This is my mid-range gaming PC from over 4 years ago. How’s it holding up today?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- The i5 8400 and GTX 1070 combo remains one of my favourite, so today I thought we'd see how these components are holding up as part of a once mid-range gaming PC. Neither the CPU or GPU were new on the market when I originally built this system, but have the years been kind to them?
0:00 Introduction
1:38 Counter-Strike 2
2:11 Cyberpunk 2077 2.0
3:15 Elden Ring
4:01 Fortnite
4:44 Forza Horizon 5
5:24 Grand Theft Auto V
6:16 Spider-Man Remastered
7:00 Red Dead Redemption 2
7:30 Starfield
8:21 The Witcher 3 Next-Gen
9:07 Final Thoughts and Alan Wake 2
Thanks for watching :) - Věda a technologie
It's great to see older tech still holding up today, especially with newer gpus getting so ridiculous in price.
Yeah definitely :)
I bought a used pc for ~500 eur that can play everything on high/ultra 1080p (without ray tracing), thats not too bad id say. i5-11400, 6650xt, 16 gb 3200 ddr4, 500 gb nvme m.2 ssd. Even Alan Wake 2 runs at 68 average fps with 720p render res and high preset (excluding the forest scene ofc, i had drops below 40 there). This is good enough for someone whose best gpu was a 750 ti before :D
@@istvanszabo57451080p in 2023 is a no thanks gotta do 1440p
@@istvanszabo5745 Same here, only a few generations behind on specs. I've built a few in my time - but buying whole units has gotten so much cheaper, and there's a lot of life in the used market, since CPU speeds are plateauing and high-end GPUs have been harder to come by recently. You can get a lot of lifespan out of £200/400EUR.
@@istvanszabo5745Not everything recent will run at high or ultra at 1080p if you want 60fps or more. More like native 1080p medium to high graphics settings.
Such a throwback! I had a similar system back then! I was rocking an i5 8400 with a 1050 Ti, that I later upgraded to a 2070. This brings back so many memories!
Nice. The 1050Ti is one of my favourites!
Once again Starfield doesn't fail to show how badly optimized it is. 80 fps on RDR2 at Ultra settings and 40 fps lowest settings scaled to below 900p on Starfield. Modern gaming everyone.
That game is a hot mess! There's no way it's just a purely demanding next gen game.... If it is, Then next gen looks like it's gone nowhere! 😂 No but seriously it's one of the worst optimized games I've ever encountered in my years of gaming (I say one of because there's been 1 or 2 total howlers in the past), The fact you need a 4090 just to get a reasonable and stable framerate at 1440 or even 1080p medium settings is beyond hilarious.
I think I'll revisit some of the classics.
If you have to cap your game to 30 fps on current gen consoles, something went terribly wrong in optimization
I remember when you were sent the 1070 and you were so elated when they let you keep it. I think it was your most notable "reviewer sample" up till that point or maybe even the flat out first one.
I recently built my first ever gaming PC, slowly moving away from console gaming! but it took me about 6/7months of buying components individually before I could complete it. Finally ended up with an i5 13600k, XFX 6950XT, ASUS TUF Z690 motherboard, G Skill 32gb (16x2) DDR4 3600mhz, 1TB WD black NVME, 240mm MSI V2 AIO cooler, Corsair 4000D airflow case, 850w PSU, and 6X ID cooling 120mm fans. And k can honestly say I am in love with it! Built it hoping mine will hold up for years to come, specifically the 16GB VRAM! Been a huge fan of your builds and watch every video since I found your channel
Congrats on having the guts to make the move. Now you have to accept you know nothing and need to go back to school.
@@SomeOldGamers how come?
sick build dude, that’s gonna last you a long time with those components
at that time i had a i7 4770 with a 1060 6gb and 32gb of ddr3 1866. remember buying the 1060 6gb too replace my 750ti and it was one of the best jumps i ever experienced. i upgraded from a 1060 to a 2080 super and wish i waited. my pc is now a 10700f 32gb of 3600 mhz ram with a 2080 super
Nice build :) I had a 750ti for a few years too. One of my favourite cards
You had an 10 year old system, is that 10700 f better ? bootlenecking ?
@@lucasrem With 8 cores and 16 threads it thrashes the 4770 by a large margin in both SCIPC and MCIPC. It would a night and day difference from the 4770 to the 10700f.
