Did I make a steal out of these 3 PC's for $30?
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- Man this vid was pretty fun to make!
It didn't come out to be exactly what I wanted (once again) but it was still a blast to do.
Thank you to everyone who has subbed and bringing me to 100 subscribers. I never thought I would peak enough interest in such a short amount of time just from working on computers here and there. I will be trying to take my vids more seriously soon and do some more heavy investments. Maybe learn some extra skills along the way to make this stuff more entertaining.
Follow my twitter if you want to keep up with me, I don't post on it much but that may change a little soon! / budget_bin
The coin battery will likely need replacing given its age. A lot of boot issues are that Bios settings don't save and therefore don't initiate the 'right' settings.
A free copy of XP and 32 bits of fun. I like it 🙂
Tons!
Any PC saved from the trash is a WIN in my books!🤟
I love these old tech videos. Awesome content man!
Thanks man! I hope to make even more!
@@BudgetBin I hope so too!
Subbed. Looking forward to more content!❤️
nice! i wish my thrift stores had computers.
They are pretty rare to come across nowadays, I might make a video in the future relating to that if there is enough interest in that sort of think. Glad you enjoyed!
Some Goodwill's have a computer store and if your lucky enough to be near one they have tons of computers and other electronics for cheap
Great video, love your content, these small time computer projects on the cheap are super fun and very reminiscent of my own projects over the years. Keep up the good work!
Ah thanks so much man, I really appreciate it!
Love your content, It's great to see people like me that still find joy in older hardware.
Very nostalgic! I worked on thousands of these exact models in a corporate setting when they were new machines.
Bust out the dremel, I started case modding with my dremel and finally got a grinder 🤣 my home server is an old optiplex I cut a square out of the side and added a wall vent off amazon on with rivets, literally looks like it's meant to be there even though its a random 5 dollar wall vent. Cheap rgb strip off wish and a vinyl wrap and it looks awesome lol.
2 things...1) GREAT project...a cool gamble the process of which is nearly worth the price of admission all by itself!!! AND You get working hardware at the end! 2) what game is the soundtrack from?---it sounds farmiliar but I can't place it... there is something enchanting about old console game midi soundtracks if you happened to have spent hundreds of hours as a youth playing games with them on in the background...
Thanks I really appreciate you checking the video out! I agree, it's fun to get hardware for free even if it is a little old.
And the midi music was from a few different games, one of them was a game called brandish and the other was Bomberman 64 I believe.
Nice!! Awesome video redbulls and bangs always get the job done when troubleshooting or making content lol keep it up & congrats on the 100 subs!
Thanks man! Yeah those redbulls came in clutch last night. Hopefully it doesn't become too much of a reoccurring theme lol.
The Pentium 4. From aging like milk to aging like mundane wine.
I still have a couple of these Compaq's. I repainted one and upgraded it and the last time I heard the person who I gave it to was still playing Skyrim on it. 😁
Eyy congrats on getting into the algorithm!~
Thanks man! I hope to make more content because of it.
the dc workstation series were qualified (and shipped) with unbuffered 1.8v DDR2 at 667 mhz CAS 5 or 800 mhz CAS 6. hynix/samsung are preferred otherwise POST will fail (usually due to lacking the JEDEC SPD data where it's expected, wrong voltage, or wrong timing for speed detected). populate the black slots 1st. your linux appears to be debian 11.2, and kernel panic 0x9 is typically a hardware related configuration issue so perhaps an older or newer version will support the configuration, but i would bet that the memory isn't quite compatible with the controller so ramdisk doesn't write/read properly and results in broken symlink or something and kernel panic is the result.
Man, you have no idea how many times a week I ask myself the questions that you answered. I really appreciate it. Even if I don't understand some of the answers. You have given me another chance to pick up these PCs for a future video! Thanks.
@@BudgetBin I loaded a set of 2GB DDR2 into my Optiplex 745, and the fan did lots of crazy revving up and down, no boot
so i pulled them out, and loaded one.... it ran, 2, it ran, 3, it ran, so the 4th is a dud, right? - no with the 4th one back in, it RAN.
Originally came to me as part of a bundle of bits, the main item of interest being a H61 motherboard (which needed only minor pin tweaking).
The 745 was dead, got another motherboard for it, and it ran, though very unreliable, and also annoying as it wasn't quite the right board and had an extra fan header - that it complained had no fan. Then I got the correct board, and only then noticed that the unreliable board had a bad case of badcaps, and I might have been able to salvage the rubycons from the previous board.
This 745 had a journey, from the cheapest 65nM C2D (no 45nM support) and then CEX site informed me that the Q6600 I'd been looking at was now back in stock, at £2 it would be rude not to, which set me on a path of adding as much as I could add cheaply in the way of RAM and low profile GPU
That old compac (the oldest one) was my first computer. Brings back memories
Great video! I love going to thrift stores to browse for interesting/old nostalgic tech (or maybe even newer tech on a bargain!) Just curious, what's the last song you used for this video? Sounds like something from the SNES
Thanks man! I am thinking of doing some more videos with thrift store hunting in mind, I agree. And you are correct about it sounding like a SNES game, it's from a game called Brandish - Eternal Prison
I was noticing the music beds as well. Reminded me of Bisqwit's channel where he used old SNES music in the background a lot :)
i'd recommend another debian with different desktop environment, the default gnome is indeed not for older pc, maybe try lxde or xfce
Somehow this hardware still doesn't feel old to me .. compared to what early 80s computers felt like in the 90s, it actually still feels rather modern, because obviously computers don't change as much anymore, as they did earlier. While since about the mid 90s every new hardware always is about doing the ever same, just faster, there where way more fundamental changes in the 80s and early 90s. Btw: I still have my C64, the Amigas and most of the first PC hardware (Mobile Athlon XP 2600+ for overclocking, board and so on) besides the graphics card (Radeon 9500 modded to 9700 Pro) which I sold for obviously being too expensive to have it laying around :)
Yeah, I was late to the PC game, because I took my Amigha to the very limit, with all the PowerPC and PCI-expansion stuff, CD burner and whatever - and it was a great time!
