The $80 PC Lenovo Doesn't Want You To Build | OzTalksHW 

UPDATE VIDEO!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nFYr9K9TpBg.html Sooo it turns out I have a copyright claim at 10:44 because of the song (Cookie Kawaii - Vibe). I'm in the midst of replacing it with someone that will take that claim away lol. In case you came after the song is replaced, you can still watch the clip here: twitter.com/oztalkshw/status/1243212810387062785

:( Showing your mistakes actually made the video better, IMO.

1st line: "I'm a big advocator of re-using computer components" you have my attention

Moral of the story: don’t use crippled vendor specific motherboards.

His personality makes me wanna watch more of his videos.

Those moves tho 👀🔥

3:16 Oz: Pulls out gtx 1650 box, “I found an rx560”

:( I got a huge smile on my face when I saw your joy once the computer booted with the 1030. I recently had a build similar to that where I was sticking to a VERY tight budget and had problem after problem. Unlike you, I gave up and ended buying a new Ryzen, MB, and RAM. I enjoy videos like this. I love doing video work for others, but am too much of an introvert to try making my own videos. Keep up the good work.

this guy celebrates that 1030 works for him, me having rtx 2080Ti: i wish i had GT1030

I love the happy and dancing segments, give some really good vibes haha nice work

Finally, a video showing real life issues with used components. 🥵

Totally with you on the salvage, recycle , reuse, upgrade track. Thanks for encouraging others to do the same!

Love your videos man! I'm doing these kinds of builds in Norway and i'm loving it all the way from finding the computers cheap or for free, and then making gaming-PCs that anyone can buy. I can really relate to your troubleshooting and i must say - I have the exact same raction when I encounter the problems and/or solutions!! Keep on going man! Peace!

"every single variety of Steve"

i use to do this, reminds me of my old days of salvaging old parts and building a PC together. you have a new subscriber keep it coming man

Dude, this was such a good video! The struggle was real, so glad you showed it all. Awesome job👏🏽😎🤙🏽

This is such a great video, showing this process with all of the road bumps is so valuable. thanks for this!

This reminds me of the guy that outpizzad the hut

Yes Lenovo's whitelisting of hardware is a pain the rear. I cannot understand how this is still legal in this day and age.

Found your video after searching for some of the same issues, and share some of your frustrations. Thanks for posting this!

i am in the middle of this right now. same desktop. same problems. im so glad you posted this sir!! thank you!

6:31 It sounded like it censor bleeped! 😂

Laughed my ass off when you were dancing "Yay an i3 with GT 1030" x-D

Stellar video! Super relatable and approachable! Went through a similar process last summer with a hand me down computer. Keep em coming!

Hey I bought one of these Lenovo M series computers today I am glad I found your video as I'm going to look to upgrade it myself as a tech at your trial and error has taught me some valuable lessons about perseverance and patient thank you bro have a blessed evening

lenovo is known for aggressively implementing whitelist stuff for hardware, i would strongly avoid thinkcentres etc. Dell for prebuilt desktop modding is the best, but you probably found that out already:(

This is entertainment. You put so much effort into these videos and builds, I literally almost felt your joy when it finally booted as if I were there. Love how you built that up, even if unintentionally.

I love that you show us the ups and downs of your project the frustrations and the anxieties, you're just not showing, hey I put this computer together, I'm the greatest and best in the world, you know you're actually a human being doing this not some super dude on the internet

ive been watching tech/PC related stuff on RU-vid for a while, and have never came across you, just subscribed!

:( Love that you are such a real person, which shows good and bad parts of his projects!

Chances are someone out there has already modded the latest BIOS for that system to remove whitelists and improve CPU compatibility.

I've done similar builds in the past but nothing to the degree you are here...I've taken used Dell desktops and workstations with working RAM, CPU and storage, wiped the hard drives, put in graphics cards, and used them for gaming, or given them to friends or relatives as gifts. I love that you made such an effort to keep the build within your target budget, and TBH I've been in a position before where a budget salvage build like this was my only option. I also love that you keep the language G-rated so I can watch these with my kids. Keep up the good work brother!

brilliant , i do the same here re-use parts and always try to upgrade as i go along, great video, mistakes and trouble shooting is all part of building and learning about pc's so another sub here buddy , great video

“This computer only costs $80, 64 hours of trouble shooting, 41 hours of deal hunting, and 4.6 hours of driving around to pick up components and a completion time of 3 months. But it only cost $80. Manufacturers don’t want you to know this secret!”

:( Really appreciated the honesty. Beginners, like me, need to know that it's a process and not some magic trick we don't know the secret to.

THANKS Oz glad to come across the info

man this takes me back to the highschool days! love the channel!

This was basically how i built all my gaming pc's when i was younger. 10yrs ago when i was oems made upgrading horrible but i never ran into such ridiculous gpu compatibility issues.

