I Bought an £80 ($95) HP ENVY Gaming PC - But What's Inside?

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Sorry about the out of sync audio at the start it looked fine when rendering, and then after upload. Guess it’s one if those days 😂

[@oliknow]

it is just the difference in speed of light and sound.

[@C6Steve]

Thought I’d started watching a dubbed kung foo video 😂

[@GameFrostYT]

I can relate to editing issues appearing after upload XD

[@deagt3388]

That happened when you got sluggish PC.. ;-)

[@TechnoLadz]

Could you not make this video unlisted that way those currently watching it can watch it, and then re upload it with the correct audio?

[@C6Steve]

Dodgy audio sync 😂

[@yesterdaysjam2405]

I blame the worm affecting production quality

[@vladislavdonchev1271]

@@yesterdaysjam2405 Man's been wormfected

[@chiefpanda7040]

Okay good thought it was on my end

[@shamrockisland]

Glad it want an issue my end. Audio slightly ahead. Love you video

[@GameFrostYT]

That's some insane value, I managed to get an i5 4590 8gb ddr3 hp build for around $45. If i managed to get a low profile GTX 1650 for cheap it would've been the best sff gaming pc! Instead I opted for a cheaper wx4100.

[@Hashtag.Sports]

How did that wx4100 work out??

[@GameFrostYT]

@@Hashtag.Sports It was pretty good, it was slightly slower than the RX 460/560 due to memory clockspeed but with a little overclock you can surpass them, with 4gb of vram and of course the architecture I can run any game.

[@Hashtag.Sports]

@@GameFrostYT Awesome. It's amazing how hard it is to find content or info around a GPU that isn't an RTX that will game fine but will primarily video edit. We do a lot of editing on my channel and I really don't want those RTX hogs in my system. Trying to find a workstation card that will allow me to game with the kids (all of them have systems in the house so we campaign together) but be a editing beast. I don't have a SFF for this system but good to know.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

nice :)

[@xzavierspeed1425]

Bro I got the same thing but with 16gb ram and added a rtx a2000 the pc it self was 160 though

[@emanuelacosta2541]

Man I love your videos, the homemade feel is awesome! The PC in the garden

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks :)

[@shtreberka3642]

Til somebody pays a visit😏🐛

[@nity2248]

@@shtreberka3642 🎷🐛

[@irishgiant5150]

There were DDR3 boards for Skylake available to consumers as well. It was like what Intel is doing now with both DDR4 budget boards and main line boards being DDR5, just a little less variety back then.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Ah I see. I wonder how much performance you loose these days

[@irishgiant5150]

@@RandomGaminginHD there's an old LTT video that showed back then it didn't matter at all, but that was early days DDR4 and obviously it got a lot faster over time. I guess it would come down to how fast a kit you could get running on an unlocked 100 or 200 series motherboard. Not quite fair as the ddr3 boards were budget, but interesting for science.

[@dyslectische]

I never forget the pentium 4 with sdr memory. The Botlek in that time.

[@Chris-yc3mm]

Would not surprised me if a lot of the big system builders had an oversupply of ddr3 to get rid of too

[@bdub1682]

yeah, infact most of the 14nm chips had a ddr3 imc, though after the switch to lga 1200 noone bothered to make ddr3 boards

[@jo54763]

FSR (Ultra) Performance never fails to put me in awe. When I was a kid I would have loved to have something like FSR to make unplayable games at least open to experience. 12yo me would have gobbled up a way to make my GPU run new games at 40fps...

[@raven4k998]

he's dealing with worms run for it

[@type45tomcat21]

One of my friend bought one in 2016 with DDR4 16GB and GTX 980ti inside. It's expensive but they are still rocking these days after 7 years. And the standard formfactors and connectors really helps a lot. A few weeks ago the PSU dead, I can just order a new standard ATX PSU and replaced it for him. Now it's back online and working again.

[@ArkonBlade]

I had that one It was the HP Elite Phoenix They were like $2200or something when they came out I got mine $500 through work on a raffle they do once a year and the guy who won it didn't care about it and took the best offer for it and i offered him $500 and he took it I had it 6 years before I built a new one and never had any issues with it

[@mrpositronia]

I've had the HP Envy Phoenix 860-078na with i7 6700 / GTX 980ti / 16GB RAM since Christmas 2015. Everything was fine until I bought Cyberpunk 2077 and then I realised I needed to upgrade. So I pulled out all the innards and fitted an MSI B550 Mortar with R5 5600X / RTX 3070 / 32GB RAM. The case is fine for it all. All the innards are now sitting in an old 2006 Compaq tower. Lovely stuff.

