Ive said it before, and I'll say it again. I wish someone would leave me computer parts on my front lawn. 😂

@echeese63

Ай бұрын

Put a note on your cans for the trashmen, you may be surprised

@JohnClarkGaming

29 күн бұрын

Ends up with and FX CPUs

@FeArhsma21

29 күн бұрын

@@JohnClarkGaming Might end up with an old DOS machine, TE HE.

@DeadCell765

29 күн бұрын

start a you tube tech channel and they will

@WeatherMan2005

29 күн бұрын

Same man

They were seeing if it'd make it to a video, so they could confirm where you lived. You doxxed yourself privately.

@Soddus.

Ай бұрын

yeah i think ur riight dude

@sol-hb8zg

Ай бұрын

Unluggy

@pauloalmeida2294

Ай бұрын

That is actually kind of scary 😳

@JamesSmith-sw3nk

Ай бұрын

I think they know where he lives since they threw the old pc on his front lawn.

@EvoWatches

29 күн бұрын

More than likely, a past customer needed to off an illegal pc

I had 3 old pc's thrown in my bin at my old apartment new tenants got confused about having to provide your own trash can. They were all DDR2 and between all 3 I was able to make one working PC. There was a whopping 1020 GB of storage between the 3.

@ewelmo3921

9 күн бұрын

Raid is a beautiful thing....

Every old PC my family wanted disposed of I turned into a MAME PC and used or given away. Better than in a landfill

@rmcdudmk212

Ай бұрын

I agree 100%. Reuse until it can't be reused no more. 👍

@AtagoJRPG

Ай бұрын

Install a Linux distro and repurpose the machine. much better than being dumped in a landfill

@freedustin

26 күн бұрын

@@AtagoJRPG you realize most people will take it directly to the landfill no questions asked if they boot up and see any penguin or weird scary ascii art show up right? They will be like: "This thing has a virus. See there's weird stuff on the screen. Virus 100% throw it out."

@ccricers

26 күн бұрын

@@freedustin Someone installing Linux is probably going to use it themselves and not give it away. Unless maybe to give to a home lab user

@freedustin

26 күн бұрын

@@ccricers yeah i was thinking more along the lines of giving it away. this guy has plenty of hardware of his own. i mean...he's got a tech garage!

It's a bit unwise for someone to toss an old PC on a lawn without the HDD being DBAN'd or destroyed.

@animalyze7120

Ай бұрын

Depends on what they were using it for. Most gamers wouldn't have much to worry about, casual users as well. The unwise part is keeping sensitive information stored on an unencrypted PC or on the easily stolen PC itself. Removable drives, SSD's and even Nvme drives can be stored in a safe or other secure place easily.

@zingwilder9989

Ай бұрын

@@animalyze7120 I understand what you're saying, but that off-the-shelf Lenovo doesn't look like a gamer to me. I also doubt that a GPU came with it. The power supply, at best, is 300 Watts and the OS was still on the 2TB HDD. It appears that this PC was used for general purposes.

@a1m598

28 күн бұрын

This video is fake.

@chrisreynolds6331

20 күн бұрын

I always dban or destroy unknown drives. Simply "wiping" them does nothing really. Linux testdisk utility still finds the original contents

@markianclark9645

20 күн бұрын

zing...over the 'Pond' in London England we get PCs dumped in the street not in gardens..I've picked up a few...even had the option of a cracked screen iMac all in one...I left it...too big...took the free desktops and even dumped Laptops...all of them had HDDs of various types..3.5s and 2.5s and all had data..only one i ever recall had a password...everyone leaves personal data...the Laptop drive had a dozens of Gigabytes of PORN...I kept that and the pirated Films and ROMs...staff school work from trainee teachers is common data twice...University and College PDFs and Docs...find of the decade was 2 partly smashed Laptops...the previous owner obviously decided he'd made them unrepairable...but they were almost identical...Toshiba Satellites...I stripped both and tested which motherboards worked..one board did with smashed screen...other board didn't but screen was good...I made one out of the 2..lots of swapping pieces for the least damaged parts...cleaned the good board and reassembled...complete working free Laptop...

