So as I’ve said I am making myself a workstation. I ordered this mobo from aliexpress. It’s a dual socket LGA 2011-3 thing named ZX-DU99D4X8_V1.1 . It supports the Intel E5 2600 v4 line of processors. It also happens to have a cuttoff QR code sticker on it.

So far I have 2x 2650 v4 processors and 6x 16GB 2400Hz + 2x 8GB 2133Hz = 112GB of DDR4 for it.

This guy wrote some stuff about the mobo and he says the bottom x16 PCIe is actually x8.

Rn I only have a R5 340X “Rebranded R7 250” for it but I want to get one of these cheap $80 NV K80’s eventually.

I only have 3 or so Dell 2007FPb monitors sitting around. But I hear that LCD and SSD prices should fall some before the end of this year, also GPUs may crash a bit.

Thinking I want to get one of these cheap used/open box LG 32GN63T-B gaming monitors that are going on ebay for well below $200.

All my watercooling parts are stuck in customs but for now the CPUs prob don’t need it.

I don’t want to get too into the weeds with this rn. I’m posting now that I’ve prepared all the measurements and a good photo of my mobo.

mobo

measurements

calibration

So I need a working case. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/366303

updates —

bent pin

This is the best image I can get with my phone currently. I will try to get something more magnified.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/core-i7-lga2011-3-tmsdg.pdf

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Mocking up my aliexpress workstation enclosure case.

Think I will buy my SSD from Netac on aliexpress… (NV3000). And I will get the graphics card (MI25) from unixsurplusnet (on ebay), and cheap hard drive from them too.

    • @holdengreenOPM
      2•2 years ago

      I’ve been using a i7 6700HQ and a GTX 960M in my laptop since 2016, with 32GB of RAM.

      I do a lot of programming and web browsing, some design, and I’d like to experiment with more things involving rendering, simulation, science and analytics.

      I figure the workstation will pay for itself in productivity and quality of life for me since the laptop isn’t fully cutting it. I just spend too much time waiting on stuff like renders and compiles. (cant handle multitasking very well) And since there isn’t enough room to virtualize the host OS is just way overloaded and updates are a mess. There is always an issue with something I’m doing.

      Also looking forward to play with nicer displays since all my laptop has got is a 1080p LCD that is in not so great condition anymore.