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I am not sure actually. I’ll check though. This is my temporary cold bug fix. The cold bug only happens once each day on the very first boot-up from the PC sitting all night/morning. 🤣 https://youtu.be/K_JCVLR9YDw?si=bXkyX9OeqrYFO_2B

Okay Okay. IT IS TIME! I wanted to make sure this system was reliable before doing any overclocking at all! Nothing weird has happen with it. The thing is 100% SOLID. This is an older system so who really knows how this may or may not run lol. I wanted to be certain it did not freeze, crash, close to desktop, BSOD at all while running completely stock first. I am only using (1) power supply, it requires two power supplies for best results. And I am only using (2) of the 8pin power connectors of the (6) 8 pin cpu power connectors on the board. These are pretty tedious platforms; everything should be done "just so" from the research I did. You need a 12 inch pound torque wrench for the CPU installation, it must be torqued in the exact pattern. I re-did my thermal paste today, and was worried to death my system would never work right again lol, (This was not the case at all) I had no issues with memory channels dropping, I had no issues with CPU socket pressure. I was only worried about this because apparently Der8auer could never get his HEXA channel working properly with the EKWB WS CPU block lol. Maybe he just didn't follow the sequence is all I can think of. 🤷‍♂️ But with all that being said, and all of the low rated reviews on the Dominus motherboard, it really makes you think you are assembling a piece of unreliable glass that can break at any moment. 🤣 So, I wanted to say the whole process was smooth as butter. I have not had any issues with this system. OC TIME! 4.5Ghz is VERY easy and it does surpass 40K in R23 which is just perfect! DDR5 3800CL14 is also stable. 4.5Ghz on all 28/56 with just a mere 1.135V 😁What a BEAST this thing is! The memory bandwidth is impressive. Minimal tuning was done. I really need to go in and enter manual timings, this is just XMP 3800 for the most part. But with DDR4 I feel like a noob again lol. This Behemoth of a system gives me 56 threads for endless working capabilities. TONS of ram to use and just leave things up and running! And lots of PCI lanes for all the storage I may want to add down the road. The CPU is not delidded, it is a stock retail 3175X. Which is exactly what I hunting for. A lot of ES samples and fakes floating around out there, you just don't know what you may get until you get it. 😁

No doubt it’s going to be very fun to tune on, most of these systems are. I’m not really sure how the 285K will stack up. I think all that matters is having fun! Something new to play with.

14900KS with APO is definitely killer. I truly believe it’s probably gonna hang with the newer stuff. The 3175X is stout and working well though. 4K with 4090 is no problem. This 3175X does have a very very good default boosting algorithm. It has a frequency in mind from 2 cores active all the way to 28 cores active.

That’s an awesome case! I need something big like that. @electrosoft This thing completely stock with Intel Default power limits in place is throwing that 4090 around pretty good. I was a little surprised. The cpu power consumption is sub 40 watts in game. 🤷‍♂️

Dominus+3175X+128GB Samsung B-Die is ALIVE!!!! Same OS and everything LOL. I love it! I did not experience a cold bug at all. XMP 3200c14 loaded on all 128GB very first try. 😎

I always wanted to build one of these. Something about these huge Monolithic CPU’s is awesome and those big motherboards lol. I almost went with W790, I was doing some extreme bargain hunting lol. I had found a brand-new Asrock W790 2.0 for $599.99 on eBay (It was stripped though with no WiFi/BT, very minimalistic I/O being the cheaper 2.0 model, and still $100 over MSRP So I just didn’t love it) then I saw a used Xeon W2465X for $700 dollars. Then I was going to get a 4x16GB DDR5 6000 kit I found for about $279.99. Something about the allure of the Dominus board just reeled me right in though. I do plan to build a W790 in the near future. I’m taking a break from mainstream sockets for a while. I just don’t have any interest in them lately. I am going to piece my W790 build together slowly. These are really expensive, and I felt like I was rushing and I was going to potentially order whatever just to piece together a running system for as cheap as possible.

