I got an i5 7600K in 2017 because I didn't trust AMD after Bulldozer and the Ryzen 1600 lost to the i5 in contemporary gaming benchmarks.Absolutely worst PC decision I ever made.
Indeed for around $200 you can get a cpu that overall in game testing at 1080p will get you 70% of the performance of the 9800x3d which is the current top cpu. To get similar results from AM5 (or i guess intel if for some reason you actually wanted an intel cpu) is going to be minimum $500.
@@QtheMisanthroperesults will be pretty on par with some low tier modern rigs of today. I play on a 1070, ryzen 5700x & 32 gb ddr4 and get above 80-90fps on most modern titles running native 1080p medium settings. Recently upgraded from an i7 6800k and the difference was +20-30fps alone.
Same, but I used my Dell Ultrasharp 1440p monitor from 2014, and installed the special edition i7-8086K instead of the 8700k, the last CPU I ever bought from the now defunct Fry’s Electronics in Palo Alto. I’ll never sell it.
I built my pc in 2017, EVGA 1080ti 16 gigs of ram, i8700k, MSI Z370 MB and it runs perfect. I have never had any issues with it. I run everything on it.
I had a i5 8600k + 1080ti for the past 7 years, never had a single problem with it and still runs most games smooth, retiring it when the new series of GPUs gets released, will be gone but never forgotten, spent around 13k hours on high intensity games and still stands.
had gtx 1080 since end of 2016 till end of 2022, my gtx 1080 was 680usd, in late 2022 picked up open box rx 6900xt for 650usd so got rtx 3080ti performance for cheaper price than my gtx 1080 lol
Yeah, I didn't regret pulling my money to buy R5 1600 back then. AM4 really lasts a long time. Heck, I even still using the same board that I bought in 2018. 😆
@@EdepsizProfiterol You will love the X3D CPU. A potential 50% increase in gaming performance with the swap of a chip on the same motherboard is what I call a win.
@@TechLabUKunfortunately they're not going to. "Experts" think they might even change next generation (as an am4 adopters I'm not happy with that at all)
I'm still running an i7 6700k and a 1070 from 2018 and it pushes out 60fps on medium settings at 2560x1080. Such a legendary combo that refuses to die.
for some games the combo is dead... unfortunately... I have also a 7700k and a 1070 and even play in 1440p and can play most games out there, including the newer ones, Hell divers, Star field, Bo6 and some of the other latest titles too... but we have to admit defeat with Indiana Jones and the great circle... it's obviously impossible to play pathtracing-only games with it. Although the GTX cards are theoretically capable of it... ray tracing for sure... In 2019 there was a demo of my favorite game where they advertised ray tracing on all systems, including GTX, but not to the extent that an RTX card could, I think. mostly for shadows and so on.
I just can't get it out of my head. A few months ago, Jay (TwoCents) actually said in one of his videos that you can still use Ryzen 9 5900X for "some light gaming." I was horrified.
A lot of people, especially larger RUclips channels are in a different world to others. Tech is often on tap due to sampling or exceptional finances so when they say "some light gaming" they mean things like 1080p with a custom setting. Jay was pretty nice about it if he said that about the 5900x because there's many who like to attack videos like this who believe you shouldn't even be gaming unless you can run a new X3D and a new 80/90 class card as nothing else is worth it. Hardware is much more capable than many, who have moved on believe which is one of the purposes of this channel to showcase that.
I don't even know what to say about stuff like that. Clearly even at 1440p, the 5900x paired with a 3070 or better will get you a very good experience. I don't run Ray Tracing or Ultra++++ settings and I'm sure I'm not alone. High settings and 100-120 frames makes any game fairly pleasant to play.
@@mkrleza you don't hear people say the Ryzen 5600 is good for just light gaming and the 5900x is no different but it has twice the cores. So if you want to do some video editing a 5900x could be worth getting over a 5600. Especially if you already have a Ryzen system.
The 1080Ti will probably go down as the best purchase I've ever made in my entire life. I got a 4060 earlier this year and then ended up returning it to stick with the 1080TI due to the fact eight gigs of VRAM was more of a limitation than the age. If it wasn't for piss poor modern optimization Older hardware would still be rocking
Back in 2017... I had a I7-8700 on a GT 1030 (4gb). It was a Christmas gift, my old gaming computer died (psu fried everything), family was refusing to buy me a gaming computer. So got the best cpu I could get to make the family think it would be a work station, then bought my own gpu the next year a 980. The 1030 is now in my mom's computer, 980 sold. Won a Titan V, which is currently in my system... the 8700 and Titan are pretty good in non-cpu heavy games. So in Space Marine 2 the 8700 is the weakest link, won't go over 60fps in any graphics setting. But in other games the Titan Vs unique and old architecture and poor cooling causes it to hit its thermal limits and crash. So games like Plague Tale Requiem crash after 5 minutes. Yet in games like Spider-Man they run like champions... it's basically like rolling the dice. Hence me upgrading this year and next year. So in a case of history repeating itself... CPU is already here but i get it this Christmas (a Ryzen 7 9800x3d). Then will buy my own GPU next year, but decision not made yet until I get official info. Been saving for months... hoping the 5090 won't be too insanely overpriced but expecting to get the 5080 instead. 😅 Edit: just an update, have the 9800x3d now, gone from 45fps to 62 fps in Space Marine 2 with the I7-8700 to 80fps to 105fps with the 9800x3d (still with the titan v, which ill upgrade after seeing whats coming at CES2025)... plus a ton less bad rendering because I'm no longer forced to be in ultrapreformance mode with fsr running 3 levels lower. Everything is smooth as hell. Never before had such an uplift from a CPU upgrade.
Whole story, woah. In 2017 had i7 6700k + gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition since mid/late 2016, then in 2019/2020 picked up on stable AM4 platform with x570 motherboard and at first it was 3900x cpu with carried over gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition, then in late 2020 picked up 5950x cpu with carried over gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition, and in late 2022 picked up open box deal rx 6900xt arous master and with my 5950x an ultimate combo was born which is what I currently have on asus chrosshair 8 hero motherboard, samsung 990 pro 4tb nvme ssd, 2 x 16gb 3600 cl16 ram and liquid freezer 3 420mm with corsair 7000D airflow case ps. open box rx 6900xt aorus master at 650usd cost me less than new gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition I bought in late 2016 while giving 3080ti/3090 level of performance, lol
in late 2017 i went for an 8700k and a Maximus Hero X mobo. I was able to run a stable Overclock @ 5.0 Ghz for around 5 years, i went for a 1070, later upgraded to a 3070Ti. Its still my daily PC until 9800X3D's come back in stock.
I got my pc in 2017 with a GTX 1080 asus ROG strix OC edition paired with an I7-7820X on an msi X299 pro with 32 gb ram and it was the best day of my life coming from sony and xbox. The 7820x never bottlenecked the gtx 1080 and still to this day pushes my 4070 at 4k 60 fps, the GTX 1080 and the 7820x were so powerful in 2017 i was running 4k gaming before consoles ever dared even with upscalers lol. Great times my GTX 1080 sits on my desk as reminder of how good life is.
