Does This Beaten Up Old AMD FX Gaming PC Have Any Life Left In It?
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- This beaten up and dusty AMD FX Gaming PC cost me less than £150 ($200) on eBay. Back in 2015 it would have offered a pretty solid gaming experience, but how does it hold up today?
0:00 Introduction, Condition and Specifications
2:07 Cover Your Ears!
2:26 Call of Duty Warzone
3:16 Cyberpunk 2077
4:23 Elden Ring
5:46 Far Cry 6
6:37 Fortnite
7:47 Forza Horizon 5
8:41 Final Thoughts
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It has life left in it, but in this case it's probably of the insect or arachnid variety.
😂
"case"😈
@Michal Zušťák I used to be one of those when my gtx 960 broke
This channel is such a nice contrast to the endless bombardment with the latest and greatest. Keep doing what you're doing. I always enjoy your stuff.
Thanks :)
@@RandomGaminginHD hey i used to have that exact case. Novatech have been a very good company over the last few decades.
Even when you already have your dreamed PC it's nice to know how does old hardware behave nowadays
Amen brother 🙏🏼
I wish had found this channel before I spent way too much because I thought I needed a 2080 to run 60fps at 1080……
Ah, the old AMD FX series. My first desktop CPU was an 8320 that I overclocked to 4.5Ghz. What a time.
My first desktop was a Packard with 25MHz lol
core 2 duo for me
I've been running an FX6350 for nearly 8 years now....and for how cheap it was I'm surprised what it can actually still run. Finally I'll be upgrading MB/cpu/ram literally this coming week, can't wait.
Awesome, glad the fx has served you well!
look into dedicating the old system as an at home server or maybe even a guest pc!
Nice, what are you getting?
I'll just put the old bundle on eBay with no reserve as it still works fine. I was going to go Ryzen but decided to go for a B660 motherboard and 12400f
Thanks for making this video. I've been hoping to see a video like this in 2022 regarding the FX8320. I have one that is paired with an MSI 970 gaming motherboard, Radeon HD 7950 3GB GPU, and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. I've been using mine since the fall of 2020 and enjoy playing games with this setup. A friend gave me the components above for free and it was a huge upgrade over the Core 2 Duo that had been my only PC for ten years prior. It's nice to see that the games were played at the stock speed of the CPU and how well they performed considering how old the architecture is. I won't be able to upgrade any time soon so I'll have to continue using this PC for the time being.
Even though I have a 3060 TI and a 12600k, I’ll always be intrigued by the lowest end hardware. Always fun to see just how far these old cards and chips can be pushed.
True, only this was considered high end back in the day. And it shows, it holds it's vaule, sort of. If this was FX 4100, the lower end chip, it would be 15fps experience.
Oh ya ? Wanna exchange your pc for my i3 laptop ? 🤣😭
Same. With a 2080ti and 8700k I think it's good to see a variety of hardware from the ages being tested rather than what's high end at the day.
@@extracoolboy More like middle range. An R9 380 was the AMD counterpart of the GTX 960, and the FX processors have never been high end at all
@@kire929 okay, what I meant it was higher end offering from AMD back then. There was range of CPUs and GPUs below that. No comparison with Intel or Nvidia. That's different topic.
Hey! Have a look at Nimez modded drivers for that R9. They will give a nice little boost with newer titles.
Regarding the FX CPU, the single core performance is not great on those old chips and probably one or two cores are hitting 100% usage and will limit the R9. Add each CPU core usage to the graphs and you will probably see why the GPU is being limited
Running modded drivers on my R9 Fury and my kids R9 280X. Saved me some time until I upgrade and I'm really happy I discovered them! Really breathes new life into GCN cards especially since AMD added them to the legacy graveyard 🪦
Back when I upgraded to this platform (and CPU in particular) it took about 4-5 days for my family members to come begging me to buy me a new cooler for it, as the stock one sounded like a jet engine even with undervolts and running the CPU below stock speeds. On the 5th day I obliged and borrowed money to get a decent 3rd party cooler as it started driving me insane as well.
The FX8350 holds a special place in my heart. It was part of my first "proper" gaming rig I built. Paired with a 280x it ran everything I could want at the time... It would probably still hold up today with the current esports titles too. The only reason I upgraded back in the day was the constant stuttering in UE4 games.
Oh my god, I have that case, in its intact form!
Currently in use for my dad's PC, it's got plenty of airflow, owing to being 90% holes lol.
It’s a great looking case!
Looks a little like the old Coolermaster HAF cases.
