You should do more old PC restoration.

@jaylils

10 ай бұрын

For real!

@TheMaxSkl

10 ай бұрын

and also paint jobs, this channel do it particulary good

@fixer1140

10 ай бұрын

I second that

@dblakewood1907

10 ай бұрын

Was looking for your touch, a piant job😢

@abrahamseedvictory

10 ай бұрын

​@@dblakewood1907 I completely agree

Another computer saved from the landfill. Great work, Andrew.

That degreaser is surprisingly good against the smoke stains on the case! I'll have to keep that in mind :) Nice PC!

Your content is top tier. I'd love to see you restoring an EliteBook 8770w or another mobile workstation from HP and upgrading their CPUs and MXM GPUs

Always great to watch you work your magic on computers that were destined for the scrap heap. You are a true wizard with these devices. Plus, I really enjoy watching old pcs being resurrected. I would never pass up a chance to watch one getting the full Andrew treatment.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youuu :)

no one will forget the GTX 10 series. RIP GTX 1060 6GB 2023.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

The 10 series are still good and with better build quality then the newer ones

@corysms

10 ай бұрын

@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew frfr

Those scorch marks on the top of that case before cleaning gave me shivers. I owned one of those boards, ended up selling the system who knows how many years ago but back then I used to love Gigabyte boards. Quite the restoration, end result looks great. And definitely not useless. I have a couple Xeon systems from around the same time currently running my NAS and proxmox servers, finally getting around to upgrading them but considering what I paid for them and the use I got out of them I'll be kind of sad to retire them.

Recently, me and my friends made a LAN party. As we played only old games or e-sports ones, I used my old pcs that I refurbished thanks to this channel. It was a great experience playing with friends in the same spot. Thanks Andrew for your ideas.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Sometimes we do Lan party as well, we play older battlefield series :D

@danielaveljkovic5084

10 ай бұрын

Such a good idea!

@terrydaktyllus1320

10 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely, there is nothing better than "getting the guys over" for beer, pizza and a LAN party! It's why I have zero interest in multiplayer online gaming because shouting and swearing at your best friends when they've just headshotted you is so funny!

@patochester

9 ай бұрын

Nothing like an offline Lan and battelfield 2 with new maps

@stormbreaker82

9 ай бұрын

🗿👑

Nice video! It's crazy that now these computers are 10+ years old, since I remember these things from my childhood very well.

Great job Andrew! That old machine looks great and I'm glad you rescued it!

A Bios firmware update to version U1D(UEFI BIOS) appears to be offered on Gigabyte's GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 support site. However, a switch to "UEFI enabled" bios setting may also require re-installing Windows.

@whismerhillgaming

10 ай бұрын

you can actually fix an installed windows to make it transition without reinstalling

I hope your do more desktop PC restoration! This one is very cool to watch!

that clean up was so satisfying to watch, Cheers !

Nice restoration here. Simple but it’s always good to watch.

Another great video. I really enjoy this type of video where an old pc is brought back to life. Best wishes from Panama. 🇵🇦

Wow, this turned out great! I love these type of videos.

It's great to see you giving a new life to old electronic please post videos regularly.sorry if I am asking too much.

No other channel is this relaxing dude. Kudos 👍

WOW, that cable management!! I would not have had the patience to do that, The PC looks great!!

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Is not some good management, just enough to put the cables aside

I love hear computers. Since I was 10 I search in recycling bins for old pcs and restore them like you. Being 15 now, I can’t thank you more!

I enjoying watching all your videos,you are great as always

Always 10/10 videos. Keep on doing these videos .

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youu :)

I much more appreciate cable management in difficult cases than cases which essentially make it no effort. Honestly I'd rather have thinner cases than cable management caverns. My windows 7 PC which I built in 2010 is 170mm wide, pretty much just wide enough to fit a 92mm fan exhaust and no more. I ran the 24-pin between the motherboard and the motherboard tray, which is possible when the cables aren't sleeved. Fantastic build man!

Hola! Una paz absoluta al ver estas cosas bien hechas y con total paciencia. Felicidades por el trabajo!

I would suggest using an ultrasonic cleaning for such greasy and dirty components. That could also remove possible dirt from underneath the chips, where the brush and isopropyl could not. Anyway, great work!

Amazing work! Looks like new 😊

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youu :)

Nice restoration.. do more your are really artist in paint work to .will like to see😊

i am always exited when i see that you upload a new video :)

That computer was in a smokers environment, reason for the brown stains. I've done this many times for parts I had given to me from a friend who smokes in his house. He saved me quite a bit of money thru the years when he upgraded his computers. I never complained about it, I just took the parts and cleaned them up and used them. Most parts were good, a few didn't work out so well. What I discovered on cleaning motherboards is to hold them up right vertical position on a towel, and using a spray bottle with 92 percent alcohol, spray it clean. Start from the top of the board and spray until you get to the bottom and all that junk runs downhill on the towel leaving the board spotless. Repeat if necessary while having everything completely apart, GPU's included, then reassemble. Some hardware parts can be soaked in bleach water then rinsed, it will melt away nicotine stains like magic in seconds and requires no scrubbing looking like new, fans included, then bone dried off.

