What's Inside This Bargain 6-Core Gaming PC I Found At CEX? 

"Unlimited cloud storage" joke was actually hilarious

The feels when you never get the deals that tech RU-vidrs do and pay like 2x-3x more for trash

In my opinion, this guy deserves to be more popular than Linus Tech Tips or Austin Evans. No thumbnails with someone with their jaw detached from their skull with hands on their face, and the videos just feel nicer and less mass produced and view grabbing. I'm very glad that I found this channel.

What a BEAUTIFUL rig. X79 is one of my favorite chipsets out there, and this is the cream of the crop for this era.

6:58 I'm pretty sure that's not how getting run over by a 57-tons tank looks like...

the hx1050 is a clue that a lot was removed from this pc before it was sold, i guarentee it had a second 980 and probably an array of hard drives.

Lol, this deal would make even Brian (Tech Yes City) jealous!

Sadly in my country, 2nd or even 3rd hand hardware and hardware from a long time ago are listed at their origional price or sometimes more.

That's an excellent find for that price, I still use the i7 3930 today with a gtx 1080, I can't see my changing any time soon unless I get a failure.

"Free spider with every purchase"

"what a bargain" hes not kidding. I've literally just used an online auction site and the board ALONE is near enough £200 EDIT: that specific asus X79 board.

3930k owner here and everyday it's ran at 4.6ghz and I purchased it 2nd hand for £380 back in 2012 and its still going strong and I'm well pleased :D teamed with a 1080Ti. I purchased the chip to future proof the system and I'm very glad I did. It still holds up after I've had it 8 years. Every other component such as motherboard and ram is all 2012 apart from the graphics card. Saved money in the long run.

that's a 1080p high-quality gaming price to performance king right there!

That’s a INSANE deal for 6 cores! Lucky you found it! Also glad you made this vid it was amazing man!

The 3930K was imo one of the best CPUs Intel has ever made. Bought one back in 2012 and this litte demon of a CPU destroys everything gaming wise to this day in my cousins now PC. Having replaced it for a 7820X I will also say it was more stable, cooler and drew less power when overclocked. All in all I miss my 5Ghz 3930K demon to this day :(

What a damn steal! Only mobo and cpu can already cost 350$, and you have got so much more

1:34 "... and a spider" video cuts into you using a flamethrower.

I used to work for CEX 10 years ago, in London. Great place. And it is a great place to get PC parts from, exactly because the pricing team doesn't give a toss about the brand unless it's apple, and give prices based just on base components.

I used to work for CeX. For pricing, only what's on the label is considered. The motherboard, case, power supply etc doesn't effect the price

Wow, you found a real gem at that price! For those of you saying I can never find stuff like that.. It's out there. You just have to keep at it. I find deals all the time. Nice find my friend.

Rocking i7-5930k and it does just fine with 32GB of ram and a GTX 1080 thank you. Just built another in the silicon shortage for a friend and they are very happy at the super low price I found every thing at. Thankful for my knowledge and luck xx

I'd suggest leaving it in 4 sticks or upping to 8 sticks for quad channel operation, also i'm pretty sure that machine could still do well with newer GPUs like GTX 1080/1080ti or RTX

That's really not a bad deal. A really good i7 & a 980. It's really not a bad setup for entry level gaming, and knocks the spots off of a 1050Ti with a more modern i3. Throw in a 1050w COrsair PSU, some SSD's, a freaking Sabretooth and a plethora of RAM. Sell this for parts and you'll make a solid profit on eBay. Great find!

Cringe "me 2019" format comments incoming, brace yourself

Amazing deal! My i7 3770k @ 4.5ghz, 16GB of Dominator Platinum on an Asus Sabertooth Z77 with an Asus Strix GTX 980 are still smashing 1080p 60+ Ultra on everything I throw at it. I built this system to game/edit for 5 years and it's already given me 6+ with only a Corsair AIO CPU cooler replacement needed. I don't really play any BRAND new games on it so most of everything I play runs at 100+ FPS unlocked or 60 locked on my 144hz Zowie monitor. Even the RAID 0 WD Blacks I put in this thing for 2TB of game storage are still keeping up with my SSD's for game load times ( GTA V- 24s on SSD vs 32 on R0 HDD). If you built a PC in late 2012-2013 with premium parts you still don't even need to upgrade yet.

I actually laughed at the cloud joke XD

Nice to see X79 getting some coverage, I managed to get a decommissioned X79 PC with 16GB RAM and a 4820K at the beginning of this year for free, I upgraded it to 32GB RAM, a 4930K OCed to 4.5GHz, and a GTX 1070 and it can still kick it today :)

I am about to throw my 980 into a P180...love the video. I worked for Intel at the time, so mine was free, as well as the X58SO it lives in. It's good to see how it performed today...even if a few years later as well as temps inside that case.

