"Buying new PCs is dead.." *Little over two years later and a massive parts shortage/price increase* This video is actually has the right idea for 2021.
Hell yeah. I found someone with an old Dell T3500 locally, that they were getting rid of for free. I swapped out the 4 core Xeon for a 6 core from eBay for under £20, threw in an SSD, 24GB RAM and a GTX 1050. For the price, I don't think you can get much better.
me: bends back the shipping pins on my 3900X like my life depends on it and handles it with utmost care linus: drops $2000 intel XE cpu and disables a memory channel
I love how even though Linus looks like a poor college student, he spends money like a millionaire and talks like an old guy from the IBM and Apple 2 Era
I know this is OLD, but, I love when you do these "scrapyard" "junker" updates and make them keep up with modern machines. It really is fun to see how much actual performance you can eek out of your 10 year old computer rig. it is really my favorite kind of thing to watch.
This channel inspired me to upgrade my 10 year old, crappy laptop (with witch I am writing this now...) - Core i3 (2. gen) to Core i7 (2. gen) - 4 GB of RAM to 16 GB of RAM - 1Terrabyte of HDD to 240 GB of SSD - CD drive will be replaced with drive tray in the future (and house the old HDD) Most parts from ebay, because I wanted it to be cheap. I had no idea what I was doing, but thanks to this channel (and Linus, who seems to have no plan most of the time - just like me), I started it. The Laptop is working quite nicely now. The project is started and i'm looking forward to seeing where this will lead. Many thanks for the inspiration and the nice content. Keep it up, guys :)
Depends if it is soldered or socketed. Socketed is easier, but even a soldered chip can be upgraded with a hot air soldering station I still use my Toshiba satellite, it has been upgraded to a full hd screen, 2.8ghz core 2 duo from 2.0 (supports 3.07Ghz dual core or slower clocked quad core) a 250gb SSD and replaced the optical with a 1tb. It works fine easily as good as many notebooks available now.
@@abhileshxd621 The only way to upgrade the screen on a laptop is to replace it. As long as there is a cable available for the extra bandwidth it is fine too up grade the LCD screen. I'm pretty sure my donor screen came from a hp elitebook and is 1920x1200. If your cable didn't have enough wires for the higher resolution you often lose every other line of pixels on the screen. The panel I used was from a higher end hp laptop (bought a complete new lid, screen unit for £25), I had to find a cable from a different Toshiba model that had full hd and the same plugs as my l300, the cable was a little longer so I had to reroute it and cut a small plastic rib away so that the keyboard sat flush.
@@abhileshxd621 My chipset allows for 8gb ram, but 4gb ddr2 sodimms are expensive. Some of the earlier chipsets only supported 4gb ram and some lower range versions (xp-vista era laptops) would only support 3gb.
Lol you should be greatful. I am using a 15 year old pc with this spec : - Intel Pentium 4 E5500 dual core 2.8 Ghz - 1GB DDR2 single channel memory - Intel GMA 3100 onboard graphics - 250GB 5400RPM Hitachi HDD It is slow as hell. Took 3 minutes just to boot up to Windows. Took 5 minutes to open up chrome and will most likely crash. Even running 2005 games will bottkeneck the whole system. And at idle, 90% ram usage.
Laughs in Samsung Galaxy S3 with 4.4.4 backtonoot. Or should I cry in the S5 mini that I also have lying around which takes like 10-15 seconds to update the friggen clock after you light the screen?
Linus: spends thousands of dollars per build and goes absolutely insane Viewers: BUDGET BUILDS PLEASE Linus: builds a PC under $100 Viewers: *pikachu surprised face*
You need to hunt for it, checking Amazon, ebay and pages like that everyday for a monh or two... Thats how i buyed a new 1050 ti for 60 dollars cause the seller sold for the wrong price.
I want to upgrade from the 550 Ti i have now but with current prices, I'm told to be lucky I have something that isn't just my i5-2400 integrated graphics
Stephen Powell they have completely locked bios’s last time I worked in IT (around the time of the optiplex series at the time of the 775 socket) I had to swap the boot order to go through an 3rd party Linux system that stored all of the programs and to get into them you had to use a service pin (a key that bridges some bits) and FAX dell a administrative order for bios unlock codes to changed the boot order and there isn’t even an option to change multipliers and voltages.
Damien W the Linus equation Pd (probability for drop) L (Linus constant) C (cost of part, adjusted for inflation) E (quantum expectation of drop) Pd= L * C/E
We UPGRADED the $69 Gaming PC and it ROCKS! Part 9, *$2500 in the thumbnail* All jokes aside, it would be interesting to see you guys keep upgrading that pc, it can inspire people with low budget to keep upgrading their potato pc.
Hey guys, as mentioned before, running a CS server locally with 9 bots hits the CPU EXTREMLY hard, and is not even remotly close to what perfomnace you can expect from joining a server, as 99,999% of players are gonna do.
Yes the OS does limit the ram. I remember an old system i had with XP it. Had 6 gig of ram and showed it in system manager but it would only use 3.25 gig due to OS restraints.
Aren't there programs you can run to get around those limits? I know that in Microsofts 16bit OSes there were things to get around the RAM limitations... though, some of those were due to the OS limiting the RAM to 640KiB without running those programs--and various nonsense required by the 64KiB Paging... But I mean... o.o'
@@NimhLabs unfortunately not. Good news is that 32 bit windows hardly exists any more all of the mainstream editions are going to be 64bit. I say 32bit hardly exists because its mainly implemented in corporate setting running 32bit for compatibility
Missed a great opportunity for a smooth ad transition. "Now that you have a great budget gaming pc, you can get great, not-outlandishly expensive headphones for your rig with the Massdrop...yada yada." Love this type of video though. Thanks LTT
Thanks for making this video, i now have upgraded my Optiplex 380 MT and it runs perfectly. The specs are as follow:- Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz Gtx 750 ti low profile 8gb ddr3 250gb ssd 2tb hdd
@@yulioakhmad9270 i bought a used 2x 4gb hyperX ddr3 1600mhz eventho the motherboard only supports 1066Mhz. But it works well. What desktop are you using?
I have a theory that having extra cores helps get back some of that overhead from the OS. On Linux with a single core amd 3500+ cs go doesn't chop despite the hardware being around 15 years old. I have a dual core 3800+ cpu in a very similar rig, fps is higher thanks to source engine being able to use 2 threads, and only 2 threads. Source won't take advantage of anything more than 2 threads. If a dual core is chopping playing a source game, its the os eating into the performance.
I couple of years ago I became a technician in a school which still runs around 200 optiplexes of similar vintage. knowing they were still good for office stuff I put 4 gb of ram and an ssd in them and for 2 years now they've been running sweeter than all the newer machines we have. Our sound engineering room was struggling a bit running cubase and technical department running Autodesk but after watching this video I think I'll have try scrounging some extra ram from dead machines and pick up some second hand q6600s or similar. I hate having to spend tons of school money on new machines,time creating an image for these machines, day's flattening cardboard boxes and disposing of polystyrene. when I can just undo 2 screws and drop a chip in. I knew this upgrade was possible but I wasn't too optimistic about it being enough till I watched this. Thanks!
