This PC shocked the CRAP out of me! 

Proud

Same here, aside from a few quirks it still works with a nice OC during that time.

Proud

My i7-3770 - 1030gt system died at the start of the year, just upgraded to an i5-12600k with intel ARC a770 love it.

Embarrassed

I swapped my gtx970 and 4790 out for a 3070 and a 7600 and the first thought I had after launching a game was: "man, this wasn't worth the 900€" lol

@@peterdumpel5729 At a certain point, 1080p gaming is all the same, and 1440 is all the same. The top of the line stuff only matters when you get to 4k or VR. Beyond that, it's a waste of money. CPU speeds can matter more for some games (Paradox strategy games for instance) while the GPU is worthless for them, but besides that, CPU performance in gaming is HEAVILY dependent on single-core speed. AMD CPUs having a billion cores doesn't matter whatsoever for the vast majority of games, because none of them utilize them. The fastest intel single-core CPU will blow away any AMD card that relies on multiple with slower base single core speeds, which is what AMD does. Point is, gaming is largely reliant on very specific things that people building computers don't understand. Game devs have historically never utilized multiple cores well, as an example. Also, most games are ridiculously unoptimized, which means everyone is trying to brute force things with better specs that ultimately have drastically diminishing returns. It isn't just indie devs making these mistakes either. All those PS4 ports like Last of Us or games like Jedi Survivor show exactly how bad it is even with AAA companies.

@@Chris-ey8zf Yeah my old i5 3570k+970 system is still handling 1080p@60 gaming just fine

@@Chris-ey8zf yep VR was what pushed me over, I had a 4790k cpu, replaced the 970gtx with a 3080 (was gpu bound). Worked great until I got a vr headset, then ended up being cpu bound, so had to upgrade cpu in the end as well. Still makes a great non-VR gaming cpu though

All you need is Dosbox.

Today i will get 4690K and 2x8gb ddr3 1600. I've paid 50$ for it, and did it becouse i was given free pc to do whatever with it. Hope i will find some cheap gpu and sell it afterwards or leave it for "garage" build.

im so curious, how insane was the upgrade from hdd to ssd alone haha

Im coming from a similar build, and currently upgrading similarly as well. I cannot WAIT to see the difference

@@creamy8715 Insane, lol. Although the DDR5 ram training on boot which takes like 30 seconds definitely defeats the bootup time benefit. In every game I load in basically instantly and download 50GB games from Steam in a couple minutes or so thanks to increased write speed.

@@lawlworthy9805 It's massive. I mean, I've had the new build for 5 months now so I'm used to it and already taking for granted my ability to max out games that my previous build would struggle to run at minimum settings. I notice the speed of the SSDs still though, and the 7700X has still never went beyond 30% usage in games. Sometimes it does go to 100% in my heavily modded Assetto Corsa install with the max number of AI cars, but that's literally the only game I've seen it do that. I'm a bit bummed by the memory training thing making bootup take more like a minute, but I could disable it and boot faster. I just let it train because I want maximum stability and I know DDR5 is finicky.

Yeah my PC still runs the 4790k on air just fine! Though one of the fans on my GPU (970) broke and my PCU burned T.T. But the CPU still runs and honestly I've never had any issues with it. I'm looking to buy a whole new system though but I will for sure try to fix my GPU fan, buy a new CPU and then give my old PC to my little brother.

7800x3d is on massive sale right now for $359

Just put a new $20 thermalright cooler on a 4770k build that I've had sitting for years. That and a repaste dropped temps 50 degrees c. It handles all my media, compilation and server tasks fine and is hooked up to a 4k OLED panel

I have the exact same setup but 4670k at 4.4 and I swapped out the 770sc for a 6650xt. I've since built a ryzen 5 7600x but my kids use the z87.

