If you ever see the word "professional" or "home" on the XP boot screen, that's a telltale sign of not having SP2/3 installed. Very glad you figured that out before loading 7.
I got a Dell Optiplex 790 for 10 euros, had an i7 2600 in there, and nothing else! The guy got this pc from a bulk lot, he knew nothing about computers, he just jumped on a pallet of old crusty pcs, he said he already made his money back, so i took home this pc, it did have a ram stick, but it was broken, no drives, no cards, but i came home, tested it with some ram and an ssd, and it worked! I stuffed in some cards like bluetooth and wifi, a usb 3 card and a gt 1030, i use this system to play XP/Vista era games, so the 1030 is plenty fast for that (yes it is the gddr5 version), so, i added 16gb of ram, yes it has windows 10 on it, but with some tweaks, you can almost run every xp game flawlessly. I like this pc, it is a joy to use with a fast ssd, it boots under 10 seconds!
Love seeing some old PC get a second life. I'm about to bring an old i5 4690 back to life. So far I've only bought a PSU and a 500gb sata 2.5 SSD as the old PSU is dead and the old SSD in it is really small and it's pretty much full. It's great watching someone who knows how to use these older systems.
@@Jwalker76 Hey man, that’s awesome, good luck with the build! I wouldn’t say I know what I’m doing, but having grown up with xp, I guess it’s just second nature 😂 cheers!
great video! about a year ago i built my dream 2008 computer with a core2extreme, 2 gtx280s in SLI and a velociraptor 10k rpm hdd. The best part is because the parts are so unwanted i spent less than 200 for everything including a new psu and period correct case
I saw your system showing 3.25gb of RAM, which means you've installed the 32 bit version. You can install the 64-bit version of Windows XP to make use of all the RAM. I had 8gb of DDR2 and a Q8200 in my 775 system and it really helped.
Hey, thanks for the input! Yeah, I’m not going to install 64 bit for compatibility reasons, but if you want to max out the ram, yeah, you’d have to do that.
The case has a kinda classic look to it, almost timeless. I remember when cases that where painted on the inside to match the exterior where premium like lian li - still a feature I like despite rarely ever opening machines after they are put into service.
@@7eis Hey, thanks for commenting! I also kinda like the look of this thing, even though it does look kinda generic. At least it’s not far out in the gamer boy aesthetic lol. But nowhere near the lian li build quality, that’s for sure!
Back in the day I had an E8500 and a 9800 GT 1GB. Played a lot of games on that PC (Crysis, Bioshock, Far Cry 2, Dead Space, COD4MW/WAW/MW2/BO, Mass Effect 1-3, GTAIV, Portal/Portal 2, and so many more.
Geez, when I was like 16 y.o. I could've only dream about machine like that. I mean - look at it - dual core CPU over 3GHz, 4GB of RAM, quite powerful videocard for the time (ok, videocard might not be the best in its class but for WinXP it's still overkill because it's still faster than anything that was released in like 2006). I mean, this thing probably could run Crysis and Dead Space at decent settings...
3:55 I object: I worked at a 150-head manufacturing company in internal IT. Lightscribe was in every single DVD-RW drive after around 2006-ish, I'd say they were in every single machine we bought after that point. And as they got replaced those drives were often used again in another system. Only Apple somehow got Combo drives from somewhere it seemed like a scam compared to every other PC seller.
@@gentuxable Hey, thanks a lot for commenting! That’s very interesting. To me (at least as a kid), lightscribe always seemed like something special and cool 😂 Especially when compared to generic dvd rw drives me and my friends had. Cheers! 🤘
@@schvabek Thank you! The thing is how fast they come down through the food chain. Like when I was a kid, I only had a SoundBlaster Pro couldn't get anything more decent and only a few years later every OEM machine has an AWE64 hidden inside it for me to harvest from scrap lol. The thing is, that you could also get a Sandy Bridge or Nehalem based Core i5/i7 system quite cheap which would be way faster than a Core 2 Duo for Windows 7,8 and 10 or else a Pentium 4 for basically nothing that is more compatible with DOS/Win9x.
@@gentuxable Nowadays a Soundblaster card probably costs more than a modern sound card. Prices are pretty ridiculous. As you’ve said, early Pentium machines as well. Early i5 and i7 systems are also coming down in prices, but I don’t think they’ve quite hit rock bottom (as C2D machines have). But I agree you can get great deals on them. Not sure about the xp drivers support.
