I’ve been running a 3960x at 5.1ghz since 2011. Just kept upgrading gpus as I went. My motherboard x79 extreme 11 blew last week. So I guess it’s time for a new setup.
I love these older HEDT platforms. I recently got a i7 5930k for $25 and it is surprisingly still capable in 2022. I was able to get it to 4.4GHz just by adjusting the multiplier in the BIOS. The best part of it is, I got a MSI X99A Godlike for only $150 to go along with it!
Thanks for mentioning my channel. Feel free to reach out to me if you ever decide to test the X99 Xeons with the Chinese LGA 2011-3 motherboards and need some info.
I would recommend dyson sphere program for these same reasons. also a fairly decent benchmark for writing to storage devices when your late game save is 2gb.
I bought a used 3960X back in 2015 after I did all the calculations and figured out that overclocked it would perform just like a 6700K still my main system today and I saved a lot of money and the extra threads and cores really help with productivity even more than what an aging 6700K can do
I'm still using a Z80 that I bought in 1981. I just keep increasing the clock speed as needed to keep up with the modern games. It was originally clocked at 4 MHz, but I've managed to get it up to 4.6 GHz by increasing the voltage and using a bigger heat sink.
True! I've got a 1035T which turned out to be a very competent overclocker (~3.9GHz). Performance isn't great anymore, but it's definitely still quite usable these days. The lack of SSE4 does hold it back a lot though. I was quite amazed to find out it only cost about €120 when it was new. You do need to overclock them by a lot to get the most out of 'em, including northbridge, HT-link and ram speed (which 'll only go up to ~1700MHz or so)
Still have x79 as my second rig. Had 1680v2 for a year or so at 4.7Ghz. Later sold that chip and ended up with 2697v2 at 113bclk. Still plenty of performance.
@@Rex-tt1vk well, all depends on the workload. My 1680v2 24/7 was doing like 4.4Ghz at 1.24V. In prime95 with avx it was hitting 200W. Could get 4.7Ghz at 1.4V and cooling the chip itself was not that hard but on the other hand Vrms...(at 1.4V with prime95 was hitting 300W and couldn't keep them cool enough to be stable on longer runs). All in all 1680v2 cost me twice as much as 2697v2 so I wouldn't say it was worth the price but it was fun :)
@@Rex-tt1vk also in comparison 2697v2 with 25mv positive voltage offset in prime95 was eating 140W (3.4Ghz under load). Definitely more efficient/perf.
Price is holding me back from picking up a 1680 v2 for review - that, plus my MB doesn't support it :( I started looking into alternative motherboards, but I think in the short term I'm just going to move on to look at X99 and maybe revisit X79 sometime down the road.
@@IcebergTech yeah, few years back it was expensive but modern alternatives weren't that much faster for price. Nowadays this platform is only worth discovering for fun. As of support no vendors officially support 1680v2. I think only dell and mac workstations support it officially. Had to read old forums of hobbyist and overclockers who tried those CPUs on different mobos. Rolled a dice and it worked on my ASUS P9X79. Had to get CPU from China because it was nowhere to be bought on my continent for normal price. Thankfully it worked and got my money back after reselling :)
I still game on a spare PC with an Gigabyte x79 motherboard, 4930k overclocked to 4.5GHz and 16GB quad channel RAM @ 2400.... still cool tech to keep around.
The general conclusion as almost always in these kinds of tests apply to this one as well - still great if you already have the system, but not really anything to get today since it's only a matter of time before it will be considered obsolete and with no viable upgrade path that doesn't include upgrading the entire system.
I had a x5650 CPU with Mainboard and 12gb RAM around and build an entrylevel gaming PC with that. I was kinda surprised how well it runs some modern games, then again it's a 1000€ CPU from 2010 or so You might want to look at them too :)
I’ve had my i7 3970x since 2011 and ran it with a GTX 970 until a year ago. Changed to an RTX 3080 at 4K and my games would stutter for the first 2mins of every match. Just ordered a 13900k cuz I felt it was finally time to upgrade.
At first expected bit more of an diffrience between lowest vs highest sandy bridge i7s...untill I saw how good "singleplayer" section went for it Looking forward to how Ivy bridge with 8 cores+ and 30mb of cache gonna hold up in comparison
@@besomewheredosomething Yes, I've picked up a couple of Xeons but I'm holding fire until January to benchmark them. Wanted to test the waters first with consumer chips before I go delving into the Xeons!
