The Best CPU Intel Never Sold | E5-1680 v2

[@Aryzon13]

I recommend adding Doom Eternal to the benchmark list. It's not the newest game on the block but it has by far the most insane CPU scaling I've seen to date. My 10900k had over 60% total usage at times.

[@banguseater]

it really is, its also very optimized and it can run pretty fair on older multi-core cpus. my i5-2400 was able to run it which was 9 years old at the point before its release.

[@Gamevet]

@@banguseater Yes, but how well?

[@s0rr0wHacker]

Oh boy you should see BF2042, that game can squeeze every bit of electric through my 5800x somehow. +90% usage on every core on that 8 core cpu is somehow remarkable

[@Waldherz]

@@s0rr0wHacker Well, its a game thats made to run WITH 6 cores/ 12 threads. So any 8 core CPU will have issues since you have the game + OS + Software running.

[@banguseater]

@@s0rr0wHacker apprently the high cpu usage is a bug that dice acknowledged before the class system rework update. i always knew it was super unoptimized cause my r5 5600x suffers the same result and but a i7-3770 uses the same amount of usage.

[@ClayWheeler]

02:50 FINALLY A KZbinr who talk about the importance of AVX2 in secondhand CPU market

[@h1tzzYT]

yep iirc there are, or were, games, which didnt even launch without avx, its a matter of time when we start seeing the same with avx2. Imo if you are buying cpu today and want to use it for at least 3 years, consider those who have up to date avx instruction sets (avx512 excluded for now). It might sound trivial at first but having capable hardware only to get greeted by errors is the least thing you want from your system

[@ClayWheeler]

@@h1tzzYT I can assure you that Video Games will not be using AVX512 for the next 30 years.

[@yumenolala]

Another great video! Glad to see there is still life left in the X79. This CPU is a real monster! Love the computer depreciation allowing us to buy Xeons for cheap prices.

[@TH3C001]

Wow, almost at 20,000 subscribers! One of the things I love seeing whenever you upload a new video is how many more subscribers you have compared to the last time I saw.

[@NeoBing]

wow, we've finally gotten to the xeons. needless to say, i'm already anticipating the next xeon, they've always been my favourites of the first few generations of core i cpus.

[@takehirolol5962]

Even the 18c/36t Xeons are still used by companies. Due to the current prices and shortages, we will still see these old Xeons everywhere on KZbin.

[@vinylSummer]

@@takehirolol5962 i3 10100f + h510 can be had for as low as $150 and those'll be new parts with warranty and many new features, performance on par with 7700k or better.

[@takehirolol5962]

@@vinylSummer Yes, you are right. In 2016 I had a i3 6100, then moved to Ryzen 5 2600 and now have a Ryzen 5 5600x. Just waiting for a 100% or more GPU upgrade for my RX 5700XT that makes monetary sense.

[@98LuckyLuk]

@@vinylSummer Well, even many v3 xeons have more rare performance and a lot more PCIe lanes. Then you usually have two of them per motherboard.

[@badgermemelord6207]

@@vinylSummer while the 10100 and the 7700 are fundamentally the same cpu, their performance differs vastly once you overclock the i7, something the i3 can’t do due to its locked multiplier. The i3 goes up to 4.3ghz while a 7700k is likely to OC to 5.0 or 5.1 so it’s not an insignificant difference.

[@ThebestLilMissRarity2]

1680v2 served me well for almost 2 years. 4.7Ghz but power hungry. At the end replaced 1680v2 with 2697v2 and shortly after retired it.

[@shreddherring]

Mine makes my rampage iv extreme bsod after a while even at 3.9, quite quickly at a max of 4.4. Were you doing anything in particular to stop your vrm's from melting? Also, how did the 2697 compare?

[@ThebestLilMissRarity2]

​@@shreddherring That sounds like some weird instability. Maybe smth about ram setup, mobo, psu or even cpu itself? I had mine 1680v2 on plain stock P9X79 and while vrms were HOT, running it in better airflow case and with not as high voltages was without problems really. 2697v2 was really just stick the most cores possible into this setup, play a bit with it and to storeroom it goes. Well. It was faster in R23 and really in day to day use it was similar to 1680.

[@shreddherring]

@@ThebestLilMissRarity2 Yeah, could be a board instability, might need a new bios chip perhaps? Either that or I need to remove the ancient gunk from under the chipset heatsink and repaste maybe. Could be that your board is better build. I guess you wont really notice a difference until you do something that's able to use the extra threads

[@ThebestLilMissRarity2]

@@shreddherring Never really had problem with bios on mobo but who knows. Sometimes disassembling, cleaning and assembling works but it's hard to judge.

[@heask8499]

Still rocking this one, running nicely at 4.6Ghz, my results correspond to yours in the synthetic benchmarks. Bought it for 55$ last year on eBay, though they are hard to come by there.

