A New Budget Gaming PC Meta is Here!

[@holymolydonutshop3449]

Im 30 and have been playing on a ps5 and have been thinkng about slowly buying the parts to put together a nice little gaming PC and these videos help me out alot and wanted to say thanks you guys.

[@kristiann03]

Nicee, wish you good luck on the future build. I just turned 20 and thought it was about time I built a PC, my ps4 is waaay too annoying to game on atp lol

[@brayanhamaro5514]

@@kristiann03 Have you experienced any issues with the graphics card you've purchased so far

[@kristiann03]

@@brayanhamaro5514 I never ended up building it😭

[@AgentH14]

TimeStamp: 12:40 - 12:45 you’re talking on mute 🔇 but the chill vibe music was still playing. I enjoyed the video per usual 👍🏻

[@literalsarcasm1830]

I work in e-waste recycling and I see literal pallets full of these on a weekly basis.

[@devisals]

Yes they all come from it companies. I had to help recycle them

[@kickserver1]

Just put together very, very similar system for 13 y/o daughter. Dell Inspiron 3670 I5-8400 ($65 ebay), 1650 Super ($70 ebay), Sata power adaptor ($8 amazon)= $143 amazing price/performance lil rig

[@Adrianwe44]

Seems nice for the price 😊👍🏻

[@michaelmcconnell7302]

Nice what does she play

[@hellcat3981]

Wow, 70$ for a whole system with 8th gen CPU? That's insane!

[@ftw.link05]

awww this is so wholesome😭😭🩷

[@negahuhh]

all that for cooking games

[@shimmer7828]

kinda funny that the gpu costs as much as the rest of the system

[@blakehenderson8828]

Don’t think that’s far off on a lot of builds

[@theycallempriest]

Love the optiplex builds! Since i've been watching toasty bros videos i've upgraded my optiplex gpu for my daughter to play Roblox, and fortnite on. Runs great! I've also built me an nicer rig! Keep up the great work guys.

[@PhyronRL]

How do I buy this off there store I don't see it😢

[@lyxifx9659]

​@@PhyronRLi got mine from ebay

[@corneliusantonius3108]

That "The Hague"footage is AWESOME!

[@L319HV]

I made my own optiplex sff i7-6700 and rx 6400 build for a emulation and low to mid pc gaming couch system. Honestly blown away with the performance. Definitely gonna keep my eyes out for another cheap one for the future to make my son a cheap rig for Minecraft, roblox and fortnite.

[@syreemills1553]

​​@@chizisj for his use case actually very much isn't garbage

[@syreemills1553]

@@chizisj because it always depends on the use case a system like that would be perfect for someone who doesn't game daily but still likes to play sports titles or smaller games like run scape wow or league of legends not every dedicated graphics use case is for ultra high end ray tracing gaming and that system still works fine for light 1080p gaming and that's coming from someone with a 7900xt and a 5600x which destroys these specs all day

[@zoinks4965]

list of your setup ? 😅

[@L319HV]

@@zoinks4965 it's literally a optiplex SFF with the i7-6700, Rx 6400, 16gb ddr3L ram and like 2tb HDD and 1tb SSD. $40 60hz 1080p monitor from Facebook marketplace and a $25 "wish" wireless gaming keyboard and mouse with RGB 🤣🤣 it's honestly not as bad as it sounds the keyboard and mouse feels cheap but comfortable to use and little to no latency.

[@InsanityPrevails]

12:38 rip their microphones haha

[@yukiskyhawk101]

its funny how the smear on the front of it looks like a wolf howling

[@Mnu.youtube]

12:38 gotta be the best part of this whole video

[@alicherif3981]

i jumped on a deal like this about 6 months ago i5-8400 128gb m.2 ssd and 12gb ddr4 for like 130 dollars on ebay i put a 1650 in it and got a sata to 6 pin connecter and its a pretty solid pc runs apex on low settings and the res i like to play on at around 100fps and basiocally any game i play at just around 100fps or more also part of your outro had no audio of you talking lol

[@rand0v]

did u have to get a new psu?

[@Wutse]

you can double that price here in the EU for one of those 5060's

[@surferbrg]

After watching this video I've might want to snag a few of those units because did see some without HDD for $125 which is fine because I already have SSD and HDD on hand. Also another thing I would look into is upgrading power supply because did look up specs on Dell website and that was a 265 Watt, and I'd would also look into swapping out power supply because I've wouldn't forget how many times I brought HP Compaq MT or Dell Precision Towers and installed GTX 1050 Ti installed power supplies went out on me. Plus I've even have a GTX 1650 Super or have 10 to 16 cards on hand.

