$100 Gaming PC! | OPTIPLEX PC FLIP

I built this gaming computer for $100 by upgrading an old Dell Optiplex desktop computer! it performs incredible for the price!
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[@AdamsApples]

I own a killer PC nowadays but seeing this budget build makes me think of how happy I would have been at 13 to have such a system. Nice vid

[@pcflippingcentral]

Exactly! Makes you think of humble origins 🙏

[@DellOptiplex-f6t]

Nice build man! Where do you get $4 windows 11 keys ?

[@pcflippingcentral]

@@DellOptiplex-f6t premiumCDkeys

[@NemusDark]

Good content!

[@O5-XIV]

Ah the Optiplex 790. I have two of these myself with 16 GB of Ram, the i7-2600K CPU's, both rocking the OC Version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 GPU's. One for some Windows only games and the other i am using to watch this video, it's basically my Media PC. They are in fact Great Machines in and of their own right, even as Old as they are. Legends never Die, Great vid will Sub yo.

[@Gottemgotty]

Love videos like this. I have a Dell optiplex 7050 and its got 32GBs of ram set to 2666MH 850GBs of storage SSD and NVMe. an i5 6500 3.2GHz and a Radeon RX 550 GDDR5 2GB works great for Work. Gaming and streaming. 4K videos all that. i wish people would spend less money and buy used PCs and turn them into Custom gaming PCs. less Ewaste and more gaming. great video man keep it up.

[@pcflippingcentral]

Less ewaste is always better!

[@Gottemgotty]

@@pcflippingcentral I would like to say that the RX 550 gets super hot without putting a fan on it may need to change the paste on it. which I have never done lol. it can run all games at 1080p 30FPS on low or medium and its a SFF case so the GPU gets almost no cool air mostly cause it sits so close to the PSU. I also get a green or gray dell loading screen when I first start up my PC got the GPU from a really nice PC shop and it works good. maybe you could tell me why it does that lol Maybe its cause the GPU is GDDR5 and the motherboard only takes DDR4?

[@ChrisWMF]

i7 3770 (i got one for $30, free shipping) is better with that chipset. also might want to throw minecraft in your benchmark series, kids play it a lot.

[@pcflippingcentral]

Yes that extra performance plus double the threads would help out a bunch! Also Minecraft can run on almost anything haha, I'm sure this computer would run it well!

[@jasonwoodhead9187]

I love a good budget build, but I would have turned this into an emulation PC, rather than for PC gaming. With that spec, you could run PS2, OG Xbox and Wii U (possibly even Switch) really well.

[@pcflippingcentral]

Good idea!

[@velsiu]

Do a Xeon e5-1650 v2 x79 mbd and 32 ecc ram build, bought everything from AliExpress, excluding the psu and it all came out to 100 bucks, bought a gtx 1650 for 50 bucks on local market and have a monster of a pc for 150 literally a budget beast

[@pcflippingcentral]

The xeons are awesome! Their single core speeds kind of suck but multi-core is great. I recently did a bunch of builds with E5-2650 V4's and GTX 970's that perform awesome and built the whole system fully custom for under $220

[@voteDC]

I think that 4th gen Intel is really the lowest people should be aiming for in budget builds these days, perhaps one of the higher end 3rd gen CPUs if a bargain can be found. Sure a 2nd gen CPU can be had for a cheap price and is great for a proof of concept video but long term it's not going to be able to provide a decent in experience in most things relatively modern, as you showed even the updates for Fortnite are pushing it out of the range of these older machines. As to the build in the video I think it is more of a PC for office work that can do a little bit of gaming on the side, I'd really struggle to market this as a gaming PC.

[@pcflippingcentral]

Totally, that's why I'm going to be throwing in a spare 750 Ti before I sell this one (at an extremely low cost obviously) and I have now paired this RX 560 with an i7-4770 which performs pretty nicely in games!

