Cleaning Up My Neighbor's Old Desktop!
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My neighbor gave me his old HP Pavilion due to slowdowns and having "too may pop-ups" caused by viruses, malware and other atrocious things. Apart from an obligatory clean install (upgrade from Win Vista to 8.1), I took the opportunity to clean out his entire PC and tidy up the cable management. This was an impromptu video with no pre-production involved so hope you guys don't mind the raw format!
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2015 - Bitwit actually cleans and restores an old PC without doing any upgrades for someone
2019 - Bitwit doesn't bother and just gives them a brand new $3k PC
Deismic-Shogun you have a computer?
@@guap3228 you have a life?
@@fierce1894 You have a name?
Erik Becker you have a profile picture?
@@grimvist4552 You have friends?
Exactly 5 years later, this gets recommended to me.
Right
Same
Still a good video
Yea
Haha same
My old PC went completely unopened and uncleaned for upwards of 7 years. When I finally decided it was time to look inside I found a dead mouse in there.
Haahahha wtf
+Crosby4hyg did you try plugging it back in?
SquidPlays Yep it still worked fine. Just without the scent of crispy BBQ'd mouse.
Crosby4hyg Try sprinkling some metal wool on it, lathering it with some teriyaki sauce, and throwing a lit match on it. It should, in theory, quadruple the tastiness.
Oh wow, that should be Breaking News! PC gives birth to a mouse - hope it was a 'gaming' mouse though and not that Apple crap 😜
I had this exact PC back in the day, my first "gaming" pc that I bought upgrades for and everything, neat!
I peed on the floor
I still have it next to me with the monitor
Thomas Roulston you are cool
@@isaiah_1- thank man I do have the og mouse n keyboard but they're damaged...
@@thomasroulston8972 I still use the og mouse and keyboard on a server that has PS/2 ports haha
This is one of those videos that just feels good to watch.
ikr
Sad Ketchup Gaming Especially the cable management
my scool has i7 6700's lol
Marky your school must either be private and not a public school where you have to pay or you live somewhere where rich people live
Public school not rich lol idk how they have i7 6700's
This is why I like your channel, you're a good guy instead of just telling him to upgrade and move you took the time to help out more "nerds" and "geeks" need to do stuff like that hell me included. Keep up the great work. Also the GTA taxi videos and System Config videos are fantastic.
Side note I hate when I hit fans to always feel like I just broke everything.
nucleard3 thanks nuclear :)
BEWARE THE FANS!
Wait a minute. I am fan, don't hit me
The one time I nicked a fan it cut my finger open to the point where I had to get a couple stitches. When they asked me what I did, I said I cut it while working on my car's engine, just to feel a little bit more manly..
nucleard3 All things considered though. his electric company may not agree lol. I think even used system upgrade was maybe more favorable. Lower power needs = smaller electric bill. That old ass AMD chip has got to be spiking the hell out of his energy costs.. Awesomesauce Network With that, he seems to know how to take care of his things so, I don't think a reasonable upgrade is out of the question but, yeah, it warms my heart to see my generation helping out their neighbors.
***** It was a 65 watt chip in 2005/6? when it dropped. I can assure you that thing is sucking out more than the specs tell you. The kind of power regulation that exists today did not exist in 2005/6. With that, in all of these years, that system just ain't what it use to be despite it's lack of heavy usage.
Ah yes, the old era of PC where they weren't meant to be looked inside by their users.
🤣🤣🤣
No kidding! I have one older than this and this one is much more accessible than mine...these things are beasts tho. Mine has no upgrades or extra stuff but I can run raytracers in MC. I think the most upgrade I have is a wireless mouse lmao
Elly I’m just about to get one with no upgrades or anything and I was worried about being able to play games (mainly Minecraft) so good to know
@@elly6350 ?? A pc older than the one in the video cannot do raytracing in minecraft, I had a hd 5870, one of the fastest gpus in the world when it came out and that was two years newer than this pc. That couldn’t do good shaders in minecraft let alone raytracing
"I deep cleeded the shi- crap out of both of those things" Gotta keep the cahnnel family friendly lol
I was about to comment this. Glad I found yours already 😂
@7033Joe are you 4? Hes an adult his channel isnt geared towards kids
SaucyShark I don’t really think he was implying the channel was geared towards kids
@@dozyFPSYes he was.
SaucyShark Well although it’s not geared for kids I’d still say it’s family friendly. The point 7033Joe was trying to make is how he contradicts himself.
I wish I had those cable management skills
Me too
Yea,holy shit,this is exactly what i need,i have the same box and cables for like 10 years and although my rig is pretty good right now after all these years taking the PC to an-lets say-expert on these things,the cables are really fucked up,like 3 times worst than this one and now adays that i am getting into hardware and stuff i am really having a hard time with this thing...
I jam the excess into a random HDD bay and seems to work well if you don't have a way to route them
+Peter Kapica What do you do with the plug heads?
EarFarce4 either plug them on the mobo or jam it into a random space in the case
He probably asked you cause he saw your videos and thought you'd install an i7 6700k and GTX 1080
Yeah, hshaha.
😂😂
Maxeeyy ikr lol
he was about to install some goodies DDR but that Dinosaur didn't accept it 😔
Sukkulents lol
Wait... you gave an older person... Windows 8.1? Oh boy, expect a lot of phone calls. They'll be so confused! :P
I'd have gone for Windows 7.
