hi i recently purchased a bundle mobo and processor its the same processor as yours and im just thinking is it capable to play latest games with a good.graphics card
If your mobo can handle Xeon, get an x5650 and enjoy 6 cores and lots of overclocking. I had mine running 4.3 but it could go up to 4.5 with more vcore. I just wanted to play it safe. I had it now retired so I only kept the x5650 to frame it for all the awesome serivce. Hell of a performer even today. :D
I'd also double check that CPU cooler, it doesn't look like one for a 125W CPU. The 125W AMD CPU coolers are usually much larger, with copper and with heat pipes.
It should have a bunch of heat pipes and a 60-70(can't remember exact size) mm fan on it. Rrreally noisy PITA to be honest. The fins were quite close to each other so it made the most annoying high pitched whine. The one included looks like something for an Athlon II x2
@@Chriva They were still using basically that same model for the FX series! I remember how loud that sucker got! First upgrade to that rig was a Evo clone from Enermax! (it was black so it looked cooler with my black and blue with blue LED theme! lol)
i use stock phenom x6 cooler on my daily driver a10 5800k just because box cooler wasn't any good and that cpu was rated at 100w, at least fan don't ramp up as often , but heatpipes onlt gave arond 5 drgre celsius difference on a fully loaded cpu for comparsion my b97 phenom II x4 is a 95w part and comparable specs to 965 (-200mhz) also b97 have ddr2 controller while 965 does not , so it can be used on am2 boards with updated microcode that being said some sites list 965 phenom as 140w while b99 (3,3ghz evuivalent) is only 95 w still same goes for a10 , 5700 is locked 65w equivalent of my 5800k that is 100w so i don't known if locked cpus have simply real tpd vs unlocked cpus having it a bit overrated so you wouldn't be surprised by ded psu after oc?
its crazy to see how far AMD has come from phenom to the Ryzen, so glad to see them back and fighting for more market share. love the price to performance they offer.
Phenom was fairly good for it's time thought. They also had the consumer grade 6 core processors (Phenom II X6), something Intel did in 2018, after the Ryzen launch pressured them
@The False Prodigy Damn, that sucks. I still have mine paired with a FX6300 (4.3GHz, 2.4GHz HT & CPU/NB) , 8 GB's of RAM (1866MHz CL9), Two R9 270x's, 4 HDD'S + Disk reader, etc. It's holding great, i love it
This processor is amazing but mostly cause I have a cool story with it, 2 years ago my mom gifted me her old PC which didn't work, it was sorta like hey do you want this I don't need it anymore (I'm 12 at the time too) and I took it and played with it for months trying to get it to work, some research later I found out it was the motherboard, it wasn't, then I bought this CPU online for $40 and it worked! I then bought a gtx 550 and that was my first gaming PC and my bridgeway onto getting me interested in PC's, I have since built a new system with an i7-2600, gtx 1050ti, and 12gb ddr3 ram and just framed that CPU and it hangs over my monitor reminding me of where I started
That's awesome, dude. Stick with it & stay interested! My love for PC gaming and hardware eventually led me into a fairly nice job that I don't hate. Hopefully it will lead you to great things in your future, as well.
This exact phenom ii x4 was my first as well. I got a ton of old junk parts for $20. Did a ton of research and cleaning. Bought a bunch of new/used parts and put my first gaming computer together for under $200 in March 2018 to play fortnite...it did a damn good job too at 4ghz. I've since upgraded to a much better GPU and to an overclocked fx8350. I'll build another computer in another couple years but I'll definitely use the same case, which is an old school cooler master 690 or whatever that I did a deep cleaning to and gave a custom silver paint job with blue LED accents.
Do more videos about stuff from the 2007-2011 years. For some reason they are quite interesting as they also didn't have those locked processor bullshit.
@@bhume7535 yeah the first gen dual core i3s and even an i5, are great for 2c/4t. not too much difference in fps with newer 2c/4t cpus. but the the old 4c/4t cpus are now showing their age. 2c/4t cpus couldnt run newer titles properly already, but now the 4c/4t will also struggle, unfortunately because the i5 750 is one of my favourite cpus :( quite a hothead but also quite impressive how it made it this far
Aaah my old friend, the X4 965. Still remember the happiness buying it almost 10 years ago for my first self-build gaming pc and opening the magenta box that it comes in.
This chip was in my first gaming pc and I've always remembered it for being super fast and quiet. Always wondered how it would've worked today, so big ups for making this video.
My rig is next level old school. 10 years ago I bought the ultimate bang for your buck CPU: a 3.2 Ghz Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition for only $90. Unlocked it from 2 to 4 cores and OC'd to 3.6Ghz. It was basically a quad that AMD sold for a lower price. Still runs strong today, a $90, 10 year old CPU! I paired it with a Radeon HD7950 3GB, 8GB of RAM and a good SSD. Can play most games although it is starting to show its age in 2018+ titles, and usually the CPU is the bottleneck. Will probably build an entirely new computer from scratch next year. But damn, I'm proud of this old beast. Could probably OC it further but I don't want to push an old man to its grave.
I’ve had my Phenom II X6-1055T for longer than I can remember. This thing is a great overclocker. 1Ghz overclock on all cores (3.8Ghz) . Cinebench r15 score of 550. There’s life in the old beast yet!!
i used that CPU for the longest of time ^^ upgraded to a Ryzen 1500 , it was a big boost on performance but gotta tell that 965 did a great job . Theres was a couple of tittles that give problems like MGSV and ROTR but most of the time it did OK.
I have a soft spot for the Phenom II x4. That being noted, I want to point out that this cpu was once chosen by me to run a DAW with vsti's, not playing games. That task it performs pretty well even till this day. The machine is still alive and even has a working diskette drive! I used that to restore older projects from even an older date when I used the AthlonXP 3200+ for my DAW. Ok, that was almost 20 years ago now. Time flies.
I just retired my Phenom 8450 triple core today. It was part of my first build that i got free when it was donated as e-waste to a youth center i went to 10 years ago, at 13 years old it still works great for day to day stuff and even ran a few modern games passably. Hell ill probably still keep the thing to set up a garage pc!
Shadow of the Tomb Raider ran quite well when I tested it. I recommend 16GB of DDR3 RAM and also a SSD, it helps with these older machines. And stick to medium details, a lot of the higher settings are also putting stress on the CPU.
