Man oh man it feels weird to see the RAM labeled as "DDR" without a number XD

My grandmother is still using this very machine. We've changed out a dying HDD, replaced the DVD Drive, and added a little RAM and recently a flat screen monitor (her first). She LOVES it.

This pc is older than 90% of jake paulers

*Eckztreme graphics*

Seems like you are venturing into LGR's territory with such a faithful restoration of old PC:) Nice work.

I like how Intel is trying to fool people by calling their integrated graphics chip "Intel Extreme Graphics 3D", it sounds better than a GTX460 and gues which graphic chip would your grandparents choose.

I once had a computer where I overclocked the Celeron D cpu to 5.15ghz and ran it 24/7 with custom cooling. The motherboard eventually died.

I have been waiting for an emachines restoration/gaming video for so long, i can not find one anywhere and this just made my day.

Mom!!! Don’t pick up when the phone rings, I’m playing Duke Nukem with Tim up the street. ..ring ring (Hello). Moooam!!! I said don’t pick up!!!!!!

When I saw that it doesn't have an AGP slot, bugger, that really limits your options. Something like a PCI GeForce 6200 could work, should beat the onboard GPU.

"Slightly playable" is a wonderful description of the system 😀

Far Cry PS1 edition

Celeron D....One of the most misleading CPU Names of all time.....Even better when it's paired with the dreaded Extreme Graphics.

Early 2000s I had an eMachines pc exactly like that one. Spent the majority of my early teens glued to it playing counter strike source. Oh, the nastalgia.

LOVE YOUR VIDEO. Thanks for all the hard work☺️

Try running the Battlefront 2 beta on it and make scrambled eggs with it.

A year ago today I found your channel. Good to see how far you’ve come.

Very well made and shot video. You sir got a legitimate like.

Great video! My first pc was an eMachines with somewhat similar specs (1.8 Ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, Nvidia integrated graphics) in 2002, and looking back, I'm actually really grateful that I started with such a modest machine for gaming, because it forced me to learn how to upgrade RAM, CPU, install a GPU and thus gave me the confidence to do my first system build a few years later: not sure I would have learned any of that if it had been blessed with high-end components to start with! Thanks for posting & keep the excellent retro content coming!

Just look at the motherboard! The AGP 8x slot was obviously removed, making upgrades impossible. Yes, there are PCI graphics cards, but those suffer from significantly less bandwidth.

Another great video! Keep the good work.

RGHD, this reminds me of that build I made out of an old eMachine chassis I found in the snow one winter. I'm not sure if you remember, but I sent photos of it during and after restoring it back in like the very beginning of this year. It's cool to see you make a video that is akin to that.

4:44 this happened to me a few times, but it can be fixed by installing a patch. is one of my favorite games

I used to have that exact computer! I ended up selling it stock for $75+ ship on eBay.

Subscribed just for this. Loved that PC. Had the Pentium one with the GB of RAM though.

I owned an emachines back in 2006 and it was great, so much nostalgia with it.

Feels like watching history channel. Nice content.

really interesting videos I subbed.

finally another video. i was going crazy while waiting.

I left my 1999 pc in a bowl of rice overnight. And then Asians came and turned into a super computer. (Only works with basmati rice) Edit: sorry my mistake, thanks to all the replies I realised that I meant brown rice.

Nice! My friend and I are restoring an old imac g3, and the ibook g3 that came with it.

RandomGamingInHd i love Your Videos & Appreciate all the hard work U do Pls make another video upgrading this pc

The one and only eMachines I ever had was back in 2007(ish). A laptop which really got me through some tough times. Having only heard bad things about eMachines from back in the day, I had little hopes for the machine. But it turned around and surprised me, even ran some games (like CS Source) relatively well with mixed graphics settings.

I had one of these. It was the first computer I ever worked on. Upgrading the ram and adding a graphics card. I loved that PC

excellent channel

I'm pretty sure this is the exact same PC my family had in the early 2000s. It sucked but man did it still work after all the hell I put it through.

there is something magical about turning old systems into current gen worthy PCs

Great video! :D That IGP. xD In Hungary we call it a 3D decelerator. :D

Used to have one like this, that same exact case. Had a Pentium 4 in it, threw a GeForce FX5200 in there.

My family used to have two of these. Still have one of them in the house. Should boot it up sometime and see if it works.

Finally bloody hell!!!

Im get goosebumps when hearing the extreme graphics igpu name, and extremely goosebumps for knowing the fact that it comes before the legendary gma series

The emachines logo brings back memories

I still have one lying around with a Celeron D 360 in it. The Bestec PSU in it is surprising still holding up

my eMachines is still in the wardrobe from 2013. Pretty much used it for AAA games at mid, got it in like 2006.

