What Does A $400 Craigslist Gaming PC Look Like In 2021?

[@FlowMichael]

Honestly, this is a beautifully weird system. A ghetto gpu cooler, a freaking noctua chonk cpu cooler, 17 gb of ram... and honestly, considering the current market, this is actually a really good deal.

[@DeadpoolPlayz]

That extra 1 gig of ram ups performance by a 1000 megabytes

[@humbdedumb6009]

Noctua chonk without their signature fans, instead replaced by Scythe

[@ttvv90]

@@humbdedumb6009 I wonder why they swapped out the very good noctua fans for the somewhat lesser scythe fans? Aesthetics doesn't seem to be a huge concern, considering the gpu fan situation and that weird cable jutting out right next to it.

[@MrMCDiggles]

It's a good idea if you want to play certain games now. But the core of the system is going to be outdated in the not too distant future.

[@NextEevolution]

@@ttvv90 If I were to guess, it was so they could keep the higher performance Noctua fans and not have to explain to people who may not know about PCs that the off-putting brown fans are actually very good fans

[@lonniemurray4742]

This is a really good PC for $400 especially in this market

[@mrducky179]

that 1060 alone is prolly around 300 bucks

[@israelmxc]

Absolutely!

[@richardsinclair7661]

@@mrducky179 That blows my mind because I bought my 1660 Super for 250 last year. It's probably going for like 600 dollars now.

[@thejollysloth5743]

Ye, great deal. If you took out the cpu and motherboard and RAM, sold it on Ebay and upgraded to a slightly newer 4 core 8 thread CPU (i3-10100f bundle with mobo and RAM), you could upgrade and only spend around $100 more.

[@SK8R43]

No it isnt....its terrible for $400 lmao

[@benh745]

You must be the best sponsored KZbin Linode has.. The amount of feels you put in their ads is simply unmatched.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I see the ads as an extra bit of content that happens to be paid for. I try and still have fun with it as much as possible. 😁

[@benh745]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff I love it. Especially the Linode ones.

[@jdo248]

I can't imagine a more satisfied sponsor. Dawid loves Linode like his own child.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

And all they needed to do was have a fun name to say.

[@jaimecervantes1306]

Sponsor bring more money for him to invest in his youtube channel. Plus he has to make money life is expensive. Oh and all the computers he buy that have to be funded. He is helping many of you guys even me.

[@OldManBadly]

For the price, it's pretty decent overall. the RAM issue was pretty obvious up front, you could pick up an ebay / CL extra 8gb stick to round that up nicely, especially with reasonable speed. The GPU is actually not horrible, you could probably sell it in today's marketplace for almost what you paid for the system. 120fps in Fortnite would be enough to make most junior gamers happy.

[@5izzy557]

60fps would, let's be real. 120fps is high tier stuff :-)

[@barackhusseinobamaii3303]

A 3gb 1060 for $300 💀

[@DroneDocs]

GTX 1060 3gb go for around $200 usd one in that condition will probably go for $180 so no not really.

[@KadiusFTW]

@@slayer100141 i was able to grab 3gb 1060s for ~80 usd at that time, and I cannot find them for below 180 rn

[@jamesm568]

This computer will go for a thousand on eBay easily.

[@rabbitrampage]

I've got a $400, local Craigslist equivalent gaming pc. Should be interesting to see how this compares.

[@mrducky179]

what are its specs

[@hamadabdulhamid4036]

What are the specs”

[@rabbitrampage]

RX570 8gb, 8gb DDR3, I5 3470, Corsair CX 550M, 1tb HDD, 128GB SSD. Not the best specs but I bought it at the peak of the PC shortage.

[@AnnaDoes]

How did it compare?

[@auntiepha8343]

I have a PC for sale on Craigslist for a couple months now. Corsair case, i5 9400f CPU, cooler master cooler, GTX 1060 3gb, ASUS Z370 mobo, 16 GB DDR4, 1TB Sabrent M.2 SSD, Enermax 600Watt PSU for $600. It won't sell.

