I always wanted one of those Sabertooth x79 boards. And an E5-1680v2. Definitely a killer combo on the platform. Looking forward to how it stacks up to modern chips.

Hell yes! Once iv had my fun with my X58 build (built purely because of this channel) I'll be diving straight into X79 and I can't wait! Loving the content as always YES man, keep it up!

Just keep an eye on the used market. I just picked up a x99 asus sabertooth,5960x,32gb ram, 1tb Samsung pro ssd,gtx 980 in a good case for $400 The guy clearly didn’t know what he was selling! It was a insanely good deal! Didn’t need a new pc just had to pick this up as a extra pc!

Got a 4930k in 2013. Asus sabertooth x79 MB and 4x 8gb 1866 CL9 ram. Got an upgrade in 2018 to GTX 1080 and custom liquid cooling using alphacool components. Managed to keep it stable up to 5050 mhz with temp not exceeding 70 degrees when rendering with 3ds MAX for hours. Works like a charm and will continue to use it for a long time I hope.

I built my first pc in 2012 I didn't know what I was doing at all and I purchased x79. I got the 4820k, 16gb of ddr3 1600 in quad channel, and a HD 7970 for graphics. When Ryzen came out the prices dropped on the CPU's and I purchased a 4960x for $200 US. I made a newb mistake buying the platform at the time but looking back I think as far as longevity goes, I couldn't have done better. Yes, the graphics card has been upgraded and I spent $200 on a new CPU along with some ssd's but I have had this system for over 6 years and don't feel I am loosing much in performance. Lucky I guess.

thanks to your previous x79 videos I got into x79 myself upgrading from a locked i5 with a super cheap overall setup. Now ive got an asrock extreme v6 with an i7-3930k with 16gb in quad channel and ive been loving life with this system.

You're my tech hero man. I'm running a 1680 v2 myself so I can't wait to see how it does against the newest chips!

x79 has been my favorite chipset for years. got a 3960x in my main build

I bought my x79 rig in 2016 (upgrade from p67 I had/have since 2011) and I plan on keeping it for a few more years. Great stuff

Can't wait for this!! Keep it up Bryan !

Sabertooth x79 user right here. (with nvme moded bios)

Dude, I have said it before but lovin the upload schedule of late and the content is awesome. Always something completely different, definitely one of my fav content creators!

I grabbed an Asus P9X79 Pro and 3930k for 180 US. Very happy with that deal and I've been doing some OC testing and using it as the center of my gaming/editing PC

You really know your motherboards that's for sure. I learn so much from your channel.

Can't wait for your upcoming coverage on x79, I have several x58 systems and just last year I picked up an Asus rampage iv formula, 16gb ddr3 2400 and a 3930k rev.2 for $300 and was able to force pcie 3.0, also just recently picked up an Asus Sabertooth x79 for $100😎

You are the reason why I built my x79 ... Build 2 years ago... Now it has 2gtx1070s and it screams and 4.5ghz... no complaints here

Yeah but...no RGB headers. Can't be all that good.

Just finished putting a Rampage Extreme IV/1680v2/2080S system together Thanks so much for the inspiration She is a beast and a big jump up from my previous P6X58D-E/W3690/1080 system

Picked up some x79 era PCs recently. Definitely a good bit of fun working on them.

I definitely can’t afford x79 right now, but you’ve been a great inspiration for me to look into upgrading my current set up to an x58 board. The used price to performance is incredible on those old rigs. That said, even if the price to performance isn’t quite there with x79, I definitely agree there is a wow factor to it and there’s something to be said about it’s relevancy as a platform in 2018 and moving forward.

Never had any X-Platform myself, but my Dad's rig is X99. I got my Overclocking and tweaking start WAYYYYY back in the Athlon XP days! I had my Athlon XP 2600+ running faster than the 3200+, which if I recall correctly, I managed about 2.5 GHZ give or take a little as I used Bclk as well as multiplier (I used the conductive pencil hack!)

