The 26 89 Xeon: A Budget-Friendly Option with Impressive Performance

In this video, we take a closer look at the 26 89 Xeon processor and its potential as a budget-friendly option for those looking to build a powerful gaming PC. The reviewer notes that the numbers were okay for onboard audio, but overall, they're satisfied with the performance of this motherboard. "The USB 3 speeds were working absolutely fine," they say, adding that the mic import also showed consistent transfers.

One of the standout features of this system is its ability to handle 8 cores and 16 threads, making it an excellent choice for those who need a powerful processor without breaking the bank. The reviewer also notes that the motherboard has a solid cooling system, which helps to keep temperatures in check even during intense gaming sessions.

When it comes to memory, the reviewer opted for DDR3 RAM, which is a bit older than the newer DDR4 standard. However, they note that this shouldn't be a major issue, as the system still manages to deliver impressive performance. They also mention that the motherboard has three 350-watt power connectors, which provides ample power for even the most demanding systems.

The reviewer also notes that disabling Spectre and Meltdown updates might not be necessary for server or data center use cases. However, they do provide links in the description below for those who want to disable these features further. They also note that using this system as a server or data center may require more advanced cooling solutions.

One of the questions posed by Jason Frey is whether it's possible to flash his MSI RX 570 GPUs with the tech powerup website. The reviewer replies that yes, it's definitely possible, but you'll need to download the original BIOS for your specific GPU model and follow some careful instructions to avoid any issues.

In conclusion, the 26 89 Xeon is a powerful processor that offers impressive performance at a budget-friendly price point. While it may not have all the bells and whistles of newer processors, it's an excellent choice for those who need a reliable system without breaking the bank. The reviewer also notes that with some careful planning and configuration, this system can be optimized to deliver top-notch performance even in demanding applications.

The Xeon still lives strong in 2019, and its upgradeability is one of its biggest advantages. While it may not have all the latest features, it's still possible to upgrade to newer processors or add more RAM, making it a great option for those who want a reliable system that can last for years to come.

In terms of specific details, the motherboard has USB 3 on both the rear and front ports, as well as M2 support. It also has four PCIe lanes, which provide plenty of room for expansion cards. The reviewer notes that this system is an excellent example of how a solid combination of processor, motherboard, and memory can deliver impressive performance at a budget-friendly price.

The reviewer also wants to thank Phil and d'Afrique for bringing the 26 89 Xeon to their attention, as well as providing valuable insights and advice throughout the review process. They also note that if you're looking for more information on how to disable Spectre and Meltdown updates or use the system in a server or data center environment, there are links provided in the description below.