Nice. I'm not feeling quite so embarrassed about my current "Gaming PC" now. :D I'm running an old HP Z230 with a Xeon E3 1246 v3 (Pretty much just an i7 4770/4790 in a business suit), a 6gb GTX 1060, 32gb PC3-12800 mem, a pair of 1tb SSD's in a striped array as my primary drive, and a 4tb mechanical HD for storage. Up until about 15 years ago I was always buying the very pinnacle of the top end kit, I was spending a fortune on the newest top of the line GPU's, CPU's, and motherboards, it was like a bloody addiction ! Then one day I was moving a tote box from under my desk that had a load of my used PC parts inside and it suddenly dawned on me that most these parts that I'd spent a premium for were now worth next to nothing. I had boxes of kit kicking around that had cost me thousands of pounds, stuff that I'd only used for a few months until the next "Best of the best" item came out, then I'd just upgraded away from them. while looking through that tote box I started doing some mental calculations and it was an eye opener to realise that I'd plowed the equivalent to the cost of a couple year old used car into upgrading AWAY from parts that, at the time, many people would have still seen as a major upgrade over what was in their current system. And all just so I could get right to the bleeding edge of gaming technology........ Where I'd only be until the next new thing hit the market ! After that I near as damn it stopped buying PC kit overnight. It felt like a monumental waste of money! So for about 13 years I just kept using the Q6600 with 8gb of DDR2 that I'd had when the spell broke. I upgraded it's 9400 GT for a cheap HD 7850 at some point, and put an SSD in it, but that was about it. It was only recently that I started wanting to play more than a few games that the old system just wouldn't run at any reduced graphics level (Mainly Fallout 4), so I bit the bullet and started to look at what would be the CHEAPEST way I could build something that would allow me to run the current crop of games. It turns out that the Z230 with a 1060 ticked all my boxes. I allowed myself to get the pair of new and reasonable quality SSD's (Samsung) while they were on sale, purely because I knew I wanted the higher data transfer speeds of a raid 1 array, but didn't want to risk doubling the possibility of data loss through a cheep Chinese SSD failing. All in all, I'm pretty happy with this setup because it copes really well with the older games I mainly play, it's quick enough to run almost all the current batch of games (as long as I accept that the graphics sliders aren't going to be going much above the lowest settings), and because I assembled it mainly from "Obsolete" second hand parts, the whole thing cost me less to put together than the price of a modern high end PSU (And most of the parts had already dropped to a price where they're not going to get much cheaper while they're still usable). :D

Ventoy also offers this feature, in addition to being able to just throw ISOs onto a usb stick and booting to any of them without having to right a rewrite the stick every time. Works great with live ISOs and installers.

@@guido11450 Like YUMI?

@@bootchoo96 Ventoy is not like YUM

@@guido11450 The annoying thing is Ventoy often doesn't work on older systems. Haswell should be good enough but the X58 era systems I've tried didn't.

@@eDoc2020 It fails on X58, most likely because of legacy-BIOS. X58 usually didn't even have UEFI-BIOS.

The Devil's Canyon 4790K is the best CPU I have owned and I just retired it after 10 years of service.

my 4790k was relegated to living room setup and replaced with 12thgen, paired with gtx 1080 running modern titles at 1080p 144hz still! crazy good longevity from that system

@@jeuan what did you replace it with?

Also still running an i7-4790k, but have it paired with a gtx 1080. Does most things I need it to

@@SUPER8ALTERN8 it actually has blown me away the performance this thing can still put out

he said don't drop it you monster you dropped it🤣🤣🤣

I think it scored around the same as my Surface 8 Pro with an 11th gen mobile i7 does.

