[Buildlog] X58 Bang for the Buck*

[HeimscheiSSer]

Greetings,

 

I wanted to share my recent X58 Build. The main goal was to get the best perfomance as possible for my bucks. 
 

**Just to mention it,I live in Germany and Used PC stuff is mostly expensive here**

 

So Lets start.

The first contact with the X58 plaform was last year when I purchased a Dell Precision T3500 with a Quadcore Xeon (W3530) This was the time I noticed, Holy S**t this thing flies ! 
I used it till last month, where I decided its time to move on and Build an X58 system for the Best bang for the buck.
 

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As a base I used the GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 Revision.1

 

 

Now I needed a Processor, I shot this Xeon W3670 on Ebay for 10€

 

 

 

The stock clock speed is 3.20 GHz on Six Cores! I needed a good cooler for this to keep it cool,but I tought the stock cooler will do the job too? NO! The stock one didnt even fit on the board,so I needed to buy a new one. Since I am on a budget i was searching for second hand LGA 1366 coolers but found nothing, So I choosed the

 

Cooler Master MasterAir MA410P Which cost me 50€

 

 

 

Okay ! I had the Mainboard,The Processor and the cooler....now I needed some RAM,Storage Drives,a Graphics Card,Power Supply and a Case....So I asked my friend ebay if he has something for me,and you bet he did !

 

I went with the ASUS Rog Strixx GTX960 4GB as my Graphics which I got on a ebay auction for 100€

 

 

Now I needed some RAM. I wasnt quite sure if this board does support ECC memory (because its cheap),on the forums I found only negative answers. I took the Risk and bought 16gb Registered ECC memory for 20€.

I put it on the motherboard,tested it and...It works!  Still I dont have the ECC support but I dont need it anyways. 

 

To power everything I went with a Cooler Master Masterwatt lite 500W Power Supply,Which I bought New (sadly) for 50€ 

 

with the Sotrage I went with an Intel SSD 240GB, and with a Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm Mechanical Drive /

 

The SSD cost me 40€

 

And the HDD From Seagate, 60€ for 2TB of Space

 

 

Finally I needed a case,and since I went out of time I bought a new one for 30€ on ebay,It was cheap,really cheap..the quality was...yeah,no that good.

 

 

I have not ran any benchmarks or similar since I had no time. But I will do it tomorrow and update the thread. 
 

I planned to Overclock the Xeon,and since I never overclocked anything I need help,so if anyone knows how its done on this Motherboard let me know in the comments

Do you have any recommendations on this build ? maybe to change components and so on ? 
I would love to hear your toughts on this build! 

 

[MarcoYES]

That looks like a Tech YES build.

[HeimscheiSSer]

4 hours ago, Marco925 said:

That looks like a Tech YES build.

sooo,is this good ?

[Ashleyyyy]

that looks damn good for the price. 

[Ashleyyyy]

i was wondering though, what did you pay for the mobo?

[Xplo1t]

Not a bad price.  My X58 build was probably $2k back in the day including the wondering OCZ 128GB SSD.  Still have it sitting in the closet.  Hate throwing computer parts away but haven't found a way to get rid of it otherwise.

[HeimscheiSSer]

14 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

i was wondering though, what did you pay for the mobo?

60€ the seller wanted 135€ but somehow he accepted my price offer haha 

[HeimscheiSSer]

12 hours ago, Xplo1t said:

Not a bad price.  My X58 build was probably $2k back in the day including the wondering OCZ 128GB SSD.  Still have it sitting in the closet.  Hate throwing computer parts away but haven't found a way to get rid of it otherwise.

Thanks,  I did my best to keep it down with the money.  Still I think I could have done a better job if I had more time.  Because the power supply is new, the cooler and the case.  If I bought them second hand this would probably me 50€ more in my pocket ^^ 

[Cocco93]

Replace the stock thermal compound on the northbridge and the UD5 will fly away! It is a fantastic overclocking Motherboard for X58 Xeons. I had 2 Xeon X5660s and both went to 4.6Ghz no prob on this very same board! Enjoy your journey

[HeimscheiSSer]

On 11/27/2018 at 9:03 PM, Cocco93 said:

Replace the stock thermal compound on the northbridge and the UD5 will fly away! It is a fantastic overclocking Motherboard for X58 Xeons. I had 2 Xeon X5660s and both went to 4.6Ghz no prob on this very same board! Enjoy your journey

Can you help me with overclocking? I never did it on a legacy bios haha