I've bought much cheaper computers off of eBay and some of them weren't even auctions. They were "Buy It Now" listings. Recently, I bought a lot of two thin client PCs for a total of $14.02 USD and the funniest part was that despite the PCs both being in very poor cosmetic condition and one of them was super dusty, they worked just fine and the hard drives weren't removed. Luckily, the hard drives were wiped. It's amazing how cheap computers can get on eBay.
It’s really luck of the draw. Sometimes you can get them for really cheap, other times they are more pricy. My best deal was probably getting a thinkpad t530 for $140 including upgrades. It was only $30 for the base system. It came with a dual core i5 and 4gb of ram, but I upgraded it to a quad core i7 and 16gb of ram. It was even the model with the dedicated NVS 5400m. They aren’t great dedicated graphics, but better than the igpu.
damn right ive i told my friend yesterday my laptops 300$ can run games i wouldnt believe it could even run and plays 4k fine and it should last a long time u can buy entertainment for like 20 bucks emulators roms if u know u know
Ssd are the saving grace for old computers, I know a lot of people that got rid of their older computers because it felt so slow but if you upgrade the storage for an SSD instead of a aging hdd, it makes it feel like a brand new system most of the time, and for browsing and stuff it's still is perfectly usable
yeah the controller issue is that by default Windows 7 doesn't include Xbox controller drivers, in fact, back in the day when Microsoft sold Xbox 360 controllers "for Windows" they were just a regular 360 controller but with a DVD that included the driver, some third party controllers also included a driver disc, I had one and it came with a little disc to install the drivers, but since my laptop at the time didn't have a DVD drive I had to download them from the internet, turned out the controller didn't use any sort of specific drivers, it was just an Xbox 360 controller and used the Xbox controller drivers
Got my current machine (HP 290 G1) from eBay earlier this year for about £50 ($63.91), has a 7th gen i5 processor with a 256GB SSD (had a fresh copy of 10 on it) and 8GB of RAM. After upgrading it to 16GB of RAM and installing a GTX 1650, it's now a pretty capable entry level gaming PC that can play some of the newer titles to a decent enough level and it's super quick! The SSD really made a difference! It really shows how cheap you can buy an office PC from sites like eBay and how you can turn them into a pretty solid modern day machine.
People who watch smaller content creators and just compare them to bigger content creators kind of ticks me off. Yes, that's probably who inspired them to be a content creator. Just because you see similarities doesn't mean they're trying to copy that person's video's
I own one of those(used to be in my old school, they got replaced with laptops) and I have 3, one from 2009(works, but motherboard or CPU is damaged, I replacement CPU’s and none of them work),2010(I think) and 2012(doesn’t work)
I remember seeing those computers during high school. Also my friend has a much older Thinkcentre that was from the IBM days which runs Windows XP and he uses it to run this cool arcade emulator machine
My dad found 2 computers almost exactly like that in a dumpster at his work. neither of them would boot until I put different ram sticks in them. The only difference between them and your computer was the sticker said Windows 7 instead of 8. The hard drives had been wiped, so I installed Windows 7 on them, and it barely worked, but when I installed Linux, it worked like a charm.
My first brand new PC was an i7 of this generation. They still hold up very well today. Just need a GPU and you can fly with that little guy. Something like a 1050Ti doesn't need PCI-E power connectors!
Hey, Just wondering can you make a video about putting a gpu into the 50$ pc, Like a gtx 1080 nothing to powerful :). Anyways if you could reply that would be great, And I love your videos they are very interesting and cool.
I have that same computer and I use it to practice DJing at home (When I'm not gigging) it runs the dj software with no lag, I upgraded the memory to 16 gigs.
Well,this kind of pcs are actually pretty capable,I used as my daily driver a couple of dell optiplex,390 and 3010,the first with i3 2nd gen and second with i3 3rd gen,both with 8 gb or ram and windows 11,I used them also for light gaming,such tboi or Minecraft. 390 mobo is dead,I trown it,3010,I gave it to a friend of mine,now has 500gb ssd and 16g of ram and is really snappy,even with Windows 11 on it. He uses it mostly with Autocad.
Internet coincidences happen. Michael MJD and action Retro realeased videos on the same pcs withing hours of each others. Always room for a different view.
Lenovo loves using single sticks. The Lenovo H515s that I have laying around here uses a single 8GB """"DDR3"""" 800MHz stick. I'm sad that my parents decided to buy it new for the full price(700USD) with the AMD A6-5200U.
