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Hey I just have an ssd question. So I have a GA-X58-USB3 Mobo and the issue is that it only has sata 2. so I was wondering if there was some pcie card you guys could recommend? I have a Kingston 240gb a400 ssd. Im looking for a solution like this https://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html and was wondering if anyone had a similar issue and a solution that worked for them.

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CPU: R7 5800x (PBO undervolted)

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1 hour ago, Terabyte_272 said:

Hey I just have an ssd question. So I have a GA-X58-USB3 Mobo and the issue is that it only has sata 2. so I was wondering if there was some pcie card you guys could recommend? I have a Kingston 240gb a400 ssd. Im looking for a solution like this https://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html and was wondering if anyone had a similar issue and a solution that worked for them.

Why not just use SATA 2? I've never had issues using SATA 2 for my SSD boot drive, not really noticeable slower than SATA 3 in my experience. As far as booting from SSDs on PCIe cards, IDK. I know people can get 950 Evo/Pros to boot on a PCIe add in card, but those are NVMe drives, not a standard SATA. 

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3 hours ago, Terabyte_272 said:

Hey I just have an ssd question. So I have a GA-X58-USB3 Mobo and the issue is that it only has sata 2. so I was wondering if there was some pcie card you guys could recommend? I have a Kingston 240gb a400 ssd. Im looking for a solution like this https://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html and was wondering if anyone had a similar issue and a solution that worked for them.

It is all a bit pointless, the only ssd works out of the box without any problems is 950pro. It gets you a good performance boost compare to sata2 ssd, but it does not worth it. X58 is a great platform but it is old. It does not really worth it.

I managed to get all modern stuff running on my p6t (usb3, nvme drive, almost got a 1gbit nic) but was it worth it? NO!!! Do not waste your money on something that might shave off a couple seconds on boot time. 

I’m switching to z170+8700k and it is much better.

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1 minute ago, MaratM said:

It is all a bit pointless, the only ssd works out of the box without any problems is 950pro. It gets you a good performance boost compare to sata2 ssd, but it does not worth it. X58 is a great platform but it is old. It does not really worth it.

I managed to get all modern stuff running on my p6t (usb3, nvme drive, almost got a 1gbit nic) but was it worth it? NO!!! Do not waste your money on something that might shave off a couple seconds on boot time. 

I’m switching to z170+8700k and it is much better.

For some people it's worth it to just push a platform as far as it can possibly go, but if you're looking for value, a standard SATA SSD on SATA 2 is fine. 

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4 hours ago, Terabyte_272 said:

Hey I just have an ssd question. So I have a GA-X58-USB3 Mobo and the issue is that it only has sata 2. so I was wondering if there was some pcie card you guys could recommend? I have a Kingston 240gb a400 ssd. Im looking for a solution like this https://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html and was wondering if anyone had a similar issue and a solution that worked for them.

The fastest solution that will work on X58 is as others already has pointed out. Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD (there is no EVO model of this one), thanks to its build in legacy mode or OPT-rom it can boot on X58 motherboards. Al throw a few x58 boards seems to have trouble using this SSD properly. But my Asus motherboard and my Samsung 950 PRO 256 GB has worked flawless for over 2 years now.

 

Is it worfh it or not. It depends on the use. For OS drive and/or heavy load like video converting, yes i will say its worfh it, i enjoy so much to have this SSD, for game load and others things stick to a sata SSD cause there NVMe will not really benefit you there.

 

For some speed comparison is here the SSD i have i my System testet on sata 2 and 3 + real sata 3 from my laptop and samsung 950 PRO.

 

This is my Crucial MX300 275 GB sata SSD on sata 2 to the left (ignore the right one, that is just two WD velociraptor HDD i had in raid 0 to a comparison).

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This is the same SSD on onboard sata 3 that is pretty crappy because of the marwell controller.

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True sata 3 testet on my laptop

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And now to the Samsung 950 PRO 256 GB SSD

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two video´s of bios, boot and shutdown with Samsung 950 PRO on my own system. The second video shows a boot after i optimized the system for NVMe boot.

 

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You can also use DUET, took me about 2-3 minutes to setup with the GUI program and boots from a flash drive into a UEFI shell so any NVMe drive is bootable. I think it was just about 10 mins between setting up DUET and setting up windows, definitely took longer just to make the windows install usb. It does add a little bit to boot times but at most it added 1-2 seconds for me over my aging Intel 535 solid state since windows boot times have been increasing ever since 10's RTM.

