It genuinely, unironically warms my heart when someone puts a lot of care and effort into cable managing a pc that absolutely doesn't warrant that level of care and effort.
yeah! they just put cables and a ton of stuff in the place where ventilation is so that is making it realy hard to breathe ESPECIALY with an RTX 3070 inside !
@@DawidDoesTechStuff haha Dawid I'm actually watching this video on my Optiplex that I added some ram and a graphics card to. It has worked splendid for me and I only spend $180 on mine in total. My hat is off to you sir! I was inspired by your last video on the subject.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff A video with a refurbished Dell Optiplex with adding more RAM, SSD and a graphics card. It might be hard pressed to find a good graphics card. It would also be a good comparision to see performance difference between Windows 10 and Linux OS (such as Ubuntu/Linux Mint) for gaming on a refurbished desktop
Having just built a PC in a smaller Cooler Master case & struggled with making all the spare power supply cables somewhat tidy, I admire what a good job the seller has done with cable management.
Power Man is the PSU brand of InWin - they’re usually bundled with their cases or used in OEM pre-builts. They are low-end but fine, especially for a system like this.
I have a Dell Optiplex 9020 that I converted over. It has an i7-4770, 16gb ram, SSD drive, new 500w power supply and a GTX 1660. She's a barn burner. Runs cool, runs BFV fine. Paid $120 for the rig and market rate for the upgrades. I spent a total of around $450.
I'd like to see a video where you take all the prebuilds and budget systems you've amassed and try to build 2 systems, 1 the best of all the parts, 2 the worst of all the parts and just see what happens :D
you can basically mount any spare fan in ventilation holes, so it's pretty good on this side and it's not even that small, i've triple fan 5700xt and it fits perfectly fine
In terms of storage device, I came up with this ultra Matryoshka setup plan: dual micro SD to single mini card (mPCIE/mSATA), dual mini card to single 2.5 inch SATA (look it up, there's a really neat adaptor of this sort, even supporting RAID), triple 2.5 inch SATA to single 3.5 inch HDD (IcyDock makes those and they are built to a quite high standard), and finally quintuple 3.5 inch HDD to triple 5.25 ODD, which is fairly easily achievable with old school full tower office PCs. That's, like how many, 60 micro SD in total? And 1920 GB worth of storage if that's 60x32G cards set up in all RAID 0? I wonder how the thermal will be like if anything ever ran through such a monstrosity.
Considering you did a whole RUclips review instead of an Amazon review, they should give you double Amazon gift cards! Also, if you didn't already know, technically asking for reviews in exchange for Amazon gift cards are against Amazon's TOS
I built a machine around 2006 with a µATX board and a ThermalTake Sonic Tower (one of the very first widespread tower coolers, which were just coming up at the time) in a big tower case; that gave off a similarly mismatched vibe, especially as it didn't even have a graphics card to keep that huge cooler company on the mainboard.
@@Atropos148 you could probably do a 500 to 600 dollar build with a new 1650 just have to figure out which processor has the power to match 1650 maybe even make it a sff build
I still have an AMD A series APU based desktop. I bought it in about 2012-13 when these things came out. It was the first and to my knowledge only AMD product to feature crossfire between the built in GPU and external GPU which I tool advantage of. The components were relatively cheap at the time, and it was halfway decent for games of that era, but it became outdated near instantly. It does still serve as a general purpose PC to this day and performs this task admirably.
@@dgurevich1 yeah it's just that little voice in the back of my head wondering how much single channel nerfed it would it atleast have been able to load the whole world with dual channel fps would likely have been the same due to it being pure crap though
That's a Skytech KB and Mouse combo. Skytech makes mid/high range prebuilts with name brand components. Although the KB and Mouse are OEM, they can take as fair bit of abuse. Disclaimer: This was NOT a Skytech system. 🤣
I actually really love that cooler master case. I've built in it a few times and it's a solid case. Only thing I don't like about it is the way the psu is pushed back because of the weird opening for it
@@raven4k998 well depends, 2 sticks of ddr4 will give better performance than 2 sticks of ddr3, besides that dual channel ram will improve gaming performance.
Look forward to the Dell Optiplex. It's still viable but depends on how cheap and how recent the Optiplex is. They also have various forms and models so it's surprisingly complex yet simple enough to work with!
I have one and it's a solid build with really janky stuff going on on the board. Power connecter is really strange. Had to get an adapter to change out the PSU.
