A Fast Low-Cost Awesome SFF Gaming & EMU PC! RX 6400 RDNA2 Power 

People can hate on 6400 all they want. There's no doubt about it. This is the single fastest slim low profile card out there. If this is all the room you've got. What else you going to pick, a GT 1030?

6:54 wow, that level of performance in the witcher 3 is definitely luxurious for what this machine is. I'd buy one immediately.

These budget build videos are by far my favorite. All the different combos and out comes. The possibilities are endless and considering the massive prices drops on hardware we are seeing it's getting affordable to do these again.

For roughly $225, a setup like this is pretty hard to beat in the small form factor category.

I've missed these budget gaming pc builds, glad to see another one, especially with the price of PCs and computer parts right now.

I recently switch from a GT1030 to an RX6400 on an optiolex 3070 (i5 9500) and the difference is night and day! It’s running at PCIE3 speeds but it works miracles.

Awesome budget build Prime. I love these vids and no one does them better than you, thanks.

Every morning I look forward to your content. Thanks!

Amazing build like always ETA !

I did the same thing to my old office pc, i put in a used i7 4790, 1tb ssd and the rx 6400. The pc runs great and i can play everything i want at 1080p

Thank for this ETA 🙂!

I honestly LOVE these office PC builds. I personally have a Lenovo M93p SFF rocking a Xeon e3 1230v3, 32B of DDR3 and a low profile GTX 1650, and it has gave me a great experience and will play anything i throw at it

Would love to see more vids on rx6400 being used on other SFF optiplexes, such as the 7020/9020. Even better if you get the i7 variant!

Awesome just what I was looking for

Great oneeee like always thanks buddy

For those asking, this is the 180w PSU, zoomed in and can see the P/N 0N8D59.

It would be a great idea to compare these RDNA2 with the last gen Ryzen Vega APUs, for example in a Ryzen 2400/3400G system. Just to see how much of an upgrade this would be. And since this is an 60 Watt isch card, it could be a great option for an HP OEM PC with such a Ryzen APU but only a 180 Watt PSU.

I recently made a similar setup. I got a Lenovo Thinkcentre SFF at an estate sale for $50. It had an i5-6500 and 16GB RAM. I already had a spare 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD and I put in the same RX 6400. I'm very pleased with the performance for what it is. It runs LEgo Star Wars and Minecraft for the kids, and I'm thinking I'll make it an emulation box.

Videos as inofrmative as always and relevant. I decided to look for some reviews of this gpu with a very similar machine to the one you have and came here as the first port of call because of your varied budget builds. I decided to go up from the 7500 to the 9500 due to the extra couple of cores and only another £50 on cost. so got a machine that is pretty good for my daughter and some low level gaming on minecraft and such for £320! As always thank you for your the quality content you continually put out.

this is nice, love the small pc unit. cool

Influenced by your videos I recently bought an inspiron 3647 for $15, I put an R7 240 and it emulates games beautifully 👌

Wow, the 6400 is honestly really impressive for the form factor and price point, honestly. Sure, it's not super powerful, but for the power draw and, more importantly, for a SINGLE SLOT GPU, this is pretty unreal. No hate on a good entry level card, because the entry level market needs it. This is what the 6500XT should've been.

I'm really looking forward to seeing more RDNA2-3-+ sff systems.

I have exactly this small form factor pc. this is what I need

I am a big fan of the 6400. Like I said in the other post, I have it in an Optiplex 9020 with an i7 4790. Unfortunately this is even an older board with PCIe 2.0, but still works great. I got the Sapphire 6400 and the XFX (both $159 now). More or less by accident I got two of them. I feel like the XFX is a bit louder under full load - in a X570 board with a 5700X in a PCIe 4.0 configuration. But this thing works awesomely well. In Manjaro, I now fully got VRR (Freesync) unlocked on it with a 1440p @144Hz mode on the desktop. That just enables variable framerate for a ton of games and most really run in +60fps at +1080p all day. With medium to high. I love it so much I am throwing my higher end cards out - until the next gen comes around. I might just replace the Optiplex with a better board to get to PCIe 4.0. Its a really amazingly well running small card. Where the 1650LP did stutter at times, this one just doesn't. And with HDMI 2.x and full VRR support it beats it any day (and actually has RT cores...haven't tried that, though). FSR does wonders for res scaling, but almost never below 1080p, rather beyond (except maybe Cyberpunk - which is fully playable and looks great on this card at near 60fps).

Excelente trabajo. Gracias.

