This is my actual CPU in my "gaming" pc :( edit: people are taking this as a joke but this really is my pc that I use for games haha

@HumdrumAnt

7 жыл бұрын

and I have an ancient 512mb nvidia gpu

@Razar244

7 жыл бұрын

HumdrumAnt What games are you playing, Candy Crush Saga?

@DRAGON130N

7 жыл бұрын

i dont think it can run that

@cappuccino3444

7 жыл бұрын

HumdrumAnt same except I have the Pentium 4, I don't even have a GPU. I only use it for '90s games though so it works quite well for that

@RWL2012

7 жыл бұрын

TheIceWarrior lol 😄

that's less expensive then most snacks in my school

@wowamazing7103

7 жыл бұрын

Tony ManFlash lmao my school snack only $0.09

It should have shipped with a water cooler for that 95w tdp

@IgansioYT

7 жыл бұрын

The Game Studios my i5 760 @2.80GHz stock has a 95w TDP and it runs at ~40°C idle/ 70-80°C on 100% use ;-;. I think that's a shame

@IgansioYT

7 жыл бұрын

(also, i run it with the stock cooler just because it is from like 2010, but here in Spain I think that it would be pretty useful with 32°C max temp today and 42°C in summer .-.)

@minicrafter8401

7 жыл бұрын

The higher frequency Pentium D 950 I have laying around has a 130w tdp and it shows.

@ubertiger151

7 жыл бұрын

minicrafter mini ive got the same processor in my very old rig somewhere laying around. this computer used to be a all in one multi function tool LOL. was a room heater + computer 😂

@TheVacras

7 жыл бұрын

The Game Studios lol my i7 920 is rated at 130W tdp and I've overclocked it to 4Ghz which probably rose the tdp even higher by quite a bit. All running on air though

0.65$ cpu with 200$ gpu... i know you just want to be sure there's no bottleneck, but anyway...

@DoctorX17

5 жыл бұрын

It's a real shame he doesn't have a Titan RTX for testing

Where the h*ll do you get these so cheap. In Spain good luck finding one for 50 pence 😂😂😂 good job

@IgansioYT

7 жыл бұрын

Kristjan Guess we're not lucky :/

@hombrenegro6930

7 жыл бұрын

coño no soy el único español jajaja

@dassa6053

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Bennett and he gets them from Cex

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

7 жыл бұрын

He purchases alot of these products from CeX, as they are in my experience one of the best second hand stores to purchase form in terms of quality, service, and price.

@nico5179

7 жыл бұрын

I have a CEX store near me here in Spain. Never got to check it out. Will definitely do now.

The Pentium D existed...but for the same price even a low end C2Duo will beat it out, use less power, and overclock way higher.

@AintPopular

7 жыл бұрын

oh the legendery core 2 duo

@minicrafter8401

7 жыл бұрын

Which one? So far the e8400/e8500 is my favorite by far simply because of the lowish tdp and great single-threaded performance. Too bad the bus frequency is 1333mhz, which knocks out a lot of options.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

7 жыл бұрын

JoeBZ: try to upgrade to a Core2Quad or Xeon which will offer you a large boost in performance.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

7 жыл бұрын

JoeBZ: why not take a look at the R7 250 it can run on any PSU and is great for 1080/720p gaming even to this day

@AintPopular

7 жыл бұрын

What old gpu is good enough to run witcher 3 in ultra hairwork off? like 30 fps

I turned my old Pentium D 935 into a keychain.

@clementem8458

4 жыл бұрын

How did you do it?I want to do it with my Pentium d 925

You showing Portal gameplay at the end brought so much joy to my heart. That's my second favorite game, right behind Portal 2

Really loving the old cpu vids, keep supplying the good content as you do always👍🏻

I love your channel. It's such a refreshing take on the myriad of "latest tech" tubers.

I find videos like this very interesting, I mean it is quite fun knowing just how much a processor can change your gaming experience for example my personal rig is running a gtx 960 4gb OC but it is being bottlenecked by an AMD A8 5500

Nice work as always!

i saw one of these in cex 4 days ago lol... oh yea and again love your vids man please keep doing what you do

Very interesting video! I was very surprised by the results for dirt 3!