Tip for you in regards to the E-Waste accessories you get with these rigs - Keep them! The braided cables are fantastic for repairing usb cables on higher quality devices and the internal components are good replacement parts for better hardware! May not save you a lot of MONEY but it'll save you a lot of TIME in waiting for components/parts to arrive!
powerman is made by FSP and is actually a pretty good PSU Dawid. It was really well known back in the day (10+ years ago) as always decent for what it was.. up there along with the antecs.
@@robwhitmore3040 he does other things! but if it works for him and you watched - suppose it doesn't. Why not ask him to do other stuff? Don't be a moron
Yeah, totally do the Optiplex thing! Also, given this machine has a CPU you've not seen before, I think you should have tested to see how much of a performance hit single-channel RAM offered, especially when testing using the iGPU.
Idk how no one is talking about if you have an iPhone with a notch (iPhone X and up) his videos are so satisfying to watch. There isn’t any black bars intill it gets to the notch!
Powerman is actually ow-key really good, my uncle found a 2009 custom built in the street in San Francisco and it looked like it had been hidden in the alley for many years all dirty and fucked up!!!! Everything in the computer still works to this day, when we cleaned it up and turned it up it literally had black road tar and dirty in it.
I would be curious to see how the iGPU runs if you do a DDU sweep and clean install of some AMD drivers, assuming you didn't do that off-camera and just didn't mention it.
Built a gaming PC for a relative recently. Optiplex Tower with i5-3470 and 16GB RAM I got for $40, a $20 SSD and a $200 used 1050ti on eBay. Not a bad little PC for less than $300.
$60 Optiplex i7-2600 and a $80 GTX 960 2gb here, it's a beast for the money. I'd have preferred a 1050ti for the extra vram, but they were around $250 when I was looking. Considering I bought one new for $139 back in the day I couldn't bring myself to overpay that much.
The both of you built nice systems honestly Strong enough to run games from the golden age (pre microtransactions), and it'll run some modern games Thumbs up to the both of you!
he was using all the memory with the 710, so pulling it dropped the amount of RAM and thus killed the game. If he added more memory, so the APU had enough for the task, he would have gotten better results.
I miss the days of Frankensteining PCs. I used to continually tinker with mine, adding bits from used machines and computer fairs. My pc sounded ready to take off a lot of the time, since my fans ran at fixed speeds.
This sort of system would be perfect for my little nephew who only plays roblox and minecraft and needs to do web browsing or watch youtube. I gave him an old laptop with integrated graphics and it still works fine for him too.
But that content has been saturated already. Every tech channel has somesort of optiplex with a graphics card added to it. It was actually my first "gaming" pc i've put a half height 1050ti(galax IIRC)
I bought an unknown gpu from a resale place for $4. It turned out to be a gt 640. Which is soooooooo much better than a gt 710. Why are they still producing 710's when they can't do anything?
Funny enough I use that same e-waste keyboard and it’s not that bad for basic Fortnite gaming sessions or other games such as call duty or shadow of the tomb raider but the letters on the keys do fade away after a while which is annoying but I got used to it.
I bought a pre-build with the same motherboard + apu about one year ago in a full tower without a gpu so it looked kinda ridiculous. I have now upgraded my psu and bought a 6600xt but haven’t yet replaced the motherboard and cpu so I have a hard bottleneck there
I was able to cop a 3800xt for like 180, check that out used. I also paired it with a used x370 board, so I could upgrade to ryzen 9 later if I wanted. pretty good path if you like amd for used performance.
The old Dell Optiplex method is still solid. I bought a refurbished Optiplex in October of 2020 with an i7 APU from 2013, 8 GB DDR3 ram, 512gb SATA SSD and I bought a GTX 1650 and another 8gb stick of ram and a 1080p monitor and got a hand-me-down razer mouse and keyboard to pair with it. Over the next year and a half ish I upgraded the case, then the power supply, then the motherboard and CPU and RAM, then the CPU cooler, then I added a ton of storage, then I fought with the scalpers and upgraded my GPU, then I upgraded my mouse and keyboard. Now the only things left from the original build are my copy of windows and the SATA SSD. Makes me kinda sad that I'm planning on upgrading to an m.2 boot drive and windows 11 next weekend.
i bought a power man psu around 10 years ago for a budget system because the amazon reviews were actually good and very cheap price ... and it still works to this day with no issues at all
Power Man PSUs are great for lower end/cheap systems. I don't see them very often though. Thermaltake PSUs go for very nice prices on ebuyer here in the UK, sometimes as low as £20-25. they're not the highest quality, but they are something.
Actually, another thought. This case has such great airflow. Run a test with another configuration inside and benchmark it? I actually like the case and wonder what it can truly due to keep temps down.
