**Budget Six Core Build: A Tinkerer's Delight**

As a tinkerer and enthusiast, I recently embarked on an exciting project – building a six-core system from scratch within a tight budget. The challenge was to create a powerful machine that would rival modern systems at a fraction of the cost. With a focus on Sandy Bridge era components, I aimed to breathe new life into a five-year-old processor.

The build began with the CPU, where I chose an AMD FX-4350 for its six-core performance. Estimated time remaining was four minutes and thirty seconds, with ambient temperature in the room around 83 degrees. The Zephyr CPU cooler was installed on top of the Xeon Six Core, which ran at a moderate 70-80 degrees Celsius. With the addition of a high-performance GPU, such as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, I expected to see significant performance gains.

The motherboard, however, proved to be the most challenging component to secure within my budget. Originally priced at $100, I managed to acquire it for significantly less through a Reddit Hardware Swap, where the seller offered to repair a bent pin and discount the price without charging me extra. The resulting deal was an incredible bargain, saving me over two hundred dollars.

Powering this behemoth of a build would be a reliable power supply unit (PSU) capable of handling the system's power requirements. I opted for a budget-friendly option, which still delivered excellent performance. In contrast to modern motherboards, my X79 board was priced at an outrageous $230, making it an unnecessary expense.

**The Build: A Story of Trial and Error**

Assembling this six-core system required patience and persistence. The process began with the installation of the motherboard, which proved to be a bit more challenging than expected due to its compact design. I had to get creative with the cable management to keep everything organized and functional.

Next came the power supply unit (PSU), which was mounted in the case alongside the motherboard. With six cores running hot, the ambient temperature reached an alarming 82 degrees Celsius, making it imperative to choose a CPU cooler capable of keeping things under control.

After carefully selecting the appropriate components, I installed the graphics card – a GTX 970 – into my main rig, which would be repurposed for this build. The upgrade was well worth it, as the 980 would have cost over two hundred dollars more.

**The Results: A Modern System at an Unbelievable Price**

Once complete, I powered up the system and ran through a series of benchmarks to evaluate its performance. To my surprise, the six-core FX-4350 performed admirably, rivaling modern systems in several areas. The only notable difference was in the graphics card, where a significant gap existed between my 970 and a high-end NVIDIA GeForce.

The final results demonstrated that with some creative tinkering and savvy component selection, it's possible to create a powerful system at an unbelievable price. By choosing components from older generations, I managed to build a six-core machine for under $300 – a testament to the ingenuity of modern PC building.

**Conclusion: A Delightful Surprise**

Throughout this project, I encountered numerous challenges and surprises. From securing the motherboard deal to dealing with the heat generated by my six-core CPU, every aspect of the build required careful consideration. However, the end result was well worth the effort – a remarkable system that not only performed admirably but also offered an unparalleled value proposition.