[@MrSamadolfo]

This board is Sandy Bridge, for cpus I would go $25 i7-2600 4core/8thread or $12 E3-1230 4core/8thread, for system ram i would go four ram sticks of 4GB X 4 for a total of 16GB at a speed of believe is 1333mhz. I don't know if the ram has to be Hynix or Samsung to post? Many oem boards you can use retail ram sticks but not all. The power supply is 240w MAX on the 12V Rail which means you can try plugging in a video card that uses a single 6pin with a sata adapter but only do this if you have purchased an AC Watter Meter and you have your power supply plugged into it, load up a heavy video game and see how many watts your pulling under a game load, if its hovering abound 200watts then you should be fine. Light 6pin video cards could be a GTX 950 960 1060 RX 470 HD 7770 etc. As far as the Heaven Benchmark the results are consistent with established gpu 3dmark charts. Techpowerup gpu relative performance shows the RX560 as 10% slower. Passmark Software shows the same: RX 550 G3d Mark Score 3645 VS R9 270X G3d Mark Score 4876. Heaven uses low cpu usage low vram usage low system ram usage and it mostly tries to only stress the video card to get the 3D Mark Score so it makes perfect sense. Under a game load things might be alot different for example since the R9 270X has only 2GB of system ram the card will slow down in certain video games that use more than 2GB of vram because it has to use some of the system ram as vram and since the ram is ddr3 1333mhz thats going to slow it down even more, where the RX 560 has 4GB of DDR5 vram. Thanks for the video and have a good weekend.

[@pcflippingcentral]

Thanks for the explanation about the heaven benchmark. Didn't realize the 270x was technically faster than the 560 at least for the most part but just with less VRAM! Also yes getting 16gb in this system and a 4c/8t CPU would have been immensely helpful and pretty cheap. I've had trouble putting xeons in these optiplex boards however so I didn't want to spend $12-15 to get an i7 equivalent xeon just for it not to work on the board.

[@randomgamingin144p]

i found an i7 4790 optiplex 9020 (sff, not mt) for 50 aud from an office so perhaps thats a good place to look but ofc sff so buying a decent gpu for it costs quite a bit..

[@pcflippingcentral]

SFF GTX 1650 could work in there for the right price!

[@tecnoticboy4479]

Hey man, I have a question. What would be the best gpu for my system? Its a dell optiplex 5050 with i7 7700, and the power supply is 240W (i believe).

[@pcflippingcentral]

Find a GTX 1650 or RX 6400 for a decent price. Otherwise upgrade the power supply and you can slap something like an RX 6600 in there for some awesome performance. Join our discord and send some more info, we can help you out!

[@KadiusFTW]

a xeon e3 1245 was also similarly priced to that i5 (I was lookin the other day) and is a quad with hyperthreading, which would have been a better choice

[@pcflippingcentral]

I agree, but have had compatibility issues with xeons in optiplex motherboards before so that's why I opted for the i5

[@KadiusFTW]

@@pcflippingcentral thats why I go 1245v1, as that one is used in dell optiplex 3010 etc and I usually have the most success with it

[@ClacKeyTech]

where do you get your 4€ keys from?

[@GG_MASSI]

What do you use to show your fps and temps?

[@pcflippingcentral]

MSI Afterburner with Rivatuner!

[@GG_MASSI]

@@pcflippingcentral thank you!!!

[@garyparr1350]

To be fare the Dell optilex aren’t bad machines I got one after my iMac died I got a dell because it was far easier to replace parts then it is on iMac however Dell machines are more for office and production stuff like audio and video editing I mainly run adobe products and other music software dells aren’t really designed for gaming but I suppose you can get away with playing light games on them mine in running an intel i5 processor 16gb of DDR3 ram which I might upgrade to 32gb a 1tb Sata SSD hard drive came with free DVD RW drive only downfall is I’m having to run my second display from a USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter as it’s only got on board graphics card I may just but a cheap graphics card and install a second SSD drive to run hackintosh

[@pcflippingcentral]

Even though they're originally designed to be office machines they can definitely game especially if you upgrade the newer optiplex computers!

