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we've got no shortage of videos on our channel about building expensive gaming

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machines but what about those of you who would rather spend your money on

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machines and you can get a lot of gaming bang for your buck these days

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this right here is a test bench made up of the components from our 900 value

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gaming build guide a little while ago it's an 8 core 3800 x processor from AMD

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a 2060 super from NVIDIA and this b450

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board from MSI but

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what if i told you that i could get twice

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as many cores for my money and all i

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would have to do is scour aliexpress and

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ebay for refurbished xeon cpus and ecc

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memory and this the gian tech jinxa x79 dual socket

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bizarre chinese motherboard that definitely they're gonna be around to

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now just because we've got twice as many cores doesn't mean we're going to necessarily have twice as much

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performance so we're going to run some benchmarks on our ryzen system here to

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give us a point of reference for how much value we're actually getting

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because what's interesting about the components that i chose is that once you

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factor in the CPU motherboard and memory

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they are very nearly the same price

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so let's talk through the xeons we chose these are Intel's e5 2667 v2s and they

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are a little bit on the older side so these are ivy bridge and they're lga

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2011 and what that means is that

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you're not going to have the same kinds of aggressive boost clocks that you

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would find on modern processors even server ones so their base is about 3.3

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gigahertz and their boost is about 4 gigahertz but

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because Intel has been so stagnant when it comes to performance per clock

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improvements over the last four or five years we are expecting this

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to perform reasonably similarly to a modern CPU running at the same clock

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speed so when you factor in that we can have two of these for the price of a

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single ryzen 3800 it starts to look maybe pretty

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compelling our RAM is not that interesting these are just some ddr3

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1600 ecc server memory modules these are readily available on ebay but our

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motherboard is very interesting so you can find this

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on newegg for about 300 or if you're a lot smarter than that you

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can find it on aliexpress for about a hundred and thirty dollars and like that

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other bizarro chinese motherboard that we checked out a little while ago it

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appears as though jingxia is actually

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manufacturing these out of refurbished parts so it seems like the chipsets that

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they're using in them because it can't be x79 x79 was a single

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CPU-only chipset so it appears the chipsets are c-series ones that were

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pulled off of either dead or discarded

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server boards and then plunked onto

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this new design that they've done and it's a pretty interesting one so we've

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got dual pci express 16x slots here m.2

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which was not actually that common on older boards in the x79 era a couple

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more pci express 1x slots are two 2011

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slots and then up to eight memory slots

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giving us hopefully the full quad channel memory experience per CPU even

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though these are color coded as though they would be a dual channel for

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whatever reason wow i gotta say the i o on this thing is not impressive

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ps2 okay i mean it never hurts to have that but only two usb 3 ports dual

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gigabit Ethernet and that super basic three port 5.1 audio

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okay now something to note is that i've seen

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a fair number of people speculating online that oh because this motherboard

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runs an x79 chipset maybe you could put like extreme editions or core i7s in it

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but no the x79 chipset is just outright

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false advertising and if you want to run two cpus in this thing you will

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absolutely need to get xeons they're the only ones that have the extra qpi link

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enabled that allows the two cpus to communicate with each other and that is

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exactly one of the performance issues that i'm expecting to run into here

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because in a perfect world in a workload that supports it

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we're going to be able to leverage 16 cores

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against a mere eight course for our AMD system but the problem with that is that

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many workloads even heavily multi-threaded ones are not what's

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called pneuma aware so that is to say

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that they are not able to leverage memory that is directly connected to

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this CPU for a workload that's running on this one in very very simplistic

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terms so what that means is that you will basically in your worst case

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scenario only be able to use one of your cpus so that would be eight cores

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against eight cores and these are much much weaker cores

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all right my render finished in 12 minutes 28 seconds and i got sick so i'm

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gonna sound like this for the rest of the video let's go ahead and run a couple of games then we can compare

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against our ebay machine i mean that's the good news is i can

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talk like this in shadow of the tomb raider here

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i've gone with what i think are reasonable graphic settings for a

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machine of this budget so we're running at 1440p all high motion blur off and

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we're not indulging in msaa and you can see that we're right in

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the range of what i would expect for a solid gaming experience 80 90 100 FPS

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world builder type rts games tend to be quite CPU bound so i've fired up a i'd

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say a mid-level scenario in nano 1800 looking

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at about 75 FPS again this is medium settings this time with a little bit of

