Yes folks, this computer was completely free, it is packing a single core Pentium 4 641, 1.5gb of ddr2 and GMA 950 graphics... Lets game on it! Austin's bloopers reel: • Abusing Leo's free PC
Could get a 2x2gb set off ebay auctions for less than 2$, also a cpu like a celeron e1500 which is supported by these old motherboards, all this would cost about 7$, a random gpu woud also combo very well something like a r5 240, r5 430, quadro k420 can cost about 12$
I've gotten many free PCs in my day. The last one was in 2016 from my former employer they gave me their Dell Vostro with a I5-2400 & 8GB of RAM. I popped in a GTX 950 into it, and it became my gaming PC for several years until I sold it for a better one I was building.
the moment you put that windows 7 disc in, I was like "oh boy, he's going to be praying to the windows gods for mercy for his sin for putting this on such on an old machine." And I was right
Well, this pc still working after 20+ years. You can try lightweight linux? Debian or arch with archinstall command with xfce/hyprland/openbox or other simple geaphic interface.
@@johnphillips4783 hello, don't know when this model of the pentium 4 was released but in general the pentium 4 was available around 2000 so 4 years before this thing to be on the 20 year window or older. Or someone got it cheaper later as last gen. Than I could be less than 20 years.
I Still have two free pc's that were just going to be thrown out by our local church. both were not that great but not that bad either, One was a 20010 Hp Pavilion p6823w with a Amd phemon II x2 521 and 4GB DDR3 and 11TB HDD. Upgraded it for cheap with a Phenon II X6 1065T and a GTX 760 I had laying around with a better PSU and 20GB ram. Now runs as a Minecraft server. The other on was a Pavilion P6330f with an i3 530 and 6GB ram and a 1TB HDD. Upgraded it TO an i7 870 (for literally 5 bucks) with 20GB ram and a gt240 that was laying around. It's my main linux testing machine now. stuff like this gets thrown away constantly and can be great opportunities for people on a strict budget, but a Pentium 4 might be stretching it. even though that mobo, being DDR2 might be upgradeable to a Core 2 Duo. Otherwise great video! was kind of surprised to see how little subs you got especially since this was in my reccomended.
Not glazing, but genuinely curios how you only have 156subs, i didnt notice the sub count until after the Video and thought its like 20k or something. Good work man
Just to let you know, windows 7 can still run steam without having to do any tweaks to get it to work even though it says that it's not officially supported. I've been using windows 7 for the last month just to see if it's still possible and that was one of the standout apps that worked without any messing around in terms of having to use an extended kernel
I'd love to see a full series of finding and optimizing potato PCs to the peak of what they could possibly do. I've personally been buying up old ass PCs and slowly using them to build something actually good. It couldn't play any new AAA games, but you'd be surprised the spec requirements of yesterday's greats. Far Cry 3 for example: Core i3-530, 4 GB RAM, GTX 480 (recommended, not minimum specs)
@@PrimitavePCs Sweet, can't wait to see it! Edit: If you haven't yet (which I'm sure you must have) check out your local flea markets. I have found insane stuff there for basically nothing. My favorite so far was 3/6 of a PC case with a graphics card supported by a fish wire.
I tried windows 10, it was bad enough lol it didnt make it into the final video, but it tool like 15 min to boot in. It wasnt the cpu even though its horrible, it was the 1.5gb of ram limiting the computer.
@@PrimitavePCs Yeah, although with more RAM the CPU would quickly become the problem, I once tried Windows 11 on an Athlon 64 with 8 GB and it was terrible.