Wow, value for money from CEX, give that man a medal.

Great find. I'd given up on CEX here in Bournemouth/Poole.....prices are just too damn high for a bargain hunter like me.😔 This really pumps me to get my X99 build up and running now though. Just need to finish the custom coldplate for the 1070 AMP and it's "Hello Skyrim with 100+mods and packs"! 😁

3:42 "My SSD is faster than your HDD"

Thanks for not being the jerk who kills the spider on camera. I love your content, can you review a GTX 780 with modern hardware?

sandy bridge really is something else. Even after nearly a decade, it still holds its own in many tasks and its only just showing its age

I'd love to see a graphics card that's a little higher end, to find where the limit is for your CPU

The P180 base design in general was way ahead of its time when it comes to what we consider to be modern features. The PSU shroud, fan filters, the intake panel, primitive cable routing, sound dampening, removable hard drive brackets and fan support. It even supported water cooling albeit as an outside extension. All this from a base released in 2005. I held on to mine for a decade before I downsized.

What a steal. The original owner wasn't aware of how much his rig actually costs. The cpu alone, the i7 3930K costs 190 USD in my country. He could have sold this pc for 450 usd and people would still call it a steal.

1:04 I just bursted out laughing :D I don't know why that fan looked so funny to me :D

The last i7-3930K system I owned (with an R9 290X) killed a 550W PSU, It's the reason I now rock a 750W

Duuuude, I love this Antec Full ATX case! I still have one in my basement storage for some random build in the future.

Feeling quite jealous that you found this machine for such a price

Dude! Your videos get better and better all the time! Keep doing what your doing. What a great bargain there.

I like how in just about every one of your videos you delicately give the gpu fan a little twirl!

Connected to air, for cloud storage lol 😂

Great find dude, would make a lovely Media/RTS game PC tucked behind a big panel somewhere ^^

I built a budget rig which i bought primarily with parts from CEX. Apart from case and PSU which i got cheap from ebay. It cost me 261 GBP, i7 4790k, GTX 780 OC, 16GB FuryX Red 2400Mhz, 1 TB 7200 RPM, z97Xtreme Game+. Not bad all things considered, even the dated GPU is quite a beast still considering it cost under 70 pounds, but i'm going to relist it for slightly higher and go with a GTX 980, which you can get for a 100 GBP if you shop around :D While I know i could have probably gotten it slightly cheaper if i bought it as a bundle like you did, but I do not trust or want to gamble with someone else's setups. It's easier for me to get it in parts and if I do get a bad apple of a part, i can just swap it out individually and carry on testing each and every component seperately. I don't particularly trust the fact that any of the CEX employees have done extensive stress-tests on the whole system, probably just booted it on - it loads up.. Clean it, store it, send it. Too much of a gamble though it can be cheaper, but not always.

Great video..the performance seems to be very close to my X58 board with a X5675-CPU..i wish you did more videos like this.

People buy the Chinese non x79 LGA 2011 boards. I forget what chipset they actually use but some of them are apparently quite reliable.

You stole that thing. Great combo of parts all around. I love that case and i seem to remember seeing a version that was all mirrors. It looked absolutely nuts and just messed with your eyes. This grouping of parts is just asking for custom watercooling. Im sure you can get great deals now on the part specific watercooling items, they are even for sale used. If i remember there is no need to delid. Ditch that case for a watercooling friendly case, I would really love to see the AeroCool P7-C1 used as it is not to expensive and IMO looks amazing without trying too hard. I have rarely seen any builds using it. Its time to finally jump. Custom loop on a budget!

I bought a 3930k machine at my local recycler a bit ago. It was in a rack case being used as a video encoder, I changed to a big old Antec case. Has 32gb of ddr3 and 3x GTX 580s in SLi. Plus 3x Blu-ray drives(two of which were dead from being knocked around). Just missing storage. I’m not even comfortable saying what I paid for it because none of you would believe me. Recycle center charges by weight, $0.70 a pound, do the math ;).

The 2011 builds are great in 2019. The motherboard you have is a great win for you. There are also some very good cheaper Chinese motherboards available from AliExpress. Bryan from TechYesCity has done some great reviews on these. The quad channel DDR3 runs very comparable to DDR4 even in 2019. Nice build. I have one of those cases. Cable management wasn't as important when you have no side window. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane.

You should over clock the GPUs in next videos and perhaps show comparison between OC and non OC.