Thanks for testing the 8400! I just picked up a system from a friend with this exact cpu a few days ago!
It also has 1050ti which i will probably swap for my 1650 soon. Came without ram so i ordered 32 gigs since i also wanna use it as a workstation. Great to see this cpu can actually pump out decent framerates on new-ish titles.
Yeah it’s still a great CPU. Thanks for watching, and enjoy your new PC :)
I picked up a similarly-specced unit (i5 9400 / GTX1660) just this year for £185 on the CEX online store, to serve as my main machine for gamedev. It was graded B but it's in near-perfect condition to my eyes. I've not installed many games on it yet, but it's nice to see what similar specs can get you. Thanks for the video :)
Sounds like a good deal 👌🏻
1660 is still a very good card in 2023. it even supports Mesh Shaders for Alan Wake 2. Best Budget Card you can get at the moment.
Wow, that is a steal! Making me wish we had CeX here
Nice stuff. Good to see the 1070 still holds up.
Still using my old system with an i7 2600 and 1050ti as a mediacenter pc today.
really love the old hardware videos, it really shows how well old cpus and gpus still actually hold up.
lol old, still have my 2006 system with an upgraded 1eur core2quad 8200 and a gt650 8gb ram....
@@farmoboy83 Writing this from a 2006 one as well (core 2 duo E6700, 4 Gb of ram, HD 5450, Win Xp on there still, lol), though it's far from my best system, so I'm not sure if it "counts"...
@@HenrySomeone counts. Mine used to run a core2 6400 and was this year upgraded for a core 2 quad i found for 1 eur lol. Now running a hp elitedesk 800 with i7 4790, rx560 16gb ram dd3 ssd 250gb and another with 500gb...can run at 1440x900 (my good old asus vw192) almost every game a d since quit gaming in 2008 and returned now, there are hundreds of "old" game i have to play and frankly, top graphics are not my priority
Nice, I have a spare i3 2100 we sometimes use for media pc on Linux. I recased it recently, was doing 1080P not sure if I'll play with it in the future. Usually hooked it up to the 1080P TV, did x264 better, might just need a handmedown GPU from another machine to do more.
@@HenrySomeoneNice
I still use my i5 8400 HP system, despite only coming with a 75 watt GTX 1050 ti i upgraded to an Asrock RX 6600 which only draws 100 watts stock, only 25 more than the OEM card, i had to get a 6 pin to 8 pin adaptor for the almost useless power supply but it runs flawless and added a whole lot of life to this machine. Newegg sells the RX 6600 here for 175 USD, which is a steal honestly.
Nice upgrade :)
Great video. I upgraded from an i5 8400 to a Ryzen 5600 (love it and the gains) but I will always have a soft spot for the 8400. It's fast, very easy to cool and the low power consumption is a nice bonus. It is 100% hindered by the lack of hyper-threading these days but depending on your needs it could still be viable.
It was a great budget CPU and it still has value for older games.
It is just the most powerful of the 'not good enough for modern gaming' CPUs which is neither here nor there.
I used to own a 4770K and a 1070. Loved that combo!!!
I had a i7 6900k and Titan Xp.
What a blast to the past, I was already following you when you had the 1070 as a daily driver! My goodness, how time passes…
I can’t believe this is old tech now. I remember when this stuff was the newest and hottest hardware to have.
Some systems are still holding quite well today. Especially in 1080p and if 60FPS is primary target. I guess GPU rocking at least 6GB VRAM will do ok. I'm still have Ryzen 5 3600 and RX 6600 and everything runs fine. To be clear, didn't try Starfield. Yet.
You can always upgrade to a 5700X for a significant performance increase on a low budget.
@@Sunlight91 5600 would be fine, unless you have a need for extra cores.
During shortage I was looking for a second hand GPU and wanted a 1070, but prices were insane so finally I opted for a 1660.
I'm rocking that Ryzen 3600, and an RX6600 to go with it. I went up to 16 gig as well last Xmas, felt like the upgrade. Getting good frames off of Spider-Man, been playing the KEX remasters of Quake 1 and 2, pretty fun stuff.
That's around the time I thought it might be proactively good to upgrade to 32GB, lol.
Fascinating!
