Building A Horrible Gaming PC For $0...
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Can we build a "gaming computer" from scrap, trash and random parts I have lying around? Will it be able to play modern games? Well, join me on my journey to find out! #opera #gaming #building
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Specifications of the "gaming computer"
Acer Veriton X2631G
Intel Pentium G3220 3GHz CPU
400GB Hitachi 7,200rpm Hard Disk
Nvidia GT 610 1GB GPU
8GB DDR3 Memory
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i am very early to this video
i sure will
CRT technology looks brilliant on low Res like 1280x1024. I still use it today. My 980ti plays all the games I want 👍
This would be if the school computers had an upgrade
Turning a school computer into horrible gaming PC ...And yes, we played Minecraft at school on the same PC so ofc it can do some light gaming ...
it's amazing this channel isn't sponsored by an eucalyptus oil company yet
correct me if im wrong i think they have lol
What about raid shadow legends (or similar)
@@FireStriker_ they actually did send him a eucalyptus oil care package in a previous video, so you're correct
Do we even know if it won't damage plastic long term? He is the only guy i've seen using this stuff.
@@azizchaudhry9544 well he has pulled old computers from videos in the past with no issues visable. I started cleaning using it and no issues
I remember building my first PC just using scrap from my dad's recently-closed PC repair business.
Had a C2D E7200, 8GB DDR3, and a Radeon HD 5670, and booted off an HDD.
It was garbage, but it was garbage I made with passion.
What year was that? A 5670 isn't half bad, and 8GB RAM is pretty decent! The C2D and HDD are kinda meh, but that is still pretty good for something made out of scrap!
I rebuilt my PC out of a old HP Pavilion a305w case lol
@@93Volvo240 Not going to say the exact year, but I was 10 and the PS4 was already a few years old.
@@Iristallite Ah ok. A 5670 in 2013+ would have been pretty good for free. The fact that you built that when you were 10 is amazing! I didn’t even have a PC of my own until I was like 11. Having an AMD Turion II in ~2017 was less than desirable XD
great to read that... but I do hope sometime you'll put some money into a pile to rise in the PC ranks
I just love CRT monitors for the exact reason...its low resolution , but looks crisp and neat enough...aiding even older rigs to run modern games at decent frames
CRT monitors have such a unique look and feel, I wish I had one to use
@@Blacksmith52 there are people trashing them (99℅ of them are tvs), you can see if there is ewaste in your area but they are not worth fixing and dangerous
@@Blacksmith52 I do have one TT , it just is making clicking noises TT
CRT's can have ridiculously high resolutions
@@jamesdoe4515 but the low res ones make your potato pc feel god like :)
Can't lie, I love this sleeper box for being a SFF system.
😂😂
I’m sure you could lie if you tried 😊
@@SproutyPottedPlant In that case my comment would make any sense.
Really enjoy SFF and ITX machines, my current rig sits inside the Cooler Master NR 200P which is a nice case that for once is no invitation to RGB party.
@@MegaManNeo what's sff?
@@lefteris.adamou.1 sff is small form factor
That corrupted screen thing seems to be really common in Windows 10 22H2, I've had it on all the PCs in UEFI mode I've reimaged recently.
He literally have a kit of the most budget gaming computer in 2005.
Hey this is me rn 😂
Good job, I like those speakers)
I lost it at the Hitachi -Deskstar- Deathstar, well that's one component that's definitely in the $0 range (or possibly negative)
Hard drive enthusiast here, the ones made by Hitachi are amazing, it was IBM that gave the "Deskstar" branding its bad reputation, and since Hitachi still used the name after they acquired IBM's hard drive division in 2003, the bad reputation transferred over and people still called them Deathstars, despite the 75GXP series being the root cause of all the hassle. Not like I'd have a collection of 75GXPs or anything like that, definitely would be quite a terrible idea...
@@cdos9186 lol you do
@@cdos9186 i remember the HGST slim hardisk with 7200rpm speed
I've got that same rig with a SSD for daily tasks and performs quite well, even tried Fortnite and runs 57 FPS on performance mode.
