My grandmother is still using this very machine. We've changed out a dying HDD, replaced the DVD Drive, and added a little RAM and recently a flat screen monitor (her first). She LOVES it.
I like how Intel is trying to fool people by calling their integrated graphics chip "Intel Extreme Graphics 3D", it sounds better than a GTX460 and gues which graphic chip would your grandparents choose.
AMD continued to provide integrated Radeon IGPs into their AM2/AM3 boards HD 3200 and HD 4200s and the later was actually quite overclockable I have a 785G board with the 4200 running at 850MHz stock is only 500 and it doesn't get hot or show any artifacting or glitching that would indicate that it has any issues from it. Most igpus can't really do much of anything AMD's and to a lesser extent nVidia's chipsets had pretty reasonable performance and worked fine for light duty stuff.
When I saw that it doesn't have an AGP slot, bugger, that really limits your options. Something like a PCI GeForce 6200 could work, should beat the onboard GPU.
Early 2000s I had an eMachines pc exactly like that one. Spent the majority of my early teens glued to it playing counter strike source. Oh, the nastalgia.
Great video! My first pc was an eMachines with somewhat similar specs (1.8 Ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, Nvidia integrated graphics) in 2002, and looking back, I'm actually really grateful that I started with such a modest machine for gaming, because it forced me to learn how to upgrade RAM, CPU, install a GPU and thus gave me the confidence to do my first system build a few years later: not sure I would have learned any of that if it had been blessed with high-end components to start with! Thanks for posting & keep the excellent retro content coming!
Just look at the motherboard! The AGP 8x slot was obviously removed, making upgrades impossible. Yes, there are PCI graphics cards, but those suffer from significantly less bandwidth.
I left my 1999 pc in a bowl of rice overnight. And then Asians came and turned into a super computer. (Only works with basmati rice) Edit: sorry my mistake, thanks to all the replies I realised that I meant brown rice.
If I'm not mistaken then that's caused by the Intel extreme graphics, because they don't support directx9. I had the Intel extreme graphics once and same thing happened even with patch 1.4.
The one and only eMachines I ever had was back in 2007(ish). A laptop which really got me through some tough times. Having only heard bad things about eMachines from back in the day, I had little hopes for the machine. But it turned around and surprised me, even ran some games (like CS Source) relatively well with mixed graphics settings.
You got 10mb download speed in 20 minutes - wow? I got 2mb download speed in 1 hour because I lived in a very rural area. The main reason download managers were created is because they allowed a user to continue to download from their last spot instead of having to constantly start / restart from the beginning due to a bad connection. Getright was my download manager of choice. I had a lot of eMachines and usually each model no more than a couple of weeks. I would return them to Best Buy within the 30 day return period for one reason or another, then I quit buying them after the mileage and time devoted to returning them was too much. I still have an eMachine empty case in my shop from a friend's computer I attempted to repair years ago. For some reason the big "e" power button is painted blue?? Still, it's good seeing this old beast of yours "actually running" in your video. "Actually running" is more than I can say for almost all eMachines and I can find a lot of older now defunct computers running, but not eMachines. Thanks for this video that I'm now just seeing! Praise The Lord and Godspeed to you all - John 14:26!!
I bought a few from shops in town (back when regular stores stocked them not supermarkets and pc stores) and took them back within a few days more of a software issue then bought a Fujitsu Siemens computer and to this day it seemed the most solid pc I ever had, a thick but small case, suffered bumps and being knocked over and moved and never crashed etc. I can't remember how long it took but I remember roms about 7 megabytes took about 30 minutes. I mostly used download mangers to about 2013 as even with fast for the time broadband websites may of just download at 1 megabit speeds even if I had 20 megabit connection so I had to make multiple connections with a download manager to not wait all day for a large download.
RGHD, this reminds me of that build I made out of an old eMachine chassis I found in the snow one winter. I'm not sure if you remember, but I sent photos of it during and after restoring it back in like the very beginning of this year. It's cool to see you make a video that is akin to that.
sweet jesus, what do you have?? I remember dial up, then our house got WiFi that never, ever worked properly and we were left with no internet at all for a good year.
Damn... I couldn't imagine living with internet like that... The slowest I get is 6MB/s down (60Mbps) and 1.1MB/S (10Mbps) up... That was after we got a free upgrade from ADSL to Fibre, and in the future we get a free upgrade to Gigabit. My speeds are considered pretty slow too... Closer to the city (I'm in super rural Ireland) has connections around 100-300Mbps for around the same price as mine... I hope it improves for you soon man
Dylan Collins it should soon. My internet company said we were getting better speeds soon. In reality, I think it's simply because of the wires routed in our house are from the 90s and probably can't handle any better.
