My final video of 2024. Crazy to think that I’ve uploaded over 1000 videos to the platform since 2016, and it’s finally working 🥲 thank u guys for the best year of my life 🧡🧡🧡
Like when he said about only ever seeing a floppy once. Or not entirely aware of how even though tomb raider underworld had lower spec requirements, it's that the game required shader model 3.0. which only the GeForce 6 series and Radeon X1300 / 1950 XTX had at the time. I feel old enough as it is. 😢
That PC isn't quite 24 years old. The Asus P4S800MX motherboard was released in 2003 and the first 3.0GHz (800MHz FSB) Pentium 4 HT was also released in 2003
Thats a crazy comparison. Although most Windows 7 machines are still school/office computers that's still impressive that such an old OS is going so strong (I even stuck with 7 until 2020ish)
You made me, a 26 years old man, feel old, so thanks for that. That GPU was definitely dying, a lot of the AGP GPUs were made in the transition between leaded solder and lead-free solder, as well as during the capacitor plague, so finding one 100% working nowadays is kind of a challenge. Most of the ones I have are showing the same instabilities and graphical glitches, you can usually repair most of them if you know how to solder and if you do it before the leaking capacitors completely corrode the card. The DVI port definitely isn't the cause, it can mess the colours (and that's considering it's DVI-A, which I'm not sure), but it can't corrupt part of the screen like it did in your footage. As for USB keyboard, I think it could be multiple things. Of course, USB keyboards were barely a thing in the early 00s, so to work in the BIOS, most motherboard were emulating a PS/2 keyboard, which doesn't work really well on some modern keyboards since the USB protocol they're using can be kinda messed-up. The USB 3.0 could also be an issue, a standard USB 3.0 port should be able to provide at least 5V at 900 mA (and really, 1 A usually), while a USB 2.0 port only provides 5V at 500 mA, so half the power output, could be a problem with modern keyboards using microcontrollers and tens of LEDs. I think it's just messing with the power output of the motherboard and confusing it, both the floppy drive and the USB controller are probably controlled by the southbridge and it doesn't know what to do with a USB device asking for so much power.
Hiya, I am a windows 7 user (as a hobby mostly). While without modifications or proper measures taken the OS can be a security risk, there are a variety of methods to keep a computer running windows 7 safe either supported by microsoft or by using community made projects. This includes patching windows update to continue providing microsoft security updates until 2026. Much of the fear mongering surrounding windows 7 being a vulnerability is caused by people who disregard all safety and security measures, like a firewall, router, or antivirus and then make the claim that even running it will get you hacked. That just isn't true. (Although I still wouldn't recommend it without the aforementioned security measures. If you're worried about having this computer online I would recommend looking into those! Especially patching the OS to receive updates from server 2008 r2.) Also, "your computer protecting you" when accessing the internet is caused by your system time being wrong, not any vulnerability. The computer's clock battery probably lost charge many years ago and so it was unable to keep track of the time.
Was expecting to see this comment, thank you. I too have a Windows 7 rig myself on a second gen core i5, 4GB of RAM, and no GPU. The community projects you mentioned are fantastic indeed, I had at least one security update every day. The only thing missing for this OS at the moment are kernel extensions like the 9x systems and XP have. My daily driver is now a Linux laptop, but by no means should someone be afraid of Windows 7 when taking said precautions. Also lol at that part of the video you referenced, many misconceptions or just lack of knowledge as a whole, but we all learn and evolve :) I used to be scared of changing the colour of the eraser in Paint because a "teacher" once told us it was impossible to revert back, oh good times.
@@xGMV Nice to hear from someone else using 7! If you’re curious there actually is an extended kernel for windows 7 called “vxkex” and it can be used to run a variety of newer programs without modifying the system itself. You should look into it! It makes the OS much more usable today.
Just a heads up. The AGP slot is the first one brother. There was no SLI option on AGP. The other 3 are straight PCI 5 volt slots. Much luck young man.
That Nvidia card you used was budget back in 2002. 2002 saw the release of the ATI(bought by AMD later) R300 known as the Radeon 9700 Pro. ATI was seen as ok by second place to Nvidia. The R300 completely transformed the market. It was the first videocard to let you use AA and AF at the same time with a negligible performance hit. John Carmack from ID Software ended up developing Doom 3 on the R300. The R300 was so fast I used it for a full two years only upgrading finally in late 2004. 2 years was forever to use the same GPU in the early 2000s.
@@LastOneLeft99 the 4200 had the best price performance in 2002. Before the 9700 pro dropped in October only the 4600 was faster, and that was just an overclocked version of that card.
PCs around the term of the Millennium were changing so fast that a PC that could play a particular year's games more often than not was too fast for older games, but too slow for newer games. Saying that, many games do work across machine generations though. So typically for retro gaming you'd put together a number of rigs covering different game generations of the time. Currently, I have several builds, based around a Socket 370 Celeron 400(A) running 98se/2K, a Socket A Athlon XP 2400+ running 98se/2K, a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ running XP, and a Socket 775 Core 2 Quad Q9650 running XP/8.1/Linux for physical retro PC hardware. GOG Games and Emulation then covers the rest on my more modern i7-4790K build running Windows 10.
