Caporegime
I picked up my P6X58D-E motherboard, 10GB RAM and CPU at a total of £135 a couple of months ago for my very first build.
Nice, that's a good deal, especially with new ram prices.
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I picked up my P6X58D-E motherboard, 10GB RAM and CPU at a total of £135 a couple of months ago for my very first build.
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Good score!
Though on thinking for a 1.1 GHz clock advantage not that great tbh.
Wonder if AMD could pull another athlon with zen 2 (not the refresh)
Still toying with what to do with the 1700....... Bit overkill for a htpc i think.
I would have bought it off you for £165, same cost as a new 1600
Unfortunately AMD price cuts have rendered the resale of my 1700 useless lol.
I'd get more value from doing something with it. Game server or something? Mining rig? Too many choices.
considering AMD don't split the whole vt-x (virtual machines with direct hardware access rather than abstracted software calls posing as hardware) and overclocking markets, consider doing something with a proper full virtual setup. Hypervisor and the works. You should be able to throw a pfsense firewall, server box, nas/media server and a guest gaming system in the same box with a bit of work with fairly minimal slow down on anything (obviously the guest gaming install getting use of whatever graphics card you throw in it).
With Intel you can't use VT-x on a K series processor (VT-d is fine though, has done me well enough for a 4 node Oracle RAC training rig).
As you wanted ideas...
Some say ryzen can't clock memory, and if you try to run xmp it won't even post.
All we know is they're a noob using the wrong board.