Fantastic!

Here in the states it was the top 40 but the same sentiment applies.

When I was kid, Sundays meant going thru. hardware reviews on PC-magazines and install free software from DVDs came with magazine.

Absolutely agree. E.C. is as much part of my Sunday now as roast beef with all the trimmings. They have inspired a few projects at home along with some reminiscing. My first pc was an 8088 xt clone and I drifted away from technical work in about 2000. Found myself getting back up to speed with new computing hardware to help my son build a gaming pc, but now love raspberry pi projects and updating old hardware to a new lease of life.

When i was a kid we were out in the wild, no matter what the weather was up to, before returning home to our beloved C64s and procrastinate homework for another hour...

Such is the pain of fame. Hater got to hate.

I think some people have strong ideas about what kind of videos a youtuber "has to make", and if the video is not what they wanted to watch they down vote. Which is rather sad really

I agree. While I don't find all of the topics equally interesting (forgive me, Chris!). They are ALWAYS well put together, thought out and do an excellent of communicating the topic to the viewer. Often I think that KZfaq should require viewers clicking Thumb down button to explain why they are making that choice.

I like to think they just misclicked.

They are what we call haters just ignore them, hopefully they'll fall down a big hole.

Excellent. Sounds like the RAM upgrade went really well for you.

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Chris please take vitamin D ( 4000 units per day) 4k international units /day Vitamin D3 . Chirs its important for health .

Ugh please, chrome is such a resource hog

At least your father has a PC. My 82 year old dad refuses to use computers.

I'm not a dad, but my current setup is a core2duo e4600 2GB RAM. And running strong. (no modern gaming, of course)

to be fair when i read "old pc" i thought 486, and i'm only 27.

I installed Xubuntu on mom's 16yo pc, gave it one icon to Firefox, and removed all menu access. It worked fine for her for 3 more years until it self destructed.

I got a desktop that I went ahead and upgraded to max ram capacity... Due to budget and pack of knowledge I sorted by cheapest and got a bunch of 1333hrz ddr3 and used it with the one stick of a different brand already in the system.. realized later It prevent dual channel memory. Ooops. It has 32GB supported memory but still only uses SATA 2 3Gbps !? The more I learned about my system the more I realize how much they cheaped out on the motherboard and GPU

Time is scary.

You are mistaken 2010 was only last year!

For me 2020 felt like 4 of those 11 years - and the others flew

@@ExplainingComputers Remember, time flies when you throw a clock. And time flies like wind, but fruit flies like pears. ;)

wait it gets worse the older you get .your parents were right lol

Sounds like you are offering a great service!

Wow, thank you!

@@ExplainingComputers I was also going to comment that I though the close up photography of the motherboard (etc.) was excellent, so I'll do that here :D

I'll have to find another place to attach it to the woman I have chained to the radiator keeps kicking it off.

Chris please take vitamin D ( 4000 units per day) 4k international units /day Vitamin D3 . Chirs its important for health .

Actually, it's NOT the radiator that needs the upgrade -- it's the COMPUTER!!! :)

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@@erikdekoster4137 LMAO

Thanks Brian.

@@ExplainingComputers Is he your colleague?

I've been upgrading 20+ years as well but I still enjoyed this video. Also brilliant for any beginner!

@@ExplainingComputers Christopher please take vitamin D ( 4000 units per day) 4k international units /day Vitamin D3 . Chirs its important for health .

No problem! Second episode posts on Sunday.

My NAS is the "desktop" variant of that computer. It runs truenas (recently upgraded) pretty well.

@@thebeezkneez2557 I use the MT model because it's what I had sitting around and I used to have a large number of drives in it. I think I had about 10 drives in it at one point. The PSU (not the same one that's in it now) struggled a lot to spin them all up.

I actually have a MT model case sitting around and have been considering moving my NAS to that. I didn't realize that you could fit so many drives in it. The PSU in my MT case is only a 305W so it would definitely need an upgrade.

@@thebeezkneez2557 The MT case only properly supports 3x 3.5" drives, and that's only if you use the bay that is normally used for a floppy drive. I had drives tucked in the 5.25" bay area.

Second option is a waste of time and money. Simply throwing in any 2.5 ssd is enough. Getting a faster cpu is much better idea.

Thanks, will do!

I would say that the simplest way is to completely swap out the hard drive (especially if it was pre-owned) and use a fresh HDD/SSD and a copy of Windows. If that's not possible (especially since you would need your own copy of Windows), you could consider using Windows' resetting tool, or some anti-virus software such as Malwarebytes to scan for any potential dangers.

If I ever buy a used system, the first thing to be replaced is the storage.

Solution is to reinstall Windows and everything by yourself

I know what you mean. I always scrub Windows off and install Linux! I never even boot to that pre-installed spyware.