These old office boxes made for secretaries of secretaries are great bang for the buck if you shop savvy and are willing to fiddle with them. I built my PLEX server out of a Dell 755 I picked up for $20 out of the "u-fix it" pile at Goodwill. I put that same processor Linus used in it after $25 and a dice roll on eBay. I scrounged up a 1TB hard drive, partitioned it out, and installed Ubuntu on it (12gb system partition and the rest is storage for video). The largest outlay for recording and streaming OTA TV was the PLEX lifetime membership ($120), an exterior antenna ($80), and a compatible tuner ($60.. a short list of hardware because drivers under linux are what they are). Only other thing I used was a couple Amazon sticks, which we already had in the kitchen and bedroom. My old PS3 does fine for the TV in the living room. These old Optiplex's are very cheap to run on idle and don't draw that much at full throttle. I did some maths and I think I pay $3 a month for the electricity for that particular box. This, with free Netflix from my cell provider, beats the heck out of Dish Network's monthly bill. I can run three 1080 streams out with no problem and I can record one and watch a different one (only two tuners in the USB TV tuner stick) easily with no hardware bottlenecks with that setup. $300+/- up front and no more TV bills = win for me.
my office had some shitty old pcs that were starting to struggle with everything. the tasks that are asked of those pcs are mundane, they basically just have to run open office and browse the web at a decent speed. i bought 4 of these optiplexes that came with a q9xxx (i don't remember which exactly though) and 4gbs of ram, then i put some ssds in them and voila. snappy machines on the cheap. spent less money in all four than i would in a single retail basic computer that would probably be slower.
I bought a Optiplex 9010, 200$ for i5 3570, 16 GB of RAM, SSD 256 GB + 1TB on ebay. I mounted a 1050 and I got 60 FPS 1080p at Max settings for all the games before 2015, and medium-high for the new ones. For graphic comparison look the video on youtube about what a 1050(ti) can do! For 320$ I couldn't ask more :D (Update 2019, I bought a 1050ti, for 130$ and I sold my 1050 for 115$, the Ti worths all the 10/15 bucks more!) No PSU change is needed Look for these one! :D (With a 1060, all the new games run at 1080p and 60fps if not more, but you need a new PSU, but we move around the 400/450$ range, all used as always of course, I made it for a friend, terrific!)
@@miniwarrior7 perfect!! I got the 1050 because I left my old job (with a really nice super laptop) and I needed a PC at home! guess what!! was in the period when the 1050ti were 300$!!! :O damn miners!
@@Dr.Sortospino Its gonna be my first baby gaming machine I'm happy... Been wanting one for like 5 years just never knew where to start and didn't wanna deal with the difficulty of building from scratch
Does that rig even fit the bill on this video? That's quite modern hardware. I think the MO here is older hardware like my Optiplex 755 to which I fitted a 750Ti.
Yeah, we demand a scrapyard war, top gear challenge! 200$ budget to build the biggest baddest gaming PC and then fight each other in a series of challenges!!
@Skylanders Unite Yeah it worked well for Fortnite and Overwatch a couple years ago. To my knowledge you are correct about the CPU. I know it still works fine for web browsing!
While I do enjoy seeing the hottest new thing that's coming out, these (and scrapyard wars) are some of my absolute favorite videos because it reaches out to a far larger percent of the population who are rich kids and helping to teach people that older materials (be it computer or otherwise) aren't always just throw in the trash worthy one they are a year old like the cell phone cycle.
aw shit son... the q9550 was old when I bought it (still over £100), but still a nice lil chip, in fact its still in a friends pc right now... nice to see it getting some love.
i have the exact same computer without the graphics card, My nan passed away in early january and i had a laptop she gave me early 2016 and found it at the end of novemeber and started to use it for home schooling however it started crashing and my mum said she will get me her computer (which she never used)and it is still running well just wanting to add more ram and a better cpu so i can run more tasks without the app not responding
I bought an optiplex 9010 with i7 3370 for $10. It had no PSU, no RAM, no HDD. spent $50 on SSD, $45 on 8GB of RAM, $30 on a PSU, and $100 on RX460 GPU. A total of $235 where I can play BF1 50-60 FPS on 1080p with medium-high settings. Cant ask for more.
Optiplex's are tanks man. I got a 790 (I think is what it is) with 8 gigs of ram and an i3 for super cheap used and it's the best. Got windows 10 and Ubuntu on it so I can do work (programming) and a little bit of gaming (mostly just minecraft, only pc game I care for lol) and it works great. Never freezes, and is quick. Loves it haha
We upgraded the $69 gaming PC ... ... and now it's a 42U high, nitrogen cooled, high-density "RTX Titan" based compute/render cluster with it's own HA SAN
Edit: Ok... so I got hung up on the older 775 boards which only supports DDR2... Previously written: Yeah I noticed that to, given that the memory controller is part of the North Bridge and not on the CPU it is technically possible to have ddr3 or even ddr4 on these chips. Still given that this is a bog standard optiplex and that I haven't seen a board with that feature to date (I do have an older board with both DDR and DDR2 support on the same board though) I assume it's just DDR2.
So, what you're saying is that these old machines can be retrofitted and still perform satisfactorily for most casual work cases? Sounds like a good charity right there! Get donated PCs, upgrade the RAM and put in an SSD, install Linux and give to those in need! :D Edit: Just mentioning why I said Linux, it'd be because sometimes older hardware would run better on something like Ubuntu Mate instead of Win10. Not saying "never install Windows", just keeping in-line w/ the whole charity theme :)
archlinuxrussian It would be cool to see this for scrapyard wars. Buy a stack of old pcs at auction, each team builds 5 and best cumulative benchmarks scores win. Then all 10 are donated to a worthy group.
Yep. I'm still using 12yo PC, upgraded graphics (to get hardware video decoding), 8GB DDR2 RAM (to run facebook or two-three browser tabs), SSD and Linux. Runs much smoother than a lot of cheap new laptops with Win10, which is funny.
I love upgrading optiplexes. I've been given several over the years when family members upgraded. They were always surprised when I made them outperform their newer PCs. Throw a ssd and some memory at them and even older units run amazing.
Hey, I only changed the Graphics card to a GeForce GT 710 2 GB GDDR3 but now it’s even worse at performance Etc ?? I got the Optiplex 380 why is that??
Anon 1 why was his fist in the air facing Linus for nearly a second then? Just look at Riley's movements in those few seconds, they look quite awkward if you consider he didn't want to fist bump.
