Last year, I scored a "for parts or not working" GTX 1080 for $35. I got it to work...mostly. It would only work in pci x8 mode not x16. Also scored a Ryzen 5 2600 "for parts or not working" for $50. Turns out it just had a few bent pins. Once I carefully fixed that, the cpu worked great. In fact, it's in the computer that I am using to type this comment.
Around a year ago I was browsing through Ebay and saw a listing for a HP Z620 with a E5 2690, 64 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD but with no GPU. They were looking for £200, I put it on my watch list. They emailed me to offer I for £100 so I took it and when I received it to my surprise it had 2 x E5 2690. I could sell the 2nd CPU and riser board and almost get the asking price back! Definitely some bargains to be had if you know what to look for 😊
What a deal! 15 pounds for this is great. It’s amazing what deals you can score from people who just don’t really know the value of things. I picked up a 5800X3D for $90 USD because the seller just thought all 5000 series “were more or less the same.” I wasn’t about to correct him.
@@RandomGaminginHDindeed. It sits in my friend’s system in which I was building the system for. Was originally thinking of a 3600, 5500, maybe a 4600, but nope! They’re now more “futureproof” than I am 😅
Dvd drives are often unplugged in commercial environments to stop people installing stuff on them. The proper way would be to lock down the PC with group policies but it's much simpler just to unplug the drive 😊
That isn't the only reason. The cost of running 100 DVD drives in an office ads up, even at idle. Especially when they're hardly ever needed. Also the PSU's in these prebuilt PC's are often under-spec'd, so if you unplug stuff they last longer.
I found a couple of years a pc with an i7 4790 with a gtx745 and 8 gig ram 1tb hdd. When i press the power button Windows was on bootloop. A GTX 970,one more 8gig module, SSD and a fresh install of Windows and gifted that computer to my cousin with. 3 years later still using them. And is very Happy with them.
Love these videos man. I really dig all these bargains you get. There's something charming about low end hardware and making the most out of it. I'm at the point where the latest GPU tech just isn't exciting to me and revisiting these older machines makes me appreciate how far we've come for PC gaming and emulation.
To use that board in a different case, you had to do some hackery for the front fans and such otherwise the BIOS complains at you every time you turn it on, and have to press F1
@@RandomGaminginHDyes, this seller had no idea what he was selling and “that cpu speed was awfully specific”…soooo the seller won’t seem like they don’t know absolutely nothing when they made the listing and didn’t know what to say about the computer.
Ebay deals are my favorite thing to find lately lol. I just recently got a i5 9600k for less than $50 and it appears to be in almost mint condition too! Im thinking of trying out the coffeetime bios mod on a Asrock z170 extreme7+ motherboard (also in mint working order) i scored for $15 from my local E-waste center, and pairing the two together. After some research, it appears very easy. Would actually make for a great video idea if you ask me! Also earlier this week, I scored a xeon e5-2687w v4 for just under $40. So I'm stoked to try it out on my x99 test bench later today!
@@andypandy4607 no i never buy listings saying "for parts". I just have patience and spend more time than i should checking through the listings till I find a deal i like. I also will make offers on items that have that option. Alot of times people will accept your offer as long as you dont low ball them to hard. My other preferred method is to hit up my local E-waste recycling center. Plenty of sweet finds there.
Few years ago I was running a i5 2500 with a gtx 950 and it ran everything I threw at it for the time. Probably the most intense games I played on it was GTA5 and Fallout 76. For an older CPU they can still perform decent. You can't beat $15 for what you got though.
That 2600 allowed my HD 6870 to run so well, the card died from finally actually being fully utilized after ten years…. I’m hoping for a GTX 960 4GB to have an ultimate XP machine.
I know the GPU I’m about to mention is a severe mismatch for the i7-2600, but the RTX 4060 LP might work well in this given it’s by far the fastest option available in that form factor, shouldn’t be too bandwidth bottlenecked compared to say, the RX 6400 or 6500 XT (8 lanes vs. 4) and should be able to accommodate the power requirements of the GPU.
Just make sure to disable to spectre and meltdown and cut down the nvidia driver since it’s full of bloat and will hog up cpu that will give that old i7 a huge boost in some games it’s literally a 80% increase like battlefield 5 for an example since they added new microcode to old cpus vs not doing those optimizations you can also cut down windows installation bloat to maximize your performance also as long as your not using an old hp you can add rebar to the bios and squeeze another 10-15% framerate
I'm using an i7 3770 with a 1660 super, and in most games it's the CPU that's holding back frames. A 4070 would be a MASSIVE overkill for that CPU. We should've gotten a cheap 3050 LP ideally
I actually played through cyberpunk when it first came out on the xeon equivalent of this i7, paired with a gtx 980, just like the combo you tested in the video. Surprisingly solid combo! I remember averaging around 45 fps, but got plenty of fps drops. I think I used a mix of medium and low settings, but was able to keep full screen res on my 1920x1200 monitor
@@Shmackin710 it definitely has been optimized more, although I don't think Maxwell GPUs see much of the benefits. The fps in this video looked very similar to mine, but it's been a long time since I used that combo so Im sure there's been some improvement
I play Cyberpunk on my PC with i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and GTX1060 6GB running Windows 7 and it's definitely playable. Wasn't playable with my previous GPU - RX460 4GB.
My old gaming pc had an i7 2600! It still lives on with a 980ti and 500GB SSD, I donated it to our student's room at uni where it serves double duty as a gaming machine and print server!
I am thinking about doing this myself. I just recently helped a friend of mine out upgrade his PC. I bought a new Saphire 7900xt Pulse card so I gave him my older RTX 3060 and a bunch of random parts like an AIO, an older mobo, and an i7 6600. He's now able to play modern games and he adores it. It made me feel good to be able to do that.
Watching you testing those old machines and everything else on your channel in my pretty old AMD A10-7700k with a good old 1366x768 monitor is such a mood.
The biggest surprise system I got (which I currently turn into my next gaming PC) was a free X99 System with a 5930X for free, it was only ever used for browsing/excel. The biggest surprise I ever got as a Disc was/is a Windows 7 Ultimate OEM Disc from a business that shut down and Microsoft never deactivated their licensing thingy. Edit: 5830K
That was a nice system that you got, in the end! With the i7, 8GB DDR3 and a suitable HDD or SSD (HDDs are pretty cheap now and 240GB SSDs aren't much more either), someone will have a good time using this as an everyday machine for their day to day tasks. It was also good to see what that i7 was capable of when paired with a GTX 980 (I wouldn't go much more powerful than this, GPU wise) - though we all knew that Starfield wasn't going to run due to (a) it being an unoptimized mess, and (b) you were using a HDD on an "SSD required" game. Still, very poorly optimized title.
I suppose. But with the 2nd gen graphics never officially supported on Windows 10 you can run into strange issues here and there while using it with onboard graphics. I always recommend going for 3rd gen at the earliest if you are going to be using onboard graphics. Not only that bit more stable at times, but as bad as all the graphics are on these cpus the 4000 is a decent amount better for old games and some indie gaming.
@@wyterabitt2149 I'm pretty sure I've had 2nd gen Intel CPUs, as well as 1st gen Intel CPUs, running Windows 10 with nothing but their integrated graphics with no issues whatsoever. Having said that, for this Dell I would go with the 16GB RAM with the i7 (pretty sure 16GB is the maximum supported), a decent SSD/HDD, the optical drive, and as far as graphics, something like a low profile 1050 or 1050Ti would probably be OK. Something that doesn't require external power, of course.
