The Cheapest Gaming PC on Facebook...
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Hello everyone and welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the cheapest gaming PC I could find on Facebook Marketplace, which led me down quite the rabbit hole of trying to 1. Find one and then 2. Get it all working, from GTA V through to Skyrim and general usage, just how good is a £10 PC.
Well theres only one way to find out, and thats in the benchmarks....and well the entire video, enjoy!
Intro - 0:00
The Specs- 0:12
Does it Work? - 1:18
The Cleaning and Rebuild Montage - 2:23
Operating System Choices - 3:39
The Benchmarks - 4:36
OS Comparison & General Usage - 7:55
Overclocking Performance - 9:32
Conclusion - 10:11
Music
Plok! Title Screen (SNES how they get it to sound that good, idek)
Simcity 3000 - Building
MGS Hidden Jazz
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Specs:
CPU: C2Q Q6600
GPU: HD5670 GDDR5 Edition
RAM: 4 GB DDR2 1066Mhz RAM
OS: Windows 10 Debloated 
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Did you have an Inspiron 530? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments:
used to have one
it ran ok until the motherboard went pop
I had one where the motherboard died, and one that's quite low spec. This has granted me the knowledge to tell you the cpu fan needs to be flipped :)
very epic gaming pc, Inspiron 530 is very gaming
Ah yes.. I remember using that on Windows Vista. But after 8 yrs on Vista I upgraded it to Windows 8.1 Still working until now. But Windows 8.1 is not working idk why
I'm mad jealous of folks on developed countries with reasonable prices for old hardware.
Can't find one of these here in my country for less than 70$. Way too much for a side project
Edit:That's just for the C2Q. The GPU would easily cost me an extra 70.
Same even ddr3 still very expensive where i live i got lucky and got a i7 3770 for free with the motherboard and 4gb ram single channel, wanted to put more ram and a ssd but they even used still expensive
$70? That's decent. One of these would be at the very least $300 here.
Setups similar to mine are going for $2000+ on FB Marketplace. But I built this before the pandemic for $500.
@@gtPacheko core 2 quad are still good for web browsing, basic apps and some games that not required AVX instructions.
I was on ebay UK last night and there are a few Dells for £10 pick up only.
There's literally core 2 duos going for $100s here
I think we need to create a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to PCs, it's honestly lucky the humidity damage didn't just end up destroying the entire thing.
But then we wouldn't get this gold content I've found gems in the trash I really need to make videos 😂
RSPCPC sounds interesting
@@LynxBlack nah poctc is the one
its really cool how you get all these cheap builds and test them out. really entertaining
Yes indeed
The price to performance ratio on this thing is about as good as it gets. What a fun little system that punches far above its weight.
its good for emulation up to gamecube///wii for sure
What I love about your channel is that it always gives me this "I'm stuck at grandma/nan's house for a few days without my gaming gear. Let's build a gaming pc out of desperation!" Vibe.
Apparently the Inspiron 530 is one of the few OEM PCs that can be upgraded with a modded Xeon E5450 if you flash it with a modified BIOS.
Add a 750Ti or similar GPU, 8GB of RAM and a 250GB SSD from Crucial or Samsung and you've got a nice 150$ budget Gaming PC.
On the OEM board you can put that Xeon? No way.
Not the base model, only the higher end ones
I actually just bought an Inspiron 530 off of Ebay for just $30 with local pickup. It has a Core 2 Quad 9400 in it, along with 8GB of RAM, and Windows 10. It even has a Radeon 4670 installed. Great deal and a great little system.
Damn, nice find
Core 2 Quad.. It's quite good for it's price nowadays.
Absolutely, I'm using a Q9400 right now, with a cheap DMS-59 dual-screen, 4GB RAM, Win10 and a 240GB SSD. For everyday use, it does everything without any bother.
You should have done the "Tape mod" for the CPU, you know, that mod where you put tape in some specific contacts of that Q6600 to make it run at 3.0 ghz, it helps, I did that to my own before I got the Q9650.
I completely forgot that existed and that I did it on my 530 with a core 2 duo!
I had one of those, it ran surprisingly well with Windows 8.1, still in use today with a friend
I actually bought a custom built machine from my friend with the same CPU and RAM for £30 about 6 years ago. The main issue I had with it was the 4GB RAM limit on the motherboard.
I know that there was a motherboard in the same case as this that could do 8 GBs of RAM if it had a maximum when it originally only could do 4 GBs
That 1066 DDR2 and 10k rpm hard drive is one hell of a find man. You seem to have a knack for bringing old hardware back to life. Love it.
