Last year, I scored a "for parts or not working" GTX 1080 for $35. I got it to work...mostly. It would only work in pci x8 mode not x16. Also scored a Ryzen 5 2600 "for parts or not working" for $50. Turns out it just had a few bent pins. Once I carefully fixed that, the cpu worked great. In fact, it's in the computer that I am using to type this comment.
That 2600 allowed my HD 6870 to run so well, the card died from finally actually being fully utilized after ten years…. I’m hoping for a GTX 960 4GB to have an ultimate XP machine.
Yo i got a minisforum b550 elite with a ryzen 7 5700g, 32gb ram and a 500gb m.2 ssd for $65, sold it for $500! That was for sure my best profit on a used deal. Love seeing people get more than their moneys worth from some lucky deals
What's fun with Dell is on their website, under support put in the service tag number and find out what the machine originally shipped with. In this case it was "J5F7M : Module,Processor,SNB,G630,2.7, 2C,Q0,L" which looks like a Pentium G630. So at some point someone explicitly put the i7-2600 into this machine... only for it to end up like this. The stories old machines could tell =p
GT 1030 G5 work great in these systems. I have 3 old Optiplex SFF all with GT 1030 G5 LP in them. That GPU is stronger than the mid range full size gaming GPUs of the Sandy Bridge era so it brings them up to contemporary gaming PC specs. Even newer games like Diablo 4 and New World will run on this config. Basically anything Steam Deck compatible will run. A Steam Deck is pretty much on par with an older i7 with a GT 1030 G5 in performance, and a lot of developers are still targeting this performance tier for their minimum spec.
@@smilingpolitely12345 yep, it simply makes no sense. I got an intel core-i5 Gen 3 dell like this matched with a AMD R7250, which is slightly weaker then a gt 1030 and runs hotter ingame, but got it fpr 20€ a year ago. Good for casual gaming, TF2 an stuff. Its a nice system that has low idle wattage.
feels like yesterday I bought my 2500k and gtx570 to play just cause 2, skyrim, assassin's creed 2. I'm 41 and my first pc was an 386 with 33mhz. But sandy bridge is in my ❤
I was given a couple of nearly identical Dell Vostro SFF machines a few years ago. This is really all you need for basic internet use and modest gaming. Runs even better if you put Linux Mint on it (but not with Cinnamon desktop!) and don't plan to use it for any kind of power-hungry applications. It's also perfect for any kind of business machine for a SOHO worker.
Honestly, the 2600 isn't even that bad, especially for 15 quid. I'm still running a 3770 i7 for the last 10 or maybe 11 years at this point, and it's holding up nicely. I don't play a lot of the newer titles because they're not really of interest to me, but the games that I do play, it still holds up well. Only recently it's starting to show its age and I'm due for an upgrade anyways within the next year or so. Great video!
My main PC has an i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a GTX1060 6GB. Runs everything I want with no issues. Only issue I've had is software dropping support for Windows 7 and me refusing to use a newer Windows on this particular PC (I have a PC and laptop with Windows 11, don't have anything with Windows 10 anymore).
The fastest half height card available for this system would be an A2000 (6gb or 12gb). I have a 1650lp in mine - it runs Diablo Immortal just fine at 1080p.
I wonder how many bugs crawled into the system when you unpacked it on the grass? The first ever bug discovered was a literal bug in the computer system. That was a long time ago. Hopefully you got all of the bugs to find a much nicer home in the grass, rather than a PC that might zap them.
"And hopefully, I will see all of you in the next~ (Cut to a quick "Boop Boop") .... Is this the program's way of saying that your recorder ran out of Battery Life at the end, or was that a notification? I don't recognize this particular sound cue, this is the first time that I've ever heard it and it delivers yet another form of research; it's as if our work as analysts is never done, one mystery gets solved and another is immediately at the ready. (:
Just bought a faulty gaming PC with a 1650, Ryzen 5, 16gb ram, 1tb hdd in a tempered glass case on eBay Once it arrives i can see what's wrong with it but for £67 it was a steal
starfield works better with CAS vs FSR2 for CPU load on low spec hardware. i got one of these i7's still but its in a rig im making for a friend, pairing it with an R9 280.
I used to build my own gaming PC's and now I'm retired I may just start doing this myself , flipping PC's for a bit of profit won't make me a Millionaire but it could just give me a little extra income .
Around a year ago I was browsing through Ebay and saw a listing for a HP Z620 with a E5 2690, 64 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD but with no GPU. They were looking for £200, I put it on my watch list. They emailed me to offer I for £100 so I took it and when I received it to my surprise it had 2 x E5 2690. I could sell the 2nd CPU and riser board and almost get the asking price back! Definitely some bargains to be had if you know what to look for 😊
What a deal! 15 pounds for this is great. It’s amazing what deals you can score from people who just don’t really know the value of things. I picked up a 5800X3D for $90 USD because the seller just thought all 5000 series “were more or less the same.” I wasn’t about to correct him.
@@RandomGaminginHDindeed. It sits in my friend’s system in which I was building the system for. Was originally thinking of a 3600, 5500, maybe a 4600, but nope! They’re now more “futureproof” than I am 😅
Dvd drives are often unplugged in commercial environments to stop people installing stuff on them. The proper way would be to lock down the PC with group policies but it's much simpler just to unplug the drive 😊
That isn't the only reason. The cost of running 100 DVD drives in an office ads up, even at idle. Especially when they're hardly ever needed. Also the PSU's in these prebuilt PC's are often under-spec'd, so if you unplug stuff they last longer.
To use that board in a different case, you had to do some hackery for the front fans and such otherwise the BIOS complains at you every time you turn it on, and have to press F1
@@RandomGaminginHDyes, this seller had no idea what he was selling and “that cpu speed was awfully specific”…soooo the seller won’t seem like they don’t know absolutely nothing when they made the listing and didn’t know what to say about the computer.
Ebay deals are my favorite thing to find lately lol. I just recently got a i5 9600k for less than $50 and it appears to be in almost mint condition too! Im thinking of trying out the coffeetime bios mod on a Asrock z170 extreme7+ motherboard (also in mint working order) i scored for $15 from my local E-waste center, and pairing the two together. After some research, it appears very easy. Would actually make for a great video idea if you ask me! Also earlier this week, I scored a xeon e5-2687w v4 for just under $40. So I'm stoked to try it out on my x99 test bench later today!
@@andypandy4607 no i never buy listings saying "for parts". I just have patience and spend more time than i should checking through the listings till I find a deal i like. I also will make offers on items that have that option. Alot of times people will accept your offer as long as you dont low ball them to hard. My other preferred method is to hit up my local E-waste recycling center. Plenty of sweet finds there.
Love these videos man. I really dig all these bargains you get. There's something charming about low end hardware and making the most out of it. I'm at the point where the latest GPU tech just isn't exciting to me and revisiting these older machines makes me appreciate how far we've come for PC gaming and emulation.
That was a nice system that you got, in the end! With the i7, 8GB DDR3 and a suitable HDD or SSD (HDDs are pretty cheap now and 240GB SSDs aren't much more either), someone will have a good time using this as an everyday machine for their day to day tasks. It was also good to see what that i7 was capable of when paired with a GTX 980 (I wouldn't go much more powerful than this, GPU wise) - though we all knew that Starfield wasn't going to run due to (a) it being an unoptimized mess, and (b) you were using a HDD on an "SSD required" game. Still, very poorly optimized title.
