I love x58. I still run an x5650 oc to 4.2ghz with 24gb triple channel ram at 2000ish mhz on an Asus Rampage II Genie. I have a usb 3 and sata 3 pcie cards. I run a 1080ti and im sure i could get better fps with something more modern but I play 1440p 95htz and it works fine for me. Best value system Ive ever bought.
As a further modernization to X58, try installing a modded BIOS which would allow you to boot into Windows straight from an nvme ssd without a need for a usb drive.
Hi- my daily driver is a Xeon 5660 with a MSI X58 Pro-E motherboard, combined with 28 gigs of 1600 mhz ram and a GTX 1070. The CPU is running with a 166 mhz busspeed..., close to 4 ghz..., its a wonderful gaming machine. I have also USB 3 and a 256gig nvme drive in it. It runs like a dream..., its old, but gold.!!!
@@idoesstuff1 Yes it does. I think PC components retailers starting to realize that the x58 holds a very high gaming/using value even today. Prices for the motherboards are quickly rising, now that more and more people are discovering the huge potential of this hardware. I was lucky to buy a second hand "Asus Rampage Extreme III" (one of the best x58 mobo's ever released) for just 79 Dollars. When you search on the "second hand" marked (like Ali express) prices are well above 300 Dollars. Also on Amazon prices are starting to rise. (180 Dollars at moment of writing) Look good everywhere on the internet, and you might get a nice 100 Dollar (or less) deal But if you find one, please don't hesitate. Just buy!!
Agreed with you 100% Right now i use the i7 990x. But in store i have the x5675 and the x5690. I will keep gaming/using this setup for as long as possible.
@@TheLionAndTheLamb777 my girlfriend recently got into gaming, and with the Radeon 6700xt it’s been able to play everything she has thrown at it on steam at max settings.
Love it. in 20204 I still have running a rampage gene III with a xeon x5690, 24 gigs of ram, sata 1tb boot, sata 250 tb scratch, and a 3tb 7200rpm storage drive. It has windows 10 and I recently droped a cheap rtx 3050 8gb gpu in it just because I love that old rig. I have a modern game rig for every day but my rampage has been with me so long I could never part with it. It will still average 60+ FPS on high settings in heaven. Normally it just sets in the corner running the matrix screen saver just to look cool, but it still feels snappy and you can't really tell your not on a modern PC when you play e-spots games and the like.
God I love my x58. Had it since 2009. It’s my daily driver for video editing. I have a 1080ti on it. With 2ssds one I use for the apps, the other ssd for the asset video files. And 1 hhd for storage. I used the pcie express for a FireWire adapter I used a older native instruments mixer/daw for audio mixing. I won’t part with it until it becomes irrelevant. Simply the best. I feel like I won the tech lottery. 2 goat pieces of equipment. My x58 and my 1080ti. Objectively the best motherboard and the best graphics card of the last 20 years. Heck maybe of all time. Intel wont be making that mistake again. Neither are Nvidia. The two greediest companies as of late.
I'm still using an ASUS P6T v2 Deluxe MB with an i7-920, 16 GB RAM, ASUS CUII GTX 780 ti with a Corsair 850 watt PSU as my main rig! Two years ago, the whole system was dumped on my front lawn by someone, in very filthy condition with dirt and leaves in it and all wires hanging out of the missing side panel. It didn't run at first until I cleaned it and made a few minor fixes to it. It also came with a DVD and even an old 19" monitor. It originally only had two 8 gig sticks of memory but I later upgrade it to 16GB. It runs just about everything I throw at it. Oh...it also came with one of those old Zalman coolers which I took apart and relubricated the bearings! I believe the person who left it on my lawn may have been carrying it to keep himself but then realized just how damn heavy it was to carry and gave up. I"m definitely glad he decided to dump it on my lawn and not one of my neighbors' instead! 😁😁👍👍 PS: I did buy a Xeon x5670 for it, but I am still too "chicken" to do the necessary BIOS update before installing it as I don't want to accidentally "brick" the motherboard. The P6 motherboard does have a very easy to use BIOS updater and quite reliable from what other owners have told me but the system seems adequate enough for my needs right at the moment. I will get to it...eventually.. 🤔😁 PSS: Their is actually a better BIOS that was done for the P6 and other similar boards by an individual. I forgot what it was named, but I did download it some time back, I believe. It also has built in protection against that virus, which I also forgot the name of (Zero Day??), that could attack the older Intel boards and possibly ruin them. It also adds new features to the board.
