The $80 PC Lenovo Doesn't Want You To Build | OzTalksHW

[@OzTalksHW]

UPDATE VIDEO!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHe8o2yBbrmjeMk Sooo it turns out I have a copyright claim at 10:44 because of the song (Cookie Kawaii - Vibe). I'm in the midst of replacing it with someone that will take that claim away lol. In case you came after the song is replaced, you can still watch the clip here: twitter.com/oztalkshw/status/1243212810387062785

[@tanjidazad1755]

sup oz love you

[@TechWithSean]

OzTalksHW - lol it’s worth the claim 😂

[@siqu7071]

That dance tho

[@artificialintelligence8966]

My man!

[@JoaoVitor-cw2vg]

Dude, you are a tech guy, dont you know first gen i5-700 and i7-800 doesnt have integrated Graphics? You NEED a Graphics card in order to boot, try again with the i7 870 and it Will boot now

[@bad_collector]

1st line: "I'm a big advocator of re-using computer components" you have my attention

[@neili4970]

Ya i respected him the min he said that.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

One reason why I despise capitalism

[@neili4970]

@@qwertykeyboard5901 Balance is key.

[@jimmyspookyhackermanrustle8963]

hehe likewise fam, likewise. This man deserves a award for up-cycling/recycling electronic components and such, I thought I was the only one (or one of the few who still did) who didn't have the money to be able to purchase a decent computer, and through recycling/upcycling/trading/etc. I built several machines, sold them, built my own IT business, learned a ton of hardware/software stuff and eventually obtained enough resources to build my liquid cooled rig :) Keep it up everyone, much love!

[@thanhdo1477]

@@jimmyspookyhackermanrustle8963 Actually, in third world countries, buying used is common and there are people who do recycle computer parts for a living

[@DarthSmirnoff]

:( Showing your mistakes actually made the video better, IMO.

[@violent_bebop9687]

Man, that's a little too much trouble for me, lol. I'll just build from scratch.

[@nathanhamman418]

@@violent_bebop9687 some people are on a very tight budget and will jump through a lot of hoops to get as much performance out of it

[@butre.]

@@nathanhamman418 buying used retail hardware is nearly as cheap and more likely to work.

[@rodneydaub3812]

666th like

[@alpharius8512]

@Terminator 7250 even working in a pc shop it took me a few months, either due to monetary issues or obtaining the right hardware. but with a vision in mind, any goal is achievable.

[@ScatterVolt]

Those moves tho 👀🔥

[@360gamingwizard2]

Hey! Dude your vids have helped me so much with choosing parts and for setups at the perfect timings. Really good vid quality too!

[@Graphics_Card]

Second

[@jaydenn_windley]

@@Graphics_Card don’t care

[@Graphics_Card]

@@jaydenn_windley but you care to reply

[@jaydenn_windley]

@@Graphics_Card still don’t care

[@bryanduke1]

:( I got a huge smile on my face when I saw your joy once the computer booted with the 1030. I recently had a build similar to that where I was sticking to a VERY tight budget and had problem after problem. Unlike you, I gave up and ended buying a new Ryzen, MB, and RAM. I enjoy videos like this. I love doing video work for others, but am too much of an introvert to try making my own videos. Keep up the good work.

[@tomashley9246]

Yeah, I was doing exactly the same build, but with a k410 thinkcentre. Ended up with a Ryzen 5 1600, asrock 370x kill sli/ac, 16gb ram, and a 1tb nvme. Now I'm thinking of finishing the build.

[@underratedunknown9180]

Hot dog

[@jonathanjoestar1937]

His personality makes me wanna watch more of his videos.

[@MrKyogre14]

I love the happy and dancing segments, give some really good vibes haha nice work

[@OzTalksHW]

joro lima thank you! 😅

[@LicheLordofUndead]

The dance scene deserves a Like all by itself, the rest of the video also deserves a Like as well, can I give 2 likes? I would love to see an update on this computer.

[@Elixirs_mp4]

3:16 Oz: Pulls out gtx 1650 box, “I found an rx560”

[@shaneeslick]

Yeah I got all excited at the 1650 box 😲, but then thought oh yeah the WHOLE PC is less than $100USD 🙄

[@Flojoe6274]

:(

[@AleksandrsBrodie]

Look who it is :)

[@LeopioRe]

RTX 560 lmao

[@Shmey]

