Trying to Play Modern Games on an 8 Year Old PC...

Today we take a look at how well an 8 Year Old PC will survive life in 2021!
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[@Huckleberry42]

When he tries to build a old pc and it's still more powerful than what I have.

[@daksh1056]

Same situation here bro 🥺🥺😅😭

[@damianosplay9457]

Same, I have i3 550 6gb of ram and I had to replace my gtx 760 with gt610 becouse I can't afford anything better atm

[@forog1]

@@damianosplay9457 Should have bought a console then the GPU is practically useless. It will max out just scrolling up and down on a web page.

[@TheCrazyAussie]

Relatable

[@FastSloth87]

The build is slightly better than mine (i5-4690K, 24GB 1600MHz RAM, Gigabyte GTX 970).

[@kam1034]

"Trying to play modern games on an 8 year old pc" So just a normal day for me then

[@Neil_MacGregor]

I’m right there with you mate,

[@TJ-kh2zc]

Me just trying to casually play Happy Wheels on an 8 year old MacBook Pro without the computer completely crashing😅

[@slayelectro7334]

@@linusworkshop I am on gt 635m that older Than his thats Actually worser than a iris Xe

[@lol_flo44_hd]

Same i have an GeForce gts 450

[@RobBCactive]

I've been using an 8 yr old laptop with hot n loud Kepler abandonware GPU, then I played Stellaris on an A10 Richland with Radeon HD 600p gfx ... Didn't need any tricks like display upscaling

[@JaredPratt89]

I used to run a system nearly identical to this. Had a 970 instead of 980 and sold it to a friend about 4 years ago. Glad to see that it will still perform well today.

[@Digetc]

This is top old hardware. Thanks for the video Jay, but it would be very interesting to see something more common like the GTX 660ti or GTX 970 (which was top hardware but very popular too).

[@Gabriel.Fulmar]

Still partying in 2022 with an i7 3770K 4.2gh, Ripjaws 16GB 1866 CL9 and a 660 ti 3GB!

[@robertt9342]

@@Gabriel.Fulmar . I don’t know if you be partying with that video card, more likely a box social.

[@Miliroxx28]

@@Gabriel.Fulmar I can see your setup in vivid colors holy hell

[@madartzgraphics2019]

"Top old hardware". Hah! Yea, tell that to my former Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition. But sadly, i hade to retire the dude coz it's decade old already LMAO.

[@Ulthion]

1050ti +4460 - still working fine ;p

[@bierrollerful]

17:00 Jay: "I will leave a link down below, if I can remember." Narrator: *He couldn't remember.*

[@iliandocx8392]

almost every youtuber ever

[@bengunderson712]

I didn't know you guys were using my computer! Thanks for having it back on my desk this morning.

[@maxi10m.carp14]

I tought it was my PC, lucky me it was yours

[@bernesedog4863]

They shoulda used my pc its 10 yrs old prob 11 at this point. 5 yr old gpu prob 6 lol

[@HettycTracyn]

lol

[@randomsmile9064]

your pc be dusty, need a clean :D

[@2LoneAngels]

Haha yeah this is just like my computer that I've had for 8 years now 🤣 except I've got the i7-4790k and a gtx1080

[@Umadbro681]

Been using a 980ti for so long now and it still plays everything in at least 1080. Been having to ease off ultra settings but very doable.

[@legoboyjared]

Lmao i had a xfx 7850 try running that with modern games

[@dill6078]

980ti is pretty much a 1070 which is similar to a 1650, still damn good for 1080p

[@Umadbro681]

@@dill6078 If only they would've made sli work correctly instead of trashing it so we're forced to buy new hardware.

[@jackjude]

the 1070 is significantly better than a 1650. It's just shy of the 1660ti

[@younglingslayer2896]

@@legoboyjared ive got an r7 360 basically the 7770 it still runs games pretty well for what it is, surely the 7850 hits a bit harder shame it doesnt support dx12

[@grraver]

Im so grateful for my current PC. Thanks for another video!

[@tanujkaushic4137]

I took my dad's i5 2500, threw in a 1660ti and a SSD back in 2019. Runs almost everything I want at 60+ fps 1080p.

[@cv507]

sweet 2nd or 3rd quad pumped rest system ^^ im a 90s kid ^ ^

[@wayward03]

Tons of older or lighter games that don't need more CPU than that.... The newer stuff can be much harder to run

[@tanujkaushic4137]

@@wayward03 Only with a few of the newer titles, off the top of my head I can only think of red dead redemption that's been giving me trouble. I've bought Control recently, I guess that's gonna give me some trouble too.

[@EricSmith-ts8ew]

@@tanujkaushic4137 I have an i5 6600k and control for me basically is just struggling due to my 970. But i guess I’ll find out when I finally upgrade my graphics card if it was actually the gpu 😂

[@maugod6972]

Nice but still a gigantic bottleneck

[@fieldage1324]

Still rocking the 4770k running at 4.3 since the day it was built back in 2013, put in a 1660 super last year and does everything I need.

[@shaneeslick]

Yeap, as long as a game is not a Slideshow & is slightly less blocky looking than Mincraft I'm fine 😁

[@quwarq]

Got an 1650 this year, at prices I don't want to admit but not TOO bad, and it serves fine. Haven't tried CP2077 on it but all Witcher and ME is in my backlog still so by the time CP2077 is next the RTX4080 will be out if not the 5080 XD Only questions are: at what price, and will I be able to walk in a shop and buy it.

[@8ballfpv]

4670k @ 4.3 here now paired with a 2070 super. who needs all the cores!? ( except Detroit become human.. lol )

[@JohnDoe-hw8ge]

@@8ballfpv I did a quick overclock on my 4670K (4,4GHZ at 1.2V) and with a 1060 6GB it ran borderlands 3 on medium/high just fine, set it to smooth 22-62fps setting and it basicly was locked at 60

[@lightwoven5326]

Elite Dangerous Odyssey down to 13fps from 100fps Horizons same settings. Arrrghhh!!

[@Crus0e]

This video hits close home, I have the same specs on my 7yo PC and it's still rocking hard

[@Serkix]

That is pretty sweet you can run most things on high settings. Which is the bulk of the visual improvements. Personally I like to run low everything and high textures on my RX480. The 8gig VRAM really helps for more modern titles. So glad I paid the extra for it.

[@tilburg8683]

Wish Nvidia didn't think this was 2014 or something and thought 8GB Vram was appropriate for a 1200-1400euro card.