I'm currently running a 1070 FE with a Ryzen 7 1700 (Overclocked, of course.) and while sometimes I get questionable results, it's still holding up rather well! Running the MW III campaign on it seems rather smooth at the current moment.
Great video, mate! Have a good one. :)
Thank you for another great video Mr. Steve.
Man i really appriciate you. I havent needed to watch a video to build a computer in a couple years but when i did i always enjoyed your videos.
Thanks :)
This was a surprise, never expected that rally that good, was one of the best overall rallyes with nice mix of stages
I feel you mate! My fav system of all time, was back in the day the last Pentium 4 3,06 Ghz 800 FSB. It was amazing for that time.
I don't think P4 could ever be called "amazing"
The Northwood core P4 3.06 Ghz had a 533Mhz FSB. It was the last product of that line and had HT which none of the other P4s at the time had. It wasn't until the Northwood refresh that we saw the first 800Mhz FSBs. Then Prescott brought LGA 775(Prescott came in socket 478 as well but was weak in the socket compared to the Northwood cores).
@@RevDrCCoonansr you are right sir. I just googled it because I was shure it was averdised with 800 FSB and it is in the name, but infact it only had 533Mhz. Do you know why it was in the name?
@@BigMikeHDD In the name? How so?
It really wasn't, you just lacked perspective.
CS2 should be tested with shadows set to high or ultra, in the new game lighting gives away positions a lot and those shadows just don't render on medium or lower.
Yup correct!
They should have the option to have enemy shadows with low resolution or any other optimisation cause not having those shadows puts a player at a severe disadvantage.
CS2 should just be ignored. I don't want it. It is the game that is convincing me the online shooter is dead in 2023.
@@SomeOldGamers cs2 is quite popular though
Steve, it would also be interesting to see the CPU clocks under load since it's a locked CPU with pretty moderate clocks. :)
Was using an i7-3770k coupled with a GTX 670 until August 2021, now i'm using a Ryzen 9 5900X with an RTX 3080 Ti. And it was a night and day difference.
There is something about seeing PCs in a back garden in Kent that speaks to me on a subconscious level. I can’t quite explain it.
Love the build.
Love your videos, searched for gtx 1070 and found this, also have an I5 9400F and 16gb of ram, almost the same setup, bought it for a good price, still holds up great 😊✅❤️
I used this exact system for years, only upgraded this year for Starfield. Good components.
Last year I've built a low budget pc for my little brother, I was budget limited, with 350€. I managed to snatch a 1660ti, i5-8400, 16gb ram (2666mhz unfortunately), 1tb ssd. Probably not at the same level of the gtx 1070, but it's a solid pc, especially in term of power consumption. I love it
Generally speaking, the 1660 Ti performs a bit better than a 1070, unless it runs out of vram in a newer game. Then its 6GB may lose out to the 1070's 8GB.
I only just upgraded my 1070 this summer, it's still a great card!
I'm still using an i5 8400+RTX 2060 SUPER+16GB on an ASRock B365M-HDV motherboard. As much as I like the i5, it's certainly becoming a bottleneck with newer games, especially in Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us Part I. Another problem is that for Coffee Lake, there's basically no upgrade path, because the more powerful CPUs that the platform supports (8700/K, 9700/K, 9900/K) are still so stupidly expensive, that you're better off just upgrading the platform. With all that said, it's still cool to see that this old PC can still run Alan Wake 2 @1080p native, Medium/High settings, no RT, and get between 35-40 fps, and with DLSS Quality, 45-60 fps.
The B365 boards support the QTJ2 from China iirc. It's essentially an i5 10400.
@@b0ne91 I didn't know about the LGA 1151 mutants, will definitely be checking them out.
Yes, because the game isn't particularly cpu intensive and you have basically the minimum gpu that can run it.
12th has been significantly better than my old 9600K, was stuttering pretty hard this past year/so since the new expansion in WoW Dragonracing and evoker healing raid @ 1440P. The issue of how expensive the 9th gen chips are 9700K and 9900K are still way more than it is worth to upgrade sadly. I ended up with 12700KF then 12900KF, built Mom a 12400F. I built recently during sales, so I think it worked out in the end. Basically those 9700/9900 are about the same price as the were new (if not more perhaps).
