Thanks for watching! If you're looking for a SFF build that's a little bit better performing, I got you covered! ruclips.net/video/SMZRPgZKucY/видео.html&t
Cool video! I've been toying with the idea of upgrading a SFF PC for gaming. Any particular reason you didn't upgrade the fans (other than to save money)? There's only 2 in most of those SFFs (CPU Cooler and 80mm fan at the front of the case). The stock case fan is often not awful, but the additional heat from the GTX1650 would likely not help its cause. We also all know the stock Intel CPU coolers aren't great and there are quite a few LP coolers that would fit this build for not a lot more money (probably like $70 if you went with Noctua fan and cooler).
hey man try doing this on this pc if you still have it around or someting silmer theirs a program from gary gibson and its called inspectre. if you disable inspectre and meldown and restart the pc you will get more performance out your cpu that way. because the inspectre updates are affecting performance on the older i5's and i7's plus xeons give it a shot im sure youll get a performance increase. www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
I like the new benchmarking style a lot! I think this is a bit more interesting for me. As a person who watches your videos for fun and usually not to buy the builds you showcase, this made the benchmarks much more interesting and fun.
I did a sleeper pc much like this! It’s an hp elite 8300 sff with an i7-3770 and the gtx 1650. I love watching others show love to these small form factor PCs and its very fun to watch!
Awesome video (as always)! These OEM's have endless customizablility and will continue to dominate budget bang for buck gaming PCs. Love the modding builds and hope to see more!
I absolutely love the idea, and the result is great when you look at it from a distance, but I have some advice for you and my fellow modders that want to try this out : - The case seems badly cut in some parts, don't use a dremel to cut long straight lines, the cuts won't be straight and won't be clean - Depending on the paint that is already applied to the case, sand the whole case with fine grain sandpaper before applying paint, the result will be neater - If you use a rattle can or an airbrush, apply at least two or three light coats instead of applying one massive coat in one pass, it will prevent the paint from dripping and stacking at random places. - You really should apply varnish (matte or gloss) on your paint job in order to prevent it from falling appart (as we can see on some parts of your case) Once again, the idea is great and I thank you a lot for the time you took to create and share this content
Thanks for taking the time to write some feedback, but alternatives would have been more constructive! 1. What tool do you recommend cutting metal and acrylic for straight lines? 2. Is there anything that wasn't neat about the case? I agree that your idea is probably more META, but would there be a tangible difference when looking at it? 3. I did this exactly, I applied 5-6 small coats and not just 1 large one 4. What was falling apart? Thanks again
@@ZachsTechTurf thanks for your quick answer. First of all, I'm really sorry if I my advice might have appeared rude, I'm not speaking in my mother tongue. 1. Using a circular saw and a guideline or a table saw would greatly help. I know that most of the people dont have access to such tools, but hardware stores often offer cutting services. If really you have no access to such tools, you could also mount the window on the outter side of the panel and paint its border black to hide the places you fixed it on the panel (beware, the window has to match the size of the panel in this instance). 2 & 3. Some cases (most frequently older models) come with a "granulated" and "rough" paint job. Depending on the angles of your camera, I could see some elevations and irregularities and I assumed that they were caused by either those already existing irregularities or a single coat of paint which dripped a bit. That's why I think that sanding the parts that you want to paint is better. I forgot to mention in the advice that I gave for the coats that you'd have to let each coat dry before applying another one (but you must have done that 👌) 4. Mostly on the edges of the cut side panel, were the window meets the panel's metal frame, we can see "black" spots were there is not paint. I can't illustrate my words with pictures and I might have made a mistake, but after watching closely the bottom right of the window when you face the "window side" of the PC, I think I see spots of missing paint.
The GDDR6 version needs a higher power tolerance and an external plug which some OEMs don't come with. The GDDR5 card can be powered purely through the PCI, so that's likely why it was recommended.
@@ZachsTechTurf It is. Look on Amazon for the one that specifically mentions it. ZT-T16520H-10L is the one I want, I like supporting ZOTAC because they tend to make cool stuff like this.
just got 4 of these same guys at work for free bc they were gonna end up in the landfill and going to be thrown away. Thank you so much for making documentation of upgrades, it helps a lot!
I really liked the benchmarking style this time......and anyways....love this channel....great quality and a lot underrated......hope your channel blows up soon
I just transferred my HP Elitedesk 800 G1 to an old HP Pavilion case, added a gtx 1650 and I'm playing Forespoken right now. Extra things I had to do: 1.) Remove the power switch and lights from the front cover button, insert into the from cover of the Pavilion. 2.) To use my Elite desk cooling fan, I had to find some nuts that fit on the bolts in the fan too attach it to the mother board. The Elit desk mother does not have built in nuts. The fan bolts into the case. It ain't pretty but works like a champ.