I suppose. But with the 2nd gen graphics never officially supported on Windows 10 you can run into strange issues here and there while using it with onboard graphics. I always recommend going for 3rd gen at the earliest if you are going to be using onboard graphics. Not only that bit more stable at times, but as bad as all the graphics are on these cpus the 4000 is a decent amount better for old games and some indie gaming.
@@wyterabitt2149 I'm pretty sure I've had 2nd gen Intel CPUs, as well as 1st gen Intel CPUs, running Windows 10 with nothing but their integrated graphics with no issues whatsoever. Having said that, for this Dell I would go with the 16GB RAM with the i7 (pretty sure 16GB is the maximum supported), a decent SSD/HDD, the optical drive, and as far as graphics, something like a low profile 1050 or 1050Ti would probably be OK. Something that doesn't require external power, of course.
@@TheSpotify95 You can run it, but it's technically not supported and never actually got a proper driver release at all. Intel had some kind of contract that required them to produce a driver for 2nd gen that worked for Windows 10 on release and nothing more. But they also officially did not support Windows 10 for 2nd gen processors. To get around it, all they did was package up a stable older Windows 8 driver when and label it Windows 10. They then clearly marked 2nd gen as not compatible with Windows 10, and made it clear it would never get an update. That Windows 8 driver, that was older at the time Windows 10 was released, is still the only available driver. It does not run that well, and can cause issues at times. It could also work "perfectly" for you, although will still be lower performance than a proper updated driver release would have been. Given the background, if you are going to be using the integrated graphics just go for 3rd gen minimum. Much more performance, and little chance of any issues.
The biggest surprise system I got (which I currently turn into my next gaming PC) was a free X99 System with a 5930X for free, it was only ever used for browsing/excel. The biggest surprise I ever got as a Disc was/is a Windows 7 Ultimate OEM Disc from a business that shut down and Microsoft never deactivated their licensing thingy. Edit: 5830K
At my workplace there is a warehouse with a lot of older pcs. I asked my boss if i could bring home some and to my suprise i found 2 systems rocking an i7 4790 and 16GB ram. Unfortunately no graphics card on both, but not bad since i got them for free
I also managed to pick up so crazy nice deals !! - Ryzen 5 2600 looking brand new with all its things inside the box and all for 35€ (~37 USD) - Brand new Ryzen 5 5600X (literally, it was never opened) for 120€ (~126 USD) - Last but not least, best value of all, a Rog Strix RTX 2060 6Gb with its box and everything inside (+ a useless AMD Rewards Starfield code that I can’t claim since I don’t own the required CPU/GPU for that AMD Rewards code) for only 100€ !!!!! (~105 USD)
I found a couple of years a pc with an i7 4790 with a gtx745 and 8 gig ram 1tb hdd. When i press the power button Windows was on bootloop. A GTX 970,one more 8gig module, SSD and a fresh install of Windows and gifted that computer to my cousin with. 3 years later still using them. And is very Happy with them.
I have an Optiplex 390 board I got for under $15 with the I/O shield in 2017, the thing I hate about Dell is that they used a standard form factor motherboard, but then they don't doccument the power connector pinouts anywhere and then they short a bunch of pins out in the header so that it knows the power button and front panel cable are plugged in, so I was able to find enough about the pinout to hook up a power button but since I don't know which stupid pins are all shunted together it gives me a stupid error about front panel connector failure and power button cable failure at boot, the whole idea of that is just so stupid, it doesn't provide any useful diagnostics information it just adds unecessary points of failure, you'll know if the power button cable has malfunctioned if you can't turn the machine on you don't need to add unecessary wires that won't even do anything if you can't turn it on in the first place. I only bought it because it was the cheapest 1155 board you could get at the time and being an OEM board it means you can easily install Windows 7 with a Dell OEM disk get a valid SLIC license then upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
I know the GPU I’m about to mention is a severe mismatch for the i7-2600, but the RTX 4060 LP might work well in this given it’s by far the fastest option available in that form factor, shouldn’t be too bandwidth bottlenecked compared to say, the RX 6400 or 6500 XT (8 lanes vs. 4) and should be able to accommodate the power requirements of the GPU.
Just make sure to disable to spectre and meltdown and cut down the nvidia driver since it’s full of bloat and will hog up cpu that will give that old i7 a huge boost in some games it’s literally a 80% increase like battlefield 5 for an example since they added new microcode to old cpus vs not doing those optimizations you can also cut down windows installation bloat to maximize your performance also as long as your not using an old hp you can add rebar to the bios and squeeze another 10-15% framerate
I'm using an i7 3770 with a 1660 super, and in most games it's the CPU that's holding back frames. A 4070 would be a MASSIVE overkill for that CPU. We should've gotten a cheap 3050 LP ideally
I actually played through cyberpunk when it first came out on the xeon equivalent of this i7, paired with a gtx 980, just like the combo you tested in the video. Surprisingly solid combo! I remember averaging around 45 fps, but got plenty of fps drops. I think I used a mix of medium and low settings, but was able to keep full screen res on my 1920x1200 monitor
@@Shmackin710 it definitely has been optimized more, although I don't think Maxwell GPUs see much of the benefits. The fps in this video looked very similar to mine, but it's been a long time since I used that combo so Im sure there's been some improvement
I play Cyberpunk on my PC with i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and GTX1060 6GB running Windows 7 and it's definitely playable. Wasn't playable with my previous GPU - RX460 4GB.
Sandy Bridge! I've got the very top of the line dual processor xeon version of this. I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think it's 16 cores (across 2 processors) 3.3 ghz boost and a 3060.
Few years ago I was running a i5 2500 with a gtx 950 and it ran everything I threw at it for the time. Probably the most intense games I played on it was GTA5 and Fallout 76. For an older CPU they can still perform decent. You can't beat $15 for what you got though.
Last week I scored a 6900xt graphics card in a (non working pc) for $115. Something happened to the ryzen cpu and was removed. But the rest of the pc looked great. I don’t think I can top that. Best deal ever!!
I got a similar deal on a dell optiplex, £25 for an optiplex 3020 with 8gbs of ram a 240gb ssd and an i5 4590, i cannot lie it was a massive bargain, especially since i wanted a different machine other than my laptop to run my minecraft server. It also came with some office peripherals and an actually decent 1080p monitor that i ended up giving to my friend. I almost forgot that it also is the sff version so it is very small and quiet.
My old gaming pc had an i7 2600! It still lives on with a 980ti and 500GB SSD, I donated it to our student's room at uni where it serves double duty as a gaming machine and print server!
A while ago I bought optiplex 7050 and paired it with low profile 1050ti and was gob smacked how good it performed in games. The little systems are very capable when paired with gpus.
@@SlowDelSol Yes, all of my machines got SSDs for years now, I bought a 2017 iMac 4K (but originally bought in 2020) in January with i5-7400, 8 Gigs of RAM and 1TB HDD only (no Fusion Drive) and although the latest macOS Ventura ran better than expected (still booting faster than Windows 10 on HDD) it was rather clumsy, like a bucket of bolts. Luckily I could easily clone the OS installation onto an external SSD (2.5" MX500 in USB enclosure) with Clonezilla and it works absolutely fine from that external SSD (in the future I'm going to open it up and place the SSD internally, also the CPU gets replaced with a i7-7700 and the RAM maxed out to 32 Gigs). And a friend of my grandparents had a antique Windows XP machine in 2018, also antique Fritz!Box modem, to her defense she almost only used it to write some bills; she then got a new Acer Aspire ES1 and I had to set it up, it wasn't too bad with i3-6006U, 8 Gigs of RAM (maybe just 4 but at least already DDR4) and the 15.6" screen had 1080p resolution, but instead of a 240/250 GB SSD that morons at acer threw in a 1 TB HDD (and back in 2017-2018 a 250G SSD already roughly cost the same) a and that thing almost enraged me, Windows 10 ran like crap, the drive was constantly at a 100% load, I then got a SSD, external enclosure for 2.5" and another stick of RAM because it had a second unpopulated slot, it was basically for free but she paid me some money anyway for that.
