I've upgraded all of my sandy bridge computers to 3rd gens. They take less power and have better performance, as well as DDR3 1600 support. Not getting off LGA1155 anytime soon.
+kirbyswarp X58 has much more production potential because of it's 6 cores 12 threads with Triple Channel, Westmere-EP is just as efficient as Sandy Bridge itself, perhaps more efficient since it boast more multi-threading. It comes down to the same comparison of today, you'd want an 8 cores Ryzen slightly less single threaded, or 4 cores Kaby Lake extremely single threaded. Had Westmere-EP 4.4GHz till I got Ryzen, the switch almost makes me regret it because the difference seems to be barely there, but the hardware support and newer software is a thing with efficiency, also 4 extra threads with slightly more powerful cores allow me for very high quality productivity, something that Sandy Bridge or today's Kaby Lake cannot compare to. Hell, even Westmere-EP had comparable if not better productivity to Kaby Lake despite it's outdated support.
Hey for those, from the United States, who want a cpu that's pretty much the same, as the I5 2400: here is a link to my $40 I5 2400S: www.ebay.com/itm/162836155033?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 It's $40 with free shipping.
That's the joy of buying used parts. Sometimes you can get a way better deal with buying used, older parts then buying new parts. But some people like having the latest and greatest with that new feeling, and that's good too.
Well the other reasons being: 1. You have people situated with bad used markets in which you'd have chumps selling a 3-5 year old part at MSRP. 2. They don't have the time/courage to research which used alternative is better. 3. They fear getting scammed/getting a defunct or a part that is near their death bed. 4. Travel time to pickup the part.
Hey for those, from the United States, who want a cpu that's pretty much the same, as the I5 2400: here is a link to my $40 I5 2400S: www.ebay.com/itm/162836155033?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 It's $40 with free shipping.
I love seeing old processors getting use out of them! I have 3 Ubuntu boxes just for browsing and word stuff, 2 are running core pentium 945's, and one has a phenom II 840. One of the pentiums even has a 3870 X2 for graphics.
Another great video, I purchased & upgraded an HP for my son with almost exact same specs as my 2011 that i've owned for years. HP compaq elite 8200 sff pc with i5-2400 / 16gb evga sc ram / crucial mx300 ss hd / msi gtx 1050ti low profile gpu all running on stock 240 psu. I spent $ 317.- all components purchased @ micro center / GPU from newegg - my son plays 2016 / 2017 triple A titles @ medium or high detail = 60 fps average. how awesome is that, thanx 4 posting.
Small form factor = cant replace / 6 months now & still gaming. The whole system DOSN'T even draw 200 from the wall { 173 on average } im almost done building my daughters.
Gatewayuser200 indeed! i got 3 motherboards with bend pins and i got an amscope to to put them back. i got one for 2nd gen but i got only one i3 to test and it does work the mobo and 2 of them are H3 lga 1150 . works perfectly
Seeing 1% and 0.1% lows make these benchmarks feel a lot more meaningful. Thanks for including them! Even though I finally upgraded off of my seven year old i7-980X to an AMD R5-1600X, seeing what bargains I can find for friends and family through your videos still makes them a lot of fun to watch. Keep up the awesome work, mate.
the funny thing is that you get almost the same performance using a i5 2500K @4,5GHz compared to a i5 7500 for under half the price ... that´s also the reason i dont upgrade my i7 2600K the i5 2400 is also still a good CPU for gaming, the i5 7400 for example is only ~30% faster but costs 3 times as much great video btw ;)
I recently bought a computer off of craigslist with an i5-2500k in it and I am beyond pleased with it. I paired it with a GTX 1050ti and the performance is amazing.
Great video! I've an i5 2400 myself, recently upgraded from a 550 Ti to a GTX 1060. For a 1080p gamer, this build is serving me very well, I don't feel any significant bottleneck in any game. So, if you can find a cheap 2400, go for it!
running my i5 2550k 4.4 GHz with a GTX 1070. It is a very nice combo :) note: so overclocking is totally worth it for this old cpu. I would gladly recommend it. It will give you a very nice boost. (randomgaminginhd i can send some benchmarks if u want)
I have 2500k and GTX 1070 too albeit at 4.8ghz :) have found no games at all that it struggles on apart from FH3 in surfers paradise (but that game is broken).
i got a 6700k and a 1070, but i love watching your Video and see, whats possible with just a fraction of my the money i had spend. And its sometimes shocking how good your budged PCs compete to my machine. Thanks for your Videos.
Matthew Rogers you'll be fine, It does performs pretty much as the Pentium g4560 on games, the r9 380, If I'm not mistaken, is a bit weaker than a GTX 1050ti or GTX 960, meaning that you wont encounter any bothersome bottleneck untill you do pair It with anything equal to RX 480, even then the bottleneck is under the 15%mark. Take a look on videos comparing the FX 6300 and g4560 and then take a look on bottleneck tests for the g4560 to have a good comparison (I'm not sure of there is any FX 6300 bottleneck serious test out there but I Saw many of the New pentiums).
Matthew Rogers btw I used the FX 6300 as reference just because they are Very common at my country while the FX 6350 is not so I do know Very little about the Second one
ah finally a RGHD video by the way i have a challenge for you :) i have an old asrock K7VT6 socket 462 motherboard with a amd sempron processor Can you make a gaming rig capable of running games at 30fps with these specs? Only rule you cant go over 200 euros. Accept/Decline?
