8 cores for less than £10? | Xeon E5-2670
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- Testing the Intel Xeon E5-2670 eight core CPU in 10 popular and demanding games in 2023, using an RTX 3070 discrete GPU.
Yes, it's true, you can buy 8-core CPUs for under £10 ($12) in 2023. These aren't enthusiast-grade overclockable i7 Extremes or AMD FX chips, but ex-server parts from Intel's Xeon series. Pairing these cheap chips with remanufactured motherboards and slow ECC RAM can make for a good set of specs for a low price, wherever you are in the world; but can it game?
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00:00 Xeon E5-2670 vs. 2023
00:42 Background: History of the E5-2670
03:28 Test System: E5-2670, 16GB DDR3-1600, RTX 3070
04:30 Gaming Benchmarks
04:33 Benchmarks: Valorant
05:24 Benchmarks: Battlefield V
06:06 Benchmarks: Fortnite
06:51 Benchmarks: Microsoft Flight Simulator
07:23 Benchmarks: Spider-Man Remastered
08:08 Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077
08:55 Benchmarks: Red Dead Redemption 2
09:30 Benchmarks: Elden Ring
10:18 Benchmarks: The Witcher 3 Remastered
11:11 Benchmarks: Civilization VI
11:27 Synthetic Benchmarks: CPU-Z, Cinebench R23, Time Spy & Firestrike
11:46 Is the E5-2670 worth it?
12:52 Alternative options
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Bollocks… er, at 01:44 I list this CPU as “unlocked”, it is unfortunately very much locked. My bad 🤦♂️
you can bus oc it up to 4.1-4.2 but its alot of tuning and thats allcore
Idk about this class of hardware, but the stuff i play with can handle the fsb going up by quite a bit.
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A 10-core or even 12-core only costs a few bucks more.
A whole used workstation system from your local e-waste recycler would cost about the same price as just the motherboard alone from a build... and would guarantee stuff like quad-channel RAM support, that most of those Ali Express motherboards lack... look for an HP Z420, or the Dell or Lenovo equivalents.
The conclusion at the end of the video about making the leap to Haswell based V3 Xeon's on "X99" platform instead of "X79" is correct. The jump in IPC, core count, DDR4, AVX2, etc., is all worth paying slightly more.
An HP Z440 workstation, with a 16-core Xeon 2698 V3 @ 3.6GHz Turbo, and 64 GB of Quad-channel DDR4 ECC server RAM, plus a cheapo SSD boot drive, can all be had for below $200 USD.
Drop in your flavour of GPU to make it a beast gaming rig... Or drop in a bunch of hard drives to make it a home server... or both.
Great to see someone looking at these older xeons from 2000 series on a x79, I personally used an E5 2630 bought for around 2 euros with a cheap msi board and 16gb in quad channel and was super happy with its performance, many games performed much better than I expected from such a low clocked cpu. Nice video, thank you and i'm waiting for more. 👍
Do you still know whats the motherboard model? Kinda want to replace my old i7 860 with these dirt cheap xeon's haha
@@anxiety1209 I bought the motherboard at a bargain, on a local auction site, I use it to this day with xeon e5 1650v2 and I am 100% satisfied with it. Talking about msi x79a-gd45 8d. 8D is responsible for 8 memory banks :P
@@werwito6723 thanks for the info i took a look at it there was only one listing of that motherboard someone is selling it for 200$ but I ain't buying a 200$ motherboard for a 10$ cpu lmao i think I'll be going the Chinese motherboard route 😅
I've always wondered how the E5-2630 v3 compares to this and the other budget chips tested today. Here in the USA they can be had for the same price as the 2670, but it's on the X99 platform. A quick look at PassMark shows a 15% faster single thread, lower rated TDP of 85W, and a 15% better all core score. It does have lower cache and lower clock speeds, but I think the comparison would be interesting.
It’s pretty bad, but, for the price, if you just want to start building PCs, imo it’s a great option.
