@@nerdonabudget I got a gigabyte RTX 3060 TI that overheat and goes to a black screen. It’s yours if you help me ship it to you. I was thinking about repasting it but ive never disassembled a GPU
@Cloud_9_Gaming disassembly is very beginner friendly with watching guides on TH-cam, a couple of handful of small screws for most cards. Then all you'd need is a rag and rubbing alcohol to clean and reapply paste, same paste you'd use for CPUs like the Arctic MX4 I used in this video. That's assuming that is the issue it's having, may be something else depending on what the other temps are. Give that a try to see if that works.
@@Cloud_9_Gaming You could also try undervolting in MSI Afterburner -100. Different GPU same brand on my Gigabyte 7800XT OC model toggling it to silent mode prevents the card from OCing into black screen. That one was a problem both Windows and Linux would OC to black screen, I also had tried different drivers. Dissembly is super easy, you just need right size tools maybe a mini screwdriver if there are small screws. You can disconnect the fan header, give an alcohol bath/clean let dry, and repaste after. I first took apart the lowly MSI 1060 3gb OC, the only thing you mostly risk if you go too fast is messing up the fan shroud (if you don't unscrew slowly, yank without undoing all the mini screws, and that can be hotglued back or replaced for cheap). It's a good learning thing to see and do though, interior of the GPU is interesting. Sometimes the GPU boosts too high and goes to black screen my 7900XTX does this too and likely will try undervolting it when it's installed again. 4090 has ruined me as far as getting other projects done. I probably need to clean out my place like this video, too many machines around.
The majority parts of pc I built in mid 2016 is now being used by my parents with that i7 6700k, 16gb ddr4 3000 ram, z170 maximus 8 motherboard and 250gb samsung 850 evo ssd, besides that it has a radeon r9 270 gpu from 2013, and lg dvd drive from same year, with seasonic 80+ bronze 550w psu in fractal core 2500 case. All of that is overkill for the usage of daily browsing, emails and youtube but, I like to re-use old parts and give others faster computers. I originally used the pc with r9 290x and in late 2016 got gtx 1080 but, r9 290x was sold to my friend and gtx 1080 would be overkill/not efficient for browsing/emails/youtube
I have a 4th gen system that consists of Asrock Z97 Extreme 6 with a Samsung 980 NVME, the I7-4790K, 16GB Corsair 1600, an XFX RX 580 8GB, a 2TB HDD plus 1TB EVO SSD and a XPG Core Reactor 650 Gold PSU inside a Thermaltake Versa H35 case. I purchased all the parts for around $262 2 years ago and added blue cable extensions to match the mobo color and ARGB Hub with controller and fans. It was a fun build with my grandson and runs great on Windows 10 and holds up fine for the games we played on it. These older systems are still holding up and very capable albeit with proper game settings and perfect for a first time PC builder to start out with. If the rumors of coming high tariffs and prices are true, these older parts may be more in demand and fetch higher resale prices. I appreciate this channel and the great content and thanks for introducing me to JAWA.
🙂 alot of older pc parts as long as they are still functioning are never worth Zero, most used retail motherboards if they are functioning settle around 50 bucks no matter what generation. Just look at AMD FX CPUs, the upper tier cpu's are going for 60 to 100 dollars still. Some people value nostalgia over performance.
It's a very old platform, even 4 years ago when I built my old i7 9700 GTX 1080ti rig , this was considered to old to game on AAA tittles, but for esports gaming this is not a bad way to live, even currently at 1080p. I built a budget system this year, sorta with the same mindset, but more geared at 1440p gaming. for $90 I got the Ryzen 5 5600X a 6 core 12 thread CPU clocked at 4.7 GHz used on eBay and I pulled the RTX 3060ti out of my old PC. Now you might be asking, what happened to the 1080ti? I sold that during the GPU shortages and made a good amount of money for an older card and I banked the profit and that's what I'm using some of now or have used to upgrade things. The MSI 3060ti Gaming X I got on launch day for $400 out of pocket at Microcenters and I still own it, it's a one owner card. I got 32 Team Group DDR4 3600 for $46 on Amazon black Friday sale and for a MOBO for I got a Gigabyte B550 gaming X v2 from Amazon warehouse,, it has a damaged box but it was like new $79, my storage is only 500 GB Samsung NVMe Gen 3 I carried forward, but I'm using it in the new system and it works just fine, I also have a 2 TB WD Blue HDD for mass game storage of less played games I carried forward the drives case fans and 750W Corsair modular PSU and Montech case in my upgrade. Next pay I will add a 1TB Gen 4 NVMe to the first slot and move the gen 3 drive to the bottom, and reload windows, and I should have some pretty high speed baling storage for the OS and 500 Gb for the lesser played games and even 2 TB spinning mass storage as a backup or for media files even. I sold my old Platform on FB Marketplace for $125 I was asking $150 and the it was a young kid who's dad came to get the Gigabyte B365M v2 WIFI Mobo,16 Gb V-color ddr4 2666 and i7 9700, and get this the kid who is 12 BTW is building a budget system for you know what for, eSports gaming at 1440p!! He has a 2080 he got used cheap, he's going to put with that combo, and I couldn't be happier for him, I'll take the $25 loss for the joy of this kid at Christmas time and I get most of what I valued the old combo at, win win
The majority parts of pc I built in mid 2016 is now being used by my parents with that i7 6700k, 16gb ddr4 3000 ram, z170 maximus 8 motherboard and 250gb samsung 850 evo ssd, besides that it has a radeon r9 270 gpu from 2013, and lg dvd drive from same year, with seasonic 80+ bronze 550w psu in fractal core 2500 case. All of that is overkill for the usage of daily browsing, emails and youtube but, I like to re-use old parts and give others faster computers. I originally used the pc with r9 290x and in late 2016 got gtx 1080 but, r9 290x was sold to my friend and gtx 1080 would be overkill/not efficient for browsing/emails/youtube. I'm currently still on AM4 platform for 4 years now with these parts: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 + 3 x Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 GPU: Gigabyte RX 6900XT Aorus Master Motherboard: ASUS Chrosshair 8 Hero RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 3600 Soundcard: Asus Xonar STX Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB, Samsung 860 Evo 1TB, Samsung 870 Evo 4TB, 3 x WD Ultrastar 20TB Power Supply: Seasonic Prime 850w 80+ Titanium Case Fans: 4 x Noctua NF-A14 Case: Corsair 7000D Airflow ps. soundcard was carried over from 2016 summer build, same goes for psu and gpu was open box deal for 650usd at Q4 of 2022, which was less than my previous brand new gtx 1080 of 699usd price. New ones at the time were 1100usd or so. 😅
@@MrSamadolfodamn 2014 is old school that’s when I got an Xbox one…here I am thinking I am old school since just got a ps5 and it’s the 30th anniversary.. 1997 was the year I got ps1 as a kid
Im still in 2014 with my 2014 pc and playing 2014 games.. and it feels good as the old times. I just play Star Craft 2, lol, rimworld, Subnautica, Rocket League, Wtardew valley and never tired to loop and replay all that games.
I didnt get my first gaming pc until 2016 and I went with a FX 6300 and gtx 970. Time flies and that first pc will always have a place in my heart for getting me started in the pc world! Its cool seeing the 970 still fighting in newer titles!
