It's funny how in the USA this may be considered garbage but in some very poor countries there are people that have never seen a computer and would love to have something like this.

@Kha_57

Жыл бұрын

Never had a pc

@robertwest4157

Жыл бұрын

Yes i would love this computer in Mexico they are very expensive i had to use windows xp until 2015 because of my laptop age only xp and 2000 work with drivers

@pinkpassionfruit8876

Жыл бұрын

@@robertwest4157yeah me also bc my cuz in Mexico would be so happy for that computer,like that thing fs could play counter strike. And he says that like pcs way more expensive in Mexico then us

@juanshaftpatel7488

11 ай бұрын

what shithole country are you from?@@Kha_57

@TerriblyTrashMemez

10 ай бұрын

In the Uk that is always garbage

560ti is a good card. Played lots of games with a single one. Doom 2016, Borderlands 2, Tons of Batman games. excited to see what two will do.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

yea i'm looking forward to tinker with them in SLI

@gega24-h3r

Жыл бұрын

and stalker shadow of chernobyl too

@DuneRunnerEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, because of a VERY thick thermalspreader,a lot of 5XX video cards are "toasted".....

the case is an Antec 900 series steel I had one they are great

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

I love them, they are thrown out like crazy and I flip them very easy!!

Definitely wasn't the norm back in the day for a PC to take 20 minutes to boot. There's something wrong with the OS install or a failing hdd if that is the case. Anything over a minute or two for boot times is an issue, even with a mechanical drive.

@maesecarlos4430

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...and is not Windows Vista, it's Windows 8.1 It's funny 'cause it use to boot and get to the desktop pretty fast.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i know, hate i missed that and forgot to do the edit....

@dmtd2388

Жыл бұрын

my workstations was booting in 6 seconds in 2008 with first ssds and others with hdds 25 seconds in 2000 - 2003 in 30 seconds max around and build fix thousands off years ago 20 min would be just screwed up os and crappy hdd

I love refurbishing old computers to sell, donate to charities, and occasionally to keep for a special purpose. They are great for streaming, a home server, old games (10 to 30 years old), and tinkering with Linux. Throw in an SSD and maybe update the BIOS and put in a better CPU (cheap from EBay). I sometimes buy a palette of 30 to 40 of them from a state university auction for just $100 to $200. A few cheap hardware upgrades, update Windows and good to go. I can sell them for $200 each. Dell and Lenovo have support assistant utilities that tell you exactly what is in them and what they can be upgraded to. But the power supplies are low wattage proprietary garbage. Motherboards also have proprietary connections and mountings (but standard RAM and PCIe).

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

I do the same all the time. Good to keep one around for someone in need.

How someone could throw away such a high-end pc without testing other PSU. I mean, its old technology But replace the HDDs for an SSD and it's completely fine for daily use or Not heavy gaming. PD: I have the same Golden Orb II CPU Cooler and weights like a ton!

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

One man's trash is another's treasure

dude that's sick. dual 560ti in SLI! all that and it was thrown out ?!?! you got some good karma / luck lol

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

yea some days I do. I am not ashamed to pick up someone garbage lol....

Ah yes Windows 8.1 Vista edition. A true classic. Also I see hard drives get a lot of flak online but the truth is hard drives aren't that slow and no 20 minutes to boot any windows operating system is a massive red flag whether it's a hard drive or not. And I'm still using Windows 10 on a hard drive and it's surprisingly quick to boot.

Great video man. The love of fixing all things PC is so much fun. Also half life 2 is still an amazing game! If it can run half life 2 it's a keeper (just my opinion). I miss the phenom days.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

yea I love going down memory lane with this older hardware. Was so much cheaper practical and easier to game on back then. And yes I agree on the half life2 lol...

@Droogie128

Жыл бұрын

The Phenom 1 wasn't great. Phenom 2 brought some good times, though.