Hey, I got one of those RX 560s from XFX, too! I paid... Uh... $140 for it. Hey, I was desperate and it was in the middle of the mining craze. It's still the best video card I've ever bought. ... Uh... That works. Yeah. I do have an RX 480 8GB model that the RGB lights up on. Nothing else worked at all. I might fool with it much later. Until then, I have a cool looking Sapphire Pulse that does nothing else that I paid $75 for. I was able to build a nice system at the end of last year, though. All new parts. It's running an Athlon 200GE, 16 GB 3200MHz RAM, 1 TB NVME SSD, (It's an Intel 660 I was able to get for $80. I didn't need it, but I WANTED it!) It's in a fairly small form factor case, though I think my mITX motherboard is wasted in it. I want to put in a micro ATX later, and use the mITX for a true small form factor build using my 1600AF with a decent video card, once I can afford it. It will use that RX 560 until I decide what I want to pair with it. You know, once I get it built. It WILL have a 2TB NVME drive, though. For the video card, at this moment, I'm thinking it'll end up being a GTX 1660 Super or an RX 580/590; Maybe a 5600XT. Maybe.

[@jimmyyking]

Finally, a video showing real life issues with used components. 🥵

[@Nebulous_.]

Finally, An Person in the video showing real Life issues with used components.

[@HaydenH]

Mostly Lenovo problems

[@brycerowe3695]

Here's my frowny Face for more vids like this one. :(

[@zenniz1992]

Add my frowny face :(

[@horse54a]

@@zenniz1992 heres min:( Loved the video, and I have built one using the hp z600, for our work and media, center I did a lot of research before I jumped in, only thing I had to do was upgrade the cpus for a little more speed and power, and just like you throw a great video card, and its a done deal, I have had it two yrs, and the old girl is still going strong. Nice video, I knew when someone had the courage to do it it would touch all those like me.

[@nikolozi911]

this guy celebrates that 1030 works for him, me having rtx 2080Ti: i wish i had GT1030

[@lilfish1308]

Wat y

[@lilfish1308]

I'll trade you my 1030 for your 2080ti

[@josephherrera4771]

The eye can't see beyond 1080p 60Hz 24 inch monitor, sorry.

[@jurgenklopp6885]

@@josephherrera4771 *768p 60 Hz 18.5 Inch

[@7R15M3G1]

@@josephherrera4771 so how can you tell the difference of 4k and 1080p with your eyes

[@azurplex]

Moral of the story: don’t use crippled vendor specific motherboards.

[@thevivariumforhalfmeasures7698]

Isn't that all the motherboards?

[@XVRickXV]

Don't use Lenovo period. Its completely owned by china. I wouldn't use one if I got it for free. You can't trust ccp owned companies. Specially with computers.

[@flake1764]

@@XVRickXV western corps want you to think so, so that you'll be buying their overpriced counterparts (which they tend to produce in china btw)

[@Zzz-j2f]

@@XVRickXV So you’d rather have the US intelligence services keep an eye on you lol.

[@bhdproduction2007]

i use to do this, reminds me of my old days of salvaging old parts and building a PC together. you have a new subscriber keep it coming man

[@colinhensley9615]

I’m 13 and starting a business to help my town get cheap PCs

[@alpharius8512]

I cobbled my first gaming rig together out of an old eMachines desktop when i worked at a pc shop in my early 20's. Eventually the only thing eMachines left when I was done was the case. I kinda miss those days

[@grasshopper3085]

@@colinhensley9615 Nice. Lots of grannies and boomers will need your service, treat them well and your business will grow.

[@timbridges6866]

Its still fun even after you build a beast rig. I still do this just for the giggles and then flip them for cheap

[@underratedunknown9180]

Hotdog

[@kenjikenjikenj]

"every single variety of Steve"

[@r1nc3w1nd7]

. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnK1eaJpgqxrZ6s .

[@TheRogerbacon]

The infinite Steve.

[@TheRogerbacon]

@@r1nc3w1nd7 I don't know that you will ever encounter a better situation for the use of that video, well done sir.

[@danielmazurvideos]

I'm an old man of 60 yrs and I'm a non-techie, but I went ahead and did a minor upgrade to my Inspiron 530 with a Wolfdale Socket and it was something trying to get the *RIGHT* info for the CPU itself (as a non-techie), but I got it to a satisfying point. I like the smooth way you edit your videos also.

[@jessragan6714]

That $80 PC got expensive pretty quickly... Having said that, I appreciate that you were willing to admit that things don't always go smoothly with these homemade builds. Also... where the heck are you getting these deals on GPUs? Smokes the GT 240 I bought for my Batocera system for $34 with S&H.

[@NiNjaTurtLe697]

Right! I was just thinking..... GOT damn an i7 for cheap. WHERE?! lol

[@BIGAPEGANGLEADER]

@@NiNjaTurtLe697 The fact that it's an i7 doesn't really matter... it's absolutely ancient and gets smoked by any modern i3. Look on ebay, guarantee you can find one for next to nothing.