That sounds like a good deal!
sweet find!!! .I have the same hp evo 510 also I did a custom build with it its on my channel
You could make a PFSense firewall out of all of these all you would need is a 2nd network card and you're good to go !
Love your video man 👍👍👍
If you intend to use these PCs, clean them and replace the coincell battery. Update the BIOS on the newest PC, should be able to pull it off HP's website.
Gotcha thanks, I'll definitely check that out.
I used to have that Compaq Evo, I used to play a lot of Vice City on it
This didn't feel like a ten-minute video. This was fun to watch. My videos feel like ten-minute videos.
You are a very good story teller bro :)
I used a Pentium III-based Deskpro as a pfSense router many years back
You could get some hard drives, install XP on them and use those PCs as retro game stations
Not a bad idea! I have some running concepts and I might consider that for a future video, thanks!
@@BudgetBin Maybe get a few low profile, low wattage GPU's and throw in with the HDD's with Win XP installed that @windestruct mentioned and youd be G2G. The PC from '09 (forget which one that was) could even run the BEST Windows ever, Windows 7 (maybe if the specs are decent). Grab something similar to the GeForce GT1030 or GT210 those cards are too new but that style would work nicely IMO.
Its quite a funny coincidence because the date of the newest of those 3 pc´s is exactly 10 months before my birth
Just for the record, they are not all HP. The Compaq EVO is actually fully made and designed by the real Compaq before HP came in to the picture and ruined their name.
Some red LEDs would be nice :)
😒👍 Neat, they all turn on, and yes thats normal the ram checkup while it posts alot of new motherboards u can still turn that feature on to display
Wow haven’t seen these since I was in primary/elementary school
these would be nice to put on Puppy Linux, even make them usable !
"Excellent machines" I burnt all of my windows 'Dos' '1995' '1998' 'xp' '7' '8' and '8.1' dvds on one of these computer machines. I have these 5 machines kicking around yet, and sitting in the corner of my room yet.
If we want to talk about 32bit linux - pleased give MX Linux a try. You can choose the Xfce-version, it is a lean desktop environment. Or be brave and install the fluxbox version. Original fluxbox is a simple window manager, but the MX team pimped it up, so it became something like a very lean desktop environment. This will fit perfectly to these old machines.
I too try and install various versions of Linux ( mint being a more desirable OS to use and play with ) . I'm all about the free stuff as I have been given most of the PCs I currently have . All told I have about 80 computers in storage ( mostly desktops ) ...
Best thing about HP's they silent as dead.
this is exactly what i want to do
so cool !!
I tend not to pick up anything 32-bit, as it's tougher to find applications that run. The exception is my music playback system, which just runs jukebox software.
Just press Esc to bypass the memory checker. The check can be effectively turned off within BIOS.
An enjoyable video! I would dismantle each PC., and give them a good clean and max out the ram., and install SSDs., and then install Sparky Linux 32 bit, it's based on Debian.
I will look into that! Thank you so much.
@@BudgetBin I have found that some older computers will not boot from a USB., drive, but they will boot from a disk.
Kernel panic can be caused by failed or failing capacitors.
I have DC5100 on my home :D Really enjoy it. Still can run. Windows 7 and play CS 1.6 and can run Minecraft old version haha. Keep up good video :)
PCs based on Netburst generation are the lowest bin prices for good old used PCs.
Pressing Esc stops the memory count on boot up and continues the boot process.
Ahhh interesting, I will note that for the future.
If you run into a situation where you need to connect to a certain network but can't for obvious reasons, if you know the name of the network just name your hotspot on your phone that same name and you should not have any problems.
I installed xubuntu on my PC because it can't run windows 11
First video watched on your channel hopefully not the last
Thanks for the support man!
on the first pc you need to let it sit to get the ram status. I have the same pc and you just have to wait
I once found a 2011 era gaming PC at a thrift shop for $20 it was sick as hell dual 4 gig sticks of RAM a GTX 460 and a 220 gig SSD with a Core i5 2500k it was Blazing fast every game I put in it when my gaming laptop died did I actually became my main gaming computer can I have been upgrading it now it has 24 gigs of ram and a GTX 970
Run Cinebench using Netrender through these 3 ;)
Hoho... Scary stuff, but I like the idea. I will def put that one down for the future!
But can it run crysis.
The ultimate question.
Use low voltage ram
Yes.
Did you check the battery voltage on last computer??
No, but why do you ask?
@@BudgetBin I have couple patients where dead battery get RAM error. I've get new one and problem solved 😊
Even if they did work I would still say its a a waste of money
bro i have the same pcs you have but they are completely useless you cant even run a 720p video on them
Is that so? Sounds like a good challenge for me to dive into >:)
@@BudgetBin Yes unfortunately
Now i have just these pcs like storage
I open them just to store files in them and that's it
But i challenge you to run hd video on them !
I also tried linux in them
And linux mint (not the latest version)
Worked perfectly
But with 30$ it's not a bad deal
You can play ton of retro games on them
If you like retro stuff
Anyway great video !! Keep Making videos like these
I like them ^^
Quality=/=Performance
I sniff chairs after people sit on them they smell like poop 💩.
Honestly too old to be of use, scrap it for metal. Or maybe old SNES generation emulation.
Can u send me your email bro plz?