The upgrade path

[MaratM]

Here is an idea:

problem numero uno: looks like old xeon in my x58 rig (link in signature) is degrading, bluescreening for no reason what so ever, freezes, and in order to have it stable I had to downclock it back to stock 3.3 gHz. Just loaded bios default values, not even RAM XMP. I can always get another one from aliexpress or ebay, but there is no chalenge!!!

Problem numero 2:

As the x58 mobo and xeon have to go I have 48gb of ddr3 memomory.

There 2 ways to solve these problems. I can either go with x79 way and get a 1650 xeon And use 32gb of ram, but the x79 bards cost an arm and a leg. OR I can get z170 board with ddr3 support (there were few made by asus, asrock and gigabyte) and by the magic of internet get it paired with i5 8600k (8700k is a bit too expensive and the vrm on this boards does not look very promising)

Looks like i’ll go the hard way)))

does anyone have any experience with pairing skylake mobo with coffee lake cpu

[komar]

Ehm idk about the number 2 problem, but I can almost guarantee you, that it's the motherboard failing and not the CPU - the VRMs to be exact.

[MaratM]

14 minutes ago, komar said:

Ehm idk about the number 2 problem, but I can almost guarantee you, that it's the motherboard failing and not the CPU - the VRMs to be exact.

The vrm is under water and it is cool all the time, or you might be right the mobo is 10 years old