Scrap PC Budget Build - Landfill to Lan: CQ5720f

[@kayneahnung3661]

little tip for straightening pins: use a mechanical pencil. the little metal tube which normally holds the actual pencil lead is really perfectly suited to fit over the pin and helps greatly with gently pushing it into the right direction.

[@000alexhanson]

A razor blade is also quite useful.

[@Nenemon]

Oh wow, I’m actually gonna try that. Thanks for posting this

[@thomaslayman9487]

07 or 05 graphite sticks ?

[@kayneahnung3661]

@@thomaslayman9487 both should work, but I most pens I have are 05

[@cnnpp4428]

Wow you just saved me over 3000 CHF THANK YOU 🙏 ❤❤❤💾💾

[@davidxiedeng9161]

This is almost nostalgic for me. Our old family computer was a Dell Inspiron 570 running 4 gb of ram (with 4x1 GB sticks) and the same Athlon ii x2 245. It started out with windows 7 in 2011, and lasted all the way to August 2021. It was my first foray into anything dealing with computer parts and gave it some love around 2018. Several upgrades at questionable prices like an Athlon ii x4 645 (4 cores at 3.1 GHz), 10 GB ram (2x4 GB + 2x1 GB of the originals) and a GTX 1050. It felt pretty capable of handling games as long as you managed expectations, and I wasn't playing anything particularly intense. Unfortunately, it ran into problems as expected for its age. By this point, it went from handed to my older brother to me to my younger brother. Eventually, it just didn't boot up. Fans were on and but never reached bios. Kitted out a whole new build for my brother carrying over only the GTX 1050, an 250 GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD I had added. It turns out later that it could still boot up, after I checked up on it. I was thinking of turning it into a server, but couldn't really think of anything useful to repurpose it into. Eventually, I tried to boot it up again, but it didn't even flicker that time. I'm thinking it's a BIOS battery issue, but it's really lost cost fallacy and sentimentality at this point.

[@HardwareHaven]

I love stories like this. I wish I still had more hardware from when I was younger. Thanks for the comment!

[@Nenemon]

I found this channel recently and really appreciate the motivation to repurpose or make new use of older forgotten PCs. It’s extremely similar to what i do. Keep up the good work. You make some great videos

[@mredwintie]

Hey there! I must say I enjoy looking at ways of repurpose old PCs and your channel stood out for me. I've 'inherited' a Dell Dimension 9150 - a very old office PC of almost 18 years and it has tremendous sentimental value to me. It is running Pentium D and 4 GB of DDR2 with Linux Lite in it and I'm happy to say I've been using it as my daily driver for a few months watching KZbin, streaming movies (720 - 1080) and doing spreadsheets for work. I have more current systems running Window 10 etc but somehow able to get that Dell 9150 to run always brings a smile to my face. I completely understand what you mean when you say 'Landfill to Lan' and it is delightful. Thanks for your videos and keep on rolling!

[@kayle2657]

I just found this channel! And it is very entertaining. I build and flip pc’s and laptops as an hobby. And I subcribed to your channel keep up the work! 👍👌

[@HardwareHaven]

Glad our paths crossed! Thanks

[@henryquinn1795]

That sounds like a fun time, and a good way to earn some extra money. Where are you selling the built PC's? Most of the groups around me that deal with selling used gear seem to prefer people sell individual components rather than fully built machines.

[@kayle2657]

@@henryquinn1795 I live in the Netherlands and we have Tweakers and Marktplaats and there is where I sell my Computers, laptops and that kinda stuff.

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

found his channel about a week ago and I build/flip PCs as a hobby as well. its fun to see others' ideas.

[@haveaniceday7950]

@@David_Quinn_Photography can you just take 10 year old dual core machines and add ram and a 256 gb SSD and people will actually buy them? Where do you sell?

[@Sabadoe2013]

I love your content! Watching your vids from the very first one, and it's pretty high quality! And definitely the type of content I love watching. Keep it up!

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks! Plan on it

[@insurgent8258]

Great work Man. This channel is very underrated

[@HardwareHaven]

Oh wow! That just made my morning haha. Thank you!