Ehhh, I'd call bullshit on that, the wires to mine are from the late 70's and they can handle a max of 80Mbps, same with the internal wiring, we only had to change the socket where the telephone wire goes to the router
Im get goosebumps when hearing the extreme graphics igpu name, and extremely goosebumps for knowing the fact that it comes before the legendary gma series
I remember dialup. My mom used to download alot of music, so when she wanted a handful of new songs, she'd call her friends and immediate family and tell them not to call for the next several hours. Good times.
I bought a 466IS Emachine quite cheaply with a monitor and printer quite cheaply. It was my first computer of my own. I still to this day have the computer and last I checked it does still work. I maxxed out the ram at 256MB of SD ram (yep not even ddr) and added an extra 30gb of hard drive space. Tossed in a disc burner, V.90 modem upgrade and a PCI video card for a second display.
Our first was an eMachines T2891 from around 2004.. With an AMD Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B, essentially a rebadged Athlon MP sold later as a budget processor, and yes, Semprons had multiprocessor abilities unlocked), 512 MB PC3200 (Later 1 GB), and S3 Unichrome integrated graphics on a VIA KM266 Pro chipset. Later a Radeon 9800 Pro because AGP lol. They really did use the exact same case for everything they made to cut manufacturing costs. It worked well. At the time eMachines was owned by Korean conglomerate TriGEM
My parents had this same computer back in 2006-7. I remember I started playing WoW on this machine. It took about 10 minutes to load to the log in screen and I got 10-20fps, less then 5FPS in cities...
An eMachine was one of only 2 prebuilts I've ever bought, the second one being an old Dell from eBay in 2020. Slapped a 9500GT with a Zalman cooler in and it was great
I have the carcass of a few of these laying about. Bad caps on both the motherboard & power supply where some of the most common problems you'll find. The AMD based versions with the Nvidia chipset failed with bad bga solder joints regularly. Glad to see this one made it all these years.
Edilson Rodrigues you do realize he has done many many videos on newer tech? His thing is budget gaming/computing, which often relies on some older hardware. This is more of retrospective.
I used this computer for a few years after 2012, can’t say I miss it. Even after upgrading the cpu to a dual core and a GT 640 I still had trouble getting a steady 30fps in HL2. Any game past the PS2 era was impossible to run. The Emachine gave me the motivation to build my own computer so I have a soft spot for it. Gotta start somewhere.
Just did a similar project. Got an emachines pc in a lot of non functional pcs for £6. All it needed was a psu and hdd. Pentium 4 and geforce 4 mx 440. Installed windows 98se on it, runs games from that era very well.
The first modern computer my family bought was an eMachines that used the same tower shown, but was older and had a Celeron 1.3GHz. Biggest PoS computer we ever used. Fortunately a year later, I had enough money saved up to build my own PC. I bought an Athlon XP 2800+. PS: The eMachines PS/2 mouse almost caught on fire after a couple of years. One day it stopped working and got super hot. I tore it apart to find out that some component started burning up.
I built a sleeper pc in one of those old emachines cases. That case is made out of super thick steel compared to the cases these days. I even cut a 80mm hole in the centre of the side panel and added a 80mm side intake fan with one of those circular wire grills. If the house ever gets broken into at least I will have one good computer left behind most likely lol.
I have an original dial-up era "Sign up for MSN and receive a 50% discount on your entire system!" e-machines with a Celeron 667MHz and originally 32MB of SDRAM that my great aunt eventually upgraded to 64MB. It still runs, but I never really power it up. It just sits in the closet. lol
If you read sometimes the comments for infos about your channel to improve ...here is one: You make short videos. I am not THAT much interested in the cheap old PCs. But because your videos are short i still watch them :).
oh my god i remember emachines, i wasn't even a teenager when i started wanting a desktop and i always saw how cheap the emachines were and asked for one but ended up with an hp pavilion
I remember my eMachines E3042. I got it in 2006 for my 17th birthday and despite it being crap as a daily after a few years (really don't know how I managed to get it running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit as it was slow AF), but it lasted me 10 years before it died and went kaput. I did give it a few upgrades with 2GB DDR2 RAM, an ATi HD 2400 Pro, and a Creative Audigy Soundblaster.
