It is very impressive. However the 3930K is only 9 months newer and sandy bridge was a huge improvement. I think that it’ll certainly be usable for much longer than the 990X so that is likely the cpu with the most longevity of all time.
Remove the microcode updates. If you're not someone a country would be targeting, then it's highly unlikely you would ever be targeted by exploits like those due to their complexity. There would need to be extremely valuable protected data on your system for someone to put in the work to try to leverage those vulnerabilities, and they would need physical access to your system anyway. If they had already remote access, then they wouldn't need those cpu exploits in the first place.
I have one of these running in an extra gaming rig for friends when they come over. Overclocked to 4.2 on air, it keeps up with a 4790K (also an extra gaming rig) there's only about 1FPS difference between the two platforms. Both on 1660 Ti cards. Modernizing this old setup has been a fun project. I'm running a NVME boot drive with UEFI duet, and I even put in 4 raptor drives in a raid0 config just to remind the old dog where it came from lol.
Totally normal cause I used a 2600K until last year and mine was at 4.9ghz and was probably very close to like a stock I7 4th or even 5th gen in benchmark, but the newer ones sure had some advantages on some tests too... But it's not a good CPU for a while, it's just good with a old GPU, like my Strix RX580 I'm always GPU capped on all games I play that I now have a used 8700K combo and it barely made a difference but totally fixed the stuttering on Hell Let Loose, now it has only minimal stuttering much more rarely happening, most other games run with similar performance. However I still can't play Beyond the Wire much good, it's a damn HUGE stuttery mess, maybe with Nvidia GTX1070 would run so much better than with a AMD GPU 😕 (though the game is far from oprimized anyway and missing players sadly). ps: Anyway with an actual much more modern good GPU, neither 2600K, 990X, 4770K or 8700K will be able to take full advantage of them unless on the most demanding games that the GPU will be shitting it self, but those CPU's will all be bad for high refresh rate gaming paired with a modern good GPU and even worse is AMD and Nvidia are cutting a lot on PCI-e lanes on lower and mid range GPU's that with PCIe 2.0 and even 3.0 we are screwed cause like the crap RTX4060 TI on PCI-e 3.0 there's some games it even looses against the older 3060TI, PCI-e 2.0 = KAPUT...
@@thompsonevergreen8006 nah, that's strange, talking about fps average's on certain games maybe ,but specially 1% lows should be having a massive difference in favor of the 4790k, because sandy already had a huge difference in IPC against nehalem back in the day, and haswell is two steps forward from sandy
I came across what turned out to be a very rare (technically unreleased) i7-995X last year at a recycling facility with a bunch of older hardware and components. It didn't come in an original box, but was in a plastic clamshell with "#017" written on it. Snatched it up, took it home and put it in an old EVGA X58 motherboard I've had, and it surprisingly worked (although some of the CPU-Z info didn't load in). Had to use a liquid cooler because it ran super hot at 3.60GHz base. Sold the combo to a friend that collects stuff like this.
@@metalvideos1961 On the circle road near Arasaka tower (Cyberpunk 2077) there are about 45 fps (37-55). CPU load ~85%, high crowd density, high graphics, 720p. CPU Xeon W3680@4400MHz. Xeon W3680 is like i7-980X :)
I remember wanting this chip so badly. Couldn't afford it. Ended waiting till the 2nd Gen came out. Got the 2600k paired with a 7970 GHz. Lasted me until 2015, "reliably" 😄😄😄
I had 0 interest in it when if I'm not mistaken at least for gaming the I7 extreme = mostly 0 more FPS in games and I got the 2600K including the crap cooler for like 260€ which was basically the best CPU on the market, the extreme was meant really for people that could use it's extra stuff, kinda like the normal desktop from intel vs their Server chips...
I use a e3 1245 (i7 2600k) With a r9 380 2Gb 16Gb ddr3 1333mhz Stil rainbow siege still run with medium /high setting no fsr 1080p 1% low 54fps Middel 88fps Max 104 . Cpu use 50%
@@dyslectische that PC wouldn't run almost any game I play cause my Strix RX580 8GB is already a crap for a good amount of time ☹️ I can't play Squad anymore since they updated the game with new water maps it goes from 80fps to below 20FPS easily and I refuse to play all on low looking like vaseline and FSR is not for me either unless on my 4K TV it works fine there... Ps: if I remember well Raimbow Six also played fine even on my 2011 GTX 570 with 25% OC over stock 570 clocks, it's not even a benchmark for GPUs but mostly used as a benchmark for CPUs LOL
This thing is still a viable 1080p chip. I am very impressed by its ability to hang in there after more than a decade. Thanks for buying this setup. Wish I had it tbh.
resolution has nothing to do with game logic. GPUs are responsible for driving the resolution. this test was performed at low res so that the CPU would hit bottleneck first. if it can run cyberpunk at 60fps at 1920x1080, it can do so at 4k. p.s. also, the p at the end of 1080p stands for "progressive scan" and it's a video format, not a resolution. a common mistake which more and more people are making these days, even those who should be educated enough to know better...
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I am still using my x58 which I bought in 2009, now with an RTX 3060 and 980x. It is still a daily driver and 1080p casual gaming with all settings max is no problem at all. The only issue is that in the last year I have noted some AAA games seem to require AVX unfortunately. But I have no doubt it will tick on until windows 10 dies in 2025. And then it will live on as a Linux machine. I agree that it belongs on a display shelf, that’s how ahead of its day this was. 14 years and still 100% usable!!!
NOT viable anymore IMO it's sad to admit... I loved my i7-980X... But quite a few games nowadays are asking for AVX instructions to be able to even launch. I found this out the hard way when I bought the new MW2 and it wouldn't open. The are quite a few other games for example Dying Light 2, Death Stranding, Riders Republic, 2K21 or any EA Sports 21' and on. There's others I'm sure but you get the point. Sure it's perfect if you just want to play eSports. But don't expect to be playing any new AAA titles. There's no real positives running X58 for gaming in 2023 even productivity use seems redundant at this point. Power hungry, PCIE 2.0, no UEFI, and single thread performance is just weak compared to slightly newer, more power efficient, and cheaper K skew Ivy Bridge or Haswell i7's with AVX support. Heck even X79 or X99 I7's are dirt cheap if you can find a motherboard.
I am still running this i7 990x cpu in my gaming rig. Its planted on an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard. Combined with 24GB of Corsair Dominator triple channel memory and an Asus Strix 970 videocard. It is a complete watercooled setup ( cpu + memory + videocard ) Still runs like a champ!
running the same with the full 24 gig ram too. i have not been able to upgrade my pc now for 12 years!! people that talk down a future proof build in my opinion are crazy. this thing has been a weapon for me for the longest time and only now have i even started looking at doing something new.
I still use the Xeon version of this (W3690) as a daily driver. These old boards have nothing stopping you from running a server chip in a desktop motherboard. No ECC ram required either.
I had the i7 920 in my old X58 build. Can't remember the exact clocks I hit, but I was able to achieve a healthy OC without much trouble. Such a great platform at the time!
I had a i7 980x in my X58 system before I moved on to amd Zen 3. I was on X58 for 12 years. X58 CPU's can overclock really great. Daily I ran my i7 980x at 4.4 ghz all core and for benchmark up 4.75 ghz, but at 4.75 ghz it was toasty as I needed 1.55 volts for that. But resulted in a cinebench R15 score of 1103 point. I loved X58, such a great platform. I even had a nvme ssd working as a boot drive. But I had to let it go in the end as I was to slow for my needs.
I use a Xeon X5690, the same core count, cache, and clock speeds as the i7-990X. I don't really play any big AAA games, so it runs everything I need it to well enough.
