Build Using World's First 'Real' Desktop 8-Core CPU In 2022? Ft. BeQuiet

I upgrade a ridiculous Best Buy pre-built using Bequiet parts and then overclock the crap out of it.

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[DawidDoesTechStuff]

For those of you saying that the FX 8150 was the worlds first 8 core desktop CPU, I’m not sure I agree. AMD redefined what they meant by core so that they could market it as an 8 core. They are like loser cut down cores. So I feel like the 5960x is the first “real” 8 core desktop CPU. Let me know what you think.

[shawnhudgins]

I wish we knew who sponsored this build. I would like to purchase some of these parts.

[DrearierSpider]

Funny that both you and The Good Old Gamer are doing 5960X content at the exact same time. Now the first person to do a Core i7 6950X + RX 6950 XT build wins the PC meme wars.

[RenegadePandaZ]

I love how 90% of 'upgrade a prebuilt' videos essentially boil down to 'build a new PC with maybe one part from the original.'

[Slamdoxicalz]

The actual performance gain in FPS was not due to the amount of RAM but the RGB on it

[Trusteft]

Funny to see my main CPU used as a "look what this ancient CPU can do in 2022" bit.

[pete]

Dawid has become the only tech tuber I can stand to watch anymore. The great gpu famine revealed how uncreative the others were.

[deathVIAavatar]

I don't know about everyone else, but I'd love to see BeQuiet! do a program like NZXT that includes everything you need to build a PC yourself or buy one prebuilt. I think they have the chops for it.

[ElSelcho]

Dawid: Today I'm going to upgrade this PC.

*builds a different PC instead*

Love it 😂

[rztune]

I know this is debatable but...AMD's FX-8120 and 8150 were the first two 8 core CPUs back in 2012. Sure, the cores shared some resources like the FPU, but they did have 8 cores, depending on what one classifies as a core.

[daveaitken]

Very nice! Always been a fan of Be Quiet gear. They don't get enough credit in the modern world of loud unicorn puke shouting brands. I have a Dark Rock Pro 4 which not only has it's own gravitational pull, but it's also cool, quiet and looks amazing!

[egonieser]

Just goes to show you that old hardware is far from obsolete. Everyone dismisses everything older than 2 years as old and useless, but even 10 year old flagship hardware can give you close to high end gaming experience even in 2022.
I had similar numbers and even close to 200 FPS in 1080p/Ultra with a i7 4790k/GTX 1080Ti in a lot of modern games and that's with DDR3 RAM (but really high frequency and better timings than most DDR4 - 2500Mhz CL11). Old but gold combo and costs peanuts in comparison. Beats 99% of "budget" builds by a long mile and costs the same or less. In fact it's still in upper midrange territory when it comes to performance numbers. Sure it can't keep up in productivity workloads with modern hardware but in gaming it kicks ass to this day.

[JeffWaynee]

I really love X99. My current main rig has an i7 6850K 6C/12T Broadwell-E matched with an RTX 3060 and 32GB RAM.

[asharigada]

Wow! Be quiet is so good it even made the cpu more efficient! Making it only draw 1 watt whilst keeping a steady 4.8Ghz!!

[johnhowarth]

People still think loads of rgb makes a good pc cracks me up but dam bro your build is beautiful

[Beisepimp]

What was the sponsor for this video? I think i overlooked it. :D
Good video as always!

[jasperrrr]

For everyone saying FX had the first 8 core: FX isn't really considered 8 core because each core shares resources with another core. It almost acts like a 4 core instead. (this is what I could find online after little researching, its a lot more complicated than this but still)

[florinsebastian]

For a moment I thought you are talking about the bulldozer because It was theoretically the first 8 core cpu

[Eremon]

The fact this channel doesn't have millions of subs is quite surprising to me. Love this channel.

Also now that USB3 motherboard connectors are finally good they're nearing end of life with USBC. lol

[Dom_Mason]

I have this CPU 5960x still running in my home server for 5 years. OC to 4.5 and 1.275volts. stable and never no problems with it. Excellent chip.