With a wife and four children living in a house that comfortably fits three I'm lucky to have this little corner:
Dell Precision T5400 Tower Workstation
Motherboard: Dell 0RW203
CPU: Intel Xeon X5460 @ 3.16GHz [x2]
GPU: EVGA nVidia Geforce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 4GB
RAM: Hynix FB-DDR2 667Mhz 64GB (8x8GB)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 250GB [x2] (RAID 0)
Monitor: Samsung SE310 S22E310H
Speakers: Bose Companion 2 Series II Stereo
PCI-e Misc. Card: Mailiya 5-Port USB 3.0 + Type-C
PCI-X Misc. Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme SB0460
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Pro
Built: December 2016
Total Cost: $646.00 rounded-up
Had a friend in another State call me up to say he had two T5400 machines with standard parts from work and if I wanted one for the cost of shipping ($58 USPS from AR to PA, these things are
HEAVY). At first I said no but after further contemplation I agreed and installed/bought all of the above specifically for it. I only kept the case, motherboard, and OS. In the beginning I bought and installed 32GB of RAM but then learned others were using 64GB (even though it isn't documented) without issue. At $1 a gig why wouldn't I, lulz
It holds its own in single-threaded gaming and you'd be amazed at just how well this thing does multi-threaded-wise. I can't overclock the CPUs outside of using SetFSB and, whew, that's way over my head. Besides, I'm just using stock heatsinks and fans for everything anyways. I also know you guys are super jealous of my very hot RAM (no, seriously, that stuff gets
really hot!).
