Yes folks, this computer was completely free, it is packing a single core Pentium 4 641, 1.5gb of ddr2 and GMA 950 graphics... Lets game on it! Austin's bloopers reel: • Abusing Leo's free PC
Could get a 2x2gb set off ebay auctions for less than 2$, also a cpu like a celeron e1500 which is supported by these old motherboards, all this would cost about 7$, a random gpu woud also combo very well something like a r5 240, r5 430, quadro k420 can cost about 12$
I've gotten many free PCs in my day. The last one was in 2016 from my former employer they gave me their Dell Vostro with a I5-2400 & 8GB of RAM. I popped in a GTX 950 into it, and it became my gaming PC for several years until I sold it for a better one I was building.
the moment you put that windows 7 disc in, I was like "oh boy, he's going to be praying to the windows gods for mercy for his sin for putting this on such on an old machine." And I was right
Well, this pc still working after 20+ years. You can try lightweight linux? Debian or arch with archinstall command with xfce/hyprland/openbox or other simple geaphic interface.
@@johnphillips4783 hello, don't know when this model of the pentium 4 was released but in general the pentium 4 was available around 2000 so 4 years before this thing to be on the 20 year window or older. Or someone got it cheaper later as last gen. Than I could be less than 20 years.
I Still have two free pc's that were just going to be thrown out by our local church. both were not that great but not that bad either, One was a 20010 Hp Pavilion p6823w with a Amd phemon II x2 521 and 4GB DDR3 and 11TB HDD. Upgraded it for cheap with a Phenon II X6 1065T and a GTX 760 I had laying around with a better PSU and 20GB ram. Now runs as a Minecraft server. The other on was a Pavilion P6330f with an i3 530 and 6GB ram and a 1TB HDD. Upgraded it TO an i7 870 (for literally 5 bucks) with 20GB ram and a gt240 that was laying around. It's my main linux testing machine now. stuff like this gets thrown away constantly and can be great opportunities for people on a strict budget, but a Pentium 4 might be stretching it. even though that mobo, being DDR2 might be upgradeable to a Core 2 Duo. Otherwise great video! was kind of surprised to see how little subs you got especially since this was in my reccomended.
Not glazing, but genuinely curios how you only have 156subs, i didnt notice the sub count until after the Video and thought its like 20k or something. Good work man
I'd love to see a full series of finding and optimizing potato PCs to the peak of what they could possibly do. I've personally been buying up old ass PCs and slowly using them to build something actually good. It couldn't play any new AAA games, but you'd be surprised the spec requirements of yesterday's greats. Far Cry 3 for example: Core i3-530, 4 GB RAM, GTX 480 (recommended, not minimum specs)
@@PrimitavePCs Sweet, can't wait to see it! Edit: If you haven't yet (which I'm sure you must have) check out your local flea markets. I have found insane stuff there for basically nothing. My favorite so far was 3/6 of a PC case with a graphics card supported by a fish wire.
I tried windows 10, it was bad enough lol it didnt make it into the final video, but it tool like 15 min to boot in. It wasnt the cpu even though its horrible, it was the 1.5gb of ram limiting the computer.
@@PrimitavePCs Yeah, although with more RAM the CPU would quickly become the problem, I once tried Windows 11 on an Athlon 64 with 8 GB and it was terrible.
Just to let you know, windows 7 can still run steam without having to do any tweaks to get it to work even though it says that it's not officially supported. I've been using windows 7 for the last month just to see if it's still possible and that was one of the standout apps that worked without any messing around in terms of having to use an extended kernel
Like the video. You should try to get some budget parts from your local e recycler. Try to get at least an Intel i5-i7 3000 and up because they support PCIe Gen 3. I have impressive results with a 120G SSD and a Radeon HD 8570 and Win 10 or even 11
Did you fully update the computer? Legacy update is really useful since the normal windows update wont work out of the box. I got an old optiplex with similar harddware and managed to at least open steam. doesnt mean it runs well. Steam also still opens and works perfectly on a much more powerful machine I have running windows 7
Yeah, I am aware that steam can sometimes work on windows 7, it wouldnt open for me on this computer, legacy update sounds like something ill be using in the future. Thanks
@@PrimitavePCs Yeah, legacy update is really good. Works on a few other old windows versions like XP. Although be careful because I think there are scanners exploiting Xp computers who connect to the internet (may have been another old windows version, cant remember). You dont want to spend 5 hours manually trying to update windows 7 like I did 💀💀💀
Oh that's a 775 socket. If you wanted to do a second video decking out this PC for shit's and giggles you could buy a Xeon CPU and do the old school 771 to 775 mod to shove that in!
well.. you do know? back then some of us had to play games like this, cause it was all there was XD.. i always went high end relative to the time tho XD.. and over compensated on ram always.. gotta check the relative time of the PC to the relative release of the game :)..
i've found a free hp that can run apex at 24fps skyrim at 50 gta 5 over 60 and gayshit impact horribly lowest settings possible under 30 and honorable mention for some reasons enabling anti-aliasing no matter the quality or game just doesn't effect the frames at all meaning i can just drop the res and put anti-aliasing of such high quality it looks like dlss though fsr2 kills the fps and newer doesn't run it sucks a bit in gaming but it's actually decent for 3d modeling those are the real performance you can get for free
@@PrimitavePCs some ddr3 likely 8 upgraded to 10 because of the dirty ram mixing a xeon that's probably way too overkill for the gpu it is paired with which might be part of the reason why anti-aliasing doesn't do anything to the performance and a quadro 600 which is probably the biggest reason anti-aliasing is free (it is a pro gpu meant for 3d rendering and modeling (even though these days it's just the minimum to be used for multiple screens) rather then gaming)
@@PrimitavePCs i forgot a 1tb hd that is quite fast for an hard drive that is just starting to die (lots of warnings but no failure) + 2tb that would be even faster if it worked at all but sadly it's a ghost to the bios
Windows 7? Wont run Steam then, so what's the point? :D Ah, I see you discovered that yourself. Not sure why you installed Windows XP though - there should be plenty of old games that run just fine in Windows 7.
Please change your channel name. "PC's" is not the correct plural of "PC". Even though I'm not a native English speaker I'm pretty sure "PCs" is correct.
Really? Who would have thought. It sounded like it was on its last legs when i was installing windows xp onto it but ill have to see what they are worth, ive got other similar computers, I might have a few more
@@PrimitavePCs many DVD drives in HP computers of that era could do lightscribe, look for a lightscribe logo on the front of the drive. you may also wanna mess with engraving some discs yourself :P
@@iknowdawae893 didnt even know what lightscribe was, just looked up what it can do, looks really cool i can see why someone would go out to buy one of these, ive got 3 or 4 of these kicking around, ill definitly be putting them to use
