As a 20 year IT veteran, make sure you use downtime for downtime things, burnouts a fucker, and your mental health is gonna suffer like you wouldnt believe, its why at not even 40 im retired
I used to always see old consoles and computers at garage sales, flea markets, and thrift shops. I think because online became so accessible, people are less willing to sell electronics for cheap. I NEVER see them anymore
@@Code7Unltd That's not why second hand shops don't have old electronics anymore. The reason is the 2017 Chinese ban on the import of "eWaste" and other hazardous and/or difficult to dispose of waste streams. For decades, recycling programs around the world heavily relied on China being a dumping ground for electronics and other hazardous wastes. While they extolled their lies about environmental responsibility and them properly disposing of old electronics and hazardous wastes, what was really happening is that that waste was being shipped from recycling companies to ports around the world, loaded up in cargo containers and shipped to China. When it got there, it would be sent around the country to small towns where it was dumped and the locals had a cottage industry of dangerous scrapping. They'd break open electronics waste and burn it in open fires to get the metals out to sell on. It created zones of hideously toxic contamination that poisoned the ground, water and air. Rivers became so toxic that nothing could live in them, and no amount of processing could make the water safe to drink. In 2017, the Chinese government had enough and instituted the waste ban, which sent shockwaves around the world. Virtually overnight, these fraudulent recycling companies no longer had a cheap destination for their waste, so they stopped accepting it. This quickly had a knock on effect on industries that relied on it, one of them being second hand stores. They stopped accepting things like CRTs and bulky rear projection TVs, then later other electronics that they knew wouldn't sell well. I did a lot of thrift store shopping in the mid to late 2010s and the change happened in the span of a few weeks. Where there had been rows of old CRT monitors and TVs, was just empty shelf space. The aisles of computers also disappeared, being replaced by other things. I asked around and some employees at the store said they had gotten their ewaste out on one of the last cheap "recycling" shipments before they ended up being stuck with unmovable inventory. I managed to snag one last Sony Trinitron CRT TVs before it got taken to be unceremoniously broken apart for scrap.
The only PCs I ever come across in thrift stores these days look like they were sitting in some basement or garage for several years, or are stripped of some essential part (PSU, CPU, RAM...). Then the store wants $100+ for it.
Seriously, I can hear your excitement from you when explaining and playing the game, you sound rather passionate about these kind of games! Keep that stuff in I rather enjoy it. You are such a joy to watch because it gives me that nostalgia of when these systems came out and oh boy were these machines exciting in their time, and even now. Thank you for the video and cannot wait to see what else you have in store for this unique PC, and which distro you may or may not try. Maybe Puppy Linux would work great in this build.
Many years back I found an Atari PC3 (8088, XT) and a Commodore 8096-SK (late model PET) in a skip (dumpster). I watched someone put them in, luckily he didn't throw them in. I asked if they still worked he said he didn't know and that I could take them if I wanted them. I got them home and both machines worked but the PET needed a recap. I fixed it up and kept both machines for a while but ended up selling them on to a collector in 2008.
Proto...I found 4 Laptops the other week including 2 Gateways..and some Dell mid towers..other 2 Laptops are Toshiba Satellites..all from the Millennia..the Gateways were missing caddies..they booted..but i took them to eWaste depot..the Toshibas are complete and all it took was an eBay 15v power supply..I had to smile when Michaels XP booted..one Toshiba booted into XP..I hadn't seen XP in a few years at home..plenty of times on RUclips..I had a quick go of MS Pinball..ran ok..
It couldn't hurt to try a 2GB stick though. Some boards unofficially supported higher capacities. I had an old Dell laptop that had a 2GB limit supposedly, but worked with and acknowledged 4GB! 😎
That would make a perfect Batocera arcade box. Might not be good enough to do PS1 or above, but it would certainly play almost any Arcade rom without issue. Plus, it being low power (if you can source a new PSU) makes it even better.
Why a new power supply? Just recap it, doesn't take long at all and is easy/cheap to do. If not, just get a pico, probably even uses the same pinout for the barrel jack connector.
I think, since it came with XP on it, it's the $5 XP PC, so it doesn't usurp the $5 98 PC. I kinda dig that little thing though, with the acrylic front panel and being such a lil guy.