What is the name of the case?
@@RandomGaminginHD It served me well for a good long while with my I7 4790k that I used through university!
@@irgendwerirgendwo9095 Novatech Eclipse, it's sadly discontinued, and there's probably newer, better for todays hardware, budget cases out there.
Instead of just looking at the "total CPU utilisation" figure, it might be useful to also check out the utilisation of each core individually. I agree that in cases where the GPU isn't the bottleneck, it's most likely the CPU, but more specifically it's bottlenecking at the single-thread performance, which isn't going to show as 100% in the "total" and therefore can be a bit misleading.
I'm not so sure, these new games supposedly could use all of 8c/8t (in reality 4c/8t) on this CPU.
I had mentioned this in the last video as well. I know single threaded or full bore, a CPU bottleneck is a bottleneck. But sometimes I think it would be useful to know what specifically. Some chips overclock very well and for more single threaded cases could possibly squeeze a little more out of something.
Having been an FX owner myself, a ton of clock speed on these guys doesn't mean a whole lot. But it seems most of them especially in the 83XX family have no trouble hitting well above 4 if you have the cooling; AMD must have not had a ton of chip waste. But the older Intel chips can be quite impressive.
I had almost exactly this set up; an 8150 and an r9 390x with 32 GB of ram. The 8000 series overclocks extremely well, I was able to run mine at 4.5ghz and even managed a 4.7ghz stable clock but it was way too hot even on water for that to be a daily driver clock rate. That said, it really didn't make much difference, these chips don't perform consistently and often choke even on games from their era. They are billed as eight core chips but they really are not. In many cases a previous generation Athalon is better able to run things. Pre-ryzen was a pretty bleak time.
Amdahl's law. Yes, the game could utilize all cores but one core could be the bottleneck for the others (the load isn't split equally).
GPU should usually always be around 100% usage definitely a single threaded CPU bottleneck here which is the weak point with all these old architectures amd or intel.
Thanks for continuing to make these kinds of videos. I honestly loved watching your stuff years ago, because it was always so easy and fun to watch. Made me feel better about my "lesser components" in my PC too. Haha seriously keep up the amazing work.
My FX 6300 with Radeon HD 6970 served me well into 2018 playing most of the games at medium to medium high settings I had at the time. Then my jump to the Ryzen 5 2400G was quite a drastic change even with the iGPU. Then I upgraded the graphics to an RX 570 which was just as massive a leap in terms of gaming. Regular day to day tasks the FX chip did fine.
I've been using an FX 6300 and an R9 280x for over 5 years! It served me well all these years... I literally ordered an i5 10400f and a B560 board yesterday..
Nice video, and also appreciated the bonus barking friend at the end!
My fav channel
Keep up with the good content!
Ran on a 4350 with a r9 270x from 2014 up until about 2 months ago. lol.
After it died and I got a new PC, channels like yours inspired me to bring the old beast back to life and its now running better than ever.
Thanks for the content. Your dog is great.
Man, I've been enjoying your videos for a couple of years so far. I'm not a gamer myself, but may be at a different universe I'm indeed a gamer. But either way I'd still enjoy your videos at any case.
I'm also curious to hear your voice commentating on games like Age Of Empires or any thing you'd enjoy.
Respect from Egypt 🇪🇬❤️
When using an fx processor, it is a must to OC. That was a key selling point.
**When testing in games, look at all the Processors to see if one or more are maxed out (rather than just total usage.)**
Easy to get 4.2 - 4.5 on the air cooler, and 4.6 - 4.8 on any water AiO.
Raise the HT to around 4200-4800 MHz too.
Not with stock cooler. And you would need to cool northbridge too.
Easy to get 4.6 to 4.8? Lol! As the owner of dozens of 8320's, 8350's, 8300's, 8310's, 8370's etc. I cal bs on that. To get 4.8 GHz on most of these chips on all eight cores you need crazy voltage and extreme cooling. You could easily be pulling 250 watts at the wall or more.
My fx 8350 has been running at 4.6ghz for about 10 years, with a Corsair H80i for cooling. It powers the HD7970 nicely and also paired well with an R9 390x. 16gb 1866 RAM. Cruical SSD. And about 15tb of hard drives. Windows 7. Plays most things very well, but I might upgrade Q1 2023, depending on prices.
@@christopherwood2290 , only when I did artificial load testing did I draw a ton of power.
fx 8350 @4.8 GHz and R9-290X with Aida64 and FurMark loading to max could draw 850W.
