To think that this PC was thrown to the curb over a $1 coin cell battery... though with all that dust inside it, it was probably bound for thermal issues soon. Good save!
I recently had a similar issue with my x79 machine. After pulling it out of storage it wouldn’t turn in at all. I’d get motherboard lights but absolutely nothing would happen when I hit the case or board power button. Interestingly it would power on when I hit the Clear CMOS button, however it would freeze in 00 and show a CPU light. I spent a long time troubleshooting including swapping the GPU, trying different ram, reseating the power connectors, unplugging all the unnecessary devices and nothing. I was getting ready to remove the heatsink to try reseating the cpu, but I had the idea to try replacing the CMOS battery as it had what I believe to be the original. It booted up just fine and worked normally. Interesting thing is that they are both Ivy Bridge machines.
The thin circuit tester screwdriver is the best way to remove the fan from those coolers. Fits perfectly. And to remove the stubborn thermal paste I scrape it off with a plastic spudger first.
Yeah going straight down on the screw through the top hole with a small diameter shaft is much easier, for really dry DELL/HP CPU Concrete after scraping the lumpy bits I use Electrical Contact & Parts Cleaner, let it soak for a minute & wipes away very easy, at my local Autoshop it's only a couple of bucks for a big can & it's stronger than Alcohol but still safe.
You can clean that case with regular vinegar or vinegar mixed with dishwasher liquid. It takes out that type of dirt quickly without damaging the plastic.
Great intro. I needed a PC in 2007 to process VHS footage of my brother and sister and the folks from 1998 to make DVDs for the 10th anniversary. But I was short of money. So I picked up a PC that had been kicked out to the kerb. It was a Compac Presario Pentium 4 HT. I got the project completed. I prefer to build my own now. UHD drone footage etc. GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-DS2 AMD FM2+ AMD GPU and Nvidia hardware processing as a multi-GPU configuration. On the cheap but fast enough. This is a great way to learn PCs as you go. Thanks.
An old friend of mine had left his computer unprotected from when a building team was renovating his house, and the dust from plaster. It looked very much like this. Also, I suppose you know but didn't have the right screw driver, but it's meant to use a screw driver with a long "shank"? that you put in the hole above and then you can reach the fastener. I think it's sad how people treat their pc's. Another friend of mine didn't clean it for a couple of years and I was surprised it worked at all. I'm on the other hand like to take on such work. Great work man!
I used to build what I called "Theft Proof" PCs. I'd get some grotty old computer then install a newer motherboard and other much nicer parts then sell it. An early one of those I did was in a 1980's WANG PC case. It had a mega sized motherboard where the half with the slots had standard PC/AT mountings but the other half, under the power supply (desktop, not tower) was proprietary with the I/O ports out the rear. A normal baby AT board and power supply went right in and I blocked off the large opening where the ports had been. IIRC what went into it was either an 80386 40Mhz or some decent 486, most likely a DX2 66Mhz. The outside all looked just like the original WANG 286. I don't remember how much $ I got for it. What I really wanted to do with the 40Mhz 386 board was get one of the clock doubled 386 pin compatible 486 SX chips and matching FPU that fit the 387 socket but they were rare and $$$$. 30 pin SIMMs would have been a bottleneck.
I've got an OptiPlex 7010 SFF that had a 3rd gen CPU until I graded it to an i7 3770 for 30 bucks. With additional upgrades of 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD it runs surprisingly well.
Machines with suicide batteries suck. I've had plenty of them over the years, including seemingly dead laptops that had flat batteries. Unfortunately for those, the battery was often soldered to some inaccessible area of the logic board, and required near complete disassembly to get to. Replacing said soldered batteries was also an annoyance, since they were tiny little things not even a quarter size of a CR2032. I usually just solder long wire leads to a battery holder and stuff it inside the memory bay if possible.
There was a neighbor that lived pretty decently closed to my sister. He was their computers out of her once in awhile. I wound up getting a computer that only needs a graphics card and had a 4th gen i5 in it. Another time. And the last time I can't remember it was to all in ones
Imo there's two routes that u can take with this PC upgrade wise: 1) Just add a gpu, 1050ti would your best choice here 2) Swap the CPU for a xeon e3-1230 v2 which is the same as i7-3770 but cheaper and has no Intel graphics and add a GTX 1060 6gb version. The cpu tdp is lower than the i5's, 1060 doesn't draw all that much power either, so your psu should be enough, and yh if u do all this add more ram and fans and maybe try customizing the PC case.
1050ti is old I see no reason to use it at all. 1650 is much newer, faster while still using just 75w. 1060 always was good but it is 7 years old now, long term it's not a good choice.