@@TheSpotify95 You can run it, but it's technically not supported and never actually got a proper driver release at all. Intel had some kind of contract that required them to produce a driver for 2nd gen that worked for Windows 10 on release and nothing more. But they also officially did not support Windows 10 for 2nd gen processors. To get around it, all they did was package up a stable older Windows 8 driver when and label it Windows 10. They then clearly marked 2nd gen as not compatible with Windows 10, and made it clear it would never get an update. That Windows 8 driver, that was older at the time Windows 10 was released, is still the only available driver. It does not run that well, and can cause issues at times. It could also work "perfectly" for you, although will still be lower performance than a proper updated driver release would have been. Given the background, if you are going to be using the integrated graphics just go for 3rd gen minimum. Much more performance, and little chance of any issues.
I have an Optiplex 390 board I got for under $15 with the I/O shield in 2017, the thing I hate about Dell is that they used a standard form factor motherboard, but then they don't doccument the power connector pinouts anywhere and then they short a bunch of pins out in the header so that it knows the power button and front panel cable are plugged in, so I was able to find enough about the pinout to hook up a power button but since I don't know which stupid pins are all shunted together it gives me a stupid error about front panel connector failure and power button cable failure at boot, the whole idea of that is just so stupid, it doesn't provide any useful diagnostics information it just adds unecessary points of failure, you'll know if the power button cable has malfunctioned if you can't turn the machine on you don't need to add unecessary wires that won't even do anything if you can't turn it on in the first place. I only bought it because it was the cheapest 1155 board you could get at the time and being an OEM board it means you can easily install Windows 7 with a Dell OEM disk get a valid SLIC license then upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
I got a similar deal on a dell optiplex, £25 for an optiplex 3020 with 8gbs of ram a 240gb ssd and an i5 4590, i cannot lie it was a massive bargain, especially since i wanted a different machine other than my laptop to run my minecraft server. It also came with some office peripherals and an actually decent 1080p monitor that i ended up giving to my friend. I almost forgot that it also is the sff version so it is very small and quiet.
Last week I scored a 6900xt graphics card in a (non working pc) for $115. Something happened to the ryzen cpu and was removed. But the rest of the pc looked great. I don’t think I can top that. Best deal ever!!
A working PC with an i7-2600 for £15 is amazing value. When I saw the title I was half expecting the hardware in this PC to be old and obsolete. An i7-2600 is still perfectly usable with Windows 10 or a modern Linux distribution.
GT 1030 G5 work great in these systems. I have 3 old Optiplex SFF all with GT 1030 G5 LP in them. That GPU is stronger than the mid range full size gaming GPUs of the Sandy Bridge era so it brings them up to contemporary gaming PC specs. Even newer games like Diablo 4 and New World will run on this config. Basically anything Steam Deck compatible will run. A Steam Deck is pretty much on par with an older i7 with a GT 1030 G5 in performance, and a lot of developers are still targeting this performance tier for their minimum spec.
@@smilingpolitely12345 yep, it simply makes no sense. I got an intel core-i5 Gen 3 dell like this matched with a AMD R7250, which is slightly weaker then a gt 1030 and runs hotter ingame, but got it fpr 20€ a year ago. Good for casual gaming, TF2 an stuff. Its a nice system that has low idle wattage.
I also managed to pick up so crazy nice deals !! - Ryzen 5 2600 looking brand new with all its things inside the box and all for 35€ (~37 USD) - Brand new Ryzen 5 5600X (literally, it was never opened) for 120€ (~126 USD) - Last but not least, best value of all, a Rog Strix RTX 2060 6Gb with its box and everything inside (+ a useless AMD Rewards Starfield code that I can’t claim since I don’t own the required CPU/GPU for that AMD Rewards code) for only 100€ !!!!! (~105 USD)
Something fun about these cheap systems. I upgraded a Dell all in one from an I3 to an unsupported I7 and other than being power limited, it ran fine. I hope someone like you finds it someday and is surprised just the same
Yo i got a minisforum b550 elite with a ryzen 7 5700g, 32gb ram and a 500gb m.2 ssd for $65, sold it for $500! That was for sure my best profit on a used deal. Love seeing people get more than their moneys worth from some lucky deals
A while ago I bought optiplex 7050 and paired it with low profile 1050ti and was gob smacked how good it performed in games. The little systems are very capable when paired with gpus.
@@SlowDelSol Yes, all of my machines got SSDs for years now, I bought a 2017 iMac 4K (but originally bought in 2020) in January with i5-7400, 8 Gigs of RAM and 1TB HDD only (no Fusion Drive) and although the latest macOS Ventura ran better than expected (still booting faster than Windows 10 on HDD) it was rather clumsy, like a bucket of bolts. Luckily I could easily clone the OS installation onto an external SSD (2.5" MX500 in USB enclosure) with Clonezilla and it works absolutely fine from that external SSD (in the future I'm going to open it up and place the SSD internally, also the CPU gets replaced with a i7-7700 and the RAM maxed out to 32 Gigs). And a friend of my grandparents had a antique Windows XP machine in 2018, also antique Fritz!Box modem, to her defense she almost only used it to write some bills; she then got a new Acer Aspire ES1 and I had to set it up, it wasn't too bad with i3-6006U, 8 Gigs of RAM (maybe just 4 but at least already DDR4) and the 15.6" screen had 1080p resolution, but instead of a 240/250 GB SSD that morons at acer threw in a 1 TB HDD (and back in 2017-2018 a 250G SSD already roughly cost the same) a and that thing almost enraged me, Windows 10 ran like crap, the drive was constantly at a 100% load, I then got a SSD, external enclosure for 2.5" and another stick of RAM because it had a second unpopulated slot, it was basically for free but she paid me some money anyway for that.
The cherry on top of this process is you keep perfectly usable hardware out of the landfill. Not a bad deal all around. I still use one of those very Optiplexes (with an i5, 3 gb gtx 1050 lp and 2x4gb) as my desktop, only problem is windows 7 is out of support so it is off the internet.... useful for running old software though, and it could work decently if updated. Sometimes I wish I had the space to refurbish systems for resale like you do, it seems like a rewarding hobby and you get to tinker. Cheers.
It's amazing what deals can be had when people don't know the value of what they have. I picked up a Ryzen 3600, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 and an MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max last year for £100 on marketplace. I also got a FREE Coolermaster Cosmos case (yeah, the huge beastly case) and inside was a Z87 motherboard, 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 and an i7 4770. The owner upgraded and just wanted rid of the old system (only thing he kept was the PSU).
At my workplace there is a warehouse with a lot of older pcs. I asked my boss if i could bring home some and to my suprise i found 2 systems rocking an i7 4790 and 16GB ram. Unfortunately no graphics card on both, but not bad since i got them for free
What's fun with Dell is on their website, under support put in the service tag number and find out what the machine originally shipped with. In this case it was "J5F7M : Module,Processor,SNB,G630,2.7, 2C,Q0,L" which looks like a Pentium G630. So at some point someone explicitly put the i7-2600 into this machine... only for it to end up like this. The stories old machines could tell =p
I just bought a shuttle PC, an older Lenovo laptop, a MS Surface with a clearly exploded battery, a gigantic Dell 42-inch MONITOR, a Viewsonic 22-inch monitor and a 2008 iMac for $50 (USD) at a yard sale. The Shuttle PC had a Core2 Quad, which was funny to me because I remember pining over the C2Q's when I was in college, but couldn't afford one at the time. It's all very old hardware, but it's also all fun to tinker with. I'm planning on using the old shuttle case and PSU to build an emulation machine using an mATX mobo and a Ryzen CPU and GTX 1060 6GB and put it inside a modded Arcade1Up X-Men Vs Street Fighter Arcade I have.
