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From G3258 to Dual Xeon E5-2670's

Jacktastic-Mofo
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So I'm just creating this post to show the history of my PC and the changes it's gone through in just 3 years. So lets start from the beginning-

 

CHAPTER 1: FARORE

 



In the beginning there was Farore, named after the goddess of Wisdom from the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time- my all time favorite video game. It featured an overclocked Pentium G3258 and a GTX 750ti. It served me well in my freshmen year of high school and allowed me to play Battlefield 3, Titanfall and others on high settings with no issues.

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CHAPTER 2: SCHWARZCHILD
 



Next there was Schwarzchild- named after the Schwarzchild Radius, a scientific term for the size an amount of mass must become in order for it to be so infinitely dense that it becomes a black hole something I learned about while interning at Brown University. It featured a i3-4150 and a GTX 960 which was heavily overclocked to give me smooth frame rates in every game.


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CHAPTER 3: LITTLE ASS KICKER
 



For my 17th birthday Schwarzchild was upgraded and became Little Ass Kicker, or LAK for short. It was a huge step up with a new SLI ready motherboard, a i5-4690k, and a second GTX 960 as well as a new power supply. With this rig there was nothing I couldn't do gaming wise and I loved every second of it.

 

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CHAPTER 4: MINI MONSTER
 



Then for some stupid fucking reason I thought selling my powerful hardware and shrinking down to Mini-ITX was a wonderful idea and so I dropped my PC into a Corsair 250D from a 350D and lived with a single GTX 960 again. This was a dark time.

 

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CHAPTER 5: BEAST BOX
 



This brings us to today- I decided one day, "THIS IS NOT ENOUGH, I NEED MORE CORES, MORE RAM, MORE POWER!" and so I upgrade from a small case to a full blown server chassis with a dual socket motherboard, 32 processing threads, and 64GB's of RAM. I also grabbed a GTX 1060 6GB and am now enjoying ridiculously high frame rates in every game. 

 

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Now three, almost four years later this is where I am taking this monster off to college to study business and computer science next fall. It's been a hell of a ride and I'm sure there are a lot more upgrades to come.

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Network Administrator, Comptia A+, Security+, Cisco Certified Networking Associate

From a G3258 to dual Xeon E5-2670's

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Yeah, but can it do CS:GO 1080p 60fps on ultra? :P

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1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Yeah, but can it do CS:GO 1080p 60fps on ultra? :P

No. CS GO has no ultra settings so it won't able to do that sorry

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2 minutes ago, Ellen_orangecloud said:

Can it run MS Paint in 60fps 8K MUSHD? (Mega Ultra Super HD)

No, he would need 7 Titan X Pascals in SLI to even get 5fps 144p.

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And look what I've found in the dirt.

 

Pale battered body

Seems she was struggling

Something is wrong with this world.

 

Fierce Bloody Angel

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Any reason for a 850W PSU? Even 2 CPUs wont need that much (Why does the 850W B2 even exist?). Any reason for two Xeons? Are you doing editing or rendering? Same with the 64Gb of ram. If only gaming (The previous builds would suggest so), then 16Gb is enough and the Xeons wont help. 

Please quote our replys so we get a notification and can reply easily. Never cheap out on a PSU, or I will come to watch the fireworks. 

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My specs

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PC:

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @4.8GHz
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 
Motherboard:  ASUS Maximus VIII Hero 
GPU: Zotac AMP Extreme 1070 @ 2114Mhz
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W G2

 

Peripherals 

Keyboard: Corsair K70 LUX Browns
Mouse: Logitech G502 
Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver 

Monitor: U2713M @ 75Hz

 

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13 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

No, he would need 7 Titan X Pascals in SLI to even get 5fps 144p.

I am not sure there are mobo with 7 slots of pcie 16

I am not sure if there would be enough SLI bridge

 

I am pretty sure Paint is a program to make picture and as far as I know, pictures don't move (gif doesn't cound but how do you pronounce it?)

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24 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Yeah, but can it do CS:GO 1080p 60fps on ultra? :P

Very low

Low

Medium

High

Very high

 

 

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1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Very low

Low

Medium

High

Very high

 

 

Ultra is there. Only uber-1337 computers have access to it, though.

 

Seriously, OP, nice rig. And yes, I get why you'd build a dual-Xeon beast with a GTX 1060. I'm married to a programmer. ;)

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Just now, aisle9 said:

Ultra is there. Only uber-1337 computers have access to it, though.

