£80 ($100) Gaming PC From Cash Converters - What's Inside?
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2022
- Today we're taking a look at a gaming PC that I purchased from Cash Converters, a second hand retailer here in the U.K. This cheap system was once a high end beast but today it cost just a fraction of it's original build price.
That said, there are a few things to be concerned with...
Thanks for watching :) - Věda a technologie
"my patience made like my dad and left" that caught me off guard big time... god damn
😂
Had a mouthful of Salt and Vinegar Pringles and damn nearly choked
@@RandomGaminginHD haha
@@RandomGaminginHD oh that was a real moment. You're turning into Jimmy Carr with these lines. Nothing I can say can change things but it looks like you're doing well, you live in a good place, you're smart and knowledgeable and enjoy what you're doing. You're likable. Life throws up bad things but the sun always comes up tomorrow, and you'll always have witty jokes in your videos :-)
That's really sad! :o(
After watching DankPods, I can't call it Cash Converters anymore, just Cashies. However, this PC sure is an interesting example of how PC's were built by mix and matching components back in the day.
Yeah some odd combos in here
Ohhhh He Found it at Cashies~
Oh
He found it at cashies mate
Where you can find your dreams
They’ve got
Wares
And Chairs
And a Bug downstairs
And clubs
And tubs
And a hat for scrubs
And out of date movies
So
Get on down to cashies mate
You know it’ll change your life
So get off the floor, head out the door
Forget eBay they’ll charge you more
And lose your life at cashies
Mate
Lol
I always get disappointed when I go to a cashies and there’s no old school fair music :(
my uncle has an old build around the same era, a VERY HIGH END athlon 64 x2 from 2007 with 8800GT in it. i upgraded it back in 2017 for him with some cheap DDR2 2G rams (the board was good, can take 4 sticks) and installed windows 10 so he can use it as a home system to play cartoons for his kids.
i still remember back in the days i drooled on his PC as a kid and watched him play all the newest title in his room(now mine LOL, he moved next door after marriage). man, this really brings up memories! can't feel the same today.
thanks for sharing the story bro
yeah aging sucks
Do not install Win 10, as it had bad support for these MB and CPUs , especially with latest updates. Stick to Win 7, have some decent anti-virus software and there you go.
My uncle had a similar pc back in the day too. I remember a few months after Windows 7 came out and watched him upgrade from Vista to 7. Me and my cousin everytime we visited used to watch CZcams videos like the annoying orange or the piano cat on that computer.
He might still have it, but he's likely either given it away or scrapped it
@@chandlerbing7570 the orange!
"Do not manhandle". That's certainly the most unique packaging i've ever seen, also the most suspicious.
Yeah I thought it was like “do not touch” and wondered how it would get here 😂
Sus indeed but WTF it worked.
@@RandomGaminginHD your Brexit vote wasn't sure
The X6 1090t is one of my favourite CPU's of all time. They will regularly hit 4ghz all core overclock with ease (I had mine at 4.1ghz) but the key to unlocking the gaming performance especially 1% lows (IIRC) was to overclock the HT link to around 2200mhz and the Northbridge to about 2600mhz (I think mine hit 2800mhz but there's a sweet spot), because this directly affects the L3 cache latency which is heavily used in games. Back in 2011, right before I jumped to Sandy Bridge with an i5 2500k, this CPU was a fantastic EOL swansong for the AM3 platform.
Yeah it’s awesome, thanks for the OC info too
The CPU-NB sweetspot is actually closer to 3GHz if you can squeeze it. Up to 1.45v is considered perfectly safe on CPU-NB voltage. Up to 1.55v is considered perfectly safe on CPU vcore. I've got my 1100T at 4.2GHz, 1.60v with 3GHz CPU-NB, 1.50v paired with a HD7970. Using a 240mm AIO on it, it never exceeds about 62*C load, so its fine. Other than a few titles complaining about lack of instructions, it still games perfectly fine if you consider its age. I'll bet RDR2 would play fine if it would actually launch for example. Definitely CPU bottlenecked in some titles, but that's to be expected. It does actually PLAY games still though.
