If anyone wants to catch Steve all they have to do is make a trail of CPUs leading to a small pile of CPUs underneath a box propped up by a stick

5:17 "What's chat saying? ... 'LN2 the A/C'. Well, chat hasn't changed much in a year." This is gonna be a good stream. 😆

You can seald that dead CPUs in clear epoxy and polish them for key chain purpose

With this set of CPUs, Gamers Nexus can now build the world's slowest super computer.

The legend. The champion. The Core2 Quad Q6600. Easiest 50% overclock from 2.4 to 3.6 GHz of all times. Thanks team Blue, served well.

SL69Z - the cpu was just known as Celeron 1,7GHz. There were no models back then, everyone was just using frequency to differentiate parts.

The 4400+ is an oddball - either a throwaway AM2 or a collectible S939 CPU. Retro collectors covet Socket 939 X2s because they were the first dual cores on PC (alongside the Intel Pentium D which launched the same month), and they ran on the last mainstream platform to use DDR1. Cool if you're cataloging or curating a collection, but if you just want to play old XP games on an old PC, AM2 is more practical. One thing I love about these CPUs is the socket - AM4 coolers like the Wraith Prism work on these retro CPUs without any jank (all the way back to Socket 754), as does the RGB control software in Windows XP :D

The first computer i ever used was my dad's old Athatlon 64 machine. He built it out of scraped workstation/server parts from his job pre 2005: -Athatlon 64 dual core -4gb ram -optical disk drive -Windows XP -don't remember the gpu although it was starting to show its age in my 2010s childhood, it was apparently quite the beast when it was first put together.

As someone who works in PC recycling, most of our CPUs we pull out of machines that old get sold off in bulk because otherwise we wouldn't turn a profit after eBay fees and shipping.

32:38 Pretty sure the "blue can" you're talking about is CRC QD contact cleaner. I believe it has things to break up corrosion(detergents? Oleic acid similar to de-ox-it?) as opposed to the electrical cleaner you use(isopropyl and some standard petroleum distillates such as butane/pentane/hexane/naptha) which is just an evaporating solvent mixture.

Just high pass the audio channels at 100hz to emilante the low frequency energy and preserve the vocal. Plus you won’t sweat your ballroom out..

Would definitely enjoy some more LN2 w Joe

I am probly your oldest sub... I was building rigs back when win 95 was all the rage (LOL)... I enjoy your honest reviews, and though I ignored your certain reviews. Got a good deal on a (new i7-11700K mated with 32Gb G skill Trident Z running at 3600Mhz.. and an XFX RX 6700 XT...Prior, I had an XFX RX 570... Horribly overworked, but made a nice secondary heat source,, in these cold Michigan winters..) I am pretty happy with how she games... On the plus side.. I put all this mess, in a Mastercooler RN600 case, (which you seem to liked) So, Yay!!,, It does what I need it to... I know, "Meh effect on the CPU"... Still I am happy, I have a gigabyte z590 ud ac MB, so Overclocking the CPU is probly A moot point, thus far, anyways.. Love your content, appreciate you (all you folks)... Keep up the good work!!

30:55 that stuff is also a STAPLE in automotive work. Relays, solenoids, sockets. Especially in old equipment that's sat, a quick spray of that can usually fix an issue, or at least postpone it long enough for you to go buy a proper replacement part.

Today on Gamers Nexus... Antiques Road Show.

I paid $200 for one of those E6750s. Ran it at 3.6GHz, undervolted, until I had to upgrade the RAM (4 double-sided DIMMs was too much for much more than 800MHz). Then, I ran it at 3.2GHz, until a storm zapped the board and CPU, forcing me to buy into Haswell.

From memory I think that all Athlon 64's were + models, as their designation was allegedly what speed a comparable Intel part would need to be running at for equivalent performance.

If you wanna keep the AC on, a noise reduction plugin should easily control the consistent ac hum. it's been a while since I have been in that space but something from Isotope should be good

Steve you should make a resin counter top with the cpu's in

Steve's lootboxes are cpu boxes.

I work at Intel and we recently chucked about 10k random CPU/GPU chips.

CPUs like these will generally work, I've gone through a few hundred 775 chips that I buy off people stripping old office PCs and bin them for OCing, usually you'll maybe find 1/50 or so be DOA...

Each CPU probably has more then $1 worth of gold in the pins.

I have a load of OLD cpus. 386, 486, and some OverDrive chips, up to Pentium II. I think the gold content is worth more than the CPU resale price.

Steeve starts looking at the CPUs at 10:45

I had a Core2Duo E6600 back then, it was the first build from scratch with my own wages and it blew my mind how fast it was coming from an Athlon Thunderbird ♥

Steve reading marketing material is the best thing ever, should be a monthly 3h+ stream of just that.