Go the CRT monitor!! If it wasn't the full size tower that was breaking my back, then it was the 17" CRT monitor that would!! Those were the days! 🤣😂
That's great value computing!
I still have those Harmon Kardon HK695 speakers, lol
I like the classic beige keyboard and mouse.
Install DOS and SBEMU audio driver!
Perhaps it could be a retro gaming beast with that CRT, keyboard and mouse. 😀
Even paint the case beige? 😉
I'm gonna puke
I would like to see he do a video of him doing a tour of his famous Shed he has so much stuff in there
My current work/gaming rig was built around an old (and buggy) motherboard and a 2nd gen dual core i3. I had to flash the bios to get external video cards working, and I was afraid of bricking the whole thing. But, I was successful, and after flashing the bios, I could install my GTX 750Ti and a 3rd gen quad core i5 to be able to play some games. As I am a vintage gamer of sorts, I could play PS3 era games at high detail level (mostly maxed out) and even some early PS4 gen titles at relatively good looking settings. This rig has been in use for three years now, and it kicks ass for what it is!
i had that same harmon and kardon system. its sounds pretty damn good since i got it at goodwill.
Cost of living aye - This is still better that my schools PC's 💀
My school pc has 7th gen i7s
Fuck school pcs this is better than my pc ffs
@@jblcharge3_basstester my school upgraded the computers last year the ones in steam class have an i5 11400T with 8gb ram (Lenovo ideacentre AIOs) and in computer class some of them got upgraded to an Acer aspire with an 11th gen i3. But some old PCs still remain. I'm talking a 2nd gen i3 and even pentiums with 2-4gb ram and the good ol' spinning mechanical drives. I get pushed and bullied so I have to use the pentium ones cuz the kids just play cracked Minecraft (the good ol' tlauncher that is a virus). Somehow they got the money to buy good mid range phones but not a 26usd game lol
Same
My philosophy is, if you have fun with it, its a gaming PC, i definitely enjoy playing ton of old titles such as Assassin's creed 2, the original GTA trilogy, or even Rollercoaster tycoon. It's much better to play a lot of old games, than investing hundreds of hours in one modern title.
I love these kinds of builds. Not too shabby for some retro gaming. I would have loved to see some old school 3DMark scores though. Perhaps in a later vid? :)
I HAD THOSE SPEAKERS! It came with my 2001 dell deminsion pentium 4 machine my mom bought for me as a kid. They were great. And seriously impressive they lasted nearly 15 years or so before the foam around the drivers degraded.
We still have ours from the Dell desktop purchase in 2002 and they still sound great!
Hope you have a speedy recovery from the surgery!
I absolutely love these old acer cases. I've made more than a few sleeper pc's with them. The 240w gold psu in these is not to be underestimated , Currently using one with a Ryzen 5600 and a rx6400 low profile for my living room pc.
This was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks for making this cool video!
My family bought its first real PC as our big gift Christmas 1995. Pentium 1 200 Mhz w/ MMX. It blew my mind, and I was learning to disassemble and modify it almost immediately. It wasn't long before I wanted another PC so we could try and "network" them to play games and communicate together. I went to a giant Expo at DC Armory with my older brother and we cobbled together my first computer for $40 - a beat up Compaq 120 Mhz Pentium, and we networked it together to plan LAN Starcraft, Warcraft, and so many other games. It is absolutely astounding to think back on just how much we accomplished with a tiny amount of money paired with a lot of sweat, busted knuckles, and frustrating. Great memories! Thanks for the video.
This video is from 9 months ago but im amazed this thing runs better than HP 15 laptop with a 10TH gen I7, Nvidia MX130, and also SSD + 8GB ram, thats a beast!
It's sad how far they've come especially the prices
Congrats on 260k bro
great video nathan! your videos are always interesting
now a video ideia would be to make this a good game pc by spending as little as possible and see how it will peform with modern games
psivewri I found those harman karden speakers in my local thrift store but their was no subwoofer
I wish you a fast recovery!!❤❤
If you could do a part 2 of this video, you could find some upgrades to it such as replacing the processor with a Core i7 4770, upgrading the RAM to 16 GB, upgrading the HDD with a SSD and the graphics card with a small form factor RX 6400, you could make a reasonably competent Gaming PC!
