Saving a Trash Picked "Custom" PC!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we'll be taking a look at a PC that I saved from the bin, now I know what you're thinking what exactly makes this PC so bad....Well just sort of everything is a bit off, its poorly built, using a strange set of parts, but best of all it didnt really work in the state that I got hold of it.....So join us today as we see if this PC can be salvaged, and best of all if we can get this PC running some titles....Or indeed anything.
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Specs:
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q8200 (Not a shabby CPU)
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM
GPU: Radeon HD3450 Passive 512MB (Quite a terrible GPU)
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Heyo fellas a classic Budget Builds Upload, please do let me know if you enjoyed it, as I thought I'd take the classic formula and just polish it up a bit with some more modern editing.
Also it seems people think I havent been around for the last 10 Years... I uploaded a week ago. So if you missed that there was a huge 20 minute video that went up for you fellas.
@EEVblog got an i7 or i5 system from his "bin" finds.
Budget-Builds Official best little upgrade would be a Gtx 750 1gb card, would be the perfect low budget build.
@@CursedTeardrop
And patched 771 Xeon 8)
Yes but it was a console video so my PC master race brain did not register it.
Yes of course we
This guy just finds PC's and PC parts like sticks and stones!
Nexeno Justice Recycling centers are magic
I found my pc on a hard rubbish pile on the natures strip watercooled i7 4790k 4ghz a msi gtx 970 (was broken but got another one of $150 AUD) a 1000w power supply and a msi z97 gaming 5 mother board and a very nice case all I needed to do was get a new graphics card ram and an ssd and I now have a very decent gaming pc
swear i saw a fleet of old Macintosh's get thrown out of a gp surgery (doctors building?) literally 7-8 when i drove past a month ago, but didnt want to look like a scruff rummaging through thrown out junk on that private property.
boyo similar thing happened to me, found around 4 old-ish macs/laptops outside of an old office. took about 5 hours of total cleaning and factory resetting, but i was able to sell each for like $50. not bad money if you ask me.
@@wrije damn it aint bad if its free lol.
totally wish i swung back round and got them ones i saw they were completely working etc but found out the doctors just updated all there systems and didnt need them.
when you said nearly a decade old i was expecting you to say it was made around 2003 but when you said it was made in 2008 it hit me that 2008 was 11 years ago
still a weird feeling. 2008 was... 2 years ago!
Feels like maybe 5? [Shrugs.]
My PC was built in 2009
Linus Chex Mix you are shrugs
Mr.karib i thought the say way
It's a shame electronics like that are just chucked into the bin.
But hey, more for us, huh?
yeah but where else do you put em? i had to throw away my really old pc that no one would buy or even take for free
That's the problem, isn't it?
If I could, i'd horde electronics.
@@morka8797 i did some volunteer work at a 2nd hand shop that takes them in, it even makes sense from a recycling standpoint. But with some work we would sell systems like this for 25/50 euros. There are people that really cant spend more than this but still can do so much with a pc like this.
I picked up a complete used system at a Goodwill for like $15, an old Gateway Athlon 64 x2 rig. I threw some more memory in it (Gateway said max was 2 gigs, but it happily accepted 8!) and a modest graphics card (an old NVS 300), and set it up to dual-boot WinXP Home and Win7 Home Premium. I use it for running old software that won't run properly (or at all!) on my Win10 machine. A KVM allows me to switch back and forth between the two machines.
xaenon I know that issue with Windows 10. it's frustrating sometimes lol
Uploaded at 48hz. Now that's a new standard.
would you like 1hz instead? XD
That's what a couple movies use nowadays
His PC couldn't do 60, so 48 it was.
technic masters I'd like .5 hz please
No, no, no, no!
It's not 50 cut down and it's not "Europoor standard" and it's not because he can't render it at 60fps.
48 = 24 * 2
And as you know 24 is the standard for movies. This is just a newer standard that some people really disagree with.
www.extremetech.com/extreme/128113-why-movies-are-moving-from-24-to-48-fps
He probably just clicked the wrong setting in his render options......
Besides, frame rendering is linear so it would just take 25% more time to render the extra 12 frames... No matter what your set up is....
