What a throwback, I played a ton of Team Fortress at 15-20 FPS on one of these Pentium 4 Dell laptops as late as like 2011. Minecraft ran a bit better with Optifine but the single gigabyte of RAM meant it would always crash after about a half hour due to low memory. Seems like a fun novelty nowadays but I don't see the point of putting any more money into it
@@Tech86807 just make sure you do your research due to compatibility. i know of 2 laptops that has a removable gpu. the dell C610 witch i use to have but it had too much problems and a inspiron 9300 witch needs a new keyboard. also the fact of buying new old stock/used parts there's like 50/50 that it might be dead or not fully working due to sitting around in a box ask how i know lol, after buying a geforece go card.
A cool piece of retro tech! A little more modern but I managed to get two Thinkpad T430s' for 20 CAD recently. One had an i5-3320m and the other an i7-3520m. They were supposedly broken but swapping the ram sticks around got it to stop hanging before turning on.
Lotta good times in high school on this era of laptops, things would run Runescape in browser without skipping a beat if you got one of the nicer P4 ones at the time, and you have the top tier spec. Also, a Radeon 9200 won't be a ton faster than a 7500, since the 9200 is a cut down 8500 (if my memory serves me) with AGP 8x support. Definitely repaste it but those P4's ran hot regardless, so having to use it on a desk is to be expected. If you can find any AGP laptop gpus kicking around these days they should all work assuming the drivers are compatible with XP.
I had the 3.0ghz prescott version of that notebook. COOKER. You gotta figure the other graphics option was an intel chipset. And anything they would have crammed in from Nvidia at that pricepoint would have been roughly the same in that era.
i dont know how this would work but you if you can swap out the fan for one with more fins because the fans on those old laptops usually have less many, thick heavy fins.
You could try to delid the CPU and replace the thermal paste to make temps better. Some of those old GPU's also have an IHS so you might be able to do the same with that.
Even in the day OEMs like Dell referred to machines like this as “desktop replacement” PC’s, effectively meaning they were meant to be an all-in-one PC that you can move around if you need to. Whilst the graphics adapter is upgradable I only ever found a Geforce 4 Go MX 440 for mine, so if you see an upgrade, grab it.
lol we used to call some of them "portable workstation"...those were even worse...but in a weird way i miss them and those times...maybe i'm just that weird lol@@Tech86807
@@Tech86807 yeah I'd add a little bit of MX5 to the GPU if you can take off the Heatsink. Also the GPU you showed in the eBay listing is for a Compaq laptop, not sure if these would be compatible as dell uses a weird socket for their GPUs
yeah, to put desktop performance in a laptop at the time certainly came with its compromises. i have a blue toshiba A75 with a 3.2ghz hyperthreaded Pentium 4 and while it doesnt get too hot, the fans are loud and the whole thing is pretty chunky. its a good portable xp system, but im so glad that laptops can now have good performance, small size and battery life
@@Tech86807 kinda funny how well it still works and how good this laptop is i upgraded mine with more ram and a wifi card and its very usable even for some modern tasks with firefox
If some dude in Mac came over to me and said "Do you want to buy Laptop for just 5$ with a Intel Pentium IV and Radeon Mobility 7500 in it? Like I want cheeseburger and cola but I forgot money at home", ofc I will buy that amazing pc. I also got a 2004 Asus laptop with SiS 450M Graphics Card and 1-core Celeron 2.79 Ghz, this thing is fun to mess with.
Would be cool if you could test and see if a cedar mill pentium 4 works in this, it runs much cooler. I can send a 3,4ghz one to you for the cost of shipping. If it works I think it would be the most powerful laptop possible that utilizes a 4:3 screen
a fileserver wouldn't fit a laptop like this because of how hot it gets and how much power it uses plus it uses ide hard drives. a old linux distro might be a good idea but I am a fan of XP.
What a throwback, I played a ton of Team Fortress at 15-20 FPS on one of these Pentium 4 Dell laptops as late as like 2011. Minecraft ran a bit better with Optifine but the single gigabyte of RAM meant it would always crash after about a half hour due to low memory. Seems like a fun novelty nowadays but I don't see the point of putting any more money into it
I want to have fun and just see how far I can push it
@@Tech86807 If time, money and energy isn't an obstacle, go crazy!
@@CoruscationsOfIneptitude yes it can
Lol found that exact laptop outside my apartment in the recycling area but ended up using it as an elevation stand for my alienware laptop 🥴
Bruh.
Smart
bro got a flash drive for 5$
instead of flash its turtle
Good stuff! For 5 dollars that was a steal! Absolutely upgrade that GPU. Have some fun with that laptop. 👍👍
I don’t know if I can but I will try
@@Tech86807does it have NVMe
@@Tech86807 just make sure you do your research due to compatibility.
i know of 2 laptops that has a removable gpu.
the dell C610 witch i use to have but it had too much problems and a inspiron 9300 witch needs a new keyboard.
also the fact of buying new old stock/used parts there's like 50/50 that it might be dead or not fully working due to sitting around in a box ask how i know lol, after buying a geforece go card.
