Upgrading a Dell Dimension 4600 (my FIRST gaming PC!)
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- In this video I take a look back at my first gaming PC, a Dell Dimension 4600 that was given to me by my Aunt. This had a Pentium 4, 512mb of ram and an Nvidia Geforce FX 5200. We will go over it then throw some upgrades at it....because I can.
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To be completely honest, this is one of my favorite computer designs. It just looks so sleek and cute design wise.
Old dells are badass, I tore apart so many as a kid and I wish I had at least kept the cases for a build. The 4000 series have the mobo on the same side as a modern ATX so it would be *easier* to fit. Might old enough to be ATX? But I doubt it
Love this kind of content, keep it up!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for the model. This is an old computer of mine that stopped powering on so I just set it aside. Feels like a time capsule, I want to get it back up and running.
my father brought home one with no side and no front and its bent a bit in the front but otherwise it may boot.
Dell had a lot of different models with this case design
I don't think this PC case is boring at all. It's not flashy or anything, but it's a nice classic Dell design. I'm considering buying one of these and making some upgrades to it, and this video was really helpful.
@@blueslime1703 I already have a capable custom gaming PC. An old Dell prebuilt obviously isn't sufficient for modern tasks. I want one for playing retro PC games on period accurate hardware.
its even included as the computer model in cs:source as "beast pc"
nice! I got a 4600 for free a few years ago, and upraded it to a 3GHz P4, 2GB DDR, and a Radeon 9600 SE. I need to get mine out just to see what HDD I have in it., pretty sure its a 250GB but I can't remember lol. A lot of people don't like these "boring Dells" but its nice to see a few people like you, RetroRecall, and me keeping these alive
Thanks for this. I just found my 4600 and I can't wait to give it some upgrades.
Hey brother, a year late but thanks for the video! I have a 4600 with the 3.4GHz and 4GB but topped out at a Radeon 9550XL (256AGP). Thanks for opening my eyes to the x1650! I think it's time to upgrade! :)
my childhood family computer, great video!
what an excellent story! thank got for that shipping mishap!!! I also have fond memories of that computer. I am looking into putting my current PC into this case when I build a new one. 4790k and a 980ti
Cute nostalgia trip, I rock an FX 5200 too on my old PC lol
Love this upgrades old PC upgrades
thanks, it's always fun to bring an old PC back to life with some upgrades!
My parents bought one of these for the house in 2004 ish and I've recently been thinking of pulling all the parts out and putting something brand new in the case. I've heard I may need to mod the case but I'm cool with that. Good to see other people are still fiddling with them too.
I found this in my house, I am just wondering how to take the side of the case off. Which screws should I use
@@anime_fan_content134 Sorry about the late reply but for mine the side panel has a little plastic lever on the back and I just push on it and it unlocks the side panel.
I Like The Design
I have the same computer in stock, guess I'll upgrade like this and tell how does it goes. Wish me luck
Nevermind, I already fucked this up big time. Guess I'll just buy a new one YEEEET
@Jet 950 nothing bad (pin processor got blend). I actually reanimated it, but made it 4 gigs of ram instead of two. Now I´m gonna work on the gpu (the best I could get and afford).
@Jet 950 question: Cant it run a ssd with the OS there, or only works with IDE HDD?
There is no reason an SSD would not work as the board has a SATA connection (the one that I used for the 10k rpm raptor drive) You will definitely not get the full speed of the SSD but it will be faster than any other drive still that you could use in it.
@@JTechWorkshop thnax man
I have the similar model but mine has 256mb of ram and mine has the floppy and extra cd drive. Good computers.
cool.. I bought my stepson one of those with my bonus and I dropped a ati 9600 256m in it and we cut the plastic and metal and added a window with a green lighted fan.. Funny thing is I sold it last year after replacing the case with one that did not have a window cut in it.
