I have an old PC that initially had AMD Athlon 64 x2. I upgraded it to Phenom II X4 960T, went from 4GB of DDR2 to 16GB of DDR2. Not a very powerful machine by today's standards, but still usable.
This is the era when you could unlock X2 and X3 Phenom into quadcore with certain type/brand of mainboard. I had an X3 720 that ran perfectly fine at X4 with default clockspeed. Slightly overclocked in X4 mode would gave BSOD.
That's a good find!👍👍 After a good clean and new thermal paste it would make a fine Linux computer, I'm not a gamer, but I know that there are many free games in the Linux Mint repository, that PC., would probably work well with 8 GB., of ram., (four two GB sticks) if an SSD., was installed. Because you have the original HP., Windows 7 image on that HD., perhaps it would be useful to upload it to the internet archive.
You may be able to get bios update through win 11 with 23H2 and its optional updates, as long as you disable requirements for popcnt, tpm 2.0 and sse 4.2 it can run that. May as well see what happens. Otherwise its up to fan groups to provide a backup for it
DDR3 can go above 8 GB sticks for later motherboards i think? Though that is probably more common in servers or later machines when DDR4 was new instead of just close to new
Oh wow, I didn't expect to get nostalgic about Windows 7. It doesn't seem that long ago. I loved 7 but both it and XP were both just so messy to support at EOL. Windows 10 for all its faults doesn't seem to have aged as poorly as previous versions as far as support goes. I remember toward the end of Win 7 we had a rash of computers would have their windows\temp folder fill until the PC wouldn't work anymore. Weird failed updates constantly and no easy reset the OS option. 7 was a held together by bubblegum and zip ties at the end.
My wee Lenovo M90n has soldered 4GB DDR4, but the other five all have DDR3. The Lenovo M92P has 24GB and can handle 32GB but the Dell only allows 8GB (2x4.) My laptops use DDR3, Lenovo with 2x8GB DIMMs and the Dell brings up the rear again with soldered 8GB. The ASUS actually has more RAM than it supports 😁4 slots x 8GB but two slots have 16s, so 48GB. The BIOS and Windows can only see 32. The processor is likely good for keeping. I replaced the ASUS' perfectly good 5th Gen Core i5 with a ten year old XEON E3 1281 V3 lol. 8 threads instead of four, and for $47 CAD (£26), why not? Sorry to write a short story as a comment again. 🤭
drivers will be a problem for XP cause XP needs AHCI drivers for most newer stuff as XP out of the box dose not have full AHCI support unlike windows 7.
The amount of ram your computer can use has nothing to do with what kind of ram you have(DDR1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) and everything to do with what kind of CPU and OS you have. If you have a 32bit CPU and 32bit OS you can only use 3.5GB in windows. But if you have a 64bit CPU and OS you can use up to 16TB of ram, which of course no motherboards exist yet that support that much ram. I think 2TB is the current maximum being supported on motherboards, and that is only on server boards.
i have a similar one, not it may be able to take as high as a Phenom II 1100T black (depending upon motherboard), And you could go up to win 11 23H2, though unless it can take a AM3+ processor such as the FX series it can't be forced past that. The similar one i am referring to is a AMD Athlon II 640x4, only it has sata 2.0 (a sign of a older motherboard). I think it has a Radeon 6450 1 GB and 8 GB of DDR3. 1 Tb HDD in it too but install borked itself (pretty sure the hdd still works though). One of these das i'll need to clean out the hdd of any files i want to keep them reformat and reload it. It has a version of windows 10 on it (maybe 1703) Currently using a Phenom II 1100T with almost the same specs (radeon 5450 1 gb is a filler atm) and 16 GB of ddr3, it does support sata 3.0 though its got a 300 gb sata 2 7200 rpm hdd in it (didn't bother to check when reformatting and just put win 10 on it for fun) Its plenty sufficient for day to day use in everything but modern gaming (though it can still do some older or low end stuff). Just one of my many backup/project pcs
I have an old PC that initially had AMD Athlon 64 x2. I upgraded it to Phenom II X4 960T, went from 4GB of DDR2 to 16GB of DDR2. Not a very powerful machine by today's standards, but still usable.
where did you buy the 16gb of ddr2 ram ? i have 6 and 16 is max for my motherboard 🙂
@@Bad_aim-9k aliexpress likely has it. 4GB DDR2 sticks, and I think they're only compatible with AMD, not Intel.
@elu9780 alr dw i have amd phenom ii x4 945 should work
This is the era when you could unlock X2 and X3 Phenom into quadcore with certain type/brand of mainboard.
I had an X3 720 that ran perfectly fine at X4 with default clockspeed. Slightly overclocked in X4 mode would gave BSOD.