Did the same thing to a old PowerMacG5. Felt pretty good. I'm selling it now, but I guess no one really knows how revolutionary for the time what that system actually was.
You're a brave man. E-machines is on my permanent ban list for systems I'll work on. My aunt had one that was from the celeron 533 days that had a faulty ground as one of MANY issues. Ever had the requirement of someone getting a broom to separate you from the case? It's not fun. This was not the first e-machine I had encountered but it was the last I was willing to work on. I've never seen one that didn't have quality issues, and there have been a few. When they were bought by Gateway, well that didn't help the image ... I won't even accept them for parts.
I had a T3604, with a 3.4 single core(Celeron) processor, Windows Vista as a OS, 1TB HDD, no GPU(integrated graphics), and a monitor I was lucky enough to purchase from Cash Convertors for a whopping 12$ bucks. Kept it from 2006 to 2018, until the processor itself burned out. You couldn't do much gaming on it, aside from Doom and a few others. It did play emulators well enough, sans PS2 or greater of course. I believe without a monitor included, I paid just at 300$ for it, come to think of it, it may have been around 250$ instead. I tried Far Cry as well, and let's just say that was a no go. Seeing this older model in direct comparison, damn near brings a tear to my jaded eyes. It's always a good day when the Emachines brand gets some love and attention. *EDIT- If anyone knows where I can find the T3604 model from 2006/7, feel free to reply to this with the info. I checked all the major sell sites. I would adore the chance to get a second chance with that model.
I remember having this chassis for a different model - W6409 - P4, ATI Radeon Xpress 200 iGPU and 512mb RAM. Only "modern" games I could run at a playable, non-crashing framerate were Counter-Strike Source and Resident Evil 4. Even HL2 and the notorious PC port of Devil May Cry 3 suffered from horrible stuttering. It made the ET1831-01 I 'upgraded' to with its Celeron 420, nForce 7050 graphics and whopping 3GB RAM seem like a powerhouse by comparison but that was all my parents could afford. Luckily I did gradually upgrade within 2 years and wound up with an i3 prebuilt that had a GTX 560 stuck in it.
I've had several eMachines PC's. My first one from February 1999 an etower 300K (AMD K6-2 @ 300 Mhz) still runs like a champ. I have a T6420 model given to my by one of my brothers with an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU that has a nice PCI express graphics slot so I am not limited to the Integrated graphics. One hint about emachines is that often their power supply is cheap,can easily fail and this will take out the motherboard if it does as the cheap power supplies do not have protective circuitry. So I recommend replacing the power supply if you want it to last. Cheap Bestec power supplies often used on them were notorious at failing
Compaq also made similar budget machines to this in the early 2000s. I had the misfortune of being stuck on one until around 2011. It originally belonged to my sister until she gave up on it in 2007. It was BAD! The thing sounded like a jet engine when booting up and quieted down when it got to the XP welcome screen. And occasionally it would start taking off again while it was running! It came stock with: Socket 478 motherboard with Extreme Graphics and NO AGP SLOT! Celeron 2.4 Ghz (probably Northwood or something) 128 MB of DDR1 RAM (the GPU shared like 32 or 64 of that) 40GB Seagate hard drive CD-RW drive that broke within a couple years 250 watt generic PSU that would randomly shut down Windows XP Yuck. The thing needed a power supply replacement, CD drive replacement, RAM upgrade to 1GB, and an FX 5500 PCI video card to even be usable. And the BIOS would never detect the CD drive properly without a lot of fiddling around, although that may have been a bad IDE cable because we tried replacing the motherboard at one point and it still didn't work. The thing is in bits and pieces in the garage now.
Dude, I swear my mom had a PC like this 15 years ago!!!! I remember playing an online tower defense game and freezing it up because of all the stuff on screen.
Thanks for the classic video on an old standby. I have this eMachine with the higher Pentium 4 2.93GHz 478, and the slightly newer version T5010 that upgraded to a Socket 775 that the manual states the chips s3et only runs Pentium 4 cpus, but they run well with any 800MHz Core Duo under 95 watts. Many of these boards don't have the AGP 4X slot added, but all of the socket 478 boards do. The Intel boards used on these are almost identical except fot the difference in the newer LGA775 and the appropriate chipset upgrade as well as 4 SATA sockets for the newer machines. Not my idea of a gaming computer, but they operate well for casual 32-bit programs, and do fantastic with modern Linux OS and apps like they were made for each other.
