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The R7 250/430 can do some gaming but not much. It is precisely half of an Xbox One/One S GPU. The W5100 usually goes for around $30 and is roughly equivalent to a GT1030 but with 4GB. It is over twice as powerful as a R7 250/430 and is one of the closest analogues you can get to the Xbox One/One S GPU (has GCN2.0 cores vs the Xbox One's GCN 1.0) so you know it can run a ton of games. The i7-4790S is just as good as the normal one but has a 35W TDP but is usually cheaper. Last one I bought was $30. I built a $100 machine a couple months ago with a 4790S, MSI Z87-G43 and GTX 670 SC 2GB. I used RAM, PSU and storage I already had (it all has already more than paid for itself in past use) and put it in a 20 year old case I got for free. It is for playing older games but can play the games I was targeting at 1440p. With feature level only being DX12 11.0, it kinda limits potential for playing recent games but it is actually as powerful as a GTX 960 or R9 380. It is only slightly less powerful than AMD's RDNA based 760M and way more powerful than the 740M.
Thank god, an _actual_ budget build video. I’m so tired of watching one of these videos, only to hear “I found a free PC in the back of my closet and stuck a $100 GPU in it! $100 budget build! YoU CaN dO iT TOo!”
Yeah. Whenever I would see videos of $100 builds, they always get great deals, but then replicating it is no longer possible. Sure, it is entertaining, but others want to make a $100 budget build too, and they want it with similar performance from the video they likely watched.
@@BudgetBin Yeah, precisely! I’ve seen some where they managed to find a PC for, like, $7 on eBay, and then they’ll build a $100 PC with it and claim you can do the same, when actually that level of PC normally sells for 4, 5 or 6x that price used. Luck in purchasing shouldn’t be involved in a budget PC build if that build is intended to be used as a guide for viewers with very little money. If your viewers get lucky with purchases when buying parts your guide recommends, that’s a different story and is great, of course. I even saw a video once of a $100 budget build, where the advice, no joke, was “buy a $250 PC on eBay, sell parts out of it to make money back, so you’d better get a good one, then buy cheaper parts to put in so the overall cost is $100 _if_ you sell enough parts for enough money and buy cheap enough replacements.” Absolute nonsense. So thank you for not being a douche, basically. 🤣
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu I think you’re ignoring the semantic distinction here, but sure. Yes, sticking to a set budget is making a build within budget. But you’re missing the point, perhaps intentionally, of my comment. Too many of these videos will give you a budget, in this case $100, and then will showcase a build that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible for most, to replicate, by utilizing free components nobody else would have access to. It’s disingenuous and defeats the purpose of the video. This video did not do that.
For those wondering, yes, Budget Bin hired me to appear in his video, flew me out for filming (7 days on set), and his craft services were 10/10 (they even splurged on the good Root Beer!)
Would love to see a continuation of this video, seeing how you would spend an extra $100 to upgrade it, say playing out that "upgrade it later down the line" scenario. Great video!
You reminded me of the days when skyirm was the most demanding game. i remember i had my (at the time!) 10 years old cheap PC and i wouldn't even be able to pass the intro due to lags. i had to install various mods that make the game lower quality and after a few DAYS i was able to play it on 20-40fps. big shoutout to people making such mods. there always were a few for newer games. my specs were literally like 4x lower than "minimum" but thanks to the mods and guides i was still able to play it. i won't forget how happy and proud i was that the game is actually working lol
gosh i do NOT miss those times at all. i'm pretty sure skyrim wasn't even supporting my GPU to begin with (but there was a mod for that). i think even 10$ GPU would be a big upgrade for that terrible setup (but i was too scared to touch it).
@@RobG2001 definitely go for it. i only wish i done it sooner. just keep in mind it might take days of research if you're a total beginner like i was. something always went wrong but nothing google can't help with.
and if you're this tight on budget, i'd REALLY think about which part to buy. some are super cheap AND super good (i think a good idea is to aim for those who have bigger market shares, coz people usually just tryna get rid of them and don't even care if they could charge 2x as much, as they see so many other people selling same the same part)
I really like seeing budget builds such as this. Last year i found an Optiplex 3020 with the i5 4590, 8gb ram, and a 1TB HDD for £10. I dropped in a £15 SSD from Amazon as a boot drive, and found a cheap GTX 960 for £30 from CEX. I've been using it as an emulation machine, and it runs everything i've tried perfectly. Even a fair few mordern-ish games run really well with half decent settings. Thanks for showing people that there is still life in the 'obsolete' machines.
@Neulaw yeah, Switch runs really well. Unfortunately PS3 performance is less than ideal with the i5 4590. Even after upgrading to the i7 4790 and a GTX 1070, PS3 was still hit and miss.
When I was young, I used I think this exact optiplex PC as a budget build for my little brother. I wanted to play games with him and so I built him a Frankenstein monster. It was glorious. Many moons later and now in a career. I still build my little brother his gaming PC. But it's much less horrible now lol.
That drive looks like it could have been used as part of a digital forensics program. I got my bachelors in DF, in my undergrad we had tons of old optiplex towers loaded up with fake "Evidence" very similar to some of the pictures you had shown used for live/static examination labs.
I used to work as a remote service tech for online support. This was in like 2012 and a user called me up, they had an I5 in their computer but XP was installed. I questioned the lady as to why and she told me "Oh, it is my work computer and my company has software that requires us to use XP". That's probably why XP was installed and Windows 7 was removed.
Makes sense. Given what was on the hard drive (I didn't go through it too much, it clearly wasn't meant to be used outside of government use) it clearly had a specific purpose. For a long time XP was being used by most companies and government organizations, just so they could keep using the same software and what not. I feel like Windows 10 is also gonna be like that in some ways.
@@BudgetBinfun fact: the United States of America’s military still uses windows xp because they have some things that can’t run on anything newer. They pay Microsoft for security updates lol
I really like your conclusion, straying away from Skyrim and the e-sports titles. Over the years, I have accumulated quite the backlog on steam and I am surprised how well some older titles just run on lower-end systems. Wonderful video, thanks!
@@BudgetBin I would like to have seen a couple figures though, you show a lot of games that you call playable, but I was curious to what settings you used and what fps you got.
I did this with an Optiplex 990 back in... 2017? It was a little more expensive back then, but it served me well until Windows 7 support ended. I crammed in a GTX 960 (actually took some gymnastics inside the case), an improved power supply, and 16 GB of RAM and it could run anything I wanted to play. I still have it. It's a great little machine.
This is almost identical to the pc i put together for my 11 year old son. It already came with 8gb ram and a 250gb ssd for about £50. I swapped the PSU for a 600w one i had in an old pc (the optiplex mini towers fit an ATX psu nicely - just add a 24 to 8 pin converter cable for a few quid). I also added 2 more 4gb sticks of ram and an old gtx 1060 ive owned since 2017 and had replaced last year It runs all the game he likes really well - namely Fortnite, Roblox and Rocket league.
I'm glad you mentioned the part where other "Budget" UA-camrs just show off Esport titles or old games like Skyrim. A Potato PC could run most of the esport titles or Skyrim if you crank the settings low enough, and myself and others no doubt dont want to play esport titles and want to buy or build a gaming pc to play games like Escape from Tarkov, Star Citizen, Arma 3 or Reforger, Hell Let Loose or Post Scriptum, or Elden Ring. You know, some games that are actually hardware intensive.
