Nice! I skipped the C2D\C2Q era and went straight from P4 to first gen I7. I7 920 (got replaced with an X5690 I got off Aliexpress) , EVGA 285GTX, ASUS P6T Deluxe and a kit of Corsair Vengeance 24GB in triple channel. I actually used this PC with an RTX 2080, and got it replaced right before AMD came out with Zen3.
I went from a Celeron D to the q6600. Celeron D used DDR and q6600 used DDR2. I also went from a 8600 GT to two 9800 GTX's in SLi. It was a beast but it didn't live long before I upgraded to a whole new system with my first i3. the 2100. It wasn't until the intel 4000 series came out that I got my hands on a 4650 i5 and DDR4. I had Ryzen after that a few times but as of my current build it's back to Intel with a 12900k paired with DDR5 and a 4070
In 2006, playing in 1080p full hd was very uncommon, more like 120fps 4k today. Most of the time the standard "mainstream" resolution was 1280x1024. 1600x1200 was the high end sector (ike 1440p today). Seeing the GTX 8800 working so well at 1080p is just mind blowing. The Quad Core Extreme was also a good CPU...keept mine 8 years untill i bought an i7 4790k.
I remember those days fondly. I had low end stuff back then because I couldn't afford anything else. I had put together a wish list back then of the core 2 quad core, 8 GB ram, 9800 GTX in sli, and two Velociraptor HDD's at 10k rpm each in a raid 0 configuration. That configuration was just a dream though. I didn't hit mainstream technically until Ryzen came out. But that was again a few years ago. Currently rocking 12900k, 32 GB DDR5, 4070 all packed in a Fractal Ridge case.
The intro hit hard, ive never had the perfect pc, but from an athlon x2 64, all the way to finally being 21 i went through enough, an i7 920, and a GT 710, then GT 1030, then a GTX 1650, And now a water cooled 4930k and a 2060. I gave my girlfriend the 1650 to start her journey. I plan to stay upgraded, but going through a rougher childhood where every 20$ mattered, to finally having a rig that means something to me, and helping the girl i love do the same.
how do i get old parts like these in nowadays they arent in production anymore me in 2007 i might get that parts in future when they will get cheaper me now: :(
10:30 Interesting how a lowend card from 2014 was able to beat 2 top end 2006 cards in sli. Meanwhile the rtx 3050 ti from today can barely match the performance from a single gtx titan from 2015
It's crazy. For Intel 2006 was something else. Going from the $999 Pentium D EE 965 2 Cores, 4 threads with Pentium 4 based pipelining in Q1 '06, to the Core 2 Duo, and Quads by Q4 '06 was an insane leap in performance. Performance at the beginning of that year looked completely different to performance by the end of the year. Whoever bought the final Presler Extreme Edition Pentium D's were seriously hurting in their wallet department by July with simple Dual core processors already gaming faster than what they had.
Probably even in 6 Mainly because it appears that the foundation of what makes a cpu and a gpu good has begun to shift Abit Furthermore 80 and 90 series with their power consumption are going too inefficient to be worth getting even in 3 years from now
I remember my first ever PC. My dad had his friend to build me one. It cost like 2500 dollars back in 2006 money. I didn’t know what I had back then as the game could play crysis. When I told people I played this game they were shocked ( again I didn’t know that was a hard game to run ). Thing held in till 2012 that’s when the motherboard died.
I had a pretty mediocre pc in 2006. It was able to do some gaming. Around the year 2000 I had a decent pc for that time. I remember playing solider of fortune and unreal tournament. I've just recently built my dream pc. Not top of the line but close enough. Got a r7 5800x, 7900xt and 32gb ram. Having a blast with it. Still like watching videos on older hardware though.
