Quote Originally Posted by Kingcarcas View Post
Reminds me of this silly youtuber called Random gaming something, he had a $50 gaming PC recently........then a $25........now a $5...........
Sounds awesome. Its interesting because I certainly wasn't trying to build on the cheap, I just haven't upgrade for a really really long time.

I will have been on Socket 775 for 11 years, this January.

Quote Originally Posted by Buckeye View Post
Yes gaming has more to do with your GPU than CPU's.
Nice job man !

I suspect some games might struggle with older CPU's and perhaps the chipset on the motherboard used.
From my experience with my 5960x, 1080gtx system and moving to a dual E5-2699 v3 platform with same GPU I saw no difference at all in game play so its not really a matter of CPU speed also. Only game that would not work was GTA V as it seems to not be NUMA aware. I did figure out a fix for it and it runs very nice.

I have a friend running a 990x system I built for him long ago and its still running like a champ, its a beast of a rig even by todays standards.
Thanks! I was really impressed that a twelve year old platform (socket 775) and a nine year old processor could still run modern games. This really is the last stand of socket 775. This is the 2nd fastest CPU ever to be sold for 775, and it is overclocked (by 27%) to its stable limit on air cooling. Back when I was a regular poster here, 5-8 years ago, people spent a lot of time and energy getting the most out of these systems. I was happy to find out that they are still capable.

I'd still like to run synthetic benchmarks if you have any suggestions, and I will also be testing more games.