[@insurgent8258]

@@HardwareHaven no problem dude keep it up. From my perspective this is quality content

[@HardwareHaven]

Appreciate it! I’m having a ton of fun, so I plan to keep making more.

[@juanignacioaschura9437]

Great video! I am having a similar experience as yours: picked up a PC that was lying next to a dumpster; it was an AM3 machine, and its CPU, dGPU and RAM were missing. Thankfully I had a Phenom II at home, plus some RAM, a spare SSD and a GTX650. The reason the previous owner likely threw the PC away was because of a faulty, whiny PSU that I had swapped by a reliable SilverStone unit. Now I'm doing some stuff on that PC, until I can get a more modern machine (had to sell mine to get a PS5). One thing about AM3 chips: temperatures seem quite anomalous because AMD chips of that vintage have two rated max temperatures, which are Core Temp and CPU Temp. If your readings differed, it was because each application is either reading one, the other, or both, or averaging the values. Also, the max temperatures are quite low, between 60 and 75°C, even though the silicon and die have much higher tolerances, up to 90°C. So, if your readings were "low", it's right.

[@HardwareHaven]

Nice! Thanks

[@RealJustPotato]

I was just looking at your channel and found your first video and watching true it a tear honestly rolled down my cheek, i remember like it was yesterday when i saw this video uploaded you had like 15 subs i immediately fell in love and subscribed, and look at where we are now almost 140k subs you have a family now i can not express how much i respect you, i really hope that you will keep this up because your stuff is fire 🔥

[@snowfoxcomputing]

Good stuff. I definitely can't say no to computers and appreciate anyone who finds purpose and provides care for the so-called "useless" systems. Even though these Compaqs weren't made for doing any serious future upgrades I still don't think they should be just thrown out. I have come across a few before in the past and also restored them as you have done, but even giving them away was a challenge! Such computers aren't new or old enough to be seen as collectible or vintage, but perhaps one day they will be, after the universe of XP-era stuff reaches such status I imagine!

[@wein4727]

Hey thank you for this. I currently starting with pc building and I want to practice with old pc like this. I hope you reach 100k sub soon.

[@TroyFletcherKeyboards]

I ran a HP system with the same X4 processor doing freelance work for about 10 years without running into any roadblocks. It ran Debian i3 (lightweight window manager) with a PCIE Radeon HD4650 which gave me an extra monitor (but your MB won't support it). I actually attempted the 6 core upgrade and found the MB had it blocked, likely due to TDP wattage. This is a detail that was never explicitly mentioned on HP's motherboard website, and was only implied in the manual. It's also possible they were hardcoded for support for specific CPUs so maybe a bios upgrade would help IDK. Only after starting to stream did I run into the bottleneck and get a new computer. The old one will become a storage server and whatever else I can put on it. Still a great box for modern use if you treat it right. Look deeply into the 6 core upgrade for the motherboard before buying so you don't get burned like me. Kudos reducing e-waste and making use of things that are still useful. We are far too predisposed to dispose of useful things these days.

[@HardwareHaven]

Great story! And yes, people get way to excited about new stuff when half the time their workload doesn’t need to resources anyway. Thanks for the comment!

[@sirlagsalot6038]

@@HardwareHaven That is all too true, I work junk removal and the amount of old/ fairly new computer tech I find is astonishing although now you've given me some ideas on what I could do with some.

[@westongibbonmusic1334]

Hardware Haven is about to blow up

[@CarthagoMike]

Amazing how one man's trash can be another man's treasure. Keep up the great content!

[@Sparky16k]

Great channel, really enjoy your vids! Wish I had this info a year ago when I was planning the family office upgrade and replaced a few old AMD systems. Keep it up!

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks!

[@jdkingsley6543]

I absolutely love your channel. Ive been thinking about repurposing computers for the longest, this is inspirational.

[@korewaonigiri9069]

i absolutely love this channel the content of this channel definitely resonates with my interests ive watched every video on this channel and will patiently wait for more! thank you for your work and i hope you continue to grow rapidly!

[@HardwareHaven]

I love to hear that! I have a few channels I feel that way about, so it’s an honor to provide that for someone else.

[@sekkern9737]

Love your videos bro, they're very good, keep it up!

