I actually got an old haswell i5 4440 PC for free from my school, so maybe at the end of a school year it might be good to ask an IT teacher, if there’s any old PCs laying around or beeing replaced
thanks for the video. I'm currently working on a m93 with a low profile Nvidia 3050. I'm taking out the i54570 and swapping in a i7 4790k. the i7 was used for 40 bucks. I'm having trouble getting the new CPU to work. I swapped it in and put it all back together. try to start it and i get no post just a black screen and no video. I put the i5 back in all works great. you have ideas that could help. thanks ahead of time for the help and the great videos.
Did one for my son. Put the board in a second hand case, added an nvme to the 4x slot and a gtx 1660 super in the 16x. Doubled the ram and added flashing lights... Has to boot from clover on an old pendrive (cos I'm not rewriting a bios!), but it's up in about 12 seconds. Total cost was around £280. I'm planning on adding another 16gig (£14), and a i7 4790 depending on eBay availability... He's limiting games to 200fps...
@@MegaKrauss right, why? It has CSM and UEFI boot support, so...? Anyway, Xeon E3-1280 (or 1271) v3 would be the functional equivalent of the i7-4790 if you don't need IGP. (If you do want it for whatever reason, there's the E3-1276 v3). Never heard of a Haswell board that couldn't take an E3 Xeon. So there's an option in case the i7-4790 is too expensive/unavailable...
Have to say, it is a rather interesting experience breathing new life to older computers chucked out by businesses. I’ve done a similar project for upgrading an old optiplex 380, old core 2 duo phased out for the Q9650, and had bought the correct riser cage for it to fit a generic oem-looking single slot gtx 1050, (Though it initially was using a gt 1030 and only received the gtx upgrade back in January.) and it runs quite exemplary for an aging system.
I really appreciate this video. I have a 12 year old office pc and i was considering a cheap upgrade that i can just add parts to. This pc in specific has been floating around online and you have confirmed everything that i was wondering!
Picking one of these up tomorrow I build a lot of pcs may post what I’m going to do with it hint external mount aio. It will be simply built to run a few game servers. So I don’t use my pc, or have to sacrifice editing time with that pc.😊
I am recently having trouble getting a GTX 1050 ti to work in a ThinkCentre M92p. Confirmed working in a ThinkCentre M900. Does not go past being able to boot into BIOS. Any suggestions?
Are you using a low profile model? That limits the power draw of the 1050ti so if yours isn't a low profile version, it might be too much for the stock power supply.
@@hardwiredreviewYes I was installing into a SFF M92p with a low profile GTX 1050 Ti. I did get it working in four different M92p's. Updating firmware helped with one. Otherwise, perhaps the initial motherboard was faulty.
The power supply has a range of 240-250 wats, and I put the components you use for this build and it said the power required was 251. I want to know how it could run at all, maybe because the 1050 it's low-profile but I don't know much about computers.
Did this very same thing 8 years ago with an HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Small Form Factor system I got for free that started life as a 4th Gen Core i5, on-board Intel Graphics, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 500GB HDD. Passmark scores were in the low 2000's. After upgrading the system it ended up with an Intel Core i7-4790K, 24GB DDR3 RAM, a 120GB SATA SSD, 1TB HDD storage drive, a GTX 1050 low profile 4GB GPU and a Hynix pcie 1X dual channel wi-fi card. I built the entire system for less than $400 US using all used parts with the exception of the SSD and GPU. I am still using it and this very moment as it is still my "daily driver" PC. Passmark scores are near 4500 with this new config. I played Rise of the Tomb Raider on medium setting (1080p) at over 100 FPS on average. I also played Diablo 3 at well over 80 FPS on average. No CPU/GPU bottlenecks at all. It actually out-performs both a stock 7th Gen i5 (7500)HP ProDesk 400 G4 AND a stock 8th Gen i7(8700) EliteDesk 800 G4 Tower. I have the benchmarks to prove it. I just recently swapped the GTX-1050ti with a low profile GTX-1650 but the performance gains were negligible much to my surprise. The biggest things to look out for if you plan to do something like this is make sure all your drivers are up to date as well as making sure whatever system you use has the latest BIOS version available on the manufacturer's websites. That's very important. Most all system makers like HP and Dell have your system specs and upgrade path on their websites. Just type in the model number.
Bro i have this set up right now but instead im rocking hp elitedesk 800 g2 i5 4570 16gb ram and low profile 1650, Is it possible to put i7 4790k in my rig im worried about temps is your temps fine in that rig did you put any extra fan when putting i7 4790k pn your rig?
