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[@bobby2pistols805]

I thought i was on the wrong channel till he dropped the cpu

[@quzat0r446]

its a GPU not a CPU

[@Ziikow]

LMAO

[@johnjones5260]

quzat0r watch the video. He drops the cpu later.

[@ChadB420]

@@quzat0r446 actually he drops the CPU, he throws the GPU

[@Floppa5922]

@Paul Koutsivos we do actyally

[@cfbmoo1]

"Buying new PCs is dead.." *Little over two years later and a massive parts shortage/price increase* This video is actually has the right idea for 2021.

[@vadymvv]

For now everybody can go with Intel and without modern GPU.

[@DJenerate]

Hell yeah. I found someone with an old Dell T3500 locally, that they were getting rid of for free. I swapped out the 4 core Xeon for a 6 core from eBay for under £20, threw in an SSD, 24GB RAM and a GTX 1050. For the price, I don't think you can get much better.

[@jpdickey7101]

I was the 69th like

[@UnexcitedUwiwJeje]

160th like 😂😂😂

[@UnexcitedUwiwJeje]

180 like lol

[@Backup-wm9cn]

me: handles my i3 9100f like a bomb that will explode linus: drops his cpu

[@punnequraq]

didn’t he break a 10 thousand dollar cpu

[@username9068]

@@punnequraq when

[@syhfrizkyl]

@@username9068 he broke a xeon platinum just look it up

[@crylune]

me: bends back the shipping pins on my 3900X like my life depends on it and handles it with utmost care linus: drops $2000 intel XE cpu and disables a memory channel

[@7xlukasx785]

@@crylune not a 2k XE cpu. He dropped a Xeon Platinum 8180 and broke the memory channel of that

[@gormauslander]

"Look at that usage! 90%!" Those are rookie numbers

[@7DegreesOfFreedom]

Gotta bump those numbers up.

[@badreny]

Mine is 99% on my trash $800 laptop when running roblox alone on lowest settings

[@ydertgf]

Kartharsis when i start minecraft cpu usage goes from 10% to 95%

[@badreny]

ydertgf if I start anything up it gets maxed out

[@ydertgf]

Kartharsis wow

[@mk1k]

I love how even though Linus looks like a poor college student, he spends money like a millionaire and talks like an old guy from the IBM and Apple 2 Era

[@Pommezul]

Your comment is golder :P

[@mat8448]

He is a millionaire.

[@Topothetop]

he is older than all of his staff if not then most

[@muhwyndham]

I mean, he's THAT old tho wkwk

[@TactileSZN]

Spazzy he makes money on his builds he builds the pc for people

[@AfnanStudio_]

Petition for LTT to upload compilation of Linus dropping things

[@Consural]

A viewer already does it for them. Search for "linus drop tips."

[@zorbanoodle5272]

yes

[@BelDomGaming]

Dude my name is Afnan too.

[@capp12249]

@opisex he'll just drop his own charges

[@hanifsulistiyo3559]

There are a lot of those on youtube

[@phr3dmcc0y]

I know this is OLD, but, I love when you do these "scrapyard" "junker" updates and make them keep up with modern machines. It really is fun to see how much actual performance you can eek out of your 10 year old computer rig. it is really my favorite kind of thing to watch.

[@isoldmykidneysforyoutubepr3605]

linus: Look at the cpu usage! 90 percent?! Me who gets 100% usage by just opening task manager:

[@mcyeet2902]

My laptop has a hard time opening the calculator

[@thejjgang6338]

My pc goes to %100 pu when i open task manager for like 1 second them goes to like %2

[@shooflyer3699]

@A1 VIIMISTLUS OÜ Switch to Linux. Ubuntu or any distro using XFCe desktop.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Laughs in Samsung Galaxy S3 with 4.4.4 backtonoot. Or should I cry in the S5 mini that I also have lying around which takes like 10-15 seconds to update the friggen clock after you light the screen?

[@ebrocoliphoto]

same

[@CryptoNWO]

BUT CAN IT RUN NOTEPAD?

[@equation1321]

Crypto NWO actually that doesn't make sense? haha r/woosh go brr

[@swastikchakraborty5563]

no it can't

[@theugliest5291]

Notepad (not responding)

[@btngana2077]

LOLOLOLOLOL

[@mayankpatel1053]

Probably, but what about Calculator Tho?

[@ebraheembambotia1745]

Linus : Holds 3 GPU's like they're used toilet paper Me : *Gets a heart attack*

[@willy102073]

I was waiting for him to lift his arm forgetting about that graphics card.

[@codewizz1885]

Nowa days used toilet paper is worth more

[@iamthehype3684]

@@codewizz1885 yeah

[@TheDartFrog]

that didn't age well

[@cam12freer]

He didnt drop them this time lol

[@dodog33]

This makes me so sad, seeing these cards at this price. I just want a low end gpu but the world is a dark place now. FeelsBadMan

[@UnjustifiedRecs]

I put my old 750ti on ebay a couple months back and the bidders went up to £130 for it, I didnt even pay that when I bought it years ago. Its crazy

[@COUNTVLAIDMIR]

I'm just glad I got my 1660 super close to MSRP.

