These older machines are ideal as a home server/media server. I did a similar thing with an old thinkcenter M93p that came with a 4th Gen i5. Had still had an old I7-4790 laying around and eventually with 32Gb of ram, a Nvidia GTX 1650 low profile all controlled by Unraid this machine is the heart of my home media center. Stuffed it away in s computer cabinet in the garage and works fantastic. I have my full media library running on it using Jellyfin. Got a private Minecraft server for the kids and their friends so it's only them on the server, Pihole, SQL server and even a Virtual machine with IIS. Unraid uses docker containers to run all the different services. Made use of all my old Hardware including my old HDD's Only real thing I bought was a 10Gb Nic and that hooked up to the Router to distribute all (internet) traffic via a VPN without issues. Paid €80 for the computer, €35 for the Nic and 15 for delivery.
Hey we got the same system from the same seller. Same price and specs! Threw a radeon pro w6400 4gb gddr6 and a nvme adapter with 2tb for my media center pc running bazzite.
My friend, in order to get the FPS stats to appear when using msi afterburner while playing CS2 , under the launch options for the game properties inside of the Steam, add the following line: "-allow_third_party_software" And this will work, I too had issues before but this fixed it for me,
@@mkonji8522 yeah and that card costs $100 more than the K1200. Yet there are things that the K1200 can do that the 6400 (RX or Pro W) can't do. NVENC is one of them. Drive up to 4 displays is another. Not that either of these are a big deal for gaming, unless you also stream. Then... it might be crucial.
That build is good for low spec gaming. Valve games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 will have no trouble on it, because Valve have always made their games able to run on even lightweight hardware. (I played the first Half-Life on a ThinkPad 600.) SFV seems to have some minor display quality issues (might just be me) so Ultra SFIV might run smoother. I'm impressed that GTA V ran as smooth as it did. Sleeping Dogs might run well on it too. I will say that for a gaming computer, 256 GB won't be much storage to work with, so you should recommend to your viewers to get a 500+ GB SSD if they want to do something similar.
@@basicdadtech at least you got one that actually still has driver support, if nothing else. The K1200 is actually one of the better low-profile models, being also single-slot and not based on Kepler like you'd think by the nomenclature, but rather Maxwell (GM107 chip). In fact, it's one of the better-equipped boards in its class, with 4GB of GDDR5 memory and only a slight cut-down to 512 shaders, instead of the full 640 that are possible, but at least it's not 384 like some the K620 or 192 like the K420. The K420 has a cool name but that's where the coolness ends. At any rate, the K1200 is a *decent* card for the money. It performs about like an RX 550, with similar specs and capabilities. However, it looked like you were GPU-limited in just about every game; except Fortnite, which came the closest to pushing both the CPU and GPU. Maybe you should try with a better GPU? Like an RX 6400? Or even better, an NVIDIA A2000, if you have that. Or maybe a low-profile RTX 3050 6GB or RTX 4060 LP. None of those are cheap, though. And I guess if you were to go much higher than $300-400 total, it wouldn't be much of a "budget" build. But still, it'd kick ass. It would allow the CPU to really stretch its legs.
🙂 thanks for the benchmarks, i recommend everyone check their local area, its summer time and people are doing spring cleaning and selling some of their old computer stuff, so far i picked up three am3+ boards and an rx 570
Great video as always! It would be very interesting to see this PC with a RX 6400. I know that would bring the price way up but the performance would be way better, possibly. Maybe for fun you could try out various low profile cards that you have on hand like that W4100 as well. The wx4200 is ~25% faster than this card, according Techpowerup. Take care and thanks.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-79FwbgQZnBA.html - There is a 750 Ti (this card is about 20% slower and closer to a rx 550 in performance) for reference. Krssyp is using an 5900X and @ 1080p medium the card is averaging 33ish FPS. I would say were GPU bottlenecked here.
I think the gpu is a bit of a bad choice for gaming atleast. Gta v 1080p in low ie normal settings with 40+ is really not great for that amount of money. U could put like gtx 1650 instead or even gt 1030 i guess but that just my opinion ofc :)
Are you stupid or something? There are going to be several people selling the same model for different prices, this person just happened to find one for $120.
