So, I tried building a $168 gaming PC...

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Should I build the "epic gaming behemoth" version? Comment ":)" if so.
Vote on which PC I should use! • Post
0:00 Pivoting
0:54 What did I find?
2:05 The video card(s)
3:45 Let's upgrade!
4:20 Failure
6:00 Money down the drain
7:15 Solution???
8:18 Finally 😭
9:21 Can it game?
11:14 Bye 3080. Hello $168 PC!
12:53 Lessons & goodbye :)
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Weissa G - We're Open
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@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

This is a reupload because I didn't explain the entire story well enough on the first try. Thanks for waiting! & Check out Nebula. It's a really cool streaming platform for creators, directly supports me, and is very affordable, like $2.50/month.

@J0elPeters 9 ай бұрын

This is why I respect you dude

@DavidLiCalzi 9 ай бұрын

At first I was confused. Thanks for telling me. 👍

@Keullo-eFIN 9 ай бұрын

Explains why I got a deja vu feeling :D

@scalt8367 9 ай бұрын

No problem !

@nicl8766 9 ай бұрын

I got excited for a new upload but its a repost!!! 😡😡😡 but this is a better video

@MarcoGPUtuber 9 ай бұрын

Today Oz doesn't just talk hardware, he talks extreme value!

@christophermullins7163 9 ай бұрын

As long as he talks.. I am here.

@RevDrCCoonansr 9 ай бұрын

Good day, Marco. Long time no chat. How are you, my friend?

@g3n3sis50 9 ай бұрын

@@christophermullins7163 Same here brother!

@mikesadorf 9 ай бұрын

Love this video so much, happy to watch it twice! Thank you for highlighting an all too common struggle of budget buying/building and acknowledging that the process outlined by TechTube is often easier said than done. Keep up the great work, Oz!

@gigxr 9 ай бұрын

can u try $160? im $8 short

@andyMutale 9 ай бұрын

Brooo

@whitekong316 9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@fungi1 5 ай бұрын

robbing people:

@ishwar5936 4 ай бұрын

Go work 1 hour anywhere

@dustfake2634 3 ай бұрын

True@@ishwar5936

@nicolaspastrian836 9 ай бұрын

I'm currently running a very similar setup: an Optiplex 7040 with a GTX 1060 6gb (I replaced the PSU as well). I should admit I also faced the lose power button problem myself 😂

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

Omg, I’m glad I’m not alone 😅

@akiradokkabei6428 9 ай бұрын

lol

@tah-472 9 ай бұрын

hey hey, im on an Optiplex 3040 rn. Thinking about swapping out the psu, but i would need to buy a 24 pin to 8 pin for this motherboard? Did you do that?

@nicolaspastrian836 9 ай бұрын

@@tah-472 yep, I bought one from amazon. No problem so far. I also bought a right angle adapter for the gpu 6pin connector since my gpu was too wide and the case didn't close 😂 no problem with that either.

@darnellnoir 7 ай бұрын

i have the 7040 with a 500w psu and gtx 1080 (i had to cut up the front panel to let the gpu fit (i refuse to get rid of the 1080 because i got it for a good deal)

@abyssalflame6562 9 ай бұрын

Love you oz! Thanks for always making awesome content!

@slugbones 8 ай бұрын

There is so much value in showing your methodology AND mistakes. Love this channel dunno why I haven't subbed yet. Content has gotten way better since I last watched you too!

@MP-tz2yn 8 ай бұрын

Hey Oz, I remember how around 4-6 years ago, I watched a lot of your PC build videos, and they were amongst those that inspired me to build my own, about an equally long time ago. I'm typing this on it right now! You were randomly recommended just now, and I had a flashback instantly - I was very glad to see you're still around and uploading, without any drop in consistency or quality. Thanks, man!