I gamed on a core 2 quad for years on end, they're such good bang for buck processors I loved that little machine a lot
I gamed in a pentium and core 2 duo for some years they could play some games but nothing too new, some months ago i got a i7 3770 with dell motherboard so it was a good upgrade from a core 2 duo
yeah i played on a i9 12 cores it was very slow it woundet even boot it was a 11th version
@@XSanity. oof that is some slow processor an pentium 3 is faster
Surprising what you can find out there if you look long and hard enough, like my Ryzen 3 1200, a320 mobo, 16GB ram 2 x 8, RX550, 2 x 1 tb HDD, 24" Alienware Monitor, keyboard moue and headset all in the lovely yellow lucky Koala case, delivered to me for £160. Keep looking people.
I will never understand Ryzen PCs without SSDs.
That's one hell of a deal
haha, Im glad that I found this video (actually yt algorithm just threw it on my face but whatever...) few years ago I was doing an upgrade from Core2Quad to i5 2500k to I7 2600k to R5 3500x to finally R5 5600x.
So at the beginning I need to say that the difference in fps (in games) between I5 2500k (4.5Ghz after OC. OC in 2500k and 2600k series is super easy even for beginners) to stock 3500x using the same GPU (RTX 2070S) was like 10 fps on average in modern AAA titles while playing in 1440p with 2 additional monitors plugged in the same time. The jump from 3500x to 5600x (again with 2070S) gave me - on average - additional 10fps in 1440p. Sometimes it's almost 20fps more, sometimes it's the same as 3500x. So long story short, if you are using Sandybridge CPUs and it's still runs great then just invest in GPU. 20fps seems cool if you are aiming for 60fps. Jump from 2500k or 2600k to 5600x seems cool on paper (20fps) but overall if you change 2070 super to 3070TI you gonna get like 100 fps more in the older games and over 20fps (5-6fps average when changing cpu) in modern AAA titles.
If you are just gamer and not streamer, if you are using your PC just for gaming then R5 3500x or 5600x + GTX 1080TI (without ray tracing) or RTX 2070S or 3060TI or 3070 is enough to keep over 60fps on max settings in every single AAA title available on the market.
I got a similar PC in early 2009 when I was 15- Q9400, GTX 285, 4GB of RAM, 1TB HDD. Was an absolute beast back then, it served me well until 2015. I bet it would be still usable today for things like 1080p60 (could play it no problem) video, productivity and even playing older games. I have it under my bed as a backup, if my main system failed. Edit: It had Q9400, not Q6600.
Awesome video. Keep up the great work. Love watching these cheap build tests.
Another excellent video mate. Very entertaining delivery and one of the best on a tech channel. You give hope to a lot of gamers who just cannot afford the latest kit.
Man I love you content its so good relaxed and nostalgic
Super happy to see Linux benchmarks! Even if they don't support Vulkan, these old ATI cards might have another trick up their sleeve on Linux in the form of Gallium-nine: an open source re-implementation of DirectX9. It's still experimental and it's a bit trickier to run games with it compared to Proton but it has the potential to really turn some of those graphs around on some systems (especially if you used the old OpenGL renderer on Proton/Wine). Kinda curious to see if that's still the case on a Core 2 Quad though...
GTA V is DX10 and i heard WineD3D still can afford it, but info related is pretty limited.
That's why i moved from my A10-5800K to an A8-7650K (the floor to test Vulkan with graphics).
For 20 euro i got my secondary pc, I5 3570K, Asus p8z77-v pro, 8 gigs of ram, GTX 470 and a HAF 912.
Friends are nice.
As the people from the server might know, it now has 16 gigs of ram and a powercolor RX 580 i hate. Oh and replaced the shady no brand 850 watt psu with a Seasonic Focus+ 550
You can try to pick up a xeon e3 1240/70 v2 for what is usually half the price of a 3770k if you don't mind not overclocking but having the benefit of hyperthreading.
@@GLDragon93 you also lose out on the iGPU, which is definitely nice to have for troubleshooting reasons(or to use it to flash a GPU bios)
@@EvilTurkeySlices That's pretty minor since he can swap back to i5 3570k if he has to rule out the gpu as faulty.
great video lad keep up with the good work
This channel is great. I also really liked the fact that you have the same IKEA tools that I have. That little kit has basically all you need.
Yessss its out finally i thought it was gonna be out yesterday but thank you
Awesome! Your videos are worth waking at 5:30 AM for.
Your channel has inspired me. Cleaned and re-thermal pasted a gtx 8800, a gtx 9800, and an AMD sempron 3800 desktop yesterday.
loved the video . i swear the music at 3 minutes is the same as the grand tour lol
Really entertaining!
should have done the BSEL mod tho, would give quite a nice performance bump
This, but only if the board supports 1333fsb
Hell yes!!!!! This is the content i absolutely love!!!
that's some good tech yes loving you got going on in this episode
Nice use of the Plok soundtrack, sounds phenomenal for a SNES game.