Games don't draw 100% CPU+GPU load though.
Cute doggo "Scamp" has just noticed the tree in it's garden. Thank for these vids of old tech as opposed to the constant stream of top end tech vids.
These are my favorite sort of videos from you, just homey PC perusing
I almost bid on this! 😆 loving the content 😊
Fuckin love this channel, I love the older stuff
I like the idea of also taking systems like this and testing games you’d expect to play on it, like Minecraft, Stardew valley, other esports games. Terraria, hollow night. Things like that, like do game tests like that on top of top games of the recent years.
Hi man, really good to see this content :)
I ran this bad boy (FX8320) for a quite some time and I loved it. It had a pretty good overclocking head room. At 4,6 Ghz it was a good match for GTX1070 at the time, so I am curious to see your next video :)
Great video, please show us the overclock and what the gpu can do with OCed FX and a modern processor in comparison. Love your channel, been here for what feels like forever i think under 50k subs if i remember correctly :D. So glad that your channel has grown so much and you now have the means to do so much cool content. :D
I had a similar spec to this one for my first computer, added an i5-4460S and it ran like a dream for me. like a jet engine on any game
Looks like someone had gamer rage🤯and did a number on that PC.
I love this case. Have two of them
I did a build in August 2021, with an FX 8300 and a R9 380X 4GB and i was greatly surprise to see this CPU/GPU combo work well. Yes its struggle to run Warzone and newer games, but it will perform flawlessly in Esport Games (Siege, CSGO, Rocket League etc) and some good modern games likes the Resident Evil 2-3 Remake, many racing sim game. Still a good beast to game with, especially if you have good cooling and 16gb of ram
Love the dog mate
Man i love your driving 😂
RG audience: Watching to see how older hardware holds up
Me: Watching Steve's Fortnite skills slowly improve over time
I ran an FX6300 and 750 ti for almost 7 years before upgrading in November 2020. It served me well during all those years, but you're right that most FX chips have aged a bit worse than other comparable intel chips (a 4th gen i5 chip). I still hold a special place for the FX chips though.
The FX-8320 was in my first custom built PC. Back in 2012 it struggled a bit due to severe lack of thread optimization in most games, but it's amazing to see this thing still kicking in some games
Interesting case, nice with all of the dvd drives,that can also converted to hdd bays with cooling :D
Was using an FX8120 until today when my I3-10105f finally arrived, it was definitely a huge upgrade, but the FX chips are decent for what they were and are, it gave me good times and I'll cherish it in it's retirement.
Funny I have the same motherboard too lol
Those fx chips were a lot of fun to overclock, I used to use prime95 as a space heater in my bedroom back in college for an fx8350 at 4.7 ghz, and then I upgraded to the true monster: the 220w Fx 9590, that thing would run warm even with a 240mm AIO cooler on it
Hi great video as allways. Regarding the lack of driver support, you should use the Nimez custom drivers, they are a mix of new features from the new amd drivers (i believe Linux, firegl, and just normal new drivers for supported cards) , and the latest from AMD. Theese drivers helps alot on the performance.
The chip and card are very well paired. My previous system was an FX 8370 and XFX R9 280X. 🙂 It was cool seeing these two paired.
Good ole Novatech, been buying from them for years. Still have a daily use working pc from 2010 i5 750. Never gone wrong.
Have the same board with FX 6300 @4.2ghz 1.32V using Extreme LLC and 0.25v offset, with RX 560 4gb and still serving me today. Temps are really good. I think the FX potential begins at 4.2ghz+. At least minimizing the bottleneck.
P.S, without LLC, overclocking on this board is unstable with just voltage control. I believe 4.2ghz is the max safe OC of this board. Anything high will give the vrms so much heat.
Hint: Novetech PSU's are EVGA power supplies rebranded for Novatech. Very good power supplies. I grew up in arms reach of Novatech and watched them evolve.
No wonder my novatech power supply has lasted me almost 7 years. Good to hear
Your dog looks like a good boy!
The R9 380x was my video card, 4 video cards ago. It currently resides in my wife's PC serving as a retirement home for it where it rarely games aside from some CEMU emulation... which it handles extremely well.
Nicely done. Retired to a working vacation where it can easily just coast off into the sunset.
That doggo, feels so wholesome
Had a FX6300 (oc 4.3ghz) with AIO coolermaster, 8GB ram, and a strix 1060 6gb, ran a lotta games pretty good.
Sorry missed the pc stuff, just here for the cute doggo !