[@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm3102]

nice upgrade man, 5600 is a beast

[@Akyomi777]

sleeper PCs are always nice to see

[@chedrwastaken]

i hoped to put my pc guts inside my acer predator case but acer made the mounting holes propietary so my pc is in an old news companies pc case

[@type45tomcat21]

One of my friends have the same PC as yours, still working now and having fun. He paid a lot at that time as he didn't know much about PC and trying to be future proofing. I think those parts did aged well and still good for gaming. The only issue he had so far is the PSU die after 7 years of services. Thanks to the standard connectors I ordered a new standard ATX PSU and replaced that for him. I am really surprise to see HP using standard connectors and formfactors, now the PC can continue bring fun to its owner.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

lovely upgrade!

[@CarthagoMike]

As much as we can give HP flack for using cheaped-out or non-standard parts, it is still nice they keep user expansion in mind by giving multiple vacant sata and molex cables already connected to the psu.

[@FynnR]

Nice steal you got there! I picked up the Dell Optiplex 3050 Tower with an i5 6500 and 8GB single channel RAM for 110€. At least it had NVME boot drive. Paired with a GTX 1650 without external PCIe power it is actually very useful for LAN parties! It's lightweight, compact and silent / low power. Lacking IO is luckily no issue with modern USB docking stations.

[@SoulZGaming]

i love low end budget builds like these,, nice work mate,,,

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks :)

[@RudolfSikorsky]

It's a bit hard to believe that i7 6700 bottlenecks RTX 3050 which is only a bit faster than GTX 1070. In my secondary i7-4790/GTX 1070 system only bottleneck is GPU, as rarely as it happens.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Poorly optimized Nvidia drivers for new GPUs.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

Much more likely HP cheaped out with PCI 2.0, which is going to cripple an 8 lane card.

[@karensee2893]

Wait, isn't the 1070 better than the 3050?

[@RudolfSikorsky]

@@karensee2893 According to Techpowerup, 3050 is 2% faster. Usually in newer games.

[@daytimerocker3808]

the 4790 would definitely be the one bottlenecking.

[@spajderman9101]

I hope you got more sponzors and get nice table and lighting for rewievs. Nice bro keep going we love you

[@certs743]

Great video. My current system I got from a place that refurbs old office PCs. Got an Acer TC-885 with an i5 8400. Swapped out the PSU and put a FE GTX 1080ti in it and maxxed the RAM to 32GBs. Should be all set for awhile.

[@bjarne431]

i5 8400 is an excellent CPU!

[@michaelthompson9798]

I love the sleek case design and the fact it’s using run of the mill parts makes this an ideal pc for upgrading 👍🥰💪

[@acid3129]

I got a hp prodesk last week for £45 it had an i5 6500 16gb ram and a 4gb rx550 . Getting a 6th gen i7 system for under £100 is impressive

[@Konkretertyp]

Pretty nice, i've got an hp workstation aswell a couple of days ago, with i7 6700, 16gb ddr4 ram, 256gb ssd. Changed the power supply to a better one (og is a 180W 80+, that was way to weak, to power a usable GPU), slapped a RX 580 8GB in, and it runs like a charm, the only downside to it is, that it has only 3 sata ports, of which i can only use 2, because the graphics card covers the sata ports beneath its cooler.

[@bjarne431]

I run into similar problems occasionally with these older machines: important ports blocked by GPU.

[@jeffie8696]

Good stuff Maynard, I appreciate all your videos

[@ClayWheeler]

Pardon me Bro. At the beginning, your video's AUDIO seem like out of sync

[@mrpositronia]

Phew. I thought it was my computer.

[@Burago2k]

That audio and video sync tripped me up...

[@karroq]

filtering by buy it now and newly listed can also get you some good stuff. you can find things that have only been listed for a few seconds that you don't have to bid on.

[@vasharol]

I am still using my i5 6600 and GTX 1070, I have a 1440p display but it still manages to run most games at high/medium settings. It's only very recently that I have noticed that I am having to lower the settings or resolution to get 60fps although in some games I would rather get 30fps and nice looking graphics since I personally don't really notice a difference.

