should i do the xeon mod?

[glitchmaster0001]

Hi so today on craigslist i got a free computer and when i brought it home and opened the side panel i was surprised to see a high end p45 LGA 775 motherboard, high end radeon GPU of its time, high tier PSU, good CPU cooler, and 4gb of high speed DDR2 memory. so now the only thing missing is the HDD which i have plenty of. so my question now is should i buy a cheap X5460 Xeon and do the Xeon mod on this board? ive done the mod once and it worked this is a high end board so i should be able to get really high overclocks with the xeon cpu. plus the whole point of this is so i can sell the PC back at a higher profit like maybe $200 or $300. the only thing i have to pay for is the Xeon cpu. i already have the mod stickers so should i do the mod? 

[shadowbyte]

if you already have the stickers and experience, go for it

20 dollars is a great deal for a CPU that will waaaay outperform the top-end Q-series chip

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

if you already have the stickers and experience, go for it

20 dollars is a great deal for a CPU that will waaaay outperform the top-end Q-series chip

how much do you think i would get for the computer if i were to sell it pre done with the xeon mod? 

[shadowbyte]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

how much do you think i would get for the computer if i were to sell it pre done with the xeon mod? 

specs?

[glitchmaster0001]

3 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

specs?

of the final product or before? 

[shadowbyte]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

of the final product or before? 

before please

[AMICLG]

Here's a great write up on the Xeon mod and what chips your box should support. http://www.delidded.com/lga-771-to-775-adapter/2/

 

The LGA 771 Quad Xeons are much cheaper than the LGA 775 Quads.

 

So I say go for it. Usually the Xeons overclock better as well.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

before please

CPU: Intel Q9300

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA EP45-UD3R

RAM: 4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5

Case: some old antec full tower back in 2008

PSU: Antec Neo 500W

Cooling: some all copper zalman cooler 

 

 

 

[shadowbyte]

4 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

CPU: Intel Q9300

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA EP45-UD3R

RAM: 4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5

Case: some old antec full tower back in 2008

PSU: Antec Neo 500W

Cooling: some all copper zalman cooler 

 

 

 

thanks

 

I'd upgrade it to 8GB of RAM, and maybe the video card (depends on how much you want to spend)

you'll probably get around 250-300 for the lot after the CPU and RAM upgrade

[glitchmaster0001]

13 hours ago, shadowbyte said:

thanks

 

I'd upgrade it to 8GB of RAM, and maybe the video card (depends on how much you want to spend)

you'll probably get around 250-300 for the lot after the CPU and RAM upgrade

so last night i just ordered an X5460 for $24 on ebay and i just cut the 2 socket tabs on the motherboard already this morning. now all thats left is to flash my custom bios i made last night and also to wait for the xeon to ship and put the mod sticker on the back of it. im not going to be upgrading the memory or video card since this is just a project PC and i dont want to sink alot of money into it. maybe ill sell this as a $250 CSGO potato PC. or $300 if i decide to upgrade the memory. 

may i ask how much did you sell your X5460 PC for on this forum? 

[shadowbyte]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

may i ask how much did you sell your X5460 PC for on this forum? 

unfortunately, I haven't

I was looking for around 300 shipped though

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

unfortunately, I haven't

I was looking for around 300 shipped though

try on craigslist. i sold my dual xeon rig there for $400 since it had a memory problem that i couldnt fix. shame though it had on par performance of a 5960X 

[shadowbyte]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

try on craigslist. i sold my dual xeon rig there for $400 since it had a memory problem that i couldnt fix. shame though it had on par performance of a 5960X 

I'll try it

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

I'll try it

what was the specs of that PC and how much did it cost you to build? 

[shadowbyte]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

what was the specs of that PC and how much did it cost you to build? 

