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22 minutes ago, T3DDY14 said:

Good luck, have had some issues with virtulization issues with an sr-2 before but never got it to work before the board died

The board just died on you?

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1 minute ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

The board just died on you?

Had a powercut and wont post anymore, gets stuck on code 2A or 2E with a constant beep

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Does anyone know if i got an adapter for an M.2 NVME ssd and slapped it into an X58 board, would it see the drive from the off, like, not trying to boot from, just for storage

current rig: Xeon W-3175X at 4.7GHz all core 1.25v and 3200MHz cache, EVGA SR3 Dark, 48gb of tridentZ 4133 Cl19 (A0 PCB) running 4000MHz 16 16 16 34 1T, 6900XT aorus master with an EK waterblock, 1440mm custom loop, corsair HX1500i, 2x256gb 7600P raid 0(boot), 6.4tb samsung PMPM1725 for games and general storage, Lian Li V3000 plus (not super duper happy with this in all honesty), main monitor is a 27" koorui 1440p 240hz thing, and then 3 secondary 1920x1200 60hz panels one left one right and one above

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95% sure yes. Getting it to be bootable requires legacy ahci support which is why specifically the 950 Pro works for that.

 

Non boot, it should just be recognized as pcie storage.

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10 hours ago, bimmerman said:

95% sure yes. Getting it to be bootable requires legacy ahci support which is why specifically the 950 Pro works for that.

 

Non boot, it should just be recognized as pcie storage.

Ahh perfect, many thanks 

current rig: Xeon W-3175X at 4.7GHz all core 1.25v and 3200MHz cache, EVGA SR3 Dark, 48gb of tridentZ 4133 Cl19 (A0 PCB) running 4000MHz 16 16 16 34 1T, 6900XT aorus master with an EK waterblock, 1440mm custom loop, corsair HX1500i, 2x256gb 7600P raid 0(boot), 6.4tb samsung PMPM1725 for games and general storage, Lian Li V3000 plus (not super duper happy with this in all honesty), main monitor is a 27" koorui 1440p 240hz thing, and then 3 secondary 1920x1200 60hz panels one left one right and one above

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They work just like a standard drive in an OS. If you're just looking for some more storage with nvme drives about the same price as sata I'd definitely recommend it regardless of if you want to boot from it.

 

For getting a non-ahci drive to boot, DUET works great for me. Took a minute or two to setup and I haven't had to touch it in 3 or 4 formats and it even happily let me switch from windows to dual booting linux with grub. I'm not even sure if I had to touch it when I swapped the drive to a SX8200 Pro 1tb from a SM951 128gb. I think my trick for reformatting was just to plug the flash drive into my usb3 pci-e card/front panel.

https://www.win-raid.com/t3286f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-for-systems-with-legacy-BIOS-and-UEFI-board-DUET-REFIND.html

 

950 Pro's aren't worth the money they demand anymore and SM951's have two different part numbers, one of which is supposed to denote if it's ahci or not. Except, that's a lie and the part number that includes all of the ahci bootable drives also includes plenty of standard drives. You have to visually identify the components on the board at the pci-e slot end to confirm it's actually an ahci legacy bootable drive. 128gb drives are pretty slow anyways, works great in my server though.

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9 hours ago, Slayer3032 said:

They work just like a standard drive in an OS. If you're just looking for some more storage with nvme drives about the same price as sata I'd definitely recommend it regardless of if you want to boot from it.

 

For getting a non-ahci drive to boot, DUET works great for me. Took a minute or two to setup and I haven't had to touch it in 3 or 4 formats and it even happily let me switch from windows to dual booting linux with grub. I'm not even sure if I had to touch it when I swapped the drive to a SX8200 Pro 1tb from a SM951 128gb. I think my trick for reformatting was just to plug the flash drive into my usb3 pci-e card/front panel.

https://www.win-raid.com/t3286f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-for-systems-with-legacy-BIOS-and-UEFI-board-DUET-REFIND.html

 

950 Pro's aren't worth the money they demand anymore and SM951's have two different part numbers, one of which is supposed to denote if it's ahci or not. Except, that's a lie and the part number that includes all of the ahci bootable drives also includes plenty of standard drives. You have to visually identify the components on the board at the pci-e slot end to confirm it's actually an ahci legacy bootable drive. 128gb drives are pretty slow anyways, works great in my server though.

