Computer Help and Support

The Tylersburg/X-58 platform has STILL really not gotten totally outdated. I did start with a top-grade board (Asus ROG Rampage III Extreme), and upgraded the proc from the 4c/8t 930 to a 6c/12t X5675 Xeon (server) proc from same gen about 4 years ago.

When everyone started decommissioning their servers from that generation, there was a flood of these chips, which had sold HUGELY when they were new.

It was a $1000 chip, I got it like 5 yr later for $65 I wanna say?

It overclocks very nicely, too, in Winter time I put it up to 4.1GHz ... don't like to overvolt it in the summer here in AZ though ...

Of course I've upgraded my GPU (or GPU's in Xfire/SLI) over the life of this thing ... I dunno ... 10 times probably? CPU can still keep up with games though, esp. high resolution since I'm not expecting super-high frames.

Core 2 Duo though? Wow man ... Only on Linux, I can tell ya that