after messing with the 100 gaming PC
more by turning it into a Nas I was
curious how far can I take this thing
without making it a fire hazard like my
Jinx station well I got a new Xeon an E3
1246 V3 and a GTX 1650. so let's see how
far we can push this poor Optiplex
before the power supply pops also a lot
of people complained about my Ram so I
spent 13 to get another stick of DDR3
that will probably die starting out the
parts I decided to go with a Xeon 1246
V3 because I just want to be special and
it was only 30 plus my E3 1275 V3 got
destroyed during shipping and this is
what I was able to get with short notice
still four cores although no hyper
threading still but it has a nice solid
clock speed of 3.5 gigahertz and a turbo
speed of 3.9 gigahertz you could get a
higher in Xeon like the 1275 V3 I
mentioned earlier or an i7 like the
4770k or 4790k you also could overclock
those i7s a decent amount if you had a
motherboard that supported overclocking
but at that point you might as well just
get a newer motherboard and rebuild the
whole system due to that it's going to
be difficult to really push the system
too much further cpu-wise as the highest
end LGA 1150 CPU you can get as far as
I'm aware is the 4790k which is for sure
getting a little long in the tooth
nowadays and also they're selling for
like a hundred dollars which to me just
feels like a scam although I will say a
4790k was my main CPU about two years
ago so hey maybe it is good enough for
you also of course I picked up a
matching stick of hyperx DDR3 1600
megahertz Ram so we can finally have 16
gigabytes of proper dual Channel memory
if you were using REM intensive programs
like after effects I would go ahead and
throw in another 16 gigabytes to get a
full 32 gigs of RAM and just get a
lesser GPU since Ram will probably be a
lot more limiting than the GPU in terms
of the graphics card we don't have very
many options frankly this power supply
is only rated for about 240 watts and
doesn't have any actual pcie power
connectors I could use the SATA to pcie
power adapters from the Jank station but
but the internet has informed me that I
was in fact correct for once in my life
and it is a fire hazard so hey I mean at
least I was right for once right due to
that I've decided to go with a GTX 1650.
it's like the GTX 1050 but now I can
drive it was only 120 and the one I
received in the mail actually did have a
pcie power connector so I guess it's
fire hazard time if you want to use the
GTX 1650 for your build with a pcie
power connector you're going to need
some SATA to pcie cables since this card
is so low wattage though I'm not as
worried about the fire hazard aspect
plus if you run them off two separate
power rails the max power these cables
can actually Supply is just over 100
Watts or so and since 75 watts is coming
from the motherboard and this card only
takes about 120 watts I think we will be
okay although this does mean we'll be
limited on the amount of drives we can
put in here to just two unless you got
some pcie storage so we're gonna have to
take out those Seagate drives we just
put in there although on the bright side
if you are planning on going the Jank
station route with this build there are
a lot of other options than we initially
had if you want you can go up to an RTX
3050 if you want as the power
consumption is just above 100 watt or
even a 1660 super to stay in the realm
of this PC and also since there's a very
good chance the RTX 3050 will bottleneck
the CPU anyways so that might not be the
best way to spend your money also I am
still working on the 500 gaming laptop
video I just gotta Wade through
mountains of broken laptops and gamer
grease to find the right laptop but if
you're still interested in that make
sure to subscribe because it is still
coming I promise putting it all together
is just as simple as the first iteration
of this build just install your GPU into
the top pcie slot making sure you take
out all of these little metal covers
then take your SATA to pcie power
connector and connect it to two
different SATA lines for extra safety
and then plug it right into your GPU in
terms of ram since we have two eight
gigabyte sticks now what we'll have to
do is we'll have to put one into the
second ram slot closest to the CPU and
then one in the slot furthest away from
the CPU so we can get dual Channel going
and since we have a GPU that can
actually we've Run games now dual
Channel memory might actually do
something make sure to plug your monitor
into the GPU not the onboard display
ports as I wouldn't actually use your
fancy new fire hazard these Dells also
come with a kind of strange heatsink so
I want to kind of run through that real
quick it's really similar to Intel stock
hate sync but has screws instead of
little Clips unscrew it pop it off and
then go to your CPU like usual lift up
the retention arm take out the old CPU
if you have one line up your new CPU
with the triangles drop it in well okay
not drop once your CPU is in place lower
that retention arm back down and put a
little dab of thermal paste on there
then put the heatsink back on trying to
distribute the pressure evenly as you
screw it in each corner and once you
have a boot drive you are all good to go
already I really just love upgrading
these old pre-built gaming PCs because
there's just hardly any cable management
or anything you just throw some parts in
and it's just ready to go it may not be
the prettiest thing but it'll do and
it's great value now with those upgrades
the system comes out to about 220 25
dollars if you're anything like me and
your SSD or Ram dies at all like mine
did we're gonna have to bump up the
price a little bit we'll call it an even
250. this is also assuming you sell your
prior parts and break even or if you
just have a Bare Bones Dell Optiplex
with no CPU Ram graphics card in regular
use can you tell it was upgraded well no
it's as simple as that the PC was fine
before I mean it worked but it did start
up first try and hasn't given me any
issues with any of these used parts so
the Xeon and the GTX 1650 worked fine
and the sated pcie power connector
worked fine no fires yeah hopefully so
starting out with some synthetic testing
we got cinebench R23 the original 100
gaming PC got a score just above 2400.