Ahh nicely, well, I already have a drive, essentially what happened is I ended up with a laptop, got a nice big SSD for it and I'm building a PC back up now, for what I do I can just get away with an older X58 and a 6 core xeon really so I'm tempted to go that way, if I can just pop the drive on an adapter and have it work then that'll be perfect, I dunno if the 660P has the AHCI stuff but we'll see I guess :P

current rig: Xeon W-3175X at 4.7GHz all core 1.25v and 3200MHz cache, EVGA SR3 Dark, 48gb of tridentZ 4133 Cl19 (A0 PCB) running 4000MHz 16 16 16 34 1T, 6900XT aorus master with an EK waterblock, 1440mm custom loop, corsair HX1500i, 2x256gb 7600P raid 0(boot), 6.4tb samsung PMPM1725 for games and general storage, Lian Li V3000 plus (not super duper happy with this in all honesty), main monitor is a 27" koorui 1440p 240hz thing, and then 3 secondary 1920x1200 60hz panels one left one right and one above

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Backup plan: obtained!

 

I ebayed this before finding a ray of hope for the SR2, so I may not end up needing this.....but this is Plan B. Supermicro motherboard for old 4x GPU compute server/workstations! 4gpu at full x16 bandwidth with double slot spacing, no PCIe multiplexers to break IOMMU, LGA1366, plus has an extra three PCIe slots for add in cards, and onboard video + management lan for the hypervisor if needed, plus it doesn't have the SR2's 48GB ram limit. The only real downside is it's even taller than XL-ATX and doesn't have the SR2's overclocking ability. These boards were going for SR2 money not that long ago, but I found a seller with purportedly good ones for a very reasonable amount.

 

 

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Just checked eBay, 15 hyperthreaded cores at 2.5 ghz going for under 20$. I think it’s an e7 4880v2. I’m getting one of those and I’ve lined up a deal on the asrock extreme4, this builds going tin be fun

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2 hours ago, XR6 said:

I might be buying an E5 2620 v3 + generic X99 board + 16GB RAM combo next month. I plan to bios mod it and maybe use it in my main PC at some point.

If I do, I'll post some pictures of it here.

 

 

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Update: IT F-ING WORKS!

 

Got GPU passthrough to work (finally!!) and am tuning and tinkering with the Win10 VM. Next step is to get two simultaneous ones running off the same NF200 bridge to fully check this works, but A) server hasn't shat itself and B) it's actually usable. Performance....kinda blows at the moment, but getting it working is the first step to getting it working speedily. I'm calling that a success for today.

 

So..... @Zando Bob how 'bout dem waterblocks yo

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so so i found an evga SR2 for 300 quid, it's really tempting 

current rig: Xeon W-3175X at 4.7GHz all core 1.25v and 3200MHz cache, EVGA SR3 Dark, 48gb of tridentZ 4133 Cl19 (A0 PCB) running 4000MHz 16 16 16 34 1T, 6900XT aorus master with an EK waterblock, 1440mm custom loop, corsair HX1500i, 2x256gb 7600P raid 0(boot), 6.4tb samsung PMPM1725 for games and general storage, Lian Li V3000 plus (not super duper happy with this in all honesty), main monitor is a 27" koorui 1440p 240hz thing, and then 3 secondary 1920x1200 60hz panels one left one right and one above

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8 minutes ago, the pudding said:

so so i found an evga SR2 for 300 quid, it's really tempting 

Make sure it boots and has no issues, like pcie lanes not showing up or a cpu socket wont work

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35 minutes ago, T3DDY14 said:

Make sure it boots and has no issues, like pcie lanes not showing up or a cpu socket wont work

Yeah the listing says it's all working and it'd be covered by paypal if not anyways so should be golden, lotta money to drop on an old board mind you even if it is rare 

current rig: Xeon W-3175X at 4.7GHz all core 1.25v and 3200MHz cache, EVGA SR3 Dark, 48gb of tridentZ 4133 Cl19 (A0 PCB) running 4000MHz 16 16 16 34 1T, 6900XT aorus master with an EK waterblock, 1440mm custom loop, corsair HX1500i, 2x256gb 7600P raid 0(boot), 6.4tb samsung PMPM1725 for games and general storage, Lian Li V3000 plus (not super duper happy with this in all honesty), main monitor is a 27" koorui 1440p 240hz thing, and then 3 secondary 1920x1200 60hz panels one left one right and one above