It's unbelikevable, how this x58 chipset still holds up even today! the x58 was released back in 2008, and still you can play the newest games at full graphics settings wit a very decent FPS of 120+ (Maybe even higher depending on GPU, CPU, and mobo combination) I also still use this configuration with the i7 990x 6 cores 12 threads 3.46Ghz stock, overclocked to 5Ghz. 48Gb ram, and the RX580 8GB. I would say, this is the ultimate way to play the newest games on the lowest budget possible. About Windows 11, i recently installed on my x58 system. It's fairly easy to work arround the system spec check. It runs like a charm
@@SlowHardware Well, i use my rig for gaming. So it runs very well. I hava a Xeon 5675 6 cores 12 treads. It is more easy to get 5Ghz out of this cpu, due the fact that it needs less voltage. But if you manage to get 4.6 Ghz, you are also ok regarding gaming. Because there is virtually no difference in FPS (maybe 1 of 2 frames per second difference) With the right GPU you can play any new triple AAA game on 1440p with ulra settings.
I did a similar thing back when I was using X58, got the exact same Xeon processor on eBay really cheap, originally had the i7 920 in it, swapping to the Xeon gave the system a nice performance increase. I still have the rig but I use my laptop these days, thinking about making my X58 build into a Hackintosh.
I like playing around with the X58 platform. I have a Xeon 5670, 80 and 90. I got the 5680 overclocked to 4725 Mhz. Added NVMe to the 2nd PCI slot... GTX 1080 GPU...Asus Sabertooth mb....
can you share your settings with me please? i have a 5680 on p6td v2, i struggle to pass 4.6, not that the extra 100 matters, id just like to compare settings to see if i could find my instability. thank you
Just did what many here have said, stuffed in x5670, 1080Ti, and today another 12Gb (3x4Gb) for 24Gb total. All overclocked, all for just a few bucks (apart from 1080Ti but the rest was like 30-40 bucks delivered)
There's a mod to get windows booting on NVME on X58. DUET EFI loader. I essentially boot off a USB, then it installs EFI drivers, then it boots into an NVME drive on PCIE card. Makes windows very snappy.
I'm aware of that, but never tried to get it set up. My regular PC's are far better. (Ryzen 5950x, PCI 4.0 NVMe drives, RTX 3080Ti....64 gb ram... that's the best of my three Ryzen based PC's0
@@rbtree I had this setup in 2016 and it destroyed most modern PC's for several years. It served me well for a very long time. Saved me from spending about 4 grand in upgrades....
I still have my X58 system although I don't use it like i used to. It is a 1100w PSU, dual x5680 with heatpipe coolers, 48GB triple channel DDR3-1333, GTX 670 4GB PCIe x16, ASUS Xonar PCI, x4 SATA III 4 port adapter, 240GB Sandisk SSD Boot Disk. It used to have a better GPU and boot drive in it but I don't use it like I used to.
I don't daily my x58 systems either for the same reason I don't daily drive my classic car. And not because they are both usually in pieces either lol.
I have a machine like this, started off the same way i7-920 with 3gb ram.. now has gtx 970 and 24gb ram, ddr3-1866. it was my home server for a while until I upgraded that too. ran cinebench on the new server (r15) just for fun and got 3942 points. 2x e5-2683v4 32core 64 thread, 448gb ram, gtx 1050ti. supermicro x10-dax-i motherboard. absolute overkill.