Maybe it was failing because of the broken the front USB connector. Someone tried to change the PSU and when it didn`t worked they trowed the PC away, keeping (or returning) the new PSU. I have found PCs that after few days outside were as dirty as this on the exterior after a rain, just because the dust adhered to the water droplets and it was quite hard to clean (notice that it was dirty mostly on the bottom part). Nice PC you found there, mine is a core I3-6100 (found it near a recycle bin) that is very good for light gaming (paired with a GTX1060 an upgraded to 16G and a SSD) and office stuff, browsing and multimedia. Mine was throwed away (my guess) because of the random BSOD (windows 10) caused by the failing 2TB HDD that was inside.
Nice find. Yeah some computers only need a few parts sometimes to get them running like new, and at worst you might be spending $100 on the whole upgrade.
@@BudgetBinYou are right, I plan to upgrade the CPU to a core I7 7700 and that is it. My previous daily computer was a laptop with first gen core CPU that I maxed and it lasted 10 years to me. Maybe this will last the same.
I know that the 3rd and 4th gen Optiplex can take a Xeon with the latest bios updates installed. Not sure about the Vostro. But, buying a used Xeon 4core 8 thread cpu is a bit cheaper than the i7.
I have one of these Vostro machines, I picked it up off eBay for 21 pounds of eBay. I then removed the HDD bays as these can be easily removed by drilling out the rivets on the bottom of the case, this allowed me to install a large GPU. I also threw in a 1tb SSD and a Corsair 550w PSU.
Whenever I find an e-waste I just feel so bad. I've salvaged a handful and fixed them up. One I think the only original parts are the motherboard and RAM lol. Where I live it's kinda hard to sell them for any sort of profit, so I end up trying to find uses for them. One Dell ended up becoming a Wii emulator PC in my living room.
So. Why did both PCs end up on the side of the road in the same place? Is that a dumping spot? When faced with old thermal paste, forget IPA. It's too weak. Get Goo Gone. Or even better, an industrial citrus solvent I can't tell you how to get. The stuff is magic and obliterates thermal paste and grease without hurting anything. I would have gotten the paste off and thrown that cooler in the sink to soak in soapy water. Aluminum and copper heat sinks do not rust. When the dust is caked on, soak it. Run it in a dishwasher if you dare. Let the metal dry. Bake it if in a hurry. Good as new. Fans are cheap. That dusty one was not worth saving. But nice save on the machine as a whole. Pity that one driveway keeps putting out PCs though.
For buying a GPU, could I recommend a used RX 6400 off Ebay (should be around $100) it performs similar to a GTX 1650 and only runs off PCIe power, I think it could be a good GPU for the build. Crazy that you've found two side of the road computers!
GTX 1650 also has low profile cards. I own one. It's better to go with 1650 in older pc's since it's PCI gen 3. Rx 6400 is gen 4 so it would lose bandwidth due to that.
Man, I miss the days when people left out PCs and other cool electronics for the trash. We are now required to bring it to special drop off places. What sucks about that is it is only a "one way" thing. You can drop off but they won't let you pick up or buy anything there! There aren't any good places at all around here to actually buy second hand PCs or electronics! Everything goes to e-waste! I HATE it here! 😠
@@BudgetBin Thanks bro! I DO so much want to leave here, but I'm still stuck here for now. Yup...I sure did enjoy the video and will see you on your next one! Be well! 👍👍
This looks all too familiar. One thing I do with the heat sinks is to lap them flat - you'd be surprised how many are no where close to flat when I get my hands on older systems. Can't comment on how long they have been that way, grin!
Thanks man, I'm glad someone believes me when I just happen to run into these things lol. Besides this one, I found something else that isn't a PC that was on the side of the road, that I hope to do a video on sometime later this year. Glad you enjoyed this one!
I found a perfect Dell 9020 minus the hd in the trash at our apartment block. Cleaned it up and threw an ssd in and it went. Last week I found some PC speakers.
You had an easier time than I am having! I’m trying to get my HP Envy PC up and running again….and noticed that, instead of the four sticks of memory it’s supposed to have, and which it did have the last time I was in there (if I remember, I replaced the CD drive) there are now only three and, during the Test phase (which is as far as I have gotten with it), I keep getting a USB port failure reading - but, as there’s eight of them, and when I plugged both the keyboard and mouse into two of the four on the back, I was able to get that far - but it doesn’t say which one is failing/has failed…and, even weirder, it’s saying that the HDD (a 2TB Seagate Barracuda) has failed, yet that passed the test!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 It’s started out with Windows 8 on there, but my friend insisted on getting the free Windows 10 upgrade…which I was never really wanting him to do. (He’s one of the “must get now, it’s newer therefore better” side while I’m the “if it’s NOT broke, why change it” side on that.)
Make a budget gaming PC out of it. In the meantime if you are going to save more of these machines make your life easier: Buy a set of long screwdrivers (for the cpu fan), magic erasers (to clean the case), acetone (for thermal paste cleaning), and a can of deoxit (for oxidation removal on socket connectors) Like the channel and content so far. Subbed.
