A Fast Low-Cost Awesome SFF Gaming & EMU PC! RX 6400 RDNA2 Power

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Want to build a low-cost budget gaming and emulation PC? Well in this video we put together an awesome little SFF PC using the all-new AMD Radeon RX 6400 Low profile RDNA2 Graphics card and an Optiplex 3050 from eBay! We run some benchmarks, and test some PC games like Forza Horizon 3, The Witcher 3, God Of War, Elden Ring, and even Cyberpunk 2077! Plus we see how it handles emulation using PPSSPP for PSP, The dolphin emulator for Wii, and PCSX2 for PS2!

00:00-intro
00:15-Overview
01:25-Video Sponsor Ad
02:45-The Build
04:34-Specs and WIndows
05:28-Forza Horizon 5
06:07-Benchmarks
06:43-The Witcher 3
07:12:STreet Fighter 5
07:37-GTA5
08:08-Elden Ring
08:33-God Of War
08:58-Cyberpunk 2077
09:18-PSP Emulation
09:37-Wii Emulation
09:57-PS2 Emulation
10:18-FInal Thoughts

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[Kraven]

6:54 wow, that level of performance in the witcher 3 is definitely luxurious for what this machine is. I'd buy one immediately.

[justinpatterson]

People can hate on 6400 all they want. There's no doubt about it. This is the single fastest slim low profile card out there. If this is all the room you've got. What else you going to pick, a GT 1030?

[theesophisticatedcarrot]

These budget build videos are by far my favorite. All the different combos and out comes. The possibilities are endless and considering the massive prices drops on hardware we are seeing it's getting affordable to do these again.

[shakkaka]

I did the same thing to my old office pc, i put in a used i7 4790, 1tb ssd and the rx 6400. The pc runs great and i can play everything i want at 1080p

[xxcrysadxx]

For roughly $225, a setup like this is pretty hard to beat in the small form factor category.

[JonathanHolt]

I've missed these budget gaming pc builds, glad to see another one, especially with the price of PCs and computer parts right now.

[zeritooverride]

I recently switch from a GT1030 to an RX6400 on an optiolex 3070 (i5 9500) and the difference is night and day! It’s running at PCIE3 speeds but it works miracles.

[thinkboi]

I honestly LOVE these office PC builds. I personally have a Lenovo M93p SFF rocking a Xeon e3 1230v3, 32B of DDR3 and a low profile GTX 1650, and it has gave me a great experience and will play anything i throw at it

[hassosigbjoernson]

It would be a great idea to compare these RDNA2 with the last gen Ryzen Vega APUs, for example in a Ryzen 2400/3400G system. Just to see how much of an upgrade this would be.
And since this is an 60 Watt isch card, it could be a great option for an HP OEM PC with such a Ryzen APU but only a 180 Watt PSU.

[androoo]

Would love to see more vids on rx6400 being used on other SFF optiplexes, such as the 7020/9020. Even better if you get the i7 variant!

[hardeho]

I recently made a similar setup. I got a Lenovo Thinkcentre SFF at an estate sale for $50. It had an i5-6500 and 16GB RAM. I already had a spare 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD and I put in the same RX 6400. I'm very pleased with the performance for what it is. It runs LEgo Star Wars and Minecraft for the kids, and I'm thinking I'll make it an emulation box.

[justinpatterson]

I'm really looking forward to seeing more RDNA2-3-+ sff systems.

[SilverKnight]

Wow, the 6400 is honestly really impressive for the form factor and price point, honestly. Sure, it's not super powerful, but for the power draw and, more importantly, for a SINGLE SLOT GPU, this is pretty unreal. No hate on a good entry level card, because the entry level market needs it.

This is what the 6500XT should've been.

[trombonemain]

I fully believe that everyone hating on the 6400 are viewing it in the wrong light. The card isn’t trying to compete in the full ATX space - it’s a card meant for relatively low-power systems like this, to give them a boost and make them capable of modern gaming, albeit at probably low settings.

[RandomBSOD]

Influenced by your videos I recently bought an inspiron 3647 for $15, I put an R7 240 and it emulates games beautifully 👌

[mattharmony]

A comparison with the RX 6400 - GT1030 - T1000 - GTX 1650 would be awesome!

[Warlock_UK]

This video is JUST what I needed. I have an i5-8500 system that has the same 180W PSU and I've been looking at what GPU to add to give it as a gift. RX6400 it is :)

[ethxl]

Watching this currently on a modded Optiplex 3050...

[zaidlacksalastname]

This build is insane for the price. Completely bonkers. I have a more powerful pc but I'm in awe at how cool this is.

[JurgenSchober]

I am a big fan of the 6400. Like I said in the other post, I have it in an Optiplex 9020 with an i7 4790. Unfortunately this is even an older board with PCIe 2.0, but still works great. I got the Sapphire 6400 and the XFX (both $159 now). More or less by accident I got two of them. I feel like the XFX is a bit louder under full load - in a X570 board with a 5700X in a PCIe 4.0 configuration. But this thing works awesomely well. In Manjaro, I now fully got VRR (Freesync) unlocked on it with a 1440p @144Hz mode on the desktop. That just enables variable framerate for a ton of games and most really run in +60fps at +1080p all day. With medium to high. I love it so much I am throwing my higher end cards out - until the next gen comes around. I might just replace the Optiplex with a better board to get to PCIe 4.0. Its a really amazingly well running small card. Where the 1650LP did stutter at times, this one just doesn't. And with HDMI 2.x and full VRR support it beats it any day (and actually has RT cores...haven't tried that, though). FSR does wonders for res scaling, but almost never below 1080p, rather beyond (except maybe Cyberpunk - which is fully playable and looks great on this card at near 60fps).