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 But the core of the system is going to be outdated in the not too distant future.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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@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 💀

[@DroneMee]

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.

[@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 🤩

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@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.

[@CVLEntertainment72]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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. 😂

[@awlafferty]

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

[@awlafferty]

The lightsaber BIT!! 😂😂😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@punkem733]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@arch1107]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@ix.cryo1]

Nice, a new Dawid video!

[@ix.cryo1]

@Billy John you can post it in ur channel exdee

[@kingzilant]

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

[@Dark.Shingo]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 🤗

[@NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS]

"Not Stupid Ram" = best description ever

[@AnnaDoes]

😂 100% agree

[@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!)

[@mehaven4374]

I love the way he says linode everytime

[@jodiac]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@westregent66]

I rebuilt my old 4790k with 16gb of ddr3 RAM running at 2133mhz paired with a MSI GTX 970 and thing is running most modern games well at 1080p..... Was thinking of selling it but wasn't sure on what's a good price these days. I was gonna lost it for $500. Put my rebuilt system in a new phanteks p300a case with a new scythe Mugen B cooler and new 550 watt Corsair Rx PSU. Also cleaned out the GPU and applied new thermal paste. 2 500gb ssd. One crucial MX 500 that has the OS and I added another 500gb crucial p2 m.2 NVM for extra game storage

[@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!

[@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.

[@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…

[@blze0018]

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

[@TechProYoutube]

3:18 as someone who is bilingual this was funny

[@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.

[@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?

[@bruhno1302]

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

[@sflorin123]

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

[@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 🤩🏆

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@HanSolo__]

Hey David, 4gen Haswell is maybe older than some of fossils but this is still a tractor pulling level of procesor when it comes to even more denanding work in your office/home office. I'm talking only about the two most powerful chips from 22nm Core i7 4700,4800,4900 do 4000Hz Also Xeon E7 8895V2 with 18 cores uses the same 22nm technology. And yeah, there are still Haswell processors you can buy at Intel.

[@CoalitionGaming]

Gotta throw a Xeon in that system! Get some cores threads going. A E3-1231v3 should do the trick! (Around $45 on ebay) Tho obviously a 4790k would be idea but they are far more expensive.

[@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

[@Simon-ph1nf]

7:00 Self aware burn, those are the best :)

[@jonpeley]

That cooler is the same from my new PC bought precisely on november 2021.

[@45eno]

Looks like a single 120mm case fan would have likely fit better and covered all the heatsinks. That was a pretty bad job with the zip ties. You can install stuff pretty clean with zip ties but not looping like that. Cut the head off 1 zip ties and use it as the zip for a single long tie. Even proper metal screws can screw into the fins of some heatsinks. Old school coolers actually installed fans this way.

[@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.

[@julian5956]

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

[@B16CXHatch]

I have a motherboard identical to that one in my HTPC. It's rocking a i7 4790K and a GTX 1080 with 16GB of 1866MHz RAM and a 256GB WD NVME SSD. I use the much smaller NH-D9L on it (system used to be in smaller case that 120mm+ coolers wouldn't fit) and that keeps 4790K at perfectly reasonable temps. Who knows, I may end up selling that board and CPU sometime soon. I have plenty of newer, better parts laying around to upgrade it with. I just haven't because it's not super necessary.

[@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.

[@bertnijhof5413]

My ASRock B450 HDV Rel 4.0 also has the super reliable VGA plug and I use it together with a 24" Dell G2410h at a whopping 1080p at 60Hz.

[@dylandetaeye]

i have build an modern pc in an old prebuild that wasn't working anymore. just 3 screws are in there. i was needed to buy some screws and now, the new motherboard is good mounted.

[@tomb3782]

(at the last minute) "Yep... I think I broke the light." That sums up this whole video. :D Keep doin you Dawid, love the content.

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@kayrokk]

Oh, that Dawid and his knife battles! Such savagery!!!

[@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.

[@thatseasygames4116]

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

[@ClayWheeler]

I also have similar situation. I had $400 budget to buy Secondhand PC. So I lucky I got H97M Pro with Core i7 4790K 4.4Ghz no OC. Included with 2x8GB 1600 Mhz RAM. All for just $125. For Real!! $15 DeepCool Gammax 200T as reviewed in this channel. $235 Brand New GTX 1660 Ti. $20 480GB SSD SATA PC Case, PSU, HDD, Keyboard Monitor etc from my old PC. So I consider it $0 Grand total: $395

[@soupwizard]

3:08 uhhhh 4 sticks of ram, 17GB... confused math lady .jpg ALSO 4:49 I snort-laughed so hard when Dawid pulled out the empty drive tray and the ssd was just laying there!

[@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.

[@egnatius79]

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

[@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

[@OsakaSan]

Great rig for the price, but now i'm very curious about how that thing came to be. Like, that's one hell of a Frankenstein. Scythe fans on a Noctua cooler? Zip tied fan and custom heatsinks on the GPU? RAM that seems to be taken from three different defunct systems? Feels like a lot of hand-me-down components cobbled together over a solid base, being the mobo and the GPU the only first hand purchased stuff. Did the seller ever told you about any of it? It feels like a worthwhile story.

[@chaosakazero]

Looking at the screw setup .. sounds like my friend Sean did it and no it's not him as he would have a custom install of windows that cuts out all the extra files in the installation

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@arthurmann578]

Lol on the Star Wars scene at the end, Dawid! That system seems pretty cool and I could definitely be quite happy with it at its price range too.....if I actually HAD money at this time.....or ANY time for that matter! 😕😁👍👍

[@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!

[@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.

[@bombarder16]

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

[@mattblatchley2061]

cobbled together YET functional! love it!

[@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.

[@dotxyn]

Dawid: The next thing that stands out to me is the cable management GPU: is my FAN a joke to you???

[@VoldoronGaming]

I have a deep cool neptwin v3 keeping my 4690k cool with 2 140mm bequiet pure wings in the front and 3 140mm pure wings in the top of a Phanteks Ethoo pro case. 32 GB 1600 mhz ram and a chunky Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme GPU....gpu is probably a bit overkill for the CPU...and for audio an audigy ZS pci-e sound card..and a 4 port usb 3.0 up card. EVGa 750 watt power supply. Looks great.