The $0.99 CPU That Changed My Life | OzTalksHW
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- A $1 can get you a lot of different things...but what if it could buy you a CPU? I take a trip down memory lane, reminiscing one of the first CPUs I ever bought! And it cost less than a pack of gum :)
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Lol, thanks for the mention on the sponsor xD you're a mad lad for laying your computer parts out on a shaggy carpet and posting it to the internet!
Next Vid?
@@japoyae tomorrow hopefully
G'day Danny, I hope the slow down on content releases is helping you get to a better place 😁, although I miss the more frequent uploads your health is more important, lots of love to you & your family 🥰
Omg there are three of him. We EXPECT 3x as many videos.
I wonder if all 3 go train on each other with there large Wang's
Incredible how technology improves so drastically. First CPU I had was a Pentium 133hz I think it was around the year 1997 or so.
133 hz is from the 70's ^^
Itd be mhz. Is what hes saying.
@@netaa when your monitor is faster than 70s computers
My first pc had a 400mhz cpu
the i7 960, This CPU powered everything including gaming while working low-end jobs to returning to college. This cpu saw me get my associate's degree and stay strong for my bachelor's degree. For ten years it never quit on me, supporting my school work, research work, and gaming. While other parts would die on me, it never left me hanging.
Does it still work?
Giveaway: So back in the day when the first Assassin's Creed came out, there was a huge hype among my friends from school about it. I couldn't play it on my fairly low-end computer, since my GPU (Radeon X550) didn't have the required Shader Model (2.0 vs. 3.0). My parents couldn't affort me any mid-range or high-end parts, so I was stuck with the (even for that time) outdated system for quite some time. A friend of mine bought himself a new GPU and gifted me his OEM Nvidia 7100GS card. It was a passive cooled and smaller-than-usual card and came without a mounting bracket to screw it in place. This card was barely hanging in that PCIe-Slot and I had to be cautious when connecting or moving the monitor cable, so that the card won't come out.
BUT: It had the required SM 3.0 and thus I could play the game. Even tho it ran terrible even at low settings, I still beat the game with that avg 10-20fps and was happy being able to play it at all. Good times!
Maaaaan this makes me appreciate the small things even more! thanks for sharing
@Luke Smeby perhaps you should earn yourself some money instead of complaining about your parents not giving you their money. Seems reasonable right?
@Luke Smeby I have very similar feelings I might be getting a optiplex for free and upgrade that😂
@Luke Smeby nice I'm lucky I might get the optiplex free cause my grandpa's workplace doesn't need it.
@Luke Smeby that's life, buddy
I've been following for several years and I've seen you grow from a very small channel into what you are today. Your videos just get better and you always have interesting builds. I just wanted to stop in and say I'll be subbed for life. :]
I appreciate this more than u imagine. Thank u :)
@@OzTalksHW you suck
Giveaway: the one component that served me the most is my i7 3770. It ran games, my cad homework and did everything well. It is 6 years old and it still works great and I still use it to this day.
@Manny Santiago Does Kaby Lake count as old? I have an i5-7500 and it performs pretty well. Video editing in VEGAS 17 is very smooth and the CPU handles some pretty demanding games well. But the GPU is meh.
@@mish1195 I would say not bro I had one And it could run some games like fallout 4/resident evil 2 remake at low settings ....it's a stronger proccesor than the intel i7 4710 hq that's in my gtx laptop :-)
@@nathanvella960 My i5-7500 makes light work of most games except for The Outer Worlds, and that's only in Edgewater, which is notorious for being CPU-Intensive. My GTX 1050 limits me far more.
Laughs in i7 930
X5670 beamNG laughs in core 2 duo e8600
The i5 4670k holds similar sentimental value for me as this processor does for you, it was what ran my first proper gaming PC for about 6 years, a gross DiTech prebuilt which I had used with the side panel off as it caused rattling noise, a power supply that became a jet engine fan 2 years into its lifecylce and an AMD HD7800 from Club3D.
The processor lasted me so long and enabled me to drown out my father with games when I was living with him, in the end I put the processor into my first gaming PC that I sold, was bought by a father who wanted a PC that could run Fortnite for his back then 12 year old daughter.
Your editing is smooth, Lad, Keep up the good work!
thank you!
I spent over 2K building my newest system. What I love about this is that it makes building a stable, usable pc for short money a possibility. This is awesome!
My first processor was an FX 8320 it allowed me to get into pc gaming and meant so much to me as it allowed me to go from consoles to pc I'm now running a Ryzen 5 and an Rx 580.
That would be a good cpu for a computer 100% dedicated to Folding @ Home
I like this idea
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@@saab35drakenenjoyer62 Annus not Anus
Looking back at older hardware is always revealing. On one hand, it definitely makes you appreciate what we have now. On the other, it can be genuinely surprising how well it handles even modern tasks. I just made a video about the 2007 Q6600. I thought for sure it would be useless in 2020, but overall I was genuinely impressed by how well it still handles a lot of workload even today.
My very first build meant a lot to me, for the wrong reasons hahah. More specifically, it was the case, motherboard, cpu and gpu.
- Built my first computer during the end of the mining phase so i paid a premium for an MSI Gaming X 1060 6GB.
- My case was the Cooler Master Q300P so the thermals were very bad.
- The motherboard was a ROG B360 Asus board, so I couldn't do anything with my Intel 8600K as it was locked.
