Let me know if you enjoy it when i bid on worthless computer parts that are often faulty and collection only. Maybe one day we'll actually get a bargain 😎
About right. But my school has had huge investments in mechanical engineering classes, so I can play Minecraft with FPS in the thousands on the CAD/CAM workstations.
Ironically, the CPUs in my school is actually pretty decently powerful. More powerful than the original Intel Core i7 (800 series). It's just, they are using ancient HDDs that are so fucking slow, it took minutes to boot it up.
My first PC had a Celeron, when it finally died I bought another PC with a Sempron, which I later upgraded to an FX6300. It can be said that my first PCs are a collection of the "best" Budget Builds
Brother, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you uploading at a high volume at this time. I'm going through a difficult phase of my life and your videos help me, as odd as that may come across to some.
It definitely had some noticeable performance hiccups. The important point is that it managed to find a new home and was saved from the recycling center. It was the true official budget builds CPU review today. As usual, great work and keep them coming.
Nice. My best cheap drive is a 2tb laptop drive for free. I use it as a second drive in my mini Dell optiplex with an 7th Gen i5 that I also got for free, coupled with a 4k hp monitor i found on the roadside mixed with a pile of old printers and junk! It was just missing a stand! I almost didn't stop to check it out...
I got an 8tb hdd NAS that was a year old from a local business. I reformatted/partitioned it and it was fine 😂 I have no need for that much, I have a couple Tb of pics from 20 years of phone pics. Edit: it was free!
@@_..-.._..-.._ free stuff is always fun. I got a free Dell 8 drive dual zenon server also, but it uses almost 300 watts just sitting idle so I don't have a use for it! I set it up and then realized the power consumption once It warmed up the room I put it in and threw a power analyzer on the outleet. :)
I did not expect a first gen i3 to work this well at Mount&Blade Bannerlord, I was already impressed by being able to run it on an i7 4510U, I feel like M&B 2 is gonna be the most optimized AAA title for quite a while, considering how poorly most of them come out now, and how many potatoes it runs well at...
If the BIOS splash screen comes up, it means the machine posts. I didn't even know a memory issue can cause a PC to post but crash in BIOS before Windows loads. Usually if there's any sort of issue with RAM, the machine simply won't post and should give out error codes. I know dropping capacity and speed of DRAM worked, but could it be the iGPU that was actually the issue? These Asus oem boards have some weird BIOS sometimes. Maybe disable iGPU if there's an option in the BIOS, then try different capacity. The slow down could be the result of cripplingly low amount of RAM instead of the CPU. Although with everything said, first gen i3 likely doesn't have much to give these days anyway. It would probably run most tasks fine but any simple single task could easily max out the CPU.
Depends on its purpose. Got an old 2120 Fujitsu desktop that doubles as monitor stand and runs my "router and network services" VM's. Got two i5-2500 mini towers that run WXP for old games and W7 as support for my home lab VM's. People seriously underestimate the amount of work these old boxes can do. It's just that it's "background services" work, not "main machine" work.
@@ErazerPT I'm not saying old parts are worthless. I'm just saying these low end old parts are now too weak. I got a laptop with 6th gen 2C4T i5 and even that struggle a bit sometimes. I personally am still running a Ivy Bridge Xeon in my secondary PC and gaming on it. And I think it's very usable. But with how cheap these old parts get, there's really no reason to go lower than an i5.
@@napowolf Agreed on the last part. Unless you're doing fun builds or you really need to keep the budget ridiculously low, no reason to get less than an i5. Heck, i just upgraded my 1600AF/16gb to a 5600/32gb and im keeping the old parts because i wouldn't get any significant value for them. better keep them and down the road i will just toss a cheap b450/550 in there and have a decent secondary 16gb 6/12 box. The one real use case the 2nd/3rd gen i3/5 have for them is people trying to build decent XP boxes. You get a really good cpu for that "vintage" software, ddr3, better pcie and maybe usb3 depending on mobo. and all at a more affordable price than the premium lga775 of the day that still work. and you get VT for cheat engine, which many core2duo dont have...
I snatched up an i3-2120 about a year ago for $0.01 and free shipping.. and I still see them on Ebay for similar pricing even today. I absolutely love this kind of deal, and I find myself snatching up these super cheap CPUs a few times a year to do an ultra-cheap build-and-flip. My favorite one of these was a Xeon E3-1220v5 CPU I picked up (virtually the same as an i5-7400) for $0.99 and free shipping. One quick thought on the odd behavior - while it may be due to an internal issue, one thing I try when I get any used CPU is to take a soft clean cloth with some isopropyl alcohol and clean the pads on the bottom of the CPU. I've had a few quirky CPUs that I did that with that worked find afterwards.