[@xenon_ph]

I just bought a 750ti for 40 dollars, but I would recommend saving for a better gpu, because technology age fast and the games too.

[@UnjustifiedRecs]

@@xenon_ph good price for that card but yeah, it struggles on modern stuff. I used it until relatively recently though, its not bad.

[@louvain-fatskrrrt4698]

I feel ya bro

[@SamFromItalia]

when your eyes get so good that you can see frame tearing on a 25 fps vid

[@exhydraboy2429]

evolution evolved

[@dogishappy0]

I have been waiting for a good Linus Drop moment for a while. Thank you for not disappointing.

[@pawn5253]

Yea i knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

[@dogishappy0]

@Harish Karunakaran good catch, at least 149 other people read this and you were the first to mention it.

[@dogishappy0]

@@mahfujurrahman4846 dang it, i've googled how to spell disappointing three times now, i'm never gonna live this down.

[@jk-mm5to]

Windows is always Free

[@findableflyer]

When?

[@WorldRaceMVG]

How do companies trust Linus with all their tech when he drops everything

[@somedude2492]

Fun fact, they don't. They usually don't expect to have their hardware back alive.

[@ravenz1321]

@@somedude2492 lol

[@AM-dc7pv]

Insurance, bro.

[@matthewferraro8020]

A M he spends too much money on stuff he forgets about insurance

[@JohnnyMonke]

If he drops it on video and it still works it's a good stunt for them.

[@foxenfenny5077]

3:56 Linus "Wow 90%" Me with my laptop at 90% cpu and 100% drive

[@goonylad5421]

I love the sounds that linus makes when he games “BLEEEH BLAAAAAAHHHHHHH” 4:01

[@shonaktiwari9037]

Abe balll

[@iielysiumx5811]

Riley is so awkwardly charismatic I love him

[@foxxionkylz5807]

i was looking for a comment like this and i agree

[@duckcool0789]

@@jraev5519 little to far

[@youcarrytakeabath727]

@@jraev5519 fat agree

[@dariusw1776]

This channel inspired me to upgrade my 10 year old, crappy laptop (with witch I am writing this now...) - Core i3 (2. gen) to Core i7 (2. gen) - 4 GB of RAM to 16 GB of RAM - 1Terrabyte of HDD to 240 GB of SSD - CD drive will be replaced with drive tray in the future (and house the old HDD) Most parts from ebay, because I wanted it to be cheap. I had no idea what I was doing, but thanks to this channel (and Linus, who seems to have no plan most of the time - just like me), I started it. The Laptop is working quite nicely now. The project is started and i'm looking forward to seeing where this will lead. Many thanks for the inspiration and the nice content. Keep it up, guys :)

[@andrizain894]

How do you upgrade your laptop's CPU? I thought laptop CPUs aren't upgradeable. BTW congrats for your new system!

[@prawny12009]

Depends if it is soldered or socketed. Socketed is easier, but even a soldered chip can be upgraded with a hot air soldering station I still use my Toshiba satellite, it has been upgraded to a full hd screen, 2.8ghz core 2 duo from 2.0 (supports 3.07Ghz dual core or slower clocked quad core) a 250gb SSD and replaced the optical with a 1tb. It works fine easily as good as many notebooks available now.

[@prawny12009]

@@abhileshxd621 The only way to upgrade the screen on a laptop is to replace it. As long as there is a cable available for the extra bandwidth it is fine too up grade the LCD screen. I'm pretty sure my donor screen came from a hp elitebook and is 1920x1200. If your cable didn't have enough wires for the higher resolution you often lose every other line of pixels on the screen. The panel I used was from a higher end hp laptop (bought a complete new lid, screen unit for £25), I had to find a cable from a different Toshiba model that had full hd and the same plugs as my l300, the cable was a little longer so I had to reroute it and cut a small plastic rib away so that the keyboard sat flush.

[@prawny12009]

@@abhileshxd621 My chipset allows for 8gb ram, but 4gb ddr2 sodimms are expensive. Some of the earlier chipsets only supported 4gb ram and some lower range versions (xp-vista era laptops) would only support 3gb.

[@ye-sc2bz]

Lol you should be greatful. I am using a 15 year old pc with this spec : - Intel Pentium 4 E5500 dual core 2.8 Ghz - 1GB DDR2 single channel memory - Intel GMA 3100 onboard graphics - 250GB 5400RPM Hitachi HDD It is slow as hell. Took 3 minutes just to boot up to Windows. Took 5 minutes to open up chrome and will most likely crash. Even running 2005 games will bottkeneck the whole system. And at idle, 90% ram usage.

[@robertferguson4279]

I couple of years ago I became a technician in a school which still runs around 200 optiplexes of similar vintage. knowing they were still good for office stuff I put 4 gb of ram and an ssd in them and for 2 years now they've been running sweeter than all the newer machines we have. Our sound engineering room was struggling a bit running cubase and technical department running Autodesk but after watching this video I think I'll have try scrounging some extra ram from dead machines and pick up some second hand q6600s or similar. I hate having to spend tons of school money on new machines,time creating an image for these machines, day's flattening cardboard boxes and disposing of polystyrene. when I can just undo 2 screws and drop a chip in. I knew this upgrade was possible but I wasn't too optimistic about it being enough till I watched this. Thanks!