I've used the Q9550 up until a week ago, it's always handled heavy stuff surprisingly great, Blender, HD video editing, Space Engineers (heavy physics voxels yo). Definitely old-but-gold :)
i did. i put that q9650 into a machine i literally found on top of a bin in the pouring rain. Also upped the RAM too, so both CPU n RAM are max speed n size for the board. my partner uses it to play games on stream now :D
So um heres my VERY budget story. I got my first pc when I was 9 it was nice an assembled compaq(hp) presario, with pentium E5500 and integrated VGA graphics. whaaaaa So anyway fast forward 8 years, I got into CS and wanted to play it, so somehow convinced my parents to get me an EPIC GT 1030. I fit it in all joyous and ecstatic but I get all of 60 fps and 30 when the fighting gets intense. I wait for 5 months more, collect some cash from here and there and get myself a 450W PSU and an intel core 2 quad q9400 with the help of my friends and relatives. And here we are i get more than 80 fps and sometimes crosses the century mark. I know I sound so dumb, but this is kinda my first build and is literally held together by duct tape at this point. I love it tho. edit: damage was about 7000 INR (excluding the gear) or approximately 100$ for the upgrade. Taxes are shit down east brother
@@umadbro4493 Mine was giving problems and I wanted to keep it safe given Id changed the core as well. Also the PSU was pretty cheap so I upgraded it anyway.
@@caziabraham6287 not really. If you're playing e sports than a 750 ti is enough but if you're playing and demanding titles the 750 ti doesn't hold up for a lot of games.
I can't believe you didn't get a LGA 771 Xeon and convert it to LGA 775. A E5450 for example, as the exact equivalent for the QX9650 sells for $15 and can then be converted using a simple sticker.
I was thinking the same. I even found a website that lists what boards are compatible (opti 380 = yes). I bought a e5410 for $3.5 and a sticker for $1 to mess with an old PC, it was 3x faster with y-cruncher vs a duo and 50% faster than my old q6600. I OC'd it past 3gig and temps barely changed (usually under 70c lol). Then the IP35 mobo did an impersonation of it's parent company.
Right from the start of the video I was expecting that he would do this! It would be super cool to talk about, showing how to mod it so it fits. He even has the perfect motherboard (G41). You can even get an E5440 (~2% less performance than E5450) for, like, $8. That's a lot down from the $30 they spent on the Core 2 Quad!
@@warriorharj79 usually aftermarket motheboards such as asus gigabyte msi etc... Have certain bios updates which include compatibility for certain processors which are microcodes i think, but oem motherboards such as dell, for the 775 sockets dont need bios updates because they are installed in the factory which means its a locked bios you cannot touch in most cases. so technically you can buy a 771 to 775 mod sticker and fit that xeon processor into the 775 socket which can work but, it depends on what board you have. it can work on some oem motherboards and also work on aftermarket motherboards but you need to find the bios update for aftermarket boards such as asus msi etc... But some platforms of the oem 775 socket motherboards do support the xeon processors but thats not always the case hope this helps
This is what I like so much about computers and being able to mess around with the older parts and bits. For some reason I like going all out on systems like these (custom liquid cooling on CPU + GPU), adding LED lights (only red) and trying to see if I can squeeze any extra performance from it with some overclocking. Sure it's not as powerful as a modern computer with similar specs, but it does feel more worth it, since I put in all that effort to get as much from the system as technically possible.
I've seen boatloads of these kinds of PC's at the Uni I attend, they sell them at their Property Surplus Department for literally 5-20 bucks apiece. Sometimes they are missing hard drives but if you just go for the SSD right out of the gate that's not too much of an issue. If anyone here wants to try and replicate this build maybe call a nearby university and see if they have a Property Surplus Department, might save a few bucks and skip the shipping!
For real. I got myself the same PC+one of those indestructible Dell keyboards+one of those monitors with everything included for free off my old high school. I’m surprised they all worked.
Thanks for review my PC. :D I have use the Intel Q9550 since 2008. Use it every day for work and programming. And few old games.. Upgrades: - HDD to 500GB SSD - GTX 260 to GTX 960 - 4GB -> 8GB Ram
That's my thought you can get much newer Dell Optiplexes with Ivy Bridge (Optiplex 3010/7010/9010) and Sandy Bridge (Optiplex 390/790/990) i5s for around $100 shipped.
I bought an old Optiplex 760 SFF from the local college for my daughter: Intel Core Duo E7400 2.8Ghz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HDD.... I upgraded the ram to 8GB DDR2, took out the HDD and put in a Samsung 850 evo 250GB SSD. I bought an ASUS GT 1030 2GB gDDR5 GPU today, so I'm waiting for that in the mail. Runs windows 10 very smoothly with all updates as of Nov 2020. I don't think this MOBO will support an Intel Core 2 Quad though, only certain Optiplex 760's did. Once I get the GPU in, ill go over to Dell's site and run their software to see if I have the right motherboard. If I do, maybe I'll do what you guys did in this video. Theres some of these CPU's on ebay for real cheap. Did you guys need to use thermal paste?
Oh please do change the thermal paste if it’s extremely crusty. And I also picked up recently a 760 MT (quad core motherboard). These old machines are near indestructible. By the way, you can tell which MB you got by a sticker near the CMOS. The code varies between size options though.
I thought i was on the wrong channel till he dropped the cpu
its a GPU not a CPU
LMAO
quzat0r watch the video. He drops the cpu later.
@@quzat0r446 actually he drops the CPU, he throws the GPU
@Paul Koutsivos we do actyally
"Buying new PCs is dead.." *Little over two years later and a massive parts shortage/price increase* This video is actually has the right idea for 2021.
For now everybody can go with Intel and without modern GPU.
Hell yeah. I found someone with an old Dell T3500 locally, that they were getting rid of for free. I swapped out the 4 core Xeon for a 6 core from eBay for under £20, threw in an SSD, 24GB RAM and a GTX 1050. For the price, I don't think you can get much better.
I was the 69th like
160th like 😂😂😂
180 like lol
BUT CAN IT RUN NOTEPAD?
Crypto NWO actually that doesn't make sense?
haha r/woosh go brr
no it can't
Notepad (not responding)
LOLOLOLOLOL
Probably, but what about Calculator Tho?
me: handles my i3 9100f like a bomb that will explode
linus: drops his cpu
didn’t he break a 10 thousand dollar cpu
@@punnequraq when
@@username9068 he broke a xeon platinum just look it up
me: bends back the shipping pins on my 3900X like my life depends on it and handles it with utmost care
linus: drops $2000 intel XE cpu and disables a memory channel
@@crylune not a 2k XE cpu. He dropped a Xeon Platinum 8180 and broke the memory channel of that
I love how even though Linus looks like a poor college student, he spends money like a millionaire and talks like an old guy from the IBM and Apple 2 Era
Your comment is golder :P
He is a millionaire.
he is older than all of his staff if not then most
I mean, he's THAT old tho wkwk
Spazzy he makes money on his builds he builds the pc for people
I have been waiting for a good Linus Drop moment for a while. Thank you for not disappointing.