@@dianaalyssa8726 The i9 9900k is a $200 part used and the i7 9700k can be had for under $140. The i9 9900k is NOT worth the price as a 13400 beats it across the board and brings much higher SCIPC with it. The 4 E cores makes it it's equal in productivity. i7 8700k seems to be more expensive than i7 9700k but not by much, I see them for an average of $150 now. But again, a 12400 will beat the i7 8700k @5Ghz in all tasks and multi. And it is the same price or less right now.
still a good system! But an overclockable CPU would be defenitely usefull
btw this old MSI design is still one of my faovorte custom designs ever made! It was exceptionally good, looked dope with those heatpipes, was quiet as hell and cooler then most other designs while also being relatively cheap.
(it also had vram cooling)
Yeah these cards look great
Indeed, MSI's designs for 900 and 1000 series cards were one of the best.
why go for a used oc'able cpu when you could just get a faster used cpu...
You do really make content like nobody else man 😁 keep it up, been watching you years
there are more PC builders here
Im still rocking my 2013 Alienware x51 r2 with an i5 4440 and a 270 2gb and its still chugging along for all my gaming needs! Great to see older tech keeping up with modern games:)
Finally a normal person's computer. I have what is still in my mind a high-end 4K gaming PC. i5-4690K, 24 gigs of RAM (baller), and a GTX 1080. I don't really play games anyway, but it bothers me to hear people talk about how they're "still" running 8th gen or whatever when I've never had anything close to that new. The newest CPU I've owned, besides the brief moments of me owning a Skylake i5 of some sort before regretting it and returning it, is the Skylake in my school laptop. (graduated in 2019) I accidentally the screen on that a few months back, which sucked because it was a very nice laptop otherwise, but there you are. I do have another laptop, and it's got some sort of i5-4XXX-series (I forget), 8 gigs of RAM, and a GTX 860M 2GB.
I had an original x51. It came with an i5 2320 and a GTX 545. I upgraded to a 660 which would kill the machine when being overloaded with certain games. My first "gaming rig" back in 2012
Thank you 🙂
im using a similarly performing system with an i5 9400 and 1660 super which still holds up in newest games. however its starting to struggle with new games like starfield
But thats the crap game not the pc. 😅
Don't worry about it, everybody struggles to run Starfield.
That's the cleanest, newly built, 4 year old PC I've ever seen!
Thanks!
Would you consider making a video comparing 2 processors with as many specs held constant as possible but one is 2C\4T and the other is 4C\4T? Love the content, thanks.
Hi Dude, great video! i enjoy tour channel so much, but i have to ask you to do something with the video quality, is not the near the best it can be for 1080p. I would really appreciate this. Thank you!
I built an itx pc with a 5600g 32gb RAM and was using an RX580 8GB for a bit, now back to a 1070 I had also purchased. Im going to next get a 1660ti and maybe a 2060. I have a project I'm involved with that is migrating to UE5. Hoping to have something that in a few years would be considered "older" that could be used to benchmark a variety of configurations.
I got this setup in 2017. Was awesome for the time. Played the hell out of GTA V and Skyrim in 4k. I upgraded the 1070 for a 2080 so I could get fallout 4 in 4k60. I had the MSI 1070 aero. It was a blower card. The setup was in a fractal design silent pc type tower. I also used the stock cpu cooler. Ran warm as hell. CPU ran in the 80s under load, and the gpu got close to 90 too. I replaced this pc late last year. But I kept this setup for a backup pc. I replaced the tower with a phanteks airflow case (maybe the 300a?). I also replaced the cpu cooler with a cooler master 212. I was really surprised by the change in temperatures! The cpu stays in the 60s, under load. The gpu, though, gets into the 70s but that's better than almost 90! If some of you have similar hardware, I recommend doing something similar if you have the spare dough.
i5 9400 and evga gtx 1070 my current set up. over all very happy with this. If anything might go i7-8700 and rx 6 series gpu. Not cutting edge but all I need.
this reminded me, i should upgrade my pc
Cool! I ran a i5-8600 with a new GTX1050 4GB upgraded to a used GTX1060 6GB, upgraded to GTX1070 8GB before getting a i5-12600K with 3060Ti 8GB in 2020 which is still going strong :)
i remade my i5 8600 with b360 hd3 gigabyte mobo and 32 GB 2400 mhz ram into home server/media center. Added cheap GTX 1050 2GB and even can play some less demanding games with gamepad. This gen was indeed fun and it still is okay if you add stronger gpu like 1080! Thanks for great vid as always!