What does the dead spider bring to the table in terms of specs though? xD
2 points in cinebench.
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@@jjb2962 I was gonna find a smart ass reply but I see that category is already closed a
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Plus 8 fps.
When a PC from the garbage runs Crysis the meme should finally die.
Damn you, lack of CPU core count foresight!
But can it run crysis at 4k 60 fps(ik 4k sucks)
Towsif 02 4k? most systems will be crippled with crysis at 4k. I saw those numbers from LTT. gg
@@towsif_8_128. Or crisis 2 or even 3? When all these old Pc's have finally all broken down, that's when the meme will die, Which I do not see happening anytime soon in the foreseeable future, Because people are always repairing and restoring them.
Wtf why everyone is serious here???
Seeing that PSU makes me wonder if it originally had a better GPU, but the user savaged it for another project...
salvaged
I'm assuming it was just the supply that came with the case.
Or maybe some "repairman" stole it.
i'd also assume thats what happened with my pc, i have a quad core intel cpu at 3.40ghz and 32gb ram, but no gpu
That makes sense! The number of missing IO shields also perfectly matches the amount of IO shields needed for a good GPU of that age.
Give this beast a propper HD4850 and it would be a perfect WinXP machine!!
I wish he lived close to me, I have a 4870 he could have... AND a Audigy X-Fi Fatality edition, and 8GB's of DDR2 800 (The mobo died on my Core 2 build lol)
I have an XP machine with a HD4850 512MB, it's a great card for that purpose.
XP actually got drivers all the way to to the 2nd gen Core i patform.
Sure it got a Core 2 Quad, bit it got the slowest Core 2 Quad there is, and without any way to OC it on the motherboard, there is little to make it a bot more capable, atleast on the CPU side. If it came on a nice P35 board 3 GHz might be possible, but the way it is, it sit's a bit in an odd place. For newer games it's too slow, and for older games a higher clocking C2D would be better.
Actually working on a similar setup for use under XP: E8200 and HD 4870.
my E8600 and 9800GT and 8GB DDR2 runs XP X64 lol
@Giuliano BassWarrior I should be a maxOut machine. So that it can run ANY WinXP game.
Hmm maybe this was The Verge's first try at building a PC...
@brent collingwood Mhmm, at least the ram seem to be in the right spot.
L. Wolf and put in the right way!
Yeah when i saw the thermal paste
thedungeondelver they'll never live it down
BudgetBuilds: "This build is not professional"
Also BudgetBuilds: *washes pc case with a water hose*
Hey it works unlike the pc itself unless it’s playing minesweeper
Yeah, I cringed at that water hose as well, has anyone ever heard of rust and corrosion? I don't care if he dried it off, electrical component's in a computer are not designed to ever get wet.
@@ewelmo3921 no different than washing steel cookware
@@ewelmo3921 his track record seems to be going pretty well. He does that a lot and hasn't had any issues
@@ewelmo3921 I just had an actual high-end motherboard washed in a dishwasher today as well as several times before, working fine for at least 8 years no problems so far. "i DoNt CaRe iF hE dRieD iT oFf" actually drying it off thoroughly is the key step. smh...
I will never get tired at watching someone hose down computer parts.
I know it's addictive
The pc probably got sold, old owner used it for gaming but removed the gpu put in old one to sell the good gpu and the pc ceperate. Last guy used it really long for normal web surving and put it away untill he cleaned everything uo and threw it away.
Add in 4 more GB of DDR2 swap the CPU for a tape mod Q6600 and replace the card with a 750Ti or similar. It wouldn't cost much and would be an entry-level gaming rig for a kid to play games on.
Great idea for an upgrade/donation video.
So basically new PC but same motherboard and case
That is good enough!
@@WeabooMoe but with cheap cpu
just give it a 750/TI and it will play everything up to 2016 and at least half newer games :]
with a fairly loose definition of the verb 'play' in that case :)
@@kalmtraveler if you just play, not just excite on fps meter you will be more than fine :)
@@Pieteros21 that's what I meant - everyone has different desires for quality and performance, so 'can play' means different things. I always want the highest quality possible, so a 750Ti with 2016 games would not be acceptable.