Yea i knew it was going to happen sooner or later.
@Harish Karunakaran good catch, at least 149 other people read this and you were the first to mention it.
@@mahfujurrahman4846 dang it, i've googled how to spell disappointing three times now, i'm never gonna live this down.
Windows is always Free
When?
"Look at that usage! 90%!"
Those are rookie numbers
Gotta bump those numbers up.
Mine is 99% on my trash $800 laptop when running roblox alone on lowest settings
Kartharsis when i start minecraft cpu usage goes from 10% to 95%
ydertgf if I start anything up it gets maxed out
Kartharsis wow
I know this is OLD, but, I love when you do these "scrapyard" "junker" updates and make them keep up with modern machines. It really is fun to see how much actual performance you can eek out of your 10 year old computer rig. it is really my favorite kind of thing to watch.
Petition for LTT to upload compilation of Linus dropping things
A viewer already does it for them. Search for "linus drop tips."
yes
Dude my name is Afnan too.
@opisex he'll just drop his own charges
There are a lot of those on youtube
This channel inspired me to upgrade my 10 year old, crappy laptop (with witch I am writing this now...)
- Core i3 (2. gen) to Core i7 (2. gen)
- 4 GB of RAM to 16 GB of RAM
- 1Terrabyte of HDD to 240 GB of SSD
- CD drive will be replaced with drive tray in the future (and house the old HDD)
Most parts from ebay, because I wanted it to be cheap.
I had no idea what I was doing, but thanks to this channel (and Linus, who seems to have no plan most of the time - just like me), I started it. The Laptop is working quite nicely now. The project is started and i'm looking forward to seeing where this will lead.
Many thanks for the inspiration and the nice content. Keep it up, guys :)
How do you upgrade your laptop's CPU? I thought laptop CPUs aren't upgradeable. BTW congrats for your new system!
Depends if it is soldered or socketed.
Socketed is easier, but even a soldered chip can be upgraded with a hot air soldering station
I still use my Toshiba satellite, it has been upgraded to a full hd screen, 2.8ghz core 2 duo from 2.0 (supports 3.07Ghz dual core or slower clocked quad core) a 250gb SSD and replaced the optical with a 1tb.
It works fine easily as good as many notebooks available now.
@@abhileshxd621
The only way to upgrade the screen on a laptop is to replace it.
As long as there is a cable available for the extra bandwidth it is fine too up grade the LCD screen.
I'm pretty sure my donor screen came from a hp elitebook and is 1920x1200.
If your cable didn't have enough wires for the higher resolution you often lose every other line of pixels on the screen.
The panel I used was from a higher end hp laptop (bought a complete new lid, screen unit for £25),
I had to find a cable from a different Toshiba model that had full hd and the same plugs as my l300, the cable was a little longer so I had to reroute it and cut a small plastic rib away so that the keyboard sat flush.
@@abhileshxd621 My chipset allows for 8gb ram, but 4gb ddr2 sodimms are expensive.
Some of the earlier chipsets only supported 4gb ram and some lower range versions (xp-vista era laptops) would only support 3gb.
Lol you should be greatful. I am using a 15 year old pc with this spec :
- Intel Pentium 4 E5500 dual core 2.8 Ghz
- 1GB DDR2 single channel memory
- Intel GMA 3100 onboard graphics
- 250GB 5400RPM Hitachi HDD
It is slow as hell. Took 3 minutes just to boot up to Windows. Took 5 minutes to open up chrome and will most likely crash. Even running 2005 games will bottkeneck the whole system. And at idle, 90% ram usage.
Linus : Holds 3 GPU's like they're used toilet paper
Me : *Gets a heart attack*
I was waiting for him to lift his arm forgetting about that graphics card.
Nowa days used toilet paper is worth more
@@codewizz1885 yeah
that didn't age well
He didnt drop them this time lol
linus: Look at the cpu usage! 90 percent?!
Me who gets 100% usage by just opening task manager:
My laptop has a hard time opening the calculator
My pc goes to %100 pu when i open task manager for like 1 second them goes to like %2
@A1 VIIMISTLUS OÜ Switch to Linux. Ubuntu or any distro using XFCe desktop.
Laughs in Samsung Galaxy S3 with 4.4.4 backtonoot. Or should I cry in the S5 mini that I also have lying around which takes like 10-15 seconds to update the friggen clock after you light the screen?
That’s like... actually some weird glitch XP
Happens to me, it it goes back to normal usage
This new bro-mance is golden
14:55
@Qimodis they get on really well and gel well on camera 👍 nice to see.
ikd he seems a little to try hard
@@jamesstillgames Getting a job does that to ya ;) for a while at least haha!
@@HomeworkRadio yeah like in his new vids he seems more easy going.
Riley is so awkwardly charismatic I love him
i was looking for a comment like this and i agree
@@Chiquitito1201 little to far
@@Chiquitito1201 fat agree
I really like riley. He's the best addition to the channel in a long time.
id have to agree tbh
@@PanzerVII-df8hg you mean a jokster type person doesnt land all thier jokes?
14:54 Riley playing with the photos in the background, making Linus wink. Genuinely loled.
Linus: spends thousands of dollars per build and goes absolutely insane
Viewers: BUDGET BUILDS PLEASE
Linus: builds a PC under $100
Viewers: *pikachu surprised face*
Shut up
Hex
You now have 800 likes. :)
We asked, he delivered
@Crypto World I'm
How do companies trust Linus with all their tech when he drops everything
Fun fact, they don't. They usually don't expect to have their hardware back alive.
@@somedude2492 lol
Insurance, bro.
A M he spends too much money on stuff he forgets about insurance
If he drops it on video and it still works it's a good stunt for them.
Plot twist: This is the workstation Linus gave Riley.
The horror!
D= Riley's face when he realizes its better than most apple's.
Who's Riley?
Austin Holmes . You mean Keys?
This makes me so sad, seeing these cards at this price. I just want a low end gpu but the world is a dark place now. FeelsBadMan
I'm just glad I got my 1660 super close to MSRP.
I just bought a 750ti for 40 dollars, but I would recommend saving for a better gpu, because technology age fast and the games too.
I feel ya bro
You need to hunt for it, checking Amazon, ebay and pages like that everyday for a monh or two... Thats how i buyed a new 1050 ti for 60 dollars cause the seller sold for the wrong price.
I want to upgrade from the 550 Ti i have now but with current prices, I'm told to be lucky I have something that isn't just my i5-2400 integrated graphics
Great to see more videos with Riley
PapaQ HIS NAME IS KEYS
Radiohead is a good band
LinusSoyTips
@@EminemLovesGrapes Linus soyboy giving you just the tip.
Hello brother
i love how those old quad cores still have some gas left in the tank
i slapped a GTX 1050 in an old HP with Q6600, does the job well!