[@xychosisGG]

That rig is a godsend at $400. The 1060 alone makes it fairly worth already but man that Noctua cooler is gorgeous as all hell. Excellent job knife battling for this one!!!

[@thcriticalthinker4025]

This is actually an incredible build for the current market considering the GPU sells alone for C$200-300

[@twizz420]

Yeah it sells for $200-300 without being held together by zipties. Good luck finding anyone who would buy that GPU as-is.

[@IMDYT420]

not anymore

[@pptemplar5840]

​​@@twizz420Unironically the cooling solution is probably better than stock And it's not like you should be buying 3gb GPUs for their resale value in most modern cases anyways. This system is still not that bad for personal use at 300$, would have been a good deal at time of recording.

[@joostvandijck8171]

Hey Dawid, I really like the way your style has grown over the years. Great sense of humor, accessible tech stuff, mainstream level gear (not just the ultra high end stuff) and a good choice of real-life situations in the current pc market. Keep it up, your channel is quickly growing to be my favorite pc tech channel!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Thank you so much! I am glad you enjoy the channel. I prefer buying stuff for content, which helps keep it in line with what is actually accessible for everyone. 😁

[@DraftySatyr]

Yep, definitely one of my favourite (if not my favourite) Tech KZbin channels right now. Also like Paul's Hardware for his humour, but have had it with Jayz2Cents - all he does is whine about how difficult it is to produce content in the current market conditions while flexing all the high-end kit he is *given for free* by vendors and manufacturers.

[@joostvandijck8171]

@@DraftySatyr I prefer Jay over Linus though.

[@clem-1917]

I legit cable tied 2 arctic p12s to my 1070, now it's cold and quiet. love it. Oh and that's a nh-d14 not d15. You can tell as the heat pipes all stick out equally on the d14, the d15 has the two outer pipes lower in.

[@ffwast]

And it looks more like a cheese grater

[@danielh9981]

the corners are rounded on the nhd14 lol

[@AnnaDoes]

Cable ties are the bee’s knees 🤩

[@LastSecBloomer]

I had a pretty similar configuration, a 4670K, 8GB RAM, same Thermaltake PSU and a 1060 6GB. It actually run all my games pretty well until I hit 2 roadblocks. One was stutter while breaking barrels in Demon's Souls on emulator, the other one was 100% CPU utilization and stuttering in Borderlands 3. That's when I decided to switch to Ryzen 1600AF and all the problems were gone, those cores and threads were the solution... And this machine is still better than most $1000 2021 prebuilts, lol.

[@Arakari]

RIP though. Ryzen 1000s won't support Windows 11. (If you ever decide to upgrade anytime soon to it).

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@Arakari Who would want that ;) And not that his old one supported it either

[@Arakari]

@@HappyBeezerStudios idk lmao. I mean, by dad's still running an old-ass Windows Vista/XP laptop. so.....To each their own lol

[@deviouslaw]

@@Arakari Ryzen 1600AF is more like a ryzen 2000, so it should be fine

[@philtkaswahl2124]

I gotta respect that fan ziptied to the GPU. Reminds me of my own first attempts at achieving better GPU cooling. The 1 GB RAM stick made me laugh way harder that it should have, though.

[@raven4k998]

you gotta respect a pc that has dedicated sound inside of it :)

[@FNLNFNLN]

That CPU cooler must be worth like, 1/4 of the PC. Damn, I want a deal that good on just the cooler.

[@AnnaDoes]

Haha I know right? That was my initial thought to.

[@KevinStriker]

After suffering with a low profile PC for five years, $400 CAD got me an orphaned office PC (Core i7, 16GB RAM, GTX 1030, 500GB Sata SSD + 4TB HDD), seller told me it was rescued from the recycling centre. Tack on another $200 to put a 1070-Ti in this thing and I have a very comfortable 1440p gaming rig.

