Can You Game on a $4 CPU?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In 2016 the Xeon E5 2630v4 was released with an MSRP of almost $700. For reference, that is $200 more than the MSRP of the best gaming CPU in the world right now. 10 years later, this Xeon can be found on eBay for $4, making it worth less than a Big Mac. With it’s 10 cores and 20 threads, this Xeon and many others were made to be used in servers or workstations. When all of these corporations upgraded their hardware, they dumped an endless amount of processors into the market - since there are so many of them - they now go for incredibly cheap. But the question we’re aiming to answer in this video is can you play games on this CPU in 2025? And if you can, is it an actual viable option to choose for a budget gaming rig?
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I gotta say, the channel quality feels like someone who has about 450k-900k subs. Imo thats where channels peak as it still is a very personal relationship between the viewers and the content is usually simple but clean and informative.
I hope I’m able to maintain that personal touch!
I thought you were a much larger creator when I found your short lol. You earned a sub
Hooray! My short is working 😄
same
yeez, i haven't even novticed that he has 400 subs until you pointed it out, its a great and enjoyable video tbh
This was actually a super interesting concept. Keep up the great work!
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Holy?! 128 subs, the quality is so high keep posting more!
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Camera be catching us lacking 😔
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Actually surprising how little views this video has. Very underrated!
It had, like, 30 yesterday and its up to 3K just today so really surprised how it's doing. Very glad people are finding value in it
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High quality video :)) You earned a sub
Much appreciated!
Nice. I like ultra budget PC builds, so, subscribed.
They’re so much fun to put together
This was an amazing video dude, I was shocked to find out that it was your first ever on this channel 😭
Much love, many more videos to come!
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You deserve way more subs then you have now
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Banger first video hope to see more form you
More to come!
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W small creator
Didnt expect to see under 1k subs😅
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Means a lot! ❤️
great vid man, keep it up
Thanks Blake
1M subs quality content, keep it up :)
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Not to copy everyone else, but when I looked at the comments talking about your channel size, I was shocked when I looked. You deserve so much bigger numbers. Your videos are just as professional and great as others that are much larger.
I love watching these types of videos with ultra budget parts to see how they hold up today. Thank you for the video
Means a lot man, thanks! ❤️
Please post more man I love these types of videos
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More coming soon
Legendary UA-cam homepage pull, great video!
Nice 1st video. Keep up the quality and I don’t doubt you’ll explode
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It's unreal how small this channel is. You're going to blow up massively.
MASSIVE?! sorry.
a video a never knew i wanted to see, but i did! great video. your gonna get big one day.
I’m big. I’m 6’3.
keep at it bro
Ive been thinking about building a console friend a budget pc, this was good for ideas, thanks
I have a feeling your channel will grow keep up the good work!
I expected u had 1M subs. Keep it up
Your forhead is not large. It's quite normal. No worries.
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Great video, deserves more recognition.
Aint no way goodguykev doing hardware stuff now W
This video is heavily underrated same as your channel!
Glad you were able to find value in it!
only 400 subs?! lets get this man to 100k
I'm literally in the process of making a PC exclusively from Ali Express. I picked up a 2680 v4 for $8, can't wait for the final build to be done!
Excited for you!
with v3 you can unlock the turbo boost, which v4 cant due to it is fixed so with v3 you would have much moreperfomance
My man has 22 subscribers, wait hold up 23 now, youve earnt a sub
Glad to have you on board 🫡
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im still surrpised how small this channel is for the content posted, this dude should already have like 100k already.
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I want to see where this guy goes on UA-cam I see potential
I had a channel before this one, it’s at 29K rn. Free shoutout if you find it
I really enjoyed this. Keep it up man :)
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Here in Brazil the 2011 Xeons were all the rage some years ago. They're still used (I myself am rocking a 2650 v4 and a 580) but the government added some extra tarifs that basically killed the PC building Hobby.
Good seeing these being used in some ways.
Great video production!
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Great video! As a builder of many Xeon systems similar to this, I'm done with the platform myself. Very few of these "X99" boards support TPM 2.0, so installing Windows 11 and having it work with anticheat is impossible. $250 can also buy an AM4 APU based system with an upgrade path and Windows 11 support.
That’s one of my biggest gripes about these Xeons - very difficult or impossible to get them on Windows 11. I sell these systems and I’d like clients to be on a modern OS, with W10 losing support later this year too.
She has a nice personality not just gameplay
Time for me to support a small pc channel. If you can use Cyberpunk for your tests and benchmarks so we can see how you can push older or cheaper hardware! Subscribed
Great video
great video man would love to see more content, you should include the 1% lows of the cpu instead of just the average. Great vid.
I’ll be sure to add those next time, thanks for the feedback!
Good content!
That's the GPU that's in my current build gonna pick up the psu today and power the whole PC I paired it with a GTX 1660 ti hopefully it goes good
Hope it goes well for ya!
nah bro keep up the good work bro love the content
Much love 🫶
For your first ever video, this is great
Don’t tell anyone but it’s not my first ever video. I have another channel. Like I said in the video, I’m no prodigy.
Me when cheap xeon server chips nearly as old as me preform better than my 6th gen i5 with intergrated graphics: 🤦♂️
The integrated graphics will get ya. Slap in a decent GPU and you’ll see insane gains
UA-cam put an add on before I could hit like thumbs 👍 and instead went to the next vid. I came here to say this and go back because you deserve a 👍 before they f you over 👍.
Good topic choice tbh.
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215th sub 🔥🔥🔥
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keep it up bro
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Really good video
Nice vid buddy
Thanks!
