The Ultimate Gaming PC (of 2014)

[@harleyn3089]

I still own a 2014 gaming PC. It's a 3770K with a Radeon HD 7870. It's now inside an arcade cabinet running arcade games and other emulation.

[@michaeljohn2826]

Great use for it

[@carltonleboss]

Nice

[@aaz1992]

Proper application

[@ricksanchez3628]

Lies

[@GhostGamer799]

You can add a 1050ti or beyond GPU for it

[@bulutcagdas1071]

I still would want to own this PC :)

[@MansoorAhmed-ts3eg]

Yeah pretty good pc still, would sell one 980 or make another rig out of it 😅

[@alderlake12th]

Also mine, even i'm getting a laptop which faster than this I haven't got any pcs

[@Lurch-Bot]

I'm probably going to build a Broadwell-E system at some point. A 2697V4 is the only way I'm gonna afford a workstation with lots of cores. Might do a dual CPU build and have a poor man's threadripper.

[@nickplays1748]

​@@alderlake12th specs?

[@alderlake12th]

@@nickplays1748 Mine is R5-5600H/3060 The CPU outperform the Xeon but the 3060 is on pair

[@dannymarbun69]

Ah yes another old PC Gaming Test. It is really interesting to see how old pc parts keeping up to the game nowadays. Just got an used i7-7700K RX5700 and Z270 PC from used market for around $300 here and i really impressed by how the old PC part can keep up with some new games today. Keep up the good work!

[@superiorstonk1823]

Not a 5700xt model?

[@dannymarbun69]

@@superiorstonk1823 No. The XT model in used market here is still around $130-$150. I got my Non-XT model for just $100. The performance gap is also marginal so yeah i picking the Non-XT.

[@yves1926]

@@superiorstonk1823 AMD RX 5700 blower is good, I own one. Completely silent at idle, and does not heat too much at load

[@BREEZYM6015]

I have an i7 8700k. Would the RX5700 be a good pairing?

[@yves1926]

@@BREEZYM6015 Yes, that would be okay. RX5700 is still good with its 8GB VRAM

[@CrocoDylianVT]

the fact a current $200-300 mid range GPU theoretically has the same power as two 980's put together

[@wearefromserbia9714]

the fact that the mid range gpu now costs 200/300$

[@joelferguson625]

​@@wearefromserbia9714more like 500-700 since the 4070 Super ti is technically considered a mid range card 😂. But seriously I run an xfx RX 6800 Core with 16Gb Vram and I'm looking forward to playing single player games on my 70" 4k at around 60fps.

[@kaishajacobye]

@@joelferguson625its more of a mid-high end, inbetween those two. the regular 4060-4060 ti are mid range and are still stupidly expensive. the 4070, 4070 super, 4070 ti, and 4070 ti super are some of the better priced cards in the 40 series. not good prices of course as its still overpriced, but compared to the other cards in the 40 series lineup, they gave better price-performance ratio. amd is better, but if you want RTX then the 4070 lineup is the better choice if you want a decent price-performance with rtx. 4080 super is alright, but i’d take the 4070 ti super instead. its like $200 cheaper and still has 16gb of vram.

[@trinityforce9138]

Unfortunately, mid range performance has gotten more expensive - 7700xt is where mid-range current-gen starts and thats almost $400.

[@kaishajacobye]

@@joelferguson625 the 4070 lineup is one of the best price-performance ratio cards in the 40 series if you want rtx performance. they’re still overpriced of course, but if you look at the other cards like the 4060 and 4080, they’re still the better priced lineup. 4070 ti super for $200 less to the 4080 super is really good, and it even has 16gb of vram considering the performance isnt far apart. while the 4070 lineup isnt priced well and is overprice for what they are and the competitors, they’re better priced compared to the other 40 series cards. this is just my take.