[@Darth001]

Same I upgraded from an rx 590 to a rtx 3060ti. Not because I wanted to play my games new and old at above 60fps but because my old card didn't support directx 12.1/12.2 which newer games are starting to use more often. I'm happy playing at 30 FPS all day long as long as the graphics look good with no stuttering

[@vasharol]

@@Darth001 I have just ordered myself a new computer though, I have gone with an Ryzen 5 7600X and an RX 6700XT and my current rig will be relegated to the living room as a couch coop machine.

[@Xenotypic]

6700xt is a pretty good card, I've found

[@vasharol]

@@Xenotypic yeah it's so much better than my 1070. I am able to run returnal at high settings with ray tracing at over 100fps.

[@Xenotypic]

@@vasharolyeah i can play death stranding on basically max graphics with it at a pretty good framerate. i was pretty impressed by the card and would recommend it, particularly if you use linux. I just have the cheapo power color one

[@mike.1390]

id be interested to see if there be much of a performance hit @1440p with the 6700 and 3050. Seeing as though the gpu is limited by the cpu @ 1080, perhaps both will work equally as hard at a higher res.

[@Gamingomad]

I love your videos with home made greenery garden background of product which is fantastic cover picture on your videos !🤩🤩😍

[@pure462]

Nice video! I currently rocking a gigabyte g5 rtx 3060 with i5 10500h 16gb ram its a good decent machine!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Very nice

[@mattparker9726]

0:49 I found an old Xeon based HP z480 mid tower with 24 gigs of DDR3 and a 1 tb hdd for literally the same price as yours, you just gotta look and not click buy now on the first machine that takes your fancy.

[@mpkny]

I have a Gigabyte Skylake DDR3 board (GA-B150M-D3H DDR3) which I ran with a Pentium G4560 (I remember I had to flash the bios using an i3-6100 that eventually went into another build I was doing for someone else) and the R9 280X which I had just taken out of my main build (I had upgraded to a GTX 1060 6GB). At the time DDR4 was expensive (the DDR5 of its day 😅) so it was a neat budget combo and a nice secondary computer at my parent's house.

[@Beetlejuicer]

Looking slimmer my brotha

[@idied2]

i think the audio sync issue made the video even more viewable

[@JimbobflobbadobPlays]

Really digging the old school Jackie chan dub

[@MikeDragonborn]

I have that exact same computer with a 1650. I've had the PC since new, used to have a 1050ti in it. I didn't want to replace the PSU so I've just used GPU's that don't need extra power.

[@enochid9874]

The barber butcherd your hair . Nice review 👌

[@TheDudeWithNoName]

Kinda surprised at that Elden Ring performance, by the way, which English Premier League team do you support Steve? i was watching Tottenham vs Chelsea while having this video in the background and i thought you seem like you could be a Tottenham fan.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Random, 🤔HP RGB is a Red GPU PCB👍+ Green Motherboard PCB👍, I hope the PSU PCB is not what will eventually be Blew 😱😭 Yeah you can find some good bargains looking through the Broken listings, you just need to have a good read of what's "Broken" or ask the seller for some more info so you don't get stung. PS maybe a 1660/Super/Ti would be a good pairing?

[@aldenmarroquin5783]

Skylake did support PC3L Not just normal ddr3 ram it has to be those modules since it matched the voltage of ddr4

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah that’s what I thought

[@mustasheolll2020]

I pray for you my man, I am scared of worms too you are not alone.

[@HairyScrambler]

I love your videos but dude how do you not get better at games when you play them so often xD

[@Scornfull]

Looks like that worm made you get in shape dude lol must've scared the hell out of you

[@grujadin311]

feels like i watched the 70's kung-fu movies with that sound unsync 🤣

[@geraldgutsueii3324]

for the more budget/real world build i'd pair it with a 600w psu, a gtx 1060 6gb, a 256gb boot ssd, and a 1-2tb mechanical drive for storage, and keep the 16gb ddr3

[@ApurvaSukant]

That "For parts" ebay tip is gold mate! Cheers!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😁

[@thealien_ali3382]

Daaam u look good my brother

[@MadIIMike]

Gotta say, the original PSU seems sketchy af. 360W but 6+2 and 6 pin connectors would mean 300w (incl. the PCIe spec) for a GPU and there's no way it would manage that reliably.

