These Best Buy Pre-Builts Are Getting Out Of Hand...

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

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[@CallMeEspi]

Prove you're the real Dawid.

[@Almond63]

I don’t think this is the real Dawid🧐

[@darke_hunter0238]

Love your vids!! Find myself looking through your old videos to find ones I probably forgot what happened in so I can keep watching!!

[@tommydrake5682]

Hi Dawid

[@khrisp]

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[@natebaby335]

Gamemax is obviously the best psu brand ever, they're so confident that their PSU's aren't fire hazards so they don't need to include a warranty

[@rafek6687]

Definitely no cap 100% true

[@blindshot709]

lolol, iv got a 550w psu that has higher amps on the +12v rail then that 700w does

[@aprole87]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, actually....

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Bryan from TeckYesCity had a Gammax fake psu.

[@AnnaDoes]

Haha okay Garry 😜

[@kyoudaiken]

The "Overclocking Feature" was just a translation issue from Mandarin to English. This menu entry was supposed to be called "Disable POST and Boot". If you enable it, that's exactly what it does.

[@animalm4st3r]

But for what would you need this? Incase you use it for a Display PC?

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

@@animalm4st3r I think someone missed a joke.

[@Spankmepink]

@@animalm4st3r derrrrrr

[@AnnaDoes]

Hahaha

[@Masaliantiikeri]

It also could corrupt the bios rom and kill the cpu vrms. Real joke comes from that clear cmos worked. This version didn't have Disable Bios feature, so no need for CH341A.

[@JMsolidsnake]

That power supply is actually really good. I use them all the time when I need to start a campfire.

[@CrobinHood8BitGuy]

The one he showed in the video is a good campfire starter, but some of the higher end models from the same brand are decent entry level options.

[@subrunnerfly1703]

😊i needed to change a powersupply to make it work with my gpu so i bought a rgb one.50/50 its going to catch fire reading the reviews 😅

[@Garde538]

😂😂😂

[@Aaron_Jensen]

I'm not going to lie, the RGB across the PSU basement is both hideously designed and really cool.

[@AnnaDoes]

Couldn’t agree more

[@Hashazer]

Same

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It does very much provoke mixed feelings. 😂

[@TetraDizzle]

Its like finding a really cool looking turtle then shitting on it

[@GohTakeshita]

The design reminds me of Immortan Joe from Fury Road for some reason.

[@hal6yon]

"I guess there's nothing as stylish as asphyxiation" Never change, Dawid

[@gyneve]

Is casual bondage gear still a thing?

[@wolfshanze5980]

David Carradine used to be a subscriber to this channel.

[@thetalesofdaneandco]

@@wolfshanze5980 You beat me to the joke.

[@sliptap]

Can we all appreciate that Dawid managed to A) sneak in a little dig into the sponsor product placement ("yelling at mounting plate") and B) purposely mispronounce their product as the AK-47 (instead of AK-400). Love it!

[@dmck1436]

This. Came to say for a Sponsor I would not be thrilled but I found it hilarious. Also "Decent" cooling performance.

[@roowut]

i mean, people are noticing that so i guess it helps?

[@AnnaDoes]

Haha yeah he’s ballsy as hell

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It was surprised when they didn’t mention them. 😂

[@MK2396E]

Brandon Herrera enters the chat

[@Segmaster01]

Most of these AliExpress “X99” motherboards actually use salvaged server chipsets- specifically the Intel C612. This is why many features like overclocking and even sleep mode do not work properly when enabled.

[@baroncalamityplus]

Thats what I was going to comment.

[@SviatoslavDamaschin]

They need a patched bios

[@itmkoeln]

Some even use a hacked together chipset with cheap H61 or H81 PCHs (especially in the early days of Chinese Boards these were common)… Those usually only support Dual Channel eventhough they have 4 RAM Slots C612 is basically the Chipset that X99 was based on (Wellsburg). X99 was a X612 Chipset in a way…

[@BenState]

C612 and X99 are virtually the same. Its the bios implementation that matters.