@@PrimitavePCs mine had a 500gb hard-drive, 2gb of ram, some random integrated intel cpu/gpu thing and was weirdly modular on the inside with a completely custom motherboard and the sides kinda like hinged outwards really cool design but the thing itself was really bad for anything other than playing gmod at lowest settings at a solid 30fps except for the context menu which slows the game down to not responding when rendering the previews
Like the video. You should try to get some budget parts from your local e recycler. Try to get at least an Intel i5-i7 3000 and up because they support PCIe Gen 3. I have impressive results with a 120G SSD and a Radeon HD 8570 and Win 10 or even 11
Did you fully update the computer? Legacy update is really useful since the normal windows update wont work out of the box. I got an old optiplex with similar harddware and managed to at least open steam. doesnt mean it runs well. Steam also still opens and works perfectly on a much more powerful machine I have running windows 7
Yeah, I am aware that steam can sometimes work on windows 7, it wouldnt open for me on this computer, legacy update sounds like something ill be using in the future. Thanks
@@PrimitavePCs Yeah, legacy update is really good. Works on a few other old windows versions like XP. Although be careful because I think there are scanners exploiting Xp computers who connect to the internet (may have been another old windows version, cant remember). You dont want to spend 5 hours manually trying to update windows 7 like I did 💀💀💀
well.. you do know? back then some of us had to play games like this, cause it was all there was XD.. i always went high end relative to the time tho XD.. and over compensated on ram always.. gotta check the relative time of the PC to the relative release of the game :)..
Oh that's a 775 socket. If you wanted to do a second video decking out this PC for shit's and giggles you could buy a Xeon CPU and do the old school 771 to 775 mod to shove that in!
i've found a free hp that can run apex at 24fps skyrim at 50 gta 5 over 60 and gayshit impact horribly lowest settings possible under 30 and honorable mention for some reasons enabling anti-aliasing no matter the quality or game just doesn't effect the frames at all meaning i can just drop the res and put anti-aliasing of such high quality it looks like dlss though fsr2 kills the fps and newer doesn't run it sucks a bit in gaming but it's actually decent for 3d modeling those are the real performance you can get for free
@@PrimitavePCs some ddr3 likely 8 upgraded to 10 because of the dirty ram mixing a xeon that's probably way too overkill for the gpu it is paired with which might be part of the reason why anti-aliasing doesn't do anything to the performance and a quadro 600 which is probably the biggest reason anti-aliasing is free (it is a pro gpu meant for 3d rendering and modeling (even though these days it's just the minimum to be used for multiple screens) rather then gaming)
@@PrimitavePCs i forgot a 1tb hd that is quite fast for an hard drive that is just starting to die (lots of warnings but no failure) + 2tb that would be even faster if it worked at all but sadly it's a ghost to the bios
Windows 7? Wont run Steam then, so what's the point? :D Ah, I see you discovered that yourself. Not sure why you installed Windows XP though - there should be plenty of old games that run just fine in Windows 7.
Really? Who would have thought. It sounded like it was on its last legs when i was installing windows xp onto it but ill have to see what they are worth, ive got other similar computers, I might have a few more
@@PrimitavePCs many DVD drives in HP computers of that era could do lightscribe, look for a lightscribe logo on the front of the drive. you may also wanna mess with engraving some discs yourself :P
@@iknowdawae893 didnt even know what lightscribe was, just looked up what it can do, looks really cool i can see why someone would go out to buy one of these, ive got 3 or 4 of these kicking around, ill definitly be putting them to use
Please change your channel name. "PC's" is not the correct plural of "PC". Even though I'm not a native English speaker I'm pretty sure "PCs" is correct.
Now fully upgrade it for less than a big mac
Challenge level: tasty
Could get a 2x2gb set off ebay auctions for less than 2$, also a cpu like a celeron e1500 which is supported by these old motherboards, all this would cost about 7$, a random gpu woud also combo very well something like a r5 240, r5 430, quadro k420 can cost about 12$
@@gordo_homemlivre1909 that’s the spirit!!!
love the toilet intro
Thanks!
@@PrimitavePCs is that ur gaming chair
Absolutley
@@PrimitavePCstf why didn't I think of that 😂
the editing feels like a fever dream
love the content insane what people throw out
Yeah, you can find really modern stuff in ewaste sometimes
Same. I have so many PC's I pulled from the local transfer station, stacks of half dead laptops and desktops stacked atop each other under my desk.
I've gotten many free PCs in my day. The last one was in 2016 from my former employer they gave me their Dell Vostro with a I5-2400 & 8GB of RAM. I popped in a GTX 950 into it, and it became my gaming PC for several years until I sold it for a better one I was building.
