I Bought a Used “PCSpecialist" Gaming PC from eBay - What's Inside?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Despite the reasonable price tag this old PC Specialist gaming computer would have probably been quite expensive back when it was built. Today we're taking a look at why...
0:00 Why I Bought This Second-Hand System
1:15 The Specs
4:20 First Boot!
5:46 Gaming Tests...
8:21 How Good is The I7 5820k?
9:09 Adding a Better Graphics Card and Final Thoughts
Thanks for watching :) - Věda a technologie
Another hint to the 710 being stock is that the original break-away brackets are still in the case.
Just came to say this.
Yup. This one most likely one of those professional machines. Maybe for programming, because it has relatively expensive components for 2015 (except the GPU) . Lots of RAM, SSD (which were not cheap) + HDD.
Ah good point
@@RandomGaminginHD Throw an RTX 3060 Ti at it.
@@RandomGaminginHDa lp 6400 or 6600xt or 6650xt would work fine
I bought a used PC Specialist case similar to that for £23 the other day and it came with an LG Blu-Ray drive worth £30 on its own! I used the case to build a budget gaming rig with an FX-8150, 16 GB RAM and a GTX 780 Ti to use for when I go to University.
my entire steam library could be played on ultra with that right on!
An fx processor though...
@@Jasontvnd9 it came free in a motherboard bundle I got for £20 that came with a decent AM3+ board, 8gb ripjaws ram and a CPU cooler
The build also might work well as a backup in case your central heating breaks.
@@MadIIMike yeah the GPU gets up to 83 celcius at full whack but the CPU surprisingly never goes above 50. 125w TDP tho…
I bought a 5820k on launch day, and it's still going strong even though it's been relegated to "guest PC" at this point. These chips overclock like an absolute champ and still have mine running at 4.2GHz even after years of use. Definitely do a follow up video with a quad channel memory setup and a bigger overclock with a decent cooler.
Yes me too. Also HT off helps it out a lot, mine was clocked at 4.2 as well. I unfortunately couldn't get it stable higher.
Great video!!
Same here. The X99 with 5820k @ 4.25ghz is still going strong. Started out at launch with a gtx 970, then 1070, and now a 2070 Super as a VR gamer in my garage. It absolutely eats what ever game i run on it❤ 4 sticks of 8gb 2666 sticks works like a dream.
@@TandooriOtter HT off helps? Off!? DAFUQ?
The X99 platform can also run Xeon 1600/2600 series V3/V4 CPU's. The 1600V3's are all unlocked, with the 1680-V3 (8c/16t) being the best of the V3 series. If you want a lot of cores, the 2699-V4 has 22 cores/44 threads. You can still do minor overclocks with them, using the BCLK, but don't go past 103MHz, or you will encounter PCIe issues, unless your X99 board has a separate clock generator.
The top i7 is the 6950X, which is a 10core/20 thread part.
Memory overclocking can be a bit tricky on the X99, so just be patient, and take your time.
Have a great day! o7
Yeah I have a 6950x clocked at 3.8ghz. 32 gd ram and a rtx 3060ti. I'm not into overclocking I just followed some youtubes but 3.8 has been stable for a couple of years but I would get blue screens if I tried to push it beyond that. My core temp are still very good though at 3.8ghz.
I mostly use my pc for 1080p editing, so it's fine and cuts thorough footage no problem.... even 4K on the rare occasions I shoot 4K.
@@FightCollective you need more volts if ya want to clock it higher. 3.2-3.4 volts will see it stable at 4.5ghz tho it will need a big cooler or large aio.👍
My cousin has a 6950X system that I built for him. I overclocked it to 4GHz and it's cooled by a 360mm AIO. I tested it up to 4.3GHz but it was really loud and hot so I kept it at 4.
@@chriscalderon1337 Yeah, if you really want to keep the temps down for overclocking those HEDT CPU's, you need to run a custom loop. My main rig is the EVGA X79 Dark, with a Xeon E5-1680-V2, clocked at 4.8GHz all core, at 1.335v (I know, I lucked out on that chip!). Silicon lottery is going to play a big part as well. I have two i7-4820K's, one can hit 5.1GHz all core stable, and the other one can't even handle 4.6GHz all core.
Remember, these are high TDP chips, and they make a lot of heat. My 1680-V2 can pull over 340W at the EPS lines.
