The Original 4K Gaming PC

Building & testing a £2000 gaming PC from 2012 to see how it performed in 4K gaming over the last decade.
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Ten years since the UHD standard was announced by the Consumer Electronics Association, and it still seems like the gold standard for visual fidelity in modern games. Imagine how good it looked in 2012!
In this video, I’m reminiscing on games from 2012 onwards, and seeing just how good the early adopters of 4K PC gaming had it, or whether they had perhaps jumped the gun.
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00:00 The Original 4K Gaming PC
00:35 History: 4K Gaming in 2012
01:45 The PC
05:20 The Benchmarks
05:23 2011 & Earlier
07:09 2012
08:59 2013
10:19 2014
11:38 2015
13:02 2016
14:21 2017
15:13 The Story Ends Here
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[@Photo0021]

The fact that ten years later, you can get surprisingly thin laptops that perform much faster than this is amazing.

[@Hi-levels]

3060 mobile laptop has more cores than desktop 3060 version. And 6600m and 3060m performance is near desktop at half of power usage. It's crazy. My 5600x scores 11K on r23 while 750 bucks 5800u + rtx 3050 laptop (ultra thin) can score 12K on r23. Its crazy!

[@guycha0s380]

Imagine the future, the integrated graphics of midrange laptops will be equivalent to gtx 1080ti or better

[@guycha0s380]

In future 8k 120fps will be a common thing

[@Hi-levels]

@@guycha0s380 no it won't be a common thing. Tho 4k may. Like 10 years later. You forget that games evolve too. Even my 3090 struggled playing cyber punk at 1440p man. Lol

[@guycha0s380]

@@Hi-levels yeah but cyberpunk is full of bugs mate

[@Odinsday]

SLI is such a interesting piece of gaming history. A novel concept of just staking GPUs on top of each other to get higher performance (despite not getting extra VRAM), even if the performance was not worth the insane power draw of certain setups like double or triple GTX 480s. I kind of wish we got to see it work. There is a certain charm to it that I just don't think can be found nowadays.

[@selohcin]

You won't have to wait long. AMD is releasing actual multi-die GPUs this winter that will have perfect scaling and much better power efficiency with its RDNA3 architecture. It will be everything we ever hoped SLI would be, and even more. Many of us have been waiting for this day for over a decade.

[@ralkia]

I agree, same goes for stuff like making RAMdisks before SSDs existed for fast storage, or RAID being a necessity. Lot of sick workaround stuff back then that wasn't just "buy a more powerful x"

[@Andychiu845]

@@selohcin man if amd make crossfire actually work, they will seriously breathing down nvida neck event with lower performance artitecture. Hell they can event revive the HEDT market since people gonna ask for cpu with more than 20 pice lane

[@soju506]

@@Andychiu845 that would be nice, I am debating whether to get an intel arc to run in a dual gpu setup for encoding, but h wonky downside I can currently see is that having 2 gpus and a pcie gen 5 drive will probably take lanes away from the main gpu

[@SavageAirguns]

I had a Phenom X1100T six core AMD CPU with 2 EVGA 560 TI Classified Editions in SLI and I could smoke any overclocked 580 at the time by a great deal. It was a interesting time. I also rocked two 250 gb SSD in raid 0.

[@Edward135i]

This video is making me feel old AF, this is still a dream build in my head. I remember watching NCIX tech tips dreaming over this kind of hardware.

[@IcebergTech]

I was 29/30 when this PC would have been new., but I didn't dream about expensive PCs at the time. I had an i5 with a GTX 260, 16GB of RAM and a ton of storage, because my main concerns were Photoshop and Lightroom. I bought a 36 megapixel camera in 2012 and I needed memory above anything else!

[@Edward135i]

@@IcebergTech I was 21 at the time (baby Austin Evans) I didn't have any money, so this kind of hardware was still a dream. It's different when you're in your 30s and have a real job.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

I was 12 and just getting into PC hardware. This stuff is still modern and contemporary to me, and I have a GTX 1080. I bought a GTX 780 because I always wanted one in 2013, but it really isn't as powerful as it was in my mind. @@IcebergTech

[@Pangkatt]

I had a 3770K, GTX 690, 16GB, 128GB SSD PC at that time, with a 120mm AIO. Perfect for 1440p gaming (60hz tho, but still)

[@zerocal76]

I had no clue about any of this. In 2012 I bought a Toshiba laptop that was good to me w just a couple upgrades until about 2020. I knew I had to build my own rig then but Long live the GT 540M 😅

[@TechDweeb]

I will NEVER get tired of you saying "Dirty CEX Machine"

[@Fly_By_Gaming]

I agree on that

[@lazydude699]

You look familiar. Have I seen you before?

