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im glad to found this underrated channel. i love all of the content and i really learn a lot

16:30 best technical explanation to what happens in Windows when you change hardware 😂

Your dust box seems to have some PC components in it

It is very relaxing to see a PC rebuild....Bit like therapy for when I have the urge to fit new PC stuff. I have a 5800X3D CPU with B550 motherboard. I think I own that case. It is in the garage, because it is out dated now. I use the Lian Li Lancool 2 ARGB case, used to use the HAF X from Coolermaster, which was one big case! I have a dusty house as well. Just have to clean often.

really enjoy your videos, very informative and your low stress, mellow approach is spot on. I especially enjoy the way you continuously film your build and interject with tips and tricks as your fitting, thank you for your hard work !

When you change the motherboard it's not call upgrading anymore it's building a new PC.

"and windows gonna go aaaahhhh, and then be fine" -what? hahaha 16:30

Man i hope you're job and shop works for real, you're a great man and the best PC fixer

I still have my eVGA 680i SLi (Black Pearl) and 3.6GHz Q6600 GO with OCZ's (SLI ready) XMP 1200MHz DDR2 and upgraded the GPU to a GTX 1050ti. This purpose built CRYSIS rig still runs to this day. Running Vulkan/DX12 games like DOOM 2016 and the Sniper Elite series, at 1080p60 with Ultra settings no problem. Running a Quad back in 2007-2008 was a dream. I can't belive it took more than 10years to get to 6, 8, 12, 16 cores on the mainstream socket. Thanks AMD.

Yes! An Antec 300! That was my first aftermarket case!

Very nice. I love giving PC's a second life! Dutch regards, Nico.

I really like your channel, you are one of the PC Tech-tubers that does things "on the cheap" and I mean that in the best way. No money spent for frills, just get the job done.

As soon as you said this was a core i system I was thinking "yeah not with those copper ram heatsinks" lol

Your thermal paste has a bit of cpu on it!

I knew that ram was ddr2 as soon as I saw it lol. Great vid 👌

That original build was *really* nice for it's time. It is very easy to move those crimped ends for the pin header to a different plastic frame. Good vid.

That is a really nice retro ish board. I have a 780i sli from XFX lying around in my room.

Bad? That's my PC after about a week. I left it alone for six years or so, and it had grown a carpet... When I finally got around to cleaning it and blowing it out, the room had a thick gray fog and I could hardly breathe. So, this guy shouldn't be embarrassed at all. It's actually looking pretty good!

Have built a few systems in these Antec cases back in the day. Some still in use today. Very solid case.

Love that CPU Cooler

Love the video!!

I always liked Antec. I had all Antec dual ball bearing fans with 3-speed switches. And when the USB front ports wore out , I called them and they sent me a new header for free.

cable management was nearly non existent until about 2015/16. you go way back to the 90's and forget it about cable management

FYI. The plugs for the older 3 pin power/leds can be adjusted using a needle, to remove and more the wires.

I love these kind of upgrades, some mates will play with the worst of things. :D

my gosh.... 10-15 year old PCs....feels like yesterday.....i was like P35 chipset dude thats not old....yeah... i guess im gettin old lol Dont even feel like voodoo 3 was that old....now 386 era thats old=)

I always chuckle when you talk about things like the 3 pin power LED as old.... I still feel like PnP cards are modern... no more setting I/O and Base Address by jumpers on every card! Sheer luxury.

Thats a decent cooler gamers nexus use that as their standard for all of their tests.

When you said it was a 2nd or 3rd gen i5/i7 I just looked at the ram and motherboard, the heatpipes specifically, and thought "nah that's like pentium" and it was, these things you just get to recognize easily, either by seeing it often or living through that time, feels nostalgic

it takes years to come to his point of exp. for looking on stuff but u only can be born with that much talk...i love it

Used to work for recycling company, we basically received PCs from schools hospitals and such. The insides were absolutely buried under blanket of dust, blowing it with compressed air was the best part of this job :D

I built a unit in 2007 with an ASUS P5K Deluxe with a Q6600, 4 GB Ram, and a Nvidia QT(I think)8800. I used it until about 2014, when I replaced it with an i7 4770K. It is still in use today, as a Hackentosh.

I like your style, you build 'em like I do. :)

yeee same antec case :)) still running my upgraded pc :))

The PC isn't dusty, it just learned to live with the nature.

The Noctua cooler is the nicest part in that whole system! Probably still perfectly usable too. Also I would know that OCZ DDR2 memory anywhere, mine and tons of other builds used it.

I have just updated my old 15 year old Antec case PC with a AM4 upgrade. While the motherboard was out it was worth while to cut a hole in the back plate for future cpu & cooler change. I always do that when upgrading an old case.

