Back when Dell made pretty good business PC's this was. Also of note is without a shadow of doubt the finest CPU heat sink mounting mechanism ever devised.
I've learned a lot about computers, and sarcasm, watching your videos. I tried updating my 10 year old HP which was running windows 8.1 with a new power supply, ram, and graphics card but had issues with the drivers which wasn't all that surprising. Watching your videos pointed me in the right direction and now I can actually use my computer again. Keep up the great work! Also I'm now subscribed to help with the bacteria.
4:30 actually Dawid, during the 00s I had to replace more Bestec PSUs than any other manufacturer. I can confidently say they are unremitting garbage. I strongly suggest keeping a fire extinguisher handy. And top tier house insurance.
That was my thought too. A functioning core 2 duo for $19 seriously isn't a bad deal at all, even if you have to throw a few pieces of junk-drawer hardware into it I still have such a rig in my collection, running WinXP, and it handles basic tasks quite well. I've no expectations of modern games with that antique, but then, the reason I have it is to run certain legacy software that won't run on 64-bit versions of Windows.
Would have been interesting to see how an older operating system would have performed on this. Older OS with better driver support and using less resources might have made the the same games run better, methinks.
A tip for future reference would be to just install windows offline on a separate computer and then just transfer that drive to the test PC. You could also clone that windows install as an image (~30ish GB) and use that image for future drives whenever you need a fresh windows instance. Edit: these type of builds would also be a fun place to start messing around with Linux installs
I'm still rocking my BSEL modded Intel Pentium E2160.(My PC: BSEL modded Intel Pentium E2160, vmodded ATi HD4670, 4GB of DDR2 ram, 19" 1280x1024 75hz) I can play AAA games like TES: Oblivion/Skyrim, Mass Effect 1/2/3, Dragon Age 1/2/3, Fallout 3/NV.
Nice to see I'm not the only one still enjoying the old, but tweakable platform. I think one of my best recent experiences with it was when I was benchmarking Doom 2016, forgot the time and didn't notice that I played for 2 hrs. Would totally be fine with it if it was all I had.
HDD technicality, back in the days where that was a MODERN piece of crap rather than an ancient variety of turd, a computer was considered working if it merely POSTed. So for $19, you got the full experience of era-appropriate inept refurbishing
I love how Dawid seems so calm and at peace with being scammed. He turns the whole situation into a video. If it was me getting scammed I would not care if the person lived way on the other side of the country id be up for a road trip to find the bastard and personally give him my review in person.
I'm surprised Win10 even ran on just two gigs of RAM. The lowest I've seen it use is something like 1.9 gigs. And that's after stripping it down of all it's bloatware.
I... have never seen 1FPS run so consistently before and it almost feels like there's a high risk of my developing Stockholm Syndrome with it. Like a picture flip book!
Dude! This model Vostro 200 was my first PC- I threw a radeon 6870 in there and it was actaully fairly competent. Ran 2015 battlefront at like 40fps . I still use the case for my current build because its so nostalgic ( and I lowkey love the way old dell cases look)
I received a code for HL2 with my ATI 9800xt card. This video makes me feel old and also appreciate how much technology has moved on. Many thanks Dawid for another great video.
I remember gaming on xp computers , empire earth and blitzkrieg . I even moved empire earth onto my new build and yes I have a blue ray drive , I like the old school stuff and if I’m doing a 3000$ build it’s going to have what I like
Maybe the problem is Win10. I build a 2003 Retro Gaming PC recently and GTA SA, Half-Life 4 runs perfectly on my WinXP - Pentium 4 - GT 520 graphics card system.
You could use this system for a few things, like reading the news, or playing retro NES games. It's worth what you paid, but a Raspberry Pi might be a better option for that.
Kinda funny i see this video now. I just revived an old Dell Vostro 400. looks identical to this. Though in mine, I put a core 2 duo E8400 in it, 4gb ram and a Radeon X1950 GT 512mb. using it for those 2000's era games. and it runs brilliantly. FEAR at 1440x900 max settings *No soft shadows* runs at 45-89fps. Half life 2 is 50-112fps at 1680x1050.
Last summer I dug out my old Cisnet Windows XP machine my parents got me back in '04 so I could type essays in middle school on it. I had forgotten just how slow that machine was just navigating folders as I dug around for anything I wanted to save before wiping it and donating it to a place that took old PCs. (Where they probably turned around and listed it as a modern gaming PC for $500 based on what I've learned from these computer channels on YT lol).