@@schvabek yeah these become rarer by the minute and I remember having had the same Pentium machine for over two decades in daily use and reused it for another decade and it just did work and never let me down, those were rock solid, I think a lightning strike is really the only thing that could kill them. Indeed these days it's just crazy. I got myself a X58 board with i7-920 for 20$ not bad for nostalgic purposes considering that was HEDT segment. But if you look at the Intel N100 for example it uses 10% (!) of the power but is 3 times as fast as this Core 2 Duo and can be purchased new in a system for easily 100$ so even the low end is just so powerful, the old tech just really isn't worth it except if it was able to run something in a better fashion than emulation or so.
@@gentuxable Nice finds! Power aside, sometimes it just feels better to run things on supported hardware. And C2D systems still have decent XP support, so in that regard their fun to mess around, even if underpowered compared to more modern processors and mobos. Still, I’ll definitely be testing out more modern systems on my channel for sure 🤘
That "procedure entry point not found" error is a DLL issue. It's likely an outdated DirectX runtime or somesuch. DLL's have software routines in them (blocks of code) that differ between versions to add features and things, but everything has to match. The runtime needs to match the version the game is expecting.
My best pc is in a 12 year old black box. Sleepers are great,even though it is a 10th gen I 3. Loved XP but most versions are 32 bit and wastes the 2 cores available on that pc. I do have 2 legit copies of XP64 but have never used them.
@@PC4USE1 Hey, thanks a lot for commenting! For my purposes, I mostly go for 32 bit, for compatibility sakes and see no reason to push 64 bit. Hopefully you keep that black box of yours for a long time! Cheers! 🤘
@@animeaspie9635 Hey, thanks for commenting! Absolutely agree, again it’s what it was designed for. But it does a beautiful job running XP as well, and that’s what I was curious about.
@@thethriftyfawn Haha, it’s funny, after rewatching it I realised how I’ve (hopefully) improved my video production - from keeping things in frame (lol) to editing. I’m curious to see how my videos will look a year from now
@schvabek You definitely have! Video production quality is a matter of incremental improvements 😊 If a person improves by 1% with each attempt, when they look back at previous years, there is always a noticeable difference! Kinda like the development of technology itself lol
This is so underrated! Really interesting, fun, and nostalgic. Even though I never played those games personally, I could feel your joy and happiness and was very happy for you! 😊 I haven't used a windows based computer at home since college, which was years ago! The green field and some of those sounds were very familiar 😂 I'm not very techy with electronics, so being able to watch things getting taken apart is definitely interesting for someone like me... makes me a little anxious at times, but it's satisfying when things are cleaned up, reassembled, and improved! I'm still a bit confused about the whole "$4" thing... in my mind I'm thinking why even charge the customer $4 at that point, and just give the computer away for free to a person who is willing to take it lol... all good though! I'll check out your apple keyboard restoration when I get a chance- it looked cool! 🙂
@@thethriftyfawn Hey, soo good to see you again! Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ So glad you liked it! The price thing: I often get my hardware off of this local auction site. So sometimes the auction just starts at $1-5 and nobody bids on it. That’s why things sell at a ridiculous price 🤷♂️ Looking forward to hearing from you again! Cheers! 🤟
@@schvabek Forgot to mention- at a glance, I could TOTALLY tell it was a female who was the previous user of this computer LMAO!!! The way the items/icons are in CLUSTERS all over the desktop, in a way that wouldn't make sense to anyone other than the user. I do the exact same thing... the desktop on my MacBook Pro looks like that, but FAR WORSE in my case LMAO!!! The "clusters" totally make sense to me, but look like an absolute nightmare to anyone else glancing over my shoulder 🤣
@@thethriftyfawnYep, I didn’t want to point any fingers, but judging from the way my wife organises her desktop, I figured… but the smoking gun was the Sims 4 installation lol 😂
@@schvabek I also thought a man would be too proud to leave the TeamViewer icon on the desktop. In my experience men tend to hide their need for technical assistance where as female don't care if they don't know something.
Don't want to brag but we literally gave away a Core2 PC years ago (in 2019) for free to some neighbours, it had a Core2Quad Q8400, 8 or 12 Gigabyte of RAM, a GTX 760 (before that a basic Geforce 7300GS), 128 Gigs of SSD and a terabyte HDD and all in a CoolerMaster Centurion 534 case. We all had better computers at that point, I gave my dad a white build with Ryzen 7 2700X and GTX 1080 in 2018 and my brother first got said PC with the C2Q but I then got a X79 and i7-3930K and a GTX 980 and that's what my brother got and he had a friend at school who was living in the same building complex (It's multiple rows of typically three houses with six apartments each) and the family was financially struggling, also included an old 17" 4:3 or 5:4 Benq LCD monitor.
