@@josephmills9031 what? No? You barely got 20% more performance in gaming and like 25% in synthetics. That doesn't even make up anywhere close to damn near two and a half times more the price just for the CPU. Not including the motherboard.
When I first got my own PC, thiw was approximatively my config (i7-7700K, 16GB, GTX 1070), it was legit the 3rd most powerful config a consumer could buy with a reasonable budget. Seeing it here, now, gave me a serious reality check
@@RandomGaminginHD i gave the exakt config just this year to a friend of my sister as his first pc after i build my new one. PS pls change the PSU i upgraded only because mine well....did catch flames just to be on the save side and the new ones with this watt range are cheap.
@@PhilipKerryyou can use it just fine even below any 8th gen CPUs, but it might cause some bugs when you try to upgrade your OS in windows update and many exceptions when you try to install a new build automatically. You only have to install as a fresh copy for new build..
@@FloatSamplesGT710 you don't have to update it though right? I was thinking about getting the windows 11 lite version that someone made to get rid of all the Microsoft bloatware
Seems like yesterday these parts were "still-on-the-menu" for builds...I think the "human malware" event fuzzed away a couple of years from our collective minds!
im still rocking my 7700k in this exact case overclocked at 5.0 with 280 rad. I bought a 6800 amd card and i can run cyberpunk at 4k with medium settings at 60 fps stable and smooth. Cpu is still a beast
I'm still running my 7700K + 2x1070 SLI rig and its still going happy. It can even output 4K 60 (the most it can) with sensible settings on older games.
Man, I've been subscirbed to you since your initial sub 100k days and never got around to saying this; thank you for making these videos. Your content always bring a smile to my face as. Extremely chill and ever the more informative. Keep up the good work. Miss Dave.
Wasn't he supposed to do a Bungee Jump or something if he reached X amount of subscribers? Can't remember if it was 100K, or 250K or what, but it was definitely less than 527K.
@@pashabiceps95 You're right, not useful for gaming, dad here uses his PC for more than gaming... Blender and code compiling takes ram. Also I got for free so I'm going to just display it in the shelf?
Bought a 6700k system, minus GPU and PSU for $75, it is cleaner than most new PCs I have bought, the Motherboard is an MSI z170a xpower titanium, 32GB 2400 RAM 2X16, and a ginormous Antec gaming case that really looks the era complete with blue led fans. I love the MB, I have never had my hands on anything like it, a dedicated overclicking daughter board with buttons, dip switch to switch bios, and buttons for power, reset and bios flash where the front panel header normally is. I have received more than $75USD worth of entertainment from it already, so losing money will be impossible. I threw a 2GB rx550 in it, and it came with a stock CPU cooler, so I haven't been able to turn the Game Boost knob yet.
The 7700k not having *official* windows 11 support is a crime. Prematurely turning into e-waste. Linux could save it, but most regular people wouldn't even know that's an option. Edit: had to add the *official* disclaimer because a few people have been coming in saying "I have it on my 7700k" which is not the point.
Explain why it would be e waste for lack of win 11 support. Besides you can get win 11 running on them anyways. Common sense ya should research b4 ya make a post.
@@josephmills9031 Most regular people will see that their devices are not supported for windows 11. Unless they have knowledge in computers, they will most likely have to get newer hardware. Pair that with Windows 10 needing a subscription for long term use for security updates, many usable devices will be thrown away and turned to e-waste.
haha, I feel you on not wanting to sell it. I recently picked up a retired CAD work station with a 6700K, ROG Maximus board, and a Quadro K1200, (minus cpu cooler, psu or any hard drives), for about that same price you picked this up for. All in a gorgeous brushed aluminium case with a clear side panel. I picked it up to flip but after getting it up and running with an EVGA 2060 Super, I've kind of fallen in love with the old beast. It's still a fantastic machine in my eyes!
I suck at flipping because I love the history. Recently picked up a Z77 sabertooth with a i7 3770k and a Fallout 4 970 all inside a Silverstone FT02 and it's just a thing of beauty. All for $50!
I miss the days of late 2000's and early 2010's PC cases. It was the golden era. HTPC cases were also pretty sick. I have the windowless version of this somewhere and still use my Cooler Master HAF XB cube for my gaming system and the Silverstone Grandia ones for living room and small server PC's. There were lots of different designs and now we only have same looking Aquarium towers with bad airflow and before it was just beige boxes.
My man! Cooler Master cases from 10-15 years ago are really something, aren't they? I still have my HAF 912 Plus and have been using it for 12 years now. I've pushed four different configs through it during that time and right now I'm in the process of collecting parts for the 5th one. It might need some modifications this time to keep up with thermals of these components but nothing that'll ruin its external beauty. Can't get enough of seeing people's reactions when I show them this old case and when I tell them what's actually inside. It's a proper sleeper PC at tths point.
oh my god oh my god i have the same exact things as you! been looking for this comment. I have an old mobo, rog maximus ix hero and been thinking of upgrading. If u see, this can you let know of a 2 or $300 mobo i can upgrade to? or just anything more modern. Please and thank you
I got my first computer in 2017. was a Dell Inspiron that had an i3 7100 in it. I wanted to upgrade to the 7700 non K because that was the highest chip that was supported by the motherboard, but i ended up switching platforms entirely and purchasing a 3700x instead in early 2020. I’ll never forget my i3 7100 and what it could do. I played Oblivion at 1080p with medium high settings with the UHD 630 graphics, and managed a playable 40-50 fps. There was something fun about having a limited machine, because you have to figure out how to get the most out of it and still have a good time.
nowaday the newer i3 12-14th gen is way better then any i7 and i9 from the 6-8th gen. the i3-14100f itself has same or little bit better performance then a i7-9700k and i9-9900ks😅even in some muitcore cases too which is crazy, even tho they have more core and thread count
This video was quite nostalgic for me. The last time I remember watching your videos was back around 2017, which, coincidentally was around the same time I built my first PC, and it was an almost identical build to the one in the video. I also built a PC with an i7-7700K, a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo, and an EVGA GTX 1070. Though, my 1070 is the FTW model, not the SC. I still have the PC, though I recently purchased a gaming laptop. Thanks for the hit of nostalgia!
8:57 HP did an OMEN cube case. Those are pretty rare. I have a White Aerocool X-Predator cube case. It has a horizontal motherboard location, which allows the GPU to sit vertically in view through the side window. Still regret selling my Aerocool dream box though 😢
I've got a 6700K, and 1080ti. I delidded the CPU and and tossed some liquid metal on it and my GPU. I'm very impressed with how well it still performs, even with newer titles. I might finally build a new system when the 50xx cards come out, I heard the 7850x3D is where it's at currently on the CPU side, I'll have to do more research though when it gets closer to purchasing.
