My final video of 2024. Crazy to think that I’ve uploaded over 1000 videos to the platform since 2016, and it’s finally working 🥲 thank u guys for the best year of my life 🧡🧡🧡
Like when he said about only ever seeing a floppy once. Or not entirely aware of how even though tomb raider underworld had lower spec requirements, it's that the game required shader model 3.0. which only the GeForce 6 series and Radeon X1300 / 1950 XTX had at the time. I feel old enough as it is. 😢
Thats a crazy comparison. Although most Windows 7 machines are still school/office computers that's still impressive that such an old OS is going so strong (I even stuck with 7 until 2020ish)
That PC isn't quite 24 years old. The Asus P4S800MX motherboard was released in 2003 and the first 3.0GHz (800MHz FSB) Pentium 4 HT was also released in 2003
What exactly is the "optimizing" part here? Plugging in the cables properly? Or asking dad for help? The concept for the video seemed really interesting but the delivery was rather poor.
i read the script backwards by accident. i had a whole section of the video talking abt AGP graphics cards and i am aware that there is only 1 AGP slot.
Hiya, I am a windows 7 user (as a hobby mostly). While without modifications or proper measures taken the OS can be a security risk, there are a variety of methods to keep a computer running windows 7 safe either supported by microsoft or by using community made projects. This includes patching windows update to continue providing microsoft security updates until 2026. Much of the fear mongering surrounding windows 7 being a vulnerability is caused by people who disregard all safety and security measures, like a firewall, router, or antivirus and then make the claim that even running it will get you hacked. That just isn't true. (Although I still wouldn't recommend it without the aforementioned security measures. If you're worried about having this computer online I would recommend looking into those! Especially patching the OS to receive updates from server 2008 r2.) Also, "your computer protecting you" when accessing the internet is caused by your system time being wrong, not any vulnerability. The computer's clock battery probably lost charge many years ago and so it was unable to keep track of the time.
Was expecting to see this comment, thank you. I too have a Windows 7 rig myself on a second gen core i5, 4GB of RAM, and no GPU. The community projects you mentioned are fantastic indeed, I had at least one security update every day. The only thing missing for this OS at the moment are kernel extensions like the 9x systems and XP have. My daily driver is now a Linux laptop, but by no means should someone be afraid of Windows 7 when taking said precautions. Also lol at that part of the video you referenced, many misconceptions or just lack of knowledge as a whole, but we all learn and evolve :) I used to be scared of changing the colour of the eraser in Paint because a "teacher" once told us it was impossible to revert back, oh good times.
@@xGMV Nice to hear from someone else using 7! If you’re curious there actually is an extended kernel for windows 7 called “vxkex” and it can be used to run a variety of newer programs without modifying the system itself. You should look into it! It makes the OS much more usable today.
That's a good point. By the way, in order not to bother with manual installation of updates from the “Server 2008 R2” edition, it will be enough UpdatePack7R2 which will automatically install all updates from 2011 to 2025. And also, if someone didn't know, Windows 7 has a modern browser with all security patches called Supermium
Windows 7 (or even older) are fine to use even online as long as you don't connect to the internet without a router (which absolutely nobody does these days). The error at 9:46 was not Chrome trying to stop Windows from "connecting to even the safest websites" but a certificate date invalid error, meaning the date on your OS or BIOS is wrong (you can cause the same outcome on a modern PC if you change your date to multiple years ago.
You mistitled this video. It seems you don’t understand the word ‘anything’ in this context-you mean to say ‘something.’ The title sets the expectation that the PC will be optimized into a powerhouse capable of playing a wide range of games, which isn’t what happens. The word ‘anything’ suggests unlimited possibilities, (this PC can play anything) while ‘something’ means just one or a few things. They’re not the same, and using ‘something’ in the title would better reflect the actual outcome of getting the PC to play a single game. It’s a small change, but it makes a big difference in aligning the title with the content.
Was expecting a video about optimization. This is not what I expected. Kind of thought he would get into the code of the OS and modify it. One old trick that people used for optimization is to run the program on windows with the shell disabled in the background. There was a simple keyboard shortcut that you could make to turn it on and off. This would make it easier for your machine to focus on running just the game itself and stop anything that wanted to push pop ups. Another trick was getting screen scaling working. Keep the OS running small and apps when launching would scale to the size you want it at. This would allow for programs to launch faster. Also older games usually have a configuration file because of the situation in the video. It’s quicker and less laggy to edit text instead of the game menu. It’s also very possible to run a modern game on that hardware. People are constantly making demos for older consoles running newish graphics. It requires someone with a lot of patience and dedication to optimization programming. They do it to show what is actually possible if you make the game right in the first place. Poor optimization leads to games that could have been run a couple generations of machines ago.
