linus tech tips: can a $9000 ultimate gaming laptop run crysis? randomgaminginhd: can a $13 dollar laptop run youtube? no offence though and i am a fan of both
last summer I found an HP laptop with a third gen core i5 and 8gb of ram in the electronics recycling bin at the local dump, compete with charger. When I took it apart, I noticed that it actually had an 128gb SSD in it and I almost pooped myself. After a good low-level formatting, I installed Windows on it and after a few upgrades is my daily driver :) it's funny that a computer that someone would throw away was better than most macbooks when it comes to performance.
Pretty sweet find! Should with a bit of tweaks like the lowspecgamer (youtube channel you might have heard of perhaps ?) does in his videos run most games quite well on lower end hardware. Bought my university laptop for 300 sek or about 30€ here myself. (Lenovo T420 4 gb ram & 320 gb hdd atm upgraded too 8 gb & optimized the windows 7 pro install on it by disabling stuff & uninstalling crap from uni.) *edit 2nd gen I5 2520 as cpu
Loved the little pictures of the "RX 460" made me crack a smile on a rough day. Thank You! You should do more jokes like that. Been on your channel for months now. love it
I had a 10 year old dell inspiron 1501 with similar specs lying around so i decided to upgrade it with an athlon tk 57, 4 gb of ram and a 60gb ssd and i can say windows 10 and a lot of modern apps run smoothly. even though it has some sort of integrated graphics, on san andreas it would mop the floor with the laptop in the video. it is nice to be able to compare old hardware like this so great job on the video. for some reason your videos are kind of addictive, i always check them out when i recieve that upload notification
I know a guy who gives a large amount of money to me but when i go to him i wake up hours later with my butt hurting you could go to him..................................................
some advice: you can cheaply replace the screens on a lot of these laptops, but first you may want to check the security of the displays ribbon cable. Here's an idea, find a laptop in the 3-5 year old range that may even have high end hardware for a laptop in it. Find one that says its damaged (screen especially) or missing parts, and look for replacements. You could end up with a solid laptop that was $1300 years ago, goes for $600 today in working condition, and you could get it for $100. Might be a fun project and honestly, having done laptop repair, isn't hard in the slightest.
Dell Latitudes are the way to go when looking for good cheap old laptops. Very well built, often taken care of (due to them being used in offices) and the fact that they often come with very high-end hardware for the time. I got a Dell Latitude D630 refurbished over seven years ago and I have been using it daily ever since.
Dude, I love that you added Portal to the low spec system benchmarks, that game is my second favorite game ever made, right below Portal 2. Half-Life is number 3.
My folks have the Intel Core 2 Duo variant of this laptop (it's called a HP G7000 I believe which they owned from new) and it was at the end of it's life. So, instead of throwing it in the bin or parting it out for other builds as the internals are hardly worth keeping around nowadays anyway for us we got an SSD which was from a job lot on eBay and popped it in there (the SSD effectively cost £4 for a 32GB Crucial V4 model) and booted Linux Ubuntu on it and I must admit as a general web browsing machine it does the trick perfectly!
Still got my Dell XPS M1710 laptop from 2006, $4,299.00 USD when it was new! Fastest pc in the world, faster than desktops when it was new, things so clean I bet a museum will buy it from me in a few years! Looks brand new!
I remember when I bought a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop from a flea market for just $2. It has a 1.5 GHz Pentium m with 1.5 GB ram. I was able to load a fresh install of Window XP with Office 2003. The laptop itself seems to be from early 2005.
Glad I can always find a video of yours I can watch ..kinda done soaked in all the ryzen 3000 vids I can handle at the moment ...yeah its nice n I have a 1700x n a 2700x n happy enough with them ...not running out anytime soon tho I wouldn't mind building a 6 core with a 8g rx580 or something just to sell it n play a week ...keep up the cool vids man !!
you know you're watching a person from great britan when the HD is in 50fps instead of 60fps. Nice video btw. I got a dell laditude e6400, and it plays light games like terraria and brawlhalla just fine, but for $60
The flex cable has come loose from the screen run a soldering iron along it and it will work again.To confirm push along the bezel along the bottom image should be restored.
