IsaacThePooper

Make sure you're using a displayport cable my dude

Just for gaming and you're not talking about the 1600 AF, probably the i3

Still, his might be a different issue. You should pretty much always run dual channel on Ryzen

All those parts above are way cheaper than a 1600AF build, granted the risk but if it works fine then it's a great value.

If you're able to test it out before-hand make sure the BIOS has all the features you want then it's a good value. The 2660 V2 is still a good processor and if the motherboard doesn't suck it should run everything pretty well. I don't think it would last like 2+ years considering how cheaply made those motherboards are and how small that SSD is, but it might last shorter or longer than a year who knows, those boards can be pretty shotty. I just got lucky with mine I guess, I've heard a lot of stories of guys with DOI boards, but I guess if it isn't DOI then it should run just fine.

I've been rocking a similar motherboard for a little over a year with a Xeon E5 2660 (v1) and E5 1680 V2, have had no issues so far. I'd make sure the board supports dual channel, and just make sure it's not going to be an actual X79 chipset, most likely it's a lower-end Xeon platform chipset I think, like a C620 or something.

I have a 40mm fan blowing on the VRM currently lol But do you know which files or guides out there that would be needed to flash my specific motherboard?

I currently have a build I built off of cheap eBay parts, here's the specs: - Xeon E5-2660 - 32GB DDR3-1333 - Beyang "X79" Chinese Motherboard E5 VER 3.2S1 - RX 570 8GB - Corsair CX450 (2017) The CPU is a bit lacking in single-threaded performance in games, I'm eyeing on the Xeon E5-2690 that's going for ~$90 on eBay. So I'm looking to upgrade this system but after doing a bit of research, the 2690 is just a higher clocked 2660. I can't currently overclock my CPU on this Beyang motherboard, but I have seen options to flash the BIOS, although I still don't know which flashing tool/files to use for this specific motherboard. I've seen people overclock the 2660 to 3.9GHz, which is .1 more than the 2690's boost clock. So does anyone know the specific tools and files I need to flash the BIOS on the Beyang "X79" E5 VER 3.2S1 motherboard? Are there any other good LGA 2011 CPU's that would be a worthy upgrade (maybe the Xeon E5-2667 V2) ? I haven't seen a whole lot of benchmarks/information online for v2 Xeon CPU's for single-threaded tasks and multiple "CPU comparison" websites show different results.

OH GOD NO

Change it in the BIOS as "full speed" or whatever the max speed setting is. If that still doesn't work then you'd have to open up the laptop, check if the cooler is intact and probably re-apply thermal paste. Also check for dust, if there is any.

if you're running 2nd or 3rd gen, 3600mhz is a good speed for the infinity fabric.

Wait for AIB partners like MSI to make sick custom coolers that should be coming mid-August. Cooling performance = better performance on Navi.

Yeah It's probably just the GPU not sitting right on the PCIe slot, especially since the motherboard is a cheap Chinese "X79" board paired with a $30 Xeon lol

I just thought it was a slow low-end card that I only payed 100 bucks for.

So I built a system with an RX 570 and it was struggling to run the dumbest games like Roblox and Insurgency, then my friend gave me his GTX 1080 because he was waiting for the rest of his PC to ship. So I popped in it and it worked great! But a few days later I had to give it back to him and put in my old RX 570 back into my system, but this time it was running better than it has ever before! Definitely not as fast as the GTX 1080 but it ran Roblox and Insurgency like a champ! Keep in mind I ran DDU and installed the latest GPU drivers on all 3 graphics card swaps. The RX 570 has been on the same driver version since I built it. So what happened?

Reputable brands are expensive as hell. I've had two Chinese X79 boards and they worked fine for me, but I don't have those right now lol. For a Ryzen 3 2200G, 16GB DDR4-3000, and a B450 board would be around $250 while an E5-4620 V2, 16GB ECC DDR3-1333 ECC, and the HUANAN board would be around $185. Keep in mind the Xeon build has 8 cores, 16 threads @ 3GHz stock and Quad channel memory. Also this is kind of a temporary PC as I'll be moving in like 5 months.

I'm pretty convinced that at least the HUANAN boards would be just fine from this video:

I'm trying to get some cheap parts to make a decent workstation/gaming PC. My budget is ~$500 but I'd like to spend as low as possible. I've found these two motherboards on AliExpress, this Vakind one and this HUANAN board. There aren't any good reviews on the Vakind one so I'm pretty hesitant about it, but it is cheaper. The HUANAN seems to be a pretty good option from Tech YES City (youtube channel). I'm going to try to pair this with a 6-8 core Xeon with decent clock speeds, I'm eyeing out on the E5-2680, 2670, 4620 V2, 2640, and 1650, so if any of those are good or bad please let me know. A few of my requirements that I'm not sure the Vakind board has is ECC Quad Channel RAM support and legit M.2 support, preferably has NVMe support too. I'm also curious on overclocking, I do plan on putting a fan on the VRM heatsinks and I'm pretty sure flashing the BIOS will only get you from 3.9GHz to 4.2, with the risk of bricking it so I'll probably not do that. I just want to know if I can set the multiplier on any of the CPU's I mentioned to 3.9GHz. So yeah, please help me because there's very little information about some of these parts.

Maybe because it's only through a USB 3.1 port? But GPU mining riser cards still use USB 3 but they actually get that native PCIe port.

So I noticed that the Vive wireless adapter requires you to use a PCIe 1x wireless card thing, which can only be plugged into a desktop PC. I think that this is dumb because there's a lot of VR players that play on laptops and I don't want to use the crappy TPCast version. But, you can probably use an external GPU enclosure and pop in that wireless card into there through Thunderbolt 3, but those enclosures are like $200 which is more than half the price of the freaking wireless adapter you already got. So I want to see if there are any ghetto versions out there. I'm thinking about doing this: Plugging in a Type C 3.1 (because thunderbolt 3 to M.2 adapters are crazy expensive) to the laptop like this one. Then using a M.2 to PCIe 4x adapter when you take off the M.2 plastic enclosure thing like this. I'm thinking that it could work considering USB 3 GPU risers work for mining and sometimes gaming as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_chC1-gylg But, the thing that lacks is a PCIe port on a Laptop, which the only way to do that legitimately with 4 PCIe lanes is through Thunderbolt 3, but this Vive wireless card is only 1x (idk if it requires 4 lanes or not). Any other suggestions or do I have to get the expensive Thunderbolt 3 stuff?

So would a full copper watercooling kit but just adding a nickel gpu waterblock be fine?

Something like this? https://www.amazon.com/XSPC-Performance-Premix-Coolant-Green/dp/B00AXW07TE Isn't this the same as anti-corrosion coolants?

The only RX Vega waterblocks that are on the market are made out of nickel, I know mixing metals is bad in general but I wonder if just having the the radiators be copper and everything else being nickel would be okay? Please help... Also if you can find copper Vega waterblocks or nickel radiators, say so please!

If you downgrade the settings, maybe you'd hit that 120FPS+ mark.

A GTX 1060 can totally play E-Sports title's like CSGO over 144 FPS