It genuinely, unironically warms my heart when someone puts a lot of care and effort into cable managing a pc that absolutely doesn't warrant that level of care and effort.
yeah! they just put cables and a ton of stuff in the place where ventilation is so that is making it realy hard to breathe ESPECIALY with an RTX 3070 inside !
Power Man is the PSU brand of InWin - they’re usually bundled with their cases or used in OEM pre-builts. They are low-end but fine, especially for a system like this.
Having just built a PC in a smaller Cooler Master case & struggled with making all the spare power supply cables somewhat tidy, I admire what a good job the seller has done with cable management.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff haha Dawid I'm actually watching this video on my Optiplex that I added some ram and a graphics card to. It has worked splendid for me and I only spend $180 on mine in total. My hat is off to you sir! I was inspired by your last video on the subject.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff A video with a refurbished Dell Optiplex with adding more RAM, SSD and a graphics card. It might be hard pressed to find a good graphics card. It would also be a good comparision to see performance difference between Windows 10 and Linux OS (such as Ubuntu/Linux Mint) for gaming on a refurbished desktop
you can basically mount any spare fan in ventilation holes, so it's pretty good on this side and it's not even that small, i've triple fan 5700xt and it fits perfectly fine
I'd like to see a video where you take all the prebuilds and budget systems you've amassed and try to build 2 systems, 1 the best of all the parts, 2 the worst of all the parts and just see what happens :D
I have a Dell Optiplex 9020 that I converted over. It has an i7-4770, 16gb ram, SSD drive, new 500w power supply and a GTX 1660. She's a barn burner. Runs cool, runs BFV fine. Paid $120 for the rig and market rate for the upgrades. I spent a total of around $450.
In terms of storage device, I came up with this ultra Matryoshka setup plan: dual micro SD to single mini card (mPCIE/mSATA), dual mini card to single 2.5 inch SATA (look it up, there's a really neat adaptor of this sort, even supporting RAID), triple 2.5 inch SATA to single 3.5 inch HDD (IcyDock makes those and they are built to a quite high standard), and finally quintuple 3.5 inch HDD to triple 5.25 ODD, which is fairly easily achievable with old school full tower office PCs. That's, like how many, 60 micro SD in total? And 1920 GB worth of storage if that's 60x32G cards set up in all RAID 0? I wonder how the thermal will be like if anything ever ran through such a monstrosity.
Considering you did a whole RU-vid review instead of an Amazon review, they should give you double Amazon gift cards! Also, if you didn't already know, technically asking for reviews in exchange for Amazon gift cards are against Amazon's TOS
@@Atropos148 you could probably do a 500 to 600 dollar build with a new 1650 just have to figure out which processor has the power to match 1650 maybe even make it a sff build
That's a Skytech KB and Mouse combo. Skytech makes mid/high range prebuilts with name brand components. Although the KB and Mouse are OEM, they can take as fair bit of abuse. Disclaimer: This was NOT a Skytech system. 🤣
I built a machine around 2006 with a µATX board and a ThermalTake Sonic Tower (one of the very first widespread tower coolers, which were just coming up at the time) in a big tower case; that gave off a similarly mismatched vibe, especially as it didn't even have a graphics card to keep that huge cooler company on the mainboard.
Look forward to the Dell Optiplex. It's still viable but depends on how cheap and how recent the Optiplex is. They also have various forms and models so it's surprisingly complex yet simple enough to work with!
I have one and it's a solid build with really janky stuff going on on the board. Power connecter is really strange. Had to get an adapter to change out the PSU.
This sort of system would be perfect for my little nephew who only plays roblox and minecraft and needs to do web browsing or watch youtube. I gave him an old laptop with integrated graphics and it still works fine for him too.
Yeah, totally do the Optiplex thing! Also, given this machine has a CPU you've not seen before, I think you should have tested to see how much of a performance hit single-channel RAM offered, especially when testing using the iGPU.
my brother bought a 450$ amazon gaming computer it was a scam . the 2 gigs of dedicated graphics was a pure lie (all integrated) , the whole system was just a refurb HP mini desktop put in a mid tower led case and sold as a new gaming computer
@@robwhitmore3040 he does other things! but if it works for him and you watched - suppose it doesn't. Why not ask him to do other stuff? Don't be a moron
I still have an AMD A series APU based desktop. I bought it in about 2012-13 when these things came out. It was the first and to my knowledge only AMD product to feature crossfire between the built in GPU and external GPU which I tool advantage of. The components were relatively cheap at the time, and it was halfway decent for games of that era, but it became outdated near instantly. It does still serve as a general purpose PC to this day and performs this task admirably.
@@dgurevich1 yeah it's just that little voice in the back of my head wondering how much single channel nerfed it would it atleast have been able to load the whole world with dual channel fps would likely have been the same due to it being pure crap though
I actually really love that cooler master case. I've built in it a few times and it's a solid case. Only thing I don't like about it is the way the psu is pushed back because of the weird opening for it
@@raven4k998 well depends, 2 sticks of ddr4 will give better performance than 2 sticks of ddr3, besides that dual channel ram will improve gaming performance.
Built a gaming PC for a relative recently. Optiplex Tower with i5-3470 and 16GB RAM I got for $40, a $20 SSD and a $200 used 1050ti on eBay. Not a bad little PC for less than $300.
$60 Optiplex i7-2600 and a $80 GTX 960 2gb here, it's a beast for the money. I'd have preferred a 1050ti for the extra vram, but they were around $250 when I was looking. Considering I bought one new for $139 back in the day I couldn't bring myself to overpay that much.