Just dug out a MB I got with a small bundle of computer parts I picked, up about a year ago, from a person who tinkered with computers and was moving. Bought the bundle for the 500D RGB Case and an X299 Board, but there was another MB with it. Turns out it's an ASUS TUF X58 with a 950 installed and all 6 memory channels filled with Heatsinked Hyper X. I have Many X99, X299 and X399 Boards / Computers in Premium Cases but my daily Driver for surfing is the same CoolerMaster Case as yours with an ASUS Z77 / 2500K @ 4Ghz/ 16G Ram / EVGA 1060 / Samsung SSD. I've been thinking of swapping in some other MB but was torn between my choices of a Maximus 8 or Maximus 10 that I already have, but aren't really a the match I prefer. Usually I keep the parts within the same Era / year as if I'm building a High End Pc of the time, i7's, i9 X series, all ram filled, 980ti's, 1080ti's, 2080ti's, some in SLI depending on the year. Question ? How far could I go with the X58, keeping it semi era accurate, using the same SSD and maybe an upgraded GPU ? Could I get more performance than the 2500K setup that's in the CoolerMaster now ? I don't game on it and just record videos off the internet and would like to open more tabs. I realize I need more CPU power.
The extra cache and core count, on paper, should perform better but it's hard to say how much better. For very little money you could get an x5680 (as long as your board supports it) and it should out perform that 2500k with ease.
Geat presence on video dude...Very enjoyable to watch. You have a voice for entertainment. Off the cuff with no script and zero awkwardness. Killing it mam! 10/10 "That's sreally Dark..." Pretty funny
Now you just need to go into Bios and change your Bclk to 140 and vcore to 1.35v and you are set for another several years.. All 5 of my x5650's can do 4.6Ghz 24/7 with out breaking a sweat..
I feel bad for 920 too as they were worth 200 back in the day now in my country they go for 1. I only have one but I seem to be collecting Q6600s. Also replacing my 920 for 965 as that was only 15 pounds.
So the nvme drive maybe chain loadable much like a M5A97 I use via a bootloader called clover, I did have to bypass the oobe due to windows being confused but it worked for me, just leaving this here as a little trick that can retrofit some older boards just using a spare usb pen or adapter for a improvised work around also be sure to check the lane count Vs your pci-e gen for the best nvme adapter to get.
You can do as much as put an EFI on a boot stick and have the boot stick start the Window 10 from the NVME. Not that it's that important to use the NVME as the OS drive, proabably won't make much difference, both SSDs are much faster than the HDDs. Nice upgrade!
Ah yes X58. I had an i9 920 my uncle gave me, and eventually the memory controller on it died. Found a xeon processor on ebay to fit the socket for $11 and kept her going, lol.
My Asus p6x58de machine runs windows 11 pro on a Samsung 950 pro 256gb nvme m.2 boot drive this drive is plug and play with native legacy boot, xenon x5675 @ 4.31mhz @1.35v, 24 gb 4x6 @1866 cinebench R15 score of 1005 also Intel dual band AC3156 Bluetooth/ WiFi and a pcie X4 USB 3.0 for front IO USB ports and a Asus ROG strix GTX 1080 8gb 1080p 144hz
@@splashboi898 Samsung 950 pro nvme m.2 has legacy boot no mod required bought this one new last year for $80 bucks on eBay getting 1600 Reed and 950 write also bought a 2 TB 970 Evo for $100 bucks getting 1700 up and down for Windows storage but I hear there is also a way to enable UEFI mode on x58 by setting the drives to IDE haven't tried it requires a full reinstall I'm happy with my results
@@paulburkey2 nice I do have an x58 board still lying around so I will try that out. Also have a 950 pro that came free with my x99 mobo and it's really fast, I use it as a boot drive. I used to use my x5675 with a gtx 1080 as well and it paired nicely, was at 4.4ghz.
After a lot of googling and trial and error I am unable to get it to boot from the pcie device. If you can point me toward some info to help me get it to boot I'd love to give it another try!
I have a P6T Deluxe v2 that I just brought back to life, has 24GB of RAM and an X5650 processor, I threw a Radeon W7100 8GB GPU in it and under linux mint, on steam, I can run cyberpunk 2077.... I replaced this unit with a Ryzen 3600X 2 years ago but still plan to use it for many years.