I can't believe you played Half Life 2 that way WOW hahaha
I still have My 2005 Dell Dimension (cant remember what one clip with number missing) Games I played on high graphics, Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, and Tibirian sun" Carmageddon 2, Halflife plus explanations, GTA3, Max pain. Lots of the games were older from My 90s Compaq which I also still have. The most valuable thing was Reason 4 music software on the DELL.
currently have a dell dimension 3000 that im swaping the motherboard for a dell dimension 4600 motherboard. since both pc's are almost identical i shouldnt have to worry about compatibility. i plan on installing a geforce 9800, a geforce 5600, 4gb ram, and pentium 4 3.2ghz.
The best pc ever
Good sh*t Dude! What's the name of that adapter you used from the heat sink fan to the ATX power?
It's a fan to molex adapter, there are lot so options on Amazon like this one amzn.to/3iFLWeS
I used an am3+ socket heatsink and fan on my dell 8250. I upgraded mine to max. Got sata hd and amd 4670 his 1gb gpu. Still have the original hd to. 3.06ghz cpu hypertheading. Upgraded power supply to 400w to. Also w7
Did you run pc for a while first? I did that with my old compaq before removing cooler. The paste becomes less relucant to hold onto cpu!
I've been looking for a PC to work on to test out my skills on the internals of a PC. I found one of these on Facebook Marketplace and I'm currently trying to get my hands on it so I can learn a little bit on how to upgrade it. Wish me luck
You will be able to buy parts dirt cheap to upgrade it to get experience, then you will have an excellent Windows XP era gaming pc!
It always surprised me how much heat those P4's pumped out. My E510 came with a 230W power supply, and it felt like 90% of that was for the space heater feature.
prescott was pretty famous for its electral inefficiency
the Pentium 4 was like the 70s and 80s Chevy 454 Big Block of CPUs. both of them have a lot in common with being very powerful but are absolute power hogs
I gave mine 4gb and a 3.4 ghz with HT. Maybe check if you can enable hyper threading for this machine!
For me, the FX 5200 was good enough for years; since even that graphics card was better than any integrated graphics, especially the integrated graphics of the early 2000's! For one thing, the FX 5200, unlike integrated graphics, could do Hardware Transform & Lighting, which many games of those days required.
Thank you for the video. Coincidentally i found today my old Dell 4600 and opened it. Wondered how i could upgrade it, et voila there is your video.
My specs: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128 MB; hard drive 160 GB 7200 rpm; 2x256 ram; also floppy disk Cd ROM drive and dvd writer drive. Pentium 4 2.8 GB.
Not much different from yours. I am looking for agp card. Which one would you buy if money wasnt an issue? And is upgrading the Pentium really essential for the performance?
Loved your vid!
In my research the best AGP you can get is the ATI 3850 or the ATI 4670. these cards easily go for over $100 on ebay, make sure when looking at the listings to confirm they are AGP though, because most of them are PCI-e and people will just put AGP so check the pics! These are most likely overkill for this system though, I think the x1650 I got is plenty powerful for anything I would realistically throw at this and for $30 bucks it didn't hurt too much to buy. About the processor, considering you can get a higher clocked P4 for under 20 bucks, it doesn't hurt to squeeze out any extra performance you can!
@@JTechWorkshop thanks a lot mate, i will look what i can get. I am enjoying your channel btw, some really good stuff!
Where can I find the power chords for this model?
@@JTechWorkshop cant u use an normal gpu?
I thought,the bios shows the temp.I used to check it on my win98se with an MSI board.
This was my first PC at 8 years old! I played hundreds of hours of Club Penguin 😂 still have it in storage and it works!
The hitching maybe that the AGP is not at full speed x4 or x8 or that sideband (i think it was called is not enabled).
I think you upgraded a Northwood P4 with 512mb cache and a 533bus to a Prescott P4 with 1024mb cache and a 800Mhz bus. (lucky upgrade)
I wonder if a BIOS update was ever made available did you check?
When I saw the DDR2 on the Graphics Card I was like oof! But it ran very well. (I thought we were ddr3 768 bit era.)