@@MacAndSwiss you do not need a copy of windows. the pc will just know if win 7 or newer was on the computer befor and auto activate. all you need is an 8GB thumb drive and some knowledge of how to make a bootable thumb drive. I do not know if you can use the pc you just bought to do this or if that is a bad idea.

Oh I agree on manuals, they can be very useful! :)

Thanks for this! I chose the PC with care to have decent upgrade options.

Or multiple card expensition too

Go for the 250MB version... 100MB just not enough anymore.

Maybe a SCSI tape drive while your at it, too?

don't forget your math coprocessor.

Honestly, LightScribe was the best! It made professional looking DVDs instead of using a hand written label. I've still got an LG LightScribe DVD writer that I should move from the old PC to the newer PC but I think it uses IDE.

That was indeed a good spec for 2011 -- and still perfectly good today! :) Until last January all of the videos for this channel were edited on a 10 year old Core 2 Quad.

I'd imagine that an i7 with 16GB RAM and 2xTerrabyte drives would have been a small fortune back in 2011?

@@lawrenceallwright7041 I bought it through my company. It wasn't *that* expensive; I think under $2K (Canadian dollars). I tend to buy white-label rather than big-name brands, so that saves some money.

@@dfs-comedy Sounds expensive enough to me, probably would have been about my month's salary 10 years ago!

Thanks for watching. :)

@@ExplainingComputers please take vitamin D daily 4000 units atleast

We clearly share a mindset. :)

@@ExplainingComputers Exactly! I’m still using a 2008 Mac Pro that I refuse to let go because... well... it works... 🤣

Thanks!

I will do various comparisons! :)

While a system with 2 GB of ram and an SSD would be fairly snappy, I wouldn't reccommend it simply because you'll be relying on the swap file a lot and if it's also on the SSD it'll greatly shorten it's lifespan.

Great ideas

@@mikem9536 Since an SSD's lifespan is probably 5x your lifespan, the heavy use of the swap file will probably not ever be an issue. I have never heard of a SSD getting worn out (running out of its over-provisioning), even in commercial use, other than by someone deliberately running software designed to wear it out. Yes, there is a limit for "total bytes written" (TBW) that SSDs can endure. But the value is such that no normal use case will reach that limit, even for servers that routinely pound away on their SSDs. If anyone knows of an example of a SSD that has exceeded its rated TBW to its NAND fabric, please provide a link.

No problem 👍

A good tip, thanks for sharing. :)

Also add SSD is my first thought to do to make a computer faster.

AMD Ryzen 7 server, 5G/Wi-Fi turn thing on/off?, my friend is using. Scar me, it hooks up to his cellphone and his home/Tesla Car. AI called him, it told him I came over/package/911? Plus a lot of movie stores on it. It great. Kids tell it what movie want to watch, or Games?

Thanks.

Greetings! :)

There are a lot of RETRO games and such that run better on older hardware cause the older CPUs have instruction sets some of those old games and programs need that are not on the newer CPUs. Its a weird thing that many games have workarounds for. But when you run into that one game you really want to run well and it wants a Pentium 4 from 2010 to run, there you go. Same reason some people hunt down original PCjr, apple II, and such. sometimes emulation cant do the job.

@@braddl9442 Since when are games from 2010 'retro'? I consider retro games to be from the '80s and '90s.

Agreed! As we shall see.

@@ExplainingComputers Yeah ram, ssd, gpu for modern webbrowser hardware acceleration like a gt 730 should make this fairly snappy. Maybe a core 2 quad processor as well like a q8400 with a small overclock too 3.0 ghz or so, or if you want too get a bit more in depth on modifications go with a 771 xeon & mod the bios for a cheaper quad core processor like a xeon e5450 a 80w tdp quadcore cpu with the closest equivalent being the q9650. Ofc a more modern processor like a 3rd gen I5 is ofc running circles around this. I'm still doing some gaming in 1080p on a I5 2500 running at max turbo of 4.1 ghz single core & 3.9 - 3.8 ghz on quad core usage with 16 gb ram & a gtx 1660 super. (Was previously using a r9 280 & wasn't planning on upgrading gpu for a while longer honestly but gpu died after 5.5 years of nearly daily usage in August 2020, id guess thanks too me running a fps limiter it was more the weight of the cooler bending the pcb over time that eventually caused a failure, it still lasted a while for me.)

@@ExplainingComputers Vitamin D is important for healing and for health in general , take 4000 units per day

Oddly enough, I got away with running a low-spec C2D system for a good while with an SSD upgrade - even though it pegs the SSD and is 'bad' for it, the virtual memory performance from having the page file on it was enough to keep it pretty usable.

@@MattExzy ya should have upgraded the memory too then, less pagefile need ;-)