Can this PC still game after 10 years?
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Building & testing a ~£600 gaming PC from 2013 to see how it performs in new and classic games.
I picked up this basic early-2010s PC for £80 from - where else? - CEX, and with a couple of minor upgrades I've turned it into the perfect sub-£600 gaming PC... of 2013! A decade later, with the gaming landscape very different from how it once was, can this thing still keep up?
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00:00 The 2013 Budget Build 10 Years Later
00:34 Backstory
01:38 Components
06:27 The Benchmarks: 2012 - 2017
10:56 The Benchmarks: 2020 - present
14:23 Can it still game?
15:44 2013 vs. 2023 budget builds
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1:20 damn, the cex jokes always gets me.
Ha
Honestly the script writing deserves a shout out 😂 the bits are pretty damn underrated on this channel
this is exactly what i was gonna say! iceberg scriptwriting keeps me coming back, but this one was exceptionally fun.
Do you think they sell Cex Dolls like Gamestop does
Still using my i5-4570 rig, I originally paired it with a 750ti & 8GB RAM and eventually upgraded to a GTX 970 & 16GB RAM. The CPU is a little beast all things considered but 4 cores really holds it back with modern titles, capping games to 30fps works but it's definitely time for an upgrade now.
Gamers just have a tendency to base everything on the most demanding games, thereby thinking that all games require 8 cores and a RTX 3090.
When in reality, they don't.
I saw this constantly back when i used to work in retail.
And why people keep saying "1080Ti is amazing, it's lasted for 6 years, so far".
No, you just failed to properly analyze your own needs.
You could get whole heap more performance out of that 970 with a new platform. If you want ultra budget a 10100/105 can be had for 60 quid new with a new PCB and RAM putting you in at new retail for as little as about £160. I'd still go AM4 though personally because you can go from ultra budget to high end on more or less any AM4 PCB. The only question will be whether you need PCIe4 or not, as B550s come down on the now dying socket that could be worth a look.
My 4790k/GTX 980 rig lasted me almost 10 years. I think it’s time for an upgrade because you are right, 4 cores really is a limiting factor, I went from those specs to a 12400F and 6800XT, a world class difference
@@Orcawhale1 Yup, I might only need a celeron if I'm only playing solitaire and social media stuff.
@@JJ.IceFish Cores and threads are treated the same by games.
So it's not the cores, it's the archiecture and instruction set.
A modern quad core will be miles ahead of a 8 core FX 8150 or 6 core 5820k.
You almost had my exact first personal build in early 2014!
I was 14 at the time and learned loads since then.
G3258 (oc to 4.5GHz on stock cooler), That same gpu Sapphire R7 260x 2GB OC, Gigabyte B85 D3H motherboard, 2x4GB GSkill Ripjaws 1866MHz ram, 1TB WD Blue HDD, and a corsair cx450w bronze psu.
Nearly 10 years later and I now have a career in a local shop building and repairing computers.
What was just a nerdy obsession allowed me to get my own place.
Feels like I don’t have to work a day in my life!
Love this format of showing games by age. My first pc was an i5 3470 SFF 2nd hand office pc and the legendary 750ti!
Great work Good Sir!
6:15 is literally me with 2600k and 960(4Gb)
Nice reflection on older hardware here. While I recently built a new rig, my old 2013 small form factor machine held up surprisingly well and was still chugging along. As you note, and as others have commented, the beauty of PC gaming is the individual component upgradability. What was originally a 3770, 16 GB, 660TI, 500 GB HD for me remained fairly relevant simply with an SSD and GTX 1060 upgrade several years ago. As you also note, though, time and gaming devs march onwards. While the machine remains a banger for basically a decade-plus worth of gaming at 1080p, I had to have a new machine to enjoy proper 4K gaming.
I love the quality of your videos!
I ran a i5-4670k overclocked to 4.6ghz on a gigabyte sniper z87 and gtx 770 sc with 16gb of ram and an 840 evo ssd until last year. It ran most things I played well enough but then replaced the gpu with an reddevil 6750xt for a little bit then built a whole new am5 build.