[@DDT2005]

That CPU isn't "qualified" for Windows 11, even though I have it running on a i7-7700k.

[@itmkoeln]

It is Haswell (eventhough the numbering would say Broadwell…) but with the TPM fix 4th and 5th Gen are often quite capable on Haswell still…

[@relmerator]

This. I’m surprised to see someone selling this retail, let alone a big company like Best Buy. Buyers probably won’t be thrilled when the watermark telling users they’re running on an unsupported configuration shows up in the release channel, let alone when/if MS stops allowing unsupported CPUs.

[@megachonk9440]

@@relmerator It's sold through a "marketplace seller" on Best Buy's for online only purchase. You can't go into a Best Buy store and buy a Hajaan pre-built. Basically, Best Buy's only involvement is as a payment processor.

[@firestorm517]

Pretty sure I've heard people running old Pentiums getting Windows 11 running. Microsoft clearly changed their requirements after all the backlash

[@TheEvox81]

@@itmkoeln That isn't the point he's making. It's very well documented that Windows 11 will run on older hardware. His point is that someone is selling (what I assume to be) a licensed copy of Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. That raises concerns ranging from Windows 11 refusing to update itself at some point in the future, to and/or excessive future support calls if/when Windows 11 stops working on that class of hardware. Unsupported Windows 11 on old hardware is a great choice for end users, but it's a very questionable choice for an OEM.

[@phwn]

Dawid generously keeping best buy CA’s prebuilt market alive 🙏

[@Billis75]

TFW you just don't have a knife battle in you today... Best Buy time.

[@thedungeondelver]

"Why do we keep selling these things?" "One guy keeps buying them, and that's enough."

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@thedungeondelver We keep each other in business. 😂

[@matthewjessey12]

I fucking LOVE your channel. You literally helped me find a hobby. Building a pc rn and I would have never done that if I didn’t find this channel.

[@random13627]

nice pfp

[@matthewjessey12]

@@random13627 can we be friends

[@AnnaDoes]

Yass! That’s awesome to hear. Hobbies are the bees knees.

[@count0nz]

he feels like a long lost friend love his videos too :)

[@random13627]

@@matthewjessey12 yes

[@arthuralford]

Dawid-"I feel like the most disgruntled DHL agent couldn't damage this" DHL agent-"Challenge accepted"

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

That’s true, I shouldn’t tempt fate.

[@tsumuphi]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Fate has been tempted now which is evident by the box in your latest video

[@Forginswagger]

I work in at a package company and I am never surprised by everyone around me damaging any package. You got to pack it like a tank.

[@OhTylerB]

I used to watch Dawid every week when he had like 20 thousand subs. Came back to watch some old videos for the first time in a while and despite now having well over half a million, it's good to see he's still kept his sense of humor and originality! Never change, dude.

[@Run187]

Had a gamermax psu set on fire avoid them like your life depends on it. My idiot friend thought it be good to use a cheap psu with expensive parts ( never do that ever, as I told him six times) it kept blue screening, so he brought it round for me to fix, I turned it on then heard pop and saw flames. He has fitted the cheap psu without telling me. Luckily it only took the psu and I was fortunate enough to be sat next to it..

[@Eulogy1613]

I uh am using some weird unbranded psu named "new zen 500w psu" should I be worried or am I good to go I use less power components in my pc

[@joeymatthews1234]

@@Eulogy1613 as long as your power consumption doesnt come anywhere near 400-500w at peak load, you'll be fine. If you use a "50" tier gpu or lower and a cpu that's not power hungry, you'll be fine. But if your power draw is anywhere in the 400s then I'd look into a new PSU. Get *at minimum* an 80+ bronze from a good brand and be sure to get at least 100-200 more wattage than you need. Gold or modular PSU would be better obviously but that'll depend on your budget.