When you have a Dell with a missing power supply, get the right part. They are not always standard power supplies in those and they may be some bizarre thing you have never seen in any "normal" computer. In one other UA-cam vid some guy looked inside his Dell and the CPU cooler was not mounted to a bracket on the back of the board. instead some sort of standoffs passed through so the cooler could mount to those. That is a most unusual design. It almost feels like they had a lot of a specific case design left over and thought it would be cheaper to design new motherboards to fit them. Then the front motherboard IO is on the motherboard itself and goes all the way to the front of the case. Another really weird design choice.
I went to take out the trash and found a white xbox 360 with hdmi and chrome controller in the dumpster. I plugged it in against my better judgement and it works perfectly fine, including optical drive and hdd. No words
I thought the error code may have been ram issues as I had that problem in my xps studio I got from an estate sale for $5. I have an acer vista laptop that would come on and then shut off never to come back in until I unplugged it. Come to find out it had a dead cmos battery and replacing it fixed it….it was free so I have no complaints
Wish I could find old PC's at the side of the road. If you are going to renovate PC's get yourself an air blower to get rid of a lot of dust plus Iso alcohol for cleaning the CPU and cooler plus other electrical parts.
My suggestion is to make a Ventoy key and toss a couple of live GNU Linux ISOs on it. That lets you, depending on the distribution, do anything from test the memory to have the whole system running to test the various bits connected. Really handy when the boot HD has been removed, and cheap enough to fit the Chanel name too.
I often find office pcs on the side of the road myself too, and often they only lack a component or two, maybe an ssd, dvd drive, power cable, ram, or something like that, but it's easy enough to get those parts, and, a lot of times, they boot perfectly fine, and I personally like to use them as server pcs I have no idea why perfectly fine pcs are being thrown out, either because they're too slow? (sometimes it might just be the drive that's slow, but, who knows, people that don't know a whole lot about computers might just throw them out BECAUSE their drive was slow), or because something like the monitor wasn't working and they thought they had to throw out the pc as well? I don't know, but I do know that these pcs do often make for good servers, as they're likely to already have a good enough cpu installed, but no gpu at all, which, in many cases, isn't a problem
Yeah I think they upgrade and treat it like an old iphone or something and just, toss it. lol But yeah, it's probably because they do have an old physical drive that was bloated or filled with viruses. I hoped you liked the video btw! Especially the intro.
YeeOwch on that PSU, the prices they be a rising. I happened on an IBM Dual socket PSU for a little over 30, its 625W and has 8 pin ATX12v, as well as 6pin and 8pin (and a spare 10-pin 12v you could break out if you have to).
I went to a recycle center and found a 2014 Dell 9020 Micro PC for 25 bucks, and a Samsung Galaxy A 8.4 inch tablet for 50 bucks. Both were in great condition. I put a 500gb SSD, installed Win 8.1 and repurposed the Dell as a retro gaming PC. The Samsung tablet is also acts as a phone. I wonder if I can get a sim card from Spectrum? I'm going to be going back to the center to get another mico Dell and see if I can get Win 98 to work on it.
E3-1245 v2 xeon cpu upgrade, I run Xeons in mine and this has onboard graphics, 4 core, 8 thread and cheap. Typing this on a HP 800 G1 that will get a E3-1246 v3 soon plus 32gb ram because....why not. And this reminded me to buy motherboard batteries.😁
What? A pc that can't post without a bios battery I can say that I've never seen that. I've had calls where no oS and the floppy drive was left in or the ram wasn't pushed all the way down. A jumper not removed from the board. The PSU the hardrive power switches but never no boot from cmos battery.
Reminds me of a PC I found on the side of the road, it was on it's side, on the actual road, so I assume it had fallen of a trailer etc. It was all there and booted straight away. So I wend digging through the HDD to see if I could find any details that would lead me to it's owner, no success, however there were quite a few pictured of it's owner and his wife - however some clothing on their part would have helped....... eek - say no more - gross. Please don't do this, you never know where it will end up. The computer/whatever gets old and falls into disuse, you forget what's on there and then it ends up somewhere else - like my place. Or it's still in daily use, but with several scam artists crowded around their screens on the other side of the planet, not believing what they have hacked into, before uploading the lot to a file share site somewhere.
Make a budget gaming PC You can paint it white, it will look great And please, add another fan or two to that machine, it'll say thank you in the future
Nice road find. unfortunately even with 8/16gb ram, ssd and windows 10/11 install you won't be able to get more than $50 for it. DDR3 systems just don't hold too much value anymore and even if you add RX 570/GTX 1060 to it you won't be able to sell it for more than $100. trust me, people just don't buy old used computers in US/CA. these 2nd-4th gen i5 computers are given away for free and sell for pennies on classified markets
I disagree. Depending on what you do to these old PCs, and who you sell them to; it isn't uncommon, (from what I have personally found selling a few computers like this before) for people to buy these old computers with upgrades and stylization thrown into them. But it is certainly a challenge nonetheless. Unless, you know what you are doing to sell these computers.
