To the people who are saying "BUT THAT GPU IS BOTTLE-NECKED BY THE CPU... SUCH A WASTE..." Yes, of course it is. But consider that this is the real world and someone's got to pay for these upgrades. If we replace the CPU, we also have to change the RAM and Mobo, because 4th gen is a dead-end. And we'll still need a new GPU and SSD. So suddenly the customer has to pay £400-500+ for CPU, RAM, Mobo, GPU, SSD. Instead we went for an SSD and GPU, which despite being bottle-necked, will provide a speed boost right away for £200-250, and in the future when the rest of the PC is upgraded, they can be used with those upgrades to further unlock their potential. I specced these upgrades based on what the customer was able to afford at the time, with mind that more upgrades should be done in the future.

Hiya, I used to work for Chillblast back when Yogscast was popular and I can confirm that the zip tie was on there for shipping purposes as we had a number of machines returned due to the fan falling off in shipping I might have been the one who build the original machine and applied the vinyl wrap as there was only me and one other guy building the Yogscast machines Love watching the videos very relaxing to watch

Just found your channel recently, and I have learnt more from you in 2 days than any other channel. Well done explaining things in detail!

10 years ago I spent a week with the Norton Ghost as I was tasked with updating/cloning every PC in the college over the summer. I think I forgot about that until today. What a throwback! Our installs were roughly 18GB, so they went faster, but not slow enough where I could leave to do other things.

Smart phone and internet, dedicated slim laptops are of a different breed. I thrilled at having a desktop that evolved on my desk... I loved being able to open it up and learn about components and, on my own, change drives and add graphic cards and newly invented peripherals...

Love these laid-back but in-depth videos; perfect Sunday afternoon viewing! That cpu though...

thank you for making these videos, its good to see someone not cut out all the simple things or edit for time and not show how things are done, i used 1 of your videos already to trouble shoot my sons pc and sure enough he had a bad ram stick, many thanks for saving me money cause i can do it myself, being a disabled vet i dont have 100 to have a pc checked out, you sir are a god send for us poor people just trying to get by

Just to confirm that during the good old days Norton Ghost was THE BEST data cloning tool. I used to work at an Internet Cafe and we would just re-load the images from all of our PCs one every two months. Take into account all the nasty stuff that our clients downloaded way back when torrents and other easy-access sites were scarce or restricted. With the clean system images created by Ghost recovering our computers was a breeze.

Got caught by the catchy intro and stuck around for just a cool chill IT dude

This is the beauty of PC building, a tired PC can become almost like new again with a few upgrades!

I love the way in which you take care of the customer's computers as if they were your own. I always thought that people like you (and me) are rare. I don't do repairs of other's hardware (except friends & family) but I always take care of other's people's property as if it was mine. Kudos to you sir!

Great! I love giving old PC's a second life! Thanks for sharing , Dutch regards, Nico.

I'm sure you have seen this by now, but msconfig is a built in way to disable startup items but allow them to be turned back on if needed. Also, autoruns by Mark Russinovich is great for evaluating all startup entry points for software in Windows. And the rest of the SysInternals suite is full of handy I.T. tools.

That case is so quirky but really functional if you use a downward facing CPU cooler. I stuffed mine with 6x 3.5" drives as well as 2 SSDs, one on the outside of each outer drive sled. Obviously that's not the best scenario for a gaming setup but I was just using it as a file and Plex server at the time.

Done that several times. But always nice to just watch it... Great video!

I love this episode and picked up some nice pointers. Very informative channel you have here. Great content and great concept for a channel. To be honest I feel more people should be watching this channel as it provides something new to learn every episode. I’ve been working on pc’s for a little over 20 years and manage to add something to my knowledge base. Keep up this in depth content. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 😁👍🖐

Thank you very much for all this very helpful information 😊

Great video and lovely unique computer 😀😀🌱 ♥️ SFF PCs.

13:29 "the new NZXT H1, don't, just don't you'll regret it" prophetic words there. Can you do my lottery numbers this week? :-)

if this person come back offer a i5-4460 or i5-4470 they are dirt cheap on ebay and should clear the bottleneck on the 590 and give a excuse to re paste cpu lol good video!

I never knew we could disable all those startup items in the registry. I learn something new. Thank you so much.

“Chromium is a developer tool, shouldn’t be on a general use computer” Welp... that’s my main browser for school work...

I actually found this channel because i watch Yogscast and this showed up as a reommended video.