Looks like my actual seven years old PC. All ROG Strix components, Intel I7 7700k, GTX1080, 32 RAM, 500mb SSD, 1 TB hd, Corsair liquid cooling. Later added 1tb SSD for MSFS. It is going to be pensioned because of MSFS2024 but until now was not that bad in 1920/1024 with my 27" Samsung monitor ( died one months ago after 15 years!). The new monitor is an MSI 27" 2k, fast IPS etc etc paid only 150 euro! The old one was paid 800 chf = 900 USD/Euro...
Yep! My son has an FX-8350 (that's an AM3 Bulldozer CPU from 2012) and a GTX 1050 Ti (another amazing GPU along with the 750 Ti for its time). He plays Madden and FC Club and NBA 2K current year games at 1080/60+ High Settings in 2024 and those are the demanding games. Fortnite, ROBLOX, Rocket League, etc get flexed on his PC at 100's of FPS.
The scariest thing to ever happened in February 2017 was AM4 x370 Motherboard. Because if you purchased x370, you can still use it and upgrade it to Ryzen 5800x3D just by updating the BIOS. That's an insane support for a socket from 2017 all the way to 2022. Something that Intel never able to do in its entire history.
2080ti with i7 8700K doesn't seem a good match for me tho,i was using r5 3500x+2060 super(r5 3500x=i5 9400f) and the cpu was lacking,like an i5 9th gen with 2060 super was still a bit okay,but an i7 8th gen with a 2080ti???
@tbfrl834 yeah, not sure why you think it wouldn't work? I literally have a second computer with that exact set up and it runs 1440p ultra settings on almost all games pre 2023 at 100+ fps. My current set up. Is a 4070ti super with an i9-12900k and it's completely fine running 4k at 60+ fps. Intel used to be a pretty damn good chip until they got to 13 and 14 gen.
@@deman7276 i7 8th gen doesn't seem powerful enough for a 2080ti,idk thats why i thought like that. idc about ur 4070ti and i9 12900k dude,they are a good match. Intel was always a step behind AMD in terms of gaming(intel always slaps in multi core performance) btw im telling this as someone who used many intel cpu's and im typing this comment from an i5 13500H+RTX4050(i will still use intel in laptops idc about 13-14th gen,H series aren't affected anyways)
@ umm ok, no reason to be rude buddy. I like that you proceed to tell me you don’t care about something I mentioned then go on to tell me exactly the same thing as if I need to care now but whatever. My gpu was never really bottlenecked, I also overclock the cpu so maybe thats why it keeps up. My gpu doesn’t hold an overclock over 125 hertz really so not much headroom to get out of it anyways. The 8700k was always a very good cpu, it didn’t really struggle, at least for me until the badly optimized games became a normal thing. Games today would need to be downgraded a bit and def no ray tracing but the combo is a solid powerhouse.
@@deman7276 the reason i mentioned my 13500H was to confirm im not an AMD dickrider(cuz i said Intel is a step behind in gaming) and also a confirmation from the user. But ur 4070ti+12900K is totally irrelevant to the topic as i said,because my thing was about 8700K+2080ti,which seemed a little weird to me(seemed,i say,thats why i asked) while ur new pc seems totally fine(as i mentioned again)
Always love watching "old but not obsolete" PC videos. Upgraded to a 5700x on aug 2023 from a Xeon 2690v1, then a friend I built PC's for sold his 7800xt to me for 100usd(or maybe lower than that in php) and gave me an asus rog 1000w psu. I would've still gamed using my trusty RX470 I bought in dec 2016 if not for that. Thank you FSR!
What a great PC. The King of modern cards and the CPU generation that brought 8 cores to the masses. Now this is absolutely nit-picking from me but I'd have expected to see 2 sticks of RAM in that system because Zen1 was known to be rough to get XMP working. But that's irrelevant really - you've really captured a great 2017 build.
This was a great look at the start of ryzen. I had a 1700x back in 2018 with a rx 480 and loved it. Would be interesting to see the difference with a better CPU if you have one in your spare parts. If you have a 5800x3d or 5700x3d would be fun to see the difference between 1700 being first gen ryzen compared to the best of AM4 CPUs.
My journey with AMD started with a 2200G , which i bought in 2020, overclock the heck out of it for 2 years then upgraded to 3600, which i m still using. And for the final upgrade I'll switch to 5800x3d or 5700x3d(used obviously)
If you got the 1700 you put an aftermarket cooler on it and overclocked it. They where excellent overclockers. Mine did 4.1ghz all core. I'm actually using the same system with a CPU upgrade (5800x) and GPU upgrade (from R9 390 to RX 7800 XT). Legendary platform.
Just replaced my old set up with a Hero from Alexander PC. Old set up I made in 2019 with 16gb of ram ddr3 ram, a 1060 6gb vram, a low end i5, and mid grade power supply. It served me well for a long time but I finally had the money to make a substantial upgrade.
Upgraded from a 1080ti last year. Not because I needed to, but because I could. Great card. Upgrade this system with 5800X3D and it's good to go for a few more years.
i just built a pc from parts for my son using the ryzen 1700x and the radeon rx570 and it runs all modern games including the latest COD. There is nothing wrong with first gen ryzen. It can be bought for peanuts as can the video card and motherboard. and it runs great using Ghost Spectre windows 11 24h2 on an old asus prime x370 motherboard.
I gave my girl friends son my first AM4 machine for Christmas last year. R7 2700 and RX580. He plays Roblox and he could not be happier. Asked him if he wanted me to upgrade his machine for Christmas this year and he declined. Your son should be very happy too!
My x370 crosshair has seen it all. 1700, 3600x, now currently 5700x. Not feeling the need to update for a few more "cycles". Swapped out the 1080ti for a 6800xt last year.
built my pc in like late 2017 still running it 1070 i5 8400 16gb ram and shes done me well to this day but i just bought all my parts for my new build going to a 7600x3d a 3080 and 32gb of ram
That's what i like about am4 just change the cpu to 5700x3d and rtx 3070 or rx 7700xt or even the new intel card that its coming out this week and you can still game on it for another few years
Dude, I just pulled out my 1080Ti out of the closet a few weeks ago and am running it with an older system. I am playing Cyberpunk and it is still performing great! I am surprised
My 2016 I5 6500/16gb/GTX 1070 (£1250) has served me well down the years, as I don't always play the most graphically challenging games. I managed to play, of a fashion, Starfield with a tweak and I can play Stalker 2, just about on low settings. I'm not even bothering with Indiana Jones, I may as well wait til I buy a new rig around March next year, based on Ryzen 7 9800X3d 32gb, probably 5070 ti or even 5080.
If it runs all your games, then I would hang on to it too! I think you will be very happy with AM5. Should give you more options moving into the future.