I always liked your restoration videos.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youu :)

7:41 amazing thermal apply there, great job.

That brown gunk inside the case and fans + stickyness reminds me about when i got one old pc from guy who was vaping next to it. That vapejuice was all over the place and pretty nasty stuff when i tried to clean it

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

This is from smoking I can feel that :D

You can clean motherboards in the sink, completely immersing them in hot soapy water and use various brushes (paintbrush, toothbrush) for different areas, or even put them in a dishwasher. But be careful of the socket, use the original cover if you have it and clean it separately using a artist's watercolour brush and isopropyl. Give it a final rinse in warm distilled water if you're OCD like me! Whichever method, the CMOS battery has to be out and make VERY sure to give it time to air-dry thoroughly (maybe 48 hours, or a several hours in a warm c. 60°C oven).

The wire Management is amazing! Its inspiring

That's very nice. I have some similar PCs from 2010 to 2012 and since I'm not a gamer, they are very useful for me and I enjoy having the good quality components.

@lucasrem

9 ай бұрын

Museum you need ?

@jozsefizsak

9 ай бұрын

@@lucasrem I think I have one. 🙂

great restoration..your videos are soo good.

Splendid video and very informative. I also like the style of your keyboard which one is it?

that wouldve been a near top of the line pc 10 years ago. hell even 5 years ago that pc wouldve been just fine, thats the pc i wanted to build when i built my first pc but couldnt afford.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Same bro, back then I can afford only to stare at these motherboards and components :D

Satisfying results as always!

loved it, absolutely loved the video

You have an amazing speaking voice. great video!

You never fail entertaining me. Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina !

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youuu :)

looks liek that case had a fire in it at some point, nice to see it got cleaned up so well and wasnt tossed!

Just a heads up You can use a mechanical pencil to straighten socket pins. It is way easier to bend them back into the correct position Awesome content as usual

@ThePCHandyman9

9 ай бұрын

Tried setting right some bent pins recently and broke almost all 6 of them. The system still works but I wouldn't dare use it for anything useful.

Love your videos brother. Do you sell these refurbished laptops/PCs?

missing your customized color projects brother... wish you bring some more cool color projects!

This is a really interesting job. I wonder if we aren't reaching the stage where a desktop PC couldn't be built with the specific intention of being future proofed to be upgradeable for 25 years.

Sandy and Ivy Bridge are true warriors and can still bring a lot of joy today. Enthusiasts even change the BIOS of these cards so that we can boot with NVME SSDs on the PCI-E adapter. I did this on a Sabbertooth Z77 with i5-3470.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

I agree, plus these motherboards were with top quality, todays motherboards compared are like a cardboard. Btw the sabbertooth Z77 is awesome motherboard I always like it, especially with the cover

Only satisfaction watching your videos. Great job!

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youuu :)

took some dedication. nice job.

Not bad - with 2nd gen i5 CPU, this PC is certainly NOT useless. With a decent SSD as its boot drive (I would pick Crucial MX500 500GB), as well as a decent hard drive (2TB) and 32GB RAM, this would still be a pretty decent computer nowadays for basic tasks, and for games from around this PC's era.

@detecta

9 ай бұрын

32gb is pretty overboard imo

@TheSpotify95

9 ай бұрын

@@detecta Not really. With how things are nowadays with games and other programs, the more RAM you can have, the better!

@detecta

9 ай бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 i mean most games from the pcs era had like 8gb recommended specs and 8-16gb is still good for basic tasks

@rhobson

9 ай бұрын

I've recently upgraded my modern gaming pc (5600x+RX6600) from 16gb 3200MHz to 32Gb 3600Mhz and apart from Hogwarts Legacy, no games that I have tested made the *total* ram usage (with Windows 11, which manages to use more ram than Win10) to cross over the 16Gb mark, so yes, 32Gb in that pc is definitely overkill and unnecessary, even with it being cheap. Also, you do not need 32Gb for "basic tasks". A better idea would be to have only solid-state storage, and maybe upgrading the CPU, since the motherboard is good and support up to a 3rd gen Core-i7. And definitely staying in Windows 10.

Please don't ever stop sending us These videos I'm a huge FAN of your Work

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youuu for the support :)

@KatlehoNyane

10 ай бұрын

@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew No problem

looking great keep up the good work

Andrew you should try to do a full restoration of that dirty carpet you got there! 😂 great video

Its a great feeling, bringing life to old and dirty tech!

Another fantastic video brother.

Looks like the PC has been in an environment with a someone who smokes, if I remember rightly the sticky gunk can become conductive and cause unusual shorts.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Yep, it's from smoke

That's exactly how I want my next build to look.

i would like to see pc case modding in your future videos. more PC restorations please.

