Actually ended up with a very similar setup for £27 off eBay. These things are a bargain when “new” and even better than you find someone wanting to get rid second hand.

@XTRMXPRTKILR

6 ай бұрын

When new video???

@Hadisabetghadam

6 ай бұрын

Oh Thank God You Still alive

@silent.one_8087

6 ай бұрын

glad to see you still on internet even if you stop making video

@markstrickland438

6 ай бұрын

I bought two HP Z440 workstations like that, @BudgetBuildsOfficial, for $100 combined (both have 2683v4, 1 32GB RAM and the other 64GB - which I upgraded to 128GB). The v4 CPUs are so cheap now I wouldn't bother with the v3. These dirt cheap v4 systems make great home lab systems, and great JellyFin/Plex server if you have an appropriate GPU. I have a small solar system built out of scrap stuff that I use to power them, though only one stays running 24/7.

@psychoalert1823

6 ай бұрын

@@XTRMXPRTKILR This is literally a new video

I hope the zigabyte and zsi versions come out soon.

@RandomGaminginHD

6 ай бұрын

Lol 😂

@MakeYourVision

6 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the ZVGA X99

@amaurybruchez6734

6 ай бұрын

@@MakeYourVision ZSROCK

@tynewlin

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, and Zzotac 😂

@Bukakanga

6 ай бұрын

@@tynewlin and Zaphire az well

I grabbed a Machinist kit with a 2670v3 an “x99” mother board and 16 GB DDR4 I think it’s 2133, it’s JDEC basically. But it’s a great kit for cheap. Grabbed an RTX 2080 off eBay for $200, slapped together a PC for under $500 and it’s actually really good.

@RandomGaminginHD

6 ай бұрын

Nice :)

@a.bamatraf6054

6 ай бұрын

really good heater 👍

@voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023

6 ай бұрын

If its quad channel the speed doesn't really matter. I used 2400 on my X99 setup in 2016. It was still faster than any 4000+ DDR4 dual channel setup and I only paid 40 € for 16 GB of RAM back then. The downside is only the power draw.

@chincemagnet

6 ай бұрын

@@voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023 it’s dual channel atm, I’ll grab another set eventually. The power draw on these Xeons is capped at their TDP. So if you hit max TDP, they throttle like crazy. One way I discovered to get around that, which is seldom an issue in gaming, is to disable cores. It keeps the remaining cores at max boost clock.

@chincemagnet

6 ай бұрын

@@a.bamatraf6054 true 😆

It's a good budget combo. A relative paid for it like 150 bucks in 2020, pretty bad at that cost but if it's cheap, it's a good option.

@RandomGaminginHD

6 ай бұрын

Yeah perfect for anyone wanting something cheap and cheerful

@b0ne91

6 ай бұрын

In 2020 for a combo like this, $150 would've been quite the reasonable buy. Zen 4 only came out in November 2020. And that's not even the budget CPUs.

@Mitsuoxx

6 ай бұрын

@@b0ne91 The thing was he paid extra for nothing. At that time, Aliexpress had better price for budget combo (like 70-80 bucks). He was angry with me like "WhY yOu DiN't tElL mE i pAid eXtrA???" when I told him to buy an 2nd hand i3 9100f combo with that budget and never consulted me about xeon combos. 150 bucks is expensive for any xeon combo of Aliexpress, at least from my pov.

hey man it's been so long since i've seen one of your videos. i'm literally on the bus and your channel randomly popped in my head. i used to watch your channel to look for good value budget parts and now i just finished a $1500 build. glad to see you're still doing well

@RandomGaminginHD

6 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

@Graphics_Card

19 күн бұрын

Yeah I actually used to watch these 4 years ago when the whole world went down and started reviving around computers, and that’s when I got into computers, and started watching these a lot. I’m 18 now and watching these again to prepare for my career in computer science.