We live in such a disposable society. About a year ago I noticed while talking to my neighbor that next to his garbage cans, 2 TVs were still there. He said apparently they didn't get off the truck to dump them. I asked what was wrong with them, and he said nothing. A Visio and a Samsung. About 24 and 27 inches. I tested them and no dead pixels, no broken HDMI ports, they work great. Just added some remotes and they are great.

@Lavadawg

5 күн бұрын

I keep every monitor i have, i still use a targa visionary monitor from 2004 and it works good, its even 22 inches

Usually I just have abandoned pets show up at my front door. I think you get the better deal!

@aaldrich1982

29 күн бұрын

I never understand people who do this, poor pets

@lordsmeagol3390

26 күн бұрын

You need an abandoned PET

@ewasteredux

26 күн бұрын

@@lordsmeagol3390 , message received!

@soupdragon151

25 күн бұрын

I don't think so bud

@cbullar4205

24 күн бұрын

@@lordsmeagol3390 i wouldnt mind some one dumping and abandoned PET on my door step, a 2001 would be nice....😁

My man having the PC half disassembled before finding the Lenovo sticker to see what's in it is just too relatable.

@ernieb3949

27 күн бұрын

?? it said Lenovo right on the case. Could be seen before he even picked it up.

@danc4046

27 күн бұрын

@@ernieb3949 kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6ptmKySmMmnpaQ.html&lc=&t=6m47s He didn't notice the product specs sticker until around 7 min in, after wrenching on the optical drive. I just found that relatable.

my suggestion for this machine would be: -get a new case -get an SSD -use the HD for Storage Space -repurpose it as a Linux PC with either Pop Os, Linux Mint, Zorin OS or Endevaour OS -if you want to make it a retro gaming pc, use Batocera or a Linux Distro specifically designed for Retro Gaming. -NAS/Home Server/Media Server there ya go.

@1pcfred

27 күн бұрын

I would have straightened that case out enough that it worked. That's if I even bothered with that PC.

@pixolotl39YT

10 күн бұрын

Linux?! Nah bro get a fresh copy of Windows 8 or Windows 10. the ISO file of Win8 is still aviable and could be a good deal if you find an Old PC with an old CPU like The Intel Celeron N2840 or the Intel i5-2500, with no OS in the Disk, and Upgrade to an SSD. Windows 10? I recommend having a CPU like the Intel i5-7500 7th Gen or even 6th Gen i5 or i3, and an older version of Win10 like 1507 build or 2004 build, also Upgrade to an SSD.

@katmen24

9 күн бұрын

@@pixolotl39YT no need to have insecure operating systems installed and working they are virus replicating farms because unpatched kernels, better current linux , not out of support osses it will be true even for win10 next year, also offline use is problematic because usb infections

It's amazing what some people will throw away. This could make a nice everyday PC, a Lab PC , server, NAS, Router. I hate to see waste.

Great little office PC for someone.

I've found old PC's in the alley that people threw out because they had no idea why they didn't work and probably went out and bought a new one. Sometimes they just need to be cleaned up and other times they're good for spare parts.

@1pcfred

27 күн бұрын

Years ago I used to find a lot of used PCs. Not so much these days.

@mal2ksc

20 күн бұрын

Sometimes they look at it, think "it's old and slow and will cost $200 to fix, and I can get a new one for $300". Sometimes even I tell them this if asked to repair their older machine.

You forgot to remove the wifi cables before throwing the case away. If you are going to use the wifi. Can wait to see what you can Frankenstein it.

I used to work at a junk yard. Recovered a Pentium III back in the day. Was for a while the most powerful computer in the house. Was a dell but one of the sides was basically completely destroyed. Still fired up just fine. Notice that one has a wireless card on the motherboard. A 2 TB drive is not that bad sized storage drive even in 2024. Also don't throw away cases, recycle them for extra money. Steel is worth at least a a little money.

@Roxor128

27 күн бұрын

Used to work for a computer bank. They got AUD$100 per tonne of steel from the computers that didn't make it into use on the charity side.

@soupdragon151

25 күн бұрын

Not much steel that that maybe the panel the rest is some kind of soft metal I've seen those cases before toss it in the local recycle centre its not even worth pennies

@KitsuneVoss

25 күн бұрын

@@soupdragon151 You get a load of chassis and other metal befoe going to the scrap yard.