My ten year old gaming PC is still going strong, I like old Crossfire games myself, so playing them with an i7 4790k & dual MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8GB, 32GB 2133MHZ RAM XMP is a dream, the system still plays modern games with high or medium settings as they only use a single GPU & the CPU can handle anything..😊 Motherboard Maximus VII Hero great for overclocking. I did upgrade the GPUs a few years ago as my original system had two HD7950's 3GB each Crossfire, but they could not perform very well...! H150 Corsair cooler for CPU along with another four intake fans, Corsair is pushing out of the system with a rear outtake fan. Brought the system originally in 2015.
I still use my 10-year-old PC as a second daily driver which has the same CPU (4790K) and 16GB of RAM and a Strix RTX 2080 with a SoundBlaster X on an ASUS Z97 Formula. The PC is a champ for how old it is. It play's Blops 6 @ 1080p and high/normal settings with an avg FPS of 80. When I built my 9900K and using the RTX 2080 and 32GB RAM I only gained 20 to 30 FPS across the board. It wasn't much of an uplift in performance.
I recently built a Haswell-EP 6c12t Xeon machine and put a 2060 in it. After extensively testing, it seemed close to the limit of what that architecture can handle in CPU intensive games from this decade. You will run into CPU single thread performance bottlenecks in many modern titles with a Haswell i7. There are also recent titles that really need more than 4 cores and 8 threads.
I had watched a few videos before but hadn't subbed, but honestly just your heavy usage of Chrono Trigger music is reason enough to do so now LOL. I love seeing these old PCs get recycled.
@@rensuchan Chrono Trigger OST is the BEST OST from the SNES era, and possibly even the best OST in gaming PERIOD lol. All my own opinion of course, but thanks for the sub!
I recently built my son a pc out of spare parts and its running sweet. The 4790k is legendary in my opinion. Intel made that overkill in my opinion thats why it still holds up. The rig i7 4790k Asus CS-B Motherboard 32 GB ram GTX 1070ti 2 TB SSD
That computer can still be a super capable pc by just adding something like a 1080ti to it. My baby brother is currently using a 4770(non k) with 16gb of ddr3 1666mhz, and an RX 570 8gb. He loves it, I keep wanting to upgrade him but he says it does the job for what he plays.
have an almost identical setup that I still use to this day except it has 32gb's of ram. Replaced my 2 GTX 780ti's with a single GTX 1080 and added years of life to this thing. Sure, it cant really play new titles without really tinkering in the video settings but its alright for what it is.
I've just hosed out dirty old PCs before. You just have to make sure everything is completely dry before you power it on, which is easy to do in the desert. It is also a good idea to take fans out and remove and clean the GPU and PSU separately. Obviously, you want to remove any SATA drives (spinner or SSD) too. Water will get trapped inside the case of a SSD and could infiltrate the spindle motor bearing on a HDD.
I don't throw stuff out unless it's unfixable, and like you i help family and friends with builds and they let me have their old builds, so i have a lot of stuff. I still have my 4790k + gtx 970. But it's not i use right now, but i have plans to make use of the 4790k with a gtx 1060 6GB. It's going to be my workstation in my basement, when i need to look up stuff on the internet while i work on some pc build.
That was a really nice PC for its time. 2133MHz RAM was the high end that no one ever bothered with, 1600/1866 was the highest most would go with because of cost. Obviously the 4790K and GTX 970 were a good pairing for the time too. Love to see old builds like this, the stuff we have today kinda feels alien tbh.
I am currently running a system with a i7 3770k, a 1070ti, 32 gb ram, and mostly gaming off of a HDD as my SSD is only for my OS and one game max. I built this back in 2012 and the CPU is from my original HP Envy Phoenix. I still get 70+ fps in games like halo infinite, battlefield 2042 and mw3. It has tradeoffs like being at 100% cpu usage for some loading screens and my PC essentially being unusable during said loadings (even my mic stops working in discord calls when this happens). I am due for an upgrade soon but to be honest, I almost want to see how long this system can make it.
I've used to use cans of compressed air before 2016 for 2-3 years after building my own computer with friends help. On 2016 I bought electric duster from compucleaner - it was honestly the most money spent well purchase ever, it cost 40-50usd but saved so much time in cleaning not only my own but friends/family computers too while not spending 7-8usd per can only for it to fizzle out several minutes later...
I'm planning to either buy or fabricate a small compressed air tank for dusting. I already have a compressor to charge it. This is the best long term option and I am baffled that TH-camrs are using those crappy electric dusters. Have yet to see one using compressed air. Even channels like DLM Tech Garage, where he is constantly cleaning filthy PCs.
wow that cpu is an overclocking beast just read the spec sheet 4ghz base 4.4ghz turbo and only 88watts, i think 4.8ghz is probably only a light overclock given those specs, just checked hwbot 4.8ghz is about average on water for that cpu so thumbs up :)
Your air duster should come with different attachments, use the one with a brush at the end. I also use a small paint brush too to get rid of surface dust.
Same specs for my PC, with some brand variations! It is still perfect for high end games from 2019 down, indie games, modern AA games, and modern jrpgs! EDIT: To be more specific, Tales of Arise: 1440p maxxed out with FXAA, over 90 fps Visions of Mana: 1080p maxxed out, 47 to 55 fps Valkyria Chronicles: maxxed out 1440p, over 200 fps AAA games from the past Doom 2016, maxxed out 1080p, over 120 fps Titanfall 2, maxxed out 1080p, over 90 fps Rage 2, maxxed out 1080p, over 60 fps Unreal Tournament 4 alpha (RIP 😢), maxxed out 1080p, over 90 fps
thanks for the tech inspiration this year bro, helped me slow down on drug use and start doing the nerd stuff, awesome bro have a great lead up to xmas
This inspired me to use my old pc from like 8 years ago, Was rocking an i3 6100 16gb 2133mhz and a gtx 1070, I found a solid price for a i7 6700 and excited to test it out.
Fun fact, Skylake i7 performs about the same as a Haswell i7. intel was totally stuck for like 3 generations. I bet when you built that PC, you could have had a used Haswell i7 for what you paid for the Skylake I3.
My little brother still uses a high system of the time. i7-2700, 16GB DDR3, GTX 970 4GB, 2x 500GB HDD in RAID 0, Windows 7, Logitec G something keyboard with display built in, snowball microphone. He's slightly autistic and refuses to upgrade his system as he's got long term depression and lives in his room. I've bought him a 500GB SSD, obught him 8GB RAM modules to replace his to make 32GB. I also bought him a i7-3370 CPU but he won't do the required BIOS flash as he's afraid it will fail and brick his system. I'm surprised Steam still even lets him run his steam library.