I bought a Core i7 2600 more than 3 years ago at about 140 euros. Worth every penny and it still plays games very smoothly. :) Sandy Bridge is still alive and kicking.
i still have an i5 2500 non K. I built this pc 6 years ago containing it from that time.(more like my father built it, not me xP.) And to this day, it is still great and i am not thinking of changing it anytime. Definitely old but GOLD. All I need is a new good GPU, and im off playing the newest games pretty OK.
here in brazil my 2500k is worth more than i paid for it in 2012. it's worth around $275 in contrast, you can get an ivy bridge i7 laptop cpu for as low as $75 makes no fucking sense. well at least my laptop gets a good and cheap upgrade path. i've always regretted getting an i5 on it (i thought it was a quad core, but it's a fucking rebranded i3 in laptops)
The biggest limitation of those old sandy bridge systems is that the boards often don't have USB 3.0 or Sata 3.0, which is actually pretty important these days since days. My Ivy Bridge board has at least 4 USB 3.0 ports and 1 Sata 3.0 port, so I can live with that. Paid about 130€ for the board, 8 gigs of RAM, an I5 3470 and a low end aftermarket cooler (Freezer I11). Though I would say it's worth it to get an I7 3770 or I7 2600 if you can get it for about 80 or 90 as opposed to the 50 to 70 that you'd have to pay for I5 2500, I5 3470 or I5 3570. The extra threads really start to matter.
I got an i5-2500, Intel LGA sandy bridge Mobo, and 4GB of RAM for free from my local PC repair shop. Just emailed and asked if they had PC stuff they didn't want. Just goes to show how you can get into PC gaming without spending tons of money. I definetly suggest asking relatives and local businesses for PCs or PC parts, for you can get lucky sometimes.
Myself Jatt get the 1050 ti instead. Unless you can find the 750 ti used for like 60-75 USD you also need at least 8 gb of ram but you can upgrade that later.
Great video and good to see all these old rigs still holding up even today. Just shows how resilient PC gaming is unlike consoles where sometimes you have to buy a whole new one eventually. With the PC you can still use older parts many times if you don't mind not getting a solid 60 fps the whole time. Still very playable frames and you can always save up for a new PC later on. Currently having an i3 4130, 8gb ddr3 ram, gtx 1050ti, 1tb hdd wd blue, 525gb ssd and a 500 watt psu in the fractal design nano s. I wanted power friendly components that were easy on your electric build and small enough to fit into any case no matter what since I will go fully ITX in the future.
I had mine at 5.0GHz since I got it near launch date, and it died last month (FINALLY) Turns out it ended up being cheaper price/performance wise for me to just pay $50 cash in person for a 2500k that had allegedly only been ran at 4.4GHz on a Hyper 212 Evo it's entire life. I got it to 4.997GHz and I didn't have to replace any other parts to get back to 300 FPS in CS:GO I was going to get a whole new Ryzen setup but after seeing just 25-30% performance gains compared to overclocked 2500k, just decided to stick with Sandy Bridge for now.
running i7-6700k, don't look to buy anything and just enjoying this guy's videos xd. Everyday i learn something about tech stuff that i absolutely adore. Thank you :)
Yes this is a cool cpu, 2500 also. 2400 is about 60-65$ and 2500 around 80$. But to find a decent mobo ( and by decent i mean not the worst garbage) in my country under 80$ its really hard. But yeah, if someone is giving you a solid 1155 mobo for peanuts then ofc. 2400/2500 is the best used- decent-budget cpu that exist without a doubt!
LGA 1156 is better for a budget build than LGA1155 because you can't overclock on 1155 without buying an expensive K-series chip. 1156 parts are also much cheaper. Combine those two advantages and you can beat any 1155 chips except the 2500K and 2600K for less money than an i5 2400.
I think i5 2400 is awesome for someone who don't want to take huge risk and want performance out of the box. But You could get a Xeon x34 series from aliexpress and with luck it will overclock to 3.6 Ghz on stock cooler. This should compensate for lower ipc and You still got hyperthreading. I Have i7 920 and i have to run it at 3.6 Ghz (no HT) to match i5 2400 Cinebench R 15 score.
I agree, for shits and giggles I searched 1155 boards on eBay and here in the US it's still hard to find reasonable prices. I found one or two for $50-$60 but the rest were $80+. Upside is that the CPUs are so cheap it doesn't matter much. Also you can find i5-3470's for $65-$75 which is a steal! Also just out of curiosity, what country are you from?
But why would you buy an i5-3470 which can't be overclocked for $65-75 when you can get a xeon x3460 for $30-$35 which can be overclocked to over 4+ GHz?
I bought an i5-2500 (Locked) processor and a GTX 770 FTW last year and have been playing battlefield one, and Doom on medium to high settings @ 60fps. I'm currently waiting on Destiny 2 to come out. I really hope my setup is able to play it at a decent quality then.
This is so relevant to my needs it isn't even funny. I currently resurrected my old machine with a q8400 and AMD 5970. I wanted to play Hitman and PUBG but she just can't do it. I think this is the way I will go.... I appreciate the video. Cheers!
Currently running an i5 750 in a Gigabyte p55-UD3 mobo. I've had it 8 years in September and its been a great combo which I paired first a gtx 275 then a hd 7950. (I think my then cheap power pack burnt them out as each only lasted 2 to 3 years.) Currently using a 750ti, a hand-me-down from my son. It's finally time to upgrade with a new Ryzen chip and a GTX 1060 but I wont be getting rid of the i5. I'll pass it onto another family member as I'm sure there's plenty of life left in it. Great reviews Thanks!
I recently upgraded from the 2400 to the 3570K, hoping to acquire my friend's i7 3770K if he upgrades his platform before I do because they're overpriced. The 2400 did bottleneck my RX 480 a little bit but not as much as the 6-core Xeon X5675 in my Mac Pro lol (still a huge improvement from my old HD 5870)
Ryan Canning Some overclocking (assuming that your motherboard supports it) will do awesome things with that 3570K. I was able to get 4.2 GHz easily on my 3570K with a cheap Hyper 212 Evo cpu cooler. Now, after delidding it (replacing the crap TIM under the IHS with Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra and reapplying the IHS) and adding a Corsair H100i cooler, I'm at 4.7 GHz.
