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Are they going to cripple the 900 series again with lack of support like they did for the variable refresh rate on 'un-certified monitors'?

I had an H115i go bad on me -- not sure if it lost liquid or the pump failed. It was also on for nearly 24/7 since purchase across a couple systems. I might've just worn it out. With that being said they are designed to be sealed units where you shouldn't need to add liquid to them.

So I found a x5680 for 65 bucks from servermonkey, jammed it in my x58 sabertooth, overclocked the turd to 4.2 on first boot and I'm getting 150F max temps with prime95 on an h115i. i should've done this a LONG time ago. This thing is a beast. Makes my i7-960 look like a crippled dog with 3...

You may need to find additional hardware to use a standard heatsink on a Dell motherboard -- I'm not certain on the T3500s, but I know the T5500 didn't have the typical holes around the CPU like a standard motherboard does. In fact, it had threaded inserts that appeared to be soldered to the...

I was done with CIG's bullshit 2 years ago... Glad I didn't dump thousands into their 'plan' like many others have.

What switch are you using? If it's a junk switch it could be bringing everything down to 10 meg to match the PC when powered off (WOL defaults to 10meg usually).

That's a lot more efficient than I expected.

I've gotta ask because apparently I missed it -- what does this rig pull from the wall in wattage?

If I recall my I7-960 stepping is D0 -- I am running 6 sticks of ram in tri-channel mode, but it's all the same RAM, NOT mixed. Hadn't thought of this until now -- but I should check the ram voltage under load, I wonder if it's dropping pretty hard and fall out of spec.

Eh... x5675s are pretty cheap. It might be worth throwing one at my board just for giggles.

I'm fairly certain there's not a giant burn mark below your last PCI slot on yours though. LOL

I'm convinced its the motherboard -- it's always been a tad twitchy. It's still working -- but I don't think I'm dumping any money into it for better CPUs or whatnot. Asus X58 Sabertooth

I'm astonished so many of you are able to hit 200 on the front bus -- my i7 960 can barely run 25x155 at 1.28v. Any higher voltage and it gets a little twitchy. Shouldn't be cooling issues, I've got a H110i stuck to it.

Here's the fun part -- the Raspberry Pi is anemic as hell in terms of decoding any video without the use of that OMX-Player that leverages its built in hardware h264 decoding. Unfortunately, MOST applications for the Pi do not leverage that ability, and rely on software based decoding.

Correct -- Plex is a 32bit program -- however, depending on what you're using for an OS, it's going to snack on quite a bit of that from bootup, and not leave a ton of headroom for multiple streams being transcoded (if needed). I have seen the transcoder program itself peg upwards of 2 to 3...

IMHO -- lean towards the refurbished Dells on www.dellrefurbished.com -- You can find no OS computers pretty commonly on there, and good specs for what you're trying to do. I don't think you NEED a 7th gen to properly do a Plex server (unless you're specifically looking for CPU only based...

What the heck boards are you all using for dual 1366's?

Interesting... That same webpage only had 3 X99 boards listed on there when I e-mailed Asus barely two weeks ago, and they said they were NOT updating BIOS for any more X99 boards. Perhaps enough of us bitched enough at them they took a step back and realized their bullshit excuses...

I e-mailed them a couple weeks ago and was assured there's NO update coming for any X99 boards except what has already been released due to EOL. See this thread --> https://hardforum.com/threads/asus-not-releasing-spectre-fix-for-x99.1955030/

Intrusion switch looks like this

Class action or not... I'm speaking with my wallet for any further builds.

Total overkill -- http://a.co/7PuFPXQ $166 USD -- available on amazon.co.uk as well Using that for one of our financial girls on a Dell 7010 -- works flawlessly. Not HDMI -- but easily converted with adapters.

Check the chassis intrusion button on the machine -- they tend to get gummed up and go a bit wonky, or get into the BIOS and disable the chassis intrusion button altogether. Sometimes Dell will overdrive all fans when the case is open.

The stepping should be marked on the IHS -- you may need a decoder to decipher whatever the actual stepping is. It's also on the retail packaging if you are lucky enough to get that with a used CPU. ServerMonkey can and will sell you sets of CPUs with matched steppings, that's where I snagged...

T5500 is a beast with dual X5675s. I picked mine up some years ago from Dell Refurbished and jammed a full rack of memory in it. It's a damn good box for what I paid for it. I do believe they need to have the same stepping when you're doing dual procs.

I was able to mod the BIOS with the updated Microcode fairly easily -- do a google search for UBU X99, it's the first hit on Google and it's pretty easy to do. The nice thing is the risk is fairly low as you can always roll back to an unmodified BIOS pretty easily through the ASUS USB Flashback...

Yeah.. I just opened a support case with Asus via email and got official word that all Sabertooth X99 boards are END OF LIFE, which is completely and total horse shit IMHO. I bought this board new less than a year and a half ago and it's already considered 'dead'. Copy-pasta email from Asus...

I run an i7-960 in my work rig clocked at around 3.87 GHz. Decent machine for its age. Was considering additional cores for some of the virtual machining I do. 'Officially' -- the Sabertooth X58 doesn't support Xeons on the CPU Support list at Asus. Has anyone had success with running the hex...