Scrapyard build

[raxbg]

Hi,

 

I am looking forward to my first PC build and I would like to go with something cheap, suitable to get my hands on building a PC, overclocking and overall tinkering with the system. At a later point I will upgrade to modern age hardware. For now I plan to do some light to modest gaming on this first build. I found an old Xeon x5650 for around $100 and also DELL PRECISION T3500 with 12 gigs of ram for ~$240. I plan to put the x5650 in there, overclock it to 37-4.0 GHz, replace the PSU with Seasonic M12II-750 and throw in an rx480. I know the mobo only has PCI-E 2.0 and the rx480 is generally meant to be used on 3.0 slots, but it looks like a big part of the internet says that the performance difference in gaming is not that big between 3.0 and 2.0. I only play WoW anyways (I might try some other games as well now :D). Do you think this will work, what will I be giving up and what should I expect from this system? I plan to re-use the PSU and the graphics card in my next build.

 

Note: One thing that worries me is that I have no idea whether the mobo that comes with the T3500 supports overclocking, so if anybody knows, pls share.

 

Thanks

[phongle123]

12 minutes ago, raxbg said:

I found an old Xeon x5650 for around $100 and also DELL PRECISION T3500 with 12 gigs of ram for ~$240

If you already bought this for 100$ then you got ripped off, they are selling on eBay for 35$

And if you're going used I might as well find the cheapest one I can find on eBay for the DELL PRECISION T3500 with 12 gigs of ram which is 89.99$ buy it now on eBay means you can get it for even lower for the auction ones.

If you've already bought it you got ripped off.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T3500-Intel-Core-Xeon-w3503-2-4GHz-12GB-DDR3-500GB-/311779247604?hash=item48977dc5f4:g:9HMAAOSwUKxYeDHI

 

Also if you want to buy a used overclockable Xeon server board it's going to cost you at least 100$. Same price as if you bought a compatible used x99 motherboard to use the Xeon in.

[Vegetable]

I can almost guarantee any Dell prebuilt's motherboard WILL NOT support overclocking at all.

[Bananasplit_00]

omg why did you pay $100 for that CPU.... why?????? its not worth even close to that... atleast the motherboard should support the chip but i doubt you will get much of an overclock because of the VRMs and BIOS limitations. other then that i guess this is an OK plan but i would rather have gone with an X58 8 core and a decent motherboard, sonme cheap ECC RAM and then go from there. this IS x58 but there is no value in that prebuilt for $240 nor that CPU for $100. if you have already paid for all this then fine, go ahead, atleast the rest of your plan was decent

[jools]

no overclocking on dells mobos. those x5650 are good OCers and will install on an x58 mobo. and ur right about pcie 2 vs 3 bandwidth use (it is not over used or choked)....

 

go x58 mobo for OC ability

[raxbg]

Lol guys, I have not bought any of the parts yet, chill out  Thanks for the replies! I am from Bulgaria and the prices here are always higher, because of a lot of taxes. I will however look for a better deal on the processor and then I will try to find the mobo and rest of the parts individually, because it looks like I will be replacing most of the parts in the pre-build DELL anyways. It seems like it is not worth it buying it at all.

 

One thing I am concerned though is the PSU. Since I will probably want to water cool the system at some point, is 750W going to be enough?

 

Also, for the initial build I think I will have to find another cooler, because I doubt the default cooler for the x5650 will be ok if I OC to 4GHz, right?