I bought a Dell Dimension 2100: This one's in pristine condition!
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- So, I recently wanted to get my hands on an ancient PC. This fits the bill, while being new enough for me to have a good experience with late 90's and early 2000's software. And it's in OPTIMAL condition for its age, too. To summarize, these went for around US$700 when brand new (about US$1,200 in today's money, adjusted for inflation) and were released some time in 2001. This would've gotten you a Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64, a Socket 370 Intel processor, 256 megabytes of RAM and a hard drive from one of many manufacturers, for example, an IBM DeathStar!
Though I paid an uncomfortable amount of money (which I will not provide the exact price I got this for), it's an amazing Windows 98 computer, and though it has integrated graphics, that's okay, since I know where I can pull a 98-compatible graphics card from that will make things better! (I'm looking at you, HP Pavilion a735w that probably shouldn't have 98 installed in the first place...)
Overall, I'm quite happy with what I got. I hope you enjoy this video!
Credits:
- Video edited in DaVinci Resolve 18.1
- Audio Recorded using Audcity 2.3.0
- Thumbnail edited in Paint.NET 5.0.13
- Pricing sourced from some ancient CNN article from 2001 sporting a style sheet from 2003.
- Facts checked using CPU-Z and Wikipedia.
- Music from CZcams Audio Library
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If you're wondering what the blue coiled cable is while I had been looking inside, it's an anti-static wristband!
I'll start wearing it in more videos when I look around or work on computers, since it's general practice to either wear an anti-static wristband or have an anti-static mat.
now THESE are the tech videos im looking for
Hello, got this in recommended)
I like your video, both structurally and emotionally. You have a good flow (diction and voice).
You told a story, and that's not a thing everyone can easily do. It was short, that's good. You did not add a million facts that we, as viewers don't care about - that's also right.
Have advice or two for you) Nothing too hard or time consuming, no skill required, but it will skyrocket the quality:
1. Don't spend the focus of your viewer. When you tell about 2001 - tell it in one go, don't put same information several time in video. Also, here we don't really need to know about why you tested PC in the morning and not right away.
2. Cutaways here, even though were kinda funny, were unnecessary. Same info you could fit in your story, without 'three hours later' inserts. As you have video that does include primarily something not attached to your voice (i.e. voice over PC's video), feel free to structure information after you already shot it and made first edit.
3. Cut out all the filler-words, -sounds, -pauses, but watch so tour narration tempo stays consistent. Play with the pauses a bit, (make them consistently larger and shorter in editor, listen by yourself, and if you have someone who can check it - consult them), you'll gain intuition on pacing quickly.
Down the line you'll learn to speak without these fillers, and with consistent tempo. You are almost there actually.
4. Clean background noises. Some of it can be filtered by traditional methods (filters etc), but I don't know if Audacity can help here. There's AI voice filters, like AUDO Studio (not audio, 'audo'), or Adobe Podcasts. They work OK, just have in mind that it's better to leave some amount of noise than to get tinkling/reverbed/clipped voice.
5. Music. Make it so it won't stand out against your speech. Like it should be on background, 10-20% as loud as voice, or less. I guess you were trying to fix the rain noise from mic, so next time start wtih noice reduction and you'll be able to make music quieter.
Thank you for a video anyways, hope my input will help you
Okay, thanks for the feedback!
You said it has a Celeron processor. Why don't you upgrade it to Pentium III for a few bucks? It would be a good time to apply a new thermal paste at the time as well.
That's something I'll consider. I plan on using this PC quite a bit and I might want to upgrade the CPU, given I already am planning on putting a GPU in this PC.
@@steelsofliquid I remember my Pentium III PC was a Compaq Presario (my Pentium MMX as well). They looked pretty cool for the time. Used multiple Dell Dimension PCs for many years after that:).
Great channel but i bet that this pc overheats like crazy because the cpu fan is being choked by the psu
Thanks! I'm unsure if the cooling is being choked, but looking at how the computer is organized makes it seem that the cooling is very tight.
@@steelsofliquid yeah modern alienwares have that design and they overheat like crazyyyy
Do the music during like the tear down like 20% quieter
I'll see what I can do for future videos.
video would be better with out the music
Okay, thanks for the feedback!
Great👍
Thanks!
face reveal when?
I don't have a face reveal planned for any time soon, but maybe one day I'll do one.
@@steelsofliquid awwwwwwwww