I remember building so many cheap 150-200$ builds b4 pandemic,crypto mining,scalpers ect… I still have like 5 builds in storage from way back then I love just hunting cheap parts and building them it’s so fun

@deepakpatel5986

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Can You please sell me one if you are dumping them ?

@iliaslive7006

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@一诺 ΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΗΑ

@pheapkim978

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@@deepakpatel5986 u can have one if your in mass area

@dragonbike471

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Same but it's expensive sometimes. I think I need a power supply to finish a random extra PC and a GPU I guess and storage damn shit

@gutsss2967

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@@deepakpatel5986 was about to ask for the same lol

Let's go! Already know you're going to hook us up with the knowledge us on budget need!

Great budget build there Matt, it’s amazing what you can put together with a little time and patience. Nice to see the 3770 still holding on in there. I’m a massive fan of the later Haswell Xeon’s they offer great performance for penny’s 😎🙏🏼

@harveysmith6636

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Got any recommendations haswell xeon wise, I've got an i5 4590 and want to see if I can upgrade without buying an overpriced i7.

I used to add a cheap 120mm molex powered fan to the front of these cases….with the right screws it will easily mount to the front. Adding double sided sticky foam helped to reduce fan vibration too. It’s not necessary but it always benefited temp wise. Great video!

@mechanicalpants

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Do you mean between the drive cage and the front of the case on the inside? Or do you mean actually on the outside of the case on the front? Because I was trying to work out if there would be a way to somehow get a 120mm fan between the cage and the front but it kind of seems like there is metal in the way preventing this 11:42 But i'd be really keen to know if you managed this because I still need the drive cage.

Thanks for this video man, you really helped me understand a lot more than I knew about pcs. I'm 39 and want to build my 1st cheap entry level gaming pc for my sim rig I built for my Xbox but all the fun drifting/racing games seem to be on pc. Definitely gonna copy and paste this to my own build lol Thanks again bro, you just got a new subscriber today

Impressed, looking to put together my first build shortly and this has definitely proven to me i dont need to break the bank

Fun stuff! This is not cheating. The goal was to keep it as low as possible, getting an Optiplex is the way to go.

Thanks for the video Matt, I appreciate the performance ratings on current games. Other channels have done this, but try making a video of a case swap for the dell optiplex.

Budget builds rock! Keep making these great videos

These dell cases look so much nicer if you do a good job cleaning everything, taping off the top black front end (all the front IO/usb/etc), rectangular dell logo section of the front, and finishing it up with a cheap white spray paint job. The i7 ivy bridge 3770 is still an acceptable piece of hardware. Using 2 sided tape to mount a front pulling fan can improve airflow quite a bit. Well done. 🙂

A friend and I scrapped 3 of his old gaming PCs and built a budget gaming PC with the extra 1660 Super I had (the build turned out awesome), so I found this video was really interesting!

The beauty of business computer casing is that most of the bracket is quick release... and I love that ease of access

I liked the chill music playing during the benchmark sequences. 😊

Thank you for these, I'm in a rock and a hard place situation with an HP ENVY. I know I need a short card, but I hadn't considered swapping the PSU like unit (300w) and this video convinced me to get over myself.

This is great Matt!

Love this guy,u never compromice on budget function n performance

LOL, I did this EXACT same optiplex / 3770 / XFX RX 580 build about 4 years ago after the last crypto bust on the cheap and had to remove the hard drive cage. Really appreciate your vids on multiple levels. Especially enjoy your custom case vids and was inspired to build my wife a custom windows 11 PC in an old broken radio on the cheap and she loves it.

I love these vids:) been trying to do something like this, so thanks for the inspiration and awesome vids!

My old PC is similar but I didn't upgrade much. HP 3500 Pro Pre-built - i5 3470 12 GB RAM (upgraded to 16GB for dual channel). Added in a MSI GTX 1050 ti (low profile). Played Fortnite, Doom 4, Doom Eternal, CSGO, Valorant & some slightly older Wolfenstein games quite well on it. Have upgraded to a much nicer modern pre-built since then so that HP system is basically a backup for the time being. Re-installed Windows 10 & it's super snappy now. Thanks for sharing. :)

Well done! I got a similar system for my daughter so we can mess with it, take it appart and build it back. But it became her PC so I might, eventually, do updates like this one

First time watching your channel. I gotta say this is the best video regarding a budget gaming PC. it's giving me the confidence to do it. Do you have any videos on how to shop for a used graphics card ?