Really enjoyed that one....thanks

Hi, a tip on the defrag side, I use O&O defrag because it has a really useful feature called reorder & optimize plater. The reorder will put all the file in sequence on the drive removing all these empty unused blocks and optimize plater moves the whole /Windows/ directory into the first blocks of the disk. As you can see in your defrag tool, the MFT is slap bang in the middle of the drive. O&O will move this into the first 6 blocks of the drive.

Stumbled on this and I must say from a collectors standpoint, the owner should be certain to keep all those upgraded parts because that computer IS a collectors item and will be worth a lot in a short time. I hope they can still get a copy of Win 7 just to stick on it when it is sold.

If I disassemble it so far, I also change the thermal paste, on a PC that still has a GTX 750, it will be on it for years.

We use macrium reflect for cloning and it seems to work well and is fairly fast.

The Yogscast were great! Don't watch them much anymore but used to watch there minecraft letsplays all the time.

I approve of the explanations you give

Hi, I enjoy your vids. The case is the node 304 and you are right 6 drives is impressive for the size. Same reason I am using it for. I am a little triggered, when you say you hate leaving stuff out of the case and showing at the same time one of the rubber thingies of drive cages missing. You lost it in your ghosting machine, btw.

Great video

just watched your psu video, very good explanation

thumbscrews on the drive carriers in the Node 304: You don't appreciate them until you try using standard screws. The thumbscrews are much easier _not_ to drop onto the motherboard. I have my home server in this case, with a total of 7 drives (the 7th being the boot SSD mounted through the bottom air intake), and the drives are cool without audible fan noise, even as stuffed as it is.

DAMN Ghost bring me back to some good memory! Windows XP baby

11:48 What you can do is split the PWM pin of that fan header to multiple fans (Works better while using fans of the same model) while connecting the fans to a different source of power (E.g. Directly to the PSU). >DO NOT SPLIT THE TACH PIN/ONLY PLUG THE TACH PIN TO ONE FAN< (usually the first fan on the chain). Leave the secondary fans without it. Tach is the pin that lets the fan controller know the fan speed. Due to manufacturing tolerances not even fans of the same model run exactly at the same speed for a giving PWM signal. If the controller receives multiple mixed speed signals it might run the fans at full speed, keep ramping it up and down, not turn them on or burn them down (not sure about the last one but better to keep it in mind to be safe). This is similar to what many GPUs with 2 or more fans do. If you look at their fan wiring you will notice that the first fan is connected to 4 wires (Gound, 12v, tach, PWM) while the secondary ones are connected to 3 wires leaving the Tach out. PWM fans deal with power by themselves using the PWM signal as a guide. The only reason you SHOULD NOT split the 12v and ground directly from the motherboard fan header to the secondary fans is to not current overload the fan header.

another great video

I don't think Chromium is a developer tool. It's just Chrome with less Google stuff. It is probably more common among developers, though.

Yeah, at 13:20 i fully agree with you on small factor cases. I personally think that midtower and full tower cases are the best. These small cases are ok as long as you dont want something very high end. When you decide to treat yourself with new beefy gpu or cpu cooler you start to meet bunch of compatibility issues and cable management trouble. Just nah, i always have my pc on the floor so im not really space sensitive so i use full atx case, corsair 780T which is damn awesome, and its so nice to work on, so much space, can fit any component on the market, totally worth it imo. The only micro atx form factor use i can see is HTPC other than that not much.

Honestly, for, the small difference in cost it really is prudent to put at least a 1TB drive in on an upgrade like that. A reasonable 1TB SSD is what, £90 to £120 and as you say it can migrate to a new build later. It would give him far more system space as I can see that getting cluttered again PDQ given the state it was already in. Personally I would have upgraded MB, CPU and ram but that's entirely up to the customer. However I consider, in this guys case, a 1TB essential .

Cpu will be a massive bottleneck for that gpu. Great video though. Really enjoying looking through your vids 👍

chill video 👍

"The realm of no resolution" that was great.

Those Regedit tweaks were useful; thanks.

I actually used some free program I found on the internet years ago when I migrated off of a 2TB harddrive to a 250GB SSD. Worked flawlessly with no issues surprisingly. This was after I tried using some outdated software that came with my SSD that yelled at me about it lol.