@@thomaswest2583 It ran far better than it should have. There are thousands of light games that would work. That fact that if even loaded Beam is amazing.
6:36 that out of memory error is caused by the msi afterburner overlay, for some reason if it is turned on as the game is loading in it will always display an out of memory error. 🤷 dunno why but it does this specifically on red dead
Your conclusion at the end really says a lot about how wild the second hand CPU market is, being able to buy a totally good CPU for under 1 pound... It's never been so cheap to get a perfectly good computer! I just saw a complete PC for 30 euros with an i3 6100, 8gb of ram and a 240gb SSD. Totally insane.
I had one of these. Delidded and managed to overclock it to 4.6 GHz on aircooling. It was fun to benchmark can also benefitted from faster uncore speeds
I love these videos you're making about old pc parts it's giving me ideas about making my own pc using second hand / used pc parts instead of using brand new computer components thanks again much love from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤❤❤
I have this CPU it's not that bad. Mine works completely though I have it set up with Linux Mint 10gbs of ram and a GT 1030 and 120GB SSD. It's a home theater PC for me. It runs web browsing and DVD playback just fine even 4k playback because its GPU accelerated. It's perfectly snappy as well because Linux Mint XFCE is very lightweight and with an SSD there's no real issues.
I thank you for your perserverance, yes there is definitely a problem somewhere as i ran this cpu right up untill about 2 years ago, in all honesty i was & thinking back to how well it actually coped, even with modern games, with the right frequency ram it should manage most things you throw at it,
Ye, first gen Core i3 can do MAX 4x4GB, 2R8 memory sticks, most do only 2 sticks stable from what I've seen. 8GB 1R8 or 2R8 it will only see half or quarter of the memory, which will make it crash... it just doesn't work with high density RAM.
almost the same with core 2 duo on intel G41 motherboard. it won't work on high density memory. i think, a memory with 512mb per chip is the maximum. because i experienced that too. bought 4G ram high density and it did not work. the system won't actually post. well sometimes it post. but will give me random crash also, from my experience. some LGA 1156 and 775 boards hates 1600Mhz ram.
These were great back in the day. Around 2013 I bought an i3 540, a basic motherboard and 8gb 1866mhz ram to upgrade a friend's PC. Got it all for something like £50. It was an absolute beast of an overclocker. Think I had it running at 4.6ghz or something. It was beating my tuned and much more expensive Q9650 build in most games of the time. That's actually what convinced me to upgrade my system a year later to a 4790k.
I still have an i3 540 with 8 GB of RAM working perfectly fine, just a pity that the motherboard powercycles repeatedly. Used to pair it up with a GT 640 and play play GTA 5 in 900p to average 50 fps
I remember having a computer with an i3 540 paired with a 750 ti and it was so great at the time, although I pretty much exlusively played Team Fortress 2 which I ended up with thousands of hours in
I mean it's 1p, if you were absolutely destitute then you could put a rock bottom PC together for a few games but you can (and I have) found systems 10 times better for free or dirt cheap if you search! Still, it's classic Budget Builds, in the name of experimentation. Another great video dude, glad you're back! 😊
So the loading times at some games were as long or even longer than some tape loading 8-bit games from the 1980s. I remember we would eat dinner at my friends' place (thanks to his mom) while waiting some of the games to load on his Amstrad CPC464. Circa mid to late 80s. It's a shame this i3 was broken as I am guessing a proper one would make for a better overall experience, with the extra RAM. I do wonder how the iGPU on it would work. It should be better than the dreadful 945 or 950. It's a shame it doesn't support Intel's Quick Sync as that would give it points in doing some light video editing work. Thanks for the video and yes I do enjoy you bidding on worthless parts. They can make good videos.
yeah, not even close... 40-50 processes is what I'd consider to be stripped down. Either way, Windows 7 is probably a more sensible OS choice for this system.
Thanks for benchmarking some games that are more reasonable for low end PCs like RimWorld and vanilla Minecraft. There are many more really good indie games that work just fine on low end parts. I find factorio extremely enjoyable
OMG this is the first Budget Builds video where I can definitely say I’ve used that processor! I had a prebuilt Gateway PC that I upgraded with an HD 7770, and it had this Core i3-540! Honestly, the gaming performance wasn’t great back then either!