Really like this video. I builded a similar pc a year ago and still use it as my main pc. My specs is: xeon 1230v2, 16gb ram, 120gb ssd, 500gb hdd, rx 560 4gb. I swaped out the rx 560 to rx 6600 mining card(160usd) and motherboard to z77pd3(35usd) 2 months ago. I did overclock the xeon by Bclk option(it match i7 3770k now). Every thing working great as long as i crank up all the setting to ultra, because this Ivy bridge cpu will not gain any fps if i lower the setting. Great video, keep it up.

I ran that exact card for 4 years until the prices drop in the last couple of months and upgraded. Great card for the money

Got my first pc off you love it so much

This build is an absolute beast! The i7-3770 was and still is incredibly good for it's age. Well done!

8:19 damn, bro had some STACKS on the table

Did the same thing but with a lenovo e73 mt back in janurary 2021 right before prices really started to get bad. got an rx 470, xeon e3 1230 v3, 240gb ssd and a 1tb hdd, and 16 gigs of ddr3 1600mhz along with a 450w psu. Since then upgraded to a gtx 1070, added a 2tb seagate hdd, and a xeon e3 1271 v3 (basically an i7 4790 without intergrated graphics) and this thing SMASHES through the games i play now at high settings. I love seeing dell optiplex/hp/lenovo budget builds like this and imo if you are looking to build something similar haswell is the way to go. Great video!

Nice build, I had a similar optiplex a long time ago, but on that one I had to buy a 24 to 8-pin adapter because the motherboard didn't use 24-pin. You could get an usb 3.0 header extension with an angled connector so u could use the front usb, or get an usb 3.0 pci-e card with an internal header. And try to use angles satacables aswell. There should be a trick/mod to add at least on 3.5 drive in the front one way or another. These Optiplex cases are pretty neat I think.

Very nice! It makes me feel better about sticking with my i7 3770, bought in 2013, after having children. I finally upgraded my GPU to the 580 in 2020, which in hindsight I wish I had waited longer for prices to have dropped. Mine started off with 16GB DDR3, which I’m looking to expand to 32GB. Happy to hear such a system would remain viable.

pretty awesome thank you for the video

I did the almost same build. I paid 200$ for an Optiplex 9020 with an I7 4790s. Got mine with 16g mem in the deal. Put in a 650 EGA PS and an RX560 4GGPU. A Plextor 500g SSD. Cost me 200 cause all the parts I added I had already owned and used for long enough for them to have paid for themselves. I am happy with it :)

@DiamondtvStudios

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Yess

Good idea!

I would have added a 120mm fan to the front of the system for better air intake You removed the cage anyway so there's plenty of room for the fan that will probably decrease the gpu temps 80°C is quite a lot for a gpu in my opinion Anyway, pretty good video, I enjoyed watching it😊

That CPU is brilliant, I have a very similar chip in a server of mine which I got a few months back, it is a Dell R210 ii and it cost £50. It came with 8GB ECC and a Xeon E3-1230v2 (pretty much i7-3770). I'm very much considering putting a 10gig network card in there and using it as a router.

This is a great build for $200, love it

Nice to see this, that MT tower from Dell is easy to find and cheap - I am hoping to have one soon when we finally retire the legacy systems at my work, as I plan on keeping my tower w/ a 4770 and finding an adapter for the ATX PSU upgrade. I was thinking of possibly turning it into a Media server or another gaming box for my son's friends.

thats an amazing build

Great job 👏

I did something similar with a Dell XPS system from the same era. It came with a Core I7-3770, and I upgraded it to 16 GB of RAM, a 6GB GeForce 1060, and a 512 GB SSD. It plays Fortnite at 1080p decently!

Nice build value

I've been using that exact same video card for 3 years now. I wasn't planning to but right after I bought it prices for GPUs went insane until recently. It's definitely not a bad card.

i just realized the listing for the optiplex he got stated for parts, but this man booted it up right away and it was working.

nice build

Nice outlook and video on building a budget system. I have built systems for over twenty years and am really intrigued by mini computers and I'm wondering if you have done any NUC builds or experimenting? They use almost no power and and available with Amd onboard graphics instead of the Intel low performing onboard

for PSU's in budget builds like this my first stop is always EVGA's B-stock you can often find 600 Golds and BQ's for $30

@lagginswag

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Got a supernova 650 gt from there a few weeks ago for 40$

i love building things like this

Ironically I did a $200-ish Optiplex build just recently as well but a little differently - I started with a 9020 with an i7-4790, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive for $105. Then I was able to get an EVGA GTX 1060 6GB with a dual SATA to 8-pin (so I can still use the stock PSU) for $85. All that was left was a cheapo 120GB boot SSD for $17 and I was off to the races for just over $200. It's been a great (and surprisingly quiet) system.