Cathode Ray Dude would love this Little Guy :) Pentium-M was pretty great, it was pretty much a continuation of the Pentium 3 if I remember correctly and the basis for later Core/Core 2 chips.
Watched through your Command & Conquer gameplay and surprisingly, I want more! To see you actually having some fun interacting with a game that you know much about is entertaining. Would want to see more of it if it becomes the new rule.
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What a find! I built a bunch of mini-itx PCs when the form factor was pretty new. I used a few cases manufactured by the same company, including this one. Most were for hosting MP3 libraries, connected to the home hi-fi stack and either a TV or small monitor … those cases were well made.
I love this. I love watching you explore and tinker with the older computers. It brings back so many memories. Especially like C&C Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge. My little brother and I played that against each other using an ethernet crossover cable. We spent most of the mid 2000's playing that and other network RTS games against each other. I have to say Yuri's side was my favorite. Not so much for the mind control, but the cloning vats.
It was good to see Command & Conquer, finally. Until now, I had only seen it at a distance since my cousin had it on the Playstation 2, and I always heard the audio at a distance. All that I could hear was "Yes sir!" "I'm on it!" "Moving out!" "Yes sir!" "Right away!"
I rather like the case. I've been wanting to build an HTPC with a DVD drive, and this has reminded me that maybe a thrift store is selling old computers for $5 with optical drive bays. That whole thing is WAY cheaper than an empty Silverstone.
I used to do restaurant IT support, as well as installing digital menu systems. The amount of rust in that system is not at all surprising. Those PCs are usually installed above the ceiling behind the display TVs, or in the back office. They're exposed to constant humidity, aerosolized grease, smoke and corrosive chemicals like sodium hydroxide (commonly used to clean cooktop grills), bleach and other cleaning agents. Anything electronics did not survive more than a few years at most. I was always replacing monitors, bump bars, wires, computer parts and fans.
I have an iBase MB800 (P4 3GHz) that I use as a DOS machine. Or did, til the caps went (at age 22 years), but I'll be replacing 'em. Hard to replace a fully-DOS-compatible P4 with ISA slots. They go for about $600 now, with bad caps.
The Vinyl Deck program was included on VIA audio drivers in general, from what I recall, you couldn't really make the thing NOT install that program, so whenever you had a PC with a VIA chipset, that program would be installed whenever you got the drivers in, from what I remember they also had a utility that replaced the regular Windows volume mixer as well. Oh, and I used the My Videos folder a lot back in the day, for those crappy Movie Maker creations and I had Fraps set to save videos to that directory too!
i dont think this is touched upon much but this is a laptop cpu and chipset on a itx board. I also think this a good insight into how low the requirements were for XP... at the start XP ran on single core 256mb systems... towards the end it was running on Q6600 quads with 8Gb ram... i remember companies were using single core laptops with 512mb on xp running office 2003 and getting along just fine.
This has got to be the most convoluted Let's Play channel on RUclips. Before playing each game, he needs to find a vintage machine and install an OS on it, often with extra steps. :P
I've had plenty of machines where the manual makes the claim it only supports up to 1 gig or something like that but were able to address more. It won't hurt to try a 2 gig and 4 gig in there.
Absolutely make Command and Conquer a recurring thing. You can rotate between the different games depending on the era of PC you're using. I spent way too many hours on the family PC playing Red Alert 2 as a kid.
I got one of theese about 10 years ago. Different motherboard, different power converter - but the same case. I think this was a nice looking generic case for mini-ITX boards. Mine also had a DVD-drive inside. I changed the board (to an D3003 by Fujitsu-Siemens) at the time and it runned well on Windows 8. It was fanless and I installed a SSD, so quite nice as a component in my music equipment. Actually I was in a ballroom dancing club back at the time and we had a yearly event, there groups showed their skills. So the PC basicly was to store and organicing the music for the events, with USB-port and CD-drive allowing to make last-minute changes. Between I used it at home, connected to my home entertainment system. The design realy fits for that usecase. Of course this was before you did everything on a smartphone or tablet. Sadly on the last event I used it, it dropped. While it still works, the acrylic panel got´s damaged. While everything still works O.K., without the acrylic it does not look as nice anymore. However, as ATX-board are still available and get more powerfull every day, I would still buy such an mini ITX case if available for an reasonable price. You got a real good bargain getting it for only $5. It´s a perfect media center for TV´s or projectors. Having CD/DVD/BlueRay drives has become rare. So while other solutions for use on TVs are more common nowerdays, they mostly use streaming, maybe they can also use NAS, but barely any device have support for physical DVD/BlueRay anymore. Setting up a pretty standard noiseless PC in a nice case for this imho is perfect. Of course, with mouse and keyboard (best: wireless of course), you also still can use the PC as an PC to write eMail, surf the Internet and doing office work. Not great for actual games of course, but perfect for normal office usage.