Well, 1866 MHz RAM had no effect, because it's H61 board (as indicated in white border between RAM slots and CPU socket), 2600 could do a little better in a Z board but it was limited to 1333 MHz RAM speed, which matters in recent games. It's nice, however, that the board here is standard dimensions and uses regular ATX power connectors - it means the PC can house an AM4 board with something like 5600G easily :)
A working PC with an i7-2600 for £15 is amazing value. When I saw the title I was half expecting the hardware in this PC to be old and obsolete. An i7-2600 is still perfectly usable with Windows 10 or a modern Linux distribution.
GT1030 suks , is not worth to buy that crap , better to change case , better PSU and get used RX580 8GB ... in Sweden where I live GT1030 cost 500kr , but for 700-800kr you can get RX580 8gb ...
@@olnnn Buddy , without useing punctuation in your text , is not sarcasm is statement , so yeah next time use "..." if you use sarcasm, because there are no shortage of people in internet that mean whet they are writting. o7
I understand that the video card is by far better than mine, but it shocks me that you are able to get more fps in basically every game despite me having a 5 generations newer i3
It's amazing what deals can be had when people don't know the value of what they have. I picked up a Ryzen 3600, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 and an MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max last year for £100 on marketplace. I also got a FREE Coolermaster Cosmos case (yeah, the huge beastly case) and inside was a Z87 motherboard, 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 and an i7 4770. The owner upgraded and just wanted rid of the old system (only thing he kept was the PSU).
What do you think about scoring an MSI Z370-A PRO Motherboard, i7 8700k, ASUS GTX 1060 6GB Turbo, 16GB DDR4 RAM at 3000MHz, Corsair H100i 240mm AIO cooler, and a Kediers C570 open air case with 7 RGB fans for $300?
A lot of Dell power supply connections are proprietary, so you need to be careful with trying to use Dell motherboards in other cases, also Dell commonly uses extremely fine-pitched connection headers for things like power switches and audio connections. There are adapters and like available, but they drive the cost up and in some cases, make it not worthwhile.
this generation isnt. i did it the other way around and put a gen 4 haswell asus board in the dell case, since i like slim pc`s, for allround pc´s. it runs them no problem. only the power button and led connectors are proprietary.
Hey i wanto know one thing.....!!! Which is the best low profile card that doesn't need extra power connector? Is there any card other than rx6400,gtx1650,A2000.....? Any other card that has similar or higher performance? (Keep in mind no extra power connector
Probably the 1650 cuz you can get erm quite cheap used also prehaps the wx 3100 as its a rx 560 equivalent with no overclocking support although depending on your budget and how much your old system is worth you could sell your old system and build a new one with an lga 1155 alliexpress motherboard xeon equivalent i7 3770 16gb ram and a rx 570 psu will probably be the most important and expensive bit although I found some good deals in store clearances n stuff
@@RMoedoe price is not the issue. Because in my country gtx 1630 cost 300pounds where rx580 is 120 pounds. 1650 is 220 pounds. I only want to know about other gpu that doesn't require external power connector but powerful as 1650
you know Cyberpunk on its lowest settings actually looks like an untextured mess rendered in MS Paint, meanwhile RDR2 on its lowest settings still looks amazing. wild to me 😂
I once got 4 or so OfficeSystems like that, 2 were working (with 3xxx / 2xxx i5's in them) and one was not, it just did not boot, but under the cooler hid an i7-7700 and man was that a good find! Must've thrown it out because it wasn't working anymore but here the mainboard was broken, CPU runns just fine still.
This machine is not worth the effort it will take you to get it up and running, or the cost of even a cheap windows code, so I really dont see the point. Anythng over like $50 would be ripping someone off
Got free what I thought was an i5 2500. Ended up being an i7 2600. Just like this video. I wasn't as shocked as the sticker said i7. It was the guy that gave it to me that said it was an i5. Had a 240GB Mushkin SSD and 12GB DDR3 1333. Plus an Nvidia NVS 290 as well. It is in a HP SFF case.
My rig is i7-2600 oc to 3.8mhz. 1650GTX. 16GB RAM. Runs modern games well. I got my i7 for free, swapped my i3 with it. 2011 pc still going strong today.
There are many deals to be had. I once got a 1050ti/16g/ i7 6700 sff gaming pc for about 50$ since the seller sold it as “not working”. The pc booted on the pictures but the little - was displayed indicating there was no boot drive. You can imagine i just plugged one it and it works as new. Also one of my best %ile scores was getting a 4x16gb ddr4 2666 kit for 15$ as the listing title stated “computer memory” 😅
Budget Build PC List in our country around 20k PH peso! Hope you enjoy it this specs! Brand new items! INPLAY ICE Chassis Fan 120mm (x2) InPlay Wind 05 Acrylic Side Panel Micro ATX Durable Tempered Glass PC Case Keytech BTS 550 ATX Power Supply 80+ Bronze 256GB SATA SSD Hdisk 2.5" Lexar Thor 8GB LD4BU008G-R3200GSXG 1x8 3200Mhz DDR4 Memory Dark Grey (x2) Asus Prime A520M-K (Ryzen AM4) with M.2 support DDR4 Gaming MB MATX AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G Socket Am4 3.7ghz with Radeon Vega 7 Processor w/ Wraith Stealth Cooler MPK SPECTERPRO G22F2-VA 22" VA 100hz Freesync Gaming Monitor Black Ovation ACC 2in1 Kit RGB Keyboard and Mouse Combo Black Secure 220v Avr This is complete PC set already i'm not sure if this part/s available in other country! FYI! TY and more power to us!
im still using the classic 3770 non k sadly but it still works wonders for me in most of the games i play, little pro tip here disable the spectre meltdown nonsense and you'll see a boost in performance from the CPU which helps a ton not to mention some of the greedy security features windows added over the years absolutely DESTROYS cpu performance for these old cpus.
Just picked up a system with 8700K overclocked to 5ghz, Asus Strix Z370-F, GTX 1070 Ti, H500P case, 16gb 3000mhz mem, EVGA 650GQ psu, Liquid Cooled for £225! No drives but I had loads inc M.2s which are now installed. The guy I bought it off paid just under £1800 five years ago as a prebuilt and if I was to sell the parts I'd get £600, but bought it to use rather than sell.
I got an Optiplex 790 case (similar but more front ports) for free and put a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 6400. The worst part was modifying the power button and ripping out the front USB 2 ports for USB 3, but I made it work. I’m thinking about doing a Ryzen 5600g, RTX 4060LP, and a 500 watt PSU in that case next.