I have 2 retro machines I use them more than my modern rig. The xp machine is pretty much my ultimate build. Intel core 2 extreme QX9650 @ 3.66 Ghz Asus p5n-d 8 Gb DDR 2 800 GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI
Really liked the video but please consider showing the images of the benchmarks a little bigger, it’s really hard to read when I watch this on my phone
It is posible to make this PC useble in 2022! We need: QX6850(OC to ~3.8-4.0); Any NVMe(booting in UEFI with Clover); GTX 780 ti; PCIe to USB 3.0 card; DDR2 1200 same 8 GB; Custom watercooling loop and for better gaming experience sound card(ASUS XONAR D2?PM/A 7.1 for example ).
im still using my q9400 8gb ddr3 ram 1333mhz and gtx760 2gb with win 10 without any problem. Motherboard is asrock g41c-gs and stock cpu fan. I didnt even overclock it. Still can play most of the games in the market.
I have gotten to a point where i am more interested in actually building PCs and watching PC hardware content, than i am in actually using my gaming pc to play games 😂😂😂😂 Anyone else in this stage?
My first build was in 2006. I had a motherboard with on board ATI graphics and it was suppose run at the same time as your external card. Giving you 2x the performance lol 😆
Ah, okay. So the builds in question would be what was the best available by the very end of the year. So for this, parts that were available before January 1st, 2007?
11:23 - Hey I would like to add that hosting a server, playing the game itself and talking on teamspeak did actually very well on a dual core at the time in my experience, so I would not go as far to call it the loser of the build. In the right hands, it posed some serious power ;).
Hah, teamspeak, damn that was long ago :D Yeah, we agree. But since we used quad-core, our point was that dual-core with higher clock would be a better fit at the time.
@@attictiertech Hey, a quad core would've performed even better. But yeah my bad, I must've misheard the model of the cpu to think that it was a dual core. I agree then, I hold the same stance for quad cores of this age.
I had the Asus Commando back then, and I still remember finding its price a bit ridiculous at the time. Looking at mid-tier Mobo-prices today (paid a little under €300 for my MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 this year), even the Striker Extreme looks like a bit of a bargain. That thing was just under €300 at launch, the Commando was around €200. The Asus Z87 Plus I went to from the Commando was a little over €100 in 2013 and the Striker/Commando equivalent Z87 Sabertooth was around €200. Even if we factor in inflation, I think it's fair to say that GPUs aren't the only components whose prices have become a bit insane as of late... :)
Amazing motherboard, graphics cards and CPU for the 2006 dreambuild. But SSDs and Windows 7? Kinda killed the vibe... Could've used a pair of those high-end 10K RPM SATA HDDs in RAID 0, which was the best of the best before SATA SSDs appeared (in late 2008 i think). And for OS, with 4GB of RAM (still amazing for 2006) you could use Windows XP, or Vista RTM 32 for the very bleeding edge tech of 2006 (Vista would run *very* well on this hardware). But 8GB of RAM complicates things for a 2006 dreambuild, as it would require Windows XP x64 or Vista RTM x64.
Recently made myselfs a pc for older games whit litle to no cost it has a Q8200, AMD HD4890' 8gb ram, and the soundblaster audigy 2 runing windows xp sp3.......it works flawlessly and even tho im bound to dx9 whit xp i love it so mutch i decided to keep it........and yes it runs crysis.
Good video. All gtx 8800's will run at 8800 ultra speeds. I had a QX6700 at 4ghz but your mileage will vary. I am not sure how that psu would handle gpu & cpu over clocks.
Actually, they were, even in commercial market. But they weren't widely available. As for us using SSDs, it's conscious decision, as spinning drives experience a lot of wear and tear over time, and can't be considered reliable. Other than load times, they are in no way impacting performance we're trying to gauge here.
He makes in 2022 a retro PC and use 4 cores instead of 2 "to be future proof" lmao It the goal is retro pc there is no need to be future proof, it only needs to be retro.
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Always like retrospective builds like these!
Nice!
I skipped the C2D\C2Q era and went straight from P4 to first gen I7.
I7 920 (got replaced with an X5690 I got off Aliexpress) , EVGA 285GTX, ASUS P6T Deluxe and a kit of Corsair Vengeance 24GB in triple channel.
I actually used this PC with an RTX 2080, and got it replaced right before AMD came out with Zen3.
Using same setup with RX 580 in crossfire, It is very hot and overpowered))
Was the 285gtx that insanely expensive card with two gpus on one card?