@@kalmtraveler for low to medium settings... Older games of course higher. For newer games GTx950 will be better, but q8200 Will bootleneck it in most newer games. So that's why I told about 750ti :)
@@Pieteros21 yep, I'm not disagreeing with you - just pointing out that it really depends on your personal definition of 'playable'. I have a couple retro rigs now (Pentium III and a 775 dual core extreme) that are great for mid 2000's and back at expected quality and fps, but for modern things I basically go broke for the absolute best possible whenever I'm upgrading. Ex: my main desktop has a 3440 x 1440p 100hz screen but even with two modded Titan RTX, Witcher 3 can't stay at/above 100fps at all times, still dips down to high 80's with all settings max when lots of characters are on screen at once.
Wow haven't watched you in a while and you really blew up congrats
"But the game looked alright, provided y'know, looked alright means it looked like minecraft."
Yeah If it stopped looking like minecraft I'd be concerned.
put a half decent graphics card in it. get rid of that bottle neck on the cheap.
I wish I had bins like that where I live.
>Ahh yes, IDE. We're dealing with IDE levels of equipment here.
S-shut up!
People be throwing their relatively new pc. Meanwhile me still keeping my AMD Duron 900 powered pc from 2002. Hoping to revive it one day
A nice Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500 would fit nicely.
Profile pic link?
@@HappyBeezerStudios yeah, I had Radeon 9550 128mb installed back then but it broke down after years of use. The last time I used it, it was using its onboard VIA graphics which was so terrible, can't even play 720p videos lol
@@jacobmccloskey171 I believe it's from twitter so it might be harder to find the sauce. But give me an hour
@@guremi_ k ty
I have worked on a lot of these PCs they where used at my office for the Design department however they have been retired and put into light use in the factory years ago. When they where in the design room they had huge graphics cards but now only cheap cards. I would guess that is what has happened here the large card torn out and replaced with something basic once the old usage of this desktop was done. As for the PSU more than likely left in as they had new ones ordered in to be safe and take advantage of more SATA connections over Molex.
That makes a lot of sense, since it was missing some i/o shields.
A GTX 560 would be a good match for this cpu
@Sum Fãgg0tt Way overpowered, personally a HD5770 would make most sense, or a GTX650. Something simple, cheap, and reliably. Probably the GTX because drivers are a tadb etter than Terascale.
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial yeah AMD really needs to do something about the longevity of their videocards as a whole.
IMO a HD7750 would be best -- low power and still gets new GCN features like Vulkan and all the ReLive stuff. Performance match too for Phenom II X4 and Core 2 Quad builds up to Nehalem
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Years ago i had almost the same combo (Q8400 + HD6770) and it worked pretty well
@@ayuchanayuko I had an x4 black edition pared with a 7970 ghz and it was pretty balanced
But with 2.3ghz there is not much sense for a 7000 series
You keep using sound tracks from my childhood favorite games, first from kotor, now Ty. I watch for the tech, and get close lined with nostalgia lol.
Appropriate since the Ty trilogy just got a Kickstarter for new console ports.
i still have a asus p5k with a core2duo e6850 here, next to my ryzen 1700 :). This PC was build in 2007, and has seen: WinXP SP2; Vista Home Premium, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10! Swapped GPU 2 times, and upgraded to ssd in 2014.
I still have my Pentium III pc next to my ryzen 3 1300x :D
I feel you except mine's still working
Intel Q6700 2.67 GHz
8GB 1033 MHz
Power Color GT 1030 2GGB DDR5
For older systems with AHCI support and 4GB+ of RAM, they are actually quite capable for daily tasks. Just throw in a SSD and half decent GPU.
You should slap another GPU, see the difference it makes
Am I the first to commet here?
Well it was quite good for a free pc though
Jeeez.
I remember my family getting a computer built by a local place using the exact same CoolerMaster case.
It only had integrated Nvidia graphics, a 350 watt PSU, and an AMD Athlon64.
Although the board was from a long defunct company, and didn't even support more than 4GB of ram despite supporting a whole range of 64 bit AMD CPUs.