You made me, a 26 years old man, feel old, so thanks for that. That GPU was definitely dying, a lot of the AGP GPUs were made in the transition between leaded solder and lead-free solder, as well as during the capacitor plague, so finding one 100% working nowadays is kind of a challenge. Most of the ones I have are showing the same instabilities and graphical glitches, you can usually repair most of them if you know how to solder and if you do it before the leaking capacitors completely corrode the card. The DVI port definitely isn't the cause, it can mess the colours (and that's considering it's DVI-A, which I'm not sure), but it can't corrupt part of the screen like it did in your footage. As for USB keyboard, I think it could be multiple things. Of course, USB keyboards were barely a thing in the early 00s, so to work in the BIOS, most motherboard were emulating a PS/2 keyboard, which doesn't work really well on some modern keyboards since the USB protocol they're using can be kinda messed-up. The USB 3.0 could also be an issue, a standard USB 3.0 port should be able to provide at least 5V at 900 mA (and really, 1 A usually), while a USB 2.0 port only provides 5V at 500 mA, so half the power output, could be a problem with modern keyboards using microcontrollers and tens of LEDs. I think it's just messing with the power output of the motherboard and confusing it, both the floppy drive and the USB controller are probably controlled by the southbridge and it doesn't know what to do with a USB device asking for so much power.
May not be alot mate but I hope it helps in some way. Also I would just like to say that you are doing an amazing job with your videos. Hope you have an amazing day mate
You make me feel old. My PC in high school was similar. Also running old Windows isn't a huge risk as long as you use an up to date web browser (this is your first line of defense and the highest risk for zero day exploits) and stay behind a firewall.
Just a heads up. The AGP slot is the first one brother. There was no SLI option on AGP. The other 3 are straight PCI 5 volt slots. Much luck young man.
I'm only 32, how is this so painful to watch? I don't know why you thought a USB 1.1 port is gonna work perfect for a keyboard with LED lighting, those didn't exist until 2.0 when they increased USB power output as well as data.. Man I can't finish this video.
That Nvidia card you used was budget back in 2002. 2002 saw the release of the ATI(bought by AMD later) R300 known as the Radeon 9700 Pro. ATI was seen as ok by second place to Nvidia. The R300 completely transformed the market. It was the first videocard to let you use AA and AF at the same time with a negligible performance hit. John Carmack from ID Software ended up developing Doom 3 on the R300. The R300 was so fast I used it for a full two years only upgrading finally in late 2004. 2 years was forever to use the same GPU in the early 2000s.
@@LastOneLeft99 the 4200 had the best price performance in 2002. Before the 9700 pro dropped in October only the 4600 was faster, and that was just an overclocked version of that card.
as a reference: the GeForce 210 is 30x faster than this, the GT 710 is 163x faster than this and the 4090 is 10000x faster than this (or even more, because this site I used to research this doesn't show less than 0.01% of the performance of the fastest gpu recorded on the website)
@GraveUypo well yes, but I'm talking about today, and today, neither of them are usable, also the GeForce4 Ti 4200 only supports DirectX 8.1 and the 210 support DirectX 10.1, which means it could play way more moder titles like GTA V, (zWormz has a few videos on the 210) so I think the 210 is the winner over the GeForce4 Ti 4200
@@GraveUypo The whole issue with GT210 is that it wasn't created with gaming in mind, but as a cheapest display adapter for HTPC's that was able to decode an HD video. But around the same time it came to the market Intel begin shipping it's CPU's with iGPU's good enough for that purpose, so nVidia ended up with whole piles of unsold GT210's. Similar thing happened to Creative a decade earlier with their lowest level of SoundBlasters and integrated Realtec codecs.
Reminds me of "the original struggle" which was to have games running smoothly on the hardware you could afford as an 11 year old. Oh how spoiled we are with our multicore CPU's and 16Gb GPUs.
I've a ancient rig that's rocking Pentium 4 @3.00Ghz, a glorious 2GB DDR2 RAM and the legendary Intel 82945 graphics integrated. Well the problem of having your cable be a little loose did the same thing to me, i once had to relocate it's monitor for changing the desk and upon replugging my entire display was pink. 2 weeks later my dad just randomly fixed it by simply tightening the screws and tje display was all normal🥴
Would be cool to see a revisit at some point with the W4100 using a PCI to PCIe adapter off eBay/Aliexpress. Ymmv, but I've used one to add PCIe graphics to a PCI only Pentium 4 PC before and they do work, but I used a card with an external power connector. Great vid and Happy New Year! Hope the channel continues to grow :)
Been using a W5100 for the past few weeks, works pretty well as long as you stick to low graphics and such. VRAM is never an issue, 4GB is plenty, it just isn't the fastest thing in the world, think GT 1030 type performance. It's also not a bad card for video encoding, works fine in OBS at least anyways, gotta love it.