I own a slightly older model from mid to late 2010 with similar specs. Uses the same faceplate as the Vista-era models with Windows 7 stickers though.
That's a good find!👍👍
After a good clean and new thermal paste it would make a fine Linux computer, I'm not a gamer, but I know that there are many free games in the Linux Mint repository, that PC., would probably work well with 8 GB., of ram., (four two GB sticks) if an SSD., was installed.
Because you have the original HP., Windows 7 image on that HD., perhaps it would be useful to upload it to the internet archive.
You may be able to get bios update through win 11 with 23H2 and its optional updates, as long as you disable requirements for popcnt, tpm 2.0 and sse 4.2 it can run that. May as well see what happens. Otherwise its up to fan groups to provide a backup for it
DDR3 can go above 8 GB sticks for later motherboards i think? Though that is probably more common in servers or later machines when DDR4 was new instead of just close to new
Oh wow, I didn't expect to get nostalgic about Windows 7. It doesn't seem that long ago. I loved 7 but both it and XP were both just so messy to support at EOL. Windows 10 for all its faults doesn't seem to have aged as poorly as previous versions as far as support goes. I remember toward the end of Win 7 we had a rash of computers would have their windows\temp folder fill until the PC wouldn't work anymore. Weird failed updates constantly and no easy reset the OS option. 7 was a held together by bubblegum and zip ties at the end.
My wee Lenovo M90n has soldered 4GB DDR4, but the other five all have DDR3. The Lenovo M92P has 24GB and can handle 32GB but the Dell only allows 8GB (2x4.) My laptops use DDR3, Lenovo with 2x8GB DIMMs and the Dell brings up the rear again with soldered 8GB.
The ASUS actually has more RAM than it supports 😁4 slots x 8GB but two slots have 16s, so 48GB. The BIOS and Windows can only see 32.
The processor is likely good for keeping. I replaced the ASUS' perfectly good 5th Gen Core i5 with a ten year old XEON E3 1281 V3 lol. 8 threads instead of four, and for $47 CAD (£26), why not?
Sorry to write a short story as a comment again.
🤭
then ram
2gb 1x2gb
now upgrade ram
4x8gb 32gb ddr3
Good Windows XP 32 Bit gaming pc there or a Windows 7 gaming pc setup. Just select your choice of GPU & off to the races.
drivers will be a problem for XP cause XP needs AHCI drivers for most newer stuff as XP out of the box dose not have full AHCI support unlike windows 7.
@@SilverX95 True, you may have to use a driver installer like SnappyDriver or if HP kept some drivers up.
Can Supports AMD Phenom II X4 910?
X4 910 Is 10% Slower Then Q6600(Phenom 2 x4 Has 1776 Scores)
The amount of ram your computer can use has nothing to do with what kind of ram you have(DDR1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) and everything to do with what kind of CPU and OS you have. If you have a 32bit CPU and 32bit OS you can only use 3.5GB in windows. But if you have a 64bit CPU and OS you can use up to 16TB of ram, which of course no motherboards exist yet that support that much ram. I think 2TB is the current maximum being supported on motherboards, and that is only on server boards.
i have a similar one, not it may be able to take as high as a Phenom II 1100T black (depending upon motherboard), And you could go up to win 11 23H2, though unless it can take a AM3+ processor such as the FX series it can't be forced past that.
The similar one i am referring to is a AMD Athlon II 640x4, only it has sata 2.0 (a sign of a older motherboard). I think it has a Radeon 6450 1 GB and 8 GB of DDR3. 1 Tb HDD in it too but install borked itself (pretty sure the hdd still works though). One of these das i'll need to clean out the hdd of any files i want to keep them reformat and reload it. It has a version of windows 10 on it (maybe 1703)
Currently using a Phenom II 1100T with almost the same specs (radeon 5450 1 gb is a filler atm) and 16 GB of ddr3, it does support sata 3.0 though its got a 300 gb sata 2 7200 rpm hdd in it (didn't bother to check when reformatting and just put win 10 on it for fun)
Its plenty sufficient for day to day use in everything but modern gaming (though it can still do some older or low end stuff). Just one of my many backup/project pcs
yep that era AMD system FM1, FM2, AM2-AM3+ would typically have DDR2 or DDR3, your lucky it was win7 64bit, as 32bit op systems have a 3.5/4gb limit.
This PC can handle x6 cpu. Memory at least 16GB but I think you can rich even 32gb. With decrete GPU - windows 10, or even 11 with some tweaks.
Can in upgraded windows 8.1?
@@SenpaiBoyRock yes it should be possible :)
The PC is personal again. Now give us all your data so we can fix that lol
@@Revivify I thought it might help me personalise it! The wallpaper looks nice though.