@DLMtechgarage Never throw away screws! You never know when you might need them. Trust me on that!! The case? Hell yeah, toss that hunk of junk, but always keep the screws!

@Lavadawg

5 күн бұрын

I wish i hadnt thrown my screws away, yesterday i needed to migrate my computer to a new case, i didnt have screws, now im rawdogging and risking a motherboard short circuit by using a motherboard without a single screw

What I usually do is check the motherboard specs an d find out the best CPU and RAM it will accept and try to find cheap used versions of them to max out the motherboard. Replace the hard drive with a good used Samsung EVO SSD and then check the performance. IF good get the cheapest case you can find on Newegg and put iit together. At this point figure out what you want to do with it ( home theater pc, NAS, internet box, light gaming rig, etc.) and think about what video card you can use.. Depending on that choice you may need to upgrade the PSU. I'm assuming windows 10 as the OS but check to see if it will accept windows 11. If so this could be quite a useful machine.

i had one of these put in a normal case , had to find solutions for the errors on start but everything was fixable , great gift for someone

with the damage its possible it fell off a vehicle or a trailer and the dvd drive isnt exactly useless like it can be used to rip and play cd's as i consider streaming services scams

@1pcfred

27 күн бұрын

I rip DVDs with my DVD drive. I download all of my music from here. It's better than Napster.

@dawn1berlitz

27 күн бұрын

@@1pcfred i have a external drive for ripping movies but all that stuff goes to my private home srever when its finished ripping

@1pcfred

27 күн бұрын

@@dawn1berlitz I keep all of the movies I rip on this PC. I haven't turned my file server on in a while now.

@Ben333bacc

25 күн бұрын

CD drives actually make pretty good CD drives, believe it or not.

@1pcfred

25 күн бұрын

@@Ben333bacc my DVD drive can play CDs too. It can even burn them. I downloaded music from here and burned it to a music CD. The trick is to normalize all of the different tracks. I found a Python script that'd do that for me. The first disc I burned the volume was up and down with every song. Very annoying.

A10 7800 power is between i3 and i5 3rd gen so it still usable in normal office/daily task. Slap a ssd and a 650/750 and u can play like minecraft, roblox, lol,valorant

@zingwilder9989

Ай бұрын

Exactly. It's similar to a 3rd. gen (i3 or i5) Intel - DDR3.

What a lucky guy. People dump working computers in his yard. Surprisingly he also records videos and publish videos on youtube. Better than winning the lottery. This guy is extremely lucky. Hehehe.

I found a mangled laptop in a similar way, all I did was clean it up and it worked. I got lucky with working crucial parts. Only cosmetic damage, shattered screen and broken hinge. Always cool to see these.

You should 100% make a windows Vista PC with that A10

@ewelmo3921

27 күн бұрын

It runs win 10 better, and ANYTHING is better then Vista.......

@TheCrazyErrorLion

27 күн бұрын

An AM2 era setup would fit better for Vista

@pixolotl39YT

10 күн бұрын

Vista is fine, what about Windows 7? Or even Windows 8.1?

@ewelmo3921

9 күн бұрын

@@pixolotl39YT I have a rule for Window OS... Every other OS is bad, for the most part... So, 95 Bad, 98 Good, Win 2000 Good, Win Me Bad, 7 Good, Vista Bad, 8 Bad, 10 Good, 11 - the jury is still out... Kinda both!

Lots of times these machines can be salvaged. I pulled one from a neighbor’s recycle and all it needed was a new power supply and RAM. And it had an expensive ASUS mobo in it.

Yeah I love the idea of turning it into a MAME machine. With all of the restrictions that Microsoft and Windows 11 is putting on us on what we can do with our own machines we need all the freedom we can get. 2 TB is nothing to sneeze at. A couple of years ago I had an old gateway desktop. I turned it into a dual boot machine running Windows 7 and Linux (Debian Etch). Maybe if you partition the hard drive correctly you can still do the same thing. If you can boot off of the CD / DVD run QParted off of the DVD. Maybe even make it a three way MAME / Linux / Windows boot or just run MAME from Linux.