I enjoy these budget builds please do more videos if possible on these type of builds 🔥 keep up the great work brotha

These things really shine with the memory in quad channel, with DDR4 2400 you can have nearly 80 Gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth and if it's ECC you have that parity for less potential errors. I used to exclusively run Xeons up until around 2020, my last one was a e5-1650 v2. 6 cores 12 threads and it's multiplier was unlocked, it was a beast. I miss the quad channel ECC memory but I do love my Ryzen these days.

@Dango-God

6 ай бұрын

The quad channel thing is why it bothers me to no end when bundles like these come with 2 sticks. (Or when the motherboards _only_ have 2 slots)

@midrezgaming

6 ай бұрын

I just picked up an AsRock x99 Fatality board with 4x4gb ddr4 2666Mhz, the E5-1620 V3, and a rx580 4gb for $110. Board supports 8 sticks, unsure of max capacity however.

@MrGorpm

6 ай бұрын

You beat me to it! I had an MSI X99 Sli with i7 5820k running quad channel a few years ago, so I was curious as to why only two sticks were used.

@outrun4047

6 ай бұрын

@@midrezgaming 256gb with your cpu :)

@midrezgaming

6 ай бұрын

@@outrun4047 i messed up, it's v3 so 768gb max for chip, still 256 for the board. 🤣

BUYER BEWARE I have checked the Aliexpress store page for this board and they say it is only wired up for dual channel. Populating all 4 slots will not get you the bandwidth you expect.

@leonbishop7404

6 ай бұрын

yep these boards are too small to put all the necessary lanes for 4 channel to work

@TheBackyardChemist

6 ай бұрын

@@leonbishop7404 Size is not the issue, one can route 4 channels even on an ITX board, but that needs more PCB layers and more careful design. Some of the more expensive aliexpress "X99" boards of this size actually do wire up all 4 channels properly.

Love your videos bro been a fan for 4 years now ❤️

I was thinking about getting something like this really recently, so it's really cool you made a video about it! Seems like quite a good deal & I'd like to check it out even more now.

@dalehammers4425

6 ай бұрын

Make sure to get quad channel ram, and use a better gpu than a 980. The quad channel ram will overcome the lower clock speeds, and it can absolutely handle a better gpu.

@pikraken

6 ай бұрын

@@dalehammers4425 alrighty thanks for the advice

I run a huananzhi qd4 with a 2697v3 with the turbo unlock (3.6 GHz all cores under load) with quad channel 2133 memory for my server. Handles amazingly. I even put a 6700 10 GB with it and it got over 120 fps in warzone at 1440p with fsr. Incredible value for a $15 cpu

I'm glad you mentioned the RAM. Was worried mine only worked with ECC at first

Cool find. Still rocking a Dell T3600 with an old E5-2665 with 64GBs of quad channel DDR3 RAM. And the machine still stomps all over the 6th and 8th gen i5 systems I have kicking around here even if I make those out with 32GBs of DDR 4. Sometimes brute force just does the trick regardless of IPC.

@RandomGaminginHD

6 ай бұрын

Yeah those old systems are awesome

1. For a 5-10 euro more there is 4 channel memory motherboard (significant difference in performance) 2. It can work with more expensive cards like rx 5700xt/ 2060 3. Try to compare it with entry lvl gaming cpu like ryzen 5500/ i3 12100

@Kraven83

6 ай бұрын

How significant of a difference are we speaking?

@thesexywarden

6 ай бұрын

@@Kraven83 2133 mhz x2 or 2133 x 4 should be visible, it's like ddr 4 vs ddr 5

@HuggingFace_Guy

6 ай бұрын

same as i3 12100 but worse than 5500 (obviously worse as the e5 2650 v4 only costs 1$ on aliexpress while 5500 costs 89$)

@steviebhoy25

6 ай бұрын

Can you provide a link to what you are suggesting, I'm looking to build an emulation pc and this sounds like an option

@dexsters5643

6 ай бұрын

@@thesexywarden its easy math to calculate what would the speed be since in quad channel do memoryspeed ddr4 2x 2133=4266mhz dual channel ddr4. Since havent looked the bandwoth difference of ddr4 vs ddr5 (for exampe ddr4 3600 vs ddr5 4800mhz)

Actually pretty good, I was surrounding acquiring one of these for a multiple virtual machine system (just for tinkering)

Glad to see the outer worlds in your benchmark. I've been meaning to replay it myself and finish it. Glad I'm not the only one. Anyway, could you do me a favor and continue using it for your benchmarks for a while.