[@bardofhighrenown]

To be fair to the 690, it almost lived as long as SLI itself. I think it could have seen a revival with the advent of raytracing had there been any raytraced games that supported it.

[@lucasrem]

I did it on Geforce FX7800, 4k was kinda good. He is using a capture box, issues.

[@genethebean7597]

That pie chart at the beginning really got to me...I never truly realized that over 10% of surveyed users in 2012 still gamed on native 4:3, granted it was 1280 x 1024. The fact that 1680 x 1050 (16:10 aspect ratio) was also above 10% was additionally impressive.

[@IcebergTech]

I expected 16:10 to have been more popular, mainly because I rocked a 1680x1050 monitor at the time!

[@brawss]

1280 x 1024 is not 4:3, is 5:4. I've upgraded from a 1024 x 768 monitor to 1280 x 1024 monitor, and the screen was a little stretched when using the other 4:3 resolutions, 1024 x 768 looked more blurry on it than on the other 1024 x 768 native monitor. Though I will never forget how crispy Modern Warfare 2 looked on the new resolution.

[@xFluing]

I really think 16:10 should make a comeback.

[@XZ-III]

@@xFluing steam deck made that happenned i still dont liek 16x10 tho

[@xFluing]

@@XZ-III You didn't even try it my dude

[@bobmaxjohn1306]

Also happy birthday

[@marco_evertus]

I had a similar setup back in the day with a core i7 990x and a GTX 690 and I think around 24GB of RAM, it was a beast for so long. I was only around 15 years old so I don’t remember this clearly but I have to give big props to my dad he was the real one for giving his 15 year old son the top of the line hardware to get his curiosity fired up. I definitely miss him a lot.

[@evklinken]

Great video. I think a "through the years" run for a GPU like this could be made into a mainstay as a concept. As an example: the GTX 780 was a console destroyer in its day but has gradually fallen into incompatibility hell and below minimum system requirements. What big release showed it to be too weak for decent settings? When did it drop below 60 fps at a decent res for demanding titles? That sort of thing sounds like a fun video, perhaps your cup of tea. Feel free to ignore the suggestion, your own ideas are awesome as is.

[@IcebergTech]

Yep, that's a fine idea and pretty close to what I have in mind for my next GTX 690 video. I've sold my 780 and 780 Ti now, but they're cheap enough I guess...

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

It’s worth mentioning optimisation of games is getting increasingly worse

[@evklinken]

@@Journey_to_who_knows For older cards definitely. It seems more games need DLSS for that extra performance bump which leaves previous gen systems in the cold. There's FSR of course but that usually is far from ideal at 1080p and below.

[@monsG165]

This is what had always held me back from gaming on a pc. Why buy a €2400 4090 when in 4 years it won’t run as good as a console that was bought from the same time period and at a 1/4 of the price.

[@danzjz3923]

meanwhile people bringing the rtx 4090 to its knees with minecraft shaders

[@euX222X]

Tested on my other PC (FX 8300/R9 290/16GB 1866) some 2012 games at 4K, and it rans fairly well at 30FPS and some games at 60+FPS...

[@AdaaDK]

well the R9 290 was not really a GTX690 era card. the R9 290 was a GTX 780TI/Titan competitor or even to some extend a GTX980/980TI competitor, since AMD´s 290/390 cards was basicly the same deal just prebinned and oc´ed. That card also supported modern API´s a lot better than Nvidias 600 series ever did, on top of the fact that the R9 290 pulled a bit more power and created more heat than even the big and hot 250watt GTX780Ti. for the time the R9 290/390 cards was (at least if you look away from early driver issues and heat and power draw issues) in fact better cards technically than the 780TI´s, They also had a bigger framebuffer (4gb vs 3gb), and the architechture held on longer, since it was AMD`s refresh generation. where nvidias was the 600/700 series (Cept 780 and 780Ti and titan). I didnt have enogh money for either back then, so i ran a used 670 2gb card, up until the GTX 900 series was halfway trough its lifecycle.

[@hoff521]

The nostalgia. I had almost the same pc as the initial buy. Same case, p67 with 2500k, 16gb, 120ssd, 1tb hdd, gtx 670, 700w psu. Maxing bf3 out at 1080p felt so good

[@internziko]

Happy 40th Ice. Don't let 40 get you down brother. I know in my heart you've got a long and healthy benchmarking life ahead of you.

[@jackgymboarder5460]

Watching this video on an i7 3770K, Z77 V-Pro, Dual 670 SLI setup. Crazy to think thats it's still kickin. Spent a lot of money on it at the time. I guess it was worth it.