That’s so nice! In 2019 that was probably still quite a usable system. I’m sure it served them very well (especially the quad one). Awesome! Nowadays like I said it’s not rare at all to find these machines either free or for just a few bucks. And if it’s a slightly older model with supported hardware, it makes for a great xp gaming rig.
My first PC was a Pentium 133 Mhz and had a matrox gfx card in 1996; before that I had an Amiga 500 with 2.5 megs of ram, lol. Now I have a 7800x3d with 7800xt graphics with 32 GB of ram.... Good job on doing something with ewaste. I installed ubuntu onto one of my old duo core computers when the Windows boot drive got corrupted, it try to fix but gave up.
Wow, that’s awesome! We never had an Amiga, but I did have one at the school. Also an old 386/486 running 3.1 (can’t say for sure which). Glad this took you back! 🤟
@@Mr.1.i technically it may be so. But four years ago i upgraded my Optiplex 780 from C2D E8400 to Q2Q Q9650 - this was a big speedbump and i'm using it still today.
@@jensputzlocher8345that's hella sick, I love how surplus office machines can be upgraded very cheaply with a little research followed by a quick trip to ebay.
I have an SSF build with the same Wolfdale platform chilling under the bed, with a GT430 paired with it. Maybe someday I'll dig it out and have myself a Windows 7 era PC.
two weeks ago got a similar setup for around the same price, $5 dollars, the owner just wanted to get rid of it because after turning it up the screen would get stuck to BIOS due to wrong cmos settings. Its got a MSI G41-p25 board with 4 gb DDR3, core 2 duo e7200 and a 320 gb sata disk.
@ yeaaa i also love overclocking and i’ve tinkered on it this weekend, stock frequency was 2 .53 GHz and reached up to 3.25 GHz , lga 775 is so much fun
@@SimSimsTECHcrunch Can’t say for everyone, but for me, I feel super weird using a localised version. When I started using computers in the 90’s, there were no Croatian versions, and we had to learn how to use an English interface. I’ve just gotten used to it and feel lost when I use any other version lol
@@schvabek yeah lol, quick tip: if it doesn't specify the edition at startup (aka, no "Professional"), that should be a quick sign that you at least have SP2
This is why XP is in our past. All of the BS you have to go thru in order to play localized games from that time period. I'm not a gamer just an old tech with more than 50 years of exp. That system would have made an excellent home server for my local network. Keep up the work on buying machines and making them work. I prefer to install Linux on them for speed and efficiency. Have a good day.
@@jensputzlocher8345 I didn’t have fond memories running it back in the day, it was very unstable. But then again, I probably didn’t have the hardware to support it properly. I wouldn’t mind doing a video on Vista in the future.
Lord Kurčina! LMAO!!! Usput, ne znam koliko se bakćeš s Windowsima (od XP pa nadalje), ali Snappy Driver Installer Origin (verzija s Glenn's page) je life saver. Ima preko 40 GB ali ima sve moguće drivere. Staviš ga na neki USB stick i miran si.
Treba stavit koji mamac za ove naše da se imaju čemu nasmijati 😂 Hvala na savjetu, bacim oko! Treba mi svako tolko kad nabavim rendom mašinu, iako su većina stariji na kojima još trebam raditi. Obično skinem za točno taj model koji mi treba i bok, al i ovo zvuci fora. Pozdrav! 🤟
Sorry for asking so directly, but where are you from? I could see from the website you were showing that you bought this PC from Croatia. I'm Croatian so I'm interested are you a Croatian too?
i had a dvd drive and developed the same problem but with cds, couldnt read them i had a external usb dvd drive, same problem, i need a new unit to recover some backups i have here tbh i dont miss optical drives at all
@@betag24cn heh, I know what you mean. They did have their flaws, but I used them so much throughout my youth and teenage years that I can’t help but love them still. I remember when laptops started shipping without the optical drives. Felt so weird to me, like, how can they do that 😂
@schvabek for work i used alot floppy disks too, imagine when i finally bougth the first pc without a floppy disk bay i migth buy a usb bluray drive i guess
@@schvabek I had an XP retro, and rather than install XP with SATA in IDE mode, I wanted it in AHCI (allows queued requests and optimized seek), so the SATA / AHCI / RAID driver has to be added at install time (converting later is a pain). The standard way in the days of floppy drives was to hit F6 and use a driver floppy, but not having that, I used Nlite to insert the driver and make the CD
@ I used nlite to install custom drivers without a floppy drive (I think it was a raid drivers of some sort ages ago) with a modified iso. Had no idea about this AHCI mode. I mean, I didn’t notice any issues or slowdowns or whatever.