Mrvideosandgames Windows 7 uses more ram than 8.1
UKcuber Quite possibly, but it can run quite comfortably on 2GB and at least this neighbour would actually know how to use it. I tried Windows 8 in a shop and just gave up in the end.
Mrvideosandgames you aren't very intuitive are you? i was on windows 7 for 5 years and on windows 8.1 and i can make windows 8.1 almost like windows 7 within just the default programs setting page. honestly i prefer the windows 8 start screen. windows 10's is a disaster
Rusty Nugget Maybe you can teach me then. How do I access Notepad?
Mrvideosandgames hit windows key type n?
If that hard drive is as old as the computer, it should have probably been replaced. An SSD would have given this PC a good boost in day-to-day performance.
Yes maybe, but the value of that ssd is probably worth more then the whole system, and the speed would be limited by the slow harddrive controller. He would be lucky if you could max the speed at 100 mb/s, but i doubt that it would get that fast.
Some old pc's are surprisingly fast even with old hdd's as long as the os is clean and hdd is in good shape. I have old amd pc from 2004 that i used a lot for gaming back then, i recently booted it up again and was surprised at how smooth it is.
Win xp on it boots almost as quick as my ssd gaming rig and it still uses the original hdd from 2004, it does have 3GB of ram.
this was in 2015, ssds were so damn expensive back then
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@@vinbinjil ok
Did you install adblock for the guy as well?
:)
An SSD would have been great for this. Cheap neighbor.
SSD probably isn't compatible with this machine.
+Ron K basically if you have SATA connectors on your motherboard you can have an SSD (my old 2004 HP has SATA 1 so I could put one in there if I wanted to even though SATA 1 is slow)
whilst it would be capable of using an ssd it certainly wouldnt be running at the fastest possible speeds but i think boot times are less important for this user aswell and i think more ram and a new cpu would fair much better. given how boged down the cpu managed to get simply watching youtube
If I were you, I would've installed adblock on the computer, that way he doesn't click on any shady ass ads.
+Jesse James Berryere yes but just click on the icon in top left and press disable on this site so every time you go on the site it's disabled I think it's only with Adblock Plus which is What i use
adblock and WOT and tell him the yellow and red circles next to sites are bad
I fear that the owner will just mess up the PC again.
+Kaarel Kahu You bet it. 2 years is enough for him/her to mess up the PC.
+Kaarel Kahu Zerg master race
+Kaarel Kahu I would just put some virtuallization software like Returnil on it, autoclean system on everyboot (well actually all changes to the C drive are cached to a file instead of actually written to the C drive. Upon reboot that cache file is deleted so everything reverts back to the original state. Really awesome for people who just like to click all those popup add links. All you have to do to make sure foto's and stuff aren't wiped is splitting the drive in two partitions and move the Documents folder to the second one. Did that on my dads PC after the firsttime I had to devirus it(he had only been using it for 3 months or so) after installing that he used that system for 3 years without any virus problems :)
+WB IsMe More like 3 weeks. Some people just have no common sense.
+Robert Phoenix great idea there!
HP: "our cable management is worse than Dell's."
True the older Optiplexes were much better than this.
I wish I never threw out my first PC build from 1998... I remember how much I loved that thing. I worked my ass off for several months, just to pay for it. Running Windows 98 and exploring everything, right down to Paint and Wordpad.. Then eventually playing my very first PC games, Creatures 2 a trial version of Monster Truck Madness and at some point, the very first Half Life game, which forced me to go out and buy my first AGP video card just to run it. .....And then... the internet. It's crazy how fast time goes by.... I was around 20 years old at that time.
Man those days were awesome. My very first computer, back when computers were normally only obtained by brainy people, looking to further expand their horizon with higher learning... Aka, the time before social media took over as the prime purpose, for owning a pc. Or so it seemed that way. It's good to see there are so many folks out there doing things like this and sharing the wealth of knowledge with so many strangers, for the greater good.
Nar Comic Underworld nice. I remember finding my old Win98 machine in the basement
I started even younger, I was about 12 when I got my dad's old collage computer. It was a old 486 dx2. He pushed that little machine hard, ran windows 3.1 ultimately and then he upgraded to a pentium. When I got that mom decided to put the collage computer on our back porch and well that was the end of that. Pretty sure small rodents and other bugs got in and did their thing inside with the wiring and IDE cables. Built my first PC when I was about 14. Dad thought one of his old machines was dead, I took it and fixed it and used it for many more years. That's when I really started to learn how computers ticked. But I couldn't buy my own parts until I was most of the way through high school since my family didn't have much money. Dad won his disability case and I don't remember the reason why I was to get 4k but I did and I ended up spending a majority of that money on a totally new PC that I built myself. Windows 2000 and it was a high speed Celeron D cpu. I don't remember how much ram it had though; at that time I was totally into Counter-Strike: Condition Zero...man I feel old....
Also, if your '98 system is sluggish, there are Linux distros that make it like new!
Good old days of dial-up internet indeed! I miss playing half-life, CS and Pokemon on my pentium iii powered PC.
