You know Tim, the idea of playing an AAA game at 640x480 and lowest settings on weak hardwares, is really something that has been lost to the times. Back in the day, I've seen TH-camrs trying this stuff on outdated hardwares, for the attempt of making a game playable against all odds. And while their endeavours werent't all successful, it's really endearing to see the hardwares being optimized to their fullest, while also being amazed what these machines can do with so little processing power on board. Thank you for bringing it back in 2024, in the age where everyone and their mother are spending thousands of dollars just to play games at 4K, max settings and with ray tracing.
I'm guilty of spending way too much just to be able to max out games at 1440p and still have a super high framerate. I don't miss the times of having to play GTA 5 at 720p lowest settings and disabling shadows just to get 25fps.
I used to have an Asus laptop with a Haswell Core i3 and an Nvidia Geforce 930 with 12GB of RAM and SSD. It's not a powerhouse for sure, but I used it a lot and it helped me graduate. Thank you for reminding us that not everyone has the ability to buy the latest and fastest. Sometimes, a lot of us have to settle with the slow ones
I love putting the max into those laptops and maxing them out truly with 64 gigs not 32 so i know how fun it is to slap more ram into a laptop like that thing for the fun of it
I'm only about 10 minutes in, but I just have to say I love that you're back and keeping with these kind of tech experiments! Your videos are always a watch for me.
Another interesting idea for CPU bound titles is to cap the framerate. Since the CPU and GPU share the same power/thermal budget, reducing the load on the GPU should theoretically leave more juice for the CPU to boost.
It makes me so happy to see your back making TH-cam videos again. There's just something about your video style that always keeps me entertained and calmed at the same time.
you should also learn that most prebuilt laptops and desktop computers come with single channel ram as in one stick of ram because one stick of ram is 2 or 3 dollars cheaper then two sticks of the same amount of ram which is how hp dell and all low cost pc makers do to save thousands of dollars on the sale of their systems by doing this and Ryzen suffer from this big time in performance as ram bandwidth affects the cpu and gpu performance so the ram upgrade does affect ram bandwidth as well as increasing ram capacity this is why his upgrades make so much of a difference in overall speed💀💀
Been watching you for years. One of the big reasons I keep watching you is your art style (all PCs are smokers, it's a fact) and your ever increasing production value. The stats around the laptop kind of thing is soooooo clean I thought they were superimposed in edit.
I had a similar HP laptop but with a 3500u with 4 cores and 8 threads. It came with the same shitty Toshiba drive and 4GB of RAM. Out of the box, that 3500u was completely choked by the 3.5GB of RAM and the awful hard drive. The laptop felt slower than my outgoing Asus with a quad Celeron and a SATA SSD. Upgrading to 16GB of RAM and a 256GB NVMe drive made a shocking difference. That machine is still very snappy to this day.
is it also had single channel ram same issue crippling it to the same degree notice how he dose not just increase the ram amount he doubles the ram speed and bandwidth by going from single channel ram to dual channel🤔
these laptops are really cool. they are functional, and if you understand their limitations, they can be very effective. I find gaming laptops garish and obnoxious. they are huge and have flashing lights. with my gaming PC, my personal laptop is small netbook with a great keyboard and a 6 watt celeron. it runs excel and web browsing no problem, and has insane battery life. You are so right about low end hardware. Also its amazing to see how far low end hardware has come. even in the 2010s, the tier of netbooks or k-12 oriented low end laptops were no where near what they are now.
You and Kliksphilip’s tech videos inspired me to pursue a career in computer repair and general fascination of computer hardware. I had a similar experience with another HP that I had the same prospects for. A salvage laptop that a buddy donated to me that he bought for $20. Sadly I could not fulfill my dream because the motherboard was damaged beyond repair but this helped me not feel alone with wanting to make the best of a simple machine.
My first venture into PC gaming was on an old Toshiba satellite from 2011 I got for Christmas with a cheap AMD board. A by the numbers simple laptop made for school and office work, back then I knew jack about CPUs, GPUs, integrated graphics etc. But I remember playing so many classic PC games like Deus Ex, Doom, Half Life and having so many hours playing minecraft on 4 GB of ram.
Playing an instrumental version of "What's my age again" in the intro was an interesting choice. Made me even more interested in the video than the premise alone (already) had.
Lovely video as always! Also just wanted to let you know last year I got a Dreamcast with Shenmue, beat it and it was my favorite game I played all year. Tomato Convenience Store is my safe haven now.
In many of these benchmarks you appear to be getting limited clocks because of power limits. I'd love to see a follow up where you use a tool such as UXTU (Universal XTU) to increase the power limits to 20-25 watts. I've had good results doing so on Ryzen APUs (though be careful, you can overload the boards VRMs so I wouldn't suggest going over the stock limit by much more than 10 watts.)