Exact same specs of my custom rig but instead of core 2 duo core 2 quad plus some nvidia graphics ram is the same one and bro why r u showing middle finger
@@ro1934 Ну, по мере необходимости)) Это как-то не очень мое, меня раньше включали в пару этих дискордсерверов, мне там не очень понравилось. Но если придется, обязательно сделаю))
If you ever see the word "professional" or "home" on the XP boot screen, that's a telltale sign of not having SP2/3 installed. Very glad you figured that out before loading 7.
@@annihilatorg Yeah, I can’t believe I’ve missed it. Thanks a lot for commenting! ❤️
this really brings back memories, I used to play these games back in the day
@@edwinladshow5791 man, so glad this took you back ❤️
I got a Dell Optiplex 790 for 10 euros, had an i7 2600 in there, and nothing else! The guy got this pc from a bulk lot, he knew nothing about computers, he just jumped on a pallet of old crusty pcs, he said he already made his money back, so i took home this pc, it did have a ram stick, but it was broken, no drives, no cards, but i came home, tested it with some ram and an ssd, and it worked! I stuffed in some cards like bluetooth and wifi, a usb 3 card and a gt 1030, i use this system to play XP/Vista era games, so the 1030 is plenty fast for that (yes it is the gddr5 version), so, i added 16gb of ram, yes it has windows 10 on it, but with some tweaks, you can almost run every xp game flawlessly. I like this pc, it is a joy to use with a fast ssd, it boots under 10 seconds!
@@bramvandenbroeck5060 That’s awesome man, great save! 🤟 For xp games probably an overkill 😂
Godlike find bro! Loving that 4:3 perfect monitor too!
@@MordeFGC Hey, man, thanks a lot, I really appreciate the support! 🤟🤟
That E8500 Core 2 Duo is fairly high end and pretty capable., and the GPU is respectable.
@@TAGMedia7 That’s right! 🤟
the e8500 would pair up to a gtx 960 so try it if you want to (you don't need a power supply upgrade since it gets its power from pcie)
Seriously, this is the golden age of gaming in my mind.
Let the $4:3 revolution begin!
@@mptcz Hell yeah!!! Thanks a lot for commenting 🤘❤️
4:3 is the resolution of the gods!
@@crash-stop Heck yeah!
Should be on a CRT though 😀
@@FuZZbaLLbee Yeah, unfortunately I don’t have the space for a CRT in my apartment, although I have a couple of them stored away.
Love seeing some old PC get a second life. I'm about to bring an old i5 4690 back to life. So far I've only bought a PSU and a 500gb sata 2.5 SSD as the old PSU is dead and the old SSD in it is really small and it's pretty much full. It's great watching someone who knows how to use these older systems.
@@Jwalker76 Hey man, that’s awesome, good luck with the build! I wouldn’t say I know what I’m doing, but having grown up with xp, I guess it’s just second nature 😂 cheers!
great video! about a year ago i built my dream 2008 computer with a core2extreme, 2 gtx280s in SLI and a velociraptor 10k rpm hdd. The best part is because the parts are so unwanted i spent less than 200 for everything including a new psu and period correct case
@@kalarkHey, man, thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Huh, your build sounds like the one LGR did on his channel 😁 In any case - awesome!
@@schvabek hahaha i know right? LGR was certainly the catalyst for the build!
@@kalark That’s awesome, hope you’re enjoying it! Much love 🤘
I saw your system showing 3.25gb of RAM, which means you've installed the 32 bit version. You can install the 64-bit version of Windows XP to make use of all the RAM. I had 8gb of DDR2 and a Q8200 in my 775 system and it really helped.
Hey, thanks for the input! Yeah, I’m not going to install 64 bit for compatibility reasons, but if you want to max out the ram, yeah, you’d have to do that.
The case has a kinda classic look to it, almost timeless. I remember when cases that where painted on the inside to match the exterior where premium like lian li - still a feature I like despite rarely ever opening machines after they are put into service.
@@7eis Hey, thanks for commenting! I also kinda like the look of this thing, even though it does look kinda generic. At least it’s not far out in the gamer boy aesthetic lol. But nowhere near the lian li build quality, that’s for sure!
Amazing video, I have a Core 2 Duo + 9600 GT PC as my mid-end Vista build, and it's awesome. I love the Socket 775 era of computers.
Hey, man, thanks for commenting! That’s an awesome build. Hope it serves you well ❤️🤟
@@schvabek Haha no problem!