[@maybelux9123]

babe wake up iceberg just uploaded a new video

[@KokoroKatsura]

a n i m e n i m e

[@thefreemonk6938]

@KokoroKatsura Anime is meh

[@valentinardemon]

I had a SLI of 980, I bought the first on in 2014 (500€) and the second in 2016 (200€) with an 3770k (to upgrade from a 2500K). On supported games it was equivalent to a GTX1080. SLI was a good idea to keep your hardware longer. I upgraded the platform in 2018 with an I5 9600K and an SLI compatible motherboard and I kept the 980's until 2020, when I did upgrade to an RTX 3070. I think that multi-gpu tech is great even more now with VR, imagine having one GPU per eye, with good optimisation it can realy 2X the performance.

[@Kumoiwa]

"with good optimization" yeah that's the issue. Optimizing your game or engine to use 2 GPUs at the same time is a pain in the ass and only a handful of people could really afford it.

[@nilfhmeir3508]

Still using an X99 setup. Really amazed on how an almost decade old platform can still deliver. I7-5930k MSI X99S Krait Edition 16GB DDR4 2133 RX Vega 56

[@nicane-9966]

the vega packs 8gb wich helps massively. is the best gpu you can buy now used under 50/60dls, especially if bios moded .

[@Roman00744]

hope you OCed that CPU to at least 4.5ghz. Why the crappy ram? You can get 32gb 8x4 3200mhz ram for 30-100$ depending where you buy and if it's new or used, I just bought 64gb 4x16 of used bdie on ebay for 110$. The x99 platform runs best with at least 4 ram sticks.

[@nilfhmeir3508]

@@Roman00744 I bought it during 2014 and the crappy ram is due to availability constraints in my region during that time. Why bother to fix what isn't broken

[@Lurch-Bot]

Got my eye on a dual 2697v4 workstation. 72 threads. Quadro RTX 5000.

[@superiorstonk1823]

SLI 1080 ti build when?

[@joelferguson625]

Probably not worth it, no offense intended. Have a great day.

[@RobloxianX]

@@joelferguson625 Nah, the 1080 Ti still has its use as a multi GPU card. People still want to do productivity on these things. Considering the Titan V has no NVLink or SLI support, either 2x Titan Xps or 4x Titan Maxwells would be the fastest GTX config in 2024. However im not sure which one is faster than the other.

[@South_0f_Heaven_]

@@joelferguson625considering most still use 1080p and 1440p only getting widely adopted in the last year and a half 1080 Ti’s are still very relevant. Those GPU’s are so good that they are still more then adequate for most people.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Might as well take it to the max and have a pair of 2080 Tis. Want to see TR 2013 running at 8k.

[@South_0f_Heaven_]

@@Lurch-Bot that would be cool but other than RTX there really isn’t that big of a difference between a 1080 TI verse 2080 TI

[@BudgetBin]

Man you are such a small time Tech KZbinr, you deserve more than 1000 subs at least. But in all seriousness though, hardware back then was very much ahead of its time in a way, while also becoming extremely dated soon after. I just can't believe Xeons still hold up as well as they do right now in some machines. That being said, I do think we are still pushing high framerates with high settings with new hardware (currently feel like we are going to hit the ceiling after this next gen of hardware,) and it is still shocking to see how well hardware from 10 years ago does compared to what we have now. But anyways, good stuff as always Iceberg!

[@BREEZYM6015]

He has 66,000 subs. Unless you meant 100,000 subs.

[@alajmif]

i7 5930k ASUS X99 deluxe GTX 980 I am that guy who built it in 2014 for future proofing, only upgraded last year with a used R6700xt. had no issues with games till the upgrade, no regrets for the build, and hopefully will build a new machine later in the year.

[@Sevastous]

my god CeX joke never gets old. Also for 2014 games suit can we have Battlefield4? It was optimised at that time and scales well on hardware today. Really curious to see how hardware that time pushed the limits that we breeze today

[@Pasi123]

In 2014 I had an i7-920, 12GB DDR3, GTX 660, 120GB SSD + 2TB and 500GB HDDs

[@mitsuhh]

i5 3570, Radeon R9 270X 2gb, 8GB DDR3, 2TB HDD, 120GB SSD

[@VanBourner]