I just bought a shuttle PC, an older Lenovo laptop, a MS Surface with a clearly exploded battery, a gigantic Dell 42-inch MONITOR, a Viewsonic 22-inch monitor and a 2008 iMac for $50 (USD) at a yard sale. The Shuttle PC had a Core2 Quad, which was funny to me because I remember pining over the C2Q's when I was in college, but couldn't afford one at the time. It's all very old hardware, but it's also all fun to tinker with. I'm planning on using the old shuttle case and PSU to build an emulation machine using an mATX mobo and a Ryzen CPU and GTX 1060 6GB and put it inside a modded Arcade1Up X-Men Vs Street Fighter Arcade I have.
Years ago I bought an unspecified Dell Precision T3500 and when it turned up it came with maxed out 24GB RAM, 2 x 1TB SATA drives and a X5650 processor. I bought the machine for just £20. At the time the CPU alone was selling for about £80+
Best purchase I ever made at a garage sale a few years ago was an almost maxed-out Mac Pro (2012).. dual Xeon X5650, 12 Gigs of RAM and a GTX760. "Can't test it, no hard drive or boot media".. took it off them for 50 Euros with a "maybe I can repurpose the case for something..", thinking I'd have found just another PowerMac G5 box.. and it turned out to be that Intel gem. Still using it today occasionally.
I actually ran an i7 2600K up until recently(not OCd cuz the motherboard didn't support it) and it did help me run games from up to 2018-2019 at decently good frames tho my guess is the 16gigs of 1666MHz ram(i know not breakthrough speeds but for that type a system is good) and the 2GB GTX 1050 aero OC edition did carry the CPU a bit here and there,all in all tho almost every time i monitorized it the CPU was 100% usage and the GPU at about 80% usage so is not like it rlly bottlenecked the GPU too much they kinda worked well together. So all in all for modest gaming or just a work system the 2600 and its K variant are imo pretty good, at least better than just being E-waste which always saddens me to see. That being said jumping from that to a R5 5500 and a GTX 1660 Super with 3200MHz memory really felt great ngl =))))
2:34 core2duo or PentiumD 1000% EDIT 😳😳😳 wow i would not expect i7 2nd gen atall! EDIT no.2 CS2 on my RX 6600XT with 23.9.3 drivers absolutely unplayable until i installed 23.10.1 so i doubt those 0.1% lows are caused by a week😅 cpu..
i have a Rog strix Mobo with a Q9550 and 8GB 800mhz ram and a 1TB timetech SSD with windows 10 !!! throw a 100$ GTX 1070 8gb and see how it fairs maybe even do the tape mod on one of the cpu pads too overclock it LMAO and put a decent cooler on it hahahah get that 4+GHZ on a old Dual Core Qaud hahahaha and see how it fairs in 2023 !!!
I'm so not telling you about the factory I work at. The previous IT manager had a habit of "not working, toss it, get a new one." It was fun getting permission to go through the bins where the tech got tossed. The last couple of years I've gotten laptops (mostly 3rd gen i5s), Optiplexes (3rd and 4th gen), Elitedesks (1st gen Ryzen), mac book pro (i7-4770HQ), one 8th gen i7 laptop, 3 6th gen i7 thinkcentres (M910q mini), an HP Proliant, an 8 bay 4u storage server (whose guts have been swapped a few times) and a lenovo r5-4500u laptop. Unfortunately as of July I moved from factory worker to IT and that manager was let go. So now it has to be really broke to get tossed and my collection isn't building anymore. I hate e-waste and would fix and replace what I could, this got me in the notice of the IT people.
I still rock an i7 2600K @ 4.8 Ghz along with 32GB of 2133 Mhz RAM and AMD RX 6750 XT. It still works perfectly for all the platformer games i play and my usual work. This tiny chip, especially the unlocked version is one hell of a trooper !
Last week i got a Pentium iii 350Mhz, 512MB ram, a geforce 2 mmx and a working Motherboard Fic VB-601-V plus a nice tetro case for 20€ on an online marketplace. He said it was his gaming pc and it has a pentium 4 with 2ghz and the Motherboard is a asus. I knew it better but said nothing. Now im here happy with this little retro pc thats worth around 100-120+€
Honestly, we're at a point where reasonable SATA SSDs can be had for fairly cheap prices. I feel like it would do more justice to leave a $50 256gb SSD in for the next owner instead of the old HDD. As long as you're mindful of storage, 256gb should last you quite a while, especially for normal computing.
those 2nd, 3rd and 4th gen intel chips are coming down in price used - CEX have an i7- 4770 for €30, way less than you would have paid just a few months back. And the i5-4570 is just €6. Still a decent little 4 core for retro gaming
I actually currently use this exact same machine, but with the i5-2400, and right before gpu prices went up I managed to grab a used lp GTX 1650 for $100, its worked perfect for the last 4 years. Would it be worth it to find an i7 for it?
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Last year, I scored a "for parts or not working" GTX 1080 for $35. I got it to work...mostly. It would only work in pci x8 mode not x16. Also scored a Ryzen 5 2600 "for parts or not working" for $50. Turns out it just had a few bent pins. Once I carefully fixed that, the cpu worked great. In fact, it's in the computer that I am using to type this comment.
Nice! That card shouldn’t be too different in x8 mode
That has to be the best deal in the history of pcs. Period.
No different with pcie 3.0 x8 vs x16 with that card. Very nice deal!
Cool to know that you solved it and wrote that on the specific computer too
Score!
When I bought a 2600 1-2 years ago (upgrading a Pentium dual-core on an Intel P board) it was $25. You made bank on this machine, congrats!
That 2600 allowed my HD 6870 to run so well, the card died from finally actually being fully utilized after ten years…. I’m hoping for a GTX 960 4GB to have an ultimate XP machine.
Yo i got a minisforum b550 elite with a ryzen 7 5700g, 32gb ram and a 500gb m.2 ssd for $65, sold it for $500! That was for sure my best profit on a used deal. Love seeing people get more than their moneys worth from some lucky deals
What's fun with Dell is on their website, under support put in the service tag number and find out what the machine originally shipped with.
In this case it was "J5F7M : Module,Processor,SNB,G630,2.7, 2C,Q0,L" which looks like a Pentium G630. So at some point someone explicitly put the i7-2600 into this machine... only for it to end up like this.
The stories old machines could tell =p
ah that is interesting. Didn't think to check that myself!
Maybe someone upgraded it for a project then realised the form factor makes it a bit tricky.
GT 1030 G5 work great in these systems. I have 3 old Optiplex SFF all with GT 1030 G5 LP in them. That GPU is stronger than the mid range full size gaming GPUs of the Sandy Bridge era so it brings them up to contemporary gaming PC specs. Even newer games like Diablo 4 and New World will run on this config. Basically anything Steam Deck compatible will run. A Steam Deck is pretty much on par with an older i7 with a GT 1030 G5 in performance, and a lot of developers are still targeting this performance tier for their minimum spec.
I'd just stick an RX6400 in it, more up to date.
@@darthwiizius But that is just not worth it , new low profile cost 180$ and for that price you can have PC with i7 6700k + 16gb ram + 1060 6gb .
@@smilingpolitely12345yeah Rx 6400 needs PCIe 4.0 makes no sense to put it in a system like this
Definitely agree with the gt 1030. Can play alot of the epic free games with that and many older and indie games.
@@smilingpolitely12345 yep, it simply makes no sense. I got an intel core-i5 Gen 3 dell like this matched with a AMD R7250, which is slightly weaker then a gt 1030 and runs hotter ingame, but got it fpr 20€ a year ago. Good for casual gaming, TF2 an stuff. Its a nice system that has low idle wattage.