@@IcebergTech Nice! I own a few of these (including the aforementioned 3960x). I've always found that while pricey, they were an astounding investment if bought when they were released.
i'm not sure if you're totally sold on the Civ 6 CPU benchmarking, it's pretty standardized for it across Tom's Hardware, Gamers Nexus, Anandtech, et c or if it's a little less obvious how it can be used to compare CPUs... typically you will want the average of 4 passes. a turn time of slightly over 7 seconds is on the level of a Ryzen 2700X.
Man I remember wanting a 6 Core i7 soooo bad! I had one on my wishlist and just before I got my Ryzen 9 3900X I saw the 3960X on the old amazon list! Of course the 3900X ended up being more than I could ever ask for.
HEDT platforms where so much fun, used to have a 3930k+sabertooth x79 run it 4.8ghz 24/7 for about 4-5 years paired with some fun stuff aka 7970 or when i got crazy and buyed a 7990, sadly when i got a 2070 super, it really started to show its age and i upgraded to a 3700x and it was night and day difference, even more when i compare to the 5900x that i have now, but the fun part of overclocking and trying to get 1 more point in cinebench is really gone
Nice in dept, love it. Battlefield v runs quite ok on my dual xeon 2650 e5 system with a 3060. 64GB DDR3 ECC... That costs like 500$ CDN (minus the 3060) You should try the Chinese motherboards it's like drugs, yes; an addict.
Back then owning a I7 3960x was a pipe dream! Owned a Bulldozer FX 8150 4.4Ghz was okay chip, intel won that era though, i couldn't afford intel back then, upgraded to the 3950x @ 4.1Ghz 2019 > 5950x @ 4.6Ghz 2022 will be waiting till AM5 gets cheaper and more efficient before upgrading.
@@IcebergTech You Might find looking at the E5-2697v2 and interesting core, you can adjust the Bclk of it and get them running 4ghz across 12 cores, and the 30mb of cashe might be quite nice for gaming on.
I got an i7 6900k, from a company that was going out of business, and I got it out of a work station in 2020. Took a bit but I got a refurbished msi x99a gaming pro carbon motherboard. With some tweaks in the bios I'm not sure if it's just msi so don't quote me here. You can change the all core max speed and max turbo core boost on all the cores. So mine is running at 3.2 with boosting up to 3.8 and single core turboboost on each core is now 4.55ghz stable. Plus didn't have to go crazy on water cooling just a scythe mugan 5 Just replaced the fan on the heatsink and back of the case with 2 Akasa 120 Piranha.
That Battlefield V stuttering looks like my experience with battlefield 1. I had a 4670k at the time, and it stuttered a ton, but I happened to get my hands on a 4790k at that time, which completely fixed the stuttering. Really beats my cyberpunk experience with the same 4790k though.
I love these older i7s, they are awesome and would love to have one like this, paired with a GTX Titan which is another thing I like for no reason. My Elitebook has an i7 2820QM but it's literally impossible to bring out its potential as it hits 100°C before that lmao
@@filip9587 oh yeah i did that, sadly it didn't help much the laptop is constructed so well but for some reason it only has one small fan for the entire heatsink, no idea why
@denikec Maybe you could look online for a larger fan that has a similar footprint to the one on the Elitebook. If not, you may have to do some modding of some kind or maybe liquid cool it (if you don't mind losing the portability).
@@filip9587 Yeah I thought about that, however now that I finished university i didn't really need the laptop anymore, and I was sad to see it collect dust so I sold it to a friend today, so it can live on and actually be used.
Yes, I'm considering looking at X58 next year. I had an Intel DX58 board once, the revision 2 one with skull logos all over it, along with an X5650. I was reading a review from around the launch of Sandy Bridge where an i3-2100 was almost matching the i7 Extreme in Crysis, so I guess single thread performance wouldn't be their strong suit!
The only reason i have not looked into these kinds of older platforms for fun is cause the i3 12100 is such an anomoly its 6 core good but has 4 cores and this is why im waiting till the new i3 appears and is benched as it will be better or just drive down the price for the current i3 which benefits any gamers out there.
