The 1080 was £119.99, which was the cheapest on eBay at the time of purchase. I think I forgot to mention the price in the video, yet I wrote it down in the script... 😂
Dope. I scored a 1080ti on auction 2 months ago for $137 on auction, and a rx480 8gb for $34 shipped on auction a week ago. Always good deals to be had for the patient watcher.
With the right motherboard, you could probably unlock the 4th CPU core and overclock it to more usable 3+ghz. It should support up to 16GB 1333mhz DDR3
@@RandomGaminginHD I have an Asus M5A78L/USB3 AM3+ Motherboard with an FX6100 and an Arctic A11 CPU cooler just sitting there doing nothing. Would that be of any use?
It would still be an athlon, the difference between the athlons and phenoms was the lack of l3 cache. I had the same chip, I could not unlock the 4th core unfortunately
Not all of them tho. Usually the ones that came inside OEM systems could not. I had an "Athlon 5200 Dual Core" running at 2.3ghz and it would refuse to unlock. Was not an off the shelf CPU either because normally the X2 5200 that you could get in a retail store was clocked at 2.7 ghz. You could also even unlock the Sempron processors into Athlon X2 processors
Those AM3 Athlons were not bad at all in their time. I had an X3 460 that i bought brand new for 60$ in 2011 or 2012 i think,unlocked the 4th core which turned it into a Phenom and paired with a GTX 460 i was able to run pretty much anything at the time
@nsmilitia Yeah,but it also depended on the motherboard and it was not exactly fully stable. If i would run prime95 or whatever heavy test the 4th core would be marked as failed but in normal usage and gaming you would see activity coming from the 4th core too with no issues. Unlocked it on a cheap Asrock N68 UCC that had an Nvidia chipset and it worked fine for years
I have a Phenom II X2 on an Asrock mobo as my backup system. When I built it it was replacing an Athlon X2-5200, so I wanted a dual core at least. My nephew and I each had systems with the same Asus mobo and CPU, and both died a few months apart from each other. I didn't have any other mobos to check the CPUs, but presumed it was the mobos anyways. I won the silicon lottery and was able to unlock my Phenom II X2 to an X4 in the BIOS and all 4 cores were good! Not bad for an $80 CPU. I have 8GB of DDDR3-1600 with it and it served me well for several years. I replaced it because the mobo didn't support the 8 core Vishera FX CPUs, and I needed to upgrade the CPU because the Phenom couldn't decode 4K video. I still use the Phenom for running Turbotax because it requires win10, and I refuse to run anything but win7 on my main system(although I recently added a second boot SSD, and installed Linux Mint on it. I'm hoping to be able to learn the nightmare that is Linux so I can eventually stop using windows. Fingers crossed! Anyways, I just wanted to say that the difference between the Phenom II as a dual core versus a quad core is night and day! Running it as a quad feels quite a bit faster than the double it is. Reminds me of all those old "netbooks" that had dual core celerys and 4gigs of ram and a hard drive! Ugh.
Im running a GTX 1080 ti with an i7 8086k and honestly has held up! Im happy playing at 1080p or even just 2160p! Heck when Cyperpunk came out, it ran pretty well at 2160 if i needed a space heater 😂 Unfortunately, plans for upgrading have been halted and probably will never happen since I'm dealing with cancer and no longer can work :/ But, I've enjoyed playing Mechwarrior 5, Cyberpunk and many others on it. Plus in 2022 when i got diagnosed, my parents and sisters all chipped in and got me a Series X for Christmas that year to help give me something to have fun with! I love your channel and have been watching it for years. Keep on doing your thing man!
1: twist off and heatsinks. 2: there exists compatibility issues going from pcie gen 2-3 and back again. Thanks for the video! Ps. Some boards can unlock these chips. Fun stuff to be had.
I traded a spare Z77 motherboard for an untested MSI X99 Gaming 7 motherboard / Corsair Crystal 570X case (missing front filter / glass), so I decided to build a one step above Starfield minimums / best gaming PC of mid 2016 build for fun after confirming the motherboard is good. 8 sticks of recycled server 8GB DDR4-2400, an Intel 6850k and all I needed was a GTX 1080. I bought an MSI Duke GTX 1080 for $86 ($111 with tax/shipping included) off of eBay at the beginning of October, it works great and the system is still very capable for a 7+ year old top end gaming system. Corsair was nice enough to ship me a replacement front filter and glass for free, great support from them!
I have a Phenom II X3 710 in a box somewhere, served me well for a good few years. I know it's an Athlon II X3 in this video, but they're related, so...
Picked up a 3070 for £150 as seller was a System Integrator who had to sell it as faulty because it was in the RMA pile, they couldn't find any issues so I bought it and it worked fine
I dug up my Athlon II 4 core cpu with a motherboard iGPU setup that I used to play Runescape and League. I bought a 4 core Athlon II CPU for $6 on Aliexpress, and an $45 RX 560 with SATA-to-6pin adapter. My MSI motherboard then unlocked the remaining 2 cores and the L3 cache, turning it into a 6 core Phenom II CPU. Also slapped in an SSD. Now, my unlocked "high end" Phenom II and RX 560 is gaming acceptably in 2023.
