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Hall of Fame
Most finds pass through. These didn't — or earned the spot some other way. The weirdest platforms, the best scores, the stuff worth building a whole write-up around.
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MotherboardASUS 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.
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CPUIntel 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.
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GPUNVIDIA 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.
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GPUAMD 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.
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RAMG.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.
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MotherboardASUS 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.
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Wall Art128 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.
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