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How good can an Aldi Windows XP PC be? Cleaning and testing Aldi's Pentium 4 PC from 2003
Join me as I clean and test games on this remarkable Medion MT6, exclusively sold at ALDI. ALDI, famous for its ever-changing middle aisle stocked with the most unexpected items, occasionally surprises with hidden gems like this PC, originally available in late 2003.
...just to be clear, this video is not sponsored; I simply have a fondness for this computer and found its grocery store backstory amusing.
--- Apologies for the weird sound glitches with my voice, I'm slowly transforming into a Pentium 4 computer.
...just to be clear, this video is not sponsored; I simply have a fondness for this computer and found its grocery store backstory amusing.
--- Apologies for the weird sound glitches with my voice, I'm slowly transforming into a Pentium 4 computer.
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I bought a mystery PC from Japan...
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Watch me unpack this Cyrix-based PC and see how it handles some 90's games! Notes for pedants: - Some shots show the unit with an SD card adapter and different DVD drive. These were removed because of issues but I didn't have time to reshoot everything. - I know what a FPU calculation is. - There was a 2GB hard drive installed, not 3GB hard drive. - There are moments where the audio capture is ...
My 1999 Windows 98 Gaming Rig - Dell XPS - Pentium III - 3dfx Voodoo3
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Join me as I dive into this late '90s PC fix-up! In this video, I unveil my trusty Dell Dimension XPS T700r, the star of my retro LAN parties and late '90s gaming adventures. I'll upgrade/downgrade some things, and you're going to enjoy it I'm sure! After some PC dissection and upgrades, I dive into some Half-Life, Need for Speed III, and Age of Empires, showcasing the power of this '90s gaming...
Can I turn this mundane Dell Desktop from 2010 into a Windows XP powerhouse?
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Dive into a captivating journey where my office spring clean takes an unexpected turn! Join me as I embark on an adventure of creativity and innovation, turning a dull 2010 Dell PC into a Windows XP gaming powerhouse. Watch as procrastination gives birth to a realm of excitement and possibilities, where every component upgrade (non descript AMD graphics cards) becomes a brushstroke of imaginati...
The best Windows XP gaming PC is...
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A man dressed in your fathers 1980's wardrobe answers the burning question - What is the best Windows XP gaming PC (for your money)? 0:00 - Intro 1:22 - Run through specs 2:50 - Boot Camp process 4:29 - RTFM error 7:36 - Trying out a few games Music courtesy of TH-cam Audio Library
Junkyard Jumble - building a Core 2 Duo 2008 era retro LAN Party machine out of scrap parts!
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Unplanned and unscripted - what could possibly go wrong? I'm forcing myself to learn Davinci Resolve so there may be some audio/video quirks. It's a feature not a bug.
Building a Tiny Aluminium Windows 98 Gaming PC: Biostar iDEQ 210V Mini Barebones PC from 2003
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A friend got his hands on this awesome barebones PC case/motherboard combo - already populated with a CPU and some memory and I offered to turn it into a tiny Windows 98 powerhouse! 0:00 - Overview 1:32 - What's in the box? 2:58 - It's so tiny (that's what she said) 4:51 - Disassembly 5:43 - First power on 6:21 - Installing Windows 98, Drivers etc. 8:15 - Testing Half-Life with VIA graphics 9:2...
Dell Latitude C600 from Y2K: Boring Business or Gaming Powerhouse?
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We'll be going through the history, specs, OS re-install as well as some games on this Dell laptop from the year 2000. Running Windows 2000 Pro, this Dell Latitude was certainly designed for the average business user - however the ATI Graphics can handle more than you might think! 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - Overview and specs 3:57 - CDs, Manuals and more! 6:18 - Restoring Windows and drivers 7:44 - It...
I replaced the Hard Drive with an SSD, of course. 256 MB of RAM, Pentium III (as I avoid Pentium 4 and Pentium D and any NetBurst CPUs like the plague), ATI 8MB, DVD drive, and the coup de grace, dual booting Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
I'm running Win98 on it now after replacing the hard drive - Much better performance and DOS compatibility with the sound card is actually pretty decent! If I end up upgrading to an mSATA -> IDE SSD I think I'll dual boot like you have
Word of advice: Use a modern PC to format both partitions to FAT32, as that will properly align them to reduce wear. And the reason why both 98 and 2000 are FAT32 is because when I tried to install the 2000 partition as NTFS, 98 wouldn't boot.
I had the MD8386 model, the motherboard was now a LGA775 with a 3.2GHz P4 640 (not capable of Core 2 or even Pentium D) and 1GB of RAM - and 320GB of HDD (actually 2x 160) - and the Radeon X740XL in PCIE
They made really good pc's
Hi. Good video. I had the same idea: Windows 98 retro PC by adding a soundblaster audio card and disabling the onboard audio chip and LAN, serial and parallel port. Replace the CMOS battery. But with a 160gb HD I prefer a dual boot. Installing Win98 on the drive partitionned with fdisk at x% and then last installing XP. If a game does not work in XP, Win98 could be used. My XP version create a dual boot automatically when 98 is installed first. You could try and see if it does the same with yours. Do not surf the internet with XP.
stumbled across your channel i like you content and your presentation. keep up the good work. You gained a subscriber ,
thank you very much!
