"What did we learn? We learned that swapping out all of your hardware and replacing it with better hardware makes your system faster." Truly a tech guru 😂😂😂

This is a "don't tell the wife" upgrade.

"its so smooth you can lick syrup off it" Dawid is definitely a Canadian

Dawid's sarcasm is legendary. At least he's got that going.

I love how you basically replaced the whole computer in the upgrade haha

That PC is the type that my grandma would roast.

Here so early that I'm still trying to imagine whether the PC will literally roast from overheating, or if Dawid will have to do the roasting personally...

The tape is to actually make it look in better condition! (cover up scratches and scuffs)

A best buy employee asking you to roast a pc, that's wild

I feel jebaited, I'm shaking my head the entire video, you aren't upgrading that with the power connector on the mobo. Then you just replace everything. You know what you did Dawid, I feel played. Well done.

Dawid is a Jeremy Clarkson of PC roasting.

Buys a PC to roast it, then proceeeds to build a completely different PC lmao

I love that Dawid is extremely competent. And the he always uses his competence to do stupid shit like this. Don't ever change!

I like how the most roast-able aspects of the PC are the somewhat loser-y CPU cooler, the occasionally non-proprietary connectors and maybe the ventilation could be better. But the cooler and the ventilation might even be non-issues with the stock configuration, since the temperatures seem pretty alright. And the PSU isn't even an 80+ White rated IED! Plus, it avoids the all-too-common 1-2 combo of "single channel RAM, complete BDSM airflow choking action"... For $600 CAD, it seems like a surprisingly well-put together system.

The reason they didn't use the 24-pin on the board was to get rid of the warehouse of power supplies they used for the Optiplex xx20 series/Precision T1700, along with all the front panel crap and chassis. Also, you can use some front panel extension wires to be able to use the factory power button and LED.

This PC is great, you just have to replace everything first. Just a tiny detail

1:29 lol, I'd never have expected a reference to Rosa Luxembourg in a yt test of pre-built pc from Best Buy

When does it stop being an upgrade to the existing pc and start being a new system instead? I would argue swapping PSU, motherboard, cpu, ram and graphics card firmly crosses that line 🤣🤣

Not really an upgrade though, is it? Upgrade would have been maxing out the socket/chipset that was in it - maybe an 8700k if it was supported by the BIOS - and dropping in a new PSU with adapters. A newer GPU to match the new CPU would have been icing on the cake.

Adding new everything to the case isn't what I would call an upgrade, it's an entirely new PC.... :)

"so smooth you could lick syrup off of it" is not a sentence I thought I'd hear today.

really hoping Dawid is remembering to stay hydrated while he does these

Ok m8 I give in, you my good citizen have earned a new sub!! It started out watching you "just for shits and giggles" but you've become a solid branch of my tech channels. Good natured sardonic humour, further supported by one liners occasionally worthy of an 80's action movie, and your instinctive ability to apparent instantly comprehend what represents the most absurd tech choices on offer. All blended with genuinely useful snippets of tech advice. Have all accelerated you into upper reaches of my tech channel tree. Keep it up and thanks for making it impossible for me to drink tea and pay attention to my monitor at the same time.

That PC (minus the GPU) runs about $300 right now on Dell's refurb store. With sales, it could probably be had for under $200. Used GTX 1650s run about $80 on eBay. So, I can't say $422 for the system is the worst price I've ever seen, but you can definitely do better with a little shopping. Don't think there's any sense in swapping everything out, but maybe a PSU swap (you can get adapters so you can use a standard ATX supply with that motherboard) and a better GPU than the GTX 1650 and it'd be a fine little low end gaming setup.

I didn't even get through the sponsor spot before I clicked the "like" button. So good, Dawid!

its a nice showcase of how important game optimization is

It's amazing how much better that Dell case performs when you completely swap out the entire computer inside!

This wasn’t an upgrade, you just replaced the whole pc!

I’ve been subbed for a year now but only watched a couple videos. Picked a random one last night and now I’m like 15 deep. You’re funny and I’m interested the entire time. It reminds me of hanging out with my old friend Kyle testing new hardware ripping on it.. funtimes

The PC of Theseus!

Love your videos so much, always fun content 😄 Keep being awesome!

Looks like a really handy sleeper build case. Perfect for sneaky office gaming!

so this is a tech comedy channel lol subscribed

Best buy (employee) ROAST video during American Thanksgiving week? I'm here for it. At work. Pretending to do, well... work. GOBBLE GOBBLE!

Dawid! I finally have my own pc and I would have no idea what to get if I hadn't watched your very entertaining and kinda sus videos on pc builds!

