Turning a $100 4th Gen HP ProDesk into a GAMING PC? (Mid-Month Hustle) 

New part releases means all the older stuff, that are still very relevant, drops in price :)

HP ProDesk, nice! That is my daily driver, with an i7-4770, 16GB RAM and upgraded to a SSD. Great top with cutting up the cooler backplate to secure the HP heatsink. On my machine ESC accesses a general menu from which you can then select boot menu, BIOS and other options.

Its 1:30am, time for bed... See new tech yes video... I can sleep later...

I recently put together a solid deal i am proud of. I7 920, 12GB of ddr3, evga x58 sli motherboard, r9 390, 120gb ssd, 500gb hdd, 750watt psu, and a decent case for 200 $USD.

I'm 16 and i just started to be able to get decent PC's from selling for profit and then building a better system so on and so on I first got interested in PC's when I was 11 I saw my half brothers PC and it had blood red water-cooling it was so bad ass and ever since I've discovered your channel I've learned alot from flipping PC's and such so one day I will have a bad ass PC like my half brothers thanks!

I always love the OEM hustle videos. You get the rigs for a great price, make a few bucks, save a pc from the landfill, and clue us into what systems work best for gaming. For instance I had no idea that Sandy Bridge era HP rigs had trouble with newer graphics cards.

Thank you Tech Yes City! Your videos and channel inspired me to do what you did and it turns out that it was a thing that I love doing, flipping PC’s, building gaming PC’s from second-hand components bought cheap!

Love your Frankenstein builds, always learn something new.

Love that you're local. Computer Alliance usually look after me and my mate Bernard recently started work there. Great finds and build :)

Got a hp dc5800 pc from the dumster Its nice could try to reinstall windows clean it then sell it Lets give it some tech yes loving *starts playing i wish i was a mad man*

11:47 That has to be a problem on the power meter's side. It's electrically impossible for the PSU to effect a (wall socket side) power meter in such a way and still work normally. From the PSU's perspective, the power meter doesn't exist

Tech yes city, yes great to see you do some hustling and doing HP 4 Gen rebuild with RX 470😎

Finally all of the i3/i5 stuff is starting to get into my price range, instead of just C2D era. This is going to be fun.

YES YES YES! THE VIDEO I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Well done ! I really enjoy the janky but neat and tidy approach to this great value build.

this was good video, always love the used stuff hustling videos

This is the techyescity content i subbed for keep up the good work :)

HP ProDesk 600 PSU Main Power 24-Pin to 6-Pin Adapter Cable (30cm) using Top quality UL1007 18AWG Suitable for most HP models, e.g. HP ProDesk 600 and related models. This adapter cable will make any standard ATX power supply works with your HP ProDesk 600 workstation. ProDesk 600 workstation power connectors

I watch these hustle videos so i get know the goodies out there that are worth it .. am glad i subscribed i wish there was a video everyday , your content is legit!!!

I stumbled onto your channel and really enjoying the content and the local aspect from a Brissie sub

27 secs up, I click on the video, 19 minutes long, and there is a dislike already lol. Someone is salty this morning :)

That's cool. I'd probably 3d print an extension cover for that PSU which has that bit gap in the back. I think 3D printing offers a lot to the PC community, especially the used parts community that might be pairing gear from different machines and generations. Considering the low cost of 3D printers and the relative ease of designing functional parts, I'm surprised it isn't used more frequently.

Love your videos man, I live in Brisbane and I wish I could’ve seen you. Keep it up!

Techyes lovin back at it again

This used price performance is making me friggen moist 😂😂😂 how good of a sleeper is this. Oh look a stock 4th gen HP office PC BAM!!! 90 fps 😂😂😂

there's so many of those slim cases with good cpu's, I prefer dells, but that proprietary front panel is a pita

Love these videos Bryan, would have been cool to see maybe a bit of aluminium off the old case as a cover to the power supply backing and cover the hole. Keep it up!

