7:14 Honestly it looks to me like the pin is bent before you even put the CPU in Greg. It seems to sit slightly lower than the rest when I zoom in. Not sure if this is on you tbh (referring to S04E20 fix or flop)
@Greg Salazar, the issue with the build is that the x58 chipset only supports a total of 24GB of memory, in 6x 4GB sticks maximum. The system is getting hung up on the memory issue. If you swap the current kit for a set of 4GB DIMMs you will be fine. I hope this helps. As always great content.
I have a Asus P6T mobo with 48GB of ram installed on it, and it runs with no problems whatsoever. Multiple sources say that even 96GB of ram is even possible if you use a Xeon CPU.
Good point, but he is using a consumer grade i7. With possible BIOS hacks it may work, but given it was never used, it would default to the 24GB maximum. If you Google the motherboard it states 24GB maximum memory.
x58 is a lot harder to stabilize with 6 dimms too. I tried 3x4 and 3x2 but it kept not seeing 2 of the dimms for some reason. Not sure if its the x5650 having issues cause I haven't tried any of my other x58 chips with the 18gb configuration yet. I have read though that running 6 dimms is difficult to stabilize if overclocking.@@nathan_tasker
@@opoxious1592 I too have the P6T board that was paired with a i7 930 and a R9 390X. And mine wouldn't post with more than 24gb of ram in it. I have since upgraded to a Xeon X5690 but I no longer have larger than 4gb sticks of DDR3 to confirm that.
Couple years back I got this cpu used for 10 dollars from an online auction. I paired it with a cheap aliexpress motherboard and now my mom uses it to do her crosswords.
My wife asked me to build her a gaming computer. She didn't tell me what games she would be playing. Women are like that. The total build cost was nearly $2000. When I watched her playing on it, I was stunned. She was playing MS Solitare.
No miscommunication. Her PC died, and I built her one using parts from my spare parts bin. Her favorite game is MS Solitaire, which she plays for hours.@@EmergencyChannel
Motherboard probably needs a bios update to support all of that ram, since its likely running an early bios. Most people at that time were using 12gb, even 24gb was kind of rare and overkill. I would try for a post using 4gb dimms and go from there
motherboard and ram, X58 6 slot boards only had support for 24GB MAX, it can only a 4GB Stick per DIMM slot 4x6= 24 Max, Greg's configuration is a six 8GB sticks of DDR3 it should totally work it's just the chipset for x58 on 6 slot motherboard's, because the Mac pro 4,1 5,1 used LGA 1366 cpu's running on the X58 chipset with configurations for 8 and 4 DIMM slots that can hold up to hold 196GB of ram, those DDR3 slot's could handle up to 16GB of RDIMM memory, so greg if your eading this you should get six 4 GIG sticks of corsair or any brand with 1600Mhz or higher used market is the best. Good luck hope this helped
Just a note here, the ASUS X58 Sabertooth board does have USB 3.0 on the rear, but no front panel USB 3.0. This was the first generation to have USB 3.0. Love to see old hardware being used like this though, I have a lot of nostalgia for X58, the Xeons were excellent for this platform in the later years. Just a shame you weren't able to get it working, I wish you luck with figuring it out.
I remember the first generation of motherboards with the USB 3.0 on the rear IO only, there were several cases released at that time that used a pass through cable to have a USB 3.0 front IO.
@@richardfarmer6570 You have a good point there, I've seen a few like that with the passthrough cables, I got into using X58 for systems when the Xeons got cheap, so the solution was either leave USB 3.0 unplugged or use a PCIe card.
It does have rear USB 3.0 as the standard for the header had not yet been invented. Cases of the era all had rear passthrough, many doing it very hackily using the watercooling tube ports that were still common but not often used. fun fact it has the original NEC chip which was dead reliable. that was later sold to asmedia which AMD later partnered with to design and make their chipsets.
man this takes me back. I was a freshman in college looking up old linus vids back in the day to build my first pc. I had an i7860 which was on the other platform(lga1156) i think since the i7920/930 or whatever was different. . That paired with the gtx 470 that came out that year, my pc was near top tier back in summer 2010 then. I also remember the huge debacle with hyperthreading back then and how everyone was laughing at "fake cores" or whatever. Those cpus lasted a very very long time and i still stand by my statement from over a decade ago that you were trolling to not get a quad core with hyperthreading. That specific cpu greg has retailed at $1000 buck during release, i specifically remembered that and was going hell nah. That and my other favorite memory lane event was the following year gpu wise when the gtx 465 came out and everyone was trying to flash them into 470s, man what a time that was
I have an ancient throwback rig. It probably uses that referenced gigabyte motherboard. I use 2 IDE hard drives and 1 SSD. 4 IDE USB drives, DVD burner and Blu-ray player. The cpu is a FX 4170. GPU is a XFX Radeon R7 260X. And finally 12gb ddr3 ram. Thermaltake V3 black edition case.
X-58 was one of my favourite platforms, i still have one modded with a xeon 5660 and a radeon 590 with 24 gigs of ram,it even runs a win11 lite (spectre) version. It doesnt hold a candle to my modern pc but i still love it.
You can see the DRAM light is lit up on the post lights, im watching this vid on the exact same board and a X5680 6-core in there. I suspect maybe the Bios isnt updated if its never been booted, and 48GB was for later revisions, i think 24GB was maxed out in the beginning, i defo could be wrong.... I for one cant wait to see this old but so very very new Tech to be posted and let her breath some of that fresh fresh air bud....
@@GregSalazar Oh i fully understand that sir, its taken for granted alot these days i feel, not so common at all out the box support, as its one of the 1st Gen i-7's...Tbh, this probs time spent tinkering wise, is my most worked on socket i think, LGA 1366...Just love tinkering with all the old kit...Its great dude, I mean compared too todays stuff, its literally , 1 core of say a 10th Gen i-9 would probs beat an all core i-7 980X On cinibench. Holy goodness, that would actually be Comical... 🤣🤣🤣(P.S Salazar Sir) Cant wait to see this episode of F'o'FLOP..... Oh i love it bro, Cant wait to see if ive ever had the problems u have with this board.
I was still using my X58 system until earlier this year. Technically it still runs 24/7 but it's now just running Folding at Home. i7-920 @ 3.6GHz, MSI X58 Pro, 24 GB RAM. One of my favorite builds.
I personally appreciate the humble posting of this video. PC building is not always straightforward or easy, so seeing this video is completely understandable. Was a fun watch! EDIT: Looking forward to the fix or flop episode!!
x58 was an AWESOME platform! I used an x5675 and a GTX 1080 until just a couple of years ago. I think I bought the whole system used for $150 back in 2016ish. Had quad SLI 9500 GTs! Served me well. I think the compatibility with the 6 core xeons and the triple channel memory really helped extend the life of these systems.