@@ZachsTechTurf r5 3600 a cooler master aio b450 tomahawk Max g.skill trident z 3600mhz 16gb 512 gb ssd with a 1 tb hdd coolermaster h500 case 2060 super gaming x good looking cable extensions and a 600w corsair semi modular psu.
I really like the green screen bench Marking, I like it way better than just showing game play and numbers. I really like that modded case, you did a hell of a job. I thought you almost cut yourself, during the cutting it was some kind of a glitch , maybe it was the speed of that part of the video. AWESOME video as always bro, loving these 2 videos per week too. Especially on Sundays something to watch.
Honestly I can't wait I really hope I get mine soon because I'm so motivated to get my HP 600 my IT teacher wanted to help me get a better computer and I also wanted to upgrade it as well so guys wish me luck and thank you for this video man it's always nice seeing builds like this
The redesign is cool. I have one of the newer HP like this with a half-dead i7 7700. I wanted to sell it but after your video... I'll make my own gaming console like this
It’s a very bad choice to be totally honest.. a ryzen 7 2700, a320 m-k mobo, a gtx 960 2 gb (sign 😐), and 8 gb 2666 speed ram in a very cheap case... cheers for being you 😂😂 I guess😂😂
Looks good! Flipping PCs has definitely gotten a lot harder so it’s nice to get some tips. Thanks. Also the benchmarking looks great seeing your reactions to the frame dips.
This is the type of information I was looking for and it's much appreciated. I have this same HP 800 SFF PC but am thinking of using an 800 G1 800 TWR with an I7 4790 instead. The mods that you do on these machines are great and I will be using them on my builds, thanks for sharing you experience.
This looks like a cool way to get a gaming pc on the cheap. I dont think it's a good way to 'flip' a pc and make money from selling it however. Lets say it takes 30 minutes to find the PC on the internet and examine it to make sure it is suitable for flipping. Add an extra 3 hours for modding the PC (which is not alot of time considering you have to measure, cut, paint, dry..., 30 minutes checking to make sure it runs well after the fact. That's 4 hours of work...if you work quick. If you choose to benchmark the PC so that the buyer knows what they are getting, you can probably add another 2 hours for that. That's 6 hours of work. Then its time to put it online and wait for it to sell, which might take days or months, from which it will probably cost like $10 in shipping (assume you also get materials to put the PC in so it dosent break in shipping). The time it takes to bring it to the post office will probably add another like 30 minutes. Total time spent: 6 hours 30 minutes. At the end of the day, I dont think you will sell it for over $400 (maybe...I might be wrong), considering the type of people buying your computer will likely be tech savvy enough to recognise that they can just buy their own EliteDesk and slap a 1650 in it, or they wont know enough about it PCs that they just buy a prebuilt from walmart or something. If it costs you $310 in materials (incl shipping)(if you find a good deal), you are making a profit of $90. Over 6 and a half hours, thats $14/hr. Which might sound good, until you realise that its below the national average for teenagers at $17/hr, and you have to factor in not only the cost of doing the mods in the first place (equipment costs, hidden fees for selling, etc), but the associated risk of potentially not selling your PC for months or at all. it is likely you will break something while modding, which will also cost you. All in all, this is high risk, high skill, low return. But its good fun if you are just building the PC for yourself tho :)
Nice build, side note on the mod, they make a U Channel molding that you can apply around the side panel cut out for protection and a more professional look.
Nice build i recently bought a lga 775 hp compaq 8200 elite for an amazing £6 inclu free postage which i plan to flip i got it working after some troubleshooting and upgraded the CPU to the core 2 quad 8400 and some decent 8gb kit of ddr3 ramp plan to slot in a decent low profile gpu something like the amd Radeon pro wx 2100 shes good as new in the inside but still all beat up on the outside i plan to mod the case allbeit wont do as extensive modding as you did as i dont have access to a Dremel and resources to keep my self save plus i would like to apply the common programming practice of keeping it simple stupid although i do plan to vynill wrap the case and spray paint the front fascia maybe put some rgb at the front as well stuff which is easy todo and should make it look awesome
I got a HP elitedesk 800 G2 for 95$AUD with a intel core i5-6500 8GB of DDR4 RAM and a 200W 80+ platinum rated PSU, I’m currently slightly modifying a HP pavilion 500 PC series(i7 model, other than that I can’t find the specific model number, so far) to fit the power button from my other pc. I’m waiting on a new cooler that just clips in(the bracket basically disappeared)
Just to clarify, since he is recording the FPS will drop. Even the GTX 1050 ti does good in modern games when not recording! Therefore the GTX 1650 is a good card for modern games, Recording causes lag and FPS drops. So the benchmarks are not accurate!