[@SkyTheBlessed]

14:54 Riley playing with the photos in the background, making Linus wink. Genuinely loled.

[@melody_florum]

Linus: spends thousands of dollars per build and goes absolutely insane Viewers: BUDGET BUILDS PLEASE Linus: builds a PC under $100 Viewers: *pikachu surprised face*

[@Specsy]

Shut up

[@searanchobx4907]

Hex

[@nyl0n733]

You now have 800 likes. :)

[@ray2266]

We asked, he delivered

[@RinoAP]

@Crypto World I'm

[@nikanm17]

69$ pc needs to get back in 2019 with overclocking adventures

[@demm7777]

nice

[@icommentonstuff1873]

Oh dear god

[@4wdsome444]

Stephen Powell they have completely locked bios’s last time I worked in IT (around the time of the optiplex series at the time of the 775 socket) I had to swap the boot order to go through an 3rd party Linux system that stored all of the programs and to get into them you had to use a service pin (a key that bridges some bits) and FAX dell a administrative order for bios unlock codes to changed the boot order and there isn’t even an option to change multipliers and voltages.

[@Keckegenkai]

@Stephen Powell maybe with an bsel Mod, but good luck with that in the q9550

[@no_4259]

775 to 771 swap for 2020

[@hendrih.5349]

This is what I like so much about computers and being able to mess around with the older parts and bits. For some reason I like going all out on systems like these (custom liquid cooling on CPU + GPU), adding LED lights (only red) and trying to see if I can squeeze any extra performance from it with some overclocking. Sure it's not as powerful as a modern computer with similar specs, but it does feel more worth it, since I put in all that effort to get as much from the system as technically possible.

[@jessicaorisaaclaemmle6905]

It’s just so funny how he always drops one of the important parts once every few videos.

[@Tom5TomEntertainment]

Plot twist: This is the workstation Linus gave Riley.

[@Newgodofwar]

The horror!

[@ArrestRandom]

D= Riley's face when he realizes its better than most apple's.

[@mihaimandachi3204]

Who's Riley?

[@robertt9342]

Austin Holmes . You mean Keys?

[@gamingat420p6]

i love how those old quad cores still have some gas left in the tank

[@QuantumAdder]

i slapped a GTX 1050 in an old HP with Q6600, does the job well!

[@josephwalter6672]

I've seen boatloads of these kinds of PC's at the Uni I attend, they sell them at their Property Surplus Department for literally 5-20 bucks apiece. Sometimes they are missing hard drives but if you just go for the SSD right out of the gate that's not too much of an issue. If anyone here wants to try and replicate this build maybe call a nearby university and see if they have a Property Surplus Department, might save a few bucks and skip the shipping!

[@no_4259]

For real. I got myself the same PC+one of those indestructible Dell keyboards+one of those monitors with everything included for free off my old high school. I’m surprised they all worked.

[@poseidon3032]

This is great! I have an XE model with a Q45 chipset and a 280 watt PSU, so this is a good example to work by. Thanks for doing this video.

[@bohdan_lvov]

That's weirdest Scrapyard Wars season yet.

[@Jim-sf9qh]

You're everywhere

[@bohdan_lvov]

@@Jim-sf9qh yes I am.

[@philipcamuto7359]

@@Jim-sf9qh where

[@dude3278]

@@philipcamuto7359 You don't see him right in front of you?

[@Jim-sf9qh]

@@philipcamuto7359 bowlestrek channel

[@imdicc4017]

Rain drop drop top linus dropped the laptop

[@TheEmad619]

dude. that sounds pretty cool man.

[@lamjac88]

Brought to you by " Massdrop"

[@mohsinchheena430]

Jacques Lamberts ooh!!!!

[@munkhochirmunkhochir5783]

“rain drop drop top linus dropped the laptop brought by massdrop” maybe you guys should start band or something

[@abdlhmdx]

that screen could've popped popped popped linus keeps droppin' the laptop top!

[@21Trainman]

My first PC was a Q9650 and an 8800 GTS, and I kept that well into the mid 2010s. Old hardware rocks!

[@smtek]

I did exactly this upgrade with my old oem Lenovo pc, went from a E8400 to a Q9550 and boy, it rocked!

[@HomeworkRadio]

This new bro-mance is golden

[@erzajumeidi]

14:55

[@HomeworkRadio]

@Qimodis they get on really well and gel well on camera 👍 nice to see.

[@jamesstillgames]

ikd he seems a little to try hard

[@HomeworkRadio]

@@jamesstillgames Getting a job does that to ya ;) for a while at least haha!

[@jamesstillgames]

@@HomeworkRadio yeah like in his new vids he seems more easy going.

[@zernn]

Feels bad when even the keyboard he was using cost more than the computer XD

[@philistine3260]

@Crypto World Well, either get the fuck off the internet and go help them or shut the fuck up.