Man, this brings up good memories! This babies went up to 4.5Ghz more than a decade ago! X58 was the best PC platform ever made, afaic. As for the POST problem, I bet is the memory; we used 4GB sticks at the time for a total of 24GB.
My First Extreme Build was the Intel 4960x with 32GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum ram the Asus Rampage board of the era of ivy Lake. The ram alone was $890 from NCIX the Cpu $1100 and I didn't even have a sata drive at that time. That build lasted until I built my x299 7980Xe Rig. I gave the ivy Lake build to my nephew so he could have a rig to help him stream 😂
This brings me back to when i built my Intel i7 920 back in 2010 Asus P6X58D Premium mother board and 12 Gig triple channel memory. since I built it I am now using SSD's for storage and just put in an AIO Corsair H50. I really injoy watching Fix or Flop. Thanks
Gosh this brings back memories! I built two computers with this motherboard, one was even a used board from Fry's which had bent pins. Got it to work, I ended up using Xeon X5690 and X5680. I remember having to update the bios using slower chips. It seemed to want to work forever! Ended up having to replace the power supplies and the fans on the CPU cooler. Gave both systems away and I know one is still working at a friends house and he does newsletters with it. Solid motherboard!
If you start with 1 ram stick, then restart and add the next one, repeat until you have added all ram sticks. And it will probably work. 48gb is fully doable on this platform. But x58 is very finicky with ram training.
I have an old X58 rig that I used all the way upto 2019. I have it in a Cooler Master HAF XM with a i7 980X, MSI X58 Big Bang xPower, 24GB of DDR3-2400, and dual GTX 780 in SLI. I loved that machine. I built it in 2016 after college. I got a really good bundle of parts for a cheap price back then. I ran the i7 980X at 4.6Ghz at 1.35V and I managed to get the ram to work at DDR3-2000. That was the hard limit on the IMC. I have heard that if you run 3x8GB dimms instead of 6x4GB dimms, you can get better speeds and tighter timings but I didn't want to spend the money for that. One of my GTX 780s failed so in 2017, I bought a R9 Fury X to replace the SLI pair but since I don't use the rig anymore, I put my two GTX 780s back in just for looks. I might try and get up and running just to revisit it. I do have a pair of HD 7990s now in my collection, which is much more period appropriate for the platform and would look pretty dang baller. :3c
One time back in 2010, Fry's Electronics had the i7-980x on sale for something like $700. I had a gift card so I decided to buy one of these but Fry's was out of stock. I even went there on Friday, mid-day, before the weekend rush. About three years ago I found the i7-980x, Rampage III Extreme, and 12GB of the OCZ Heatreaper RAM combo on Offerup for around $130. It had been sitting around for over 10 years before the original owner decided to sell it. I actually had trouble getting it to run at first. What got it running was I cleaned the two CPU 8-Pin connectors with CRC Electronics cleaner and a brush. The PSU was a new EVGA 1200w unit so that wasn't the problem. The i7-980x overclocks surprisingly well, but not as well as my Xeon X5690.
nice to see LGA1366 I love this platform, I always wanted an LGA1366 PC so I have a secondary "retro" gaming LGA1366 PC with a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 2.0) with a Xeon W3670 @4ghz and 3x8gb 1600mhz ram and I use a few different GPUs usually a GTX 950 but I also have a GTX 750 2gb and a HD4670, I have to try some modern games on it with my RTX 3060, it's running W7 ultimate, I use it for games that don't run on w10 anymore.
RTX 3060 should do pretty well. I ran a GTX 1080 in my X58 system with a X5670 @ 4.4GHz and it games at 1080p pretty well. I now have the 1080 in my new (to me) X299 system with an i9-10900X and in most games there's barely any difference. Though LGA1366 CPUs don't have AVX and AVX2 so some newer games wont launch
My gosh, this was a throwback for me too. My first pc build was in 2011, and I didn't know much. I ended up building with an amd 1090t and I used an antec 1200 V3 and the coolermaster V8.
Once I saw the red light near the RAM staying on, I knew exactly what the problem was, lol! Definitely doesn’t like the RAM. Super ironic, just wrapped up building a windows 7 throwback PC on this same board tonight! Threw a Xeon X5660 in there and paired it with a couple of GTX 580’s in SLI. It’ll play anything from that era (2010/2011) extremely well. Modern games, maybe not so much, but those old ones were running great. Thanks for the video!
That processor brings me way back. It was in the first PC I built for myself. I used it with an Asus P6T MB, 24GB of RAM. and a Radeon HD 5970. So much nostalgia even if the GPU wasn't period-accurate. I really hope you can get it up and running. But since debug LEDs weren't a thing back then it could be a serious pain in the ass. I remember getting so frustrated I ended up buying a debug board that plugged into the TPM header that would allow you to debug the post issues. I was so happy when they started adding debug LEDs and the the segmented displays with post codes.
Nice. I used to have a beautiful X58 build in a mostly glass case to show off the components. It was a Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme mobo - with a funky heatpipe/finstack for cooling the chipset - even had fittings for water cooling the chipset! CPU was a Xeon X5687, six 4GB Corsair DIMMs in blue and black, to match the colors on the motherboard. Had my eyes on a blue Sapphire RX580 Nitro to complete the build, but ended up selling the lot for lack of space.
Old tech looks better than modern tech, it just does. Even the boxes of older graphics cards were always so incredible and made you dream/wise there was a game version of it. The cooler itself looked like something out of a video game, the card looks amazing. Everything together just makes it look so great. Modern stuff is just boring with some flashy, pretty lights. The boxes are boring and just says "graphics card. Wow." in plain English. Coolers are just chunks of metal with a fan(almost identical to the stock cooler from the video actually), etc. Love the imagination we had back in the day. Nothing but cold science now.
After reading some of the comments. I would also have to agree. From what the motherboard manual says. I only see 6gig sticks as being the max size. It actually even says at the top of the manual to use up to 4gig sticks.
I've still got a Sabertooth x58 build with an i7 920 and a Geforce 9800gt. It has a WD 1TB drive for boot, and 6 Samsung 2TB drives in a hardware raid 5 array for file storage. Coincidentally, it's in an Antec silent full tower case from the same era ~2010, don't recall the model number. It takes up 10x the space and uses 4x the power of a modern NAS while being considerably slower.
At the beginning of the lockdown i pulled out my old 58x rig. It was my first completely new rig i built. Mine had the i7 920 with asus rampage 2 and a hd 5870. I upgraded it with a W3690 @ 4.3ghz and a rx 580. I remember overclocking the 920 but i got a dud and couldn't get past 3ghz. Was fun to pull the old guy outta retirement and play some old, and some newer games!
It really got me when you said it was over a decade old and you were a freshman in high school. Like, when I was in school, we had 386 and 486 computers and Pentiums weren't a thing until after I graduated High School. lol Damn I am old.
I was 18 years old when this CPU was released, we might be close in age. While I was not interested in building PCs at all then, I've got X58 bloodrage mobo yesterday. I'm excited to build with it, too. It's exciting to combine modern parts with legendary old parts.