I recently got a Machinist kit with 2640v3, unlocked the turbo and paired with my 2nd hand Vega 56. Awesome machine for gaming, especially on Linux because Vega performs better with VKD3D and there is ROCm for AI. Emulators run surprisingly well too. It even has ReBAR. Was like 300ish bucks for the whole build.

Love your video's. Always enjoy the juxtaposition of other channel's modern high end reviews compared to your reporting on "dated" hardware

Love the ram socker placement

Those Xeon kits are great when you want to game on a sane budget. A few months ago I got a 2680v4 + 32GB ECC + mobo for ~$110 (and the mobo is fancier than that one, it has two M.2 slots). Adding an RTX 2070 and all the other parts that I got locally, I built a solid gaming rig for less than $400.

I love these I literally bought over a dozen off Amazon to restock for 2024 ❤

You can "unlock" the V3 CPUs on this socket to get them to work at 1 core frequency on all cores. It comes with heat, but almost all mobos can handle ~100W CPU. (Instructions in comments)

@yoppindia

6 ай бұрын

how do you do that?

@kevinvanneste2500

6 ай бұрын

Bios tweak en Windows registry edit only possible for max turbo on all cores with V3 chips

@balukrol

6 ай бұрын

This motherboard CANNOT handle these without SEVERE modding. Had one of these fry itself after 3 days of running a turbo-unlocked 2670v3.

@jimtekkit

6 ай бұрын

Good luck doing that on a board with a VRM that would've been considered weak even a decade ago.

@christianmino3753

6 ай бұрын

yeah like idk what this maniac is talking about, you can visually see VRMs on this board that obviously can't handle going crazy like that.@@jimtekkit

I have one of those boards running a 10 core Xeon. It’s paired to an R7 260x and it serves as my living room pc for emulation and other multimedia purposes. It’s great!!

I see these as being good as little test benches to make sure components work :)

Would it make sense to turn off hyperthreading for certain games? Since the CPU has such a low clock speed and presumably not many games are optimized to use all 24 threads anyway? Would it make sense to allow each of the 12 threads run on a physical core rather than using "fake" threads?

I lost my other youtube account and I totally forgot about RandomGamingHD till I saw it on my recommendation, glad I found your channel again very useful for budget builds!

In the past I put together an aliexpress x99. Used the huananzi x99-TF which was all the rage a few years back. I didn't use it myself so can't comment on how good it was. But recently I put together another x99 system. Got a good second hand bundle on ebay msi x99 board, 64Gb ecc and an e5-2687w v3 processor for £110. So far I'm very pleased. The upgrade path is pretty good, all the way up to 22 cores , 55Mb cache with a 3.7Ghz turbo. Next upgrade for it will be to get an nvme that saturates the allocated 4 pcie channels. Currently my nvme only hits around 1.6 Gb/s on reads , so there's a lot of headroom for improvement there.

I put together a couple of X99/E5-2640 V3/GTX10603GB/32GB PC's in mid 2020 during lockdowns. My daughter was doing a design/animation course at the time and was starting to struggle with the old Dell laptop she had. Blew the tutors away when they found out what she had achieved with what she had been using. All the parts arrived just as things got too taxing for the laptop. Put it all together and she has been very happy. Made the study much easier and she could game with it as well. I came across a deal on some DDR3 server RAM so put together ax X79/E5-2650 V3 machine with 64GB RAM which has also been really good. Highly recommend these as budget friendly machines with some serious grunt for the money. I am a bit of a Xeon fanboy.