[@KomradeMikhail]

Try used HP Z440 Workstations instead. Much better upgrade and expansion options... 700w 80+ Gold PSU... for about the same price.

[@surferbrg]

@@KomradeMikhail hmm I'll be sure to look into that one too. Especially after I did see a few videos using those ones for gaming.

[@reloadedspade176]

Dell precision series also worth looking into. 3620 supports 6th and seventh gen + Xeon’s up too and supports small atx psu’s

[@surferbrg]

@@reloadedspade176 I'll keep those in mind since I've used a lot of Dell computers growing up.

[@DaGreenDestroyer]

"i promise you guys this is the last optiplex build" WHAT HAPPENED i mean im not complaining

[@peacemaker76]

Great video , BTW there is No sound in the end for 5 secs

[@icytoxic579]

The only gaming pc meta I want gone is the fish tank meta it’s so annoying because everyone in their mom has a fish tank case

[@jamestaylor3805]

Get better budget protection with more electrically effecient components. Get that used commercial grade A2000 instead. It will actually fit in about half of the OptiPlex models and thus negates the cost and time of modifying the case.

[@Special-technology]

I use a Dell optiplex 5060 as my computer, but it has a I5 8500.

[@Steven-vh6fg]

I have completely different black nvidia a2000 running directly with geforce drivers?

[@scott4207]

That CPU needs better cooling. I would not want that thing sitting at 85+ constantly

[@SpaceGamblerJR]

You could do it for $200 with the HP Z440 and $60 RX 580 from Ali Express.

[@KomradeMikhail]

You acan even squeeze an RX 5700 into a sub- $200 build with a Z440 if you shop right... Flash Slaes, etc. Or RX 5700XT for just a few bucks more.

[@user-kg9cv4rr8j]

​@@KomradeMikhailRx 5700 xt would need power supply upgrade

[@KomradeMikhail]

@@user-kg9cv4rr8j Really ?... How odd... Then how am I replying to you from that exact build right now ? Z440 already has a 700w 80+ Gold PSU.

[@darthwiizius]

@@KomradeMikhail Workstations need decent PSUs, that and the extra functionality on the board makes them compelling for prebuilts to gaming PC conversions IMO. Are the VRMs etc also higher quality on those compared with standard consumer prebuilds?

[@KomradeMikhail]

@@darthwiizius Workstations are overengineered and rugged, considering they're designed to be often used like servers; crunching data 24/7. The Z440 has 8+4 Phase VRM's... Which is above average, especially considering you can't overclock a Xeon. If you want a quick sense of how overbuilt a Workstation is compared to an office PC, just lift one up... The size and weight are their only drawback.

[@crodoutdoors]

I just put together a optiplex 5050 with an rx550 for my brother he got off of Amazon. Hes been playing Hogwarts legacy on it. I was in a hurry so I didn't get to run any benchmarks on it, but he's ecstatic with it.

[@OutsideDuhBox]

Thought my headset broke at the end there 👀 😅

[@JoshuaG]

12:38 Looks like he got cut off at this part 😅👍 mic died perhaps ? 😅

[@Pravculear]

i wonder if they'll do a sub $100 aio roundup?

[@jeremy7584]

I would be curious to see a build involving that erying ali express motherboard and that A2000, it would be a laptop pc into a tower pretty much. It wouldn't consume that much power too. Let me know if you do this video!

[@Bicyclesidewalk]

You guys have a great vibe. Please make some *new Linux content. Checked older vids - I see some stuff~

[@dianaalyssa8726]

Looks like a nice budget build.

[@misterPAINMAKER]

Please Toasty Bros, do the BF 2042 game benchmark permanent, because it uses all the cpu cores, especially with 128 players.

[@TechReference]

So with this particular model base computer is it possible to do a case swap, or are there proprietary components example motherboard etc that can’t be put into another PC case? Thanks in advance for any info. Videos are always great and entertaining!

[@turks1966]

many have proprietary MB and Power Supplies, good luck getting them to work without a lot of modifications(luck) in a different case

[@zeroturn7091]

Even if you managed to get the standoffs correct, the PCI slots would not line up. You’d need all kinds of adapters to retain the functionality of the front I/O and power switch. You could get really extreme and do a case graft.