A couple of months ago, I "accidentally" came across a "brand new" (still sealed in the antistatic bag) GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK motherboard. So, I bought an i7-4790K CPU, delidded it, added some Thermal Grizzly liquid metal, Corsair 4x8GB ***2400Mhz*** (32GB total) DDR3, an EVGA 1080Ti FTW3, and a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVME, with a fresh install of Win10 Pro. 🤯🤯🤯 This thing is a BEAST!!! My next project is to confiscate my son's i7-7700K/Asus Z270-AR/16GB DDR4/1080Ti, delid it, add liquid metal, an RTX 4070Ti Super, and 4x8GB DDR4 3600Mhz (32GB total), and migrate a Kingston 4th Gen 1TB NVME that I recently bought, into that machine. I don't play AAA games. So, I'm expecting to get "about" another 5-years out of these upgraded systems.
Ryzen 7 9800x3D is where it is now haha! In next 6 months we will have something else! But I'll still suggest to go with 9800x3D because of healthy temps.
Mine is still working great in 2024 surprisingly. I was going to build a new PC, but I might just keep my 6-year old system if it's still running this well. For whatever reason, it's just a very stable, reliable system that gives me less problems than my 13th gen laptop, and my Rog Ally. Can't remember the last time it's ever crashed on me, and I don't think it's ever BSOD'd me, maybe once back when Windows 10 was new and not updated yet, but rarely if ever since. No point in building one of these these days, simply because there is no upgrade path, but if you still have one, it's a good system and will probably last another 2 or 3 years before I run into any weird compatibility/support issues, hopefully.
8:56 The case is excellent. chunky, blocky lots of space, SSD, HDD, optical drives, airflow, cable management, AIO support, no RGB crap. Why anyone need another case beside that don't know. My Silverstone Raven 03 consider Corsair Carbide a worthy competitor, at one point i was considering to replace it with Corsair Carbide , but at the end SS 03 is great. But if i could find that Corsair Carbide for cheap i would get it, its that case that i would to have, just like HAF X that i grabbed for cheap 5 years ago.
I game on an i7 8700k, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and a GTX 1060 6GB. I've gotten comments about needing to upgrade and I agree that I'll need to upgrade to a newer system soon but for now the PC meets my needs. Someone even asked if my specs can run PowerPoint. I don't use PowerPoint and didn't see the "point" of that comment. 😂
Oh, the things kids will say. The people telling you to get a new system are probably teenagers that have not even built thir first system yet. They prob have a dozen builds saved on PCpartpicker or they're part of the Bottleneck Police force. I could see adding more RAM and upgrading the GPU, but the i7-8700k is still a solid CPU. Overclocking it will get it very close to the Ryzen 5 5600.
Don't underestimate what a 8700k could do under the right 2x120 tower cooler at 1.275V ;) Playing COD W3, over 200fps with a 2080 super and a kit of 3200mhz ram with proper tuning. You have a beast in your hand, unleash the power!
Currently running an i7-8700 and GTX 1080. It is my friends old Gaming PC he built 7 years ago and it’s kicking ass. I play on 3440x1440p and am able to max out most games I play and get 60 FPS or greater without upscaling. I’m even able to play newer games like Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor no problem. Literally the only games I have to tweak substantially and upscale are Starfield and Cyberpunk. Get this, when I first turned the PC on it ran like shit and I assumed the 1080 was inadequate. I purchased a 4070 Super and found it sort of surprising how little the rasterized performance truly was… I mean for 7 years it’s insanely unimpressive. I still have to use upscalers in the biggest of games and have like 90 instead of 60 frames with no scaling… woo? I put my 1080 back in to double check I wasn’t tripping and realized it was actually just OVERHEATING. I repasted the 1080 and got 30 more frames and its honestly only like 60-70% of my 4070 Super in real world performance… WTF. So something from 2016 that cost less in todays money is only 30% slower than a 4070 Super…. Nvidia is out here scamming.
the gpu is just a better match for that cpu. if you pair a newer cu with that gu it will perform better. but the 1080 is still very solid i have one lol
Still rockin my i7 7700 with a 6 GB 1060 and 16 GBs of ram. It gets the job done, managed around 60 fps on rdr2 with some tweaks, and tbh i dont really see a reason to upgrade, but its age does scare me
@@ogeyrat I mean, you could, but i dont really think its worth it, youd need a new mother board and a ddr4 set, since the sockets and memory generation dont match. Your only bet would be scoring a good deal on the used market, but still, this system is quite old and honestly, if youre going to need a new mobo, id say its better to upgrade to something newer. But, if your problem is the gpu, id say yeah, a used 1060 would pair up nicely with that i5.
The GTX 1070 was one of the best buys back in 2016. Hitting 8 years now.. and still capable. It has borderline GPU power to handle graphics settings that utilize all 8GB though. But if you can live with 30ish FPS, you can apply lots of eyecandy @1080P in modern games.
I want to ad a bit of context to your helldivers results. The game is extremely cpu intensive at higher difficulties because all the enemy ai is calculated locally and there are way more enemys. From personal experience with an 8600k at 4.7ghz the game will drop to around 20fps with horrible and intensive lows at difficulty 8. Lower difficulties fare a bit better but are still exhausting to play. The rest of my setup is 16gb ram and an rtx 2060 at lower settings than in your video. I can confirm that this is to 100% a cpu bottleneck.
I just built a new PC in the Montech King 95 Pro case. Its a large fish tank style case with loads of room to work in. In my opinion its the best looking case available. The all white build looks amazing.
I am wondering where you got this PC from for 120€. I have been eyeing the i7-7700k for ages on Ebay and it usually goes over 100€ in price (the CPU alone). I still got a i7-6700k myself, and this guy overclocked and with proper ram is crazy fast even in modern games. The only real issue is that it only has 4 cores, otherwise in single core performance this guy still outshines many processors that came afterwards (specially if overclocked).
I've had a suspicion that a lot of these 'budget pc' channels fudge their figures a bit lol. I'm also in the UK and no chance you'd get those sort of specs for that money. Either that or they get hookups from a PC recycling type place. Which is fair enough but I wish they'd do full disclosure. At the current time on ebay, an i7 7700K CPU alone is gonna cost 80 quid. Searching for the completed items the cheapest one is for 50 quid (well done to whomever scored that one) but the average price is much higher. Anyway no hate towards the dude who owns the channel.
@@veeeks2938 I am in mainland europe and i had a HP omen (with i7-6700k) so one year or so ago I decided to finally break the chains of my i7-6700k. I bought an asus motherboard (costed me 70€ but you can get it perhaps a bit cheaper), but I have always been eyeing an i7-7700k since it probably has better ram support and uses less voltage per clock, enabling even higher clocks. Thing is, at the price of 100€ or more, there is no reason for me to make the upgrade, and I check prices every once in a while. Sometimes the chip alone is even around 150€. Similar (complete) PC builds are usually around 400€, depending on GPU present. The one the used on this video has a crazy pc case, which alone would be worth a penny. Either buyer got lucky or seller just wanted to get rid of his product and/or just didn't understand the gem he was getting rid of. Prices in the USA are also better in almost every product btw, so channel owner is probably from the USA.