Back in the day I had an E8500 and a 9800 GT 1GB. Played a lot of games on that PC (Crysis, Bioshock, Far Cry 2, Dead Space, COD4MW/WAW/MW2/BO, Mass Effect 1-3, GTAIV, Portal/Portal 2, and so many more.
love the genuine windows xp!! woah!!!!
@@dopeboyfresh55 Hey man, thanks so much! Appreciated ❤️
I have a core 2 duo computer before. Slow ass pc. But it got me started with hobby and gaming.
@@JogieGlenMait16 that’s awesome! I have a bunch of them myself. MacBooks and others. Great for pc gaming though. Cheers!
Can relate to this computer - Chromebook user
Much love ❤
Geez, when I was like 16 y.o. I could've only dream about machine like that. I mean - look at it - dual core CPU over 3GHz, 4GB of RAM, quite powerful videocard for the time (ok, videocard might not be the best in its class but for WinXP it's still overkill because it's still faster than anything that was released in like 2006). I mean, this thing probably could run Crysis and Dead Space at decent settings...
Right?? I bet it would do just fine running Crysis. Don’t know why I haven’t checked 😂
Q4os would run spectacular on that pc. I ran it on a laptop with similar specs
Might upgrade it to a quad core in the future just for fun
Wise men always repurpose things
@@UXTROM Amen! 🤟
3:55 I object: I worked at a 150-head manufacturing company in internal IT. Lightscribe was in every single DVD-RW drive after around 2006-ish, I'd say they were in every single machine we bought after that point. And as they got replaced those drives were often used again in another system. Only Apple somehow got Combo drives from somewhere it seemed like a scam compared to every other PC seller.
@@gentuxable Hey, thanks a lot for commenting! That’s very interesting. To me (at least as a kid), lightscribe always seemed like something special and cool 😂 Especially when compared to generic dvd rw drives me and my friends had. Cheers! 🤘
@@schvabek Thank you! The thing is how fast they come down through the food chain. Like when I was a kid, I only had a SoundBlaster Pro couldn't get anything more decent and only a few years later every OEM machine has an AWE64 hidden inside it for me to harvest from scrap lol.
The thing is, that you could also get a Sandy Bridge or Nehalem based Core i5/i7 system quite cheap which would be way faster than a Core 2 Duo for Windows 7,8 and 10 or else a Pentium 4 for basically nothing that is more compatible with DOS/Win9x.
@@gentuxable Nowadays a Soundblaster card probably costs more than a modern sound card. Prices are pretty ridiculous. As you’ve said, early Pentium machines as well.
Early i5 and i7 systems are also coming down in prices, but I don’t think they’ve quite hit rock bottom (as C2D machines have). But I agree you can get great deals on them. Not sure about the xp drivers support.
@@schvabek yeah these become rarer by the minute and I remember having had the same Pentium machine for over two decades in daily use and reused it for another decade and it just did work and never let me down, those were rock solid, I think a lightning strike is really the only thing that could kill them.
Indeed these days it's just crazy. I got myself a X58 board with i7-920 for 20$ not bad for nostalgic purposes considering that was HEDT segment. But if you look at the Intel N100 for example it uses 10% (!) of the power but is 3 times as fast as this Core 2 Duo and can be purchased new in a system for easily 100$ so even the low end is just so powerful, the old tech just really isn't worth it except if it was able to run something in a better fashion than emulation or so.
@@gentuxable Nice finds! Power aside, sometimes it just feels better to run things on supported hardware. And C2D systems still have decent XP support, so in that regard their fun to mess around, even if underpowered compared to more modern processors and mobos. Still, I’ll definitely be testing out more modern systems on my channel for sure 🤘
That "procedure entry point not found" error is a DLL issue. It's likely an outdated DirectX runtime or somesuch. DLL's have software routines in them (blocks of code) that differ between versions to add features and things, but everything has to match. The runtime needs to match the version the game is expecting.
Fixed it with SP3 and a newer version of DX, no errors after that
21:20 very words of wisdom
Amen! 🤟
My best pc is in a 12 year old black box. Sleepers are great,even though it is a 10th gen I 3. Loved XP but most versions are 32 bit and wastes the 2 cores available on that pc. I do have 2 legit copies of XP64 but have never used them.