This build reminds me of 2012 TotalBiscuit's PC and how "mad" he was in 2015 that a PC at a fraction of the cost (pretty much this but with 980Ti IIRC that Jesse or Crendor built) can keep up with his dual Titans PC. I kinda miss those days. It's incredible that in titles like Horizon, Steamdeck is like "nearly" there. Yes, it did run at like 35-40FPS on medium settings but that is kinda my point, if you told me 10 years ago that there will be a handheld with the power of high end PC (not top of the line like in the video but clearly an i7-4770k and a GTX 980 are near comparable to steamdeck), consuming like less than most common lightbulb (at the time LEDs were not still out, we have had incandescents and most common was a 60W, the high end PC would take about 280W with great PSU) available for like 500 USD, and to top it off made by Valve... I'd wonder about your mental faculties. Sadly VRAM hunger will kill Steamdeck eventually too. But hope that next gen of Steamdeck will have much larger RAM pool. 32-48GB with 8-12GB dedicated to VRAM would be cool IMO.

[@DraftySatyr]

Gotta say, you've been cranking out some really high quality content, particularly over the past six months or so. Keep it up!

[@user-ll7gy2xo8g]

-and my PC's still somehow lower specced than this💀

[@thatdudeghosty6817]

for now homie... for now

[@comiumapedra5397]

its a used xeon 1660v3, you can build it for like 300 dollars with a chinese x99 mobo

[@OlaftheGreat]

Bruh I got a 2620 V3, don't tell me yours is somehow worse than mine

[@donaldnemesis393]

the GTX 980 is still strong- it's at least as fast as GTX 1060 and RX 580, which beats GTX 1650 and 780m

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

You're broke

[@deiminator2]

No MGSV? That thing looked gorgeous and ran like a dream, even with the 970 that I had at the time

[@UNr34]

A dream PC would have had the 290x which is more powerful, has more vram, doesn't require SLI, and also natively supports dx12 and async compute.

[@polar_baer]

a dream pc would have a 4090 ti

[@angellara7040]

Now this is the type of cex machine video i want

[@55rz55]

This brings back so many memories, I started learning about PCs when my dad bought me a one in 2013 and this exact PC is the one I'd be dreaming/drooling of having back then.

[@burtburtist]

still got my case, recently the front aux port went bad, you can take the case apart, use some tweezers to take the back panel off from the individual port and bend the pins back to make better contact with your headphones, or desolder and put in a new one, sold in large packs of 5 or 10 but cheap, 5 pin aux female green. absolutely god tier case and i hope we go back to cases costing at most 40 dollars, its insane to have a low budget build of 600 dollars take up 100 for the case as modern cases do. glass is a gimmick, was then is now (unless they finally figure out how to not use glass as an excuse for hilariously large margins, which they wont).

[@TrulyGodsGoofiest]

Still better than my PC.

[@MUSiCK9]

From 2014? Goodness this is genuinely amazing seeing how well it kept up! If I had this beast I would have still been happy! Absolutely no complaint.

[@beanbag8020]

This is my absolute favourite type of video on the internet, old flagship PCs in the modern day. Thanks Iceberg!

[@Elomentoplayz]

Should've put a epilepsy warning for when the MSI afterburner overlay was having a seizure

[@BertSimsen]

That cooler master case brings back memories

[@Sir_Saul]

In 2014, there was underappreciated technology called Nvidia 3D Vision (used to this day) that is demanding as it needs 120fps for a steady 60fps per eye.

[@UranusfromBrussels]

I had an SLI of Gtx 970’s and had exactly the same issues as you mentioned in the video

[@HD7970]

For me i built dream pc 2017. I have an i9 7920x at 5ghz with 128gbs of ram and 2 vega 64 engineering samples.

[@ronjatter]

good

[@Da-money_guy]

Is it bad that I can’t understand if he is joking or not

[@HD7970]

@@Da-money_guy its a real system. I made some yt shorts on this system minus the vega 64 engineering samples.

[@LawrenceTimme]

How did you get 7920x to 5ghz without melting?

[@HD7970]

@@LawrenceTimme 420mm aio. Pulls around 380 watts but scores 22k in R23.