I have a friend with a laptop thats like...2006 old. He used it with 0 fucks given, re-formarting OS very often...downloading torrenting w/e. It still works...He can just about play Warcraft 3 on it, even in LAN with other people.
I bought a cool HP tablet convertible from 2005 for a little over twenty bucks in really nice shape. (Batteries dead though.) With Windows XP installed alongside Windows 98 with DOS, it makes a great "retro" gaming laptop. Have Star Trek A Final Unity and Star Trek Starfleet Academy on it now with more to come. Plus, drawing in MS Paint with a pen is fun.
That is the same laptop I had like 10 years ago. Compaq F730US, still remember the model number. GPU burned out after a year, very common problem on those laptops.
That laptop you're showing is actually are first laptop we ever got. Just recently I installed linux mint so my brother could use it to watch videos and do his homework.
dude i love your content and i just want to ask for a cool video... if you could do a video about your experience as a pc builder/gamer/and finding cheap parts. it'd be cool to hear about how you've learned and such.
I usually go for used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops/notebooks/Chromebooks as they are usually built like tanks, and have decent specs compared to other brands. In fact my current daily portable since I don't game on it is a Lenovo Thinkpad X131e Chromebook with a dual core Celeron upgraded 8GB DDR3L ram, 16GB of built in on board SSD, and a 500GB 2.5in WD Blue HDD I had laying around from an old Laptop salvage job, onboard gigabit lan, VGA, HDMI, 2 USB 3.0, and 1 USB 2.0 continus power port all for $130 after the RAM upgrade, and it handles most every basic daily task I can throw at it, including office work via Google Docs, Web browsing, watching videos, playing time waster games found in the Chrome webstore, photo editing via Pixlr Editor, and even basic video editing use the RUclips Video Editor.
hey i love these simple fun videos but i think it would be worth it when buying old systems or hardware to replace the thermal paste and clean all the dust out since it is something that is either extremely cheap or free to do as a used parts buyer......keep up the vids bud they're awesomely fun.
Not far from the laptop I use now, Lenovo SL500 with 1 core Celeron CPU, I get electrical shock from the bear metal grill on the speakers and the fingerprint scanner.
With a dual core CPU I find that turning on "Hardware-accelerated video decode" in the chrome://flags/ options can sometimes help with HD video playback.
I got a similarly specced Dell 1501. AMD Athlon TL-50 1.6 Ghz (2 cores) 4 GB of RAM, up from 2 GB, ATI Radeon x1150 graphics and windows XP. I got no complaints aside from a battery that's completely shot and a DVD drive i can't fix because of some internal I/O error
I'm using that laptop right now! (btw is the version without dedicated gpu, so...) It works nice when I watch videos here (also in fullscreen 720p) but of course I cannot play on it. Despite this, I think that mine worth his price of 10$, too! Ahahah However, keep it going, I love your videos!
2 years ago I bought the C700 version of this laptop 2nd hand for 60€ (I broke my good laptop, this was a replace) and I've used it until early this year.. it was sort of crap, slow and hot, but it's kind of good for it age
I got an old Sony VAIO laptop (Remember those?) from a friend of mine, it has an Intel Pentium 4, ATI Radeon Graphics, and 2 GB DDR Ram. It came with XP, but can run Windows 7. I've been sticking with XP mostly because Sony hasn't released drivers for Windows 7, It's a nice internet browsing machine, and it can play some games, but it gets very loud, like almost as loud as a jet...