@RandomGaminginHD

7 жыл бұрын

Dylan Simpson same, but dirt never let's me down, seems to be very well optimised

@dixie_rekd9601

7 жыл бұрын

not so much weell optimized it just doesnt DO anything... the CPU usage is very low because nothing is really being processed its the same as fighting games the enemy ai is being processed and particle effects and stuff but other than thats theyre very light on cpu load. as you know though open world games are very demanding, which is why fallout 4 and minecraft were choking. other fairly heavy cpu based games are things like MMOs (which have lots of moving elements) and larger scale first person shooters... which is probably why arma 3 is so hard to run well. its an open world MMO fps game.

@BlIuey

7 жыл бұрын

Dirt 4 runs amazing on my core i3 and intel hd 520

While I was researching to build my first budget gaming pc last December, I used a trash build that I custom made that year for free with a Pentium D 950 at 3.40 ghz and a Nvidia 7900 GTX 512mb. I found it to be a very usable combo. It was able to handle Crysis on the high preset with around 30-40fps which really surprised me. I've been kind of a Pentium enthusiast my whole life and have only used Pentiums and AMD processors, so I'm super excited for the G4650. Your video I found to be the most encouraging and informative for the performance I'm going to be looking at when I finally get one. Thanks RGHD.

#PotatoMasterRace

@mahadesh6467

7 жыл бұрын

Blazing Slav #PTMR

@underfire5735

7 жыл бұрын

#PTMR

Ah, the old days! My first "Gaming" PC (For the time) had a Pentium D 945 and an HD 5450. I know, it sucked even by 2008 standards, but it still works as a backup machine.

@EscanthonX

7 жыл бұрын

TheIceWarrior Very similar to mine! I had a GeForce 9600gso 768mb though

@gamamew

7 жыл бұрын

I have an old HP DC 7600 SFF with a Pentium D 945 and a Asus Radeon R7 240 as a backup PC

@rastkoglisic4358

7 жыл бұрын

TheIceWarrior i jused hd 5450 till last month

@klobiforpresident2254

7 жыл бұрын

I'm using an HD 5570 in 2017 #AtiMasterRace

@EscanthonX

7 жыл бұрын

Klobi for President Hey friend, I wholeheartedly suggest an HD 7570 or 6770 to replace that. $20-ish on eBay

I am sticking with my E8400 Core 2 Duo for the min, but hope to get an E4400 or E4650 soon for a new build. Thanks for the tips, always helpful.

sing a 2.66GHz Pentium D that I bought for just £0.50 ($0.65) in a secondary system. I've tried general web browsing, a little editing as well as some gam

Dude, I had a Pentium D 965 and I actually enjoyed it quite well.Those things rocked!

love these vids, keep em up

12 years later... My Week With a $1.00 i7 6700k Desc: I had to remove my i9 9800X while playing GTA 26. I tried a week with an i7 6700k. It was terrible!

Can you do like a review and live a week and play with Linux ? Since their free and more and more games start supporting ir the budget minded might give it a thought 😉 Thumbs up so he can see it !

@Dazarazmataz

7 жыл бұрын

I've always been interested in Linux too, but all the differnt distros are confusing to me. Do you still have to install programs through a command line?

@rolha666

7 жыл бұрын

Dazarazmataz Idk really , I havent use it in years , it was too confusing to work on , to install things etc and i couldnt play on it , but some time has passed i think things have changed , hopefully 😊

@Dazarazmataz

7 жыл бұрын

I might take a look at it then. Windows really gets on my nerves sometimes, as well as the whole Windows 10 spying thing, but it's the most complete package we have.

@sneakyleaky7670

7 жыл бұрын

But Linux main purpose is programming, it's like you would use microwave for cooking than warming up food.

