Nobody wanted this PC.... $60 Facebook Market place PC Part 1

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[@samwalker7567]

Got to be honest, for $60 the case alone is worth it if you ask me. Those Lian-Li cases were the thing to have in the early 2000s and they still hold up so well today. Some of the best build quality of all time.

[@AndreMiguelLopes69]

I still use my Lian-Li X-500B, a top of the line model from 2008 !

[@DLMtechgarage]

it was the only reason why I bought it.

[@cdoublejj]

no cases have 5.25" bay so good luck putting in SSD or HDD hot swap bays or memmory card plugin bays etc etc resavoir pump combo bays aren't really poppular anymore but, are handy as hell too.

[@Spazilton1]

@@cdoublejj There are still a few that do.

[@TocyBlox]

Used cases are worthless…

[@WarbirdPylonRacer]

This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites! Love seeing someone who actually has the hobby of plying with vintage equipment.

[@robertshoop8181]

@warbird, where do you ride track at?

[@WarbirdPylonRacer]

@@robertshoop8181 Chuckwalla

[@shawnjefferson692]

I love the older cases with three or more 5.25" drive bays. If you are making a sleeper build with modern components that will of course create a lot of heat there are people on sites like Etsy making brackets with their 3-D printers to swap out the optical drives and mount 120 mm fans in them instead. Great video.

[@FreeHondaPerforomance]

mee too good luck on ebay 100+ and 50+ in shipping 🤣 im like no thanks

[@segelmp]

Brother, you should see if that system board supports a 1333 FSB Speed. If it does I think doing the 3GHz Electrical Tape mod on that q6600 would be sweet!

[@LionWithTheLamb]

The electrical tape BSEL mod. That is a easy and effective way to get a bump from 2.4Ghz to 3Ghz without any increased voltage required.

[@cutewhitedog6621]

What I recommend to do with the graphics card is to slit the sticker open to expose the fan bearings and put a little lubricant on it but if you have a replacement then that could work to.

[@LinuxHacker101]

Im so glad I found your videos its actually cool you do this in a garage

[@DLMtechgarage]

Appreciate it!!

[@LinuxHacker101]

no problem :] @@DLMtechgarage

[@Ricelord4]

$60 for a beast of a custom build from the late 2000s? That's actually a pretty solid deal. Makes me miss my old build from 2005 haha. And yeah, those Lian Li cases were awesome. In that time period, Lian Li and Antec made some of the coolest cases.

[@r4z4m4t4z]

nice find, yes that case is great, those old aluminimum cases with the removable motherboard trays, so sweet. i picked up a couple wavemasters this summer for cheap

[@mkrleza]

Dang, I love that CPU cooler, and the GPU fan is awesome!

[@IHeartMacsH8r5]

I've seen some people sell stuff from 2017 and newer for literally under $100 depending on who it is. Most have the money to upgrade and then just sell their older stuff at a lower cost. Helps us people on budgets to build a great system from used parts. Haha

[@LapNgo-h9u]

Q6600 was a beast back then!

[@xnrg1968]

gracias for the content. icydk - use 2 pieces of electrical tape to overclock the q6600 to 3ghz from 2.4 will increase fsb from 800 to 1333mhz - buttons 1 and 3 from the Notch - peace

[@radradR0bot]

Interesting. Does this work on the q9550

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

@@radradR0bot It's a similar mod but your motherboard has to support a 1600mhz fsb since the Q9550 operates at 1333mhz and those 1600mhz motherboards are rare.

[@r4z4m4t4z]

@@radradR0bot no the 9550 is already at 1333

[@r4z4m4t4z]

the tape trick is for oem motherboards that dont have overclocking in the bios, i think that mb can manually adjust the fsb in the bios.

[@irukhan07]

How would the tape help overclock tho?

[@iExpertxC4x]

I like your content, glad for KZbin recommendation system to put you on the Home Page

[@DLMtechgarage]

thanks!