Messing around with old computers is fun. Recently, I got a Sossaman Xeon with 2 ES chips in it, and I was super surprised to see that a Windows 10 Pro 32 but was attached to the motherboard. It didn't see all my cores on the 2 CPUs but it was neat to see. I thought for sure that this $5 PC would have a VIA CPU in it. Pentium M is actually pretty awesome.
You might want to try a larger RAM stick just to see as you would be surprised how often the OEM lists a smaller max RAM than a unit will actually take. For 2 examples in my own collection I have a Presario which is listed as max 8GB of RAM that is happily running 16GB and an AMD based EEE PC that lists 4GB as max RAM that is purring along with 8GB of DDR 3 with 0 issues.
One of these was my daily driver in the 2005-2006 timeframe. I ran Damn Small Linux from a compact flash card with an IDE adapter, no spinning storage.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I found it quite interesting to watch you go over an old system and give it some purpose (it makes me want to do the same with mine).
if such old PCs still have a working internal DVD drive (maybe blu-ray), Smooth Video Project, and have a projector it can make a sweet lifelike movies and shows machine
I had one of those cases in about 2005? My brother bought me the case as a present and I had an Atom mini-ITX inside running Linux. Similarly it probably also had a Samsung 2.5in drive in. I think it was a fairly well known brand itx case.
i feel like mjd should start something like the $5 chain, like $5 computer or $5 windows stuff, but another great video as usual! keep up the good work mjd!
I have that one too! Or at least a small PC with the exact same case. Mine was used as a small file server at my work, and we retired it like 12 years ago. I don't think mine has anything to do with the company Impart, and I'm in Europe too, so the case is probably some generic no-name case used for many different small computers. Mine had 512 MB RAM, not sure about the other specs, as I haven't looked inside it for almost 12 years.
I loved Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge, played countless hours with some of my friends at that point! So glad to see it again, ill probably need to setup my old Win XP pc with CRT screen to get that same feeling again!
These special-purpose machines are always interesting to look at. This looks like a pretty standard Mini-ITX case, there's even a removable backplate. I wonder if that old setup could be replaced with something more modern...
loved the gaming at the end of this video, you should just play some retro games with the same old monitor pov its really really cool and id for sure watch it. Love the videos!
That system reminded me of my first system my dad owned. It had a pentium e2140 dual core and 1gig for ddr2 on a gigabyte 945gcmxs2-f4 motherboard. That system survived with us till 2018. He upgraded the ram only in 2017 to 2gigs. I literally ran every single os on it windows 95 98 me 2000 XP vista 7 8 8.1 10 and that thing survived like crazy. It had an 80gig hdd which then died and got a 1tb wd blue drive. Whenever I would coax him to upgrade it he would get angry and tell me to be happy with it. After it died and no parts available, he then got me my gaming PC with a Ryzen 5 1500x and a 1050ti and an SSD and holy shit the speed of the system. The cpu that is the pentium e2140 now sits in my key chain after I delided it and drilled through the PCB. It sits alongside my 1050ti GPU that also died reminding me of the good old days of CS 1.6, condition zero, half life 1 and GTA SA and gaming with onboard graphics.
Love Red Alert 2 and Yuri.. We used to play LAN game at friends house for hours and hours back in the 90's. 4 players with Nukes off would go for hours.
a computer that's size turn it into an retro emulation Powerhouse install a version of Batocera get some controllers and hook it to a TV. That's what I would do if I had one of these anyway
Gotta love the references to other TechTubers. edit - Nice, Red Alert 2/YR. Younger me would have loved a relatively portable PC to play some games on.