[@Guilherme3062]

last year i upgraded from a 970 to a 2070, left my card with my friend, he finished cyberpunk, played red dead online, and still uses a ddr3 board, that's the beauty of pc gaming

[@nikushim6665]

the 9 series was only around what 2015, i think everything but cyberclunk will run fine on a 680 (which was around 2012). Its actually not the beauty of it, that was more so a side effect of game development stagnation from consoles having locked dated hardware and a larger consumer base. There was a time when games would actually push super high end systems. All the chip shortages and the raise of the scalper bots over the past few years didn't help matters.

[@ficklebar]

Me and my brother had issues with the 570 and 580, actually, e.g. Dark Souls 3 wouldn’t very well on it at all. I’m on a 970 currently, love it, but it is time for me to upgrade 😭 If you’re only wanting to play the best games over the past decade, I think an older card is a great investment. Dark Souls 2 at 4k is a beaut.

[@machinegunnergaming3906]

@@ficklebar you do know the 580 and 570 are more powerful than the 970? Right

[@3xoticG4m3r]

I also played Cyberpunk on a 1060, which is about the same as a 970ti. Worked way better than all the salty dudes online said and havent even had any bugs

[@ignacioalvarez1490]

@@machinegunnergaming3906 i believe he is talking about gtx 580, not rx 580

[@CarthagoMike]

Back in 2017, I was very happy I saved up for a gtx 1070. Today, I am very happy I bought a gtx 1070 back in 2017.

[@PokèMyBalls]

I had a 980 Ti Classified and it was massive. Probably the closest card to my 30 series in size.

[@chris3483]

I’ve a 4770k paired with a gtx 1060 6 gig vram one and they still do well enough at 1440p on most things. Had to lower the settings for cyberpunk but was playable and still pretty.

[@GrahamBarth]

I'm still running an i5-4690k and a 970. I was gonna upgrade and then the pandemic, bitcoin miners and general supply chain issues were like, "NOPE."

[@mandanaland7687]

The 6 gig 1060 can run just about anything, especially overclocked. I never tried 1440p though, I just assumed that was out off reach. haha

[@mariusgage5471]

I had one with a 1080 and just upgraded cpu, we got alot of good years out of the old girls

[@danielpreston2468]

Hearing Jay call a 4770k and 980 “old hardware” made me realize that my laptop with a 2630qm and a gtx460m is not a speed demon anymore

[@liberatorkramit]

I would consider this funny if you weren't completely aware that your laptop is obviously very old.

[@g00gleminus96]

A GTX 460 was never a "speed demon." With Nvidia cards there is a hierarchy and you can tell what tier it is at based on the numbering: The x5x is low tier, x6x tier is low-mid tier, the x7x is mid tier and x8x is high tier. The x9x are a ridiculous tier and Tesla cards are ludacris tier. The xx5 and "ti" editions are the refreshed variants of this same hierarchy. Everything with GT or GTS in front of the numbers (like GT 420) are potato-level.

[@tonystechrepairs]

I love my GTX 460se that I bought 4 years ago for $35.

[@Xanderfied]

Your computer was out of date the day you bought it, at least that what you'll be told by those snobby pc elitists. Hell, I have a ryzen 3600x and with a RTX 2060 and Im made to feel like my hardware is out of date and I just bought it last year.

[@mikem8828]

Same dude... i7-2600k and a 560Ti

[@jimadiah]

8 years sounds like a long time. Then I realized 8 years ago I was in college and that's when I BUILT my PC. Crap, time is going too fast.

[@martinyanchev8454]

Dam true... 20 to 30 is going way more fast than 10 to 20 :D

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

Get use to it. It only gets worse. I'm about to turn 39, and I still think of things that happened in my mid twenties as being recent, then I think about it. Then I cry.

[@s0meRand0m129]

back then in 2015 , i always dream of getting a 980ti . fast forward a few years later , im now sitting comfortably with a 3090

[@kasuraga]

it is a long time. When I built my 6600k gtx 970 combo, my 940be system was about 8 years old I think. I had an HD7850 in it as a small upgrade. The jump from that 940be system to the 6600k system was HUGE. But the 9 series and 10 series cards, along with intels stagnation for years, 8 years isn't as huge as it once was. my 6600k and 970 combo was enough for me to get into VR gaming AND vr streaming.

[@kaumranesna-ashari8902]

Wait till your in your mid-40's. My son is graduation high school next year. Enjoy what you can. Found out two days ago the first Shrek movie is 20 years old. Time flies fast the older you get.

[@sasquatchcrew]

lol I remember when the 980ti was new and how a 1080 was 2x the performance of 980's... 1080ti is sweet spot performance range.... 6600xt... 2060/super is where I live

[@Big_mont96]

Video is perfect, just got back into gaming after being away from it for 10 years, was console now onto pc. Found a cheap gaming pc only that all the hardware is 8 years old, but all upgradable thankfully. Glad I've found your channel mate! Very informative thankyou!

[@aurorablaize]

"I'm still on a RX570" .......and honestly I'm still shocked with how much ass it can kick to this day.....

[@N.O.A_YT]

I am still using my Rx480 card and ite a beast lol.

[@Hierax415]

@@N.O.A_YT the 8gb 480s are just workhorses that don't go down. Ran cyberpunk reasonably well at 1080 and high ish settings.

[@capper6100]

I’m using a GTX 750 and it still does a great job. Well, great for what it is.

[@roqeyt3566]

Friend of mine is on an rx250 1gb And he still plays whatever he wants, he just doesn't want much

[@N.O.A_YT]

@@roqeyt3566 atleast he has a gpu rn. Honestly anything is better than nun. Unless u gaming with an apu

[@blaartje]

also still rocking a 970 xD no problems here

[@V3ryH1gh]

same, rockn the msi 970

[@ketalegaming2572]

I have msi 980 Ti

[@blaartje]

@@V3ryH1ghhehe nice me 2

[@frrrmphpoo1700]

@@blaartje me 3

[@blaartje]

@@frrrmphpoo1700you tripel sli 970 ;p

[@-opus]

Still happy with my Z87 + 4770, thanks to the addition of a 1660 super just before the prices went up.

[@GeminionRay]

4:15 FYI, in my country even 750ti now sells more than when I sold it nearly 5 years ago. Depends on the location, things can get a lot worse than what you see on ebay.

[@maszkalman3676]

in my Country /Hungary/ even the lower geeforce gtx cards costs over 100 000 HUF used, in my pc the Gtx 1050 TI OC is now at minimum 160 000 Huf so 491 Dollars and i got the whole pc less than this price with the card in it from a pissed of father :D

[@Just4Games2011]

@@maszkalman3676 That is an stupid amount for an 1050 Ti. In Romania you can find an 970 for around 250-300 USD equivalent.