 

Seriously, OP, nice rig. And yes, I get why you'd build a dual-Xeon beast with a GTX 1060. I'm married to a programmer. ;)

yes the g3258 and 750ti was really powerful

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2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

yes the g3258 and 750ti was really powerful

Don't hate just because your rig can't access the Ultra menu. :P

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16 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Any reason for a 850W PSU? Even 2 CPUs wont need that much (Why does the 850W B2 even exist?). Any reason for two Xeons? Are you doing editing or rendering? Same with the 64Gb of ram. If only gaming (The previous builds would suggest so), then 16Gb is enough and the Xeons wont help. 

1. I went with a 850W power supply because it has 2 EPS 8 pin power connectors as each CPU requires one.
2. I went with 2 Xeons because I do a lot of video editing and 3D Modeling

3. See number two.

I hope that answers your questions. :) 

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From a G3258 to dual Xeon E5-2670's

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17 minutes ago, stationvsbox said:

lol a 1060. What type of work are you doing on it?

I do a lot of video editing and 3D modeling but I also play a lot of video games. This rig serves many purposes.

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From a G3258 to dual Xeon E5-2670's

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Just now, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

1. I went with a 850W power supply because it has 2 EPS 8 pin power connectors as each CPU requires one.
2. I went with 2 Xeons because I do a lot of video editing and 3D Modeling

3. See number two.

I hope that answers your questions. :) 

 

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Don't hate just because your rig can't access the Ultra menu. :P

so @Jacktastic-Mofo does your cs go has ultra settings on a dual xeon? 

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32 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Yeah, but can it do CS:GO 1080p 60fps on ultra? :P

Who even plays CS on high settings in 2016

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Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

so @Jacktastic-Mofo does your cs go has ultra settings on a dual xeon? 

My PC bypasses ultra and goes straight to MEGA settings level. AFAIK very high is the top in CS:GO lol.

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Just now, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

My PC bypasses ultra and goes straight to MEGA settings level. AFAIK very high is the top in CS:GO lol.

Holy crap, you mean...CS:GOdmode?

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Just now, Swndlr said:

Who even plays CS on high settings in 2016

I do. I have skins. 

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Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

I do. I have skins. 

So do I, still play with low settings except for shadows :S

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Just now, Swndlr said:

So do I, still play with low settings except for shadows :S

I have some pretty skins and low settings look horrible on them

 

Nah well I used to have pretty skins until I quit because of the bull shit derank after a win bull shit and now I just collect rare very high float battle scarred skins

 

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Pretty much.

and how much fps do you get on ultra mega mode with that card and cpu? at what resolution?

 

seriously if I have that much money I would find a mobo and go with 2 of 6950x because why not

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2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

and how much fps do you get on ultra mega mode with that card and cpu? at what resolution?

 

seriously if I have that much money I would find a mobo and go with 2 of 6950x because why not

Oh, I forgot to mention this entire build was just about $1000 or the cost of .58 6950x's. 

 

I haven't tested CS:GO but I can max the game out and get well over 144FPS.

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From a G3258 to dual Xeon E5-2670's

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Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

I have some pretty skins and low settings look horrible on them

 

Nah well I used to have pretty skins until I quit because of the bull shit derank after a win bull shit and now I just collect rare very high float battle scarred skins

How do ppl still cry about the elo update, that shit was quite literally almost a year ago and I still hear people say shit like "oh yeh Im MG1 now but I was DMG  before the update" like no dude youre an MG1 thats where youre at and thats where youre supposed to be :/

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Just now, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Oh, I forgot to mention this entire build was just about $1000 or the cost of .58 6950x's. 

 

I haven't tested CS:GO but I can max the game out and get well over 144FPS.

yeah nice. oh for 1000$ only. well at least I can dream

 

meanwhile i am just gojna sit here with my single i5 4460 and a gtx 760 hoping for a 30fps on mirrors edge catalyst

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Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

yeah nice. oh for 1000$ only. well at least I can dream

 

meanwhile i am just gojna sit here with my single i5 4460 and a gtx 760 hoping for a 30fps on mirrors edge catalyst

I'll give a little price break down-

  • 2x Xeon E5-2670's 120$
  • 64GB's DDR3 ECC 80$
  • Intel Dual 2011 MB 200$
  • 2x Noctua Coolers 100$
  • EVGA GTX 1060 6GB 250$
  • EVGA 850W PSU 80$
  • OCZ 240GB SSD 60$
  • 1TB WD Blue HDD 50$
  • Rosewill RSV-R4000 80$
  • Noctua NF-F12's 40$

Total comes out to be 1060$ USD.

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From a G3258 to dual Xeon E5-2670's

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