LOL THAT OUTRO u slapping the pc sounded just like your outro music if you didnt take that pause would have been *the* perfect segue to the outro even the rate at which you slapped matched the music
I have a similar computer (which is my main PC) from the same era It has i5-3470, 14GB RAM, and I plugged in a GT 1030 GDDR5 which plays games just fine (I really need to upgrade now i know) Edit: it is HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF
The first number in Intel’s number scheme is what generation of processor you have and the second number is what processor it is Also, that has similar specs to the base model 2012 iMac with less RAM and it might be a slightly difference queue of i5 but the same generation
Guess what, I have these exact computers at my school. Just have been trying to figure out how to use a USB to boot off this thing. To reinstall windows. Since the last batch left it woth quite a bit of viruses.
This gen of towers kinda sucks unfortunately, they overheat and if you mess with the ram too much, it can actually kill the board, a good thing tho is that there’s so much of them you can just swap it out with another one when it breaks
i have this exact computer lmao [besides the windows 8 sticker], i had it for around 4 or 5 years and it worked fine for a while .. but now if it gets turned off it will freak out, when it gets turned on it will either just tick or start beeping [im probably getting a new one eventually, though]
I truly have the cheapest computer or Mac. I got a mid-2007 Imac 20" which isn't the highest option mac but I got it for 5 bucks which it also came with the keyboard and mouse and power cord of course I didn't get it from ebay but a clear out from a storage place. It works pretty well for being a computer from 2007 and 4 gigs of ram and the "beast" of a core 2 duo
I have a 2011 ThinkPad that gets very similar performance, runs Minecraft, project zomboid, and a lot of other less demanding games with breaking a sweat
Don't worry, this didn't feel like a Bringus Studios video because you didn't immediately indicate you were going to install SteamOS on it
i found an ally
He also didn't say optical media bad
how i do know he's not bringus studios: his editing style weren't chaotic
SteamOS, no. Windows 7
@@grantschilb8019 optical media good
Lenovo pc, HP monitor, Dell speakers, Apple keyboard. This is art
Hotel ? Trivago
@@f_for_freedom2492 bro wtf
art
@pedrinmusicasmerdasoh yeah
cant forget the verbatim mouse
the first time jiga acknowledged his old channel
He had an older channel?
@@repoversemedium yeah
@@newaccount877 it's called "Jiga 64"
@@zaf2774 it's called "Jiga 64"
wait hows the comment older than the vid
how
I've bought much cheaper computers off of eBay and some of them weren't even auctions. They were "Buy It Now" listings. Recently, I bought a lot of two thin client PCs for a total of $14.02 USD and the funniest part was that despite the PCs both being in very poor cosmetic condition and one of them was super dusty, they worked just fine and the hard drives weren't removed. Luckily, the hard drives were wiped. It's amazing how cheap computers can get on eBay.
It’s really luck of the draw. Sometimes you can get them for really cheap, other times they are more pricy. My best deal was probably getting a thinkpad t530 for $140 including upgrades. It was only $30 for the base system. It came with a dual core i5 and 4gb of ram, but I upgraded it to a quad core i7 and 16gb of ram. It was even the model with the dedicated NVS 5400m. They aren’t great dedicated graphics, but better than the igpu.
damn right ive i told my friend yesterday my laptops 300$ can run games i wouldnt believe it could even run and plays 4k fine and it should last a long time u can buy entertainment for like 20 bucks emulators roms if u know u know
uh
Ssd are the saving grace for old computers, I know a lot of people that got rid of their older computers because it felt so slow but if you upgrade the storage for an SSD instead of a aging hdd, it makes it feel like a brand new system most of the time, and for browsing and stuff it's still is perfectly usable
And the ram also
"Is there a free game in the drive?" Is such a Jacob R joke lmao
Very True.
Exactly what I was gonna say.
yeah the controller issue is that by default Windows 7 doesn't include Xbox controller drivers, in fact, back in the day when Microsoft sold Xbox 360 controllers "for Windows" they were just a regular 360 controller but with a DVD that included the driver, some third party controllers also included a driver disc, I had one and it came with a little disc to install the drivers, but since my laptop at the time didn't have a DVD drive I had to download them from the internet, turned out the controller didn't use any sort of specific drivers, it was just an Xbox 360 controller and used the Xbox controller drivers
MJD has sleeper agents in your walls
When you said you'd play Beat Saber - I was horrified you'd connect a VR headset somehow to that old machine.
He has a Touhou keyboard?
Nice.
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Hello from Bringus Studios moderator :P
Great video. I subscribed :D
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@@sopvwastaken why’d i send two “yooo”s… That was a complete accident
@@Nillified I don't know :p Ig you existed to see me heh lol
MJD has spies in your house, action retro's house and many others.
Got my current machine (HP 290 G1) from eBay earlier this year for about £50 ($63.91), has a 7th gen i5 processor with a 256GB SSD (had a fresh copy of 10 on it) and 8GB of RAM.
After upgrading it to 16GB of RAM and installing a GTX 1650, it's now a pretty capable entry level gaming PC that can play some of the newer titles to a decent enough level and it's super quick! The SSD really made a difference!