[@finnbianga4189]

That case is super solid, i'd love to build a sleeper in it

[@walterlegere1403]

Just got an old VPR-Matrix Pentium 4 tower system made back in 2001 for $15. It had a bad power supply. Popped a replacement in and it worked perfectly. The case is in pristine condition so I built a sleeper PC out of it but managed to do it with no major case mods at all! It came with the original IDE CD-RW drive as well as a DVD-ROM. I converted the DVD drive to a mounting housing for a 1TB SATA SSD so on the outside the system looks completely stock original. I really enjoy building modern systems into old cases. Plus, I've still got all the original working hardware that was in it originally so I can convert it back if I want to.

[@quademasters249]

I have a machine in that case. It's been a good case over the years. It's currently got a decently powerful mother board in it. As a lark, gutted it and rebuilt the inside using aluminum extrusions. So it's that case build around a extrustion box.

[@danielsnyder6900]

The retro guys on FB like these old PC's, I prefer not to return to the past. Great video on what was state of the art.

[@quademasters249]

I don't much get retro either but you could build a nice PC out of this case. Stick the right motherboard and power supply into it.

[@Good_Luck_8619]

Nice one I had a thermal take shark black case with gigabyte mobo x48-dq6 8gb same ddr2 ram same speeed 800mhz and crossfire amd Radeon 4890 1gb each yet on normal mechanical disks ! It was a monster pc back then ‘

[@talos86]

Those PC-s are really good for NAS and game servers, like Terraria or Minecraft.

[@nkh16]

Good old days! You install the version that of drivers came with the device at any date, and it worked like charm! Nowadays so many drivers, updates, but still buggy drivers!

[@SSubZero]

If not said yet, the case is a Lian Li PC-7B. I built an i5-750 PC in one back in the day. My side panel was solid tho without that extra fan thing. This video made me nostalgic lol.

[@dekondorf2598]

Man, i see this pc and just scream to me Maplestory and Combat Arms lol, having 4 ddr2 slots for 8 GB action and capable to hold processors like Q6600 you can really pretty much play many game of 2008 era. Very entertaining and nostalgic video hope to see more in the future.

[@EvoWatches]

I think this pc would be great for testing old gpu’s and hardware. Maybe even pit it against some AAA games

[@SkullCommander]

That's one big cooler and I think the metal parts on the motherboard box is for the mounting kit for AMD processor (probably AMD Athlon II), and probably if you can get proper mounting kit, it can be used for newer processor (Intel Core i series and AMD Ryzen) and you can replace the cooling fan with newer PWM 120 mm fan (you can get the silent ones or louder high pressure fans, or you can get the PWM fan with RGB LED as well), and the casing is nice too, it even have removable motherboard tray, so you can install the motherboard outside the computer case on the motherboard tray, and the hard disk tray is also removable, but unfortunately, if you have big modern GPU card, the hard disk cage might get in the way

[@xaenon]

If it has one, check the voltage selector on the power supply. It is often overlooked in troubleshooting, and it is not always set correctly from the factory.

[@laurencejohnson4106]

In my opinion, that is a well built case and you got a good deal!👍👍 Once the computer has been well cleaned and restored to working order, then upgrading the ram., to 8 gig., and installing an ssd., and a Linux OS., such as Linux Mint Mate will really improve the performance of that computer. Zorin OS., Core may also work well with that PC., Zorin's default desktop resembles Windows 7, but there are several pre installed desktops to choose from.

[@gugajedi]

Gosh, that bring good memories to me... I had a setup just like that, very, very similar... Same memory, Corsari XMS, same processor, different motherboard and GPU... Back in that day I would prefer a AMD (ATI) card.

[@GunMedalGleam]

That motherboard is bad ass, q6600 is good, but id see if it would take a xeon. Id legit use this as a daily.

[@ShieyV2komputroniks]

it was common with those cards for the fans to go bad , try oil it might help, or the "ghetto mod" by ziptie a fan to it

[@KISSFanDan1995]

Do an ultimate mid 2000’s Windows XP gaming rig with it. Max it out with 8gigs ram, GeForce Gt9600’s in SLI, SSD’s etc.