Still running my pc from 2017. I7 8700k, had a gtx 970. Still same cpu to date, with the meshify c. Few years back upgraded gpu to 2070 super. All still runs well
I'm still running my 1080 today, probably going to have to upgrade soon, but the fact I've gotten 7 years of decent functionality from a GPU is testament to the card
Running a GTX-1080ti with an Intel Core i9-9900KF, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, 850 watt EVGA 80+ Platinum PSU, 1TB M.2 NVMe, 6TB storage drive, Corsair H60 120MM AIO, 5 120MM RGB fans, Cougar Mesh ATX case. No overclocking. Can run any game in 1080p max, 1440p, medium and even some at 4K with low settings. Total cost of the system was under $600 US.
TBH if you buy gaming pc now, it will be super viable in next 7 years. You cant say that about previous generations. Now its much more incremental rather then jumps.
I built my PC in 2013 and have a i7 4770k; I was given a GTX 1080 in 2018 by my then boss. I have been meaning to build a new PC for years at this point, but it still runs the games I play fine.
You should do a retest with an uptaded CPU like 5800x3d or 5700x3d. Keeping everything else the same. Since you test at 1080p, the difference would be massive.
2017 was a legendary year for hardware. The Am4 chips could really utilize the new ddr4 with high clock frequency. Had the 1700x back then wich served my until last month
@@tonkatoytruck I built a completely new system. Unfortunately the 9800x3d was sold out everywhere so i went intel. Already regretting it tho :D The 13900KF gets really hot. Here are the specs: Corsair iCUE 5000T RGB1 x Intel Core i9-13900KF, NZXT Kraken Z73, 360mm, white1 x ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero WiFi DDR5, S. 17001 x Asus GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix 24GB1 x 64GB Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR5-6000, black2 x Kingston FURY RENEGADE SSD 4TB1 x 1500 Watt be quiet! Dark Power Pro
Still run a regular 1080 with a Ryzen 3600 (eventually 5700X3D). 1440/60, don’t really play many newer AAA titles has treated me plenty well to this day
I built my system with an overclocked i5-6600k and an R9 380X back who knows when. I swapped in a RTX2060 around 2020. It lasted me until Test Drive SC came out and just wasn't to my standards anymore particularly on that one, and with the CS:GO->CS2 update I could not longer get 144fps+ which for that I consider essential. Ran a gaming laptop for a year lol, that was a weird experience I did because I was traveling a lot but not terrible. Ryzen 7/RTX3060. Which led me to my current PC with a Ryzen 7 9700X and RX7900XT
The best part of this pc is that even though the relative performance of intel made AMD look like a silly choice, adopting AM4 has proven to be financially the best pc choice you could have made. Throw a 5700x3D in this and u have a brand new pc capable of 60fps modern gaming.
The beautiful part of AM4 is it lasted several years and so you can upgrade it to the latest AM4 5th gen processors, bios update is all u need then get a modern GPU. This will keep the PC performing great for like 5 or more years unlike Intel which changes sockets every 2 gen or so.
On a similar thought pattern of 'old' pcs, going over the Oldest cpus that can legitimately be upgraded to windows 11, their likely configuration patterns at the time of release to show how it runs today. Necessary updates people should do to to keep the pc useful such as bios updates, what to change from Defaults if needed for windows 11, notes about what should be upgraded if below xxx level for typical use cases with a mind on budget (if someone had funds they would go for new)
I built my PC in March 2017 with i7 7700K, 16 GB DDR 4 3000 (2x8), GTX 1070. On 19.10.2024 I upgraded to Ryzen 9 7950 and 32 GB DDR 5 6400 (2x16). GTX is still in my new PC, I am waiting for RTX 5000 series.
Ouch! That first gen Ryzen is really holding the 1080 Ti back. But not to worry, a bios update and a drop in replacement of a 5800X3D will solve that issue :)
I'm new to PC Gaming and still trying to figure out how things work, but I had a question about something. At 7:23 you mention that your CPU is essentially the bottleneck in your system and the GPU if anything is going to be held back by the CPU. But when i was looking at the numbers you had on the top Left of the screen, it showed your system was using like 93% of your GPU and only 45% of your CPUs capabilities. Or at least i think that's what those numbers were saying, i'm new sorry. I was just thinking, if the CPU was what was holding the system back, wouldn't it show the CPU at 100% and the GPU would be lower? Thanks, sorry if this is a dumb question.
Games behave differently, some are CPU intensive and some are GPU intensive. Overall this CPU held the GPU back across the board because a GPU should be hitting 99-100% utilisation all the time.
@@tmjzh look at the CPU speed, it is only running at 3.2ghz. Ryzen 3-5th gens would run over 4ghz while gaming. This CPU is significantly slower, therefore holding back the PC from more fps.
Still a totally decent exp, as others have said a 5000 series ryzen and youre set for a few more years prob. I've a 5 1600 and a 1080ti and I'm looking into a 5 5600x up to 5700x3d as an upgrade. The 1080ti's vram definitely still makes it pull through in the modern day.
I bought a high end prebuilt in 2018 before I knew anything about building computers and it’s kept up very well. I still want to upgrade soon once the rtx 50 or 60 series comes out for the price drop on the 40 series. It’s amazing, my asus strix rtx 2080oc went for $1000 new and now just 6 years later you can pick it up for 200 like-new aftermarket. $2300 for the 4090 from what I understand, so I don’t feel too bad about it lol. If games keep up on the demand increase then it will be worth the same amount as mine eventually. We also have the intel arc gpus becoming very well made, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they take over the scene within the next 5 or so years with high end gpus for a budget price. That would easily slide them into the #1 position over nvidia, but you never know.
I have a config from 2019 still, I’m using i5 10400f with a rx 5600 xt and it’s doing it’s job perfectly, currently I’m playing forza horizon 5 in 1440p and preset high/ultra doing 90 fps! Only gonna upgrade because of the 6gb of vram
btw, fsr3 FG doesnt actually work, the increased fps was purely due to FSR upscaling , as FSR FG only works on RTX cards and above (source: AMD website, and other games which have FSR FG but i cant enable it because i dont have an RTX card)
Which games? I have heard this before but haven't found one yet that wont allow me to enable it on most cards. AMD is well known for saying things are only "Supported" by specific generations and it is to cover their backs but FrameGen will work on an old RX 580 if enabled, you just can't predict how well it will work.
@TechLabUK It doesn't work on my gtx 1050 at all, says my gpu isn't capable of it, War Thunder), though it's a rather low end card.. (But WT can still run on high settings on 1080p with like 50-60fps)
@@petrkdn8224 I have never played it tbh, I wonder if it is restricted by the game as everything I test seems to allow you to turn it on for anything really. Thinking about it I tested a GTX 1050Ti not so long ago and it let me enable it in RoboCop Rogue City: ruclips.net/video/hLF1WffIXQ8/видео.html still ran bad though lol
Still running a 1070ti ryzen system, originally an R5 1600 overclocked to 4ghz from new but now has a 5700x3d. Everything else retained from the original system and it runs champion. The r5 was becoming unstable for some reason and seemed to be dying. Built from new in a meshify c case too!
