I like how Intel is trying to fool people by calling their integrated graphics chip "Intel Extreme Graphics 3D", it sounds better than a GTX460 and gues which graphic chip would your grandparents choose.
AMD continued to provide integrated Radeon IGPs into their AM2/AM3 boards HD 3200 and HD 4200s and the later was actually quite overclockable I have a 785G board with the 4200 running at 850MHz stock is only 500 and it doesn't get hot or show any artifacting or glitching that would indicate that it has any issues from it. Most igpus can't really do much of anything AMD's and to a lesser extent nVidia's chipsets had pretty reasonable performance and worked fine for light duty stuff.
When I saw that it doesn't have an AGP slot, bugger, that really limits your options. Something like a PCI GeForce 6200 could work, should beat the onboard GPU.
I left my 1999 pc in a bowl of rice overnight. And then Asians came and turned into a super computer. (Only works with basmati rice) Edit: sorry my mistake, thanks to all the replies I realised that I meant brown rice.
My grandmother is still using this very machine. We've changed out a dying HDD, replaced the DVD Drive, and added a little RAM and recently a flat screen monitor (her first). She LOVES it.
Just look at the motherboard! The AGP 8x slot was obviously removed, making upgrades impossible. Yes, there are PCI graphics cards, but those suffer from significantly less bandwidth.
sweet jesus, what do you have?? I remember dial up, then our house got WiFi that never, ever worked properly and we were left with no internet at all for a good year.
Damn... I couldn't imagine living with internet like that... The slowest I get is 6MB/s down (60Mbps) and 1.1MB/S (10Mbps) up... That was after we got a free upgrade from ADSL to Fibre, and in the future we get a free upgrade to Gigabit. My speeds are considered pretty slow too... Closer to the city (I'm in super rural Ireland) has connections around 100-300Mbps for around the same price as mine... I hope it improves for you soon man
Dylan Collins it should soon. My internet company said we were getting better speeds soon. In reality, I think it's simply because of the wires routed in our house are from the 90s and probably can't handle any better.
Ehhh, I'd call bullshit on that, the wires to mine are from the late 70's and they can handle a max of 80Mbps, same with the internal wiring, we only had to change the socket where the telephone wire goes to the router
If I'm not mistaken then that's caused by the Intel extreme graphics, because they don't support directx9. I had the Intel extreme graphics once and same thing happened even with patch 1.4.
Edilson Rodrigues you do realize he has done many many videos on newer tech? His thing is budget gaming/computing, which often relies on some older hardware. This is more of retrospective.
Early 2000s I had an eMachines pc exactly like that one. Spent the majority of my early teens glued to it playing counter strike source. Oh, the nastalgia.
You got 10mb download speed in 20 minutes - wow? I got 2mb download speed in 1 hour because I lived in a very rural area. The main reason download managers were created is because they allowed a user to continue to download from their last spot instead of having to constantly start / restart from the beginning due to a bad connection. Getright was my download manager of choice. I had a lot of eMachines and usually each model no more than a couple of weeks. I would return them to Best Buy within the 30 day return period for one reason or another, then I quit buying them after the mileage and time devoted to returning them was too much. I still have an eMachine empty case in my shop from a friend's computer I attempted to repair years ago. For some reason the big "e" power button is painted blue?? Still, it's good seeing this old beast of yours "actually running" in your video. "Actually running" is more than I can say for almost all eMachines and I can find a lot of older now defunct computers running, but not eMachines. Thanks for this video that I'm now just seeing! Praise The Lord and Godspeed to you all - John 14:26!!
I bought a few from shops in town (back when regular stores stocked them not supermarkets and pc stores) and took them back within a few days more of a software issue then bought a Fujitsu Siemens computer and to this day it seemed the most solid pc I ever had, a thick but small case, suffered bumps and being knocked over and moved and never crashed etc. I can't remember how long it took but I remember roms about 7 megabytes took about 30 minutes. I mostly used download mangers to about 2013 as even with fast for the time broadband websites may of just download at 1 megabit speeds even if I had 20 megabit connection so I had to make multiple connections with a download manager to not wait all day for a large download.
Linux is pretty good for these (128MB ram, and single thread Sempron). I put Puppy Linux on a tablet from 2006 (also single thread, but a Pentium, and upgraded to 715MB of ram), and its enough to store the entire OS into ram (no HDD, and remove the USB drive cause I need the extra port). Its pretty snappy for web browsing.
My first machine was an AMD K6-2 450 Mhz Win 98SE and yea, I paid just under $1200 for it. I think about what I could build for $1200 no days and yea I also remember when $399 became the entry price for a PC. Dell had one too. It's pretty much where I stopped building them but I remember my Brother buying one of the $400 Dell machines and it didn't work right. It was something stupid, a software thing but they sent him a new one. They didn't even ask for the old one back. He ended up with 2. They were cheap enough they just didn't care.
Morc I know bro! It was just a joke! It's running Windows xp which, I believe, can't even handle directx10. And even if he installed Win7, the PC would struggle to run it, so there's no way to run gta5 here xD
I have an Emachines et1352g-03w athlon 2 260u 4gb ram nvidia 6150se it's getting an AMD phenom II x4 or a10 8gb ram and a gt 710 (it's enough for gta v on med)
Upgrade that thing to a hyper threaded, high clocked Pentium 4(this may suprise some of you, this thing will actually not be cheap), more ram if possible, and the most powerful GPU that won't get bottlenecked by the P4, as well as a larger hard drive (I'd recommend a SATA to IDE adapter for this).
There's no AGP slot--he could only do PCI GPUs, which would be pretty limiting--much better than the onboard, but probably not enough to complement a high-end P4, I'd think.