[@AdaaDK]

your prob better off selling(or shelfing) your 2nd GTX670, unless your running very very old games, in most modern stuff dual gpu actually nets you a preff loss. And ocing 1 of those cards, may add up a lot more fps, than running twice the power, and twice the heat and twice the noize, on dual gpu´s. Should also keep your orther parts cooler and give you some overclockabillity for both gpu and cpu with the less stress from added heat and watt-usage on psu and overall system.

[@livingthedream915]

I wonder how this test would have gone with 2x HD 7970s, their architecture was much more forward thinking than Kepler and they shipped with 3gb vram standard..

[@IcebergTech]

Well, between you and me, I bought the GTX 690 in late 2021 on a whim and have been trying to come up with a good idea for a video ever since! But yes, the 7970 would probably have been a better choice.

[@livingthedream915]

@@IcebergTech I'm sure the opportunity (read: dirt cheap 7970s/7950s) will rear it's head at some point, this was certainly an interesting video!

[@flavourfulz8147]

@@IcebergTech i know this is older video, but yeah HD7990 performed better then 690 i had 2 HD7970's in crossfire all way into late 2015/early 2016 and it still was able play all the games, that extra 1gb VRAM over the 690 started to make a difference by time 2016 hit i kept it until there was a sale on a MSI 980 ti for $1100 AUD and i believe that was in early 2016 and that was because i bought a 4k LG monitor and could tell 3gb was close and really i needed 4gb for games in 2017 unless i wanted to drop down texture from ulta/high to medium and 980 ti was faster then 2 HD7970s

[@BIadelores]

GPUs used to be outpaced by games VERY quickly and this is a fine example of that. Nowadays, it's the exact opposite.

[@StormKnight1]

No I would say because of games becoming more and more of a bloatware and less optimized it's starting to go back to being outpaced. But this time it's not the fault of the GPU makers not catching up it's the fault of game makers dumping too much faith into assuming everybody can just afford a 3060 or they can just afford a core i7.

[@mr.randomgamer888]

i would have to say that gpu makers are at fault aswell especially nvidia with how they're artificially locking out performance on lower end cards while doubling prices in order to guarantee anyone that buys them needs to upgrade as soon as possible@@StormKnight1

[@Kakerate2]

wc3 stormknight dat u???@@StormKnight1

[@WCGwkf]

By what standard 60fps? 60 fps is shit now. I don't like playing games under 100fps. 120+ preferred and 144 is great. You can't get there in all new AAA games even with a 4090 or 7900xtx, which I have the 7900xtx and have played at 4k since I had a 3080

[@AwksDesigns]

​@@WCGwkf4k isn't the standard. 1080 still is the standard and after that it's 1440p

[@TrevorLentz]

Love the time frame and hardware covered. This is brilliant. 😀

[@soapa4279]

the only problem is that SLI and crossfire had microstutter, while it has higher frame rates, it visually looks like it’s lower. still, what a nice look in the past.

[@manueldelbusto725]

Not really, depends on the game and settings. The microstutter comes mainly from vram issues and poorly optimized games or drivers. Some games scaled really well with minimal micro stutter and input lag increasement.

[@soapa4279]

@@manueldelbusto725 Right I mean it really did depend on the game. The only "fix" that made it feel smooth was to use V-Sync to cap at 60fps on certain titles. I just remember running crossfire on two Radeon 6850s and the micro stutter was unbearable.

[@27Zangle]

I remember building a higher end machine in 2012, it was used for 1080p gaming and was a great machine. I sold it after a year to my best friend. He still has that computer and uses it for older games time to time. My last build used a GTX970 with 1080p and it was just sold this last summer because we moved cross country and shipping the PC was going to cost more than it was worth. Now, I am in the market for a new machine and having difficulties deciding what to build. On one hand, I've waited this long and want to be patient for AMD's announcement in a few days, while on the other hand, I want to build a nice mid-level budget machine with a 6700XT since the only taxing game that will be played is MSFS. Though, I do want to move to a 34" Ultra Wide screen and believe a 6800XT would be better suited for the task. I also want to save money because the move cost $15-18k and that things. Additionally, my son and daughter want a PC in the next year so it feels like the wallet is going to take a hard hit. My initial thought was to build with a Ryzen 5600 and 6650XT with a 27" curved screen on 2k. I believe that would work just fine on higher settings and then pass it down to my son Christmas 2023. That would allow a year to pass for the new generation to sort out, come down in price, and have availability. However, with the world nearing WWIII, should that happen it is of my opinion that there will be shortages again and prices increasing to insane amounts. Therefore, it may be best to build with a 6800XT and worry about a PC for the kiddos next year.

[@Odinsday]

For mid-ranged gaming computer, a 6700 XT would do great, even at ultrawide 1440p as in most titles, it performs somewhere between a 3060 Ti and a 3070. However, if you want to crank out very high FPS for 1440p, I'd go with the 6800 XT as the price to performance for that card is bonkers. I've seen it go below $500 in some places, which is nuts.