Trying Stalker 2 without any upscaling was... Brave. I love the game and have loads of hours in it, but the first thing I did was set TSR to 90% @ 1440p epic and turn on Framegen. Runs between 80fps and 130fps+ depending on location and haven't thought about it since. I'm on a modern PC but by no means high powered, 12400F, 32gb ddr4 and 7700XT in an SFF lunchbox case. The game was pretty much made to be run on framegen and upscaling, sure of it. Had you made it to a hub area with a lot of NPCs i'm pretty certain the old ryzen cpu would have caught fire, as it struggles badly on console and they have a 2600x/3700x equivelant setup. 1080TI is an animal, even today. My old 1070TI is still going strong in my girlfriends PC as she tends to play less demanding games, thought it still 1440ps the muffins out of Borderlands 3.
still running my i7 4770, have upgraded to an RTX 2060 however. maybe this summer ill finally get the funds for a new rig. CP2077 surprisingly runs decently at 3440x1440
Everyone is always looking new and shiny. My son has a 9900k with a 3070 and I have a 10850k with 3090. My goal is to have these for another 2 to 3 years. I like pc building, but as you get older in life you realize that if something still meets your needs, why upgrade?
You should be able to easily do an all core OC to 3.8ghz + on that cpu with no issues. It would perform significantly better. I still have my C6H mobo just upgraded cpu to 5900x and gpu from Vega 64 to 6900xt. This machine is flying ! 😊
I rocked this exact set up from 2018-2022 then I bought a 5800 for the best CPU I can put in my mobo and still rocking that 1080ti, other then that the only thing to change has been my PSU.
No, it was the typical click bait we see from techtubers farming clicks. It's true the game uses mesh shaders and that the GTX 1080Ti doesn't have this technology but like most games it will always fall back onto another API of some description. It does affect the performance using others but it doesn't mean it won't play. We see the same right now for Indiana Jones and people dropping videos about how it won't run on a 6GB card like the RTX 2060 but it's simply not true, it will run, just wont perform as well.
Built my pc in April 2017 G4560, 1060 3GB 8GB DDR4 ram i use it still today as I left playing csgo in 2021 and don't play cs 2 and play only older games like 2017-18 and older
He hit the nail in the head, comparing benchmarks you can clearly see the RTX holds on strong even compared to today's graphics cards and is comparable to some decent cards, but the CPU really is fairly weak compared to today's standards so its holding the graphics card back a bit.
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Adopting the AM4 platform in 2018 was the best gaming PC decision I ever made.
A great investment, this system alone will take a Ryzen 7 5800X3D and you would get even more out of it.
I got an i5 7600K in 2017 because I didn't trust AMD after Bulldozer and the Ryzen 1600 lost to the i5 in contemporary gaming benchmarks.Absolutely worst PC decision I ever made.
Still is
Was almost totally useless for gaming ,, but whatever
@@tilapiadave3234 and what is your proof of that?
One step modernization: install 5700x3d
Honestly i would love to see the results with a 1080ti and a 5700x3d
Indeed for around $200 you can get a cpu that overall in game testing at 1080p will get you 70% of the performance of the 9800x3d which is the current top cpu. To get similar results from AM5 (or i guess intel if for some reason you actually wanted an intel cpu) is going to be minimum $500.
@@chrisrawr6177alie express for 130
@@chrisrawr6177and you also need a new motherboard and ram
@@QtheMisanthroperesults will be pretty on par with some low tier modern rigs of today.
I play on a 1070, ryzen 5700x & 32 gb ddr4 and get above 80-90fps on most modern titles running native 1080p medium settings. Recently upgraded from an i7 6800k and the difference was +20-30fps alone.
This was the year I assembled my 8700k, 1080Ti with 32gb ram and my first 1440p monitor.
Same. I just barely upgraded to 7600x3d but keeping the 1080ti until the 5000 series comes out
@@n0nth3t0k3m0nyeah the 1080ti is still a good card, will do for now anyway
I just "upgraded" with a 7500f and a used 2080ti. Gonna use the 8700k/1080ti in my ncase m1 as a travel rig
im still running 8700k but with 3070 ti
Same, but I used my Dell Ultrasharp 1440p monitor from 2014, and installed the special edition i7-8086K instead of the 8700k, the last CPU I ever bought from the now defunct Fry’s Electronics in Palo Alto. I’ll never sell it.
I built my pc in 2017, EVGA 1080ti 16 gigs of ram, i8700k, MSI Z370 MB and it runs perfect. I have never had any issues with it. I run everything on it.
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Can it run cryisis?
Vanilla Alan Wake II says hi
On low settings of course
always had over 100fps on high on pretty much everything on 9700k and gtx1070 then in 2023 i updated to 5800x3d and 3070
I had a i5 8600k + 1080ti for the past 7 years, never had a single problem with it and still runs most games smooth, retiring it when the new series of GPUs gets released, will be gone but never forgotten, spent around 13k hours on high intensity games and still stands.
had gtx 1080 since end of 2016 till end of 2022, my gtx 1080 was 680usd, in late 2022 picked up open box rx 6900xt for 650usd so got rtx 3080ti performance for cheaper price than my gtx 1080 lol
this is nostalgic to me because 2017/2018 was when i first got into pc building and was learning everything
Yeah, I didn't regret pulling my money to buy R5 1600 back then. AM4 really lasts a long time. Heck, I even still using the same board that I bought in 2018. 😆
Let's hope they make AM5 last just as long.
Same here. Using ryzen 2600 and 1070 since 2018. Gonna upgrade to 5800x3d and 5070 ti. I probably wont change mb until ddr6 and am6.
@@EdepsizProfiterol You will love the X3D CPU. A potential 50% increase in gaming performance with the swap of a chip on the same motherboard is what I call a win.
@@TechLabUKunfortunately they're not going to. "Experts" think they might even change next generation (as an am4 adopters I'm not happy with that at all)
@@sstier48 Will be a bad move from them if they do, AM4’s length of service has been one of its biggest celebrations.
I'm still running an i7 6700k and a 1070 from 2018 and it pushes out 60fps on medium settings at 2560x1080. Such a legendary combo that refuses to die.
for some games the combo is dead... unfortunately... I have also a 7700k and a 1070 and even play in 1440p and can play most games out there, including the newer ones, Hell divers, Star field, Bo6 and some of the other latest titles too... but we have to admit defeat with Indiana Jones and the great circle... it's obviously impossible to play pathtracing-only games with it. Although the GTX cards are theoretically capable of it... ray tracing for sure... In 2019 there was a demo of my favorite game where they advertised ray tracing on all systems, including GTX, but not to the extent that an RTX card could, I think. mostly for shadows and so on.
I just can't get it out of my head. A few months ago, Jay (TwoCents) actually said in one of his videos that you can still use Ryzen 9 5900X for "some light gaming." I was horrified.
