Saving a Trash Picked "Custom" PC!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

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.

[@TechyBen]

@EEVblog got an i7 or i5 system from his "bin" finds.

[@CursedTeardrop]

Budget-Builds Official best little upgrade would be a Gtx 750 1gb card, would be the perfect low budget build.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

@@CursedTeardrop And patched 771 Xeon 8)

[@catriona_drummond]

Yes but it was a console video so my PC master race brain did not register it.

[@builditontutorial]

Yes of course we

[@Kribby360]

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

[@the9file]

still a weird feeling. 2008 was... 2 years ago!

[@WellBeSerious12]

Feels like maybe 5? [Shrugs.]

[@Karmy.]

My PC was built in 2009

[@ArtisChronicles]

Linus Chex Mix you are shrugs

[@rameshnande640]

Mr.karib i thought the say way

[@nexenojustice552]

This guy just finds PC's and PC parts like sticks and stones!

[@jamesoleruster]

Nexeno Justice Recycling centers are magic

[@conkcreet]

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

[@Dockhead]

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.

[@wrije]

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.

[@Dockhead]

@@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.

[@Biovirulent]

It's a shame electronics like that are just chucked into the bin. But hey, more for us, huh?

[@morka8797]

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

[@Biovirulent]

That's the problem, isn't it? If I could, i'd horde electronics.

[@Rem_NL]

@@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.

[@xaenon]

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.

[@ArtisChronicles]

xaenon I know that issue with Windows 10. it's frustrating sometimes lol

[@Trainer_Orange]

Uploaded at 48hz. Now that's a new standard.

[@technicmasters7936]

would you like 1hz instead? XD

[@Ascendance2001]

That's what a couple movies use nowadays

[@WellBeSerious12]

His PC couldn't do 60, so 48 it was.

[@ArtisChronicles]

technic masters I'd like .5 hz please

[@0cyb3r0]

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....

[@e_r1368]

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.

[@carolinehusky]

Seeing that PSU makes me wonder if it originally had a better GPU, but the user savaged it for another project...

[@WellBeSerious12]

salvaged

[@CptJistuce]

I'm assuming it was just the supply that came with the case.

[@mr.mcfife4131]

Or maybe some "repairman" stole it.

[@Ultrakillisprettycool]

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

[@imacg5658]

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.

[@pirateskeleton7828]

I will never get tired at watching someone hose down computer parts.

[@mohamedmostafa-qj5mx]

I know it's addictive

[@zuyvox]

Give this beast a propper HD4850 and it would be a perfect WinXP machine!!

[@JonathanDeane]

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)

[@carltonleboss]

I have an XP machine with a HD4850 512MB, it's a great card for that purpose.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

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.

[@MLGKid420]

my E8600 and 9800GT and 8GB DDR2 runs XP X64 lol

[@zuyvox]

@Giuliano BassWarrior I should be a maxOut machine. So that it can run ANY WinXP game.

[@victor00123q]

What does the dead spider bring to the table in terms of specs though? xD

[@scottrich976]

2 points in cinebench.

[@jjb2962]

Extra threads

[@mr.farrowsclass6592]

@@jjb2962 I was gonna find a smart ass reply but I see that category is already closed a

[@tijmen7839]

Professional Webdesign

[@aidanmakinster922]

Plus 8 fps.

[@thedungeondelver]

Hmm maybe this was The Verge's first try at building a PC...

[@LWolf12]

@brent collingwood Mhmm, at least the ram seem to be in the right spot.

[@Marty-uv7ep]

L. Wolf and put in the right way!

[@sarno97]

Yeah when i saw the thermal paste

[@ArtisChronicles]

thedungeondelver they'll never live it down

[@caligoclarus]

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.

[@WellBeSerious12]

Great idea for an upgrade/donation video.

[@WeabooMoe]

So basically new PC but same motherboard and case

[@bobbycatgt70]

That is good enough!

[@sebaschan-uwu]

@@WeabooMoe but with cheap cpu

[@jasongooden917]

When a PC from the garbage runs Crysis the meme should finally die.

[@solarstrike33]

Damn you, lack of CPU core count foresight!

[@towsif_8_128]

But can it run crysis at 4k 60 fps(ik 4k sucks)

[@ArtisChronicles]

Towsif 02 4k? most systems will be crippled with crysis at 4k. I saw those numbers from LTT. gg

[@aarongreenfield9038]

@@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.

[@towsif_8_128]

Wtf why everyone is serious here???

[@Y4N-]

BudgetBuilds: "This build is not professional" Also BudgetBuilds: *washes pc case with a water hose*

[@cringecake321]

Hey it works unlike the pc itself unless it’s playing minesweeper

[@ewelmo3921]

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.