PCs around the term of the Millennium were changing so fast that a PC that could play a particular year's games more often than not was too fast for older games, but too slow for newer games. Saying that, many games do work across machine generations though. So typically for retro gaming you'd put together a number of rigs covering different game generations of the time. Currently, I have several builds, based around a Socket 370 Celeron 400(A) running 98se/2K, a Socket A Athlon XP 2400+ running 98se/2K, a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ running XP, and a Socket 775 Core 2 Quad Q9650 running XP/8.1/Linux for physical retro PC hardware. GOG Games and Emulation then covers the rest on my more modern i7-4790K build running Windows 10.
Outdated versions of Windows are 99% safe as long as you stick to trusted sites. I highly doubt people are spending time and money scraping GTA V Online servers for Windows 7 users. Sure, if someone is targeting your machine specifically, there are known ways to compromise Windows 7 and XP, but it's not inherently dangerous just using those operating systems and MANY companies still use them while connected to the internet.
For the floppy drive problem 7:46 , Where it says "Halt on : All Errors" Put that to none. For the browser issue, Supermium is an updated browser than can run as far back as WinXP.
Hey man, the Riva TNT2 lineup was Good, you just got the shafted model. TNT2 Ultra is the best you could get. Also, Older EOL OSes are perfectly fine to use on their original hardware, if your hiding it behind your main PCs firewall, Just use some sort of ( At least in Windows 11/10 ) " Wifi Sharing over Ethernet " and it basically gives your Retro hardware a modern, updated Firewall by screening all incoming and outgoing requests through the modern systems firewall; This also allows you to do WFS far easier and safer between WFS 1.0 ( Older Systems ) and WFS 2.0 ( Modern systems ).
this evolked my ptsd when I tried to revive a 26 year old pc with a Pentium 3 just a few weeks ago, it was painful 😭🙏 but everything turned out fine, so long as I don't connect windows 2000 I put on it to the internet
you could set up a separate network that doesn't connect to the internet, connect your main computer to that, move files over ftp, and disconnect afterwards.
8:25 Routers have an integrated firewall that blocks incoming traffic that could harm your system. Obsolete OSs can't be compromised simply by connecting to the internet, unless you're still using a classic internet modem, which hasn’t been a thing for about 20 years.
You are right about windows 7 not getting updates, but if you don't click on random links or download random stuff you will be fine with windows 7. and even with windows XP you will be fine if you are careful when browsing the internet, which you should be regardless of whether you are using windows 7 or XP. i can say that because i myself used windows 7 for several months, maybe even years after the end of life of windows 7 and i never had any problems. and yes i saw the reddit article in the video, and also reada it. but as i said before i never had any problems with windows 7 after end of life edit: and i think most of people who try to hack you or something like that would go for newer versions of windows, because it's just not worth it it's the same for macOS literally nobody is making viruses or something like that for macOS because it has a low marketshare, and windows 7 only has like 2.4%
If anything, Windows 7 still receives updates thanks to the “Server 2008 R2” edition, which, in turn, it receives through a special “ESU” subscription. To get them, just use “UpdatePack7R2” which will automatically install all updates from 2011 to 2025. I've updated more than 10 PCs with regular Windows 7 in this way, and there were no problems.
Happy new year! Anyways, if ur planning to play on this PC again and make another video, i recommend installing Counter Strike 1.6 and well playing the game on the PC.
“My favorite games are old enough to vote”-I have never felt to seen. Brilliant. Though most of my favorite games are old enough to have fully paid off their mortgages…
this is painful to watch for someone who uses old pc's in modern days spefically when you menchioned "windows 7 kills the pc" like please do research if your gunna make a video like this it would be really helpful
BTW, there isn't any inherited risk from connecting a older OS to the internet, it only becomes an issue if you decided to disable firewalls and you decided to port out the system.
For the GPU issues with Windows 7, I’d get a Nvidia FX 5200 as those were very common and support WDDM fully. And it’s only a year newer than the card you were using so still technically from the same era sort of
it is also also a lot slower. fx5200 was a garbage gpu. the card to have from the era is the radeon 9800 pro (or 9700 pro, or anything from the 9000 radeon series, really). it absolutely murdered two generations of nvidia gpus on top of having better support for more modern effects, such as shader model 2.0+ which gave it much better compatibility with modern games. geforce 4 ti4200 can't even run battlefield 2 because it's just sm 1.3 and bf2 required sm 1.4 --- which even the radeon 8500 pro which is OLDER than the geforce had.