My Dad bought a gateway 510XL for $1499 dollars in 2004 That came with Pentium 4 3.0 ghz HT a fx 5200 with a Sound blaster audigy 2 512mb ram and 120gb hdd and that was mainstream at the time. It funny how it was around 1000 and now it worth 50 bucks now, I still use runs great I can watch 720p video on it idk how it could because of the p4 but it can.
That's ridiculous high value its held. I own a near mint condition GPU from 2007 (was $2,799 at launch, so a LOT more in today's money). But I bought it mint in sealed box for very little. I'm sure I killed the value actually opening it up and using it, but whatever, the thing makes a great hand drier if you run Furmark. Though its loud enough you need hearing protection if you crank the fans up.
oh my god i remember emachines, i wasn't even a teenager when i started wanting a desktop and i always saw how cheap the emachines were and asked for one but ended up with an hp pavilion
Great video! My first pc was an eMachines with somewhat similar specs (1.8 Ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, Nvidia integrated graphics) in 2002, and looking back, I'm actually really grateful that I started with such a modest machine for gaming, because it forced me to learn how to upgrade RAM, CPU, install a GPU and thus gave me the confidence to do my first system build a few years later: not sure I would have learned any of that if it had been blessed with high-end components to start with! Thanks for posting & keep the excellent retro content coming!
The one and only eMachines I ever had was back in 2007(ish). A laptop which really got me through some tough times. Having only heard bad things about eMachines from back in the day, I had little hopes for the machine. But it turned around and surprised me, even ran some games (like CS Source) relatively well with mixed graphics settings.
I remember my eMachines E3042. I got it in 2006 for my 17th birthday and despite it being crap as a daily after a few years (really don't know how I managed to get it running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit as it was slow AF), but it lasted me 10 years before it died and went kaput. I did give it a few upgrades with 2GB DDR2 RAM, an ATi HD 2400 Pro, and a Creative Audigy Soundblaster.
I had one of these... didn't know much about computers until I joined a server in CS:S. Learned my pc was shit. lol ...upgraded +1gb ram and threw in a 8400GS - my integrated was ATI Radeon XPress 200; the card I installed was surprisingly better... should have gotten a 7800/8800 though.
My family had an E-machines with 256mb ram back in 2005. The power supply failed which I got blamed for (oof bad memories) I remember doing lots of photo editing and PowerPoints very slowly haha.
I had one of the 2003 or 2004 models with a very similar case, except it had two disc drives. I burned so many CDs, the CD-RW drive burned out and stopped working. It would keep getting errors in the middle of a burn, rendering the discs unfinalized and wasted. The main games I ran on it were Diablo, Diablo II and Sonic 3D Blast. Eventually one of the critical parts; either the hard drive, motherboard, power supply or all of the above went out and my step-grandfather ended up building me a new computer. He wasn't able to save any of my old files unfortunately. Somewhere I have the three ghost discs which are for reinstalling the OS. Maybe if I find those CDs I could figure out exactly which model number I had.
If I game on my emachines el1358G you can game on this... my specs are GT1030.. 8GB ram.. phenom II quad core 905e cpu and 1TB HDD and a 500GB SSD... I can play PUBG all day long on my system.
I have one similar to the one in this video, but I heavily modded it, to use for gaming, and also for copying movie's, music, I added a second 160gig hardrive along with a one gb memory additional memory, also updated the power supply and the ati Radeon 9500, also had two Dvd Rw drives
LOL I had one of these and that was after 2010, pentium 4 2.6 I still use the old heatsink on my q6600 build :D only bit still in use I think/hope. (edit) No the bestec psu (300w) is still going hard and I used it with my 9800gt super 1GB plus :D
Literally just did a fully custom build in one of these cases. Same pc specs as in the video I ended up cutting a front 120 mm fan slot in the front panel making a custom power button and painting it as-well as slapping a Ryzen 3200g with 8GB of 2400mhz ram, upgraded the psu and added a gtx 750 not the one I’m staying with though only a temporary solution as of the current situation and it’s only so I can utilise full ram usage of 8GB pretty decent system to be honest.
I remember having this chassis for a different model - W6409 - P4, ATI Radeon Xpress 200 iGPU and 512mb RAM. Only "modern" games I could run at a playable, non-crashing framerate were Counter-Strike Source and Resident Evil 4. Even HL2 and the notorious PC port of Devil May Cry 3 suffered from horrible stuttering. It made the ET1831-01 I 'upgraded' to with its Celeron 420, nForce 7050 graphics and whopping 3GB RAM seem like a powerhouse by comparison but that was all my parents could afford. Luckily I did gradually upgrade within 2 years and wound up with an i3 prebuilt that had a GTX 560 stuck in it.
Everyone should use 56k for one year just so you know how lucky you are. But back then we did not have cell phones. 56K was painful. My 1ft computer (HP) had a 233mhz cpu, 64mb ram, a floppy drive, and I think the hard drive was 4gig, and no the mouse did not have a scroll wheel, had windows 95 on it. Not kidding I could click on a site, get up and go to the bathroom take care of what was needed grab a coke set back down and if I was lucky only had to wait a min. or two for the page to load. and this post would have taken about 4 hours to up load.
Want to know something funny? My current download speed is way lower than dial-up. I've hit my record today with 0.22Mbps. This issue has something to do on my PC's end, since no one else has any problems. I have tried everything within my power to fix it, but to no avail. It is interesting noting that the speed sometimes is what it is supposed to be (around 30-40 Mbps) with frequent drops, every 30 seconds or so. And there are also these periods when it becomes so unusable, watching youtube in 144 pixels is out of the question. If someone is able to help me, let me know.