I used to own this same exact motherboard (P5K Premium) with Q6600 @ 3.6GHz. The board supported ATI crossfire. It was the most money I ever spent on a motherboard and cpu. I think I paid ~$200 for the board and ~$300 for the cpu. Consumed lots of power but the cpu rendering performance was impressive.

Funny how everyone was saying the 4gb gtx960 was a waste of money because memory bandwidth limitations or some bs.

25:19 most of my builds so far have been in these kind of cases, and I can heartedly agree....

Turns off lights , room gets brighter.

Binge watching your playlist now. Subbed of course. Like, like and like!

good job

I know 8gb of ram is enough but why would you only use a single 8Gb stick, Personally I would have use X2 4gb sticks so we would have duel channel mode.

lol If only my PC was as high spec as that was,..before you upgraded! :-)

Nice noctua case fan on that cpu cooler.

Love that shirt Graham !!! 😆

Usually with the CPUs you can tell approximately what series it is by looking at the IHS, if the surrounding part of the IHS is like a rounded square with a notch cut off, like the CPU you took out of the system, then most likely its an LGA 775 chip. Probably a core 2 quad or core 2 extreme if its in a gaming system.

I commented on your Corsair 270r build and my pc is now built in the same case and going strong but what would you recommend for a front case fan and either 3 120mm fans or 2 140mm fans and I have my eye on noctua fans for Christmas but there are so many models to chose from.

Wow same Antec 300 case I had and same CPU. Intel Yorkshire. Mine had an Asus P5Q Se Antec has the updated 300 Series 2 case now I think. Great air flow.

The old CPU fan was indeed a case fan, so it fits now perfect for his further intended use ;)

Antec 300 I have one , it's a great case.

loveIT!

I have had the gigabyte RX 570 8GB I ended up returning it and getting the MSI one the gigabyte one got too hot for my liking the gigabyte one just felt cheaper as well

As soon as the cooler was removed and I saw the orientation of the socket I was like that's not lga 1155 :)

IIRC Noctua fans motor shaft is completely sealed off, so you don't have to worry about dust nor lubrication. That fan should have been still good. And I concur with the graphics card. I got a 570 4gb for 90-100€ second hand. Stupid good value

I loved my Q6600! upgraded to a i5-3550 at the time.

i gave my qx9650 rig as a handmedown to my parents. put my old 1060 in there and an ssd. i know the cpu is old but even by my standards i consider the computer fast for basic needs. for me to even say that it is a snappy machine is crazy as i have a 9900k paired with a 2080S....

i do miss the old antec 300 case, best budget case of it's day.

i didnt see the elastic band were did you put the key as well to wind it up :P

Did you a standard compressor to clean that out like what you can get from say BnQ??

Hi, one question, suppose if I upgrade motherboard and cpu (basically a new pc) will my Windows 10 boot and get the required drivers and also does my Windows 10 activation stays or have to call Microsoft for activation?

still using my i7 4790k, with evo 212 cooler, 16 gb ddr3 ram, sammy 250GB ssd and a wd red 6TB with a 1050ti 4GB Video Ram. still works great after 6yrs.

The top fan made noise but i am not sure the bearing is bad. If there is a real bearing in a fan (not a bushing) then wearing out that bearing is almost impossible. Bearings in small fans like this have not much force being put on them and bearing parts are made of hard steel. Most of the time bearings run dry, just lubricate them. Or another thing is see many times is that the motor PCB is just clamped in the plastic and ther is wiggle room in this clamping most likely because sideway pressure on a fan when cleaning it. For those fans i just glue them in with epoxy glue and the sounds stops. Some cheaper fans i even do this when they are new and because the epoxy glue fills the hollow parts in the plastic around the motor most of the time the fan's are more quiet then out of the box. I have fixed fan's as old as back to about 1985 this way and it almost always works.

That's still a good antec case.

Damn!! lol I keep my house pretty clean and have my desktop on kitchen table , but fans move so much air that they get like all the dust in my house!!! I just wait about a month then do a good cleaning , repeat lol no Adam I do not remember 3 pin power LED but remember the old office computers where the entire front panel connectors is just one plug 🤬

From an upgrade point of view, do you thing it would be worth replacing an i5 4670K with 16Gb DDR3 to an i5 6600 or similar? I got a cheap mining motherboard but I have a Pentium G4400 in it atm and will upgrade if it's worth. GPU is a GTX 1070 and I play games at 1440p. Thanks

You can generally see it on the motherboard on thr old intel boards that is that old almost always have fancy heatsinks and heatpipes everywhere just look at the ram :) i kinda mis that on the new systems, i like the beefy industrial looks with lots of cooling and no fancy bullshit RGB lighting. I remeber i had a 4x ram kit that had built in plasma tubes lighting.

Man i would love to use a leaf blower on that PC

I see a few spare stand offs inside there .make an aluminum plate and paint it black you can then hide most of the cables behind it .a bit of effort involved but not that hard to do .