Overall, this review is a must-read for anyone considering building a powerful gaming PC without breaking the bank. The 26 89 Xeon is an excellent choice for those who need a reliable system that can deliver impressive performance at a budget-friendly price point.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enif you guys are in the market for a cheap CPU that has eight cores and 16 threads well you're probably going to be looking at risin 7:17 hundreds that are coming up on the use market but if you're like me and in your area you can't really find any good deals on first-gen used rising stuff at the moment is something like an e5 26 89 from Aliexpress which currently can be had for fifty-three dollars shipped a good buy well in today's video we're gonna check out this CPU which in the past if you guys have seen me put together some Xeon builds you'll know that I put together something very similar with an e5 2670 and I put two of those CPUs on an asrock motherboard and actually made that my main rig and now the difference between the 26 70 and the 26 89 that we're using in today's video is that the 2670 will go to 3 gigahertz all core turbo as opposed to the 26 89 which will go to 3.3 gigahertz all turbo now how I found out about this CPU was I watched a video from Phil's computer labs and he tested it against horizon 7 1700 and found that the older Xeon could still get up and boogie but in today's video I'm gonna be disabling all the specter and meltdown updates and also pairing it with the Radeon 5700 XT to see how it stacks up with this GPU the one major complaint with getting a CPU like the e 526 89 is the motherboards something like this a gigabyte x79 UD 3 which was an overclockable border had good components on board especially the vrm is something of a rarity nowadays where if you're looking for something like this you're gonna be paying more than it's really worth especially when you compare it to something like a B 450 then you're Chuck arises scoring it but besides that we have this right here this is a board that I picked up for 18 US dollars it's called the Machinists and I just looked through a heap of different motherboards because I wanted to try something new and this one looked like it's bringing decent value for money we've got two native PCI Express 16x slots two 1x slots M to support for fan headers one of those being a PWM six SATA ports that are actually quite well placed on the board in relation to where you're going to fit your graphics card and USB 3 at the back and a USB front out connector on board as well as hoping you have quad channel memory that we will check that out later but without aside if you are getting this CPU motherboard combo you'll have to pick out a cooler that fits x79 sockets that's the ones with the screws in them something like the Snowman I believe won't fit on this motherboard and I love the Snowman and with that aside let the testing again and this is the box that it comes in really no frills but actually quite well packaged in terms of bubble wrap and you get a basic IO shield included so this is our new test bench let's get the numbers and you're also going to need your own boss out of the C battery to go in there about a month ago to this date I noticed my Zeon's had been affected by some slowdown it was as if someone had gotten a slug and injected it straight into the CPU if this was an illness comparable to something that would affect a human one would call it slug itis and you're probably wondering how does one even cure slug itis well thanks to a user called d'afrique I now had a new bag of tricks where I could directly disable oldies spectre and meltdown and MDS mitigations via reg edit editions after this the sluggishness was lifted and it's like my Zeon's now had new life if one was to go see the original Ghostbusters what we have right here today is the sequel Ghostbusters denon and Dan and Dan and Dan and Dan and Dan and now the results are in for the $53 26 89 Xeon and we decided to compare it against the 9900 K and that's clock to 5 gigahertz it's got the latest and greatest it's got a water cooler it's got fancy and expensive corsair dominator memory it's got a z3 90 phantom gaming ax some of the best stuff in the biz for getting those gaming benchmarks and coupling it with the 5700 XT we really didn't see that much of a difference at all and I got to thank you once again d'afrique for those mitigations disabling spectre and meltdown completely because we saw here Tom Clancy's the division to a hundred and two FPS average versus a hundred and five one percent and point one percent lows were a little bit better on the 9900 K of course that's to be expected but then we move over to GTA 5 same story again 1080p mind you this isn't going to 1440p or 4k and we saw 91 average FPS versus 89 with one percent and point one percent loads that were very close f1 2019 we lost about wafer 4 FPS on average nothing at all to be sweating about especially since the CPU on the 8 cores with the x79 Xeon is costing a tenth of the price of the 9900 K but was certainly not getting a tenth of the FPS as was seeing in strange Brigade 165 average FPS versus 166 one percent lows 116 versus 100 19.1% Louis 112 versus 110 so it even got a little bit of a victory there but of course that's all variance point Guaymas and lows are very very shaky when it comes to measuring them consistently but regardless one FPS this was the best case scenario in these titles then we move over to control again 1 average FPS difference 88 versus 89 but the last game we're gonna pull up here was shadow of the Tomb Raider and we did lose 19 FPS in this game so one game out of six at 1080p we lost a significant amount of FPS but still I ask you to raise the question to yourselves is a hundred FPS a bad thing and I don't think it is so this Z on the twenty six eighty nine it's doing a phenomenal job when it's coupled with something that's more relevant for gamers like a fifty seven hundred XT or of course if you're going something like a twenty sixty twenty sixty Super GT x sixteen sixty rx five eighty rx 570 the list goes on so we're seeing