I miss those days 😢 too many good games, I remember I bought my first PC an A8 APU with 6gb of RAM and a GTX 770 lol it worked well I used it for six years and I had to upgrade cus games requirements started to be very demanding, right now I have a Ryzen 5 5600X, RX 6800 and 32GB of RAM maybe I upgrade to next gen but not sure yet, I can still play games at high settings with no issues and FSR and Frame Gen help a lot, I just bought a 240hz monitor for those extra "frames" lol
I took a break from PC gaming from 2009 to 2019. This is why I'm not sweating the fact that GPU requirements are rapidly rising and I only have an RX6600. There are so many great games I've never even played. I have hundreds of games I have never played, thanks to Epic and Amazon giving away games. As someone who built their first gaming PC in 1995, I'm old enough to be immune to hype and FOMO. The next few years are probably going to be almost as crazy as the latter half of the '90s. It is unlikely that a 4090 will have the same longevity as Pascal. No CPU platform is going to have the same longevity as AM4. I could upgrade today and be looking at buying another GPU in just a couple of years. A 240Hz monitor is as much of a waste of money as an 8k monitor because of the limitations of human vision. Don't believe that input lag nonsense. You get a ton of input lag when you're playing an esports title with a framerate wildly fluctuating between 150 and 300fps. Consistent frame times are worth far more than high peak framerates. You should always cap your framerate to the lowest it gets when actually playing the game so you have a consistent, stutter free experience. That's not the 1% lows either, which are heavily influenced by loading times.
I'd consider this build to be 'perfect' for what it sets out to accomplish, but the few things I'd do to make it better is probably just for the cherry on top and not much else: 1. Sell off both Samsung SATA SSDs and get either a 1TB Samsung 860/870 SATA SSD or a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME drive. 2. Sell off the GTX 970 and get either a second hand/AliExpress RX 580 8GB or a second hand RX 6600. 3. Max out the RAM to 32GB because why not.
I love using some of the old hardware out there that can still be great for most use case but not cost a leg and an arm . The gtx970 is still pretty good for 1080p gaming i personally upgraded to a gtx 1080 about 2 years ago but my brother and my best friend are both still using a gtx 970 to this day i both of them replaced the thermal paste about 2years ago along with thermal pad and they both can still play perfectly fine the same games as everybody else in the group .
i just upgraded my setup from i7 4790k to a ryzen 5600 this year =) i only upgrade cause my mobo break and its hassle and am lazy to find a new mobo to my daily used my old rig can still handle it just upgrading to an SSD work wonders lol
2014 i had a phenom x4 945, 8gb ddr2 800 and an hd 5750...few years later a fx 8320, 16gb ddr3 1866 and hd 6950 flashed to a 6970...then a gtx 760, followed by a rx 480 8gb. Recently on a 1600af and a rx 5700xt, and now a 5700x3d and 32gb ddr4 3200. Man time flies 😮
I was using the the 970 up until 2 years ago. I bought it as an upgrade to my 750ti to pair with my i5 4570 cpu. I snagged the fallout 4 addition so I could play that game when it came out the later traded it for a 1060 6gb. That got me all the way to when Baldurs Gate 3 launched and I knew it was time to build a new machine.
@@nerdonabudgetI still have a PC near these specs sitting in my closet. I7-4790K, 16GB DDR3, GTX 1660Ti. But it’s an SFF pre-built from Dell, the Alienware X51 R2. I used it from when I originally bought it in April 2014 all the way through August 2023.
I own PC with i7-4770K cpu (4th gen), Asus Z87 Deluxe/Dual MB, 32GB DDR3 RAM, 2TB SSD on PCIE 3.0, I installed latest Windows 11 24H2 26100.2605 using Rufus and it is running fine no problems.
That cleaning montage sounded like donkey Kong country samples!! I built my daughter a 4790k system with a gtx 770 to play Roblox. She loves it. Old stuff does have a purpose still.
Still using a GTX 980 with a Xeon X5670, upgraded from an i7-920, on an ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 motherboard. First gen. goodness STILL performing decently for me even today! 👍👍
Also still using a 4790K with two 4GB EVGA GTX 960 SSCs in SLI with the EVGA solid V2 bridge, a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK (v1.0) motherboard, 32GB of Crucial Tactical Tracer DDR3 1600 @ 2000, a SanDisk X400 M.2 SATA SSD as a boot drive, 4TB & 8TB WD Gold HDDs for Games & Data, dual Pioneer Blu-ray drives, Zalman CNPS 9900 Max cooler, purple LED Corsair case fans, NZXT RGB LED strip & USB controller in a Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Case with an EVGA 750 G2 PSU. Going to stick Windows 11 on it and enjoy Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate that I got on sale just before the lawyers killed it.
im still daily driving a 3770k.... o.c. to 5.8ghz... paired with 32gb 2400mhz ddr3 corsair sniper.. running a xfx 5700xt thic III ... all in a gigabyte z77x ud3h board.. still going strong
I still have some old machines and legacy upgrades planned for them but I also don't want to spend too much. One is a 3770 upgrade, another a skylake i5 replacement (just need a cheap i7) or to try the 9th mod. More recent builds have been the 9600K, 12400F, 12700KF, 12900KF pairings. But a lot of games and HTPC usage can be found on the older hardware, moreso 1080P x264 easier than x265 but as I've moved on to 1440P I use the older machines less. Still have a computer paired to 1080P TV but the use case is less than I used to have for that (4K media and 1440P gaming have spoiled me though 1080P is viable, heck I remember childhood early games on integrated graphics before GPUs were a thing). A lot of these machines can stay Windows 10 for now or go Linux with a lightweight distro & DE. I've forced Windows 11 onto older machines, when that was a trend but am over that. Game on whatever is stable and performs decently. There's a resolution and use case for everything from the last decade/so mostly.
the cooler isnt a h100i as im looking at one i have in stock that cooler is a h80i but more recent version as still has the 240mm rad but still is a good cooler given its a4th gen i7
What a coincidence, I have that exact same cpu and board and video card. I rebuilt it last year and its on the shelf as a collector piece. Please Note that video card you got there has a very high endemic failure rate of the cooling fan bearings. As a precaution load test the video card for at least an hour, get it nice and hot, and listen to the fan bearings especially the one that is used towards the front of the case, it will start to buzz if its bad once the fan gets hot, you can order a replacement fan, the part is: 'NEW Graphics Card Fan for ASUS GTX780 780Ti R9 280/290X 290 Dual T129215SU 95mm'. As for cleaning me personally I take it outside and blow it out with my air gun and air compressor, i then take it all apart, to wash away all the pet dander and germs all the parts go into the bath tub with hot soap and water and i brush it all down with a parts brush, wipe it all down, then I air dry everything overnight with a fan on a table or if its really hot outside I leave it on a table outside and let the sun bake it dry. That particular build you got there I would hunt down two more of the same red matching sticks and bump it up to 32GB of system ram, add two argb fans to the top of the case, add argb fan to the rear of the case. For my collection this month Im putting together an FX8350 on a nice ATX Asrock Motherboard. I picked up some more GTX 970s cause they are pretty cheap now even the upper tier enthusiast models which I would advise getting, pickup the cards that have three fans. And for the newbies if you want to have a better idea what kind of games you can play on this system you can simply do a search for example: i7 4770 Gaming or GTX 970 Gaming. Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy New Years. 😇🙏🎅☃
The parts are definitely not worth their price, but when you consider that those old i7s somehow stayed near retail price for so long it begins to feel worth it seeing the price now lol
I5 4690k @4ghz Msi z97 gaming 5 mb 32gb ddr3 1666mhz Gtx 1070 Ssd for windows Nvme ssd for game storage Still a solid little machine I play on a 1440 monitor Mostly games like rust and fps shooters , with optimisation of game settings i play comfortably enough. Although im thinking of building a new pc in a few months
A non-HT quad core isn't even good enough for Fortnite these days. You must get a lot of frame drops and stutters. You can get a Ryzen 5500 for $80 and a nice A520M Tuf Gaming MB with Wi-fi and BT for $90 and it will be a massive upgrade for you. A 1070 is still fine for esports. If you have to wait a few months for a new PC, you could drop in a 4790S for $40. Same performance as a 4790, just a low power variant. And cheaper because of the sheer volume produced for workstations. But, if you wait a few months to build a new PC, you're going to be paying substantially more due to new import tariffs. For that matter, I bought a 4790S like 3 months ago for less than $25 and they've already gone up in price in anticipation of the tariffs.
getting a solid 100+fps @1440 native , my son uses my pc to play fortnight. I had msi afterburner running and my cpu averages 60% usage. The game gets micro stutters now and then but I think that's more likely the game and not the pc causing it.. either way a solid suggestion on the upgrades but I will be going with AM5 for future upgrade paths
Built a similar system last year,, but with an i5 4590s and rx 580 8GB. Was my main system until an upgrade pc. It's still pretty capable. I'm looking to upgrade it to an i7 come next year since the i5 really holds it back.