You came exactly at the time that I'm searching for a new X79 motherboard, I never change my X79 setup but maybe I will consider buying a motherboard not to resell my rig but to keep it!

I used an ASUS RAMPAGE IV GENE X79 board for about 4 years in the past. I still have it lying around. For nostalgia it'll be interesting to see that Xeon overclocking performance.

12 months with a 1650v2 and P9x79LE and I love it. Still super relevant. I just hacked my bios for NVME support and picked up a Samsung PM981 256gb boot drive from Ebay for $67 shipped. Snappy af.

About time! I was hoping you would have started this earlier Brian. Glad, to hear you’re enjoying this type of build still. Also, I was hoping it would be a Value System. Oh, well. :(

Pro tip: if you are considering the x79 platform, get it off AliExpress and AliExpress only. They have some really sick combos

Looking forward to your next Chinese mobo review Bryan!

1 Hows ya thumb. 2.Good video nice to see the old tech lovin' 3. As a long term user of the X boards -had X58, 79, 99 and now 299 .I have found the longevity of these units to be almost bombproof, all but the X58 system which i sold I still use today My normal way of doing things when buying for a new PC is get the best, max it out, and run it for years to come. The only problem with this is i like to keep up to date so i now have systems a lot of people can only dream about just littering the house But they are still used and outperform a lot of today's gear. I would recommend to anybody if you are after a reasonably priced second hand or new if you can get it go for the X series all the time. ;-)

God I love X79 so much! Have two X79 systems, and they still kick ass to this day. Rampage IV Extreme + E5-1680 v2 @ 4,7GHz X79-Deluxe + 4930K @ 4,8GHz. Yes, I've binned some chips :P

Built an x79 system 7 years ago as an editing rig, overclocking was fun and managed 4.9ghz for benchmark with 4.5/6 stable. Has done me very well indeed, including following me from the UK to NZ in bits and still working! Until last weekend that is when either motherboard or cpu has died. Hard to get hold of replacements here in a timely manner so going AMD for the first time since the Athlon XP with a new 2700x setup.

Great video. Still rockin X79 myself, but with a i7 3820. Was going to look into what other cpu's might be an upgrade for this platform.

Huanan X79 Deluxe is based on C602 chipset (server version of X79). It supports quad channel. The chipsets are scavenged from old server boards. If you bough a Runing X79, please try to use more than 2 PCIe x16 slots at the same time. It does not work! I have one and I had to contact the chinese manufacturer who confirmed this. The PCIe x16 slots work 2 at a time!!! I bought it for the PCIe slots to power a server of mine...

i7-4960X @ 4.5GHz Asus x79 Sabertooth 32GB G-Skill Sniper 1866 Memory 250GB Samsung 850 EVO Gigabyte AMD Vega 64 Couldn't be happier :o)

It's 2022 and X79 is still weird as heck. Couple months ago i still wonder why it's so unreasonably rare and expensive until i found this video. Now i want one

I've had my X79 Rig nearly two years, got a great deal on a rather basic X79 thing and upgraded it in all ways except for the mobo, PSU and case (love me some sabertooth stuff, and I am yet to fault my CM HAF X Case). Went from a i7 3820 with 2x4gb 1866mhz, GeForce 210, arctic freezer i30 etc to a 4930K, 24gb quad channel vengeance pro at 1600mhz, GTX 1070 with a H100i V2 to cool the CPU. I haven't even needed to oc anything yet, so I'm one happy person with this rig. In all its cost me around £800 (I were an idiot and paid £395 for a 1070 at the start of the mining craze 😑) I may get a Xeon down the line for more cores but I don't need them yet. As always, great content and I completely agree. If you can find this stuff cheap, like I did with the bundle I got and upgraded from over the last 18ish months, X79 is more than worth it 👌

I got two of the rampage 4 x79 boards from a guy who was chucking them out lol

I have the ASUS Rampage x79 Black Edition iam super happy with it it runs great with i7 3970 X at 4.0ghz and 32 gb Ram GTX 980 ti

Still running a X79 sabertooth with a 3930k. Been bulletproof, OC'd to 4.5Ghz

Sabertooth user with a 3930K here, have been using it since it first came out back in 2011. Still my main gaming rig.