I grew up right next to the german border in Switzerland and it was always very exciting to know that from next monday there will be a new Medion for cheap behind the border. I had no car as a kid and had towalk with a trolley lol
My grandma purchased a aldi PC a few years ago has been using it since. it recently died power supply exploded while she was away lucky her house didn't burn down lol
Excellent video! I am absolutely jealous of this PC with it's options and high quality components! During that time (~2001-2002), my dad spoke with a Dell representative on the phone to "configure a PC for our needs" and it performed much worse than our Gateway from 1998! I found out later it had a Celeron and no AGP slot. Rough times...
Thank you! I would've killed for a system like this in the early 2000's. My PC was an AMD K6 Aptiva until about 2006...Ooof those Dells would've been so much better if they didn't save the $2 per unit by removing the AGP slot.. Shame
(Einstellungen = settings) am a german my self :)
Excellent video. Very nostalgic build.
My dad was in love with getting computers and digital cameras from Aldi haha
I envy your moustache.
thanks, i grew it myself!
they said the young leftists would push pentium 3 processors more effectively but they screwed up more than previous leftists
what does this comment even mean
Think back in the day they did commodore 64 Machines too so its a long standing thing with computers. I hear those C64s are colectable as not that many were made for aldi.
Bloatware was half the fun of a new PC. These days bloatware is almost spyware.
i had a i7 laptop form medion it was a big beast stil in operation for just simple tasks with SSD still great
I have a soft spot for all the German aldi/lidl Medion devices - not because I ever had one but because the 2nd hand market was flooded with medion branded parts no one wanted as some small companies woudl buy up all the unsold stocks and scrap them for parts so medion parts were always your go to cheapo choice for building a budget PC. Well I might say I was sorta a genious of building my friends a pc that could barely run latest games for peanuts xD No one could ever beat my builds in price to performance but then I cut every single corner possible - can't affors a PSU good enough for the build? - No worries look at that 20€ server power supply! - Dude it's high quality server part, don't worry none of the connectors fit ATX, bring me that old PSU of yours and some beer I'll solder it up together... HAHAHAHAHA My last poverty build was cyberpunk capable PC in the middle of covid shortages for 250€ total
Hell yeah - I love a slapped together build that does everything you need it to do for a quarter of the cost!
1:29 I would've killed for a TV tuner and S-Video capture in 2003. This was a feature old power macintosh users loved to brag about. So many windows users were capturing RCA over USB solutions like Dazzle and the archival quality really suffered.
A few family members of mine in Croatia had those K-World capture cards which could capture full resolution and I was so jealous, it wasn’t until 2007 or so I got my first USB EzCap capture card and it sucked so bad.
Had one of these for a while. I can’t remember why returned it. Had an issue and spoke to their support over the phone that explained how to reinstall Windows!😊
An Australian man making videos about old pc’s. Ah the joys of life.
You've got it all wrong at 1:37. That's there either for BACKUPS of movies ;) or to play Beyond Good and Evil at the same time as Unreal 2000
Yes of course, and burning Linux .iso's :)
In the UK medion PCs represent pretty good value.
Hi Dad!
I don't have a son
@@arizonapalms It's just a prank bro! lol... I just discovered your channel yesterday. Very informative and entertaining videos!
Keep it with Windows XP that's what it came with.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Maybe I'll dual-boot to have the options.
Hey mate nice little channel you got here!! Hit me up if you ever need any retro parts I sell heaps here in aus.
My mates parents had one of these. Maybe slightly later it had an external hdd dock on the top. It was stull being used when i went round a few years back and running pretty well.
I know the one you're talking about - I actually had one at one point (I think it was a Core 2 Duo) and it had the dock on top (never had the drive) I ended up using that motherboard for my main Windows XP rig for a while until the sound chip burnt out, which was partially my fault.
@@arizonapalms yeh it could well of been core 2 duo. Probably just about enough spec to allow it to keep upgrading windows.
My first PC was this exact PC when i was a teenager with the same graphics card etc. I think it was November 19th 2003 when it came out and my mom went to Aldi at 7am because these computers were in demand for the price. 1179€ if I'm not mistaken Was gaming on these until I build my first PC in 2007 and was really good too (Half life 2, Far cry, Doom 3) Really fond memories. Thanks for the video
Sounds like you made some good memories with those games in mind! Glad you enjoyed the video
well filmed video to
my friend had a pc like this it had a q6600 cpu and a 8600GT but was all priority parts he gave it to me but I resold it.