Love your videos man. I have a pretty good pc but I still like to watch you bench older hardware My only problem is that I don't think you're explaining bottlenecking clearly enough for newcomers. They could easily put a GTX 1080ti into a machine with an i5 2400 and still get great frames, especially when you push the card to 99/100% usage, which will often mean turning up the resolution. Obviously it would be a silly situation, but they need to know that their experience will still be great
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I love the kind of content you produce. Most YT creators focus on too high end and also buying things new. I do wish you'd default to £ and not $ though - I'm assuming you still live in the UK?! :D
Trainer Tobias the jump from 650 to 1070 will be a digital orgasm, belive me :D I (even) switched from a 660 to 1070, too, and the diffence was (still) huge.
you will not be switching to that anytime soon trust me. first of all its so much money, and second of all you need to make sure you even have enough watts and the rights chipset for your cpu.
My friend just upgraded from a 2nd gen i3 (2120 I think) on february. What a beast, that CPU. Paired with a 7770 and then a 960 (2gb), the system was able to run everything my friend would throw at it. Witcher 2/3, all Crysis titles, BF 3/4, Dark Souls, Far Cry... You name it.
my budget pc specs; pro: i5 2500 70$ in my country Pakistan mobo: Asus h61 M.E 50$ RAM: 8gb 1600mhz 27$ Case: corsair specs 01 (45$) PSU: thermaltake 600 Watt (12$) hardisk: 1tb Western digital used full of pirated games (35$) GPU: zotac gtx 1050 ti (180$) Total price was 420$
Excellent video. I'm still using a 3570k @ 4.4ghz with 16GB of DDR3-2133, paired with an overclocked GTX 1070. It chews through everything I throw at it. I'm not seeing much of a CPU bottleneck. Believe it or not, faster RAM makes a significant difference in many newish games, and Ivy Bridge CPUs really respond to it.
I have a i7 2700K with a 760 GTX with 8Bb of ram and it's fantastic! I can play anything smoothly @1080p, the system is about 5 years old and i purchased it second hand from a Facebook seller for $450 with keyboard, monitor and mouse, about 4 months ago. The GPU and CPU really have stood the test of time, and I am really impressed by them.
You'll only see a performance boost if the game utilizes more than 4 cores, or if you need it for productivity. Not that many games do that right now (BF1 is the only one that comes to mind)
still rocking an Intel i5 2500k in 2018! But I also have an i5 8600k overclocked to 5ghz and hands down these 2 CPUs are the best ones Intel has ever created. 'best bang for your money'.
I've got an i5 2500s and GTX 1060OC, And play Arma3, The Witcher, GtaV, Ghost Recon wildlands. Ultra settings. With the CPU clocked at 3.3ghz. I hardly ever see bottlenecking, But I can see that a Rysen 5 1600x would help quite a bit. Great video.
the LGA1555 CPUs are amazing, I got an i7 3770k for $150 used. And I can say that I am not disappointed at all. Yes, the downside is DDR3 RAM and that is noticeable in CS:GO where RAM speed matters up to 2000MHz. But still, LGA 1555 are a must if you buy used
Got a i7-3770 for super cheap on eBay ($100ish). Doesn't even bottleneck at 144hz with GTX 1080. Total system with GTX 1080 was $700...running games on Ultra on 144hz monitor!
I have an i5-2320 3Ghz since 2012 and I still use it. 2 years ago I buyed a Radeon R9 270x, 1 year ago a 120GB SSD. I still love my pc and I can Play still all the games at least in high. All with and SSD and a great GPU it's verte fast. 2nd gen are still great processors. Cheers!
Saw an i5 2500k on fleabay for the other day for $17.66, they had three of them and were supposedly in working condition!!. Cheapest h61 boards were around 32-$48, unless you were to go the route of an optiplex 790/990. Decent budget platform for sure. Need to make one of these eventually.
I'm still running a 3770K alongside a 1050 Ti (price at the time + my gaming needs don't extend past single monitor 1080p) At stock clocks, the chip does show its age a tiny bit, but once you overclock to or past ~4.2 GHz it's more than competitive.
Still running an i5 3570k from 2012 and a GTX 770. Got not complains whatsoever even in newer titles. Intel and nvidia really need to step up their performance game in next generations.
Thanks for these videos. Lots of used PC hardware that is still totally capable and somewhat comparable to the newest stuff, for a fraction of the price. Taking this chance to drop a suggestion for you to investigate later, though not sure you've already covered that one: Currently, there's a good combo for gaming that is very cheap - Intel i5 3550 (CPU under 40 euros on Ebay) and H77 motherboards (under 60 euros on Ebay). Look it up. Paired with, say, 8GB of DDR3 1600 for the RAM, and a good mid-range GPU (GTX1050Ti, GTX1060 3GB, or equivalent), I think that'll make a really sweet deal for gamers on a tight budget.
My uncle is an IT guy for some dentist offices. They recently upgraded to new computers so they were getting rid of their older HP Compaq Elite 8200 Convertible Minitowers, and he hooked me up with one of them for free. It has an i7 Sandy Bridge 2600 non-K, 8gb DDR3 1333mhz, a 1TB HDD, Windows 10 Professional, and runs whisper quiet. I threw in my GTX 1050ti and I couldn't be happier with the results. It runs every game out there at 1080p while running extremely quiet, not getting very hot, and not consuming that much power. And all I paid was the price of the 1050ti ($140)
I bought the Dell Optiplex 790 (i5-2400) and put a 1050 ti in it with 16 gigs of ram. Newer games run well at about 60 fps with low to medium settings while older games like Batman Arkham City run with max settings between 60 to 80 fps - all done at 1080p. Such a fantastic setup on this older hardware.
Hey there! Personally I'm using i5-3570 and with Z77 I took it up to 4.2GHz (40x ratio like you did with i5-3470 + baseclock). It easily beats any Haswell i5s, which even paired with z97 can't be OCed. Also if I ever am to recommend some1 used CPU I'm always opting for i5-2/3xxx :D Thanks for another video!