I was literally just thinking today of "Now it's time to hear about our sponsor, Linode" while I was taking an electrical systems test about the Node Voltage method. I couldn't get Dawid out of my head going, "Linode."
Well i am actually considering of buying this exact mobo with that apu on there, so i can have a small box with a screen sitting in my bedroom so i can watch youtube and netflix on it, i think it would be perfect for that, as a media streaming client, thanks for showing this weird system :p
My desktop used to live in such a Q300L case. It's a very clunky size and despite all the ventilation holes does not cool well. The side window also scratches if you look at it wrongly and attracts dust absurdly well. But it can be inverted, which I did before I moved my machine to a very classic style design, in which I installed a DVD drive. PSU wise my power supply is on some decently trustworthy ranking list as one to avoid, as it lacks over-current protection. I tried upgrading it, but the replacement overheated itself and shut down consistently, so I opted to keep this PSU until the entire thing fails or gets upgraded. After upgrading the RX570 to a Vega 64, as the former didn't like my Ryzen 3 3200G's 8x PCIe lanes, this system has been serving me well for 3 years now. I did have to downgrade the RAM frequency to 3000MHz though, as the APU seems to have a degraded memory controller.
Im using an old optiplex for my sons gaming pc. The biggest problem is that you often cant physically mount a real gpu in the dell case, there is just no room. Im using a gforce 760 and its quite large. Finally had to rig it up in an aftermarket case to get it all working. Dell's proprietary accesory boards like usb and audio dont fit anything as they are non standard so they just kind of hang out the front, but with the dell's i7, 16gb ram and the old gtx760, the thing works pretty darn good. Plays his games at 1080p no problem. It's definately viable if you have the stuff lying around. Cheers.
I love that HL2 is now the game of that "should run on an EtchOSketch" , considering that when it came out there was hardly a pc in existence that could run it at full settings.
My old work used to have us working on computers with exactly the same cases, and I also used that same mouse my entire time working there of over a year 🤣.
I've got one of these budget cases. Worst bit is plastic side panel. I run a little FX6350, all second hand (except the case, power supply and hard drive), second hand AIO and run it at 4.3ghz. Poor wee thing hold up well though.
The only thing I would build inside a Q300L is an oven, that's the first case I was forced to buy extra fans to get some decent temps, even when it's a Mesh Case.
I still use an old i7-3770 with a 1060 3gb. I need to upgrade but this still works well enough until parts availability and prices(I hope) comes back. I've already got the old stuff in a Lian-Li Lancool II Mesh RGB case ready to rebuild.
Wait, I didn't mean to make rape jokes. Do you mean the alien joke? It was meant to be a probing joke. 😅 Sorry if that wasn't clear. Which other one came across like that?
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Don't fret, it was "getting your *cough* pushed in", felt a bit don't drop the soap if you catch my drift I can absolutely guarantee nobody else will have taken it this way, and if they do find it I'll get eviscerated right here and now! I'll edit my comment, thank you for taking the time to reply. It means a lot more than you think
@@joannaatkins822 Oh! Now that you point that out, I very much understand that can be seen like that. I didn't think that statement through enough and will avoid it in future. Thanks for letting me. 😊
@@DawidDoesTechStuff You're a very sweet, thoughtful person Dawid, there's a very good reason people enjoy your work and it is all you. Thank you for being understanding and receptive, it makes you a King instead of a pretender
@@joannaatkins822 That's very nice of you to say. 😁 Despite liking to make "edgy" jokes, I just don't want it to be at the expense of anyone. Don't want to be a problematic part of human culture. 👍Thanks again for letting me know. Have a good weekend.
I'm running a Ryzen 2300x, 16gb RAM and a 1660 super. Complete system is used parts. Only in the whole setup for $500 or so. I keep upgrading as I find deals on hardware.
Idea to a video, buying old 'premium' hardware and slap on the cheapest DIY watercooling you can buy on aliexpress for a bang for buck "cheap" quiet gaming experience
My first PC, a few years back now, was a rig I bought from a buddy with a bad Mobo which I replaced with a r5 1600, with 8g ram (this was when ram was super expensive in 2018) and I ran that with the 670 that was on the old rig. Over the years I’ve just upgraded a bit at a time.
It genuinely, unironically warms my heart when someone puts a lot of care and effort into cable managing a pc that absolutely doesn't warrant that level of care and effort.
Its honestly kind of sad😢
I do this whenever I'm building a system... regardless of how crappy the components. Anything worth doing is worth doing (that's not a typo).
