Around Tech YES City we have been known to delve into the wonderful and magical
land of the Xeon and today we have our friend the 1680 v2 and this is a
CPU that was made back in 2013 eight cores 16 threads and it was
overclockable and it's such a special CPU not just because it's a Xeon but
also because there was no i7 equivalent out on the x79 lineup where the maximum
core and thread count you can get with the i7 was 6 cores 12 threads though
nowadays you can pick this Xeon up for around 200 US dollars and the best thing
about today's video is I literally pulled the multiple that I'm using in
today's comparison out of a dumpster and then I bent some pins back and we got it
working and the best thing is we're overclocking quite well so we've got
this CPU up to 4.6 gigahertz overclocked up from it's three gigahertz base clock
and these numbers that you're going to see today still show that the old-school
Zeon's are nothing to laugh at where we're coupling it with a 20 atti and
we're also giving it quad channel ddr3 21 33 megahertz XMP memory versus the 39
50x with its 3600 mega at CL 16 and also the 10 900k with its CL 1630 600
megahertz so enough talk it's time for the return of the Xeon hey dude I love
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links in description below so moving into these results we've got over clocks
on the 10900 k 5.2 gigahertz all core then we move over to the 39 50x we've
got a overclock of 4.4 gigahertz all core and then we move at at 1680 v 2 as
we said in the intro 4.6 gigahertz all cooked now we use the same CPU cooler
across the board this is the H 115 i RGB platinum and without further ado let's
look at these results pulling up shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p high settings
direct x12 we see here the 10 100 K does pull ahead of the competition
quite substantially here getting 170 average FPS there's 138 and 133 now
something interesting about shadow of the Tomb Raider I'm not used to seeing
FPS this high so something must have happened recently with this game that
allowed a guest the 10900 K in particular to do a lot better than I
previously seen with it but another thing I have done with the Intel CPUs is
I have disabled specter and meltdown and also on the AMD side that's
automatically immune to meltdown and then for the specter protection I leave
that enabled actually because I find it gives it better fps
so for shadow of the Tomb Raider at the 1680 v - dude lose out by a little bit
however that being said we move on to the division - and here we saw a slight
victory for the 1680 b2 versus the 3950 X and then the 10900 K pulled out ahead
but it wasn't by a whole lot and this is a 1080p setting with a 20 atti
that the Xeon didn't want to just stop there I wanted to show the world that
it's still capable of bugging and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon we scored some
impressive results here with 175 average FPS versus 171 on the 3950 x versus 203
on the 10900 k then we move over to war zone where we got 201 with 110 at 1% and
point one percent losses with 88 on the 10900 k4 this is a hundred and
eighty-seven 93 and 75 on the 39 50 X this is 195 95 and 78 on the Z on now
another thing about the war zone settings this time around I did change
them to what I consider or at least what I researched was competitive settings
we've got high textures and also an SEO tropic filtering on higher but a lot of
the other stuff is on low but you also up the field of view to a hundred which
is what most pro streamers use though the next game up here we've got a
special for you guys grounded not yet released but I've got early access to
this game so I'm able to test it for you guys and we've got here the 10900 case
growing 102 at 1080p high settings with good 17.1% lows same for the 39 50 x
that did well and also the zealand did very impressive here to scoring 97 81
and 58 the last game we're pulling up for you guys is 49 where the 10900 k
decided it wanted to scream ahead with 500 and
forty average FPS with the one percent lows pretty much matching that and
actually higher than that of the Xeon and matching that of the 39 50 X with
362 average FPS versus 339 so with those numbers out of the way a cpu from 2013
given the right circumstances given the right memory because if we're putting
this high-powered memory on the newest and latest and greatest Intel and Rison
systems we should do the same for the older Xeon and doing so showed that this
quad channel 1680 v2 does do an impressive job even in 2020 and it goes
to show if you can find someone just giving away or selling an X 79
motherboard for virtually nothing and say for instance you can find a good CPU
cooler on sale then nothing stopping you from getting really good FPS out of the
old-school stuff and honestly for the 1680 v2 even though it doesn't have the
latest avx2 instruction sets most of these games here it was showing that it
was performing extremely well and I was actually blown away by the performance
of this CPU granted the Zeon's do need a lot more tuning and manual overclocking
than the 39 50 X and also the 10 900 K but I guess in ways that is the beauty
of some of this older gear that out of the box it's sort of a bit dormant but
once you start giving it throttle it really responds in a response in a big
manner that one thing I will say is in the case of the 10900 K and the 1680 v2
is once you start moving up to these really high of clock speeds the power
consumption does go up and we can see this in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon where
I've testing the power consumption here and it's going around 400 watts for the
10 900k going up to a maximum of 398 watts and then on the rising system were
scoring 351 watts and then on the Xeon we went up to 465 watts so the
old-school x79 staff does juice a bit more power especially when you're gaming
but of course if you pick it up cheap enough and power doesn't cost a whole
lot where you live then something like this may be a good consideration if
you're looking to build the best price performance high-end gaming rig into
and 20 now of course it is used and there is the risk of anything used not
working a hundred percent or having some weird problem but I find most the time
with used deals as long as you scope it out and you see it tested and working
before you get it or you get some kind of confirmation that the parts work
properly then you're usually in good hands now one more thing with the 1680
v2 is that it doesn't support the latest avx2 instruction sets so what this means
is that if some game or some program comes out in the future that it requires
a B x2 or it works a lot better with a V x2 then the 1680 v2z on will fall behind
against its new at counter parts and a perfect example of this is Cinebench r20
even though it's a synthetic benchmark it does highlight the differences
between the maximum theoretical performance of the ten 900k versus the
39 50x versus the 1680 v suit with a 39 50x with its 16 cores 32 threads is
really geared up in a different league for productivity than these other two
CPUs and then of course the 10 900k is also in a different league compared to
the 1680 v2 if you need productivity with a VX - anyhow with all
that out of the way if you guys enjoyed today's xeon showdown versus the latest
and greatest then be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the
comments section below what you think of the older Zeon's as I love reading your
thoughts and opinions as always and don't worry when you guys keep messaging
me in the comments spamming video after video that you want to see more Zeon's I
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on panasonic again this was done on the G 8x which I picked up on a bargain I'm
gonna end up getting this camera for like 50 ozzie dollars and if you guys
want to hear how I'll talk about that in the used part son of the month and this
is the sinner like V profile which I have sorely missed
I changed over to Sony for cameras and filming and now I'm kind of thinking
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