#CheapPCChallenge2022

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Tech Ambrosia

Tech Ambrosia

Күн бұрын

I tackled my $100 PC challenge by buying a Skylake Optiplex, and a Radeon Pro WX4100
Then the WX4100 got demolished in the mail and I bought a WX2100 instead.
Is it any good? Will it work as a VR PC? Let's find out!!
System specs:
Core i5 6600 (4c/4t) "Skylake"
8GB DDR4 3200
500GB WD 2.5" HDD
AMD Radeon Pro WX2100 (Polaris, 8 compute units)
#CheapPCChallenge2022

Пікірлер: 38
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
This is far from the end of this machine. My plans for it include fixing the WX4100, upgrading the RAM and installing an SSD, and of course, donating it! Stick around the channel to see all that and more!
@miahsbrokengarage
@miahsbrokengarage 2 жыл бұрын
Its remarkable how slow a HDD can make a system feel, and how fast SSD's really are. I'm certain that if we had SSD's in ~1999 we'd be in a different place today. There are so many FAST computers at that time where the slowest part was really the disk I/O.
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@RetroTinkerer
@RetroTinkerer 2 жыл бұрын
Im testing old computers that are 64bit and can run Cinebench R15, and it is amazing that with just 2GB of RAM Windows 7 feel responsive.
@HazewinDog
@HazewinDog 2 жыл бұрын
Nice! That ran VR a lot better than I expected! P.S.: You can exit Unigine credits early by pressing escape!
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, I was frankly blown away by it!
@heckintech
@heckintech 2 жыл бұрын
Dawww look at the size of that lil' baby! 😃 It's damn near bite sized! 😁 and yeaahhhhh, ADHD sure does make stuff hard sometimes.. Anyways, awesome entry! Building a SUPER budget VR rig is definitely on my list of things to do now! 😁
@PixelPipes
@PixelPipes 2 жыл бұрын
Finally watched this! Congrats on hitting 1k subs (as of this comment)! You put in a lot of hard work to get there! Man, if you could have only found a $10 SSD somehow, this thing would have been a pretty competent ultra-budget PC!
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
My original build had the WX 4100 in it, and it was priced at $40, so I didn't have room for an SSD! In hindsight tho, yeah, a $10 used Samsung would've done wonders for the little machine
@michaelthompson5252
@michaelthompson5252 2 жыл бұрын
Greet content. Found you by searching for reviews of aftermarket GPU coolers. Years ago I dumpster dived dozen of old motherboards,GPUs, CPUs, ram, you name it from computer shops. It all still worked. Wished I would have saved it all. I would have shipped it to you to play with.
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
Ha! I wish places like that still existed these day. That was a golden age...
@OPTERON_PRIME
@OPTERON_PRIME Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video ! Thanks, cool wallpaper btw
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr Жыл бұрын
:3
@pc-sound-legacy
@pc-sound-legacy 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Ambr thanks for initiating this challenge! Awesome how much of compute power you can get for small money! I wouldn't expect it will be VR-ready. Your Cinebench results are similar to my build that is completely different :)
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
Ooooo I'm going to have to go look at it now! Thanks for joining the challenge!
@RetroTinkerer
@RetroTinkerer 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty impressive all that VR gear and also that this low end system could somehow handle it.
@SUCRA
@SUCRA 2 жыл бұрын
That's an interesting build, Amber!
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It's really just a typical "throw a GPU into an old office PC" but really pushing into the weeds as far as value-for-dollar goes. The prices I paid for these Radeon Pros were outstanding, and I don't think I could replicate the build today, almost two months later 😅
@jonathanmarshall3974
@jonathanmarshall3974 6 ай бұрын
Just discovered your channel! Subbed :)
@OCROldComputerRebuilds
@OCROldComputerRebuilds 2 жыл бұрын
what a cool Idea I didn't even thank that. I clear out of the ball park with mine and someday I will finish my video for this.
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
I hope so! I'd like to see what you come up with. There's always the Cheap PC Challenge 2023....
@OCROldComputerRebuilds
@OCROldComputerRebuilds 2 жыл бұрын
@@TechAmbr 😊
@GarthBeagle
@GarthBeagle 2 жыл бұрын
Crazy it worked that well!
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
I'm just absolutely blown away!
@DiamondDepthYT
@DiamondDepthYT 2 жыл бұрын
I run VR on an i7-4770 and GTX 1660. It works well, so I'm sure this'll run VR okay
@1NIGHTMAREGAMER
@1NIGHTMAREGAMER Жыл бұрын
here to remind u of old trick u can gain 10-20 mb/s more by splitting the drive in half testing which side is faster and puting os on their iv noticed bootup time going from 15 sec to 10 sec on old systems
@LagiohX3
@LagiohX3 Жыл бұрын