I own this CPU. It was great and I was using it for 8 years. Then it start craching with BSODs more and more often. The on-chip memory controller start showing the result of running the RAM at 1600mhz overclock for 8 years. Underclocking the RAM to 800mhz and running it at dual channel gave the CPU two more years of life. In the end using single channel it could last for only ten minutes until BSOD. Now it can't even boot. I saw similar deaths for other CPUs in the 9xx series family from friends who owned them. I guess XMP is still a type of overclock and the results of it will be experienced in the long term.
I had this exact cpu paired with a rx5700xt, I'm positive it was slightly faster than my ryzen 3100 setup (both cpus @ 4.5ghz) and same card. I still have the 990x and as well as a 950, plus a x5675, and three x58 boards : Gigabyte x58 extreme, Asus p6x58d-e, and a MSI x58 pro I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 5600, asrock B550, 32gb ram, and the RX5700XT
I still have the Linus (NCIX Tech Tips) review video on the 980X, I still recall drooling over that beautiful stock cooler with the silent/performance switch and not to even mention the massive performance the CPU had at the time.
It's amazing that this old beast is still able to push over 100 fps in games 12 years after release. What a monster of a chip! I remember drooling for one back when it came out. I was a kid back then and had no money of my own to spend on hardware so even the i7-920 was a dream, let alone a 980 or a 990X. Maybe I'll pick one up now, just for fun.
I gave my kids a PC based on the I7 990X many years ago, they are still using it paired with a 1080Ti. They still game on it but soon I will be giving them a Z690 based system. I will probably turn this 990X system into a media server for our movies and music. The X58 mother board that is in there which is a Gigabyte UD5 still had IDE hard drive connections along with SATA and even a 1.44 Floppy drive connection as well. Thank you for this updated review of this fantastic piece of Computer hardware, will definitely be keeping this treasure for many more years.
The i7 990X was a beast of a processor but out of my price range at that time, So I went for the Sandy 2600k overclocked @4.2 ghz instead. (still running pretty snappy with a GTX 680) My closest to getting an extreme Intel chip was the Northwood Pentium Extreme @3.4 ghz/800 fsb but settled on the 3.0ghz standard edition. interesting look back Nexus and thanks for the video!
@@nexus_tech Very informative and enlightening, Thanks! The ole' Sandy gave me boot loop scare a few years ago. So I started a 2018 Zen 1600X build and upgraded it to Zen 3 very recently. I'll have to say that Intel hit out of the park with 2600k and its later contemporaries. Almost pulled the trigger on Kaby Lake. (whew!) Happy gaming! Peace!
@@joshbrobud8358 Awesome! Legendary Sandy Bridge! I've upgraded from MSI GTX 560ti to a GTX680 and then to a GTX 970. Briefly ran a MSI GTX 1080 as well. I haven't really touched the Zalman 9900X CPU air cooler I have installed, So, 4.4 ghz (@1.3 volts) was as high as I could push it. 4.2 ghz for reliable day to day use. It's now over 12 years old since purchased new on March 6th 2011. Hopefully keeps running for many years to come! Peace!
These old intels are really something, aren't they? I have retired today my i5-2300 rig from 2010, it ran flawlessly and I only replaced it because I got offered newer computer for very low price from a friend. As long as these beasts don't suffer electrical malfunction, they can run for another 10 years without a problem.
What an interesting gem from the past. I would love to see it compared with modern entry-level cpu's, such as an Intel atom / Celeron, to see how well it truly holds up today.
Good video man. 1 thing I would like to advise is that I think it would be more suitable to include CPU comparisons that are relevant to this current generation(such as i5 10400 or i5 12400 or even R5 5600). Comparing it to recent i9 is kinda out of touch for me, but hey it's still well done video, props up.
I have a 980x in my old gaming rig that now serves as a media center for my TV. The rig oribinally had a I7 950 in it because I could not afford the 980x back in the day. I later switched to the 980x when I bought it for $80 on eBay. The thing has never missed a beat and I used it as my gaming rig until I upgraded to a Ryzen 5800x3D and a Radeon 6950xt. I hope the AM4 rig last as long.
A Fully Overclocked Intel 990X usually seems to fall within the territory of Midrange Coffee Lake (Generation IX), which would be the performance of a Stock 8400 to 9600 at minimum, this truly shows us how long it took for us to get this level of Render Time and Multithreading at the Consumer Level for cheap (though Original Zen and Zen+ also managed to deliver in kind during its run in the same era) and I can admit with confidence that it was worth the then~Six Year and change wait, especially when it comes to Power Draw: At its truest peak in Workstation performance, the 990X can get within 02% of a 9600 that is running on Base Frequency Boost, this will usually be seen in applications that don't make use of Coffee Lake's newer Instruction Sets and AI capabilities that it would need to be dealt with in an incredibly tight testing environment to witness such numbers; that being said though, this comes at the cost of the 990X seeing Peak Power Measurements that are north of 0430 Watts, this is incredibly dangerous to witness under any conditions and I can only imagine how Gulftown users handled cooling this roughly Twelve Years ago, it might be easier now thanks to the advancements in the industry but I wouldn't comfortably recommend somebody to run this or the slightly lower~binned 980X around the clock under such a preset unless the motherboard's VRMs and MOSFETs have the adequate protection to keep it stable.
Cool video - always like the retro build of the original i7 - still got a 980x sitting in an UD5 motherboard, and it was only recently disconnected. I had to buy a 920 cpu to boot the board just to update the BIOS so it could recognize the 980x. The board was brand new in the box only about 3 years ago. I blew my rampage 3 extreme mobo by connecting a RGB light while the PC was on, blew all the drives and PSU 😦. Still have up and running a 3970x extreme with 32GB and similar intel board on x79 platform.
My nephew bought a rig with a I7 970 6core, didn't work when it showed up so i went ahead and fixed the issues on it and upgraded it pretty much the most i could. I remember being in the BIOS that there were an option to auto overclock to either 970X or 990X or something something, enabled it and with 1600Mhz corsair lpx three channel, ssd's and a rx 570 it still is capable for gaming at lower resolutions and mid to low graphics settings.
I am surprised that the overclock didn’t improve on the FPS by that much. But the architecture itself is also a clear bottleneck. I did however find that overclocking the QPI and uncore a bit did help me with 1% lows, with 1866 MHz RAM and 3733 MHz uncore.
Thanks for sharing - OC helped that much more with synthetic benchmarks, I'd say 8% to 9% on average across all games tested is not too bad...more of a reason to watch this with newer CPU's :)
I am rocking an Extreme Edition CPU. Specifically the I9 7980XE. Thing is still a complete monster, it runs at 4.4GHz all core stable and gets around 25K in R23. I even have it undervolted at that speed. Only thing is that it draws around 290w under full load. Either then that, it doesn’t really hold back my 4080 either at 4K. I’m probably going to be keeping the CPU for a while as it still has so much life left in it.
@@nexus_tech yes its a great deal. i have rampage ii extreme, p6x58d and a evga classified 770. the classified has a 975x but im going to get a 990x one day for it.
I worked at Intel when this was released and had an engineering sample. It was powerhouse at the time big and hot 🔥 . Triple Channel was what me retire it for a ivy bridge i5, which was easier to find motherboard s and ram for.
The platform is extremely fun to play around with. It's inefficient compared to what we have nowadays, but the mainboards of this platform offered so many options to play around with. The first iteration of my main pc I built back at 2015 had an i7 920 with an asus rampage 3 extreme. The i7 was a good bin too, could do 4,2 GHz on all cores (with hyperthreading) at 1,2 volts. I miss platforms like these, especially now with intel and amd pushing for high out-of-the-box clocks with next to no headroom for overclocking.
I remember seeing ads for the 990x on tech channels when I was just getting into the hobby 😂 I'd honestly be flabbergasted if you told me in 2023 it could run modern games at the (at the time) holy grail 1080p 60+fps.