Ive been following this channel and this is a good sff build considering it has m.2 and 3.5 inch drive inside

Please do another video and explore the different possibilities which PC with a similar form factor you can take/pick up used for a similar reasonable price as a basis for such builds. This would be absolutely my next build if I hadn't already an older workstation PC myself (albeit not SFF).

every once in a while can you compile some bench mark charts of the hardware combinations you use? i love the level you hover around that you feature on your channel. i love the SFF solutions you show and it'd be nice to see handhelds vs Apu builds vs sff+GPU

I got the same PC , i have so many low budget builds, but for genaral games this is more than useful, YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT, the PC works fine in my book

This build is insane for the price. Completely bonkers. I have a more powerful pc but I'm in awe at how cool this is.

A comparison with the RX 6400 - GT1030 - T1000 - GTX 1650 would be awesome!

TBH as far as older Optiplex SFF PC’s you really should aim for an i7 6700-7700 to pair with the 6400 for a SFF 1080p 60fps machine. An i7 variant would of only ran you maybe 50 dollars more.

I wonder if the Vulkan dips you see with some emulators can be blamed on the Vulkan shader cache being built on the fly. How severe are the dips, are they consistent? Great video as always, super interesting to see how the RX 6400 performs, I think it's a cool little card.

I love how is performance 🥰

Excellent, I'm just building one. My Optiplex 7040 includes an I7 6700 CPU. Previously I had one with the RX 550 but the RX 6400 can get more performance out of my setup

I am really impressed with the gpu running with this power supply, since the recommendation in the XFX page is minimum 350w. I have checked out the dell website and there says that this pc has a 180w power supply. Anyway thanks for the post!

I'm actually considering throwing a 6400 into my HP Z220 i7 3770 system. It'll be a nice upgrade over the old R7 450 2GB that's in it now, especially because it's an oem card that limits itself to 40w so it's even slower than specs show. Even slower than an RX550. So the 6400 will be a nice upgrade, and the IGP of the 3770 can still handle video playback tasks just fine. Other specs are a couple of 240gb inland ssds in raid0 (on par with entry nvme with 1200mb/sec speeds) , and 8gb ram (soon to be 16)

imo u should try to increase the settings to get only 30fps on the cases where you are cpu bound. GOW and cyberpunk probly could look amazing at native 1080p, no fsr, medium settings if you lock to 30fps

Can't wait for you to reach 1 mil

This video is JUST what I needed. I have an i5-8500 system that has the same 180W PSU and I've been looking at what GPU to add to give it as a gift. RX6400 it is :)

Hey what's up bro just want to say that congratulations for all your work it's really really astonishing that you have come all the way to this point I just wanted to ask you if we can get more information on the power consumption of the builds that you present since power bills are really really heavy right now

rx6400 in the video I think has a good cooling metode, using blower type. AMD must know because it will mostly used for sff PC. Right now I use gt1030 sometime had overheat, because of that I take off the side panel of my PC.

I'm seeing some hair appearance for the first time, keep it coming, ETA PRIME :D

I slapped one these bad boys into my optiplex 390. Plays most my games at 1080p. Looking into upgrading my i5 2400 to i7 2600 for better performance. Also found out u can use a Xeon E3- 1270 cpu.

I did something similar. I bought the Dell Optiplex 9010 SFF that came with an i7-3770. Obviously the i5-7500 will have the slightly better single core performance, However the i7-3770 not only has 4 cores, but 8 threads which can definitely be utilized by modern games where it will shine better. A disadvantage of the older i7 is that you're gunna be using ddr3 as compared to the i5's ddr4. But another advantage of the older SFF optiplexs is that you CAN fit the chonky sized GTX 1650 in there. I personally bought the Gigabyte 1650 low profile and it's a tight fit, but a fit nonetheless. The pc will run a bit hot under 100% utilization. The cpu averages 80C (No thermal throttle whatsoever) while the 1650 probably would run just as hot but I have a temp limit set at 75C through MSI Afterburner as I don't want to burn out my $400 gpu. There's a couple ways to look at this. Is it worth it? Depends on the Individual. I personally love mine but you need to limit your expectations. For example, It kicks the snot out of a PS4 or Xbox One console and it's the same size. Is it better than the Series S or X? Or a PS5? Absolutely not. I spent about $600 putting mine together. The pc was used off of ebay for $200 but it came with the i7-3770 and 8 gigs of ddr3. I added the other 8 gigs of ram for a total of 16 gigs because I happened to have some spare parts laying around. As I said earlier the 1650 cost me about $400 new. Is it a great pc? Yes. Is it the best for the money? No. I personally wanted to do this because I wanted a pc to keep at my parents place for when I visit them but I didn't want it to take up a bunch of space. I needed it to be small and easily portable. Therefore it was worth it for me individually to do it. But money for performance wise, the consoles are a better value. Especially the Series S. So why did I want this pc? Because it's a pc. I can do all the things on it like I do with my pc at home. I'm not locked into a proprietary environment. I don't have to pay for an online subscription and I have access to all the games on my steam library. It boils down to you, what you value more.