I have that exact mobo, with a 940 and 24 gigs of DDR3....since been put out of use, but still have the motherboard box and everything that came with it.
My MSI R9 390 Gaming 8G used to game at a steady 94c, and of course as we all know, there was no hotspot sensor back then, so i can only imagine what that would have read. My friends been using it for the last 4 years since i grabbed the 5700XT at launch, he plays gmod, and gta 5, and halo MCC on it perfectly fine. They run hot, but they sure were built for it.
I've done some old PC hardware in newer cases and I found out it's good to have several extensions or adapters handy. For example, there are USB 3 extensions that are flexible and look much cleaner than the big 'ol plug that always comes with the cases. Makes the build look cleaner in terms of cable management. In this situation, where the front panel header doesn't match the case plug, there are front panel extensions that have the plug at one end and separated pins at the other like in most cases. These adapters and extensions are cheap and normally found at amazon in packs of 2 or 3.
Antec cases were the GOAT back in the day, still driving my old I7 860 an antec case and fans running strong after 13 years. These new cases look pretty good and are affordable for what you get.
I had an Antec Sonata on my first PC build. I don't remember much about the parts, the processor was one of the last of the single core and the GPU was the 6800GT. Used it for many years.
I built a similar system last year. I came across an Asus P6T deluxe mobo on ebay that was basically new and I still had my i7 940 from back in the day and 24gb of corsair 1600mhz ddr3. Bought a new case, a cheap Zalman, off Amazon. I had an evga 650w modular 80+gold psu in my spare parts drawer I used and a spare 1tb ssd. Tossed in my old evga gtx 970. I had the most trouble finding a cooler to work with the lga 1336 socket. After it was done I took it to work to play skyrim and some other older games.
Still using 1366 PC to this day for Word and some maybe retro gaming. 980X is the CPU I got back when I still in the first year of trying to build PC out of second hand part, that is around in 2012-2013 and I got it for around $400 without original heatsink and it last me so many years until I replace that build with 5960X 5-6 years later.
The X58 plateform is by far my favorite! Still have my original one and it's on this that i learned to overclock and tinker with pc's! Mine has a Xeon x5675 overclocked to 4.5ghz paired with an rx580 8gig and beleive it or not, but it still runs almost every title! I use it for Retro console games connected to my tv!
First, the intel core i7-980X is only rated to handle a maximum of 24 GB of DDR3 1066 RAM (1066 is also the maximum speed). Second, you'll need to update the BIOS using an even older CPU. Since this motherboard has never been used, it probably doesn't have the BIOS updates to handle such a powerful (for its day) CPU.
The Sabertooth X58 is one of the newer X58 boards released after the i7-980X was already out so even the launch BIOS supports it. The i7-980X does unofficially support 48GB RAM but the official limit is 24GB because 8GB sticks weren't out yet when it was released. The memory can also run at lower than rated speed so you don't need to use 1066 sticks
I got an old P6T Deluxe v2 to recognize 32GB of RAM, even when I had 48GB and 36GB installed. NP getting it to work with the illustrious 32nm Xeons once the BIOS was updated. Asus boards like the x58 Sabertooth, P6X58D-E, P6X58D Premium, and Rampage III were all revised motherboards that came out around the same time the i7-980x came out.
@@m8x425 I always wanted to get 48GB for my P6X58D-E but DDR3 8GB non-Registered sticks are still quite expensive here in Finland. It's still stuck on 24GB (6x4GB) but I now have a X299 system with 64GB and might later upgrade to 128GB
Bought the Antec Performance 1 FT (vanilla black) for my build, and i am so eager to start building in it :D Thanks for yet another awesome video Greg :D hope you are having a good one :)
I loved the video. We get so many videos talking about new hardware and upgrade paths but no one EVER upgrades. Most people who bought this platform either maxed out from the beginning or stuck with an i7-920 and sold the platform a few years later. I would love a video showing how to upgrade a platform like this to meet basic modern needs like, an alternative to the power switch, adding USB 3.0 PCIe support, WIFI, and other small quality-of-life upgrades that can be made. Adding a GTX 980 or 980Ti if the R9 290 is the problem. I would love a video showing how a maxed-out 10 - 12-year-old build like this holds up in modern titles at reasonable settings. Awesome video!
Sadly drivers for hardware that age are going to be your biggest issue. For Win10 your running on base built in drivers and thats it. Architectures this old are missing things modern OS's and software assume you have. Also this is SATA II gen still the onboard 3rd party SATAIII was garbage even in its day. Then they carried that same chip over to the X79 version of the board annoyingly.
You might want to try and see it will post with different ram. That setup isn't much different then what I was using all the way up till 2022. I had a Antec 300 case (still use it in my current rig) with a intel i7 965 Extreme edition clocked around 3.2ghz. The mobo was a Asus P6T (original not deluxe or SE editions) with 24 GB of DDR3 ram. (had all 6 ram slots populated at one point). Knowing that are you sure that board can do 48GB? Try smaller modules for a 24GB setup and see if it posts with that. I'd still be using it to this day but the slow boot times even with SSD meant that it was finally time to upgrade. I went from that to a 4th gen i7 rig. My current rig is Antec 300 case but now with a Dell 9020MT mobo put in with the nessecery adapters to make it work on my PSU and front panel connections. It has a 4th gen i7 clocked around 3.4 or so. Currently got 16GB of DDR3 ram in it. It can max to 32GB but I haven't found the money to do that yet. The boot drive is a NVME dropped into a PCIE slot with an adapter. The mobo doesn't normally support booting from NVME, but I flashed a modified UEFI to the board to support it. :D I upgraded this mostly for budget reasons as it also saved me from having to get new ram. If i upgrade again gen 10 is probably the highest I'll go for now. Nothing about the newer gens really makes any sense for my use case. The video card I was using in the old rig was a GTX 650 but in 2021 I upgraded it to a GTX 780Ti. Still using the 780ti in my current rig. As for my case I still use it because it's got 3 optical drive bays. I'd love to upgrade to something that would let me vertically mount my GPU so I can reclaim the PCIE slot below it but as far as I can tell vertical mount cases with at least 2 optical drive bays don't seem to exist.... :(
I have a powercolor r9-290 that I received a decade ago when I went to the AMD 30 years of gaming and graphics event AMD did in Austin, TX. The launched the r9-285 at the event and gave everyone who attended a free r9-290. I replaced my 3 way crossfire 6950 cards with it. It’s a 3 fan card and I’ve never had a problem with overheating.
I had a 920 I7 from 2009! On that platform I think...Very popular platform at the time. It still works 14 years later! With a fresh CMOS battery...I am on 5800x3d on AM4 now...