Loving your vids. Im learning so much

Press f to pay respect for people with a core2quad in 2k19,especially me

*YESman* jerry-rigs a used parts PC together for fantastic value... *Steve from Hardware Unboxed* - _"WAIT, THAT'S ILLEGAL!"_

a man after my own heart. love using powered riser cables myself with these 25volt boards

This is gold to watch! I converted the exact same PC model into a gaming pc 2 months ago! Gosh I wish I got to watch this beforehand! 7:15 I love the fail on the ghetto rigging! I cut the "cpu hole threads" off the case with a rotary tool/grinder and re used the cooler in the new case :) 9:10 If only you saw what I did with my PSU wiring! :P 12:35 Damn I was so gutted I had no USB 3.0 Because it was under the graphics card damn it! I wish I had the room to make video's like you do! I have a total of one room. It's my work shop, living room and bedroom all in one. Damn housing prices in New Zealand! Anyway I love your video's dude please keep making them! :)

Picked up a strix 1080 for 280 as well! Great deal man! Still cant beat my deal on a 2070 for 150 though!

I have the HP Prodesk 600 G1 SFF. It’s a decent PC. I suggest popping in an SSD, 8 or 16GB of RAM and a low profile Graphics card. The bios key is F10 The Boot menu key is F9 And overall great system. Love the design of the case. I’ve taken all the parts out and into a better case so I can fit a better graphics card in. With all that, an SSD, 8GB of ram, and a much better graphic card. You can play Minecraft, GTA V and even fortnite

Computer alliance is always great, I don't go anywhere else for brand new PC parts, absolutely amazing people

This project is quite challenging. I m glad the final result turn out to be gold.

I've scored a huge deal in germany. Got a i5 3550 with an Asus Z77 Motherboard, case and psu for 2€ 😂 Next used price to performance PC in the works, while I'm watching your Video 👍🏽

Some PC cases can take the laptop style DVD drive as well :)

im glad to see there is still a market for most of the older pc stuff of which i have an insane amount...boxes and boxes of old stuff

This is sick finally a tech channel in Australia that is actual local to me. You literally went to the Mt Gravatt computer alliance I live near

Hey curious, what did you do about the i/o plate? The dell/hp rebuilds have it built into the case so not transferable idk

Bryan, you can find a proprietary PSU cable adapter on eBay and that way use any PSU on an OEM HP system, try searching for (24pin to 6pin hp OEM) should come up, I've used it before and it does the job, though it looks sketchy and I would not recommend going over 500W with that adapter cable.

Nice looking end product Bryan. You can get adapters for hp motherboards so that you can use a standard power supply. Good work making this system run. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane.

Nice. Always love ur used builds.

Good value but, not liking the hole left by using the stock power supply.

I would be very weary of a sata to pcie 6 pin adapter. I would definitely change the psu instead of doing this just to save a buck. (and to have a gaping hole in psu area)

