I just finished my latest budget build using this exact processor. I was going to use the i5 3rd gen. However, based on other users results, the i7-2600 has a slim edge over the entry level i5 3rd gen. The final build is very similar to this one, just a 980Ti instead. Perfectly capable for a casual gamer.
@@jameshall5556 Good pairing. You will find a CPU bottleneck, but it is a great place to start. After I commented, I went to a 4770 with a GTX 1070 and there is still a slight bottleneck.
This exact combination was my gaming pc upgrade months after recovering from hurricane Irma and Maria back in october 2017 in Puerto Rico. Found a 50 dollar hand-me-down lenovo m81 desktop with a pentium CPU, added ram for 25 bucks and had a 1050ti from when it was brand new. Was rocking that setup and even STREAMING until i found myself able to make a snall upgrade in summer 2018 to the i7 2600 for 70 bucks and a gtx 970 for 50 bucks from a friend. I miss the little banger...rip motherboard.
@@ProYamYamPC Glad to know. An i7-2600 may be a potato in modern workstation settings such as video editing, photoshop, and rendering, but it's great to know that it can still handle older games and modern esport games like pro.
I just upgraded from almost thia exact setup, just with an i5-2500k. Windows 11 started getting really unstable (apps stopped running, system shell options disappeared from the right click menu) so after 12 years, I did a full rebuild. My 970 lives on in my parents computer now to give my neices and nephews something decent to play on.
Nice build and attention to detail there. I am giving a try at building some machines using older HW too. I never built one but recently finished my first one. I scored an old ATX Asrock LGA 1150 that came with an I5-4670K and 32GB of Crucial Ballistic ram. Storage is a used Samsung 860 EVO 1TB. I got a used Apexgaming 750W PSU and a CPU cooler with ARGB fans on Amazon and one of those ARGB PWM hubs because the MB doesn't have RGB. I stuck it all into a new Gamdias Talos elite 2 case. All works well with CPU OC at up to 4.4 GHZ. I haven't decided on which GPU to use. I may settle on the EVGA 1060 that currently resides in an HPZ 230. Thumbs up for the budget builds.This channel content fits the bill for me, liked and subbed.
Thanks for dropping a sub mate! Nice find too with that mobo combo. I would like to recommend an AMD card as they have lower CPU overhead. Something like an RX 580 8GB would be perfect for that system.
this is nearly exactly what i had build half an year ago. Gtx 970, i5 3670k, 16gb 1600mhz ram, 256gb ssd for around 80 bucks. i upgraded it later.. i bought new parts for cheap and sold the old ones. Now i have the same 970, an i5 4670k, 16gb corsair ram at 2600mhz, an M.2 ssd, 500gb ssd and with all things i sold, this all just cost me around 120-130 bucks.
Great build mate, for around £180 it's a great build. I did a similar build with a i5 4440 and GTX 970 but I do think i7 CPU's sell better even the older ones.
Thank you mate! I would have opted for the 3rd gen i5 if I wasn;t flipping it locally. However, I think the extra threads of the i7 will certainly help out!
i have the z97 pro board with a i7 4790k cpu water cooler is a corsair 240 white white fractural design case for plenty of bay expansion and its a quiet case psu is corsair rm750i corsair vengeance pro ddr3 pc2200 16gb of ram cost of rig without gpu £150 i will be throwing in a rtx 3060 card for a extra £260 so for £410 for a mid range budget build is a good price i may even throw in a extra 2 dims to bring her to 32gb of ram
I have i5 2310 and GTX 970, not in the same build. But I think getting something for 4th gen can be a better choice with all "surprise AVX2 requesite" we getting with games. That and Mesh Shader...😡
I also agree with how Molex connectors are garbage. The pins sometimes don't line up correctly, which means you can't plug in your hardware that use those trash connectors such as fans, lights, and CD-ROM drives (who even use those things in 2024 anyway LOL ). I couldn't plug in a brand new fan one time because of the junky molex connectors. One thing molex connectors are good 4 is hooking up LED strips with bare wires and use TOOTHPICKS to keep the wires in place by sticking them into the metal connector pins.
The thing is, under AI Tweaker menu I can't OC the cpu speed etc. I'm also using B75M-A paired with 2600K and latest bios lol. Can you try putting K series processor in there and show the bios menu? lol thx!
@@ProYamYamPC I get it. But it's just weird to see and tweak other options in bios like target ram speed like 1600, 1866Mhz, etc and Asus OC profile, Load Line Calibration, Long/Short Duration Power Limit etc for a non-oc board. Btw is there any chipsets that is OC-able other than z77? Thank you :)
@@ProYamYamPC well I guess I was wrong..after rewatching the video it seems that light you were using made the battery look orange..and I guess from lot of angles it looks a bit scratched..so combination of bad light (too warm colour) and possibly scratches or fingerprints..made that impression on me..again..sorry for that
I just finished my latest budget build using this exact processor. I was going to use the i5 3rd gen. However, based on other users results, the i7-2600 has a slim edge over the entry level i5 3rd gen.
The final build is very similar to this one, just a 980Ti instead. Perfectly capable for a casual gamer.
Woah I just did a similar thing myself. I've bought myself an i7 2700k and have paired it with a GTX 1070.
@@jameshall5556 Good pairing. You will find a CPU bottleneck, but it is a great place to start.
After I commented, I went to a 4770 with a GTX 1070 and there is still a slight bottleneck.