IPC is incredibly important. newer cpu = way higher IPC, the 12100 being "6 core good but has 4" doesnt count for so much if you ever need to do anything that really needs the extra cores (rendering or whatever) although it does do INCREDIBLY well for such a "low end" cpu. and for gaming will happily feed a 3070 in most games with very little bottleneck.
@@dixie_rekd9601 Exactly im talking on people who 90% of the time game and 10% of the time use their setup for other stuff i.e a 13100 or 12100 would suffice or a Ryzen 3 4300g.
To be fair on my phone it just showed ultimate six core until I click on more near the title. I had already typed the comment. Before I read the 2011 part.
It says 130 watt tdp but the concept of tdp is a bit flawed. It's got a larger surface area on the heat spreader than alot of CPU's so if your cooler can take advantage of this extra bit of contact, then it's a bit easier to cool than 130watts on a smaller die size.
I am literally still running the 3930K, and I gotta say it's been a champ, buuut its single-core performance even with an all-core OC of 4.2GHz is honestly not good enough today. It's roughly equivalent to a Ryzen 5 1600. And the platform has definitely aged out by now.
I'm just always baffled/amazed by how you get kills in multiplayer games like fortnite and valorant without fully aiming and just using the crosshairs.
Thanks, it's mainly because I edit out all the times I miss... Seriously though, someone commented on one of my early videos something to the effect of "lol this scrub uses ADS". One thing about this job is that it makes you feel very self conscious about how you play multiplayer games, so I spent a while practising shooting without aiming down sights in Valorant, and now I wish all FPS could get out of the COD mindset!
My haswell i5 chip is still running amazing. It wasn't binned but I got lucky as heck. 2010-2015 was excellent for Intel. About to upgrade to 13th gen, z790, DDR4. gonna be a nice jump with the new instruction sets available.
intel core i7 3960X processor, motherboard msi x79 big bang xpower2 I'm going to buy such a computer for me they will find unused if they don't find it they will produce it
i use its bigger brother the 4960x and have a chinese motherboard, bc the previous one died. But I must say in combination with the gtx 1080 it is still fast enough to keep up. Btw I dont use a oc.
Yep that the silicone lottery for you ...only 4.5 GHz ... Got the same chip years a go until the Mother board dyed... overclockt to a civil 5.0 GHz at 5.1 GHz not all games where stabil ...
You should try ark as it is quite scalabale, for example a friend of mine ( rather ex friend) can run it on his 930MX and I5 5th gen mobile, at min settings, whilst at ultra i barely get away with 60fps at 1080p with my 3070ti,3600X and 32 gigs of 3200mhz ram
I'm currently running a 3960X on a Asus Ramage 4 extreme motherboard and I'm interested in overclocking it to help play newer games such as Elden ring. Is there any good guides that show how to safely do this? What do I need to watch out for? I've seen some but they tell you just put in these numbers. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
For Battlefield V there i wouldnt be surprised if its nvidias shader cache trying too build a database of stuff which can cause stutters on lighter games & even older ones too. Almost got my pc ready too be rebuilt. Going a bit overkill with cpu probably, but will be running 2x8 gb ram from kingston 3200 mhz fury cl16 kit, for i think 61 usd back in June this year. A used msi b450 tomahawk motherboard for 80$, AM4 adapter kit for my Noctua NH-U12P special edition from 2009. That i got for free with a 1155 motherboard in 2017 which im still using & did a side upgrade from my aging phenom II x6 1090t with a I5 2500 first & then a 2500k after i got my 1660 super in 2020, got this 2500k at 4.5 ghz as in general sandy bridge has a sweet spot there id say, like 95% of all chips will do 4.5 ghz at reasonable voltages and settings. And cpu I'll most likely buy a ryzen 5600 even if I'm going too be using a gtx 1660 super for another year or so. GTA Online & Borderlands 3 does benefit from the extra oomph vs a ryzen 3000 series chip & the ryzen 5500 i feel might not be a good buy when they are that close in price anyway, like if im deciding on the 5500 instead i might as well go for a used 3600 or 3700 if i need too save money.
Part of my (long, arduous) BIOS flashing procedure with the Gigabyte X79-UD3 was due to the fact that it wouldn't recognise anything later than GTX 600 series. Even the GT 710 wouldn't work, in any slot. Not that it directly relates, but have you tried updating your BIOS?