Still running an X58 system myself, my 2009 Gigabyte EX58-UD3R which now has a Xeon X5680 in it. It lives in my kitchen for paying bills now, but the old girl still boots every time. Actually have the much older version of the Cooler Master V8 on it .... and it's in an Antec case lol. Just a thought, but my X58 throws fits if I try using ram dimms with a capacity higher than 4gb. Might be worth giving some 4 gig sticks a try.
Memory incompatibility, try with one stick first, then update bios, then try 3 sticks and then 6sticks. X58 is very sensitive to memory but they do work after a little tinkering
Just FYI, remove all but 1 module for 1st boot. X58 was weird about training memory like that. Once you get that first POST, you can add the remaining modules. A word of advice: while you can run 48GB in triple channel, it will run slower with both banks populated as opposed to running single banks in triple channel. I set mine up as 6x4GB DDR3 and the memory performance improved when I switched to 3x8GB. I'm rocking a Republic of Gamers Rampage III Formula with a i7 990X, 24GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1866, a 960GB Crucial M600 SSD (the R3F has native SATA III), a Strix R9 380 OC, and 10TB worth of 7200RPM Seagate drives, and it's all running in a Lian Li PC-601A Aluminum case that I got while dumpster diving. Now it's more my NAS, but for 10 years it kept up with everything up to 7th Gen Intel and 1st Gen Ryzen. 5GHZ overclock with liquid cooling; I've since returned it to stock clocks and air cooling. Once games began requiring new instruction sets, I ended up replacing X58 with an i7 9700K/Z390 system. Been running that just fine for the past 4 years.
I’ve always used jumper cables (like the ones you get in classes to wire up a breadboard) to rewire front panel headers. Also need to start looking into Antec’s cases. Most of my recent cases are Deepcool but that case does look very nice for a non-tempered glass build
Very cool, especially that Cooler Master V8 GTS tower cooler! I remember shopping for a Cooler Master Sphere cooler, that thing looked really awesome at the time...!
was the perfect inbetween high enough you could oc but none of that extra garbage to get in the way or die. Its a sad thing they killed off like line. Some of its siblings were the best boards in the era's for budget builds as well. Now we just get 15 different ROG SKU's and cost cut garbage.
I put together a Asrock z370 K6 Gaming mobo, i7 8086k , 2 TB crucial p5 Plus nvme, Asus ROG Strix RX 5700xt, for my GFs kid. Its still a pretty slick little set up.
I Remember Building my First X58 With thate i7 920 then soon upgraded to the i7 980 on an asus X58 Premium Bord & that baby would run at 4.2ghz OC & it was a real Beast back n the day ! it also had a custom water loop & a pair of 560tis in sli all water cooled And 24gb of Ram was the max i do believe Boot drive was a 250gb samsung evo ssd then i upgraded it to GTX Titans in SLI..yea i had Fun ..the good ole days..lol.
I have this same build with the 950 and same motherboard. It’s in a Corsair case with 24G ram. I was going to bring it to you for fix or flop but figured it wouldn’t be worth your time or mine. Still it would be nice to have it working again!
Wow, great video. I have a 980X rocking in a Asus P6T7 WS motherboard with 24gigs ram DDR3 (24 is the max) and Quadro P2000. I still use it for my plex media player. I will surely be on the look out for the follow up video.
I got to use a 940m in a asus gaming laptop. Think it was paired with a 6800hdm from radeon, something like that. Was something of a beast at the time, out performed the desktops we were using. Just remember that thing blowing our minds, and the best thing at the time was the 360. How times have changed.
You'd get a giggle from my full-tower 2nd gen i7 system. It has an old, old Cooler Master case with a built-in-the-top-of-the-case SATA drive bay, many hard drive slots and both 5 1/4 and 3.5" drive bays. And a Fatal1ty motherboard with a dedicated serial-mouse port. That old throwback still runs Unreal Tournament and StarCraft very well indeed.
Aging myself here, 3rd PC I built was with a I7-980.. How long did I use it? It had a GTX 980 in it at one point just for the lols.. edit here, SAME MOBO.. Original build had Corsair dominator with that what now seems dumb fan for active cooling your DDR3.. God this video takes me back.. It also had a 9800GTX+... built in a Cooler master HAF 932.. Was built because of SKYRIM
I believe it needs a BIOS update for such an old motherboard. It may support 6 DDR3 sticks, but maybe it needs a BIOS update for that. You could try booting with a single stick and see what's going on. Apart from that, I really love this build. The motherboard, although it's too old, it's freaking amazing. I love the way it's built, I love the design and the colors. The case is also awesome.
Check out the update to this video HERE: th-cam.com/video/wCWitEwHyIE/w-d-xo.html
7:14 Honestly it looks to me like the pin is bent before you even put the CPU in Greg. It seems to sit slightly lower than the rest when I zoom in.
Not sure if this is on you tbh (referring to S04E20 fix or flop)
@Greg Salazar, the issue with the build is that the x58 chipset only supports a total of 24GB of memory, in 6x 4GB sticks maximum. The system is getting hung up on the memory issue. If you swap the current kit for a set of 4GB DIMMs you will be fine. I hope this helps. As always great content.
I have a Asus P6T mobo with 48GB of ram installed on it, and it runs with no problems whatsoever.
Multiple sources say that even 96GB of ram is even possible if you use a Xeon CPU.
Good point, but he is using a consumer grade i7. With possible BIOS hacks it may work, but given it was never used, it would default to the 24GB maximum. If you Google the motherboard it states 24GB maximum memory.
thats the first problem i saw when he was building with 8gb per slot. 2010 was simpler times and 4gb is the standard back then
x58 is a lot harder to stabilize with 6 dimms too. I tried 3x4 and 3x2 but it kept not seeing 2 of the dimms for some reason. Not sure if its the x5650 having issues cause I haven't tried any of my other x58 chips with the 18gb configuration yet. I have read though that running 6 dimms is difficult to stabilize if overclocking.@@nathan_tasker
@@opoxious1592 I too have the P6T board that was paired with a i7 930 and a R9 390X. And mine wouldn't post with more than 24gb of ram in it. I have since upgraded to a Xeon X5690 but I no longer have larger than 4gb sticks of DDR3 to confirm that.
Couple years back I got this cpu used for 10 dollars from an online auction. I paired it with a cheap aliexpress motherboard and now my mom uses it to do her crosswords.
sounds like retirement home for this once mighty CPU
My wife asked me to build her a gaming computer. She didn't tell me what games she would be playing. Women are like that. The total build cost was nearly $2000. When I watched her playing on it, I was stunned. She was playing MS Solitare.
@@outlet6989easy solution is to communicate and ask what she wants to play
@outlet6989 You built a $2000 PC without asking your wife what games she wanted to play? Sounds like your relationship has communication problems.