[@GrockleTD]

@@ewelmo3921 no different than washing steel cookware

[@JayFreely]

@@ewelmo3921 his track record seems to be going pretty well. He does that a lot and hasn't had any issues

[@henriquesampa2008]

@@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...

[@The97dripdrop]

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.

[@zzoinks]

That makes a lot of sense, since it was missing some i/o shields.

[@thenibnetwork4638]

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.

[@kingdomrhye1180]

Wow haven't watched you in a while and you really blew up congrats

[@Pieteros21]

just give it a 750/TI and it will play everything up to 2016 and at least half newer games :]

[@kalmtraveler]

with a fairly loose definition of the verb 'play' in that case :)

[@Pieteros21]

@@kalmtraveler if you just play, not just excite on fps meter you will be more than fine :)

[@kalmtraveler]

@@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.

[@Pieteros21]

@@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 :)

[@kalmtraveler]

@@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.

[@wolfhound1103]

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.

[@solarstrike33]

Appropriate since the Ty trilogy just got a Kickstarter for new console ports.

[@joannaatkins822]

Nicely done! The reliability of old office computers is akin to ancient nokias and sundials. Glad to see neglected machines put to work

[@sitordan]

I wish I had bins like that where I live.

[@computerrefurbishment9748]

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.

[@airwolf1337]

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.

[@westernspy561]

I still have my Pentium III pc next to my ryzen 3 1300x :D

[@Cyrillium]

I feel you except mine's still working Intel Q6700 2.67 GHz 8GB 1033 MHz Power Color GT 1030 2GGB DDR5

[@ToniaGlitched]

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)

[@miguelque9102]

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.

[@Matticitt]

5:40 damn the monitor frame looks perfect with this PC case. Like they were made for each other.

[@GPULibrary]

Fantastic restoration. Fantastic video.

[@andrewking2193]

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.

[@zackmerritt2408]

put a half decent graphics card in it. get rid of that bottle neck on the cheap.

[@vntr2006]

Great video mate. Your delivery is second to none for a tech channel. Very entertaining.

[@richarde98]

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!

[@guremi_]

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

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

A nice Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500 would fit nicely.

[@jacobmccloskey171]

Profile pic link?

[@guremi_]

@@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

[@guremi_]

@@jacobmccloskey171 I believe it's from twitter so it might be harder to find the sauce. But give me an hour

[@jacobmccloskey171]

@@guremi_ k ty

[@actualhyena]

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.

[@actualhyena]

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.

[@brendonlaucheekeong636]

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).

[@TrueMegaManiac]

"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.

[@insanity-vr6vu]

A GTX 560 would be a good match for this cpu

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

@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.

[@cyphaborg6598]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial yeah AMD really needs to do something about the longevity of their videocards as a whole.

[@ayuchanayuko]

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

[@santiagoibarra1137]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Years ago i had almost the same combo (Q8400 + HD6770) and it worked pretty well

[@dabigbadwolf5081]

@@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

[@popcorny007]

That case is actually really good for a budget file-server, since it can fit so many hard drives

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Got mounts for 6 drives, pretty normal. 7 if the 3.5'' front bracket gets repurposed.

[@popcorny007]

@@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

[@SUCRA]

Very nice video, as a retro computer enthusiast and content creator, I would have liked to see more games from around the year the graphics cards was released, as this is more what I look for when I build a retro system. Thanks a lot!

[@NRGpony]

>Ahh yes, IDE. We're dealing with IDE levels of equipment here. S-shut up!

[@computerkiddo7644]

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.

[@JonathanDeane]

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.

[@undeadgamer2347]

OMG is that Ty the Tasmanian Tiger?? Hit me right in the nostalgia feels

[@danielspencer3054]

Thank god someone else here spotted, thought I was going mad!

[@WildShotZ14]

Well it was quite good for a free pc though

[@iainmacrae6982]

Love the Ty the Tasmanian tiger music! Brought a lot back for me

[@SkyenNovaA]

"spice it up a bit" *sees it has good psu* *Shoves a 1060 in there*

[@PluslineNeko]

That is the sort of computers we sell at work as used. We find old and unused parts, clean them and thoroughly test them, put them together and install Windows 10 on them and sell them for 150-200 euro with one year of warranty. So far all customers seem satisfied, as they bought it for simple web browsing/office work or perhaps a cheap, disposable computer for a young kid (ages 6-9).

[@Eliewan]

Where's the shot of you putting the case on the roof for it to dry :x

[@NightRunner_K5]

The fact it ran GTA in general at 20 fps is stunning for the card and CPU paired with it

[@TheSpotify95]

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 :).

[@GmGTrials]

You should slap another GPU, see the difference it makes

[@TechnoYacy]

Am I the first to commet here?

[@AaronAlmario]

Good Find! My younger brother uses the q8400 in his PC, and I upgraded the GPU from the r5 230 to a GTS 450 and he's happily playing CSGO, Rocket League and some other games.