- Since it was locked, I paid way too much for my CPU
Lots of lessons learned, yet I used it and loved it. Months later, it turns out I like making and putting together PCs and making videos! Nothing but good things came from it hahah.
Takin you down memory lane , dual channel memory lane
good joke, take a heart
@@OzTalksHW i like u, I subbed xx
I7 Q740, This 10 year old beast is still holding up fairly well on my laptop, quad core eight thread,1.73ghz to 2.93ghz with turbo boost, paired with a GT425m and 8gbs ram, it still rocks! Gonna invest on a egpu adapter and pair a gtx 960 with it.
Nice!! what do you use it for primarily? eGPU should be fine
@@OzTalksHW Gaming! Titles like rocket league and cs go handle fine, my goal is gta tho
It's genuinely nice to know that I'm not the only person who used a Celeron for media production at one point or another, though yours is younger than mine by north of thirteen years: When I was almost the age of 04, my mother ended up getting the PowerSpec 4322 from the Cambridge, Massachusetts location for Micro Center sometime in I999 (August or October, most likely), which would be the last time that I would go there until December 08 of 20I8 to get my current system, the Hewlett~Packard Pavilion p0057c from their "590" series; the PowerSpec 4322 features the Second Generation of Celeron processors, known as Mendocino, and the variant of the Single Core/Single Thread chip that is still in the system today is clocked at 0366 Megahertz, which was a fairly balanced resource for working on Digital Art and Audio Mastering back then, though I would never dare recommend somebody to get this for a Windows '98 system today for obvious reasons, especially since the 0250 Nanometer architecture truly does show its age when compared to the Pentium III (Coppermine (0I80 nm) and Tualatin (0I30 nm)) and Cyrix III chips compatible with the socket and even what was in the Silicon Graphics Workstations of the time.
Like you, I also use Vegas Pro: I started with Version 0II during the Sony Era and upgraded with each new version, with Versions 0I4 and 0I6 of the MAGIX Era being what I use nowadays (0I4 for Legacy HDR effects, and 0I6 (specifically Build 0352) for most new works, due to builds of Version 0I6 Post~0352 and all of Version 0I7 having a plethora of complications and glitches); when I was starting out with Vegas Pro, I was using a 02C/02T AMD Athlon II x02 250u (the 0I.60 GHz Low Power variant of the original, which was instead clocked at 03.60 GHz, a CPU performance difference of about 093%), the CPU came with eMachines' ET1331G-07w from 20I0 (though I got it on December 0I4 of 20II) that had 04 GB of DDR II Memory (upgradeable to 0I6 GB theoretically, if I put in a Phenom II chip of the AM2 Era) and also lacked a Graphics Card, instead running on Nvidia's then~Integrated Graphics and Audio, the GeForce 6150SE with nForce 0430; the Athlon 250u with this iGPU was only ideal for rendering videos in Vegas at Standard Definition (up to 0854x0480 and I280x0480 at up to 060 Frames per Second), as if you were using higher resolutions with multiple layers and/or Special Effects, a program could take one hour or more to render one full minute of footage at times, and considering how much I pumped out up to the end of 20I5 on this system, I am extremely surprised that this now~0I2 to 0I8 US Dollar CPU was able to handle the odds for the time, as I had to render many commentaries and original works while I was literally sleeping just to get out something new, and fate knows I pushed this chip to its technical limits every time I could get the chance.
While at this point, I have gutted out my ET1331G-07w and am waiting to turn it into a Ryzen 3950X/Radeon VII Sleeper PC (I've still about I600 to 2600$ USD to go before I can do so proper, as I'm missing the CPU, 064 to 0I28 GB of ECC RAM at 2666 or 3200 MHz, a Noctua NH-D15 Cooler, and ASRock's X570M Pro4 Motherboard; the rest will go to Case Fans and extra Disk Storage), it is nice to look back and remember the hardware handicaps that we had to experience roughly almost ten years ago, what was impossible to play and painful to render back then is significantly more of a bearable breeze now that literally almost anything is possible and that truly shows how far we have come in a decade (or, in the case of my career, two and change, when counting my Mendocino Era Celeron).
Athlon and Celeron CPUs of the older era truly are showing their age now though, but with AMD's Zen~based Athlon 3000G basically being an Intel 4160 or 4170 in modern form (give or take 05 to 0I2% in performance) for only 050$, the Ultra Low Budget Desktop and Budget Emulation Station market has been given new life; I can only imagine what will come for the Low End market a decade from now (probably 4790K to 8700 performance in a low wattage Athlon or Celeron in 2027 or 2030), but if we're already seeing Entry Level Intel Core performance from over five years ago become the Ultra Low End performance level now, all we can do is imagine what the 03 and 0I Nanometer era will bring us at the end of the decade, the possibilities could very well be limitless. (:
Congratulation to 200.000 subscribers. Well deserved! :)
Core to due E8400
4 GB DDR 2 Ram
160 gb hard drive
512 mb hd5670
I love my PC.
My LGA775 is still kicking & running XP,
Mines got a C2Q9650 (with 120mm AIO), 4GB 800MHz DDR2, Gigabyte GTX260SOC, 160GBsata (O/S) & 500GB IDE (Storage) H/D & IDE DVD Burner, the only way to play some of my old games on disc 🥰 like C&C Generals, Zoo Tycoon & The Settlers
I play cs go and COD and its run with 30 to 45 fps . but its good.