I pulled our old Dell out of the garage a month ago. Dell4550 , we had it when we met, I want to build it for a gamer for me and the grandkids .. Old Atari games like I had and a couple race games I had. Power supply tosted, bought a new 450w, key board died, bought a new set, hard drive , ordered a Raptor 10k 16cashe. And for the hell of it motherboard. New windows 7 because I didn't know what system it had... Parts coming in soon..
Ram (2gig) and Vidio card next,. But which card?
Stock processer but it's not money at this point.. But do I copy you on that?
I was wondering do you discuss builds and help someone who hasn't done this in a very long time?
I really enjoyed part of your Vidio and had to stop and thank you for it..
Bob H. Retired old dude
MY first pc was an A-Open 166 mhz, 2nd was an AMD k6 380 mhz with a Black magic Voodoo 2 12mb, 3rd pc my parents bought me what was my holy grail at the time Alienware Area-51(when it was a REAL Alienware) AMD Athlon 1000mhz (First gigahertz cpu) with a Geforce 2 ultra 64mb ($ 7,000)...
These weren’t really designed or marketed as gaming computers but could definitely be used as such.
The next time you will need to remove the CPU and the cooler, add some heat with a heat gun or run a stress test on your processor to apply some temperature. It will come off more easily. This applies to any PGA processor like the AM4 Ryzens.
*Jeez i regret my parents getting rid of these era pcs we had 2 and i had one of them i don’t remember the model but it was an older P4 Dimension running XP i used it for DVDs or games and once i got older and didn’t need it anymore younger me tore it apart and had virtually no experience rebuilding computers and i hate myself for doing that. As for the other newer one it just sat for awhile unplugged in the living room and was taken away from my house/sold sadly*
i have a dell pc like yours with a 2.80 cpu socket and im using a fx5500 pci graphics card and once in a whole the screen flashes in a weird not all the time any ides or is it safe to uses
Cardboard is your fan duct friend.
Why didnt you use an ssd? Much faster and quieter than any hdd. Also u should check online for bios updates
I have a dimension 2400 wihh 512mb of ram. Its covered in dust on the inside. I do not know what CPU it has but the sticker is an Intel celeron. It hasn't booted in around 11 years. Wish me luck
I have that same kind of Dell PC tower
So what if I just got that graphics card? How well would it work with just that one upgrade?
Could have shown taking the cover off the case!
This was my first PC I gamed on as well before I started building my own. I'm now 33 haha.
how can you tell the graphic game cards
I just got 1 of these PCs at a garage sale and I put a 1tb hard drive 4gbs of ram and a gpu with 500mb instead of having the 128mb gpu my case is a bit different tho
I have upgraded mine to a 3.4 Pentium and have a rare gigabyte 1 gig agp card with HDMI out and has 4 gigs ram and a 128 gig Kingston ssd
wow ! great! can you make a video for us on how it performs now? web browsing speed, youtube videos test (720p and 1080p), video editing. About 1gig AGP card, they're pretty expensive brand new, and cost as much as brand new Intel Core-i socket or socket AM3+. I thought about buying a refurbished 1gig agp , but I feared it won't last long
my first g̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ computer when I was 10!
I was given a dell dominion 2400, looks identical. Is it worth doing the same thing?
you can run win 98 really well on a 2400 , good entry point for retro gaming.
I have a computer just like this one. I WANT to know if it is possible for me to put a memory greater than 1GB on this PC, like 4 GB. The computer technician said that because it was an old model it would not be possible Installing 4GB memory on my Dell Dimension 1100 computer. Is this true?
Yooooo
Trash Taste BGM
let's goooo!
Intel Pentium 4 Processor 640 3.20GHz 800 MHz 2MB
Hello do you know if this works with the 4600
I have same computer its my retro gaming tower
I would have replaced the stock heat sink with a cheap arctic Alpine or freezer 7x
That hdd is screaming for a replacement ssd 😅
Can you run steam on the upgraded version?
If you put Windows 7 on it you could run Steam.
Just found this in a cupboard inside my new home and its side panel wouldnt come out nor do i know how to😅
Oops just found out I have ne SATA port on my Mother board.. Back to Google. I sure hope the Raptor will work without it...
how did you get those games on windows xp?