You gotta wonder what whoever dumped that at CEX is gaming on now. madlad

I'm pretty sure the fan on the outside would help as it would create a push-pull effect on the AIO cooler. It didn't look THAT ridiculous, and he removed it before testing the Temps.

That's an absolute steal. :) Can you please test it with something like a Radeon 5700 or RTX 2060?

The power supply was most likely bought for the power effienecy curve which helps with getting stable overclocks, larger power supply have a wider window for said effienecy curve.

I'm still on LGA 2011 with a 3930k, hardly ever breaks a sweat, performs great. Also a fairly overkill system with a gtx 1080 on an Asus x79 Deluxe with 64Gb RAM.

I recently picked up an MSI X79 board for £65 on eBay with 2 faulty ram slots. Paired it with the 3930k and it works fine. CEX sells the CPU for £40, so if you can get a cheap X79 motherboard you can't really go wrong. Granted at 130W TDP, it is dreadfully inneficient compared to a modern Ryzen.

Where i live i was actually happy enough to find 2011 combo mobo + cpu for about 170€. It is Asus X79 Deluxe board and i7 4930K. And it is amazing system in 2019.

got a "dead" HD7950 Windforce for 14$, gave it a clean and its working like new

I'm still running a very similar system. 4930k @ 4.3ghz (stable since 2014) on a Rampage IV Gene, 16gb of that samsung wonder ram from 2011, and a GTX 670. Since then I've added additional SSDs and upgraded GPUs to SLI 670s> 780ti> 980ti> 1080ti and it absolutely rips today.

Nice write-up. Back in early 2016, I built a 2 cpu Xeon E2667 v2 25M Cache, 3.30 GHz, 4.0ghz turbo rig with 128gb RAM in an S2600cp motherboard and with an overclocked 1070ti card (edit: 1070ti added in 2018). With 16 cores / 32 threads and 50MB total cache over both chips, it is still a (dual) socket 2011 beast today and my main PC.

I have an idea for a video. A question that needs answering in current context. If you have a GPU that is not quite cutting it, can you push off a big $ upgrade by hunting up another of the same type cheap, and running dual. Proformance may be game dependent to an extent, and it will depend on having a SLI capable motherboard.

I was rocking the ASUS X99 Mobo, socket 2011-v3 until recently with the i7-6850K CPU + 32GB of RAM. I upgraded to the Ryzen R7-3800x, probably not much of an upgrade but I'm sporting the Gigaabyte Aorus Master Mobo now with a 2TB NVMe SSD, Gen4. Still using my original ASUS Strix GTX 1080 Ti GPU as I see no need to upgrade that just yet.

I managed to pick something slightly similar up about 3 months ago, i7 975 extreme on a gigbyte board, with 12gb of ram and a gtx980 only mine had 2x2tb hdds in raid 0, was only $200 from an office liquidation store, saw the black i7 sticker and shut my mouth when asking about it, the sales person just said ohh yeah its only got a first gen i7 in it but it has a weird 6 ram stick arrangement. I paid the money and ran away with it as fast as i could.

I'm glad I spent the extra money when I built my computer. 3930k with a rampage iv formula and crossfire 7970 gpus. Have since upgraded to a 980ti and now a 2080. Still runs everything I throw at it. Building a system to be future proof is usually a pointless exercise but with this CPU future proof it certainly was

I'm very much pleased with my chinese X79 motherboard in combination with an (used) Xeon E5-2680v2, 32 GB DDR3 and a RTX 2060. I've bought these components over the course of 1,5 years and am very pleased with the results. There's no overclocking the E5-2680v2, but since performance is still at par with a stock i7-8700k, I'm not in need of any overclocking anytime soon.

One of your better videos and something I am still amazed to this day you are able to get good deals. Do I need to move house?

wish we had CEX in states cause sounds like some real bargains can be found there

i did a similar thing just recently....i picked up a cheap i7 pc from a business auction for £85, turned out to have 32gb ddr3, i7, gtx670, gigabyte mb and artic cooler....ended up stripping it and built a gaming pc with it in a new case, with a water cooler and rgb....works a treat and has only cost me around £200....so there are bargains out there if you are prepared to look...

Man that was a steal. killer find.

Arctic cooler. Not an antec cooler. Maxwell gpus are made for overclocking btw. And i can't recall you mentioned memory speed? Maybe I missed that. But I'm curios to see the result after a memory overclock. I bet you cold squeeze much more of that sweet old system.

The man in the village working to make a living.Then comes a RU-vidr along the way,and punches him in the face.

the beauty of that cpu is it has native windows 7 support , thats worth a lot to me.