Wow, I never considered bumping up the HT link/NB for cache latency.
Been using my newer rig for software development as of late so been keeping the games off it. Was just using my old 1090t with ASUS crosshair iv, gtx 660 ti, and ssd earlier today to play Borderlands 3 which runs surprisingly well on medium settings for such a chunky game (50-60fps occasional brief stutter). Crosshair iv is a great board for overclocking and the 6 cores saves it for UE4 titles that need some place to do the asset streaming. Wish it had up to SSE4.2 for Apex Legends tho. Still my middle school self would have never guessed that thing would still be gaming in the 2020's. Definitely trying that HT link and NB OC.
@@pio80085
Actually there is a fix that makes almost every game run without these instructions for example im now 50% at god of war 4 which requires those 4.2sse instructions and it runs amazingly well gtx 1050ti p2x6 1090t oc'd to 3.8ghz nb to 2600mhz ht to 2200mhz : mix of high and original at 1080p fsr ultra quality 40-50fps very nice and playable experience 🔥, very impressive considering the cpu is over a decade old at this point !
100% agree nb/ht oc is very important for those old beasts 🔥
My man never fails to deliver unique content. Keep up the great work mate!
facts, one of the absolute best
he's your man?!?!?! SUS
Thanks mate
@@RandomGaminginHD Surprised that pc still worked with that ace powersupply, they were terrible quality wise, like diablotek, or xilence (which killed not one but TWO graphics cards in a cousins pc first & then later when i tested it years later.) which im very certain it is just a rebranded xilence 600w (more like 250w) powersupply.
That in one model under the same brandname failed the EU electrical safety standards, which is pretty damn bad considering all the china crap that makes it into this country anyway...
So they weren't even able too be sold anywhere across the entire lineup in Europe.
Though it's not as bad as Hantol powersupplies...
Where a pfc coil was fake & literally just a block of cement.
I'm not joking, search it up on images and you'll see it.
Seeing the cpu/gpu combo with the optimal setup with some overclocking to push the combo to its limits would be most interesting to see
Yeah I’ll have to see what this thing can really do
@@RandomGaminginHD ... put linux mint on it , I think you'd be surprised.
4:33 Installing the latest build of Windows 10 from scratch would have been faster.
Yeah you’re right. I don’t know why I persisted for so long 😂
@@RandomGaminginHD "nearly done..... It'll start moving again soon..... Just got to wait for a few minutes..... How long has it been stuck on 88% now? Oh it just moved, nearly there..... I'll make tea..... I'll start dinner....facking heck! Come on!..... Power button."
For an older system like this, I'm very curious about how a Linux install would perform. It's certainly a lot more lightweight than Windows 10 and gaming performance more than rivals Windows with the new Steam Proton support.
@@PropaneWP ... I agree. That would be a sensible path for that machine.
@@PropaneWP much better.
This was my dream config back in the days. 😁
But after I saw an old i3 4th gen for 5€ ripping the phenom apart I chose intel and never regret it.
$hintel is crap. AMD 4 lyfe bishes!
@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs very clearly an intel fanboy pretending to be a amd fanboy, get a lyfe bishe.
@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs lol your the type of customer they want, blind fools who throw thier money at them while chanting that they grovel to a company because something is 3-5% better in some cases
@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs nah the dickeating is crazyyyy 😭
@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs AMD was shit before Ryzen
3:45 it’s due to the fact that phenom II cpus have both a DDR2 _and_ DDR3 memory controller on the die, and since am3 cpus are physically compatible with am2+, it allowed am2+ users to upgrade to a new generation without changing boards
Yup, it was possible to go from A64 X2/DDR2/AM2 all the way to FX/DDR3/AM3+ without ever having to make a completely new build. Each CPU was either capable to run on multiple sockets or the board allowed for different CPUs.