Have you ever considered trying one of those gpu docks you can get for laptops? Not like the razer core or anything that costs more than a full system, but for like £30-40 you can get some connect via Expresscard or mini pci-e and most laptops have at least one of them. Only limit is that you're limited to pcie x1 but it'd still be nice to see how much performance they add to an old laptop like this
Love the Channel m8! Could you do a budget egpu build with it's mini pcie connection, also use a Pico Psu to run some legacy graphics cards on Ancient hardware. 👌😉
I used to own that exact model of laptop (albeit it had the slightly higher clocked tk-57 at 1.9 GHz), that was until the power delivery just died one day These things in particular have a bad tendency of over heating and de-soldering the GPU (mine had to be re-flowed twice within 4 years)
i bought a while back a 300usd used laptop it had an I7 2670qm running at 2.2ghz 16gb of ram GT 630m graphics with 2gb vram and a 750gb mechanical harddrive.. oh and also pretty freaking great speaker system by B&O sold it again earliyer this year for 200 usd ( i was nice ) and bought a cheap 6watt laptop that despite haveing 5 times lower the performance still works great for office and youtube playback.. i did this because while the laptop i had was nice it was also powerhungry and being able to not worry about chargeing the laptop that i have now was a nice tradeoff
A light edition of linux would have done wonders for a machine like this, provided it isnt one of the few computers that gives a hissy fit when you try to install it.
I picked up a Dell Inspiron e1705 for free had to install a hard drive so I put a 750 GB sshd in it and replace the the power cord which I picked up at a thrift store for $0.75. it has an Nvidia GeForce go 7900 GS graphics card and does really well I was very surprised. It has a very nice 17 inch 1200p display too!
Found an old laptop with 160gb hdd and pentium t4200. Had vista on it but I installed windows 10, now works great and I use it as a small server for stuff
Hey, RGInHD, If RUclips isn't working well on a slow computer that you're testing, then install the H264Ify extention on Chrome. It force loads videos with the h.264 codec instead of Google's. It can even help out a Raspberry Pi.
I've gotten numerous computers that are still useful for free. What do I do with them? Nothing. I pick them up off the side of the road, bring them home, turn them on once and then just sit them in my basement. It's a lot more fun than it sounds.
Also you should look for an old Everex 15in Stepnote with a VIA C7 CPU with integrated Chrome9 graphics, and will make you be thankful for even a cheap lowerend ARM based Chromebook with only 2GB of ram.
Hey RGHD, how come you never show off linux? I'm sure there are many linux users following you, it'd be cool to see some linux action, especially on the "vintage" stuff like this laptop, because nowadays linux is great for making use of old pcs and turning them into netboxes and htpcs. Cheers mate !
yo i got an X2 TL-52 in my older laptop and the integrated graphics card is fried unfortunately. It was a lil painful to even web-browse, but it ran CS 1.6 in 30-40 fps and i was really happy.
If you want HD on a laptop like this you can try Windows Edge which works surprisingly well on my Turionx2 with ATI 1450 (or something like that) or you can download Gom Player (with works better than VLC or MPC+CoreAvc one low specs) and copy paste the link, it works quite well !
My editing PC for my other Channel (this one is the personnal account) is a Dell OptiPlex 755. Core 2 Duo 4GB of RAM 1TB 5400RPM Hitachi HDD (Bought on a Facebook gaming and selling site for 25€) 60GB Corsair Nova SSD (Bought on a sale at a local Pawn Shop for 20€) ASUS GTX 670 Direct CU II (Bought from a UK seller with free shipping for 13€) The point is, I built that rig for less than 70€ and despite not being the best, it's serving me well, it does Photoshopping, video editing, it's on for 18-20 hours a day and yet, no component has failed. It renders videos preety quickly considering the price, and with my symetrical 100 Mbps Internet, video production and uploading is a breeze on that PC, I also have a Sony Vaio I picked from the dump with a Core i7, 6GB of RAM, a 500GB Hard Drive and Intel Iris Graphics, the only repair it needed was to the screen hinge since it had fallen and the screen flopped around and didn't shut, apart from cosmetic blemishes it looks the part! It's white and silver. Two great computers for a budget production office!