*Nice build, RGB fans, new case & decent cable management is all is needed to be able to flip old components*
Exactly, as long as it can play someone's favourite games, they don't care how old a system is!
that's a lot of case for just over 40 quid! some fans, separate section for PSU, airflow looks ok!
It's all tempered glass too, proper budget winner this one is!
This exact combination was my gaming pc upgrade months after recovering from hurricane Irma and Maria back in october 2017 in Puerto Rico. Found a 50 dollar hand-me-down lenovo m81 desktop with a pentium CPU, added ram for 25 bucks and had a 1050ti from when it was brand new. Was rocking that setup and even STREAMING until i found myself able to make a snall upgrade in summer 2018 to the i7 2600 for 70 bucks and a gtx 970 for 50 bucks from a friend. I miss the little banger...rip motherboard.
That looks really nice and clean for a build that has an over a decade old mobo and CPU and a decade old GPU.
And it still plays eSports titles and older games just fine too. It's amazing to see how well old hardware gets on.
@@ProYamYamPC Glad to know. An i7-2600 may be a potato in modern workstation settings such as video editing, photoshop, and rendering, but it's great to know that it can still handle older games and modern esport games like pro.
I just upgraded from almost thia exact setup, just with an i5-2500k. Windows 11 started getting really unstable (apps stopped running, system shell options disappeared from the right click menu) so after 12 years, I did a full rebuild. My 970 lives on in my parents computer now to give my neices and nephews something decent to play on.
Great video!
Thank you mate!
Nice build and attention to detail there. I am giving a try at building some machines using older HW too. I never built one but recently finished my first one. I scored an old ATX Asrock LGA 1150 that came with an I5-4670K and 32GB of Crucial Ballistic ram. Storage is a used Samsung 860 EVO 1TB. I got a used Apexgaming 750W PSU and a CPU cooler with ARGB fans on Amazon and one of those ARGB PWM hubs because the MB doesn't have RGB. I stuck it all into a new Gamdias Talos elite 2 case. All works well with CPU OC at up to 4.4 GHZ. I haven't decided on which GPU to use. I may settle on the EVGA 1060 that currently resides in an HPZ 230. Thumbs up for the budget builds.This channel content fits the bill for me, liked and subbed.
Thanks for dropping a sub mate! Nice find too with that mobo combo. I would like to recommend an AMD card as they have lower CPU overhead. Something like an RX 580 8GB would be perfect for that system.
this is nearly exactly what i had build half an year ago. Gtx 970, i5 3670k, 16gb 1600mhz ram, 256gb ssd for around 80 bucks.
i upgraded it later.. i bought new parts for cheap and sold the old ones. Now i have the same 970, an i5 4670k, 16gb corsair ram at 2600mhz, an M.2 ssd, 500gb ssd and with all things i sold, this all just cost me around 120-130 bucks.
How’s the upgrades treating you mate?
Nice build mate, strange case that one with the two fans being blocked off a little.
Thanks mate! I think the airflow in this is probably better than my main case lol😂
Great build mate, for around £180 it's a great build. I did a similar build with a i5 4440 and GTX 970 but I do think i7 CPU's sell better even the older ones.
Thank you mate! I would have opted for the 3rd gen i5 if I wasn;t flipping it locally. However, I think the extra threads of the i7 will certainly help out!
Nice work bro
Nice. I really like humble pc
i have the z97 pro board with a i7 4790k cpu water cooler is a corsair 240 white white fractural design case for plenty of bay expansion and its a quiet case psu is corsair rm750i corsair vengeance pro ddr3 pc2200 16gb of ram cost of rig without gpu £150 i will be throwing in a rtx 3060 card for a extra £260 so for £410 for a mid range budget build is a good price i may even throw in a extra 2 dims to bring her to 32gb of ram
im not fussed about rgb so much but i will add a few rgb fans as my rig mainly has the side panel off anyway
I have i5 2310 and GTX 970, not in the same build. But I think getting something for 4th gen can be a better choice with all "surprise AVX2 requesite" we getting with games. That and Mesh Shader...😡
I also agree with how Molex connectors are garbage. The pins sometimes don't line up correctly, which means you can't plug in your hardware that use those trash connectors such as fans, lights, and CD-ROM drives (who even use those things in 2024 anyway LOL ). I couldn't plug in a brand new fan one time because of the junky molex connectors. One thing molex connectors are good 4 is hooking up LED strips with bare wires and use TOOTHPICKS to keep the wires in place by sticking them into the metal connector pins.
That's exactl why molex sucks. The pins always move for some reason and its super annoying😂
@@ProYamYamPC That's exactly what the problem was. The pin wasn't lining up and was popping out on the fan.
The thing is, under AI Tweaker menu I can't OC the cpu speed etc. I'm also using B75M-A paired with 2600K and latest bios lol.
Can you try putting K series processor in there and show the bios menu? lol thx!
Officially you can't OC K series CPUs on B chipset motherboards
@@ProYamYamPC I get it. But it's just weird to see and tweak other options in bios like target ram speed like 1600, 1866Mhz, etc and Asus OC profile, Load Line Calibration, Long/Short Duration Power Limit etc for a non-oc board.
Btw is there any chipsets that is OC-able other than z77? Thank you :)
How much did you end up selling this for?
same but with k'
Corroded battery....facepalm
Can you elaborate? Because I can't see a corroded battery.
@@ProYamYamPC well I guess I was wrong..after rewatching the video it seems that light you were using made the battery look orange..and I guess from lot of angles it looks a bit scratched..so combination of bad light (too warm colour) and possibly scratches or fingerprints..made that impression on me..again..sorry for that