“Was I a good CPU?” The AMD FX-8350, the budget king of CPUs back in 2012, has not aged well over the last 11 years. But don’t throw out that old gaming rig just yet! If you’ve got working storage, memory and a power supply, you can rebuild it faster than ever before. With a Chinese X79 Motherboard and Xeon CPU of course!
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Check out the parts from today’s build (or their modern replacements)…
Machinist X79 Motherboard: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dlt3I9n
Intel Xeon E5-2647 V2: https://ebay.us/jVKfDF
Patriot Viper Series 3 2x4GB DDR3 1600: https://amzn.to/3SEkIFE
AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB: https://ebay.us/O31F0N
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What do you use for drivers on the Chinese mb? Does win 10 support or do you need to hunt around?
I doubt it but could you make a short video on how to bios hack for all core turbo on asus x99
Biden loves the Corona x79.
Hunter was paid big to push the X79.
Don't question it you will be canceled.
What about the lack of SSE and AVX2 instruction set extensions ?
BS the core def did not include FP hence the '87 coprocessor was needed. the lawsuit was a waste if time and flawed
Nice shirt!
The music is annoying
My brother still has an FX Chip in the PC he uses for college. It was the family PC bought in 2011 and had a 4100 with no gpu in it. When I came across some FX parts for a few bucks I looked into what would fit and what wouldn't and the board only supported the FX6300 so I gave him that. The 8 Module chips wouldn't work and it took me a long time to actually find a decently priced board for the 8350 I had. Then I had to put in a GPU, because the graphics on the motherboard chipset were to bad to run his graphical calculator software. I had a GT630 and gave him that. I could upgrade his PC more but the budget is basically 0€ or whatever my mom gives me because he doesn't want to pay anything if he can just aswell take mym moms Laptop for free.
These systems were becoming less viable because the mainboard price was high. But with the price you have been able to fetch, there is a use case yet. Can the price be sustained?
From my experience with these AMD systems, i wouldn't be entirely surprised if it ran just fine reassembled on a test stand. These mainboards are made of string cheese.
Sitting here watching this on my FX-8350 rig… Still my main machine… =:o1
My fx 9590 still has some life left in it lol
You can buy an a520 and a 5600 can be bought for around 150 dollars if you search about which would absolutely destroy this upgrade. Just have to source some old ddr4.
Even then a used zen 2 would be multiple times faster also
Thing is, if you went with intel for the same budget in 2012, you'd have ended up with a 2500k which would also desperately need an upgrade today. They aged about the same, with some games actually favoring the 8 threads on the FX.
THt said, X79 looks like a decent budget option to re-use that DDR3 memory. Especially if you can get a quad-channel board.
It's funny that that Xeon is the chip in the 2013 Mac Pro dustbin that still sells for about $1000 second hand… but for only about half that with a quad core CPU.
So old lol;l, it must be the bios baterie
X79 OC Ram?
Super vidéo 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Can you try with a Xeon e5 v3/v4 22cores please?
have you seen the e5-2667 v2 cpus.. 8 cores, and 4gHz turbo
I’m currently running my home multi-VM proxmox server on a FX9590 kept alive from my old gaming setup. No good for gaming anymore, but runs my nas/plex/game host and a win10 vm just fine
I never got a check.
yeah, the 4GB RX 570 might not have been the best pick. Maybe the 8GB RX 580? Those are also cheap and plentiful on the used market, should be around $100.