I have been doing exactly this for some friends for the past year or so. So far I have built 3 systems with the i5 2400 and gtx 760 combo, one with the 3470 and a 1050ti, and am now working on one with a 2500 (non k) and, for now, an r9 270x. I am interested in the rx 560 for this one so will see how it pans out in the reviews. All are fitted with evga 430w or 500w psu's and all game just fine
I got an upgrade from my old FX 6350 two months ago, to an i5 3470 for 60 euros and a pretty B.A Biostar Hi-Fi H77S motherboard for 80 euros. Both great condition and have served me well so far. If I factor in the price the p/p ratio is great imo. I plan to upgrade to an i7 on the same motherboard when the i5 starts to show it's age and that should last me a good while. The deals you can get for the price on this platform are just incredible. And I didn't even get THAT great of a deal compared to what guys outside my country are getting.
I'd add if you're buying one of those full Dell systems to pay attention to the form factor. Some are tiny unupgradeable affairs, some are low profile which will limit your graphics card options severely etc.
I spent over $1000 for a Haswell refresh mini itx build when it was just released. A year later I discovered used business Dell towers with an i7 Ivy build for 1/3 of the price, and never before I regretted my purchase, onboard WiFi I never used (mostly on Gigabit wired) Z97 board I don't OC, don't even have a K processor, and a GTX970 that I bought a few months before Pascal came out (an upgrade from R7 270X). Now for my friends I always suggest them to look at business surplus first before they decide to buy a new PC or just go Ryzen.
I have an i5 3570k paired with a r9 380x gaming at 1080 to this day haven't found a reason or need to upgrade. Even if you have chip like mine honestly the best path at the moment, if you were looking at getting a gtx 1070 or above and going to 1440 resolution, just get a i7 3770k and if you can oc it. That would perform almost as well as any current day cpus but would save you a bunch of money.
Sandy Bridge is the greatest Intel generation. They've been stagnant ever since.
I've upgraded all of my sandy bridge computers to 3rd gens. They take less power and have better performance, as well as DDR3 1600 support.
Not getting off LGA1155 anytime soon.
gotta disagree, bloomfield and x58, is intel's best generation by far!
No. Sandy bridge has much better performance and efficiency.
still super fast just can't run some real ram speeds, damn if could of done that...
+kirbyswarp X58 has much more production potential because of it's 6 cores 12 threads with Triple Channel, Westmere-EP is just as efficient as Sandy Bridge itself, perhaps more efficient since it boast more multi-threading.
It comes down to the same comparison of today, you'd want an 8 cores Ryzen slightly less single threaded, or 4 cores Kaby Lake extremely single threaded.
Had Westmere-EP 4.4GHz till I got Ryzen, the switch almost makes me regret it because the difference seems to be barely there, but the hardware support and newer software is a thing with efficiency, also 4 extra threads with slightly more powerful cores allow me for very high quality productivity, something that Sandy Bridge or today's Kaby Lake cannot compare to. Hell, even Westmere-EP had comparable if not better productivity to Kaby Lake despite it's outdated support.
I'm already happy knowing that RGHD made a video
Tony ManFlash ;)
yeah and that's why I want him to look back at the NVidia GeForce 9500GS
Tony ManFlash Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well...
Hey for those, from the United States, who want a cpu that's pretty much the same, as the I5 2400: here is a link to my $40 I5 2400S: www.ebay.com/itm/162836155033?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 It's $40 with free shipping.
That's the joy of buying used parts. Sometimes you can get a way better deal with buying used, older parts then buying new parts. But some people like having the latest and greatest with that new feeling, and that's good too.
Well the other reasons being:
1. You have people situated with bad used markets in which you'd have chumps selling a 3-5 year old part at MSRP.
2. They don't have the time/courage to research which used alternative is better.
3. They fear getting scammed/getting a defunct or a part that is near their death bed.
4. Travel time to pickup the part.
Hey for those, from the United States, who want a cpu that's pretty much the same, as the I5 2400: here is a link to my $40 I5 2400S: www.ebay.com/itm/162836155033?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 It's $40 with free shipping.
These videos are getting better and better, love this channel
I still use the i5 2500k and Im still gaming really nicely.
I love seeing old processors getting use out of them! I have 3 Ubuntu boxes just for browsing and word stuff, 2 are running core pentium 945's, and one has a phenom II 840. One of the pentiums even has a 3870 X2 for graphics.
It doesnt have rgb i wont get the 1billion ghz oc
Get RGB Markers and you're all set.
Another great video, I purchased & upgraded an HP for my son with almost exact same specs as my 2011 that i've owned for years. HP compaq elite 8200 sff pc with i5-2400 / 16gb evga sc ram / crucial mx300 ss hd / msi gtx 1050ti low profile gpu all running on stock 240 psu. I spent $ 317.- all components purchased @ micro center / GPU from newegg - my son plays 2016 / 2017 triple A titles @ medium or high detail = 60 fps average. how awesome is that, thanx 4 posting.
how is 240 even keeping up? upgrade to 500 for safety trust me
its a low profile 1050ti
Small form factor = cant replace / 6 months now & still gaming. The whole system DOSN'T even draw 200 from the wall { 173 on average } im almost done building my daughters.
How cheap the mobos are with bend pins :D
Sandy bridge and ivy bridge processors don't have pins mate. What you on about?
***** Yeah as if those are easy to bent...
.oh wait they are not
How does ebay stay afloat considering they're responsible for allllllllllllll of those refunds?
Ohhhh my bad I thought you meant people were just selling motherboards online calling them working with bent pins lol
Gatewayuser200 indeed! i got 3 motherboards with bend pins and i got an amscope to to put them back. i got one for 2nd gen but i got only one i3 to test and it does work the mobo and 2 of them are H3 lga 1150 . works perfectly
Seeing 1% and 0.1% lows make these benchmarks feel a lot more meaningful. Thanks for including them! Even though I finally upgraded off of my seven year old i7-980X to an AMD R5-1600X, seeing what bargains I can find for friends and family through your videos still makes them a lot of fun to watch. Keep up the awesome work, mate.
the funny thing is that you get almost the same performance using a i5 2500K @4,5GHz compared to a i5 7500 for under half the price ... that´s also the reason i dont upgrade my i7 2600K
the i5 2400 is also still a good CPU for gaming, the i5 7400 for example is only ~30% faster but costs 3 times
as much
great video btw ;)
seriously bro. I love your channel. Your catering to the budget gamers is very much appreciated!
