[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Peter King via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| I haven't had any luck in finding motherboards that would take the old CPU,
| RAM, and so on, but your story is inspirational.  The case is a CoolerMaster
| with lots of space in it, and it would be nice to be able to keep it.

What is your old motherboard?  CPU?  RAM?

The oldest i7 with 6 cores seems to be of the Haswell-E generation
(eg. Core i7-5820k).

The 6-core I7's seem to use sockets with more pins than the common
garden variety I7s.  This makes for more expensive motherboards and
they probably support more memory.

Even the oldest 6-core i7s seem to use DDR4.  Newer CPUs still use
DDR4.  So you might be able to reuse your RAM.  It might be slower
than what you'd want on a new build.

The first 6-core 12-thread i7 seems to be Skylake-x.  Like a Core
i7-7800x.  Suitable LGA 2066 motherboards are available and expensive.
<https://www.newegg.ca/p/pl?N=100007626%20601299335>

I'd love to play with what you discard!  It would be newer and more
powerful than any of my desktops.

If you want a similarly high-end box but for modern times, you can go
crazy with a current ThreadRipper or Epyc AMD processor.  But you can
get quite a lot of power for less, as Lennart has outlined.