Hmm, my Gigabyte X99 likes to wildly underestimate CPU power consumption, too. Must have been a trend at the time.
Haha yeah if they were hoping to be the least bit convincing they have failed
@@RandomGaminginHD on the X299 platform there is an option to "hide" the actual cpu power draw and it shows as around 1 to 2w. This helps with overclocking as it doesn't think that it's hitting the cpu power limit and so doesn't throttle. Could be the same for x99?
Good video. I agree with what you said about AM4 typically being a better budget option nowadays, but X99 is definitely more fun to mess around with overclocking and stuff. I recently bought an x99 build myself, and it ended up having the Asus ROG rampage V edition 10, which I'm pretty sure is one of the best boards for that platform. It might be the sexiest motherboard ive ever owned. Also had an i7-5960x, which is still a pretty killer chip today
I have the good old MSI Bumblebee (MSI x99s mpower)
I've been running that with a 980 for years. Great setup. 64GB too. Doesn't feel old compared to other systems.
@@J-1410 I have a 6900k paired with a 1080Ti, it's a killer rig for 1440p high to max on older games, medium to high on super demanding games. That, and it does well if you make videos.
@@SyncF Video production is what I mostly use it for.
My gaming is more so things like BeamNG and Factorio, so it still runs well there. RDR2 also runs well too, if 30+ works for you on medium settings.
I've been looking for a cheap Titan XP but they are still overpriced on the used market in my opinion.
Oh man. Never had X99, but X79 was a blast. I had a 4930k that was close to the best overclocker I ever owned, beat only by my absolute GOLDEN 4790k. Couple that with a rich BIOS-modding scene, and you had a lot of fun. I still remember the moment I got nvme booting.
I feel kind of weird, every single main rig I've owned since 2017 has been X99 based. I own an i7 6800k, a 6900k that's now under a custom loop in my old rig, an Asus X99 A II which has been doing GREAT even though it had downright miserable reviews at launch, and a 10980XE. I remember even back before this, back in 2015 I wanted a 5950x and then a 6950x.
x99 was my first DIY PC
5820k (4.5GHZ oc)
4x8B ddr4 2400mhz
2x250gb 850 evo raid 0
R9 390
was an awesome PC, had it with an 3x1 eyefinity setup (5760x1080)
it currently is my plex server with gtx1650 and 16x4TB hdds
5820k and R9 390 were absolute units at the time
I'm still using my i7 5930k which isn't so dissimilar from this one. I can confirm that it is quite capable in 2023 albeit overclocked to 4GHz if memory serves.
Nice! This one was hitting just under that but I’ll try and push it more with a better cooler
@@RandomGaminginHD Been pushing 4.4Ghz on my 5930k under a H110 for almost 8 years now, can confirm they have overclocking potential.
Another great video love when you fix up these old gaming pieces my favorite videos keep in coming
the gt710 has to be one of the most benchmarked graphic cards ever
As you said at the end, I'd love to see quad channel and faster ram and compare the results.
Awesome video as always
YES. I was hoping one day he would cover these legendary haswell-e chips! Please cover the i7-5960x one day. Such a mind blowing chip. And so fun to tinker with. Also my 5820k and 5960x both report 0.7 watts in Msi afterburner. I haven’t figured out quite yet how to fix it yet.
Definitely interested in seeing the performance difference between dual channel and quad channel on this chip
not much.
This is Intel platform, the move to dual ch to quad ch doesn't gain much, unless memory intensive apps.
It doubles memory bandwidth: with 2666MHz (the sensible limit for X99 with four DIMMs) DDR4, you should be able to hit around 60GB/s, which is about 2/3 of the maximum you'll get with an i7-13700K that's 8 years newer.
Of course, memory bandwidth rarely has a significant (>5%) impact on overall system performance unless you're doing something that's memory bound (or you have a configuration with RAM that's being shared with the GPU). A modern gaming use case where quad channel may help is when a GPU is needing to shuffle assets between RAM and VRAM - the increased memory bandwidth may help make this sub-optimal situation less bad than it would otherwise be. It'll also help with repeated memory-intensive operations - e.g. running repeated compiler passes over a large source tree, such as the Linux kernel.