I was 6 when my dad bought our first PC back in '98 (mainly due to us having a PC in primary school) sporting a P200 MMX , 64MB of RAM, ATI Rage video card and a 4 gig hard drive. That was like a whole new world to little me back then. Playing games like Settlers 3, Dethkarz or Age of Empires 2. It ended up being replaced by a P4 machine in 2002
Meanwhile I can't even help my neighbours out with the lawn
I'd rather help with a computer then cut the lawn. With a computer you can have an AC nearby
I think most people would, but that wasn't his point haha.
I refuse to do things like this, something always goes wrong down the line and they look at me like its my fault. I was given a machine that would only turn on half the time, i got it running again (not well, needed parts replacing) they werent willing to spend money on it, and when it busted fully and wouldnt turn on at all, they started talking to people how i broke their machine.
Chris Roberts I couldn't agree more. Being into PCs, and all electronics in general, I always have friends wanting me to take a look at their stuff. I usually always turn them down for this exact reason. They hand you a pile of shit and you get it working again, and down the road, when it craps, they blame you. And it's like, dude, it was a pile of shit when you gave it to me, how can you possibly think that I am responsible for it dying...
TooBokoo
So true lol
TooBokoo about 3 months ago a neighbor asked me to fix his computer. I checked it out and when I saw it the computer wasn't really worth the fix. 1 stick of RAM didn't work and I think it was an old Celeron. I told him about it and I told him that for $150, I wasn't going to charge him for labor before I forget to mention, I could rebuild it and make it into a better PC than it was before. I used the old case, optical drive and HDD but I gave him an old Corsair PSU. The only things that I bought was a AMD A10-7700K, a Gigabyte A68H and 8GB of RAM & once I put it together I gave it back to him and the next day he told me about how much better it was compared to how it was before. I was upfront with him and I guess he liked the honesty compared to how Geek Squad would charge him more than that just to look at it.
Chris Roberts probably the PSU.
i luv how the montage of him cleaning has super crazy music but when showing it off it’s just super soft classical music
awwh I hope you added AdBlock.
he's a TH-camr... why would he?
@@yokakeshinowakane fucking moron
The awkward moment when you realize that your neighbour has a zoophilia fetish. lol
Razear what.
Razear yea what is a zoophilia fetish? Sounds like a thing only creeps know of
Razear Can you expand on that headline. I got really curious. I know what It means i just need the story around. :)
Brandon Connell So from your explanation it is: zoophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent zoo's, generally age 11 years or younger.
You know, there's a term for an animal fetish, it's called beastiality. Not sure if that's what the OP was referring to by "zoo"
Ro-Tang Clan I think beastiality is the actual act of sexual intercourse with an animal.
"philia" is greek for "love" if I remember right and just describes a sexual attraction towards something. In combination with pedo, it refers to a sexual attraction towards children. So with zoo (greek for "animal") it would be a sexual attraction towards animals.
So zoophilia should be a perfectly fine term to use.
my school computers have 512 megabytes of ddr1
holy shit
Phoenix Ward it sucks
XPGaming My school has the same specs yet they run slow as hell
you can barely turn on without screaming please kill me
The ones at my school are not 7. I don't know what they are, but people try to update to 10 which doesn't help
7:35
"And I deep cleaned the sh-crap out"
Almost man almost
On a trip to the dump to get rid of an old CRT TV, I was directed to a container designated for that purpose. Along with the old TV's were dozens of orphaned computers. When the guy wasn't looking, I loaded 4 of them into my car and later went back for more.
All of them, without exception, were there for clogged or corrupted operating systems. I am not especially computer savvy but I was able to load up a free Linux OS and any school kid should love one of these for a start-up.
Wait for a dry period without rain for the best yield.
+Larkinchance hahahahahhahahahh
+Larkinchance When I went there I was ditching other scraps and saw some microwaves stacked up. I like the parts, so I asked if I could have them but they said no and that they couldn't get it for me :( I didn't just take them because they were really at the other side of the building and there were a few machines running.
+Jess Vagnar You must be crafty because they will always say no.. I do it when I am discarding a CRT TV.. They charge me $10 for the privilege and when they are not looking, I load a few computers in the back. They go to Asia and they receive a bulk rate for them but they could just as easily let people like us have the pick for $10 or $20 each before they ship it off.. .
Larkinchance
Hot dang that's expensive! All of mine are free, my state has an electronics bill that prevents enclosed electronics from being thrown into the landfills so they offer free removal at the facility. Unfortunately where I am now uses a huge facility, so the physical gap is too large to stealthily grab a few components! Good for you though!
+Larkinchance I used to work at a second hand store so we went to the dump several times a week and I got to know the people working at the dump so when I saw an old computer I was allowed to take it, at one time I had around 25+ Pentium 4 rigs in my kitchen that I fixed up and sold for around 150-200$ each (this was back in 2009) =)
Waits for neighbor to complain about windows 8 being confusing and terrible.
Micheal Muñoz then asks if they should buy an Apple lmao! If I had a penny for each time!
still better than Vista tho
Michael Lopez yes old people are terrible at running pc's. And kyle changed the windows 😂😂 kyle should have installed win 7 on it
Win is not that bad
the computer came with win Vista LOL, 8 should be amazing in comparison
Kyle, I could tell you some crazy stories and show some disgusting pictures of computers I fixed for Geek Squad and Staples. I've seen everything from dead cockroaches to living spiders and even a dead mouse... And I'm not talking about the peripheral.