here past this four hundred dollar price point on GPUs even at 1080p we're not seeing a big difference between the latest and greatest CPUs versus something like this fifty-three dollars Eon from aliexpress but now we're going to move on to the motherboard because it plays an important role if you got a cramp motherboard then you're going to be losing performance and you may risk having something that overheats or breaks down and this machine is bored I'm happy to report that I was very impressed with the numbers coming out of it first of all we did this stress test on the VRM 71 degrees on the PCB after 11 minutes on out of 64 and then 58 degrees on the heatsink this is in a 24 degree C ambient environment so the numbers were looking really good for the VRM now there is a bit of a downside here and that's the BIOS it is looking dated but we're still managing to overclock the memory from 1600 megahertz to 1866 megahertz and that Saurus I get quad-channel memory at 1866 megahertz on-budget memory so going into cpuid in i-264 this was really interesting because it showed that it was a H 67 chipset and usually we want to see in there an x79 chipset but it was showing quad channel so the memory is running in quad channel over some kind of weird hack so it is working and the quad channel memory is doing a good job of giving you much more memory bandwidth over dual channel ddr3 now another great thing about this motherboard is it'll support registered ddr3 memory too so you can save some money going with some ddr3 memory that's registered as opposed to the unbuffered stuff which generally cost more at current market prices now moving on to the onboard audio it's got the realtek 8 8 7 onboard not half bad especially when i did the numbers we checked out with the channel balance only having point one decibel of a difference the frequency response 0 to 20 hertz - 6 dB so pretty shaky but 1 to 20 K was showing also a little bit wavy and the crosstalk was - 81 dB so the numbers were okay for onboard audio and so if you wanted to go out and get this motherboard and couple it with something like a budget pair of KS 75 headphones which set you back from around 10 to 20 dollars depending where you live it's gonna be a great budget combo where you've got 8 cores 16 threads a solid motherboard which when I tested out the USB 3 speeds they were working absolutely fine and then we tested out the neck and that was giving consistent transfers - so the mic import as well has a little bit of noise so past the plus 20 DB level it'll start getting noisy then plus 30 DB you're basically bound bearable but if you leave this at +10 DB 85 its default setting it shouldn't be too bad for playing games with your friends anyway the last graph were pulling up here is the UniGene heaven results where this whole combo and keep in mind we are using ddr3 memory versus the ddr4 and that's only in dual channel on the z3 90 we've got three hundred and fifty watts roughly versus three hundred and ten watts on the 9,900 case setup so 1900 k is a little bit more efficient but we do have double the memory on this setup and we do have an older cpu but it's only burnin another 40 watts whilst we're gaming and so it wasn't such a bad result and I'm gonna say that you're going to have to be using this system for a very long time at a 40 differential to make up that 450 dollars difference on the CPU and not only that you've then got the differences on the motherboard and the memory and the cooler needed for the 99 hundred K so in conclusion the 26 89 Xeon I do have to give another thank you to Phil also thank you to d'Afrique for telling me to check this one out now I will state that if you're using this as a server or a data center you may not wish to disable the Spector and meltdown updates but I will put some links in the description below if you want to disable specter meltdown and the extra disabling that you can do that I did in this video then I'll list those reg at edits as well you can add in fire opening up PowerShell as administrator and putting them in so ultimately the Xeon still lives strong in 2019 and really the only thing you're going to miss out with this chipset is maybe upgrade ability but even then you can upgrade to a 16 atv2 Ivy Bridge 8 core 16 thread or something like that in the future if you've got a bit more money because we've got USB 3 on the rear and the front out we've got the m2 support on this board as well as having a heap of PCIe lanes and quad channel memory so this one especially the board and the CPU coupled together is a really good combo and with all that out of the way we've now got the question of the day which comes from Jason Frey and he asks could I use my GPU flashing tutorial for a couple of MSI rx 570s and flash them back to stock so you can then put them into a gaming PC and flip them and the question of that is Jason you can certainly do that you've just got to go into the tech powerup website download the original BIOS which matches the model number of your rx 570 because if you try to put another BIOS on there what it will do is that either just won't work at all or you'll have some problems where you still get that X : mark in Windows and so you won't be able to play games on that particular v bios so you can flash it back to normal but do keep in mind that it has been mined on so when I do put mining cards in gaming PCs I do make sure I give them a guarantee and also I do stress test the mining cards that come through here to make sure that they're not faulty or prone to failing before I do flip them in a gaming PC because sometimes even after you install that stock bios you can then go back into Windows and once the driver installs the whole card clunks out so I've had that happen actually quite a few times here at the studio so that is something to be careful of and with all that out of the way I hope you enjoyed today's video on the 26 89 Xeon if you did and be sure to hit that like button also I'll leave some links in the description below for the inspector how to disable that and meltdown and also the reg edit hacks that you can do to disable it even