You could probably go forever and a half adding a cheap used ssd and have a way better experience. Older systems are held back by the drive
q9300
8gb ddr3
320gb+1tb hdd (budget is important)
gt 1030
Bonus: TWO DVD drives (one is samsung, another one is liteon hp oem from broken hp z200)
I love anal
I bought my first PC (with the money of my first job/first salary) in around that same year, was an 45US$ AM3 ECS A785GM-M7, 45US$ Athlon II 280, 30US$ 2×2GB RAM 1333, refurb 35US$ ECS GT440 512MB GDDR5, refurb 25US$ WD 750GB SATA2 HDD, generic case, generic 350W PSU, generic 19" 1440x900 monitor, and generic PS/2 keyboard & mouse, man, that was the happiest time of my life, school, work, BF3 with friends till sleep in the keyboard, I still have that PC but with some upgrades over the years, 120GB SSD for Windows, 2×8GB 1600, Radeon HD7950 3GB, a good but OEM refurb 650W PSU (don't remember the "brand"), and the king of kings, a Phenom II 1065T (95W version), but have no time to play some games anymore, even now with that chinese virus, damm, the times go fast...
Greetings from Brazil!
I'd say the component that means the most to me is the AMD 6670 GPU that a buddy gave me to get started with my first PC build, wasn't trying to go crazy with my build and used a recycled HP workstation. It was perfect for emulation and just learning more about how build a computer. It's a piece I'll probably never get rid of because of it being a gift and was my intro to PC building.
i swear...i love the quality of your videos. even just that little skit with the three "school/editing/gamer" bit at the beginning. super clean, good laugh. quickly moving up in my favorite channels!
by far the most important computer component for me tho was my first gpu, a GTX 550ti. i had recently bought a simple HP desktop with a pentium dual in it when i was 18, and my dad had recently upgraded his own. asked if i could use it and never looked back. gave me the confidence to dive into pc's and to this day i help all my friends with their builds, from upgrades to cleaning and maintenance. loved that little card, served me well until i replaced with a 1050ti
I'm still using a 9 years old i3 2100 just upgraded the hdd to ssd. Im using it for may home base work. I know its outdated but still can make the job done really well.
The component that means the most to me would be the first CPU I owned in my first build at 10 years old, an Athlon 3200+ in the first rig I ever had from 2006-2009. Paired with an MSI K8N board, a 7600GT and 2gb of DDR RAM that rig was my first introduction to components on a hardware level and served me well despite it's old age and is most definitely the reason I still have an interest in computers. Learned alot of what I know such as digital graphics/video editing on that rig (and making fake pokemon cards) and had a great time playing SAMP, CoD4 and other classics. Unfortunately that Athlon met it's end when my 13 year old self tried to clean it one day, took the CPU cooler off and the Athlon came out with it, and my dumb ass tried to put it back in the socket as one unit thus bending pretty much every pin on it. The 2.2GHz single core met a gruesome end, but it's memory lives on. Maybe I'll rebuild it one day.
I remember my first PC build was an older ASUS barebone with a Pentium 4 from ebay. I just didn't have it in me to build it all from scratch. It had an 80Gb hard drive, 512MB RAM and ran a copy of Ubuntu I bought at Best Buy for $20 (I didn't have it in me to burn a CD, and didn't know Canonical shipped them to your door!). Cost me less than $200. Now, about a dozen or so PC builds later...the feels, I know what you mean. Great work, encourage PC life!
For me, this CPU was the AMD FX-6120, it powered my first gaming PC with 6GB DDR3-1333Mhz and a GTX 550Ti, 60GB SSD and a 500GB SSHD. This thing ran games fairly decently for the time and it lasted me about 3 years before the power supply went boom. It's the reason why I am into computer gaming today.
My A8-9600 as it was my first CPU. My first PC took forever to build as I didn't have all the money at once to buy the parts, but I was pretty proud of the finished product. Initially, I bought an Intel B250 board but I thought all the pins were bent (they weren't) so I returned it . By that point, AMD had released the Ryzen 3 which I proudly bought the day it came out, but I didn't have any budget left for a graphics card so I reluctantly returned it. I saw a lot of reviews of the 9600-one being from you Ozi-and it was the only realistic option as I couldn't get a dedicated graphics card. I even managed to overclock it with an aftermarket cooler and got it to 4.1GHz. That system was also why I started my RUclips channel which has improved since then. Funnily enough, when I sold it to a computer store to help buy a 2200G, my friend's PC actually had the same exact APU. I know this because it came with the same Freezer Xtreme Rev. 2 I had put in my original build. Performance was pretty good considering I didn't have any games so I was only really making videos and seeing what I could do with my newly built system.
A piece of hw that holds a sentimental value for me would be my HD 6670 1gb GPU, my father bought it back in 2011 for around 275$ and I couldn't be happier at the time. At the time, it performed amazing. It played perfectly every game at high details. What a time these days were... I miss them so much.
i remember that i tried to make videos on my channel, my rig was a c2d e4600 and a geforce 210. If one of my vids made it past 15 minutes it just would take like 3-3.5hrs to render, even though i did not knew how to edit and it barely had any effects. Even with all of that i still miss that pc, it gave so many great times playing rocket league at 640x480 and getting platinum anyways, playing League for 8+ years. Technology advances, but the feelings for it remain.