Flashbacks from that modem are massive ...

No way! My mom has that exact computer and it still works well today!

I have fond memories of my EMachines PC. I can't remember what model it was but damn, it lasted me a long time.

The first pc i bought for myself. Still use it today thanks to Linux.

i wanna do something like this with my old 2006 pc looks very fun

Noice video mate

I used this computer for a few years after 2012, can’t say I miss it. Even after upgrading the cpu to a dual core and a GT 640 I still had trouble getting a steady 30fps in HL2. Any game past the PS2 era was impossible to run. The Emachine gave me the motivation to build my own computer so I have a soft spot for it. Gotta start somewhere.

I'm addicted to your videos help me

Nice old style pc

I built a sleeper pc in one of those old emachines cases. That case is made out of super thick steel compared to the cases these days. I even cut a 80mm hole in the centre of the side panel and added a 80mm side intake fan with one of those circular wire grills. If the house ever gets broken into at least I will have one good computer left behind most likely lol.

This is nostalgic! I forgot AOL was a thing haha :)

20 minutes on a 10mb file. That's only about 3x as slow as what I have.

Finally an eMachines video. :D

I have an original dial-up era "Sign up for MSN and receive a 50% discount on your entire system!" e-machines with a Celeron 667MHz and originally 32MB of SDRAM that my great aunt eventually upgraded to 64MB. It still runs, but I never really power it up. It just sits in the closet. lol

hiii,, very nice .... i like your video!!!

I remember dialup. My mom used to download alot of music, so when she wanted a handful of new songs, she'd call her friends and immediate family and tell them not to call for the next several hours. Good times.

Did the same thing to a old PowerMacG5. Felt pretty good. I'm selling it now, but I guess no one really knows how revolutionary for the time what that system actually was.

I have the carcass of a few of these laying about. Bad caps on both the motherboard & power supply where some of the most common problems you'll find. The AMD based versions with the Nvidia chipset failed with bad bga solder joints regularly. Glad to see this one made it all these years.

An eMachine was one of only 2 prebuilts I've ever bought, the second one being an old Dell from eBay in 2020. Slapped a 9500GT with a Zalman cooler in and it was great

My parents had this same computer back in 2006-7. I remember I started playing WoW on this machine. It took about 10 minutes to load to the log in screen and I got 10-20fps, less then 5FPS in cities...

Thanks for the classic video on an old standby. I have this eMachine with the higher Pentium 4 2.93GHz 478, and the slightly newer version T5010 that upgraded to a Socket 775 that the manual states the chips s3et only runs Pentium 4 cpus, but they run well with any 800MHz Core Duo under 95 watts. Many of these boards don't have the AGP 4X slot added, but all of the socket 478 boards do. The Intel boards used on these are almost identical except fot the difference in the newer LGA775 and the appropriate chipset upgrade as well as 4 SATA sockets for the newer machines. Not my idea of a gaming computer, but they operate well for casual 32-bit programs, and do fantastic with modern Linux OS and apps like they were made for each other.

Intel Celeron D with Intel Eggstreme Graphics!!!

I bought a 466IS Emachine quite cheaply with a monitor and printer quite cheaply. It was my first computer of my own. I still to this day have the computer and last I checked it does still work. I maxxed out the ram at 256MB of SD ram (yep not even ddr) and added an extra 30gb of hard drive space. Tossed in a disc burner, V.90 modem upgrade and a PCI video card for a second display.

Snag a PCI version of the GT 610 from Zotac. Perfect fit for that PC.

Oh man, I need to dig mine out wherever the hell it is in my house, I have the exact same system somewhere. It survived for at least 5 years.

Seeing far cry like that reminds me of how I used to play that game ❤

Thats a very nice and fully grown potato

Holy hell, that intel ad made by LTT about the wall of shame played before this vid...

Just did a similar project. Got an emachines pc in a lot of non functional pcs for £6. All it needed was a psu and hdd. Pentium 4 and geforce 4 mx 440. Installed windows 98se on it, runs games from that era very well.

Had this exact machine whilst at college. Added a Radeon 9800 Pro just to play Half Life 2 and had a blast. Ah the memories!

I had an eMachines computer about 15 years ago. I remember playing Bejeweled 2 on it.

oh my god i remember emachines, i wasn't even a teenager when i started wanting a desktop and i always saw how cheap the emachines were and asked for one but ended up with an hp pavilion

Man u vs Leeds on FIFA? IMA Leeds homeboy, you doing us proud rghd.