That Noctua fan was a low static pressure case fan model anyway. not optimal for CPU coolers.

Who in their right mind decided "Ah yes, a black and gold PSU. Let's put blue LEDs in it!!"

The worse TV I had to repair was no picture, they had 5 dogs and smoked. I looked at the screen and said to the lady, have you got a damp cloth, and when I finished there was a brilliant picture . Her answer was I have not had chance to dust this week

Where did u buy the motherboard and cpu

This setup has a fan blowing out, and none that suck air in. The case will be sucking air and dust in through every opening this way.

When I encounter a CPU cooler like that I will remove and clean with ammonia glass cleaner in my sink. Spray on and let is sit there a few minutes. I wind up removing air born oils and other particulates that adhere and dusting cannot remove. Rinse with hot water and dry. This does not work with all coolers obviously but does with the majority. I shake off the water, hit with air and dry with a blow dryer. It winds up looking brand new.

That's an Antec 300, I remember I used to have one, that case kinda sucked. I remember paying around £14 for it used, pretty cramped, very cheaply constructed, but it got the job done until I got a better case. The Antec 900/1200 series were much better cases, much more spacious and better constructed.

can you use your current Windows 10 professional license code on a new motherboard?

2:20 Yes, please tell your mate to get the PC up off the floor.

Have you ever tried an electric leaf blower to clean out a computer?

Going from commonly building in the NZXT H510 to the Matrexx 30 TG for a budget build feels the same way.

Hey love your vids mate, question on old pc I have, what's your recommendations upgrading XPS 630i system dell

I thought the serial number for Windows 10 was tied to the motherboard? So if you installed a new motherboard the OS becomes invalidated. I guess that's just with the OEM version of Windows?

24:58 I didn't even notice the iMac in the background until it interrupted.

Hi, what equipment do you use to blow the dust? I'm tired of constantly buying compressed air.

P5K was a top model board I remember. My only complaint is that cheap mobo the component hardly fit in there, not to mention the giant graphic card.

Still using a Formula rampage II with a Q9550 and 8GB ram and GTX 960 2gb WITH windows 10 sitting in my bedroom as a streaming PC :) so my 4yr daughter can watch disney plus and youtube and she loves it and it works fine

Great vid as always ☺ I did a build using an old (bought refurb from Asus dealer for £45) Asus b250 mining motherboard fitted with i5 6500 cpu 8Gb DDR4 2666Mhz and AMD Radeon Graphics 2Gb DDR5 plus 650W power. Built for my niece and she loves Civ 6 (I did a cheat mod that gives her 999999 gold ☺☺ ) so she can with a few more tips, play a beaut of a game with that and totally loves it. (Nuke em Uhh well umm ☺☺) Course as she's 9 years old I fitted some internal rgbs et (YUK but oh hum ☺) in a real cool case and I got 2 more build requests after that from her friends families. The i5 CPU was about £120 so the most expensive but worth the money. I also had her with me whilst I built it so she could see how it all went together and her and her friends now have a good understanding of computers re how the different parts go together, how they work et My partner has a masters in computer programming (Cobol/Pascal) and worked for one of the biggest logistics company's in the UK programming/supervisor/training. So my niece is learning to write code et with one of her friends so having a good computer for that is also a bonus. (Raspberry pi et ☺) I personally like blackberry and apple pie ☺☺☺ keep up the good work‼

my hands up

Have you watched Carey Holzman, he uses an electric leaf blower. x

what about windows activation? windows will boot but won't recognise this board as the product key will relate to previous board. I have manged once replacing a gigabyte board with another gigabyte but won't bother again. Now it is new mobo and clean install windows and go from there with new activation

IDE or PATA port almost always means that the mobo is at least around 10 years old :-) A tip for newbies. Look out for those 40 pin connectors. And if there is two of them. That means older still..

When it comes to cleaning this PC... How many PSI is your air compressor blower?

Tiny board , giant cooler. : )

Sure it's better now but this is already gimped in Single channel mode, then adding an RX570 4gb? Nice upgrade seeing as what he had so anything will be an improvement ;) Thumbs up!

Would have loved a before and after benchmark, maybe on firestrike or heaven, something reasonable for that old pc lol. Could I put in a request for before/after comparisons on upgrade videos like this in the future? >.> I'm so curious about what that poor, poor CPU was going through, the GPU must could run circles around it.

that msi cpu cooler looks really sick im jelous. im runing on a phenom ii x 945 8gb ddr2 gtx 660 ti.. me and my old pc luckily starcraft 2 runs great on it.

i wish every motherboard had the gpu slot on the bottom.

It must not be very dusty where you live, here in Texas that’s just a couple of months of dust (if you have a clean house)

The case is Antec 300 not 900 hundred ;)