Could you do a video on the capabilities of some older gaming laptops? for example, an older rog g74 with a mobile i7 3xxx and a 660m gpu. I think it would make an interesting video to see if the performance still warrants the price. of a 2010-12 era gaming laptop.
I've got an old Vista laptop on which I have installed an SSD and Windows 10. It runs fine. You might want to try putting an SSD into the laptop and see how it performs.
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linus tech tips: can a $9000 ultimate gaming laptop run crysis?
randomgaminginhd: can a $13 dollar laptop run youtube?
no offence though and i am a fan of both
741Mo0R_ G4M1NG this shit should be pinned haha
lamo
a "$13 dollar"?! I'm pretty sure a dollar can't run anything
Laprop? What's that?
lol i edited the comment like 10 times
"The screen works 90% of the time" did you mean 90% of the screen works
90% of the screen works 90% of the time
@@user-ef6gv4wv1l So, the screen works 81% of the time
Vivekananda Reddy lol
I can't afford that
BEN DOVER? MORE LIKE BENDOVER
PersonalPotatoGayming Nigguh...😊
I thought this was supposed to be a budget chanel ;/
Mal'ghoul yeah, the last thing he did with stuff i can afford was the pocket change PC, I'm unsubbing
you are joking ................... right
last summer I found an HP laptop with a third gen core i5 and 8gb of ram in the electronics recycling bin at the local dump, compete with charger. When I took it apart, I noticed that it actually had an 128gb SSD in it and I almost pooped myself. After a good low-level formatting, I installed Windows on it and after a few upgrades is my daily driver :) it's funny that a computer that someone would throw away was better than most macbooks when it comes to performance.
Pretty sweet find!
Should with a bit of tweaks like the lowspecgamer (youtube channel you might have heard of perhaps ?) does in his videos run most games quite well on lower end hardware.
Bought my university laptop for 300 sek or about 30€ here myself.
(Lenovo T420 4 gb ram & 320 gb hdd atm upgraded too 8 gb & optimized the windows 7 pro install on it by disabling stuff & uninstalling crap from uni.)
*edit
2nd gen I5 2520 as cpu
Was it probably the cleanest best pleasure?
i built a pc for 3.50 all i paid for was thermal paste and 1gb of ddr3 ram i found the rest in a skip
eheh ehhh nice! I'm currently looking out for a free pc haha
it is an hp compaq 315eu i can send some bench marks over if u want although it can barely run any games other than happy wheels
what is happy wheels? I've never even heard of that xD
happy wheel takes more resources than minecraft and games like that lmao
I've built a Pentium 2 Slot 1 CPU, 256 MB of ram and 60 GB of storage system from my school dumpster and you can even change the bios color!
the question is no longer "but can it run crysis?", its "but can it run?"
if you set legs for that computer, of course.
@@oblivion2755 ha! No
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SenpaiKillerFire Potatop
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When a 10$ laptop is better than your computer.
Víctor Escobar Hernández I can relate 😖
Could you seriously not afford something better than this?
ShapeShifterMinizen1 Umm that was my past, now I got a thousand times better laptop 😉
Randomeverythingboy everythingboy I had one as well, they're better than the laptop in the video.
back at it again with the nice house
Can u make an video with intel core i7 6400t engineering prototype? Which cost roughly 100$ on AliExpress
Oh Dude! That would be great!
Look at Tech City's Channel, he made a video about it.
Niklas Haiden ik buddy
Oh Dude! yeah ive been looking at getting one actually.