@stephenpipes664 9 ай бұрын

Amazing Video Oz!! Glad you are back to regularly posting :)

@FasuloA 9 ай бұрын

I love my EVGA 1650 Super that you showed there and had great luck with it. I re-pasted it using Thermal Grizzly and had some really good overclocking results - that cooler is overkill anyway so there's quite a bit of headroom if you did well enough in the silicon lottery. Thanks for the great content Oz!

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

Nice! What was the uplift after the overclock?

@FasuloA 9 ай бұрын

@@OzTalksHW user benchmark has it in the 100th percentile for that card so I was very lucky. I originally got +250 on the GPU and + 1100 on the memory but did eventually suffer one crash during a long RDR2 session and dialed back to +220 on the clock, haven’t had an issue since.

@crystaladams5742 Ай бұрын

I built 2 of your old ozbox builds years ago and they served me and my friend well :) glad to see you're still making these videos

@t3rb3ar 9 ай бұрын

😊 glad it worked out for you. I’d like to see the EPIC gamer build and how cheap you can make it. I have people asking how much my system cost and I have to convince them they can get good performance for less.

@thesilentobserver93 9 ай бұрын

I haven't watched your videos in a long while. This video is refreshing, and is a good re-introduction. Also a good reminder that you don't have to have top of the line specs to have fun.

@maximustitan8171 9 ай бұрын

I love these project. I sometime had a same difficulty putting parts together similar to this situations. But alas, I learned this from you now.

@baptiste_boo 5 ай бұрын

You are seriously underrated, love your content. Always something new and fresh along with such a calm video environment. :)

@deanonfo6562 9 ай бұрын

Youre the Man Oz.. probably about time for some upgrades to my first build. Will be taking notes.

@NukaOrQuantum... 9 ай бұрын

Hey Oz, this video was really cool, even though I have already watched it on the first upload, lol. I find your videos very calm and relaxing. It's nice to find a KZfaqr who thinks about the budget gaming community.

@MarcosCodas 9 ай бұрын

Wow, the narration is next level. Subbed.

@redey1290 9 ай бұрын

Working in IT at a university is a quick way to get crazy deals on these old OptiPlexes. We're currently phasing out 5060/5050/5040 models here as they're getting to roughly 5 years old, but the 5060s (although much less common) are worth their weight in gold - I got 3 with no drives (university policy for no drives) for $15 EACH. Insanely good deal. 5060s are a good model to find as they've got 8th gen Intel parts, a front panel USBC port, natively support Windows 11, and have a M.2 slot so drive installs are super easy.

@JJFlores197 9 ай бұрын

I wish I could do that. I work in a public school district in IT support, but we're not allowed to buy or take any IT surplus. Its a state law I believe that states that we have to sell the items to recyclers that work with school districts.

@thenext9537 7 ай бұрын

Hey man, you are great. That passion cuts deep, I can't do it anymore but glad people carrying that torch. I've been around since 386 turbo was a thing. I played Wolf3d on floppy during turbo pascal class in HS. Yea, you keep going man, love your stuff and subbed, finally after many watches.

@KomradeMikhail 9 ай бұрын

An HP Z440 Workstation with an RX 5700 would cost about the same, and run circles around that... plus leave much more room for upgrades.

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

I haven’t checked out the z workstations in a while. I’ll take a look!

@umyboiblue 9 ай бұрын

This was a fun video the first time I watched it. I'll gladly watch it again. Love your content.

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

@user-cj3xs5ll8j 9 ай бұрын

Hey man just started attempting to build a project PC with an old optiplex and your videos have been really helpful 👍

@itsdeonlol 9 ай бұрын

Awesome as always Ozi!!!!

@boanerges5723 9 ай бұрын

Hi Oz, Ive done something similar to this a few times to help friends or make cheap minecraft/roblox pcs for their kids. a $20 case and a cheapo power supply will get you a lot further with upgradeability and I usually go for a case with a power supply in the $40-50 range for these low power entry level systems because the cases look decent and the kids like rgb fans even crappy cheap ones.