Yeah, I wondered about that too. It's definitely an anomaly, I have tried out seven CPUs so far - six of them Sandy or Ivy Bridge - and five of those six chips have had sub-30 1% Lows and single digit 0.1%s. Just part of the joys of testing large scale multiplayer games! I have a few more chips to test, but so far the common denominator seems to be AVX 2. The Ryzen 5600X and a 7th gen Intel both had similar, way better 1%s and were much smoother in BF V than the Sandys & Ivys.
Cores don't matter, and you don't need high end CPUs to game. Some games need specific caches due to their physics, but you get carried away, and you're going to bottle neck to your gpu.
I’ve been running a 3960x at 5.1ghz since 2011. Just kept upgrading gpus as I went. My motherboard x79 extreme 11 blew last week. So I guess it’s time for a new setup.
5.1ghz, wild, that's why it blew, 11 years tho not bad for that oc, what voltage was set on cpu?
5.1 is wild. Voltage?
DAMN, 5.1 in 2011.. thats gorgeous
Is that all core? I wonder, what was the voltage and power consumption?
Damn, I'd doubt any of the new CPUS can reach the potential that yours did
I love these older HEDT platforms. I recently got a i7 5930k for $25 and it is surprisingly still capable in 2022. I was able to get it to 4.4GHz just by adjusting the multiplier in the BIOS. The best part of it is, I got a MSI X99A Godlike for only $150 to go along with it!
I missed out on an Asus Sabertooth X99 for £140, but I’ve got a saved eBay search. Really want to check out some Haswell & Broadwell-Es!
Well i wouldnt say 150 buck is only
@@luisgoncalves2864 decent deal for basically a top tier board. Comparing my rve to my z690 tuf the quality and features of the rve still hold
I7 3770K still serves me well! ;-)
@@deagt3388 what graphics card you run?
Thanks for mentioning my channel. Feel free to reach out to me if you ever decide to test the X99 Xeons with the Chinese LGA 2011-3 motherboards and need some info.
with bf5 running dx12 causes those frametime hitches. run dx11 next test!
I bought an i9 9900k to stay with the LGA 1151 socket (have working parts that are compatible) and your videos like this. Rock on!
Factorio offers a great example of a very cpu cache and memory throughput bound situation for benchmarking.
I would recommend dyson sphere program for these same reasons. also a fairly decent benchmark for writing to storage devices when your late game save is 2gb.
I bought a used 3960X back in 2015 after I did all the calculations and figured out that overclocked it would perform just like a 6700K still my main system today and I saved a lot of money and the extra threads and cores really help with productivity even more than what an aging 6700K can do
Ur 3960X still working fine?
I'm still using a Z80 that I bought in 1981. I just keep increasing the clock speed as needed to keep up with the modern games. It was originally clocked at 4 MHz, but I've managed to get it up to 4.6 GHz by increasing the voltage and using a bigger heat sink.
>0:20
2014 the i7-5820k costed only 330$.
The Phenom II x6 1055t was also really cheap back in the day. (2010)
True! I've got a 1035T which turned out to be a very competent overclocker (~3.9GHz). Performance isn't great anymore, but it's definitely still quite usable these days. The lack of SSE4 does hold it back a lot though. I was quite amazed to find out it only cost about €120 when it was new. You do need to overclock them by a lot to get the most out of 'em, including northbridge, HT-link and ram speed (which 'll only go up to ~1700MHz or so)
haha, had owned a 1055t. good memories :)
Still have x79 as my second rig. Had 1680v2 for a year or so at 4.7Ghz. Later sold that chip and ended up with 2697v2 at 113bclk. Still plenty of performance.
2697V2 is damn solid at anything above 110bclk, how do you find it vs 1680v2?
@@Rex-tt1vk well, all depends on the workload. My 1680v2 24/7 was doing like 4.4Ghz at 1.24V. In prime95 with avx it was hitting 200W. Could get 4.7Ghz at 1.4V and cooling the chip itself was not that hard but on the other hand Vrms...(at 1.4V with prime95 was hitting 300W and couldn't keep them cool enough to be stable on longer runs). All in all 1680v2 cost me twice as much as 2697v2 so I wouldn't say it was worth the price but it was fun :)
@@Rex-tt1vk also in comparison 2697v2 with 25mv positive voltage offset in prime95 was eating 140W (3.4Ghz under load). Definitely more efficient/perf.