[@thepcenthusiastchannel2300]

I still love this CPU. Coming back a year later to stress how much fun a CPU the E5-1680 V2 is. How that X79 platform with all of its PCIe lanes is a joy to use with addon cards. I miss the days when Intel had a decent architecture and platform available to consumers with their HEDT solutions.

[@6000lost]

What current gpu do you have paired with it? I need to upgrade from amd R9 fury X. Thank you.

[@miguelmoreno-qh6wl]

There old cpus are still very impressive, I would love to see how they fair out in games like escape from tarkov because of the single core performance dependacy of that game. Keep up the good work.

[@HeyItsDyl]

I play on a 2697 v2, oddly performs better than my 3500x i downgraded from. I always had issues in EFT. Swapped out my itx am4 board and went with an itx x79 board in the same exact system and my problems are gone. Very odd

[@wolffangalchemist]

i have this cpu in my main rig been rocking it for 3 years now, got for $100 and a mobo with ram for another $100, handles everything i throw at it gaming wise and overclocks pretty well. I also was able to mod the bios on the MSI x79 board i got for it to boot from NVMe so no slow loading times in windows or games. there are better options now but considering it still holds it's own i will probably wait at least another year before i retire it.

[@badgermemelord6207]

Could we get x299/Skylake-X in the future? They have great overclocking potential once delidded and with a proper cooler, with solid skylake gaming performance. They can be had for pretty cheap these days, having seen 8 core 7820xs for under 100 and even 16 core i9s for around 200.

[@jacksonbtb571]

If you can find a motherboard for a reasonable price its worth considering, since lga 2066 cpus are likely to continue dropping in price in upcoming years

[@m8x425]

A long time ago I got a killer deal on the EVGA x299 Dark motherboard. I paired that with a 7820x that I got for someone who upgraded to the 7940x. About a year ago I got the i9-7960x for $300usd through one of those Chinese sellers on ebay. Delidded it and overclocked it to 4.6ghz with the RAM at 3466mhz. It's just too bad that the cache/uncore didn't want to move much past 3200mhz. with those lga2066 processors, Getting the uncore up as high as possible is the secret to getting the most out of those processors.

[@m8x425]

With my 1680 v2 and 4930k I tested three kits of DDR3-2400 4x8GB kits and I had no problems running XMP with the Corsair Dominator and G.Skill Sniper kits. It was the Kingston Savage kit that did not want to run at XMP speeds while the CPU was overclocked.

[@AshTechCorner]

I Dailyed the 1680v2 for a year at 4.5ghz at just 1.23v (Crazy binned chip) 125mhz Strap so the Cache runs faster. Same board Rampage IV Extreme , 32gb of OEM Hynix AFR 1600Mhz ECC Low voltage 1.35v Overclocked to 2333mhz (Same chips used in 2400mhz kits). Was pulling over 72000mbs Read on the memory. Totally crazy system for the £200 I paid for it all. I have since moved up to X99 with the 5960X at 4.4ghz tweaked heavily for max performance with 32gb of Samsung B die Whilst I could have bought a much modern system for a bit more money , older stuff has lots of performance left on the table and is much more fun to Overclock and tweak compared to new stuff which is basically on the edge out of the box

[@ehhhhwassupdoc]

Hot damn! 1.23v and 4,5?? What a chip. I’m patiently waiting for the Xeon v3 unicorns to be dumped onto the market 🙏🏾

[@AshTechCorner]

Ivy bridge is hit and miss finding a good chip also. My previous CPU the 1650v2 needed 1.375v for 4.5ghz. but when you find a good one they hit decent clocks even on air. Both the 1680v2 and 5960X were run on the Noctua D14 and never went over 90c with extreme stress tests. For under 1.275V air cooling is doable but for anything over that a 240/360 AIO is probably best suited.

[@KeyToTime]

Yay! I've been waiting for this one. All I can say is, I told you so! The E5-1680v2 is a monster of a CPU and way better than anything else on the x79 platform. I have both the E5-1680v2 and the 5960X. I use the E5 more as i just like seeing how well it runs games!

[@joemarais7683]

Like you said, with these prices, I don’t know why you wouldn’t go b450 with a 5600 and cheap ram. With a used board and ram, cost can be as low as $250, very close to the Xeon platform cost as well.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Good luck getting a good am4 board used at a good price nowadays

[@GewelReal]

@@My_Old_YT_Account plenty at 50$

[@ismaelsoto9507]

@@GewelReal It depends on where you live, in Brazil an A320 motherboard can cost 75$ new and anything used below 60/55$ is uncommon :/

[@twanheijkoop6753]

These older platforms are almost never worth it if you can't find a good deal. I basically got the same set as in the video ( just different ram) for €150 a some months ago. But considering the cooling requirements I would say you'd have to find it below €200 ish for it to make sense.