I like games of the windows xp era , I just did a build and still put empire earth 2 on it so now I’m cranking that thing up to extreme and playing it with a 5800x and rtx 3080
from what I could gather from the VD that was the internal of the sess pit of a computer is that the "upgrade" of a GPU was more then likely the one that was already inside it to begin with, not entirely sure but that is just my best guess also... SPLOSION OF DESEASE!! [sorta counts for SPLOSION CAM]
I love your videos so much Dawid, I swear you’ve found the perfect mix of actual viable information, while being able to nonchalantly make jokes that almost make me spit the sustenance I picked the perfect time to insert into my main orifice. Also big surprise, the Craigslist pc actually has Dual channel RAM. Come on OEM’s, you were beaten by the PC equivalent of a crack riddled homeless person.
I'm actually surprised the seller gave you a usable graphics card for so cheap on the spot. Usable being relative obviously. Next to Intel on board graphics.. any PCI-e graphics card is an upgrade. Even my old AMD ATI system with Radeon HD 4200 on mobo graphics wasn't able to make HL2 playable- and that was like the pinnacle of motherboard graphics performance. Though it was able to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent just fine.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff You should offer to sell this card to Jay. He paid 110$ for an Amazon Graphics Card loot box and got an HD 3450 that wouldn't even boot into Windows.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff She certainly out bargained Jayz2cents. and she got a much better running card of the same chip. TBH, the card runs better than I expected.
Educate?! What the bloody hell did you learn from this vid? other than don't waste $31 on a "Gaming PC"....You have to be kidding me right..?! If you need this level of education, I suggest you go back to pre-school...my 4 year old knows more than what you have learnt here..!
I like Dawid's videos but trying to run unreasonable newer workloads on old hardware rarely shows what it really was like owning that hardware at that time. In contrast, Phil's Computer Lab is a great channel that shows the performance with games/OS/workloads accurate of that era and gives a real appreciation for old hardware showing the performance of that hardware for workloads that existed at that time.
@@theoryofeverything9421 Can't say Dawid has EVER had a positive buy yet...Do the math...83% crap 10% neutral and 7% okay... Don't get me wrong..I like the Dude but what is there to recommend...his following has stalled as a result...where is the other Tech Stuff other than a desktop PC and the odd laptop?
That graphics card really stepped up. I don't push my optiplex 790 (core i5) with big games. I have a 7470 Radeon 1 GB that makes it so I can use two monitors. I run Linux Mint 20.3 on it.
I really really enjoyed this! You can still download XP drivers from Dell and the C2D makes a great XP retro gaming box. I bought a new Vostro 200 in 2008 for about $400 upgraded it to a C2D E8500, Radeon HD 4690, DVD burner, a better PSU, and 4G RAM. It's retired now, but I still have it...
Given that you engaged in a Craigslist knife-battle to get it, I'd say you got exactly what you paid for. A steaming, flesh-eating pile of hilarity and disappointment. Not even Vileda gloves can protect against that.
A Vostro 200. Man, getting some memories of my XPS 410 (2006) from this one. Had the ol' 8600 GTS in it. Ran pretty well, but never moved past XP. Win10 with a mechanical drive is such a miserable experience.
My neighbor sold me an old A9 APU mini PC with the Paleolithic era 1TB WD Green hard drive in it (RIP WD Green Hard Drives) for $20 CAD ($16 USD) It is surprisingly powerful (not for gaming) for what I ended up using it for. It also came with a monitor, mouse, a set of speakers, AA battery charger, 2 elves and a partridge in a pear tree.
I've gotten better PCs for cheaper. I got a HP-Pavilion a6712f for a dollar. The VGA jack was busted on it and they thought it was totally fried. It has a Pentium Dual-Core CPU in it running at 2.5 GHz.
Did you try re-pasting the CPU? I got a Dell Optiplex XE for free with a pretty bad CPU and no GPU. Ran way smoother once I re-pasted the CPU and cleaned out the fan and heatsink. Now I want to try putting a 1030 or something in this and see how well it runs games. (it runs Torchlight 2 on SparkyLinux which I'm happy about)
For Half-Life 2 on a $19 PC, I recommended you force DXlevel to run from Directx 9.0+ to Directx 8.1 (or can also be down to 6.0) by setting launch options on Steam. Go to Steam first, then right-click on Half-Life 2's title, and go to Properties, and you'll find the launch options section on the General tab. Click on the launch options section, and type "+mat_dxlevel 81", "+mat_dxlevel 70", or "+mat_dxlevel 60" (these DXlevels are options) and then run Half-Life 2. Hope you find this helpful!
