Building a 22-Core Alienware Area-51 R2 (X99 in 2024)

[@sniffles8655]

This type content gives me such beautiful solace. Thank you.

[@donrozon9705]

Link of the thunderbolt 3 card please ?

[@MrAphexcloud]

sli is all but forgotten by nvida and wont scale well at all in any modern game so if you just want to play the benchmark game then the old titan cards are good otherwise any newer GPU will out perform the titan/s in any new game

[@cs.studios]

Couple things to keep in mind. SLI scales well with games that officially supported it. Most games before ~2020 that support SLI natively actually scaled quite well. Especially during the 2011-2014 era I think is when SLI was peak. The cards I am using are Titan V. These GPUs never supported SLI and don’t even have an SLI bridge. The reason for the bad scaling with these GPUs is because of a driver hack/bridge less SLI. If I used my triple SLI GTX 980Ti build instead, things would be different. In 2024 SLI is basically dead unless you’re using older cards/games yes.

[@oliverhandal6264]

Hey man, thanks 4 your videos, quick question if I want to install the mapleRidge thunderbolt card on my Alienware area 51 x99 motherboard can I just install it and bridge the pins or do I also need to flash the hips on it?? Thank you Also what would you recommend, 2696v3 xeon vs 6950x? For premier editing and gaming... Thanks again!

[@donrozon9705]

Did you manage to install the thunderbolt card ?

[@Sean3614]

Have you tried the E7-8890V4 it's considered the same family but, ram speed is slightly slower

[@cs.studios]

I have not but they’re $29 on eBay which is a good price. It may work

[@Ceeewolf]

Until a couple of years ago I ran an ASUS X99-WS/IPMI with a 22 core E5-2696-v4 which is 100Hz faster than the E5-2699-v4. It was great but alas, one day the addon RAID controller turned to smoke, so I got an X299 board but with only 14 cores in the CPU. It's a bit faster which is nice for some things, but on tasks like Handbrake that could use all the cores, the 22 core chip was more productive.

[@cs.studios]

You could drop a 18-Core 10980XE in that X299. I have one and they’re still plenty fast today. Didn’t realize the 2696 v4 has higher clock that’s interesting. I got my 2699 v4 for cheap so I’m assuming the 2696 v4 was more expensive when I was looking

[@Hairybarryy]

@@cs.studios 2696 v4 has more L3 cache and is ringbus. X299 is mesh and doesn't have nearly as much L3 cache. the 14 core X299 actually slower at doing day to day tasks compared to the 2696 V4 despite higher clocks. LEvel1techs did video comparing the 7900x vs an 2680 xeon and the Xeon was actually faster in games despite being how old it was. The video is called Old v. New: Xeon E5-2680 vs. i9-7900X (Sandybridge Wins!) Great video that you guys should check out

[@davidglivaditis7112]

Great info I just bought one also can you share any links to the 22 core processor you used?

[@cs.studios]

www.ebay.com/itm/313074517489?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=4gDnpsyuRLO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=ZgSh7VW9Rem&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[@donrozon9705]

@@cs.studios are you gonna be able to run windows 11 with this cpu ?

[@kevinbair6310]

Would you know how far an upgrade I can go with a processor on my 2015-16 Area 51 R2 with original motherboard and current Bios is A14? Current processor came with it is Intel Core i7 - 5930K @3.50GHZ. Thanks for any insight.

[@cs.studios]

With latest bios you can do what I did with a 22-core Xeon. Or you can get the 10-core 6950x as well.

[@kevinbair6310]

@@cs.studios thank you for replying

[@logan56]

How did you get an nvme working on that motherboard

[@cs.studios]

Using the latest bios and NVMe to PCIe adapter

[@knutbust3071]

alienware is trash guys. Biuld or buy a STARFORGE PC

[@ni55an86]

They don't sell this anymore bro lol.