My first PC I built from scratch was an E6300. I immediately overclocked it to 2.8ghz and ran it like that from 2006 to 2012.

My first pc I built I worked construction for a summer and bought a x2 4400+ with a GeForce 7900gtx. That x2 was a beast and I was the first one in my school’s computer club to have a dual core. Good times

Glad to have the streams back.

I hope you see this! I'd like to offer some info on the AMD's you've found. It took me down memory lane. I had them when I was 12. I was delivering news papers every saturday (two routes, used all day) to buy these CPU's, and I say these because I burned a few. There were two models. Socket 939 being the ones I went with. If you had an older socket 939 motherboard that went with the Athlon 3800+ you could actually slot in these athlon x2 4200 - 4800+ and still run them, just with one core. The biggest difference was the VGA connection, where the socket AM2 variant had PCIe x16 (gen 1) and socket 939 had AGP x8. I build a 939 system, where the BIOS couldn't tell which CPU it was, but still ran on one core. I updated the BIOS and destroyed that motherboard, having to buy another. This was about the time where I had ATI X850 XT PE GPU. What was very funny was that this was about the time where Half Life 1 was the big thing, and everybody played counter-strike 1.6 using that new steam thing (If anyone remember SuperHero MOD and Warcraft mods, I was a huge part in building those mods, especially the coding). But the real funny part was that the GoldSrc engine the game ran on had no idea how to handle dual core, and if two cores were assigned to the game it would run double speed, effectively giving you speedhack in the game, also on VAC (Valve Anti Cheat) servers, and you didn't get a ban. It was patched later, but that half year of free speedhack was quite the experience for 14 year old little me. I rebuild the system various times, made my own full acrylic blue UV reactive case, and descovered overclocking, burning the 4400+ within a day, and got a new 4800+ (basically ALL my money), this time mildly overclocking it. I actually don't remember off the top of my head, but I believe socket 939 was DDR1, and AM2 was DDR2, so there were two CPU's with the same name, but vastly different. Also, I have been media and actually saw you guys in Taiwan a few times. I was there about 5 years in a row doing a danish-only media. I never spoke to any of you as you all seem extremely busy and serious when on location so didn't want to disturb you guys, just wanted to tell that story too! This media got me into XOC, having multiple phase changers, and even a cascade imported from Italy that can go down to -120. Also doing nitrogen as hobby now, and also just wanted to say that I used to really love your XOC streams. Sometimes I would be XOC'ing on same hardware as you while watching your streams in the past. I never posted anything though, just letting you know (if you see this) that you have kept a small spark alive in me as well, and still doing XOC but money is a bit tight. I used to get the hardware like you from the media part, but now I have to buy it so I won't follow and XOC same hardware anymore. Thanks for it all!

Ayyyy I'm also still using an FX8350! Except mine doesn't need to be under volted. And I upgraded the gpu from a GTX960 > RX580

Wish I'd watched this live. Totally would've bought something from the store and if I'd gotten a CPU and it was in usable condition, I'd have totally built a rig around it.

Oh follow up! The ones that don't work u could sign but them on ebay live for bids and donate to charity or something

We do medical IT work and 2020 started the Year of the Hacker with a bang. A 80+ hospital group had their network hacked and ransomware deployed. Computers going down isn't a huge thing unless environmental controls and power systems are connected. To quote The Offspring..."you gotta keep 'em separated." There's AU in those CPU.

1:49:08 Steve's face made me choke on my coffee. Damn I nearly drowned laughing 😂😂

I would have made a chess board with them encased in resin of course

All of those CPUs are useless today, but as collector's items I'm surprised that some aren't worth more. Some of the old dual cores like the Athlon 64 X2 and early Core 2 Duo's were pretty revolutionary in establishing modern multi-core chip design. Single-core 32-bit computing was everywhere at that time. Even after 17 years they're still practically e-waste.

As a kid, I remember trying to see if we could melt marshmallows in a pan faster over a Pentium Pro vs. SCSI HDD (while running defrag). Ah, the memories!

It's a shame you weren't wearing the same shirt you were wearing when the Taiwan footage was shot. It woulda made the Steve pointing at Steve pointing at coolers part a tiny bit more surreal.

I would absolutely buy a bag of mystery CPUs.

Aww, I missed the live stream. Love the TV logo though! 🙂🍁

Good to see you live-streaming again.