[@27Zangle]

@@Odinsday Yeah. I want the 6800XT but it is on backorder with Newegg. At least the less expensive ones are. SO, I am waiting till it is restocked and dinking around with figuring out what case and processor to get. So far, I like the Revolt 3 by HYTE because it would fit well on my desk. The fractal POP and Define series is nice as well, and of course, I love NZXT cases as that is what I used in my last build.

[@27Zangle]

@El Cactuar Guessing you are a 4k elites? Or do most people just say 1440p and not 2k?

[@TH3C001]

11:34 don’t worry about your age, it only limits you when or where you let it. In relation to tech look at KZbinrs like Tech Moan and Frugal Tech a.k.a. The Boomer Consumer, not to mention “tech grandpa” Jayztwocents. Your videos are great and I’d have never guessed you were 40. Keep up the great work, your channel has grown so much so fast, it’s impressive to see how quickly your subscriber count has grown.

[@rusevnikolay]

When I bought new parts and case I did not sell my old Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus. I later built PC for my mother and this case is so good 10+ years later!

[@robohip]

Why are the smaller channels the only bastion of good KZbin content these days? Cracking video, glad I found the channel!

[@chartabona]

This takes me back. I had an i7-3770k with a CM Hyper 212 and SLI 670's in a HAF 912.

[@spheroboom7299]

im kinda happy 4k happened (even tho i cant see the difference on any reso above 1080p) now video cards are being made for that as standard or the reso to aim for and to someone like me who only change hardware every 8 or so years old vidcards becomes super monsters on the reso i play at

[@Angel7black]

Its just the amount of shimmering on screen Above 1080p and super minute details in textures. I dont think going above 1440p is even worth it unless you have a huge monitor/tv and a 4090

[@EGH666]

@@Angel7black i wouldnt say that. went from 27in 1440p to 28in 4k and the difference is huge. The aliasing and "shimmering" as you say was very apparent at 1440p but at 4k it's pretty much gone. although at this point i do think 8k is a gimmick and absolutely zero worth it.

[@Solly_March_Goat]

I bought a similar PC from CEX a few months ago for parts, had a 3930k and a gtx 670, the cpu held up surprisingly well!

[@eclipsegst9419]

People that bought x79 made a good investment, seeing as single threaded gains slowed down for a time, while games started to use more cores, these folks had perfect timing. It seems like just yesterday a 2600K could still run AAA titles at 60fps, i would guess a 6c/12t Sandy still can.

[@Ex0ticViru5]

I'm still using my old 3930k @ 4,6ghz paired with a RTX 3070 Ti and it performs really good.

[@conkcreet]

i thought you were a much bigger channel because of the quality and was surprised definitely will be sticking around lmao

[@scurbdubdub2555]

Kind of wonder how the GTX Titan would have held up over the 690. It came out about a year later, but had a 6GB frame buffer, so I think it would do a lot better as you got into the newer games.

[@Rex-tt1vk]

Titan Z would fit the idea of the video better but getting one without spending too much is almost impossible

[@scurbdubdub2555]

@@Rex-tt1vk Two Titan Blacks in SLI would have been exactly the same as one Titan Z.

[@Rex-tt1vk]

@@scurbdubdub2555 yeah

[@IcebergTech]

It's also from 2014. I do have an idea for a "dream 2013 PC in 2023" video next year, and if it goes well I might make it a yearly thing, but I think a "dream 2014 PC" would be better with a pair of SLI GTX 980s.

[@Rex-tt1vk]

@@IcebergTech I recently realized that my main rig by accident just ended up exclusively with 2013 parts except the ram sticks. Pretty nice to think how well it all aged in comparison with even 2012 tech Gonna be happy to do any benchmarks for battle of 2013 rigs with: e5-2697 V2, 16gb 2133 cl8, and ofc an 290X on my side I'm keeping it with me, just gonna switch this old bastard from main to retro rig at some point

[@yottadrive]

I miss those early-2010's PC cases. They had real air entrances instead of just a flat glass that blocks the front and side fans. Also, their LEDs weren't visual polution.

[@kanifis]

lol those cases with the removable slots on front is so nostalgic. i remember slightly bumping them and they would get all misaligned all the time. drove me nuts. also, present day mid tower cases are so much easier to build in.