I have the same PC set up, but when I upgraded the GPU, I couldnt find the GTX 1650 at the time, and went with the AMD Radeon RX 6400 instead which works well for the games I play. Many of the games I play run well in 1080P but instead of the I5, I've upgraded to the I7-6700.
It was funny that while changing colors for the main pc it was also affecting the pc behind it. I have that same issue with my RGB in my different pc and the lights of the tv and so on LOL
A better idea for side panel is to do a light box style sliding picture frame that you can change out. Lot's of cool backlit picture ideas....Even a very nice picture of high end liquid cooled pc parts.
Yo Zach, I like the new format but if I can add, I believe the camera is maybe too big? I mean it occupies a lot of space on the screen, also, the microphone on the way just looks really odd. Besides that I would like to see it more often, actual live gameplay. Also you're recording so that obviously takes a few FPS but I think that the PC looks sick!
That original HP horizontal PC is exactly the model that the school uses in the libraries and the classrooms. I might ask to keep ones that they don't need and do this?
I bought this PC for $150 with Windows 10 Pro and a 1tb HDD, did a complete transplant into a $50 DeepCool tempered glass case with a ROG OC GTX 1060 setup. All together with a 600 watt psu, 16gb of ram, SSD to run windows and other parts, came out to $550 total and runs games like Witcher 3 on ultra without a sweat. This is a great platform for new PC gamers if you are ok with building your own PC from scratch. The only shortcoming is the CPU fan design on HP's motherboard which is proprietary (aftermarket CPU coolers wont work)...that being said, my CPU temps stay below 67 celcius so....does it matter?
Great mod, only things i wouldnt do are the window, paintjob and leds, because those dont add functionality. I would instead spend that money on a noctua fan on the cpu cooler.
Great vid, project and basic info on casemodding. The new benchmarking style... eeeehhh... I don't hate it, but it streched a bit long, so I started skipping 5 secs at the, only to stumble on voice-over commentary. If tightened up a bit, that be good. :) And perhaps blur it when doing voice-over or some other visual indicator, it'd be great. Though that is just a personal preference of mine, so not a definite request. Keep up the good work :)
@@ZachsTechTurf You're most welcome. Heck, you are showing us the basics of building budget, what to keep in mind and what to watch out for. And then you benchmark the machines as well. I really wanted to the same plexiglass window on my old Lenono M71e tower, but it has that spiffy Lenovo indetation on it, which I don't really want to remove or break. And the all Black lenovo is a classic of it's own. Though I have had thoughts of "Racing Stripes" or white with blue, green and/or red accents. Black and orange is also on the table, since I am gonna order some Orange G.Skill Ares DDR3 RAM and a Inter-Tech Argus SU-200 CPU tower cooler. With a blue AMD Radeon Pro WX2100 to contrast that. xD Plus... I can then downgrade it back to the original PSU, rather than the TermalTake 630W, that I am using, to make it run an old HD7770 xD.
A few things I'd note. - Not every mini system like this has extra SATA power cables, they sometimes have exactly enough for the included drives. - That side panel is cool, but needs a ton of work to look good. It looks like you basically cut it out with scissors. You sanded it but it really doesn't look very good or straight. I think I'd be embarrassed to flip it in that state.
I modded one of these and kept the cpu and ram and psu then added a gt 1030 and a 2tb ssd and turned out pretty clean :) (edit) i think it would look nice with light gray instead of white
I tucking admire u u are so humble. Do u have a patreon. I love u for making vids u seem so friendly. I want to give u all the money in the world love ya
I appreciate your viewership. The best way to help financially is over on Twitch, there's multiple ways to give including straight donations, subscriptions, gifted subs, bits, etc etc
Bought the exact same PC from a recycler a couple of years ago and put in more RAM and a SSD. Unfortunately it was during the great Graphics card drought of COVID and the only card I could get was a GT1030 - I could not find a 1650 anywhere and the ones being sold on ebay used were at ridiculous prices - so unfortunately no 1080p gaming for me - but I'm eventually going get a 10th gen i3 from work when they swap a desktop over - and this can become a media PC as it can handle 4K playback with no issue.
Great looking build. I'm working on a similar build right now. If you have time, coloring or shrouding the PSU and making a cover for the hard drive bays can make the build look a little cleaner. If not, you can just use a heat gun to remove the PSU's sticker and leave it at that if you don't want to paint it.