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

This might be a nice move honestly. I think I’ll try jerry rigging and see how far that gets me, and then go from there

@RobertFixit 9 ай бұрын

I made a similar build and settled on the 1650 super. It matched perfectly with the power available and size restrictions. Sadly there was no video about it, but basically this with a standard SSD. I sold it for $250. My cost was just under $200.

@katiejordan1 9 ай бұрын

Another great video, Ozi!

@Melhem97 9 ай бұрын

This was a very entertaining and informative video. You've earned a sub!

@vincenzorossi4828 9 ай бұрын

More of this....please.great video

@ripdrose5417 9 ай бұрын

love your videos fam

@raym7441 9 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this video and your views on solving the problems you had. Well done! I also have been building and selling machines more on the extreme value side so I can appreciate your views.

@Surz 9 ай бұрын

idk how you do it I don't know if its a software but the mic audio quality you use is so satisfying to watch the videos i need to know 🙃🙃

@austin.t5557 9 ай бұрын

I think you should try a retake for sure. I think there is some Xeon server-based workstations from Lenovo and from HP that kick this computer but for the 140-180$ price range. Great video tho, thing with the dells there will always be thousands of them.

@kevinp2891 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video, thanks

@manrom3039 9 ай бұрын

Sheesh. Thanks for bearing your success and pitfalls, video was awesome 👍

@rasulov15 9 ай бұрын

Great video!

@mtcoiner7994 9 ай бұрын

I've had to cut a couple of cases to make a big card fit in a pinch. It's always bitter sweet at the end. Ultimately you achieved the goal but it's clear there isn't enough air flow for the big card. Every time I do this I have that feeling of dissatisfaction when the card starts choking and fan speeds kick up.

@irregularmana6216 9 ай бұрын

Great content as always, im getting the itch to build a new computer but im waiting. Also where did you get that tshirt?!?!

@OGMTANK 4 ай бұрын

Thanks there is value in this optiplex builds.

@NviusProducer 9 ай бұрын

You should link your parts in the desc so your viewers can replicate. Awesome work man, love your budget builds. I would like to see one for 200 usd with a reliable upgrade path please.

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

I'll have a video where I list my recommended budget builds. Hopefully next week!

@basic-os 9 ай бұрын

Cant wait to see the performance

@ThaiTie94 8 ай бұрын

I went through a very similar experience building my Optiplex 5040 recently! I ordered the wrong voltage of RAM and had to buy an SFX power supply to replace the micro ATX one I had ordered, which set me back about $70, and cost me a week to finally complete. I'm planning on swapping the board out to a 7040's soon with some ddr4 ram, since I did 0 research before building it, like a fool.

@tombremer514 9 ай бұрын

Love all of you videos. I am looking to get a workstation PC and drop in a GPU. But later do an "easy" PSU upgrade and upgrade the GPU again. Then still leaving room to take everythin and put in a Tower and upgrade the GPU again. I find it hard to know the Watts of the PSU in different workstations. Which workstations have the most up-gradable path?

@jragonwriter6316 9 ай бұрын

Love the soft yellow mood light with the soft yellow mood T-shirt!

@NalomYT 9 ай бұрын

Isso funcionou muito bem! Obrigado pelo vídeo!❤

@SinisterPuppy 9 ай бұрын

😃 I think getting the super epic mega build working would be fun. Can you pull the drive cage out and double sided tape a SSD somewhere? hehe. It's not as plug and play as RX 460, but I recently picked up a WX 4100 on ebay for about $40. It's close to 460 but has 4GB of GDDR5. Downside is the only outputs are mini displayport so you'll need to adapt them to your monitor.

@shaneeslick 9 ай бұрын

Yeah sometimes when sellers have a few & they are not selling the WX/Quadros can be the better buy even including the cost of a Mini DP adapter

@inkredebilchina9699 9 ай бұрын

I'd love to see the "behemont" card in play too! 🎉 also replacing a hdd with ssd brings down the power needs so you just *might* have enough power (and space) for the rx 5700 from that puny 240W psu. I mean new sata ssds are like 10 bucks nowadays.