[@AverageWalmartCashier]

I have a deepcool case similar to that one. ABS gladiator 3070 from Newegg. Has an evga AIO as cpu cooler and so far, cooling has been fantastic. Haven’t seen cpu go over 55-60 and coolant is under 40-45 most of the time during heavy gaming.

[@CVLEntertainment72]

At this point, Dawid is a knife master. His skills are becoming legendary. #craigslistknifebattles

[@Defiant031636]

That Noctua is a D14, not a D15.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Hahaha!! Dammit. I got too excited and got the name wrong. Thanks for letting me know.

[@BaawzShootz]

This is exactly what got me into PC's and PC building. Bought a $500 marketplace PC 2 years ago and got into it from there on.

[@dauoddoesstuff]

I want to see a craigslist knife battle

[@jonathanellis6097]

Totally get to see one at the end of the video, it's Epic.

[@drackar]

You don't really.

[@dauoddoesstuff]

@@drackar but what if I want to?

[@drackar]

@@dauoddoesstuff usually disappointing but fill your boots

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Sus name. 😂

[@LukeJukeDuke]

Every video that Dawid uploads is like going through heaven for the first time every damn time. Its just way too entertaining. My pre-built pc story was, i got it from a reputable internet cafe locally and it has some meh specs but with the price for its specs was pretty very great. The price was a little below $200 or 10,000php and the specs was a GTX 1050 with an i3 3240 and 2x4gb 1333mhz ram. The case was dog poop but i changed it to a RL01 Silverstone case which made it 1000% better looking. Also added a silverstone tundra AIO 120mm too and it looks DOPER now if thats even a word. Im upgrading the CPU soon since it heavily bottlenecks the gpu which is a pain when playing games but it does the job nonetheless.

[@Luke357]

I used to run a 4690k @ 4.4 (with a GTX 980 so similar GPU performance) up until fairly recently and it was always a playable experience when I had it. With some tweaking you could lessen the micro stuttering on BF V by a significant amount. I upgraded to a 10700KF earlier this year to play BF2042 and we all know how well that game played...

[@DJdoppIer]

_This reminds me of the $480 gaming PC I sold on Craigslist 2 weeks ago:_ It had an Asus Prime B360M-A motherboard, i5-8400, 24GB 2133MHz DDR4 ram, 256GB Sandisk m.2 SSD + 1TB WD Blue HDD, OEM Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, a Corsair HX750i PSU, WiFi + Bluetooth add-in card, inside a Lian Li glass side case with 3 fans and a remote-controlled RGB light strip. The guy also bought a 24" HP FHD monitor for $30 extra.

[@punkem733]

"Knife battling in the craigslist streets" sounds like a great game, or a cool band name.

[@Flibster]

Got one myself recently. (FB Marketplace in the UK) Very happy with it for the other half to use for work. Intel 9600K Gigabyte MicroATX Mobo with overclocking Generic tower cooler with a white led fan - but it works well. 16gb Crucial 2666mhz ram Generic glass case with 6 RGB fans and a fan controller (quiet enough) Zotac 8gb 1070 Mini 500gb Crucial M.2 500gb WD Blue SATA SSD Additional USB card with 2 USB C ports and 3x usb type A Was fully cleaned and with a clean install of Windows 10 (fully updated) when we bought it. Real nice.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

That's an awesome system! Enjoy.

[@Flibster]

​@@DawidDoesTechStuff Yeah. We're happy with it. Obviously had to stress test it before my other half used it for work. 😉 Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Forza Horizon 5 work really nicely.

[@edfitzgerald4810]

4690k and 1060 3gb was an ideal build for at least 3 years if you were looking for a budget conscious gaming rig. The next couple of generations in Intel chips were marginal gains in performance making used or even new 4690Ks a massive bargain on eBay. Same story for the 10603gb more or less, everyone wanted the 6gb version making used 3gb 1060s dead cheap. I don't use Steam, but I would have to guess both the CPU and GPU still have impressive representation. Nice work as always thanks Dawid!