[@maszkalman3676]

@@Just4Games2011 well good for you... there is barely any used card in the market that's why the high prices and order from abroad would make the cheap ard not so cheap anymore :D

[@Just4Games2011]

@@maszkalman3676 I already ran an 970, so not really affected, and RX 6600 XT is still around 800. Still, surprised Hungary is that much worse.

[@maszkalman3676]

@@Just4Games2011 i was just as shocked when my old pc killed itself, the whole motherboard cooked itself without any sign of problems i pushed the button went to do other stuff and half an hour later the pc still don't get past the windows loaing screen and when i take down the side i realized the motherboard is piping hot... ad the the pc stopped and never restarted. I needed a new one fast and found this with the 1050 ti in it... and it was close to see for myself and can travel there in a few minutes...

[@mister-pinkman]

It’s crazy how well optimized DOOM Eternal is.

[@Gantali9305]

1800X ...that's not a small processor. It seems like they asking for way more than necessary on the recommended specs. ? (Edited for clarification)

[@mister-pinkman]

@@Gantali9305 ??? For a 2020 game an 1800x? that’s incredibly well optimized. This game runs at 60fps on the Xbox one s ffs.

[@Gantali9305]

@@mister-pinkman A 1800X is still an 8 core 16 thread 3.6ghz processor. Nothing to be sneered at. Hell even cyberpunk 2077 recommends a FX-8310 and that games a heavy boi.

[@mister-pinkman]

@@Gantali9305 bruh it runs at 60 fps on a last gen console, if that doesn’t tell you how well optimized then idk what does…. 1800x is an old processor 8 cores or not…

[@Gantali9305]

@@mister-pinkman 4 years isn't that old. I'm not saying its not well optimized. as proven by the video it could probably run ultra settings on a 1600x. What I'm saying is it looks like they were pessimistic on their recommended specs.

[@dy7296]

"It's got a slow 4gb gddr5." Me: * sits in the corner with 2gb ddr3 mobile 930mx *

[@simonm.ojensen9843]

Aw, I had that card also, hehe Games tf2 and minecraft, but dont dare GTA XD

[@florin-danielrada7675]

*Cries* in gtx 550 ti

[@wayward03]

You must not have been into computers in the 90's....this stuff now is pretty close to normal prices adjusted for inflation.

[@simonm.ojensen9843]

@@wayward03 what are you talking about? Nobody mentioned price XD

[@SubjectiveFunny]

have you been in a coma?

[@GoinManta]

I upgraded my 9700KF to a 12700KF and decided to upgrade my nephew with my old stuff. But needed a video card, after getting a 1030GT, I decided to go used and finally ended up with a 970 GTX. Surprisingly it's a 9700KF, 16GB DDR4 and a M.2 Hard drive and I built a rig that's right smack in the middle of the average performance wise. So those old 9 series cards can still game with "newer" hardware.

[@CMDPromptify]

Very informative perspective! Thanks!

[@burrhe]

Still gaming on a 970. Hasn't let me down yet, even running VR games with it.

[@cameronjellison2085]

I have one too, I wondering how far I could push it

[@xKrispyx]

@@cameronjellison2085 Mine is faster than most 1650's, if Kombustor is to be believed. It's pushed to it's limit though, any further and I get crashes

[@sold-productions]

970 is a beast, with like 6gb of vram it would be godlike for its age. Had it before my 1080 and gave it to a friend, it's still rippin

[@burrhe]

@@sold-productions yeah, that VRAM is the only thing stopping me from really enjoying some of the top end brand new titles, but that's only been very recently

[@alfredoalejandro87]

Amazing how times fly by so fast. My son is going to be 8 next month I remember receving a MSI GTX 680 a day after he was born! I was still rocking a i7 2600K trying to save to upgrade to a 4770K. Sandy bridge lasted me several years.

[@TheSwarlers]

Damn, that setup would be an upgrade for me LOL xD

[@Zero11s]

Tik Tok

[@gertjevis1995]

I'm still on the 4770K!

[@zygi22]

I have a one year-old too. Not much time for anything let alone gaming lol.

[@MATCHLESS93]

Still using 2600k, it's insane.

[@ballstothewall38]

That 980 was a furnace back in the day, superb GPU that could warm up your room in less than 30 min playing Crysis.

[@Grungehead1993]

that's a mere peep compared to the 480, look up cooking on 480.

[@seanroberts8688]

Hell yea, I'm still rocking a 980ti Classified in 2021. Runs 80c all day and I love it.

[@McSquidification]

I'm on a 980ti and I never felt bad for myself. I'm glad its good enough to see me through the shortages.

[@slendydie1267]

It's very solid. Finally when i have money to build a PC im stuck with g3460 and r7 240 because i dont wanna pay double right now. I have 40 fps on rocket league on low settings XD.

[@dwaynetryon6070]

im still happy with my 970 ill survive this crisis lmao !

[@flowerthencrranger3854]

Me with a 2Gb 960: Crying in the corner

[@Grainsauce]

Same built a new pc a couple of years ago, and had to get a msi 6Gb 980ti locally for $240 bucks still awesome

[@cv507]

struggling with a 1080 (almost) and cp. i mean cp beyönd mid and even high looks far fröm R+ xD däm am excität - . - (ps say the sayme with nön ti ^ ^)

[@sumikomei]

I love it omg, the "I feel bad for that attitude" was such a perfect way to close out that thought

[@jgvillan01]

But I have a 980. WWWHHHAAAAA!!!!! JK, I was very grateful that my brother-in-law just gave me a 980 6GB last year. Only thing that I had to do was get my own founder's shroud for it as he had water-cooled it and lost the original one. My gaming rig is running an i7 4790 with 32GB of DDR3 1600Mhz ram. It's 5 years old since I originally built it with an i3/16GB, and I have no plans of building a new one. It works just as I wanted it to, and barring upgrades, repairs and maintenance, I plan on having it run for at least another 5-10 years. I really don't understand the "latest and greatest" craze.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@jgvillan01 : Depends upon what one uses PC for. VFX software uses a lot of cores. Another trend is VFIO which is using virtualization for gaming. Cores help there.

[@robertt9342]

There is a great back catalogue of PC games, older hardware can still be an amazing experience.

[@Squidgy55]

Exactly. I still play games from 20 years ago sometimes.

[@nicholasguerrera4714]

I was running an FX 8350 with a radeon 7950. So happy to finally upgrade to Ryzen 7 5800x and a 3060ti with 32gb RAM and Samsung’s Evo 980 pro. Nothing slows this beast!