ExiliousX And incase you're wondering, the retail cost for the service you just performed would be $200 + the cost of the OS.
ExiliousX You're not lying, when I first started building PC's it stopped working and went super slow after 2 weeks so my first thought was that it was the motherboard the way it acted. I had no test equipment to check anything so I called up geeksquad because it was my first build and I figured they would know way more than me. I told them what was happening and what my opinion was (that I thought it was the wiring on the motherboard), at that point it wouldn't even boot up anymore, just stay black. they said it would be 200$ just to look at it. I called a computer specialty place 1 block away from bestbuy and asked if I could bring in my pc for him to go over it and he said yea but didn't know the price. I went there and he went over the wiring taking 2 hours for all the checks and determined (after connecting the HDD up to his diagnostic equipment) that it was a bad hard drive. Charged me 25$ so I gave him 50$ as a tip for him not trying to screw me over with price. I didn't think it was the hard drive because I had bought the hard drive 1 week before and it was brand new so I ruled it out early. Now I repair peoples PC/laptops free unless it's a repeat person, the ones that constantly let their kids get on the computer and let them download things like limewire (yes I still see pc's with that installed) or other things I have told them not to do like clicking yes without reading when installing programs. At that point I usually charge 20 bucks. Its fun for me to repair peoples PC because when they get them back it's like it came from the factory again (minus bloatware of course).
ExiliousX 300 dollars? they'd almost be better off spending 400 on a new PC. lol
***** yea its fun to play with technology all day.
***** nice, you will have fun. You should check out this website it is pretty useful for new people and maybe veterans www.pcityourself.com/building/introduction.php
less than 4GB of ram on Windows 8 is just madness. As a pc guy you should know that
ANYTHING other than 4GB of RAM exactly on any 32-bit install is madness. .-.
@@ProjectRetro288 Installing a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit CPU is madness. Later Pentium 4 processors and Athlon 64 processors have x86-64 instructions so it just makes sense to use it.
I have a 2GB ram laptop...
With 32GB of non-upgradable storage...
And a *Celeron N2840*...
On a 64-bit install of Windows...
To say the least, I need a upgrade.
It's vista. Not win 8.
@@FeuerblutRM You didn't watch the video, did you?
Even added thermal paste for him for no cost!
its not so expensive and when you buy it you get a lot of it and you only have to use a little bit
he made a lot of money from this video so he might need to give that neighbour some money
My two favorite things: technology and DDLC
Well, I only watched like 2 or 3 videos of this guy, but I'm fairly sure he has a sufficient supply of thermal paste. Idk which he uses, but usually they are like 5-10 dollars a tube, and one tube lasts, depends a lot of course, but usually you can apply it like 10 times or so.
You can get it for a dollar.
You did him a favour? 1.4 mil views sounds like he did you a favour ultimately. ;)
He could have built him a new computer with all the views lol
Killeemegeee *2 mil
Breathing exercises to heal the body
Jealous little bitch
No ads :(
If you'd have upgraded it you would've been the best neighbour ever
lolugbenga Yeah, but sadly he couldn't without spending a lot of money, and I doubt the neighbor would have cared too much.
SilverSageVII that's fair enough, I don't want to belittle what he did in anyway. He defo is a nice guy. I just meant it would've been amazing of him to upgrade it :)
lolugbenga I didn't take it that way at all. Yeah I agree, it would have been cool to upgrade it. :)
lolugbenga Put a Titan X in it
lolugbenga I would say installing (legit) windows 8.1 is an upgrade...
Kyle: "What did you use Kazaa for?"
Neighbor: ...
interlinked Media Haha! I had Kazaa. I forgot about it.
Wow the good old days before torrents
Strangely satisfying, also dude your wiring looks professionally done. Wish I could wire that good.
"And I deep cleaned the shi....crap out of both of those things" lol
that vista sticker almost gave me a heart attack...
+Carlos Maggoo ikr
+Carlos Maggoo Why? Just turn off all the visual gadgets in the system advanced performance options and it works as well as XP did. The old guy is just using the system to browse the internet as far as I could tell from the video. Vista would be OK for that as long as new security patches are still released for it.
Vista isn't that bad, I'm currently using a PC with Windows vista, and it's fine.
Better than 8.1 lol
+Robert Phoenix it's a joke because vista is crap
I cleaned my pc and first time cleaning was fun.
This pc and my pc is same.
You should have given him your Titan X.
was half expecting to see 320gb of porn on his hdd but apparently not
lol
AYY LMAO
Lance Leander Cembrano 'clean your mouth'
Shannon Field lol ikr
this was a joke
lets do a battlefield 1 benchmark!!!
lauboy de gamer nederlaaanddd
Allahu allahkar
PC Owner: Runs battlefield 1 bechmark
Pc: boots up to a screen saying "I refuse to turn on" ... explodes
fps: blue screen of death
6000+, 4x 2GB, SSD, SATA optical drive to ditch the IDE cable, and a modern gfx card. Load 10, done. Love the cable management on the HP tower, made me chuckle after working on so many of those things over the years haha
I wish i was your neighbor o.o I have a first gen 10 year old pc with an intel pentium dual core, 1gb of ram and a gpu that can't even handle minecraft..
