0:01 "Laptops are usually expensive for weak amounts of power". This statement alone sums up how much technology has changed in such a short amount of time
I know this video is practically ancient, but I just wanted to comment that I played World of Warcraft on this laptop. I main-tanked through Wrath of the Lich King's entire expansion with this machine. It really sucked honestly! Mine actually had a Celeron M in it, which I eventually upgraded to a Core 2 Duo T7600G and 4GB of RAM. Still wasn't that great, but it got me through one of the hardest times in my life. I used it until it *literally* fell apart. No really, the case cracked from stress and eventually the entire base fell apart! Again, sorry for commenting on such an old video but seeing this laptop again put a big smile on my face!
As I had one of these laptops, i'd suggest installing a modded driver for the gma950. You'd get much better performance (CSS and HL2 up to 35-40 fps on native resolution, gta sa 30+fps etc)
I was using a GMA950 powered laptop for 2 years and modded driver couldn't save this awful graphics chip. While I could run first Half-Life with an OpenGL renderer and not the software renderer it would tank fps from any kind of explosion. And any Source powered game even with commands like mat_fullbright 1 will go to low 5 to 7 fps making it ugly and unplayable. Even San Andreas was suffering in 640x480 on lowest settings while driving. And don't even get me started on games that are powered with UE2. Those GMA950 chips are worst hardware I've ever had to use. Only postive thing that they have is barebones DX9 support and that's it.
Using Dell Vostro 500 now. I gave it a bit of an upgrade (1 -> 4Gb of ram, 1 core Celeron-> Core 2 Duo T7500, 80Gb -> 750 Gb HDD drive) and now it’s great experience, not gaming machine, but day to day usage is awesome.
Had one of these and my acquaintances had them. Awesome Linux workstations - they are still awesome under Linux while original Windows XP/Vista support (include drivers) already vanished a decade ago.
There is piece of sotware that you can get that has all the legacy drivers in it. I cant remember the name. I will hunt around for it, I think we both could both utilize it.
There's the FreeSkyCD driver repository (CD image) which I've never tried myself but you see bundled with various black (pirated and enhanced) editions of XP if you don't mind hunting round fun (some people say dodgy) websites.
I have an acer travelmate 2480 (celeron m 2gb ram) that my brother crashed and my parents were going to throw away. I had the laptop running with lubuntu within the same day. I put ubuntu on it and it runs fine except for the occasional slowdown when you have too many apps open
I just saw your comment on RandomGamingInHD's video and was expecting some average wannabe channel but you are a great UA-camr! Can't wait to see you hit 1k and go even further with this channel :D
I am using a Core2Duo and GMA 945 as main PC (laptop) (4gb ram and SSD) -UA-cam is fine at 720p(60 sometimes) -Minecraft runs in like 40-70 FPS -I can play other games with low settings. -Using Windows XP SP3
biankaツ My HP Elitebook 8440p laptop can run YT up to 1440p 60fps (even though the screen is commonly 1366x768). But there's graphic artifacts and what not that can make it looked bad for a few seconds (sometimes more).
This was probably the last era of upgradeable Acer laptops - the Acer laptops that were released after the Core 2 era, such as the 5742 and other 57xx series, were less repair friendly and required motherboard removal for cleaning the cooling system and upgrading the CPU.
I worked for intel in 2006-2008. I was the quality engineer for the GMA950 assembly and test production line at Intel's Costa Rica factory. We made them with love.
Wow, this was a labor of love :) Very nice of you to save this laptop with the intention of donating it. I used a same-era laptop for 12 years(!) before finally upgrading this year. It was a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Core Duo T2400 (1.83Ghz), upgraded to 2GB RAM. The screen stopped working, and I removed the hard drive to use as external storage. Everything else worked fine (keyboard, wifi, bluetooth) so I sold it for $10 to a techie who just needed it for emails and light browsing. Agreed about youtube, it was fine for 480p (few dropped frames) but when you get to 720p (even with the h264ify chrome extension), it was dropping too many frames and was impossible to enjoy. But for MS Office 2013 and light browsing, it was fine, especially with an SSD (SATA-1 speeds).
I would recommend putting some paste on the gpu dye as well. And also next time you screw on a heat sink make sure you slowly fasten the screws in a cross pattern to make sure you don't apply to much pressure on one of the corners on the cpu dye and crack it.
For my part, I prefer using Linux for older systems like this, because it's less prone to get infected with viruses and usually is less resource demanding. My fav pick is usually Damn Small Linux. Anyways, great video, really enjoying your content lately, keep it up man :D
I agree that Linux is great, but on gaming it's not really good. Wine works but it has worse performance so for old games I'd stick to Windows. Also Linux is a bit complicated. I used to dualboot it but it's just too complicated. Sure, the terminal is fun but normal users probably aren't going to know how to partition their drives so there's a root, boot and storage partition (I think that's how Linux works? Can't remember.)
kakoka1pro usually, atleast regarding modern versions of Linux, the user doesn't have to partition their hardware on their own as this happens automatically as installing the operating system. And I also have to disagree with Linux being complicated, as for example the most desktop environments really have some similarity to the windows ui. "Normal" users don't have to use features as the terminal, but they can if they want to. Regarding my experience, Linux is even more user friendly than Windows in the most cases, especially regarding elderly persons (at least as far as my experience goes) (regarding Ubuntu/DSL vs Windows). But I gotta agree on the gaming point, although some games, even steam for example, also support Linux.
Sey Yes, linux is easy to use if you don't install apps. I had trouble even installing Java so I ended up using thr built-in java. Linux is really cool though, it comes with lots of features out of the box.
