The title sounds less like "and yet I survived," and more like "and yet an end to my cursed existence still eludes me." Not complaining in the slightest....
The west is saved! But only if Ashen's can learn Mandarin. *Duolingo wants to know your location, Duolingo has your family, Duolingo requires you attend your lesson or else*
Yeah, it makes more sense going to the local tip and buying an old case for 5quid, and a pack of standoffs from eBay for £2.50, then drill your own holes in the fixing plate for whatever motherboard you want. Older cases were better quality than the overpriced junk I see nowadays.
I do not take for granted the fact that you have remained so true to your own little style of creating videos. You are one of the few remaining youtubers I can actually really enjoy watching, and it doesn't matter whether I click on a recent video or one from almost a decade ago, I get the exact same feeling. I hope you continue to do this for many years to come.
Actually you can get a lot of those processors for almost nothing, the don't actually worth anything in this day and age so gaining something is a win.
There is no reason to get one of those later Core 2 Duos because most boards support Core 2 Quads. A Core 2 Quad is like 10€/£10/$10 (depending on where you live)
@@EvilTurkeySlices Define "Legit Sata SSD".. The flash chips used inside are very low quality, as is the controller. In addition to this its lacking any form of DRAM cache. I know this as i have used this exact dive myself. It died after a day of having Manjaro being installed on it.
@@bripbrap Legit - as "not a fake" with a USB flash or SD card inside. And not a mumbo jumbo one-day brand but at least something that has a recognizable name with at least some reviews. Still, mostly rubbish anyway.
HOLY shiitt i used to watch you like 8 years ago when i was in primary school unboxing junk from poundland and i just found your channel after all these years
Honestly think if you went to the WEEE section of your local municipal dump, you could probably get a better result by just bringing the chaps there a thermos of coffee and a couple of rounds of Poundland sarnies.
Yeah we throw better stuff into the WEEE waste at work constantly, I can't imagine actually paying for parts of this spec but I suppose that wasn't the point.
Happy 10th birthday Ashens sofa I started watching Ashens when I was 10 years old I'm now 19 years old turning 20 in a few weeks time Sooo HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY!! Ashens Sofa even though I'm sure you're older than that 😂😂
That's pretty much on par with my machine about 5 years ago. That machine was the end of the line I had swapped parts through for almost 20 years. It was a bit of a ship of Theseus. I think the only thing left was a single hard drive.
Word of advice, the outside of an anti-static bag is often actually statically charged, as they are designed to pull the charge from inside (the black lines on the bag) so building a motherboard on one is often a bad idea. The safest way, if not building in the case, is to use the motherboard box itself, as cardboard doesn't hold a charge
Yet way more interesting than any of those dreadful, superboring, lame and uninspired and zero-informing presentations on any of our medical conferences
I like this series, I had absolutely no idea about what makes up a computer and how one would put one together and I've learnt so much over these two videos. Thanks Stuart!
This is a welcome change from the typical TH-camr's build video: "We Built a Priceless Vintage / Super Powered Gaming PC from All The Parts Our Sponsors / Viewers Gave Us for Free"
Where's your livestrong bracelet? You can't stop static without fighting cancer. No use of tweezers to tie the cables together. PSU fan isnt facing a blank wall rather than a vent. Didnt use three gallons of thermal paste. The verge rates 0/10
Maybe I should've re-worded like this: Modern day TH-cam PC builders: "Look what we got from our wonderful sponsors, a brand new product that looks exactly the same as the last one" Ashens: "Look what I found on the rubbish bin of the internet; and it is as rare as a hen's tooth"
2 pointers here from a computer nerd: RAM is very volatile when subject to heat changes and any electric shocks. There is actually no distinction of AMD/intel ram, so i have no idea what they were going for there. The only RAM that's in any way different is ECC ram, but that's only really used in servers. The SSD read/write speeds are perfectly normal for a SATA 2 SSD, in fact, they're quite good for one at around 220/220, a standard SATA2 HDD struggles to reach 80/80. There is no competition to an m.2 slot SSD that you have in your video editing PC and comparing them is a bit like comparing 8mm film to a VHS.
I understand about 5% of this process and it’s components... I literally just watch this because I enjoy Ashens. And it’s still very enjoyable without any context.