I hate the fact that my country have $100 shipping fee from amazon and 60% fee from the government to buy stuff from outside, and because technology didn't spread that much here you'll never find such stuff, you can only find the commons like a PS2 or an Xbox 360 I literally searched for an AGP motherboard for months and couldn't find any in this continent
I appreciate content like this deeply because it inspired me to pursue a career in IT and networking. I love breaking apart and fixing old machines
As a 20 year IT veteran, make sure you use downtime for downtime things, burnouts a fucker, and your mental health is gonna suffer like you wouldnt believe, its why at not even 40 im retired
I almost thought Cathode Ray Dude released another "Little Guys" video
Someone tell Gravis
this is literally something we'd find on a Little Guys video
SAME!!
The algorithm is not kind to CRD. I haven't seen his vids pop up anymore.
@@Pawnband I always get his vids on my homepage (maybe because I watch his channel so much)
I used to always see old consoles and computers at garage sales, flea markets, and thrift shops. I think because online became so accessible, people are less willing to sell electronics for cheap. I NEVER see them anymore
You can thank Texas-based Heritage Auctions for that one.
They're quite famous for inflating prices on various hobbies since auctioning ship tokens.
I do alot you just gotta look a lot
@@Code7Unltd man, after auctions and the foundation is there anything good with "heritage" in front >.>
@@Code7Unltd That's not why second hand shops don't have old electronics anymore. The reason is the 2017 Chinese ban on the import of "eWaste" and other hazardous and/or difficult to dispose of waste streams.
For decades, recycling programs around the world heavily relied on China being a dumping ground for electronics and other hazardous wastes. While they extolled their lies about environmental responsibility and them properly disposing of old electronics and hazardous wastes, what was really happening is that that waste was being shipped from recycling companies to ports around the world, loaded up in cargo containers and shipped to China. When it got there, it would be sent around the country to small towns where it was dumped and the locals had a cottage industry of dangerous scrapping. They'd break open electronics waste and burn it in open fires to get the metals out to sell on. It created zones of hideously toxic contamination that poisoned the ground, water and air. Rivers became so toxic that nothing could live in them, and no amount of processing could make the water safe to drink.
In 2017, the Chinese government had enough and instituted the waste ban, which sent shockwaves around the world. Virtually overnight, these fraudulent recycling companies no longer had a cheap destination for their waste, so they stopped accepting it. This quickly had a knock on effect on industries that relied on it, one of them being second hand stores. They stopped accepting things like CRTs and bulky rear projection TVs, then later other electronics that they knew wouldn't sell well. I did a lot of thrift store shopping in the mid to late 2010s and the change happened in the span of a few weeks. Where there had been rows of old CRT monitors and TVs, was just empty shelf space. The aisles of computers also disappeared, being replaced by other things. I asked around and some employees at the store said they had gotten their ewaste out on one of the last cheap "recycling" shipments before they ended up being stuck with unmovable inventory.
I managed to snag one last Sony Trinitron CRT TVs before it got taken to be unceremoniously broken apart for scrap.
The only PCs I ever come across in thrift stores these days look like they were sitting in some basement or garage for several years, or are stripped of some essential part (PSU, CPU, RAM...). Then the store wants $100+ for it.
Seriously, I can hear your excitement from you when explaining and playing the game, you sound rather passionate about these kind of games! Keep that stuff in I rather enjoy it. You are such a joy to watch because it gives me that nostalgia of when these systems came out and oh boy were these machines exciting in their time, and even now. Thank you for the video and cannot wait to see what else you have in store for this unique PC, and which distro you may or may not try. Maybe Puppy Linux would work great in this build.
0:16 are you sure you didn't buy it because of the 5$ pc tradition in this channel?
Well.. that too, haha!
lol probably, creating a new legendary PC
@@MichaelMJD OMG FORGOT MATPAT SEEING MY COMMENT, MICHAEL SAW MY COMMENT, LIKED AND REPLIED
THX MICHAEL
@@MichaelMJD can you make a gaming setup out of cardboard and a raspberry pi
@@MichaelMJD i hace a Acer Aspire One ZG5, but the Bios is corrupted
Lol the old 5$ Thrift find PC series is back 😂
Your a menber !!!