MMOderator install windows 7, put a 750ti and more ram in it, it'll run crysis
It costs like $150 though..
And i'm poor lol
MMOderator ram is 10 bucks on eBay and a 750ti is 100 bucks
First World Problems...
My dad has pretty much the same problem, but there isn't any rescue for his PC. He has a Intel Pentium 4 single core CPU, 512MB of RAM, and apart from the CPU cooler no fans at all. So, I build him a new system, which he'll probably get at monday :)
Senzelian If you don't mind, can i know the specs?
Nickx G3258, 12GB Corsair XMS3, z87-G43
Senzelian no graphics card?, i mean all systems be it a basic build will benefit from some form of GPU.
gamer1000% Well, he doesn't even know how much that stuff is worth :P It wouldn't be very interesting to watch.
The Lazy Dreanei He doesn't need it. He is only checking his mails from time to time and surfing the web. He doesn't even watch videos.
The death of IDE the best thing to happen to pc builders since the invention of the PC.
When I do these for people, I switch it to Lubuntu if they are cool with it because it frees up so much of that used cpu and ram for the actual programs.
You'd be amazed at what $100-$140 bucks can do for an old computer when you do these clean ups.
Add that extra bit of ram and a small SSD or a very cheap GPU if the system is way old. ( Silent 6450 Radeon last one I pepped up, under $40 ).
120MB SSD under $40 now. Max the old DDR2 or DDR3 for a few bucks. $15-$30. (Can go a little higher if you got DDR3 going for 16MB on a not so old comp)
Cheap $30 GPU if it didn't already have one. It's over kill for Lubuntu and it's easy for people to use it since it's like a much better version of windows xp.
Great for old computers that the kids will use for homework, TH-cam in HD, emulators, kid games on steam.
Windows 8 is a mistake to me for this old of computer. ( Windows 7 ok if you must have windows. )
Hope this helps a few people with some ideas on cheap upgrade/fix of old garage comps.
IrelandVonVicious thanks it really did
People who are susceptible to putting all this junk on their Windows PCs are prime candidates for Linux.
I picked up a good condition AMD HD7770 a 1GB DX12 card, for £7.80 inc P+P, first bid on an auction
@@mattyfrommacc1554 That is a nice pick up.
That system is MINT!! Today I decided to blow out my old thrift store HP tower with compressed air without taking anything out or disconnecting it and the there was so much dust that it went everywhere even though the system visually is clean.
Peter Kapica What thrift store is that? You can't find a computer in California under $30... Even terrible ones.
Rods Ahed Salvation Army. Got it for 10 bucks and I Live in Illinois
Great job installing windows 8, he will definetly know how to use it.
oh shit, my parents used to use weatherbug back when we had windows 98
There's something very satisfying about restoring an older unit like you did here. Back up any documents, pics, etc. Thoroughly clean the inside and outside, remove heat sinks and deep clean them,( i use non chlorinated brake cleaner) and put fresh thermal paste on CPU heat sink, neatly organize the wiring (gotta love colored zip ties). I don't have access to any Windows op systems so i install Linux Lite 3.8. I buy lots of parts and assorted RAM at goodwill for pennies on the dollar which is also fun to do. I could do this all day.......... Thank you for the video my friend :-)
5:43 that was an awesome edit
"Hey dude could u fix my chrome book?", sure I can! "Comes out with acer predator" here u go!
My HP Pavilion a6442p looks EXACTLY like that tower on the outside! That a6030n was probably released at the same time as the a6442p. Except with mine, I have upgraded the system with a GTX 950, 430w power supply, and a Core 2 Quad Q9550. It runs modern games really well!
***** Nice
TheAppleMacsterRace its better then nothing
TheAppleMacsterRace and I game on a 10 year old pentium D. Its an HP too
That is actually a pretty good setup! The one thing that makes wonder is how 10 year old cpus (by 10 year old cpus I mean Core 2 Quads) are still able to run games so well when paired with modern GPUs? I'm going to try helping a friend upgrade Dell Dimension 9200 which has Vista and a Core 2 Duo. At the heart of the upgrade will be a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Combined with 8gb DDR2, Windows 10, and if all goes well, a GTX 1050, do you think it could run modern games?
NJ Sullyalex yes just make sure the card isn't too powerful. The 1050 is similar to a 950-960
Checks PC Hardrive
*Opens 500gb of Innapropriate anime*
Bit : What treasures are here.....
Lol
FAKE
Chrome isn't using 3GB of RAM.
Nice video though, would like to see more x3
You must sacrifice it to gaben
Nice video.
I also refurbish old computers myself.
- I clean them;
- where possible i name a upgrade:
- the i reinstall them:
- and of i’m done, i sell them to poor people for low money.
me too
This is the first time I have seen a mobo inserted upside down into the chassis of a computer and probably won't be the last. You learn something everyday.
that pc is still pretty usable if it has 4 gb of ram and win10 and a gt 730/740 for modern games and a lot of stuff i have the 6000+ version of that processor and its pretty usable and fast when coupled with 3 gb minimum of ram and a medium gpu
I'm still saving up its been two years I'm getting a
Intel i5 6600k 3.5ghz
8gb ram
Gtx 750ti
2tb hhd
100gb ssd
XP is better than 10 lol
@@jazzhandsdan hope you didnt buy the 750ti
4gbs ram
new hdd or ssd if possible
windows 7 or 10
just those things should wake the machine up some more especially an SSD and windows 10
The HDD is fine. I'm actually surprised that a 7200RPM 400GB Hitachi Deskstar has lasted me 8 years. I don't think an SSD will do this PC any good.