Wow! This was my first new pc. I even tried to play Far Cry on it and had the same issue. If I remember correctly it was because the intel graphics didn't support nvidia transform and lighting effects.
I have a very similar emachine to this lying around. I couldn't be bothered to get all the dust out of it(don't think it's been used in at least 10 years) so I just took at the hard drive and used it in my new pc for emulators and roms to be stored on.
I had a Pentium 3 computer which had an on board Voodoo 3… which of course meant it had no AGP slot since the on board Voodoo 3 used it!
Man oh man it feels weird to see the RAM labeled as "DDR" without a number XD
Made in East Germany*
@@vaperson b
When I helped my father scrap many PCs, my favorite is when I would find blazing fast 128mb sticks of ram
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My grandmother is still using this very machine. We've changed out a dying HDD, replaced the DVD Drive, and added a little RAM and recently a flat screen monitor (her first). She LOVES it.
I like how Intel is trying to fool people by calling their integrated graphics chip "Intel Extreme Graphics 3D", it sounds better than a GTX460 and gues which graphic chip would your grandparents choose.
literally it was the same shit everyone didddd and still pulling the radeon gpu for an nvidia and that hasn't changed man just do that lol
Well atI had rage
AMD continued to provide integrated Radeon IGPs into their AM2/AM3 boards HD 3200 and HD 4200s and the later was actually quite overclockable I have a 785G board with the 4200 running at 850MHz stock is only 500 and it doesn't get hot or show any artifacting or glitching that would indicate that it has any issues from it. Most igpus can't really do much of anything AMD's and to a lesser extent nVidia's chipsets had pretty reasonable performance and worked fine for light duty stuff.
My father bought me an emachines as my first pc, it was overpriced garbage
Well, Intel processor is legitimately good if not the GPU
This pc is older than 90% of jake paulers
Abid HASH HUFF DOUGH J DUG FORTH
*100%
I've never seen a Jake Pauler IRL that's older than 8
Lol rip jake paulers
Nathan Chesshir the other 10% are older than 12 but younger than 14
*Eckztreme graphics*
Äxtrim gräfiks.
UBER POWER TURGO CHARGE EXTREME ULTRA GRAPICHS 3D
Oatism ekkstrime grafix
Celeron D....One of the most misleading CPU Names of all time.....Even better when it's paired with the dreaded Extreme Graphics.
Budget-Builds Official do a 3rd gen
Processor video
Budget-Builds Official intel gave you the D when purchasing
My school has 90% Pentium and celeron pcs from over 10 yeara ago :/
Celeron D-isaster
Budget-Builds Official-Nice to see ya here! Budget builds is my other favorite potato rebuilder channel, you guys should colaborate!
Seems like you are venturing into LGR's territory with such a faithful restoration of old PC:) Nice work.
Mom!!! Don’t pick up when the phone rings, I’m playing Duke Nukem with Tim up the street. ..ring ring (Hello). Moooam!!! I said don’t pick up!!!!!!
Ah memories.. except that Duke Nukem Part
yo yo yo :D
Got to love when no one older then you doesn't listen to you
DanielC what up bro!
I love your GPU videos! :)
When I saw that it doesn't have an AGP slot, bugger, that really limits your options. Something like a PCI GeForce 6200 could work, should beat the onboard GPU.
PhilsComputerLab yep, it would.
A 6200 would slaughter the onboard Extreme graphics
I put an 8400gs on my old 2004 dell which had the Extreme graphics 2 chipset (which was just as terrible)
fx 5500 would also. I get a good number of games at 1280x 1240 75 hz. Except VTMB. That game nearly destroyed my PCI card.
Isn't the agp slot removed? Can't a handy person solder it back on?
I once had a computer where I overclocked the Celeron D cpu to 5.15ghz and ran it 24/7 with custom cooling. The motherboard eventually died.
Far Cry PS1 edition
I have been waiting for an emachines restoration/gaming video for so long, i can not find one anywhere and this just made my day.
"Slightly playable" is a wonderful description of the system 😀
Try running the Battlefront 2 beta on it and make scrambled eggs with it.
it's already one of those.
the better version of the linus tech tips pizza warmer
Ultra-Phoenix fermi more like furnace
Early 2000s I had an eMachines pc exactly like that one. Spent the majority of my early teens glued to it playing counter strike source. Oh, the nastalgia.