Hi bro, I'm a retired IT tech. This was my daily work until few years ago for almost 25 years. Kinda remind me to my younger times when watching this video.

Good job 👍 I recently fixed an old PC.

Finally something on YT thats actually intresting 🙌

I like the laptop restorations but the desktop PCs are my favourite content!

love the content! ❤

Fantastic job! Muchly enjoyed all content :-). Definitely learn a lot from your uploads my friend. Cheers - Jass.

Great job Andrew!!

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youu :)

Talk about TLC! Brother, you are good, and knowledgeable.

Love this kind of videos, give a sencond life a pc is the thing tha love to do, great video Offtopic: What is rhe model of that monitor? Is very nices

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

It's 34" LG curved, but this is at least 5 or 6 years old model, discounted now probably :D you can find better models nowadays

you are really a real man 😁.. May I know what detergent you use? I'm looking for it

Relaxing video. THanks

I used this MOBO and the I7 from 2013 to 2018 and I bet if the CPU didn't die I may still be using it today

Good job at work!

Awesome save. I might try to wash my old desktop

Wonderful Effort 👌

really like your video it's very satisfying

Make more of this pc restoration but please don't stop making laptop restoration you're the only one make this video's, I know others make video about laptop restoration like psivewri but still you're video is still more entertaining than the others

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

THank youu bro :) btw psivewri has a nice stiff too, I like his work

nice save man. I built a ddr5 build, but I saved a 2009 computer, well the parts of two really, to create a properly one. It felt better saving this max 8gb baby from trash.

... great explanation... thank you...

my god this is so satisfied idk why maybe im a weirdo but i watched whole video and would watch more and more

good cleanup..... on my rebuilds I take out all chassis blanks that come with the chassis and add fan guards to all the fans were applicable. adding fan guards makes it safer to service the system while it is on... how many time have you pricked your fingers on fan blades?

Hey bro this is a cool video a suggestion why dont you make education videos as how you can re use the old windows licence

I love it man!

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

9 ай бұрын

Thank youu :)

Ah, the i5-2500k. My sis had the equally venerable i5-2400 in her rig some ten years ago. Gotta say, the Sandy Bridge architecture was a real banger back in its heyday.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

The build quality of the older components is much greater than the newer ones. Few moths ago I build one with Z690 motherboard. The motherboard was like a carboard, and sata has not working, we change the motherboard again the same problem. Yes the PC is great, fast, powerful but kinder egg quality materials

nice video as always!

very good restoration

Nice video as always

you can get much much more out of such a processor with a giant cooling fan such as a Noctua NH-D15 or similar and some overclocking back then there was a lot of margins left on the table EDIT: also I can't stress out enough that if the PSU is 10+ years old it's probably time to replace it, having stable current to this platform is CRITICAL even with zero overclocking, it can cause random BSODs

One of the most satisfying thing to me

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

Thank youu :)

That is a great MB. I have one on a recent Windows XP 32 bit machine I put together with an i7 3770,4gb ram and a GTX 780

@Nitrenix

10 ай бұрын

I have i7 3770, rx 550, 8gb ram

Andrew the magician!

I wish I could send this guy my old Alienware laptop to be restored and upgraded. Poor thing is on its last leg. Alienware 17 from 2013, a real trooper 😔🤘🏼

Thank you for another awesome video. I found two dell Vostro 3902s in the dumpster and took them home. I tested them and they worked fine. I have one problem though. they did not have power supplies and I've been looking everywhere for one with no luck. Do you have any suggestions on any other power supply I can use even if its not a dell one?

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew

10 ай бұрын

These PSUs are smaller factor, you can check some computer shops that sell used stuff, it's going to be much cheaper than ordering from amazon or aliexpress or ebay

@josephchege07

10 ай бұрын

@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew thank you very much

Sandy Bridge run pretty hot in my experience compared to their newer Ivy Bridge brothers, so definitely worth using a good cooler and not this stock cooler style garbage. I have no idea why old gaming PCs all seem to forget about cooling

That case i definitely will be repurpose as home lab server case

Old look still rocks!

All that tar. Yuck! Awesome transformation!

the content I crave to see

Seen that type of dust many times before, that PC definitely belonged to a smoker. Probably why everything is sticky too.

the pc case was released in 2008 the gigabyte poseidon

Ngl, I've been using an AMD FX PC I got from the recycling center, which was about to be thrown out quite a bit, and it's not a bad system, especially for basic web browsing. it plays minecraft pretty well so far and it definitely play roblox very well too. It also can play teardown at a fairly decent performance. it essentially can do light gaming. It has an AMD FX-6300, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, 256 GB NVMe, R9 270X, and ASRock 970a-g/3.1. It's able to run windows 11 pretty well despite it's age, which shows how absurd their fake requirements are.