I couldn't understand why this PC was so cheap... until I looked inside.

Sometimes placing a last minute bid on an eBay item doesn't work out entirely how you want it to, and this HP prebuilt is one of those times. I found this PC for £21 / $27 and all seemed well until I took a look inside the case...
Thanks for watching :)

[@ChrisD__]

I didn't realize you moved your hands when you talk. XD

[@b.henriques9871]

ahhaah sam

[@naws69]

you could see them through his youtube plaque

[@MSTheDev]

Maybe he keeps it hidden to avoid this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKikmqKEZ9KnqaM

[@JT-ko2ib]

Yes, lol.

[@CaveyMoth]

It's starting to feel like Digital Foundry.

[@CaveyMoth]

You keep apologizing and saying that you made a terrible mistake. Come on, bro. It was just £21. We've all made much bigger mistakes.

[@WTFBOOMDOOM]

Like my parents 9 months before my birth?

[@MemesAndvids]

@@WTFBOOMDOOM like me when I decided to put kids in my attic 😀

[@ozmobozo]

Like the art school teacher in Germany

[@richardrussell7082]

I can beat all of you .... I bought the Fallout 76 Power Armour Edition. >_

[@harrison00xXx]

haha true my biggest mistake was a 700$ GPU nearly 2 decades ago, yes in 2004 there were already close to 1000$ customer/gaming grade graphics cards. Dont think this is a weird flex, I learned my lesson, never bought overpriced crap anymore. Thats why i am not allowed to buy a new PC anymore, CPUs overpriced(yes, also the so loved Ryzens....!), GPUs and RAM heavily overpriced. Whats finally getting "cheap" are SSDs, especially in 2,5" SATA versions. HDDs i also should boycott, they are so expensive, even if you are only looking for a 2-4TB 3,5"....

[@Jokkepappaification]

You look a bit red mate

[@user-sf5iq2fl1l]

Isnt he australian? They re red over there.

[@williewalrus]

F. Teixeira British, it’s been hot recently

[@Thatisnoneofmybusiness]

@@user-sf5iq2fl1l lol, he's from the UK, how could you mistake that accent for an aussie?

[@spicynugget5050]

@@user-sf5iq2fl1l Australian 😂bruhhhh

[@grindererrofficial3755]

@@spicynugget5050 fackmedeath how i also had him as australian O.o whats wrong with this world--

[@theforthdoctor7872]

Your reflection during the hitman section almost gave me a heart attack.

[@neilwalker4575]

Me too. I thought some strange man was creeping up on me!

[@endame90]

​@@neilwalker4575 I didn't notice the reflection until I read your comment, now I can't get away my eyes from it

[@kagato82]

Same here. Thought I was about to get killed.

[@mohameduwaiskhan3367]

Bruh I'm supposed to be in online classes and I thought my dad walked into my room😂

[@DoctorX17]

Same!

[@szab04]

It's all good, you still have the 8 gigs of ram and a 1tb hard drive. Still a good buy if you look at this components.

[@Doman2000]

yes, lot's of uses for this pc still, even you got the power adapter with it, so all is good.

[@rhyzon]

I'd swap the HDD for a 120 gig SSD and voila! Cheapo office PC.

[@odioalospoopers]

indeed. around here the average 1tb hdd is worth around thrice what you paid for that machine

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

Better as a Linux PC

[@batsonelectronics]

the drive is 7 years old though and likely near end of life. Here in the USA a new WD Blue 1 TB drive is $45 from Newegg with free shipping and 2 yr warranty.

[@vehiclefreak409]

I'll never understand why they do this. Just put it in a smaller enclosure rather than blocking off holes on the case.

[@LarsMarvinTv2]

its cheaper than creating a whole new design. Just have one case design and put in dozens of configurations means that they only have to store one model and can build any system inside them. Saves a lot of money in storage and design.

[@tweakz_tech]

They don't understand what case design means.

[@danieledwards3376]

It's a USFF PC in a normal size case, for the worst of both worlds.