@@torribjanbendanillo7986No extra cooling. The system is set at 65 watts and there is no capability to overclock at the BIOS level so temps are not an issue and I've pushed this system hard with most all the test programs.
@@QuantumTechTraveler No point! The system BIOS is locked so overclocking the GPU would just stress the card and the stock power supply and will not net any gains in performance.
@@walterlegere1403 The system BIOS being locked never stopped MSI Afterburner from overclocking a GPU. I've overclocked a GT 1030 on a Dell Optiplex 3020 SFF with an i5-4590 (can't overclock the CPU on that, either) and gotten some considerable gains. Then again, that's a GPU bottleneck situation, so yeah, it works... According to PCBuilds' bottleneck calculator, you've actually got a perfectly matched CPU and GPU setup for 1080p gaming. 0% bottleneck. Congrats. You won PC balancing.
Quick question is the Intel arc rock 380 6vram compatible with the motherboard bc it turns on and it shows the PC boot up and then I don't see anything after that you,help
depends on if you decide to upgrade the cpu and whether you can buy a decent sff gpu. if you can't buy a decent gpu, i wouldn't bother buying it for gaming
Thanks for watching everybody! Timestamps are below: 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - Quick recap 2:10 - Installing graphics card 3:11 - Bottlenecking issues 4:49 - Installing new CPU/Full GPU performance 5:18 - CPU usage issues 7:19 - 3DMark Score 8:27 - Final product/why should should do this too 9:20 - Outro
hi i found out i have the same exact pc but with an i5 an 8gb of ram i want to ask can this pc hold a 1030 gt GPU ? and if not couldu recommend a diff gpu
Super vague on CPU using only one core and what you actually did around it. "I guess they weren't meant to work with CPUs like this" ??? "I don't think this core i5 can be overclocked cooling would be a nightmare" No mention that that there are no overclocking options whatsoever on this type of computer/motherboard. You went on the Lenovo website to check for max speed compatible CPU. This means your CPU works is supported and that all the cores should work. You mention "got the software that tweaks your CPU" but do not mention what it is. Coud you elaborate on any of this a little? there are many different software tweaks your CPU. Then you say you "went into settings and then went into settings even more" and "I enabled the four cores". Where and how? I'm assuming in bios? Somebody disabled the others in bios? I don't mean to be so critical (yes I do) but I don;t mean to be mean or anything. A buddy came to me following your video as he is trying to do something similar. He was pretty confused and I had to help him out a little. Thanks.
Sorry for not being more elaborate but when I made this video I didn't really know much about computers and therefore could not go into great detail about what I did. From what I remember, the software I used was Intel Extreme Tuning Utility along with CPU Tweaker. As for the steps on how I enabled all CPU cores, I typed msconfig into in the Windows search bar, opened system configuration, selected the boot menu, clicked advanced options, and then under "Number of processors" I selected the maximum. I have no idea if this really effected anything but it's worth a shot! Thanks for watching and for the questions, I hope I was able to help!
@@hardwiredreview Hey man thanks for the reply! I didn't need to be as much of a jerk as I was. I should have tried to be more helpful vs. critical. I was thinking it was one of those videos where the person didn't really care and just wanted all the video views. The fact that you answered me the way you did tells me I was wrong in that assumption and that you are really trying to be helpful and informative. The menu item you are mentioning LIMITS the number of processors. The default is to use all of them. If you change this number to something like the max it will do the same thing and use ALL of your logical processors (so no change). You can select a lower number and use less of them. And unchecking the checkmark goes back to using all of them. The grayed out "1" when not checked does not mean anything and Microsoft is really stupid with this kind of stuff always.
@@hardwiredreview You can just go into the bios (f1 at boot) and CPU settings in there and make sure "all cores" are enabled to save using a Windows utility to do it via software.
Could you explain how you knocked that bracket out to put a 2 slot gpu in please? I’m having same issue and these single slot low profiles are few and far between
@@hardwiredreview good to know! always do take a look at the socket, you can definitely have an i7 or in newer sockets i9 there if the generation is supported, as long as you're not limited by the power supply which for older cpus like this i think shouldn't be a big problem
great video I know 0 about computers and already have a m81 would you recommend spending the 300+$ and build it out or just buy a cheap pc off eBay.... not a big gamer just looking to play Rust seemed like a cool game and want to try out pc gaming
For someone who knows very little about computers, it may be a bit difficult to figure out. However, if your up for a doable challenge i would say it's definitely worth it.