Sey: Hey dude, I did consider Linux, but when I googled it alot of people had issues with getting all the drivers to work, I'll look into it in the future :D
Dude you should use Snappy Driver Installer when you have an older system like this with missing drivers. I’ve had tons of luck using it. Phil’s Computer Lab turned me on to using it, and it’s an amazing tool that saved me tons of time by eliminating the driver hunt altogether.
If finding the drivers for old models and whatnot is an issue, AIDA64 should be more than capable of telling you what specific model it is. It will not give you the driver, but it avoids those crappy free and slow as hell ad-ridden "Driver Downloader" software that I've seen some people use. As long as you can manage your way through Google, this program will be your best friend, new or old hardware. If you need an even older version that doesn't run on a legacy OS, you can use the just as legacy EVEREST software. Same program, just an older version. Best of luck to you!
I have a 17.4” Acer Aspire 9500 from circa 2004-5. It was a junked system as well and my first experience in repairing and upgrading PC laptops. I took the original crippled Celeron out and replaced it with a lower spec 1.7 GHz Pentium M which I then pin modded to get the max stable steed of 2.3 GHz. It flew running XP and even faster when I upgraded the IDE drive to a much faster one. Upgrading to max 2 GB ram it was able to play the original Doom remake quite fluidly on low settings with only stuttering during hard drive loading. Its amazing what old cast off junk can do with a little tinkering.
Great video. One man's trash is another man's tresure. I picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge for a $1. It has a Core i3 with 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD and a 17" screen
Hi budget builds official, love the vids. I was just wondering when you're going to do a setup tour. You've shown your setup in videos but you've never done a tour. Anyways, keep up the good work! Cheers!
Its actually a Core Duo. Think Pentium M x2. On the plus side, you should be able to go to a Core 2 Duo. My Toshiba Tecra M5 went from a CD T2600 to a C2D T7600.
More like Core Solo X2. The Pentium M had a little bit different architecture... It should take a Merom C2D CPU. The chipset is 945GM according to the specs. T7600 are still pricey, believe it or not, since they are the fastest processor for this socket. For what it's worth the T7400 is almost free on eBay now. The real question will be whether Acer locked it down to 2 GB of RAM, since the chipset officially supports 4 gb.
@@dennisp.2147 It wouldn't surprise me with what Asus was doing at around the same time the Acer was made. Its pitiful when a 2001 desktop (my legacy rig) and 2003 laptop (my Mum's first laptop) have the same max RAM limits as a 2005-2007 laptop with DDR2 instead of SDRAM and DDR.
@@dabombinablemi6188 Acers have always been craptacular. They're a Taiwanese company and they used to also manufacture parts for other OEMs, so they would cripple their own product in some way so as not to cannibalize the market for their manufactured parts. That and their bad habit of re-using failed warranty return parts in their machines.
That machine can run up to W10 without any issues, I have done so on netbooks with lesser specs and those work fine for productivity and running some old games or console emulators up to NDS despite their modest GMA950.....
It would need an SSD for Windows 10 to be passable, and even then it will still end up being a shitty experience because random Windows 10 background processes will randomly eat up the CPU. Linux or one of the BSD operating systems are better for hardware like this.
Yes, performance is non-zero (it is obviously working). Divided by zero price, that gives you a INFINITE performance-to-price ratio. That is incredible value. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
I have a hp omen 17 inch with i7 7700hq, rx 580 8g, 12 g ddr4 and 1080p freesync screen. I got it on sale for 900 usd. I think that because the price of pc parts are so high up it's actually reasonable to buy prebuilds and laptops, especially if they are on sale.
@@0cyb3r0 the only thing I hate about hp laptops are the backlight bleeding, every hp laptop my family had from the cheap netbooks from 2010 to those foldable ones all of them had really bad backlight bleeding on the edge of the screen to the point where the edges are just white
surprisingly, my laptop is better than this. it has 2gb of ram and a newer cpu, but it was pretty thick. nice video, gl on 1k subs, youre really close. edit: i got it quite a while ago, it was from compaq
If anybody is watching this in 2019 or early 2020, this machine could likely have been upgraded for far more usability for mere pennies, even at the time. The chipset (GMA945) supports Merom C2D CPUs as well as the older Yonah Core Duo processors. Depending on the manufacturer, it will either support 2 or (unofficially) 4 gb of DDR2 ram. My son used a similarly upgraded Toshiba Satellite A105 (that my brother-in-law found in a dumpster in 2010) up until last year when first gen i7 Dell laptops started falling into "giving them away" territory. A likely cheap upgrade path for this machine would be a 2.16 Ghz T7400 Merom with 4mb cache or the safer bet Yonah T2600 at the same speed but with less cache. Both can be had on eBay right now (October 2019) for less than $5, shipped. 2gb DDR2 SODIMMS of the appropriate speed can be bought buy-it-now there also for less than $2 each, shipped if you don't mind waiting for the slow China shipping... If you're feeling particularly froggy, you can pick up new SSD's in the 128 gb range for less than $20 shipped that would be more than the poor old SATA 1 in this laptop could handle. The rapidly approaching demise (end of extended support) of Windows 7 in January 2020. Means that Windows 8.1 32 bit or, even better, Linux would run acceptably on this machine for light browsing. Unfortunately, I don't believe Windows 10 32 bit supports the janky old GMA950 video and it would be a miserable experience if it did. Windows XP was a risky proposition in 2017 and shouldn't even be considered for a networked machine in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Dragonshadow14 you can't run windows on a pi. A pi can barely run an extremely lightweight Linux distro and even then you can't really do much on it. I like raspberry pis but you are comparing apples to oranges
TGITFH linux is cool but the latest versions arent compatible with ANYTHING COOL. I have a few free cool apps barely any emulators so you can kiss any chance of great gaming out the window unless you have steam
I wouldn't use it for gaming. I'd build a server or client with it. You could easily use it as a media hub. Hook it up to a TV or whatever, install Kodi and Steam and use it for streaming videos/music/games etc. Or even use it as a remote point to manage a bigger Linux computer on a network via SSH or whatever protocol you want.
