It’s way more powerful though.

Mine is i7 2600 and a gtx 750 ti with 8 gigs and still really good at running games at the moment

@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137I mean I'm pretty shocked what can be run on pretty piss poor graphics cards, you can still game on a GTX 780m laptop pretty good, I think anything lower though starts skipping so many VRAM, Vulkan API, and Dx problems, but ultimately there's basically little sense in getting something less good than an RX 580. Which is still perfectly fine btw, Like I don't get people's upgrade priorities, I seen some people replace whole systems including the CPU and board, this guy got a 2600 to 7600x rather than a 5600x and then went form 5700xt to 6750xt for instance. Then you got people like this guy who still on a 750ti for some reason. I mean, don't get me wrong when you're going as close to "it was Free" as you possibly can a 750ti is fine. Won't run tons of shit, but you'd be shocked what it'll still do at 1080p. But the thing is it gets to a point where like a GTX 980 is under 100 bucks, a RX 580 is like $80, you can more or less get a new graphics card for a day of flipping burgers or waiting tables at that point it's seriously a huge absolutely massive upgrade. For you like a 580 or used 5500xt or 1650s or GTX 980 or something to that effect would go from having framedrops on really old games, like 30-44fps on Witcher 3, to being able to play The Division 2 online.

@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 i take my hat off to that 750ti, HOLY SMOKES that little fella refuses to die

i have my i7 3770 overclocked to 4.1ghz(no not the 'k' variant) with 32gb ram and a rx 580 and im happy with it

I recently sold a 3770/1650 build for $350 and it didn't have any crappy stick on RGB. But a random GPU tossed in a random old workstation with some random sticks of RAM by someone who is moving large volume is a great way to get a crappy worn out old system. I doubt they spent several hours benchmark and stress testing this PC. So caveat emptor. you don't wanna see what an old Xeon does when it has been running constantly for years in a workstation with insufficient cooling. It isn't pretty. This is probably a B or C grade machine with a cheap remanufactured GPU. I want to know if it will run on stock drivers. I bet it is a frankencard with a mobile chip. ewaste peripherals are for people who hate the environment. Just cancels out any good that comes from repurposing an old workstation.

Especially if you got kids. It's perfect

I would say get a console unless you need to work like you said otherwise yeah this build is fine

Doing work on this would be a terrible idea

​@@sol-hb8zgdoing work on this would be terrible

@@oneshot1kill158 If you are just using Office apps and browsing the web it would do fine.

How? It’s more than powerful enough for browsing, Microsoft office, even video editing wouldn’t be too bad due to the gpu doing the encoding work

That does not exhaust anything. It is not a turbine video card.

@@dizy82 Some air will come out there, if you notice the aluminum heatsink at minute 3:45 some aluminum fins are directed towards the GPU backplate. On a 1660 ti it may not make any difference, but if it were a more powerful GPU it could add a few degrees.

Figured most would know to remove such trivial stickers prior to first boot :-)

room to grow how? What better CPU can that mobo support? what kind of RAM can it support? 14:50 Greg even says that criticism points out there is no upgrade path 15:10 greg says you shouldn't prioritize an upgrade path

@@soccerguy2433 WOOOOOOOSH

4770 and 4790 are great chips. Plenty of cheap cooler upgrades over the OEM ones.

but i7s are fare more expensive just for that i7 badge only. Just get Xeon instead. Same or even better performance for a fraction of a price.

Yup, just recently I have build PC with i7-4770 and GTX 1660S + 16GB 2400Mhz RAM and it's rocking. But - gtx 1660S is probabvly like the best GPU that this CPU can handle

@@subbookkeeperi7 4790s are usually $30 on eBay. That shouldn’t be too bad

THIS ! and the mobo can handle 32 GB

i am aslo thinking the same thing

That HGST Ultrastar is an enterprise drive so it likely has a lot of hours

Will do for future videos!

E3-1240 V3, it also has an ATX psu and can be upgraded with an inexpensive adapter cable.

I mean at that rate what good is 32 gigs lol. I mean yeah if you can avoid the CPU bottleneck on old enough hardware that becomes a serious issue, a 1080ti is freaking amazing you can literally play the newest games at 1080p. Not sure how DDR3 is gonna do it for yah, I mean DDR3 is fine, what I meant is 32gb isn't that important for what you're doing.

4th gen CPU will bottleneck a 1080 Ti so much

don't waste your money on 32gb of ddr3 there is zero point. you'll max out any cpu of that age gaming before you run out of ram lmao. and a 1650 is more a match for this rig as you could see the CPU bottlenecking the 1660 ti Sure 4th gen was still used when the 1080ti came out but I don't care what argument you have it will bottleneck a 1080ti like no tomorrow unless the game is 99 percent GPU dependent and Windows isn't checking for updates

@@mitsuhh I have that same setup and it sure doesn't.