Compaq also made similar budget machines to this in the early 2000s. I had the misfortune of being stuck on one until around 2011. It originally belonged to my sister until she gave up on it in 2007. It was BAD! The thing sounded like a jet engine when booting up and quieted down when it got to the XP welcome screen. And occasionally it would start taking off again while it was running! It came stock with: Socket 478 motherboard with Extreme Graphics and NO AGP SLOT! Celeron 2.4 Ghz (probably Northwood or something) 128 MB of DDR1 RAM (the GPU shared like 32 or 64 of that) 40GB Seagate hard drive CD-RW drive that broke within a couple years 250 watt generic PSU that would randomly shut down Windows XP Yuck. The thing needed a power supply replacement, CD drive replacement, RAM upgrade to 1GB, and an FX 5500 PCI video card to even be usable. And the BIOS would never detect the CD drive properly without a lot of fiddling around, although that may have been a bad IDE cable because we tried replacing the motherboard at one point and it still didn't work. The thing is in bits and pieces in the garage now.
Our first was an eMachines T2891 from around 2004.. With an AMD Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B, essentially a rebadged Athlon MP sold later as a budget processor, and yes, Semprons had multiprocessor abilities unlocked), 512 MB PC3200 (Later 1 GB), and S3 Unichrome integrated graphics on a VIA KM266 Pro chipset. Later a Radeon 9800 Pro because AGP lol. They really did use the exact same case for everything they made to cut manufacturing costs. It worked well. At the time eMachines was owned by Korean conglomerate TriGEM
Yep, emachines 210 was my first pc when I was 4 years old in 2003👌😂 2.3ghz Celeron 256mb ram Intel “extreme” agp graphics 80gb ide hdd Crappy ac97 sound *Power supply blew up 3 times motherboard blew 4 times of only lasted about 8 months and kept breaking over the course of 3 years*
DUDE my family used an Emachines T6400 with an Athelon x64 3200 that looks exactly like this. I still have the Mobo and I got an old 8400gs and a 60gb SSD for free so I'm planning to upgrade it, slap it in a new case, and add wifi, SATA 3 and USB 3. *Edit* I got lucky and the model we have has 2 PCI, 1 Pcie x1, and 2 SATA ports.
I had a T3604, with a 3.4 single core(Celeron) processor, Windows Vista as a OS, 1TB HDD, no GPU(integrated graphics), and a monitor I was lucky enough to purchase from Cash Convertors for a whopping 12$ bucks. Kept it from 2006 to 2018, until the processor itself burned out. You couldn't do much gaming on it, aside from Doom and a few others. It did play emulators well enough, sans PS2 or greater of course. I believe without a monitor included, I paid just at 300$ for it, come to think of it, it may have been around 250$ instead. I tried Far Cry as well, and let's just say that was a no go. Seeing this older model in direct comparison, damn near brings a tear to my jaded eyes. It's always a good day when the Emachines brand gets some love and attention. *EDIT- If anyone knows where I can find the T3604 model from 2006/7, feel free to reply to this with the info. I checked all the major sell sites. I would adore the chance to get a second chance with that model.
i had a pc from 2005 and the hdd broke and the chipset overheated i fixed it i build a new one and is was in 2016 spechs old idk the orginal spech cus i trowed away the broken hdd and the mobo cuz that was broken new mobo winfast nf4uk8aa new hdd wd black 500 gb it broke too :( cpu amd athlon 2 gb ram nvidia geforce gtx 6800 and a sound card specs new 4GB 1600MHz (PC3-12800) DDR3 CL10 Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5 SSD gpu gtx 1050 msi mobo amd fx 6300 corsair carbide spec-04 toshiba hdd 2 tb
Wow brings back memories of my self build Celeron D 3.8ghz (oc) coupled with Geforce 6600 256mb, Paid for itself for Writing files of people on cd/DVD service and printing stuff. Had to part ways with it due to the pc not able to playback hd videos properly (youtube was starting to take off back then). The expensive core 2 duo e6600 (oc to 3.1ghz) + geforce 8800 gts 640mb succeeded it so i can max out need for speed underground 2... both of which are now put to shame by a pentium g4560 and hd graphics (i5 4590+1060 is my current rig)...
I just bought a HD 5570 DDR3 1Gb version from Cex for 1.5 pounds. Is it RandomGamingHD worthy? Can we call it a budget builder's bargain? I wished I got the DDR5 version, that would have been wicked for 1.5 pounds.
I've had several eMachines PC's. My first one from February 1999 an etower 300K (AMD K6-2 @ 300 Mhz) still runs like a champ. I have a T6420 model given to my by one of my brothers with an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU that has a nice PCI express graphics slot so I am not limited to the Integrated graphics. One hint about emachines is that often their power supply is cheap,can easily fail and this will take out the motherboard if it does as the cheap power supplies do not have protective circuitry. So I recommend replacing the power supply if you want it to last. Cheap Bestec power supplies often used on them were notorious at failing
My family used to have an E-Machines, a friend of,y mothers decked it out. Was a Windows 98 with a Pentium 3 They Recycled sold it/stored it somewhere in my house (most likely) in 2007/8 2012/2013 What I would do for that PC.... it could play Doom well. That I know.