My first powerful CPU was the Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition - I used it until 2015. It was good while it lasted but it did start lagging behind as time went on. I still have many good memories of it. It sits in its original box on top of my wardrobe.
I used a Phenom II X4 965 for almost 9 years running Windows 7 with a GTX 1050ti. It was fine for web browsing, business software, console emulators and older games. My biggest gripe is it ran hot and Sony Vegas always maxxed it out when rendering. It's amazing my new Ryzen 5 3600 PC is like 5-8X times faster than the 965 while staying cool rendering.
Phenom IIs were honestly very underrated CPUs for budget builds. There was always the craze about FX because of the 8 cores, but FX usually fared worse in games because of its lower IPC than the Phenom II. If you had a Phenom II back then, FX wasn't even worth looking at unless you had a dual core Phenom II. But for those who had the 4 or 6 core Phenoms, they usually did better than the FX counterparts. And of course, Phenom IIs could also overclock pretty well with good cooling and a good motherboard.
Still got 2 of these running (an HTPC and a garage PC with 280x and 260x GPU's) I think I even got that exact same ASUS mobo. These Phenoms are definitely still suffice for most computing applications. Wouldn't really recommend it for the hardcore user who likes to run multiple high res monitors but for regular 1080p computer setups, it's just fine. Bit of a power hog, but I think the enthusiasts will always appreciate these. Quad core computing was such big news during at that time... Definitely a revolution in how we used PC's with high bandwidth connections.
My daughters PC had one up until 2 months ago when I swapped it out for a phenom II x6 1055 processor. It will be interesting to see your overclocking results.
One of my gaming buddies is still using this CPU. Last year he bought a new graphics card, and I remember telling him that he should probably look into upgrading his ancient CPU as well, to which he responded "No, it's still perfectly fine".
Was digging in my basement to finally clean up all the e-waste that accumulated through the years and I stumbled upon a phenom II 955. Curious to see what it can do in 2024. One thing I noticed here is that the tiny aluminum heatsink is not gonna cut it for a 125W CPU no matter how much additional airflow the case offers. Gonna test it out soon with a proper heatsink and see if it can run anything modern. If I come up with decent results maybe it would be worth giving the old phenom another go on your channel, now that 5 years have passed since you posted this :)
You are far too harsh on the 965. I still use mine each and every day for gaming. It handles BF4 and Doom 2016 fine. It only chokes on BF1 and newer at 1080P. I intend on replacing it with a Ryzen sometime this later year when my finances are more secure. After ten years of problem free gaming I certainly feel I have gotten my monies worth. Also why are you testing the lastest games? This CPU with a decent GPU will run most e-sport or slightly less modern games like butter.
For one the title is about testing newer games like 90% of his other content and second why would he test a decade old cpu on like a 6 year old game that makes no sense
His content is nothing about testing the latest and greatest. 95% of his videos are how he buys old junk and business desktops and runs Counterstrike, Crysis, GTA etc. I don't know what videos you are watching.
@@wuushew Hey buddy not sure if you're handicapped but i said "the title is about testing newer games" when did i say anything about testing newer hardware i'll see how well i can swim in a bathtub when i throw a plugged in toaster inside if you show me where :)
Funny thing @wuushew many people upgrade their pcs or get all excited about the latest new piece of hardware coming out when they should be concentrating on clearing that backlog4life that most have when it comes to games. The need for new sometimes is just so well common of mankind but so sad.
I had a 960T which has served me well from early 2012 to last year. It was a good fighter and games like Total WarWarhammer and Hitman 2016 were not easy on it. Right now it's resting at my friend's place as a normal internet browsing desktop after I cleaned out the heatsink and applied a new thermal paste.
Just recently upgraded from my x6 1090t... even paired with a 1080, it really could keep up well, and it's definetly one of my favourite all-time processors!
Well, back then, Games weren't as optimized for multi-core optimization - Most modern games managed to keep all 6 Cores loaded about equally, and the GTX 1080 was maxed out at least 90% of the Time
I remember when these AMD processors were released, and everyone was talking about how all games from now on will use multiple cores. Only 10 years later and just now are we seeing games make use of more than two.
I've been using this processor in my PC almost for 3 years now. Here in Brazil, hardware is actually very expensive and came out a full sistem with it in it was in my budget. I later on bought a DeepCool Gammaxx 400 and it performs not very much better with an overclock. Perhaps it's my mothrboard fault, but 3.62Ghz is the most stable I could reach. The highest clock I ever made into the chip was about 3.78Ghz, but still very instable. I might blame on ASUS for their faulty BIOS updates, but doesn't seem like I have much to do into the bios to achieve an responsive overclocking
Had the Phenom II x 4, can't remember which one. It was ok for what I was playing at the time. But when I changed upto a FX 6 core, the FPS jump increase was very noticeable. Though it was with the Am2+ board a good way of upgrading. from 2 cores too 4, switched mobo, kept 4 core then upgraded to an FX series chip
I just upgraded from FX 6350 to FX 9370 (ASUS 990 FX Sabertooth 2.0). Performance increase without the headaches of FX 9590. I’ve yet to overclock it. Flies MSFS2020 fluidly at 1080p Ultra. XFX FX-580 8 gb. I loved my FX 6350. Have fun!
@@theweirdmaterial4908 While they have SSE4.1, they don't have POPCNT (which is not included in an instruction set. AMD had this in Phenom I already, it's a separate thing) which is why they don't run too. So Phenom II has an instructionset problem and Core 2 has a lack of POPCNT problem.
I have the 955 version still in daily use powering a Linux Mint 18.3 system. I put in a substantially better cooler late last year because while the old one still worked okay I just didn't trust it to handle spikes and I did not want to wait on a fan failure either. The new one is a; Enermax CPU Cooler 130W Intel/AMD with AM4 Support - ETS-N31-02. The new CPU cooler does a very good job at keeping the CPU cool even under heavy load. I will put in a SSD in that system even though it is not my personal system.
I'm still running my 965 BE because I haven't gotten around to buying a new motherboard, and basically having to rebuild a new computer (updated ram, GPU to take advantage of new stuff, etc). Last year I did have to get something new for editing purposes, but I ended up getting a max spec i7 MS Surface Pro 7 since it was cheaper than buying a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. It does what I need it to do, and my old gaming rig can still play the games I use it for. I use my Series X for higher-end games.