Good Video. This sort of setup is what I started with in high school and now I work in IT, really good way to get your feet wet and learn some good pc fundamentals while not breaking the bank
@@Brand0n555 that's awesome to hear! I agree, you don't have to worry about breaking much, and you can use the experience to build a proper PC down the path once you get more comfortable with it. Thank you so much for the donation by the way! Hope your IT job is going well.
I have this PC at work, you just take the 12V from the 12V power to the motherboard and put it on a Y adapter, swap two pins around and then you have 8 pin power to your GPU. It's been very stable for me using an AMD 6600, I put a 4770K in it that I found and one of those Peerless Assassin coolers and bought a Dell Fan to 4 pin adapter. Then I just got an SSD I had laying around and cloned the drive to it because I'm too lazy to install stuff and whacked 16GB of ram that I swapped my 8GB in another work PC that no one will notice lol. The thing is a little gaming beast, I ran Half-Life Alyx from it during lunch using a first gen OR.
I just bought everything you mentioned in your setup and the total came out to $116.91. I have not worked in a PC ever but kinda know my way around one. Fingers crossed everything goes well!
@@BudgetBin so i realized yesterday i bought the SFF of the 9020. i was looking into the AMD graphics card you included and was wondering if the stock PSU can handle it OR if the FirePro W5100 isn't compatible anyway. the regular tower version of the 9020 is about $100-200 on its own. I still think I can get away with using the SFF and a small amount of upgrades. EDIT: I canceled my SFF order and bought the MT. Spent a little extra money but at this rate screw it! Jumping headfirst into the world of PC building,
@@BudgetBin You wouldn't happen to have the drivers for the Firepro would you? It has been driving me up the wall all night. Keep getting error 182. I've tried DDU, 3 different driver installers from AMD. Can't figure it out. The PC keeps defaulting to the Basic Display Adapter.
i thought the Optiplex looked familiar... until you opened it up and i realized that the old hand me down gaming computer I got from my brother (which is sitting RIGHT BEHIND ME) was an Optiplex all along - or at least used an Optiplex case. These things really *are* everywhere!
Great video mate. Done the same two years back with the same optiplex actually then slowly gathered money to upgrade it. Got a gtx 1660ti, 256gig sdd,2*8 gig ram. Total cost overall was 250dollars. Awesome gig can run through just about every modern game with 60fps and for the more demanding one i just use LOSSLESS SCALING from steam for frame gen (cant believe how underrated this gem is).
Very impressive! Never mind that you were a shade over budget but how you hunted those deals down and cobbled everything together was very well played.
I love these old Optiplexs. I played GTA5 on an Optiplex 7010 with an HD7970 Ghz edition for YEARS! This is by far the PREMIERE way to force your way into the PC Master race. If you can game on one of these, you deserve to build yourself a custom gaming rig from the ground up.
One item I would love is someone to create a list of workstations that are NOT proprietary. Systems where they can take normal power supplies, you can swap out mother board, and/or swap out cases without issue. For example, I have an Asus 4th Gen i7 which I was able to swamp into a whole new case. Moved it into a really cool discarded aluminum case. Don't use it because I am using much better systems. For ultra budget, I likely would try more for a $150 budget. Maybe i7 4 gen or later workstation, raise ram up to 16 Gb, get a GTX 960 or better a 970 (due both still being supported), and 480/512 SSD. A little more but likely give you a little more time to learn if you like PC gaming.
Its most likely possible to convert a proprietary motherboard to take an ATX PSU. Im assuming electronically, it should be the same, you would just have to figure out the pinouts and solder on standard ATX motherboard connectors, or you make adapters that convert it into standard ATX. If I ever come across a proprietary system, I'll try it out. Should be a fun project 🙂
the only thing as a trick i can think of is tinkering with overclocking and potentially using liquid metal. overall really good video for people with lower budgets!
made my friend a $80 pc, he plays pretty much everything now. got a kit which contains the same i5 4570, 8gb ram and a cooler for $25, then bought a rx 570 for $45 and a 400w FSP psu for $10. case and ssd i had laying around, and he had a 500gb hdd. put all tougher and made a pretty nice pc. all prices together i think it would be around $110
Great vid! Love seeing budget builds like this. I've built a few (two to be exact 😅) budget office "gaming" pc's; one for $56.43 and another for $81.95! To be fair my builds involved dumpster diving and finding two almost complete pc's that were fully working. Some cheap upgrades and a deep clean and was able to get respectable little pc's with a more than adequate gpu for the price; a 1050ti 4gb in one and an rx 550 4gb in the other. Also love all the lofi edits! Got yourself a new sub! Good stuff!
Love these budget finds. Always interesting to see the limit of low end machines. Would love to see you upgrade it using a similar budget restriction. I also would like to help with that art budget. keep the videos coming
If you really want to stay in budget then my go-to would be a Quadro K620 card. They are dirt cheap, $15, and they are surprisingly powerful given their age. I have been using one for a year and it can handle everything from daily tasks up to PSP and PS2 emu like a champ.
Last year, I upgraded a dell from '09 that a friend gave me. I spent about $100. I only use it to play games from that era and earlier, and it's fantastic.
I bought two of these over the last few years! An i7 2600 and a i3 4600 (i think) - I put in SSDs and cheapo GFX cards and boom - both my kids first computers! The power supplies are usually pretty weak but if you have a pcie powered card then no problems at all. Great vid - many memories of doing it!
it warms my heart seeing builds like this. "old" hardware getting more life breathed into them giving more people the opportunity to game on a computer ♥
I haven’t watched the video yet but judging from the thumbnail I already know this is a great idea. An old company gave me dozens of their old Optiplexes just like that one and I’ve turned more than 3 of them into super affordable gaming rigs
Would love to see how a budget setup like this handles non-esport games, where they're not hyper-optimized or in some cases aren't optimized that well at all. I think something like STALKER Anomaly would be a good bench for that kinda test for less optimized games, since it's a free download.
Yeah, buddy! I've been a PC gamer for going on 30-years now (hard to believe it's been that long); when I was in my teens and 20's, I always wanted the best hardware I could possibly afford, but now that I'm older? I do my best to sing the praises of budget PC gaming, because you can do so, so much with very little these days and your video really shows that off. Play the latest indies on that $400 Wal-Mart computer! Go back and explore AAA PC gaming from 10 years ago! Emulate pretty much any system up to Gamecube or PS2 and explore those libraries! The world is your oyster with even a minimal investment. No reason to keep up with the Jones' and spend $5000 on your PC when you can have just as much fun for 10x less. Maybe I'm just old...
It feels good to be back to a place where you can build a $100 computer and at least get a real mean office machine out of it that'll play Minecraft all day.
For new folks, be mindful of plans to upgrade these office PCs. They rarely get bios updates to support newer CPUs so even if socket/chipset theoretically supports a newer CPU it may not work. Also their PSUs may have limited headroom for GPU upgrades. Old office towers are great value but do some research before envisioning an upgrade path.
I personally love this way of getting a working PC tbh, i have a old laptop rn and if i save up for around a year-ish i would be able to get a build like this! Great video
G'day BB, I think you made a very good "My First Gaming PC" build, while not the Prettiest these DELL Optiplex ATX Towers are a great starting PC with room to grow. Unlike the new DELL/HP ones with proprietry Motherbard & PSU these take standard M-ATX Motherboard with swapable I/O Shield & Standard ATX PSU making them very easy to install a more modern CPU & GPU when you save up later.
@@shaneeslick It's always great to hear from you! And yeah, newer units "can" be upgraded like you said, but they really do make it an impossible endeavor.