@GundamTech

7 жыл бұрын

I have old rig running athlon 64 X2 with 1 gig of ddr2 ram, no gpu, just using mobo's integrated gpu, I'm running Linux Bohdi distribution, its great for people who is new comer to linux and its based on ubuntu, but use lighter desktop so runs smooth even on old machine like mine, Bohdi linux also comes with chromium browser (basically chrome), and I can watch youtube and basically do all my office with google docs. With 2gig of ram it will run even better, but I only have one gig ddr2 at the moment, and I can still manage youtube 480p with integrated gpu from like many many years ago. OH and im using old 20 gig SATA hdd, after all update and install, i still have 9 gig of free space left for docs and music.

I do really enjoy this channel it's not full of crap that's stupidly expensive! plus it's made me want to tinker and have fun again with old machines.

I chose a Pentium D for my first cpu upgrade, because it was 3.4ghz and 65 watts. I chose it OVER a q6600 because of clockspeed alone. Looking back, a core 2 duo, even clocked at 2.6ghz, would have outperformed it. I regret it, but it's funny in retrospect

@Protoking

2 жыл бұрын

It was 95 watts and even the E6300 at 1.86GHz beat all the Pentium Ds this is well documented.

Very good video and commentary I haven't used one of these chips in years. What motherboard did you use? Were there any installation issues and what about RAM?

Bro love your work

nice and simple intro, with no random gaming video.

i watch ur video, then i wait 2 days and watch ur new video when i have been hyped for 2 days

i used to have the "strongest" model of the Pentium D with 3.6 Ghz in my old pc 2 years ago. paired with a 128mb Quadro i was barely able to run even Minecraft, but i still had quite some fun and in the end this was what got me into pc gaming :D

Turn on captions, 0:17 "painting bees are essentially just two Pentium 4 stuck together" - RandomgaminginHD, 2017

used to have one of these back in the day. I remember it overlocked like a beast, up to 3.6ghz if i'm not mistaken on the Asus P5B Deluxe.

eyyy using CEX! I got my processor from there the other week (i3-4150) and it only cost me £45! That's cheaper than I could find it on Ebay and yet CEX offer a 2 year warranty with it as well! Honestly one of my favorite shops

How are you so smart with computers, you're like an inspiration

My first own PC had this processor, oh the memories. :D

You should try a Celeron 440 one of these days. Very cheap but still good considering the fact that is a single core cpu...should handle old games pretty well. Your videos are cool, but I think you should include overclocking these old cpus and gpus to see how far they can go.

awesome video !!! can you do a review for gaming on the • AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9GHz?

Pentium D? More like Pentium Dirt Cheap

@qui9

7 жыл бұрын

Been dreaming about it since i was born

@DoomWalker42

7 жыл бұрын

More like Pentium Dirt! Sorry, lol. I couldn't resist.

@BlIuey

7 жыл бұрын

Intel Pentium users detected

@mitsostechtips9047

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlIuey shit, you got me

I had one of these back in the day. It was highly rated by Custom PC magazine mainly due to it's overclockability. You up OC it by 800MHz with just an Arctic Freezer 7 cooler.

i use one of these for my early windows/ dos pc and it works quite well for that purpose

Oh geez I remember I had this thing back in 2007... Well I'm so glad I swapped it out to a core 2 Duo. The Pentium D is one of the most unefficient processors intel ever made and it ran hot like hell. Good old times xD

@Mini-z1994

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed, it was pretty much two pentium 4 cpu cores put on one chip lol. Got a pentium D945 sitting around with a motherboard that oddly enough has agp8x & pci-e 4x on the same motherboard along with ddr & ddr2 memory slots (max 2 gb on either type only though).

I ran a Pentium D back in the day, worked great in it's era and heated the room too!

Hay for the next video can you look at how much an fps counter effects cpu or GPU usage even on older chips like this

It's amazing FO4 and Witcher 3 even loaded! Hey if the mobo is cheap enough, you could have a very cheap rig for playing stuff like FTL and Terraria. Not to mention if you are a fan of older games grab some elumators and you have yourself a cheap highly flexible game machine!