Best purchase I ever made at a garage sale a few years ago was an almost maxed-out Mac Pro (2012).. dual Xeon X5650, 12 Gigs of RAM and a GTX760. "Can't test it, no hard drive or boot media".. took it off them for 50 Euros with a "maybe I can repurpose the case for something..", thinking I'd have found just another PowerMac G5 box.. and it turned out to be that Intel gem. Still using it today occasionally.
I started this video and it somehow skipped 5 seconds ahead. Absolutely unacceptable. I am NOT going to miss my "hello everyone and welcome" welcome. I rewound and found satisfaction.
My roommate acquired a discarded i7 computer. Never did anything with it. Was an Asus with a full sized case instead of one of those slimline cases. Turned out to be an i7 2600. Replaced the hard drive with an SSD, moved it into a recycled all aluminum case, and added a GTX 980. A little old but still not a bad performer.
I only upgraded from my 2500K overclocked to 5.1GHZ a few years ago. Those CPU's were so damn good, I ended up giving it to my sister and it is still in daily usage as an office machine today.
The 390 was a super solid system! I had the SFF version for quite some time as a server box, and some more as a media PC with a low-profile GPU. It's still running at a friend's house as a firewall now, still indestructible and trouble-free. Also, my best DVD- drive find would be a copy of Oblivion. Only disc II, that is.
I once got 4 or so OfficeSystems like that, 2 were working (with 3xxx / 2xxx i5's in them) and one was not, it just did not boot, but under the cooler hid an i7-7700 and man was that a good find! Must've thrown it out because it wasn't working anymore but here the mainboard was broken, CPU runns just fine still.
My friend was throwing away their Q6600 pre built because the HDD had stopped working. I volunteered to fix it and they let me keep the machine in the end. Now it's my go to retro XP machine.
Well, 1866 MHz RAM had no effect, because it's H61 board (as indicated in white border between RAM slots and CPU socket), 2600 could do a little better in a Z board but it was limited to 1333 MHz RAM speed, which matters in recent games. It's nice, however, that the board here is standard dimensions and uses regular ATX power connectors - it means the PC can house an AM4 board with something like 5600G easily :)
Sandy Bridge! I've got the very top of the line dual processor xeon version of this. I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think it's 16 cores (across 2 processors) 3.3 ghz boost and a 3060.
one thing ive noticed about FSR in Starfield is that it seemingly hits the machine harder than just running native. when i switched over to CAS upscaling, it ran much better and provided a much smoother experience. Now im running a ryzen 9 3900x with 32GB of RAM and a 3070 trying it at 4k60 and was able to get it at high with 75 percent resolution scale. Some dips but more than playable.
I was given a couple of nearly identical Dell Vostro SFF machines a few years ago. This is really all you need for basic internet use and modest gaming. Runs even better if you put Linux Mint on it (but not with Cinnamon desktop!) and don't plan to use it for any kind of power-hungry applications. It's also perfect for any kind of business machine for a SOHO worker.
The CD/DVD drive check is always an exciting one. My first surprise CD was a copy of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 for the PS2 and the second was a VHS/DVD Combo player with a jammed DVD drive that I picked up for $5. After unjamming the drive I found an adult movie.
Honestly, the 2600 isn't even that bad, especially for 15 quid. I'm still running a 3770 i7 for the last 10 or maybe 11 years at this point, and it's holding up nicely. I don't play a lot of the newer titles because they're not really of interest to me, but the games that I do play, it still holds up well. Only recently it's starting to show its age and I'm due for an upgrade anyways within the next year or so. Great video!
My main PC has an i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a GTX1060 6GB. Runs everything I want with no issues. Only issue I've had is software dropping support for Windows 7 and me refusing to use a newer Windows on this particular PC (I have a PC and laptop with Windows 11, don't have anything with Windows 10 anymore).
A lot of Dell power supply connections are proprietary, so you need to be careful with trying to use Dell motherboards in other cases, also Dell commonly uses extremely fine-pitched connection headers for things like power switches and audio connections. There are adapters and like available, but they drive the cost up and in some cases, make it not worthwhile.
this generation isnt. i did it the other way around and put a gen 4 haswell asus board in the dell case, since i like slim pc`s, for allround pc´s. it runs them no problem. only the power button and led connectors are proprietary.
I'm so not telling you about the factory I work at. The previous IT manager had a habit of "not working, toss it, get a new one." It was fun getting permission to go through the bins where the tech got tossed. The last couple of years I've gotten laptops (mostly 3rd gen i5s), Optiplexes (3rd and 4th gen), Elitedesks (1st gen Ryzen), mac book pro (i7-4770HQ), one 8th gen i7 laptop, 3 6th gen i7 thinkcentres (M910q mini), an HP Proliant, an 8 bay 4u storage server (whose guts have been swapped a few times) and a lenovo r5-4500u laptop. Unfortunately as of July I moved from factory worker to IT and that manager was let go. So now it has to be really broke to get tossed and my collection isn't building anymore. I hate e-waste and would fix and replace what I could, this got me in the notice of the IT people.
I was rocking an i7-2600 and GTX 1070 up until a few years ago. RDR 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 finally exposed the age of the system but it still ran fine @ 1080p.
Got free what I thought was an i5 2500. Ended up being an i7 2600. Just like this video. I wasn't as shocked as the sticker said i7. It was the guy that gave it to me that said it was an i5. Had a 240GB Mushkin SSD and 12GB DDR3 1333. Plus an Nvidia NVS 290 as well. It is in a HP SFF case.
damn i would be happy too if i got that processor since its still capable of playing games and still considered as budget gaming for 1080p , anyway , good content as always steve !
Years ago I bought an unspecified Dell Precision T3500 and when it turned up it came with maxed out 24GB RAM, 2 x 1TB SATA drives and a X5650 processor. I bought the machine for just £20. At the time the CPU alone was selling for about £80+
My rig is i7-2600 oc to 3.8mhz. 1650GTX. 16GB RAM. Runs modern games well. I got my i7 for free, swapped my i3 with it. 2011 pc still going strong today.
A good upgrade for these would be a lower capacity sata SSD with dram cache for the OS and keep the HDD for storage. 128/256gb SSD are pretty easy to find for around $25. Just make sure its NOT dramless. You need dram for sata SSDs.
If you plan on doing more of these, which would be cool, it would be nice to see a price per part breakdown segment against recently sold on eBay or whatever. To get an idea of what you could get doing this for profit over content.
I just recently got a Macbook Pro off of marketplace, guy said he didn't know the specs or year and the apple store told him they couldn't fix it, got it for $230, took it home and found out the display cable had disconnected from the board, reconnected it, it turned on and its the current model 13 inch that costs around $1300 new.
I still rock an i7 2600K @ 4.8 Ghz along with 32GB of 2133 Mhz RAM and AMD RX 6750 XT. It still works perfectly for all the platformer games i play and my usual work. This tiny chip, especially the unlocked version is one hell of a trooper !
Just picked up a system with 8700K overclocked to 5ghz, Asus Strix Z370-F, GTX 1070 Ti, H500P case, 16gb 3000mhz mem, EVGA 650GQ psu, Liquid Cooled for £225! No drives but I had loads inc M.2s which are now installed. The guy I bought it off paid just under £1800 five years ago as a prebuilt and if I was to sell the parts I'd get £600, but bought it to use rather than sell.
I bought last year or early this year a HP Compaq 8300 USDT or ultra small desk top and its been a little trooper. I did have a riser out its back running a 750ti but decoupled that as it was tedious powering up, its got i5 with integrated grafx, 8 gigs of ddr3, I did have a SSD in there but again it didn't help that much so put in an old 1tb slowpoke HDD which it loves. I use it as a second microscope carrier via a usb scope, it also has all my watch repair docs, its networked wirelessly into my main PC so I can easily send over video files and I also put on several emulators just for funsies. Paid £20 incl delivery and a charge box, nauses though is its only displayport or vga but handy my 24 inch monitor it uses actually has a VGA port on it.