A lot of people, especially larger RUclips channels are in a different world to others. Tech is often on tap due to sampling or exceptional finances so when they say "some light gaming" they mean things like 1080p with a custom setting. Jay was pretty nice about it if he said that about the 5900x because there's many who like to attack videos like this who believe you shouldn't even be gaming unless you can run a new X3D and a new 80/90 class card as nothing else is worth it.
Hardware is much more capable than many, who have moved on believe which is one of the purposes of this channel to showcase that.
@@TechLabUK There paid to say such nonsense.
I don't even know what to say about stuff like that. Clearly even at 1440p, the 5900x paired with a 3070 or better will get you a very good experience. I don't run Ray Tracing or Ultra++++ settings and I'm sure I'm not alone. High settings and 100-120 frames makes any game fairly pleasant to play.
@@ChucklesMcChuckleson I know. I own 5900X paired with an RX 6800 XT. No issues what so ever.
@@mkrleza you don't hear people say the Ryzen 5600 is good for just light gaming and the 5900x is no different but it has twice the cores. So if you want to do some video editing a 5900x could be worth getting over a 5600. Especially if you already have a Ryzen system.
The 1080Ti will probably go down as the best purchase I've ever made in my entire life. I got a 4060 earlier this year and then ended up returning it to stick with the 1080TI due to the fact eight gigs of VRAM was more of a limitation than the age. If it wasn't for piss poor modern optimization Older hardware would still be rocking
Back in 2017... I had a I7-8700 on a GT 1030 (4gb). It was a Christmas gift, my old gaming computer died (psu fried everything), family was refusing to buy me a gaming computer. So got the best cpu I could get to make the family think it would be a work station, then bought my own gpu the next year a 980.
The 1030 is now in my mom's computer, 980 sold. Won a Titan V, which is currently in my system... the 8700 and Titan are pretty good in non-cpu heavy games. So in Space Marine 2 the 8700 is the weakest link, won't go over 60fps in any graphics setting. But in other games the Titan Vs unique and old architecture and poor cooling causes it to hit its thermal limits and crash. So games like Plague Tale Requiem crash after 5 minutes.
Yet in games like Spider-Man they run like champions... it's basically like rolling the dice. Hence me upgrading this year and next year.
So in a case of history repeating itself... CPU is already here but i get it this Christmas (a Ryzen 7 9800x3d). Then will buy my own GPU next year, but decision not made yet until I get official info. Been saving for months... hoping the 5090 won't be too insanely overpriced but expecting to get the 5080 instead. 😅
Edit: just an update, have the 9800x3d now, gone from 45fps to 62 fps in Space Marine 2 with the I7-8700 to 80fps to 105fps with the 9800x3d (still with the titan v, which ill upgrade after seeing whats coming at CES2025)... plus a ton less bad rendering because I'm no longer forced to be in ultrapreformance mode with fsr running 3 levels lower. Everything is smooth as hell. Never before had such an uplift from a CPU upgrade.
Whole story, woah.
In 2017 had i7 6700k + gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition since mid/late 2016, then in 2019/2020 picked up on stable AM4 platform with x570 motherboard and at first it was 3900x cpu with carried over gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition, then in late 2020 picked up 5950x cpu with carried over gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition, and in late 2022 picked up open box deal rx 6900xt arous master and with my 5950x an ultimate combo was born which is what I currently have on asus chrosshair 8 hero motherboard, samsung 990 pro 4tb nvme ssd, 2 x 16gb 3600 cl16 ram and liquid freezer 3 420mm with corsair 7000D airflow case
ps. open box rx 6900xt aorus master at 650usd cost me less than new gtx 1080 gaming extreme edition I bought in late 2016 while giving 3080ti/3090 level of performance, lol
i7 7700k, 1080 ti, 32gb ddr4 over here going strong still. Handles gaming and photo editing like a champ.
That's checks out 😂
Sat here in my car watching this video.. sounds great in the car.
Same sitting here at 6 am waiting to go into work.
in late 2017 i went for an 8700k and a Maximus Hero X mobo. I was able to run a stable Overclock @ 5.0 Ghz for around 5 years, i went for a 1070, later upgraded to a 3070Ti. Its still my daily PC until 9800X3D's come back in stock.
I got my pc in 2017 with a GTX 1080 asus ROG strix OC edition paired with an I7-7820X on an msi X299 pro with 32 gb ram and it was the best day of my life coming from sony and xbox. The 7820x never bottlenecked the gtx 1080 and still to this day pushes my 4070 at 4k 60 fps, the GTX 1080 and the 7820x were so powerful in 2017 i was running 4k gaming before consoles ever dared even with upscalers lol. Great times my GTX 1080 sits on my desk as reminder of how good life is.
wrong, in 2017 there were xbox one x and ps4 pro, both running games in 4k
Looks like my actual seven years old PC. All ROG Strix components, Intel I7 7700k, GTX1080, 32 RAM, 500mb SSD, 1 TB hd, Corsair liquid cooling. Later added 1tb SSD for MSFS. It is going to be pensioned because of MSFS2024 but until now was not that bad in 1920/1024 with my 27" Samsung monitor ( died one months ago after 15 years!). The new monitor is an MSI 27" 2k, fast IPS etc etc paid only 150 euro! The old one was paid 800 chf = 900 USD/Euro...
Ryzen 7 1700x Was my first cpu
Noice! I have had this one for a while now, used to be our editing rig and it did really well.
Your first CPU ever?
@ yes
What great forsight. I waited a year before going with AM4.
its on its last legs as a modern gaming pc bu still useable for the next 2-3 years which is pretty spectacular in pc gaming
Great system still very capable, playing stalker 2 currently, enjoying it even with the stutters & all the bugs etc
Has lasted a while these things.
Yep! My son has an FX-8350 (that's an AM3 Bulldozer CPU from 2012) and a GTX 1050 Ti (another amazing GPU along with the 750 Ti for its time).
He plays Madden and FC Club and NBA 2K current year games at 1080/60+ High Settings in 2024 and those are the demanding games.
Fortnite, ROBLOX, Rocket League, etc get flexed on his PC at 100's of FPS.
this is a straight up lie. unless you are running fortnite and rocket league at the absolute lowest settings you aren't seeing over 199 fps on either
id imagine that fortnite doesn't look very good with his configuration. if it works, it works but an upgrade would be incredible
@phalxor rocket league is like cs everyone plays at the lowest settings for more fps and competitive advantage
The scariest thing to ever happened in February 2017 was AM4 x370 Motherboard.
Because if you purchased x370, you can still use it and upgrade it to Ryzen 5800x3D just by updating the BIOS. That's an insane support for a socket from 2017 all the way to 2022.
Something that Intel never able to do in its entire history.
@@niezzayt3809 Some B350 boards also support the 5800X3D too. Awesome platform.
Best decision AMD ever made.