I have a X5650 running at 22*205=4.51GHz @1.520V, 6*4=24GB of DDR3 RAM at 1640. Mobo is GB X58A-UDR3 rev.2/FH, cooled with some old school CoolerMaster 240 AIO when those first came out. Once a monster, still a legend!! I hook it up to my 65" TV and use it as a HTPC for live sports streams, arcade style games (RX 460, handles fighting titles like Tekken7, KOFXV, and SF5 just fine) and various high end emulators like Cemu, Yuzu and RPCS3. I need to stress that dust filtering is very important for preserving these old warriors! As long as you keep greasy dirt and humidity out of the case, these veterans will be able to keep fighting for many productive years to come!
good analysis and solid presentation. crazy to see a 12 year old chip still pushing very playable frame rates with good quality settings at 1080p. this + 1080ti and you’ve got a pc that aged like wine. would consider subbing if you compared to a more mainstream cpu like a 5600 or 13400. i don’t think too many people rock 10900x’s
I had a 980x kicking around and I didn’t even play with it until I watched this video. I was able to get 4900ish cinebench at 4.4ghz but as much as I tried I could not hit 5000. It would just get too hot eventually and if you are past 90c for too it will start to throttle. Ill get my video up at some point, but it was a fun experiment.
I do built it back in 2010 i7 980x on a rampage formula 3 mobo 24gb 2000mhz ram in triple channel I can't remember what gpu I had it to begin with but nowdays it's got a gtx 1080 in it my youngest son uses it now plays basically anything he wants once hes done with it I plan on putting some of the parts on display
Fun fact: You can boot certain NVMe drives on the X58 platform in order to breathe some extra life into it. Samsung's old 950 PRO NVMe drives will boot natively on the X58 platform (only the 950 PRO will do this though, other models will not). X58 doesn't have proper SATAIII ports, so even SATA SSD's will be kind of slow on it. But with an NVMe drive installed the platform feels modern and snappy. I have an X58 computer myself with the following specs: Evga X58 Classified (E760) Intel Xeon W3690 (basically the same as the Core i7 990x) 24 GB Corsair DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM Samsung 950 PRO NVMe 512 GB (these are widely available on eBay) GeForce GTX TITAN X (Maxwell) It's running Windows 11 and it runs pretty well for a 13 year old PC with these upgrades.
This requires a USB-thumbdrive to be connected at all times though. Also, i tried this with an "Intel 750 PCIe NVMe" drive once, and it made the "Percentage Used" drop rapidly on the drive (dropped by 15% after only a week). Something about emulating NVMe-booting was wearing the drive out rapidly i guess (it stopped declining in health once i stopped using duet bootloader on it). That's why i went with the "Samsung 950 PRO" as it just boots natively on X58.
Mine was the i7 3820 x79 and it died around 2018. I switched to ryzen 7 2700x at that time since I want to try out amd. I kept my i7 3820 with its original box and placed it in my shelf for collection sake xD
These old CPU:s, especially Intel ones are just absolute beasts. I just upgraded my PC from i7-2600k to an used Ryzen 5 2600 system. Yes, the performance went up quite a bit but that i7 also handled everything I need just fine. Upgraded because that i7 board was on it's last legs, constantly crashing and sometimes didn't even want to boot, and it sure is pretty hard to find LGA1155 boards these days
Believe it or not, there are Japanese & Taiwanese company that still make a brand new LGA 1150 1151 1155 motherboards. They're joint company and their Motherboard is called Kaizen. It has a very good VRM. And the Motherboard itself has M.2 SSD slot. Yeah imagine being able to use M.2 SSD natively with Core i7 2600k I got my Kaizen board for a mere $30 brand new for Core i7 4790K
The only downside is that they clearly stated in the Motherboard box to DON'T Overclock your CPU. You're still allowed to run the CPU at highest default boost speed. Just not Overclock beyond default boost speed. I've been using it for 2 years and it's pretty good.
It's hard to believe anyone would still be using a Core i7-920 or 950 anymore since the x5675 costs $5. I could see motherboard limitations being an excuse, but aside from that there is no reason to not to upgrade to a 6-core Xeon.
My main PC is still on X58 with a Xeon X5670 @ 4.4GHz, 24GB RAM and GTX 1080. I got my first X58 system 10 years ago with a W3520 (i7-920), it was a nice upgrade from my previous Core2 Duo E6300, and in 2016 I upgraded to the 6c/12t X5670. Mine scores 695 single and 5464 multi on Cinebench R23.
Man love the X58 platform. My Win xp machine is running I7-980X 4GHz with NH-D15 on an MSI X58 Eclipse SLi and a Titan X. Best platform from Intel to boot
Interestingly, the die area and transistor count of these "Gulftown" CPUs is surprisingly close to Sandy Bridge i7s (239 vs. 216mm2, 1.17 vs. 1.16 billion transistors). Which is interesting because the i7-2600 has 2/3rd the L3 cache, memory controllers, and of course the core count. And the reason is the awful HD2000 integrated graphics no one actually uses! Intel could've squeezed 2 more cores on the same die and then some, had they not included the IGP. But then again, more cores would've required more L3 cache and SRAM takes far more space than Logic so... I digress!
Those Sandy Bridge i7's were too good despite the inclusion of HD2000. I kept my 2700K until R9 3900X came out :) Thanks for checking out the vid, hope you enjoyed it :)
x5650 @4.4ghz, 3x 8gb(24gb) @ 1866mhz, Gigabyte x58 UD3 paired with a R9 280x. Bought the motherboard for $50 as 'broken' due to a coolant leak, cleaned up nice with brake cleaner. $5 x5650, ram was $15, 256gb NVME w/adapter/bios mod, $25 random case, $30 600w corsair PSU, misc parts used for water cooling and I cannot recall what I paid for the GPU, it was years ago. Pretty fancy blue liquid cooled, the only blue build I've done. I do prefer the performance for most tasks over my i7 2600k rig, but both are retired and get used only once in a while.
Iv finally just finished my x79 build with a sabertooth board with a xeon E 2690 v2 10core 8×8gb 1600mhz ram and 3 zotac amp edition gtx 480 in tri sli for the fun of it
@Nexus Tech I have my old disc collection so I put windows 7 on it because ots good with old xp and win 98 games I have alien v predator 2 and freelancer right now on it
I have a 980x on a gigabyte UD7 board, still working to this day. I loved the overclocking of those chips, i measured power at the wall vs benchmarks and settled at 4.3ghz being most bang for the buck, what you cant show with the avg framerate is the terrible frame times. My partner had a i5 6500 stock with same gpu and it would run rings around this old beast in terms of smooth gameplay. now my overclocking days are done and settled with a new 7800x3d
Thanks for sharing mate! I'm looking forward seeing how does the old beast stack up against other newer chips :) Are you happy with your X3D ? I've been put off replacing my R9 3900X by all of the problems with blowing chips and very expensive mobos...
@@nexus_tech I was lucky and as I was building my pc the videos were coming out about high soc voltage under expo conditions. So just left it off, 4 days later, new bios. Now it’s been a fair few weeks of tweaking to see what silicone quality I got, running expo 6000 (2x16gb) at 1.2v and curve optimiser at -25. Stable in prime 95 for 3hrs and gets better benchmark scores that all online reviews so I’m quite happy. Improvements could be make with idle clocks and power. Intel chips clock far lower at idle and come on boost better imo. If they can improve that and possibly make a 10-12 core chiplet going forward it’s a sensational platform. No abnormal operations so far. My 2nd amd chip since the old athlon 64x2 so will see how it all goes over the longer term
My 990x still my best friend. In Cooler Master HAF X under V10 cooler on Rampage III Extreme every task is solved at low temperature. I'm attached to them all. Just need change 1650S to something better and hit the road again.
