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for a very long time here at Tec s city we've been massive fans of the first generation Core i7 series but more so the xeon variants which is the x 56 series these come in with 6 cores 12 threads in there on 32 nanometer and since a lot of companies were offloading these from the server industry for example they were selling them very cheap on websites like eBay and Aliexpress even to this date you can pick up one of these CPUs the X 56 50 for example for around 35 US dollars shipped here door however there are better variants and today I'm using the X 56 75 and I do believe the rumors are true this is indeed a better bin in my opinion than the X 56 50 but it does run you up $60 however today we're gonna be comparing this CPU at 4.5 gigahertz and we're going to put it up against the latest and greatest from the new sector this is the 8700 K this will set you back 350 u.s. and it's a lot more expensive and of course it does utilize ddr4 memory where the prices are insanely high at the moment so how well does a CPU that's nearly 10 years old go up against the CPU that's the latest and greatest in 2018 let's take a look welcome back to dagger sitting without wasting any more of your time let's pull up the first benchmark here see us go this is probably gonna be the biggest gap between these two CPUs at least what I measured here 1080p very low settings or at least the lowest settings I can put it on with a gtx 10a DTI so we've got pretty much the best in slot graphics card with the best in slot cpu for the new sector we're comparing it against in my opinion the best in slot use cpu in the use sector so we scored here 1080p 593 average FPS with a point one percent low of 142 on the 8700 k contrast that to the x 56 75 we're getting a hundred and forty four point one percent lows and 406 average FPS so it was a bit of a gap here at 1080p but we moved up to 1440p and instead of testing at 4k which i've done in a few of my previous scenarios we're testing at 1440p which is what i play games at and I feel like the differences at 4k just become so minimal and they're not a whole lot of people play at 4k anyway so we've got 458 average FPS versus a 370 with the point one percent lowest being 80 versus 83 so although the 8700 K did score a victory in csgo it was interesting to see that the 0.1% lows were actually better on the 56 75 might be due to that ddr3 memory with Tyler timings and of course we've got triple channel memory versus dual channel on the 8700 K platform and now the next game we're pulling up for you guys is one of my personal favorites dota 2 we tested again at 1080p and also 1440p 1080p the results were a slight victory for the 8700 K coming out with 223 average FPS 0.1% low of 173 contrast that to 221 average on the X 56 75 with a hundred and fifty eight point one percent lows however it was a little bit of variance in this benchmark and the 1440p results were virtually the same so in other words we weren't really getting a graphically intensive scenario on this game at both 1080p and even 1440p high settings so you might be sitting back in your chair and thinking Brian you've just put up a couple of lightweights dota2 csgo they're pretty easy to run how about the big heavyweight pub gee this thing surely will slaughter the X 56 75 well let's find out 1080p a hundred and forty-one average FPS with a point one percent low of a hundred and eight on the 8700 K versus a hundred and thirty seven with a point one percent low of 87 on the X 56 seventy five so our old Xeon still has a lot left in the tank going up to 1440p the differences were even less 136 versus a hundred and thirty-two point one percent lows we're pretty similar a little bit lower due to it being more graphically intensive at 1440p high settings versus 1080p very low now of course there is a hundred forty-four Hertz cap in this game and you unfortunately I don't know how to remove it now as opposed to the previous days where you could remove this cap so unfortunately with this cap in place I guess we'll never know that true result with pop G so now next up on the chopping board we have Final Fantasy 15 actually took quite some time to get from console to PC and I guess the reasons being because it's probably so hard to optimize this thing it's now got a 120 FPS cap and unfortunately I had some problems on my main 8700 K rig where it would just go 1 FPS so I had to reinstall the whole game and finally got some good results here for you guys so what we saw with this game 1080p we got 118 average FPS on the X 56 75 0.1% low of 89 going to 1440p we went to 98 with the point one percent low of 77 contrast that to the 8700 K we got here a hundred and nineteen average FPS with 0.1% low of 98 so it did score a little bit better at 1080p going down to 1440p it was 99 average FPS where the point one percent low of eighty so there wasn't really much in an adult with Final Fantasy and to be honest at 1440p this game really juiced the graphics card very hard even at high settings I couldn't put this thing on Ultra otherwise I would go down to like 70 FPS from a hundred and they honestly wasn't much of a difference between high and Ultra settings I didn't actually notice any difference at all but yeah anyway last game we got up here is Far Cry primal so very CPU intensive game especially on the single threaded performance now we're looking here a hundred and forty to average FPS at 1080p with a minimum FPS of a hundred and eight contrast that to 1440p we have a hundred and thirteen with a minimum of 86 going across to the x 5670 we had a hundred and fifteen and eighty-six minimum respectively and 94 and sixty-eight so the 8700 K did score a 30% victory and Far Cry primal and that is probably one of the worst case scenarios just like csgo so really when it came down to it the X 56 75 scored extremely well this was a CPU architecture that's supposedly outdated but is just absolutely killing it in today's titles and also a big thing to note before I get on out of here was the games were tested at both 1080p very low and low settings that's just to extract the max difference that you could expect in the future out of titles that a CPU intensive safe a new pub G comes out and it's single-threaded dependent you can probably expect around 30 percent performance increase by going with the latest and greatest but also tested at 1440p and instead of testing at 4k which I don't play games at 4k actually play at 1440p I thought this was very real-world and we saw virtually no difference between these two architectures so that really shocked me an architecture that this old is putting a fight a really good fight up against the latest in grace and it's also doing it with a much better price performance now the last test this is going to blow your mind I saved the best til last we decided to test the input lag on the same monitor in same Mouse so we're using the Logitech G 100 and also using the Zeus XG 35 V Q and this was on csgo 1080p fullscreen exclusive to different rigs but two of the same input and output variables and I was shocked the X 56 75 rig scored about 2 to 3 milliseconds of foster latency so it had in other words lower input lag than the 8700 K system I had to go back and double-check these figures a couple of times but that might be due to ddr3 vs ddr4 and maybe some other variables as well but interesting to know if you're a competitive gamer and you need the at most edge you might want to consider something like the x50 675 aggressively overclocked in your main rig who knows anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below do you have an X 58 rig or have you tried one before or do you have a new 8700 K rig or don't you have either of these love reading your comments and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye so with that cap enforced it's a little bit weird so unfortunately with that cap in place I guess we'll just never know the true story with this comparison of this game now moving on to next up we have here is that's a bird