How I turned a 7 year old PC into a $285 console killer 

PFFFT. That's nothing dude! I once turned a 7yr old PC into an 8 yr old pc, by just waiting 1 year!

Him: „Even 7 years old” Me: ***looks at 17 year old computer laying sadly in the corner***

Me: oh wait that pc looks familiar Looks at my pc

1 year later: “How I turned an 8 year old pc into a $685 console killer”

Oh look they upgraded my current rig

Kyle getting into Used Price Performance? insta like from me :P, though I was hoping instead of saying TLC you would have mentioned some TYL.

Best corpse to put life back into : Dell Optiplex

Linus would hate this pc... (left to right) RAM stick 1: Green with green top RAM stick 2: Green with brown top RAM stick 3: Black with grey top RAM stick 4: Green with brown top

Should've changed out the thermal paste to see if you got any better temps since corsair sent ya a box full of the stuff lol

I went to a goodwill and got a HP Envy with an i7 4770 and 16gb DDR3 for $10. i threw in my old 750 Ti and now my fiance has a dope ass gaming computer for Sims 3

Managing 60 fps in cod modern warfare 2019,apex, even gta (for the most part) with a i7 870(oc 3.7) and a 1060. Budget pc's are still a thing, and im glad that we can still reliably get an avg of 60fps 1080p with 10+yr old processors. Technology really is amazing.

I always love videos like this bc I work in a store that has an entire department dedicated to PC parts and I'd rather have somebody spend less to help their system along before they're ready to upgrade than have them buy too many upgrades before their actually ready for it.

RAM anxiety, cool. PSU anxiety, nail biting...

7:56 wait for the "That's what she said" look...and 7:59 The good'ol kyle 😁👍

I've said it once, and i'll say it again. This is exactly why I love pc gaming. I love how you can turn an office computer into a gaming rig by slapping a gpu on it and maybe upgrading the ram. Since they are office pcs, they'll likely come with a good cpu so you'll be good on that part. You can't really do this with a console.

Wow. This is really helpful because I have a prebuilt HP Pavilion that's about 8 years old and always think about how I can upgrade it. Thanks Kyle!

I love these videos, Kyle. They're more helpful to the community than those in which brand new high quality pieces of hardware are being put through their paces. Thank you.

Can you turn my 10 year old washing machine into gaming beast, I bet you can't

Great explanations, and nice suggestions, I really appreciated this video. Thank you!

Bitwit: "Is there any console under 285?" Xbox One S at 169 New: "Am I a joke to you?"

I'm currently studying to be an IT professional and I gotta say, I learn a lot from your videos. Thanks for being so good at what you do!

I love seeing big youtubers do budget content! Seeing all the same latest and greatest from 7 different tubers sometimes gets boring. Great video!

Love doing these projects. Would have liked to see you put everything in to a new case! Dont really need a window with green PCB mobo but even NZXT Tempest case ($30 used IIRC) with a couple intake fans! Great video!

6:38 PEFECT Explanation on the applicability of an SSD.. i'm just getting used to building comps, and that helped me realize that SSD isnt some mystical thing. Thanks! I have a 2005 Dell Dimension2400 and a 2009 Compaq SR5710 i'm going to rig up as "sleepers", thanks to this video (getting newer DDr3-4 Mobos of course)

>Ancient >5,6 or 7 years old Oh... Ok

Them ketchup and mustard wires are lookin “very nice” XD

My work had gotten rid of a few PCs. I asked the IT guy if I could take some home. I got two Dell Inspirons with i5 4440s and 8 GB ram as well as another with an i3- 2120 with 8GB RAM. Upgraded the i3 to an i5, and I turned all 3 into budget gaming rigs for family, adding SSDs. Used a 950 on the Sandy Bridge, and 1050ti on the 4th gen models (this was way before the current gen CPUs were announced). Everyone is happy with their performance

I can't express how much I appreciate the giant onscreen numbers. Every benchmarking RU-vidr should do this.