Starting to stutter in some games is a sign you did not really win the silicon lottery. Clearly you degraded the CPU with time running those clocks with whatever voltage you used

@@DarkAttack14after 7 years any cpu is degraded

Same ! With a golden 3770K, stil typing from it rn, lapped and liquid metal on the die, under a NH-D14 i keep it @4.9Ghz ahah temp are too high on air for 5Ghz as i need 1.33v and its too hot

@@DarkAttack14 degradation would have lead to instability or bluescreen degradation at reasonable voltage (and temp) is négligeable

@@DarkAttack14 7 years going 1+ ghz over claimed boosts will degrade a cpu. He definitely won the silicon lottery

Considering he'd already sold all the DDR3 RAM that'd work for this mobo, I think we're lucky we even got THIS video :P

Retro? Oh god please don't say that. Retro stuff is supposed to be 80s stuff right? RIGHT?!

​@@AarPlays IKR

Retro? LOL

@@phattjohnson I have tons of DDR3 RAM maybe I should sell it ?

Sorry to hear your cpu died. I have a similar i5 3570k in one of my older machines and it still runs very strong today. I have better machines now though but I still use that one for many tasks.

Feel ya...my 1080 died june 22...

@@Zero254 I still use my i7 4770k as a home server with all 3/4 hdd filled so far.

I was running a i7-4790+GTX980+32GB up until last year when it decided to die on me. I'd still be using it now if it was still working.

lol i ran a xeon 1246 until last week. 4 gen was great

16 dollars for ram that's a steal🤣🤣

Same here!

Try putting a Xeon X5670 or better in it. You won't be disappointed.

I've got a 920 with 22gb ram. Looking to update the gpu (gt 220) to something u can invest in (3070 aurous master for around £300) but don't know if it will run. What gpu did you go for?

Still have my 4790k with a 1060 6 GB. Will change in 2025 when Windows 10 support ends

I found a 4790k In an auction all in one pc , I switched it out for 4460 and sold it for $300 and put the 4790k in my server with 16gb ram, if I put a card in there it would probably be a great games machine .

you don't need to upgrade until games in 1080p & 900p starts hitting below 30 fps, that's why they always release unoptimised titles on release so they sell their newer products

Actually i've recently upgraded my i5-4570s/1050ti/8gb ram to i7-4790k, added another 8gb and 3060- all that in less than 360usd- that was fine deal for another years. ;)

I'm still gaming on my 4790k @ 4.6Ghz, GTX1080 with 32GB of Corsair dominator 🤣🤣🤣 (Timespy score 7122, just did it) On a 1440p G5 monitor 32" i'm still gaming at high settings without any real loss. Does run a bit warm though.

I'm still using my old 377k to write my stories on and to run my 3d printers from

I just replaced my i7-3770(non K) by a 5700X last year. Twice faster, but that is a ten years difference....

I had a 3770k myself for a couple of years, without a doubt a beast especially since it could overclock like a mofo (got it to 4.9ghz semi stable on air cooling. Only prime 95 could get it to act up but that was more due to the fact that the cooler couldn't handle those clock speeds pinned to the max.) Could then and still can handle almost anything you throw at it. I gave that pc to my buddy and he had it paired with a 1050 ti and can play most games 60fps or more at 1080p on at least high settings no problem.

I'm still using my 3770k for gaming. I just upgraded to a 3080 recently because my one SLI graphic card waterblocked leaked onto the bottom graphics card

I'm still running my 3770k too, OC'd to 4.2, but have been shopping for an upgrade lately. After 11 years I figure it's time.

I had the same build with black friday 2015 sales on an Asus Z-97 board, MSI 970 and it lasted until I got denied Win 11 and sometime in 18 or 19 swapping for larger faster ssd's

i just upgraded my MoBo and CPU to Z170 and i7-6700k, rest is still the same :D

Same dude, nothing has been as reliable as my 4790k and 980Ti were.