LOL bro. One of the reasons why your channel is so great because it sounds like you are changing your voice to sound the way you sound. But you are not and thats hella funny!!! :) Great job as usual. I've been doing I.T even before Windows 1.0 and you work on PCs I look at as like yo; please toss that in the dumpster so lots of props to you!! p.s It said it boots into WIndows 10. It didnt say it came with an HD with Windows 10 LOL! epic video as usual! I wanna see a Dawid vs Linus vs Jay vs GN vs Pauls Hardware!
My neighbour gave me this system for free with a Q6600 installed. An SSD, ATi 1900XT and Win XP Pro installed later. I now have a awesome retro gaming machine that will even play Star trek Dominion Wars!
9:33 “The worst I’ve ever seen a game run” True story: I’ve experience much worse, and I wasn’t playing around. I tried to install Doom and it ran much slower that this, I’m being 100% literal. To be clear: it absolutely did run. You had to wait a good while for each frame. It was shareware from the dollar store, and unlike all other games it came on not one but two floppies.
A Dell Vostro 200! My second favorite potato! I upgraded mine with a 3 ghz dual core processor, 8 gigs of DDR 2 memory and installed Linux. With an appropriate graphics card that puppy will rock for older games. Definitely clean that bad boy out, do some upgrades and make another video.
13:01 We've learned to not run Windows 10 on a PC designed to run Windows XP. I am very curious as to how those games would play on XP with the proper drivers.
Whoa, why would you put Windows 10 on that machine? Bro, put Windows 7 on it... That will for sure speed it up because that was probably the OS it was build for. You could probably get more performance out of it if you went with XP though. The support XP had was primitive though, so use with caution. Just dont go anywhere near Vista.
I'm so very happy to see that you patched things up with velida! I really didn't expect to see you wear them through 90% of the video, but I'm not gonna complain haha
My only thing is: why do you masochistically use an HDD where you could use a sata SSD? I mean, I've ran myself a 4800+x2 socket 939 on a 128gb ssd.. windows 7 was booting in like 35" vs the 3 minutes and a half necessary for it to load JUST the desktop (and even with the same cloned win7 install on either drive!) xD. Don't do HDD violence on yourself!!
I really love how original is your content. Although there are top-notch tech TH-camrs out there, they are all assembling machines that most of the times a small percentage of people can afford, or reviewing graphics cards that cannot be bought. Granted I know there's not much they can do and they try to provide content of what's available. But my point is they are all different flavors of pretty much the same. Your content is awesome when I am in a moment of needing geeky nerdy fun. I have to admit thanks to the top-notch TH-camrs I was able to assemble a computer as recently as this week AND was able to troubleshoot that the motherboard was the problem (ugh it was a pain but I found it), so they do have their place but again my point is your content is really different and pure entertainment value. Now, having said that, I would love to see a video of you taking on those top-notch tech TH-camrs and assembling a top-tier computer that you may actually keep after squeezing every penny of all your sponsors, including Vileda :)
In cases like this, where you can't boot from USB, you can use an SSD to mount the image to, and boot into the installer from the SSD and install on what will be the main drive.
Love that you kept on your validas throughout the rest of your video 😂 my first thought was windows 10 is a bit presumptuous for that build haha. Probably took up most of your resources available.
You absolutely can install Windows on a PC like that with a flash drive. Either create a bootable Easy 2 Boot drive with the desired ISO (that is how I install XP), or use MicroShafts Win7 flash drive creation tool, it works with everything from Win7 and beyond.
For old systems that can't boot from USB I just use a hiren's boot cd to boot up then it has a option to boot from USB it hands it off to the USB drive. Works like a charm
I have like 5 of those boards collecting dust. By the way I have a few hard drive trays for that case if you want one. Edit: I also have the same 3450 on a computer hooked up to my 75 inch TV and it works great.
6:39 in this case for PCs that cannot natively boot USB, You can find an ISO online that you can burn to a CD, boot that CD and then that'll allow you to choose more modern boot devices. Don't have a link on hand but I use this method to USB boot my Pentium II laptop. Big save, limits you having to burn many CD installers to just burning one bootloader CD that you guard with your life
You can install Win 10 on these old systems, I have done it before! In fact I had an old Dell Inspiron 530 with that same motherboard. I had 4GB of DDR2 800Mhz and an E8500 in it. You can use Rufus 3.13 with the following settings: - Partition Scheme: MBR - Target System: BIOS (or UEFI-CSM) - Add Fixes for old BIOSes - Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID - Create extended label and icon files - Check device for bad blocks I've used these settings for multiple LGA775 and and old Phenom II systems and it works pretty much every time. Hopefully this helps somebody!
Fun fact, that flesh eating bacteria is actually produced by a subsidiary of seasonic as well
Yep, I confirm that 😁👍
😂
lol
It's actually several bacterium
Partially. It was mostly dead skin-flakes!