With the right OS, this cpu is still viable. I recently refurbed an old neglected Dell optiplex gx620 with a Pentium D 930 running at 3.0 ghz and 2gb of RAM. It was sluggish with Windows 7 on it, but after I wiped the drive and installed Linux Lite on it, it really started running quite well. Granted, the on- board graphics really hold it back (intel 915g) but even going with just a used Radeon x2400 card that I picked up for $5 turned it into a really nice little system.

I remember how i had my Pentium D 820. Idle was already 70° with a pretty good cooling (copper pipes in the cooler and a 92mm fan that can rev to almost 4000 RPM (which it was alltime)) and so bad performance. Was also paired with 1GB DDR2 and a 7500 LE with ONLY 64MB. Thanks, Packard Bell.

Still remember my Pentium 4, love the damned thing just for the fact that it was heating my whole room during long, cold winters ^^

Now I am using the D820 with the onboard GMA950 and 2gb ram and ssd,under Windows 7 32bit. Its very fine for browsing/office/media/emulators,only complain is that it reaches 100% cpu usage when wathcing videos on KZread,even at 360p.

It was actually quite popular at the time, as it was the cheapest way to get dual core on lga775 and it overclocks to something like 4 GHz, if you have the cooling to handle it of course.

Hey Steve! A free and well optimized game with good graphics you could benchmark in your tests is WarThunder. Could you start testing this too?

Used to have a D 935 @ 4GHz, 4GB DDR2-1000 & HD 4850 several years ago and at least I played hundreds of hours of Fallout 3. :D

I had the PD 3.0ghz back in 2006 when I built my first rig. Decent chip at the time.

Had one in a compact HP box. The cooling fan was always maxed out and sounded like a jet turbine and was slow as malasses. I also had the same model with an Athlon x2 and it was Quiet and ran circles around the Pentium box.

Do you just use the stock coolers that fit the socket type or do you jerryrig better cpu coolers for processors that run explicitly hot, like the pentium D?

I had one of these in my very first PC. I don't think it was this model, whatever model it was ran at 3.4Ghz. I used to play all sorts of games on it; it was quite able for most games with the settings turned down (I also had upgraded to a 9500GT from a Radeon X1500 (or whatever)). That CPU is still running in the PC downstairs, and is still working out alright, even if a little bit slower and older.

Will you ever do a review of the Ryzen 5 1400 or the future Ryzen 3 CPU's??

I had a Pentium D from 07 and it ran veey quick and never really lagged with basic usage without a gpu and only 4gb ddr2 ram.

Great video, but next time maybe you could try to use some image programs like gimp and video games like csgo, tf2 or skyrim for the next "crappy" cpu or gpu video

I still have this Pentim D 3.0 in my old desktop with a GTX 7800. It ran most of the older PS3 generation games fine with settings turned down.

my first processor, so awesome memories

you and Lowspecgamer would go along very well

please include ancient strategy and rts games like aoe2 and homm3 when you test older components.

Just picked up a Pentium D 925 (Apparently the same as the D 930 but without virtualization) got it for £0.10p from CEX :D Going to put it in my parts draw in case I get a motherboard that can use it :) Can't complain about the performance for that price lol xD

I've still got a bunch of Pent 4 and Pent D's around. I think the D's are 2.8 ghz and the 4's are 3.0 ghz. They do run quite hot but will do surfing and some low quality video's in a pinch.

I actually upgraded from this cpu to an i5 7th gen. feels good man

nice to see The Witcher 3 in "cinematic mode" :)

Which motherboard did you use with this CPU? Thanks!

I got one of these for free. I never bothered to test it out. Thanks to this video I don't need to now. Cheers 😎

Hey randomgaming, i would suggest u look into motherboards where u can overclock you IGPU so significant increase im performance.

Hey! My first comment here. I had a pentium mmx I belive that was a multimedia Cpu and ran at 120mhz I think or something like that. Any chance you can visit that?

I have a system with the fastest Pentium D chip in it, the 960. It runs ridiculously hot but I'm planning on giving the Windows 10 Creators update 64-bit a go on that system and see how it runs.