Seriously man...here you are at it again...reviewing exact the pI am building with. So crazy. That CPU is super hot for no reason though. Love that case. I sold one a few years ago for next to nothing and regret it.
That case is massive, I have an identical one but only have been able to identify the "razer" on it, got it used for 25 dollars, best case I have had, really liked the massive room it offers
All things considered, the I7 7700K and the GTX 1070 Ti would have been a pretty good pairing in 2017, which both of these pieces came out. If I were into PC gaming back then as I am now. I'd definitely use this combo for running triple A Titles.
Still have the same case, don't feel the need to change. Airflow is absolutely great. Cable management is also great since you tuck them in the other chamber.
Having only recently upgraded from a 4th gen i5, hearing you say a 7700k is old tells me the timing was right! Still impressive performance you are getting with that set up.
Still use that case (white) today with my new setup. Cpu 14900/ Ram 64gb / Gpu AMD 7900XT / Cpu watercooled. Beast setup. Only use it for my photoshoot photo editing in 1440P on a 34” Ultrawide ❤
That's an amazing deal mate that case alone still goes for around £100. Still an amazing case love the second compartment for the psu and cables it makes cable management even easier and some nice drive space in there too would love to see more cube cases like that around now.
This CPU/GPU combo is what's in my old/secondary PC, along with 16GB RAM. I decided to dust it off, so to speak. It's been fun revisiting older hardware and seeing how it runs newer games like Cyberpunk.
This is the EXACT same build I first did on my own when I had saved up money to buy a 7700k and a 1070 and it was amazing at the time and still is! I used this PC up until last year when I got the income to upgrade to a used 3090 and 5800x3d, I still use the 7700k for my backup NAS! after watching this I'm tempted to grab a cheap 3060 and take the old 7700k back to make a spare rig! that chip is still surprisingly powerful...
I had a very similar build. I used a Air 240 case, 1070 and an 8700k instead of a 7700k. Served me very well, and now serving my sister's needs. I did not really need to upgrade, but I did on impulse and was using a widescreen 1440p monitor instead of a 27" monitor.
This is absolutely beautiful! I love these old beasts! I recently picked up a Dell Precision 3620 and it came with an i7-7700k and 32 GBs of DDR4 ram, I’m in love with it. Just needs a better PSU and maybe an RTX 2060 super 🤓
❤ I still have my 7700 in storage somewhere and I used it recently and it performed very well. Ahhh, this case, I once wanted to use one to build water cooling. I really like this box. ❤
@@iamkepler186f On the RandomGamingPC channel I saw a comparison to the i3 12100kf and it was a bit worse. If you get a 7700K cheap somewhere, it may be worth it if you can without spending extra money. I was very pleased with it.
Man, this was really similar to my first buid. I was so pumped to get the 7700K and so annoyed there was no upgrade path afterward... Those were the bad old days when Intel released a new platform for virtually every new generation.
Swear to god man, you're reading my fecking mind. You did a video on the i7 7700k a few days ago which is the processor I'm planning to get for my old PC. I was going to get a PCIe powered card for it, but after seeing none were really hitting the spot that I wanted for cost/performance/power consumption I just thought "ah bugger it, I'll pinch my brothers old gtx 1070 and shove that in" and here it-bloody-is in a video!! Though I do think I need to hunt down an evga one. I got an asus and one of the fans just fell off...
Man, this video brought so many memories, especially the PSU. Been using VS550 for idk how many years, and sadly, it did blow up back in late 2021, but didn't take anything with it thankfully(maybe it's a good thing I was using the integrated graphics on my old i5 7600 back then and didn't have a GPU). The GPU I had before that was 1060 3GB. First PC I built with my own money(well, the PSU was my father's old one he "gifted" me back in 2013-2014 I think). Kaby-Lake CPU and Pascal GPU combo was masterclass.
OMG! That was my exact CPU and GPU config until a year ago! Was very satisfied with it. Was expecting a sligltly better result in BG3 and Cyberpunk, though. It is only held back by lack of DLSS support and no mesh shaders. My cousin is still happily playing on it.
You might get some good use out of a hot swap drive bay since you don't need the optical drive. Corsair used to make some real bangers. I just got myself a vengeance c70. This 7700k setup is near identical to my kid's pc except I used a workstation board and put a $20 xeon equivalent in it. All together I think the board, xeon and ram cost around 80 us which isn't bad considering the i7 still sells for about that much by itself.
I had that case I loved it. It looked good and kept everything chilly. I switched the fans for Corsair 2x HD140 for the front a 120mm industrial Noctua for the back with an Alphacool Eisbaer 280 on the top. I eventually got a 1070ti mini and water cooled that with the Eisbaer. I loved that PC. The 1070ti ended up catching on fire a year and a half later.
The Air 540 is a great case. Mine is currently empty (once held a 6850K 980Ti SLI custom loop rig) but will very likely get an AM5 or LGA 1851 production build once we get those new CPUs.
I have that exact same PSU and have been using it for years, it is currently running a Ryzen 5600 and a RX 5700 system. I also read those same articles about it being unsafe, so I replaced it for a 650W 80 Plus Gold, which then cables melted inside it after a year or so and I spent two months trying to get a replacement under RMA from the manufacturer, and so the original PSU ended up back in the machine and it still is running fine. So I'd not worry too much about it lol
In 2017 I did a lease to own thing with an i7 7700. 16GB of DDR4 2133 (One stick, so single channel), 1TB spinner (No SSD or M.2 SSD), GTX 1050 2GB. The board was an H110. This was an Asus Pre-Built. I ended up sending it back. It would have cost me $2300 after interest. No monitor either. At the time I had an FX 8350 w/GTX 1080 and I could tell there was a CPU difference but I couldn't see me putting my GTX 1080 in that case. In the end I bought a used i7 3770 and Intel DQ77MK board for $50 and put the GTX 1080 and the 16GB of Kingston HyperX Genisis memory into it with a 120GB SSD. At the time I played in 4K 60 Hz so the GPU always needed to be the most powerful it could be. I had a 1TB spinner for games in there too. Which even today you can do so long as you have a fast OS drive for temp files and a good amount of memory. Although I went all SSD in 2021. What a ride that was. I thought the 7700 would have mattered more. It didn't. I thought the 3770 was going to be a side grade, instead it was a legit upgrade from an FX 8350.
That's actually an awesome case, I've been looking for one for my years now, but can't find one. with it's dual chamber, it has good airflow, while still having a cdrom that won't interfere with the front fans.
I rock a i7 7700K+GTX 1650 build inside an old 2005 MSI MBOX case although the TIM under the IHS is old and dry because I notice temp spiking issues regardless of how good of a cooler along with good thermal paste I have installed when doing load tests and playing cpu intensive games.
Nice build, I think you got the mix of components about right too. Also really nice case, I'd buy the case itself because you can fit pretty much anything in there, along with plenty of airflow, plenty of SSDs/HDDs and also a couple of 5.25in slots too - a rarity nowadays!
