The production quality of this video is what you would’ve expected from a channel with 300k subs. You’ll get there one day mate, keep up the good work 💪
What? Oh dang i never looked at his sub count. Yes. He does deserve all the subs. The quality is there, and the content too, just need people to find him. I watched one of his videos some time ago, and didn't sub, but got recommended these a lot more since. It's a good sign that the algorithm has noticed him.
He'll probably get that in a couple years, seeing how he grew pretty quickly. The sponsorships he's starting to get with PC manufacturers is definitely gonna help
CORRECTIONS: Valorant and CS:GO were both tested at 1080 High and 1080 Low respectively, as mentioned in the VO. The text on-screen is incorrect. The Cyberpunk testing was done before patch 1.6. I’m seeing some atrocious numbers on legacy nVidia cards post-patch, so I dare say the GTX 670 probably does even worse now!
@@kparserpcs6699 I bought it in March 2022, still very much in the middle of the Scalper Pandemic, so it wasn't THAT bad a deal at the time. I figured that if the MB was a branded one it could be worth at least £100 on its own, and I could hopefully get a bunch of content around it too, so I didn't mind paying! Andy's Tech says he just picked up a £220 PC from the same retailer with an i5 7600 and GTX 1060, which is a lot more like what I'd hope to pick up for that kind of price today.
@@IcebergTech that's still a good price. It's got some strong bones and just needs a better GPU overall. There's still some restrictions since it's missing a few instruction sets that X99 CPUs came out with. X99 was such a strong advancement over the likes of X79 since it supported USB 3.0, had DDR4 support, and had AVX2 and FMA3 instruction sets. At least you got a branded board and not some Ali Express lemon.
I really enjoyed the period accurate benchmarks and seeing about when it ran out of steam. It's also nice change of pace to see some hardware building rather than just strictly benchmarks
You deserve more subscribers for the content you upload, polished and informative clear and amusing I hope you get on the ladder for more subscribers etc. I'd like to see what a GTX 970 would do in that setup as is.
You should definitely consider E5-2667 V2, that's a locked variant of E5-1680 V2, but significantly cheaper. With 8 cores and up to 4 GHz boost clock it is one of the best upgrades for the X79 platform.
I've just been tipped off that my variant of the X79-UD3 (rev 1.0) doesn't support Ivy Xeons, even with the latest BIOS. I've got an E5-2689 v1 lined up though, which should be fun!
Great video, I’ve literally just brought a CEX pc for £220 🤣 what are the odds! We’ll see what we get but I know there’s an i5 7600 and 1060 6GB so fingers crossed the rest isn’t 🤬 that is if I even have time to make a video on it. I’m 3 weeks and 9 minutes into my next one and just no time at the moment. Look forward to the next one 🙏🏼
fantastic decision to do the benchmarks in a timeline fashion, great to see a machine at the "start" of it's gaming career and then how it gets on over time. the 2GB VRAM for that GTX 670 really shortened the later life of the system, a 4GB GTX 960 or GTX 970 would have been a great late life upgrade to bridge into a newer system. good that it's been fixed up though than remaining in a scrap heap. i think if the user was more of an RTS/RPG type player or got into emulation it would still be very useful today, although maybe 360 emulation would be reaching a bit. some kind of 6 or more core Xeon to pair with a 4GB or better VRAM GPU could really breath new life into the machine. imagine a 6 core 12 thread xeon, 24gb of decent memory with an XMP profile, and a used 980 or RX 480 or 590 to get it along the hump. even a RTX 2060 KO is unlikely to be bottlenecked.
I don't beleve it to be the vram kelper just runs in to "issues" with modern games. I have a 780 ti 2g,760 2g,670 2g,660 ti 3gb, 660 oem 1.5gb (same core config as 760 memory bus size of 660 ti 2gb without the slow .5g) All are bios moded and run between 1200-1300 core and the most notable step is the 780 ti can do natve 1080 60 where the others can't quite reach it. Aside from kelper specfic issus like doom eternal. But I never really noticed running out of vram even on the 1.5g card before the fps was too low to care anyway. On a blind test aside from a few edge cases that I may not have encounterd. I doubt you could tell the difference between any of thoes cards except for the 780ti Mind you my amd comparisons of r9 290's and 7950's are hevily biosmoded as well. And I think the vram timeing mods give them an edge in performance overall. They also supported async compute so naturally they just aged much better.