Close to the same rig I'm still using, orignally I got a 1600x paired with a 1070ti when the 1070ti first came out. Upgraded to a 3600 and then to 3700x, kept the 1070ti all the way through, and it still games pretty well for me. Even at 3440x1440. Obviously not maxed out settings, but still capable enough for the games I play. 6 year old card still going strong. Will probably eventually upgrade the GPU in the next year or two to hopefully get another 3 to 5 years before doing a new build.
Bought an older office PC to turn into my first gaming PC earlier this year and it came with the 8400. Added ram, storage, and an RX 6600.
OK. You can build a 3060 PC with a 6 core Xeon for $250 in the US right now but sure, an old workstation with the weakest CPU in the series is a much better start🤣🤣
i7 9700/1070ti daily user here, very close to the video's build. It's not the newest, bro gamers think it's old an slow but it plays nearly everything in my backlog at high or ultra and is still able to play the newest games at some sort of setting, you have to get creative a bit, the beauty of PC gaming?. I split game time between this and consoles also, I don't spend every free hour I have on it like I did when I was younger.
I have the exact same case, and it is pretty good for a slightly older mid range pc
What is the model of this case?
still rocking on E5-1650 V3 (6C12T) and 1080ti and probably will be for next 3/4 years. great setup for 1080p
That pickaxe kill in fortnite was insane
i have my old 4770k based system with a 1060 that i still need to repurpose for my kids. great little system it was
i had an i7 3770k till with a 1060 6gb march this year, i upgraded to a whole new pc with a 2080 ti and a R9 3900, my friend bought my last pc from me, it's his first pc, and he loves it, he can play all the games he wanted from last generations and some times launch games
This is like my current gaming PC, I have a i5 9400F which is exactly the same as the i5 8400 (but no intergrated gfx) as for a GPU I run a 1660 ti and 16GB DDR 4 @ 2666MHz dual channel and a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe, runing on an AS Rock 365M PRO4 moptherboard. Running at 1080p I can run Badlurs Gate 3 at max settings and average 50 fps (no scaling) with lows of 14fps and 64fps max. TYVM for this review it gives me a comparison!
Nice! My first build ever was an 8400 w 1080 founders and 12GB of 2666 DDR4, lol. Ram was ridiculously priced back then.
My first desktop was a Packard Bell pre-built with an i5-2320, 8 gigs of DDR3 (baller), and a Radeon HD 6450 512 MB.
"aging system"... I am still using a 1070 in my main pc :( TBF, it is paired with 24 gigs of ram and a Ryzen 7 1700, but overall the results are as you announced: in most games I have slightly better FPS, and it is more often the GPU that is the limiting factor than the CPU like in this video.
I still watched the whole episode and loved it! Keep going :)
I love these older builds that, to today's standards, aren't the best builds, but are the builds that are 'good enough.' My first, and current, build is pretty much the same spec, but with a 1660 super. It's also 4 years old running current games at 1440p high with at least 60 fps no problem.
I built a pc with the same cpu and gpu combo and it really stands up as a budget rig.
The rig that I will always have fond memories of is the first pc I built for myself, an i7-3960x with a gtx 1080 and 32gb of quad channel ram.
bro what? This is basically top of the line (I know it isn't anymore but shh). How is that some old memory?!
@@TheBcoolGuy Top of the line ? Do you mean my i7-3960x PC. I built it 4-5 years ago and it was in use about a year ago. I bought the CPU, motherboard and ram as a combo 2nd hand. When it came out (10+ years ago) it may have been top of the line but not when I bought it.
Had a similar configuration between 2019- 2022. R5 3600, GTX 1070 FTW2, 16gb ddr4 3200.
I bought the GTX 1070 in late 2018 and the R5 3600 2 days after launch. Upgraded to 48gb ram in maybe late 2021, upgraded to a 6700XT and R7 5700X at the end of 2022 (yikes already been a year). Overall the configuration served me spectacularly and i'd be just fine should I need to downgrade to it. I never played the latest and greatest titles and never really struggled to hit 60fps even at 1440p. It was a good pairing.