Price is holding me back from picking up a 1680 v2 for review - that, plus my MB doesn't support it :(
I started looking into alternative motherboards, but I think in the short term I'm just going to move on to look at X99 and maybe revisit X79 sometime down the road.
@@IcebergTech yeah, few years back it was expensive but modern alternatives weren't that much faster for price. Nowadays this platform is only worth discovering for fun. As of support no vendors officially support 1680v2. I think only dell and mac workstations support it officially. Had to read old forums of hobbyist and overclockers who tried those CPUs on different mobos. Rolled a dice and it worked on my ASUS P9X79. Had to get CPU from China because it was nowhere to be bought on my continent for normal price. Thankfully it worked and got my money back after reselling :)
I still game on a spare PC with an Gigabyte x79 motherboard, 4930k overclocked to 4.5GHz and 16GB quad channel RAM @ 2400.... still cool tech to keep around.
4930K eh? Hmmm....
Not bad from i7 in 2012, but too expensive for it and if you see the inflations. Thanks for the review.
The general conclusion as almost always in these kinds of tests apply to this one as well - still great if you already have the system, but not really anything to get today since it's only a matter of time before it will be considered obsolete and with no viable upgrade path that doesn't include upgrading the entire system.
I think if you can find these types of old HEDT systems for relatively cheap (
Top tier content you deserve way more followers keep it up 🖤
Im still usiny an i7 3770k, which while isnt the same class, it still holds up great.
I had a x5650 CPU with Mainboard and 12gb RAM around and build an entrylevel gaming PC with that. I was kinda surprised how well it runs some modern games, then again it's a 1000€ CPU from 2010 or so
You might want to look at them too :)
had a 5650 system at 4.3GHz, beast of a cpu for 20$, triple channel was super nice too
@@magcs6233 yess!!!
Sadly i had a cheap Motherboard with no overclocking option
At 4ghz it must have been amazing :D
@@histrigaming7344 yeah i was lucky to have been given an old workstation that had a really nice asus board
I’ve had my i7 3970x since 2011 and ran it with a GTX 970 until a year ago. Changed to an RTX 3080 at 4K and my games would stutter for the first 2mins of every match. Just ordered a 13900k cuz I felt it was finally time to upgrade.
You upgraded?
I built my daughter a lga2011 system with 64gb ddr3 and xeon e5 1680 v2 8 core cpu. Works really well for her
Thank you for the comparrison to the the 3820 (hopefully my £80 3820 pc and the 3930k will arrive tomorrow 👍)
At first expected bit more of an diffrience between lowest vs highest sandy bridge i7s...untill I saw how good "singleplayer" section went for it
Looking forward to how Ivy bridge with 8 cores+ and 30mb of cache gonna hold up in comparison
8 core+ Ivy is going to be January, after next week I’m looking into some different platforms
@@IcebergTech It's going to be really fast, but the lack of AVX2 and other instruction set extentions would hurt useability in some cases.
@@IcebergTech There wasn't a consumer 8 core Ivy-Bridge. The first consumer 8 core was the "Haswell" 5960x. There were obviously 8 core Xeons.
@@besomewheredosomething Yes, I've picked up a couple of Xeons but I'm holding fire until January to benchmark them. Wanted to test the waters first with consumer chips before I go delving into the Xeons!
@@IcebergTech Nice! I own a few of these (including the aforementioned 3960x). I've always found that while pricey, they were an astounding investment if bought when they were released.
Keep up the great work!
You're too kind, as always!
Good shit bro. Enjoying you channel.
I wonder if anyone upgraded from the 3960X to the 3960X? 🤔
I see what you did there
i'm not sure if you're totally sold on the Civ 6 CPU benchmarking, it's pretty standardized for it across Tom's Hardware, Gamers Nexus, Anandtech, et c or if it's a little less obvious how it can be used to compare CPUs...
typically you will want the average of 4 passes. a turn time of slightly over 7 seconds is on the level of a Ryzen 2700X.
Now I'm tryna see some old FX processors stretch their threads ahah
Man I remember wanting a 6 Core i7 soooo bad! I had one on my wishlist and just before I got my Ryzen 9 3900X I saw the 3960X on the old amazon list! Of course the 3900X ended up being more than I could ever ask for.