Our first was an eMachines T2891 from around 2004.. With an AMD Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B, essentially a rebadged Athlon MP sold later as a budget processor, and yes, Semprons had multiprocessor abilities unlocked), 512 MB PC3200 (Later 1 GB), and S3 Unichrome integrated graphics on a VIA KM266 Pro chipset. Later a Radeon 9800 Pro because AGP lol. They really did use the exact same case for everything they made to cut manufacturing costs. It worked well. At the time eMachines was owned by Korean conglomerate TriGEM

Even though it's obvious - i'm still glad that a system from 10+ years ago is still office-capable.

The first modern computer my family bought was an eMachines that used the same tower shown, but was older and had a Celeron 1.3GHz. Biggest PoS computer we ever used. Fortunately a year later, I had enough money saved up to build my own PC. I bought an Athlon XP 2800+. PS: The eMachines PS/2 mouse almost caught on fire after a couple of years. One day it stopped working and got super hot. I tore it apart to find out that some component started burning up.

I have a very similar emachine to this lying around. I couldn't be bothered to get all the dust out of it(don't think it's been used in at least 10 years) so I just took at the hard drive and used it in my new pc for emulators and roms to be stored on.

I remember my eMachines E3042. I got it in 2006 for my 17th birthday and despite it being crap as a daily after a few years (really don't know how I managed to get it running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit as it was slow AF), but it lasted me 10 years before it died and went kaput. I did give it a few upgrades with 2GB DDR2 RAM, an ATi HD 2400 Pro, and a Creative Audigy Soundblaster.

i remember dial up, crazy connection sounds

Please stay the same Don't do videos on new technology Love the videos

I had one years ago binned it as not even the socket for AGP just the solder pads

You got 10mb download speed in 20 minutes - wow? I got 2mb download speed in 1 hour because I lived in a very rural area. The main reason download managers were created is because they allowed a user to continue to download from their last spot instead of having to constantly start / restart from the beginning due to a bad connection. Getright was my download manager of choice. I had a lot of eMachines and usually each model no more than a couple of weeks. I would return them to Best Buy within the 30 day return period for one reason or another, then I quit buying them after the mileage and time devoted to returning them was too much. I still have an eMachine empty case in my shop from a friend's computer I attempted to repair years ago. For some reason the big "e" power button is painted blue?? Still, it's good seeing this old beast of yours "actually running" in your video. "Actually running" is more than I can say for almost all eMachines and I can find a lot of older now defunct computers running, but not eMachines. Thanks for this video that I'm now just seeing! Praise The Lord and Godspeed to you all - John 14:26!!

holy shit, my family computer in the mid 2000s was that exact model

The case and its interior are almost identical to my 2002 HP Pavilion desktop, in particular the removable drive cage.

Why don't you try Midtown madness 1 and 2 on these old machines?

I had that exact same machine when I was a little kid

I remember that dial up internet lol

I remember having this chassis for a different model - W6409 - P4, ATI Radeon Xpress 200 iGPU and 512mb RAM. Only "modern" games I could run at a playable, non-crashing framerate were Counter-Strike Source and Resident Evil 4. Even HL2 and the notorious PC port of Devil May Cry 3 suffered from horrible stuttering. It made the ET1831-01 I 'upgraded' to with its Celeron 420, nForce 7050 graphics and whopping 3GB RAM seem like a powerhouse by comparison but that was all my parents could afford. Luckily I did gradually upgrade within 2 years and wound up with an i3 prebuilt that had a GTX 560 stuck in it.

I had that computer. I miss it. It was my 2nd PC I had.

The go-to thing every day to play club penguin and animal jam on.

Just found one of these in my closet lol. Think I wanna turn it into a sleeper

RandomgaminginHD What happened to the hard drive and modem that you had when you cleaned it out a while back and the graphics card

I had a T3604, with a 3.4 single core(Celeron) processor, Windows Vista as a OS, 1TB HDD, no GPU(integrated graphics), and a monitor I was lucky enough to purchase from Cash Convertors for a whopping 12$ bucks. Kept it from 2006 to 2018, until the processor itself burned out. You couldn't do much gaming on it, aside from Doom and a few others. It did play emulators well enough, sans PS2 or greater of course. I believe without a monitor included, I paid just at 300$ for it, come to think of it, it may have been around 250$ instead. I tried Far Cry as well, and let's just say that was a no go. Seeing this older model in direct comparison, damn near brings a tear to my jaded eyes. It's always a good day when the Emachines brand gets some love and attention. *EDIT- If anyone knows where I can find the T3604 model from 2006/7, feel free to reply to this with the info. I checked all the major sell sites. I would adore the chance to get a second chance with that model.

Dude, I swear my mom had a PC like this 15 years ago!!!! I remember playing an online tower defense game and freezing it up because of all the stuff on screen.