@@ZachsTechTurf Yo so happy you replied bro. I also started to have random restarts like when I load up any game. I'm going to do all the steps you did
Those edges look rough. Wondering what good options there could be to cover those wonky cut lines. Maybe some PVC white trim could do the trick. But then again did not even realize that was the original case at the start.
Kool mod Zach !!! maybe if you speak about the 1030 maybe highlight the fact that they need too buy the gddr5 not the gddr4 which is really a piece of rubbish.
i thought i was the only crazy person to do this, i swapped the case (to be able to fit a graphics card) for a big old school one with a handle and i used green black and gray for the color (im running with 2 power supplys) since the connector is different for the sff
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Thanks for watching! If you're looking for a SFF build that's a little bit better performing, I got you covered! ruclips.net/video/SMZRPgZKucY/видео.html&t
Sup
Everything about that video was brilliant!
Add another 8gb of ram to get a better experience
Cool video! I've been toying with the idea of upgrading a SFF PC for gaming. Any particular reason you didn't upgrade the fans (other than to save money)? There's only 2 in most of those SFFs (CPU Cooler and 80mm fan at the front of the case). The stock case fan is often not awful, but the additional heat from the GTX1650 would likely not help its cause. We also all know the stock Intel CPU coolers aren't great and there are quite a few LP coolers that would fit this build for not a lot more money (probably like $70 if you went with Noctua fan and cooler).
hey man try doing this on this pc if you still have it around or someting silmer theirs a program from gary gibson and its called inspectre. if you disable inspectre and meldown and restart the pc you will get more performance out your cpu that way. because the inspectre updates are affecting performance on the older i5's and i7's plus xeons give it a shot im sure youll get a performance increase. www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
I like the new benchmarking style a lot! I think this is a bit more interesting for me. As a person who watches your videos for fun and usually not to buy the builds you showcase, this made the benchmarks much more interesting and fun.
Glad to hear it! Thanks for the feedback.
@@ZachsTechTurf i love ur vids would u do a gaming pc upgrade with hp prodesk 400 g1 sff?????????
I did a sleeper pc much like this! It’s an hp elite 8300 sff with an i7-3770 and the gtx 1650. I love watching others show love to these small form factor PCs and its very fun to watch!
Awesome video (as always)! These OEM's have endless customizablility and will continue to dominate budget bang for buck gaming PCs. Love the modding builds and hope to see more!
Agreed Ryan, thanks!
i love how my dude is so honest
I absolutely love the idea, and the result is great when you look at it from a distance, but I have some advice for you and my fellow modders that want to try this out :
- The case seems badly cut in some parts, don't use a dremel to cut long straight lines, the cuts won't be straight and won't be clean
- Depending on the paint that is already applied to the case, sand the whole case with fine grain sandpaper before applying paint, the result will be neater
- If you use a rattle can or an airbrush, apply at least two or three light coats instead of applying one massive coat in one pass, it will prevent the paint from dripping and stacking at random places.
- You really should apply varnish (matte or gloss) on your paint job in order to prevent it from falling appart (as we can see on some parts of your case)
Once again, the idea is great and I thank you a lot for the time you took to create and share this content
Thanks for taking the time to write some feedback, but alternatives would have been more constructive!
1. What tool do you recommend cutting metal and acrylic for straight lines?
2. Is there anything that wasn't neat about the case? I agree that your idea is probably more META, but would there be a tangible difference when looking at it?
3. I did this exactly, I applied 5-6 small coats and not just 1 large one
4. What was falling apart?
Thanks again
@@ZachsTechTurf thanks for your quick answer.
First of all, I'm really sorry if I my advice might have appeared rude, I'm not speaking in my mother tongue.
1. Using a circular saw and a guideline or a table saw would greatly help. I know that most of the people dont have access to such tools, but hardware stores often offer cutting services. If really you have no access to such tools, you could also mount the window on the outter side of the panel and paint its border black to hide the places you fixed it on the panel (beware, the window has to match the size of the panel in this instance).
2 & 3. Some cases (most frequently older models) come with a "granulated" and "rough" paint job. Depending on the angles of your camera, I could see some elevations and irregularities and I assumed that they were caused by either those already existing irregularities or a single coat of paint which dripped a bit. That's why I think that sanding the parts that you want to paint is better. I forgot to mention in the advice that I gave for the coats that you'd have to let each coat dry before applying another one (but you must have done that 👌)
4. Mostly on the edges of the cut side panel, were the window meets the panel's metal frame, we can see "black" spots were there is not paint. I can't illustrate my words with pictures and I might have made a mistake, but after watching closely the bottom right of the window when you face the "window side" of the PC, I think I see spots of missing paint.
