The Original 4K Gaming PC

The HAF 912 was peak gamer case design.

Ahhhh ill never forget it was like 2015 i got my first tax return and insisted on upgrading to a 4k asus monitor. While running an amd fx8320 and a gtx 970, officially had myself a potato that could only get 20fps max in any game and totally killed it for me 😅😂

To this day 1440p 165hz monitor is far superior in my opinion

Man continuing on further, you just continued going through my teenage years and I really cannot belive how old some of the games you talked about already are! Great video man seriously! :D

Oh Shadow of mordor is and was a great game!

I see my GTX 1080 as a 4K gaming card. Especially since my main monitor is 4K and has been since 2016.

I rocked almost this same setup in ~2013-16

When 2 690 were 4k gaming back to 2012, The 750 ti were back to 2014 ealier time te same fps but in 1080p.

I would request about the 750 ti, because this card was the budget king back to 2014, no matter if 720p or 1080p for the same old games vs current.

one thing to mention about your gta v test is that lowering the texture quality is likely what made for the unenjoyable spikes in frametime and all. This is because in all of their wisdom, rockstar decided to only include the textures for the high setting (and above if it exists i don't remember). For all texture quality settings lower than high, they are compressed on the fly from the higher quality files, giving your hardware a much harder time than needed

Speaking of GTA V, the upcoming GTA VI looks so realistic it’s almost like it’s an IRL movie. I’ll bet that required at least an RTX 4070 or AMD RX 7700 to get that level of fidelity.

I'm still using this case！

When I bought new parts and case I did not sell my old Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus. I later built PC for my mother and this case is so good 10+ years later!

the fact that my laptop is like 4x the speed of this thing yet it's only around $700 is blowing my mind, although I am not sure that in a decade time we'll see small laptops for $700 not only out performing the 4090, but also absolutely smashing it, that would be interesting to see

i had the hef x too thinking it would last me forever lol , their hard drive emplacement take so much space , my 4080 could not fit in it at all. had to change the case but im glad i did, new case is so well made.

I had a similar setup back in the day with a core i7 990x and a GTX 690 and I think around 24GB of RAM, it was a beast for so long. I was only around 15 years old so I don’t remember this clearly but I have to give big props to my dad he was the real one for giving his 15 year old son the top of the line hardware to get his curiosity fired up. I definitely miss him a lot.

I built my PC in 2014. my gtx 970 and i7 4790k served me well

Activate Windows You Broke Pleb!

this is actually pretty surprising and nostalgic to see
back in 2012 i was using a core 2 duo (can't even remember the model, but it wasn't a good experience, especially after boosting the clock to get that extra 300 mhz) and a gtx550ti with 4 gb of ram with a 1024x768 monitor - which I've only upgraded to 1080p with a q6600 c2q in ~2015

I still use my HAF 912 BE till this day, such a good case

The tower case is still attractive.

I still use this case lmao

I remember using my GTX 690 on 1080p until 2016 when I got a 4k monitor for it but that was only a year of 4K gaming on the 690 as Ark Survival Evolved trashed the GPU for VRAM reasons, so I ended up changing to a 1080ti. Loved the card and it was super weird, but the VRAM limits were so unfortunate :(

consoles easily were in 1080 in 2012. thats a year away from ps4 and it was hardly a jump

Your slapping bro 👌

It’s 2023 and I’m okay with 1440p

GTX 690 💀💀

You should make another Version of this with the 1080Ti or 2080Ti. See how well they aged.

40 yeah wait till 50 it will come in faster than you think

Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War(the sequal) are actually really fucking fun games. especially Shadow of War as long as you aren't a super LOTR lore nerd and can forgive a few lore blunders. Super smooth combat, upgraded nemesis system, building up armies and for raids. you can even set up fort for other online to raid and can go raid other players forts with their captains and armies.

i still got this case and GeForce GTX 780 Ti in the closet LOL

"bleeding edge components" "entry level cpu"

You know back in 2012 is when i actually really started getting deep into gaming and learning more about computers.
And i had a core 2 duo cpu with 2gb of ram in my g44 chipset motherboard. And i actually played Skyrim in it and at that time i didn't even know about fps and everything. To me if a game ran it ran. And when i came to know about fps. I checked it on my old pc Skyrim literally ran at 12fps. I'm still in shock how did i even manage to explore Skyrim and finish it..
I knew about few parts but damn i wouldn't even dare to dream to hold an pc like this at that age 😢😢..

You need a GTX 690

I only clicked this video because the cm haf912. I'm using that case rn

TWENTY TWELVE!

i have that case

Though it was huge, that cool master haf was a sturdy as a tank and loved the quick release drive bays.

just did a 4k 80+fps build for <$500 xD

I actually had that exact machine, well sorta I used an i7 3960x with a gtx 590

so im gonna go ahead and say the 2080 super was last big SLI card... becasue if i remember correctly the rtx 3090 was first single card to out preform SLI

Me; the peasant still playing on an 1155(i7-3770K) in 2024 😅

Sleeper hit, good one :D

i still have the i7 3770 and a GT640 laying around from my first build in 2012 XD

lol those cases with the removable slots on front is so nostalgic. i remember slightly bumping them and they would get all misaligned all the time. drove me nuts. also, present day mid tower cases are so much easier to build in.

I had an MSI X79 GD65 8D paired with an i7 3820 like in this video, also back in 2012. Eventually the motherboard fried and I bought a beastly Rampage Extreme IV Black Edition (with free Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag about a year later. I finished off the PC with a Radeon HD 7950 and then eventually paired it with a R9 280 which were basically the same card and could be CrossFired. I remember firing it up maybe 5 years ago now and was pleasantly surprised with how well it held up. Before eventually dismantling the PC and selling all the components separately, I did upgrade my GPU to a GTX 1650 and still kept the rest as is, I was getting very nice performance in Resident Evil 2 even in 2019! Granted settings were low but it just goes to show that Crossfire and SLI really was a blessing and it's a shame AMD and Intel decided to stop supporting them as they did help to yield some decent FPS.

All idiots that are building a “future proof” PC nowadays should watch this video… that 4090 is not immoral my dude…

You can pcie nvme that motherboard with a bios update. I have it with the same processor that is seriously overlooked.

I miss those early-2010's PC cases. They had real air entrances instead of just a flat glass that blocks the front and side fans. Also, their LEDs weren't visual polution.

Baby Linus🤣🫡

Funny enough that case reminds me of my grandpas old pc yes my grandpa I kind of looks like it it was a cooler master