No miscommunication. Her PC died, and I built her one using parts from my spare parts bin. Her favorite game is MS Solitaire, which she plays for hours.@@EmergencyChannel
Motherboard probably needs a bios update to support all of that ram, since its likely running an early bios. Most people at that time were using 12gb, even 24gb was kind of rare and overkill. I would try for a post using 4gb dimms and go from there
Just wrapped up the filming of the FoF episode around this one. Wasn't memory or BIOS related, surprisingly :-)
motherboard and ram, X58 6 slot boards only had support for 24GB MAX, it can only a 4GB Stick per DIMM slot 4x6= 24 Max, Greg's configuration is a six 8GB sticks of DDR3 it should totally work it's just the chipset for x58 on 6 slot motherboard's, because the Mac pro 4,1 5,1 used LGA 1366 cpu's running on the X58 chipset with configurations for 8 and 4 DIMM slots that can hold up to hold 196GB of ram, those DDR3 slot's could handle up to 16GB of RDIMM memory, so greg if your eading this you should get six 4 GIG sticks of corsair or any brand with 1600Mhz or higher used market is the best. Good luck hope this helped
im so dumb i didnt see his comment above 💀
the only other hardware-physical thing i could think of would be to reseat the CPU... @@GregSalazar
The good news is Extreme has more PCIe lanes than the regular 115x system, so you can add a USB-C / USB 3 card.
Just a note here, the ASUS X58 Sabertooth board does have USB 3.0 on the rear, but no front panel USB 3.0. This was the first generation to have USB 3.0.
Love to see old hardware being used like this though, I have a lot of nostalgia for X58, the Xeons were excellent for this platform in the later years. Just a shame you weren't able to get it working, I wish you luck with figuring it out.
I remember the first generation of motherboards with the USB 3.0 on the rear IO only, there were several cases released at that time that used a pass through cable to have a USB 3.0 front IO.
Could buy a pci e 3.0 and c header adapter card. Just to make the case fully functional.
@@richardfarmer6570 You have a good point there, I've seen a few like that with the passthrough cables, I got into using X58 for systems when the Xeons got cheap, so the solution was either leave USB 3.0 unplugged or use a PCIe card.
It does have rear USB 3.0 as the standard for the header had not yet been invented. Cases of the era all had rear passthrough, many doing it very hackily using the watercooling tube ports that were still common but not often used.
fun fact it has the original NEC chip which was dead reliable. that was later sold to asmedia which AMD later partnered with to design and make their chipsets.
I just add a 5.25 inch usb 3 front panel. We used to run a pass through cable before usb 3 front headers existed.
man this takes me back. I was a freshman in college looking up old linus vids back in the day to build my first pc. I had an i7860 which was on the other platform(lga1156) i think since the i7920/930 or whatever was different. . That paired with the gtx 470 that came out that year, my pc was near top tier back in summer 2010 then. I also remember the huge debacle with hyperthreading back then and how everyone was laughing at "fake cores" or whatever. Those cpus lasted a very very long time and i still stand by my statement from over a decade ago that you were trolling to not get a quad core with hyperthreading.
That specific cpu greg has retailed at $1000 buck during release, i specifically remembered that and was going hell nah. That and my other favorite memory lane event was the following year gpu wise when the gtx 465 came out and everyone was trying to flash them into 470s, man what a time that was
I have an ancient throwback rig. It probably uses that referenced gigabyte motherboard. I use 2 IDE hard drives and 1 SSD. 4 IDE USB drives, DVD burner and Blu-ray player. The cpu is a FX 4170. GPU is a XFX Radeon R7 260X. And finally 12gb ddr3 ram. Thermaltake V3 black edition case.
X-58 was one of my favourite platforms, i still have one modded with a xeon 5660 and a radeon 590 with 24 gigs of ram,it even runs a win11 lite (spectre) version. It doesnt hold a candle to my modern pc but i still love it.
You can see the DRAM light is lit up on the post lights, im watching this vid on the exact same board and a X5680 6-core in there. I suspect maybe the Bios isnt updated if its never been booted, and 48GB was for later revisions, i think 24GB was maxed out in the beginning, i defo could be wrong.... I for one cant wait to see this old but so very very new Tech to be posted and let her breath some of that fresh fresh air bud....
This board supported this CPU out-of-the-box. Confirmed on their website. We figured out what the problem was and will reveal in FoF S4E20 👍
@@GregSalazar Oh i fully understand that sir, its taken for granted alot these days i feel, not so common at all out the box support, as its one of the 1st Gen i-7's...Tbh, this probs time spent tinkering wise, is my most worked on socket i think, LGA 1366...Just love tinkering with all the old kit...Its great dude, I mean compared too todays stuff, its literally , 1 core of say a 10th Gen i-9 would probs beat an all core i-7 980X On cinibench. Holy goodness, that would actually be Comical... 🤣🤣🤣(P.S Salazar Sir) Cant wait to see this episode of F'o'FLOP..... Oh i love it bro, Cant wait to see if ive ever had the problems u have with this board.
Thanks!
I was still using my X58 system until earlier this year. Technically it still runs 24/7 but it's now just running Folding at Home. i7-920 @ 3.6GHz, MSI X58 Pro, 24 GB RAM. One of my favorite builds.
I personally appreciate the humble posting of this video. PC building is not always straightforward or easy, so seeing this video is completely understandable. Was a fun watch! EDIT: Looking forward to the fix or flop episode!!
x58 was an AWESOME platform! I used an x5675 and a GTX 1080 until just a couple of years ago. I think I bought the whole system used for $150 back in 2016ish. Had quad SLI 9500 GTs! Served me well. I think the compatibility with the 6 core xeons and the triple channel memory really helped extend the life of these systems.
Man, this brings up good memories! This babies went up to 4.5Ghz more than a decade ago! X58 was the best PC platform ever made, afaic. As for the POST problem, I bet is the memory; we used 4GB sticks at the time for a total of 24GB.
My First Extreme Build was the Intel 4960x with 32GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum ram the Asus Rampage board of the era of ivy Lake. The ram alone was $890 from NCIX the Cpu $1100 and I didn't even have a sata drive at that time. That build lasted until I built my x299 7980Xe Rig. I gave the ivy Lake build to my nephew so he could have a rig to help him stream 😂
This brings me back to when i built my Intel i7 920 back in 2010 Asus P6X58D Premium mother board and 12 Gig triple channel memory. since I built it I am now using SSD's for storage and just put in an AIO Corsair H50. I really injoy watching Fix or Flop. Thanks
Gosh this brings back memories! I built two computers with this motherboard, one was even a used board from Fry's which had bent pins. Got it to work, I ended up using Xeon X5690 and X5680. I remember having to update the bios using slower chips. It seemed to want to work forever! Ended up having to replace the power supplies and the fans on the CPU cooler. Gave both systems away and I know one is still working at a friends house and he does newsletters with it. Solid motherboard!
If you start with 1 ram stick, then restart and add the next one, repeat until you have added all ram sticks. And it will probably work. 48gb is fully doable on this platform. But x58 is very finicky with ram training.