Exact same combo here, upgraded to a ryzen 2600 and got a way smoother experience, those 4c/4t were starting to show their age kinda fast. Though it always performed amazingly for what it was

I'm also on a 4690k and a gigabyte windforce 3x 970

do you work in a third world country? thats insane, i do server work and if we saw that we would bully the owner

​@@AntisnakeYT If you would bully the owner for this then i am happy i live in a 2nd world country xD There is no need to throw money away if you know how to optimize things. I have an entire lab here and the most recent thing is a server based on 1150 and for all tasks is just overkill, most E8500 (Q9400 at worst) will handle almost everything for me... For 30 R$... Btw what kind of server work are you doing that needs more than 1155? Are you using Windows Server just to WSL or something? Geez... I work with entire companies here with just 1 DELL Lga 1155 with Proxmox and everything and there is always resources to spare.

@@AntisnakeYT Two of my old machines and a bunch of cheap Dell Optiplex's, all 1155. Perfectly fine for office / CAD work. If the day ever comes that you'll need more than an 2600k to look at a fucking spreadsheet or STEP file then I'll quit messing with computers forever. And the 4790K machine IS in fact running windows server 2022 and I have never seen the CPU utilisation ever go above 18%.

@@see-sharp Nice to see someone else who understands how things work in the real world.

@@see-sharp Eu ia falar que nois somos mestres da gambiarra mas isso nem é gambiarra, só os gringos que são consumerista pra crlh kkkkkk

i7 920 is a fairly weak chip compared to the $20 xeons you can add in. The 6 core 12 thread xeons are trice as strong out of the box. Over clock and you couple with a 1070-1080

My 780ti died but i replaced it with a 3080.

"just kidding yes you caaaaaaaan"

I don't usually skip them but the ifixit spot annoys me. 🤷‍♂️

@@christophermullins7163 WITH IFIX IT

Yeah, that was an incredible chip, and it overclocked well.... I can imagine it still runs most modern games just fine - it's crazy really, an 11 year old mid range GPU would not run anything now.

just keep the current system as a backup in case somerthing goes wrong with the newer one

Still running Q9650, that was only changed 2 years ago from Q6600.

Yep I have one still running to this day, paired with a 1080,

Still rockin my i5-2500k in same pc i built in 2012 but now with 1080ti.. im still happy with my build and plays anything i want to play but i have been getting a very serious itch to build my next rig.

I am using a 4770 (Xeon E3 1231v3) and a 1060 6gb. It is starting to show it's age but it has been a fantastic system. Never seemed to let me down.

980 crew in the house!

I'm running a 970 still. Upgraded my cpu to a 5600x from an 8600k recently.

How do you wear out a case??

@@MrBlueBrewer Violently.

I got to early 2020, sadly it died. but such a great CPU with my 980ti

Literally what i have right now xd In the process of upgrading though, finally i'll be able to play games with high settings and high fps

My 4790k @ 4.8ghz is still good enough for plenty of competitive games. I'm sure these kids would be shocked that they got owned by a 10 year old PC. On the other side of this conversation is a few ppl that will argue with you to no end that you can't game on anything less than a 10900k and 3070. There are literally 10k games that were made back when games were good and effort went into the game instead of just maximizing graphics. It's the most delusional "gamers"(pixel art enthusiasts) are the ones with 4090s apparently. It's sad these people think they're doing something by running 4k with RT lmao win a competitive match.. then you're actually gaming.

@@christophermullins7163 Everyone has their own idea of "gaming", also playing new titles with the same old CPU that we both have just doesnt work , which is expected.

@@rml4474actually it does work

Few days ago, I tested AGP version of HD 4650 together with Pentium III CPU, that's even better "what if" 😀

Yeah. I recently built a dedicated gaming machine by taking a hand-me-down HP prebuilt from over a decade ago and replacing the PSU, HDD, and GPU with things I had gathering dust in the closet (Radeon HD 5870 in the GPU case), and restoring it to the Windows 7 it came with to lighten it up (firewalled off from the 'net), and, aside from the possibility of struggling on PS2 emulation, it plays something like 99% of the games I care about beautifully. Sure, part of that is that the gaming industry doesn't really have much interest in putting the genres I want to play on DRM-free platforms anymore, but still.