My dad used to bring home plastic boxes that printer and plotter parts came in, they always had labels like BLUE INK ASS and S1 MOTOR ASS. It turned into a running joke with my brother and I, nouns got ASS appended to them, like "Let me borrow your pencil ass."
I thought he died by suffocation when he laughed too hard when the 'Wonderful Sound, Strange Shape' fake violin had the most hilarious Engrish in the universe.
People, he's been dead inside for years, does it really matter That being said, he clearly did himself in with the world's sharpest knife and has been haunting TH-cam like some vengeful tat-obsessed ghost ever since
I was shocked when you turned the case around the first time, but ya know, once you get it all put together, it actually adds some character being all smashed up like that.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sent you ECC ram. (ram typically used in servers). The ram tends to be cheaper then normal ram for some reason. ECC ram typically does not work in most retail motherboards as it was designed more for server machines. You should check the labels to see if that is the case. I would imagine it would be marked as ECC ram somewhere if it was indeed ECC protected ram.
The SSD speeds are probably just fine, you got to remember that you are limited to SATA2 speeds on that old motherboard, meaning that the SSD cannot even show it's real speed even if it slower than usual good quality SATA3 SSDs.
Yep, for a cheap probably-DRAM-less SSD it puts up a pretty good effort! Worth questioning also whether or not AHCI was enabled, which might have edged out a few more MB/s... the Crucial BX500 240GB in my desktop pulls around 280MB/s read/write on a LGA1156 board w/ SATA2 & AHCI so honestly, fair play to the people at KingDian, cheap SSDs are not as shit as they once were
@@Knights_of_the_Nine Bruh, the maximum speeds at 15:45 is 225R/208W which are in line with SATA2 speeds, SSDs - even the cheap ones - will do 450R/250W and over in SATA3. Not only SATA3 is faster, it also have features designed for SSD making it run smoothly which isn't really seen in static benchmarks. The 54 in the benchmark window is the SCORE, not actual speed. And you can see that the writing speeds and the final score are higher than the reading speed/score which is the inverse of what you should see in a drive performance, except when the drive have a bottleneck in the I/O.
2:37 you don't actually NEED the backing plate. It was originally intended to block RF noise, but there's so much RF noise internally in the computer it makes no difference, so nowadays you only need it to know what plugs in where and to block some of the dust
Back in my old job as IT technician, we had an issue with these boards and RAM. For us it was voltage, the Auto setting in the BIOS was a few points out. We had to put in a stick of less sensitive RAM, manually set the voltage for the (boxes and boxes of) RAM that we'd bought then power down and switch the sticks out. It's always worth manually setting RAM voltage in the BIOS, particularly with memory sensitive systems like the modern Ryzens. More often than not, it side steps system instabilities and takes no effort to do.
At least it's metal, my friend once purchased a cheap heatsink, he installed it into his computer and let it run for a little while until the PC slowed down and turned off from overheating, he checked the heatsink, it had melted/burned a bit _because it was metal-coated plastic_ instead of something reasonable like copper or aluminium
I didn’t think anything of it when he said that but in the back of my head I was like “that don’t look like copper lol” also copper would probably cost a whole lot more
Linus reviewed one of the chinese coolers that looked exactly like this one, and yes it was REALLY bad. You can get a decent name brand case for that money
Although too weak for modern gaming, this PC would make an excellent retro machine. Swap out the case for one with actual drive bays, add a DVD drive, and maybe plug a 3.5" floppy into that header, install Windows XP, as well as DOSbox, and have a blast with older games.
I've got two cases I bought around 12 to 15 years ago. One is a Lian Li and the other name I can't remember but it's something like SilverStar. One was $250 and the other one was $300. Those cases are going to outlive me they were built so well. And they make installing everything so much easier than trying to work inside of a cheap case. The only problem is they're absolute beasts size-wise, and unless I really get back into computing they're just taking up storage space. I haven't had the money to build a good PC in over 10 years now.
such a windows xp beast, loved the last video, loving this one aswell, too bad there aren't many sites to do this on. reminds me that before I got rid of most of the old hardware I had laying around I could build PCs as if the parts were Lego bricks.
I have a modern motherboard (brand new about 5 years ago) with a PS/2 port, I still use it for my keyboard. It allows for more keys to be pressed down at once than most USB keyboards, which is great for emulating Rock Band when you don't have a guitar controller. Also, I find my old Gateway pack-in keyboard to be of higher quality than any USB keyboard I've ever used. The keys are spaced comfortably, they have just the right amount of clickiness and travel, and it's taken quite a beating between several moves and besides being scuffed up a little, it still works like new. The only problem is the cable feels quite short. If my couch was a few inches further from my computer, I couldn't use it (no room for an actual desk where I live right now).