[@IKSH7]

@@BIGAPEGANGLEADER I would not say it will get smoked. It performs about the same as a modern I3 but the fact he got the I7 so cheap. Still many I3's still is shipped with 2 cores and 4 treads, while the I7 870 has 4 cores and 8 treads and can handle overclocking.

[@BIGAPEGANGLEADER]

@@IKSH7 no i3 has shipped with under 8 threads since the i3 10100k released in early 2020 , well over a year and a half ago. The 10100k can be found for absurdly cheaply in the UK, US and Europe. The i3 10100k has 8 threads, turbos to 4.3ghz and has massive, massive IPC improvements over the i7 870. Yes, it smokes the i7. It has approx double the single threaded performance and nearly triple the multi thread according to passmark, which is a good general benchmark. In some applications, I imagine the i3 pulls even further ahead.

[@IKSH7]

@@BIGAPEGANGLEADER Well still the I3 sucks when it comes to price and performance. Even modern I3's are way more expensive than Ryzen 3 which is can out perform a I7. Even the U model core I3's suck in laptops.

[@kingpanguan]

This reminds me of the guy that outpizzad the hut

[@JacobThomas0212]

never out pizza the hut

[@wilber2159]

LMAOOO

[@colehelmich]

steaming hot 1 topping pizza topped with a steamin hot 1 topping pizza

[@pr0wl3r666]

Laughed my ass off when you were dancing "Yay an i3 with GT 1030" x-D

[@sillynope]

lenovo is known for aggressively implementing whitelist stuff for hardware, i would strongly avoid thinkcentres etc. Dell for prebuilt desktop modding is the best, but you probably found that out already:(

[@cheyimpunity8657]

nope you just helped me not waste money!! Thank you 🙏🏽

[@smugmode]

HP isn't too bad either

[@robertcortez1109]

I want to upgrade my video card to rtx 580 now looking at your video I have to use nvidia. I currently have a Lenovo think centre m93p sff that was given to me it has gtx 1030 2gb works well for certain games but I want to upgrade to 8gb gpu if not 4gb now I will do my research here on KZbin and online before I buy a gpu thank you for posting this video.

[@snakebitemageetv3559]

Snakebite MaGee here; this video is so epic for so many reasons. Your commitment to your content is just one of those things. You are amazing and talented my dude

[@danimationstips]

Totally with you on the salvage, recycle , reuse, upgrade track. Thanks for encouraging others to do the same!

[@underratedunknown9180]

Hotdog

[@lesrogers7310]

Yes Lenovo's whitelisting of hardware is a pain the rear. I cannot understand how this is still legal in this day and age.

[@mememaster64official89]

He should have tried with a equivalent dell computer maybe their whitelisting of hardware is less of a pain in the ass

[@electro740]

@@mememaster64official89 it is I have 2 dell optiplexes theres tons of info online for them to making it easy to know what to use

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

tfw capitalism

[@electro740]

@@qwertykeyboard5901 yeah its great unlike Chinas communism

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

@@electro740 says the person who doesnt even know what communism is

[@KarlOsuchowski]

This is entertainment. You put so much effort into these videos and builds, I literally almost felt your joy when it finally booted as if I were there. Love how you built that up, even if unintentionally.

[@OzTalksHW]

thank you :)

[@greggv8]

Chances are someone out there has already modded the latest BIOS for that system to remove whitelists and improve CPU compatibility.

[@underratedunknown9180]

Hotdog

[@nimblehuman]

I've done similar builds in the past but nothing to the degree you are here...I've taken used Dell desktops and workstations with working RAM, CPU and storage, wiped the hard drives, put in graphics cards, and used them for gaming, or given them to friends or relatives as gifts. I love that you made such an effort to keep the build within your target budget, and TBH I've been in a position before where a budget salvage build like this was my only option. I also love that you keep the language G-rated so I can watch these with my kids. Keep up the good work brother!

[@kingkosher6231]

If you get the M73 with the i5 4570 it will do MUCH better for gaming and you can find them on craigslist all the time for like 150 bucks tops get a PSU adapter, a new PSU and a GPU and you have a gaming PC.

[@AidenR19]

Feels like I'm watching on a 4K screen, superb quality man! Except the game recordings.

[@OzTalksHW]

Abdul Rahman thank you!

[@AidenR19]

@@OzTalksHW Keepup the good work!

[@madmax2069]

You also could have tried to find a modified bios to flash it to allow you to use an AMD GPU (does away with the GPU whitelist) and do away with a lot of limitations in the BIOS. I had to flash the bios in my laptop to remove the whitelist so that I could use an external GPU on my laptop, Because the whitelist only allowed WiFi cards to be used on that socket.