I bought the X4 970 Black in 2012, it was a year old by then and I upgraded from a Q6600. While a solid upgrade from the Q6600 it only just met my requirements for WoW raiding and bottlenecked in Guild Wars 2 which came out in 2012. Ended up ditching it for an i5-3470, which makes the X4 970 Black the fastest I ever upgraded from 1 CPU to another.
Just finished buttoning up my budget computer (I bought the nzxt Apollo case, Rosewell green series 80+ psu, p Asus m5a97 r2.0 motherboard processor, dvd/cd drive, ethernet chip and this processor for $60 almost two years ago! Only found out the other day after finally picking up a decent gpu AMD Radeon rx 560 2gb ddr5 out of a pre-build Alienware for $50, 120 ssd, and 8gb ddr3 ram that this was the processor, and for a grand total of under $200, I'd say it was a score!
I built my 1st PC in 2019. In it's final configuration, I had a Phenom II x4, (running stable OC to 4.0GHz) with a 2GB GPU. If I pulled it out of storage today, I believe all I'd need to do is add some more RAM and upgrade my OS. (Vista 64 bit Ultimate was the latest when I built it.)
I have something like that, but sightly older. I remember an old PC was given to me that had an AMD Athlon 64 x2 cpu and with a bios update, I was able to swap out for a quad core Phenom X4 9650 cpu and I have it paired with an NVIDIA GTX 285 and 3 gb ddr2 ram. I have it dual boot Windows 10 and Windows XP. Using it as a gaming PC, it can actually handle older 3d games pretty well, mainly games made up till about 2011 to 2012. In fact, I think my GTX 285 at this point is almost exactly a decade old, released in January 15th, 2009.
I've got this in my kids build, paired with a GTX 670. Rocks all the Indies and other stuff like Skyrim, Subnautica, The Long Dark, etc. Works just fine as an budget/indie gaming rig.
Same, stopped using it because the motherboard got unstable and froze randomly. The price of AM3 motherboard still being pretty high, I switched to a newer platform.
I may have a freak. It's a Phenom II X4 960T @ 3.0 Ghz. Water cooled with a Corsair H60. No overclocking. When I bench mark it, it scores consistently match with the Phenom II X6 1065T.
I remember this cpu .. My brother had one paired with a GTS 250 in 2009 . It was his first rig . After some years he upgraded to an HD7770 . This cpu was pretty good . It put up a fight for sure . Now it's sitting in an unused system with 4GB DDR2 and a GTX 650 . I'm thinking of reviving it . First add a psu because it doesn't have one . then add an ssd to help speed up everyday stuff , and try to find used DDR2 to reach 8GB . And after that change socket and go to a newer APU . Then add a gpu and the system will be set
I actually have this in my computer. I bought it (the computer) a few years ago for $20 from a guy who said that it had belonged to his son and it didn't work anymore. I put a new power supply in it and its been running for me ever since. I don't do a ton of gaming on it though, but it can handle stuff like Skyrim and Farcry 4.
I still have a system that's running a Phenom II 955 Black Edition with 16GB of 24oo Mhz Vengeance memory on a Gigabyte 970A mainboard with an RX 470, and for casual gaming, I gotta say I'm still pretty happy with it. Granted, it isn't my main system, but it does get used every day
I used to have the A8-3800😂, then I found a Z270 MSI SLI pro motherboard with an I7 7700 non-K. It had only 7 bent pins and now works like a charm. Still my main power house. I got for only 125$, damn lucky if you ask me....
Should give it a go at 3.9 ghz on all cores & with a fat cpu cooler. (1.475v as max voltage btw for air is what id go for, you might be stable at a lower voltage then that though.) northbridge & ht link speed should be at 2.4 ghz or 2.2 ghz for some extra bandwidth on ram & the cache on the processor.
I have 5 PCs I used at my house from 2700x and 8700k on the high end....my old 965 build still runs (has a 7870 ) in it. Still plays a lot of games fine, the main issue for me was my 965 was using an older DDR II board so power consumption is much higher then when using ddr3. The loss of modern bios is main reason I don’t use it more. Have to install windows 10 from a cd on my old board, because it’s doesn’t recognize Bootable windows 10 usbs (board is an old DFI LAN PARTY) But it still fun to use. Other side note a lot of my older stock amd fans started to die (using 15-30%) less RPMs then originally specced (blame a lot of use) swamping out for Hyper 212 lower temps and helped restore performance. When I saw your stuttering in of your tomb raiders run made me think of it. Same thing happened randomly in games, the old stock phenom fan just couldn’t do high rpms anymore.
ah, thats some nice nostalgia. My first gaming PC build featured this chip, and at the time it was the bees knees. Mine took an overclock like a champ, and the best I got stable was around 3.84ghz
I’ve been running an amd phenom x4 for around 4 years now, and it’s been working great. I have upgraded my pc over the years, I got a GT1030 in 2018, and for my birthday in May of this year, I got a GTX1050. obs has been running well for the first 3 years, then it started to get worse and now I can only record minecraft (yes JUST minecraft) in 30fps at 720p. It’s a good processor for extreme budget builds, but I would recommend a Ryzen 5 1600.
I used to have the X4 965, got it in 2010 I want to say? Good for me back then. Now? Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I love how far AMD's come in the last 10 years :D
It is nice to see old friend 965 is still alive. Wonder how far it can get in terms of OC and modern gameplay. Tbh, pairing that old boy with a 1070 looks a bit unfair. What i wonder is how much it can get when OCed to 4+ghz and paired with RX570-580 and 1050ti-1060. Nice video, will be waiting next episodes.
My Phenom II x3 720 (Non-BE ver.) unlocked & OC-ed @3,5GHz score 90 (single-core) & 340 (multi-core) on Cinebench R15.0. It runs cool&quiet at those settings. Great CPU for the time.
OC it, at 3.9-4.0GHz the performance in games makes a significant jump. Had it at 4GHz before I switched to ryzen 1600. Great CPU overall, but defo needs an OC + on that architecture the CPU northbridge speed bumps the speed by a lot and I mean by a lot. Had mine at around 2600 iirc, insane games speed bump and a massive cinebench bump too. Thanks for the great videos, really enjoying them! Edit: needs a solid cooler, mine with cm v8 heated quite a lot and phenoms 2 are hard to keep stable if oc’ed once they hit ~55 degrees celsius.
Still using my old Athlon X3 with the 4th core and added cache unlocked (making it a Phenom). It's no beast but it still handles everyday use and older games very well. As an extra/guest computer it's not worth shelving just yet, plus it's the only one that makes sense having in a case with a 5.25" bay.