Great video! My first pc was an eMachines with somewhat similar specs (1.8 Ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, Nvidia integrated graphics) in 2002, and looking back, I'm actually really grateful that I started with such a modest machine for gaming, because it forced me to learn how to upgrade RAM, CPU, install a GPU and thus gave me the confidence to do my first system build a few years later: not sure I would have learned any of that if it had been blessed with high-end components to start with! Thanks for posting & keep the excellent retro content coming!
LOVE YOUR VIDEO. Thanks for all the hard work☺️
Just look at the motherboard! The AGP 8x slot was obviously removed, making upgrades impossible. Yes, there are PCI graphics cards, but those suffer from significantly less bandwidth.
I left my 1999 pc in a bowl of rice overnight. And then Asians came and turned into a super computer. (Only works with basmati rice) Edit: sorry my mistake, thanks to all the replies I realised that I meant brown rice.
lol!!
Nothing But Dead Memes I have a feeling this will be a popular comment so hey, I was the first like
Nothing But Dead Memes basmati rice is Indian, you get call centre support instead
If you're going for customer service than basmati is the game. But if ur looking for pc builders seagulls are the game (nonsense)
Nothing But Dead Memes basmati is Indian but I guess they're still Asians
I used to have that exact computer! I ended up selling it stock for $75+ ship on eBay.
Justin Musser I also had a similar emachines. I somehow broke the install of XP, and never used it again.
4:44 this happened to me a few times, but it can be fixed by installing a patch. is one of my favorite games
If I'm not mistaken then that's caused by the Intel extreme graphics, because they don't support directx9. I had the Intel extreme graphics once and same thing happened even with patch 1.4.
I owned an emachines back in 2006 and it was great, so much nostalgia with it.
Used to have one like this, that same exact case. Had a Pentium 4 in it, threw a GeForce FX5200 in there.
Same here, but I was stuck with the integrated "Extreme"(ly) shit graphics...
I managed to dual boot windows 7 with XP though
The one and only eMachines I ever had was back in 2007(ish). A laptop which really got me through some tough times. Having only heard bad things about eMachines from back in the day, I had little hopes for the machine. But it turned around and surprised me, even ran some games (like CS Source) relatively well with mixed graphics settings.
there is something magical about turning old systems into current gen worthy PCs
A year ago today I found your channel. Good to see how far you’ve come.
I'm pretty sure this is the exact same PC my family had in the early 2000s. It sucked but man did it still work after all the hell I put it through.
You got 10mb download speed in 20 minutes - wow? I got 2mb download speed in 1 hour because I lived in a very rural area. The main reason download managers were created is because they allowed a user to continue to download from their last spot instead of having to constantly start / restart from the beginning due to a bad connection. Getright was my download manager of choice. I had a lot of eMachines and usually each model no more than a couple of weeks. I would return them to Best Buy within the 30 day return period for one reason or another, then I quit buying them after the mileage and time devoted to returning them was too much. I still have an eMachine empty case in my shop from a friend's computer I attempted to repair years ago. For some reason the big "e" power button is painted blue?? Still, it's good seeing this old beast of yours "actually running" in your video. "Actually running" is more than I can say for almost all eMachines and I can find a lot of older now defunct computers running, but not eMachines. Thanks for this video that I'm now just seeing! Praise The Lord and Godspeed to you all - John 14:26!!
I bought a few from shops in town (back when regular stores stocked them not supermarkets and pc stores) and took them back within a few days more of a software issue then bought a Fujitsu Siemens computer and to this day it seemed the most solid pc I ever had, a thick but small case, suffered bumps and being knocked over and moved and never crashed etc. I can't remember how long it took but I remember roms about 7 megabytes took about 30 minutes. I mostly used download mangers to about 2013 as even with fast for the time broadband websites may of just download at 1 megabit speeds even if I had 20 megabit connection so I had to make multiple connections with a download manager to not wait all day for a large download.
Why don't you try Midtown madness 1 and 2 on these old machines?
my eMachines is still in the wardrobe from 2013. Pretty much used it for AAA games at mid, got it in like 2006.
The first pc i bought for myself. Still use it today thanks to Linux.
I had one of these. It was the first computer I ever worked on. Upgrading the ram and adding a graphics card. I loved that PC
Intel Celeron D with Intel Eggstreme Graphics!!!