Oh man yeah even through all the pain and suffering of a slower computer, you realize how much you enjoyed the build once it's gone. it's weird to get attached to tech lol but it happens!
The computer component that meant a lot to me is my Athlon 200ge, it may not be that powerful to be used as a processor for my desktop pc but it really changed my pc experience a lot. I grew up having a samsung laptop with a dual core intel celeron (integrated graphics) and 2gb ram only which was a disaster because i always had trouble running my favorite pc games. So yeah, when i had the opportunity to finally have a good decent desktop pc, i was so happy because not only i can finally play my favorite pc games but also it is really helpful for school since I'm currently taking BS Computer Engineering.
Just found out about your channel short time ago, man, I really enjoy it. You think like I do. We've lived same life. Already, can see you gonna be a Big RUclips Star. Glad to walk with you now.
The system that held the most value for me sentimentally was the first rig I bought myself and built myself in around 2004. An Athlon 64 2800+ and I believe I had the ATI X1600 in there too. Put it all in some unknown branded knock off spiderman style case (which I still have) and tricked it out with cold cathode lights and LED fans (no addressable RGB in those days). Didn't go with water cooling even though that was the hot new thing because AIOs didn't exist yet and water cooling kits were pretty well known for catatrophic leaks or pump failures. Even the first PowerMac workstations worth thousands had failing water cooling systems back then. People were often doing goofy things like putting anti freeze in their radiators and blowing out the pumps. Definitely kind of wild west days with PC building.
I overclocked mine on a stock cooler and back then you could overclock just about any CPU with a budget mobo. I had a budget Asrock board with both 754 and 939 sockets on it. You could only use one at a time but the idea was you didn't need to swap the board when upgrading your AMD CPU.
My computer component that meant the most to me was my AMD 8150FX CPU. I bought it when it first launched and FINALLY replaced it recently with an AMD 3700X/motherboard/Ram upgrade! Up until then, I was using it for gaming and productivity, but mainly for editing my 1080p RUclips content and it worked GREAT! It's the CPU that's lasted the longest before upgrading. Period.
Mine was overclocked to 4.3 GHz on all 8 cores.
My new 3700X CPU is way faster, but it still makes me smile on how much use I got out of that trusty 8150FX chip! ❤️❤️
My Favourite component is definitely The A6-4455m on my current laptop, it comes with an integrated 7500g, yes it's really bad and low end but before that laptop I owned a core 2 duo system with no graphics card which meant I could not run many games.
This processor let me run a game I always wanted to play the Batman Arkham Asylum and the many other games thanks to lowspecgamer tweaks. This piece of technology introduced me to many good games and many new people over the internet and I'll be thankful of it for that.
Edit : fixed some Grammar mistakes.
I gamed on a TON of builds since I was very little when my dad built PCs. I also had an Athlon 2 x2 prebuilt when I was fresh out of highschool. Early college years, one of my first 100% from scratch builds was a g3258, 16GB 1600 CAS7 ram, and a radeon 7870. I overclocked my g3258 to about 4.4-4.6ghz on a STOCK COOLER! with temps UNDER 80c! It was a budget master piece. She emulated like a dream AND could play shadow of mordor above 30FPS... although it did suffer from some pretty bad stuttering when loading large structures in games. Gnerally the CPU would game around 70-80% utilization for the majority of the time, then it would load a large section of map while spiking to 100% for a .5-1 second then it would settle into a nice stable frame-rate after.
Man, this vid reminded me of my first build, good ole Core2Quad Q6600 and GTX 650 combo. It took me hours to build and I'm sure the used hard drive I bought was on its last legs but when I pressed that button and it booted up, I was the happiest guy around. I've loved building computers and taking them apart ever since. Thanks for sharing your story Oz!
my monitor is 1600 by 900, dont complain lol. I also do some content creation and also have a sandy bridge cpu (i5 2400).
Rookie numbers. My monitor is 1366x768
@@CaelVK laptop?
I got the same setup with 16 gb of RAM and an Rx 480. I made the frankenstein build back in 2017 so everything was used except for the SSD which I bought brand new. Great value for the money and still works today even though 4 cores/4 threads is showing its age more and more.
@@JD96893 just an old ass monitor
My first pc was an intel celeron e2200, nvidia 9400 gt and 2 gb ram in 2008. I don't have internet for 2 years after my parents give me this pc. My friends give me CDs with games like: Tarzan, Red Alert 2, Yu gi oh, Hercules, Spider-man 2000, Nascar pilots, MK4 and others. Was amazing for me!
Gveaway: Your video brought back memories man; I was just about to ditch my old Pentium 4 pc bought back in 2002 I think. But you're made me reconsider. It was upgraded to it's limit, multiple graphics cards, max memory, did it all till it couldn't go no more.
Had one last ditch effort though back in 2015. Had a friend try to install ubuntu, but by the first flip of the power switch, the HISS, CRAKLE and electric POP, told me all that... that was the last I'll ever see of my boi.
Btw just a suggestion Oz, have you ever tried a DE razor? Not too sure if it's razor bumps or just your natural skin texture, but ever since I switched to DE wet shaving, my razor bump problem went down quite a bit.
Again, just a suggestion. All the best.