[@jponz85]

I have almost the same setup except I have the 4790k CPU, zotec gtx 1060 3gb GPU, 32gb ddr3 ram, 2tb samsung ssd. Almost done building it I wonder if itll perform better than this set up

[@basilman121]

I'm not sure why, but whenever I come back to your channel, the videos are just so enjoyable. Keep up the great work!

[@buddybleeyes]

Honestly, this was a really good buy. Should do nicely for someone wanting to game on a pc if they haven't got one, or they have a really old pc :)

[@mashedpotatoes5323]

As long as they don't mind having 2 1/2 screws holding in the motherboard and can figure out the GPU is throttling and that it needs it's fan curve manually edited....

[@mashedpotatoes5323]

Congrats you ☝️ are a obvious scammer.

[@awlafferty]

I legit love these videos! Dawid’s humor gets me EVERY time!

[@awlafferty]

The lightsaber BIT!! 😂😂😂

[@frankfioretti3945]

Yep, the lightsaber routine earned my sub.

[@LadBooboo]

2:04 rear fan is missing two screws. I love how it's just the 2 opposite corners that are screwed in lol

[@swisspeach67]

PSU is missing one too. There must be a severe screw shortage at the seller's place. The top slot cover probably is missing, because there was no screw available to hold it.

[@Rockport1911]

Just like my old PC: Squeeze out the last breaths of life by installing a better used graphics card, improving cooling with ghetto methods and throw some RAM- sticks in there :) Worked great :)

[@FS--ew3se]

Ssd?

[@siqu7071]

@@FS--ew3se SSD's are for losers

[@FS--ew3se]

@@siqu7071 yes hdd best

[@thejollysloth5743]

I swapped out my 1060 for a 6600 xt. I already had a 10600k and Z490 board and 32gb of 3200mhz. It more than doubled my FPS, and I got the 6600 xt for the same price I sold the 1060 for as I was offered one that was returned. The box was a bit damaged and it had nothing in the box apart from the GPU (not even in the anti-static bag). He sold it to me for £300, a £100 reduction at the time. Now the same GPU is nearly £600 in the UK so I'm very happy with it.

[@harryshuman9637]

Ghetto methods you say? I literally moded a CPU cooler into my 2012 gaming laptop by drilling holes in its stock heatsink. Had to hammer out parts of laptop's plastic shell so that the CPU cooler could be mounted.

[@blze0018]

"I think I broke the light" I loved the deadpan, not surprised, just disappointed tone.

[@arch1107]

i would replace the fan with a 120mm one, it should be fine AVEXIR, the ram is

[@bruhno1302]

My friend got a $300 pc on Craigslist with an rx 480, fx 8370, 16gb ram and same storage config

[@NextEevolution]

Sorry to "UM ACKCHUALLY" you, Dawid but that CPU cooler is a Noctua NH-D14, the NH-D15's predeccessor. Still a hell of a heatsink to have today though! Especially included in a craigslist PC!

[@jamesm568]

Slap a Noctua Industrial PPC- 3000 PWM fan on it and call it a day.

[@cptechguy]

I've got the same Motherboard sitting in my GFs PC rig. I put in a second hand i7-4790, 16Gb of 1600mhz DDR-3, and a 1050Ti. She is playing most of her games at 1080p med/high settings and they look and play great.

[@ix.cryo1]

Nice, a new Dawid video!

[@ix.cryo1]

@Billy John you can post it in ur channel exdee

[@MrCmad1104]

Very cool!! It’s cool that you didn’t get scammed. The seller seemed very upfront with what you were buying. You don’t see that to often nowadays. But the system as a whole seemed pretty good.

[@mehaven4374]

I love the way he says linode everytime

[@egnatius79]

Dawid's impromptu lightsaber fights are becoming one of my favorite parts of his videos. That and his passionate love for Vileda FRESH.

