How To: Turn an Old Office Computer into a Gaming PC!
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2018
- In this video I show you guys how to upgrade an old office pc for gaming. I talk about what kind of parts you should upgrade in an older system and how to change out each part. This in my opinion is the best way to put together a cheap gaming pc.
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Long time no see, lol. I'm going to have a Ryzen APU build video up this weekend and I have a bunch of other awesome content lined up for the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
Tech By Matt: I did my own system kinda like this but hunted the Australian gumtree site for my local 2nd hand gear, got a z77 & 3770k, new 120gb ssd, added a 1060 6gb i got on special & a new 80+ gold psu, (also got win7u coz I use&hate win10), also slowly worked up to 32gb ram for no real reason & installed it into a custom modded ikea display cabinet with 8x 200mm fans
Works mint for 1440 & 1080p, sadly 4k is horrid.
Hey Great seeing you again and will be looking this weekend --- Thanks --- Also First 65 or Older
Tech By Matt I am trying to upgrade the hp envy 750 and I was wondering if it was completely upgradeable or is there specific items that I need to get
I need to see some gameplay since im getting my optiplex 7010 and planning on buying these parts ;)
Hey what's the website u find cheap pc on??
0:35 Introduction
1:26 CPU Change
3:42 RAM Change
4:32 Hard Drive and SSD
6:01 Power Supply
7:11 Graphics Card
Thanks buddy
Thank you
Thanks
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First of all we all need money
#relatable
@@Cont0rt *Yes.*
Agreed thanos agreed
Cont0rt i agree
Lol
>buy dell with any i5
>Put 1050ti in
>Cheap gaming machine.
PSU will handle it nicely
My friend just did this. Plays Anthem medium settings 45fps
FACTS i did that and sold the pc for 330 bucks and it work fine. pple overhere telling me to replace the psu like cmon
Sadly most of these old pcs have like 200w psus so ul have to change it either way...
@@lordadz1615 it is, but luckily I got an dell optiflex 7010 with 275w and pair it with gtx 1050 ti mini last year and it still work like a cham till today !!!
by old dell/hp workstation add ssd and rx 570. done. better than i5 and cheaper
Thank you for taking the time to explain how to put in new parts! Most videos and guides I see like this don't really explain how to replace these and it makes the task seem even more daunting.
I got an insane deal where I live.
Found a i5 3450 powerspec PC with 8gb of ram and a 2tb hard drive for 40 bucks. I had to replace the cooler since the system had like a pound of dust in it and it had destroyed the bearings on the old cooler. Luckily I had the same OEM cooler sitting around that I paid 3 bucks for.
I'm sure the system was stolen or something, or he thought he was selling me a lemon, but I'm not complaining.
damn that a good deal. where do you live
here in morocco a used pc like that will cost you 250$ or more
ALI sensei I live in Kansas and in a city with alot of tech.
Where I live that would cost you 500$ or more
Yard sale?
__darkhorse nah off an app called offerup
pro tip just leave the SSD hanging in the tray, it's not a moving part, it'll be fine.
Thx
@Dawid Jandzinski maybe he dislikes bottons
@Dawid Jandzinski maybe he has a dog called bottons you don't know his life GTFO judgey bitch
@Dawid Jandzinski I really love hitting the dislike botton when I get rick rolled.
@@danielroscoe7987 okay?
I’ve seen a few videos and this is by far one of the best
I didn't expect much from this video but for some unknown reason this seemed to be really useful/helpful
Maggots for life🤘🏻🤥
My family pc Acer M1935 bought on 2012 or 2013 if im not mistaken:
I3-2120, Win7, 2gb ram, 500gb hdd, intel hd graphics.
During the lockdown i tried to upgrade it now this is the specs:
Same proc, win10, 10gb ram, 120gb ssd + 500gb hdd and amd r9 270x 2gb.
Now im saving for a new psu and hopefully a new processor by the end of the year. Wish me luck!
Good luck! I am planning to buy a whole new pc. I have an amd a4 5000 and 4gb of ram with win10
Not too bad you should save up for an a320 motherboard and use an AMD ryzen 3 zen 2
I love these videos because they're logically the best option for a techie to get into serious gaming
Following this build almost to the T. Cant wait for all the parts to arrive and put it together. Thanks for the guidance!!!
shows office setup
puts personal setup specs in the desc
haha
ahahahaha no spoilers watch the video, maybe thats why
I worked on many of these and love how easy they are to upgrade. Little bit of ram, an SSD with Windows 10, Quadro P400 and there you go, better than new.