[@shodan2958]

The case of the machine in particular looks like a good candidate for a sleeper PC build. Though cooling of components needs to be considered.

[@m8x425]

Several years ago I heard a lot of people saying that standard 1.5v DDR3 would fry the memory controller on Skylake chips.... and that Skylake chips were safe with the 1.35v DDR3L RAM. Was that part about standard DDR3 frying the Skylake/Kaby Lake IMC actually true or not?

[@robertsteel3563]

My HP Laptop that I am using RN has an intel i7-6500U with 2C and 2T! From what I heard online at this point (the time when Intel Cornered the Laptop CPU Market) they decided to put in the said i7, I am mad at intel for doing this to the laptop CPU's at the time and now!

[@marccarter1350]

out of sink! Its like watching a mad Italian dubbed film from the 1970's :-)

[@marccarter1350]

@El Cactuar Oh no, it's the fucking spelling police. He is currently doing the youtube rounds this week. See you next time !

[@marccarter1350]

No problem OCD saddo

[@rmgaminguk7079]

Awesome fine, for a budget build I think a 500w PSU and a gtx 1070 would be good combo Would love to hear your stories and overall experience of buying Spare or Repairs tech off ebay, both the wins and the dead systems.

[@E5rael]

For older/slower CPUs an AMD GPU is preferable, since NVidia's GPUs don't have hardware schedulers. Maybe an RX 6600 would be a better pairing, maybe even an RX 580 could do, or an RX 5500 XT.

[@Ps3RetroTv]

i paired my hp 280g2 same i7 6700 and 16gb ddr4 with 1060 6gb seems a good pairing and 500w White evga power supply

[@randy206]

I have a dell office PC that I rehoused into a cheap sama case from Newegg. The board was non standard in shape and required some Dremel modifications to the case. It is running an i5 6500 with ddr3 ram so apparently it is rather standard for 6th gen Intel to use ddr3.

[@aisle9]

GTX 1070. An i7-6700 would be gold paired with a 1070. Do you still have that MSI 1070 Mini? It'd be fun to see a SFF-ish build and see how that little dude holds up in 2023.

[@andrescantillo5755]

Que suerte, en mi país la mera gráfica ya la pondrían en 40 dólares y esa PC entera en 250 dólares, que suerte de tener esos precios

[@MiKeKiwi]

Would love to see what difference DDR4 would make with these combos!

[@hendrixc6988]

I had an hp prebuilt for a first pc could get entire motherboards $15each. Good ol haswell.

[@sellera]

I’d try to pair it with a 1060/1070 and sell it. Very adequate for 1080p medium.

[@blowtorchhonor]

RX 580 wouldn't be a bad pairing either

[@sellera]

@@blowtorchhonor exactly! It’s a competent GPU until this day!

[@RotcodFox]

Would've been a bit better if it came with a R7 370, not 360. And the CPU is about the same performance as a Ryzen 3 3200G

[@sammoore2242]

Skylake supports either DDR4 or DDR3L (a low power version of DDR3, same voltage as DDR4). There were a few industrial motherboards released with slots for either, though DDR4 took over faster than expected and DDR3L DIMMS are pretty rate.

[@Eeveewashere]

Any tips on how some novice like myself can increase my knowledge of motherboard and memory specs? I'm not greedy. I could gratefully settle for the pre-Calc level not the Differential Equations advanced math level of knowledge.

[@sammoore2242]

@@Eeveewashere uh I just read old anandtech articles when I'm bored lol

[@waniaiqbal2109]

Pleaseeeeeee radeon r7m340 laptop gaming test plzzzzzzzz

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

a GTX 1650 super or a GTX1660 Ti would work fine with this CPU however a GTX 1650 is a good budget card that won't be bottlenecked by this CPU.

[@deamondeathstone1]

I noticed that as wel as I was looking at the HP Elitedesks'. I almost bought an G2 which would make the DDR4 2400 I had laying around quite useless.

[@kurnma3776]

5500 XT would also be a nice option for that PC

[@tomislavkaltnecker6354]

Vega 56 work really well with a Skylake I7. They are evenly matched, that's my thought.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah great card been meaning to revisit it

[@GerardinhoLP]

License plate in Forza Horizon: "3000G OMG" ❤

[@yahyasajid5113]

I got a 9400f/1660ti PC with no ram and SSD for £215 also listed as for parts

[@mynameisray]

Oh, so it was a video issue, thought their was something wrong with me for a minute.

