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it's amazing this channel isn't sponsored by an eucalyptus oil company yet

I remember building my first PC just using scrap from my dad's recently-closed PC repair business. Had a C2D E7200, 8GB DDR3, and a Radeon HD 5670, and booted off an HDD. It was garbage, but it was garbage I made with passion.

I just love CRT monitors for the exact reason...its low resolution , but looks crisp and neat enough...aiding even older rigs to run modern games at decent frames

Can't lie, I love this sleeper box for being a SFF system.

Good job, I like those speakers)

He literally have a kit of the most budget gaming computer in 2005.

That corrupted screen thing seems to be really common in Windows 10 22H2, I've had it on all the PCs in UEFI mode I've reimaged recently.

I lost it at the Hitachi -Deskstar- Deathstar, well that's one component that's definitely in the $0 range (or possibly negative)

It's sad how far they've come especially the prices

Install DOS and SBEMU audio driver! Perhaps it could be a retro gaming beast with that CRT, keyboard and mouse. 😀 Even paint the case beige? 😉

My philosophy is, if you have fun with it, its a gaming PC, i definitely enjoy playing ton of old titles such as Assassin's creed 2, the original GTA trilogy, or even Rollercoaster tycoon. It's much better to play a lot of old games, than investing hundreds of hours in one modern title.

Go the CRT monitor!! If it wasn't the full size tower that was breaking my back, then it was the 17" CRT monitor that would!! Those were the days! 🤣😂

Cost of living aye - This is still better that my schools PC's 💀

I've got that same rig with a SSD for daily tasks and performs quite well, even tried Fortnite and runs 57 FPS on performance mode.

great video nathan! your videos are always interesting

Hope you have a speedy recovery from the surgery!

This was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks for making this cool video!

That's great value computing! I still have those Harmon Kardon HK695 speakers, lol I like the classic beige keyboard and mouse.

I love these kinds of builds. Not too shabby for some retro gaming. I would have loved to see some old school 3DMark scores though. Perhaps in a later vid? :)

i had that same harmon and kardon system. its sounds pretty damn good since i got it at goodwill.

My family bought its first real PC as our big gift Christmas 1995. Pentium 1 200 Mhz w/ MMX. It blew my mind, and I was learning to disassemble and modify it almost immediately. It wasn't long before I wanted another PC so we could try and "network" them to play games and communicate together. I went to a giant Expo at DC Armory with my older brother and we cobbled together my first computer for $40 - a beat up Compaq 120 Mhz Pentium, and we networked it together to plan LAN Starcraft, Warcraft, and so many other games. It is absolutely astounding to think back on just how much we accomplished with a tiny amount of money paired with a lot of sweat, busted knuckles, and frustrating. Great memories! Thanks for the video.

This video is from 9 months ago but im amazed this thing runs better than HP 15 laptop with a 10TH gen I7, Nvidia MX130, and also SSD + 8GB ram, thats a beast!

I absolutely love these old acer cases. I've made more than a few sleeper pc's with them. The 240w gold psu in these is not to be underestimated , Currently using one with a Ryzen 5600 and a rx6400 low profile for my living room pc.

My current work/gaming rig was built around an old (and buggy) motherboard and a 2nd gen dual core i3. I had to flash the bios to get external video cards working, and I was afraid of bricking the whole thing. But, I was successful, and after flashing the bios, I could install my GTX 750Ti and a 3rd gen quad core i5 to be able to play some games. As I am a vintage gamer of sorts, I could play PS3 era games at high detail level (mostly maxed out) and even some early PS4 gen titles at relatively good looking settings. This rig has been in use for three years now, and it kicks ass for what it is!

I would like to see he do a video of him doing a tour of his famous Shed he has so much stuff in there

Congrats on 260k bro

omg I used to have those exact same speakers ages ago, that brought back some memories!!