My Cpu is WAY older than this and i still run games decently. Im looking into a budget upgrade because my cpu doesn't support Windows 11. This PC became my main rig because I had gotten this machine second hand. I just had extra parts laying around making it decent. Cpu: Intel Core i7 4790 Graphics: GTX 1660 Ti Ram: 32GB DDR 3 Storage: 500gb ssd, 3 - 1 TB Hard Drives Them old Intel i7s are kind of crazy.
Hey man, a quick question for all of you. My old videocards always got one of those "bottom gold teeth" a little chipped, like you can see at 2:28. Idk about my new one because I never took it out after I installed. Is that common?
My exGF is still gaming on a 7700k/GTX980ti. It was struggling with 16gb of DDR3, but 32gb helped tremendously. Though it is starting to show its age. In Ark Survival Ascended its under 30FPS at low settings, but still fairly smooth and stutter free. Other games like Enshrouded, Valhiem and RUST it runs really well, I think once more Unreal 5 games come out she is going to have to look at a new PC, but that PC has had a nice long run.
I had a 6500 cpu I wanted to upgrade to 7700 at some point, I ended up using the 6500 for several years but if I did have this 7700 I would still likely be on it, what a beast for it's time.
Pretty similar to what I'm using now, it's been good to me for the last 8 years. With the 9800X3D out now and the 5080 only a few weeks away, it's time for an upgrade that I will hopefully never have to replace as long as nothing dies on me. Maybe I'll buy a backup mobo and ram in a fear years while they're still in stock, just in case lol
I still rock this combo, never thought I'd have a build for 7 years and still be able to game whatever I want on it. Lego games run at 4k 60 no problem so I'm happy haha. I just stuck a 3070 in it and it's actually awesome. Shadow of the tomb raider cranked with RTX on high and dlss on quality looks amazing and avg 90fps.
I got my pc when the intel 7th gen was still new, I'm very glad that I went with a ryzen 5 1400 instead of an i5 at the time though, since it had the same core and thread count with an actual upgrade path. When I upgraded to my r5 5600x the i7 7700k was still more expensive.
Love the video, love the irony even more that for under $500 USD You still created a PC that plays games as well as any console Thus disproving the myth of PC Gaming hardware "Needing" an upgrade every 3 years
About a year ago i was getting back into pc gaming and got a sweet deal on a used alienware aurora r7 that has a i7 8700 cpu and a gtx 1080ti gpu all for $350 and it runs every game i throw at it at max settings in 1080p while maxing out my older 55inch tvs 60fps easily. I only recently splurged on a new gaming laptop with a rtx 4060 that basically matches or exceeds the 1080tis performance while producing less heat and using less power but my Alienware desktop still gets lots of use. I have noticed that load times are decently faster on the newer laptop which is running a amd ryzen 5 7640hs apu with 760m igpu. I expect my desktop will live on a fewmore years before i upgrade it and switch the alienware to a backup role in a guest bedroom.
I have a Dell optiplex 3050 mb with windows 10pro, a i5 7500, 16gb 2133mhz ddr4 (2x8), 256gb ssd, and a EVGA 2070 super xc ultra. Please tell me the absolute best CPU I can run in it. I planned on upgrading it to a 7700k but if there's better then please tell me. Will be getting 2tb more storage and 32gb 2400mhz ddr4 (2x16), I just want better performance, any help is still help thank you
I just built a new PC with a 7800X3D to replace my 7700K system. I kept the 3070 GPU for the time being and saw huge gains in all games. For example, I went from 60-120 FPS in PUBG to a stable 200+. When I originally built it, I had a 1080 and it rocked but over the last couple of years I've had nothing but trouble with it. Sure, it was able to play a lot of games, but stability was terrible with black or blue screens common.
I still use one overclocked to 4.8 GHz as well. Paired it with a rtx 2070 and overclocked that as well. The i7 doesnt bottleneck the gpu at all and I still have pretty decent performance on a budget
It wasn't even 5 years ago that the 7700K was still King amongst used CPUs. Crazy
Yeah still holding up surprisingly well!
Definitely not the king the i9 7980 xe would eat 3 or 4 7700ks.
@@josephmills9031 what? No? You barely got 20% more performance in gaming and like 25% in synthetics. That doesn't even make up anywhere close to damn near two and a half times more the price just for the CPU. Not including the motherboard.
it came out in 2017 seven years ago (!!)
for real I remember around this time I had just upgraded from an hd6950 to a 1060 3gb
When I first got my own PC, thiw was approximatively my config (i7-7700K, 16GB, GTX 1070), it was legit the 3rd most powerful config a consumer could buy with a reasonable budget.
Seeing it here, now, gave me a serious reality check
It’s still pretty capable to be fair
@@RandomGaminginHD i gave the exakt config just this year to a friend of my sister as his first pc after i build my new one. PS pls change the PSU i upgraded only because mine well....did catch flames just to be on the save side and the new ones with this watt range are cheap.
I still use my first build pc. Has a 7700K, GTX 1060 6GB, 2x16GB RAM. Still works surprisingly well, although it's time to build a new PC...
That case is what you paid for, the pc is just a bonus!
I have carbide 740. Same money at a time...
omg the i7 7700k was my dream cpu back then
zen1 cpus don't have windows 11 support...
@@gentleman2292 what?
@@gentleman2292 He was using Windows 11 in the video ...........
@@PhilipKerryyou can use it just fine even below any 8th gen CPUs, but it might cause some bugs when you try to upgrade your OS in windows update and many exceptions when you try to install a new build automatically. You only have to install as a fresh copy for new build..
@@FloatSamplesGT710 you don't have to update it though right? I was thinking about getting the windows 11 lite version that someone made to get rid of all the Microsoft bloatware
I feel old now... the 7700k is still a new beast 😭
Seems like yesterday these parts were "still-on-the-menu" for builds...I think the "human malware" event fuzzed away a couple of years from our collective minds!
@@Doobie3010 stop smoking crack then. Your time conseption will return some day
@@MrTheSuperfatman * Your conception of time will return some day.
@@MrTheSuperfatman Conception,I believe you ment,no?
im still rocking my 7700k in this exact case overclocked at 5.0 with 280 rad. I bought a 6800 amd card and i can run cyberpunk at 4k with medium settings at 60 fps stable and smooth. Cpu is still a beast
that smooth transition at 7:12
I'm still running my 7700K + 2x1070 SLI rig and its still going happy. It can even output 4K 60 (the most it can) with sensible settings on older games.
I really hope it doesn't break or suddenly die. This is really wonderful.
Man, I've been subscirbed to you since your initial sub 100k days and never got around to saying this; thank you for making these videos. Your content always bring a smile to my face as. Extremely chill and ever the more informative. Keep up the good work. Miss Dave.
Wasn't he supposed to do a Bungee Jump or something if he reached X amount of subscribers? Can't remember if it was 100K, or 250K or what, but it was definitely less than 527K.