The old man holds the seed well!;-)
HEDT platforms where so much fun, used to have a 3930k+sabertooth x79 run it 4.8ghz 24/7 for about 4-5 years paired with some fun stuff aka 7970 or when i got crazy and buyed a 7990, sadly when i got a 2070 super, it really started to show its age and i upgraded to a 3700x and it was night and day difference, even more when i compare to the 5900x that i have now, but the fun part of overclocking and trying to get 1 more point in cinebench is really gone
The audio artifact just after 0:30 scared me
Great video like always.
Nice in dept, love it.
Battlefield v runs quite ok on my dual xeon 2650 e5 system with a 3060. 64GB DDR3 ECC... That costs like 500$ CDN (minus the 3060)
You should try the Chinese motherboards it's like drugs, yes; an addict.
Nice, got myself combo ASUS X99-A, Noctua NH-D14, 5820k and 16gb of some slow ddr4 in quad for 155€. Testing will be fun.
Back then owning a I7 3960x was a pipe dream!
Owned a Bulldozer FX 8150 4.4Ghz was okay chip, intel won that era though, i couldn't afford intel back then, upgraded to the 3950x @ 4.1Ghz 2019 > 5950x @ 4.6Ghz 2022 will be waiting till AM5 gets cheaper and more efficient before upgrading.
i have a OC 3930k somewhere in my room
but my 10400f is so much more powerful
We are getting a new LGA2011 extream series, in LGA4677x in Janurary!
I look forward to reviewing it in 2033 😝
@@IcebergTech You Might find looking at the E5-2697v2 and interesting core, you can adjust the Bclk of it and get them running 4ghz across 12 cores, and the 30mb of cashe might be quite nice for gaming on.
1080p tests should be more valid, include that benchmarks in future video! ;-)
Everyone: 3000x CPU...
Me: Pentium 4 to E8600... XD
6 cores have been the standard for years now, i5 8400, 2017 steam hardware surveys
I got an i7 6900k, from a company that was going out of business, and I got it out of a work station in 2020. Took a bit but I got a refurbished msi x99a gaming pro carbon motherboard. With some tweaks in the bios I'm not sure if it's just msi so don't quote me here. You can change the all core max speed and max turbo core boost on all the cores. So mine is running at 3.2 with boosting up to 3.8 and single core turboboost on each core is now 4.55ghz stable. Plus didn't have to go crazy on water cooling just a scythe mugan 5 Just replaced the fan on the heatsink and back of the case with 2 Akasa 120 Piranha.
Amazing video ☺️
That Battlefield V stuttering looks like my experience with battlefield 1. I had a 4670k at the time, and it stuttered a ton, but I happened to get my hands on a 4790k at that time, which completely fixed the stuttering. Really beats my cyberpunk experience with the same 4790k though.
I love these older i7s, they are awesome and would love to have one like this, paired with a GTX Titan which is another thing I like for no reason.
My Elitebook has an i7 2820QM but it's literally impossible to bring out its potential as it hits 100°C before that lmao
Have you changed the thermal paste? That's the easiest troubleshooting method for something like this.
@@filip9587 oh yeah i did that, sadly it didn't help much
the laptop is constructed so well but for some reason it only has one small fan for the entire heatsink, no idea why
@denikec Maybe you could look online for a larger fan that has a similar footprint to the one on the Elitebook. If not, you may have to do some modding of some kind or maybe liquid cool it (if you don't mind losing the portability).
@@filip9587 Yeah I thought about that, however now that I finished university i didn't really need the laptop anymore, and I was sad to see it collect dust so I sold it to a friend today, so it can live on and actually be used.
@@denikec Well, that's unfortunate, for your friend. He'll look at those temps and be 'Holy molly' when it reaches 100° C all the time.
seeing the price of the 3960x i'm thinking that a 2690v1 for £20 might be a better cost/performance choice (especially if you can blck overclock)
Thanks for video, nice 👍 content 🤩
Good video, but the loud metal music was a bit jarring
Intel had 6c in X58 and it's either the i7-970 or the i7-980, they are not the Extreme Edition, but still within reasonable
It was the "Gulftown" i7 980x and 990x.
Yes, I'm considering looking at X58 next year. I had an Intel DX58 board once, the revision 2 one with skull logos all over it, along with an X5650.
I was reading a review from around the launch of Sandy Bridge where an i3-2100 was almost matching the i7 Extreme in Crysis, so I guess single thread performance wouldn't be their strong suit!