As someone who has daily contact with Windows 10 on Core 2 Duo machines (with 4GBs of DDR2 memory) I can tell You there is definitely something more wrong with that i3 than just the memory controller. Also, for anything predating Intel i series 4th gen (that includes the 64 bit capable P4s, Pentium Ds and Celeron Ds) it's a good idea to disable the meltdown and spectre protection (this also applies to Linux by the way). The difference in performance is really noticeable. This is of course a security issue, but used responsibly will make Your life much more enjoyable on these older systems.
I have an i3-530 with the exact same issue. If I try to boot it with other ram configurations that it has now (2+4+4) it doesn’t boot. Otherwise, it was pretty stable home pc and then nas for 13 or so years. Now it’s a backup for nas and going strong.
I even remember playing cs source with my i3-4130 paired with an intel hd graphics 4400. Really one of the best times i ever had. If i recall how much fps i got, it would be almost 200 fps. But, modifications have to be made in order to achieve that fps. Thank you
Speaking of Linux, I tried tinkering with an 1156 system (i3 540, X3430, X3450) in Arch and while it was a decent desktop experience, intensive games froze up the whole system all the time (yeah, I did everything possible except changing the mobo). Somehow this did not happen with the i3, but even OCed it ran about as fast as a snail on coke. I guess “too old for Linux” might be a thing.
I still use an i3 540 as my main PC, and it works with 8 GB of RAM. I tried playing L4D2 and TF2, and it was still good with GT 620. Thanks for the video and nice find!
You are absolutely correct about Doris being unable to use Linux. I, though, would love to see it in a video. Pretty please? Lubuntu maybe? Much obliged, Mr.
I have an Intel i3 2100 CPU that come free with a LGA 1155 Gigabyte board. I use it as home office PC, on Debian and it's never failed in two years of use.
Reminds me of the issue with my secondhand i7 3770. For a locked chip, it clocks like a fiend, going to 4.1×103 for 4.2ghz all core even on an air cooler. But it flat out will not post with four sticks of ram installed. Only two (1dpc). Thus, my sli build is AMD fx based because of its insubordination.
I envy this videos so much, cuz I wish the prices for the components shown (in this case the i3 and i7) were as good and cheap here as they are in the UK, theyure 20euro CPUs (or more) usually here, equivelent of 20pounds
I found a pc and monitor with an i3 540 and 4 gigs of ram a couple of years ago and i played all of halo combat evolved on it, and some minecraft. It was surprisingly playable despite me knowing nothing about computers at the time, and im pretty sure it's the reason im so interested in computers today.
I bought a Pentium g4560 from a store that thought all 6 and 7 gen Pentiums were 2c2t so i got it for the same price as cheap core2quad and with cheap h110 and 12gb ram that i had and a old hd 7770 i got a good htpc for my living room by the way love all your videos from Middle east .
to think that dream hardware from the past now costs literally nothing is just crazy to me. Wild times we live in. Ok, maybe not dream hardware but crazy nonetheless.
The crashing is most likely related to OCing. 1st gen OCed like crazy, both the CPUs and the RAM, so someone might have done some OCing and over time, damaged the memory controller. Most likely if you were to up the voltage on the memory controller, it would work with other sticks aswell.
I wonder if it was to do with the northbridge on the motherboard (chip between the RAM and CPU). The Core i3 works with certain bus speeds, so maybe it was a case of having the right latency RAM. What a fussy processor, but for 1p, you can't complain 🙃😛 Great dual cores the i3's.
pretty neat. ran a celeron g1840t for a time and good lord it struggled. sorta wish i had kept it around cause it would have made for a good little nas cpu.
If the IMC is defective, it might have huge some latency between RAM and CPU. Try running Aida64 latency benchmark to check. Maybe it doesn't like dual sided memory if it's worn out. Most 1GB sticks is single sided. Try to see if you have some single sided 2GB sticks.