Does anyone know where i may find an online replacement bios chip (updated to the latest gigabyte x58 bios code??) for a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R MB?? ..or would i need to pay gigabyte llc to remove/replace or reflash the bios chip
All that money for a machine that dont support AVX All the games from unreal engine 5 cant even run This pc holds well until 2020 Now is waste of money
You are right about the missing AVX features bc the CPUs do not have it, but you are wrong about the UE5 thing. As example - Satisfactory runs very smoothly on my i7-980 on x58 Board, and you know what - I wasted some more money to a modern RX6700 GPU to make my machine live even longer. Just no need to follow all the marketing bs.
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I love x58. I still run an x5650 oc to 4.2ghz with 24gb triple channel ram at 2000ish mhz on an Asus Rampage II Genie. I have a usb 3 and sata 3 pcie cards. I run a 1080ti and im sure i could get better fps with something more modern but I play 1440p 95htz and it works fine for me. Best value system Ive ever bought.
Very nice.
@@opoxious1592 thank you
As a further modernization to X58, try installing a modded BIOS which would allow you to boot into Windows straight from an nvme ssd without a need for a usb drive.
Hi- my daily driver is a Xeon 5660 with a MSI X58 Pro-E motherboard, combined with 28 gigs of 1600 mhz ram and a GTX 1070. The CPU is running with a 166 mhz busspeed..., close to 4 ghz..., its a wonderful gaming machine. I have also USB 3 and a 256gig nvme drive in it. It runs like a dream..., its old, but gold.!!!
It's awesome to see how many people are still using x58 as their daily. I think this platform will become very sought after as time goes on.
@@idoesstuff1 Yes it does.
I think PC components retailers starting to realize that the x58 holds a very high gaming/using value even today.
Prices for the motherboards are quickly rising, now that more and more people are discovering the huge potential of this hardware.
I was lucky to buy a second hand "Asus Rampage Extreme III" (one of the best x58 mobo's ever released) for just 79 Dollars.
When you search on the "second hand" marked (like Ali express) prices are well above 300 Dollars.
Also on Amazon prices are starting to rise. (180 Dollars at moment of writing)
Look good everywhere on the internet, and you might get a nice 100 Dollar (or less) deal
But if you find one, please don't hesitate.
Just buy!!
@@idoesstuff1 yeah, also its pretty much the last platform with good win xp support
Proud w3690 owner here! X58 never dies!
Agreed with you 100%
Right now i use the i7 990x.
But in store i have the x5675 and the x5690.
I will keep gaming/using this setup for as long as possible.
I still have my dual X5680 PC and the kids still sometimes use their W3550 PC.
@@TheLionAndTheLamb777 my girlfriend recently got into gaming, and with the Radeon 6700xt it’s been able to play everything she has thrown at it on steam at max settings.
This makes me miss my i7 920/GTX 470 machine. Such a beast at the time.
Love it. in 20204 I still have running a rampage gene III with a xeon x5690, 24 gigs of ram, sata 1tb boot, sata 250 tb scratch, and a 3tb 7200rpm storage drive. It has windows 10 and I recently droped a cheap rtx 3050 8gb gpu in it just because I love that old rig. I have a modern game rig for every day but my rampage has been with me so long I could never part with it. It will still average 60+ FPS on high settings in heaven. Normally it just sets in the corner running the matrix screen saver just to look cool, but it still feels snappy and you can't really tell your not on a modern PC when you play e-spots games and the like.
God I love my x58. Had it since 2009. It’s my daily driver for video editing. I have a 1080ti on it. With 2ssds one I use for the apps, the other ssd for the asset video files. And 1 hhd for storage. I used the pcie express for a FireWire adapter I used a older native instruments mixer/daw for audio mixing.
I won’t part with it until it becomes irrelevant. Simply the best.
I feel like I won the tech lottery. 2 goat pieces of equipment. My x58 and my 1080ti. Objectively the best motherboard and the best graphics card of the last 20 years. Heck maybe of all time.
Intel wont be making that mistake again.
Neither are Nvidia. The two greediest companies as of late.