@ Yeah ik, but it’s just for basic display (you know like browsing websites, playing back videos, and also good looks from an os (WDDM for Vista and beyond). Cause let’s face it, XP and Aero basic were ugly. Aero I actually kind of like. From my knowledge It was first seen in its modern looking form on the Longhorn build from Dec 2005 which very funnily looks like Windows 7, and it’s from 05 lol
Dude no way he's got a dad. I remember my dad had some old ass computers like this back in the day i remember looking at the pcbs he had lying around and thininkng of them as like cities and factories.
The requirements for that Sam and Max game are ridiculously insane. It has simplistic 3D graphics, relatively small characters, and not much movement on the screen. You have other games with realistic vegetation being rendered in real-time, while you're fighting hordes of enemies, but a game that looks like a cartoon, needs a really beefy system to run? The developers weren't even trying to optimize their code.
1:01 tomb raider legend, nice, I beat it on my original Xbox just a few days ago before it stopped working and after the power supply had popped and smoke came out of it, I have no idea how it worked
My final video of 2024. Crazy to think that I’ve uploaded over 1000 videos to the platform since 2016, and it’s finally working 🥲 thank u guys for the best year of my life 🧡🧡🧡
you're video editing got so much better then the last time i saw your video, not trying to be mean
@@lecctron 100k in 2025?
you're welcome
@cheeezs you edited the video? if you did it's amazing
@AshenSouls who tf said that
Biggest flex having a dad
Real
Yh bro some of us don't have one 😂
To be honest its not that uncommon
Guess I have the biggest flex
Biggest flex having TWO dads 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is painful to watch as an old dude who has played with PC's for years
@@jasonsanders1244 yea, i feel like a dinosaur...
@@jokxu yep, remember, youre only as old as the girl you feel
Like when he said about only ever seeing a floppy once. Or not entirely aware of how even though tomb raider underworld had lower spec requirements, it's that the game required shader model 3.0. which only the GeForce 6 series and Radeon X1300 / 1950 XTX had at the time. I feel old enough as it is. 😢
@@jasonsanders1244 primary disk error ..
I wish i had that knowledge 😂 what games were yall playing back in the day ?
Fun fact: Canada, Poland and windows 7 have aproximately the same population
Thats a crazy comparison. Although most Windows 7 machines are still school/office computers that's still impressive that such an old OS is going so strong (I even stuck with 7 until 2020ish)
@@Slimx0612 actually, the windows 7 userbase is more than Poland and Canada combined!!
That PC isn't quite 24 years old. The Asus P4S800MX motherboard was released in 2003 and the first 3.0GHz (800MHz FSB) Pentium 4 HT was also released in 2003
way older than the people that watch him for his fornite content instead of this kind of videos he makes lol
Oh shoot ur right it seems like most of the components in the PC are from 2003, even ddr2 ram became mainstream in 2003
the gpu is from 2001
He's just future proofing the video
@@lecctron Why don't you change the name of the title? It takes 5 seconds XD "21 years old"
What exactly is the "optimizing" part here? Plugging in the cables properly? Or asking dad for help? The concept for the video seemed really interesting but the delivery was rather poor.
3:48 did he just call those PCI slots AGP slots and then the AGP slot a PCI slot... I would've loved for three AGP slots back in the day...
3-way SLI on AGPs :D
Yeah, the moment I heard 3 AGP SLOTS!!! I was all in shock, because I never saw a motherboard with 2 let alone 3!!!.
i read the script backwards by accident. i had a whole section of the video talking abt AGP graphics cards and i am aware that there is only 1 AGP slot.
Looks like im upgrading from a 10,000 dollar server to this old peace of crap
“Upgrading”
@ lol
Dude! Congrats on 100k What a way to start the year!
@@alumin9361 that's not even 10 US cents😂
@blank4856he’s giving what he has that’s all that matters
don't spend it all in one place lol
@@CRXSSF4D3 almost lost my family for spending so much money dawg 😭😭
Hiya, I am a windows 7 user (as a hobby mostly). While without modifications or proper measures taken the OS can be a security risk, there are a variety of methods to keep a computer running windows 7 safe either supported by microsoft or by using community made projects. This includes patching windows update to continue providing microsoft security updates until 2026. Much of the fear mongering surrounding windows 7 being a vulnerability is caused by people who disregard all safety and security measures, like a firewall, router, or antivirus and then make the claim that even running it will get you hacked. That just isn't true. (Although I still wouldn't recommend it without the aforementioned security measures. If you're worried about having this computer online I would recommend looking into those! Especially patching the OS to receive updates from server 2008 r2.) Also, "your computer protecting you" when accessing the internet is caused by your system time being wrong, not any vulnerability. The computer's clock battery probably lost charge many years ago and so it was unable to keep track of the time.
Was expecting to see this comment, thank you. I too have a Windows 7 rig myself on a second gen core i5, 4GB of RAM, and no GPU. The community projects you mentioned are fantastic indeed, I had at least one security update every day. The only thing missing for this OS at the moment are kernel extensions like the 9x systems and XP have.
