Xeon Owners Club

[Peter Lindgren]

The e5-2690 ones.. I did oc to 4.1ghz I did 4.6ghz but this air cooler is rubbish temps really high on 4.6ghz. not yet for benchmarking. Wait my 4 yr old using my PC watching Thomas and friends on you tube. Lol

i found this on ebay.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-4650-CPU-Processor-CPU-2-7-GHz-LGA2011-No-1/263480161622?_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIM.MBE&ao=2&asc=49919&meid=5b63fe1dc474402992b1709e7b91ff3b&pid=100005&rk=6&rkt=6&sd=263453361482&itm=263480161622&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

but i think the p9x79 deluxe not supported with this chip based on asus website

Go for the Xeon 2680v2 instead. Cooler, OC better and cheaper.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon...328465?hash=item5d77c48d51:g:PUoAAOSws6ZaCYza

 

[FireFox]

I would go along with checking the specs for the games you wish to play then go with the worst case one, ie highest specs.. I think that would put you in a good place to know what sort of card you would be able to get.. Well Nvidia wise anyways....

Many of the Games could be run with this:

Minimum Requirement:
Pentium III 450 MHz
128 MB RAM
16 MB 3D Video Card-DirectX 8.1
800 MB Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended Reqirement:
Pentium III 1 GHz
256 MB RAM
32 MB 3D Video Card-DirectX 8.1

That said even a GTX 280/285 would be fine.

 

[phill]

Me thinks that an SR-2 might be a little overkill.... Gotta love it

I did mention a GTX 280 might be any good Could always try a 6600 GT PCIe card or something like that??

 

[FireFox]

Me thinks that an SR-2 might be a little overkill.... Gotta love it

The SR-2 it's not a little overkill but it's completely overkill + Games that runs with Pentium III 450 MHz/1GHz running with 12c at 4.5GHz, insane.

I would go for this:

 

[phill]

I did like the overkill level of the system build You could always grab a P3 500Mhz just to make sure your over the spec lol

The 580's aren't too bad, had some of the 3Gb models for when I was gaming across three 30" panels.. Was awesome fun

 

[FireFox]

The 580 it's too new i prefer something a little bit more old.

This:

 

[phill]

I remember having one of those I believe with a lovely Aquamark water block on it.. Was a dual PCB card but sadly I never got around to actually using it much Such a shame... Came with my EVGA 759 Classified board...

I'm pretty sure they didn't do a 1xx series but what about a 7800 GS+ or something like that??

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have been looking on Ebay for 770 but nothing here in Germany but i found a few in the United States so for me it's pointless.
Do i really need more than 1GB ram for old games?

A 760 would be a damn good card as well! I would go for 3GB if for no other reason than to maximize ram bandwidth utilizing triple channel access. You wouldn't want to artificially hinder performance. Plus, 1GB DDR3 sticks are dead cheap.

The SR-2 it's not a little overkill but it's completely overkill + Games that runs with Pentium III 450 MHz/1GHz running with 12c at 4.5GHz, insane.

I would go for this:

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That is a good performer too as is the 295. Just remember that they use a ton more power than the 600 and 700 series cards.

 

[phill]

That is a good performer too as is the 295. Just remember that they use a ton more power than the 600 and 700 series cards.

With an SR-2 @ 4.5Ghz with 12 cores, I'm not sure power consumption is much of a worry

 

[FireFox]

A 760 would be a damn good card as well! I would go for 3GB if for no other reason than to maximize ram bandwidth utilizing triple channel access. You wouldn't want to artificially hinder performance. Plus, 1GB DDR3 sticks are dead cheap.

Do you know how many GB of Ram will i use?

With an SR-2 @ 4.5Ghz with 12 cores, I'm not sure power consumption is much of a worry

Exactly

 

[phill]

There really is nothing wrong with a bit of pure mental overkill Hats off to you sir!!

 

[FireFox]

I have bought this

 

[phill]

I reckon that will be completely overkill and would hopefully work fine I do sometimes thing when trying to make older games work, having the older hardware to go with it is a bit easier to get it to work otherwise you'll end up with a 3000 FPS rate when trying to play the game!!

 

[FireFox]

The CPUs will be delivered today that's mean that i will be able to start building tomorrow, i have already downloaded the drivers for the motherboard and for the GPU

 

[phill]

Looking forward to seeing the build

 

[lexluthermiester]

Do you know how many GB of Ram will i use?

Sorry, had to look back(this thread moves so fast it's easy to miss things). You won't really need all 16GB, unless you're planning on dual booting, which is what I do. I have several HDD's in my system and the first three have different OS installations. When booting to one, it easy to hit the boot selection menu and select the appropriate drive.

Looking forward to seeing the build

Ditto

 

[FireFox]

You won't really need all 16GB

I don't need 16GB but i have it laying on a table since last year, better working than doing nothing

 

[lexluthermiester]

I don't need 16GB but i have laying on a table since last yea, better working than doing nothing

Fair enough.

On a personal note, sold my 5820k and switched over to an X5680 based system. Not really noticing a difference. Granted, some things take longer, but not by much. It's interesting that a 7 year old CPU is still such a good performer.

 

[FireFox]

I wanted to buy the X5680 but didn't find any matched pair in Germany.

 

[phill]

Fair enough.

On a personal note, sold my 5820k and switched over to an X5680 based system. Not really noticing a difference. Granted, some things take longer, but not by much. It's interesting that a 7 year old CPU is still such a good performer.

It's probably one of the many reasons I've never sold any of my X58 systems

 

[FireFox]

Something i didn't take in consideration is Steam on XP?

 

[EarthDog]

On a personal note, sold my 5820k and switched over to an X5680 based system. Not really noticing a difference. Granted, some things take longer, but not by much. It's interesting that a 7 year old CPU is still such a good performer.

'not by much'... is that around 30% on average? As that is about the IPC difference between the two...

 

[phill]

Something i didn't take in consideration is Steam on XP?

Looks like your covered Mr Knoxx https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/340412122402676058/

 

[FireFox]

Looks like your covered Mr Knoxx

Mr knoxx lmao

Thanks for the info

 

[phill]

Most welcome sir I hope it all works out