I recently bought a computer off of craigslist with an i5-2500k in it and I am beyond pleased with it. I paired it with a GTX 1050ti and the performance is amazing.
I never found any of your videos boring, keep going!
Great video! I've an i5 2400 myself, recently upgraded from a 550 Ti to a GTX 1060. For a 1080p gamer, this build is serving me very well, I don't feel any significant bottleneck in any game. So, if you can find a cheap 2400, go for it!
Still smooth to play?
I've been around since like when you only have around 2k subs.
Now look at you !! So proud of this channel , Keep up the good work :D
running my i5 2550k 4.4 GHz with a GTX 1070. It is a very nice combo :)
note: so overclocking is totally worth it for this old cpu. I would gladly recommend it. It will give you a very nice boost.
(randomgaminginhd i can send some benchmarks if u want)
Got myself a i5 2500k and a rx 480 no bottleneck at all when it's clocked @4.2 with 2133 ram
Why, tho? i5 2500k only supports up to 1333 MHz RAM
ram speed is overclockable too so no problems
I have 2500k and GTX 1070 too albeit at 4.8ghz :) have found no games at all that it struggles on apart from FH3 in surfers paradise (but that game is broken).
alejorag Only "technically" supports 1333. That is the JEDEC standard for DDR3. But you can of course run much higher clocked DDR3 RAM.
i got a 6700k and a 1070, but i love watching your Video and see, whats possible with just a fraction of my the money i had spend.
And its sometimes shocking how good your budged PCs compete to my machine.
Thanks for your Videos.
im running a i5 2320 and a r9 380
things are good :)
same, but a 1050ti. Golden for 1080p
Matthew Rogers you'll be fine, It does performs pretty much as the Pentium g4560 on games, the r9 380, If I'm not mistaken, is a bit weaker than a GTX 1050ti or GTX 960, meaning that you wont encounter any bothersome bottleneck untill you do pair It with anything equal to RX 480, even then the bottleneck is under the 15%mark. Take a look on videos comparing the FX 6300 and g4560 and then take a look on bottleneck tests for the g4560 to have a good comparison (I'm not sure of there is any FX 6300 bottleneck serious test out there but I Saw many of the New pentiums).
Matthew Rogers btw I used the FX 6300 as reference just because they are Very common at my country while the FX 6350 is not so I do know Very little about the Second one
The r9 380 is on par with the 960 i have a r9 380x can play bf1 ultra 1080p with 50 plus fps constant.
I'm running an i3 2120 with a Radeon R7 240. Performance is okay...
I bought a pc with the i5-2400 and upgraded the graphics card to a GTX 1050 ti. Its great if u dont have to play on the highest settings! Great video
ah finally a RGHD video
by the way i have a challenge for you :)
i have an old asrock K7VT6 socket 462 motherboard with a amd sempron processor
Can you make a gaming rig capable of running games at 30fps with these specs?
Only rule you cant go over 200 euros.
Accept/Decline?
that's the answer actually. scrap the 462, get a newer system and a decent gpu :P
Love your work! Keep the videos coming, I'll watch them all.
I got the Dell Optilex 990 for 99 bucks. It had this very processor and its AWESOME. The computer also came with 8gbs of ram too. pretty sweet
I bought a Core i7 2600 more than 3 years ago at about 140 euros. Worth every penny and it still plays games very smoothly. :)
Sandy Bridge is still alive and kicking.
This processor is a solid bargain. I'm waiting my i5 2500k and MSI z77 MB coming from China right now :)
OsascoGaming dude where did you order from
good video dude, finding these gems from the past is always interesting.
Hey, that's my CPU! :D
I'm following you since 4k subscribers, still amazing videos.
i still have an i5 2500 non K. I built this pc 6 years ago containing it from that time.(more like my father built it, not me xP.) And to this day, it is still great and i am not thinking of changing it anytime. Definitely old but GOLD. All I need is a new good GPU, and im off playing the newest games pretty OK.
Still using my Sandy Bridge PC to this day!
i have a i5 2400 it works great with my GTX 760 with no problems and most games medium to high on newer games
can i5 still manage 1080p?
I hope you will get 1 Million Subscribers because you really deserve it..such a humble person I like the style of yours!
here in brazil my 2500k is worth more than i paid for it in 2012. it's worth around $275
in contrast, you can get an ivy bridge i7 laptop cpu for as low as $75
makes no fucking sense. well at least my laptop gets a good and cheap upgrade path. i've always regretted getting an i5 on it (i thought it was a quad core, but it's a fucking rebranded i3 in laptops)
GraveUypo Yeah, this old hardware valorization is crazy. But laptop processor are dirt cheap in here. Got my 2630qm for $70 :D
Boa. Estava pensando em fazer algo assim
i7-3740QM Ivy Bridge PGA988 very nice laptop chip haha
great video thanks for testing the components i asked for previously :)
I still have an i5 3570k and it's still really good. I won't even upgrade until Zen2 tbh.
The biggest limitation of those old sandy bridge systems is that the boards often don't have USB 3.0 or Sata 3.0, which is actually pretty important these days since days. My Ivy Bridge board has at least 4 USB 3.0 ports and 1 Sata 3.0 port, so I can live with that.
Paid about 130€ for the board, 8 gigs of RAM, an I5 3470 and a low end aftermarket cooler (Freezer I11).
Though I would say it's worth it to get an I7 3770 or I7 2600 if you can get it for about 80 or 90 as opposed to the 50 to 70 that you'd have to pay for I5 2500, I5 3470 or I5 3570.
The extra threads really start to matter.
Hi,
It would be great if during benchmarks you mention what setting are needed for 60FPS.
Thank You.
I got an i5-2500, Intel LGA sandy bridge Mobo, and 4GB of RAM for free from my local PC repair shop. Just emailed and asked if they had PC stuff they didn't want. Just goes to show how you can get into PC gaming without spending tons of money. I definetly suggest asking relatives and local businesses for PCs or PC parts, for you can get lucky sometimes.
can anyone give me a suggestion.
i am buying a rig i5 2400 4gb ram and gtx 750ti. is this good for med end gaming and editing... please
Myself Jatt get the 1050 ti instead. Unless you can find the 750 ti used for like 60-75 USD you also need at least 8 gb of ram but you can upgrade that later.