Cpu should work ok in any am3+ motherboard if you need to try it there with more ram & yes it lacks SSE 4.2 which games like apex legends doesn't run without at all. Also on any am3 & some early am3+ motherboards you can unlock the 4th cpu core on these tripple cores & some rare cases the 6 mb of L3 cache. Did that on my old athlon II x3 445 to a quadcore, but no L3 cache unfortunately. Temperature sensor that was dead on it, that was the only fault on the 4th core. Some might not work at all due to instability past a certain clockspeed or a bad cache causing outright crashing or bluescreens. So i had too turn off hardware monitoring so it measures cpu temperatures by the motherboard cpu socket sensor instead of the cpu core one as that was now stuck between 83 - 89c.)
I have the PNY XLR8 1070 OC of the same scheme, I mentioned before in the comments about how the eBay seller sent me one with two broken fans and old thermal pads from 2016. It still runs of course, and it's still a large upgrade over my GT 1030 for only $100. I installed it in an old Thinkstation P520 with an Xeon W-2135 and 32 GB RAM, I'm able to run Fallout 4 and nearly 600 mods on high and Witcher 3 on high with a few graphical mods installed, phenomenal performance for only spending about $300 on the entire PC upgrade.
It's pretty difficult to find 4GB DDR2 sticks. I got some cheap ones from ebay once, and they worked for me but if I ever put my computer to sleep it would blue screen when it woke up, I got rid of them. It's a pretty uncommon thing. Usually with DDR2 you are only going to be getting 2GB per DIMM.
Yeah, I've seen 2GB laptop DDR2 sticks quite cheap, but 4GB sticks are often £50+ per pair, and that assumes that you can even use 8GB in your system, as most DDR2 systems top out at 4GB (with some early DDR2 systems topping out at 2GB). For reference... you can get 32GB DDR4-2666 from CeX for just £40.
Some systems do support 4GB sticks but the sticks are crazy expensive like over 100$ USD each, if you can even find them now, they're rare. I'm talking about the right ones not crap ebay ones.@@TheSpotify95
The Athlon depending on the scew it came from can be turned into a Phenom.... Some of the 3 Digit triple cores are still considered athlon 1 or 2s with no L3 cache unlocked but the extra core regardless has some more performance.
Just get some old DELL free, GTX 1080 in in, Fornite bell cheap ! all old intel i7 systems are good enough, try to find systems that support more than 4 Gb DDR 3 ! mums office ? any place has old DELL's !
Wow what an amazing deal, I found this video very interesting as a 1080 owner! Curious to see apex legends in the budget 1080 build, if your card overclocks nicely. You may need new thermal paste, hype for more content 🎉👾
Deal I Can't Keep - D.I.C.K... :D Was that like when you tried Steve Thoroughly Investigates (S.T.I.) or Steve Thoroughly Deduces (S.T.D.) in a prior video? :)
i got my self a good deal the other week, a ASUS P6X58D-E, i7 940, CORAIR AIO hydro H55, 1TB HDD, 16gb of corair VENGEANCE DDR3 ram (only 1600MHz) and 4GB each, a GTX 560 and some think else but i forget what and all for the small sum of £20 but the seller did say it was untested but at that price it was worth trying out and yes it all worked and im using the motherboard with my X5680
Could you show us your magazine of all these gpus? How many of them you have? Would you do an episode where you tell any stories how you got some interesting cards? I bet you have some
I'm planning a 1080 build soon for sale. Just have to get some of the components but I have the GPU and some other bits. I think I'm going to get a Machinist X99 and E5-1650V4 for that one. Currently doing a cheap 1650/4790 build to sell for working capital. Trying to get a side gig going. I also have a RX6600 to work with. Will probably get a Xeon for that also. Then I hope to have enough in the kitty to start building better PCs with more recent components.
Man... the memories. I bought an Athlon ii x3 (can't remember exactly which one) as a broke teenager in highschool with the intention of upgrading to a phenom ii x4. I never needed to upgrade though because I won the cheap chip lottery and was able to unlock the l3 cache and the 4th core while also giving it a few hundred more mhz. It's still kicking around somewhere in my mess of old tech, but I don't think I have an am3 board for it.
The only way i could get a PCIE graphics card to work on an old Packard Bell was to make sure it had the latest bios installed. This was the instructions from the actual Packard Bell support team.
You just yanked the heatsink and CPU off in one pull 😮 Kind of shocked to see that tbh! Also you didn’t explain what the point of the mobo combo was in the end, will it go into a new build of some kind? With it being unexplained it feels like a pointless purchase, but I’m sure it wasn’t
I once got a gtx 980 for £3, I got it in a job lot of loads of stuff so it worked out to about £3 per item, the serial number on the back was crossed out but it ran my pc for about a year before I upgraded, now that is the cheapest fully working gpu I've ever heard of
Omg you gotta get yourself a work bench :) that concreate path cant be good for the back of the pcb. hahahahahah nice work getting the parts together so cheep tho.