You are right about windows 7 not getting updates, but if you don't click on random links or download random stuff you will be fine with windows 7. and even with windows XP you will be fine if you are careful when browsing the internet, which you should be regardless of whether you are using windows 7 or XP. i can say that because i myself used windows 7 for several months, maybe even years after the end of life of windows 7 and i never had any problems. and yes i saw the reddit article in the video, and also reada it. but as i said before i never had any problems with windows 7 after end of life edit: and i think most of people who try to hack you or something like that would go for newer versions of windows, because it's just not worth it it's the same for macOS literally nobody is making viruses or something like that for macOS because it has a low marketshare, and windows 7 only has like 2.4%
Would be cool to see a revisit at some point with the W4100 using a PCI to PCIe adapter off eBay/Aliexpress. Ymmv, but I've used one to add PCIe graphics to a PCI only Pentium 4 PC before and they do work, but I used a card with an external power connector. Great vid and Happy New Year! Hope the channel continues to grow :)
Been using a W5100 for the past few weeks, works pretty well as long as you stick to low graphics and such. VRAM is never an issue, 4GB is plenty, it just isn't the fastest thing in the world, think GT 1030 type performance. It's also not a bad card for video encoding, works fine in OBS at least anyways, gotta love it.
as a reference: the GeForce 210 is 30x faster than this, the GT 710 is 163x faster than this and the 4090 is 10000x faster than this (or even more, because this site I used to research this doesn't show less than 0.01% of the performance of the fastest gpu recorded on the website)
@GraveUypo well yes, but I'm talking about today, and today, neither of them are usable, also the GeForce4 Ti 4200 only supports DirectX 8.1 and the 210 support DirectX 10.1, which means it could play way more moder titles like GTA V, (zWormz has a few videos on the 210) so I think the 210 is the winner over the GeForce4 Ti 4200
@@GraveUypo The whole issue with GT210 is that it wasn't created with gaming in mind, but as a cheapest display adapter for HTPC's that was able to decode an HD video. But around the same time it came to the market Intel begin shipping it's CPU's with iGPU's good enough for that purpose, so nVidia ended up with whole piles of unsold GT210's. Similar thing happened to Creative a decade earlier with their lowest level of SoundBlasters and integrated Realtec codecs.
For the floppy drive problem 7:46 , Where it says "Halt on : All Errors" Put that to none. For the browser issue, Supermium is an updated browser than can run as far back as WinXP.
For the GPU issues with Windows 7, I’d get a Nvidia FX 5200 as those were very common and support WDDM fully. And it’s only a year newer than the card you were using so still technically from the same era sort of
it is also also a lot slower. fx5200 was a garbage gpu. the card to have from the era is the radeon 9800 pro (or 9700 pro, or anything from the 9000 radeon series, really). it absolutely murdered two generations of nvidia gpus on top of having better support for more modern effects, such as shader model 2.0+ which gave it much better compatibility with modern games. geforce 4 ti4200 can't even run battlefield 2 because it's just sm 1.3 and bf2 required sm 1.4 --- which even the radeon 8500 pro which is OLDER than the geforce had.
@ Yeah ik, but it’s just for basic display (you know like browsing websites, playing back videos, and also good looks from an os (WDDM for Vista and beyond). Cause let’s face it, XP and Aero basic were ugly. Aero I actually kind of like. From my knowledge It was first seen in its modern looking form on the Longhorn build from Dec 2005 which very funnily looks like Windows 7, and it’s from 05 lol
Tiny mistake at around 3:40 or so. The mainboard does not have 3 AGP slots and 1 PCI slot. It's the other way around: 1x AGP plus 3 PCI. Edit: you can remove the floppy disk from the boot order all you want. Means the PC won't attempt to boot from it. You need to tell the bios there is NO floppy disk installed. It's on the first or second page.
Hey man, the Riva TNT2 lineup was Good, you just got the shafted model. TNT2 Ultra is the best you could get. Also, Older EOL OSes are perfectly fine to use on their original hardware, if your hiding it behind your main PCs firewall, Just use some sort of ( At least in Windows 11/10 ) " Wifi Sharing over Ethernet " and it basically gives your Retro hardware a modern, updated Firewall by screening all incoming and outgoing requests through the modern systems firewall; This also allows you to do WFS far easier and safer between WFS 1.0 ( Older Systems ) and WFS 2.0 ( Modern systems ).
Happy new year! Anyways, if ur planning to play on this PC again and make another video, i recommend installing Counter Strike 1.6 and well playing the game on the PC.
bro windows 7 security is all u need if you are not downloading random stuff and looking on shady websites in the video u act like if you connect the pc to the internet its gonna blow up or something
Wrong. Windows 7 hasn’t had updates since 2020, so things like the TCP/IP stack could be vulnerable. Hackers can exploit these weaknesses just by connecting your PC to the internet, even if you don’t visit shady sites.