I'm still using an ASUS P6T v2 Deluxe MB with an i7-920, 16 GB RAM, ASUS CUII GTX 780 ti with a Corsair 850 watt PSU as my main rig! Two years ago, the whole system was dumped on my front lawn by someone, in very filthy condition with dirt and leaves in it and all wires hanging out of the missing side panel. It didn't run at first until I cleaned it and made a few minor fixes to it. It also came with a DVD and even an old 19" monitor. It originally only had two 8 gig sticks of memory but I later upgrade it to 16GB. It runs just about everything I throw at it. Oh...it also came with one of those old Zalman coolers which I took apart and relubricated the bearings! I believe the person who left it on my lawn may have been carrying it to keep himself but then realized just how damn heavy it was to carry and gave up. I"m definitely glad he decided to dump it on my lawn and not one of my neighbors' instead! 😁😁👍👍
PS: I did buy a Xeon x5670 for it, but I am still too "chicken" to do the necessary BIOS update before installing it as I don't want to accidentally "brick" the motherboard. The P6 motherboard does have a very easy to use BIOS updater and quite reliable from what other owners have told me but the system seems adequate enough for my needs right at the moment. I will get to it...eventually.. 🤔😁
PSS: Their is actually a better BIOS that was done for the P6 and other similar boards by an individual. I forgot what it was named, but I did download it some time back, I believe. It also has built in protection against that virus, which I also forgot the name of (Zero Day??), that could attack the older Intel boards and possibly ruin them. It also adds new features to the board.
It's unbelikevable, how this x58 chipset still holds up even today!
the x58 was released back in 2008, and still you can play the newest games at full graphics settings wit a very decent FPS of 120+ (Maybe even higher depending on GPU, CPU, and mobo combination)
I also still use this configuration with the i7 990x 6 cores 12 threads 3.46Ghz stock, overclocked to 5Ghz.
48Gb ram, and the RX580 8GB.
I would say, this is the ultimate way to play the newest games on the lowest budget possible.
About Windows 11, i recently installed on my x58 system.
It's fairly easy to work arround the system spec check.
It runs like a charm
Still on thus system? How's it run at 5ghz?
@@SlowHardware Because i overclocked it.
But i have a different motyherboard.
The Asus "P6T"
@@opoxious1592 I know you overclocked it lmao, I have same board and 980x. I mean how's it perform at 5ghz?
@@SlowHardware Well, i use my rig for gaming.
So it runs very well.
I hava a Xeon 5675 6 cores 12 treads.
It is more easy to get 5Ghz out of this cpu, due the fact that it needs less voltage.
But if you manage to get 4.6 Ghz, you are also ok regarding gaming.
Because there is virtually no difference in FPS (maybe 1 of 2 frames per second difference)
With the right GPU you can play any new triple AAA game on 1440p with ulra settings.
@@opoxious1592 niiice, I just got a 970 for my x58 rig
Lapping cpu's is a lot of work! I've done many. Cooler cold plates too!
I did a similar thing back when I was using X58, got the exact same Xeon processor on eBay really cheap, originally had the i7 920 in it, swapping to the Xeon gave the system a nice performance increase.
I still have the rig but I use my laptop these days, thinking about making my X58 build into a Hackintosh.
I like playing around with the X58 platform. I have a Xeon 5670, 80 and 90. I got the 5680 overclocked to 4725 Mhz. Added NVMe to the 2nd PCI slot... GTX 1080 GPU...Asus Sabertooth mb....
can you share your settings with me please? i have a 5680 on p6td v2, i struggle to pass 4.6, not that the extra 100 matters, id just like to compare settings to see if i could find my instability. thank you
Just did what many here have said, stuffed in x5670, 1080Ti, and today another 12Gb (3x4Gb) for 24Gb total. All overclocked, all for just a few bucks (apart from 1080Ti but the rest was like 30-40 bucks delivered)
fyi the plextor m8 series is an nvme drive with an oprom that can boot on x58
There's a mod to get windows booting on NVME on X58. DUET EFI loader. I essentially boot off a USB, then it installs EFI drivers, then it boots into an NVME drive on PCIE card. Makes windows very snappy.
I'm aware of that, but never tried to get it set up. My regular PC's are far better. (Ryzen 5950x, PCI 4.0 NVMe drives, RTX 3080Ti....64 gb ram... that's the best of my three Ryzen based PC's0
@@rbtree I had this setup in 2016 and it destroyed most modern PC's for several years. It served me well for a very long time. Saved me from spending about 4 grand in upgrades....