Was thinking about building a pretty cheap PC myself for quite a while, but I would probably have parts lying all over my workspace since Im not the most streamlined worker :D
About Fallout 4, i think you had the same issue I've encountered. Somehow with the new updates it add a double buffering which cannot be removed. What's worse is that if you have higher than 60 Hz it seems to apply a freaking triple buffering, as I had mine locked to 55fps (165hz). Only solution I found was to unlock the framerate via console command (or edit the .ini) and apply a framerate limit with Rivatuner (because of course physics is still tied to framerate)
i have an AMD ryzen 5 2600 that behaves weird with RAM. 2 sticks of RAM is fine even with XMP, but the moment i use 4 sticks and XMP, crash, so i had to turn XMP off and manually time the ram very slightly until it was stable past the base clock speed. After upgrading to a 5800x3d the issue completely vanished and i was able to overclock the very same RAM past the XMP profile with ZERO issue. It may be the memory controller on the CPU. try using the primary RAM slots only and then try bigger RAM sticks and see if that works, if you are so inclined off course. :)
cpu on lga1156 are picky about memory with one-sided or two-sided arrangement of memory chips on the module. One of these two types of memory is not supported there. I don't remember which one. This is precisely why the processor does not start normally with certain memory modules.
been buying those in lots here in the states but they cost around $1.OO each , mainly been buying them for the clamshells that cost as much as the processor cost lol
Just pair it with Windows FLP or POSready 2009 and make it an awesome sleeper build. Those older Mobo's tend to have pci slots (not to be confused with pcie), so you could dual-boot windows xp and 98se to cover the 1990-2010's.
It's crazy to think once upon a time many of us would have killed for these 1st/2nd gen CPUs but went far beyond our budgets. Useless for modern gaming, but my 13 year old self wants to put a machine together with something like this just to satisfy my broke, 800*600 15FPS dreams.
Let me know if you enjoy it when i bid on worthless computer parts that are often faulty and collection only. Maybe one day we'll actually get a bargain 😎
Try a 5 dollar cpu next time.
Excellent content A+
@@brokeandtired Easy, buddy. He’d find a 9gHz supercomputer for that price 😂
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial I love these super cheap ignored parts videos
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial thanks for covering this cpu budget, I still got a ret i3 540 that has been retired
1P ends up accepting only 1GB, this chip is self aware.
most powerful school pc
About right. But my school has had huge investments in mechanical engineering classes, so I can play Minecraft with FPS in the thousands on the CAD/CAM workstations.
Ironically, the CPUs in my school is actually pretty decently powerful. More powerful than the original Intel Core i7 (800 series). It's just, they are using ancient HDDs that are so fucking slow, it took minutes to boot it up.
They have M1 Macs in my school.
Hey things are getting better, my university has computers with Ryzen 5 2400gs
We just got a huge upgrade here CPU wise from a Pentium G630 all the way to an i5-13500.
I was sure it was going to be the Sempron
Me too
For sempron they would pay him.
The sempron got smelted, the materials they got from it were probably more valuable than itself
My first PC had a Celeron, when it finally died I bought another PC with a Sempron, which I later upgraded to an FX6300. It can be said that my first PCs are a collection of the "best" Budget Builds
Same
Brother, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you uploading at a high volume at this time. I'm going through a difficult phase of my life and your videos help me, as odd as that may come across to some.
Hope you’re doing alright boss 👍
I hear you, bro! Chronic pain sufferer for 20+ years now and I am blind in one eye and partially deaf in one ear. These videos certainly DO help ! 👍👍
Hope you're ok
everything will be fine, I hope
It definitely had some noticeable performance hiccups. The important point is that it managed to find a new home and was saved from the recycling center. It was the true official budget builds CPU review today. As usual, great work and keep them coming.
Amazing find haha. I snatched a 3tb drive for £1.05
Nice. My best cheap drive is a 2tb laptop drive for free.
I use it as a second drive in my mini Dell optiplex with an 7th Gen i5 that I also got for free, coupled with a 4k hp monitor i found on the roadside mixed with a pile of old printers and junk! It was just missing a stand! I almost didn't stop to check it out...
I got an 8tb hdd NAS that was a year old from a local business. I reformatted/partitioned it and it was fine 😂 I have no need for that much, I have a couple Tb of pics from 20 years of phone pics. Edit: it was free!
@@_..-.._..-.._ free stuff is always fun.
I got a free Dell 8 drive dual zenon server also, but it uses almost 300 watts just sitting idle so I don't have a use for it! I set it up and then realized the power consumption once It warmed up the room I put it in and threw a power analyzer on the outleet. :)
Got a 3tb for $3 usd, external drive I just break open the shell and take off the adapter thing
@@volvo09i have a similar story. But most my setup is super cheap, £6 ps/2 keyboard, free mouse, £10 monitor etc
I did not expect a first gen i3 to work this well at Mount&Blade Bannerlord, I was already impressed by being able to run it on an i7 4510U, I feel like M&B 2 is gonna be the most optimized AAA title for quite a while, considering how poorly most of them come out now, and how many potatoes it runs well at...