[@skippingbear92]

I flashed one of my old hp rigs and was able to overclock on a oem mobo. i also used a program to overclock my other hp rig before i built my own.

[@madmax2069]

@@skippingbear92 yeah, it's amazing on what OEMs hide

[@gradient602]

i had an intel 3rd gen Lenovo "gaming" pc and the bios stopped being supported immediately and had no updates and there were ZERO modded bios for it. I could not run any 900 series or newer cards or any 600 or 700 series cards that had more then 2GB VRAM. nothing after UEFI worked, including SSDs! it was a nightmare waste of time and money upgrading it.

[@skippingbear92]

@@gradient602 Its crazy to think how oem's block so much stuff like this. back when i was messing around with oem's i could put any cpu and any gpu in there. last oem i had was a dell xps 420. q8300 and 8800gt

[@OzTalksHW]

I'll look into this when I update the system!

[@jkalash762]

This was basically how i built all my gaming pc's when i was younger. 10yrs ago when i was oems made upgrading horrible but i never ran into such ridiculous gpu compatibility issues.

[@danstellargames]

Just a grown ass man dancing to working computer components. Subscribed!

[@antonnym214]

Anyone who likes Bluegrass, Zydeco (and is that Michael Franks at 12:15?) is okay by me! And my man has some moves! Great vid! Three months! I felt your pain!

[@nicholaslamborghini9286]

“This computer only costs $80, 64 hours of trouble shooting, 41 hours of deal hunting, and 4.6 hours of driving around to pick up components and a completion time of 3 months. But it only cost $80. Manufacturers don’t want you to know this secret!”

[@ryanlwinters]

You forgot all the money spent on faulty HW.

[@nicholaslamborghini9286]

Ryan Winters you right, big miss on my part! This video is a real life rendition of why people shouldn’t DIY using Lenovo/HP etc. parts because there are ALWAYS issues. That is the reason you can find $12 motherboards on eBay. I hope people trying to save a buck on their first DIY computer pay a lot of attention to what happens in this video and not focus on the “$80” price tag

[@atilamotila8907]

@@nicholaslamborghini9286 Tbh i think if u want to build something of this style i think the optixlex mini tower 790,970 and etc from dell work fine but unfortunately they dont sell for cheap, i think these builds are fine but you have to do some research beforehand especially when you are going this path. He just went in got a computer and after getting all the fucking parts just realized that there is a bios whitelist lmfao. And this is why u dont order used parts on ebay UNLESS the buyer is trusted and has enough rep, he did the ebay noob mistake and just bought whatever cuz "it was an amazing deal" imo if you are buying used parts you always want to test them. Tbh i think the video should have been named "How to NOT build a rig on a budget"

[@DraftySatyr]

@@ryanlwinters Yup, that sounded like the best part of an additional $120. And even if the original hardware selected had worked it would have been more than $80 - he even says so at 4:47 ($83.70)

[@DraftySatyr]

But I did like his little jig of delight when it booted into Windows 😂

[@Jim-qc4nb]

The Dell T3500 I see in the background is one of the best upgrades I've done. Super gamer! X5690 6c 12t 3.4 ghz 24 gb DDR3 GTX 1070 ti SSD 80+ FPS with ultra settings on everything (within reason). Killer!

[@keithmaina3081]

Assist me please in upgrading mine

[@ahmad92760]

:( also, try updating the bios. maybe support for the i7 was added in newer microcode.

[@Me_preppy]

Thats likely, ive had to do bios updates to drop in xeons and i7s in Asus, Hp, lenovo and Dell prebuilts. So i just jeep a lot of old pentiums and i3s just for this purpose.

[@OzTalksHW]

I'm not completely sure if I emphasized this in the video, but it was running the latest bios

[@thealien_ali3382]

@@OzTalksHW I like this guy 🤣

[@Pablo-so1df]

How about coreboot? have you considered trying it?

[@techescapades2210]

@@Pablo-so1df Thats a lot of effort to get a CPU running in a 10 year old PC. I've done 1vyrain and Coreboot to several ThinkPads and I never want to do it again.

[@LAHover]

Thumbs up just for ALL THE WORK you went through to make this video/build lol :) it was fun to watch.

[@miguelmaldonado4433]

I love that you show us the ups and downs of your project the frustrations and the anxieties, you're just not showing, hey I put this computer together, I'm the greatest and best in the world, you know you're actually a human being doing this not some super dude on the internet

[@Daa253]

6:31 It sounded like it censor bleeped! 😂

[@davidhollfelder9940]

Some people think we’re magic, they (probably) didn’t see the journeys we went thru .. there’s no magic with out a price ...