Snowman CPU Cooler you must be a fan of Tech Yes City haha
Great video, informative and well presented, thanks!
I so want to see you doing one of these for the E5-2699 V4!
20k subs congrats !!!
Great video! and btw, one really small correction at 00:46, Intel has been making 8 core server CPUs from way back to March 2010, when they launched Beckton, based on the Nehalem microarchitecture at 45nm, and then next year with Westmere-EX they even bumped it to 10 cores on 32nm
i love the thought of pairing this with an old rx 580 or something and being able to play basically any game you want, very impressive stuff from the cheap cpu
It can handle other great cards as well, my friend runs a 2670v3 with a 2060 super 8gb at 1440p and he gets really great results (60+ fps lmao)
@@k-osmonaut8807exact build I'm doing rn 😂 lmao
finally a video about old parts without silly overclocks, ram and cooling. hats off to you mate
I'd be very interested in seeing an E5-2698v3 tested. It's a 16C/32T Haswell Xeon (2011v3) that can be had for $40 nowadays. I suspect it would be solid in both gaming and workstation tasks.
The biggest thing holding something like that would be its clockspeeds. That would be my guess anyway.
@@thomaswest2583 And old platform
e5-2696v3 is 18/36 and with turbo unlock it stays at 3.8Ghz all cores.
@@DanielGT_93 Damn, pretty good.
Got an e5 2697 v3 and it's a monster. Literally runs absolutely anything paired with a 5500xt 8gb.
It's crazy how in 2005 my first computer was a 500MHz Pentium 3 with 128MB of RAM that could barely run Windows XP. Now even if you're completely strapped for cash, you can easily get a quad core Core i5 Haswell system or something that is not only useable but actually pretty good for most tasks.
Graz on 20k subs!
Thanks!
You should do a whole video on throttle stop and any other "not overclocking" things you use. As someone who does a lot of buying in the old Intel space it would be really nice to know how to "overclock" locked chips
I just upgraded from a 1200 to a 3600x, I hope I didn’t get scammed, or else I’ll have to cry in my room and watch your videos all day until I have more money
That's a nice upgrade!
Have you tested in your games yet? You'll soon find out it's a worthy upgrade! Nope you haven't been scammed. Time to chill and play :)
@@mozzjones6943 it haven’t arrived yet, I’m scared of bent pins not bad performance
@@theburger_king You weren't very clear about that lol Read your comment again. I hope you don't get scammed good luck :)
Almost hitting that 20K subscribers
CONGRATULATIONS on the 20k subs (even if I am a bit late lol) SO well deserved
Thanks 😀
I've run a couple of dual cpu xeon builds and it's a ton of fun.
the cutter put in some utterly insane easter eggs!
That wtf got me laughing real hard 😂btw nice video and your channel deserves more attention
do you think you could mess around with modern quadcores like the 12100 or the 13100? would be cool to see how it compares to the old 7700
nice video. I have a complain, your new graphs and font are so tiny, basically unreadable when watching below 720p. (I have a terrible adsl connection, sorry! 360p it is...)
also, the white outline of 1% low number is horrible to look at even at 1080p, remove it if possible.
you know, you making this video was great since i have a literal pile of E5-2620's in my closet, the 2620 is a 6 core, where the 2670 is 8 cores. I remember getting them for cheap paying around $5 a piece in an auction. so this video is a great way to see roughly what single core performance i could expect from them
Xeon's are dope, using a E5 2697v2 in my PC on a daily and it still rocks for just 67€
I splurged for a Xeon E5-2689, stuck it in a Shenzhen Special X79 board, added 64 GB of ECC RAM (for which I paid less than US$20), added a used RX580 and a mid-range 1TB NVMe SSD, hooked it all to used Seasonic 600W PSU, added a fan and a CPU cooler, installed one of the less annoying Linux distros, found a class-compatible Focusrite recording interface, and I have a very capable workstation for Kdenlive, Blender, Ardour, Darktable, some development tools, and lots of other things for less than US$500. Runs the few games I play these days fairly well.
