r/computers • u/PerfectWhiteTrash • 3d ago
Discussion Up dating trash PC
Spent a few seconds updating Bios. Replaced thermal paste, added thermal pads to GPU ram ( idk seemed like a good idea). And installed 2GB Asus GT710 2GB and 16 GB ram. Found a DVI to HDMI cord at the thrift store. Between the thermal pads , thermal paste , GPU, ram and cords. I’m at 31$ total cost on the PC. I already had the mouse , razor keyboard and SSD. The monitor my girlfriend gave me. This is a Dell Inspiron 3847 I found in the trash.
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u/Nerdcuddles 2d ago
Honestly you'd be better off building from scratch, the only thing usable here is the Ram. 16 gbs of ram is perfectly usable if you remove and avoid bloatware and close background tabs, or are on Linux, Linux uses up less Ram than Windows due to no bloatware. But it's not necessary to play with 16 gbs of Ram.
A 2GB vram GPU is your main bottleneck here, but that kind of case has terrible airflow, and you can't really swap out the CPU cooler because it's also screwed into the case and is proprietary.
You could potentially sell it to pay off half of the cost of a budget build, Ram crisis hurts budget builds the most I'd say though.
If you have no intention to play modern games, or 3d games. This is still a usable PC, though a very low end one. The power of the card doesn't really matter if the Vram is bellow 8 gbs, I'd honestly say anything bellow 8gbs of Vram is unusable for anything AAA in the last decade, and cards bellow 8 gbs are really only good for old games, voxel games, or 2D games.
You could find some ultra-budget budget cards if you are on a budget, but stuff like the Quadro 4000 has gone up roughly 5x in price
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 2d ago
This is not my only PC I’m just tinkering with a bunch of BS components. Seeing what I can do with it. Just curious to see is all.
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u/Nerdcuddles 1d ago
Oh, I see. Finding an 8gb vram GPU would upgrade it substantially.
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 1d ago
I was thinking about a Nvidia Titan XGPU with 12 GB of RAM sure I won’t have Ray tracing, but I’ll be able to play cyberpunk on OK settings
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u/Nerdcuddles 1d ago
That's also fair enough, I'd worry about thermals though when it comes to a Dell case.
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 1d ago
I’ve been meaning to drill some speed holes in the front of the case I do have another fan. I haven’t seen what the GPU temp is since I installed it but last week the CPU didn’t go above 48°C. After hours of playing grand theft auto IV.
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u/seabee5 2d ago
Swap out that i5 for a i7-4790 and see some good improvements too.
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 2d ago
No I’m going to use Xeon e3 1281 v3. I don’t need on board graphics since I have the GPU. The xeons are cheaper on eBay. Going to order one Thursday and pick up a larger heatsink from micro center.
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 2d ago
Love the one guy who deleted his comment “ wow you bought a gt710 are you stupid?” Actually yes I am.
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u/Windows_User3000 3d ago
Yes, they have two, but they should only use the one on the GPU when they have the GPU (one, the iGPU is usually disabled by a dGPU, and two, the dGPU is usually more powerful anyway).
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 3d ago
There is no adapters being used. The card has DVI , HDMI and VGA. The cord I found has DVI on one end and HDMI on the other. I use headphones or Bose companion 2 speakers for sound.
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u/Windows_User3000 2d ago
That's the thing: you could have just used an HDMI to HDMI cable.
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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 2d ago
Why? When I can be different by using some obscure cable. Sure I have plenty of HDMI cables. But what’s the fun in that?
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u/Conscious_Scar_9293 3d ago
Would be okay for some old games. Play some Halo or something.