[@legoboyjared]

yeooooo me tooo i still have a fx8370 but i upgraded my gpu from a 7850 to a 6600

[@Gumballer]

Finally. A video that I can relate to Edit: Nevermind

[@TheCRTProductions]

yeah.. this stuff's not that old in my opinion

[@ron200088]

@@TheCRTProductions Not that old, in regard to it's age but old and almost outdated in my opinion, in regard to the way that technology advances. Anyway, my old gaming rig which I repurposed as a HTPC still performs admirably,in my opinion, in AAA Games at Full HD, medium-high details with different tweaks and custom settings per game. It consists of an AMD FX-8350 (stock speeds), 16 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM, GTX 1070 and an old 2nd gen Kingston SSD and 5, 7 year old hard drives for plenty extra storage. Had I not built a new work/gaming PC, back in November of last year, I would have definetely kept using it, not willing to exagerately overspend to build a PC nowadays.

[@ron200088]

@pera Plejer I can fully relate to what you said. Ultimately, i think that a PC,laptop, device in general, etc becomes "old" when it becomes sluggish or it stops fulfilling your needs, in regards to it. For instance, before repurposing my old PC as a HTPC, I was using a 14 year old Acer laptop as a streaming device to my TV. It ran on good old Windows 7, a little bit sluggish, but ultimately, it did the job.

[@wayward03]

The only reason that PC isn't considered ancient is that Intel and AMD didn't make improvements for like 5 years....

[@ron200088]

@@wayward03 Intel hasn’t made any improvements in the last years, that’s right. At least not any significant ones. On the other hand, AMD has done nothing but improving since the launch of their Zen architecture. The improvements are major from one generation to another in regards to their previous generations and of course their direct competition, Intel. That is why they managed to surpass them in every aspect that counts.

[@kavunffs]

and 980 prices just went up :)

[@V3ryH1gh]

literally

[@yotoprules9361]

they were already way too expensive at least in my area, only 700 series and older are well priced but Kepler has aged horribly in some newer titles

[@robman0865]

i just sold my 980 for $400 in under 1 hour

[@V3ryH1gh]

@@robman0865 "you can pick one of these up for $107" lol 24 hours later

[@lolYoruichifan]

980 haven't been the price he read out since December, Probably only reading auction prices. 980's and 980Ti's used to run $170 - $250 now they are $350+.

[@jackasshomey]

i remember back when i was gaming on a Radeon HD 5150 gpu people were already talking about RTX cards lol

[@Bathuzad]

This is almost my exact setup, the only difference is that I use an AIO liquid cooler. This thing still takes on most newer games, completely held itself against Cyberpunk and all other games I play I have almost zero issues with running on higher settings.

[@AOClaus]

I just upgraded 6 months ago. My last computer was 8 years old. You're just recreating my life.

[@arunabhbhatnagar3681]

i kinda upgraded about 2 months ago now, from a dual core 5th gen i5 with an IGPU and 8 gigs of DDR3, now im on a 4800H, 2060, 16 gigs of DDR4 and a 144hz display and hoooly shit is it one hell of an upgrade

[@ljessecusterl]

Same here. Had a 4770K that was lapped and delidded, running at 4.4GHz with a Strix 980Ti. Now running 5800X with a 3070.

[@magemor7827]

Me too, had a 4670, 8gb ram and 750ti. I upgraded to a ryzen 3600 and 16gb of ram, but am still using my (very) old gpu. Waiting for prices to go down and/or my bank account to refill to buy a better one

[@JohnSmith-hv6ks]

i upgraded from a computer I built in 2012. I gave this one to my 6yo nephew to ruin his life fortnite.

[@douglasholmes7581]

Yeah me too. Just went from a I3-7350k/1060 3gb/16GB ram to I7-10700kf/3070 8gb/32GB ram. Big leap in everything!

[@bluegizmo1983]

I'm still gaming on an 8 year old PC! Still rocking an i7-4790K, 32gb DDR3, and a slightly newer 1080 Ti. Still handles every single modern game, at 60 FPS, using max settings at 1440p or 1080p and Mid to High settings at 4K. That 11GB of GDDR5X VRAM on the 1080 Ti really makes the difference.

[@GRGA4200]

im running on core 2 quad q6600 8 gigs of DDR 2-800 ram gtx 1050 LUL

[@veda9151]

The fact that you don't need to latest and best hardware to game is a point that not being stress enough. Not everything need an upgrade every 2 years, if you just runs games in a reasonable setting, old hardware can still perform well enough for games.

[@Fluffee102]

dam I have an i7 4790k/GTX 980 strix in my dresser right now I am using a i7 10700k rtx 3070 waste of money. LOL 1080p is reasonable

[@GRGA4200]

@@Fluffee102 imagine the diffrence mine is core 2 quadq6600 2,4 ghz wanna sell your dresser rig xD??

[@barrysherwood2120]

32 GB ram 👁️👁️

[@Ducaso]

I built my current pc in late months of 2013. it had a 4770k, a 780ti, and 16 gbs of ddr3. The only upgrade came in early 2020 when the 780ti died rather unexpectedly on boot up one day. I managed to grab a 2060 on a big sale later that day and have been cruising since. I'd love to build a new pc one of these days (when prices stabilize), but until then I am still served pretty well for how much I manage to be able to game these days.

[@aregesafechier]

my personal experience with my old computer is that it still work very well. I have a i7-4790k, 32go ddr3 ram(don't recall the full specs) and the only thing i changed is the GPU (went from a 960 strix to a 2080 founder) and i barely begin to notice issues with what i assume being my cpu getting old (some regular stutter on some games). I'm aware i got a relatively recent GPU but still impressed at how well it does on a 3440x1440 screen

[@jordonc3379]

Gaming can still be TOTALLY fine on older hardware. Thanks for this video. Ive been buying last gen stuff and used ebay parts for a decade. Sure Ive had a bad motherboard. Maybe I cant always run ultra settings, but I save 1000s of dollars.

[@realJimMarshall]

I'm still gaming on a 3rd gen i7 gtx 970

[@correctthatfilthygrammar]

For that, I salute you sir. There’s never really a good reason not to buy pre-owned hardware if it’s from a reputable seller and if the products still work. I recently bought a pre-owned Ryzen 5 3600 with a cooler included. Runs like a charm. (I know it’s not that old, but anyways). Even if I saved only a couple of bucks, everything adds up. Got a fully functional system in 2021 for under $500. Granted, I did already have a working GPU. 1660 Super. Not all people do.

[@CrusaderJacky]

I still have my reliable i7-870 in my PC.