I don't don't care AMD, INTL ,NVIDIA can give me another core and a BJ but (THUMB SCREWS RULE). If you build systems a lot having thumb screws made a bigger impact than any multi core CPU
I have an original dial-up era "Sign up for MSN and receive a 50% discount on your entire system!" e-machines with a Celeron 667MHz and originally 32MB of SDRAM that my great aunt eventually upgraded to 64MB. It still runs, but I never really power it up. It just sits in the closet. lol
I’m like 99% sure I had this when I was kid! Or more like it was my dads around 2006 and I used it sometimes, since I had old iMac G3 😹 then he gave it to me once he bought new PC!
Christmas 2009 I received an Emachines SFF computer. Was super pumped because it had Windows 7. With only 4gb of RAM and some shitty AMD CPU it flat out struggled to load UA-cam videos out of the box. Put a bad taste in my mouth for budget prebuilt emachines.
The first modern computer my family bought was an eMachines that used the same tower shown, but was older and had a Celeron 1.3GHz. Biggest PoS computer we ever used. Fortunately a year later, I had enough money saved up to build my own PC. I bought an Athlon XP 2800+. PS: The eMachines PS/2 mouse almost caught on fire after a couple of years. One day it stopped working and got super hot. I tore it apart to find out that some component started burning up.
my first computer was a emachines EL1352-07E. amd athlon II x2 220 at 2.8ghz 4gb of ddr3 which at the time i was having difficulties finding a used pc in the $280 range with windows 7 and 4gb of ddr3 and a 500gb hard drive.i wanted a desktop with radeon hd 4250 but none were in my price range. so i ended up with the geforce 6150 se nforce 430. 8 months later i got a radeon hd 5450 1gb ddr2 from diablotek for $17 which was the fastest thing at the price range.i got it to play cod4 at higher settings and smoother gameplay for modded zombie lobbies. this was mid 2011.
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This pc is older than 90% of jake paulers
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*100%
I've never seen a Jake Pauler IRL that's older than 8
Lol rip jake paulers
Nathan Chesshir the other 10% are older than 12 but younger than 14
I like how Intel is trying to fool people by calling their integrated graphics chip "Intel Extreme Graphics 3D", it sounds better than a GTX460 and gues which graphic chip would your grandparents choose.
literally it was the same shit everyone didddd and still pulling the radeon gpu for an nvidia and that hasn't changed man just do that lol
Well atI had rage
AMD continued to provide integrated Radeon IGPs into their AM2/AM3 boards HD 3200 and HD 4200s and the later was actually quite overclockable I have a 785G board with the 4200 running at 850MHz stock is only 500 and it doesn't get hot or show any artifacting or glitching that would indicate that it has any issues from it. Most igpus can't really do much of anything AMD's and to a lesser extent nVidia's chipsets had pretty reasonable performance and worked fine for light duty stuff.
My father bought me an emachines as my first pc, it was overpriced garbage
Well, Intel processor is legitimately good if not the GPU
Celeron D....One of the most misleading CPU Names of all time.....Even better when it's paired with the dreaded Extreme Graphics.
Budget-Builds Official do a 3rd gen
Processor video
Budget-Builds Official intel gave you the D when purchasing
My school has 90% Pentium and celeron pcs from over 10 yeara ago :/
Celeron D-isaster
Budget-Builds Official-Nice to see ya here! Budget builds is my other favorite potato rebuilder channel, you guys should colaborate!
Man oh man it feels weird to see the RAM labeled as "DDR" without a number XD
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When I helped my father scrap many PCs, my favorite is when I would find blazing fast 128mb sticks of ram
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*Eckztreme graphics*
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I had a Pentium 3 computer which had an on board Voodoo 3… which of course meant it had no AGP slot since the on board Voodoo 3 used it!
Mom!!! Don’t pick up when the phone rings, I’m playing Duke Nukem with Tim up the street. ..ring ring (Hello). Moooam!!! I said don’t pick up!!!!!!
Ah memories.. except that Duke Nukem Part
yo yo yo :D
Got to love when no one older then you doesn't listen to you
DanielC what up bro!
I love your GPU videos! :)
When I saw that it doesn't have an AGP slot, bugger, that really limits your options. Something like a PCI GeForce 6200 could work, should beat the onboard GPU.
PhilsComputerLab yep, it would.
A 6200 would slaughter the onboard Extreme graphics
I put an 8400gs on my old 2004 dell which had the Extreme graphics 2 chipset (which was just as terrible)
fx 5500 would also. I get a good number of games at 1280x 1240 75 hz. Except VTMB. That game nearly destroyed my PCI card.
Isn't the agp slot removed? Can't a handy person solder it back on?
Far Cry PS1 edition
I left my 1999 pc in a bowl of rice overnight. And then Asians came and turned into a super computer. (Only works with basmati rice) Edit: sorry my mistake, thanks to all the replies I realised that I meant brown rice.
lol!!
Nothing But Dead Memes I have a feeling this will be a popular comment so hey, I was the first like
Nothing But Dead Memes basmati rice is Indian, you get call centre support instead
If you're going for customer service than basmati is the game. But if ur looking for pc builders seagulls are the game (nonsense)
Nothing But Dead Memes basmati is Indian but I guess they're still Asians
Try running the Battlefront 2 beta on it and make scrambled eggs with it.
it's already one of those.
the better version of the linus tech tips pizza warmer
Ultra-Phoenix fermi more like furnace
I once had a computer where I overclocked the Celeron D cpu to 5.15ghz and ran it 24/7 with custom cooling. The motherboard eventually died.
Seems like you are venturing into LGR's territory with such a faithful restoration of old PC:) Nice work.
My grandmother is still using this very machine. We've changed out a dying HDD, replaced the DVD Drive, and added a little RAM and recently a flat screen monitor (her first). She LOVES it.