[@catriona_drummond]

4th gen Intel are incredibly hard to kill. I am sitting here, amazed by my 4790K STILL cutting it after like 8 years. Jut tried Forza horizon 5 and as I am a "60 fps max quality gamer" my 2080 Super just about copes at 1440p while the CPu still has some good headroom. The tied together GPU cables actually imply that this thing originally had a better GPU fitted and they threw the 1060 jank edition in for the sale. Wasn't screwed in either. Stiil, decent pairing. I was a bit disappointed that you didn't really give that soundcard a glimpse though. Could have at least shown what model it was.

[@raven4k998]

I am laughing cause that means my 3950x will cut it longer then your pathetic quad core

[@catriona_drummond]

@@raven4k998 So you're saying the CPU you bought like 6 years after I bought mine will likely last longer than mine. You know what? I agree. But you are probably the only person in the world that finds this absolutely banal fact funny. For reasons only known to you.

[@raven4k998]

@@catriona_drummond way way way longer cause my cpu is four times as many cores as your haha just saying it will take a lot more crap to slow my beast down then your due to having that much more power on hand

[@raven4k998]

@@catriona_drummond also what happens when windows 10 stop being supported in 3 years your screwed cause that cpu won't run windows 11 haha mine will you can thank Microsoft for that one dictating which computer can run windows 11 and which cannot

[@catriona_drummond]

@@raven4k998 Look, I don't know what drug you are on but look for another schoolyard for your weird flexes, please.

[@soupwizard]

7:07 Only 2 screws is kind of genius - 2 in the back to hold the mb down, then the video and sound cards are screwed in holding down the front of the motherboard

[@NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS]

"Not Stupid Ram" = best description ever

[@AnnaDoes]

😂 100% agree

[@johnstancliff7328]

Like the one I had to trash. I was given an old Intel build and the board was dead... once I got everything torn down and cleaned, I put the system back together RIGHT and found the board was dead... no biggy, it was an old socket 775 system so I just saved the memory and processor... the board got pitched! transferred my MSI 760GM-P35 board into the case and now it has a nice new home... a Raidmax Scorpio chassis in Blue.... nice chassis! anyway, nice video dawid! Have a merry Christmas!

[@Dark.Shingo]

_Video is barely beginning._ Me: Wait... is that GPU cooler attached with zip ties? CJ: Aw shit. Here we go again.

[@14stockfan]

I just bought a $400 PC from Craigslist for my wife for photo editing and light gaming. It was pretty similar to what I was looking to build for her minus the GPU it came with and needing some extra storage. Once I do those upgrades it'll be more like a $900 PC, but that is about what it would have cost to build from scratch, but I have to do much less work and I don't have to worry about the computer not working.

[@AnnaDoes]

And you gave some components a second lease on life which is awesome!

[@TronixGuy93]

I can't count the super high tech ziptie solutions I've seen over the decades. I remember seeing three case fans attached to a pretty thick CPU HS. That was neato!

[@kingzilant]

Dawid, your video on the Lenovo Leg-ion helped me pick it up for the price. Thanks very much for that!

[@JessiTheBestiGaming]

That's a great computer for a kid. Or even someone who just does light gaming. Plus, for $400... That's a deal right there.

[@mitcrex]

Definitely not a deal for $400 i bought a gaming used pc for 150 that blows this out the water (price to performance) from local pc shop that was amd phenom x4 and ati 5770 lol and i still over paid a little btw

[@h1tzzYT]

@@mitcrex well not really, that phenom lacks modern instruction sets and is about 2x slower than that stock 4690k and 1060 3gb is like 8x times faster than that potato hd 5770, this 400$ in dawids video is much better deal and just purchase in general

[@RCN2820]

@@mitcrex is this sarcasm?