[@123sleepygamer]

@@Eulogy1613 Power supplies are really fuckin cheap too. I just got a EVGA BR 700 watt 80+ Bronze for 60$ at BestBuy, and that's a "lower end" PSU being a bronze, even gold rated ones aren't expensive at all. Funnily enough the most important thing in the PC is one of the cheapest parts. My Specs: Ryzen 5 3600/Asus RTX 2060 OC Evo/ 32GB RAM//Loooots of storage//700w PSU Good PSU brands: Seasonic, Corsair, & EVGA [prob more I haven't used or don't know about people can add.]

[@Archman155]

@@123sleepygamer I've got a Corsair RM650 which is hilariously overpowered for my 1600 and gtx 1060 pc, but it's a 10 year warranty and I'm planning to use it in a new pc whenever I get one, I only got it because I had a cheap ass China psu on its last legs

[@aleksazunjic9672]

To select proper PSU you need some literacy and common sense. First, find out TDP of your CPU and GPU and sum them. Then check +12V current rating of your PSU , and multiply them (i.e. 12 V x 30 A) . This result should be at least 25% higher than aforementioned sum of TDPs.

[@JBrinx18]

You've hit gold with the 5960. You need to put it on a better x99 board and try overclocking it then.

[@ryanvandoren1519]

"Which requires medium shouting to be attached." You are a genius with your scripts!

[@roowut]

oh, i’ve used one of those power supplies and they were really good the house fire was nice and warm, but the only downside is it lasted once

[@TheAsianKidxD]

6:25 cracked me up for a good 10 minutes 😂😂😂😂😂, especially the “you nooooooooooooooooooooob” part 😂😂😂😂

[@KlipschHead281]

I still have my 5960x overclocked to 4.6GHz I built Nov 2014 still running, it's still very fast with this overclock, 8 years is pretty amazing.

[@DrDevinRX]

I had a 5960X until I upgraded to a 9900K in Dec. 2018. I loved that CPU and OC'd mine to 4.4GHz, but I think either my mobo or CPU degraded, because it can barely POST at this point.

[@Kraven83]

Did you pay 1000 dollars for that CPU then? And if you were an "enthusiast" back then, how come you haven't decided for an upgrade for all these years? Usually people that spend that much can't compromise when the performance starts being less than stellar and buy the new, way better, thing. Like a 10 or 16 cores/20 or 32 threads Ryzen or I9 ... Or at least that's what they say (I've never met such a unicorn in real life before hehehehe)

[@KlipschHead281]

@@DrDevinRX - Mine is still running like the day I built it, I was running it at 4.7GHz for a few years but since 2019 have had it at 4.6, can't remember why but it's still a beast.

[@KlipschHead281]

@@Kraven83 - No I didn't pay full price, I bought mine from a server builder who was selling his overstock for $650.00. I had to bring my computer to his warehouse and test as many 5960x CPU's as I wished until I got the one I liked, which hit a solid 4.7GHz. I still have that machine but it isn't my main system anymore, hasn't been for years but it's still in my office. Now I'm on the hunt for 13th gen when it is released.

[@bradtraq1]

I love the honest sponsor spot at the beginning. Needing medium shouting to install really spoke to me, and I feel like I understand the product better now but am not turned off by it. Good job

[@foxs49er]

I just handed down my 5960x, X99, quad channel 16 gigs of ram (4x4), and gtx980 to my niece. It was a beast that aged reasonably well. The heat that thing put off is insane when overclocked. While it did cost me my left arm new, its is still running like a champ. To be honest I sorta wish I just bought a 3080 for it instead of an entire new pc with 11900k. CPU wise there wasn't much of a jump going from 5960x to 11900k. But to be fair the 5960x cost 3x as much new. Edit: I just remembered my x99 had 8 ram slots with quad channel (i just never needed more than 16 gigs). 8 ram sticks is probably what Dawid's wet dreams are made of

[@VaxVex]

I am recently upgraded the ram in my own and my fathers pc . After one minor hearth attack with a black screen and learning about the systems but the overall experience is left me with a really good mood . Dawid you are a legend and keep up the good work without your videos i dont think i had the courage for opening up the pcs and changing the parts . Oh and your partner deserve all the positive feedback she is a treasure and beautiful lady . Thumbs up and i really enjoyed the video your jokes always made me laugh. Have a great day.