I put together a 4690k gtx 970 for a friend dirt cheap. Runs warzone pretty well so cant complain
I just really like how you're pretty on-point for your video's use-case scenarios about an average people that wants to tinker with their "old" rig. I especially like your Tales of GPU/CPU archives that shows some things are still acceptable without being a perfectionist enthusiast
I have an AMD FX 8350 Black Edition (released in late 2012) which features 8 CPU cores at 4 gigahertz each, 16 gigabytes of DDR3, and my biggest issues have been the graphics card and a ten year old AIO. I just replaced the AIO with an air cooler, the graphics card was replaced a month ago, and I'm about to install a 1 terabyte SSD with a fresh windows install. The funny thing is, it's not even my main computer anymore - I recently built an AM5 machine - but I want this older one to become a living room PC, and a backup machine for "just in case" something happens to my other computer.
oh my gosh, this video is very different from the other you've made, you are much braver with your talking. I love it
I am riding with the backround music while you're explaining the specs 🔥
12:30 I really liked that transition, really good stuff!
A Friday budget build what could be better 😎
Enjoyed the video, cheers mate
All your videos are amazing. I'm surprised you don't have millions of subscribers 👍👍👍
Thank you so much 😀
I don't remember when I bought it, but I ran an AMD FX-8320 all the way into 2020, and the only upgrades I gave it were an extra 16GB of RAM and a GTX 960 in 2015 so I could play The Witcher 3. It still lives a happy life as my niece's PC for Minecraft and Roblox, though I did add in a cheap SSD to boot from.
I'm still using an Fx8320 now.
@@armedready1 And there's nothing wrong with that. It still functions just fine.
@Eldibs I do want to upgrade at some point in the future just never got around to it.
To think I had a similarly specced PC that I got for bday back in late 2013 with i5 4440, Gigabyte B85-HD3, Gigabyte Windforce R7 260X and 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz Kingston HyperX Fury and a 1TB HDD - which I still have in my current build and works phenomenally to this day is quite nostalgic. Then one of my first major upgrades, apart from a budget Fractal Design case and a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, was swapping the GPU for a GTX 1070 back in 2016. Great times in PC gaming for me, wish I could go back in time and relive it once more...
Keep up the good work
wow your videos are so well written
Nice cex machine
What a name for a company. I can just picture the man who wanted to be called the "CEO&founder of CEX" or "the man behind CEX" or "CEX boss" fifteen years ago sitting in a parent-teacher meeting with his daughter and making sure he says "complete electronics exchange" every time.
cant wait to go cex shopping
Thanks!
Always great videos!
Glad you like them!
Great video as usual!
I'd love if you tested the GTX 960 since it was my first GPU, but I remember it strugging with stutters in 2017 before I replaced it for a 1060 6GB. (Maybe because of my FX 8350, of maybe because it was the 2GB model).
In this era, I was running an ASRock Z97 Extreme4, Xeon E3-1240v3 (free from an HP workstation), and GTX 770. I ran that system before I upgraded to a 1600X and GTX 1060 6GB.
I know someone who was running an i5 4590 PC from 2014 into 2022. It was upgraded to a 4790K in 2022 as Hyperthreading makes a difference in modern titles. It would still have an R9 280 if that hadn't suddenly died. That was begrudgingly replaced with an RX 5600XT in 2019, just before the GPU drought. That PC was built with an SSD from the start though but only a 120GB one as they were very expensive. My PC from that time only had a 64GB SSD as a boot drive but it had been a high end build in 2009.
So true. I bought my first pc (with my own money) back in 2014 with money from a service job while I was still living with my parents.
I still had it pretty much intact up until a few months ago! 4790k and a GTX 980 though so it lasted pretty well.
Feel like I had way more money then than now!
Fun video again bud
75hz Freesync monitors really are lifesavers for old systems like these. Every budget gamer should have one now; they're dirt cheap, and it makes worrying about a solid 60 a thing of the past.
I still have my LGA1156 and LGA1155 running, i7 870 and i7 2600k respectively. SSD, RAM and videocard still makes it relevant today for casual gaming and most of my workload (rendering and AutoCAD).
i actually had this same case a decade ago, except the white/blue variant.
The Neos looked pretty good for the time/price.
Love your channel :)
Also, should we be expecting some haswell CPU benchmarks any time soon? 👀
Yeah I’d love to see a 4790/GTX 970 or 980
Would be cool to see benchmarks of the 2013 machine with an ssd and maybe 16gb ram just to see how much those effect performance
I had that exact R7 260X gpu model, I remember it running at 99 degrees Celsius, then changes the thermal paste to Thermal Grizzly Cryonaut and that reduced it to 92 degrees Celsius... it ran pretty good at the time.