Great video! :D That IGP. xD In Hungary we call it a 3D decelerator. :D
Zoltán Cser lol!! 3D Decelator.. That PC is 3d Decelerator, or better World Decelerator
RGHD, this reminds me of that build I made out of an old eMachine chassis I found in the snow one winter. I'm not sure if you remember, but I sent photos of it during and after restoring it back in like the very beginning of this year. It's cool to see you make a video that is akin to that.
20 minutes on a 10mb file. That's only about 3x as slow as what I have.
sweet jesus, what do you have??
I remember dial up, then our house got WiFi that never, ever worked properly and we were left with no internet at all for a good year.
Dylan Collins 800kb down. I could get 20+ but I'd have to go with a shady company who is notorious for overcharging and sabotaging people.
Damn... I couldn't imagine living with internet like that...
The slowest I get is 6MB/s down (60Mbps) and 1.1MB/S (10Mbps) up... That was after we got a free upgrade from ADSL to Fibre, and in the future we get a free upgrade to Gigabit.
My speeds are considered pretty slow too... Closer to the city (I'm in super rural Ireland) has connections around 100-300Mbps for around the same price as mine...
I hope it improves for you soon man
Dylan Collins it should soon. My internet company said we were getting better speeds soon. In reality, I think it's simply because of the wires routed in our house are from the 90s and probably can't handle any better.
Ehhh, I'd call bullshit on that, the wires to mine are from the late 70's and they can handle a max of 80Mbps, same with the internal wiring, we only had to change the socket where the telephone wire goes to the router
Snag a PCI version of the GT 610 from Zotac. Perfect fit for that PC.
Im get goosebumps when hearing the extreme graphics igpu name, and extremely goosebumps for knowing the fact that it comes before the legendary gma series
I remember dialup. My mom used to download alot of music, so when she wanted a handful of new songs, she'd call her friends and immediate family and tell them not to call for the next several hours. Good times.
I bought a 466IS Emachine quite cheaply with a monitor and printer quite cheaply. It was my first computer of my own. I still to this day have the computer and last I checked it does still work. I maxxed out the ram at 256MB of SD ram (yep not even ddr) and added an extra 30gb of hard drive space. Tossed in a disc burner, V.90 modem upgrade and a PCI video card for a second display.
Finally bloody hell!!!
Liam Samuels yeah sorry about the awful upload schedule recently. Been a hectic few days haha
Cool man love your vids man!!! ;)
My family used to have two of these. Still have one of them in the house. Should boot it up sometime and see if it works.
The emachines logo brings back memories
Our first was an eMachines T2891 from around 2004.. With an AMD Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B, essentially a rebadged Athlon MP sold later as a budget processor, and yes, Semprons had multiprocessor abilities unlocked), 512 MB PC3200 (Later 1 GB), and S3 Unichrome integrated graphics on a VIA KM266 Pro chipset. Later a Radeon 9800 Pro because AGP lol.
They really did use the exact same case for everything they made to cut manufacturing costs. It worked well. At the time eMachines was owned by Korean conglomerate TriGEM
My parents had this same computer back in 2006-7. I remember I started playing WoW on this machine. It took about 10 minutes to load to the log in screen and I got 10-20fps, less then 5FPS in cities...
An eMachine was one of only 2 prebuilts I've ever bought, the second one being an old Dell from eBay in 2020. Slapped a 9500GT with a Zalman cooler in and it was great
I have the carcass of a few of these laying about. Bad caps on both the motherboard & power supply where some of the most common problems you'll find. The AMD based versions with the Nvidia chipset failed with bad bga solder joints regularly. Glad to see this one made it all these years.
No way! My mom has that exact computer and it still works well today!
Please stay the same
Don't do videos on new technology
Love the videos
Umm... This computer is as old as most of the hardware he reviews anyway.
GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560,
+ Chris D I think you left out a GT 1030 somewhere, better add that.
Edilson Rodrigues you do realize he has done many many videos on newer tech? His thing is budget gaming/computing, which often relies on some older hardware. This is more of retrospective.
Very well made and shot video. You sir got a legitimate like.
I used this computer for a few years after 2012, can’t say I miss it. Even after upgrading the cpu to a dual core and a GT 640 I still had trouble getting a steady 30fps in HL2. Any game past the PS2 era was impossible to run. The Emachine gave me the motivation to build my own computer so I have a soft spot for it. Gotta start somewhere.
