This $500 USED PC kicks butt!! Budget Gaming!

I have a hard time letting any PC go to waste. 7 years ago I built my mom a regular use non-gaming PC with an Intel G4400 Pentium. I recently built her a new AM5 build and didn’t have it in me to throw it away. I upgraded the CPU for $50 to a i7 7700k, threw in 16gb of ram for $15, and bought a 1060 6GB on FB for $35. Now it’s a 1080p gaming PC for my daughter’s room, and Netflix, YouTube, school work, etc. Rinse and reuse! Haha.

1 - You were not scammed 2 - Amazing boost of performance after a little love / caring and tweaking 3 - Yes, I want to see how you will upgrade this PC. And I do not mind if you make it using second hand parts. I will really enjoy this as I have build recently the third PC for my little girl from mostly leftovers (old parts), and I am still amazed how fine this computer works for a 8 years old girl. She is playing and doing the homework on that same PC. PS - Please do a video if you can play 4k games on an old Intel I 7700K on a custom liquid cooled loop today. Greetings from Romania.

Windows license is probably digitally linked to the motherboard. Simply use Windows install USB and see if Windows becomes active again by means of a digital key linked to the motherboard

4:13 "like old 9th gen" Me on 8th gen 🥲

I fully agree with you about not trusting any OS I didn't install. Even on brand new prebuilts and laptops I support for family, the FIRST thing I do is install Windows from scratch, from MY media.

For those of you who are new to this channel, a spinny Drive is a hard disk drive... not a solid state drive. It has platters that spin around and around and around and store data. Also known as a mechanical drive.

Jay probably watched a couple fix or flop episodes by Greg Salazar when he tried to power on the system without any cables connected😂.

LOL "Cause there's dust all over it" ::Me sitting here looking at my dusty ass PC that I try to clean once a week comapring it to what almost looks abnormally clean::

Well, i too thought i was getting scammed with this 5800x NZXT h510i build that was only 300 bucks.. only a few upgrades were needed and were practically free by selling the old components. Upgraded the 580 with a 180 dollar 6600 from micro center, Also a Thermalright Peerless Assassin and im a happy man once again! Great Video Jay!

imagine showing up to a meet to sell your pc and then you recognize Jay trying to lowball you

Great video Jay, thank you for taking the time and putting together these detailed examples of what's possible out there.

Thanks for making these kinds of video Jay. At least your still in touch of your audience and reality, unlike other channels that just keep pumping videos showing tech that are extremely expensive and impractical. Keep it up, Love your work.

14:45 - That could also be because the previous owner has locked in a preferred specific release version, eg. for Win10 I don't allow the system to upgrade beyond 22H2. Plenty of references online on how to do this.

In order to use MSI afterburner you need to add this command in the launch option menu to make the monitoring work with cs2 "-allow_third_party_software"

Super great vid & 100% yes to the upgrade video. Great series and that perf uplift by flipping 3 setting is crazy.

Love these types of videos. Definitely want to see the upgrades in future videos.

On the subject of used, be aware of the win 10 end of life upcoming next October. Verify the used pc is win11 compatible, Intel gen 8+. There will be tons of older pcs showing up for this very reason.

Please keep doing more of these used PC videos!

Also its recommended to Zero out and secure erase SSD's in order to release the cells that have been used and have been written over. You essentially erase any residual data and clear those cells to gain performance.

This is such a great and informative video. This is the kind of content we want, not clickbait drama fake outrage 'journalism' bullshit. Thanks Jay!