My daily driver is now a Linux laptop, but by no means should someone be afraid of Windows 7 when taking said precautions.
Also lol at that part of the video you referenced, many misconceptions or just lack of knowledge as a whole, but we all learn and evolve :) I used to be scared of changing the colour of the eraser in Paint because a "teacher" once told us it was impossible to revert back, oh good times.
@@xGMV Nice to hear from someone else using 7! If you’re curious there actually is an extended kernel for windows 7 called “vxkex” and it can be used to run a variety of newer programs without modifying the system itself. You should look into it! It makes the OS much more usable today.
Fr this guy was blowing using windows 7 way out of proportion
That's a good point.
By the way, in order not to bother with manual installation of updates from the “Server 2008 R2” edition, it will be enough UpdatePack7R2 which will automatically install all updates from 2011 to 2025.
And also, if someone didn't know, Windows 7 has a modern browser with all security patches called Supermium
@@NAKADZI Supermium and Thorium both can be de-Googled, and Redfox if Chromium-based browsers aren't your thing.
Windows 7 (or even older) are fine to use even online as long as you don't connect to the internet without a router (which absolutely nobody does these days). The error at 9:46 was not Chrome trying to stop Windows from "connecting to even the safest websites" but a certificate date invalid error, meaning the date on your OS or BIOS is wrong (you can cause the same outcome on a modern PC if you change your date to multiple years ago.
You mistitled this video. It seems you don’t understand the word ‘anything’ in this context-you mean to say ‘something.’ The title sets the expectation that the PC will be optimized into a powerhouse capable of playing a wide range of games, which isn’t what happens. The word ‘anything’ suggests unlimited possibilities, (this PC can play anything) while ‘something’ means just one or a few things. They’re not the same, and using ‘something’ in the title would better reflect the actual outcome of getting the PC to play a single game. It’s a small change, but it makes a big difference in aligning the title with the content.
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Yes I agree , so many contents like these. Still many are fooled to watch
Idc it was an enjoyable watch and you knew walking into this video that it wouldn't be able to run everything.
Boring
Was expecting a video about optimization. This is not what I expected. Kind of thought he would get into the code of the OS and modify it. One old trick that people used for optimization is to run the program on windows with the shell disabled in the background. There was a simple keyboard shortcut that you could make to turn it on and off. This would make it easier for your machine to focus on running just the game itself and stop anything that wanted to push pop ups. Another trick was getting screen scaling working. Keep the OS running small and apps when launching would scale to the size you want it at. This would allow for programs to launch faster. Also older games usually have a configuration file because of the situation in the video. It’s quicker and less laggy to edit text instead of the game menu. It’s also very possible to run a modern game on that hardware. People are constantly making demos for older consoles running newish graphics. It requires someone with a lot of patience and dedication to optimization programming. They do it to show what is actually possible if you make the game right in the first place. Poor optimization leads to games that could have been run a couple generations of machines ago.
You made me, a 26 years old man, feel old, so thanks for that.
That GPU was definitely dying, a lot of the AGP GPUs were made in the transition between leaded solder and lead-free solder, as well as during the capacitor plague, so finding one 100% working nowadays is kind of a challenge. Most of the ones I have are showing the same instabilities and graphical glitches, you can usually repair most of them if you know how to solder and if you do it before the leaking capacitors completely corrode the card. The DVI port definitely isn't the cause, it can mess the colours (and that's considering it's DVI-A, which I'm not sure), but it can't corrupt part of the screen like it did in your footage.
As for USB keyboard, I think it could be multiple things. Of course, USB keyboards were barely a thing in the early 00s, so to work in the BIOS, most motherboard were emulating a PS/2 keyboard, which doesn't work really well on some modern keyboards since the USB protocol they're using can be kinda messed-up. The USB 3.0 could also be an issue, a standard USB 3.0 port should be able to provide at least 5V at 900 mA (and really, 1 A usually), while a USB 2.0 port only provides 5V at 500 mA, so half the power output, could be a problem with modern keyboards using microcontrollers and tens of LEDs. I think it's just messing with the power output of the motherboard and confusing it, both the floppy drive and the USB controller are probably controlled by the southbridge and it doesn't know what to do with a USB device asking for so much power.
Nah man I'm 26 and still feel like a 19 year old, I'm 27 in a month man
modern usb kb/mouse is the issue because those keyboards register as usb+mouse and they operate in usb 2 instead of 1.1
your not-knowing-anything-about-old-pcs is astonishing at best!
3:50 *chuckles* kids.
there is never more than one AGP slot. it's 3 pci slots and one agp slot.