[@Mikebos32]

Both of those rom drives are lightscribe drives. I save a few of those just because I have the media but that was a cool idea that went away

[@tagesvaterpatrick8780]

This "time machine" looks like it ha been build with some love (and money, of course😂)! Those copper pipes around the cpu socket and the chipset are quite rare but they kinda reveal that the mainboard might even be some "high end" of its time, right!? Side note: if I have some PC on the bench (for whatever reason) I check the PSU first with a PSU Tester. And I always take out the mainboard to change coolers etc. Much easier and less cuts 😂

[@hermangutierrez5357]

Love the case im rebuilding mine exact same case

[@charleshines2142]

Sometimes I still see Firewire but never had any devices that use it. I think my last motherboard had a Firewire port but that part was never used.

[@GLIEPNIR]

That's an interesting one... Reminds me of one of the first PCs my dad bought when I was a kid xD

[@EvoWatches]

I had an old computer that earned the name Warren. Because it looked like a rabbit warren with all the dust bunnies

[@steventechno]

Imagine coming across an NVIDIA 9800GTX to pair with this build. It'd be the ultimate Windows Vista era machine for sure! You know how many awesome games (from the time) you could still play on that?

[@DLMtechgarage]

I have a EVGA core 2 board I am thinking of doing a build for the time period. might be fun

[@antoniom.andersen6704]

That case is awesome for a server build due to it having lots of room for drives. Get a caddy for the 5.25" drive bays and you have even more. Don't know what you store your video on but this might be the case for building a storage server with TrueNAS. Like your content.

[@Goldenhordemilo]

lian-li pc-90 is a great case i would love that window. Stricker extreme 680itri sli

[@dbzssj4678]

if you're looking or a bitcoin wallet this pc is about 5 years to old for that. You'd want something from 2011 minimum. It's a nice era though, 2006 ish, i was a sophomore in high school and wanted a q6600, but ended up with an Athlon 5200 x2.

[@FreeHondaPerforomance]

hey i have this exact ASUS AI 775 core 2 duo MB and it works

[@RocketRenton]

Bought a PC from an old friend it was ex PC Specialist a leading PC company in the UK, it was worth a lot when new and he just sunk 2000 into another in 2020 at the height of the PC boom, it had a 2060 super which was worth 500 on it's own and 6700k, got the whole rig for 250, and it had the same issue, turn on then off, then would turn on and stay on, could never get to the bottom of it but seeing this backs up my theory now, but like you have shown it's trial and error, take away part then another to you isolate the issue.

[@Official_Home_Harbor]

what a coincidence um also going to purchase a core 2 quad to flip I have Quadro 2000 lying in my cupboard and maybe i would pair it on that Menace

[@PapaMav]

I am amazed at your justification system, LOL. Junk be junk.

[@PyhisPahis]

one man's junk is another man's treasure. bet he can make back his money easily on that

[@DLMtechgarage]

I used to think the same but found some of this old crap sells pretty decent. The case I could flip for an easy $150, the mobo cpu and ram I sold for $60, I mostly just wanted the case is why I got it.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Hey Mike - the best money-wise decision is part it ,sell the parts,keep the case !!!

[@toomanypints9544]

I'm still using the 775 as my main pc in a cooler master half 932 case with 10 fans

[@PapaMav]

I need to take a shower after watching this.

[@zach7384]

I'd clean it up factory, remove any unneeded bays & shields, pick up a new HDD & era-matching GPU off ebay for around $20. Preload it with era specific games, and post for $200 aiming to settle for $160. Nearly double your money on this old boy. Great vid! Good luck with this one.

[@DLMtechgarage]

I do like that idea

[@YusufTech750]

check the voltage of the cmos battery i had a motherboard that wouldnt boot with a dead cmos battery work fine after i changed it

[@JasonSaeler]

Nothing wrong with a core 2 Duo for someone who just needs to surf the web, do email, and office or school work. Add an SSD and they perform just fine; I have an E8400, without an add in GPU, running Win10 22h2 that I'm using to experiment with PCem as an Old School gaming system.

[@mark902]

i love those old lian li cases. i had a pc-a05 for years until i "upgraded" to an nzxt h200... that thing was so shit. brittle plastics, tin can thin metal. total trash. i ended up putting everything back into that beautiful and luxurious pc-a05 which i use to this day.