[@esqx0878]

@Crypto World he was just making a joke...... Jesus chill

[@taisonbertalam2832]

Crypto World hahaha 😂😂... your a bitch

[@Blubididar]

@Crypto World Forget who? There's nobody like that

[@kebmmeg6761]

@Crypto World shut the fuck up

[@BennyTech]

This video got me into building PC's. I've had a lot of fun the last couple years! Thanks!

[@skylandersunite6827]

Did this build work? I’ve heard that the cpu isn’t supported in the pc.

[@BennyTech]

@@skylandersunite6827 Yeah it worked well for Fortnite and Overwatch a couple years ago. To my knowledge you are correct about the CPU. I know it still works fine for web browsing!

[@no_4259]

Skylanders Unite it is officially supported, though you should use the newest bios before you change it.

[@dwightschrute4506]

Those were the days... when you could get a 1050ti for $150 🤤

[@dwightschrute4506]

Za Ka yeah

[@asaultikk]

I paid 250 and it didnt even arrive yet

[@TameMiata]

Luke looks mad weird now...

[@PixelPlayground473]

That isn't Luke

[@TameMiata]

@@PixelPlayground473 wooooosh

[@user-iy3iw8cf3y]

Joe Gregor woooosh

[@rainheisenberg]

maybe it's because he lose a pound or two.

[@HKoopman]

Tame Miata yeah I know right? Lost a lot of weight...

[@damienw4958]

Even budget pc parts are not safe from Linus dropping them!

[@arsarma1808]

Damien W the Linus equation Pd (probability for drop) L (Linus constant) C (cost of part, adjusted for inflation) E (quantum expectation of drop) Pd= L * C/E

[@notinfocus9182]

i remember watching these when they came out and i was amazed at how shit my laptop was

[@huncho_flamez6134]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TRAYVONN_]

Same

[@Unsqeakable]

Dude same. I had no idea

[@nekosmile3299]

this 69$ pc is literally better than my 300$ pc

[@colescrustycars]

I love upgrading optiplexes. I've been given several over the years when family members upgraded. They were always surprised when I made them outperform their newer PCs. Throw a ssd and some memory at them and even older units run amazing.

[@lorenzogaatspelen]

Hey, I only changed the Graphics card to a GeForce GT 710 2 GB GDDR3 but now it’s even worse at performance Etc ?? I got the Optiplex 380 why is that??

[@windowssuperb3.147]

@@lorenzogaatspelen maybe bottle neck? Try a different cpu :)

[@jaseon619]

We UPGRADED the $69 Gaming PC and it ROCKS! Part 9, *$2500 in the thumbnail* All jokes aside, it would be interesting to see you guys keep upgrading that pc, it can inspire people with low budget to keep upgrading their potato pc.

[@Doofens]

@Bruno Olsen what do you use a 10 year old laptop for besides browsing Wikipedia ?

[@keesmills2019]

2 screwdrivers, 1 socket...

[@youssef2366]

(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@realdunky69]

(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@TheRealL1R]

@RaidFylx its 2 girls 1 cup

[@TheRealL1R]

@RaidFylx dont watch it

[@vac4ncyPlus]

very relateable

[@tavonpoyser7900]

You need to do this again...loving it

[@prawny12009]

8:02 wait, no thermal paste?

[@onedr1ftwonder680]

There was a thermal pad

[@Chris-bz2ku]

The 4gb ram limitation is probably due to that computer MOST LIKELY originally shipped with a 32bit version of windows.

[@leeyawsheng9764]

Yea linus

[@lucasoberon1231]

Yes the OS does limit the ram. I remember an old system i had with XP it. Had 6 gig of ram and showed it in system manager but it would only use 3.25 gig due to OS restraints.

[@Chris-bz2ku]

@@lucasoberon1231 correct 32 bit windows can only recognize 4gb of ram.

[@NimhLabs]

Aren't there programs you can run to get around those limits? I know that in Microsofts 16bit OSes there were things to get around the RAM limitations... though, some of those were due to the OS limiting the RAM to 640KiB without running those programs--and various nonsense required by the 64KiB Paging... But I mean... o.o'

[@Chris-bz2ku]

@@NimhLabs unfortunately not. Good news is that 32 bit windows hardly exists any more all of the mainstream editions are going to be 64bit. I say 32bit hardly exists because its mainly implemented in corporate setting running 32bit for compatibility

[@robertstimmel1100]

I really like riley. He's the best addition to the channel in a long time.

[@adamplaysmusic2869]

id have to agree tbh

[@mikeymaiku]

@@PanzerVII-df8hg you mean a jokster type person doesnt land all thier jokes?

[@richardcgiroux]

Great project...inspired me: existing Ewaste: Vostro 420 /w Intel 9550, 6GB ram, old hd...Added GTX 950 $50, 2 GB Ram $8, M2 to Sata adaptor $4 = gaming PC for $62!

[@mrelba9176]

This channel has given me an obsession. My PC. Getting too excited stuffing random new stuff in mine. Bought a liquid cooler to replace the AMD stock one I had and it was absolutely worth the purchase.