You could try increasing the resolution and graphics settings to decrease CPU load.

I've got a pentium d 820 based system that I found in a car at a nearby scrapyard. I played around with windows 7 and it seemed tolerable for basic stuff. Yes, these do run VERY hot. A stupid test of this is to remove the heatsink (but leaving the fan plugged in), place your finger on the cpu heat spreader then power the system on. Within 5 seconds it became unbearably hot just sitting at the BIOS screen. As a comparison, a Conroe-based Pentium E2180 also in the same system would run for almost 30 seconds sitting at the BIOS screen. I should try this test again but this time measuring temperatures with my infrared thermometer. Actually I think I might just do that in the next day or two and record a comparison video for my own KZread channel

those Pentium D 805's were awesome overclockers. people were overclocking them to 3.8ghz on air which gave it a massive 82% performance gain over the stock Pentium D 805's.

@detmer87

7 жыл бұрын

SteelCity1981 Yeah but the performance still was nowhere near a Athlon 64 X2

@SteelRhinoXpress

7 жыл бұрын

ok but they were a lot cheaper then an athlon 64 X2.

Top 5 moments before disaster

Psshhh, $0.65? My Pentium D is free ;)

@kjallen2610

7 жыл бұрын

VroomVroom ;)

@Minecraftminer3000

7 жыл бұрын

Green Ham Gaming reference?

It is still ok, I went to a shop about a week ago and asked for socket 775 processors, he gave me a pentium dual core at 2.00ghz, a pentium4 at 3.00ghz 64bit with ht and a pentium d at 2.8ghz (PENTIUM 810), and i overclocked it to 3.54ghz, it was a bit unstable, but it ran quite well with 1gb of ram on windows 7 64bit ultimate, with not lagging

When it comes to underpowered hardware like this that's so cheap, part of me wants to use it for a server or something, but the problem is even if it was practically free the power usage is so high compared to a Raspberry Pi or other SBPC that it still ends up being too expensive in the long run. Unless it's just a backup desktop for temporary usage until your main pc is fixed, I think hardware like this is best used if you just want an old pc to play games from that era the way they were played back then.

Do a video over clocking to see the performance of a dual core!!

yo love the vids and I had a quick question, I have a GTX 960 ftw from evga 8 gigs of RAM and a hyper 212 Evo cpu fan, and I was wondering, what is a good cpu and mother board that I could buy for cheap that wouldn't bottleneck my gpu like my current and a8-6600k does. Thanks.

@TsunamicBug

2 жыл бұрын

A used 4th gen i5 would be great

@TsunamicBug

2 жыл бұрын

Just realised this comment was 4 years old... Damn

@crimson3970

2 жыл бұрын

@@TsunamicBug time sure does fly… I ended up pairing the 960 with an r3 1200. Then for whatever reason I then paired it with an r5 3600. Then I sold my PC and bought a laptop for college. Made this comment when I was just entering high school…

That movement when thermal paste is more expensive than your cpu :)

Should see whether Overclocking can help this out in some way.

Nice Vid!

How are you recording the onscreen video?

i'd like to see how it performs overclocked, if even possible

Just a suggestion: try running the same game but with higher graphical settings and at an increased resolution. In some cases FPS could stay the same, provided you don't push CPU-dependent setting too far.

I tossed you a like for your spirit of sacrifice in daily using a Pentium D for one week straight.

Hey RandomGamingHD! I live in the UK as well and I have never found a computer hardware store like you do that sells it so cheap. Do you use Ebay? What part of the UK do you live in if you don't mind me asking. P.S. I am not trying to be a stalker or anything weird like that. I am just wondering where on earth you find such good cheap PC part deals. Also I had a question for you or anyone else out there in the comments. Basically it's my younger brother's birthday soon and since he is finishing school soon for a gap year I thought it was the perfect time to gift him with a gaming PC from old spare parts I had lying around. The specs are an Intel Pentim G3420, 1x8gb Corsair low profile ram, Radeon HD 7750, 1TB Seagate HDD, BeQuiet 400 watt PSU, and the Fractal Design Core 2300. I will put a copy of Windows 10 on the PC and install Steam and GOG etc. He already has a Steam account for Age of Empires but will probably get Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online, etc since he's into RPG games. Just had a question though - can those old specs run modern games? I know they could run Skyrim since I used that graphics card with Windows XP for Skyrim but how well will that GPU hold up for modern high end games? Obviously he will have to run them on low to medium settings. I might look around various shops and websites for a cheap graphics card that is slightly beefier than that. But I don't want to spend a lot of money on it since it's a gift and stuff and I can't afford a higher end GPU for him though he might upgrade in the future. These were just old parts I wasn't using. Many thanks in advance!

