Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the "Legendary" AMD Phenom II line of CPUs. This time with the Phenom II X4 955, so join me today as we fight with an old system we nabbed off ebay a few months ago to find out...Just how useable is this line of processors in 2025, can they still game? and can we even convince it to work long enough to run Windows 11?

Intro: 0:00
The System we're using today - 0:16
Trying a Windows 11 SSD - 1:37
Making a Windows 11 ISO - 2:15
Doing some Upgrades - 2:39
Quick bit of Diagnosis - 4:13
BIOS Update - 4:45
Finally Loading Windows 11 - 5:41
We're finally at the Windows 11 Desktop - 6:23
Hows it holding up...just as a PC - 7:09
The Specs - 8:36
Overclocking - 10:29
So what do you lot think? - 11:40
The Benchmarks! -13:24
Overall Performance & Its Issues - 22:54
Instruction set FAIL- 24:58
Conclusion - 26:30

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Specs
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 (and OC to 3.8Ghz)
GPU: AMD R9 Fury Nano
RAM: 24GB DDR3 @ 1600Mhz
OS: Windows 11