The boot drive was an issue because you probably defaulted your boot insulation which automatically defaults to UEFI. Computer that old can't see that even if you gave it glasses and told it exactly where to look
Found a Gigabyte G1 GTX1080 for $80 over a year ago. It now found a home in a hand me down part build for the garage pc. 5600G/B550/16gb c14 3200mhz bdie. I have a Xbox 360 controller wired and 25” Ultrawide 2560x1080p @ 60hz out there. It’s a great card to run locked 60fps games on Ultra. Since it’s really a plan C area to game it’s way more then needed. Is nice to have a beer and a few rounds of Dirt4/F1 out in the garage.
I had to replace my dead ryzen 1300x a few months ago i got a ryzen 1500x for $60 it was a great deal. I know its old but i got it with the intention to upgrade to a 5600x or 5800x later when i had more money.
My guess on why the machine wouldn't boot with any of your existing Windows 10 installs was due to the board not being compatible with UEFI and needing the older boot loader to actually work.
The reason you are not getting a graphics card to work and could also not get your M2 boot drive to work is because of UEFI. That is not a UEFI motherboard and as such all newer PCIe devices can not communicate without UEFI. The Athlon is a phenom 2 based chip but does not have level 3 cache memory. So it will have very poor gaming performance in any games that require cache memory. In order to get this system fully working, you will need an ancient graphics card from before the time of UEFI. Like a Radeon 7850 is, I believe, the last generation before it went to UEFI, but I may be mistaken in that it could be the 200 series.
I twice compared you and your channel to Ashens which I now realise is just nostalgia based. Keep doing you. I don't comment often yet do try to keep your vids in relevant circulation. I have recently seen Ashen dropping new vids to help fund his need to make some B horror movie which might be awesome but after having spent my youth following his awesome movies and reviews on obscure crap and sad onion reviews seeing what has become of him and his channel (short of occasional holiday updates of the last 6 years) I really hope you carry on doing you because you love reviewing obsolete crap because we love and use it and that you do not vanish only to return in 6 years from now to talk about the crap 6650 xt that exists now as some "still" relevant old piece of crap. In short, be you. I had once compared you to ashens (who me and my family had adored) but realise you are you and we dig what you are doing now and hope you continue as we have a garasge full of seriously old/obscure pc crap and sad onion toys
1080 that was around Skylake era, think it would work fine in something like a 2nd-6th gen perhaps pcie 2 or 3 machines. Not sure if you went too old here with the cpu platform.
Right now. I'm building an ultra budget build with- AliExpress lga 1155 board ($22). An Intel I3-4160 with stock cooler ($12). A GTX 550 TI ($12). 2 x 4GB ram sticks ($10) 128GB SSD ($9). Paired with a salvaged case and PSU. I will throw in Linux and this will be my front room PC for light gaming and streaming.
It is possible that the controller (if the board is on ddr2) of the processor will digest 8 gigabytes of RAM "memory for AMD". If on ddr3 , then maybe more . It would be nice to specify the name of the motherboard and processor .
I year ago or so I got my cousin's 1080, the MSI gaming model o think, but i finally put it in a system today. I tested the temps and thery got up to 68, maybe I should replace the thermal paste but it's fine. I will upgrade my friend's PC with these spare parts (basically swap his system, a 3600/1060 for a 3700X/1080, and maybe mobo swap as well). Hope you find something similar to build with the 1080 so I can compare performance. I will OC the 3700X as well (4.325 all core and 4.5/6 single if possible).
people seem to dump so many good bundles and cheap PCs on ebay for a couple weeks now. i got a full PC with a 1TB SSD, bequiet! case, 750W straight power PSU, 4790K, 16GB RAM and a 1070 Strix for 280€ shipped.
I recently bought an HP Chromebook (part only) for £12.50. Because of a thin screen crack only 70% of the touchscreen works, but everything else is fine after using a recovery image. My intention was to use it as an ebook reader and finding out if chromebooks in general are decent for web development. Upon connecting to my Google Account I got Minecraft mobile for free. I never played the game so I probably try it out.
The Mobo might support more than 4gb of ram but if it is DDR2 you will struggle to find 4GB sticks at a price that makes sense for any build you could you could do with it. That is how my Phenom II x4 System is configured and I swear the ram is worth more than the rest of the system all together right now.!? :)
Not bad, you might be able to combine that triple core CPU and 3GB DDR2 (preferably get 4GB if you can though) into a retro build of some sort... Also, if you want a weak GPU to compare things with, forget the HD 5450, instead try looking at the HD 3450 :) The latter can play GTA 5 but only if you don't mind taking about 20 years off your eyesight lifespan...