Sentimental value, note that I still have all those 4 computers:
- Philips P3105, an XT clone my first computer;
- 486DX66 my first own build;
- the Phenom II X4 B97 in my off-lease 2008 HP dc5850 used from Jan 2014 till May 2019;
- the $349 Ryzen 3 2200G, my second own build :)
Giveaway: My Old Xeon E5440 saved my life. at first i was a console gamer but my ps2 broke and i dont have anything to game on, and i got a dell optiplex 330 with a Core 2 Duo E7200 with its integrated graphics which it can't game, obviously. and at that time scrapyard wars came out and i got hooked with the core 2 quad q6600, i researched for that chip on my computer and i come about a post for the xeon lga 771 to 775 mods for my computer. so fast forward i got that E5440 chip, a gtx 650 and 4gb of ram. and you know what, the motherboard broke after 6 months. so i got a p5q motherboard slap together this pc, upgraded to 8gb of ram and overclock to 3.8 ghz and i'm set. this pc is still running to this day 😁
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I haven't seen any of your videos for a while as I have a ton of subs and my watch patterns, and thus my feed shifted towards gaming and politics so I get limited tech content nowadays. Coming back to this one after a year or more, I have to say, you've come a shockingly long way! I always liked your videos, I'm not saying they were ever bad, but I can see how you've grown into being in front of the camera. Good stuff my dude, keep up the hustle!
I think it's very good that you have no nearly advertising in your videos. You are pretty much the only youtuber without much advertising.
Greetings from Germany
I've been playing on my moms laptop my entire childhood. Just about three years ago I build myself a 300$ PC out of used parts. The laptop had an Intel T2130 and GMA950 graphics with Shader 2.0. Gosh that were times. I recently checked on the laptop just for fun. 360p is the maximum resolution on YT it could play. 720p would buffer for years and lag insanely when it played back. I've been playing CS 1.6, Half-Life, Metin 2, Arma, and a few more very low end titles. Damn these were times. Minecraft 15-20 fps on a normal map without much build. Today I have a decent system running 80 fps FHD Ultra in BF5. Huuuuuge difference. Even tho I used to have a much slower system I got used to the quicker one pretty fast. It's nice to get remembered of the old times from time to time. It makes you appreciate things even more.
My most impactful computer component was probably my dual core pentium e5200. It was the processor that was in my family computer for years and it allowed me to play roblox and web games a bunch when I was younger. I was older and got into shooters I bought the computer a new psu and a HD 4550 and was able to play games like mw2 and the original halo for countless hours. It was on this computer setup that I learned about how computers worked and about integrated vs dedicated graphics
The one that changed my life was an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ that I bought around 2005 for the university works. It was very fast at that time. So much programming and gaming I did on that pc. Good old days. 🙂
hey dude, i love watching your content. ive been watching for a few months now and i love your content, im so glad i found your work. your videos are so high quality and just so much fun to watch, keep it up man!
I had a laptop in 2008 with an 8400gs in it that I gamed on until the laptop died in 2012 (due to a bed a blanket and an eight hour work shift). In 2008 it wasn't to bad for a budget gaming laptop but by 2012 it had a very hard time running games. I do still miss that laptop though it was my first personal gaming rig that wasn't my families shared computer.
there's always something special about your first personal system, even if it wasn't the fastest. What do you use now?
@@OzTalksHW Yeah I've really invested a lot in gaming now that I'm an adult and can spend the money. I've got a 3700x rtx 2080 and 16gb of rams, it's many many light years ahead of my old laptop xD
My very first PC used a Celeron 400(A) Mendocino cored processor, running Windows 98se back in 2003. More recently, from around 2015 onwards, while I was building what was to become my 4790K build, I got a Celeron G1820 for just around £30 to get a Z97 board up and running, both to check that the board wasn't DOA within the 30 day return window, as well as to update the BIOS. It ran surprisingly well for the few months I was using it until I could finally step up to the 4790K, certainly when compared with my previous build based around an AMD S939 Athlon 64 4800+. I still have the G1820, tucked away somewhere in it's original retail box (as well as the Celeron 400(A) in a retro rebuild) to this day.
Can't believe I'm just watching this video now. It's so refreshing to see videos like this. Thank you for this.
Once I found 8gb of ddr3 ram in an old pc which was in a electronics recycling department. My old pc only had 4gb at the time, but I swapped out the 4 for the 8 and got much better performance.
i had a Celeron G530 with a 9800GTX and i was happy i can finally play WoW :D
Chris at Upcycle Computer Werks is a great guy and has great prices on used hardware.
11:40 "now adays a lot of ppl say less then 60 fbs just doesn't cut it" me playing with 30 fbs ... like a boss
It hurts my soul hes building on a straight carpet
Liamlikestoeat yeah and ? Never heard of someone having problems by building his PC on carpet ...
@@Shiros4ki It's kinda something people say you shouldn't do because they say "This or that could happen" type of thing.
hopefully he didn't damage that high end cpu
@@OhSoTiredMan While static can outright destroy the system and can keep it from booting (unlikely), you are far more likely to just damage something small. Something that might cause the computer to crash or hang every once in a while and you never will know quite why.