Exactly the kind of video that I was looking for! You simply nailed it, man! Liked & subscribed!
Thank you for this vid, you kept it clean and simple, no fancy colorful crap
I deal a lot with old PCs from clients throwing things away when they get new stuff. I've made out pretty good in building numerous machines.
Hey Matt! You can actually clone a larger drive to a smaller one so long as your data does not exceed the size on the SSD! I've done it before using hirens boot disk :)
Oh this is awesome! Thank you for showing this off!
Thank you so much like i swear i have been searching for a video like this for so long and i FINALLY found it!!
I have one of these, Best computer I've ever owned.
Really you are mad to work with pcs.
Your goodness bro👍.😎😎😎
Such ideas have just got me my Dell optiplex 7020 with a GTX 790, 16GB RAM and an SSD. Keep up the good work.
Nice job on the video man Good editing and audio 👌 keep it up
Lol I'm on this PC right now at my highschool DIT class!
Christopher Doyle lol fr
Ask for one for free when they upgrade
The ones at ny school runs windows 98 and 2020 is coming already
@@shinozaaakiii f
lmao i took one of them from my school
I already did this but on eBay. Got a Dell Optiplex 9010 SFF desktop. Upgraded the RAM, HDD and GPU. This is the specs now:
3.40 GHz i5-3570
12 GB DDR3
GTX 1050 Ti LP
1 TB HDD 7200 RPM
Windows 10 Pro
And why did you get a small form factor p? Have you even tested how it performs? Sff pcs suck cause to play at lest 1080p you need a small and low powered gpu and those sick and cost more
Dark Angel Rafael nice
used sff are pretty cheap for their cpu and psu, hdd . really just need a gpu for a decent gaming pc
Ran Ng got mine for $99. With the CPU inside he could've charged me much higher as others desktops with older CPUs cost about more than $100.
Sean Timothy G. Tanega I get very good performance. I'm just limited with upgrades.
I literally found one of these towers yesterday at my friends apartment complex by the dumpster with a 24in dell screen all looked good so i took it home got some power cables for it and a cable for video and it works perfect! Free pc that I'm now going to upgrade thanks to this video!
Nice job with the video. You did well with explaining every part and installment.
Protip: Don’t exceed the manufacturer recommended maximum for RAM and make sure to use the right socket type for your CPU
How about just maximum
@@edwardmacnab354 max at your own risk but it should handle it
so.. make sure components are compatible?
I currently have the same desktop featured in this video. I have done several upgrades and now this thing is a beast.
My specs are i7 2600 non k, 16 gigs ram, 220 gig ssd, 1 tb HDD, GTX 1070 gpu, thermaltake 600 watt psu. I added WiFi and Bluetooth as well. Oh and some RGB lol.
It crushes every game at 1080p
Price?
@@plzsubtome4010 I got mine for $100, came with an i3 but I put a i7 in it for $80. SSD was $20. Psu was $50
This is late but is the pc still going good?
i have had this build since 2017 thanks for spreading the word
Nice mention of Macrium Reflect. It's THE best drive cloning software I've used so far. Perfect for transferring the OS to an SSD.
I did this it came out good mine came with a i5 and added more ram and a good grafix card
My friend might give me his old pc and it is 11 years old and has an I7 so I was thinking of keeping the I7 adding a gpu and replacing the power supply and the hard drive then adding an SSD and RAM
Nice simple video and very informative tutorial... Thanks for sharing bro...👍😁
Great video Matt!
My Optiplex 7010:
Intel i5 third generation
8GB RAM ddr3
500GB mem
And default graphics card.
*MY UPGRADES*
+2x4GB ddr3 RAM - 16$
+GTX 1050 TI - 70$
*TOTAL COST OF PC WAS 186$ AND IM PLAYING PUBG IN 50-60 FPS*
I got this as a 2nd project pc, I got an RX460 for 50 dollars then flashed it to an rx560. It's an amazing cheap PC that won't kill budget
Jose Gap can the rx460 work on a oem like this and is yours the 4gb version
@@seniorpepe9386 No, not Dell has more problems then go for this setup. Check oztalkshw prebuilt. He also has an exclusive offer on Rx 460. I recommend keeping it as an rx460 if this is your first pc.