the new Xeon got a solid 33 38 which is
honestly a really solid bump in
performance especially since we still
have a little bit more to go if we want
to upgrade the CPU more to a 4790k after
that I tried blender BMW which finished
in one minute and 20 seconds using both
the CPU and GPU in terms of productivity
Lightroom unsurprisingly ran great and
surprisingly so did Premiere Premiere
specifically took a really long time to
launch for whatever reason but even in a
native 4K timeline with minor color
grading it was able to play at full
speed and full resolution I mean it is a
pretty simple timeline but if you're
doing more serious work go ahead and
check out the 500 workstation Jank
station build because it will have 14
cores is double the price and is so much
better in Premiere it could easily play
back at full res and even was able to
handle grading without major issues
scrubbing through the timeline was a
little slow though and I personally
would enable proxies to actually get
smooth scrubbing I just can't stand
rough scrubbing you know it's just sand
with proxies you are able to get an
amazingly responsive timeline and I
honestly would have never guessed that
this was a 250 PC if I just randomly saw
it on the street and loaded up Premiere
to edit a video in the middle of winter
whatever people do with PCS they find on
the side of the street it was also able
to render out the full 5D classic review
in 4k in just a minute or so over 20
minutes that is significantly slower
than the five minutes it took the Jank
station but it is half the price and
honestly it might have been a little bit
quicker if I was exporting to a separate
SSD now the fun part gaming starting off
with something simple BioShock Infinite
before the poor GTX 650 and Lauren Zeon
could it could run the game all right
medium settings 1080p now we can run
BioShock Infinite at 1080p ultra
settings over 120 FPS consistently in
the intro area so we are just starting
off really damn strong with this build
and next CS go high settings 1080p was
able to manage distant 150 to 200 FPS
although all those frames didn't make me
better at the game though because I am
truly terrible at CS go BeamNG was able
to run at high settings 50 to 60 FPS
which is pretty solid overall and didn't
experience much stuttering either which
is nice and Fallout 4 if you remember on
lowest settings we had a basically
unplayable experience but now we can run
ultra settings with a solid and
consistent 60fps with no major drops in
frame rate and as for newer games do
maternal actually run on high settings
with resolution scaling off it got a
solid 70 to 90 FPS with Vulcan this
footage was actually recorded with the
resolution scaling on and I didn't
realize it somehow which is actually
pretty cool so lastly we have Metro
Exodus which like Fallout 4 Metro Exodus
was not able to run even on the lowest
settings with the original 100 gaming PC
and be even just somewhat playable with
the upgrades though we can now run it
high settings in the intro area 50 to 60
FPS which in later areas you might want
to bump it down to maybe medium or
something in my experience and I had a
few comments telling me my save
Corruptions had something to do with the
100 gaming PC being unstable or
something like that and I can assure you
they are not the saves corrupt across
multiple computers and corrupted again
during the filming of this video which
is why I'm even further back in the
intro area than I was last time I tested
it I do not know why Exodus hates me so
much but it just does unfortunately I am
really impressed though by how much more
we get out of this PC with these
upgrades than the original PC for just
150 extra dollars yeah it is double the
price but it's still 250 dollars most
games ran extremely well and were
actually not even bottlenecked by the
CPU surprisingly I think honestly this
PC has some more performance on the
table if you wanted to throw a slightly
higher end or newer GPU with a similar
power draw along with a slightly higher
in Xeon so let me know if you want to
see just how far we can push this poor
LGA 1150 Optiplex with the tiny 200
something power supply I also wanted to
add two things this PC had no issues
cooling itself even though it just had
some tiny little fans on it and a note
on the SATA adapters I actually do not
suggest doing this yourself but in my
case the wires didn't even get slightly
warm after leaving games running with
the GPU maxed out for extended periods
of time so honestly if I had a tight
budget I don't think this would faze me
but build at your own risk honestly I
think this build is way cooler than the
original 100 gaming PC it's way more
usable and can actually play most games
unlike the original PC I would have for
sure preferred a GTX 1650 without the
additional pcie power at the end of the
day it works and I have a lot more trust
in this system than the Jank station
plus if you need a PC to get started
making videos as it seems everyone does
you can easily edit 1080p video on this
thing and Export it in a pretty
reasonable amount of time and frankly
for 1080p the biggest bottleneck is
actually going to be the storage more
than anything especially if you can
can't afford Solid State Storage so yeah
I think I was wrong you can get a lot of
mileage out of this little Dell Optiplex
if you just want to put some time money
and yeah maybe set safety on the side
for a little bit