[@Godway7]

Your videos always motivate me to fix all my 10yr old pc's

[@anothersiguy]

You've got my sub, I love off the wall projects like this. I remember as my main gaming rig in college for awhile I had a Athlon II 250 and a GTS 450, worked great for playing Mass Effect 2 and stuff from that era. Of course that was on Windows 7 and I had a M4A79XTD EVO which was a decent OC mobo at the time. Cranked that poor Athlon to 3.75Ghz and well over 1.5V but it handled it like a champ.

[@h4rryb0btech]

Love your content! I look forward to watching more!

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks! Looking forward to making more

[@muninm1]

gey! It'ss currently my last days days of vacation and I am sick/ To make things better I decided to watch again your whole channel :D Thanks for your awesome work. I really like your way of thinking and presenting things. Sorry for my poor english, cheers from France.

[@nathan_tasker]

Fantastic video. Your channel deserves much more support and I look forward to watching it continue to grow. As for the graphics card dilemma you have, there are GT710 cards that run from PCI-e 1x available. Yes it is not a good card, but it may allow you to get the more modern codec support in a basic form that you need. Keep up the great work.

[@bobbymak6964]

I also upgraded a core 2 duo to a core 2 quad core and found the performance usable for windows 10 web browsing. A graphics card made the cursor flow smoother.

[@NightWindZero]

I know this is 6 months ago, but here is my expierience. When I have dealt with older PCs, The thermal pad (OEM) has usually worn out so the temperatures are bad and the processor will throttle (shows as going to 100%). Removing and reapplying the thermal paste ussually fixes this, but something to keep in mind with applying thermal paste, after about a year the paste will dry out and you'll be in the same spot. You may want to try investing in thermal pads to ensure longevity in builds you try to get more life out of them. I really like your videos, keep up the good work!

[@layoutkimsstudio2341]

I LOVE OLD SCHOOL COMPUTER CASE!!! BUILDT LIKE A TANK BRO !!!!!

[@2048Megabytes.]

I’m still using a Phenom X6 in my main PC! Great video

[@boomboxing4402]

you have earned the sub! added to my arsenal including Budget Builds Offical and RandomGaminginHD

[@HardwareHaven]

What an honor it is to be included with those legends! Haha thanks!

[@all2funnycomments724]

Nice video. Just a heads up, Ubuntu is a bit heavy. A lighter version to try is Lubuntu. I run that on my 12 year old dell laptop with an SSD and it's faster then most newer laptops. And if you want an even lighter one, Antix, Bodhi Linux or Puppy linux are good choices too.

[@HardwareHaven]

I'm thinking of doing a 'lightweight' distro comparison type video in the near future. Thanks for the recommendations!

[@Wenik84]

Those 9 minutes felt like an hour Great video

[@bertnijhof5413]

The type of video, I like because I use that type of PCs. I did give this weekend a comparable PC to a friend for the normal Internet browsing. I used it myself till April 2019. It was a 2008 HP dc5850 and I upgraded it in the past to a AMD Phenom II X4 B97 (4C4T; 4x 3.2GHz); 8GB DDR2 (800MHz). This weekend I added a 250GB WD-Blue HDD (120MB/s) for DOP 800 (~$15). It runs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I even use myself a truly ancient PC as backup server, it is based on the remains of a 2003 HP d530 SFF with a Pentium 4 HT (1C2T; 3.0GHz); 1.5GB DDR (400MHz) and 4 HDDs in total 1.21TB (2x IDE 3.5" and 2x SATA 2.5"). That system runs FreeBSD 13 on OpenZFS 2.0 in a Compaq Evo Tower with a Windows 98SE activation sticker :) It is powered on for ~1 hour/week to receive my incremental backup at 200Mbps of the 1Gbps supported by the HW. The speed is limited by a ~95% CPU load on one CPU thread. I use the system since June 2019 and intend to use it many more years, just for fun using a true antique. You can't use older systems in a modern environment. This system is just usable, because it has 1 Gbps Ethernet and it was used during the transfer of IDE to SATA, so it supports both IDE and SATA disks, so I reused 570MB of IDE and 640MB of SATA disks . Older PCs would have too may limitations and are only useful as museum piece.