@15:38 - smaller size SSD are a little slower ( < 128GB ). But the main reason is the old SATA standard on the old motherboard not the SSD itself ( should able to read/write ~400 MB/s ). Still ~5x faster than a typical HDD.
Double-ended USB type-A cables are actually not allowed by the USB standard because host and client can get confused, causing power to flow improperly and possibly damage the host.
I run XP Home on mine, which is very similar specs-wise, and it runs just fine. I use it for all the older software I still have that won't run on Win10. Sometimes finding older device drivers is a bit of a challenge. But yes, you still CAN activate Windows XP.
The ram comes in 4 versions, Intel, amd, both, neither. You got the last kind.
Niether works with Cyrix CPU's.
@@vitalsignscritical Neither works with ARM cpus
Guess I'll have to use it with a VIA chip then...
Is neither cyrix?
@@Brown-streak_studios Maybe it works with Transmeta.
Imagine breaking into this guys house and seeing him sitting in the floor, talking and recording his hands.
I would be deeply afraid
if he was sat in the floor I'd run away terrified
And the house is completely barren aside from pound land boxes
@@MrHendrix17 and the brown sofa
You guys made a pretty solid horror movie
“I built a PC using parts from Poundland”
St. Peter's not going to accept that answer.
*sellotapes toilet duck to an out of date advent calendar*
Did I do it right?
The cpu is a mint
"... and somehow didn't live"
A literal potato PC, lol.
The title sounds less like "and yet I survived," and more like "and yet an end to my cursed existence still eludes me." Not complaining in the slightest....
The multiple attempts at inflicting botulism on himself didn't work, so now he's trying to set his everything on fire with a dodgy PC.
The ram has been naughty!!
Imagine if Ashens accidentally got two HDDs full of state secrets from the Chinese government, but he doesn't know because it's all in mandarin.
If this is his last upload, we'll know.
The west is saved! But only if Ashen's can learn Mandarin. *Duolingo wants to know your location, Duolingo has your family, Duolingo requires you attend your lesson or else*
@Most Deadest Pool of em All. Does not translate mandarin
is this real. are you being this ignorant? mandarin is a chinese language
@@tim2230 Mandarin is also a type of orange.
Amazing 2000's processor: 4 quid
*SmaShEd uP cASE: over 40 poUNDS*
Useless computer:
Priceless
That's how Mafia works
Yeah, it makes more sense going to the local tip and buying an old case for 5quid, and a pack of standoffs from eBay for £2.50, then drill your own holes in the fixing plate for whatever motherboard you want. Older cases were better quality than the overpriced junk I see nowadays.
@@penfold7800 it is actually
I have year 2000 case that has thick metal plating. Very heavy
“opened never used”
I do not take for granted the fact that you have remained so true to your own little style of creating videos. You are one of the few remaining youtubers I can actually really enjoy watching, and it doesn't matter whether I click on a recent video or one from almost a decade ago, I get the exact same feeling. I hope you continue to do this for many years to come.
When you need a rubber mallet in a pc building project, you know you are working with quality
That is what we like to call the Jeremy Clarkson method.
I love how the CPU cooler costs more than the actual CPU
You know when your RAM says _"Assemb l e d in China"_ it's going to be awesome.
Xeokym Screams confidence.
Hmm, arent most of them assembled in china?
iare19 yeah but not Assemb l e d
@@iare19 I see you have not yet acquired your taste for Engrish.
iare19 Even like a seventh of the worlds overall population
"copper heatsink"
It's just orange painted Aluminium, my dude.
maybe anodized if they got fancy
@@InfernosReaper I thought the same thing.
Langam Yeah there is no way its real copper lol. Also I would never buy anything used if I can help it when I build a pc I always go for new.
@@FlintG Depends what it is you're buying doesn't it?
@@FlintG I'm sure if you saw something like a gtx 2080 for half the price that someone just used for benchmarking, you would be tempted.
There is something to say when the cooler costs more than the CPU.
Actually you can get a lot of those processors for almost nothing, the don't actually worth anything in this day and age so gaining something is a win.