I've heard about students getting out of college dumpster dumping their old PCS. Maybe check out a couple of dumpsters near college dorms near the end of the semester. Maybe you'll get lucky.

Closest thing I had to something like this was finding a full computer at a landfill, taking it home, cleaning it up, and powering it on to find out it was still working. Turned it into an arcade and classic emulation machine (It was a first gen i7 with a so nothing too ambitious) with a working GeForce GTX 580 and the only thing that didn't work was the DVD drives, one of the harddrives, and the power supply. Gave it away to a friend.

CONGRATS ON 20k!

The A10 was underpowered for the time but was one of the best of the AMD A series. One good thing was it had a better built in video card then Intel. You will find it is a stable, easy to work with CPU. Linux works well on these systems, as well as WIN 10. A Mame box or similar will work well. Most games will run from the mid 2000's. So, a retro game system is definitely an idea. I use it to play Bioware RPG games from 2000 to 2009. This is using just the onboard graphics with 16 gig dual channel ram and a SSD. Have fun!

You didn't need the heat gun. You got a bottle of alcohol right there. Just soak a little around the edges and it would have separated easily.

That's crazy... I just found a working AMD FX 4300 build with a trashed case lying in my alley yesterday! I guess the universe aligned for us both.

Get the small coaxial cables and antennas from the case for the wifi card, as well.

I like how you articulate the difference between comfortable and confident😂 I started because of the old PC I stayed to watch you manhandle that DVD drive 😂 great video . You've got a new subscriber!

This was Lenovo A Series Case, I mod the USB and HD Audio ping as international standard, onece I MOD them as International setting, I still can use those Factory Official frame and put ASUS MB to the lenovo LOL. This lenovo frame cant fix it anymore, so I suggestion you remove those sticker and move them to new or second hand PC frame and place the sticker on there :)

lol, I wish people did that to me haha. I rarely manage to find people putting out computers with the trash, so hey if they can just bring them to me... :)

Looks like a perfect system to turn into a linux desktop or server for homelab stuff.