I'd really love a retro build! Or even a retro build series. I've been thinking of building a Windows XP gaming rig, CRT monitor and all to play old games like Diablo 1/2, Oblivion, etc as a kind of nostalgia machine. I'd love to have a reference/resource and guide in how to build a high-quality and reliable gaming rig using old/rescued hardware. Thanks!

I love Athlon 64. They're perfect, they make amazing pin donors for broken Ryzen CPUs.

I think my first scratch build was a Cyrix (Ciryx?). Always on the fringe was I.

1:40:24 This is Northwood celeron 1.7Ghz. My parents bought me a PC with this CPU in 2003, it served me for for over 5 years for studying and gaming (warcraft 3, heroes of might and magic 3). I've upgraded it to c2d e8400 in 2008, what a difference it was :O

With that TV you have in the background, you can now do the "back to you steve" gag to yourself. 😂👍

I would love to see a part two where u had a few systems ready to take the cpu's and we got to play will it post.

I always check out what the refurbished item would cost when buying stuff. Most of the time I find that refurbished has very light use wear, works great, comes with the same or better warranty than new, and cost half the price. I've got a refurbished Mac Air from 2018 that still runs great! I went out on a limb and bought a refurbished turtle beach headset but when it showed up it seemed brand spanking new. I got into to checking out refurbished tools with my dad back in the day cause they run half the price with the same warranty as new but quality control is 100 percent. A human has touched and tested every single piece of refurbished items. Keeps cost down and keeps some stuff out of the landfill a little bit longer.

Regarding the first CPU that Steve picked up: I had a C2D E6600 as my first CPU. I managed to somehow overclock that thing to 3 GHz while using what I assume to be the stock heat sink after I got a new PC. It was still really slow when I did it because it was about ten years old at that time but I was impressed with its overclockability especially given that the temps were still manageable with a stock heat sink (though said heat sink was double the height of the modern stock heat sinks)... (I hope there isn’t some other "E6600" CPU from back in the day that I could have confused that with.)

I just love how that guy smiled when TechJesus bought all his old cpus. lol

Steve, you should try portrait mode with a high res monitor instead of an ultrawide for spreadsheets. The cool thing is that you can zoom out on whatever spreadsheet and see soooo much more stuff!

I found your channel a few months ago and have been watching ALL of your past content as I just had a total hip replacement and don't get PTO sooo,, moving on. I am A+ certified and have not built a system since AMD hit 1GHz. That being said, ALOT has changed and because of the content you put out I feel like I have "caught up" on the current tech. I built an R5 3300G with a 2080 OC edition and man I wish I had found yall before hand. I have since upgraded MOBOs and CPU/GPU thx to YOUR content I now have an entry lvl/High end system,, and am upgrading as soon as I can get back to work??!?? ATM I now have an R% 3600, 3060ti and want to go with an R7 5800x, 3080ti with a ROG Strix B550-F. AGAIN,, TYVM for your content. It especially helped with my decision on power supply's. BTW, I have an AMD keychain that has a 450MHz chip in a block of epoxy that I received from an AMD rep that came to the school I was going to in 2000. And my oldest machine was a Hewlett Packard with a 166Mhz processor!!

I'm so excited you did a livestream again it's been to long

"one second, Im getting something cool" *comes back with a cold beer*

Was watching this on my Phenom II X4 975 HTPC, almost expecting that would show up in that pile. But as you get closer to the top of the line (even for C2D, C2Q, etc.) they climb up in price exponentially on eBay and sometimes even coming at two thirds of their launch MSRP...

I feel like no one appreciated the "I brought my own chips" poker joke 😂

When the very first CPU Steve picks out is the first CPU I ever had 😯

Every outlet in the wall behind Steve has different heights, sizes, none of them are aligned and some of them are crooked... 😱 Just kidding, I love that you are streaming again!

This is the real reason GN had to get bigger building, to store all of Steves hoarded CPUs.

You should have a retro PC rig build off with other UKpostsrs! That would be awesome!

Happy to see you live streaming, sad I missed it.

You and the team should sign the CPUs for the lucky dip.

Hoping for more live streams in the future!

Thanks for the laughs thru out the stream 58:22

Dope free stand. Me like the sweet set Steve :) So much room for activities

couple ideas for the new space. Get a grandfather clock built and have computer parts with the GN logo act as the fact. You could also get a claw machine for the staff and put in the surplus used ram and cpus no longer used along with GN gear in the machine..

I haven't started watching the replay, but will a separate summary video be posted?

Honestly 775 socket stuff, especially if set up with a 771 Xeon can still be damn near relevant. I have one with a 1650 and 8gb DDR3 and a SATA SSD that lives in an old Shuttle XPC and is solid little light gaming and Web browsing PC!