I love how you've turned a terrible laptop into a work of art. Each video you make is like a meditation. A view into your world. I feel calmer and happier after a watch. My inner IT nerd feels less alone. You are a wizard.
Cool video! This may sound weird, but playing on older hardware with a native low-resolution monitor can make a big difference in overall game playability. I have a 1024 x 768 LCD monitor that I use whenever I'm trying out gaming on such weak hardware. You'd be surprised at the difference it makes (particularly to PPI).
Watching you now gives me so much nostalgia of watching you on my pentium 4 dell and amd turion laptop. You left a massive impact on how I view all pc hardware, so thank you.
What a wonderful video and message at the end. In 2011, I bought a high-end laptop and I feel the exact way you just described. It's been a trusty friend that never failed me. After a few years, I replaced the stock HDD with a small SSD and it still is nice to use in everyday browsing along with some light multitasking. Sadly, I feel like it is dying on me, I will be sad to see it go...
If you have some more thermal headroom you can also overclock the internal gpu using loads of open source software I was able to get my friends laptop with the same chip a massive 7-10 fps difference in some titles just by a slight increase in clock speed on the gpu
This reminds me of my first home PC. It could not play much but it could play Diablo II, Starcraft, and Stronghold Crusader II. So in my book it was the best PC I ever had in a way. Now I can play anything and thats great and all but something special about a low end PC. Especially your first one.
A game I think would be VERY interesting to see on this machine is 2023’s BattleBit Remastered. The game can run 60FPS on quite a lot of obscure hardware!
also consider that if you're running games, you're using the system ram as a VRAM too. so 16GB might only be around 12-13 when you run more demanding games.
@@JessicaFEREM if the laptop has a better processor or a decent GPU then you are correct. The processor there is not that capable to use 32 GB of ram The igpu can maximum utilise 2GB vram out of the total system memory you can definitely give it 3GB or 4GB I don't believe it will give a little bit of a performance difference
I used to really enjoy your channel years ago, but you went a while without posting anything. I know you went through a rough patch and I prayed you'd be doing better again. Today, TH-cam recommended this video to me, and I really enjoyed it. I see you have posted a number of videos. I have some catching up to do. Hopefully, there will be more flames and computers smoking cigs! I'm trying to get my own channel off the ground, but life is being hectic. Maybe head over and get yourself a cup of tea, or a beer if that's more your thing, and come along for the ride.
What you said at 8:34 is literally how my PC I am on right now goes. 5700XT. 3700X. 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM. Running off a WD Black HDD. I click, and I have to wait for the HDD before the start menu appears, or anything. I ran this with two 6TB WD Blacks. 1 for the OS & footage, and 1 for games. I use turning it on and opening any program as an excuse to go downstairs and get something. My new gaming PC I jumped to a gen 5 NVME SSD for the OS with DRAM. And a DRAMless Gen 4 NVME SSD for games (it was a gift). 7800XT and 7800X3D. 64 gigs of DDR5 ram. I have always had to build my PC around the GPU for maximum performance. This time around I got into AM5 on gen 1 and built for longevity and upgradability where only the GPU & CPU would ever need to be replaced, and maybe a new SSD could be added if it was in the budget. I am still on 1080p though XD The jump to 2K is an expense for another day. I imported 1 of those 6TBs for footage and game pre-installs, and I record to it (while it does nothing else) and transfer it to this old PC for editing and messing around. Got a 5TB external WD black p10 for transfers while I record with the newer GPU encoder. That thing is half the speed of the bigger HDDs lol, but any SSD was 2x the price and I was already over budget. It's a nice and convenient little drive though.
My brother got a HP "14bw-Iforgotthename" which was manufactured in December 2017. It has the exact same build quality and was unsurprisingly really slow with the 1tb HDD and he told me that the clicking noises from it were basically a feature. Also why on Earth did a 2020 laptop ship with a HDD?
I had a ~2017 Dell inspiron with a bizarre combo of an i7 that was kneecapped with an HDD and 15.6in 768p TN display with awful colors and contrast. It felt much older than it actually was.
@@yasu_red I also had an Inspiron but it was a 2015 with a Pentium. It was bottlenecked by its HDD and it takes 2 minutes to start up. Nowadays it serves as virus cannon fodder for when my dad uses Pirate Bay
I remember when I finally jumped the gun and switched from an HDD to an SSD in my old laptop. It was so bad that I couldn't even play Portal 2, it stuttered SO BAD. Switching to that SSD was like night and day how much it improved things. Too bad the laptop's hinge failed a few days after the fact due to poor manufacturing, otherwise I'd still be daily driving it.
