$900 Dell Inspiron Gaming PC From 2016 - How's It Holding Up? 

Ikr I love how he showcases everything outside on the ground or in his garden

Literally in the garden

Thank God we don't have to endure: And in today's clip, sponsored by xyz....

@@DaveOJ Also over editing or the fake energy/excitement they show.

all my experiences with them have been awful haha

Not just wireless printers, printers in general.

Genuine evil

@@RandomGaminginHD I get it but I’ve had a brother laser jet for 8 years or so and it’s absolutely amazing. Cheap to run, wireless always works. It replaced a wireless printer that I had to trash.

@@AgentLazarus dot matrix works well.

😁

He sounds like my irish uncle

thank you! I was wondering the deal with that!!!

"Identical" isn't an acronym

i really wish my i7 would game like this but its so sluggish and i cant even run ow anymore 🥲

When gaming at 4K the GPU becomes a(n) (even) bigger bottleneck. So yea therefore the cpu probably doesn’t do much

@@samoerai6807 Indeed, only game I've played at 4k that my cpu is the bottleneck is Cyberpunk 2077. GPU only reaches 80-90% but I'm still able to reach 60 average on high settings so it still doesn't matter I guess.

@@Simmonsumers35 what gpu do you pair with the 6700? Also you could try a bit higher settings to make it more of a gpu bottleneck. It’ll give you better graphics, can reduce stutters, and in some rare cases it gives your more performance in fps. This is when your gpu is faster then your cpu and it’s not the bottleneck. By shifting the load to the faster component (the gpu) by increasing graphics settings, it may result in more fps

@@samoerai6807 I'm aware of all that but in CPU bottlenecked conditions at 4k the bahavior isn't as predictable from game to game. Sometimes higher settings just run way worse becuase in certain games it just can't get passed the weaker CPU no matter how hard you push the GPU. I run a RTX 2080 TI and like I said, only Cyberpunk 2077 has shown a bottleneck scenario where getting to 60 fps takes a bit of fiddling with settings. Any other game I don't struggle to get to 60 so upgrading my cpu seems unnecessary at 4k unless games suddenly get way more CPU intensive in the coming years which I doubt as the consoles are pretty weak this generation.

Thanks :)

Glad you enjoy it!

You still need the 8 pin PCIe power to the newer GPU for it to work with those GPUs. You first need to get an adapter from amazon since those Dell's are all proprietary.

Amazing. Always great hearing about some janky diy system that actually works

Thanks :) I still have loads of fun making videos so no plan to stop yet!

@@RandomGaminginHD Thats nice to hear☺ Good Luck & will be looking forward to the 500k-sub special vid👍😁😉

I’m terribly sorry, but you got it wrong.

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You had one job

Thanks :)

Yeah they are, and an ssd is sometimes all the old beasts need to get a new lease of life!

I've had similarly positive experience with Fujitsu prebuilts & mobos (save for the custom PSUs & PSU connectors they had later, kinda annoying). You could even overclock CPUs in their 775 mobos thru SetFSB and I even managed to get a gaming-stable overclock on a Pentium E5800 from 2.8 GHz to 3.5 GHz, then swapped the CPU for a quad-core Xeon thanks to the G41 chipset it came with which allowed pretty crazy combinations.

I also wondering how this will perform when combined with rx6400

@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 Not so great since it is PCIe 3.0, but better than this

@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 rx6400 will need PCIe 4.0 which this doesn't have

@@TheSpotify95 does it slower than 1650 without pcie gen 4 ?

@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 probably

1070 is still relevant for 1080p

Awesome. Enjoy your new PC

@@RandomGaminginHD Thank you hope to see follow up videos of your machine as well.

315W is enough to run an RX6600, just sayin'.

@@darthwiizius True but I found out about that psu after the system was up & running back with my nephew. May consider it for future upgrade if he holds on to that pc.

@@txslacker6179 I suppose it'll come down to the overall cost to benefit thing, a 6600 is about the highest performing card in that set up and the CPU may well bottleneck it. It's a good card for the cash and pretty efficient, but that's now. Who knows in a few months or a year though?

putting a modern GPU in this would be perfect the CPU isnt a bottleneck

@@dakotajones8010 you can't put a modern cpu in this computer the motherboard won't support it

@@jponz85 GPU a graphics card

@Dakota Jones gpu sure. My gf has an alienware aurora r4 and has same cpu but has a 1070 and runs games just fine 1080p high settings

You don't wanna put a 7700k or a 6700k even in there because you'd need a better cooling solution, which can't be done with that particular case/motherboard. Besides, the 6700 is still a very capable 1080p, 60fps gaming cpu. The videocard would be the best upgrade, and a 1650 could do fine with that, or a 1650super with a sata to 6pin adapter. That and make sure you have 16gb of ram and you an play any game in that computer, i assure you.

Did the upgrade help?

Thanks :)

If your PSU has two molex connectors not in use, buy a 2 molex to 6 pin adapter and use that.

It would be bottleneck as hell. The i7-6700 would just suffer.