@@masterinico thats the kind of thinking that will lead to it happening to you (regardless of os and security) if youre not careful, theres always a new vulnerability/exploit and his point was to be careful connecting a windows 7 pc to the internet. what are you trying to say exactly? nooo dont do your best to stay secure on outdated operating systems because "hackers don’t just magically find PCs on the internet running Win7"? when they literally do, thats exactly what @Redstoneprojrjr was talking about.
@@masterinico there are 24/7 port scanners, hoping to find vulnerable computers :) If you connect a Windows 2000 to the internet, it will BSOD after a couple of minutes
Reminds me of "the original struggle" which was to have games running smoothly on the hardware you could afford as an 11 year old. Oh how spoiled we are with our multicore CPU's and 16Gb GPUs.
“My favorite games are old enough to vote”-I have never felt to seen. Brilliant. Though most of my favorite games are old enough to have fully paid off their mortgages…
BTW, there isn't any inherited risk from connecting a older OS to the internet, it only becomes an issue if you decided to disable firewalls and you decided to port out the system.
I have a problem with my framerate in Fortnite. It drops to 40 and the game starts to stutter and sometimes I can't move. I5 12400f Rtx 4060 asus Ram 16 تيفورس Fan غازي Case فانتك Ssd 1t m.2 Hdd 1t Motherboard h610
Hey! My old eMachines back in the day like, 2005, had a Geforce 2 integrated GPU with an nFroce4 chipset (nvidia networking? yep, that was a thing). That little Geforce 2 integrated GPU got me through BF1942, BF2, BF2142, COD, Ace Combat 2, and a few other games until I dropped a 6200OC into from BFG Tech.
1:01 tomb raider legend, nice, I beat it on my original Xbox just a few days ago before it stopped working and after the power supply had popped and smoke came out of it, I have no idea how it worked
Hey I gotta question my WiFi just stoped working when restarting my pc with me logging out with the one strat you did in the chapter 2 remix optimisation and my pc is not connecting back how do I fix this
Now I'm more interested to see if installing a lightweight Linux distro with the LXQt desktop environment will increase your FPS and overall performance.
It would be really cool if you tried getting Linux running on one of those things, the OS should be safer and many older drivers are supported. I recommend Linux Mint it's very beginner friendly. Just remember to update once installed.
I just got that thing that people who go to war in North America get and they drink pills for then they get worse and sometimes become place shooters and stuff... Up to minute 8, this was the daily life of our 2000's computer routines.
The reason these older Games are so popular: because all of the Triple A Studios drank the DEI Kool-Aid and released a whole lot of nothing that anyone cared about in 2024. There's actually multiple reasons but that, to me, is the biggest one. Hollywoke/Triple A has been poisoned by check boxes. I even think they hand this Money out knowing the Company will tank so that they can be bought for cheap, it's kinda messed up. Companies run the World now, Governments are in the Passenger Seat since they won't crack down on Monopolies anymore- when they do it's not about Money, it's about Politics. Your point though- new games requiring too much power: *very* true and is due to Game Devs not knowing their Engine while also relying on upscaling/AI to make up for their lack of optimization. I was a Game Dev for nearly 20 Years and it is not the same as it once was, optimization is not as important anymore and the Devs just plain aren't familiar with the Engines they work with. It's very unprofessional, they're hiring People that aren't qualified; more of that DEI Koolaid/box checking. Optimization takes a lot of time and is a balancing act that's tricky to Master- I specialized in optimization, amongst many other things when I was a Dev- I was mostly a 'Generalist' that Level Designed/3d Modeled/Coded/everything. Now these Pro Devs that have been taken for granted/replaced/fired/laid off are making their own Studios together- it probably won't be until 2026 or 2027 (games take a long time to make) but we're about to see a golden-age in Gaming once these Pros finish the Games they're working on.
security flaws are not a problem, i use windows 7 and xp (also vista sometimes) and only if you disable the firewall the flaws become a problem (or if u download dumb stuff) also update the damn certificates it will fix all the connection not private error
I would still treat it as if I could be hacked any moment & not do my taxes or anything else of importance on it. I love the idea of running Windows 7 tho. It's my 2nd favorite OS. (Win 2k is my fav.) I tried every hack I could find but couldn't get it to work with my 3700x pc tho.
Rocking an rx580 from 2018 right now. I actually upgraded from a RX570 a few months ago because the 570 was showing signs of failure and only had 4gb vram.
I mean, when NFS Most Wanted 2005 came out, Intel Pentium is still the most widely used CPU. And it runs the game right away without any trouble. Although indeed it needs Graphics Card.
Good video. For any 10yr period throughout history, 1998-2008 had the greatest increase in consumer cpu & gpu performance. A top of the line 1998 pc in 2008 was practically unusable for anything, a top of the line 2008 pc was still usable in 2018 for anything outside of some AAA games that needed a newer video card which you could upgrade. There was one possible video card for a 1998 pc in 2008, a 8400gs pci card that was slower than it's pci-e counter-part. A basic gaming card at best. A top of line 2014 pc is still very usable today with a video card upgrade.