TGITFH i put kodi on mine. Its fine until you click a one of many certain buttons and then you have no control at all. The video still plays but you cant adjust sound pause ff rr etc. Maybe thats just me because i have kodi on alot of different things
I had one of these that shipped with Vista 11 years ago, it ran so bad I returned it and got an XP laptop with in a few days. I got it for school with our tax refund while my wife was in the hospital recovering from delivering our first born who’s birthday is Monday. So it has nearly been 11 years to the day, I find it kinda funny a video about a laptop with such a history popped up on my feed for an anniversary review to me.
Hey Budget-Builds Official! Great Video and Awesome channel. I myself am a low spec pc gamer and greatly appreciate a channel that is relevant to me. I have one question though, how do you make a bootable usb of windows xp? maybe you could do a video on it? I think that would help your fanbase.
I use ultra ISO instead, but I can never get it to work with Windows XP, because it keeps asking for the service pack 3 cd, which I don't have. Tyvm for the reply.
I Scored an O'l School, Dell Latitude d630 on eBay for $21 USD including delivery! Dropped in a 248gb SSD ($28) from MicroCenter.com, & 4gb of ram (eBay) off a slow boat from China, & loaded a bootleg copy of Win10 Pro! She's built like a Tank & as thick as a phonebook, but she Runs like a Champ!
Its ok with early 2000s games. Gothic 1 runs ok, Warcraft III too. WoW kinda with lows to 7-10 fps but with camera set up in more isometric view it got to playable stable 25fps.
I had a desktop with a GMA 950 in 2007 with a Pentium D 3GHz. It impressed me with how crappy the "Intel HD" graphics were compared to the 950. The 950 could play Halo 1 on the PC just as well as my Radeon 9250 but some games I think the drivers really hurt it. For example my Radeon 9250 could play Phantasy Star Blue Burst well while the 950 was a slide show. The 950 also played Guild Wars 1 very well just as well as my 9250. The GMA 950 supported a higher version of pixel shader than the 9250 which allowed it to enable AERO on Windows Vista but northbridge heatsink was so hot while gaming I decided to use the 9250 to wear that out instead. Eventually I got a Radeon X1300 which was a big bump compared to them both.. then I got a HD2600XT around a year later. Using a Phenom II X4 3.5GHz with a RX 480 8GB version now, I know that GPU is overkill for the cpu but I'm saving for a Ryzen.
@@dueldu70 dueldu some people just likes to run games straight out of the box, security holes? Personal attacks are rare and even if someone hacked it, and even if it gets hacked the damn laptop are only filled with games and it doesn't even have any personal data, it's not like this is the dude's main computer
@@2K-Tan All the games, this GMA can run, will definetely run on Wine. And you don´t need to search for drivers after installing OS. Once you´re familiar with Linux, you know there are too many advantages, to even bother with XP.
I was using a Dell D430 for most of my life before my current build. No shame in it. I think I played Diablo 2 more than anyone outside of its reasonable lifespan. Intel GMA... *vomits*
I have an old Acer with a GMA 950 i used to use, was my first laptop, this video reminds me of the struggle for video games and videos, including even watching 720p60 for youtube lmao, it lasted me 7 years and still works without needing anything fixed, but after getting an ASUS, it's just stored away.
Quick way to look up legacy drivers for a laptop such as this one, is to search for the hardware-id's in the device manager. Just copy and paste the id into Google search and 90% of the times you will find the driver immediately.
I got a Compaq presario C700 as a Xmas gift about 10 years ago, and as my newer laptop broke, I am now using it for college. I upgraded the T2300 pentium chip originally in it to a T7800 core 2 due, 120GB SSD from the 80GB 5400 Hitachi HDD, and maxed out with 3 GB of RAM from the 1GB originally in it. (no, 4GB will not work!) It runs faster than nearly any modern
Great video once again! I am getting so inspired by your videos. I hope that when I create my own video seriies it will be enjoyed as much as your videos are. Thanks for your hard work and i look forward to more videos.
Awesome vid! Currently using a Dell latitude e6400, basically a higher spec'd laptop from this same generation. Installed Zorin OS and bumped the ram to 4gb and this thing is actually awesome, just needs an ssd now. Only paid $40 after everything and im happy.
I had an ASUS with these exact specs, upgraded to a different CPU, gave it 3GB of DDR2 from a dead Compaq and it ran great for years, just upgraded a few times since then and it got tossed after losing most of it's USB ports.
The great thing about picking up an old system like that for free (with the really crappy Intel GMA 950 onboard graphics or in some cases worse graphics power) is that it is capable of opening up a whole library of games with emulation. I have used two systems with a similar sort of GPU. Our family desktop computer had an Intel GMA 945 (64MB) chip and my first laptop had an Intel GMA X3100 (up to 252MB shared VRAM). Both were perfectly capable of emulating any system up to the PS1 and N64 without any problems. This is because emulators rely more upon the CPU, and both only had single core Intel Celeron processors! This is definitely something worth checking out. :-)
Marcus Terry-Bedford I have an HP Elitebook 8440p (UMA) Laptop. And it ran very well, especially in Windows 10. That's if you had a decent HDD/SSD in it (also the RAM and CPU does have important role in performance as well).
I used to own this laptop (Not this one but the same model), my family gave it to me because it was too slow. I took out the half decent parts and through away the rest. So yes it is very possible to find vintage computers in bins now a days.
