Hearing "GTA V" and "Absolute Classic" in the same sentence really makes me feel old

these optiplex's also have unofficial support for equivalent & cheaper xeon CPUs & ECC registered memory

35 fps in cyberpunk! I was not expecting that

Yup Yup Yup!!!!, this is the way, i bought one of this for 1 of my friends, bought it for 99$ with a core i3 2100 4gb ram, and 250gb hdd, and upgraded to a 3770, 1tb SSD and a GTX 1650 LP, and 32gb of ram!, now its a beast hahaha

Cause of next gen, the Fortnite medium settings are the same as the old high now. That might be the reason for fps dips, keep up the good work!

Love seeing the cheaper alternatives. If only I had seen this earlier, I wouldn’t have sold my kidney for my rig :( a 1050ti is more worth than selling your organs

GTAV still looks superb and the fact it runs so well is a real testiment to its optimisation

As someone who is currently doing a SFF build...This is helping me loads👍🏾👍🏾...Thank you sir.

That's one of the best Optiplexes I've seen. A great fansink with copper heatpipes and two PCI-E x16 slots. You're lucky to find something like that.

Props for making all these videos about older tech. It is really delightful to see older hardware still packing a decent punch and it's really environmentally friendly to reuse these old systems that still work.

This is what I really like about your contents, you gave any PC their best improvements. Even the old ones get their full potential shown. You never failed to amazed me with showing how old PC's get their full potential.

I love these type of videos keep them up my g

I love seeing optiplex budget builds so much! This video is no exception! Great job!

I started with a Celeron G470 and GT 610, and now have a Ryzen 9 5900X and RTX 3070. Don't lose hope.

Your videos are always so relaxing to watch, thanks! I recently came across a dump of dell optiplex's in a thrift shop, one of them looked really new and had an i5 8600, 8gb dual channel in it for €50. Threw a cheap gt 1030 in there and turned it into an emulation beast 😎

Love this guy I really just more understanding and info about pc hardware here

Great video as always RGinHD :) It's fun to know how capable an optiplex system can be, with the right components ofcourse

Can’t get enough of the channel!

Very nice!!! Do keep us posted,about the temperatures inside this little pc!!

Great Video. Especially because those Small Old PCs are everywhere.

I remember about 5 years ago I had a set up very similar to this. I bought a cheap Lenovo M91p SFF and smacked a low profile 1050 ti in that thing. I have to admit that thing was a trooper, and it was great price to performance at the time. Man I miss when the 1050 ti low profile was still cheap.

love your work

Great video 😀 this is where I started my journey with building pcs 🖥 you don't have to have a mega costly high end pc to have fun 😀😄 I still have a asrock deskmini with a 3400g and still enjoy using it alongside my main gaming rig 🥰

Finally a channel that's giving solutions rather than click baiting us with false hope. I subscribed immediately!!

When my best friend's PC died on them, I bought an Optiplex 780 with a i5-2400 for cheap off eBay, tore it down, gave it a good clean and a coat of spray paint or three. I chucked in a low profile GTX 1050 (back when they were MSRP), scrounged around for 12GB of RAM, and velcroed an SSD inside as the bootdrive. It was meant to be a temporary gaming PC while we got a brand-new build sorted so I tried to spend as little as I could. That was over 3 years ago and it's still going lol. My friend mainly plays GTA Online and The Sims 4 and it's still fine in both of those games. They remove the side panel while gaming to keep temps down which definitely helps. It was a fun little tinkering project for me with bigger than expected payoff in terms of lifespan, and I have massive respect for any Optiplex builds/mods as a result lol

Nice racing, WattledChicken!

It's good to see someone actually building the spec I have

Even though I just spent 2300 on a PC I still love watching videos like this

I would have liked to have seen you bench mark the before and the after, so you can see exactly how much better it is. I put a low profile 1650(back when they were $160) in a 4th gen i5 optiplex for my buddy's kid and they love it, plays everything they throw at it well enough. These really are great "bang for the buck" PCs.

These computers make great compact budget gaming machines. I ran a 390 SFF with a GT 1030, an SSD, and 8gb of pretty nice DDR3- all stuff I had lying around. It did a pretty decent job. It helps that you can quite literally find them being thrown out all the time, too- I've probably fixed up and sold at least 5 of them at this point.