If the computer is THAT slow, it's likely loaded with bloatware, malware, and possibly viruses. I have an old Gateway Pentium 4 that I use as my "retro gamer", it runs older games I have that don't play well with modern graphics adapters but work well with the older onboard VGA graphics in that machine. When I got it, it was so painfully slow, that I ended up completely wiping the drive, with a drive erase program, and even that took forever to finish up. I did a clean install of Windows XP as well as all of its OEM drivers, for sound, video, etc. and it now runs much faster, like it did when it was new, even with a mechanical hard drive. Since all of the games I use on it are either installed to the hard drive, or on CD ROM, I don't have it connected to the Internet, so it has been safe from being bogged down by anything online.

So glad your channel showed up in my recommended! Keep up the great stuff man, really fun to watch.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

I found a few systems on the side of the road on trash day a few years ago and I snagged em. One was actually a pretty decent AMD Phenom X6 system with a GeForce 8000 series GPU lol.. I put a 1070 Ti into it and it can still run modern titles fairly well at medium-high settings. The only thing wrong with it was a bad stick of DDR3; so it was probably one of my easiest fixes. One persons trashed electronics is my treasure; always looking to grow my collection of fixed electronics! Even snagged a nice 750W EVGA fully modular power supply from a PC that had a bad memory controller.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

I have found their is always something to use from junk computers, weather it's saving the screws or repurposing the case or refurbishing an ancient computer for a retro pc customer!!

Geez, this video is 2 years old, and that PC you found is better than my current daily driver.

What A Find . . . :-)

Such a sick find!! Those are good cards.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

They are!

I still use this case in my current rig, it's great.

Nice recovery. Thanks for your tips!

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I've found old computers are actually really hard to find for free. Even for sale. It's weird. Everyone had these old computers but you can find crt tvs easy but not old computers

We should appreciate technology and not throw away electronic goods, preferably dispose of them in a suitable place and way to maintain the sustainability of the environment. • Watching from Melaka, Malaysia ✌🏻🇲🇾

Great video! I actually just picked up an old PC with that exact antec 900 case.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

This case is pretty cool. I actually used it for a budget build video I got coming up next month. I painted the inside black and it really gives it a nicer look with the side glass panel.

I like to pick up these e-wastes to fix and reuse them, but in my country, if anyone leave their junks outside of their houses for like 10-20 mins, junk collectors will sweep them away...

@angelosupetran

Жыл бұрын

In your country, do you have junkshops or junkyard?

@MinhNguyen-uv4gd

Жыл бұрын

@@angelosupetran We do but those junkyards are in the outskirts of my city, I live in the middle of the city, can not travel far away, and even when I get there and pick the stuff, its the cost of gas to travel, how to transport those stuff back home , and chance I get ripped off, just not worth it.

Must be nice to have the ability to drive around just looking for random trash.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

ha ha sometimes I have free time lol..

@j.lietka9406

Жыл бұрын

And find cool stuff!

@PapaMav

Жыл бұрын

@@j.lietka9406 LOL, how much of it is actually "cool" ?

Nice vista

I caughtsomeone w a quality DVD drive just in case and the screws of the case was the most useful 4 my 400 dollar case, so I took them the label said free computer.. after all...

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

i do the same thing!

I got the same case and the power button is busted, need to buy a new case.

The best tip: renew the cooling paste on the cpu….

i like how he said it was running vista, bit of a modern theme for vista haha

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

yea i know, i def missed that one...

Before cleaning it out, I would take out the CMOS battery. Otherwise, it's a pretty good guide!

I gotta look where you look! Nice finds!

I always dust outside so I dont add dust in my shop!

This pc looked better before it was done than my pc right now!

a ssd would do wonders on that thing or some lighter linux

Antec nine hundred case. I had one for a long time, was a sturdy solid case.

Not 100 on this but I don't think Goodwill sells used computers anymore. I believe they repurpose them for use in their employment training centers.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

they don't, anything good nowadays they put on the website for sell and their prices are ridiculous.

Man you get lucky with your finds!!

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes!!

with more RAM (16 Go) and an SSD it can run many recent software and games.. quad core is fast !

Wow! What a sweet machine. It would make a great est PC for trying out various distros or a movie or web machine or some old style gaming.

i have the same power tester works good you dident plug the sata and floppy plugs in and the molex to ?