further as well as some of the links for the motherboard and the CPU and some RAM if you want to get the combo anyway with that aside peace out for now bye youif you guys are in the market for a cheap CPU that has eight cores and 16 threads well you're probably going to be looking at risin 7:17 hundreds that are coming up on the use market but if you're like me and in your area you can't really find any good deals on first-gen used rising stuff at the moment is something like an e5 26 89 from Aliexpress which currently can be had for fifty-three dollars shipped a good buy well in today's video we're gonna check out this CPU which in the past if you guys have seen me put together some Xeon builds you'll know that I put together something very similar with an e5 2670 and I put two of those CPUs on an asrock motherboard and actually made that my main rig and now the difference between the 26 70 and the 26 89 that we're using in today's video is that the 2670 will go to 3 gigahertz all core turbo as opposed to the 26 89 which will go to 3.3 gigahertz all turbo now how I found out about this CPU was I watched a video from Phil's computer labs and he tested it against horizon 7 1700 and found that the older Xeon could still get up and boogie but in today's video I'm gonna be disabling all the specter and meltdown updates and also pairing it with the Radeon 5700 XT to see how it stacks up with this GPU the one major complaint with getting a CPU like the e 526 89 is the motherboards something like this a gigabyte x79 UD 3 which was an overclockable border had good components on board especially the vrm is something of a rarity nowadays where if you're looking for something like this you're gonna be paying more than it's really worth especially when you compare it to something like a B 450 then you're Chuck arises scoring it but besides that we have this right here this is a board that I picked up for 18 US dollars it's called the Machinists and I just looked through a heap of different motherboards because I wanted to try something new and this one looked like it's bringing decent value for money we've got two native PCI Express 16x slots two 1x slots M to support for fan headers one of those being a PWM six SATA ports that are actually quite well placed on the board in relation to where you're going to fit your graphics card and USB 3 at the back and a USB front out connector on board as well as hoping you have quad channel memory that we will check that out later but without aside if you are getting this CPU motherboard combo you'll have to pick out a cooler that fits x79 sockets that's the ones with the screws in them something like the Snowman I believe won't fit on this motherboard and I love the Snowman and with that aside let the testing again and this is the box that it comes in really no frills but actually quite well packaged in terms of bubble wrap and you get a basic IO shield included so this is our new test bench let's get the numbers and you're also going to need your own boss out of the C battery to go in there about a month ago to this date I noticed my Zeon's had been affected by some slowdown it was as if someone had gotten a slug and injected it straight into the CPU if this was an illness comparable to something that would affect a human one would call it slug itis and you're probably wondering how does one even cure slug itis well thanks to a user called d'afrique I now had a new bag of tricks where I could directly disable oldies spectre and meltdown and MDS mitigations via reg edit editions after this the sluggishness was lifted and it's like my Zeon's now had new life if one was to go see the original Ghostbusters what we have right here today is the sequel Ghostbusters denon and Dan and Dan and Dan and Dan and Dan and now the results are in for the $53 26 89 Xeon and we decided to compare it against the 9900 K and that's clock to 5 gigahertz it's got the latest and greatest it's got a water cooler it's got fancy and expensive corsair dominator memory it's got a z3 90 phantom gaming ax some of the best stuff in the biz for getting those gaming benchmarks and coupling it with the 5700 XT we really didn't see that much of a difference at all and I got to thank you once again d'afrique for those mitigations disabling spectre and meltdown completely because we saw here Tom Clancy's the division to a hundred and two FPS average versus a hundred and five one percent and point one percent lows were a little bit better on the 9900 K of course that's to be expected but then we move over to GTA 5 same story again 1080p mind you this isn't going to 1440p or 4k and we saw 91 average FPS versus 89 with one percent and point one percent loads that were very close f1 2019 we lost about wafer 4 FPS on average nothing at all to be sweating about especially since the CPU on the 8 cores with the x79 Xeon is costing a tenth of the price of the 9900 K but was certainly not getting a tenth of the FPS as was seeing in strange Brigade 165 average FPS versus 166 one percent lows 116 versus 100 19.1% Louis 112 versus 110 so it even got a little bit of a victory there but of course that's all variance point Guaymas and lows are very very shaky when it comes to measuring them consistently but regardless one FPS this was the best case scenario in these titles then we move over to control again 1 average FPS difference 88 versus 89 but the last game we're gonna pull up here was shadow of the Tomb Raider and we did lose 19 FPS in this game so one game out of six at 1080p we lost a significant amount of FPS but still I ask you to raise the question to yourselves is a hundred FPS a bad thing and I don't think it is so this Z on the twenty six eighty nine it's doing a phenomenal job when it's coupled with something that's more relevant for gamers like a fifty seven hundred XT or of course if you're going something like a twenty sixty twenty sixty Super GT x sixteen sixty rx five eighty rx 570 the list goes on so we're seeing here past this four hundred dollar price point on GPUs even at 1080p we're not seeing a big difference between the latest and greatest CPUs versus something