LOVE YOUR VIDEO. Thanks for all the hard work☺️
Just look at the motherboard! The AGP 8x slot was obviously removed, making upgrades impossible. Yes, there are PCI graphics cards, but those suffer from significantly less bandwidth.
20 minutes on a 10mb file. That's only about 3x as slow as what I have.
sweet jesus, what do you have??
I remember dial up, then our house got WiFi that never, ever worked properly and we were left with no internet at all for a good year.
Dylan Collins 800kb down. I could get 20+ but I'd have to go with a shady company who is notorious for overcharging and sabotaging people.
Damn... I couldn't imagine living with internet like that...
The slowest I get is 6MB/s down (60Mbps) and 1.1MB/S (10Mbps) up... That was after we got a free upgrade from ADSL to Fibre, and in the future we get a free upgrade to Gigabit.
My speeds are considered pretty slow too... Closer to the city (I'm in super rural Ireland) has connections around 100-300Mbps for around the same price as mine...
I hope it improves for you soon man
Dylan Collins it should soon. My internet company said we were getting better speeds soon. In reality, I think it's simply because of the wires routed in our house are from the 90s and probably can't handle any better.
Ehhh, I'd call bullshit on that, the wires to mine are from the late 70's and they can handle a max of 80Mbps, same with the internal wiring, we only had to change the socket where the telephone wire goes to the router
4:44 this happened to me a few times, but it can be fixed by installing a patch. is one of my favorite games
If I'm not mistaken then that's caused by the Intel extreme graphics, because they don't support directx9. I had the Intel extreme graphics once and same thing happened even with patch 1.4.
Why don't you try Midtown madness 1 and 2 on these old machines?
I used to have that exact computer! I ended up selling it stock for $75+ ship on eBay.
Justin Musser I also had a similar emachines. I somehow broke the install of XP, and never used it again.
You didn't test Half Life 1!!! !
That would've been a fun test.
Intel Celeron D with Intel Eggstreme Graphics!!!
Please stay the same
Don't do videos on new technology
Love the videos
Umm... This computer is as old as most of the hardware he reviews anyway.
GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560, GT1030, Ryzen 3, GT1030, G4560,
+ Chris D I think you left out a GT 1030 somewhere, better add that.
Edilson Rodrigues you do realize he has done many many videos on newer tech? His thing is budget gaming/computing, which often relies on some older hardware. This is more of retrospective.
Early 2000s I had an eMachines pc exactly like that one. Spent the majority of my early teens glued to it playing counter strike source. Oh, the nastalgia.
Used to have one like this, that same exact case. Had a Pentium 4 in it, threw a GeForce FX5200 in there.
Same here, but I was stuck with the integrated "Extreme"(ly) shit graphics...
I managed to dual boot windows 7 with XP though
"Slightly playable" is a wonderful description of the system 😀
You got 10mb download speed in 20 minutes - wow? I got 2mb download speed in 1 hour because I lived in a very rural area. The main reason download managers were created is because they allowed a user to continue to download from their last spot instead of having to constantly start / restart from the beginning due to a bad connection. Getright was my download manager of choice. I had a lot of eMachines and usually each model no more than a couple of weeks. I would return them to Best Buy within the 30 day return period for one reason or another, then I quit buying them after the mileage and time devoted to returning them was too much. I still have an eMachine empty case in my shop from a friend's computer I attempted to repair years ago. For some reason the big "e" power button is painted blue?? Still, it's good seeing this old beast of yours "actually running" in your video. "Actually running" is more than I can say for almost all eMachines and I can find a lot of older now defunct computers running, but not eMachines. Thanks for this video that I'm now just seeing! Praise The Lord and Godspeed to you all - John 14:26!!
I bought a few from shops in town (back when regular stores stocked them not supermarkets and pc stores) and took them back within a few days more of a software issue then bought a Fujitsu Siemens computer and to this day it seemed the most solid pc I ever had, a thick but small case, suffered bumps and being knocked over and moved and never crashed etc. I can't remember how long it took but I remember roms about 7 megabytes took about 30 minutes. I mostly used download mangers to about 2013 as even with fast for the time broadband websites may of just download at 1 megabit speeds even if I had 20 megabit connection so I had to make multiple connections with a download manager to not wait all day for a large download.
The first pc i bought for myself. Still use it today thanks to Linux.
Snag a PCI version of the GT 610 from Zotac. Perfect fit for that PC.
I have been waiting for an emachines restoration/gaming video for so long, i can not find one anywhere and this just made my day.
When you called Intel Graphic as "Extreme"
It means, Extremely Bad.
if you pause at the right moment at 1:48 you can see a bird flying in the bottom right corner
fweeby bloody hell amazing!
I have a lower end version of this pc, it has 128mb and it's even worse. I haven't even tried to reinstall windows, I have no use for it
Linux is pretty good for these (128MB ram, and single thread Sempron). I put Puppy Linux on a tablet from 2006 (also single thread, but a Pentium, and upgraded to 715MB of ram), and its enough to store the entire OS into ram (no HDD, and remove the USB drive cause I need the extra port). Its pretty snappy for web browsing.
Great video! :D That IGP. xD In Hungary we call it a 3D decelerator. :D
Zoltán Cser lol!! 3D Decelator.. That PC is 3d Decelerator, or better World Decelerator
lmao I'm never complaining about my Ryzen 5 1600AF and GTX1050 2GB ever again xD
My first machine was an AMD K6-2 450 Mhz Win 98SE and yea, I paid just under $1200 for it.
I think about what I could build for $1200 no days and yea I also remember when $399 became the entry price for a PC. Dell had one too. It's pretty much where I stopped building them but I remember my Brother buying one of the $400 Dell machines and it didn't work right. It was something stupid, a software thing but they sent him a new one. They didn't even ask for the old one back. He ended up with 2. They were cheap enough they just didn't care.