16:10 mate the 970 strix can handle much higher overclock mine is running with +205 mhz on the core and + 1014mhz on the memory so going for a +160 core and +700 memory should be no problem for any 970 strix
4790k running at 4.38ghz, 32 GB DDR3 1600mhz on an MSI z87 XPower** AND....(drumroll please) an MSI GTX 780 Lightning** all in a Coolermaster COSMO II**...my main PC currently. ** You can't build a PC like this...I am lucky to have the distinction of having one of the rarest PC's on the planet...you just can't buy these parts anywhere...☺
Bro I bought an Asus M11BB 12 yrs ago day after Christmas at Best Buy. I was in college at the time broke af and working fast food. It has the Amd A-10 6700 cpu, Fm2 socket motherboard I think. It originally came with Windows 8 and that's when everyone complained about the lack of a start menu. Within a week and half of getting this computer I got the dot one service pack. 2016 I did lots of upgrades. I ditched the case it came with for one similar to what you have in the video, maxed out the ram, ditched the puny 550 watt psu for an 850 watt psu. I got the xfx rx480 graphics card added to the rig ( the others were getting snatched up by bit coin miners) and I added a fan controller and 4 case fans. My boyfriend got a new graphics card and I got his rx580 in there now. After all that still the original motherboard and cpu. How in the blazes it still boots let alone let's me play ffxiv (albeit on lower graphics settings) amazes me. Currently saving up for a new rig because it randomly shuts off. I think she had a great run but it may be time to say good bye to her 😢
I only just upgraded from an i5 4590 to the i7 4790 a couple months ago, and from a GTX 960 2GB to an RX 570 4GB about a year ago. I don't have much interest in the latest AAA titles, but the games I want to play such as Fallout 4, Bannerlord, Baldur's Gate 3 run just fine in 1080p with some detail compromises. I was also looking forward to playing GTAV with full details as the GTX960 couldn't run it back in the day due to 2GB RAM not being enough, but sadly the up-to-date version of the game is obviously also far more demanding so I'm once again stuck to mid- to high details on most stuff. BeamNG Drive, however, keeps giving me trouble and is very slow to load, although the driving itself is fairly decent again with some compromises. At 20 Euro for the processor, 60 Euro for the GPU and some 15 Euro to bring the RAM from 8 to 16, I think it was a pretty good upgrade, especially as used PC market here is not very affordable.
amzn.to/3BxbhUm It's just a cheap budget wireless mouse and keyboard combo I got from Amazon that not even worth mentioning lol, from a generic Chinese company that doesn't sell it anymore, got it solely because it's pink and visually easy to find in the mess of my studio lol
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@@nerdonabudget I got a gigabyte RTX 3060 TI that overheat and goes to a black screen. It’s yours if you help me ship it to you. I was thinking about repasting it but ive never disassembled a GPU
@Cloud_9_Gaming disassembly is very beginner friendly with watching guides on TH-cam, a couple of handful of small screws for most cards. Then all you'd need is a rag and rubbing alcohol to clean and reapply paste, same paste you'd use for CPUs like the Arctic MX4 I used in this video. That's assuming that is the issue it's having, may be something else depending on what the other temps are. Give that a try to see if that works.
@@nerdonabudget How much would charge for a computer like that?
@@Cloud_9_Gaming You could also try undervolting in MSI Afterburner -100. Different GPU same brand on my Gigabyte 7800XT OC model toggling it to silent mode prevents the card from OCing into black screen. That one was a problem both Windows and Linux would OC to black screen, I also had tried different drivers. Dissembly is super easy, you just need right size tools maybe a mini screwdriver if there are small screws. You can disconnect the fan header, give an alcohol bath/clean let dry, and repaste after. I first took apart the lowly MSI 1060 3gb OC, the only thing you mostly risk if you go too fast is messing up the fan shroud (if you don't unscrew slowly, yank without undoing all the mini screws, and that can be hotglued back or replaced for cheap). It's a good learning thing to see and do though, interior of the GPU is interesting. Sometimes the GPU boosts too high and goes to black screen my 7900XTX does this too and likely will try undervolting it when it's installed again. 4090 has ruined me as far as getting other projects done. I probably need to clean out my place like this video, too many machines around.
Chrono Trigger OST, a man of refined taste!
Good to know the PC I built 10 years ago still stands up!
The majority parts of pc I built in mid 2016 is now being used by my parents with that i7 6700k, 16gb ddr4 3000 ram, z170 maximus 8 motherboard and 250gb samsung 850 evo ssd, besides that it has a radeon r9 270 gpu from 2013, and lg dvd drive from same year, with seasonic 80+ bronze 550w psu in fractal core 2500 case. All of that is overkill for the usage of daily browsing, emails and youtube but, I like to re-use old parts and give others faster computers. I originally used the pc with r9 290x and in late 2016 got gtx 1080 but, r9 290x was sold to my friend and gtx 1080 would be overkill/not efficient for browsing/emails/youtube
I have a 4th gen system that consists of Asrock Z97 Extreme 6 with a Samsung 980 NVME, the I7-4790K, 16GB Corsair 1600, an XFX RX 580 8GB, a 2TB HDD plus 1TB EVO SSD and a XPG Core Reactor 650 Gold PSU inside a Thermaltake Versa H35 case. I purchased all the parts for around $262 2 years ago and added blue cable extensions to match the mobo color and ARGB Hub with controller and fans. It was a fun build with my grandson and runs great on Windows 10 and holds up fine for the games we played on it. These older systems are still holding up and very capable albeit with proper game settings and perfect for a first time PC builder to start out with. If the rumors of coming high tariffs and prices are true, these older parts may be more in demand and fetch higher resale prices. I appreciate this channel and the great content and thanks for introducing me to JAWA.
🙂 alot of older pc parts as long as they are still functioning are never worth Zero, most used retail motherboards if they are functioning settle around 50 bucks no matter what generation. Just look at AMD FX CPUs, the upper tier cpu's are going for 60 to 100 dollars still. Some people value nostalgia over performance.