@@josem1596 no its not my first pc or anything i know that the later model amd cards run on uefi bios and the optiplex i hvae can be swapped to uefi mode but im not sure if it will work i dont want to waste my money and it not work
Did u just say 500gb memory xd
True story. I was using an optiplex 7010 with an i5-3570, 16gb ram, RX480 8GB. BF1 @ 1080 on ultra getting 60fps.
Great job on the video. I think your pace is excellent. I like the budget choices but went with the 2600 i7 myself. The market these days is a dream for an old pc guy like myself. You can get a killer refurb for peanuts now.
Just subscribed to support the channel keep up the good work bud you got this 👍
8:07 that kinda hurt my eyes
ikr
Bruh I cut holes in mine 💀💀💀
@@lolaeel5097 what did you use for cutting?
*Matt, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Discount PC is definitely what I needed to score a decent PC for less!*
Fantastic video! You should seriously benchmark this PC!
I literally have this computer! Thank you so so much!
Usually Dell uses custom cases. It's hard to modify a Dell because nothing really fits into the case. I suppose it would be best just taking the components out and putting them into another case.
you can't 'cos sometimes OEM mobos also have custom design and you simply can't fit them into any other case.
Honestly if you’re replacing all those parts then just build your own pc, the only upgrade that is really reasonable is the ram and your gpu.(most optiplexes ship with i5’s now)
I agree, if you're changing more than GPU and PSU then just build a new one
All I would do is ssd and fans and buy it with already 4 cores and and 8gigs of rams
Have a nice gaming PC and waiting for the case to come in but I figured I'd watch this for fun.
Nice thing is that many of those 790s come with the i5 2400 as the OEM chip, all of mine did. I didn't even know these machines were good for upgrading and just happened to have bought 3 of them from Goodwill, they've all worked out great so far.
I've been planning buy an i7 2600 optiplex and upgrade with a better psu in a new case with a gtx 1070.
PaneledPear6555 will that even work
PaneledPear6555 Tbh if you have a 1070 you should a better system like a ryzen system.
On Soul Not necessarily. If you do 60 fps on higher resolutions then the 1070 is the component creating a bottleneck. While the 2600 will go strong up to around 100-120 fps at 1080p ultra.
Mine is a dell optiplex, it has 16 gb of ram, an i7 2600 and a gtx 1060 6gb runs pretty much anything
Just put some RGB in mine gotta say was pleasantly surprised the grey panel in the front really illuminates well
Great video! Really well done
These old dells support cheaper Xeon equivalents as well! :D
You didn't upgrade that crappy cooler ?
tovmassian13011 its not nessecary
That’s what I thought I mean it’s not necessary but definitely a good idea😂😬
I agree that cooler must be making that CPU hot he should add a RGB fan cooling master to keep it cool
@@MasterdanielXD he wouldn’t need rgb lmao it’s a closed case
outstanding video well-put-together very professional and straightforward with educational values, I would like to say discount PC on refurbished systems is overly expensive in fact a lot of their Dell systems and servers are between $100 too $300 markup.
Thanks this video helped me a lot
Would going with an Intel Xeon CPU have any downsides? It seems I could get an insanely cheap buffed CPU for a build but if there are downsides let me know.
I got a asus h55 board, xeon x3470 and 8gb of ddr3 ram for 100ish dollars.
I've since then invested into a better cooler (212 evo) and got my xeon to 4.0 Ghz, and it performs almost like a I7-3770 at stock.
The x3470@4.0Ghz won't bottleneck a 6gb 1060 and also it will bottleneck a 1070 by only 10% which is great, i find RX580 8gb match for it.
Just when picking xeons, try getting the ones that are either rebranded consumer chips or the ones with higher clock speeds and lower core count, something like 4c/8t is just fine for gaming and it's probably going to perform better than 8c/16t that would excel in workstation loads like video editing and animation/3d modelling etc etc
Where did you get the ram? Like what brand is it
Coretimeless you need to have the same brand of ram you can find the brand on the side of the ram stick
love your style bro i have dell optiplex 7010 and it runs very good.
I just ordered a 3010 I can’t wait to get it!!!