Oh, I know the feel. I bought laptop with i5 7200U, some 4GB Nvidia GPU, 8GB of RAM and painfully slow 1TB HDD. That HDD was just too slow, and it was on 100% usage almost all the time. I upgraded to 500GB SSD and upgraded the RAM to 12GB, and that laptop still runs fine today.
If that's the Toshiba hdd I think it is, they like dying a lot. I think I went through 3 in HS in my school laptop. As for cramming 32 gb of ram into any igpu only laptop, it's surprising what they can do when given that amount. You can technically run stable diffusion locally on that laptop. I'd know as I have done the exact same on mine, but I have a Ryzen 7 5825u. Also the display is quite common on HP's more expensive computers such as their pavilions.
well the Toshiba does not help but no it's not all it's fault it the fact it has 4 gigs of ram and the rams in single channel which reduces the cpu and gpu's performance ryzen cpu's need lot of bandwidth and so dose the gpu so the upgrade to 32 also switches on dual channel as well
Watching Tim losing his mind over that busted HDD was me back in 2019. My then "new" laptop came with a standard HDD that went haywire whenever Windows booted up, and it got worse the more I used it. Like Tim, too, I was tempted to add 32gbs of RAM to give that poor machine some breathing room but nope, it only got up and running for real when I chucked a SSD into it. It's been running smoothly ever since, and, unlike then, it's able to upload an TH-cam comment without frying out.
Really good video, keep up with the good stuff! It's crazy how a RAM and storage upgrade can make a computer sufficient for one's needs again. I myself have recently upgraded my laptop from 12GB of RAM (stock was 8: 4 soldered, 4 an a stick, I had already swapped the 4GB stick for an 8GB) 500GB NVMe SSD, to 36GB of RAM and 2TB NVMe SSD. Some have wondered about why I decided to put so much into it, but the thing is the APU is perfectly enough for what I'm doing with it (R7 3700U). All I needed was a lot more storage and a lot more RAM because I like to keep lots of apps running as well as virtual machines. Btw, the manufacturer said the 12GB was the max for it but it has been doing perfectly fine on 36GB and it can, of course, make use of all of it.
The lack of RAM was probably what was holding this system back the most though, with a modern install of Windows 10 you'd be pegged at nearly all of your RAM so Windows will try to offset that by using the page file from the hard drive, but it's rare as hell to see the CPU being the bottleneck instead of the GPU on a laptop like that
Appreciate the video but I would’ve had suggestions. I do not know what is the maximum mega transfers for the ram but if you probably got the highest mega transfers of what the Avalon supports you probably get better speed out of it, but it may be a little different switch get anything what you get right Second would be the SSD when I was looking at the board. There is a unpopulated M2 SSD Even though the Sata ssd are more accessible I probably would’ve recommend just finding a M2 SSD. I do even think HP sells 128 GB for about maybe 20-30€ if you know where to look and last is overclocking I am aware that the cpu clock are locked but maybe you could get some more clocks on the gpu that could increase performance anyway love your video just want to give feedback
Pretty random comment I just find it quite funny that I bought the exact same set of coasters you show in the start of the video recently by pure coincidence
this almost takes me back to when I had my first very low end computers playing games in 640 x 480 with the very lowest settings, using swiftshader to try and run more demanding games, but to only get to see a slideshow instead. One thing is for certain, cs2 performance might be worsen by the fact you where in a bot match, the bots makes the processor do much more work, so a casual match or whatever with actual players may run a bit better!
This couldn't come out any more perfect of a time, i was looking for a "new" laptop to go back to school looks like this will be my choice for Lightroom and photo shop 😂
I have an old Lenovo Ideapad from 2017 with a cheap Pentium N4200 and Radeon 530 graphics. It came with an unbearably slow 2TB 5200 RPM hard drive and 8GB of RAM. Windows 10 (even though there wasn't a lot of bloatware) was unusable with the stock hard drive, so I upgraded it to a 256GB SSD, which made an incredible difference. I installed Debian Linux on it and it's perfectly usable as a little media and web browsing machine. It even has a DVD burner that I regularly use since I still listen to and burn CDs.
I did this to a used hp pro book 445 g7 with a nice 6 core zen2 4500u and have both an nvme and SATA ssd. I love that these hps have user upgradeable ddr4 sodimm slots instead of soldered ram. All this I got for under $350 total. This used all metal business laptop is far better made than the cheap plastic consumer models, and a great value. I see why people love these things! This video was satisfying and a good reminder that user upgrade ability far beats the Apple ethos. Amazing testament as to why Apples $799-$999 for a base m1/m2 is fking ludicrous. This thing has 4x the RAM as an $800 MacBook, insane lol.