@happyvideos7791

6 ай бұрын

Hey what motherboard did you get in back 2020?I have the xeon cpus n an ecc ram

@comiumapedra5397

Ай бұрын

​@@happyvideos7791get a machinist P4 or machinist pr9

I just literally looked at this cpu and board on Aliexpress hours ago before seeing this video. I calculated out a very cheap build with it. Nice to see what it would perform like now. lol Great video as always from you. I would have liked to see it in a build, curious what air cooler you used and wattage on the PSU.

I've built several i7 3770 systems based on Chinese mobos. And they have worked surprisingly well. One issue I've had, however, is fan speed control. All of the fans went to full speed all the time. And even using magic software that was supposed to detect all fans on the computer did not detect the fans. Did you run into anyting like that on this mobo? Were you able to control fan speed? Cheers and thanks for another great video.

THX SO MUCH! for this video bcs I will gonna buy this exact processor in different combo for about 80$ 😁

I still enjoy these "can this older hardware still run modern games" videos. I own a ryzen 9 5900x and rtx 3060 PC thats twice as fast as this combo, but still cool to see what the older hardware can still do.

The PS2 ports are cool. Looks like it would make a great home server build once you upgrade away from low end gaming.

Something like this, preferably with quad channel memory could make a interesting low cost server. V4 xeon cores are still no slouch, that's broadwell we're talking about, and they're pretty efficient too. Could run a lot of light to moderate workloads on them and probably keep it cool with just a big chonking tower cooler barely spinning fans.

these were my bang for buck meta back in 2019, it is a fun project to unlock the turbo boost on the V3's by delving into the micro code

I think this is the fastest ive been to your videos

I'm wondering if you can lasso the best cores that boost the most to set for games and let the rest run the background. Wonder if that would be of any use?

I bought a similar board with 32Gb of RAM and put a vega 56, ssd and an 850w power supply. Very good PC, I use it for. When my friends come home

Was tempted to pick one of these up just as curiosity

I have the PlexHD x79 Turbo paired with a Xeon E5-2680v2, 40GB of ECC memory and a GTX 1070 in my main rig. The build quality is awesome and it has a lot of ports. I paid a lot for it, around 100€ 2 years ago (Amazon), but it didnt disappoint me yet. The CPU is great for encoding, VMs and gaming at the same time and only draws 100W.

Since you're keeping it long term, I'd be curious if these same games you tested here get similar or better performance on something like Nobara Linux. It's a distribution maintained by the guy who makes proton GE, the community go-to for best case performance in a lot of windows games on Linux. It includes Nvidia drivers out of the box, and overall might be the current most straightforward distribution to set up a machine if you just want to game on it.

that passive cooling on power phases is going to be melting hot

I just got the very same set 3 days ago, but unfortunately it only powered up for a split second, thankfully aliexpress let me return it. Hopefully my 2nd set will work okay like yours! :)

Would i be able to boot this at all without a gpu installed? I understand i would not get any output but considering running this one as a headless server anyway.

Hi. Is that motherboard is on hm55 chipset? Can You upload bios from that motherboard? My is crashed . I cant find any firmware to repair it.

i bought a dual socket one of these and ran a similar setup for a OBS/Plex server and it ran beautifully.

I have built / upgraded a few old workstations using Aliexpress used Xeons v2/v3/v4 and different boards from Huananzhi or Zsus. So far absolutelly no issues; all have been rock solid and run 24/7 for simulation and heavy data processing. I only reboot them a few times per year and I have had no crash at all. It is actually much more stable than my used Ryzen gen 1 & 2 / non ECC DDR4 PCs.. For info I am running two dual Xeon v2 (2690v2 and 2697v2) with 128Gb DDR3 ECC and 3 single socket Xeon V3/4 with 64 gb DDR4 reg ECC.

@truents1

18 күн бұрын

Does it run current games well?

I like those colors. Usually budget mobo's are boring. I'm more a full ATX guy myself, but i don't know why. It's all ive ever built, really.

