upgrade The adventure of transforming a Dell Optiplex 7020 into a midrange gaming rig

[CypherQc]

[Beowulff83]

Awesome, considering that new 1070Ti's go for your total build price. .  . But where are the benchmarks?? ?

[CypherQc]

8 minutes ago, Beowulff83 said:

Awesome, considering that new 1070Ti's go for your total build price. .  . But where are the benchmarks?? ?

Oh sorry forgot about that. Only did Unigine benchmark at the time :

Unigine Superposition, 4K setting - 6028 score
Unigine Superposition, Extreme setting -1996 score

 

It was pretty neat. I can ask him to run more if you want, but it may take some time as his parents are currently divorcing, and he has shit to go through

 

[TheSLSAMG]

Nice deal hunting. The i5-5675C is kind of an oddball CPU (as well as the i7-5775C and i5-5675R), I'd love to get my hands on one someday. Intel only made them for a short period of time between Haswell and Skylake. They were Intel's first 14nm consumer CPUs, they weren't great overclockers and they were expensive. The iGPUs on them are solid though (for Intel) due in part to Intel's use of eDRAM on the CPU package.

[CypherQc]

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[Dissitesuxba11s]

19 minutes ago, Kodiac said:

all for 458.52 $

CAD or USD?

[CypherQc]

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[TheSLSAMG]

Just now, Kodiac said:

It,s pretty close to a Intel® Core™ i5-4690K Processor if you ask me.

Yeah, it was an incremental improvement (like pretty much everything that Intel has done in the past 5 years).

[Dissitesuxba11s]

2 minutes ago, Kodiac said:

CAD, but I found most of the stuff.

Man, your friend is lucky, that is a steal for that level of performance.

[CypherQc]

2 minutes ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Man, your friend is lucky, that is a steal for that level of performance.

Ikr, but I know a place that sells similar optiplex parts (4rth gen cpu) for 300$, so I essentially just saved 300$.

[Droidbot]

2 hours ago, TheSLSAMG said:

Nice deal hunting. The i5-5675C is kind of an oddball CPU (as well as the i7-5775C and i5-5675R), I'd love to get my hands on one someday. Intel only made them for a short period of time between Haswell and Skylake. They were Intel's first 14nm consumer CPUs, they weren't great overclockers and they were expensive. The iGPUs on them are solid though (for Intel) due in part to Intel's use of eDRAM on the CPU package.

The eDRAM / irisPro idea was actually implemented onto Haswell core as Crystalwell, but then transitioned to a 14nm node as Broadwell.

 

22nm Crystalwell works fine on Haswell PCH (8/9series), as long as it is soldered down to a BGA to LGA interposer - @Herman Mcpootis owns one.

[Herman Mcpootis]

1 hour ago, Droidbot said:

The eDRAM / irisPro idea was actually implemented onto Haswell core as Crystalwell, but then transitioned to a 14nm node as Broadwell.

 

22nm Crystalwell works fine on Haswell PCH (8/9series), as long as it is soldered down to a BGA to LGA interposer - @Herman Mcpootis owns one.

there's a catch, seller claims gigabyte boards don't play nice with crystalwell cpus

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

there's a catch, seller claims gigabyte boards don't play nice with crystalwell cpus

gigabyte UEFI is a fucking mess, this doesn't surprise me. they use cpu whitelists and check for BIOS modifications as well.

 

reminds me a lot of dell/hp business uefi, not consumer shite.

[TheSLSAMG]

7 hours ago, Droidbot said:

The eDRAM / irisPro idea was actually implemented onto Haswell core as Crystalwell, but then transitioned to a 14nm node as Broadwell.

 

22nm Crystalwell works fine on Haswell PCH (8/9series), as long as it is soldered down to a BGA to LGA interposer - @Herman Mcpootis owns one.

I've seen those, chips like the i7 4980HQ. Those are way more reasonably priced, maybe I'll have to pick one up at some point.