Definitely needs more RAM and an upgrade to any 64-bit Windows.
Lapine Vision One of my HDDs has 14-16 years and it runs fine. Althrough it's very loud in the first 30 seconds when I power on the computer.
Tutoriale și jocuri interesante i believe thats pain, or "kill me" in hard drive speak
NonsensicalSpudz After those 30 seconds it's quiet. Oh, forgot to mention that the case isn't too stable and vibrates a lot. And it has Windows XP, but the computer came with Windows 98 or 2000 because it has a 99s AMD Sempron.
+Lapine Block SSDs make a major difference. I now have SSDs in all three computers that I use on a regular basis. In fact, one of those computers is going on 11 years old, and the SSD really helped its temperatures, removed the noise of an HDD, and is keeping it snappier.
Should've went with windows 7 :\
He is probably going to hate not having a start menu, unless he does not use the start menu..for some reason
ClassicShell should work fine in that case.
Angelo Mayer Plus M$ put the start button back in windows as of 8.1.
GGamer720 yep, I use that and I dont even see metro at all anymore. most can't even tell it's a win8 from the looks.
Angelo Mayer Windows 7 is the worst windows ever created....
***** What kind of ignorant statement is that lmao
I just gotta say it's awesome to finally see a video with "repair"/"restoration" in the title that isn't just ripping everything out and dropping a $2000 system into a cheap OEM case and pretending it isn't a build log.
Just realized that this video was released exactly a year ago.
Same
+-Rospiracy- at one point in that day it was exact
Be careful when helping old people with their computers. They will ask for your help again and again and again... For free. Beware of relatives too. Nice video and gesture though. :)
This was a nice gesture, subbed. Keep up the vids man.
Welcome to the channel neyo
My pleasure dude, actually replying I like to see that from youtubers; not so common these days :P stay cool.
+neyo509 youtubers always reply. They reply to as many comments as possible. If he doesn't reply to you doesn't mean he isn't replying in general. I mean u can't read comments all day if you got videos to edit right? :D
+Mr.Skipps shh bby
***** U W0T M8
I have a fairly older PC almost as old as your neighbors. And i keep it perfectly clean, never had any issue's. But, All in all you did a very nice thing for your neighbor, and a very good neat job, looks great, and clearly runs allot more efficiently. Thanks for doing that for your neighbor, and for making this video.
I find this video to be quite stupid, and a time waster in my opinion.
This is what I do when I help my friends / family clean / greatly increase the speed of their computers:
1) Tell them to buy a large USB or external drive, and to put all of their documents, pictures, and anything else important onto it.
2) Warn them that everything will be deleted
3) Do a fresh FACTORY RESET on the PC, and when installing windows BE SURE TO REFORMAT THE HARD DRIVE (if xp or vista, install Windows 7 or 10)
4) Install GPU (Graphics) drivers, and network drivers (if needed), and all other important drivers (typically you don't need much more)
5) If the PC came with Windows 7 or 8, you should think about upgrading to 10 as it DOES speed up the PC quite a bit (7 not so much)
6) Turn off Windows Security, UAC, Defender, Cortana, etc. (they are mainly just there to annoy you)
7) Uninstall all-pre-installed apps like Nortan, HP, and all the other shit (google it if you don't know what it is)
8) Install Google Chrome AND ad-blocker and set it as the default explorer (tell the user to NEVER USE INTERNET EXPLORER)
9) Install CCleaner, and tell the user to run it once every 2 weeks, and to also run the registry cleaner
10) WELL DONE, be sure to collect $200 once you past Go.
Seriously though, if you follow these steps your parents, your grandparents, and your great grandparents will start using their PCs more, and be VERY HAPPY and think you are some sort of genius. Most people in the world are bogged down by ads, malware, viruses, and programs that constantly interfere with what's most important.....(porn)
Side Note: You may wonder "what about anti-virus?!?!?!?" well in reality most people don't need to worry about viruses UNLESS they are using Internet Explorer, Downloading Unpopular Torrents, or going to shady sites to install weird programs (like hacks for games). Most people just browse the internet, check emails, and watch videos, you don't need anti-virus for that.
GamingTaylor Google Chrome? You better put 8GB ram on it if you want to run GC...
Amd whats wrong with Explorer? I always used it and it wasn't slow at all. Is a great web browser, it just lacks of some details, but for the most part is a decent browser.
Now you can't use CCleaner anymore, hackers have succeeded to put a malware in the installation exe, possibly making your computer a zombie for their attacks, though the main goal was to infect company pcs to steal data. It may never bother you, but having that on your PC is not a thing i like. All CCleaner installed since mid-july or so have this malware (i don't remember the version number).
Edge right now is a very good browser.
OMG that's the exact same case I had to put my parts into XD. (it was that or a cardboard box)(my friend gave me his old parts)
That's also the same CPU I found in my dad's old computer, what a fucking coincidence.