I went from a Celeron D to the q6600. Celeron D used DDR and q6600 used DDR2. I also went from a 8600 GT to two 9800 GTX's in SLi. It was a beast but it didn't live long before I upgraded to a whole new system with my first i3. the 2100. It wasn't until the intel 4000 series came out that I got my hands on a 4650 i5 and DDR4. I had Ryzen after that a few times but as of my current build it's back to Intel with a 12900k paired with DDR5 and a 4070
I5 4650 with ddr4? Seems legit
In 2006, playing in 1080p full hd was very uncommon, more like 120fps 4k today.
Most of the time the standard "mainstream" resolution was 1280x1024.
1600x1200 was the high end sector (ike 1440p today).
Seeing the GTX 8800 working so well at 1080p is just mind blowing.
The Quad Core Extreme was also a good CPU...keept mine 8 years untill i bought an i7 4790k.
Excellent video! I would've thought this build was incredible in 2006 and the benchmarks prove it was actually pretty darn good.
What a beautiful setup. Thank you friend for bringing back memories!
You were at 900 subs yesterday! You've grown a lot man, good luck!
this is so cool mate! love your content!
I really enjoyed this video! can't wait for more :)
Nice video and good luck getting bigger and bigger
I loved!! I'm a fan of these extreme retro builds. You got another sub ;)
I remember those days fondly. I had low end stuff back then because I couldn't afford anything else. I had put together a wish list back then of the core 2 quad core, 8 GB ram, 9800 GTX in sli, and two Velociraptor HDD's at 10k rpm each in a raid 0 configuration. That configuration was just a dream though. I didn't hit mainstream technically until Ryzen came out. But that was again a few years ago. Currently rocking 12900k, 32 GB DDR5, 4070 all packed in a Fractal Ridge case.
The intro hit hard, ive never had the perfect pc, but from an athlon x2 64, all the way to finally being 21 i went through enough, an i7 920, and a GT 710, then GT 1030, then a GTX 1650, And now a water cooled 4930k and a 2060. I gave my girlfriend the 1650 to start her journey. I plan to stay upgraded, but going through a rougher childhood where every 20$ mattered, to finally having a rig that means something to me, and helping the girl i love do the same.
My monitor cost more than your entire PC
@@JustifyTheseHeathens good for you....
Pretty good production quality. Cool stuff!
how do i get old parts like these in nowadays they arent in production anymore
me in 2007 i might get that parts in future when they will get cheaper
me now: :(
I have some old graphics cards laying around
@@DTheVigne such as?
A 8800 GTX, a GTX 470 and a GTX 260 black edition
10:30 Interesting how a lowend card from 2014 was able to beat 2 top end 2006 cards in sli.
Meanwhile the rtx 3050 ti from today can barely match the performance from a single gtx titan from 2015
It's crazy. For Intel 2006 was something else. Going from the $999 Pentium D EE 965 2 Cores, 4 threads with Pentium 4 based pipelining in Q1 '06, to the Core 2 Duo, and Quads by Q4 '06 was an insane leap in performance. Performance at the beginning of that year looked completely different to performance by the end of the year. Whoever bought the final Presler Extreme Edition Pentium D's were seriously hurting in their wallet department by July with simple Dual core processors already gaming faster than what they had.
Imagine 4090 and am5 will be like trash in 20 years from now
@slome1846xx70's are mid range cards
@slome1846that's some hard cope
Imagine getting a 4090 for 20$ in 2050
Probably even in 6
Mainly because it appears that the foundation of what makes a cpu and a gpu good has begun to shift Abit
Furthermore 80 and 90 series with their power consumption are going too inefficient to be worth getting even in 3 years from now
I think same thing will eventually happen to gpu cards as happened to soundcards...
Always been interested in gaming PCs I couldn't afford from years ago
Now this is a really good video
9:40 you're cpu limited in that scenario, not gpu limited. a gtx 750 is much faster than a 8800 gtx even in sli.
Amazing! Please do more videos of these!
this is amazing... deffo subbed.