69$ pc needs to get back in 2019 with overclocking adventures
nice
Oh dear god
Stephen Powell they have completely locked bios’s last time I worked in IT (around the time of the optiplex series at the time of the 775 socket) I had to swap the boot order to go through an 3rd party Linux system that stored all of the programs and to get into them you had to use a service pin (a key that bridges some bits) and FAX dell a administrative order for bios unlock codes to changed the boot order and there isn’t even an option to change multipliers and voltages.
@Stephen Powell maybe with an bsel Mod, but good luck with that in the q9550
775 to 771 swap for 2020
I love the sounds that linus makes when he games “BLEEEH BLAAAAAAHHHHHHH”
4:01
Abe balll
That's weirdest Scrapyard Wars season yet.
You're everywhere
@@Jim-sf9qh yes I am.
@@Jim-sf9qh where
@@philipcamuto7359 You don't see him right in front of you?
@@philipcamuto7359 bowlestrek channel
Even budget pc parts are not safe from Linus dropping them!
Damien W the Linus equation
Pd (probability for drop)
L (Linus constant)
C (cost of part, adjusted for inflation)
E (quantum expectation of drop)
Pd= L * C/E
Rain drop
drop top
linus dropped the laptop
dude. that sounds pretty cool man.
Brought to you by " Massdrop"
Jacques Lamberts ooh!!!!
“rain drop
drop top
linus dropped
the laptop
brought by massdrop”
maybe you guys should start band or something
that screen could've popped popped popped linus keeps droppin' the laptop top!
when your eyes get so good that you can see frame tearing on a 25 fps vid
evolution evolved
We UPGRADED the $69 Gaming PC and it ROCKS! Part 9, *$2500 in the thumbnail* All jokes aside, it would be interesting to see you guys keep upgrading that pc, it can inspire people with low budget to keep upgrading their potato pc.
@Bruno Olsen what do you use a 10 year old laptop for besides browsing Wikipedia ?
XD those guys look like the guys in techlinked!
they are
@@nororlol4life819 r/wooosh
@@sillygoose0193 He? You mean she? Linus is a girl.
woooooooosh
@Rei boi I assumed its race, which is girl. I never assumed its gender.
Hey guys, as mentioned before, running a CS server locally with 9 bots hits the CPU EXTREMLY hard, and is not even remotly close to what perfomnace you can expect from joining a server, as 99,999% of players are gonna do.
i was just thinking this, went to go type out a comment... and saw your's lol.
3:56
Linus "Wow 90%"
Me with my laptop at 90% cpu and 100% drive
Feels bad when even the keyboard he was using cost more than the computer XD
@Crypto World
Well, either get the fuck off the internet and go help them or shut the fuck up.
@Crypto World he was just making a joke...... Jesus chill
Crypto World hahaha 😂😂... your a bitch
@Crypto World Forget who? There's nobody like that
@Crypto World shut the fuck up
The 4gb ram limitation is probably due to that computer MOST LIKELY originally shipped with a 32bit version of windows.
Yea linus
Yes the OS does limit the ram. I remember an old system i had with XP it. Had 6 gig of ram and showed it in system manager but it would only use 3.25 gig due to OS restraints.
@@lucasoberon1231 correct 32 bit windows can only recognize 4gb of ram.
Aren't there programs you can run to get around those limits?
I know that in Microsofts 16bit OSes there were things to get around the RAM limitations... though, some of those were due to the OS limiting the RAM to 640KiB without running those programs--and various nonsense required by the 64KiB Paging...
But I mean... o.o'
@@NimhLabs unfortunately not. Good news is that 32 bit windows hardly exists any more all of the mainstream editions are going to be 64bit. I say 32bit hardly exists because its mainly implemented in corporate setting running 32bit for compatibility
But what if I can't afford newegg? What if I want to buy from *used* egg??
Hm?
Lol
You have just made my day. 😂
Very good idea for newegg :D
Thats called Ebay
You and your opinion MADE MY DAY
It’s just so funny how he always drops one of the important parts once every few videos.
Luke looks mad weird now...
That isn't Luke
@@PixelPlayground473 wooooosh
Joe Gregor woooosh
Tame Miata yeah I know right? Lost a lot of weight...
Sounds different too (XDXDXDXD BTW it's Riley)
Will there be a $6,969 build in the future? Asking for a friend.
What about $69,420
@Elon Blunt yeah they name their youtube account after old memes, apparently
666.69
$6969.69 or we riot
@Elon Blunt Said "Elon Blunt" who isn't a hypocrite at all, no sir
Missed a great opportunity for a smooth ad transition.
"Now that you have a great budget gaming pc, you can get great, not-outlandishly expensive headphones for your rig with the Massdrop...yada yada."
Love this type of video though. Thanks LTT
Thanks for making this video, i now have upgraded my Optiplex 380 MT and it runs perfectly. The specs are as follow:-
Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz
Gtx 750 ti low profile
8gb ddr3
250gb ssd
2tb hdd
bro what ram u use?
i fail to boot when use 2x4gb pc3L-12800u
please help thank you
@@yulioakhmad9270 i bought a used 2x 4gb hyperX ddr3 1600mhz eventho the motherboard only supports 1066Mhz. But it works well. What desktop are you using?
@Qimodis i could play gta v, fifa 19, valorant n few other games
@@adambukharijunaidi6145 dell optiplex 380 bro,
Can someone make a compilation of every time Linus ends up dropping something.
I doubt UA-cam has enough storage to support that length of video.
Thanks to massdrop for sponsoring this old and dropped cpu
I have a theory that having extra cores helps get back some of that overhead from the OS. On Linux with a single core amd 3500+ cs go doesn't chop despite the hardware being around 15 years old. I have a dual core 3800+ cpu in a very similar rig, fps is higher thanks to source engine being able to use 2 threads, and only 2 threads. Source won't take advantage of anything more than 2 threads. If a dual core is chopping playing a source game, its the os eating into the performance.
The way that the sponsor is more expensive than the actual pc...(great target for budget pc builders...xD)
Looks like a bad idea. I'd rather build a cheap Ryzen APU.
I couple of years ago I became a technician in a school which still runs around 200 optiplexes of similar vintage. knowing they were still good for office stuff I put 4 gb of ram and an ssd in them and for 2 years now they've been running sweeter than all the newer machines we have. Our sound engineering room was struggling a bit running cubase and technical department running Autodesk but after watching this video I think I'll have try scrounging some extra ram from dead machines and pick up some second hand q6600s or similar.
I hate having to spend tons of school money on new machines,time creating an image for these machines, day's flattening cardboard boxes and disposing of polystyrene. when I can just undo 2 screws and drop a chip in. I knew this upgrade was possible but I wasn't too optimistic about it being enough till I watched this. Thanks!
Well, looks like Linus isn’t going to stop dropping things anytime soon...
Craig Chiu
Well yeah, him and his group are always dropping videos
...
I’ll see myself out
These old office boxes made for secretaries of secretaries are great bang for the buck if you shop savvy and are willing to fiddle with them.