@@IcebergTech If you need an X5650, let me know, I have quite a few sitting around.
@@besomewheredosomething I mean, those were $1K.
The 970 and 980 were more cost alternative.
@@AlfaPro1337 Indeed, but come on, you know which one you would've wanted ;P
Damn, nice content
I've been watching for a while and I love these videos and I also wonder: is the "benchmark music" you use from dance with the dead?
I mostly use music from Backingtrack.gg. It’s license-free music for content creators.
It’s a fun platform to tinker with, but it’s sadly showing it’s age. Especially without AVX2. Long live X79
The only reason i have not looked into these kinds of older platforms for fun is cause the i3 12100 is such an anomoly its 6 core good but has 4 cores and this is why im waiting till the new i3 appears and is benched as it will be better or just drive down the price for the current i3 which benefits any gamers out there.
IPC is incredibly important.
newer cpu = way higher IPC,
the 12100 being "6 core good but has 4" doesnt count for so much if you ever need to do anything that really needs the extra cores (rendering or whatever) although it does do INCREDIBLY well for such a "low end" cpu. and for gaming will happily feed a 3070 in most games with very little bottleneck.
@@dixie_rekd9601 Exactly im talking on people who 90% of the time game and 10% of the time use their setup for other stuff i.e a 13100 or 12100 would suffice or a Ryzen 3 4300g.
That is hardly the ultimate 6 core most of the 6 cores in ryzen and modern Intels modern 6 cores would kick its ass
(of 2011)...
Not in 2011.
Lol, I guess I asked for that! I guess I shouldn't try and confound people (with my parentheses)
@@IcebergTech You're good. Some people just can not comprehend.
To be fair on my phone it just showed ultimate six core until I click on more near the title. I had already typed the comment. Before I read the 2011 part.
It says 130 watt tdp but the concept of tdp is a bit flawed. It's got a larger surface area on the heat spreader than alot of CPU's so if your cooler can take advantage of this extra bit of contact, then it's a bit easier to cool than 130watts on a smaller die size.
how does an i5 6500 play games in todays AAA games?
Wondering if my old quad core still would like a round of an RX480 :D
I am literally still running the 3930K, and I gotta say it's been a champ, buuut its single-core performance even with an all-core OC of 4.2GHz is honestly not good enough today. It's roughly equivalent to a Ryzen 5 1600.
And the platform has definitely aged out by now.
2 of my dimm slots blew out of the 8, no idea how or why, everything has been on default with 3930K
Whenever you test BFV don't use DX12 since it causes weird hitches and stutters some reason.
Hello, Did you use Directx 12 in BFV? Because that is bugged on old CPUS, Switch to DX11 for stable fps.
awsome performance👍👍👍
Yeesh, the poor old thing performs worse than my Ryzen 5 1600x
For it's age though it's doing far better than many, but definitely not a good idea for a new build as you said
I wanted this and I7 5960x
I really like the music you use. What's its name?
Neon Lights and The Doc WIll See You Now by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
@@IcebergTech thanks.
actually this part came out in 2013 i think, x99 wasn't a thing until 2014
Sorta
140w is like amd bulldozer territory :))
still happy with my i3 12100 tho and can go toe to toe with ryzen 5 3600 on games
I'm just always baffled/amazed by how you get kills in multiplayer games like fortnite and valorant without fully aiming and just using the crosshairs.
Thanks, it's mainly because I edit out all the times I miss...
Seriously though, someone commented on one of my early videos something to the effect of "lol this scrub uses ADS". One thing about this job is that it makes you feel very self conscious about how you play multiplayer games, so I spent a while practising shooting without aiming down sights in Valorant, and now I wish all FPS could get out of the COD mindset!
My haswell i5 chip is still running amazing. It wasn't binned but I got lucky as heck. 2010-2015 was excellent for Intel. About to upgrade to 13th gen, z790, DDR4. gonna be a nice jump with the new instruction sets available.
intel core i7 3960X processor, motherboard msi x79 big bang xpower2 I'm going to buy such a computer for me they will find unused if they don't find it they will produce it
i use its bigger brother the 4960x and have a chinese motherboard, bc the previous one died. But I must say in combination with the gtx 1080 it is still fast enough to keep up. Btw I dont use a oc.