I can confirm that you can get these pc in any part of the earth. even on countries like venezuela you can find them. I'm not from that country (I'm from Panama), but I have friends from venezuela and many of them use this PC and put a SSD and a discrete GPU to be able to play of course the ones there are kinda old and the price are higher than in the USA (yeah, here things are higher than on first world country and we gain a lot less... that's how unfortunatelly it is... and thats why most of us prefer to import from amazon, ebay or others shops from USA) edit: a recommendation: you can try and install linux on it, from what I have seen from friends the performance is kinda the same compared to windows, but you consume much less resource in daily task compared to linux. I'm a linux user who uses an APU and I can confirm that. also, minecraft is one of those games that runs with more fps on linux than in windows
your videos are oddly entertaining and im never usually this entertained when watching youtube. you have some content creating talent, good luck and i hope you keep making videos.
very underrated channel, your voice is very soothing compared to a lot of other creators which adds a lot more quality to the video than you might think
I bought me an HP Compaq Elite 8300 CMT with an i5-3470, 16 gigs of of DDR3 RAM and a GT1030 graphics card for just 200 dollars. It runs so many games with no issues. Even got Windows 11 running on it and it's not even slow. Advancement in x86 computers slowed down significantly enough that a machine this old is still very useful.
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Old Optiplexes ftw. Just picked up a 7050MT for $180 - I7 7700, 512GB nvme. I took 8GB ram from my old pc and the 1050ti, and it's a totally capable game machine.
Fr. I got a rx 470 gifted from a friend and im planning to buy an optiplex or lenovo thinkcentre. Just need a power supply upgrade and it would be (technically) ready to play.
Actually was able to build my own system at the same price point but with a 7500t! Gonna be my media server and works great! Thanks for the tutorial :)
I make a decent bit of money doing this exact thing. I also use Noctua thermal compound... I also use CrystalDisk... I also have a wooden desk... I am ALSO ME DAMN YOU! Good video my man, made me feel a bit at home lol
In my opinion i would rather save the money and buy a good computer, than buy a prebuilt which no longer supports the latest windows operating system and other technologies. But every person has a different situation going on, so it is still a valid approach.
Yeah these PCs are great for cheap builds. I got one from a friend of mine who was closing his business for $200 and bought a new mid range video card and power supply. Granted it came out to around $450 total but for a broke dude it was a pretty significant upgrade.
hey! i js saw ur feedback on my video and i clicked on ur channel only to notice that i've seen a couple of ur videos before. good stuff man this inspires me to give budget builds another chance
Hey man. I am glad you took my criticism seriously and hope you didn't take it harshly. I appreciate you checking me out, and go for it! It takes a lot of time and effort, but as long as you do as much research as possible and collect whatever data you can, double check what you've got; you can make some good budget video. Hope to see you grow!
I have a 7040mt 🎉with a 256gb nvme boot drive, 2tb ssd, 2tb storage hdd, a 1650 & 32gb ddr4. Even added a front intake fan. Sub $150.(only had to buy the pc, one 16gb ram stick and the 1650) Great office pc that can play most games on high settings. Smokes some friends "gaming" builds. Could also run a sata to 8 pin and run a 6600 if you wanted to really get down.
I would love to see a follow up to this video to see how you would upgrade it and see how much power you can squeeze out of the chasis in $50 incraments. Sort of like if a kid got allowance or birthday money for upgrades
these are still decent and you can get a xeon e3-1271 v3 which is basically an i7-4790 but without integrated graphics. Something like a GTX 1650 or RX 560 (4gb) can work really well in these. My son is still on an optiplex 9020 with i7-4790, GTX 1070 (8gb), 500w EVGA power supply, and 16gb ram. It runs most title fine at 1080p. Great video btw
When going this budget, you have to consider future upgrades. While the 9020 is 4th gen Intel, it has a funky power supply, and upgrading requires budgeting another $10 for an adapter cable. If you go with the 9010, it uses standard power supplies, but of course only has a 3rd gen Intel CPU. Either will likely require a CPU upgrade if you want a much better GPU. I didn't realize these were still going for $50. If I could get that for them locally (doubt I can), I'd pull the stack of them out I was planning on scrapping. Putting them on Ebay means finding some BIG boxes and charging shipping, and would probably net me not much more than scrapping. NOTE: While the vast majority of 9020s have an i3/5/7 installed, I ran into one with a Xeon. The drawback there is you MUST have a GPU to get ANY video output.
I remember when i built my first dell optiplex. I5 (no change) same heatsink, only bought a 50 dollar missing bracket rx 580 8gb and a 50 dollar power supply 700 w :) Eventually did have to change the hhd to ssd and get more ram, and even took out the cage for more space. Good times man.
I got a Small Form Factor Optiplex 3020 with the same i5-4570 which I also plan on making some upgrades on it to gift it to my nephew, finding this video made me feel like I actually did a great purchase haha, I got it for 30 USD dollars on Facebook Marketplace, it came with just 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD, I plan on just throwing a GT 1030 and a 240 GB SSD for boot and still use the 500 GB for extra storage! I hope it goes all well
great vid i also built a budget gaming pc using a dell optiplex i think there one of the best for budget set up i still use mine today and its going strong it even holds up to some of my friends pc who and they spent hundreds on i done this just to see how it would turn out hope more people try this as it is a good way to recycle old pc and give them a new purpose . keep up the great vids bud
I did pretty much this exact thing for my little sister a few years ago Non-working RX480 bought for a little bit of money, re-pasted it, worked flawlessly 120gb ssd for os for real cheap 8GB ram for super duper cheap (it was ddr3) And an i5 4440 for also cheap I have no clue how much it was for in the end but definitely less than 200, this was about 5 years ago
i have a similar dell setup, but with a gtx1060 3gb. I had to source a new PSU, but it SHINES as a home theater/EMULATION pc. I can emulate gamecube era games perfectly, play indie steam titles with controllers, and run plex/kodi/whatever at the same time.
Back in 2019 two office buildings I do work in tossed out a number of these Optiplex mini tower computers. Between the two buildings I got roughly 50 units (which just scratched the number of machines they tossed out) that I salvaged, replaced thermal paste, upgraded the drives to SSD, added Wifi PCIe cards (or WiFi USB dongles), and added video cards to. Each had i7 4770/4790 CPUs, 16GB (4x8GB) RAM, I installed 256GB/512GB 2.5" SSD and anything between a GTX 1060 6GB up to GTX 1070 Ti (grabbed a number of mining cards in bulk for cheap). A couple I upgraded the case cooling (120mm fan modded onto the front of the case), CPU cooling (Vetroo V5), PSU (Thermaltake 600 watt white) and went up to a GTX 1080. When the GPU/computer shortage came the following year, I wasn't able to keep up with the demand for these machines. Since then I've done a lot of salvaging of other machines from office buildings when they upgrade, earlier this year I got several Dell Optiplex SFF machines ranging from i7 7700 up to i5 10500. Amazing how much good stuff is just tossed out.
Excellent work! This was a fancy little budget build for what it is, and delightfully capable. I would love to see how much you could improve this by doubling your budget (an extra $95 thrown at it), and then maybe in a later video seeing if spending $200 on a totally new-to-you system would be comparable (or even blow it out of the water :D )
The only problem with budget builds is you can hit the ceiling of what's possible pretty fast. In the past 4 years I've spent maybe 350-400 on my machine. Of course now I technically have 2 as I swapped out the old parts into a new (old) case.
