2006 Ultimate Gaming PC Build 

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Always like retrospective builds like these!

In 2006, playing in 1080p full hd was very uncommon, more like 120fps 4k today. Most of the time the standard "mainstream" resolution was 1280x1024. 1600x1200 was the high end sector (ike 1440p today). Seeing the GTX 8800 working so well at 1080p is just mind blowing. The Quad Core Extreme was also a good CPU...keept mine 8 years untill i bought an i7 4790k.

Nice! I skipped the C2D\C2Q era and went straight from P4 to first gen I7. I7 920 (got replaced with an X5690 I got off Aliexpress) , EVGA 285GTX, ASUS P6T Deluxe and a kit of Corsair Vengeance 24GB in triple channel. I actually used this PC with an RTX 2080, and got it replaced right before AMD came out with Zen3.

Excellent video! I would've thought this build was incredible in 2006 and the benchmarks prove it was actually pretty darn good.

I remember those days fondly. I had low end stuff back then because I couldn't afford anything else. I had put together a wish list back then of the core 2 quad core, 8 GB ram, 9800 GTX in sli, and two Velociraptor HDD's at 10k rpm each in a raid 0 configuration. That configuration was just a dream though. I didn't hit mainstream technically until Ryzen came out. But that was again a few years ago. Currently rocking 12900k, 32 GB DDR5, 4070 all packed in a Fractal Ridge case.

The intro hit hard, ive never had the perfect pc, but from an athlon x2 64, all the way to finally being 21 i went through enough, an i7 920, and a GT 710, then GT 1030, then a GTX 1650, And now a water cooled 4930k and a 2060. I gave my girlfriend the 1650 to start her journey. I plan to stay upgraded, but going through a rougher childhood where every 20$ mattered, to finally having a rig that means something to me, and helping the girl i love do the same.

What a beautiful setup. Thank you friend for bringing back memories!

10:30 Interesting how a lowend card from 2014 was able to beat 2 top end 2006 cards in sli. Meanwhile the rtx 3050 ti from today can barely match the performance from a single gtx titan from 2015

It's crazy. For Intel 2006 was something else. Going from the $999 Pentium D EE 965 2 Cores, 4 threads with Pentium 4 based pipelining in Q1 '06, to the Core 2 Duo, and Quads by Q4 '06 was an insane leap in performance. Performance at the beginning of that year looked completely different to performance by the end of the year. Whoever bought the final Presler Extreme Edition Pentium D's were seriously hurting in their wallet department by July with simple Dual core processors already gaming faster than what they had.

You were at 900 subs yesterday! You've grown a lot man, good luck!

I had a pretty mediocre pc in 2006. It was able to do some gaming. Around the year 2000 I had a decent pc for that time. I remember playing solider of fortune and unreal tournament. I've just recently built my dream pc. Not top of the line but close enough. Got a r7 5800x, 7900xt and 32gb ram. Having a blast with it. Still like watching videos on older hardware though.

I really enjoyed this video! can't wait for more :)

Imagine 4090 and am5 will be like trash in 20 years from now

Always been interested in gaming PCs I couldn't afford from years ago

I loved!! I'm a fan of these extreme retro builds. You got another sub ;)

Nice video and good luck getting bigger and bigger

I have 2 retro machines I use them more than my modern rig. The xp machine is pretty much my ultimate build. Intel core 2 extreme QX9650 @ 3.66 Ghz Asus p5n-d 8 Gb DDR 2 800 GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI

I remember my first ever PC. My dad had his friend to build me one. It cost like 2500 dollars back in 2006 money. I didn’t know what I had back then as the game could play crysis. When I told people I played this game they were shocked ( again I didn’t know that was a hard game to run ). Thing held in till 2012 that’s when the motherboard died.

It is posible to make this PC useble in 2022! We need: QX6850(OC to ~3.8-4.0); Any NVMe(booting in UEFI with Clover); GTX 780 ti; PCIe to USB 3.0 card; DDR2 1200 same 8 GB; Custom watercooling loop and for better gaming experience sound card(ASUS XONAR D2?PM/A 7.1 for example ).

Pretty good production quality. Cool stuff!