[@papaquonis]

Great to see more videos with Riley

[@TomGreen99]

PapaQ HIS NAME IS KEYS

[@Inri__]

Radiohead is a good band

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

LinusSoyTips

[@FingerThatO]

@@EminemLovesGrapes Linus soyboy giving you just the tip.

[@Alex-mx5yc]

Hello brother

[@getgudplayaggplays5483]

Will there be a $6,969 build in the future? Asking for a friend.

[@dapz]

What about $69,420

[@xeno942]

@Elon Blunt yeah they name their youtube account after old memes, apparently

[@ChampenOnTour]

666.69

[@mjc0961]

$6969.69 or we riot

[@mjc0961]

@Elon Blunt Said "Elon Blunt" who isn't a hypocrite at all, no sir

[@BaddBadger]

I have the exact same PC in my living room, but withOUT any of the upgrades you show (except it does now have 8gig of RAM). I have it running Linux (Peppermint 10) and it is perfectly fine for basic stuff, like watching KZbin.

[@tipoomaster]

There's still really no better SFF bus powered GPUs out than when this came out two years ago...Eagerly waiting on an update to this space. Hopefully RDNA 2 is power efficient enough to dethrone the 1650 here.

[@weeniehutjr5918]

Can someone make a compilation of every time Linus ends up dropping something.

[@Brandon01110]

I doubt KZbin has enough storage to support that length of video.

[@EDDY69]

Thanks to massdrop for sponsoring this old and dropped cpu

[@dapz]

XD those guys look like the guys in techlinked!

[@nororlol4life819]

they are

[@isaacruben5342]

@@nororlol4life819 r/wooosh

[@dapz]

@@sillygoose0193 He? You mean she? Linus is a girl.

[@wendjyyy]

woooooooosh

[@dapz]

@Rei boi I assumed its race, which is girl. I never assumed its gender.

[@kevinstruke1031]

This is awesome! :) I picked-up an Optiplex 390 for $120.00. Dropped-in an i7 2600 and a GTX 1030 for another $150.00 and got a pretty fun system :) I did have 8GB of DDR3 1333 memory kicking around.

[@shxv1795]

I had an old optiplex 420 40gb. That carried me in minesweeper

[@KyleLi]

7:34 you cant make this sh!t up

[@wobblysauce]

Just like the old machine... classic Linus.

[@kramnull8962]

Stress testing the processor...

[@iaial0]

the CPU yelled I'M FREE MOTHERF***ERS

[@Sol-cf9ko]

@@potato_x69 potatoooooooo

[@_BangDroid_]

It was just an alternative delid method

[@craigchiu8097]

Well, looks like Linus isn’t going to stop dropping things anytime soon...

[@jaybugg3r225]

Craig Chiu Well yeah, him and his group are always dropping videos ... I’ll see myself out

[@cwalke32477]

A C2Q 9550 is still my daily driver, for my work machine. All these years later, and it's still makes , atleast, a great office machine. It was my gaming machine back in the day, before upgrading to a I7-870...which is still my current gaming rig

[@maniacusgames3621]

My budget build started with a base i3 Hp Prodesk 600 G1. I upgraded it to the i7 4770, 32GB of DDR3 Ram, replaced the laptop HDD, with a 160Gb SSD boot drive and a 500GB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 ssd. and a clean jailbroken install of Windows 11 home. Altogether the upgrades cost me around $60 so my complete 4K capable HTPC which is now residing in the living room setup had a total cost of $110.

[@tauzN]

Hey guys, as mentioned before, running a CS server locally with 9 bots hits the CPU EXTREMLY hard, and is not even remotly close to what perfomnace you can expect from joining a server, as 99,999% of players are gonna do.

[@flowerpiece]

i was just thinking this, went to go type out a comment... and saw your's lol.

[@hailgod1]

either way, the q6600 would be a worthwhile upgrade.

[@Daehawk]

I wonder how many times Linus has dropped his poor wife during things.

[@typeer]

hey smarten up

[@BurntFaceMan]

more often than he's dropped a phat beat, dropped the base or dropped the F-bomb

[@teaajay]

im thinking worse... how many times has he dropped his kids?!

[@umeng2002]

She doesn't have far to fall.

[@VIdicus120]

We UPGRADED the 69 by Linus and it doesn't DROP!

[@TheXeroLink]

Riley making the eyebrows go up and down while you were talking was hilarious!!!!!

[@emr7956]

Great video Fun to watch

[@Wid3]

But what if I can't afford newegg? What if I want to buy from *used* egg?? Hm?

[@vin3084]

Lol

[@joalro2317]

You have just made my day. 😂

[@georgedabrowski8381]

Very good idea for newegg :D

[@kittzy3598]

Thats called Ebay

[@harithizzuddin]

You and your opinion MADE MY DAY

[@Dr.Sortospino]

I bought a Optiplex 9010, 200$ for i5 3570, 16 GB of RAM, SSD 256 GB + 1TB on ebay. I mounted a 1050 and I got 60 FPS 1080p at Max settings for all the games before 2015, and medium-high for the new ones. For graphic comparison look the video on youtube about what a 1050(ti) can do! For 320$ I couldn't ask more :D (Update 2019, I bought a 1050ti, for 130$ and I sold my 1050 for 115$, the Ti worths all the 10/15 bucks more!) No PSU change is needed Look for these one! :D (With a 1060, all the new games run at 1080p and 60fps if not more, but you need a new PSU, but we move around the 400/450$ range, all used as always of course, I made it for a friend, terrific!)