@@BudgetBin by the time you spend upgrading it, you already have spent $100 and you can get ddr4 systems with i5 6500 for example for that price, even cheaper. I have been doing it for years, my last pc with i3 2120 and a monitor didnt sell for $40, I gave it away for free which took some time. ebay prices are not accurate for local prices
so you set pc parts out by the road & then make videos as if you found them? what the heck lol. Theres no way the same dude threw out random PC parts, & everything works, & you can just clean it & put it back together HAHA. Not to mention the fact that you've picked up 2 PC's in the exact same spot .. lol. Love the content but god you need to put more work into making it seem realistic.
I understand the skepticism, but the truth of the matter is I'm just filming them in the same spot near one of my driveway lol. I found the first gaming PC in my neighborhood on a run and there is a pic of me even carrying it up a hill that was snapped of me when I asked someone to come help me take it to my house last year if you really want the proof. (Join the discord and I'll post it) I'm not going to film on someone's property or their business as I respect there privacy and the law. But if you don't believe me, fine. I'm still glad you enjoyed the videos. Also, why would I go out of my way to disassemble PC's, put them on "the side of the road", and then cover them in caked on dirt that took probably years to form, to then film for... what? I don't even make money doing this lol.
Mom: we have JerryRigEverything at home JerryRigEverything at home: this channel. Pro tip: get a hole saw big enough to put a 120 or 92mm fan behind, I do this to pretty much all of these home office PCs. (It works great on the plastic panel, but you do need something that can cut a hole in the metal case too, like an angle grinder with a thin harbor freight cut-off wheel. If this loses the power button I use one of those metal buttons with the LED in it from Al1Expr3ss If you have 3rd or 4th gen get yourself a Xeon E3 v2 or v3. 1245v2 was $18 for me and its faster than the i7 (my multi-core CPU-z run actually just barely beat a 7600K). But routinely some good deals like 1231v3 for $6-12 (4th Gen, no iGPU)
To think that this PC was thrown to the curb over a $1 coin cell battery... though with all that dust inside it, it was probably bound for thermal issues soon. Good save!
I agree, I'm just glad it's working now and wasn't thrown away into a landfill.
I recently had a similar issue with my x79 machine. After pulling it out of storage it wouldn’t turn in at all. I’d get motherboard lights but absolutely nothing would happen when I hit the case or board power button. Interestingly it would power on when I hit the Clear CMOS button, however it would freeze in 00 and show a CPU light. I spent a long time troubleshooting including swapping the GPU, trying different ram, reseating the power connectors, unplugging all the unnecessary devices and nothing. I was getting ready to remove the heatsink to try reseating the cpu, but I had the idea to try replacing the CMOS battery as it had what I believe to be the original. It booted up just fine and worked normally. Interesting thing is that they are both Ivy Bridge machines.
Thanks for the spoilers.
don't go into the comments if you don't wanna see spoilers@@wadewilson6628
there are also fully working ones being thrown, what do you think schools, hospitals , corporations do with them?
Great video! I love old systems like this haha, I’m a big fan of repurposing old parts. Looking forward to part 2 :)
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed the first part!
The thin circuit tester screwdriver is the best way to remove the fan from those coolers. Fits perfectly. And to remove the stubborn thermal paste I scrape it off with a plastic spudger first.
Yeah going straight down on the screw through the top hole with a small diameter shaft is much easier,
for really dry DELL/HP CPU Concrete after scraping the lumpy bits I use Electrical Contact & Parts Cleaner, let it soak for a minute & wipes away very easy, at my local Autoshop it's only a couple of bucks for a big can & it's stronger than Alcohol but still safe.
Oh boy this channel is about to pop off I can already tell getting in UA-cam recommendations and the content is darn great.
i love when people restore these old low end low cost pcs and upgrade with an budget of around hundred bucks, keep up the work man!
You adopted it!
Wouldn't want them to starve!
You can clean that case with regular vinegar or vinegar mixed with dishwasher liquid. It takes out that type of dirt quickly without damaging the plastic.
I have an old HP from around the same time actually. I'll love to see how much performance you'll push our of it!
For sure! I hope I can do something fun with it!
Great intro. I needed a PC in 2007 to process VHS footage of my brother and sister and the folks from 1998 to make DVDs for the 10th anniversary. But I was short of money. So I picked up a PC that had been kicked out to the kerb. It was a Compac Presario Pentium 4 HT. I got the project completed. I prefer to build my own now. UHD drone footage etc. GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-DS2 AMD FM2+ AMD GPU and Nvidia hardware processing as a multi-GPU configuration. On the cheap but fast enough. This is a great way to learn PCs as you go. Thanks.