I build PCs on hard floor with anti-static protection and have no issues with it
Nice nostalgia vid Oz, just thought I should mention, playing at any resolution lower than your native on an LCD panel always looks bad with a few specific exceptions. Hook your system @720p up to a 720p native display and it will look pretty decent, set it to 720p on a 1080p display and it looks like absolute puke. I won't get into the specifics of why this is but it all boils down to pixels and scaling.
It's a useful tool for people looking to game on a tight budget, picking up an old 720p display used, for cheap, allows you to use a much weaker GPU and still get decent performance at native res. As an example, a while back I set up 3 PCs for my daughter's birthday party so her and some friends could game, one ran an RX 590 on a 1440p display, another ran a 570 on a 1080p display and the last one ran a GTX 960 on an old 720p TV. Rise of the Tomb Raider on high settings ran at near enough the same FPS on all 3 systems with the only difference being resolution. It looked fantastic @ native res on all 3 systems and the kids had a wonderful time, none of them noticed the difference in resolution. In fact, the most popular system was the 960 system because it was a hooked up to a 32" 720p TV vs the other 2 panels that were only 24".
Native res will always look crisp and clean and 720p still looks more than decent enough to enjoy on a proper 720p display, especially old TVs that tend to be large and can be picked up for next to nothing. Failing a used 720p display there are still a fair number of 768p (1336x768) displays available new and those work great too though they typically are sub 22".
That said, with the price of RX 570s now, new and used, 1080p gaming should be in reach for most people on a budget unless availability and pricing are not good in their country. In those cases the native 720p display and a cheap GPU will get them closer to an enjoyable experience and allow them to spend a bit less on a display and a bit more on a GPU.
thanks for the tips! This is good to know because i have a few extra monitors laying around that have native resolutions lower than 1080p, and this provides some comfort.
@@OzTalksHW It never used to be an issue with CRTs, or at least nowhere near to this extent. Surprisingly few people know that native res looks good even on lower res panels. Check it out for yourself, could make a good video 😉
Keep the content coming, you are doing great 👍
My first pc was a g2020+8400gs+8gb of ram, i used it to play gta san andreas, cs source, cs 1.6, minecraft and pes 2011. Now i have a r5 1600af+r9 fury+16gb ram+860 evo ssd, i can play anything i want, im very happy with my rig :)
So around 6 months ago I had a computer with only 2gb ram with a Pentium 4 and some other crappy specs.
After saving money, you know not buying clothes for a year and not celebrating my birthday for that year, I collected enough money to buy a 2gb ram stick and it is THE BEST BUY of my life by far. And now I could run decently good softwares and games.
Working with those softwares was how I started doing graphic design, video editing and 3d modelling
9800gt was probably most memorable computer part. Played new vegas and other games on it. It was used with these components.:
CPU: Q8200
RAM: DDR2 4GB
HDD: had various hdd's which where dead after a while because of dying psu, also was used from bootable usb for some time. Most of my childhood, teen years was spent with this computer.
The Athlon XP 2500+, My first PC I built, it was in a small Shuttle XPC barebones kit. I even overclocked it! Windows XP was blazing back then. Paired it with a Radeon 9600 Pro.
Ur so opened minded and chill I enjoy watch ur vids
The Nvidia 6600 GT is the card that got me into PC gaming for good. I bought it a week after Half Life 2 launched. That game and card changed me forever to a PC gamer.
I'm using an sandy bridge i5 Mobile CPU until today and it's still works fine and can even handle light CAD work and photo editing
recently got a G620 for about £5.00 just so I can update H61 boards for xeons if need be. I built an actual gaming system for a very good friend of mine with another G620 back in 2013-ish. It had 2x2GB DDR3 1333 and a 1GB HD 7750. I remember how happy he was when it ran Crysis on Very High on his 720p monitor.
Damn. How time flies.
I got a hand-me-down phenom computer from a friend that I used for a long time, the first one I bought and built myself was fx6300 and it was about the only thing I could afford, and I used it for a long time. fx gets a lot of hate, but it did everything I needed, and the fact that it was affordable made me an amd fanboy for life
the FX piledrivers are still strong CPU in 2020 I can play the witcher 3 with 70 FPS on high settings
OZ, you are the most down to earth and easygoing RUclipsr out there! Love your channel!
Hearing that your childhood games were full 3D MMOs makes me feel so old, but hey you missed all the fun of the old days where you could make your CPU 50% faster, overclocking it by just drawing on the CPU package with a graphite pencil. (Duron - closing small laser cut links that identified the CPU)
I feel the same way about the i3 6100. I bought it because I couldn't afford the Ryzen 5. Now I have a Ryzen 5 and RX 570. I don't regret that little i3, though. It got me through a lot.
Man my age, during the release of that 2011 Celeron I actually put together a desktop But the CPU I grabbed was the i7 2600s that system was a beast, I still use that computer as a HTPC.
Sandy bridge was a good platform.
First gaming rig I built myself I used a prebuilt system as the base. Those HP prebuilt systems are still probably the best deal around. Put an inexpensive video card and upgrade the HD and memory then you have a capable gaming system.
i had a pc around a year ago with an Intel Pentium J2900, it had AWFUL graphics and ran on a bootleg version of windows 8.1 so it was even slower. As bad as it was, i had almost nothing before it so i was incredibly grateful as it gave me a chance to play games with my friends (while it struggled to run ultra low settings) and it's made me more humble towards how many frames i get.