The irony of this tiny pc with a GT 710 having way more airflow than that Dell prebuilt with a 3070 in it!
yeah! they just put cables and a ton of stuff in the place where ventilation is so that is making it realy hard to breathe ESPECIALY with an RTX 3070 inside !
And with the 710 sipping a small 19 watts of power at max “load”, the thing is like Antarctica in that case :P
@@Thewaterspirit57I'm 6 months later
@@friedchicken3375thanks for pointing out the obvious.
@@eliasroflchopper3006 you're wellcome
When we see "Cheapest" and "dedicated gpu", we all know it is mighty GT 710!
it is GT 210
@@subwayz_qt5 g100
Yeah ಠ﹏ಠ
Why not a 610?
@@sammy_1_1 it dosent taste as good
That is actually one of the most impressive cabling jobs I've seen with a non-sleeved power supply.
have you had a nice warm cup of lenode yet it will wake up up very quickly🤣
Dawid - "Do you want to see a video where I take a Dell and "
Everyone - "YES"
Haha!! Fair enough. 😁
@@DawidDoesTechStuff haha Dawid I'm actually watching this video on my Optiplex that I added some ram and a graphics card to. It has worked splendid for me and I only spend $180 on mine in total. My hat is off to you sir! I was inspired by your last video on the subject.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff A video with a refurbished Dell Optiplex with adding more RAM, SSD and a graphics card. It might be hard pressed to find a good graphics card. It would also be a good comparision to see performance difference between Windows 10 and Linux OS (such as Ubuntu/Linux Mint) for gaming on a refurbished desktop
@@DawidDoesTechStuff When i need a good laugh :) Trust Dawid and Company
@@DawidDoesTechStuff the cheapest gaming pc on amazon that's good is a steam deck with a 1tb ssd ;)
Having just built a PC in a smaller Cooler Master case & struggled with making all the spare power supply cables somewhat tidy, I admire what a good job the seller has done with cable management.
I was abducted by aliens and my butt was probed so you should marry me🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Power Man is the PSU brand of InWin - they’re usually bundled with their cases or used in OEM pre-builts. They are low-end but fine, especially for a system like this.
Thanks nice to know.
no nuclear bomb today :)
so, better than gigabyte, good to know
This is the comment David was talking about. Thanks mate.
So not a atomic bomb?
I have a Dell Optiplex 9020 that I converted over. It has an i7-4770, 16gb ram, SSD drive, new 500w power supply and a GTX 1660. She's a barn burner. Runs cool, runs BFV fine. Paid $120 for the rig and market rate for the upgrades. I spent a total of around $450.
Living the dream
I'd like to see a video where you take all the prebuilds and budget systems you've amassed and try to build 2 systems, 1 the best of all the parts, 2 the worst of all the parts and just see what happens :D
nice idea i would also love to see that
Yes!!!
I was wondering what does he do with these prebuilds after he's done with them ,I don't think he keeps them
@@mehdiahmed7836 Maybe, though he must hold onto a few since a handful of follow up videos show them again.
Temps go up or down, fps goes up or down.
Not exactly a mystery...
you just gotta feel bad for the inevitable uneducated mom that buys systems like these when their kid asks for a "Gaming PC" for christmas lol
Whenever I hear "Amazon" and "gaming pc" together I get scared
*shiver me timber’s*
Unless I am watching a South American Doco whenever I hear Amazon I go 🤬 never again
I think the case is pretty nice! Not sure if there's much for fan mounting, but airflow wise, it looks pretty nice for being a little case!
you can basically mount any spare fan in ventilation holes, so it's pretty good on this side
and it's not even that small, i've triple fan 5700xt and it fits perfectly fine
"THE FUTURE" and "THE PAST" transition is brilliant
Haha!! Thank you. Was hoping the joke wasn't too lame. 😅
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Scott Manley did this all the time when he was playing KSP and pumping out Vids about that. Always cool.
I think a good follow-up would be to try to scrape something together substantially better with the exact same budget, Optiplex or not.
An ITX board inside an mATX case, inside an "E-ATX" Box - Your Russian Dolls analogy held up well here Dawid! :D
In terms of storage device, I came up with this ultra Matryoshka setup plan: dual micro SD to single mini card (mPCIE/mSATA), dual mini card to single 2.5 inch SATA (look it up, there's a really neat adaptor of this sort, even supporting RAID), triple 2.5 inch SATA to single 3.5 inch HDD (IcyDock makes those and they are built to a quite high standard), and finally quintuple 3.5 inch HDD to triple 5.25 ODD, which is fairly easily achievable with old school full tower office PCs.