Yeah I can’t wait for this one. You know, we are waiting on another Metro game too. But apparently they are delayed since the war that’s happening in Ukraine. I read some where that the Devs of this game grabbed some AK’s and went out to go fighting in this war 🤣 and or they live in Ukraine. Not sure if this is true or not. It was a Reddit post after all. Stalker 2 is next month though. VERY SOON. I have been waiting for this one for a LONG time.

What game are you talking about? I’m waiting on these titles very very ANXIOUSLY. KDC2 Stalker 2. Cant wait!

My 3175X will be here tomorrow. I’m curious to see this Dinosaur build drive a 4090 at 4K. Very interesting system that’s for sure. I’m planning to get an Alta F2 case and house the system in that. Just a shame these cases are so freaking expensive. It’s really the perfect case though.

Currently using a M1 MacBook for my work directly from the La-Z-Boy 💻 😆 but I do still have a 13900KS/Z690 Hero/DDR5 handy that can be used in a pinch. But I’m going to be using this Dominus/3175X/128GB Bdie daily as a work play PC. I’m going to throw it on the test bench temporarily for setup and tuning purposes, and order a big boy case very soon that can house all of it. It does have native U.2 ports, so I can actually use my Intel Optane. I had this adapter which didn’t work at all, it had a sata power and a M.2 dongle all wired together to a U.2 plug. My idea is to have a main work PC that’s ultra quiet and ultra reliable all in a case. This will be the daily go to for gaming and work etc. And I will have the test bench ready for whatever maybe Z890, or since I’m skipping that then probably Z990. We’re about to see some extreme CPU bottleneck with the 4090 on this Dominus/3175X. 😎 It should be able to chug 4K at least.

So good news. I ended up finding a real retail Xeon W3175X. I traded my Z790 Apex A04 for a complete HEDT system. I traded my Apex Z790, and (2x24GB) 8200 ram kit, SC ram block, lga1700 waterblock, and 360mm AIO. For a Asus Dominus motherboard, 3175X retail CPU, EKWB WS waterblock, EKWB DOMINUS VRM block, and 192GB of some poopy DDR4. I will have (2) Dominus boards. The only thing wrong with this system is, it needs a hair dryer to fire up, or just hold your finger on the SMD to warm it a couple seconds then it fires, most don’t know which exact SMD it is, so they just use a hair dryer blowing in the general area, very limited info on this subject, apparently this happen with prior X99/X299 Extreme boards as well (That’s Asus for ya lol). But, it actually includes the replacement SMD to fix this. So I will fix the cold bug my self once I get a magnifying glass so I can see what I’m soldering. I thought it was a really great trade.

I was worried that this was the case. And I started losing interest fast from that point forward. I had a lot of fun with Rocket lake, but the only reason I bought an 11900K and got that started was because my 10900K had died. I really think Intel is trying to step back on power consumption and focus on IPC and real-world performance. Less heat, less power, less degradation lol.

It’s really an interesting build lol. The motherboard included all of the original accessories, as well as (6) Corsair Vengeance DDR4 sticks but they weren’t B-Die so I did not wanna use those lol, anyways as far as I can tell all of the accessories are unopened. Even the Asus ROG thumb drive is sealed, the (2) Dimm 2 cards are factory sealed, WiFi antenna sealed, even the manual was sealed lol. The motherboard looks/smells very brand new to me. One thing I want to point out is how HEAVY and stiff the motherboard is. It has zero creak, zero flex, and is the thickest PCB I have ever seen in my life, like stacking two Apex PCB’s together. When I say zero flex or squeak when lifting it, it literally feels like holding a slab of granite is the only thing I can compare it to. It’s built to a very high standard. No noise, no flex, just crazy stiff and crazy solid. I also bought an Air cooler which I have already, I want to test boot everything before hooking water up. I’m going to upgrade the WiFi card to WiFi 6E or 7 and just use the rig. The one problem area is case selection, this is a true “XL-ATX” motherboard, so not many cases work with it. So far it looks like the Define 7 XL will work though, so I’m probably gonna grab one of those to house all of this in. I’m honestly not even certain if I can put it in the test bench. I might have to drill some holes to match, and put the standoffs in the drilled holes. This is the very simple Dynatron 3647 Narrow socket server style air cooler I have for initial testing. This socket 3647 has two cooler options. (1) is 3647 Narrow like the Asus Dominus, and (2) is 3647 Square which is what most more basic server style boards use.