The late 2000s were pretty ripe for suckering people with expensive computers that did very little. At least if you were getting a 'custom built' PC.
Oh hey it's this video again!
Update! I still have this computer and now it's got an Athlon64 X2 in it. I also have a choice between a GTS 450 and a Radeon HD 5770 to play with, a new power supply to match the CoolerMaster case, and I'm upcycling my old parts - there's an SSD and DL-DVD-RW drive. It's slowly becoming my childhood dream Windows XP machine.
"spice it up a bit"
*sees it has good psu*
*Shoves a 1060 in there*
What do people think when they see a guy that looks like he still lives in the 60s takes a PC out of a bin?
Still a great vid mate!
Gt 1030 gddr5 and it will be waaay better
Anything that could do some GPU acceleration would make it nice and fluid for daily tasks. a GT 1030 might be even hold back by the CPU.
When this computer runs CS:GO better than your computer:
*cries in MacBook*
I hope you put windows on your mac book
This guy: Clean, wash and rebuild the PC, then install Win 10, Win 7, Linux, and playing 'newer' games on it.
The guy who threw this PC: Wait that's illegal.
Btw what happend to the spider?
All it needs is an i7-970, and gtx 970 for directx 11+ support just to make sure that the least amount of bottle necking happens, also windows 7
Different socket.
@@solarstrike33 then just slap in a good gpu and see how well it preformes
Me: man I wish I could get a free PC
This guy: I was walking down the road when I saw a skip filled with gtx 2080ts and 2885 gigabyte ram sticks
GTX ?
SpaceLite who needs ray tracing anyway
Aww they are only the 6gb versions, leave them until the 24gb ones turn up next week !
Fantastic restoration. Fantastic video.
Where's the shot of you putting the case on the roof for it to dry :x
With a few upgrades and lots of cleaning, I think this would be a pretty decent PC. I get so pissed off when people throw old PCs into the trash.
The video didn't help me, but I did get a LOT of enjoyment out of watching it :) Your video's are always 10 out of 10, could watch you gardening and would enjoy it. Pretty much anything you make is gold lol
Too me this video is like watching someone restore an old car, it's just great.
this pc BEFORE maintenance actually looked better than my laptop when I first did maintenance on it (after 8 years of usage, without ever being cleaned up, it was so dirty and the dirt so dense that one of the RAM slots burnt alongside the 4GB stick, beneath the condensed dust, and the poor i3 4005U were hitting the 100C every day despite being 15W)
Not to be rude but it's been long enough 😂
I uploaded a week ago. The channels a hobby I can't do daily uploads.
Ment it as a joke must have missed the upload last week, but while I have your attention I would love a ideo on how to install lighter versions of Windows and maybe the different Linux versions?
@@kanvarmurray2207: Could be a good shout. I did have a Linux video planned but it became obsolete and never got released.
I see
The cheapest motherboard in Singapore is Afox LGA 775 motherboard at SGD 89 and the MSI LGA 1200 is SGD139 and you save SGD 50. If you want to use for watching youtube at 1080p, internet reading and play some PC games then a LGA 775 is sufficient and it comes with a FREE intel g41 express chipset for graphic and pc gaming so you do not need to buy a graphic card. LGA 775 still rocks and my intel E8500 at 3.16ghz is still a beast play games at 1080p or 720p (low setting and off in graphic setting in games).
I use an Q8300 with the same cooler for my Windows XP PC :)
oof ive got a q8300 and im using win7
@@vodliedood3385 7 is still a great OS for those C2 machines.
Now if you put something like 8.1 or newer versions of 10 (1703-ish onward) without a lot of RAM and/or a better GPU, yeahhhhh...
Id consider myself lucky to have a computer like that. I love old potato machines. Its probably faster than my laptop lol
Put in a more powerful GPU and slam in some more RAM and it will be much better. Also you should see how far you can push the CPU by overclocking it.
Also I think I got a graphics card laying around which looks exactly the same as yours.
This motherboard is a legend i have 2 of them
One p5kpl am se
And one without se and it can oc very easy any cpu without managing the core voltage .
I pushed c2d e7500 to 4.07 ghz.