Now that's a handsome PC mate
Still comfortably gaming with an i7-7700K, GTX 1080 and 32 gigs or DDR4 RAM
Same but upgraded to 64gb of ram.
@@dovahkiin2108why😂
@@pashabiceps95 I got a spare kit from someone and I use it.
@@dovahkiin2108 just curious what would you use it for. Didn’t see games require more than 17 so far. While working saw 24 once
@@pashabiceps95 You're right, not useful for gaming, dad here uses his PC for more than gaming... Blender and code compiling takes ram. Also I got for free so I'm going to just display it in the shelf?
Bought a 6700k system, minus GPU and PSU for $75, it is cleaner than most new PCs I have bought, the Motherboard is an MSI z170a xpower titanium, 32GB 2400 RAM 2X16, and a ginormous Antec gaming case that really looks the era complete with blue led fans.
I love the MB, I have never had my hands on anything like it, a dedicated overclicking daughter board with buttons, dip switch to switch bios, and buttons for power, reset and bios flash where the front panel header normally is. I have received more than $75USD worth of entertainment from it already, so losing money will be impossible.
I threw a 2GB rx550 in it, and it came with a stock CPU cooler, so I haven't been able to turn the Game Boost knob yet.
The 7700k not having *official* windows 11 support is a crime. Prematurely turning into e-waste. Linux could save it, but most regular people wouldn't even know that's an option.
Edit: had to add the *official* disclaimer because a few people have been coming in saying "I have it on my 7700k" which is not the point.
Windows 11 will cause so much e-waste! There is still so much life left for these older components!!
Most regular people would say... IT'S HARD!
I agree.
I have one in the laptop with a gtx1060.
Still Run fine .
Explain why it would be e waste for lack of win 11 support. Besides you can get win 11 running on them anyways. Common sense ya should research b4 ya make a post.
@@josephmills9031 Most regular people will see that their devices are not supported for windows 11. Unless they have knowledge in computers, they will most likely have to get newer hardware. Pair that with Windows 10 needing a subscription for long term use for security updates, many usable devices will be thrown away and turned to e-waste.
You're a true tech enthusiast to put such builds together. It's a capable machine to run a variety of titles.
I like how you integrate nature into your builds
haha, I feel you on not wanting to sell it. I recently picked up a retired CAD work station with a 6700K, ROG Maximus board, and a Quadro K1200, (minus cpu cooler, psu or any hard drives), for about that same price you picked this up for. All in a gorgeous brushed aluminium case with a clear side panel.
I picked it up to flip but after getting it up and running with an EVGA 2060 Super, I've kind of fallen in love with the old beast. It's still a fantastic machine in my eyes!
I suck at flipping because I love the history. Recently picked up a Z77 sabertooth with a i7 3770k and a Fallout 4 970 all inside a Silverstone FT02 and it's just a thing of beauty. All for $50!
I miss the days of late 2000's and early 2010's PC cases. It was the golden era. HTPC cases were also pretty sick. I have the windowless version of this somewhere and still use my Cooler Master HAF XB cube for my gaming system and the Silverstone Grandia ones for living room and small server PC's. There were lots of different designs and now we only have same looking Aquarium towers with bad airflow and before it was just beige boxes.
My man! Cooler Master cases from 10-15 years ago are really something, aren't they? I still have my HAF 912 Plus and have been using it for 12 years now. I've pushed four different configs through it during that time and right now I'm in the process of collecting parts for the 5th one. It might need some modifications this time to keep up with thermals of these components but nothing that'll ruin its external beauty. Can't get enough of seeing people's reactions when I show them this old case and when I tell them what's actually inside. It's a proper sleeper PC at tths point.
Do you even look dude? So many good cases. Look to gamers nexus computex videos on all the cases.
I build a 7700k/GTX 1660 Ti setup last week and it performs very well. That's really bang for not a lot of bucks, ideal to play esports titles.
oh my god oh my god i have the same exact things as you! been looking for this comment. I have an old mobo, rog maximus ix hero and been thinking of upgrading. If u see, this can you let know of a 2 or $300 mobo i can upgrade to? or just anything more modern. Please and thank you
i just got 6700 k and Z270 mobo from my closet and put it back to life works like a charm ,nice vids as always mate
I got my first computer in 2017. was a Dell Inspiron that had an i3 7100 in it. I wanted to upgrade to the 7700 non K because that was the highest chip that was supported by the motherboard, but i ended up switching platforms entirely and purchasing a 3700x instead in early 2020.
I’ll never forget my i3 7100 and what it could do. I played Oblivion at 1080p with medium high settings with the UHD 630 graphics, and managed a playable 40-50 fps. There was something fun about having a limited machine, because you have to figure out how to get the most out of it and still have a good time.
nowaday the newer i3 12-14th gen is way better then any i7 and i9 from the 6-8th gen. the i3-14100f itself has same or little bit better performance then a i7-9700k and i9-9900ks😅even in some muitcore cases too which is crazy, even tho they have more core and thread count
This video was quite nostalgic for me. The last time I remember watching your videos was back around 2017, which, coincidentally was around the same time I built my first PC, and it was an almost identical build to the one in the video. I also built a PC with an i7-7700K, a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo, and an EVGA GTX 1070. Though, my 1070 is the FTW model, not the SC. I still have the PC, though I recently purchased a gaming laptop.
Thanks for the hit of nostalgia!
8:57 HP did an OMEN cube case. Those are pretty rare. I have a White Aerocool X-Predator cube case. It has a horizontal motherboard location, which allows the GPU to sit vertically in view through the side window. Still regret selling my Aerocool dream box though 😢
Best case ever. Phenomenal airflow - unparalleled.
I have a 6700K @ 4.5 & RX 6700 XT on my 2nd rig. Practically the same CPU and still kicks ass at 1080p.
I've got a 6700K, and 1080ti. I delidded the CPU and and tossed some liquid metal on it and my GPU. I'm very impressed with how well it still performs, even with newer titles. I might finally build a new system when the 50xx cards come out, I heard the 7850x3D is where it's at currently on the CPU side, I'll have to do more research though when it gets closer to purchasing.
A couple of months ago, I "accidentally" came across a "brand new" (still sealed in the antistatic bag) GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK motherboard. So, I bought an i7-4790K CPU, delidded it, added some Thermal Grizzly liquid metal, Corsair 4x8GB ***2400Mhz*** (32GB total) DDR3, an EVGA 1080Ti FTW3, and a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVME, with a fresh install of Win10 Pro. 🤯🤯🤯 This thing is a BEAST!!!
My next project is to confiscate my son's i7-7700K/Asus Z270-AR/16GB DDR4/1080Ti, delid it, add liquid metal, an RTX 4070Ti Super, and 4x8GB DDR4 3600Mhz (32GB total), and migrate a Kingston 4th Gen 1TB NVME that I recently bought, into that machine.
I don't play AAA games. So, I'm expecting to get "about" another 5-years out of these upgraded systems.