I must say whenever I'm bored or don't have any idea what to do I watch your videos and that is daily thanks for making my days better
Long time viewer, love watching your tech reviews,keep up with the great content!
Man this content is so much fun, always something different keeping it fresh. I've always had a great time with your videos mate, cheers from Costa Rica
Thanks :)
Once upon a time , that was my dream case. I miss those old cases with a door to cover the ODD components. I actually still use my ODD, .... occasionally. I'm currently using an old Dell case that I've swapped newer components into and having the oem front I/O capabilities is quite handy.
I remember being on Yahoo Answers back in the late 2000's to the early 2010's, and in the Desktop Hardware section people would share their PC build list to see if everything was compatible. You have no idea how many parts lists I has seen with good components but a terrible Power Supply. Back then, there were a lot of Fly-By-Night companies that made cheap power supply units.
@Noa Vmsm There are still terrible power supply units made by companies like Apevia and Raidmax, and PSU's by Fly-Night-Companies still exist, but these Fly-By-Night PSU's aren't as abundant as they were 10-12 years ago.
Someone told me these Fly-By-Night companies would fold after 9 months, then come back under a different name. I looked that up myself and he was right.
They would sell units that were advertised for 700w for around $30usd... prices that were too good to be true. However, the +12v rail might only be capable of 400w, and these sometimes came with no PCI-E connectors.
I still use a very similar PC as a NAS and it's doing it's job great. Really cool to see this video about it.
Cant wait for the updates on this! My previous gaming pc has the same CPU, but an AM3 board, 8GB ram and a GTX 1050 so Im curious to see how you'll be getting the most out of it. I know I would like to get mine to overclock, but Id need another motherboard as I cant overclock on it...
Keep up the great content
Oh men i love those old tech, i got almost all my pcs from back in the day still here somewere laying arround upstairs in the attic :D
I love watching your vidz
As a 50yr old who's last pc run win98 that an xbox replaced
I have learnt so much from you and I'm looking to purchase a pc for older games and music production
Keep up the good vidz
Do it :-)
*_That's a Thermaltake Versa N21. It originally released in 2016._* Possibly came with that 600 watt PSU bundled. Without the PSU it was like 50 bucks- which made it a good deal except for the unserviceable choked off front fans (wth?). I have that exact case sitting next to me- a cheap open box prebuilt purchased in 2018 (ABS Vortex Harbinger- 6th gen i-5, RX 480). Front fans started grinding... top USB ports can get dirt in them easily. But beyond that it's a good cheap case. The fact that the acrylic side panel on yours looks relatively unscratched suggests a charmed life since 2016 or whenever somebody took a new cheap gaming case and stuck those old parts in it. They probably found somebody selling everything but the case and PSU and bought this Thermaltake combo, or even the original owner upgraded to intel and bought a cheap PC case to put this stuff in and sell off as a complete gaming PC while keeping their main case. A very unusual build indeed. Old stuff in a much newer "gaming" case. The Thermaltake UK site still has the manual for it to download if you need it.
My Phenom X4 9850BE PC was so fun to use back in the day. I made it in 2008 and it was a great gaming rig for 4 years. Eventually I used it as a backup PC and in total it ended up lasting about 11 years.
Now I expect an annual Cashies special from you as well. Please don’t disappoint me. 😂
Ye this channel was created just for u and he's only here to please u.
@@thealien_ali3382 humor must be a hard concept for you to grasp…
The slipper, sock and shirt bit just made your popularity in Germany go through the roof! 😂
I have two of those Arctic Freezer Extremes coolers sitting a box somewhere. Great video.
"it's called fashion, look it up"
Broooo
Favorite line of this channel
Classy pringles socks, need a pair of those
I had that case for years, Thermaltake Versa. The front and top design were neat, put some LED strips in them and made it look really rad. Eventually after moving it enough, the cable for one of the front panel connectors wore through and shorted, resulting in me thinking my PC was bricked. Turned out the Thermaltake employee screwing in the retaining screw for the cables caught one between the screw hole and screw flange and damaged it, but not enough to fail until it'd been fatigued by being carted around to LAN parties enough.