@Mini-z1994

7 жыл бұрын

cpu is mainly the limit for him there on open world games, throw in a faster I5 when you upgrade the gpu later on & let him run this for now before going for a bigger upgrade or get your parents to chip in some money to upgrade it right away so he can run the games well. Something like an r9 280 would be great to upgrade too from the 7750 (powersupply might need to be upgraded too then.) & most third party coolers on them runs nice & cool especially with a fps limiter on in games that racks up massive fps with little to no effect. (single player games you can put an fps limiter too 100 even on the hd 7750.) The original skyrim (not the remaster) has some bugs but should almost max out the game with no graphical or effect heavy mods & the community for the orginal skyrim + remaster has made a pretty good set of patches for the games that correct game code & optimizes the game so its less bug filled. (The remaster is barely any different from the orignal just better textures & some model tweaks. Still has the same bugged game engine like the original skyrim so it can too get the same stuff done too it.)

There are some Core 2 Duo / Pentium Core 2 on CeX for 25p The LGA775 socket, while being one of the longest lived, is also a catalogue of horrors for compatibility The early ones are strictly single core - otherwise my old wreck would have been upgraded. Then come those that can do a Pentium D but no more. Then Core2 capable, with various FSB limitations

I maxed Oblivion on it,so,it was nice back then.

Hey, try the 1060 with the Pentium Extreme 965/Xeon 5080. Can the extra 1.06 Ghz, hyperthreading and extra 2 MB cache save it?

Can you test that same CPU, but test if an SSD, M.2 and raid HDD make any improvements in the frames..

How about to pair this CPU with that GT 8800 you did video a week ago?

I see you've taken the D, the Initial PENTIUM D!

Turn your game quality up to something like 1440p to make your game more gpu bound. I don't know how effective this would be on a lower end card like the 1060 but it could help.

Pentium D 840 here, works just fine on Windows 10. I haven't encountered any issues (other than being limited to 480p youtube on Chrome). My 3gb ram is suitable to any 2gb minimum ram game. My GT220 1gb card works great for 1080p 60fps youtube on Edge. Although the fan has started not working on my GPU just recently, so that sucks and I always have to check that it starts spinning now when ever I turn on my PC, so I could use a new potato quality video card with an HDMI port...

Can u review the i3-4130 (2 Cores 4 Threads @3,4ghz) with a few budget cards?I curently pair it with a gtx 285 which is a clear bottleneck so i wanna know what i should buy for my b-day :)

@Mini-z1994

7 жыл бұрын

on less cpu demanding games it will manage a rx 570 or gtx 1060 6 gb so stuff like battlefield 1 you'll see the cpu limiting you but games that arent that needy on the cpu like dirt rally it will be close to max settings flawlessly.

can you review a sandy bridge celeron g to see if it is possible to run windows10 and modern games on that?

My friends i7 2600k died and he has to use his old AMD Athlon ll x4 640 now. Could you do a video about that one ? :)

is 2.5 ghz still good? I see on basically all gaming laptops that the CPU has 2.8 GHz or less (quad core) yet some CPUs you've reviewed around or more (quad core and duel) seem to be pretty shitty yet these gaming laptops run perfectly

@mrtesla4341

7 жыл бұрын

Error4-07-99 I got an ancient i7 860 running at 2.8GHz but overclocked to 3.66GHz, don't feel any difference so it should be good xd