[@fyi_it]

you sound like a Voice Actor and born for youtube hope you ll reach the million within a year

[@DaiAtlus79]

i got lucky with a similar board i got when a family member dumped a SFF Gateway onto me. the board was a Packard Bell model (they handed Gateway/Acer's fab at that point as it was another division of the company), it was AM2+/DDR3, and had an athlon II x2 225. the board did have a couple of things going for it - it had a PCI-E 16x slot, and Nvidia onboard hardware (graphics, LAN, northbridge) which meant i could use nice piece of legacy software : Nvidia System Tools! simply put, you can access all tools like you would in a bios to overclock, including increasing multipliers and cpu speed (that 2.8ghz 225 was able to hit 3.1ghz). after a couple of months of trades and savings (2016, was on unemployment) i was able to throw in an Athlon II X3 460 (base clock 3.4ghz, i had it overclocked to 3.7), as well as 8gb ram, an antec 500w psu, and a 2gb XFX Radeon 6870. Did me well til i handed an old alienware with an i7 2600 (still running it today on an acer board with a 1060 3gb and 16gb ram, purrrrrrrs!!). these older builds are great when you can wrest more power from them. also, use the H.264ify browser extension, forces any site like youtube to run h.264 video instead of VP9, so the Radeon graphics will handle it. should be fine for a general use machine by then. ps, that works in linux as well. that'd be a dandy ubuntu studio pc

[@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs]

I love this kind of content; please do more of it

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks Juan! I plan to

[@Grimmis1027]

Hi there, found your channel last night, found a few nice video's to check out, so I decided to go bottom up, plus subscribed and liked

[@ApolloTheDerg]

I used one of the Phenom II X4’s up till like 2015, and that thing handled Battlefield 4 with a 750 TI, somehow. When I was building my new system, I got a 4790k, and during that I used my 750 TI, and it was borderline night and day better than with the phenom haha, but the fact it was playing modern titles back then was impressive. I have no doubts they would handle office tasks decently well to this day, such as word and excel. Paired with a basic gpu, it’s no slouch, but it sure isn’t new or efficient.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

If I remember correctly, there's a re-released 710,for PCI-X 1. Go look for it!!!

[@HardwareHaven]

Yeah there are a few x1 cards. I’ve kept my eyes peeled for a good deal but no luck so far

[@Mineav]

I find Firefox playback of KZbin videos to be much better than Chrome for older PCs. Though, you will still probably be limited to 720p.

[@GameSteals]

Older CPU's like the Athlon II's doesn't work well with the VP9 codec that KZbin uses by default, as the hardware is simply missing from these systems. As a result, it relies on CPU decoding, and it keeps all the CPU cores at 100% at all times when viewing an KZbin video. Source - bit.ly/3tgidOJ Therefore, you could force KZbin to use the h264 codec, then playing KZbin videos wouldn't put CPU under the kind of stress that VP9 codec put. You may try out the h264ify extension from Chrome Web Store Link - bit.ly/3MYkG88, and you may just be able to get a decent performance on both of those CPU's. Cheers!

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks Ranajoy! I actually ended up looking into this exact issue in a different video. I wish I would’ve had this comment first, as it would’ve saved me some time 😂

[@GameSteals]

@@HardwareHaven Hehe, my bad, should've gone through your videos before commenting. Keep up the great work. It's really sad to see people just throw away a machine, that served them well in the past, and now they don't even want to re-purpose it as a Home Media Server even. The world is glad to still have people like you, who can breathe new life into these 10 - 13-year-old PCs which otherwise would've ended up in a landfill. Keep going strong!

[@HardwareHaven]

No need to watch all my stuff to comment haha But thanks! Appreciate it

[@KanoValentine]

A new subscriber here. Love your content very much

[@oriolephan]

We had the same computer growing up. Just got rid of it when windows 7 ended support. I pulled the DVD drive off it for my gaming build.