I have a huananzhi X99 mobo, which is a tad bit bigger than mini ITX and holy hell it runs flawlessly with my 12 core E5 2667v2, combined it with 32GB of ECC RAM, and it can even install Linux! Now I have an Lenovo Legion Slim 5i with 13900H and 4070 which left everything behind the dust

I built an X58 rig back in 2010... Still have the mb, which now won't even post to the bios. I'd thrown a 6 core Xeon s5670 in it Had it clocked to about 4 Ghz. Got a better mb, w/ USB 3 and a couple SATA 6 ports. Threw in a $30 (cheaper now) X5680 and have it clocked to 4.65 Ghz, w/ 2 gb of ram. Also got an x5690, but the 5680 seemed a bit better. It's just for fun, as after upgrading from a 2017 Skylake build, I now have three Ryzen builds, w/ RTX 3000 series GPU's. 3700x, 5800x and 5950x. They rock. When the next AMD rigs come out, I might upgrade, as it is nice to have the latest and greatest..

Same, built it with my dad and I still use it to this day. I still don’t have a reason to upgrade it lol

Good to know, thanks!

I did that exact thing with Rufus to get an A10-7800 to run Server 2022.

They probably used the windows tool to create the installation media

I honestly can relate to this video I built an i7 930 with SLI GTX 280s rig new right when the i7 came out the 280s were "donated" by a buddy who was upgrading to Sli 480s. I mid life upgraded to sli GTX 680 and again in 2018 to a single 2080 trying to buy time to get into the new Amd stuff. In 2019 I built an Amd 3950x moved the 2080 over and was hoping to upgrade to the 40series but then COVID happened so the 2080 has just been living in that . Anyway what surprised me was how long that i7 930 has held up it's constantly on running a home video server to this day and is still happy

My NAS server is my very old AMD FX-8350 powered by a ZFS pool, and my father is using my old 7700k. Have fun with your old stuff :D

Thank God the days of needing a new mobo every new CPU are gone. We truly take the CPU market for granted these days. Now we just need the GPU market to do the same thing.

If it's too old, though, it won't support NVME at all. And that's a LOT of 10 year old systems. SSD via SATA interface still helps SOME Though.

Had the exact same specs and also upgraded within the last month. I'll be happy if this new build lasts even half the time the 4770 + 970 did.

I’ve got the same setup downstairs right now.

My 4770k build had a motherboard failure just last month so forced upgrade to a intel 12700kf, but still runing the gtx1070 atm from that build, was solid for so long!

I also upgraded last month, from an i5-4690 with GTX 970 to a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with RX 6700XT. I didn't REALLY need to upgrade yet, my old setup was still perfectly usable to be honest.

Ha, same. Bought a 3060 to replace the 970 first, then ended up getting a Steam Deck and I am now mainly using that. My i7-4770k / 970 served me well.

and ppl say Moore's law is alive. it's literally stagnant for last couple gens. Moore's law includes the costs of silicon but a lot of ppl forget that. shit is expensive today

Are you me? I did the exact same once I got my first "big boy" paycheck and backpay out of college. In the past ~16months I upgraded everything except the gpu because the whole covid fiasco and not being able to find any 30 series-then the 40 series dropped and the prices are still ridiculous. My 980 is still very satisfactory to game on. Cyberpunk, warhammer 3, etc all run perfectly fine.

That's what I did in 2014. I had the 4690X used that system for 5 years. Only upgraded the video card because mine died. Then finally upgraded the system because either the cpu or mobo hated the RTX 2060.

i was having this debate in pcmr the other day. people dont realise its been a real golden age for pc gaming as titles and hardware have just dripped in gains. next gen consoles should really step up gaming gains, just look at what ue5 can do. i cant wait to see what games are going to be like by the end of this gen. i just hope hardware prices dont ramp up at the rate they have been :|

Upgraded from my i5-3570k a year ago. And from my 970gtx 2 months ago

I built a pc before but got into high end with 4790k and 780ti in sli

yeah, dunno a Big Fing heatpipe on a high end board looks absolutely cool

Getting a motherboard in white.