Norton Ghost Network Distribution is really cool though, you could push an Image to multiple computers on the network all at once. I found it very handy because I used to manage a computer lab in college

As far as all of the startup applications go, I would have upgraded to Windows 10 then used the taskmanager to disable them. Also, with regards to Chromium, it's already been said that it isn't a specific developer tool, however, there are lots of apps that use Chromium for basic network interactions.

cntrl alt del go to taks manager and click on startup turn things off from there? or is windows 7 that bad it doesnt have that option? its been so long sense i used 7 i cant remember

Great. Information. It. Will. Be. Handy. For. Me. As well

slap in i7 and some decent SFF modular psu and thing will live on some time,btw chassis looks healthy for future ITX upgrades cause lets be real modern stuff will help greatly this pc look better

I always move the location of my windows Temp, Tmp, documents, pictures, videos and downloads folders to a data drive if I have one. What are your thoughts on doing that?

when he said way back.... i dindt expected a software from 2007... that thing is...... vintage

Late to the party and enjoying the vids. Quick "Q" why did you not applly fresh thermal paste as part of the service ?

Great info, just one thing, isn't the new SSD a bit too full for best results?

When I want to clone a drive to an SSD, my preferred technique is to use dd to clone the drive to a file (I always double and triple check what I'm doing, don't do this unless you know what you're doing) then use GParted to resize the partitions and move any partitions at the end of the drive as far towards the beginning as possible such that all partitions fit within the space available on the SSD. I then clone the drive to another file, and then write that file to the SSD, and once that's finished, I'll use fdisk/gdisk to verify that the partitions are valid and fix any issues with the partition table not matching the drive capacity, and then test boot the SSD in the destination PC and let it run chkdsk. If the clone works, I then run GParted on the destination PC and resize/move the partitions to fill the SSD. This sounds complicated, and it has its risks (dd is known as data destroyer for a reason) but because every other program and method I've ever used has been utter trash and rarely worked, I switched to this method a while ago and had zero issues since. Chrome is based on Chromium, which is the open source web browser without Google's tracking crap crammed into it, I wouldn't just uninstall a users web browser willy-nilly, I'll always verify that the user doesn't use or need it before removing it.

G3258 is special edition CPU that can be overclocked, even on that low-end H81 mobo. I run a G3258 on a MSI H81M-P33 with 4.5GHz on both of those tiny cores :D

8:22 you killing me putting the customers vinyl wrapped surface pc on the gravel covered ground like that

Massive overkill fan for that pentium

When you do a service on a pc what is included? How far do you go to pleese the customer?

I've been in this situation before and what I use is mini partition tool or since humble bundle basically gave it for pennies easeus partition master. If i'm not mistaken both resize partitions to fit smaller ssds

I enjoyed learning a bit more about migrating drives and seeing the inside of this interesting fractal design. Thanks for the upload.

Macronis Reflect is the software i have been using to clone an HDD to SSD. Has a free version (non-commercial license) and automatically partitions the SSD.

that case is a node 304

hm kinda wondering if a 120 AIO watercooler would've fitted in there

Either Aomei partition assistant free, or Macrium reflect free are good for OS migration to ssd, or just copy disk, to get the data all transferred. It took me a while to find that out!

The case would probably take a mini atx motherboard. I like that form factor and it is what I normally chose. Paired with a mini atx you have quite a bit of expansion options and motherboard choice.

I personally would have put a used gtx 970 in a system like that, a brand new 590 is overkill and probably bottlenecked. This is just what I would do, I'm not saying your wrong lol, I like watching your videos, I feel you actually care about the client and go above and beyond in alot of cases.

Having an Asus ROG Strix Laptop I have noticed it slowing down. But seeing this video to help speed up the boot-up has helped me out a lot. My laptop is a Intel Core I7 kaby lake 7700hq and Nivdia GTX 1050 4gb with 16gb of 2400mhz ddr4 Ram. But I am noticing in CPUz that the ram is fluctuating from 3100 to 35000 for the NB Frequency and seems to be a single stick. Would it be worth it adding in another stick of Ram for dual channel?

How much you charge for this (not including SSD and GC) ?

For space problems in a case with sata drives you could use a 90 degree sata cable, also upgrading from a spin drive to a ssd there is a whole check list you need to do to effectivly utilise the ssd. Also if u managed to do a disk cleanup before migrating you would remove atleast 15gb

35:12 aww that old windows 7 usb connection and disconnection sound

I always move the Windows libraries (Documents, Photos, etc.) off the system drive as well. Move them once and be done with it.

Why not refresh the CPU thermal paste? Did not put Minecraft on start menu?

Partition Minitool will let you do what diskpart does in a nice interface.

i have both a Fractal Meshify C and the S2 both are great cases

18:17 aah it's good seeing somebody who blows the air the opposite direction of the fan when cleaning. Far to often do i see people do it the same way as the fan. Particularly hurtfull to me when they do it with some sort of blower cooler (gpu/laptop).

