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Marks Finds
Every piece I've come across worth writing up — sourced, tested, and documented. Some are still in the collection, some have moved on. All of them have a story.
RAM Micron 64GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM Kit (4x 16GB)
Matched 64GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM kit pulled from a working ASUS Z10PE-D16 dual-socket system. All 4 sticks confirmed in BIOS before removal.
Cooler Noctua NH-D9DX i4 3U — LGA 2011 Square-ILM
Used Noctua NH-D9DX i4 3U server CPU cooler with NF-A9 fan and Square-ILM mounting hardware. Pulled from a working dual-socket Xeon workstation.
Motherboard
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ASUS ROG Rampage V Extreme + Bitspower ROG Certified Monoblock
X99 flagship that came in showing POST code 53 and turned out to be fine the whole time — with an i7-6950X and one of the rarest ROG Certified cooling pieces ever made already mounted on it.
Motherboard ASUS Z10PE-D16 + Dual Xeon E5-2620 v4
Complete dual-socket DDR4 ECC workstation platform. Tested and confirmed working, full IPMI/BMC onboard — KVM over IP, remote power, headless management.
GPU
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AMD Radeon Pro V340L
Dual Vega 10 XL server card with 16GB HBM2 and hardware GPU virtualization — part number 109-D05387, formerly running in Google Stadia's datacenter racks. Sniped for $30.
Motherboard ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS + Dual Xeon E5-2697
Dual-socket LGA 2011 workstation board with two Xeon E5-2697s and 256GB of DDR3 ECC — $150 off eBay. The would-be poor man's AI lab. Sold the RAM for more than the whole bundle cost.
Wall Art 20x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 — Wall Art
Won an eBay bidwar for 20 Xeon Silver 4114 server CPUs at $20 flat — a dollar each, roughly $13,880 of launch-price silicon. Mounted them on scrap wood. Still don't know why.
Cooling Corsair XM2 M.2 Waterblock + Samsung 980 1TB
A brand-new Corsair XM2 passive M.2 waterblock built onto a Samsung 980 1TB. Copper contact, clip-fit assembly, no tools, done in about two minutes.
Motherboard
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ASUS ROG Dominus Extreme
ASUS ROG Dominus Extreme LGA 3647 motherboard — one of the most extreme enthusiast boards ASUS ever made, built around the only consumer 28-core CPU Intel ever shipped.
GPU ASUS ROG Strix Vega 56
The card that kicked off my HBM obsession. Triple-fan ROG Strix cooler, 8GB HBM2, and the notorious factory thermal-pad problem. Ran hot, loved it anyway.
GPU PowerColor Radeon Vega 64 LC
Factory liquid-cooled Vega 64 with HBM2, picked up for $200. Technically a downgrade from the 5700 XT it replaced. Bought it purely on aesthetics and the pull of HBM. No regrets.
CPU
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Intel Xeon W-3175X
Intel Xeon W-3175X — 28 cores, 56 threads, unlocked multiplier, LGA 3647. The only consumer-facing 28-core chip Intel ever shipped, and it only ever worked in one board.
RAM
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G.Skill Trident Z5 CK 48GB DDR5-9000 CUDIMMs
48GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 CK CUDIMMs rated at 9000 MT/s — some of the fastest consumer DDR5 money can buy. Listed at $650, countered at $400, seller said yes.
Wall Art
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128 Sticks of DDR2 ECC — Wall Art
Won an eBay auction for 128 sticks of DDR2 ECC server RAM at age 14 for $21.73. Built wall art out of them with my grandpa. The find that started all of this.
GPU
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NVIDIA Titan RTX
Museum-condition NVIDIA Titan RTX — 24 GB GDDR6, Turing architecture, NVLink support. Picked up from a local collector who only ever powered it on to test it.