I used my x58 up until just a few years ago. Ran beautifully, probably still runs.
Same here, used a i7 920 until April 2023 then upgraded. Great platform / build.
I have an old X58 rig that I used all the way upto 2019. I have it in a Cooler Master HAF XM with a i7 980X, MSI X58 Big Bang xPower, 24GB of DDR3-2400, and dual GTX 780 in SLI. I loved that machine. I built it in 2016 after college. I got a really good bundle of parts for a cheap price back then. I ran the i7 980X at 4.6Ghz at 1.35V and I managed to get the ram to work at DDR3-2000. That was the hard limit on the IMC. I have heard that if you run 3x8GB dimms instead of 6x4GB dimms, you can get better speeds and tighter timings but I didn't want to spend the money for that. One of my GTX 780s failed so in 2017, I bought a R9 Fury X to replace the SLI pair but since I don't use the rig anymore, I put my two GTX 780s back in just for looks. I might try and get up and running just to revisit it. I do have a pair of HD 7990s now in my collection, which is much more period appropriate for the platform and would look pretty dang baller. :3c
One time back in 2010, Fry's Electronics had the i7-980x on sale for something like $700. I had a gift card so I decided to buy one of these but Fry's was out of stock. I even went there on Friday, mid-day, before the weekend rush.
About three years ago I found the i7-980x, Rampage III Extreme, and 12GB of the OCZ Heatreaper RAM combo on Offerup for around $130. It had been sitting around for over 10 years before the original owner decided to sell it. I actually had trouble getting it to run at first. What got it running was I cleaned the two CPU 8-Pin connectors with CRC Electronics cleaner and a brush. The PSU was a new EVGA 1200w unit so that wasn't the problem.
The i7-980x overclocks surprisingly well, but not as well as my Xeon X5690.
nice to see LGA1366 I love this platform, I always wanted an LGA1366 PC so I have a secondary "retro" gaming LGA1366 PC with a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 2.0) with a Xeon W3670 @4ghz and 3x8gb 1600mhz ram and I use a few different GPUs usually a GTX 950 but I also have a GTX 750 2gb and a HD4670, I have to try some modern games on it with my RTX 3060, it's running W7 ultimate, I use it for games that don't run on w10 anymore.
RTX 3060 should do pretty well. I ran a GTX 1080 in my X58 system with a X5670 @ 4.4GHz and it games at 1080p pretty well. I now have the 1080 in my new (to me) X299 system with an i9-10900X and in most games there's barely any difference. Though LGA1366 CPUs don't have AVX and AVX2 so some newer games wont launch
by far my favorite build you've put together
great job!
My gosh, this was a throwback for me too. My first pc build was in 2011, and I didn't know much. I ended up building with an amd 1090t and I used an antec 1200 V3 and the coolermaster V8.
Once I saw the red light near the RAM staying on, I knew exactly what the problem was, lol! Definitely doesn’t like the RAM.
Super ironic, just wrapped up building a windows 7 throwback PC on this same board tonight! Threw a Xeon X5660 in there and paired it with a couple of GTX 580’s in SLI. It’ll play anything from that era (2010/2011) extremely well. Modern games, maybe not so much, but those old ones were running great.
Thanks for the video!
That processor brings me way back. It was in the first PC I built for myself. I used it with an Asus P6T MB, 24GB of RAM. and a Radeon HD 5970. So much nostalgia even if the GPU wasn't period-accurate. I really hope you can get it up and running. But since debug LEDs weren't a thing back then it could be a serious pain in the ass. I remember getting so frustrated I ended up buying a debug board that plugged into the TPM header that would allow you to debug the post issues. I was so happy when they started adding debug LEDs and the the segmented displays with post codes.
dude, i always wanted a Sabertooth but couldnt justify the price in getting one, so seeing this was awesome! Thanks for this Greg! 😎
Thanks for watching!
Nice. I used to have a beautiful X58 build in a mostly glass case to show off the components. It was a Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme mobo - with a funky heatpipe/finstack for cooling the chipset - even had fittings for water cooling the chipset!
CPU was a Xeon X5687, six 4GB Corsair DIMMs in blue and black, to match the colors on the motherboard. Had my eyes on a blue Sapphire RX580 Nitro to complete the build, but ended up selling the lot for lack of space.
I got this on a prime sale for my son. It's a great case. Nifty little temp sensor display but it's tall enough where it doesn't get used much
Old tech looks better than modern tech, it just does. Even the boxes of older graphics cards were always so incredible and made you dream/wise there was a game version of it. The cooler itself looked like something out of a video game, the card looks amazing. Everything together just makes it look so great. Modern stuff is just boring with some flashy, pretty lights. The boxes are boring and just says "graphics card. Wow." in plain English. Coolers are just chunks of metal with a fan(almost identical to the stock cooler from the video actually), etc. Love the imagination we had back in the day. Nothing but cold science now.
dang, i remember building a 3970x and 680's sli with 32 gigs of ram back in the day. Love seeing this old hardware!
After reading some of the comments. I would also have to agree. From what the motherboard manual says. I only see 6gig sticks as being the max size. It actually even says at the top of the manual to use up to 4gig sticks.
Very cool throwback. Thanks for sharing!
I've still got a Sabertooth x58 build with an i7 920 and a Geforce 9800gt. It has a WD 1TB drive for boot, and 6 Samsung 2TB drives in a hardware raid 5 array for file storage. Coincidentally, it's in an Antec silent full tower case from the same era ~2010, don't recall the model number. It takes up 10x the space and uses 4x the power of a modern NAS while being considerably slower.
At the beginning of the lockdown i pulled out my old 58x rig. It was my first completely new rig i built. Mine had the i7 920 with asus rampage 2 and a hd 5870. I upgraded it with a W3690 @ 4.3ghz and a rx 580. I remember overclocking the 920 but i got a dud and couldn't get past 3ghz.
Was fun to pull the old guy outta retirement and play some old, and some newer games!
It really got me when you said it was over a decade old and you were a freshman in high school. Like, when I was in school, we had 386 and 486 computers and Pentiums weren't a thing until after I graduated High School. lol
Damn I am old.
Watching this made me really happy. Thank you for the video!
I was 18 years old when this CPU was released, we might be close in age. While I was not interested in building PCs at all then, I've got X58 bloodrage mobo yesterday. I'm excited to build with it, too. It's exciting to combine modern parts with legendary old parts.
I have that exact mobo, with a 940 and 24 gigs of DDR3....since been put out of use, but still have the motherboard box and everything that came with it.