There is no reason to get one of those later Core 2 Duos because most boards support Core 2 Quads. A Core 2 Quad is like 10€/£10/$10 (depending on where you live)
He seems to like the lotus flower shaped CPU fans. Maybe they give him luck
Ashens: *pulls out motherboard*
Me, who knows next to nothing about computers: holy shit that looks old.
Ashens: it's VERY old!
Me: nailed it.
I have a motherboard from 1995.
EvilTurkeySlices 1997 for me
My dad probably has a couple of motherboards that old kicking around. Was exaggerating when i said i know "nothing" about computers.
I probably have 10 PCs from 1993 to today. I know first one ran games from dos(like crusader and shit)
Please give me all your old PC and i Will love u
The KingDian SSD is probably assembled from cheap SD cards.
No, it’s not. It’s a legit Sata SSD. It’s just running at Sata 2 on the old motherboard. It’s actually capable of around 500MB/s(max sata 3 speeds)
It's AliExpress
They are pretty respectable
It almost certainly lacks a DRAM Cache.
@@EvilTurkeySlices Define "Legit Sata SSD".. The flash chips used inside are very low quality, as is the controller. In addition to this its lacking any form of DRAM cache. I know this as i have used this exact dive myself. It died after a day of having Manjaro being installed on it.
@@bripbrap Legit - as "not a fake" with a USB flash or SD card inside. And not a mumbo jumbo one-day brand but at least something that has a recognizable name with at least some reviews. Still, mostly rubbish anyway.
When the case came up and I realized I have the exact same one it only strengthened my desire to get a new one
My boyfriend has the exact same one as well. I laughed my arse off when I saw it!
Tbf it doesn't look that bad, unless it looks like ashens one that got sat on by a sumo wrestler
My condolences.
I work at a computer shop, we've got newer parts in our scrap pile!
*send all to me*
and I will take a hard drive
I worked on a computer shop... but i live in brazil, man i saw shit worse than some the parts in the video
I hope that scrap pile is full of gt 710s
I want to work in a computer shot so bad...
Next years advent calander, potentially explosive computer parts!
but instead of building a pc you just eat the parts
@@MegaRookie14 Sounds perfect! Wonder how much Dan and Ashens like their Jaws?
Ashens could get everything off camera and make it all about torturing dan...
A calander of old CPUs...... not a bad idea haha
And fake graphics cards.
can't wait for PoundLand to get into build-your-own-pc genre so Mr.Ashens can have a new segment for his channel
Need to get Ashens on the next Scrapyard Wars on Linus Tech Tips
It's scrapheap challenge you uncultured swine
@@safetyfirst5917 it's scrapyard wars
Cross over of gods
Yes please.
oh my god yes
HOLY shiitt i used to watch you like 8 years ago when i was in primary school unboxing junk from poundland and i just found your channel after all these years
Welcome back
welcome back, almost nothing's changed.
@@skia-morph not even the sofa *sighs fondly*
Trent Slocum yeah, same couch and everything.
Same here only I was like 12 or some shit. Found him again yesterday and have been binging. Legit nothings changed I love it
i remember back when ashens was still eating 100 year old olives and further back
Ah yes, the good old days... Remember pop/pcp stations too?
I remember the old Chintendo Vii and Popstation reviews. Can’t forget the fakes iPhone ones
Ah, the pop station days!
Pop station popped my ashens cherry. Good times...
Graham Hambleton did it hurt?
Laughed my head off when you turned the case around.
Honestly think if you went to the WEEE section of your local municipal dump, you could probably get a better result by just bringing the chaps there a thermos of coffee and a couple of rounds of Poundland sarnies.
Yeah we throw better stuff into the WEEE waste at work constantly, I can't imagine actually paying for parts of this spec but I suppose that wasn't the point.
hi i’m american, what does this say
Good video idea
What are sarnies
@@dice6541 it's in plain english. If you can't understand your hopeless lol
Happy 10th birthday Ashens sofa
I started watching Ashens when I was 10 years old
I'm now 19 years old turning 20 in a few weeks time
Sooo HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY!! Ashens Sofa even though I'm sure you're older than that 😂😂
Ben Magikz
The Sofa was in the very first videos 12-13 years ago
AgentTasmania like i said above
(“even though i’m sure it’s older then that)”
Ben Magikz Aw we’re close in age!!!