I have an EVGA Dark x79 and an Asus Sabertooth, both with Xeon 2690 V2 processors...both great systems.

Quite happy with my x79 system. Paid approximately 200usd for asus p9x79 pro, e5-1650 and 16Gigs 1600Mhz CL9 DDR3. One can get away cheaper, but I think this is decent value. Runs well @ 4.8GHz and rock solid @ 4.6Ghz. Looking forward to build an X58 system next.

i have this cheap x79 mobo, running with xeon 2670, for a 2 years 24/7 as a server, 10/10

Just picked up a PX79 LE Asus Board thrifting with 4x4 GB sticks of Ripjaw ddr3 ram in the box for $28.00 CDN. Pretty good deal if it works. It looks barely used and basically new so whoever donated it to the thrift shop I got it at took real good care to make sure it was packed up all nice and neatly. Going to repurpose it for a school computer for my classroom, assuming I can find a chip to go in it.

More recent CPUs have already been pushed to their limits on air. Xeons have always been much lower clocked and highly binned. Much like x58, Im guessing it needs to be OC'd to remain relative - but will be highly capable of keeping up in certain tasks thanks to the quad channel memory. Cant wait to see!

I'm still running an X79 Sabertooth with a 3930K and 32G ram and i built my son an X79 Sabertooth rig as well. It has been a reliable board for me.

Had an asus x79 sabertooth that I got used for an absolute bargain (50€ here in France) and slapped an e5 2670 in there, was an absolute productivity beast and ok in games. Was a really interesting platform to work with though!

X79 i7-3930k (Noctua NH-D14 cooler) Asus P9X79 Pro Corsair Vengeance Pro 64GB 1333 MHz DDR3 (8gb x 8 in QUAD Channel) Nvidia 1080 ti Founders Edition Raidr Express PCIe SSD Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB WD 2 TB Black x 2 AX860i Corsair Carbide Air 540 It's served me very well over the recent years. I love it Thinking of picking up a Ryzen9 3900X soon. May wait for Gen4 though

Hasta que al fin me conseguí un x79 a buen precio con I7 x3930...soy un fanático nostálgico de estas build...me encanta tu canal, saludos

When the 1366 sockets launched, i was one of the first to jump with both feet in.... and i used a few systems until the x79 solution was announced.. I purchased/built a Asus P9X79 Pro + 3930k + 4x8gb PC17000 2133mhz Patriot Black Mamba 3 Setup and with a noctua NH-D14 that was available at the time and the corsair HX1000, plus the fact that i was very heavily involved with every crossfire setup from the initial x850's through to even today with rx 500.... this system was perfectly balanced for my uses. Bios updates that added pci-ex 3.0 support, Initial SATA III support to run ssd's at full speed, and then later the ability to add a NVMe pci-ex card to boot from if need be. granted the Asmedia usb 3.0 controller performance was pretty damn lackluster, but with those 40 pci-ex lanes, i was able to snag myself a faster add-in card if need be. The system at one point actually ran 9x4TB Hitachi drives for a few years before selling them off and consolidating to WD Reds, the board ran the whole thing beautifully without error. I also have ran the 3930k at a moddest 4.3GHz overclock while still being able to use speedstep and all it's power savings functions without cooking it all. Simply bumping the BLK to 130mhz and dropping the multiplier a smidge in order to get my 4.3ghz, couldn't ask for a more stable system (granted the ddr3 had to be dropped from 2133mhz down to 2080mhz which is pretty insignificant imo while maintaining great latency). Outside of just upgrading the SSDs and HDDs along with the graphics cards, even today i really honestly have no real justifiable reason to migrate away from it just yet, and to what would i bother without feeling like i've downgraded outside of arguably the only viable option being threadripper in the 12-24 core range. I suspect that upon Zen 2's release of the threadrippers (Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series), that is when i'll consider making the move. It'll be the best bang for the buck as my 3930k and p9x79 pro board will still retain a decent value, and is still far more than usuable and powerful for pretty much anything. IMO i think this has been the most badass system i've used, and because i bought in 2011 while living canada, i got the best possible value on everything as our dollar was rather strong at that time, and shortly after buying it, everything i had purchased rapidly climbed up in value by almost 40% and remained there for years. It's only been since ryzen launched in march 2017, that the value of my 3930k and x79 in general actually started dropping. It's great that AMD's reemergence into the market with a viable contender that is doing very well, that we've actually seen a decent generation leap in performance and computing that puts a standard desktop at a performance level capable of toppling something in the higher end, while also being significantly cheaper.