From $108 to $0.01 in only 14years that's nuts
i9-13900K did it faster than that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂@@shaneeslick
@@shaneeslick😂
@@shaneeslick 😂😂
If the BIOS splash screen comes up, it means the machine posts. I didn't even know a memory issue can cause a PC to post but crash in BIOS before Windows loads. Usually if there's any sort of issue with RAM, the machine simply won't post and should give out error codes.
I know dropping capacity and speed of DRAM worked, but could it be the iGPU that was actually the issue? These Asus oem boards have some weird BIOS sometimes. Maybe disable iGPU if there's an option in the BIOS, then try different capacity. The slow down could be the result of cripplingly low amount of RAM instead of the CPU.
Although with everything said, first gen i3 likely doesn't have much to give these days anyway. It would probably run most tasks fine but any simple single task could easily max out the CPU.
Depends on its purpose. Got an old 2120 Fujitsu desktop that doubles as monitor stand and runs my "router and network services" VM's. Got two i5-2500 mini towers that run WXP for old games and W7 as support for my home lab VM's. People seriously underestimate the amount of work these old boxes can do. It's just that it's "background services" work, not "main machine" work.
@@ErazerPT
I'm not saying old parts are worthless. I'm just saying these low end old parts are now too weak. I got a laptop with 6th gen 2C4T i5 and even that struggle a bit sometimes.
I personally am still running a Ivy Bridge Xeon in my secondary PC and gaming on it. And I think it's very usable. But with how cheap these old parts get, there's really no reason to go lower than an i5.
@@napowolf Agreed on the last part. Unless you're doing fun builds or you really need to keep the budget ridiculously low, no reason to get less than an i5. Heck, i just upgraded my 1600AF/16gb to a 5600/32gb and im keeping the old parts because i wouldn't get any significant value for them. better keep them and down the road i will just toss a cheap b450/550 in there and have a decent secondary 16gb 6/12 box.
The one real use case the 2nd/3rd gen i3/5 have for them is people trying to build decent XP boxes. You get a really good cpu for that "vintage" software, ddr3, better pcie and maybe usb3 depending on mobo. and all at a more affordable price than the premium lga775 of the day that still work. and you get VT for cheat engine, which many core2duo dont have...
I snatched up an i3-2120 about a year ago for $0.01 and free shipping.. and I still see them on Ebay for similar pricing even today. I absolutely love this kind of deal, and I find myself snatching up these super cheap CPUs a few times a year to do an ultra-cheap build-and-flip. My favorite one of these was a Xeon E3-1220v5 CPU I picked up (virtually the same as an i5-7400) for $0.99 and free shipping. One quick thought on the odd behavior - while it may be due to an internal issue, one thing I try when I get any used CPU is to take a soft clean cloth with some isopropyl alcohol and clean the pads on the bottom of the CPU. I've had a few quirky CPUs that I did that with that worked find afterwards.
Who knew the penny in a parking lot could be the cpu to your gaming pc
You not gonna game with that it could barely start games. Much less run them
@@thomaswest2583 It ran far better than it should have. There are thousands of light games that would work. That fact that if even loaded Beam is amazing.
@@thomaswest2583 this could definitely get used in a XP-based gaming system with decent results.
@_..-.._..-.._ That's not saying much considering only one was barely playable and the rest took unreasonable amount of time to open.
u could even pair it with the case i found in a parking lot!
your voice is peculiarly comforting, thank you for the high quality content
too expensive
Haha 🤣 you expect 5 for that price?
i expect they pay me for it.
@@CramBob1How much do you want?
@@snoweh1 idk 2 bucks
@@CramBob1 agreed
6:36 that out of memory error is caused by the msi afterburner overlay, for some reason if it is turned on as the game is loading in it will always display an out of memory error. 🤷 dunno why but it does this specifically on red dead
Caught a video early man, keep up the great work I genuinely love your videos!
Your conclusion at the end really says a lot about how wild the second hand CPU market is, being able to buy a totally good CPU for under 1 pound...
It's never been so cheap to get a perfectly good computer! I just saw a complete PC for 30 euros with an i3 6100, 8gb of ram and a 240gb SSD. Totally insane.
i3 running stalker on ultra = blowing up since its so powerful running fable its pure insane loving the content
OH MY GOD, I WAS RIGHT, IT'S SPECIFICALLY AN I3 540.