@@Tech86807i wouldn’t be surprised if its so old that the gpu is an mxm style card thats replaceable considering this things age😂
A cool piece of retro tech! A little more modern but I managed to get two Thinkpad T430s' for 20 CAD recently. One had an i5-3320m and the other an i7-3520m. They were supposedly broken but swapping the ram sticks around got it to stop hanging before turning on.
My main Mac still has a 3rd gen i5
Macs are one of the longest lasting computers, Linux will work better longer tho
3320m T430s I pulled out of e-waste for the low price of $0 is what got me through high school.
@@Tech86807still using i7 4790k at 4.6ghz in my main PC.
love how these were designed. color wasn't a sin :0
I love thick laptops, bring them back as budget options :(
Lotta good times in high school on this era of laptops, things would run Runescape in browser without skipping a beat if you got one of the nicer P4 ones at the time, and you have the top tier spec. Also, a Radeon 9200 won't be a ton faster than a 7500, since the 9200 is a cut down 8500 (if my memory serves me) with AGP 8x support. Definitely repaste it but those P4's ran hot regardless, so having to use it on a desk is to be expected. If you can find any AGP laptop gpus kicking around these days they should all work assuming the drivers are compatible with XP.
I had the 3.0ghz prescott version of that notebook. COOKER. You gotta figure the other graphics option was an intel chipset. And anything they would have crammed in from Nvidia at that pricepoint would have been roughly the same in that era.
"This is the laptop you cannot use on your lap"
the gamming laptop cooking my legs begs to differ
This is 20 pounds and cooks you
@@Tech86807 tbh I should weigh my various laptops 😅
YOOOO I USED TO HAVE THAT AND USED IT TO PRETEND I WAS A TOP SECRET AGENT WHEN I WAS YOUNGER
Yohohohoho
broo in da thumbnail i thought it was a DS
Fr
why is a teenager speaking ebonics in the comments section of a retro pc channel
A dream for every retro gamer, U can find such comps for $1000+
My buddy had one of these in high school. Used it with a usb microphone to record rap verses he put over stolen beats. (Circa 2010)
I got a Toshiba satellite pro 430CDT that is fully working and comes with all the accessories for free
I got this exact one for free like 10 years ago until the charger broke and started screeching. Though, mine had the multimedia controls
i dont know how this would work but you if you can swap out the fan for one with more fins because the fans on those old laptops usually have less many, thick heavy fins.
Maybe a better fan yeah but this is a desktop pentiun it gets really hot
You could try to delid the CPU and replace the thermal paste to make temps better. Some of those old GPU's also have an IHS so you might be able to do the same with that.
THIS WOULD BE SO FUN TO WATCH LINUX RUNNING ON
Why? Maybe I will though… needs a better gpu and more ram before it could be used nowadays even with Linux
Dang thats kinda cool
Thanks
yo i love ur videos man i do have a windwos xp laptop is a compaq v2000
Even in the day OEMs like Dell referred to machines like this as “desktop replacement” PC’s, effectively meaning they were meant to be an all-in-one PC that you can move around if you need to. Whilst the graphics adapter is upgradable I only ever found a Geforce 4 Go MX 440 for mine, so if you see an upgrade, grab it.
damn that's an amazing deal for 5$, i was looking for used laptops, but everything this cheap was in bad condition
dell inspiron 5100 love it
be happy your still young
I wanted one of those, it has one of the best speakers in a laptop for the time
it does have good speakers like how I mentioned in the the video
@@Tech86807 LGR did a review on it I think
maybe people's laps used to be stronger lol
a lot of these old laptops I see say "do not use on lap" on the bottom.
lol we used to call some of them "portable workstation"...those were even worse...but in a weird way i miss them and those times...maybe i'm just that weird lol@@Tech86807
Nice!
I would recommend getting this thing repasted, both GPU and CPU because these things have been known to Cook themselves to death!
Yep I have done that already for the cpu, but GPU? I didn't realize I could do that but it makes sense, I should do that.
@@Tech86807 yeah I'd add a little bit of MX5 to the GPU if you can take off the Heatsink. Also the GPU you showed in the eBay listing is for a Compaq laptop, not sure if these would be compatible as dell uses a weird socket for their GPUs
GPU uses thermal pads they are wet still so I am just going to leave it.
@@Tech86807 yeah you could do, but usually I replace them anyway or use paste
I tried to use paste but the gap would be to big. @@lukedavis436
This thing's like 4x faster than my first pc lol
yeah, to put desktop performance in a laptop at the time certainly came with its compromises. i have a blue toshiba A75 with a 3.2ghz hyperthreaded Pentium 4 and while it doesnt get too hot, the fans are loud and the whole thing is pretty chunky. its a good portable xp system, but im so glad that laptops can now have good performance, small size and battery life
Nice video! You got yourself a new subscriber.