My gaming PC is actually still my Sk2011 machine. Im using a 4930K 32GB ram, 2x GTX780ti cards. Going to upgrade the GPU shortly. Just got a 4K monitor today and those cards dont cut it anymore. But i see no point upgrading the CPU or anything else. I actually bought a identical motherboard to mine few years back for a steal so ive got a spare should i need it.

I still have my old i7 3820 and the same mobo paired with a GTX 1060, LGA 2011 was a beast back then and still capable today.

* insert last time I was this early comment *

In mexico, where i live, there's not many 79x systems out there in the used market, but fortunately, i bought a 2011-xeon based workstation machine for cheap n i'm very happy with it

3:20 that was one of the best transitions i've ever seen

Its good to see an good old Antec P-Series case... Btw. the cooler is from Arctic @01:54 ;-)

You can enable the PCIE 3.0 speeds with the Nvidia driver registry hack for windows. Sandy Bridge-E supports 3.0 unofficially

I had an older version of this case with firewire port it's really was a beast

Feels like I am being spoken to personally here: Bought a 3930k and Asus Rampage IV Formula in 2011 /w 16 gigs gskill ram, everyone I knew thought that I made a huge mistake - even if the machine was meant to be a workstation first they all said I should have gone for an i7 2600k and saved some cash for future upgrades. Yet here I am in 2019 maxing everything out with a modern-ish Titan X Maxwell (bought used for $285 in 2018). Life's good when the gamble pays off!

I have a system based on the Asus Sabertooth X79. My CPU is an i7 3960x, there is 32GB RAM and a 900 series Titan X. It's still a capable system. These days the i7 is sitting on a shelf in my bedroom as I replaced it with a 12 core Xeon.

Thats one hell of a deal

unable to watch how much jelly i am

Love your vids. But... 550W for this CPU + 980 ? 🙊🙉🙈 Epic price tho😲

I feel sorry for the person that had it nicked, not the crackhead that sold it

Yup still kicking 2011 here. asrock fatal1ty x79 champion board + i7 4820k, 16GB RAM and GTX 1070 ti. Might be interested in buying that 3930k off you if you come to sell it

Decent priced... you could probaby resell it as is for 500 quid... a 6 core intel processor is still a 6 core intel processor. That thing is a beast! Solid entry level workstation cpu. Been trying to find one for a budget architect build for a friend.

That case will make a great server, good old CEX!

I have the exact case, I love it, it was free, it was thrown away because of a bad video card, installed a Q9650, radeon RX590, only 8gb of DDR2 , ASUS P5Q-E MB, runs my 65" TV , google maps is the only stresses the system, I do play land warrior, requirement was a Pentium II 400Mz and a 128Mb video card. back to the case, it looks great, very quiet, can not hear any of the fans and it was free

there are always some whole system deals pop up on CeX, but the description is limited. And i've received some DOA stuffs due to their poor packaging (ofc depends on the store you purchase from)

That's an insane deal. In parts alone (used prices), there's about at-least £600 worth of gear there!

I recently picked up an Ivy Bridge system as well and it's my main gaming rig now. Throw a Xeon in there and fill the RAM slots, you'll have quad channel memory for some insane memory bandwidth. Something like 60 gigabytes a second! I'm loving the Xeon e5-1650 v2 in mine, still holds up very well even at stock speeds.

i used to run a 3930k but it gave out under a bad overclock. to replace it i got a xeon E5-1660 v2. so i'm still rocking that 2011 lifestyle.

Great CPU, sold mine a few month ago, ran 4.8GHz with no problem

Good price on the computer. The X79 platform still commands a high price these days. Now what you need is some 2133 RAM, and a XEON E5-1680-V2 (The best CPU for X79. Mine runs at 4.7GHz all core)

x79 socket 2011 systems still rocks ! i got the top OC-supporting model e5-1680 v2 with an asus rampage IV extreme ....!

i paired a i7 3770 with a 65 buck asus z77 mobo, 16gb ddr3, 500gb hynix ssd(new), 2tb seagate barracuda 256bit hdd(new) 7200rpm, 750w corsair psu and a sapphire nitro+ rx570 8gb (card in transit to me now) all for under 500.. i put an arctic freezer xtreme x air cooler on the cpu. massive block. idles around 30c right now. runs great with the current but old gtx 760 4gb. new card very soon! i know i could done better but i already had the oem pc. (necessity buy for work)so i built around the cpu from it. was about 205 for the pc itself used. a dell 7010. ram and psu was included. I put it all in a nice phanteks case.

I was recently thinking of trying to pick up a used 3930K motherboard bundle, as a replacement for a 3770K to speed up photo editing a bit. But when I floated this idea online, the forums screamed "JUST GET A BRAND NEW RYZEN" at me. What are your thoughts?