E machines was so crap lol
Finally bloody hell!!!
Liam Samuels yeah sorry about the awful upload schedule recently. Been a hectic few days haha
Cool man love your vids man!!! ;)
I use a windows xp computer.... pentium 4, GeForce 2, 2gb ram...
Please. Can you make a video on upgrading the ASUS P5GC MX / 1333 MOBO
It would be cool if you did a restoration of an old Windows 95/98 computer. I have one that uses Windows 95 and it works like a champ
Now make it run gta5
PonySlayer he can't. The PC does even have AGP not the PCI Express for high-end gpus of this time
Morc I know bro! It was just a joke! It's running Windows xp which, I believe, can't even handle directx10. And even if he installed Win7, the PC would struggle to run it, so there's no way to run gta5 here xD
PonySlayer i know
PonySlayer that is actually possible with some mods ive seen a video of it running on a p4
I owned an emachines back in 2006 and it was great, so much nostalgia with it.
I found an emachine like this in my garage I think it was my dads it was so stanky the cpu cooler had like half an inch of dust on it
I have an Emachines et1352g-03w athlon 2 260u 4gb ram nvidia 6150se it's getting an AMD phenom II x4 or a10 8gb ram and a gt 710 (it's enough for gta v on med)
Mccree just buy a gtx 1050 lol why would you buy a graphics adapter to game
Upgrade that thing to a hyper threaded, high clocked Pentium 4(this may suprise some of you, this thing will actually not be cheap), more ram if possible, and the most powerful GPU that won't get bottlenecked by the P4, as well as a larger hard drive (I'd recommend a SATA to IDE adapter for this).
There's no AGP slot--he could only do PCI GPUs, which would be pretty limiting--much better than the onboard, but probably not enough to complement a high-end P4, I'd think.
My Dad bought a gateway 510XL for $1499 dollars in 2004 That came with Pentium 4 3.0 ghz HT a fx 5200 with a Sound blaster audigy 2 512mb ram and 120gb hdd and that was mainstream at the time. It funny how it was around 1000 and now it worth 50 bucks now, I still use runs great I can watch 720p video on it idk how it could because of the p4 but it can.
That's ridiculous high value its held. I own a near mint condition GPU from 2007 (was $2,799 at launch, so a LOT more in today's money). But I bought it mint in sealed box for very little. I'm sure I killed the value actually opening it up and using it, but whatever, the thing makes a great hand drier if you run Furmark. Though its loud enough you need hearing protection if you crank the fans up.
oh my god i remember emachines, i wasn't even a teenager when i started wanting a desktop and i always saw how cheap the emachines were and asked for one but ended up with an hp pavilion
hiii,, very nice .... i like your video!!!
Great video! My first pc was an eMachines with somewhat similar specs (1.8 Ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, Nvidia integrated graphics) in 2002, and looking back, I'm actually really grateful that I started with such a modest machine for gaming, because it forced me to learn how to upgrade RAM, CPU, install a GPU and thus gave me the confidence to do my first system build a few years later: not sure I would have learned any of that if it had been blessed with high-end components to start with! Thanks for posting & keep the excellent retro content coming!
Hell ya, upgrade this thing into a BEEFY gaming system from 2003!!!
Impossible without the AGP slot.
You should do a video on a budget portable desktop.
Lol got one for those for free because it had a bestec psu that blew up
Eww, doesn't even have an AGP slot!
holy shit, my family computer in the mid 2000s was that exact model
Same
I’m acquiring an eMachine that for once actually has a fully fledged Pentium 4 in it in December, yes that’s right! No, me neither.
I want to upgrade my grandpa 13 yo pc.
Put in a Geforce FX5600 or a Geforce 6600(GT) and it would be a lowBudget Gaming System back then.
Just found one of these in my closet lol. Think I wanna turn it into a sleeper
The one and only eMachines I ever had was back in 2007(ish). A laptop which really got me through some tough times. Having only heard bad things about eMachines from back in the day, I had little hopes for the machine. But it turned around and surprised me, even ran some games (like CS Source) relatively well with mixed graphics settings.
But.....
*_can it run crysis?_*
I had one of these with a Pentium 4 and Vista.
I bought a GTX 280 launch week and was shocked when Crysis still ran awful, lol.
Did he just hack far cry
I had an emachine once.
I remember my eMachines E3042. I got it in 2006 for my 17th birthday and despite it being crap as a daily after a few years (really don't know how I managed to get it running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit as it was slow AF), but it lasted me 10 years before it died and went kaput. I did give it a few upgrades with 2GB DDR2 RAM, an ATi HD 2400 Pro, and a Creative Audigy Soundblaster.
I still have one lying around with a Celeron D 360 in it. The Bestec PSU in it is surprising still holding up
I had one of these... didn't know much about computers until I joined a server in CS:S. Learned my pc was shit. lol
...upgraded +1gb ram and threw in a 8400GS - my integrated was ATI Radeon XPress 200; the card I installed was surprisingly better... should have gotten a 7800/8800 though.
My family had an E-machines with 256mb ram back in 2005. The power supply failed which I got blamed for (oof bad memories) I remember doing lots of photo editing and PowerPoints very slowly haha.
I had one of the 2003 or 2004 models with a very similar case, except it had two disc drives. I burned so many CDs, the CD-RW drive burned out and stopped working. It would keep getting errors in the middle of a burn, rendering the discs unfinalized and wasted. The main games I ran on it were Diablo, Diablo II and Sonic 3D Blast. Eventually one of the critical parts; either the hard drive, motherboard, power supply or all of the above went out and my step-grandfather ended up building me a new computer. He wasn't able to save any of my old files unfortunately.