That case is actually really good for a budget file-server, since it can fit so many hard drives
Got mounts for 6 drives, pretty normal. 7 if the 3.5'' front bracket gets repurposed.
@@HappyBeezerStudios 7 on the lower portion, and if you buy a 3x5.25" to 5x3.5" you get 5 + 1 more from the upper portion.
That's what I have in mine, 12 data disks and one boot disk ;P
My advice - take that video card, snap it into two pieces and throw it as far as the eye can see. I had the unfortunate fate to own one /still have it/ and it is the worst PC component i have ever bought. Even an old GeForce 6600 is WAAAY better than that card. Add a new video card and that computer would be golden. :)
yüsmart
thanks monitor
Probably this old pc was way better but was rebuilt using only spare parts befofe going to the bin.
Or it was constructed from 0 out of spare parts.
Also a gtx750ti or a 1030 would make it nice to a low end machine to play games.
Add another 4gb stick and put smth like a GTX 650 since that cpu is pretty meh
@Eduard Berisa agreed
It's pretty cool to see an old pc saved. I'd like to see her updated, but just some. You could do like an i3 or an it build would be cool, maybe something for a beginner gamer could have fun with. Great video, and hope to this PC come back again.
"A spider used to live in this and can now play crysis"
Pure curiosity, in which country people throw away perfectly working LGA775 systems? o_O
When I got an Asus P5K SE mobo (for free, from a fella), it laid on a shelf for years, and then I decided to make an another HTPC, so I got a low-voltage Xeon from AliExpress (because the mobo was w/o a CPU at all), added a cheap GPU with DX11 and passive cooling, OC'd both - and got myself a cheap silent system which can perfectly handle 7z packing & x265 encoding (although it's much faster on a main PC, ofc, but still nice to be able to crunch those numbers while the main ones are busy), 1080p/60fps video playback, gaming (to some extend, ofc), and console emulators (up to NGC/PS2). I also added a 21" monitor on a wall (and a puff beside it), so that guests can play games/emulators (or do whatever they like) in peace.
Not bragging or anything, I mean, if a system can do *all that* - how in world someone would throw it in the *trash* bin?..
A.K.A _"the PC I'd have built in 2014"_
This was probably a custom gaming PC at some point. The original owner might have taken his good GPU for his new build, and put some other thing he had lying around for the display, then gave it away.
Core 2 Quad still good as a daily driver especially if you install SSD and 8gb ram, with a decent GPU can still play tonnes of games. Surprised you can't OC on that board because this gen can overclock really well, perhaps a bios update could unlock this? I've built a few machines in that case back in the day, would recommend reversing the side panels so cool air is drawn through the front filtered mesh and limit drawing in dust for long term use. Cool vid 👍
Love to agree, but can't. It can't even run Minecraft at decent settings.
@@jacobmccloskey171 Check the CPU usage its the GPU holding performance back, with an overclock you'd get even more frames with a better graphics card and 8gb ram.
@@mdrumt I have overclocked the q6600 to 3.0. rx570, 8gb of ddr2 800 quad channel, 2tb 860 Evo 2tb hybrid drive, couple smaller drives.
You are correct that it's the cpu, my graphics card doesn't run higher that 40% util when running games like fallout 4, WoW, Minecraft, and more. All of these games struggle because of the cpu :/
I'd also like to add that I can't do an oc on my board either, so I have to do that scuffed trick where you tape over one of the pads. Somehow that works.
I got a gtx 670 for 30 quid. That would transform it!
how tho
you guys are going way too new
@@likeclockwork6473 wdym way too new
i have that cpu cooler still LOOOL ngl, cost about 25$ new. Just bought it cause my cpu fan broke and needed 1 asap, WOrking fine
I saved my current pc from being scrapped by my school, they even gave me a graphics card to put in it
That's how I got my PC lol
They were gonna scrap an i5 with 6 gigs ram, I bought my own 1080
L!quid Ocelot yeah they do that. My school just sold the PCs ultra cheap. Like $50. What gen i5 is in there?
This makes me wonder if the old GPU broke and someone replaced it with something they had available then got a whole new computer and threw away this one.