I recently found a laptop and pc in the trash, 17870 gtx 870 and a Gateway 2011 laptop.
It's Proto
Many years back I found an Atari PC3 (8088, XT) and a Commodore 8096-SK (late model PET) in a skip (dumpster). I watched someone put them in, luckily he didn't throw them in. I asked if they still worked he said he didn't know and that I could take them if I wanted them. I got them home and both machines worked but the PET needed a recap. I fixed it up and kept both machines for a while but ended up selling them on to a collector in 2008.
@@mistabrown830Complete Security is his motto
@@mcborge1 sweeeet
Proto...I found 4 Laptops the other week including 2 Gateways..and some Dell mid towers..other 2 Laptops are Toshiba Satellites..all from the Millennia..the Gateways were missing caddies..they booted..but i took them to eWaste depot..the Toshibas are complete and all it took was an eBay 15v power supply..I had to smile when Michaels XP booted..one Toshiba booted into XP..I hadn't seen XP in a few years at home..plenty of times on RUclips..I had a quick go of MS Pinball..ran ok..
“The First Decade” is how long you’ll be entering CD keys
entering CD keys sure beats "online download disappeared".
@@dascandyI wish don't be evil was a proposal for more companies to live and die by 🫠.
It couldn't hurt to try a 2GB stick though. Some boards unofficially supported higher capacities. I had an old Dell laptop that had a 2GB limit supposedly, but worked with and acknowledged 4GB! 😎
My laptop officially supports 32 gig but unofficially supports twice that. It is common.
Thanks I might play a bit tonight with memory.
This video is reminding me of the "Little Guys" series by Cathode Ray Dude
That would make a perfect Batocera arcade box. Might not be good enough to do PS1 or above, but it would certainly play almost any Arcade rom without issue. Plus, it being low power (if you can source a new PSU) makes it even better.
Why a new power supply? Just recap it, doesn't take long at all and is easy/cheap to do. If not, just get a pico, probably even uses the same pinout for the barrel jack connector.
I think, since it came with XP on it, it's the $5 XP PC, so it doesn't usurp the $5 98 PC.
I kinda dig that little thing though, with the acrylic front panel and being such a lil guy.
Cathode Ray Dude would love this Little Guy :) Pentium-M was pretty great, it was pretty much a continuation of the Pentium 3 if I remember correctly and the basis for later Core/Core 2 chips.
"Krazy Ken Confirmed?" That's what I was thinking when I saw the user account! Great video!!
Both a Krazy Ken and Action Retro reference in one video,amazing.
Gravis sounds different today... But hey, more little guys content!
Holy crap you just keep finding gems like these for a bargain. I'm jealous.
Michael, you call this PC $5 Windows XP PC
Came for the The $5 Mid-2000s Mini PC, stayed for the Command and Conquer LP.
How time moves on. We've gone from $5 Win98 to $5 WinXP lmfao
Watched through your Command & Conquer gameplay and surprisingly, I want more! To see you actually having some fun interacting with a game that you know much about is entertaining. Would want to see more of it if it becomes the new rule.
did not expect to be watching a command and conquer let’s play video today, but here we are
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A Computer Showcase turned into a gameplay video, love it! The Adult child definitely came out of you during this video.
Little Guy confirmed!
a PC from Seattle huh? always love to see stuff local to me lol
ok is it just me or did this guy supposedly comment before the video was made?
@@user-dn4ok9gn5b Channel members must get early access to videos
@@user-dn4ok9gn5b members got this video early
@@user-dn4ok9gn5b it is available for members 12 hours before it is posted
Why is that funny??
I love that at 17:00 this video makes a hard right turn into just playing Command & Conquer and Red Alert. 😅
What a find! I built a bunch of mini-itx PCs when the form factor was pretty new. I used a few cases manufactured by the same company, including this one. Most were for hosting MP3 libraries, connected to the home hi-fi stack and either a TV or small monitor … those cases were well made.
Oh man that C&C screen brought back some memories of when I was a kid and we somehow installed this onto some school computers. Good times.