I'm using one of these as my main desktop PC... Paired with 16GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 5750. Phil's Computer Lab did a video on these recently. Keep an eye on your temperatures, these guys like to run hot. Also, check your vcore voltage... Phil's motherboard overvolted the CPU.
Bought a second hand CPU for latest support of mother board two years ago, it only cost me 15 USD. And it runs well for dairy MP4 watching and web surfing. And doing some CAD drawings with DDR-2 4GB RAM. Running game-MOHAA with GTX 560 Ti very good.
I used a Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 3.7Ghz for a good few years, after using a Phenom II X3 710 @ 3Ghz. Not a bad CPU, although not one I'd recommend anymore. If you've already got one, or can get one for peanuts, it's fairly capable for older games. Don't expect a fast CPU, because it isn't. It's 10 years old. Yes they are quite overclockable. Some Phenom II's such as the X3's and later X4's were actually based on X4's and X6's respectively, and could have their other cores "unlocked", if you had the right motherboard, and the cores actually still worked and weren't deactivated because of a fault. Look it up, it's quite a novelty. Needless to say my old X3 710 didn't unlock on a base grade AM3+ board
Was rocking x4 955 BE till mid of last year. Old fella was pushing frames hard at 4.2GHz at ridiculous voltage when paired with GTX 770 4gb. Replaced it with FX 6100 for a short while and then put them both on well-deserved retirement buying i7 8700k.
I bought this motherboard/CPU combo recently for £30 on Ebay, I've paired them with a Radeon HD 7750 and installed Windows XP on the machine I built using them to play old disc based games which don't play nicely with modern OSes, it works really well for this purpose I think. I don't think I would want to play modern games on them but for mid/late 2000s games and older, these are ideal I think. The motherboard that I have is almost identical but the colouring is slightly different, not sure if just a cosmetic difference or if its a different revision from yours but anyway, I've been using mine to play Need for Speed Underground and Call of Duty 2 a lot lately, been having a lot of fun with it.
Long time watcher first time commenting. Love your channel! I noticed something about that tomb raider glitch you brought up and wanted to say I have an 8700K and msi gaming x 2080 combo and I got that same exact stutter on shadow of the tomb raider, except, it was during the new DLC. Mid way during the latest tomb challenge tomb any panning of the camera left to right caused that same stutter but moving Lara with no camera movement had no stutter. Very bizarre, but I wonder if the latest update broke something in the game.
I'm still using one right now. I don't see a reason to upgrade, I don't play on PC anymore, since I have PS4, Xbox One and Switch for gaming. For browsing it's good enough.
I am on the exact same build! Down to the mobo and the athlon heat sink(since my stock cooler fan broke). I got this in 2010, and it's still running ahahha..
Holy crap, the i7 920 came out 10 years ago... And I'm still using it...
hi i recently purchased a bundle mobo and processor its the same processor as yours and im just thinking is it capable to play latest games with a good.graphics card
mine was worse a penium g620 till it failed last Summer and was upgraded to ryzen 3 1300x
920 users, REJOICE!
If your mobo can handle Xeon, get an x5650 and enjoy 6 cores and lots of overclocking. I had mine running 4.3 but it could go up to 4.5 with more vcore. I just wanted to play it safe. I had it now retired so I only kept the x5650 to frame it for all the awesome serivce. Hell of a performer even today. :D
@@n00bgamer39 Pair it with either a Gtx 970/1060 6Gb or r9 290x/rx 480 or 580 depending on the price you can find any of them and you're good to go.
I'd also double check that CPU cooler, it doesn't look like one for a 125W CPU. The 125W AMD CPU coolers are usually much larger, with copper and with heat pipes.
It should have a bunch of heat pipes and a 60-70(can't remember exact size) mm fan on it. Rrreally noisy PITA to be honest. The fins were quite close to each other so it made the most annoying high pitched whine.
The one included looks like something for an Athlon II x2
I use a deepcool 200T cooler on mine
yah, that's totally an athlon cooler, maybe an X4 620.
@@Chriva They were still using basically that same model for the FX series! I remember how loud that sucker got! First upgrade to that rig was a Evo clone from Enermax! (it was black so it looked cooler with my black and blue with blue LED theme! lol)
i use stock phenom x6 cooler on my daily driver a10 5800k just because box cooler wasn't any good and that cpu was rated at 100w, at least fan don't ramp up as often , but heatpipes onlt gave arond 5 drgre celsius difference on a fully loaded cpu
for comparsion my b97 phenom II x4 is a 95w part and comparable specs to 965 (-200mhz)
also b97 have ddr2 controller while 965 does not , so it can be used on am2 boards with updated microcode
that being said some sites list 965 phenom as 140w while b99 (3,3ghz evuivalent) is only 95 w still
same goes for a10 , 5700 is locked 65w equivalent of my 5800k that is 100w so i don't known if locked cpus have simply real tpd vs unlocked cpus having it a bit overrated so you wouldn't be surprised by ded psu after oc?
its crazy to see how far AMD has come from phenom to the Ryzen, so glad to see them back and fighting for more market share. love the price to performance they offer.
Phenom was fairly good for it's time thought. They also had the consumer grade 6 core processors (Phenom II X6), something Intel did in 2018, after the Ryzen launch pressured them
i use the Ryzen and it is the best cpu ever. Not only because its so fast, but it is affordable to my poor ass as well!
Whats crazy is FX to Ryzen. That was a huge jump.
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I realize it's pretty off topic but do anybody know of a good site to watch newly released movies online?
where did dave the seagull go? Haven't seen him in a while
@Paddy O'Prey the poor bloke
He left for the war
its winter, so it will probably come back in spring or summer
Dave's not here man
He was killed by a hawk.
Watching this video on Phenom X4 965 BE and it works like a charm. What a processor this is.
I'm watching this video on a Phenom II X4 945.
Mee too but 965
Now ryzen 5 3600
Me from 955 hihihi
Me from Phenom II X4 925.
Dr. McGoatz my main rig has a Ryzen 5 2600, and it’s also sitting right next to my Phenom II machine(although the Phenom machine is on the ground)
exynos 7570 here... :c
I love those old ASUS boards with the blue heat sinks ❤️
I have one too!