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

 

DUET doesn't work on every system/motherboard/setup but it was pretty much built on/for X58 Hackintosh setups so it should definitely work for you on X58.

 

I ended up buying an AHCI part number SM951 that isn't actually an AHCI drive so if you get down the rabbit hole of looking for a cheap MZ-HPV SM951 over a 950 Pro, make sure to visually confirm it is actually an AHCI bootable drive.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9396/samsung-sm951-nvme-256gb-pcie-ssd-review

 

I regret that I fussed so much over trying to find a directly bootable drive, DUET works really well on X58 and opens you up to higher quality drives like those 1TB SM961's that are going for 149.99 on Newegg, PM981's, or even those cheap 660p's for some decent games storage, ect. In the case of generic non-bootable storage you don't need to do anything more than buy the cheapest adapter you can find to plug it in.

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Have you guys seen this video?

 

 

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On 4/30/2019 at 7:17 AM, r2724r16 said:

How much for the board (including shipping to Canada)?

Not sure about Canada. Let me check, just been very busy.

 

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1 hour ago, Xa3phod said:

Anyone ever build a Hackentosh on an X58?

Most were for the longest time since the Mac Pro was built on the workstation chipset and X58 was a good value. I'd probably just try to find a Mac Pro since they're really awesome looking hardware. The dual cpu trays are pretty expensive though so if you can find one that comes with it you can try to delid better cpus for it since Apple used delidded cpus to fit smaller heatsinks.

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1 minute ago, Slayer3032 said:

I'd probably just try to find a Mac Pro since they're really awesome looking hardware.

The cases, you mean?

 

Those are super sexy. I'm modding a Powermac G5 currently to support ATX hardware, at which point I shall then throw in X99.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

The cases, you mean?

 

Those are super sexy. I'm modding a Powermac G5 currently to support ATX hardware, at which point I shall then throw in X99.

Yeah but the Mac Pro that used LGA1366 is just laid out beautifully.

 

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The CPUs and ram sit on their own little fancy tray and slot in and out of the case while everything else is all neatly contained with aluminum absolutely plastered everywhere. The LGA771 machines are probably cheaper and more common but DDR2 stuff just isn't as good as LGA1366.

 

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1 minute ago, Slayer3032 said:

Yeah but the Mac Pro that used LGA1366 is just laid out beautifully.

 

The CPUs and ram sit on their own little fancy tray and slot in and out of the case while everything else is all neatly contained with aluminum absolutely plastered everywhere. The LGA771 machines are probably cheaper and more common but DDR2 stuff just isn't as good as LGA1366.

That is true.

 

I would love to have an X58 Mac Pro at some point, gonna add that to my bucket list...

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25 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Anybody able to help out our friend here?

 

 

30£ for a working X58 board? Asking for a Christmas miracle in May is a bit early isn't it? ?

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I just tried 22x200 4.4GHz on my X5670 and I got a pretty good (I think) score on Cinebench R20. Cinebench R15 score (1011cb) was identical to what I got with 24x185 4.44GHz.

 

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PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

PC 3: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 16GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus GTX 760 DC2 OC, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

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General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

Some other PC's:

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PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

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I realized I can do screen captures with my Atomos Ninja V, so I thought I'd try it out and show off my X5460 and GTX 780Ti trading blows in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

 

 

 

In villages with a lot of NPCs, framerates will drop to 20-30, strangely without CPU or GPU reaching 100%. Something else going on there.

In areas with actual gameplay, fps keeps between 40-70 for the most part, and it's a quite enjoyable experience :)

 

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Hi everyone.

Sometime soon I'll be upgrading from my i5 4460 to an X58 Xeon (I'll probably be using an X5680 + Asus P6X58D-E).

Before I upgrade I have a couple of questions to ask:

1. Will ECC RAM work or do I have to buy non-ECC RAM?

2. Do X58 Xeons have any compatibility issues with Linux?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance :) 

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Honestly, I wouldn’t be buying into this platform anymore. A cheap ryzen system can be had for about the same price since ram dropped massively in price and is gonna be much faster. @XR6

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1 hour ago, XR6 said:

Hi everyone.

