Pasi123

So I took a bit of a gamble on Ebay, because I was feeling adventurous.
Bought an Asus X99 Deluxe bundled with an i7-5930K for $115 before taxes, free shipping. Was not listed as "working" or "tested".
 
Showed up today with a nifty kit of GSkill Ripjaws4 16GB DDR4, and I tested it to find out everything works just fine. Working to swap the new board into the Proxmox Box because I really don't like Gigabyte and I was reminded of that fact when I started working on the Proxmox Box.
 
Feels like I really stole this one, not gonna lie. From what I could find, X99 Deluxe is one of the better/best X99 boards, and those don't typically sell for less than $150 unless they're broken, and that's just for the board. 5930K is kind of a boss of a CPU still, being 6c/12t at 3.5Ghz with 40 PCIe lanes.

RAM is in.
 
Don't look at the SSDs, they're M.2s that are very good at blending in. Better to not waste your time with that one, it's really not worth it. Will likely be installing Proxmox and spinning up some VMs over the weekend.

CPU cooler and SSDs have arrived! Still waiting on the actual CPU and the RAM, but I was able to get my BIOS updated no problem. Somebody(probably me) had updated it to the crucial version(F22) in the past, so I updated to the most recent version(F24c) just for peace of mind.
 
Cable management is looking pretty alright, considering it's the Define R5 that I pretty notoriously did not enjoy working in. Things are a little better because there's just about nothing in the case right now. Feel free to rate it:
Eagle-eyed viewers may recall this is almost the exact hardware configuration I had in my ATX-modded PowerMac G5, which is the reason for the velcro.
 
Future plans include moving drives around physically so I can fit a decently sized RAID10 array for the NAS, and more immediately, replacing the Quadro K600 with a GT 1030 or something else with a decent amount of horsepower that's passively cooled. This system is pretty quiet already but I stopped the GPU fan from spinning and it went from "quiet" to "silent".
 
I should have the whole thing mostly up and running over the weekend. I really enjoyed working with the Noctua U12S, this might be my go-to "budget" air cooler. Seems like it has pretty good performance and low noise output for just $50, and should handle the upcoming 135W behemoth with no problems.
 
Not sure when I'll get it fully set up as a NAS, that's a bit of a stretch goal at the moment(similar to moving the system to a new case that I like working in more). I'll probably move some hard drives from my workstation over just so that can function as some network storage so that I can move files around without requiring my workstation to be powered on.

To me it's personal
Lost all respect I had for the man after that

My turn to buy more workstation hardware.
 
Have a Xeon E5-2690v4 on the way, plus a kit of 4x16GB DDR4 -- I may upgrade my motherboard in the future, and might want 128GB down the road -- as it turns out, the plan to revive the X99 machine is to rebuild it into a server and run virtual machines. It'll more than likely end up pulling NAS duty as well. I also don't actually have all the parts for the spare CPU cooler I thought I had, so I snagged a replacement and upgrade in the form of a Noctua NH-U12S. Hopefully it'll keep the 135W 14-core monster quiet and happy.
 
You know the drill. Pictures will arrive as parts do.
I'm very quickly reminded just how old the Define R5 is as a case. Wow.

The main reasons for such a CPU is for those who need lots of PCIe lanes or tons of memory bandwidth, but don't need high core counts. It lets you get on a platform that supports that without spending a ton for a 64 core.

The X5365 is an older 65nm CPU so it's more like a QX6850. The 45nm Q(X)9650 equivalent Xeons would be the E5450 and X5450
 
I actually have a server with 2x E5450 or X5450 (idk which because it reports as having both lol) but I haven't ran R10 on it so here's R11.5

That looks like mATX to me

The X5365 is an older 65nm CPU so it's more like a QX6850. The 45nm Q(X)9650 equivalent Xeons would be the E5450 and X5450
 
I actually have a server with 2x E5450 or X5450 (idk which because it reports as having both lol) but I haven't ran R10 on it so here's R11.5

Ever wondered what four Core 2 Duos glued together would perform like? Here's a server with two Xeon X5365, an LGA771 chip that is for all intents and purposes a Q9650 with less L2 and more L1. It does not quite double the Q9650's performance but I would put this more up to the slow FBDDR2 memory in the server vs. the DDR2-1200 in the system I tested the Q9650 on. 

