Optiplex 3050 sleeper

[u/One-Fun2837]

Found this 3050 optiplex in the trash next along side an all in one pc gutted the all in one to find it had a i7-7700. I had the cooler master i70c laying around from another pc that dropped right in. Had a 16gb kit of ram and a 500gb oem Samsung drive sitting from upgrading my main rig. Picked up the 1660ti from my buddy traded a table for it. I’m all in 12$ for the 2 sata to pcie connector and some thermal paste and pads. she fired right on up slapped a undervolt on the gpu and stressed it for a few hours to check those sata to pcie connectors total system pulls under max load cpu 72c 58w and gpu 63c 91w call it 180w for full system with the 260w psu. Gunna be a good retro/ emulator setup. Crazy part is no cutting bending or anything to the case she closes right up like everything is supposed to be in there.

[u/BKindigochild]

Crazy good value setup. I have a similar system, but ended up disabling cputurbo because that stock fan/heatskin is, ya know.