That's, like how many, 60 micro SD in total? And 1920 GB worth of storage if that's 60x32G cards set up in all RAID 0? I wonder how the thermal will be like if anything ever ran through such a monstrosity.
@@funghiman8492 You're one sick puppy, I like you 😂
@@funghiman8492 im curious what that'd show with a benchmark
"we can't see how hot it's going" *proceeds to show the temps in the middle of HWmonitor at 9:12
I think that was for the GT 710, unless I missed something. 😅
Considering you did a whole RUclips review instead of an Amazon review, they should give you double Amazon gift cards!
Also, if you didn't already know, technically asking for reviews in exchange for Amazon gift cards are against Amazon's TOS
If it's against TOS why don't they ban the sellers?
@@gamin546 Since Amazon encourages scalpers I'd almost call this a minor infraction ;)
@@gamin546 they do. But only when they are big enough. They don't really care unless enough people report it
But every seller does that😂
@@valkasolidor6727 how exactly does Amazon encourage scalpers
I built a machine around 2006 with a µATX board and a ThermalTake Sonic Tower (one of the very first widespread tower coolers, which were just coming up at the time) in a big tower case; that gave off a similarly mismatched vibe, especially as it didn't even have a graphics card to keep that huge cooler company on the mainboard.
Would definitely like to see if that dell+Old GPU combo is still a viable option in today's market. 👍
Yeah I'd love to see him do something like that, been a while
Buying a graphics card right now isn't viable
I'm wondering how old the GPU will be :) i have a 1050Ti and i can play Deathloop at mostly 60 FPS...so i wanna see what counts as "old GPU" :)
@@Atropos148 you could probably do a 500 to 600 dollar build with a new 1650 just have to figure out which processor has the power to match 1650 maybe even make it a sff build
@@horacegentleman3296 bought a 7970 for $64 on eBay for my son's PC. It works for a 5 year old 🤣
I still have an AMD A series APU based desktop.
I bought it in about 2012-13 when these things came out.
It was the first and to my knowledge only AMD product to feature crossfire between the built in GPU and external GPU which I tool advantage of.
The components were relatively cheap at the time, and it was halfway decent for games of that era, but it became outdated near instantly.
It does still serve as a general purpose PC to this day and performs this task admirably.
well makes you wonder how much the igpu is screwed by the single channel ram situation
@@raven4k998 eh... doesn't matter much today. By standards of today that thing is a potato.
@@dgurevich1 yeah it's just that little voice in the back of my head wondering how much single channel nerfed it would it atleast have been able to load the whole world with dual channel fps would likely have been the same due to it being pure crap though
3 kill streak for no VD? Gotta go for that nuke Dawid!
Only 22 more prebuilts
Oof, the ultimate challenge.
My daughter is still using her Optiplex with an i7-3770 and RX580. Still fantastic.
The big question here is .... can it run Far Cry 6? 😬
no lmao
🤣
Maybe on 480p and lowest settings, 🤣
Hahaha!! Not likely. 😁
If you measure it in seconds per frame and not frames per second, sure it will! :D
I think you got the Cry part right.
When your CPU cooler makes a CR2032 battery look huge, you might be in for some trouble.
That keyboard genuinely looks half decent! Impressive
Yeah! It really wasn't bad.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff nice!
The mouse is close to what wargaming tossed out for world of tanks i own one.
@@Wolfpackgameroh! Weird /:
That's a Skytech KB and Mouse combo.
Skytech makes mid/high range prebuilts with name brand components. Although the KB and Mouse are OEM, they can take as fair bit of abuse.
Disclaimer: This was NOT a Skytech system. 🤣
I always anticipate Linode to be the sponsor because Dawid’s signature way of saying Linooooode is stuck in my mind on repeat
i kinda feel like Dawid has a dedicated room in his house that it's main purpose is to store his collection of E-Waste
Let's hold hands in the E-Waste room🙄 👉👈
I actually really love that cooler master case. I've built in it a few times and it's a solid case. Only thing I don't like about it is the way the psu is pushed back because of the weird opening for it
does two sticks of ddr4 do anything for gpu performance?🤔
@@raven4k998 well depends, 2 sticks of ddr4 will give better performance than 2 sticks of ddr3, besides that dual channel ram will improve gaming performance.
I can already see Dawid making a video where he puts a 3080 in this calculator of a PC
YESSSSS I WANT THAT
I am honestly hoping he does that
its going to be bottleneck city
population: Dawid
Haha!! Fair enough.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff well get the xplosion cam ready then
I actually used this case for my build, really good and easy to build in for the price.