Your videos are great,I use to see more smartphone videos because it's an area that I understand more,however the PC videos both are great(I'm sorry for my English,I'm Brazilian haha) a hug!!S2
Thanks for comparing OSS
That was really interesting
Woah a HD 5670 whoever used it back then is ballin!
great video, very enjoyable to watch this restoration.
one suggestion for these late 2000/early 2010 builds: maybe include a test of a previous gen fighting game on these? like Ultra Street Fighter 4 or Guilty Gear Xrd?
fighting games have limited 3D scenes since they essentially have a single viewport of the stage. it could give an idea of what the system is capable outside of mainstream games like Skyrim and CS:GO.
i love the dell inspiron cases. theyre amazing to build in. i especially love the vertical hdd mounts, which are compatible with 2.5 ssds. perfect for mATX builds.
love your work budget builds!
Being a technician for too many years seeing him drop the fan in the water hurt me a bit haha. But it seemed like he knew what he was doing so I had faith. Great video! 👍
Not the exact PC but when I did Uni 2 years back they were still using Q6600s running on LTSB Windows 10 for their workshop/general use PCs. It is surprising how well the CPU keeps up. You can totally do normal document processing and web browsing.
Use to run that processer back 10 years ago with 2 8800gtx. Use to love it's overclock capability
Problems with older platforms is ram and the chipsets failing. I'm surprised they weren't running old i3s with ddr3/4, they hold up far better.
@@mycelia_ow I think that's to do simply with the age. I completely understand the point of the video was to show it on a budget. However considering its for gaming you should probably aim for the same price as a console. Only issue is the GPU with the silicon shortages.
Bsel mod the q6600
Mostly high end chipsets fail, like nforce or poorly cooled x38 x48
Cool video, I love lower end cheap pc’s and builds. I have a nice higher tier setup but also have a lower end build and I love it! I’m always tinkering with it. Actually waiting on a few parts to do a case swap on my lower end build.
The Core 2 Quad Q6600 is still usable for everyday tasks and light gaming. Just needs an appropriate GPU to pair it with. Maybe at most a GTS 450 or HD 5770.
Any Q8000 or Q9000 series Core 2 Quad is better in every way from performance to power consumption though and usually just as cheap.
Personally I wouldn't game on C2Q anymore, rather have a Phenom II.. but for general usage, C2Q is still fine. I have a Xeon X3230 (equilent to Q6700) and it's usable.
I often found the Q8XXX Series to perform a tad worse due to lack of cache.
Odd. The only one see that to be true occasionally is the Q8200, which is the weakest of the 45 nm Quads. It and the Q6600 often go neck and neck. So the Q6700 should be mostly better.
I'd still recommend the 45 nm Quads though. They get significantly less hot to my experience despite both families being 95 watts TDP. The Q8000/Q9000 series have SSE4.1 as well.
Will you test a first gen Intel Core chip from Nehalem? I've heard they're becoming the new best used price-to-performance.
@@Josue31627 arent core duo’s laptop only though? i think thars what you meant
Yooo plok music! Good taste
I miss those little dells. They used to sell really well back in the day! The g33m02/m03 motherboard could take a beating too!!
A tape mod overclock could help the q6600 in gta V ^^
I saw the twin ATI/AMD Sapphire stickers and I clicked.
Liking the Plok music haha
Cant't wait to see it upgraded!
You give me such green ham gaming vibes which is good seeing as he barely uploads these days
Use Windows 8.1
Love your channel man awesome content as always relaxing to your video after trouble shooting a laptop that has charging issues when put under load an ASUS G751JY whit a gtx 980M big thumbs up for this video 👍👍
Hello There, a great Video and the project with the upgrades sounds like a great idea, it certainly was a good value PC all things considering. Kind regards Peter :-)
This man loves his Fable so much, I'm tempted to buy and try it myself to see what all the fuss is about.
Not bad at all the games ran well. Great video
What a build!
I was gifted an identical dell by a friend about a year ago and its now my main xp rig for retro gaming. I really like the dells of that era
Love the old Plok music
That Raptor drive though 😮
Very nice like that one
Tip: The Inspiron 580 motherboard fits perfectly in the Inspiron 530 case. Nice of Dell to reuse the same rear IO on a newer board 👍
Very surprised that Dell would do that.
Excited to see what's next for this system, but I would like to see some of the games tested again like GTA V with just a RAM upgrade as I'm really curious how much more performance it could offer with only a RAM upgrade
Kool video 😁👍
2:45 I definitely wasn't expecting some Tim Follin!