[@MoXy69409]

Im still rocking 970 loll, what a great card

[@redditreads1878]

I’m still daily driving a pentium 4 with hyper threading

[@log9705]

7 years already. It feels like I bought my 980ti no more than 2 years ago lol

[@mr_tea753]

It’s still pretty good for 1080p and 1440p

[@DeadpoolPlayz]

@@mr_tea753 i mean yeah its more powerful than the 1060 and its still good

[@Dizzer1948]

I just bout a used a 980FE yesterday for my 1st ever pc build and i have never ever been more excited in mt life before

[@spiv]

@@Dizzer1948 congratulations on your build! i used to have the 980FE and theres 2 things you need to be warned about with those. 1) it will heat your room noticeably after around an hour and 2) that fan can get loud. you may want to install afterburner or precisionx just to set fan speeds. if the temps are under 80c youre fine, other cards go cooler but the FE does get hot. i used mine for 1080p and it was great, better than the 1060 6G. enjoy your system.

[@mr_tea753]

@@Dizzer1948 I remember when I got my 980 Herculez X3 for 100€ at the time when the 1080ti still was fairly new I was excited to build my first gaming pc I bought a fx 8350 with a asus formula z motherboard and 1200w psu Aio from crosshair Overclocked the Fx to 5ghz and did a Bios mod to the 980 to get the best overclock for it I just sold them last year to my surprise I mange to get 200€ for the 980 and 200€ for the fx 8350 with the motherboard and ram and case (I kept the 1200w psu because it’s still overkill and useful) Bought a Gtx 1660ti for 120€ because it was faulty repaired it coupled it with a Xeon e5-1680v2 and a msi military class 32gb ram 4,4ghz overclock on cpu 2133mhz on ram quad channel The gtx 1660ti should be as fast as a gtx 980ti

[@Lycosa]

Great outro xD I don't feel bad for you!!! I upgraded from a 970 to a 1080 in March 2020. It's been good, I repasted the GPU and it doesn't run too hot anymore. Previous owner hadn't opened the GPU so hadn't repasted it ever since it left the factory. My GTX 1080+R7 3700X system is powerful, not the latest and greatest but definitely does the job for 1440p gaming and workstation use. Need to wait out the semiconductor shortage/crisis and then upgrade to a new GPU and then a full rebuild.

[@sliphstream4927]

In 2021 I'm running an i5-4460, 16gb DDR3, and and GTX 1660. Runs pretty solid unless i get too greedy with the graphics options. Also, poorly optimized games sometimes chug a bit when there's particle effects flying all over the screen.

[@SpartanGuy]

This hits me in the feels. I just upgraded from a Core i7 860 on a P55 mobo and GTX 970 right before the new year.

[@shaneeslick]

I am starting a build that will be i7-870, GA-P55A-UD3R & GTX680SOC, be quiet! Shadow Rock (so the CPU & GPU Fans face the same way 😁) in a Fractal Focus G Case (Grey) for a sort of a Modern Retro look, also keeping an eye out for a second GTX680SOC at a reasonable price

[@RyukaXV]

Same but I upgraded from a I7 920

[@licksludgee]

I had the xeon x3470 in my partner's pc until last year, that's pretty much an 8 thread 860, games stopped booting on it without the modern instruction sets, we upgraded her to a Ryzen, she gets the same FPS in games lol. Those CPUs were epic

[@Xanderoverlord]

Im still running my 980ti 😭🤣

[@psyc90]

Core i7-860, 12gb of DRR3 with (upgraded)GTX 1650 Super worked for me all these years, I want to upgrade my PC, but the PC part prices are ridiculous now, no value!

[@MansBestFriend_]

Asking if there's damage in Dirt Rally is like asking if there's violence in Dark Souls

[@ARB6769]

Traction is fiction. Understeer is lyfe

[@illagevidiot8254]

@@ARB6769 Its all about maximum over steer because you mix up your gears and effectively clutch kick before you enter a corner.

[@shaneeslick]

🤔 is there Violence in Dark Souls??? Sooo it's not about Dirty Shoes then

[@NightMotorcyclist]

From Dirt to TOCA, practically every Codemasters racing game had damage while others were too scared to do anything to licensed vehicles (Looking at you Gran Turismo)

[@kaylaandjimbryant8258]

In dirt rally 1, I rammed into a tree in finland (damned gravel roads) about half a car length up the trunk perfectly level, and it was a beautiful wipeout, all four wheels SIMULTANEOUSLY flew off in straight lines in line with the axles. It was almost comical.

[@CANDLEFIELDS]

never had that issue with the attitude...love my 980 and you made me love it more :)

[@LonersGuide]

My system is 7 or 8 years old AMD Piledriver w/16GB, with a 5 year old RX480. Currently it is overclocked. Still works pretty good for new games.

[@Conkuist]

My PC has almost the same hardware. Didn't even realize that it was that old. Now I feel bad thanks jay.

[@lunartigersora4690]

Your stuff is still good man, dw about it

[@Madchris8828]

980 is still pretty decent in 1080p. 1440 okay. 4k? Not really a great experience on many games

[@xil3ntkha0s]

@@Madchris8828 don’t forget your display also needs to support the resolution you want. That’s just another expense lol

[@CantankerousDave]

My desktop also has a 4770K, but it’s rocking the “4”GB GTX970, so it’s even more VRAM constrained.

[@Madchris8828]

@@xil3ntkha0s maybe it worked because I was using dsr.

[@TheBazzterd]

GTX970 still rocking here :)

[@richardmcintosh9919]

3.5GB ftw!

[@Gogetahan]

Gave mine to my sons pc, he just play fortnite, minecraft, and apex. Still good gpu

[@The1stMusicbaby7]

Aww hell yeah we rep the older builds

[@zman42]

rookie, I got a GTX 635

[@richardmcintosh9919]

I built my friend his first rig and he's rocking a 660 Ti. We refuse to pay these inflated prices to get him something newer

[@ethandye8764]

i ran a 660ti for like 7 years, it will still do most things i ask it to, upgraded on the first stimulus check to a modern motherboard and i5 cpu with a 1050 and ive never been happier, i agree with jay here, "i have a last gen computer waah i dont have the new shiny play anything at max setting box, pls gib." is a pain in the ass

[@LezerniWolf]

I'm doing serious gaming on a 5-year old computer: i7-6700H, 1070 laptop and 16GB 2400MHz RAM. Battery went down to 4Wh so I hooked up an HDMI cable to a monitor and started using it on a $200 monitor and it passes as a 2 to 3-year old desktop.

[@LezerniWolf]

Update: BIOS sorta messed up the boot cycle but switching from UEFI to Legacy fixed it at least for the time being. Did a full wipe of the drives and a clean install of Windows, and it hasn't run this fast in at least 4 years! If you have a computer and don't wanna sell an old laptop (yet), once you get all the files off you can wipe the drives and use it good as new for a little while. Also great if you wanna sell a laptop but don't wanna risk any of your data being left over on the drives.