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

nahh just needed to test the 24 pin and cpu power.

Im happy to have that

You've mentioned smoke and fire - make sure you have good powder (electric fire) fire extinguisher handy as well.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

thanks, i should of mentioned that!!

I found that exact PC case at work.. Missing literally everything thought so it's not a usable case sadly.

Nuevo suscriptor desde Argentina Bs As

they should be give a maintence before they drop it into the trash....has no dust at all! ....and the oscar goes to.... LOL

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

I think they had tried to fix it before scrapping it.

That antec 900 case

An example of how to completely destroy the English language...."I don't see no name brand."

@keithbrown7685

Жыл бұрын

Imho, you're nitpicking.

20:00 chatting but imagine if the PC blew some sparks

Click the windows key and r and type winver and press enter

I recently threw out an old Dell my friend gave me with DDR2 and a Pentium E5200. Everything got tossed bc of how worthless it was with the exception of: 2 Sata cables, 2 jumper pins, an IO cable, a 640 GB WD Blue HDD that runs at 7200RPM and 3 GBS and the rectangular PSU that I will use to power a test bench MOBO.

@PapaMav

2 жыл бұрын

....and oh, 2 80mm fans (1 4 pin & 1 3 pin)

@PapaMav

2 жыл бұрын

...and various screws.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

That how I have my huge screw collection lol...

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

thats how I have my fan collection lol..

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

It amazes me how little things like screws and fan and all the small things def come in handy later on. Stuff like that has saved me in a pinch!

I think 500GB or 1TB Solid State Drives are option having a faster booting PC

A few comments on your video. First, you never dust the case inside the house. You always do it outside. Actually, you want to thoroughly vacuum clean it first, in order to suck most of the dirt, and then you go outside to air spray it. And it's a good thing to have a soft brush at hand, a women's makeup brush does wonders. Second, if the machine does still not fire up, even after you check that the power button cable is plugged in the right pins, the first thing you do is to unplug the cable again and then you short the two power button pins, meaning the ones that the cable was plugged in previously. This is to make sure that you don't have a malfunctioning power button and/or cable. Then you test it again with another PSU that you are sure it works. Third. Wear a static bracelet in order to avoid some nasty situations. They are dirt cheap on the web and those capacitors can hold A LOT of power for quite a while, even if you have unplugged the power cable from the outlet. You can get a nasty shot, and/or you can burn some valuable components. Best thing to do when you unplug it, is to hit the power button again for two or three times to drain the capacitors. Fourth. WEAR GLOVES. You said it in the beginning, but you never wore them.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i know, i got some bad habits. i need to do better

@johnphilippatos

Жыл бұрын

@@DLMtechgarage Well, if you admit that you have some bad habits, then you WILL do better for sure. Keep up buddy.

What a great case is it full tower?

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

nahh just an oversized atx full towers where bigger

I feel seasick!

I definitely ONLY ever blow a case out when I I am outside - never do it indoors. ------- waaaay too much mess

Had one of these cases back in the day, miss all the 5.25" goodness.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i miss that too.

Those old computers would work as a case to put a web server in.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i always repurpose the case.

I'm troubled by how you say Vista. 😂

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

ha ha yea the sticker on the back said vista. got too focused on that lol...

@PapaMav

2 жыл бұрын

@Rob I am troubled that you are troubled, over how he says Vista...

@Windows_XP_The_Good_One

2 жыл бұрын

You are supposed to say running windows 8.1! Not vista.

Ive found like 5 pcs already tossed out and got windows 11 on them and also found some working monitors going with them

in my country you never find something like this in the trash mahhh to be fair the whole continent not just my country

is that a 970a mother board im using one as a server or Naz

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

nahh, I forgot what it is, I still have it in storage... too cool to toss lol..