Ture! They're beautiful. I have one (asus m5a99x evo r2.0) and goood i want the same desing for an AM4 build
@The False Prodigy Damn, that sucks. I still have mine paired with a FX6300 (4.3GHz, 2.4GHz HT & CPU/NB) , 8 GB's of RAM (1866MHz CL9), Two R9 270x's, 4 HDD'S + Disk reader, etc. It's holding great, i love it
Yep yep!! Just handed my Asus board n phenom2x4 3.2 to my son 4 his bday with gtx 1050ti..he loves it!
Yes they are really beautiful! Best looking is the Z77 Deluxe imo ❤️
Still Use That Phenom 2 X4 for my gaming rig
Sorry For Apex
Same, overclocked to 4Ghz runs great.
But i play PUBG and Dota, Not Apex
@@irfaanharits4188 Oooooooo
samr here :D
This processor is amazing but mostly cause I have a cool story with it, 2 years ago my mom gifted me her old PC which didn't work, it was sorta like hey do you want this I don't need it anymore (I'm 12 at the time too) and I took it and played with it for months trying to get it to work, some research later I found out it was the motherboard, it wasn't, then I bought this CPU online for $40 and it worked! I then bought a gtx 550 and that was my first gaming PC and my bridgeway onto getting me interested in PC's, I have since built a new system with an i7-2600, gtx 1050ti, and 12gb ddr3 ram and just framed that CPU and it hangs over my monitor reminding me of where I started
That's awesome, dude. Stick with it & stay interested! My love for PC gaming and hardware eventually led me into a fairly nice job that I don't hate. Hopefully it will lead you to great things in your future, as well.
@@Donik0420 nice! Thanks by the way
This exact phenom ii x4 was my first as well. I got a ton of old junk parts for $20. Did a ton of research and cleaning. Bought a bunch of new/used parts and put my first gaming computer together for under $200 in March 2018 to play fortnite...it did a damn good job too at 4ghz. I've since upgraded to a much better GPU and to an overclocked fx8350.
I'll build another computer in another couple years but I'll definitely use the same case, which is an old school cooler master 690 or whatever that I did a deep cleaning to and gave a custom silver paint job with blue LED accents.
you might, at some point soon, want to upgeade to ddr4 or 5 (whenever that comes out) because you may see stutter in games)
Ur gay lol
Do more videos about stuff from the 2007-2011 years. For some reason they are quite interesting as they also didn't have those locked processor bullshit.
oh they are unlocked... if you pay extra ;)
First gen core i7s and under are amazing. You can get xeons equivalent to the i7s for like $15 and you can overclock with a $40 motherboard.
@@bhume7535 what i7 series is older than first gen i7s?
oh, whoops. I worded that poorly, I mean the first gen i3s and i5s are decent too.
@@bhume7535 yeah the first gen dual core i3s and even an i5, are great for 2c/4t. not too much difference in fps with newer 2c/4t cpus. but the the old 4c/4t cpus are now showing their age. 2c/4t cpus couldnt run newer titles properly already, but now the 4c/4t will also struggle, unfortunately because the i5 750 is one of my favourite cpus :( quite a hothead but also quite impressive how it made it this far
Aaah my old friend, the X4 965. Still remember the happiness buying it almost 10 years ago for my first self-build gaming pc and opening the magenta box that it comes in.
I used to own the 955 BE, easily overclocked it to 4 GHz and it lasted a long time! Great to see it still "hold up"!
This chip was in my first gaming pc and I've always remembered it for being super fast and quiet. Always wondered how it would've worked today, so big ups for making this video.
My rig is next level old school. 10 years ago I bought the ultimate bang for your buck CPU: a 3.2 Ghz Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition for only $90. Unlocked it from 2 to 4 cores and OC'd to 3.6Ghz. It was basically a quad that AMD sold for a lower price.
Still runs strong today, a $90, 10 year old CPU! I paired it with a Radeon HD7950 3GB, 8GB of RAM and a good SSD. Can play most games although it is starting to show its age in 2018+ titles, and usually the CPU is the bottleneck.
Will probably build an entirely new computer from scratch next year. But damn, I'm proud of this old beast. Could probably OC it further but I don't want to push an old man to its grave.
I've been watching this channel for years now, and you finally cover a part I've actually owned before!!
I’ve had my Phenom II X6-1055T for longer than I can remember. This thing is a great overclocker. 1Ghz overclock on all cores (3.8Ghz) . Cinebench r15 score of 550. There’s life in the old beast yet!!
i used that CPU for the longest of time ^^ upgraded to a Ryzen 1500 , it was a big boost on performance but gotta tell that 965 did a great job . Theres was a couple of tittles that give problems like MGSV and ROTR but most of the time it did OK.
That cpu was a beast, remember upgrading to it back in the day. Still have it sitting on a shelf somewhere probably.
I have a soft spot for the Phenom II x4. That being noted, I want to point out that this cpu was once chosen by me to run a DAW with vsti's, not playing games. That task it performs pretty well even till this day. The machine is still alive and even has a working diskette drive! I used that to restore older projects from even an older date when I used the AthlonXP 3200+ for my DAW. Ok, that was almost 20 years ago now. Time flies.
I just retired my Phenom 8450 triple core today. It was part of my first build that i got free when it was donated as e-waste to a youth center i went to 10 years ago, at 13 years old it still works great for day to day stuff and even ran a few modern games passably. Hell ill probably still keep the thing to set up a garage pc!
Shadow of the Tomb Raider ran quite well when I tested it. I recommend 16GB of DDR3 RAM and also a SSD, it helps with these older machines. And stick to medium details, a lot of the higher settings are also putting stress on the CPU.
Agree, my Phenom II X4 975 runs on High with much better FPS... using with RX 570 4GB ASUS OC + 8GB's RAM
I still have one of these CPUs and I love it, works a lot better than dozens of recent i3-i5 Intel low-end CPUs
My first powerful CPU was the Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition - I used it until 2015. It was good while it lasted but it did start lagging behind as time went on. I still have many good memories of it. It sits in its original box on top of my wardrobe.
I had the same CPU, my second PC build and I loved it. Great CPU and played anything at the time with ease, miss it.
Denuvo and other DRM are killing older CPU, I think you should avoid thoses game, or add game that don't have thoses kind of DRM.
ikr it sad
I used a Phenom II X4 965 for almost 9 years running Windows 7 with a GTX 1050ti. It was fine for web browsing, business software, console emulators and older games. My biggest gripe is it ran hot and Sony Vegas always maxxed it out when rendering. It's amazing my new Ryzen 5 3600 PC is like 5-8X times faster than the 965 while staying cool rendering.