At some point we need a review "sleeping on old sofas" just like the old food reviews.
What other places sell second hand, possibly dangerous PC parts that we can get Ashens to build gubbins out of?
CRAIGSLIST!
One of Many James-es Etsy maybe?
Oh .. craigslist..
Where some people are charging 5000$ for a pre-built that was 1.5k$ in 2014.
We dont want ashens to get shanked so maybe we should put craigslist on the side for now
ebay
I watched that time lapse carefully and he didn’t scratch his balls once. Amazing.
That's pretty much on par with my machine about 5 years ago. That machine was the end of the line I had swapped parts through for almost 20 years. It was a bit of a ship of Theseus. I think the only thing left was a single hard drive.
just like my pc - a 2012 optiplex upgraded to a modern gaming rig but its original hard drive still remains
Word of advice, the outside of an anti-static bag is often actually statically charged, as they are designed to pull the charge from inside (the black lines on the bag) so building a motherboard on one is often a bad idea. The safest way, if not building in the case, is to use the motherboard box itself, as cardboard doesn't hold a charge
You'd be surprised, us nerds like seeing a PC being built
The sexual undertones of this are highly palpable
@@BroKEnCaPSLoCk1 We always pop stiffys if we see godly hardware.
and us not so nerdy but who have a fun time making Frankenputers from random parts .....wait am I a nerd?
@@rebeccah3091 Yes! Congrats :D
This is going in the direction of the Verge, where they call the io shield a weird name, like back plate.
Every so often I randomly tune in to your channel just to see if your format has changed. Nope, same as when I subscribed a decade ago. Love it.
Your computer is so good that it turns video games into PowerPoint presentations
Powerpoint Games are actually a thing
@@RoshGMZ I made a couple in a class in 7th grade, it was fun
Yet way more interesting than any of those dreadful, superboring, lame and uninspired and zero-informing presentations on any of our medical conferences
"Kingdian" is almost certainly a ripoff of Kingston
actually dian in pingyin Chinese means palace so it might just mean king palace
True dat, true dat
"yet still I live" gotta hate it when the big twist is in the title.
"KingDian", using a Kingston-esque font.
Not dodgy at all. lol
I could smell the Dusty Burnt capacitor smell from Here at my desk when you pulled out that PSU.
I was eyeing up those MB caps as well, but they at least looked ok
"Mmm... The smell of copper and silicone particulate in the air..."
mmmm chinesium. a very specific smell.
I literally built my first PC ever yesterday, and then this is recommended to me... so, I'm quite interested to see it.
How’s your PC!
OP you can't say that and not give us a follow up
Apparently, I put it together correctly. It stills works well :)
Oh god, this is gonna be terrifying. I'm already glued to the screen
Glued... Heh.
I like this series, I had absolutely no idea about what makes up a computer and how one would put one together and I've learnt so much over these two videos. Thanks Stuart!
We need Ashens “That’s a thing” shirts... and hoodies!!
TH-camr quotes I need on a shirt include Matt McMuscles' "it's fine though", Nerd3's "this costs real money" and Ashens' "... That's a thing".
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN if youre in the smash community keitaro's "catch one of theeese" is a good one
ooo, That's a thing..... you guys realise..... That's a thing. Right?
@@yodaco Yeah? Cool!
"Who would have thought this would be a complete waste of time? Everyone."
And yet here we are. All 511 thousand of us.
I wonder if Ashens has his couch on a raised platform. I cant imagine filming videos on your knees for over 10 years.
Thought the same thing lmao
Maybe he's constantly praying for something better (and showing us why)
And going further into his 40s with each passing day
I don't think it was a waste of time, it was a cracking good video to watch. Enjoyed every second of it!
I fully appreciate you putting so much effort in something so pointless and teaching us stuff we already knew.
This is a welcome change from the typical TH-camr's build video: "We Built a Priceless Vintage / Super Powered Gaming PC from All The Parts Our Sponsors / Viewers Gave Us for Free"
Where's your livestrong bracelet? You can't stop static without fighting cancer.
No use of tweezers to tie the cables together.
PSU fan isnt facing a blank wall rather than a vent.
Didnt use three gallons of thermal paste.
The verge rates 0/10
...
*lol.*
Ashen: "This is 128gb which frankly won't cut the mustard this day and age"
MacBook Air users: *Cries in MacBook*
My MBP is several years old and has 512. How effing old is your air???