Great video and love these old X99 systems! Really looking forward to the upcoming content on it as well ❤
Awesome vid once again! Thanks mate.
FYI the 5820K is only 12 quid from CEX in the UK, likewise the 5930K (with the full 40 PCIe lanes, as the 5820K only has 28) is just 22 UKP (or for X79, 12 UKP for the 4930K or 3930K), but like you said, the hard part is finding decent mbds at sensible prices. Some years ago for a time it was easy to obtain good X79 mbds very cheap (I bought loads), but I don't recall that happening with X99. You should definitely add more RAM though, quad-channel is essential for full performance with these CPUs.
Btw, I have a spare 3930K if you'd like it, happy to post it down (I'm in Edinburgh), ditto a Palit GTX 580 3GB I'm not using (see my reply to your recent GTX 580 1.5GB video). Or re the 3930K, alternatively I can loan you a complete X79 system for a few weeks or months (whatever), it'd have an ASUS P9X79 WS (similar oc/features potential to the Rampage IV Extreme, it's many of these I bought long ago), 32GB/2400, the 3930K set to 4.7, and I can put in the 580 (or a better MSI model), or something else if preferred. Drop me a line, just search my user name and you'll find my SGI site & contact page.
Back in the day, a significant appeal of these configs was being able to support full x16/x16 for SLI/CF without the latency penalty of PLEX or similar ICs necessary to provide such I/O on manstream boards; the WS mentioned above supports x8/x8/x8/x8 which is great for CUDA, and I remember someone on a forum who had quad-Titan SLI for Skyrim (don't remember the mbd). These days what's nice is that, with SLI/CF effectively gone, one can still use NVMe boot via modded BIOS or SSDs that have their own boot ROM such as the 950 Pro or certain Intel models, yet have the GPU also at x16 and spare slots for data NVMe like a decent 2TB for games. The 5820K does though on some mbds introduce caveats to watch out for because certain slots will be unavailable or limited due to its lower PCIe lane count (something Intel should never have done).
An interesting CPU you might want to try sometime is the 4820K; only 4c/8t but it has the same 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes as the the 4930K, and with a higher thermal budget per core there's plenty of headroom for oc'ing (I have one on an R4E). Kinda funny therefore that the 4820K can in theory do things the much later 7820X can't, as the latter has fewer PCIe lanes, eg. qaud-GPU for CUDA (I have a 3930K system with 4x GTX 580 3GB I used for CUDA research long ago).
wow that's surprising if they can be had that cheap now. Also I own a 3gb 580 as well, was the GPU I got in my first PC in 2011
The real nightmare in that build is that PSU. Never heard more stories about PSUs blowing up than when it comes to the Corsair's VS-series.
Haha I think I read just as much
Tier F PSU. Replace that thing ASAP.
Then you haven't heard about Aerocool VX/KCAS psu's. These are very common in my country, Russia, and they are TERRIBLE. We even have a ton of memes specifically about this brand. And the worst thing is, their psu's are only a bit cheaper comparing to other more or less reliable brands.
Terrible psu's some people praising for some misterious reason
I used one for a couple of years and luckily I didn't have any problems with it! But I switched it for a better PSU last year!
I've still gotta i7 5930k running at 4.6ghz under a custom loop, had it running for years and it's been brilliant. Have recently build a new system but I've still got my 5930k running as a backup
Great video. Thanks for sharing👍
The GT 710 is what I used for my dad's computer. The only games he plays are from the early '90s(Lemmings and P.P. Hammer are his old favourites), and only needs graphics acceleration for the hardware video decoding, since his CPU isn't strong enough to manage it.
£35 for a crappy graphics card isn't bad when it saved him from having to buy an entire machine.
Needs one of the 8 core overclockable/boost lockable Xeons, quad ram, and an RX 6700 (to use all the PCIE lanes.)
I7 5820k has 28 pcie lanes.👍
What i really about this man he balance his video with old and new builds, he doesn't let those who using old builds left behind 👍
1:54 love the shot with the bee bro in the background 👍
Always with the banger videos
wow that did ok for what it is cool :) keep up the good work fella :)
love your videos man
Thanks!
Big Fan always love the videos, Hope you have a good day!