[@Mr.Korzack]

I can see a mirror universe where Dawid sets up his own pre-built company just to right the wrongs inflicted on him by all these dodgy pre-builts

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Who knows, maybe there is a universe where I am the head of Dell. 😂

[@alexrose1ukv2]

Holy ****?! You meant here is a universe where Dell is NOT an abomination?? The sad thing is around 10-15 years ago, when they had JUST bought Alienware, they actually had some decent machines, with some cool engineering. I loved my original M17 laptop, it was absolutely balling at the time, but unfortunately economisation and gimmicks have now won over, over offering solid machines which happened to look swish. It's a real shame, as Dell has the clout and the ability (without even really costing them anything over what they're already spending) to make some top tier machines at great prices, but they keep spending money on the wrong things :(

[@Dfm253]

@@alexrose1ukv2no, there is a universe where Dawid approves of Dell’s abomination, that seems more likely. Lol

[@Outcast569]

So funny that you bring up the 2011 socket.... Literally just finished upgrading my 5820k x99 and 2080super rig last night. I loved that cpu. Was still running everything at max at 1440 for the most part. Now at 13900ks and 4090 TUF. Bit of a jump. But yeah I know they were a dead end but the 2011-3 series was a beast for running a couple servers and gaming off of that that rig.

[@potatogaming6686]

Keep up the prebuilts i love the series

[@CaveyMoth]

The power supply sticker looks so good through the acrylic basement window.

[@jeffreypaul9428]

Back when Intel had no competition and charged $1000 for its best CPU. I don't miss those times lol.

[@itmkoeln]

After all X99 and LGA 2011-3 where not really targeting the Desktop… 5950x were in the Haswell Days… Just replacing the 6 core 4950x on Ivy Bridge-E While the 5950x kinda says Broadwell (due to the 5), intels naming was worse than today… Intel named their enthusiast chips a higher prenumber… Haswell-E was named 5950x and Haswell-S was 4770k and later with the Refresh 4771k/4790k

[@splashboi898]

But you could also get a 5820k for $300 back then which was a really good deal. I have one and it gets to 4.6ghz and does well in games. I don't think there will ever be a cpu that remains serviceable that long

[@everythingpony]

They still do this you know?

[@Megaman231122]

​@@splashboi8985800x3D is probably going to take that title given that gaming wise it outperforms a i7-14700k in a lot of cases. That processor is nuts, V-cache is the future (if you want to explicitly game that is)

[@JustinCrediblename]

so glad for used PCs on craigslist. 900 bucks, delivered to my door, for a ryzen 3900x, 32gb ram, 2x 1tb nvme, Be Quiet case with lots of non-rgb fans, good 5700x gpu, upper mid-range x570 mobo. immaculate condition and a fresh install of microshaft windblows.

[@davidchristoffersen1404]

Dawid its good to see you getting some great sponsors on , it shows people are paying attention to your work Deepcool is a great brand and solid preformance , a great vidoe to keep it up man :)

[@Almarillion]

I still keep my old system, 5960x @4.2 ghz (air cooled, can get up to 4.5 with water cooling), 4x8 ddr3200, m.2 samsung ssd and a 3080 RTX and game on it. That 2014 cpu is still faster than some newer systems when overclocked.

[@lloydc5736]

Thanks for video, looking forward to a hopeful follow-up using a replacement motherboard in the system to allow overclocking of the CPU, find your videos are both entertaining and informational thanks again for your style of your output!

[@naderz4064]

my 2011 rig with a 4 core i7 from like 12 years ago is still running like a champ and has been past down to my 5 yr old, and at 73 bucks its tempting to pick up one of these processors lol

[@DracoRagnarock]

Give Intel's XTU a try for overclocking the CPU. Not sure if it's comparable with the older I7 but it's worth a try.

[@andrewgettys]

I've got 25 i7-5820K systems, and XTU does work on them, though you have to use the previous versions installer and update it from there.

[@0vers33r1]

@@andrewgettys 25?