[@nathansomething4634]

You get significant price breaks when buying tons and tons of one design versus 1/3 of three designs, etc. This is called a price break; the more you order of one thing, the cheaper they give each one for. This is because they only have to configure their factory once to make the thing and can just let it run until the order is done, rather than shutting down, reconfiguring, and starting it back up. All of that stuff in between takes time, and factory time is money. The manufacturer will also have an MOQ, or Minimum Order Quantity. For big custom items like this case, they may have to order 10,000+ just to get the manufacturer to make any at all. To get around this, they'd just have the needed blanking/adapter plates made somewhere else (extremely cheap) and assemble.

[@juanpabloflores8179]

Economy of scale.

[@CasualGamers]

Some OEM motherboards also have non-atx PSU connectors. That's a pain.

[@sgcs]

Boi this one is worse

[@mg86_]

at least you can get an adapter for those

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Add salt to wound with BTX motherboard

[@ImThico]

Não esperava um comentário seu aqui

[@mcslender2965]

@@sgcs Not really since adapters are readily available

[@telgou]

Seller: 60fps guaranteed Hitman

[@phantomgunz1167]

Yeap, pLAyS MoDeRn WaRfAre on HiGh 144fps+++!!!

[@Deuteriumaddict]

@@phantomgunz1167 on 4k 3 monitors no sweat

[@wernerhaah5744]

* Hitman 2 Silent Assassin from 2002.

[@wishusknight3009]

When someone asks me how fast my car accelerates, I say "It does Zero to sixty"... And it takes a few seconds for people to get the joke.

[@Deuteriumaddict]

@@wishusknight3009 i still don't get it lol

[@DoomGuy9001-m4k]

If you have ever heard of a guy called Carey Holtzman, he did an in depth review on this and said some honest thoughts of what he thought of HP and their pre-built machines.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah love his videos, one of the people who inspired me to start :)

[@TheCircuitWizard]

@@RandomGaminginHD Could have been worse, Carey bought it brand new at the time for around $250 IIRC haha

[@trafficracer124]

I'm trying to find that video ur talking about, anyone got a link?

[@subbookkeeper]

Yeah even though his machine was much worse. It was some embedded cpu that had fraction of the old Pentium 2020 performance. I guess it might've been some Atom CPU.

[@detmer87]

Carey Holtzman is such a fool. Talks way too much jibberish. The most funny videos are the ones where he f*cked up and the next video he goes full defense (and how the world isn't round and so on...)

[@theshield2004]

Someone got some sun this weekend!!!

[@darknight474]

sunburn

[@toumpanis]

Could it be high blood pressure because of his purchase?

[@mgf909]

I need to get some sun lmao

[@thealien_ali3382]

Someone penatrated him

[@Lagged2Death]

I thought I knew my way around PC hardware, but I've never seen or heard of a machine that was built this way. So you've taught me something today! Thank you!

[@ianweber9248]

Lagged2Death It’s called thin Mini ITX and, while I’m not sure if it was ever an “official” standard, enough companies made enough hardware (Asus has listings for thin mini itx mobos as recent as the H310 chipset) around it for it to be standard enough. I can’t say I’ve seen/heard of any with standard DIMM slots though, most of the ones I’m familiar with use SODIMMs since they mount flat against the board lowering the height (think PCs built into cases similar in size to standalone DVD players) of the overall system even further.

[@batsonelectronics]

I started seeing them around 2009 here in the USA, many all in one machines use an external power supply as well.

[@VietNguyen-vj2np]

Fraps and Afterburner doesn't work because of the new csgo update that block third party program. You can still use net_graph console command to display FPS though.

[@gigibecali699]

The security feature can be turned off,so your comment is 0

[@Reecej23]

You saved a life today thank you.

[@thelordkiller_ytxxshadowmi8813]

Damn dude , why?

[@aoelp]

@@gigibecali699 Or you can just run the "opensorce" version or more realistically an older cracked one.