I built my PLEX server out of a Dell 755 I picked up for $20 out of the "u-fix it" pile at Goodwill. I put that same processor Linus used in it after $25 and a dice roll on eBay. I scrounged up a 1TB hard drive, partitioned it out, and installed Ubuntu on it (12gb system partition and the rest is storage for video). The largest outlay for recording and streaming OTA TV was the PLEX lifetime membership ($120), an exterior antenna ($80), and a compatible tuner ($60.. a short list of hardware because drivers under linux are what they are). Only other thing I used was a couple Amazon sticks, which we already had in the kitchen and bedroom. My old PS3 does fine for the TV in the living room.
These old Optiplex's are very cheap to run on idle and don't draw that much at full throttle. I did some maths and I think I pay $3 a month for the electricity for that particular box. This, with free Netflix from my cell provider, beats the heck out of Dish Network's monthly bill. I can run three 1080 streams out with no problem and I can record one and watch a different one (only two tuners in the USB TV tuner stick) easily with no hardware bottlenecks with that setup.
$300+/- up front and no more TV bills = win for me.
my office had some shitty old pcs that were starting to struggle with everything. the tasks that are asked of those pcs are mundane, they basically just have to run open office and browse the web at a decent speed. i bought 4 of these optiplexes that came with a q9xxx (i don't remember which exactly though) and 4gbs of ram, then i put some ssds in them and voila. snappy machines on the cheap. spent less money in all four than i would in a single retail basic computer that would probably be slower.
7:34 you cant make this sh!t up
Just like the old machine... classic Linus.
Stress testing the processor...
the CPU yelled I'M FREE MOTHERF***ERS
@@potato_x69 potatoooooooo
It was just an alternative delid method
Amazing! Time to upgrade my CPU from a e8600 to a q9650! New year new CPU! LGA775. Let's go!
@7:33 as soon as it went slow-mo I knew Linus was gonna drop it.
you mean as soon as it was in his hands? :^)
I really liked you guys presenting as a duo! Please do that more often!
Or you could have just gotten some rgb to increase the fps
xDDDDDD
Maybe add some razer stickers too 🤔
@@awsmdude12345 dude I legit put a Razer logo as a desktop background 900% boost
Or you could just download the fps
@@Protozola And some ram while you're at it 😂😂
8:02 wait, no thermal paste?
There was a thermal pad
I bought a Optiplex 9010, 200$ for i5 3570, 16 GB of RAM, SSD 256 GB + 1TB on ebay.
I mounted a 1050 and I got 60 FPS 1080p at Max settings for all the games before 2015, and medium-high for the new ones. For graphic comparison look the video on youtube about what a 1050(ti) can do!
For 320$ I couldn't ask more :D
(Update 2019, I bought a 1050ti, for 130$ and I sold my 1050 for 115$, the Ti worths all the 10/15 bucks more!)
No PSU change is needed
Look for these one! :D
(With a 1060, all the new games run at 1080p and 60fps if not more, but you need a new PSU, but we move around the 400/450$ range, all used as always of course, I made it for a friend, terrific!)
I'm getting a 9010 with 1050ti for $325 it's a minitower.. For $325! Craigslist
@@miniwarrior7 perfect!! I got the 1050 because I left my old job (with a really nice super laptop) and I needed a PC at home! guess what!! was in the period when the 1050ti were 300$!!! :O damn miners!
@@Dr.Sortospino Its gonna be my first baby gaming machine I'm happy... Been wanting one for like 5 years just never knew where to start and didn't wanna deal with the difficulty of building from scratch
Does that rig even fit the bill on this video? That's quite modern hardware. I think the MO here is older hardware like my Optiplex 755 to which I fitted a 750Ti.
Under $400 and over 5 years old so yes it fits .
I wonder how many times Linus has dropped his poor wife during things.
hey smarten up
im thinking worse... how many times has he dropped his kids?!
She doesn't have far to fall.
We UPGRADED the 69 by Linus and it doesn't DROP!
Try PUBG: MOBILE on pc..... Even 1050 TI with i5 processor lags
Please make more budget content!!! I love this type of content!
i remember watching these when they came out and i was amazed at how shit my laptop was
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same
Dude same. I had no idea
this 69$ pc is literally better than my 300$ pc
Wait a sec... this is just scrapyard wars without the war! Booooo!
Yeah, we demand a scrapyard war, top gear challenge! 200$ budget to build the biggest baddest gaming PC and then fight each other in a series of challenges!!
We've bought into a lie, I want my money back!
So what, you clicked on the video
Last scrapyard wars I saw a good proposal, scrapyard wars with water-cooled PCs, but the loop can only be done with stuff you can buy at Walmart
Scrapyard Skirmish
It plays games better than my $2,000 MacBook Pro...
Well yeah because it’s a MacBook
Because it's a mac
How’s your burning lap? I had my burning before using that thing
your MacBook isn't worth 2000 box get over it
Ikr I have one too
2 screwdrivers, 1 socket...
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@RaidFylx its 2 girls 1 cup
@RaidFylx dont watch it
very relateable
@@TheRealL1R too late🗿
This video got me into building PC's. I've had a lot of fun the last couple years! Thanks!
@Skylanders Unite Yeah it worked well for Fortnite and Overwatch a couple years ago. To my knowledge you are correct about the CPU. I know it still works fine for web browsing!
Skylanders Unite it is officially supported, though you should use the newest bios before you change it.
While I do enjoy seeing the hottest new thing that's coming out, these (and scrapyard wars) are some of my absolute favorite videos because it reaches out to a far larger percent of the population who are rich kids and helping to teach people that older materials (be it computer or otherwise) aren't always just throw in the trash worthy one they are a year old like the cell phone cycle.
y'know people with the best gear aren't necessarily "rich kids" right? some of us have jobs....
aw shit son... the q9550 was old when I bought it (still over £100), but still a nice lil chip, in fact its still in a friends pc right now... nice to see it getting some love.
12MB L2 cache ftw!!!
Yeah I remember that was one of the things that sold me on it... have no idea if it helped at all... haha
LinusDropTips
Honestly
it woulnd't be the same without it, would it?
Yet again. I am not even suprised anymore :D
What did he drop
i have the exact same computer without the graphics card,
My nan passed away in early january and i had a laptop she gave me early 2016 and found it at the end of novemeber and started to use it for home schooling however it started crashing and my mum said she will get me her computer (which she never used)and it is still running well just wanting to add more ram and a better cpu so i can run more tasks without the app not responding
This is why I watch your channel. Informative and yet fun. Thank You.
You definitely can't get by on a core 2 duo anymore but the core 2 quads still have some life in them
you can if your not going to be gaming on your pc
My whole school use AMD X2 2.4Ghz processors.
They run office, show UA-cam at 720p without stutter and can run office.
Not ideal, but they work.