Wow loads of performance for the money, I thought the 2.5ghz turbo would limit it but the extra cores and threads seemed to power it through all the tests.

I've also bought some of these, but from an other manufacturer and a little different CPU. I paired one with a GTX 1070 and with 4 channel RAM (32GB) and the GPU was the bottleneck. Great for the price, but windows 11 is not official supported on these E5 Xeons, so keep that in mind. 🙂

@vali69

6 ай бұрын

Who cares, you can bypass that. Otherwise this looks like it's great on linux, pair it with an amd gpu like a rx580 or 5700 from alix too and you've got an awesome combo for 250 euros.

@Beisepimp

6 ай бұрын

@@vali69 Yeah, i'm only still have one problem with Valorant & Vanguard, if you have Win11 with an unsupported CPU , the game will not start. :'D

@vali69

6 ай бұрын

@@Beisepimp as someone who supports not having malware on your computer I do not support having kernel level malware in the form of anti cheat on your system. Now if only valorant was actually fun to play, in that matter the only fun multiplayer fps game I've played recently is battlebit and I think that runs on linux, haven't had any time to try it out tho, I barely even play as is on my windows install.

@BREEZYM6015

6 ай бұрын

I have an i7 8700k and a GTX 1060 6GB. What would be a good GPU to upgrade to?

@BREEZYM6015

6 ай бұрын

​@@vali69Bypass what?

Wow, this is actually a not-horrible deal. I was mostly sketched out by the Ali-MoBos but 12 cores for 50ish bucks is fair.

@CAMSLAYER13

6 ай бұрын

They are certainly sketchy but couod be worth the gamble

@YannBOYERDev

6 ай бұрын

12 cores means nothing. These CPUs are slower than new 6 cores CPUs. If each core is slow, you can have a ton of cores, and it will still be slow. Like, a 8 cores Ryzen 9 7940HS is as fast a i5-13500 14 cores, because the i5 have fast cores and slow cores, but even on CPUs with all core having the same speed you need to have fast cores to become more powerful than the lower core count cpu.

@maou5025

6 ай бұрын

@@YannBOYERDev Due to 75gbps quad channels mem bandwidth, these CPU can brute force through a lot of games that stutter in DDR4. In 1440p, you can build a build like this with quad channels ($60) and spend all on GPU.

@dalehammers4425

6 ай бұрын

@@YannBOYERDev Quad core RAM can sometimes overcome the core speed with these things. Quite often actually. There are some very good videos out there of this very cpu crushing games with a better gpu.

great video, impressive enough that i bought one!

I'm always using AliExpress for these mobo and CPU combos for budget esports rigs. Love the price to performance.

Might be a good opportunity to see if turning off hyperthreading on these older CPUs has any good or bad effects.

At first I didn't hear the part about Asus and you showed Zusu and said it again and thought I swapped to a parallel Earth for a sec

That cheap Mobo procie combo is looking cool. Love to build with that if IM not have PC yet

Anyone know what the proper bios is for this board? Looking to get one with TBU and an undervolt. Just bricked one with the huananzhi 8m-f bios

I know this is a bit of an old video, but since you said you're going to be keeping it long time I'd recommend, for accuracy reasons, to use another method to look at the temps and power draw of the cpu, usually these chinese boards have lower quality or straight up faulty temp sensors and VRMs (the component that does the power draw for the cpu), from my own experience I built a few of these x99 xeon machines myself and one reported 5 W of power draw of the cpu (0 W at idle lmao), when it's actually pulling 100-120 W, another reported 20 C and even if I couldn't confirm myself it felt like it was at 80 just by feeling the air around it. You can also turbo unlock them (at least most v3 and v4 afaik, what it does is make the single core turbo boost clocks apply for all core turbo boost), but it's not recommended unless you buy a high quality chinese x99 board (x99 boards are mainly produced by chinese manufacturers to repurposed these server xeon chips for general use), as most are done with very low quality parts and will shut down or straight up catch on fire if not properly cooled/proper quality.