i got a similar build cheaper for 80$ with a i7 6700, 16gb and a wx 5100 (bios tuned is almost twice as fast!)
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr Жыл бұрын
Nice!
@1NIGHTMAREGAMER
@1NIGHTMAREGAMER Жыл бұрын
u got a pop-filter on ur mic ur breathing is very loud but other than that ur vids are cool
@howardwilson3466
@howardwilson3466 2 жыл бұрын
Windows 10 deploater should speed it up
@Reverse-generic-engineer
@Reverse-generic-engineer Жыл бұрын
Wow from cali
@Wazoru
@Wazoru 2 жыл бұрын
Is this good for esports titles?
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah! 1080p Medium / Low, shouldn't be an issue!
@why8410
@why8410 Жыл бұрын
What was the computer used in the video?
@TechAmbr
@TechAmbr Жыл бұрын
A Dell Optiplex 5040 SFF ! A cheap, used office PC I bought on eBay!
@มดแดง-ฃ3ข
@มดแดง-ฃ3ข 11 ай бұрын
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@lexingtRick
@lexingtRick 2 жыл бұрын
I have a question. Xeon cpu started in June 1998, including 2mb of cache at full speed. If Quake was 42 the Xeon gave 49, so the Xeon was a winner. Then in 2002 about when the Prescott arrives, it is 4mb. But what was the goal of selling us the half mb Pentium II (512k) working at half the speed? What if Flight Simulator 2000 could have gave better results from a cpu with more cAche. So the Amd 5800X3D gave good results last year, and is about to ravage the market this year (AMD). But could you prove it? Like what was the goal of Intel and AMD to not meet the gamers most precious thing about gaming. Obviously, there was no point in making money because people always needed PC computers. (((As if Divinity hates us.))) Would you make a video about this, please? Voodoo 1&2 made it far with DirectX6, but died with that limit. Then Nvidia gets them and then Geforce FX gets a wall of performance against ATi 's Radeon 9700 that is like 2-3 times better than Geforce Fx. Geforce Fx is like Geforce 5. 3dfx left with Voodoo 5 5500. As if the company 3dfx choked with basement socks shoving a Fab that cost way to much and NOT selling chips to other brands. Like, wtf. Oh, and selling the Voodoo 3 at a low price to make sure to die right, and for good. Why did they go and haunt Nvidia? Okay, Divinity needs to prove one single point here of its existence, but why Xeon of 1998 featured much more cache. First, even Win95 when it started, Microsoft would have pulled away from a DirectX. They were worldwide anyway with MSdos, why did they act to cheap? If Moore's law was going to end in 2025, would they know it? And they would sell machines for processors. Kinda the idiots. Obviously, when Xeon started, it was obvious that everything could have been best for 3d. But why did they cheap out? Even TSMC seems to be the earth's limit maker, like a control. 3d gamers would have loved to keep machines with Xeon cpu for a very long time and never give it up. Then the gold rush 2 about finding gold in computers to destroy many machines instead of giving them to poor families. As if something was controlling again. Selling cyanide always should have been illegal. But there they go and destroy the past. Can you find a Xeon and test out Flight Simulator 2000? Compare that to a none Xeon like maybe AMD. Cache made a difference in large softwares and games like FSim. The Xbox didn't need that much cache, a 733mhz with only 256k or less Pentium 3, or was it a Celeron 733. The trick was in the Geforce. It beat the Voodoo by a factor of x2. Microsoft was assured there... Why did they wanted to back off the DirectX for Win95. Bill Gates never missed money, and since he stepped down, the Microsoft company is doing better. He wasn't the real gate(s). Divinity seems to hate us. Meagerly like the Holy Bible that stinks errors. Please to a Xeon comparo before I mute any texts. I've been complaining for over 4years on my Facebook page. I'd like to keep complaining. Find a Xeon. Get testing head to head so a Pentium II vs Pentium II Xeon or P3 would it be better? The Tulatin was better, but how much? Was FS2000 superb ? Doo it, please, the end of Moore's Law is coming. The time is at a wall. Why cache is so important, and most people say cache like cash. Philscomputerlab says it properly, cAche, it make sense to A in cAche. Divinity has the whip, and we have no cash, even poor in cAche. Would to cover this video, please? Pety us humanity, were are suffering micro stutters. Pixel Frames are just starting with DLSS3. The simple double buffer that gets a 2d frame made to then double the frame rates. Divinity hates so much, it gave Sega SG-1000, after the Coleco Vision 1982, even the Intellivision in 1979 that had about 8fps. It sucked, how did they dare?? Divinity hates us. Why did Slayer got the song God Hates Us All. Somehow, he knows something. How come they have the guts to release products like that? And Win98 that makes 666*3=1998, the most obvious that they hate us humanity. The Pope dies in 2022 as if a catch-22. What else is hating us that much?
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