I have an unrelated question I have an ASUS hero 8 alpha mobo and the issue I have is only 2 of the 4 memory slots seem to work? Do you have any advice as I would like to use all 4

I have this CPU in a tower and the overclocking headroom is immense. On stock cooler I raised it from 3.2 to 4.2ghz without changing the voltage and the load temp is still sub 60 degrees.

Is it same when you disable from task manager? To not pop up as boot

the g3258 is the anniversary edition and has an unlocked multiplier!!

I think Spotify's autostart is in the so-called "advanced" settings...

SSD's are fast. But for price nothing can beat a regular "old" hard drive. Can get a SSD to speed up the booting, etc. But for storage nothing can beat the size and price of a hard drive. People will state that SSD is "the way to go." But for me, the price of two 4TB hard drives are still less than one 2TB SSD.

The thing with that CPU is that it is overclockable! Even with the H81 and H87 boards, you could run these easily at like 4.5 GHz, back in the day monsterous for the low end and not much worse in a lot of games than i5s and i7s offered

Just a quick piece of advice, for cloning you can use minitool partition wizard 10 it´s free and really good.

hy ! and 4core processecor could be a good upgrade to, no ?

I've got the fractal design meshify c mini, it's a bloody good case

what do you mean by reverse mount your psu

Can you confirm you said the disk numbers correctly in Ghost partition? You had Disk 2 and 3 listed in Ghost. By looking at Ghost it stated Disk 3 had the larger disk but you said lets select 2. I'm a little confused and suspect you meant to say lets select disk 3?

Have you tried SSD migration tool? Normally it will ignore the unused block while copying the data to SSD. We often do that with 500GB HDD to 240GB SSD with Samsung SSDs.

I'm aware this is an "old" video, BUUUT, regarding the monitor connection: all graphics cards have HDMI output, and only this year (while hearing lots of people not having money for new monitors after spending it to get a new gaming graphics card) I found that there are also cheap adapters for HDMI to DVI input. With these 4-5$ monitor-adapters (not graphic-cards) everyone I know that bought a new gaming graphics-card, no longer with VGA/DVI on them but all with HDMI, I asked them to buy HDMI cables if they didn't already have any for their tv's/consoles, that's 3$, and plug the cable in their cards + the adapter in their monitor, works flawlessly. Fortunately I finally no longer know anyone with VGA monitors, all have either VGA+DVI or DVI. I don't think I can source cheap HDMI-VGA adapters in my country, I only found at 14$ and that's absurd. And people get to keep their monitor that they like and was probably also an expensive investment a while ago.

I think it would have been better to keep the one white bracket (perforated with holes if you wanna be creative) as they are sturdy enough to withstand a bit of structural weakness. The air flow trade off would have been worth the effort given how compact everything was.

i would have replaced the thermal paste

task manager has a start-up tab. You can disable then on startup from there

Im usin Aomei partition assistant, when i clone drives. Works very good.

I still use my i7 3770k for things like Doom etc, works fine even with my VIVE.

That would be the Node 304 www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304/black/ Its frustrating to see they didn't bother to clean the dust filters, the front intake specifically needs doing weekly as its very effective at blocking dust. I have the normal white version of that case and was actually running an RTX 2080 and 9900K in it with a Noctua NH-D15s. It was a VERY tight fit with all the drive cages removed (improves airflow quite a bit even without any drives installed), really noisy at full load as its frustratingly hobbled by the front intake fans being so small, even swapping for Noctuas couldn't make up the difference. If they redesigned the case for at least a 120mm I think it would have made a huge difference. I only recently re-built everything into a BeQuiet Pure Base 500DX in anticipation of getting an RTX 3000 series card and not having to use a noisy blower cooler.

That Case looks like a Fractal Design Node 304

just a minor thing I do when building system I move my documents, pics, vids, and media to the mechanical drive and use the SSD performance for the games as steam hates games libraries on a separate drive where steam is not installed, steam can sometimes not find the library.

25:36 that was not as ugly a task as I thought it would be when you described it. as for the third cage, I liked the dremel idea better but that is my own O.C.D. issue.

19:14 Another solution is to use a software that can resize the partition without losing date. There are many that can do it and you can also find some free ones. (E.g. DiskGenius, MiniTool Partition Wizard, EaseUS Partition Manager...) After resizing the partition to a size that can fit inside the SSD you can clone it. To keep it safe make a backup of the HDD before doing the resize.