[@m8x425]

Unless you find a unicorn of a deal. I saw someone selling a working Asus X79-Deluxe board for $60 on offerup. Personally though, if someone was looking at these old HEDT setups, I'd recommend the x99 platform to them, not x79. There's more CPU performance to be had with Haswell through overclocking, and x99 boards will have a PCIe 3.0 NVME drive at full speed. I just checked ebay and used B450 motherboards are now going for $70 at the minimum, and +$100 for a board that has decent enough VRMs to support a 5900x. Last summer they were going for $40 for the lower end boards. Back then I managed to get a deal on a B450M Steel Legend motherboard for $50, but the BIOS on the board was older and it would only support Zen+ processors at the most. lol, there are still tons of lga1200 motherboards that are going for lower prices.

[@thepcenthusiastchannel2300]

This CPU was a bargain during the Ryzen 7 2700x days. It could match the Ryzen CPU for less money. I still run one of these in a system paired with two Radeon R9 Fury-X GPUs in Crossfire.

[@insurgentlowcash7564]

Ayeee thats the ticket to good SLI/Crossfire gaming. These new Mobos(X299 excluded) just dont have enough PCIE lanes. Crazy how fast you run outta storage on these modern platforms with just like 24 lanes.

[@thepcenthusiastchannel2300]

@@insurgentlowcash7564 yes, I am tired of consumer level platforms lacking in PCIe lanes. It wasn't like this before so there's no real excuse for it. I think Desktop grade platforms should get 48 PCIe lanes, so you can at least add a 10Gbps NIC adapter, Sound adapter, and two graphics cards if you wish. Not that you will add those, but if you wish you can.

[@mehmetsamilayoz8203]

Love the vids I would like see some other aliexpress xeons as well.

[@IcebergTech]

Got a couple of X79 ones lined up already 😁

[@Metalpig58]

lord knows how long i've waited for this one techyescity made me fall in love with this chip......also would much rather 1080p benchmarks for budget parts like these

[@NateFosterSR]

Great video. the 2667 v2 v3 v4 probably the best for gaming. say goodbye to windows updates though.

[@splashboi898]

I got my x79 board for $50 and already had ddr3 from x58. Really is a shame it doesn't have avx2 but I guess that's why we have the 5960x. Both cpus have a special place in my heart

[@Turbobuttes]

You might wanna include the AIO in the cost considerations since both those chips are going to need it. I can barely keep a 1650v2 (6C12T) running at 4.4 GHz at 90°C in benchmarks using a somewhat decent air cooler, so any of these octa cores, especially overclocked, would just go up in flames on air. Definitely more power efficient and potentially also more cost efficient to just pick up some sorta used Ryzen chip that performs more or less the same at half the power consumption.

[@damasterpiece08]

the value is really bad if you want to overclock, a ryzen 3600 or i3 12100 could be great alternatives

[@mattthamonster842]

Bro atp just get a cheap water cooler there not expensive I got a EVGA clc 280 for 60$ and I have my 1680 v2 at 4.6 GHz and it doesn’t get over 55 Celsius

[@rafael4matos]

I use the e5 2667 v2 on that trashcan you mentioned at the start, I chose it over the 1680 v2 mainly because of the price difference (20 to 80€ respectively) I think it is a fair replacement for the same socket as it boasts similar specs at a lower price. Great vid!

[@elemkay5104]

Nice video! Currently, you can pick up fully loaded Dell T3610 systems for as little as £40-£60 on ebay auctions, usually with RAM, storage and CPU - and you can pick up the 8 core CPU for £35. In that scenario you're building a whole system for £80-£90 minus the graphics card. That's an absolute bargain if you ask me. You should mention the used office/workstation PC market when doing similar videos in the future!

[@matthijsvandeweerd1415]

I love your videos! Straight to the point and funny aswell. Just a question: whats the music at 0:50 ?

[@Kuri0]

Can you test resizable BAR mod (ReBarUEFI) on older systems like this ?

[@crosstech1]

When are you going to do the 6800k? I'm really looking forward to that one.

[@willpeters3833]

Ive been hanging onto this platform for a VERY long time, so owning a Xeon E5 1680 V2 finally in a modern review format like this was fantastic! I only play games at 4k so none of this is really relevant, but does demonstrate how well this extremely aged platform does do. Im a bit dissappointing the ram couldnt be run at 2400, but X79 is known for its bugs, and it did take quite a long time to get mine to run a 4.5Ghz with 2400mhz ram, especially considering how many years ive owned this same platform

[@IcebergTech]

Yeah, I'm disappointed too. The RAM itself isn't the issue either, as I've got it to run at 2400 on (spoiler) the i5-4690K and i7-5775C, but so far not one of the X79 CPUs I've tested could handle it.

