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when I recently completed my $360 PC I was actually blown away by how well an eight year old CPU which was the Xeon X 54 64 gigas could handle a graphics card like the GTX 1060 is actually not a GTX 1060 other cyber flashier graphics card would look cool on camera but what will the tech city this is Brian coming to you guys today where I'm comparing a CPU the X 54 60 against the latest and greatest from Intel this is the 6800 K now we're going to be using the GTX 1060 which is actually currently in the PC at the moment and we're going to be testing how much of a difference a cpu eight years into the future makes when it comes to a mid-range graphics card but let's roll those benchmarks you know we have it the benchmarks tell a thousand words but let's talk a little bit more about what happened there going from 1080p to 1440p on the X 54 60 showed virtually no increase in frame rates this is because at 1080p it was CPU bound or in other words the CPU was bottlenecking the GPU and that the GPU had a lot more Headroom wasn't being maxed out for the CPU was so in that scenario basically we can't do anything to give any more frame rates to this rig we'd have to upgrade the CPU and as you saw there the 6800 K smoke to the X 54 60 at 1080p though when we step it up to 1440p there wasn't too much of the difference there that's because the GPU is starting to load up a little bit more and on that note yes it is a CPU bottleneck especially at 1080p for the X 54 60 but what this means is it's not choking and there's a big difference between choking and bottlenecking choking is where you'll just have absolute crap coming out on your computer that's when the CPU just can't utilize what's coming from the memory fast enough and that'll be the worst experience possible this case was bottlenecking and it was actually still a very enjoyable experience on all these games at 1440p and that's what i was quite surprised with the 360 dollar computer so lastly when we look at the 6800 K it's got an extra two cores an extra eight threads and it's clock 300 megahertz higher in this specific scenario though does that make a huge difference in games well ultimately it depends on the resolution you're playing at and the graphics card that you're going to use if you were to use a 1070 or 1080 then results would start to heavily favor the 6800 K here especially at 1080p but once we step things up with the resolutions especially with the 1060 they're used here today the results weren't a whole lot different at 1440p at Ultra which really surprised me because that eight year-old CPU it can still get up and boogie with the latest graphics card though honestly for what it's worth I would recommend coupling it was something like a GTX 780 or an r9 290 or maybe even like the latest 1050 Ti I think that would be a real good sweet spot for the old X 54 60 though keep in mind you do have to overclock it and you will have to get some good ddr2 memory if you want to extract the most out of that platform anyways that's about it for me today if you like this video then be sure to plug that like button and let me know in the comments section below are you happy with the way CPUs come in the last few years me personally I would love to see a lot more IPCC I think we haven't got any games in single core performance but more so we're getting just more cores more threads thrown at us and that's a cool thing except if you're a programmer and it's really hard for those programs to take advantage of all those extra corner threads anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this video and I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments as always and I'll catch you in the next tag video very soon peace out for now bye heart's magic welcome back to tokyo city welcome to tak city this is brian coming to you guys with the video i hope you're going to enjoy it when I did my PC ah when I recently built my $360 PC I started to run a few more tests after I was done with the build I wanted to find out how far