Watching this on my ol 3020 sff, have had her for four years, put an extra stick of ram in her when I got her for a total of 12GB, then I bought a gt 1030, upgraded the ram again for 16gb, THEN finally two years ago I upgraded the cpu to an i7 4790. Its done me well. But I just bought a MT 3070 off ebay, comes with a 9th gen i5, I bought a 3050 to go in it, just waiting for them to come!
I have a couple of suggestions for the extreme budget shoppers. Servers is where the action is right now. I am getting a hp z240 from ebay for $119. I7 6700, 32gb ddr4, 512 ssd, firepro 5100. I could have got a barebones for 85 but the math didn't work out. And with your build I would suggest a quadro k2200 4gb. They go for 30-35 but occasionally for 25. As always most extreme is getting a donation or dumpster dive pc.
I think the best value you can get on a pc is buying an older gaming pc like maybe 7 to 10 years old that was top of the line back then . People sell custom built gaming pcs usually for the price of the graphics card on listing sites like facebook market , craigslist, kijiji etc . I usually end up paying like $150 for $300+ pc's. *edit* I see that infos already in the video xD
I have 2 Dell's I saved from e-cycle 5+ years back, ive been looking for a GPU without needing to buy a new case or power supply and was about to give up given the current costs and the state of PC and other electrics stores in my area. I just picked up that card on ebay. I have a gaming laptop and desktop..that I don't want my kids on and since I have this Dell machine that still runs great with 32 gigs of ram and an SSD..looks like I will push this machine for a few years more.
Dell optiplex 7020 was my first venture into the pc world a few years back. Got it for like $70 from a school dumping old inventory. iirc came with whatever i7 was default, 8gb ram, default dell mouse + keyboard. Also came with da $10 gpu and you bet i made full use out of that thing lol. chucked an old hdd in there and was chillin (eventually put like a $50 ssd, which i migrated to my new pc recently built). Its sitting in storage somewhere, should prolly dig it out and flip it while its still got some life in it
You can also get an aftermarket South Bridge Heatsink for the naked south bridge chip at the bottom right of the board. Put some thermal paste on it, then place it on. It will help mitigate all the new pcie accessories you install.
Love the video, and the key with this setup is that it can be replicated right now, right this minute anywhere in the US. If a person is patient more is possible. For me the 4th gen are just too old and obsolete, and tend to sell for as much as much newer systems. In my area for about that price Optiplex 3060-3080 systems pop up at that price point on Marketplace. I just picked up an Optiplex 3060 with i5 8500, 8GB RAM and 250GB SSD. Mine is a SFF instead of a minitower, so requires a low profile GPU, for me at this price point, an RX 550 4GB can be bought for $25-40 if you are patient, which will keep you at $100, and may even give you enough budget to add another 8GB of RAM. My build with these specs was targeted at being able to play all of the Fallout games, as New Vegas and Fallout 3 can be unstable on Windows 10. It plays those games very well, and will play most newer games fairly well too. For a tiny bit more you can probably sneak an Nvidia GTX 1650 into the budget, and for as little you can find 1050ti cards regularly, once again with a bit of patience. It isn't common, but also isn't rare for me to find the prebuilt office PCs on Marketplace with much newer and better specs for the same price, I have bought i5 and i7 10th gen systems with up to 32Gb of DDR4 for well under $100. No, you can't expect to see that the first time you open facebook, but if you keep on eye on it, you will see them, when you do don't waste time and don't get greedy, send an offer for what they are asking for, and let them know you can pick it up today, don't try and chisel another $10 off an already great deal, because I won't, and you don't know who else is looking to buy it, or if that person may already know they are selling at a giveaway price and has it priced that way to avoid haggling and tire kickers.
Ah the good ol upgraded Optiplex. I upgraded a Optiplex 780 with a Q9400, 8Gbs ram, and a gt 1030. It has to run linux nowadays but it is still completely usable! Also that mouse space on you desk makes me feel claustrophobic...
Maybe if I ever do good enough one day, I can have an office just for making videos that way you don't have to see my hand jammed between a keyboard and Desktop PC lol
my budget pc idea : i5 2310 -2 $ gtx 970 with one broken fan 20 $ 128 gb ssd used 48% - 3$ 1 tb hdd used -5$ old ass corsair case - free from a dumbster lol chiftec arena 500w psu - 10$ 24 gb ram miss matched 1866 mhz~15 $ asus z77 mobo bought with bent pin for 1$ intel stock cooler - somehow came with 2$ cpu the mobo is also mising the heatsincs but it is fine for the i5 i tried bclk overclock but with no luck heh
i think i have the best budget pc. step 1: ??? step 2: meet girl step 3: her ex boyfriend left his gaming pc at her apartment step 4: marry girl step 5: free pc
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ewww, amd's scrappy drivers
Budget bin PLEASE give me this build 😭😭😭🙏
The R7 250/430 can do some gaming but not much. It is precisely half of an Xbox One/One S GPU. The W5100 usually goes for around $30 and is roughly equivalent to a GT1030 but with 4GB. It is over twice as powerful as a R7 250/430 and is one of the closest analogues you can get to the Xbox One/One S GPU (has GCN2.0 cores vs the Xbox One's GCN 1.0) so you know it can run a ton of games.
The i7-4790S is just as good as the normal one but has a 35W TDP but is usually cheaper. Last one I bought was $30.
I built a $100 machine a couple months ago with a 4790S, MSI Z87-G43 and GTX 670 SC 2GB. I used RAM, PSU and storage I already had (it all has already more than paid for itself in past use) and put it in a 20 year old case I got for free. It is for playing older games but can play the games I was targeting at 1440p. With feature level only being DX12 11.0, it kinda limits potential for playing recent games but it is actually as powerful as a GTX 960 or R9 380. It is only slightly less powerful than AMD's RDNA based 760M and way more powerful than the 740M.
Try windows xp on this pc, see how well it runs as a retro gaming build
plz use windows xp, see how it runs for retro gaming
Thank god, an _actual_ budget build video. I’m so tired of watching one of these videos, only to hear “I found a free PC in the back of my closet and stuck a $100 GPU in it! $100 budget build! YoU CaN dO iT TOo!”
Yeah. Whenever I would see videos of $100 builds, they always get great deals, but then replicating it is no longer possible. Sure, it is entertaining, but others want to make a $100 budget build too, and they want it with similar performance from the video they likely watched.
@@BudgetBin Yeah, precisely! I’ve seen some where they managed to find a PC for, like, $7 on eBay, and then they’ll build a $100 PC with it and claim you can do the same, when actually that level of PC normally sells for 4, 5 or 6x that price used. Luck in purchasing shouldn’t be involved in a budget PC build if that build is intended to be used as a guide for viewers with very little money. If your viewers get lucky with purchases when buying parts your guide recommends, that’s a different story and is great, of course.
I even saw a video once of a $100 budget build, where the advice, no joke, was “buy a $250 PC on eBay, sell parts out of it to make money back, so you’d better get a good one, then buy cheaper parts to put in so the overall cost is $100 _if_ you sell enough parts for enough money and buy cheap enough replacements.” Absolute nonsense.
So thank you for not being a douche, basically. 🤣
Uhm, if the budget is US$800, and the machine is US$800, then that would also be an actual budget video.
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu I think you’re ignoring the semantic distinction here, but sure. Yes, sticking to a set budget is making a build within budget. But you’re missing the point, perhaps intentionally, of my comment. Too many of these videos will give you a budget, in this case $100, and then will showcase a build that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible for most, to replicate, by utilizing free components nobody else would have access to. It’s disingenuous and defeats the purpose of the video. This video did not do that.