@Ciffer-1998 by PCI, I had a PCI and an AGP Voodoo card
saying that windows 7 itself existing on the hard drive is a security threat feels way too overexaggerated
I've got windows XP on a hard drive and I still use it
6:47 "Boot up floppy seek Enabled" 😁
Not only that - the floppy is set up in bios as 1.44mb, not as 'absent'
May not be alot mate but I hope it helps in some way. Also I would just like to say that you are doing an amazing job with your videos. Hope you have an amazing day mate
Bro i remember when i subbed to you and you only had 10k subs you grew so much
yknow what else is massive? 1:38
The Low Taper fade meme is still MASSIVE!
@AshenSouls Loooooooooooooow Taper Fade
My fortnite pickaxe
LOOOOOWW TAPER FADEEEE
@@venom-critikal you know whats crazy it's still MASSIVE
SO EXCITED FOR THE TOMB RAIDER SOUNDTRACK YOU PLAYED IN THE BEGINNING
1:24 brooooooo your getting a sub bro😂
You make me feel old. My PC in high school was similar. Also running old Windows isn't a huge risk as long as you use an up to date web browser (this is your first line of defense and the highest risk for zero day exploits) and stay behind a firewall.
@@r5LgxTbQ Yes really! It's so cringe to me😒💀
Just a heads up. The AGP slot is the first one brother. There was no SLI option on AGP. The other 3 are straight PCI 5 volt slots. Much luck young man.
THE LOW TAPER FADE MEME 1:38 yk what else is massive THE LOW TAPER FADE MEME
Massive? You know what else is massive?
@@speedster73746 what's massive
damn this channel blew up like crazy these months, so deserved man. goated channel
I'm only 32, how is this so painful to watch? I don't know why you thought a USB 1.1 port is gonna work perfect for a keyboard with LED lighting, those didn't exist until 2.0 when they increased USB power output as well as data.. Man I can't finish this video.
This video is so dumb
I'm 37 and the floppy disk shenanigans had my bones turning to dust
USB 1.1 supports 500mA power like 2.0m? Yes the video is painful and there are lots of errors but don't add more confusion...
That Nvidia card you used was budget back in 2002. 2002 saw the release of the ATI(bought by AMD later) R300 known as the Radeon 9700 Pro. ATI was seen as ok by second place to Nvidia. The R300 completely transformed the market. It was the first videocard to let you use AA and AF at the same time with a negligible performance hit. John Carmack from ID Software ended up developing Doom 3 on the R300. The R300 was so fast I used it for a full two years only upgrading finally in late 2004. 2 years was forever to use the same GPU in the early 2000s.
@@LastOneLeft99 the 4200 had the best price performance in 2002. Before the 9700 pro dropped in October only the 4600 was faster, and that was just an overclocked version of that card.
as a reference: the GeForce 210 is 30x faster than this, the GT 710 is 163x faster than this and the 4090 is 10000x faster than this (or even more, because this site I used to research this doesn't show less than 0.01% of the performance of the fastest gpu recorded on the website)
@@lewisbohme7078 omg you brought out horrific low fps memories mentioning the GeForce 210, what a travesty of a purchase that was
@montiplays atleast you don't have to play with a GeForce4 Ti 4200
@@lewisbohme7078 that card was really good at the time. the gt 210 was never good. it wasn't even ever usable.
@GraveUypo well yes, but I'm talking about today, and today, neither of them are usable, also the GeForce4 Ti 4200 only supports DirectX 8.1 and the 210 support DirectX 10.1, which means it could play way more moder titles like GTA V, (zWormz has a few videos on the 210) so I think the 210 is the winner over the GeForce4 Ti 4200
@@GraveUypo The whole issue with GT210 is that it wasn't created with gaming in mind, but as a cheapest display adapter for HTPC's that was able to decode an HD video. But around the same time it came to the market Intel begin shipping it's CPU's with iGPU's good enough for that purpose, so nVidia ended up with whole piles of unsold GT210's. Similar thing happened to Creative a decade earlier with their lowest level of SoundBlasters and integrated Realtec codecs.
congrats on 100k
been here since 30k keep doing this love ya
3:51 "3 agp slots or the pci slot." Bro got that backwards.
Pretend like i said the right thing, i read the script wrong 💔
Reminds me of "the original struggle" which was to have games running smoothly on the hardware you could afford as an 11 year old. Oh how spoiled we are with our multicore CPU's and 16Gb GPUs.
I've a ancient rig that's rocking Pentium 4 @3.00Ghz, a glorious 2GB DDR2 RAM and the legendary Intel 82945 graphics integrated.
Well the problem of having your cable be a little loose did the same thing to me, i once had to relocate it's monitor for changing the desk and upon replugging my entire display was pink.
2 weeks later my dad just randomly fixed it by simply tightening the screws and tje display was all normal🥴
1:36 Do You Know Whats Massive?