I love my i7-990X - overclocked to 4316 (166x26) on air cooling, at 1.42 volts, on a gigabyte ex58 - I am getting 140 fps in DCS single player at 1080P on a 2080Super , and around 50-80fps on multiplayer depending on how ridiculous the growling sidewinder server is, lol.
should add a bclock oc i noticed you have it at the 133 . these old chips like faster bclocks since the bclock is decoupled . mix of multi and block would yeild you a better score
A comparison with the X5675 (supposed to be a very good overclocker) OCed to the same 4.5 GHz would be dope and see the differences between the mainstream and server CPU where the main overclocking is on the latter being done by raising the BCLK Frequency. You also could squezee out some performance by using 1866 Ram (with 1333 base clock) so you could have it running at around this speed clock (only manual OC,you can't use XMP profile with Xeon processors, they won't boot).
I think a better comparison would be with other 6-core i7's of later generations with similar clock speeds rather than i9's. Might be interesting to see how efficiency has improved so comparisons with much lower TDP 4-5GHz i7's (maybe even H series chips) would be good.
Hello mate, Thanks for checking out the video :) I agree, I can not wait to test more CPU's - the i9 sits there as the reference to my main test bench. I've got "few" CPU's lined up, essentially 1st gen to 10th gen, finding time to make vids is the problem :)
i had this cpu for along time, actually killed it trying to OC, so then I got a xeon w3690 (look itup) it's the same as the 990x, (same chipset, same motheboard, same core count, same cache, same everything) and had it until a few years ago that I evevntually upgraded, to i9 9900k > now ryzen 9 5900x. Still think x58 would make a great home server rig for running plex or truenas
My Dream build from 2011 I was 16 at that time 🤣 i7 990x Crossfire HD7970 (forgot the release date) Rampage gene iv 6x4gb ddr4 1600 ram full slot ram 120gb ssd 1tb HDD Packed in A modded x2 120mm intake + cable management (cable hiders😶) FRACTAL design Core 1000 Now I'm still using my 1st and current pc from 2019 Ryzen 7 2700 Rx 570 32gb ddr3200 🤣 Old days I really miss the Core 1000 design from fractal It's just so Compact
Had a i7-980X for years, just swapping out the GPU over the years (GTX670 x2 SLI > GTX770 > GTX1080 > RTX3060). The only thing to watch out for is AVX support; the 980X doesn't have it and a few games (literally 2 or 3) won't run. The only problematic one atm for me is Starfield, but I won't be upgrading just for one game. The bigger issue is probably content creation apps that use AVX (3D apps such as Blender etc), as they will run significantly slower for big renders. I'll keep my rig until the 3060 is outdated (i.e when the RTX5 series hit). Over 10 years of use can't be bad though!
I still using X5675 with Gigabyte X58A-UD3R. Planing to get RTX 4060 and more ram for this old beast. :) //// Sadly, lacking AVX still an issue for some new game titles :(
I wonder how the CPU will compare to the newer ones but on an older Cinebench? For example R10. Cinebench newer versions require more instructions, which makes newer CPUs much faster on the results, but an older Cinebench would put the score based on older instructions, thus making it possible for this CPU to be much closer in terms of results to the current generations.
I think you oc'd the cpu wrong, just overclocking the cpu multiplier gives good results, but not anywhere as close as overclcking it with bclk Bclk increase also causes the memory and uncore speed to increase, and ive seen some sweet gains increasing the uncore Had a w3670 which i could oc all the way up to 4.7 when uncore was untouched, but decided to dial back down to 4.4ghz and oc'd the uncore to 4ghz 200 bclk and 22x multiplier for cpu and memory was around 2000 mhz triple channel and i got much better results than just the 4.7ghz core and rest all stock I had a ryzen 5 2600 system lying around which was oc to 4ghz and i was shocked to see the w3670 was almost same performance as the r5 2600
These results are pretty crazy. Imagine a 386DX 33MHz from 1986 being powerful enough to play Quake
Well, it can run Quake if you have a 387 installed. Though, I wouldn't call 1-2 fps playable lol.
Still have my PIII 1000 768 ram and it plays Quake and Half Life 1 very well. XP is ok on it also! 😊
@@LaurentValette1234 I think I have 5-6 PIII machines around, including two that are dual socket boards.
33 Mhz 386DX is from 1992. In 1986 it would have required liquid nitrogen cooling. :)
It is very impressive. However the 3930K is only 9 months newer and sandy bridge was a huge improvement. I think that it’ll certainly be usable for much longer than the 990X so that is likely the cpu with the most longevity of all time.
"Improved leaps & bounds since then...all for the better"
Spectre & Meltdown: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! hahah
Spectre & Meltdown + Patches killed x58 for sure! we took a major IPC hit
Remove the microcode updates. If you're not someone a country would be targeting, then it's highly unlikely you would ever be targeted by exploits like those due to their complexity. There would need to be extremely valuable protected data on your system for someone to put in the work to try to leverage those vulnerabilities, and they would need physical access to your system anyway. If they had already remote access, then they wouldn't need those cpu exploits in the first place.
I have one of these running in an extra gaming rig for friends when they come over. Overclocked to 4.2 on air, it keeps up with a 4790K (also an extra gaming rig) there's only about 1FPS difference between the two platforms. Both on 1660 Ti cards. Modernizing this old setup has been a fun project. I'm running a NVME boot drive with UEFI duet, and I even put in 4 raptor drives in a raid0 config just to remind the old dog where it came from lol.
Thanks for sharing :) Wow! haha!
Dang I'm running a 4790k, that's cool considering how old it is
Totally normal cause I used a 2600K until last year and mine was at 4.9ghz and was probably very close to like a stock I7 4th or even 5th gen in benchmark, but the newer ones sure had some advantages on some tests too...
But it's not a good CPU for a while, it's just good with a old GPU, like my Strix RX580 I'm always GPU capped on all games I play that I now have a used 8700K combo and it barely made a difference but totally fixed the stuttering on Hell Let Loose, now it has only minimal stuttering much more rarely happening, most other games run with similar performance.
However I still can't play Beyond the Wire much good, it's a damn HUGE stuttery mess, maybe with Nvidia GTX1070 would run so much better than with a AMD GPU 😕 (though the game is far from oprimized anyway and missing players sadly).
ps: Anyway with an actual much more modern good GPU, neither 2600K, 990X, 4770K or 8700K will be able to take full advantage of them unless on the most demanding games that the GPU will be shitting it self, but those CPU's will all be bad for high refresh rate gaming paired with a modern good GPU and even worse is AMD and Nvidia are cutting a lot on PCI-e lanes on lower and mid range GPU's that with PCIe 2.0 and even 3.0 we are screwed cause like the crap RTX4060 TI on PCI-e 3.0 there's some games it even looses against the older 3060TI, PCI-e 2.0 = KAPUT...
@@thompsonevergreen8006 nah, that's strange, talking about fps average's on certain games maybe ,but specially 1% lows should be having a massive difference in favor of the 4790k, because sandy already had a huge difference in IPC against nehalem back in the day, and haswell is two steps forward from sandy
How did you get an NVME out of her with UEFI ? what motherboard?
I came across what turned out to be a very rare (technically unreleased) i7-995X last year at a recycling facility with a bunch of older hardware and components. It didn't come in an original box, but was in a plastic clamshell with "#017" written on it. Snatched it up, took it home and put it in an old EVGA X58 motherboard I've had, and it surprisingly worked (although some of the CPU-Z info didn't load in). Had to use a liquid cooler because it ran super hot at 3.60GHz base. Sold the combo to a friend that collects stuff like this.
Dang you found a gold
Hey, How can i contact you?
I'm still rocking this CPU(990X) paired with RTX 2060S today. It does everything for me.
Now I'm thinking about getting a new complete system.
That's awesome! What is your OC ? Ah, Ryzen or Intel?
@@nexus_tech Running @ stock because the motherboard is a bit problematic (MSI X58 Pro-E). I'm thinking about getting Intel.