An old friend of mine had left his computer unprotected from when a building team was renovating his house, and the dust from plaster. It looked very much like this.
Also, I suppose you know but didn't have the right screw driver, but it's meant to use a screw driver with a long "shank"? that you put in the hole above and then you can reach the fastener.
I think it's sad how people treat their pc's. Another friend of mine didn't clean it for a couple of years and I was surprised it worked at all. I'm on the other hand like to take on such work.
Great work man!
I used to build what I called "Theft Proof" PCs. I'd get some grotty old computer then install a newer motherboard and other much nicer parts then sell it. An early one of those I did was in a 1980's WANG PC case. It had a mega sized motherboard where the half with the slots had standard PC/AT mountings but the other half, under the power supply (desktop, not tower) was proprietary with the I/O ports out the rear. A normal baby AT board and power supply went right in and I blocked off the large opening where the ports had been.
IIRC what went into it was either an 80386 40Mhz or some decent 486, most likely a DX2 66Mhz. The outside all looked just like the original WANG 286. I don't remember how much $ I got for it.
What I really wanted to do with the 40Mhz 386 board was get one of the clock doubled 386 pin compatible 486 SX chips and matching FPU that fit the 387 socket but they were rare and $$$$. 30 pin SIMMs would have been a bottleneck.
You are only ten years off in technology. Which is HUGE
The real world is still in the Windows 7 era.
I've got an OptiPlex 7010 SFF that had a 3rd gen CPU until I graded it to an i7 3770 for 30 bucks. With additional upgrades of 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD it runs surprisingly well.
I missed a detail --- I upgraded from a 3rd gen i5 (3470) to the i7 3770 .
Nanya sounds like a fake name you type somewhere where you don't want to use a real name
Like "Nanya Business" lol
Agree, it does seem a bit strange sounding lol
I think this might fall into the category of not picking up USBs in your work the parking lot.
Great job you do, i will say paint it again and go forward!
Machines with suicide batteries suck. I've had plenty of them over the years, including seemingly dead laptops that had flat batteries. Unfortunately for those, the battery was often soldered to some inaccessible area of the logic board, and required near complete disassembly to get to. Replacing said soldered batteries was also an annoyance, since they were tiny little things not even a quarter size of a CR2032.
I usually just solder long wire leads to a battery holder and stuff it inside the memory bay if possible.
I think that you're just supposed to stick your screwdriver through the holes directly above the screws. Not put the screwdriver at an angle.
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There was a neighbor that lived pretty decently closed to my sister. He was their computers out of her once in awhile. I wound up getting a computer that only needs a graphics card and had a 4th gen i5 in it. Another time. And the last time I can't remember it was to all in ones
Missing PSU, or custom case window?... All a matter of perspective 😏
That is true, one mans missing PSU is another man's hot swappable CPU bay window if you are creative enough!
@@BudgetBin 😄Heck yeah
Imo there's two routes that u can take with this PC upgrade wise:
1) Just add a gpu, 1050ti would your best choice here
2) Swap the CPU for a xeon e3-1230 v2 which is the same as i7-3770 but cheaper and has no Intel graphics and add a GTX 1060 6gb version. The cpu tdp is lower than the i5's, 1060 doesn't draw all that much power either, so your psu should be enough, and yh if u do all this add more ram and fans and maybe try customizing the PC case.
Yeaaap.
The Xeon IS the way to go,add more ram, thought.
I might get that exact CPU. Thanks for the recommendations!
1050ti is old I see no reason to use it at all. 1650 is much newer, faster while still using just 75w. 1060 always was good but it is 7 years old now, long term it's not a good choice.
@@Erikcleric definitely it's just that 1050 ti cheaper
@@BudgetBin I have an I7 3770 from an old PC I bought, it also has a 1060. I'm not planning to use either of those things.
You should have 10x the views and subs. Glad I found your channel.
Thanks! Glad you ran into it.
That pc was made on my birthday. So awesome
Maybe it was failing because of the broken the front USB connector. Someone tried to change the PSU and when it didn`t worked they trowed the PC away, keeping (or returning) the new PSU.
I have found PCs that after few days outside were as dirty as this on the exterior after a rain, just because the dust adhered to the water droplets and it was quite hard to clean (notice that it was dirty mostly on the bottom part).
Nice PC you found there, mine is a core I3-6100 (found it near a recycle bin) that is very good for light gaming (paired with a GTX1060 an upgraded to 16G and a SSD) and office stuff, browsing and multimedia. Mine was throwed away (my guess) because of the random BSOD (windows 10) caused by the failing 2TB HDD that was inside.