[@ugniusltu2968]

to disable the security feature type -untrusted in the lauch options in steam

[@DanielCardei]

To be fair those PCs today people pay you to take it. They are absolutely limited but because of KZbinrs like you we can see that we can restore them and make them run basic or older games or even some older production software. BTW awesome video :D

[@harrison00xXx]

True, i got in end 2016 also a PC for free (from a friend, he said otherwise he throw Mainboard/CPU/Ram away xD) It was even a i5 4430/H87 Board and i think 8Gb slow Ram. This PC is with my older graphics card, a Radeon HD 6950 2GB still my 2nd, but actually more of a 3rd gaming rig/Multibox PC and didnt use it since over a year. As much i loved how "fast" the 4430 was compared to my older Phenom II X6, i still shot a cheap i7 4790k in an auction, found out the H87 Board dont like the 4790k (despite the fact it was in supported CPU list and Bios updated) and ended up with Z97 mainboard too and because of "pushing" the system to the limits also the best DDR3 ram aviable, so my 4790k easily beats a 7700k for cheap. If he wanted to throw away a Dualcore 2C/2T Pentium, i probably would let him throw away this useless piece of crap xD

[@guser436]

@@harrison00xXx wtf who throws away a 4th gen i5. I would kill for that processor rn

[@harrison00xXx]

@@guser436 people with too much money thinking this pc is trash xD

[@Peace_Maker]

you can do net_graph 1 in the CS:GO console to get the in game fps counter

[@Benjamin-ko1fg]

Or cl_showfps 1 for only framerate

[@Chickenjump]

Or you can enable it on Steam.

[@derickvo317]

Or just do all of it on top of MSI afterburner

[@Peace_Maker]

@@derickvo317 he said MSI afterburner wasn't working

[@huyduongquang1438]

@@derickvo317 csgo just launched its"trusted mode" so it denies any 3rd monitoring program, I recently got vac for using msi afterburner so well... net_graph 1 is the only way

[@akashjaiswar9437]

I really love this channel as it's the one which connects with me and he understands what some people can afford or not.

[@GUARDIANA01]

Mate , as an old PC builder from way back I gotta say this is one of the best vids yet 😉. It's nice to see/hear that honesty level bro and on this end it gives us a smile to see you roll with it . .......That 4-5 fps lol !! Classic 😂......

[@sushimshah2896]

"Let's try & get some sort of joy out of this terrible situation" 2020-……

[@LSK2K]

The year actually started off good with the death of that Iranian guy but went to hell with the release of the virus.

[@czrptr6849]

@@LSK2K how can a death by a drone be good?

[@LSK2K]

@@czrptr6849 it killed him, that's how.

[@anthonyhandley446]

Can we stop saying the year sucks

[@georgep8429]

0:19 "Guy who looked into Chernobyl reactor in that one scene", colorized -1986

[@Yantonio7]

the fact that you express yoself moving your hands its really nice, looks great to be honest, and its considered like a good thing when you talk in front of big audiences

[@blitzyboi2349]

This is more entertaining than most of your other videos in my opinion cause pretty much no one popular has talked about this cpu recent times

[@daviidddx]

'Hello and welcome everyone, to another video. Now, the other day, I went outside....' I thought you were going to comment on the sunburn, keep up the content bro I love it!

[@drumsmoker731]

Classic case of auction-bargain-fever. Never let your guard down 😁

[@kennyj4366]

Wow can't wait to see what you make out of that thing. Good luck! 👍🙂👍

[@andreasbartel3449]

I bought one like this, a Compaq, for my wife as an office PC. It worked fine, upgraded the RAM and later swapped the CPU to the I5-3470T, which is the maximum you can go. I replaced it with an Optiplex 7010; but I think if you put in a SSD, the I5-3470T and maximum RAM, which I think was 8GB you still get a decent office PC with low power consumption. And of course it runs on Windows 10.

[@TheSilviu8x]

This is not an All in one, this is "None in one"

[@reik019]

It's so true that it almost hurts. Kind of the PC kit my father bought... The board has *ONLY* a white PCI slot, but the IGD is actually quite capable (a third part of an Radeon 7 rv3, more or less) Well, at least it has an actual PSU, so, bonus!

[@naws69]

i like that he uses hand gestures. but we could only see them through the play button.

[@lepterfirefall]

Once you see it....you cant take your eyes off it!

[@ArakiSatoshi]

Don't worry, we appreciate that you still made a nice video out of this situation :D

[@DarkSoul-pb6dv]

amazing videos as always keep up the good work m8!