It's a very old platform, even 4 years ago when I built my old i7 9700 GTX 1080ti rig , this was considered to old to game on AAA tittles, but for esports gaming this is not a bad way to live, even currently at 1080p. I built a budget system this year, sorta with the same mindset, but more geared at 1440p gaming. for $90 I got the Ryzen 5 5600X a 6 core 12 thread CPU clocked at 4.7 GHz used on eBay and I pulled the RTX 3060ti out of my old PC. Now you might be asking, what happened to the 1080ti? I sold that during the GPU shortages and made a good amount of money for an older card and I banked the profit and that's what I'm using some of now or have used to upgrade things. The MSI 3060ti Gaming X I got on launch day for $400 out of pocket at Microcenters and I still own it, it's a one owner card. I got 32 Team Group DDR4 3600 for $46 on Amazon black Friday sale and for a MOBO for I got a Gigabyte B550 gaming X v2 from Amazon warehouse,, it has a damaged box but it was like new $79, my storage is only 500 GB Samsung NVMe Gen 3 I carried forward, but I'm using it in the new system and it works just fine, I also have a 2 TB WD Blue HDD for mass game storage of less played games I carried forward the drives case fans and 750W Corsair modular PSU and Montech case in my upgrade. Next pay I will add a 1TB Gen 4 NVMe to the first slot and move the gen 3 drive to the bottom, and reload windows, and I should have some pretty high speed baling storage for the OS and 500 Gb for the lesser played games and even 2 TB spinning mass storage as a backup or for media files even. I sold my old Platform on FB Marketplace for $125 I was asking $150 and the it was a young kid who's dad came to get the Gigabyte B365M v2 WIFI Mobo,16 Gb V-color ddr4 2666 and i7 9700, and get this the kid who is 12 BTW is building a budget system for you know what for, eSports gaming at 1440p!! He has a 2080 he got used cheap, he's going to put with that combo, and I couldn't be happier for him, I'll take the $25 loss for the joy of this kid at Christmas time and I get most of what I valued the old combo at, win win
The majority parts of pc I built in mid 2016 is now being used by my parents with that i7 6700k, 16gb ddr4 3000 ram, z170 maximus 8 motherboard and 250gb samsung 850 evo ssd, besides that it has a radeon r9 270 gpu from 2013, and lg dvd drive from same year, with seasonic 80+ bronze 550w psu in fractal core 2500 case. All of that is overkill for the usage of daily browsing, emails and youtube but, I like to re-use old parts and give others faster computers. I originally used the pc with r9 290x and in late 2016 got gtx 1080 but, r9 290x was sold to my friend and gtx 1080 would be overkill/not efficient for browsing/emails/youtube. I'm currently still on AM4 platform for 4 years now with these parts:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 + 3 x Noctua NF-A14x25 G2
GPU: Gigabyte RX 6900XT Aorus Master
Motherboard: ASUS Chrosshair 8 Hero
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 3600
Soundcard: Asus Xonar STX
Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB, Samsung 860 Evo 1TB, Samsung 870 Evo 4TB, 3 x WD Ultrastar 20TB
Power Supply: Seasonic Prime 850w 80+ Titanium
Case Fans: 4 x Noctua NF-A14
Case: Corsair 7000D Airflow
ps. soundcard was carried over from 2016 summer build, same goes for psu and gpu was open box deal for 650usd at Q4 of 2022, which was less than my previous brand new gtx 1080 of 699usd price. New ones at the time were 1100usd or so.
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@@1sonyzz 😊 neat, im currently rebuilding an FX 8350 cpu motherboard ram combo and i purchased a GTX 970 three fan card to pair it with
man i miss 2014.
😒👍 Keep It Old School
@@MrSamadolfodamn 2014 is old school that’s when I got an Xbox one…here I am thinking I am old school since just got a ps5 and it’s the 30th anniversary.. 1997 was the year I got ps1 as a kid
Same
@@njdarudedovich6126 I miss 1980
Im still in 2014 with my 2014 pc and playing 2014 games.. and it feels good as the old times.
I just play Star Craft 2, lol, rimworld, Subnautica, Rocket League, Wtardew valley and never tired to loop and replay all that games.
I didnt get my first gaming pc until 2016 and I went with a FX 6300 and gtx 970. Time flies and that first pc will always have a place in my heart for getting me started in the pc world! Its cool seeing the 970 still fighting in newer titles!
My ten year old gaming PC is still going strong, I like old Crossfire games myself, so playing them with an i7 4790k & dual MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8GB, 32GB 2133MHZ RAM XMP is a dream, the system still plays modern games with high or medium settings as they only use a single GPU & the CPU can handle anything..😊
Motherboard Maximus VII Hero great for overclocking.
I did upgrade the GPUs a few years ago as my original system had two HD7950's 3GB each Crossfire, but they could not perform very well...!
H150 Corsair cooler for CPU along with another four intake fans, Corsair is pushing out of the system with a rear outtake fan. Brought the system originally in 2015.
I still use my 10-year-old PC as a second daily driver which has the same CPU (4790K) and 16GB of RAM and a Strix RTX 2080 with a SoundBlaster X on an ASUS Z97 Formula. The PC is a champ for how old it is. It play's Blops 6 @ 1080p and high/normal settings with an avg FPS of 80. When I built my 9900K and using the RTX 2080 and 32GB RAM I only gained 20 to 30 FPS across the board. It wasn't much of an uplift in performance.
I have a 4th gen i7 machine with a GTX 670 for playing older games. Runs Bioshock Infinite at 1440p ultra at 90+fps.
Yeah, 8th and 9th gen were the weird gens. 10th and 11th were actually nice in comparison.
That i7 can still pair well even with a GTX 1070 or a GTX 1660.
I recently built a Haswell-EP 6c12t Xeon machine and put a 2060 in it. After extensively testing, it seemed close to the limit of what that architecture can handle in CPU intensive games from this decade. You will run into CPU single thread performance bottlenecks in many modern titles with a Haswell i7.
There are also recent titles that really need more than 4 cores and 8 threads.
My pc is going on 4 years. Oh no. Time flies.
I had watched a few videos before but hadn't subbed, but honestly just your heavy usage of Chrono Trigger music is reason enough to do so now LOL.
I love seeing these old PCs get recycled.
@@rensuchan Chrono Trigger OST is the BEST OST from the SNES era, and possibly even the best OST in gaming PERIOD lol. All my own opinion of course, but thanks for the sub!
I recently built my son a pc out of spare parts and its running sweet. The 4790k is legendary in my opinion. Intel made that overkill in my opinion thats why it still holds up.
The rig
i7 4790k
Asus CS-B Motherboard
32 GB ram
GTX 1070ti
2 TB SSD
That computer can still be a super capable pc by just adding something like a 1080ti to it.
My baby brother is currently using a 4770(non k) with 16gb of ddr3 1666mhz, and an RX 570 8gb. He loves it, I keep wanting to upgrade him but he says it does the job for what he plays.
😏👍 smart kid, he's not falling for FOMO and getting sucked up into 'upgrading' and 'consumerism'
@@MrSamadolfoi mean he must be getting 15-30 fps average tho
you might have to sneak in upgrade rebuilt somehow, is the case still something you can buy, im thinking sleeper pc here.
@@Snxgur nah, He plays random indie games and Doom Eternal. His favorite game right now is Sons Of The Forest or something like that.
have an almost identical setup that I still use to this day except it has 32gb's of ram.
Replaced my 2 GTX 780ti's with a single GTX 1080 and added years of life to this thing.
Sure, it cant really play new titles without really tinkering in the video settings but its alright for what it is.