Well with what you've got there, ideas are: 1. Linux becomes a good option and opens the door for things like a small NAS (storage space wise), but some small editions like a SATA3 expansion card can add more drives to the count. A true RAID card would be more money, but I know a number of things like UnRAID try to use existing hardware and SATA adapter cards rather than a true RAID card (there are exceptions). 2. Linux allowing for emulating Windows XP or Windows 7 (via free VMWare Workstation Pro for personal use) can open gaming options for the retro side of things. 3. I think BlueStacks has a Linux version, so you could run that as something to play various mobile games. 4. If you do want to run Windows 7 or XP on the hardware that obviously will not be connected to any network, just all by itself (key may be on the case, though you may have your old one). File transfer via USB, or take the hard drive out, connect to a USB adapter, and load files you want later installed. If going the Linux as the Host OS, passthrough is possible and would allow connection to any NAS you have. 5. Steam through Linux. There are plenty of old games that can run on that hardware. 6. Run old DOS games. Linux and DOSBox or the various frontends for DOSBox can work here. If running Linux, the unit can be on your network, and any file repository you have would be accessible (ISO images for various old games come to mind). You would need something to deal with some DRM (a full paid version of Alcohol 52% or 120% come to mind for that. The FE version sadly does not have the A.C.I.D. program to get around the disc safe and other DRM annoyances). If dealing with mixed mode CD's (track 1 is data, the rest are game background music and other audio), that DVD may help in making ISO's of those (K3B on Linux is one of the few programs I know of that will do Track At Once (TAO) rather than Session At Once (SAO) with a compatible drive). Mixed mode CD's that have been converted to BIN and CUE form, Alcohol 120% FE edition will handle on the Windows side. 7. Home media server client and Home Theatre PC (HTPC). You have the DVD drive, that may have a firmware update, and if so you can play DVD's on that (you may have ripped the DVD's already, if so the media server client path is open). Since the unit has on-board video and a PCI-E x16 slot of some level, you could hook it up to an HD capable TV and go from there. You don't need a lot of graphics power for playing 1080p content, so on-board may be fine (I'd have to check the video again as to on-board video connections. There are DVI to HDMI adapters), but a 2Gb or 4Gb graphics card (even some older 256Mb cards can do this and that's AGP era stuff, though there were initial PCI-E cards that also were low video memory cards) can free up that system memory (you may have one in your parts pile) and of course a second card allows for dual displays, or output to something else to capture from the old gear. One idea if you don't already have some DDR3 around is to upgrade that memory with a 32Gb kit (I got a G.Skill kit way back 4x8Gb, as I picked up two dual channel kits (2x8GB per kit). If you have some DDR3 around, getting the unit to 16Gb would be a good minimum, but if you can get it to 32Gb, that will open a number of doors for you. My kit is a RipjawsX 1866MHz kit, and I paired that with an AMD Athelon FX-8150 CPU. I plan on setting that up as a home server or media client, but it can still run a number of titles at medium or better settings depending on the graphics card. If you have an RX580 8Gb card that worked well with mine and should work with what you have there. The key for a lot of the games for me when I was running that FX chip was looking at the Intel specs for the game and comparing that to my chips' own specs. Games you may be able to run (my FX-8150 ran these with that RX580 with medium settings or a mix of medium and high, 60Hz monitor at 2560x1440, if you go to 1080 that will affect your results): Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris Bionic Commando Bionic Commando Re-Armed Borderlands 2 (3 is iffy for your hardware, my 8150, most likely will run it) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night River City Girls (Some of the other River City games should run, too) FightN' Rage Street Fighter 5 (there is a mobile version of 4, BlueStacks will run that. There is a release of a Street Fighter Alpha for PC I found on Steam, you should be able to run that) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cowabunga Collection and Shredders Revenge are just two to look into in that franchise) Batman Arkham Origins Fallout 4 Elderscrolls 4 Oblivion Some earlier Witcher titles (3 should work) Doom 3 Doom (2016) Doom Eternal (mine yes, yours possibly) Any DOS game you want (Wing Commander 3 and 4 along with Prophecy (if this is misspelled my appologies), among others) MechWarrior 3 and 4 (I think you can find these free now) MechWarrior Online (now known as MechWarrior Legends) Various indie games (BAT-Boy (find it on Steam), a number of others, of which a number of are free or low cost) Megaman Legacy Collection Megaman X Collection Wartech Fighters Honkai Impact 3rd (PC Client, or through BlueStacks using the mobile version) Genshin Impact (see notes on Honkai above) Honkai Star Rail (not sure about the PC Client (my 8150 probably could run it), as to the mobile version through BlueStacks, not sure for your hardware there, my 8150 probably). The key for BlueStacks will be having four cores and 8Gb of memory available. Those four cores are a default, but I did run that on a dual core Laptop with AMD Vision for Megaman X Dive Mobile (laptop was a dual core system running Windows 10, should have left it on 7 as the memory was not upgradeable and with what I was running a lot of that memory was taken up in 10). There are recent games that have been made by small teams, various individuals, and released later as free (Epic Store freebies, for example) that your hardware should run without issue (anything with 2D graphics or trying for old school RPG look and feel (Skald Against the Black Priory for example). I will say if you start dealing with any flying games, a good USB joystick is a must. I do recommend the Logitech Wingman Pro 3D USB flightstick (you should be able to find it around the $40 to $60 dollar mark. A controller is a very good idea too. If you have a Playstation or XBox controller of some version around, those can work or need an adapter. If all else fails, Logitch Gamepad F310 (ran me $40) is a good choice. I hope my suggestions help and happy gaming.

that part at the end where you turned away before it booted up to hide the pii, legit bro.

schools: I WANT THE WHOLE STOCK

I've never lived in a situation where I have to check outside for weird stuff/damage to my car in the morning so I'm sorry that's normal for you. Congratulations on the PC though.

One time a coworker threw a 3.5" hard drive at my head and missed. He got fired from the company. This is the closest thing to your video about throwing technology. Love this channel BTW and please keep us posted on this PC you had thrown your way. See ya later. Thanks

be a good first computer for someone that wants to learn or a good test one with hard drives and video cards you can pick up open case on temu that you can test all day with lol

I had an A10 before and it was an AM4 board with DDR4. The board was compatible with some Ryzen CPUs so it got upgraded. The A10 itself I found a bit laggy.