I still have my X58 system although I don't use it like i used to. It is a 1100w PSU, dual x5680 with heatpipe coolers, 48GB triple channel DDR3-1333, GTX 670 4GB PCIe x16, ASUS Xonar PCI, x4 SATA III 4 port adapter, 240GB Sandisk SSD Boot Disk. It used to have a better GPU and boot drive in it but I don't use it like I used to.
I don't daily my x58 systems either for the same reason I don't daily drive my classic car. And not because they are both usually in pieces either lol.
Monster rig.
I have a machine like this, started off the same way i7-920 with 3gb ram.. now has gtx 970 and 24gb ram, ddr3-1866. it was my home server for a while until I upgraded that too. ran cinebench on the new server (r15) just for fun and got 3942 points. 2x e5-2683v4 32core 64 thread, 448gb ram, gtx 1050ti. supermicro x10-dax-i motherboard. absolute overkill.
Just dug out a MB I got with a small bundle of computer parts I picked, up about a year ago, from a person who tinkered with computers and was moving. Bought the bundle for the 500D RGB Case and an X299 Board, but there was another MB with it. Turns out it's an ASUS TUF X58 with a 950 installed and all 6 memory channels filled with Heatsinked Hyper X. I have Many X99, X299 and X399 Boards / Computers in Premium Cases but my daily Driver for surfing is the same CoolerMaster Case as yours with an ASUS Z77 / 2500K @ 4Ghz/ 16G Ram / EVGA 1060 / Samsung SSD. I've been thinking of swapping in some other MB but was torn between my choices of a Maximus 8 or Maximus 10 that I already have, but aren't really a the match I prefer. Usually I keep the parts within the same Era / year as if I'm building a High End Pc of the time, i7's, i9 X series, all ram filled, 980ti's, 1080ti's, 2080ti's, some in SLI depending on the year. Question ? How far could I go with the X58, keeping it semi era accurate, using the same SSD and maybe an upgraded GPU ? Could I get more performance than the 2500K setup that's in the CoolerMaster now ? I don't game on it and just record videos off the internet and would like to open more tabs. I realize I need more CPU power.
The extra cache and core count, on paper, should perform better but it's hard to say how much better. For very little money you could get an x5680 (as long as your board supports it) and it should out perform that 2500k with ease.
Geat presence on video dude...Very enjoyable to watch. You have a voice for entertainment. Off the cuff with no script and zero awkwardness. Killing it mam! 10/10
"That's sreally Dark..." Pretty funny
Great X58 upgrade! Also I have my PC's hooked up to a UPS for BIOS updates just in case especially if you are in an area with brownouts/blackouts!
Now you just need to go into Bios and change your Bclk to 140 and vcore to 1.35v and you are set for another several years.. All 5 of my x5650's can do 4.6Ghz 24/7 with out breaking a sweat..
Good video. X58 lives on.
I feel bad for 920 too as they were worth 200 back in the day now in my country they go for 1. I only have one but I seem to be collecting Q6600s. Also replacing my 920 for 965 as that was only 15 pounds.
Good vid. Always like seeing old equip in use.
So the nvme drive maybe chain loadable much like a M5A97 I use via a bootloader called clover, I did have to bypass the oobe due to windows being confused but it worked for me, just leaving this here as a little trick that can retrofit some older boards just using a spare usb pen or adapter for a improvised work around also be sure to check the lane count Vs your pci-e gen for the best nvme adapter to get.
This is true but you can't beat tinkering with this platform as a enthusiast 😀
It is hard to get LGA 1366 aftermarket coolers these days.
Great video. Looking forward to the next x58 platform video. - Subscribed
Thanks! I've got a couple planned. I hope you enjoy them!
Nice build!!, long live x58
You can do as much as put an EFI on a boot stick and have the boot stick start the Window 10 from the NVME. Not that it's that important to use the NVME as the OS drive, proabably won't make much difference, both SSDs are much faster than the HDDs. Nice upgrade!
