Making X58 last a bit longer in 2018!!

[andreweddy]

So decided to update my x58 based super pc to 2017, done a few upgrades on stuff that was bugging me

 

So here is the ole case and dust with awesome and well routed cables that i spent a lot of time on

 

 

1 - Antec 1200 case which is loud and about 8 years old now swapped out for a nice Corsair Crystal 570x RGB and a few extra SP120 Fans

2 - Its been De Dusted - aka the cpu cooler was a bit clogged up so a good clean and motherboard cleanse + new thermal paste etc.

3 - a nice new Nvidia GTX 1060 instead of crossfire radeons 5770s and a gtx 950 ive also had in there.

4 - USB 3 been added via pci express add in card.  Its nice to have USB3, even media pc which is an amd 860k, a88x  has usb3 and type c included but x58 is a bit older, but still nice to copy stuff a lot faster to nas from usb hdds

 

5 - I wanted RGB so got some rgb stripes from deepcool and a remote control, so final look I think aint too bad, apart from cable colours on atx 24 pin and pci 6 pin power cables, and the power supply shroud can only hide so many cables, with rgb and other stuff i had quite a few cables to put in down there and they are mostly hidden, but maybe another sorting is required??

 

6 - planned next month is cpu going from i7 920 to a nice xeon x5670. Worth it for only 35 quid. Get a decent IPC upgrade. 45nm vs 32nm, and a few more cores and a decent oc shud be gd.

 

let me know what you think

 

cheers

[NelizMastr]

Nice rig. I've used a 920 @ 4GHz for a while and it was matching my 2008 Mac Pro with dual 4c Xeons at the time which was remarkable. Make sure your BIOS is up to date before putting in the Xeon, though, as Westmere chips aren't typically supported out of the box on older X58 boards.

[andreweddy]

my bios has been the most up to date one for years!!! thanks for the tip tho, and the supported list of cpus for the p6t pro ws contain almost all the x58 cpus i could find, even some obscure xeon ones, but all x5670/x5650s are supported

 

cheers

 

andy

[NelizMastr]

Yep, seems this board takes almost all 1366 chips known to man. Some only take the Xeon W chips, which aren't bad at all either.

[andreweddy]

I shall look at those as well. Cheers for tip

[andreweddy]

cool, might need to get aio, coolermaster 240 is pretty cheap and my current air cooler is on the noisy side, although still never go above 50c on 920