9:37 Its not any HDD manufacturer fault, Windows 10(Win 11 also) after 1809 on HDD is very slow and its require SSD for better OS response, last OS which is decent to use with HDD is Windows 8.1 maybe Win 10 1607 and some Linux Distros
You should try to use the uxtu to undervolt, unlock the tdp and even overclock the igpu + Radeon ID modded driver, they would greatly boost this laptop
Far too many laptops still come with 4 gigs of ram today, and they're almost always not upgradable. This thing is an exception to the rule, a breath of slightly less smoggy air.
I remember when i first got my laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad z510, it had 4gb ram and a 500 GB WD 5400 rpm drive, it drove me crazy how the laptop would just freeze very often, like i would get 60+ fps in Gta v but it would freeze for a couple seconds every minute or so! I upgraded the ram to 8 GB and put a 250 GB SSD, and boy did that make a difference! It seems windows 10 onward isn't friendly to HDD's and while you can try de-bloating it and messing with task scheduler to improve performance, an SSD is a MUST nowadays! Also I'm shocked at how expensive the 128 GB SSD you got, where i live, it's hard to find anything below 240 GB and they start at around $30 Brand new...
For an extra £40, you can buy a ThinkPad A285 from Back Market with infinitely better specs, with 16GB DDR4 (2400MHz) and a Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. I bought one a few weeks ago, slapped Linux Mint on it (Microsoft won't support it for Windows 11, despite only being from 2018) and it's bloody fantastic!
I remember watching you many years ago while in high school. Now I work in IT because of you.
That makes sense to me. You probably work with nothing but Dell Inspirons.
@@segaboy9894People may diss on them, but we believe on them.
Same here lmfao
You don't know pain until you have to install thin os on a new WYSE mobo lol.
Binge watching Green Ham Gaming, Tech Yes City and Classic Linus Tech Tips made me a Sys Admin. Where would I be without them
You know Tim, the idea of playing an AAA game at 640x480 and lowest settings on weak hardwares, is really something that has been lost to the times.
Back in the day, I've seen TH-camrs trying this stuff on outdated hardwares, for the attempt of making a game playable against all odds. And while their endeavours werent't all successful, it's really endearing to see the hardwares being optimized to their fullest, while also being amazed what these machines can do with so little processing power on board.
Thank you for bringing it back in 2024, in the age where everyone and their mother are spending thousands of dollars just to play games at 4K, max settings and with ray tracing.
I'm guilty of spending way too much just to be able to max out games at 1440p and still have a super high framerate. I don't miss the times of having to play GTA 5 at 720p lowest settings and disabling shadows just to get 25fps.
heck I remember in the 2000s a lower mid range laptop was using 640x480 for serious games.
We are spoiled today by how minimum standards have changed.
so true.
It's so nostalgic and awesome watching new GHG videos in 2024.. I love it!
I love how he unleashes the beast with his laptop letting it work it's heart out instead of being held back it's whole life😃
I used to have an Asus laptop with a Haswell Core i3 and an Nvidia Geforce 930 with 12GB of RAM and SSD. It's not a powerhouse for sure, but I used it a lot and it helped me graduate. Thank you for reminding us that not everyone has the ability to buy the latest and fastest. Sometimes, a lot of us have to settle with the slow ones
dontcha love Microsoft for making slow hard drives a piece of shit?
Leave it to HP to release a laptop without an SSD in 2020. Also, cool cat.
teh one ear catt, i wonder if he got in a battle?
there is an hp laptop sold today with EMMC 32 GB AND 2 GB OF RAM, 100% ewaste
at least its not FUCKING EMMC
yeah that and single channel ram to nerf it even more
ah the early bird 360p upload, my favourite, also perfect for the machine in the film
I love putting the max into those laptops and maxing them out truly with 64 gigs not 32 so i know how fun it is to slap more ram into a laptop like that thing for the fun of it
I'm only about 10 minutes in, but I just have to say I love that you're back and keeping with these kind of tech experiments! Your videos are always a watch for me.
Another interesting idea for CPU bound titles is to cap the framerate. Since the CPU and GPU share the same power/thermal budget, reducing the load on the GPU should theoretically leave more juice for the CPU to boost.
