This is a complete waste of money....... but I still bought one!!
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Dude, if you have the parts lying around to fix them, do it, but if you don't, I wouldn't if I were you.
About a year ago I bought a barebones Dell Inspiron 3881 for 35€. I added a 16gb kit of RAM, i5 10400f, 512gb SSD. All for a total of under 150€. It has a decent PSU that can hold up to an 8pin GPU (it has a 6pin that i adapted to an 8pin). I have added a GTX 1060 6GB, 1660, 1660 SUPER, 1070, 2060 12GB and all of these cards performed great.
It you can find good deals on the rest of the parts a barebones is not a bad idea
I would love to see a video on the best budget build you can make for the same budget as one of these, then compare them side by side.
It's always handy to have a spare cheap little PC; I just bought a new 5tb backup drive and was able to use a Stone PC I got for £20 from ebay to copy the files, leaving it on overnight. The same little PC was handy a few months back when the motherboard in my couch PC died, tiding me over until I could get it fixed.
I used a Lenovo M93 to put together a Batocera box for my bother in law to play retro game, and a Lenovo M73 with Batocera for my Mum to play Crash Bandicoot on. Both of those cost £30.
Totally with you on this, the only reason I could think of doing it is 'sleepers' the folk that love the older administrations of stuff that are willing to go for it for the approach of what's now known as legacy, but as you said in some cases I was finding complete systems from independent sellers for less than barebone systems on eBay - a while ago I purchased a optiplex 755 for £10 from eBay - complete, I'm using it as a bedside set up for working from bed when I just can't be arsed to get up - easier than a laptop and with a monitor attached to a boom arm stand attached to the bedside table I look like someone out of the original Blade runner film. Great video and approach, I get the vibe of 'not sure' but it's worth trying - my approach entirely. Best wishes, Stefan, Jersey, Channel Islands.
I love saving the old workstations when I can get a good deal on them.
Similar to some comments above, if you're patient you can get a full prebuilt with cpu and RAM for similar money. Of course that also gives you more parts, that you were trying to get rid of. 😀
I've used expensive thermal paste and cheap thermal paste, and everything in-between. There's never been any sort of 'WOW' factor with the expensive stuff, it's always been margin of error territory.
its more about what is terrible and what will evaporate in a month or become like concrete you cant take put there
the good stuff should last more than a year and should be easy to clean, the bad dtuff usually even leaves stains in the metal and you almost have to use sandpaper to get rid of it
@@betag24cn I've had Aliexpress special paste that was still wet two years later. It's like a lot of stuff, made in the same factories but the brand name defines the price.
anti sieze, unironically
Watch out for the DDR3 variant and with the SFFs, the W4300 is a killer
I agree that barebones can be cheap if you already have the parts. I guess what really makes the difference is how bare bone is the bare bones, some have more parts then others. Either way it's still a fairly cheap way to get something to tinker with.
I was given a optiplex, it's a i5-8500 with 32g ddr4 and a m.2 512g. My plan with mine is I'm going to recase part of it, new GPU, PSU, motherboard and inexpensive fishtank case, think when I'm done I'll get $400 for it I'll have about $200 into it. I'll get a $60 rx580 from AliExpress, it's 8th Gen CPU it will make a decent budget gaming rig for some young kid. Little RGB with I fish tank case, they will love it, might go as low as $350 for it and it will still be better than 90% of the prebuilts on Amazon 😂
Yahi i had 4 barebones pcs. They were fun to tinker around but i just ended up parting them out and probly sell the parts. i got a dell 5050 still though with a i5 5700k and a gtx 1650. its small and easy to take on trips with portable monitor.
Glad to hear you are cleaning shit out.
These PC's are worth it imo for turning them into Linux Machines, or Retro Gaming PC's too just for emulation. Recommendations for Linux Distros to use for these are : Batocera, Lakka, Pop OS, Linux Mint, or lightweight(low system resources) Linux Distros would be Linux Lite, Lubuntu, Linux Mint XFCE. These are also good for recycling and saving them from the e-waste/landfill too.
prefect for a few games some of us just dont get into the ones that need alot of cores n gigs unless your trying to stream with multiple screens n tabs 👍
It's not a waste of money because you need it for content. After you've done with it, you can sell it back.