Probably owns the original CD's that didn't require steam or anything for the games to work. Just install the games from the CD's and play. I miss those days.
How did you install/download windows xp?
I just searched for a Windows XP ISO online, its pretty easy to find these days.
I want to make a gaming PC with a Dell Optiplex GX260
"and I'm not about to spend 100 on a graphics card" lol
I still have the same Nvidia 5200FX graphics card 🤣😂. I had to replace a bulging capacitor and now its working fine.
you gotta upgrade that, anything is better!
@@JTechWorkshop Hahahah yeah. But i use it on my old PC that i need for an old Canoscan n340p scanner.
@@Dragonfire511 just buy a new scanner or al in 1 printer
@@DragonProtector yeah. But i use that card on my old legacy XP PC .
@@Dragonfire511 ooof im lucky my fx9590 supports xp and has pcie bus and m.2
HOW DID U GET XP ON THAT
Do you think it would be able to take in 8gb of ram?
No
Bruuhh the bgm caught me off guard but i have the same computer as me
Also judging by thw game you been playing mordern game will have some problematic right?
Yes, even with the upgraded version you could probably only play games up to around 2008 and it would be pretty slow.
@@JTechWorkshop cool cool thanks man
Trying to resurrect my 4600 right now but I have the no start issue
Have tested the psu so far
i think my power button is no good
try to power on putting a screwdriver directly on the power switch's pins located on the motherboard, your power button is attached to these pins, you'll have to disconect the wires ends( labeled PSW) to uncover the pins
Are there any other graphics cards you would recommend for this system?
If you were going to build this up for retro gaming, just go with the best AGP card you can get ahold of. The one I used in the video is more than enough for anything this can realistically run.
@@JTechWorkshop ok, thanks! Do you know if you could have a SATA to 6 Pin connector if u wanted to use a non agp gpu?
This board doesnt have PCI-E, so your only other option would be a PCI based video card which are most likely not going to be as good as an AGP. though I am working on a video as we speak about PCI video cards.
@@JTechWorkshop ok, thanks for the help!
@@JTechWorkshop do you know if a Radeon x1950 will work in here
where did u get your card from i like to get one like it
Just need to keep searching on Ebay for AGP video cards, most of them can be had really cheap, its only the ones near the end of AGP where it gets pricey.
@@JTechWorkshop im using a fx5500 pci slot card with a 320 ide hard drive i had from my dell 2300 with a 2.80 cpu socket and a vga to hdmi converter and the graphics are lot faster soome of them make the ide computer uses too much power
@@JTechWorkshop im happy with the 320 ide drive and the fx 5500 video card with it just gotta get the 320 cpu socket
Was the graphics card bad or good?
Hi I'm not quite sure what you are asking, if you mean the replacement card I put in, it was WAY better than what it had before, and perfectly good for playing games of that era.
@@JTechWorkshop was the graphics card that came with the pc good or bad for gaming? I have the pc I'm wanting to update like u did
I am probably the only one in the world with 30 dell dimensions lmao
Dam the video quality is way to high for the viewer count, well done
4 realllllll
can these be stored on their side?
I don't see that being an issue with this PC.
@@JTechWorkshop wow thanks! No info anywhere and ever since that one xbox console debacle I look to see if a product is ever officially displayed by its company horizontally
wtf, this only has 20 views?
Thanks for watching!
How to open
There is a latch on the back of the case, pull it down and the side comes off!
Feel the pain of buying a AGP card in 2020. Total rip off. I don't encourage them, I refuse to buy them if they are over priced. No telling how long they will last after you get one "used".
drivers!
mašina
Hey, what monitor you using?
hell yeah a X1650 pro that's what i gamed on in a dell Dimension 8300 beck in high school
you could upgrade the cpu cooler with the heat pipe cooler from the Dimension 8300 since dell for a long time use the same mounting system.
Part Number: 9Y212
Thanks for the info, the stock cooler is definitely not up to the task!
Im about to buy one of these, i got a GX270 right now but the half height case means my graphics card is very limited.