I had one of these. Delidded and managed to overclock it to 4.6 GHz on aircooling. It was fun to benchmark can also benefitted from faster uncore speeds
I love these videos you're making about old pc parts it's giving me ideas about making my own pc using second hand / used pc parts instead of using brand new computer components thanks again much love from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤❤❤
I have this CPU it's not that bad. Mine works completely though I have it set up with Linux Mint 10gbs of ram and a GT 1030 and 120GB SSD. It's a home theater PC for me. It runs web browsing and DVD playback just fine even 4k playback because its GPU accelerated. It's perfectly snappy as well because Linux Mint XFCE is very lightweight and with an SSD there's no real issues.
I wish ebay was in my country, the way you just snatch away those dirt cheap parts makes me envious of you. Great video though.
15:56 well, you could also say “my PC has a 1p CPU”, which depending on your situation, is more impressive than saying “my cpu was free”
Keep up the great work man, content is top shelf as always
Yeayyyyy, the first gen core processors are notorious for being picky with memory. I had the same experience with another i3 machine years ago.
usually BBO is ginger about not letting the boards touch the birdbath. this one's just chillin, getting its toes wet.
I thank you for your perserverance, yes there is definitely a problem somewhere as i ran this cpu right up untill about 2 years ago, in all honesty i was & thinking back to how well it actually coped, even with modern games, with the right frequency ram it should manage most things you throw at it,
Dude, this is awesome. I love your vids.
Ye, first gen Core i3 can do MAX 4x4GB, 2R8 memory sticks, most do only 2 sticks stable from what I've seen. 8GB 1R8 or 2R8 it will only see half or quarter of the memory, which will make it crash... it just doesn't work with high density RAM.
almost the same with core 2 duo on intel G41 motherboard.
it won't work on high density memory.
i think, a memory with 512mb per chip is the maximum.
because i experienced that too.
bought 4G ram high density and it did not work.
the system won't actually post.
well sometimes it post. but will give me random crash
also, from my experience.
some LGA 1156 and 775 boards hates 1600Mhz ram.
Important post
Yay! I was right when i picked i3 in your YT-poll! At least here I am winning in life!😂
I am pretty fond of the Nehalem processors. Always nice to see them covered.
These were great back in the day. Around 2013 I bought an i3 540, a basic motherboard and 8gb 1866mhz ram to upgrade a friend's PC. Got it all for something like £50.
It was an absolute beast of an overclocker. Think I had it running at 4.6ghz or something. It was beating my tuned and much more expensive Q9650 build in most games of the time. That's actually what convinced me to upgrade my system a year later to a 4790k.
1:43 I'm very happy to hear you say "GT 1010" again 😆
1 penny. £0.01. How? The shipping surely costs more than that, right?
Collection is always free, and most people selling this stuff just want rid.
@@BudgetBuildsOfficialyou do have to account for travel cost
I mean if you want the number of calories burnt walking?
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial ah. I didn't imagine it was literally walking distance local lol
For the physical presence of this thing, I already call the 0.01$ well spent.
That IHS alone is probably worth like 0.02, it’s an absolute steal
I still have an i3 540 with 8 GB of RAM working perfectly fine, just a pity that the motherboard powercycles repeatedly. Used to pair it up with a GT 640 and play play GTA 5 in 900p to average 50 fps
Use a little less thermal paste. That was more the size you would use on a larger CPU like a Xeon. Too much is better than not enough though.
I remember having a computer with an i3 540 paired with a 750 ti and it was so great at the time, although I pretty much exlusively played Team Fortress 2 which I ended up with thousands of hours in
The perfect video for the weekend!!!
Surprised some of the modern games worked OK.
Great video
I mean it's 1p, if you were absolutely destitute then you could put a rock bottom PC together for a few games but you can (and I have) found systems 10 times better for free or dirt cheap if you search!
Still, it's classic Budget Builds, in the name of experimentation. Another great video dude, glad you're back! 😊
Free? How?
Fine, I will subscribe. A combination of a fine accent and
The algorithm Is doing it's thing.
Im sure Ghostbusters on the commadore 64 loaded faster than balders gate 3 on this cpu. Ghostbusters had to load from a casette tape....
average cex moment
yes, but this time it was ebay surprisingly
Well, the title of this channel IS "Budget-Builds Official"
Loved the video man
So the loading times at some games were as long or even longer than some tape loading 8-bit games from the 1980s. I remember we would eat dinner at my friends' place (thanks to his mom) while waiting some of the games to load on his Amstrad CPC464. Circa mid to late 80s.
