RTX 3090 Ti + 15 Yr Old CPU

Presenter: Brett Sticklemonster
Videographer: Kyler Himes
Editor: Catlin Stevenson
Thumbnail Designer: Kyler Himes

[tankhistoryfordummies]

Next video: Intel Core i9-14900K with GeForce 256.

[xyntak]

Those black slots are Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) slots. It is a 16-bit bus (AKA AT bus) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus (AKA PC bus). Which could support up to six devices and had operating speeds of Half-duplex 8MBps or 16MBps. Vying for a 32-bit bus, an extended version (EISA) was created; and while seeing some success in the server market it was later replaced by the emergence and adoption of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, the predecessor of the PCIe bus we all know and love today.

[hLu]

When you actually have the exact same CPU with a GTX 750 Ti...

[TheRealWALLABI]

Used to have this exact CPU back in 2010/2011, on a DFI LanParty P45, overclocked at a pretty good 4.2 ghz, with the same 8gb of ddr2, and an SLI of GTX460. That combo could run Crysis 2 in Ultra DX11 and with HD textures at 60+ fps at 1080p, and Battlefield 3 on Ultra 1080p at over 80-90 fps and I was feeling like a king with that setup back then! I eventually switched to the sandy bridge platform with an i7 2600K in 2012, then upgraded the gpu part to a GTX780 Ti in 2013. Good times man.

[Picklex]

Love how the processor at 100% doesn't get more than 50°C

[baradhur]

This video brings back memories. We had a family computer bought in 2009 with a similar CPU. I then got it as my first very own PC in 2012. I finished the Witcher on my Q6600 back in 2015 I then proceeded to buy a Ryzen in 2017. I pushed that CPU very far. Even overclocking it with duct tape. I still loved it even through all the crashes and fps drops. And it still runs. As a TV PC in our home

[alinn.]

I remember building my first custom watercooled loop with a Q6600 overclocked at 4ghz and HD4890 overclocked at 1ghz stable. The watercool loop cost me the same as the total cost of all other components in the system, but It was the first 4ghz q6600 i've seen. After that I got the Phenom II 1040T which was a rebadged 1100T ... ohh the good times. Also you can probably overclock that CPU to 3.6 - 3.8ghz with the Zalman Cooler and that's like 30% more performance. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

[neillewis]

It’s a ISA slot. Was before PCI and was around with the AGP GPU slot

[Zenzuu]

Legit had that exact CPU, motherboard, & cooling combo back in 2008.

Had my Q9550 overclocked to a modest 3.7ghz paired up with the ATI Radeon 4870. Served me well for quite a while. Good times. Makes me feel old now turning 36 soon.

[darkladr]

I REALLY wish you guys could have put more RAM back in because I am absolutely certain that all that hitching you were experiencing was from your memory being maxed out and running into pagefile swapping. I bet you could have had an actually pretty solid experience on this rig with 4GB alone, nevermind 8.
Also, 2.9Ghz is a breeze for this chip! My Q6600 ran at 3.6Ghz no problem! This thing should have been overclocked to at least that much, which would have had a massive impact on performance. Come on guys, this was almost such a cool video, do a revisit and do it justice next time!

[beirch]

Man that takes me back, I had that exact cooler on my first PC as well.

[flawlessvic]

I had the core 2 duo in one of my PCs. Solid unit for a long time. Until games started to really use the 4 cores, it was great.

[laejxela]

The development from 2009 -> 2011 was extreme - Opens you up to stuff like the i7 3930K which still holds it own at 11 years old
Would love to see a follow-up with some of the first 6-cores. I'm actually still using mine with a 2070 Super

[ferret]

amazing cpu the q9550, was my first pc 4 years ago, overclocked it to a 3.43ghz and was pretty solid lmao. kenshi was solid aslong as you gave it time to render the new zones

[kevincampbell]

This video really demonstrates just how important the CPU is. You can cheap out on it up to a certain point but your still gonna need something relatively modern with high clock speed and core count with modern instructions like AVX2. In order to just boot some games.

[matthewwrench]

This video is what happens when you blow 99% of your budget on the GPU

[RulzSG]

6:44 Those are ISA expansion slots. Those came way before the PCI slots and the AGP expansion slots. At the time of that motherboard, those ISA slots were probably used only for compatibility with Legacy Devices. Oh the 90's, how much we miss ya :)

[Zerbey]

This is just silly, but I love that it actually worked! It's surprising how well older hardware can run with "newer" GPUs. I paired an AMD X4 I got for free with a 1050-Ti and it served me well for a couple of years, wasn't exactly fast but for most games it was playable if you lowered the quality to medium. Also the fact you don't know what an ISA slot is makes me feel incredibly old.

[althemad]

i am actually surprised by the result. I used to being able to play every AAA game 10 years ago with the cheapest processor (like a 40$ amd one) and a good gpu for the time (5850). Things changed i guess

[mporio]

Dude, you made me shed man tears. Since I turned 31 this year, this vid is like a Time Machine