775 on xeon or core2quad lineup is still decent processor for budget gaming or computing i think
I'd argue otherwise. The amount of money you spend to get a decent Xeon, a Decent OC, etc... You may aswell just spend £15 on an 1155 Motherboard and £15 on a Core i5 2400 works brilliantly, much simpler, and has an upgrade path
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial yea I had a i5 2400 and a r9 280x it ran rainbow six siege medium around 80 fps 1080p not much but playable, cs go saw around 230 fps average on the benchmark test, its still a good combo the r9s can be had for cheap and they are good performers only downside is that they are power hungry and you maybe will need a new psu but when you buy a r9 280x lets say you still will be needing a psu if you wanted to upgrade in the future so its a wise spend.
btw love your vids cheers.
@Moises Cortez well there where I live a used gtx 1070 is 300 dollars (converted)
@Moises Cortez and I bought my r9 280x 2,5 yrs ago for around 140 dollars used and it ran great sadly it died couple weeks ago, now im kinda thinking to buy another one the prices are just coming down and they perform still good.
I Think Which Is Owner Of This Pc His/Her Parents Throw This Pc In Bin So That's Why He Founded In Bin
that graphics card makes my gtx 560 look like a beast
Raymond Shades makes my brother 750ti seem the same way.
Hey did u know there's a worser pc it's called the book more preferably the dictionary
Reason for PSU. There was a version of this case that came with that unit pre-installed
I swear best part of these pcs is the satisfaction of cleaning out the dust and muck! Thanks again mate...great video and I've watched this a few times.
my NAS hat litteraly the same Motherboard lmao
The fact it ran GTA in general at 20 fps is stunning for the card and CPU paired with it
Yeah, Budget Builds actually has a video dedicated to the HD3450, and in that one it did even better. Still 240p, but 30fps instead of 20fps.
I might salvage a scrap Dell Optiplex (with a Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2 and a HD3450) just for (a) older XP titles and (b) playing GTA 5 at 240p on :).
This reminds me of my laptop. A slow quad core that can't really handle 1080p video, and 4 gigs of ram.
I like video's like this. It makes me happy to see some one restoring some life to something that was/is so useful still. It was saddening to see a perfectly well usable computer in the trash or bin. Understandably it is not going to play games that well, but then go out and buy or make a system that does, right? Please, upgrade the GPU and max out the ram and donate it. I usually get parts from friends who's computers have died, they go and get a new one and I help get their data out of the old HDD's and I keep the parts. I make some ok PC's donate them to friends/families whom have young kids and they cannot afford a PC and would like it for school. All so just for my friends without kids, they don't know much about computers, want to learn, type, use the web, things of that nature and I love helping them for that.
Nicely done! The reliability of old office computers is akin to ancient nokias and sundials. Glad to see neglected machines put to work
Where do u find these PCs?
That CPU is still quite capable. I built a Q6600 system last year for fun and at 3.00 GHz (BSEL Mod) it felt just like a brand new PC using Windows 10 with an SSD.
I can watch you just dig through computers you find all the time. This was so entertaining. I love doing stuff like this but my basement turned into a IDE graveyard. Had to get another hobby. This is fantastic thank you.
That PC with a GTX 650 and some Tech Yes loving would be fine for office work and light gaming.
Also 8gbs of ram would help as well
@@bleyz3557 I dont mount them fan facing up usually, if the psu is right above you're blowing dust right into it
But if you have an exhaust fan at the top then it's fine to do.
I've only mounted a cooler with a fan facing up because I had an intel PC that I got a cheap Chinese cooler for so it came with an AMD mount so the mounting levers blocked the pcie slot. But I made a duct so it didnt blow into the psu
Q8200 is a tricky one to overclock due to the rock bottom multiplier but I managed to get one around 3.2ghz while still undervolting.
P5KPL-AM SE, it's a G31 board, even with ridiculous OC on the PCIe clock the board would hardly be able to top 350 FSB. With the 7x multi on the CPU that would be enough for around 2.4-2.5 GHz.
Unless of course the board can'T go beyond 333 FSB anyway. In that case a chip with 266 FSB would do better. Something like a Q6600, E6800 or E7600.