Explain how I got massive framerate boosts going from a Ryzen 5950X to a 12700K with a 1080 Ti. Lies.@@thedungeondelver

Thanks for watching! :-)

Glad you like them!

i have my games hard limited to 160 fps with gsync on because my monitor tends to get gsync flicker if i go above 160hz. In games like minecraft though, i like to keep my frames unlimited because having the game locked at 160 gives me frame time spikes when i would usually have a buttery smooth 500-600 fps with no latency or spikes my default settings in most games are vsync off but using gsync to hard cap to 160

I think he improved it 😉

I have a slightly newer 4TB HGST Ultrastar and it is very loud indeed. It's fast and has been very reliable, but loud.

If there's a pos 1030 or, god help you, gt710 in it, that's completely different. Like iirc a 1050 is at the point of a RX 550, that card is a piece of shit, even at $100 in 2019 it was overpriced. I mean it was better than the nvidia counterpart that ain't sayin much. It just irritates me the 1030 scam you can make more margin without needing to stoop lower, I wish they put 980's in these. As to what Greg said I have a soft spot for ass builds that are so potato but still show the power of computing, the little gamedevs had to work with back in the day that like some really cool games were literally using 8800GT's in SLI would be overkill, so you can't do the newest AAA shit but who cares, Plague Requiem sucked tbh, I really loved Cyberpunk but a huge number of modern games are sorta trash, when you dig deep into the oldies and niche you'll find better titles than modern $70 console games. I don't think you need an upgrade path at that point, anyway what greg was saying my point would be that once you get sufficiently sub-$500 you had to already cut costs and shave so many corners off your builld that like the VRMs alone on the board won't handle a really nice CPU anyway. Like the more you cheap out the problem becomes that a shitty inferior enough board can't be upgraded, you'll not be able to overclock and the cooling alone would be like 20% your entire budget, fast RAM don't mean shit basically just the cheapest SATA SSD boot drive imaginable, dodgy RAM, dodgier board, cheap ass used GPU. Like if you went with a newer board down under Steve absolutely roasted ASRock, I love their high end boards but I seen some real turds on modern prebuilts, like the cheapest near OEM shit imaginable and the stupid thing costs like $130. Meanwhile the board alone make me question it can handle anything better than a x400f or R5. In many cases you buy the shitty i3 and find out the rest of your system can't do much than i5 anyway, it really depends. I've talked about this a lot, it's really tough because you can end up spending more money for newer shit and wind up with not much better peformance and still no real upgrade path because all you bought was pieces of shit that need to fully replace like literally every single other component in the system even to upgrade your graphics card. I actually hit that limit at one point in an old rig where I realize simply trying to replace one part meant I'd need to build a new rig anyway, it was saddled on DDR3 and while I could maximize it to play modern games that 3770k still couldn't even be overclocked, I was obviously not gonna do DDR4 on the thing, I replaced the PSU out of sheer paranoia (I smoked, it was a dusty fire hazard idk 8 year Dell PSUs soaked in dust make me unreasonably nervous) which is just as well iirc the power plugs didn't even work for a GTX 980 and it only had like one ribbon of SATA cables with no fan headers. And I mean NO fan headers like the shitty Dell mobo literally had one CPU fan, and one 80mm exhaust fan, no ability to point case fans so the entire case was literally ventilated by a blower cooler and the top mounted PSU. So while it can be nice to be building on a new PC, like you gotta ask am I really getting that much better performance because my 10100f rig on the cheapest shitboard imaginable is also likely going to be EOL. Like if you're gonna buy an R3 or i3 that's old it's questionable what's the best it can do later, I built my newer system to get the best CPU possible and overclock it after an upgrade, but that's a midrangeish type system, when you're on a super budget and it's most bang for buck what you'll find is a lot of those features that'd normally make for an upgrade path be cut off for you. Like, I'm talking some boards have freaking 4pin CPU power, I'm talking zero VRM cooling with a few layers of PCB, the kind of shit that looks fine but causes massive headaches later when you try and do anything. Imo while it is possible to just get a like 10300f, or get an R3 or R5, get a 3200g or even a 1600x, hope and pray your shitty b350 can work something good later let's face it at that point you're already going down the used part OEM build path, otherwise if you're making new enough parts it'll cost a bunch of money and you're not sticking a 13700k with a sizeable overclock upgrade on something that cost you $300 to build with "new" parts I tell you that right now. It's some serious nerd hobby stuff, like I mean you have to actually enjoy Owlcat's games and actually take pleasure in the character sheets of Pathfinder games to be looking for just that best obscure combo of parts that'll still game like a champ and can reasonably be "upgraded" without costing money. Of course the absolute cheapest thing you can do is find some junk office PC like these amazon sellers do, try and get it for free or like fifty bucks, slot in a RX 580 or something $100 tops, 1650s or 1060 or GTX 980 or RX 5500XT something in that ballpark, and get a cheap $50 SSD boot drive. If you're lucky it came with a hard drive for added mp4 and older game installs, more likely the HDD got sent though a shredder though.