This is the OLDEST CPU I have... Is it usable in 2021??

Just a couple of weeks ago I tossed together that same MSI 970A Krait, a FX 8320, 16gb of 2133, a 240gb SSD, 1tb spinner, and a GTX 970 4gb (3.5gb🤔). My 8 year old niece stayed with us for a couple of days and after playing PC games on her cousin's (my 16 year old daughter) awesome gaming rig she was blown away. She only has a Wii at home so it was life changing to play on a PC for the first time! So I went digging around in my workshop and came up with this build for her first gaming PC. It's not a powerhouse by any stretch of the imagination, but it'll run anything she would want to play at medium to low with decent FPS. I used an old Cyber Power windowed case and a couple of independent RGB strips to give it some flair. It all came together perfectly and with her at the house I was able to include her in the building of it. It was so cool to watch her eyes light up when I first told her we were gonna build her a PC and then the excitement of the first power-on was awesome!

Jay: "When this system came out, I had a 580." Me: "That's not too bad... oh, you mean a GEFORCE 580."

Back in my day, "doable" was everything above 20 fps on low settings :))))

My experience is that most of the CPUs from the 4th gen intel and similar AMD units will work just fine on modern titles provided you have a GTX 980/ R9 or better GPU. My most "recent" build is a Xeon E5-2678 with an AMD R9 Fury X, it performs better than I expected.

This is a gem. You should do more like this. Lower end builds are what most people can afford nowadays.

Old stuff is always fun to play with. "Overclock it like you stole it"

This video I've looked forward to for a good while once seeing it uploaded. This hit close to home because my current and previous PC's have FX CPU's in them. Side note, thanks Jay for showing a Wraith Prism CPU cooler installed because that's what is going in my current PC and I had to triple check it could in an AM3/AM3+ socket because my Hyper 212 Evo's fan stopped spinning. My better rig: FX-8350, XFX RX-570 8GB, 16GB PNY 1800ish DDR3 RAM, motherboard is an Asrock 970 Pro3 R2.0. Games I've played are Valheim which varied in FPS below and over 60. Fallout 4, it varies all over depending where I am and it's one of the few games that cause my GPU's fans to kick in. Unreal Tournament 2004 usually was over ninety but I do notice a lag spike sometimes when I do a first match. When I played Ancestor's Legacy I originally had it on all ultra which was a bad idea. Temps over ninety and later in matches would have CPU bottlenecking because of too many dead bodies. For the most part it was a steady sixty. I turned down the settings around high and lowered the body count which was fine.

I’m still running my i7 2600 with 16GB RAM, and recently upgraded my GPU to a 1070. I’ve had great results with that upgrade. I just run 1080p, and don’t need peak graphics in every title.

I was using a FX 8350 until January of this year when it finally crapped out and it worked just fine. FX got a bad wrap, but for me it worked really well, was a pure workhorse, and lasted a long time.

I’ve been running an FX-8350 for years now with no issues. Love videos like this Jay!!

"reflexes" "grey hair" "stopped playing" you punch my feels, sir. that's 100% my life.

loved your video! I've got so much old "stuff" lying around.. My old pc my dad now has is an old FX8320 with a single fan AIO, 16gb ram, RX480 gpu and a 500gb ssd. it chugs along nicely for him.

Ahhhh, Jay's yearly FX system video. These never get old. I've long upgraded, but I still have my old sabertooth 990fx with an 8350 and it still runs great with my original crossfire 280X GPUs.

I dig these videos. For a lot of people, this kind of setup is what they can afford. This is encouraging (and also kind of shows how stagnant cpu's really have been for ages).

👍 Outstanding Video Jay/Phil/Nick!!! Besides being fun, the basic tech-info that you all bring up in this vid, and a similar one back in May ("Trying to Play Modern Games on an 8 Year Old PC..." Z97/4770K) is literally priceless! Great tips and info not only for old-school hardware, but techniques used in these vid's can be useful in many config/generations! Plus, many of the Comments are great! I scanned over around 70% of the them and it is very evident "old" FX/Intel/Graphics-Card builds is relevant to many (myself included). "Sick black screen there, bro!"

Genuinely impressed by what these old fx chips can still do.

The new DOOM games still amaze me with how well they run on old hardware & still look absolutely awesome, you don't see that a lot nowadays

Jay understands middle-class people like us. thanks jay

This is very similar to the situation I was into before I replaced my whole PC about 3 years ago. Game ran smoothly enough but took forever to load properly.

I love the information on this video, I had an intel Q9650 Core2Quad along with a Zotac 1050TI mini and when trying to play rust, I had to put it on High settings because the GPU could handle a higher load which is ironic when you don't really think about it, but it makes sense.