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anti-aliasing because this game tends to kind of have a lot of jaggies in it oh

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okay well whatever that's fine i got my numbers i'm using a pair of nhu 12s's

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for cooling but it's worth noting that any lga 2066 or 2011 compatible cooler

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will work on these cpus so if you're trying to keep your pricing

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close between the platforms you might want to get something a little bit more

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value conscious but these are really quick to set up on a test bench and

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stuff so i really like using them you know i've always felt like rocking

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two cpus is kind of like having like a gigantic hood scoop on your car

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like it it could be an indicator that there's lots of performance under the

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hood or it could be mostly for show and

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i guess we're about to find out which one we're dealing with today

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installing this on the bench is actually an excellent reminder of some of the

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things other than improved performance that newer hardware yields so you can

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see that we actually need two 8-pin CPU power connectors and the motherboard is

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physically quite a lot larger than our 3800x

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platform so yeah they might cost the same but this

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one's gonna cost more to run and it's gonna take up more space

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i don't know maybe it's so much faster it doesn't matter though let's find

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out just play pour it in and

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good luck everybody oh wow

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didn't even get a chance to go in the bio so we're kicking right to Windows boys and girls well i can't believe how

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painless this was we booted right up 3.3

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gigahertz base 16 cores 32 threads

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64 gigs around everything is just working so let's go ahead and uh what

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did we start with blender let's start with blender

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now what i want to see here is how many of our cores we end up using

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because i've seen blender struggle across multiple pneuma nodes

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but this is not that day or whatever he says

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we are getting 100 utilization an unfortunate thing though is we are

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running merely at base clock remember these older cpus didn't really have all

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core boost the base clock was the clock speed it ran at when you were pushing

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every single core i think this thing is gonna slay

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that AMD platform oh wow that is not the margin of victory

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that i expected 11 46 i mean it's faster

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but given that we've got double the core count and we were running at 100 across

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all of our cores running quad channel memory even though it's ddr3

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i was expecting more than a 42 second

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margin of victory here oh that does not bode well we're getting

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100 utilization in cinebench as well but it's clear to me that these cores are

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not as fast as our AMD ones i was not

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expecting this our gaming results are actually looking

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really similar so far what the heck

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like this is fine i am kind of impressed actually i haven't

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seen the final score like i don't know what our 95 percentiles are or anything like that

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but so far this looks shockingly viable

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all right let's have a look here okay so shockingly our average FPS is

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only like six percent behind that is not what i was expecting after how much

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slower these cores are but if you check the CPU game FPS the 95th

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percentile it's way lower it's more like 12

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13 lower i don't know i'm doing this math in my head but it's over 10 lower

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so that's more like what i expected just goes to show you guys though that modern

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games are really coming a long way in terms of utilizing more core as you can

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see we're utilizing at least seven of our

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cores pretty substantially although check this out remember i talked about

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programs not being aware of multiple pneuma nodes

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these cores were clearly untouched while only these ones were utilized

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oh lordy now this

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is more like what i'd expect as a worst case scenario 42 to 43 FPS looking at

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exactly the same scene so what this

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tells us is that shadow of the tomb raider was doing an excellent job as we

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saw of spreading out the load across course helping to compensate for the

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poor per core performance of this machine

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this game not so much so when you consider that we

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have twice as many cores here versus our ryzen 7 and our multi-threaded

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applications still ran at about the same speed it stands to reason that if we're

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extremely CPU bound we're gonna run at something close to just over half of the

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speed ouch let's just have a look at our task

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manager here you can see here it's actually utilizing more cores to a

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lesser degree but it's still running like hot garbage

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so our conclusions today then are pretty interesting one is that if you have a

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particular workload that benefits from lots and lots of cores refurbished

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server or old workstation hardware on a used marketplace like ebay can be a

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fantastic bet you're going to give up some power consumption but we did get

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noticeably better performance in both blender and cinebench and if you manage

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to find some ddr3 dimms in a dumpster or

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something like that which does happen from time to time that can tip the

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balance significantly in favor of a solution like this

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but what we also know is that if you want something that's going to perform

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predictably like consistently across applications be they single threaded or

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multi-threaded something that is architecturally newer even though it

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does come with the premium of being brand new is definitely the way to go

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not to mention that of course when you buy new hardware you get a warranty to

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go along with it so if you have the exact right use case

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honestly this looks not bad for everyone

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