GIVE THIS MAN A LIKE
1080p Video wouldnt have been a problem with Ubuntu
JustJay exactly, ubuntu 4 the win
*lubuntu
Marin Baclija yes
Well, it runs better than Windows on slow hardware and has some great features but at the moment it isnt really the way to go for gaming.
dunno why would you play a 1080p video on a laptop which screen resolution is a 1280x800
I've got that exact same laptop! And can officially confirm that it is a pain
Still better than a macbook😂
Night Wing your joke is bad you should feel bad
lukas2141 TheGamingPro it's not his fault that the joke is far from funny neither the joke is true neither new nor original
Ivan Kostov 50 likes still a thing huh?
lukas2141 TheGamingPro first:likes are not a measurement
second: I've also milked likes by reposting an old joke
Ivan Kostov who cares bruh, that still proves its still a joke on point lol
Never have I clicked on a video so fast in my life, thanks RGinHD ❤.
Loved the little pictures of the "RX 460" made me crack a smile on a rough day. Thank You!
You should do more jokes like that. Been on your channel for months now. love it
I had a 10 year old dell inspiron 1501 with similar specs lying around so i decided to upgrade it with an athlon tk 57, 4 gb of ram and a 60gb ssd and i can say windows 10 and a lot of modern apps run smoothly. even though it has some sort of integrated graphics, on san andreas it would mop the floor with the laptop in the video. it is nice to be able to compare old hardware like this so great job on the video. for some reason your videos are kind of addictive, i always check them out when i recieve that upload notification
Would you make a new video about how to get tech at literally mega low prices? because god damn
I want to get a Titan Z for some fucking 2.49USD
Adam7336 Find someone who has one, point a gun to their head
game like the Master Race
Adam7336 Oh
doesnt a 1080ti outperform a titan z today?
I know a guy who gives a large amount of money to me but when i go to him i wake up hours later with my butt hurting you could go to him..................................................
You guys know you can download a graphics card right?
RGiHD, you should install lubuntu on this laptop to get the best performance!
I can confirm it runs lubuntu 16.04 LTS with latest updates.
Wait, it does support that obscure GF 7000M?
08625 Yeah. It even supports older graphics cards!
My day isnt complete without RGHD !! great video as always mate !
I was watching some of your older videos and I was suprised to find out your old intro is nostalgic for me :D
Man, this guy is the best brit tech guy ever!!! I love this guy, his videos are very helpful and detailed!! Thanks a lot RandomGaminginHD!!
keep up the good work !!
All this old hardware just needs a little bit of love.
some advice:
you can cheaply replace the screens on a lot of these laptops, but first you may want to check the security of the displays ribbon cable. Here's an idea, find a laptop in the 3-5 year old range that may even have high end hardware for a laptop in it. Find one that says its damaged (screen especially) or missing parts, and look for replacements. You could end up with a solid laptop that was $1300 years ago, goes for $600 today in working condition, and you could get it for $100. Might be a fun project and honestly, having done laptop repair, isn't hard in the slightest.
Dell Latitudes are the way to go when looking for good cheap old laptops. Very well built, often taken care of (due to them being used in offices) and the fact that they often come with very high-end hardware for the time. I got a Dell Latitude D630 refurbished over seven years ago and I have been using it daily ever since.
Dude, I love that you added Portal to the low spec system benchmarks, that game is my second favorite game ever made, right below Portal 2. Half-Life is number 3.
My folks have the Intel Core 2 Duo variant of this laptop (it's called a HP G7000 I believe which they owned from new) and it was at the end of it's life. So, instead of throwing it in the bin or parting it out for other builds as the internals are hardly worth keeping around nowadays anyway for us we got an SSD which was from a job lot on eBay and popped it in there (the SSD effectively cost £4 for a 32GB Crucial V4 model) and booted Linux Ubuntu on it and I must admit as a general web browsing machine it does the trick perfectly!
thank you for this refreshing antithesis to all the Computex content
I'm still using the same specs with this laptop in 2017 . Acer aspire 4520 .
Still got my Dell XPS M1710 laptop from 2006, $4,299.00 USD when it was new! Fastest pc in the world, faster than desktops when it was new, things so clean I bet a museum will buy it from me in a few years! Looks brand new!
