Well my geek buddy got a bunch of older but slightly newer generation X79 boxes he built for a previous customer back for free so he built me a X79 with a 3820 I7 and 32 meg of DDR 3 with a 2tb drive and win 10 pro. I swapped it over to my big win 10 tower Corsair 750d moved the old I7980 over to my win7 tower old School Stacker 810 box. Surprisingly the win7 saw the new CPU and board and found all the drivers for the most part and updated itself with a bit of help and seems happy. The 3820 is only a 4 core CPU but newer then the 980 so almost as fast. Not being satisfied with that I found a used 4960x CPU that is the fastest CPU my Asus P9X79 Pro can take for $285 with a free but flaky Asus ROG X79 Extreme black edition board so I plopped the CPU over to my board and threw some extra ram from my old AMD 1090t board and fired up the bad board with my 3820, it does work but always tries to go straight to the bios screen on boot unless you disable the boot direct to bios button option on the board. I managed to bend a cpu pin on the board when I was swapping things around but it's still stable and works fine so must have either been a ground or not bent enough to not work. So now I have 2 very fast 6 core machines. I put my extra DDR 3 memory in the 7 box so it now has 24 gig and new one has 32. It's at least 25 percent faster then the 980 was and encodes videos even quicker. Might format my old 128 gig SSD and clone my win7 install to it for the old box and both will have fast boot drives. I'm still working things out but nice to have 2 really fast boxes now and enough parts for a third. I also put my Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED on it with Arctic Silver 5 and it runs 19c idle and 45c with all cores 100%, great air coolers for cheap.
So a happy camper with a bunch of new toys for not much money right now
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