9:14 SSD installed, a few seconds later, SSD is totally unplugged in the following shot

You are missing some of that "Tech Yes Lovin", would have got you a few more FPS.

I have this exact Dell optiplex and now I'm going to play around with upgrades on my home office PC before I go all out on buying my first full gaming PC build. This video rocks

Well damn lol. My work recently chucked a ton of PC's like this. I was able to save one that had 4770 in it though.

I turned mine to HTPC. SSD , cheap graphics card with a Hdmi output and installed LibreELEC.

Good vid.. currently resurrecting my old 8370 build from most of my old parts.

I did something similar with my 2012 Gateway sx2380. Upgraded the processor to a 3.8ghz quad core, upgraded to 16gb ram, upgraded to 1tb & 240gb ssd drives, and a Yeston low profile single slot rx 550. I don't game, but I am getting into video editing with premiere pro and the upgrades helped big time.

I love that Dell Vostro it can fit into any ATX case and the power supply is not proprietary neither is the fan connectors

Perfect timing lol I just sat down to relax Edit: Thanks for the likes! That was quite unexpected

How i turned my perfectly good life into a crisis! For free

Thanks Bitwit! Of your recommendation of AMD 1600AF variant my new computer went flawless. Bad side during the human malware, ram was hard to find here in Sweden. So sadly I had only 2667 mhz but 32 gb in dual slot. I love your videos, it gives me ideas to cable manage. I will subscribe this channel!

This is good information! Thanks bro!!!

Great Video!!! Im actually working on a Dell Inspiron 530s and removing the guts into a new case.

I have the 7 years old pc , but I don't have 250 dollars 🤷‍♂️

I've become SSD evangelist at my office for upgrading our 10yo AMD Phenom X4 PCs. 😬

This is scary how close this is to my upgrade path, and I only just saw this video today. I even got the same brand memory as you, but it was 2 x 8G kit.

Currently have an optiplex 9010 only tested certified refurbished from my father's workplace with an i7 3770 and 16gb ddr3 cant wait till this summer to get a job an upgrade it into my new rig

This is literally the base of my pc , only mine has a couple parts swapped out because they died.

This video is very informative for me I am going to upgrade my lenovo h530 as you have done with this dell desktop Thank You 😊

What a difference 3 years makes! My 10 year old Shuttle SG41J1 that I've been trying to modernize has presented some unique challenges. The original Celeron 2.5 GHz dual core was upgraded to a 3.0 GHZ Core 2 Quad, a nice boost! CPU cooling was another issue. The stock Celeron cooler could handle 65W, but the new CPU TDP was 95W. I found a Thermaltake cooler that did the job, but it was a DC (3 pin) fan and the mobo can only control PWM, so the new fan always runs at 2500 rpm (cool, but noisy). Finding a PWM fan for LGA775 AND fits mechanically with the mobo layout turned out to be not so easy. SSD upgrade - check! The SATA-II ports were good enough for a new 240 GB SSD, which boots Win10 20H2 in under 10 seconds! With only 3 SATA ports, the never-used optical drive was removed in favor of additional HDDs. So far, so good. Adding USB3 to the stock array of USB2 ports seemed in order. The problem is there's one PCIe slot and one PCI(!) slot. The PCIe is really there only for GFX (installing anything in PCIe disables the on-board graphics!). So the PCI slot is really the only option. I found one vendor that sold PCI USB3 cards, but sadly, no joy. The card would not work with the mobo. The last challenge was RAM... the mobo supports DDR2-800 and has 4GB installed in its 2 slots (not bad for 2010). It can support 8 GB, but 4GB DDR2 sticks that are not AMD are really hard to find without blowing the budget. Sigh. Without the extra DRAM, spending for a GFX upgrade was just out of the question, and the project has gone to the back burner. So, while I have a quite usable, moderately fast 10-year-old system, sadly it will never be a console-killer. I think it's time to build a new system...!

still have a I7-920 with gtx570, was an old Acer prebuilt, guess i'm going for a new system though haha

