You don’t need a new PC - AtlasOS E-Waste PC refresh 

That moment when their old system is 4-6 years newer than your PC.

That moment when you're thinking "nice let's see how they'll make very old and crap PCs work" and the setup they use is basically what your current PC is

I have an i7-2600 PC and it works perfectly fine up to this days! SSD's do magic in old processors

I just realized my PC case is 11 years old. Bought my first case and started building my first PC in 2012. It was a Fractal Design Define R4. I was 16 years old and had my first summer job. Bought all my components with the first money I earned myself. I think it was an GTX 660. But hard to remember. To this day I still have the same case and just replaced the PC's components. Now it's 13700K with an 4070 TI but still the same case. Idk if that is weird to have the same case for that many years.

Be aware that Atlas OS is disabling UAC, ALL software will be running with Admin privileges. Also they disable MS Defender. Atlas OS is a security nightmare in hands of a user who doesn't know what they are doing.

I love videos about old hardware. It gives scrapyard wars vibes and that tinkering with older hardware to put together an experience that wouldn’t be possible any other way (probably for a kid or someone just starting to dabble with PC gaming).

That is my favorite PC activity rebuilding old but still very usable PCs. I don't game or do much editing but love to build and upgrade with spare part. thank yo for all the great video's.

i still have my gaming pc from 2012 with me going strong. Granted i upgraded the GPU once, increased the RAM to 16GB, and had to replace the motherboard once (identical model swap out). and its on its 3rd PSU. but I can still use it for work, youtube and 1080p gaming just fine. an overclocked i7 3770k and a gtx 1070 can really take you very far.

I'd love a full declutter video for people that do want to use Windows, without the bloat. I'm fairly techy but miss a lot of really small things because Windows buries it in small submenus.

I'd suspect most of that "performance improvement" in Atlas comes from disabling Defender and Spectre/Meltdown mitigations, i.e. those aren't "fixable" in a future release if you still want those performance improvements. What I'd prefer is a way to disable all of those on the fly without a reboot, so you can game, then instantly switch back to a more secure system when you're done.

Great video! I've always believe that you don't almost never need top of the top or even 2-3 years past hardware... if money is an issue you can afford an used configuration like this exposed here! Thanks 4 sharing.

I had this processor in my previous PC (which died due to a static issue ruining the motherboard). It was an absolute workhorse. I covered close to 200 times more than it costed to build that PC with the work I did in it, unfortunately It didn't have enough power to edit RED Raw on the fly without using proxies. It stayed with me for 5 years until in late 2021 I upgraded to a 12 gen.

Scrapyard Wars was some of your most important content and I'm glad to see the repurposing and restoration aspect of those videos coming back. I hope to see more of it.

Hey! Atlas Dev here, we are appreciated to be noticed on LTT! Most of the issues were fixed in the latest release that has just been released.

As a retro hardware enthusiast, I am SUPER interested to hear more about AtlasOS. I'm sure you are planning a deep dive on it before too long, I can't wait!

I was dealing with that issue for a year, I did cmd nfs /scan Also did start up repair and finally I was able to properly shut down and I didn't have problems booting up and loading windows. Before that I was also dealing with the computer turning on in the middle of the night.

I appreciate these more "grounded" videos that appeal to most of us watching. The experiments are fun but it's awesome to see you produce stuff that's relatable to systems that a bunch of people might still be using

Would be really nice if you guys can do a deep dive into atlusOS with testings, bechmarks for games, common software, and productivity stuff (3D softwares, Adobe suite) etc

As at happens, bought an Aspire Vero with Intel I7 CPU and 16 Gb RAM on Amazon AU a few months ago. Liked it so much that we bought a second Acer Vero laptop. Check last month and discovered Acer had increased the price with 50%. Looks like they are very popular.

Personally I've found that an old office pc with a few inexpensive upgrades can work really well for playing older games. It's definitly not for everyone but as someone who collects physical pc games, I've gotten more than my moneys worth.

it's crazy, back in 2017-2018 all I've had to worry about was how to upgrade my gaming PC to the next level with the money I had... Now, things have changed. I have the money but priorities change. Thanks for being there all the way Linus.

Gotta say, that recylced plastic laptop looks nicer to me than the piano black of the old tower. Not everything needs to be super shiny or made of machined metals. I really like the tiny chips of colour in amidst the grey. I would love to see more of that in the tech space.

Soooo... for anyone wondering... you ALL saved me from making a mistake! 👏👏 i thought about messing with atlasos... but i won't now... 😅😅😅😅 the comment section was actually nice to me for once... Good on all of you!!❤

Great video, covered a lot of important points here. Cheers fellas.