You better get some old free office DELL, DDR 3, more then 4 Gb please GTX 1080 in it, Fortnite build ! 20 years ? after 5 to 6 years, they get dumped 8 ? i7 ! mums office, everywhere you can find free DELL systems !
hey RandomG i don't know if they do these where you are but try a police auction for electronics or a gov surplus site might make good content or find cool electronics
Did you check to see if your X3 had unlockable cores? To fill the X3 bracket AMD did downgrade quad cores and even Phenom's with a flaky set of extra cores, you will find the X3 overclocks like a beastie if it is a downgrade cpu.
Ah yes, the Athlon II X3's. My first self bought system had one of those. They were pretty decent for the money, but struggled with heavier multi-core loads.
Hey guys, I just got a Intel i7 860, 8gb of RAM DDR3 and the Motherboard What do you recommend to do with it? What GPU could fit properly without a bottleneck?
The reason no SSDs or GPUs were working is because that motherboard doesn't support UEFI boot. This means Windows will only work on an MBR (or Legacy Mode) formatted drive. The PCIe slot isn't broken. No modern GPU will boot since they require UEFI BIOS to work. You won't be able to use any GPUs on that mobo that are newer than Fermi or Terascale. It was a common thing for lower end OEM boards to lack UEFI.
How did the CPU come out of the socket together with the cooler? Shouldn't it be locked in place firmly by that latch? Was the paste so dried up that you had to rip the CPU out? 😲
This happens frequently with PGA processors unfortunately, even AM4. If the thermal paste dries up and adheres itself to the cooler, often times even if you lift straight up it will take the CPU out of the socket with it. Anecdotally it seems to happen less often with really old CPUs such as Socket 7 since the pins are physically larger and have more surface area to "bite" into the socket.
The 1080 was £119.99, which was the cheapest on eBay at the time of purchase. I think I forgot to mention the price in the video, yet I wrote it down in the script... 😂
Youre one lucky guy.... All PC parts are overpriced here even the older components, even used ones.... I want one too! 😭
Dope. I scored a 1080ti on auction 2 months ago for $137 on auction, and a rx480 8gb for $34 shipped on auction a week ago. Always good deals to be had for the patient watcher.
You snaked me btw, I’ve been looking around as my Christmas gift
I was wondering why all my listings were selling
1070s go for $80 canadian around here
With the right motherboard, you could probably unlock the 4th CPU core and overclock it to more usable 3+ghz. It should support up to 16GB 1333mhz DDR3
Yeah that’s the plan hopefully :)
@@RandomGaminginHDheck yeah I was just about to say
@@RandomGaminginHD I have an Asus M5A78L/USB3 AM3+ Motherboard with an FX6100 and an Arctic A11 CPU cooler just sitting there doing nothing. Would that be of any use?
No
The Athlon can become a four core if you unlock it as a Phenom x4
All of them?
I think so. I had the athlon x3 455 it became a phenom b55 at 3300mhz@@Ktmzqw
It would still be an athlon, the difference between the athlons and phenoms was the lack of l3 cache. I had the same chip, I could not unlock the 4th core unfortunately
Yup, did this myself a while back
Not all of them tho. Usually the ones that came inside OEM systems could not. I had an "Athlon 5200 Dual Core" running at 2.3ghz and it would refuse to unlock. Was not an off the shelf CPU either because normally the X2 5200 that you could get in a retail store was clocked at 2.7 ghz. You could also even unlock the Sempron processors into Athlon X2 processors
Those AM3 Athlons were not bad at all in their time. I had an X3 460 that i bought brand new for 60$ in 2011 or 2012 i think,unlocked the 4th core which turned it into a Phenom and paired with a GTX 460 i was able to run pretty much anything at the time
Yeah I recall they were really well priced back in the day
It was a roll of the dice. Some triple cores were unable to unlock. But if you got lucky you got almost the speeds of a phenom 955.
@nsmilitia Yeah,but it also depended on the motherboard and it was not exactly fully stable. If i would run prime95 or whatever heavy test the 4th core would be marked as failed but in normal usage and gaming you would see activity coming from the 4th core too with no issues. Unlocked it on a cheap Asrock N68 UCC that had an Nvidia chipset and it worked fine for years
i had same cpu
I have a Phenom II X2 on an Asrock mobo as my backup system. When I built it it was replacing an Athlon X2-5200, so I wanted a dual core at least. My nephew and I each had systems with the same Asus mobo and CPU, and both died a few months apart from each other. I didn't have any other mobos to check the CPUs, but presumed it was the mobos anyways.