I remember when I bought a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop from a flea market for just $2. It has a 1.5 GHz Pentium m with 1.5 GB ram. I was able to load a fresh install of Window XP with Office 2003. The laptop itself seems to be from early 2005.
Glad I can always find a video of yours I can watch ..kinda done soaked in all the ryzen 3000 vids I can handle at the moment ...yeah its nice n I have a 1700x n a 2700x n happy enough with them ...not running out anytime soon tho I wouldn't mind building a 6 core with a 8g rx580 or something just to sell it n play a week ...keep up the cool vids man !!
I just love the benchmark parts, don't know why, but it makes me feel good about myself and my crap pc.
you know you're watching a person from great britan when the HD is in 50fps instead of 60fps. Nice video btw. I got a dell laditude e6400, and it plays light games like terraria and brawlhalla just fine, but for $60
Man, get something people can afford😂😂😂
I have a free laptop
Lu de la CIA Maybe if you throw in a donut.... 🍩
The flex cable has come loose from the screen run a soldering iron along it and it will work again.To confirm push along the bezel along the bottom image should be restored.
I have a friend with a laptop thats like...2006 old. He used it with 0 fucks given, re-formarting OS very often...downloading torrenting w/e. It still works...He can just about play Warcraft 3 on it, even in LAN with other people.
Im really liking these new face cam videos keep up the good work!
I bought a cool HP tablet convertible from 2005 for a little over twenty bucks in really nice shape. (Batteries dead though.) With Windows XP installed alongside Windows 98 with DOS, it makes a great "retro" gaming laptop. Have Star Trek A Final Unity and Star Trek Starfleet Academy on it now with more to come. Plus, drawing in MS Paint with a pen is fun.
That is the same laptop I had like 10 years ago. Compaq F730US, still remember the model number. GPU burned out after a year, very common problem on those laptops.
That laptop you're showing is actually are first laptop we ever got. Just recently I installed linux mint so my brother could use it to watch videos and do his homework.
dude i love your content and i just want to ask for a cool video... if you could do a video about your experience as a pc builder/gamer/and finding cheap parts. it'd be cool to hear about how you've learned and such.
I usually go for used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops/notebooks/Chromebooks as they are usually built like tanks, and have decent specs compared to other brands. In fact my current daily portable since I don't game on it is a Lenovo Thinkpad X131e Chromebook with a dual core Celeron upgraded 8GB DDR3L ram, 16GB of built in on board SSD, and a 500GB 2.5in WD Blue HDD I had laying around from an old Laptop salvage job, onboard gigabit lan, VGA, HDMI, 2 USB 3.0, and 1 USB 2.0 continus power port all for $130 after the RAM upgrade, and it handles most every basic daily task I can throw at it, including office work via Google Docs, Web browsing, watching videos, playing time waster games found in the Chrome webstore, photo editing via Pixlr Editor, and even basic video editing use the RUclips Video Editor.
1:55 great glasses m8 ;)
hey i love these simple fun videos but i think it would be worth it when buying old systems or hardware to replace the thermal paste and clean all the dust out since it is something that is either extremely cheap or free to do as a used parts buyer......keep up the vids bud they're awesomely fun.
Still have that laptop, still works. Except mine has a Core 2 Duo and no discrete graphics. The screen looks exactly like that though
i like the way you say the price in different currencys
Gt 730 gddr5 plz.
U live in the amazon of London or what mate? Sounds like birds and rushing water
Man, your channel is so good
holy shit i used to have that laptop! back in my college days playing WoW....good times
Not far from the laptop I use now, Lenovo SL500 with 1 core Celeron CPU, I get electrical shock from the bear metal grill on the speakers and the fingerprint scanner.
With a dual core CPU I find that turning on "Hardware-accelerated video decode" in the chrome://flags/ options can sometimes help with HD video playback.
i just love the background
I got a similarly specced Dell 1501. AMD Athlon TL-50 1.6 Ghz (2 cores) 4 GB of RAM, up from 2 GB, ATI Radeon x1150 graphics and windows XP. I got no complaints aside from a battery that's completely shot and a DVD drive i can't fix because of some internal I/O error
I had one of these. Got it used in the same condition. Thing was a piece
I'm using that laptop right now! (btw is the version without dedicated gpu, so...)
