Amazing that it was nearly a 40% overclock on the memory on the GT730! It did go higher but that was just for personal shits a giggles plus it was getting hot 😂
Pull one of these from the trash about a year and did nothing with it. Inspired by your video I've cleaned it up and bought it back from the dead. It had an i5 vPro cpu, which I've retained, swapped out the original 8GB of ram for 32GB of Crucial Ballistix-sport 1866Mhz, added in a 2GB Radeon R7 240 gpu and a new, obligatory, SSD boot drive. The previous owner must of dumped it because it was full of fluff and probably over heating, plus the weedy onboard graphics not being up to much. Apart from the cost SSD, the rest was bits I had lying around. Running the latest Linux Mint, as a casual PC, it's pretty good for a freebee.
For those who want a decent GPU without spending too much money look up for the Quadro K620. It's almost as good as the 750 TI but it's way cheaper. Those can usually be found for 20$ or under
For me this is my main system, but I have HP Pro 6300 SFF, and I have 4 of them, on two of them I have Linux, on the other two Windows 11. This system can be significantly expanded, you just need to know how.
@@andystech101 It's not so many, but they are quite upgraded, inside I have space for 2 HDD's 3.5'' and 3 SSD'a 2.5'', CPU i7 3770, GPU Nvidia Quadro P620, Ram 16 GB, first of all, it is an energy-efficient computer :)
I do exactly the same. I love buying and even upgrading old tech. But then I try it on games I currently play and realise time has passed so fast… these parts aren’t how I remember them. Still, for the money you can build a great machine. Maybe you can do some bargain builds with strict budgets that might be able to play modern games at “acceptable” frame rates? What can you get for what money? What parts to focus on to make it balanced? That sort of thing
Yep love it! Much more fun than just buying the latest! Already know what that can do plus it’s buying the stuff you couldn’t afford when it was new… give it 8 years and we’ll have 4090’s for £150 🤩 cheers for the comment really appreciate it!
You can spray these Gold , and add enough RGB lights to land a small plane (providing John Mclane is not about) and charge 400 kroner . but i suppose its supply and demand 😀
Haha! Brilliant! Yes there’s a few floating about on Amazon but I think people have started to wake up to the fact… I did resell this for a £100 but then I’ve got to offer 90days warranty etc. I did add a PCIe WiFi card as well.
🙂 i wouldnt consider any video card with ddr3 memory, tho im surprised that 730 is performing a bit better than it should, i can only imagine its because the cpu and ram are carrying it. Normally I would be looking at cheap radeon cards with DDR5 memory, something from HD or R7 or R9 or RX
Agreed! Part of me was hoping it was the DDR5 version but alas.. the R5 430 at the super low end is probably better as it has the DDR5 memory.. tbh even a 128bit bus would have helped things here! Cheers for the comment really appreciated 😎
@@andystech101 🙂 theres a card that nobody talks about, its called the R7 450 4GB DDR5, it runs somewhere between the 430 u mentioned and the RX 550, the full size version is 25 bucks and the SFF version is 35 bucks. I have one in my collection. Works fine for what it is.
yeah they are getting old old now these 3rd gen units,i picked up a prodesk 400 g6 with a i3 9100 for £80 back in may and its even limited what you can do with it! Still for basic machines they still do a job
Loved my 9100F but it got old quickly! I guess you could go for an i5 9500/9400 but things will start getting hot pretty quickly. Agreed they still do the job but I’m a mini tower man if I had to.
Just curious what would be a good option for a budget SFF pc for casual gaming in 2024. Does anybody recommend any dell models ? How well do low profile GPU s perform and what is a good budget option.
Dell, HP, Lenovo will all work fine. Something like this is probably the best way to go if your set on SFF www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176485777177?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=VWnTw8yXR1e&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=aaM8B7ONQqS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY LP GPUs perform no different but do run a little hotter. 1650, 1050Ti, RX6400, RTX3050 are probably the options for the most performance. Quadros are worth looking out for as well.