I won the silicon lottery and was able to unlock my Phenom II X2 to an X4 in the BIOS and all 4 cores were good! Not bad for an $80 CPU. I have 8GB of DDDR3-1600 with it and it served me well for several years. I replaced it because the mobo didn't support the 8 core Vishera FX CPUs, and I needed to upgrade the CPU because the Phenom couldn't decode 4K video. I still use the Phenom for running Turbotax because it requires win10, and I refuse to run anything but win7 on my main system(although I recently added a second boot SSD, and installed Linux Mint on it. I'm hoping to be able to learn the nightmare that is Linux so I can eventually stop using windows. Fingers crossed! Anyways, I just wanted to say that the difference between the Phenom II as a dual core versus a quad core is night and day! Running it as a quad feels quite a bit faster than the double it is. Reminds me of all those old "netbooks" that had dual core celerys and 4gigs of ram and a hard drive! Ugh.
I would love to see another episode of D.I.C.K. always cool to see what deals are out there.
should I stick with the name? Haha
@@RandomGaminginHDyes lmao
@@RandomGaminginHD stick with it for sure! just not in the title or first 7 seconds, because youtube
@@RandomGaminginHD yea 🤣
That Athlon ripped right out of the socket
I recently bought myself 2 GTX 1080s for €200 and sold one of them for the low price of 125. Effectively paying just €75 for a GTX 1080. Not bad...
Good idea!!!
About that motherboard - bios flashing is in order!!!
Im running a GTX 1080 ti with an i7 8086k and honestly has held up! Im happy playing at 1080p or even just 2160p! Heck when Cyperpunk came out, it ran pretty well at 2160 if i needed a space heater 😂
Unfortunately, plans for upgrading have been halted and probably will never happen since I'm dealing with cancer and no longer can work :/ But, I've enjoyed playing Mechwarrior 5, Cyberpunk and many others on it.
Plus in 2022 when i got diagnosed, my parents and sisters all chipped in and got me a Series X for Christmas that year to help give me something to have fun with!
I love your channel and have been watching it for years. Keep on doing your thing man!
You are the one who sniped that 1080 from me, perfectly matched my setup.
i like how the gpu got unbox on a beautiful nature environment i love it
that joke at the start shouldnt have made me laugh as much as it did 💀💀
😂
Caught me off guard too, peak comedy.
Series title suggestion: "This Week's Amazing Thift Finds And Cheap Electronics". You could probably just shorten it down to an acronym...
😂 very good
1: twist off and heatsinks.
2: there exists compatibility issues going from pcie gen 2-3 and back again.
Thanks for the video!
Ps. Some boards can unlock these chips. Fun stuff to be had.
I traded a spare Z77 motherboard for an untested MSI X99 Gaming 7 motherboard / Corsair Crystal 570X case (missing front filter / glass), so I decided to build a one step above Starfield minimums / best gaming PC of mid 2016 build for fun after confirming the motherboard is good. 8 sticks of recycled server 8GB DDR4-2400, an Intel 6850k and all I needed was a GTX 1080.
I bought an MSI Duke GTX 1080 for $86 ($111 with tax/shipping included) off of eBay at the beginning of October, it works great and the system is still very capable for a 7+ year old top end gaming system.
Corsair was nice enough to ship me a replacement front filter and glass for free, great support from them!
I have a Phenom II X3 710 in a box somewhere, served me well for a good few years. I know it's an Athlon II X3 in this video, but they're related, so...
10k rpm HDD, now now RandomGaming, no need to flex on us.
😂
Still stuck at 5400 huh 😂
I had a chance to get 8tb ssd at $200 today and i missed it :c
i love these videos! your channel has been a huge inspiration for me and i'm currently working on a xeon build video :P
Picked up a 3070 for £150 as seller was a System Integrator who had to sell it as faulty because it was in the RMA pile, they couldn't find any issues so I bought it and it worked fine
I dug up my Athlon II 4 core cpu with a motherboard iGPU setup that I used to play Runescape and League.
I bought a 4 core Athlon II CPU for $6 on Aliexpress, and an $45 RX 560 with SATA-to-6pin adapter.
My MSI motherboard then unlocked the remaining 2 cores and the L3 cache, turning it into a 6 core Phenom II CPU.
Also slapped in an SSD.
Now, my unlocked "high end" Phenom II and RX 560 is gaming acceptably in 2023.
I was surprised to hear the 1080 was that much. I picked one up locally for $80/ £73.50 a few weeks ago
Cpu should work ok in any am3+ motherboard if you need to try it there with more ram & yes it lacks SSE 4.2 which games like apex legends doesn't run without at all.
Also on any am3 & some early am3+ motherboards you can unlock the 4th cpu core on these tripple cores & some rare cases the 6 mb of L3 cache.
Did that on my old athlon II x3 445 to a quadcore, but no L3 cache unfortunately.
Temperature sensor that was dead on it, that was the only fault on the 4th core.
Some might not work at all due to instability past a certain clockspeed or a bad cache causing outright crashing or bluescreens.
So i had too turn off hardware monitoring so it measures cpu temperatures by the motherboard cpu socket sensor instead of the cpu core one as that was now stuck between 83 - 89c.)
Old AMD aged badly
Get yourself a free DELL, RTX 1080 in it, Fornite build !
