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welcome back to harbor on box right so about two months ago now I put together a top 5 best CPUs video and this was just before horizon 3 and thread Ripper landed anyway most of the pics they're still pretty valid today so I'm not going to bother updating that video just yet instead we're gonna have a little bit of fun and look at what the top 5 worst CPUs released in the last five years or so looks like now in the previous video I did mention this was something I was thinking of doing and a lot of you have been begging me to do it ever since oh it's taken so long but a lot of you gave your top 5 worst CPU lists on the last video so I'm going to sort of collaborate with you guys to blend your top 5 worst with my top 5 worst I thought you guys might get a little bit excited about a top 5 worst series um but I have to say the feedback was even more than I was expecting so I have taken everyone's picks on board and looked at which models came up the most I'll then put my own spin on it to justify the picks as I see it I remember this is just a little bit of fun and if you've got one of these CPUs or whatever don't be offended we're just having a bit of fun here we're not saying you're stupid or anything like that by buying one of these CPUs I'm sure you have your own reasons and you may have got them for a good price at the time like I said just a bit of fun so remember that as we go through the piece all of these pics will no doubt be controversial for one reason or another and I have to say though this one will probably stir up more comments than let's say some of the other ones from a technical standpoint the core i7 69 50x was a bit of a Marvel which makes it a bit strange to be on this list and at the time of release it was the most powerful CPU you could possibly buy Desktop CPU that is and it didn't just smash productivity work idea that it was very capable when it came to gaming in terms of performance it had no weakness power consumption was very reasonable for a 10 chord 20 thread CPU and while not the best overclocker again for a 10 core part it was impressive all sounds good so far the issue however was the price Intel's previous generation flagship CPU released 2 years prior cost $1000 us after a reasonably long wait these six no 50x landed for an insane seventeen hundred and fifty dollars us enthusiasts were all like please Intel I've saved up $1,000 us it took me two years can I at least have the flagship version this insane price gouging certainly wrapped the PC tech community the wrong way and it was quite clear at this point Intel was taking advantage of its market dominance this is what a lack of competition leads to and this is why fan blowing for a certain company is just stupid they don't care about you the consumer they only care about profit margins and the 69 50 X was a rude reminder of that moving on from taking advantage of enthusiasts with deep pockets Intel's now just decided to confuse the hell out of all of us by releasing a quad-core CPU actually not one but two quad-core CPUs on their high-end desktop platform what is this 2013 because that's the last time we saw a quad-core CPU and Intel's premium desktop platform I'm not even sure if it made sense then here we are thinking the arrival of Verizon would force Intel finally started increasing core counts in a meaningful way if I go and do this after the world's tech media put their heads together and tried to work out why KB like X was even a thing I mean we only just worked out KB like at least I think we did and now we have an even more confusing Lake to navigate anyway I don't think anyone really worked out the KB like X riddle and from what I've heard from retailers it seems like consumers didn't get it either quite interestingly looking at Amazon's best sellers list for CPUs I found the core i7 7740 X in 44th spot as I put this video together the list is updated every hour but deham 44th position shockingly Amazon is still selling more AMD FX processors ouch I am proud though to see the core i7 7800 X 78 20x and 7900 X all ranked higher so it's good to see consumers doing their homework anyway I don't feel like I really need to justify why the cabe you like X CPUs made this list I think you guys get it next to the AMD FX series the most heavily nominated worst cpu was the Intel Core i3 73 50k and I have to admit I was a bit hesitant to include this one yes in terms of price versus performance it makes absolutely no sense at all even at the new $140 u.s. price though admittedly it is now world's better than that 170 dollar MSRP even so in order to actually take advantage of the 7350 case unlocked clock multiplier you need to purchase an expensive Zed Series motherboard and don't forget it also doesn't come with a cooler a cooler alone adds at least $20.00 to the asking price so we're back to 160 dollars u.s. and we still need a motherboard that supports overclocking so once you factor in all the additional costs you essentially end up with a really expensive dual-core that's more than twice the price of the G 45 60 that's really not a great deal faster still the KB Lake architecture is very good so in terms of performance and efficiency the 73 50k isn't bad that for me makes it a bit of an iffy choice for the top 5 worst CPUs but with nearly everyone nominating in the previous video I couldn't really skip over it either yeah well come on you knew this one was coming I don't think there's many of you that will try and dispute this one even the most hard and battle-ready AMD fanboys have to give up this fight at least now come on it's 2017 admit defeat you've got rise in a rally behind come on the FX series sucked from the release of the fx-8150 back in 2011 to the motherboard fry FX 95 90 in 2014 the FX series has sucked worse than any cpu I can remember in the last decade from day one the FX series proved to be about as efficient as a hybrid era Honda powered f1 and there were endless FX owners sitting back in lawn chairs waiting for their games to load up the only option here for AMD was to reduce prices so low they'd lose sight of what it even looked like to break-even frankly you were better off buying a core i3 from about 2013 onwards as someone who truly cherishes competition in the tech industry I can't tell you how thankful I am that these days are well behind us now I just hope AMD can continue to make good steps with the Zen architecture build is a low-powered eight core cpu the FX 83-70 ii was anything but out of the box it used well over 50 percent more power than an equivalent has well based Core i5 of the time and at best was able to match it for productivity workloads then when it came to gaming even when overclocked beyond 4.5 gigahertz the 83-70 would get blasted by the core i5 4430 II and it really struggled to keep up with core i3 CPUs hmm the only saving grace was the core i3 like asking price of 142 dollars for the 8320 II though the 83-70 that I'm focused on still costs a ridiculous 194 dollars u.s. in my opinion the e series of FX processors was a desperate move in late 2014 to try and move some inventory looking back if you're invested in FX 83-70 $494 and 2014 or a core i5 46 70 K for two hundred and forty-two dollars that extra $50 meant three years later in 2017 you'd still have a very capable gaming system that's not really in need of an upgrade meanwhile the FX 83-70 would be plaguing you with horrible 1% lower performance in many modern titles and you're probably having a bit of a bad time in comparison okay so I did pick two AMD FX processors to rag on but really the FX 95 19 FX 83-78 represent the entire FX series on a whole aimed it really sold the bet on that one then admittedly the core i3 73 50k is a bit of a sketchy pick but with KB Lake offering zero improvement over skylake in terms of IPC gains Intel still insisting on using a rubbish Tim on their premium unlocked models and the fact that it took them this long to offer another sub $200 us part I can't see there being too many enthusiasts having an issue with this one meanwhile the core i7 77 40 X and Core i5 70 640 x aka crappy Lake are an obvious and well deserved pick and well I'm never gonna forgive Intel for the core i7 69 50 X pricing and review Atlit that awarded both the AI 777 40 X and i-76 950 X scores in excess of 90% probably need to have a long hard look at themselves but hey we all make mistakes anyway guys you've been hounding me for this one so hopefully it was everything you hoped it would be of course remember this is just a bit of fun and while mostly fact-based it was also just my opinion and those in the comment section from the previous video just sort of all rolled into one beer above all else just a bit of fun on that note if you happen to have a computer with an older CPU maybe an FX processor and you want to have it up rather than check out a new upgrade my PC plea series first episode will be online this time tomorrow and we're set to give whoever is voted the most deserving a $500 us upgrade package for their PC so that's gonna be pretty exciting anyway I'm your host Steve catch again soon guys