Nice find.
Yeah some computers only need a few parts sometimes to get them running like new, and at worst you might be spending $100 on the whole upgrade.
@@BudgetBinYou are right, I plan to upgrade the CPU to a core I7 7700 and that is it. My previous daily computer was a laptop with first gen core CPU that I maxed and it lasted 10 years to me. Maybe this will last the same.
I know that the 3rd and 4th gen Optiplex can take a Xeon with the latest bios updates installed. Not sure about the Vostro. But, buying a used Xeon 4core 8 thread cpu is a bit cheaper than the i7.
what a lucky find!
nice video btw:)
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I have one of these Vostro machines, I picked it up off eBay for 21 pounds of eBay. I then removed the HDD bays as these can be easily removed by drilling out the rivets on the bottom of the case, this allowed me to install a large GPU. I also threw in a 1tb SSD and a Corsair 550w PSU.
Whenever I find an e-waste I just feel so bad. I've salvaged a handful and fixed them up. One I think the only original parts are the motherboard and RAM lol. Where I live it's kinda hard to sell them for any sort of profit, so I end up trying to find uses for them. One Dell ended up becoming a Wii emulator PC in my living room.
Paint some mean ass flames on it and make it an eSports PC.
Just subbed too.
Thanks for the sub!
So. Why did both PCs end up on the side of the road in the same place? Is that a dumping spot? When faced with old thermal paste, forget IPA. It's too weak. Get Goo Gone. Or even better, an industrial citrus solvent I can't tell you how to get. The stuff is magic and obliterates thermal paste and grease without hurting anything. I would have gotten the paste off and thrown that cooler in the sink to soak in soapy water. Aluminum and copper heat sinks do not rust. When the dust is caked on, soak it. Run it in a dishwasher if you dare. Let the metal dry. Bake it if in a hurry. Good as new. Fans are cheap. That dusty one was not worth saving. But nice save on the machine as a whole. Pity that one driveway keeps putting out PCs though.
To answer the question at least, it was because I didn't want to film on another person property, other than my own. lol
I would’ve guessed it was the art teacher’s old PC from the High School. Some kid stole it, and it up and dumped the body… *Tower*
For buying a GPU, could I recommend a used RX 6400 off Ebay (should be around $100) it performs similar to a GTX 1650 and only runs off PCIe power, I think it could be a good GPU for the build. Crazy that you've found two side of the road computers!
I can vouch for the 6400, paired it with a 4790k and 32GB RAM in a 9020 SFF. It's was a powerhouse.
GTX 1650 also has low profile cards. I own one. It's better to go with 1650 in older pc's since it's PCI gen 3. Rx 6400 is gen 4 so it would lose bandwidth due to that.
score and glad to see you got it working !
Man, I miss the days when people left out PCs and other cool electronics for the trash. We are now required to bring it to special drop off places. What sucks about that is it is only a "one way" thing. You can drop off but they won't let you pick up or buy anything there! There aren't any good places at all around here to actually buy second hand PCs or electronics! Everything goes to e-waste! I HATE it here! 😠
Sorry to hear man! Maybe you can move to a place where you could do that again. I hate places like that.
I hope you enjoyed the video though!
@@BudgetBin Thanks bro! I DO so much want to leave here, but I'm still stuck here for now. Yup...I sure did enjoy the video and will see you on your next one! Be well! 👍👍
old credit card to clean off the old thermal compound
This looks all too familiar. One thing I do with the heat sinks is to lap them flat - you'd be surprised how many are no where close to flat when I get my hands on older systems. Can't comment on how long they have been that way, grin!
Brooo.....how do you keep running into these ..."BUDGET BIN PCS" lol love when its a simple fix. Cant wait to see what you do with it
Thanks man, I'm glad someone believes me when I just happen to run into these things lol.
Besides this one, I found something else that isn't a PC that was on the side of the road, that I hope to do a video on sometime later this year.
Glad you enjoyed this one!
I found a perfect Dell 9020 minus the hd in the trash at our apartment block. Cleaned it up and threw an ssd in and it went. Last week I found some PC speakers.
You had an easier time than I am having! I’m trying to get my HP Envy PC up and running again….and noticed that, instead of the four sticks of memory it’s supposed to have, and which it did have the last time I was in there (if I remember, I replaced the CD drive) there are now only three and, during the Test phase (which is as far as I have gotten with it), I keep getting a USB port failure reading - but, as there’s eight of them, and when I plugged both the keyboard and mouse into two of the four on the back, I was able to get that far - but it doesn’t say which one is failing/has failed…and, even weirder, it’s saying that the HDD (a 2TB Seagate Barracuda) has failed, yet that passed the test!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
It’s started out with Windows 8 on there, but my friend insisted on getting the free Windows 10 upgrade…which I was never really wanting him to do. (He’s one of the “must get now, it’s newer therefore better” side while I’m the “if it’s NOT broke, why change it” side on that.)
