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IEC

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Have the following available for DCers (just pay shipping) since I had to replace a family member's motherboard and opted to instead upgrade the whole rig:

Celeron G1620 CPU (Ivy Bridge) - along with stock heatsink if you want it
G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 CL9 4GB - 1 stick

Probably too old to be helpful, but you never know.
 

crashtech

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Don't think that your generous offer has gone unnoticed, it's just that in my case, with limited space and power, I have moved to much higher density per machine. It's fun to think of how the stuff you are offering could drive a midrange GPU quite adequately; I just don't have the power or space budget to entertain the notion anymore.
 

crashtech

Lifer
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So, I've taken this failed FB Sprint opportunity to retire a dual E5-2689 system. There are two CPUs, a dual socket motherboard, and some RAM. Things haven't been well enough for me this year to quite give it away; but I will be more specific about what's available and what I think I have to get for it if you want to PM me.
 
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TennesseeTony

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Hey, if anyone wants an Phenom II X6 rig, actually, your choice of two of them, for the price of shipping, let me know. Offer only to TeAm members, not to the general public. (Meaning, I want you to use it to crunch. It's mostly intended to be a GPU host. One of them has a K9A2 Platinum, a 4x PCI-E 2.0 x8 slot board. Could really get that grooving with some GPUs. The other is an ASRock 990FX Extreme4 board, with 3x PCI-E x16 slots, I think x16/x16/x4, not certain, could be x8/x8/x4.)

Edit: Both have Phenom II x6 1045T 2.8/3.2(Turbo) six-core AM3 CPUs in them.
 

VirtualLarry

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Thanks Tony. I guess I posted that in the wrong thread originally. Anyways, the CPUs are mostly maxed out for the platform, are overclockable, but lack advanced SSE and AVX opcodes. (I think that they max out at SSE3, and SSE4A, not SSE4.1 and SSE4.2, nor AVX, nor AVX2. No FMA or FMA3 either.)

The quad-GPU slot board, is AM2+ (will come with DDR2 RAM installed), so unfortunately, it won't take an FX CPU. The other board, the 990FX, may be able to take an FX with a BIOS flash, I'll have to check. I think that board might be AM3+ as of recent BIOS revisions.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX Extreme4/index.us.asp

May have box with included front-panel USB3.0 bay kit and SLI bridge. Have to check. Originally cost $200+, probably closer to $300. Also has IDE and Floppy, I believe, for those really old-schoolers. (This board spans quite a few technology generations.)
 

VirtualLarry

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I've got... an RX 570 to give away.

Edit: Looks like we've got a winner!

It's an MSI 8GB 'Gaming X' model. Very nice, very high-end. Factory OCed, pretty sure.

Well, in the dual-GPU rigs that I run, it runs TOO HOT. Plus, the last couple of rigs that I've had it running in (in a pair), the rig was SHUTTING DOWN. Two different rigs, one with a recent (less than a year old) EVGA G1+ 650W 80Plus Gold PSU, and one with an EVGA Bronze (well-used) 600W PSU, that was upgraded to a fresh new Antec VP650 650W PSU, and still shut down the PC.

Not entirely sure what the issue was/is, other than I think that the card was hitting 95C+, and triggering some sort of emergency shutdown of the PC.

It might just need a re-pasting, might need fans oiled, might be a tiny bit bent (no back-plate).

It's yours, completely and totally AS-IS, FOR PARTS ONLY, for the cost of shipping. Which, in CONUS, is a $15 flat-rate med. Priority USPS box.

I'll miss it a lot, and I hope that possibly, one of Folders or BOINC'ers ("bonkers"? LOL) might be able to utilize it.

I mean, maybe I could use it in Dec., for the F@H race, if I put it and only it into a PC, and ran it singly. If no-one steps up and asks for it by the start of Dec., that's probably what I'll do with it.

And for the F@H crowd, it's not nearly quite as power-efficient as the newer NV Turing and Turing "Lite" cards, but it still only takes a single 8-pin PSU connector, I believe.

Was trying to sell it, originally, and I'll update my FS thread accordingly after I post this, but I've finally sort-of diagnosed it that the card seems to be the problem, and not the PSUs or Windows 10 installations on several different PCs.

Edit: PS. The card itself, even thought I said "for parts only", is not actually DEAD in any way, that I can see, it just... has tendency to get too warm, under any sort of load, and even a light load, BOOM, it seems to be at 90C+. So maybe something got warped, and it's not making good contact with the (substantial) heatsink.

Edit: The card I bought as a replacement, a REFURB RX 580 4GB Sapphire Nitro+ version (6+8 pin), is showing in HWMonitor that it's using 135W (way more than the 80-90W, maybe 110W that the MSI 8GB RX 570 'Gaming X' took), and yet, the temps are at 72C and 1700RPM fan-speed. The 'Gaming X', the temps would be pushing 90C, and the fan RPMs would be at 3300RPM, with less wattage being used. Go figure. So I think something either is warped, or needs re-pasting, in the cooler.

It's a fixer-upper opportunity.(*) (*Assuming that I haven't popped a cap or fried a VRM on it, which is also possible.)

Edit: I took a good look at it, after putting it back into one of my "mining GPU shell" PCs, for mining (new algo, paying out bigly, relative to what's currently paying out), and I gave it a good look. It's warped. Kind of twisted, a little bent down to the right, when installed. No wonder it's not making good contact. I'm not really sure how to straighten it out, without breaking traces on the PCB.

Is it possible to get after-market back-plates? Could one make their own, if done properly, and get updated GPU mounting hardware that would mount square? Certainly would help to have a machine shop or CNC machine, probably, and access to a variety of metal screws and bolts. Maybe someone's up to it.

I currently have it mining at -20% power reduction, which allows it to mine 5-10 shares, before temps hit over 85C, and it has to have a cool-down phase in the mining software. Maybe that will keep it from over-heating and the PC shutting off. Better than nothing, I guess, making $0.45/day.
 
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crashtech

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Interesting, apparently that is the new default. I've changed it, and will also PM you.
 
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