Still beter than my pc

It has similar specs to my sisters computer Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 8GB RAM DDR2 R5 340X 2GB 500GB HARD DRIVE + 256GB SSD

do ultimate builds for other years like the 90's no one has done that

The heatsink on the north and south bridge haha man memories

Really liked the video but please consider showing the images of the benchmarks a little bigger, it’s really hard to read when I watch this on my phone

My first build was in 2006. I had a motherboard with on board ATI graphics and it was suppose run at the same time as your external card. Giving you 2x the performance lol 😆

SOOOO NICE

Amazing! Please do more videos of these!

11:23 - Hey I would like to add that hosting a server, playing the game itself and talking on teamspeak did actually very well on a dual core at the time in my experience, so I would not go as far to call it the loser of the build. In the right hands, it posed some serious power ;).

Amazing motherboard, graphics cards and CPU for the 2006 dreambuild. But SSDs and Windows 7? Kinda killed the vibe... Could've used a pair of those high-end 10K RPM SATA HDDs in RAID 0, which was the best of the best before SATA SSDs appeared (in late 2008 i think). And for OS, with 4GB of RAM (still amazing for 2006) you could use Windows XP, or Vista RTM 32 for the very bleeding edge tech of 2006 (Vista would run *very* well on this hardware). But 8GB of RAM complicates things for a 2006 dreambuild, as it would require Windows XP x64 or Vista RTM x64.

This was the generation I first got into PCs

good video, kig

I had the Asus Commando back then, and I still remember finding its price a bit ridiculous at the time. Looking at mid-tier Mobo-prices today (paid a little under €300 for my MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 this year), even the Striker Extreme looks like a bit of a bargain. That thing was just under €300 at launch, the Commando was around €200. The Asus Z87 Plus I went to from the Commando was a little over €100 in 2013 and the Striker/Commando equivalent Z87 Sabertooth was around €200. Even if we factor in inflation, I think it's fair to say that GPUs aren't the only components whose prices have become a bit insane as of late... :)

Now this is a really good video

It seems this is for windows users only, I will contact you for developing this project!

thank you for your efforts

Recently made myselfs a pc for older games whit litle to no cost it has a Q8200, AMD HD4890' 8gb ram, and the soundblaster audigy 2 runing windows xp sp3.......it works flawlessly and even tho im bound to dx9 whit xp i love it so mutch i decided to keep it........and yes it runs crysis.

My 2006 build used Windows XP 32 bit. It was still usable for about 8 years. I did have to update the GPU twice though.

this is amazing... deffo subbed.

fantastic video, just subbed

I have gotten to a point where i am more interested in actually building PCs and watching PC hardware content, than i am in actually using my gaming pc to play games 😂😂😂😂 Anyone else in this stage?

Good video. All gtx 8800's will run at 8800 ultra speeds. I had a QX6700 at 4ghz but your mileage will vary. I am not sure how that psu would handle gpu & cpu over clocks.

Amazing video

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Ah, okay. So the builds in question would be what was the best available by the very end of the year. So for this, parts that were available before January 1st, 2007?

Love it. Great vid.

I have same Cooler Master in my setup, and is very good cooler.

I was still using ati9200 and P4 at that time.

Have 70fps in the witcher 3 on QX9650 on 4GHz :3

2006 i had : Core 2 Quad Q6600 2x 4GB DDR2-800 Radeon 1950XTX And A Zalman CNPS 9700

Did C2Quad Q9650/QX9775 come out in 2006 or later?

I’m looking to build a system similar to this. But for XP And old games that don’t run on newer hardware.

9:40 you're cpu limited in that scenario, not gpu limited. a gtx 750 is much faster than a 8800 gtx even in sli.

It's my PC, since I was born smack in the middle of 06

What do you mean?? I'm using Win7 right now. It's fine! Just like XP was.

were is sli bridge

just like cars, they were build better back then as far as quality and cooling

Wuuuut now asus owns tuf gameing i didnt know it used to belong to seasonic

"grand total of 8 mbs of ram" hol up-

why do Microsoft want intel 8 gen ones ?

Back then dual core with high frequency was ideal for gaming. Not four cores.

Wow sli was just to difficult to implement to warrant 2 gpus

I'm watching this because I was born in 2006

Try use core 2 quad or core2 extreme

Dude that CPU goes for 600 on Amazon. But why?!?!

Wouldn't the slowest core 2 Quad be faster ???

Ssd’s weren’t a thing in 2006. So this isn’t very period accurate.

ako ti nisi sa balkana onda neznan ko je😁🤜🤛

8MB RAM :)

can this mine crypto bro?

wooooping 8mb of ram

huh windows 7? XD