@@scottiearkay i dont want to know how bad your bottleneck is lol
@@metalvideos1961 On the circle road near Arasaka tower (Cyberpunk 2077) there are about 45 fps (37-55). CPU load ~85%, high crowd density, high graphics, 720p. CPU Xeon W3680@4400MHz. Xeon W3680 is like i7-980X :)
@@metalvideos1961 In general, everything is good, except for very few applications that require AVX instructions 😉
I remember wanting this chip so badly. Couldn't afford it. Ended waiting till the 2nd Gen came out. Got the 2600k paired with a 7970 GHz. Lasted me until 2015, "reliably" 😄😄😄
Same! Hah! I went with 2700K and lasted till I bought my R9 3900X! I had no problems running it at 4.5GHz 24/7 :)
I had 0 interest in it when if I'm not mistaken at least for gaming the I7 extreme = mostly 0 more FPS in games and I got the 2600K including the crap cooler for like 260€ which was basically the best CPU on the market, the extreme was meant really for people that could use it's extra stuff, kinda like the normal desktop from intel vs their Server chips...
I use a e3 1245 (i7 2600k)
With a r9 380 2Gb
16Gb ddr3 1333mhz
Stil rainbow siege still run with medium /high setting no fsr 1080p
1% low 54fps
Middel 88fps
Max 104 .
Cpu use 50%
i still have my 2600 😂, not even K
@@dyslectische that PC wouldn't run almost any game I play cause my Strix RX580 8GB is already a crap for a good amount of time ☹️
I can't play Squad anymore since they updated the game with new water maps it goes from 80fps to below 20FPS easily and I refuse to play all on low looking like vaseline and FSR is not for me either unless on my 4K TV it works fine there...
Ps: if I remember well Raimbow Six also played fine even on my 2011 GTX 570 with 25% OC over stock 570 clocks, it's not even a benchmark for GPUs but mostly used as a benchmark for CPUs LOL
This thing is still a viable 1080p chip. I am very impressed by its ability to hang in there after more than a decade. Thanks for buying this setup. Wish I had it tbh.
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback and yes, there's still some left in this beast heh
resolution has nothing to do with game logic. GPUs are responsible for driving the resolution. this test was performed at low res so that the CPU would hit bottleneck first. if it can run cyberpunk at 60fps at 1920x1080, it can do so at 4k.
p.s. also, the p at the end of 1080p stands for "progressive scan" and it's a video format, not a resolution. a common mistake which more and more people are making these days, even those who should be educated enough to know better...
I am still using my x58 which I bought in 2009, now with an RTX 3060 and 980x. It is still a daily driver and 1080p casual gaming with all settings max is no problem at all. The only issue is that in the last year I have noted some AAA games seem to require AVX unfortunately. But I have no doubt it will tick on until windows 10 dies in 2025. And then it will live on as a Linux machine. I agree that it belongs on a display shelf, that’s how ahead of its day this was. 14 years and still 100% usable!!!
@@elu5ive holy shit stop crying😂
NOT viable anymore IMO it's sad to admit... I loved my i7-980X... But quite a few games nowadays are asking for AVX instructions to be able to even launch. I found this out the hard way when I bought the new MW2 and it wouldn't open. The are quite a few other games for example Dying Light 2, Death Stranding, Riders Republic, 2K21 or any EA Sports 21' and on. There's others I'm sure but you get the point. Sure it's perfect if you just want to play eSports. But don't expect to be playing any new AAA titles. There's no real positives running X58 for gaming in 2023 even productivity use seems redundant at this point. Power hungry, PCIE 2.0, no UEFI, and single thread performance is just weak compared to slightly newer, more power efficient, and cheaper K skew Ivy Bridge or Haswell i7's with AVX support. Heck even X79 or X99 I7's are dirt cheap if you can find a motherboard.
I am still running this i7 990x cpu in my gaming rig. Its planted on an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard.
Combined with 24GB of Corsair Dominator triple channel memory and an Asus Strix 970 videocard.
It is a complete watercooled setup ( cpu + memory + videocard ) Still runs like a champ!
running the same with the full 24 gig ram too. i have not been able to upgrade my pc now for 12 years!! people that talk down a future proof build in my opinion are crazy. this thing has been a weapon for me for the longest time and only now have i even started looking at doing something new.
I still use the Xeon version of this (W3690) as a daily driver. These old boards have nothing stopping you from running a server chip in a desktop motherboard. No ECC ram required either.
The best cpu in x58 line , overclock this monster at 4.7 and competitive to ryzen 1600x/2600 stock
It would be interesting to see modern benchmarks of the 990x versus the 2600k which came out shortly after.
Got a 2700K ready 😄 I smell 5GHz
Looking forward to such a comparison!
@@CarthagoMike 990x will win in most modern highly threaded games vs a 2700k even when are over clocked. I have 2700k at 4.8 and 990x at 4.7
I have one of these in my daily computer use it every day still and love it like the first day :)
I had the i7 920 in my old X58 build. Can't remember the exact clocks I hit, but I was able to achieve a healthy OC without much trouble. Such a great platform at the time!
I had a i7 980x in my X58 system before I moved on to amd Zen 3.
I was on X58 for 12 years. X58 CPU's can overclock really great. Daily I ran my i7 980x at 4.4 ghz all core and for benchmark up 4.75 ghz, but at 4.75 ghz it was toasty as I needed 1.55 volts for that. But resulted in a cinebench R15 score of 1103 point. I loved X58, such a great platform. I even had a nvme ssd working as a boot drive. But I had to let it go in the end as I was to slow for my needs.
Thanks for sharing! Wow! I missed the X58 but got a 2700K that I had until R9 3900X came out and replaced it. Great chip!!!
Nice clocks! The bios/x58 arch doesn't support nvme drives because it cant boot from a pci slot, is this done with a custom bios?
I'm surprised by how good the 1% lows are.
Thanks for checking out the vid - I agree, not too shabby :)
I use a Xeon X5690, the same core count, cache, and clock speeds as the i7-990X. I don't really play any big AAA games, so it runs everything I need it to well enough.
Same
@@Bboyman1150 saem*
Would love to see someone make modern motherboards for older architectures
So impressive back in the day...
It was the bomb ....back then..
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I own this CPU. It was great and I was using it for 8 years. Then it start craching with BSODs more and more often. The on-chip memory controller start showing the result of running the RAM at 1600mhz overclock for 8 years. Underclocking the RAM to 800mhz and running it at dual channel gave the CPU two more years of life. In the end using single channel it could last for only ten minutes until BSOD. Now it can't even boot. I saw similar deaths for other CPUs in the 9xx series family from friends who owned them. I guess XMP is still a type of overclock and the results of it will be experienced in the long term.
I had this exact cpu paired with a rx5700xt, I'm positive it was slightly faster than my ryzen 3100 setup (both cpus @ 4.5ghz) and same card.
I still have the 990x and as well as a 950, plus a x5675, and three x58 boards : Gigabyte x58 extreme, Asus p6x58d-e, and a MSI x58 pro
I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 5600, asrock B550, 32gb ram, and the RX5700XT
Meu amigo me deu uma p6x58d sem processador 😔
I loved the music starting at 3:25
What a beast 😎
Thanks mate!! :)
Watching this on a i7 920 from same generation I believe. Works just fine for daily use and older games.
I still have the Linus (NCIX Tech Tips) review video on the 980X, I still recall drooling over that beautiful stock cooler with the silent/performance switch and not to even mention the massive performance the CPU had at the time.
Wait that's a stock cooler that came with it hahaha didn't know that nice
@@AliAbbas-oh2cu yup, it lives rent free in my memory!
