The Beep Goes On
Silver Member
- Jan 11, 2006
- 3,403
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- Detector(s) used
- CTX3030, Excalibur II, V3i, TRX
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
After ~25,000 hours, my system board finally gave out. I try to build a new system every five years or so if able, so this was a good excuse. I don't know how the old board lasted as long as it did; when I pulled the boards they kind of just fell out...the connections had lost all their springiness.
The case I got was much larger than I thought; I ordered the stuff in a bit of a hurry. But, lots of room to work in and with. I went with an Intel board (DX58SO2) and chip (i7 990x Ex Ed 3.47 6/12 core) and used my old Nvidia 470. Installed 8GB RAM and Win 7 64-bit. My kids call it Frankenstein. It still doesn't rate very high on overall benchmarks because I'm not running RAID or SLI video. This could be remedied, but I'm not gaming much anymore
The case I got was much larger than I thought; I ordered the stuff in a bit of a hurry. But, lots of room to work in and with. I went with an Intel board (DX58SO2) and chip (i7 990x Ex Ed 3.47 6/12 core) and used my old Nvidia 470. Installed 8GB RAM and Win 7 64-bit. My kids call it Frankenstein. It still doesn't rate very high on overall benchmarks because I'm not running RAID or SLI video. This could be remedied, but I'm not gaming much anymore