Just wanted to say thank you all for everything you have helped me so much with my PC and helped me learn a lot on electronics

AtlasOS disables UAC and runs all programs as Administrator. It also disables vulnerability mitigations as briefly shown on screen. You’d think they’d care at all about security after being hacked.

My PC is circa 2011 most of the components. My motherboard is from 16. So it even has m.2 support and I'm using an fx-8350. And my PC is still working great. When I build a new one, this one will end up being a media PC.

One thing I would really love to see is the replacing of Phillips screws with Torx screws. Torx tools are found everywhere and it's nuts that we still use Phillips although it's well known that they strip and slip, especially when used with power tools, than almost any other known screw type.

Good videos about cheaper options are always so welcome, most ppl vicariously live through your higher end videos but having these real guides to competent low end builds are so valuable to your viewerbase

This video makes me miss Scrapyard wars, but I understand how hard it can be to make those videos. It would be great if you guys kept doing these kind of budget/refurbishing videos

My i5 2500k is still rocking with my msi mainboard, my daughter is still playing game with it, one time the thermal paste was so old for a year and it kept restarting, spent couple dollar for new thermal paste, works like new again, intel chip may not be the fastest but it’s reliable like a Toyota!

I'd love to see the HP Firebird 803 reinvigorated even though I know it lacks subsequent dual graphics card drivers, limiting its use to the Win95-98 gen of OSs. BUT if the cards might be swapped out with compatible drivers with subsequent Win7 onward OS compatability, that would be great!

As the local SI, I regularly build systems like this to offer an ultra-budget option for people. I make hardly more than a few dollars but I've had many customers come back 6mo to a year later to buy a proper system from me. For a lot of people, a system like this is plenty for their needs until they are ready to invest more heavily. It's also nice for someone considering switching to PC gaming from consoles as the investment is very low.

Gotta say, I like this kind of content. Nothing is more painful to me than getting rid of old hardware knowing it's destiny is the landfill - which is why I have a small collection of my old PC's and laptops running lightweight OS's for a few different uses around the house. Good stuff LTT.

this really makes me want to open up my computer from 2009 and see if i can get it working... even though I need a dsub cable for the monitor it would be kinda cool

I've been using my AMD Ryzen 7 2700X since 2018. The only things I changed are additional RAM and SSD/HDD. It is doing everything that I need and it is quite nippy compared to many current PCs. A PC often can be useful for 10 years. And if you run Linux, even longer.

I just wanna say this channel is really a lifesaver for beginner builders. Linus and his staff always work at the ground level constantly checking resellers and used hardware prices to give their viewers good advice to afford a decent rig. Been watching for years and I’m always impressed by their integrity and ability to keep up with RU-vid’s ever changing trends.

I wish you explained more what Atlas OS changes and did before/after performance benchmarks

The CPU and fan that came with my pre-built i bought a while back are the only parts i havent upgraded. The I5 9600kf and stock intel fan and heat sink manages to keep my CPU at around 50°c with Satisfactory on full graphics at 2560x1440 and 60fps. I have a much better cooler for it but havent bothered to install it as it has yet to overheat from any of my games so far. Ill probably save the cooler until i finally upgrade the CPU (hopefully not for a while).

Linus: "Old pc" Me: "basically my everyday pc"

Good video, but I would have liked a closer look at what is removed. Especially the security related things, like Defender and other Mitigations. For an offline machine, great. For an online machine, it could be risky.

Regarding AtlasOS, be very careful when meddling with this. If you really intend on using it, do not use it for browsing, illegitimate unknown downloads / installers. Their statement "security updates aren't removed, there's just currently no way to "get new ones" as for mitigations, you are prompted to enable or disable them in AME Wizard and you can disable or enable them while in atlas". There are constantly new critical Windows vulnerabilities getting discovered, these are then actively used in the wild. Your AtlasOS will from the start be at a major risk. Same with the disabling of security services such as Defender by default, you'll want some safeguard anyway. So that load will come back to bite you. @Linus - Please be careful in endorsing them without making these caveats even more clear than a slide containing a few of them. As they'll use you for marketing, and non-security minded people can get in trouble because of it.