[@YourLocalMarylandCatLover]

kinda looks like my old HP ENVY with an i7-7700 which was my main PC. I just use an HP Victus 15L as my main PC.

[@TheEnhas]

GPUs age a lot more quickly than CPUs but thankfully we have DLSS/FSR to stretch them out longer. Some games in the past few years have really jumped in VRAM use though to the point an 8GB GPU is probably the bare minimum to go with, so yeah a 2GB card isn't going to cut it much nowadays.

[@main_tak_becus6689]

I don't think so. RX 470/ RX 570 released 7 years ago is still competent these days. It is just the segmentation and newer models that are not much better than the previous ones that make it looks like that. RX 6600 and RTX 3060 is the bare minimum now for next gen games.

[@Matthigast]

How does one go about selling an old PC, want to sell my old rig (i5 6600K/1050ti), but I'm just terrified I'm gonna get scammed

[@YusssoM]

Damn, that would've been a crazy deal if there's one in my country.

[@roach1898]

dang, that's crazy. wish I could settle in somewhere permanent to get off my ridiculously pricy ~550$ laptop that can barely run old game like fallout 4 and have a pc setup.

[@muktakumari2381]

Man please test the msi gf63 with arc a380 and i5 12500h it comes here at only 700$

[@tubetube7025]

not 2 shabby with the 3050

[@GodSaveTheUnitedStates]

The 6th and 7th gen intel processors are ripe for the picking these days, if you're looking for a competent budget gaming system. 3 years ago, I wouldn't have said that, but the 10th, 11th, 12th, and now 13th gen processors have made these very affordable. Thank The Lord for progress.

[@MaxC_1]

The audio is a bit off sync. Great video still

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah sorry about that 😂

[@xtxo]

i also have a 6th gen processor, specifically i5 6600k

[@Augmented_Realism]

That was a nice model back in the time, me still rocking with i5-7500 + GTX 1060 6GB + 16GB Dual channel 2400 MHz DDR4 until I upgrade it to RTX 4060 + 13th gen i5 rig..

[@xtxo]

i also have 16gb ram but a 1050 ti, i wish i really had a 1060 6g so i could crank up the settings low graphics aren't much fun​

[@taiyyiba6828]

i7-6700 is my daily processor :)

[@MrCallmevader]

Is it me or the audio isn't right?

[@chireaionut8473]

00:30 ... no worms this time eh? :))

[@ggmgoodgamingmichael7706]

The Envy of no one :D

[@jeffreygrindle6396]

I say pair it with a 5500 xt 8gb they only 108 bucks on Amazon

[@paulwalsh5438]

what model is this please

[@ritishtimalsina]

Video has audio sync issue. I thought my Bluetooth earbuds was having audio latency issue.

[@dazzlerweb]

algae rhythm

[@roguemagic25]

I see the worm trauma still persists lol

[@zaidlemhamdiwalid1550]

yo is my r7 4700g compatible with the rtx 4070ti???

[@rokafury]

It feels like i'm watching a dubbed foreign show

[@mihaillevarda9395]

My old pc had a r7 350

[@mikeg3202]

would probably pair well with a 1660 or 5500 xt 8gb

[@fairplayer916]

honestly? that rig for $100 is a hell of a deal.

[@emeraldcelestial1058]

thank you for not continuing to make content with harry potter

[@miguelmoreno-qh6wl]

this man is goated

[@tomdillan]

I think a gtx 1650 super or 1660 would pair better with the cpu.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah good suggestion

[@arch4916]

I think gtx 1060 6gb os best match for this cpu

[@somecuntxxx]

"half of the time for parts not working is just fine" Yeah I have some parts that were sold as working to vouch against that somebody needs to show this guy AIDA64

[@dragos2010full1]

i have a feeling that the ddr3 ram is bottlenecking the entire system down cause it is slow af

[@avishekmitra3698]

A 1650 Super would make for a decent GPU Upgrade.

[@anarki_in5680]

8:49 😰

[@mabubakar8505]

4gb r7m340 laptop gaming test plzzzzzz

[@dio007]

the audio is out of sync, or maybe youtube is still processing the video

[@waniaiqbal2109]

Pleaseeeeeee radeon r7m340 laptop gaming test plzzzzzzzz