That 99th percentile overclock on the X5650 :)
m.2 SSD Performance through the PCIe adapter card. You can see the write speed is actually being choked a bit due to X58 only have PCIe 2.0, but it's still lightning fast.
Aida64's RAM Latency Benchmark chart - Triple channel DDR3 @ tight timings kills it!
CPU-Z Single Threaded Benchmark Chart
CPU-Z Multithreaded Benchmark Chart
2009 Style :)
Work Complete.
WIP
**Before** (That cable management... oh gawd.. my first build ever... don't hate)
The thermal paste job of the guy I bought the mobo from...
OG Budget Beast
This is a rebuild of my first build ever from 2009 - I decided to do a fun retro upgrade from my old AMD Phenom II 955 black to a Xeon X5650.
Xeon X5650 6 core, 12 thread OC'd @ 4.4Ghz
The plan was to pick up a couple high end parts (the cpu cooler and the m.2 ssd) which will easily carry forward into a future new build while spending as little as possible on everything else to get as much performance as possible per dollar.
I call this the OG Budget Beast:
All components purchased used and in CDN$
Asus P6X58D mobo ~$100
Intel Xeon X5650 ~$20
Samsung 950 Pro m.2 NVMe ~ $180
PCIe m.2 adapter card ~$20
BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 ~ $80
Total = $400 with $260 of this being spent on items that will definitely carry on into a new build in the future.
All other components are carry-overs from my old build.
Xeon X5650 6 core, 12 thread OC'd @ 4.4Ghz
The plan was to pick up a couple high end parts (the cpu cooler and the m.2 ssd) which will easily carry forward into a future new build while spending as little as possible on everything else to get as much performance as possible per dollar.
I call this the OG Budget Beast:
All components purchased used and in CDN$
Asus P6X58D mobo ~$100
Intel Xeon X5650 ~$20
Samsung 950 Pro m.2 NVMe ~ $180
PCIe m.2 adapter card ~$20
BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 ~ $80
Total = $400 with $260 of this being spent on items that will definitely carry on into a new build in the future.
All other components are carry-overs from my old build.
Color(s): Black Blue
RGB Lighting? No
Theme: Retro
Cooling: Air Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build
Contests
This build participated in 1 contest.
| Rank | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| #2452 | The builds.gg 10K Challenge | ended |
Hardware
CPU
$ 24.00
Motherboard
Memory
Graphics
$ 179.99
Storage
PSU
$ 98.88
Cooling
$ 60.51
Monitor
$ 299.94
Monitor
$ 199.99
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