The i7 2600 is as legendary to me as the q6600. It lasted so long in my pc that ill never forget it.
feels like yesterday I bought my 2500k and gtx570 to play just cause 2, skyrim, assassin's creed 2.
I'm 41 and my first pc was an 386 with 33mhz. But sandy bridge is in my ❤
I was given a couple of nearly identical Dell Vostro SFF machines a few years ago. This is really all you need for basic internet use and modest gaming. Runs even better if you put Linux Mint on it (but not with Cinnamon desktop!) and don't plan to use it for any kind of power-hungry applications. It's also perfect for any kind of business machine for a SOHO worker.
Honestly, the 2600 isn't even that bad, especially for 15 quid. I'm still running a 3770 i7 for the last 10 or maybe 11 years at this point, and it's holding up nicely. I don't play a lot of the newer titles because they're not really of interest to me, but the games that I do play, it still holds up well. Only recently it's starting to show its age and I'm due for an upgrade anyways within the next year or so.
Great video!
My main PC has an i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a GTX1060 6GB. Runs everything I want with no issues. Only issue I've had is software dropping support for Windows 7 and me refusing to use a newer Windows on this particular PC (I have a PC and laptop with Windows 11, don't have anything with Windows 10 anymore).
*sees a new upload from Steve*
Must comment before even watching like always.
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The fastest half height card available for this system would be an A2000 (6gb or 12gb).
I have a 1650lp in mine - it runs Diablo Immortal just fine at 1080p.
I wonder how many bugs crawled into the system when you unpacked it on the grass? The first ever bug discovered was a literal bug in the computer system. That was a long time ago. Hopefully you got all of the bugs to find a much nicer home in the grass, rather than a PC that might zap them.
"And hopefully, I will see all of you in the next~ (Cut to a quick "Boop Boop")
.... Is this the program's way of saying that your recorder ran out of Battery Life at the end, or was that a notification?
I don't recognize this particular sound cue, this is the first time that I've ever heard it and it delivers yet another form of research; it's as if our work as analysts is never done, one mystery gets solved and another is immediately at the ready. (:
Just bought a faulty gaming PC with a 1650, Ryzen 5, 16gb ram, 1tb hdd in a tempered glass case on eBay
Once it arrives i can see what's wrong with it but for £67 it was a steal
that moment when this system gets paired with a better gpu than your current system lol. i really need to upgrade
2:57 "It may seem a bit like an overreaction"
One day I will find someone on youtube who shows how isometric crpg's handle these sort of fps tests...... one day.
starfield works better with CAS vs FSR2 for CPU load on low spec hardware. i got one of these i7's still but its in a rig im making for a friend, pairing it with an R9 280.
video idea! could you test ryzen 5 2600 it was my first cpu upgrade 😅
That is one solid PC, why not put an SSD into it? Especially with Windows, running on HDD is just painful
I used to build my own gaming PC's and now I'm retired I may just start doing this myself , flipping PC's for a bit of profit won't make me a Millionaire but it could just give me a little extra income .
How did you put the 980 in? Why doesn't that scene exist?
A 15,- PC running 70,- games is impressive.
15 pounds...that's like the Bargains of all Bargains...
Around a year ago I was browsing through Ebay and saw a listing for a HP Z620 with a E5 2690, 64 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD but with no GPU. They were looking for £200, I put it on my watch list. They emailed me to offer I for £100 so I took it and when I received it to my surprise it had 2 x E5 2690. I could sell the 2nd CPU and riser board and almost get the asking price back!
Definitely some bargains to be had if you know what to look for
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Nice. Adding stuff to your watch list is definitely a good idea as well. I’ve had some crazy offers from sellers!
What a deal! 15 pounds for this is great. It’s amazing what deals you can score from people who just don’t really know the value of things. I picked up a 5800X3D for $90 USD because the seller just thought all 5000 series “were more or less the same.” I wasn’t about to correct him.
Wow. That’s a fantastic deal
@@RandomGaminginHDindeed. It sits in my friend’s system in which I was building the system for. Was originally thinking of a 3600, 5500, maybe a 4600, but nope! They’re now more “futureproof” than I am 😅
you are my latest least favourite human. GRRRRR *shakes fist*
damn lolmao@@samsowden
That's quite the luck.
Dvd drives are often unplugged in commercial environments to stop people installing stuff on them. The proper way would be to lock down the PC with group policies but it's much simpler just to unplug the drive 😊
That's exactly my thoughts! I believe this PC was used as a workstation is some office and they simply unplugged that dvd drive.
That isn't the only reason. The cost of running 100 DVD drives in an office ads up, even at idle. Especially when they're hardly ever needed. Also the PSU's in these prebuilt PC's are often under-spec'd, so if you unplug stuff they last longer.
Love these mystery rigs.
Same 😁
@@RandomGaminginHD I got a system at an E-recycling event that had a home made porno on a burned DVD.
Imagine him doing a sherlock gig and goes through wilderness to find a PC abandoned and has to figure out what happened to it.
To use that board in a different case, you had to do some hackery for the front fans and such otherwise the BIOS complains at you every time you turn it on, and have to press F1
yes good point a few of the fan connections are probably not usable straight tout of the box so to speak
That cpu speed was awfully specific for something someone knew nothing about 🤔
Yeah maybe they looked up a different optiplex and saw that written somewhere
@@RandomGaminginHDyes, this seller had no idea what he was selling and “that cpu speed was awfully specific”…soooo the seller won’t seem like they don’t know absolutely nothing when they made the listing and didn’t know what to say about the computer.
@@NathanOakley1980probably went into windows “about my Pc” and put the cpu name in the listing description. That’s what most Pc noobs do at least
@@TEENYcharma task manager also shows the CPU speed.
@@RandomGaminginHDI love u😊
Ebay deals are my favorite thing to find lately lol. I just recently got a i5 9600k for less than $50 and it appears to be in almost mint condition too!
Im thinking of trying out the coffeetime bios mod on a Asrock z170 extreme7+ motherboard (also in mint working order) i scored for $15 from my local E-waste center, and pairing the two together.
After some research, it appears very easy.
Would actually make for a great video idea if you ask me!
Also earlier this week, I scored a xeon e5-2687w v4 for just under $40. So I'm stoked to try it out on my x99 test bench later today!
What do you search? For parts not working?
@@andypandy4607 no i never buy listings saying "for parts". I just have patience and spend more time than i should checking through the listings till I find a deal i like. I also will make offers on items that have that option. Alot of times people will accept your offer as long as you dont low ball them to hard.
My other preferred method is to hit up my local E-waste recycling center. Plenty of sweet finds there.
Love these videos man. I really dig all these bargains you get. There's something charming about low end hardware and making the most out of it. I'm at the point where the latest GPU tech just isn't exciting to me and revisiting these older machines makes me appreciate how far we've come for PC gaming and emulation.
That was a nice system that you got, in the end! With the i7, 8GB DDR3 and a suitable HDD or SSD (HDDs are pretty cheap now and 240GB SSDs aren't much more either), someone will have a good time using this as an everyday machine for their day to day tasks. It was also good to see what that i7 was capable of when paired with a GTX 980 (I wouldn't go much more powerful than this, GPU wise) - though we all knew that Starfield wasn't going to run due to (a) it being an unoptimized mess, and (b) you were using a HDD on an "SSD required" game. Still, very poorly optimized title.
I suppose. But with the 2nd gen graphics never officially supported on Windows 10 you can run into strange issues here and there while using it with onboard graphics.
