My x58 evga classified x3 sli with a i920 seems to be dying, it only sets up in raid mode and now does not like having a storage drive plugged in... Im already doing a cheap i5 kaby lake build to replace this but I hate to toss away the old setup..

Ebay seems to have x58 used around $100 and up which to me is crazy for such old stuff..Why is this being priced so high, I just want to put my i920 in a other mobo on the cheap and give that pc away to someone..

rjohnson11
The X58 was one of the best chipsets Intel ever released in my personal opinion so 100 bucks is not altogether too crazy if you ask me.

 
+1

ahh, the good ol days of the X58.  Beast of a board.  
 

rjohnson11
The X58 was one of the best chipsets Intel ever released in my personal opinion so 100 bucks is not altogether too crazy if you ask me.

I had that same thought running through my mind as I was reading the OP...

I still have my EVGA X58 SLi and EVGA X58 FTW3 laying around. 
CPUS: i7-920 and I7-950 
RAM: 2 sets of 3x2GB kits and 1x 3x4GB kits (DDR3 1600)
 
 
 

Purely supply and demand the x79 is the same way - find a good used one, it will be 100-200.

I ordered a pci express sata card to try and cure my x58 woes...One very wierd thing is no matter what it would only let me install the operating system when set to raid. Also my i920 was at a constant 4ghz for how many years, since it was first released..

I was hope that Intel X99 chipset will be similar as X58, but I'm not sorry because I choose for self X99.
Without AMD that would be premium platform, after OC even budget variant of 6 cores give nice multi threaded performance.
 
Now with X299 Intel plan to launch Skylake-E with 6-10 cores and Kaby Lake -E with 4 cores.
That's weird but it would be good if people could use two different type of CPU on single chipset, one for multi threaded applications and other for games with high frequency. I expect up to 5.0GHz OC.
 
But I really afraid for performance-price of X299 chipset.
Intel will lost 20% of customers instantly if price-performance are less than AMD.
Example Intel Skylake-EX 6 cores up to 400$...
many people will choose AMD 6 cores 1700X because difference is really big and he cost 350$ and it's great in multithreaded applications. Special if Intel 8 cores is more than 600$.... More power consumption, higher price and again people have AM4 ROG board for 250$ and 1800X for 499$.
I see chance for Intel to launch 8 cores capable to OC up to 4.5GHz, with default frequency 4.0GHz for arround 500$.
With him he will keep all customers even if performance are 5% better than AMD, and if Intel have better memory score.
If Intel 8 cores Skylake-E is 10% stronger than AMD they could ask even 599$. But anything over customer will choose AMD because they choose nice price and most enthusiasts are not ready to pay over 400 max 500$ for processor. If Intel lost for that money he will lost customers and I can't see how any core could beat 1800X and 1800.
 
But I have i7-5820K on 4.2GHz and 4.0GHz Cache serious increase performance of memory for 30% at least from default 2400MHz and now I will upgrade GPU on GTX1080Ti or GTX1080, I would like GTX1080Ti but if not than GTX1080. And even if Intel fail to beat AMD I could wait to develope something new, I will still be able to play any games several years.

Enough said: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/12305615

I wasn't able to get a PCI M.2 card to work. Otherwise, these platform is still very viable even by today's standards.

Hell, my server is dual X5650's and aside from power consumption it keeps up with modern stuff.

Still using X58 with 32nm chips. 
 
I thought I was limited to SATA drives, what can I upgrade my drives to?  And how?  I thought PCIE drives wouldn't work on them

529th
Still using X58 with 32nm chips. 
 
I thought I was limited to SATA drives, what can I upgrade my drives to?  And how?  I thought PCIE drives wouldn't work on them

Using a 950 Pro (supports legacy boot since X58 doesn't have UEFI) is hit or miss on these boards. Do some Googling. People have had success with Asus and Gigabyte boards. I tried using a PCI to M.2 card on my E770 Classy awhile ago. It's seen in BIOS but I wasn't able to get it to boot Windows.

An alternative is running two SATA SSD's on the Intel RAID controller in RAID 1. I get about 550mbps read and write. Nowhere near NVMe but still speedy for gaming and everything.

rjohnson11

bg8780

529th
Still using X58 with 32nm chips. 
 
I thought I was limited to SATA drives, what can I upgrade my drives to?  And how?  I thought PCIE drives wouldn't work on them

Using a 950 Pro (supports legacy boot since X58 doesn't have UEFI) is hit or miss on these boards. Do some Googling. People have had success with Asus and Gigabyte boards. I tried using a PCI to M.2 card on my E770 Classy awhile ago. It's seen in BIOS but I wasn't able to get it to boot Windows.

An alternative is running two SATA SSD's on the Intel RAID controller in RAID 1. I get about 550mbps read and write. Nowhere near NVMe but still speedy for gaming and everything.

Probably that motherboard doesn't have the capability to see the PCI to M.2 card. What you have is still very fast.

That was the confusing bit. It saw the 950 SSD in the BIOS but Windows just hung when I tried booting the the ISO made from the Media Creation Tool. I'm pretty confident it may have worked with a different PCI to M.2 card, but I just decided to go back to RAID 0 SATA SSD's as I needed the computer.

The X58 is still great for a lot of people. My parents have been using a 970 for about a decade and it still meets the needs they have but they just put a SSD into the system. They also just put in a 1050Ti video card but other then that I think it's mostly parts that have been working since I built it for them.

psionic98
I've been looking for a replacement for my evga x58 micro.. took nearly 8 years to finally destabilize.  Running a 920 d0 @ 4 the whole time.  I think i might have started to burn out the IMC cause it does still boot, but it can only handle like 4GB of ram and at stock speeds... my prayers are with you.. i know the pain!

I was going to set it up again for my kids to use, but forgot how unstable it got.. i had to reboot it like every other day.. why must it still be so good!
 
Just noticed i havent updated my sig here in a while.. poor system.
ASRock Extreme6 / 6600K @ 4.2
Samsung 850 EVO Pro 512GB, WD Black 640GB, 1T & 4TB Green
EVGA GTX 960 ACX
G.Skill Trident Z 3200 16GB @ 14-14-14-34 / EVGA 650 GS
HAF 922 / Noctua D14 / Win 10 Pro x64
 
Thats her replacement

 
Clear the CMOS & replace the coin cell battery -- before determining that the MB is on its final legs
 
Might just need a fresh restart: Clear CMOS, boot into default BIOS & save, then reboot & setup BIOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo3uaZCFybw
i believe similar will happen in few years with x99 8 slots of ram with cheap used xeons a recipie which cant go wrong.