That is one of the best AMD APU's for the FM2+ Socket. It is definitely a hard to come by Processor these days. It clocks at 3.9ghz boost and is a Quad Core with a decent graphics core (the R7 was decent for the time period. And is still good enough (preferably with an SSD or a NVME Drive on a x4 PCIE adapter.) for most Office applications and networking functions and even some 720p Streaming video from KZread, Amazon and Disney etc. So if you get a bargain on a ATX Micro Case (and an SSD if possible) You could build a good little PC for a kid to play Minecraft or Roblox. PS don't forget to keep the I/O shield.

I fixed up and cleaned up my old AMD3 PC and gave it to my nephew. Then it was given to my niece. Then it was given away to my niece boyfriend brother. Last time I heard, it was working good.

@mal2ksc

20 күн бұрын

I gave away a retired Athlon 64 system with a Radeon 9500 Pro that was only about four years old at the time. It passed through a few hands, and while it was with a certain cousin, it died. He didn't tell anyone for months, thinking he'd be left holding the bag. It wasn't until I asked to check up on it that he admitted that it was broken. I had to tell him "I'm not mad, there's a reason I gave it away". Then I helped him pick the parts for his own PC. (And I ended up with his electronic drum kit when he had to downsize so I'm really not mad.) I kinda wish I had the case (nothing else, just that case) back now.

This is a great machine to build into a table drawer, and attach it to a small touch display what you can build into the tabletop, flush. Great machine for looking up lists, pdf files, mails, and so on, amd even better if its IN the worktable. Cheap and fancy project

wow it works, i geuss peps just dont know the value of pc parts or just so rich they dont care about a few bucks some old pc parts can make.

Someone just heaved it out of there window as they drove by. Iv'e dont that before. Cool video!!!! I would keep the hdd, ROM and memory and junk the rest

You can also take a can of compressed air, turn it upside down and use that to remove the CPU from that heatsink.

Found a Lenovo ThinkCentre M93 mini dumped on the street near me last year took it home and got a charger of eBay to test it and it powered up straight away plus it had 8GB ram and a 240GB SSD & i5 CPU but it had windows 8.1 on it

@finnbianga4189

Ай бұрын

Nice find!

@FakeMrBear

10 күн бұрын

U obviously aren't tech savvy

@ferjarvis2841

10 күн бұрын

@@FakeMrBear Who?

I grabbed a pc off a curb once. I got it home, removed the side panel, and it had all kinds of dead cockroaches and egg casings stuck to spider webs. It totally freaked me out thinking i might have just created a huge bug problem in my house for a nearly worthless PC.

I’d use that as an arcade emulator machine. Nice work getting it back to life 😊

@Atrcn

11 күн бұрын

Doesn’t sound like a bad idea tbh

Cool channel. Cool video. Glad I found it.

Love your videos do inspirational for me to start build pc’s I built my first cant wait to build my 2nd one. ❤

I checked the A10 7800. The graphics are now legacy for amd. It's a 4 core 4 thread at base 3.5 mghz . Will be a good type writer and e-sports gamer, actually most people don't have a need for much else. Watch KZread to your hearts content. I would put MX linux on it and let it go.

sweet find my man keep it up

Dude also missed the point that there was WIFI antennas on that case and USB ports he threw out what a shame

Thats exactly why i own a nice ifixit set and my GN set cause sometimes ya need a little more length to hit that back wall.😉

@DLMtechgarage

18 күн бұрын

Right on

(Finds 100 Bitcoins on old hard drive, tells no one. Next video has a brand new Lambo sitting in the garage.) 😁

I ran a a10-7700k for a long time. It's still in a build my nephews use to play minecraft.

@elwinroyale

27 күн бұрын

Why does that naming exist

@mikaelbiilmann6826

25 күн бұрын

I upgraded an i3-2120 to an i5-4570, put in a 1660 in it and sold it this year for the price of the parts, minus the labor. Still ran fine and I patched it to Win11 😂

Buy a top of the lime athlon and add a gpu something like 1050, it will work for playing e sport titles

@DuneRunnerEnterprises

Ай бұрын

Yeap. Had it as my own combo for a long time,in the FM2 era.

