This is a GAMING PC!?!?!

[NickHeavy]

You are on a super tight budget and you just got a 7 year old Dell Optiplex 9010. With a mix of new and used hardware upgrades, we are gonna show you how much game really is in that old computer.

 

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[BobVonBob]

SATA to 6 and 8 pin PCIe power scares me but sure okay. I blame Dell for creating the problem in the first place.

[iBabySlapper]

Ahhh, I also had a Dell pre-built gaming PC back in my Uni days when I was living on Government grant money. I think I had a RX460 in a Precision T1700.

[minibois]

Dude, you're getting a DELL!

[Quadrum]

Linus in the thumbnail looks like he’s trying to keep a straight face but someone is sucking on his toes

[BobVonBob]

18 minutes ago, Quadrum said:

Linus in the thumbnail looks like he’s trying to keep a straight face but someone is sucking on his toes

How do I delete someone else's post?

[atxcyclist]

There is a wide world of Dell pre-built machines just waiting to be game machines. 3rd gen i7s are still decent enough if you're not going for cutting-edge games. 

[yjuyjuy]

How to use laptop as desktop's monitor?

[SolarNova]

Any i7 2nd gen and up is fine for gaming on a budget.

 

In all honesty the biggest problem when looking for these machines is finding them with the good CPU's installed, a lot of the sellers know full well what are good CPU's and what are not and will pull the good ones out and replace them with crap that the average joe wont think twice about.

 

Still if u can find a optiplex or similar with a i7 2600 .or 3770 , 4770 etc thats a solid start, i would avoid i5's nowadays as most games now really benefit form the extra threads.

If ur lucky and u need a full system u can even pick up systems that include a basic bottom of the barely keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

 

It really is easy nowadays to get a used gaming system for cheap compared to even as recently as 10 years ago.

[kelvinhall05]

Finally an ltt build I can get behind, although I would have gone with a used GPU.

[minibois]

1 hour ago, dwyeezy said:

How to use laptop as desktop's monitor?

Get a compatible driver board and plug in a HDMI cable

DIY Perks  has done a video on it:

 

[yjuyjuy]

52 minutes ago, minibois said:

Get a compatible driver board and plug in a HDMI cable

DIY Perks  has done a video on it:

 

Thanks, great video! But I actually just want to know how Linus controls the desktop from his XPS 13. I can see there's a HDMI cable plugged in the GPU while XPS 13 only has 2 type c ports? Just curious if it's actually a wired connection between the laptop and the desktop. Cuz I've been wanting to use my laptop as my ITX's only monitor for a long time. ( well maybe he's just using Parsec

[Guest]

If people recommend using a Sata to 6pin adapter for beginners instead of getting a power-plugless GPU like the 1650, it tells just how badly the 1650 is priced.

[minibois]

1 hour ago, dwyeezy said:

Thanks, great video! But I actually just want to know how Linus controls the desktop from his XPS 13. I can see there's a HDMI cable plugged in the GPU while XPS 13 only has 2 type c ports? Just curious if it's actually a wired connection between the laptop and the desktop. Cuz I've been wanting to use my laptop as my ITX's only monitor for a long time. ( well maybe he's just using Parsec

Oh, sorry; misread your comment

Either he's using Parsec, or perhaps he's using a (low latency) capture card (since of course they have to capture the system image as well).

[ahuckphin]

Another YouTuber talks about the gaming on a budget, Optiplex style. Have we not bet this topic to death already?

 

Unfortunately newer Optiplex machines, dubbed "Series 5" will most likely not have the same legacy as these Series 4 Optiplex's as featured in these YouTube videos. Series 5 has Dell going back to using non-standard components. 

 

Generally I like used business computers as they typically will have a Windows key. 

[foldingNoob]

I like used business computers when I find them free. I've done a few up over the years. Drives are always trashed and need to be replaced. PSU go next, then cooling fans. We used to have a mates basement full of old computer parts that made refurbishment practical. We would tell him which skip bins to find parts and he would sell them for profit. He prob made minimum wage for the time he spent on it, but he had no boss. Buying one machine off ebay is a gamble.

[m2234323]

myoption is it depen on the game  game like he show in the video works the one i play the are bulder game or city skyline or  planet zoo some what ok they are so cpu demand game like factorio all it care about is fast ram  and a fast cpu and  the best singl core and some gpu wiht a ok amout of vram

 

[Streetguru]

Forgot to mention replacing the thermal paste

[Egg-Roll]

Don't insult the GT 640 like that. Back then it was a great card w/o breaking bank and the equivalent to the 1030 in todays market, now if that computer came with a 210, that's a completely different story. Not the best sure but for the price, it could not be beat.

 

As for windows loading times I do run 10 on a drive for my i5 and never seen that screen once, have you ever thought that drive is basically shot? Would also explain the issues with the games as well... You don't have to hear a dead drive for it to be dead, a dead drive can still work. I bumped into one of my old drives with 8% health and it ran without issues. I think it was my 1TB seagate, which I thought was dead dead, not bad sectors galour dead.

 

Imo for someone on a "really tight budget" the 640 will work for most of the popular games they will want to play, not AAA games but for the games shown here it should work just fine. Not to mention 8Gb ram is plenty for such a person too, unless you can swap out for $10-15 after selling the 8gb I wouldn't bother.

 

And as mentioned above thermal paste... CPU bottlenecks are going to hurt you more on the old cpu than the gpu likely would have.

[Giblerrr]

13 hours ago, dwyeezy said:

How to use laptop as desktop's monitor?

buy an lcd controller on ebay, make sure its the right model.

[Mrfatmanjunior]

In this video linus gets ~181 FPS on warzone with an 1660ti and i7-3770. My setup has an i7-4770k (stock speeds) and a 1080ti, but I get ~95fps... Should I not get more fps? Even If i put everything on low I dont get near ~181 fps.

[Rleff80]

I am looking to do something similar. I have an old PC that I built and want to turn it into something that I can game on (I mostly play Fortnite with my kids anymore, and would like to run atleast medium settinga of not higher). Trying to do it on the cheap.. Currently have:

480 watt thermal take power supply

Gigabyte socket AM3+ board (not sure what model anymore) 

Amd FX8120

16 GB DDR3 

GeForce 8800 gts

And a good old spinning hdd

 

Wondering if a SSD and new video card (like in this video) would be enough to get me where I want and if so, what card options should I be looking at? 

 

Sorry, I've been out of the pc building game for about 8 years and am way behind on technology and specs. 

 

 

[Soradx1000]

How do you transfer everything to the SSD? I’m trying to this but with an old asus tower. I know this probably basic, but help please! 

[Dejan Venter]

What motherboard would you recommend for the i7 3770 if the motherboard does not use normal 24 pin power?

[firecall]

I have the Dell 9010 SFF and just recently put the ZOTAC 1650 LP into it.

 

Works a treat. No issues what so ever!

 

Other upgrades are 24GB RAM and 2x SSD.

 

If you can get an ex lease model cheap, I highly recommend it.

 

Mine already had 8GB RAM and an SSD upgrade. So it handily had the mounting sled to adapt from one 3.5" drive, to 2x 2.5" SSDs.

 

Cooling isnt an issue it seems - I do run it with the lid open sometimes though as the fans on the GPU run hard. I might remove the DVD drive and improve cooling flow.