[@grumpybollox7949]

great video man, another small channel suggested this week, the algorithm served me hidden gems all month

[@AshleyFoxo]

That HAF 912 wasn't mentioned but fits the era perfectly. I WANTED one but couldn't afford more than a £30 case for my first build back then. I feel like the first GPU to be touted heavily for 4K would've been the original GTX Titan or possibly the 780ti, maybe either in SLI. Tek Syndicate (at the time) was showing off 4K with the Titan as viable. I don't remember the GTX 690 being a well recieved product at the time either. The VRAM situation was odd, the price high and I think anyone who'd have looked into it would've bought 2 GTX 680's instead if they really wanted top of the line SLI. This is also bringing up repressed memories of a 'dedicated' PhysX GPU being a thing to consider!

[@daytimerocker3808]

I know top alienware models of the time came with 690s, I bought an old x58 alienware of that era equipped with a 690 and have also seen others with them.

[@BRIANSTECHTHERAPY]

Excellent video!! This hit home for me!

[@xFluing]

The thing with the RAM is that you might actually be able to squeeze a little extra performance if you run it in dual channel as opposed to quad. Linus found out in a scrapyard wards episode that quad channel introduces extra latency that hurts games.

[@FlergerBergitydersh]

Did the motherboard support quad channel? Four sticks is usually still dual channel on most motherboards.

[@andrei007ps]

Yes, X79 is quad channel.@@FlergerBergitydersh

[@LeLe-pm2pr]

@@FlergerBergitydersh 2011 is basically a server socket, and has quad channels

[@Cooperal]

This PC has the same case as the one I just paid a mint to replace with a whole new machine. Thank you for making me feel more secure about my expensive buying decision.

[@derpherp4530]

Though it was huge, that cool master haf was a sturdy as a tank and loved the quick release drive bays.

[@alterablebark54]

I'm not even sure what case that is but I know it brings me back

[@Baz87100]

I had an MSI X79 GD65 8D paired with an i7 3820 like in this video, also back in 2012. Eventually the motherboard fried and I bought a beastly Rampage Extreme IV Black Edition (with free Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag about a year later. I finished off the PC with a Radeon HD 7950 and then eventually paired it with a R9 280 which were basically the same card and could be CrossFired. I remember firing it up maybe 5 years ago now and was pleasantly surprised with how well it held up. Before eventually dismantling the PC and selling all the components separately, I did upgrade my GPU to a GTX 1650 and still kept the rest as is, I was getting very nice performance in Resident Evil 2 even in 2019! Granted settings were low but it just goes to show that Crossfire and SLI really was a blessing and it's a shame AMD and Intel decided to stop supporting them as they did help to yield some decent FPS.

[@JeyLast]

Im still using my 2015 pc build on my 1080p 144hz monitor.. i5 4570, 16gb ram, 500gb ssd and Gtx 1650.. planning to upgrade my pc and maintain my video card

[@vanburman]

To be honest I do not usually subscribe, particularly off of one video. But you did such a good job on it. The 690 I bought for £20 during Covid only have one of the GPU cores working, which infact makes it weaker than a 680 but still a very cool card.

[@GloriousChickenYT]

...damn, i was feeling old when this PC was a big thing and now... I'm feeling even more older.

[@nojoy7238]

I built my PC in 2014. my gtx 970 and i7 4790k served me well

[@rometherevenant8749]

That case is iconic as hell

[@arvindraghavan403]

You know back in 2012 is when i actually really started getting deep into gaming and learning more about computers. And i had a core 2 duo cpu with 2gb of ram in my g44 chipset motherboard. And i actually played Skyrim in it and at that time i didn't even know about fps and everything. To me if a game ran it ran. And when i came to know about fps. I checked it on my old pc Skyrim literally ran at 12fps. I'm still in shock how did i even manage to explore Skyrim and finish it.. I knew about few parts but damn i wouldn't even dare to dream to hold an pc like this at that age 😢😢..

[@SalveMonesvol]

You should try that build for 1440p with an AMD 280X TOXIC. I still have a couple of those, beastly.

[@GameOver-nm2us]

the fact that my laptop is like 4x the speed of this thing yet it's only around $700 is blowing my mind, although I am not sure that in a decade time we'll see small laptops for $700 not only out performing the 4090, but also absolutely smashing it, that would be interesting to see

[@AntiGrieferGames]

When 2 690 were 4k gaming back to 2012, The 750 ti were back to 2014 ealier time te same fps but in 1080p. I would request about the 750 ti, because this card was the budget king back to 2014, no matter if 720p or 1080p for the same old games vs current.

[@jefferykazimer]

I have a GTX 690. SLI was weird. Some games ran great, no issues, other games I had to turn SLI off, and it ran much better. I will forever keep this card, as it was the first xx90 series card!!

[@surena9451]

Wasn't the GTX 590 the first of the GTX ones to be x90?