The term Gaming PC is thrown on literally ANY computer today 😂

psivewri I found those harman karden speakers in my local thrift store but their was no subwoofer

Amazing review love old tech true legend never forgot 🥰

THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING CONTENT ! we had a lil bit of nostalgie thanks 2 u :)

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I love ur uploads!

really great video, please make an upgrade of that pc to reveal its true potential

I used to run an Optiplex 360 with a 3GHz Core2Duo E8400 and Synergy GT610 2GB GDDR5 as an old runabout PC for some old games, was pretty playable but its time i flip that PC into an XP gaming rig since i've made a successor SFF PC out of my old haswell and pascal computer parts :)

Considering the thousands and thousands of games that came in the previous decades, this looks fine to me, especially considering the cost.

now a video ideia would be to make this a good game pc by spending as little as possible and see how it will peform with modern games

I wish you a fast recovery!!❤❤

3:04 The best one being a rename of my 11 year old laptop's gpu. Definitely a right beast, that is. Awesome for games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk, totally agree.

Great video! I'd like to see you Test out STAR WARS - EMPIRE AT WAR one of these days. it's OLD, but it's put even my new computer's through their paces at times.

Got like that off facebook market a Packard Bell same form factor , upgraded to 8GB of RAM , SSD , on 775 socket a Quad Core Q6600 , and a GT1030 of 2GB , and it's a pretty decent machine for retro gaming.

❤i love your every video And I’m having same CRT monitor likes you showing in the video Its 23years old but still working Perfectly 😁

Cool video. I've just spent three days trying to get an old GT610 working on Debian 12, only to finally have the Debian OS itself tell me support ended at Debian 11......that explains a lot.

I had those speakers for years and they were the best pc speakers I’ve ever had. We got them with a dell dimension 8200 bundle in 2002

If you could do a part 2 of this video, you could find some upgrades to it such as replacing the processor with a Core i7 4770, upgrading the RAM to 16 GB, upgrading the HDD with a SSD and the graphics card with a small form factor RX 6400, you could make a reasonably competent Gaming PC!

I HAD THOSE SPEAKERS! It came with my 2001 dell deminsion pentium 4 machine my mom bought for me as a kid. They were great. And seriously impressive they lasted nearly 15 years or so before the foam around the drivers degraded.

I have that exact usb drive setup, same usb models and same white corrector writing

5:30 That actually almost looks cool! Just need a keyboard and mouse that match the rest of it. 😊

Interesting to see it upgraded to the max.

Those lines seem to be normal for windows nowadays. I have 6 or 7 computers that all started doing that after a quality update. Every time they boot.

Bumping to Sea Shanty 2 will make me thumbs up ANY Video. Good job

Damn I would love to have a crt on my custom sleeper build!

This Case are the best for Sleeper Builds... xD pls make a sleeper with mini-ITX and bigger graphic card! :D

I have that same exact procesor in my Viglen Genie SFF PC

Nice system with a few shortcomings, if you ask me. That Acer desktop PC would be a god base, especially for some upgrades - an i5 or i7 would go nicely in there. 8GB RAM is OK but 16GB would be better (especially with the i5 or i7) and SSDs are relatively cheap nowadays. But I would have both an SSD for the OS and a HDD for larger games. Plus, that DVD drive is good, not many PCs have these anymore so I'd be inclined to keep it. The sound system was probably the best part about the PC's peripherals. The ball mouse just needs to go, the keyboard doesn't look that much better (and I'd be surprised if either the mouse or keybard were USB), and the CRT is absolutely ancient. The flat monitor at the start was better. Oh, and the GT610 was probably OK, but a low profile GPU with more power would be better (especially with the i5 or i7). At least I have proof that you don't need a 12th gen CPU/RTX GPU to play CS at the lowest settings.

I just watched this video on my dell vostro 1500 from 2007 running windows vista ultimate in 32 bit. The 128mb NVIDIA GeForce video card is a smoker

I'd like too see an other challenge with the same set up but a $100 budget on upgrades.

I had those harman kardon speakers back in the day

I would love to have a CRT ...man I had a 24 inch one back in the day I wish i had kept it , I would still be using it

The specs remind me of a similar Acer Aspire desktop I had when I was young

I just fixed up an Acer extensa 5420 laptop…date code says July 12 2007 and it was hardly used as it wouldn’t fully turn on. Come to find out it was the cmos battery as it was dead….the laptop is in almost mint condition and now has windows 7 on it….still doing updates.