But is there really any need you can pick up some second hand i5s and stuff now which are magnitudes better for about $150 each
@makaroner You do you buddy my time isint that worthless
You CAN make do with C2D...
IF it's clocked at >3Ghz, and you avoid poorly optimized AAA /Ubisoft shit.
I bought an optiplex 9010 with i7 3370 for $10. It had no PSU, no RAM, no HDD. spent $50 on SSD, $45 on 8GB of RAM, $30 on a PSU, and $100 on RX460 GPU. A total of $235 where I can play BF1 50-60 FPS on 1080p with medium-high settings. Cant ask for more.
Optiplex's are tanks man. I got a 790 (I think is what it is) with 8 gigs of ram and an i3 for super cheap used and it's the best. Got windows 10 and Ubuntu on it so I can do work (programming) and a little bit of gaming (mostly just minecraft, only pc game I care for lol) and it works great. Never freezes, and is quick. Loves it haha
I got a gaming laptop with a Ryzen 5 and rx 580x for $450.
60 dollars more yu cud have gotten an rx 580 8gb from powercolor
I do 50-60 FPS with 1155 i5 2500 non-K OC just 350mhz... , 8Gb Ram and GTX 1060Gb . In medium-high 2K...
@Rafi T.H Nitro 5, it was from a friend who got a better one, so he sold me for very cheap. And my apologies I meant rx560x not the 580.
A mod bios is available for Optiplex 380 to allow you to run socket 771 CPUs. I run an E5450 in my 380.
We upgraded the $69 gaming PC ...
... and now it's a 42U high, nitrogen cooled, high-density "RTX Titan" based compute/render cluster with it's own HA SAN
I would like this but it's on 69 likes so I commented instead
"bu. but the case is still the same!"
@@peepeepoopoo8157 now it's backwards lol
Computer of Theseus.
And it’s no longer affordable
Maybe you should rename your channel “drop it like it’s hot”.
That should just be his intro song instead
@@kz03jd lmao haarper song
I’m legitimately surprised DDR3 was compatible with a 2007 board
G41 is newer chipset, while still using LGA 775 socket
Tommy Oliver 3D ddr3 was released in 2007 officially
Edit: Ok... so I got hung up on the older 775 boards which only supports DDR2...
Previously written: Yeah I noticed that to, given that the memory controller is part of the North Bridge and not on the CPU it is technically possible to have ddr3 or even ddr4 on these chips. Still given that this is a bog standard optiplex and that I haven't seen a board with that feature to date (I do have an older board with both DDR and DDR2 support on the same board though) I assume it's just DDR2.
I have an optiplex 740 and it used ddr2 from I think 2007?
2024 : "Today we build a gaming PC for less than two people eating at a fastfood restaurent chain."
Upgraded the PC,
Downgraded the meme.
Next time $420 PC pls
Edit: Oh wow! Thanks for the likes guys. I feel important now :)
You could actually get some pretty good stuff for that much.
You could make a solid new pc for that
That'd actually be damn good, thanks to ryzen and whatnot, RAM prices are still a bitch tho
@@shutereye2634 Im still with ddr3 ram and gen 4 cpu there's so much used RAM on market and it's not that expensive
Whats your specs?
@@charisjunianto
I'm 8 months late, but make it 420$ or 399$
_And that's a great price_
WHAAT?
@@ridakesserwan8712 PPPFFFSSSSSHHH
@@ridakesserwan8712 i shouldn't give my opinion
@@ridakesserwan8712 then you can tell me if its good or not
@@ikmashane9042 the game is available for 15 million dollars!
So, what you're saying is that these old machines can be retrofitted and still perform satisfactorily for most casual work cases? Sounds like a good charity right there! Get donated PCs, upgrade the RAM and put in an SSD, install Linux and give to those in need! :D
Edit: Just mentioning why I said Linux, it'd be because sometimes older hardware would run better on something like Ubuntu Mate instead of Win10. Not saying "never install Windows", just keeping in-line w/ the whole charity theme :)
archlinuxrussian It would be cool to see this for scrapyard wars. Buy a stack of old pcs at auction, each team builds 5 and best cumulative benchmarks scores win. Then all 10 are donated to a worthy group.
@degru5091 SPONSORED BY FREE GEEK. You are a genius. :)
I like the way this comment section thinks
@@OverbiteGames Christ, this was overly aggressive. See a shrink dude.
Yep. I'm still using 12yo PC, upgraded graphics (to get hardware video decoding), 8GB DDR2 RAM (to run facebook or two-three browser tabs), SSD and Linux.
Runs much smoother than a lot of cheap new laptops with Win10, which is funny.
I love upgrading optiplexes. I've been given several over the years when family members upgraded. They were always surprised when I made them outperform their newer PCs. Throw a ssd and some memory at them and even older units run amazing.
Hey, I only changed the Graphics card to a GeForce GT 710 2 GB GDDR3 but now it’s even worse at performance Etc ?? I got the Optiplex 380 why is that??
@@lorenzogaatspelen maybe bottle neck? Try a different cpu :)
@@lorenzogaatspelen if you kept the stock cpu, that’s why, the cpu is bottlenecking your gpu, gotta get a better cpu
5:40 Looks like all that Savage Jerky they're getting made Linus pretty savage. He let Riley hang twice. XD
Anon 1 why was his fist in the air facing Linus for nearly a second then? Just look at Riley's movements in those few seconds, they look quite awkward if you consider he didn't want to fist bump.
12:02 Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Q9550, nice
I guess its octa than
haha
@@ShakamuraGames a hexa to be exact
@@BurntFaceMan the fuck
I've used the Q9550 up until a week ago, it's always handled heavy stuff surprisingly great, Blender, HD video editing, Space Engineers (heavy physics voxels yo). Definitely old-but-gold :)
8:27 "Who puts an Intel Extreme Edition to a business tower?"
i did.
i put that q9650 into a machine i literally found on top of a bin in the pouring rain. Also upped the RAM too, so both CPU n RAM are max speed n size for the board.
my partner uses it to play games on stream now :D
So um heres my VERY budget story. I got my first pc when I was 9 it was nice an assembled compaq(hp) presario, with pentium E5500 and integrated VGA graphics. whaaaaa
So anyway fast forward 8 years, I got into CS and wanted to play it, so somehow convinced my parents to get me an EPIC GT 1030. I fit it in all joyous and ecstatic but I get all of 60 fps and 30 when the fighting gets intense. I wait for 5 months more, collect some cash from here and there and get myself a 450W PSU and an intel core 2 quad q9400 with the help of my friends and relatives. And here we are i get more than 80 fps and sometimes crosses the century mark. I know I sound so dumb, but this is kinda my first build and is literally held together by duct tape at this point. I love it tho.
edit: damage was about 7000 INR (excluding the gear) or approximately 100$ for the upgrade. Taxes are shit down east brother
so... what is the purpose of the 450watt psu? the original psu is more than enough for any pc with a gt 1030
@@umadbro4493 Mine was giving problems and I wanted to keep it safe given Id changed the core as well. Also the PSU was pretty cheap so I upgraded it anyway.