It really shows how cheap you can buy an office PC from sites like eBay and how you can turn them into a pretty solid modern day machine.
People who watch smaller content creators and just compare them to bigger content creators kind of ticks me off. Yes, that's probably who inspired them to be a content creator. Just because you see similarities doesn't mean they're trying to copy that person's video's
they both seem inspired by Druaga anyways. And Druaga was probably inspired by someone else. There's no such thing as a wholey unique idea.
i cant lie, this confirms my theory that school PC's were the real gaming PC's
The fact that thing can run portal with 4gb shared between the cpu and the GPU, with aero enabled, is simply incredible
Love your videos, keep up the good work my guy, you deserve those 16k Subs
ITS KIM JUNG UN PLEASE DON'T EXECUTE ME
ITS KIM KARDASHIAN UN OMG I LOVE YOU
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look at ur username dude
real
4:01 Oh look it's a mouse stolen straight from my high school computer lab
Also despite the fact that GD says it can run on XP or newer... you need a completely separate program just to launch it on 7
9:57 "hum? ten MILLION"
this is enough welcome back MJD
Jiga: I'm not trying to be Bringus studios!
*Me being recommended this video after disccovering Bringus studios.*: Haha yeah!
You got a really good machine for the cheddar that you laid down on it. With some parts like GPU, Linux, and a better monitor. Cool video!
The Windows 8 license that is installed in the uefi bios should be sufficient to run and activate Windows 10.
eve jumpscare 😭
I own one of those(used to be in my old school, they got replaced with laptops) and I have 3, one from 2009(works, but motherboard or CPU is damaged, I replacement CPU’s and none of them work),2010(I think) and 2012(doesn’t work)
I have found yet another great tech content creator. It's like a black hole. They never end.
MJD and Bringus reference??? Dope
Got recommended this video and thank you algorithm! It's like watching Bringus Studio but a rhythm game player (good taste in music too).
i have this "**shit**" while i was 2012 and now it has a corrupted uefi bios and even legacy and no one can fix it. sad
Boy do I love being a Jiga Tech member!
same
Now you're not
@@asminqps3003 I was
You are actionretro now 😂 mjd curse coming to you 😂
This is pretty much just a bringus studios video
I remember seeing those computers during high school. Also my friend has a much older Thinkcentre that was from the IBM days which runs Windows XP and he uses it to run this cool arcade emulator machine
Nice to see old pcs getting some new life playing games from the peak of gaming late 2000s/2010s
My dad found 2 computers almost exactly like that in a dumpster at his work. neither of them would boot until I put different ram sticks in them. The only difference between them and your computer was the sticker said Windows 7 instead of 8. The hard drives had been wiped, so I installed Windows 7 on them, and it barely worked, but when I installed Linux, it worked like a charm.
My first brand new PC was an i7 of this generation. They still hold up very well today. Just need a GPU and you can fly with that little guy. Something like a 1050Ti doesn't need PCI-E power connectors!
To get the Xbox 360 controller working, you need the Xbox 360 controller for windows software.
you are growing so fast i remember when you were on 2k subs
whilst your not bringus, bringus style videos are always appreciated
this video is epic thank you for making it lmfao
Hey, Just wondering can you make a video about putting a gpu into the 50$ pc, Like a gtx 1080 nothing to powerful :). Anyways if you could reply that would be great, And I love your videos they are very interesting and cool.
This was my exact daily driver for a long time. Ran Debian linux like a pro with a Radeon HD 5450.
bingers studios mentioned
I bet that machine would make a great home server. That I5 would go a lot further with docker than the RPI could.
I bought two of these from Value Village (both failed to work and were already harvested for parts)
I have that same computer and I use it to practice DJing at home (When I'm not gigging) it runs the dj software with no lag, I upgraded the memory to 16 gigs.
Well,this kind of pcs are actually pretty capable,I used as my daily driver a couple of dell optiplex,390 and 3010,the first with i3 2nd gen and second with i3 3rd gen,both with 8 gb or ram and windows 11,I used them also for light gaming,such tboi or Minecraft.
390 mobo is dead,I trown it,3010,I gave it to a friend of mine,now has 500gb ssd and 16g of ram and is really snappy,even with Windows 11 on it.
He uses it mostly with Autocad.
I bought the same model for 20 in my area. And I took the mother board out of it and put it in a full tower case. Now it's a Windows XP gaming PC.
If $50 is cheapest then we are definitely in a financial crisis.
Of course he posts when i wake up! Good video as always!
3:59 my neighbour gave me that exact keyboard last year
5:05 it’s f12 (my pc has amd)
i`m watching this on a Thinkcentre (i`m 27 seconds in to the video)
This video just needs to be about steam os and we will get a second bringus
I remember seeing these everywhere in school with windows 7
I like how your setup has 5 different brands!