[@Fireflyepic]

Also, never buy Dell Optiplex machines. Got a Dell Optiplex 360 back in the day. While it was a big case -- looked like full ATX -- it was designed in such a way that you could only put a single slot graphics card less than maybe 6 inches long in it. There was capacitors sticking out just behind the PCIe slot preventing longer cards, and it was outright lacking a PCI bracket knockout that would allow you to do double slot... be careful when buying these prebuilts. Make sure you Google pictures of their insides.

[@Mico605]

Type cl_showfps 1 in CSGOs console (activated on ~ if its enabled in settings), it will give you an FPS counter in game.

[@interstellartravel]

You can enable fps display in Steam settings as well.

[@1973Hog]

Thanks for the honesty. I too have purchased something too hastily and felt embarrassed. However; I have also purchased products that were incorrectly titled and got a deal. The most recent example was someone listing their RAM as 3000MHz when the pictures clearly showed it as 3600.

[@BM1620]

Appreciate your honesty, definitely an impulse buy, but hey things happen! You're knowledgeable enough to salvage the situation, like ya said it still wasn't a bad purchase for the HDD and RAM alone.

[@KissesLoveKawaii]

dear diary. Today I watched a talking tomato talk about cheapo PC.

[@r3mus47]

Says the guy with an anime profile picture, you can't judge shit.

[@brady1863]

r3m us His face is red because it’s hot that’s why they said tomato, they’re not insulting his face.

[@unkvan-theunknown2403]

Should have put some "jk" or something similar to reddit /s so some people doesn't get offended for other people or at least understand a joke.

[@lauragarza1554]

#Redlivesmatters

[@zirconia3]

You missed it: "Today I watched a talking tomato talk about a potato."

[@NoFeelings..]

Do you remember that scene from The Matrix when Neo’s mouth disappear? That’s how I felt when you showed back of that case 😂

[@juanpabloflores8179]

NoFeelings hahaha, trying to scream in horror, but you can't.

[@NoFeelings..]

Juan Pablo Flores That’s was exactly my reaction xd

[@Dumb-Comment]

Omg the reflection just broke my "this dude doesn't move his hands while talking" image of you

[@srbnst]

I gave a like. You're not an idiot. Room for improvement not room for error. Cheer up. You have a great KZbin channel, one of my favorites.

[@1337kavin]

7:35 scared the shit outa me idk why

[@jagdtigger]

If it has a wifi module you got your pci slot, just needs an adapter.....

[@akimbofurry2179]

realy?

[@TheTurnipKing]

Still not ideal. Noplace to mount the card since the mobo is at the bottom of the case and it may well be very pci lane limited. In addition mini pcie slots have a few different variations and I don't think all are suited to PCIe bus adaptors.

[@indask8]

I don't see one... I checked IPXSB-DM on google for a closeup, no mini PCI-E on sight edit : datasheet from hp, no mini PCI-E : support.hp.com/hr-en/document/c03036757

[@akimbofurry2179]

@@indask8 As a tech nerd, this coment section, and dedication fills my heart with glee.

[@jagdtigger]

@@TheTurnipKing Not ideal, but at least it would be better than the IGP..... ;D Plus adaptors arent that expensive so it worth a shot.

[@CuteSkyler]

Glad to see you've been going outside recently! 🍅

[@notifykoplz4876]

Whoever made that slide show you did so good

[@kyles8524]

I would pay 20 dollars for this, it would make a good machine for emulation

[@LBSiUK]

There's one on eBay right now for £20.

[@klausnielsen1537]

Oh man.. You have my utmost respekt for uploading this. I'd be hard pressed to tell my dog. When she was asleep... In another room 😄

[@SoraQ8]

I love your channel so much!!! keep up the good work! love from kuwait

[@DesumetaruLiadz666]

Richard from Digital Foundry has new jazz hands challenger lol nice videos mate.

[@detmer87]

Salvage the usable parts and *crush* the PC. Great content guaranteed. Totally worth!

[@leonefurlan137]

i subbed just bcs of your honesty!!!

[@user-su5xn1kh1l]

Great videos. Hope that sunburn gets better.

