Old HP office PC becomes a GAMING PC! 

i have one elitedesk 800 that came stock with i7 4790, 16gb ddr3 and ssd 250gb...only added a 500gb ssd for more space and games and a gtx 1650 ddr5 75w...its totally a sleeper pc and runs cool, no noise and low power comsumption any game at 720p 75hz, my old asus lcd resolution

fun bc im actucally watchign this with the same pc but it has a gaming graphics card and runs games smooth

Hmmm maybe that's why he said that ALREADY in the video

Both are true.

She was a real gamer, but she was a REALer Grandma.

Oh neat. I actually like that legion case.

@@TechDweeb Ok the T530 only, the rest is meh. Also owned the Alienware Aurora R4 back when I was a kid, might get a local modder to do something with it.

Thanks for saying so! I did end up getting some carbon detailing vinyl for future applications like this. I'll be using that in my next swap :)

@@TechDweeb Cool, can't wait to see it. Just picked up a used PC on Ebay. An HP Elitedesk 800 Small form factor with a Core I5 6th gen, with 16 GB RAM. Received today my Zotac GTX 1650. This build will be specifically to run the RETRO BEAST hard drive which I still have to order. I plan to trick out the case with carbon detail vinyl because it will probably be near my big TV in the family room, so it has to look good. Should be powerful enough for a retro gaming machine. Wish me luck.

That's my job! If I give you a chuckle, I'm a happy dweeb :)

Doooooo itttttt!!!!!!!!

Oh stop, you'll make me blush 😚

OMG you freaking legend! You spoil me. Me & Mom gonna be eatin' good tonight! I vote for the orange and purple. I bought a can of orange spray paint just to do a case mod on a different PC I have. Thinking of doing a gamecube vibe, actually. We'll see. Stay tuned!

@@TechDweeb awesome stuff, Dweeb. I know you put a lot of effort in your videos. Here is hoping you get as big as ETA Prime, and then get so big you have to hire people like Linus Tech Tips. I hope this channel keeps you hella busy for years.

The 3770k was my first real 'gaming' CPU. I plan on doing a build with that CPU at some point, a 'rebuilding my first gaming pc' type video.

Slowly but surely

Aw that's a fun thing to do with your kid!

I believe you are mistaken about the ram. It's a myth that you need matching kits, or only sticks of the same size. You can test this yourself, try different configurations of RAM and check in cpu-z, you will see that even if you mix and match Ram kits they will still be running in dual Channel mode as long as you have them in the correct slots. I feel like I'm going to have to make it video on this topic because there's a lot of confusion about it.

@@TechDweeb Well, any difference in speed will just result in all your RAM running at the lower speed. It won't stop it from running in dual channel mode. When I said the modules must match, I meant in size. As far as dual channel memory goes. Intel (since 2004) has a mode called Flex Mode that allows part of your memory to run in dual channel mode and the rest to run in single channel mode (I read up on this since leaving my initial comment). So with this configuration you will have 8GB of dual channel RAM (the first 4GB of the 8GB stick along with the entire 4GB stick) and 4GB of single channel RAM (the other 4GB of the 8GB stick). However, there is no guarantee that all of the dual channel RAM will be used before any of the single channel RAM is used, so performance can be inconsistent. So far, I have been unable to confirm the existence of something like Intel's Flex Mode for AMD systems, so with what I know at present, I wouldn't expect it to work as dual channel on an AMD system. As a general rule of thumb, you are less likely to have memory issues if all your sticks of RAM are the same specifications.

I have 4 fans hooked with fan hub

Very true.

It's mostly just the office PC dying out in general and production being very low. Tablets phones smart tvs and laptops have become ubiquitous and businesses and schools, the big office PC drivers, now have cheaper options. COVID was the final nail in that coffin.

You can either transfer the data on the old drive onto your ssd before you do the swap (which is what I think I did here, I use a program called Macrium Reflect Free for that), or you can install windows from a USB stick and start fresh (check out this video if you need help doing that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MZvztCAorB8.html)

@@TechDweeb Thank you, Yeeeehaw A very prompt info share.

Yeah so I've heard. I've been lucky so far, I've done about 10 swaps now and they've all worked out.

Oh really? BIOS horror stories huh. Is that like, errors that prevented booting? The guy who sold this to me said he knew 100% that it did work, apart from needing the jumpers on the USB connections (which I found out about after getting it home and testing it outside of the case first), my experience was error-free.