Would be interesting to see if you could upgrade to 3rd Gen? Probably not as they’re usually locked down but a E5 Xeon or an i7 would be a good little upgrade for you.
@@andystech101 yeah i did upgrade it to a Xeon E3-1280 in 2015 and it still runs today i was amazed it even runs games better while people said xeon is bad for gaming lol these fools must be thinking of the newer gen xeon cpus that cant game
This is funny stumbling on this video. I have an HP 8200 with a core i7-2600 and I put in a GT 730 to do some game testing. I’ve only just started, but Fortnite is atrocious so far. Although I didn’t do any resolution scaling yet. However, my GT 730 isn’t an OEM version, it’s an Inno3D 2 GB DDR 5 version. I know your CPU is better, but can’t imagine it being THAT much better. I’ll have to do some more tweaks to see what I can get.
It’s probably about the same performance with the cpu, better IPC and the ram will be running at 1600 over 1333 with Sandy. I’d probably say the GPU was 20% faster with the DDR5 not sure what your bus is? There was 64 and 128bit. Generally performance mode low, far view distance and 60% scale you should be good. Make sure you download the texture streaming package though as it will stutter like mad otherwise! Let me know the final results would be interesting to know and thanks for the comment really appreciated.
@@andystech101 I found out why the performance on my system was so abysmal. First, I had the GPU in the x16 slot with x4 lanes. I thought the white slot was primary, but it's the black one that has all 16 lanes of pci-e 2.0. (Although the GT 730 is only a x8 pci-e 2.0 card). Second, the card in the white slot was reading pci-e 1.1 x4. When I switched the card to the black slot and rebooted the driver had to reinitialize and in GPU-Z it came up as pci-e 1.1 x4 again. I shutdown and popped the card out and reseated it and when I booted back into WIndows GPU-Z finally read it properly as pci-e 2.0 x8. When I get a chance I'll set mine up like you have yours and test and let you know what I get. Should be interesting to see how far apart the i7-2600 and i7-3770 are from each other.
Good video. It's a good find for the money.. BUT any video card under a gtx 1050ti in 2024 is practically obsolete. 4k video is no longer rare and 2gb vram gaming is rough in 2024 even on most new AA games.
Yes agreed but it’s still fun seeing what these old cards can do. 4GB is even a push on anything except low these days. Would like to take a look at a 1050Ti at some point! Just to see what they can do.
4K isn't rare but it's still not a common resolution either. 1080p is still used by most, according to the Steam hardware survey at any rate. I've only recently gone to 1440p and that's because I didn't realise that the 30 series from Nvidia no longer had DVI ports and that the only way my old monitor could be high refresh rate.
I honestly didn't think the overclocked 730 would do this well. Also nice find, an i7, 16gb ram and ssd for £40 is a great find
Amazing that it was nearly a 40% overclock on the memory on the GT730! It did go higher but that was just for personal shits a giggles plus it was getting hot 😂
Pull one of these from the trash about a year and did nothing with it. Inspired by your video I've cleaned it up and bought it back from the dead. It had an i5 vPro cpu, which I've retained, swapped out the original 8GB of ram for 32GB of Crucial Ballistix-sport 1866Mhz, added in a 2GB Radeon R7 240 gpu and a new, obligatory, SSD boot drive. The previous owner must of dumped it because it was full of fluff and probably over heating, plus the weedy onboard graphics not being up to much. Apart from the cost SSD, the rest was bits I had lying around. Running the latest Linux Mint, as a casual PC, it's pretty good for a freebee.
I’ve a soft spot for the R7 240! Nice save and I’m glad it’s serving you well.
For those who want a decent GPU without spending too much money look up for the Quadro K620. It's almost as good as the 750 TI but it's way cheaper. Those can usually be found for 20$ or under
Quadro K620 is a great little card! Made a video last year on it 😎
I was going to say that! It's almost thrice as powerful as the 730!
but it wont work with chimera OS unfortunately
I think maybe selling the 730 adding a bit of cash and getting a base 1050 would be pretty good.