I'm gaming on a 2012 workstation class PC (the D30 v2) and I have zero issues with anything, especially Linux which seems to make these cheap PCs work even better. Gaming performance is great on the 2080 and the dual Xeons while not ideal are actually not bad at all since they have one of the best single thread performance in the Xeon class. Keep in mind this thing costed me in total no more than 200 bucks excluding the GPU. I also recently managed to snag a P910 for 120 bucks, threw in 50 ish more for better CPUs, and got the proprietary flex connector NVMe thing (basically it adds two NVMe slots without sacrificing anything.) I love this thing for compiling packages and video editing. You can absolutely play even modern games on these PCs, and with how cheap they can get at times because people want to sell anything that doesn't have RGB in it you're basically guaranteed to find a decent deal on a PC
my high a* listening to your calm voice and nice music and everything nice i had to think about the situation that you where at a dining table kinda as a kid and telling your grandma half an hour about pc gaming kinda like a presentation :D xDD and i also think that a pc dont need to be raytracing 16k ultra high res skibedy silky lottery price ticket 5000 laser beam... there are so many nice games i would always play and i dont mind them beeing old for example fallout 3, NV, 4, Skyrim enderal fallout london xD i always started new playtroughs in fallout 4 in the last years, also with fallout 3 and nv, currently im playing the ascent (again) because its fricking crazy good, i am also a big fan of ninja gaiden :D
My final video of 2024. Crazy to think that I’ve uploaded over 1000 videos to the platform since 2016, and it’s finally working 🥲 thank u guys for the best year of my life 🧡🧡🧡
you're video editing got so much better then the last time i saw your video, not trying to be mean
@@lecctron 100k in 2025?
you're welcome
@cheeezs you edited the video? if you did it's amazing
@AshenSouls who tf said that
Biggest flex having a dad
Real
Yh bro some of us don't have one 😂
To be honest its not that uncommon
Guess I have the biggest flex
Biggest flex having TWO dads 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is painful to watch as an old dude who has played with PC's for years
@@jasonsanders1244 yea, i feel like a dinosaur...
@@jokxu yep, remember, youre only as old as the girl you feel
Like when he said about only ever seeing a floppy once. Or not entirely aware of how even though tomb raider underworld had lower spec requirements, it's that the game required shader model 3.0. which only the GeForce 6 series and Radeon X1300 / 1950 XTX had at the time. I feel old enough as it is. 😢
@@jasonsanders1244 primary disk error ..
I wish i had that knowledge 😂 what games were yall playing back in the day ?
TLDW: He didn't get it to run "anything". He got it to run a couple games from 2007 at 5 FPS. Thumbs down for dishonesty.
15 mins of my life I'll never get back
That PC isn't quite 24 years old. The Asus P4S800MX motherboard was released in 2003 and the first 3.0GHz (800MHz FSB) Pentium 4 HT was also released in 2003
way older than the people that watch him for his fornite content instead of this kind of videos he makes lol
Oh shoot ur right it seems like most of the components in the PC are from 2003, even ddr2 ram became mainstream in 2003
the gpu is from 2001
He's just future proofing the video
@@lecctron Why don't you change the name of the title? It takes 5 seconds XD "21 years old"
3:48 did he just call those PCI slots AGP slots and then the AGP slot a PCI slot... I would've loved for three AGP slots back in the day...
3-way SLI on AGPs :D
Fun fact: Canada, Poland and windows 7 have aproximately the same population
Thats a crazy comparison. Although most Windows 7 machines are still school/office computers that's still impressive that such an old OS is going so strong (I even stuck with 7 until 2020ish)
I’m a huge fan I was wondering how you learned so much about computer technology and optimization hope you hit 200k subs next year best of luck.
Looks like im upgrading from a 10,000 dollar server to this old peace of crap
“Upgrading”
@ lol
3:50 *chuckles* kids.
there is never more than one AGP slot. it's 3 pci slots and one agp slot.
You made me, a 26 years old man, feel old, so thanks for that.
That GPU was definitely dying, a lot of the AGP GPUs were made in the transition between leaded solder and lead-free solder, as well as during the capacitor plague, so finding one 100% working nowadays is kind of a challenge. Most of the ones I have are showing the same instabilities and graphical glitches, you can usually repair most of them if you know how to solder and if you do it before the leaking capacitors completely corrode the card. The DVI port definitely isn't the cause, it can mess the colours (and that's considering it's DVI-A, which I'm not sure), but it can't corrupt part of the screen like it did in your footage.
As for USB keyboard, I think it could be multiple things. Of course, USB keyboards were barely a thing in the early 00s, so to work in the BIOS, most motherboard were emulating a PS/2 keyboard, which doesn't work really well on some modern keyboards since the USB protocol they're using can be kinda messed-up. The USB 3.0 could also be an issue, a standard USB 3.0 port should be able to provide at least 5V at 900 mA (and really, 1 A usually), while a USB 2.0 port only provides 5V at 500 mA, so half the power output, could be a problem with modern keyboards using microcontrollers and tens of LEDs. I think it's just messing with the power output of the motherboard and confusing it, both the floppy drive and the USB controller are probably controlled by the southbridge and it doesn't know what to do with a USB device asking for so much power.