Love the lofi beat on that install part

Cool man. I did something similar to my 6 year old HP Pavilion desktop which has served me well. I have 16gb of ram, a GTX1060 3gb card, and an i7-4790 pcu on the original motherboard. I'm going to start building a high end gaming computer next, just trying to figure out which parts I want to go for since I'll have to do it slowly because of money constraints. I'm liking your videos man, Happy Holidays!

this actually helped me a lot now i know what to buy , my pc frl broke yesterday , i frl need a new case cuz this one is banged up cpu and gpu also ram i need to add that too thats frl a new pc soo i at least know what to buy and what to not buy

Ivy bridge build is still awesome Paired with a 1060 and 16gb ram I have it as an extra pc which I let my nephews use

The YES Man is really good at recycling old pc's and parts, check out Bryan's work on his channel "Tech YES City"

this is the pc building vid that I can relate to. FINALLY!

Nice video. Really informative...

tbh I was kinda shocked when all the parts for the upgrade are actually the parts that i'm gonna use for my system upgrade x)

Thank you for actually upgrading the rig instead of making a new one and then putting in the same hard drive

My kind of PC-building. Nice vid!

got this same one 4 years later still pretty good!

the background music at 2:30 just makes me smile 😊

I'm using an optiplex with a i7 2600 and a 1060 it's a great combo

Any shirt that takes a piss outta the Verge PC build guide is fine by me. Cant wait to rock that out!!

I have that Patriot SSD, I have it for 2 years completely full, runs like I have bought it today, I own 5 of them, no problems, it is a MUST BUY

remember rgb always gives more fps

With SSD’s on the rise I think itd be awesome if you did a video about upgrading to an SSD without having to wipe the previous hard drive and everything on it. I know it’s not exactly your type of style but just with the sudden drop in price of SSD’s I think it would be interesting.

I did this very same thing back in 2012 with an Acer. Had a 2320k in it for $250 bought new. Threw in a couple upgrades like SSD and memory and left the side panel off. It gamed good for years. I could still get it gaming good right now.

Love these kinds of videos!

I wanted to try out what a "used" price/performance build is. So I just bought myself a second hand I5-2500k on a Z68 mobo with 8Gb of ram for $90, overclocked the CPU to 4.5 Ghz. Coupled with a second hand GTX 970 i also bought for $80. Wow its very satisfying! I am gaming on 1080P high settings flawlessly on a budget of less than $300 (Casing brand new $25, PSU second hand a Seasonic SII 520w for $25, SSD 128Gb $20 and 1TB HDD for $30). I used back my old 24" LCD 60Hz monitor and logitech G102 and Dell membrane keyboard.

Thank you Bitwit! Because of this video, I was able to breathe life into an old PC I came across. Dell prebuilt Intel DP55KG Extreme Series Motherboard Core i7 860 2.8Ghz Nvidia GTX 760 (added $50) Western Digital Blue 1TB PNY 240GB SSD (added $30) G. Skill RipJaws X 16GB (4 x4GB) RAM at 1600mhz (added $35) 2.4Ghz Wireless Card (added $10) Dell 650W PSU Total spent: $125 (PC was free) With Overwatch being the game I play the most, I get 60 FPS on Medium settings no problem! Again, thank you Bitwit for this video!

That's really interesting. I didn't think that the 570 would boost performance that much. I appreciate budget builds, and this hits that mark. Great job, kept it simple and informative.

Great vid as always Kyle

Could probably have stuck to 12Gb of memory to save some more. Otherwise, a nice budget build!

i loaded this video like, oh i hope he does the whole video in his LYLE accent, literally all of my Chinese friends laugh and love it, then he did it at the end of the video, satisfied.

I have a DIY set with E3-1230v2 / BIOSSTAR TZ77B / GSkill 16GiB DDR3 1600 / GTX1060-6G / 120G SSD back in 2012. I still run it for all my games including DCS World in VR. It's decent still. In the beginning the graphics was with ATi 6790HD however I upgraded it after noted on unrecoverable screen flashing with The Division" on the card. I guess the box will still be able to run my games for another 3-5 years.