The i3 2120 was that processor to me
5 different pc and laptop's that had this cpu made there way to me somehow and in every one of them it gave me much more performance than i expected from this cpu
Oh man, hearing you talk about CPU's from the 2012 or so era just gets me going!
I got into PC's just a bit after 2013 or so, but because of my limited budget, I was forced to look into that direction of chips too.
Because people (including on the LTT forums) recommended not doing that.. Me getting my first PC took a lot longer than it probably should have.
Not sure what that has to do with the video, so never mind that.. Just wanted to say I liked the video! Got me thinking of.. The days in the past.
The computer that changed my life was a prebuilt. Yes. A prebuilt. It's a HP Z200 SFF off-lease. 4gb ddr3, i3 550, 320gb hdd are kinda dope ngl. I did upgraded it step by step. The first thing i'm doing is, getting GT 1030 as I'm short on budget (750ti low profile is hard to find) and RAM. The RAM itself is ECC and cannot be mixed, so I ordered online. Alas, one of the RAM I ordered (I ordered 2 4gb sticks) is incompatible because single ranked RAM! Luckily, my aunt operated a restaurant, and convinced her to upgrading RAM for free and to replace the fan.
The restaurant's computer is socket 1155 asus mobo, pentium g (forgot what series), 2gb ddr3. I replaced the cpu fan as it didn't work and swapped 2gb for 4gb (still single channel). I only charged my aunt for cpu fan, nothing else.
At home, there's a old machine, e7500 c2d, 2gb of RAM, biostar g41d3+. I took 2gb ram that came with it (it was built by my father back then in 2009) and replaced it with HP's 2 sticks of 2GB ECC. Oddly, it runs just fine.
So back then, my rig is hp z200, i3 550, 4gb+2x2gb, gt 1030. And shit happens.... I washed my computer to clean it, and it's not dry enough! Mobo is declared dead! Add insult to injury, replacement stuff for this machine is hard, as the mobo itself is BTX, PSU is nonstandard, and LGA 1156 is hard to find compared to 775 or 1155! So now, the dead mobo is just gathering dust here.
Luckily the part that come with it is still salvageable, like hard drive, dvd, gpu, ram, and possibly processor.
i had my first "gaming" pc in 2004-2005
Pentium 4 1.8Ghz
FX5200
1 GB Ram
i used that pc all the way to 2013
that P4 will always be a legend in my mind.
3:13 That mini itx mobo is beautiful.
it took mini to the next level
This was really cool to watch Ozzy. Fun to see and feel your reminiscing and knowledge. I'm honestly still using my Dell optiplex 780 w 8 g ram, hd2450? Just keeps getting put aside financially, like every time I think, " hey, should do something about this computer " you know the deal obviously. Grateful though, as it's just been a decent ol machine and with Movie maker installed has allowed me to edit a bunch of drone vids, etc. Anyway, have always enjoyed your vids, for years now, and look forward to the next. Guess I should seriously look at your sponsors site and maybe snag something next month. Heck, maybe a stimulus check might show up...lol..take care Oz! ☮️ Wheelchair John in Idaho 😎
Congrats on 200K subscribers.
Great Content - Thank you bro
Your channel is underrated. I am just starting up my PC Channel and I think your videos are a lot better than mine. Great job and keep it up!
Thanks you so much. Thanks to you i built my First PC. No issues at all 100% clean First setup. You are a beast!
These chips rock! I used to play on a Pentium G620 before upgrading to a Xeon E3-1245 v3! Years later I upgraded to a 1151 with a G4400 and then to an i7 ES 6400T but the G4400 is the one I loved the most, it was on overclock at 4.1 GHz too! Everything worked flawlessly until I bought Far Cry 5 :(
Giweaway: Back in the day i had a 733 mhz celeron processor for several years, what i "upgraded" later to a pentium 3 1ghz processsor... yes it wasn'nt a big upgrade but I really wanted to play Call Of Duty 2 and it was really bad on the celeron so i got a motherboard from my friend with the cpu and 512mb of ram and i had that pc for 2 more years... and that was the time i really got into pc gaming. I mean the era when need for speed most wanted came out I needed a better cpu but my parents can't afford to by me a whole new pc and i was grateful to have a friend like he. I played so many games with that pentium 3. And unfurtunately the whole system got a shortcut because of the power supply. After that i was without pc for almost a year, when i finally afford to buy a dell oem (c2d e8400, 4gb ram) pc. Sorry for my bad english :),
Andrew,
I really like this channel. Nice smooth VO and content. Only criticism I have is the music punches in transitions are too jarring in volume.
If you were looking at an amazing $5-$8 processor, look at the intel Xeon w3565. Amazing processor for budget builds. Paired with something like a rx 580 it’s a beast at gaming.
The processor that meant the most to me and many others from my youth would be the Motorola 68000 cpu. The next would be specifically the Pentium II 350 w/Rage 128 that gave me my first glimpse into the world of both emulation and 3D games (OpenGL Quake came out during this time and looked incredible and ran way smoother than the software renderer). My previous Pentiums and 486s just weren't up to the task. I remember playing Mario 64 on UltraHLE. Blew me away. From there the original Athlon "thunderbird" with DDR 266 and GeForce 2 MX, which made Max Payne far more playable for me, the Athlon 64 X2 (I had the Windsor core 2.8 ghz) w/GT 9600 1GB that made The Force Unleashed I and II shine, the Phenom II 965 w/HD 7850 2GB that made Skyrim incredible and the FX 8350 w/RX 480 8GB that I made as an XBOX One X killer that made Skyrim SE and GTA V really pop and run smooth.