[@LeoHls]

Getting crazy high Graphics on 1080p and in some games 1440p, is what i experience with my 1070 by now. I am still impressed by that even i bought it 2 years ago.

[@photonboy999]

*Some games...* "Sorry, you don't have enough cores. We won't launch" *Some old games now...* "You've got TOO MANY cores. We won't launch."

[@henryviiifake8244]

Me not knowing how to get FO3 from Steam to work: 🙃

[@nathanvella960]

@@henryviiifake8244 im not sure what issue it could be. but just know iv had many problems with this title on diffrent hardware(as in i couldnt get the game to boot) im sure it has a missing DLL file you need to download and place in fallout 3 game directory. this worked for me atleast

[@t3hb1gr1gProductions]

TS2 constantly crashes and/or doesn't display shaders due to being unable to address excess RAM in modern systems, lol. Though I've never played anything else that was as awful at forward compatibility and none of the fixes/hacks even work anymore. (Upon attempting to fix it, you find that their config files were literally hard-coding settings unique to specific GPU models lol.)

[@teknoman117]

*cough* Crysis *cough*

[@Mart-E12]

@@teknoman117 and Remaster didn't even fix it...

[@subterreanhighrise]

Until recently I was using my 4790k + 16 gig Kingston Dominator DDR3 2400 mhz ram and 970 SLI on an ASUS Maximus Hero VII and it was up to any task and or game. It just gradually stopped working until it just didn't really want to turn on anymore. I was really bummed. Such a great system, the best one I've ever had. Man was it really 8 years. Incredible.

[@dynamitedavies]

I got a 4790k from a mate with MB and ram for cheap, I paired it with a 6700xt and it rocks so hard. I'm well happy with the overall performance

[@seedmole]

I still remember when Vulkan first came out and Doom 2016 enabled it. Instant totally insane amounts of frames per second. Blew me away how much better it was, in terms of frame pacing, stability, etc, than DirectX.

[@furiousfap3369]

I play doom eternal on an r9 390 and i get around 85-120+ fps consistently with only rare dips to like 65-75. Ive lowered a few settings to low or medium because framerate is very important to me but im able to have the textures on the Nightmare preset and lots of stuff on high. I can only really stream or record at 1280x720 30fps and that isnt ideal but thats good enough for the time being

[@furiousfap3369]

Absolutely thrilled that my fav game of all time is also basically the single most well optimized game to ever exist

[@megapet777]

I wonder why more games aren't made on vulkan

[@sasquatchcrew]

DX12 so far, has been shit Battlefield 2042 reminded me.

[@apollo7557]

is the 980 really 7 years old?! damn, I'm getting older fast.

[@rejiix]

I thought it was going to be a 500 or 600 series card 😂😂

[@kuroneko9710]

GTX 980 was released on September 18, 2014

[@bladerj]

i though my 1070ti was 7 years lol

[@Boonedale]

I am using an RX 580...

[@fredit123456789]

A few days ago I looked up when the 780ti came out as I was getting into computer hardware just around that time and realized that it was in 2013. I had no clue that it was almost 8 years ago that it came out. It made me realize just why everything is so different today compared to when I was getting into it. My girlfriend is currently trying to get parts for her first build and I have told her a bunch of times that it used to be much more fun because you could run things in SLI and do crazy things like that as well as having more options for what you do with your GPUs and overclocking actually providing a tangible boost. Of course that will have changed in 8 years.

[@corty1980]

Totally agree with you Jay, old hardware can still be usefull. Personally I don't play games all that much and when I do it's more retro stuff, first computer was an Amiga 500 so late 1980's era for me. I have an 4770K system with a Quadro K2000 which I'am using as a storage server running Unraid and a 4770 system as a home security system running Pop OS Linux and Shinobi security software.

[@wendellsawyer4386]

Sucks that Commodore was ran by those clowns (Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali). The Amiga had so much potential. He was so busy making himself the highest paid CEO (I think it was or close to double what the CEO of IBM was making at the time.) He gutted R&D, ruined licensing deals (Sun Microsystems), and had no idea what the consumer actual wanted. Of course it all started with "Ghould" getting rid of Jack Trammel that sucked the life out of the company. Still the A500 holds a special place in my heart.

[@corty1980]

@@wendellsawyer4386 Yes the Amiga 500 was the very first computer I ever owned, which I sold and then got a Amiga 2000 which I still own to this day. I also had the CD32 which sunk Commodore and which I regret selling. Moved over to PC about 2 or 3 years after the death of commodore :(

[@Korota]

Surprised at how well these parts run, considering I'm on stuff just as old that can't manage 1080p 60fps on graphics settings half as high as these. But I'm working with mid-tier samples from that gen, and I'm a year in the future from here.

[@Krytiical]

Gaming on a 10 year old PC. I know that feel.

[@StuStuMagoo]

Me too. Me too...

[@SOU6900]

How about 20? 😅😏 Correction: 25.

[@ArcadeAssaultSrb]

Me2🤣

[@EjayT06]

@@SOU6900 sheeeesh

[@Boria0]

And me 4670k gtx 970

[@RhineZee]

Jay was reading bid prices , 980s sell for around $280 and 980ti sell for around $380 currently.

[@Caffin8tor]

I've almost always had to play games using medium/low graphics settings due to running older or low-end hardware or running on a non-gaming laptop. Fortunately, most games will run fine on such hardware with the graphics setting turned down.

[@charleshines2506]

I never had that problem with my GTX 960. Of course I don't demand that everything runs at 60 FPS or more.

[@younglingslayer2896]

@@charleshines2506 aye i also have a 960 atm it does the job for now keen to get a rx 6600 xt or 3060ti just dunno if i wanna spend the extra $$

[@m00kism]

I built a rig with almost these exact parts & sold it for £400 even. Guy's first foray into PC from console for Apex Legends & he's gone for medium settings for 144fps. He's pretty happy with what he got.

[@knyf]

I'm still rocking my 3820k @ 4.4GHz on a Asus rampage IV GENE, with a 980ti and it still holds up to this day.

[@SeriouslyMikey]

Man, that CPU was 8 years ago? Genuinely didn't realise how quick time has flown.