I spent a solid quarter of my childhood playing RA2 online... still one of the first things I install when I do a new retro build.
I love watching you browse old used PCs. Seeing the random stuff left on them is like digital archeology.
Nice MAME machine.
Nice Raspberry Pi replacement.
Nice Console emulator machine.
Nice Octoprint machine for 3D printing.
I love this. I love watching you explore and tinker with the older computers. It brings back so many memories. Especially like C&C Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge. My little brother and I played that against each other using an ethernet crossover cable. We spent most of the mid 2000's playing that and other network RTS games against each other. I have to say Yuri's side was my favorite. Not so much for the mind control, but the cloning vats.
Great video! You should do some more command and conquer gameplay!
I definitely would watch a full recap video on that system!
Oh! It looks like Michael finally got his own Little Guy! :D
The $5 mini pc now. The cheap pc collection is growing
It was good to see Command & Conquer, finally. Until now, I had only seen it at a distance since my cousin had it on the Playstation 2, and I always heard the audio at a distance. All that I could hear was "Yes sir!" "I'm on it!" "Moving out!" "Yes sir!" "Right away!"
I have a twin to this oddball PC complete with power supply. Used it for years as a DIY digital photo frame.
Is this a Lasktop? (A desktop with laptop hardware).
Probably yes, like one of those cheap mini PCs with mobile hardware.
It's odd the CPU is mobile, but the ram is desktop
I've seen the desktop ram thing happen in some places, such as in some desktop or NAS motherboards with a soldered CPU.
Yes but it also got slots for Laptop ram
The desktop I picked up from goodwill for 6 bucks is literally a laptop inside it even uses a laptop like charger for power
I rather like the case. I've been wanting to build an HTPC with a DVD drive, and this has reminded me that maybe a thrift store is selling old computers for $5 with optical drive bays. That whole thing is WAY cheaper than an empty Silverstone.
this is a really weird episode of little guys
I used to do restaurant IT support, as well as installing digital menu systems. The amount of rust in that system is not at all surprising. Those PCs are usually installed above the ceiling behind the display TVs, or in the back office. They're exposed to constant humidity, aerosolized grease, smoke and corrosive chemicals like sodium hydroxide (commonly used to clean cooktop grills), bleach and other cleaning agents.
Anything electronics did not survive more than a few years at most. I was always replacing monitors, bump bars, wires, computer parts and fans.
I have an iBase MB800 (P4 3GHz) that I use as a DOS machine. Or did, til the caps went (at age 22 years), but I'll be replacing 'em. Hard to replace a fully-DOS-compatible P4 with ISA slots. They go for about $600 now, with bad caps.
A new chapter has born
The sequel of $5 PC
26:17 FINALLY. You were driving me nuts not taking over the buildings.
The Vinyl Deck program was included on VIA audio drivers in general, from what I recall, you couldn't really make the thing NOT install that program, so whenever you had a PC with a VIA chipset, that program would be installed whenever you got the drivers in, from what I remember they also had a utility that replaced the regular Windows volume mixer as well. Oh, and I used the My Videos folder a lot back in the day, for those crappy Movie Maker creations and I had Fraps set to save videos to that directory too!
Similar to Realtek's HD Audio Manager.
i dont think this is touched upon much but this is a laptop cpu and chipset on a itx board. I also think this a good insight into how low the requirements were for XP... at the start XP ran on single core 256mb systems... towards the end it was running on Q6600 quads with 8Gb ram... i remember companies were using single core laptops with 512mb on xp running office 2003 and getting along just fine.
This has got to be the most convoluted Let's Play channel on RUclips. Before playing each game, he needs to find a vintage machine and install an OS on it, often with extra steps. :P
I've had plenty of machines where the manual makes the claim it only supports up to 1 gig or something like that but were able to address more. It won't hurt to try a 2 gig and 4 gig in there.
Absolutely make Command and Conquer a recurring thing. You can rotate between the different games depending on the era of PC you're using. I spent way too many hours on the family PC playing Red Alert 2 as a kid.
I got one of theese about 10 years ago. Different motherboard, different power converter - but the same case. I think this was a nice looking generic case for mini-ITX boards. Mine also had a DVD-drive inside.