[@andrewgettys]

​@@0vers33r1 I'm a teacher and they're the systems I have for my classroom.

[@0vers33r1]

@@andrewgettys that is sick asf, what mobos do you guys use?

[@andrewgettys]

@@0vers33r1 we've got the gigabyte gaming 5 boards, I can't recall the exact model off the top of my head, though.

[@kangaroo4024]

"reminds me of a really exaggerated sound effect of someone punching custard" I lost it :D

[@tarunvesireddy9360]

There’s a 900. Dollar prebuilt from dell on micro center that has dual channel ram. It has a 3060 and an i5 10400 I think. It’s the third option you see on microcenters gaming desktop page

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I actually got my hands on with the Microcenter’s in-house built prebuilts. Video should come out next week.

[@teg24601]

Great video! It is interesting that in the US, the same company is selling an i5-10400F/1650 machine for $1199 through Best Buy and New Egg.

[@kdogguk]

@Dawid I think I have the other 16GB ram stick in my rebuild I got. It's 16GB from a 32GB kit! I've had no luck finding a reasonable priced stick to match with it in UK.

[@curvingfyre6810]

My advice is not to worry too much about mixing ram. for a 16gb stick, you're not gonna have much luck. That, or sell the one you have, and get a different kit fresh.

[@Lyazhka]

I'm sure you can flash bios on this motherboard to spomething from a different chinese brand and it will support features like cpu oc and custom ram timings

[@joseprf2534]

Hey, I watched the 6950XT video and I had the same problem four years ago with a RX570. I solved it by disabling the high precision timer in the mainboard BIOS. Maybe it could work in your case.

[@raven4k998]

wait wait wait there's a 5960x why didn't I know about this cpu?

[@CompatibilityMadness]

@@raven4k998 There's 6950X too :D

[@tidalwav3438]

@@CompatibilityMadness nice

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

That’s an interesting suggestion. Will try that out. 👍

[@gamagama69]

@@raven4k998 actually is a thing oem only tho

[@KhaltoTheCollie]

"This is one of the worst buttons I've pushed in a long time" [Proceeds to continue pushing the terrible button]

[@allmybasketsinoneegg]

He needed to sear the feel of the bad button into his memory, to better appreciate good buttons henceforth.

[@dpwellman]

It doesn't say, "Jim"....

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@allmybasketsinoneegg Exactly.

[@planetalover]

I have been making PSUs for 87 years now and can confirm that Gamemax is a very safe and reputable brand.

[@mattb6646]

That's quite the career

[@AnnaDoes]

😅

[@daddyalpha2648]

So how old are you? 100? 😂

[@scorpian78]

Hi David, Once again awesome video! Just a minor point of criticism: I don't like the way you present the difference in FPS by just text on screen. It's a lot of text, which makes me overwhelmed with no easy, "at a glance" way of seeing the differences. I know this might be personal preference, but if you read this, know that it's meant as honest feedback, rather than hate. Keep up the great work!

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

I had the 5820k back in the day, x99 was a great platform if you went with the low end and just overclocked. It was actually my last enthusiest cpu since Intel finally started making more than 4 core CPUs after this generation.

[@itmkoeln]

Back then intel still believed in locking out features… the 5820k having less pci e lanes than their chipset siblings… ultimately culminating in the dumpsterfire intel fired with Kaby-Lake X which was basically a 1151 CPU put on a 2066 board locking out most features that you would go x299 for…

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

@@itmkoeln what? The desktop series at the time was 4th gen. The 4770k only had 16 lanes, opposed to the 28 lanes on the 5820k. The 28 lanes I had was more than enough for what I was using it for.

[@itmkoeln]

@@GrumpyWolfTech the 5930k and 5960x came with 40 lanes the 5820k had as you rightfully stated 28 CPU PCIe lanes…

[@dangerzone6408]

Hey David! Please for intel CPUs with issues on the motherboard overclocking try XTU! I used to use it with my W3680 back when I had an x58 board that didn’t work with overclocking

[@tk72231968]

I'm interested to see what the easiest route is for OC'ing this rig. My first thought would be to see if there is a new/different BIOS that you could install on the MB that would let you make changes. Followed up by some better cooling and maybe a 3070....then you could get CP2077 on high settings maybe.