@@DGCastell awesome 😎
It's amazing that this old beast is still able to push over 100 fps in games 12 years after release. What a monster of a chip! I remember drooling for one back when it came out. I was a kid back then and had no money of my own to spend on hardware so even the i7-920 was a dream, let alone a 980 or a 990X. Maybe I'll pick one up now, just for fun.
I heard rumors that these CPUs were hand-picked on every wafer of silicon, just having one of those gives one quite the bragging rights
I gave my kids a PC based on the I7 990X many years ago, they are still using it paired with a 1080Ti. They still game on it but soon I will be giving them a Z690 based system. I will probably turn this 990X system into a media server for our movies and music. The X58 mother board that is in there which is a Gigabyte UD5 still had IDE hard drive connections along with SATA and even a 1.44 Floppy drive connection as well. Thank you for this updated review of this fantastic piece of Computer hardware, will definitely be keeping this treasure for many more years.
Still rocking mine! StealthMachines just keep going, and going, and going, and going, and going...
The i7 990X was a beast of a processor but out of my price range at that time, So I went for the Sandy 2600k overclocked @4.2 ghz instead. (still running pretty snappy with a GTX 680) My closest to getting an extreme Intel chip was the Northwood Pentium Extreme @3.4 ghz/800 fsb but settled on the 3.0ghz standard edition. interesting look back Nexus and thanks for the video!
My first gaming PC had 2700K at 4.5GHz, had it for long years until it got replaced by a 3900X! Thank you for sharing and hope you enjoyed it :)
@@nexus_tech Very informative and enlightening, Thanks! The ole' Sandy gave me boot loop scare a few years ago. So I started a 2018 Zen 1600X build and upgraded it to Zen 3 very recently. I'll have to say that Intel hit out of the park with 2600k and its later contemporaries. Almost pulled the trigger on Kaby Lake. (whew!) Happy gaming! Peace!
ASUS P8P67 motherboard
Intel 2500k
STRIX GTX 970
16gb Corsair memory
Everything still works great even after 10 years.
@@joshbrobud8358 Awesome! Legendary Sandy Bridge! I've upgraded from MSI GTX 560ti to a GTX680 and then to a GTX 970. Briefly ran a MSI GTX 1080 as well. I haven't really touched the Zalman 9900X CPU air cooler I have installed, So, 4.4 ghz (@1.3 volts) was as high as I could push it. 4.2 ghz for reliable day to day use. It's now over 12 years old since purchased new on March 6th 2011. Hopefully keeps running for many years to come! Peace!
These old intels are really something, aren't they? I have retired today my i5-2300 rig from 2010, it ran flawlessly and I only replaced it because I got offered newer computer for very low price from a friend. As long as these beasts don't suffer electrical malfunction, they can run for another 10 years without a problem.
This was my dream CPU back in those days.
What an interesting gem from the past.
I would love to see it compared with modern entry-level cpu's, such as an Intel atom / Celeron, to see how well it truly holds up today.
Good video man. 1 thing I would like to advise is that I think it would be more suitable to include CPU comparisons that are relevant to this current generation(such as i5 10400 or i5 12400 or even R5 5600). Comparing it to recent i9 is kinda out of touch for me, but hey it's still well done video, props up.
Espescially, when the CPU has the Same Core Count AS an R5 2600, a much more modern CPU
I have a 980x in my old gaming rig that now serves as a media center for my TV. The rig oribinally had a I7 950 in it because I could not afford the 980x back in the day. I later switched to the 980x when I bought it for $80 on eBay. The thing has never missed a beat and I used it as my gaming rig until I upgraded to a Ryzen 5800x3D and a Radeon 6950xt. I hope the AM4 rig last as long.
A Fully Overclocked Intel 990X usually seems to fall within the territory of Midrange Coffee Lake (Generation IX), which would be the performance of a Stock 8400 to 9600 at minimum, this truly shows us how long it took for us to get this level of Render Time and Multithreading at the Consumer Level for cheap (though Original Zen and Zen+ also managed to deliver in kind during its run in the same era) and I can admit with confidence that it was worth the then~Six Year and change wait, especially when it comes to Power Draw: At its truest peak in Workstation performance, the 990X can get within 02% of a 9600 that is running on Base Frequency Boost, this will usually be seen in applications that don't make use of Coffee Lake's newer Instruction Sets and AI capabilities that it would need to be dealt with in an incredibly tight testing environment to witness such numbers; that being said though, this comes at the cost of the 990X seeing Peak Power Measurements that are north of 0430 Watts, this is incredibly dangerous to witness under any conditions and I can only imagine how Gulftown users handled cooling this roughly Twelve Years ago, it might be easier now thanks to the advancements in the industry but I wouldn't comfortably recommend somebody to run this or the slightly lower~binned 980X around the clock under such a preset unless the motherboard's VRMs and MOSFETs have the adequate protection to keep it stable.
I have the Xeon version of this in my ASUS P6T and it still rocks.
Cool video - always like the retro build of the original i7 - still got a 980x sitting in an UD5 motherboard, and it was only recently disconnected. I had to buy a 920 cpu to boot the board just to update the BIOS so it could recognize the 980x. The board was brand new in the box only about 3 years ago. I blew my rampage 3 extreme mobo by connecting a RGB light while the PC was on, blew all the drives and PSU 😦. Still have up and running a 3970x extreme with 32GB and similar intel board on x79 platform.
Thanks for sharing, and I'm sorry to hear about the RBG accident 😢
My nephew bought a rig with a I7 970 6core, didn't work when it showed up so i went ahead and fixed the issues on it and upgraded it pretty much the most i could. I remember being in the BIOS that there were an option to auto overclock to either 970X or 990X or something something, enabled it and with 1600Mhz corsair lpx three channel, ssd's and a rx 570 it still is capable for gaming at lower resolutions and mid to low graphics settings.
I am surprised that the overclock didn’t improve on the FPS by that much. But the architecture itself is also a clear bottleneck.
I did however find that overclocking the QPI and uncore a bit did help me with 1% lows, with 1866 MHz RAM and 3733 MHz uncore.
Thanks for sharing - OC helped that much more with synthetic benchmarks, I'd say 8% to 9% on average across all games tested is not too bad...more of a reason to watch this with newer CPU's :)
"QPI" brings back long lost overclocking memories
@@DGCastell how about “PCIe Bus Speed overclocking”? 😉
@@StaelTek that and AMD's HyperTransport! I feel old.
@@DGCastell oh yes!!
I am rocking an Extreme Edition CPU. Specifically the I9 7980XE. Thing is still a complete monster, it runs at 4.4GHz all core stable and gets around 25K in R23. I even have it undervolted at that speed. Only thing is that it draws around 290w under full load. Either then that, it doesn’t really hold back my 4080 either at 4K. I’m probably going to be keeping the CPU for a while as it still has so much life left in it.
Oh nice!! I have the 7900X, will test at some point, but the 7980XE is pure beast hahah! Thanks for sharing
well done, these chips are beasts. good deal for a 990x bundle. i have a w3690 and a x5690.
Thanks mate :) I'm starting to think it was not as bad of a purchase after all. Which mobo's are you using ?
@@nexus_tech yes its a great deal. i have rampage ii extreme, p6x58d and a evga classified 770. the classified has a 975x but im going to get a 990x one day for it.
I think this show that maybe buying in the higher end CPUs means that it will actually last a lot longer before needing to upgrade
I worked at Intel when this was released and had an engineering sample. It was powerhouse at the time big and hot 🔥 . Triple Channel was what me retire it for a ivy bridge i5, which was easier to find motherboard s and ram for.
I could't afford it back in the day but a friend of mine had one, it really was mindbogglingly fast at the time.