I always recommend going for 3rd gen at the earliest if you are going to be using onboard graphics. Not only that bit more stable at times, but as bad as all the graphics are on these cpus the 4000 is a decent amount better for old games and some indie gaming.
@@wyterabitt2149 I'm pretty sure I've had 2nd gen Intel CPUs, as well as 1st gen Intel CPUs, running Windows 10 with nothing but their integrated graphics with no issues whatsoever.
Having said that, for this Dell I would go with the 16GB RAM with the i7 (pretty sure 16GB is the maximum supported), a decent SSD/HDD, the optical drive, and as far as graphics, something like a low profile 1050 or 1050Ti would probably be OK. Something that doesn't require external power, of course.
@@TheSpotify95 You can run it, but it's technically not supported and never actually got a proper driver release at all.
Intel had some kind of contract that required them to produce a driver for 2nd gen that worked for Windows 10 on release and nothing more. But they also officially did not support Windows 10 for 2nd gen processors.
To get around it, all they did was package up a stable older Windows 8 driver when and label it Windows 10. They then clearly marked 2nd gen as not compatible with Windows 10, and made it clear it would never get an update. That Windows 8 driver, that was older at the time Windows 10 was released, is still the only available driver.
It does not run that well, and can cause issues at times. It could also work "perfectly" for you, although will still be lower performance than a proper updated driver release would have been. Given the background, if you are going to be using the integrated graphics just go for 3rd gen minimum. Much more performance, and little chance of any issues.
The biggest surprise system I got (which I currently turn into my next gaming PC) was a free X99 System with a 5930X for free, it was only ever used for browsing/excel.
The biggest surprise I ever got as a Disc was/is a Windows 7 Ultimate OEM Disc from a business that shut down and Microsoft never deactivated their licensing thingy.
Edit: 5830K
u mean 5930k or 5960x ?
5930k thanks for pointing it out@@MichaelCH911
At my workplace there is a warehouse with a lot of older pcs. I asked my boss if i could bring home some and to my suprise i found 2 systems rocking an i7 4790 and 16GB ram. Unfortunately no graphics card on both, but not bad since i got them for free
Yeah solid base specs though :)
@@RandomGaminginHD I gave one to a friend and I will probably turn the other one into a server to store data and compile some projects
I also managed to pick up so crazy nice deals !!
- Ryzen 5 2600 looking brand new with all its things inside the box and all for 35€ (~37 USD)
- Brand new Ryzen 5 5600X (literally, it was never opened) for 120€ (~126 USD)
- Last but not least, best value of all, a Rog Strix RTX 2060 6Gb with its box and everything inside (+ a useless AMD Rewards Starfield code that I can’t claim since I don’t own the required CPU/GPU for that AMD Rewards code) for only 100€ !!!!! (~105 USD)
I found a couple of years a pc with an i7 4790 with a gtx745 and 8 gig ram 1tb hdd. When i press the power button Windows was on bootloop. A GTX 970,one more 8gig module, SSD and a fresh install of Windows and gifted that computer to my cousin with. 3 years later still using them. And is very Happy with them.
I also have the same pc but with atx case, mine has the same cpu, 16gb ram and a gtx 1660 super. Still rocking in 2023💪🏻
I have an Optiplex 390 board I got for under $15 with the I/O shield in 2017, the thing I hate about Dell is that they used a standard form factor motherboard, but then they don't doccument the power connector pinouts anywhere and then they short a bunch of pins out in the header so that it knows the power button and front panel cable are plugged in, so I was able to find enough about the pinout to hook up a power button but since I don't know which stupid pins are all shunted together it gives me a stupid error about front panel connector failure and power button cable failure at boot, the whole idea of that is just so stupid, it doesn't provide any useful diagnostics information it just adds unecessary points of failure, you'll know if the power button cable has malfunctioned if you can't turn the machine on you don't need to add unecessary wires that won't even do anything if you can't turn it on in the first place. I only bought it because it was the cheapest 1155 board you could get at the time and being an OEM board it means you can easily install Windows 7 with a Dell OEM disk get a valid SLIC license then upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
I know the GPU I’m about to mention is a severe mismatch for the i7-2600, but the RTX 4060 LP might work well in this given it’s by far the fastest option available in that form factor, shouldn’t be too bandwidth bottlenecked compared to say, the RX 6400 or 6500 XT (8 lanes vs. 4) and should be able to accommodate the power requirements of the GPU.
Just make sure to disable to spectre and meltdown and cut down the nvidia driver since it’s full of bloat and will hog up cpu that will give that old i7 a huge boost in some games it’s literally a 80% increase like battlefield 5 for an example since they added new microcode to old cpus vs not doing those optimizations you can also cut down windows installation bloat to maximize your performance also as long as your not using an old hp you can add rebar to the bios and squeeze another 10-15% framerate
@@josephdias3968Please learn about capitalization and punctuation, because this was a hell to read. But you're totally right.
I'm using an i7 3770 with a 1660 super, and in most games it's the CPU that's holding back frames. A 4070 would be a MASSIVE overkill for that CPU. We should've gotten a cheap 3050 LP ideally
I actually played through cyberpunk when it first came out on the xeon equivalent of this i7, paired with a gtx 980, just like the combo you tested in the video. Surprisingly solid combo! I remember averaging around 45 fps, but got plenty of fps drops. I think I used a mix of medium and low settings, but was able to keep full screen res on my 1920x1200 monitor
@@Shmackin710 it definitely has been optimized more, although I don't think Maxwell GPUs see much of the benefits. The fps in this video looked very similar to mine, but it's been a long time since I used that combo so Im sure there's been some improvement
I play Cyberpunk on my PC with i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and GTX1060 6GB running Windows 7 and it's definitely playable. Wasn't playable with my previous GPU - RX460 4GB.
Sandy Bridge! I've got the very top of the line dual processor xeon version of this. I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think it's 16 cores (across 2 processors) 3.3 ghz boost and a 3060.
i7-2600K and 1080 Ti here, haha!
Few years ago I was running a i5 2500 with a gtx 950 and it ran everything I threw at it for the time. Probably the most intense games I played on it was GTA5 and Fallout 76. For an older CPU they can still perform decent. You can't beat $15 for what you got though.
Last week I scored a 6900xt graphics card in a (non working pc) for $115. Something happened to the ryzen cpu and was removed. But the rest of the pc looked great. I don’t think I can top that. Best deal ever!!
I bet you found this PC cause you where looking for a 3090 😅
Thats how I find my broken pc's sometimes. 😬
the fact that the peel was still on there after so long is the best part.
I got a similar deal on a dell optiplex, £25 for an optiplex 3020 with 8gbs of ram a 240gb ssd and an i5 4590, i cannot lie it was a massive bargain, especially since i wanted a different machine other than my laptop to run my minecraft server. It also came with some office peripherals and an actually decent 1080p monitor that i ended up giving to my friend. I almost forgot that it also is the sff version so it is very small and quiet.
OMG THIS IS MY OLD PC(well atleast the same brand i guess)...man core 2 quad with gt710 going hard in that machine and i was in my highschool too lol
I've got a 3770 and not planning an upgrade. All what I need is running smoothly.
Seller said 3.3GHZ, the CPU is 3.4GHZ... not too specific ! lol
My old gaming pc had an i7 2600! It still lives on with a 980ti and 500GB SSD, I donated it to our student's room at uni where it serves double duty as a gaming machine and print server!