@@DanaTheInsane I don't have one personally, but apple is selling a MacBook Air with 8gb RAM and 128gb sad for $1000... A 2019 model xD
Almost all of apples non-phones are some of the biggest con jobs I've ever seen
Rip old people
PEELZboy Plays
thats just apple for you
you could probably buy something with the same specs for 600
Once you're done with that cooler, would you mind plugging it back into Tony Stark's chest?
Proof that Tony Stark has a shitty computer
OpenThisSideUp He threw it into the ocean at the end of iron man 3.
Hibub Games And ashens somehow managed to fish it out from the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
I complained, you listened and you delivered. Thank you for sharing the building process, it was just as exciting as I hoped it would be.
Modern day TH-cam PC builders: "Look at the clean, RGB bling we got from our wonderful sponsors"
Ashens: "Hold my beer"
Ashens: "Gimme a beer" 😂
Maybe I should've re-worded like this:
Modern day TH-cam PC builders: "Look what we got from our wonderful sponsors, a brand new product that looks exactly the same as the last one"
Ashens: "Look what I found on the rubbish bin of the internet; and it is as rare as a hen's tooth"
2 pointers here from a computer nerd:
RAM is very volatile when subject to heat changes and any electric shocks. There is actually no distinction of AMD/intel ram, so i have no idea what they were going for there. The only RAM that's in any way different is ECC ram, but that's only really used in servers.
The SSD read/write speeds are perfectly normal for a SATA 2 SSD, in fact, they're quite good for one at around 220/220, a standard SATA2 HDD struggles to reach 80/80.
There is no competition to an m.2 slot SSD that you have in your video editing PC and comparing them is a bit like comparing 8mm film to a VHS.
I was curious if maybe that RAM was ECC. I'm sure it would have been printed all over, though, since that stuff is quite a lot more costly.
technically there was a variation of ddr2 that worked only on amd cpus so theres that, but if its ddr3 then it got standardized there i think
I still have a P4, mobo and RAMBUS memory in my collection of old PC's
The price of 2nd hand DDR3 is actually rising.
Did you open up the SSD case? I bet there's just an SD card in there.
Edit: Well, apparently I would have lost that bet.
And a piece of rock to make it feel heftier ;)
There can't be... It's just a smaller and slower version of a typical ssd
I was just thinking that- either that or an old compact flash card.
SD cards won’t go to 200MB/s. And comparing SATA (old one especially) to an NVME SSD is a bit wrong.
The speed seemed fine for a cheap sata 2 ssd. Still faster than a HDD
I understand about 5% of this process and it’s components... I literally just watch this because I enjoy Ashens. And it’s still very enjoyable without any context.
CPU says E8400, benchmarks say E5400... Something iffy going on here.
How are your videos still as perfectly fun to watch as they were 10 years ago???
TH-camrs really be like "I built a PC out of some carrots and deodorant" whilst I'm struggling with this f***ing Jenga tower
Mind you, this thing sounds like it has the stability of a worm-eaten Jenga tower :)
I love that the RAM said "Assy in China" on it. Not the best way to write Assembly in shorthand now is it O.o
Better than Ass. in China.
The RAM was certainly ass-y.
My dad used to bring home plastic boxes that printer and plotter parts came in, they always had labels like BLUE INK ASS and S1 MOTOR ASS. It turned into a running joke with my brother and I, nouns got ASS appended to them, like "Let me borrow your pencil ass."
That sounds like someone who died, but is covering it up. Give it up, stuart! I know you've been dead since the second you touched that ox tounge!
Ox Tongue? No, it was the Picnic Bog that did it... :P
twocvbloke maybe it was the 30 year old diet coke
I thought he died by suffocation when he laughed too hard when the 'Wonderful Sound, Strange Shape' fake violin had the most hilarious Engrish in the universe.
People, he's been dead inside for years, does it really matter
That being said, he clearly did himself in with the world's sharpest knife and has been haunting TH-cam like some vengeful tat-obsessed ghost ever since
I was shocked when you turned the case around the first time, but ya know, once you get it all put together, it actually adds some character being all smashed up like that.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sent you ECC ram. (ram typically used in servers). The ram tends to be cheaper then normal ram for some reason. ECC ram typically does not work in most retail motherboards as it was designed more for server machines. You should check the labels to see if that is the case. I would imagine it would be marked as ECC ram somewhere if it was indeed ECC protected ram.