[@michaelthompson5252]

That cpu cooler is super nice. I loved the Asus p5n series boards back in the day. I still have a q9 quad core. Can't remember which one. I just know it was the fastest one. I also have an evga sli motherboard for it. I definitely want to put something together for my work shop with those parts.

[@captainhappy]

Looks like Lian Li case, that alone is worth something.

[@GendoPrime]

This would have been a pretty capable budget LAN machine back around 06-07, 08 at the latest. A legit copy of XP x64 would have been a little on the expensive side around that time. What I would do is keep it in the same config as you bought it while replacing the PSU and enjoy some gaming of the era.

[@vikonemedia1]

thats an awesome deal i love it

[@Tre_Selor]

Mmmmmm full aluminum Lian Li case

[@JoniusGnome]

Too many motherboards have received a drop of my blood from sharp cooler fins.

[@EastAngliaUK]

I still have a pc like this it has win 7 on but might put win 11 on it. it does have a ssd and q6600 in

[@catherinemorgan2741]

Deep cool RGB fan for replace for cooler cheap

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Nice video. A lot of the time - you would need to add a sound card. The defacto standard would of been a Sound Blaster by Creative Labs.

[@Burrier82]

that's a big Cooler for a dual core computer.

[@Faith.in.His.Grace.]

This would have been a Chad XP PC back in the day, except the video card could have been better

[@cookieboy5300]

Nice! I scored a LianLi case recently with 1st gen i5 without the plexi on the side but looks the same from the front built to be a mid-range gamer. I would have dropped $60 for this setup too :)

[@VakidaGaming]

Could you show your camera setup? Love the angles you get

[@DLMtechgarage]

I use my samsung s23 and a cheap camera stand I got on Amazon

[@eopest]

I have an Antec Super Lanboy I should get rid of... 🤓

[@DLMtechgarage]

Thats a good one, I have been trying to hunt one down.

[@damianhouse8239]

Core2 may be cheap but theyre far from trash. Certain core2 boards can run win98 and many retro games. They support ide which is big for retro stuff, you can get 256mb/512mb ram modules which makes win98 easy. Most intel pcie chipsets actually run under 98. And the best part? Theres still plenty out there.

[@radradR0bot]

Keep the cooler.

[@johnhudson7055]

On cooler master made a case that looks identical to the Lian li. My buddy has 2 of them that I just got from him. I thought they were Lian li but they say cooler master. I would love that and would have bought it in a heartbeat.

[@TheGameBench]

I had a build with i7 2600 in the PC-7FNW and I loved that case. Kinda' wish I still had it.

[@DLMtechgarage]

That case was my favorite!!

[@PapaMav]

This is like watching an auto accident (which I do not do IRL)

[@Goldenhordemilo]

mine has a 90mm fan on the back on the outside because of the massive Noctua cpu cooler a evga 1080Ti a 9400F on a raidmax rx850 psu with 24 gig of ram

[@Goldenhordemilo]

peel the sticker off by the green light for an easter egg

[@Geekzmo]

That is a nice computer to build a home file server on W10.

[@christopherjames9843]

Nice old school aluminum case.

[@FreeHondaPerforomance]

id pay $60 for just teh case but the entier system, id take it in a heatbeat

[@Biaanca5036]

Hmmm.. feels so weird seeing two identical DVD drives! Usually only I see people only work on absolute vintage beige machines and if there's more than one drive they NEVER match. hahahah

[@DLMtechgarage]

very true, back in the day mine never matched.

[@radradR0bot]

I also have a core 2 quad project. The dell 780 has a 775 socket but uses ddr3 ram.

[@jodajackson4489]

Nice vintage system. Looks like something I would have built back in the day but I never had a case quite like that. I would have gone with an Antec case.😊

[@Hakirts]

You got me hooked at dual ethernet ports! Im currently rocking an old dell with c2duo e6400 as a opnsense box. Running fine with 250/250 fiber. Got it for free and when pulling out the gfx card and putting in another nic its idleing at around 38 watt. Might get lower changeing the hdd for a ssd. But it havent broke yet 😅

[@giovaanflores7019]

I picked up a similar build , except in the color silver. for $40 want to build a retro xp machine ....