Dude... That's not normal lol
@@rainbowbunchie8237 thats just how AMD is. u usually undervolt them.
@@brym4467 It's not, I had a 260x. 55c under load.
My R9 280 under load overclocked never breaks 75.
My HD 5850, 6850, 6870, RX 6600, etc are all the same way.
My RX 6600 is sucking back 178 watts board total now, and sits at mid 60's under load.
@@rainbowbunchie8237 my rx580 ran at 90 all day but after a undervolt 75 degrees. both my hd6870 ran at 90 until they all artifacted after a year or 2. the only cool amd i ever owned was a hd5770 LOL
@@brym4467 That's really weird. Low quality thermal paste maybe? I've never had an AMD card run hot, though I skipped out on the 290X
Most of mine have been Powercolor however, and those have pretty beefy coolers on them.
And as to the paste theory, I repasted my RX 6600 and shed 10 degrees at idle, 25 under load. Though I got it back up by allowed the GPU die alone to pull 150 watts.
Excellent content, as always! It would be amazing to see how far this Core i5 can go with a better graphics card. Do you have plans to test it?
Yes, in the follow-up I’m going to test each individual upgrade separately - CPU, GPU, RAM, and SSD- and see which one has the biggest impact on performance.
Good humour in the beginning
When you said cex shopping I needed a context check😅
My first PC was an AMD FX6300 paired with a R9 380 from Sapphire. 2GB of VRAM. Man, those were times.
Wonderful comparison between the two PCs.
It's great how putting just a SSD makes an old PC good enough for surfing.
For the price spent on the X99 mobo and 5960x at the time of release, what can be bought today?
Maintenance maintenance maintenance. Make sure your components are properly cooled, you do your dusting every season and to replace your thermal pastes for CPU and GPU from time to time. Your PC will stay strong for years without failure.
Fun video. I am still using a decade old machine but the CPU alone the Xeon e5-2665 was $1500 US at the time. My T3600 from Dell is maxed out with 64GBs of quad channel DDR 3 RAM and I have both a SATA SSD for boot drive and a 6TB enterprise grad HDD for mass storage. I just upgraded the GPU to an RX 5600XT.
Since I run Linux I don't care about dropped Windows support at all and so far AVX 1 is still fine to boot all the games I currently play.
That being said I know most people don't have access to the cast offs of animation studios like in my town.
Good video! I wonder how a pc from 2015 holds up now!
My late 2012 build was an Intel i5 3750k/Z77/1866mhz 16 gigs/Nvidia 550 ti/560 ti. (And A 500 gig spinning rust) Ivy Bridge carried us almost to 8 years before Zen+ around 2018. (intel motherboard memory issues or the security exploits sealed its fate) This review must of been painful for you with the Spinning rust HDD. Brilliant review and thanks for the detailed hard work.
When I built budget PCs for people at that time I always went for an FX 6300 + R9 270 combo at that kind of budget as it allowed for 1080p 60fps at high settings in most games at the time.
The R9 270 might not support some modern titles that require feature level 12_0 or higher, but by the time that started to become a problem most people would've upgraded to an RX 470/570 or similar. At the time the R9 270 was almost 50% faster than the R7 260X, which is why I always recommended it as a minimum, it also performed 30% better than a 750ti.
I didnt build my first pc until 2016 and it had a FX 6300 which came out in 2012. That cpu surprisingly held well until I upgraded in 2020
I bought a PC with an i5 4570 with 16 GB of ram, a 124 GB SSD, 1T WDB HHD and I added a GT 1030 and another 500 GB HHD with emulation and light gaming in mind, it runs my games just fine, I play Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Battlefield 1, CS GO, MK11 and lots of older game.
I am running a PC 2013/2012 era
i5 4690
16gb ram
And a r7 260x with 1gb
And go well in almost every title
I'm so old I remember getting 20fps was acceptable and more than enough.... man how times have changed
i was running an hp z400 with a xeon w3520 and Quadro 4000 for 2 years or so before upgrading to a 3080 and 5800x3d. i do miss the days where every little setting, config file and resolution mattered when playing a new game.
I used a HP Z400 with a Xeon W3520 (i7-920), 12GB RAM, GTX 660 in 2013-2016. I then upgraded to a Z400 6-DIMM version with a W3550 (i7-950) and a bit later upgraded the CPU to a 6c/12t X5670 and GPU to a GTX 960. And in late 2016 I upgraded to a OC capable board Asus P6X58D-E and OC'd the Xeon.
