That case is what you paid for, the pc is just a bonus!

It wasn't even 5 years ago that the 7700K was still King amongst used CPUs. Crazy

When I first got my own PC, thiw was approximatively my config (i7-7700K, 16GB, GTX 1070), it was legit the 3rd most powerful config a consumer could buy with a reasonable budget. Seeing it here, now, gave me a serious reality check

I feel old now... the 7700k is still a new beast 😭

omg the i7 7700k was my dream cpu back then

Man, I've been subscirbed to you since your initial sub 100k days and never got around to saying this; thank you for making these videos. Your content always bring a smile to my face as. Extremely chill and ever the more informative. Keep up the good work. Miss Dave.

Now that's a handsome PC mate

Bought a 6700k system, minus GPU and PSU for $75, it is cleaner than most new PCs I have bought, the Motherboard is an MSI z170a xpower titanium, 32GB 2400 RAM 2X16, and a ginormous Antec gaming case that really looks the era complete with blue led fans. I love the MB, I have never had my hands on anything like it, a dedicated overclicking daughter board with buttons, dip switch to switch bios, and buttons for power, reset and bios flash where the front panel header normally is. I have received more than $75USD worth of entertainment from it already, so losing money will be impossible. I threw a 2GB rx550 in it, and it came with a stock CPU cooler, so I haven't been able to turn the Game Boost knob yet.

I'm still running my 7700K + 2x1070 SLI rig and its still going happy. It can even output 4K 60 (the most it can) with sensible settings on older games.

I miss the days of late 2000's and early 2010's PC cases. It was the golden era. HTPC cases were also pretty sick. I have the windowless version of this somewhere and still use my Cooler Master HAF XB cube for my gaming system and the Silverstone Grandia ones for living room and small server PC's. There were lots of different designs and now we only have same looking Aquarium towers with bad airflow and before it was just beige boxes.

I game on an i7 8700k, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and a GTX 1060 6GB. I've gotten comments about needing to upgrade and I agree that I'll need to upgrade to a newer system soon but for now the PC meets my needs. Someone even asked if my specs can run PowerPoint. I don't use PowerPoint and didn't see the "point" of that comment. 😂

I like how you integrate nature into your builds

The 7700k not having windows 11 support is a crime. Prematurely turning into e-waste. Linux could save it, but most regular people wouldn't even know that's an option.

just gotta love the monstrosity that is the Corsair case its just so big

You're a true tech enthusiast to put such builds together. It's a capable machine to run a variety of titles.

that smooth transition at 7:12

Still comfortably gaming with an i7-7700K, GTX 1080 and 32 gigs or DDR4 RAM

I love your little garden, it is so cozy-ish :D

haha, I feel you on not wanting to sell it. I recently picked up a retired CAD work station with a 6700K, ROG Maximus board, and a Quadro K1200, (minus cpu cooler, psu or any hard drives), for about that same price you picked this up for. All in a gorgeous brushed aluminium case with a clear side panel. I picked it up to flip but after getting it up and running with an EVGA 2060 Super, I've kind of fallen in love with the old beast. It's still a fantastic machine in my eyes!

Thats a beautiful build, man I love watching your vids while eating, keep it up 👍

I got my first computer in 2017. was a Dell Inspiron that had an i3 7100 in it. I wanted to upgrade to the 7700 non K because that was the highest chip that was supported by the motherboard, but i ended up switching platforms entirely and purchasing a 3700x instead in early 2020. I’ll never forget my i3 7100 and what it could do. I played Oblivion at 1080p with medium high settings with the UHD 630 graphics, and managed a playable 40-50 fps. There was something fun about having a limited machine, because you have to figure out how to get the most out of it and still have a good time.

2:04 Really lovely Shasta Daisies in the garden!

Best case ever. Phenomenal airflow - unparalleled.

Awesome video with full of nostalgia

Im still on an 8700k with a 1080ti. For the most part im still good.

Were gonna need more updates on this pigeon situation, hopefully your security pupper has things handled 🐾🐾💚

You should add Ghost of Tsushima to your benchmarks, it's a really good PC port.

One of my favorite cases!

Nice build, I think you got the mix of components about right too. Also really nice case, I'd buy the case itself because you can fit pretty much anything in there, along with plenty of airflow, plenty of SSDs/HDDs and also a couple of 5.25in slots too - a rarity nowadays!

Seriously man...here you are at it again...reviewing exact the pI am building with. So crazy. That CPU is super hot for no reason though. Love that case. I sold one a few years ago for next to nothing and regret it.

still rocking this case and its spacious !