Some newer Intel CPU holders/sockets (that's where the CPU rest on the MB) on the motherboard do not have a readily visible alignment mark. There are notches on each side of the Intel CPU and if you look carefully you will see the corresponding protrusions on the Intel CPU holder/socket. Align the Intel CPU notches with the socket. For RAM - if you are adding to what you already have, try to get the same latency. It will look something like this for example: 16-16-16-39. It may be important in some instances. Just today I had an incompatibility issue with some RAM and once I removed the add-on RAM my system again worked fine. _Most RAM will work in unison with other RAM,_ but sometimes it will not. For you newbies, I hope this helps? Praise The Lord and Godspeed to you all - Hebrews 10:35!!
Tony C.
Thanks for this man
Ram of differing latency will always train to the lower spec or the higher latency/lower speed RAM's specs. Mixing ram is generally a bad idea unless it's just mixing brand names that doesn't seem to matter much but differing speeds and latency matters quite a lot.
It's been my experience that if you have low density and high density modules in the same machine it will cause issues, and the same goes for using double sided with single sided modules. I just want to throw it out there because I know from experience that these Dell Optiplex 790 and 990 computers won't post with DDR3-1066 (PC3-8500) or 8GB DIMM Modules. They also only work with unbuffered DDR3-1333 or 1600. They won't work with Registered, ECC, or Buffered memory. They sometimes also won't work with "gaming" memory that requires more than 1.5 volts. Gaming memory is not going to be of any benefit anyway in these systems as they offer no ability for overclocking.
The mate
Hello sir please name the Dell machine with sys specs ??
me and my friend did this last year it’s a good way to get into pc gaming
Should I buy a cheap pc just for now and upgrade ?
Thanks this really helped me
How long can we keep him at 69k subs for?
It’s sad because I clicked the video and this is the exact computer I have 😂😭 I get 25fps on Fortnite. That’s why I’m here
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Thx a lot keep up the good work
Im so happy! I got a dell dimension 9200 with the intel 2 processor with a keyboard! Never been used for FREEE from my moms work! Yay so excited to transform it
How'd it go
I managed to get an optiplex 990 and 9010
Which had an i5 2400 and 3470 from my local solid waste for free
Send one ;)
Also got a 990, gonna upgrade it with a GTX 670 an a new PSU
bench?
Press
About 250
@@edgelordnord1618 cool
Wow, this is insanely useful. I might come back and maybe build a PC of my own. Or not idk
I’m late but this helped me out so much thx
Can you please do a 2019 version of this
what about a 2020 version?
@@RamiHaddadin what about a 2021 version
@@whtevrtheword Imma reply to this in 1 year
is a GTX1050TI 4GB GDDR5 128 Bits for 47 pounds a good price?
Really good, I payed 70 for standard 1050 2gb
Good video i plan on doing this i have an hp cpu with an i5 and i just wanted something to get me into pc gaming.
Thanks this is the best video new sub
6:40 subtitles back at it again
lol that is what i did but i found one with an i7 2600 non k and 8gb ddr3 ram for $180
Mysterious Jack dude ich bought a Pc with an i7 4770 an gtx 660 16 gb ddr3 ram an 120gb ssd an 1tb harddrive a power supply from corsair with 750 on a asrock Z87 pro 3 for 180€ ( sorry for my bad english)
SyniX yea but that is $223 in us also that is a pretty good deal for that price anyway lol
I just bought dell optiplex 990 for $110 on Offer Up. It had 4gb ram and a 2600 non k too. It transferred my 600 watt power supply, added 4gb more of ram(total of 8gb ddr3),and my gt 1030 from my old build. This a great medium-high setting build now. I had an i5 650 before....
John Lomeli The i7 2600 is being severely bottlenecked. It handles 1070s.
John Lomeli you got to put in the account that you spent on the gt 1030 and the PSU + the extra 4gb of ram...which might be around 200-220 lol
Great work!
Got this PC from work. Teach me, Matt!
The i3 2120 is honestly great. I paired it with a gtx 970 and 12gb of ram and it ran gta 5 on almost ultra settings. But 1155 motherboards are hard to come by
Roberto Ortega the cpu might be a huge bottleneck sometimes
Roberto Ortega The i5 2400 is a better option.
the ryzen 3 1200 is much better for the same price. compare them on cpu.userbenchmark.com and you'll see
WhatTheHax cpu user benchmark is whack. It doesn't give accurate info. The i5 2400 is just as good.