Thank you:)
damn recommended operating temps on some of these older cpus are extremely low.
doesn't also help that this is a laptop with a desktop cpu
i have that laptop its my favourite xp gaming machine and suprisingly it still has good battery life
yeah the battery on this still lasts like a hour and a half
@@Tech86807 kinda funny how well it still works and how good this laptop is i upgraded mine with more ram and a wifi card and its very usable even for some modern tasks with firefox
I want that! ❤
0:15 Trust me if you are bored enough you will play or watch content on it regardless of the weight or of the heat that is to your legs
qualified as suitcase
my friend paid $50 for that like a couple days ago
The problem is: can it run crisis
this will happen ruclips.net/video/d6X9S_9w0aE/видео.html
Same CPU i have in my fujitsu siemens desktop pc 😀
Dude that half life was NOT running amazing, all that screen tearing hurt my eyes 😂
make a sleeper bulit by instailing a hole new motherboard
Don't Want to, no reason to destroy perfectly good old hardware.
also that would be really difficult.
i know , but its possible with old stuff @@Tech86807
anyways congratolations on ur new pc
🎉
@@Tech86807 that's why its only done with desktops in regards to making sleepers
If some dude in Mac came over to me and said "Do you want to buy Laptop for just 5$ with a Intel Pentium IV and Radeon Mobility 7500 in it? Like I want cheeseburger and cola but I forgot money at home", ofc I will buy that amazing pc.
I also got a 2004 Asus laptop with SiS 450M Graphics Card and 1-core Celeron 2.79 Ghz, this thing is fun to mess with.
Yeah I can’t wait to go back to the event (vcf) again I got a bunch of cheap stuff
use usb wifi adapter
nice
I believe this laptop is the same or similar to the one LGR reviewed on his channel
This laptop is very common
Can it run team fortress 2??
try team fortress 1 first of all
Tf2 can run on a core 2 duo from 2008@@erikrivera5946
I thought this was a 3ds
i have the 8600 version of that
has a desktop pentium 4? that thing's a space heater then lol
replace the thermal cpu paste
How did you break the CPU
That's a laptop to play starcraft brood war on
Use it as a heater.
I could if I could control the fan
When u said that it is at 66°c I was like Thats perfectly fine, anything under 90 is ok on a laptop, but the u said the max is 70
yeah old computers are different then new ones.
90 is not ok, it's too hot and will result in die degradation overtime. Below 75C should be fine. 90C is acceptable for VRM though.
@@JamesSmith-ix5jd 90 is fine for a laptop under heavy load
you could probably run tiny11 with this (please)
no if it's 32bit
@@hve.d aww
$5
Would be cool if you could test and see if a cedar mill pentium 4 works in this, it runs much cooler. I can send a 3,4ghz one to you for the cost of shipping. If it works I think it would be the most powerful laptop possible that utilizes a 4:3 screen
really cooler? that's interesting but it does Not look like it would fit in the socket.
@@Tech86807 Yes. The variant I have sits at 65W TDP. But maybe you're right about the socket.. It's LGA775 for this one
I have this laptop except its BIOS locked with a password by a company so i cant even use it :(
That should be easy to get around just take the cmos battery out and the main battery for a few minutes
@@Tech86807 Yes ive tried everything includng that but nothing works even swapping the hdd
Now try old school runescape and regular runescape
For a laptop from that long ago, it has pretty slim bezels!
mine has the intel Pentium 4 cpu w ht technology
subbed lol
re thermalpaste it
get a laptop cooling pad.
Good Idea I will
What socket do it have? Lga 775?
i think its the 478 socket, these cpus usually are pga not lga
@@joao-batista ohh soo its not the later variant of pentium 4
2001
Max the laptop out
5$ and 11k views wow
a great cpu a pentium4 Great omfg🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this kid has no clue that gpu is probably the awesome part being held back from the Pentium 4 in it.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro can you giveme a free pc i dont care if its slow pleaseeee
These older laptops are perfect for playing around with Linux.
Nice
please do more videos with this laptp
Its dead :(
@@Tech86807 noooo :( i really liked :(
@@Irontrap64 yeah same
@@Tech86807 you should get old windows xp compaqs they are pretty good i personally own a compaq v2000 its pretty good
@@Tech86807 what the application you use to overclock your gpu
you can run a ultra-lightweight linux distro meant for old hardware like this and use that as a fileserver or host for something
a fileserver wouldn't fit a laptop like this because of how hot it gets and how much power it uses plus it uses ide hard drives. a old linux distro might be a good idea but I am a fan of XP.
@@Tech86807 yeah XP is awesome, im a fan of messing around with linux on old hardware but its definitely not for everyone.