Ultra Budget Build no case free psu

[beggar69]

Xeon 1680V2 4.4ghz@1.35v(shit bin) BCLK set to 125 strap 

GTX 980ti @1455mhz stock voltage

8x4gb DDR3 2666 cl 12-15-15-18@1.78v VCCSA 1.185 

ASUS P9X79 LE 

Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 420mm 

Corsair HX850 

No case because case cost money 

Scavenged PSU for free, ALF was used on eBay for 70$ RAM 30$ CPU 50$ Mobo 80$ GPU 100$

I am GPU bound in most games even CS2 at stretched res low settings 250-300fps.  
Setting BCLK to 125 and overclocking the cache really does make a preformance difference, combined with the ultra fast quad channel ddr3, gets 80gb/s in Aida. 
Would not recommend buying x79 unless you can really find it cheaper than x99, at this point though, x99 is cheap and you can run ddr4 with a i7 5960x for around the same price and same core count, Haswell also gives AVX2 support. 

 

[BiotechBen]

1 hour ago, beggar69 said:

Xeon 1680V2 4.4ghz@1.35v(shit bin) BCLK set to 125 strap 

GTX 980ti @1455mhz stock voltage

8x4gb DDR3 2666 cl 12-15-15-18@1.78v VCCSA 1.185 

ASUS P9X79 LE 

Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 420mm 

Corsair HX850 

No case because case cost money 

Scavenged PSU for free, ALF was used on eBay for 70$ RAM 30$ CPU 50$ Mobo 80$ GPU 100$

I am GPU bound in most games even CS2 at stretched res low settings 250-300fps.  
Setting BCLK to 125 and overclocking the cache really does make a preformance difference, combined with the ultra fast quad channel ddr3, gets 80gb/s in Aida. 
Would not recommend buying x79 unless you can really find it cheaper than x99, at this point though, x99 is cheap and you can run ddr4 with a i7 5960x for around the same price and same core count, Haswell also gives AVX2 support. 

 

What ended up being the final cost of the build?

[beggar69]

2 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

What ended up being the final cost of the build?

422$ if you include the cost of the 500gb used ssd and the 2tb usb 3.0 wd external hdd

The 980ti holds up better than you would expect when overclocked; but soon nvidia is going to drop the hammer on driver support a shame since it's managing to beat a 1070 in timespy. 

I already had the p9x79le, but before I had the locked e5-2xxx. The 1680v2 seriously can push more fps than you would expect out of a decade old cpu. 

Since it has a massive cache, it'll beat zen and zen+ chips handily. 

Sad I got shit bin, I'm going to do some LN2 overclocking on this build eventually, I have a 13600KF and RTX 3080 build. 

I just built this system to get into overclocking and if i blow it up it isn't much i'm losing. 

I specifically bought hynix AFR 1R DDR3 as from what I read online and my own results it manages to push high frequency while still being cheap. 

I did get lucky that my memory controller in the 1680v2 wasn't that bad though and could push 2666.