Nice video! Crazy to see that a decade old hardware can still be somewhat relevant. I have the same blower/cleaner so that was cool to see as well.
Still working like a boss. So many games to play with these old machines. Especially if you are ok with not playing every new AAA.
I've just hosed out dirty old PCs before. You just have to make sure everything is completely dry before you power it on, which is easy to do in the desert. It is also a good idea to take fans out and remove and clean the GPU and PSU separately. Obviously, you want to remove any SATA drives (spinner or SSD) too. Water will get trapped inside the case of a SSD and could infiltrate the spindle motor bearing on a HDD.
I don't throw stuff out unless it's unfixable, and like you i help family and friends with builds and they let me have their old builds, so i have a lot of stuff. I still have my 4790k + gtx 970. But it's not i use right now, but i have plans to make use of the 4790k with a gtx 1060 6GB. It's going to be my workstation in my basement, when i need to look up stuff on the internet while i work on some pc build.
A lot of my older machines have done well on Linux or a clean install of Windows 10 LTSC. They make great workstations.
That was a really nice PC for its time. 2133MHz RAM was the high end that no one ever bothered with, 1600/1866 was the highest most would go with because of cost. Obviously the 4790K and GTX 970 were a good pairing for the time too. Love to see old builds like this, the stuff we have today kinda feels alien tbh.
That COBB sticker give Extra overclock power!!!!
I am currently running a system with a i7 3770k, a 1070ti, 32 gb ram, and mostly gaming off of a HDD as my SSD is only for my OS and one game max. I built this back in 2012 and the CPU is from my original HP Envy Phoenix. I still get 70+ fps in games like halo infinite, battlefield 2042 and mw3. It has tradeoffs like being at 100% cpu usage for some loading screens and my PC essentially being unusable during said loadings (even my mic stops working in discord calls when this happens). I am due for an upgrade soon but to be honest, I almost want to see how long this system can make it.
When I saw the “Anti Sag Stick” I had to laugh. I propped up my 970 with a wine cork 😅
I'm watching this video on my 10 years old pc, very inspiring since I don't have any memory of doing this kind of cleaning on it.
Just got home from my apprenticeship class, what a treat.
I've used to use cans of compressed air before 2016 for 2-3 years after building my own computer with friends help. On 2016 I bought electric duster from compucleaner - it was honestly the most money spent well purchase ever, it cost 40-50usd but saved so much time in cleaning not only my own but friends/family computers too while not spending 7-8usd per can only for it to fizzle out several minutes later...
I'm planning to either buy or fabricate a small compressed air tank for dusting. I already have a compressor to charge it. This is the best long term option and I am baffled that TH-camrs are using those crappy electric dusters. Have yet to see one using compressed air. Even channels like DLM Tech Garage, where he is constantly cleaning filthy PCs.
Damn, I would have really loved this PC back in 2014 and 2015. Those fans tho, lol
wow that cpu is an overclocking beast just read the spec sheet 4ghz base 4.4ghz turbo and only 88watts, i think 4.8ghz is probably only a light overclock given those specs, just checked hwbot 4.8ghz is about average on water for that cpu so thumbs up :)
Your music selections are always 🔥. Love all the CT music you put in your vids.
Your air duster should come with different attachments, use the one with a brush at the end. I also use a small paint brush too to get rid of surface dust.
Same specs for my PC, with some brand variations! It is still perfect for high end games from 2019 down, indie games, modern AA games, and modern jrpgs!
EDIT: To be more specific,
Tales of Arise: 1440p maxxed out with FXAA, over 90 fps
Visions of Mana: 1080p maxxed out, 47 to 55 fps
Valkyria Chronicles: maxxed out 1440p, over 200 fps
AAA games from the past
Doom 2016, maxxed out 1080p, over 120 fps
Titanfall 2, maxxed out 1080p, over 90 fps
Rage 2, maxxed out 1080p, over 60 fps
Unreal Tournament 4 alpha (RIP 😢), maxxed out 1080p, over 90 fps
thanks for the tech inspiration this year bro, helped me slow down on drug use and start doing the nerd stuff, awesome bro have a great lead up to xmas
This inspired me to use my old pc from like 8 years ago, Was rocking an i3 6100 16gb 2133mhz and a gtx 1070, I found a solid price for a i7 6700 and excited to test it out.
Fun fact, Skylake i7 performs about the same as a Haswell i7. intel was totally stuck for like 3 generations. I bet when you built that PC, you could have had a used Haswell i7 for what you paid for the Skylake I3.
i7 3770k,geforce 1070 OC 8gb,1866mhz 16gb ram,256gb ssd with windows 10 pro installed.
My little brother still uses a high system of the time. i7-2700, 16GB DDR3, GTX 970 4GB, 2x 500GB HDD in RAID 0, Windows 7, Logitec G something keyboard with display built in, snowball microphone. He's slightly autistic and refuses to upgrade his system as he's got long term depression and lives in his room. I've bought him a 500GB SSD, obught him 8GB RAM modules to replace his to make 32GB. I also bought him a i7-3370 CPU but he won't do the required BIOS flash as he's afraid it will fail and brick his system. I'm surprised Steam still even lets him run his steam library.
I7 2600?
@@foshodofoodandstuff4437 might be a 2700K, that did exist.
@@whitebeartigtig well either way idk what dude is on, i7 3370 never existed either
@@foshodofoodandstuff4437 I didn;t even notice. I just read that as 3770. I've seen that typo made a heck of a lot.
Wouldn't you replace the AIO after 10 years (If that was the year that was built) since even after 5 years is kind of pushing it
I miss those days 😢 too many good games, I remember I bought my first PC an A8 APU with 6gb of RAM and a GTX 770 lol it worked well I used it for six years and I had to upgrade cus games requirements started to be very demanding, right now I have a Ryzen 5 5600X, RX 6800 and 32GB of RAM maybe I upgrade to next gen but not sure yet, I can still play games at high settings with no issues and FSR and Frame Gen help a lot, I just bought a 240hz monitor for those extra "frames" lol
I took a break from PC gaming from 2009 to 2019. This is why I'm not sweating the fact that GPU requirements are rapidly rising and I only have an RX6600. There are so many great games I've never even played. I have hundreds of games I have never played, thanks to Epic and Amazon giving away games.
As someone who built their first gaming PC in 1995, I'm old enough to be immune to hype and FOMO. The next few years are probably going to be almost as crazy as the latter half of the '90s. It is unlikely that a 4090 will have the same longevity as Pascal. No CPU platform is going to have the same longevity as AM4. I could upgrade today and be looking at buying another GPU in just a couple of years.
A 240Hz monitor is as much of a waste of money as an 8k monitor because of the limitations of human vision. Don't believe that input lag nonsense. You get a ton of input lag when you're playing an esports title with a framerate wildly fluctuating between 150 and 300fps. Consistent frame times are worth far more than high peak framerates. You should always cap your framerate to the lowest it gets when actually playing the game so you have a consistent, stutter free experience. That's not the 1% lows either, which are heavily influenced by loading times.
I'd consider this build to be 'perfect' for what it sets out to accomplish, but the few things I'd do to make it better is probably just for the cherry on top and not much else:
1. Sell off both Samsung SATA SSDs and get either a 1TB Samsung 860/870 SATA SSD or a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME drive.
