The Good Old Gamer aye cool to see u here bro :)

The Good Old Gamer also if you live near a Microcenter you can get the R5 1600 for $80 and a mobo for $65-30(when buying the cpu) and tbh ive seen 16gb kits @3200mhz go for 49.99 so that’s definitely a great deal especially for two kits! Gonna be interesting to see when they start bring the prices for the 2600 down!

Yea it's the Russians that buy all these Xeon parts! Have a look at the feedback, it's mostly Russians and there are heaps of channels doing videos on these parts :D Ryzen not so much, seems this is "our" budget platform. I got my 1600X from AliExpress today, paired with a RX 470 (Also from AliExpress, was a 470D which I flashed the BIOS) and it's a great little machine. I have a dedicated Ryzen test corner now and played a bit of Crysis. Still drops below 60 FPS :( That game is so pporly optimized. I guess in a few years I will have a Ryzen 3600 :P

For anyone who already has the ram this deal is available on Amazon for 140.00 This is a steal at this price for my kiddo's Fortnite streaming PC. Plus with Amazon returns are super easy if there is an issue with either. Nice to see your support here Chris 👍👍 I'm loving both your channels atm!!!

@@philscomputerlab is there a official website for drivers and software for the motherboard? I m looking for a fan control software because after I used sdi to find the missing drivers all my fans are now running full speed and now my PC sound like a jet engine

or if you fuck up a ram overclock and it cant boot

I've never turned a beeper on. It doesn't defend you against anything. The beeper can't tell you anything more than what you can figure out yourself.

@@ivanpopov8203 You've obviously never paired a bad gpu with a bad ram stick or any other part that's dodgy. Beep codes tell me everything I need to know.

lol

@@retropcscotland4645 my mobo has a led display for that

@@SDPosse619 What's the budget tho? I built mine for 450 euros, it has 2 8c/16t xeon's and 64gb ram tho.

@@SDPosse619 That's not going to cut it. You need more budget. That will barely cover the cost of the capture card. What are the specs of your gaming pc? I'd not go for anything below a 7 1700 with 8GB ram.

@@SDPosse619 get a optiplex and a rx570 or rx580 u r good to go

@@sulaiman9766 I agree with you... optiplex and RX580 many of the guys recommended it.. and upgrade your RAM as well if you have any extra CASH.

@@goodservant8493 Don't ignore the SSD for the OS.

that would be awesome

LOL What info whas that?

@@philscomputerlab whether or not the RGB lights would work without an RGB controller. Lol

intel should release like a pcie 4x quicksynq/video adapter card or whatever would dependently buy one for steaming or video encoding

you can stilll us quicksync,im running a e5 1603 on my asus rampage iv extreme and i used quicksync yesterday

@@kwaaakity ehhhhhh are you sure the e5 1603 dosnt support quicksync according to intel

@@kwaaakity the option may be available but its not gonna do anything because your processor doesnt support quicksync

@@dzulfikar1572 intel QSV is intel quick sync right? because i just went ahead and did another one just for show and it worked

They do in fact support i7's. I put an i7-3970X in mine and it works flawlessly. The only downside is that it doesn't support intel's turbo boost. My cpu has a baseclock of 3.5ghz but under 100% load it gets to 3.57ghz but it's supposed to turbo to 4ghz. That's the only downside but yeah if you want the higher clockspeed than the xeons, get the i7. I haven't done any benchmarking between the xeon and the i7 but I have a feeling the i7 probably has an advantage over the xeons in gaming if that's your main focus. For example, in his cpu-z benchmark his single core score was 332.6 and the multicore score was 3075 for the xeon. My i7 scored 390.7 single core and the multicore score was 2603. Mind you his cpu has 2 more cores and 4 more threads BUT for gaming, the single core is what matters mostly. Now a 60 point difference in single core won't make that much of a difference in gaming but it's still slightly more performance. So pretty much, get whatever is the better price but the i7 will have better gaming performance while the xeon will have better rendering/editing based off of cpu-z scores.

@@ChfHappySack Good to know! I was thinking of the i7 idea as possible "upgrade" paths, as these are obviously higher-clocked than the Xeons the board is made to support. Thanks for passing along that lovely bit of info! It will probably come in handy later on!

Not sure, I haven't done a project with that CPU yet.

2689 is much better for perfomance/price

Oh really? Do you have more information? I want to check that out.

True, used Ryzen is killing a lot of the markets for this.

Yea I don't think I'll buy any more boards...

Yea that could be fun. I'll look into it.