I still have my Phenom II X4 system. In fact I built myself a a Pentium III system with a Abit BE6-II that I bought new old stock, 650 Mhz Intel Pentium 3 Coppermine Intel Slot 1, NVIDIA Geforce3 Ti200 that was junk salvaged, ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090, and a Yamaha OPL3-SAx ISA Sound Card. I even have one of those slotket adapters for Intel Slot 1 that I have a Pentium 3 clocked at 1 Ghz that I might try. I have this Dell Inspiron B130 that I might stick a Pentium M in.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

I love Abit, that was my favorite brand!!

I wonder if there is a problem with the 4 Pin connectors on the old power supply.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

Not sure. Never could figure it out. But it will only failed under load.

Always ask. Needs are everything. Do not need a Gaming PC an updated PC can work fine.

YES ! Dust does conduct electricity & why once every 2 years & will inspect & dust out & vacuum it out. One time I let a pc sit much longer & didn't dust it out. One day I turned it on & I heard a Pop ! The PC was Dead ! I took it apart & found an electrical Arc spot on the Motherboard where Dust conducted electricity from the case to the Motherboard & it Fried it. Had to order a new Motherboard.

In Canada you can't throw out a pc in the trash. It must be brought to a metal recyling center (usually at your local dump). Pc's have valuable metals and some toxic ones as well.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

your suppose to do the same thing over here. most don't follow and hope someone will just pick it up.

Duster: youre blowing the humar dirt into your house....

18:56 this is not windows vista, its windows 8.1

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i know, hate i missed that and forgot to do the edit....

@spiritedpark7478

Жыл бұрын

@@DLMtechgarage Its ok! 😀

Hello Great Job.. I been following up with you in your video's , especially when it's about the dells iam in the middle of building my first PC.. I justed got a GTX 560ti and i plan on using it witth my build.. i woukd like to know if you be able to part with your GTX560 s?

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

Wish I could but I got them already pre sold in some budget gaming pc's already

the guy:windows vista windows 8.1 :umm i dont think thats vista i think its me strange

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

Yea I said the wrong version smh...

@GamingWithDachi

Жыл бұрын

Its ok

@GamingWithDachi

Жыл бұрын

​@@DLMtechgarage btw im subbed

That is windows 8.1 so I think that PC may have been retired around 2012-early 2015. that PC has had nice upgrades during its time I know the GTX 500 series was around that time. They probably thought it was dead, had it in the closet for years and finally threw it all out later. Hopefully you’ll get more use of it then they did.

Good video. Good find.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

It is Windows 8.1 pro 64 bit

Good tips. I find a lot of trash computers. Def will use these tips!

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@PapaMav

2 жыл бұрын

@@DLMtechgarage who's finding computers by the side of the road ?!?

@PapaMav

2 жыл бұрын

@Annabel Alisra really?

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

I find them in the higher end neighborhoods ($500k plus homes) and town where I live. people practically threw good stuff away mostly cause of age and ability to get something better.

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

@@PapaMav right lol...

I found ancient dinosaur pc is optiflex gx 270 it has 512mb and intel celeron

that looked more like windows 8 rather than vista

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

yea the sticker on the case said vista and I got too stuck on that lol...

18:58 to me it looks a lot like Windows 8.1, not Vista ;)

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i know, hate i missed that and forgot to do the edit....

Yikes...the first power supply in that did seem like a bit of a fire hazard. Those sli 560 tis are sick though.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

Yea. I need to pull them out and tinker with them.

i got a gaming pc at a trift shop for $20 it had a gtz 460, core i5 2500k, and 8gb ram ddr3

It's not vista, it's Windows 10. Hence the windows bootup windows logo... And it's not veesta it's vista...

Good old AM2 or AM2+ socket. Those weren't great CPU's however they weren't necessarily a bad upgrade path. Back in the day I had an Athlon X2 5200 @2.7Ghz and upgraded to the highest end Phenom X4 9950 running at 2.6Ghz... This chip was a poor overclocker but I refused to have a lower clock so I ran it at 2.73. It would somewhat compete with Intel's Q6600 or Q6700 but overall the Core2Quads (Specially the Q9650) were significantly faster... When the I5 series came out... Intel had a significant lead. The Phenom II's were significantly better than previous generation Phenoms. (Smaller process and far more L3 Cash) however the I5's were always properly superior. AMD was cheaper and even on an AM2+ Board you could run Phenom II's so there was always a cost effective upgrade path. I can tell for a future video, an SSD and 8 or 16GB ram will make a huge difference but to run modern games, the CPU is a bottleneck or will be missing mandatory instructions to run quite a few games.

if you want to flip the pc id highly recommend you to change the psu to something more budget like the ASUS Tuf 450 or any other budget offering really because 850watt is kinda overkill. also keep the quality content coming m8 love your vids.