Just picked one of these up last week for $145. Came in a really nice cherry red NZXT case, an 850w power supply and a water cooler. I was stoked. Just wish it came with a xeon instead of an i7.

I'm still rocking a X79 board with a 3970X for my gaming rig :D

i felt in love with X79 since i watch your videos !!! i've got a dell precision t3600 and i'll upgrade it with a Xeon E5-2665 and a 1050TI. Do you think this would be a good combo ? and thank for your videos, i like them !! Amicalement, de la part d'un français !

I was hungry for more X79 content these last couple of days, Thanks mate!, and also can you check the Huanan X79 deluxe 6.11 and the Runing X79Z B10 since they have a genuine X79 chipset c602 and the Runing one seems to have more decent materials on the VRM part and in general 🤔. Regards Bryan, wish you the best!

Still using a sabertooth with a heavily overclocked 6 core 3970X which I picked up for £80 GBP to replace the quad core 8320 core I had in... and it's still fantastic. Running 64GB ram and NMve fine and a 5700XT card and running everything at 4k... doesn't make me want to upgrade in the slightest, great article by the way!

My Asus Sabertooth x79 board is still hammering away after 8 years of use and was paired with the 3930K from day one which is OC'd to 4683MHz along with 4 x 8GB(32GB) GSkill TridentX 1600MHz @ 7-8-8-24 208 2T it was great at 1080p with my MSI GTX970 Gaming video card but several years ago I went to 1440P on my main display (3 display setup) and it had struggled to maintain smooth game play at ultra settings and had to make compromises, so I finally upgraded to an MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio and no more issues at 1440p at Ultra settings. This generation of hardware was and still is great value, I spent my money right once and it has held up strong, I have had to use my Corsair warranty on my AIO water cooler H80 several years ago and my HX850 PSU which both went faulty before the 5 year and 7 year warranties had run out and Corsair sent me the new versions of both, the H80i and HX850i, and though I now use a H150i Corsair's RMA has looked after me very well and my eldest daughter has the H80i in her rig. Case is the Lian Li Lancool Dragon Lord PC-K58 Black from 10 years ago, look it up you can see the huge differences, I also cut the side panel and for $40 got a company down here in Victoria to custom cut me a piece of tempered glass. Here's a couple of pics of it. ibb.co/GQ8zKty ibb.co/pnhFKZs

Still working with the 3930K on a Gigabyte x79-UD5 board with 32GB. Unfortunately the board has a lot of issues, but i get by.

I managed to pick up an asus p9x79le for $150 us from a former competitive lol player. it was his backup board and was basically NIB. Im broke so im only running a 1650 v1 6 core but its more than enough for what i do at 4.0 ghz

Im running a x99 build with a e5 2690 v3 ES as my main rig and i love my build i even was able to overclock this cpu a litle even tho its not overclockable

I'm on X79 with intel dx79to MB and a 3930k. No reason to upgrade until I can double my performance. Hoping Ryzen 3000 series gives me that. Thought about this 8 core xeon but it's not compatible with my MB :(

I am a proud owner of the great P9X79 Deluxe and E5 1650!!! X79 ROCKS!!!