[@blvckbytes7329]

:( Love that you are such a real person, which shows good and bad parts of his projects!

[@rizemancustomsllc]

+1 for the random family members hanging out and walking around in the background of your shots.

[@darwinb718]

Good job mate! About time we shove it up theirs!

[@theg_ho_st]

I've flashed other brand bios to get CPU and GPUs to boot, that would have been my first thing to do

[@loganhoward7428]

:( Really appreciated the honesty. Beginners, like me, need to know that it's a process and not some magic trick we don't know the secret to.

[@NicDoesDumbThings]

yeah dude dont worry about messin stuff up sometimes as long as you dont outright break something making mistakes is fine

[@caligoclarus]

i did the same thing with that PC, an M79 Lenovo. I flashed the bios so I could put in a quad core Xeon. It works great.

[@tyy567]

Bro I’m trying to do my m79 . What all did you upgrade ? Idk where to start lol

[@caligoclarus]

@@tyy567 I used this: www.delidded.com/lga-771-xeon-microcode/

[@legin6487]

Man I know that feeling when you bring an old hunk of junk back to life

[@dulcimer16]

Dude, this was such a good video! The struggle was real, so glad you showed it all. Awesome job👏🏽😎🤙🏽

[@underratedunknown9180]

Hotdog

[@Belskxhrsxdmwjdje]

You and the other youtubers all inspired me to build my first computer, and now I can't stop building them.😂

[@OzTalksHW]

You've caught the bug!

[@kennedypt]

I believe those HP Z workstation power supplies are proprietary. They have the usual atx plug, but several wires are different.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Even worser are SFF units, it doesn't work out nicely The connection are all proprietary!

[@salaciouscreations4323]

You can get an adaptor to use a ATX supply. You need to add a plate where the old supply and pop the sence pins of a fan into the slim connector. And the power for the fan over to the CPU cooler with a splitter. I made a mount with a steel ruler to hold the PSU and cut a slot for a pcie x16 riser. So it's got a Rx 580 8gb as well. Works fine as a editing pc. The z series has sata 3 and pcie 3. So it was a bargain. 3770 4c/8t 32gb ram added a olmaster 4 bay drive cage for 4 SSD intel pro duel slot nic. Thing is a little beast and didn't spend that much on it. The intel NIC is grouped so it pulls from the Nas and the onboard NIC is for a net connection. SSD scratch disk SSD render drive SSD network drive and SSD system drive. And it has hardware raid options from the bios set up

[@Rytalix]

Definitely One of my favourite videos of yours 🤣 keep up the grind man ❤️

[@OzTalksHW]

thanks man!

[@JohnEgilSolberg]

Really liked your look of true happiness when it posted and when the splash screen showed 😅 I also buy used parts, pimp it up and resell and what this video did highlight is also the risk we take for the good deals. If you were truly only had the 80 dollar then you would not have a functional PC.. Also it shows the time and effort taken to get these older things to work properly, so if you were to resell this your time spent would make a lousy salary 😬 New sub here!

[@Malvinelaus]

Love your videos man! I'm doing these kinds of builds in Norway and i'm loving it all the way from finding the computers cheap or for free, and then making gaming-PCs that anyone can buy. I can really relate to your troubleshooting and i must say - I have the exact same raction when I encounter the problems and/or solutions!! Keep on going man! Peace!

[@DonaldMolter]

:( I feel like we’ve all been through a build like this before. My latest was an 1150 motherboard trying to get an i5 4690 to work that I got for an absolute steal. After getting different processors and trying different memory and verifying my components on another motherboard I found that the ez flash bios update that you can do inside of the bios didn’t work as advertised and needed to be done inside of windows. Upon performing this process I was then able to upgrade to the new processor and now I have myself a fairly powerful and efficient machine to use to learn some of the programming I hope to wrap around automating a network.

[@EdgyShooter]

"Put it in the bin and just stored it " Ah yes I always store my graphics card in a bin 🧐

[@electro740]

Ikr I have the opposite issue I want more gpus so I can have one in each pc I own

[@melmelhodgepodge3800]

At least he had the anti-static packaging!

[@EdgyShooter]

@@melmelhodgepodge3800 I feel there's a chance that just so happened to be in the bin as well 😉

[@melmelhodgepodge3800]

@@EdgyShooter you right, you right.

[@geodrc]

Him: buys 7 video cards and then leaving them in one place or throwing them Me: *crying with an Amd Radeon plane engine*

[@Sheovion]

he probably stored it, nobody would throw away a perfectly working video card (just if it was too bad like a GT 210)

[@Keepskatin]

You with an AMD Radeon in 2020......get a job or get a second income. Learn a trade skill, upgrade your life. Hardwork and dedication.