Sometime soon I'll be upgrading from my i5 4460 to an X58 Xeon (I'll probably be using an X5680 + Asus P6X58D-E).

Before I upgrade I have a couple of questions to ask:

1. Will ECC RAM work or do I have to buy non-ECC RAM?

 2. Do X58 Xeons have any compatibility issues with Linux?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance :) 

1. Normal non-registered ECC does work just fine, but ECC REG doesn't work. I have 4x 4GB Corsair XMS3 1600MHz and 2x 4GB Kingston ECC 1333MHz (OC'd to 1600MHz) mixed and I've never had problems with them.

2. No. I've never had any problems running Linux on X58 systems.

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Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

Some other PC's:

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PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

 

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12 hours ago, Ground said:

Honestly, I wouldn’t be buying into this platform anymore. A cheap ryzen system can be had for about the same price since ram dropped massively in price and is gonna be much faster. @XR6

^^^ Ryzen does have a hella lot of value now with said lower RAM prices. X58 is still good if you score a great deal on a CPU + mobo or are just an OC enthusiast, AFAIK X58 is the last chipset to OC the way it does while still being able to do most modern stuff. Lacks AVX and such tho IIRC so it may have problems in some of the newest titles and benches. 

 

11 hours ago, Pasi123 said:

1. Normal non-registered ECC does work just fine, but ECC REG doesn't work. I have 4x 4GB Corsair XMS3 1600MHz and 2x 4GB Kingston ECC 1333MHz (OC'd to 1600MHz) mixed and I've never had problems with them.

2. No. I've never had any problems running Linux on X58 systems.

^ Registered ECC works with Xeons on a server mobo, on X58 chipset mobos (and I think the SR-2, even though it's 5520) you have to have unregistered for it to work at all. 

Intel HEDT and Server platform enthusiasts: Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Megathread 

 

Main PC 

CPU: i9 7980XE @4.5GHz/1.22v/-2 AVX offset 

Cooler: EKWB Supremacy Block - custom loop w/360mm +280mm rads 

Motherboard: EVGA X299 Dark 

RAM:4x8GB HyperX Predator DDR4 @3200Mhz CL16 

GPU: Nvidia FE 2060 Super/Corsair HydroX 2070 FE block 

Storage:  1TB MP34 + 1TB 970 Evo + 500GB Atom30 + 250GB 960 Evo 

Optical Drives: LG WH14NS40 

PSU: EVGA 1600W T2 

Case & Fans: Corsair 750D Airflow - 3x Noctua iPPC NF-F12 + 4x Noctua iPPC NF-A14 PWM 

OS: Windows 11

 

Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel)

Mouse: EVGA X17

Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB

 

Mobile/Work Devices: 2020 M1 MacBook Air (work computer) - iPhone 13 Pro Max - Apple Watch S3

 

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12 hours ago, Ground said:

Honestly, I wouldn’t be buying into this platform anymore. A cheap ryzen system can be had for about the same price since ram dropped massively in price and is gonna be much faster. @XR6

I would go for Ryzen but it's just too expensive for me. I can get an X5680 + Asus P6X58D-E for £140 whereas a Ryzen 5 would cost at least £150 by itself, if not more.

If I could afford it I would build a Ryzen system instead, but it's just out of my budget right now. 

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Anyone else running W3680 OC to around 4.5ghz? Voltage at 1.368 according to CPU-Z. Load temps are touching 80C, though idle is sitting somewhere between 40 and 50. Do I have anything to worry about? Heck, is there even any point in trying to push the clock higher?

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5 hours ago, trattgunnar said:

Anyone else running W3680 OC to around 4.5ghz? Voltage at 1.368 according to CPU-Z. Load temps are touching 80C, though idle is sitting somewhere between 40 and 50. Do I have anything to worry about? Heck, is there even any point in trying to push the clock higher?

80 C. You shut deffently stop there then. Al throw these CPU´s can handle up to 1.4 volts. Intel CPU´s shut not be running above 80 C and if possible for 24/7 max load over long periodes of time 75 C is to prefer.

 

My own i7 980X oc to 4.4 Ghz at 1.42 volts hitting the high 70C like 76-78C on the hottest core, so i desided to stop at that point. As you can see in the screenshot. if your CPU is around these temp, you shut stop overclock higher or get better cooling first before going higher.

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