[@methodmantis3060]

When I hear Dawid's descriptions of rigs like this one I sometimes wonder if they are the musings of an actual proto-genius or the verbal legerdemain of a David Blaine-level Boardwalk pickpocket. After some thought, I'm pretty sure it's both. Which is even more impressive to me.

[@AnnaDoes]

The ghetto card is just my favorite thing ever 😹 Ok fine… maybe my real favorite thing is the Craigslist knife battle at the end…

[@alaskadudewithdogs98]

According to my IT guy 2 1/2 screws is more than enough. I recently had to teardown over 100 old towers to harvest parts before sending them off to recycle and I discovered his moto is all or nothing. Each computer either had every posible screw or the absolute minimum to hold them together. A few of them I opened the hard drives and disk drives fell out, not a single screw to hold them in.

[@TechProYoutube]

3:18 as someone who is bilingual this was funny

[@erichkohl9317]

I sure loved my 4690K when I got one in 2014. In 2020 I turned it into a Linux box when I upgraded to a 9th-gen Core i7.

[@1232lesach]

"Have they fixed cyberpunk yet" hmm good question. Answer is: yes and no. Followed by I expect they will never actually fix it as I'm sure they've just given up on it XD :). But compared to how it was when first launched, it is better.

[@makuIa]

@@slayer100141 it’s on sale for $30 AUD on ps4 store I almost bought it 2 nights ago, do you think it’s worth just to play through it or is it an entirely different game on ps4 pro console?

[@captante9889]

Right before things got rough in Jan 2020 I set a co-worker up with a decent refurbished Dell Optiplex i7-4770 mid-tower system from Newegg. By the time we snagged a 1tb Samsung SATA SSD and a cheap used GTX-550ti (he's not much of a gamer) it was well under $400 and was actually still pretty snappy when I worked on it the other day. Throw in a better GPU and it should even do okay with most newer games. (@ reduced detail of course!)

[@SchmityFPV]

Recently bought my first budget gaming pc off marketplace from a local. I7 4770k, Asrock H97, Xfx Rx470, 16gb GSkill DDR3 1600, Antec 750w power supply, Dual Fan Cooler Master CPU cooler, Small SSD, 500gb hard drive in an old iBuyPower pc case for $450USD. I upgraded to a new MATX case (half the size of the old one) $65, and some cables extensions ($20) to make it look slightly better.

[@Jafar-dr6to]

Prices in my local area are insane they want 500 for a 10 year old Mac Pro and the gaming pc are priced with eBay scalper prices

[@Spartan536]

My take on the card and the 8 pin wire management was that this WAS their gaming system at one point or one they were given, so they took the GPU out and swapped in this frankencard and called it a day.

[@jimaliciakirk]

I did the same thing with a GTX 1050 Ti... runs cooler and WAY quieter with the zip tie 80mm fan mod. Thumbs up.

[@jodiac]

Dang I love these videos, I love the THE FUTURE dismantling parts, I love the amazing knife fight collage, never stop please.

[@ronguin7062]

I've had a few Frankenstein rigs as well. many of mine were left over parts for scavenged pc's and yes, for a long time every dimm needed to sport a ram stick and what I had lying around is what went in the slot. Guilty as charged...more ram is more gooder. I've gone as far as cutting holes in side panels and mounting usb fans for air flow in old office pc cases so, yeah...I totally dig this rig.

[@Alfadragon17]

Engineering companies are a great resource to get half decent PCs. I picked up a rug that literally matched what I built 5 years ago for $250 from Contech Engineering here in Kansas City. Rig had an i7-4790K, 32GB RAM, 1TB of storage in RAID 0 (I think). And a crappy Nvidia Quadro card. Only difference between this and my rig was a GTX 1070.

[@martinbernath]

Ive recently built a similar pc. Got a 4690k with a mobo, case and psu from a friend and fitted a 4gb 960, 16gb of ddr3 ram at 1600mhz, 480gb m.2 nvme ssd and the cheapest tower cooler along with some case fans i could find. All in all i paid 200 bucks for it but considering i got half the components for free i would say yours was a better deal.

