Low Cost ARC A380 Powered Budget Gaming PC! Was It Worth Doing?

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In this video w put together a Low Cost Intel Arc Powered Budget Gaming Using the ARC A380 and the Dell Optiplex 9020 powered by an i7 4790!

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00:00 Introduction
00:12 Build Overview
00:46 Video Sponsor Ad SPot
01:59 Parts Used In Build
03:21 Putting It All Together
06:03 Teting It Out
09:17 FInal Thoughts

[TheGameBench]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that Arc cards lose A LOT of performance if you can't enable resizable bar. Forget PCIe 4.0 and forget potential bottlenecking, the A380 is somewhere near a 1650 in terms of performance, you simply shouldn't consider putting an Arc card in an older system simply because you can't enable resizable bar.

[patlotpotlot]

That poor gpu would be bottleneck by that decade old pc because intel arc requires rebar to fully utilize the gpu performance

[ionamygdalon]

A new ARC build with a 1200F paired with the new budget a580 would be awesome to see!

[bessibessi]

My Home PC Desktop is Budget Gaming, it's really nice to see that you still make videos on this type of PC. Thank you

[aaronramirez]

I built my sleeper pc in this case and what I love about it is I don’t need screws to open it up and can easily access the components, I put a new 500w psu and a cheap a320 MicroATX mb and RTX 3060 took off the HDD bay and where the HDD bay was I put an extra 120mm fan using a double sided adhesive pad if you don’t want to drill more holes, temps are great, runs like a champ

[CantankerousDave]

Intel themselves say not to bother with an ARC card if your system doesn’t support resizable BAR. Which this Haswell CPU doesn’t. (My ancient desktop has a 4770K, so I’ve looked into this.)

[boominfree]

A380 also has AV1 you could use it for handbrake encoding and streaming

[Kuri]

use ReBarUEFI to get resizable bar on the Haswell motherboard, Arc A380 will perform like it should then

[pmk]

love to see builds like this, I did a similar build in 2019 for my son, using a lenovo prebuilt that came with an i7 3770 and 16GB RAM, swapped the psu (with adapter) for a bstock evga psu, added a 256GB ssd, and a 8GB rX 580, for the price i think the 580 is still a better deal today than the A380.

[worldgate]

For everyone who doesn't know better, unlike ETA, if you mix the ram sizes most motherboards (if not all) will not do dual or quad channel ram. Better off getting two 4, and two 8's, or just four 8s or 4s.

[thegamepadguru]

I built my son a computer similar to this. Bought a "Treasure Box" PC on Amazon. It's a refurbished Dell SSF i5-4570 with 16GB RAM. Took it innards and put in a case with a RX550 and 450W.PSU.

Performs well with the games he plays. Fortnite, Overwatch 2. Naruto: Ninja Storm 4 and My Hero Academia.

[sharoyveduchi]

That's very interesting. The card still performs good even without resizable bar.

[wilsondavenport]

i just picked up the Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF, bc it has no exturnal power but i am still so glad to see this!

[aaronramirez]

Taking out the HDD bay and stick a 120mm fan in front with double sided adhesive pad if you don’t want to drill more holes makes a good difference in temps highly recommend if your planning on building a sleeper with this case

[infinityzr]

4790 should not be pegged 100% in FH5 at 65fps. Maybe ARC driver overhead is pretty severe

[FamilyCS]

I have a 4790 that i used for emulation, but turned into a nas now. Pretty powerful with my 1050ti i had in it.

[GTD]

I love seeing opti's ❤
I built mine into a sleeper with 5800x3d and 6600 for the home office

Id love to see you throw in a am5 chip a big gpu and some ddr5 ram, hell you can even swap out the usb ports on the front to use non proprietary usb ports to work with new mobo and some have usb-c

[samyabdel]

would be great to see a budget build with the a380 in a small form factor with an intel cpu something like a mini pc setup, that would be something a lot of people would be interested in...none the less, great video.

[jamesdavies]

Just delete this video now. It's bad advice for someone looking to build a budget PC. ARC cards without Re-bar support are useless.

[anon_y_mousse]

I'd love to see you running Linux on it. I'm voting once again for Slackware, but your distribution of choice would work too.