I'd love to see some number crunching benchmarks with this set up.

#1 fan of your content. Is it possible to include power consumption values?

I was looking at these last week when my x99x board died and i wanted to put my i7 5820k, decided full upgrade instead! May still buy one to make a home theatre pc or something

How was the CPU as low as 30C? Either that's a very cool chip or a very good cooler, very impressive nonetheless.

Hey. So. That CPU supports 4 channel memory. It would be interesting to see if the motherboard does. And if it has any benefit for using that.

Hi mate you mentioned ‘other modern alternatives’ could you please advise where i can find these…? Thanks

the CPU got huge L3 cache but low single core perf. So.... does it means it balances each other?

This is probably more suitable for a 'homelab' type thing, although the lack of an iGPU kind of makes it unsuitable if you want to serve media from it...discreet GPU would add a ton of idle power consumption.

@renvon

6 ай бұрын

new intel nucs are unbeatable for that purpose

I bought the exact same mobo and after 1 month it just freezes while having a loud buzzing sound, this after running the computer for an hour or so

I need help when I play Fortnite both my cpu and gpu run at 30% and I only get 160 fps all low settings

It's always a good day when Randomgaminghd posts 🕺🕺

I got an x79 version of this board and hacked the bios so i could OC my unlocked xeon processor. Still going strong at 4.2ghz on stock volts.

I have been testing this setup for a couple of months now. My specs are ZSUS P4 X99, XEON 2670 V3, 16GB DDR4 + GTX 1060 6GB. It looked sketchy at first, but it's a great combo. On top, the 12 cores let you edit 4k faster, video rendering time is great, does not overheat. You can run VMs easily. I have a couple of benchmarks in my channel if someone is having doubts about buying.

I live in brazil so a xeon setup is normally more than enough for the price i got a e5 2660 v3 and gtx 1080 amp edition thinking of upgrading to a e5 2667 v3 or e5 1660 v4

I wonder if the CPU paired with a 30 series would perform better.

Hey, really wish you would review the sothered on laptop chips, like the 11900h. They could make for super interesting fps/$ options.

@RandomGaminginHD

6 ай бұрын

I’ll take a look soon!

@rso_attila

6 ай бұрын

They used to be dirt cheap a few years ago, around 80-120 bucks depending on cpu specs, and back then they were a great price/performance combo. Nowadays tho, they’re twice as expensive, and pretty much not worth it since they can barely compete with a 12400f while being more expensive and less efficient. Also, the boards that they solder those i9s and i7s to are the most basic bare bones motherboards they could make, VRMs get crazy hot if you don’t cool them down with heat sinks.

These server boards support both regular desktop DDR4 and server DDR4 which can be found much cheaper. Just make sure to get registered ECC not unregistered ECC.

Beamng is a great title to test CPUs with many cores, if you have it could you test it with 10 traffic cars and see how it holds up? Since the game uses one core per car it might perform well

Love the new mic quality! Still watching but i had to stop for a second to let u know

I got the exact bundle but mine arrived DOA and it took 8 weeks to get a refund although they did give me a free postage ;abel.. After looking into the X99 i have since found its worth paying a little bit more abd gwtting a Machinist branded board that are much better.. For £105 i got the Machinist X99 pro board with an EE5-2680 v4 14 core plus a cooler and 16 gigs of ram.. its er.. ok.. online says its around the 2600k levels and plays most of what i throw at it.. i guess its more about the thrill of having a rig with a processor that cost $1750 new.. for only £15 haha.. Went all in and got one of the rx 580 2048sp cards for £44 and overall im pretty happy.. even if my sons ancient Ryzen 1600af kills it.. Nice vids.. Keep em coming. 👌

Got it with 16GB ECC. Works very well, M2 slot works fine. I am using it with Archlinux but Win10 also works fine.

You forgot to mention (i got two of these boards) that this board limits the frequency of the cpu because it can only supply 65 watt power.

