This type content gives me such beautiful solace. Thank you.

Would you know how far an upgrade I can go with a processor on my 2015-16 Area 51 R2 with original motherboard and current Bios is A14? Current processor came with it is Intel Core i7 - 5930K @3.50GHZ. Thanks for any insight.

How did you get an nvme working on that motherboard

Until a couple of years ago I ran an ASUS X99-WS/IPMI with a 22 core E5-2696-v4 which is 100Hz faster than the E5-2699-v4. It was great but alas, one day the addon RAID controller turned to smoke, so I got an X299 board but with only 14 cores in the CPU. It's a bit faster which is nice for some things, but on tasks like Handbrake that could use all the cores, the 22 core chip was more productive.

@cs.studios

4 ай бұрын

You could drop a 18-Core 10980XE in that X299. I have one and they’re still plenty fast today. Didn’t realize the 2696 v4 has higher clock that’s interesting. I got my 2699 v4 for cheap so I’m assuming the 2696 v4 was more expensive when I was looking

@Hairybarryy

Ай бұрын

@@cs.studios 2696 v4 has more L3 cache and is ringbus. X299 is mesh and doesn't have nearly as much L3 cache. the 14 core X299 actually slower at doing day to day tasks compared to the 2696 V4 despite higher clocks. LEvel1techs did video comparing the 7900x vs an 2680 xeon and the Xeon was actually faster in games despite being how old it was. The video is called Old v. New: Xeon E5-2680 vs. i9-7900X (Sandybridge Wins!) Great video that you guys should check out

sli is all but forgotten by nvida and wont scale well at all in any modern game so if you just want to play the benchmark game then the old titan cards are good otherwise any newer GPU will out perform the titan/s in any new game

@cs.studios

4 ай бұрын

Couple things to keep in mind. SLI scales well with games that officially supported it. Most games before ~2020 that support SLI natively actually scaled quite well. Especially during the 2011-2014 era I think is when SLI was peak. The cards I am using are Titan V. These GPUs never supported SLI and don’t even have an SLI bridge. The reason for the bad scaling with these GPUs is because of a driver hack/bridge less SLI. If I used my triple SLI GTX 980Ti build instead, things would be different. In 2024 SLI is basically dead unless you’re using older cards/games yes.

alienware is trash guys. Biuld or buy a STARFORGE PC

@ni55an86

3 ай бұрын

They don't sell this anymore bro lol.