Yeah but you still need housing in order to plug and play, not everyone has a house they found in their closet!!
For those wondering, yes, Budget Bin hired me to appear in his video, flew me out for filming (7 days on set), and his craft services were 10/10 (they even splurged on the good Root Beer!)
@@TechDweeb I am $50,000 in debt please help
Subbed to both of you. Excellent crossover 😅
thats high class man
@@BudgetBinthe most expensive $100 build in the world.
@@BudgetBin Dang... it really was the good root beer.
Would love to see a continuation of this video, seeing how you would spend an extra $100 to upgrade it, say playing out that "upgrade it later down the line" scenario. Great video!
@@Lunghorn2 thanks! And I will definitely do a follow up!
Same here. I’m trying one computer on Linux as my daily drive and it’s turning into an sff file server lol should’ve bought an office refurb😊
The crazy thing is 10k subs for this channel??? Deserves like 100k
Always check old pc's for Bitcoin. Finding 50 Bitcoin in an unsecured wallet would be a game changer.
@@JamesSmith-sw3nk I think a single Bitcoin alone would be a game changer lol
@@BudgetBinone Bitcoin could get you like 30 of these XD
@@khristopherkomodoensis4734 more like 515 to be exact lol
@@khristopherkomodoensis4734 more like 500 of these
@@khristopherkomodoensis4734 True bro
You reminded me of the days when skyirm was the most demanding game. i remember i had my (at the time!) 10 years old cheap PC and i wouldn't even be able to pass the intro due to lags. i had to install various mods that make the game lower quality and after a few DAYS i was able to play it on 20-40fps. big shoutout to people making such mods. there always were a few for newer games. my specs were literally like 4x lower than "minimum" but thanks to the mods and guides i was still able to play it. i won't forget how happy and proud i was that the game is actually working lol
gosh i do NOT miss those times at all. i'm pretty sure skyrim wasn't even supporting my GPU to begin with (but there was a mod for that). i think even 10$ GPU would be a big upgrade for that terrible setup (but i was too scared to touch it).
@thatguy5233 I feel it I'm too scared to take apart my PC but it seems perfect for a small upgrade like what was shown here
@@RobG2001 definitely go for it. i only wish i done it sooner. just keep in mind it might take days of research if you're a total beginner like i was. something always went wrong but nothing google can't help with.
and if you're this tight on budget, i'd REALLY think about which part to buy. some are super cheap AND super good (i think a good idea is to aim for those who have bigger market shares, coz people usually just tryna get rid of them and don't even care if they could charge 2x as much, as they see so many other people selling same the same part)
😱Come on man, it's a miracle, I mean a gaming PC on a 100 dollar budget, it's wonderful
I really like seeing budget builds such as this. Last year i found an Optiplex 3020 with the i5 4590, 8gb ram, and a 1TB HDD for £10. I dropped in a £15 SSD from Amazon as a boot drive, and found a cheap GTX 960 for £30 from CEX. I've been using it as an emulation machine, and it runs everything i've tried perfectly. Even a fair few mordern-ish games run really well with half decent settings. Thanks for showing people that there is still life in the 'obsolete' machines.
Have you tried Switch emulation? I have the similar setup (i5 4570, GTX 1050), and it can handle most of Switch and some lighter PS3 Emulation.
@Neulaw yeah, Switch runs really well. Unfortunately PS3 performance is less than ideal with the i5 4590. Even after upgrading to the i7 4790 and a GTX 1070, PS3 was still hit and miss.
@jasonwoodhead9187 Yeah, I'm running an old 6700k, and the ps3 emulation is pretty tough on it for most titles and unplayable on some.
I just love the looks of older graphics cards. That $10 GPU is so nice to look at, with its exposed components.
When I was young, I used I think this exact optiplex PC as a budget build for my little brother. I wanted to play games with him and so I built him a Frankenstein monster. It was glorious. Many moons later and now in a career. I still build my little brother his gaming PC. But it's much less horrible now lol.
That drive looks like it could have been used as part of a digital forensics program. I got my bachelors in DF, in my undergrad we had tons of old optiplex towers loaded up with fake "Evidence" very similar to some of the pictures you had shown used for live/static examination labs.
I used to work as a remote service tech for online support. This was in like 2012 and a user called me up, they had an I5 in their computer but XP was installed. I questioned the lady as to why and she told me "Oh, it is my work computer and my company has software that requires us to use XP". That's probably why XP was installed and Windows 7 was removed.
Makes sense. Given what was on the hard drive (I didn't go through it too much, it clearly wasn't meant to be used outside of government use) it clearly had a specific purpose. For a long time XP was being used by most companies and government organizations, just so they could keep using the same software and what not. I feel like Windows 10 is also gonna be like that in some ways.
@@BudgetBinfun fact: the United States of America’s military still uses windows xp because they have some things that can’t run on anything newer. They pay Microsoft for security updates lol
@@DeckedSneeze709germany’s trains run on windows 3.1
@@kozekistudio lol that's hilarious
@@kozekistudio nah they used me before xp
I really like your conclusion, straying away from Skyrim and the e-sports titles. Over the years, I have accumulated quite the backlog on steam and I am surprised how well some older titles just run on lower-end systems. Wonderful video, thanks!
@@01RIE01 Thanks! I try to keep it fresh!
@@BudgetBin I would like to have seen a couple figures though, you show a lot of games that you call playable, but I was curious to what settings you used and what fps you got.
@@01RIE01 you indirectly told my plan though. 😅😅. Hey! We are alike !
Man, playing subnautica on an old dell brings back memories of my first pc
@@finnbianga4189 for me, it was BF3 on my first HP PC.
I did this with an Optiplex 990 back in... 2017? It was a little more expensive back then, but it served me well until Windows 7 support ended. I crammed in a GTX 960 (actually took some gymnastics inside the case), an improved power supply, and 16 GB of RAM and it could run anything I wanted to play.
I still have it. It's a great little machine.
This is almost identical to the pc i put together for my 11 year old son. It already came with 8gb ram and a 250gb ssd for about £50. I swapped the PSU for a 600w one i had in an old pc (the optiplex mini towers fit an ATX psu nicely - just add a 24 to 8 pin converter cable for a few quid). I also added 2 more 4gb sticks of ram and an old gtx 1060 ive owned since 2017 and had replaced last year
It runs all the game he likes really well - namely Fortnite, Roblox and Rocket league.
Thats a nice thing too do
I'm glad you mentioned the part where other "Budget" UA-camrs just show off Esport titles or old games like Skyrim. A Potato PC could run most of the esport titles or Skyrim if you crank the settings low enough, and myself and others no doubt dont want to play esport titles and want to buy or build a gaming pc to play games like Escape from Tarkov, Star Citizen, Arma 3 or Reforger, Hell Let Loose or Post Scriptum, or Elden Ring. You know, some games that are actually hardware intensive.
I have two of these systems great bang for the buck. Now i am on the hunt for a optiplex I7 8700 on a $250.00 budget. Thanks for the Video
Glad you like it!