I loved my old 1070 end 8700 combo which I changed a year ago
That fortnite kill was epic!
I'm pretty sure that setting the coffee grounds under the refrigerator makes them horizontal to the plane so setting H2S senosor to 25 parts doesn't make watermelons grow from Ford Du ally exhaust packs naturally. Maybe if Bushes offers half priced on their #7 then you might be able to gigabit connectivity to your RV microwave but don't hold me to it.
what?
I’ll keep that in mind
I agree
Watching DF clps tonight, you get a name check mate from Alex. Good to see they have taste" '-)
I just picked up a 1070 ti rogstrix a couple weeks ago, and I am honestly liking it alot better than my 5700xt. The 5700xt for some reason with multiple monitors has a rough time keeping the setting, as well as causeing problems with hdmi and display port cables. Everytime you move one of the monitors they stop working for a bit untill you move them the right way. Now all the same cables are hooked up into the 1070 and i can move the monitor around however which way and im not getting the problem anymore. So far its still playing all the games i play at great fps with hardly any noticible difference from the 5700xt. The 1070 is really a great card to this day.
At that time i had i5 8400 + RX470 4gb ... later changed it for 1600af and additional 2x8gb to total 32gb ram then r5 3600 from aliexpress [ cheaper than used in poland xD ] and then gpu to GTX1080 and CPU to R7 5800x3d to max out my am4 board :D
Nice :) I definitely plan on getting a 5800x3d some day
@@RandomGaminginHD With GTX1080 haven't seen more than 20% utilization in games :P
But for now i will stay with gtx1080 until i can get RTX4070 or equivalent performance for less than 500usd and then i may see full potential of that 5800x3D :D
Old is gold 🥇 i still rock my R5 2600 GTX 1660 and 32GB ram with a slight OC on CPU and GPU 👍👍
great video
Bought a used Aero GTX 1070 for peanuts in late 2019. Gave it to my friend who wanted to build a gaming/music editing PC but was low on funds. He uses it till today and od cery happy with IT.
Awesome. It’s still a solid card :)
you inspired me to use old things.
Thats a very nice PC. I remember my parents were ass and doomed me to use an I3-5400 with an GTX 450. It couldnt game at all so i played light games like Team Fortress 2 Low Settings, HL2 at Medium and GW1 (not 2 since the pc was never upgraded) at entirely low settings. Now i have an RTX 3090 which i use to play some Team Fortress 2 at Ultra, RTX HL2, and all PvZ games i want. If i ever upgrade ill get the best GPU and CPU for my son. (Current PC is RTX 3090, Ryzen 5 5700x3D, 32 gigs DDR5 6400 mhz and a 512 GB nvme SSD.) I dont need more space since im not an office worker but rather an engineer.
You are good father
I pretty much have this exact system, except mine is an 8600K and was a 1080 non ti, so just a small tier up. Just upgraded my GPU to a RX 6700 now i'm really feeling the CPU pain, in particular metro exodus enhanced is bring this aging cpu to its knees. Speaking of metro exodus, the enhanced edition could be a decent game to add to your testing suite for RTX era and newer cards, it has forced ray tracing and seems to be very CPU heavy.
I have a very similar system for my nieces and nephews to play on when they come over. Keeps them off my system and will run just about anything they want to play
So no eulogy yet for the 10 series which is good to see.
I had a similar rig with a 1600AF and a 1070. A few years down the line and I've got an RTX 3060 and 3700x. I plan on upgrade to Zen 4+ in a year or so.
I moved on from a GTX1070FTW to a 5700 Pulse which is in my current system that's a X570 + 5600G combo.
Works great for me and certainly a worthy successor system to the B450 + Ryzen 2700X I used beforehand.
Got my 1070 with a Skylake 6400, a H110M (I believe) and 16GB DDR4-2100 which I built specifically to play in VR back in 2017 when Oculus still came with XBOX Controllers and I was lucky the Vive came as is.
Sure these machines won't cut it in upcoming titles anymore but I have a hard time believing that is all that important since it depends on what games one personally plays.
thats mad i brought that pc case 2 days ago for a dual gpu PC i was making
Was running a 2600/1070ti recently and the 1070ti Slaps, the issue heavily is optimisation. Modern games have Devs who make code like Spaghetti!