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1 minute ago, the pudding said:

Yeah the listing says it's all working and it'd be covered by paypal if not anyways so should be golden, lotta money to drop on an old board mind you even if it is rare 

300 isnt bad for that board, i paid between 200-500 for my ones, and did just see one go for £2k in germany

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I saw a deal for sr2 with dual 5690s and 24gb ram, 300$. Unfortunately I didn get it😢

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I ended up stepping away from that SR2 deal didn't sit right with me, seller wouldn't tell me anything about the board and was very eager to make a sale, seemed a bit fishy, ended up grabbing an old alienware aurora R1 with an i7 920, 24gb ram, 256gb ssd, a 1tb hdd and a gtx 570 for £150 shipped and a W3690 for £60, going to throw a 1660 super at it (need the nvenc for stream stuff otherwise I'd have just gotten an r9 390 or something, I'm aware that the amd cards have an encoder too but it's not very good in my finding) 

current rig: Xeon W-3175X at 4.7GHz all core 1.25v and 3200MHz cache, EVGA SR3 Dark, 48gb of tridentZ 4133 Cl19 (A0 PCB) running 4000MHz 16 16 16 34 1T, 6900XT aorus master with an EK waterblock, 1440mm custom loop, corsair HX1500i, 2x256gb 7600P raid 0(boot), 6.4tb samsung PMPM1725 for games and general storage, Lian Li V3000 plus (not super duper happy with this in all honesty), main monitor is a 27" koorui 1440p 240hz thing, and then 3 secondary 1920x1200 60hz panels one left one right and one above

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Hey guys! I thought I would show off my x58 build. Currently using this as my daily in place of my z97 build and I absolutely love it. Currently waiting for my 2 3TB SAS drives to come in so I can run a RAID array of some kind and for 2 more 8g sticks of ram to come in to flush out the 6 DIMMs on this board. 

 

I absolutely love this board and this platform. 7 PCIe 2.x slots... SEVEN! Let me know if you want any pictures of the actual build.

 

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Ooo, P6T7 WS Supercomputer!

 

I saw one of those for sale locally a while back and almost bought it but decided against it as I was just getting my 4.5ghz overclock stable and figured spending that might make my system slower instead, giving up a little performance in games for the NF200 didn't seem like a good choice for me.

 

Pictures are definitely always needed.

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On 8/4/2020 at 2:27 PM, Slayer3032 said:

Pictures are definitely always needed.

Ask and you shall receive. Sorry, I have never been one big on aesthetics. I had this motherboard in a older Cooler Master Mystique 631 case, but was far too snug of a fit for me to feel comfortable with it. I ended up this morning actually putting it in my used and abused Cooler Master Glite case that I've had since my first build. Still waiting on my SAS adapters to plug in these two 3tb SAS drives I bought for dirt cheap and two more sticks of 8G ddr3 memory to flush this out to a cool 48G of ram. 

 

I love this build. I still have a few things to add to it before I am really happy with it. Very surprising how well x58 still holds up today.

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Very nice! I had never heard of that board. Are you using 8G dimms?

 

I'm.....not a fan of the nf200s on my SR-2 for reasons, but X58 era stuff is still surprisingly potent!

 

I'm watching ebay for a good price on x5690s and 8/16G sticks. Havent pulled the trigger yet.

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48 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

Very nice! I had never heard of that board. Are you using 8G dimms?

 

I'm.....not a fan of the nf200s on my SR-2 for reasons, but X58 era stuff is still surprisingly potent!

 

I'm watching ebay for a good price on x5690s and 8/16G sticks. Havent pulled the trigger yet.

Yup! 8g dimms (KHX1866C10D3/8G I believe.) I have been wanting SOME dual socket lga1366 board to pop on my radar. A sr-2 would be very ideal but I've been looking at this Gigabyte board but it still feels too expensive for what it is. 

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Just got a very good deal on an Intel S5520SC for a dual x5690 build, looks to be an old workstation board. It's not normal ATX (SSI EEB) but I don't think it's that much of an issue. Excited for this thing to come through.

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