A 9th gen i7 would be ideal because of the 6C/12T
@@ZirTech0 Nah thats the 8700K, the 9th gen is an 8 core 8 thread the I9 9th gen is a 8 core 16 thread
Snagged a 9th gen i5 optiplex for 160$ ebay. Do you want the extra cores? For my purposes it was fine
Discounting tax, I got that in about 10 minutes on eBay with a 4GB 470 thrown in. :)
Good Video. This sort of setup is what I started with in high school and now I work in IT, really good way to get your feet wet and learn some good pc fundamentals while not breaking the bank
@@Brand0n555 that's awesome to hear! I agree, you don't have to worry about breaking much, and you can use the experience to build a proper PC down the path once you get more comfortable with it. Thank you so much for the donation by the way! Hope your IT job is going well.
I have this PC at work, you just take the 12V from the 12V power to the motherboard and put it on a Y adapter, swap two pins around and then you have 8 pin power to your GPU. It's been very stable for me using an AMD 6600, I put a 4770K in it that I found and one of those Peerless Assassin coolers and bought a Dell Fan to 4 pin adapter. Then I just got an SSD I had laying around and cloned the drive to it because I'm too lazy to install stuff and whacked 16GB of ram that I swapped my 8GB in another work PC that no one will notice lol. The thing is a little gaming beast, I ran Half-Life Alyx from it during lunch using a first gen OR.
I just bought everything you mentioned in your setup and the total came out to $116.91. I have not worked in a PC ever but kinda know my way around one. Fingers crossed everything goes well!
Good luck in the build! I hope it goes well!
@@BudgetBin so i realized yesterday i bought the SFF of the 9020. i was looking into the AMD graphics card you included and was wondering if the stock PSU can handle it OR if the FirePro W5100 isn't compatible anyway. the regular tower version of the 9020 is about $100-200 on its own. I still think I can get away with using the SFF and a small amount of upgrades.
EDIT: I canceled my SFF order and bought the MT. Spent a little extra money but at this rate screw it! Jumping headfirst into the world of PC building,
@@BudgetBin would you know if there are better graphics cards than the FirePro? Any recommendations for some that won’t require a PSU upgrade?
@@fatshaggy8159 Well, there is one I am looking into right now but should deliver similar performance. The Quadro K2200 might be a good alternative.
@@BudgetBin You wouldn't happen to have the drivers for the Firepro would you? It has been driving me up the wall all night. Keep getting error 182. I've tried DDU, 3 different driver installers from AMD. Can't figure it out. The PC keeps defaulting to the Basic Display Adapter.
I recently got 18 used HP ProDesk 600 G2's for an absurdly cheap price. Your videos have been a huge help in upgrading them for cheap.
Subscribed for that sponsor joke. Absolutely gave me a genuine smile.
i thought the Optiplex looked familiar... until you opened it up and i realized that the old hand me down gaming computer I got from my brother (which is sitting RIGHT BEHIND ME) was an Optiplex all along - or at least used an Optiplex case. These things really *are* everywhere!
Great video mate. Done the same two years back with the same optiplex actually then slowly gathered money to upgrade it. Got a gtx 1660ti, 256gig sdd,2*8 gig ram. Total cost overall was 250dollars. Awesome gig can run through just about every modern game with 60fps and for the more demanding one i just use LOSSLESS SCALING from steam for frame gen (cant believe how underrated this gem is).
Lossless scaling? :o
Very impressive! Never mind that you were a shade over budget but how you hunted those deals down and cobbled everything together was very well played.
I love these old Optiplexs. I played GTA5 on an Optiplex 7010 with an HD7970 Ghz edition for YEARS! This is by far the PREMIERE way to force your way into the PC Master race. If you can game on one of these, you deserve to build yourself a custom gaming rig from the ground up.
One item I would love is someone to create a list of workstations that are NOT proprietary. Systems where they can take normal power supplies, you can swap out mother board, and/or swap out cases without issue. For example, I have an Asus 4th Gen i7 which I was able to swamp into a whole new case. Moved it into a really cool discarded aluminum case. Don't use it because I am using much better systems.
For ultra budget, I likely would try more for a $150 budget. Maybe i7 4 gen or later workstation, raise ram up to 16 Gb, get a GTX 960 or better a 970 (due both still being supported), and 480/512 SSD. A little more but likely give you a little more time to learn if you like PC gaming.
Its most likely possible to convert a proprietary motherboard to take an ATX PSU. Im assuming electronically, it should be the same, you would just have to figure out the pinouts and solder on standard ATX motherboard connectors, or you make adapters that convert it into standard ATX. If I ever come across a proprietary system, I'll try it out. Should be a fun project 🙂
the only thing as a trick i can think of is tinkering with overclocking and potentially using liquid metal.
overall really good video for people with lower budgets!
made my friend a $80 pc, he plays pretty much everything now. got a kit which contains the same i5 4570, 8gb ram and a cooler for $25, then bought a rx 570 for $45 and a 400w FSP psu for $10. case and ssd i had laying around, and he had a 500gb hdd. put all tougher and made a pretty nice pc. all prices together i think it would be around $110
Really solid build for under 100, and even at 100 or slightly over you can't complain.
Great vid! Love seeing budget builds like this. I've built a few (two to be exact 😅) budget office "gaming" pc's; one for $56.43 and another for $81.95! To be fair my builds involved dumpster diving and finding two almost complete pc's that were fully working. Some cheap upgrades and a deep clean and was able to get respectable little pc's with a more than adequate gpu for the price; a 1050ti 4gb in one and an rx 550 4gb in the other.
Also love all the lofi edits! Got yourself a new sub! Good stuff!
Love these budget finds. Always interesting to see the limit of low end machines. Would love to see you upgrade it using a similar budget restriction. I also would like to help with that art budget. keep the videos coming
11:07 had my finger hovering the right arrow key💀
If you really want to stay in budget then my go-to would be a Quadro K620 card. They are dirt cheap, $15, and they are surprisingly powerful given their age. I have been using one for a year and it can handle everything from daily tasks up to PSP and PS2 emu like a champ.
what a gem of a channel. quality is really good and u seem like a good genuine dude. i wish you only the best
Last year, I upgraded a dell from '09 that a friend gave me. I spent about $100. I only use it to play games from that era and earlier, and it's fantastic.
I bought two of these over the last few years! An i7 2600 and a i3 4600 (i think) - I put in SSDs and cheapo GFX cards and boom - both my kids first computers! The power supplies are usually pretty weak but if you have a pcie powered card then no problems at all. Great vid - many memories of doing it!
it warms my heart seeing builds like this. "old" hardware getting more life breathed into them giving more people the opportunity to game on a computer ♥
I haven’t watched the video yet but judging from the thumbnail I already know this is a great idea. An old company gave me dozens of their old Optiplexes just like that one and I’ve turned more than 3 of them into super affordable gaming rigs
Would love to see how a budget setup like this handles non-esport games, where they're not hyper-optimized or in some cases aren't optimized that well at all. I think something like STALKER Anomaly would be a good bench for that kinda test for less optimized games, since it's a free download.
Yeah, buddy!
I've been a PC gamer for going on 30-years now (hard to believe it's been that long); when I was in my teens and 20's, I always wanted the best hardware I could possibly afford, but now that I'm older? I do my best to sing the praises of budget PC gaming, because you can do so, so much with very little these days and your video really shows that off.
Play the latest indies on that $400 Wal-Mart computer! Go back and explore AAA PC gaming from 10 years ago! Emulate pretty much any system up to Gamecube or PS2 and explore those libraries! The world is your oyster with even a minimal investment. No reason to keep up with the Jones' and spend $5000 on your PC when you can have just as much fun for 10x less.
Maybe I'm just old...
It feels good to be back to a place where you can build a $100 computer and at least get a real mean office machine out of it that'll play Minecraft all day.