[@willpeters3833]

@@IcebergTech if it helps you at all, it took roughly 1.35-1.36 vcore to stop getting memory errors at 4.5Ggz. I also have memory voltage manually set to 1.65v. Aswell as VSA and VCCIO manually set to 1.1v. VPLL manually undervolted to 1.7v which did increase my stability and reduce temps a bit. Overcurrent protection is maxed out and vdroop is stock but every board is different in that respect

[@mattthamonster842]

@@willpeters3833 I was lucky to get an asus p9x79 ws board so it auto adjusts everything it’s so nice I’m running 4.6 ghz with an EVGA clc 280 water cooler

[@willpeters3833]

@@mattthamonster842 Auto adjustment works for me too, just for perfection sake, everything is set manually. Im also on a 360mm cooler. I had the CPU at 4.6Ghz and under gaming aswell as benchmarks and its perfectly fine, but even with a 360 if you do a proper stress test/torture test of the cpu i could quickly get to 100% fan speed, i imagine yours would be the same. Its incredible how much heat these cpu's can put out under that kind of load

[@car1o]

@@willpeters3833 my only works with 1.4 vcore on 4.5 ghz, but i am still very glad), it is fast enough even for now. I also overclocked the bus to 104.7 and it is maximum, further overclocking made it unstable, it also gave a boost in performance, cause the ring bus is now 3350 mhz. VSA and VCCIO needed to be around 1.16 and the 32gb memory only worked on 1950 mhz, but low timings like 9-11-10-22 1T, so the performance is still very good in games, cause actually the read and write speeds in 4 channel are still very very decent. Further overclocking of RAM with that amount of 32gb will require VCCIO like more than 1.2v, it is not the bugs in x79, it is the processors which just have weak memory controllers and need a lot of voltage, which is not safe. PLL is default. I am able to pass any test even LINX for hours and it is 100% stable. But i have a very strong EK Waterblocks 360 cooling system with thick radiator. Overall it is a great CPU! Intel had to just castrate AVX2 in it or it would last forever)).

[@freaK_09]

I have one and it does 4.5Ghz with 1.35v. I JUST SAY THIS: THIS CPU IS A MONSTER!

[@SilentdragonDe]

I've had one of these in my main rig just until 2 weeks ago (now upgraded to AM5). There is still another one in my homelab Server. Fantastic CPUs, overclock to 4.5GHz without really breaking a sweat and can pretty much still run any modern game. They (and the whole X79 platform) are certainly past their prime these days (for a "new" used system AM4 is pretty much always going to be the better choice), but they remain amazingly capable chips. I mean really, these CPUs came out in 2014, which makes them over 8 years old, yet there's pretty much nothing they can't do.

[@marcc5768]

I wouldn't say x79/x99 are past their prime. What they are being used for is a factor. If someone is looking for a higher performing work PC/office PC on a budget, nothing wrong with a x79 or x99 based Xeon build. I picked up a e5-2650 v2 xeon kit from AliExpress for like $130 CAD in October 2021 (cpu + ram + mobo) which went to be my Linux Mint daily driver (non gamer) the same $130 CAD was the cost of ONLY my Ryzen 5 1600 CPU used from AliExpress in Jan 2021. Budget Xeon builds I find are perfectly fine, as long as expectations are tempered. IF gaming with a budget Xeon platform, make sure to invest a bit more towards the GPU solution is all.

[@deagt3388]

Just keep churning out Xeons!;-)

[@LKNear]

Im still waiting to see how the 8700 or 8700k do in your tests. Im still running a 8700 and overall I would say I have been having a good experience. Great video btw

[@Intelwinsbigly]

Have you thought about testing cpu heavy games as well? Dwarf fortress can generate worlds with fixed geography and histories that could easily be used as a repeatable benchmark if you time how long they take to generate.

[@dashtesla]

Nice video, just one bit of advice for your editing, when you stop talking and you resume the background music you have a really high dynamic range if you're on good headphones can be shocking even you should look into that :)

[@XeiyrosDogon]

This guy needs more subs, and processors to test.

[@zz8702]

Finally Yay!!! Great Video! It would be a nice idea to see a Aida64 memory benchmark screenshot Included. Considering AVX2 is Important, wonder how would a 4790k with Fast ram holdup against these Xeons.

[@KeyToTime]

I had a 4790k in my main PC. I put a E5 1680V2 in my second PC and it was faster in every game. So I retired the 4790k and replaced it with a 5960x.

[@MD_the_microchannel]

will you ever talk about the i7 4790k? If you have already done it can you give me the link please? I watch this video tonight as soon as I get home from work!

[@aboveaveragebayleaf9216]

Just click on his channel and scroll down his videos. I'm pretty sure he did.

[@MD_the_microchannel]

@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 A thousand thanks!

[@KadiusFTW]

The 1660v3/1680v3 are significantly better for price/performance, as ddr4 2133 ecc memory is down to about 24 usd for a 4x4gb kit, and the x99 RS9 machinist motherboard (uses a real x99/c612 chip) allows for overclocking for 63 usd, with the 1660v3 being approximately 38 usd, making it significantly cheaper to get a into the platform that is both unlocked and has avx2, as well as resizable bar support.

[@m8x425]

Go with the 5960x instead. I also have a Rampage V and I bought three of those E5-1600 v3 chips and the memory controller on them is Garbage. I fought with all three of them to get a 4x8gb kit of the finest B-Die RAM DDR4-3600 cl15 to 2666mhz. A J-Batch 5960x and a Broadwell-E processors will have Zero problems getting the RAM to run at 3200MT/s. Overclocking the RAM and Cache on these Haswell-E processors is what puts them over the top.