Well played, sir.

the only video that actualy helps

THIS IS THE VIDEO I NEED THANKS

Thank you for this, I've been planning on sticking a Quadro k620 in basically the HP variant of this and was doubting it would work. Now I know!

welcome to my first gaming PC, although mine was 'upgraded' with a GT730 back then. Dirt cheap way to get into PC gaming and taught me a lot about system building. Incidentally the SFF optiplex I had the full length PCI slot was in the bottom of the 2 expansion slots so I had to find a low profile, single slot GPU. OEM PSU and Mobo became the biggest issue in upgrading.

I have one of these lying around, except its an optiplex 780. It has a second-gen i5 and some horrendously slow 4gb of ram. I don't even want to try to game on it but I must say these things are very good for keeping important files and for making backups.

Good job dude..It would be cool if you did a rundown of pre vs after upgrades.

Did something not too far from this nearly a year ago, I manage to snag an Optiplex with an i5 2500 and GTX 1650 Super. Then later upgraded to an i7 2600, though not a huge difference, it did help with games that utilized the hyperthreading on the CPU.

Thanks for getting me into pc gaming my guy o7

I remember the glowing GTX on the 770/780/ti before rgb was a thing. I loved it and now i got one in my showcase ❤️

I’ve done a similar build with a small form factor Dell from that generation. In 2020, graphics cards were much cheaper so I opted for the GTX 1650. Otherwise I’ve chosen the same CPU and same amount of RAM. And I upgraded to a 480 GB SSD. Never regretted building this machine. Works fine for gaming with Steam on Ubuntu.

Great video! There is a ton of older games this rig could run. One of my favourites, Civilization 5, should pose no problem for this machine.

I just upgraded my own optiplex. Dremmeled out the side panel, ran my 980ti with a riser. Trick is to get that proprietary mobo power socket adapted for a standard ATX PSU. 1440@120 to the TV is slick. The empty space from the old PSU is perfect for hiding the other psu cables.

This video is super timely as my i7 3770 is currently on its way and this gives me an idea as to what I should expect. I have similar build (i5 3570 + 16GB) except that I have a 1650. Hopefully, the 3770 combined with my 1650 will provide slightly better results than your config. Great video, as always. Cheers.

I was rocking that same CPU for the last 4 years in an Optiplex - finally had to upgrade last month - amazing CPU for 60-144fps at 1080p with a 1060 👊🏻

I love these SFF PCs, you can do some fun tinkering to them. I have a maxed out elite 8300 and it feel like a modern system in many cases.

This is my exact current gaming and work station. While I can't game maxed out at 1080p all the time, it's still a very competent rig for gaming, emulation, editing and music production. Might upgrade when prices go down and I start to make more substantial money, but for now this works surprisingly well!

This guy can turn anything into a gaming pc

The trouble with the newer Optiplexes is that the 16x slot is right up against the power supply and you can only run a single slot GPU in it. I have an i5 4590/GT1030/8GB. It was my gateway to PC gaming and is now the KZfaq and Netflix box.

I did something similar with a Haswell-era Optiplex for a back up machine. I used a Quadro P1000 instead of a GTX1050/1050Ti as it was cheaper at the time. Not sure how things are currently with the GPUppocalyse, but it used to be that lower end Quadros would often plummet in price when they got old, so were worth keeping an eye out for.

it turned out into a relatively acceptable rig with those upgrades, the power supply was quite the mvp there

These videos really show the reality of diminishing returns. I've got a decent mid-range gaming PC, but I could deal with something like this. Hell, I've had a great time gaming on weaker hardware.

i Have a 7010MT, it has a i5 3rd gen, 8gigs of ram, and a rx560, i fell in love with the beautiful case, and even when i upgrade to ryzen (probably soon) i will keep the case

I just finished upgrading 2x optiplex 3020 mt’s. 16gb 1600 ddr3 in both, i7 4690 in one with an upgraded psu and 750ti. The other upgraded to an i5 4570, 16gb ram and a 1030gt. (Ssd’s fitted) -both were cheap to put together and work well -very happy -would recommend

That is a surprisingly well balanced system

Cyberpunk 2077 running like that is cool to see on that kind of system.