Just upgraded from a w3680 run it at 4ghz for years great chip
Ah yes X58. I had an i9 920 my uncle gave me, and eventually the memory controller on it died. Found a xeon processor on ebay to fit the socket for $11 and kept her going, lol.
Heh, I have also a spare 920 in my CPU box. Replaced it also with a X5650 but got a X5675 recently, overclocks better.
I upgraded my personal rig from a 920 to a 5675 as well. It was a huge upgrade!
My Asus p6x58de machine runs windows 11 pro on a Samsung 950 pro 256gb nvme m.2 boot drive this drive is plug and play with native legacy boot, xenon x5675 @ 4.31mhz @1.35v, 24 gb 4x6 @1866 cinebench R15 score of 1005 also Intel dual band AC3156 Bluetooth/ WiFi and a pcie X4 USB 3.0 for front IO USB ports and a Asus ROG strix GTX 1080 8gb 1080p 144hz
Nvme doest work as boot drive on x58
@@splashboi898 Samsung 950 pro nvme m.2 has legacy boot no mod required bought this one new last year for $80 bucks on eBay getting 1600 Reed and 950 write also bought a 2 TB 970 Evo for $100 bucks getting 1700 up and down for Windows storage but I hear there is also a way to enable UEFI mode on x58 by setting the drives to IDE haven't tried it requires a full reinstall I'm happy with my results
@@paulburkey2 nice I do have an x58 board still lying around so I will try that out. Also have a 950 pro that came free with my x99 mobo and it's really fast, I use it as a boot drive. I used to use my x5675 with a gtx 1080 as well and it paired nicely, was at 4.4ghz.
im running same motherboard with x5660 at 4 ghz 1,3 volts and 2 sticks of 8gb 1600mhz with 1080 gtx runs well
@@dannyBtech you might want to run 3 sticks triple channel memory is x58's strength
You 100% can use the NVME as a boot drive. Have you done that yet?
After a lot of googling and trial and error I am unable to get it to boot from the pcie device. If you can point me toward some info to help me get it to boot I'd love to give it another try!
@@idoesstuff1 you try it with a USB stick and refind boot manager? It might make boot up longer as you have to boot to the USB to access the nvme.
I have a P6T Deluxe v2 that I just brought back to life, has 24GB of RAM and an X5650 processor, I threw a Radeon W7100 8GB GPU in it and under linux mint, on steam, I can run cyberpunk 2077.... I replaced this unit with a Ryzen 3600X 2 years ago but still plan to use it for many years.
It even supports up to 96GB ram with a Xeon CPU.
Right now i have the i7 990x installed with 48GB of ram.
i have x5670 on hp z400 🙌🏼
Awesome! Maybe now just upgrade de video card!
6:16 mounting bracket
Sometimes my brain don't work good.
Nice going.
My cinebench while oc is 997 btw.
Does anyone know where i may find an online replacement bios chip (updated to the latest gigabyte x58 bios code??) for a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R MB??
..or would i need to pay gigabyte llc to remove/replace or reflash the bios chip
What was the ram that you added and where did you buy it from?
great video g
Can the bios be updated to run windows 11?
Without giving any thought to this I would guess no because it doesn't have tpm 2.0. Maybe things have changed and windows 11 doesn't need it now?
Nice I got an x5690 in my x58 system
It will be a sad day when x58 is finally irrelevant.
@@idoesstuff1 I'm quite sure this will be not the case anytime soon.
How did you get steam working in Vista?
Steam was already installed. This is an old hdd so I doubt steam would have worked still.
All that money for a machine that dont support AVX
All the games from unreal engine 5 cant even run
This pc holds well until 2020
Now is waste of money
You are right about the missing AVX features bc the CPUs do not have it, but you are wrong about the UE5 thing. As example - Satisfactory runs very smoothly on my i7-980 on x58 Board, and you know what - I wasted some more money to a modern RX6700 GPU to make my machine live even longer. Just no need to follow all the marketing bs.
@@yorobs Yes some UE5 games runs but its up to developers to do the extra work need it soooo
First thing you need to do is throw it in the trash. Buy 10105F or 12100, enjoy your speed and ENERGY SAVINGS.
How dare you... lol