Grummkol

My venerable Asus p6x-58d premium with a xeon w3690 (6 core 12 thread), running at 4.2 ghz nice and quiet will be replaced tomorrow.
I got the motherboard on release (was in Taiwan for work at the time), and intially had a i7-920 on it before grabbing a 2nd hand xeon off ebay donkeys years ago.  The system has been bullet proof and up until recently, everything looked more of a side grade/downgrade rather than an upgrade for a stupid amount of money.
Spectre/Meltdown patches did seem to hit it a bit performance wise, especially around disk access, but the main reason for upgrading was the lack of USB 3.0 ports and the limited PCI bandwidth
And M2 nvme drives.   Got a an amd 1920 tr turning up tomorrow with a couple of nvme m2 drives (512gb for os/apps, 2tb for steam library and elite dangerous) so will have fun building the new system over the weekend.
Not sure what to do with the x58/xeon combo though. They still work great (wouldn't suprise me if they kept going for another 8 years); I already have my old e3-1220 running as a pfsense router.  Maybe turn it into a NAS? (can never have enough storage!)