Got myself an X99 motherboard complete with a Xeon E5-2670 and 16 GB of DDR4 RAM for 80 notes on eBay a few months back. Couldn't get the thing to post until I got some fresh RAM. Going from a 4th gen i3 with 2 cores and 4 threads to 12 cores and 24 threads is simply amazing!
worth noting though that core and thread count isn't everything. Look at AMD bulldozer vs sandy bridge i7
Love the 780ti on the msi stand ! Will you make a video on iPods ? It would be amazing to see you reviewing one of these old nuggets !
truly one of us, you have the case panel off ur main system
The ssd in a 25->3,5 adapter case got me, that person had respect I’m telling ya.
Great videos,, been watching for a while now!
Well if it makes you feel better, I've got a 5600x paired with a 3070 and an EVGA 450W psu for a living room build, and its been fine for the past year!
Mods - Quad channel DDR4 3200 and overclock the CPU to 4.3GHz. Also up the CPU cache to say 4GHz. Thats what I had my 5820K up to. Now run a 5960X in it and it doesnt really struggle with anything. But the quad channel RAM is a must. I run it with a 6700XT.
8:36 damn, that's some smooth drifting
BRO THAT FRONT WHEEL DRIFT IN GTA V COMING IN CLUTCH
Have the same board/cpu setup in my spare rig here, paired with a 1080ti, and 32gb of memory, and it does really well.
When your rig that you have been using for 9 years shows up on RGHD. It's getting old 👴. But I did upgrade it to a 6950X @ 4GHz last year. Had the 5930K for 8 years.
The VS450 is the old version, known as the “orange label”. It was infamous for being a fire starter. Me not knowing that at the time as I was new to PCs, I used it to power an i5 6500 and 1070ti to try and mine bitcoin. Glad the PC didn’t burn down.
Haha yeah for some reason the orange label gave me bad vibes. Must have read about them years ago
Ahh the rare HEDT setup! Shame they're going the way of the dodo I had a ton of fun with X58, X79, & X99. Then still have yet to play around with any X299, X399, TRX40, or WRX80 setups (Threadripper is particularly interesting, but still pretty damn expensive beyond the first gen).
Threadripper, even from suppliers, was too expensive for me back then. I own a 6800k, a 6900k that's in an Asus X99 A II, and a 10980XE. I feel like I've been amassing the weirdest CPUs lol. They sure have been reliable and fun though. They often get dunked on reasonably so because AM4/5 performs much better in games and in rendering video.
No worries about that PSU... using a 1660 Super with the very same model.
As for PCSpecialist, had a lot of their customised Clevo laptops over the years, they're pretty sound.
I have a PC specialist 4th gen i7 set up as one of the kids pcs, originally came with a 770 (still have that somewhere) currently sporting a GTX 980. Its a great PC to be fair. PC specialist even have their own custom logo on the POST screen.
I still have my Asus X99 Deluxe system, originally in 2015 I installed a 5930k, 64GB of DDR4 RAM 2800mhz, dual GTX 970 in SLI. It also had an m,2 slot(vertical) that runs gen3 nvme ssd's. This board was right at the start of the change to ddr4, m.2 and so on. I have since upgraded the cpu to a 5960x and the video card to 1080 from 970 but it is still a great system. Wish I knew someone who would buy and it take care of it like I have but otherwise, I have no desire to get rid of it. Too many memories. 🙂
1:18 Ah yes. The rare GPU in the corner there.
Im on my 3rd pc specialist pc (built and spect threw them online) and they have always been tidy cable wise and bulit very well, there customer support is good as well, cant fault them at all.
I'm really happy that you finally got an X99 motherboard and I hope you will have a lot of fun along the way (and maybe a lot of content as well).
I was offered an EVGA X79 board with a 4960X (I think) for around 160€ (from a person I had sold a GPU) but I thought it was a bit more than what I wanted to so I didn't buy it.
The quad channel ram and the ability to get some 18+ core CPUs for very cheap is intriguing but on the other hand, for the 6-10 for variants (which are better for gaming) they are similar to performance with the Ryzen 2000 and Intel 8/9th gen.