Running a game on 1 FPS would definitely drive a speedrunner insane.
Haha!! Can’t imagine a worse way for them to play.
every input is frame perfect
Don't give them any ideas.
*Running a game on 1 FPS would definitely drive anyone insane.
When a speedrunner dies, and if they go to Hell, that's what it would be.
Even the 19$ PC has Dual Channel RAM (or Quad Channel?). Prebuild Manufacturers should really look out!
Still dual-channel.
@@TechHug ok
Back when Dell made pretty good business PC's this was. Also of note is without a shadow of doubt the finest CPU heat sink mounting mechanism ever devised.
Quad chanely is usualy 8 slots
no quad channel this is not a threadripper cpu here besides quad channel would be 8 slots not 4, 1 channel per pair of ram sticks
1fps = 60 frames per MINUTE
Underrated comment
no, just no. stop it.
Obscure medical diagnosis to describe the state of a PC, is my favorite feature of Dawid's content.
I knew that medical dictionary would come in handy.
I've learned a lot about computers, and sarcasm, watching your videos. I tried updating my 10 year old HP which was running windows 8.1 with a new power supply, ram, and graphics card but had issues with the drivers which wasn't all that surprising. Watching your videos pointed me in the right direction and now I can actually use my computer again. Keep up the great work! Also I'm now subscribed to help with the bacteria.
I love it when Dawid sends me to Craigslist knife-battle in the street. It’s always such an adventure.
Always bring a gun to the knife fight, you can get better deals that way xD
@@theforerunnerreclaimer That is a great point. A guess we need to invest in a gun. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff DEMONITIZED
@@Nebnub lmao
And we appreciate your sacrifice.
4:30 actually Dawid, during the 00s I had to replace more Bestec PSUs than any other manufacturer. I can confidently say they are unremitting garbage. I strongly suggest keeping a fire extinguisher handy. And top tier house insurance.
I love how you committed to wearing those gloves instead of just cleaning the PC first. 😂
Last time he tried, he ate dust so understand why doesn't wants to clean it.
@@goa141no6 that's what respirators are for 😂
Or he could just hose it off and let it dry.
@@ravenironwing an apologies, i forgot to add "I" on "So I understand" making it sound like an order, also you have a point, so he just rushed out.
@@goa141no6 I think it's all part of his comedy routine... and I love it. Watching Dawid is better than Standup.
@@ravenironwing also very likely that he didnt want to spend the time to clean it when its 100% going in the trash once the video was filmed lol
For $19 what were you expecting? I'd expect maybe a case and some fans.
air molecules.
Fresh air molecules.
That was my thought too. A functioning core 2 duo for $19 seriously isn't a bad deal at all, even if you have to throw a few pieces of junk-drawer hardware into it I still have such a rig in my collection, running WinXP, and it handles basic tasks quite well. I've no expectations of modern games with that antique, but then, the reason I have it is to run certain legacy software that won't run on 64-bit versions of Windows.
I got a decent glass side panel ATX case for 20 dollars lol,with full fans costed me like 34 dollars
for $19 , he got way more than he deserved
And that case would be rusty, and the fans broken.
Would have been interesting to see how an older operating system would have performed on this. Older OS with better driver support and using less resources might have made the the same games run better, methinks.
A stripped down lean Linux distro would also be cool since with Steam's Proton compatibility layer now most games run decently well.
After my recent experience with XP, I hadn’t built up the courage to give it a try again yet. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff you can always go vista😈
Just use win7
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Try Ubuntu Mate and Lubuntu, Linux gaming compatibility is way better now, and clean out the dust and put matching 2GB RAM
A tip for future reference would be to just install windows offline on a separate computer and then just transfer that drive to the test PC. You could also clone that windows install as an image (~30ish GB) and use that image for future drives whenever you need a fresh windows instance.
Edit: these type of builds would also be a fun place to start messing around with Linux installs
or just not install windows 10 on a windows xp era pc
I don’t think you’re getting the point of these videos. Efficiency is definitely not the point.
I'm still rocking my BSEL modded Intel Pentium E2160.(My PC: BSEL modded Intel Pentium E2160, vmodded ATi HD4670, 4GB of DDR2 ram, 19" 1280x1024 75hz)
I can play AAA games like TES: Oblivion/Skyrim, Mass Effect 1/2/3, Dragon Age 1/2/3, Fallout 3/NV.
Nice. I have several Core 2 CPUs too.
Nice to see I'm not the only one still enjoying the old, but tweakable platform. I think one of my best recent experiences with it was when I was benchmarking Doom 2016, forgot the time and didn't notice that I played for 2 hrs.