Thanks for sharing! :)
The platform is extremely fun to play around with. It's inefficient compared to what we have nowadays, but the mainboards of this platform offered so many options to play around with. The first iteration of my main pc I built back at 2015 had an i7 920 with an asus rampage 3 extreme. The i7 was a good bin too, could do 4,2 GHz on all cores (with hyperthreading) at 1,2 volts. I miss platforms like these, especially now with intel and amd pushing for high out-of-the-box clocks with next to no headroom for overclocking.
yo la tengo a la intel i7 990x con una Asus Rampage III Extreme, hasta ahora funcionando sin problemas
brilliant video. nostalgic stuff is always welcome.
I wonder how it compares to amd's first true hexacore, the 1600x, tho
Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it!! You know it's coming...hahah
Got one of these running inside my living room PC/Plex server paired with a 1070ti. Still a remarkably decent 1080p chip.
I'm using an I7 920. It has no problems gaming in 1080p today.
Honestly pretty damn good for how old it is
I am also using this CPU. I bring my personal items and use them as company office products.
Mate you need a DFI lanparty board for one of these. Those were legend
I remember seeing ads for the 990x on tech channels when I was just getting into the hobby 😂 I'd honestly be flabbergasted if you told me in 2023 it could run modern games at the (at the time) holy grail 1080p 60+fps.
I have a X5650 running at 22*205=4.51GHz @1.520V, 6*4=24GB of DDR3 RAM at 1640. Mobo is GB X58A-UDR3 rev.2/FH, cooled with some old school CoolerMaster 240 AIO when those first came out. Once a monster, still a legend!! I hook it up to my 65" TV and use it as a HTPC for live sports streams, arcade style games (RX 460, handles fighting titles like Tekken7, KOFXV, and SF5 just fine) and various high end emulators like Cemu, Yuzu and RPCS3. I need to stress that dust filtering is very important for preserving these old warriors! As long as you keep greasy dirt and humidity out of the case, these veterans will be able to keep fighting for many productive years to come!
good analysis and solid presentation. crazy to see a 12 year old chip still pushing very playable frame rates with good quality settings at 1080p. this + 1080ti and you’ve got a pc that aged like wine. would consider subbing if you compared to a more mainstream cpu like a 5600 or 13400. i don’t think too many people rock 10900x’s
I had a 980x kicking around and I didn’t even play with it until I watched this video.
I was able to get 4900ish cinebench at 4.4ghz but as much as I tried I could not hit 5000. It would just get too hot eventually and if you are past 90c for too it will start to throttle.
Ill get my video up at some point, but it was a fun experiment.
holds up well you could game well with it
I do built it back in 2010 i7 980x on a rampage formula 3 mobo 24gb 2000mhz ram in triple channel I can't remember what gpu I had it to begin with but nowdays it's got a gtx 1080 in it my youngest son uses it now plays basically anything he wants once hes done with it I plan on putting some of the parts on display
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Fun fact:
You can boot certain NVMe drives on the X58 platform in order to breathe some extra life into it.
Samsung's old 950 PRO NVMe drives will boot natively on the X58 platform
(only the 950 PRO will do this though, other models will not).
X58 doesn't have proper SATAIII ports, so even SATA SSD's will be kind of slow on it.
But with an NVMe drive installed the platform feels modern and snappy.
I have an X58 computer myself with the following specs:
Evga X58 Classified (E760)
Intel Xeon W3690 (basically the same as the Core i7 990x)
24 GB Corsair DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM
Samsung 950 PRO NVMe 512 GB (these are widely available on eBay)
GeForce GTX TITAN X (Maxwell)
It's running Windows 11 and it runs pretty well for a 13 year old PC with these upgrades.
Or use duet bootloader And you can literally use any SSD
This requires a USB-thumbdrive to be connected at all times though.
Also, i tried this with an "Intel 750 PCIe NVMe" drive once, and it made the "Percentage Used" drop rapidly on the drive
(dropped by 15% after only a week).
Something about emulating NVMe-booting was wearing the drive out rapidly i guess
(it stopped declining in health once i stopped using duet bootloader on it).
That's why i went with the "Samsung 950 PRO" as it just boots natively on X58.
@@SuperConker ASUS p6t series had expressgate, if you flashed p6t ws bios, it exploited that 512mb onboard storage And i wrote duet to it
Mine was the i7 3820 x79 and it died around 2018. I switched to ryzen 7 2700x at that time since I want to try out amd. I kept my i7 3820 with its original box and placed it in my shelf for collection sake xD
These old CPU:s, especially Intel ones are just absolute beasts. I just upgraded my PC from i7-2600k to an used Ryzen 5 2600 system. Yes, the performance went up quite a bit but that i7 also handled everything I need just fine. Upgraded because that i7 board was on it's last legs, constantly crashing and sometimes didn't even want to boot, and it sure is pretty hard to find LGA1155 boards these days
Thanks for sharing 👍 I had the 2700K and it lasted until 3900X replaced it, agreed, it was not slow and still pretty usable. Golden era of CPU's
Believe it or not, there are Japanese & Taiwanese company that still make a brand new LGA 1150 1151 1155 motherboards.
They're joint company and their Motherboard is called Kaizen. It has a very good VRM. And the Motherboard itself has M.2 SSD slot.
Yeah imagine being able to use M.2 SSD natively with Core i7 2600k
I got my Kaizen board for a mere $30 brand new for Core i7 4790K
The only downside is that they clearly stated in the Motherboard box to DON'T Overclock your CPU.
You're still allowed to run the CPU at highest default boost speed. Just not Overclock beyond default boost speed.
I've been using it for 2 years and it's pretty good.
I would love to see how this i7 performs in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, a game which can push a lot of load on the CPU^^
It's hard to believe anyone would still be using a Core i7-920 or 950 anymore since the x5675 costs $5. I could see motherboard limitations being an excuse, but aside from that there is no reason to not to upgrade to a 6-core Xeon.
haha I remember playing Star wars the old republic on my dad's pc with this processor. Definitely was spoiled by it.
It would be interesting to compare performance of 2011 and 2020 CPUs in 2011 games and older
My main PC is still on X58 with a Xeon X5670 @ 4.4GHz, 24GB RAM and GTX 1080. I got my first X58 system 10 years ago with a W3520 (i7-920), it was a nice upgrade from my previous Core2 Duo E6300, and in 2016 I upgraded to the 6c/12t X5670.
Mine scores 695 single and 5464 multi on Cinebench R23.
that's cinebench r23*, in r15 a 10900k gets around 2500pts in multi thread
@@Enrique-lo2pf True, I accidentally typed R15 because it's what I use most of the time. In R15 it gets 1033pts
Man love the X58 platform. My Win xp machine is running I7-980X 4GHz with NH-D15 on an MSI X58 Eclipse SLi and a Titan X. Best platform from Intel to boot
Sweet! Must be awesome, using XP!!
i used to have an i7-870 i used from launch until 2018 when i upgraded to ryzen
I went with 2700K to R9 3900X! Thanks for sharing
Nice video. It vould be interesting to repeat the test with an AMD GPU as it would have less driver overhead.
23050 points Cinebench R23 for my system i9-12900k ES (QXJE) 4.8GHz P-cores, 3.8GHz E-cores + 16GB DDR4 4000 19-23-23-42 .
You should test with the newer systems locked to the same PCIe generation as your 990x and re-run the benchmarks.
Interestingly, the die area and transistor count of these "Gulftown" CPUs is surprisingly close to Sandy Bridge i7s (239 vs. 216mm2, 1.17 vs. 1.16 billion transistors). Which is interesting because the i7-2600 has 2/3rd the L3 cache, memory controllers, and of course the core count.
And the reason is the awful HD2000 integrated graphics no one actually uses! Intel could've squeezed 2 more cores on the same die and then some, had they not included the IGP. But then again, more cores would've required more L3 cache and SRAM takes far more space than Logic so... I digress!