[@mastaw]

I could've sworn my 3770k was only 5 or so years old. Oh well lol

[@errhka]

I've got a 970 in my laptop - still works just fine. I am upgrading the ram and the storage though because that is just getting too slow

[@epictoast6727]

@@errhka I got a 970 in my htpc and it does fine with most games too. The old amd a-10 is slowing it way down though lol

[@joegiordano9932]

Love the wood tools in the background on a PC channel lol

[@Just_Pele]

Old high-end hardware is great. One of my machines is still running a SANDY BRIDGE 3960X (I salvaged the chip from a workstation that had been thrown in the garbage at a local design shop). I installed it on an old Asus X79 mobo that I bought off ebay for $60, that came with 16GB of DDR3 on it (half its SATA ports are dead but IDC), mounted a refurbed H110i on it, and immediately OC'd it to 4.7 GHz. So I slapped a refurbed EVGA 1080TI on it and it's been running great ever since. Sure, it's 11 or 12 years old, but the chip is a beast and shows no signs of degradation, easily running everything I've thrown at it, and I'm going to keep using it until it's dead.

[@lashyndragon]

I have a 2060 and feel damn blessed. Now I can say I have a $800 card in my PC 😂

[@johnhicks8626]

Same with my 2070 Super that I got for $509, worth $900 or so now

[@sopcannon]

5700xt card here.

[@alaingraham]

My GPU hasn't increased in price much.... www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=1650+asus&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=NE81fy&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=3&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1

[@Dr.Spatula]

@@alaingraham are you being serious? It's twice it's original price

[@KermitTheFrog-ez7ex]

Same got it for free 2 weeks ago, replaced my 970

[@MrJoker13337]

I'm still with my trusty GTX 970, I've upgraded everything else just waiting for GPU's like everyone else :P

[@andikachu689]

Same

[@_frasha_]

Same

[@willyg1776]

same here! my 970 sitting with all new hardware looks funny

[@Tyler412324]

Was in the same boat till i caved and bought a 6800xt for $1400 which ended up more like $2000 after taxes and shipping.. ugh. But I'm glad i finally got it

[@Tyler412324]

CAD not USD btw

[@NYCamper62]

Well this video made me want to play doom again. In my current build the oldest component is an rx 580 8gb armor card. Glad I got it when I did. For a 3.0 card & what their priced at now, yeah.

[@WhiskeyTangoFoxtrotOffRoad]

My first playthrough of CP2077 (at 1440p) was on a 4770K and MSI 1080. They still do plenty well.

[@derbabo8455]

1080 is a trooper

[@noiwonttellyoumyname.4385]

I played it in 4K on a 6800k w/1080ti (EVGA Hybrid Gaming) and 32 GB.

[@mariusgage5471]

@@derbabo8455 I will never part with my evga ftw 1080,

[@artrax]

Yeah, my "main" PC is a 4790k.....still rocking

[@antaresvariant2306]

Same. Still running strong.

[@tertianend]

Just sold my 4790k what a beast of a cpu had mine watercooled and oc to 5ghz all core

[@croesuslydias6488]

Had a 4790k until about 6 months ago. Was an awesome cpu, but is definitely aging today. Hope you can get a reasonable upgrade soon man!

[@tertianend]

@@croesuslydias6488 I just upgraded last month from a 4790k an Msi H97i ac motherboard and 16gb 1600mhz ddr3 to an Asrock B550 phantom gaming-Itx/ax --- ryzen 5 3600 (sold the 4790k for £100 bought the ryzen for £100) motherboard was free and just bought 16gb Crucial Ballistix RGB 3600mhz still rocking my 980Ti Hybrid though

[@capper6100]

I5-4460 ;)

[@nortonhickie9188]

“Developers just getting better at optimising for lower end hardware” -Black Ops Cold War has left the chat.

[@Trains-With-Shane]

Facts. I loved that game but my rig struggled.

[@xymaryai8283]

yeah, imo devs have gotten way, way worse at optimising for low graphics. at many points in my life ive tried to play CS:GO and have gotten literal 0 FPS, but Rocket league ran fine at 30, so much so that I would take my laptop on trips just to play rocket league.

[@christopherlucas5108]

*Elite Dangerous Odyssey has joined the chat. -Elite Dangerous Odyssey has been kicked from the chat.

[@BellaNash]

Almost everyone has a "old pc" story to tell, the comments are full of them, but it's all a youtuber can do, to say it's still usable. Such a disservice to viewers. I had to buy two new pc's for work but I kept older my 4790, it has a more recent GPU now, a 2070 ti that replaced a 980. Both those graphics cards run games super fast and the 4790 computer is more than enough. A pretty good processor, fast storage and graphics are all you need.

[@daltonstuff]

I've been running triple sli 980ti since late 2015, it chugs at 4k but I'm happy with 1440p 60+ for just about anything. Physics heavy things like kerbal space program are low 40s but it's still a champ for me. And a 5960x cpu for those curious

[@Zodiac.]

How does SLI impact newer games?

[@Null_Experis]

980ti going for $400+ now. So much for that being viable.

[@fernandochapa1433]

Try getting your hands on an rx 570 4gb, miners hate that card and you can game on it 1080p nothing spectacular but works

[@Null_Experis]

@@fernandochapa1433 Literally selling for almost double its MSRP at $250+

[@aapoaunola2080]

@@SoficalAspects liking the 960 a lot myself

[@mr0mime]

@@fernandochapa1433 i have my rx 580 4 gb going to be going for sale here soon lol! i wont scalp it, its 3 years old and id ditch it for like 100 bucks. i hate scalpers

[@fernandochapa1433]

@@mr0mime you are a good person sir, just make sure you don’t sell it to a scalper! ;)

[@LuhLuhLawrence]

I honestly feel like JayzTwoCents is the most underrated KZbinr for us gamers. From the questions he answers, choice of videos, presentation, etc, It makes me wonder why LinusTechTips has most of the clout. This group of people clearly deserves way more.

[@sylum3]

Take a loot at Gamers Nexus

[@Crow2099]

Currently still running two 980 Kingpins in SLI in my rig. Have had them sense launch.

[@MoldyStir-Fry]

My wife's PC still runs a 3rd gen i5 and a GTX 970, and it's still great for the games we play together! Also, I think the Doom eternal recommended specs are a little outlandish because my 1070ti runs it butter smooth at my monitors refresh rate of 72

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

That i5 and 970 is too old and belongs in a museum. Its time to upgrade to an i5-12600k + Rtx 3070.

[@pseudonym9238]

I'm running a very similar setup (4790K with an EVGA 980 SC) and have been doing just fine with it. I can't completely max out the settings in more recent games but that's not really an issue since they still look great. The thing now is that it's hard to justify upgrading when building a high-spec setup in 2021 costs twice as much as the build I did back in 2014.