Second comment I also shoud point out that the 6 core/8 core 16xx xeons are unlocked on that platfourm although a local grab of a 6 core i7 may just be cheeper. And wirh the quad channel memory that platfourm can best 1st gen ryzen and as ypu said pair good up to a 1080 ti. Also the 24 gb of memory thing is weird. Juat like with the gtx 970. Cpus will run the first 16gb in quad channel then the exta in duel. Also its much better to go with mstching ics for the ram If overclocking.
@@andrewmcewan9145 Got my wife set up with X99. CPU is i7 5820k with 32gb DDR4 in quad channel. Runs like a champ. Despite the high TDP, my Fuma 2 cooler keeps it so nice and cool. It's on an RTX 3070 right now since it was leftover from a few builds I worked on. Definitely outperforms Zen Ryzen 5, and jn some cases, Zen+.
Fun video. Makes for an interesting watch and makes me feel more confident in my decision to buy and X 79 workstation a few years ago which still mops the floor with other machines I have kicking around that are newer.
I wasn’t expecting that music for the pc cleaning section lol. I stepped away for a sec to Che j my phone and this played in the background. Caught me off guard ngl 😂😂
i'm subbed to salazar, but i never watch his videos because he's such a 20-something and it's tiring. this cleaning montage was super awesome though. good music, good slowmos. didn't expect to enjoy so much.
I must say I hate it when online sites don't give those specific details on used PCs. But, that also allows for the possibility of finding a deal. I miss that era of PC cases. Localised dust storm approaching.
If you can get a 1680 V2 in that machine it would kick serious ass. It's fully unlocked 8 cores/16 threads and can hit 4.2-4.4 ghz pretty easily. I used one for a few years with an Asrock X79 Extreme6 and it played all modern games just fine with a modern gpu
..an air quality warning for the county should have been issued before you blow out that dinosaur..brings back some great memories..CM Haf case is still a legend..i have a CM storm enforcer..2012 or so..great airflow...thanks for the memories.
I also just bought a CEX special, which was listed as a "Custom" I7 3820, 16gb Ram, SSD and HDD and a GTX 1080Ti, For £275. Turned out to be an Alienware Aurora R4 with a GPU Upgrade. games pretty well, with a 2 year warranty on it, cant complain :)
I actually used my PC with a 4770K every day until recently. I didn't feel the need to upgrade since I wasn't gaming much. The GTX 1060 6GB gifted by my friend more than extended its life for 5 years, and I only recently upgraded to a new build because 16GB was not enough. (Still using the 1060 though!)
I so can relate with Cex, bought manly off them in past manly memory storage and gpu's out of the 11 gpu's bought 5 have been dead on arrival but no issues with returning thought 24 month warrenty great. my current system was from cex r5 1500 bought a new gpu to replace one in it. bought a m.2 for faster booting. all in all some far been a great system. the dust tho oh the dust. i got my hoover out then a small paint brush and hoover again to finish up the cleaning. will upgrade my cpu from Cex in future as well. you need a good job with the system
Nice video! Like the story from old AAA to modern AAA and then esports. I got my son a 670 in his second rig for high FPS fortnite + nvidia highlights (shame not supported on his original 7870).
Do a upgrade to this build, so we can see the how good it could be with different parts while keeping costs down with potential resale of current components, would be nice to see a 780 or 970 with the 6 core extreme cpu, and whether that'd be worth it to upgrade to
Im not some big expert but I'd bet the upper limits of upgrades for a rig this old would be somewhere in the region of a 980ti GPU and whatever the best ddr3 compliant CPU is, still wouldn't be something advisable to buy now in 2023, but a reasonable budget dx12 compliant gaming machine until you've saved or built something more up to date, would be where something like this is at for sure
CEX "Checks" to see if it works then sell the item on without cleaning. I saw a customer pick-up a ps4 controller. he asked the server for cleaning wipes a s it was proper grimey. That company also likes to get the item you're asking for and just hand it to you without even "checking". scratches on disks, dust/fluff on gpus etc etc etc
Can't believe your production value is this good while being a small channel. Also recommend NOT showing you applying thermal paste, commenters are very picky and vocal about it.
if the 4790k is compatible with that mobo, I'd love to see how it performs - with a good cooler and decent OC! .....I have buddy who is still using that CPU at 4.2mhz on a hyper 212 cooler, and he is still happy out with it to this day!