X5460

Silverstone TD03-LITE

4GB RAM

Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

Gigabyte GTX 660ti

1TB Seagate Barracuda

Corsair CX500M

Air 240

Windows 7 home premium

 

cost me 320 to build

 

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

X5460

Silverstone TD03-LITE

4GB RAM

Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

Gigabyte GTX 660ti

1TB Seagate Barracuda

Corsair CX500M

Air 240

Windows 7 home premium

 

cost me 320 to build

 

this pc basically costed me $24 to build since all i needed was the CPU 

[glitchmaster0001]

25 minutes ago, Wedsea040 said:

What does the mod entail?

requires physical and firmware modification done to the motherboard and physical modification to the CPU. though the risky part is the physical and firmware mod of the motherboard. physically modding the CPU is quite easy. after 3 things are done and working you can overclock to really high overclocks like 4.0GHz on that xeon and that basically gets you i5 2500 performance for just $20

[agent_x007]

Or you buy already hard moded CPU : LINK, and all that's left is to install predone BIOS for motherboard using old CPU : LINK ("Ctrl + F" serach option reminder ).

[glitchmaster0001]

3 minutes ago, agent_x007 said:

Or you buy already hard moded CPU : LINK, and all that's left is to install predone BIOS for motherboard using old CPU : LINK ("Ctrl + F" serach option reminder ).

wait so all the BIOS in that website are premodded? 

[agent_x007]

Yup.
It's in description (english) : 

Quote

Here are download links to LGA775 motherboard , that i injected  stepping C0 、E0 、G0   771 microcode. 
It can be used for X54xx 、 E54xx 、 L54xx 、X52xx  、L52xx or ...(C0、E0、R0)  or other stepping G0  cpu(E53xx、L53xx、 Xeon 51xx or  ...).

You missed that ?

[SLAYR]

4 minutes ago, agent_x007 said:

Or you buy already hard moded CPU : LINK, and all that's left is to install predone BIOS for motherboard using old CPU : LINK ("Ctrl + F" serach option reminder ).

With a $1 sticker and some sandpaper you can do it for $20.

 

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5450-3-00Ghz-12M-1333-Quad-Core-Processor-SLANQ-/182198919743?nav=SEARCH

 

but have you tried to oc the q9300 first and see how much you can get out of it?

If you can get 3.5-4.0GHz out it then it isn't worth the effort.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, agent_x007 said:

Yup.
It's in description (english) : 

You missed that ?

wow i thought id have to pull an all nighter tonight making the custom bios. damn well i already ordered the Xeon X5460 CPU on ebay for $24 and i have the mod stickers at home already so all thats left to do now is to flash this premodded bios into the motherboard and hope i dont brick it. 

[agent_x007]

6 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

With a $1 sticker and some sandpaper you can do it for $20.

True, BUT I didn't said it was cheaper option.

It's only... more convienient one

[glitchmaster0001]

6 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

With a $1 sticker and some sandpaper you can do it for $20.

 

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5450-3-00Ghz-12M-1333-Quad-Core-Processor-SLANQ-/182198919743?nav=SEARCH

 

but have you tried to oc the q9300 first and see how much you can get out of it?

If you can get 3.5-4.0GHz out it then it isn't worth the effort.

aww shame. i bought the CPU for $24 last night. didnt see that listing... bummer.... well its only $4 and i already have the stickers at home though. i saw the previous owner get 3.2ghz on it before which is not bad but still in the end i am selling this PC for profit and the main selling point of it is the modded motherboard and Xeon in there at 4.0GHz 

[Jonathan Lemmens]

6 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

wow i thought id have to pull an all nighter tonight making the custom bios. damn well i already ordered the Xeon X5460 CPU on ebay for $24 and i have the mod stickers at home already so all thats left to do now is to flash this premodded bios into the motherboard and hope i dont brick it. 

Making a custom BIOS is pretty easy and not at all time consuming, especially for an AMI BIOS. (though I believe your Gigabyte board uses an Award BIOS)

 

I have used modded BOISes from the link agent_x007 mentioned before and I must warn you, I've bricked 2 mobo's with a BIOS from that site, though I updated 3 others successfully. So I would advise to do it yourself if you feel confident about it.

 

Also I would chose to mod the CPU instead of the socket but it doesn't really matter, just my preference.