3:04 - A word of caution about Dell desktops - The southbridge is often (inexplicably) left naked which means you're going to want to install a chipset cooler if you intend to play games or Adobe CC programs.

my pc is older than that. Intel core 2 duo 3ghz 4gb ddr2 ram AMD Radeon HD 5450 1GB

Now this is quality content. We all like the uber builds but the masses also like cheap. It's cool to check out Lamborghini videos but when it comes down to it most of us end up needing to find out how to change a Toyota tail light

ty i didnt know what to upgrade. now i know

Speaking of their IPC being so strong in earlier models, the 4690S was a particular little beast. The IPC they put on that refresh chip actually put it neck-and-neck with a factory clocked 4690K, while using less power and producing much less heat (albeit it WAS a locked chip). Paired with n H97 board, GTX 970, 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport, and a 500GB Samsung ssd, made for nearly instant win7 boot. I was very happy with that CPU when I built with it, and I've always been an AMD fangirl.

I really love your "Screw with confidence" T-shirt!

The pc BEFORE the upgrades was still faster than my current laptop

Sometimes u can get older but lightly used parts for cheap and get not only a good performing but also good looking system.

5:20 I have a fairly weird ram configuration in my PC. I have 20Gb, Two 8Gb stick and two 2 Gb sticks. Have had no issues with it ever. lol

I've got one of those for my secondary rig, I put my old 1070 in it.

I had this exact pc with an I5-2400 on stock graphics and 7 months later.. the dell PSU blew up😂

GREAT VID MAN JUST SAVED ME SOME MONEY CAUSE I CAN FIX THE ONE I HAVE

0:33 a poster in my school is the same as your t-shirt!

Be careful with those Dell power supplies. This one looks OK but often Dell and HP use custom power supplies and they may be undersized. Check the case and see if there is space for an additional fan. If there is, add a fan. My preferred cards for upgrading these systems are the GTX 750 Ti, GTX 1050, and 1050 Ti (I don't recommend the GTX 1650 for anyone). These are capable cards that blow away the integrated graphics, but draw little power. The best thing about adding SSDs is you can stick them anywhere in the case and continue to use the hard drive bays. I literally hot-glued one to the side of the case so I could continue using both hard drive bays for storage. The other good idea for an upgrade is a memory card reader. All this is dependent on connections available on the motherboard.

When you have all this mis-matched ram, does it run dual channel? I guess I would have bought 3 DDR3 X 4GB sticks, and sold or kept the 2 GB for spares.

Definitely going to figure out how to do this with my pc.

@Bitwit i added gtx 980, had to remove hdd cages, but not using it anyway. sata ports on motherbord is overlaped by gpu, and on 1 cornered connector can be connected, i using it for 1tb 960 evo ssd

With those parts, that's not much like a console killer. A solid state drive and a power supply replacement would be recommended to make it qualify for a console killer.

Get that ram running in dual channel (matching sizes per every 2 dims) and Tomb Raider will run a little more consistent.

very well done! thank you.

Those quad core Ivy and Sandy Bridge chips are still rolling hard 7 years later. I have 2 Ivy systems, a 3210m laptop and a e3 1230v2 desktop. I recently checked out the i7 3740qm for my laptop and compared some passmark scores to newer chips. It is right there with chips like the 7700hq and 6700hq. I can see those Ivy and Sandy chips lasting several more years if all you are doing is 1080p 60 gaming. Just keep throwing new mid range GPUs in the PCIe slot and you are set.

12:27 " it's not pretty, it kinda looks like my butt hole" 😂😂😂

7:56 You were so going to say ..."Thats what she said"

Great video thank you mate

I'm finally "upgrading" my 12 year old PC. I had a pre built Dell desktop (Dual core Athlon 64 X2) that I maxed out with upgrades its mobo could support. Although, the PC still runs well, I'm constantly running out of memory for my applications. My new build is based on a nearly 4 year old platform though (Skylake). With mostly used parts, but the price was good.