[@toseltreps1101]

@@m8x425 except the 5960x is the exact same die as the 1660v3 and 1680v3, but with ECC disabled. the 1680v3 is the highest binned of the bunch.

[@skyblueborb]

For a game to replace Elden Ring I'd recommend Doom Eternal or Forza Horizon 5, both hit the CPU quite a bit in my experience Btw great work, really enjoy your content

[@GewelReal]

or the newest Harry Potter game. It also seems very CPU demanding

[@lawrenwimberly7311]

You really should do a review of the e5-2697 v2

[@BrianMartin2007]

I love my 5960X. Stable and cool overclock at 4.11Ghz all-core. I had it since about three months after launch and it still slaps..

[@aavvironalex]

These videos are so good.

[@MrPugheaven]

I've been running a 1680V2 for years at 4600mhz... and running all games at 4k on my 6900XT. HOWEVER, I would love to see a 4k set of benchmarking with some modern CPU's to show, is ther that much difference when running 4k with a top end GPU?

[@steaksoldier]

I'd love to see some bulldozer or early ryzen benchmarks

[@Rabbit_AF]

I'm liking my Ryzen 7 1800x. I got it used with heatsink, 8gb ram, 256 M.2 and OEM x370 motherboard for $120. It preforms well for me, but I really need to get a proper motherboard. The Dell OEM one has some weird quirks. Anyways, the Ryzen 7 1800x's single core performance at the time was less than the i7 7700k, and in 2017 4 cores was all one needed. Also, the i7 was cheaper at the time. So, the i7 7700k was often called the winner. However, I believe the 1800x aged better in the long run. Kind of like how the Threadripper 1920x has probably aged quite well over the years.

[@steaksoldier]

@@Rabbit_AF aging well does seem to be amds whole shtick. Im banking on my 5800X3D and 6900xt to do the same. Its my first ever “endgame” build and im hoping it should last at least a decade.

[@Rabbit_AF]

@@steaksoldier I've seen that the 1800x can run ReBar (AMD SAM) on a ASUS B450-PLUS and I am thinking that should be the board I shoot for, if I am going to stick with this CPU for a while.

[@nathaniel1207]

To replace Elden Ring, Metro Exodus could be a good option, but its also pretty GPU intensive, so you'd need to drop the settings and test at 1080 to stress the CPU more.

[@certs743]

I got two Dell X79 workstations for basically the price of a second hand 3rd generation intel system. Started off running the 2 CPU 5610 with 128 GBs of RAM but the board started to go on that machine. So now I am running my "backup" a T3600 with 64GB of quad channel RAM and 64GBs more as spares. upgraded it with an RX 5600XT which was a pain in the ass to get stable on Linux but seems to have been sorted out for now.

[@NapalmWeed]

I got one 2 years ago for $150 on ebay, it is a MONSTER! Can handle 2400MHZ DDR3 no issues.

[@marcc5768]

likely you got a good piece of the silicon lottary there.

[@ryoaahy4271]

id really love to see a re-visit of some of these xeon chips but on the v4 platform

[@Obie327]

Interesting ghost chip. Taking away the thermal and power shackles of the Apple trash can makes a difference. Nice video Iceberg.

[@Celatra]

Please, please include planet coaster in the benchmarks. it's brutal on the cpu, esp when your park reaches 4000-5000 guests. it would be great to see which cpus can even stay at 60 fps at all

[@faquirmdiqbal1018]

Back in 2020 during Covid: Got a X79 Ali Express motherboard with 1680 v2 combo for $100 (insane I know) And luckily got 128GB DDR3 1600 MHz ecc RAM (32GB *4) too for $70. Probably the best purchase of my life. Still running solid with a RX 6800 that I've upgraded from 1050ti last month 🤙💯 for me it's doing over satisfactory results.

[@FakeMichau]

70 avg and 46 1% lows for 5600x in cyberpunk are super weird to me, I'm running on linux with it's overhead and stuff and it gets reasonably more fps than that, don't remember exact numbers tho

[@damasterpiece08]

stock speeds and 1080p resolution would be useful, i got an x79 barebones for 50quid but i can't overlock and i imagine most people would rather go the simpler route. i'm waiting for a 2680v2 to be delivered and i hope i can find some cheap 1866+ ram

[@IcebergTech]

I have a couple of multiplier-locked Xeons lined up for testing, one of which is a 2680v2!