@@PC4USE1 Hey, thanks a lot for commenting! For my purposes, I mostly go for 32 bit, for compatibility sakes and see no reason to push 64 bit. Hopefully you keep that black box of yours for a long time! Cheers! 🤘
I love finding old gigabyte motherboards and you just made me find a new one because of the
"Gigabyte dynamic energy saver"
Hahaha that’s awesome 🤟🤟
Honestly i'd be happy with this, used to have a blast playing warcraft 3 and most wanted with something worse
Absolutely, this thing tears through all of these
i will fight you that pc belongs running windows 7 or maybe modern linux
@@animeaspie9635 Hey, thanks for commenting! Absolutely agree, again it’s what it was designed for. But it does a beautiful job running XP as well, and that’s what I was curious about.
Core2Duo ist the era of Vista
@@jensputzlocher8345 C2D had a very long lifespan, so I guess you could argue it was designed to run both 😊
This video is still underrated bro! In the next few years or so, I could see computers from this era becoming sought after! 😊
@@thethriftyfawn Haha, it’s funny, after rewatching it I realised how I’ve (hopefully) improved my video production - from keeping things in frame (lol) to editing. I’m curious to see how my videos will look a year from now
@schvabek You definitely have! Video production quality is a matter of incremental improvements 😊
If a person improves by 1% with each attempt, when they look back at previous years, there is always a noticeable difference!
Kinda like the development of technology itself lol
PC costs less than a weeks worth of lunch money 😭
More like a days worth 😬
This is so underrated! Really interesting, fun, and nostalgic. Even though I never played those games personally, I could feel your joy and happiness and was very happy for you! 😊
I haven't used a windows based computer at home since college, which was years ago! The green field and some of those sounds were very familiar 😂
I'm not very techy with electronics, so being able to watch things getting taken apart is definitely interesting for someone like me... makes me a little anxious at times, but it's satisfying when things are cleaned up, reassembled, and improved!
I'm still a bit confused about the whole "$4" thing... in my mind I'm thinking why even charge the customer $4 at that point, and just give the computer away for free to a person who is willing to take it lol... all good though!
I'll check out your apple keyboard restoration when I get a chance- it looked cool! 🙂
@@thethriftyfawn Hey, soo good to see you again! Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ So glad you liked it!
The price thing: I often get my hardware off of this local auction site. So sometimes the auction just starts at $1-5 and nobody bids on it. That’s why things sell at a ridiculous price 🤷♂️
Looking forward to hearing from you again! Cheers! 🤟
@@schvabek Forgot to mention- at a glance, I could TOTALLY tell it was a female who was the previous user of this computer LMAO!!! The way the items/icons are in CLUSTERS all over the desktop, in a way that wouldn't make sense to anyone other than the user.
I do the exact same thing... the desktop on my MacBook Pro looks like that, but FAR WORSE in my case LMAO!!! The "clusters" totally make sense to me, but look like an absolute nightmare to anyone else glancing over my shoulder 🤣
@@thethriftyfawnYep, I didn’t want to point any fingers, but judging from the way my wife organises her desktop, I figured… but the smoking gun was the Sims 4 installation lol 😂
@@schvabek LOL!!! 😂 so cute
@@schvabek I also thought a man would be too proud to leave the TeamViewer icon on the desktop. In my experience men tend to hide their need for technical assistance where as female don't care if they don't know something.
Don't want to brag but we literally gave away a Core2 PC years ago (in 2019) for free to some neighbours, it had a Core2Quad Q8400, 8 or 12 Gigabyte of RAM, a GTX 760 (before that a basic Geforce 7300GS), 128 Gigs of SSD and a terabyte HDD and all in a CoolerMaster Centurion 534 case.
We all had better computers at that point, I gave my dad a white build with Ryzen 7 2700X and GTX 1080 in 2018 and my brother first got said PC with the C2Q but I then got a X79 and i7-3930K and a GTX 980 and that's what my brother got and he had a friend at school who was living in the same building complex (It's multiple rows of typically three houses with six apartments each) and the family was financially struggling, also included an old 17" 4:3 or 5:4 Benq LCD monitor.
That’s so nice! In 2019 that was probably still quite a usable system. I’m sure it served them very well (especially the quad one). Awesome!
Nowadays like I said it’s not rare at all to find these machines either free or for just a few bucks. And if it’s a slightly older model with supported hardware, it makes for a great xp gaming rig.
this video makes me want to play call of duty
Man that’s awesome. Go play it 😂
Blu ray drive is worth well more than $4 on it by itself. Even if i'm mistaken that optical drive justifies the price alone.
@@patg108 agreed! I don’t think this is a Blu-ray drive, it’s just a regular combo drive, but still.