Would totally be fine with it if it was all I had.
I am super impressed that Dawid has a Mesozoic era monitor to use with the Mesozoic VGA port on that PC. 🤣
I had to get one a while ago exactly for this kind of video. I actually have a big Mesozoic video coming soon.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff stupendous
HDD technicality, back in the days where that was a MODERN piece of crap rather than an ancient variety of turd, a computer was considered working if it merely POSTed. So for $19, you got the full experience of era-appropriate inept refurbishing
Haha!! That’s good to know.
I love how Dawid seems so calm and at peace with being scammed. He turns the whole situation into a video. If it was me getting scammed I would not care if the person lived way on the other side of the country id be up for a road trip to find the bastard and personally give him my review in person.
20 dillars isn't even a scam lnao.
That sound like an awesome road film.
I'm surprised Win10 even ran on just two gigs of RAM. The lowest I've seen it use is something like 1.9 gigs. And that's after stripping it down of all it's bloatware.
I used Windows 10 on a cheap Intel Z based notebook back in 2015
Windows weren't that bloated back then
He should install XP . It is a throwaway PC anyway, but with this specs it could run all the games from that era pretty well.
The more RAM you have , the more windows uses
It truly is an XP appropriate piece. 2 GB are plenty for that, but anything newer will get tight.
Honestly same here. It was using 1.7 gigs just idle on the desktop. 😂
Salesman smacks on top of PC "you can fit so much disappointment in this thing.
Clearly *they've* been scammed for giving out four sticks of RAM so easily 🤠
Haha!! Yeah, that’s what I meant. I was the one doing the scamming. 😂
They need to be reported to the proper authorities for selling a PC with anything other than single stick of RAM ! 😳
Four sticks is enough to equip 2 prebuilds with dual channel. We could even put the poor solo sticks from the prebuilds together for a 3rd rig.
I can't wait until Dawid starts a second channel where he tests all the things Vileda power gloves protects you from.
Easily the most entertaining computer guy on TH-cam!
it runs the game better then the menu's🤣😂🤣
05:12 lol I thought I was playing an Abroad in Japan video somewhere else.
I... have never seen 1FPS run so consistently before and it almost feels like there's a high risk of my developing Stockholm Syndrome with it. Like a picture flip book!
Heh, that's probably SPF. :D And rounds up.
True! It is almost admirable how consistently it ran terribly.
Yeah, but what's the 1% low on 1FPS?
This just gives me so many flashbacks to the tech repair I used to do for people.
Was anyone else absolutely shocked by the plume of dust that came out the back when he turned it on? 😱
Dude! This model Vostro 200 was my first PC- I threw a radeon 6870 in there and it was actaully fairly competent. Ran 2015 battlefront at like 40fps .
I still use the case for my current build because its so nostalgic ( and I lowkey love the way old dell cases look)
I received a code for HL2 with my ATI 9800xt card. This video makes me feel old and also appreciate how much technology has moved on. Many thanks Dawid for another great video.
The funniest thing is, that 9800 XT was a couple years older than the Intel GMA on that board and the HD 3450 and faster than both.
You should do more of these types of videos, they’re really fun to watch
I agree. He should buy all the interesting PC's on Craigslist and review them for a series.
@@PDXCustomPCS Yea that would be really cool
This was probably the best video I've watched tech related in years. I was laughing so hard
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
I remember gaming on xp computers , empire earth and blitzkrieg . I even moved empire earth onto my new build and yes I have a blue ray drive , I like the old school stuff and if I’m doing a 3000$ build it’s going to have what I like
Man velita gloves really needs to sponsor dawid by now, lol
Maybe the problem is Win10. I build a 2003 Retro Gaming PC recently and GTA SA, Half-Life 4 runs perfectly on my WinXP - Pentium 4 - GT 520 graphics card system.
This PC is scarily similar to the Desktop that took me through high-school, like exactly the same gpu and processor, I did had abit more ram at least.
Dell and Hp are still using that kind of board with their cpu fan in their gaming pcs...
You could use this system for a few things, like reading the news, or playing retro NES games. It's worth what you paid, but a Raspberry Pi might be a better option for that.
"we can use a gun outside" :D i did notice the cpu is sitting at 50% utilization. i'm curious about a decent-ish vga to use with this awesome build!
Basically
Dawid=Prebuilts
Linus=dropping things
Jay=Watercooling
Kinda funny i see this video now. I just revived an old Dell Vostro 400. looks identical to this. Though in mine, I put a core 2 duo E8400 in it, 4gb ram and a Radeon X1950 GT 512mb. using it for those 2000's era games. and it runs brilliantly. FEAR at 1440x900 max settings *No soft shadows* runs at 45-89fps. Half life 2 is 50-112fps at 1680x1050.
