$2 Gaming Setup

[@pureblackbishop]

We need a DIY home server video ... this video gives me those vibes

[@schvabek]

I did a video on my home “server”, it’s an old Mac Pro, but I’ll set up a proper server once I move to my new place.

[@pureblackbishop]

@schvabek awesome, can't wait. Will check the Mac video too

[@JoBarnes-zi7ih]

@@schvabekHELLO!!!!!!!!! I SUBBED

[@hiaustin]

Wife told me I gotta clean the house today & now you uploaded. Saturday made ❤️

[@schvabek]

Aw man, glad I made your day ❤️ Hope you got the house cleaned too

[@ClaireFelidae]

Omg this video made me smile as my wife ran a HP Compaq 6000 pro Micro Tower that i upgraded to a core 2 quad Q8400 with Linux mint until past year as her bill paying and printing computer. Ive since upgraded her to an dell optiplex 7050 that was being thrown out

[@finnbianga4189]

This brings back memories. We found this exact computer (xw4600) in a friend's basement. He gifted it to me and it even had an e8400 and 4 gigs of ddr2. I upgraded it with a gts250 and sold it for 15€ 😂

[@aab.videos]

I got so many computers for free, I'm happy with how it turned out.

[@schvabek]

Oh, me too. I have a hard time storing them all though lol.

[@aab.videos]

@@schvabek Yeah, was it you who had to go all the way down and dive through the computers to get one of them in your previous house?

[@aliensarecool123]

I have none, can't buy one(other issues, don't ask) and I'm bored. I'm emulating on my laptop

[@aab.videos]

@ Well, you have one, which is your laptop.

[@schvabek]

@@aab.videos yeah, I’m still at that place. Part of my collection is in that basement shed. Sucks.

[@TechGameDev]

finally a place without AI I hated technology because of it I miss the time when AI didn't exist (2019 older)

[@jimcabezola3051]

I STILL have a couple of ancient, rusty computer cases with the electronics removed. Your video makes me want to screw in some Raspberry Pi boards in them and make really absurd-looking retro computers. Or...I could use them under a wooden board and make them into a coffee table. The possibilities for these old machines can be endless if only we just sit quietly for a little bit...and imagine...and allow the ideas to flow. Mahalo for another great video!

[@WeatherMan2005]

i have an old rusted emachines case. if i can assemble a computer i might use it for fun

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I just built a gaming PC running windows with the same CPU and a Radeon HD 3870. It runs pretty much all games from 2010 and back.

[@Pasi123]

My first time playing around with virtual machines was on a xw4600 back in spring 2012. That was in a school computer lab full of them with Core2 Quad Q9550, 4GB RAM, Quadro FX 1800, Windows 7. Back then my own PC only had a Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz and 1GB RAM. In 2013 I bought my first good PC which was a HP Z400 with a Xeon W3520 (i7-920), 6GB RAM, Quadro FX 1800, Win7. A bit later upgraded the RAM to 12GB RAM and the GPU to a GTX 660.

[@Dinethshavinda]

I only have one pc and in the country i live we don't have recycle centers or people don't giveaway old pc i wish i was in a country like you Idk i just like repairing stuff and cleaning them even though they work fine Its satisfying for me one day i will have a big house and will collect old stuff 😊 and give New Life to old tech Im currently doing a computer hardware course too :)

[@Dinethshavinda]

My favorite thing is cooling like replacing thermal paste having good airflow and cooling things thats not meant to be cooled even though they get warm For example i have this 32gb pen which get little hot so i added a heatsink with a thermal pad😊

[@pureblackbishop]

yooo!!!! Let's get it

[@schvabek]

@@pureblackbishop Woo!

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

nice worksatation i have a z400 and z600 workstation

[@aliensarecool123]

I have a syncmaster 930bf, quality monitor,used for a raspberry pi

[@schvabek]

Very similar to the one in the video. And yeah, they are very reliable.

[@aliensarecool123]

I got it from​ a family member who used it for 15 years bought brand new@@schvabek

[@ro1934]

Наконец-то сшвабек добрался до норм железа, а не до композамещенных продуктов от яблока

[@waldfruchttee]

i bought an 2007-2009 gaming pc for like 20€ recently it has an c2d e8400 8gb ram and an gtx 275 all neatly packed in a lian li case (pc-60f) and all tho its old its still fast and powerfull as a small game server or something oh yeah the mainboard is a nice gigabyte ga- ep35-ds4 and its great for overclocking

[@crubsalt]

awesome video

[@schvabek]

Thanks! 🤟

[@JessicaFEREM]

I'm now curious, I wonder if the monitors I saw at the thrift store are still there I might grab one as a backup when my HP 17 inch monitor I've had for like 10 years goes kaput, might be a good while, but at least I'll have a test monitor until then.

[@doomer37]

I have an xw6200 myself, with dual Xeon cpus. It's a very nice XP machine.

[@paulhorn24]

I just discovered your channel and this is me watching my second video of yours. One kindly suggestion I do have already: You accumulated a lot of knowledge with Windows and old(er) Hardware. Your videos could give even more value to the viewership if you would categorise / classify some of the details / products. For example you mentioned Windows 7, Vista, XP, Win 98 et cetera. Surely one could pause your video and google these products, probably read some Wikipedia about it. But if you were to mention in passing that Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista. And Vista was the direct successor to Windows XP, which is a successor to Windows 2000 for business users and Windows ME for home users. Windows ME (Millennium Edition) is the successor to Windows 98 et cetera. Maybe not talk like that, I have just copied some parts of Wikipedia. But you get my request, that it would help to understand the details like the different Windows generations and how that is important to rebuilding older computers. It is even more needed with all those CPU and GPU generations and chipset code names like Sandy Bridge etc. Not everyone remembered those details from back in the days or didn’t learn them now - because where could one even learn those details today? Almost all KZbin videos about old Windows versions and older Hardware take this kind of knowledge for granted. So it’s not easy to start learning this stuff if you didn’t grew up with it AND (!) wasn’t actively working with these Windows and Hardware back in the days.