Special shout out to the Motorola 6502 8 bit CPU that powered, in one iteration or another, everything from my Atari 2600, to my Vic 20 and Commodore 64.
You are slowly becoming the budget king!!! Keep it up bro!!!
I loved this. I can totally relate to PC hardware holding sentimental value. I still have my first PC for that reason, and I don't sell my past GPUs. ... well, except for the ones that only caused me lots of headaches :)
I have a Dell Optiplex 3020 MT
i7 4790
8GB RAM
1TB & 240GB SSD
RX 470
Windows 10 Pro x64
I love my PC. It's still a powerhouse in 2020! Good luck to everyone for the giveaway!
Did you originally get everything used? That's been my go to method really, if you look around you can find some really good prices like you did with that CPU!!! Awesome video man!!!
A XEON (used server CPU) is probably an even better option on a really tight budget, IMO. You can get a decent 6-core /12-thread XEON for under $20. A used Gigabyte or Asus X58 LGA 1366 motherboard capable of overclocking and 3 channel DDR3 for about $100 (local deals would probably be even lower if you look around) OR a cheaper X58 Chinese motherboard off of Aliexpress for about $50.
X58 COMBO deals for CPU/Motherboard/RAM/Cooler (no overclock) can be had on AliExpress for about $110.
Personally, I would look at a motherboard capable of upgrade-ability to Ivy Bridge (22nm) generation. X79 type LGA 2011
Some ideas on a tight budget:
X58 platform: XEON X5675 6C/12T (Westmere) on AliEx. With a used X58 overclocking motherboard...4.5Ghz is achievable: $25.
X79 platform: XEON E5-2667 6C/12T (SandyBridge)on AliEx: $42
CPU Cooler: Snowman 4 pipe w/120mm fan and no RGB; $16
For home personal use, consider disabling MeltDown and Spectre with "InSpectre" to gain 10% performance improvement.
Advantages of X79, newer circa 2012 platform and newer CPU architecture. FOUR CHANNEL RAM!!!
Any of these will pair well with GTX 970 or RX470 8GB, which should OK for 1080P medium settings and decent productivity. These types of cards can go for under $80 on the used local market.
PS: My build. A used locally purchased ASUS P9X79 Pro (mint for $20), a XEON E5-1650V2 (local purchase $62) OC to 4.5Ghz, 16GB (4x4Gb) 1600 DDR3 unbufferred RAM locally purchased for $40, and a RX590 8GB new ($165). This setup with new case (RGB bling), new CPU cooler, and new 650W power supply came to about $520. But it will get up to 4.5Ghz and hang with Ryzen 2600.
You and Tech Yes City are both a on a super budget build videos. Not bad.
love your videos, they apply to everyone, not just the super rich. thank you for your skills.
Love how you made the sponsor part actually pretty entertaining and made it add to the vid instead of making it well... an ad
ha, I totally preaching the celeron gospel when I was working in Computer retail in 2013. Their 2.5-3.0 Ghz were the way to go compared to all the 1.5-2.0 6-8 core garbage that was being pushed at the time. For they outperformed those CPU's at half the cost and they didn't get struggle with incompatibility issues. I had a 6 core AMD CPU and games rarely recognized more than 1 or 2 cores.
In 2011 I was rocking a phenom 2 x4 955 running at 3.3GHZ, it was pretty cheap too. I think it got around 300 points multithreaded on CB r15 which ain't bad because a ryzen 1200 at stock speeds gets 525 at stock speeds. Also the bulldozer arch ran about the same points per core, per clock, as the phenom 2's.
Giveaway: The part that meant the most is an EVGA 500w bronze non-modular psu. I got this for my birthday about 5 years ago and it is still going strong. Apparently I had a large smile on. This component meant I did not have to worry about a garbage HP psu killing my pc, and I can add a nice gpu. I have since upgraded every part of this pc part by part (saving costs) to the point that the psu is the only original part.
G'day OZ,
it is amazing how fast Tech performance to price is changing,
my big step was from my First PC I bought being a Dell P4 Windows XP, to a Computershop built to spec AMD AthlonII X4 & the guy let me watch him build it, later I added a Sapphire R9 270X Toxic (My first GPU) & better PSU & 😲WOW! Look at the Graphics, My AM3 M/B all the USB died so I got an AM3+ 2nd hand & that Died too & took out my R9 270X also 😭😭😭😭😭, Got a new AM3+ & the Athon is still kicking but now retired, as I now have a R5 1400 & RX580 🥰
Not really a component but for the longest time I used to game on my Mom's old laptop. My dad had got a monitor free from work and I used it as an external display, with a cheap 8 dollar keyboard and a 10 dollar mouse. I played TF2 and CS:GO, and while I was going through high school a lot of my friends had decent gaming rigs, and I would play with them using this laptop. I remember I managed to squeeze enough performance to get around 60fps on those games using a resolution of 640x480. I sunk in a few thousand hours into both of those games and got decent enough to play competitive pick up games in TF2. Now that I'm in college I just have a different more portable laptop but I'm saving up for a real build so I can get back into gaming.