The £10 ($12) HP Gets a Low-Cost Gaming Upgrade!
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- It's been a while since I've put together a PC this cheap and I couldn't help but wonder if it's actually worth doing so these days.
As it turns out, there is still some fun to be had, especially if you're only interested in older or less-demanding single and multiplayer titles.
0:00 The HP P6000 Special Edition - Price and Specs
0:46 Low-Cost Upgrades
2:31 Final Cost and Specs
3:04 Gaming and Limitations
3:23 CS:GO
4:02 Skyrim Special Edition
4:44 Team Fortress 2
5:15 Apex Legends
5:51 Fortnite
6:36 Valorant
7:01 Minecraft
7:24 Overwatch 2 and Final Thoughts
Thanks for watching :) - Věda a technologie
Love the 'home' feel of your videos, recorded in a garden and not in some lit up studio. Keep it up
Thank you :)
It's a lit up garden
@@alessiobaruzzo1679 except you don't usually have sunlight as the main source in a studio don't ya think?
@@REALDEALFLEXSEAL not with that attitude!
same, hes the down to earth youtuberwe need but we dont deserve!
Love it when old prebuilds can still put decent numbers on esports games.
Yeah sometimes you don’t need to spend much at all for a good experience
If you stick to older games then you can have a very cheap gaming experience tho microsoft sadly fully intends to scupper these venerable pcs by withdrawing windows 10 support in october 2025
At least these prebuilts were decent compared to what they are today. All of them except Lenovo use proprietary motherboards and power supplies,making them difficult to upgrade when they will be as old as this PC
@@slob12 You can still use something like Tiny 11 to give you a much less bloated Windows 11 experience, and bypass the high system requirements like 8th gen Intel CPU...
The Gtx 750ti will forever be in my heart, 2 years ago it was in my main rig paired with a core i5 2400 + 8gb of ram, and I played some awesome games with it, glad to see its still standing proud!
Yeah it’s a legend
i may actually use it on my first ever pc build
@@melomelo420 depending on your financial situation, it might prove to be a pretty good first graphics card
I still run a similar rig, but with an i7 2600
@@finnbianga4189 same. 2500K with 16 Gb and a rx550 and it plays so many games still very well that I gave it to my son and he has now passed it on to his younger brother. SandyBridge CPUs are still very much usable
Your dog is adorable! I have a Jack Russell too! They're a lot of fun! o7
Haha yeah he’s never tired.
It's always nice to see an old prebuilt like this getting a second lease in life. Even the doggie is so happy that it didn't end up in the landfill that he's jumping in joy (3:10).
Hahaha very true
I watch you from very beginning and I'm still here. It's just amazing how you can hook someone to your content. Much love bro
Thanks :)
Dude, I had the EXACT same cabinet on one of my older PCs. Got me right in the nostalgia, brought back those DVD burning days!
I had a GTX 260 in it though, with a Q8400
What an old school beast combo
@@RandomGaminginHD Yeah, I built that system specifically for GTA IV.
Initially got the E7300 but GTA IV was a supremely optimized game and would only play fair with quad cores, so got a Q8400 a few months later. Then it got replaced with an i7 3770k a couple of years later. But the Q8400 (and the E7300) still work!
I had the same PC as well. The company I worked for at the time foot the bill. I remember feeling meh about it because I didn’t build it myself as I always did since 90s, but you can’t argue with “free”. LOL.
@@TechOrigami I'm waiting for a 3770k to arrive for my PC lol, how does it hold up?
@@raider4394 you're gonna have some trouble with the newer titles. But most of the games released prior to 2020 can work rather well.
strangely my first ever build had these exact specs, even down to the HDD size. 750Ti's were great cards back in the day.
That’s awesome. The 750ti still has some life left if paired with a solid cpu. Just a shame about the api limitation
Love your video and this particular kind of old HP Pavillion Elite. My mom bought me one as a graduation gift in 2011 and it was used with love for nearly seven years before it just became too slow to use anymore. I've kept the chassis around though to remember her by (she passed away in 2018) and have been slowly gathering parts to do a full sleeper build in it. When it's complete, it'll be a new home media and VR gaming living room PC for my family, carrying on my mom's memories.