This PC looks so familiar to me! Back in the day I got a old Dell Precision from my dads office. After throwing a GTX 960 in that machine I had this behemoth of a gaming pc for 2 years. Watching you testing this thing gives me Flashbacks of me struggeling to find the best GPU that only needs a 6pin pci-e for power. Now I have a RTX 3060ti with a Ryzen 5 5600x. Way happier with this system tbh. Thanks for the nice Video!

My brother and I did this with an 2011 XPS and slowly upgraded it when we could afford it. The Dell exclusive connections always drove us nuts.

I cant think of a better sleeper than a Dell OEM case. Just food for thought, for those that may attend or want to attend LAN parties.

I own one of these, so I can actually do this "upgrade", thanks Dawid!

...and no one will steal it! Gota love it!

Errrm, that's one hell of an upgrade🤣

I’m still working on my T1700 AM5 build, and you definitely could solve the front I/O if you think backwards. I used Arduino cables for the power switch to the headers. For USB 2.0, mic and headphones in, I bought a Optiplex 3020 complete front I/O and transferred the guts to the T1700’s housing. For USB 3.0 I bought a male to female cable then a 90 degree male to female adapter. The 90 degree adapter is important because I can trim the plastic to get around Dell’s metal clip without damaging my motherboard. So I was able to keep the stock USB 3.0 The only thing left is to do some wire stripping for the HDD LED indicator to Arduino cables to plug back in to the motherboard.

It would be interesting to see. The pre built PCs vs a custom built PC at the same cost is.

That thing is fresher than being able to use 2 plugs for the ball mouse and keyboard. ps1/ps1

Love you vids man❤❤

“Just as all roads lead to Rome, so, too, do we logically arrive at the conclusion that the revisionist proposal to slight the final aim of the Socialist movement is really a recommendation to renounce the Socialist movement itself.” Rosa Luxemburg

Did not excpect a rosa luxumbourg mention

Volt meter and a 9v battery for the led, you can usually find what wire does what pretty quickly on them stupid front panel connectors, or you can trace what wire goes to what, though not always easily possible. Every junk case I throw out I keep the front panel connectors and buttons and Leds for occasions like this.

I hope your sponsors appreciate that thanks to your snarky comments, you are literally the only channel where I don't fast forward through the ads. They should shower you with drachmas.

I appreciate the "email" in the beginning calling you Dawiebabes. I'm the unlikely event I ever have caused to email you I will definitely be greeting you as Dawiebabes.

The tape is there to cover up any scratches on the case.

That serial port was usually used for monitoring on old workstations, to know some basic operating conditions, or just to connect REALLY old stuff to it, like old ass gps units, sensors or printers.

Oh wow, I have that workstation at home! Was trashed at work, I use it now as my MediaCenter PC. Even has a Quadro P600 in it :P

Bro you changed everything, only the case is left 😂😂

Dawid has the best roasts!

Added benefit of having no front I/O 😂 ROFL, theft repellent 😅, sometimes this guy says the Best! Made my day. For sure.

Best sleeper PC ever!! Love it!!

I bought the DeepCool AG620 black, looks awsome on my B550 Gaming Plus in combination with Kingston Fury Renegade (3600MHz CL16) and a Red Devil.

We still use that exact model in our school computer lab and I can confirm they all have that same battle scar on them.

0:32 Deepcool LT AIO users are certified to gain an extra 25% fps boost in games, trust me. The *Infinity Mirror* on the AIO gives massive fps gains! Definitely not just me wanting to see more people using the aio because it's super cool or anything

Got some real Dell of Theseus vibes going here. 😂

You can definitely make the front IO work, if only just the power button. I've always had pretty good luck finding the pinouts of Dell proprietary connectors on the interweb, and you can connect them with breadboard jumper wires. A little janky, but not quite as janky as opening the side panel and jumping the pins with a screwdriver

That is one nice $422 case you purchased!

I have the 3620 with a Xeon E3-1245 V5 and a RX 5600. It always ran really well. I cased swapped because I wanted to build myself a computer, and wanted to get an idea of air flow within the new case.

I'm having a Ship of Theseus paradox feeling about this video, think I need some aspirin. LOL

As a quick and dirty fix for those dell power switch connectors with standard boards the yellow and black power switch wires are on one end of the conector block so you can mash those onto the approprite posts and leave the rest of the connector hanging sideways in mid air, at least if you aren't that worried about the pins beding a bit on your new motherboard.

Power button connectors are easy to just strip and do whatever you want with.

Studying the pinout and standardizing a Dell computer's front IO connectors for off the shelf motherboards to use alone could make a good video.