[@KickedChango]

Rx6400 or this rtx a2000? Which one is the best

[@onemansvideos2134]

I got an 7040 optiplex from Amazon couldn't pass it up i7 6gen 32gb ram 500gm m.2 a 4tb hdd and a full keyboard I do mostly 3d design stuff, and so far so good

[@Denis92Gottlobeanu]

Its a A2000 and it shows on the Video A200 :)😅

[@azsumonqskonq]

i wish i kew this before i built my gaming pc with a r5 3600 gtx 1070 8gig and 16gb ram 2x8 3200mhz

[@kingtex223]

my friends 300$ pc has a ryzen 7 5700x and a 2060 super lmao

[@BREEZYM6015]

I bought a $300 PC on OfferUp in March of 2023 that didn't come with a PSU or storage. The specs it came with are: MSI Z370-A PRO MOTHERBOARD i7 8700k ASUS GTX 1060 6GB Turbo 16GB DDR4 RAM @ 3000MHz Corsair H100i 240mm AIO cooler Kediers C570 open air case with 7 RGB fans. I already had a PSU and storage but I bought a 1TB NVME M.2 for about $40 for faster load times. Was this a good deal for $300 despite the PC not coming with a PSU or storage?

[@thecasualcanuck4590]

It's not the worst deal. You didn't get ripped off or anything. I would definitely upgrade the GPU. I built my wife a budget build around 300 CAD, with a i7 4790k and a 1060 6GB. It works for her, but shes not doing anything intensive on it. I'd upgrade you GPU to something a bit more modern, that i7 you have can handle way more, maybe go with a 2060 super, or even a 3060.

[@chrisq3150]

What do you guys use to monitor the stats for the pc’s? Trying to figure out something besides the GeForce crap to monitor my temps and stuff because it doesn’t show cpu temps.

[@fourtwentynick]

Msi Afterburner

[@jetski275]

that gpu is not available here in the Philippines. What is a good alternative?

[@expert8837]

Im getting same perform in cod warzone with my rx 580 and a2000 better on battlefield around %25-30 like gtx 1660 ti. I think a2000 performing like 1660ti and 2060 around.

[@SetTopGames]

Are you stuck with propietary PSU size and / or connectors though?

[@zeroturn7091]

SFX PSU will mount although you’d need to drill those mount points, and the cutout square would need to be enlarged to a rectangle for exhaust. The rest involves adapters. A word of caution is that the PSU will need to be manually turned off at the switch, otherwise your components never power down.

[@brhyno9752]

Anyone ever use the adapters to replace power supply on prebuilts with proprietary connectors? What was your thoughts or issues with using it? Have old hardware laying around and trying to not have to rebuild or buy another pc just to upgrade a prebuilt.

[@rotorglow6110]

They work well, just swaps the 12v, 5v, and grounds where they need to be.

[@16driver16]

Maybe specify what pre-built they're all gonna be dramatically different

[@brhyno9752]

@@16driver16 HP Elite Desk 800 G1 tower

[@tommydinh1644]

If I were to buy an optiplex exactly like the video, would I need to make any changes from the video to put a rx580 in instead? Thank you!

[@darthwiizius]

You'd need a better PSU (450W or higher) and an adapter to convert the power cables to the proprietary sockets on the PCB.

[@michael-m9kb]

Bro who came on it

[@bones_154]

I got a gtx 1070 and an intel i7-4700k, 1tb hdd and 128 gb sata ssd for just under $400 good deal or no?

[@KadiusFTW]

Could an arguement be made to go 6600m from aliexpress instead?

[@josiahwilkin]

You need to turn your music levels down while gameplay and when you’re talking it’s too loud.

[@bryanthartwig6994]

I have never seen an rtx a2000 that uses a power connector nor one that looks any different from the factory nvidia style

[@floydlooney6837]

Can that Optiplex do a GPU like a 1060 without a new PSU?

[@zar7511]

If it's higher than 250w a GTX 1060 will be fine, a lot ship with a 180w PSU which will not be enough, careful with form factor too, Optiplexs ship with low profile variants and 90% of the time you'll need either a SATA to 6 pin or Molex to 6 pin connector for the GPU. If the power supply only uses sata make sure you get an adapter that uses two SATA connectors for one 6 pin.

[@floydlooney6837]

@@zar7511 Might be easier to just build a basic Ryzen 5 5600 PC in a case I already own.

[@tarsem3258]

that Optiplex has a 260w psu btw

[@thenoobreturnz8968]

I think ill juust spend the extra 200-300 to make a r3 with an arc 7770😂

[@why_astetics_over_everything]

"Gonna look a little cleaner" but its not gonna be seen lol

[@Gaming_nerd-z7c]

what benchmark software do u use?

[@noxyyisgoated]

Can you make a build with the diy pc q-01

[@TheRoughGo]

Man im a nub, what are they using for their monitoring software?