I know the feeling, 3770K still doin things with no problems. But real talk the 12 and 13s with that freaky E/P core thing are snapppppy.

I still have a 4790K, and my workstation is a 5800x3d i just built.. Night and day difference. I was still happy with my Devils Canyon system and felt it would last a while yet, but now that I have something else to compare, the difference really is quite shocking.

I was pretty surprised when i moved from my i7-2600k @ 4.5Ghz to a R5 3600 @ stock with how much snappier everything was. My 2600k still did everything i needed at the time, some Photoshop, eSports titles, web browsing. but it was growing unstable from a decade of use and it felt like CPU's were finally fast enough to justify a new build. Now i have a 5950x because i do some silly CPU intensive work (curse you Unreal Engine, Houdini, and Substance Designer). but for everything else its kinda unnoticeable from my 3600. though its fun my AM4 system could go from 6 cores to 16 cores with a BIOS update and a trip to Microcenter.

You’re capping If you think an upgrade isn’t worth it. If you can afford it you’re long overdue imho.

@@cavemandan543210 True that. There are some pretty affordable options out now finally. Even the 13100 is going to run rings around anything a 2600k will do. And it will feel reactive and immediate. Even on a fairly inexpensive mainboard.

Skylake just works. I've got an i3-7100 running in my home server and it just has everything. DDR4, M.2, PCIe 3, all modern instruction sets and features. Say what you want about their low core counts, when it comes to features it is aging absolutely gracefully.

​@@subrezon indeed, it's a shame Windows 11 doesn't support it. I gifted my sister a Skylake system with what I think is an RX 5600 GPU. It runs her sims games perfectly fine and helped me clean house a bit and not create ewaste from perfectly good hardware. If it supported Win11 officially she could've been set for 5-7 years with what she does on a computer. Instead it's just 2 years left until they kill Win10. Kind of a shame really.

Brah, I am still on that 4790k. I want to upgrade, but prices are crazy. I can afford the latest and greatest. I can't bring myself to buy because my old rig is still playing everything. 4790k 64GB RAM 2080

Yeah I started watching back then too. It was a trip down memory lane. Makes me really realize how long ago that was. I’m still on first gen Ryzen. Ryzen 5 1600x. I was excited to see AMD really biting back again, and I needed an upgrade from the FX-8350 that was in my system, that my girlfriend now uses. Over the last few months, its just finally starting to become a big problem for her, and even my first gen Ryzen 5 is starting to show its age.

@@subrezon Also running skylake, 7980xe, I've just turned it into a compute server running a bunch of VMs now, its running 24/7 zero issues overclocked to 4.4ghz. I had a 6600k before it which I was able to overclock to 4.8ghz easily, no delid, on only a 240mm aio.

My sons old system was this spec and did really well, the 1060 was the 6gb version with 16gb of DDR3 it just works really well, we then upgraded to a 1070 and made a lot of difference in game fps.

I ran a 4670k until about a year ago. It maxed out with an 8 gig RX590 about a GTX 1660 equivalent.

4770k here as my main machine, Radeon RX 480, 16gb Radeon DDR3 1866 CAS 9. I haven't been able to afford to get a new computer for a while, and probably looking at another 3 years until I am able to. My MSI board has an M.2 slot, unfortunately it is a little older than the one in this video, so it is SATA only. My 1tb SSD is feeling kind of cramped, but I've got lots of storage on my D: and E: drives. 6tb of mirrored rust for my D:. 2tb of mirrored rust for my E:. BTW, Windows 11 Is Intel 8th gen and higher (Auguest 2017). Though select 7th gen work too.