I use a similar specced laptop, a Sony Vaio with 2GB RAM running Lubuntu and it makes a perfect fit for the workroom while I'm soldering stuff or cleaning up old video game stuff I found at the thrift. There is a lot of value in these old machines, especially in places you wouldn't want to risk much money.
This is basically a Dell Inspiron 6400 without the discrete graphics card option......mine has the Radeon X1400 included. The processors in these laptops can actually handle up to 32-bit Windows 7. The actual real-world performance depends on whether you have more than 1.5 gigs of RAM.
First ever computer I used was this laptop's older cousin, the travelmate 4062 LCi. Sported 512mb DDR2, Pentium M 740, 60gb HDD and windows XP pro. I was 3 when I first used it, still have it today as a small linux machine. Was my parents' originally.
I recently found a 2007 Toshiba Satellite A135-S4666 in a goodwill for 30$ with two Dell's, it works great for something so old (after I fixed the fan so it wouldn't boil itself away) Old laptops are good for general use, and not usually gaming (which people try on them anyway's even though it doesn't work)
You can actually get Windows XP to support Direct X 10 with a bit of tweaking. The fanbase of the OS is currently working on a Direct X 12 hack for it as well, but that remains to be seen...
If you need a faster way to find drivers, use 3dp chip, it's free. If you need to install the network drivers first, use 3dp net. Those two programs have saved my butt a lot of times
I was actually surprised about the laptops power, since you got It for free it would be a keep sake
Nice video hope you get 1k at the end of the week
Liquity asus my childhood laptop. Only game i cloud play was gta san andreas and mc
mine ran minecraft at 14 fps max lol
Liquity i find this video when watching drac's
firefox Awww. Does Mommy not let someone swear?
better than my laptop. i have ubuntu on an hp intel falco chromebook.
0:01 "Laptops are usually expensive for weak amounts of power". This statement alone sums up how much technology has changed in such a short amount of time
Dang I thought RandomGaminginHD was cheap but wow you make him look like Linustechtips.
Schroeder M. Schulz Companies send him 3000 dollar t.v.'s, 4000 dollar gpu's, and other REALLY expensive gadgets
698 likes lmao
I know this video is practically ancient, but I just wanted to comment that I played World of Warcraft on this laptop. I main-tanked through Wrath of the Lich King's entire expansion with this machine.
It really sucked honestly! Mine actually had a Celeron M in it, which I eventually upgraded to a Core 2 Duo T7600G and 4GB of RAM. Still wasn't that great, but it got me through one of the hardest times in my life. I used it until it *literally* fell apart. No really, the case cracked from stress and eventually the entire base fell apart!
Again, sorry for commenting on such an old video but seeing this laptop again put a big smile on my face!
As I had one of these laptops, i'd suggest installing a modded driver for the gma950. You'd get much better performance (CSS and HL2 up to 35-40 fps on native resolution, gta sa 30+fps etc)
I was using a GMA950 powered laptop for 2 years and modded driver couldn't save this awful graphics chip. While I could run first Half-Life with an OpenGL renderer and not the software renderer it would tank fps from any kind of explosion. And any Source powered game even with commands like mat_fullbright 1 will go to low 5 to 7 fps making it ugly and unplayable. Even San Andreas was suffering in 640x480 on lowest settings while driving. And don't even get me started on games that are powered with UE2. Those GMA950 chips are worst hardware I've ever had to use. Only postive thing that they have is barebones DX9 support and that's it.
@@CplHatch 😘
Using Dell Vostro 500 now. I gave it a bit of an upgrade (1 -> 4Gb of ram, 1 core Celeron-> Core 2 Duo T7500, 80Gb -> 750 Gb HDD drive) and now it’s great experience, not gaming machine, but day to day usage is awesome.
you should have been installed ssd instead
Had one of these and my acquaintances had them. Awesome Linux workstations - they are still awesome under Linux while original Windows XP/Vista support (include drivers) already vanished a decade ago.
There is piece of sotware that you can get that has all the legacy drivers in it. I cant remember the name. I will hunt around for it, I think we both could both utilize it.
Retro Tech 100: Thanks dude, would help loads
Did you ever come up with what the software is called?
Drivetuner? I used it for a while but stopped
There's the FreeSkyCD driver repository (CD image) which I've never tried myself but you see bundled with various black (pirated and enhanced) editions of XP if you don't mind hunting round fun (some people say dodgy) websites.
Oh yeah and DriverPacks too- driverpacks.net/
*insert comment on how this laptop is somehow better than theirs*
Tyranno: This laptop was one of the worst experiences I've had for gaming....aside from my one with a Pentium III
And typically that being false, since you cannot even watch this video properly with that machine.
I have an acer travelmate 2480 (celeron m 2gb ram) that my brother crashed and my parents were going to throw away. I had the laptop running with lubuntu within the same day. I put ubuntu on it and it runs fine except for the occasional slowdown when you have too many apps open
Tyranno And the reason why that Morrowind can be easily run on most PCs, is that it doesn't have graphics settings.
It simillar tbh. But i recently upgraded to a dell 1545 with a c2d t8300 @2.4ghz and the intel gma x4500mhd.
4:35 "The Oprah browser."
"YOU GET A LAPTOP!
AND YOU GET A LAPTOP!" 😄
I just saw your comment on RandomGamingInHD's video and was expecting some average wannabe channel but you are a great UA-camr! Can't wait to see you hit 1k and go even further with this channel :D
SrSxTitanZz: Thanks dude, I like to put as much effort as I can into the channel, hope to see your round :D
Yeah, I came here from the AyyMD sub and I was just expecting a wannabe channel at first too, but wow he makes some amazing content!
I am using a Core2Duo and GMA 945 as main PC (laptop) (4gb ram and SSD)
-UA-cam is fine at 720p(60 sometimes)
-Minecraft runs in like 40-70 FPS
-I can play other games with low settings.