It works nice when I watch videos here (also in fullscreen 720p) but of course I cannot play on it. Despite this, I think that mine worth his price of 10$, too! Ahahah However, keep it going, I love your videos!
in year 2018: RandomGamingHD presents: glorious "One Penny" build that can run minesweeper
2 years ago I bought the C700 version of this laptop 2nd hand for 60€ (I broke my good laptop, this was a replace) and I've used it until early this year.. it was sort of crap, slow and hot, but it's kind of good for it age
I got an old Sony VAIO laptop (Remember those?) from a friend of mine, it has an Intel Pentium 4, ATI Radeon Graphics, and 2 GB DDR Ram. It came with XP, but can run Windows 7. I've been sticking with XP mostly because Sony hasn't released drivers for Windows 7, It's a nice internet browsing machine, and it can play some games, but it gets very loud, like almost as loud as a jet...
Have you ever considered trying one of those gpu docks you can get for laptops? Not like the razer core or anything that costs more than a full system, but for like £30-40 you can get some connect via Expresscard or mini pci-e and most laptops have at least one of them. Only limit is that you're limited to pcie x1 but it'd still be nice to see how much performance they add to an old laptop like this
Love the Channel m8!
Could you do a budget egpu build with it's mini pcie connection, also use a Pico Psu to run some legacy graphics cards on Ancient hardware.
👌😉
i got a 10 year old laptop too. but mine was 2000$ at launch so its still really good today. acer aspire 5920
0:57 Secret ports?! Illuminati confirmed.
better than my dektop wich was 500 dollars 10 years ago
I used to own that exact model of laptop (albeit it had the slightly higher clocked tk-57 at 1.9 GHz), that was until the power delivery just died one day
These things in particular have a bad tendency of over heating and de-soldering the GPU (mine had to be re-flowed twice within 4 years)
i bought a while back a 300usd used laptop it had an I7 2670qm running at 2.2ghz
16gb of ram
GT 630m graphics with 2gb vram
and a 750gb mechanical harddrive..
oh and also pretty freaking great speaker system by B&O
sold it again earliyer this year for 200 usd ( i was nice )
and bought a cheap 6watt laptop that despite haveing 5 times lower the performance still works great for office and youtube playback.. i did this because while the laptop i had was nice it was also powerhungry and being able to not worry about chargeing the laptop that i have now was a nice tradeoff
I like this man because he showcases really cheap tech
A light edition of linux would have done wonders for a machine like this, provided it isnt one of the few computers that gives a hissy fit when you try to install it.
A Core 2 Dual socket 478P with 4GB DDR2 Ram and Nvidia/ATi GPU with an 60 SSD is still very usable in 2017 for even 720P/1080P video
I picked up a Dell Inspiron e1705 for free had to install a hard drive so I put a 750 GB sshd in it and replace the the power cord which I picked up at a thrift store for $0.75. it has an Nvidia GeForce go 7900 GS graphics card and does really well I was very surprised. It has a very nice 17 inch 1200p display too!
Found an old laptop with 160gb hdd and pentium t4200. Had vista on it but I installed windows 10, now works great and I use it as a small server for stuff
On old systems like this, I think a fun game to test on it would be the original Halo.
Hey, RGInHD, If RUclips isn't working well on a slow computer that you're testing, then install the H264Ify extention on Chrome. It force loads videos with the h.264 codec instead of Google's. It can even help out a Raspberry Pi.
I've gotten numerous computers that are still useful for free. What do I do with them? Nothing. I pick them up off the side of the road, bring them home, turn them on once and then just sit them in my basement. It's a lot more fun than it sounds.
Wow, that's a premium laptop that i can only dream to buy one day.