The SSD speeds are probably just fine, you got to remember that you are limited to SATA2 speeds on that old motherboard, meaning that the SSD cannot even show it's real speed even if it slower than usual good quality SATA3 SSDs.
Yep, for a cheap probably-DRAM-less SSD it puts up a pretty good effort! Worth questioning also whether or not AHCI was enabled, which might have edged out a few more MB/s... the Crucial BX500 240GB in my desktop pulls around 280MB/s read/write on a LGA1156 board w/ SATA2 & AHCI so honestly, fair play to the people at KingDian, cheap SSDs are not as shit as they once were
Bruh Sata 2 max speed is like 300mbs. The fucking ssd was 50mbs
@@Knights_of_the_Nine Bruh, the maximum speeds at 15:45 is 225R/208W which are in line with SATA2 speeds, SSDs - even the cheap ones - will do 450R/250W and over in SATA3. Not only SATA3 is faster, it also have features designed for SSD making it run smoothly which isn't really seen in static benchmarks.
The 54 in the benchmark window is the SCORE, not actual speed. And you can see that the writing speeds and the final score are higher than the reading speed/score which is the inverse of what you should see in a drive performance, except when the drive have a bottleneck in the I/O.
@@TommyCrosby guess it is a score
@@Knights_of_the_Nine no, it had a SCORE of 50. The actual speed was over 200.
Still a better PC building Vid then
*The Verge*
than*
@@tom.b4461 ohhh well done
@@Nickthegamingnerd Thank you.
And he didn't even use his wireless anti-static LiveStrong bracelet!
Aliexpress is much more professional than Wish
Ashens : meh this graphics card is just not going to set the world on fire
Phh you haven't tryed it yet Ashens..
Ok boomer
Like, are we talking literally starting a fire? Because it might actually do that...
The graphics card was more likely to set the motherboard on fire.
Wow my comment got deleted
@@mtnentertainment3454 that's what I meant
2:37 you don't actually NEED the backing plate. It was originally intended to block RF noise, but there's so much RF noise internally in the computer it makes no difference, so nowadays you only need it to know what plugs in where and to block some of the dust
That PC looks like it was shot by a Serbian sniper in the Siege of Sarajevo.
This is oddly specific
@@prylosecorsomething3194 was gonna say the same thing.
Lol this is the first comment and my parents moved from the country during the war... I loled 😂
_Sniper's Dream,_ we used to call him.
@@prylosecorsomething3194 I think he's having flashbacks.
Always enjoyed this British man doing videos on his sofa. Custom PC builds and Ashens is doing a video building one. Sign me up!!!!
16:31 The CPU is not even the Core 2 Duo E8400 by the looks of it
Back in my old job as IT technician, we had an issue with these boards and RAM. For us it was voltage, the Auto setting in the BIOS was a few points out. We had to put in a stick of less sensitive RAM, manually set the voltage for the (boxes and boxes of) RAM that we'd bought then power down and switch the sticks out.
It's always worth manually setting RAM voltage in the BIOS, particularly with memory sensitive systems like the modern Ryzens. More often than not, it side steps system instabilities and takes no effort to do.
"Used for instant messaging only"
So basically for con jobs and spam?
racist
"Hello, this is "Michael" from tech support, how may I help you today?" ...
I really love seeing old computer parts like this
"copper heatsink"
Haha, yeah, sure, definitely not anodised aluminium.
It is.
That was my exact thought as well lol
Nerd
At least it's metal,
my friend once purchased a cheap heatsink, he installed it into his computer and let it run for a little while until the PC slowed down and turned off from overheating, he checked the heatsink, it had melted/burned a bit _because it was metal-coated plastic_ instead of something reasonable like copper or aluminium
It's actually wood.
I didn’t think anything of it when he said that but in the back of my head I was like “that don’t look like copper lol” also copper would probably cost a whole lot more
“Yet still I live” ah yes what I tell myself every morning.
Linus reviewed one of the chinese coolers that looked exactly like this one, and yes it was REALLY bad.
You can get a decent name brand case for that money
Dont forget to complain to the seller and get your cash back for that RAM
Up next:
I built a PC entirely out of parts on eBay that are so old and rubbish the scalpers wouldn't dare touch them.