[@readycheddar]

Junk that 7300GS and throw a 8800GT in it :D

[@roasthunter]

that's a beast of a cooler

[@JeffJitsu]

Hi DLM! Love this channel brother. I have an old HP Pavilion case from around 2008 era, and was wondering if you know the pin out for the front IO connector? Thanks in advance!

[@tractorman7733]

12:52- I'd go with most likely, That's the reason the GPU fan is bad XD

[@abx42]

I would replace all power supply cable's and ram 1 bank at a time (Do you have a post card / check all caps)?

[@Ghennesph]

short on one of the parts. system turns on, tries to post, trips SCP, shuts off to prevent damage. the other power supply probably failed due to poor SCP implementation.

[@radmanace]

Jackpot 👍

[@terrybaker1888]

I have a core2duo laptop... running Linux...

[@kommandokodiak6025]

that fan can probably fixed with a drop or 3 three of 3 in 1 oil

[@EinSwitzer]

P5e3 deluxe WiFi core 2 quad 9450 3.8ghz 8gb ddr3 2000 1200watt 2x 8800gtx 768mb / is what I used to beat crysis

[@jpsaayman9220]

Great video. Can you make a video on a cheap Emulator PC build with hardware equivalent to the old Consoles.

[@DLMtechgarage]

depending on the type of emulation you want to do, you can use somthing like a HP Z2 Mini G3 or equivalent, I did a video on something like that. will post a link below kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHrcg5WLg8R5ebM

[@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs]

Sleeper build, my friend. Sleeper build, my friend. Sleeper build, my friend. Sleeper build, my friend.

[@DLMtechgarage]

I am really leaning that way

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

9:47 why do you think they call it Scythe? ;) Sometimes the old hardware demands a blood sacrifice.

[@DLMtechgarage]

🤣🤣 prbly true!!

[@catherinemorgan2741]

Use it for retro build

[@techluvin7691]

If you’d had spent a little time outside when you were young……..a little dust wouldn’t hurt you princess 🤣

[@ScarletAmethyst]

I could see why no one wanted the PC although the Core 2 Quad with an appropriate GPU and RAM isn't a bad gaming PC. Obviously, 4 GB RAM isn't going to be enough to run modern games and even 8 GB won't be enough to handle games that need 16 GB, but a lot of 7th Gen (PS3/Xbox 360 era) games will work fine on 4 GB RAM. One thing to note for anyone using an old Core 2 gaming PC, some later games like Assassin's Creed 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Bioshock Infinite, and Saints Row IV require Windows Vista, so they would not run on XP. Likewise, many games from 2014+ are 64-bit only and/or DX 11 which likely won't work on Windows XP even with Professional x64 Edition. A downside of old gaming PCs is getting games since Steam dropped Windows XP and Vista long ago and recently dropped Windows 7 and 8, and the same applies to Origin and uPlay. Likewise, most games around the late 2000s/early 2010s required activation, so I don't think getting it on DVD will help. There is, however, a workaround that could allow Steam to be installed on Windows XP. Despite this, you can still play disc games that are DRM free (i.e., don't require Steam) such as The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories, and games downloaded from GOG will work if the original game was compatible with Windows XP. Also, some Steam games are DRM-free although this isn't advertised.

[@Goldenhordemilo]

carful doing a romsip update for 5 gig and ddr2 500 hahaha

[@Curtis-i6o]

I used to love to repair and build computers but now they don't mean anything anymore. I'm sorry now that I wasted my money.

[@Rollsjr]

Anybody that's looking to remove password on main screen ultimate boot CD is your friend

[@user-ks9cg5lh2w]

This is the kind of kit you sell at a garage sale.. i've made it a tradition to swap my rig parts to an old system as I upgrade incase the rig deep 6's for diag purposes.. had to get rid of an aging case in favor of one with case fan speed controllers and updated ports. Btw, I now have the Be Quiet! pure base 600. Very solid. One sata internal blu ray and one external blu ray. This case should last 10y at least. Old case could not fit a 7900xt gpu without cutting drive bays.