Part of your video make me consider Xeon E5-1680 V2, thx you for the info to this point. Im rolling Sabertooth X79 + i7-3930K @ 4600Mhz + 16GB @ 2400Mhz RAM for about 6 and a half years. Beautiful platform ! But this 1680 V2 damn, it put a small on my face. It's just fun to work on 7 years old platform, and making it more and more powerful (really powerful, not 10-15% etc..) + the stable support for boot NVME drives. I'll wait for your benchmarks. Thx and keep the good work.

I have a friend who upgraded to x99 about 3 years ago. The reason he did this cause at that time x79 board prices were ridicules and he blew a board I forget how. I've been trying to find a board cause I wanna get his old cpu and have another decent computer. But prices are still up there making it a more difficult decision. This will be a great series. Can wait to see the results.

i waitching this on my x79 and xeon E5-2650 V2 on 2021!

I still use a rampage iii extreme with an i7 990x - still performs like an absolute beast and plays any game along with the 980ti! Won’t be changing for a while !

I'm still using 3770 non k @4.3ghz and honestly it gets Da job done I'm looking forward to 1950x threadriiper or upcoming 16 core r7 3850x when my cpu finally dies

biggest reason to consider X79 today - it has drivers for winXP :) combine it with a 980Ti which also works in winXP using the 780Ti drivers, and you get a monstrous rig for winXP/win7 dualboot :)

As an X79 user for the past 5 years I agree. Using an ASUS X79 Deluxe, 3930K OC'd to 4.8 GHz, 1080Ti, two 400 GB Intel 750 SSD's (HHL), 8x2GB of 2133 G-Skill Ripjaws Z Series in a Lian Li PC-O11 ROG and full liquid cooled setup. ASUS had a competition between Deluxe vs Rampage owners to see which motherboard would get an NVME BIOS update. Deluxe won the vote, so in 02-2016 an NVME compatible BIOS was released. All around performance is excellent. I'll wait to see what Jim Keller does over at Intel before I decide to upgrade again. Great informative videos.

Still loving my x58. It's a beast!

Still on x79 asus rampage exteme and a i7 3970x @4.6 ghz with kigpins 1080 ti and still works like a dream :-)

On Aliexpress Huanan X79 boards are selling hard. During black friday they were all around aliexpress - 1 or 2 sockets, with RAM/Xeons or boards only. 2x E5 2660 + 32G RAM + board for 550-580 USD. And there are other sets.

I was considering just getting rid of my x58 until I did some research and realized I could upgrade to a Xeon and still get some good life out of it on the cheap. Only thing that is not super cheap right now for those old boards in RAM.

Hey Bryan a couple of years back I replaced my Asus Tuf gaming x79 board with my z390 mainly because my wife's computer died and she didn't want to spend money on a new computer so I did and she ended up with the x79 which she is still using now.. after seeing what you have shown in this video i am rethinking replacing this system and maybe work to get in up and running to its maximum potential.. I think its currently got a heap of miss matched ram to make up 16 gig lol with a i7 -3820 cpu.She is currently using a gtx1050Ti which she won't part with saying its good enough for what she wants lol. When I had it I knew it performed well but wasn't aware of how good the technology was back then for this board..

i have 4 sabertooth x79s and i just found a rampage ROG maximus formula mobo for $175 us shipped , yes it was used and has no io shield , but it works great so i would could consider it a good buy, wow it has nice overclocking bios features

Yes finally some X79 Love I LOVE my Sabertooth X79 and my 3930k... I had my 3930k OCd to 4.8ghz. and it ran Great I had another one that I got to 4.6ghz. They both do really Great I gave the second one to my son and he uses it daily for gaming and work he is a software engineer.

Still on the Sabertooth x79 here too! i7 3930k, 64gb ram, NVMe modded bios. The motherboard is showing its age though... I don't fully trust the SATA ports (had a few SSDs prematurely die and require RMA). Plus on boot up my audio sometimes doesn't work and I have to reboot to get it back... I'm not mad thought - the board has lasted 8 years and I'm writing this message on that system right now! In the end I opted to buy a good looking Huanan X79 for $150 with quad channel ram and NVMe baked in by default. Just $150 and I should be back up and running 100% again. We'll see how it goes. I also decided to grab a second Huanan X79 board - this one with dual CPU support. Grabbed two Xeon E5 2690 v2 CPUs, two nice Noctua NH-U12DXi4 fans and 256gb ECC ram at 1600mhz. Planning to do some heavy virtualization work along with some machine learning tasks. It was a difficult choice, but there is no way I could have gotten this much ram and a dual cpu server-grade system for less than a fortune. Bottom line is this platform still delivers!