Using an old optiplex as my home server. Cheap, has good x86 performance and low power consumption. Really a good choice when a Pi does not cut it and you dont want to splunge out like 3-5 times the price for a NUC.
Just bought two B550 motherboards on "ebay" which the seller described as "sometimes restarting". Both where stuck in a boot loop, constantly rebooting. After a few hours fiddling I got both to boot into windows. One being actually stable - the other still crashing but less and less for every hour it was on. My guess is moisture damage. Paid 100 bucks for both and got at least one working mobo out of it - so not that bad of a deal.
I got an Optiplex 790 case (similar but more front ports) for free and put a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 6400. The worst part was modifying the power button and ripping out the front USB 2 ports for USB 3, but I made it work. I’m thinking about doing a Ryzen 5600g, RTX 4060LP, and a 500 watt PSU in that case next.
I deal with these computers all the time at work! I had a optiplex 790, and stole it's power supply to put into an optiplex 7010 with a bad PSU because it has TPM and Secure boot and can run windows 11! So, for what you paid, it's worth it for the power supply alone ;)
Last week i got a Pentium iii 350Mhz, 512MB ram, a geforce 2 mmx and a working Motherboard Fic VB-601-V plus a nice tetro case for 20€ on an online marketplace. He said it was his gaming pc and it has a pentium 4 with 2ghz and the Motherboard is a asus. I knew it better but said nothing. Now im here happy with this little retro pc thats worth around 100-120+€
What do you think about scoring an MSI Z370-A PRO Motherboard, i7 8700k, ASUS GTX 1060 6GB Turbo, 16GB DDR4 RAM at 3000MHz, Corsair H100i 240mm AIO cooler, and a Kediers C570 open air case with 7 RGB fans for $300?
There are many deals to be had. I once got a 1050ti/16g/ i7 6700 sff gaming pc for about 50$ since the seller sold it as “not working”. The pc booted on the pictures but the little - was displayed indicating there was no boot drive. You can imagine i just plugged one it and it works as new. Also one of my best %ile scores was getting a 4x16gb ddr4 2666 kit for 15$ as the listing title stated “computer memory” 😅
I got an Asrock Z590 Pro4 with an i5-11400f for super cheap. It came mounted with a BeQuiet! cpu cooler and seller was selling so cheap because the RAM would not run in dual channel mode, just single channel. I couldn’t get it to run in dual channel either, despite using different branded RAM, but I can’t complain considering the deal.
cool little pc, mate and great bargain. Enjoing your content very much! Surprised of your RAM choice on this one though cause this OEM systems often were limited to 1333mhz in those days with intel 2 gen. Did you get the memory working at 1866mhz? Greetings from Austria 👋
Yeah, the i7 2600 officially supports only up to 1333mhz as you can read on intel´s page and the OEM PCs are limited to that usually. I just was keen to see if random was able bypass that 🤫😜@@deadpain2483
@@deadpain2483looks like he just took out the CPU and use it in another Motherboard that supports higher end DDR3 RAM, that's why he's able to use GTX 980. Otherwise it's straight impossible to do inside that same board and case and PSU
feels like yesterday I bought my 2500k and gtx570 to play just cause 2, skyrim, assassin's creed 2. I'm 41 and my first pc was an 386 with 33mhz. But sandy bridge is in my ❤
I used to stop by a small local thrift store once in a while to ask if they had any computers in storage that I could buy from them. They wouldn't put the computers out in the shop area because people would steal components from them. One time I bought a working one from them for five or ten dollars. It had Windows 7 on it and all the previous user's data was still there. I used an old backdoor trick to get into it and started snooping around to see what I could find. It felt creepy just looking through it... like I was trespassing somewhere I really didn't belong. There was all sorts of stuff in there, including an entire diary / journal thing they kept in Microsoft Word, a ton of great music, lots of family photos, etc. Plan was to snoop for a while and then delete everything... then I found a picture of my aunt. Turned out the machine belonged to an old friend and coworker of hers. Small world. Take this as a lesson, kids... if you don't want some freakshow like myself rummaging through your old college desktop someday, at least factory reset your stuff. I still jam out to the mp3s sometimes.
@@quan-uo5ws I actually did. Although it seemed to have been left behind in a "hidden" folder by a friend of the main user. Along with several iterations of his work resume and some scanned-in job applications. Nothing incriminating, but it did give me a good laugh. The PC was cleaned (thoroughly) and I believe it now runs Batocera Linux. Haven't booted it in a while.
This is the exact computer I’ve had since 2016 and it’s served me well no issues but I sure am looking to get something that can take bigger gpus and have a swappable psu If someone needs a computer for the general home uses, used business computers is your best bet
A few years ago I went dumpster diving and i found an old yellow desktop, thinking it had a celeron, i almost left it there. I took it home and opened it up and found a MMX Pentium 2 @266mhz. Best find of my life
You got really lucky with that find, most PCs i find on facebook (In Illinois specifically) they are at least $50 and are not working/have no hard drive
Last year, I scored a "for parts or not working" GTX 1080 for $35. I got it to work...mostly. It would only work in pci x8 mode not x16. Also scored a Ryzen 5 2600 "for parts or not working" for $50. Turns out it just had a few bent pins. Once I carefully fixed that, the cpu worked great. In fact, it's in the computer that I am using to type this comment.
Nice! That card shouldn’t be too different in x8 mode
That has to be the best deal in the history of pcs. Period.
No different with pcie 3.0 x8 vs x16 with that card. Very nice deal!
Cool to know that you solved it and wrote that on the specific computer too
Score!
Around a year ago I was browsing through Ebay and saw a listing for a HP Z620 with a E5 2690, 64 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD but with no GPU. They were looking for £200, I put it on my watch list. They emailed me to offer I for £100 so I took it and when I received it to my surprise it had 2 x E5 2690. I could sell the 2nd CPU and riser board and almost get the asking price back!
Definitely some bargains to be had if you know what to look for
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Nice. Adding stuff to your watch list is definitely a good idea as well. I’ve had some crazy offers from sellers!
What a deal! 15 pounds for this is great. It’s amazing what deals you can score from people who just don’t really know the value of things. I picked up a 5800X3D for $90 USD because the seller just thought all 5000 series “were more or less the same.” I wasn’t about to correct him.
Wow. That’s a fantastic deal
@@RandomGaminginHDindeed. It sits in my friend’s system in which I was building the system for. Was originally thinking of a 3600, 5500, maybe a 4600, but nope! They’re now more “futureproof” than I am 😅
you are my latest least favourite human. GRRRRR *shakes fist*
damn lolmao@@samsowden
That's quite the luck.
Dvd drives are often unplugged in commercial environments to stop people installing stuff on them. The proper way would be to lock down the PC with group policies but it's much simpler just to unplug the drive 😊
That's exactly my thoughts! I believe this PC was used as a workstation is some office and they simply unplugged that dvd drive.
That isn't the only reason. The cost of running 100 DVD drives in an office ads up, even at idle. Especially when they're hardly ever needed. Also the PSU's in these prebuilt PC's are often under-spec'd, so if you unplug stuff they last longer.
I found a couple of years a pc with an i7 4790 with a gtx745 and 8 gig ram 1tb hdd. When i press the power button Windows was on bootloop. A GTX 970,one more 8gig module, SSD and a fresh install of Windows and gifted that computer to my cousin with. 3 years later still using them. And is very Happy with them.
Love these videos man. I really dig all these bargains you get. There's something charming about low end hardware and making the most out of it. I'm at the point where the latest GPU tech just isn't exciting to me and revisiting these older machines makes me appreciate how far we've come for PC gaming and emulation.