Nah man I'm 26 and still feel like a 19 year old, I'm 27 in a month man
Hiya, I am a windows 7 user (as a hobby mostly). While without modifications or proper measures taken the OS can be a security risk, there are a variety of methods to keep a computer running windows 7 safe either supported by microsoft or by using community made projects. This includes patching windows update to continue providing microsoft security updates until 2026. Much of the fear mongering surrounding windows 7 being a vulnerability is caused by people who disregard all safety and security measures, like a firewall, router, or antivirus and then make the claim that even running it will get you hacked. That just isn't true. (Although I still wouldn't recommend it without the aforementioned security measures. If you're worried about having this computer online I would recommend looking into those! Especially patching the OS to receive updates from server 2008 r2.) Also, "your computer protecting you" when accessing the internet is caused by your system time being wrong, not any vulnerability. The computer's clock battery probably lost charge many years ago and so it was unable to keep track of the time.
Was expecting to see this comment, thank you. I too have a Windows 7 rig myself on a second gen core i5, 4GB of RAM, and no GPU. The community projects you mentioned are fantastic indeed, I had at least one security update every day. The only thing missing for this OS at the moment are kernel extensions like the 9x systems and XP have.
My daily driver is now a Linux laptop, but by no means should someone be afraid of Windows 7 when taking said precautions.
Also lol at that part of the video you referenced, many misconceptions or just lack of knowledge as a whole, but we all learn and evolve :) I used to be scared of changing the colour of the eraser in Paint because a "teacher" once told us it was impossible to revert back, oh good times.
@@xGMV Nice to hear from someone else using 7! If you’re curious there actually is an extended kernel for windows 7 called “vxkex” and it can be used to run a variety of newer programs without modifying the system itself. You should look into it! It makes the OS much more usable today.
Bro i remember when i subbed to you and you only had 10k subs you grew so much
yknow what else is massive? 1:38
The Low Taper fade meme is still MASSIVE!
@AshenSouls Loooooooooooooow Taper Fade
My fortnite pickaxe
LOOOOOWW TAPER FADEEEE
@@venom-critikal you know whats crazy it's still MASSIVE
Just a heads up. The AGP slot is the first one brother. There was no SLI option on AGP. The other 3 are straight PCI 5 volt slots. Much luck young man.
damn this channel blew up like crazy these months, so deserved man. goated channel
1:36 Do You Know Whats Massive?
That Nvidia card you used was budget back in 2002. 2002 saw the release of the ATI(bought by AMD later) R300 known as the Radeon 9700 Pro. ATI was seen as ok by second place to Nvidia. The R300 completely transformed the market. It was the first videocard to let you use AA and AF at the same time with a negligible performance hit. John Carmack from ID Software ended up developing Doom 3 on the R300. The R300 was so fast I used it for a full two years only upgrading finally in late 2004. 2 years was forever to use the same GPU in the early 2000s.
@@LastOneLeft99 the 4200 had the best price performance in 2002. Before the 9700 pro dropped in October only the 4600 was faster, and that was just an overclocked version of that card.
Holy banger of an intro 0:00 - 0:50. Most truest words honestly.
PCs around the term of the Millennium were changing so fast that a PC that could play a particular year's games more often than not was too fast for older games, but too slow for newer games. Saying that, many games do work across machine generations though.
So typically for retro gaming you'd put together a number of rigs covering different game generations of the time.
Currently, I have several builds, based around a Socket 370 Celeron 400(A) running 98se/2K, a Socket A Athlon XP 2400+ running 98se/2K, a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ running XP, and a Socket 775 Core 2 Quad Q9650 running XP/8.1/Linux for physical retro PC hardware.
GOG Games and Emulation then covers the rest on my more modern i7-4790K build running Windows 10.
You are right about windows 7 not getting updates, but if you don't click on random links or download random stuff you will be fine with windows 7. and even with windows XP you will be fine if you are careful when browsing the internet, which you should be regardless of whether you are using windows 7 or XP. i can say that because i myself used windows 7 for several months, maybe even years after the end of life of windows 7 and i never had any problems. and yes i saw the reddit article in the video, and also reada it. but as i said before i never had any problems with windows 7 after end of life
edit: and i think most of people who try to hack you or something like that would go for newer versions of windows, because it's just not worth it it's the same for macOS literally nobody is making viruses or something like that for macOS because it has a low marketshare, and windows 7 only has like 2.4%
it feels so good to be a part of that 0.16% who use windows 8 🤧
3:48 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot
THE LOW TAPER FADE MEME 1:38 yk what else is massive THE LOW TAPER FADE MEME
Massive? You know what else is massive?
6:07 Dectecting Primary slave☠
Good video to watch while having dinner 🙏
@itzadam11_ agree
Fr similar pfp btw
Fr similar pfp btw
It’s 2 o’clock 🙏😭
bro i started watching you when u posted 1st vid about optimizations, now the videos look like 200% better, keep up man
Love the Content m8. Just subbed 2 the channel
5:44 I had this EXACT same keyboard for DECADES and it worked really well up til modern ages. Pretty good stuff.