[@superkazuya3328]

@@surena9451 I'm not sure if it was the first but i definitely remember of seeing the 590 with glittery eyes back in the day 🤩 (just on Amazon listings tho, i had to content myself with a 560Ti 😂) i still use the CPU from those days tho! I can't afford an upgrade at the moment so i'm still stuck playing on an i7 2600k 🥲

[@surena9451]

@@superkazuya3328 I was using the same cpu until 2020 when my motherboard crapped out. It would boot but have corrupted bios symtoms. So I upgraded to the next closest thing (name wise) and went for the ryzen 5 2600 haha. Still I don't feel any difference between these CPU's because I ran the 2600k overclocked at 4.7 all core 24/7 for years. At some point it did 4.8 but it wasn't stable unless I was putting a massive amount of voltage (1.4+). Oh well. Sandy Bridge is like the 1080Ti from NVIDIA. Probably will never happen again.

[@Broman7157]

I still have my i7-3820.. It was the most I spent on a CPU ever @ around 400?(a retirement present for me). My total system build was around $1300 at the time and was cutting edge(SSD, Blu-Ray Burner etc). Now I'm on a Threadripper Platform?/ X299 platform I built in 2020 for about $800 fully loaded..

[@MrUco]

My PC is 10yrs old to. 2011 socket with E5-2690 CPU, 128GB DDR3 ECC Registered 1600MHz, but GPU is GTX 1080 Ti. Every game, including the latest one, running very well.

[@briansnediker9101]

I had 2-way SLI GTX 780s back in the day. I was an early adopter to 3440x1440 ultrawide and not many cards on the market could run any games at higher settings with 60 fps. I already had a 780 and wanted to try SLI, which meant I had to upgrade my motherboard and power supply. But man was it awesome. Even just the bragging rights of saying "dual 780s" was good enough on it's own. I'm bittersweet that we moved away from SLI, but it will always have a soft spot in my heart. This was a great video looking back on a legendary card. I'd love to see how the 7990 held up with its extra gig and AMD's "FineWine" phenomenon

[@KhromTX]

5:11 this was pretty much my build from 2012-2014 except I had a Phenom II x4 945 4 core AMD processor and a Sapphire HD 7850 2GB. I started out with 8GB of G.Skill RipJaws and expanded to 16GB later and didn't buy a 128GB Sata SSD until 2014. Probably half the videos on my channel are using my first build.

[@MiGujack3]

The HAF 912 was peak gamer case design.

[@TW-yj2rs]

I'm 42 bro. I'll never get through my backlog either. Much love

[@insid3493]

I'd say it did okay for being first gen, but still this just shows how far hardware has come

[@djukic921]

Years are just a number. You may not feel that way at this moment but you will eventually realize that you are still very young!

[@TheXeniu]

Far Cry 3 feels like to me that it was released 3 years ago. Aging hits hard...

[@Joaaaaaaaaaaa]

I love videos like this man Yesterday someone (A clown probably) seeing 2023 benchmarks of the 1080 ti told me "This GPU never was designed for 4K gaming" 💀

[@douugl]

I still use my HAF 912 BE till this day, such a good case

[@erickalvarez6486]

I don't think we're ready to upscale in graphics and resolution at the same time.

[@raynel8495]

You should make another Version of this with the 1080Ti or 2080Ti. See how well they aged.

[@IcebergTech]

I did something similar to that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIjJm4WmjLh8nq8

[@momosbreath9713]

Back in those days I used a Radeon HD5870 main and an Nvidia 8800 GT just to enable Physx. What a waste of energy that was.

[@cm84487]

im turning 38 this year and i feel the same way but nothing will stop me from playing god of war Ragnarök ps4

[@assetaden6662]

I mean 600 lineup was horrendous to say the least. Still remember my 660 with 1.5gb, and the only thing I could play properly on 1080 high was csgo, dota and bioshock, since the memory was the main hiccup. I bet current UHD710 could beat that without dropping a single sweat, and thats an iGPU of the slowest current gen processors. I am so happy for today's tech, it has grown so much in this 10 years.

[@AnnHiroCh]

When you said you got your hands on the x79 board to me, I didn't realize it was the same exact one that I got my hands on as well to bench. I even have the i7 3820 as well LMAO Gigabyte ga-x79-ud3?

[@IcebergTech]

Yep!

[@andrewmcewan9145]

I commented before i had this baord. There is a mod to boot from nvme. But considering how much hassle it takes to bios update these boards its probably not worth it.

[@davesthedude]

so im gonna go ahead and say the 2080 super was last big SLI card... becasue if i remember correctly the rtx 3090 was first single card to out preform SLI

[@V3ntilator]

The tower in the thumbnail is the same tower my older PC here have. That old PC only have GTX 1660 Super, but still comparable to RTX 2060.