I have a laptop that’s almost 10 years old(2013) and still going strong, specs(if necessary) 1TB WD blue SSD, Intel core i5 4200u @ 1.6 GHz, 8GB DDR3 ram and Intel HD 4400 graphics, also re-pasted the CPU so the laptop runs quieter and lasts longer

I like this concept, despite the caveats. As someone who lives in a country where netbooks running windows 7 are still used regularly by people (just sold one a fortnight ago), the security implications of Atlas are of secondary importance to keeping hardware usable and out of landfills, at least for what people buying said netbooks are using them for.

Been a PC gamer for my whole life. Then came the kid...and the bills...and the stress. I can finally say that after almost 6 years I could finally(kind of) afford a Ryzen 5 2600 paired with an RTX 2060. Damn I feel young again and like I found something that I lost when I sold my PC back in the day, a fucking part of me...of who I am.

To reiterate the comments before me. MORE BUDGET VIDEOS LIKE THIS WOULD BE AWESOME. Like a mid tier, low tier, budget, and super budget build video(s) would be H U G E.

I rocked my 6600K until mid 2022 and it handled everything I threw at it quite well paired with several gfx cards over the span of 7 years (GTX 660, GTX 1060, GTX 1080, RTX 3060 TI) - eSports titles, rather modern shooters like PUBG and Ghost Recon Wildlands & Breakpoint, cool single player games like MGS V, MMOs like Black Desert - even in parallel with eSports titles. When I upgraded last year I took out the gfx card and sound card and passed the PC on to my mom who has been using it since then. I hate wasting perfectly good hardware.

Really like the Acer's Earthion. Is this a option for encasings and keycaps you could enable / look into for the Framework laptop materials? I'm waiting for the 16" framework laptops with dedicated GPU and would really like if i could choose post-consumer plastics as my housing or keyboard.

Atlas OS seems incredible. LTT should make a separate video on it

Would be interesting to see the comparison in performance and overall responsiveness between OG W11 vs Tiny11 vs Atlas

I built a gaming pc with a used i7 4790k, z97ar used, and used 1660 ti. Put an id cooling tower cooler on it, overclocked to 4.6 and ram to 2400 mhz. I get 90 fps 1080p on mw2 with recommended performance graphics. Old and used is definately usable. Also I stripped down windows 10 with a lot of research on necessary prosesses.

I have a build that's been mostly modified from 2014. My motherboard from that time also has M.2 support. I have one in there right now lol. However I have DDR3 RAM and can't upgrade further. I also have an old i7 that is 4ghz. I am able to use my 3080 just fine. Otherwise, if I want to upgrade anything else, I have to replace the mobo. But the PC runs great. :)

Hearing Linus call a system from the generation of my current one super obsolete is a bit rough XD Nice contributions from both Acer and AtlasOS. To Acer's credit, I just recently tossed an old SSD and a new install in an old Acer laptop for a family member, and the process of finding the drivers and info was remarkably unremarkable, which given how terrible it usually is, is a nice bonus. I'd love to see some third party security audits of projects like AtlasOS as well, as that would give some additional confidence in the safety of it.

AtlasOS ended up being the more interesting section. That’s the minimal Windows experience I want.

I have a Presario laptop from 2007. First I used it with win XP for 4-5 years, then used it with win 7. Gradually, Win 7 started becoming slow on it circa 2015 with glitches in streaming media in browsers. Then I switched to using various Linux based distros on it like Ubuntu, Puppy Linux,etc etc. Installed Ubuntu mate on it in 2018. Still going strong. It's 2023, and I still use that laptop with Ubuntu mate. Works like a charm except streaming of media on browsers. Still it's good for working offline, downloading movies over torrent and watching it on VLC media player. The truth is the HW never dies. It's what you're putting on top of that HW that really makes a difference in the usability aspects of the computer. Similarly, I have an Asus Eeebook from 2015 which came pre-installed with Win 8. Still running good enough for streaming content. Throwing away computers for being old , is not my thing. Nice video overall. But I would still prefer some lightweight Linux -based distro over something like Atlas owing to its security concerns.

I really wish you were more like us; I hope things improve for your platform

Recycling stuff is amazing. I've always tried my best to reuse old hardware to reduce waste. Still do, have a couple of older components in my PC and currently building a backup PC using entirely old hardware that I used to use.