Hell yeah! I just put in a xeon 2695v2 and that thing is friggin awesome. I literally tripled my performance for only a couple of dollars.
Spread the Xeon news!
Really great to see old tech still put up punches years later, really shows that you don't always need the newest components or to spend a lot of money to get into PCs
Love your video
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Hey i have one of those! Had a very finicky motherboard that required a specific set of ram in 4 of the 6 slots for it to post. Great memories
I had a wonderful time trying to get W11 to work on this board. I did not succeed.
@@Nautilus-PCs maybe a custom UEFI might work? Then again finding one will be a pain
This some 1m sub quality
If this is your first video I can see you going really far keep grinding and loved the video I subbed and liked
Appreciate the support!
You deserve more views (current views - 20.649)
Next step 2$ CPU!
I normally don't go around saying this but damn! he is good at content creation
I usually don't comment on videos, but I just want to let you know that I really enjoyed yours and I'll be waiting for your upcoming videos on your channel! Keep on the good work! It was a good idea to advise people to choose an AM4 platform instead of going to an older Xeon as the path for an upgrade is quite limited
Thanks! This is my first video on this channel so I’m glad some people have found it valuable. Hope you stick around :) I got some cool ideas planned
Bros channel is gonna blow up
you can get the ice200pro or the ice400se, they are really cheap on aliexpress, also the e5 2630 v4 can be paired even with a rtx 3070 without bottleneck. its a great processor for 4 dollars, it has like the capacity of a ryzen 5 5600
It’s no where near 5600
@@infoshorts1391 oh yeah it is, you can see benchmarks on youtube, i also checked it by myself and its incredible the performance a xeon cpu has by 4 dollars
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There is a way to get USB 3, but to do that, you must let go of the SDD as you need to use an m.2 to pcie adapter so you can connect a usb 3 pcie card without using the main pcie slot
I was actully gonna go for a xeon build but after i saw ur video i decided to save a little bit more and go for a ryzen 5 2600x with an rx 570
Definitely a stronger combo
Thats solid Build for 1080P
Id also recommend intels mew ark gpus, they look amazingly promising for the cost
Brother this is so good for the price
Being able to play any game or have any use from a $4 cpu is really amazing to see
Gl on the content switch
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It would be good to see this build with custom settings (BIOS/windows) and a few optimization tweaks
LMAO that cooler mount segment :D fun fact those x99 boards come with a plastic mount that allows you to use AM4 coolers thats what the black ring was.
OHHHHH. It all makes sense now.
@@Nautilus-PCs Yep, I have the 8 slot version of that board with a AMD wraith spire cooling a intel Xeon E5 2696 :D works great.
you yesterday had 300 subs. NOW 975!!!!
Only 1.09k subscribers? This content is 🔥
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Yeah, honestly the cpu performance paired with a 1660 super surprised me. But too much going on with windows to use Xeon CPU’s in flips reliably. Plus now with the AliExpress shipping fees getting the x99 board +cpu at a reasonable price died too.
Extra bandwidth of quadchannel helps a bit
So you could have a smaller rig if you opt for passive cooling?
Yes, but I don’t think you could passively cool this particular Xeon with its 85W TDP
@@Nautilus-PCsOh okay, I'm passively learning through these videos 😅
100% becoming famous
Yeah remember us we will be watching.
0:56 also that the CPUs are not interchangeable due to RAM support and the socket actually being technically different, both are LGA 2011, but different versions, X79 is 2011 and supports only DDR3 and supports only Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bride CPUs (2nd and 3rd gen), while X99 is 2011-v3, supports DDR4 and uses Haswell and Broadwell CPUs (4th and 5th gen) so that CPU wouldn't have worked on an X79 motherboard if you had chosen that
And the way to tell if a CPU is compatible with X79 or X99 is looking at the last two characters in the name, if the CPU ends in V3 or V4 it's X99, as V3 CPUs are Haswell and V4 CPUs are Broadwell
I didn’t know that before I made this video, thanks for letting me know. I’m glad I’m able to learn too from making content
Great enjoyable video. I hope you get more subs.
Thanks man! Means a lot
im really suprised there wasnt as much cpu bottleneck as i expected, it kinda kept up, obv not including the stutters and the upgradability that shit is ass
I’m sure in more GPU intensive applications it will really struggle but for easier to run games it definitely holds up with the 580
If you ever needed fo consider a different power supply for reliability, theres a zalman 700w bronze that's higher up on the tier list for like $10 more. I've built with it alot with no failures. I love these cheap xeon builds, alot of people get to dip their toes into pc gaming with a little $450 build using 2666v3 and 2667v4s. Even better, they are among the cheapest chips to get into ps3 emulation since even a $10 xeon with 8+ cores will perform really well.
I’ll have to look into that. Thanks!
I have a 2666 v3, it runs my stuff just fine
And that’s all we can ask for from our PCs
Cool video idea GoodGuyKevin
Nice comment uLa5er
Great video, super interesting watch. But when’s the Minecraft let’s play coming back? 😂
LOL I actually recently retired from my Minecraft channel of 29K subs to pursue this channel. But don’t tell anyone, everyone here thinks this is my first video ever 👀
Finding coolers is really easy, you normally get an am4 adapter with the motherboards, or the coolers on aliexpress
Of course you can. I builded recently lga 1366 pc with I7 950 for under 40 Euros.
You can get a cheap Upgrade to a Xeon 5670 for unser 20 Euros. Wehn your BIOS Support the later 6 core CPUs.