This led to me RMAing two motherboards after taking all the other components out and testing them in other computers and confirming them working except the mobo. Luckily I know a lot more about diagnosing hardware issues these days, but it was pain.
Absolute fashion god. Something about the voice-over this video seemed extra nice too.
I used to work at Cash Converters in Kings Heath back in the late 90's. Great when you do because I can tell how much they paid for the item using the codes on the labels. Computers was my department buying and selling. I also used to work at Laser Quest/Megazone at Acocks Green Bowl in the early 2000's. Didn't realise you were a local lad.
I remember my Phenom II 555 unlocked to 4 cores and overlooked. That thing was an awesome deal back in the day.
ooooweeeeee wasnt expecting that dad joke. hit me hard from left field
as someone who ran a Phenom II 940BE on DDR2, i can tell you from experience that it is the memory that is holding back the frames in GTA5, i upgraded (kinda an upgrade) to a FX 6100 on DDR3, and using the same videocard the framerate doubled from the 40s to mid 80s at 1080p (using a HD 7850)
Well I can tell you when I had my Phenom II 955 with DDR3 I could barely play youtube video in 1080p, 720p was fine but 1080p was shuttering all the time.. After I upgraded to i5 6600k I had no longer problem playing it on 1080p.
@@zaxyss7339 That sounds more like an issue with acceleration and not the CPU. My Core 2 does 1080p60 youtube just fine.
The Phenom 109T was an absolute beast of a CPU, punched well above its weight and just a shame it didn't quite scale with age too well but I would bet in a AM3+ board, DDR3 it would still tread water despite all this.
It'd be interesting to see you changing one part at a time to see what really makes the most difference
I'd love to see a video based on the HD 6970 comparing the performance between the last official driver and the community made driver! :)
Damn that does sound really interesting.
I had that beastie case back in the day!
I still use my 1090t as a backup gaming setup (with a AMD 380x & 14gb 1600mhz ram) when my partner is playing cyberpunk on the main glorious PC.
Honestly I got the best performance out of my 1090t by overclocking it to 4ghz and then overclocking the NB & HT link by a slight chunk. This was years after focusing on solely CPU overclocking. I found I got better FPS at 4ghz on CPU with a NB & HT link overclock than I did at a solely 4.5ghz CPU overclock (granted the 4.5ghz was full on & reckless, I don't care if the system explodes, overclocking).
Threw in a SSD and did a DLL fix to get elden ring running (albeit offline for safe measure) with medium settings and a happy 30+ fps :)
Still very capable machine - Only upgraded from that to my main system when the ryzen 3000 series was a steal :)
A High End PC From 2010 bought just for a Hundred Bucks of Dollar on Cash Converter. What a Nostalgia to have those PC ❤
Nice. That PC has the exact same CPU cooler I have, although now my cooler is in my partner's PC for her to use as I now have a AIO water cooler instead.
Man, I had 2 6950 in crossfire both flashed with a 6970 BIOS. I loved that computer.
Looking forward to an upgrade video
loved the Phenom 1090T, was a overclockers wet dream, cause you could gain performance by individually changing the multipliers on each core, via amd overdrive program. that and the 940BE you could do that with, blimey that was years ago.
Oh, one minute in, and as a... I'd say a sort of 'unusual/novelty' sock enthusiast/collector - yeah, that's definitely fashion.
Got some Big Mac colour striped (including stylized seeds on the top part) sneaker style ones on, from some giveaway with a Mc Menu last year, haha.
I still have the exact same PC case from an old i7 4770 build. I still like that case.