My old one looks quite similar. Doesn't hold up too great (2600 + r9 390) but still works so it's chilling next to my TV.
Nice! Not sure how similar the i5-8400 would compare the Ryzen 5 3500X I'm currently using OCed to 4.4GHz with 2x16GB of 3200MHz RAM OCed to 3600MHz. Other than CPU (perhaps a i5-10400F would be a better comparison) and half the RAM it would be more or less what I'm currently running with plans on upgrading the GPU to a minimum of a RTX 3060ti before upgrading the CPU to a 5600 or 5600X unless I decide to spend the extra or get a good deal on a 5700X.
I'm pretty impressed by the 1080p performance this setup can output, but I think this year's crop of games has finally found that limit where the 10 series GTX cards aren't cutting it anymore. Developers seem to be using super-resolution tech _liberally_ just to make their games playable these days, and if modern hardware can barely hold 1080p in some of those titles, this older hardware has no chance.
i upgraded my 8400 to a 9700F and i'm still rocking the system till this day with an RX 7800 XT
I built a budget rig with an i5-8500 and RX6400 to run linux gaming and i'm loving it. the CPU is severe overkill for low end gpus. And because it has mesh shaders it can do AW2 at a 30fps lock
I just upgraded from i3 8100, gtx 1060 3GB to ryzen 5 5600 and rx 6700 XT 12GB!
9:57 also no exhaust fan??? And is that gpu power cable on a daisy chain
I had a somewhat similar system not too long ago with an i5-8600K @5Ghz and a GTX 1660 now I am using an i5-13600KF (I have 2 OC profiles one is @5.7ghz with P cores only and E cores + HT disabled and the 2nd one I made recently P cores 5.2ghz but I plan to go higher and E cores 4ghz and HT on) and upgraded to a RTX 3060(a gigabyte 240W model that has an extra 6pin) still on DDR4 but upgraded from 2 mismatched kits 2x4gb+2x8gb 3000mhz(originally an upgrade to 16gb but I tried them together and it worked so I kept it that way for 24gb)to a 2x16gb 3200mhz kit
The 7th and 8th generations are my favorite.
It may not be the fastest, but that gpu design just looks awesome
I´ve recently upgraded to a 5600X on a B550 Gaming Plus and was lucky to also get a black twin tower cooler by DeepCool with aRGB (set to red to colour match my RX 480 Red Devil) for under 63€ while the CL16 3600MHz Fury Renegade fits the cooler by design, the Fury writing looks very close to the Deepcool logo. So overall my pc is black with silver and red acents. Decided on the 5600X instead of the 12400f as originally planed for a simple reason: the 5600X is way better at decompression and most don´t realize how much decompression they´re using. It´s not just drivers (especially GPU drivers are heavily compressed), games also use compressed archives to save space on the servers and have users finish the download quicker: guess why you´re downloading e.g. 105GB but the installed game takes almost 160GB or more? Who has 4TB NVMEs? De- and reinstall is very cummon therefor people should concider decompression performance, the only professional performance I as a gamer actually care about, because it´s needed not just professionally.
Didn't you try AW2 with the popular mesh mod for Pascal cards?
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I wonder, although I have a hunch, how the 8400 would have done with a higher end gpu.
Can you test R5 3600 next with some crazy gpu to see how it holds up in late 2023?
I currently game on a similar pc with a gtx 980 Ti, i5 11600 and 16gb ddr4 3600mhz cl16 ram, it's pretty good but i'm planning on upgrading to an rx 6700 xt
Be good to see this system once again compared with the 3600 in 2023!
Just 4 years old, I would say it's still almost up to date, hardware does not age that fast. My main rig has a 3700x, Vega 64 and 32gb ram, runs everything just fine. I don't notice a big difference with my 2nd pc, even in Forza Horizon 5. It has a 4790K @4.7GHz and Vega 56, just upgraded to 32gb ram. It's still too good to replace. :)
Your mid range pc from 4 years ago is still a lot better than my pc
Same here.😁
@@andyflip2858 i feel you bro
@@andyflip2858 i got a gtx 960 4gb😭
How did you bend that exhaust fan grill, man?
Just recently purchased an i5 8400 + mobo + 2x8gb ram combo (140usd) and I coupled it with a GTX1060 and it was worlds better than the i5 4590 I previously had.