Using Windows on an old PC is not optimization, try using an ultra lightweight Linux distro like Alpine Linux with IceWM
Would be cool to see a revisit at some point with the W4100 using a PCI to PCIe adapter off eBay/Aliexpress. Ymmv, but I've used one to add PCIe graphics to a PCI only Pentium 4 PC before and they do work, but I used a card with an external power connector.
Great vid and Happy New Year! Hope the channel continues to grow :)
Great idea I will definitely come back to the W4100 sooner or later ! And happy new year man 🧡
Been using a W5100 for the past few weeks, works pretty well as long as you stick to low graphics and such. VRAM is never an issue, 4GB is plenty, it just isn't the fastest thing in the world, think GT 1030 type performance.
It's also not a bad card for video encoding, works fine in OBS at least anyways, gotta love it.
3:51 "3 agp slots or the pci slot." Bro got that backwards.
Pretend like i said the right thing, i read the script wrong 💔
Happy new year lecc your one of the few content creators I find enjoyable to watch nowadays
You have earned a new sub my friend, Your content is very interesting for me as a pc enthusiast
as a reference: the GeForce 210 is 30x faster than this, the GT 710 is 163x faster than this and the 4090 is 10000x faster than this (or even more, because this site I used to research this doesn't show less than 0.01% of the performance of the fastest gpu recorded on the website)
@@lewisbohme7078 omg you brought out horrific low fps memories mentioning the GeForce 210, what a travesty of a purchase that was
@montiplays atleast you don't have to play with a GeForce4 Ti 4200
@@lewisbohme7078 that card was really good at the time. the gt 210 was never good. it wasn't even ever usable.
@GraveUypo well yes, but I'm talking about today, and today, neither of them are usable, also the GeForce4 Ti 4200 only supports DirectX 8.1 and the 210 support DirectX 10.1, which means it could play way more moder titles like GTA V, (zWormz has a few videos on the 210) so I think the 210 is the winner over the GeForce4 Ti 4200
@@GraveUypo The whole issue with GT210 is that it wasn't created with gaming in mind, but as a cheapest display adapter for HTPC's that was able to decode an HD video. But around the same time it came to the market Intel begin shipping it's CPU's with iGPU's good enough for that purpose, so nVidia ended up with whole piles of unsold GT210's. Similar thing happened to Creative a decade earlier with their lowest level of SoundBlasters and integrated Realtec codecs.
For the floppy drive problem 7:46 , Where it says "Halt on : All Errors" Put that to none. For the browser issue, Supermium is an updated browser than can run as far back as WinXP.
For the GPU issues with Windows 7, I’d get a Nvidia FX 5200 as those were very common and support WDDM fully. And it’s only a year newer than the card you were using so still technically from the same era sort of
it is also also a lot slower. fx5200 was a garbage gpu. the card to have from the era is the radeon 9800 pro (or 9700 pro, or anything from the 9000 radeon series, really). it absolutely murdered two generations of nvidia gpus on top of having better support for more modern effects, such as shader model 2.0+ which gave it much better compatibility with modern games. geforce 4 ti4200 can't even run battlefield 2 because it's just sm 1.3 and bf2 required sm 1.4 --- which even the radeon 8500 pro which is OLDER than the geforce had.
@ Yeah ik, but it’s just for basic display (you know like browsing websites, playing back videos, and also good looks from an os (WDDM for Vista and beyond). Cause let’s face it, XP and Aero basic were ugly. Aero I actually kind of like. From my knowledge It was first seen in its modern looking form on the Longhorn build from Dec 2005 which very funnily looks like Windows 7, and it’s from 05 lol
Nice Rocket League goal 5:00
Tiny mistake at around 3:40 or so. The mainboard does not have 3 AGP slots and 1 PCI slot. It's the other way around: 1x AGP plus 3 PCI. Edit: you can remove the floppy disk from the boot order all you want. Means the PC won't attempt to boot from it. You need to tell the bios there is NO floppy disk installed. It's on the first or second page.
The ATI pro turbo is a PCI GPU and it goes in the PCI slots (white ones)
hope you get 100k subs soon and your vids are entertaining af
My first computer was 20 years Older than the one in this video.
A Pentium system was a Dream PC when I started college!!
6:47 "Boot up floppy seek Enabled" 😁
Uncle Lecctron Posted been here since you had 5k subs
Hey man, the Riva TNT2 lineup was Good, you just got the shafted model. TNT2 Ultra is the best you could get. Also, Older EOL OSes are perfectly fine to use on their original hardware, if your hiding it behind your main PCs firewall, Just use some sort of ( At least in Windows 11/10 ) " Wifi Sharing over Ethernet " and it basically gives your Retro hardware a modern, updated Firewall by screening all incoming and outgoing requests through the modern systems firewall; This also allows you to do WFS far easier and safer between WFS 1.0 ( Older Systems ) and WFS 2.0 ( Modern systems ).