For those interested in exploring similar builds or simply looking for a creative outlet, I highly recommend giving this project a try. As always, I'm eager to hear from my audience and respond to comments on upcoming projects. Until then, stay tuned for more PC-related content and thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys this is Christmas coalition giving back with the budget Zeon build I've got the overclocked results benchmarks that sort of stuff so stay tuned so the overclock settled out at about four point five degrees and I thought was that like something like one point three nine four volts which to me seems like it's a bit high my overclocked Ivy Bridge is at one point two five five and that's at four point three gigahertz but because there's a newer architecture that was just the updated version of Sandy but to run a little more efficiently so that makes sense however this thing performs like a beast it is a strong processor so without further ado check out my process check out these little benchmarks and yeah I mean it's got the temperatures and all sorts of other fun stuff so enjoy it so here we are in the BIOS as you can see there 45 times 100 that makes for 4.5 gigahertz on the CPU clock memory is set to 1.5 volts but it's getting 1.5 to that's fine I guess and the processor is reporting that it's getting one point three nine four well I actually have it set at one point two eight five but as you can see the the BIOS is giving it more so I'm not really too sure about that however it is under one point 4 volts and I'm happy with that so after about 45 minutes or so of prime95 blend it has settled out at around 80 ADC max maybe a little less depending on the core which is pretty nice it did worry me at first within the first 15 minutes that got up to 8 you know 84 as you can see there 84 on two cores 82 on another on another two cores 78 77 but then you know with all you've been out so that's great we have another little benchmark of sorts here I'm going to be doing a rendering benchmark a little rendering comparison between my main rig which is an Ivy Bridge i7 3770k overclocked to 4.3 gigahertz and that's going to be versus that guy right there the Zeon six core overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz so everything says that that one should win well let's see how this guy stacks up against it so I already queued up everything ready to go this is the unboxing video that I did for that case and all the settings are the same I've already verified that even the file size outputs supposed to be the same 857 megabytes well let me adjust something over here and so now we're looking at the other computer don't mind your scratches on the screen this is just my bench test monitor so there it is all the settings again the same even the estimated file size and I noticed this will check on the other one so I got to make sure that that that is exactly the same as well and it is okay so again I have to do this real quick here let's City let's see then actually we started on this guy 1 2 and 3 and exploit okay all right let's see and they're off to the races this one estimated time remaining four minutes and about thirty seconds over here with the xenon six core estimate the time remaining three minutes and two well ho three minutes and thirty seconds wow it's already a whole minute faster than it just a word on the temps ambient temperature in that room right now let's see here since I have a sensor in there it is about 83 degrees yeah two high-performance computers running at the same time they're going to get a room hot so 82 degrees ambient temperature let's see what the temps are hat we have the Z on the end over here running at around whoo high 70s it's touched 81 not bad I mean it's overclocked a little bit of a high V Corps on there but it's going and that's currently at one minute remaining over here one minute 33 seconds remaining now your attempts doing 64 65 it looks like it's touched up to 70 it is a lower wattage processor donut getting a lot less volts to it as well alright we're on the home stretch we have 10 seconds left on the Xeon 45 seconds left on the i7 3770k looks like xeon e5 1650 has not quite completed it yet then done those neon winds as expected Xeon wins while the 4770k still had about 15 seconds left and that's just 15 seconds left on that part it still has some more time to go after this actually complete so it's really seems liquids factoring this end about a minute behind which isn't a whole lot but if you do a lot of rendering or it was a much longer video see over there just finished there's a much longer video that would it be a more significant difference great so that does it for the budget six core build it performs great it spews out heat more than I'd like but you know that's normal for being a high PDP processor as it is but in terms of performance it's up there hanging in there with like the r5 1600s rather when those are stock which is awesome I turned a $93 processor into a two to $300 modern brand new one and so this is Sandy Bridge this is from what five years ago something like that now and it's hanging in there just fine takes a little bit of an overclock but it's doing it so that's really nice so $93 is the process it ran was $55 the the CPU cooler that was $84 the case that was $55 the power supply that was $55 is a good deal though the motherboard that one I'm proud of because there was $100 I got it on a reddit Hardware swap had bent pins one of the dims wasn't supposed to work well I took it to a jeweler repair shop they took care of it they didn't even charge me which is super cool and it worked so that was a gamble and it paid off because this motherboard I need legal is for like two hundred and thirty dollars now and yeah that's just way too much right now for x79 given that their performance at what they're at overclocked is what a modern system with Rison is so the value just isn't there anymore it just is so come on next thirty nine prices drop the processors are cheap what about the motherboards come on you need to drop already graphics cards in this one was a bit of a difference here because I spent two hundred fifty dollars upgrade my main rig to a 980 and I took the 970 that was in it stuck it into this guy and I just basically it was an excuse to upgrade but I was looking at something that $80 range for graphics cards so that would have been like a four digit by 960 or something like that for example maybe even a Ford gigabyte 770 if I couldn't get a good enough deal on a 96 however this 970 is going to be going in my mini rig little mini computer and that 77 is going to get swapped in here because I'm still not exactly sure what I want to do with this ship it was a fun build and I was happy to do it happy that is to put out the numbers that I did when the benchmarks I love the tinker and I'd love to experiment with this stuff so it was just something that I was I was doing for fun and it's great I really liked it but uh not entirely sure I want to do four with it from here so I guess we'll see anyways this is Chris coalition gaming if you guys liked this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't