@jeffsmith6659 9 ай бұрын

😊. Do it! And thanks for all you do regardless. Cheers sir

@donoteatmikezila 9 ай бұрын

Now this is a much better edit. Great video. This is a "Realm Reborn" situation where meh became yeah.

@Esubalol 8 ай бұрын

i'd probably take everything out of the case and drill out the rivets that hold that drive cage, if i had an optiplex like this. just thoroughly vacuum out the metal fragments afterwards, and now you have ample space for anything you want.

@israelramirez1617 8 ай бұрын

What a cool channel.... subscribed.!!!

@RevDrCCoonansr 9 ай бұрын

Great re-up. Glad to see it.

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris!

@RevDrCCoonansr 9 ай бұрын

@@OzTalksHW Welcome Ozi!

@ryanspivey1819 8 ай бұрын

You deserve to be a top tech youtuber man, your cadence is refreshing

@suxdonti 9 ай бұрын

"To turn it into the gaming computer that I know is in there" OzTalksHW Honorable quote 😎

@gigicamscump 9 ай бұрын

watching OZ...pure therapy :)

@songsan807 9 ай бұрын

Having build computers since the 1990s it is very frustrating and long nites troubleshooting when PCs do not work as expected. Even back then with a 350 Watt Power Supply, it does not have enough power for everything hence along the Dell 240 Watts. Got a similar Dell that you have about 2 years ago. As a desktop work computer that play some older games it is a great value. One of the big limiting factor to go this route is not a lot of space inside and the small power supply.

@aprilmeowmeow 9 ай бұрын

the pc that got me into gaming was a repurposed optiplex with a 1050ti. I bought it from my workplace when they did some upgrades, it was $20! now i use the computer i built for myself, which doesnt sound like a jet engine... but im still grateful for that thing!

@MarcoGPUtuber 9 ай бұрын

When do we see listings for spare dell PSUs on ebay?

@crackersphdinwumbology2831 8 ай бұрын

I used that exact tower when I was in the DoD! Hilarious to see one selling for less than 80$.

@that_camo_bronco_guy 8 ай бұрын

love it, buddy just bought one of these optiplexes ("gaming" with a gt710) been telling him a 1650 super is a good route to go, as I just upgraded from one to a 4060 since it barely uses any more power (iirc 100w for 1650 super, 115w for 4060, and myself using a HP prebuilt with a 400w, now 500w psu, its perfect until I get a new case and mobo)

@Salvage1 9 ай бұрын

A demonstration of "cost overrun." How it happens, is not what most people think happens. Keep the videos coming!

@bigrob029 9 ай бұрын

hope to despair within the first 4 minutes of the video. classic. missing the simple problem gets the best of us. well done!

@fransingcouy2013 9 ай бұрын

i have same experience with optiplex 3070(slim/low profile ver.) i5 9500 cpu. the rx 550(low profile) would go black screen before finishing the amd driver installation. the fix is i went to bios and set i5 9500 igpu as primary display and f10 save. plug the display port to the motherboard and i can install the rx 550 without error. the msi afterburner detect rx 550 100% usage when playing dota 2 and other game even without setting graphics settings to high power in windows 10.

@TheBklah 9 ай бұрын

This channel is pure gold ❤

@knuckleheadcomputers 9 ай бұрын

Great video

@shaneeslick 9 ай бұрын

G'day Oz, 😁 for the "Epic Behemoth Gaming PC" Thanks for taking the time to re-edit & upload this video, adding the "Money down the drain" chapter really adds to understanding the full story, For some reason down here those OEM RX460s used are STOOPID Expensive $150AUD or more, 1650 used are similar price but at least performance is much better if you are limited to 75W, as a comparison if you can swap the PSU you can get RX570, 480 & 580 starting at $80AUD or GTX1060, 1070 1660 & 1660Ti for $150-$200AUD.