​@@rs2klee that's still my system I only play racing Sims so works for me. Still getting 100fps maxed out on iracing

I just sold my old PC that had this exact same setup!! I loved that 4770k. Honestly it ran super cool in my PC.

You had a great combo. I upgraded from an i5 4690k & GTX 1070 to an i7 10700k + 6800XT last year. That old setup lasted nearly 6 years for me and I agree you can get so much out of that generation of CPUs and GPUs.

This! I went to a top end board and a 10700K/3080ti from a 4770K and 1080ti and the difference in anything other than renders is negatable. Their enthusiasm and laughter here in its 'failure' disappoints me. I don't really watch Jay anymore sadly and he's a guy of my era. So it's a bit sad. I was playing cyberpunk perfectly at 1440p with a 4770K and 1080ti. Odd.

I'm in the process of replacing my 4770 and GTX780 right now, they've run virtually everything on high or ultra up until DX12 Feature 12 became required for most AAA games

@@ragnorinki Unless you just want an excuse to get a newer system you should upgrade you gpu first as that's what is holding you back from pretty much playing any game you want. CPU wise sure you might get better fps on a newer gen but your current cpu can still deliver a perfectly enjoyable experience in most games.

@@DelfinGames oh I’m building a whole new computer, all new parts. But I appreciate the advice. The plan for the old computer is to replace the gpu with a 1080ti or 2080ti that a friend has lying around, replace a jank drive I have, and then give it to my sibling or partner.

Mine is still going strong (ish), paired with a RX580 and 16gb of RAM

Curious how my old 4770k would hold up today. Too bad my PC was ruined by a flood.

Heheh, same... back in the day... totally don't still use it... it's definitely not currently registering the inputs from my keyboard to make this comment at this very moment...

@@JoviaI1 Oof, that's sad, man. Hope your PC was the worst of the damage. The 4690k is holding well, all considered. Running at 3.8ghz, good fps on RDR2, Hogwarts Legacy, CP2077... not perfect by any means, but can't expect much more lol

I'm on a 4690k OC'ed to 4.3ghz all core with a Gtx 980 and 16gb of 1866mhz cl9 ddr3 ram. I can still play Escape from Tarkov on this lol. Built this thing back in like 2014

Even bigger difference would be buying current gen i3 :)

@@xTurtleOW I know dude, that ducked with my mind when i saw how good i3 is now

I'm still rocking a Core I7 4790k with a gtx 1080 ti. I game at 4K. I will buy a Rtx 4080 and i'll be set. I will finally upgrade my cpu at 2026 or 2027. 4790k is still enough for 4K gaming. It's an amazing cpu really. I will keep using 4790k for 3 or 4 years more. And when i finally upgrade my system my Core I7 4790k will be 12 or 13 years old. Talk about efficiency and longevity. Core I7 4790k really is an amazing cpu.

@@lillee4207 The power of generational uplift!

@@matasa7463 it's crazy how companies exponentially increased transistors in such a small die, and made them more efficient. It makes me wonder if we'll get to a process than is even smaller than nanometers, or rather when. My dad told me years ago about how he witnessed megabytes turn into gigabytes, and he found it insane, and now we're witnessing stuff become even better, in just a few years. Kind of turned into a rant, but every year or two I look into computer components or market. It blows me away, and I wonder when my already aged, only 8 year old hardware will become obsolete. 4c4t is holding on mostly though

did you delid it and make it run cooler?

I got a rig with a 4770 for free, and I still use it. It basically doesn't bottleneck my 6700xt.

How was your experience with 4770k and 5700xt, I currently have 4790 and want to buy 5700xt, how big is the bottleneck in games at 1080p?

@@_Lassic_ LMAO, this video clearly shows that you are in fact bottlenecking your 6700 XT.

@@zarrar26 well. I actually play at 1440p. 9 times out of 10 I'm getting 50-60 fps in Elden Ring, and so far that's the only thing I've played with my new 6700xt. So I can't say too much, but 90% of the time I'm getting 50-60 fps. The CPU is also not running harder than 50%, 60c.