Congrats on 100k been watching you since you started
Good video to watch while having dinner 🙏
@itzadam11_ agree
Fr similar pfp btw
Fr similar pfp btw
It’s 2 o’clock 🙏😭
10:54 "more than the entire population of Canada"
*shows the land mapss by square km instead of population
@@kennethprakesh4352 so dumb lol
Would be cool to see a revisit at some point with the W4100 using a PCI to PCIe adapter off eBay/Aliexpress. Ymmv, but I've used one to add PCIe graphics to a PCI only Pentium 4 PC before and they do work, but I used a card with an external power connector.
Great vid and Happy New Year! Hope the channel continues to grow :)
Great idea I will definitely come back to the W4100 sooner or later ! And happy new year man 🧡
Been using a W5100 for the past few weeks, works pretty well as long as you stick to low graphics and such. VRAM is never an issue, 4GB is plenty, it just isn't the fastest thing in the world, think GT 1030 type performance.
It's also not a bad card for video encoding, works fine in OBS at least anyways, gotta love it.
This made my brain hurt because of the stupidity
Want a challenge? Try optimizing smartphone for pc games by installing not emulation but installing real softwares
Didn't expect to see a pc older than majora's mask today
PCs around the term of the Millennium were changing so fast that a PC that could play a particular year's games more often than not was too fast for older games, but too slow for newer games. Saying that, many games do work across machine generations though.
So typically for retro gaming you'd put together a number of rigs covering different game generations of the time.
Currently, I have several builds, based around a Socket 370 Celeron 400(A) running 98se/2K, a Socket A Athlon XP 2400+ running 98se/2K, a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ running XP, and a Socket 775 Core 2 Quad Q9650 running XP/8.1/Linux for physical retro PC hardware.
GOG Games and Emulation then covers the rest on my more modern i7-4790K build running Windows 10.
bro i started watching you when u posted 1st vid about optimizations, now the videos look like 200% better, keep up man
5:20 That's the monitor I've been using for a long time until 1 month ago 💀
@@alex_theforest the LG twin towers is wilddd
Love the Content m8. Just subbed 2 the channel
Buddy knew he was flexing all over us at 1:24 💀 that was good 🤣
Subscribed, most relatable tech channel ever💀🤣
Happy new year lecc your one of the few content creators I find enjoyable to watch nowadays
Holy banger of an intro 0:00 - 0:50. Most truest words honestly.
PC Tech here since 2005, I salute you for surviving this ordeals sir...
5:44 I had this EXACT same keyboard for DECADES and it worked really well up til modern ages. Pretty good stuff.
Outdated versions of Windows are 99% safe as long as you stick to trusted sites. I highly doubt people are spending time and money scraping GTA V Online servers for Windows 7 users. Sure, if someone is targeting your machine specifically, there are known ways to compromise Windows 7 and XP, but it's not inherently dangerous just using those operating systems and MANY companies still use them while connected to the internet.
For the floppy drive problem 7:46 , Where it says "Halt on : All Errors" Put that to none. For the browser issue, Supermium is an updated browser than can run as far back as WinXP.
My first computer was 20 years Older than the one in this video.
A Pentium system was a Dream PC when I started college!!
hope you get 100k subs soon and your vids are entertaining af
You have earned a new sub my friend, Your content is very interesting for me as a pc enthusiast
This is the perfect retro gaming PC. You can run HL1, CS 1.6, OG Far Cry, GTA VC on this one easily.
Uncle Lecctron Posted been here since you had 5k subs
Hey man, the Riva TNT2 lineup was Good, you just got the shafted model. TNT2 Ultra is the best you could get. Also, Older EOL OSes are perfectly fine to use on their original hardware, if your hiding it behind your main PCs firewall, Just use some sort of ( At least in Windows 11/10 ) " Wifi Sharing over Ethernet " and it basically gives your Retro hardware a modern, updated Firewall by screening all incoming and outgoing requests through the modern systems firewall; This also allows you to do WFS far easier and safer between WFS 1.0 ( Older Systems ) and WFS 2.0 ( Modern systems ).
Always a good day when lecctron posts 🙏☺️
As someone who spend decades putting up with the slowest computers known to man, I was convinced that there was no way.
The problem with the floppy was that it still was the first in the boot order. You needed to change the HDD to be first boot.
it feels so good to be a part of that 0.16% who use windows 8 🤧
Congrats on 100k!
this evolked my ptsd when I tried to revive a 26 year old pc with a Pentium 3 just a few weeks ago, it was painful 😭🙏
but everything turned out fine, so long as I don't connect windows 2000 I put on it to the internet
you could set up a separate network that doesn't connect to the internet, connect your main computer to that, move files over ftp, and disconnect afterwards.