2. Sell off the GTX 970 and get either a second hand/AliExpress RX 580 8GB or a second hand RX 6600.
3. Max out the RAM to 32GB because why not.
What a difference a case makes! 🎉
I love using some of the old hardware out there that can still be great for most use case but not cost a leg and an arm .
The gtx970 is still pretty good for 1080p gaming i personally upgraded to a gtx 1080 about 2 years ago but my brother and my best friend are both still using a gtx 970 to this day i both of them replaced the thermal paste about 2years ago along with thermal pad and they both can still play perfectly fine the same games as everybody else in the group .
That DKC tune though ♥️
Loved this video and can’t wait to see who this PC goes to. I put a GTX 970 in the PC I built for my brother two years ago. Shout out to James!
Crazy how much the 4790k can stretch itself so well in this era of pc gaming... I think it could probably use a GPU upgrade.. Perhaps a 1070ti
🙂 yes, the more popular cards for this platform is the 1060 1070 1080 470 480 570 580 1660 super ti 2060 5600XT 3050
Lovin’ the chrono trigger music!!
I did own the 4790k and the GTX 970 a long time ago. Those were fun times.
i just upgraded my setup from i7 4790k to a ryzen 5600 this year =)
i only upgrade cause my mobo break and its hassle and am lazy to find a new mobo
to my daily used my old rig can still handle it just upgrading to an SSD work wonders lol
I got a Z87 MB recently on eBay for $25.
It's better than my Potato PC 😅
I bet your potato PC is better than my potato PC, which is a 386.
2014 i had a phenom x4 945, 8gb ddr2 800 and an hd 5750...few years later a fx 8320, 16gb ddr3 1866 and hd 6950 flashed to a 6970...then a gtx 760, followed by a rx 480 8gb. Recently on a 1600af and a rx 5700xt, and now a 5700x3d and 32gb ddr4 3200. Man time flies 😮
I was using the the 970 up until 2 years ago. I bought it as an upgrade to my 750ti to pair with my i5 4570 cpu. I snagged the fallout 4 addition so I could play that game when it came out the later traded it for a 1060 6gb. That got me all the way to when Baldurs Gate 3 launched and I knew it was time to build a new machine.
my friend has a similar pc just with a 980ti, and he can play The Finals with me perfectly fine.. im always impressed by the performance of his pc.
Perfect video for this stormy Saturday morning. Thanks, NOAB!
Morning! You get the badge of honor of being this videos first comment🥇have a great rest of the weekend!
@@nerdonabudgetI still have a PC near these specs sitting in my closet. I7-4790K, 16GB DDR3, GTX 1660Ti. But it’s an SFF pre-built from Dell, the Alienware X51 R2. I used it from
when I originally bought it in April 2014 all the way through August 2023.
@@Reluctant_Hero 🙂 me too, i rebuilt it last year 2023, its on my shelf of desktop pcs 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
Do an upgrade video and new benchmarks. Would love to see the results with more ram and a modernish gfx card. Maybe a 30 series.
7:40 see how he holds the fans while dusting. That's how it's done
I own PC with i7-4770K cpu (4th gen), Asus Z87 Deluxe/Dual MB, 32GB DDR3 RAM, 2TB SSD on PCIE 3.0, I installed latest Windows 11 24H2 26100.2605 using Rufus and it is running fine no problems.
i build myself the same retrosystem for fun with parts from the flea market.the current gamingpc is in the corner and i'm playing on the time machine😆
I use my old AM3 system for backup/NAS, also have a AM4 im trying to sell
Definitely should of got some red cable extensions instead of the generic black one
Love how you can easily repurpose things like these! What mic are you using for the video? It sounds great, is it also budget? Thanks!
I would love to give this to my nephew for his first pc.
I miss 2014 so much,
Considering I had an i3-3320 and an HD 7750, I was in my prime in Black Ops and Black Ops 2
😏👍 i have an HD 7750 in one of my rigs, i also have the R7 450 which is the newer version of it 🐢🐢
@@deenoblake back when cod wasn’t dogshit slop
That cleaning montage sounded like donkey Kong country samples!!
I built my daughter a 4790k system with a gtx 770 to play Roblox. She loves it. Old stuff does have a purpose still.
Nice job on the pc sprucing up. NIce KB and Mouse. :)
4790 is probably to hyped for its age and that’s why that expensive
Last gen ryzen costs not much more but new and little better
Still using a GTX 980 with a Xeon X5670, upgraded from an i7-920, on an ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 motherboard. First gen. goodness STILL performing decently for me even today! 👍👍
Almost the same as my old one before I built a new one as well, very decent PC still, don't be fooled by it's age!
I know they’re not very new, but I love your pink mouse and keyboard
Subscribed because CHRONO TRIGGER!
..You'd be surprised how much life Intel Haswell chips still have in them!
Upgrade this to its maximum
Also still using a 4790K with two 4GB EVGA GTX 960 SSCs in SLI with the EVGA solid V2 bridge, a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK (v1.0) motherboard, 32GB of Crucial Tactical Tracer DDR3 1600 @ 2000, a SanDisk X400 M.2 SATA SSD as a boot drive, 4TB & 8TB WD Gold HDDs for Games & Data, dual Pioneer Blu-ray drives, Zalman CNPS 9900 Max cooler, purple LED Corsair case fans, NZXT RGB LED strip & USB controller in a Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Case with an EVGA 750 G2 PSU.
Going to stick Windows 11 on it and enjoy Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate that I got on sale just before the lawyers killed it.
i7 2600k still going nearly 13 years now here.
The SSD drive sitting there freely it's a good plus. Namastè.
Using my old 4790k as a nas. Works well.
Danny, I love how you have your mic attached to your glasses. 🤣
Phanteks case r so solid for the price 😊
the 11:20 mark made me think my laptop's Vram was dying briefly. What an odd glitch lol
Good music selection
im still daily driving a 3770k.... o.c. to 5.8ghz... paired with 32gb 2400mhz ddr3 corsair sniper.. running a xfx 5700xt thic III ... all in a gigabyte z77x ud3h board.. still going strong
btw 3770k>4790k
I still have some old machines and legacy upgrades planned for them but I also don't want to spend too much. One is a 3770 upgrade, another a skylake i5 replacement (just need a cheap i7) or to try the 9th mod. More recent builds have been the 9600K, 12400F, 12700KF, 12900KF pairings. But a lot of games and HTPC usage can be found on the older hardware, moreso 1080P x264 easier than x265 but as I've moved on to 1440P I use the older machines less. Still have a computer paired to 1080P TV but the use case is less than I used to have for that (4K media and 1440P gaming have spoiled me though 1080P is viable, heck I remember childhood early games on integrated graphics before GPUs were a thing). A lot of these machines can stay Windows 10 for now or go Linux with a lightweight distro & DE. I've forced Windows 11 onto older machines, when that was a trend but am over that. Game on whatever is stable and performs decently. There's a resolution and use case for everything from the last decade/so mostly.
