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    E5-1650 v4 throttle on Prime-95

    Thanks for getting back and you're very welcome for the BIOS info. That's a real shame about the BIOS update 3502 (which I'm certain I've applied) not mentioning Turbo related improvements for your USB 3.1. version. I have got Prime-95 so I might see how mine performs and get back to you. What...
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    Proposed Workstation - any thoughts? (only if you have a moment)

    Just wanted to update this thread, I've bought all the parts and have been testing. It's very good indeed, more than welcome to answer any questions if curious.
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    Smallest ATX Chassis

    This is a really useful thread, thanks to all those who participated. Fair play to those who gave us the convenience of volume calcs as well. I'm planning to build my parents an HTPC with my old PC parts, and so far it's a toss up between the Lian Li PC-A55 (anandtech review here if...
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    E5-1650 v4 throttle on Prime-95

    Has the original OP made any more progress with this, just out of interest? I have almost the same system and while this doesn't bother me, you might find that the latest BIOS update does refer to the Turbo feature, also (and you probably know this), but so far as the X99-E WS is concerned...
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    Proposed Workstation - any thoughts? (only if you have a moment)

    Thanks again Nathan, very much appreciated. Sadly I don't think I can wait until then for the skylake x as I need to buy it within the next month to get the expenses in for this year. Always goes this way it seems!
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    Proposed Workstation - any thoughts? (only if you have a moment)

    Thank you Nathan, very kind of you to comment and mention about the up and coming new chips. I wonder when they'll be available, any ideas?
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    Proposed Workstation - any thoughts? (only if you have a moment)

    APOLOGIES - PERHAPS THIS SHOULD BE IN THE HARDWARE AREA Hello all, First of all, what an interesting forum full of very knowledgeable fellows :) After about 5 years using a 2500K i5, 16GB RAM and a GTX 560 Ti, it's starting to show it's age and so I thought I'd upgrade. As a self-employed...
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    What's the favorite HDD brand these days?

    WD Red here too (currently have 4 x 3TB no RAID), I used to like Seagate and I don't know why I changed - perhaps lack of availability? I do like intel for SSD's, mainly because of reliability. Tried OCZ a while ago but a few failed on me.
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    The Death of the CRT and Classic Arcade Machines

    Just another past memory of CRT's (many previous comment reflect my own thoughts), I used one for AutoCAD around 20+ years ago. The only complaint I had was the brightness was never quite enough (when they reached a certain age), space wasn't an issue in a large office, so the size wasn't really...
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    Xeon 1650 v4 - Q Good for CAD, Sketchup and Overnight Rendering?

    Exactly, so far as I know, the programmes I use are mostly single threaded...I guess in a perfect world we would have a dual CPU machine, with one CPU with 4+GHz dual core +HT and the other could be a 12 core 2GHz or something similar. I'd probably have something like that! :-)
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    Just found this forum, I reckon it'll be useful for future builds...which I hope to be doing...

    Just found this forum, I reckon it'll be useful for future builds...which I hope to be doing soon. :-)
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    Xeon 1650 v4 - Q Good for CAD, Sketchup and Overnight Rendering?

    Thanks for that Gman. It would have been nice to either have a few more cores, or get a dual core machine for properly knocking those renders out, but I've not found a high clock speed CPU that can also dual CPU onto a motherboard. Mind you, that could have been limited by price more than...
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    Xeon 1650 v4 - Q Good for CAD, Sketchup and Overnight Rendering?

    Hello all, First post on this site, strange this is that I can't see a description of the forum, although it's clear what's been spoken about! So I Use AutoCAD full time, Sketchup 1/4 time and I'm well in need of an upgrade as it's been around 4 years since the last one (details at the bottom...
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