PaneledPear6555 tbh,if the guy wants sumthing new,he should go for an ryzen 3
Can I use a GTX 1050 instead of the 760
Anas Miah yes
1050ti is better for not much more money
Daboss 21 its a good quality too
Brings back memories, the i3-2100 was my mvp before I got my EVGA 650ti gpu. i3-2100 igpu alone helped me play League of Legends in mid settings.
This is perfect since i have literally the same pc but with a graphics card.
hello..can this motherboard fit with gtx 1050ti mini?
Yes it can
Step 1. Break into someones house...
Finally a video with good information. Thank you.
Can you do some benchmarks with some of the newer games with this PC? I think it would be very interesting.
the case needs to be rgb... GEIMING
Whats the point in buying a system and then upgrading/removing a lot of parts from it? Just get a really cheap dell OEM motherboard, cheap case, and then buy everything else
Zereko many times the whole computer is cheaper than the parts as a separate. I've got refurb 990 optiplex with i5 2400 for $80
Oh cool, where did you get it from?
Zereko cheaper.
Zereko eBay, there are lots of refurbishers who sell these office machines all the time
Typically the only parts you would remove and upgrade are the gpu and psu. The goal is to buy a cheap pc with a good cpu, which also has a good amount of ram, like 8gb. Then from there, all you need to do is stick a gtx 750 ti or 1050 ti in it as well as a better psu and you have a budget gaming pc
Did this earlier this year with a similar Acer pre-built and cant believe the performance for the $, i would recommend a blower style GPU cooler though with these OEM cases as the open air type coolers on the GPU's i used seemed to heat up the surrounding hard drive cage & hard drives when under load.
Depending on what video card you use it may or may not fit. Also even if it does fit the SATA ports on these are blocked by many video card fan shrouds. Most of the time you can use 90 degree cables to get around that or use the Silverstone ultra slim right angle sata cables. I have seen a few of them with this issue.
My father office pc..he gave me
I change it into gaming pc
i5 4thgen
8gb ram ddr3
1tb hdd
120ssd
Then i buy..
Gtx1060 3gb 70$
600w psu LoL
Ok make sure to clean it out for dust
Bro were u buy gtx 1060 for 70$
How much FPS do you get on games
Auden he gets 160fps
You might also want to change the thermal paste
This pc has an i3 and my “gaming pc” has a core 2 duo
Upgrade it to core to quad same thing just with 4 cores and 8 threads
Ours is pretty new but it's not for gaming tho but the specs are overkill for a family pc specs: core i5 9400 4.1ghz GIGABYTE b365m ds3h GTX 1050ti 1x8 teamgroup elite 8gb ddr4 2400mhz ram (willing to add a stick of 8gb ram to make it 16gb) wd blue 1tb HDD (willing to upgrade the GPU tho... to an rtx2060s
2 cores😬 4 cores is best idea
Hey matt big fan of you videos! So I purchased an optiplex 380, would it make big difference from the optiplex 790?
these towers are amazing i am using a 1050ti 4gb with 16gb ramm ddr3 paired with a i7 BUT if you transfer to a new pc case there is no pwr/reset panel so you have to use the OEM power button some how but hey you can get these towers for 75 to 200 bucks amazing computes and thanks for the videos helping em with the build!
Who still watch this vid at 2021
honestly it’s a great vid, this gave me a lot of ideas and just for £150 i built a pc that gets high frames in csgo val & minecraft & could run more games but i haven’t played anything else
I'm here in 2023
@@bilboslaughter22292024
I’m here in 2024
hold on did u say gtx 7750? isnt it radeon ?
TheSURGEofTech tech he said gtx 760
aww well no big deal relax
TheSURGEofTech tech cjill
Serj Star what
A gtx card is nvidia mate... HD and RX are Radeon cards
I remember watching this 6 years ago!!!
I have a similar setup - Optiplex 790 w i5-2500, 32GB of RAM, dual Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD and 1 Samsung 870 1TB NVME SSD on a PIce 4x card, EVGA GTX 1050ti 4GB Graphics card. This setup runs most current games at maximum settings with no performance issues. I'm planning a newer build off an XPS machine with the i7-8700, but am waiting until the summer to build it.