14:08 good ol' times
8:25 Routers have an integrated firewall that blocks incoming traffic that could harm your system. Obsolete OSs can't be compromised simply by connecting to the internet, unless you're still using a classic internet modem, which hasn’t been a thing for about 20 years.
1:36 IMAGINE IF NINJA GOT A LOW TAPER FADE
Congrats on 100k dude.
You are right about windows 7 not getting updates, but if you don't click on random links or download random stuff you will be fine with windows 7. and even with windows XP you will be fine if you are careful when browsing the internet, which you should be regardless of whether you are using windows 7 or XP. i can say that because i myself used windows 7 for several months, maybe even years after the end of life of windows 7 and i never had any problems. and yes i saw the reddit article in the video, and also reada it. but as i said before i never had any problems with windows 7 after end of life
edit: and i think most of people who try to hack you or something like that would go for newer versions of windows, because it's just not worth it it's the same for macOS literally nobody is making viruses or something like that for macOS because it has a low marketshare, and windows 7 only has like 2.4%
If anything, Windows 7 still receives updates thanks to the “Server 2008 R2” edition, which, in turn, it receives through a special “ESU” subscription.
To get them, just use “UpdatePack7R2” which will automatically install all updates from 2011 to 2025. I've updated more than 10 PCs with regular Windows 7 in this way, and there were no problems.
Happy new year! Anyways, if ur planning to play on this PC again and make another video, i recommend installing Counter Strike 1.6 and well playing the game on the PC.
“My favorite games are old enough to vote”-I have never felt to seen. Brilliant. Though most of my favorite games are old enough to have fully paid off their mortgages…
helldivers 2 is pretty much the only game to come out in 2024 that actually still has me hooked
this is painful to watch for someone who uses old pc's in modern days spefically when you menchioned "windows 7 kills the pc" like please do research if your gunna make a video like this it would be really helpful
Yeah. He could have just unplugged the computer from the Internet.
nettspend wallpaper is so real
3:33 "still dealing with some ancient tech"
my gtx 980: 💀
"It just works!" - 199 Fallout Creative Director Bobby Blue I think?
The Mike Tyson line just got you a sub!! haha!
i liked the thing at 14:58
Been here since 20k subed at 60k btw congrats on 100k
Nice Rocket League goal 5:00
"I do have something called a dad."
Okay, that's an insta-subscribe.
Our family PC was built in 1998, at least 4 years after I was born. My dad can kiss dirt. That PC brought me here.
BTW, there isn't any inherited risk from connecting a older OS to the internet, it only becomes an issue if you decided to disable firewalls and you decided to port out the system.
For the GPU issues with Windows 7, I’d get a Nvidia FX 5200 as those were very common and support WDDM fully. And it’s only a year newer than the card you were using so still technically from the same era sort of
it is also also a lot slower. fx5200 was a garbage gpu. the card to have from the era is the radeon 9800 pro (or 9700 pro, or anything from the 9000 radeon series, really). it absolutely murdered two generations of nvidia gpus on top of having better support for more modern effects, such as shader model 2.0+ which gave it much better compatibility with modern games. geforce 4 ti4200 can't even run battlefield 2 because it's just sm 1.3 and bf2 required sm 1.4 --- which even the radeon 8500 pro which is OLDER than the geforce had.
@ Yeah ik, but it’s just for basic display (you know like browsing websites, playing back videos, and also good looks from an os (WDDM for Vista and beyond). Cause let’s face it, XP and Aero basic were ugly. Aero I actually kind of like. From my knowledge It was first seen in its modern looking form on the Longhorn build from Dec 2005 which very funnily looks like Windows 7, and it’s from 05 lol
Dude no way he's got a dad. I remember my dad had some old ass computers like this back in the day i remember looking at the pcbs he had lying around and thininkng of them as like cities and factories.
*Peak Edit of 2024*🖥🎬
Try make a pc run titles the slowest possible
I'm happy you still have your Dad around. Cherish the time you have 🖤
Im convinced lec can optimize anything
the nettspend wallpaper is fire lol, W video
This desktop is from 2017 and runs games great, it's an old hp workstation I got off ebay and all the upgrades used for dirt cheap.
congratulations for 100k
The requirements for that Sam and Max game are ridiculously insane. It has simplistic 3D graphics, relatively small characters, and not much movement on the screen. You have other games with realistic vegetation being rendered in real-time, while you're fighting hordes of enemies, but a game that looks like a cartoon, needs a really beefy system to run? The developers weren't even trying to optimize their code.
1:01 tomb raider legend, nice, I beat it on my original Xbox just a few days ago before it stopped working and after the power supply had popped and smoke came out of it, I have no idea how it worked
1:38 its massive
the low taper fade meme is massive aswell
I love it when Lecctron posts it makes my day
This is what people who dont build PC imagine a budget pc is. Thank you, i use the same pc.
damn you had an insane year on youtube this year