It makes me so happy to see your back making TH-cam videos again. There's just something about your video style that always keeps me entertained and calmed at the same time.
it makes me happy seeing someone other then me maxing out a pos computer I am not alone yay👍👍
Why haven't I gotten notifications from your channel IDK. But now that I know you are making videos again, I'm watching.
youtubes trying to take him down fight it and keep watching his videos✊✊
3:19 Today I learned Canada uses the Japanese flag and uses pounds 💀
you should also learn that most prebuilt laptops and desktop computers come with single channel ram as in one stick of ram because one stick of ram is 2 or 3 dollars cheaper then two sticks of the same amount of ram which is how hp dell and all low cost pc makers do to save thousands of dollars on the sale of their systems by doing this and Ryzen suffer from this big time in performance as ram bandwidth affects the cpu and gpu performance so the ram upgrade does affect ram bandwidth as well as increasing ram capacity this is why his upgrades make so much of a difference in overall speed💀💀
This is the true old school GHG format! Keep it up!
you see you see an ssd and ram upgrade can increase a weak computers performance from atrocious to much better
What I love about your channel is that you put so much effort to your graphs and graphics, it looks really good
yeah he's an excel enthusiast man👍
Been watching you for years. One of the big reasons I keep watching you is your art style (all PCs are smokers, it's a fact) and your ever increasing production value. The stats around the laptop kind of thing is soooooo clean I thought they were superimposed in edit.
he makes getting ram sound like a secret agent mission💀💀
I had a similar HP laptop but with a 3500u with 4 cores and 8 threads. It came with the same shitty Toshiba drive and 4GB of RAM. Out of the box, that 3500u was completely choked by the 3.5GB of RAM and the awful hard drive. The laptop felt slower than my outgoing Asus with a quad Celeron and a SATA SSD. Upgrading to 16GB of RAM and a 256GB NVMe drive made a shocking difference. That machine is still very snappy to this day.
is it also had single channel ram same issue crippling it to the same degree notice how he dose not just increase the ram amount he doubles the ram speed and bandwidth by going from single channel ram to dual channel🤔
these laptops are really cool. they are functional, and if you understand their limitations, they can be very effective. I find gaming laptops garish and obnoxious. they are huge and have flashing lights. with my gaming PC, my personal laptop is small netbook with a great keyboard and a 6 watt celeron. it runs excel and web browsing no problem, and has insane battery life. You are so right about low end hardware. Also its amazing to see how far low end hardware has come. even in the 2010s, the tier of netbooks or k-12 oriented low end laptops were no where near what they are now.
careful that cats is like the ring girl that comes out of the tv screen to get you that kitty is the same way🤣🤣
You and Kliksphilip’s tech videos inspired me to pursue a career in computer repair and general fascination of computer hardware. I had a similar experience with another HP that I had the same prospects for. A salvage laptop that a buddy donated to me that he bought for $20. Sadly I could not fulfill my dream because the motherboard was damaged beyond repair but this helped me not feel alone with wanting to make the best of a simple machine.
he's not insane for wanting to max his pc out I would have done the same with that laptop just for the giggles factor at least
This might be my favorite video you’ve done. Great editing and writing
I love how he makes getting ram sound like a secret agent adventure🤣🤣
Omg! How didn't you mention the very famous crooked m.2 slot!? That thing is like visual pollution lol
who cares because it still works bottom line🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My first venture into PC gaming was on an old Toshiba satellite from 2011 I got for Christmas with a cheap AMD board. A by the numbers simple laptop made for school and office work, back then I knew jack about CPUs, GPUs, integrated graphics etc. But I remember playing so many classic PC games like Deus Ex, Doom, Half Life and having so many hours playing minecraft on 4 GB of ram.
Playing an instrumental version of "What's my age again" in the intro was an interesting choice. Made me even more interested in the video than the premise alone (already) had.
Lovely video as always! Also just wanted to let you know last year I got a Dreamcast with Shenmue, beat it and it was my favorite game I played all year. Tomato Convenience Store is my safe haven now.
In many of these benchmarks you appear to be getting limited clocks because of power limits.
I'd love to see a follow up where you use a tool such as UXTU (Universal XTU) to increase the power limits to 20-25 watts.
I've had good results doing so on Ryzen APUs (though be careful, you can overload the boards VRMs so I wouldn't suggest going over the stock limit by much more than 10 watts.)
I love how you've turned a terrible laptop into a work of art. Each video you make is like a meditation. A view into your world. I feel calmer and happier after a watch. My inner IT nerd feels less alone. You are a wizard.
Cool video! This may sound weird, but playing on older hardware with a native low-resolution monitor can make a big difference in overall game playability. I have a 1024 x 768 LCD monitor that I use whenever I'm trying out gaming on such weak hardware. You'd be surprised at the difference it makes (particularly to PPI).
Watching you now gives me so much nostalgia of watching you on my pentium 4 dell and amd turion laptop. You left a massive impact on how I view all pc hardware, so thank you.