the cooler isnt a h100i as im looking at one i have in stock that cooler is a h80i but more recent version as still has the 240mm rad but still is a good cooler given its a4th gen i7
What a coincidence, I have that exact same cpu and board and video card. I rebuilt it last year and its on the shelf as a collector piece. Please Note that video card you got there has a very high endemic failure rate of the cooling fan bearings. As a precaution load test the video card for at least an hour, get it nice and hot, and listen to the fan bearings especially the one that is used towards the front of the case, it will start to buzz if its bad once the fan gets hot, you can order a replacement fan, the part is: 'NEW Graphics Card Fan for ASUS GTX780 780Ti R9 280/290X 290 Dual T129215SU 95mm'. As for cleaning me personally I take it outside and blow it out with my air gun and air compressor, i then take it all apart, to wash away all the pet dander and germs all the parts go into the bath tub with hot soap and water and i brush it all down with a parts brush, wipe it all down, then I air dry everything overnight with a fan on a table or if its really hot outside I leave it on a table outside and let the sun bake it dry. That particular build you got there I would hunt down two more of the same red matching sticks and bump it up to 32GB of system ram, add two argb fans to the top of the case, add argb fan to the rear of the case. For my collection this month Im putting together an FX8350 on a nice ATX Asrock Motherboard. I picked up some more GTX 970s cause they are pretty cheap now even the upper tier enthusiast models which I would advise getting, pickup the cards that have three fans. And for the newbies if you want to have a better idea what kind of games you can play on this system you can simply do a search for example: i7 4770 Gaming or GTX 970 Gaming. Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy New Years. 😇🙏🎅☃
The parts are definitely not worth their price, but when you consider that those old i7s somehow stayed near retail price for so long it begins to feel worth it seeing the price now lol
I'm gaming on my phone, play Albion 😂 would love this rig 😊, want to play WoW , would be awesome...TY for great content...
I still have an old i7-3770, generic LGA1155, 2x8GB DDR3 RAM sticks, and GTX 1050 Ti (4GB) laying around because they make a good standby.
DAM. that's crazy that it can play cyberpunk stable at 60+ fps
Liquid electrical tape is a lot better in the long run if you're in a bind or too cheap for extensions.
Still on my Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 with xeon processor, 32gb ram, RX 5700, for daily use and casually play p-server WoW.
I5 4690k @4ghz
Msi z97 gaming 5 mb
32gb ddr3 1666mhz
Gtx 1070
Ssd for windows
Nvme ssd for game storage
Still a solid little machine
I play on a 1440 monitor
Mostly games like rust and fps shooters , with optimisation of game settings i play comfortably enough. Although im thinking of building a new pc in a few months
A non-HT quad core isn't even good enough for Fortnite these days. You must get a lot of frame drops and stutters. You can get a Ryzen 5500 for $80 and a nice A520M Tuf Gaming MB with Wi-fi and BT for $90 and it will be a massive upgrade for you. A 1070 is still fine for esports.
If you have to wait a few months for a new PC, you could drop in a 4790S for $40. Same performance as a 4790, just a low power variant. And cheaper because of the sheer volume produced for workstations.
But, if you wait a few months to build a new PC, you're going to be paying substantially more due to new import tariffs. For that matter, I bought a 4790S like 3 months ago for less than $25 and they've already gone up in price in anticipation of the tariffs.
getting a solid 100+fps @1440 native , my son uses my pc to play fortnight.
I had msi afterburner running and my cpu averages 60% usage. The game gets micro stutters now and then but I think that's more likely the game and not the pc causing it.. either way a solid suggestion on the upgrades but I will be going with AM5 for future upgrade paths
The 970 was an interesting card for its time and 4th gen Intel maybe older but for light gaming it's still very capable.
Built a similar system last year,, but with an i5 4590s and rx 580 8GB. Was my main system until an upgrade pc. It's still pretty capable. I'm looking to upgrade it to an i7 come next year since the i5 really holds it back.
16:10 mate the 970 strix can handle much higher overclock
mine is running with +205 mhz on the core and + 1014mhz on the memory
so going for a +160 core and +700 memory should be no problem for any 970 strix
My desktop and laptop are 14 years old and they work great....
I remember buying colored fluorescent lights
😏👍 i have a blue one still brand new in the box, maybe i should find it and put it in a build 🤔
4790k running at 4.38ghz, 32 GB DDR3 1600mhz on an MSI z87 XPower** AND....(drumroll please) an MSI GTX 780 Lightning** all in a Coolermaster COSMO II**...my main PC currently. ** You can't build a PC like this...I am lucky to have the distinction of having one of the rarest PC's on the planet...you just can't buy these parts anywhere...☺
Bro I bought an Asus M11BB 12 yrs ago day after Christmas at Best Buy. I was in college at the time broke af and working fast food. It has the Amd A-10 6700 cpu, Fm2 socket motherboard I think. It originally came with Windows 8 and that's when everyone complained about the lack of a start menu. Within a week and half of getting this computer I got the dot one service pack. 2016 I did lots of upgrades. I ditched the case it came with for one similar to what you have in the video, maxed out the ram, ditched the puny 550 watt psu for an 850 watt psu. I got the xfx rx480 graphics card added to the rig ( the others were getting snatched up by bit coin miners) and I added a fan controller and 4 case fans. My boyfriend got a new graphics card and I got his rx580 in there now. After all that still the original motherboard and cpu. How in the blazes it still boots let alone let's me play ffxiv (albeit on lower graphics settings) amazes me. Currently saving up for a new rig because it randomly shuts off. I think she had a great run but it may be time to say good bye to her 😢
How do you do frame gen on a 970?
FSR 3 or 3.1has frame gen options.
@@brokeandtired It's called AFMF, not frame generation, although that is what it is.
still using my 6700k 2015 build
This so much power than my PC that I'm using am3 platform and amd HD gpu.
I only just upgraded from an i5 4590 to the i7 4790 a couple months ago, and from a GTX 960 2GB to an RX 570 4GB about a year ago. I don't have much interest in the latest AAA titles, but the games I want to play such as Fallout 4, Bannerlord, Baldur's Gate 3 run just fine in 1080p with some detail compromises. I was also looking forward to playing GTAV with full details as the GTX960 couldn't run it back in the day due to 2GB RAM not being enough, but sadly the up-to-date version of the game is obviously also far more demanding so I'm once again stuck to mid- to high details on most stuff. BeamNG Drive, however, keeps giving me trouble and is very slow to load, although the driving itself is fairly decent again with some compromises.
At 20 Euro for the processor, 60 Euro for the GPU and some 15 Euro to bring the RAM from 8 to 16, I think it was a pretty good upgrade, especially as used PC market here is not very affordable.
Super hardware for a budget gaming setup. Monitor / KB and mouse and it will sell between 175 and 200 euro in Holland
@nerdonabudget good day sir, may I know what keyboard and mouse you're displaying together with that rig? thanks.
amzn.to/3BxbhUm It's just a cheap budget wireless mouse and keyboard combo I got from Amazon that not even worth mentioning lol, from a generic Chinese company that doesn't sell it anymore, got it solely because it's pink and visually easy to find in the mess of my studio lol
@@nerdonabudgetthanks for the reply, ow really they are not selling it anymore ☹️ it's an eye catching due to its color 😂
watching this on my cp cause i have no pc but its alright
I had
fx4300 gt630/660
8350 960/r9 390/980ti/980 ti sli
I74770k 980ti sli / 1080 ti
I9-9900k 1080ti / 1080 ti sli / 3070, 3090, 4090. Probably 5090 next.
hey i was wondering when the next lan party video is coming? in your community post you said you will finish editing in december.