I'm glad to see you still give older hardware a new lease of life, And show people that you don't always need the latest or greatest to enjoy gaming.👍😉
Ah the 750Ti. I think many of us have it in our hearts. For me, as for many others, the 750Ti was part of the first gaming rig i built for myself. Paired with an FX8300 and 8GB of RAM, I had some good times with it in late 2014
The 320GB hard drive is actually an AV type that is found in tv recording boxes. I've taken enough of those apart to regonise the Seagate Pipeline branding.
Always great and entertaining videos. My last 2 PC builds, were built out of discussion from your channel. My last PC upgrade was actually from discussions here. Fun videos, informative and entertaining! Keep it up :D
£59 to play virtually almost all multiplayer games over the past decade or so is incredible I'm in love with this pc
I would try a GTX1650 one that run's off the motherboard power with this rig, and if it can play battlefield 1 then it's brilliant.
Another very good video 😀 keep the great work up 😀
I was thinking the same but apparently the GTX 1650 is overkill for this i5-equivallent-xeon-CPU... the 750 Ti really was appropriate: this CPU is in 100% load all the time in all the games with this 750 Ti that stayed also in full load - so it's a match. I think only starting with an OCed i7 3770K you reach on-par performance to match GTX 1060 / GTX 1650.
The processor wouldnt hold up that game
with old xeons like that they would be better suited to amd cards like a rx 460 or 560 4gb due to the lower cpu and ram overhead in drivers it may be hit or miss with one of the rx 570s but 1060 or 1650 would definitely bottleneck hard
This type of content is unique to your channel, the suprise element always have my clicking and watching these videos
You have the cutest doggo😭 love your vids man, been here since 10k subscribers!
I had the same tower for a while. I’m a school teacher and I took it to work. Kids who forgot their computer could use it. If we had free time or a student finished early, they were allowed to play games on it. I had a Xeon with 4c/8t, 128gb SSD, and a GTX 650 ti boost. It came with a i5-650 like this but unfortunately without any of the cool case art lol. I was surprised at how well the hyper threaded Xeon held up. I was definitely gpu bound. This was 2021-2022. So the 650 ti boost was still getting drivers until the end and was actually more powerful than the 750 ti. The previous owner had upgraded the power supply so that allowed me to use a gpu with a 6 pin connector. I’m sure that the 750 ti is now the better performer since it’s had a year plus of graphics driver updates that the 600 series doesn’t get.
The phrasing in your comment is weird.
"kids who forgot their Computer could use it"
What kind of school is that? Requiring kids to bring their own computers/Laptops?
Perfect! Exactly what I wanted to watch this evening and budget build thing 😎
Adding an old i7 / xeon 8 thread would give this a little boost .
They are still okay for the most e-sport games, i assume a GTX 1050 Ti is the maximum i would go with such prebuilt pcs :D
this one in specific even with a xeon i dont think would handle a 1050ti that well maybe a rx 460 4gb just because amd drivers have less cpu and ram overhead if it was overclockable it would be a much different story
G'day Random & Harry,
Another Awesome video showing that you don't need the newest & fastest components playing the latest games at max settings & FPS but PC Gaming is about having FUN, if you play games that your PC is capable of & there are SOOO many to chose from even on a very tight budget there is lots of FUN to be had.
I have set up an i3-540 as my everyday PC atm, I have been thinking about doing some GPU Scaling with my Athlon 200GE to see where it starts Bottlenecking GPU Performance, so threw together some of my spare parts so I can still watch my favourite YT videos like RGinHD while Benchmarking
This is alot of fun. Just a few months ago i took my mom's old HP Pavilion, from dec 2010 and fixed it up a bit. The exact same case as this.
It had diff specs tho, phenom 1035t, a HD5450 but also 8GB ram.
I gave it a GT 1030, and another 8GB from my old rig and naturally an SSD.
Im now gaming on it, my entire older library, im gonna be using it for a good while!
Its damn alot of fun scrounging together a rig.