[@DraftySatyr]

Good luck finding that "new/different BIOS" ... I played around with a X79 socket 2011 AliExpress board back during the first lockdown, and the BIOS was a vanilla as I've ever seen. No BIOS update available from manufacturer (Atimeter, if I remember right) but an exceptionally dubious English-language Russian forum was offering BIOS workarounds so you could lock all 12 cores to 3200 MHz. I wasn't crazy enough to do that then, and with the current unpleasantness in Ukraine, I am certainly not going to do so now!

[@Pasi123]

I'm pretty sure Intel XTU should work on it

[@fragalot]

9:00 I never found an overclocking "feature" on a motherboard useful at all. It either fails out right like that did.. or it sets an unstable OC that boots into windows fine, but run any software and BSODs up the wazoo. You should be able to tune your own overclock on it.

[@OriginalBadRobotz]

Game Max paid me 120% of what it cost to buy their power supply in exchange for a five-star review. (That I quickly edited after receiving payment)

[@sliptap]

Unreal

[@OriginalBadRobotz]

@@sliptap it was super sketch, I replied to an ad they had on facebook. They were being blatant about it

[@curvingfyre6810]

Damn, nice. I hope you spent that money on a better PSU.

[@iTheftAuto]

"Installation requires Medium Shouting" is the best thing i've heard all year

[@philtkaswahl2124]

"I feel like even the most disgruntled DHL worker wouldn't be able to damage this PC in transit." Having recalled the state of some packages I've received from DHL, I wouldn't take that bet. In the words of Ian Malcolm, "Life, uh... finds a way."

[@mikemorris4442]

You can sometimes overclock the block frequency on those china boards or force it to run at an all core turbo. I've also had luck raising ram speeds usually forcing a all core turbo is the best you can do on them

[@kriid3107]

Would love to see you messing around with older tech seeing how they stack up to today’s stuff, love the content btw Dawid 😁🤟

[@ThiagoMatuo]

Watching this video in Brazil, it's easy to find people using a setup similar to that. GTX 1050/1650/1660 are GPUs really common here in Brazil and still being sold for a high price, but now the RTX 3060 are starting to be in a acceptable price (considering Nvidia only).

[@Almond63]

This is peak gaming performance

[@dexsters5643]

Using INTEL Extreme tuning utility. A older version amd you can use software to overclock the cpu, people have done that with I7-6800K's on chinise board

[@Slash1e]

The case is a great alternative for a microwave. Edit: it's still better than my setup so I guess it's still a win for this PC.

[@Yolofolks]

In order to make overclocking work and turbo you'll need to flash the bios to a different one.

[@chibidangames]

I've always wondered what dawid does with with all the PCs he buys.

[@animalyze7120]

You'll have to dig deeper into the Bios to get the OC feature to work properly. Looks the default OC's they use when enabled were wrong and result in a crash. Sometimes if you let it sit for 20 mins or so while it seems stuck it will come back as it might be taking very long to train all the settings, but I doubt it. Nice video!

[@gordanrad]

Just out of curiosity, did you try the overclocking feature with the new memory? Was that error code 19 memory related?

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

The only OC I tried with the new memory was to clock the memory itself above 2133Mhz, and it refused to boot. Can’t remember the exact code. I will double check again on Monday.

[@ineligible2267]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff makes sense, most 2011-3 CPUs are only stable at 2133mhz or 2400mhz due to their memory controller limits

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@ineligible2267 Oh! That’s very interesting. I’m going to do a follow up video with system, and I’ll look closer at the overclocking there.

[@ineligible2267]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff looking forward to it man, I'm running a 6800k on an ASUS board and the PC would crash within 5 seconds when I enabled a 3200mhz XMP profile lol

[@phr3dmcc0y]

I was wondering about your overclocking woes. Did the machine not POST or not BOOT? If it didnt BOOT maybe re-installing windows would be in order? If it didnt post, maybe a BIOS update would help, and maybe tinker with the cpu voltages and etc if possible.