@@Shadeblight your English is very good mate . Dw .
Finally was able to see this. Been at the hospital all day yesterday getting my gallbladder removed. Great video!
Hope everything goes well
I just realised that was 7 months ago..
@@zec4367 thanks man! Im doing good now. 😁
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLL glad to hear 👍
"some people can drive cars fast others can drive cars fast in the rain -ZTT 2020 , jokes aside great video i really liked this one
Lmfaooooo I forgot this was the golden quote of 2020. Thanks.
I'm planning to do one of your prebuilt guides but I'm still raising the money. I love the guides and it saves a lot of money.
Glad to hear it! Let me know how it goes.
How it turned out bro?
That GTX 1650 now has a GDDR6 version that is 5% to 10% faster.
The GDDR6 version needs a higher power tolerance and an external plug which some OEMs don't come with. The GDDR5 card can be powered purely through the PCI, so that's likely why it was recommended.
Not that's low profile as far as I'm awawre.
@@ZachsTechTurf It is. Look on Amazon for the one that specifically mentions it. ZT-T16520H-10L is the one I want, I like supporting ZOTAC because they tend to make cool stuff like this.
@@dork5456 ZT-T16520H-10L
Got 1 yesterday.
"Hello, sir sir, sit down please!" ..Lol adorable
I do my best to talk smack.
@@ZachsTechTurf That's was the most polite smack talking I'd ever seen
@@ZachsTechTurf how did you get a 1650 with stock psu? My psu couldn't handle the 1650
Would like but 69
@@Graphics_Card giggity
The way how you did the benchmarking was good. You included every major game too
Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it!
just got 4 of these same guys at work for free bc they were gonna end up in the landfill and going to be thrown away. Thank you so much for making documentation of upgrades, it helps a lot!
This man is underrated for real
Keep rocking bro I love you
Will do, thanks!
Top tier trash talk: "Not my restaurant or gas station bro." - Awesome build
Lmao 1/10 for trash talk
I really liked the benchmarking style this time......and anyways....love this channel....great quality and a lot underrated......hope your channel blows up soon
Thanks for your support!
I just transferred my HP Elitedesk 800 G1 to an old HP Pavilion case, added a gtx 1650 and I'm playing Forespoken right now. Extra things I had to do: 1.) Remove the power switch and lights from the front cover button, insert into the from cover of the Pavilion. 2.) To use my Elite desk cooling fan, I had to find some nuts that fit on the bolts in the fan too attach it to the mother board. The Elit desk mother does not have built in nuts. The fan bolts into the case. It ain't pretty but works like a champ.
My dad got one of these for 150 bucks (Canadian) and he's getting an upgrade so I heir-ed it 😎😁
Will upgrade with this video
Thanks 👌
only a little bit of time left for my first pc build, very excited.
What's gonna be in your first build?
@@ZachsTechTurf r5 3600
a cooler master aio
b450 tomahawk Max
g.skill trident z 3600mhz 16gb
512 gb ssd with a 1 tb hdd
coolermaster h500 case
2060 super gaming x
good looking cable extensions
and a 600w corsair semi modular psu.
I liked the new benchmark style. I got the info and it was entertaining.
Glad to hear it! Thanks for leaving feedback
I really like the green screen bench Marking, I like it way better than just showing game play and numbers. I really like that modded case, you did a hell of a job. I thought you almost cut yourself, during the cutting it was some kind of a glitch , maybe it was the speed of that part of the video. AWESOME video as always bro, loving these 2 videos per week too. Especially on Sundays something to watch.
Glad to hear it Mr Clyburn, thanks!
@@ZachsTechTurf no problem bro. Also, I forgot to say on the FORKNUT you look so excited with those kills lol🤣🤣🤣I'm messing with you
Honestly I can't wait I really hope I get mine soon because I'm so motivated to get my HP 600 my IT teacher wanted to help me get a better computer and I also wanted to upgrade it as well so guys wish me luck and thank you for this video man it's always nice seeing builds like this
Wow what are the odds I was just gonna build one related to this and you proceed to post this. Amazing!
same lmaoo haha but i transfered mine to a bigger case, makes it a lot easier
Yes! A fully modded/upgraded pc for my budget! Thank you! 👍
Hopefully this helped! Thanks for watching.
The redesign is cool. I have one of the newer HP like this with a half-dead i7 7700. I wanted to sell it but after your video... I'll make my own gaming console like this
My first pc actually got inspired by you... the first video I watched on Gaming PCs was you... thanks for still being helpful and budget friendly 😂😂
That’s awesome to hear! What’s all in the build?
