New & Improved Dell Inspiron 530 - But can it run Crysis? 

The dell pc is a legend

Good for you rescuing for these e-wastes. I remember these from my Circuit City days, bro.

GREAT video, and always amazing content!! Your Dell videos are always some of my favourites!

Every set up in my house has that mouse. It is indestructible.

Thank you for answering one of life's biggest questions, it looks to be working pretty well!

I've got one of these & haven't used it for years. Gonna upgrade it to the max 👍

Honestly this is a great work. Nice to see it working well.

I'm currently working on a Dell XPS 420 that I was given back in 2017. It didn't come with the HDD as the owner removed it due to it being used as a business system. I'm kinda lucky as it's got an Intel Q6600 2.4GHz quad-core CPU, and was upgraded to 8GB DDR2 RAM. The only upgrades I'm gonna do is see if I can find a faster Intel Q6600, and upgrade the 768MB graphics card to something better, and get a Blu-ray drive. I managed to get the restore disks for Vista Home Premium and the driver/software disk from the web archive. It's gonna be a great system once I've done the upgrades and got Vista installed. After that I've got a Dell Vostro 200 that I was given, and Dell OptiPlex 780SFF that I brought a few years ago for £40 to work on. As always another great TRR video, and always looking forward to your content. Edit: Most Dell systems that come with Vista onwards with 64-Bit Windows will support 8GB DDR2. The three in my comment above support 8GB.

I have this pc with an E8600. I didnt realize the bios could be updated to support more memory. Thanks I'm gonna upgrade the memory in mine now!

Loved this👍🏼👍🏼

It's all very interesting, great that old PCs are restored.

A thing that I did with my old HP Pro with a I7-3770, 16GB 1600MHz memory, and GTX 780 Ti GPU was Dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7. This makes mine an awsome rig. I used Windows XP 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. It works great. I have service pack 3 for Windows XP and Service pack 1 for Windows 7. Both OS's ar fully updated. I suggest dual booting frfom Core 2 duo up to IvyBridge like My PC. Take advantage of that memory. I have a few Vostro Motherboards laying around somewhere. I used E8400 in those with DDR2 at 800MHz. The fun good old days before TPM and Windows 11.

Perfect combination, Windows 7 and Tomb Raider Underworld on a rescued Dell Inspiron.

Love the videos bro keep it going cant wait to see more! 🙂

I've got one of these in my collection. It's definitely newer than my area of knowledge, but it was in good shape and just felt like it was built well enough to be worth keeping around.

I still have the original Windows 7 Professional CD-Media... (32-Bit) My father gave it to me in 2020 and said to use and preserve it well as it is rare to find the original media nowadays... :) As a 15-year-old, Windows 7 is pure nostalgia for me... I used MS Paint to make "Masterpieces" and called myself an "Expert" when I did anything in the Control Panel... "Those were the good old days!"

Great video. From dead junk to awesome retro gaming monster.

My dad had the 530s or the smaller version of the 530 for his business same e2200 pentium I got a 540s which is higher end 530s had a core 2 duo e7200 and came with a Blu-ray drive from the factory

That Dell case looks mint

Well done! I'm glad you ran a period-correct video card, and also that you chose Win7; what a fantastic o/s that was

this would have been a pretty great system back in the day, especially with the upgrades you've made.

Bought one off Goodwills website. Excited to mess around with it when it arrives.

Yet another beauty in your collection we'll done on that restore and upgrade, maybe in a future video you could upgrade another pc that's retro but needs a bit of a kick ( eg AMD K62 500mhz)

Maybe the new BIOS would offer AHCI, I wonder if "RAID" would have been AHCI... there is some tricky stuff to do if you want to change an existing installation from IDE into AHCI mode

nice pc you can do more on this than some of the older ones you have

DUDE! YOUR GETTING A DELL!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Resurrect, Retrofit, Rejoice: Because you saved a lot of money giving an old PC a new chance at life😁👍 Have a great evening

I have that PC - it came with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 - with the BESL mod it runs at 3GHz!

I had a friend that claimed the MB book said that you do not have to plug in the 4 pin connector and could not get his PC to work. I took a look at it and saw it was not connected and told him it needs to be so to work. He tried and it worked. He was so upset, I was right and he was wrong. Yet his PC worked from then on no problem.

Good choice with Windows 7. For a little "older games", i think it is better than Windows 10. Too bad you could not get a Core 2 Quad working in it.