The hell? I also got a i5 2400 with 8 gigs of ram for free and it also had a gtx 1060 from a relative what a coincidence
better price to performance than any computer you can buy
FR!
Literally infinite
actually not true.
@@KZA1234 it is completely true, the price to performance for this is infinite, from any computer you can buy it is finite
@@KZA1234 "you can buy"
the moment you put that windows 7 disc in, I was like "oh boy, he's going to be praying to the windows gods for mercy for his sin for putting this on such on an old machine."
And I was right
That "art" on the case would be almost enough of a reason for me to buy such a PC lol
Well, this pc still working after 20+ years. You can try lightweight linux? Debian or arch with archinstall command with xfce/hyprland/openbox or other simple geaphic interface.
i tried debian on a single core 3ghz celeron. Not pleasant to use :D
It's not even 20 years old
I have 300 mhz single core thin client and xubuntu was perfect. @@Nordlicht05
@@johnphillips4783 hello, don't know when this model of the pentium 4 was released but in general the pentium 4 was available around 2000 so 4 years before this thing to be on the 20 year window or older. Or someone got it cheaper later as last gen. Than I could be less than 20 years.
@@johnphillips4783 what do you mean pentium 4 ended at around 2004-2005 so it is basically 20years
I Still have two free pc's that were just going to be thrown out by our local church. both were not that great but not that bad either, One was a 20010 Hp Pavilion p6823w with a Amd phemon II x2 521 and 4GB DDR3 and 11TB HDD. Upgraded it for cheap with a Phenon II X6 1065T and a GTX 760 I had laying around with a better PSU and 20GB ram. Now runs as a Minecraft server.
The other on was a Pavilion P6330f with an i3 530 and 6GB ram and a 1TB HDD. Upgraded it TO an i7 870 (for literally 5 bucks) with 20GB ram and a gt240 that was laying around. It's my main linux testing machine now.
stuff like this gets thrown away constantly and can be great opportunities for people on a strict budget, but a Pentium 4 might be stretching it. even though that mobo, being DDR2 might be upgradeable to a Core 2 Duo.
Otherwise great video! was kind of surprised to see how little subs you got especially since this was in my reccomended.
I'm loving the style of this vid. Keep it up!
just put linux on it bro
best way to make any old pc usable again
I ran out of time to do linux stuff on it, i might make a follow up video where I put linux onto it
Say goodbye to GPU on linux
@@MrEdioss It's not that bad really
This is the stuff I love, subscribed!
Thanks
Not glazing, but genuinely curios how you only have 156subs, i didnt notice the sub count until after the Video and thought its like 20k or something. Good work man
Thanks. That means alot mate!
great vid did give me a chuckle and some nostalgia 👌👌
very underrated channel! keep up the good work!
Much appreciated!
Very well put together video.
Thanks
subbed - i like the old pc things
Just to let you know, windows 7 can still run steam without having to do any tweaks to get it to work even though it says that it's not officially supported. I've been using windows 7 for the last month just to see if it's still possible and that was one of the standout apps that worked without any messing around in terms of having to use an extended kernel
Yeah, I have heard that windows 7 and steam still work sometimes, I couldn't get this computer to run it though.
Very entertaining. Definitely Subbed!
cool editing, nice music, I like.
Damn great video :D Made me chuckle.
love the edits
Thanks
Nugget approved
I'd love to see a full series of finding and optimizing potato PCs to the peak of what they could possibly do. I've personally been buying up old ass PCs and slowly using them to build something actually good. It couldn't play any new AAA games, but you'd be surprised the spec requirements of yesterday's greats. Far Cry 3 for example: Core i3-530, 4 GB RAM, GTX 480 (recommended, not minimum specs)
Nice, i was thinking of doi g something like that
@@PrimitavePCs Sweet, can't wait to see it!
Edit: If you haven't yet (which I'm sure you must have) check out your local flea markets. I have found insane stuff there for basically nothing. My favorite so far was 3/6 of a PC case with a graphics card supported by a fish wire.
I dont know who you are or why your in my yt feed but, AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!!
OI OI OI (lol)
my main pc had a gma 950 too, I kept it until mid-2022
I wonder if this beast of a machine can handle supertuxkart
Stronger then that one pc that came with a keyboard, mouse and a monitor for 50$
Actually great channel lol. I'm subscribing
Thanks!