Vg build Matt 🤩😇💪👍. Even to date after 20+yrs of pc building, I sell my older parts to offset my new builds or upgrades so selling them imo is fine to get a better build 😇😉.

These are the best videos

What I do with office computers is make a transparent side panel and add some sort of Rgb/Led strip, ten wrapping top and other side panel in brushed aluminium or carbon folie.. looks good👍

@justjoshin5140

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How do you make the clear side panel

@amehu

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@@justjoshin5140 cheapest is pc monitor privacy filters, usually find them for free from second hand monitors. Then 3M double side click tape so it's removable. Privacy filters are dark so if you want clear full transparent try asking some shops if they have left over plexiglass after covid pandemic (if they removed from shops conters)

I've done an optiplex build as my first gaming PC and you nailed it haha way better than mine, I didn't know what I was doing and ended up with a SFF 3020 so I had to use a GT 1030 because of the power supply and connections it has available I have a full custom build now and my optiplex is a tv stand lol

The cool thing about challenging yourself to build cheap PC's like this is that once you sell them you can make a large profit off of them because of how little you paid AND the consumer gets a more affordable option that isn't $1000+

I....I...really don't know what to say except....interview over! Your hired! Seriously great video and extremely amazing job with build and budgeting. 👍🏻

like your videos, keep it up 👍

i kinda did the same thing with a dell 7010. but everything worked i did do a video on it called "Dell Optiplex 7010 No Compromises Sleeper Build" its a bit more then $200 but it packs alot of power (and heat).

i did it! in Europe as well.... Lenovo V520, new TFX PSU with adapter cable and an rx460 did the job. it came with 8gb ddr4 and i5 7th gen!

Very nice video, its interesting to see how $200 in the US doesn't translate to other places. Nonetheles good job

I got the exact same computer for $70 on eBay I put a $30 e3-1275 v2 in it, a gtx 1070 FTW, 600w PSU, 512gb SSD with 32gb of ram. The computer does everything I need it to do

pretty damn cool to see 100+ frames for a 200$ pc, easy way to get your nephew or young guns a step into the pc gaming life

Awesome deals man, I wish you modded the case tho

i slapped together a decent pc for only 150, it has an amd fx6300, 32gb ram and a gtx780ti. it is a beast still to this day. i love it so much and i think bundles are great value

I love you choosing to test different games besides the standard Valorant, Fortnite... Could you maybe... benchmark Spiderman with your future builds?

hey Matt a year ago i had a dell sff and painted the grill plastic black and became so much newer

Thats a great informational video i live here in canada and i too have this PC like this and i deal in buying and selling of these type of pc and upgrading and making them great gaming pc is great expierence

I would of added an 80mm fan to the front to bring in cool air. Overall great build !

i also got build for 220e while i was studying about 5 years ago... i7-860(4.0ghz oc) on p7p55d deluxe, 16ram, 128 ssd, few 500gb hdds, rx 470 8gb...

Matt, you might still be able to use the sata ports if you purchase some slimline sata cables sold by silver-stone. They're not perfect but I bet they'd do the job in this scenario just fine.

@soknightsam

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I ran into the same problem with a gtx 1070 on an msi board. Bought a couple sata cables with the 90 degree ends and problem solved less than 6 bucks

The reason people are happy to buy those power supplies is they are made for Dell by Delta and they are rock solid reliable so a 300 watt psu from dell or delta will give you 300 watts comfortably

My former main rig was a 2nd gen Optiplex 790 MT with an i7 2600, 16GB RAM and a 1650 Super. But a couple months ago I built a new 12th gen rig,

Great video! I just posted my $200 9010 build video. I am not sure how I missed this one, I thought I watched all the optiplex budget builds. Maybe because optiplex was not in the title. But let me know what you think of my build Matt!

The 4th gen i7 Dell Optiplex is the ultimate "kit car" of ultra budget gaming PCs!

Nice job. Really no criticisms. I especially like the 8GB video card you got for real cheap. Who cares if it tops out the processor just a bit if you don't lock your frames. I went with a Zotac RTX 2060 for my Optiplex 9020 build. Mainly, that's because it was on hand wanting to do something, and it also fits without removing the drive cage. Case swap for mine? Nahh. An Optiplex looks good already if you ask me. It does gaming without looking like it should be able to. ;)

Local to me these are hot sellers for around 60$! I love messing with them, but whenever they have problems they can be a headache since they're so old! Optiplex's will live on 4ever!

I have a secondary custom PC using an i7 4770, 16gb RAM, the same SSD, and an RX 480 8GB that my brother didn't need after I gave him my GTX 1070. Runs well and while the CPU might be a bottleneck in newer games, it's not too obvious.