[@miniwarrior7]

I'm getting a 9010 with 1050ti for $325 it's a minitower.. For $325! Craigslist

[@Dr.Sortospino]

​@@miniwarrior7 perfect!! I got the 1050 because I left my old job (with a really nice super laptop) and I needed a PC at home! guess what!! was in the period when the 1050ti were 300$!!! :O damn miners!

[@miniwarrior7]

@@Dr.Sortospino Its gonna be my first baby gaming machine I'm happy... Been wanting one for like 5 years just never knew where to start and didn't wanna deal with the difficulty of building from scratch

[@thorntech876]

Does that rig even fit the bill on this video? That's quite modern hardware. I think the MO here is older hardware like my Optiplex 755 to which I fitted a 750Ti.

[@miniwarrior7]

Under $400 and over 5 years old so yes it fits .

[@ImKevan]

I actually built a very similar pc just a little after this video came out, the main differences being I got a HP rather than a Dell Optiplex, can't remember the exact model but same type of business pc, for $90AU with an i5-2400 with 8GB DDR3 and windows 10 preinstalled, I bought a new GT-1030 for $90AU and I already had an old 250GB SSD so i just cloned over the windows 10 install to the SSD, for $180AU, probably $150USD or less, I got something that my brother can play GTA 5, Rust, and a bunch of other games at 1080p 60 pretty well. There's always good options on going second hand, and given large companies are always going to need to upgrade too, these older machines will probably always be pretty readily available, as long as you can pair one with a decent more recent graphics card (which with the current situation in 2021 is getting a little tougher but still doable) you can easily have a good gaming experience on the cheap, and if you're one of those really persistent bargain hunters, you can get something that's actually better than average for the money, it just takes a bit of time and effort.

[@paspax]

Would have been nice to see some media playback. Fun episode.

[@brokeneditor1]

LinusDropTips

[@1918dawson]

Honestly

[@donpollo1289]

it woulnd't be the same without it, would it?

[@tehshadowy]

Yet again. I am not even suprised anymore :D

[@tybg8135]

What did he drop

[@PopStrikers]

I’m legitimately surprised DDR3 was compatible with a 2007 board

[@AliciaCLR]

G41 is newer chipset, while still using LGA 775 socket

[@97shane]

Tommy Oliver 3D ddr3 was released in 2007 officially

[@rainmaker6217]

Edit: Ok... so I got hung up on the older 775 boards which only supports DDR2... Previously written: Yeah I noticed that to, given that the memory controller is part of the North Bridge and not on the CPU it is technically possible to have ddr3 or even ddr4 on these chips. Still given that this is a bog standard optiplex and that I haven't seen a board with that feature to date (I do have an older board with both DDR and DDR2 support on the same board though) I assume it's just DDR2.

[@playfulmean]

I have an optiplex 740 and it used ddr2 from I think 2007?

[@XxTWMLxX]

I modded a optiplex 980 system over to a normal atx case requiring soldering wires and modding other dell propriety BS required for pc to turn on. 16gb ram and a i5-650, still use a 750 ti... not a daily driver but mainly used as a nvidia gamestream server to play pc games on phone while out on the go. Works well. (Main system is a alienware x17 laptop currently with a 3080)

[@9852323]

I used an optiplex 780 from 2016 to 2022 as my main PC it’s still a great pc.

[@logansadler8044]

Or you could have just gotten some rgb to increase the fps

[@clash2453]

xDDDDDD

[@awsmdude12345]

Maybe add some razer stickers too 🤔

[@clash2453]

@@awsmdude12345 dude I legit put a Razer logo as a desktop background 900% boost

[@Protozola]

Or you could just download the fps

[@logansadler8044]

@@Protozola And some ram while you're at it 😂😂

[@garychap8384]

We upgraded the $69 gaming PC ... ... and now it's a 42U high, nitrogen cooled, high-density "RTX Titan" based compute/render cluster with it's own HA SAN

[@peepeepoopoo8157]

I would like this but it's on 69 likes so I commented instead

[@pablomonsalve3911]

"bu. but the case is still the same!"

[@v1z3rr]

@@peepeepoopoo8157 now it's backwards lol

[@brauliob]

Computer of Theseus.

[@HeidenLam]

And it’s no longer affordable

[@ChaceBarrow]

I found this modal cumputer in the dumpster at a nearby school with a motor, keyboard, mouse, cords, everything and it worked, me and a friend factory reset it and now I am try to find videos to help me make it a better pc

[@mvbred]

Now I definitely need a new computer, when the computer plays cs go at 100 FPS when mine runs at 0-2 FPS

[@nanekb4825]

The way that the sponsor is more expensive than the actual pc...(great target for budget pc builders...xD)

[@zodiacfml]

Looks like a bad idea. I'd rather build a cheap Ryzen APU.

[@Tony-sc8xr]

It plays games better than my $2,000 MacBook Pro...