Build a Batocera PC with it and give it to a kid or build a Arcade with it

One other thing I'd suggest is a fire extingusher.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

man i gotta start going out more fint me some Baried treasues I see you found a Dell Dual Xeon this so far the second of ur video I am watching now, you submerge The componats in water and mix with a tad of dish soap, and re reinse ? to get that extra clear and make sure zero criters will linger behind ? well I defiantly keep watching ur videos TY for a lot of that Advice

I think that operating system was either windows 8 or 8.1 one of them

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

yea i def missed that.

@adammassingale7075

Жыл бұрын

@@DLMtechgarage it’s okay it happens

Would be good for a Win XP build.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

it really was.

As soon as I saw that background the bad memories of windows 8 came flooding back.. Windows 10 couldn’t have came any faster.

12:08 😮 motherboard = dead 😢 edit: okay it has to have a good protection so it prevents to turn itself on for any obvious reason

Love how he replaced one shitty powersupply with another equally shitty and over rated on watts as a replacement lol

Cool

Had the i7-2600s and dual sli 560ti way back in 2012 and I feel this belonged to a teen who went to college. I'm using the raptor drives for os 10,000rpm and is a little faster than the 7200 one but Jesus 20mins fully boot up? Dang nana must've busted the pc clicking on cornhub ads.

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

Lol

Just picked up an i7 6700 with a Gigabyte h-170 gaming 3 case and and optical drive from the trash . No power supply . Through one in and fires up np...

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

NIce score. Like I tell people all the time.... I am not ashamed to pick up someone else's trash lol...

you so lucky to find this pc. at least i have more powerful gpu so it is capable

I use some hard drivrs with bad sectors for load testing psu

Good Old Blotware On This PC And This PC Running Windows 8(Probably 8.1) Not Vista

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

i know, hate i missed that and forgot to do the edit....

Great Case, great GPUs ;)

@DLMtechgarage

2 жыл бұрын

got another video of this case where I case swapped a hp z240 oem into another one i had gotten. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJid0rGbk8jVmbw.html

two 510ti.... on a trash, holy fuck

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

sometimes a guy gets luck!!

@rotip309

Жыл бұрын

@@DLMtechgarage the best I found was a windows 7 machine back in 2019 xd, everything else just very old tech, still was fun to repair except that windows 98 pc and deal with old amd cpu (aka they burn to a crisp without termalpaste)

power supply testers are not always good because the power supply isn't under any load

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

very true!!

@keithbrown7685

Жыл бұрын

He should have used a dummy load like a certain other KZreadr. They have two "sacrificial hard drives" that suck it up at testing time.

me knowing a lot of tech stuff when im 11 years old my mom how did you fix the family pc? but then my friends in school found out about this and then pov my friends:can you fix my pc phone ipad and alot of other things

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

lol.... yea sometimes i gets that way when people learn you can fix things.

@keithbrown7685

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't do shit like that for nothing. I'd want something good, money would be best. It's sortof flattering and fun in the beginning, fixing them up, impressing whomever. But soon you get the feeling you're being taken advantage of, which you are. Demand something in return. That's what I'd do. Some people get to be parasites, same as the deadbeats who want my brother to fix their cars, and my brother never ****ing says "show me the money". He's more soft-spoken than I am. Meantime, these ****heads want something on time... "can I pay you later"... etc. ***k them.

Mmmmmm Antec 900 case

Did you say Vista I saw win10 boot logo

@DLMtechgarage

Жыл бұрын

it was 8