It's fairly decent but the GTX 750 Ti won't run most recent games maxed out or at 60fps.
Myself Jatt I'd buy at least a gtx 1050
Myself Jatt yeah not bad, although id recommend the rx 460 or even gtx 1050 instead. Maybe even the 950 if you can find one cheap
yes, it'll be fine but later you can upgrade the 750ti to a 1050ti
Great video and good to see all these old rigs still holding up even today. Just shows how resilient PC gaming is unlike consoles where sometimes you have to buy a whole new one eventually. With the PC you can still use older parts many times if you don't mind not getting a solid 60 fps the whole time. Still very playable frames and you can always save up for a new PC later on. Currently having an i3 4130, 8gb ddr3 ram, gtx 1050ti, 1tb hdd wd blue, 525gb ssd and a 500 watt psu in the fractal design nano s. I wanted power friendly components that were easy on your electric build and small enough to fit into any case no matter what since I will go fully ITX in the future.
I've seen 2500k for 50-60
I had mine at 5.0GHz since I got it near launch date, and it died last month (FINALLY)
Turns out it ended up being cheaper price/performance wise for me to just pay $50 cash in person for a 2500k that had allegedly only been ran at 4.4GHz on a Hyper 212 Evo it's entire life. I got it to 4.997GHz and I didn't have to replace any other parts to get back to 300 FPS in CS:GO
I was going to get a whole new Ryzen setup but after seeing just 25-30% performance gains compared to overclocked 2500k, just decided to stick with Sandy Bridge for now.
Jamzy did you delid the cpu ?
Technocrawl N4 you don't need to delid the cpu to get 5ghz just get a good cooler
Joey Greathouse 50 for a 2500k is really good and sandy bridge still has a lot of life left!
Jamzy well thanks , i have 4670k running 4.2 GHz maybe i try to push 5.0 out of it
I just got this processor today can't wait to see the performance difference
i5 2500k> anything new from Intel
I've seen someone do 5.4 GHz on an i5- 2500k. Amazing CPU
No, 2700k
Found a 3570K for about the price of a 2500K but Intel used shitty thermal compound instead of solder for Ivy Bridge
i7 2600k is almost the same as i5 2500
The 2600k is just nice. Can be about as good as a 6600k
Thanks you RGHD for giving me and my old pc hope! Because of you ill soon upgrade my pc so i can play those new flashy games on a budget!
Still rockin a 3570K in my system with a 980Ti
running i7-6700k, don't look to buy anything and just enjoying this guy's videos xd. Everyday i learn something about tech stuff that i absolutely adore. Thank you :)
i have a i7 2700k that i got for 100 along with 8gb of ram and it handles games great
Legit
Man, you've opened my eyes. This is beast for the price ! thanks !
Yes this is a cool cpu, 2500 also. 2400 is about 60-65$ and 2500 around 80$. But to find a decent mobo ( and by decent i mean not the worst garbage) in my country under 80$ its really hard. But yeah, if someone is giving you a solid 1155 mobo for peanuts then ofc. 2400/2500 is the best used- decent-budget cpu that exist without a doubt!
LGA 1156 is better for a budget build than LGA1155 because you can't overclock on 1155 without buying an expensive K-series chip. 1156 parts are also much cheaper. Combine those two advantages and you can beat any 1155 chips except the 2500K and 2600K for less money than an i5 2400.
I think i5 2400 is awesome for someone who don't want to take huge risk and want performance out of the box. But You could get a Xeon x34 series from aliexpress and with luck it will overclock to 3.6 Ghz on stock cooler. This should compensate for lower ipc and You still got hyperthreading. I Have i7 920 and i have to run it at 3.6 Ghz (no HT) to match i5 2400 Cinebench R 15 score.
I bought an i5 2500 for 30 dollar, didn't even try to negotiate when I saw his price.
I agree, for shits and giggles I searched 1155 boards on eBay and here in the US it's still hard to find reasonable prices. I found one or two for $50-$60 but the rest were $80+. Upside is that the CPUs are so cheap it doesn't matter much.
Also you can find i5-3470's for $65-$75 which is a steal! Also just out of curiosity, what country are you from?
But why would you buy an i5-3470 which can't be overclocked for $65-75 when you can get a xeon x3460 for $30-$35 which can be overclocked to over 4+ GHz?
I bought an i5-2500 (Locked) processor and a GTX 770 FTW last year and have been playing battlefield one, and Doom on medium to high settings @ 60fps. I'm currently waiting on Destiny 2 to come out. I really hope my setup is able to play it at a decent quality then.
I have the i5 2400, it kicks ass, I even made a video about it :3
Steven Reviews I like it subbed :3
hehehe :3
This is so relevant to my needs it isn't even funny. I currently resurrected my old machine with a q8400 and AMD 5970. I wanted to play Hitman and PUBG but she just can't do it. I think this is the way I will go.... I appreciate the video. Cheers!
still got my i7 3770k and it's a beast
mrmot games no one asked? and this is cpu not gpu
+Luca Torricelli SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. You go around and just hate on everything, why?
Currently running an i5 750 in a Gigabyte p55-UD3 mobo. I've had it 8 years in September and its been a great combo which I paired first a gtx 275 then a hd 7950. (I think my then cheap power pack burnt them out as each only lasted 2 to 3 years.) Currently using a 750ti, a hand-me-down from my son. It's finally time to upgrade with a new Ryzen chip and a GTX 1060 but I wont be getting rid of the i5. I'll pass it onto another family member as I'm sure there's plenty of life left in it. Great reviews Thanks!