I've had one of these for a while running in my server and I couldn't be happier with it. Got it paired with 128gb of ram running tons of stuff from minecraft servers to discord bots.
Finally we're getting some budget Xeon processors, I'd love to see the e5-2667v3 or v4
It wasn't that long ago when you had less than 1k subs, that's when I subbed
For context people, I spent more than double this for dinner at McDonald's last night!
Hi!! very good video by the way,
i'm currently using an E5 - 2680 V1paired with an Radeon 6650 XT and it works much better that i expected, especially in MW2 and Halo infinite
I have 2687w paired with 64 GB gskill 2666 MHz with Asus rampage 4 extreme I belive my machine is still some capable
I picked up an E5 2690 for £28 (2.9Ghz base, 3.8Ghz boost), and fitted into a HP Z620 I bought for £100 in Decemeber (which came with 4x16Gb DDR3 1600 ECC). It chugs along under full load at 3.5Ghz. I had upgraded it from an E5-2660, which only ran 2.9Ghz under full load, in gaming the speed boost wastangable, every frame counts when you're working at this level. I might have to increasing the TDP using Throttle Stop and and see if I can get it to run all cores at 3.8Ghz, should give it a nice little boost if it will.
it wouls be interesting to see what dlss 3 frame generation would do for these older cpus
I'm enjoying the video, i suggest do a e3 1231 v3 test, for those haswell user they don't even have to change the MB if it's a good option to upgrade. price is really cheap(£27 in China) and the base clock is pretty high, i'm also thinking if i need to swap a new MB&CPU combo to get a better performance for my 2nd pc, thanks!
I got this CPU paired with a z97 Mobo and its still, even 2023, a decent Gaming CPU. But i switched to 2x e5 2660v2 cuz i got an EVGA SR-X for free🤣 Otherwise i wouldnt have change. The e3 is a very good and cheap choice.
Any chance you could try out the E5-2690 V2? It seems like other than the overclockable E5-1680 V2 which is still selling for silly money, the 2690 V2 is probably the best balance of clockspeed/number of cores/Slightly improved Ivy bridge IPC and at a good price (usually under £20) and see whether this would be the best X79 chip at the moment?
Honestly, it can be a great budget video editing monster on budget or maybe an interesting Hackintosh project PC
What is that for an Sapphire Pulse Gpu @12:40 ? I looked online but cant found that model. It looks really nice and i want to have it :)
What's your take on an older workstation route to budget gaming? I bought a HP Z620 that was listed for £180 but the seller offered it to me for £100. It was listed as E5 2690, 64 GB RAM and 480 GB SSD but no graphics card. Imagine my surprise when it actually came with 2 x E5 2690s! Bought a RX6600 for £230 (cheapest new 'budget' GPU i could find - cheaper than RTX3050 and slightly more than GTX1660) and stuck the 1TB HDD from my old system in there and very satisfied with the value I've got.
New upload lets fucking go also part of the 20k club. Remember me.
I have a similar one, an E5 2689
It's a very good CPU for it's price here in Brazil, not just for games but all around. I use it for editing, music production (FL Studio) and of course, gaming.
It's interesting but mine keep boosting all the time without any tweeks, and it boosts all cores.
I used to use this CPU. Not bad as an entry point to the x79 platform when I got it
Hello brother. Is upgrading from 2670 v3 to 2680 v4 worth it? It's dirt cheap right now, and I am considering buying one. please reply
I have the 14 core 28 thread version of this with 32 gb ram and 3060 ti and its brilliant 👏
Worth every penny! ;-)
E5 2660 V3 is $8 and has 10C/20T
can you review this cpu E5-2670 v3, i think this will be a solid contender !
im running a xeon e5 1620v2, 4 cores 8 threads, 3.7ghz base clock, 3.9ghz turbo, 10mb l3 cache, it cost about 30 bucks on ebay a couple years ago, paired with quad channel ECC ddr3, it will actually outperform a haswell and broadwell chip of similar specs
I recently went from the E5-2689v1 and chinise board to E5-2660v3 and chinise x99 board.