When looking for drivers for old video adapters, look for Windows Vista drivers, believe it or not they will work in Windows 7 to 11
I'd like to see this running an operating system that actually makes sense for it, like Windows XP or Linux
Last summer I dug out my old Cisnet Windows XP machine my parents got me back in '04 so I could type essays in middle school on it. I had forgotten just how slow that machine was just navigating folders as I dug around for anything I wanted to save before wiping it and donating it to a place that took old PCs. (Where they probably turned around and listed it as a modern gaming PC for $500 based on what I've learned from these computer channels on YT lol).
The velida glove meme never gets old
I like games of the windows xp era , I just did a build and still put empire earth 2 on it so now I’m cranking that thing up to extreme and playing it with a 5800x and rtx 3080
from what I could gather from the VD that was the internal of the sess pit of a computer is that the "upgrade" of a GPU was more then likely the one that was already inside it to begin with, not entirely sure but that is just my best guess
also... SPLOSION OF DESEASE!! [sorta counts for SPLOSION CAM]
“Children in Africa would be grateful for that! You should be grateful for it as well!”
Any day now that Veleta Glove sponsor money is gonna roll in.
Vileda should consider sponsoring Dawid
I love your videos so much Dawid, I swear you’ve found the perfect mix of actual viable information, while being able to nonchalantly make jokes that almost make me spit the sustenance I picked the perfect time to insert into my main orifice.
Also big surprise, the Craigslist pc actually has Dual channel RAM. Come on OEM’s, you were beaten by the PC equivalent of a crack riddled homeless person.
Love that other channels are building the fastest PCs possible while Dawid is resurrecting PC's from the Mesozoic era. *Chef's kiss*
I'm actually surprised the seller gave you a usable graphics card for so cheap on the spot. Usable being relative obviously. Next to Intel on board graphics.. any PCI-e graphics card is an upgrade. Even my old AMD ATI system with Radeon HD 4200 on mobo graphics wasn't able to make HL2 playable- and that was like the pinnacle of motherboard graphics performance. Though it was able to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent just fine.
Anna has that effect on Craigslist sellers. 😅
@@DawidDoesTechStuff My guess is that is the video card that was in the machine before the scammer removed the hard disk and Sata cables.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff You should offer to sell this card to Jay. He paid 110$ for an Amazon Graphics Card loot box and got an HD 3450 that wouldn't even boot into Windows.
11$ is still a scam price for that card I think. I recently got an R5 240 for 14$ USD with shipping and that card can run circles around an HD 3450.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff She certainly out bargained Jayz2cents. and she got a much better running card of the same chip. TBH, the card runs better than I expected.
You should have put Linux on that machine. The driver support for both of those GPUs are much better and Half Life 2 has been ported to Linux.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the work this man is doing to entertain and educate? Man thank you very much!.
Right? I was enthralled throughout the video 🙌🏻 love you Dawid!
Educate?! What the bloody hell did you learn from this vid? other than don't waste $31 on a "Gaming PC"....You have to be kidding me right..?!
If you need this level of education, I suggest you go back to pre-school...my 4 year old knows more than what you have learnt here..!
@@Tink-GB not this vid, throughout his channel he educates ppl on what to do and what not to do
I like Dawid's videos but trying to run unreasonable newer workloads on old hardware rarely shows what it really was like owning that hardware at that time. In contrast, Phil's Computer Lab is a great channel that shows the performance with games/OS/workloads accurate of that era and gives a real appreciation for old hardware showing the performance of that hardware for workloads that existed at that time.
@@theoryofeverything9421 Can't say Dawid has EVER had a positive buy yet...Do the math...83% crap 10% neutral and 7% okay...
Don't get me wrong..I like the Dude but what is there to recommend...his following has stalled as a result...where is the other Tech Stuff other than a desktop PC and the odd laptop?
That graphics card really stepped up. I don't push my optiplex 790 (core i5) with big games. I have a 7470 Radeon 1 GB that makes it so I can use two monitors. I run Linux Mint 20.3 on it.
I'd love to see a PC upgrade to this system.
I really really enjoyed this! You can still download XP drivers from Dell and the C2D makes a great XP retro gaming box. I bought a new Vostro 200 in 2008 for about $400 upgraded it to a C2D E8500, Radeon HD 4690, DVD burner, a better PSU, and 4G RAM. It's retired now, but I still have it...
This "PC" looks like my big brother's old core 2 duo mess from 2008 lol
When I saw the graphics card had 512mb ram I knew something was amiss. I built a PC with a 6600 and only 128mb ram and it ran HL2 like a dream.