This was alomst my setup until a few Months ago 0: FX 8320E 12GB DDR3 Ballistix (Slowboi 1333), Same Mobo, R9 280X. GPU went to sleep. Got an 4690K for free. Have an RX6600 now inside. Al in a new Case. Waiting for an Upgrade for the rest. :') Thanks for having that System :)
Lol! Your dog was "barking at the bark" so to speak, at the end of the video! 😂😂👍👍
upvoted for a good boi
Instant like for the doggo :3
Highly recommend modded(NimeZ) drivers for these old GCN cards. I thought my R7 360 was dead but now its running on 22.2.2 forza horizon 5 runs great on medium prest with ultra quality scaling on. Guarantee you will get a performance boost in games like cyberpunk an elden rings with that update maybe fix the games not utilizing 100% of the R9 380
My fx 9590 still rockin out today !!!
Used to run that exact MSI R9 380 for years, first on an FX-4300 and then a 6600k, performance uplift was massive even in 2017
The FX series that brings back memories of when I built my first PC myself from scratch with my own money with my broke teenage self fresh out of high school at the time lol
i had i5 760 paired with gtx 1060 for very very long years, loved it play fortnite, apex legend, pubg, csgo. sold and upgraded about two years ago.
Really like the look of those MSI gaming cards...
My Fx 8310 overclocked to 4.6ghz with an AIO water cooler. Much improved performance. It burnt out a couple 400 watt power supplies, which seems odd for a 65w chip, It was very power hungry. Once I went to 750watts supply I never had a problem after that.
I love your dog 👍🦊
That price was a steal! Great thing
All I can add is I have been building my rigs with Novatech parts for more years than I care to remember, and If I ever had a problem they sorted it quickly and with no fuss. It helps I live so close to their showroom lol.
I love the contrast of older tech. As someone who can't afford the newest stuff, I appreciate your work.
When I first got my 3080 I swapped it for the GTX-980 in my backup FX-8350 system and performance improved only very slightly @ 1200p in most of the games I tested. (I suspect it was due to more/faster vram only)
Note that I have the FX OC'ed to 4.4 on my old Corsair 240mm AIO not that it makes a huge difference.
Bro it's been 8 years bow buy a new cpu. You bought a 3080 and paired it with an old and shitty cpu the fuck is wrong with you? Even some of the cheapest cpu from today will blow your fx out of the water.
Great vid man!, My main rig for a few yrs up until this yr was an 8320 overclocked to 4.2 GHZ and a 1050ti with 2x 8 gb ddr 3 sticks, looking back a yr now I wonder how I coped now I am on a i7 11th gen and a 3060 🤣
Damn you beat my overclock! My first real rig was a 8320 and a 970. I had a coolermaster T4 on the FX and was only able to push it to 4.1 before I started getting random crashes
I still have a fx9590. Its running fantastic still. 5700xt to in it. 4k monitor. My brother been happy with it.
Currently gaming on a FX 6300 + W5000 since I sold my good laptop. Overclocks are letting me stretch to play games at 720p perfectly fine. 10 year old hardware now, is much more relevant than 10 year old hardware 10 years ago.
2:13 welcome aboard the Boeing 737
I hope one day you can make a video of the elusive HIS Radeon HD5450 PCI, yes, PCI without the e, a one of a kind DX11 card capable of running on ancient PCs. The most powerful of its kind.
i have that PC case, though mine isnt broken :D
that sata dock on top has been extremely useful.
started off my first pc build with fx 6300 at 4.7 ghz and then upgraded to 8320 at 4.4ghz. decent overclocking cpus
My beloved old FX-9590 Vishera + Fury X PC is in the basement, running as strong and stable as ever after nearly a decade. It performed flawlessly through many weekends of GTA Online, Skyrim, and Fallout 4. I built a new Ryzen 3900X + RX 5700 XT as my main PC, but I still go downstairs at least once a week for some 420 and to spend some time with the old warhorse.
I run dynatron vapor chamber/fin with heatpipe coolers a lot of times. loud but they put in some serious work
I'm still using an FX6300 and RX 560. Skyrim and the Borderlands games run fine on this Stone Age setup. :D
Aww cute doggo
I have an fx 8320! :)
I have it overclocked for daily use at 4.4ghz all core, with a 120mm gammex cooler on it it runs at 45C under gaming load! :) the cooler is nutty.
I can game at 4.6ghz all core as well, but the power saving options while idle on the desktop cause freezes, which i would want enabled for daily use.