It’s a very bad choice to be totally honest.. a ryzen 7 2700, a320 m-k mobo, a gtx 960 2 gb (sign 😐), and 8 gb 2666 speed ram in a very cheap case... cheers for being you 😂😂 I guess😂😂
Involving here so the algorithm could recommend it to more people. Man this looks dope ✌️
Wow this is nice and clean! Love the modding on that side panel. Also love the white finish, definitely a great project for old office machines!
Agreed, thanks Mets!
Nice build, perfect for those who have a small desk or anything like that
Agreed!
I'm a bit late to the fun but thank you for the video, I'm buying the 600 G1 SFF today with a GTX 1650, I7-4790k and 32GB of RAM.
This is a great value! Love the customization
Thanks Jake!
Looks good! Flipping PCs has definitely gotten a lot harder so it’s nice to get some tips. Thanks. Also the benchmarking looks great seeing your reactions to the frame dips.
Glad to hear it, thanks for watching!
5:13 calf check 🤫
How did that make it into a video??
3:52 Haha colours were changing on his own build behind the desk lol
Was hoping no one would notice haha.
I like the new style of the benchmarking run
Glad to hear it Evan!
This is the type of information I was looking for and it's much appreciated. I have this same HP 800 SFF PC but am thinking of using an 800 G1 800 TWR with an I7 4790 instead. The mods that you do on these machines are great and I will be using them on my builds, thanks for sharing you experience.
Wow this video is awesome its nice to see some modding with like smaller pc cases. Keep up the great work man!
Will do! Glad you enjoyed it.
Man the case mods really came out nicely! Glad to see it done buddy!! Thanks.
Glad to you like it Mike, thanks.
That's a sweet case re-design! I love these SFF gaming rigs. Great for the living room.
I appreciate this so much been struggling on flipping PC's for the first time and didn't know what was wrong this definitely will help!
Let me know how it goes!
All the clips from the stream made me wish i could have come! Looked like a blast
This actually wasn't done on a stream, this was me by myself trying to be entertaining lol.
This looks like a cool way to get a gaming pc on the cheap. I dont think it's a good way to 'flip' a pc and make money from selling it however. Lets say it takes 30 minutes to find the PC on the internet and examine it to make sure it is suitable for flipping. Add an extra 3 hours for modding the PC (which is not alot of time considering you have to measure, cut, paint, dry..., 30 minutes checking to make sure it runs well after the fact. That's 4 hours of work...if you work quick. If you choose to benchmark the PC so that the buyer knows what they are getting, you can probably add another 2 hours for that. That's 6 hours of work. Then its time to put it online and wait for it to sell, which might take days or months, from which it will probably cost like $10 in shipping (assume you also get materials to put the PC in so it dosent break in shipping). The time it takes to bring it to the post office will probably add another like 30 minutes. Total time spent: 6 hours 30 minutes. At the end of the day, I dont think you will sell it for over $400 (maybe...I might be wrong), considering the type of people buying your computer will likely be tech savvy enough to recognise that they can just buy their own EliteDesk and slap a 1650 in it, or they wont know enough about it PCs that they just buy a prebuilt from walmart or something. If it costs you $310 in materials (incl shipping)(if you find a good deal), you are making a profit of $90. Over 6 and a half hours, thats $14/hr. Which might sound good, until you realise that its below the national average for teenagers at $17/hr, and you have to factor in not only the cost of doing the mods in the first place (equipment costs, hidden fees for selling, etc), but the associated risk of potentially not selling your PC for months or at all. it is likely you will break something while modding, which will also cost you. All in all, this is high risk, high skill, low return. But its good fun if you are just building the PC for yourself tho :)
Thanks for the feedback John, and for taking all the time to type that out.
Nice build, side note on the mod, they make a U Channel molding that you can apply around the side panel cut out for protection and a more professional look.
Yep, thanks for that! I will definitely do that on the next one.
Nice build i recently bought a lga 775 hp compaq 8200 elite for an amazing £6 inclu free postage which i plan to flip i got it working after some troubleshooting and upgraded the CPU to the core 2 quad 8400 and some decent 8gb kit of ddr3 ramp plan to slot in a decent low profile gpu something like the amd Radeon pro wx 2100 shes good as new in the inside but still all beat up on the outside i plan to mod the case allbeit wont do as extensive modding as you did as i dont have access to a Dremel and resources to keep my self save plus i would like to apply the common programming practice of keeping it simple stupid although i do plan to vynill wrap the case and spray paint the front fascia maybe put some rgb at the front as well stuff which is easy todo and should make it look awesome
5:13 rocking linus style with the sandals an socks ..... noice !