As well as the 8 core shootout, I'd like to see it with the 6 core cpus too. Like 3930k (or 4930k/1650v2) vs R5 2600x vs 8700k. I'm currently using a 3930k at 4.6ghz so it would be interesting to see.

have a x79 platform too...and its still great !!!!! looking for an 1680 v2 :)

X79 Asus Rampage IV Extreme and the i7 3930k @ 4.7ghz overclock. i got a really really good deal on the motherboard cause it was labeled wrong on ebay. sub 200 usd$. it was mixed up with an x58 board i wanted. i figured id take either one for the cost, lets gamble, and it paid off.

1:15 - There was a period of time about 2 to 1.5 years ago when good X79 mbds were very affordable indeed, I bought quite a few of them, mostly the R4E, P9X79 WS and P9X79-E WS (average price was about 125 UKP for a WS, the R4E somewhat less, the E-WS a bit more). Best BIN deal I bagged was an R4E, 16GB/2400 RAM and 3930K for 200 UKP, and elsewhere a new in box R4E for 80 UKP. Today, the good mbds are hard to find (or expensive) whereas the CPUs are dirt cheap; even I have seven 3930Ks to sell off. :D If one can find a good mbd, the low cost of a 3930K can offset the mbd cost somewhat. Just a pity those 1680 v2 XEONs are so expensive, and alas RAM is another matter aswell, but hunt for GSkill TridentX or Corsair if you can. Note that a worthy CPU compromise is the 2680 v2, the later 10-core part; it's not an oc'able CPU, but its stock performance is pretty good, scoring 1389 for CB R15. Ref: www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/tests-jj.txt Where it suffers of course is IPC, scoring only 112 for the single thread test, but if one cares more about threads than single core performance then it's a good choice, and much cheaper than the 1680 v2; a year ago I was buying the 2680 v2 for 150 UKP each. Still, unless PCIe lane provision is important, modern Ryzen may make more sense in terms of general threaded CPU performance, but it's perhaps more fun doing stuff with something that people will insist is utterly out of date, yet often be able to beat modern systems sometimes. :D X79 holds its own because it came before the age of Intel's PCIe lane gimping with the 5820K. And remember the history of all this too, the 3930K *was* an 8-core CPU, it's just a XEON part with 2 cores disabled; Intel didn't release an 8-core SB-E because they just didn't have to, back then AMD was having problems even competing with the middling 2500K. Overall though, yes indeed X79 has still has the wow factor which has long since gone from later Intel chipsets. I have a Rampage V Extreme with a 6850K and it's just *yawn*. AMD brought the fun back in terms of basic specs, value for money, more cores & suchlike, but nothing since X79 on the Intel side has been as interesting or fun for oc'ing. Don't forget that even the baseline i7 3820 has the same 40 PCIe lanes (albeit 2.0) and many people ran them at 5GHz+. Likewise, the 4820K is a cheap option to get those same lanes @ 3.0 if the primary need is for PCIe; it's hillarious that a 4820K on an R4E can do things with PCIe that a 7820X can't. Just a darn shame the 2680 v2 isn't oc'able.