It's a shame this i3 was broken as I am guessing a proper one would make for a better overall experience, with the extra RAM.
I do wonder how the iGPU on it would work. It should be better than the dreadful 945 or 950.
It's a shame it doesn't support Intel's Quick Sync as that would give it points in doing some light video editing work.
Thanks for the video and yes I do enjoy you bidding on worthless parts. They can make good videos.
"stripped out version of windows"
150+ processes👌
yeah, not even close... 40-50 processes is what I'd consider to be stripped down. Either way, Windows 7 is probably a more sensible OS choice for this system.
Thanks for benchmarking some games that are more reasonable for low end PCs like RimWorld and vanilla Minecraft. There are many more really good indie games that work just fine on low end parts. I find factorio extremely enjoyable
OMG this is the first Budget Builds video where I can definitely say I’ve used that processor! I had a prebuilt Gateway PC that I upgraded with an HD 7770, and it had this Core i3-540!
Honestly, the gaming performance wasn’t great back then either!
As someone who has daily contact with Windows 10 on Core 2 Duo machines (with 4GBs of DDR2 memory) I can tell You there is definitely something more wrong with that i3 than just the memory controller. Also, for anything predating Intel i series 4th gen (that includes the 64 bit capable P4s, Pentium Ds and Celeron Ds) it's a good idea to disable the meltdown and spectre protection (this also applies to Linux by the way). The difference in performance is really noticeable. This is of course a security issue, but used responsibly will make Your life much more enjoyable on these older systems.
I admitt it, I'm addicted to your videos.
I have an i3-530 with the exact same issue. If I try to boot it with other ram configurations that it has now (2+4+4) it doesn’t boot. Otherwise, it was pretty stable home pc and then nas for 13 or so years. Now it’s a backup for nas and going strong.
the fact it can run any game at all is impressive
I had a laptop for college with an i3 2130 back in the day, trying to game on those integrated graphics was one of the things I did lol
I had one and I managed to overclock it at 4.5GHz stable on an Asus RoG board (and cooked a chinesium test PSU in the process, LOL).
I even remember playing cs source with my i3-4130 paired with an intel hd graphics 4400. Really one of the best times i ever had. If i recall how much fps i got, it would be almost 200 fps. But, modifications have to be made in order to achieve that fps. Thank you
Speaking of Linux, I tried tinkering with an 1156 system (i3 540, X3430, X3450) in Arch and while it was a decent desktop experience, intensive games froze up the whole system all the time (yeah, I did everything possible except changing the mobo). Somehow this did not happen with the i3, but even OCed it ran about as fast as a snail on coke. I guess “too old for Linux” might be a thing.
0:29 the hell? You can get i3-4130 for 10p?
Thats my current processor
Like the only I use in my main PC
Insane....
I still use an i3 540 as my main PC, and it works with 8 GB of RAM. I tried playing L4D2 and TF2, and it was still good with GT 620.
Thanks for the video and nice find!
I have 550 i3 should i get a 1050ti for it?
No. @@m.t.d9406
Upgrade to PS2
You are absolutely correct about Doris being unable to use Linux. I, though, would love to see it in a video. Pretty please? Lubuntu maybe? Much obliged, Mr.
I still have this cpu sitting somewhere, alongside I5 650.
Still got a PC running I5-750, keeping the other 2 for "emergency situations"
I have an Intel i3 2100 CPU that come free with a LGA 1155 Gigabyte board. I use it as home office PC, on Debian and it's never failed in two years of use.
Processor: "I didn't hear no bell" 💪🏻💪🏻
Reminds me of the issue with my secondhand i7 3770. For a locked chip, it clocks like a fiend, going to 4.1×103 for 4.2ghz all core even on an air cooler. But it flat out will not post with four sticks of ram installed. Only two (1dpc). Thus, my sli build is AMD fx based because of its insubordination.
"Dorris isn't going to know how to compile Gentoo" that got a real chuckle out of me, great video as ever!
"that people are nearly throwing them away", I found a working Asus Z170-K mobo with an i5-6600K in the trash bin. :D
i also have this cpu!! from my grandpa's pc. man it still worked.
I envy this videos so much, cuz I wish the prices for the components shown (in this case the i3 and i7) were as good and cheap here as they are in the UK, theyure 20euro CPUs (or more) usually here, equivelent of 20pounds
amazing video
hey man, I was rocking an i3 2100 until about a year ago, it wasn't broken though, 4GB mem, SSD, worked fine, I didn't play any of these games though
I found a pc and monitor with an i3 540 and 4 gigs of ram a couple of years ago and i played all of halo combat evolved on it, and some minecraft. It was surprisingly playable despite me knowing nothing about computers at the time, and im pretty sure it's the reason im so interested in computers today.