+D1V15OR his neighbour is your daf
I want to see someone build a pc in a cardboard box now
TurTleguy123r ok I'll do it
i bet its broke again
David Power lol
I love those late 2000's HP's. I still use my HP Pavilion desktop from 2009 which was a Windows 7 system until I upgraded to Windows 10 a few weeks ago, and the OS runs just fine on it. From the factory it has a AMD quad core processor and 8 GB of RAM. Right after I bought it I put in a 750 watt PSU, a Raedon HD graphics card, and put in a bigger case fan. The thing was a beast for it's time and I will continue to use it.
I still have my 2007 PC running, Petium D with 2gb of 667mhz DDR2 and GT9500 with 512mb of DDR2, my little brother use it to play minecraft on 1024x768 resolution and it works just fine
Core 2 Duo e6300
3GB RAM
GeForce 7300LE
ol times
Please buy some more and faster ram! Its not expensive to buy 8gigs of 1600mhz ram, and it will speed up your pc!
Huntace Currently I have a new case, but for the old case you cant get 1600mhz RAM because it will be DDR3 and the old board/cpu only supports DDR2
Huntace sure,.but who know if there is any board that will support that kind of ram xD ... and eight gigs are way to mouch for a pentium D rig... if can remember, a pentium d supports up to 800mhz ram .. dunno how much ... and i guess no ddr3 anyways
Seen this video about 4 times...
Going in for my 5th
Why??
poweriso haha
"Cleaning Up My Neighbor's Old Desktop!"
*Puts new power supply and puts gtx 1080ti inside*
Ok
Dawid Jandzinski I don’t think you got the joke
2:08
" Wow a dual core processor"
I would love to hear that from him today😂😂
Remember ProDOS? Remember when that was a thing? Lol, how about Windows 3.1? Are you even old enough to have used it? How many in this room were there in those days?
Windows Me at home, Windows 98SE at school, back around 2001-2003. Just cleaned out the WinMe machine after not touching it for several years, hopefully I can get some old games running on it again.
Not only have floppy of 3.1 install, have DOS 6 install disks. Yah, I remember!
Oh crap there people in the roome with me apparently
NT 3.51, Windows 3.1 / 3.11 Workgroup, Netware, Banyan, OS/2, and I 100% won't forget installing and formatting dog slow ST-506 drives, and then installing MS-DOS 5, and upgrades to 6.22, then 3.11, and then 95 OSR1 (A) all on 3.5" floppies. 9.6/14.4Kilobaud modems, Western Digital Video, using a floppy drive to set the parameters in the IBM PS systems. Dot Matrix and Daisy Wheel printers, Tandy 1000, C64, Atari ST, 12" VGA 640x480 256 Color was a luxury. Ahh, today just seems so different from then. I think that it was just more exciting then and that the novelty has worn off for me now.
alas i am that old my moms first pc was a win 3.11 when win 95 had been out for a while. when i was in school we had the old ibms and apple with the green screen ctr monitor . i didn't know enough about computers then to find out what models they where.
Hi Kyle, I have a question. What did you put under the heat sink on top of the CPU before you screwed it back on? It looked like something from a tube.
Great Vids! Thanks!
Yup, that's thermal paste! which is needed to facilitate thermal conductivity between the CPU and heatsink
+Kaley Brenner Don't try to start a pc without a cpu cooler or without the thermal paste ;)
+ILIKECATZNCHEEZBURGERZWITHCHEEZSHAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAICOULDGOONLIKETHIS4EVERBUTIHAZTOGONOWBYE More Importantly, Don't start building a pc without a cpu cooler AND a thermal paste
+Awesomesauce Network where to buy thermal paste
FPSNerd 768 any computer store and amazon sells them
I like these kind of videos, you should do that more often. Also, may I ask what you did to prevent future maleware problems? Did you install Anti Malewarebytes or something similar?
I'm using a restored 2008 pc now :)
right now.
Swapped out two fried motherboards, the CPU cooler, the CPU itself, Got some new RAM, stuck in a 2015 Gigabyte NVidia GeForce 650 Ti, using the original power supply, keeping the drives (and adding an SSD), using the old fans (and stuffing a lot of 2015 fans in).
Doesn't even check if everything's compatible, and it works.
You should of installed adblock so he wouldn't get all the viruses all over again.
As a PC Technician that actually likes fixing people's broken shit (message me if you need some shit fixed :D), this is porn.
this is my current use PC :(
Thomas Garixk SAME! xD
TrentPlaysGames
Get help
Same... expect im buying a new motherboard, cpu, ram, and gpu because all of that is basically worthless!
Thomas Garixk his PC is better than my laptop :(
Bud then buy a new pc haha
lol...bought this unit in 2009 since then changed video card and hard drive and still runs like new .Using it as backup storage to my current desktops.
Plot twist: The makeover was at regular speed.