[@mikeswem]

Honestly, with four DIMMs and at about half the price, this would be fine. It's just the pricetag for it that's awful.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I agree. It’s just waaaay too expensive.

[@itmkoeln]

Big issue with Old intel extreme Editions is people think those are worth ungodly sums even 8 years down the line. Found 6950x (Broadwell-E) for 300 -400€ and 5960x (Haswell-E) for 300€ used and sometimes only bare cpus… People even ask 200€ for 4960x and 100€ for 3960x those are X79 CPUs… Based on Ivy Bridge and even Sandy bridge… That is why you would normally find a E5 v3 or v4 Xeon paired with these Chinese X99 boards. Back in the Broadwell and Haswell Days Xeons shared the socket and would work on desktop 1150 and enthusiast 2011-3 boards. With 6th Gen and the Arrival of DDR4 with Skylake Xeons were microcode locked out on anything but Workstation boards…

[@harleyspawn]

That acrylic PSU shroud is like one of those wizards painted on the side of a van. So majestic.

[@josephrowe2202]

Gamemax actually makes really good power supplies. They're hand assembled by Mensa children in China.

[@NotHackTheBox]

I'd like to see you overclock the hajaan breeze pro with a different mother board like you said you would.

[@EdgyShooter]

I did the same thing with the RAM as I wanted as I just don't like empty slots :')

[@lightingthief4482]

I managed to buy a big MSI GT73VR 7RF Titan Pro laptop with a GTX 1080 a year ago for only $621. I never felt so lucky because these builds are something else

[@AnnaDoes]

2:33 least satisfying turtle death peal off ever 😂

[@Gunfart01]

I never knew they had shrinkwrap for my luggage. This Tech channel has it all!

[@matthewplehn4271]

good to see the x79 platform is still around..i think...sooooo...you cant boost the FSB to get some kind of overclock?...Self deprecating humor is always fun...for everyone else...your the greatest tech tuber out there Dawid!

[@NFStopsnuf]

Well it seems like when you put in 4 sticks of ram the framerate didn't change much, but the frametime graph showed a considerable improvement

[@syergo]

Dawid, I don't know if this suggestion will work but maybe check to see if there's a BIOS and/or driver update that could fix your over-clocking issue? Just a thought thanks for this video and look forward to a future update!

[@irishking]

i pretty much built this pc for less than 400. same motherboard, same cpu, same gpu. only difference is the case, cpu cooler and power supply and the fact mine has 4x 4gb and my power supply is a corsair cv 550

[@awsomewe360]

I loved my i7-5960X before it exploded on me. I bought it "lightly used" on E-bay, and naturally it broke well after the dispute period. But until then it was a really solid platform!

[@pjefferson2011]

Love your great entertaining videos Dawid but they aren’t long enough. Need more Dawid 👍

[@Uno943]

Dawid. You could try over locking with throttlestop. I used the app to overclock a CPU in a PC that had a locked bios.

[@Mr.Genesis]

I have absolutely loved your Pre built series dude thanks for all the content!

[@samn8214]

favorite meme/bit of all these series? dawid cant drive his cyberpunk toaster without taking out a few railings or pedestrians

[@BeastofBourdon]

The i7 5960x was not intels first 8 core. Maybe in terms of the i-series, but xeons had 8 cores way before that. I'm still using a sandy bridge 8 core in my gaming/streaming system. In terms of the memory, on these motherboards you sometimes need to manually set dual channel/quad channel memory in the bios. That may be why you didn't see a performance increase from the ram. Some of them don't actually support quad channel even tho they say it so it depends on which board you got.