I’m sure they’ll get back to me for an upgrade down the line. Anything is better really at this point 😅
intel arc a380 sff card .. monster gaming pc .. :D
Still need to get my hands on one of those 😎
For me this is my main system, but I have HP Pro 6300 SFF, and I have 4 of them, on two of them I have Linux, on the other two Windows 11. This system can be significantly expanded, you just need to know how.
That’s a lot of HPs 💪🏼
@@andystech101 It's not so many, but they are quite upgraded, inside I have space for 2 HDD's 3.5'' and 3 SSD'a 2.5'', CPU i7 3770, GPU Nvidia Quadro P620, Ram 16 GB, first of all, it is an energy-efficient computer :)
I do exactly the same. I love buying and even upgrading old tech. But then I try it on games I currently play and realise time has passed so fast… these parts aren’t how I remember them.
Still, for the money you can build a great machine. Maybe you can do some bargain builds with strict budgets that might be able to play modern games at “acceptable” frame rates?
What can you get for what money? What parts to focus on to make it balanced? That sort of thing
Yep love it! Much more fun than just buying the latest! Already know what that can do plus it’s buying the stuff you couldn’t afford when it was new… give it 8 years and we’ll have 4090’s for £150 🤩 cheers for the comment really appreciate it!
Anything that helps prevent eWaste systems is good. Not everyone needs the same computer.
Agreed and it will go to a good home.
You can spray these Gold , and add enough RGB lights to land a small plane (providing John Mclane is not about) and charge 400 kroner . but i suppose its supply and demand 😀
Haha! Brilliant! Yes there’s a few floating about on Amazon but I think people have started to wake up to the fact… I did resell this for a £100 but then I’ve got to offer 90days warranty etc. I did add a PCIe WiFi card as well.
🙂 i wouldnt consider any video card with ddr3 memory, tho im surprised that 730 is performing a bit better than it should, i can only imagine its because the cpu and ram are carrying it. Normally I would be looking at cheap radeon cards with DDR5 memory, something from HD or R7 or R9 or RX
Agreed! Part of me was hoping it was the DDR5 version but alas.. the R5 430 at the super low end is probably better as it has the DDR5 memory.. tbh even a 128bit bus would have helped things here! Cheers for the comment really appreciated 😎
@@andystech101 🙂 theres a card that nobody talks about, its called the R7 450 4GB DDR5, it runs somewhere between the 430 u mentioned and the RX 550, the full size version is 25 bucks and the SFF version is 35 bucks. I have one in my collection. Works fine for what it is.
I guess the 4GB helps out a little as well! Nice I’ll keep a lookout for a cheap one.
yeah they are getting old old now these 3rd gen units,i picked up a prodesk 400 g6 with a i3 9100 for £80 back in may and its even limited what you can do with it! Still for basic machines they still do a job
Loved my 9100F but it got old quickly! I guess you could go for an i5 9500/9400 but things will start getting hot pretty quickly. Agreed they still do the job but I’m a mini tower man if I had to.
Someone let Andy access eBay again LOL.
Good score on the SSD!
There is a kid out there that will be excited to have this PC.
Yep 🤦🏽 I was tempted to slap a 120GB drive in and keep the 500 for something else but share the love and I made £50 on it so.
Just curious what would be a good option for a budget SFF pc for casual gaming in 2024. Does anybody recommend any dell models ? How well do low profile GPU s perform and what is a good budget option.
Dell, HP, Lenovo will all work fine. Something like this is probably the best way to go if your set on SFF www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176485777177?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=VWnTw8yXR1e&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=aaM8B7ONQqS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY LP GPUs perform no different but do run a little hotter. 1650, 1050Ti, RX6400, RTX3050 are probably the options for the most performance. Quadros are worth looking out for as well.