For new folks, be mindful of plans to upgrade these office PCs. They rarely get bios updates to support newer CPUs so even if socket/chipset theoretically supports a newer CPU it may not work. Also their PSUs may have limited headroom for GPU upgrades.
Old office towers are great value but do some research before envisioning an upgrade path.
I personally love this way of getting a working PC tbh, i have a old laptop rn and if i save up for around a year-ish i would be able to get a build like this! Great video
G'day BB,
I think you made a very good "My First Gaming PC" build, while not the Prettiest these DELL Optiplex ATX Towers are a great starting PC with room to grow.
Unlike the new DELL/HP ones with proprietry Motherbard & PSU these take standard M-ATX Motherboard with swapable I/O Shield & Standard ATX PSU making them very easy to install a more modern CPU & GPU when you save up later.
@@shaneeslick It's always great to hear from you! And yeah, newer units "can" be upgraded like you said, but they really do make it an impossible endeavor.
I can confirm that you can get these pc in any part of the earth. even on countries like venezuela you can find them. I'm not from that country (I'm from Panama), but I have friends from venezuela and many of them use this PC and put a SSD and a discrete GPU to be able to play
of course the ones there are kinda old and the price are higher than in the USA (yeah, here things are higher than on first world country and we gain a lot less... that's how unfortunatelly it is... and thats why most of us prefer to import from amazon, ebay or others shops from USA)
edit: a recommendation: you can try and install linux on it, from what I have seen from friends the performance is kinda the same compared to windows, but you consume much less resource in daily task compared to linux. I'm a linux user who uses an APU and I can confirm that. also, minecraft is one of those games that runs with more fps on linux than in windows
your videos are oddly entertaining and im never usually this entertained when watching youtube. you have some content creating talent, good luck and i hope you keep making videos.
Thunder Force IV Space Walk in the intro? Legend
Love the humor and ms paint art sprinkled in this, awesome content!
very underrated channel, your voice is very soothing compared to a lot of other creators which adds a lot more quality to the video than you might think
First time I actually watched sponsored content which is relevant to me. Thanks!
I bought me an HP Compaq Elite 8300 CMT with an i5-3470, 16 gigs of of DDR3 RAM and a GT1030 graphics card for just 200 dollars. It runs so many games with no issues. Even got Windows 11 running on it and it's not even slow. Advancement in x86 computers slowed down significantly enough that a machine this old is still very useful.
This is a great setup to test various Linux distros, nice
i love the vibe of the channel from this vid. thanks for the ole 90's theme
This video was a hidden gem! 😄
OMG THAT THUNDERFORCE 4 MUSIC!
I love that game so much. Check out the soundtrack on here, this is just the stage sele - WAIT IS THAT STREETS OF RAGE 2 music now? You have such great taste. Yuzo Koshiro of SOR1-4 and other games is making games and doing concerts!
Old Optiplexes ftw. Just picked up a 7050MT for $180 - I7 7700, 512GB nvme. I took 8GB ram from my old pc and the 1050ti, and it's a totally capable game machine.
Fr. I got a rx 470 gifted from a friend and im
planning to buy an optiplex or lenovo thinkcentre. Just need a power supply upgrade and it would be (technically) ready to play.
Actually was able to build my own system at the same price point but with a 7500t! Gonna be my media server and works great! Thanks for the tutorial :)
I make a decent bit of money doing this exact thing. I also use Noctua thermal compound... I also use CrystalDisk... I also have a wooden desk... I am ALSO ME DAMN YOU!
Good video my man, made me feel a bit at home lol
In my opinion i would rather save the money and buy a good computer, than buy a prebuilt which no longer supports the latest windows operating system and other technologies. But every person has a different situation going on, so it is still a valid approach.
Yeah these PCs are great for cheap builds. I got one from a friend of mine who was closing his business for $200 and bought a new mid range video card and power supply. Granted it came out to around $450 total but for a broke dude it was a pretty significant upgrade.
Nice video :D
I love watching these budget builds!
hey! i js saw ur feedback on my video and i clicked on ur channel only to notice that i've seen a couple of ur videos before. good stuff man this inspires me to give budget builds another chance
Hey man. I am glad you took my criticism seriously and hope you didn't take it harshly. I appreciate you checking me out, and go for it! It takes a lot of time and effort, but as long as you do as much research as possible and collect whatever data you can, double check what you've got; you can make some good budget video. Hope to see you grow!
I have a 7040mt 🎉with a 256gb nvme boot drive, 2tb ssd, 2tb storage hdd, a 1650 & 32gb ddr4. Even added a front intake fan. Sub $150.(only had to buy the pc, one 16gb ram stick and the 1650) Great office pc that can play most games on high settings. Smokes some friends "gaming" builds. Could also run a sata to 8 pin and run a 6600 if you wanted to really get down.
I would love to see a follow up to this video to see how you would upgrade it and see how much power you can squeeze out of the chasis in $50 incraments. Sort of like if a kid got allowance or birthday money for upgrades
@@TheInnerHalo72 at this point I will have to! I'll probably get to it after my next upload.
Intro was cool 💪🏾
these are still decent and you can get a xeon e3-1271 v3 which is basically an i7-4790 but without integrated graphics. Something like a GTX 1650 or RX 560 (4gb) can work really well in these.
My son is still on an optiplex 9020 with i7-4790, GTX 1070 (8gb), 500w EVGA power supply, and 16gb ram. It runs most title fine at 1080p.
Great video btw
1060 for the win.
When going this budget, you have to consider future upgrades. While the 9020 is 4th gen Intel, it has a funky power supply, and upgrading requires budgeting another $10 for an adapter cable. If you go with the 9010, it uses standard power supplies, but of course only has a 3rd gen Intel CPU. Either will likely require a CPU upgrade if you want a much better GPU.
I didn't realize these were still going for $50. If I could get that for them locally (doubt I can), I'd pull the stack of them out I was planning on scrapping. Putting them on Ebay means finding some BIG boxes and charging shipping, and would probably net me not much more than scrapping.
NOTE: While the vast majority of 9020s have an i3/5/7 installed, I ran into one with a Xeon. The drawback there is you MUST have a GPU to get ANY video output.
I remember when i built my first dell optiplex. I5 (no change) same heatsink, only bought a 50 dollar missing bracket rx 580 8gb and a 50 dollar power supply 700 w :)
Eventually did have to change the hhd to ssd and get more ram, and even took out the cage for more space. Good times man.