Also, plastic fabrics will break down over time when you've re-used it like 5-6 times. So in the end you'll actually end up NOT being able to reuse it for some usecases. Like, reusing the plastic from a flexible chair might not be able to be flexible, because the fibres are somewhat less forgiving. So you either just re-use it for something rigid like a small kids garden shovel or something, that's basicly just a piece of hard plastic. This is also the reason why they "only" make like 30-50% reused plastic items, you need some sort of "virgin" (Yeah that's what it's called) material in there to support the binding of all the different fibres. The part about making a random green-whatever item is great though. So far the industry have been quite against reusing EVERY color of plastic, which is why you see a lot of clear plastic bottles which is made us A LOT of virgin material. Because the end users wouldn't want a random-colored bottle because it looks "dirty" but if we could change eachothers mind, we could actually reuse a lot more plastic bottles than we do today. -The more clear the plastics are, the more expensive it is to produce, and the less of material is re-used.

My Toshiba Laptop i5 is from 2010 and i still use it as my daily, its still more powerful than a lot of entry/mid-level laptops on the current market.. it has never let me down once...dont know how long that will last though.

I have like 70 SFF business PCs 2nd gen thru 7th gen Intel all with their original PSUs running just fine 24/7 under full load. No need to replace that PSU really. I should try Atlas on them.

Software/OS optimizations are honestly one of the most important things you can do. I’ve searched for hours on the best settings and it can make or break a game honestly.

I guarantee that the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations being disabled is the greatest contributing factor to that feeling snappier than with just the upgraded RAM and SSD, because they’ve had to add more of those over time and the older the CPU, the less secure the microcode and architectures were and the more software mitigations were needed. I would’ve liked to see a CPU benchmark to see how much performance was gained, because it’s easily in the 20-30% range, if not higher. Again, they’ve found more bugs and added to those more and more over time, so unless you have the latest CPUs on the market, you’re guaranteed to have slightly less performance from those security fixes. As a silly, who cares if it’s compromised system because it’s just for games-it’s fine. I just wouldn’t use it to do anything like log into important websites or hold financial information on it.

now this is useful, I have an old 4690k system my wife uses thats starting to show its age, and shes far too cheap to want to upgrade it, but still uses it for video watching and gaming.

Using an older cpu qx9650, with a 1060, windows 7 with an ssd. Works perfectly fine for all tasks. Its actually faster than when i first built it.Have also streamed games (at 1080) to my tv with no issue. Have also used atlas, and it makes older hardware useable. Windows 10 just slows down any pc. You will definitely need an ssd upgrade. I tried ubuntu, but there is a learning curve and troubleshooting can become an issue. It is definitely an interesting os and something that is worth exploring if u have the time. I've upgraded friends and family's laptops and pc with an ssd upgrade, and thats it. This has made all the difference. Not changed the ram or psu, or upgraded the gpu.

Atlas OS seems like it has way to many security compromises as oppose to just going with fedora or some other mainstream Linux OS that will still give you that snappiness boost. Especially if you choose a lightweight desktop variant. XFCE is still my desktop of choice for older hardware, though Mate is extremely usable too.

Securitywise, I'm not sure I'd jump on AtlasOS yet but that sounds great. I'm still on an i7 4790k paired with a r9 290 and while I will probably update soon because it will make editing 4k much easier (Resolve Studio helps a lot too for older hardware), my pc can probably still last a couple more years without struggling too much. Those kind of configs are snappy enough for anything you'd already be doing before 2020.

Thank you for this information, my 3700x and 5700xt are still kickin' in every game that I either need high fps in competitive or lower fps but chonkin' cpu crunches!

I am still rocking a 2011 Pentium e8500 with 3 gb ram . Installed an ssd and a gt 730 few years ago and it performs basic tasks just fine. :)

I fully agree: old HW doesn't have to die because software keeps getting bloated. I mean, I still use a 12 year old laptop (mostly with linux) for basic tasks like web browsing, youtube... even some very little schematic and PCB design (low complexity hobby projects). So yeah, videos like this are highly welcomed. Can't wait for the LTT Labs to kick into high gear and check out how well entry level hardware performs, which will be supper handy for jobs like this one...

I don't usually comment, but having materials focused on upcycling and lower spec machines is really nice and I know others feel the same. Thanks LMG!

I have many 7th gen systems and with an ssd and win10/11 it runs perfectly fine, tbh for basic use i have seen second gen chips still be fast with an ssd.

Saved an old Dell Optiplex 745 from a landfill a few weeks ago. It's a machine from 2006, only 2 years younger than myself, it's still rocking such hardware as Intel core 2 duo, 1GB (soon to be 2GB) DDR2 RAM or 80GB IDE HDD, and is running fresh reinstall of Windows XP. Although very much obsolete in context of modern gaming and internet usage, I still find it quite useful both as a retro gaming machine and a workstation for old software. Right now I am doing some music production and graphic design on it, seeing what stuff can I make with this little buddy's limitations. TL;DR: the point is every pc no matter how old and obsolete can still be useful in modern setting if you are creative enough

One thing to keep in mind with AtlasOS is that network drive functionality is broken as of April 2023. ReviOS also has a playbook and doesn't remove that feature.