[@yatapaws]

I'm a tech hoarder, I like this channel :3

[@HardwareHaven]

I think you’re in the right place… 😅

[@Rangerman9404]

I love to mess around with computers and build new systems, or repair and modify old ones. I take them in like "the crazy cat lady" takes in cats. Every system I have is one that either built, or a prebuilt system that I modified or did repair work on. I run the gamut from a 6 core i7 based system that I built which runs a Gigabyte main board and has a dual boot option, I can run Windows 11, or Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon desktop all the way down to an (almost) bog stock Gateway 2000 Pentium 4 which is my retro gamer. The only things I did with that was to replace a failed PSU, a RAM upgrade, and wiped the hard drive and did a clean install of the OEM Windows XP that it came with, as well as its drivers, since the thing was so loaded down with bloatware, it couldn't get out of its own way. That Gateway leads a "sheltered" life these days, since I have no way of connecting it to the internet, (and no intention of doing so). All the games I use on it run from CD ROMs

[@trollgaming7827]

Have you ever tried using 1x to 16x PCIe converter cable?

[@anishmulagada803]

i love this channel.

[@mustasheolll2020]

Really good looking computer nice 2011

[@darylscott6372]

Ok now I've watched them all

[@HardwareHaven]

Nice haha

[@stefannilsson2406]

You could use a pcie 1x to 16x adapter like the crypto miners do. Then get a GT 1030 or something super low power and see if it plays videos better. A 1x connection might not bottleneck a very low end card. Or if you are daring, you could take an exacto knife and cut away the back end of one slot and you can put a gpu straight in there.

[@RHTORAS]

when you are trying linux with low resources i suggest either slitaz linux which is the #2 light distro in terms of requirements and usage or puppy linux (runs from ram). Both do not use Gnome and systemD that Ubuntu uses and tend to make the o.s bloat (heavy for no reason). Apart these i could see my self using a pc like this. FYI i already use a Lenovo m58e with 3 gb of ram and a pentium core2duo e5600 as a pc for streaming radio. It can open around 10 tabs on chromium without much issues and a terminal running in the back. BTW it uses Void linux which also very light on resources.

[@haveaniceday7950]

I just found your channel this week and have been watching lots of videos, I love the vibe and the info, thank you! I actually have this this machine with 3gb ram, and I was thinking about making a NAS or media server. Wouldn’t it be worth it? If my client can play 4k videos but it’s from this server would it display in 4k? Also would transfer speeds from server to network be dependent on the NIC of the machine? Was thinking of adding 8 gb ram and they used 4tb drives you showed in another video, or 1 ssd and a hdd.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

I have a GeForce GT610 that fits in a PCIe x1 slot; I don't know of any newer cards made for that port. However, upgrading the CPU and adding a video card might be too much for the power supply.

[@jons2447]

Hiya, pal; (Sorry, don't know your name.) Yeah, old computers are cool. I have a AMD x4 640 Propus (is that supposed to be a star?). I built my 1st own-built computer in 2010. Reading "boot" & "MaximumPC" magazines back then, I built a 'mid-range' box. The AMD X4 640, a 500GB HDD, 4GB RAM on an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 mobo. It ran pretty good. Later I upgraded the CPU to a used FX-6350, 16GB RAM & some SSDs (1 win7, 1 win10, 1 MX linux). Still use that rig as my 'desktop' box. (Writing this on a ThinkPad T-430, which I just added 8GB RAM to.) I want to upgrade the CPU to an i7--3540m. BTW, adding a "discrete graphics solution" can 'free' up some old hardware. The video card can 'unload' the CPU but it doesn't always work. If the 'chip shortage' clears I'll prolly build a new system, got 2 CM Elite RC-330s, 1 still in-box. Thanks for the memories.

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks for the comment Jon! It was fun to read. Lot's of cool systems and history with 'em. And I actually messed around with adding a gpu (r7 240) to an athlon x4 in another video. It was interesting seeing what it could do in terms of helping with video playback. Best of luck with any new systems and upgrades! Hopefully the market gets better soon. Have a good one. Oh! The name's Colten by the way haha

[@elijahkeller657]

@HardwareHaven How did you get windows 10 installed? it looks like this processor isn't supported anymore with windows 10, just curious because i've been upgrading a computer with the same processor and tried installing windows 10 but it came back with a "FAILED TO BOOT INSERT DRIVE AND TRY AGAIN" or something along those lines. Love your channel, Keep up the good work!