[@yukkuri_ender]

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?

[@wcarver2150]

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.

[@Dreadnoughty]

I use an Q8300 with the same cooler for my Windows XP PC :)

[@vodliedood3385]

oof ive got a q8300 and im using win7

[@solarstrike33]

@@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...

[@NoNamenoonehere]

Hope there is a Pimp This Boring PC Revisit Episode,i like to see a sort of happy ending for this Boring old machine.

[@computercatgaming02]

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.

[@computercatgaming02]

Also I think I got a graphics card laying around which looks exactly the same as yours.

[@nonAehT]

Fun fact: Spiders shed their shell periodically similar to snakes and can leave almost perfectly intact but empty shells behind. I wonder how many times people find dead spiders and its actually just an old shell because they don't bother looking at it more closely

[@AvoKupelian]

Reason for PSU. There was a version of this case that came with that unit pre-installed

[@Domstar97]

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.

[@joenodden]

This reminds me of my laptop. A slow quad core that can't really handle 1080p video, and 4 gigs of ram.

[@dormcat]

Got a very similar used system three years ago for 40 quids: Q8300 on a Asus P5G41T-M LX motherboard with case and power, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVD-RW, and a low-end GeForce 210 video card, probably only because the motherboard had no digital output or the previous owner might just use integrated graphics. The price tag was justified due to having a valid version of Windows 7 installed. After migrating the system to a spare SSD I gave it to my Dad and he felt very satisfied (as his use for computer is limited to web browsing and basic Office software functions) to this day, like you said at 16:01.

[@toasthead]

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

[@spacelite1896]

GTX ?

[@framekixrr]

SpaceLite who needs ray tracing anyway

[@scottrich976]

Aww they are only the 6gb versions, leave them until the 24gb ones turn up next week !

[@eduardoavila646]

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.

[@AliYassinToma]

Gt 1030 gddr5 and it will be waaay better

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

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.

[@Spacecab]

Yeah those poor drivers are no joke. I had one of those 3450's slapped into our family PC with a Pentium D and it was pushing out more frames than that back in the day. Because of course I had to try throwing Crysis at it in 2008, lol. It was perfectly fine running L4D2 in HD with high settings.

[@PiddeBas]

"A spider used to live in this and can now play crysis"

[@gumikacsa526]

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

[@RayRayIsCoolio]

that graphics card makes my gtx 560 look like a beast

[@NovaDoll]

Raymond Shades makes my brother 750ti seem the same way.

[@TinyTracey]

I was given one of those exact same cases before and took the front off and sprayed the silver bits black,built a pc out of old spare parts and then sold it cheap.

[@dadgamer6717]

I got a gtx 670 for 30 quid. That would transform it!

[@jagjyot4828]

how tho

[@likeclockwork6473]

you guys are going way too new

[@jagjyot4828]

@@likeclockwork6473 wdym way too new

[@soupwizard]

Probably a good idea to put the ends of the front panel connectors in a small plastic bag so they don't get water in the connectors. And maybe take off the fan before spraying the case with water. Other than that, it's nice feeling to spray out a dusty case!

[@p0wered255]

775 on xeon or core2quad lineup is still decent processor for budget gaming or computing i think

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

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

[@BeastMode-4422]

​@@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.

[@BeastMode-4422]

@Moises Cortez well there where I live a used gtx 1070 is 300 dollars (converted)

[@BeastMode-4422]

@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.

[@broski5767]

Absolutely lost it when I heard music from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, had to make sure I wasn't hallucinating

[@LordFantasthick]

yüsmart thanks monitor

[@letimgerth]

bruh that Ty music, instantly transported back to childhood

[@nep8998]

Add another 4gb stick and put smth like a GTX 650 since that cpu is pretty meh

[@nep8998]

@Eduard Berisa agreed

[@stylze5767]

@4:40 that music gave me throw back to a game called ty the tasmanian tiger from the ps2. i used to play the 1st and 2nd one soooo much, still have the games actually.

[@SummonerArthur]

A.K.A _"the PC I'd have built in 2014"_

[@MrKillswitch88]

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.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

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.

[@MrKillswitch88]

@@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.

[@ArtisChronicles]

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.

[@MrKillswitch88]

@@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.

[@kanvarmurray2207]

Not to be rude but it's been long enough 😂

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

I uploaded a week ago. The channels a hobby I can't do daily uploads.

[@kanvarmurray2207]

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?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

@@kanvarmurray2207: Could be a good shout. I did have a Linux video planned but it became obsolete and never got released.