@@HappyBeezerStudios
That is why anyone who tried to do any decent overclocking back in the day avoided the econo boards anyway they could. Personally I got lucky with a dead XFX 780i off eBay for $15 that was to my surprise still in warranty and only paid like $20 shipping for a replacement. It really was a good clocking board but it was one of the hardest to cool.
MrKillswitch88 speaking of cooling I'm thinking about using a north bridge cooler on my MSI 970 gaming motherboard. I also need to figure out a way to keep the VRMs cool.
@@ArtisChronicles The vrms can be easy provided there is room to work with be it with after market heatsinks preferably the copper stick on ones. If all else chop up a copper cpu cooler as that will be more than good enough for all with few exceptions. Back in the 2000s people had to be more resourceful especially when on a tight budget.
I'm still a proud user of a XeonE5450 along with a GT 1030, it's actually still usable in over average daily use, some gaming, let alone it doesn't suffer in development either
What is this 48fps video, some frame doubling magic from years forgotten?
Processing artifact from RUclips, seems to run smooth either way.
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Yeah it seems pretty smooth, just threw in a not so good joke for a build from decade ago ;P
5:45 thought you were going to refer to windows 7 fanboys getting mad instead
Change the CPU to an Aliexpress x5460 already converted from 771 to 775. Than change the GPU with a 950 or 750 ti or too with a HD 7850 (best option for me). Add 4gb of RAM. So here you have a Console Killer. What y'all think?
Better off selling it and going 1155.
2:09 that thermal paste application is almost as bad as The Verge PC Build video.
You should have it run Boinc world community grid or folding@home. Something poetic about someones trash looking for cures and helping people.
Your trash is a lot more interesting than mine, that's for sure :p Nice little restoration though; a machine of this caliber could still be useful to someone who only browses the web and writes documents. With a little love (i.e. an SSD and a somewhat decent GPU like a GTX 650) it could do more than that, and for practically no money at all. With the amount of dust that was in the case, the state of the PSU would concern me a bit. It might be good to pop it open and see if all the caps are still happy.
5:40 damn the monitor frame looks perfect with this PC case. Like they were made for each other.
Budget case . Cooler master master elite, i think
1080p48???
Absolutely lost it when I heard music from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, had to make sure I wasn't hallucinating
First run of benchmarking: Make sure you disable V-Sync as it is a major performance killer
Drop a X/E5450 or 5460 in there for around ~10-12 pounds---(that's a fantastic little motherboard if you get the unlocked bios from biosmods you'd be surprised) and it would be great to see what the top of the line LGA 775/771 could do in 2019
Hope there is a Pimp This Boring PC Revisit Episode,i like to see a sort of happy ending for this Boring old machine.
I think that for those older systems you should debloat w10 (using the powershell script) and use ooshutup10 to block background telemetry and process.
It wont most likelly get you more fps (at least significantly) in games, but it will improve the smoothness and speed of the machine for normal tasks and multitasking.
Unfortunately as we saw across 3 different OSs there was virtually no performance difference.
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Yeah most likelly only web browsing difference would happen, because of the random times when background services on w10 want to run and use most of the resources.
For gaming it wont matter
A lot of the slowdown issues in Windows are probably due to the graphics card and the slow hard drive.
Judging from the missing panels on the back, this machine most likely had either a couple of more powerful graphics cards in it or some specialized cards. I built a similar machine for music production, with a sound card and a firewire card (!) for audio peripherals. Today I'm even running the onboard Intel graphics chip, but I put a big cooling fan on the cpu to keep it quiet in the studio and I need a big power supply for the extra cards.
My laptop is from 2009 and works perfectly well. Might be because it has an Intel graphics card rather than AMD.
Simcity 2013 music.
Very nice
Love the Ty the Tasmanian tiger music! Brought a lot back for me
Nobody gonna mention that the video is renderd at 48 fps? Kinda specific
twice the cinema refreshrate. 3x would be 72 fps and 5x would be 120 fps 6x would be 144 fps, sounds familiar?
maybe the camera can't do 50/60 Hz
OMG is that Ty the Tasmanian Tiger?? Hit me right in the nostalgia feels
Thank god someone else here spotted, thought I was going mad!