35:20 The way you held that monitor Steve, I hope it wasn't working when you held it like that.

You guys should do some youtube short videos like funny moments

you could do ln2 binning tests on the E5200's see which one is best

Steve, I have a couple of old xeon cpu and would like a motherboard to stick them in and you mentioned a manufacturer but no idea what you said and suggestions where to look

Yes I see that you definitely brought your chips to this PC poker game I want to know more about your mountain bike you have only done one shred session I would love to see a second

Tbh kinda wish I had some of these I still have a couple AM2 systems and some old LGA775 (including one server I believe not sure if it is 775)

Love the new shop.

i bought the 6300 in 2008 i believe it was the first x4 cpu they came out with

Well the engineering sample appears to be an ~2002, single core Intel Pentium 4, 2.6Ghz, Northwood, 130nm, (RK80532PC064512, 80532PC064512), PPGA478, ID:0F27h, Stepping C1, S-Spec:QMT0(ES) engineering sample. Nice one!🤔

of all the cpu's here the most interesting to me would be the Athlon II 620 (the deneb core one). I have a motherboard here which might be able to unlock that l3 cache, not garaunteed but would be fun trying it out. you never know, it could end up being a Phenom II B50 CPU, I've had one of the x3s unlock and overclock to 3.8Ghz on that board before. Always fun tinkering with them.

I really appreciate the effort to eliminate single use plastic

I would love it if you got in touch with DIY Perks (he referenced you in his latest PS5 video) and tested his 'Worlds first Slimline PS5'. It is a beautiful bit of kit tbf.

It would be great to do a build that you stuck those all over the case and did a cpu case design. Would look amazing. Use a bunch as art design that way.

Back in the olden days, I worked for AMD in Austin and those CPUs were probably worth more than their weight in gold. So much for holding their value.

I had a 4400+. OC'd it, loved it!! Bought it for $450 at the time.

Oh wow, yeah I'll be waiting even longer for a AM5 system, I specced up a system without GPU at £720. But I was in the US travelling from SF to LA and over the Vegas, so stopped over at Microcenter in California, picked up a 5600G for $120 and 32GB of 3600 memory for $80. I'm impressed by the performance increase from a 2200G and 16GB of 2400 memory. But I'm willing to wait for the prices of AM5 systems to come down and will probably look to get an AM5 X3D with as many cores as is practical against cost and power usage. Performance per watt is always a very useful graph to have as you are pretty much telling me what the cost of doing any computational work is.

35:57 when Steve said "c19" I heard it as "CL19" and I was like "Of course he's allergic to slow RAM"

I am currently running Windows 11 on an i5 2500 non-k system. Works fine but is DEFINITELY showing its age now.

Core 2 Duo E6750 was the CPU my first personal PC had. Athlon II X4 640 after that.

Neat video. The first CPU I bought was the E6600

One of the nicest keyboards i have ever owned was the Microsoft Sidewinder X6 back when i first built my 3770K. It was not mechanical but it was so nice... amazing looking keyboard.

Ive had most of those cpu's and still do. I did a lot of overclocking and fiddling around with stuff many years ago Jayztwocents thinks he was first to think of using aircons to cool overclocking haha, he wasn't by far.. I actally have my E6600 setup mounted on my wall. Obviously i cannot post pictures here.

Hey steve I need old chips, like legit. Are you going to list any by chance?

lokking forward to more live streams

Many many years ago, my first custom PC was a DX-2 66. From there managed to just upgrade the dx4-100 chip and the old.... OLD spider looking bios to get it to work right with a diamond stealth 4mb upgradable to 16mb, which I did and managed to get my hands on a 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator. From there around the time the thunderbird 1ghz was released I was able to afford to go to an AMD Athlon 400 full upgrade and got my first pci graphics card with it. I think it was 16mb but I can't think of what it was. Recently had to return home and the system's still here along with an ancient SX-33 which I'm using as a stand for my modem. Times, they certainly change but I'm so tempted to get the old dos box up and running, complete with the oooold 5 1/4 inch drive. The beginnings of an obsession that has ended with a 5950x 3090 strix 128mb ram system, with looking at making a 7950X3d 4090 VR system for the lounge and another for gaming in the office. It definitely started an obsession.

it would be great to decorate the studio walls with all those CPUs

I still have an original Intel Pentium that contains a pile of gold. It is in perfect condition. It came out of a system I built back in the late 1980s. Would I sell it? Probably not, unless the offer was beyond reality. It's part of my Legacy Collection.

"This is a TV. It's very technological." What unnatural sorcery is this?!

There is an al mesh Mini ITX case id love to see GN review

Good to know me and Steve are running really similar rigs at home.