I have been using Linux as my daily driver, no dual-boot for more than a decade now. I still think it's great for people to have more options to use older machines.

This was neat to watch since I have done the same thing here, but instead I bought a refurbished Dell optiplex 7010 with a I7 3770 then just added in a 1650 ti and bam a mid tier gaming pc that only cost me $550. Booted up FF XV and it ran pretty damn well, hasn't crashed yet and even after 3 years of having it to this day, this tower still is my main.

Speaking of databases, for computer recycling it would be nice to have a database of which models do and do not have Windows 7/8/10/11 drivers on their websites.

Kudos to Acer for this green initiative, using non-soldered connections where possible, and making the case out of recycled plastic. The only thing I'd change would be to have the case halves screw together instead of using clips, given that broken clips are one of the main things that lead to a lot of plastic items becoming waste.

As someone who actively reverse engineers Windows on a frequent basis: Do not use AtlasOS if you care about security and reliability. It breaks core parts of Windows (the component store being the most egregious one, that's very difficult to repair) and disables security measures that contrary to what people might spread, are actually pretty good ideas to have. Also, not having updates is a pretty big L right there as much as people rail against Windows Updates. more pertinent though is that breaking the component store also breaks other parts of windows in very subtle ways that can't be repaired w/o a reinstall. Edit: i looked at it some more. It's so. so. so. so. much worse than what i thought. like removing absolutely very critical, "things you use everyday" components bad. Removing things like the kernel debugger, memory diagnostic tester, RDP, Windows Hello. Disabling things like DMA remapping (which has seriously improved security in many many situations) and breaking critical components by removing critical registry keys. It's bad. Very much so. Edit 2: A friend and I checked again to see if there was anything I missed, and oh dear god I didn't think it could get worse. Reports of people's EFI system partitions being busted and bitlocker prompting recovery upon install (with no warning to suspend it by the installer despite it making these breaking changes!!) (Source: github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas/issues/731) with devices that have BitLocker on (this is more devices than you think! The "device encryption" in Settings is BitLocker in the background). Reports of TPMs being wiped (or more likely TPM measurements invalidated by either BCD or system changes, specifically PCR7 which Windows seals the decryption key to). The fact installing this mod is enough to even potentially cause this kind of stuff which is not only scary as hell, but can *genuinely* lead to data *loss* if the person doesn't have a recovery key on hand or never backed it up or doesn't know it exists. All because the program does not mandate that bitlocker be temporarily disabled before it makes its changes. The potential corruption of the EFI system partition is bad by itself too. Not to mention it changes the boot configuration to disable the hypervisor and sets load options (one of which is no longer respected due to it's setting being in registry/system integrity policy nowadays) to disable isolated LSASS (meaning user secrets can now be read from normal kernel mode instead of being siloed safely) and virtualization based security, all of which can potentially invalidate the sealed bitlocker key, forcing recovery. Edit 3: found a list of things that will invalidate Windows's seal on PCR7 - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-recovery-guide-plan (Section: What causes BitLocker recovery?) My take on this mod: do not use it, do not think about using it. Stay far far away from it. It's disappointing to see this being promoted as widely as it is.

I still got my old gaming rig way back from 2011, it had a i5 2500k and a GTX570 out of the box, now 12 years later I've upgraded pretty much everything except the motherboard. What's more the PSU, 1070 GPU and i7 2600k CPU that's in it now are all second-hand stuff.

I am watching this on a Mac Pro from 2009, running a still supported macOS version (still getting security updates). I upgraded the processor, maxed out memory and upgraded graphics card. Seems to lag a bit with macOS 13 and 14, but works just fine with macOS 12.

Losing restore points, automatic updates, and windows defender on a still updating OS is a rough exchange for a bit more blood out of that turnip. I know there are options to solve all those issues otherwise but as far as canned solutions go they seem smooth on the outside

Ive been waiting so long for you guys to look at custom ISOs because they can be a real gamechanger. I personally use ReviOs on my old laptop and experience up to 40% fps gains in Games. Thank you for showing off these opertunities to squeeze the most fps out of older systems for a wider range of people.

As a linux user I would say that linux is run on old computers to make them faster but also works very well on newer computers.