I did try to go higher on the frequency, but the gains wouldn't be much more, it was really difficult to balance the stability, and the heat was very much under control at these frequencies.
the old stock heatsink slaps if you ziptie an 80/90 mm fan to the frame on top to create the wraith scuffed
its a pretty big chunk of alluminium and heatpipes
Except from big heat (125w) this processor is great. I used to have FX6300 (x6) and now I have FX8320 (X8) with 4x4gb ddr3 1600mhz and Powercolor Red-devil RX470- 4gb ddr5, I am playing all games with no problem. Good cooler and open case fix all heat problems I put 2 fans to cool VRM and memory. Also good trick is to use pciexpress adapter for NVMEm2 as storage for games and ssd for system. I don't need Ryzen for now. I squeeze max from this config.
I remember this case! It was one of my fav cause Cooler Master Strom Trooper (One of this series) It was my dream to build pc in this case but nvm times changes fast enough now I have antec df500
I have a FX-8320 and a XFX HD-7770 that plays games still somewhat. I had 14gb of ram in it. 4+4+4+2.
Please feature the puppy more, I always like to see the 4-legged companions of people.
I had this CPU til October last year! It was alright for my use but when I got into apex legends I had to upgrade😁
i have the r9 350 its really suprising seeing the difference from that to the r9 380
You can install custom drivers so it can keep up with the barrage of the latest games. They talked about it on Iceberg Techs Channel
Cool video. Gladly I have RTX 3050 instead of that deafening R9 290 from before.
This is very similar to a build I did for a friend in 2015, except that one has an 8320e, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD. Even the case is similar in style.
I'm pretty sure my own FX build from a couple of years prior used the same motherboard as this build too.
I like the Doggy!
You were trying to kill santa.. my goodness lol
I'm still using fx6300 rxd560 4g 16g ram and its still chugging along just fine:)
I had a FX 8320E and it ran everything.
Now I have a Ryzen 3 1200 and it runs everything too.
I have pretty much the same pc but with the 8350 and stock r9 380! (Getting a new pc end of this year)
Still have an AMD Phenom II 965 BE system that is running like a champ. Paired with a GTX 970 it hits a wall with games like CoD Warzone and plays Apex ok - but man it plays a good chunk of my Steam library quite well
Just put together a pair of FX systems. One with an 8350 and an R9 380 and another with an 8300 and a GTX 770. Surprisingly respectable performers. - Funny that your mobo supports 8gb per DIMM. Niether of mine did. Had to do 4x4 to get 16gb total. You might want to try a 4x4 RAM setup and see if anything changes performance-wise. I guess that ram preferences were something of an issue for the old 8 core FX processors.
Still running my FX8320@4,0 with R9 270x. Waiting for GPU prices to get to a sane level to upgrade. CPU still doing well, with the R9 at full load it runs at 20-30% CPU load with the titles I play.
I only just got rid of my fx 8350 4/5 months ago was still doing great. Served me for years they didn't deserve so much hate 😂
This is pretty much the system I used up until last year when I finally upgraded haha, only difference is I swapped my old R7 250 for a RX 560 back in 2017. The system was great for older titles I love like Garys Mod/CSGO and Halo MCC!
Can you please link your videos, especially if it's a series as i was watching some of your old content and it's really hard to follow when the videos are just random, regardless i love this channel, it's the channel i view most on UA-cam
of course it does, if it turns on it has life in it! For one reason or another even if not for modern games.
That's so cool - my first gaming pc was a 6320e with r9 380. Old girl served me well.
I had the 8320 and I ran all of my games on it just fine until 2018, when I 'upgraded' to AMD FM2+ quad core CPU.
I still use the old midtower PC case from those days that still has an AMD FX sticker on top of it :)
how is a Athlon a upgrade from the 8320?
@@patrickh92able Well if you did not notice I've written upgraded like this 'upgraded' because it's not an upgrade :)
@@JohnThunder i remember having Athlon 880k paired with a R9 390 and it was the same performance as paired with a R9 270x lol, this was like a year after i had to sell my 8350 paired with R9 290x
My 1st custom build was with a FX-4100 back in 2013, had it paired with a GTX 560 Ti 2GB then Radeon HD 6970 2GB before upgrading to a i5-2500k & GTX 780 in 2016. I still have the FX-4100 in the GA-990FXA-UD3 with failed RAM Channel, thinking once I get a job/more income to spend the money I'd use it in a cheap basic office PC build, perhaps grab another cheap FX CPU to test if the RAM channel issue is with the CPU or MoBo while I'm at it.