[@bryndaldwyre3099]

One of these came into the shop I used to work in last year and had never come across nor known they'd even existed before hand and I've been a techie for over 25 years. A customer had brought it in and asked what their options were for upgrading it. When I told them it's unable to be upgraded they ended up buying a new system from us instead. They left the machine with us as they had no need for it so I turned it into a retro emulation machine. It ran fairly well for most old retro consoles.

[@mayeit77]

very down to earth. there is always a room for error. like it.

[@opemilekanadesunloye351]

Idk why I'm laughing so hard but you got finessed.😂😂 It's so funny and idk why.

[@zhi2219]

Well, the honesty will keep me coming back lol. Still the insight was interesting.

[@DiJAndy]

I completely understand you mate :) I made few mistakes like this. Sometimes it went better than I thought because some parts become more value like a month later. This makes little profit selling for spare parts not as complete pc

[@robynofrye4311]

At the point where yyou realized its a laptop I laughed. I am very sorry but you made my day :D. The ideas people have, really...

[@BboyADHD]

YEP! This happened to my brother. He bought a prebuilt at bestbuy or somewhere for $500. AND IT WAS A LAPTOP in a case. I told him countless times that I would have built him a far better one etc. He has now since learned his lesson and asks me for help now lol.

[@jayk806]

Been there man. Ooof. Good reminder. Thanks for the vid.

[@potatomaaan1757]

You face on the thumbnail is just perfect

[@xyz2theb]

that hitman bench was a nice power point presentation. lol

[@joesanchez979]

Great video thanks for heads up

[@kekistanifreedomfighter4197]

I got an F-Greenwood ITX board with an AMD Kabani dual core APU that's pretty much exactly like that board. It was really only good for a linux box for tweaking & a dedicated KODI machine. Nice score for 8 gigs of ram & a full tower case.

[@ConfusedStu]

You still like you're having fun even after making a mistake, getting burned (in at least two senses of the word) and benchmarking a machine that forces you to drop to 800x600. Yet you still speak respectively of the machine and treat it with dignity. That's why I come back to your channel, bravo good sir.

[@Ungabunga2015]

Hey! I had one of these as a kid! I got rid of it as soon as I really got into gaming on pc thankfully... I had the same ideas as you though until I opened it up and was significantly disappointed upon realizing there was no slot for a graphics card and figured upgrading it just wasn't worth it. I was able to play Halo CE (original) and Halo 2 on pc and some games like Zoo Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon and other games that just played off a CD ROM. Good times...

[@loveandpower]

don't forget the optical drive either. That's an easy $10 right there. The case is a good save as well. Perhaps saw out the case for the upper drives if needed (if you can't get it with screws) Would be great for a mini atx style case low budget in the future.

[@x_croner]

MAN! it look's like the sun catch you pretty good!

[@uss-dh7909]

Picked one of these up at a pawnshop for around $120 five years ago. Came with a baller 27' 1080 monitor but damn, that thing is just a box full of barely hot air. I'm almost tempted to make a cardboard case with it.

[@RWL2012]

I knew what it was going to be just by reading the description, but I had previously watched a video from a "small" channel about this thing.

[@CopperPopperComputers]

I laughed so hard when i saw the motherboard.. and your reaction to it.. damn man I never seen a motherboard without a Graphics slot LOL

[@darkanimecommandersoto9992]

You turned a negative into a positive with this entertaining video. You have real talent and charisma.

[@GreyWolfTowers]

I have made the same mistake of buying a similar system (though the one I bought was a Lenovo system. Good video though. You may look into external GPUs for future videos on systems like this and laptops.

[@Odesionavmilhun]

You definitely not an idiot everyone make mistakes and thanks for sharing. I ones bought a hard drive from eBay for very cheap and when I got it I realize why it was cheap because it broken. And even the description mantion that the hard drive broken but I was in a hurry I didn’t read the description.

[@alaskanhybridgaming]

I like the fact that you are unafraid to admit that you make mistakes. Funny little video mate.