The fact that the RX580 still holds up to this day is mind blowing to me.

The optiplex is goated cant lie

Incredible

I wish builds like this could be made in my country, every part here is liek 3 times more expensive

Lol the funny thing is I saw the optipex sellers before I saw the video when I was looking to getting or build the cheapest gaming PC because I didn't know how long it will be before I can build mine and needed a backup plan. The only real limitation is for gaming is the pcie bus , DDR ram , and that smart memory thing you need for arc. Next video is you hooking that cpu up to a modern setup

@machineheadg2r

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Yeah looking at the in game testing the time the CPU bottle necks you is cyber punk which really does the same thing to brand new setups. Plug in the biggest card and psu you have and try it on 4k or uw

Or use angled sata cables that you conect BEFORE inserting the GPU

After seeing so many of your videos using the Dell Optiplex, I've ended up buying both the MT and DT/Slim build and even though they were both $50 each. MT was able to upgrade power supply, max out memory, install SSD and 1TB hard drive. But still have some room for upgrades like was thinking about swapping out the i5-2500 quad core for i7 2600 and only graphics card to hold me over was GTX 1050 Ti. But for DT/Slim Build even though I was suck with power supply, i5-2500. Besides 2tb, SSD, and 16GB of memory. I gave the RX 550 low profile card a try and it work find but did prove to be somewhat weaker on a few titles. Hoping to give one of those ones with i7 a try if I can upgrade cpu. Both ended up being $200 to $300. But overall glad to have something to hold me over until I can get something better.

@garageman327327

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I think I have an i7 2600 if you are interested. Sell it cheap! If interested let me know and I will verify I still have it.

@surferbrg

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@@garageman327327 Thanks for offer. But I've think I'm fine with what I have for now.

@deepakpatel5986

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@@garageman327327 please verify I would Like to get it from You, please mention price also

💯 fair game 👊🏼✌🏼❤️

I have basically the same thing only thing that is different is I have a i7-4770k , twnfozer 3 gpu and a Corsair 450m have a Nocturia low pro heat sink and fan but I turn it on and it burnt out the fan so had too go back to the original

Haha. This is literally my exact set up.

Getting something like a GTX 1060 6 Single fan and a cheap HDD (because in budget build, i value a good 1tb hdd that i can buy for 20$ CAD at a recycling shop), and there you go! good pc for basic gaming, like ATS GTA RE2R

Let’s got matt

this man got a great deal

Are you finna keep it 👀

If it weren't for the super cheap RX 580, I would have voted on keeping the stock PSU. (They're surprisingly reliable. Being deployed en masse in schools and public libraries, Dell wouldn't make a dime if they caused fires in these places.) And grabbing a cheap 750ti - 1050ti type card that either needs no supplemental power, or very little to where you could use a SATA power to PCI-E 6 pin adapter and be well under the 240-300W the stock power supplies are rated at.

@clownfish4524

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Yeah, the RX 580 isn't so realistic in most cases. Used GTX 1050 still sells for 100 usd in my country, we're kinda fucked in here

Finally, the old formula can work again!

Gotta throw cyberpunk at it. Thats the real test

it's entertaining to watch, don't get me wrong, but if I were to spend as little as possible for a decent gaming experience I would personally buy a Xbox Series S with gamepass. i can find them used for around $165 and after bargaining I could get one for less than $150. I believe it's the best and cheapest method for a budget gamer, Series S + Gamepass

I bought a pc yesterday with an i7 3770k gtx 970 16gb ram ddr3 128ssd and 2tb hdd and an acer predatorscreen 144hz mouse and keyboard all for 130 euro and it runs great

Nice, real nice

you can also sell the hard drive and replace it by an ssd.

@Housestationlive

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optical drive is useless in 2022 to and you can get 20$ from it also.

Okay.. good.!

Got me n 8gb rx580 last month "might not work" for £42 from eBay. Ran it in my 4690k, 16gb, 500gb ssd system ever since flawless. Got that system from a dude upgrading when 6th gen came out I'm sure, £120ish from memory. So quite a while ago. Sure got my money's worth lol. Hooking it up to the bedroom TV with the rrod 360's controllers, and job will be a good un 😁

Would like to know what graphics cards you would recommend for a dell optiplex 3020 SFF. that don't require any new power supplies and run off teh current one that mine has which is 255W. My PC already has a Decent i5-4570s and 16 gigs of ram pre installed. but some times the integrated graphics aren't enough for games like BeamNG drive where it might suffer. The game runs fine at very low graphics, but some things are unable to run like some maps

Love the cat.

Matt: Game sizes are getting larger and larger every year Me: *cough* *cough* Call of Duty *cough* *cough*