I just finished with a build close to this. I was on the fence about buying another XBox/Playstation anything. I started out with an HP Desk Pro 600 G1 SFF that I had for a couple years and it worked well as a surfer/streamer and a crummy Music Work Station. The first thing I did was swap the HD for a Samsung 850 Evo SSD at $90, a whole world of difference. I swapped out mem and replaced with 32 gigs of crucial 1600mhz DDR3 that I got for $75 on Ebay and put a GTX1060 in it I also found on EBay for $150. I couldn't close the case after that and I had to get a second PSU, jump the power to ground on the ATX connector to provide power for the GPU because there was no 6pin PCI power on the HP and at 260 watts I doubted it's ability to power the GPU. I also got a Sound Blaster XAE5 cause I make music on this thing too. World of Warcrafts played great at all resolutions, and then I started looking into other games. I noticed that CPU and GPU were maxed out while playing Rise of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 3. And then the 1060 died at the same time the cheap PSU I bought for $30 fried, probably related, sad. So I got a Corsair 850Watt PSU NEW realizing what I would have to do in the future. I replaced the GPU with a GTX 1660 TI new from Micro Center $300. GPU utilization dropped but CPU was still maxed. I replaced the I5 4560 with an I7 4790K also from Ebay for $250 from China but had to turn turbo off in bios due to over heating and current throttling (always make sure you are running the latest BIOS version). At that point I realized that the motherboard was the bottleneck and simply not sophisticated enough to provide stable power and thermal management for the new CPU. So I bought an MSI Gaming 5 on Ebay for $150, it took almost a month to arrive from China but worth the wait. I then purchased a Corsair Chrystal 460 case cause NEW I was tired of the Pi look. A Corsair H100i $130 and a Corsair Commander Pro for $70 at Micro Center cause I like my lights to sync. And a Crucial 1TB NVME M.2 I think it was around $100. I de-lided the 4790k and Conductonaut under the IHS and Kryonaut on top. And another 32 Gigs of mem only Hyper X Fury at 1860mhz ebay, about $200. Now everything runs great! CPU overclocked to 4.6Ghz and stable with temps never above 62c. I tried some overclocking on the 1660 TI and saw some really outstanding benchmarks but found things ran a great deal smoother without overclocking when actually playing games. (I wanna' get a 2080 super maybe). I also de-lidded/Condutonauted the 4560, put it back in the HP, left the Crucial mem in and the 850 Evo put the lid back on the case and gave it to my wife who works from home and had another HP but older with an Athalon (YUCK!!!). so in short, this can work but you will find that the MB and PSU of the original HP will be sorely lacking in performance, management and features. It's kind of like putting a super charger on a Ford Pinto. And don't be afraid to buy cheap stuff from China, it's worked out great for me. Oh and one more thing, those USB 3.0s on the HP you know the blue ones, aren't. They are "USB 3.0 Supported" in HPs world that's the same, it's not. They will recognize USB 3.0 devices but will only 'speak' in legacy USB. So NO VR support with the HP board. It was the purchase of an Oculus Rift S that made me buy the MSI motherboard. I did this over the span of about 9 months so the cost was very stretched out and manageable.

Really enjoyed this video. I myself got my grandad’s inspiron pc with a i5 2400 inside. Took it all out and put it in a new case. New fans, SSD and PSU with a 1050 ti. Works a treat.

How do you get the standard front panel headers to connect to a dell oem motherboard if they are different?

10:36 heaven benchmark have very low CPU load , this why with much powerful CPU you have same score .

I got a Hp ProDesk G1 600 for $20 barebones. With an i7 4790k, gtx 1650 low profile, and 32gb ddr3, the whole system came to $440. For that spec, I think it's a great price.

This is what TECH YES is all about; improvising with the stuff you have to make things work somehow! ;D I LOVE it!

I have US$ 2000 parts in an office pc case. My friends asked how the hell i can play a game. When i opened up the side of the case, they were surprised lmao.

3:01 I have almost the same HP ProDesk but in mine hp prodesk i have a 1050 ti

Well done for getting that all to work..... I've done this a couple of times with old HP office PC's.... they were 4th and 6th gen respectively but I used a couple of cheap mining boards to swap all the good bits over and then I could still use a standard ATX type PSU and no problems with different power button connectors - think I've still got the old HP 4th gen and 6th gen motherboards lying around somewhere gathering dust.

Very nice work. Congratulations. I also think that a low budget pc can be a great gift for your friends or familly. Really like working on those old PCs:)

That HP uses just a 6 pin as its motherboard power i tried transplanting it to a new case and it was a nightmare EDIT: I remembered that i tried to install a second power supply but it ended up setting my monitor's power cable on fire lol

Do you drive a BRZ/FRS? Haha I recognize the interior :)

You Australians are all crazy driving on the wrong side of the road :D Great video and deal hunting!

We are always in need of the tech yes deals!

get a 90 degree connector for the usb 3.0 and it's no problem

how on earth are you using a rx 470 with 240watt psu?

I had a Hp just like that so happy it gets a second start well done.

Loved the video! I do the same kind of stuff! Just rewarding to take older computers and make them nice again. The bargain hunting is a lot of fun too!

There are PSU adapters out there that can make use of a standard PSU, like the ones for HP Z420. It would be good to see if these adapters work, given the HP power supplies have a non-standard 11-volt rail.

Here's a drinking game. Every time Brian says "Hatche Pee" take a shot.

I gutted a dell Optiplex and used most of the parts to build a pc for my daughter. Even taught her how to build a PC in the process. I love videos like this.