My MSI R9 390 Gaming 8G used to game at a steady 94c, and of course as we all know, there was no hotspot sensor back then, so i can only imagine what that would have read. My friends been using it for the last 4 years since i grabbed the 5700XT at launch, he plays gmod, and gta 5, and halo MCC on it perfectly fine. They run hot, but they sure were built for it.
looking forward to seeing the fix or flop episode on this
I've done some old PC hardware in newer cases and I found out it's good to have several extensions or adapters handy. For example, there are USB 3 extensions that are flexible and look much cleaner than the big 'ol plug that always comes with the cases. Makes the build look cleaner in terms of cable management. In this situation, where the front panel header doesn't match the case plug, there are front panel extensions that have the plug at one end and separated pins at the other like in most cases. These adapters and extensions are cheap and normally found at amazon in packs of 2 or 3.
Bloody loved this video. Hope to see more like this. Old hardware/new case, old vintage case/new hardware etc would be a fantastic series
Antec cases were the GOAT back in the day, still driving my old I7 860 an antec case and fans running strong after 13 years. These new cases look pretty good and are affordable for what you get.
I had an Antec Sonata on my first PC build. I don't remember much about the parts, the processor was one of the last of the single core and the GPU was the 6800GT. Used it for many years.
Black, no rgb, no frills. The best kind of builds.
Get a pcie adapter for your USB 3 internal adapter, it might also be available with a USB c interface...
I built a similar system last year. I came across an Asus P6T deluxe mobo on ebay that was basically new and I still had my i7 940 from back in the day and 24gb of corsair 1600mhz ddr3. Bought a new case, a cheap Zalman, off Amazon. I had an evga 650w modular 80+gold psu in my spare parts drawer I used and a spare 1tb ssd. Tossed in my old evga gtx 970. I had the most trouble finding a cooler to work with the lga 1336 socket. After it was done I took it to work to play skyrim and some other older games.
Check out the update to this rig HERE: th-cam.com/video/wCWitEwHyIE/w-d-xo.html
I got excited when I saw the R9 290. I got one refurbished in 2014 and built a system around it in an ANTEC GX700.
i actually admin an X58 facebook group youd be surprised how many people still have love for this old platform
Nice build, it's like the opposite of a sleeper.
The case looks great, still got my antec 300 from 2009.
Great video. Can't wait for the Fix or Flop video for this system.
Well built Greg, Merry Christmas. I can't wait to see how u will fix it. Keep well and Godspeed.
Merry Christmas Greg!
The Inverse Sleeper Build. Love it!
Still using 1366 PC to this day for Word and some maybe retro gaming. 980X is the CPU I got back when I still in the first year of trying to build PC out of second hand part, that is around in 2012-2013 and I got it for around $400 without original heatsink and it last me so many years until I replace that build with 5960X 5-6 years later.
The X58 plateform is by far my favorite! Still have my original one and it's on this that i learned to overclock and tinker with pc's! Mine has a Xeon x5675 overclocked to 4.5ghz paired with an rx580 8gig and beleive it or not, but it still runs almost every title! I use it for Retro console games connected to my tv!
First, the intel core i7-980X is only rated to handle a maximum of 24 GB of DDR3 1066 RAM (1066 is also the maximum speed). Second, you'll need to update the BIOS using an even older CPU. Since this motherboard has never been used, it probably doesn't have the BIOS updates to handle such a powerful (for its day) CPU.
Hahah, it ended up being neither of these things. The motherboard supports these chips OOTB. Verified on the vendor page.
The Sabertooth X58 is one of the newer X58 boards released after the i7-980X was already out so even the launch BIOS supports it. The i7-980X does unofficially support 48GB RAM but the official limit is 24GB because 8GB sticks weren't out yet when it was released. The memory can also run at lower than rated speed so you don't need to use 1066 sticks
I got an old P6T Deluxe v2 to recognize 32GB of RAM, even when I had 48GB and 36GB installed. NP getting it to work with the illustrious 32nm Xeons once the BIOS was updated.
Asus boards like the x58 Sabertooth, P6X58D-E, P6X58D Premium, and Rampage III were all revised motherboards that came out around the same time the i7-980x came out.
@@m8x425 I always wanted to get 48GB for my P6X58D-E but DDR3 8GB non-Registered sticks are still quite expensive here in Finland.
It's still stuck on 24GB (6x4GB) but I now have a X299 system with 64GB and might later upgrade to 128GB
@@GregSalazar That's interesting. I wonder what it was?
Bought the Antec Performance 1 FT (vanilla black) for my build, and i am so eager to start building in it :D
Thanks for yet another awesome video Greg :D hope you are having a good one :)
I have that exact air cooler as decoration now, used it a lot on my 4790k the thing looks amazing.
I loved the video. We get so many videos talking about new hardware and upgrade paths but no one EVER upgrades. Most people who bought this platform either maxed out from the beginning or stuck with an i7-920 and sold the platform a few years later. I would love a video showing how to upgrade a platform like this to meet basic modern needs like, an alternative to the power switch, adding USB 3.0 PCIe support, WIFI, and other small quality-of-life upgrades that can be made. Adding a GTX 980 or 980Ti if the R9 290 is the problem. I would love a video showing how a maxed-out 10 - 12-year-old build like this holds up in modern titles at reasonable settings. Awesome video!
Sadly drivers for hardware that age are going to be your biggest issue. For Win10 your running on base built in drivers and thats it. Architectures this old are missing things modern OS's and software assume you have. Also this is SATA II gen still the onboard 3rd party SATAIII was garbage even in its day. Then they carried that same chip over to the X79 version of the board annoyingly.
You might want to try and see it will post with different ram.
That setup isn't much different then what I was using all the way up till 2022. I had a Antec 300 case (still use it in my current rig) with a intel i7 965 Extreme edition clocked around 3.2ghz. The mobo was a Asus P6T (original not deluxe or SE editions) with 24 GB of DDR3 ram. (had all 6 ram slots populated at one point). Knowing that are you sure that board can do 48GB? Try smaller modules for a 24GB setup and see if it posts with that.
I'd still be using it to this day but the slow boot times even with SSD meant that it was finally time to upgrade. I went from that to a 4th gen i7 rig.
My current rig is Antec 300 case but now with a Dell 9020MT mobo put in with the nessecery adapters to make it work on my PSU and front panel connections. It has a 4th gen i7 clocked around 3.4 or so. Currently got 16GB of DDR3 ram in it. It can max to 32GB but I haven't found the money to do that yet. The boot drive is a NVME dropped into a PCIE slot with an adapter. The mobo doesn't normally support booting from NVME, but I flashed a modified UEFI to the board to support it. :D
I upgraded this mostly for budget reasons as it also saved me from having to get new ram. If i upgrade again gen 10 is probably the highest I'll go for now. Nothing about the newer gens really makes any sense for my use case.
The video card I was using in the old rig was a GTX 650 but in 2021 I upgraded it to a GTX 780Ti. Still using the 780ti in my current rig.
As for my case I still use it because it's got 3 optical drive bays. I'd love to upgrade to something that would let me vertically mount my GPU so I can reclaim the PCIE slot below it but as far as I can tell vertical mount cases with at least 2 optical drive bays don't seem to exist.... :(
Swing and a miss! Still a fun video. Merry Christmas, Greg!