Very cool! Love the front panel design! Cool little machine
Simualtion and Reoslution, fantastic! :)
I Love the nature of your videos, Watching you from a long time keep up the good work mate
Thanks :)
What a cute puppy you have, he looks happy and full of life.
Take care
Great video. I love that you give these old parts some love and try to find them a new home. Might I suggest adding Sims 4 to the list. On Reddit, there are lots of people that are just looking for a system that can browse the web and play Sims and an old system like this could save someone a lot of money instead of buying a brand new PC or laptop.
Great to see your dog and the garden. 🙂
Can't believe that you are close to 500k subs
Congratulations man
Thanks :)
3:09 Who's a cute dogo? Yes i am! Yes i am!
what a good combo! 💯 both CPU and GPU are hovering right around 100%
Good upgrade! I still have one of those cards laying about just for sanity checking new builds without an iGPU, but it was pretty OK back in the day.
The dyslexia is definitely running strong today though...
I don't really have the motivation to build even gen 2 or 3 intel and 750ti or similar but it's fun to see you still playing around. The 970 is my new 750ti now.
Did much better than I expected here, a great little runner indeed.
I tried to play dishonoured 2 with a 750ti. Had to have it on 720p low, but I loved the hell out of the experience. It's amazing how fun games can be when you have low specs
Yeah all part of the experience :)
Hell i still have a 4870 512mb and a 6870 1gb hanging around...i just may have to dust them off to see what they can still do🙂
@@slob12 they probably need repasting tho. both were so good at their times. 4870 could be cooled well - gtx 200 series were a nightmare to cool down, even gtx 260. and 6870 I think was between GTX 550 Ti and GTX 560 Ti in price+performance, so it could run FullHD medium at least every game.
@@cosminmilitaru9920 yes I did repaste the 6870 a few years back but I have never touched the 4870 🙂
This is some great pupper content!
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What do you mean this is a PC channel?
Those card slots in the front made me smile nostalgically.
Beautiful video man! Never knew PCs and parts like these were so capable of playing games this well!
Glad you enjoyed!
I have an old i5 750 in an hp with an rx9 280x i play csgo on still otherwise its a media tower slash space heater
@@79huddy amazing!
The i5-650 is an interesting CPU in 2023. I had one running a home storage server not all that long ago. Got the chip and board for free, threw it into an older case I had lying around and had all my 3.5" multi-TB drives in it. I decided to finally let it retire in favor of something a little newer a few months ago though. But thinking back, it would've been perfectly fine for gaming in the same era that Pentiums were still a decent budget option, in fact hyper-threading was a bit overkill since most games still relied on 1-2 "capable" cores. Still, not something I would've chosen personally since the i5s that came out beforehand were actual quad-cores -- and would stay that way (more or less) until 2018 lol.
I always love seeing your pupper
My first custom PC build was an x3440 OCed to 3.8ghz paired with an RX570 4gb. It was really good bang for your buck build handles most titles @ 1080P. That rig introduced me to overclocking
and tuning to get the most out of your system. You'd be surprised that any modern CPU with atleast 4 cores and 8 threads regardless of generation(intel) is enough to handle most games.
on a build like that if you installed some preformance mods for minecraft such as sodium, lithium and starlight it would remove those stutters and give you a higher framerate
Didn't even see the video, o just gave a like for your dog in the thumbnail alone 😊
This video reminds me of the good old days of randomgaminginhd
😁
The good old days never ended😊 always makes classic videos
Reoslution. Lol.
Made me laugh. :D
Anyway, keep up the great work man.