PATTY?! IS THAT YOU?! What are the chances lol, clicked on this binging retro pc yt because my mum had one of these hateful little machines, (hatefull in 2014 with a shitty maxtorr hdd begging to die) small world and absolutely lovely video sir
No way! The algorithm works in mysterious ways. Crazy how many people actually had one of these little beasts, shame that one had a Maxtor drive (the Seagate in this one is holding up pretty well)
Also grew up with a C600 with practically identical specs except with a 10gb HDD, runs windows xp home and has a broken right hinge and the left hinge isn’t fairing the best either, with the display only working at certain angles. Last time I fired it up it was having difficulties firing up, I’ll eventually get around to restoring it, but in the meantime a C840 has taken its place running win 98 (that was kinda a PITA to set up due to the C840 not being designed for win98 (sleep doesn’t work properly and pressing the power button immediately hard shuts down the machine for example), but I’m not really that happy with it since it’s a bit too different visually to my C600, so I’ll probably get a C640 instead. (And swap over the 2.4ghz p4 in the C840 to the C640)
I think you might be able to force ACPI if you reinstall Win98 (might be worth a few google searches) I had a dell C810 with win98 at one point which I had to do this to, this was a few years back but worth a shot!
I wouldn’t mind one of these medion machines, they seem pretty cool.
You should check the laptops as well. I have the leftovers of a Gericom Hummer, they were sold in Aldi, this thing is a tank ! Pentium 4-M 3.06Ghz, Radeon 9700M, extremely solid frame.
I don't think I've come across an Aldi laptop on eBay here, but would always be keen if I find one. I always love a discrete GPU on a laptop!
Man this brings back memories. Back in the early 2000s I used to work at a place building PCs - a lot of the time I'd build brand new custom order PCs from parts, but my boss somehow managed to buy pallets of old Medion returns that we'd have to try to fix. I've dealt with hundreds, if not thousands of them spanning Pentium 3 era to systems that look just like these ones, although the ones I dealt with had a GeForce 4 Ti4200 in them instead of the Radeon. I'd have to figure out what was wrong with them and replace/swap parts around to try to get as many working systems as I could. At the time I remember getting quite frustrated with them but looking back they were all made of decent components. Been a long time since I've seen one of these systems intact and running : )
Yay, I'm your 600th subscriber o/ Really interesting channel c:
Windows 98 works perfectly with 1Gb or even 2Gb RAM, provided you've done the R. Lowe patch. You can dismiss it as much as you like, doesn't make it not work. I have several Win98 and even Win ME machines running perfectly for years with zero issues.
For his build, 1 gb of ram is a waste. Since there isn't much software around that time frame that'll make use of that so 512mb is appropriate. If you start using software from around 2004 or later that is... you'll need at least a gigabyte ram and most likely you are using Windows XP.
they still sell medion hardware germany a few times a year even tvs tablets etc. I also had that pc
Windows x-pp-c
I remember Windows laptops sold at my Aldi location in the mid to late 2000s. It was a Medion brand but advertised with internal components from Samsung Ram to Hitachi HDD. Truly wacky times lol!
You'll find most computers mix and match! My thinkpad came with a Samsung SSD and my alienware came with a WD SSD (which I upgraded to a nice Crucial one cause the stock WD one sucked)
How big is the hdd and how many games have on it.?
The game drive is about 300GB total, at least 100 games
@@arizonapalms is that patched version of 98 allowed a bigger drive or it's using a adapter?
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez I have divided the partitions so that Win98 can access them
@@arizonapalms oh cool. Fat32 can get bigger drives but in more of 32 gb start to act slow.
Nice build. It's a very well explained and detailed video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
great stuff!
Top production value for a (for now) small channel. Keep on!
Really appreciate it, thank you!
Man i love the XP era of computing and technology. So much optimism and random fun.
I just want to go back!
0:20 they still sell brand-new Medion PCs to this day in our Aldi (Hofer) in Austria
Regarding the dual optical drives, the conventional wisdom at the time was that because writers were significantly more expensive than basic readers, it was better to have both and place all the day-to-day wear and tear on the cheaper drive and just use the writer when needed. Making piracy easier was just a side benefit.
My father always had dual drives for this reason I think, but I only ever had a CD-R burner for years and years 'til my first Mac
einstellungen means settings. Just letting you know, AP.
I ended up translating it later on - Fun seeing some of Medion's German roots leftover in the system!
I actually used XP x64 back in the day as I had some photo-editing software that could really leverage the extra ram. That said, once Vista x64 came out I jumped immediately; there’s really no use case for that version of XP anymore.
Sounds about right, I wonder if there are any games that can support x64 XP. I tried it once or twice in the late 2000's on my Intel iMac and haven't touched it since. If a system has the extra RAM, I'd rather run Vista or 7.
“Combination modem and TV Tuner” What a bizarre combination.
I don't think we will see such a concoction ever again.
I got one of those whith a p4 3.4ghz and the nvidia 6610xl it actualy runs rather good. The only problem is that de 3.4ghz p4 gets realy...realy hot but with a cpu cooler upgrade and a self made front fan that got that problem solved.