I'm still on the X58 platform with a OC'd 6c/12t Xeon, 24GB RAM and a GTX 1080 Strix. I do also have a ThinkStation S30 with a Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t, 64GB RAM and my old GTX 960. Sadly newer workstations like HP Z4 are still really expensive so they aren't that good option for budget gaming systems
Also feel free too do a video on some upgrades for this.
A pair of ssd's swap the cpu too the 4770k with a 240mm aio, 2x8 gb ram sticks for dualchannel & 16 gb in total. Add in a graphics card like the rtx 2060 or rx 6600 should present a solid performer despite such an old platform & despite holding back the gpu a bit with that 4770k.
I can tell u that a midrange system can hold almost ten years. From mid 2012 until spring 2021 i used the same system mb was an asrock extreme z6 with an intel i5 3570k and gtx 670 ti from windforce and what i belief was one of the first generations of ssd 125 gb by western tech. and a 1 tb hdd from toshiba all packed in a termaltake big tower.
Man that thing rly was almost immortal i got it well over a year before the ps 4 was released and it still run for half a year when the ps 5 had come out. Never forget man, what a trooper.
technically yes if reasonable expectation for it is taken into consideration
Great video! Oh and btw ,I use an nvidia gt 210 with 1gb of vram💀
CEX, it makes me giggle every single time 😅 Kudos for this video sir. I am also using a setup around the 2013-2016 era. An i7 4790k + Z97N-WIFI + 16Gb ddr3 2400 trident rams + Asus 1060 Strix on an prehistoric SATA HDD! I can still play games at 2023 @1080p but I need the power of FSR just to get 60FPS on AAA releases.
Best channel on UA-cam
Man in 2013 if I remember I was rocking an I5-2400 system
I remember having that same z97 board and a G3258, my upgrade path was weird. Went to a i3-4170, then i5-4460 later on. I remember my G3258 did not like overclocking that high either
SATA 3 SSD's were new, but we were happily shelling out £120 for a 120GB drive when we saw what it did to the speed of the operating system and the boot times.
This is why an ssd is usually the best thing to get first in an old PC. Guaranteed boosts in all load times for pretty cheap
I recently purchased a Alienware x51-R3 with a i7-6700 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD for £250 on ebay- I managed to squeeze in a RX6600 GPU (using x2 6 pin to 8 pin adapter) even though processor is 8 years old, it’s freaking awesome and play all games at high/ultra at 1080/1440p which is good enough for me. Reason for this purchase was as I wanted a SFF console sized gaming PC to fit in the living room and it delivered. Maybe Icetech can venture into the ITX SFF & low power territory next 😬 Great video btw, those CEX jokes always make me chuckle 😆
my old PC was nearly the same, my friend uses it now, i7 2600 and a R7 260X 2gb from saphire too and 16GB ddr3 1600, its still surprisingly capable, but i upgraded to a i7 7700k and a 1080ti with 32GB ddr4 3000
Still using a Xeon 1270v2 from 2012, just with a 1060 in it and its only just starting to struggle with more stuff so will probably have to do a bit of upgrading in the near future.
Man that HDD stutter... I assume a boot SSD with the page file on SSD would make it much better? It wouldn't be very expensive and could make this machine somewhat viable today
Yep if the page file is on a SSD it helps a lot, a decent amount of games are fine on HDDs if you aren't using it as a boot drive and page file.
I actually got a 60 GB SSD in 2011, with a new PC at the time, which had the fanciful AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition and 2x 6870 HD Radeon cards in crossfire (had to disable one of them a lot of the time, due to game-support) - but you were right about the RAM (8GB) and this was about 400 USD higher than your computer, though most of that was the extra GPU and fancy motherboard (ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, Socket-AM3)
If you have a system like this the sata SSD upgrade will give you a new breath and improve not only games loading times and help to decrease stutters, but also change overall system feel to a mind-blowing effect. Also SATA ssd can be moved to a new system when you finally upgrade for example for storage of older games. I keep there titles before 2020 and their loading time is just fine.
Going with the HDD, I understand why you did, but I don't envy you playing games with it :)
Must have been a pleasant surprise to get a Z97 board in the CEX PC, should be easy to build a e-sports PC for when it comes to sell the rig, as you said an i5-4670k would be perfect along with upgrading to 16gb of ram.
It was more of an “aww, man…” moment.