750ti was so good. everyone I knew who was playing PC games on any sort of lower budget had one of those, the value was insane
i have a few old pcs bought on ebay one pc for 10-20 dollars and 2 that i found on my local metal landfill and get them both for 1.50 dollar each. i manage to keep only 2 in my use, i bought them because of the nostalgia, i have a gaming pc and i can almost every new game on high settings but when i play old games on my old pcs, it has more nostalgic and fun experience than playing old games on high end pc. Love ur videos
Great video
My first custom gaming pc was similar to this, it was a dell oem but it had a i7 860 instead and I had the amd hd 6850 graphics card, was pretty good for cs:go and minecraft back then. Maybe try to get 2 hard drives in raid 0, it will speed up system usage dramatically, some of these older machines support hardware raid in the bios
Well, there are few tricks you could try to get better 0.1 and 1% lows on machines like this. Best solution is actually to have more RAM - games usually stutter when they need to load something in the background . No hyperthreading means that one of your physical cores does the job of unloading old, and loading new. Having more RAM helps to have that something (usually textures) already in memory. Some would say that you could do that with SSD, but bear in mind that SSD works not so fast on this old systems with PCIe 2.0 . Another trick, and cheaper, is to debloat Windows and close all unnecessary apps while you are playing. This sounds trivial, but you would be surprised how much memory Windows takes on idle. And finally, sometimes in situation like this, capping FPS actually helps to have more smooth game experience. Instead of generating frames, your CPU has the time to load game resources from disk .
lovely dog!
I, for one, still love the design of late-2000 & early-2010 pre-built PCs. Keeping the DVD drive + all in one card writer while still being able to do a few modern upgrades such as SSD & a decent entry-level graphics card.
When I was a kid, I got a Core 2 version of this PC for free from my grandparents. I upgraded it from 2GB ram to 8, upgraded the pentium inside to a q9550 and popped in a GTX 750 Ti, all for dirt cheap. That computer was a champ for quite a few good years, I miss it.
I recognize that black board and shroud anywhere. I had to replace the fan on my 750ti but the gpu is still kicking ass after all this time. I'm so amazed at the xeon in particular. It tell us how much CPU head room we actually have now.r
you should do something artistic with the bamboo decals on the front, maybe some green jungle vinyl wrap, make it look all tropical foresty?
I don't benefit anything from the content but I really like it .
Ur sound makes me happy 😊
Nice one, i have a x3450 and 1050ti, still a bit more gpu than cpu, but it does just fine.
That’s awesome! I’m building a x3440 and 1650 pc right now. Hopefully my performance will be something a little better than this
Could you do some cheap unconventional upgrades like making an acrylic side panel. And adding SATA RGB strips
I literally had this computer laying around at work and decided to take it apart today and use the case for a build.
Yay what I subbed to you for these type of videos I love
I'd be curious to see a few Unity-powered games in your testing lineup. I think most of the stuff you test is either Unreal or proprietary. Rust, Genshin Impact, Escape from Tarkov, Kerbal Space Program, or Cities Skylines maybe?
8:40 The one thing I always remember about these old HP's is how the motherboard was on the wrong side of the case upside-down 😂
I had this exact PC for a bit! I was gaming on an i3-540, 4 gigs of ram and 9800 GT... when I upgraded to a GTX 980 and an i7-870, the difference was night and day. I built a new computer and sold this one to a friend who still gets plenty of use out of it.
Good for browsing and watching movies
3:07 doggo!! 🐕
Wow almost what i've done in the past! my first desktop had I5 650 and i upgraded it for a Xeon X3470 with like 30€ from Aliexpress!!
i have this particular mobo cpu combo in a safe house in another state, still using it for casual browsing.
love these cheap computers, its sad how people spend thousands when you can find a pc for a dozen pounds or so. Steve would you ever consider doing vlogs while hunting for pc parts? (like early LTT scrapyard wars or Bryan from Tech Yes City)
I have an old backup laptop with a first gen dual core i5 520m and that thing runs fine with a SSD. It is still fine for browsing. I also upgraded ram to 6GB from 2GB because of Google Chrome slowing down when opening the third tab.
I keep old laptops since they don’t take much space and they are fun to fool around with.
Do you like trying out different operating systems in your old laptops, like Linux?
@@E5rael Yes i fooled around with CentOS, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Kali, Ubuntu and Void.
Also I tried running Windows XP on it which worked fine.
I also tried making it into a hackintosh but that failed.
Seems a fairly capable system for a low price. An SSD and another 8 gigs of RAM would be my goto upgrades - probably help with those low percentile figures.
I guess the test in Minecraft is for the Bedrock-Edition of the game. Cause Java-Edition is way harder to run (especially on the CPU-side). It would be nice if this was specified in the video.
Otherwise still a fantastic video as always!
