I was having a conversation with a friend, and it went a bit as follows:
Friend: "You need to join the X58 party if you haven't already"
Me: I really dislike the pricing of X58. $75 for a 12 year old board, no thanks."(paraphrasing)
Then it hit me, I had another friend that was really into X58, I wonder if he would have anything.
Turns out, he did.
i7 960+stock cooler+msi x58+18gb ddr3 for $100 shipped (after some negotiation)
Then I happened to be browsing eBay one day and saw a person parting out an X58 pc. Selling things like a very fancy asus rog x58 board, an i7 990x, and a 3 stick kit of Corsair Dominator. I bought out the auction for the 990x so I didn't lose it. paid $69 for it. Nice. I just bid the min for the ram and ended up winning it for $15 (with $8 shipping).
I picked up the GTX590 for like $70 on FB.
Current Specs:
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 990x 6 core
Corsair A70 Dual 120mm Tower Cooler
MSI X58A-GD65 ATX Motherboard
24gb (6x4gb) DDR3 1600
Corsair Airflow Ram Cooling Kit
EVGA Classified GTX590 (Dual GTX580 SLI)
NZXT S340 Red+Black (already owned)
Segotep 600w 80+ Gold PSU (had lying around)
The ram came in today. I have yet to thoroughly test it, I will get to that once my storage comes. Sadly, BOTH of the fan bearings for the cooler appear to be shot, and this was not mentioned in the listing. The top fan barely spins and is very stiff. The bottom one spins fine but is very loud.
As for storage, I purchased 2 Samsung 830 Series 128gb SSDs today. One for this system, one for my Sandy Bridge PC. Period correct drives (circa 2011, close enough), but also top tier for the time.
View: https://imgur.com/IqRmRZ3
View: https://imgur.com/I9g10kq
View: https://imgur.com/DLyunsN
View: https://imgur.com/i5MNQ9z
I have some future plans.
Friend: "You need to join the X58 party if you haven't already"
Me: I really dislike the pricing of X58. $75 for a 12 year old board, no thanks."(paraphrasing)
Then it hit me, I had another friend that was really into X58, I wonder if he would have anything.
Turns out, he did.
i7 960+stock cooler+msi x58+18gb ddr3 for $100 shipped (after some negotiation)
Then I happened to be browsing eBay one day and saw a person parting out an X58 pc. Selling things like a very fancy asus rog x58 board, an i7 990x, and a 3 stick kit of Corsair Dominator. I bought out the auction for the 990x so I didn't lose it. paid $69 for it. Nice. I just bid the min for the ram and ended up winning it for $15 (with $8 shipping).
I picked up the GTX590 for like $70 on FB.
Current Specs:
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 990x 6 core
Corsair A70 Dual 120mm Tower Cooler
MSI X58A-GD65 ATX Motherboard
24gb (6x4gb) DDR3 1600
Corsair Airflow Ram Cooling Kit
EVGA Classified GTX590 (Dual GTX580 SLI)
NZXT S340 Red+Black (already owned)
Segotep 600w 80+ Gold PSU (had lying around)
The ram came in today. I have yet to thoroughly test it, I will get to that once my storage comes. Sadly, BOTH of the fan bearings for the cooler appear to be shot, and this was not mentioned in the listing. The top fan barely spins and is very stiff. The bottom one spins fine but is very loud.
As for storage, I purchased 2 Samsung 830 Series 128gb SSDs today. One for this system, one for my Sandy Bridge PC. Period correct drives (circa 2011, close enough), but also top tier for the time.
View: https://imgur.com/IqRmRZ3
View: https://imgur.com/I9g10kq
View: https://imgur.com/DLyunsN
View: https://imgur.com/i5MNQ9z
I have some future plans.
- Upgrade the PSU. The Segotep is "fine" but I don't like any amount of ugly cables.
- Fix the fans for the ram.
- Upgrade storage even more. Get rid of the ancient 2tb Barracuda in my NAS, and put it in here is my first idea, but replacing a data drive in my nas is not as simple as it should be given how it is set up, so that might wait.
- Perhaps get another GTX590 and have 4 way SLI? I tried to buy 2 of them from a seller who had many, but sadly the seller had already sold all but 1 by the time I messaged them.