That case is soo cool!

i just got 6700 k and Z270 mobo from my closet and put it back to life works like a charm ,nice vids as always mate

You should consider covering the Coffee Lake mod for 7th Gen boards. They can support 8th and 9th gen Intel chips with a bit of tinkering, and it gives them a few more years of useful life. Guides for this can be found everywhere including the LTT Forums, but only do it with stuff that you can afford to lose.

That case is massive, I have an identical one but only have been able to identify the "razer" on it, got it used for 25 dollars, best case I have had, really liked the massive room it offers

Mine is still working great in 2024 surprisingly. I was going to build a new PC, but I might just keep my 6-year old system if it's still running this well. For whatever reason, it's just a very stable, reliable system that gives me less problems than my 13th gen laptop, and my Rog Ally. Can't remember the last time it's ever crashed on me, and I don't think it's ever BSOD'd me, maybe once back when Windows 10 was new and not updated yet, but rarely if ever since. No point in building one of these these days, simply because there is no upgrade path, but if you still have one, it's a good system and will probably last another 2 or 3 years before I run into any weird compatibility/support issues, hopefully.

5:47 the way you said "on modern hardware or older hardware" 😂.

I've always wanted a big square case like this. Great video and please give my regards to Harry the scourge of pigeons.

Great kombo this CPU and GPU. In 2017, i've bought myself also a GTX 1070 & Ryzen 7 1700x , back then i was really happy with that config.

I want to ad a bit of context to your helldivers results. The game is extremely cpu intensive at higher difficulties because all the enemy ai is calculated locally and there are way more enemys. From personal experience with an 8600k at 4.7ghz the game will drop to around 20fps with horrible and intensive lows at difficulty 8. Lower difficulties fare a bit better but are still exhausting to play. The rest of my setup is 16gb ram and an rtx 2060 at lower settings than in your video. I can confirm that this is to 100% a cpu bottleneck.

I like the look. The case is pretty cool. I am still using a ROG with a 1070 as a backup in the other room. It is very, very capable even nowadays.

Still have the same case, don't feel the need to change. Airflow is absolutely great. Cable management is also great since you tuck them in the other chamber.

Still use that case (white) today with my new setup. Cpu 14900/ Ram 64gb / Gpu AMD 7900XT / Cpu watercooled. Beast setup. Only use it for my photoshoot photo editing in 1440P on a 34” Ultrawide ❤

I LOVE this case.

Love that case

One of my fave Corsair cases, always wanted to buy one back in the day.

Oh I remember how much I used to want this case years ago!

Ahh the 1070 :) have been in some VR cafes in NL in 2023 and all used 1070 for VR rigs still working just fine.

Nice rig for the money. Yeah... I like my DVD drive as well. still use it now and then. Take care. Cheers

That's an amazing deal mate that case alone still goes for around £100. Still an amazing case love the second compartment for the psu and cables it makes cable management even easier and some nice drive space in there too would love to see more cube cases like that around now.

Currently running an i7-8700 and GTX 1080. It is my friends old Gaming PC he built 7 years ago and it’s kicking ass. I play on 3440x1440p and am able to max out most games I play and get 60 FPS or greater without upscaling. I’m even able to play newer games like Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor no problem. Literally the only games I have to tweak substantially and upscale are Starfield and Cyberpunk. Get this, when I first turned the PC on it ran like shit and I assumed the 1080 was inadequate. I purchased a 4070 Super and found it sort of surprising how little the rasterized performance truly was… I mean for 7 years it’s insanely unimpressive. I still have to use upscalers in the biggest of games and have like 90 instead of 60 frames with no scaling… woo? I put my 1080 back in to double check I wasn’t tripping and realized it was actually just OVERHEATING. I repasted the 1080 and got 30 more frames and its honestly only like 60-70% of my 4070 Super in real world performance… WTF. So something from 2016 that cost less in todays money is only 30% slower than a 4070 Super…. Nvidia is out here scamming.

I'm still rocking the 7700k on our living room VR rig, and it still runs great!

Man, this video brought so many memories, especially the PSU. Been using VS550 for idk how many years, and sadly, it did blow up back in late 2021, but didn't take anything with it thankfully(maybe it's a good thing I was using the integrated graphics on my old i5 7600 back then and didn't have a GPU). The GPU I had before that was 1060 3GB. First PC I built with my own money(well, the PSU was my father's old one he "gifted" me back in 2013-2014 I think). Kaby-Lake CPU and Pascal GPU combo was masterclass.