I remember my first ever PC. My dad had his friend to build me one. It cost like 2500 dollars back in 2006 money. I didn’t know what I had back then as the game could play crysis. When I told people I played this game they were shocked ( again I didn’t know that was a hard game to run ). Thing held in till 2012 that’s when the motherboard died.
fantastic video, just subbed
Love it. Great vid.
The heatsink on the north and south bridge haha man memories
I had a pretty mediocre pc in 2006. It was able to do some gaming. Around the year 2000 I had a decent pc for that time. I remember playing solider of fortune and unreal tournament. I've just recently built my dream pc. Not top of the line but close enough. Got a r7 5800x, 7900xt and 32gb ram. Having a blast with it. Still like watching videos on older hardware though.
I have 2 retro machines I use them more than my modern rig. The xp machine is pretty much my ultimate build.
Intel core 2 extreme QX9650 @ 3.66 Ghz
Asus p5n-d
8 Gb DDR 2 800
GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI
amazing specs.
lol I have qx 9650 with GTX1070
@@majkel7296 hows that cpu bottleneck I tried running my 7970 with that cpu and i got no gain at all over my 9800s
i paired evga nForce 790i with QX9775 (4GHz) and 16GB DDR3 RAM 2000Mhz + GTX 8800 Ultra
thank you for your efforts
do ultimate builds for other years like the 90's no one has done that
Yeah, we got some of those planned out. Stay Tuned :D
Lots of people have done that.
Ever watch LGR? He's permanently living in 1998... 😂😂😂
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Really liked the video but please consider showing the images of the benchmarks a little bigger, it’s really hard to read when I watch this on my phone
Amazing video
SOOOO NICE
It is posible to make this PC useble in 2022!
We need:
QX6850(OC to ~3.8-4.0);
Any NVMe(booting in UEFI with Clover);
GTX 780 ti;
PCIe to USB 3.0 card;
DDR2 1200 same 8 GB;
Custom watercooling loop and for better gaming experience sound card(ASUS XONAR D2?PM/A 7.1 for example ).
im still using my q9400 8gb ddr3 ram 1333mhz and gtx760 2gb with win 10 without any problem. Motherboard is asrock g41c-gs and stock cpu fan. I didnt even overclock it. Still can play most of the games in the market.
I have gotten to a point where i am more interested in actually building PCs and watching PC hardware content, than i am in actually using my gaming pc to play games 😂😂😂😂 Anyone else in this stage?
It's probably obvious, but we are definitely there :D
This was the generation I first got into PCs
Still beter than my pc
My first build was in 2006. I had a motherboard with on board ATI graphics and it was suppose run at the same time as your external card. Giving you 2x the performance lol 😆
good video, kig
It seems this is for windows users only, I will contact you for developing this project!
It has similar specs to my sisters computer
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400
8GB RAM DDR2
R5 340X 2GB
500GB HARD DRIVE + 256GB SSD
R5 is worse
@@beataoo It's not lol
It's 9 years newer, uses less power, has way more vram, is faster, and has DX12 and there is so much more
@@KingSteven77 i mean it's not a 2006 GPU so..
@@beataoo ???
Ah, okay. So the builds in question would be what was the best available by the very end of the year. So for this, parts that were available before January 1st, 2007?
Yup, exactly.
11:23 - Hey I would like to add that hosting a server, playing the game itself and talking on teamspeak did actually very well on a dual core at the time in my experience, so I would not go as far to call it the loser of the build. In the right hands, it posed some serious power ;).
Hah, teamspeak, damn that was long ago :D Yeah, we agree. But since we used quad-core, our point was that dual-core with higher clock would be a better fit at the time.
@@attictiertech Hey, a quad core would've performed even better. But yeah my bad, I must've misheard the model of the cpu to think that it was a dual core. I agree then, I hold the same stance for quad cores of this age.
My 2006 build used Windows XP 32 bit. It was still usable for about 8 years. I did have to update the GPU twice though.
were is sli bridge
Did C2Quad Q9650/QX9775 come out in 2006 or later?