Phenom IIs were honestly very underrated CPUs for budget builds. There was always the craze about FX because of the 8 cores, but FX usually fared worse in games because of its lower IPC than the Phenom II. If you had a Phenom II back then, FX wasn't even worth looking at unless you had a dual core Phenom II. But for those who had the 4 or 6 core Phenoms, they usually did better than the FX counterparts. And of course, Phenom IIs could also overclock pretty well with good cooling and a good motherboard.
there was going to be a video with II X4 965 in more games on this channel but it did not come out :(
Still got 2 of these running (an HTPC and a garage PC with 280x and 260x GPU's) I think I even got that exact same ASUS mobo. These Phenoms are definitely still suffice for most computing applications. Wouldn't really recommend it for the hardcore user who likes to run multiple high res monitors but for regular 1080p computer setups, it's just fine. Bit of a power hog, but I think the enthusiasts will always appreciate these. Quad core computing was such big news during at that time... Definitely a revolution in how we used PC's with high bandwidth connections.
I use a unlocked and overclocked Athlon x3 435 (name after unlock Phenom II x4 B35) and it still holds up very well.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen a video marked as "Uploaded * seconds ago". Thanks for the video, informative as usual.
Phenom II X4 955 and still kicking 2021
My daughters PC had one up until 2 months ago when I swapped it out for a phenom II x6 1055 processor. It will be interesting to see your overclocking results.
Was that a worthwhile change? My mom's PC has the Phenom II X2 555 and I'm thinking of replacing it with a X4 or even X6 (if I can find it).
One of my gaming buddies is still using this CPU. Last year he bought a new graphics card, and I remember telling him that he should probably look into upgrading his ancient CPU as well, to which he responded "No, it's still perfectly fine".
I remember drooling over this processor back in the day, hell even the 955, but never got one, go the fx6300 after a few years instead.
Was digging in my basement to finally clean up all the e-waste that accumulated through the years and I stumbled upon a phenom II 955. Curious to see what it can do in 2024. One thing I noticed here is that the tiny aluminum heatsink is not gonna cut it for a 125W CPU no matter how much additional airflow the case offers. Gonna test it out soon with a proper heatsink and see if it can run anything modern. If I come up with decent results maybe it would be worth giving the old phenom another go on your channel, now that 5 years have passed since you posted this :)
You are far too harsh on the 965. I still use mine each and every day for gaming. It handles BF4 and Doom 2016 fine. It only chokes on BF1 and newer at 1080P. I intend on replacing it with a Ryzen sometime this later year when my finances are more secure. After ten years of problem free gaming I certainly feel I have gotten my monies worth. Also why are you testing the lastest games? This CPU with a decent GPU will run most e-sport or slightly less modern games like butter.
true, in games like world of tanks even a cpu this old can still achieve around 100 fps
For one the title is about testing newer games like 90% of his other content and second why would he test a decade old cpu on like a 6 year old game that makes no sense
His content is nothing about testing the latest and greatest. 95% of his videos are how he buys old junk and business desktops and runs Counterstrike, Crysis, GTA etc. I don't know what videos you are watching.
@@wuushew Hey buddy not sure if you're handicapped but i said "the title is about testing newer games" when did i say anything about testing newer hardware i'll see how well i can swim in a bathtub when i throw a plugged in toaster inside if you show me where :)
Funny thing @wuushew many people upgrade their pcs or get all excited about the latest new piece of hardware coming out when they should be concentrating on clearing that backlog4life that most have when it comes to games. The need for new sometimes is just so well common of mankind but so sad.
used a phenom II x4 955 in my rig with a gtx 260 some months ago, ive since upgraded to an i3 8100 and gtx 970. im loving it
I had a 960T which has served me well from early 2012 to last year. It was a good fighter and games like Total WarWarhammer and Hitman 2016 were not easy on it. Right now it's resting at my friend's place as a normal internet browsing desktop after I cleaned out the heatsink and applied a new thermal paste.
I ran this processor till 1 year ago. Ran it at 3.9ghz on a am2+ motherboard with ddr2. And a gtx 970. Perfect pairing.
3rd recomendation of a Phenom II in 3 days and I'm building one right now 😂 only bad thing is you can't play Apex at the moment
I used one of these for years coupled with a Radeon 4870 and later GTX 970. Great value.
I also have that cpu in my collection, as well as am3 motherboards that support it.Will stay tuned for more videos.
Just recently upgraded from my x6 1090t... even paired with a 1080, it really could keep up well, and it's definetly one of my favourite all-time processors!
Lol my fx 8350 @5ghz struggled to keep up with an HD 7950 back in the day lol...
Well, back then, Games weren't as optimized for multi-core optimization - Most modern games managed to keep all 6 Cores loaded about equally, and the GTX 1080 was maxed out at least 90% of the Time
I'm watching this video on a Phenom II X4 945 + AMD Radeon HD 6900 + GA-MA770T-UD3P and works VERY well !!
I remember when these AMD processors were released, and everyone was talking about how all games from now on will use multiple cores. Only 10 years later and just now are we seeing games make use of more than two.
games have been using more than 2 cores for a while now, they are only recently truly taking advantage of more than 4
I've been using this processor in my PC almost for 3 years now. Here in Brazil, hardware is actually very expensive and came out a full sistem with it in it was in my budget. I later on bought a DeepCool Gammaxx 400 and it performs not very much better with an overclock. Perhaps it's my mothrboard fault, but 3.62Ghz is the most stable I could reach. The highest clock I ever made into the chip was about 3.78Ghz, but still very instable. I might blame on ASUS for their faulty BIOS updates, but doesn't seem like I have much to do into the bios to achieve an responsive overclocking
965 BE with 8gb ram and a sapphire 5770 carried me buttery smooth thru ICC @ 900p 10 years ago, happy times
Had the Phenom II x 4, can't remember which one. It was ok for what I was playing at the time. But when I changed upto a FX 6 core, the FPS jump increase was very noticeable. Though it was with the Am2+ board a good way of upgrading. from 2 cores too 4, switched mobo, kept 4 core then upgraded to an FX series chip
I just upgraded from FX 6350 to FX 9370 (ASUS 990 FX Sabertooth 2.0). Performance increase without the headaches of FX 9590. I’ve yet to overclock it. Flies MSFS2020 fluidly at 1080p Ultra. XFX FX-580 8 gb. I loved my FX 6350. Have fun!