@thesmokecriminal5395

Ай бұрын

@@DuneRunnerEnterprises the cpu should be dirt cheap now

I use old computers for file servers, media server (jellyfin) home NAS, etc. Build your home lab

You're lucky the weather is dry I found one once in a ditch everything had damp penetration inside the case nothing was salvageable except the HDD managed to pull an full MS Office copy and licence of that used it for years. Also full of so many viruses like nothing I'd ever seen before.That 2TB drive is useful storage even today though

They are good. I had an AMD A10 7870K for the longest time running Win 10. I put an MSI Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb used for mining video card in it. It runs games Ok. Not the best or fastest. It does the job just fine, though.

That's cool! No idea what I'd do with it, maybe a retro gaming rig? Enjoy it!

Looks like a nice start of a NAS or some other small home server. A10's are great for that, and 12GB of RAM gives you a lot of options with different Linux distros

A gift from one of your KZread watchers. You should have titled this "I know where you live."

POV: you threw it in the front yard and now u watch his reaction

I thinks thats a Lenovo H50, they have an intel model with a haswell board that u can plug in an i7-4770, and for amd the highest chip looks like the A10-7800. If your OK with running ultra low spec bottom of the basement potato gaming pcs 720P@30FPS all you need for this board is to pickup an old trusty red circuit board Bus Powered tiny ATI Radeon HD or R7 or R9 or RX, you want to specifically look at the video cards that have DDR5 Memory, they come in variants of 1GB 2GB 4GB, some examples HD 7570, R7 250, RX 550, RX 460, plug the card in, install the amernimezone driver, reboot, install GTAV and set it to 720P Low 30fps and game on, another classic that will run is Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored, PREY, and many more. And of course you have some bus powered GT and GTX cards you can use as well just make sure its a DDR5 Card. Have a good weekend everybody.

oh my days, i remember having the SAME exact PC back in 2012 or something. I always wanted to upgrade it but, believe it or not the motherboard after full 11 years stopped working. i gave it a good ol sob and left it as it was i did try to make it come to life but nothing seemed to work (rest in peace. i'll miss those sweet ol 15 frames (and that monstrous geforce 210 card) it was all i had growing up i still have the pc keeping it clean and fresh.) update ( i just looked at it again and this ones a more upgraded version of it BUT STILL THE SAME CASE)

A nice new case a little rgb and put on chrome flex OS.

dont you worry about static with the black vacuum tips

@frommatorav1

28 күн бұрын

The tip of vacuum is plastic, which wouldn't normally cause any static shocks. I used to use a portable vacuum on copiers. Also, the alternative was to actually touch any of that stuff. No thank you.

wow!! what a thing to find!!

"So I'm going to bring it into the garage" Bruh, last time someone brought something in that was 'left' in someone's front yard resulted in the downfall of Troy! 🐎

I get that there is probably private information on the drive, but it would be nice to know if you found out anything about the original owner or some way to contact them before just wiping it. As for stuff being left in front yards... I once woke up to 2 dogs tied up to a tree in my front yard. I had a fenced yard and separated area above a retaining wall, so someone literally broke into my fence to do it. Never found the owners and rehomed the dogs to some friends. They were pretty well behaved so they obviously had families. Never really found out what happened to make someone leave them.

dual gigabit network card in the PCIe x1 slot, small SATA SSD, turn it into a pfsense/OPNSense firewall box

Quite frankly, this is what you get for leaving your house, especially on your day off. I thought it would be funny if after tearing it apart someone would come looking for it.

It was in your attic, and you were stuck on what your next video would be, so you thought Um! I know, that dusty old thing there in the corner of the attic, I'm not carrying it down all them stairs, so out the attic window it went! Upon finding it dented, you thought Um perfect, it's an abandoned PC on my front lawn, a perfect video.

I think we have the same motherboard :). Based on the Asus box “open air test bench.”

Great video, definitely wanna see you repurpose this and sell it

nice find, a10 cpu with graphics inside, 12GB ddr3, 2TB hdd, not bad.

