Garage PC total system upgrade
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Bringing an old PC back to life and upgrading it to cope with the modern internet.
Gateway SX2855
Intel Celeron G460 to Core I5 2500S
2GB ram to 8GB
500GB 3.5 to 512GB SSD
onboard graphics to GT1030
Wifi and bluetooth upgrade
Windows 7 to Windows 10
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You've made it this far. I had to upgrade this pc to allow it to work within my garage. This all started because I needed to install a WIFI card, and windows 7 did not have any drivers. Upon upgrading to windows 10 the PC was dreadfully slow, so I decided to upgrade the CPU/RAM/HDD and tossed a dedicated graphics card in while I was there. This PC will end up running a 3D printer and possibly a CNC Plasma cutter in the future.
Nicely done upgrades to this machine. Thanks for this well done video.
New Sub, Dryden, Michigan.
Well Done Brotha!
Im about to pull some Junk from the Pile and Build a Garage PC as well
Sweet man thanks! You should absolutely build a garage pc! They are very worth it for the quick things and is way more convenient than dragging a laptop around and worrying about breaking it.
@@DesertNinja650 Yea we have a Few local Scrap Yards, I happen to know one of the Owners, I'm gonna Present him with a GameBox and work something out where I can dig thru the busted laptops that can still run Headless, then bring back the Cases/Cages after I get the MoBos out of them
Maybe one of the " Many " Mini-PC's would be a good Garage PC option now. :)
That's awesome seeing older systems get some usage! i personally would have upgraded the RAM and switched to an SSD (:
Which I did, in addition to the CPU (because windows 8+ requirement for wifi card) and GPU for general improvements
I was concerned when you said you were going to replace the existing rotational HDD boot drive with another rotational HDD boot drive. But after continuing to watch the video I see you came to your senses and installed a SSD. 😂
So originally I was just going to swap out for the 1TB platter drive I had laying around - I wasn't trying to throw money at this computer. And then I saw how terribly it ran windows 8 and fired the parts cannon. lol
Nice garage pc boss looks like the upgrade went really nicely enjoy the added performance
Major improvement, it is useable now. Before it had a hard time just opening chrome. Now it can run my video editing software for quick edits, play youtube videos, and browse the net.
some serious troubleshooting skills, there...
Wasn't much to troubleshoot, but I learned a long time ago, if I have the time to do one thing at a time it's the best way in case something does go wrong lol
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I have toyed with the idea of removing the ODD as I don't see myself using it, and the laser will end up getting contaminated with paint overspray, dust, metal grindings, etc. I was looking into swapping over a acer external HDD caddy into it, however I think pulling some cat6 into the garage or adding a type C port would be more worthwhile for large file transfers. This PC's purpose will be to play music, run a 3D printer and probably a CNC plasma table. I appreciate the feedback, something to consider for my office pc!
Anti-Static is a bit of a non issue in all honesty, although i would avoid wearing old wooly staticky jumpers, balloons and possibly electrical storms, although the static generated probably isnt sufficient to course any permenate damage, plus most modern motherboards have Anti-Static, Anti Surge etc... build in anyways. Yep Isopropanal 85-99% Alcohol with although not 100% nesserary lint free clothe nothing wrong with that. If its a non soldered ihs you could delid it and put the conductanaught on the die and reseal the ihs, personally i wouldnt use liquid metal for anything but delidding cause the liquid metal can corrode even bare copper its best used on nickel plated copper.
This pc isn't being overclocked or anything so the effort to delid and find a higher performance heatsink (or conversion to liquid) is out of the scope of what this PC will be used for. Thanks for the feedback on the static, I know it wouldn't hurt anything, especially considering this PC was about to head into the trash - I've got some 3M anti static wrist straps but it felt like a waste to use one since they are 'single use'. Oddly enough I have liquid metal on my laptop and it has a copper sink to pipe interface, and I had 0 corrosion on that after 1 year of heavy, consistent use (thrown around, airports, in and out of a backpack, constant heat cycling - it gets used daily and goes with me everywhere)
@DesertNinja650 I'm only going from what other people tell me about liquid metal, besides conductanaught is a premium brand version made by an extreme overclocker professional named Roman Der8auer on his Thermal Grizzly lined products, so I daresay he's made it so it's superior and stops corrosion as much as possible versus unbranded versions of liquid metal.
@@danthompsett2894 He just said he's not overclocking were you not listening
@zhayward3190 yes but conductnaught was mentioned hence the thread of comments
Nice video!
Thanks!
Lmao, you got me to chuckle twice with the , "oh no" 😂
My only complaint is if your goner show off the keyboard to the world to see please clean what i can only hope is Tea, cola or whatever juice (not c&m juice) and Dust from it.
It's mostly brakleen, oil, dust, wood shavings and chicken feathers. I've got a few new keyboards that I could replace it with, but I hardly type on that one - just to google search. My primary PC has a cherry G910, but after all this is my garage pc lol
Thumbs up on reviving trash computer. I would've just let the ssd hang there like a barbarian and I would have opted for GDDR5 GT 1030 instead of the DDR4 version.
LOL i hear that. I have a spare laptop that is faster than this pc. But it has its place. Maybe one day i'll take it out to the desert and hit it with my shot'fart' for a laugh.
That is so slow.
You are not wrong 🤣 but for under $100 it does exactly what it needs to do. I just don't like dragging my gaming laptop out into the garage, that's the main reason why I resurrected this old computer.