I suggest maybe check out the E5-2643V3 6c/12t but can be boost unlocked to 3.7 all core. Or maybe check out the E5-2666V3 which has a 3.5ghz all core with bios mod which is a "10c/20t" or a oem 9c/18t
How I wish those sold for this price in my country, down here almost all second hand sellers are putting them out for like 40USD
I would have liked if you showed more specifics about the pricing of motherboards for these xeons. i havent looked super recently butl last I looked it was 100$ to have the privilege of using a cheap high core count xeon. And compare that to 50-70$ for a used or even new am4 board, and another 50-100$ cpu to go with it, these are getting hard to justify unless you have a real need for loads of threads. Maybe a video breaking down the real end cost of a decent ryzen build used or new vs maybe a slightly faster xeon could be worth a look? 1660s and the like are getting cheap and anything less than haswell will hold them back. really soon 5700xts and 2080s will be getting cheap too and systems like this will hold them back quite a bit. let me know what you think!
This is the most underrated channel wtf
Do videos more towards overclockable old cpus
2xxx V3 xeons have that turbo unlock thar gives a little boost.
My picks are the 120w 12 core and 14 core.
Don't know their part numbers but they stand out when looking st the wikipidia page.
People will just not let sandy bridge die. Your work is amazing and i hope you keep going.
Was seeing if someone can answer this for me .. I built an editing station with 2 e2670s and 1080ti gpu with 64 gb ram .. I mainly use davinci resolve , it’s a nice station but I heard that davinci can benefit from newer gpu and performance like rtx 4070 or even 4090 , my question is will this processor be a bottle neck for those higher end gpu ?
Intel Xeon E5-2696 V2 definitely I'm gonna get one too test out been using an 1680v2 for over a year now with nvme 2tb samsung 970 evo. It's a 12 core 24 thread it is very inexpensive one you can also run it as a dual xeon setup too.
Picking a Z620 WS up on Tuesday that has this cpu twice, pretty nice for 80€.
Criminally underated
W3690 Build in progress. Do you know how to work Z400 mobos?
Could you do a similar video for the x99 motherboards?
I have 2 x e5-2690 v2 in my home server. It's nothing amazing, but for the price they were great. I paid 44 each a year ago, now they are around 25 each.
I would say the E5-2667 v1 and v2 would be the more interesting CPUs to test, they have high base frequency (v1-2.90/v2-3.30ghz) and high turbo (v1-3.50/v2-4.0ghz). The v1 is a 6-core and the v2 is a 8-core, the v2 is around $18-20 though so its definitely worth a look. The v2 also has 25MB of cache, so it should really be a gaming monster!
the 2667v2 is a gaming monster. I have it in my rig :D
i wanna ask if i use bluestack can i open many instance with this build ?
Looks like competition in the new market is driving down costs in the used market
off topic question, which one should i pick for gaming
e5 2666 v3
e5 2670 v3
e5 2673 v3
e5 2683 v3
they are at the same price for about 10$
2697 v3, $25, 14 cores, can choose DDR3/DDR4, Runs at 3.1-3.6 GHz.
Reviewed the same processor about 4 months ago. I was able to pick it up for $5 back then. Guess the price has gone up lol
does Throttle Stop work for x58 or dual sockets ?
good video! but your charts are difficult to read via 26" Viewsonic tv/monitor @ 1366 x 768. I enjoy Xeon content for budget builds. I 'm using a e5-2650 v2 w/16gb ddr3-1333 4 x4gb ecc in quad channel for an office/work PC used build i based on a combo from aliexpress back in October 2021. Does what I need, even speeds up my disk imaging operations.