15:22 "the good old days, the cpu came out" yeah that's the one thing I don't like about pga sockets, even the intel ones, when the paste gets old it tends to cement the cpu to the heatsink sometimes causing it to come out when the heatsink is removed, mainly with stock coolers like that. Also I have a cpu with similar specs to the a10-7800 (an athlon 860k, which is one without the integrated graphics) and it's based on the 3rd generation of bulldozer (which u may be more familiar with as what the amd fx series used) I use it with a gtx 960 for windows xp stuff such as some old games and for my old media players and other devices that require xp.

@frommatorav1

28 күн бұрын

Yeah. It doesn't even have to turn to cement to take the CPU out with the cooler. I've had it happen on AM4 CPUs with paste that was in decent shape. It felt like it had some kind of vacuum seal. I pulled up straight and gentle. No bent pins so far.

@robloxian1585

24 күн бұрын

True, have had it happen with still quite fresh arctic silver 5, the stuff is pretty sticky

underrated youtuber

You have everything you need for a energy efficient kodi machine. Can also emulate ps2 and older.

One thing, always use the heatgun method on non LGA motherboards, better hot than sorry

Actually I have another story. Way back in the day a person who I don't know in my neighborhood threw out a PC and left it by the curb. So being as I am I got it and powered it up. It had network adapter on it so I plugged that in. This was along time ago and I started getting messages from people from Yahoo messenger. Anyhow there was no password in this PC and I did the right thing and wiped the drive and repurposed parts. Most of it went into the trash bin, It made me realize how people have no clue about privacy or security with PCs - at least back then..

Got a Lenovo e93 with a 2TB hard drive within,upgraded it and using it as a server pc

Hi guys, when I wanted to go on the internet for the first time about 20 years ago. I went to a computer repair place and got the cheapest tower they had just to learn. 6 months later I was in my room and needed to go to the loo and make a coffee when I came back my room was full of putrid smoke (Capacitor let go). I called the shop and told them about the power supply and they did me a favour by selling me a good unit cheaper than the asking price (no warranty on the first one so I was happy.) The lesson of the day, you only get what you pay for. I wish they still sell the Toshiba Satellite Pro, I still have mine and thinking of doing upgrades to it as it still works just a lil slow even with an SSD.

Someone must really hate you if they dropped an FM2+ PC on your front lawn

Hi. It was really fun to watch your work. My wife is using simiar system with amd A10 (FM2+) processor, and one thing hit me here, why the heck lenovo didn't use dual channel? It's better to have less memory, but in dual channel configuration, than more ram in mixed sizes. Thus this system isn't for gaming, more like for office use or internet browsing. Have nice day, and I wish you more findings like that.

Haha awsome find man! Didn't hafta go too far for it :) outta least do some light gaming or emulation add a gpu , hafta see what you do in the future to it !

Put an 500gb ssd in it and call it a day. It won't be any gaming pc by any means. But i am sure it can still be use for surfing the internet or light gaming.

I would put some light weight linux distro on it and then have a shop pc to look stuff up on. Or make it a music box for the shop. Or donate it to someone that's in school that cant afford a pc "as is".

As a fellow computer repair individual I cringed the moment you took a vacuum cleaner to that, that is a big no no sir. The vacuum hose creates all kinds of static electricity and can kill the board(s). Always use compressed air and clean it outside. Also keep any extra add-on parts like the card reader/usb panel cuz it'll always come in handy later on.

I had an experience I found an unexploded mortar in wire (back garden) I did not strip that down great content thanks

@nesyboi9421

Ай бұрын

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I find it extremely unlikely that someone randomly threw out a computer in front of a computer guy's house. Someone is either messing around with you or you have an unhappy customer.

My am2 still working fine.

i used spatchua for 3d printer always had luck without bending pin cool FM2+ guessing was Lenovo Media center

Ah the A10-9700. This was quite a strange APU. The reason is because Zen1 launched before this processor came out as both were launched in 2017. This A10-9700 would be the last A series Apus that AMD would launch before transitioning to Zen. Now the A10 is nearing the end of its life as it is a 7 year APU and has 4cores and threads. But I guess with Unbuntu Luinx it could be repurposed.

Likely this fell off a pickers truck on trash day.

that be quiet screw drive is a savvier, i also have one