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

Had no idea those old integrated AMD graphics were this bad.I have an old Dell at work that still runs daily to playback KZbin music in fullhd and it runs smooth.It uses a Core 2 Quad Q9400 with 8GB of RAM and Windows 10,but as far as i knew Intel graphics were bad and i did not expect it to run that good.I guess those AMDs proved to be worse

[@nahventure3873]

Look into cutting the X1 open. It's not that difficult with some tools. Did this with X8 slots in servers for a while since the VGA was awful and could barely do window dragging. You're seeing issues due to lacking hardware x264 support. It's like using VLC on a pi 3 or using software based transcoding. It's night and day.

[@maynardcrow6447]

I just looked pciex1 GPUs and saw some old and firepros for like $20. I wonder if they would work for video encoding

[@gustersongusterson4120]

You can get a lot of mileage out of older hardware for audio production as long as the software is well optimized and you don't use many cpu hungry plugins. Reaper runs great on old hardware, even better on linux.

[@poromise]

Lol at 4:00 Me: Mom, can we have Vulfpeck - Dean Town? Mom: we have Vulfpeck - Dean Town at home. Vulfpeck - Dean Town at home:

[@HardwareHaven]

I wish I could give you a prize

[@matthewday7565]

Not sure if you can use the Windows 8.1 Radeon 3000 drivers, or if the automatic (or maybe its optional update or update catalog) ones from Microsoft are better - I think my FX4130 on 760G Radeon 3000 IGP handles youtube ok, I'll have to fire it up again (I was last torturing it with a forced Win11 install)

[@mattishida3067]

What happened to the other 3 PC?

[@elpabli372]

"Hello, please could you provide me with the BIOS drivers for this computer? It's not letting me in and I need to install it." 😢😢

[@thereallantesh]

So the motherboard only has 1x PCIE slots? There isn't one full length slot? That is unfortunate as a cheap dedicated graphics card would solve your online video playback issue.

[@lolnoob5009]

Bro could u tell me which "testbench" can work with geforce 6200 gpu? I have a spare gt6200 le testing on my gigabyte mobo but the driver cannot find the gpu on it pls help

[@HardwareHaven]

Are you using windows 10? If so, a lot of older GPUs unfortunately no longer have driver support

[@lolnoob5009]

@@HardwareHaven i do use win 7 as driver's recommendation and used the exact driver for 6 series but when install it keeps quitting bc it cant find the gpu. The mobo i used is g31m with e8400 cpu

[@HardwareHaven]

Are you manually installing the driver using device manager?

[@lolnoob5009]

@@HardwareHaven i did check there but there's only the g33 gpu, no nvidia one

[@lolnoob5009]

I just think that the mobo isn't the type for this old gpu bc it is made for pentium 4 or older mobo has ddr1 ram

[@dekion261]

I had an HP touchsmart 310 AIO, that I replaced the motherboard and CPU. it had the same CPU, btw. It served me well for years, and I ended up giving it away. The two cores could not longer perform outside of using linux, and I didn't want to stay in win7.

[@sealifett8395]

Some Athlon IIx 4 640 were able to unlock to Phenom II X 6

[@blaster-vv8so]

I recently got back my old 640 the mother has pcie 2 and does much better with discrete graphic but very limited in most game. but can play some titles well.

[@HardwareHaven]

Nice! Yeah I wish this had PCIe

[@aaronmitchell7618]

Nivida has a pcie x1 version of the gt 710 I think. This isn't a beast in gaming but it may improve video playback.

[@HardwareHaven]

Yeah I’ve been trying to find a good deal on a used one

[@serenitysuccubus9231]

@@HardwareHaven dude you can grab a x16 version and then grab a 1x to 16x adaptor, it will be less of a headache and cheaper

[@HardwareHaven]

@@serenitysuccubus9231 Possibly! But those can also cause issues with space and getting this to fit in the case properly

[@Adam130694]

You can use k10stat to undervolt those Athlon II, 640 should do fine with like 1.275VCore

[@tvchannelGuide]

You can sell it in indonesia and sell it on trusted website, its will be profitable and remember the vast majority of southest asia people still use c2q-i5 3470

[@DaMassDebater]

dude, i use this pc. It is almost exactly the same minus it has an amd althon 435 x3. We even made the same upgrades, upgrading to 8gb of ram and an ssd(512 not 128 :) ). What are the chances!