The blink 182 vibes in the intro
Whats my age again? 🎵🎶🎵🎶
I instantly recognized it 😂
Blink 18Poo 💩
I recognized it as it always plays on my works' radio (Absolute Radio).
I love how clean your editing is, great stuff!
What a wonderful video and message at the end. In 2011, I bought a high-end laptop and I feel the exact way you just described. It's been a trusty friend that never failed me. After a few years, I replaced the stock HDD with a small SSD and it still is nice to use in everyday browsing along with some light multitasking. Sadly, I feel like it is dying on me, I will be sad to see it go...
I love Posen, 10/10 cat.
If you have some more thermal headroom you can also overclock the internal gpu using loads of open source software I was able to get my friends laptop with the same chip a massive 7-10 fps difference in some titles just by a slight increase in clock speed on the gpu
I love this type of video. Light, quiet and fun.
Oh gosh I miss your videos, thank you for returning!
This reminds me of my first home PC. It could not play much but it could play Diablo II, Starcraft, and Stronghold Crusader II. So in my book it was the best PC I ever had in a way. Now I can play anything and thats great and all but something special about a low end PC. Especially your first one.
A game I think would be VERY interesting to see on this machine is 2023’s BattleBit Remastered. The game can run 60FPS on quite a lot of obscure hardware!
32 GB of RAM is overkill for this 😂
16 was more than enough
similar to paring an i3-8100 with RTX 4070, it works 😂
also consider that if you're running games, you're using the system ram as a VRAM too. so 16GB might only be around 12-13 when you run more demanding games.
@@JessicaFEREMEven 12gb total would be enough if you take a look at msi afterburner in the clips.
@@JessicaFEREM if the laptop has a better processor or a decent GPU then you are correct.
The processor there is not that capable to use 32 GB of ram
The igpu can maximum utilise 2GB vram out of the total system memory you can definitely give it 3GB or 4GB
I don't believe it will give a little bit of a performance difference
I used to really enjoy your channel years ago, but you went a while without posting anything. I know you went through a rough patch and I prayed you'd be doing better again. Today, TH-cam recommended this video to me, and I really enjoyed it. I see you have posted a number of videos. I have some catching up to do. Hopefully, there will be more flames and computers smoking cigs!
I'm trying to get my own channel off the ground, but life is being hectic. Maybe head over and get yourself a cup of tea, or a beer if that's more your thing, and come along for the ride.
Love the graphics on this one
the grounds invisible🤣🤣
I havent clicked a video this fast in a long time, GHG just brings back good memories
that is why he needed to increase the system ram to 32 gb so it could handle Mca fee antivirus so it could run fine
it's so nice seeing videos being pumped out from this channel!
What you said at 8:34 is literally how my PC I am on right now goes. 5700XT. 3700X. 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM. Running off a WD Black HDD. I click, and I have to wait for the HDD before the start menu appears, or anything. I ran this with two 6TB WD Blacks. 1 for the OS & footage, and 1 for games. I use turning it on and opening any program as an excuse to go downstairs and get something.
My new gaming PC I jumped to a gen 5 NVME SSD for the OS with DRAM. And a DRAMless Gen 4 NVME SSD for games (it was a gift). 7800XT and 7800X3D. 64 gigs of DDR5 ram.
I have always had to build my PC around the GPU for maximum performance. This time around I got into AM5 on gen 1 and built for longevity and upgradability where only the GPU & CPU would ever need to be replaced, and maybe a new SSD could be added if it was in the budget. I am still on 1080p though XD The jump to 2K is an expense for another day. I imported 1 of those 6TBs for footage and game pre-installs, and I record to it (while it does nothing else) and transfer it to this old PC for editing and messing around. Got a 5TB external WD black p10 for transfers while I record with the newer GPU encoder. That thing is half the speed of the bigger HDDs lol, but any SSD was 2x the price and I was already over budget. It's a nice and convenient little drive though.
My brother got a HP "14bw-Iforgotthename" which was manufactured in December 2017. It has the exact same build quality and was unsurprisingly really slow with the 1tb HDD and he told me that the clicking noises from it were basically a feature. Also why on Earth did a 2020 laptop ship with a HDD?
I had a ~2017 Dell inspiron with a bizarre combo of an i7 that was kneecapped with an HDD and 15.6in 768p TN display with awful colors and contrast. It felt much older than it actually was.
@@yasu_red I also had an Inspiron but it was a 2015 with a Pentium. It was bottlenecked by its HDD and it takes 2 minutes to start up. Nowadays it serves as virus cannon fodder for when my dad uses Pirate Bay
This mfkers still sell laptops with hdds
The music in the Greenmarks is pure nostalgia
3:37 thats a cool idea using a screen behind the laptop to show its dimensions
I love your videos dude. I still watch your older ones. Keep it up!