[@raven80wolfx2]

Honestly I wouldn't call you an idiot. This is awesome learning experience. You got a great deal regardless like you said. I think being honest and showing viewers both sides of used parts is important. I have seen strange things like a cpu that made pice slots no function. It would only work with one of pice slots for graphics card. You can bring back graphics cards by flash their bios. Used parts are always more interesting and require people like you who have experience with them old or new.

[@eddiesoto-ramirez3493]

I saw the case and immediately knew. Have an AMD based system that's part of the same line of PCs just sitting in my closet after being retired 3 years ago. Good thing is if you remove the panel for the PSU you can make a micro-atx apu build in that case, which would probably work good as an htpc.

[@ddevin]

Oh God, I did a similar thing in the past. I bought a cheap, standard looking desktop with intentions of upgrading it for server-like tasks. Turns out, it was basically a laptop slapped into a desktop case. A single 4 gig SODIMM DDR3L stick, and a SOLDERED Intel Celeron. At least I made use of the ram though, by upgrading my laptop from 4 gigs to 6 gigs.

[@rended]

For future benchmarks with CS:GO: The new anti-cheat Valve has in place makes it (in my experience) difficult to monitor system components using programs that use an external overlay. That being said, you can still enable a frame counter from the Steam settings while using the steam client in order of Steam>Settings>In-Game located in the top left of the client window.

[@UncommonKnowledge587]

This is an interesting machine in looks. Not bad for £21.

[@jonesymate581]

I made one of these into a "gaming pc" once. Lots of dremeling and a bit of drilling. Obviously I swapped out the motherboard for something that actually had an expansion slot, mounted a full size psu, dremeled some vents into the front panel and added an intake fan. Specs were: Phenom x6 1100t 8gb ddr3 1333 Gtx 560ti 2gb 120gb ssd 500gb hdd Performance and temperatures were woeful but it all worked and I had heaps of fun doing it.

[@helloimash]

I'd like to try to explain why a computer company does this. In the world of office PCs, your margins and profit are absolutely key. It makes *a lot* more sense if you can produce one PC case that you can use all up and down various price categories, because your margins are much higher on one very flexible PC case vs. the whole design process of several unique cases. In this case, the hardware is likely the cheapest possible configuration available - suitable (for example) sitting under a receptionist or secretary's desk, whose IT needs are extremely basic and so the company wants to buy something as cheap as possible. For this use case, the company selling this makes the best profit because all that's really unique to this PC is the internal guts. Everything else is reused from what they already have and so their profit on each of these sold is good. Hope this is helpful, genuinely.

[@krisgwelch]

what was the model of this desktop, i was looking for something like this for a propject. or rather do these type of desktops that take a laptop PSU have a specific name ?

[@madmatt2024]

I found a PC like this in the E-waste last year. It had an AMD A4 CPU soldered to the motherboard but, oddly enough, it still had an X16 slot despite not having a PSU.

[@jaimenbrunson1652]

I had the same exact one and I was pissed when I looked at the inside realizing there was no PCIe slot

[@kjcolewelle]

Happened to me recently - the MB arrived with some busted ports but in the end, what I paid for the CPU and cooler made it still reasonable, and I can now repurpose one test bench board by replacing it with this damaged one. Better indeed to find the joy still to be had if you make an amateur mistake than curse what you didn't get. PS Go easy on yourself :)

[@testremote240]

I narrowly avoided buying something very much like this at a PC World store, only with actual laptop SODIMMs and a CPU soldered to the board. It was masquerading as a desktop and it might have fooled me had I not asked a (very helpful) sales assistant to open the side panel for me so I could check for expandability. He was as surprised as I was when we saw what was inside. There are a lot of these kinds of systems out there, so always do your research even when buying something that's "just for netflix". Also, you might be surprised at what you can get away with if you just ask nicely.

[@B-A-L]

What do you think about the abundance of Dell Optiplex pcs on Ebay? I'm after a cheap pc to run a stack of old Windows XP games such as TES Oblivion, GTA San Andreas and Rome Total War but there's so many Dell pcs it's hard to work out what's what! I've managed to narrow it down to this for £150 Dell Optiplex 780 SFF - Core 2 Quad - 4GB RAM - 1TB HDD - 2GB GT730 - Windows XP Is it any good for the price? Would I need to add a soundcard to play games and, if so, could I just use an external usb sound card?