Nice to see that my mom's PC is capable of running some games - in case she wants to play some :D

i currently still use the 3770 in combination with my 1060 3gb and it works like a charm for my use.

And now it's better than my PC 😁 Same config, but a 1050 (9-9-9-24 RAM though).

One nice thing about these low-profile cards is they are super easy to “Noctua fan mod”. The biggest reason to do this is none of the low-profile cards have “Zero-RPM Mode”. My Zotac Low Profile 1650’s MINIMUM fan speed is 40%!!! To fix this fan noise issue, I strapped two 60mm Noctua fans on with zip ties. It’s nearly silent at 100% fan speed and runs cooler at full load (fan speed only goes to like 50% when the GPU is at 100% now). I got a VGA fan adapter thing (2pin -> 4 pin Y-Cable), so both Noctua fans are controlled by the GPU fan header! I love it lol.

i got an OptiPlex 3020 off eBay 8 months ago and ive been happy with it ever since, it came with an i5-4570 and 8gb ddr3 but i upgraded it to 16gb ddr3 and i added a gt 1030 because the 1050 would not fit (yes it was low profile) and i overclocked the gt 1030 debloated windows and i would say it matches the performance of this build and if not even provides slightly better frames especially in red dead

thanks for the video, now I understand that my Dell Optiplex 3020 will fit +/- a normal video card, and the unit will hold up, at least I hope for success, because the models are slightly different

i WAS about to go play some mauer der toten, but THIS is good content

I love my i7 3770! Was gonna buy an i5 2500k and thinking of overclocking but I have no good knowledge on OC-ing so I went with 3770 back then. Had a 750ti back then and still works amazingly with my rx480 right now . :)

classic content

This is probably this best thing to buy if your only looking to do smaller games at fast speed like Minecraft or Roblox. I play both with a similar setup and it was amazing.

1050ti is a beast! I have the exact same rig and it holds up surprisingly well in 2021. The CPU i7 3770 however is showing its age on CPU intensive games like Total War warhammer games.

Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge were really solid processors. I managed to overclock the i7-2600k high enough to match the performance of newer generation intel chips, with no cooling problems whatsoever. Those generations were really OP when it came to performance.

My daughter plays on a similar Optiplex, I also upgraded it with a 1050TI and it plays every thing she wants well. I got a caddy off amazon to replace the DVD drive that holds and SSD that I made the boot drive. My daughter optiplex has an i5-2400 and 8gb of ram, so eventually I'll copy you and upgrade the cpu to an i7 3rd gen and increase the ram to 16gb to give it a bit more life.

Built a 3570k + 980ti in march, still runs anything I throw at it in at least a mix of medium/high settings. Both overclocked though.

deadass my first pc (owned by me anyway) , now ive got an rx 6700xt with a ryzen 5 3600. Big ass jump

One thing to note on the CPU upgrade... if you're upgrading to an i7, or HT Xeon, from the i5, you will have to go into the BIOS to enable hyperthreading as it will default to off in the OptiPlex systems.

I have a Optiplex 3010, and I should definitely upgrade it further.

Amazing upgrade. I'm building a new system with a Ryzen 5600X, but until then, I'm still rocking my old Xeon X5650 (upgraded from an i7-950!) with a 1050ti. 16Gb is indeed the sweet spot for gaming, only thing I would recommend, if possible on a budget, is to get the fastest memory modules you can. Maybe also replacing that case fan with something better like a Noctua one (although they aren't the cheapest), and definitely ditching that DVD drive, which could help improve airflow and temperatures inside the case... :)

I also have 3770 and its still capable of 1080p gaming

I used to have an optiplex that I used for many games but it was really stuttery and hardly ran more demanding games that I liked even on low settings. It had an i5-3470, R7 360, 520w old psu, 3x4gb 1333mhz drr3, 120gb ssd, mobile 1tb hdd. After upgrading, 20 fps feels nice cause it's not stuttery anymore

Yoo nice. Ive got a similar build (my dad's actually), i7 3770, 16gb ram, optiplex 9010 with a msi GT 1030 GPU (fan model). Ive done some benchmarks and gaming tests on there and I'm really happy how it performs considering it costed only $300 AUD (£161), the CPU cooler is absolutely fine, better than what most Dell gaming prebuilts offer now, but the GPU does run a little hot at 80 degrees Celsius.