I didn’t realize how long ago this was until I realized Resident Evil 7 released that same year!
Loved the AM4 platform, used my build with a 1700x since 2017 with my gtx 1080. Popped in a 3700x last year and it still works well today
You made a great investment decision. And you still have more options for the future. Merry Christmas!
Bro an i7-8700k and a 2080ti with 32gb of ddr4 ram can still crush a lot of games lol.
2080ti with i7 8700K doesn't seem a good match for me tho,i was using r5 3500x+2060 super(r5 3500x=i5 9400f) and the cpu was lacking,like an i5 9th gen with 2060 super was still a bit okay,but an i7 8th gen with a 2080ti???
@tbfrl834 yeah, not sure why you think it wouldn't work? I literally have a second computer with that exact set up and it runs 1440p ultra settings on almost all games pre 2023 at 100+ fps. My current set up. Is a 4070ti super with an i9-12900k and it's completely fine running 4k at 60+ fps. Intel used to be a pretty damn good chip until they got to 13 and 14 gen.
@@deman7276 i7 8th gen doesn't seem powerful enough for a 2080ti,idk thats why i thought like that. idc about ur 4070ti and i9 12900k dude,they are a good match. Intel was always a step behind AMD in terms of gaming(intel always slaps in multi core performance) btw im telling this as someone who used many intel cpu's and im typing this comment from an i5 13500H+RTX4050(i will still use intel in laptops idc about 13-14th gen,H series aren't affected anyways)
@ umm ok, no reason to be rude buddy. I like that you proceed to tell me you don’t care about something I mentioned then go on to tell me exactly the same thing as if I need to care now but whatever. My gpu was never really bottlenecked, I also overclock the cpu so maybe thats why it keeps up. My gpu doesn’t hold an overclock over 125 hertz really so not much headroom to get out of it anyways. The 8700k was always a very good cpu, it didn’t really struggle, at least for me until the badly optimized games became a normal thing. Games today would need to be downgraded a bit and def no ray tracing but the combo is a solid powerhouse.
@@deman7276 the reason i mentioned my 13500H was to confirm im not an AMD dickrider(cuz i said Intel is a step behind in gaming) and also a confirmation from the user. But ur 4070ti+12900K is totally irrelevant to the topic as i said,because my thing was about 8700K+2080ti,which seemed a little weird to me(seemed,i say,thats why i asked) while ur new pc seems totally fine(as i mentioned again)
Always love watching "old but not obsolete" PC videos.
Upgraded to a 5700x on aug 2023 from a Xeon 2690v1, then a friend I built PC's for sold his 7800xt to me for 100usd(or maybe lower than that in php) and gave me an asus rog 1000w psu. I would've still gamed using my trusty RX470 I bought in dec 2016 if not for that. Thank you FSR!
That system performed great 😊 thanks for the video!
It performed a lot better than many would give it credit for.
What a great PC. The King of modern cards and the CPU generation that brought 8 cores to the masses.
Now this is absolutely nit-picking from me but I'd have expected to see 2 sticks of RAM in that system because Zen1 was known to be rough to get XMP working. But that's irrelevant really - you've really captured a great 2017 build.
I just maxed out the RAM slots with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB as that was also released in 2017 lol.
@TechLabUK tbh all 4 slots filled just looks nicer too
@@aaldrich1982 Maximum RGB lol
Back when Nvidia respected gamers with hardware that was designed to cater to their customers.
This was a great look at the start of ryzen. I had a 1700x back in 2018 with a rx 480 and loved it. Would be interesting to see the difference with a better CPU if you have one in your spare parts. If you have a 5800x3d or 5700x3d would be fun to see the difference between 1700 being first gen ryzen compared to the best of AM4 CPUs.
Only just handed down my 8700K + GTX 1080 combo from this era. Never skipped a beat. Absolute gem of a year for gaming builds.
I am running my design bussines on a 3800x and 12 GB 3060 since 2020. Couldn’t be happier.
super close to my 2017 build... i had a gtx 1080ti, ryzen 5 1600x, 16gb ddr4 and 550 PSU. that rig was a beast
Lookin' good, squeezing every last frame out...nice.
Performed pretty well tbh, I can see why people are still holding on to their 1080Ti's and with a better CPU you will get even more out of it.
The Meshify Design C is a legend
My journey with AMD started with a 2200G , which i bought in 2020, overclock the heck out of it for 2 years then upgraded to 3600, which i m still using. And for the final upgrade I'll switch to 5800x3d or 5700x3d(used obviously)
I still have a fractal meshify c as my build right now. all but the motherboard has been upgraded but it has served me well over these years!
If you got the 1700 you put an aftermarket cooler on it and overclocked it. They where excellent overclockers. Mine did 4.1ghz all core. I'm actually using the same system with a CPU upgrade (5800x) and GPU upgrade (from R9 390 to RX 7800 XT). Legendary platform.
Will have to give that a go on this one some time. Sounds like a good one to play with.
I’m sure 2017 will hold up like fine wine
1080Ti was a dream card for me never had one! The mini version from Zotac could do a job in my ITX system!
Still is a dream card for some I am sure.
The introduction of Ryzen processors by AMD is what truly made 2017 stand out ❤.
Still using my i5-8600k and 1080ti FE in this exact case. Built it in 2018.
That's awesome!
Just replaced my old set up with a Hero from Alexander PC.
Old set up I made in 2019 with 16gb of ram ddr3 ram, a 1060 6gb vram, a low end i5, and mid grade power supply. It served me well for a long time but I finally had the money to make a substantial upgrade.
I'm still using the am4 platform. Upgraded to a ryzen 5700x3d and a rx 7600xt I'm doing fine. I can play at 1440p
@@wargolem2750 A great combination still. Running a 5800X3D in our benching rig still and haven’t found the need to upgrade yet.
I have (3) AM4 systems. I upgrade my daily driver and the other two machines get free upgrades. See no reason to jump to AM5 any time soon either.
Upgraded from a 1080ti last year. Not because I needed to, but because I could. Great card. Upgrade this system with 5800X3D and it's good to go for a few more years.
Still has a lot of life left in it.
i just built a pc from parts for my son using the ryzen 1700x and the radeon rx570 and it runs all modern games including the latest COD.
There is nothing wrong with first gen ryzen.
It can be bought for peanuts as can the video card and motherboard.
and it runs great using Ghost Spectre windows 11 24h2 on an old asus prime x370 motherboard.
Great little system, thousands of games will run on it.
I gave my girl friends son my first AM4 machine for Christmas last year. R7 2700 and RX580. He plays Roblox and he could not be happier. Asked him if he wanted me to upgrade his machine for Christmas this year and he declined. Your son should be very happy too!
upgrade the cpu to ryzen 5000 series and you can still game very decently
2017 was the last year i felt a change in the industry
My x370 crosshair has seen it all. 1700, 3600x, now currently 5700x. Not feeling the need to update for a few more "cycles". Swapped out the 1080ti for a 6800xt last year.