Look forward to the Dell Optiplex. It's still viable but depends on how cheap and how recent the Optiplex is. They also have various forms and models so it's surprisingly complex yet simple enough to work with!
I have one and it's a solid build with really janky stuff going on on the board. Power connecter is really strange. Had to get an adapter to change out the PSU.
Tip for you in regards to the E-Waste accessories you get with these rigs - Keep them! The braided cables are fantastic for repairing usb cables on higher quality devices and the internal components are good replacement parts for better hardware! May not save you a lot of MONEY but it'll save you a lot of TIME in waiting for components/parts to arrive!
Dawid's videos are the only ones where I watch the sponsor plugs all the way through. The animations and inside jokes are worth it.
powerman is made by FSP and is actually a pretty good PSU Dawid. It was really well known back in the day (10+ years ago) as always decent for what it was.. up there along with the antecs.
You gotta love Dawid for his amazing content!
the same video every week?
@@robwhitmore3040 he does other things! but if it works for him and you watched - suppose it doesn't. Why not ask him to do other stuff? Don't be a moron
I'm half-convinced part of the reason Dawid took the Linode sponsorship because "Linode" is a fun word to play with.
The CPU/GPU pairing equivalent of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman and I love them all.
Inside Arnold Schwarzenegger's body
imagine adding a second stick of ram getting it to run in dual channel I wonder if it would run better or explode from a power overload
Your channel is so fun I find myself binging on it often. Thanks.
Yeah, totally do the Optiplex thing! Also, given this machine has a CPU you've not seen before, I think you should have tested to see how much of a performance hit single-channel RAM offered, especially when testing using the iGPU.
To look at ram speed, channels, and if it's dual or single ranked use CPU-z.
I love that case. I have been seeing it on quite a few youtubers videos. I built my daughters gaming PC in that case and it was a great experience!
Agreed, my main PC is in one of these cases and the cooling is superb. Edit: I do have 6 fans though, on a 3in, 3 out set-up.
It's a neat little case! I think Oz Talks hardware used one for ages.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff wish you could share pics in the comments. Would love to see what you think of it!
Idk how no one is talking about if you have an iPhone with a notch (iPhone X and up) his videos are so satisfying to watch. There isn’t any black bars intill it gets to the notch!
Even before watching this I bet my 2 cents the GPU is a gt 710.
Edit: correct. 😂
I was thinking 1030. I guess my expectations were a little too high.
lol
@@luckyzonkey8027 too high
I said 650 :(
I thought it was the HD 5450. Same trash, different brand!
Powerman is actually ow-key really good, my uncle found a 2009 custom built in the street in San Francisco and it looked like it had been hidden in the alley for many years all dirty and fucked up!!!! Everything in the computer still works to this day, when we cleaned it up and turned it up it literally had black road tar and dirty in it.
The coolest pc case but with a gt710, Why?
🤔You mean Looks not Temps right???
I would be curious to see how the iGPU runs if you do a DDU sweep and clean install of some AMD drivers, assuming you didn't do that off-camera and just didn't mention it.
it seems like a fresh barebones install of windows whit no drivers at all that migh be why it performed worse than the gt710 that did had drivers
I would love to see the Dell Optiplex in 2021 video. That'd be awesome for all the budget/just-starting-out pc gamers out there!
The way you say “A little baby box” is my favourite thing in life
Would to see the best upgrade scenario on this machine. Good content as always!
I have a Powerman 400w that has been running in an I5 system with a GTX 460 i built in 2012 and I've never had an issues with it.
Built a gaming PC for a relative recently. Optiplex Tower with i5-3470 and 16GB RAM I got for $40, a $20 SSD and a $200 used 1050ti on eBay. Not a bad little PC for less than $300.
$60 Optiplex i7-2600 and a $80 GTX 960 2gb here, it's a beast for the money. I'd have preferred a 1050ti for the extra vram, but they were around $250 when I was looking. Considering I bought one new for $139 back in the day I couldn't bring myself to overpay that much.
The both of you built nice systems honestly
Strong enough to run games from the golden age (pre microtransactions), and it'll run some modern games
Thumbs up to the both of you!
This was way faster than I thought it was gonna be lol, Can't believe with 16gigs of dual channel ram at 3000 the igpu would wreck the 710 😅
"Better off with the GT710 in there" is not a sentence I ever expected to hear from Dawid :D
he was using all the memory with the 710, so pulling it dropped the amount of RAM and thus killed the game. If he added more memory, so the APU had enough for the task, he would have gotten better results.