Love these mystery rigs.
Same 😁
@@RandomGaminginHD I got a system at an E-recycling event that had a home made porno on a burned DVD.
Imagine him doing a sherlock gig and goes through wilderness to find a PC abandoned and has to figure out what happened to it.
To use that board in a different case, you had to do some hackery for the front fans and such otherwise the BIOS complains at you every time you turn it on, and have to press F1
yes good point a few of the fan connections are probably not usable straight tout of the box so to speak
I respect you soo much for not selling this pc for an insane price, ppl like you keep the community alive ❤
That cpu speed was awfully specific for something someone knew nothing about 🤔
Yeah maybe they looked up a different optiplex and saw that written somewhere
@@RandomGaminginHDyes, this seller had no idea what he was selling and “that cpu speed was awfully specific”…soooo the seller won’t seem like they don’t know absolutely nothing when they made the listing and didn’t know what to say about the computer.
@@NathanOakley1980probably went into windows “about my Pc” and put the cpu name in the listing description. That’s what most Pc noobs do at least
@@TEENYcharma task manager also shows the CPU speed.
@@RandomGaminginHDI love u😊
Ebay deals are my favorite thing to find lately lol. I just recently got a i5 9600k for less than $50 and it appears to be in almost mint condition too!
Im thinking of trying out the coffeetime bios mod on a Asrock z170 extreme7+ motherboard (also in mint working order) i scored for $15 from my local E-waste center, and pairing the two together.
After some research, it appears very easy.
Would actually make for a great video idea if you ask me!
Also earlier this week, I scored a xeon e5-2687w v4 for just under $40. So I'm stoked to try it out on my x99 test bench later today!
What do you search? For parts not working?
@@andypandy4607 no i never buy listings saying "for parts". I just have patience and spend more time than i should checking through the listings till I find a deal i like. I also will make offers on items that have that option. Alot of times people will accept your offer as long as you dont low ball them to hard.
My other preferred method is to hit up my local E-waste recycling center. Plenty of sweet finds there.
Few years ago I was running a i5 2500 with a gtx 950 and it ran everything I threw at it for the time. Probably the most intense games I played on it was GTA5 and Fallout 76. For an older CPU they can still perform decent. You can't beat $15 for what you got though.
When I bought a 2600 1-2 years ago (upgrading a Pentium dual-core on an Intel P board) it was $25. You made bank on this machine, congrats!
That 2600 allowed my HD 6870 to run so well, the card died from finally actually being fully utilized after ten years…. I’m hoping for a GTX 960 4GB to have an ultimate XP machine.
I know the GPU I’m about to mention is a severe mismatch for the i7-2600, but the RTX 4060 LP might work well in this given it’s by far the fastest option available in that form factor, shouldn’t be too bandwidth bottlenecked compared to say, the RX 6400 or 6500 XT (8 lanes vs. 4) and should be able to accommodate the power requirements of the GPU.
Just make sure to disable to spectre and meltdown and cut down the nvidia driver since it’s full of bloat and will hog up cpu that will give that old i7 a huge boost in some games it’s literally a 80% increase like battlefield 5 for an example since they added new microcode to old cpus vs not doing those optimizations you can also cut down windows installation bloat to maximize your performance also as long as your not using an old hp you can add rebar to the bios and squeeze another 10-15% framerate
@@josephdias3968Please learn about capitalization and punctuation, because this was a hell to read. But you're totally right.
I'm using an i7 3770 with a 1660 super, and in most games it's the CPU that's holding back frames. A 4070 would be a MASSIVE overkill for that CPU. We should've gotten a cheap 3050 LP ideally
the fact that the peel was still on there after so long is the best part.
I also have the same pc but with atx case, mine has the same cpu, 16gb ram and a gtx 1660 super. Still rocking in 2023💪🏻
I actually played through cyberpunk when it first came out on the xeon equivalent of this i7, paired with a gtx 980, just like the combo you tested in the video. Surprisingly solid combo! I remember averaging around 45 fps, but got plenty of fps drops. I think I used a mix of medium and low settings, but was able to keep full screen res on my 1920x1200 monitor
@@Shmackin710 it definitely has been optimized more, although I don't think Maxwell GPUs see much of the benefits. The fps in this video looked very similar to mine, but it's been a long time since I used that combo so Im sure there's been some improvement
I play Cyberpunk on my PC with i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and GTX1060 6GB running Windows 7 and it's definitely playable. Wasn't playable with my previous GPU - RX460 4GB.
My old gaming pc had an i7 2600! It still lives on with a 980ti and 500GB SSD, I donated it to our student's room at uni where it serves double duty as a gaming machine and print server!
I am thinking about doing this myself. I just recently helped a friend of mine out upgrade his PC. I bought a new Saphire 7900xt Pulse card so I gave him my older RTX 3060 and a bunch of random parts like an AIO, an older mobo, and an i7 6600. He's now able to play modern games and he adores it. It made me feel good to be able to do that.
Watching you testing those old machines and everything else on your channel in my pretty old AMD A10-7700k with a good old 1366x768 monitor is such a mood.
The biggest surprise system I got (which I currently turn into my next gaming PC) was a free X99 System with a 5930X for free, it was only ever used for browsing/excel.
The biggest surprise I ever got as a Disc was/is a Windows 7 Ultimate OEM Disc from a business that shut down and Microsoft never deactivated their licensing thingy.
Edit: 5830K
u mean 5930k or 5960x ?
5930k thanks for pointing it out@@MichaelCH911
5:31 that driver npc clipping into the oncoming car and getting rescued was best part of the benchmarks.
That was a nice system that you got, in the end! With the i7, 8GB DDR3 and a suitable HDD or SSD (HDDs are pretty cheap now and 240GB SSDs aren't much more either), someone will have a good time using this as an everyday machine for their day to day tasks. It was also good to see what that i7 was capable of when paired with a GTX 980 (I wouldn't go much more powerful than this, GPU wise) - though we all knew that Starfield wasn't going to run due to (a) it being an unoptimized mess, and (b) you were using a HDD on an "SSD required" game. Still, very poorly optimized title.
I suppose. But with the 2nd gen graphics never officially supported on Windows 10 you can run into strange issues here and there while using it with onboard graphics.
I always recommend going for 3rd gen at the earliest if you are going to be using onboard graphics. Not only that bit more stable at times, but as bad as all the graphics are on these cpus the 4000 is a decent amount better for old games and some indie gaming.
@@wyterabitt2149 I'm pretty sure I've had 2nd gen Intel CPUs, as well as 1st gen Intel CPUs, running Windows 10 with nothing but their integrated graphics with no issues whatsoever.
Having said that, for this Dell I would go with the 16GB RAM with the i7 (pretty sure 16GB is the maximum supported), a decent SSD/HDD, the optical drive, and as far as graphics, something like a low profile 1050 or 1050Ti would probably be OK. Something that doesn't require external power, of course.
@@TheSpotify95 You can run it, but it's technically not supported and never actually got a proper driver release at all.
Intel had some kind of contract that required them to produce a driver for 2nd gen that worked for Windows 10 on release and nothing more. But they also officially did not support Windows 10 for 2nd gen processors.
To get around it, all they did was package up a stable older Windows 8 driver when and label it Windows 10. They then clearly marked 2nd gen as not compatible with Windows 10, and made it clear it would never get an update. That Windows 8 driver, that was older at the time Windows 10 was released, is still the only available driver.
It does not run that well, and can cause issues at times. It could also work "perfectly" for you, although will still be lower performance than a proper updated driver release would have been. Given the background, if you are going to be using the integrated graphics just go for 3rd gen minimum. Much more performance, and little chance of any issues.