It's not compatible due to it being a completely different socket. The 4790K was awesome in its day, but the enthusiast level stuff like X58, X79 and X99 were catering to a different market and were much more expensive back in the day. X299 was interesting, but the consumer grade stuff is much more marketable these days. If you want an example of enthusiast tier stuff for AMD, it's like comparing Ryzen to Threadripper.
Im not some big expert but I'd bet the upper limits of upgrades for a rig this old would be somewhere in the region of a 980ti GPU and whatever the best ddr3 compliant CPU is, still wouldn't be something advisable to buy now in 2023, but a reasonable budget dx12 compliant gaming machine until you've saved or built something more up to date, would be where something like this is at for sure
i would love to see you cover the ultimate 09 pc, a x5690, ati 5970, ssd all the bells and whistles, heck im building one with those rn lol, its gonna run vista and xp with a eax card, just saying not alot of people have covered that combo lol
As its normally the motherboard rather than the CPU that goes with the x79 platform having a working motherboard is great. The i7-3960x that you reviewed earlier would make a great upgrade with an overclock. For even more performance a bios update will probably allow you to put a i7-4960x on it, however as it's such an old system it's probably not worth dropping the extra money compared to a 3960x into the system for only about 10% performance. GPU wise gtx 1070 is a nice pairing. I had a 1080 paired with my 3960x for a few years and it was a great 1080p gaming combo (mine was overclocked to 4.5ghz at one point). Great video always entertaining. Hope you've had your shots after seeing the dust come out of that PC. Go full bling and give it a modern case with some RGB. I'm currently going the same to my 3960x system.
yeah i get why they'd sell. i have a friend who was using a 2500k and a rx 480, 16 gbs of ddr3 ram. i was thinking that it could handle modern games on low settins at least, but some games wouldnt even start up or there were constant frame drops, so he got an upgrade
Great video! When you test these old Intel PC's, do you have all the Spectre and Meltdown fixes/updates intact? Also I stumbled across some weird optional driver updates in Windows Update. Some have a date 1/1/1970 for example. Not sure if should install these.
i wouldnt say the ram was in the wrong slots. there are 4 channels, so each channel had its own ram stick. if it was a 2 channel board then yes, but here it does not matter
Never ever dust a pc without holding the fans. If they spin freely and fast enough, they can damage other components due to the electricity generating from the spin
Cex are so inconsistent on price I got a Intel g4400 Gtx 670 1tb hd 500gb ssd In a gigabyte z170 motherboard And a 750w Silverstone 80+ platinum moduler psu 16gb corsair platinum ddr4 ram for £70 And it came in one of the coolermaster HAF stack cases I stuck a i5 6600k in it and sold the whole pc for £250 Iv just seen an i7 4770k system with a gtx 580 in it for £145 I might get it when my money goes in tonight normally the i7 systems are ex high end stuff have nice cases and the best motherboards and power supply's I bet when it turns up it's going to be a beast
Try the first gen Ryzen ma man. Pair it with ur collection of GCN4/Maxwell cards. Do a released time pairing, such as 2016 parts or 2018 parts best combo/pairing - might be interesting.
@@IcebergTech i have the same mobo with a e5 1650 v1 at 4.4ght. it can push a rx 5700xt to the max. its a grate chip for $12. the only thing is cooling. the e5 1650 can pull down like 180 watts at full tilt when overclocked. the i7 4930k would have lower power draw for the kind of performance.
I actually like a little bit of dirty on my used computers . It’s satisfying when it goes from dust bag to beauty. Some advice if you encounter lots of dog fur don’t wash with soap and water . It will smell like a wet dog