Always admire the early adopters. You made a great decision.
built my pc in like late 2017 still running it 1070 i5 8400 16gb ram and shes done me well to this day but i just bought all my parts for my new build going to a 7600x3d a 3080 and 32gb of ram
Pretty decent upgrade tbh, your will be impressed.
I can already see the grin on your face!
You should pick AMD instead
That's what i like about am4 just change the cpu to 5700x3d and rtx 3070 or rx 7700xt or even the new intel card that its coming out this week and you can still game on it for another few years
Dude, I just pulled out my 1080Ti out of the closet a few weeks ago and am running it with an older system. I am playing Cyberpunk and it is still performing great! I am surprised
My 2016 I5 6500/16gb/GTX 1070 (£1250) has served me well down the years, as I don't always play the most graphically challenging games. I managed to play, of a fashion, Starfield with a tweak and I can play Stalker 2, just about on low settings. I'm not even bothering with Indiana Jones, I may as well wait til I buy a new rig around March next year, based on Ryzen 7 9800X3d 32gb, probably 5070 ti or even 5080.
Lasted you a good amount of time. The next one with those specs will be an insane upgrade and will hopefully last the same.
If it runs all your games, then I would hang on to it too! I think you will be very happy with AM5. Should give you more options moving into the future.
Still running my pc from 2017. I7 8700k, had a gtx 970. Still same cpu to date, with the meshify c. Few years back upgraded gpu to 2070 super. All still runs well
I'm still running my 1080 today, probably going to have to upgrade soon, but the fact I've gotten 7 years of decent functionality from a GPU is testament to the card
Noice!
Still on a 7700k and 1070, only recently noticed it's age and can't wait for 50 series to upgrade.
Running a GTX-1080ti with an Intel Core i9-9900KF, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, 850 watt EVGA 80+ Platinum PSU, 1TB M.2 NVMe, 6TB storage drive, Corsair H60 120MM AIO, 5 120MM RGB fans, Cougar Mesh ATX case. No overclocking. Can run any game in 1080p max, 1440p, medium and even some at 4K with low settings. Total cost of the system was under $600 US.
Still have my Meshify C and B450 ROG mobo. Just upgraded to the 5700X3D to squeeze a few more years out of this killer rig!
Niiice!
TBH if you buy gaming pc now, it will be super viable in next 7 years. You cant say that about previous generations. Now its much more incremental rather then jumps.
I built my PC in 2013 and have a i7 4770k; I was given a GTX 1080 in 2018 by my then boss. I have been meaning to build a new PC for years at this point, but it still runs the games I play fine.
thats a cool boss
You should do a retest with an uptaded CPU like 5800x3d or 5700x3d. Keeping everything else the same. Since you test at 1080p, the difference would be massive.
Sounds like a good plan :D
2017 was a legendary year for hardware. The Am4 chips could really utilize the new ddr4 with high clock frequency. Had the 1700x back then wich served my until last month
So what did you upgrade to?
@@tonkatoytruck I built a completely new system. Unfortunately the 9800x3d was sold out everywhere so i went intel. Already regretting it tho :D The 13900KF gets really hot. Here are the specs: Corsair iCUE 5000T RGB1 x Intel Core i9-13900KF, NZXT Kraken Z73, 360mm, white1 x ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero WiFi DDR5, S. 17001 x Asus GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix 24GB1 x 64GB Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR5-6000, black2 x Kingston FURY RENEGADE SSD 4TB1 x 1500 Watt be quiet! Dark Power Pro
Crazy how 2017 is considered “back then” now.. feels like just a few days ago 😭
Still run a regular 1080 with a Ryzen 3600 (eventually 5700X3D). 1440/60, don’t really play many newer AAA titles has treated me plenty well to this day
I built my system with an overclocked i5-6600k and an R9 380X back who knows when. I swapped in a RTX2060 around 2020. It lasted me until Test Drive SC came out and just wasn't to my standards anymore particularly on that one, and with the CS:GO->CS2 update I could not longer get 144fps+ which for that I consider essential.
Ran a gaming laptop for a year lol, that was a weird experience I did because I was traveling a lot but not terrible. Ryzen 7/RTX3060.
Which led me to my current PC with a Ryzen 7 9700X and RX7900XT
The best part of this pc is that even though the relative performance of intel made AMD look like a silly choice, adopting AM4 has proven to be financially the best pc choice you could have made.
Throw a 5700x3D in this and u have a brand new pc capable of 60fps modern gaming.
2017 i built my first pc. Amd FX 8300 and a 1060 ;) it wasnt a beast by any means but she held on till just recently
The beautiful part of AM4 is it lasted several years and so you can upgrade it to the latest AM4 5th gen processors, bios update is all u need then get a modern GPU. This will keep the PC performing great for like 5 or more years unlike Intel which changes sockets every 2 gen or so.
Finally somebody that doesn’t prefer g fuel over water
On a similar thought pattern of 'old' pcs, going over the Oldest cpus that can legitimately be upgraded to windows 11, their likely configuration patterns at the time of release to show how it runs today. Necessary updates people should do to to keep the pc useful such as bios updates, what to change from Defaults if needed for windows 11, notes about what should be upgraded if below xxx level for typical use cases with a mind on budget (if someone had funds they would go for new)
I built my PC in March 2017 with i7 7700K, 16 GB DDR 4 3000 (2x8), GTX 1070. On 19.10.2024 I upgraded to Ryzen 9 7950 and 32 GB DDR 5 6400 (2x16). GTX is still in my new PC, I am waiting for RTX 5000 series.
What made you upgrade after 2 years to AMD?
@tonkatoytruck I've upgraded after 7 and half years. 08.03.2017 I bought PC with Intel.
Ouch! That first gen Ryzen is really holding the 1080 Ti back. But not to worry, a bios update and a drop in replacement of a 5800X3D will solve that issue :)
I'm new to PC Gaming and still trying to figure out how things work, but I had a question about something. At 7:23 you mention that your CPU is essentially the bottleneck in your system and the GPU if anything is going to be held back by the CPU. But when i was looking at the numbers you had on the top Left of the screen, it showed your system was using like 93% of your GPU and only 45% of your CPUs capabilities. Or at least i think that's what those numbers were saying, i'm new sorry. I was just thinking, if the CPU was what was holding the system back, wouldn't it show the CPU at 100% and the GPU would be lower? Thanks, sorry if this is a dumb question.
Games behave differently, some are CPU intensive and some are GPU intensive. Overall this CPU held the GPU back across the board because a GPU should be hitting 99-100% utilisation all the time.
@@TechLabUK oh ok, i think i understand. Thank you
@@tmjzh look at the CPU speed, it is only running at 3.2ghz. Ryzen 3-5th gens would run over 4ghz while gaming. This CPU is significantly slower, therefore holding back the PC from more fps.
Still a totally decent exp, as others have said a 5000 series ryzen and youre set for a few more years prob. I've a 5 1600 and a 1080ti and I'm looking into a 5 5600x up to 5700x3d as an upgrade. The 1080ti's vram definitely still makes it pull through in the modern day.