Somewhere I have the three ghost discs which are for reinstalling the OS. Maybe if I find those CDs I could figure out exactly which model number I had.
If I game on my emachines el1358G you can game on this... my specs are GT1030.. 8GB ram.. phenom II quad core 905e cpu and 1TB HDD and a 500GB SSD... I can play PUBG all day long on my system.
2006 and later eMachines PCs had PCIe slots. Although compatibility was a problem, couldn’t run a Radeon HD 5770 (2010) in a 2006 PC...
I have one similar to the one in this video, but I heavily modded it, to use for gaming, and also for copying movie's, music, I added a second 160gig hardrive along with a one gb memory additional memory, also updated the power supply and the ati Radeon 9500, also had two Dvd Rw drives
i took a computer like this one apart for the the case for my pc i built :D
What motherboard did you fit inside I love the case
LOL I had one of these and that was after 2010, pentium 4 2.6 I still use the old heatsink on my q6600 build :D only bit still in use I think/hope. (edit) No the bestec psu (300w) is still going hard and I used it with my 9800gt super 1GB plus :D
I purchased my first computer late '99 for $1,800 from Gateway.
Pentium 3 @ 450 with a Voodoo 3 3000 w/16 mb video ram and 256 mb system ram.
Literally just did a fully custom build in one of these cases. Same pc specs as in the video I ended up cutting a front 120 mm fan slot in the front panel making a custom power button and painting it as-well as slapping a Ryzen 3200g with 8GB of 2400mhz ram, upgraded the psu and added a gtx 750 not the one I’m staying with though only a temporary solution as of the current situation and it’s only so I can utilise full ram usage of 8GB pretty decent system to be honest.
I remember having this chassis for a different model - W6409 - P4, ATI Radeon Xpress 200 iGPU and 512mb RAM. Only "modern" games I could run at a playable, non-crashing framerate were Counter-Strike Source and Resident Evil 4. Even HL2 and the notorious PC port of Devil May Cry 3 suffered from horrible stuttering. It made the ET1831-01 I 'upgraded' to with its Celeron 420, nForce 7050 graphics and whopping 3GB RAM seem like a powerhouse by comparison but that was all my parents could afford. Luckily I did gradually upgrade within 2 years and wound up with an i3 prebuilt that had a GTX 560 stuck in it.
Everyone should use 56k for one year just so you know how lucky you are. But back then we did not have cell phones. 56K was painful. My 1ft computer (HP) had a 233mhz cpu, 64mb ram, a floppy drive, and I think the hard drive was 4gig, and no the mouse did not have a scroll wheel, had windows 95 on it. Not kidding I could click on a site, get up and go to the bathroom take care of what was needed grab a coke set back down and if I was lucky only had to wait a min. or two for the page to load. and this post would have taken about 4 hours to up load.
Want to know something funny? My current download speed is way lower than dial-up. I've hit my record today with 0.22Mbps. This issue has something to do on my PC's end, since no one else has any problems. I have tried everything within my power to fix it, but to no avail. It is interesting noting that the speed sometimes is what it is supposed to be (around 30-40 Mbps) with frequent drops, every 30 seconds or so. And there are also these periods when it becomes so unusable, watching youtube in 144 pixels is out of the question. If someone is able to help me, let me know.
Intel "Extreme" Graphics
Santiago Barbosa Eggstreme
I got a PC from 1997... and it runs Linux (it can play snake, tetris...)
ABCarnage Still better than nothing
it's not my main computer, I got it from someone who had it in his attic.
Compaq also made similar budget machines to this in the early 2000s. I had the misfortune of being stuck on one until around 2011. It originally belonged to my sister until she gave up on it in 2007. It was BAD! The thing sounded like a jet engine when booting up and quieted down when it got to the XP welcome screen. And occasionally it would start taking off again while it was running! It came stock with:
Socket 478 motherboard with Extreme Graphics and NO AGP SLOT!
Celeron 2.4 Ghz (probably Northwood or something)
128 MB of DDR1 RAM (the GPU shared like 32 or 64 of that)
40GB Seagate hard drive
CD-RW drive that broke within a couple years
250 watt generic PSU that would randomly shut down
Windows XP
Yuck. The thing needed a power supply replacement, CD drive replacement, RAM upgrade to 1GB, and an FX 5500 PCI video card to even be usable. And the BIOS would never detect the CD drive properly without a lot of fiddling around, although that may have been a bad IDE cable because we tried replacing the motherboard at one point and it still didn't work. The thing is in bits and pieces in the garage now.
Our first was an eMachines T2891 from around 2004.. With an AMD Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B, essentially a rebadged Athlon MP sold later as a budget processor, and yes, Semprons had multiprocessor abilities unlocked), 512 MB PC3200 (Later 1 GB), and S3 Unichrome integrated graphics on a VIA KM266 Pro chipset. Later a Radeon 9800 Pro because AGP lol.
They really did use the exact same case for everything they made to cut manufacturing costs. It worked well. At the time eMachines was owned by Korean conglomerate TriGEM
Yep, emachines 210 was my first pc when I was 4 years old in 2003👌😂
2.3ghz Celeron
256mb ram
Intel “extreme” agp graphics
80gb ide hdd
Crappy ac97 sound
*Power supply blew up 3 times motherboard blew 4 times of only lasted about 8 months and kept breaking over the course of 3 years*
DUDE my family used an Emachines T6400 with an Athelon x64 3200 that looks exactly like this. I still have the Mobo and I got an old 8400gs and a 60gb SSD for free so I'm planning to upgrade it, slap it in a new case, and add wifi, SATA 3 and USB 3. *Edit* I got lucky and the model we have has 2 PCI, 1 Pcie x1, and 2 SATA ports.