Excellent video but what is the power supply of this Optiplex 3050 SFF? I see that the XFX Speedster SWFT105 RX 6400 is recommended at 350 Watts minimum ?

Great build, not easy to get 3050SFF at this price though.

I want to come Back to PC Gaming because of many classic PC Games and Emulation. I was out since 2017. I doesn’t want to put much money in it. So I got a HP ProDesk 600 G1 with a i5-4570, 8 GB DDR3 Ram and a 500 GB HDD for 75€ on EBay. After that, I build it up with a RX 6400, 16 GB Ram and a 500 GB SSD. Now I can Play everything what I want in 1080p and every Game and Emulation runs smooth. I’m totally happy with this Build.

this card is amazing. really want to build a super small form factor pc centered around emulation with it. any case recommendations?

I did the same with an Antec VSK2000-U3, but with a Ryzen 2700 and a Saphirre RX 6400 but for HTCP use. ( MSI B450 Mortar Max, 32 Go Ram, 2 x Nvme, 1 SSD 2.5' 1 TB and 1 classic HDD 1 TB.). The entire setup cost me 800$. The low profil RX 6400 is just the best low profil and single slot GPU available.

I’ve got a dell Sff with i7 8700 and I’m so tempted to build one of these.

Missed opportunity to pair it with an i5 6400. Would have been fun to hear it being said back and forth.

cant wait for laptops and all-in-one with those chips

Hey again prime! 👋🏽 i talking to you about eGPU's the other day and i would love to see you do one of those videos, with this card! I would love to buy this card but the aussie dollar is crazy right now, 300 for one of these cards and its still has to get shipped 🤦🏾‍♂️ awesome video anyways 👍🏾

Would the RX 6400 paired with a i7 9700 be able to do 4K GameCube, you think? I have a Dell 7070 same form factor that I’d like to use :)

Hi ETA Prime your vids are always mindblowing. Where do you get these emulators? Do you have a vid for these emulators?

Would love to see a head to head against the 1650 and 1050ti on PCIe 3.0. I desperately want to upgrade an older optiplex system and Im looking to get the best LP solution possible.

Ive always wanted a Galax 1070 Katana for my collection there’s not to many 1 slot med tier cards and the 1070 was pretty power efficient. But people are asking 3080ti prices for them used i don’t want one that bad. Just built an itx build with spare parts I have a 3900x, 120mm aio, radeon vii but might swap the radeon vii for a reference 5700xt just to use a smaller psu.

I hope we get a 7400 or a 4050 soon with more power for dGPU SFF builds. This is a segment that has stagnated since the release of the 1650. The 6400 was a nice surprise but we had the 1650 at the same price point and performance tier before the GPU apocalypse.

I have a DELL 7070 SSF computer, with a i5-8500 CPU, a AMD Radeon RX-6400 LP graphics card, Kingston FURY Beast 16GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory, and a SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB NVMe SSD. This model did not come with a case fan, nor are there any 4 pin sockets available for such. There is only the one 4 pin socket for the CPU. But on top of adding a case fan, I wanted to speed up the CPU fan as well, but no fan control options are available here either. So I purchased a slow silent 80mm case fan, and a fan splitter cable that is now plugged into the CPU fan connector. I have the slow CASE fan functioning as the master fan(all 4 pins in use), and the CPU fan as the slave(sensor pin removed). So for the MOBO to get the slow fan up to the typical CPU fan RPM that it wants, it has to increase the PWM to a higher setting. This in turn has the slave CPU fan spinning much faster than before. In turn I get a lower CPU max temp if pushing the CPU activity to 100%. So that helps the CPU keep cooler, and the case fan helps the GPU keep cooler as well. Okay. now its game time.

Seems like it would work well for a budget visual pinball build.

I fully believe that everyone hating on the 6400 are viewing it in the wrong light. The card isn’t trying to compete in the full ATX space - it’s a card meant for relatively low-power systems like this, to give them a boost and make them capable of modern gaming, albeit at probably low settings.

Love an sff build. There are a few around these days with six core cpu's (i5 8500). I dont really game enough to justify a £1000 pc so will maybe make another one of these in future. Currently got an sff with i5 4590 and gt 1030 lol. Plays the games i want well enough. wonder if amd will drop a 7000 series low profile card.

I'd love to see this GPU card paired with the new Minis Forum EliteMini B550

This is very similar to the performance you'd get out of a GTX 1060, which is still the most-used GPU on the latest Steam Hardware Survey. So I'd think you'd be good to play most games with this system. Not bad and shows it's still possible to do PC gaming for under the price of a current-gen console, even after the recent GPU insanity (which thankfully seems to be tapering off finally). You could also spend an extra $100 or so to grab an i7-7700 Optiplex and fix some of those CPU problems.