Yep that the silicone lottery for you ...only 4.5 GHz ... Got the same chip years a go until the Mother board dyed... overclockt to a civil 5.0 GHz at 5.1 GHz not all games where stabil ...
You should try ark as it is quite scalabale, for example a friend of mine ( rather ex friend) can run it on his 930MX and I5 5th gen mobile, at min settings, whilst at ultra i barely get away with 60fps at 1080p with my 3070ti,3600X and 32 gigs of 3200mhz ram
Make videos on AliExpress parts. They are interesting and sure will get lot of views
Oh i had the 3930k its still quite acceptable
its waste of money now when you can get much faster new cpus for similar price as this used and mobo too
I'm currently running a 3960X on a Asus Ramage 4 extreme motherboard and I'm interested in overclocking it to help play newer games such as Elden ring. Is there any good guides that show how to safely do this? What do I need to watch out for? I've seen some but they tell you just put in these numbers. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
whats the name of the song i know the place but i cant find it
I7 5820k please
If you are close to Poland, i would be able to borrow you a X99 platform with E5-2640v4 for some kind of vodeo
Thats 10C/20T Broadwell unit
Fajnie wiedzieć że iceberg doczekał się widowni z polski
@@Rex-tt1vk kto nie lubi odkrywać starych topowych sprzętów? ;)
Run bf5 in dx11. It's like night and day difference. Dx12 is allways a stuttery mess.
For Battlefield V there i wouldnt be surprised if its nvidias shader cache trying too build a database of stuff which can cause stutters on lighter games & even older ones too.
Almost got my pc ready too be rebuilt.
Going a bit overkill with cpu probably, but will be running 2x8 gb ram from kingston 3200 mhz fury cl16 kit, for i think 61 usd back in June this year.
A used msi b450 tomahawk motherboard for 80$, AM4 adapter kit for my Noctua NH-U12P special edition from 2009.
That i got for free with a 1155 motherboard in 2017 which im still using & did a side upgrade from my aging phenom II x6 1090t with a I5 2500 first & then a 2500k after i got my 1660 super in 2020, got this 2500k at 4.5 ghz as in general sandy bridge has a sweet spot there id say, like 95% of all chips will do 4.5 ghz at reasonable voltages and settings.
And cpu I'll most likely buy a ryzen 5600 even if I'm going too be using a gtx 1660 super for another year or so. GTA Online & Borderlands 3 does benefit from the extra oomph vs a ryzen 3000 series chip & the ryzen 5500 i feel might not be a good buy when they are that close in price anyway, like if im deciding on the 5500 instead i might as well go for a used 3600 or 3700 if i need too save money.
How many cores would you say the FX8320 has. 2? 3? Certainly not 8. 😂
I don't want to annoy any fans, so I'm going to say it has 32 cores.
Would anyone have any insight as to why my build with a 3960x won't post with a 3060 but will with a 2060?
Part of my (long, arduous) BIOS flashing procedure with the Gigabyte X79-UD3 was due to the fact that it wouldn't recognise anything later than GTX 600 series. Even the GT 710 wouldn't work, in any slot.
Not that it directly relates, but have you tried updating your BIOS?
@@IcebergTech I'll double check but I'm sure I have the most up to date BIOS
@@IcebergTech Asus Rampage IV Extreme
@@TehGrayson Was just a thought. Maybe clear the CMOS?
@@IcebergTech BIOS is the latest, I haven't tried cleaning CMOS
Strange that in BF5 the 3820 had much better lows 🤔🤔
Yeah, I wondered about that too. It's definitely an anomaly, I have tried out seven CPUs so far - six of them Sandy or Ivy Bridge - and five of those six chips have had sub-30 1% Lows and single digit 0.1%s. Just part of the joys of testing large scale multiplayer games!
I have a few more chips to test, but so far the common denominator seems to be AVX 2. The Ryzen 5600X and a 7th gen Intel both had similar, way better 1%s and were much smoother in BF V than the Sandys & Ivys.
@@IcebergTech Keep them coming ! lol
Cores don't matter, and you don't need high end CPUs to game. Some games need specific caches due to their physics, but you get carried away, and you're going to bottle neck to your gpu.
120W ☠️
Run battlefield 5 in dx11 it sucks in dx12 stuttering and shiz
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Dang, this video showing up on my YT app while Im tryna find branded X79 motherboard for months in FB marketplace 🥹