EP (X79) and is much better than AMD FX's IPC. They are way better than FX but they don't have AVX so some new games don't work. On some games (for example Cyberpunk 2077) the AVX requirement have been removed in patches but not on all. Most CPUs (except Pentiums and Celerons) have had AVX since Intel 2nd gen (Sandy Bridge) Cinebench R15 on my X5670 @ 4.4GHz. That i7-3930K above it has incorrect clockspeed, for that score it has to be around 4.2-4.3GHz. AMD FX 8350/9590 would need about 6.4-6.5GHz to get similar score.

Can you post CPU-Z and Aida64 screenshot? It's really unlikely the CPU would be fake. Those cheap Chinese boards are usually pretty bad so I wouldn't be surprised if it has some compatability issues. It also seems to only have two dimm slots so you can't use triple channel memory.

LGA2011 is DDR3 Sandy and Ivy Bridge. LGA2011-v3 is usually DDR4 but there is at least some Chinese DDR3 boards for it because some of the CPUs have DDR3 support. There is some Z170 DDR3 LGA1151 boards for Skylake.