Those Sandy Bridge i7's were too good despite the inclusion of HD2000. I kept my 2700K until R9 3900X came out :) Thanks for checking out the vid, hope you enjoyed it :)
x5650 @4.4ghz, 3x 8gb(24gb) @ 1866mhz, Gigabyte x58 UD3 paired with a R9 280x. Bought the motherboard for $50 as 'broken' due to a coolant leak, cleaned up nice with brake cleaner. $5 x5650, ram was $15, 256gb NVME w/adapter/bios mod, $25 random case, $30 600w corsair PSU, misc parts used for water cooling and I cannot recall what I paid for the GPU, it was years ago. Pretty fancy blue liquid cooled, the only blue build I've done. I do prefer the performance for most tasks over my i7 2600k rig, but both are retired and get used only once in a while.
I enjoy my cpu that cost 1.5k when new
now only 12 dollars on aliexpress
Iv finally just finished my x79 build with a sabertooth board with a xeon E 2690 v2 10core 8×8gb 1600mhz ram and 3 zotac amp edition gtx 480 in tri sli for the fun of it
MAN! The fun begins hahah! What games are you planning on playing with that monster haha!
@Nexus Tech I have my old disc collection so I put windows 7 on it because ots good with old xp and win 98 games I have alien v predator 2 and freelancer right now on it
I have a 980x on a gigabyte UD7 board, still working to this day. I loved the overclocking of those chips, i measured power at the wall vs benchmarks and settled at 4.3ghz being most bang for the buck, what you cant show with the avg framerate is the terrible frame times. My partner had a i5 6500 stock with same gpu and it would run rings around this old beast in terms of smooth gameplay. now my overclocking days are done and settled with a new 7800x3d
Thanks for sharing mate! I'm looking forward seeing how does the old beast stack up against other newer chips :) Are you happy with your X3D ? I've been put off replacing my R9 3900X by all of the problems with blowing chips and very expensive mobos...
@@nexus_tech I was lucky and as I was building my pc the videos were coming out about high soc voltage under expo conditions. So just left it off, 4 days later, new bios. Now it’s been a fair few weeks of tweaking to see what silicone quality I got, running expo 6000 (2x16gb) at 1.2v and curve optimiser at -25. Stable in prime 95 for 3hrs and gets better benchmark scores that all online reviews so I’m quite happy. Improvements could be make with idle clocks and power. Intel chips clock far lower at idle and come on boost better imo. If they can improve that and possibly make a 10-12 core chiplet going forward it’s a sensational platform. No abnormal operations so far. My 2nd amd chip since the old athlon 64x2 so will see how it all goes over the longer term
My 990x still my best friend.
In Cooler Master HAF X under V10 cooler on Rampage III Extreme every task is solved at low temperature. I'm attached to them all.
Just need change 1650S to something better and hit the road again.
Used the xeon w3690 which is the same on a asus p6t ws pro for many years at 4.32ghz. It got replaced beginning of last year.
I love my i7-990X - overclocked to 4316 (166x26) on air cooling, at 1.42 volts, on a gigabyte ex58 - I am getting 140 fps in DCS single player at 1080P on a 2080Super , and around 50-80fps on multiplayer depending on how ridiculous the growling sidewinder server is, lol.
Hehe I am running this as my daily driver with a evga X58 classified motherboard
should add a bclock oc i noticed you have it at the 133 . these old chips like faster bclocks since the bclock is decoupled . mix of multi and block would yeild you a better score
A comparison with the X5675 (supposed to be a very good overclocker) OCed to the same 4.5 GHz would be dope and see the differences between the mainstream and server CPU where the main overclocking is on the latter being done by raising the BCLK Frequency. You also could squezee out some performance by using 1866 Ram (with 1333 base clock) so you could have it running at around this speed clock (only manual OC,you can't use XMP profile with Xeon processors, they won't boot).
Fantastic CPU! He is still a beast!
Thanks for checking out the video, I agree 👍
I would like to see how well that cooler works
$10 Xeon X5670@4.5GHz for 10+ years, now that's value for money.
I wanna see how this compare to R5 1600. Very good job you have done @Nexus Tech respect.
Thank you! Will do, there's plenty of CPU's lined up to be tested :)
Would have liked to see what fps you get compared to current gen 6 cores
My first cpu was the i7 980x. While i have sold it a long time ago, i still have the board
Nice! Which board did you get ?
@@nexus_tech asus p6x58d
смотрел на этот проц еще в журнале ДПК
I think a better comparison would be with other 6-core i7's of later generations with similar clock speeds rather than i9's. Might be interesting to see how efficiency has improved so comparisons with much lower TDP 4-5GHz i7's (maybe even H series chips) would be good.
Hello mate, Thanks for checking out the video :) I agree, I can not wait to test more CPU's - the i9 sits there as the reference to my main test bench. I've got "few" CPU's lined up, essentially 1st gen to 10th gen, finding time to make vids is the problem :)
i had this cpu for along time, actually killed it trying to OC, so then I got a xeon w3690 (look itup) it's the same as the 990x, (same chipset, same motheboard, same core count, same cache, same everything) and had it until a few years ago that I evevntually upgraded, to i9 9900k > now ryzen 9 5900x.
Still think x58 would make a great home server rig for running plex or truenas
My Dream build from 2011 I was 16 at that time 🤣
i7 990x
Crossfire HD7970 (forgot the release date)
Rampage gene iv
6x4gb ddr4 1600 ram full slot ram
120gb ssd 1tb HDD
Packed in
A modded x2 120mm intake + cable management (cable hiders😶)
FRACTAL design Core 1000
Now I'm still using my 1st and current pc from 2019
Ryzen 7 2700
Rx 570
32gb ddr3200
🤣
Old days
I really miss the
Core 1000 design from fractal
It's just so Compact
Thanks for sharing, mate 👍 Lucky you, that was a great setup 🙂
I still got my dual x5650 build running
please do a low end modern cpu vs 990x
Had a i7-980X for years, just swapping out the GPU over the years (GTX670 x2 SLI > GTX770 > GTX1080 > RTX3060). The only thing to watch out for is AVX support; the 980X doesn't have it and a few games (literally 2 or 3) won't run.
The only problematic one atm for me is Starfield, but I won't be upgrading just for one game. The bigger issue is probably content creation apps that use AVX (3D apps such as Blender etc), as they will run significantly slower for big renders.
I'll keep my rig until the 3060 is outdated (i.e when the RTX5 series hit). Over 10 years of use can't be bad though!
Star Citizen is a poorly optimized game anyway, it has issues to run even on very high-end hardware.
Back in a day I owned 920 but sold entire platform. Now I have 975EE, X5675, 980X and 990X 😁 Looking for full set Asus R2E to rebuild my old PC.
I have the 965 and 920, still to be tested :) Thanks for sharing
I still using X5675 with Gigabyte X58A-UD3R. Planing to get RTX 4060 and more ram for this old beast. :) //// Sadly, lacking AVX still an issue for some new game titles :(
I wonder how the CPU will compare to the newer ones but on an older Cinebench? For example R10. Cinebench newer versions require more instructions, which makes newer CPUs much faster on the results, but an older Cinebench would put the score based on older instructions, thus making it possible for this CPU to be much closer in terms of results to the current generations.
I think you oc'd the cpu wrong, just overclocking the cpu multiplier gives good results, but not anywhere as close as overclcking it with bclk
Bclk increase also causes the memory and uncore speed to increase, and ive seen some sweet gains increasing the uncore
Had a w3670 which i could oc all the way up to 4.7 when uncore was untouched, but decided to dial back down to 4.4ghz and oc'd the uncore to 4ghz
200 bclk and 22x multiplier for cpu and memory was around 2000 mhz triple channel and i got much better results than just the 4.7ghz core and rest all stock
I had a ryzen 5 2600 system lying around which was oc to 4ghz and i was shocked to see the w3670 was almost same performance as the r5 2600
i'm still rocking my 10900x @4.8 with a 3080 ti @2100core 1300vram