I had a z77 with 3770k but mobo begins die, i selling 3770k and I bought a 3960X + X79 for a good price to continue with my DDr3 rams and works very good to gaming

I commented this on fb, but I'm talking to a guy who's selling a x79 sabertooth with a i7 3820and a beefy air cooler for 175 US, now the bord is a bit damaged, it has its main pci slot missing and the audio does not work, but every thing els is fine, so i really wanna get this combo, i think its pretty cheap, since other sellers are advertising their x79 for 320+ $$ with only a bord and cpu here in Serbia. I never personally owned a x79, it was always pricey and it still is even today, so i really hope i get this deal and make use of that quad channel memory, i also have a guy selling a working i7 4820k for $60, so i hope to get both and try some overclocking and see how it goes.

i build my pc on 2012 Asus sabertooth x79 with an intel i7 3930k and a gtx 680 i changed the gtx 680 with a gtx titan 6gb and still working fantastic dowing everything gaming video editing drawing with my Wacom 27" qhd i love the motherboard

Thanks for the great stuff !!! Will I get a noticeable difference in gaming going from XEON E5-1650v1 @ 4.6Ghz to XEON E5-1680v2 @ 4.6Ghz ? Thanks

Built this in 2014 and still have running today....Rampage 4 Black Edition, 4930k at 4.6Ghz, Corsair16Gb 2400mhz ram. Fully stable in Prime 95 for 8 hours. fully watercooled. Will be keeping for next few years, will just upgrade GPU

I use Rampage IV Gene in my Streaming PC, but soon its gonna become my gaming rig, With RTX 2060 and i also am going to mod my bios to use 950 EVO 512gb

Got MY MSI X79 board in the mail today. The i7 3930k will arrive on monday with a XSPC water block for it. Hoping to get some good overclocking results with it, once I rebuild my whole PC. I am going to sell my X58 system once it's all built.

7 years later and my x 79 sabertooth still running good just upgraded my gpu and harrd drives.

Just sold an 3930k at 4,4 GHz with an Rampage IV Black Edition, 16GB Ram and GTX 1080.. top notch performance with pretty good features and solid prices in Germany.

Still running X79 with a 3930k @ 4.4Ghz with 16GB of RAM in Quad-channel. It still plays games and multitasks like a boss.

Asus p9x79ws, twin rad aio on 3930k @4.2 for now, 32gb dominantor platinum, gtx1070. I got the chip, board and ram for 100usd

you can also use a e5 2690 it not overclockable but is still 8 core 16 thread at 2.9Ghz stock and 3.8 boost for around 100 to 200 euro in europe

Also running x79 still, Asus rampage iv black edition, 3960x and 32gb samsung hch9 @ 2133 MHz and it works great! (Although Power consumption could be better ;) )

Managed to bag myself an MSI X79-GD45 Plus motherboard for £45 on ebay, needed a bit of techyes lovin but it's running with an I7 3820 (£20) at 4.8ghz stable :)

So neat to see my 3930k is still relevant to this day. Recently boosted my overclock to 4.6 GHz as well. Paired it with a new 2070, I honestly would not be surprised to squeeze another 5 years out if this PC.

Long live X79! 😎🤙🏼

I have an E5-1650 v2 @ 4.4ghz (air) on an Asus P9X79 Pro & 2 RX 480's.. 👌

I have an Asus X79 Deluxe board with a 12 core E5 2695 v2 cpu. Slight overclocking available with voltage control on all 12 cores 24 threads. Great pc. Cheers t x79 lovers.

I use a Intel Xeon E5-2697 V2 on my Sabertooth X79, 12 core 2.7 ghz (£288 from eBay). I didn't know about the modded BIOS to use NVMe drives though but not sure I'm going to try it, I'm happy with my HyperX Predator M.2 SSD.

Picked an x79 Asus sabertooth today, it came with an i7 3820, bitfenix case and a psu for £80, He wanted £100, all works as now tested. I'm going to sell the I7 cpu to cex for £23, selling/laying off the psu to another one of my builds for £30 and selling the case to another build I have nearly finished for £30 also... Can't wait to start the x79 build, what Xeon processor to use.. I'm also picking up a Sabertooth p67 1155 with a 2600k for £65.. but I'm gonna offer £50 maby meet in the middle at £55 😊

I bought AsRock X99 Taichi for 130 USD + E5-1660V3 @ 4.3GHz and it kicks! Great combo, if I want to switch for rendering there are 12 cores (3.5 turbo forced with BIOS hack) on Ali for 103 USD.