I think I'll just roll with my 2060 and upgrade my processor to a 5600X soon. It's been shown that Zen 3 helps VR framerates significantly over Zen 2.
Thanks for the help, all.
Nah, I just have a vanilla with 8 slots and 32GB ECC RAM that I think cost less than $50 when I bought it. I'll keep an eye out for that 2667v2. Thanks!
It's a shame I'm only just now learning about this board. I have a nice, stable Asrock EP2C602 server board, but arr. Still think the endgame for this particular system is the E5-2667v2s or 2687Wv2. Just gotta keep riding the gpurampocalypse with ECC DDR3.
2680v2's my second option. I deal with a few programs heavily where there's diminishing returns after 16 cores. I'll probably settle for the cheaper solution. At least I have a pair of E5-2670s and E5-2643s to sell off.
My favorite processor was the Core 2 Duo E4300. Dirt cheap processor. Only 1.8GHz, but highly overclockable. Mine ran at 3.3Ghz and it was a big improvement over the dumpster fire Pentium D 820.
I don't recommend getting anything except for what's on the memory QVL. The Asrock EP2C602 would blue-screen frequently with four sticks of 8GB Corsair Ballistix DDR3-1600. I just loaded up all the slots with cheap ECC Samsung RAM and haven't had a problem since.
I have an ASRock 2011 server board for some dual xeons. No official BIOS supports booting from NVMe M.2 drives, but when I asked their support line they e-mailed me a custom BIOS that apparently does the trick.
Ya never know.
This video with benchmarks alerted me that this processor even existed. It's leagues ahead of the G4400. I wanted to do a low budget build for my new mini-tower and this will be a good start, especially with how far I can upgrade it in a year or so.
Picked up a few things. Thanks!
Also, if you don't have Psychonauts yet, it's only 99 cents! Get it already! It's my favorite game of the PS2/XBOX era. I think the PC version is the best, so even if you have the console version, grab it again and enjoy.
Still works great so far, but make sure your RAM is compatible. Learned that lesson the hard way, but at least I had other RAM available that it worked fine with.