Love the video, love the irony even more that for under $500 USD You still created a PC that plays games as well as any console Thus disproving the myth of PC Gaming hardware "Needing" an upgrade every 3 years

Great video im im gonna invest in a PSU test, no worth the risk :)

I have a 6700K @ 4.5 & RX 6700 XT on my 2nd rig. Practically the same CPU and still kicks ass at 1080p.

OMG! That was my exact CPU and GPU config until a year ago! Was very satisfied with it. Was expecting a sligltly better result in BG3 and Cyberpunk, though. It is only held back by lack of DLSS support and no mesh shaders. My cousin is still happily playing on it.

Man, this was really similar to my first buid. I was so pumped to get the 7700K and so annoyed there was no upgrade path afterward... Those were the bad old days when Intel released a new platform for virtually every new generation.

I had that case I loved it. It looked good and kept everything chilly. I switched the fans for Corsair 2x HD140 for the front a 120mm industrial Noctua for the back with an Alphacool Eisbaer 280 on the top. I eventually got a 1070ti mini and water cooled that with the Eisbaer. I loved that PC. The 1070ti ended up catching on fire a year and a half later.

That's actually an awesome case, I've been looking for one for my years now, but can't find one. with it's dual chamber, it has good airflow, while still having a cdrom that won't interfere with the front fans.

Where do you keep finding these! I’m jealous! lol awesome videos

2:45 somebody took a bite out of that power connector 😅

Having only recently upgraded from a 4th gen i5, hearing you say a 7700k is old tells me the timing was right! Still impressive performance you are getting with that set up.

You might get some good use out of a hot swap drive bay since you don't need the optical drive. Corsair used to make some real bangers. I just got myself a vengeance c70. This 7700k setup is near identical to my kid's pc except I used a workstation board and put a $20 xeon equivalent in it. All together I think the board, xeon and ram cost around 80 us which isn't bad considering the i7 still sells for about that much by itself.

Old school budget pc building videos were delightful. Wish PC gaming becomes charming like that once again. A man can dream.

The Air 540 is a great case. Mine is currently empty (once held a 6850K 980Ti SLI custom loop rig) but will very likely get an AM5 or LGA 1851 production build once we get those new CPUs.

Wow, i have this exact case with an FX 9590 and RX 580. Still going strong.

This video makes my 6700K feel old. Still runs great though

❤ I still have my 7700 in storage somewhere and I used it recently and it performed very well. Ahhh, this case, I once wanted to use one to build water cooling. I really like this box. ❤

I had a very similar build. I used a Air 240 case, 1070 and an 8700k instead of a 7700k. Served me very well, and now serving my sister's needs. I did not really need to upgrade, but I did on impulse and was using a widescreen 1440p monitor instead of a 27" monitor.

I used to really want that case!!

This is the EXACT same build I first did on my own when I had saved up money to buy a 7700k and a 1070 and it was amazing at the time and still is! I used this PC up until last year when I got the income to upgrade to a used 3090 and 5800x3d, I still use the 7700k for my backup NAS! after watching this I'm tempted to grab a cheap 3060 and take the old 7700k back to make a spare rig! that chip is still surprisingly powerful...

@RandomGaminginHD Garuda Linux 'GAMING EDITION' on these older machines would be a cool video...

I find videos like these very interesting

I have that exact same PSU and have been using it for years, it is currently running a Ryzen 5600 and a RX 5700 system. I also read those same articles about it being unsafe, so I replaced it for a 650W 80 Plus Gold, which then cables melted inside it after a year or so and I spent two months trying to get a replacement under RMA from the manufacturer, and so the original PSU ended up back in the machine and it still is running fine. So I'd not worry too much about it lol

Swear to god man, you're reading my fecking mind. You did a video on the i7 7700k a few days ago which is the processor I'm planning to get for my old PC. I was going to get a PCIe powered card for it, but after seeing none were really hitting the spot that I wanted for cost/performance/power consumption I just thought "ah bugger it, I'll pinch my brothers old gtx 1070 and shove that in" and here it-bloody-is in a video!! Though I do think I need to hunt down an evga one. I got an asus and one of the fans just fell off...

Luv your videos when you going to do an update on the arc 750 I have one new in the box haven't use it yet, Getting ready to do a budget built want to use the arc 750 but may have to use my 1070ti I'm debating, Oh by the I'm rocking an Intel I3 12100 Thanks.