1:36 Okay this might be a bit of a *LOW* ball but did anyone else see an image *FADING* ?
Low? Fading? Like the low taper faade. That low taper fade meme, dude it is still massive. yeah. MASSIVE.
Happy new year! Anyways, if ur planning to play on this PC again and make another video, i recommend installing Counter Strike 1.6 and well playing the game on the PC.
Love you bro, i have been watching your vids for a while now and also have a dad have a great new years and a good 2025! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Thanks bro happy new year 🧡
@@lecctron omg did not expect to get a reply also do you have a vid of you building your pc or no
Try make a pc run titles the slowest possible
Always a good day when lecctron posts 🙏☺️
your not-knowing-anything-about-old-pcs is astonishing at best!
bro windows 7 security is all u need if you are not downloading random stuff and looking on shady websites in the video u act like if you connect the pc to the internet its gonna blow up or something
Wrong. Windows 7 hasn’t had updates since 2020, so things like the TCP/IP stack could be vulnerable. Hackers can exploit these weaknesses just by connecting your PC to the internet, even if you don’t visit shady sites.
@@Redstoneprojrjr hackers don’t just magically find PCs on the internet running Win7.
@@Redstoneprojrjr Correct actually, ive used windows every day even after support ended, im using it right now and its never had a security issue
@@masterinico thats the kind of thinking that will lead to it happening to you (regardless of os and security) if youre not careful, theres always a new vulnerability/exploit and his point was to be careful connecting a windows 7 pc to the internet. what are you trying to say exactly?
nooo dont do your best to stay secure on outdated operating systems because "hackers don’t just magically find PCs on the internet running Win7"? when they literally do, thats exactly what @Redstoneprojrjr was talking about.
@@masterinico there are 24/7 port scanners, hoping to find vulnerable computers :)
If you connect a Windows 2000 to the internet, it will BSOD after a couple of minutes
"It just works!" - 199 Fallout Creative Director Bobby Blue I think?
I love it when Lecctron posts it makes my day
Reminds me of "the original struggle" which was to have games running smoothly on the hardware you could afford as an 11 year old. Oh how spoiled we are with our multicore CPU's and 16Gb GPUs.
nettspend wallpaper is so real
“My favorite games are old enough to vote”-I have never felt to seen. Brilliant. Though most of my favorite games are old enough to have fully paid off their mortgages…
you live in calgary thats sick your my favorite youtuber and i used to live in calgary until i moved to bc
Buddy knew he was flexing all over us at 1:24 💀 that was good 🤣
BTW, there isn't any inherited risk from connecting a older OS to the internet, it only becomes an issue if you decided to disable firewalls and you decided to port out the system.
damn you had an insane year on youtube this year
Im convinced lec can optimize anything
I have a problem with my framerate in Fortnite. It drops to 40 and the game starts to stutter and sometimes I can't move. I5 12400f
Rtx 4060 asus
Ram 16 تيفورس
Fan غازي
Case فانتك
Ssd 1t m.2
Hdd 1t
Motherboard h610
Hey! My old eMachines back in the day like, 2005, had a Geforce 2 integrated GPU with an nFroce4 chipset (nvidia networking? yep, that was a thing). That little Geforce 2 integrated GPU got me through BF1942, BF2, BF2142, COD, Ace Combat 2, and a few other games until I dropped a 6200OC into from BFG Tech.
1:01 tomb raider legend, nice, I beat it on my original Xbox just a few days ago before it stopped working and after the power supply had popped and smoke came out of it, I have no idea how it worked
This is the perfect retro gaming PC. You can run HL1, CS 1.6, OG Far Cry, GTA VC on this one easily.
This new game called bodycam is one of my favourites this year
This video is going to be MASSIVE. You know what else is massive?
The Mike Tyson line just got you a sub!! haha!
Hey I gotta question my WiFi just stoped working when restarting my pc with me logging out with the one strat you did in the chapter 2 remix optimisation and my pc is not connecting back how do I fix this
bro why are you following this
that nothing like uuu wallpaper is so sick
the nettspend wallpaper is fire lol, W video
"I do have something called a dad."
Okay, that's an insta-subscribe.
Now I'm more interested to see if installing a lightweight Linux distro with the LXQt desktop environment will increase your FPS and overall performance.
LG Twin Towers was their Corporate Headquarters at the time
It would be really cool if you tried getting Linux running on one of those things, the OS should be safer and many older drivers are supported. I recommend Linux Mint it's very beginner friendly. Just remember to update once installed.
i wonder if the debian drivers for that gpu are done yet
the whole floppy conundrum could have been fixed by just disabling the legacy diskette on the main page in the bios from the jump.
lecctrons dad is the plug of computers 😭😭
5:20 That's the monitor I've been using for a long time until 1 month ago 💀
when is that 2025 optimization vid dropping my boy
you said in the video 3 of the agp slots or the pci slot, the motherboard has 3 pci slot and 1 agp slot
I just got that thing that people who go to war in North America get and they drink pills for then they get worse and sometimes become place shooters and stuff... Up to minute 8, this was the daily life of our 2000's computer routines.