I bought a Z97 on eBay a few months ago which turned out to have a broken pin. It was cheap, so when I tried to replace it I thought I would be able to get another one just as cheap. I was wrong!
After a few weeks I finally managed to get a good deal on an Asus Gryphon. Then I get this PC, and voilà, staring out at me… another bloody Z97!
I've been gaming on an FX8320 rig since October 2020. Has a Radeon 7950 3GB and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Works fine for most games at medium to low settings. I got the PC pretty much for free so I can't complain.
man, every modern part was looking so good in comparison, till the gpu.
a x400 series is now pricier than a x60 series gpu of 2013, what a world to play in.
Got a 3570k still going strong. Well, kinda. 4.2ghz overclock kept it putting in work. Originally had a GTX760, upgraded somewhere down the line to a 1060. Used to be my pride and joy playing Battlefield 4 in my bedroom at my parent's place. Still serves well as a living room media and modest gaming rig (emulators for daaays).
Also yeah 6:04 hit hard, I worked at Maplin at the time, ordered in most of the parts on staff discount lmao
Recently I did a Core i5 4570 build (basically a budget banger from spare parts) to use in the shed where it gets hot and dusty. It's a great chip considering you get a 3.6GHz turbo clock. I paired it with an RX570 8GB, which is more than enough considering that I have a disliking for modern games (around 2017 or later).
That HuniePop 2 shout-out, lol
Had a build that was a little faster than this in 2013. Was a i5-4670 non K, GTX 760, 8 GBs of RAM, and basically everything else was the cheapest possible stuff they wouldn’t kill the PC.
Started a life long love of computing. Now I’m an engineer at AMD. Ironic, considering that first PC.
13:50 the stutter is mostly the 4c 4t problem
I bought my first SSD in 2013 and it wasn't that expensive, though the rest of my PC was pretty crap in comparison to this computer.
Everyone made fun of OCZ SSDs but mine is still alive and in active service 10 years later.
Back then i had a i7-3770, 16gb ram, the gtx750ti, and a hard disk instead of an ssd. And i upgraded my gpu to the 970 soon after. Even to this day the 970 is a damn beast.(i have it as backup after getting a 6600xt) Though it's really starting to really show its age now with only 4gb vram.
The joke at 1:22 got me rolling 😂😂😂
i really like how you put some jokes here and there
Cool, Am guessing era appropriate games. Still have a spare pc skylake i5 it did okay but stuttered at a couple things in WoW.
My build was like €1000 in 2013 with 3570k, gtx 660, 8gb ddr3, 120gb SSD :D
That chip was a monster overclocked easily to 4.4GHz.
Now I wanna see this rig with a good SSD
Realizing how much more intensive games have become. Went from a 4690k/hd7850 1gb with games running around 60-80fps on a 60hz 1080p monitor. Moved to a 12700k/3080 12gb and 1440p 144hz monitor. Newer games? Running 75-90fps (some faster). Holy crap my old system was woefully unprepared. lol.
I'd like to see some 'realistic' upgrades/different component choices to this system, if you still have it. An era-appropriate sized 120gb SSD, 16GB of RAM, and possibly a 3GB GPU of the era; 7950/280, and maybe even Haswell i7, would all have represented either upgrades, or simply alternatives for a much more powerful system to begin with, without being crazy expensive, at or around the time.
see, i bought a 4770k back in that time, it is still running today. Only recent i observed games and programs that clearly want something more in compute. When i bought it, it was High End, with 16 gig of ram, and a 120gb ssd to boot from. It was also my last time i bought SLI, in form of two 4gb 770 GTX Cards. I had to drop one of them fairly quickly, SLI was on his last breath at the time. Some games didn´t want to touch the second card at all. Only recently did i upgrade the GPU to an RTX 2060. That will buy me some time.. i want to upgrade to an actual Ryzen, but Mainboard and Memory prices have to drop a little bit more. And yes, i manages to live through corona with a single 770 GTX 4gb. Even Cyberpunk was okay.. even more, i loved that game. Still think people overreacted. I had a potato PC, and less bugs then with every Bethesda Game i know. But okay, when you want to sell big numbers, you have to deliver. Uh, That got off topic quickly.