Love your videos bro

how much of a sleeper it can get if it got more of its possible upgrades. before anything, maintain the CRT it is just a __classic__ touch not to have on a sleeper, as well as the keyboard, since it matches the PC brand wise. upgrade/mod the ball mouse c: get the possible i5, some random kingston dramless ssd, the might gt1030 ddr5 and ofc 2x8GB of ram and of to the races you go :D

2:52 Ahhh ye olde Hitachi "deathstar"! Does yours have the click of death?

good to know that a popular youtuber has made my gaming setup

5:22 Yes I do know that pain as my Laptop's HDD is Mechanical (I don't have any Money for an SSD for it)

The only purpose that computer can serve anymore with an upgrade of an ssd, would be good for office computing, browsing the web, and just small things. Maybe even transferring files from things here and there.

am I watching a 4k video on a 1080p monitor? holy moly you have the bestest camera on youtube dude

My dad has a set of those speakers, sound great, although i think its branded as logitech

Please use this build as a Retro rocket. DOS and early windows games only. (so nothing past win 98.)

Please upgrade this rig! Let's see it on the CRT at max-res, with a 4th gen i7 and SSD. Maybe even a RX6400? That would be sick. Then compare price/perf with a modern budget build

I would have loved to see more games tested, like Doom, GTA 5, San Andreas, RCT3, and even Cyberpunk 2077

This PC can be amazing running Windows XP SP3 and games made until 2003, like The Sims 1, SimCity 3000, Need For Speed Underground 1, GTA III and Vice City, Half Life, Quake III, etc.

yay! a new upload!

Still better than a lot of School PCs

Hey can u suggest how and with how i can clean my monitor and my laptop

This was dumb and I love you for it! :) You know what game this setup would crush? OpenTTD.

this setup is perfect for windows xp retro gaming

Hi, where can I buy the ram stick tray that were featured in this video?

Did the same thing but I think my one came out even worse 😂, I tried to cram in 25 retro parts into a modern pc

I mean, could you try a zotac 1650 low profile card? bet it would perk up then.

Hey, what version of MC is the server on? wanted to join but didn't know what version to pick

upgrading my sff z220 currently it has an i3 3220 and 4 gb of ram i've stumbled upon 4 more gb of ram an i5 3450 aswell as a 2tb hdd. i plan on getting an i7 3770 and the best value gpu i can get my hands on...eventually

It isn't a video of Nathan's until he wipes something down with eucalyptus oil.

TBH such a machine would probably be better as a linux server, especially if you replaced the optical drive with a mounting adapter for 2.5" and 3.5" drives, And potentially adding a faster NIC and (if needed) a SATA HBA.

Good to see Shane from Smosh is into retro gaming these days

I'm almost certain the integrated graphics are faster than the 610. Isn't that Radeon card with the red fan faster?

even overclocking that 610 will kinda help It

Somewhat reminds me of my desktop where I upgraded it from slightly better parts that I had lying around at the time 😂 My biggest gripe is that GTA V while runs better still doesn’t run well enough. Use to be able to run that game no problem but with all those updates it just can’t keep up.

Man I'm watching this on my CRT wit my laptop connected to it

„It also looked like Windows activated itself“ *That just gave me Fearsweat.*

I made a similar pc but with a old think centre with a Pentium and a 610

5:30 every build I make always has at least two DVD ROM drives, and I’m not sharing my supply of them!

I actually had one of these and kitted it out with an i7-3770, 16GB DDR3, 2TB SSD, Nvidia GT1030 GDDR5. Installed Windows 7 ultimate - super fast boot time. Played quite well but that little PSU blew twice in 8 months and the second time it took the motherboard with it. Lesson learned don’t neglect to upgrade your power supply

My Neighbor just gave me this same PC, Im turning it into a slightly upgraded BATOCERA System for him, I had a Nvidia 710 I threw in there as well

3:00 What is that AMD GPU? If that is a Radeon HD 7570, that will be faster than the GT 610 by a pretty significant margin. Anyway, this was a great video and very interesting to watch. I hope you do more like it!

Its pretty close to my Core 2 quad pc with a 710, but i paid mine 50$.

actually quite impressive =)

Understandable