PC: Lenovo
Monitor: HP
Speakers: Dell
Keyboard: Apple
Mouse: Üňķñœŵň (Unknown)
yeah we need steam on windows 7 tutorial for sure, would be good for my old crappy laptop
You don't need to move your main computer to the TV, just buy a pretty long HDMI cable and a long cable for your controller. 😉
Internet coincidences happen. Michael MJD and action Retro realeased videos on the same pcs withing hours of each others. Always room for a different view.
Im your fan since u had 1k subs, keep Up the good work!
I like the slightly pink tinted screen
you fool! the blue tray is a DIY mounting bracket for any hard drive size! Just break out your trusty drill with a 3MM bit and DRILL BABY DRILL!
Good Kid Jumpscare
my whole school is full of these computers
both this and the computer in mjd's video are literally better than the one i daily drive
Last i checked, the cheapest computer on ebay is either a raspberry pi 1/2/zero w or a small form factor optiplex
Lenovo loves using single sticks. The Lenovo H515s that I have laying around here uses a single 8GB """"DDR3"""" 800MHz stick. I'm sad that my parents decided to buy it new for the full price(700USD) with the AMD A6-5200U.
I like buying old computers and reviving them.
LOL THAT OUTRO u slapping the pc sounded just like your outro music
if you didnt take that pause would have been *the* perfect segue to the outro
even the rate at which you slapped matched the music
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I have a similar computer (which is my main PC) from the same era
It has i5-3470, 14GB RAM, and I plugged in a GT 1030 GDDR5 which plays games just fine
(I really need to upgrade now i know)
Edit: it is HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF
Why you not running MSI afterburner ? you can probably overclock the onboard Graphics as well, but at least we can see the FPS.
Who knew he was cracked at beat saber?
Under this video, there was literally just a recommended video of a Bringus studios video about gaming on iboss firewall
The first number in Intel’s number scheme is what generation of processor you have and the second number is what processor it is
Also, that has similar specs to the base model 2012 iMac with less RAM and it might be a slightly difference queue of i5 but the same generation
Yes! I'm a 12 month old member!
now you just have to get to 24.
oldest jiga viewer
Guess what, I have these exact computers at my school. Just have been trying to figure out how to use a USB to boot off this thing. To reinstall windows. Since the last batch left it woth quite a bit of viruses.
Those pcs are apparently great, but I wouldn't put Win10/11 on it.
all we need is the sound effects, then he will be bringus studios.....
Is that super mario galaxy music in the background? No way, I thought i heard it
Kinda looks like my pc
my home nas is just a old dell optiplex 5050 that i got for £58.50, threw in a 4tb hhd.
play in maximized or borderless window it will improve performance and may even fix the input lag
we use the haswell versions of these at my work still . they are stout machines that refuse to fart out lol
Hey Jiga, do you use the 2018 build to run steam on windows 7?
No I literally just downloaded steam from their website and it worked
I'm like 51% sure that the single stick of ram is holding the system back and that's what might explain why games run much better at lower resolutions
This gen of towers kinda sucks unfortunately, they overheat and if you mess with the ram too much, it can actually kill the board, a good thing tho is that there’s so much of them you can just swap it out with another one when it breaks
I have one of these and I modified the BIOS so that it would accept Nvme via a PCIe adapter and the truth is that these machines are still fighting.
i have this exact computer lmao [besides the windows 8 sticker], i had it for around 4 or 5 years and it worked fine for a while .. but now if it gets turned off it will freak out, when it gets turned on it will either just tick or start beeping [im probably getting a new one eventually, though]
Nice. This would be the perfect PC for me.
those are just the computers schools use in the library or computer lab
I'm totally surprised how well it's running all these games tbh
Fun fact, this think centre junk actually haves amd ryzen 7 pro on eBay
Wow, when it appeared on my recommendation tab I thought it would be like a windows 3.1 pc
Don't worry man, I'm subscribe you and MJD too.
I truly have the cheapest computer or Mac. I got a mid-2007 Imac 20" which isn't the highest option mac but I got it for 5 bucks which it also came with the keyboard and mouse and power cord of course I didn't get it from ebay but a clear out from a storage place. It works pretty well for being a computer from 2007 and 4 gigs of ram and the "beast" of a core 2 duo
0:37 i am subbed to you and mjd
I have a 2011 ThinkPad that gets very similar performance, runs Minecraft, project zomboid, and a lot of other less demanding games with breaking a sweat
Video ideas:
Installing Windows on the Wii
I bought a knocknoff gaming console (buy the sup gamebox 400 in 1 it has pinball)
Installing Vm on vm on vm
You cant compete with Michael MJDs 5$ Windows 98 PC
@Jiga Tech What's your favourite Mr Scruff tune? I've got two, Spandex Man & Get A Move On