I think they were released in 2007
I had the Asus Commando back then, and I still remember finding its price a bit ridiculous at the time. Looking at mid-tier Mobo-prices today (paid a little under €300 for my MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 this year), even the Striker Extreme looks like a bit of a bargain. That thing was just under €300 at launch, the Commando was around €200. The Asus Z87 Plus I went to from the Commando was a little over €100 in 2013 and the Striker/Commando equivalent Z87 Sabertooth was around €200. Even if we factor in inflation, I think it's fair to say that GPUs aren't the only components whose prices have become a bit insane as of late... :)
I was still using ati9200 and P4 at that time.
Amazing motherboard, graphics cards and CPU for the 2006 dreambuild. But SSDs and Windows 7? Kinda killed the vibe... Could've used a pair of those high-end 10K RPM SATA HDDs in RAID 0, which was the best of the best before SATA SSDs appeared (in late 2008 i think). And for OS, with 4GB of RAM (still amazing for 2006) you could use Windows XP, or Vista RTM 32 for the very bleeding edge tech of 2006 (Vista would run *very* well on this hardware). But 8GB of RAM complicates things for a 2006 dreambuild, as it would require Windows XP x64 or Vista RTM x64.
Recently made myselfs a pc for older games whit litle to no cost it has a Q8200, AMD HD4890' 8gb ram, and the soundblaster audigy 2 runing windows xp sp3.......it works flawlessly and even tho im bound to dx9 whit xp i love it so mutch i decided to keep it........and yes it runs crysis.
I’m looking to build a system similar to this. But for XP And old games that don’t run on newer hardware.
Good video. All gtx 8800's will run at 8800 ultra speeds. I had a QX6700 at 4ghz but your mileage will vary. I am not sure how that psu would handle gpu & cpu over clocks.
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why do Microsoft want intel 8 gen ones ?
Try use core 2 quad or core2 extreme
Have 70fps in the witcher 3 on QX9650 on 4GHz :3
It's my PC, since I was born smack in the middle of 06
I have same Cooler Master in my setup, and is very good cooler.
What do you mean?? I'm using Win7 right now. It's fine! Just like XP was.
2006 i had :
Core 2 Quad Q6600
2x 4GB DDR2-800
Radeon 1950XTX
And A Zalman CNPS 9700
Wouldn't the slowest core 2 Quad be faster ???
Wuuuut now asus owns tuf gameing i didnt know it used to belong to seasonic
Wow sli was just to difficult to implement to warrant 2 gpus
"grand total of 8 mbs of ram" hol up-
I thought I had misheard.
I'm watching this because I was born in 2006
Dude that CPU goes for 600 on Amazon. But why?!?!
collectors and people who want to have retro gaming pc's would probably be stupid enough to buy stuff like that for such a high price
@@Tianeptine1062 You make a good argument. Not to mention it's a pure rarity at this point. By tech standards, it's an antique.
Being listed doesn't mean they sold it for that amount but old extreme CPU's still got for a lot, specially if they were rare.
just like cars, they were build better back then as far as quality and cooling
2:38 ah yes, 8MB of ram. 😂
Back then dual core with high frequency was ideal for gaming. Not four cores.
can this mine crypto bro?
Ssd’s weren’t a thing in 2006. So this isn’t very period accurate.
Actually, they were, even in commercial market. But they weren't widely available. As for us using SSDs, it's conscious decision, as spinning drives experience a lot of wear and tear over time, and can't be considered reliable. Other than load times, they are in no way impacting performance we're trying to gauge here.
He makes in 2022 a retro PC and use 4 cores instead of 2 "to be future proof" lmao
It the goal is retro pc there is no need to be future proof, it only needs to be retro.
@@bestopinion9257 Yeah? Well, you know, that is just like, your opinion man. :D
@@attictiertech best opinion here, your opinion there
@@bestopinion9257 "Ultimate Gaming PC Build for the year 2006" is it retro pc or ULTIMATE pc from 2006 era?
8MB RAM :)
ako ti nisi sa balkana onda neznan ko je😁🤜🤛
huh windows 7? XD
wooooping 8mb of ram