[@kanvarmurray2207]

I see

[@TwistedApex]

Saved 2 PC's yesterday. 1 was a motherboard that survived a house fire. The case it came in was all rusty from when it copped a fire hose. Was so surprised when this little 4th gen Intel mini ITX board posted. Another PC I saved was an AMD A8 APU system. Great for older games. Had a very noisy Samsung 1TB hard drive that sounded so bad. Swapped it out for a 320GB WD Blue

[@IcicleFurry]

my NAS hat litteraly the same Motherboard lmao

[@cmichael442]

Funny! when you put the AC pro cooler back on, you faced the fan down. I had that cooler and on of my videos people on the comments were all over the fan facing down (towards the heat rising).

[@mr.atombomb8014]

I saved my current pc from being scrapped by my school, they even gave me a graphics card to put in it

[@ukemi-]

That's how I got my PC lol They were gonna scrap an i5 with 6 gigs ram, I bought my own 1080

[@NovaDoll]

L!quid Ocelot yeah they do that. My school just sold the PCs ultra cheap. Like $50. What gen i5 is in there?

[@Vitaliuz]

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?..

[@FullyBuffered]

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.

[@foundatlantis]

its somewhat therapeutic watching these restoration videos. its kinda like barn finds but with computers.

[@dreamthief286]

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.

[@bass-dc9175]

I actually had a similar system that I rebuilt for a ultra budget customer. A young mother wanted a gaming PC for her son, but her budget was a max of 150€, including Windows liscense. Base system: Core 2 Quad Q8300 4 x 1 gb ram GTX 280. So: I bought a Win7 64 bit versions (19€ on Lizengo), upgraded it to a Win10 Liscense, Punched in a 250gb SSD and replaced the ram with the maximum supported ram: 4x2gb. The GPU was a bit old tho ... I needed a GPU that does not bottleneck, but also is not bottlenecked itself by the lackluster CPU. Also: DirectX 11 support is required. So I went and digged up a GTX 750 ti with a few screws missing, refurbished it and pluged it in. Final system: Core 2 Quad Q8300 4x2gb DDR2 Ram GTX 750 ti A 250gb Sata SSD Windows 10 This was quite the shock as I tested it: It ran well. Really well. I mean: GTX 5 on high settings 1080 @ Stable 30 fps. Far Cry 4 runs at 45 FPS Fortnite was playable at 50 FPS Overall: A surprising amount of power. And the SSD makes it feel snappy. I made a total of 20€ on the system (Or about: 4€ per hour) but it was well worth it seeing her son start up ... Farming Simulator 19 ... Well I am noone to judge. He was really happy and his mother even went ahead and I shit you not: Installed CSGO for herself. Sometimes: it is not the 1800€ R9 3900x + RTX 2070 Super systems which make my day. Sometimes it is a refurbished old trashcan, that still plays games rather well, which brightens my day.

[@noway4040]

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. :)

[@mdrumt]

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 👍

[@jacobmccloskey171]

Love to agree, but can't. It can't even run Minecraft at decent settings.

[@mdrumt]

@@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.

[@jacobmccloskey171]

@@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.

[@krystina662]

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.

[@eduardoavila646]

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.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Unfortunately as we saw across 3 different OSs there was virtually no performance difference.

[@eduardoavila646]

@@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

[@shadymaint1]

Early 2000s I used to refurbish trash picked PCs. Had a government contract job at the time. Pieced together enough PCs for everyone in the shop to have one on their work bench. All they had to do was run Adobe Acrobat for the shop manuals we had to use.

[@Cmdr_Rhialto]

I have the exact same cpu cooler on my c2d 8400@3.6 still rocking in my arcade cab, (running linux). It does a good job keeping it cool.

[@kztech1319]

At least you got a Core 2 Quad! I got an Athlon 64 X2 when I picked a PC from a bin and has no PSU. I have used the case for my LGA2011 Xeon build so that's a benefit I got from it. As for Core 2 platform, I have modded Xeon X3363 overclocked to 3.2Ghz paired with 8gb of ram, GTX 1050 Ti and SSD on an OptiPlex, and it served me rather well before I got the LGA2011 Xeon build together

[@jandkwhite6459]

You look like a mix of the lead singer of Thornhill and a young Michael Rapapport. That's awesome. Great channel

[@davespiros]

I have that CoolerMaster case but all in black with a blue power button. I also have the one that has windowed side panel instead of all metal. The case is heavy as heck!

[@normalhuman5603]

That spider was living his best life

[@TheXev]

Judging by the missing IO shields, I'd imagine this PC once had a 2-slot graphics card, and maybe some kind of PCIe 1x sound card. It is also possible that the sound card was PCI based, later removed and upgraded with a sound card that required PCIe 1x... which might be why there is a new IO shield on that one particular slot. With older cases like this, once you removed the original IO shield, you couldn't go back to using it after the fact. I really think the original graphics card was pulled out of this machine and transferred to something else.

[@therealvbw]

I do indeed have that exact yUSMaRT monitor and use it to this day!