Hey greg, when will you make the video to share your experience with mac studio after a month? I look forward for it!
I have my first gen i7 920 X58 computer next to me after 13 years and it works really fine
That Cooler Master V8 was the cream of the crop back in the late 2000s & early 2010s!
I have a powercolor r9-290 that I received a decade ago when I went to the AMD 30 years of gaming and graphics event AMD did in Austin, TX. The launched the r9-285 at the event and gave everyone who attended a free r9-290. I replaced my 3 way crossfire 6950 cards with it. It’s a 3 fan card and I’ve never had a problem with overheating.
I had a 920 I7 from 2009! On that platform I think...Very popular platform at the time. It still works 14 years later! With a fresh CMOS battery...I am on 5800x3d on AM4 now...
For Geting Great Time Frame I'm recommended Antec 12000 is Great And Your Bulid Is Fit perfectly
Still running an X58 system myself, my 2009 Gigabyte EX58-UD3R which now has a Xeon X5680 in it. It lives in my kitchen for paying bills now, but the old girl still boots every time. Actually have the much older version of the Cooler Master V8 on it .... and it's in an Antec case lol.
Just a thought, but my X58 throws fits if I try using ram dimms with a capacity higher than 4gb. Might be worth giving some 4 gig sticks a try.
Need that FoF episode asap!
Beautiful case and really interesting video! You were absolutely right this was gonna ba a unique one
Memory incompatibility, try with one stick first, then update bios, then try 3 sticks and then 6sticks.
X58 is very sensitive to memory but they do work after a little tinkering
As an owner of at 290 reference, that thing is loud as hell!!!
Just FYI, remove all but 1 module for 1st boot. X58 was weird about training memory like that. Once you get that first POST, you can add the remaining modules.
A word of advice: while you can run 48GB in triple channel, it will run slower with both banks populated as opposed to running single banks in triple channel. I set mine up as 6x4GB DDR3 and the memory performance improved when I switched to 3x8GB.
I'm rocking a Republic of Gamers Rampage III Formula with a i7 990X, 24GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1866, a 960GB Crucial M600 SSD (the R3F has native SATA III), a Strix R9 380 OC, and 10TB worth of 7200RPM Seagate drives, and it's all running in a Lian Li PC-601A Aluminum case that I got while dumpster diving.
Now it's more my NAS, but for 10 years it kept up with everything up to 7th Gen Intel and 1st Gen Ryzen. 5GHZ overclock with liquid cooling; I've since returned it to stock clocks and air cooling.
Once games began requiring new instruction sets, I ended up replacing X58 with an i7 9700K/Z390 system. Been running that just fine for the past 4 years.
20:51 place some felt on feet display on your desk
The prices on those old used cases..... Love Antec btw, using one for my gaming PC.
Awesome CPU Greg. 👍
This is as close we can get to time travel. Nostalgia. 😊
For Usb3 You need Buy adapter
My first gaming PC was an i7 870, on an Intel skull trail board, with a GTX 285. Brings back memories.
Nice, I got a 980x in my Windows XP/7 rig on a DFI Lanparty X58 board.
Laughs with my i5 4460, 16gb ddr3, rtx 3080 10gb PC mine has to take the cake for being hilarious
i have x58 asus with x5675 and rtx 3080 16 gb ddr3 also
I’ve always used jumper cables (like the ones you get in classes to wire up a breadboard) to rewire front panel headers. Also need to start looking into Antec’s cases. Most of my recent cases are Deepcool but that case does look very nice for a non-tempered glass build
i love ur videos man thank u for teaching me alot
Very cool, especially that Cooler Master V8 GTS tower cooler! I remember shopping for a Cooler Master Sphere cooler, that thing looked really awesome at the time...!
The Sabertooth motherboard lineup has always had an awesome look to them imo. The x79 and x99 Sabertooth boards look just as good 👍
was the perfect inbetween high enough you could oc but none of that extra garbage to get in the way or die. Its a sad thing they killed off like line. Some of its siblings were the best boards in the era's for budget builds as well. Now we just get 15 different ROG SKU's and cost cut garbage.
I put together a Asrock z370 K6 Gaming mobo, i7 8086k , 2 TB crucial p5 Plus nvme, Asus ROG Strix RX 5700xt, for my GFs kid. Its still a pretty slick little set up.
looking forward to seeing this working
I Remember Building my First X58 With thate i7 920 then soon upgraded to the i7 980 on an asus X58 Premium Bord & that baby would run at 4.2ghz OC & it was a real Beast back n the day ! it also had a custom water loop & a pair of 560tis in sli all water cooled And 24gb of Ram was the max i do believe Boot drive was a 250gb samsung evo ssd then i upgraded it to GTX Titans in SLI..yea i had Fun ..the good ole days..lol.
I have this same build with the 950 and same motherboard. It’s in a Corsair case with 24G ram. I was going to bring it to you for fix or flop but figured it wouldn’t be worth your time or mine. Still it would be nice to have it working again!
that is a gorgeous pc my lord i love it
Wow, great video. I have a 980X rocking in a Asus P6T7 WS motherboard with 24gigs ram DDR3 (24 is the max) and Quadro P2000. I still use it for my plex media player. I will surely be on the look out for the follow up video.
now that's what i call a tower love the size great stuff. the one you built on the 16 January to weeks after this one co comparison great stuff Greg😀
I got to use a 940m in a asus gaming laptop. Think it was paired with a 6800hdm from radeon, something like that. Was something of a beast at the time, out performed the desktops we were using. Just remember that thing blowing our minds, and the best thing at the time was the 360. How times have changed.
Still rocking my V8 GTS, HEDT X79 still going strong with my Strix 1070s! 32GB/Quad channel goodness
You'd get a giggle from my full-tower 2nd gen i7 system. It has an old, old Cooler Master case with a built-in-the-top-of-the-case SATA drive bay, many hard drive slots and both 5 1/4 and 3.5" drive bays. And a Fatal1ty motherboard with a dedicated serial-mouse port. That old throwback still runs Unreal Tournament and StarCraft very well indeed.
Aging myself here,
3rd PC I built was with a I7-980.. How long did I use it? It had a GTX 980 in it at one point just for the lols..
edit here, SAME MOBO.. Original build had Corsair dominator with that what now seems dumb fan for active cooling your DDR3.. God this video takes me back.. It also had a 9800GTX+... built in a Cooler master HAF 932..
Was built because of SKYRIM
Had the same cpu in my work build in 2012. Lol. Great build. Nice throwback.
That stock cooler is so pretty. Will wait for this pc to run on another video
I believe it needs a BIOS update for such an old motherboard. It may support 6 DDR3 sticks, but maybe it needs a BIOS update for that. You could try booting with a single stick and see what's going on. Apart from that, I really love this build. The motherboard, although it's too old, it's freaking amazing. I love the way it's built, I love the design and the colors. The case is also awesome.