Oh wow, a tech channel from Bluey land
Subbed
as someone who has like 3 ancient pcs in my garage i might try some tomfoolery with them
It is extremely fun, i would recommend doing that.
Fun video! Probably good for some Quake 3, UT99, stuff from that era.
+1 sub
If i had a bit more time i would have tested some really old stuff like that, ill definitely be doing stuff like that in the future
nice vid 👍 maybe you could make a video where you throw in a cheap dedicated gpu and see the performance increase
Thanks, i was thinking about doing that, But only with stuff that i got for free. It would be the free pc in its final form haha
512mb of ddr2 is crazy
great to see another aussie content creator
It's a Cedar Mill Pentium 4, which means Windows 11 will install on it.
I tried windows 10, it was bad enough lol it didnt make it into the final video, but it tool like 15 min to boot in. It wasnt the cpu even though its horrible, it was the 1.5gb of ram limiting the computer.
@@PrimitavePCs Yeah, although with more RAM the CPU would quickly become the problem, I once tried Windows 11 on an Athlon 64 with 8 GB and it was terrible.
Of cource lol
This is perfect
very cool video, so interesting!
i played gmod on a cash register, had to use tiny windows 7
lol, I should see if my work will let me use one of theirs, they run windows 10, have some low tier celeron and 4gb of ram
@@PrimitavePCs mine had a 500gb hard-drive, 2gb of ram, some random integrated intel cpu/gpu thing and was weirdly modular on the inside with a completely custom motherboard and the sides kinda like hinged outwards
really cool design but the thing itself was really bad for anything other than playing gmod at lowest settings at a solid 30fps except for the context menu which slows the game down to not responding when rendering the previews
I almost finished Mafia using GMA945. It really needs a GPU. And core 2 quad if possible
NUGGET DIP? NUH UH MATE WE GOT THE NUGGET GPU DIP
you should make a dual boot with xp and linux mint! great video!
Like the video. You should try to get some budget parts from your local e recycler. Try to get at least an Intel i5-i7 3000 and up because they support PCIe Gen 3. I have impressive results with a 120G SSD and a Radeon HD 8570 and Win 10 or even 11
Yeah, they run great ive found some gems in the past going through the ewaste
THAT THROW WAS RISKY
Yeah lol, it cut my hand a little bit.
the upsidedown/backwards microATX layout is so strange
only hp...
whats it with aussies and having the abilities to make amazing tech vids? im subbing
good vid!
thanks algorythm
ouch, that intro
Did you fully update the computer? Legacy update is really useful since the normal windows update wont work out of the box. I got an old optiplex with similar harddware and managed to at least open steam. doesnt mean it runs well. Steam also still opens and works perfectly on a much more powerful machine I have running windows 7
Yeah, I am aware that steam can sometimes work on windows 7, it wouldnt open for me on this computer, legacy update sounds like something ill be using in the future. Thanks
@@PrimitavePCs Yeah, legacy update is really good. Works on a few other old windows versions like XP. Although be careful because I think there are scanners exploiting Xp computers who connect to the internet (may have been another old windows version, cant remember). You dont want to spend 5 hours manually trying to update windows 7 like I did 💀💀💀
Sick vid, commenting for the algorithm 😎
Thanks!
1:04 I have the same red SanDisk flash drive!
Decent, I live in Perth, What area are you localized around?
rural NSW
bro has the bogdan eyebrows
just subbed love it!!
should have installed modded gma drivers makes games run a little better
You can install Linux Mint on that thing, with the P4 it will do better than W7.
Petition to abbreviate the name further to ‘PP’???
ik this guy is gonna get popular
Now I know I'm going to get slapped for this. But I would like to see Linux on it.
You gone viral 😂
ez sub looking forward for more!
Now please upgrade it :)
Upgrade it for cheap! 👀
but can it run doom?
well.. you do know? back then some of us had to play games like this, cause it was all there was XD..
i always went high end relative to the time tho XD..
and over compensated on ram always..
gotta check the relative time of the PC to the relative release of the game :)..