Ohh, I was scratching my head how he managed to get that high fps and kept expecting him to say he modded it with Sodium. Definetly must've been Bedrock otherwise
what's the visual difference ?
@@chillhour6155 visually they are basically the same nowadays. But there are some gameplay differences (mainly Redstone + modding) but performance on bedrock is at least 2-3 times as good as on java. Still many if not most people play java...
Got & using same pc, recently upgraded to 8gb ram & wait for it - gt710 for the directx11, but started looking for a better card last week. Thought about a better cpu but dont know where to start. May look into this.
I got just as much enjoyment watching your cute dog as with your computer content.
2:09 I love telling my pc customers and family members that you can get 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB drives in DVRs for a few bucks at local pawn or thrift shops. As long as you know that the drive could die out at any time like any ebay drive then its great price to performance (Simple mirror raids between 2 or 3 drives would help, or making it a game only drive). Random performance could suffer if you get a 3.5 inch slim HDD rather than a full sized one with more platters and sophisticated read heads
Need more dog clips
How do you actually treat all of secondhand PCs ever shown in this channel?
Reselling them afterwards?
Yeah. Usually sell them on, or clean the parts up individually and sell them on
fantastic! did you mention the total build cost??? I missed it
Still running a GTX 750ti on my 2nd PC. My Main PC dosent have a DVD Drive so i use it mostly for old games that do not exist on steam. Runs everything really good.
60 FPS limiter in Riva Tuner would fix those noticeable 0.1% dips that make stutters
It would be interesting to see how this system handles emulation. Just how modern do you think this would be able to handle?
psp some gamecube games ps2 would struggle so hard i dont think it would be playable since an overclocked sandy bridge processor struggles on ps2
Pukka vid as always.. would have loved to has seen 2 sets of benchmarks with original rig vs upgraded to see how much of an increase for how much money.. IF the original hardware could even run those games haha.. Tempted to grab one of these ole pre builts for an XP machine..
Thanks :) that’s a good idea about the dual benchmarks will have to keep that in mind for future vids
Just built pretty much the same for my wife and kids as a backup machine. My trusty Pallit 750 TI gets a new life with a 3770 :)
Give this man another 3k subs!
I've been subbed for years and he's still not there!
That's why I thought of going all out on CPU in my next build. Ten years later, when I finally won't need it, I can simply donate it to another person, with a bit of an upgrade over it. Saving them landfills sound great.
Love man just love
I like your dog very much 🙂
hi, love your videos . i have a gigabye H87M-D3H motherboard with an intel i54570 , 32 gb patriot viper ddr3 and a 1050ti , i was thinking of upgrading my cpu but wasnt sure which would be better for me
I built a x3440 with an Asus motherboard and a gtx 980 some years back.
A mate of mine is using it when we have a lan party like the old times.
It plays what ever you trow at it.
I forgot how much i pushed the oc, but i think it's close to 4ghz.
RandomGamingHD's channel to old pc hardware is what the island of sodor is to Thomas and the old steam engines lol
Perfect for someone just getting into pc gaming on a very tight budget
The texture popin in skyrim though
The amount of times i have picked up 10P Cpus from CeX is crazy lol
this could be a great emulation machine for retro titles
10/10 video and i havnt watched it yet
Great idea, because old PCs are not worthless.
Right now saving xw4400 (E6600, 2gb ram, 500GB HDD). Got one for 6,30€. Bought x3220 for 3,40€, additional 4gb ram for 6,14€. Will think what to do with firegl GPU in it.
I just built a "new" system in a kolink gaming case with 4 big RGB fans I won on eBay for £1. Xeon x3470 (4c/8t), 16gb DDR3, 240GB SSD and a GTX770. Final cost with all the postage (bought some bits locally) was £92 and I'm in love. That said, I'll sell it, because I'm better at building them than playing them lol.
Please make it a gaming beast and a sleeper build like an rtx 4080 or 3080 with new psu and cpu it would be dopee
can we have some overclocking? good video thou
When my brother was broke he was using an x3450 in a similar motherboard to this, the inability to OC it really held it back in the long run so I was surprised this was breaking 100+ average fps in CSGO