"Made like my dad and left" 🤣🤣 Fair play dude 👊👊👊 Love your sense of humour 💙
Comment made at 0.09, PHENOM II FOR THE WIN!!! Seriously though mine lasted me until last year and was a very good CPU for most of that time. It was paired with some awesome GPUs in its time too, a 550ti a 750ti and lastly a 1050ti. Now it is my Win XP/Win 7 PC :)
the board you want to use for the Phenom II X6 is a GA-880GMA-UD2H. it does DDR3, still has IDE/floppy but also has SATA III, USB3, and all the fixings there. it's the best-of-all-worlds board
In this way you can also do two side by side comparisons with an IDE spinnydisk and an SSD for performance numbers. You can also drop the chip into a 970 chipset motherboard and it'll be probably a bit better as well.
Phenom was a great processor set, I was using a phenom 2 965 up to a couple yrs ago and away from triple a games it did perfectly fine
I love the socks and slippers combo! I do the same
It must be destiny dude. This week I got a Phenom II X6 1045T that I paired with an AM3+ Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 motherboard. They can easily support 16Gb DDR3 and with the proper memory and FSB overclocking, I managed with my 1600MHz Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3 get the Phenom X6 to 3.3GHz.
Got an increase of 600 points in cinebench R23. I have to pluck the R9 380x for games and check the differences.
Best of luck with that 1090T :)
I'm so glad it didn't rain while you had the PC open on the garden lawn 😂😂😂
I always liked that Thermaltake case
Aka Crime Generator 😉
I remember buying a boxed SF2 Snes there for £8 back in 2003. Crazy! Our local store closed down a couple of years ago. Says a lot about the state of your home town when even shops like Cash Convertor can’t survive, yet there’s no shortage of vape shops and Turkish barbers…
As a fellow slippers, socks and shorts person. I love the fit broski.
I love the writing on the packing, "DO NOT MAN HANDLE". LOL
the packaging is just amazing xd
Excellent and entertaining video thank you! What is the model of the Samsung screen - it looks great.
Definitely, immediately thought about static when I saw the plastic-wrapped internals.
I upgraded from my Phenom II X4 940BE to Ryzen less than a month ago...worked so well for the 10 years I ran it.
i used to use that cooler. Even today it is still great
The Phenom II’s weren’t bad CPUs. I had a Phenom II X4 955 in my computer back then and it worked well. The i7 920 was the better buy, though, and holds up better from what I understand. I also had Windows 10 running on a Phenom II 955 and with a SSD it worked really nicely for me on normal usage cases and ran my older games fine. An SSD definitely would help that PC out a ton.
I've built a few phenom II builds back when I first started selling budget gaming pcs and if you can snag the parts for cheap prices on ebay they can still perform relatively well as long as you make sure they have as much ram as you can possibly give them and an ssd. Always thought it was kinda cool that you can use an am2+ motherboard for a build like that and it'll work. Sold a system to a co-worker with a phenom II x4 910 and a gt 740 4gb for cheap and his wife was able to use it as a work from home pc over the last year and a half with no problems. Turned out to be a surprisingly usable budget machine.
Upgraded my old i7 920, R7 360 system to an i7 990X w/ a 1070ti. Plays but has missing instructions for newer titles
I'm watching this on a 13 year old Intel i7 920. I paid $3000 for it originally, and it's been through three power supplies and two video cards, but it can still play games pretty well, and I still have the original 12 gigs of name brand RAM. I paid a lot of money for top quality when I bought it, and it's paid for itself many times over.
I got an EVGA SC Black 1080 Ti for $300! And it works so well too.
The market is coming back.
Dude! When you were opening the bag I thought Freddy Krugers hand would reach out and grab you! Phew!!!
cool vid as usual dude
Nice toasty sunburn. Someone's been enjoying our steaming hot British weather. That or you've been on holiday. 😋
Ha! I know the Acocks Green branch, I go there fairly often. They don’t often have much decent PC stuff, but if you need old tablets, laptops, second hand DJ gear or filthy work tools, they are the people to see in south east Birmingham.
I bought a GTX 1070 on eBay that, it turns out, came from a Cash Converters branch. They shipped it in a box full of shredded paper, which made my heart sink when I first opened the box but I needn’t have worried: it was wrapped in a pair of sandwich bags, which I suppose is almost as good as an anti static bag.