[@thatseasygames4116]

It is great to finally see a pre-owned gaming rig where the owner took care of it

[@NPC-fv3nc]

That GPU cooler... i've done the same thing years ago with 6600GT. The fan had died and the only thing i had laying around was this chonky 50'ish mm fan and the noise was like a jet engine, but hey, it worked and i was a happy teenager.

[@sflorin123]

I had the same CPU, Motherboard and similar CPU cooler, plus gtx1060 6Gb. Worked fine

[@felicityc]

This reflects a really capable, honest seller, who I'm sure made good margin but didn't compromise on trying to deliver to the customer. This is how it should always be.

[@pharettface]

Not bad my cousin is running on a 4690k at 4.8Ghz it's pretty strapped these days for performance but gets the job done for a kid. I managed to pick up a R7 1700 16gb RAM RX560 lenovo pre-built for $220 for our sub unit. Honestly quite a steal for the money even being a pre-built.

[@harshlands]

Ah man Linode needs to pay Dawid more $$, the degree of heart in that sponsored spot is next level.

[@sersoft_corp]

Technically the 1GB stick helps a lot because it allows the system to run in Dual-Channel (asymmetrical) mode.

[@andrewhasaname]

That's not a bad deal at all. I built something similar for my first PC back in the day. I had an i5-4590, 8gigs of ram and a 960 for about $600.

[@busterscrugs]

Hey Dawid, Cyberpunk 2077 performance on an anemic quad core can be increased dramatically by lowering the "crowd density" setting under gameplay, which is independent from any of the graphics presets.

[@yukitakahashi5739]

"More ram isn't always more better" Words to live by, sir, words to live by

[@masseehs9894]

I saw this exact PC on Craigslist. I was considering of buying but as I saw the cpu cooler gpu I stayed away lol. Glad you got it for testing it for us.

[@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude]

respect to the pc seller i sold a 6 core 12 thread unlocked turbo 3.4gh allcore gtx 680 for 600 and it had so much jank RGB and used like 3 diffrent mounting harware from deep cool master cooler and gamer gear to mount the cpu cooler that was a vurtroo

[@julian5956]

LINOOODE!!!! Soon I'll be watching your videos for the LINODE section 🤣

[@dragonsystems5973]

You need a hyperthreaded i7, the hyperthreading makes all the difference now on old chips. Also, you need to specify if this was built to sell or as a personal build

[@kwizzeh]

Not only that, the i7s in general scale better in the long run even though it'll still show it's age.

[@larrog8413]

I bought a nearly complete system on Mercari, for $270. Just needed RAM and a hard drive. $80 later, I have a Ryzen 5 2600, 650 watt 80+ Bronze PSU, and a GTX 1080. Once I upgrade the Mobo and CPU, this will be a beast. All for a fraction of the cost of anything pre-built you can get on the market today!

[@wolfisbad8965]

i always recommend small office pc's for people around me, with 3450, 3470, 4560, 4570 etc, can be found for roughtly 80 euros, and add gtx 1050 to get semi-descent pc

[@simonwilliams195]

I used an OC'd i5 4690k at 4.5 GHz for years and loved it! If for any reason my R7 2700x died, I would have no issue going back to the i5

[@samtheman9000]

get someone who loves you like Linode loves sponsoring Dawid's videos

[@PHDarren]

The GPU cabling out front in a bunch, classic case of having a better GPU installed needing more than 1x 8 pin power, they sell the GPU separately and stick a weedy GPU in it's place without sorting the cabling out. Or in this case a broken fixed 1060.

[@kylemueller]

The cooler is actually a Noctua NH-D14, not a D15. They perform similarly, but the D14 is just the previous iteration and looks slightly different.

[@Tordav392]

For $500 in early 2023 I bought a used PC with a 5700 xt an i7 6700 and 16 gb of ddr4 at 2400 along with a half gig gen 3 SSD and a 1tb HDD. Even had a decent amount of RGB. Was gaming in 2k at about 75 fps on med to high settings with fsr on and RT off.