[@geodrc]

@@Keepskatin bruh I'm a 13 yo kid

[@Keepskatin]

@@geodrc Your parents should buy you a GPU, a radeon is like $30 and very bad for modern games. I wonder how old is the processor too. Well, hopefully they buy you a xbox X for your Birthday or a better PC

[@andrewness]

@@Keepskatin Don't be a dick.

[@aleekcc1]

I'm happy that there is someone to show people whats the limit to those pc's, cuz i'm one of those people who went through every single one of these problems and would hope that people who want to try to build pc's like these know all of this before startin. Have a nice day all and thumbs up for the video.

[@xkinkachu23]

:( This was great! I'm really loving your videos. They are so raw and clear. I'm thinking about pc flipping myself so these are really useful!

[@sphillips1679]

The prebuilts I've used were dell and HP. I remembered when I first considered using a prebuilt for a gaming pc, I learned that Lenovo is a pain to work with.

[@KaRuNaRuGa]

The old Dell's were alright, just needed a bios update and uefi support fix.

[@OzTalksHW]

I've had pretty good luck with HP and dell and lenovo's newer systems (excluding proprietary mobo connectors on lenovo). i guess their older machines were just tougher compatibility wise

[@Drdirtydee]

I often use the HP Z lines the Motherboard connection is remedied by an adapter.

[@GuRuGeorge03]

I love your appreciation for value. Often lacking in modern society :(

[@whidbeyhiker4364]

Watching you go through all of this reaffirms my thoughts on building new or newish using new and my own used parts. Not buying used over ebay.

[@deViant14]

Yay man I bought a used server then canceled it and they sent it anyway. Now what am I going to do with this free Dell PowerEdge 710.

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

Don't be scared off. The money savings are great but you do have to know what you're doing. I bought the same used rig as this but with a faster CPU (i74790). All I did was change the PSU and it runs a GTX1660Ti no problems. I haven't bought a new PC for 20 years.

[@joshw3115]

i am in the middle of this right now. same desktop. same problems. im so glad you posted this sir!! thank you!

[@shaynediersen4114]

I love your channel. I respect the fact that you are very knowledgeable but do have issues like the rest of us. I love how excited you get when things work. I want to learn your patience though. I have a tendency to get frustrated and walk away, to not return. or throw thing. Keep up the great work. I am a loyal fan.

[@cakeface03]

:( Sad that the update vid hasn’t been released yet.

[@k8ubble908]

i don't know why... ...but somehow... ...this video makes me think i'm still too poor. Keep up the good work btw! You earned yourself a new subscriber. : )

[@SHEMZILLER]

That dancing though

[@Mikertt]

I have an 6 year old Dell Inspiron 3847 desktop with a Core i5 Quad Core (4th Gen) that I ended up turning into my home server/gaming machine. I started the project after the original HDD went out right around the new year. It now has a Samsung SATA SSD, a Samsung 960 EVO M.2 drive on a PCIe 1x adapter card, and two WD 12TB enterprise drives running a RAID 1 setup. I replaced the original NVIDIA GeForce 705 2GB card with a used Nvidia 1660 ti mini card that someone took out of a newer Dell machine. I made sure that the new card came out of a prebuilt so that I didn't have to deal with setting it up as you would with third party OEMs. EVGA 600W PSU and 16 GB of RAM from Timetec maxed out the build. I primarily run old games so the video card was overkill, but was essential for my PCSX2 emulator to get a smooth 60 FPS. I am a hobbyist photographer hence why I have the 12TB drives for mirrored storage. The last thing to do to the machine is to put in the a Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K processor once I have the funds to do it with.

[@budmonk2819]

Living in Canada, formerly lived in Atlanta. There is no way we can get second hand parts for that price in Toronto. You can sell a 8 year old laptop for $250 and there will be 3 people on wait-list. I really miss the US of A for this reason.