The term Gaming PC is thrown on literally ANY computer today 😂
It's a combination of people trying to gyp people who don't know much about computers to buy their ewaste and also people who aren't that into computers just assuming any desktop computer, especially a tower is going to be used for gaming
Those lines seem to be normal for windows nowadays. I have 6 or 7 computers that all started doing that after a quality update. Every time they boot.
Got like that off facebook market a Packard Bell same form factor , upgraded to 8GB of RAM , SSD , on 775 socket a Quad Core Q6600 , and a GT1030 of 2GB , and it's a pretty decent machine for retro gaming.
really great video, please make an upgrade of that pc to reveal its true potential
Still better than a lot of School PCs
Considering the thousands and thousands of games that came in the previous decades, this looks fine to me, especially considering the cost.
Bumping to Sea Shanty 2 will make me thumbs up ANY Video. Good job
I just watched this video on my dell vostro 1500 from 2007 running windows vista ultimate in 32 bit. The 128mb NVIDIA GeForce video card is a smoker
I used to run an Optiplex 360 with a 3GHz Core2Duo E8400 and Synergy GT610 2GB GDDR5 as an old runabout PC for some old games, was pretty playable but its time i flip that PC into an XP gaming rig since i've made a successor SFF PC out of my old haswell and pascal computer parts :)
I'd like too see an other challenge with the same set up but a $100 budget on upgrades.
Not really a 0$ build you had everything laying around already 😂
omg I used to have those exact same speakers ages ago, that brought back some memories!!
„It also looked like Windows activated itself“
*That just gave me Fearsweat.*
I had those speakers for years and they were the best pc speakers I’ve ever had. We got them with a dell dimension 8200 bundle in 2002
5:30 That actually almost looks cool! Just need a keyboard and mouse that match the rest of it. 😊
Interesting to see it upgraded to the max.
Amazing review love old tech true legend never forgot 🥰
good to know that a popular youtuber has made my gaming setup
I have that exact usb drive setup, same usb models and same white corrector writing
It isn't a video of Nathan's until he wipes something down with eucalyptus oil.
This PC can be amazing running Windows XP SP3 and games made until 2003, like The Sims 1, SimCity 3000, Need For Speed Underground 1, GTA III and Vice City, Half Life, Quake III, etc.
I would have loved to see more games tested, like Doom, GTA 5, San Andreas, RCT3, and even Cyberpunk 2077
am I watching a 4k video on a 1080p monitor? holy moly you have the bestest camera on youtube dude
Is the 610 better than the integrated graphics? I remember a guy buying an i3 4th gen or 5th gen with a gt 710 and the machine was faster without it.
Probably not.... there were so many laptops that existed purely to sucker in people that thought an Nvidia logo stuck on made the machine immediately superior, when in reality it made performance and battery life worse
I'd love that Harman Kardon speaker set. Peak Frutiger Aero.
even overclocking that 610 will kinda help It
Did the same thing but I think my one came out even worse 😂, I tried to cram in 25 retro parts into a modern pc
how much of a sleeper it can get if it got more of its possible upgrades.
before anything, maintain the CRT it is just a __classic__ touch not to have on a sleeper, as well as the keyboard, since it matches the PC brand wise. upgrade/mod the ball mouse c:
get the possible i5, some random kingston dramless ssd, the might gt1030 ddr5 and ofc 2x8GB of ram and of to the races you go :D
Best performance-per-dollar you'll ever see!
I mean,
could you try a zotac 1650 low profile card? bet it would perk up then.
Damn I would love to have a crt on my custom sleeper build!
perfect for modern aaa games
I had those exact speakers and sub for so long. Brings back some good memories.
3:04 The best one being a rename of my 11 year old laptop's gpu.
Definitely a right beast, that is.
Awesome for games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk, totally agree.
6:48 great value jeb
this setup is perfect for windows xp retro gaming
2:52 Ahhh ye olde Hitachi "deathstar"! Does yours have the click of death?