A video about the X5650 would be nice
"kindly do the usual youtube things, if you feel so inclined" 😂. I did the ol' socket 775/1 xeon mod back then, good times! I still have that retired hardware
I'm running this cpu on a china special mobo and when stressing it all cores are at 2993MHz without any extra software so I think that part may depend on what mobo you get, mine is not the cheapest china special mobo, combined with at gtx 1080 sc I can run any game at decent fps and still keeping the GPU maxed in many games if I want.
Please try the 1660v4 and 2667v4 they are being called x99 last hope the both have 8 broadwell cores and support ddr4 2400mhz ram with the only difference that the 2667v4 has 5mb extra of cache and the 1660v4 has higher clock speeds the first one is 30-40$ and the second one is 40 -60$
Thanks!! Are you able to make the font size bigger on your charts so easier to compare CPU models? Interesting as always. I used to get old Dell or HP workstations and put xeons in them for my own / family use and them some flips!
Is it faster or slower than the 1st Gen Ryzen 8 core cpus?
Can you test out the 2680v4?
intel started making 8 core server cpus on lga 1567 xeon x7560 and l7555
I don't know the $ to € conversion, but isn't that the same cost as the E5-2673v3 nowadays?
and people do some trickery to get those on unlimited turbo boost somehow.
EDIT: ah, you kind of mentioned the x99 at the end.
you know, the devil's E5-2666v3 with turbo boot unlock was all the rage during the pandemic, you might like to try that one.
x79 can usually do all-core turbo all-the-time with just a single bios setting, so it's great for a simple ultra-budget build. IMO additional price for x99 doesn't make sense, if your local market has halfway decent pricing for used AM4.
@@AAjax yeah, I mentioned AM4 in another comment, but Idk, there was some price pressure on the cheap AM4 mobos because of all the interest last time I checked.
but those APU are unbeatable when it comes to not needing a low tier card for decent performance.
Could i use this cpu as part of a dual stream setup, streaming 4k 60fps on obs ndi?? and if so can it also manage multiple streaming on more than one platform ( around 7)? Im looking to build a second PC to manage only streaming.
Search wikipedia for higher clocked 10-20 cores, check their motherboard compatibility and youre good to go, this CPU would work but there are better options.
Iceberg help me quick i have a x5650 overclocked to 4ghz and a E5-2470 laying around...which one is a better choice i just have the mobo and cpu as a spare just in case this x5650 and mobo finally says i quit and i pair it with a RX 6600 working real nice 1080p
I don't know, sorry. I haven't tested an X5650 in years, and I suspect there are more games that need or benefit from AVX than there were back then. I also have no experience with the LGA 1356 platform, but I expect results owuldn't be a whole lot lower than the 2670.
Sorry I can't be more help!
just hit 20k!
I’d love to see a FX 8320-9590 tested against this thing. Who’s the best at 2013 era 8 core?
You should test the FX 8 series against i5s of that era since they have similar price points in their release
avx2 is supported on the v3 ones iirc for the same price
Hey so I had an idea; what if you revisited some K SKU i3's? I was always fascinated by the 8350k and think it'd be a cool thing to try overclocking and see how they hold up
you should review the xeon 2697 v2
Maybe test out the 8-core 2640v3 for $15 with turbo boost unlock? One of my AliExpress favors for the money. 3.4GHz all core.
Question is cyberpunk free to play with a benchmarking tool just for benchmarking only
The reason is that I have AMD ryzen 3600
16 gigs of RAM ddr4
And the Nvidia RTX 2060 12-gig
And I would like to see how well it plays just for curiosity's sake only benchmarks is all I'm looking for
I'm only looking for free games that have internal benchmarking
Just to mention it, the top end CPU for the socket 2011 is the i7 - 3970x not the cheapo 3960x - I know, because I bought the 3970X new. Well, it's not technically the very top end, cause that's the Xeon E5 2697 V2 - The cpu I am using in my server right now, 12 cores and 24 threads at 3,5 Ghz
i really wanna see how this chip compares to a Ryzen 1700, wich has the same core count and runs only marginally faster in speed (obviusly its better in terms of IPC and instructions)
I'd love to see a xeon e5 2660v3 tested. 10c/20t
The bench mark part is kinda misleading.