Blew 2 psu over a year with a lower power gpu upgrade.. so good luck.. they do run nice and cheap

I have the same set up but 1650, it kick ass with most modern games

These are my favorite kind of videos

I love these vids, I find them more entertaining than those overpriced 3080 ti builds and such. I like the creativity of squeezing value out of hidden gems

Got the exact same optiplex, upgraded to 3770, 1tb ssd, 16gb ram, cut a hole in it and put in a 1650. I also painted it, to make it look rusty, put some chains and stuff on it. Like a "mad max" kinda build. Runs great😁🤘

I tried to do similar, but with GTX 1660 ti, running with Secondary PSU. Unexpectedly worked very well

This is basically what I did this January. I made a budget build from new and used parts from Kijiji. I5 3550 with an r9 280x

I dunno why but I love your videos. I enjoy making my own computers but I love seeing you picking up crap and turning it into something nice. Proof you can polish a turd.

I am planning on a $200 budget PC out of an optiplex 9020 so this is usefull

i have an idea or like could you try to play vr games like vrchat when you have one or can get somewhere a vrheadset and btw good video like Always :D

I turned one of those into a heck of a pc for my daughter. Nice for a pc I bought from work for $50. I put it in a new case. There is a thing for the power switch off of ebay you can get to work for the power button.

i have one of these, the i5 version, 1050ti, 12gbram, 500gb ssd, 1tb hdd, had to remove the dvd drive for the hdd but i never used it anyway, had it for a year this month, hasnt let me down yet

2 possible solutions to avoid overheating: 1) leave the case open, it should lower temperature real well. 2) leave the case open AND buy an external PCIe card holder with PCIe 16x cable, to relocate the gpu in a favorable position. In this case, it will run a lot cooler!

A good match. I'd actually call it a build.

I have a 1650 in mine and I'm very much enjoying it. Was playing Fallout New Vegas at native 4k high settings with a solid 60fps. (No I'm not lying). It's insanely awesome and I'm genuinely surprised it can do that. Warzone on the other hand struggles to maintain 60fps but it plays fine. All in all, very happy with the machine. Much better than a base xbox one or ps4 around the same size.

have this same setup but with an i5 2400 works grate

i7 3770($60 USD) + 1050 Ti($160) in an HP 8300($50 retired uni pc) tower was my gaming workhorse for three years until I finally upgraded to a 3800x + RX 590 this month! The 3770 was amazing and still holds its own in 2021. I did a lot of Warzone and Skyrim and it was all good.

Dell and Intel have been surprisingly good options (but only at key moments in time, such as Ireland) for components to go into mboards (even mboards bare in features) which are not made in the orient (like LAN NICs), and almost we had intel to be made here in the British Isles (but recently they have told us to sod off). Intel have iGPU on the CPU which can do virtualisation and are about as powerful as an nvidia 1030 (but sometimes with more RAM for video). It's their iGPU which makes them worth it _(even though many people slag it off, wrongly comparing it to powerful GPU cards)._ Were it not for that, I'd have preferred some sort of open-power thing instead (IBM). ARM (like USB) has been a massive pain in the arse but you simply have to know how to use it and live with it. Now ARM seems to be going, OpenPower is a very good option. Power-saving can wait.

Optiplex watercooling when? OPTIPLEX👏WATERCOOLING👏WHEN?!👏

12:56 is a fitting metaphor for the penalties of the Euro final...

I did one of these before but it was the mini tower model and I changed the power supply also. 3770 and 1060 6gb. Add a SSD and you've got a Solid PC.

Iam so happy. Have write on severall of youre videos that you shud slap a 50 w gpu in it.

My dad's had an optiplex 790 sff for nearly four years as a family pc running Ubuntu, it has a 2400 and room for a low profile 1050 so I'm tempted to clean it up, replace thermal paste and possibly add a fan and get a gpu to sell on.