I changed the board (to an D3003 by Fujitsu-Siemens) at the time and it runned well on Windows 8. It was fanless and I installed a SSD, so quite nice as a component in my music equipment.
Actually I was in a ballroom dancing club back at the time and we had a yearly event, there groups showed their skills. So the PC basicly was to store and organicing the music for the events, with USB-port and CD-drive allowing to make last-minute changes. Between I used it at home, connected to my home entertainment system. The design realy fits for that usecase.
Of course this was before you did everything on a smartphone or tablet.
Sadly on the last event I used it, it dropped. While it still works, the acrylic panel got´s damaged. While everything still works O.K., without the acrylic it does not look as nice anymore.
However, as ATX-board are still available and get more powerfull every day, I would still buy such an mini ITX case if available for an reasonable price. You got a real good bargain getting it for only $5. It´s a perfect media center for TV´s or projectors.
Having CD/DVD/BlueRay drives has become rare. So while other solutions for use on TVs are more common nowerdays, they mostly use streaming, maybe they can also use NAS, but barely any device have support for physical DVD/BlueRay anymore. Setting up a pretty standard noiseless PC in a nice case for this imho is perfect.
Of course, with mouse and keyboard (best: wireless of course), you also still can use the PC as an PC to write eMail, surf the Internet and doing office work. Not great for actual games of course, but perfect for normal office usage.
This is a good lesson to wipe, format, remove or destroy the hard disk in machines that are going to be donated/ sold/ e-wasted.
Messing around with old computers is fun. Recently, I got a Sossaman Xeon with 2 ES chips in it, and I was super surprised to see that a Windows 10 Pro 32 but was attached to the motherboard. It didn't see all my cores on the 2 CPUs but it was neat to see.
I thought for sure that this $5 PC would have a VIA CPU in it. Pentium M is actually pretty awesome.
Sossaman Xeon... They're Pentium M based, aren't they?
Not Doppler Mentioned RAAAAAAAH EARN TO DJE RAAAAAAAAH
You might want to try a larger RAM stick just to see as you would be surprised how often the OEM lists a smaller max RAM than a unit will actually take. For 2 examples in my own collection I have a Presario which is listed as max 8GB of RAM that is happily running 16GB and an AMD based EEE PC that lists 4GB as max RAM that is purring along with 8GB of DDR 3 with 0 issues.
This is so nostalgic! I LOVE windows XP... i wish i could have a computer like this...
One of these was my daily driver in the 2005-2006 timeframe. I ran Damn Small Linux from a compact flash card with an IDE adapter, no spinning storage.
Reminds me of a 1990's shuttle PC on a diet .
C&C?? lets gooooooooooooooo
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I found it quite interesting to watch you go over an old system and give it some purpose (it makes me want to do the same with mine).
1:00 Pretty sure Cathode Ray Dude will be looking at this drooling.
if such old PCs still have a working internal DVD drive (maybe blu-ray), Smooth Video Project, and have a projector it can make a sweet lifelike movies and shows machine
I had one of those cases in about 2005? My brother bought me the case as a present and I had an Atom mini-ITX inside running Linux. Similarly it probably also had a Samsung 2.5in drive in.
I think it was a fairly well known brand itx case.
Ouch, an Atom? Your brother must have hated you.
Digital signage eh? The Cathode Ray Dude virus is spreading!
i feel like mjd should start something like the $5 chain, like $5 computer or $5 windows stuff, but another great video as usual! keep up the good work mjd!
I have that one too! Or at least a small PC with the exact same case. Mine was used as a small file server at my work, and we retired it like 12 years ago. I don't think mine has anything to do with the company Impart, and I'm in Europe too, so the case is probably some generic no-name case used for many different small computers. Mine had 512 MB RAM, not sure about the other specs, as I haven't looked inside it for almost 12 years.
do you know the brand and model of case? im in love with it lol, id love to do a tiny build in it!
@@Topaz1112 It's packed away somewhere in storage, so I can't easily check, but I don't remember seeing any kind of branding at all on it.
@@Topaz1112 The power supply is branded Morex. From a little digging the case appears to be a Morex 3688.