[@mbvbm3104]

I built my PC in 2015 and I am still running a 4790k and 970. It was perfect and I was completely satisfied with it until these past few months, where it really started showing its age. I was concerned that the days of good value PC builds were over, but apart from motherboard and GPU costs, parts are not really that much more expensive and for around the same price you get much more premium components now. I just ordered upgrades for everything except GPU, PSU, and storage and it didn't burn as big of a hole in my wallet as I thought it would. No way I'd be able to justify buying a new GPU right now but when Ethereum phases out GPU mining mid 2022 I'm sure it'll be possible to get used cards for around the same prices as what older 900 series cards sold for new

[@jesseburrows5595]

I was rocking my i5 2500k for gaming up until a few months ago. Run what you brung!

[@Neocoolzero]

Same here, only replaced in these last months.

[@ryanrussell8262]

My i5 2500 is still great. MSFS is the only game it can’t run. It’s a fantastic CPU.

[@jesseburrows5595]

@@ryanrussell8262 it really is a fantastic CPU. I'm no expert on overclocking and it just takes it like a champ.

[@WilcovdSteen]

I'm still on a 2500k but I'm getting new parts today! It ran everything perfectly until I really started getting into VR. Still a great processor though, ran overclocked to 4.6 ghz for 9 or 10 years :)

[@nicholastrawinski]

I was running a core 2 duo system until 2 years ago. And as soon as I got an fx8150 system for free I was itching to properly upgrade. Covid boredom got me a r5 3600 evga 2060 ko ultra system... the tower is 1400 in parts cost.... woops....

[@nekominorinya2569]

The 5000d airflow case is pretty neat tbh, i have one

[@fablefoxweaver]

Still rocking my 980. It has been playing well even BFV with just a bit of stuttering on certain parts of cutscenes. I'm looking to get a 3070 to play modern games like Cyberpunk and Valhalla without compromising too much on the experience, though.

[@koutsy01]

Don't worry I'm running a 3770k at 4.5Ghz, 16gb ddr3 and 2x gtx 980s in sli. Struggling to run warhammer 3 haha

[@TheDevil259]

This is literally my setup. Except I have a 4790K instead. Build it in 2014 and it's still going strong-ish

[@nehpetsamenied9068]

I've yet to notice one issue with mine. still works great

[@HiddenRamza]

On 4790k also i love mine just like to change the 1050 non ti i got

[@jber84]

4770k 16gb 970 works fine =)

[@vannghog7087]

just bought right now for 300$ same build runs dota csgo and pubg just to good in 1080p

[@_metube]

Trusty 4790k o/c with 24gb DDR3 & a 1660 super still working ok for me. Will upgrade everything in a few years when new GPUs are available again !

[@tenrevo]

It would have been interesting to see how older GPUs perform on current platforms (e.g. Ryzen 5 5600X, i7-10600/11600). Maybe an idea for a follow up video.

[@118Shadow118]

a faster CPU certainly helps. I have an RX580 4GB and upgraded from i5-3350P to Ryzen 5 3600 about a year ago. You could tell the difference right away, that old i5 was like driving with the handbrake pulled

[@tobbehurtig7690]

I've got an ryzen5 5600x 16gb ddr4 with a gigabyte 1070 gpu. I play COD black ops mostly and it works great, cant remeber my settings or what FPS i get, but it runs smooth.

[@wkuj]

that would be bottlenecking the cpu

[@Kocan7]

I have 5600x with 1650 super 4GB, about 980 equivalent. 1080p is great, 1440p is acceptable, however, as Jay have shown you can run into vram problems. I rarely play in modern AAA titles, things like Horizon Zero Dawn run ok.

[@1nfamous76]

I'd love to see that too actually, great shout there

[@TheElectroman2010]

Still running my maxed out x58 rig and im not planning to replace it soon, old system can still be in the game

[@sierraecho884]

Awesome this is basically my System which I have been using since 2013 (PSU from 2010). I just sold that last year. i-7 4770K OC to 4,2Ghz, GTX 770 upgraded to GTX 1660, 16GB DDR3 XMP 2400Mhz RAM. This thing was awesome. I was doing CAD work on it, VR gaming and regular gaming. GTAV, RDR2, SQUAD hours & hours of SQUAD etc. It worked surprisingly well for its age.

[@kyleclemons430]

That sad moment when the GPU is the last part you need and when you started building the CPU was hard to get. Worst timing I have ever had

[@justinpatterson5291]

When the Intel 920 came out. I was building a system. And had almost got all the parts. Then lost my job. Was going to be my first higher powered pc.

[@RealIronyIsGood]

Same happened to me even with the cpu, but then I got lucky and got a good graphics card a few months later. I hope you have similar luck.

[@joshsanderson5512]

I sold my pc right as the pc market crashed and stock went.

[@Facemaker77]

Keep trying hombre. My local computer centre told me they called me in April after waiting since November and left a bunch of messages for my 3080 last week. I never received a call or messages from them so I called them back and complained. Said they have a 3090 for me instead of losing a customer. At this point, I couldn't care less about spending another $1200 for a better card. The 3080's cost over $500 MSRP than the 3090's themselves so I consider it a steal even though it's still MSRP.

[@elhehe8476]

You’re building with AMD aren’t you.

[@vaemar]

I know the struggle, been trading up my pc parts for 3 years now. Finally got my dream build almost ready to go! As so i wish you guys the same!

[@jethrobodine8563]

Just upgraded my own system and passed my 9 year old system(fx 8350 - r9 290x) to my step son and it still runs like a champ on most titles as long as you take time to tweak a few settings and dont try to run it on ultra settings

[@lemontangs]

I'm still kicking out on my 4770k water cooled. Runs like a dream still, with the exception of Windows 11 trying to force me to do a hardware overhaul I've never felt the need to upgrade.

[@BurkeSchneider]

Please do more of this type of content, it's great!

[@dhowting]

When Jay's almost 9 year old system is still better than your newer one.....🤣🤣🤣

[@cdngamereh]

Seriously lol minus the cpu ... i can’t play like 3 AAA titles with my friends atm. That’s about it really . it’s not that bad

[@_archer7101]

then you're doing something wrong

[@kaimatsu.]

RIP I wish you could get a pc. I still use a relatively old GPU and get really good fps. I use a 1070ti I got it for 200 dollars a year and a half ago

[@thereddog223]

not good lol

[@thealien_ali3382]

@@cdngamereh I love buubs

[@MefailBushi]

still rocking an sabretooth x58 with a used server cpu x5690 at 4.2ghz and a 1050ti since 2011 (with modifications) very happy and playing everything need to play.

[@manganmegamangan]

i have a dell pc from 2011 and it still functions