Although too weak for modern gaming, this PC would make an excellent retro machine. Swap out the case for one with actual drive bays, add a DVD drive, and maybe plug a 3.5" floppy into that header, install Windows XP, as well as DOSbox, and have a blast with older games.
At the same time, AliExpress has bloody amazing nail polishes and clothing incredibly cheaply (great quality, too)
Kids work almost for free so yeah clothes are cheap
and you can even get shirts printed with art stolen from Deviantart.
I've got two cases I bought around 12 to 15 years ago. One is a Lian Li and the other name I can't remember but it's something like SilverStar. One was $250 and the other one was $300. Those cases are going to outlive me they were built so well. And they make installing everything so much easier than trying to work inside of a cheap case. The only problem is they're absolute beasts size-wise, and unless I really get back into computing they're just taking up storage space. I haven't had the money to build a good PC in over 10 years now.
DDR2? Holy shit...
If my PSU was banged up like that I wouldn't put it near my PC
Was curious about Ashens' steam account so I googled it. Didn't find it, but I did discover that today is his birthday.
Happy Birthday Stuart!
I'm thinking those rams sticks that didn't work were meant for a specific OEM motherboard, they may need a higher voltage setting.
such a windows xp beast, loved the last video, loving this one aswell, too bad there aren't many sites to do this on.
reminds me that before I got rid of most of the old hardware I had laying around I could build PCs as if the parts were Lego bricks.
You're one of very few people whose voice I can hear when I see their video titles
I have a modern motherboard (brand new about 5 years ago) with a PS/2 port, I still use it for my keyboard. It allows for more keys to be pressed down at once than most USB keyboards, which is great for emulating Rock Band when you don't have a guitar controller. Also, I find my old Gateway pack-in keyboard to be of higher quality than any USB keyboard I've ever used. The keys are spaced comfortably, they have just the right amount of clickiness and travel, and it's taken quite a beating between several moves and besides being scuffed up a little, it still works like new.
The only problem is the cable feels quite short. If my couch was a few inches further from my computer, I couldn't use it (no room for an actual desk where I live right now).
HOW DARE U LIE I THOUGHT IT WAS MENT TO BE THE ALL MIGHTY CORE 2 DUO BUT LOOK AT THE BENCHMARK IN 16:37 A PENTIUM HOW DARE U ASHEN
Yeah... He went from a 3ghz dual core with a 1333mhz bus and 6mb of cache to a 2.7ghz dual core with an 800mhz bus and 2mb of cache.
That's fakes for ya.
@15:38 - smaller size SSD are a little slower ( < 128GB ). But the main reason is the old SATA standard on the old motherboard not the SSD itself ( should able to read/write ~400 MB/s ). Still ~5x faster than a typical HDD.
The "AMD RAM" thing appears to be something how AMD can run with RAM that's being run out of spec but Intel cannot. Hence the AMD RAM is cheaper.
wow i just saw a video from 2010 and then came back to this. Crazy to see how youre still making the exact same content for 10 years
I actually really loved seeing the PC building timelapse! It was fun
Really enjoyed getting to watch the build this time 🤠
1GB vram can run Skyrim,first 2 of Metro games,Amnesia,Fallout,Outlast 1,FEAR...etc. I had lot of fun using 1GB vram laptop back in the days.
Double-ended USB type-A cables are actually not allowed by the USB standard because host and client can get confused, causing power to flow improperly and possibly damage the host.
You got the E8400 but the specs show a Pentium E5400? 😂
Faked CPU.
2:26 woah, a dip 8 IC there on the right!
The pc looks like someone volleyed it
I see a Drainer here
@@crispyboy4735 yuh
The character you have on this channel is pretty special mate 👍
But like, how would it run with XP? Would this be a good way to go to build a "retro" PC for sub-WIN7 games?
I run XP Home on mine, which is very similar specs-wise, and it runs just fine. I use it for all the older software I still have that won't run on Win10.
Sometimes finding older device drivers is a bit of a challenge. But yes, you still CAN activate Windows XP.
No, because the old parts are cheaper on eBay and many parts you would be better off using new ones from a better source.
Ahh... took a break from your channel, now there's so much new to discover!
when your gt 730 comes with a molex to 6 pin connector just to not need it.
Yeah just in case
Even modern GPUs sometimes have those. I have a 1070 Ti that had one in the box.
I have finally subbed to ashens. continue with PCs (or else)