A while ago I bought optiplex 7050 and paired it with low profile 1050ti and was gob smacked how good it performed in games.
The little systems are very capable when paired with gpus.
You can get a small SSD second hand very cheap nowadays: useful to run the system on and use the HDD for additional storage.
Makes it a lot faster!
I’d argue that’s it’s mandatory to run an ssd now a days
@@SlowDelSol Yes, all of my machines got SSDs for years now, I bought a 2017 iMac 4K (but originally bought in 2020) in January with i5-7400, 8 Gigs of RAM and 1TB HDD only (no Fusion Drive) and although the latest macOS Ventura ran better than expected (still booting faster than Windows 10 on HDD) it was rather clumsy, like a bucket of bolts.
Luckily I could easily clone the OS installation onto an external SSD (2.5" MX500 in USB enclosure) with Clonezilla and it works absolutely fine from that external SSD (in the future I'm going to open it up and place the SSD internally, also the CPU gets replaced with a i7-7700 and the RAM maxed out to 32 Gigs).
And a friend of my grandparents had a antique Windows XP machine in 2018, also antique Fritz!Box modem, to her defense she almost only used it to write some bills; she then got a new Acer Aspire ES1 and I had to set it up, it wasn't too bad with i3-6006U, 8 Gigs of RAM (maybe just 4 but at least already DDR4) and the 15.6" screen had 1080p resolution, but instead of a 240/250 GB SSD that morons at acer threw in a 1 TB HDD (and back in 2017-2018 a 250G SSD already roughly cost the same) a and that thing almost enraged me, Windows 10 ran like crap, the drive was constantly at a 100% load, I then got a SSD, external enclosure for 2.5" and another stick of RAM because it had a second unpopulated slot, it was basically for free but she paid me some money anyway for that.
What a deal :D
Yeah took me by surprise!
Well, 1866 MHz RAM had no effect, because it's H61 board (as indicated in white border between RAM slots and CPU socket), 2600 could do a little better in a Z board but it was limited to 1333 MHz RAM speed, which matters in recent games. It's nice, however, that the board here is standard dimensions and uses regular ATX power connectors - it means the PC can house an AM4 board with something like 5600G easily :)
A working PC with an i7-2600 for £15 is amazing value. When I saw the title I was half expecting the hardware in this PC to be old and obsolete. An i7-2600 is still perfectly usable with Windows 10 or a modern Linux distribution.
If you put some RGB on the front and a gt 1030 in it you can be like one of these gaming pc flipper youtube channels
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GT1030 suks , is not worth to buy that crap , better to change case , better PSU and get used RX580 8GB ... in Sweden where I live GT1030 cost 500kr , but for 700-800kr you can get RX580 8gb ...
@@smilingpolitely12345 Lol I know I it was just sarcasm
@@olnnn Buddy , without useing punctuation in your text , is not sarcasm is statement , so yeah next time use "..." if you use sarcasm, because there are no shortage of people in internet that mean whet they are writting. o7
Exited RandomGaming be like 3:01 😂
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I understand that the video card is by far better than mine, but it shocks me that you are able to get more fps in basically every game despite me having a 5 generations newer i3
I love the I7 2600, it is my favorite cpu! My I7 2600k is still very dear to me!
Stick a £10 ssd bootdrive in there.
It's amazing what deals can be had when people don't know the value of what they have. I picked up a Ryzen 3600, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 and an MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max last year for £100 on marketplace. I also got a FREE Coolermaster Cosmos case (yeah, the huge beastly case) and inside was a Z87 motherboard, 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 and an i7 4770. The owner upgraded and just wanted rid of the old system (only thing he kept was the PSU).
Worth it only for the CPU 😮
What do you think about scoring an MSI Z370-A PRO Motherboard, i7 8700k, ASUS GTX 1060 6GB Turbo, 16GB DDR4 RAM at 3000MHz, Corsair H100i 240mm AIO cooler, and a Kediers C570 open air case with 7 RGB fans for $300?
Currently running a 2600k with a 980ti and 16gb of 1866, and happily gaming and working daily. Much better motherboard than this of course.
A lot of Dell power supply connections are proprietary, so you need to be careful with trying to use Dell motherboards in other cases, also Dell commonly uses extremely fine-pitched connection headers for things like power switches and audio connections. There are adapters and like available, but they drive the cost up and in some cases, make it not worthwhile.
this generation isnt. i did it the other way around and put a gen 4 haswell asus board in the dell case, since i like slim pc`s, for allround pc´s. it runs them no problem. only the power button and led connectors are proprietary.
I respect you soo much for not selling this pc for an insane price, ppl like you keep the community alive ❤
I remember I got a acern c730 white chromebook that was listed for parts or repair but all that was not tested was the battery which I didnt mind
Hey i wanto know one thing.....!!!
Which is the best low profile card that doesn't need extra power connector?
Is there any card other than rx6400,gtx1650,A2000.....?
Any other card that has similar or higher performance? (Keep in mind no extra power connector
Probably the 1650 cuz you can get erm quite cheap used also prehaps the wx 3100 as its a rx 560 equivalent with no overclocking support although depending on your budget and how much your old system is worth you could sell your old system and build a new one with an lga 1155 alliexpress motherboard xeon equivalent i7 3770 16gb ram and a rx 570 psu will probably be the most important and expensive bit although I found some good deals in store clearances n stuff
@@RMoedoe price is not the issue. Because in my country gtx 1630 cost 300pounds where rx580 is 120 pounds. 1650 is 220 pounds.
I only want to know about other gpu that doesn't require external power connector but powerful as 1650
a low profile rtx4060 probably the latest card that fits fine in the system, but a low profile gtx1650 is probably more sensible considering the cost
you know Cyberpunk on its lowest settings actually looks like an untextured mess rendered in MS Paint, meanwhile RDR2 on its lowest settings still looks amazing. wild to me 😂
I once got 4 or so OfficeSystems like that, 2 were working (with 3xxx / 2xxx i5's in them) and one was not, it just did not boot, but under the cooler hid an i7-7700 and man was that a good find! Must've thrown it out because it wasn't working anymore but here the mainboard was broken, CPU runns just fine still.
This machine is not worth the effort it will take you to get it up and running, or the cost of even a cheap windows code, so I really dont see the point. Anythng over like $50 would be ripping someone off
Got free what I thought was an i5 2500. Ended up being an i7 2600. Just like this video. I wasn't as shocked as the sticker said i7. It was the guy that gave it to me that said it was an i5. Had a 240GB Mushkin SSD and 12GB DDR3 1333. Plus an Nvidia NVS 290 as well. It is in a HP SFF case.
Nice find, the i7 2600 is about the best thing you could've gotten in that scenario. :)
My rig is i7-2600 oc to 3.8mhz. 1650GTX. 16GB RAM. Runs modern games well. I got my i7 for free, swapped my i3 with it. 2011 pc still going strong today.
There are many deals to be had. I once got a 1050ti/16g/ i7 6700 sff gaming pc for about 50$ since the seller sold it as “not working”. The pc booted on the pictures but the little - was displayed indicating there was no boot drive. You can imagine i just plugged one it and it works as new.
Also one of my best %ile scores was getting a 4x16gb ddr4 2666 kit for 15$ as the listing title stated “computer memory” 😅
Highschool🤔 Do you want my I7 3770 with mobo + 16GB DDR3 [2x8](hyperX) + I5 3330 + cooler/heatsink (broke mounts) cba with ebay.
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I have an i7-2600 computer and it still chugs along pretty OK.