I have the PNY XLR8 1070 OC of the same scheme, I mentioned before in the comments about how the eBay seller sent me one with two broken fans and old thermal pads from 2016. It still runs of course, and it's still a large upgrade over my GT 1030 for only $100. I installed it in an old Thinkstation P520 with an Xeon W-2135 and 32 GB RAM, I'm able to run Fallout 4 and nearly 600 mods on high and Witcher 3 on high with a few graphical mods installed, phenomenal performance for only spending about $300 on the entire PC upgrade.
The triple processor review will be great if it works, great video again
You might have to manually select the pci-e slot as the graphics display in the bios for a video card to work.
It's pretty difficult to find 4GB DDR2 sticks. I got some cheap ones from ebay once, and they worked for me but if I ever put my computer to sleep it would blue screen when it woke up, I got rid of them. It's a pretty uncommon thing. Usually with DDR2 you are only going to be getting 2GB per DIMM.
Yeah, I've seen 2GB laptop DDR2 sticks quite cheap, but 4GB sticks are often £50+ per pair, and that assumes that you can even use 8GB in your system, as most DDR2 systems top out at 4GB (with some early DDR2 systems topping out at 2GB).
For reference... you can get 32GB DDR4-2666 from CeX for just £40.
Some systems do support 4GB sticks but the sticks are crazy expensive like over 100$ USD each, if you can even find them now, they're rare. I'm talking about the right ones not crap ebay ones.@@TheSpotify95
I had 2 sticks of 4gb ddr2, but I sold them. I used them with a Phenom x4
Yeah also 4gb DDR2 sticks Always die
The Athlon depending on the scew it came from can be turned into a Phenom.... Some of the 3 Digit triple cores are still considered athlon 1 or 2s with no L3 cache unlocked but the extra core regardless has some more performance.
Just get some old DELL free, GTX 1080 in in, Fornite bell cheap !
all old intel i7 systems are good enough, try to find systems that support more than 4 Gb DDR 3 !
mums office ? any place has old DELL's !
I used an Athlon II X3 @2,70 paired with a GT 640 2GB from 2009 until 2018, it was kinda nice for gaming with Windows XP and Windows 7.
Wow what an amazing deal, I found this video very interesting as a 1080 owner! Curious to see apex legends in the budget 1080 build, if your card overclocks nicely. You may need new thermal paste, hype for more content 🎉👾
Realy love a good deal.
Few week ago, i got $140 RX 6700xt red devil but the seller broke the front and back fans. 😊 IM happy with it
A HP ALVORIX motherboard supports 16GB max RAM and is DDR3. They are a pretty good board for AM3 CPU's.
Deal I Can't Keep - D.I.C.K... :D
Was that like when you tried Steve Thoroughly Investigates (S.T.I.) or Steve Thoroughly Deduces (S.T.D.) in a prior video? :)
i got my self a good deal the other week, a ASUS P6X58D-E, i7 940, CORAIR AIO hydro H55, 1TB HDD, 16gb of corair VENGEANCE DDR3 ram (only 1600MHz) and 4GB each, a GTX 560 and some think else but i forget what and all for the small sum of £20 but the seller did say it was untested but at that price it was worth trying out and yes it all worked and im using the motherboard with my X5680
Awesome. Glad it all worked. What a cool selection :)
Congrats on 500k subs and 200 million views!!!
Could you show us your magazine of all these gpus?
How many of them you have?
Would you do an episode where you tell any stories how you got some interesting cards? I bet you have some
I'm planning a 1080 build soon for sale. Just have to get some of the components but I have the GPU and some other bits. I think I'm going to get a Machinist X99 and E5-1650V4 for that one. Currently doing a cheap 1650/4790 build to sell for working capital. Trying to get a side gig going. I also have a RX6600 to work with. Will probably get a Xeon for that also. Then I hope to have enough in the kitty to start building better PCs with more recent components.
I had the phenom ii X4 and from what i remember it lacks newer AVX2 or whatever that abbreviation is lol.
my brother used to run an athlon X4 and to be honest with a lil bit of an OC it worked quite well.
Man... the memories. I bought an Athlon ii x3 (can't remember exactly which one) as a broke teenager in highschool with the intention of upgrading to a phenom ii x4. I never needed to upgrade though because I won the cheap chip lottery and was able to unlock the l3 cache and the 4th core while also giving it a few hundred more mhz. It's still kicking around somewhere in my mess of old tech, but I don't think I have an am3 board for it.
The only way i could get a PCIE graphics card to work on an old Packard Bell was to make sure it had the latest bios installed. This was the instructions from the actual Packard Bell support team.