I have a pc like this at home ,I was planning to buy this GPU just so I can have something to play games on, tha is for showing this

You could also buy a 4th~7th Gen I7 SFF Optiplex cheap and have the extra threads. I would say 3rd gen but I'm not sure if the majority of them use 2.0 or 3.0. People still think that GPUs are going to go back to 2019 normal unfortunately these prices at least for the next couple of years are going to be the norm. It's a sad truth.

Just picked up my 9020 at a surplus and was looking at the 6400 for my next emulation machine. Pi's being hard to find at a reasonable price.

I managed to snag a free 8th generation i5 tower from work with 16 GB of RAM and a 256Gb SSD. My brother-in-law just started school not too long ago and is really in need of a decent computer for that. However he would really like to do some casual gaming and even though the 6400 is sort of poopy the low power consumption is perfect for the situation so we're getting one for him. He's very excited to play The Witcher 3 on Smart high settings!

thanks for the 20% off prime!!

I've got a 5060 with the 8500 i5 cpu and this card. I found that the lack of airflow was a huge problem with temperatures. The card could handle the games, but the temperatures rose steadily causing the fan to run at breakneck speeds and at loud noise. i'm returning the card and moving towards a larger case that can run cooler

for only 50 bucks more than a gt 1030, this is a steal, performs pretty close to a 1650 which costs twice as much and pulls more power.

I would really like to see how Red Dead Redemption 2 and Halo Infinite would run.

Nice to get an actual useful sponsor slot too lol.

an annual used OptiPlex gaming episode is always welcomed.

Oh I've got a hold of a few. Dell optiplex's sff I'm id love yo add these card to both of them with my kiddos(which is 7 btw) for their first builds. I can't wait till kidney on the black market sells to buy them with the prices. No seriously any body want to buy? ;-D

I'm the comment you're looking for: Yes! this GPU works very well on Optiplex 7050 and 7060 ... i7-8700 and this RX 6400

I still use i5 7500 bt my gpu is gtx 1050ti, I play valorant at low setting nd get easily 200+ fps in competetive. Bought in usedarket back in 2019 at very cheap price

I bassically have the same thing in an HP version(free in the recycle, otherwise i'd avoid HP) 9th gen i5 SFF M.2 and a 3.5 inch+slim optical bay. The bad thing about these cheap AF SFF machines is that they generally require single slot low profile(most older ones will support 2-3 slot cards but still requires low profile) So my option is a GT1030, or the swift 6400, I've found that as long as you keep modern games at 720p, or older games at around 1080p-1440p you'll be fine with PCIe 3.0, and even 2.0 Some older games even run at 4K decently well with less than 4GB of VRAM. Those older games required pretty good optimization with the cards of the time to push 1080p, so it works great on these newer low end cards.

How do you do the desk rain effect? I had that image also before.

Honestly I’m just glad sub 300$ entry level pc gaming is back

What about GPU's temperatures? I've Optiplex 3060 SFF with a Quadro T600 (I think is better than RX 6400 on PCIe 3.0 boards like this one), well the question is GPU works hotter than hell due its little distance to PSU and the lack of airflow in these tiny PC case. I'm looking for a good case mod for this PC in order to improve its airflow. Maybe you could make a video about it.

Best RX 6400 video on youtube

Dissidia! My fave! 😍

I love the 6400 its a neat card. I wanted to make a pc build with this card and a 3100. Would those be able to game well?

Would love to see SteamOS using Holoiso on a gaming rig eventually

Can you run Guilty Gear Strive as one of the fighting games. Thank you. Also your videos are awesome, thank you for everything you do. You are amazing!! :)

Watching this currently on a modded Optiplex 3050...

I have a SFF with an I7 9th gen, 16 gb ram but it has a 200w PSU. Will it handle this card?

@ETA Prime Are there are there any CPU's you could opt for? Maybe even a Ruzen CPU?

can you do a video on where you get all your active wallpapers

Those other graphic card would fit if you can switch to a slimmer psu like the iEi 280w-300w mini slim power supply going on eBay for 25 bucks.

Thank you bro i only choose low budget cpu

Hello , i want to know if it will work on my HP SFF 8200 it has 240 Watt in PSU , is it enough ?

I believe spending a tad much to get an optiplex 3060 would give you better performance. It has a 8th gen cpu so you can get 6core/12threads with a basic i5 and it's compatible with windows 11.

I recently purchased an optiplex 3050 but when i install the rx6400, windows does not boot and does not give video, the gpu works in other pc's. any idea?

Makes you wonder if for an extra couple of bucks this same form factor with something 8th gen or AMD 2 or 3000 series based would do with more cores and threads.

Seems like it is hard to beat the i7-3770 for an older optiplex SFF build. They are so cheap and 4 core 8 thread, curious how it would run on this build vs the much newer i5-7500.

What kind of temps are you getting? I have the same build and get like 90° on the GPU