I recently upgraded from the 2400 to the 3570K, hoping to acquire my friend's i7 3770K if he upgrades his platform before I do because they're overpriced. The 2400 did bottleneck my RX 480 a little bit but not as much as the 6-core Xeon X5675 in my Mac Pro lol (still a huge improvement from my old HD 5870)
Ryan Canning Some overclocking (assuming that your motherboard supports it) will do awesome things with that 3570K. I was able to get 4.2 GHz easily on my 3570K with a cheap Hyper 212 Evo cpu cooler. Now, after delidding it (replacing the crap TIM under the IHS with Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra and reapplying the IHS) and adding a Corsair H100i cooler, I'm at 4.7 GHz.
great videos man. you are my fav. youtuber so far
Love your videos man. I have a pretty good pc but I still like to watch you bench older hardware
My only problem is that I don't think you're explaining bottlenecking clearly enough for newcomers. They could easily put a GTX 1080ti into a machine with an i5 2400 and still get great frames, especially when you push the card to 99/100% usage, which will often mean turning up the resolution. Obviously it would be a silly situation, but they need to know that their experience will still be great
Cheesyburps yeah rghd should compare it to other budget cpu's
Your channel is going fast! Good video, good info!
Is CEX any good? I was looking to buy a i7 7700 from them.
bob tob yeah never let me down.
bob tob since they sell second hand things you might want to clean it first
I was just curious because i saw that the delivery charge would be £2.50 and that seems a bit sketch to me.
but you do get a 12 month warrenty on stuff you buy from them just in case
i forgot to mention i have 2 of there shops within a 5 mile radios of my house so i shop with them alot iv never orderd from there site though but they are a good company and you can trust them if you have a problem with anything just contact them and arrange to send it back but they do a 12 hour test on all computer parts before they buy them from people so atleast they have been tested
I love the kind of content you produce. Most YT creators focus on too high end and also buying things new. I do wish you'd default to £ and not $ though - I'm assuming you still live in the UK?! :D
I'm on the 2400 at the moment with a 650 ti
next up: i'm getting the i7 3770 with the 1070
(and no there is no bottleneck with 3770 setup)
Trainer Tobias the jump from 650 to 1070 will be a digital orgasm, belive me :D
I (even) switched from a 660 to 1070, too, and the diffence was (still) huge.
you will not be switching to that anytime soon trust me. first of all its so much money, and second of all you need to make sure you even have enough watts and the rights chipset for your cpu.
Luca Torricelli I've done my research and money won't be a problem in these next few months
My friend just upgraded from a 2nd gen i3 (2120 I think) on february. What a beast, that CPU. Paired with a 7770 and then a 960 (2gb), the system was able to run everything my friend would throw at it. Witcher 2/3, all Crysis titles, BF 3/4, Dark Souls, Far Cry... You name it.
my budget pc specs;
pro: i5 2500 70$ in my country Pakistan
mobo: Asus h61 M.E 50$
RAM: 8gb 1600mhz 27$
Case: corsair specs 01 (45$)
PSU: thermaltake 600 Watt (12$)
hardisk: 1tb Western digital used full of pirated games (35$)
GPU: zotac gtx 1050 ti (180$)
Total price was 420$
why tf are you using 600 watts when your system clearly requires 500? keep those money for either a cpu cooler or 8 more gb ram
Luca Torricelli i did know that but i bought it by only 12 dollars (1200RS)
how did you get the ?i5 I live in pakistan and I cant find one
anwar ul haq where do you live?
non-stop gaming I live in rahim yar khan its a small city
Excellent video. I'm still using a 3570k @ 4.4ghz with 16GB of DDR3-2133, paired with an overclocked GTX 1070. It chews through everything I throw at it. I'm not seeing much of a CPU bottleneck. Believe it or not, faster RAM makes a significant difference in many newish games, and Ivy Bridge CPUs really respond to it.
If you have Sandy or ivi, update to 3770k and play 4 years more.
Lets not get carried away 3570k to 3770k is not that huge of a jump.
but i5 2400 to i7 3770k is...
@@Tsunami_415 a i7 3770k can can 900 points in cinebench and the 2600k and 2700k can so no mater what its a great upgrade
I bought an i5 2500 and an i5 2400 recently. I love them. so cheap and so much performance. used i5 2400's are $38 in New Zealand.
I am goin to buy a i5 3470 and a rx 480 y dont think is gon a botelneck but wat do you think ?
TecnoCR no it will be fine
TecnoCR yeah good combination :)
In extremely cpu demanding games like battlefield 1 it might a little. On other games not at all
Gonna be gud if ur budgets tight.
Hey (from a german viewer) :D
Bought this CPU last year secondhand, still very powerful and still performs beautifully for gaming and audio production!
If r9 270x with this cpu?
Hassaan Ahmed Good combo.
no fucking shit you can use it? the r9 270x is from fucking 2013....
1080p 30fps PS4 levels of graphics on newer titles...
I have a i7 2700K with a 760 GTX with 8Bb of ram and it's fantastic! I can play anything smoothly @1080p, the system is about 5 years old and i purchased it second hand from a Facebook seller for $450 with keyboard, monitor and mouse, about 4 months ago. The GPU and CPU really have stood the test of time, and I am really impressed by them.
i have this cpu in a dell optiplex 790 along with 8gb ram and a gtx1050ti plus i upgraded the psu to a EVGA 500w and it plays anything i throw at it
Andrew Quinn nice
i thought about buying the i7 2600 to replace it but im not sure if the performance boost would be worth the money as the i5 seems solid
You'll only see a performance boost if the game utilizes more than 4 cores, or if you need it for productivity. Not that many games do that right now (BF1 is the only one that comes to mind)
Andrew your better off getting either a i7 3770 or 3770k
still rocking an Intel i5 2500k in 2018! But I also have an i5 8600k overclocked to 5ghz and hands down these 2 CPUs are the best ones Intel has ever created. 'best bang for your money'.
I have a GTX 1070 and a I7 6700k but I still watch this channel because I love this content
I've got an i5 2500s and GTX 1060OC, And play Arma3, The Witcher, GtaV, Ghost Recon wildlands. Ultra settings. With the CPU clocked at 3.3ghz. I hardly ever see bottlenecking, But I can see that a Rysen 5 1600x would help quite a bit. Great video.
