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| System Name | "The black one in the dining room" / "The Latest One" |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Xeon E5 2699 V4 22c/44t / i7 14700K @5.8GHz |
| Motherboard | Asus X99 Deluxe / ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi |
| Cooling | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 w/4 Silverstone FM121 fans / Arctic LF II 280 w Silverstone FHP141's |
| Memory | 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 (8x8) / 96GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400 |
| Video Card(s) | EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW3 / Asus Tuff OC 4090 24GB |
| Storage | Samsung 970 Evo Plus, 1TB Samsung 860, 4 Western Digital 2TB / 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro & more. |
| Display(s) | 43" Samsung 8000 series 4K / 65" Hisense U8N 4K |
| Case | Modded Corsair Carbide 500R / Modded Corsair Graphite 780 T |
| Audio Device(s) | Asus Xonar Essence STX/ Asus Xonar Essence STX II |
| Power Supply | Corsair AX1200i / Seasonic Prime GX-1300 |
| Mouse | Logitech Performance MX, Microsoft Intellimouse Optical 3.0 |
| Keyboard | Logitech K750 Solar, Logitech K800 |
| Software | Win 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 IoT / Win 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 24H2 |
| Benchmark Scores | https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/display.php?id=202122048229 |
After a few years of decisions and procrastinating I finally did the major redo on a Win 7 system I originally built in late 2009. Now nothing remains of the original build except memories. The first case I used was replaced by a used Cosmos 1000 from the local Craigslist for $20 in 2010. The original AMD platform was replaced with an Asus P8P67 Deluxe/ i7 2600K in early 2011. An ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ 4790K replaced that a little over 10 years ago. It's been through several different GPU's, hard drives, optical drives and power supplies over the years. Here are the major changes I did over the past two weeks:
Win 7 Enterprise 64 to Win 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC (I did it without having to reinstall any programs, lots of online research and time went into that but no money was spent).
ASRock Z87 Extreme6 w/ 32GB DDR3 1866 to ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 w/128GB DDR4 3200 (runs at 2400+ because of the Xeon CPU locked multipliers). I have two USB C ports now.
i7 4790K 4c/ 8t to Xeon E5 2683 V4 16c/ 32t (BLCK at 103.5). I tried a 6950X but it wouldn't boot for some unknown reason. That CPU worked with the same RAM in an Asus Rampage V Edition 10. I didn't feel like dealing with the EATX Edition 10 and its complexity, the X99 Extreme4/3.1 is smaller and much easier to work with (It came from a TPU staffer a few years ago cheap).
Seasonic Focus GX-850 to Seasonic Prime GX-1300. I had spares of both in my collection. The GX-1300 has more connection options as well as wattage.
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum to Asus Xonar D2X. I have a Fosi K5 Pro headphone amp, BGW 7500 Proline II power amp and a pair of Polk Monitor 70's to connect when I have the energy to move things around in my bedroom for the BGW and Polks.
XFX RX 6700 to EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW (The 6700 is going into my pending Z690 rebuild since it's Gen 4). The 1080 Ti has better picture quality on a Vizio M-series 50" 4K TV from two years ago.
I kept the Samsung 860 EVO 2TB system drive and hard drives since they were installed new a few years ago. I tried using a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe as the system drive at first but didn't see any speed difference between it and the 860 EVO. The 970 EVO is going into the Z690 rebuild as one of the storage drives.
I did the gasket replacement on the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 from the last build and used that. Runs stunningly cool even under load. I have the BLCK at 103.5, some cores were exceeding 3GHz in Turbo mode with temps of under 74 degrees F.
I still have to go to Menards and get two cheap furnace filters that I use for side panels. Very ghetto but it runs far cooler than with the regular panels plus the locking mechanism doesn't give headaches using the furnace filters.
I didn't have to buy anything since all parts used were already in my collection. I fired it up for the first time Friday night and did the final operating system fine tuning yesterday. So far I'm very pleased with the improvements and the fact all it cost me was time (and I have plenty of that at my age). There were several CPU related issues in the Device Manager that I couldn't find drivers for because of the Xeon. I ended up copying the entire driver folder from System32 on my X99/ E5 2699 V4 rig to a flash drive and used that to fix those problems.
Win 7 Enterprise 64 to Win 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC (I did it without having to reinstall any programs, lots of online research and time went into that but no money was spent).
ASRock Z87 Extreme6 w/ 32GB DDR3 1866 to ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 w/128GB DDR4 3200 (runs at 2400+ because of the Xeon CPU locked multipliers). I have two USB C ports now.
i7 4790K 4c/ 8t to Xeon E5 2683 V4 16c/ 32t (BLCK at 103.5). I tried a 6950X but it wouldn't boot for some unknown reason. That CPU worked with the same RAM in an Asus Rampage V Edition 10. I didn't feel like dealing with the EATX Edition 10 and its complexity, the X99 Extreme4/3.1 is smaller and much easier to work with (It came from a TPU staffer a few years ago cheap).
Seasonic Focus GX-850 to Seasonic Prime GX-1300. I had spares of both in my collection. The GX-1300 has more connection options as well as wattage.
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum to Asus Xonar D2X. I have a Fosi K5 Pro headphone amp, BGW 7500 Proline II power amp and a pair of Polk Monitor 70's to connect when I have the energy to move things around in my bedroom for the BGW and Polks.
XFX RX 6700 to EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW (The 6700 is going into my pending Z690 rebuild since it's Gen 4). The 1080 Ti has better picture quality on a Vizio M-series 50" 4K TV from two years ago.
I kept the Samsung 860 EVO 2TB system drive and hard drives since they were installed new a few years ago. I tried using a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe as the system drive at first but didn't see any speed difference between it and the 860 EVO. The 970 EVO is going into the Z690 rebuild as one of the storage drives.
I did the gasket replacement on the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 from the last build and used that. Runs stunningly cool even under load. I have the BLCK at 103.5, some cores were exceeding 3GHz in Turbo mode with temps of under 74 degrees F.
I still have to go to Menards and get two cheap furnace filters that I use for side panels. Very ghetto but it runs far cooler than with the regular panels plus the locking mechanism doesn't give headaches using the furnace filters.
I didn't have to buy anything since all parts used were already in my collection. I fired it up for the first time Friday night and did the final operating system fine tuning yesterday. So far I'm very pleased with the improvements and the fact all it cost me was time (and I have plenty of that at my age). There were several CPU related issues in the Device Manager that I couldn't find drivers for because of the Xeon. I ended up copying the entire driver folder from System32 on my X99/ E5 2699 V4 rig to a flash drive and used that to fix those problems.