[@WMulanBTN]

sir, can you please tell me how to install win11 on unsuported hw? :))

[@MrSamadolfo]

prepare a jump drive with the iso & rufus, turn on all the bypass options, theres videos up on rufus

[@pcflippingcentral]

I think I'll do a video on it soon since some people want to know! For now though there's a great article on Tomshardware.com that can show you how to do it!

[@WMulanBTN]

@@pcflippingcentral thank you sooo much. cant wait to watch the tutorial

[@silverwingpjbstigger2301]

Dear PC Flipping Central: Is flipping PC's using Linux Distros possible I have been looking at two of them recently. One of them being Zorin OS which has Steam and Epic games launchers and the other one being SteamOS which is mainly for Steam Games. I'm just getting started into flipping PCs for the first time, so you are aware. Let me know what are some possibilities are if possible.

[@pcflippingcentral]

@@silverwingpjbstigger2301 definitely do not use any sort of Linux distro for a PC flip. 99% of people buying from you will not know how to work linux and many games either need tweaking to work properly, run badly, or outright won’t work on Linux. Windows is the only thing you should be using on PC flips

[@silverwingpjbstigger2301]

@@pcflippingcentral Ok I just wanted to ask that's all. Not trying to be mean or rude in any way.

[@MrSamadolfo]

i only see a few rare flippers doing that, other than that i do see Freegeek installing Linux only, you can offer it as an option if its something ur passionate about

[@pcflippingcentral]

@@silverwingpjbstigger2301 I'm not trying to be rude back either haha I just don;t think it's viable. Good question though!

[@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs]

If you have increased your budget by a little more than $100.00, what kind of performance would you get if you upgraded the CPU, RAM, SSD, and a modular PSU?

[@pcflippingcentral]

@@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs modular PSU sounds like a waste of money. Considering something for maybe $150 there would probably be room for a PSU upgrade to a 450w+ decent unit and an upgrade to probably an RX 570. Could also try looking for a 4c8t CPU

[@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs]

I mentioned the modular PSU because cable management would be a little easier. There's no room for cable management, but it would be better because there would be less cable to deal with.

[@pcflippingcentral]

@@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs I see what you mean, but with something of this caliber it's better to allocate more budget to performance rather than nicer cable management especially when it doesn't have a transparent side panel

[@tazerlazer860]

i got a pc with a i5 9500 16 gb of ram 256gb nvme ssd and a gtx 1070 for only like 300$ cad or like 220$ usd i dont think i can get better than that

[@uhhaeejsj]

U can prolly flip that pc for a 150 to 100 dollar profit

[@pcflippingcentral]

$220 USD is a pretty awesome price for that. Would be an easy flip if you clean it up and maybe throw a 1TB HDD in there!

[@79huddy]

Man i got a asus board with I7 2600k and 16gb of ram Id let go for 40 bucks its just a wallhanger for me

[@pcflippingcentral]

@@79huddy we have a selling channel in our discord server!

[@MrSamadolfo]

thats fair, the board alone is worth 40 🙂

[@RobertFixit]

Finally a $100 build! I posted a $100 gaming PC build challenge a few months back. Even my friends said it could not be done. Let us prove them wrong! 😊😊😊

[@pcflippingcentral]

🔥

[@JapantunersRedlineGaming]

It's not worth it flipping dell pc with higher price after upgrade pc parts

[@pcflippingcentral]

Profit margins on these optiplex flips are usually lower than doing a custom build with newer parts that's for sure

[@daniel070487]

everybody buing cheap old server/workstation pcs on old plattform that is "retro" nowadays and calling it "gaming pc"....what has youtube become....boring

[@pcflippingcentral]

I mean it could play some games couldn't it? 😉