They were never made for gaming, they can be on par with some CPU or what ever, but the deal with "old server parts" is getting:
42 physical CPU cores, 84 HT cores, 960GB of DDR4 ECC ram, two 4x1GB NIC, and two 2x10Gbps NIC for £450 MSRP is £13500 10 years ago
Just 960GB of DDR4 non ECC ram today is around £1300
The raw multi core performance when it comes to numbers is worth it, the amount of RAM you can get for cheap is mindbogglingly, networking if you just look at numbers is 48Gbps
A top of the line CPU will struggle a bit with just a 10Gbps line, having to share that to one or two stations will maybe give you 2.5Gbps to them.
having 512 or 796GB of ram at your disposal will greatly out mach a +£1000 CPU with just two or three "old" server CPU
Wow. I bought this, a dell motherboard, 16gb of DDR3 ram and a snowman cooler for fun :) I'm going to build something with it in a week or so.
I do wish I was in a position of needing a cheap good build. I don't think the flat I live in is rated for so much weight.. need any core 2 duo PCs or p4? Maybe some old amd builds. I live near woking
Surprised u haven't done the Phenom X6 @4ghz and 8370 @5ghz ddr3 2400mhz
in late 2019 I was building a top tier gaming pc with the massive budget of 700$ (median salary is only 500$/month where I live so that's a hefty bit of money here)
and I resorted to buying a huananzhi motherboard and an e5-2670 as well as a used gtx1070 from a local second hand tech store
I gotta say I have only 1 regret
and that's not buying e5-2650v2 instead, because the ram I got ran at 1866mhz which caused a problem with 2670 which only supports up to 1600mhz
but yeah this cpu was the best value for money at the time
nowadays tho I think lga2011v3 could compete with it
in every single game I'm gpu bottle necked anyway so yeah, one of my best purchasing decisions ever
Still rocking a xeon e5 2667 v3 8 core 16 thread 3.2ghz with 16gbs of ram with an rtx 3060. Can crush everything I throw at it. Got the xeon for 15 bucks
Imo if there is a catch with these xeons its the low clock speeds. And older architecture. Means your very likely going to run into GPU bottleneck at some point. But honestly as long as your not overpaying and know what your getting. It can be a good low cost entry point into pc gaming.
I have options for i7 3770 , intel pentium g4560 and found this pc build having this xeon
Pairing with rx 590
Which one should i go for ? I mean processors
All 3 cost me same building budget in market of Pakistan
That is 55000 rupees for xeon ,
I7 3770 57500 rupees
Whats your opinion
I will do mostly triple title A games like assasin, BATTLEFIELD, APEX LEGENDS, COD MW1 2019 , WAR THUNDER + EDITING SOFTWARE STUFF
I will play in 1080p moslty in high
Try the Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 and the E5-2666 v3. The E5-1650v2 is a cheaper 1680v2 with 2 less cores. The 2666 v3 is a bit of a special CPU, but has 10 cores like a 10900K. Try high speed memory + to get results for COD WZ2.
The 2666 v3 is going on the shortlist, but the 1650 v2 is too close to the i7 4930K, which I've already reviewed. I'd considered the 1660 v2, but it costs as much as the 1680 v2!
@@IcebergTech Isn't the 4960X like the 1660 v2?
@@tweakz_tech Yes! I was shopping for either chip, but they both cost far too much right now. I'm keeping an eye open in case one ever appears for a good price, but until then I'm happy to recommend the 1680 v2!