[@Ghandara-hg1gc]

Does it run Stadia ok out of the box? I have seen a Samsung fridge and also a car dashboard running Red Dead Redemption 2 smoothly through Stadia.

[@offlinegamer6756]

your RED face is it from the shame or anger mate ?...LoL , as always , good honest video!

[@user-pb7it5iw4o]

cs go got an update recently that blocks all the third party programs to avoid cheaters so you cant use msi afterberner anymore also nice video i really enjoy it

[@FrancoCarrara237]

i do have a question: when you swap out the hard drive and replace it with your ssd,does it runs like nothing happened? dont you do anything else? can a do the same without sysprep?

[@yankumarrah]

When I saw the missing rear I/O slots I couldn't hold back the laughter 😂 oh 'ech-pee' how could they!

[@WirrWicht]

Worse than this are very similar systems with expansion slot covers but no slots on the board.

[@sandipanplayz7282]

The silver play button participated in this video.

[@pratikpramanik7782]

Just the AC adapter alone is worth $30. So actually a good buy to get an HDD plus RAM plus CPU. You can also get cases for these mobos that allow you to mount them to VESA mount monitors.

[@maxhand1562]

I've owned a few of these but usually with AMD E-300 or E-2100 processors or such, so this one is a step up!

[@katierscott8771]

Interestingly I have been looking at 1155 ITX mobos and come across this motherboard a few times (typically around the £15 mark).. Dell seem to do a ITX with standard ATX connectors for about £15 in combination with a suitable PSU and graphics card might have been a solution?

[@AJComputerServicesUK]

I picked up a HP S5000 which cost me a little bit more than what you paid for that although not a lot more, It's a Slimline and about half the thickness so as you can imagine it's nowhere near as bulky, Main differences between the one you bought off eBay and My S5000 are that this one has a PCI-E Slot for a Low-Profile Graphics Card and an internal PSU, Another thing I like about the S5000 is that their's a Portable HDD Docking Bay at the front of the machine which can come in handy! 🙂 Biggest issue to me is when PC Manufacturers install bespoke PSU's into their Computers as they cost an Arm and a Leg if you need to replace them unless they use Standard Connectors and Mounting holes etc...

[@DylanChng]

My dad has a few of these. When I opened it up, was surprised by everything.

[@mesterak]

If there’s a mini PCIeX1 slot on the board you might be able to use a mini PCIeX1 to PCIeX16 adapter to use a regular GPU with it. I’ve done this successfully on many ITX boards. Please note I’m not talking about the eGPU adapters for laptops that are rather expensive . The cheap $5-10 adapters work a treat, and you can connect power up to a molex or SATA power plug, too. I’ve found some boards will work with AMD GPUs but not NVidia GPUS or vice versa. Some boards won’t work at all, so you just have to give it a go to see what works.

[@ianweber9248]

mesterak Once support for it grows beyond AMD CPUs and GPUs, PCIe 4.0 will create some interesting possibilities here. At 4.0 speeds, the 4 lanes a typical M.2 slot provides has the same amount of bandwidth as 8 lanes of 3.0 or 16 lanes of 2.0, which is more than enough for midrange GPUs. M.2 is also a properly defined standard as well, so you shouldn’t have the same issues you got with MXM.

[@PenguinYayOne]

6:35 There is a built-in FPS counter in the steam overlay. You can enable it from the overlay settings. It works almost all the time. Also, in source games: open the in-game terminal and you can use "net_graph 3" for example.

[@Scitch87]

What motherboard is in the System? If it's genuinely a Laptop motherboard (it looks like it has normal sized ram though?) it should have a slot for a WiFi card and you could rig up a "external" GPU through the connector of the WiFi card and put it inside the case as well? Looks like there is more than enough space in it for that.

[@jarc002]

Damn, that sunburn

[@distortedalpaca7565]

Question: Does micro-atx motherboards from other brands fit into this case?

[@ben.harnwell]

Mistakes are lessons nothing more and one Any one could make. Good lesson in being aware we are all - from time to time - able to get those lessons!