I miss the days of Frankensteining PCs. I used to continually tinker with mine, adding bits from used machines and computer fairs. My pc sounded ready to take off a lot of the time, since my fans ran at fixed speeds.
That would be great as a standalone retro pc gaming box. It's too expensive really though for what it is.
This sort of system would be perfect for my little nephew who only plays roblox and minecraft and needs to do web browsing or watch youtube. I gave him an old laptop with integrated graphics and it still works fine for him too.
Really should start calling these videos “Tales from the grocery store,” as he talks about his latest potato.
The "magnetic filters" doesn't stop dust at all. Have the same case.
you should buy a 6th gen optiplex and chuck a 960 im there
But that content has been saturated already. Every tech channel has somesort of optiplex with a graphics card added to it.
It was actually my first "gaming" pc i've put a half height 1050ti(galax IIRC)
I bought an unknown gpu from a resale place for $4. It turned out to be a gt 640. Which is soooooooo much better than a gt 710. Why are they still producing 710's when they can't do anything?
please make overclovking and add second stick of RAM, I really interested to see it!!!
Funny enough I use that same e-waste keyboard and it’s not that bad for basic Fortnite gaming sessions or other games such as call duty or shadow of the tomb raider but the letters on the keys do fade away after a while which is annoying but I got used to it.
I bought a pre-build with the same motherboard + apu about one year ago in a full tower without a gpu so it looked kinda ridiculous. I have now upgraded my psu and bought a 6600xt but haven’t yet replaced the motherboard and cpu so I have a hard bottleneck there
I was able to cop a 3800xt for like 180, check that out used. I also paired it with a used x370 board, so I could upgrade to ryzen 9 later if I wanted. pretty good path if you like amd for used performance.
Legitimately an amazingly built and paired together system. I’d definitely own it.
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I bought that Cooler Master case to replace a "slim" case that only fits half height cards. Perfectly fine case for the kiddos.
Such a cute lil baby PC - its cooler is just so Kawaii ❤
Cute cat, Anna! I hope she(?) doesn't use that speaker for a scratching post, though!
@@gregvanpaassen Why thank you! He is pretty sweet. Luckily he doesn't scratch the speakers but he does like to perch on top of them :D
The old Dell Optiplex method is still solid. I bought a refurbished Optiplex in October of 2020 with an i7 APU from 2013, 8 GB DDR3 ram, 512gb SATA SSD and I bought a GTX 1650 and another 8gb stick of ram and a 1080p monitor and got a hand-me-down razer mouse and keyboard to pair with it. Over the next year and a half ish I upgraded the case, then the power supply, then the motherboard and CPU and RAM, then the CPU cooler, then I added a ton of storage, then I fought with the scalpers and upgraded my GPU, then I upgraded my mouse and keyboard. Now the only things left from the original build are my copy of windows and the SATA SSD. Makes me kinda sad that I'm planning on upgrading to an m.2 boot drive and windows 11 next weekend.
1:45 Everyone knows you gotta protect that power cord against ESD.
i bought a power man psu around 10 years ago for a budget system because the amazon reviews were actually good and very cheap price ... and it still works to this day with no issues at all
Power Man PSUs are great for lower end/cheap systems. I don't see them very often though. Thermaltake PSUs go for very nice prices on ebuyer here in the UK, sometimes as low as £20-25. they're not the highest quality, but they are something.
I completely lost it at the desktop background of potatoes... So perfect for that thing xD
my man your enthusiasm is contagious and it is such a fresh breath of air. at least for me, thank you so much for that.
Small But Mighty. They're maxed out.
Actually, another thought. This case has such great airflow. Run a test with another configuration inside and benchmark it? I actually like the case and wonder what it can truly due to keep temps down.
When the ketchup+mustard PSU cables are the most interesting looking things in the computer.
I was literally just thinking today of "Now it's time to hear about our sponsor, Linode" while I was taking an electrical systems test about the Node Voltage method. I couldn't get Dawid out of my head going, "Linode."
Nice to see a longer video this time around too..
Well i am actually considering of buying this exact mobo with that apu on there, so i can have a small box with a screen sitting in my bedroom so i can watch youtube and netflix on it, i think it would be perfect for that, as a media streaming client, thanks for showing this weird system :p
My desktop used to live in such a Q300L case.
It's a very clunky size and despite all the ventilation holes does not cool well.
The side window also scratches if you look at it wrongly and attracts dust absurdly well.