You need to unlock that CPU, with a before and after benchmark :d
Could you do a review with the best in slot AGP 😂? Would be kinda cool
You just yanked the heatsink and CPU off in one pull 😮 Kind of shocked to see that tbh! Also you didn’t explain what the point of the mobo combo was in the end, will it go into a new build of some kind? With it being unexplained it feels like a pointless purchase, but I’m sure it wasn’t
I once got a gtx 980 for £3, I got it in a job lot of loads of stuff so it worked out to about £3 per item, the serial number on the back was crossed out but it ran my pc for about a year before I upgraded, now that is the cheapest fully working gpu I've ever heard of
RTX 1080 is the minimal
Some old free DELL, DDR 3 is good, more than 4 Gb please !
intel age better
Omg you gotta get yourself a work bench :) that concreate path cant be good for the back of the pcb. hahahahahah nice work getting the parts together so cheep tho.
that 1080 really held it's own for a lot of years
Pretty cool Dude, hope it works out! Good luck!
Also - you if u can find a zosma 2 core or 4 core phenom II u can unlock up to the 6 core phenom.
Haven’t watched yet, but I’m assuming it’s a 3 core athlon? Unlock the 4th core!
Yeah will need a better board for sure!
Core unlocker was a thing back in the day :P :)
The boot drive was an issue because you probably defaulted your boot insulation which automatically defaults to UEFI. Computer that old can't see that even if you gave it glasses and told it exactly where to look
Found a Gigabyte G1 GTX1080 for $80 over a year ago. It now found a home in a hand me down part build for the garage pc. 5600G/B550/16gb c14 3200mhz bdie. I have a Xbox 360 controller wired and 25” Ultrawide 2560x1080p @ 60hz out there. It’s a great card to run locked 60fps games on Ultra. Since it’s really a plan C area to game it’s way more then needed. Is nice to have a beer and a few rounds of Dirt4/F1 out in the garage.
I had to replace my dead ryzen 1300x a few months ago i got a ryzen 1500x for $60 it was a great deal. I know its old but i got it with the intention to upgrade to a 5600x or 5800x later when i had more money.
My guess on why the machine wouldn't boot with any of your existing Windows 10 installs was due to the board not being compatible with UEFI and needing the older boot loader to actually work.
Thank you for a nice and interesting video ✌️
The reason you are not getting a graphics card to work and could also not get your M2 boot drive to work is because of UEFI. That is not a UEFI motherboard and as such all newer PCIe devices can not communicate without UEFI.
The Athlon is a phenom 2 based chip but does not have level 3 cache memory. So it will have very poor gaming performance in any games that require cache memory.
In order to get this system fully working, you will need an ancient graphics card from before the time of UEFI. Like a Radeon 7850 is, I believe, the last generation before it went to UEFI, but I may be mistaken in that it could be the 200 series.
I twice compared you and your channel to Ashens which I now realise is just nostalgia based. Keep doing you. I don't comment often yet do try to keep your vids in relevant circulation. I have recently seen Ashen dropping new vids to help fund his need to make some B horror movie which might be awesome but after having spent my youth following his awesome movies and reviews on obscure crap and sad onion reviews seeing what has become of him and his channel (short of occasional holiday updates of the last 6 years) I really hope you carry on doing you because you love reviewing obsolete crap because we love and use it and that you do not vanish only to return in 6 years from now to talk about the crap 6650 xt that exists now as some "still" relevant old piece of crap.
In short, be you. I had once compared you to ashens (who me and my family had adored) but realise you are you and we dig what you are doing now and hope you continue as we have a garasge full of seriously old/obscure pc crap and sad onion toys
I dont know why but that monitor is just soo funny.
1080 that was around Skylake era, think it would work fine in something like a 2nd-6th gen perhaps pcie 2 or 3 machines. Not sure if you went too old here with the cpu platform.
My 1050 Ti has two fans that are always whirling and it's no issue for me. Then again, I have 4 120mm intake fans.
You need GTX 1080 minimal for these old DELL Fornite builds !
Right now. I'm building an ultra budget build with-
AliExpress lga 1155 board ($22).
An Intel I3-4160 with stock cooler ($12).
A GTX 550 TI ($12).
2 x 4GB ram sticks ($10)
128GB SSD ($9).
Paired with a salvaged case and PSU. I will throw in Linux and this will be my front room PC for light gaming and streaming.
First CEX, now DIC.
These acronyms are getting surprisingly risqué for a budget/retro computing channel. :p
It is possible that the controller (if the board is on ddr2) of the processor will digest 8 gigabytes of RAM "memory for AMD". If on ddr3 , then maybe more . It would be nice to specify the name of the motherboard and processor .
Ps so there is a little wine coming from the GPU, 🤔Do you know if PNY make one that dispenses 🍺beer?
Hey guy I think afterburner still lets you control the fan speed manually
I year ago or so I got my cousin's 1080, the MSI gaming model o think, but i finally put it in a system today. I tested the temps and thery got up to 68, maybe I should replace the thermal paste but it's fine.
I will upgrade my friend's PC with these spare parts (basically swap his system, a 3600/1060 for a 3700X/1080, and maybe mobo swap as well).
Hope you find something similar to build with the 1080 so I can compare performance. I will OC the 3700X as well (4.325 all core and 4.5/6 single if possible).
people seem to dump so many good bundles and cheap PCs on ebay for a couple weeks now.
i got a full PC with a 1TB SSD, bequiet! case, 750W straight power PSU, 4790K, 16GB RAM and a 1070 Strix for 280€ shipped.