Just get the 5700X3D and be done. You will be happy you did when you finally upgrade your graphics card.
My lower end system of a 1300x, 1050 ti, and 16 gigs of ram managed to last me such a long time.
This is the same gpu, cpu, cooler, ram, and case I am currently using lol
Twinsies!
Just upgraded from a 7700k and 1080ti to a 7600X3D and 4080S. I hope to get another 7 or 8 good years out of it
Who wants to play a game at 1080p. The last time i played or watch anything at that resolution was like 2010
Actually most PC Gamers still play in 1080P. The Steam Hardware Survey alone shows 1080P is still used by over 55% of Gamers.
I bought a high end prebuilt in 2018 before I knew anything about building computers and it’s kept up very well. I still want to upgrade soon once the rtx 50 or 60 series comes out for the price drop on the 40 series. It’s amazing, my asus strix rtx 2080oc went for $1000 new and now just 6 years later you can pick it up for 200 like-new aftermarket. $2300 for the 4090 from what I understand, so I don’t feel too bad about it lol. If games keep up on the demand increase then it will be worth the same amount as mine eventually. We also have the intel arc gpus becoming very well made, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they take over the scene within the next 5 or so years with high end gpus for a budget price. That would easily slide them into the #1 position over nvidia, but you never know.
Around the time i built my first pc i5 7500, 16gb ram, gtx 1060 6gb, 120gb ssd and 1tb HD
I have a config from 2019 still, I’m using i5 10400f with a rx 5600 xt and it’s doing it’s job perfectly, currently I’m playing forza horizon 5 in 1440p and preset high/ultra doing 90 fps! Only gonna upgrade because of the 6gb of vram
Awesome video
@@Cleb-wf3gw Thanks 🙂
btw, fsr3 FG doesnt actually work, the increased fps was purely due to FSR upscaling , as FSR FG only works on RTX cards and above (source: AMD website, and other games which have FSR FG but i cant enable it because i dont have an RTX card)
Which games? I have heard this before but haven't found one yet that wont allow me to enable it on most cards. AMD is well known for saying things are only "Supported" by specific generations and it is to cover their backs but FrameGen will work on an old RX 580 if enabled, you just can't predict how well it will work.
@TechLabUK It doesn't work on my gtx 1050 at all, says my gpu isn't capable of it, War Thunder), though it's a rather low end card..
(But WT can still run on high settings on 1080p with like 50-60fps)
@@petrkdn8224 I have never played it tbh, I wonder if it is restricted by the game as everything I test seems to allow you to turn it on for anything really. Thinking about it I tested a GTX 1050Ti not so long ago and it let me enable it in RoboCop Rogue City: ruclips.net/video/hLF1WffIXQ8/видео.html still ran bad though lol
Still running a 1070ti ryzen system, originally an R5 1600 overclocked to 4ghz from new but now has a 5700x3d. Everything else retained from the original system and it runs champion. The r5 was becoming unstable for some reason and seemed to be dying. Built from new in a meshify c case too!
Trying Stalker 2 without any upscaling was... Brave. I love the game and have loads of hours in it, but the first thing I did was set TSR to 90% @ 1440p epic and turn on Framegen. Runs between 80fps and 130fps+ depending on location and haven't thought about it since. I'm on a modern PC but by no means high powered, 12400F, 32gb ddr4 and 7700XT in an SFF lunchbox case.
The game was pretty much made to be run on framegen and upscaling, sure of it. Had you made it to a hub area with a lot of NPCs i'm pretty certain the old ryzen cpu would have caught fire, as it struggles badly on console and they have a 2600x/3700x equivelant setup.
1080TI is an animal, even today. My old 1070TI is still going strong in my girlfriends PC as she tends to play less demanding games, thought it still 1440ps the muffins out of Borderlands 3.
It's a real demanding game game for sure, I have been playing around with it with different systems in the studio and they have all felt it lol
Yep it will. Throw in some LSFG upscaling and x2 FSR on it and you have a gaming PC for another 5+ years.
still running my i7 4770, have upgraded to an RTX 2060 however. maybe this summer ill finally get the funds for a new rig. CP2077 surprisingly runs decently at 3440x1440
Everyone is always looking new and shiny. My son has a 9900k with a 3070 and I have a 10850k with 3090. My goal is to have these for another 2 to 3 years. I like pc building, but as you get older in life you realize that if something still meets your needs, why upgrade?
Same as me really, I stopped chasing the next thing a long time ago. now I only really pick up new stuff for the channel.
Its wild how a 1080Ti outperforms my 3060Ti in Cyberpunk, a very modern game. Just shows how much Nvidias vram greed hinders their performance
the 3060 ti can actually perform worse than the 3060 in vram hungry titles
2018 is the year me and my dad built a PC
You should be able to easily do an all core OC to 3.8ghz + on that cpu with no issues. It would perform significantly better. I still have my C6H mobo just upgraded cpu to 5900x and gpu from Vega 64 to 6900xt. This machine is flying ! 😊
Im glad graphics card an dPC are imporivng at such a good rate, making premium experience avalabe to almost everyone, eveyone by 2026 for sure.
Games peaked in 2016, without watching the video yet, i know it can still run "new" games well.
built my i7 8700k , rog strix 1080 asus z370 run 4k upscaled pretty good . building amd system now waiting on gpu and cpu either 9800x3d or higher
I rocked this exact set up from 2018-2022 then I bought a 5800 for the best CPU I can put in my mobo and still rocking that 1080ti, other then that the only thing to change has been my PSU.
That's awesome! A winning combo by the sounds of it.
Still running the Asus X99 Deluxe II + i7 6950X @4.2GHz + 32GB RAM + Titan V. It's still a surprisingly capable system.
@@Kepler1344 Awesome!
Have a 7700k with gtx 1080 from 2017.
Yes it is time to upgrade.
didnt know dibu martinez had a hardware channel, nice content
I thought Alan Wake 2 wouldnt run on Pascal or older cards?? Something about Mesh Shaders?? Maybe they updated the game to run on older GPUs??
No, it was the typical click bait we see from techtubers farming clicks. It's true the game uses mesh shaders and that the GTX 1080Ti doesn't have this technology but like most games it will always fall back onto another API of some description. It does affect the performance using others but it doesn't mean it won't play. We see the same right now for Indiana Jones and people dropping videos about how it won't run on a 6GB card like the RTX 2060 but it's simply not true, it will run, just wont perform as well.
Built my pc in April 2017 G4560, 1060 3GB 8GB DDR4 ram i use it still today as I left playing csgo in 2021 and don't play cs 2 and play only older games like 2017-18 and older
He hit the nail in the head, comparing benchmarks you can clearly see the RTX holds on strong even compared to today's graphics cards and is comparable to some decent cards, but the CPU really is fairly weak compared to today's standards so its holding the graphics card back a bit.