[@arianrashidzz]

Somehow when i think of a powerful beast PC this comes to mind

[@pvtnewb]

Another way you can use those dual GPUs to the max (kinda) is to use Lossless Scaling's framegen on the secondary GPU, if the game doesn't support SLI that is. Provided you have a high enough refresh rate monitor and a single GPU can render 1/2 or 1/3 of the monitor's refresh rate (let's say it's a 60hz monitor then the game ideally holds a stable 30 or 20fps), then you'll have a very good time gaming.

[@jorgealbertomantillagongor2033]

I'm running a fx 8350 and a 980 ti extreme waterforce from gigabyte, all mounted in a crosshair v formula z. Best gaming pc era.

[@allex975gaming]

just built my first "real" pc , with a 7600x and a 7900gre . I can play any game (cyberpunk , starfield etc.) at extreme framerates utilizing my high refreshrate monitor , so i couldnt be happier . I would go for a 4070 super for 50$ more but i wasnt going to use much raytracing or upscaling , so better performance was worth it for less money spent .

[@uncookedpanzer6888]

This is the content I look for when I’ve got my food ready

[@budiisnadi]

I still have a working Haswell system that I use for troubleshooting Windows and graphics card. i7 4770 with Asus Z87 mobo. It still can play some new games at playable framerate even without FSR. Back then my card was only HD 7750 and then RX 470.

[@jinx8624]

such a well made video it was quite interesting

[@richardwoodurff9186]

Great video, had my coffee and enjoyed another one of your videos! Thanks again!

[@RayRayIsCoolio]

my 2014 build used the 4790K with a gtx 970. shit was beautiful. it serves as my home server now

[@owensmith5366]

I still can't get over that the intro sound is very similar to the Ford chime

[@stefannita3439]

Enjoyed the video a lot, just wanted to point out that Fallout 4 came out in 2015 tho. I did watch the video with sound on, just not sure if you actually thought the game came out in 2017 or if it was just you saying "screw it, couldn't find a 2017 game so here's Fallout 4" haha

[@Kenneth-jr7lp]

Nice! I was just watching your other old pc rigs videos!!

[@chexmixkitty]

I had 2 radeon 270x in crossfire back then. Ran pretty well in games that supported it.

[@cluthz]

I bought what was a high end system early 2014 (4790K and GTX 780) and it wasn't long before the 780 fell of a cliff in performance. Kepler driver support was officially dead in 2021, but already in around 2017-2018 it lost a lot of performane compared to 980/970. It seems Maxwell is one of the best generation ever released (even tho people praise Pascal more)

[@michalsvihla1403]

Makes you realize how little power those components drew at the time even though they were top of the line.

[@jacobchavez6635]

wow i got to fully upgrade my i7 with my x99 deluxe ii im impressed

[@MkwRa]

this is the exact case i use even today!!

[@dacymark1688]

I think 5 years is a good point to start changing key components such the cpu or gpu

[@DLK92]

Loving the X99 content! Im still on X79 with a 1680v2.

[@Pawcio2115]

I love videos like this. Good job, dude 👍🏻

[@GriggsHw]

For Fallout 4 there's a mod called High fps physics fix, it's not perfect but you should have a mostly playable experience. You should check it out.

[@Moissanyte]

Fallout 4's frame rate cap is tied to the refresh rate of your monitor; so 144fps is possible on a 144hz monitor without breaking the physics. But you can disable v-sync on the ini file, which brings those physics problems back.

[@pederstrmKollenborg]

Still using my 5960x for my backup rig. Its held up rather well for some tasks.

[@IStillSmileYT]

The fact that I have better PC but nothing close to the history and nostalgia of this PC. A PC that could shock any PC enthusiast to their knees a true marvel... of course as expected from Ice

[@IStillSmileYT]

I was very wrong this PC outperforms my 5 5600X paired with rx5700 build by a far shot.. My oh my I am stunned..

[@justincase2312]

Please add more GPUs! we need four for the ultimate PC. Enjoying the content.