@@rustler08 I can still hit 60fps at 1440p in Elden Ring...

4690k pair wih Asus GTX 1070 still awesome for me

I am using a 15 Year old system right now😂😅 (P43; Core 2 Quad Q9450; Radeon HD 6850)

I imagine most problems can be traced to caps.

last year i had a i7 4790s paired with 16 gb ram and a 1060, now i have anew system but my old one passed down to my sister is still a great pc for gaming and videos, and it has just failed the psu, after like 13 years, great value for sure.

7700k and gtx 1080 ti. I just upgraded to a 7900xtx and 7950x3d. I'm still not sure it was worth it..

The 1080ti still out preforms the 3060 and cost almost half as much used. In fact a 2060s is even cheaper and you only lose about 5-10% fps compared to the 3060. I wouldn't even upgrade if you have a 1080ti or 2060s. Maybe a 1660 or 5700xt would be a better upgrade for an old system like this.

Yeah, you'll just get extra performance when you do upgrade, assuming you reuse that GPU for a while. Using a pc for such a long time is actually a W

"and an FX 6300 or something" I HOPE you just had that laying around and needed the PC to be as cheap as any way possible cause those CPUs are just bad.

I upgraded my i7 920 to Xeon W3680 and eventually replaced it with Ryzen 5 1600, and it beat the W3680 with a huge OC. I'd recommend an AM4 based system, even the lowest end will run circles.

You know you can use 1600Mhz ones at their rated speed with these, right? But a used Ryzen is already cheap too. I Still use my i7-3700K....

@@kurtwinter4422 Ryzen 3600 would be a huge upgrade for you and they're cheap as at the moment, even the 5600 is pretty cheap right now.

It's' 4 cores/8 threads, a modern mid range cpu would have 3-4 times the single core speed but the real advantage comes in having the possibility of buying a lot more cores.

lol I'm running a 3770k still with a 3080ti. So heavily bottlenecked.

@@davec8153 definitely, most of the parts used for my built were donor because ppl were upgrading. if anything it helps with the lifetime of the card, especially if you eventually upgrade to something that it'll give it a run for its money

Interesting. I've upgraded a long time ago but I really didn't care for this video... Nail in the coffin for me. I'm on a high end system but this felt elitist and strange from Jay. I don't see the point.

Where did you get that "hacked BIOS"?

I still have an old Dell 435mt i7 920 sitting in the garage. I took it as far as it would go. 2021, the last upgrade I made was adding a 1tb SSD. Only original things that remained was the cpu and motherboard. Was a very good Windows7 machine.

Had the same cpu but changed it for 6core xeon a fw years ago for peanuts. Sadly mobo broke a few months ago :(

I found an i7-920 based machine in an estate clearance I did as part of my business. It was built by a local SI (systems integrator) in my area of the UK. The GPU slot was damaged ( i assume by the shock of the machine being dropped and the ATI card being wrenched in the slot). The board had a second slot so I moved the card to this slot . It needed a new PSU so one was fitted. I got it running and found it had Windows 7 Ultimate which had NEVER been connected to the internet and had never received an update. It appeared to have only ever been used for MS Flight Simulator.. after some testing and house keeping , it absolutely flies. It was built using really top end components from the day (about 2011 I think). I gave it back to the estate administrator who tasked me with the clearance to offer back to the family of the deceased. They have yet to respond after several months I'm told..

Replace it with a Xeon W3690 which has an unlocked multiplier and you got yourself a 6 core 12 threads beast. Or x5690 but that one is locked and has to be overclocked over bclk.

The first generation of the i7 was poor compared to the next one and the price difference is small today. The cheapest upgrade would be to find a cheap motherboard for 2/3, preferably 4th generation, a cheap Xeon from China (you can buy 12 cores for pennies) and you can use old memory.