Even thought i've been on a 2080 and 5600x for a while now, I was selling and changing my build all the time before. Sometimes building is more fun than gaming for me. That said, i had plenty of fun for a few months on just a ryzen 3 2200g. Played some classics I missed like Max Payne 2 and No One Lives Forever, and some less demanding games like Persona and Fallout NV. Emulated some GBA games too. Gaming is what you make of it. Some people just can't accept anything less than ultra setting on the latest games. There's so many great games from the past I've missed that I can't imagine never having something to play, on any hardware
@@armando1is1great i totally understand that. But even that fades when 3D Mark tells you that you are on the top 1% of all systems. I had build my systems since when the Voodoo 1 was new. You miss not much jumping a few generations now days. With your setup not really worth updating at the moment, but of course a lot of fun.
I love that case... also, I was surprised at the capability of the r7 240 2 gig... It will play up to fallout 4 at medium settings on an I7 3770, and even on an i5 3470... (at least @ console equiv settings) WITH a spinning rust HD
Still using my i7 4790k w/ RTX 3060 rig since Dec 2014. Next year 2024 I will hit the 10 year mark.
Well it was pretty obvious that 260x wont have a chance after 10 years, but i think upgrading that system (from the video) would be so much better than getting brand new one.
Here i compiled small list for it:
25€ - 16gb 1600mhz ram 2x8
240€ - rx 6600 xfx swft 210
~50€ - i7 4770/4771
55€ - 1TB wd blue sata ssd
In total that will be 370€ if you decide to upgrade i5 4570 cpu and it will run pretty much everything at comfortable high-ultra settings at 1080p or 1440p at 60+ fps😊
my dad has a 2014 monster with 4x4 ddr3 now 3x4 ddr3, with a i7 4790k, with a r9 290x 700w psu other specs i forget byt it holds up today he can play cod mw19 1080p low over 100fps, i gave him my rx 580 and it still runs to this day no issues
I have a pair of old Dell workstations that are 10 years old that I inherited from work, when they were upgrading. 32 threads and 256GB of RAM. Can those things game? Hell yeah! After 10 years, they're all running fine. Only had to replace one PSU and add USB3 via an expansion card. M.2 could be introduced via a card, but SATA raid does good enough job. Decade old PC's feel like new machines. In the 90's going 2 years without an upgrade would leave you in the dust. Nowdays, you can take a dumpster dive computer and do everything with it. Those Dell's I'm using show up on craigslist for $300-500. Very good value for the money.
I also have a machine running 3770k CPU. Even that one can game. I did deepfakes on it, machine learning tasks. As long as the GPU is fast, the rest of the system almost doesn't matter.
But I will say, that a crappy modern PC, with lower specs will edit faster in Premiere and process graphics better, because of additional CPU instructions that are missing. Also, 10 year old Dells won't install Win11 (without workarounds). I've had some VM clients complain about CPU's being too old, but Microsoft and Sun VM's do fine. I plan on keeping these workstations around for another 4 years, for sure. So much money saved on upgrades! Only had to swap GPU's.
CEX never disapoint
My first PC doesn't quite match up, but then again, I wouldn't recommend running modern titles on a Packard Bell Legend 610, a 486SX/25 with its 230gb HDD and 2mb of ram!
Dang it, I'm old.
My FX-6300 + GTX 560 still kicking
I even still use a compaq 615 laptop from 2009
lol at living with your parents in 2013. I turned 30 in 2013. I figured out how to buy a PC with a whole family lol
Im on a i7 4790 with RTX A2000 and Im easily getting atleast 7 more years out of it!
On a side note. The i5’s are pretty much dead due to unenjoyable frame stutter on demanding triple title games. 4 cores no hyper threading limits the bandwidth needed especially for online games like Dead By Daylight.
Dead By Daylight always has to recalibrate latency and where you would be in real time so without hyper threading its not only frame time stutter, its also calibration stutter.
For online gaming its a big thumbs down for i5’s and no hyper threading.
My FX8320E: I'm in danger *chuckles*
DSP is the only person still using a spinning disc harddrive from 2013 as their main drive.
Well, about 10 years ago (around 2012/2013) my E6550@3.66GHz stable system got a 120GB Samsung EVO upgrade for 112€ including shipping replacing my 500GB SATAII HDD as boot and game drive, at a bit under 1€ per GB for the best SSD this upgrade was well worth it for the improvements a SSD offered over HDD. But then, for those who just got into pc gaming and weren´t gaming on HDDs for years already 1€ per GB probably was way too expensive, especially on a budget building a complete system.
Insomniac once did a presentation about developing Spider-man. The #1 bottleneck wasn't the anemic Athlon 5150s, but the mechanical harddrive.