I have an Optiplex 390 board I got for under $15 with the I/O shield in 2017, the thing I hate about Dell is that they used a standard form factor motherboard, but then they don't doccument the power connector pinouts anywhere and then they short a bunch of pins out in the header so that it knows the power button and front panel cable are plugged in, so I was able to find enough about the pinout to hook up a power button but since I don't know which stupid pins are all shunted together it gives me a stupid error about front panel connector failure and power button cable failure at boot, the whole idea of that is just so stupid, it doesn't provide any useful diagnostics information it just adds unecessary points of failure, you'll know if the power button cable has malfunctioned if you can't turn the machine on you don't need to add unecessary wires that won't even do anything if you can't turn it on in the first place. I only bought it because it was the cheapest 1155 board you could get at the time and being an OEM board it means you can easily install Windows 7 with a Dell OEM disk get a valid SLIC license then upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
I got a similar deal on a dell optiplex, £25 for an optiplex 3020 with 8gbs of ram a 240gb ssd and an i5 4590, i cannot lie it was a massive bargain, especially since i wanted a different machine other than my laptop to run my minecraft server. It also came with some office peripherals and an actually decent 1080p monitor that i ended up giving to my friend. I almost forgot that it also is the sff version so it is very small and quiet.
Last week I scored a 6900xt graphics card in a (non working pc) for $115. Something happened to the ryzen cpu and was removed. But the rest of the pc looked great. I don’t think I can top that. Best deal ever!!
A working PC with an i7-2600 for £15 is amazing value. When I saw the title I was half expecting the hardware in this PC to be old and obsolete. An i7-2600 is still perfectly usable with Windows 10 or a modern Linux distribution.
GT 1030 G5 work great in these systems. I have 3 old Optiplex SFF all with GT 1030 G5 LP in them. That GPU is stronger than the mid range full size gaming GPUs of the Sandy Bridge era so it brings them up to contemporary gaming PC specs. Even newer games like Diablo 4 and New World will run on this config. Basically anything Steam Deck compatible will run. A Steam Deck is pretty much on par with an older i7 with a GT 1030 G5 in performance, and a lot of developers are still targeting this performance tier for their minimum spec.
I'd just stick an RX6400 in it, more up to date.
@@darthwiizius But that is just not worth it , new low profile cost 180$ and for that price you can have PC with i7 6700k + 16gb ram + 1060 6gb .
@@smilingpolitely12345yeah Rx 6400 needs PCIe 4.0 makes no sense to put it in a system like this
Definitely agree with the gt 1030. Can play alot of the epic free games with that and many older and indie games.
@@smilingpolitely12345 yep, it simply makes no sense. I got an intel core-i5 Gen 3 dell like this matched with a AMD R7250, which is slightly weaker then a gt 1030 and runs hotter ingame, but got it fpr 20€ a year ago. Good for casual gaming, TF2 an stuff. Its a nice system that has low idle wattage.
I also managed to pick up so crazy nice deals !!
- Ryzen 5 2600 looking brand new with all its things inside the box and all for 35€ (~37 USD)
- Brand new Ryzen 5 5600X (literally, it was never opened) for 120€ (~126 USD)
- Last but not least, best value of all, a Rog Strix RTX 2060 6Gb with its box and everything inside (+ a useless AMD Rewards Starfield code that I can’t claim since I don’t own the required CPU/GPU for that AMD Rewards code) for only 100€ !!!!! (~105 USD)
Something fun about these cheap systems. I upgraded a Dell all in one from an I3 to an unsupported I7 and other than being power limited, it ran fine. I hope someone like you finds it someday and is surprised just the same
Yo i got a minisforum b550 elite with a ryzen 7 5700g, 32gb ram and a 500gb m.2 ssd for $65, sold it for $500! That was for sure my best profit on a used deal. Love seeing people get more than their moneys worth from some lucky deals
A while ago I bought optiplex 7050 and paired it with low profile 1050ti and was gob smacked how good it performed in games.
The little systems are very capable when paired with gpus.
You've gotten a bit better at Counter-Strike! Never seen you burst and flick nearly that well before. Keep up the great content
You can get a small SSD second hand very cheap nowadays: useful to run the system on and use the HDD for additional storage.
Makes it a lot faster!
I’d argue that’s it’s mandatory to run an ssd now a days
@@SlowDelSol Yes, all of my machines got SSDs for years now, I bought a 2017 iMac 4K (but originally bought in 2020) in January with i5-7400, 8 Gigs of RAM and 1TB HDD only (no Fusion Drive) and although the latest macOS Ventura ran better than expected (still booting faster than Windows 10 on HDD) it was rather clumsy, like a bucket of bolts.
Luckily I could easily clone the OS installation onto an external SSD (2.5" MX500 in USB enclosure) with Clonezilla and it works absolutely fine from that external SSD (in the future I'm going to open it up and place the SSD internally, also the CPU gets replaced with a i7-7700 and the RAM maxed out to 32 Gigs).
And a friend of my grandparents had a antique Windows XP machine in 2018, also antique Fritz!Box modem, to her defense she almost only used it to write some bills; she then got a new Acer Aspire ES1 and I had to set it up, it wasn't too bad with i3-6006U, 8 Gigs of RAM (maybe just 4 but at least already DDR4) and the 15.6" screen had 1080p resolution, but instead of a 240/250 GB SSD that morons at acer threw in a 1 TB HDD (and back in 2017-2018 a 250G SSD already roughly cost the same) a and that thing almost enraged me, Windows 10 ran like crap, the drive was constantly at a 100% load, I then got a SSD, external enclosure for 2.5" and another stick of RAM because it had a second unpopulated slot, it was basically for free but she paid me some money anyway for that.
The cherry on top of this process is you keep perfectly usable hardware out of the landfill. Not a bad deal all around. I still use one of those very Optiplexes (with an i5, 3 gb gtx 1050 lp and 2x4gb) as my desktop, only problem is windows 7 is out of support so it is off the internet.... useful for running old software though, and it could work decently if updated.
Sometimes I wish I had the space to refurbish systems for resale like you do, it seems like a rewarding hobby and you get to tinker. Cheers.
It's amazing what deals can be had when people don't know the value of what they have. I picked up a Ryzen 3600, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 and an MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max last year for £100 on marketplace. I also got a FREE Coolermaster Cosmos case (yeah, the huge beastly case) and inside was a Z87 motherboard, 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 and an i7 4770. The owner upgraded and just wanted rid of the old system (only thing he kept was the PSU).
At my workplace there is a warehouse with a lot of older pcs. I asked my boss if i could bring home some and to my suprise i found 2 systems rocking an i7 4790 and 16GB ram. Unfortunately no graphics card on both, but not bad since i got them for free
Yeah solid base specs though :)
@@RandomGaminginHD I gave one to a friend and I will probably turn the other one into a server to store data and compile some projects
What's fun with Dell is on their website, under support put in the service tag number and find out what the machine originally shipped with.
In this case it was "J5F7M : Module,Processor,SNB,G630,2.7, 2C,Q0,L" which looks like a Pentium G630. So at some point someone explicitly put the i7-2600 into this machine... only for it to end up like this.
The stories old machines could tell =p
ah that is interesting. Didn't think to check that myself!
Maybe someone upgraded it for a project then realised the form factor makes it a bit tricky.
I just bought a shuttle PC, an older Lenovo laptop, a MS Surface with a clearly exploded battery, a gigantic Dell 42-inch MONITOR, a Viewsonic 22-inch monitor and a 2008 iMac for $50 (USD) at a yard sale. The Shuttle PC had a Core2 Quad, which was funny to me because I remember pining over the C2Q's when I was in college, but couldn't afford one at the time. It's all very old hardware, but it's also all fun to tinker with. I'm planning on using the old shuttle case and PSU to build an emulation machine using an mATX mobo and a Ryzen CPU and GTX 1060 6GB and put it inside a modded Arcade1Up X-Men Vs Street Fighter Arcade I have.
