Ive always loved watching Scrapyard Wars and the $69 gaming pc series from LTT, so I thought I’d try to give it a go myself and see what I could come up with. I am beyond proud of the finished product.
The parts purchased are as followed:
Base: Savers(Value Village) Dell T7810 Workstation – $6.99
GPU: FB Marketplace 980ti – $15
Storage: EBay SSD – $10
The System came with a Xeon e5-2603 v3, 16gb of ddr4 (4x4gb), a geforce 8400 gs, and a 685 watt Dell psu. No storage was included which makes sense if it was dumped by an office or school. I bought a Kingston 120gb ssd on eBay for 10$, and then a 980ti that was “maybe broken” for $15 on facebook (negotiated down from $30). The computer didn’t include any Pcie power coming from its breakout board on the power supply, but funnily enough a 8 pin to dual 6+2 cable from an old EVGA modular psu my friend had was pin compatible and required no modification, plug and play. After plugging everything in I was able to fire it up, install windows and drivers, and play some games! GPU worked flawlessly and was running cool and quiet. Definitely lucked out with that find.
I am able to play more or less every game I want to on this, and for less than the cost of my recent door dashed chipotle lol.
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Ha!
That’s awesome man.
Pick up an e5 2690v3 for $7 on eBay and it’ll take you up to $39 and 12 cores
“gaming pc” + no RGB = downvote 😛
j/k epic deal, epic build, hope you enjoy it
Nobody will judge you here. If you are happy, we are happy too.
That’s amazing, love it!!
pretty sick build.
good choice to start with a precision desktop.
Nice work. I have a slightly better potato but I paid a premium for it. Especially since the parts were just released
Bro was selling a 980 for $30 and you still lowballed him 🤯 amazing
I would have splurged a little on the ssd. You can get new 500gb for around $30 so I’m sure you could have gotten a better deal than a 120. Other than that good job.
Does it run Doom: TDA ?
Love this. Enjoy the new build my man!
Oh man the insane potential of this since its a workstation with 2 cpu slots! Stick another xeon in there! Itll blow your mind
Not bad at all. I mean this GPU is really old and power hungry. But for that price i don’t think I could complain.
But can it run Crysis?!
Congratulations man, gaming pc is in heart not desktop
You Sir, are a King Among Men.
Nice, I love it when old parts are put to good use again.
What are you playing with it at what resolution and what are the fps?
I did a similar thing about a year ago. 1060, random ssd, £7 xeon chip, random non branded motherboard, 16gb ram. Plays games quite well for under 100 quid in value
Cool, now what
Holy shit you my man are the budget king
Yessir we love to see it for $32 you can play every thing but the absolutely new titles (not so much due to the card’s age more so due to the lack of optimization) and consoles games from emulation all the way to the ps3 great job man
Getting a 980ti for 15$ is insane. I’m looking into a cheap gpu to upgrade my GF”s PC so she can play REPO, and I have a budget of 50€. (Embarrassing, i know, Im trying my best). And the only available gpus for this price are:
8 gb Rx480
4 gb RX570
2Gb GXT 1050
(Portugal prices).
that’s pretty awesome, ngl
If the Millennium Falcon was a gaming PC. excellent work, my dude.
Some build for what is basically £25 GBP honestly fair play
Someone cooked here.
I would be embarrassed to low ball 30 bucks
That case is sick, I just spent way too much on parts for a new pc and I’m jealous. Good stuff man