@@andystech101 Thank you appreciate the advice !
hey i have one of these but its a i5 2400 from 2011 and the model is the HP elite 8200
Would be interesting to see if you could upgrade to 3rd Gen? Probably not as they’re usually locked down but a E5 Xeon or an i7 would be a good little upgrade for you.
honestly add an i7 and a 1650 and it would be fine
@@andystech101 yeah i did upgrade it to a Xeon E3-1280 in 2015 and it still runs today i was amazed it even runs games better while people said xeon is bad for gaming lol these fools must be thinking of the newer gen xeon cpus that cant game
Not bad, was expecting some Roblox benchmarks though lol
Not even sure that’s a thing 🤣 i think it’s locked to 60fps and runs on watch
@@andystech101 it has fps built in unlocker
This is funny stumbling on this video. I have an HP 8200 with a core i7-2600 and I put in a GT 730 to do some game testing. I’ve only just started, but Fortnite is atrocious so far. Although I didn’t do any resolution scaling yet. However, my GT 730 isn’t an OEM version, it’s an Inno3D 2 GB DDR 5 version. I know your CPU is better, but can’t imagine it being THAT much better. I’ll have to do some more tweaks to see what I can get.
It’s probably about the same performance with the cpu, better IPC and the ram will be running at 1600 over 1333 with Sandy. I’d probably say the GPU was 20% faster with the DDR5 not sure what your bus is? There was 64 and 128bit. Generally performance mode low, far view distance and 60% scale you should be good. Make sure you download the texture streaming package though as it will stutter like mad otherwise! Let me know the final results would be interesting to know and thanks for the comment really appreciated.
@@andystech101 I found out why the performance on my system was so abysmal. First, I had the GPU in the x16 slot with x4 lanes. I thought the white slot was primary, but it's the black one that has all 16 lanes of pci-e 2.0. (Although the GT 730 is only a x8 pci-e 2.0 card). Second, the card in the white slot was reading pci-e 1.1 x4. When I switched the card to the black slot and rebooted the driver had to reinitialize and in GPU-Z it came up as pci-e 1.1 x4 again. I shutdown and popped the card out and reseated it and when I booted back into WIndows GPU-Z finally read it properly as pci-e 2.0 x8. When I get a chance I'll set mine up like you have yours and test and let you know what I get. Should be interesting to see how far apart the i7-2600 and i7-3770 are from each other.
Good video. It's a good find for the money.. BUT any video card under a gtx 1050ti in 2024 is practically obsolete. 4k video is no longer rare and 2gb vram gaming is rough in 2024 even on most new AA games.
Yes agreed but it’s still fun seeing what these old cards can do. 4GB is even a push on anything except low these days. Would like to take a look at a 1050Ti at some point! Just to see what they can do.
4K isn't rare but it's still not a common resolution either. 1080p is still used by most, according to the Steam hardware survey at any rate. I've only recently gone to 1440p and that's because I didn't realise that the 30 series from Nvidia no longer had DVI ports and that the only way my old monitor could be high refresh rate.
I have to say, for the price yes it is not bad, but I wouldn't like it lol.
No don’t think I would but first PC for basic use it could be worse.
i have an hp compaq that looks exactly the same but with 500g hdd no gpu and 3rd gen i5
I’d say time for some cheeky upgrades maybe?
Maybe. Its just an extra system i got laying around
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Look you could get a system with a 6790x for £50 anything thats not specified for win11 is givenaway
Generally yes these days unfortunately but doesn’t mean I didn’t put win11 on there 🤩
40 for a 500GB SSD isn't bad going.
Yeah I pay about £20 new off Ali express for 10 at a time and if I’m stuck £28/£30 off Amazon but still a good bonus for me and the customer 😎
How the heck is Fortnite a more graphically demanding than gta5?
It is when you turn the settings up. Unreal engine 5.
Quite easily, gta v is old - although still looks good
$40 USD is £31 not 35
muppet
I’ll remember to do the exact mathematical break down next time just for you! £31.07 so we where both wrong 😁
@@andystech101it's WERE, not "where" dumdum
And you can't even say Three, it's not "free" !!
@@andystech101next time? There won't be a next time, worst videos on TH-cam, you can't even pronounce your TH sound, hideous to listen to