[@damasterpiece08]

@@IcebergTech have fun playing around with them. I'd like to see a dual lga771 test if you get your hands on a cheap server/workstation with pci-e in the future

[@JaceB99]

Woohoo iceberg posted! Edit: I shot ya an email with the contact link in the description about a cpu I want reviewed :) Forgot to say that a cooler will be included

[@zalankhan5743]

These are without a Doubt good enough CPUs. But the Platform cost is a bit High. Cause the 3600 b550 16gb 3200 can be had for about 210-240 with great Upgrade Path

[@yahyasajid5113]

Considering SCAN were selling the 3600 for £86 new not too long ago and even the 3700X have dropped sub £100 on ebay ryzen cpus are still the most rounded option

[@marcc5768]

sorry to say but Ryzen platform cost is still more expensive. You do have an upgrade path yes. However there are those users that don't take advantage of the upgrade path Ryzen offers and choose to ditch the whole rig and buy another. I know that Ryzen costs more since I built 2 new/used rigs in 2021. my ryzen core components of r5 1600 + b350 mobo + ram came to about $400 CAD my e5-2650 v2 xeon kit was only $130 CAD, all parts were from AliExpress, except the flare x Gskill for the r5-1600 rig which I bought local.

[@DeepMukherjee]

Crysis 3 Remastered Welcome to the Jungle opening section with the cutscene. Scales beautifully with CPU power

[@AliasTekTV]

The cache is what's keeping this thing relevant. It had a massive amount of it for it's time and it shows games these days use it well. Almost all of these chips will do 4.6ghz but that's about the most you can get. I, like another commenter here, was able to get 4.7ghz but it seems the cache is actually keeping these chips from going higher. It will non stop give cache errors no matter voltage applied to both cores and uncore. It's still a very good pairing for a 2080 if you crank the resolution and details up.

[@m8x425]

I bought a second 1680v2 for an Asus X79-Deluxe motherboard that I found on Craigslist. The 2nd one would do 4.5ghz comfortably, but it needed a touch more than 1.4v to do 4.6ghz stable. My first 1680v2 does 4.6ghz at 1.365v, 100% stable and a bump more than 1.4v to hit 4.7ghz stable. Both have no problems running DDR3-2400. Techpowerup has a long running thread that's dedicated to the x79 platform, and it seems 4.5ghz with reasonable voltages is fairly common.

[@AliasTekTV]

@@m8x425 2400 divider is broken on x79 with ivy bridge. It's very possible that they aren't actually running 2400. I can do 4.7 at 1.45, 4.6 at 1.425 and 4.5 at 1.35 on the same chip. It seems like 4.6 at ~1.4v is about the limit which is about a very large majority of the samples can achieve. I believe the x79 refresh boards for ivy were to fix the supply for the uncore as most first release x79 boards cap out VCCIO due to the current requirements for the cache and will fail under heavy stress. Sandy did not have the large cache size like these larger ivy xeons.

[@ComputerProfessor]

Can you do a video on the i7 6950X comparing it to the other cpu's? I've got one with the 6900 XT

[@IcebergTech]

I’d love to, one day

[@PatalJunior]

I maby would give the division 2 a try, it isn't single player, but it's open world sure does bring some CPU's to a crawl. My R5 2600 goes to 80% to 90% with a RX 6600 at 1080p, so the division 2 can be demanding yet still really good looking.

[@haniel2527]

glad to see my country in those CPUs :) 🇨🇷

[@8bitDNA]

Of course = slave labor

[@anwaarulhassan5996]

Well I wanted this cpu for my HP Z420 for years but couldn't find it until now! And you'd be surprised I am getting it for just 12 dollars in Pakistan. Even I can't believe it!!!!

[@yannicvandijk2722]

Would love to see the i7 4960x in a video. You already have its older, and its younger brother

[@IcebergTech]

Would love to, except right now it's terrible value! I can't find one in the UK for less than I paid for the 1680 v2, and they're extortionately priced on AliExpress!

[@yannicvandijk2722]

@@IcebergTech would have loved to give/sell you mine, but I use it in my main rig

[@ismaelsoto9507]

@@IcebergTech You could get the Xeon E5 1660 v2, basically a carbon copy of the i7 4960X.

[@DLK92]

I'm using an E5-1680v2 @ 4.5 with 32gb 2400mhz cl10, Rampage IV Extreme and a RTX 3080. Still happy with the performance. Though i'd really like some better single core performance.

[@awsed25]

Can you please provide your bios settings? I cannot reach 4,5 ghz stable

[@DLK92]

@@awsed25 I had to settle down at 4470. using the 125 strap x 35

[@jaykoerner]

I understand they are old and barely relevant but considerering the price and the huge jump from the core duo era I would love to see some westmere and clarkdale chips... Especially since they are overclockable come in 6 core versions and can run dual socket for 12 cores

[@NathanTyph]

How about testing Stellaris? It doesn't have a built in benchmark but you could use a late game save. It's one of my faves!

[@floycewhite6991]

Gives me hope that a moderately priced gaming rig built today could give many years of service.

[@Sybertek]

Hope you get around to X99 one of these days.

[@Sponge4664]

I have the i7 4960x in my x79 it’s done me well overclocked too 4.5ghz

[@oliverbrueckner2321]

yo hi i have a question please ? whats your favorite game ? oh and keep this very good vids comming you are doing so great

[@Error_4x5]

Doom (2016) would be great replacement for Elden Ring. It's highly multi threaded, supports Vulcan and AVX2 and it's fun as hell.