This might work out with older parts... if you can get the base systems cheap enough. I just bought a 4690K for $15. You can get 16GB of DDR3 for not much more than that. However, best case scenario, you're coming out at price parity. I didn't count the drive, as systems this old generally come with e-waste level hard drives that are completely useless and need to be replaced anyways. But with anything newer than 4th... MAYBE 6th gen, this just won't pan out. You'll def spend more.
Great video. Have you ever tried getting PCs from companies that are getting rid of them?
nahh... they are good deals but mostlyy want you to buy bulk... I don't move enough volume to make that large of a purchase plus storage.
@@DLMtechgarage I'm sorry, I meant companies that literally give them away. My son works for a company that was giving them to employees. He got me one, an HP Elitedesk. It is the fastest thing I own.
I'm buying a barebone HP Prodesk 600 G3 tomorrow, it will cost me $17, I have all the parts already, barebone pc's are a big thing here in SE Asia.
Still nice, honestly... But I definitely see what you mean.
👉Can you post a link for that plastic parts case. 👈 Very nice.
Most of these older off-lease office PC's are just not worth the expense to upgrade at all any more unless they are of the 8th, 9th or 10th gen variety. Due to the proprietary designs, lack of upgrade path, power limitations and size constraints. The used PC component market just seems really volatile right now with prices all over the place. I was using a 4th Gen Core i7 HP small form factor system for my daily driver up until about January until the motherboard in the old 800 G1 died. I had no reason for anything fancier because I didn't game on it at all. I started collecting used parts for a custom build and managed to build a 9th Gen Core i9-9900K system with a GTX-1080ti, 32 GB DDR-4 3200 RAM, 120MM AIO, 1TB NVMe drive, 6TB HDD, a 750 watt 80+ Gold modular PSU and a brand new nice case for $35 using the "trade up" method of getting parts. Selling off old components to get slightly better stuff working my way up to what I wanted. I've probably got about $400 in this whole system. I did have to pay a premium for a quality 4K monitor though. That was expensive but I now have a system that can handle anything I throw at it and, if in the future I can completely gut the system and start over selling the parts I have to get better stuff cheaper. It works but it takes time and you have to be patient and wait for good deals like the Gigabyte GTX-1080ti. I found one for $175 when the average asking prices were still well over $225 and I sold my GTX-1080 that I pulled from another donor system for $115 so I ended up paying about $50 for the 1080ti.
I've been taking lots of stuff I have an trying to piece together usable PCs to give others. At some point I realized I was just hoarding.. and stuff became junk in the closet. I did score some low profile RX 550 4GB cards back during the GPU-apocalypse... just because their fans were bad! Easy fix. Excellent low pro/low power cards for system like that.
good day sir
Same to you
I bought that exact same model recently and I put in a GTX1060 6GB and it works great as a budget gaming pc for my girlfriend:) Its kinda janky to use a sata to 6 pin adapter but I undervolted the gpu and it runs stable under stress test! It did run stable without undervolting as well but I did it just as a safety measure.
The only real con with these 6th and 7th gen Intel barebones kit is Win 11😑😖
it is a workstation now that will work for many years as offoce and ligh video editing, also ligth games, from e waste to great cheap machine, this os better, if you have the rigth gpu, of course
Nice...
STAY AWAY FROM BARE BONES !!
These sorts of things are not only good ways to make a buck and make someone happy at the same time, you're likely saving them from a landfill somewhere which is always good, when it can still be put to good use. I used to do this sort of thing often enough, either because someone needed a pc or things were coasting by so cheap I couldn't resist them. Some systems I got basically good to go, just missing a GPU and HDD to make some kid happy, so 1050LP and some old drive, slap windows and fortnite or whatever it was they wanted to play on it and boom - Bob's your uncle. Monitors go real cheap when companies move or go bust etc, mice and keyboards too, if they are local you can pick a full PC setup up for next to nothing, small upgrade and you've built basically an "xbox" or whatever for some kid who can't afford that stuff, and the thing is this kind of shit matters in school too. Kid has no console or PC, no friends wanna come over. Fix that and he/she rolls with the rest of em. I never gave stuff for free on principle, people treat free stuff like trash. Charge something, even if it's $50 or whatever, it'll last longer.
Not a good way to store ram, CPUs due to static risk.
Isn't that container basically a static magnet? I can tell when I put a sheet of paper near these things
OMG, you didn't !!
lol... mostly to move extra cpu's and other junk I had to flip for a few dollars.
Make Your Videos 15-20 Min Pls