My first PC was a Pentium 133 Mhz and had a matrox gfx card in 1996; before that I had an Amiga 500 with 2.5 megs of ram, lol. Now I have a 7800x3d with 7800xt graphics with 32 GB of ram.... Good job on doing something with ewaste. I installed ubuntu onto one of my old duo core computers when the Windows boot drive got corrupted, it try to fix but gave up.
Wow, that’s awesome! We never had an Amiga, but I did have one at the school. Also an old 386/486 running 3.1 (can’t say for sure which). Glad this took you back! 🤟
Socket 775 is a completely fantastic fast XP computer.
@@itstheweirdguy Agree. Have couple of them with various processors, mostly running xp.
though it's kinda like running Windows 7 on a 4 GHz AMD FX
@pankoza2 Heh, I guess, but it’s really kinda cool. It’s like having a computer from the future in 2003.
Great video man
Thanks man ❤️🤟
Core 2 duo.........its a legend
@@Mr.1.i Damn right! 🤘🤘❤️
It's cying for an Core2Quad upgrade
@@jensputzlocher8345 Duly noted! 😎
@@Mr.1.i technically it may be so. But four years ago i upgraded my Optiplex 780 from C2D E8400 to Q2Q Q9650 - this was a big speedbump and i'm using it still today.
@@jensputzlocher8345that's hella sick, I love how surplus office machines can be upgraded very cheaply with a little research followed by a quick trip to ebay.
I have an SSF build with the same Wolfdale platform chilling under the bed, with a GT430 paired with it. Maybe someday I'll dig it out and have myself a Windows 7 era PC.
Hey, that’s awesome! You should def get it out and have some fun with it. Enjoy!
@@schvabek I absolutely should sometime!
two weeks ago got a similar setup for around the same price, $5 dollars, the owner just wanted to get rid of it because after turning it up the screen would get stuck to BIOS due to wrong cmos settings. Its got a MSI G41-p25 board with 4 gb DDR3, core 2 duo e7200 and a 320 gb sata disk.
Hey, that’s awesome! Hope you have lots of fun with it 🤟🤟
@ yeaaa i also love overclocking and i’ve tinkered on it this weekend, stock frequency was 2
.53 GHz and reached up to 3.25 GHz , lga 775 is so much fun
put a gtx 780 ti in this and would play any retro game at 4k max settings
I might put one in there for fun 😂
I'm curious. Do most people in Croatia not use localized versions of Windows or macOS?
@@SimSimsTECHcrunch Can’t say for everyone, but for me, I feel super weird using a localised version. When I started using computers in the 90’s, there were no Croatian versions, and we had to learn how to use an English interface. I’ve just gotten used to it and feel lost when I use any other version lol
add a cheap ssd and install windows 7 ... it will work flawless
Nah, I have other win 7 machines, I’ll keep win xp with this one
for a 4 bucks is awesome
@@N3xlow Heck yeah! 🤟😎
Cool!
@@darkentbg Thanks! 🤟
Hrvatski tech youtuber!!! No way
@@animerror Ej stari! Pa nisam valjda prvi 😂
@@schvabek Prvi koji sam vidio lol, pozdrav iz Slovenije👋
@ pozdrav iz Zagreba 🤟
im sure you realise given sp3 was such a update for windows xp, most things made after it only support sp3
@@topmandog1 Yeah, for some reason I thought the version of Windows I’ve installed already came with SP3 🤷♂️
@@schvabek lol
@@schvabek yeah lol, quick tip: if it doesn't specify the edition at startup (aka, no "Professional"), that should be a quick sign that you at least have SP2
@ the best thing is, I do know that, and I’ve totally missed it somehow 🤷♂️😂
This is why XP is in our past. All of the BS you have to go thru in order to play localized games from that time period. I'm not a gamer just an old tech with more than 50 years of exp. That system would have made an excellent home server for my local network. Keep up the work on buying machines and making them work. I prefer to install Linux on them for speed and efficiency. Have a good day.
Nah, I was just dumb for not installing sp3 right away 😂 I have SO MANY old machines already. I’ll show them off sometimes. Cheers
It is more approriate to install Windows Vista OS for a PC based on Intel Core 2 Duo.
@@dasmin1135 …but who wants to run Vista? 😂
@@schvabek me - with the appropriate hardware it was very good to use
@@jensputzlocher8345 I didn’t have fond memories running it back in the day, it was very unstable. But then again, I probably didn’t have the hardware to support it properly. I wouldn’t mind doing a video on Vista in the future.
@@schvabekvista ran perfectly fine on my core 2 duo laptop
@@rrq That’s awesome! 🤟
can you put windows 7 on it?
Of course, it was pretty much made for that. But I wanted to try xp. Cheers!