@@eDoc2020 hell yeah! Seems hard to find though lol, all the links I'm finding are outside of the US, and pretty expensive for what it is
@@Topaz1112 It's a 21 year old case that probably hasn't been made in a decade.
I loved Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge, played countless hours with some of my friends at that point! So glad to see it again, ill probably need to setup my old Win XP pc with CRT screen to get that same feeling again!
i agree that we should have a round of C&C in these older pc reviews!
So funny to see this! I have two lying around that I got from a liquidation years ago but it was put aside and forgotten
These special-purpose machines are always interesting to look at.
This looks like a pretty standard Mini-ITX case, there's even a removable backplate. I wonder if that old setup could be replaced with something more modern...
Aww it's a lil guy
Love You're Videos Michael Mjd
One of my cousins has a copy of C&C: RA1&2, and I used to play with his late younger brother back when I was over at their house.
I can picture a supervisor or someone walking up to a guy named Ken where this PC was, says "Hey Ken, *hands him the computer* do something with this"
That looked like a DVD drive to me. Anyways, good video!
When you pulled out the old-school Command and Conquer games, I wished there was more than a like button.
Didn't know you were a C&C fan, a further reason to appreciate your videos even more!
loved the gaming at the end of this video, you should just play some retro games with the same old monitor pov its really really cool and id for sure watch it. Love the videos!
It's a interesting machine
Any MJD day is a good day. Thanks for the content!
That system reminded me of my first system my dad owned. It had a pentium e2140 dual core and 1gig for ddr2 on a gigabyte 945gcmxs2-f4 motherboard. That system survived with us till 2018. He upgraded the ram only in 2017 to 2gigs. I literally ran every single os on it windows 95 98 me 2000 XP vista 7 8 8.1 10 and that thing survived like crazy. It had an 80gig hdd which then died and got a 1tb wd blue drive.
Whenever I would coax him to upgrade it he would get angry and tell me to be happy with it. After it died and no parts available, he then got me my gaming PC with a Ryzen 5 1500x and a 1050ti and an SSD and holy shit the speed of the system.
The cpu that is the pentium e2140 now sits in my key chain after I delided it and drilled through the PCB. It sits alongside my 1050ti GPU that also died reminding me of the good old days of CS 1.6, condition zero, half life 1 and GTA SA and gaming with onboard graphics.
C&C Red Alert 2 is my all time favorite game. They never beat that game with the later versions. Gameplay is perfect.
Did not expect to see RA2 Yuri's Revenge gameplay here. Ahhh so many memories
Love Red Alert 2 and Yuri.. We used to play LAN game at friends house for hours and hours back in the 90's. 4 players with Nukes off would go for hours.
I remember wanting to try out that case in the mid 00's It was one of the smallest cases on sale at the time if i remember right.
a computer that's size turn it into an retro emulation Powerhouse install a version of Batocera get some controllers and hook it to a TV. That's what I would do if I had one of these anyway
Gotta love the references to other TechTubers.
edit - Nice, Red Alert 2/YR. Younger me would have loved a relatively portable PC to play some games on.
I feel so happy when MJD posts a new video
The question to "Are we able to use XP on this?" is "Yes, you Ken!"
I have that C&C set, I should dig that out and install it on something. Love those games.
Every time I see a mjd video I instantly watch it
Andddd yet again another AMAZING video by Michael. This guy never fails pal, keep it up
Thank you!
Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge fan? I knew I liked you Michael. EXCELLENT taste
I think a retrospective or quick look on command and conquer could be a fun video series
I have the original Command and Conquer on CD the install is so cool. I just installed it on my IBM thinkpad 600E
I hate the fact that my country have $100 shipping fee from amazon and 60% fee from the government to buy stuff from outside, and because technology didn't spread that much here you'll never find such stuff, you can only find the commons like a PS2 or an Xbox 360
I literally searched for an AGP motherboard for months and couldn't find any in this continent
Love that old sound 😂😂😂boop 😂😂 imagine ken watching this video 😉why trying to recover my old files 😂😂
Damn, now i want to play C&C Generals :)
Very nice, didn't know you were into Command & Conquer! 😄
I made a few Mini ITX machines based on this case. Used to use the EPIA boards....and all the caps leaked.