@@TechDweeb horror stories like, a bios that is somewhere half way between legacy and uefi, with plenty of uefi devices not working (newer gpus). Or, safeboot being impossible to turn off, with newer gpus not working. They even talked about two same models, from two different series working differently. Also, some boards top out at I think 35W for the pcie x16 slot, but this isn't bios related. Not my personal experience, mind you. I've heard this and decided to rather be safe than sorry. Haven't heard things like this on the 4th gen though. Gotta check the newer ones, as the 6th gen got sanely priced just recently over here.

@@youzernejm Any PCI-E x16 slot that doesn't provide 75W is not up to specifications and could easily be a problem for a computer in the office where they expect to be able to put in a low profile video card (in that setting usually an NVIDIA Quadro card or an AMD Pro card). I work in IT, and that would be something worthy of expressing our displeasure to the company that sold us the system. It's difficult for me to imagine a standard PC from HP, the make we use for the vast majority of our systems, having this issue. Whenever we've needed to put a low profile card in, it has worked as expected.

@@CFWhitman I've seen the boards that have the writing, eg 35W. Check out the images, there are such boards from other manufacturers too. Also, if you plop an nvs card, it's not like it'll use 75W, it'll be closer to 25. So, in this case your main issue would be if you can turn the safeboot off, or, if the card is in the list of qualified hardware (probably more important in corporate).

Yup!

Very true.

What you need to do is remove the nuts that are mounted to the HP case (you'll have to yank them off) and use them on the back of the new mobo to give the screws something to screw into. That, or use zip ties - the PC builder's secret weapon ;)

@@TechDweeb i just tight nuts from the back of the motherboard and the screws are fit on that 4 nuts, is this okay? Because if i want to apply thermal paste again i have to remove the whole motherboard again

Yes. In one of my previous case swap I needed to move the sensor over as well. And in this one I needed to use a jumper or else I would get errors on boot about missing the front USB ports.

@@TechDweeb agh ok yea I was thinking it was something like that

Hey buddy. Hard to say if either of those would work without knowing the processors. Generally if it's an old i5 or i7 it'll be fine, but an old i3 or a 'core 2' or whatever probably won't work well, you'd be better off getting even a cheap mini PC as it would perform better. As a general rule of thumb, if the old computer was cheap when you bought it, it'll probably not be good enough to be worth upgrading. But if the computer was mid-range or expensive when you bought it then the processor might still have some life left in it. If that's the case you'll want to make sure you have 16gb of ram, and some sort of GPU. Even an old GTX 900 series or better GPU would do the job, and those are pretty darn cheap. You might also need a power supply upgrade as pre-built computers usually don't have enough power to support GPU expansion. And definitely an SSD, that's hands down the best upgrade you can get for an old PC to make it feel fast and modern. It just comes down to how much performance you will get compared to just getting a cheap PC like a Mini PC. And obviously it'll depend on what kinds of games you want to play, if you want very graphically intensive games then you'll need to spend more to get that. Hope this helps!

@@TechDweeb l guess my age is showing. I dug the 2 towers out of storage and one is a Dell Optiplex GX620 with a Pentium 4 HT, the other is a Emachines with an AMD Athlon II X2 and Nvidia graphics. I’m sure those are a little too dated huh? I will say, he will literally just play Roblox and maybe MSFS.

It's about a 15% gpu bottleneck. Not too bad.

Still have it. Stored in attic

Tell boss that RGB makes excel 25% more efficient.

Which is true.

You are a madman

Cool idea 💡

Depends on the price (if it's a good deal or not), but that's a good setup to get you started, I built a very similar setup for my cousin semi-recently.

@@TechDweeb yo, i forgot to mention the price, it's only cost me $210 USD (IDR 3.000.000)

Left that in there for ya 🤫

the i5 3470 bottlenecks the 750 ti by 27% on average.

Those Frankenstein rigs are things of beauty.

Corsair SPEC-04 - it's out of production. You can probably get them on local market or ebay.

SPEC-04

Thanks bud! I already have an idea for the next one I wanna try ;)

I remember when pentium didnt exist lol

I remember the first time hearing the WORD "pentium". It was magical tech back then.

Just found and cleaned up my old rig from 98 a few weeks ago. I didn't remember them being a cartridge style processor at all. Blew my mind.