[@austinftwXD]

I rocked almost this same setup in ~2013-16

[@dolce_st]

I mean, you could've reflashed that bricked BIOS with a CH341A kit, but it's nice to see it unf**king itself

[@TheBcoolGuy]

I see my GTX 1080 as a 4K gaming card. Especially since my main monitor is 4K and has been since 2016.

[@AudatiousXtreme]

Ahhhh ill never forget it was like 2015 i got my first tax return and insisted on upgrading to a 4k asus monitor. While running an amd fx8320 and a gtx 970, officially had myself a potato that could only get 20fps max in any game and totally killed it for me 😅😂 To this day 1440p 165hz monitor is far superior in my opinion Man continuing on further, you just continued going through my teenage years and I really cannot belive how old some of the games you talked about already are! Great video man seriously! :D

[@mineturte]

dope look back into the past. great video!

[@Matticitt]

This is almost like my PC at that time... and which I'm still using. I had an identical-looking Gigabyte board (but the 1155 version with the 2600k), a 120GB SSD, a corsair TX power supply and the GTX690. Feels weird watching this video. I loved my 690 and I used it for 5 years untill it died 😭

[@anthonyk]

What graphics card do you use now with the 2600k?

[@Matticitt]

@@anthonyk GTX 1080

[@anthonyk]

@@Matticitt what's your overclock?

[@Matticitt]

@@anthonyk on the CPU? At this point it can't run at more than 4.2

[@marshinz5696]

Going to love this vid. This is when I stopped playing WoW(6 years lol) and started to build my own PCs.

[@travaa54]

you are building and selling them?

[@lucasrem]

I remember 2012, i was already on 1920x1080, ready to move to 4k, i used a Samsung TV for that. first on FX chips in SLi on x79 Gigabyte, later i did try X99 GTX 1080, both did work a bit. Now 4k is normal on PC, thanks to the consoles ! You need high FPS for Shooters, racing you can over 10 years now.

[@Panimioul]

one thing to mention about your gta v test is that lowering the texture quality is likely what made for the unenjoyable spikes in frametime and all. This is because in all of their wisdom, rockstar decided to only include the textures for the high setting (and above if it exists i don't remember). For all texture quality settings lower than high, they are compressed on the fly from the higher quality files, giving your hardware a much harder time than needed

[@leazhito2826]

Baby Austin Evans is such a throwback...

[@machaoverlord5925]

this is very neat to look a decade from the past. the beast that all gamers want from that timeline just to play 4k.

[@theDragoon007yaboiCJ]

lol it was nice to see kryzzp getting featured for 1 second

[@Sascha-wq5hq]

Wow I get nostalgic. Had the HAF 912 Plus with: i7-3770 ASUS P8Z77-V LX, Z77 2x 4GB RAM EVGA GTX 670 The GPU died after 10 years. But my parents still use it with the integrated graphics since I got a new one.

[@assetaden6662]

Same stuff, I had gtx660, it died on me on 2016, 6 years after I purchased it. I was rocking 3770 with 2x4gb 1333. It was a decent PC, excluding the GPU. Still can be used with iGPU, since everything else works.

[@ohjohnnyvanesso]

Even today, my top-grade macbook pro 15 is overheating while just WATCHING 4K video...

[@unimatrix82]

I still want one of those old HAF cases even in 2022 lol.

[@JoshuaG]

That TressFX bug on 2013's Tomb Raider was a pain in the ass back then, i legit almost uninstalled the game out of frustration 🤣 tried every toggle of graphics setting (i was a noob at computers back then and just wantred to play this game smoothly on a potato GPU 😅)

[@aboveaveragebayleaf9216]

Wait you are 40? By your voice I was thinking 20-30 not that 40 is old or anything, but you sound pretty young. I can definitely relate to having a lot of games that I haven't touched or played past the intro. It's easy to build a huge steam library with sales, while playing the same one or two ol' reliable games. Same goes for new hardware. I have a 3070ti, but 9 times out of 10 I'm playing 10 or 15 year old games. It is nice to be able to play a cranked AAA game every once in a while though. Anyway, really great content, good work.

[@laejxela]

Believe it or not I was running "almost" this exact PC until 2019 - I had a 3930k (@4.2Ghz, used to do 4.8 but it was so degraded and unstable I had to back it off) and 2x Palit GTX 680 JetStreams in SLI. Sold one 680 to a friend for his son because SLI was already long gone for the most part, and replaced the other one with a 2070 Super. Only replaced the rest 2 months ago with an R9 7900X / 32GB DDR5-6400 in an AsRock Steel Legend, quite the upgrade, but old faithful did very well for a full decade before that

[@Lynnfield3440]

Damn 40 already, time sure flies doesn't it? Luckily it ain't slow down. I wish it did. I'm "only" 25 rn but I already feel old many times.