This is practically what I did, I took my shitty HP prebuilt (HP Pavilion 580-199ng) and moved it into a new case (be quiet Pure Base 500DX) and now it's like a brand new PC with perfect airflow, I love it. Some parts (GPU, PSU, RAM etc.) were upgraded by me in the prebuilt though, but I got tired of the shitty "airflow" in that case and moved it.

the psu wont last long in that rig. cpu 40-50w gpu 120-140w mobo 40-50w ram 5w per stick hdd 10w each ssd 5w fans 2-5w each

7:07 It's never a proper PC build without a hammer being used, at least once.

Great content! Thanks for making this video!

Love your content. Just built a dirt cheap itx rig with q67 intel (second gen restricted), i5 2500, rx 470. For 1080p gaming it works just fine and we are talking 2011 mobo and CPU. Sharkoon QB 1 case, a perfectly quiet powerhouse in 2019.

Men... This stuff is magical... What's next? $150 build with better stats!?

I love you tech yes city! No homo though!

Thank you for this video, I've seen plenty of these HP system for sale. Now I think it's a win if you could bargain some. You can build a gaming PC + you get a body and a power supply to build some office mini-ITX

I loved this it was so satisfying to watch.

Ugh HP, re only thing I take from HP is CPU, RAM, and Hdd the rest is scrap.

1:40 Of course they said YES! This is Tech YES, not Techno. Techno has been dead for 40 years!

Nice video man

This kind of videos, inspired me to build my PC and create my own channel. Proud member of Tech Yes Citizen. :D

Sorry im late

Those HPs actually work great with a 1050ti low profile as it runs off just the PCIE power. I had one in an HP 8300 for a while as I was building my main system (which weirdly used almost exactly the glass case you used here).

Never seen this done before or even thought of this, cool!

I've just finished 2 of these builds with a 1060 6gb and 450w psu's. Power cable adaptor from atx 24pin to 6pin + 4pin plug. Just brilliant price performance!!

Keep up the great work TY

Keep on with such content! Give us good old X79 vs. Ryzen 3000 content!

Oh #TechYesMan this is amazing... Never seen a build like this before... I owe you more respect...

I've been using older Dell Precision Workstations for gaming and 3D Studio rendering machines. They're actually built to handle this kind of load, come with huge power supplies and multiple CPUs, etc. Not quite $100 cheap, but cheap-ish way to put together a sweet system without having to hassle with re-doing all the proprietary junk.

Nice video Bryan as always

A perfect How-To video if I ever saw one..! Very Good Instruction. Peace :)

Thanks for sharing mate

What a build! Nice!

For the BIOS of the HP one you have to press escape while boot up until the f1 screen appears and then press F1

Showin some Tech Yes Lovin...lovin the hustle...lovin the video...

I have the same power reader. Sometimes it does that for no reason. Disconnect it and try again and eventually it works. Happens to me from time to time

Cool to see that you made that HP work in a regular case! Nonetheless I do still prefer the Dell Optiplexes over the HP ones, as even as you pointed out that both the front panel and power switch headers are proprietary on them the pinout diagrams are already available on the LTT forums. Also I'm not a fan of only using nuts to secure a CPU heatsink as it's pretty easy to apply uneven pressure on the motherboard and that can cause flexing and trace ruptures over time. Finally I've been using both RX 470s and RX 560s on both 2nd and 3rd gen Optiplexes without issues using the pre-Spectre and Meltdown BIOSes available for them. Best regards!

The watt meter issue is odd. I have a 600 G1 SSF under my workbench. I put a 1050 Ti in it and on my watt meter I measured a max of 125 watts from the wall for a full system load. It worked just fine for me, and I have that same PSU in mine.

There are wiring harnesses that you can buy on Amazon for relatively cheap that will allow you to use a non proprietary power supply with an HP motherboard. I'm in the process of building a NAS for my ESXi cluster using an old HP ProDesk 800. The 320w power supply isn't enough to run 16 drives, a RAID card and RAID expander card.

Tech Yes, I need help building my first pc. I am going to be getting the parts in September

Hey Tech, in the future if you are using a Corsair Strafe on those old machines press the F1 + Windows Lock Key, in the top right, together. The board should flash and the scroll lock light should be flashing. This allows the Strafe to communicate with the older BIOS properly. Let me know if this was helpful!