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I've got the old i7 950 and the 12gb of ocz reaper 6x2gb and two msi 960gtx 4gb oc. Two 6tb seagate hdd, 15k rpm cheetah hdd, wd 1tb & 500gb hdd, and a ocz 60gb ssd. 
 
 
My memory is reading as dual channel. I was under the impression that anything more than 3 sticks sends it back over to dual channel but I could have bad info. Triple channel is strange but paired with the six core processor seems to be a nice mate from what I've read.
 
I was going to pick up 4x4gb sticks of g.skill ripjaws x 1866 and use 3 sticks as they seem to be the best ddr3 available from reviews and I wouldnt loose any capacity.
 
I'm new to overclocking but I'd love to get this thing cranked up once I get everything settled. Dropping to one gpu and 3 sticks of ram from 6 along with removing 6 hard drives will really free this thing up. 
 
With the cooler master haf x and the cooler master hyper n520 cpu cooler I was hoping to air cool oc my w3690 3.47 to 4.0 stable. I'm new. More of the "out the box builder" but I'm here to learn. I'd rather learn to oc on this build then the new one I plan for tax time 2021.
 
 

I've looked at doing 3x8gb ripjaws but the price goes up to about 100$+ for 4x8gb ddr3 and the latency goes up as well. I was having this debate in my head and weighed the pros and cons. They say 8gb is recommended gaming ram capacity and I've run 12gb successfully for 10 years so I decided to go with the 4gb sticks for only 40$. 8gb would be nice but I dont know if for what I'm doing I'd really use the extra gigs. How much is vive ram dependent cause that's all the gaming I do. Vr is next level

Hello fellow x58 owners! I'm in the middle of putting some life back into my 2009 build.
 
Just replaced my i7 950 with a xeon w3690 gaining two physical cores and 4mb cache as well as significant speed, and replaced all my hdd and SATA ssd with a single Samsung 950 pro m.2 on a pcie x16 adapter. Next I'm upgrading ram to 3x4gb ripjaw x and gpu to a single card.
 
Asus p6x58d-e motherboard
Xeon w3690 cpu
Ocz Reaper 12gb (6x2gb) ram
2x Msi gtx 960 4gb oc sli gpu's
Kingwin 1000w PSU
Cooler master hyper n520 cpu cooler
Cooler Master Haf-x case
 
I use my computer for HTC vive mostly. Occasionally I'll render a video or do a large photoshopped project. 
 
I'm looking to overclock once I drop from 6 sticks down to three and benifit from the triple channel optimization.
 
I still have my old stuff if anyone is interested.

Hello fellow x58 owners! I'm in the middle of putting some life back into my 2009 build.
 
Just replaced my i7 950 with a xeon w3690 gaining two physical cores and 4mb cache as well as significant speed, and replaced all my hdd and SATA ssd with a single Samsung 950 pro m.2 on a pcie x16 adapter. Next I'm upgrading ram to 3x4gb ripjaw x and gpu to a single card.
 
Asus p6x58d-e motherboard
Xeon w3690 cpu
Ocz Reaper 12gb (6x2gb) ram
2x Msi gtx 960 4gb oc sli gpu's
Kingwin 1000w PSU
Cooler master hyper n520 cpu cooler
Cooler Master Haf-x case
 
I use my computer for HTC vive mostly. Occasionally I'll render a video or do a large photoshopped project. 
 
I'm looking to overclock once I drop from 6 sticks down to three and benifit from the triple channel optimization.
 
I still have my old stuff if anyone is interested.

Hello fellow x58 owners! I'm in the middle of putting some life back into my 2009 build.
 
Just replaced my i7 950 with a xeon w3690 gaining two physical cores and 4mb cache as well as significant speed, and replaced all my hdd and SATA ssd with a single Samsung 950 pro m.2 on a pcie x16 adapter. Next I'm upgrading ram to 3x4gb ripjaw x and gpu to a single card.
 
Asus p6x58d-e motherboard
Xeon w3690 cpu
Ocz Reaper 12gb (6x2gb) ram
2x Msi gtx 960 4gb oc sli gpu's
Kingwin 1000w PSU
Cooler master hyper n520 cpu cooler
Cooler Master Haf-x case
 
I use my computer for HTC vive mostly. Occasionally I'll render a video or do a large photoshopped project. 
 
I'm looking to overclock once I drop from 6 sticks down to three and benifit from the triple channel optimization.
 
I still have my old stuff if anyone is interested.

Hello fellow x58 owners! I'm in the middle of putting some life back into my 2009 build.
 
Just replaced my i7 950 with a xeon w3690 gaining two physical cores and 4mb cache as well as significant speed, and replaced all my hdd and SATA ssd with a single Samsung 950 pro m.2 on a pcie x16 adapter. Next I'm upgrading ram to 3x4gb ripjaw x and gpu to a single card.
 
Asus p6x58d-e motherboard
Xeon w3690 cpu
Ocz Reaper 12gb (6x2gb) ram
2x Msi gtx 960 4gb oc sli gpu's
Kingwin 1000w PSU
Cooler master hyper n520 cpu cooler
Cooler Master Haf-x case
 
I use my computer for HTC vive mostly. Occasionally I'll render a video or do a large photoshopped project. 
 
I'm looking to overclock once I drop from 6 sticks down to three and benifit from the triple channel optimization.
 
I still have my old stuff if anyone is interested.

Hello fellow x58 owners! I'm in the middle of putting some life back into my 2009 build.
 
Just replaced my i7 950 with a xeon w3690 gaining two physical cores and 4mb cache as well as significant speed, and replaced all my hdd and SATA ssd with a single Samsung 950 pro m.2 on a pcie x16 adapter. Next I'm upgrading ram to 3x4gb ripjaw x and gpu to a single card.
 
Asus p6x58d-e motherboard
Xeon w3690 cpu
Ocz Reaper 12gb (6x2gb) ram
2x Msi gtx 960 4gb oc sli gpu's
Kingwin 1000w PSU
Cooler master hyper n520 cpu cooler
Cooler Master Haf-x case
 
I use my computer for HTC vive mostly. Occasionally I'll render a video or do a large photoshopped project. 
 
I'm looking to overclock once I drop from 6 sticks down to three and benifit from the triple channel optimization.
 
I still have my old stuff if anyone is interested.

The photo of your monitor fills me with nostalgia, don't know why.

I've got the specs saved somewhere but this was my first full build in '06. Dual core AMD water cooled. Ddr2 Kingston HyperX and a brand new $800 Gefore 9800 gtx lol
 
I had around $2000 in all of it and decided to build a pc rather than get my first car. Counterstrike obviously takes priority over everything.
 
Edit: this was not my 9800gtx build I believe it was actually my 7900gt card. Forgotten how far back this build went. Remember those little clip on crab led ram coolers lol

I had my moms p4 Dell computer back in like 04 or 05. Took everything out of that case cause it was a Dell and just screwed the mobo and all other internals to the wall. Shocked the hell out of me every time I touched anything. Safe

I had my moms p4 Dell computer back in like 04 or 05. Took everything out of that case cause it was a Dell and just screwed the mobo and all other internals to the wall. Shocked the hell out of me every time I touched anything. Safe