Asus P6T mobo x58 platform. (released in November 2008) CPU: Xeon x5675 6 cores 12 treads (3.06GHz stock) running now at 5Ghz. (Released Q2/2011) 48GB Kingston Hyper-X Savage DDR-3 (2017) GPU: RX 6950 XT. (2020) Any Triple A game can be played with all graphics settings on "ultra".

One can do this kind of optimizations with the help of the various scripts available at the MDL forums. They are both more transparent (being open source and all) AND give you more control over what things to keep and what to exclude.

Love this! All we did at my Uni CS-Club was repair and refurbish and experiment with "old" computers and components that people would have otherwise thrown away. It served to teach people about computer hardware, saved people a bunch of money, helped out the students and staff, and it was super fun! Also, I love the shot of Anthony happily in the background with his hands together. Freaking GOAT. Praise be to overlord Anthony. ❤

Atlas has made many updates too. Now V0.3 is made for W11 23H2! And also works with 10 on the same playbook!

My laptop died, and I replaced it with a refurb desktop. 32 RAM and 4TB of storage, half of that SSD for ~ $300. Came with a monitor plus I had one from my old tower. I use it for audio recording and it does an awesome job.

My experience with Atlas OS was really smooth like it only consumed 13% percent RAM on my 2GB ram 13 year old PC, i used Mem Reduct to explicitly do it, and it passed my expectations by a lot

I loved to see this video, this green approach and this much progress at it is awesome to see. I myself just turned an old desktop pc (dell optiplex 790) to a server for minecraft, plex and ftp, I used linux so far but I would love to try setting up another VM with AtlasOS to see how much performance it brings back on the table compared to regular Windows 10/11! I really like the idea of reusing and recycling e-waste as much as possible! Thank you AtlasOS for doing this!!

I had this exact spec until the end of the last year when I bought a bigger power supply and a new 3060 to put ion place of the 1660

Built a Hp z440 with a K6000 98GB ECC RAM and 500GBSSD with a 32TB dual RAID HDD archive attached. Ends up being around 14TB when all is said and done. Got a 28%r score when I ran it thru benchmark. Built a production media server for our home business Thanks to Anthony ❤️👍

You guys are great! It's awesome, that you not only make reviews of high-end and server grade hardware, but you also touch low end stuff.

2018 I build my pc(i7-8700k+1080ti) with tips from you LTT videos, been running every single game until now with absolutely no problem. Unfortunately I wont be able to upgraded it but now I really know what to do when my system start to stutter on the future. Ty from the heart guys for videos like these.

Great video! Yes it's always a good idea to up-cycle old hardware like this. When I built a new workstation upgrading from 4790K the cpu and motherboard still worked fine even running windows. But what I did was I turned that system into an Unraid server for my production business backup and I couldn't be happier. Just needed to buy the hard drives.

About six years ago I bought a couple of older refurbished units and picked ones compatible with parts I had on hand because my son put a foot in my computer. Then I picked up cheap RAM and a cheap extra video card and they've been using them ever since. My son is just at the point where he needs something with more oomph... So he's getting my laptop when I build a new desktop. But his current system's mobo is about as old as he is and he, at 11, does fine with most of the games I'm willing for an 11yo to play. And hubby is a casual gamer so his needs are pretty lean. I'd be more likely to upgrade his current system than replace it. After a lifetime of things going obsolete in 5 years, the last 15 years have been so much better for computer longevity.

Bro called 7th gen obsolete technology 💀💀💀💀

I love videos like this. I was backing up old home videos recently and planned to use Plex until I found out that when family members accessed it, it would hurt my laptop's performance. So, that wasn't an option. But I watched a video Anthony did a while back about turning your old PC into a server, so that's my plan going forward. It would be nice to see more videos featuring Anthony on the main channel. With his video guide, I installed my first Linux operating system on an old laptop and gave it to my niece so she could watch her Disney movies.

Its funny to watch this video now in 2023 where its like 4-5x better that it used to be. In 1998-2008 I was reinstalling Windows from scratch every year because Windows 98 and XP were so horrible handling the bloating of the system files/registry. I was playing a lot of FPS games like Quake 3, Counterstrike and Battlefield 2 which really needed to perform 100%. I turned off lots of services and restarted my PC every time I was going to play a game...which took 2-5 minutes depending on if there were updates pending. And I had fast system at the time.

Yeah I'm totally on board. I bought a ryzen 7 1800 when windows 11 dropped and a gtx 1060 6gb later. Im running Pop OS and I can totally play games. You really don't need new stuff if you are ok with running low settings with the new games.