[@elliothunter4224]

Your Linode segways are getting better Dawid, just be learning from the man Linus :P

[@JonaTechVillage]

I lowkey love the "Fine i'll do it myself" GPU cooler solution XD I'd love to see a Dawid self made cooling (GPU & CPU) build

[@aminbagheri9044]

That z97 a is one of my favorite mobos of all time it was my secend biuld and i went from q6600 and a gygabyte ga ep43s3l to a z97a with i7 4790k stayed with it untill ryzen and it was great in all those times

[@TheGameBench]

The RAM config was likely causing problems because it was running in mixed mode rather than dual channel. So, only 1GB of that 8GB stick was running in dual channel mode and the rest was running in single channel. Didn't help that they were all clocked at slowest stick. What a oddball build. Easy enough to fix the issues though and end up with a pretty decent PC for the money.

[@michaelthompson9798]

Lol that outro Dawid was pure gold 🤩🏆

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That's actually pretty close to what I'm running (3570K @ 4.5 and a 1060 6GB) and shows the weird situation 4c/4t CPUs are in today. In some cases they are basically useless and in others that can totally hold their own. Also shows the issue with modern "all glass" cases: when there is no air things get pretty hot. Now I wonder how the card would do with two fans on it. A pair of decent 80mm fans running on 7v might be a good compromise between cooling and noise. It's what I had on some cards of mine where the cooler wasn't adequate or when they were passive.

[@JaePee]

Dawid is my overall favorite tech youtuber😩

[@streax8885]

The PC i bought in september costed me 150€ (~$170) and hast a GTX 1050ti and AMD FX8350 i must say that was the best deal i could find and it was in great condition, all the other PC's that were equivalent costed 100€ more

[@SchoolforHackers]

Good score

[@streax8885]

@@SchoolforHackers thanks mate, i looked forever to find one because my laptop broke late last year

[@treywilliams8508]

I have a very similar build as my "test/back up" gaming PC. An Asus P8Z77-V Pro motherboard with an i5-3570K and an Arctic dual fan cooler, 24gb of ram (all at 1600mhz, 2 different brands, no issues), EVGA 1050ti with an aftermarket fan (ever so slightly modified fan shroud), and a 500gb sata SSD. All used and in an NZXT mid tower case with a 700w EVGA Supernova modular PSU (only new part lol). Runs awesome though, would be better with a 2XXX series GPU, but theyre still expensive.

[@derbiochemiker]

The "custom" cooling design of that gtx 1060 is really next level. 😅

[@raven4k998]

atleast we tried cooling solution😅😅

[@bombarder16]

That is some decent fps you got there, and only for 400 buck very dope.

[@Xxbte96xX]

I feel like this is a great value for 400$. Maybe not akin to a console, but with how hard it is to find the new consoles right now, this is a great option for those who want something asap.

[@TheBeach14]

Talking about weird ram setups, I saw a laptop on Newegg that said it had 36GB of ram. It had 4GB soldered to the motherboard and a single 32GB stick.

[@severussnap4373]

that purple drive is for dvrs or camera hubs they dont work well for pc unless there is a firmware update that i dont know about.

[@chrisu_XD]

@Dawid WD Purple drive are used for video recording (think of CCTV system). Meaning this hdd is optimized to write parallel video steams. So whats is the catch here? The handling of bit errors is tuned to keep data recording going. Usally a hdd will try very hard to ensure writing/reading data correctly on WD Purple not so much. It was designed to turn a blind eye on bit error. Not the best bet to keep data super safe. For storage use WD Blue or go with WD Black. (WD Red is for NAS and 24/7 usage)

[@AnnaDoes]

Woah!!! I had no idea that’s what the colors of WD drives meant. The more you know! This is why I love the internet. The little facts people share 🤗