Keep in mind, X79 uses socket LGA 2011, while X99 uses LGA 2011 R3, and are not cross compatible. X79/2011 only goes up to 12 cores, and I can't remember what you get with 2011 r3 offhand. Main reason that there is a different socket is that 2011 is exclusively DDR3, while 2011 r3 is only DDR4, if memory serves
Love x99 really been wanting the get one just to do a fun showcase build
Yes it would be very interesting to see the performance difference with quad channel ram with a memory oc and CPU oc? And using the 3050. But maybe you'll need another PSU.... I have the same mobo, processor and ram in a box waiting to be built one day 😃
Really looking forward to you testing dual channel Vs quad channel on this motherboard and a more capable gou 6:19
Looking very handsome today, my dude. Just thought you should know.
I definitely remember you having that exact PSU explode while playing Crysis.
That MSI Lightning, that flex
Overclock the hell out of that cpu ! You won’t be disappointed by it’s modern capabilities!
My last system ive had since around 2015 and JUST recently upgraded from was a i7 5820k HT turned off and a gtx 980ti. it still held its own on all modern titles in 1080p. x99 has been a solid platform since day 1. Ifd you do more testing with this processor turn HT off, they have big gains in performance running 6 cores 6 threads.
Cool old system, didn't realise the X99 boards are still fetching a few pounds. Got the version 2 of this board with a 5820K, 16ghb ddr4 3000mhz and a gtx 980ti. Housed in a phanteks enthoo primo case. Cost an absolute fortune back in the day lol.
If you overclock the 5820k and pair it with some 3000+ quad-channel RAM, it'll run rings around first-gen Ryzen for gaming thanks to its monolithic die and ring bus architecture. Zen 2-ish peformance is more accurate.
Socket 2011-3 uses ddr4 while 2011 uses ddr3. Great video as always.
In addition to quad channel RAM, maybe look at a 8+ core Xeon CPU such as the 3.2GHz 8C/16T E5-1680v3 (or if the BIOS is up to date the v4 that would be 3.4GHz so, in addition to the extra cores/threads and the +/- 100MHz clock speed, it would also have +5MB L3 cache at the same 140W as the i7-5820K)
You’d want to run the 1680v3 over the 1680v2 as the v3 version is unlocked while the v4 is locked. On a high end consumer board like this you should be able to push the 1680v3 pretty far.
I've always been fond of the double-lever mounting system for LGA-2011-v3 sockets. I feel like the cooler mounting pressure inconsistency issues of the modern rectangular Intel CPUs would be better alleviated if they'd adapted that system for them.
that pc specialist obviously didn't game on that computer with that crappy gpu in it🤣🤣🤣
The corsair VS powersupplies may be ranked together with housefire PSUs but the issue with it is just that they lack protections if you push them too hard. So really as long as your components pull less power than it's rated for (on each rail) it'll be just fine. Don't ever exceed the rating though or you'll have a dead PSU at best.
Also I’ve been able to get my i7-5820k chip to same level of performance of an i7-9700 after I overclocked it and added quad channel ram. These chips have so much headroom. Do not underestimate them hahah. However the power draw is nuts. Must have a good psu
Slap an E5-1660 V3 in there for a cheap 8 core option. The E5-1600s are unlocked so overclockable. You can also go with E5-1680 V3, E5-1660 V4 or E5-1680 V4. Ultimately though, there's not that much of a difference between the two. Broadwell-E wasn't that great. The overclocking headroom was so low that for the most part Haswell-E and Broadwell-E performed very similarly once overclocked (with the exception of the i7-6950X that had 2 additional cores not offered in any other overclockable chip on the platform).
I had a vs650 psu and it worked great for me, I had a i5-6400 paired with a r7 240 in 2018, then upgraded to a gtx 1060 6gb and bought the vs650 for it. After some time I bought a i5-7600k oc to 5ghz and bought a gtx 1080, then bought a i5-10400f and later upgraded to rtx 2080 super and i9-10900f, used the vs650 some months after the last upgrade until I bought a better 850W psu which was on A or B tier list, so the vs psus arent so bad, it worked fine and didnt do any damage or had any issues after 5 years of use with higher end parts
I just got off of the x99 platform using a xeon e5-2697 v3, ran games pretty well with my rtx2070s, but moved up to a r5 5600x to get double the frames,
Sold the x99 sabertooth and cpu for around £140, gonna miss it though
It's not rain , it's tears after the cricket... :) Cheers from Oz (It was entertaining, but)
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The big reason for these were the PCIe lanes. I'm still rocking a 6900K (upgraded from 5820K) in my daily driver, with a 3080. no issues at all with any titles at 1440p. The quad channel ram helps tons, but the real shine is the 40 PCIe lanes. You only get 20 with mainstream Intel, and 24 (at best) with current Ryzen. The X58, X79, X99, and X299 chipsets and CPUs were built off of server hardware more/less. I still have a X58 system that runs + games fine with a 1080ti, all the Intel HEDT line ran hot, and that system would run better with a better cooler.