Lol
FKProds
FKProds I have the same computer but when I turn it on the monitor says that I need to check the cooling fan. What do I do
Coffee filters best cleaner tool?
micro fibers
+Magic ASMR compressor is the best one actually
FIRST - replace the CMOS battery; it's undoubtedly dead by now. Next, that motherboard supports SATA (three available ports just above the IDE connector on the motherboard and the existing hard drive is SATA). Get an SSD and install the OS on that. Replace the existing 320 GB hard drive with something larger. Install either a GTX 750 Ti or a GT 1030 (whichever is cheaper). Add a USB 3.0 card in that PCI-E x1 slot. Replace the power supply before it destroys the whole thing. Max out the RAM (8 GB DDR2 according to HP specs). If you're feeling squirrelly, swap out the DVD-RW with something less primitive (and a SATA cable, too).
Keep in mind, Kyle did what he did while spending NO MONEY, and that's a pretty good bargain.
Why? An ssd? on a sata 1 mb and usb 3.0 card both A waste of time. Spend the money on a better used cpu , ram, Off Fleebay. In the First place you need the hd/ssd on a sata 3 card To see and take advantage of the usb 3.0 speed card. How much money are you going to spend on that alone... Remember the owner is not a pc guy.... He would be just happy with little more speed AE: a better cpu and more ram. and he would see it as a faster computer.. For low money...
This was like 3 years ago. They didn't even have the GT 1030 and the only thing the guy does is probably just surf the web. He doesn't need a gpu.
I am not exaggerating, but I've watched this video more than 10 times, its just so satisfying to watch as I also love revamping old PC or a new one for friends or family and it's awesome
Double the Ram, Windows 7 or Windows 10 ( with a cheap OEM licence key ) and perhaps a 60GB SSD for the OS too would be worth it too perhaps ?
9:56 You're going to put DDR3 in a DDR2 motherboard? WTF? Look, I just found some 120GB SSDs new on eBay for $20-25. I also got 8GB of DDR2 for $29.00 not long ago. Max out the RAM, put one of those new SSDs in there, load it with Windows 10, and he'd be really happy.
This video was from 2015 when SSDs were probably still quite expensive, and I doubt that the neighbour would want to have his pc missing for longer than it needs to & I highly doubt that the computer would even be able to handle Windows 10.
"What OS does it use?"
"Uhm.. VISTA!"
"We are going to die!"
I have this same PC I brought it back in 2007 and I still have it, it works fine for Browsing the net, watching TH-cam, using MS words, basically nothing to crazy.
2gb of ram?! Holy shit that is a sin
Stfu lance your going on everyones comments and saying that you 5 yr old
The power supply is a time bomb.
+WB IsMe ye ikr
It is; I had to get a new one
+Lapine Vision same for me it just stopped working. Got a corsair one hope it works better
Nope, it's not. I have an older HP PC which has a very similar Bestec PSU and it was never replaced. It still works fine today, for about 10 years or so
My gaming rig is a monitor plugged into an actual potato (I pushed one end of the vga into a Sainsbury's potato
DinoDan That beats an i7-7700k with 4 Titan X's with 128 gigs of RAM!
Naaleppi You can't have 128GB of RAM with a 7700k
Gabe Newell I think u can lol
This was the first video that I watched from Bitwit. Time passes really fast...
Hi Kyle its me your neighbor, just keep it ;)
Thanks for the vid. I'm typing these comments on almost the twin of the HP Pavilion Elite of the same age that I am still using (in 2017) as my daily driver. It's running Intel Quad Core CPUs instead of AMD but otherwise same original specs. Course now mine has been upgraded with a 240GB SSD, 8GB of RAM and my son's old Nvidia gaming GPU. Instead of Vista, I run Debian 9 Stretch with the Gnome DE. I use it for basic home entertainment (Plex server, Clementine music library and Calibre eBook library. I guess the moral of the story is that these 8- or 10-year-old desktop systems age much better than laptops of that era, because you can more easily upgrade individual parts...
My brother: "How's your life going?"
Me: 1:35
I just did this today to an A6114x that stopped working cleaned the sh- crap out of it. Installed a new psu and scored at my local computer shop with two additional 1g memory sticks. Win 10 pro clean install working great again for an aging cpu. As I was working on it I thought of this video seeing it years back thanks for your channel and content
hey if he needs it i have an assload of ddr2 laying around.
lol same here, i scrap thrown out pc's for parts and when he said he had no ddr2 i just turned and looked at the bags of ram i have xD
Lalnable Hector where do you get the old pcs
Shift Reapz local tips or if your an american its called a dump i think
Lalnable Hector I had bags of ram too lmao, but I sold them all for like $300 aha
Lalnable Hector anymore?
in my opinion its dirtier than before because it runs on windows 8
At least it's better than vista
+Schwarztaxi Windows 8.1 is a great OS
8.1 is absolutley amazing!!! I have it running on 2 computers. (all the rest are on 10) and i love it since the day it was released.
7 is the best. No sucky start screen for touchscreen.
+FalconPlaysMinecraft 8.1 is fucking garbage. Windows 7 is the best.
Why did you change the operating system. You should have did a clean install of vista or the one he had before. You said he is an older guy, meaning he wont be use to a different operating system. I would not be surprised if he asks you "why does my screen look different?" When I do that type of work, I always leave the same operating system in there. If I took my windows 7 computer to someone and when I got it back and it is a windows 10 lets say, I would be pissed.
I'd be pissed because windows 10 sucks
+CAMSLAYER13 I hear you man.
I love restoration videos and I have a soft spot for old gen PC's