Pretty amazing for a tenner!
2:42 - PLOK !! What an absolute classic
wow a core 2 quad again excited
Bruh great video and all but you uploaded it 5am my time woke me up lmao
Still watched it thou
2:45 I wasn't expecting the Plok theme at all lol
I look forward to another video. I have one under my desk for Diablo 2 :) Yes, it's a quad. I need to check the processor name.
I had this PC as a kid and I'm going to be a completely honest it's hot garbage it was always hot garbage and the fact that you made it better is honestly a miracle and I applaud you.
WOO, YEAH BABY! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!
Damn, them Morrison bags for life are cool AF, love water melon lol
Interesting one for sure.
Incredible, I hope I’ll get a good deal like that in the future (:
Did you get a deal like that?
awesome
I still have a few "modded" Xeon 5450 for builds like this that pop up...add an SSD, and an OEM GPU like an R7 240/250...and you got a capable web browser that can handle some basic gaming. Perfect computer for someone to learn about computers with, IMO.
The 530 was the first PC at home I was allowed to use, and it still holds up visually with modern PCs
I used to have a similar setup a few years ago and lasted me pretty much through college before swapping it with an i5 3570 and a GTX 1060. The Crimson beta drivers are actually a bit better than the Catalyst ones, you only lose OpenCL acceleration.
I had a very similar Dell growing up. A Vostro 200 something. It had a Core 2 Duo E6300, 2 GB of ram, and 8800GT. The case was identical to this but black instead of silver
Yay finally! 😄
The simulation of the psu failing cracked me up
This man pushes the boundaries of pc building 😂
Yeah,go for upgrade!!!
I hear that Plok music! Tim follin is a god
The Q6600 overclocks very well, I hat the same specifications, back in the day but, I had 8GB ram and it was not a prebuild
It's cool how you make videos with your camera and record your voice.
Good Video because i realy see the posible to get a pc like that for 10-20
I was able to game on an AMD FX 6300 with a Radeon HD 6970 up to 2019. Those old Radeons were quite good back in the day but now AMD is stumbling with the past two releases. The AMD FX was definitely starting to struggle back then and I probably would have fared a little better with Core 2 Quad 6600
the fx 6300 is like 30% faster then a q6600.
Not sure AMD is stumbling with his last last releases.. think Nvidia just makes better ones.. :)
FX bad as it is is still better than core 2 quad
fx 6300 is 3c/6t so it would definitely run better in modernish games than core duo.
@@aleksazunjic9672 Even if they're not proper 6 cores, they're far from 3 cores
That's my man: hosing the case with the USB/audio connectors and the case fan still inside! 👍
😂😂😂
The first RUclipsr (been watching for some time) that showed what can be cleaned with soap and water.
And I'm still surprised how much electrical components are fine with being cleaned with water and soap.
Would be interesting to see how to debloat Windows 10, not sure if you did a video on it.
But I'm pretty sure I can find something on the webs about it.
First(maybe), your video are awesome ✨
Ah, gotta love socket 775. Used to run a tape-overclocked Q6600 and R7 250 with 16gb of corsair ddr3 and a bunch of old laptop hdds in a scrap HP sff that i threw together for under $20 total. like 2 years ago it was able to run Overwatch with good settings and Minecraft and CS:GO. Theyre still lovely machines if you get them at a good price and set your expectations.
Nice
the greatest bit of this video is how the cpu fan just goes plop into the water
Q6600 is a beast... Seriously over a decade on can still hold its own!
core 2 quad are still good for web browsing, basic apps and some games that not required AVX instructions.
that Inspiron 530 is almost exactly what I have, sitting as more or less a backup in case the main computer fails.
treasure it for it will serve you well.
You can wash mobo too. After washing put into oven around 30C and let it dry very quickly.
Nice video, good to see OS comparison, is nice to see those builds affordable and usable nowadays (even with specific purpose to play esport game such csgo with nice results overall). An offtopic question: nice handwatch! where a can find one of this? need suggestions for Christmas gifts lol
I wouldnt actually know, as this one was a Christmas present a while ago 😂
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Fun fuct : i need a suggest for a Christmas present and it come from a Christmas present. LOL Thank you for your reply :D Anyway i snipe a nice boomboxes after saw it on your video, my fav one, love to see different H/W in your channel
Nice PC ☺️
I love budget cenric builds, I use AM4 at moment but I just tonight upgraded my brothers 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 system to a Ryzen 5600 with 32GB of 3000mhz Corsair RAM. A budget upgrade but such a huge one that it's almost incomprehensible. AM5 would cost me almost £500 at the moment and I don't need it so it's not worth it in the slightest.