Fortunately, the card was fine!
Awesome!
Decent budget rig for gaming these days would love to see it upgraded to the motherboards max specs
I'm impressed with that CPU cooler. Seems easier to take out and clean...
I used to work for Cash Converters back in 2015 & I can tell you the only testing they do is PAT Testing for the PSU cable & making sure the device "runs". That's it. Wipes normally only consist of deleting files off of the HDD/SSD as they don't hold a legal license to re-install Windows.
The cleanliness of it doesn't surprise me neither. Don't even get me started on the Mark-Up price.
That PSU does look SUS. What I've learned from Bryan (Tech Yes City) is that if the amperage on 3,3V and/or 5V lines is greater than on the 12V line, you should be careful xD
hes also the one that says its okay to use pci-e connectors from sata ports is okay with old oem dell power supplies.Ive seen him make builds that could cause your house to go up in flames by using POS off brand power supplies and having adapters power the gpu.Hes got a cool channel but some of his builds in psu quality and adapters are like the worst thing to advise and say its okay to be doing.If a power supply doesnt have the connector, its not made for running gpu's that require a 6 or 8 pin or both
I'm pretty sure molex and sata 4 pin connectors are designed for a max of 54W.... Even the 6-pin pcie cable draws does 40% over spec @75W, while if you want to start a fire the 8-pin connectors goes 180% over the rated spec @150W...
It's a shame the PSU connectors were not redone entirely around the late Pentium 4 (Prescott) era as those PSUs were obsolete back then frankly.
@@kyles8524 quite like Tech Yes City myself although one of his builds with a morpheus 1080ti did make me wince with no reinforcement for the PCB of the GPU causing it to bend a bit.
A big 5V line would be nice for Athlon XP, 25A or better 30A on the rail.
I bought a 1090T motherboard Bundle recently.... It came with an ASUS Crosshair IV motherboard and 8GB RAM... When I opened it they'd included the original Overclockers receipt from November 2010 for £506.74 with a 4.0GHz overclock... Was some high end tech back then and I paid £74.20 delivered for it.
back in the day i had a system similar to this... 1090T + 6950 + 8GB DDR3 RAM, was my first full gaming PC. It was awesome, i was playing almost everything in ultra quality settings. I still have the OCZ power supply that i used in this pc
I didn't know you were such a fashionista! That outlook must be the latest trend in the UK, LOL 🤭
Oh hey, I had that same CPU cooler! And it's a wonder that Ace of Sweden PSU hasn't caught fire yet. They almost did it even while unplugged, lol
Wow, so many lucky winners this time
Random Gaming bread and butter love it!
Never thought Cash Converters are in UK, i was in one in Luxembourg a few days ago and bought a PC there with no listed specs for 130€ :')
In there was an i7-860, 16GB of RAM , an GTX280 OEM and 1,5TB HDD with a bluray player .
Great find
@@RandomGaminginHD Yes i was also suprised, the only thing i saw was the i7 sticker on the front panel and that it has a random gpu in there. :D
it's the pringles socks for me
Finally some love for Birmingham 🥶💯😤
The 1090T is a beast, it's just crippled by the platform. FYI, I'm still rocking a Phenom II 960T on one of my PCs under a Thermalright Macho rev.B. Started in 2012, still going strong. It's with 16GB of DDR3 1600MHz, 1TB Samsung 870 Evo on the Asrock 970 Extreme3, going at full SATA III speed. Started with a HD4890 1GB PCS+, went through a HD5870 2GB @ 1080p, then a Rx580 8GB and finished at a Rx6600XT on a 1440p monitor (it's a long story). Does everything I ask it to, and doesn't show its age most of the time. I play War Thunder on it at over 150 FPS, and am still happy with how it turned out. Main bottleneck is the RAM bandwidth IMHO.