That front IO header connection clip thing could easily be solved with a pair of needle nose pliers 😂 I’m not sure how Dawid keeps from cracking up after “reviewing” an “upgraded” PC. The only upgrade missing was the cooler 😆

Woah! That PC performance is amazing, and all it needed was a small upgrade! However, i suggest you to upgrade the case for better ventilation! Do so, and we'll have what may posibly be, the best Best Buy PC you've ever bought!

The only thing, I want more from Dawid, is more video's..

I have a few desktop PC power buttons that are really hand for a system like this. They can even be adhesive mounted to the front of the case for that Ultra DIY effect

He's given it the full Triggers Broom 😂

well... this is not an upgrade, it's a full new pc with and old case....

The front I/O issue is probably the most painstaking part of doing parts swaps like this. It took me over 2 hours to do the usb and audio connectors on an old lenovo case. The power button and leds weren't as bad if you use a multimeter in continuity mode.

Can 100% recommend Deepcool btw, have an LS720 and it is amazing.

Upgrade is code for replace. Lol. Surprised we even reused the case 😂

Roasting this PC at 450F in a crappy electric range oven like it was meant to....lol Great vid, just what I needed after last min Turkey Dinner Shopping, GG

oh my god! "shoving newly harvested organs into a whale carcass as the beach" Dawid you are a poet.

"so I went and bought it" I think you got slightly played there :D

I got a Best Buy ad before this video 😂😂😂

I used to do this back in 2012 with an office pc when mine died so bought it online for like $120 and threw my old HD 4650 I still have just so I could play World of Warcraft at 1650x1080 resolution at maybe 40-55 fps if I was lucky. Way less during Raids.. but I miss those days, cata classic coming back so

hey dawid, you remember the "gaming chromebooks"? well they launched a new branch called chromebook pro, basically slightly better cloud machines that apparently can run some games natively(with a great amount of work)

I think you can make that locked cpu run at the max cpu boost frequency all-core instead of at 3700mhz; can't remember if it's only on a z series board or not, but I'm sure D*LL has that functionality locked down

Some of those old work/home budget PC's were actually pretty good deals at their time, especially if you weren't looking for the best hardware. I remember seeing many configurations that were priced as a whole less than individually buying equal parts. You had to temper your expectations, look for the good deals and couldn't expect too much.. Especially if you had some spare hardware like a GPU, extra memory and such many of those basic PC's weren't a bad deal. Built a few budget gaming PC's with a few of them and they worked really well, of course you didn't really have much of an upgrade path and couldn't play the newest stuff at high, but were great option for parents not looking to break the bank.

Ive never been this early to a Dawid video

Very similar to my set up. Except I have a 9400f.. probably need to upgrade it sometime.

"AMD's charity' That's one of the funniest lines I have heard in a while. Thank you, you made me laugh.

I actually saw this same workstation (not gameified) at the Surplus store of the university I work at on sale for $90 yesterday. Maybe you should check out some university surplus stores sometime for some cheap sleeper builds.

you could for an extra 5-10 bucks get an external power button with or without the io in case your using a pc case similar to the dell or have a broken power buttons. (had accidently broke the solder joints on both the power and reset button on my case)

Dude your the king of shit rig testing. I love how go where other bigger YT dont venture. I am sure there is a market for these crap oem PCs and you really help people out who just want to know if they work for gaming or not.

Um….so upgrading the pc just means reusing the case?…..Love it!

Dawid is slowly becoming Techjesus 2.0 with this haircut.

Sarcasm's amazing here.

I have the "home" version of this, with a 3050 and a 6700. it was an ibuypower OEM but that was before they used custom cases, this one had an off the shelf ASUS mobo and a NZXT phantom case not that bad.

This actually is my work PC! Mine is spec'ed with a Xeon, 64gb of ECC DDR4, and a Quadro P4000 though, and I'm pretty sure it came with a higher output PSU (same "no frills" aesthetic, though). It doesn't love CAD models with a couple thousand unique components, but for most stuff it's fine. There's talk of moving us over to laptops, and I kinda hope that once they do I can talk them into selling me my old workstation minus the drives for a song because while the CPU architecture might be a bit old for gaming, the Quadro and ECC make it a pretty spiffy little piece of kit in a pretty reasonable form factor. The tape is definitely to cover scratches. Seems like a pretty common refurb tactic.

I just bought the DeepCool LT720 AIO a few days ago. I kinda wish i waited now.

The tape is to cover all the scratches

Those pieces of vinyl tape applied to the case are usually done by refurbisihing companies. I believe Dell themselves actually does this to machines that they sell refurbished. I used to work with a refurbishing company that did this and those stickers are a pain to do and don't really even make it look better.

1:32 Ouch. Too relatable.