But it can be inverted, which I did before I moved my machine to a very classic style design, in which I installed a DVD drive.
PSU wise my power supply is on some decently trustworthy ranking list as one to avoid, as it lacks over-current protection.
I tried upgrading it, but the replacement overheated itself and shut down consistently, so I opted to keep this PSU until the entire thing fails or gets upgraded.
After upgrading the RX570 to a Vega 64, as the former didn't like my Ryzen 3 3200G's 8x PCIe lanes, this system has been serving me well for 3 years now.
I did have to downgrade the RAM frequency to 3000MHz though, as the APU seems to have a degraded memory controller.
The roads disappeared the last time I had a good night out, and there was to people in my apartment who I didn't know!
2:23 Boxception - we must go deeper.
Settings for division 2 where a mixture of low medium and high the monitor was a Dell 32-in 165 HZ curved monitor sold at Best buy
god damnit, dawid descriptions and analogies are so god damn funny.
Please do a follow-up video in the optiplex
Im using an old optiplex for my sons gaming pc. The biggest problem is that you often cant physically mount a real gpu in the dell case, there is just no room. Im using a gforce 760 and its quite large. Finally had to rig it up in an aftermarket case to get it all working. Dell's proprietary accesory boards like usb and audio dont fit anything as they are non standard so they just kind of hang out the front, but with the dell's i7, 16gb ram and the old gtx760, the thing works pretty darn good. Plays his games at 1080p no problem. It's definately viable if you have the stuff lying around. Cheers.
Yup lmao, Power man PSUs are actually rebranded FSP PSUs. If you rip that sticker off it will likely say fsp underneath
Those APU's are dependent on that ram bandwidth. I'd be curious to see it with a matched set of performance ram.
Your forced laughter is the most amazing part.
I love that HL2 is now the game of that "should run on an EtchOSketch" , considering that when it came out there was hardly a pc in existence that could run it at full settings.
My old work used to have us working on computers with exactly the same cases, and I also used that same mouse my entire time working there of over a year 🤣.
I've got one of these budget cases. Worst bit is plastic side panel. I run a little FX6350, all second hand (except the case, power supply and hard drive), second hand AIO and run it at 4.3ghz. Poor wee thing hold up well though.
The only thing I would build inside a Q300L is an oven, that's the first case I was forced to buy extra fans to get some decent temps, even when it's a Mesh Case.
I still use an old i7-3770 with a 1060 3gb. I need to upgrade but this still works well enough until parts availability and prices(I hope) comes back. I've already got the old stuff in a Lian-Li Lancool II Mesh RGB case ready to rebuild.
You know we want to see the Dell Optiplex revisit! I'm already excited to see what you can get your hands on. A GT 1030? A GTX 750 ti? Crabs?
Wait, I didn't mean to make rape jokes. Do you mean the alien joke? It was meant to be a probing joke. 😅 Sorry if that wasn't clear. Which other one came across like that?
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Don't fret, it was "getting your *cough* pushed in", felt a bit don't drop the soap if you catch my drift
I can absolutely guarantee nobody else will have taken it this way, and if they do find it I'll get eviscerated right here and now!
I'll edit my comment, thank you for taking the time to reply. It means a lot more than you think
@@joannaatkins822 Oh! Now that you point that out, I very much understand that can be seen like that. I didn't think that statement through enough and will avoid it in future. Thanks for letting me. 😊
@@DawidDoesTechStuff You're a very sweet, thoughtful person Dawid, there's a very good reason people enjoy your work and it is all you. Thank you for being understanding and receptive, it makes you a King instead of a pretender
@@joannaatkins822 That's very nice of you to say. 😁 Despite liking to make "edgy" jokes, I just don't want it to be at the expense of anyone. Don't want to be a problematic part of human culture. 👍Thanks again for letting me know. Have a good weekend.
pls do a comparison video, i wanna know what to get for casual gaming and video editing!
I'm running a Ryzen 2300x, 16gb RAM and a 1660 super. Complete system is used parts. Only in the whole setup for $500 or so. I keep upgrading as I find deals on hardware.
I used this case for my gaming/workstation machine! Plenty of room for activities.
Idea to a video, buying old 'premium' hardware and slap on the cheapest DIY watercooling you can buy on aliexpress for a bang for buck "cheap" quiet gaming experience
My first PC, a few years back now, was a rig I bought from a buddy with a bad Mobo which I replaced with a r5 1600, with 8g ram (this was when ram was super expensive in 2018) and I ran that with the 670 that was on the old rig. Over the years I’ve just upgraded a bit at a time.