[@desktopstu4145]

Next year in June i hit the grand old age of 55 and I will be taking partial retirement. I will be purchasing the parts to build the highest end pc thats realistic at the time (hoping the Ryzen 9000 series X3d is out by then) and im going to run that pc for 10 years without upgrades testing the pc on latest games and feeding back on whats working out and whats not. I will have a 4K high refresh rate 27" monitopr and a 1080 high refresh 27" so that early in the experiment I can run on the 4K and after a few years i can migrate to the 1080 to ease some of the gpu ptressures. At age 65 i take full retirement and am looking forward to seeing how useable the pc still is then.

[@techwandoUS]

I have all these parts somewhere haha. Amazing video as usual.

[@scurbdubdub2555]

I actually did a build like this myself. Granted it is more of early 2014 rather than just 2014 in general. Has a Xeon E5 1680 V2 and four GTX Titan Blacks. Sadly one of the Titans was on its way out so right now it only has 3 Titans. Still is a complete monster however if you can get all of the cards to work together.

[@ineligible2267]

Absolute banger video as usual from you. Watching this on my somewhat old PC running X99 and a 1080 Ti, I never liked the screen tearing that seemed inherent to SLI so when I decided to spend on this computer I went for a seemingly futureproof CPU and a single powerful GPU. Part of me feels like we could find a more elegant solution for multi-GPU performance these days but I doubt manufacturers would want to invest in the R&D necessary to discover the plausibility of that.

[@MrHav1k]

Great results!! I think it holds up fairly well... Despite how beastly it is right now, for some reason I doubt the 4090 will hold up as well to games in 2034. We'll see.

[@Arlus]

Humor is absolutely on point with this channel Entertaining and informative quality is great

[@_n8thagr8_63]

Bult my first pc in early 2017 (i think) Came from a ps4, and being green with envy at all the cool skyrim and fallout mods. I built a 7700k 1070 rig. It was a magical experience. Oh, and my first motherboard was a dud lol

[@SpongeBob-xh8ir]

Game companies & graphics card manufacturing have come to an agreement to make all games minimum requirement 16gb. So people buy new GPUs the games can perfectly run in lower end GPUs but they have put some software that doesn't allows game to run smoothly.

[@bloodyax8070]

I just upgraded from a 980ti to a 4070 super this week. I waited 9 years to build a new PC. The M.2 is the biggest change I feel every time I do anything

[@kevinkarlsson1151]

Old School baby

[@Maximum_Nova]

I had a dream last night that I had a HEDT pc, but had lost 1 of 8 DIMMs and was trying to figure out how to get quad channel memory to work with 7 sticks of ram

[@Obie327]

Interesting look back Iceberg, Maybe a "What if", 1080ti upgrade to the Ultimate Gaming PC? Thanks for video. Cheers!

[@late244]

Me with still using i5-4690k (OC'd to 4.5Ghz), Asus Z97-A Mobo, 16Gb DDR3 and GTX 1070 (upgraded when fans died with my gtx 960) and Fractal Design Define r4.

[@megadjc192]

I still use my HAF 912 as my main gaming rig. It housed everything from my Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition to my current Ryzen 3700x. Yes, that case is large enough for the RTX 4080 Founder's Edition. Perhaps that is the most futureproof thing that this computer has. I've since added a 5-1/4" unit that gives me usb 3.2 and usb-c front panel connections and 3-1/2" card reader. The case is so large that it could comfortably fit 2 RTX 4090's if you so wished. It is a case ahead of its time if you don't like rgb or tempered glass side panels.

[@KeyToTime]

Had fantastic longevity. Of all the Graphics cards I've owned, I had the GTX 980 as my main gaming GPU the longest; July 2016 to July 2020, 4 years to the month. These are the lifespans of all my other graphics cards: Radeon 7500LE: 2002?-2004? GeForce 6200: 2004?- March 2009 (this may have lasted longer but have no idea when I got it) GeForce 7950 GX2: March 2009-January 2011 GeForce GTX 460: January 2011-January 2014 GeForce GTX 760: January 2014-January 2016 GeForce GTX 970: January 2016-July 2016 GeForce GTX 980: July 2016-July 2020 GeForce GTX 980ti: July 2020-November 2021 GeForce GTX 1080ti: November 2021-February 2023 GeForce RTX 3080: February 2023-present

[@courtney-rw8ch]