@mikenewbold1699

6 ай бұрын

rubbish

@TheExcellentVideoChannel

6 ай бұрын

That's really pants considering the cpu tdp is around 110w

@ozanvolkan1

6 ай бұрын

@@TheExcellentVideoChannel I know that was the fustrationpoint when i got it home.

@EkuEdu

6 ай бұрын

so, cards like the gtx 750 or gtx 1650 can work through the pcie?

@ozanvolkan1

6 ай бұрын

@@EkuEdu nothing with pcie mate. İt cannot deliver sufficient power to the cpu to let it use its full power

which seller should i go with.. there seems to be so many i dont know which ones are legit or not

That's really not bad results from such an inexpensive set up but you touched on something that everyone should consider before going this direction even for a budget gaming build and I'd like to add a few point as well. First, upgradability in any "built" system is, in my opinion, essential because components age and most like this don't age well so you'll be forced to replace them instead of just upgrading because there really isn't much of a path to do so. Second, the used component prices on things like mainboards, CPU's, RAM and even descent GPU's is coming down so if you shop around you can come up with some really good deals on components that are just a few years old and much more capable and you'll be left with a system that is totally upgradable in the process. Third, stay away from "pre-built" systems like older business type PC's from the major brands because they are mostly all proprietary and have an even smaller upgrade path then the system in this video. Lastly, keep in mind that building a system requires much more than a mainboard, CPU, RAM and GPU. You'll also need keyboard, mouse, monitor, cords and cables, power supply and a case to put all that in plus the operating system. So what may seem like "cheap" on the surface gets much more expensive acquiring all the peripheral hardware needed to make it all work. Just my thoughts.

That CPU temp. How is it that low? Is it the chip or the cooler or both?

What formfactor is this? Too big for mini ITX but looks small for mATX?

Still running X99 with a 1080ti, definitely feeling the age of the CPU (and GPU in select instances) in modern games but it does shockingly well for how old it is

@comiumapedra5397

Ай бұрын

you could get a upgrade for cheap, any 1660v3/v4, 2667v3/v4 are great for gaming.

Cool color scheme. Have you ever looked at any X570 boards ? Just ordered an Asrock Steel Legend as someone convinced me to go X570 over B550 for my 5700x. Most X570 boards didn't seem to be in stock so I chose what I could. Also this video is what I needed to help calm myself down, I keep getting calls from some asshole who wants donations and he calls all day long. Finally picked up the phone and told him off. I bet the jerk harasses me even more now.

i wonder if games are compiled for server grade cpu intrinsics that could make computation faster

So I don't know if that board is capable or bios modding But my machinist board can be bios modded My 18 core 2699V3 went from an avg of 9200 on cb23 at 2.7ghz all core to between 17500 to 18000 depending on temp at 3.2ghz all core And I'm using the v3 all core turbo mod in conjuction with tdp and Amp draw mods to allow an all core that high

Hello I hope you can aswer my question, is it normal for my pc to have low fps? in gta i get like 40- 60 my pc specs: mobo: Gigabyte ab350m-hd3 processor: amd ryzen 5 2400g ram: corsair vengeance 2400mhz gpu: geforce galax gtx 1050 ti what can be the reason of the low fps? I hope you can answer my question, thanks, new subscriber from Philippines

Is this one of those Frankenstein boards with reclaimed chipsets on them?

I am pretty sure this CPU is not officially supported by Windows 11. Not that I have Windows 11, but I have the i7-5960X and it definitely isn't supported. Which was the main reason I didn't move to W11. I can't figure out what is going on with the X99 boards and their sensors. I have yet to get an accurate power report for my CPU on my ASUS X99 board.

this is brilliant

Seems like a perfect little bundle for a cheap home server setup. Slap Debian on that bad boy and it could be a good little storage and media server. Or maybe even a Steam Cache.

I've built three systems using three different CPUs with different core counts, and they all work great. Plenty of bang for the buck.