[@Lynnfield3440]

There is 1 thing that doesn't age luckily. My Xeon x3440.

[@RiiaUwU]

i still have the i7 3770 and a GT640 laying around from my first build in 2012 XD

[@HikikomoriDev]

I think the main issue is bandwith... If you think about it, there are limitations on what one can do, desktop boards at the time rarely came with NVM configs, and SSDs where sort of still kinda luxury and you where limited to SATA... PCIe wasn't incredibly fast at the time compared to today's PCIe speeds... It's a bandwith issue mostly that keep those PCs in the past, it wasn't CPU or memory issues.

[@pickleadaykeepsthedoctoraw5542]

Pcie gen 8x wasn't a bottleneck back then and it's really only becoming a bottleneck these days. Don't talk about things you don't know anything about.

[@ArcadiaP]

When I think of the first 4k capable machine, I always think of the original Titan that nVidia released. I think it was also advertised very heavily as being 4K THIS and 4K THAT and 4K EVERYTHING. 690's though, impressive.

[@Pvt.Parts13]

i rocked my ghz edition 7870 till last month when it said bye bye by not giving signal anymore😂😭😭

[@RageQuitRQ]

I remember using my GTX 690 on 1080p until 2016 when I got a 4k monitor for it but that was only a year of 4K gaming on the 690 as Ark Survival Evolved trashed the GPU for VRAM reasons, so I ended up changing to a 1080ti. Loved the card and it was super weird, but the VRAM limits were so unfortunate :(

[@kr1sz488]

Best tech chanel ever! Amazing content!!

[@c3nsr]

this is actually pretty surprising and nostalgic to see back in 2012 i was using a core 2 duo (can't even remember the model, but it wasn't a good experience, especially after boosting the clock to get that extra 300 mhz) and a gtx550ti with 4 gb of ram with a 1024x768 monitor - which I've only upgraded to 1080p with a q6600 c2q in ~2015

[@nonaurbizniz7440]

2017's 1080ti was the first true 4k ultra gpu that still puts in good work to this day due to its generous 11gb 352bit gddr5x vram. Not the powerhouse 4k killer anymore(still competent at 4k) but it excels at lower resolutions offering up a high refresh experience.

[@chrisw5347]

My 1080ti still puts in great work today...I play most titles at 4K ultra and only the really new demanding titles(Cyberpunk 2077,Plague Tale etc)I play at 1440p Ultra. Such a decent card for its day.

[@i3l4ckskillzz79]

I think the first true 4k gpu hasn't come out yet. Even the 4090 can't handle nativ 4k with heavy rt effects at above 30 fps.

[@nonaurbizniz7440]

@@i3l4ckskillzz79 RT doesn't define 4k though and the games that chug along at 30fps with it on will fly at 60 or 120 or more fps with it off. I was playing farcry5 and 6 at 4k full ultra settings and getting a steady 60fps everywhere with the 1080ti and most of the other games of the time had no issues running 4k. So yeah it was its generations 4090 only with a markedly better price performance ratio.

[@pengouin]

i had the hef x too thinking it would last me forever lol , their hard drive emplacement take so much space , my 4080 could not fit in it at all. had to change the case but im glad i did, new case is so well made.

[@madcat4563]

I find it hard to believe that 4k came out in 2012. When referring to consoles and mid range hardware, they still kick and scream about 4k.

[@excess.subiefl0w]

Great video! Next you should try a more recent gpu with 6gb vram at least to see how the lga2011 platform does. Does it do constant 60 fps 🤔

[@extremeweirdness1528]

Damn I just saw you had 6.8 k subs I thought you had 600k subs. Hope you get there soon.

[@KingVulpes]

It's impressive that it did all this at native 4k up to 2017. Now, gpu's are advertising 4k but only with upscaling on, so they're not even true 4k gpu's

[@brainymarte1566]

The subtitles at the "dirty cex machine"

[@Fly_By_Gaming]

4k Gaming PC video right before 5k subscribers

[@JessicaFEREM]

I have a i7-6700 GTX 970 and I mostly play older games, so it's no shock that I've been mostly playing at 4k, but the biggest issue is nvidia themselves locking out HDMI 2.0 spec for me. I have to use an active displayport to HDMI converter to get proper color rendering at this high a res, and anything above 60 is out of the question, I'm bacially maxxing out the GPU's res, plus I have another 1080p monitor for secondary things that I turn off while gaming, as I'd rather use my laptop as a second screen so I don't waste a single resource other than piping the audio from my laptop to the line-in and then telling windows to send it to my headphones keep in mind that the desktop itself is a free gift because it was broken. I replaced the motherboard and CPU cooler as both were broken. for $170 I have a beast of a machine, with room to grow, even.