How bad is this $5000 PC from 10 years ago?

10 years ago, spending $5,000 on a PC brought you a pretty incredible experience.... but how has the last 10 years treated this EXTREME setup?

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

[JerryRigEverything]

Man, that is some incredibly good looking 4K footage. For real.

[steel]

"How bad is this $5000 PC from 10 years ago?"
Me: using a $800 PC from 10 years ago

[OldManBOMBIN]

Why don't the water bottles say "Linus Tech Sips"?

I'm available for hire.

[stskjer]

Tech is so wild, 5k from 10 years ago is considered super old. Love these videos

[sethamoto]

Titan RTX: Hey what's up?
10 year old motherboard: WTF ARRREEEE YYOOOOUUUU

[Leonardogfa]

forget the RTX, get two 8800GTXs, windows XP, overclock THE HELL OUT OF IT and RUN CRYSIS

[aessitt]

I like how excited he is about "modern" Win 10 being responsive on that aged monster. Plug in an SSD and it will run smoothly on almost any machine thats still alive. I run a phenom II X4 945 (from 2009) myself which was low budget at that time without any problems. And even gaming ist still good to okay (depending on the game) with a GTX 960 (2015). Not 4k of course (You don't throw 4k at 1080-Ladies, Linus!), but the era of throwing away your whole computer every two years are over.

[robmausser]

"Theres just something about dual socket that gets my inner geek going" .... yeah, that hidden, secret inner geek, Linus.

[gamesux]

Whenever i realize that 2010 is 10 years ago i get really sad.

[iceveiled]

there's no LEDs so overall performance is 20% less.

[dbe]

I have a PC from 10 years ago that was only $700 at the time, only upgraded the GPU once in 2016, and it still plays modern games and everything else I need it to do. Really the parts manufacturers deserve a shoutout. Even the original fans are still in there and working. And I've turned it off like twice in all that time.

[aureus]

"10 year old"
Me:Oh damn a PC from 1995?
It's actually 2008....

[yuro]

**10 years later**
*how bad is i9 9900K with RTX 2080 Ti?*

[Zoloxer]

“This computer is from 2008”

Oh that’s not old that’s 3 years ago

[FullyBuffered]

Overl0rd from the Forum here! Thanks for the shout out at the beginning Linus :D Skulltrail is a truly fantastic no-expenses-spared platform. IMO one of the last times Intel really showed they cared about the enthusiasts. and I’m happy to see it’s getting some attention again. For those looking for more information and testing on Skulltrail, over the last year I’ve made a ton of in-depth content on my channel including gaming and overclocking.
A couple of points I would like to point out
-While the QX9775 CPUs are the most awesome way to go on this platform. It will work just fine with regular 771 Xeons and back then a TON of people went that route. The board will also work just fine with a single CPU. Especially the CPUs with a 1333MHz FSB have great OC headroom (as 5400 chipset runs out at around 430MHz bus speed) and could potentially reach beyond 4GHz. Overclocking the QX9775s is rather straightforward, mine do 4GHz at 1.41V. Just make sure to have proper cooling on not just the CPUs, but also active cooling on the north bridge and the FBDIMMs; those will get up to around 90C.
-Despite the fact that the drivers of the Nforce 100 chips are troublesome in Windows 10, SLI should work fine using PCIe 2 and 4 (I have tested this personally). The problems are less under Windows 7, but still present.
-16GB of RAM is definitely supported out of box. I personally run 4x4GB 667MHz overclocked to 800MHz. To do this you do have to have the latest BIOS version, as more memory config options were only added later on.

[kylestewart]

It’s kind of funny that Linus is making a big deal out of this board selling for $650 and now we’re well on our way to that being the new reality for a lot of “gaming” focused motherboards.

I know Asus and MSI currently have a few gaming/enthusiast AM5 and Raptor Lake boards that are priced at $800-$1, 200.

[Pepechan]

No Cinebench R15, or any CPU benchmark...
What were you guys thinking?

[devong]

"What year is this board from?"
*Pulls out snarky door hanger à la slogan tees and it says 'Newbs beware, you will be pwned'
"Ah, 2008."

[mikmak]

I dont know what all the hate is runing
A tape transport with an 8-photocell reading mechanism.
A six character FIFO shift register
Twelve thyratron ring stores that simulated the Lorenz machine generating a bit-stream for each wheel.
Panels of switches for specifying the program and the "set total".
A set of function units that performed Boolean operations.
A "span counter" that could suspend counting for part of the tape.
A master control that handled clocking, start and stop signals, counter readout and printing.
Five electronic counters.
An electric typewriter.
..and i just finished rendering a black and white picture of a cup. It only took six weeks and $1400 of guys have it !!!

[navaro]

Im still using pentium 4 from 21 years ago in 2021. In 3 world country its really common thing to use refurbished computer from all over the world. Not only pc, we also use and buy used clothes, shoes etc. If the pc still running.. we use it until it stop working. If its died, then we took it to the electrician to swap the broken part from another broken part until its really unfixable. Then the remaining part will be use as a sparepart like chipset. Fan. Capacitor. Etc.