Noooo there's a difference between what Linus does and wearing high Nike socks and Jordan slides.
you could also go with the low profile yeston rx 550 4gb you can snag it for $80 new on ebay and it outperforms the 1030 by far.
I got a HP elitedesk 800 G2 for 95$AUD with a intel core i5-6500 8GB of DDR4 RAM and a 200W 80+ platinum rated PSU, I’m currently slightly modifying a HP pavilion 500 PC series(i7 model, other than that I can’t find the specific model number, so far) to fit the power button from my other pc. I’m waiting on a new cooler that just clips in(the bracket basically disappeared)
5:54 those jordan sllipers fire
3:50 you was changing the color led pc In the background to 😂
Hoping no one would notice lol.
Zach's Tech Turf welp I did 😂 i don’t know why I just randomly noticed
Yeah, nice cutting you have there, edges as smooth as silk
Double kill on bots, an achievement to be proud of!
Lmao I agree!
I dig it man! Looks good!
Thank you!
This will be my starter pc maybe
Let me know how it goes!
Just to clarify, since he is recording the FPS will drop. Even the GTX 1050 ti does good in modern games when not recording! Therefore the GTX 1650 is a good card for modern games, Recording causes lag and FPS drops. So the benchmarks are not accurate!
I have the same PC set up, but when I upgraded the GPU, I couldnt find the GTX 1650 at the time, and went with the AMD Radeon RX 6400 instead which works well for the games I play. Many of the games I play run well in 1080P but instead of the I5, I've upgraded to the I7-6700.
shout out from the philippines 🔥🔥🔥 awesome video 👌
Thanks for watching!
i acctaully love watching ur vids zach
Glad to hear it, thanks!
i dont know why but i love seeing old hardware pushed to its limits
It was funny that while changing colors for the main pc it was also affecting the pc behind it. I have that same issue with my RGB in my different pc and the lights of the tv and so on LOL
Lmao yep it can get a little annoying :)
the benchmarking is pretty dope
Great job. Looks like a more expensive build.
Thanks!
Remember the days when you could buy a gpu for msrp
Ikr? 1650 for under 160usd?! Now on amazon it's 500usd
i got that same hp pc and knowing it only costs $300 to upgrade it is gonna help me out alot
Great video loved the benchmarking
Glad to hea rit, thanks!
A better idea for side panel is to do a light box style sliding picture frame that you can change out. Lot's of cool backlit picture ideas....Even a very nice picture of high end liquid cooled pc parts.
You should leave the average fps some where in a corner on screen while your still showing the benchmarking runs, instead of taking it off completely!
5:46 Zach did you paint over the sticker !?🤣
Yo Zach, I like the new format but if I can add, I believe the camera is maybe too big? I mean it occupies a lot of space on the screen, also, the microphone on the way just looks really odd. Besides that I would like to see it more often, actual live gameplay. Also you're recording so that obviously takes a few FPS but I think that the PC looks sick!
Thanks for the suggestions! If you do wanna see me live though head here: twitch.tv/zachstechturf
That original HP horizontal PC is exactly the model that the school uses in the libraries and the classrooms. I might ask to keep ones that they don't need and do this?
Hi Zach, keep up the good vids. Also, that darker green fan in that background PC though.
It's not going anywhere :)
I liked the new benchmark style
That thing looks pretty dope.
I bought this PC for $150 with Windows 10 Pro and a 1tb HDD, did a complete transplant into a $50 DeepCool tempered glass case with a ROG OC GTX 1060 setup. All together with a 600 watt psu, 16gb of ram, SSD to run windows and other parts, came out to $550 total and runs games like Witcher 3 on ultra without a sweat. This is a great platform for new PC gamers if you are ok with building your own PC from scratch. The only shortcoming is the CPU fan design on HP's motherboard which is proprietary (aftermarket CPU coolers wont work)...that being said, my CPU temps stay below 67 celcius so....does it matter?
Great mod, only things i wouldnt do are the window, paintjob and leds, because those dont add functionality. I would instead spend that money on a noctua fan on the cpu cooler.
Great vid, project and basic info on casemodding.
The new benchmarking style... eeeehhh...
I don't hate it, but it streched a bit long, so I started skipping 5 secs at the, only to stumble on voice-over commentary.
If tightened up a bit, that be good. :)
And perhaps blur it when doing voice-over or some other visual indicator, it'd be great. Though that is just a personal preference of mine, so not a definite request.
Keep up the good work :)
Thank you very much for the feedback, this is the exact kind of stuff I like to hear.