[@grantmackinnon1307]

the lack of the avx2 insturction set on the ivy sandy bridge cpus it starting the affect performance alot for some games today. uncharted, and witcher 3 remaster and really stuttery, at least from what i can tell. i dont think these should be considered. be much better off getting a modern i3

[@twanheijkoop6753]

I've found these as well in some older Mac systems, not sure if those were OEM or user upgrades.

[@ErrorlVlacro]

You could have also compared it to the 1680v3. Which is basically the same as the 5960x and it’s unlocked.

[@marcc5768]

If power consumption is of concern to a user, this e5-1680 v2 is not a good pick. I don't mind using Xeon in a build. I'm actually using a Xeon e5-2650 v2 on a Kllisre x79 mobo w/16GB ddr3-1333 ecc in quad channel running Linux Mint 19.3 as my daily driver (non-gamer). No complaints. My bi-weekly drive imaging is waaay faster now then my previous Linux Mint daily driver. Since my personal tolerance to CPU power consumption is important in a rig, I try to choose CPUs that are sub 105W TDP. If power consumption was not a concern, then I wouldn't have any issue running this e5-1680 v2.

[@hannes4069]

I'd argue, that Mainboards are more prone to failing than RAM, as there are way more components involved.

[@KelzCasa]

I just purchased a 2013 Mac Pro with this CPU, and I'm having a hard time justifying whether or not to upgrade to a E5-2673 V2 or not.

[@wendell2809]

Dahm i love this channel!

[@dorktales254]

The recent NFS games are notorious CPU beasts

[@kovacspis]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider to replace Elden Rings with. Scales with CPU cores, clock, RAM speed. Has a very nice built in benchmark with lots of useful data in it. 1080p lowest and a 5.1 11900K is bottlenecking a 2080 Ti almost 90% of the runtime. Can only recommend, convenient game to bench with.

[@shreddherring]

With ultra settings at 1080p on a 1070ti, my scores with the 1680v2 were the same as with 3770K, and that was the case with all the games I tested. So, I didn't feel the benefit of extra cores, personally

[@kovacspis]

@@shreddherring at those settings with that card you were constantly in GPU bottleneck, ofc you didn't feel a stronger CPU when you weren't even limited by the old one to begin with.

[@shreddherring]

@@kovacspis You're right, the benchmark always said I was 99% graphics bound, but even then I'd have thought that having the extra threads would've had some minor impact if they were being used. I suppose what I ought to do at some point is re-run benchmarks at lower graphics settings to see if a difference becomes more apparant. Likewise at such a time I end up with a more powerful gpu. But seeing as ultra settings is how I prefer to play my games, it still seems the most relevant way to test things to my mind

[@kovacspis]

@@shreddherring both are good approaches, lower the timings just to see your CPU headroom, only for a test. And to try with a more powerful GPU to also lift the GPU bottleneck higher while keeping your preferred ultra settings. Check on my profile, I have a SOTTR benchmark run video with a 1650v1 and a 2070. Will soon rerun at higher CPU clock and a 2080Ti.

[@shreddherring]

@@kovacspis Mmm, a better gpu would be nice, but it's not a priority right at the moment. I had tried downclocking the ram to see if the cpu would go higher, but the vrm heat would crash it right away, and this was with all my case fans on max and the vent covers taken off. I actually tried picking up a rampage IV black edition, as its has much bigger heatsinks than the extreme, but sadly was dead on arrival; lost that ebay gamble. I suppose I could see whether those heatsinks would fit on the extreme board... and if not, perhaps fresh paste and pads might help. Might still have to cable-tie a small fan to the heatsinks in either case! Maybe you ought to run a SOTTR test at ultra and see how you fare?

[@yarost12]

F1 22 is pretty CPU intensive and has a built in benchmark tool.

[@devinport.]

Test elden ring in Liurnia region of the map especially near the place called four belfries

[@jayraymond3036]

Do a video about the 1050 please.

[@podio_km4g532]

Any racing sim is a good cpu benchmark (although more single core performance oriented usually)

[@ernestoditerribile]

You could’ve better done a dual or quad CPU setup with Xeon E5-26xx or 46xx v3 or v4 series. Those things really don’t bottleneck when you run them in multi-GPU Setups. Best are the Lenovo and IBM Servers that run them. They can be acquired cheaply.

[@pukalomaster3321]

I think you should cover 1st and 2nd gen ryzen cpus, theyre, in my opininion, the best budget cpus in the market.

[@IcebergTech]

I *am* going to cover a couple of Ryzens soon, but not quite that old. Should still be interesting though!