The next intro will be while someone shitting with fart tunes ☝️
shiiii we both got a free pc. Tryna get mine to be not as doo doo as the one you're using lol. Good video doe.
nlg i wanna try steam os
Oh that's a 775 socket. If you wanted to do a second video decking out this PC for shit's and giggles you could buy a Xeon CPU and do the old school 771 to 775 mod to shove that in!
My friend found working pc with cute small case with i5 4gen 8gb ram and gtx 750
Nice find!
@@PrimitavePCs thanks, we also found some laptops like hp with i5 2gen :D
ok
You, sir are poggers
Edit: i cant speak basic english
aussie Budget Builds Official
Put Steam OS on it
oh hey, pcie x16, wouldn't be funny if u gave it a modern gpu?
I was thinking about doing that lol, new gpu and psu, see what that pentium can do
i got tyhis shit for 15 bucks at home depot
Can you do one where someone pays you
Ultimate price to performance challenge
Yooooo i have a free pc too but mine is made by dell
Idea: Make a mascot for you'r channel named whatever you name it with the face of this, 1:44.
Haha, thats a great idea
Yeah, I would be actually shocked if you actually took this idea seriously.
The algorithm has found you, time to start shitposting brother.
wot
i've found a free hp that can run apex at 24fps skyrim at 50 gta 5 over 60 and gayshit impact horribly lowest settings possible under 30 and honorable mention for some reasons enabling anti-aliasing no matter the quality or game just doesn't effect the frames at all meaning i can just drop the res and put anti-aliasing of such high quality it looks like dlss though fsr2 kills the fps and newer doesn't run it sucks a bit in gaming but it's actually decent for 3d modeling those are the real performance you can get for free
@@cameleon2mur80 Nice, what was the spec?
@@PrimitavePCs some ddr3 likely 8 upgraded to 10 because of the dirty ram mixing a xeon that's probably way too overkill for the gpu it is paired with which might be part of the reason why anti-aliasing doesn't do anything to the performance and a quadro 600 which is probably the biggest reason anti-aliasing is free (it is a pro gpu meant for 3d rendering and modeling (even though these days it's just the minimum to be used for multiple screens) rather then gaming)
@@PrimitavePCs i forgot a 1tb hd that is quite fast for an hard drive that is just starting to die (lots of warnings but no failure) + 2tb that would be even faster if it worked at all but sadly it's a ghost to the bios
W
lmfao my friend gave me one with an amd e-350 :D
I guess its a bit better than a pentium 4...
Try upgrading to Windows 10
I actually did, but it didnt make it past editing, it took over 15 minutes to boot up and opening chrome crashed the computer.
Try upgrading the ram to 8GB and the hard drive to a Soild State drive.
why didnt you played half life which is even older i think
I dont have a copy of half life at the moment, it would have been a great game to test.
Windows 7? Wont run Steam then, so what's the point? :D Ah, I see you discovered that yourself. Not sure why you installed Windows XP though - there should be plenty of old games that run just fine in Windows 7.
There are but i dont have them, could have probably downloaded some but i was running out of time
@@PrimitavePCs No GOG account? For shame!
Play CS 1.6 on it
Good idea
@@PrimitavePCs thanks
i have the same case as you in the intro!
ps: take out the DVD drive. its a lightscribe drive, since they've become a bit rare it might be worth a bit
Really? Who would have thought. It sounded like it was on its last legs when i was installing windows xp onto it but ill have to see what they are worth, ive got other similar computers, I might have a few more
@@PrimitavePCs many DVD drives in HP computers of that era could do lightscribe, look for a lightscribe logo on the front of the drive. you may also wanna mess with engraving some discs yourself :P
@@iknowdawae893 didnt even know what lightscribe was, just looked up what it can do, looks really cool i can see why someone would go out to buy one of these, ive got 3 or 4 of these kicking around, ill definitly be putting them to use
Please change your channel name. "PC's" is not the correct plural of "PC". Even though I'm not a native English speaker I'm pretty sure "PCs" is correct.
Free pc giveaway pls
istg this is the only comment
@@anonymous-bt6pv not for long
underrated ahh content🦩this is so good