-Using Windows XP SP3
biankaツ My HP Elitebook 8440p laptop can run YT up to 1440p 60fps (even though the screen is commonly 1366x768). But there's graphic artifacts and what not that can make it looked bad for a few seconds (sometimes more).
Bero256 My laptop has Intel core i5 520m.
CovertBrony My elitebook 8470p has a 3rd gen i7 and a 7570m which can actually do gta v at 1024x768
I have a fujitsu siemens celsius workstation
I got nokia 3310 :D
This was probably the last era of upgradeable Acer laptops - the Acer laptops that were released after the Core 2 era, such as the 5742 and other 57xx series, were less repair friendly and required motherboard removal for cleaning the cooling system and upgrading the CPU.
Trashtop?
I think crap-top sounds better.
Marcus C Hmmmm it does.
Marcus C but he found it in the trash lol
Lapflop
I know this is late but I used the exact same analogy when naming my Crap-Book a $5 AU macbook
@@Foggy404 not late at all, my friend.
For a second i thought it said gtx 950, i was like tf?
Daevster 666 lol, if the 950 were in there, you wouldn't find it tossed, but I made that mistake with the igpu
@@potato_x69 at " high " thats bs i cant even play youtube with 480p XD
@@potato_x69 im using latest driver
@@potato_x69 ofc but idc i have a gaming pc XD with gtx 1050ti
@@potato_x69 intel gma 950 and gtx 1050ti aint the same troll somebody bruhh xd
I worked for intel in 2006-2008. I was the quality engineer for the GMA950 assembly and test production line at Intel's Costa Rica factory. We made them with love.
Probably still better than my school's computers
My school uses chromebooks and they have sh!t specs like a celeron
My school had i486 until about 2004, and one-core Athlons with 512-1G RAM until recent years~
@@xkenny1995 Damn 1 core ,that is a terrible experience.
But your school has to buy hundreds and it doesnt need to be that powerful to do school work
@@av28379 8gb ram means nothing lol
Wow, this was a labor of love :) Very nice of you to save this laptop with the intention of donating it.
I used a same-era laptop for 12 years(!) before finally upgrading this year. It was a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Core Duo T2400 (1.83Ghz), upgraded to 2GB RAM. The screen stopped working, and I removed the hard drive to use as external storage. Everything else worked fine (keyboard, wifi, bluetooth) so I sold it for $10 to a techie who just needed it for emails and light browsing.
Agreed about youtube, it was fine for 480p (few dropped frames) but when you get to 720p (even with the h264ify chrome extension), it was dropping too many frames and was impossible to enjoy. But for MS Office 2013 and light browsing, it was fine, especially with an SSD (SATA-1 speeds).
I would recommend putting some paste on the gpu dye as well. And also next time you screw on a heat sink make sure you slowly fasten the screws in a cross pattern to make sure you don't apply to much pressure on one of the corners on the cpu dye and crack it.
For my part, I prefer using Linux for older systems like this, because it's less prone to get infected with viruses and usually is less resource demanding. My fav pick is usually Damn Small Linux.
Anyways, great video, really enjoying your content lately, keep it up man :D
I agree that Linux is great, but on gaming it's not really good. Wine works but it has worse performance so for old games I'd stick to Windows. Also Linux is a bit complicated. I used to dualboot it but it's just too complicated. Sure, the terminal is fun but normal users probably aren't going to know how to partition their drives so there's a root, boot and storage partition (I think that's how Linux works? Can't remember.)
kakoka1pro usually, atleast regarding modern versions of Linux, the user doesn't have to partition their hardware on their own as this happens automatically as installing the operating system. And I also have to disagree with Linux being complicated, as for example the most desktop environments really have some similarity to the windows ui.
"Normal" users don't have to use features as the terminal, but they can if they want to. Regarding my experience, Linux is even more user friendly than Windows in the most cases, especially regarding elderly persons (at least as far as my experience goes) (regarding Ubuntu/DSL vs Windows).
But I gotta agree on the gaming point, although some games, even steam for example, also support Linux.
Sey Yes, linux is easy to use if you don't install apps. I had trouble even installing Java so I ended up using thr built-in java. Linux is really cool though, it comes with lots of features out of the box.
Sey lubuntu is a god send
Sey: Hey dude, I did consider Linux, but when I googled it alot of people had issues with getting all the drivers to work, I'll look into it in the future :D
Dude you should use Snappy Driver Installer when you have an older system like this with missing drivers. I’ve had tons of luck using it. Phil’s Computer Lab turned me on to using it, and it’s an amazing tool that saved me tons of time by eliminating the driver hunt altogether.
been with you since you started so good to see you growing so much
If finding the drivers for old models and whatnot is an issue, AIDA64 should be more than capable of telling you what specific model it is. It will not give you the driver, but it avoids those crappy free and slow as hell ad-ridden "Driver Downloader" software that I've seen some people use. As long as you can manage your way through Google, this program will be your best friend, new or old hardware. If you need an even older version that doesn't run on a legacy OS, you can use the just as legacy EVEREST software. Same program, just an older version.
Best of luck to you!
I have a 17.4” Acer Aspire 9500 from circa 2004-5. It was a junked system as well and my first experience in repairing and upgrading PC laptops. I took the original crippled Celeron out and replaced it with a lower spec 1.7 GHz Pentium M which I then pin modded to get the max stable steed of 2.3 GHz. It flew running XP and even faster when I upgraded the IDE drive to a much faster one. Upgrading to max 2 GB ram it was able to play the original Doom remake quite fluidly on low settings with only stuttering during hard drive loading. Its amazing what old cast off junk can do with a little tinkering.
Your contents are so good !
Every cleaning part in this channel is super satisfying.