Dominus Build Part 1 https://youtu.be/qb0vwMWlWLE?si=zVIwWFszyF3KE9GS

I’m going to make use of the ram. I work from home and I’ll be able to run a ton of virtual machines, and never close them out lol. Thing is gonna be like an army tank. High end GPU’s can be replaced every 4 years.

Not yet. I’m going to run 192GB Hexa Channel DDR4 4000-4400 range. I need to acquire (4) more sticks of DDR4 to completely fill the ram slots. I really want/need the exact same kit so I’ll have to buy another 8x16, 128gb kit. It will be pretty cool. Yes a lot of ram slots! 😎

Asus Dominus is in the house. And my 128GB (8x16GB B-Die) this ram kit was manufactured 02/2023!!! Amazing. Stuff is pretty fresh for DDR4 B-Die! It’s dual rank sticks and 128 gigs of overclocking goodness!!! uploading pictures

Hey Intel, when you turn HT off, the power goes way down on the 14900KS. I also think the frame rates go up as well. 🤷‍♂️ 😆

Z790 Apex is here and it’s very much white. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813119690 @Mr. Fox I did find a delid tool in Germany direct from Der8auer on his CaseKing website. I might PM him directly and see if he’ll just send it to me 😃 But I haven’t gotten a 3175X yet either. I’m hesitant to order one on eBay, because there literally isn’t a single one in the USA. They are all in China. So I’m worrying about if it works, and if it’s authentic. That will be my last resort. I’m trying to locate one in the US. I have emailed a few people who had some older FS threads on Serve the Home, and also some listing I found on Mercari. And I PM’ed a couple other people who I was told apparently have one. Gonna go start knocking on doors next. 🤣

Yeah, I’d have to buy the delid tool though which I may do just to replace its thermal paste with some KPX or something. These chips require extreme pressure on the IHS to break it free. But they seem fairly safe to delid from what I have researched.

Those are high quality looking cards. I was thinking about this thermal paste with the Xeon W3175X. These chips are not soldered. They use thermal paste and it’s gonna be a 5 year old CPU. Now, some people complained about them having paste, but the die is so HUGE that even after delidding and adding Liquid Metal it barely even does anything to improve temps. Anyways, I’m thinking the CPU may require delidding and relidding with new paste for best performance. It’s something I don’t even want to deal with.

I feel special with my 128GB of DDR4 Samsung B-Die kit. Then I watch this video how people were amazed and see it was posted 9 years ago! 🤣 It still sounds like a lot of ram to me even nearly 10 years later. It does not work that way with video cards and system storage. Nice to see that mostly all processors, ram, motherboards are all still quite useable as a whole with modern parts.

These systems are pretty awesome. Definitely lots of cores and power for today, I just hope the board works okay. Many of them had a cold bug which was caused by 1 single resistor near the debug led readout. This resistor would prevent powering on if the system was in a room colder than 75F ambient, it’s an easy fix something we can replace our selves, or use a hair dryer to start our PC in the mornings lol. they also have some Cascade Lake options available as well for this socket like the Xeon 3275/3275M, and even the Xeon platinum 6158R which are both 28/56 with higher clocks but they are both locked unfortunately, so 3175X is still best option. I plan to crank it to 5.0Ghz and pull off some strong R23 runs. I’ll drop in the 4090 and see how it does with gaming lol. 😆This system is so old it’s carbureted lol. I am going to install the whole 128GB DDR4 kit, and grab (4) more sticks so it’s 192GB. This system will be the daily work mule. I may build it in a case. The motherboard is absolutely huge so I need to make sure it fits. Also, it includes (2) Dimm2 adapters. So I will definitely use these. I saw a few of the Kits like mine that were not Samsung B-Die, so make sure you read the stick and confirm it has “10B” this is for pretty much all G.Skill DDR4 rams that are B-Die 8GB, or 16GB, or even 32GB sticks which are the absolute rarest of all. Corsair is “4.31” for all B-Die.