I had a T3604, with a 3.4 single core(Celeron) processor, Windows Vista as a OS, 1TB HDD, no GPU(integrated graphics), and a monitor I was lucky enough to purchase from Cash Convertors for a whopping 12$ bucks. Kept it from 2006 to 2018, until the processor itself burned out. You couldn't do much gaming on it, aside from Doom and a few others. It did play emulators well enough, sans PS2 or greater of course. I believe without a monitor included, I paid just at 300$ for it, come to think of it, it may have been around 250$ instead. I tried Far Cry as well, and let's just say that was a no go. Seeing this older model in direct comparison, damn near brings a tear to my jaded eyes. It's always a good day when the Emachines brand gets some love and attention.
*EDIT- If anyone knows where I can find the T3604 model from 2006/7, feel free to reply to this with the info. I checked all the major sell sites. I would adore the chance to get a second chance with that model.
i had a pc from 2005 and the hdd broke and the chipset overheated i fixed it i build a new one and is was in 2016
spechs old
idk the orginal spech cus i trowed away the broken hdd and the mobo cuz that was broken
new mobo winfast nf4uk8aa
new hdd wd black 500 gb it broke too :(
cpu amd athlon
2 gb ram
nvidia geforce gtx 6800
and a sound card
specs new
4GB 1600MHz (PC3-12800) DDR3 CL10
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5 SSD
gpu gtx 1050
msi mobo
amd fx 6300
corsair carbide spec-04
toshiba hdd 2 tb
Wow brings back memories of my self build Celeron D 3.8ghz (oc) coupled with Geforce 6600 256mb, Paid for itself for Writing files of people on cd/DVD service and printing stuff. Had to part ways with it due to the pc not able to playback hd videos properly (youtube was starting to take off back then). The expensive core 2 duo e6600 (oc to 3.1ghz) + geforce 8800 gts 640mb succeeded it so i can max out need for speed underground 2... both of which are now put to shame by a pentium g4560 and hd graphics (i5 4590+1060 is my current rig)...
How can I remove a password from my computer EMachine etower 633. First boot up. I don't remember my password anyone please
I just bought a HD 5570 DDR3 1Gb version from Cex for 1.5 pounds. Is it RandomGamingHD worthy? Can we call it a budget builder's bargain? I wished I got the DDR5 version, that would have been wicked for 1.5 pounds.
I've had several eMachines PC's.
My first one from February 1999 an etower 300K (AMD K6-2 @ 300 Mhz) still runs like a champ.
I have a T6420 model given to my by one of my brothers with an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU that has a nice PCI express graphics slot so I am not limited to the Integrated graphics.
One hint about emachines is that often their power supply is cheap,can easily fail and this will take out the motherboard if it does as the cheap power supplies do not have protective circuitry.
So I recommend replacing the power supply if you want it to last.
Cheap Bestec power supplies often used on them were notorious at failing
My family used to have an E-Machines, a friend of,y mothers decked it out. Was a Windows 98 with a Pentium 3
They Recycled sold it/stored it somewhere in my house (most likely) in 2007/8 2012/2013
What I would do for that PC.... it could play Doom well. That I know.
I don't don't care AMD, INTL ,NVIDIA can give me another core and a BJ but (THUMB SCREWS RULE).
If you build systems a lot having thumb screws made a bigger impact than any multi core CPU
First PC bought with own earned cash. Remembered going to mySpace and Newgrounds after school with this Celeron-powered dog piss.
I have an original dial-up era "Sign up for MSN and receive a 50% discount on your entire system!" e-machines with a Celeron 667MHz and originally 32MB of SDRAM that my great aunt eventually upgraded to 64MB.
It still runs, but I never really power it up. It just sits in the closet.
lol
I’m like 99% sure I had this when I was kid! Or more like it was my dads around 2006 and I used it sometimes, since I had old iMac G3 😹 then he gave it to me once he bought new PC!
Christmas 2009 I received an Emachines SFF computer. Was super pumped because it had Windows 7. With only 4gb of RAM and some shitty AMD CPU it flat out struggled to load UA-cam videos out of the box. Put a bad taste in my mouth for budget prebuilt emachines.
The first modern computer my family bought was an eMachines that used the same tower shown, but was older and had a Celeron 1.3GHz. Biggest PoS computer we ever used. Fortunately a year later, I had enough money saved up to build my own PC. I bought an Athlon XP 2800+.
PS: The eMachines PS/2 mouse almost caught on fire after a couple of years. One day it stopped working and got super hot. I tore it apart to find out that some component started burning up.
I have an 12 year old Laptop with 4gb ddr2,intel 2 core processor 2×2,1ghz),250 gb hdd and the intel P4000 graphics. I remember 12 it's years old....
my first computer was a emachines EL1352-07E. amd athlon II x2 220 at 2.8ghz 4gb of ddr3 which at the time i was having difficulties finding a used pc in the $280 range with windows 7 and 4gb of ddr3 and a 500gb hard drive.i wanted a desktop with radeon hd 4250 but none were in my price range. so i ended up with the geforce 6150 se nforce 430. 8 months later i got a radeon hd 5450 1gb ddr2 from diablotek for $17 which was the fastest thing at the price range.i got it to play cod4 at higher settings and smoother gameplay for modded zombie lobbies. this was mid 2011.