Yeah u don't really need what u think u need today's gaming a gtx 750ti is enought
@@caziabraham6287 no mate here the gtx 750ti and the 1030 were about the same in price :/
@@caziabraham6287 not really. If you're playing e sports than a 750 ti is enough but if you're playing and demanding titles the 750 ti doesn't hold up for a lot of games.
Close your eyes and you’ll hear Mr. Beast
Oh shit you’re right
?
@@LucaFlati Keys sounds like Mr. Beast
I knew i reconized the voice from something
Timestamp?
I can't believe you didn't get a LGA 771 Xeon and convert it to LGA 775. A E5450 for example, as the exact equivalent for the QX9650 sells for $15 and can then be converted using a simple sticker.
I was thinking the same. I even found a website that lists what boards are compatible (opti 380 = yes). I bought a e5410 for $3.5 and a sticker for $1 to mess with an old PC, it was 3x faster with y-cruncher vs a duo and 50% faster than my old q6600. I OC'd it past 3gig and temps barely changed (usually under 70c lol). Then the IP35 mobo did an impersonation of it's parent company.
Right from the start of the video I was expecting that he would do this! It would be super cool to talk about, showing how to mod it so it fits. He even has the perfect motherboard (G41).
You can even get an E5440 (~2% less performance than E5450) for, like, $8. That's a lot down from the $30 they spent on the Core 2 Quad!
It would be cool but i think he wouldve needed to do a microcode update for the chipset
@@alexmarin4692 Can you please elaborate on this? As I want to do this on a similar PC.
Thanks.
@@warriorharj79 usually aftermarket motheboards such as asus gigabyte msi etc... Have certain bios updates which include compatibility for certain processors which are microcodes i think, but oem motherboards such as dell, for the 775 sockets dont need bios updates because they are installed in the factory which means its a locked bios you cannot touch in most cases. so technically you can buy a 771 to 775 mod sticker and fit that xeon processor into the 775 socket which can work but, it depends on what board you have. it can work on some oem motherboards and also work on aftermarket motherboards but you need to find the bios update for aftermarket boards such as asus msi etc... But some platforms of the oem 775 socket motherboards do support the xeon processors but thats not always the case hope this helps
This is what I like so much about computers and being able to mess around with the older parts and bits. For some reason I like going all out on systems like these (custom liquid cooling on CPU + GPU), adding LED lights (only red) and trying to see if I can squeeze any extra performance from it with some overclocking. Sure it's not as powerful as a modern computer with similar specs, but it does feel more worth it, since I put in all that effort to get as much from the system as technically possible.
That’s crazy that the full 8GB worked. That Optiplex is a win for the money.
7:36 HAAAAAAHAHAHAJAJAHHAANANAHAJAAJAHAH!!!!
*NOT AGAIN LINUS!!!*
Anybody got a parts list for this whole build I’d love to know
Core 2 duo E7500,4gb ddr3 gtx 650
I think it was a 750 ti?
@@l-wm8706 yeah
@@thetechplace7757 was a core 2 duo q9950
@@BoshyG nah it was core 2 duo e7500, but it did get replaced by a core 2 quad q9550
I've seen boatloads of these kinds of PC's at the Uni I attend, they sell them at their Property Surplus Department for literally 5-20 bucks apiece. Sometimes they are missing hard drives but if you just go for the SSD right out of the gate that's not too much of an issue. If anyone here wants to try and replicate this build maybe call a nearby university and see if they have a Property Surplus Department, might save a few bucks and skip the shipping!
For real. I got myself the same PC+one of those indestructible Dell keyboards+one of those monitors with everything included for free off my old high school. I’m surprised they all worked.
Can i please have the broken graphics card that you took out of it?
L33Tech do u want my old rx 560 it works fine 😂I feel bad so I will give it to u for free?
@@Colbs-v4z tfw when you have an integrated gpu, 2gb of ram 👌🔥
@@Colbs-v4z I wouldn't mind taking it off your hands. I don't even have a desktop, ive been wanting to start building one
@@Colbs-v4z Mee
You guys are sad
Thanks for review my PC. :D
I have use the Intel Q9550 since 2008. Use it every day for work and programming.
And few old games..
Upgrades:
- HDD to 500GB SSD
- GTX 260 to GTX 960
- 4GB -> 8GB Ram
Put a rtx 2080 in it! Rename it the bottle.
Archana Maynard STOLEN COMMENT🆘
@@frxzens657 I just copied what I did on another video.
@@frxzens657 this one ua-cam.com/video/3YmfHL3Ez5w/v-deo.html
14:37 And it was at this moment Riley broke Linus.
Finally a computer hardware job Riley can handle am I right Linus
Kids, don't buy socket 775. Sandybridge is the same price and has 2x's + the performance.
Its a prebuilt dell
That's my thought you can get much newer Dell Optiplexes with Ivy Bridge (Optiplex 3010/7010/9010) and Sandy Bridge (Optiplex 390/790/990) i5s for around $100 shipped.
But you can't get them fully built with an OS and Hardrive for $30.
here in nc goodwills have a bunch of dell 990s with the core i5 2400 and 4g of ram for $49. no hard drive or os but its a good start
@@davemiller262 I would totally buy one of those!
Do more of these types of videos please!!
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500(Gaming Beast) was so good and if you bought a new graphic card and fit it in you could play DOTA 2 at 1080p.
14:51 Linus Tech Tips - Where GIFs are still handmade
Why didn't you just download some extra RAM and extra graphics?
You could have saved some cash!
i downloaded some graphics and my pc literally flies now, ty for da tip
I download ram every month, works like a charm...
I had to pirate some electricity the other day.
Oh yeah shit my internet ran out too so I downloaded some more
@p3rcio you need to stop your antivirus to download internet, dont forget that... avast detects internet as a virus and you won't have connection
More of this! Love the budget gaming stuff!
I bought an old Optiplex 760 SFF from the local college for my daughter: Intel Core Duo E7400 2.8Ghz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HDD.... I upgraded the ram to 8GB DDR2, took out the HDD and put in a Samsung 850 evo 250GB SSD. I bought an ASUS GT 1030 2GB gDDR5 GPU today, so I'm waiting for that in the mail. Runs windows 10 very smoothly with all updates as of Nov 2020. I don't think this MOBO will support an Intel Core 2 Quad though, only certain Optiplex 760's did. Once I get the GPU in, ill go over to Dell's site and run their software to see if I have the right motherboard. If I do, maybe I'll do what you guys did in this video. Theres some of these CPU's on ebay for real cheap.
Did you guys need to use thermal paste?
Oh please do change the thermal paste if it’s extremely crusty.
And I also picked up recently a 760 MT (quad core motherboard). These old machines are near indestructible.
By the way, you can tell which MB you got by a sticker near the CMOS. The code varies between size options though.