[@aidancj23]

Well yeah because it’s a MacBook

[@tacticalidiot175]

Because it's a mac

[@poekill6491]

How’s your burning lap? I had my burning before using that thing

[@MA-fh7ui]

your MacBook isn't worth 2000 box get over it

[@justdoiturself9416]

Ikr I have one too

[@IceWind871]

recommended in 21 december 2020.... done nothing but watch LTT videos for an entire month now.... used to have a QX9650 when they came out...

[@SQ8MXT]

i got i7 920 back in the day and upgraded to 6 core xeon x5650 for something like 20$ about 2 years ago. overclocked to 4ghz. 2011ish pc still rock solid. Best value buy ever ;)

[@JohnBilkey]

Wait a sec... this is just scrapyard wars without the war! Booooo!

[@Carewolf]

Yeah, we demand a scrapyard war, top gear challenge! 200$ budget to build the biggest baddest gaming PC and then fight each other in a series of challenges!!

[@shamartTM]

We've bought into a lie, I want my money back!

[@xcali]

So what, you clicked on the video

[@DocTime56]

Last scrapyard wars I saw a good proposal, scrapyard wars with water-cooled PCs, but the loop can only be done with stuff you can buy at Walmart

[@rezidentseagull5651]

Scrapyard Skirmish

[@whereyouatfadeey]

I'm 8 months late, but make it 420$ or 399$ _And that's a great price_

[@ikmashane9042]

WHAAT?

[@ridakesserwan8712]

@@ikmashane9042 YOU NEVER PLAYED TUBER SIMULATOR?

[@megnus3rs]

@@ridakesserwan8712 PPPFFFSSSSSHHH

[@ridakesserwan8712]

@@megnus3rs you know it's fun right?

[@megnus3rs]

@@ridakesserwan8712 i shouldn't give my opinion

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I pulled a nearly pristine Optiplex 745 SFF with a PDC 1.6 and 4GB ram from a dumpster last week. Ripped out the Pentium Dual core and placed a Core2Duo CPU. Added a 60 GB SSD as boot drive. Formatted the harddisk that was in it (used to belong to a company; all the data was still on it!) And now it's a great debian 10 machine.

[@chologang4924]

You guys should 100% continue this till it’s a crazy good gaming pc

[@Ayyy-lmao]

You definitely can't get by on a core 2 duo anymore but the core 2 quads still have some life in them

[@MrJ0mmy]

you can if your not going to be gaming on your pc

[@markp8295]

My whole school use AMD X2 2.4Ghz processors. They run office, show KZbin at 720p without stutter and can run office. Not ideal, but they work.

[@Ayyy-lmao]

But is there really any need you can pick up some second hand i5s and stuff now which are magnitudes better for about $150 each

[@Ayyy-lmao]

@makaroner You do you buddy my time isint that worthless

[@GugureSux]

You CAN make do with C2D... IF it's clocked at >3Ghz, and you avoid poorly optimized AAA /Ubisoft shit.

[@TwistedStrummer]

Maybe you should rename your channel “drop it like it’s hot”.

[@kz03jd]

That should just be his intro song instead

[@eggmann122]

@@kz03jd lmao haarper song

[@T1t4n1umSh13ld]

This is quite literally the exact desktop i have at home rn, except the fact that it doesn't have a gpu and only has a 2GB stick at 1066mhz

[@metric6bolt169]

it feels so proud of me seeing my old cpu can performance that much

[@nullifier_]

Upgraded the PC, Downgraded the meme. Next time $420 PC pls Edit: Oh wow! Thanks for the likes guys. I feel important now :)

[@Jamie-kg8ig]

You could actually get some pretty good stuff for that much.

[@aidanmoran3881]

You could make a solid new pc for that

[@shutereye2634]

That'd actually be damn good, thanks to ryzen and whatnot, RAM prices are still a bitch tho

[@charisjunianto]

@@shutereye2634 Im still with ddr3 ram and gen 4 cpu there's so much used RAM on market and it's not that expensive

[@LazyGamer010]

Whats your specs? @@charisjunianto

[@zaid3ssaf1]

I bought an optiplex 9010 with i7 3370 for $10. It had no PSU, no RAM, no HDD. spent $50 on SSD, $45 on 8GB of RAM, $30 on a PSU, and $100 on RX460 GPU. A total of $235 where I can play BF1 50-60 FPS on 1080p with medium-high settings. Cant ask for more.

[@rickyhineman4124]

Optiplex's are tanks man. I got a 790 (I think is what it is) with 8 gigs of ram and an i3 for super cheap used and it's the best. Got windows 10 and Ubuntu on it so I can do work (programming) and a little bit of gaming (mostly just minecraft, only pc game I care for lol) and it works great. Never freezes, and is quick. Loves it haha

[@carters1209]

I got a gaming laptop with a Ryzen 5 and rx 580x for $450.

[@xXBobbyXx86]

60 dollars more yu cud have gotten an rx 580 8gb from powercolor

[@MrVacicak]

I do 50-60 FPS with 1155 i5 2500 non-K OC just 350mhz... , 8Gb Ram and GTX 1060Gb . In medium-high 2K...