I've bought this exact CPU and an almost identical mobo, put 16GB of regular Kingston DDR4 RAM, and I was very pleasantly surprised with the performance. I was building a cheap and capable PC for my mom and I couldn't believe, for the price, the capabilities of this CPU, particularly multi threaded scenarios, it beat my OG 3600. And seriously, perhaps you could try a beefier GPU with it, cause I used my 3080ti with it for a few weeks, just for fun, and it didn't disappoint, really. Because it's got so many threads usually you don't get the highest averages but the frametime, 1%, is really good a lot of the time, at least in my experience. For the price is awesome IMHO.

@dalehammers4425

6 ай бұрын

Not putting quad channel ram with this cpu is an absolute waste...

@tilpesq

6 ай бұрын

@@dalehammers4425The mobo I bought is dual channel only, otherwise I'd certainly have gone quad channel, but for its intent is an amazing PC for the price.

I did a build for my brother with an E5-1660v4. the 1650/1660/1680 all have a base above 3Ghz and boost to around 4ghz. The 3060 I took into the shop on trade in because it was artificing for the original owner in certain games. But after I repasted and repaded it, it was fine. The bundled CPUS are more for home lab and budget servers. If you want gaming performance you need the 16 series with 6-8 cores and much higher clock speeds than the 2000 series chips meant to run in multi CPU servers. The 1660v4 on AliExpress is $20 and despite the lower core count will run much better in games.

@khalyl7282

4 ай бұрын

did u try it on this motherboard?

@JordosTechShack

4 ай бұрын

@@khalyl7282 yes, the build video is on my channel.

@khalyl7282

4 ай бұрын

@@JordosTechShack i thought the vrms can't handle a 140W Cpu

i just received that same bundle today but unfortunately i couldn't get it to boot. No fan spin or anything, even tried 2 different power supplies.

If anyone has experience with these Mobos, I would appreciate some advice, I'm a new builder making a decision. I have tried to do my own research but I want to be as sure as possible about what I am potentially getting into. 1) does this support the I7-5960x? Googleing leads me tp believe it would, and the price for performance for a setup like this sounds alluring. 2) Would a setup like I'm imagining support decent memory speeds? I'm looking at using 2 sticks of 8GB at 3200 MHz, would using this board and CPU mean my memory wouldn't be used to it's fullest? Also not super critical but the listing I see for this board makes it seem like two slots are only for DDR3, is that the case or will this run quad channel ? 3) least important but RGB connectivity? Just curious.

@xingbairong

6 ай бұрын

1) If you want to run 5960x, you definitely need a better mobo than this one. I mean it might run it, but it won't be able(or allow at all) to handle an OC and it doesn't make senes not to use the full capabilities of the 5960x 2) The max RAM speeds should be what the CPU support. 5960x supports 2133, so I doubt you can go higher than 2400 on these motherboards. Can't really say much on this topic since I haven't used one of these boards. Also this board supports only dual channel, so that's another reason to pick a better motherboard. Quad channel is quite a difference. 3)I don't think any(including the expensive ones) of these chinese motherboards have ARGB connectivity. Considering that even newer chinese motherboards like B550, B760 don't have ARGB I'm not surprised. That said you can just get a controller. Not as good as having a proper ARGB, but does the job :) There are quite a few channels that have done a lot of in-depth reviews on different versions of these motherboards, but all the really good ones are in Russian or Portuguese. Still even if you don't understand those you can get a rough idea on important stuff, so if you are really seriously considering these motherboards you definitely want to check them out. English channels I can think of right now are Miyconst and Craft Computing. You will have to search around, but they have quite a few videos with Miyconst going quite in-depth.

Not going to lie, I'm currently looking at quite a few of these offerings mainly as a homelab machine, but seeing that even in gaming with only two channels used can still put up a fight it's indeed something. I'll eventually pull the plug and have my main server (E3-1231 v3 with 16 GB of DDR3 RAM) replaced by something like this...

Can you add The Finals in the future benchmarks? :) (it's free to play)