[@darkphotographer]

got a dumpsair pc , was a 775 with core2quad and some ram , the mb and psu was dead , but the cpu am still using it on my file server nice upgrad from the core2duo that i had wen i buy ti in 2008 , and the case that is prety good host my workstation a x99 rig ,

[@darkphotographer]

and some friends give ther old broken pc from time to time , some of them just need few parts , and i have flip some for 50-60euro

[@ItsPuppy]

I think there is a 1x pcie gt 740

[@Geert365]

Some guy on here, JayZtwocents got windows 10 working pretty decently on a dual core using windows debloater. Tried that myself whitout succes, yet idea maybe.

[@DarkwerefoxRed]

Well, fur older PCs I highly recommend Antix(DDR1) or BofHi Linux(DDR2 limit, fur now)...

[@crgintx]

Puppy Linux or Linux Mint. I have an old Toshiba Laptop with a first gen I3 with 8GB of ram and KZbin runs just fine. Have an ancient T3500 Dell Server that also run on the latest Puppy but it had 24gb of RAM and a Xeon 6core 3.4ghz

[@dexsters5643]

You could use the 1x to 16x mining riser to add a gpu or just get the GT 710 pcie 1x

[@HardwareHaven]

For sure!

[@dexsters5643]

@@HardwareHaven i personally have used the mining riser with a GTX 960 2gb and it works but when the gpu is needed heavily the microstutter isnt good

[@HardwareHaven]

@@dexsters5643 yeah I imagine it works well for hardware decoding and encoding, but not as well for heavy 3d stuff

[@dexsters5643]

@@HardwareHaven i tried to use the GTX 960 as a NVNC card while i was playing games on a RX 570 4gb. Because the AMD encoder was giving trouble and it worked but for gaming it works but to a Ok level (GTX 960 on 1x pcie)

[@LeoLijo]

Damn my grandpa used to use an cpu pretty similar to this one with win10 worked but bad

[@AndehX]

I think it was a mistake to go with the Athlon as an upgrade for these machines. With hardware this old and slow, the only upgrades that make any logical sense, are the absolute best upgrades you can get. You really should have gone with the Phenom CPU's to give these machines the best chance of being useful in any way. At this point, those Athlons were essentially a waste of money.

[@fxgamer-11yt]

If your interested I have a fx 8350 and a ga990 mobi by gigabyte

[@EastAngliaUK]

I have had so many pcs but very few AMD systems

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

sadly FX has not held up to the test of time, Intels 2xxx series blows it out of the water as it is.

[@xdclan7148]

i love tose things but dont get the chance

[@HardwareHaven]

This was the only time I found something free like that

[@zariadenieusb3934]

now try mining on it

[@mmhotdog]

Hey I have a good idea for your intro put the boot keys and that stuff like sub and share

[@HardwareHaven]

Genius.

[@mmhotdog]

@@HardwareHaven thanks!

[@alyayoussef6930]

You guys throw these pcs In my country pc with this specs cost 80$ I currently have an fujitsu with sempron 3000 cpu🤣🤣

[@HardwareHaven]

I’m very much aware of how good we have it here. Which is why it bugs me even more when stuff like this happens

[@wojciechb4732]

AMD X2 are first sort crap, upgrade? next time buy beer, better get intel i5 or i7 first or second generation, im still using core2duo for crash tests :]

[@HardwareHaven]

It’s not great, but it made this into a pretty usable PC rather than it going into the trash. That’s a win in my book. To be clear, this is not a recommendation to go out and by an athlon ii system

[@allenm00]

2:52 Atrocious as he is, that isn't your computer's problem. He always looks like that. Lol

[@sergelavallee913]

Can you give me the 6 cores model i need to install for my presario same model than the one on your video? ? I own one with 4 cores 8G memory and i want to make it 6 cores! Thank you!