2:20 *Angry Breathing*
"He Didnt Screw Crossway!"
Also there was a thermal pad for the northbridge/internal graphics. And now the heatsink can't reach the crystal.
Great video. One man's trash is another man's tresure. I picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge for a $1. It has a Core i3 with 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD and a 17" screen
Hi budget builds official, love the vids. I was just wondering when you're going to do a setup tour. You've shown your setup in videos but you've never done a tour. Anyways, keep up the good work! Cheers!
Z Bobplays: Maybe at 1K Subs, could be fairly interesting :D
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial damn this comment just showed me how big you've become over the last 4 years haha
Your channel has tripled in subcribers in just a few months! That's insane! Keep it up!
Its actually a Core Duo. Think Pentium M x2. On the plus side, you should be able to go to a Core 2 Duo. My Toshiba Tecra M5 went from a CD T2600 to a C2D T7600.
More like Core Solo X2. The Pentium M had a little bit different architecture...
It should take a Merom C2D CPU. The chipset is 945GM according to the specs. T7600 are still pricey, believe it or not, since they are the fastest processor for this socket. For what it's worth the T7400 is almost free on eBay now. The real question will be whether Acer locked it down to 2 GB of RAM, since the chipset officially supports 4 gb.
@@dennisp.2147 It wouldn't surprise me with what Asus was doing at around the same time the Acer was made. Its pitiful when a 2001 desktop (my legacy rig) and 2003 laptop (my Mum's first laptop) have the same max RAM limits as a 2005-2007 laptop with DDR2 instead of SDRAM and DDR.
@@dabombinablemi6188 Acers have always been craptacular. They're a Taiwanese company and they used to also manufacture parts for other OEMs, so they would cripple their own product in some way so as not to cannibalize the market for their manufactured parts. That and their bad habit of re-using failed warranty return parts in their machines.
With 4GB of DDR2, a 320GB HDD, and with that T4400 which has 2.2GHz, Windows 7 x32 or x64 will work with no issues.
That machine can run up to W10 without any issues, I have done so on netbooks with lesser specs and those work fine for productivity and running some old games or console emulators up to NDS despite their modest GMA950.....
It would need an SSD for Windows 10 to be passable, and even then it will still end up being a shitty experience because random Windows 10 background processes will randomly eat up the CPU. Linux or one of the BSD operating systems are better for hardware like this.
I'm so hooked on this channel, keep up the good work!
Performance for price killer
Sławek XD 0/0 is still 0
CrazySkullGamer divide by zero doesnt work
Yes, performance is non-zero (it is obviously working). Divided by zero price, that gives you a INFINITE performance-to-price ratio. That is incredible value. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
I remember my 2006 MacBook and 2007 Mac Mini. I never ever want to use a GMA GPU and this video just further supports that.
I have a hp omen 17 inch with i7 7700hq, rx 580 8g, 12 g ddr4 and 1080p freesync screen. I got it on sale for 900 usd. I think that because the price of pc parts are so high up it's actually reasonable to buy prebuilds and laptops, especially if they are on sale.
cool.
Chen Erwin We didn't ask
Sng1s people clearly liked his comment you shit for brains degenerate
HP Probooks and Elitebooks last forever. I haven't used any of the newer ones though, not sure how durable those extremely thin ones are.
@@0cyb3r0 the only thing I hate about hp laptops are the backlight bleeding, every hp laptop my family had from the cheap netbooks from 2010 to those foldable ones all of them had really bad backlight bleeding on the edge of the screen to the point where the edges are just white
I just love how in a very calm you say" as for the other one that piece of shit will serve a new life in the bin"
surprisingly, my laptop is better than this. it has 2gb of ram and a newer cpu, but it was pretty thick. nice video, gl on 1k subs, youre really close.
edit: i got it quite a while ago, it was from compaq
symmetry: Hmmmm, my last laptop was an Acer but that thing was *Thicc* so I stopped using it ASAP.
Budget-Builds Official ah, it had celeron, pulled it out of the closet and it gets hot so fast and i dony understand why
symmetry
: Dust?
Budget-Builds Official maybe?
symmetry: or dry thermal paste?
Amazing video, very informative and nice voiceover, keep up the good work! :)
If anybody is watching this in 2019 or early 2020, this machine could likely have been upgraded for far more usability for mere pennies, even at the time. The chipset (GMA945) supports Merom C2D CPUs as well as the older Yonah Core Duo processors. Depending on the manufacturer, it will either support 2 or (unofficially) 4 gb of DDR2 ram.
My son used a similarly upgraded Toshiba Satellite A105 (that my brother-in-law found in a dumpster in 2010) up until last year when first gen i7 Dell laptops started falling into "giving them away" territory.
A likely cheap upgrade path for this machine would be a 2.16 Ghz T7400 Merom with 4mb cache or the safer bet Yonah T2600 at the same speed but with less cache. Both can be had on eBay right now (October 2019) for less than $5, shipped. 2gb DDR2 SODIMMS of the appropriate speed can be bought buy-it-now there also for less than $2 each, shipped if you don't mind waiting for the slow China shipping... If you're feeling particularly froggy, you can pick up new SSD's in the 128 gb range for less than $20 shipped that would be more than the poor old SATA 1 in this laptop could handle.
The rapidly approaching demise (end of extended support) of Windows 7 in January 2020. Means that Windows 8.1 32 bit or, even better, Linux would run acceptably on this machine for light browsing. Unfortunately, I don't believe Windows 10 32 bit supports the janky old GMA950 video and it would be a miserable experience if it did. Windows XP was a risky proposition in 2017 and shouldn't even be considered for a networked machine in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
I missed this "upgradeable" laptop era...
when a $25 rasbperry pi runs better
level 3 gay ye bbbbuuutt this was free
A £17.7917 Raspberry PI can run better than that...oh yay...