[@pukalomaster3321]

@@IcebergTech got a ryzen 7 2700 for 150 euros in 2020, carried my ass tru those hard times till i upgraded to a 5800x

[@madcat4563]

The pitfall with the X series motherboards is that they are non-existent in my country. As in nobody sells them as is, nor have I seen a rig that has such a motherboard. And I don't want to go down the questionable motherboard rabbit hole. But Aliexpress is like the merchant in RE4; they always have good stuff and are a great place to get CPUs on the cheap. You also struggle to get CPUs for sale as is in my country. Unfortunately, our CEX equivalent doesn't sell PC parts..

[@farawaythrower]

I got my 1680V2 to around 5.6GHz on liquid nitrogen. Before then, the thing handled being overclocked/overvolted for over a year. Ivybridge-e is a beast

[@mattthamonster842]

That’s crazy I daily run a 1680 at 4.6 ghz on a EVGA clc 280

[@m8x425]

Do you have a CPU-Z entry for your overclock?

[@GTFour]

Yeah any AM4 board + any AMD 5000 series processor is a lot better for similar price; better performance, less power usage, actual processor upgrade options later and holding its value.

[@marcc5768]

if you factor the core platform components (cpu + mobo + ram) it's not a similar by any means. In my case I purchased a xeon e5-2650 v2 kit (mobo/cpu/ram) from aliexpress in Oct of 2021 for about $130 CAD. In Jan of 2021 I also assembled a new/used Ryzen 5 1600 rig for gaming. The used Ryzen 5 1600 CPU on it's own was $130 CAD + Asus Prime B350 Plus @ $130 CAD and Gskill Flare X 2 x 8GB 3200Mhz CL14 for $140 CAD. So $130 CAD for xeon platform vs $400 CAD Ryzen 5 1600 platform. Not similar by any means in price.

[@marcello4258]

You used way tooooo high settings for a cpu benchmark.. low and fhd is the way to go

[@shreddherring]

I clocked mine to 4.4 with 2666 ram on the same board as yours, but couldn't get higher due to the vrm's getting egg-fryingly hot

[@6000lost]

My vrm is watercooled ,same setup, great temps lol

[@shreddherring]

@@6000lost Ah, that probably helps!

[@thaddeus2447]

E5 2696V3 18 core 36 threads 3.8ghz xeon NEXT please! 85eur chip after turbo boost mode will run at 3.8ghz all core(But lock cores to 10-12) at 18 cores it can only do 3.3ghz all core! I have it in backup pc, its kinda like zen 3 in many instancies

[@krusic22]

You can get it for around 80€ now. Really nice to see a price drop on this chip. A lot of cores and the highest clocks in the lineup.

[@marcc5768]

wow, hope electricity costs are low where you are. That's a beast on power to operate if gaming.

[@SeesSean]

Normal utoob things, i was so inclined

[@ThisCatLikesCrypto]

You could do minecraft BE if you want something with RTX but not exactly amazing scaling

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

I know it's not recent, but Guild Wars 2 is very cpu heavy. Especially when it comes to pure frequency.

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

a b350 b450 board a ryzen 2700x and ddr4 3200mhz ram will give you pretty good fps and is less dead platform

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

ebay btw you can get 2700x for 100 bucks over there and extra 20 bucks 3700x

[@m8x425]

I'd fully recommend going with AM4 as well because.... look at the freakin upgrade path. Paying $20 more for the 3700x makes more sense in most use cases. I have the 1680v2 in a retired system. I'd only recommend the 1680 v2 if the user can find lga2011 parts for significantly cheaper or they already have a compatible lga2011 motherboard. Also, the 1680 v2 needs to be overclocked and run with high speed RAM in order for it to match and beat the 2700x. You'll need a good cooler and a decent motherboard to get the most out of the 1680 v2.

[@AnomalyJM]

AC Odyssey is fairly CPU intensive, and it has a benchmark utility built into the game, although it may be better to test actually playing the game. Valhalla is newer, but I haven't heard much about whether it's been fixed to handle the stutters it used to struggle with, and I know Origins has a bunch of issues with spikes. Outside of that, Doom Eternal is a fantastic one to replace Elden Ring with as well.

[@theburger_king]

Why do they have to use so many random numbers it’s so hard to understand 😭

[@gamingreflections6476]

Would be interesting to see these vs Ryzen 1700/2700

[@advanceddarkness3]

Agree, I love old hardware but with a Microcenter so close I can get a 5600x and a b550 motherboard for $220 USD.

[@gamingreflections6476]

@@advanceddarkness3 Unfortunately we don't have microcenters in the UK lol.

[@jaertosilva7382]

Doom guy needs his rabbit pet.

[@mentalplayground]

11:49 BS RAM fail is very very rare.

[@d9zirable]

iceberg is one of those RAM ((((merchants))))

[@sxsoutcast7651]

I need overclocking tutorial. I can't get my 1680 above 4.1. I'm using an EVGA ftw. I bought it brand new many years ago.

[@IcebergTech]

I just followed what I found online, I'm no overclocking guru I'm afraid!

[@sxsoutcast7651]

@@IcebergTech It may be the voltage as well as the CPU being used HARD before I got it. Not to sure. Thanks for the video.