Understandable
I actually had one of these and kitted it out with an i7-3770, 16GB DDR3, 2TB SSD, Nvidia GT1030 GDDR5. Installed Windows 7 ultimate - super fast boot time. Played quite well but that little PSU blew twice in 8 months and the second time it took the motherboard with it. Lesson learned don’t neglect to upgrade your power supply
You need to install 3770s, or xeon 1260l, or 1265l v2 - very low CPU tdp
Good to see Shane from Smosh is into retro gaming these days
i cant believe this is better than my old pc
The only purpose that computer can serve anymore with an upgrade of an ssd, would be good for office computing, browsing the web, and just small things. Maybe even transferring files from things here and there.
5:30 every build I make always has at least two DVD ROM drives, and I’m not sharing my supply of them!
I just fixed up an Acer extensa 5420 laptop…date code says July 12 2007 and it was hardly used as it wouldn’t fully turn on. Come to find out it was the cmos battery as it was dead….the laptop is in almost mint condition and now has windows 7 on it….still doing updates.
I had those harman kardon speakers back in the day
I have that same exact procesor in my Viglen Genie SFF PC
Cool video. I've just spent three days trying to get an old GT610 working on Debian 12, only to finally have the Debian OS itself tell me support ended at Debian 11......that explains a lot.
Please use this build as a Retro rocket. DOS and early windows games only. (so nothing past win 98.)
5:28 "Can your gaming computer do this? I didn't think so." - Actually it can. It has an optical drive.
Although I don't think it's what anyone would consider a "gaming computer," it's better than this rig by a mile. It's an Optiplex 3020 SFF with an i5 4590 and a GT 1030 with 16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD and 4TB HDD. And a SATA card to provide 2 more ports so I didn't have to sacrifice the ODD.
Still, it can run slightly older games at 1080p; Jedi Fallen Order runs okay on it, for example. Rocket League, Valorant, etc.
5:22 Yes I do know that pain as my Laptop's HDD is Mechanical (I don't have any Money for an SSD for it)
To be true, if the CPU gets changed for a i7/Xeon equivalent and add a GPU like a RX 6400, this have a big chance of being a killer gaming machine... 😅
Play anything at 60fps 1080p 🤔
This was dumb and I love you for it! :) You know what game this setup would crush? OpenTTD.
also VGA does do 1080p! Its just slightly blurry!
This can surely blow some ppl's mind off 👏👏
@@ZERARCHIVE2023 yup because they didn’t know vga supported 1080p! When I take a look at that image I don’t even notice a difference since the slight blurriness is hard to notice,
@@ZERARCHIVE2023 but then again when my mate Vince did his video on how to reuse your tv is hdmi ports blew and he mentions vga does 1080p
i have a 1080p vga monitor. its not that blurry but tbh you can see the screen refreshing and a bit of grain on the image
@@fudidoshi. yea since vga is analog it would be a bit blurry than hdmi
Its pretty close to my Core 2 quad pc with a 710, but i paid mine 50$.
That moment when you decide to watch a video from recommended and you're using Opera GX while the video sponsor is Opera GX.
I'm almost certain the integrated graphics are faster than the 610.
Isn't that Radeon card with the red fan faster?
Nostalgic build 😅
Those moves of urs got me questioning my moves 😂
Please upgrade this rig! Let's see it on the CRT at max-res, with a 4th gen i7 and SSD. Maybe even a RX6400? That would be sick. Then compare price/perf with a modern budget build
That computer looks better that mine!
Finally a gaming pc, within my budget
The specs remind me of a similar Acer Aspire desktop I had when I was young
The "true gaming exprience" monitor got me 🤣
TBH such a machine would probably be better as a linux server, especially if you replaced the optical drive with a mounting adapter for 2.5" and 3.5" drives, And potentially adding a faster NIC and (if needed) a SATA HBA.
5:27
Yes it can. Physical media FTW 👍
❤i love your every video
And I’m having same CRT monitor likes you showing in the video
Its 23years old but still working Perfectly 😁
THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING CONTENT ! we had a lil bit of nostalgie thanks 2 u :)
My dad has a set of those speakers, sound great, although i think its branded as logitech