[@b0ne91]

Wouldn't a cheaper route have been to just get a motherboard that supports the i7 (really strong CPU, esp at the price you got it) and the GPU you alread had? Granted, the i3 was dirt cheap, but it's definitely throttling this build hard. Still a super fun project, definitely earned you a new sub here and on Twitch :)

[@davidhollfelder9940]

Lenovo/Thinkpads are notorious for Obnoxious “white lists”, preventing perfectly useable parts being used .. i.e. dual band Wifi boards, etc

[@electro740]

Yeah I got 2 dell optiplexes now and ran into 0 issues so far trying out stuff on them

[@Jordanchicity23]

yea what's the deal with that. I have 3 lenovo laptops . I got my first one a tbinkpad e540 i3 include with my computer administration class back in the day i tried to put a simple new wd ssd 500 in and I can't get the drivers to work or show up. I'm not to bumbed cuz I got a i7 7gen 16 gb 500ssd yoga for like 300 brand new on offer up and an ideapad 330 i7 8gen 20gb 500ssd for like 600 almost a couple years ago and they both work for my music production needs. but kinda want to know why the old think pad won't show drivers i got it to work with the music program reason just no internet drives and a few other odd things missing

[@AdmitthatijustdiditX]

:( thanks for taking us along the struggle haha, I know this all too well. I've run into the issue of using AMD RX cards on mobo's that don't support UEFI GPU's.

[@BenTiredson]

The reason why i sticked to nvidia for so long cuz of that trouble. My friends callex me nvidia fan boy but they never knew the truth.

[@dougzzzie738]

Well thank you for asking. So just recently, I have taken to restoring and upgrading a 2011 Dell Inspiron 570. I had to first wipe the HDD to get the computer back to a healthy working condition. After that I realized that it had a little horsepower and that if I fed it my wallet that I could have a great mid tier gaming PC for under $300. I got to work researching on forums and making my parts list. Ordered everything from eBay and Amazon, get almost everything in without much issue, but I run into a problem with my heatsink and that my mounting holes on my mobo don't match the mounting holes that would fit my cpu, end up drilling new holes in the mounting bracket and mounting the heatsink with no issues. Had to play with my sata cables because my computer's BIOS is locked. Graphics card fans failed as well. Also had to update my BIOS to be able to support the amount of ram that I was using. In the end, I have an unsuspecting looking prebuilt that hides an AMD Phenom II X4, Hyper 212 Evo, AMD RX 570 (4gb), 16gb Corsair DDR3 ram, and a ADATA 120gb SSD that is a boot drive... All for under $300. In games like GTA V I can get away with 50-60FPS average and I don't dip below 30FPS.

[@Samrio]

Found your video after searching for some of the same issues, and share some of your frustrations. Thanks for posting this!

[@salehamini2036]

You know I have around 500usd and with this budget I literally couldn't find a reasonable system to build. I'm so jealous of you american...

[@pabloisblessed777]

You should probably check out Tech Yes City. He has built some PC's using Aliexpress parts.

[@salehamini2036]

@@pabloisblessed777 With taxes applied I cant build anything from there too.

[@edinfific2576]

I thought that I was cursed considering how many problems I run into and how much time I waste when trying to get something working properly. I'm relieved it's not just me. Greetings from Bosnia!

[@snarkfinder2621]

So, when you include all of the CPUs, Graphics cards and PSUs, how much did your $80 PC actually cost?

[@chikomedia]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂WTF

[@naxzed_it]

Ah. but he returned those.

[@maxheadroom22and26]

@@naxzed_it Were the people ok with taking back their used and sold items? Most people exclude this from happening in their ads.

[@losfromla1480]

@@naxzed_it no. There's no returns. Cost was actually closer to $300. Probably $3,000 if his time is worth more than zero dollars per hour.

[@atomix1909]

not to forget all the time wasted on that dull windoze box 😋

[@HelloDapp]

ive been watching tech/PC related stuff on KZbin for a while, and have never came across you, just subscribed!

[@g2879]

Hey I bought one of these Lenovo M series computers today I am glad I found your video as I'm going to look to upgrade it myself as a tech at your trial and error has taught me some valuable lessons about perseverance and patient thank you bro have a blessed evening

[@abztraktgaming]

🙁 *frown face*. This was me in a similar prebuilt project this weekend but I figured it out.

[@OzTalksHW]

nice! what was the problem?

[@MG42AA2WorldSuperCars]

“To Deter people from modifying components or fixing components themselves...” Apple: First time?

[@gw1814]

haha

[@bloodyglitch1777]

Hey Oz, so glad you could buy the GT1030 off of me. When I saw you messaged me I was quite shocked (in a good way ofc). Thanks for the video!

[@OzTalksHW]

great to meet you and thanks for the great deal :)

[@tdematties]

I built a budget PC like this. Picked up a Dell mini tower 9020. Threw my 1660 in it. Did not have to replace the PSU because I just bought an 6 pin to Sata adaptor to run the power through the mb. It has served me very well.

[@mrbrisvegas2]

in Australia these ex lease HP/Lenovo/Dell computers are sold cheaply by 'recyclers'. They buy them by the *pallet* at wholesale auctions and give them a clean, inspection and clean install the OS. They are sold to the public with a warranty. They will usually offer a RAM or GPU upgrade at modest cost.