Hopefully you will get up and running. Good luck!
@@BudgetBin I’m soooooooooo gonna need it!
Make a budget gaming PC out of it. In the meantime if you are going to save more of these machines make your life easier:
Buy a set of long screwdrivers (for the cpu fan), magic erasers (to clean the case), acetone (for thermal paste cleaning), and a can of deoxit (for oxidation removal on socket connectors)
Like the channel and content so far. Subbed.
Thanks for the support, and will do!
Aye. Another one. You should maybe try goo gone
Maybe, it definitely needs some more cleaning still.
Dell PCs do all sorts of strange behaviors with a bad CMOS battery.
You should make it an esport PC for one of those kids whose mom has a problem with any video games to start withLOL
I might have just done that in part 2.
Nice editing 👌 👏
I try.
When you have a Dell with a missing power supply, get the right part. They are not always standard power supplies in those and they may be some bizarre thing you have never seen in any "normal" computer. In one other UA-cam vid some guy looked inside his Dell and the CPU cooler was not mounted to a bracket on the back of the board. instead some sort of standoffs passed through so the cooler could mount to those. That is a most unusual design. It almost feels like they had a lot of a specific case design left over and thought it would be cheaper to design new motherboards to fit them. Then the front motherboard IO is on the motherboard itself and goes all the way to the front of the case. Another really weird design choice.
r7 240 4 gig by powercolor is about 35 bucks on amazon... it will run well with that vostro for games up to Fallout 4
Not a bad idea!
I went to take out the trash and found a white xbox 360 with hdmi and chrome controller in the dumpster. I plugged it in against my better judgement and it works perfectly fine, including optical drive and hdd. No words
I thought the error code may have been ram issues as I had that problem in my xps studio I got from an estate sale for $5. I have an acer vista laptop that would come on and then shut off never to come back in until I unplugged it. Come to find out it had a dead cmos battery and replacing it fixed it….it was free so I have no complaints
Wish I could find old PC's at the side of the road. If you are going to renovate PC's get yourself an air blower to get rid of a lot of dust plus Iso alcohol for cleaning the CPU and cooler plus other electrical parts.
My suggestion is to make a Ventoy key and toss a couple of live GNU Linux ISOs on it. That lets you, depending on the distribution, do anything from test the memory to have the whole system running to test the various bits connected. Really handy when the boot HD has been removed, and cheap enough to fit the Chanel name too.
I often find office pcs on the side of the road myself too, and often they only lack a component or two, maybe an ssd, dvd drive, power cable, ram, or something like that, but it's easy enough to get those parts, and, a lot of times, they boot perfectly fine, and I personally like to use them as server pcs
I have no idea why perfectly fine pcs are being thrown out, either because they're too slow? (sometimes it might just be the drive that's slow, but, who knows, people that don't know a whole lot about computers might just throw them out BECAUSE their drive was slow), or because something like the monitor wasn't working and they thought they had to throw out the pc as well? I don't know, but I do know that these pcs do often make for good servers, as they're likely to already have a good enough cpu installed, but no gpu at all, which, in many cases, isn't a problem
Yeah I think they upgrade and treat it like an old iphone or something and just, toss it. lol
But yeah, it's probably because they do have an old physical drive that was bloated or filled with viruses. I hoped you liked the video btw! Especially the intro.
@@BudgetBin yes, I did, I like videos like this! glad I found you
I remember seeing a late 90's to early 2000's retro pc in the side of the road. Sadly I didnt pick it. ):
YeeOwch on that PSU, the prices they be a rising. I happened on an IBM Dual socket PSU for a little over 30, its 625W and has 8 pin ATX12v, as well as 6pin and 8pin (and a spare 10-pin 12v you could break out if you have to).
I went to a recycle center and found a 2014 Dell 9020 Micro PC for 25 bucks, and a Samsung Galaxy A 8.4 inch tablet for 50 bucks. Both were in great condition. I put a 500gb SSD, installed Win 8.1 and repurposed the Dell as a retro gaming PC. The Samsung tablet is also acts as a phone. I wonder if I can get a sim card from Spectrum? I'm going to be going back to the center to get another mico Dell and see if I can get Win 98 to work on it.
E3-1245 v2 xeon cpu upgrade, I run Xeons in mine and this has onboard graphics, 4 core, 8 thread and cheap. Typing this on a HP 800 G1 that will get a E3-1246 v3 soon plus 32gb ram because....why not. And this reminded me to buy motherboard batteries.😁
You like 'em dirty.
It's got one incurable fault, it's a Dell. I think it's worth every cent you paid.