A shame that FC5 and Apex doesn't support the phenom as that cpu still has enough juice left to run the games.
sse 4.1 or why? i think then it wouldnt run on core 2 either
@@talvisota327 yes
Because SSE 4.1
@@talvisota327 Core 2 Duo/Quads Have SSE4.1
@@theweirdmaterial4908 While they have SSE4.1, they don't have POPCNT (which is not included in an instruction set. AMD had this in Phenom I already, it's a separate thing) which is why they don't run too. So Phenom II has an instructionset problem and Core 2 has a lack of POPCNT problem.
apex legends is source, hl2 was made in source. hmm Hmm HMMM
I have the 955 version still in daily use powering a Linux Mint 18.3 system. I put in a substantially better cooler late last year because while the old one still worked okay I just didn't trust it to handle spikes and I did not want to wait on a fan failure either. The new one is a; Enermax CPU Cooler 130W Intel/AMD with AM4 Support - ETS-N31-02. The new CPU cooler does a very good job at keeping the CPU cool even under heavy load. I will put in a SSD in that system even though it is not my personal system.
I'm still running my 965 BE because I haven't gotten around to buying a new motherboard, and basically having to rebuild a new computer (updated ram, GPU to take advantage of new stuff, etc).
Last year I did have to get something new for editing purposes, but I ended up getting a max spec i7 MS Surface Pro 7 since it was cheaper than buying a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. It does what I need it to do, and my old gaming rig can still play the games I use it for. I use my Series X for higher-end games.
my current rig(and by rig I mean a prebuilt compaq) contains a 945, so it's kinda funny that you did a vid on the 965
Five minute review 👏👏
I still have one of these in my workstation... 10 years, wow
Cool. I'm running resident evil 2 remake on the 955 (3.2ghz) + gtx 1060 + 12gb ddr3. It does stutter regularly but it adds to the horror effect :P
When overclocking, I suggest you increase the CPU/NB clock too and the HT
I bought the X4 970 Black in 2012, it was a year old by then and I upgraded from a Q6600.
While a solid upgrade from the Q6600 it only just met my requirements for WoW raiding and bottlenecked in Guild Wars 2 which came out in 2012.
Ended up ditching it for an i5-3470, which makes the X4 970 Black the fastest I ever upgraded from 1 CPU to another.
Just finished buttoning up my budget computer (I bought the nzxt Apollo case, Rosewell green series 80+ psu, p
Asus m5a97 r2.0 motherboard processor, dvd/cd drive, ethernet chip and this processor for $60 almost two years ago! Only found out the other day after finally picking up a decent gpu AMD Radeon rx 560 2gb ddr5 out of a pre-build Alienware for $50, 120 ssd, and 8gb ddr3 ram that this was the processor, and for a grand total of under $200, I'd say it was a score!
I built my 1st PC in 2019. In it's final configuration, I had a Phenom II x4, (running stable OC to 4.0GHz) with a 2GB GPU. If I pulled it out of storage today, I believe all I'd need to do is add some more RAM and upgrade my OS. (Vista 64 bit Ultimate was the latest when I built it.)
I have something like that, but sightly older. I remember an old PC was given to me that had an AMD Athlon 64 x2 cpu and with a bios update, I was able to swap out for a quad core Phenom X4 9650 cpu and I have it paired with an NVIDIA GTX 285 and 3 gb ddr2 ram. I have it dual boot Windows 10 and Windows XP. Using it as a gaming PC, it can actually handle older 3d games pretty well, mainly games made up till about 2011 to 2012. In fact, I think my GTX 285 at this point is almost exactly a decade old, released in January 15th, 2009.
The first gaming PC I built myself was with a Phenom II x4 970BE, that CPU was a beast back in 2010.
I've got this in my kids build, paired with a GTX 670. Rocks all the Indies and other stuff like Skyrim, Subnautica, The Long Dark, etc. Works just fine as an budget/indie gaming rig.
Exactly the processor I was using until early 2016... held up pretty well over the years.
Same, stopped using it because the motherboard got unstable and froze randomly. The price of AM3 motherboard still being pretty high, I switched to a newer platform.
I may have a freak. It's a Phenom II X4 960T @ 3.0 Ghz. Water cooled with a Corsair H60. No overclocking.
When I bench mark it, it scores consistently match with the Phenom II X6 1065T.
The amd phenom X4 965 was my first cpu for my first gaming PC in 2011 it handeld Skyrim flawlessly with my amd HD 6770 1gb
I've been rocking one of those since 2010, hope I can still take some time out of it
I remember this cpu .. My brother had one paired with a GTS 250 in 2009 . It was his first rig . After some years he upgraded to an HD7770 . This cpu was pretty good . It put up a fight for sure . Now it's sitting in an unused system with 4GB DDR2 and a GTX 650 . I'm thinking of reviving it . First add a psu because it doesn't have one . then add an ssd to help speed up everyday stuff , and try to find used DDR2 to reach 8GB . And after that change socket and go to a newer APU . Then add a gpu and the system will be set
I actually have this in my computer. I bought it (the computer) a few years ago for $20 from a guy who said that it had belonged to his son and it didn't work anymore. I put a new power supply in it and its been running for me ever since. I don't do a ton of gaming on it though, but it can handle stuff like Skyrim and Farcry 4.
Still have one in my dads PC for the past 9 years with zero issue
I still have a system that's running a Phenom II 955 Black Edition with 16GB of 24oo Mhz Vengeance memory on a Gigabyte 970A mainboard with an RX 470, and for casual gaming, I gotta say I'm still pretty happy with it. Granted, it isn't my main system, but it does get used every day
I used to have the A8-3800😂, then I found a Z270 MSI SLI pro motherboard with an I7 7700 non-K. It had only 7 bent pins and now works like a charm. Still my main power house. I got for only 125$, damn lucky if you ask me....
Should give it a go at 3.9 ghz on all cores & with a fat cpu cooler. (1.475v as max voltage btw for air is what id go for, you might be stable at a lower voltage then that though.)
northbridge & ht link speed should be at 2.4 ghz or 2.2 ghz for some extra bandwidth on ram & the cache on the processor.