Yeah, it runs better using a very lightweight distro of Linux, using very simple programs. So not really
@@Tyler-ev7xq Yeah and then it won't run as smoothly
Dragonshadow14 you can't run windows on a pi. A pi can barely run an extremely lightweight Linux distro and even then you can't really do much on it. I like raspberry pis but you are comparing apples to oranges
The guitar playing in the background was actually cool as fuck, great video by the way been subscriber since yesterday
ah yes, GMA 950.. i have one n my Asus eeepc.. works well enough, Intel is always kinda a gamble
ah yes, the humble eeepc. what a wondrous little windows xp device.
Aw fair play on using an old 360 hard drive like that. Clever guy. Didn't know it was like that. Cheers.
Nice laptop. Really enjoyed this.
It did Not Have A Core 2 Duo, It Had A Centrino Duo
Which is a Core 2 duo for laptops
Love your vids bro, I learn something new!
3:40 HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
YOLO
:(
That windows xp shutdown at the end was perfect.
I would have just shoved Linux on it.
TGITFH linux is cool but the latest versions arent compatible with ANYTHING COOL. I have a few free cool apps barely any emulators so you can kiss any chance of great gaming out the window unless you have steam
I wouldn't use it for gaming. I'd build a server or client with it. You could easily use it as a media hub. Hook it up to a TV or whatever, install Kodi and Steam and use it for streaming videos/music/games etc. Or even use it as a remote point to manage a bigger Linux computer on a network via SSH or whatever protocol you want.
TGITFH i put kodi on mine. Its fine until you click a one of many certain buttons and then you have no control at all. The video still plays but you cant adjust sound pause ff rr etc. Maybe thats just me because i have kodi on alot of different things
And it works great on everything else
Wrong. Linux is only useless if you don't know how to use it.
I had one of these that shipped with Vista 11 years ago, it ran so bad I returned it and got an XP laptop with in a few days.
I got it for school with our tax refund while my wife was in the hospital recovering from delivering our first born who’s birthday is Monday. So it has nearly been 11 years to the day, I find it kinda funny a video about a laptop with such a history popped up on my feed for an anniversary review to me.
Hey Budget-Builds Official! Great Video and Awesome channel.
I myself am a low spec pc gamer and greatly appreciate a channel that is relevant to me.
I have one question though, how do you make a bootable usb of windows xp? maybe you could do a video on it? I think that would help your fanbase.
James Mccloskey: Hey man, I use a program called RUFUS check it out, it's great for making bootable USB's.
I use ultra ISO instead, but I can never get it to work with Windows XP, because it keeps asking for the service pack 3 cd, which I don't have.
Tyvm for the reply.
Take a .iso of the os you want to install
Enter Boot Menu (BIOS) and set boot order usb first
Install os as instructed by provider
I Scored an O'l School, Dell Latitude d630 on eBay for $21 USD including delivery! Dropped in a 248gb SSD ($28) from MicroCenter.com, & 4gb of ram (eBay) off a slow boat from China, & loaded a bootleg copy of Win10 Pro! She's built like a Tank & as thick as a phonebook, but she Runs like a Champ!
that isn't a core 2 duo, it's just a core duo. same cpu as my laptop
Difference?
@@snake4322 One gen earlier.
@@snake4322 it's 32 bit
Core Solo(Core Duo but single core) is 32 bit
Core Duo is 32 bit
Core 2 Duo is 64 bit
Wonderful video, I've seen a lot like this but yours is the best.
Horizon Gamers: Thanks man :D
Ahh, Intel IGPs, the crappiest of the crappy.
Especially the ones from 2005 lol. They've gotten a bit better but I'd still recommend against them.
Its ok with early 2000s games. Gothic 1 runs ok, Warcraft III too. WoW kinda with lows to 7-10 fps but with camera set up in more isometric view it got to playable stable 25fps.
No offense but your intro makes me want to die.
Why? It's like 5 seconds long
Man got nostalgia seeing this video, i used this notebook for almost 7 years
first view and like. also can I get my free iPhone 5
Wong Wong: Did you like and subscribe though?
Budget-Builds Official yes
MiteKenzo Only good thing is ram. Most prebuilts have no more than 2.
I had a desktop with a GMA 950 in 2007 with a Pentium D 3GHz. It impressed me with how crappy the "Intel HD" graphics were compared to the 950. The 950 could play Halo 1 on the PC just as well as my Radeon 9250 but some games I think the drivers really hurt it. For example my Radeon 9250 could play Phantasy Star Blue Burst well while the 950 was a slide show. The 950 also played Guild Wars 1 very well just as well as my 9250. The GMA 950 supported a higher version of pixel shader than the 9250 which allowed it to enable AERO on Windows Vista but northbridge heatsink was so hot while gaming I decided to use the 9250 to wear that out instead. Eventually I got a Radeon X1300 which was a big bump compared to them both.. then I got a HD2600XT around a year later. Using a Phenom II X4 3.5GHz with a RX 480 8GB version now, I know that GPU is overkill for the cpu but I'm saving for a Ryzen.
You should have installed Linux on it...
And then not play games? No thanks. Everytime someone says "Linux" I say "Games"
Checked out Steam lately? It's full of games for Linux, only the AAA idiots like EA and the like ignore it.
Yeah i know. You still can't play about 98% of games on Steam though VS Windows. You're still fairly limited.
@@dueldu70 dueldu some people just likes to run games straight out of the box, security holes? Personal attacks are rare and even if someone hacked it, and even if it gets hacked the damn laptop are only filled with games and it doesn't even have any personal data, it's not like this is the dude's main computer
@@2K-Tan All the games, this GMA can run, will definetely run on Wine. And you don´t need to search for drivers after installing OS. Once you´re familiar with Linux, you know there are too many advantages, to even bother with XP.