I have 32GB of RAM, which is the maximum for that processor.
amazing build! i thought it would be good for some home office uses but it also turned out to be a gaming monster with a good gpu
@RandomGamingInHD, Please add BeamNG drive to your pc game test list!! Very very great performance tester as the physics engine stresses the cpu!!
Budget Build PC List in our country around 20k PH peso! Hope you enjoy it this specs! Brand new items!
INPLAY ICE Chassis Fan 120mm (x2)
InPlay Wind 05 Acrylic Side Panel Micro ATX Durable Tempered Glass PC Case
Keytech BTS 550 ATX Power Supply 80+ Bronze
256GB SATA SSD Hdisk 2.5"
Lexar Thor 8GB LD4BU008G-R3200GSXG 1x8 3200Mhz DDR4 Memory Dark Grey (x2)
Asus Prime A520M-K (Ryzen AM4) with M.2 support DDR4 Gaming MB MATX
AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G Socket Am4 3.7ghz with Radeon Vega 7 Processor w/ Wraith Stealth Cooler MPK
SPECTERPRO G22F2-VA 22" VA 100hz Freesync Gaming Monitor Black
Ovation ACC 2in1 Kit RGB Keyboard and Mouse Combo Black
Secure 220v Avr
This is complete PC set already i'm not sure if this part/s available in other country! FYI! TY and more power to us!
im still using the classic 3770 non k sadly but it still works wonders for me in most of the games i play, little pro tip here disable the spectre meltdown nonsense and you'll see a boost in performance from the CPU which helps a ton not to mention some of the greedy security features windows added over the years absolutely DESTROYS cpu performance for these old cpus.
Just picked up a system with 8700K overclocked to 5ghz, Asus Strix Z370-F, GTX 1070 Ti, H500P case, 16gb 3000mhz mem, EVGA 650GQ psu, Liquid Cooled for £225! No drives but I had loads inc M.2s which are now installed. The guy I bought it off paid just under £1800 five years ago as a prebuilt and if I was to sell the parts I'd get £600, but bought it to use rather than sell.
I got an Optiplex 790 case (similar but more front ports) for free and put a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 6400. The worst part was modifying the power button and ripping out the front USB 2 ports for USB 3, but I made it work.
I’m thinking about doing a Ryzen 5600g, RTX 4060LP, and a 500 watt PSU in that case next.
I just bought a shuttle PC, an older Lenovo laptop, a MS Surface with a clearly exploded battery, a gigantic Dell 42-inch MONITOR, a Viewsonic 22-inch monitor and a 2008 iMac for $50 (USD) at a yard sale. The Shuttle PC had a Core2 Quad, which was funny to me because I remember pining over the C2Q's when I was in college, but couldn't afford one at the time. It's all very old hardware, but it's also all fun to tinker with. I'm planning on using the old shuttle case and PSU to build an emulation machine using an mATX mobo and a Ryzen CPU and GTX 1060 6GB and put it inside a modded Arcade1Up X-Men Vs Street Fighter Arcade I have.
I use a Optiplex I7 4790 SFF with a Radeon RX 6400 LP makes a great little gaming machine.
Years ago I bought an unspecified Dell Precision T3500 and when it turned up it came with maxed out 24GB RAM, 2 x 1TB SATA drives and a X5650 processor. I bought the machine for just £20. At the time the CPU alone was selling for about £80+
Best purchase I ever made at a garage sale a few years ago was an almost maxed-out Mac Pro (2012).. dual Xeon X5650, 12 Gigs of RAM and a GTX760. "Can't test it, no hard drive or boot media".. took it off them for 50 Euros with a "maybe I can repurpose the case for something..", thinking I'd have found just another PowerMac G5 box.. and it turned out to be that Intel gem. Still using it today occasionally.
I actually ran an i7 2600K up until recently(not OCd cuz the motherboard didn't support it) and it did help me run games from up to 2018-2019 at decently good frames tho my guess is the 16gigs of 1666MHz ram(i know not breakthrough speeds but for that type a system is good) and the 2GB GTX 1050 aero OC edition did carry the CPU a bit here and there,all in all tho almost every time i monitorized it the CPU was 100% usage and the GPU at about 80% usage so is not like it rlly bottlenecked the GPU too much they kinda worked well together.
So all in all for modest gaming or just a work system the 2600 and its K variant are imo pretty good, at least better than just being E-waste which always saddens me to see.
That being said jumping from that to a R5 5500 and a GTX 1660 Super with 3200MHz memory really felt great ngl =))))
2:34 core2duo or PentiumD 1000% EDIT 😳😳😳 wow i would not expect i7 2nd gen atall! EDIT no.2 CS2 on my RX 6600XT with 23.9.3 drivers absolutely unplayable until i installed 23.10.1 so i doubt those 0.1% lows are caused by a week😅 cpu..
i have a Rog strix Mobo with a Q9550 and 8GB 800mhz ram and a 1TB timetech SSD with windows 10 !!! throw a 100$ GTX 1070 8gb and see how it fairs maybe even do the tape mod on one of the cpu pads too overclock it LMAO and put a decent cooler on it hahahah get that 4+GHZ on a old Dual Core Qaud hahahaha and see how it fairs in 2023 !!!
I'm so not telling you about the factory I work at. The previous IT manager had a habit of "not working, toss it, get a new one." It was fun getting permission to go through the bins where the tech got tossed. The last couple of years I've gotten laptops (mostly 3rd gen i5s), Optiplexes (3rd and 4th gen), Elitedesks (1st gen Ryzen), mac book pro (i7-4770HQ), one 8th gen i7 laptop, 3 6th gen i7 thinkcentres (M910q mini), an HP Proliant, an 8 bay 4u storage server (whose guts have been swapped a few times) and a lenovo r5-4500u laptop.
Unfortunately as of July I moved from factory worker to IT and that manager was let go. So now it has to be really broke to get tossed and my collection isn't building anymore. I hate e-waste and would fix and replace what I could, this got me in the notice of the IT people.
I still rock an i7 2600K @ 4.8 Ghz along with 32GB of 2133 Mhz RAM and AMD RX 6750 XT. It still works perfectly for all the platformer games i play and my usual work. This tiny chip, especially the unlocked version is one hell of a trooper !
Last week i got a Pentium iii 350Mhz, 512MB ram, a geforce 2 mmx and a working Motherboard Fic VB-601-V plus a nice tetro case for 20€ on an online marketplace. He said it was his gaming pc and it has a pentium 4 with 2ghz and the Motherboard is a asus. I knew it better but said nothing. Now im here happy with this little retro pc thats worth around 100-120+€
Honestly, we're at a point where reasonable SATA SSDs can be had for fairly cheap prices. I feel like it would do more justice to leave a $50 256gb SSD in for the next owner instead of the old HDD. As long as you're mindful of storage, 256gb should last you quite a while, especially for normal computing.
those 2nd, 3rd and 4th gen intel chips are coming down in price used - CEX have an i7- 4770 for €30, way less than you would have paid just a few months back. And the i5-4570 is just €6. Still a decent little 4 core for retro gaming
I have a Toshiba gaming laptop from 2012 with a an INTEL I7-2600 paired with a GTX 560.
Ran my games great for several years. Still works well.
I actually currently use this exact same machine, but with the i5-2400, and right before gpu prices went up I managed to grab a used lp GTX 1650 for $100, its worked perfect for the last 4 years. Would it be worth it to find an i7 for it?