If you have a compatible CPU and use 1866 dual channel RAM, performance is fine. But if you have only 1333 RAM, then quad channel helps a lot! I didn't encounter issues with USB 3, but only used the board brief time.

The Huananzhi Gaming Deluxe comes with a real x79 chipset(c602 server chipset) but also suffers from the typical chinese vrm which limits overclocking potential.

The clock ceiling for any unlocked CPU on Chinese boards is 4.2 GHz without voltmods and maybe 4.4 GHz with voltmods, doesn't matter if it's the 1620 (4c/8t) or the 1650 (6c/12t). Aside from the previously mentioned HuananZhi Gaming there are the HuananZhi Plus, the PlexHD Turbo (AKA the Kukete X79 Turbo) and the Jingsha X79M (black and red mATX) which have unlocked BIOSes for both RAM and CPU overclocking. Best regards!

Thanks peoples for the answers! I think i’ll just wait and see if i can grab an x79 board in my local second hand market!

Yes but make sure the motherboard comes with the cooler adapter!

I don't see the appeal of that CPU. Only 4 cores and low clock speed, it doesn't do the 2011 platform justice..

@@philscomputerlab Plenty of other Xeon's with MUCH better performance, similar price.

It would perfect but is it reliable? that's the question

good point. At the moment my VM box is an old duel socket 1u dell server. that is a tank when it comes to reliable but clock speeds are low and only have 16 treads.

I'm planning a Xeon vs Ryzen shootout, so stay tuned for that.

I see a few people in the comments banging on about why would you get one of these over the new Ryzen. I love the Ryzen platform but again from my own experience the platform initially seemed to have some issues with latency even though the system would go hard and perform extremely well in synthetic benchmarks in the real world seemed to be plagued by issues with microstutters and high system latency. One thing I can confirm is that since I have been using my old Xeons my whole computing experience has been smooth as butter and I'm as happy as a pig in mud. When my finances are better off I wouldn't hesitate to grab myself a Zen 2 setup after it's proven itself in the real world. There are still some question marks raised that need to be resolved.

@@garyhope6577 The new 3000 series are truly great CPU's, but as it was mentioned the cheapest CPU costs as much as this whole combo. If people decide to go with Ryzen if they pick the cheapest b450 board + a used 1600 + 16GB of 3000MHz(I know that 3200 is the sweet spot, but it's slightly more expensive and I'm trying to make a point) it will cost them more than this combo + really nice cooler. So essentially the 1600 loses out in my opinion, but now let's talk about future upgrade path. The Ryzen build have a TON of future upgrade path. If you plan on upgrading the 1600 within an year for a let's say 3600 I believe that Ryzen is the right choice, though again let's not forget that for the example we "took" the cheapest b450 board, so it will limit to some extent the 3600(or whatever CPU they upgrade with), but nothing too dramatic considering that there are already videos with a320 boards showing that they are doing just as fine as other boards with these CPU's with the basic settings. However if you don't plan on upgrading, then I don't see any need to compare them. The cheaper option is the better one in my opinion. If you are going to use it for the next 2-3-4 years(most people would) I don't see why you wouldn't pick the xeons. By the time you decide that you want to replace the config there will be newer platforms that will probably peform better than the Ryzen CPU's. At that time you can jump on that platform OR you can get a high end Ryzen whole PC(parts) for dirt cheap since as we have seen their prices drop dramatically each year :) By the time you replace this xeon build the platforms will be using DDR5 RAM, probably PCIe5(or even 6) and probably other new stuff, so the parts for Ryzen and even 8th/9th gen Intel will be a lot cheaper. It all comes down to few key factors. First and probably most important is where you live. For example where I live in the next 2 weeks I'll probably be able to get a deal on a R5 1600+16GB 3000/3200/3600+a b450m pro4(probably the best budget mobo from the 450) for close to the xeon bundle prices(btw there are R5 1600 for $83.50 on aliexpress). However a lot of places around the world won't see such prices any time soon. Second you need to know whether you will keep this PC for a long time or you plan on upgrading in few months/year. And probably most important is what you plan on using the PC. If it's for games you need to know what requirements the games you plan on playing have. If they aren't demanding like for example they are eSports titles you can get a Ryzen build going with an R3 1200 or R5 1400 for now and upgrade down the path to a 3600. If you need it for games and work I personally would pick the xeon, especially if you are on a tight budget. 8c/16t and 32GB REG ECC memory will do wonders for work :)

I'll look into that, I don't have much experience with RGB stuff :D