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It could be a number of things, try by removing your CPU overclock and then give it a shot. If that doesn't work try running memtest86 and see if you get any memory errors. That should be a good start.

What's up guys! Long time no see. It has been months since I thought about my x58 boards, they're still sitting in storage. I didn't have any plans to get more until I made an offer on this board with bent pins. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7TESM - with 5 LAN ports and the optional SAS connections which make this board so desirable. Using my boxcutter I was able to bend some pins back to a correct-ish location. This motherboard is notable as it was featured in JDM_WHAAAT's " $145 Nas Killer 2.0," Once I saw it I had to buy it. https://www.serverbuilds.net/145-nas-killer-v20 Well at least all of the ram and both CPUs were detected, that's a win, but like all exotic hardware of this age there is bound to be a mound of headaches. Ubuntu 21 livedisk worked perfect for testing out some light videobrowsing and testing, but I wasn't able to verify the SAS controller was detected or working. It could have to deal with some of the bent pins that I was dealing with on the motherboard. Hard to tell, and I don't want to rip into my working desktop to get my only powersupply out. X58 still lives on! And that means I have some extra boards laying around... Hope you guys have a good day, and a happy 2022!

I use 8gb sticks on my Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer, depends on the stick of ram but every stick Ive tried works fine. Make sure to post your build here so we all can see it!

Oh man, no posts in over a month. Might as well show off my new build. Last year I purchased a Intel S5520SC for about 70 dollars. I had hopes of daily-ing it for weeks before that project was put on the backburner for a number of reasons. Last month for my birthday I decided to finally finalize everything. The name of the game was price to performance, which this machine excels at. Here's the specs: 2 x5675s Kingston DDR3-1066 24G Intel S5520SC two Hyper 212 Black Evos Deepcool MATREXX case (Which supports SSI-EEB and EATX) I picked it since it was the smallest and cheapest case that supported EATX. EVGA SuperNOVA 1300W G2 GTX 980 USB 3.0 Card my trusty PNY 256 Gig boot drive, a BarraCuda LP which I use to store video. Samsung 970 Evo 1TB that I use a scratch drive + game drive. Man was this thing a pain to build. I think the largest problems I had was space in this case using a large PSU which impacted cable management and configuring fan speeds. No matter what I changed in the BIOS fans would constantly run at 100%. I had read that updating the FSU/SDR on the board would open up more options. Since Intel pulled all BIOS and firmware for all their legacy products on their site I was almost out of luck until I found an archive of the entire Intel download center. https://archive.org/details/downloadcenter.intel.com .I was able to update all the firmware on the board but still nothing seems to work correctly without an ambient temperature sensor, which my unit lacks. At the moment I just have the system tricked to thinking there are no fans on anything but the CPU, which runs all connected fans at slow speeds. My temps are in a reasonable range, 30-40C. As for OS I chose Gentoo Linux. Compile times for packages are speedy and compiling my kernel only takes a minute or two. I think this is the fastest one of these systems can really get. Faster RAM, x5690s, or a NVMe root directory could in theory boost performance but it would be marginal overall. Let me know what you guys think.

Why wouldn't you swap the x5675? It is better in every aspect from the 920 and you can get them for 20 dollars.

I might take you up on that, the only problem is that I use a 256 gig SATA ssd already so it's hard rationalize that I might save my pennies and see if I can find a deal on a 512 gig version. It's awesome to see this thread alive again today, I might post my builds again so the newbies can see them.

Damn, I just checked the prices and they are totally unreasonable. Hopefully I can find a deal for once because that seems awesome, I see them for like 300 right now and if I could find one for half that I would jump on it. Also wtf? just shipping hard drives with no packaging? I bought SAS drives on ebay and they had just enough packaging.

Woah, How were you able to boot NVMe on x58? Tax returns coming soon and I would totally love to do this, might get a new case as well before I upgrade to a newer HEDT platform later this year.

This is such a bummer for me, I really liked this idea . Hopefully you get it all sorted out. Let me know if you want to get rid of the sr2 .

Couple issues with the motherboard that have really baffled me. One is that it does not recognize ANY boot device and locks up in the bios when I open the boot manager with my eSATA card installed and the other is that I cannot update my bios to the latest version. I'm pretty confident that updating my bios would probably fix my problems with the eSATA card but I keep getting (ERROR Unable to initialize SMBIOS library) when updating. Some searching around and the culprit is that I'm jumping too many bios revisions (Jumping from R0050 to R0069) Also a diagnosis light LED is "blinking amber" which indicate a couple bad things. The worst to me looks to be CATERR error which is a catastrophic error... but everything works just fine? Really strange, but everything except trying to use the eSATA card works just fine. I guess when I have time tomorrow I'll try to flash a slightly newer bios as a "lily pad" to jump to the newest bios. Intel still offers some "recovery bios-es" for corrupt bioses. Hopefully I can flash one of those.

Finally "finished" with the S5520SC build! After another weekend at the recycler I found some goodies and a EATX chassis that doesn't look absolutely gaudy. But before that some honorable mentions from the recycler. This very poor Skulltrail board. All untested or broken boards were only 5 dollars but this socket was far too gone. So sad, what a beautiful x58 board. I ended up with this G34 board, a eSATA HBA, and 2 140mm and 1 120mm corsair fans for a grand total of 13 dollars! Very excited to try to do something with this Opteron board. Too bad that the chips really suck for anything modern, even with modern instruction sets. Man, this case is so massive. It fit right in perfectly in (almost) all mounting holes. This would be a fun chassis to do some crazy watercooling setup or something. If anyone had any idea how big this case was. I'm going to have to put this in my closet or something because it does NOT fit anywhere near my desk. Any tips to extend my display cables + MNKB about 30 feet or so? I know it's not the scope of this thread but im all ears. And here's thermals and my new Cinebench R15 score post build.

Did you see my S5520SC board? its like the HC but it has onboard audio. I might use it for a VM server or TrueNAS core build after said and done because it has an optional SAS adapter that I hope to track down. If not some HBA will probably be fine.

im pretty sure 2x mem speed, can't remember. In other news there is a brand new Intel S5520HC board on ebay right now for anyone that wants a quality dual x58. Funny how intel pulled drivers and bios's for all their legacy products but still keep some stuff for this series. Still trying to find a case for my intel board. Kind of the last thing I need to make the build "complete"

Seems really good if you ask me, and you have a great friend to give you a 1060. Make sure you enable XMP in your to get the rated speed of your ram. Enjoy!

Was able to dial in an overclock that I liked for my 980x that works well with thermals. Also got the ram to 1660Mhz after some trial and error. Hoping to get it to 2000Mhz after even more trial and error. Man, I forgot how much of a pain overclocking on this board is, since you have to initialize the SAS controller on every reboot.