Just did a similar project. Got an emachines pc in a lot of non functional pcs for £6. All it needed was a psu and hdd. Pentium 4 and geforce 4 mx 440. Installed windows 98se on it, runs games from that era very well.
Had this exact machine whilst at college. Added a Radeon 9800 Pro just to play Half Life 2 and had a blast. Ah the memories!
Nice! My friend and I are restoring an old imac g3, and the ibook g3 that came with it.
The first modern computer my family bought was an eMachines that used the same tower shown, but was older and had a Celeron 1.3GHz. Biggest PoS computer we ever used. Fortunately a year later, I had enough money saved up to build my own PC. I bought an Athlon XP 2800+.
PS: The eMachines PS/2 mouse almost caught on fire after a couple of years. One day it stopped working and got super hot. I tore it apart to find out that some component started burning up.
I built a sleeper pc in one of those old emachines cases. That case is made out of super thick steel compared to the cases these days. I even cut a 80mm hole in the centre of the side panel and added a 80mm side intake fan with one of those circular wire grills. If the house ever gets broken into at least I will have one good computer left behind most likely lol.
Flashbacks from that modem are massive ...
I have an original dial-up era "Sign up for MSN and receive a 50% discount on your entire system!" e-machines with a Celeron 667MHz and originally 32MB of SDRAM that my great aunt eventually upgraded to 64MB.
It still runs, but I never really power it up. It just sits in the closet.
lol
If you read sometimes the comments for infos about your channel to improve ...here is one:
You make short videos. I am not THAT much interested in the cheap old PCs.
But because your videos are short i still watch them :).
oh my god i remember emachines, i wasn't even a teenager when i started wanting a desktop and i always saw how cheap the emachines were and asked for one but ended up with an hp pavilion
Oh man, I need to dig mine out wherever the hell it is in my house, I have the exact same system somewhere. It survived for at least 5 years.
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I remember my eMachines E3042. I got it in 2006 for my 17th birthday and despite it being crap as a daily after a few years (really don't know how I managed to get it running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit as it was slow AF), but it lasted me 10 years before it died and went kaput. I did give it a few upgrades with 2GB DDR2 RAM, an ATi HD 2400 Pro, and a Creative Audigy Soundblaster.
Did the same thing to a old PowerMacG5. Felt pretty good. I'm selling it now, but I guess no one really knows how revolutionary for the time what that system actually was.
You didn't test Half Life 1!!! !
That would've been a fun test.
You're a brave man. E-machines is on my permanent ban list for systems I'll work on. My aunt had one that was from the celeron 533 days that had a faulty ground as one of MANY issues. Ever had the requirement of someone getting a broom to separate you from the case? It's not fun. This was not the first e-machine I had encountered but it was the last I was willing to work on. I've never seen one that didn't have quality issues, and there have been a few. When they were bought by Gateway, well that didn't help the image ... I won't even accept them for parts.
I still have one lying around with a Celeron D 360 in it. The Bestec PSU in it is surprising still holding up
Feels like watching history channel. Nice content.
Even though it's obvious - i'm still glad that a system from 10+ years ago is still office-capable.
I had a T3604, with a 3.4 single core(Celeron) processor, Windows Vista as a OS, 1TB HDD, no GPU(integrated graphics), and a monitor I was lucky enough to purchase from Cash Convertors for a whopping 12$ bucks. Kept it from 2006 to 2018, until the processor itself burned out. You couldn't do much gaming on it, aside from Doom and a few others. It did play emulators well enough, sans PS2 or greater of course. I believe without a monitor included, I paid just at 300$ for it, come to think of it, it may have been around 250$ instead. I tried Far Cry as well, and let's just say that was a no go. Seeing this older model in direct comparison, damn near brings a tear to my jaded eyes. It's always a good day when the Emachines brand gets some love and attention.
*EDIT- If anyone knows where I can find the T3604 model from 2006/7, feel free to reply to this with the info. I checked all the major sell sites. I would adore the chance to get a second chance with that model.
I remember having this chassis for a different model - W6409 - P4, ATI Radeon Xpress 200 iGPU and 512mb RAM. Only "modern" games I could run at a playable, non-crashing framerate were Counter-Strike Source and Resident Evil 4. Even HL2 and the notorious PC port of Devil May Cry 3 suffered from horrible stuttering. It made the ET1831-01 I 'upgraded' to with its Celeron 420, nForce 7050 graphics and whopping 3GB RAM seem like a powerhouse by comparison but that was all my parents could afford. Luckily I did gradually upgrade within 2 years and wound up with an i3 prebuilt that had a GTX 560 stuck in it.