Speaking of xeon dark, snagged this chonky lad for a good deal local 

they're complaining about the actual setup ui not being super high res.... for some reason.

don;t let them near a microwave or they might have a heart attack when they see what display it uses

Fuck AI.
 
UEFI is supposed to be for compatibility. If you don't like your boot screen then turn it off..

Yes. 
I have an operating system: Windows 11, and it looks good, but it's annoying to see that the UEFI menu is still at such a low resolution! 
That should be upgraded too!

no , the reason why is because it's a firmware menu that is barely ever used. nobody on earth needed there one time use menu to be 4k for any reason
 
does your machine have an operating system or is it permanently only being used to navigate the bios settings

It does list few 32nm CPUs like the i7-980X/990X and W3680/W3690. They have the same CPUID as the X5600 series CPUs and as far as I know use the same microcode. So technically the X5650 should work but I've heard some older X58 boards don't like 2 QPI line CPUs.
 
But I did find this comment in the 'General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion thread'. They mention of using a X5670 on the GA-EX58-UD3R rev1.0 and everything runs fine

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/cinebench_-_r15/rankings?cores=5
 
Above link is a list to hwbot Cinebench R15 records for 5 core CPUs. Per hwbot rules, you're not allowed to disable cores.
 
Looks like they are mainly AMD X4 CPUs with an extra core unlocked:
AMD Phenom II X4 960T BE
AMD Phenom II X4 840T
AMD Athlon II X4 645T (Zosma)
 
A modern one is Pentium Gold 8505 which is 1P+4E

4.5GHz is pretty normal for X5675. I've ran my X5670 @ 4.4GHz (50% overclock) for years

4.5GHz is pretty normal for X5675. I've ran my X5670 @ 4.4GHz (50% overclock) for years

More hardware has found its way back around to me, X5670 with way too small of a cooler and a EVGA E758 with a 750Ti. The Rosewill PSU is probably faulty as well as the system was always weirdly unstable and was also originally unstable on a Z170 board. However it's also built into my first case purchase, an Antec Nine Hundred which has had my Athlon X2, EVGA 680i/Q6600 and X58A-UD5 in it.
 
No idea what I'm going to do with it. My best spare PSU is a 550w. I also have a EVGA GTX 970 now as well which would really put my 300w~ at the wall X5675 build at the exact limit of my Superflower Leadex III Gold. I don't ever plan on drawing that absolutely ever on that machine though.
 
I really wish some X79/X99 stuff would just fall into my lap but that's likely not happening, the P6T/X5660 home server could probably use a bit more of a power efficient platform than X58 lmao.

just from some quick testing with a U12A, one is a bit so so, 4GHz 1.2v, one is alright, 4.2 1.17v and one seems to be pretty good with 4.4GHz with 1.2v, looking forward to seeing what this last one does under water 

Oh my, that's pretty, love the heatkiller blocks and all, really nice looking system that, with that said though I don't have to worry about rad space 😜 

AP201 is a worthy consideration as well. You can fit a 360 in the top and shove a pump somewhere, I have mine at the end of the GPU (thankfully it's a short GPU, 2060 Super FE so small PCB):

More than likely, but then I kinda like the idea of shoving an 18 core into an matx box and doing my first ever hardline loop all told, recently did a build for a friend in a fractal pop mini and I was impressed by it all told so I kinda like the idea of a full on blackout build in just such a case with a few modifications 
 
 
Pic of the friends build for tax, pretty pleased with it considering it was a pretty budget machine all told 

snagged a brand new X299 micro 2 for 185 shipped 😮