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There's an idea for a video if it hasn't already been done. Skylake x DDR3 vs DDR4... how much difference does it make? Right now I have a Haswell and if I were to upgrade I would probably try to get something newer than Skylake, but prices can dictate purchases... but doesn't Windows 11 generally require 8th gen/Zen 2 or better?

@@SeeJayPlayGames I feel like the only quad core worth upgrading your whole system would be the i3 10100F/B450 combo is way cheaper than investing in Skylake. The i3 is quite a bit faster than the i7 6700 and you have a lot more upgrade potential with 10th gen.

@@yeetus59 B450 is for AMD. I think you mean B460. And for the same or less money, one could get a B560 instead and be able to go 11th gen later - if it's worth it, which I understand it isn't. But, either would require getting DDR4 memory, which I don't own any of right now. So maybe the cheaper option would be a B85 board and a i7-4790K or something, but those are a bit expensive. But at least I have RAM - 2 4GB sticks I'm not using right now and 2 8GB sticks that I am. All 1600MT CL9, so not great, but at least they're not 1333MT. Maybe a better route to repurpose my old 3020 would be to move the i5 and 16GB RAM to a B85 board, and get a cheap i3 to plop into it along with an SSD and 8GB of RAM. The idea is to set up a "better" computer for my wife as a side effect of my upgrade. She has an old Ivy Bridge Celeron 1007U (1.5GHz 2C2T) laptop, ugh - but hey, it was dirt cheap, like $50 and then I spent $70 on accessories for it, which can move to a new system. I think an i3 with 8GB and an SSD would be okay for her needs. She's into emulation (SNES/PSX/N64/GC), web surfing and light video editing (VirtualDub). Maybe leave the GT1030 in it as well, or at least put it in whenever I can get a real GPU and use the GT1030 for an interim solution. Meanwhile, I will have the option of going to an i7, but is it worth it over what I have? I think maybe not, not in the 4th gen. And maybe boosting up to 32GB RAM, but as it stands I've yet to max out 16GB. And with 4th gen intel, I might as well not bother with anything faster than GTX 1070/1080 or RX 590/5500XT, so that keeps things cheaper as well. Not trying to spend a fortune here. And yeah, 1080p is fine for my old eyes.

RX 6400 would be great in this system, I'm using one in an Optiplex 9020, i7-4790, 16GB DDR3 1600 and it does great. This i7-6700 is better with the same PCIe 3.0 slots so should perform a bit better in 1% lows. CPU-limited games like AC:Ody simply do not get 60FPS thanx to CPU bottleneck even with gfx at lo and the GPU far from 100% load, but most others with medium CPU load like H:ZD and SotTR keep the 6400 at 98+%

Actually just did that with a dell optiplex small form for my niece, got it for about 120 used. Came with a WD m.2, threw in 32gb of ddr3 to fill all the slots. Hooked up a new Kingston ssd for extra memory and threw in my used rx6400. Everything running while gaming only using a little over 100 watts and it works great at medium settings 1080p, also threw in a i7 6700 just because I found a used one for cheap. All in all I was very surprised on how well it gamed, only thing is heat because the gpu gets up to about 75 degrees C at 50 to 60 percent usage but should still be good.

@@lewzealand4717 that’s interesting, I love the budget side of the pc world. I was thinking of getting an optiplex system for my nephew and was thinking of GPUs small enough for them. Obviously the RX 6400 is the first to come to mind

@@Chevymonster203 I was thinking of doing something similar for my nephew 🤣 it’s good to hear as they are fairly cheap now after the shortage

@@Crayonmuncherrrr I figured she is going to play less intensive games anyways. The only thing is the space, the card is pretty close to the PSU but it's a front to back airflow psu so no extra heat from the unit reaches the card. Cpu won't break any cinebench records but it was running at like 55 percent on Skyrim at medium to high settings.

@aa aa That stinks...

Msi afterburner

Thabks :) yeah it would the 6700 is still pretty good

I’d like to see the. 4790k vs 6700 vs 7700hq

Like you actually bought it from Dell and not secondhand ? How/why would they pass off a 460 as a 560 ? Though back in the day some cards were basically the same and could be flashed, so It's definitely a thing. Just seems a bit scummy for Dell themselves to do, but it is Dell.

@@Gatorade69 From what I recall they have the same die, the RX 460 just has some CUs disabled, perhaps flashing the vbios did get the whole chip working? I do actually have an HP OEM RX 460 on hand, perhaps I should see if this works sometime.

@@Gatorade69 They flashed the bios and disabled some cores which effectively gave it the same specs as a 460. Comparing my benchmark scores on that system to a real 460 gave equal results.

One thing I noticed on the 8300 is the 10 USB ports on the thing, two wired in DP ports which can work with the onboard VGA, I am seriously thinking of hooking this up to me 51 inch telly and use the my HP Elitebook for my microscope instead, thing is absolutely silent even when running stuff heavy load, its running on my insomniac 1080p monitor not a problem as I found a converter dongle to turn it from DP to HDMI, damn and I just bought an android box for the front room telly :S

Yeah soon :)

@RandomGaminginHD random yes city

Still a great entry level gpu :)