[@salty1994]

Cpu temps are high

[@joefifa8415]

An Optiplex gaming PC that's Windows 11 compatible - 7th gen an older aren't compatible with Windows 11

[@KingSteven77]

You could have at least cleaned the front 😭

[@ToastyBros]

its scratched not something you can remove sadly we tried

[@KingSteven77]

@@ToastyBros oh ok. makes sense.

[@YeoungLa]

What was the sata cable for in gpu? Is it for power?can I rather use a 6pin from a psu to the gpu?

[@darthwiizius]

The PSU in these office prebuilts don't have PCIe power connectors so they have to draw current from the SATA outputs to run any card over 70W peak draw.

[@YeoungLa]

@@darthwiizius what if I upgrade the psu that has 6 pin connector? Btw thanks for the reply 😊

[@darthwiizius]

@@YeoungLa You're welcome mate. Yes that will work well but you'll need power adapter/s to convert the PSU's standardised board power output plugs to the proprietary connectors on the PCB. Upgrading the PSU is never a bad idea.

[@YeoungLa]

@@darthwiizius ow thanks a lot!

[@dylanwilliamson4766]

Voice audio cuts off at 12:40

[@HUMBLE_JAY]

Name of the cable u connect to the sata to the gpu?

[@michaelmcconnell7302]

Should have benchmarked and showed temps before repasting.

[@michaelmcconnell7302]

@@N_N23296 because i want to see the difference

[@javigaming27]

Do you recommend windows 11 over windows 10?

[@scott4207]

For gaming, yes.

[@Hablift]

Background music is sick while playing COD

[@tommybaker4330]

Hope you build better than you game. You guys got a direct pipeline to Ali Express or something?

[@SSJfraz]

Wait, did they take the original 12GB model and strip it down to 8GB? I'm surprised they make any money considering how stupidly expensive the 12GB model still is.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

It's a laptop A2k

[@jmcl99s]

nice build PC gaming on this just add a gpu right that's it ready to go! Goodluck to us and hope have a new pc on myself huhuhuhu!

[@christianmino4073]

It's funny how some games look so nice at low settings and some games look like spyro 2. LOL. My point being, it's nice to have an Optiplex build I can start flipping that will give great AAA gaming at medium settings, yes some games probably still need to played on lower settings but i bet you could at least bump up the Textures :)

[@llovekanyewest]

does your website ship to newzealand

[@DiaMondx2]

my dell optiplex mother board pcie slot or graphic got shoted and exploded

[@slrhodes]

How did they get an i5 8600 running on a 5040 mobo? 🤔 WTF..

[@Tacticalyan]

Great video

[@jaxx4944]

this is literally the same meta since 2019, and hasnt changed since, grab random office pc, put gpu in, grab sata to pcie power, ssd "done"

[@Javggoat]

I wanna get a gaming pc but question tho any pc can use controller?

[@trayless383]

yes, any pc can use a controller through usb and bluetooth.

[@itsdeonlol]

Nice PC!

[@nicktirken2967]

Will that gpu fit the sff optiplex?

[@pinroshan020]

yes

[@charityrettenberger8835]

can i use the gtx 1660 super instead of the rtx a2000?

[@HemiStudio]

With a better power supply

[@Itsmanchezzzzz]

I want to record and stream from my xbox, will this pc be able to keep up?

[@archived1825]

yes it should be fine

[@Serbia-Russia]

i have ryzen 3 4300GE i need graphic card, rx 580 or rx 6400 ? i dont want to buy card to have bootleneck later ? please Toasty bros answer

[@thelordmata]

Rx 580

[@Serbia-Russia]

@@thelordmata i buy 6650 xt for 370e

[@Boltman35]

If I have a Dell OptiPlex 5060 Desktop with an i7-8700, what gpu can I install in it?

[@holyaccord13]

If you don’t want to upgrade your psu I would recommend looking around at power specs for different cards, anything under 50w is ideal but if you have the budget I’d suggest getting a 500-600w power supply and looking for a rx 580 or similar, they’re usually pretty cheap and will run most new games on low to medium settings

[@Boltman35]

I appreciate your response. I've since bought a gaming pc. The gpu I went with is a 4070 ti super.@@holyaccord13

[@emmetthorath4542]

i have the same but an i7 7th gen and everytime i put a video card in it it black screens till i remove it. so disappointed. Anyone can help i love to know y it dose this.

[@trayless383]

i dont know if you tried this or if you still have the card but did you plug your hdmi or display cable into the card?