*sees a new upload from Steve*
Must comment before even watching like always.
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Best purchase I ever made at a garage sale a few years ago was an almost maxed-out Mac Pro (2012).. dual Xeon X5650, 12 Gigs of RAM and a GTX760. "Can't test it, no hard drive or boot media".. took it off them for 50 Euros with a "maybe I can repurpose the case for something..", thinking I'd have found just another PowerMac G5 box.. and it turned out to be that Intel gem. Still using it today occasionally.
I started this video and it somehow skipped 5 seconds ahead. Absolutely unacceptable. I am NOT going to miss my "hello everyone and welcome" welcome. I rewound and found satisfaction.
My roommate acquired a discarded i7 computer. Never did anything with it. Was an Asus with a full sized case instead of one of those slimline cases. Turned out to be an i7 2600. Replaced the hard drive with an SSD, moved it into a recycled all aluminum case, and added a GTX 980. A little old but still not a bad performer.
amazing build! i thought it would be good for some home office uses but it also turned out to be a gaming monster with a good gpu
I've got a 3770 and not planning an upgrade. All what I need is running smoothly.
Huge fan of this concept. Keep up the good work, and the great videos.,
I only upgraded from my 2500K overclocked to 5.1GHZ a few years ago. Those CPU's were so damn good, I ended up giving it to my sister and it is still in daily usage as an office machine today.
5Ghz is a lot. Keep in mind that 3Ghz plays everything with minimal 8GB ram. I would get that PC back if I were you.
Nice find, the i7 2600 is about the best thing you could've gotten in that scenario. :)
The 390 was a super solid system! I had the SFF version for quite some time as a server box, and some more as a media PC with a low-profile GPU. It's still running at a friend's house as a firewall now, still indestructible and trouble-free.
Also, my best DVD- drive find would be a copy of Oblivion.
Only disc II, that is.
I once got 4 or so OfficeSystems like that, 2 were working (with 3xxx / 2xxx i5's in them) and one was not, it just did not boot, but under the cooler hid an i7-7700 and man was that a good find! Must've thrown it out because it wasn't working anymore but here the mainboard was broken, CPU runns just fine still.
I can't wait to see you up cycle these older computers
My friend was throwing away their Q6600 pre built because the HDD had stopped working. I volunteered to fix it and they let me keep the machine in the end. Now it's my go to retro XP machine.
Well, 1866 MHz RAM had no effect, because it's H61 board (as indicated in white border between RAM slots and CPU socket), 2600 could do a little better in a Z board but it was limited to 1333 MHz RAM speed, which matters in recent games. It's nice, however, that the board here is standard dimensions and uses regular ATX power connectors - it means the PC can house an AM4 board with something like 5600G easily :)
Sandy Bridge! I've got the very top of the line dual processor xeon version of this. I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think it's 16 cores (across 2 processors) 3.3 ghz boost and a 3060.
i7-2600K and 1080 Ti here, haha!
one thing ive noticed about FSR in Starfield is that it seemingly hits the machine harder than just running native. when i switched over to CAS upscaling, it ran much better and provided a much smoother experience. Now im running a ryzen 9 3900x with 32GB of RAM and a 3070 trying it at 4k60 and was able to get it at high with 75 percent resolution scale. Some dips but more than playable.
Got to love recycling old tech/reducing e-waste :D good man and a great find
Nice little score. Add a few budget parts and have a good home PC to also play low budget games on. Cheers
I was given a couple of nearly identical Dell Vostro SFF machines a few years ago. This is really all you need for basic internet use and modest gaming. Runs even better if you put Linux Mint on it (but not with Cinnamon desktop!) and don't plan to use it for any kind of power-hungry applications. It's also perfect for any kind of business machine for a SOHO worker.
The CD/DVD drive check is always an exciting one. My first surprise CD was a copy of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 for the PS2 and the second was a VHS/DVD Combo player with a jammed DVD drive that I picked up for $5. After unjamming the drive I found an adult movie.
Honestly, the 2600 isn't even that bad, especially for 15 quid. I'm still running a 3770 i7 for the last 10 or maybe 11 years at this point, and it's holding up nicely. I don't play a lot of the newer titles because they're not really of interest to me, but the games that I do play, it still holds up well. Only recently it's starting to show its age and I'm due for an upgrade anyways within the next year or so.
Great video!
My main PC has an i7 2600s, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a GTX1060 6GB. Runs everything I want with no issues. Only issue I've had is software dropping support for Windows 7 and me refusing to use a newer Windows on this particular PC (I have a PC and laptop with Windows 11, don't have anything with Windows 10 anymore).
Heck of a find for you. Grats!
A lot of Dell power supply connections are proprietary, so you need to be careful with trying to use Dell motherboards in other cases, also Dell commonly uses extremely fine-pitched connection headers for things like power switches and audio connections. There are adapters and like available, but they drive the cost up and in some cases, make it not worthwhile.
this generation isnt. i did it the other way around and put a gen 4 haswell asus board in the dell case, since i like slim pc`s, for allround pc´s. it runs them no problem. only the power button and led connectors are proprietary.
I have a Toshiba gaming laptop from 2012 with a an INTEL I7-2600 paired with a GTX 560.
Ran my games great for several years. Still works well.
I'm so not telling you about the factory I work at. The previous IT manager had a habit of "not working, toss it, get a new one." It was fun getting permission to go through the bins where the tech got tossed. The last couple of years I've gotten laptops (mostly 3rd gen i5s), Optiplexes (3rd and 4th gen), Elitedesks (1st gen Ryzen), mac book pro (i7-4770HQ), one 8th gen i7 laptop, 3 6th gen i7 thinkcentres (M910q mini), an HP Proliant, an 8 bay 4u storage server (whose guts have been swapped a few times) and a lenovo r5-4500u laptop.
Unfortunately as of July I moved from factory worker to IT and that manager was let go. So now it has to be really broke to get tossed and my collection isn't building anymore. I hate e-waste and would fix and replace what I could, this got me in the notice of the IT people.
I was rocking an i7-2600 and GTX 1070 up until a few years ago. RDR 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 finally exposed the age of the system but it still ran fine @ 1080p.
Got free what I thought was an i5 2500. Ended up being an i7 2600. Just like this video. I wasn't as shocked as the sticker said i7. It was the guy that gave it to me that said it was an i5. Had a 240GB Mushkin SSD and 12GB DDR3 1333. Plus an Nvidia NVS 290 as well. It is in a HP SFF case.
damn i would be happy too if i got that processor since its still capable of playing games and still considered as budget gaming for 1080p , anyway , good content as always steve !
Years ago I bought an unspecified Dell Precision T3500 and when it turned up it came with maxed out 24GB RAM, 2 x 1TB SATA drives and a X5650 processor. I bought the machine for just £20. At the time the CPU alone was selling for about £80+
I love the I7 2600, it is my favorite cpu! My I7 2600k is still very dear to me!
My rig is i7-2600 oc to 3.8mhz. 1650GTX. 16GB RAM. Runs modern games well. I got my i7 for free, swapped my i3 with it. 2011 pc still going strong today.
I love this channel watching your videos makes me wanna use my old pc parts and build something new/old you could say XD
My favorite UA-camr
An RX6400 and a cheap SSD to boot from and it's a good general purpose machine that can play a lot of games, decades of 'em.
