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We OVERCLOCKED this $5000 PC from 10 years ago!!!

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Thanks to Samsung for sponsoring this video! Check out the Samsung C27RG5 Curved Gaming Monitor at https://lmg.gg/8KVWn

 

Over 10 years ago Intel's Skulltrail was almost unstoppable in the consumer space with its dual CPU socket availability and even able to support SLI, but now not so much! Can we breathe some new life in it with some upgrades and overclocking? 

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Hey, it's finally up. I got the notification yesterday(?) but by the time I clicked on it it was private.

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This PC is from 10 years ago!

 

Sees two nVidia TITAN XP 2016's in there.... o.O

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4 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

This PC is from 10 years ago!

 

Sees two nVidia TITAN XP 2016's in there.... o.O

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This is a great demonstration as to why we tell people not to try to future proof

 

sure spending an insane amount of money will make games in 10 years playable, if they're using a specific game engine that didn't exist when you bought your hardware and still hasn't seen very wide adoption.

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

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This system would be amazing for an experiment: Compare DX11 games natively vs DXVK on Windows. I would be really curious what kind of difference DXVK on Windows would make on a system like this since Vulkan has such an advantage. I'm sure Anthony could set this up for you, Linus.

 

Bonus idea 1: Also compare with DXVK on Linux.

 

Bonus idea 2: Compare DX9 games natively, using DXUP, and using DXUP+DXVK.

 

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Near the end he just said "g-sync" instead of "g-sync compatible, AKA free-sync"

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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Well this does proof that MOAR COREZ really helps with modern games, even when the actual cores are quite crap.

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2 hours ago, JonoT said:

 

Thanks to Samsung for sponsoring this video! Check out the Samsung C27RG5 Curved Gaming Monitor at https://lmg.gg/8KVWn

 

Over 10 years ago Intel's Skulltrail was almost unstoppable in the consumer space with its dual CPU socket availability and even able to support SLI, but now not so much! Can we breathe some new life in it with some upgrades and overclocking? 

Can someone answer my question would this monitor be guud for games like csgo and rainbow six siege even though it has a 4ms respons time??

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I hope you charged Samsung for every time they had you say "clear competitive advantage".

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27 minutes ago, Panda! said:

Can someone answer my question would this monitor be guud for games like csgo and rainbow six siege even though it has a 4ms respons time??

to ask questions for us to answer, it's best you make your own topic in the appropriate subforum, in this case:

https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/42-displays/

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

How many watts do I need? ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 spec, PSU misconceptions, protections explained, group reg is bad

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23 minutes ago, comander said:

The sound... ohh it's terrible. 

The audio for music/sounds is fine. Linus's voice though, it gets distorted.

I think it might be just you because the audio is perfectly fine on my PC with monitor speakers, my M50x on a soundcard, as well as my phone.

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I like how Linus printed out he doesn't like Minecraft because a torch was lit in rain and that unrealistic....you know right after murdering armored blood thirsty aliens on a remote planet with a laser rifle...

 

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2 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

I like how Linus printed out he doesn't like Minecraft because a torch was lit in rain and that unrealistic....you know right after murdering armored blood thirsty aliens on a remote planet with a laser rifle...

 

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4 minutes ago, David Plowie said:

How come this video has never appeared on floatplane at all?

It did :)

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40 minutes ago, JonoT said:

It did :)

Oh sorry Jono, I probably fell asleep watching it or something (not because it was boring, but because I have terrible, unhealthy sleep habits!)

 

My bad!

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My 60hz, 1080p Dell monitor has somehow stuck around since 2010. Maybe one day it'll finally give up and I can justify replacing it with something cooler with G-Sync.

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Does anyone know exactly what make & model RAM he used to bump it up to 32gb? And/or does anyone from LTT answer in these forums? (I just joined to asked this question ?) Linus was very vague about what/where he got.

 

(First, before the expected responses of "you'd save money by buying a modern core i3..." etc.: I know it's not remotely cost effective to upgrade this mobo. But I have a very specific reason that has nothing to do with maximizing bang-for-buck.)

 

The specs for this board have always stated 16gb is the max for this board. Even back then, I assumed that was more a RAM limitation than an actual system limitation. But I also assumed that you couldn't just thrown any 4x8gb DDR2 FB-DIMMs at it. (Which may not be a valid assumption.)

There are some 4x8gb ddr2 fb-dimm kits on ebay, including this one at 800MHz. That would be my top educated GUESS, but wondering if anyone actually knows beyond an educated guess, like, what did Linus actually use?

Also, anyone know what active RAM cooling he used? Kind of looked like a regular 80mm case fan or something, on some kind of hinge mechanism.

Thanks much!

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18 hours ago, sowon said:

I think it might be just you because the audio is perfectly fine on my PC with monitor speakers, my M50x on a soundcard, as well as my phone.

Thanks I didnt know that!

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On 10/23/2019 at 7:59 PM, JonoT said:

 

Thanks to Samsung for sponsoring this video! Check out the Samsung C27RG5 Curved Gaming Monitor at https://lmg.gg/8KVWn

 

LOL a 240hz Monitor using a VA panel ...seriously ..thats absurd.

 

Theres no way it can handle 240hz in regards to pixel response, no frigging way. Even the specs state 4ms, and being the specs we 'should' all know by now how exaggerated response time figures are.

 

Even TN panels have a hard enough time achieving sub 4ms across all transitions without causing overshoot.

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