[@Deadly-Reaper1]

Dont use DLSS use FSR 2.1 even on Balanced its better image quality and better fps even on Nvidia cards on call of duty

[@Տink]

The A2000, is about equal to an rx 580 performance. I get the same performance on call of duty with My Rx 580 8GB 2048SP

[@Blade77700]

It's interesting to know also that HP sells a power pc with a rx580 that only has a 300 watt power supply in it and it works fine. RX580 only uses 150 watts when tested.

[@Տink]

@Blade77700 Yeah when I quit my computer with my rx 580, I got a 600w psu for upgrades in the future.

[@rll9359]

REPEAT QUESTION?/ What pc build do you recommend for playing Stanfield which is somewhat budget friendly with room for upgrades Please be specific / Even to the case If a video could be made on this topic it would be great!

[@alexisjavier84]

Your best bet would be going with what the minimum requirements would be to play that game and build something with thise specs or better.

[@ineligible2267]

Depends on how you'd be fine with playing it, if you would be fine with a 30FPS experience then something like an RTX 2080 would let you play at native 1440p on medium settings. For 1080p you could go down to an RTX 2070 and see a similar experience. The game does favour AMD cards however, so something like an RX 6600 XT would be a good option too. Starfield is incredibly GPU-intensive, a modern i3-12100 even with the stock cooler and a cheap LGA1700 board can produce 60+ FPS even in cities if it's paired with a powerful GPU and it would let you upgrade to 13th/14th gen CPUs if you wanted, but getting a solid 60FPS experience in this game on a budget is very difficult without lowering graphics quite significantly. Besides this 16GB of DDR4 is cheap these days and if you run it in dual-channel with XMP you'll be all good with RAM, Starfield seems to like high memory bandwidth. You could install Windows and the game onto a cheap 500GB NVME SSD from Amazon - pair all of this with something like an EVGA 650 BR for the higher-end cards or a 600W version for the lower-end ones and you'd have a good baseline system to put into a budget case

[@edwardwilliams3815]

those temps tho, high 80C's and should give a modders community the benefit of the doubt with the drivers, usually this situation requires dedicated modders who care about reputation, so i'd give it a go if i was LF a good gpu on a budget and the a2000 sounds like one :)

[@carter7894]

This is also an awesome entry level windows 11 pc. Having the 8th gen intel means TPM 2.0 is supported

[@zeroturn7091]

@@PREDATEURLTcan you still install Windows 11 in UEFI though? I tried it with a Haswell Optiplex, and could only install it to Legacy Boot.

[@KomradeMikhail]

Downgrade back to Win 10. Start playing around with linux now, getting used to it in preparation for your abandonment of windoze after 10 retires.

[@davdundee]

Can you build and send it to Ghana

[@malomarshers]

Is this a real A2000? Real A2000 typically cost much more and have radically different specifications, and don't require 6-pin power.

[@pinroshan020]

it depends on the brand

[@johnstancliff7328]

I'll pass on all the DELL systems.... just like HP, all they make now is JUNK!

[@-in-the-meantime...]

Just watch for Micro Center builder bundles.. We did g600 i5 (circa 2015 machines) slims into nicer cases and plugged in gpu's during covid. Now we have i7's-9's for a 100 more. Just saying.. sincerely - cheap bastid

[@TheRoughGo]

I went to go refresh my thermal paste on some old dell gaming desktop from like 2016 and there was no paste on it at all lol the temps on the i7 6700 never maxed out over high 70s tho lol

[@KaydenGarcia-c6l]

Could yall do a video about the optiflex 1070?

[@profesercreeper]

Do you need the 6 pin to power the gpu? If your test showed it only drew 56w can't the pcie slot provide 75w making the power cable redundant?

[@KomradeMikhail]

Some OEM boards don't push the full 75w spec maximum. The adapter gives peace of mind... Plus some cards don't boot without connectors attached.

[@kitchenbriks3685]

Can you guys move on from these crusty office pc builds? It’s getting old seeing the same junk everyday in my feed.

[@n0n0n0n0]

Do you guys really need to use the lords name in vein I really do love your channel and would hate to unsubscribe

[@legendprosowandey104]

Nice bro

[@the_pringler]

1650

[@dylanallen7720]

I only use dlss when I’m 100% gpu limited otherwise it does nothing for the most part.

[@darthwiizius]

If you combine DLSS with DLDSR you can improve the visual quality in some games compared to native resolutions. You have to set the DLDSR sharpening slider to 50% or even 60% to make it work fully. Other than that I only use DLSS for RT.

[@corneliusantonius3108]

Windows 11

[@suprabhdwivedi9207]

Why you wearing waifu gears 😂😂😂😂?

[@TheMikeMan777]

Man all those run and gun games sure are boooring! 😴