OMG I forgot about the tomato store music montage. *chefs kiss*
I remember when I finally jumped the gun and switched from an HDD to an SSD in my old laptop. It was so bad that I couldn't even play Portal 2, it stuttered SO BAD. Switching to that SSD was like night and day how much it improved things. Too bad the laptop's hinge failed a few days after the fact due to poor manufacturing, otherwise I'd still be daily driving it.
Oh, I know the feel. I bought laptop with i5 7200U, some 4GB Nvidia GPU, 8GB of RAM and painfully slow 1TB HDD. That HDD was just too slow, and it was on 100% usage almost all the time. I upgraded to 500GB SSD and upgraded the RAM to 12GB, and that laptop still runs fine today.
The Påsen looks exactly like my cat. But my version came with 2 ears 😂
The madman has gone and done it! The initial GTA gameplay is hilarious, it's like you're playing it on Powerpoint
Whoa! loving the new animation when describing the specs! Tim's back with full force! ☕🍺
Nice usage of the morph transition of powerpoint in your videos
14:44 man that bioshock t-shirt make me nostalgic
If that's the Toshiba hdd I think it is, they like dying a lot. I think I went through 3 in HS in my school laptop.
As for cramming 32 gb of ram into any igpu only laptop, it's surprising what they can do when given that amount. You can technically run stable diffusion locally on that laptop. I'd know as I have done the exact same on mine, but I have a Ryzen 7 5825u.
Also the display is quite common on HP's more expensive computers such as their pavilions.
well the Toshiba does not help but no it's not all it's fault it the fact it has 4 gigs of ram and the rams in single channel which reduces the cpu and gpu's performance ryzen cpu's need lot of bandwidth and so dose the gpu so the upgrade to 32 also switches on dual channel as well
Welcome Back Tim GHG filming is back and better then ever.
It's the increase to 1% lows that's truly impressive.
Holy cow he's back!!!! My man!! Welcome back!! Been following you for as long as I can remember, hope you're doing well.
he was never really gone he was just on vacation
14:11 that music gives me goosebumps
Selling a "modern" laptop with 4GB RAM is actually a crime
8GB is really the bare minimum for Windows nowadays, obviously the more, the better
I always loved your channel. I was in highschool back then. I'm glad you're back :)
Watching Tim losing his mind over that busted HDD was me back in 2019. My then "new" laptop came with a standard HDD that went haywire whenever Windows booted up, and it got worse the more I used it.
Like Tim, too, I was tempted to add 32gbs of RAM to give that poor machine some breathing room but nope, it only got up and running for real when I chucked a SSD into it.
It's been running smoothly ever since, and, unlike then, it's able to upload an TH-cam comment without frying out.
These videos are always a joy my dude, keep it up
video editing and infographics are awesome on this. i share your thoughts about a laptop being a friend you can share memories and experiences with
Really good video, keep up with the good stuff!
It's crazy how a RAM and storage upgrade can make a computer sufficient for one's needs again. I myself have recently upgraded my laptop from 12GB of RAM (stock was 8: 4 soldered, 4 an a stick, I had already swapped the 4GB stick for an 8GB) 500GB NVMe SSD, to 36GB of RAM and 2TB NVMe SSD. Some have wondered about why I decided to put so much into it, but the thing is the APU is perfectly enough for what I'm doing with it (R7 3700U). All I needed was a lot more storage and a lot more RAM because I like to keep lots of apps running as well as virtual machines. Btw, the manufacturer said the 12GB was the max for it but it has been doing perfectly fine on 36GB and it can, of course, make use of all of it.
YOOOO, the dog island soundtrack at 16:27. I loved that game as a kid.
Its good to see ghg again
The lack of RAM was probably what was holding this system back the most though, with a modern install of Windows 10 you'd be pegged at nearly all of your RAM so Windows will try to offset that by using the page file from the hard drive, but it's rare as hell to see the CPU being the bottleneck instead of the GPU on a laptop like that
the production quality on this video is fiiiiiiiiiiire!
I smoked a blunt and drank a glass of whisky to this video, cheers!
a SSD and a RAM upgrade does wonders to older hardware. I did just that today to a PC at work and put it on the production floor.
Really good to see you back!
bro no!!!!
You landed a shot in CS and the laptop immediately shit the bed lmao
Nice use of the blink 182 midi soundtrack in the intro 👍
it also play pasen videos no problem to🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I want to believe you checked the weather and decided to wear the bioshock t-shirt
New Green ham! Letsss gooooo!!!