[@carters1209]

@Rafi T.H Nitro 5, it was from a friend who got a better one, so he sold me for very cheap. And my apologies I meant rx560x not the 580.

[@wizitchizit]

This is similar to my system. Got an HP Compaq with an i5 2400 for like $50. 16gigs of ram for $35, 240Gig SSD for about $30, and a 1650 half-height card for $185. Very playable PC for $300. Of course if there's ever any GPUs available I'd love to build a modern one.

[@Southerland03]

I just built myself a new PC after using the BIG Dell Optiplex 7010 with a GTX 1050ti for the past 4 years. Not to mention my Optiplex only had a i5 3470. For the first 2 years I was running games on high/epic settings. And the last 2 years i had to drop everything to Medium to High settings.

[@anthonyzbikowski529]

These old office boxes made for secretaries of secretaries are great bang for the buck if you shop savvy and are willing to fiddle with them. I built my PLEX server out of a Dell 755 I picked up for $20 out of the "u-fix it" pile at Goodwill. I put that same processor Linus used in it after $25 and a dice roll on eBay. I scrounged up a 1TB hard drive, partitioned it out, and installed Ubuntu on it (12gb system partition and the rest is storage for video). The largest outlay for recording and streaming OTA TV was the PLEX lifetime membership ($120), an exterior antenna ($80), and a compatible tuner ($60.. a short list of hardware because drivers under linux are what they are). Only other thing I used was a couple Amazon sticks, which we already had in the kitchen and bedroom. My old PS3 does fine for the TV in the living room. These old Optiplex's are very cheap to run on idle and don't draw that much at full throttle. I did some maths and I think I pay $3 a month for the electricity for that particular box. This, with free Netflix from my cell provider, beats the heck out of Dish Network's monthly bill. I can run three 1080 streams out with no problem and I can record one and watch a different one (only two tuners in the USB TV tuner stick) easily with no hardware bottlenecks with that setup. $300+/- up front and no more TV bills = win for me.

[@GraveUypo]

my office had some shitty old pcs that were starting to struggle with everything. the tasks that are asked of those pcs are mundane, they basically just have to run open office and browse the web at a decent speed. i bought 4 of these optiplexes that came with a q9xxx (i don't remember which exactly though) and 4gbs of ram, then i put some ssds in them and voila. snappy machines on the cheap. spent less money in all four than i would in a single retail basic computer that would probably be slower.

[@archlinuxrussian]

So, what you're saying is that these old machines can be retrofitted and still perform satisfactorily for most casual work cases? Sounds like a good charity right there! Get donated PCs, upgrade the RAM and put in an SSD, install Linux and give to those in need! :D Edit: Just mentioning why I said Linux, it'd be because sometimes older hardware would run better on something like Ubuntu Mate instead of Win10. Not saying "never install Windows", just keeping in-line w/ the whole charity theme :)

[@blakem9109]

archlinuxrussian It would be cool to see this for scrapyard wars. Buy a stack of old pcs at auction, each team builds 5 and best cumulative benchmarks scores win. Then all 10 are donated to a worthy group.

[@ITZKappaKAP]

@degru5091 SPONSORED BY FREE GEEK. You are a genius. :)

[@theflashfan3234]

I like the way this comment section thinks

[@MurfDoggNitro]

@@OverbiteGames Christ, this was overly aggressive. See a shrink dude.

[@Jarymut]

Yep. I'm still using 12yo PC, upgraded graphics (to get hardware video decoding), 8GB DDR2 RAM (to run facebook or two-three browser tabs), SSD and Linux. Runs much smoother than a lot of cheap new laptops with Win10, which is funny.

[@kaysheeb4844]

I’ve never noticed the way Linus says sorry

[@nikrbawker]

sandy bridge and ivy are the current optiplexes for the taking. pretty amazing rigs and also 240g ssd are 26 now bad thing is old gpus seem to have gone up in price with covid.

[@kevinsdb1]

@7:33 as soon as it went slow-mo I knew Linus was gonna drop it.

[@BillPickle]

you mean as soon as it was in his hands? :^)

[@johnlopez1717]

Please make more budget content!!! I love this type of content!

[@adambukharijunaidi6145]

Thanks for making this video, i now have upgraded my Optiplex 380 MT and it runs perfectly. The specs are as follow:- Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz Gtx 750 ti low profile 8gb ddr3 250gb ssd 2tb hdd

[@yulioakhmad9270]

bro what ram u use? i fail to boot when use 2x4gb pc3L-12800u

[@yulioakhmad9270]

please help thank you

[@adambukharijunaidi6145]

@@yulioakhmad9270 i bought a used 2x 4gb hyperX ddr3 1600mhz eventho the motherboard only supports 1066Mhz. But it works well. What desktop are you using?

[@adambukharijunaidi6145]

@Qimodis i could play gta v, fifa 19, valorant n few other games

[@yulioakhmad9270]

@@adambukharijunaidi6145 dell optiplex 380 bro,

[@exactinmidget92]

this was pretty much my first PC. it was some HP thing and all i did was stick a XFX R7 260X and that kept me for a few months.