Wow, your Phenom is causing less limitations than my i5
Pringles socks? Noice 🤙👏
hello, i watch your videos since years.
you are right, the socks and slippers are bad but the scissors are much worse ;-)
have a nice day.
Cash Converters is essentially a pawn broker, just a chain of them. CEX and Cash Converters do deal with second hand goods, but CEX isn't a pawn broker and are limited in what they will buy/sell.
I bet with a cheap SSD, some cleaning, and maybe even a big OC things will improve on that. Would like to see how far it can go. Show off that even older cheap systems can still do quite a bit.
ACE Of Sweden PSU's are infamous for bursting into flames when being reviewed.
I have a similar pc, a 1050t overclocked to 1090 level.
The slow updating is mainly a windows thing, mine runs Linux, and updating takes just minutes.
Damn son, RGIHD got that fashion drip 😳😳
Bought my sons pc from CC, cost £229.99 and wasn't listed as having a GPU but i spotted one hiding in there and took a chance.
Specs listed were Ryzen 1300, 8GB, 240SSD, 1TB HDD... Actual specs turned out to be: Ryzen 3 3100, 8GB DDR4(meh), the SSD, HDD were correct but there was a 1650 OC just chilling in there not even mentioned. At a time when people were still charging £200 for a 1650 OC made this a pretty sweet buy.
thats crazy! we used to have cash converters in Canada but i think they shut down at least they did in my city. lol
nice, I watch this Video on a Phenom II x6 1090t machine
still daily driving it
I have an old LG gaming PC that I got from a second hand shop for a tenner. It is silver and looks great, but it's that old, it still has a floppy drive in. I cannot find any information about the model on the internet?
Not sure if it works, but at the time of it's making, it will have been a beast of a PC, compared to normal PC's.
Use to have that same cooler.. later bought a zalman copper thing
When the” 5 hour windows update” part came I thought to myself “hmmm.. this PC is the perfect candidate for a light Linux distro” . Maybe you should make a video about that. It would give this old PC a chance to shine:)
That's why I keep the offline update package around. It does a lot to cut down the update time.
@@HappyBeezerStudios the problem is that windows will end up bolted anyway sooner or later
@@Blubbstock well yes but you no longer get security updates on windows 7. I’m a bit of a risk taker but I wouldn’t go that far.
@@Blubbstock It’s not that old that it should be a retro gaming machine. This is why I suggested the Linux path. It could be a awesome browsing machine. Usable in the modern world:)
I wish the used PC market down here in Argentina was a thing. Sadly, most of us use our hardware until it either can't handle the most basic web browsing, or can't be repaired anymore if it does not boots. Either that, or the usable used parts are WAY too expensive for the value they provide, and you're better off buying new components.
I would LOVE to update my lowly Athlon II to a beast like this :-D
well thats because argentineans keep voting idiots into government who tax imports and constantly rape your currency, absolutely amazing that cristina got into power again
the last time you had free markets the country was one of the richest in the world, those beautiful old buildings are a constant reminder of argentinas potential and the utter failure of government as well as the people who keep voting for the same people
it is a god damn tragedy
Those RAM modules could be the same type. Near the connector all the components are in the same place. The company GEIL doesn't produce memory, they just put cooler on the modules. The memory chips and PCB might be produced by Kingston too, like the other kit. The modules without a cooler are twice the size but have a slightly worse latency than the GEIL ones. The upgrade is totally fine in my opinion.
God I miss Cash Converters.. We had a few here in Illinois (USA) till about a decade ago.
Ahhh Cashies... A garage sale with Deticated business hours, good find
Nice video for peeps on a budget.
Oh my god, that exact GEIL combo costed and arm back in the day, my cousin had a gaming rig fitted with two of these, the thing had a GeForce 9800 GT, whooping 4gbs of this particular memory which btw can go up to 1020mhz if I remember correctly and of course the flawless C2Q 6600, and all of this glory was running on a stolen Sony trinitron monitor :D, but hey can't complain had the best GTA Vice city and Quake experience in the neighborhood...