I have 2 of these Gigabyte motherboards and 2 of basically the same motherboards but in the smaller form factor and they have run flawlessly for over 10 years. The first two have 2060 supers in them and the smaller form factor boards have 1660 supers. They all run everything from Quake 2 to COD4 and everything in between perfectly. The only reason they are in the Lan room for gaming only is because they are Windows 10 machines, and I pulled them offline earlier this year to keep them running perfectly. I found that as I upgraded my newer PCs over the last few years, I could move the old parts down to these older computers which I think is what has extended their life.
@@Tech-Nerdrome You would think so, but these AMD FX chips do a pretty good job, at least on older games like CODWAW and MW. They pump out a solid 500FPS, but I cap them at 333 fps so I can do all the glitch jumps. It's only RTX Quake 2 that won't go past 60fps which screws up a few 100FPS jumps. I have much newer computers with 3090's that don't do as good, but that may be a Windows 11 pro issue. I will add that none of the cores are parked. The 8 cores run full 8 cores, same with the 6 core ones. Another note is, I believe the spec say max supported memory is 16 GBs but 32GBs runs fine and the small form factor boards can run 16GBs instead of the list max of 8GBs. The only time I had trouble was years ago when I ran 2 AMD 6870's in crossfire mode. There was in-game lag, but one at a time worked great.
I have a few old 970 and 990 boards that I'll pull out and screw around with here and there like they're going to get any better over time. Just this morning I was testing one of my first motherboards that was purchased brand new. A AMD FM2+ with a 870K that my brother brought back from China in the early 2000's. I paired it with a GTX 560 ti and was actually able to play some recent games at 720 / 1080p depending on the game. I fell asleep about 3:30 a.m. waiting on some drivers to download. My son got me up this morning and said "dad, your bedroom is hotter than the blue blazes of hell itself? What happened last night??" "I pulled out the old AMD son, it's winter time!" But on a real note I'm glad he got me up. I was using a peltier and it got overwhelmed while I fell asleep and burned out due to the top not dispatching enough heat. I forgot that's what I was originally testing.
The FM (1, 2 and 2+) were probably the first Apus that had useable graphics. Although not really widely adopted, or used, I think we owe them more than they're given credit for. Stay safe with your nerding!
Very enjoyable video thanks. My brother and I will be building a pc tomorrow from bit and pieces we both had lying around. Sadly the only cpu we have is a Pentium D, everyone's favourite!😂
Have fun! Pentium D - literally two Pentium 4s stuck together! Brilliant! But probably the first dual cores, so we owe them a lot. Good luck with your build!
Pentium 4 6x1 and Pentium D 9xx can, AFAIK, boot the first release of Windows 11. More recent releases raise the limit to Nehalem and AMD's Phenom II series. Not sure when the change happened, though.
I have 2 of these Gigabyte motherboards and 2 of basically the same motherboards but in the smaller form factor and they have run flawlessly for over 10 years. The first two have 2060 supers in them and the smaller form factor boards have 1660 supers. They all run everything from Quake 2 to COD4 and everything in between perfectly. The only reason they are in the Lan room for gaming only is because they are Windows 10 machines, and I pulled them offline earlier this year to keep them running perfectly. I found that as I upgraded my newer PCs over the last few years, I could move the old parts down to these older computers which I think is what has extended their life.
2060 supers?!?!? They have got to be bottlenecked by the CPU's?
@@Tech-Nerdrome You would think so, but these AMD FX chips do a pretty good job, at least on older games like CODWAW and MW. They pump out a solid 500FPS, but I cap them at 333 fps so I can do all the glitch jumps. It's only RTX Quake 2 that won't go past 60fps which screws up a few 100FPS jumps. I have much newer computers with 3090's that don't do as good, but that may be a Windows 11 pro issue. I will add that none of the cores are parked. The 8 cores run full 8 cores, same with the 6 core ones. Another note is, I believe the spec say max supported memory is 16 GBs but 32GBs runs fine and the small form factor boards can run 16GBs instead of the list max of 8GBs.
The only time I had trouble was years ago when I ran 2 AMD 6870's in crossfire mode. There was in-game lag, but one at a time worked great.
I have a few old 970 and 990 boards that I'll pull out and screw around with here and there like they're going to get any better over time. Just this morning I was testing one of my first motherboards that was purchased brand new. A AMD FM2+ with a 870K that my brother brought back from China in the early 2000's. I paired it with a GTX 560 ti and was actually able to play some recent games at 720 / 1080p depending on the game. I fell asleep about 3:30 a.m. waiting on some drivers to download. My son got me up this morning and said "dad, your bedroom is hotter than the blue blazes of hell itself? What happened last night??" "I pulled out the old AMD son, it's winter time!" But on a real note I'm glad he got me up. I was using a peltier and it got overwhelmed while I fell asleep and burned out due to the top not dispatching enough heat. I forgot that's what I was originally testing.
The FM (1, 2 and 2+) were probably the first Apus that had useable graphics. Although not really widely adopted, or used, I think we owe them more than they're given credit for. Stay safe with your nerding!
Very enjoyable video thanks. My brother and I will be building a pc tomorrow from bit and pieces we both had lying around. Sadly the only cpu we have is a Pentium D, everyone's favourite!😂
Have fun! Pentium D - literally two Pentium 4s stuck together! Brilliant! But probably the first dual cores, so we owe them a lot. Good luck with your build!
Pentium 4 6x1 and Pentium D 9xx can, AFAIK, boot the first release of Windows 11. More recent releases raise the limit to Nehalem and AMD's Phenom II series. Not sure when the change happened, though.
@@panthera8286 Good information. Although I haven't used Windows since ME.
Welp, i really need to dig out my asrock 970a-g/3.1