I started a few builds a few years ago and then got busy. Now all those pieces/parts losing money every day lol. Anyway, one is with a 3770k and a 980 Ti! If I ever do finish it, I will upgrade the gpu to prolly a 6600 or 3080. That cpu should OC to 4.8 most likely (ran a 2600k at 4.4 for years!) I think that would be the limit for cpu bottle neck? That is still enough to have you gaming @ 1440p in 90% of games today! Not at ultra settings, but not bad for a 10 year old chip! Just went back and looked at some data and my 2600K/Rx 580 (8GB) set up was running RDR2 @1080p/60fps and @1440p/45-50fps, both at roughly 75% max graphics. Definitely no ray tracing, but I think it is over rated. Looks more like a movie than what you would see irl.

[@kreitzen3035]

I always liked the 900-series Strix cards. Had a 960 as my first proper gaming GPU. Unfortunately i was woefully uneducated when it came to PC building by that time and got the 2GB variant. Still, got to game a good bit on it... Good times. This one's a cool configuration.

[@historybitshort]

Holy crap. I've got a very similar pc. Its an old workstation with 2 Intel XEON e5-2690 V3s. 128gb of ddr3 ram, and 1gb ssd.

[@hubzertzert]

1 gb ssd? 💀

[@historybitshort]

@@hubzertzert oh shoot. 1 tb

[@wendell2809]

love these videos. would be cool to see X79 vids whenever possible :)

[@RotcodFox]

I came here to see modern games, idk why you only tested three of them. However it still seems to be pretty capable of 720p 30fps in new games, so that's very impressive to me for a 10 year old system

[@MrTechnofuzz]

If your power consumption is that high, there is definitely something wrong with your CPU or you're pumping way too much voltage through it. These only really need about 1.25-1.30V to hit 4.5ghz (i have a 5960x which is identical to a 1660v3). My 5960x only hits about 220W on an all core load. Hopefully you can dial in some more frequency. These old x99s love being overclocked!

[@Bboyman1150]

5:00 the AiO should fit at the top at a slight angle. should be able to attach at least 4 screws. I have a 4790k with a 240mm AiO which is overkill

[@MrXaniss]

love the subtle ASUS roast!

[@BeastofBourdon]

despite its issues, the pc did what it was supposed to do, remained a capable gaming machine for a decade. "Future proofing" just meant you were speccing the system to be able to handle whatever the next decade could throw at it and still provide a playable gaming experience, which it did just that. It's likely more beneficial to build a mid range system every 5 years though. Personally, I like to build my systems with some headroom for upgrades a few years down the road, so I either aim for an early entry into a new platform with a good mid-high end gpu, or I'll go for a really good performing cpu on a platform that just reached end of life (5800X3D for example) and pair it with a budget gpu. Especially if I'm building a system for a customer, I want to make sure that when it does come time for some upgrades, they don't require a full rebuild and can get away with just a part swap or two.

[@phamquanghuy2222]

Back in 2014 my family had a Pentium Dual Core E2160, Intel GMA 3100, 2GB of DDR2 RAM and a 20GB HDD, which lasted 8 years from 2008 to 2016. Now my PC RAM is higher than that HDD lol.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Good video. A single gtx 980ti would probably be the way to go.

[@TrollDenied]

my old build was an x99 build. Asus rampage V edition 10 32gb of ram paired to a i7-5960x and 1080ti

[@alexthething]

Always a good day when iceberg Posts

[@nicolasepicness937]

Love x99. Just upgraded from it this week. Amazing how it still can perform nowadays but sadly it was time

[@phil_matic]

I'd love to see a video of games that were notorious for being very demanding even with the peak hardware of the time, but now are easy to crush with modern hardware.

[@Roman00744]

I had a 5960x on a rog strix gaming mobo and it OCed to 4.7ghz and scored close to a stock 9900k, that's it's the best CPU for x99, yes it's a bit more expensive but worth it IMO.

[@LukeTheJoker]

Another great video from Mr.Berg.