Appreciate the video but I would’ve had suggestions. I do not know what is the maximum mega transfers for the ram but if you probably got the highest mega transfers of what the Avalon supports you probably get better speed out of it, but it may be a little different switch get anything what you get right Second would be the SSD when I was looking at the board. There is a unpopulated M2 SSD Even though the Sata ssd are more accessible I probably would’ve recommend just finding a M2 SSD. I do even think HP sells 128 GB for about maybe 20-30€ if you know where to look and last is overclocking I am aware that the cpu clock are locked but maybe you could get some more clocks on the gpu that could increase performance anyway love your video just want to give feedback
watching this feels like a TV documentary
now that should work more RAM and a small SSD, yep clean install is the way to go on ya Tim
Every time I see a notification from this channel I'm a little nostalgic...
Pretty random comment I just find it quite funny that I bought the exact same set of coasters you show in the start of the video recently by pure coincidence
Thank you green ham gaming, I love this channel.
Happy to see this machine at its best!!
I like the midi "What's My Age Again." At first I didn't know if that's what I was hearing or not lol.
Gather all here GHG brothers and sisters, he has returned!
always a good day when I see a GHG upload
when you pluh it in to the power while playing it helps with the fps increase
this almost takes me back to when I had my first very low end computers
playing games in 640 x 480 with the very lowest settings, using swiftshader to try and run more demanding games, but to only get to see a slideshow instead.
One thing is for certain, cs2 performance might be worsen by the fact you where in a bot match, the bots makes the processor do much more work, so a casual match or whatever with actual players may run a bit better!
This couldn't come out any more perfect of a time, i was looking for a "new" laptop to go back to school looks like this will be my choice for Lightroom and photo shop 😂
I have an old Lenovo Ideapad from 2017 with a cheap Pentium N4200 and Radeon 530 graphics. It came with an unbearably slow 2TB 5200 RPM hard drive and 8GB of RAM. Windows 10 (even though there wasn't a lot of bloatware) was unusable with the stock hard drive, so I upgraded it to a 256GB SSD, which made an incredible difference. I installed Debian Linux on it and it's perfectly usable as a little media and web browsing machine. It even has a DVD burner that I regularly use since I still listen to and burn CDs.
I did this to a used hp pro book 445 g7 with a nice 6 core zen2 4500u and have both an nvme and SATA ssd. I love that these hps have user upgradeable ddr4 sodimm slots instead of soldered ram. All this I got for under
$350 total. This used all metal business laptop is far better made than the cheap plastic consumer models, and a great value. I see why people love these things! This video was satisfying and a good reminder that user upgrade ability far beats the Apple ethos. Amazing testament as to why Apples $799-$999 for a base m1/m2 is fking ludicrous. This thing has 4x the RAM as an $800 MacBook, insane lol.
9:37 Its not any HDD manufacturer fault, Windows 10(Win 11 also) after 1809 on HDD is very slow and its require SSD for better OS response, last OS which is decent to use with HDD is Windows 8.1 maybe Win 10 1607 and some Linux Distros
10 LTSC 2021 works fine on hdd, so it's Microsoft bloatware causing the lag
2 seconds stutters in cs2 is insane jesus
As a Swede I feel so included having our currency listed with the big boys.
You should try to use the uxtu to undervolt, unlock the tdp and even overclock the igpu + Radeon ID modded driver, they would greatly boost this laptop
Far too many laptops still come with 4 gigs of ram today, and they're almost always not upgradable. This thing is an exception to the rule, a breath of slightly less smoggy air.
I remember when i first got my laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad z510, it had 4gb ram and a 500 GB WD 5400 rpm drive, it drove me crazy how the laptop would just freeze very often, like i would get 60+ fps in Gta v but it would freeze for a couple seconds every minute or so!
I upgraded the ram to 8 GB and put a 250 GB SSD, and boy did that make a difference!
It seems windows 10 onward isn't friendly to HDD's and while you can try de-bloating it and messing with task scheduler to improve performance, an SSD is a MUST nowadays!
Also I'm shocked at how expensive the 128 GB SSD you got, where i live, it's hard to find anything below 240 GB and they start at around $30 Brand new...
At 3:19 the flag next to CAD is Japan's Flag, and also I'm pretty sure the Symbol for Canadian Dollars is C$.
Great video, though!
For an extra £40, you can buy a ThinkPad A285 from Back Market with infinitely better specs, with 16GB DDR4 (2400MHz) and a Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. I bought one a few weeks ago, slapped Linux Mint on it (Microsoft won't support it for Windows 11, despite only being from 2018) and it's bloody fantastic!
SSDs are such a game changer specially for laptops.
2:50 we're in file city!
UXTU should have been used to set tdp higher
Lack of smoking computer is disappointing