Would love to see how it would handle emulated consoles from the past ... Just be amazing to think we could build a retro system for our kids
I bought a Pentium g4560 from a store that thought all 6 and 7 gen Pentiums were 2c2t so i got it for the same price as cheap core2quad and with cheap h110 and 12gb ram that i had and a old hd 7770 i got a good htpc for my living room by the way love all your videos from Middle east .
to think that dream hardware from the past now costs literally nothing is just crazy to me. Wild times we live in.
Ok, maybe not dream hardware but crazy nonetheless.
Great video!
i was expecting a Sempron
Edit: Nice new intro btw, reminds me of the really old intro
I kinda want to see a 1p processor war, of what is the best of the cheapest processors. not like a serious thing just some fun
"If you got a £1 get an i7" lol that one got me.
The crashing is most likely related to OCing. 1st gen OCed like crazy, both the CPUs and the RAM, so someone might have done some OCing and over time, damaged the memory controller. Most likely if you were to up the voltage on the memory controller, it would work with other sticks aswell.
I wonder if it was to do with the northbridge on the motherboard (chip between the RAM and CPU). The Core i3 works with certain bus speeds, so maybe it was a case of having the right latency RAM. What a fussy processor, but for 1p, you can't complain 🙃😛
Great dual cores the i3's.
if you wanted to change back to cs:go, you can using the steam beta menu to select the legacy, if you wanted to see the performance
pretty neat. ran a celeron g1840t for a time and good lord it struggled. sorta wish i had kept it around cause it would have made for a good little nas cpu.
I gave my old pc with one of these to a friend and it runs just fine for her + plays all the indie games she's interested in paired with a gt1030
Still rocking this processor with my secondary pc
If the IMC is defective, it might have huge some latency between RAM and CPU. Try running Aida64 latency benchmark to check.
Maybe it doesn't like dual sided memory if it's worn out. Most 1GB sticks is single sided. Try to see if you have some single sided 2GB sticks.
That's amazing price-to-performance ratio, so 0.25p per tthread!
Aside from the memory controller clearly having issues, maybe there's something going on with the hypertransport lair on the CPU die.
holy crap thats the same CPU I had in my very first real and "new" PC!! I used that thing from about 2010 to 2016
Was thinking about building a pretty cheap PC myself for quite a while, but I would probably have parts lying all over my workspace since Im not the most streamlined worker :D
About Fallout 4, i think you had the same issue I've encountered. Somehow with the new updates it add a double buffering which cannot be removed. What's worse is that if you have higher than 60 Hz it seems to apply a freaking triple buffering, as I had mine locked to 55fps (165hz).
Only solution I found was to unlock the framerate via console command (or edit the .ini) and apply a framerate limit with Rivatuner (because of course physics is still tied to framerate)
These old processors are something else .
i have an AMD ryzen 5 2600 that behaves weird with RAM. 2 sticks of RAM is fine even with XMP, but the moment i use 4 sticks and XMP, crash, so i had to turn XMP off and manually time the ram very slightly until it was stable past the base clock speed. After upgrading to a 5800x3d the issue completely vanished and i was able to overclock the very same RAM past the XMP profile with ZERO issue. It may be the memory controller on the CPU. try using the primary RAM slots only and then try bigger RAM sticks and see if that works, if you are so inclined off course. :)
This is an Equivalent to my old HP Compaq PC with an AMD A4-5300B
Your B-Roll gives me so much anxiety
cpu on lga1156 are picky about memory with one-sided or two-sided arrangement of memory chips on the module. One of these two types of memory is not supported there. I don't remember which one. This is precisely why the processor does not start normally with certain memory modules.
been buying those in lots here in the states but they cost around $1.OO each , mainly been buying them for the clamshells that cost as much as the processor cost lol
Just pair it with Windows FLP or POSready 2009 and make it an awesome sleeper build. Those older Mobo's tend to have pci slots (not to be confused with pcie), so you could dual-boot windows xp and 98se to cover the 1990-2010's.
It's crazy to think once upon a time many of us would have killed for these 1st/2nd gen CPUs but went far beyond our budgets.
Useless for modern gaming, but my 13 year old self wants to put a machine together with something like this just to satisfy my broke, 800*600 15FPS dreams.