@@ZachsTechTurf
You're most welcome.
Heck, you are showing us the basics of building budget, what to keep in mind and what to watch out for.
And then you benchmark the machines as well.
I really wanted to the same plexiglass window on my old Lenono M71e tower, but it has that spiffy Lenovo indetation on it, which I don't really want to remove or break.
And the all Black lenovo is a classic of it's own.
Though I have had thoughts of "Racing Stripes" or white with blue, green and/or red accents.
Black and orange is also on the table, since I am gonna order some Orange G.Skill Ares DDR3 RAM and a Inter-Tech Argus SU-200 CPU tower cooler.
With a blue AMD Radeon Pro WX2100 to contrast that. xD
Plus... I can then downgrade it back to the original PSU, rather than the TermalTake 630W, that I am using, to make it run an old HD7770 xD.
@@ZachsTechTurf So.... thank you for your hard work and inspiration :)
A few things I'd note.
- Not every mini system like this has extra SATA power cables, they sometimes have exactly enough for the included drives.
- That side panel is cool, but needs a ton of work to look good. It looks like you basically cut it out with scissors. You sanded it but it really doesn't look very good or straight. I think I'd be embarrassed to flip it in that state.
Definitely liked the way of benchmarking sir please sit down
La voy hacer así gracias😂
I modded one of these and kept the cpu and ram and psu then added a gt 1030 and a 2tb ssd and turned out pretty clean :) (edit) i think it would look nice with light gray instead of white
When he killed that Player in CS:GO and said Thank you. 😅😂🤣 that did it for me lol
This is amazing, thank you so much I just bought my sister one of these and I was wondering how I was gonna upgrade it , you made my mind up thank you
I do think 4C/4T CPUs really struggle now a days. Games are becoming much better at utilising more cores and threads now
No I don't think it "really struggles" these days. You can still play 1080p games with a proper 4c/4t
Great Mod Zach!! Seriously man looks so dope!!!
Killed it. Great job
Thank you very much Tim!
Just love the video. The only thing that i can't stand is the safety advice on short pants
Whoa that came out great!
You should totally attempt a core 2 series gaming pc build
I tucking admire u u are so humble. Do u have a patreon. I love u for making vids u seem so friendly. I want to give u all the money in the world love ya
I appreciate your viewership. The best way to help financially is over on Twitch, there's multiple ways to give including straight donations, subscriptions, gifted subs, bits, etc etc
Bought the exact same PC from a recycler a couple of years ago and put in more RAM and a SSD. Unfortunately it was during the great Graphics card drought of COVID and the only card I could get was a GT1030 - I could not find a 1650 anywhere and the ones being sold on ebay used were at ridiculous prices - so unfortunately no 1080p gaming for me - but I'm eventually going get a 10th gen i3 from work when they swap a desktop over - and this can become a media PC as it can handle 4K playback with no issue.
Great looking build. I'm working on a similar build right now. If you have time, coloring or shrouding the PSU and making a cover for the hard drive bays can make the build look a little cleaner. If not, you can just use a heat gun to remove the PSU's sticker and leave it at that if you don't want to paint it.
This reminds me of my old pc :( had i5 3750 lol but I upgraded to a r5 2600 which im happy with 21st century tech lol
Flashbacks.
@@ZachsTechTurf Yo so happy you replied bro. I also started to have random restarts like when I load up any game. I'm going to do all the steps you did
I got the prodesk version and I’m planning to upgrade the graphics card and Memory. I love this build and if I could would replicate it myself
That is why Zach is the best
I copied him and got a good result but I changed the GTX 1650 for the RX 550 and I didn't put an SSD
thank you for that tip. my pc sff has now gt 1030 silent and imma mod the case. next gpu choice is 1650ti lp
Those edges look rough. Wondering what good options there could be to cover those wonky cut lines. Maybe some PVC white trim could do the trick. But then again did not even realize that was the original case at the start.
Kool mod Zach !!! maybe if you speak about the 1030 maybe highlight the fact that they need too buy the gddr5 not the gddr4 which is really a piece of rubbish.
this video is so awesome and entertaining your so cool Zach!!!!
i thought i was the only crazy person to do this, i swapped the case (to be able to fit a graphics card) for a big old school one with a handle and i used green black and gray for the color (im running with 2 power supplys) since the connector is different for the sff
oh and mine came with only 320gb HDD but with a I5 4690 up to 3.9ghz cpu
A other awsome video and i like the new way you test out games keep doing that way
Thanks for the feedback!
0:59 I prefer using commands for free activation, but thanks
while he was changing the led colors you could see the pc in the back changing too