Most folks just walk past these old PC's, but if your on a tight budget...these just might hold you over until you can afford to build a more expensive rig? As always looking forward to you next project. Cheers Paul
I never thought of these as an option until I saw that many already had video cards and or memory, and a large capacity power supply. It makes upgrading so much easier.
I've listed the specs in the Description. As far as the upgrades, The CPU is about the sweet spot. I think I can find one with more cores, but it will be slower. The ram can be upgraded to 768GB which is far more than needed, I might top out at 64GB because it's four channel. The GPUs I would say anything Nvidia xx60 series and maybe something like an RTX 2070. The AMD cards would have to be something similar. The bus is a PCIe 3.0 so newer graphics cards won't see their full potential, but we don't have to stick to budget GPUs like some optiplexes.
I love these vids! I love how you can take a small budget and make a feasible gaming PC. What a difference that 1660 made and it didn't have to break the bank! That is why I love affordable PC tech. Thank you for bringing this content, my friend. It helps people see that regardless of their budget, they can still be a PC gamer, and do it without much sacrifice!
@@PeaJayTheGr8 Thank you! It surprised me how much potential this one has, and that it has extra capacity for a strong video card, (two PCI connectors). I've got leads on a better Xeon, more memory, an NVMe and have GPU candidates that might turn this PC into a beast and a mid range budget. I love these builds.
Not anything high end, for sure, but if I can build a system that will compete with a R5 3600x or fairly recent i5, it may be worth it. The caveat there will be to see how much those systems cost to see if there is any real savings.
@@ThatPaulGuy i agree its decent for a 140 dollar system but it wont get close to a modern i5 at all in any task though i understand the debate no doubt keep the vids coming
I run the same machine and if you try the e5 2667 v4 cpu you will see better performance . i run that cpu and it beats most xeon cpu" in that era for single core performance. Excellent cpu.. The z440 is an awesome pc . i am very happy with mine and i don't dewell on 200 fps . Anything above 60 fps works well .
Most folks just walk past these old PC's, but if your on a tight budget...these just might hold you over until you can afford to build a more expensive rig? As always looking forward to you next project. Cheers Paul
I never thought of these as an option until I saw that many already had video cards and or memory, and a large capacity power supply. It makes upgrading so much easier.
Wooo that Z440 is running sweet. 👍
I think I've decided to turn it into an actual gaming rig. we'll see how it goes.
@@ThatPaulGuy that should be cool. Can't wait to see.
would it be possible to have a full list of specs and potential upgrades further to this system? thank you Paul :))
I've listed the specs in the Description. As far as the upgrades, The CPU is about the sweet spot. I think I can find one with more cores, but it will be slower. The ram can be upgraded to 768GB which is far more than needed, I might top out at 64GB because it's four channel. The GPUs I would say anything Nvidia xx60 series and maybe something like an RTX 2070. The AMD cards would have to be something similar. The bus is a PCIe 3.0 so newer graphics cards won't see their full potential, but we don't have to stick to budget GPUs like some optiplexes.
@@ThatPaulGuy thank you Paul, really appreciate the hard work you put into your videos 😉
I love these vids! I love how you can take a small budget and make a feasible gaming PC. What a difference that 1660 made and it didn't have to break the bank! That is why I love affordable PC tech. Thank you for bringing this content, my friend. It helps people see that regardless of their budget, they can still be a PC gamer, and do it without much sacrifice!
@@PeaJayTheGr8 Thank you! It surprised me how much potential this one has, and that it has extra capacity for a strong video card, (two PCI connectors). I've got leads on a better Xeon, more memory, an NVMe and have GPU candidates that might turn this PC into a beast and a mid range budget.
I love these builds.
@@ThatPaulGuyThis seems so much fun! Makes me miss tinkering with PCs. I think I may have to dive in again soon!
Like the content but they wont rival a modern gaming pc not even close 😊
Not anything high end, for sure, but if I can build a system that will compete with a R5 3600x or fairly recent i5, it may be worth it. The caveat there will be to see how much those systems cost to see if there is any real savings.
@@ThatPaulGuy i agree its decent for a 140 dollar system but it wont get close to a modern i5 at all in any task though i understand the debate no doubt keep the vids coming
Ill take that k4200 thank you 😂😂😂
I like how it comes with a beefy psu.
The memory capacity and the PSU were definitely the selling points.
I run the same machine and if you try the e5 2667 v4 cpu you will see better performance . i run that cpu and it beats most xeon cpu" in that era for single core performance. Excellent cpu.. The z440 is an awesome pc . i am very happy with mine and i don't dewell on 200 fps . Anything above 60 fps works well .
That's a great suggestion, and they don't seem to be expensive, thanks.
yup very inexpensive👍