Thats a very wide case but kinda looks cool. I picked up the classified version of that GTX 1080 gpu with the only main difference being leds for £119 a couple of weeks ago so you got a good deal there.

Great video and glad to see you are back on track in dying in games lol!

Had the smaller air 240, gave it to my brother about 2 years ago when I found a crystal 280. Both great mATX cases.

I built my first PC with that case and that same CPU. I kept the case though. Love it

Nice video bro, but did you know you can put a Coffee Lake chip on a Z270 board using a modded BIOS?

This would be perfect for someone first pc!

I've got a 6700K, and 1080ti. I delidded the CPU and and tossed some liquid metal on it and my GPU. I'm very impressed with how well it still performs, even with newer titles. I might finally build a new system when the 50xx cards come out, I heard the 7850x3D is where it's at currently on the CPU side, I'll have to do more research though when it gets closer to purchasing.

8:57 HP did an OMEN cube case. Those are pretty rare. I have a White Aerocool X-Predator cube case. It has a horizontal motherboard location, which allows the GPU to sit vertically in view through the side window. Still regret selling my Aerocool dream box though 😢

I rock a i7 7700K+GTX 1650 build inside an old 2005 MSI MBOX case although the TIM under the IHS is old and dry because I notice temp spiking issues regardless of how good of a cooler along with good thermal paste I have installed when doing load tests and playing cpu intensive games.

In 2017 I did a lease to own thing with an i7 7700. 16GB of DDR4 2133 (One stick, so single channel), 1TB spinner (No SSD or M.2 SSD), GTX 1050 2GB. The board was an H110. This was an Asus Pre-Built. I ended up sending it back. It would have cost me $2300 after interest. No monitor either. At the time I had an FX 8350 w/GTX 1080 and I could tell there was a CPU difference but I couldn't see me putting my GTX 1080 in that case. In the end I bought a used i7 3770 and Intel DQ77MK board for $50 and put the GTX 1080 and the 16GB of Kingston HyperX Genisis memory into it with a 120GB SSD. At the time I played in 4K 60 Hz so the GPU always needed to be the most powerful it could be. I had a 1TB spinner for games in there too. Which even today you can do so long as you have a fast OS drive for temp files and a good amount of memory. Although I went all SSD in 2021. What a ride that was. I thought the 7700 would have mattered more. It didn't. I thought the 3770 was going to be a side grade, instead it was a legit upgrade from an FX 8350.

The last 4 core/ 8 thread I7 before Intel started to make good products again. Wasn't bad but the 8700k was a big jump forward.

I'm currently running an I7 4790k with a GTX1060 3GB

My exGF is still gaming on a 7700k/GTX980ti. It was struggling with 16gb of DDR3, but 32gb helped tremendously. Though it is starting to show its age. In Ark Survival Ascended its under 30FPS at low settings, but still fairly smooth and stutter free. Other games like Enshrouded, Valhiem and RUST it runs really well, I think once more Unreal 5 games come out she is going to have to look at a new PC, but that PC has had a nice long run.

I suggest you that you keep this system forever. And then reviewing it again 20 years later from now. Who knows maybe something interesting can happen

I got my pc when the intel 7th gen was still new, I'm very glad that I went with a ryzen 5 1400 instead of an i5 at the time though, since it had the same core and thread count with an actual upgrade path. When I upgraded to my r5 5600x the i7 7700k was still more expensive.

GTA:V always been weird for not utilise whole hardware for some setups. Still glad you include that on tests, because it's still played.

That 540 do be a smexy case... almost as much as the 600t (regret selling that one)

I haven't regretted buying that awesome Corsair case, it serves my RYZEN build well.

I still want that case Lol. it's awesome and it's not just a fishtank full of fans like the new dual chamber cases. Would love to find a solid condition one in white.

I remember when the i7 3790k was still a beast. This chip being considered old makes this 37 year old feel very old. That and the back pain, lol.

I wish evga never left the gpu market they had the best designs

Nice chanel bro ✌️ Advice for fortnite since you are saying cpu is holding back, then use performanse mode, use ONLY full-screen mode and set vsync on 120 or 160 and will be smooth. I have 3770 and 1660 and with that settings locked on 120, super smooth. I just dont like giving a lot of money for pc and i own a pc store ironic 😅

Corsair PSU´s are awesome i have one still working since 2008 now even with a overclocked cpu i3 8350k at 4,5 ghz