[@leepullon1147]

'sticky ass turtle death' literally made me lol hahahahahaha

[@LVTHORAscending]

You had me at "punching custard*. 🤣

[@justsumguy2u]

Aside from the gaudiness factor, I thought that was quite a respectable build (especially for the money). And I'm sure the RGB overkill could be turned down in the settings. Overall I'd give this one a thumbs-up

[@BobbyJohnny]

Ohhh this is actually relevant for me, lol I'm running a step down, the i7-5930k, on a Asus Rampage V Extreme mobo and a Asus GTX STRIX 980. Saving for a new pc atm.

[@ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432]

You haven't even found the best feature of that motherboard: it doesn't require a CMOS battery because you ain't keeping any settings unless you saved them as "default", so the battery is just redundant.

[@yeetus076]

Hey Dawid! Could you do a little studio tour? Would be pretty nice...

[@techgirl517]

I love your content and especially your humor. One of the best channels ever ❤️

[@BowsettesFury]

Really want to see the part 2 for this

[@relentless_fps]

I seen recently HP has a new Omen 40L out, it actually has multiple intake fans upfront, 16 or 32GB of Ram options, newest Gen AMD & Intel CPU options as well as RTX 30 series & AMD equivalent options. One down side to these OEM brand pre builds is the bloat ware obviously, which can at least be removed & cleaned up. The bigger problem is their use of Proprietary motherboards, MB stand off mounts, CPU cooler brackets & other connectors & components that aren’t easily replaceable with standardized PC parts ATX, M-ATX, AM4 or newer Intel compatible components ect.

[@SamuTheFrog]

that's actually a really cool case aside from the airflow concerns.

[@lorisvasserat296]

Yes you needs mi899 for change the bios and unlock turbo boost 2.0

[@alexrose1ukv2]

Hah, this video looks like you had a hell of a lot of fun doing it; this is absolutely the sort of kit I love playing around with; everything works great; with just a few minor tweaks this could still be a very capable machine, even if not top tier anymore. Was recently using a 5930K, and with a cheap 240mm AIO that sits 24/7 at 4.2/4.3 GHz (I would absolutely feed the machine some higher quality memory if I had any lying around also, but alas 2400MHz, some 2993/3000/3200 with the better latency and quad channel would be a blast), so this CPU almost certainly has at least another 20-30% to give; hopefully eliminating the CPU bottleneck on the GPU (Haswell at 4GHz plus is still good if not top tier, until recently Intel didnt actually bump the IPC much, they just improved the efficiency so they could attach more cores, ramp clocks higher and higher, without it needing 500W to do it...!) which along with the RAM should turn out a very very capable RGB-puke machine; but the best sort of RGB puke; the ones that actually turn out to be capable and not just living by the RGB. An overclocked 5960X though is likely to kill that unsuspecting Gamemax PSU, the 5930K at 4.3 consumes something like 200-250W by itself :D

[@Tc4ify]

"Check out the DeepCool AK 47..." haha, lol

[@jmac79ers]

Those stock temps are pretty good, especially for a prebuilt. Hey, they beat alienware....pretty low bar, I know

[@bloosher03]

I had a gamemax psu in my build not knowing it was actually bad because it was priced the same as the others, a year went by and it fried my 2070 super

[@timalexander746]

Heya Dawid, maybe you could try Intel XTU for overclocking on the cheapo motherboard? Great content keep it up :)

[@wadeepperson6906]

Those gamemax things are scary. I ordered a couple during the pandemic cuz they seemed like decent enough. One a fan went out in two days. The other would randomly just stop working at times and shuts down the pc. The one that shut down started to smell bad after a while.

[@Toshi2k]

That PSU is actually really good. When i Fired it up, it blew me away. This PSU is the bomb!!!

[@goatmaster3387]

I love that you are still a smart ass (honest) even with sponsors.

[@whambamdan7575]

"A really exaggerated sound effect of someone punching custard" I literally spat my drink out laughing, first time hearing someone describe a sound signature with custard and I loved it

[@kvetinky]

Some pre-builts are actually decent, like LYNX brand. no bloat-ware, 2x8gb ram and finally decent airflow + C tier rated psus.

[@3X73RM]

NGL, I kinda like the unicorn vomit disco in there xD Especially the PSU shroud, that legitimately looks awesome :P