How Bad is This $10,000 PC from 10 Years Ago??

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Summary by Krater

Linus Tech Tips tests a 13-year-old EVGA Classified Super Record 2 motherboard with a quad-SLI setup of four NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics cards, two Intel Xeon X5690 processors, and 12 sticks of DDR3 RAM. The testing reveals that while the platform achieves playable framerates in games like Crysis 2 and Titanfall 2, multi-GPU scaling is severely limited by CPU bottlenecks, cross-card communication overhead, and the lack of UEFI firmware support.

From the video

Answers: Does a 13-year-old EVGA SR-2 motherboard with quad SLI still work for modern gaming?

EVGA Classified Super Record 2 motherboard review
Quad SLI scaling with old hardware
Intel Xeon X5690 overclocking
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti quad SLI performance
PCIe and BIOS limitations on legacy motherboards

What it concludes

Multi-GPU scaling on the EVGA SR-2 platform suffers from severe inter-card communication overhead and CPU bottlenecks in modern games.
The EVGA SR-2 motherboard lacks native UEFI firmware support, requiring legacy workarounds for modern NVMe storage.
The 980 Ti quad-SLI setup delivers performance roughly equivalent to a modern RTX 3090 in supported titles, but with significantly higher power consumption and frame hitching issues.

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