like this fifty-three dollars Eon from aliexpress but now we're going to move on to the motherboard because it plays an important role if you got a cramp motherboard then you're going to be losing performance and you may risk having something that overheats or breaks down and this machine is bored I'm happy to report that I was very impressed with the numbers coming out of it first of all we did this stress test on the VRM 71 degrees on the PCB after 11 minutes on out of 64 and then 58 degrees on the heatsink this is in a 24 degree C ambient environment so the numbers were looking really good for the VRM now there is a bit of a downside here and that's the BIOS it is looking dated but we're still managing to overclock the memory from 1600 megahertz to 1866 megahertz and that Saurus I get quad-channel memory at 1866 megahertz on-budget memory so going into cpuid in i-264 this was really interesting because it showed that it was a H 67 chipset and usually we want to see in there an x79 chipset but it was showing quad channel so the memory is running in quad channel over some kind of weird hack so it is working and the quad channel memory is doing a good job of giving you much more memory bandwidth over dual channel ddr3 now another great thing about this motherboard is it'll support registered ddr3 memory too so you can save some money going with some ddr3 memory that's registered as opposed to the unbuffered stuff which generally cost more at current market prices now moving on to the onboard audio it's got the realtek 8 8 7 onboard not half bad especially when i did the numbers we checked out with the channel balance only having point one decibel of a difference the frequency response 0 to 20 hertz - 6 dB so pretty shaky but 1 to 20 K was showing also a little bit wavy and the crosstalk was - 81 dB so the numbers were okay for onboard audio and so if you wanted to go out and get this motherboard and couple it with something like a budget pair of KS 75 headphones which set you back from around 10 to 20 dollars depending where you live it's gonna be a great budget combo where you've got 8 cores 16 threads a solid motherboard which when I tested out the USB 3 speeds they were working absolutely fine and then we tested out the neck and that was giving consistent transfers - so the mic import as well has a little bit of noise so past the plus 20 DB level it'll start getting noisy then plus 30 DB you're basically bound bearable but if you leave this at +10 DB 85 its default setting it shouldn't be too bad for playing games with your friends anyway the last graph were pulling up here is the UniGene heaven results where this whole combo and keep in mind we are using ddr3 memory versus the ddr4 and that's only in dual channel on the z3 90 we've got three hundred and fifty watts roughly versus three hundred and ten watts on the 9,900 case setup so 1900 k is a little bit more efficient but we do have double the memory on this setup and we do have an older cpu but it's only burnin another 40 watts whilst we're gaming and so it wasn't such a bad result and I'm gonna say that you're going to have to be using this system for a very long time at a 40 differential to make up that 450 dollars difference on the CPU and not only that you've then got the differences on the motherboard and the memory and the cooler needed for the 99 hundred K so in conclusion the 26 89 Xeon I do have to give another thank you to Phil also thank you to d'Afrique for telling me to check this one out now I will state that if you're using this as a server or a data center you may not wish to disable the Spector and meltdown updates but I will put some links in the description below if you want to disable specter meltdown and the extra disabling that you can do that I did in this video then I'll list those reg at edits as well you can add in fire opening up PowerShell as administrator and putting them in so ultimately the Xeon still lives strong in 2019 and really the only thing you're going to miss out with this chipset is maybe upgrade ability but even then you can upgrade to a 16 atv2 Ivy Bridge 8 core 16 thread or something like that in the future if you've got a bit more money because we've got USB 3 on the rear and the front out we've got the m2 support on this board as well as having a heap of PCIe lanes and quad channel memory so this one especially the board and the CPU coupled together is a really good combo and with all that out of the way we've now got the question of the day which comes from Jason Frey and he asks could I use my GPU flashing tutorial for a couple of MSI rx 570s and flash them back to stock so you can then put them into a gaming PC and flip them and the question of that is Jason you can certainly do that you've just got to go into the tech powerup website download the original BIOS which matches the model number of your rx 570 because if you try to put another BIOS on there what it will do is that either just won't work at all or you'll have some problems where you still get that X : mark in Windows and so you won't be able to play games on that particular v bios so you can flash it back to normal but do keep in mind that it has been mined on so when I do put mining cards in gaming PCs I do make sure I give them a guarantee and also I do stress test the mining cards that come through here to make sure that they're not faulty or prone to failing before I do flip them in a gaming PC because sometimes even after you install that stock bios you can then go back into Windows and once the driver installs the whole card clunks out so I've had that happen actually quite a few times here at the studio so that is something to be careful of and with all that out of the way I hope you enjoyed today's video on the 26 89 Xeon if you did and be sure to hit that like button also I'll leave some links in the description below for the inspector how to disable that and meltdown and also the reg edit hacks that you can do to disable it even further as well as some of the links for the motherboard and the CPU and some RAM if you want to get the combo anyway with that aside peace out for now bye you\n"