[@DonaldMolter]

Let’s give it up for the real star of the show the Coolermaster HAF

[@m8x425]

My Dad's PC still has a 4790k and a GTX 970. It runs good for the most part but I'm looking to upgrade it at some point. He doesn't want to reinstall Windows though so that's a challenge.

[@Augusto9588]

NVIDIA always had this VRAM issue... Fallout 4, released just one year after the 980, would stutter and drop below 30 fps in some areas with 4gb cards if you downloaded the official HD texture pack.

[@razorsz195]

I'm still enjoying SLi on my 1070s, the VRAM limits kill these older cards and for whatever reason Pascal seems to be the only card to handle API level SLi support really well, Doom 2016 is one of my best scaling games, i can go for fluid 1080 Ultra and hit the high 100s or 4K/50 with my 4930K OC'd, these werent as large on maxwell or Keplar, especially in the frametimes.for whatever reason they don't wake up as easily and hassle free but i can still make it work, albeit less titles. (Using RTSS to cap to 60/75 of the older monitors irons out the frametime issues personally) DX12 is the nail in the coffin aswell as vulkan, so long as you are on pascal, scaling is fantastic and i enjoy 3060 performance when im playing DX11 games which is a high majority of my library as the shelf life of games has increased, games like Destiny 2 or Warframe, Killing Floor 2 to name the favourites are hitting double digits on their shelf life yet run just fine. The killers of SLi are ones that move to DX12 only modes with Legacy passthroughs now broken, War thunder and Dead by Daylight as such examples that don't enjoy 2 cards anymore which is a big shame as they were amongst the best to scale. While it is dead and Nvlink Turing cards break older SLi games to support the few DX12 ones, there isn't much to go off of anymore. This rig will soon be semi retired to its golden era of the 20-teens as a simulation rig for Project cars 2, Dirt Rally etc, much like the 5Ghz 4820K and Dual 780Ti rig for the early 20-teens, but they will still continue to run those just fine and give a glimpse into just how powerful (and power hungry..320W 780tis *cough*) SLi is.

[@ThePeca1988]

This machine would still hold up quite good for 1080p with a 1080ti or 2080ti (just not to overkill the gpu). My laptop what i bought in late 2014 (and what i still have) has a 980m with an i7, but only ddr3 memory, and its still "decent", and absolutely usable. The only things i upgraded was the hard drive to one sata ssd, filled the m.2 slot with a 512gb module, and doubled the ram to 16gigs. For casual games it still does perform pretty good, but compared to anything just 4-5 years newer, especially desktop stuff, its absolutely powerless 😂

[@wearefromserbia9714]

don't forget that an Xeon e5 2699 v3/v4 has on par multicore performace with Ryzen 5800x not bad at all for a 10 year old system probably will still be a good cpu for another 10 years

[@deltasixtwo]

Looking forward to your The Ultimate Gaming PC (of 2024) See ya in 10 years 🫡

[@sulobey10]

I still rock that case, its very spacious and good at cooling. Only downside is it collects a lot of dust.

[@alexlynch4473]

I'm hobby builder and I routinely use 10 year old parts in used PC flip builds. mid to high end 10 year old parts still chew through games of today, you need to go Xeon for the cpu core count but there's a heap of life left i this gear. Moore's Law is dead.

[@lilswacky1929]

Still rocking with my GTX 980 and i7-4790k

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

I’ve always wondered how quad channels affect games. Never owned a quad channel system.

[@GainingDespair]

Wasn't there a dual 290x? I remember Linus reviewing one, nevermind they called it the 295x2 all I remember playing back in 2014 was Battlefield 4.

[@BaamGames]

In 2014 I came into a bit of money so I treated myself to a decent PC. It was a 4790k, 980 etc. I felt like a king as for once I actually had a PC that was "cutting edge" for the time. I then bought a 1080Ti at launch as well as a change to a 3900X setup soon after, which again was a great setup, Oddly, even though I love my current PC, 13790k and a 4080, it doesnt always give me the same vibe as before. Does that make any sense?

[@pvtcmyers87]

Awesome video my man! Makes me wonder how the 980ti would have held up?

[@user-tz5ck1xy5u]

And trust me, the got some top-notch gear you're gonna want!