☺ dremel and wire brush that ancient caked on thermal paste
Hahahahaha you made me wet my self the holes on top of the cpu fan is for the thin screwdriver to take it off not angle 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dude! you're getting a Dell!😁🤟🤫👍👍
Wow, cool! I have restored a dell vostro, too!!!
What? A pc that can't post without a bios battery I can say that I've never seen that. I've had calls where no oS and the floppy drive was left in or the ram wasn't pushed all the way down. A jumper not removed from the board. The PSU the hardrive power switches but never no boot from cmos battery.
use a long screw driver .. poke thru the corner hole adjacent to the screw .. much easier to remove the screw .. ;)
The coin battery cost me about 2.75 each ...
Sell the beard and buy a set of screwdrivers lol
Reminds me of a PC I found on the side of the road, it was on it's side, on the actual road, so I assume it had fallen of a trailer etc.
It was all there and booted straight away. So I wend digging through the HDD to see if I could find any details that would lead me to it's owner, no success, however there were quite a few pictured of it's owner and his wife - however some clothing on their part would have helped....... eek - say no more - gross.
Please don't do this, you never know where it will end up. The computer/whatever gets old and falls into disuse, you forget what's on there and then it ends up somewhere else - like my place.
Or it's still in daily use, but with several scam artists crowded around their screens on the other side of the planet, not believing what they have hacked into, before uploading the lot to a file share site somewhere.
like that tf2 intro.
It’s a interesting story but sounds like complete fiction
Make a budget gaming PC
You can paint it white, it will look great
And please, add another fan or two to that machine, it'll say thank you in the future
Labour of Love or Love of Labour?
You are lucky.
Ahhh shit here we go again
Part 2?
One vote for the $35 RX580 8GB from AliExpress 😂
Nice road find. unfortunately even with 8/16gb ram, ssd and windows 10/11 install you won't be able to get more than $50 for it. DDR3 systems just don't hold too much value anymore and even if you add RX 570/GTX 1060 to it you won't be able to sell it for more than $100. trust me, people just don't buy old used computers in US/CA. these 2nd-4th gen i5 computers are given away for free and sell for pennies on classified markets
I disagree. Depending on what you do to these old PCs, and who you sell them to; it isn't uncommon, (from what I have personally found selling a few computers like this before) for people to buy these old computers with upgrades and stylization thrown into them.
But it is certainly a challenge nonetheless. Unless, you know what you are doing to sell these computers.
@@BudgetBin by the time you spend upgrading it, you already have spent $100 and you can get ddr4 systems with i5 6500 for example for that price, even cheaper. I have been doing it for years, my last pc with i3 2120 and a monitor didnt sell for $40, I gave it away for free which took some time. ebay prices are not accurate for local prices
Could make for a simple homeserver
see if it still posts with an RX video card, cause it might not, plan b would be HD or GTX, lets go 😏
I've gotten many that way ...
so you set pc parts out by the road & then make videos as if you found them? what the heck lol. Theres no way the same dude threw out random PC parts, & everything works, & you can just clean it & put it back together HAHA. Not to mention the fact that you've picked up 2 PC's in the exact same spot .. lol. Love the content but god you need to put more work into making it seem realistic.
I understand the skepticism, but the truth of the matter is I'm just filming them in the same spot near one of my driveway lol. I found the first gaming PC in my neighborhood on a run and there is a pic of me even carrying it up a hill that was snapped of me when I asked someone to come help me take it to my house last year if you really want the proof. (Join the discord and I'll post it)
I'm not going to film on someone's property or their business as I respect there privacy and the law. But if you don't believe me, fine. I'm still glad you enjoyed the videos.
Also, why would I go out of my way to disassemble PC's, put them on "the side of the road", and then cover them in caked on dirt that took probably years to form, to then film for... what? I don't even make money doing this lol.
I have the same pc
😒 uhm take it outside, garden hose, hot soap n water and wash it all out, then wipe down, then air dry
At this point you are basically saving nothing as it cant run Windows 11+.
I having same PC case
...👏👍🖖 4:17
This one is worse than any I've cleaned ...
make it a cheap minecraft server
Maybe.
Sorry I find it hard to belive your story
These videos should act as inspiration for people to go on Walks
Mom: we have JerryRigEverything at home
JerryRigEverything at home: this channel.
Pro tip: get a hole saw big enough to put a 120 or 92mm fan behind, I do this to pretty much all of these home office PCs. (It works great on the plastic panel, but you do need something that can cut a hole in the metal case too, like an angle grinder with a thin harbor freight cut-off wheel. If this loses the power button I use one of those metal buttons with the LED in it from Al1Expr3ss
If you have 3rd or 4th gen get yourself a Xeon E3 v2 or v3. 1245v2 was $18 for me and its faster than the i7 (my multi-core CPU-z run actually just barely beat a 7600K). But routinely some good deals like 1231v3 for $6-12 (4th Gen, no iGPU)