[@schvabek]

@@paulhorn24 Hey, Paul, glad you found my channel. Also, thanks for the input. To be honest, I haven’t gotten similar requests yet, but I do understand where you’re coming from. I do, however, get comments all the time about taking too long to get to the point, so yeah, there’s really no pleasing everyone. It’s not that I assume that everybody knows everything coming into my video, it’s just that I have a certain topic, and although I could talk about different side notes, sometimes it just feels like I’d drift too far off. This video was about seeing what could be done with a cheap old computer. Hopefully the way I do videos doesn’t annoy you too much, and you keep enjoying them. Cheers!

[@paulhorn24]

@ no, not annoying. That’s all I have to say regarding your channels, your videos. But more generally speaking: I have a very strong aversion to all demands for brevity and quick texts and videos. I find all demands to be brief extremely annoying and dangerous. Why? Because with this increasing “fast food” knowledge transfer, where everything is only allowed to be a few hundredths of a second long, knowledge doesn't grow, only stupidity becomes more and more widespread. Simple solutions, simple explanations are no longer possible nowadays because everything is so complex and connected with everything. Perhaps there were never any simple explanations, it just felt that way? Simple explanations only ensure that many things are no longer correctly grasped and understood and that many things are no longer properly thought through. Far too many people stop thinking after a simple explanation and share the biggest nonsense that, with a little common sense and basic knowledge, would be immediately recognised as nonsense. But they share this nonsense over and over again, and the biggest lies have now become reality for many Amen 😉 Or maybe better: JM2C.

[@Armgedown]

Of the old operating systems, you should always install the one that has the updates integrated into it, it is not worth using the factory installer.

[@StanleytheCat-v8z]

100% Don't get some of those powerpc macs. Easy bake oven style capacitor cookers! Not.... It's not fun. Those iBooks might be fine though.

[@BillyMichalakis]

wait u have boxnow too? i thought that was a greek thing only

[@schvabek]

Yeah, they just started popping up not too long ago. It’s pretty convenient.

[@chesterhutchinson]

I still play TS3 til this day 🤣

[@schvabek]

@@chesterhutchinson As a kid I’ve actually played Sims 1 and 2, but 3 is also pretty cool.

[@JoBot__]

It's my favorite game in the series.

[@chesterhutchinson]

@JoBot__ same here 👍

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I have it loaded up on my Mac Pro as I'm typing this.

[@annihilatorg]

Personally, always SSD. When I want to toy with Retro, I typically have little time so any time savings is worth it.

[@schvabek]

@@annihilatorg But… they don’t click

[@elwinroyale]

It actually doesn't run linux well straight out of the box because of the nvidia gpu and the drivers not working correctly

[@Nicolelovesoldtech]

Fala ti za ovaj video. ulepso si mi dan. Na ebaju se retko kad moze nesto jeftino dobro naci, ali npr. Vidi sajt Kupujem prodajem, e tamo ima svasta. Npr, nasao sam LOT telefona od 35 tel. za tacno 35 eura. I 26 od 35 rade, ili kad sam nasao overkill win 98 pc sa 512MB rama, pentium 2, fx5200... Preporucujem ti da vidis sajt! i ima video na mom kanalu o jednom telefonu sa tog sajta sto je bukvalno bio 4 eura

[@schvabek]

@@Nicolelovesoldtech Ej, hvala! Koliko znam, kupujem prodajem je za srpsko tržište samo, nije li?

[@Nicolelovesoldtech]

@schvabek i za bosnu mkze

[@Nicolelovesoldtech]

@schvabek ali, kad pises sa kupcem za adresu vrv moze

[@schvabek]

@@Nicolelovesoldtech ja sam iz Hrvatske 🤷‍♂️

[@Nicolelovesoldtech]

@@schvabek ali kad se dopisujes s kupcem, mozes ti sam da im kazes adresu, pa da ti oni posalju

[@iamtafara]

Didn’t it cost more than $2 to run that acuction. Could have been cheaper for them to just throw it away .

[@schvabek]

@@iamtafara Nope. The auction site takes 20 cent cut from the sold item, if it sold for less than $3.

[@WeatherMan2005]

it probably cost more power to run for the video than the bid honestly. they might as well of given it away lol

[@iamtafara]

@@schvabekEven if the auction employee took only 5 mins to get the item in, list it, conduct the auction and dispatch the item, it definitely isn’t worth it for 20 cents. Thats what I’m trying to say. If the employee earns 15 an hr, and uses 5 mins for the whole process, then they are paying him $1.25 for that task. There is no way it will ever be financially viable to run a $2 auction.

[@schvabek]

@@iamtafara There are people on auction sites like that making a living reselling old stuff. Some of them have hundreds of listings every week, many of them starting at $1. Some items go for a $1. It even happened to me when I didn’t put in a reserve price or a higher starting price. You can’t always know what it will go for, it’s not like they’ve intended to sell it for $2 probably

[@anwarxv9279]

You missed the whole point Its a bid Means it starts at 2$ ends at X$

[@axr973]

Ahaha lol This pc is as old as me

[@Vasher-The-Destroyer]

I have had a really bad experience with a hard drive recently.

[@JoBarnes-zi7ih]

I love ur videos plz pin me

[@Hadisabetghadam]

SyncMaster Awesome I Have DFX1793 (CRT 19 Inch I Guess) AND Is Phenomenal Edit: Is 17 Inch And Just Search 793df