The both of you built nice systems honestly Strong enough to run games from the golden age (pre microtransactions), and it'll run some modern games Thumbs up to the both of you!
Tip for you in regards to the E-Waste accessories you get with these rigs - Keep them! The braided cables are fantastic for repairing usb cables on higher quality devices and the internal components are good replacement parts for better hardware! May not save you a lot of MONEY but it'll save you a lot of TIME in waiting for components/parts to arrive!
I love that HL2 is now the game of that "should run on an EtchOSketch" , considering that when it came out there was hardly a pc in existence that could run it at full settings.
he was using all the memory with the 710, so pulling it dropped the amount of RAM and thus killed the game. If he added more memory, so the APU had enough for the task, he would have gotten better results.
Funny enough I use that same e-waste keyboard and it’s not that bad for basic Fortnite gaming sessions or other games such as call duty or shadow of the tomb raider but the letters on the keys do fade away after a while which is annoying but I got used to it.
Idk how no one is talking about if you have an iPhone with a notch (iPhone X and up) his videos are so satisfying to watch. There isn’t any black bars intill it gets to the notch!
But that content has been saturated already. Every tech channel has somesort of optiplex with a graphics card added to it. It was actually my first "gaming" pc i've put a half height 1050ti(galax IIRC)
I miss the days of Frankensteining PCs. I used to continually tinker with mine, adding bits from used machines and computer fairs. My pc sounded ready to take off a lot of the time, since my fans ran at fixed speeds.
I would be curious to see how the iGPU runs if you do a DDU sweep and clean install of some AMD drivers, assuming you didn't do that off-camera and just didn't mention it.
powerman is made by FSP and is actually a pretty good PSU Dawid. It was really well known back in the day (10+ years ago) as always decent for what it was.. up there along with the antecs.
I bought a pre-build with the same motherboard + apu about one year ago in a full tower without a gpu so it looked kinda ridiculous. I have now upgraded my psu and bought a 6600xt but haven’t yet replaced the motherboard and cpu so I have a hard bottleneck there
I was able to cop a 3800xt for like 180, check that out used. I also paired it with a used x370 board, so I could upgrade to ryzen 9 later if I wanted. pretty good path if you like amd for used performance.
Powerman is actually ow-key really good, my uncle found a 2009 custom built in the street in San Francisco and it looked like it had been hidden in the alley for many years all dirty and fucked up!!!! Everything in the computer still works to this day, when we cleaned it up and turned it up it literally had black road tar and dirty in it.
I was literally just thinking today of "Now it's time to hear about our sponsor, Linode" while I was taking an electrical systems test about the Node Voltage method. I couldn't get Dawid out of my head going, "Linode."
i bought a power man psu around 10 years ago for a budget system because the amazon reviews were actually good and very cheap price ... and it still works to this day with no issues at all
I bought an unknown gpu from a resale place for $4. It turned out to be a gt 640. Which is soooooooo much better than a gt 710. Why are they still producing 710's when they can't do anything?
Well i am actually considering of buying this exact mobo with that apu on there, so i can have a small box with a screen sitting in my bedroom so i can watch youtube and netflix on it, i think it would be perfect for that, as a media streaming client, thanks for showing this weird system :p
13:40 Well that's bringing back memories of when I browsed a bit too far on a certain numbered site. That was the other way around though. ANYWAY. Good joke, I appreciate this style of humour.
The old Dell Optiplex method is still solid. I bought a refurbished Optiplex in October of 2020 with an i7 APU from 2013, 8 GB DDR3 ram, 512gb SATA SSD and I bought a GTX 1650 and another 8gb stick of ram and a 1080p monitor and got a hand-me-down razer mouse and keyboard to pair with it. Over the next year and a half ish I upgraded the case, then the power supply, then the motherboard and CPU and RAM, then the CPU cooler, then I added a ton of storage, then I fought with the scalpers and upgraded my GPU, then I upgraded my mouse and keyboard. Now the only things left from the original build are my copy of windows and the SATA SSD. Makes me kinda sad that I'm planning on upgrading to an m.2 boot drive and windows 11 next weekend.
Im using an old optiplex for my sons gaming pc. The biggest problem is that you often cant physically mount a real gpu in the dell case, there is just no room. Im using a gforce 760 and its quite large. Finally had to rig it up in an aftermarket case to get it all working. Dell's proprietary accesory boards like usb and audio dont fit anything as they are non standard so they just kind of hang out the front, but with the dell's i7, 16gb ram and the old gtx760, the thing works pretty darn good. Plays his games at 1080p no problem. It's definately viable if you have the stuff lying around. Cheers.
My desktop used to live in such a Q300L case. It's a very clunky size and despite all the ventilation holes does not cool well. The side window also scratches if you look at it wrongly and attracts dust absurdly well. But it can be inverted, which I did before I moved my machine to a very classic style design, in which I installed a DVD drive. PSU wise my power supply is on some decently trustworthy ranking list as one to avoid, as it lacks over-current protection. I tried upgrading it, but the replacement overheated itself and shut down consistently, so I opted to keep this PSU until the entire thing fails or gets upgraded. After upgrading the RX570 to a Vega 64, as the former didn't like my Ryzen 3 3200G's 8x PCIe lanes, this system has been serving me well for 3 years now. I did have to downgrade the RAM frequency to 3000MHz though, as the APU seems to have a degraded memory controller.
Power Man PSUs are great for lower end/cheap systems. I don't see them very often though. Thermaltake PSUs go for very nice prices on ebuyer here in the UK, sometimes as low as £20-25. they're not the highest quality, but they are something.