#DELLOPTIPLEXGAMINGRIG?
the LGA1555 CPUs are amazing, I got an i7 3770k for $150 used. And I can say that I am not disappointed at all. Yes, the downside is DDR3 RAM and that is noticeable in CS:GO where RAM speed matters up to 2000MHz. But still, LGA 1555 are a must if you buy used
1 view and 10 likes and no one cares
Got a i7-3770 for super cheap on eBay ($100ish). Doesn't even bottleneck at 144hz with GTX 1080. Total system with GTX 1080 was $700...running games on Ultra on 144hz monitor!
1 view but 11 likes !! youtube logic
Welcome to RUclips bruh.
Jack Petiers I
Nice, I bought this CPU a couple of months ago, loved it!
I have an i5-2320 3Ghz since 2012 and I still use it. 2 years ago I buyed a Radeon R9 270x, 1 year ago a 120GB SSD. I still love my pc and I can Play still all the games at least in high. All with and SSD and a great GPU it's verte fast. 2nd gen are still great processors. Cheers!
i put my i5 2400 hp6000 and 8gb ddr3 and a gtx 750ti together for about £150 great little system great chip great vid as usual 😀👍
I'll be shifting my i5 3570K soon. It's been an unbelievable performer for everything I've thrown at it. But Ryzen is here and this guy is upgrading.
Saw an i5 2500k on fleabay for the other day for $17.66, they had three of them and were supposedly in working condition!!. Cheapest h61 boards were around 32-$48, unless you were to go the route of an optiplex 790/990. Decent budget platform for sure. Need to make one of these eventually.
I know this video is from 2 years ago but its still good! What happened to the merch store?
It was cool seeing my own processor (i5-3470) mentioned in the video. I have it matched up with an rx 480 and it works wonders
I'm still running a 3770K alongside a 1050 Ti (price at the time + my gaming needs don't extend past single monitor 1080p)
At stock clocks, the chip does show its age a tiny bit, but once you overclock to or past ~4.2 GHz it's more than competitive.
Still running an i5 3570k from 2012 and a GTX 770. Got not complains whatsoever even in newer titles. Intel and nvidia really need to step up their performance game in next generations.
Thanks for these videos.
Lots of used PC hardware that is still totally capable and somewhat comparable to the newest stuff, for a fraction of the price.
Taking this chance to drop a suggestion for you to investigate later, though not sure you've already covered that one:
Currently, there's a good combo for gaming that is very cheap - Intel i5 3550 (CPU under 40 euros on Ebay) and H77 motherboards (under 60 euros on Ebay). Look it up.
Paired with, say, 8GB of DDR3 1600 for the RAM, and a good mid-range GPU (GTX1050Ti, GTX1060 3GB, or equivalent), I think that'll make a really sweet deal for gamers on a tight budget.
My uncle is an IT guy for some dentist offices. They recently upgraded to new computers so they were getting rid of their older HP Compaq Elite 8200 Convertible Minitowers, and he hooked me up with one of them for free.
It has an i7 Sandy Bridge 2600 non-K, 8gb DDR3 1333mhz, a 1TB HDD, Windows 10 Professional, and runs whisper quiet. I threw in my GTX 1050ti and I couldn't be happier with the results. It runs every game out there at 1080p while running extremely quiet, not getting very hot, and not consuming that much power. And all I paid was the price of the 1050ti ($140)
I bought the Dell Optiplex 790 (i5-2400) and put a 1050 ti in it with 16 gigs of ram. Newer games run well at about 60 fps with low to medium settings while older games like Batman Arkham City run with max settings between 60 to 80 fps - all done at 1080p. Such a fantastic setup on this older hardware.
this is why i love this channel!
Hey there!
Personally I'm using i5-3570 and with Z77 I took it up to 4.2GHz (40x ratio like you did with i5-3470 + baseclock). It easily beats any Haswell i5s, which even paired with z97 can't be OCed.
Also if I ever am to recommend some1 used CPU I'm always opting for i5-2/3xxx :D
Thanks for another video!
Thanks man, I've been looking for tips!
I have been doing exactly this for some friends for the past year or so. So far I have built 3 systems with the i5 2400 and gtx 760 combo, one with the 3470 and a 1050ti, and am now working on one with a 2500 (non k) and, for now, an r9 270x. I am interested in the rx 560 for this one so will see how it pans out in the reviews. All are fitted with evga 430w or 500w psu's and all game just fine
I got an upgrade from my old FX 6350 two months ago, to an i5 3470 for 60 euros and a pretty B.A Biostar Hi-Fi H77S motherboard for 80 euros. Both great condition and have served me well so far. If I factor in the price the p/p ratio is great imo. I plan to upgrade to an i7 on the same motherboard when the i5 starts to show it's age and that should last me a good while. The deals you can get for the price on this platform are just incredible. And I didn't even get THAT great of a deal compared to what guys outside my country are getting.
I'd add if you're buying one of those full Dell systems to pay attention to the form factor. Some are tiny unupgradeable affairs, some are low profile which will limit your graphics card options severely etc.
I bought an HP system with the same processor, and threw a gtx 1050 ti in it. Its my main gaming computer. Highly recommend this processor, its great!
I spent over $1000 for a Haswell refresh mini itx build when it was just released. A year later I discovered used business Dell towers with an i7 Ivy build for 1/3 of the price, and never before I regretted my purchase, onboard WiFi I never used (mostly on Gigabit wired) Z97 board I don't OC, don't even have a K processor, and a GTX970 that I bought a few months before Pascal came out (an upgrade from R7 270X). Now for my friends I always suggest them to look at business surplus first before they decide to buy a new PC or just go Ryzen.
I have an i5 3570k paired with a r9 380x gaming at 1080 to this day haven't found a reason or need to upgrade. Even if you have chip like mine honestly the best path at the moment, if you were looking at getting a gtx 1070 or above and going to 1440 resolution, just get a i7 3770k and if you can oc it. That would perform almost as well as any current day cpus but would save you a bunch of money.