Lord Kurčina! LMAO!!! Usput, ne znam koliko se bakćeš s Windowsima (od XP pa nadalje), ali Snappy Driver Installer Origin (verzija s Glenn's page) je life saver. Ima preko 40 GB ali ima sve moguće drivere. Staviš ga na neki USB stick i miran si.
Treba stavit koji mamac za ove naše da se imaju čemu nasmijati 😂 Hvala na savjetu, bacim oko! Treba mi svako tolko kad nabavim rendom mašinu, iako su većina stariji na kojima još trebam raditi. Obično skinem za točno taj model koji mi treba i bok, al i ovo zvuci fora. Pozdrav! 🤟
Sorry for asking so directly, but where are you from? I could see from the website you were showing that you bought this PC from Croatia. I'm Croatian so I'm interested are you a Croatian too?
Hej, jesam, iz Zagreba 😁
@schvabek Sviđa mi se da netko naš radi ovakve videje💪
@ Ajde drago mi je da ti se sviđa 🤟 Hvala puno na podrsci 🤟
i had a dvd drive and developed the same problem but with cds, couldnt read them
i had a external usb dvd drive, same problem, i need a new unit to recover some backups i have here
tbh i dont miss optical drives at all
@@betag24cn heh, I know what you mean. They did have their flaws, but I used them so much throughout my youth and teenage years that I can’t help but love them still. I remember when laptops started shipping without the optical drives. Felt so weird to me, like, how can they do that 😂
@schvabek for work i used alot floppy disks too, imagine when i finally bougth the first pc without a floppy disk bay
i migth buy a usb bluray drive i guess
@ That’s true 🤟
I was thinking... you need a F6 floppy (oops, no floppy) or Nlite to install in SATA / AHCI mode
Hey, thanks for letting me know, but what would I use that for? Genuinely don’t know 😂
@@schvabek I had an XP retro, and rather than install XP with SATA in IDE mode, I wanted it in AHCI (allows queued requests and optimized seek), so the SATA / AHCI / RAID driver has to be added at install time (converting later is a pain). The standard way in the days of floppy drives was to hit F6 and use a driver floppy, but not having that, I used Nlite to insert the driver and make the CD
@ I used nlite to install custom drivers without a floppy drive (I think it was a raid drivers of some sort ages ago) with a modified iso. Had no idea about this AHCI mode. I mean, I didn’t notice any issues or slowdowns or whatever.
everything good and fine, but you should install Linux on it
Perhaps I’ll have a play around with it some time
eee imam isto kuciste, samo druga konfiguracija.
@@ckacadv Bravo! Se igraš na njemu? :D
@@schvabek ma jok, oslo mu napajanje a i neki je celeron pa ne moze bas puno
@@ckacadv Uff celer je bljak.
Now upgrade it to play modern games
@@leangxd Nah, I have more modern computers to do that. I’ll keep this one like this for xp gaming.
Exact same specs of my custom rig but instead of core 2 duo core 2 quad plus some nvidia graphics ram is the same one and bro why r u showing middle finger
That’s great! Core2quad is awesome. As for flipping off the finger, I just do that when things piss me off 😂
Опа. Это наш хорвктский друг новую часть сериала выпустил. Ща как посмотрим под ведро чая и тазик пельменей
Приятного просмотра желаю, дружище!))
@@schvabek когда сделаешь дискордсервер или телегу?
О, я еще понимаю хорватский на приличном уровне. Опись кампухтера улыбнула меня.
Швабек включил режим технаря через "пивка для рывка".
Норм хоть пыво? Как называется? Почему в бутылках не берешь?
@@ro1934 Ну, по мере необходимости)) Это как-то не очень мое, меня раньше включали в пару этих дискордсерверов, мне там не очень понравилось. Но если придется, обязательно сделаю))
good find for 4 euros
@@samiboukhalfa9040 Hey man, thanks for commenting! 🤘
@schvabek no problem dude keep giving us good content
@@samiboukhalfa9040Thanks man, I wil certainly try! ❤
400rs 😂
Is that rupees?
windows 7 ultimate would have been better but good video
@@randallabrahams2001 Sure, but I wanted to run xp 😂 Thank a lot, appreciated! 🤘
izvini, jel si ti iz bosne ja sam iz srbije
@@Nicolelovesoldtech Ej, pozdrav! Iz Zagreba sam 😁
Suka.)😂
@@candidosilva7755 😊😁🤟
Dude, slap Linux on that thing and run PS1, PS2 and a bunch of other emulators.
@@CHKDG8 It can run that fine in Windows too 🤷♂️