Three Cores in 2023?? You bet! Cheap PC Challenge 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- #CheapPCChallenge2023
This is my official entry into my Cheap PC Challenge for 2023.
This system is built around an AMD Athlon II X3 420e CPU and an nVidia GeForce GT 420 2GB GPU.
My original plans for this machine fell through, so I decided to see how many versions of Windows I could get this machine to boot and run with full driver support. Turns out, a lot!
My 3D-printable testbench cases: www.printables...
Windows Vienna: • Windows Vienna is FINA...
Windows 8 - the pinnacle of gaming OSes! 😅
PS. Here is my build "null", it cost $0 so I score 1000 points for price, it scored nothing on all the tests, for a total score of 1000
Yeah, I screwed up on the pricing this year. I'll award based on benchmark performance and if anyone makes a super-low-price build that completes the benchmarks on a technicality, they'll get a special "rules lawyer" award :p
My first custom pc build was around 500 dollars in late 2010.
I Had paired an asrock AM3 board with a Athlon II x3, 4gb of Geil DDR3 at 1600Mhz using 2 gb dimms , A Raidmax case and PSU combo that was a blue led with a 600watt psu, a 7200 rpm 320Gb Western digital HDD, a DVD burner from LG, and a 1GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 5750. It was a budget friendly great option at that time. The following year inwould sell the build to my brother for 350 and use those funds towards a Phenom Ii x6 1055t build with 8GB of ram and a 1Gb Radeon HD 6870
The Lost Planet Demo looks so fast! (when the video is sped up like that)
If only it managed to score 420 points… (so close!) Nice build!
Nice Build for under $100. Athlon II wsa a good budget CPU for the time.
The gigabyte 870a-ud3 rev 2.1 is the first motherboard i bought new, unlocked the athlon II x3 445 to a quad core but i had to turn off hardware monitoring as it will otherwise use the cpu temperature sensor & limit the cpu performance to 800 mhz.
Also with the anemic 1333 mhz ram i had at the time i still reached 3.5 ghz overclock from 3.1 ghz as a quad core.
I like the 3-core amd for being obscure somehow :) I wonder why intel did not the same as it is a great idea to sell quadcores with a faulty core (by just disabling it) as triple core. I remember having a 3-core in an office built once, and it was perfectly capable for the daily tasks.
Edit: the "E" in the cpu name says that this a low tdp model. Together with the gt420 it should be an efficient built and should run fine with cheap/ low power PSUs👍
I think it was because Intel was making Core2 Quads by welding two Core2 Duos together, rather than AMD who was making 2, 4, and 6-core monolithic dies and then binning them.
Quite a respectable machine! Perhaps I'll partake in this challenge next time, this is a really neat one~
Oh, and I'm interested in the STL files for the test bench mount. That would be quite useful for an old AM2 motherboard I acquired recently.
Links updated in the video description! Sorry!
Not printing a marijuana leaf shaped test bench in green PLA feels like a lost opportunity here :D
Nice build! Impressive for the 420 GPU too! I used a Athalon X3 for work for a little while and I still own just the CPU from my Phenom II X6 system kickin around in a box in a CPU plastic tray.
cool video. Personaly I have used that psu before and it just comes down to the per unit to unit issue
Oh man, I totally forgot about these 3-core Athlons. What a weird time that was...
I couldn't manage a full set of qualifying parts, but I was looking towards a HD7870 (£25 already bought) and FX8320 (£18, blimey that's come down from when I last looked, I think I'll order it anyway now) - but didn't want to get another board as I have two AM3+ boards both with FX4130 on.
pc-sound-legacy would be outgunning me on both CPU and graphics though, Haswell CPU and 1060 3GB
unlock forth core
420 lolz 😜
I really found out about this too late to formulate what I'd do without, ahem, cheating. I have a good number of parts on hand, but - at this point - I swear I barely remember what systems they came out of, or what I paid for them whole. Also, I'd be far too sorely tempted to throw an eWaste Mac running Linux and Windows at this - I actually got a 5k iMac 2015, with an i7, recently for nothing... But I'd hardly consider what little I could do to that any sort of 'build' whatsoever...
Next year, Ambrosia, next year.