@OzTalksHW 9 ай бұрын

Oh wow that’s crazy expensive for a 460

@yellchai 9 ай бұрын

Talk about taking one for the team, Oz! :D

@steven1000000000 6 ай бұрын

I've been running an Optiplex 3020 with an updated Xeon e3 1245 v3 (an I7 4790 equivalent for £20), an AMD RX 6650 XT, 16GB RAM, 450W PSU and adapter, 2 x 1TB SSD, dual booting Linux and Windows. It's been pretty good as a budget desktop with some gaming ability and a bit of an upgrade path in future. Been pretty happy with the performance for the past 9 months. The CPU might hold back the GPU slightly at times, but it was a known tradeoff going in.

@victorhugolimamonteiro378 9 ай бұрын

I'm from Brazil and I like so much your content! You're amazing!

@soupwizard 9 ай бұрын

We've all had those projects where things keep going wrong, glad it worked out in the end! 😃

@rusticlogcabinlife9443 9 ай бұрын

Oz, I feel your pain...ive done stupid things too...thanks for posting BigT,Alaska

@onemansvideos2134 9 ай бұрын

Been looking at these...a 7050 i7 so I'm looking for a budget pc to 3d design parts for 3d printing you think it could handle some cad work

@Alexander-ix2jp 9 ай бұрын

I am currently using an Optiplex 7050MT with an i7 7700, 64GB of RAM, several nvme drives, standard Dell 240 Watts psu and a 75W Nvidia Rtx A2000, which is equivalent to a rtx 3050 but with lower power consumption, less heat and modern nvenc recording and streaming capabilities. On top of that, you can use other Dell branded proprietary 340W psu that are the same size as the original 240W psu (I can tell you the exact model number if interested). No need for a third party psu that you then have to make fit the case somehow. Cheers

@WayStedYou 9 ай бұрын

The old 700 dollar, 168 dollar pc trick

@shawnjuarez5469 9 ай бұрын

I am looking to upgrade my Lenovo 510A. I bought it for work. I don't do much gaming on it since I use it for mostly for everything but I would like to have to to game during my down time.

@soupwizard 9 ай бұрын

6:21 If I understand what you meant, you're concerned that a dual sata to pci-e power would pull too much power? That dual adapter would have worked fine; the dual connection means it could deliver more power, but the actual load would be determined by the video card's power load (75W - what it gets from pci-e slot). You could connect either one or both of the sata connectors and it would be fine. If the pc refused to turn on, it would not be a problem with the power adapter. (Note: sata connectors are rated for 54W max, so don't try pull more than that per sata connector)

@rdc3830 9 ай бұрын

You did great on price

@nathanburg 9 ай бұрын

I had similar issues building my sff gamer. Got a 5040 opti and a a2000 gpu: gpu didnt fit the space. Then i got a elitedesk 800 and it fit. Then adding new ssd didnt work, but adding new m.2 ones did so more money there. Ended up adding a 6400 to the optiplex and have two mini pcs now

@user-ll4on9my7h 8 ай бұрын

Once you have built a proper PC and are upgrading its a lot cheaper. I bought a 750w PSU.... I am essentially NEVER going to need to upgrade this PSU .... I bought a 5700xt... I do not need a new video card for years now... Currently using AM4 socket so I can upgrade to AM5 when I feel the need... but DDR5 ram is over 2x the cost of DDR4 and the processors are also 2x as expensive... the only thing similar in price are the MOBOS.... When I upgrade a PC all I need to buy is a case and a PSU to replace my good one.. I move my video card to the new pc and throw an old video card in the older PC... then I can give that to someone who needs one or just keep it as a backup/bot farm ... My old PC is using an i5-4460 and a GTX 950... It can still game on low settings. Upgrading the graphics card it could play most modern games on low settings but the i5 is only a Quadcore so really its getting pretty dated as most games are starting to only run good on 6 cores or more especially if made with Unreal Engine 5.