You need to test Tiny 11 or Tiny 10 for gaming on low end pc's like this.
Why would you have the side panel off on your pc? You are wise enough to pick a case with decent airflow im guessing...or?
I recently bought an HP Chromebook (part only) for £12.50. Because of a thin screen crack only 70% of the touchscreen works, but everything else is fine after using a recovery image. My intention was to use it as an ebook reader and finding out if chromebooks in general are decent for web development.
Upon connecting to my Google Account I got Minecraft mobile for free. I never played the game so I probably try it out.
You can use 4gb modules on AM2 boards.
Sometimes you cam get MSI afterburner to force fan speeds. Just depends on the card of course.
Can you name one GTX 1080 card where you can't control the Fan Speed ???
of course, They all do !
good luck trying to find 4gb ddr2 dimms, also i dont think that board will unlock the 4th core, better looking for a am3 board like a 890FX-UD5
Yeah definitely need a better board, and I can’t believe how expensive some ddr2 is!
The Mobo might support more than 4gb of ram but if it is DDR2 you will struggle to find 4GB sticks at a price that makes sense for any build you could you could do with it. That is how my Phenom II x4 System is configured and I swear the ram is worth more than the rest of the system all together right now.!? :)
Not bad, you might be able to combine that triple core CPU and 3GB DDR2 (preferably get 4GB if you can though) into a retro build of some sort...
Also, if you want a weak GPU to compare things with, forget the HD 5450, instead try looking at the HD 3450 :) The latter can play GTA 5 but only if you don't mind taking about 20 years off your eyesight lifespan...
You better get some old free office DELL, DDR 3, more then 4 Gb please
GTX 1080 in it, Fortnite build !
20 years ? after 5 to 6 years, they get dumped 8 ? i7 !
mums office, everywhere you can find free DELL systems !
are you going to do a video about PC parts from aliexpress ?
The triple core setup absolutely needs a triple GPU setup.
allways twist the cooler left and right on pga cpus before pulling it like an animal! ;)
I just got a Powercolor RX 6800 Figther for 300£ (329€) on wallapop, do you think it was a great deal?
hey RandomG i don't know if they do these where you are but try a police auction for electronics or a gov surplus site might make good content or find cool electronics
wow thats some good budget pc parts ngl
Did you check to see if your X3 had unlockable cores? To fill the X3 bracket AMD did downgrade quad cores and even Phenom's with a flaky set of extra cores, you will find the X3 overclocks like a beastie if it is a downgrade cpu.
Ah yes, the Athlon II X3's. My first self bought system had one of those. They were pretty decent for the money, but struggled with heavier multi-core loads.
Hey. You should try gaming with Atlas os :)
Hey guys, I just got a Intel i7 860, 8gb of RAM DDR3 and the Motherboard
What do you recommend to do with it? What GPU could fit properly without a bottleneck?
Deals I Can't Keep is genius!!
The reason no SSDs or GPUs were working is because that motherboard doesn't support UEFI boot. This means Windows will only work on an MBR (or Legacy Mode) formatted drive. The PCIe slot isn't broken. No modern GPU will boot since they require UEFI BIOS to work. You won't be able to use any GPUs on that mobo that are newer than Fermi or Terascale. It was a common thing for lower end OEM boards to lack UEFI.
My Gigabyte G1 GTX1080 sold on ebay for £107.00 in September!!!
Deals I can't keep....oh
Try to get a Phenom II x3 720. Unlockable and overclockable.
just grabbed at gtx 1070 in mint used condition for $50 canadian almost a steal
Almost? That's an illegal steal. 😅
A minimume Alan Wake build would be interesting. Not using RTX cards, but a GTX 1650 vs. a GTX 1080 (TI).
There is a video for this special case and its close..its a joke because the 1650 is close in performance. But just in that game.
How did the CPU come out of the socket together with the cooler? Shouldn't it be locked in place firmly by that latch? Was the paste so dried up that you had to rip the CPU out? 😲
Yeah I wasn’t expecting that to happen haha. Must be some sticky thermal paste
This happens frequently with PGA processors unfortunately, even AM4. If the thermal paste dries up and adheres itself to the cooler, often times even if you lift straight up it will take the CPU out of the socket with it. Anecdotally it seems to happen less often with really old CPUs such as Socket 7 since the pins are physically larger and have more surface area to "bite" into the socket.
Absolutely normal..i work in electro recycling😅
got a 5700XT for 50$ from a friend
needless to say I'm thrilled to build
the acronym had me giggle
Your monitor looks how mine would if I cut it in half, lol.
Deals
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i picked up a practically mint gtx 1080 founders for 80 usd the other day!
Very nice
Get a cheap Am2+ Gig or Asus and unlock the 4th core.
To be fair, you can usually get a PSU conversion for less than £10