You are the best technician! Im 12 and you made me inspired to open two laptops and take the RAM from the dead laptop snd put it in the working laptop. The RAM WORKS! keep up ❤!😊
@@SirPlaysDarkSoulsALot what do you mean by barely bro. like your ram is going out for a break or what 😂. it's a ram it should be 2gigs. You can't have like 1.8gigs of ram 😂 everyone is using it, if they are broken without knowing its actual meaning
If you like to experiment - if the motherboard supports fsb 1200/1066, you can get a cheap q6600 and bsel tape mod it to run as 3.0 ghz without OC from the bios (basically making the q6600 working at 1333mt/s 333mhz fsb instead of 1066mt/s 266mhz) , or a Xeon e5450/x5450 if the motherboard support it (there is a list online somewhere). Look up both option, it is pretty interesting.
I really enjoy the videos where the old hardware comes back to life, thank you for the good content. However, I keep wondering, wouldn't Linux be a better option for some of these older machines? Sure, the gaming could become an issue but I'm sure that something like Proton would solve it. Would love to see a video utilizing Linux on a machine like this. Keep up the good work!
I really look forward to watch your videos , I've didn't missed a single one. Thanks for your efforts, I hope we can see more modded PCs made by you in the future.
I got recently Dell Optiplex GX 620 and upgraded to Pentium D, 4GB RAM, 320GB harddisk, and Radeon HD 8570, to connect modern monitors. Installed Windows 7 Professional and Office 2010. Computer works well. Radeon HD 8570 is connected to my DIY HDMI A/V reciver, because onboard AC'97 audio sucks.
Not bad in my opinion, will certainly get the job done! Also, 4GB DDR2 sticks are super rare nowadays, you often only find 2GB DDR2 sticks. Though personally, if I had then, I would have gone 2x 2GB DDR2 in this build, since single channel memory is never recommended. I would have then sold the 4GB DDR2 stick to make some money back.
"Wow & double Wow, your the man" I'm just about to buy a Ryzen 5, (Not 5600G), and I would love to know by an expert, (You, Grovel), the cheapest way to go with the only affordable specs I already own + please. Being: PSU 600W / GTX 1060 6GB / DDR4 x2 8GB ram 3200 GHz / 500GB SSD / mATX PC Case: Aero Cool CS-107 , Dell 1080 Monitor, with a measly £160.00 to add. "Please can you advise this first time build Novice" "What Motherboard do you suggest" to run Windows 11 with a Ryzen 5 ????? yet to Purchase, Pretty Please can you please help this 1rst time builder, please. PS, Thanking you in advance.
Yes, Linux is good for these older computer, but I go with windows to see the limits. The Windows 10 is not that fast, It's slow for today standards but still not fully useless I can play some games on it :D
Can you old Gateway P-6860 FX 17” inch laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo CPU) upgrade to i7 Core latest generation and RTX GeForce with adding new heatsink by using different brand motherboard laptop in fit same chassis (old laptop)?
Nice buil and recovery. Who says you waste time because this PC is too old, don't know the capacity of 775 platform. A problem is the money, for less more you can buy a i5 second generation. But, if you don't have money, and have this PC for nothing, with 16€ of ssd you have a usable PC.
that is why i like to build/repair old computer also it prevent PC parts from the landfill... in our country it is to expensive to buy new computer component... like your videos
Nice build. It's a work of love. I wonder if needs a better cooler tho. Also I never saw a ssd put that way on the chasis. I saw people using the legacy floppy space instead
With my old Asus P5K LGA 775, I've been able to upgrade with an Intel Xeon X5460 with 8 GB DDR2. It's still running great. Just make sure to uninstall all the Win10 bloatwares.
last year, I used to play on this kind of old PC in my ex girlfriend's house. She didn't have a computer and I found an old E5700 with 4Gb DDR2 Ram on the street. I added an old GT730 DDR5 2Gb and an 500Gb SSD, on keybord/mouse I already had in the cave and I could play to some games like Dead Space, Call of Duty MW, GRID in 720P full option and watch RU-vid, internet etc etc ... No so fast but it was OK these machines can help and can be OK for small games
Thermal paste in the socket responds a lot better to contact cleaner. Or you can just leave it there. Wasn't much. When it comes to LGA775, one should look no further than the Q6600 or the Xeon equivalent, the X3220. Do the tape mod and run it on a 1333MHz board and it benchmarks like a Q9650. This is how I ended up with an Optiplex as one of my retro gaming machines.
The socket 775 spanned so many generations. Any 775 chip would fit the board, but the board and chip set might not support it. The cooling was pretty good though, which was not always the case on 478.
It would be a nice touch to change sticker on the stock cooling :) You could place new one or some custom one or just get rid of it since all coolers are 12V anyway you do not need this sticker for anything :P
Dear Andrew, thank you for such good video. I would like to ask you that if you managad to find a solution for this motherboard's RAM issue. The issue which mobo doesnt recognize higher than 3GB RAM. It wasnt a 32 bit OS situation. The chipset was limited or something like that. Newest BIOS also didnt work for my 2x4GB RAMs.
Some old motherboard does not recognize newer ram stick which uses fewer chip on it. Example 2GB stick with chip on both sides is okay, but newer same 2GB stick with only one side chip does not work.
Yes, a waste of time for people that don't know how to build computers properly with a good and optimised Linux build. I have such a machine working as a daily driver in my workshop with a "proper" 4x3 ratio screen (1280x1024) which is great for reading PDF documents like manuals and specification sheets when I am doing electronics work - I can also do perfectly good web browsing on it, play music and video, etc.