I ran a 5820K for about 5 years, overclocked, until it died. Then I replaced it with a 5960X and ran that until it died and took the motherboard with it. If you put a beefier PSU, a 1080Ti and another 2 x 8GB RAM you will have a very capable gaming/productivity PC.
Would be interesting to see how far that 710 can be pushed with an overclock to its limits, Maybe with a custom bios if any were made by a mad man :D
You can really crank them up and put a 200mhz+ boost on most of them but they're still shite.
It will still be absolute garbage
I have the same motherboard/cpu combo, running 4x8gb 3200mhz, 4.5ghz oc, still very good compared to my Ryzen 5 3600x system.
I have had 2 PC Specialist pcs and they were both worth more in components than I paid for them...a few years back it was almost impossible to buy components! this looks alright still okay..wack a 1050/1060 in that and youll be alright for 1080p !
The platform is actually decent it's probably worth that money in CPU PSU and mobo alone which be interesting to see it with like a 3060/3050 rx5600/6600
I've been running a 5930k with a GTX 980 since 2015.
Still play modern titles at medium 1440p.
My Cinebench R20 multi score is 6711 as tested just the other day when comparing it to a Ryzen 5 3600.
I love how his soul left his body after he saw the graphics card
😂
Just found one at our local recycling station....runs fine and yes this on did come withe the saggyiest msi gtx 970 ive ever seen...plus one memory stick not working and a massive noctua cpu cooler on it.... ive had to hide it from the missus and pretend im working on one of my own systems when i mess with it...i love all this old stuff.....pc number 7 in the house now...must control myself better😂
Gj mate U look greate. I.m happy 2 See U like that.
Great score imo 💪👍🥳! Great pc and I’d just upgrade the GPU to something like a GTx1060 6GB or Rx580;
You are not wrong about the bottleneck with anything higher than a 3050.
I had a 5930k system with Quad channel 16gb rather than dual, and it had been overclocked to 4.3ghz all core under a 240mm aio (couldn't get any higher with reasonable voltages and it was kicking out substantial heat and power draw already).
I stuck a 3070 I managed to get at rrp back during scalpocalypse and the GPU was sometimes only reaching 50% utilisation, which says it all.
The 5820k here would be even worse due to less cache and lower clocks.
X99 is still capable with ddr4 and nvme ssds (albeit ddr4 speeds often restricting to around 2400-2666), but it is showing its age now.
Fantastic buy for people who got them and clocked the nuts off them around release though as they've really only been dominated in the last few years, and they're still fantastic for general desktop usage.
5:36 I'm afraid, you're probably mistaken. The GT 730 came in Kepler and Fermi variants afair. There was only an A1 and B1 stepping on the GT 710. And this is the B1 which came out in January of 2016 what the BIOS Version confirms. So shortly before Broadwell E would've been dropped.
This config doesn't make any sence to me so maybe there was more RAM and Quadro K or M4000 or other one slot card more powerful as the GT 710 in here before.
On the other hand the 5820K (which I always ignored. The 4790K had the same gaming performance and was cheaper as well the motherboards.) was more an gaming CPU and curiously this case doesn't has any USB 3.0 port at the front which would be already superseded by 3.1 at that point. So my best guess would be someone build the PC like this in an old PCSpecialist case for some reason I can't wrap my brain around. The hardware was to expensive to be an office machine and the graphics card to weak, an Quadro to expensive for an gaming system and a case with no front USB 3.0 a no go for me at least 2010 onwards.
quad channel and some nice overclocking I think it will be worth the salt
lost weight getting a tan, looking good dude!
You should check out the Xeon CPUs that are compatible with X99. I believe they go as high as a 22 core 44 thread CPU.
With the 8 RAM slots, at least it looks like an X99 Motherboard, or similar, so that will be worth something. In fact, I actually quite like the X58/79/99/299 series due to their large amount of SATA and RAM slots.