@@curtis.albrecht.79 yeah that'll be a very capable system for a long time. Emulating games won't be a problem either for that.
Ryzen 7 9800x3D is where it is now haha!
In next 6 months we will have something else! But I'll still suggest to go with 9800x3D because of healthy temps.
Mine is still working great in 2024 surprisingly. I was going to build a new PC, but I might just keep my 6-year old system if it's still running this well. For whatever reason, it's just a very stable, reliable system that gives me less problems than my 13th gen laptop, and my Rog Ally. Can't remember the last time it's ever crashed on me, and I don't think it's ever BSOD'd me, maybe once back when Windows 10 was new and not updated yet, but rarely if ever since. No point in building one of these these days, simply because there is no upgrade path, but if you still have one, it's a good system and will probably last another 2 or 3 years before I run into any weird compatibility/support issues, hopefully.
2:04 Really lovely Shasta Daisies in the garden!
8:56
The case is excellent. chunky, blocky lots of space, SSD, HDD, optical drives, airflow, cable management, AIO support, no RGB crap.
Why anyone need another case beside that don't know.
My Silverstone Raven 03 consider Corsair Carbide a worthy competitor, at one point i was considering to replace it with Corsair Carbide , but at the end SS 03 is great.
But if i could find that Corsair Carbide for cheap i would get it, its that case that i would to have, just like HAF X that i grabbed for cheap 5 years ago.
I game on an i7 8700k, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and a GTX 1060 6GB. I've gotten comments about needing to upgrade and I agree that I'll need to upgrade to a newer system soon but for now the PC meets my needs. Someone even asked if my specs can run PowerPoint. I don't use PowerPoint and didn't see the "point" of that comment. 😂
Oh, the things kids will say. The people telling you to get a new system are probably teenagers that have not even built thir first system yet. They prob have a dozen builds saved on PCpartpicker or they're part of the Bottleneck Police force.
I could see adding more RAM and upgrading the GPU, but the i7-8700k is still a solid CPU. Overclocking it will get it very close to the Ryzen 5 5600.
Your cpu is great. A gpu upgrade would help. An rx 6600 might be a good option. Sell the 1060 and it will be a pretty affordable upgrade
Don't underestimate what a 8700k could do under the right 2x120 tower cooler at 1.275V ;) Playing COD W3, over 200fps with a 2080 super and a kit of 3200mhz ram with proper tuning. You have a beast in your hand, unleash the power!
I love your little garden, it is so cozy-ish :D
Not even cozy? Just cozy ish?
Currently running an i7-8700 and GTX 1080. It is my friends old Gaming PC he built 7 years ago and it’s kicking ass. I play on 3440x1440p and am able to max out most games I play and get 60 FPS or greater without upscaling. I’m even able to play newer games like Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor no problem. Literally the only games I have to tweak substantially and upscale are Starfield and Cyberpunk. Get this, when I first turned the PC on it ran like shit and I assumed the 1080 was inadequate. I purchased a 4070 Super and found it sort of surprising how little the rasterized performance truly was… I mean for 7 years it’s insanely unimpressive. I still have to use upscalers in the biggest of games and have like 90 instead of 60 frames with no scaling… woo? I put my 1080 back in to double check I wasn’t tripping and realized it was actually just OVERHEATING. I repasted the 1080 and got 30 more frames and its honestly only like 60-70% of my 4070 Super in real world performance… WTF. So something from 2016 that cost less in todays money is only 30% slower than a 4070 Super…. Nvidia is out here scamming.
the gpu is just a better match for that cpu. if you pair a newer cu with that gu it will perform better. but the 1080 is still very solid i have one lol
Still rockin my i7 7700 with a 6 GB 1060 and 16 GBs of ram. It gets the job done, managed around 60 fps on rdr2 with some tweaks, and tbh i dont really see a reason to upgrade, but its age does scare me
is it possible for my i5-4960K and GTX 970 to upgrade to your parts? my graphic card have been wonky for a year now and i can only play dota 2.
@@ogeyrat I mean, you could, but i dont really think its worth it, youd need a new mother board and a ddr4 set, since the sockets and memory generation dont match. Your only bet would be scoring a good deal on the used market, but still, this system is quite old and honestly, if youre going to need a new mobo, id say its better to upgrade to something newer.
But, if your problem is the gpu, id say yeah, a used 1060 would pair up nicely with that i5.
Old school budget pc building videos were delightful. Wish PC gaming becomes charming like that once again. A man can dream.
The GTX 1070 was one of the best buys back in 2016. Hitting 8 years now.. and still capable.
It has borderline GPU power to handle graphics settings that utilize all 8GB though. But if you can live with 30ish FPS, you can apply lots of eyecandy @1080P in modern games.
I want to ad a bit of context to your helldivers results. The game is extremely cpu intensive at higher difficulties because all the enemy ai is calculated locally and there are way more enemys. From personal experience with an 8600k at 4.7ghz the game will drop to around 20fps with horrible and intensive lows at difficulty 8. Lower difficulties fare a bit better but are still exhausting to play.
The rest of my setup is 16gb ram and an rtx 2060 at lower settings than in your video. I can confirm that this is to 100% a cpu bottleneck.
I've always wanted a big square case like this. Great video and please give my regards to Harry the scourge of pigeons.
😂 will do!
I just built a new PC in the Montech King 95 Pro case. Its a large fish tank style case with loads of room to work in. In my opinion its the best looking case available. The all white build looks amazing.
I am wondering where you got this PC from for 120€. I have been eyeing the i7-7700k for ages on Ebay and it usually goes over 100€ in price (the CPU alone). I still got a i7-6700k myself, and this guy overclocked and with proper ram is crazy fast even in modern games. The only real issue is that it only has 4 cores, otherwise in single core performance this guy still outshines many processors that came afterwards (specially if overclocked).
I've had a suspicion that a lot of these 'budget pc' channels fudge their figures a bit lol. I'm also in the UK and no chance you'd get those sort of specs for that money.
Either that or they get hookups from a PC recycling type place. Which is fair enough but I wish they'd do full disclosure.
At the current time on ebay, an i7 7700K CPU alone is gonna cost 80 quid. Searching for the completed items the cheapest one is for 50 quid (well done to whomever scored that one) but the average price is much higher.
Anyway no hate towards the dude who owns the channel.
@@veeeks2938 I am in mainland europe and i had a HP omen (with i7-6700k) so one year or so ago I decided to finally break the chains of my i7-6700k. I bought an asus motherboard (costed me 70€ but you can get it perhaps a bit cheaper), but I have always been eyeing an i7-7700k since it probably has better ram support and uses less voltage per clock, enabling even higher clocks. Thing is, at the price of 100€ or more, there is no reason for me to make the upgrade, and I check prices every once in a while. Sometimes the chip alone is even around 150€. Similar (complete) PC builds are usually around 400€, depending on GPU present. The one the used on this video has a crazy pc case, which alone would be worth a penny. Either buyer got lucky or seller just wanted to get rid of his product and/or just didn't understand the gem he was getting rid of. Prices in the USA are also better in almost every product btw, so channel owner is probably from the USA.