@kaboomkp 8 ай бұрын

Pricing is so interesting for second hand components

@Ampraa 9 ай бұрын

I could watch this guy build PCs all day

@JairDoel7 9 ай бұрын

THANK GOD SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING W THIS. CAUSE I HAVE ONE OF THESE BUT IDK HOW TO MAKE IT

@RevDrCCoonansr 9 ай бұрын

When and where do we get to choose the PC you daily drive ?

@TheAMVsyclone 9 ай бұрын

btw u can def put like a newer rtx on it 100% and switch to a full psu if you don't mind having the psu outside the case and the case open so the bigger gpu could be in there its kinda ghetto but it just works

@nupagagyi 9 ай бұрын

The power button problem isn't obvious. It's a rather niche problem. My first thoughts when a PC refuse to work are: reseat everything, maybe it's the PSU, RAM, or mobo. Power button is probably not on my "why this doesn't work" list at all.

@R3TR0J4N 9 ай бұрын

Dude wtf!?!? 👏😤 let's go Oz

@Duncan-Donuts 3 ай бұрын

With the front panel on these 5 series optiplexes you need to remove them

@modifiedlandfish 9 ай бұрын

I tried this with an older optiplex and a rx 580 and ran into that obstruction problem with the case too, I ended up sawing a hole in the metal nd it work gr8

@spuryaas 8 ай бұрын

This is so relatable! I sometimes upgrade PCs and laptops for my friends and colleagues, and EACH AND EVERY TIME this require some stupid shenanigans to work properly. 2 days ago I bought Sata SSD and optibay (DVD to SSD/HDD adapter for notebooks) only to find out that this particular laptop HAVE NO DVD-ROM. There were just plastic stub and no Sata connector inside😅

@Phxric 9 ай бұрын

I wonder how much performance you'd get on a 720p display instead of 1080p. Great video as always.

@nojasoo 9 ай бұрын

I built this pc for 150 € and I think it shreds :) [GPU] AMD RX580 8 GB [CPU] i5-3470 [RAM] 8 GB [SSD] 1 TB Samsung HDD [HDD] 256 GB Samsung [PSU] Chieftec 750W [Case] no-name ATX The machine orignally came with GeForce GTX 750 and cost 100 €, I sold the GPU for 15 € and for 65 I got the RX 580. Ofc prices vary, this was in Estonia.

@ezecskornfan 9 ай бұрын

lol you sure went overboard, proves you love doing this... but please do tell: what you'll do with the rest of the parts? also, the button moment lol.

@RespekfulFungus 9 ай бұрын

A couple months ago I got an Opti 3070 i5 9500 for $100, I received laced the ram and added a $100 used Gtx 1660 with a sata adapter. It’s running like a champ.

@lastinline1958 9 ай бұрын

I feel your pain. My own story of my attempt to build an affordable upspec pc is one of woe and ennui, costing me about 4x what it should have. Oh well, I ascribe the additional money as the cost of education (so I don't cry).

@ARCbirdman 9 ай бұрын

have u tried a second hand 3090? they come pretty cheap and are great in budget builds

@anthonybenallie3059 9 ай бұрын

I bought this same PC for 80 dollars. It came with a i7 6700, crucial 500gb ssd, 16gb ddr3l and the same video card in your video. I bought a rx 550 on amazon for 35 bucks. Plays really great for the price. Used mostly for free games on steam and Warzone 2.0 multiplayer.

@josefinarivia 8 ай бұрын

Yooo I had no thought of this at all. My moms laptop recently broke and thankfully we had another one she could use but it made me think of future prospects if that one dies. I was thinking a desktop would be best instead of another laptop, and I had no thought whatsoever to check for mini tower or micro towers secondhand and then do upgrades. My mom uses Linux so if it can't handle windows 11 it doesn't matter. Thank you so much for this video!