The $300 i7 1050ti beast DIY

[smh]

Don't know where to post this but I thought I would anyways. 

Basically my friend wanted to run rainbow six siege (a pretty demanding game IMO) at 60fps for a bit before he got an actual PC for cheap. We looked around everywhere, Made ryzen builds and anything that would add up to around $400 seemed like it would struggle to run siege (2400g running siege barely at 60fps). Then I got to digging for a used PC or some used parts or something on ebay for cheap. I was able to find a lot of these i7 dell Optiplex PC's popping up and I did some more research and found out that they are mostly leased PC's that were leased to government organizations such as schools, and other government stuff... If you filter it correctly you can find yourself a decent 3rd gen i7, or even 2nd gen i7, and if you want to spend 50$ extra, a 4th gen i7 desktop for below 250$. 

 

Eventually I found this: 

Dell Optiplex 9010 Core i7 3770 16gb 1TB HDD (200$)

Spoiler

  

 

Once we ordered that, we also ordered 

ASUS ROG STRIX 1050ti 4gb (120$)

Spoiler

 

So with 320$ spent here is how our specs looked:

250w DELL PSU (works flawlessly with the 1050ti)

Shitty generic Dell Case

Intel Q77 motherboard

i7 3770 3.4ghz

gtx 1050ti 4gb

16gb ddr3 ram (unknown speed never bothered to check)

1tb hard drive

 

After setting everything up, we ran siege with competitive settings, everything low, texture filtering at 16x, textures at medium, LOD ultra, TAA OFF. 

We were blown away. Not only did it not slap any other similar price ranged PC with newer parts, it did it with ease. Siege was running at a steady 90 fps and on high settings it was still doing above 70 but competitive settings let you see better so why not. 

We also ran CSGO and we were getting above 200fps. 

Im basic, my theory is if it runs siege, it runs everything.

 

I think this is the best money can buy. You get 4 cores 8 threads, 16gb ram, 1tb hard drive, and a 1050ti for JUST 320$

You can't even get a current gen i3 for that price and this will put that i3 under water.

 

If you want a high end gaming PC, look no further.

 

If you do decide to purchase this, make sure you get the full tower version, otherwise you will need a low profile 1050ti for the small form factor case and im not too sure how good those perform. The 1050ti must have no PCI Power pins meaning it gets powered through the port and nothing else as the DELL PSU doesnt have PCI power plugs.

 

 

[GoldenLag]

id pick up the dell, but instead of buying an expencive 1050ti. 

 

id grab a new 550watt PSU for 50$ and buy a second han R9 290x for 90$. 

 

 

this is how id recommend doing builds on sub 300$ budgets. 

 

edit: like otherwise it is a good build. 

 

edit2: also, welcome to the forum

[Spotty]

Maybe consider adding a SSD for the OS.

[Esus]

Oof 1050ti is actually pretty expensive. You can buy a 1060 3gb on amazon right now for about 20 bucks more.

[LukeSavenije]

44 minutes ago, Esus said:

Oof 1050ti is actually pretty expensive. You can buy a 1060 3gb on amazon right now for about 20 bucks more.

or just a 580 to kill both

or a 290x

[smh]

4 hours ago, Esus said:

Oof 1050ti is actually pretty expensive. You can buy a 1060 3gb on amazon right now for about 20 bucks more.

Reason why we all got 1050tis was because on Kijiji you can get them for around 100 CAD AND you don't need to change the PSU! Most of these guys don't know what their doing so plug and play is better for them  we actually picked up a Dell i7 3770 on Kijiji for 180 CAD, paired with a 90$ 1050ti used, it was around 270 CAD, 230USD.

 

IF I had to do it again I may have went with a 290x. 

[grss1982]

On 1/16/2019 at 8:53 PM, smh said:

Don't know where to post this but I thought I would anyways. 

Basically my friend wanted to run rainbow six siege (a pretty demanding game IMO) at 60fps for a bit before he got an actual PC for cheap. We looked around everywhere, Made ryzen builds and anything that would add up to around $400 seemed like it would struggle to run siege (2400g running siege barely at 60fps). Then I got to digging for a used PC or some used parts or something on ebay for cheap. I was able to find a lot of these i7 dell Optiplex PC's popping up and I did some more research and found out that they are mostly leased PC's that were leased to government organizations such as schools, and other government stuff... If you filter it correctly you can find yourself a decent 3rd gen i7, or even 2nd gen i7, and if you want to spend 50$ extra, a 4th gen i7 desktop for below 250$. 

 

Eventually I found this: 

Dell Optiplex 9010 Core i7 3770 16gb 1TB HDD (200$)

  Reveal hidden contents

  

 

Once we ordered that, we also ordered 

ASUS ROG STRIX 1050ti 4gb (120$)

  Reveal hidden contents

 

So with 320$ spent here is how our specs looked:

250w DELL PSU (works flawlessly with the 1050ti)

Shitty generic Dell Case

Intel Q77 motherboard

i7 3770 3.4ghz

gtx 1050ti 4gb

16gb ddr3 ram (unknown speed never bothered to check)

1tb hard drive

 

After setting everything up, we ran siege with competitive settings, everything low, texture filtering at 16x, textures at medium, LOD ultra, TAA OFF. 

We were blown away. Not only did it not slap any other similar price ranged PC with newer parts, it did it with ease. Siege was running at a steady 90 fps and on high settings it was still doing above 70 but competitive settings let you see better so why not. 

We also ran CSGO and we were getting above 200fps. 

Im basic, my theory is if it runs siege, it runs everything.

 

I think this is the best money can buy. You get 4 cores 8 threads, 16gb ram, 1tb hard drive, and a 1050ti for JUST 320$

You can't even get a current gen i3 for that price and this will put that i3 under water.

 

If you want a high end gaming PC, look no further.

 

If you do decide to purchase this, make sure you get the full tower version, otherwise you will need a low profile 1050ti for the small form factor case and im not too sure how good those perform. The 1050ti must have no PCI Power pins meaning it gets powered through the port and nothing else as the DELL PSU doesnt have PCI power plugs.

 

 

It's actually a meta or formula if you will from the days of crypto mining when video cards and most other parts were crazy expensive.

 

Cheap OEM  + Video Card + PSU Upgrade = Affordable and capable gaming PC.

 

Lots of videos about it actually: https://www.google.com/search?q=cheap+dell+optiplex+gaming&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz98Cx3fffAhUGE4gKHdk4BYwQ_AUIECgD&biw=2133&bih=1076

 

Some have used this formula to move form console to PC gaming, IIRC.