Seriously man...here you are at it again...reviewing exact the pI am building with. So crazy. That CPU is super hot for no reason though. Love that case. I sold one a few years ago for next to nothing and regret it.
That case is massive, I have an identical one but only have been able to identify the "razer" on it, got it used for 25 dollars, best case I have had, really liked the massive room it offers
5:47 the way you said "on modern hardware or older hardware" 😂.
All things considered, the I7 7700K and the GTX 1070 Ti would have been a pretty good pairing in 2017, which both of these pieces came out. If I were into PC gaming back then as I am now. I'd definitely use this combo for running triple A Titles.
Thats a beautiful build, man I love watching your vids while eating, keep it up 👍
Still have the same case, don't feel the need to change. Airflow is absolutely great. Cable management is also great since you tuck them in the other chamber.
So my 7700k high end computer assembled in 2017 is now budget lmao. Still using it along a evga 1080 ftw bought in 2016.
It’s nearly a decade so yeah that’s how it works
Makes it even more impressive how well it works though
Having only recently upgraded from a 4th gen i5, hearing you say a 7700k is old tells me the timing was right!
Still impressive performance you are getting with that set up.
Still use that case (white) today with my new setup. Cpu 14900/ Ram 64gb / Gpu AMD 7900XT / Cpu watercooled. Beast setup. Only use it for my photoshoot photo editing in 1440P on a 34” Ultrawide ❤
I like the look. The case is pretty cool.
I am still using a ROG with a 1070 as a backup in the other room. It is very, very capable even nowadays.
It's crazy i7 7700k is called "budget", and its release was 2016!
It was literally at top of the charts of gaming benchmarks.
That's an amazing deal mate that case alone still goes for around £100. Still an amazing case love the second compartment for the psu and cables it makes cable management even easier and some nice drive space in there too would love to see more cube cases like that around now.
This CPU/GPU combo is what's in my old/secondary PC, along with 16GB RAM. I decided to dust it off, so to speak. It's been fun revisiting older hardware and seeing how it runs newer games like Cyberpunk.
This is the EXACT same build I first did on my own when I had saved up money to buy a 7700k and a 1070 and it was amazing at the time and still is! I used this PC up until last year when I got the income to upgrade to a used 3090 and 5800x3d, I still use the 7700k for my backup NAS! after watching this I'm tempted to grab a cheap 3060 and take the old 7700k back to make a spare rig! that chip is still surprisingly powerful...
The last 4 core/ 8 thread I7 before Intel started to make good products again. Wasn't bad but the 8700k was a big jump forward.
I had a very similar build. I used a Air 240 case, 1070 and an 8700k instead of a 7700k. Served me very well, and now serving my sister's needs. I did not really need to upgrade, but I did on impulse and was using a widescreen 1440p monitor instead of a 27" monitor.
This is absolutely beautiful! I love these old beasts! I recently picked up a Dell Precision 3620 and it came with an i7-7700k and 32 GBs of DDR4 ram, I’m in love with it.
Just needs a better PSU and maybe an RTX 2060 super 🤓
❤ I still have my 7700 in storage somewhere and I used it recently and it performed very well. Ahhh, this case, I once wanted to use one to build water cooling. I really like this box. ❤
How much do you think is a 7700 or 7700k today?
I am planning to upgrade my brothers pc since he only use the i5 6600k
@@iamkepler186f On the RandomGamingPC channel I saw a comparison to the i3 12100kf and it was a bit worse. If you get a 7700K cheap somewhere, it may be worth it if you can without spending extra money. I was very pleased with it.
i7-7700K, 500gig SSD, 20tb HDD, 64gb 2666mhz ddr4, 3060ti 8gb OC, air cooled cards and chassis
Does everything I ask it to.
One of my favorite cases!
Man, this was really similar to my first buid. I was so pumped to get the 7700K and so annoyed there was no upgrade path afterward... Those were the bad old days when Intel released a new platform for virtually every new generation.
Swear to god man, you're reading my fecking mind. You did a video on the i7 7700k a few days ago which is the processor I'm planning to get for my old PC. I was going to get a PCIe powered card for it, but after seeing none were really hitting the spot that I wanted for cost/performance/power consumption I just thought "ah bugger it, I'll pinch my brothers old gtx 1070 and shove that in" and here it-bloody-is in a video!!
Though I do think I need to hunt down an evga one. I got an asus and one of the fans just fell off...
Man, this video brought so many memories, especially the PSU. Been using VS550 for idk how many years, and sadly, it did blow up back in late 2021, but didn't take anything with it thankfully(maybe it's a good thing I was using the integrated graphics on my old i5 7600 back then and didn't have a GPU). The GPU I had before that was 1060 3GB. First PC I built with my own money(well, the PSU was my father's old one he "gifted" me back in 2013-2014 I think). Kaby-Lake CPU and Pascal GPU combo was masterclass.
Wow, i have this exact case with an FX 9590 and RX 580. Still going strong.
Were gonna need more updates on this pigeon situation, hopefully your security pupper has things handled 🐾🐾💚
Great kombo this CPU and GPU.
In 2017, i've bought myself also a GTX 1070 & Ryzen 7 1700x , back then i was really happy with that config.
I'm still rocking the 7700k on our living room VR rig, and it still runs great!
7:12 this transition are so hard 🔥
OMG! That was my exact CPU and GPU config until a year ago! Was very satisfied with it. Was expecting a sligltly better result in BG3 and Cyberpunk, though. It is only held back by lack of DLSS support and no mesh shaders. My cousin is still happily playing on it.
Ahh the 1070 :) have been in some VR cafes in NL in 2023 and all used 1070 for VR rigs still working just fine.
You might get some good use out of a hot swap drive bay since you don't need the optical drive. Corsair used to make some real bangers. I just got myself a vengeance c70. This 7700k setup is near identical to my kid's pc except I used a workstation board and put a $20 xeon equivalent in it. All together I think the board, xeon and ram cost around 80 us which isn't bad considering the i7 still sells for about that much by itself.
I had that case I loved it. It looked good and kept everything chilly. I switched the fans for Corsair 2x HD140 for the front a 120mm industrial Noctua for the back with an Alphacool Eisbaer 280 on the top. I eventually got a 1070ti mini and water cooled that with the Eisbaer. I loved that PC. The 1070ti ended up catching on fire a year and a half later.
The Air 540 is a great case. Mine is currently empty (once held a 6850K 980Ti SLI custom loop rig) but will very likely get an AM5 or LGA 1851 production build once we get those new CPUs.
Nice video bro, but did you know you can put a Coffee Lake chip on a Z270 board using a modded BIOS?