like it give it a thumbs down leave a comment let's talk about it subscribe for more there's always more coming and I will see you guys in the next video byehey guys this is Christmas coalition giving back with the budget Zeon build I've got the overclocked results benchmarks that sort of stuff so stay tuned so the overclock settled out at about four point five degrees and I thought was that like something like one point three nine four volts which to me seems like it's a bit high my overclocked Ivy Bridge is at one point two five five and that's at four point three gigahertz but because there's a newer architecture that was just the updated version of Sandy but to run a little more efficiently so that makes sense however this thing performs like a beast it is a strong processor so without further ado check out my process check out these little benchmarks and yeah I mean it's got the temperatures and all sorts of other fun stuff so enjoy it so here we are in the BIOS as you can see there 45 times 100 that makes for 4.5 gigahertz on the CPU clock memory is set to 1.5 volts but it's getting 1.5 to that's fine I guess and the processor is reporting that it's getting one point three nine four well I actually have it set at one point two eight five but as you can see the the BIOS is giving it more so I'm not really too sure about that however it is under one point 4 volts and I'm happy with that so after about 45 minutes or so of prime95 blend it has settled out at around 80 ADC max maybe a little less depending on the core which is pretty nice it did worry me at first within the first 15 minutes that got up to 8 you know 84 as you can see there 84 on two cores 82 on another on another two cores 78 77 but then you know with all you've been out so that's great we have another little benchmark of sorts here I'm going to be doing a rendering benchmark a little rendering comparison between my main rig which is an Ivy Bridge i7 3770k overclocked to 4.3 gigahertz and that's going to be versus that guy right there the Zeon six core overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz so everything says that that one should win well let's see how this guy stacks up against it so I already queued up everything ready to go this is the unboxing video that I did for that case and all the settings are the same I've already verified that even the file size outputs supposed to be the same 857 megabytes well let me adjust something over here and so now we're looking at the other computer don't mind your scratches on the screen this is just my bench test monitor so there it is all the settings again the same even the estimated file size and I noticed this will check on the other one so I got to make sure that that that is exactly the same as well and it is okay so again I have to do this real quick here let's City let's see then actually we started on this guy 1 2 and 3 and exploit okay all right let's see and they're off to the races this one estimated time remaining four minutes and about thirty seconds over here with the xenon six core estimate the time remaining three minutes and two well ho three minutes and thirty seconds wow it's already a whole minute faster than it just a word on the temps ambient temperature in that room right now let's see here since I have a sensor in there it is about 83 degrees yeah two high-performance computers running at the same time they're going to get a room hot so 82 degrees ambient temperature let's see what the temps are hat we have the Z on the end over here running at around whoo high 70s it's touched 81 not bad I mean it's overclocked a little bit of a high V Corps on there but it's going and that's currently at one minute remaining over here one minute 33 seconds remaining now your attempts doing 64 65 it looks like it's touched up to 70 it is a lower wattage processor donut getting a lot less volts to it as well alright we're on the home stretch we have 10 seconds left on the Xeon 45 seconds left on the i7 3770k looks like xeon e5 1650 has not quite completed it yet then done those neon winds as expected Xeon wins while the 4770k still had about 15 seconds left and that's just 15 seconds left on that part it still has some more time to go after this actually complete so it's really seems liquids factoring this end about a minute behind which isn't a whole lot but if you do a lot of rendering or it was a much longer video see over there just finished there's a much longer video that would it be a more significant difference great so that does it for the budget six core build it performs great it spews out heat more than I'd like but you know that's normal for being a high PDP processor as it is but in terms of performance it's up there hanging in there with like the r5 1600s rather when those are stock which is awesome I turned a $93 processor into a two to $300 modern brand new one and so this is Sandy Bridge this is from what five years ago something like that now and it's hanging in there just fine takes a little bit of an overclock but it's doing it so that's really nice so $93 is the process it ran was $55 the the CPU cooler that was $84 the case that was $55 the power supply that was $55 is a good deal though the motherboard that one I'm proud of because there was $100 I got it on a reddit Hardware swap had bent pins one of the dims wasn't supposed to work well I took it to a jeweler repair shop they took care of it they didn't even charge me which is super cool and it worked so that was a gamble and it paid off because this motherboard I need legal is for like two hundred and thirty dollars now and yeah that's just way too much right now for x79 given that their performance at what they're at overclocked is what a modern system with Rison is so the value just isn't there anymore it just is so come on next thirty nine prices drop the processors are cheap what about the motherboards come on you need to drop already graphics cards in this one was a bit of a difference here because I spent two hundred fifty dollars upgrade my main rig to a 980 and I took the 970 that was in it stuck it into this guy and I just basically it was an excuse to upgrade but I was looking at something that $80 range for graphics cards so that would have been like a four digit by 960 or something like that for example maybe even a Ford gigabyte 770 if I couldn't get a good enough deal on a 96 however this 970 is going to be going in my mini rig little mini computer and that 77 is going to get swapped in here because I'm still not exactly sure what I want to do with this ship it was a fun build and I was happy to do it happy that is to put out the numbers that I did when the benchmarks I love the tinker and I'd love to experiment with this stuff so it was just something that I was I was doing for fun and it's great I really liked it but uh not entirely sure I want to do four with it from here so I guess we'll see anyways this is Chris coalition gaming if you guys liked this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't like it give it a thumbs down leave a comment let's talk about it subscribe for more there's always more coming and I will see you guys in the next video bye\n"