I've had several eMachines PC's.
My first one from February 1999 an etower 300K (AMD K6-2 @ 300 Mhz) still runs like a champ.
I have a T6420 model given to my by one of my brothers with an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU that has a nice PCI express graphics slot so I am not limited to the Integrated graphics.
One hint about emachines is that often their power supply is cheap,can easily fail and this will take out the motherboard if it does as the cheap power supplies do not have protective circuitry.
So I recommend replacing the power supply if you want it to last.
Cheap Bestec power supplies often used on them were notorious at failing
It would be cool if you did a restoration of an old Windows 95/98 computer. I have one that uses Windows 95 and it works like a champ
Compaq also made similar budget machines to this in the early 2000s. I had the misfortune of being stuck on one until around 2011. It originally belonged to my sister until she gave up on it in 2007. It was BAD! The thing sounded like a jet engine when booting up and quieted down when it got to the XP welcome screen. And occasionally it would start taking off again while it was running! It came stock with:
Socket 478 motherboard with Extreme Graphics and NO AGP SLOT!
Celeron 2.4 Ghz (probably Northwood or something)
128 MB of DDR1 RAM (the GPU shared like 32 or 64 of that)
40GB Seagate hard drive
CD-RW drive that broke within a couple years
250 watt generic PSU that would randomly shut down
Windows XP
Yuck. The thing needed a power supply replacement, CD drive replacement, RAM upgrade to 1GB, and an FX 5500 PCI video card to even be usable. And the BIOS would never detect the CD drive properly without a lot of fiddling around, although that may have been a bad IDE cable because we tried replacing the motherboard at one point and it still didn't work. The thing is in bits and pieces in the garage now.
Dude, I swear my mom had a PC like this 15 years ago!!!!
I remember playing an online tower defense game and freezing it up because of all the stuff on screen.
I had an eMachines computer about 15 years ago. I remember playing Bejeweled 2 on it.
Subscribed just for this. Loved that PC. Had the Pentium one with the GB of RAM though.
0:30 the computer looks like a skyscraper lol
The case and its interior are almost identical to my 2002 HP Pavilion desktop, in particular the removable drive cage.
Remembering that internet modem makes us grateful on how the internet today because miles better.
One phone call ruines it all.
holy shit, my family computer in the mid 2000s was that exact model
Same
Holy hell, that intel ad made by LTT about the wall of shame played before this vid...
I'm addicted to your videos help me
Thanks for the classic video on an old standby. I have this eMachine with the higher Pentium 4 2.93GHz 478, and the slightly newer version T5010 that upgraded to a Socket 775 that the manual states the chips s3et only runs Pentium 4 cpus, but they run well with any 800MHz Core Duo under 95 watts. Many of these boards don't have the AGP 4X slot added, but all of the socket 478 boards do. The Intel boards used on these are almost identical except fot the difference in the newer LGA775 and the appropriate chipset upgrade as well as 4 SATA sockets for the newer machines.
Not my idea of a gaming computer, but they operate well for casual 32-bit programs, and do fantastic with modern Linux OS and apps like they were made for each other.
finally another video. i was going crazy while waiting.
The go-to thing every day to play club penguin and animal jam on.
Man u vs Leeds on FIFA? IMA Leeds homeboy, you doing us proud rghd.
I bought my first computer, emachine T2862, in 2004. Good times.
I remember the struggle with the Far Cry GRAPHICS. Good old Days
This guy can't beat Tech Yes City
Wow! This was my first new pc. I even tried to play Far Cry on it and had the same issue. If I remember correctly it was because the intel graphics didn't support nvidia transform and lighting effects.
I have fond memories of my EMachines PC. I can't remember what model it was but damn, it lasted me a long time.
You should do a video on a budget portable desktop.
I had one years ago binned it as not even the socket for AGP just the solder pads
Graphics ..... IS everything.
I had that computer. I miss it. It was my 2nd PC I had.
Thats a very nice and fully grown potato
i wanna do something like this with my old 2006 pc looks very fun
I have a very similar emachine to this lying around. I couldn't be bothered to get all the dust out of it(don't think it's been used in at least 10 years) so I just took at the hard drive and used it in my new pc for emulators and roms to be stored on.
Hell ya, upgrade this thing into a BEEFY gaming system from 2003!!!
Impossible without the AGP slot.