A good upgrade for these would be a lower capacity sata SSD with dram cache for the OS and keep the HDD for storage. 128/256gb SSD are pretty easy to find for around $25. Just make sure its NOT dramless. You need dram for sata SSDs.
If you plan on doing more of these, which would be cool, it would be nice to see a price per part breakdown segment against recently sold on eBay or whatever. To get an idea of what you could get doing this for profit over content.
I just recently got a Macbook Pro off of marketplace, guy said he didn't know the specs or year and the apple store told him they couldn't fix it, got it for $230, took it home and found out the display cable had disconnected from the board, reconnected it, it turned on and its the current model 13 inch that costs around $1300 new.
I still rock an i7 2600K @ 4.8 Ghz along with 32GB of 2133 Mhz RAM and AMD RX 6750 XT. It still works perfectly for all the platformer games i play and my usual work. This tiny chip, especially the unlocked version is one hell of a trooper !
Just picked up a system with 8700K overclocked to 5ghz, Asus Strix Z370-F, GTX 1070 Ti, H500P case, 16gb 3000mhz mem, EVGA 650GQ psu, Liquid Cooled for £225! No drives but I had loads inc M.2s which are now installed. The guy I bought it off paid just under £1800 five years ago as a prebuilt and if I was to sell the parts I'd get £600, but bought it to use rather than sell.
The i7 2600 is as legendary to me as the q6600. It lasted so long in my pc that ill never forget it.
I bought last year or early this year a HP Compaq 8300 USDT or ultra small desk top and its been a little trooper. I did have a riser out its back running a 750ti but decoupled that as it was tedious powering up, its got i5 with integrated grafx, 8 gigs of ddr3, I did have a SSD in there but again it didn't help that much so put in an old 1tb slowpoke HDD which it loves. I use it as a second microscope carrier via a usb scope, it also has all my watch repair docs, its networked wirelessly into my main PC so I can easily send over video files and I also put on several emulators just for funsies. Paid £20 incl delivery and a charge box, nauses though is its only displayport or vga but handy my 24 inch monitor it uses actually has a VGA port on it.
Using an old optiplex as my home server. Cheap, has good x86 performance and low power consumption. Really a good choice when a Pi does not cut it and you dont want to splunge out like 3-5 times the price for a NUC.
I have an i7-2600 computer and it still chugs along pretty OK.
I have 32GB of RAM, which is the maximum for that processor.
Just bought two B550 motherboards on "ebay" which the seller described as "sometimes restarting". Both where stuck in a boot loop, constantly rebooting. After a few hours fiddling I got both to boot into windows. One being actually stable - the other still crashing but less and less for every hour it was on. My guess is moisture damage. Paid 100 bucks for both and got at least one working mobo out of it - so not that bad of a deal.
I got an Optiplex 790 case (similar but more front ports) for free and put a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 6400. The worst part was modifying the power button and ripping out the front USB 2 ports for USB 3, but I made it work.
I’m thinking about doing a Ryzen 5600g, RTX 4060LP, and a 500 watt PSU in that case next.
i only play retro emulation and it would slay my games, and 50-80fps on modern games is amazing, great job Random, worth Hundreds,
I deal with these computers all the time at work! I had a optiplex 790, and stole it's power supply to put into an optiplex 7010 with a bad PSU because it has TPM and Secure boot and can run windows 11! So, for what you paid, it's worth it for the power supply alone ;)
Last week i got a Pentium iii 350Mhz, 512MB ram, a geforce 2 mmx and a working Motherboard Fic VB-601-V plus a nice tetro case for 20€ on an online marketplace. He said it was his gaming pc and it has a pentium 4 with 2ghz and the Motherboard is a asus. I knew it better but said nothing. Now im here happy with this little retro pc thats worth around 100-120+€
What do you think about scoring an MSI Z370-A PRO Motherboard, i7 8700k, ASUS GTX 1060 6GB Turbo, 16GB DDR4 RAM at 3000MHz, Corsair H100i 240mm AIO cooler, and a Kediers C570 open air case with 7 RGB fans for $300?
There are many deals to be had. I once got a 1050ti/16g/ i7 6700 sff gaming pc for about 50$ since the seller sold it as “not working”. The pc booted on the pictures but the little - was displayed indicating there was no boot drive. You can imagine i just plugged one it and it works as new.
Also one of my best %ile scores was getting a 4x16gb ddr4 2666 kit for 15$ as the listing title stated “computer memory” 😅
I got an Asrock Z590 Pro4 with an i5-11400f for super cheap. It came mounted with a BeQuiet! cpu cooler and seller was selling so cheap because the RAM would not run in dual channel mode, just single channel. I couldn’t get it to run in dual channel either, despite using different branded RAM, but I can’t complain considering the deal.
A amazing honest man!
Cutting corners is so last season.
DELL: Oh yea, we gonna cut side from circle cooler.
cool little pc, mate and great bargain. Enjoing your content very much! Surprised of your RAM choice on this one though cause this OEM systems often were limited to 1333mhz in those days with intel 2 gen. Did you get the memory working at 1866mhz? Greetings from Austria 👋
Thanks! And I’m not sure it just seemed to work haha
Ya but the thing is for some reason the pc detect them as 1333 even though i used 1600mhz because 1333 is no longer available
Yeah, the i7 2600 officially supports only up to 1333mhz as you can read on intel´s page and the OEM PCs are limited to that usually. I just was keen to see if random was able bypass that 🤫😜@@deadpain2483
@@deadpain2483looks like he just took out the CPU and use it in another Motherboard that supports higher end DDR3 RAM, that's why he's able to use GTX 980.
Otherwise it's straight impossible to do inside that same board and case and PSU
feels like yesterday I bought my 2500k and gtx570 to play just cause 2, skyrim, assassin's creed 2.
I'm 41 and my first pc was an 386 with 33mhz. But sandy bridge is in my ❤
I used to stop by a small local thrift store once in a while to ask if they had any computers in storage that I could buy from them. They wouldn't put the computers out in the shop area because people would steal components from them. One time I bought a working one from them for five or ten dollars. It had Windows 7 on it and all the previous user's data was still there. I used an old backdoor trick to get into it and started snooping around to see what I could find. It felt creepy just looking through it... like I was trespassing somewhere I really didn't belong. There was all sorts of stuff in there, including an entire diary / journal thing they kept in Microsoft Word, a ton of great music, lots of family photos, etc. Plan was to snoop for a while and then delete everything... then I found a picture of my aunt. Turned out the machine belonged to an old friend and coworker of hers. Small world. Take this as a lesson, kids... if you don't want some freakshow like myself rummaging through your old college desktop someday, at least factory reset your stuff. I still jam out to the mp3s sometimes.
At least you didint find porn.....
@@quan-uo5ws I actually did. Although it seemed to have been left behind in a "hidden" folder by a friend of the main user. Along with several iterations of his work resume and some scanned-in job applications. Nothing incriminating, but it did give me a good laugh. The PC was cleaned (thoroughly) and I believe it now runs Batocera Linux. Haven't booted it in a while.
This is the exact computer I’ve had since 2016 and it’s served me well no issues but I sure am looking to get something that can take bigger gpus and have a swappable psu
If someone needs a computer for the general home uses, used business computers is your best bet
it's very unlikely the cables in the DVD drive came loose during shipping.
A few years ago I went dumpster diving and i found an old yellow desktop, thinking it had a celeron, i almost left it there. I took it home and opened it up and found a MMX Pentium 2 @266mhz. Best find of my life
You got really lucky with that find, most PCs i find on facebook (In Illinois specifically) they are at least $50 and are not working/have no hard drive
OMG THIS IS MY OLD PC(well atleast the same brand i guess)...man core 2 quad with gt710 going hard in that machine and i was in my highschool too lol