I used this CPU up until last year. Upgrading from it was like Christmas
I have 5 PCs I used at my house from 2700x and 8700k on the high end....my old 965 build still runs (has a 7870 ) in it. Still plays a lot of games fine, the main issue for me was my 965 was using an older DDR II board so power consumption is much higher then when using ddr3. The loss of modern bios is main reason I don’t use it more. Have to install windows 10 from a cd on my old board, because it’s doesn’t recognize Bootable windows 10 usbs (board is an old DFI LAN PARTY)
But it still fun to use.
Other side note a lot of my older stock amd fans started to die (using 15-30%) less RPMs then originally specced (blame a lot of use) swamping out for Hyper 212 lower temps and helped restore performance. When I saw your stuttering in of your tomb raiders run made me think of it. Same thing happened randomly in games, the old stock phenom fan just couldn’t do high rpms anymore.
ah, thats some nice nostalgia. My first gaming PC build featured this chip, and at the time it was the bees knees. Mine took an overclock like a champ, and the best I got stable was around 3.84ghz
I’ve been running an amd phenom x4 for around 4 years now, and it’s been working great. I have upgraded my pc over the years, I got a GT1030 in 2018, and for my birthday in May of this year, I got a GTX1050. obs has been running well for the first 3 years, then it started to get worse and now I can only record minecraft (yes JUST minecraft) in 30fps at 720p.
It’s a good processor for extreme budget builds, but I would recommend a Ryzen 5 1600.
Amazing that the AMD FX8350 Twice the passmark figure of this, is been sold brand new in the U.K. for £65
when overclocking it, don't forget the CPU/NB!!!
I used to have the X4 965, got it in 2010 I want to say? Good for me back then. Now? Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I love how far AMD's come in the last 10 years :D
It is nice to see old friend 965 is still alive. Wonder how far it can get in terms of OC and modern gameplay. Tbh, pairing that old boy with a 1070 looks a bit unfair. What i wonder is how much it can get when OCed to 4+ghz and paired with RX570-580 and 1050ti-1060. Nice video, will be waiting next episodes.
Phenom II X4 965 BE and still rocking it in 2021
My Phenom II x3 720 (Non-BE ver.) unlocked & OC-ed @3,5GHz score 90 (single-core) & 340 (multi-core) on Cinebench R15.0. It runs cool&quiet at those settings. Great CPU for the time.
OC it, at 3.9-4.0GHz the performance in games makes a significant jump. Had it at 4GHz before I switched to ryzen 1600. Great CPU overall, but defo needs an OC + on that architecture the CPU northbridge speed bumps the speed by a lot and I mean by a lot. Had mine at around 2600 iirc, insane games speed bump and a massive cinebench bump too. Thanks for the great videos, really enjoying them!
Edit: needs a solid cooler, mine with cm v8 heated quite a lot and phenoms 2 are hard to keep stable if oc’ed once they hit ~55 degrees celsius.
Still using my old Athlon X3 with the 4th core and added cache unlocked (making it a Phenom). It's no beast but it still handles everyday use and older games very well. As an extra/guest computer it's not worth shelving just yet, plus it's the only one that makes sense having in a case with a 5.25" bay.
That cpc is a beast, it still my main and only pc,with an Sapphire HD 7750 and 4 gb ram, i still can play most of the games
I'm running a phenom 2 x4 955 and a r9 380 still a great cpu !!
I'm using one of these as my main desktop PC... Paired with 16GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 5750.
Phil's Computer Lab did a video on these recently. Keep an eye on your temperatures, these guys like to run hot. Also, check your vcore voltage... Phil's motherboard overvolted the CPU.
Bought a second hand CPU for latest support of mother board two years ago, it only cost me 15 USD. And it runs well for dairy MP4 watching and web surfing. And doing some CAD drawings with DDR-2 4GB RAM. Running game-MOHAA with GTX 560 Ti very good.
i had several phenom II's. they come to life once you start tickling that vcore.
don't forget the HT
I used a Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 3.7Ghz for a good few years, after using a Phenom II X3 710 @ 3Ghz. Not a bad CPU, although not one I'd recommend anymore. If you've already got one, or can get one for peanuts, it's fairly capable for older games.
Don't expect a fast CPU, because it isn't. It's 10 years old. Yes they are quite overclockable. Some Phenom II's such as the X3's and later X4's were actually based on X4's and X6's respectively, and could have their other cores "unlocked", if you had the right motherboard, and the cores actually still worked and weren't deactivated because of a fault. Look it up, it's quite a novelty.
Needless to say my old X3 710 didn't unlock on a base grade AM3+ board
Was rocking x4 955 BE till mid of last year. Old fella was pushing frames hard at 4.2GHz at ridiculous voltage when paired with GTX 770 4gb. Replaced it with FX 6100 for a short while and then put them both on well-deserved retirement buying i7 8700k.
I bought this motherboard/CPU combo recently for £30 on Ebay, I've paired them with a Radeon HD 7750 and installed Windows XP on the machine I built using them to play old disc based games which don't play nicely with modern OSes, it works really well for this purpose I think. I don't think I would want to play modern games on them but for mid/late 2000s games and older, these are ideal I think. The motherboard that I have is almost identical but the colouring is slightly different, not sure if just a cosmetic difference or if its a different revision from yours but anyway, I've been using mine to play Need for Speed Underground and Call of Duty 2 a lot lately, been having a lot of fun with it.
Those old cpu's would be great for a virtualization testing platform.
Long time watcher first time commenting. Love your channel! I noticed something about that tomb raider glitch you brought up and wanted to say I have an 8700K and msi gaming x 2080 combo and I got that same exact stutter on shadow of the tomb raider, except, it was during the new DLC. Mid way during the latest tomb challenge tomb any panning of the camera left to right caused that same stutter but moving Lara with no camera movement had no stutter. Very bizarre, but I wonder if the latest update broke something in the game.
I've been using the i7 2600k for nearly 8 years now. When it started to show it's age I over clocked it. 3.2Ghz>4.5Ghz stable.
My 965 lasted years past it’s best before date. 720p kept it going for me.
i am still useing the Phenom II X4 925 waiting for the zen2 to upgrade :)
SAME bro
I'm still using one right now. I don't see a reason to upgrade, I don't play on PC anymore, since I have PS4, Xbox One and Switch for gaming. For browsing it's good enough.
Running a phenom II x4 955 in my Ubuntu box currently, still kicking ass.
I am on the exact same build! Down to the mobo and the athlon heat sink(since my stock cooler fan broke). I got this in 2010, and it's still running ahahha..