[@UTurn539]

That was an epic quest! Question is what do you do with these builds once they're done? Thx for very unusual and entertaining content, subbing now!

[@underratedunknown9180]

Hotdog

[@phylum8975]

His reaction when the system boots is so wholesome and totally relatable.

[@thirtyonefifty3133]

This makes me thankful that we have something like the 2200G for entry level gaming. $300 new and cheaper used, there is really no excuse to go back to old hardware these days imo. It cost less than an iphone and you can do the most basic video editing too. I enjoyed your video and thanks for the upload. keep it going~

[@yuborthedominator687]

Im pretty sure this would be faster than a 2200g

[@BluntJoint]

:( The dance scene was funny af, keep em coming homie

[@TheLuisberg]

A friend of mine gave me his PC to fix and while I do not know how to fix a PC, just by watching your video I am going to give it a go. Im glad i found your channel.

[@CRACKINGPACKSMTG]

You should holler at Brian over at Tech yes City. He’s a wizard at OEMs

[@Bagoesbudianto]

He is not wizard again but great sage

[@Shima33BB]

:( Had a very similar story when building my younger brother's PC.

[@chrundlethegreat2251]

I have one of these...great machine i7 4770 16gb ram 1050Ti SSD I need to upgrade the PSU, but I can't find a 16pin PSU anywhere

[@i7sni331]

Try plugging an adapter that transforms you 16 pin psu into 24 or whatever , you can find them in amazon

[@rockymack1083]

Theres a 24 pin to 16 pin psu adapter specifically for this. I have the same system as you, i used the adapter to use a thermaltake 650w power supply. I think i paid like 5 bucks on ebay for it

[@steve8644]

Great Video. Cant believe you kept picking up cheap Video Cards until you got the one that wanted to play nice in the OEM board. Keep it going and make more videos :)

[@Fellyman007]

brilliant , i do the same here re-use parts and always try to upgrade as i go along, great video, mistakes and trouble shooting is all part of building and learning about pc's so another sub here buddy , great video

[@ModernOddity728]

2:58 I'm dead 😂😂 so accurate tho

[@stracciatella2782]

today I learned that building a pc out of an old used oem computer and an older graphics card isn't worth it bcs of compatibility issues

[@criznittle968]

When you say Lenovo doesn't want you to build this, it's much more literal than you think.

[@samtcook]

Stellar video! Super relatable and approachable! Went through a similar process last summer with a hand me down computer. Keep em coming!

[@wildifin]

I bought a Lenovo Thinkcenter E73 for 90€ with a i-5 4460s. I got a new 550w corsair psu for 50€ and a r9 280x for 40€. It runs games greatly. There were many problems so i don't recommend buying Lenovo and upgrading it.

[@krishnilgounder6590]

pc parts are so cheap in the us :(

[@Darkness-ie2yl]

where are you?

[@krishnilgounder6590]

@@Darkness-ie2yl new Zealand

[@funghazi]

There's so damned much of it, companies buy new computers and dump their old ones on the market, lots of cheap stuff if you're lucky and don't mind older components

[@abdullatifhrera7335]

In Romania everything is so expensive

[@flighted2513]

@@krishnilgounder6590 thats what you get for living on an island

[@NewaskyArck]

I just notice that the motherboard is missing a CMOS battery lmaoo

[@HaydenH]

Newasky lol

[@adambee3161]

Was that i7 the cpu Lenovo supplied with it? If so weird that the mobo doesn’t recognise it.

[@jonmayer]

Dude probably just slapped together old components to try and sell together and get rid of it.

[@fh4632]

I've been doing this for years, since windows 98 in fact. I have only ever had one new computer. I fix computers on the side for people and I often get parts or whole systems when they upgrade. Over the years I have found that I have the best luck upgrading HP and Acer brand towers and laptops. In my city of Vancouver Canada, used parts are cheap and plentiful . The is a place called Vancouver Free Geeks that sells used hardware for dirt cheap. My latest pc has a MSI Dragon series gaming MB, i7 3.5 Ghz processor, 24 Gb DDR 3 ram, Geforce 2 Gb video, 600 watts Thermaltake PS and 4 Tb WD Blue of storage . I use it mainly to edit photos in Raw format and video editing too. The whole thing cost me 180 dollars Canadian. I used to have a Lenovo pc like yours and it was a solid machine but it too had upgrade issues. It was picky about the ram it used. I gave it to one of my nephews to do his school work on. He still using it 3 years later.

[@MichaelThomas-be7gq]

Great effort, an older office-based PC are a great place to start for a warmed up cost effective build for very little money.