Splendid upgrades and that is a handsome case!👍👍 I would increase the ram., to 8 gig., and install an SSD., as the boot drive and install Linux Mint, the mechanical HD., would be fine for storage, I'm not a gamer, but there are many free games in LM., repository.

Another great video. E2200 is a bit weak and you did well putting an E7400. I would probably put an E8500 from aliexp or E8600. I think you do well using spinning hdds for windows 7 and below because these OSes aren't optimized for SSDs, they say.

I’ve forgotten the 4-pin more than once…

I own this Computer it's my Gaming PC I have 8gb in mine running Windows 10 64 bit

This particular machine also included a "Dell Dock" utility from Stardock, which sort of resembles the Apple MacOS Dock.

And You Missed Aero Effect 😂❤

A lot of these older machines should be upgraded instead of junked, But a lot of people just can't see that. I have a Dell that I work with some and an older IBM ThinkCentre that will handle a 3.0 Ghz EE cpu and 2 gb of ddr1 mem I used a sapphire 3850 agp for video. I tinker around with this stuff to see what will and won't work. Big Fun at times. Very much enjoy seeing this!

You can just install legacy update for the internet and get service pack 1 that way. After that Windows update will work, but is slow.

I spent hours and hours with crysis great game

Like the core2 duo and core2 quad

My dad had one of these computers stock and I cannot remember what OS it came with but it had Windows 7 which was the only Windows my dad could tolerate he was more a Mac guy

Are you using the windows update restored site for retro pcs?

We all know that you don´t know if it can run Crysis until you reach the part with all the snow :P You should do a comparison how big the difference between the CPUs actually is when you do the upgrades you did to see the actual benefit, I always overclocked my 775 platforms to the limit and gained up to over 50% higher clock speeds on some chips, I could dust off my White Dell computer here and we could have a battle of the past

This Old Dell So Awesome Like Dell Optiplex gx270 These Old Dell Have potential To Upgrade To Get Ultimate Windows XP Or Windows 7 And ATI/AMD HD 5870 Is Perfect Fit In Dell

No AHCI? That's annoying....😒 You know what is always a good thing? Free stuff. Upgrading a free Optiplex 3010 from a 3rd gen Core i5 to a 3rd gen Core i7 which was also a freebee.

Windows 7❤️

Oh,but we talked about it already,i think!! If the sata cable is not fitting under the video card,fit an "r" shaped,"bent" sata cable,you sure have some???

Pale Moon Browser will run on Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit

I still have 3 of these models I updated them all to the same bios 1018 upgraded the ram to 4gb & installed 7 ultimate 64bit & Linux. Unfortunatelly the first of them appears to be finally dying after all these years.

Put E8600 And You Have Great Day

oh man... a duo... you should have gotten a q6660... make sure you use x86 win7 because its gonna bottlekneck and thermal throttle with x64. i had a q6660 ins 530 with r7 240 2gb and a 480ssd, 6gb ram. i cleaned it all out replaced the paste. damn thing wouldnt stay cool when booting to windows 10 x86. downgraded to windows 7 x86 same thing 89'c just to run windows. cooling fan on the cpu was already maxed. i did have diy plans to install a side 140mm intake but i decided to scrap the pc. what i hated more was the bios not accepting a full 8gb ram... another reason i threw it away because with windows 10 its bloated with MS services constatntly running in the background. that malware security ate up the cpu constantly while win was idle. i had my 530 since 2009 i threw it out last year. if i didnt throw away the CPU in mine i could have shipped it to you... i had the newest bios for mine too and it was terrible. not sure if the new bios is the cause for the fans being constantly maxed out. i have the tools to fix windows updates for windows 7 if you need help. to get new win 7 updates KB947821, KB4019264, KB4490628, Windows Management Framework 5.1, Microsoft Edge, IE11. the quad core q6660 is like under £15/10 on ebay now.

There is no 700 Nvidia GPU the 700 is the series number so you will never find one that is just a 700 if you want to find out what a GPU is without having to plug it in check the stickers that usually have serials numbers and stuff on them as they will usually say what GPU model it is on there.

i want one more computer but then i have to remove one computer

but how well it runs windows 11?

Hey, what do you think of the Windows 98/XP dual boot machines they sell on eBay?

How is windows 7 retro now!? Sheesh I’m old 😭

now i am not sure ddr2 will play nice with win10

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