@@notorious8361 worst for me was that I had to use intel HD graphics with like 2 gigabytes of slow ram, big oof
And compared to the "HD" even in SandyBridge the shitty onboard GMA is more than just a step back.
You CAN boot to USB, you have to select Removable.
So that was a 64 bit Windows 10 on a machine with 2 GiB of mem? Windows 10 must have hogged most of the systems resources for itself. X)
I actually turned one of those into a budget gaming pc, all the ram needs to match and i used a gt 730.
Given that you engaged in a Craigslist knife-battle to get it, I'd say you got exactly what you paid for.
A steaming, flesh-eating pile of hilarity and disappointment. Not even Vileda gloves can protect against that.
Haha!! Yeah, I guess it was a very authentic $19 PC. 😂
A Vostro 200. Man, getting some memories of my XPS 410 (2006) from this one. Had the ol' 8600 GTS in it. Ran pretty well, but never moved past XP. Win10 with a mechanical drive is such a miserable experience.
YEAHHHHHHHH! every one loves Dawid Does Tech Stuff! All of his videos are so good and they never get boring.😁
My neighbor sold me an old A9 APU mini PC with the Paleolithic era 1TB WD Green hard drive in it (RIP WD Green Hard Drives) for $20 CAD ($16 USD) It is surprisingly powerful (not for gaming) for what I ended up using it for. It also came with a monitor, mouse, a set of speakers, AA battery charger, 2 elves and a partridge in a pear tree.
Really love how dawid does this kind of content even its a pain
Love the Contents
I have 2 of those systems being used as old servers. you most certainly can boot from usb to install windows/linux
At $19 can it even qualify as one? Ya can part it out for more?
Yeah! That’s why I had mixed feelings about it. I just wanted to be informed about the lack of HDD you know.
I literally still use computers this good worth noting if you're going to run old systems you should probably use an older OS.
lol you get what you pay for, really funny vid as usual :)
I've gotten better PCs for cheaper. I got a HP-Pavilion a6712f for a dollar. The VGA jack was busted on it and they thought it was totally fried. It has a Pentium Dual-Core CPU in it running at 2.5 GHz.
Did you try re-pasting the CPU? I got a Dell Optiplex XE for free with a pretty bad CPU and no GPU. Ran way smoother once I re-pasted the CPU and cleaned out the fan and heatsink. Now I want to try putting a 1030 or something in this and see how well it runs games. (it runs Torchlight 2 on SparkyLinux which I'm happy about)
The thing that scares me the most is that the Corsair keyboard didn’t originally have double shot pbt keycaps as the standard
Good deal for a retroarch machine at least. Put a Linux distro or windows 7 on it and you’d have a way happier time over all.
For Half-Life 2 on a $19 PC, I recommended you force DXlevel to run from Directx 9.0+ to Directx 8.1 (or can also be down to 6.0) by setting launch options on Steam.
Go to Steam first, then right-click on Half-Life 2's title, and go to Properties, and you'll find the launch options section on the General tab.
Click on the launch options section, and type "+mat_dxlevel 81", "+mat_dxlevel 70", or "+mat_dxlevel 60" (these DXlevels are options) and then run Half-Life 2.
Hope you find this helpful!
Channels like this and for example LGR are so refreshing to watch. Just delivering good content with a sense of humour.
LOL bro. One of the reasons why your channel is so great because it sounds like you are changing your voice to sound the way you sound. But you are not and thats hella funny!!! :) Great job as usual. I've been doing I.T even before Windows 1.0 and you work on PCs I look at as like yo; please toss that in the dumpster so lots of props to you!!
p.s It said it boots into WIndows 10. It didnt say it came with an HD with Windows 10 LOL! epic video as usual! I wanna see a Dawid vs Linus vs Jay vs GN vs Pauls Hardware!
You can boot from usb on that pc. Many of those dells came with lite on power supplies
My neighbour gave me this system for free with a Q6600 installed. An SSD, ATi 1900XT and Win XP Pro installed later. I now have a awesome retro gaming machine that will even play Star trek Dominion Wars!
9:33 “The worst I’ve ever seen a game run”
True story: I’ve experience much worse, and I wasn’t playing around.
I tried to install Doom and it ran much slower that this, I’m being 100% literal. To be clear: it absolutely did run. You had to wait a good while for each frame.
It was shareware from the dollar store, and unlike all other games it came on not one but two floppies.
A Dell Vostro 200! My second favorite potato! I upgraded mine with a 3 ghz dual core processor, 8 gigs of DDR 2 memory and installed Linux. With an appropriate graphics card that puppy will rock for older games. Definitely clean that bad boy out, do some upgrades and make another video.