I got a Small Form Factor Optiplex 3020 with the same i5-4570 which I also plan on making some upgrades on it to gift it to my nephew, finding this video made me feel like I actually did a great purchase haha, I got it for 30 USD dollars on Facebook Marketplace, it came with just 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD, I plan on just throwing a GT 1030 and a 240 GB SSD for boot and still use the 500 GB for extra storage! I hope it goes all well
great vid i also built a budget gaming pc using a dell optiplex i think there one of the best for budget set up i still use mine today and its going strong it even holds up to some of my friends pc who and they spent hundreds on i done this just to see how it would turn out hope more people try this as it is a good way to recycle old pc and give them a new purpose . keep up the great vids bud
got to love the use of the SOR 2 music
Scrolled the comments looking specifically for this ☺️
I did pretty much this exact thing for my little sister a few years ago
Non-working RX480 bought for a little bit of money, re-pasted it, worked flawlessly
120gb ssd for os for real cheap
8GB ram for super duper cheap (it was ddr3)
And an i5 4440 for also cheap
I have no clue how much it was for in the end but definitely less than 200, this was about 5 years ago
i have a similar dell setup, but with a gtx1060 3gb. I had to source a new PSU, but it SHINES as a home theater/EMULATION pc. I can emulate gamecube era games perfectly, play indie steam titles with controllers, and run plex/kodi/whatever at the same time.
love this video, it makes me wanna look for bargain finds
Back in 2019 two office buildings I do work in tossed out a number of these Optiplex mini tower computers. Between the two buildings I got roughly 50 units (which just scratched the number of machines they tossed out) that I salvaged, replaced thermal paste, upgraded the drives to SSD, added Wifi PCIe cards (or WiFi USB dongles), and added video cards to. Each had i7 4770/4790 CPUs, 16GB (4x8GB) RAM, I installed 256GB/512GB 2.5" SSD and anything between a GTX 1060 6GB up to GTX 1070 Ti (grabbed a number of mining cards in bulk for cheap). A couple I upgraded the case cooling (120mm fan modded onto the front of the case), CPU cooling (Vetroo V5), PSU (Thermaltake 600 watt white) and went up to a GTX 1080. When the GPU/computer shortage came the following year, I wasn't able to keep up with the demand for these machines. Since then I've done a lot of salvaging of other machines from office buildings when they upgrade, earlier this year I got several Dell Optiplex SFF machines ranging from i7 7700 up to i5 10500. Amazing how much good stuff is just tossed out.
Excellent work! This was a fancy little budget build for what it is, and delightfully capable.
I would love to see how much you could improve this by doubling your budget (an extra $95 thrown at it), and then maybe in a later video seeing if spending $200 on a totally new-to-you system would be comparable (or even blow it out of the water :D )
A budget battle for those of us who love seeing what you can do with stuff people just don't want
@@joannaatkins822 Hmm revisiting with double the budget does sound like a good idea. I'll definitely start looking at parts!
The only problem with budget builds is you can hit the ceiling of what's possible pretty fast. In the past 4 years I've spent maybe 350-400 on my machine. Of course now I technically have 2 as I swapped out the old parts into a new (old) case.
Watching this on my ol 3020 sff, have had her for four years, put an extra stick of ram in her when I got her for a total of 12GB, then I bought a gt 1030, upgraded the ram again for 16gb, THEN finally two years ago I upgraded the cpu to an i7 4790. Its done me well. But I just bought a MT 3070 off ebay, comes with a 9th gen i5, I bought a 3050 to go in it, just waiting for them to come!
I have a couple of suggestions for the extreme budget shoppers. Servers is where the action is right now. I am getting a hp z240 from ebay for $119. I7 6700, 32gb ddr4, 512 ssd, firepro 5100. I could have got a barebones for 85 but the math didn't work out. And with your build I would suggest a quadro k2200 4gb. They go for 30-35 but occasionally for 25. As always most extreme is getting a donation or dumpster dive pc.
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I think the best value you can get on a pc is buying an older gaming pc like maybe 7 to 10 years old that was top of the line back then . People sell custom built gaming pcs usually for the price of the graphics card on listing sites like facebook market , craigslist, kijiji etc . I usually end up paying like $150 for $300+ pc's. *edit* I see that infos already in the video xD
I have 2 Dell's I saved from e-cycle 5+ years back, ive been looking for a GPU without needing to buy a new case or power supply and was about to give up given the current costs and the state of PC and other electrics stores in my area. I just picked up that card on ebay. I have a gaming laptop and desktop..that I don't want my kids on and since I have this Dell machine that still runs great with 32 gigs of ram and an SSD..looks like I will push this machine for a few years more.
The dell optiplex is the perfect beginner pc build. I just built my first pc.
Dell optiplex 7020 was my first venture into the pc world a few years back. Got it for like $70 from a school dumping old inventory. iirc came with whatever i7 was default, 8gb ram, default dell mouse + keyboard. Also came with da $10 gpu and you bet i made full use out of that thing lol. chucked an old hdd in there and was chillin (eventually put like a $50 ssd, which i migrated to my new pc recently built).
Its sitting in storage somewhere, should prolly dig it out and flip it while its still got some life in it
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You can also get an aftermarket South Bridge Heatsink for the naked south bridge chip at the bottom right of the board. Put some thermal paste on it, then place it on. It will help mitigate all the new pcie accessories you install.
Love the video, and the key with this setup is that it can be replicated right now, right this minute anywhere in the US.
If a person is patient more is possible. For me the 4th gen are just too old and obsolete, and tend to sell for as much as much newer systems. In my area for about that price Optiplex 3060-3080 systems pop up at that price point on Marketplace. I just picked up an Optiplex 3060 with i5 8500, 8GB RAM and 250GB SSD. Mine is a SFF instead of a minitower, so requires a low profile GPU, for me at this price point, an RX 550 4GB can be bought for $25-40 if you are patient, which will keep you at $100, and may even give you enough budget to add another 8GB of RAM.
My build with these specs was targeted at being able to play all of the Fallout games, as New Vegas and Fallout 3 can be unstable on Windows 10. It plays those games very well, and will play most newer games fairly well too. For a tiny bit more you can probably sneak an Nvidia GTX 1650 into the budget, and for as little you can find 1050ti cards regularly, once again with a bit of patience.
It isn't common, but also isn't rare for me to find the prebuilt office PCs on Marketplace with much newer and better specs for the same price, I have bought i5 and i7 10th gen systems with up to 32Gb of DDR4 for well under $100. No, you can't expect to see that the first time you open facebook, but if you keep on eye on it, you will see them, when you do don't waste time and don't get greedy, send an offer for what they are asking for, and let them know you can pick it up today, don't try and chisel another $10 off an already great deal, because I won't, and you don't know who else is looking to buy it, or if that person may already know they are selling at a giveaway price and has it priced that way to avoid haggling and tire kickers.
Ah the good ol upgraded Optiplex. I upgraded a Optiplex 780 with a Q9400, 8Gbs ram, and a gt 1030. It has to run linux nowadays but it is still completely usable!
Also that mouse space on you desk makes me feel claustrophobic...
Maybe if I ever do good enough one day, I can have an office just for making videos that way you don't have to see my hand jammed between a keyboard and Desktop PC lol
my budget pc idea : i5 2310 -2 $
gtx 970 with one broken fan 20 $
128 gb ssd used 48% - 3$
1 tb hdd used -5$
old ass corsair case - free from a dumbster lol
chiftec arena 500w psu - 10$
24 gb ram miss matched 1866 mhz~15 $
asus z77 mobo bought with bent pin for 1$
intel stock cooler - somehow came with 2$ cpu
the mobo is also mising the heatsincs but it is fine for the i5
i tried bclk overclock but with no luck heh
@@unicorn2299I like that budget PC!
You might be able to find an old office Optiplex with a newer i5.
@@tytanium654 ig he meant sarcasticaly?
i think i have the best budget pc.
step 1: ???
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step 3: her ex boyfriend left his gaming pc at her apartment
step 4: marry girl
step 5: free pc
After that ad, I'll buy it.
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What a great video mate, cheers from Australia
Don't omit shipping costs man, there part of the budget.
@@tek_lynx4225 All of it was free shipping! I didn't pay a single penny on that! I also included taxes in the total.
@@BudgetBinI knew that I recognized that seller!
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This the exact PC I was given from a lab at uni, and it's good for basic 3D gaming.
Great video, would love to see you upgrade it to its max potential down the road.
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