Cov's getting gigabit soon (and other places)

grumble grumble

they don't even service anywhere on my estate and i live very close to the city centre

Yea, no VM here

they're seemingly pretty arbitrary

Not that I'm that keen

Hoping for gigabit from CityFibre

via Vodafone at... waves hands vaguely some point

BT OpenReach haven't even brought FTTC to my area

ouch

on the roadmap?

not that i know of

we get 20/5 with zen

that's pretty reasonable, considering ADSL1

v annoying not to get FTTC

it might also be an issue with physics

I think I got at most 16 ish down when I was on an exchange-only line < 100m from exchange on ADSL1?

24's the theoretical max IIRC?

i'm not quite sure where the cab is

long time ago

presumably they'd add a cab for your estate when they do it

their map dealie is/was v informative

and exchange list: availability.samknows.com/broadband/exchanges/bt/fttc

exchange map not working for me: availability.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_mapping

according to openreach they have FTTC

might be just distance

Could always ask Zen, they may able to tell you more about OR's plans

Also hmmm: my exchange is FTTP enabled

the exchange map is totally broken, they haven't updated to the new version of the GMaps API

yea

shame, as it used to be really good

openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first

↑ there's a postcode dealie on there

should be able to register interest for FTTP ± FTTC

i've managed to somehow get the map working

matrix ->

what CPU do you have?

its the CPU that is the limiting factor here

Intel Xeon E5-2620

Looking to upgrade motherboard, but hoping I can keep the same cpu

hm

that's slightly tricky

Any X99 should do but yea, some may need a mod of some type

@dustytrash there's a few chinese companies making cheap/slightly unusual ones on aliexpress

and they're likely to have models that their boards will work with listed

Hmm damn, maybe it would be better to buy a new CPU and motherboard then

Iunno if I wanna risk getting a hacky one

:D

I suspect a modern high end mainstream or HEDT board would likely be a good choice

I'll check that out. If I have a full sized case, do I need to really worry about size?

hm

Unless its an EATX board....

a full sized case would take in any ATX or smaller board

some bigger cases will take EATX but you'll need to check

most regular boards are ATX though

Just googled EATX board, looks pretty snazzy

which is it virgin????

@Burgi They haven't done it yet but they could/will is my reading

Worth emailing CableMyStreet

They did my flat after I emailed them

unfortunately that was just after I moved out

lol

Lots of motherboard say they support "Xeon scalable processors" Does that mean it would support my Xeon E5-2620?

Oh nvm I think I see. There's a 'scalable family' of general xeon processors and processors specific to the PC/motherboard which mine is

hmm Xeon E5-2650 processor went down in price from over $1,000 to under $60 in 5 years. I'm assuming just because it's old

Original proc is from 2012?

tho it seems to have had different revisions

Not sure tbh, looking at a build from 'pcpartpicker', the price says he bought it for $1,048 but the amazon link is $58. I'm assuming pcpartpicker is still using an old price

Oh, those things scrape costs

so unavailable parts can seem outta whack

all it needs is one third party seller sticking it on for $1000 with automated pricing

or, as you say, might be the original price

could probably look up RRP/MSRP/old reviews for price

Ahh fair enough

Intel's recommended price is still over $1,000 though, for the same part

Works with the x99 motherboard you mentioned too, I think ima get it. Man picking parts is stressful lol

Do what I do

Can't stress about picking parts

rollsafe.jpg

if you can't afford the parts

;-P

a flawless plan

Whats rollsafe mean?

I can afford the parts sorta, my work gives out loans for buying PC parts haha

@dustytrash knowyourmeme.com/memes/roll-safe

lol