Also, time for a cheap air compressor. Imagine the slow mo video of all that 'dust' spewing out of those potato pcs.
13:01 We've learned to not run Windows 10 on a PC designed to run Windows XP. I am very curious as to how those games would play on XP with the proper drivers.
When I was a kid, 25 fps in my shitty computer to play Minecraft was enough now I can-t even look at this without being horrified
Acceptable price imo, especially if you just need a case for a sleeper-build or something just for e-mail and office in the garage or workshop
Whoa, why would you put Windows 10 on that machine? Bro, put Windows 7 on it... That will for sure speed it up because that was probably the OS it was build for. You could probably get more performance out of it if you went with XP though. The support XP had was primitive though, so use with caution. Just dont go anywhere near Vista.
First video on this channel. Holy shit the sarcasm is string with this one. That's amazing love it
if its $19, i dont think it was a scam, you can just resell parts for a profit tbh. i think it counts as a minor win here
My first graphic card was a MASSIVE 128mbs and I used to play the hell out of halo.
As someone in the Vancouver area who frequently stalks Craigslist, its always funny to see listings I've scrolled past show up in this channel.
I'm so very happy to see that you patched things up with velida! I really didn't expect to see you wear them through 90% of the video, but I'm not gonna complain haha
My only thing is: why do you masochistically use an HDD where you could use a sata SSD? I mean, I've ran myself a 4800+x2 socket 939 on a 128gb ssd.. windows 7 was booting in like 35" vs the 3 minutes and a half necessary for it to load JUST the desktop (and even with the same cloned win7 install on either drive!) xD. Don't do HDD violence on yourself!!
I really love how original is your content. Although there are top-notch tech TH-camrs out there, they are all assembling machines that most of the times a small percentage of people can afford, or reviewing graphics cards that cannot be bought. Granted I know there's not much they can do and they try to provide content of what's available. But my point is they are all different flavors of pretty much the same. Your content is awesome when I am in a moment of needing geeky nerdy fun. I have to admit thanks to the top-notch TH-camrs I was able to assemble a computer as recently as this week AND was able to troubleshoot that the motherboard was the problem (ugh it was a pain but I found it), so they do have their place but again my point is your content is really different and pure entertainment value. Now, having said that, I would love to see a video of you taking on those top-notch tech TH-camrs and assembling a top-tier computer that you may actually keep after squeezing every penny of all your sponsors, including Vileda :)
In cases like this, where you can't boot from USB, you can use an SSD to mount the image to, and boot into the installer from the SSD and install on what will be the main drive.
7:33 you said "the next morning" but then you're wearing the same t-shirt and gloves LOL did you sleep with those on?
Love that you kept on your validas throughout the rest of your video 😂 my first thought was windows 10 is a bit presumptuous for that build haha. Probably took up most of your resources available.
You're the most entertaining techtuber out there ... triple 👍👍👍 to you my dude
You absolutely can install Windows on a PC like that with a flash drive. Either create a bootable Easy 2 Boot drive with the desired ISO (that is how I install XP), or use MicroShafts Win7 flash drive creation tool, it works with everything from Win7 and beyond.
For old systems that can't boot from USB I just use a hiren's boot cd to boot up then it has a option to boot from USB it hands it off to the USB drive. Works like a charm
I have like 5 of those boards collecting dust. By the way I have a few hard drive trays for that case if you want one.
Edit: I also have the same 3450 on a computer hooked up to my 75 inch TV and it works great.
Let's be honest, literally any hard drive would have increase the value of the PC at least by double
6:39 in this case for PCs that cannot natively boot USB, You can find an ISO online that you can burn to a CD, boot that CD and then that'll allow you to choose more modern boot devices. Don't have a link on hand but I use this method to USB boot my Pentium II laptop. Big save, limits you having to burn many CD installers to just burning one bootloader CD that you guard with your life
You can install Win 10 on these old systems, I have done it before! In fact I had an old Dell Inspiron 530 with that same motherboard. I had 4GB of DDR2 800Mhz and an E8500 in it. You can use Rufus 3.13 with the following settings:
- Partition Scheme: MBR
- Target System: BIOS (or UEFI-CSM)
- Add Fixes for old BIOSes
- Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID
- Create extended label and icon files
- Check device for bad blocks
I've used these settings for multiple LGA775 and and old Phenom II systems and it works pretty much every time. Hopefully this helps somebody!
Usually the same RAM sticks need to be in slots 1 & 3, as well as slots 2 & 4. With the RAM pulled out, it's no surprise that it wouldn't boot.