Microsoft Edge acts fine with 1080p RUclips even on lower-end laptops, you should try it out :D
Keep the good work up
Wow, a great laptop as allways. By the way, can you look at some engineering sample cpus?
Btw gta san andreas came out in 2004 october. Not 2005.
Good video, thank you
by the way, could you talk about the new i5 extreme?
Nvidia 7000m has some enhancements, but it's still integrated graphics with shared memory.
Old laptops make great security cameras
Enjoy it while it lasts. That Geforce 7000M chipset is known to fail by the truckloads.
did you make sure to download more ram first? also is the cpu wireless?
Also you should look for an old Everex 15in Stepnote with a VIA C7 CPU with integrated Chrome9 graphics, and will make you be thankful for even a cheap lowerend ARM based Chromebook with only 2GB of ram.
Nearly better than my 2009 laptop, FU**.
Hey RGHD, how come you never show off linux? I'm sure there are many linux users following you, it'd be cool to see some linux action, especially on the "vintage" stuff like this laptop, because nowadays linux is great for making use of old pcs and turning them into netboxes and htpcs. Cheers mate !
yo i got an X2 TL-52 in my older laptop and the integrated graphics card is fried unfortunately. It was a lil painful to even web-browse, but it ran CS 1.6 in 30-40 fps and i was really happy.
Sounds like that laptop was the one to have when it was originally released. Although, it looks like your GPU drivers haven't been installed yet.
great vid Random!!
If you want HD on a laptop like this you can try Windows Edge which works surprisingly well on my Turionx2 with ATI 1450 (or something like that) or you can download Gom Player (with works better than VLC or MPC+CoreAvc one low specs) and copy paste the link, it works quite well !
I feel like the lowspecgamer way is the only way for ancient systems like these.
Perfect as a simple webserver, just install debian/ubuntu and LEMP (Linux/Nginx/Mysql/PHP), it has built in screen, keybard and UPS (The Battery).
My editing PC for my other Channel (this one is the personnal account) is a Dell OptiPlex 755.
Core 2 Duo
4GB of RAM
1TB 5400RPM Hitachi HDD (Bought on a Facebook gaming and selling site for 25€)
60GB Corsair Nova SSD (Bought on a sale at a local Pawn Shop for 20€)
ASUS GTX 670 Direct CU II (Bought from a UK seller with free shipping for 13€)
The point is, I built that rig for less than 70€ and despite not being the best, it's serving me well, it does Photoshopping, video editing, it's on for 18-20 hours a day and yet, no component has failed. It renders videos preety quickly considering the price, and with my symetrical 100 Mbps Internet, video production and uploading is a breeze on that PC, I also have a Sony Vaio I picked from the dump with a Core i7, 6GB of RAM, a 500GB Hard Drive and Intel Iris Graphics, the only repair it needed was to the screen hinge since it had fallen and the screen flopped around and didn't shut, apart from cosmetic blemishes it looks the part! It's white and silver. Two great computers for a budget production office!
Could you do a video on the capabilities of some older gaming laptops? for example, an older rog g74 with a mobile i7 3xxx and a 660m gpu. I think it would make an interesting video to see if the performance still warrants the price. of a 2010-12 era gaming laptop.
You could try installing a Lightweight Linux Distro, like Lubuntu to get even more on this laptop
I Love this Laptop. IDK why, but I like working with it.
Sadly, my boss sold it and bought new ones for us.
I had one very similar to that until a few months ago...
I've got an old Vista laptop on which I have installed an SSD and Windows 10. It runs fine. You might want to try putting an SSD into the laptop and see how it performs.
Before I upgraded to my Rig I had a sad little lenovo laptop with a Pentium and a 550ti but it was never that bad it ran New Vegas at 30 fps
Change the thermal paste and install windows 10, it would be useful when using EDGE browser
Hey, nice video, but how about the other laptops? Did you return them or you just dropped the project of repairing them?