I personally wouldn't say a VS series PSU is appropriate especially with a beefier GPU, but hey, a VS PSU is better than the cheap crappy ones with poor 12V rails, no 80+ rating, and other super dodgy internals. At least the VS450 is known to be 80+ White rated.
Beautiful GPU stand!, where you get it?
Make an 1155 socket build next!! It's what I use daily!
I run a msi x99a with the same processor, purrs like a kitten. Using it now as a big Plex server, so many Sata ports for plenty of storage
5930k, 980, asus rampage v 10th anniversary edition, 64gb ram has served me well since it was a year old-when I bought it all used off of ebay. The 980 is the main bottleneck.
The orange label VS Corsair PSU are timebombs lol
i used i7 3930k with 1080 ti without bottlenecks :D Mostly at 1440p ultra in games. The i7 was overclocked to 4.3 ghz and had quad channel memory.
Quad channel ram + OC should get it within shooting distance of a ryzen 5 5600, although it will fall behind it a little, should beat a ryzen 5 3600 though or match it. Definitely still a solid platform, love x99 platform content, still tinker with x79 and x58 as well. I do generally agree that ryzen is a better platform, but you can get mobo/cpu/32gb ram for like $150 on the x99 platform, that is well worth it!
Besides the 710... a pretty good starter.
It might have the grunt to do some work as media server.
When I see this, my first instinct is programming machine. Expensive CPU and RAM for that time, also SSD which were not cheap, but then cheapest GPU just to display pixels. Maybe even used as test server for some web application. Anyway, Chinese "580" would make wonders with this if PSU does not blow up 😁
Maybe its me but Bro is looking Handsome. Really watching him grow up infront of our eyes.
have fun whith it.
You must quad channel the memory. I'm a wondering with DDR5 platforms now standardised if more aps and games aren't optimised for quad channel soon, those 2 extra channels might make this machine a fine wine machine. Stick a used 2060Super in it, they recommend a 450W PSU for one of those, it's gruntier than a 3050 and has a x16 connector.
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Ayyy, another 5820k! These things can be bought for dirt cheap and handle pretty much every game that’s thrown at them but do need to overclock since the max turbo is 3.6ghz. Overall a good chip but the amount of power these usually consume is a bit absurd and the downside of the cheap chip.
Keeping stuff from going to the dump = awesome. In regards to the performance what card would be best (old and modern) to pair the cpu in this with? Anyone? I see RandomGaminginHD said to look at the RX 6600 and others mentioned some other cards like the GTX 1070 and the GTX 970. Any others?
I think it would be fun to go for a "period correct" build with a 980Ti. Keep in mind this is the lowest and least interesting CPU you can put in this board. It is a 6 core Haswell and you can go Broadwell-E upto 10 cores or much higher than that if you look for old Xeons online. If you get one of those the "period correct" suddenly becomes a 1080Ti and then you can run pretty much all modern games at decent settings 1080p.
I think the 6600XT or 5700XT would make a lot of sense for X99. With an overclock, the 5820K should be competitive with a Ryzen 1600AF or 2600, maybe even a 3600, but Radeon's lower driver overhead should give it an edge over a similar performing Geforce.
STEVE! Overclock the snot out of that 5820k. Should be good for 4.3-4.5ghz, BUT be sure to use 3200mhz memory in Quad channel so that you can keep the CPU strap to 100mhz. If you go with something like 3000 or 3600, it'll force 125mhz and it'll be a stability nightmare. Even dual channel can be a pain at higher memory speeds.
Ive been using a 135w tdp cpu (2667v4) and rtx 2060s on a 430w psu with no problems at all, the system only consumes around 330w with rare peaks at 350w, the only way to pull more power is running cb23 and furmark at the same time, in this situation the system will pull around 380w. So, the 450w psu is enough for this system if you keep the cpu at stock settings.
The 5960x can apparently match the R7 3700x in gaming if you do it right, so you should test if this one is at all comparable to 3rd gen Ryzen core-for-core, maybe with some tweaking/OC? How high does it go?
Interesting.
@@DeViLzzz2006 Yeah, apparently quad-channel memory does a lot, and that's why brands like Huananzhi are still offering new(ish) x99 boards.