Feels like I'm watching on a 4K screen, superb quality man! Except the game recordings.

With prebuilts ive always had to do research to try and upgrade! It was nice to see you showing us the issues and time it takes with working on it most people dont have the parts just laying around!

Snakebite MaGee here; this video is so epic for so many reasons. Your commitment to your content is just one of those things. You are amazing and talented my dude

I've flashed other brand bios to get CPU and GPUs to boot, that would have been my first thing to do

The Dell T3500 I see in the background is one of the best upgrades I've done. Super gamer! X5690 6c 12t 3.4 ghz 24 gb DDR3 GTX 1070 ti SSD 80+ FPS with ultra settings on everything (within reason). Killer!

I love your channel. I respect the fact that you are very knowledgeable but do have issues like the rest of us. I love how excited you get when things work. I want to learn your patience though. I have a tendency to get frustrated and walk away, to not return. or throw thing. Keep up the great work. I am a loyal fan.

I'm happy that there is someone to show people whats the limit to those pc's, cuz i'm one of those people who went through every single one of these problems and would hope that people who want to try to build pc's like these know all of this before startin. Have a nice day all and thumbs up for the video.

Watching you go through all of this reaffirms my thoughts on building new or newish using new and my own used parts. Not buying used over ebay.

Some people think we’re magic, they (probably) didn’t see the journeys we went thru .. there’s no magic with out a price ...

Thumbs up just for ALL THE WORK you went through to make this video/build lol :) it was fun to watch.

Thanks for making this video. What an eye opening experience!

i did the same thing with that PC, an M79 Lenovo. I flashed the bios so I could put in a quad core Xeon. It works great.

Definitely One of my favourite videos of yours 🤣 keep up the grind man ❤️

Great chill vid to watch before sleep! Good job.

Definitely a good idea to check research on the various OEMs. Having experience with Thinkpads I know Lenovo is big into whitelists. I went with an HP 8200 because I got a cheap deal on a barebones model and so far it has worked with anything that will physically fit in the case.

:( Sad that the update vid hasn’t been released yet.

You and the other youtubers all inspired me to build my first computer, and now I can't stop building them.😂

:( This was great! I'm really loving your videos. They are so raw and clear. I'm thinking about pc flipping myself so these are really useful!

A friend of mine gave me his PC to fix and while I do not know how to fix a PC, just by watching your video I am going to give it a go. Im glad i found your channel.

:( thanks for taking us along the struggle haha, I know this all too well. I've run into the issue of using AMD RX cards on mobo's that don't support UEFI GPU's.

:( also, try updating the bios. maybe support for the i7 was added in newer microcode.

I love the perseverance! I don’t game but love your videos.

Great video and great adventure ! Thanks for posting !

Man I know that feeling when you bring an old hunk of junk back to life

I love your appreciation for value. Often lacking in modern society :(

I'm an old man of 60 yrs and I'm a non-techie, but I went ahead and did a minor upgrade to my Inspiron 530 with a Wolfdale Socket and it was something trying to get the *RIGHT* info for the CPU itself (as a non-techie), but I got it to a satisfying point. I like the smooth way you edit your videos also.

First of all I have only just started watchign this video but from the little i have seen and a quick look at your channel i see you do a lot of tech stuff and from the little i have seen i really like your attitude/vibe what ever you want to call it so I dropped a sub and I will now go watch the rest of the video.

:( I feel like we’ve all been through a build like this before. My latest was an 1150 motherboard trying to get an i5 4690 to work that I got for an absolute steal. After getting different processors and trying different memory and verifying my components on another motherboard I found that the ez flash bios update that you can do inside of the bios didn’t work as advertised and needed to be done inside of windows. Upon performing this process I was then able to upgrade to the new processor and now I have myself a fairly powerful and efficient machine to use to learn some of the programming I hope to wrap around automating a network.

You also could have tried to find a modified bios to flash it to allow you to use an AMD GPU (does away with the GPU whitelist) and do away with a lot of limitations in the BIOS. I had to flash the bios in my laptop to remove the whitelist so that I could use an external GPU on my laptop, Because the whitelist only allowed WiFi cards to be used on that socket.

Good job mate! About time we shove it up theirs!

XD Yoshi music is the exact reaction i had when i booted my Gigabyte 1030 OC as it took about 5/10 mins to start up, the joy and satisfaction can not be under estimated and ive built a lot of different projects in my time

That $80 PC got expensive pretty quickly... Having said that, I appreciate that you were willing to admit that things don't always go smoothly with these homemade builds. Also... where the heck are you getting these deals on GPUs? Smokes the GT 240 I bought for my Batocera system for $34 with S&H.