Know it’s a good day when lecctron post
The reason these older Games are so popular: because all of the Triple A Studios drank the DEI Kool-Aid and released a whole lot of nothing that anyone cared about in 2024. There's actually multiple reasons but that, to me, is the biggest one. Hollywoke/Triple A has been poisoned by check boxes. I even think they hand this Money out knowing the Company will tank so that they can be bought for cheap, it's kinda messed up. Companies run the World now, Governments are in the Passenger Seat since they won't crack down on Monopolies anymore- when they do it's not about Money, it's about Politics.
Your point though- new games requiring too much power: *very* true and is due to Game Devs not knowing their Engine while also relying on upscaling/AI to make up for their lack of optimization. I was a Game Dev for nearly 20 Years and it is not the same as it once was, optimization is not as important anymore and the Devs just plain aren't familiar with the Engines they work with. It's very unprofessional, they're hiring People that aren't qualified; more of that DEI Koolaid/box checking. Optimization takes a lot of time and is a balancing act that's tricky to Master- I specialized in optimization, amongst many other things when I was a Dev- I was mostly a 'Generalist' that Level Designed/3d Modeled/Coded/everything. Now these Pro Devs that have been taken for granted/replaced/fired/laid off are making their own Studios together- it probably won't be until 2026 or 2027 (games take a long time to make) but we're about to see a golden-age in Gaming once these Pros finish the Games they're working on.
LG Twin towers is crazy bro😭🙏
security flaws are not a problem, i use windows 7 and xp (also vista sometimes) and only if you disable the firewall the flaws become a problem (or if u download dumb stuff) also update the damn certificates it will fix all the connection not private error
I would still treat it as if I could be hacked any moment & not do my taxes or anything else of importance on it.
I love the idea of running Windows 7 tho. It's my 2nd favorite OS. (Win 2k is my fav.) I tried every hack I could find but couldn't get it to work with my 3700x pc tho.
high specs for a game are just an excuse for devs not optimising the game enough because of their laziness.
@@luke475 I think it's less laziness and more just incompetence
It's not laziness... It's crunch time. Developers are put in so much pressure in a small deliver time and team
my optimisation goat back at it again 🔥🔥
Finally a optimizing videos after 2 or 3 weeks💀🙏
i love that you use alex - ghosts for outro music
I love your video bro ❤
u aint even watch it u goofball
Rocking an rx580 from 2018 right now. I actually upgraded from a RX570 a few months ago because the 570 was showing signs of failure and only had 4gb vram.
Life when Lecctron posts.
I mean, when NFS Most Wanted 2005 came out, Intel Pentium is still the most widely used CPU.
And it runs the game right away without any trouble. Although indeed it needs Graphics Card.
Good video. For any 10yr period throughout history, 1998-2008 had the greatest increase in consumer cpu & gpu performance. A top of the line 1998 pc in 2008 was practically unusable for anything, a top of the line 2008 pc was still usable in 2018 for anything outside of some AAA games that needed a newer video card which you could upgrade. There was one possible video card for a 1998 pc in 2008, a 8400gs pci card that was slower than it's pci-e counter-part. A basic gaming card at best. A top of line 2014 pc is still very usable today with a video card upgrade.
Agreed. My 850 Pro smashed CoD 4 and others around the same time, i just had to run an older DirectX.
I'm gaming on a 2012 workstation class PC (the D30 v2) and I have zero issues with anything, especially Linux which seems to make these cheap PCs work even better. Gaming performance is great on the 2080 and the dual Xeons while not ideal are actually not bad at all since they have one of the best single thread performance in the Xeon class. Keep in mind this thing costed me in total no more than 200 bucks excluding the GPU.
I also recently managed to snag a P910 for 120 bucks, threw in 50 ish more for better CPUs, and got the proprietary flex connector NVMe thing (basically it adds two NVMe slots without sacrificing anything.) I love this thing for compiling packages and video editing.
You can absolutely play even modern games on these PCs, and with how cheap they can get at times because people want to sell anything that doesn't have RGB in it you're basically guaranteed to find a decent deal on a PC
we need more people like you ,
Bro why was i so happy when i saw this on my recomwnded page
my high a* listening to your calm voice and nice music and everything nice i had to think about the situation that you where at a dining table kinda as a kid and telling your grandma half an hour about pc gaming kinda like a presentation :D xDD
and i also think that a pc dont need to be raytracing 16k ultra high res skibedy silky lottery price ticket 5000 laser beam... there are so many nice games i would always play and i dont mind them beeing old for example fallout 3, NV, 4, Skyrim enderal fallout london xD i always started new playtroughs in fallout 4 in the last years, also with fallout 3 and nv, currently im playing the ascent (again) because its fricking crazy good, i am also a big fan of ninja gaiden :D
Thank you lecctron. You helped bring my laptop that runned at 20 fps in Fortnite to 60 fps
With that 2k exploit list, there are probably over 200 more 10x as dangerous zero day exploits.