I didn’t but now I’ll have to try it 😁
I have that exact same PSU and have been using it for years, it is currently running a Ryzen 5600 and a RX 5700 system. I also read those same articles about it being unsafe, so I replaced it for a 650W 80 Plus Gold, which then cables melted inside it after a year or so and I spent two months trying to get a replacement under RMA from the manufacturer, and so the original PSU ended up back in the machine and it still is running fine. So I'd not worry too much about it lol
1080ti was the perfect match for the 7700k as i remember
In 2017 I did a lease to own thing with an i7 7700. 16GB of DDR4 2133 (One stick, so single channel), 1TB spinner (No SSD or M.2 SSD), GTX 1050 2GB. The board was an H110. This was an Asus Pre-Built. I ended up sending it back. It would have cost me $2300 after interest. No monitor either. At the time I had an FX 8350 w/GTX 1080 and I could tell there was a CPU difference but I couldn't see me putting my GTX 1080 in that case. In the end I bought a used i7 3770 and Intel DQ77MK board for $50 and put the GTX 1080 and the 16GB of Kingston HyperX Genisis memory into it with a 120GB SSD. At the time I played in 4K 60 Hz so the GPU always needed to be the most powerful it could be. I had a 1TB spinner for games in there too. Which even today you can do so long as you have a fast OS drive for temp files and a good amount of memory. Although I went all SSD in 2021. What a ride that was. I thought the 7700 would have mattered more. It didn't. I thought the 3770 was going to be a side grade, instead it was a legit upgrade from an FX 8350.
Awesome video with full of nostalgia
That's actually an awesome case, I've been looking for one for my years now, but can't find one. with it's dual chamber, it has good airflow, while still having a cdrom that won't interfere with the front fans.
I'm currently running an I7 4790k with a GTX1060 3GB
Up it to 6 and you will be set for another 2 years🤣
I rock a i7 7700K+GTX 1650 build inside an old 2005 MSI MBOX case although the TIM under the IHS is old and dry because I notice temp spiking issues regardless of how good of a cooler along with good thermal paste I have installed when doing load tests and playing cpu intensive games.
2:45 somebody took a bite out of that power connector 😅
Nice build, I think you got the mix of components about right too. Also really nice case, I'd buy the case itself because you can fit pretty much anything in there, along with plenty of airflow, plenty of SSDs/HDDs and also a couple of 5.25in slots too - a rarity nowadays!
back in 2017 when I was thinking on the parts to choose for my first PC build I originally wanted to go with the i7-7700K and a GTX 1080 Ti
My Cpu is WAY older than this and i still run games decently. Im looking into a budget upgrade because my cpu doesn't support Windows 11. This PC became my main rig because I had gotten this machine second hand. I just had extra parts laying around making it decent.
Cpu: Intel Core i7 4790
Graphics: GTX 1660 Ti
Ram: 32GB DDR 3
Storage: 500gb ssd, 3 - 1 TB Hard Drives
Them old Intel i7s are kind of crazy.
You should add Ghost of Tsushima to your benchmarks, it's a really good PC port.
@RandomGaminginHD Garuda Linux 'GAMING EDITION' on these older machines would be a cool video...
Hey man, a quick question for all of you. My old videocards always got one of those "bottom gold teeth" a little chipped, like you can see at 2:28. Idk about my new one because I never took it out after I installed. Is that common?
Im still on an 8700k with a 1080ti.
For the most part im still good.
My exGF is still gaming on a 7700k/GTX980ti. It was struggling with 16gb of DDR3, but 32gb helped tremendously. Though it is starting to show its age. In Ark Survival Ascended its under 30FPS at low settings, but still fairly smooth and stutter free. Other games like Enshrouded, Valhiem and RUST it runs really well, I think once more Unreal 5 games come out she is going to have to look at a new PC, but that PC has had a nice long run.
I had a 6500 cpu I wanted to upgrade to 7700 at some point, I ended up using the 6500 for several years but if I did have this 7700 I would still likely be on it, what a beast for it's time.
Pretty similar to what I'm using now, it's been good to me for the last 8 years. With the 9800X3D out now and the 5080 only a few weeks away, it's time for an upgrade that I will hopefully never have to replace as long as nothing dies on me. Maybe I'll buy a backup mobo and ram in a fear years while they're still in stock, just in case lol
I still rock this combo, never thought I'd have a build for 7 years and still be able to game whatever I want on it. Lego games run at 4k 60 no problem so I'm happy haha. I just stuck a 3070 in it and it's actually awesome. Shadow of the tomb raider cranked with RTX on high and dlss on quality looks amazing and avg 90fps.
I got my pc when the intel 7th gen was still new, I'm very glad that I went with a ryzen 5 1400 instead of an i5 at the time though, since it had the same core and thread count with an actual upgrade path. When I upgraded to my r5 5600x the i7 7700k was still more expensive.
Love the video, love the irony even more that for under $500 USD You still created a PC that plays games as well as any console
Thus disproving the myth of PC Gaming hardware "Needing" an upgrade every 3 years
This video makes my 6700K feel old. Still runs great though
With cards of that age, probably advisable replacing all the pads as well as paste.
About a year ago i was getting back into pc gaming and got a sweet deal on a used alienware aurora r7 that has a i7 8700 cpu and a gtx 1080ti gpu all for $350 and it runs every game i throw at it at max settings in 1080p while maxing out my older 55inch tvs 60fps easily. I only recently splurged on a new gaming laptop with a rtx 4060 that basically matches or exceeds the 1080tis performance while producing less heat and using less power but my Alienware desktop still gets lots of use. I have noticed that load times are decently faster on the newer laptop which is running a amd ryzen 5 7640hs apu with 760m igpu. I expect my desktop will live on a fewmore years before i upgrade it and switch the alienware to a backup role in a guest bedroom.
I have a Dell optiplex 3050 mb with windows 10pro, a i5 7500, 16gb 2133mhz ddr4 (2x8), 256gb ssd, and a EVGA 2070 super xc ultra. Please tell me the absolute best CPU I can run in it. I planned on upgrading it to a 7700k but if there's better then please tell me. Will be getting 2tb more storage and 32gb 2400mhz ddr4 (2x16), I just want better performance, any help is still help thank you
I just built a new PC with a 7800X3D to replace my 7700K system. I kept the 3070 GPU for the time being and saw huge gains in all games. For example, I went from 60-120 FPS in PUBG to a stable 200+. When I originally built it, I had a 1080 and it rocked but over the last couple of years I've had nothing but trouble with it. Sure, it was able to play a lot of games, but stability was terrible with black or blue screens common.
i remember being a young teen not having money yet wanting to have a similar set up to this pc maybe replace the 1070 with a 1080
GTA:V always been weird for not utilise whole hardware for some setups. Still glad you include that on tests, because it's still played.
those corsair cases are rare and expensive in the usa
Yeah seem pretty hard to find here as well these days
I still use one overclocked to 4.8 GHz as well. Paired it with a rtx 2070 and overclocked that as well. The i7 doesnt bottleneck the gpu at all and I still have pretty decent performance on a budget