:( Back when one of our team had to come up with an emergency rig he ended up on a family members old HP Pavilion prebuilt that seemed promising (i5 2310, 8gb RAM) nothing wanted to cooperate, the AMD Radeon 6770 in it was fried, the psu blew shortly after ripping that out which led to buying a replacement, the replacement wasn't what was ordered (an unrated Coolmax with super amazing blue led fans labelled as Coolermaster,) it wouldn't work with a 750ti and would just cause the fans to start spinning like it wanted liftoff, the front panel usbs decided to take a vacation at some point which is still a mystery, it wouldn't work with any other RAM than what was already installed, and overall it became the build from hell, even the parts now occupying that case have since suffered a string of bad luck in terms of sudden failures, its like that things cursed or something. When things keep going wrong on a machine and you're used to seeing people just knock it out through internet magic or being awesome/lucky/both it can add to the frustration a lot, its pretty cool to see people like you embracing the side of pc building where it can really suck sometimes and everything can go wrong for sometimes the most ridiculous of reasons, because in a way its like saying its okay for stuff to hit the fan sometimes because it happens at any skill level. It can really help motivate someone who's having a hard time with their rig to keep trying to find a solution.

I like how you approached Lenovo as an option. I hope more guys show which budget PC will have issues with different hardware brands thanks OZ

Hi Oz. I loved your attitude! The dancing clinched it for me. 👍😎

:( Had a very similar story when building my younger brother's PC.

i don't know why... ...but somehow... ...this video makes me think i'm still too poor. Keep up the good work btw! You earned yourself a new subscriber. : )

This was so entertaining as well as informative. Thanks so much, Don Norman :)

God bless your soul! I wouldve thrown out of the window after the first let down lol. Subbed!!

I believe those HP Z workstation power supplies are proprietary. They have the usual atx plug, but several wires are different.

The prebuilts I've used were dell and HP. I remembered when I first considered using a prebuilt for a gaming pc, I learned that Lenovo is a pain to work with.

Awesome video dude! I feel dumb for buying a new GPU when I could’ve bought one on eBay...(didn’t think ahead). Very intertwining and informative video. Keep up the good work 😎

I really enjoyed this episode, the best part was the troubleshooting. It was like a day at my workplace 😂

That was an epic quest! Question is what do you do with these builds once they're done? Thx for very unusual and entertaining content, subbing now!

You know I have around 500usd and with this budget I literally couldn't find a reasonable system to build. I'm so jealous of you american...

I love the video and especially the celebration! It has to feel good once you start that PC up and it works! I’ve always wanted to build a cheap gaming machine. I believe the time is now :-} You have inspired me! After watching several other boring videos. So glad I came across yours. Thank You so much! Now off to watch several more of your fantastic, with humor videos. :-}

I know that feeling. I love this guy.

Wouldn't a cheaper route have been to just get a motherboard that supports the i7 (really strong CPU, esp at the price you got it) and the GPU you alread had? Granted, the i3 was dirt cheap, but it's definitely throttling this build hard. Still a super fun project, definitely earned you a new sub here and on Twitch :)

I thought that I was cursed considering how many problems I run into and how much time I waste when trying to get something working properly. I'm relieved it's not just me. Greetings from Bosnia!

i am glad you got it working i still have Think center Lenovo 2 core i bought used back in 2016 it still works great

Good video, valuable advice! I've got a similar Lenovo machine in a desktop case, upgraded to 16GB of RAM, exchanged the HDD to an SDD and added an GT1030 .... and voila, it turn out to be a raging beast suited for high end emulation. Dolphin or PCSX2 runs also with GT4 or GoW2 totally smooth.

I still use my 770 for all my gaming, so good find on that one.

Great Video very Good quality and i love your smile :)

Anyone who likes Bluegrass, Zydeco (and is that Michael Franks at 12:15?) is okay by me! And my man has some moves! Great vid! Three months! I felt your pain!

Great video! Very informative. On Sep,26,2020 I brought a used Lenovo Thinkcentre core2 computer for $50.00. It came with keyboard and mouse. Everything works ! I'm going to follow your lead and upgrade this thing. Looking forward to doing some 3d modeling and android app development. Thank for helping me get back in the game. PEACE !!!!

That dancing though

You should holler at Brian over at Tech yes City. He’s a wizard at OEMs

Glad I found your channel brother!

I feel your pain and your JOY, but the next time you celebrate,,,,, I'm going to need to see a back flip!!!!! I have been building and repairing laptops and PC's since 1995 and it's good to see someone going thru the same process I go thru (it was supposed to work) I get PISSED but " I'm gonna' make this thing work" attitude is why I continue to do it. Plus I spent a whole $15 for the damn box. Keep going because when it works, IT WAS DAMN WORT IT !!!!!! Excellent video ( because it is real world stuff).

🙁 *frown face*. This was me in a similar prebuilt project this weekend but I figured it out.

2:58 I'm dead 😂😂 so accurate tho

Really loved this. Thank you