Best method of throwing away old kit (the original harddrive) I've ever seen.
My desktop is barely better than this
Specs:
1gb ddr3
256gb HDD
1.8ghz single core two threads
Intel gma 3150
Jesus Meza rip
I was using a Dell D430 for most of my life before my current build. No shame in it. I think I played Diablo 2 more than anyone outside of its reasonable lifespan. Intel GMA... *vomits*
Mine is kinda worse
*specs*
Intel pentium T4300
4GB Ddr2
2Tb hdd
Intel integrated graphics 4000
mine specs are kinda better
Intel Core 2 duo T6400 2.00ghz
4gb ddr2
320gb hdd
Nvidia Geforce 9300m GS 256MB
Buy some dat cheap ram
I have an old Acer with a GMA 950 i used to use, was my first laptop, this video reminds me of the struggle for video games and videos, including even watching 720p60 for youtube lmao, it lasted me 7 years and still works without needing anything fixed, but after getting an ASUS, it's just stored away.
dxtory is the worst recording program ever
I feel like bandicam is better
Wow just realised that we both have the same keyboard neat
Stop chewing your nails
PuffCaKe VanPuff: I work as a Gardner, my nails are commonly beaten down by the work....
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial even with gloves?
T2300 was a Core Duo... HUGE difference
Gl on 1k subs
Quick way to look up legacy drivers for a laptop such as this one, is to search for the hardware-id's in the device manager. Just copy and paste the id into Google search and 90% of the times you will find the driver immediately.
I got a Compaq presario C700 as a Xmas gift about 10 years ago, and as my newer laptop broke, I am now using it for college. I upgraded the T2300 pentium chip originally in it to a T7800 core 2 due, 120GB SSD from the 80GB 5400 Hitachi HDD, and maxed out with 3 GB of RAM from the 1GB originally in it. (no, 4GB will not work!) It runs faster than nearly any modern
Great video once again! I am getting so inspired by your videos. I hope that when I create my own video seriies it will be enjoyed as much as your videos are. Thanks for your hard work and i look forward to more videos.
Great video! I am now your 98Kth exactly subscriber!!!
Nice
Awesome vid!
Currently using a Dell latitude e6400, basically a higher spec'd laptop from this same generation.
Installed Zorin OS and bumped the ram to 4gb and this thing is actually awesome, just needs an ssd now.
Only paid $40 after everything and im happy.
I had an ASUS with these exact specs, upgraded to a different CPU, gave it 3GB of DDR2 from a dead Compaq and it ran great for years, just upgraded a few times since then and it got tossed after losing most of it's USB ports.
Perfect for me I want this laptop
I have an Acer Travelmate 4000, and it's still running Debian 10 perfectly. Thanks for Linux saving this old laptop
The great thing about picking up an old system like that for free (with the really crappy Intel GMA 950 onboard graphics or in some cases worse graphics power) is that it is capable of opening up a whole library of games with emulation. I have used two systems with a similar sort of GPU. Our family desktop computer had an Intel GMA 945 (64MB) chip and my first laptop had an Intel GMA X3100 (up to 252MB shared VRAM). Both were perfectly capable of emulating any system up to the PS1 and N64 without any problems. This is because emulators rely more upon the CPU, and both only had single core Intel Celeron processors! This is definitely something worth checking out. :-)
Marcus Terry-Bedford I have an HP Elitebook 8440p (UMA) Laptop. And it ran very well, especially in Windows 10. That's if you had a decent HDD/SSD in it (also the RAM and CPU does have important role in performance as well).
I used to own this laptop (Not this one but the same model), my family gave it to me because it was too slow. I took out the half decent parts and through away the rest. So yes it is very possible to find vintage computers in bins now a days.
I use a similar specced laptop, a Sony Vaio with 2GB RAM running Lubuntu and it makes a perfect fit for the workroom while I'm soldering stuff or cleaning up old video game stuff I found at the thrift. There is a lot of value in these old machines, especially in places you wouldn't want to risk much money.
Nice! Liked for that SimCity 2000 music.
still have this laptop to this day, it still does its job to this day
You know that laptop is ancient just by it's thickness. Thicc.
Suddenly I feel so grateful
That outro is just...
👌👌👌👌👌
It's pretty ideal for a retro game laptop - I've a core2duo 1.8 laptop with gma950 - and all the games from the tnt2/voodoo-ish era run awesomely!
This is basically a Dell Inspiron 6400 without the discrete graphics card option......mine has the Radeon X1400 included. The processors in these laptops can actually handle up to 32-bit Windows 7. The actual real-world performance depends on whether you have more than 1.5 gigs of RAM.
First ever computer I used was this laptop's older cousin, the travelmate 4062 LCi. Sported 512mb DDR2, Pentium M 740, 60gb HDD and windows XP pro. I was 3 when I first used it, still have it today as a small linux machine. Was my parents' originally.
Well done with the video, very professional, great content. Best of luck getting to 1k, subbed 👍
Twisted Skinz Tech: Thanks dude
THAT XP SHUTDOWN MUSIC! Oh men I love it!
I love that Simcity 2000 background music
I recently found a 2007 Toshiba Satellite A135-S4666 in a goodwill for 30$ with two Dell's, it works great for something so old (after I fixed the fan so it wouldn't boil itself away) Old laptops are good for general use, and not usually gaming (which people try on them anyway's even though it doesn't work)
I only just saw this video, but I. Relive this is my dad's old laptop. It ran XP and we dumped it at a tip.
You can actually get Windows XP to support Direct X 10 with a bit of tweaking.
The fanbase of the OS is currently working on a Direct X 12 hack for it as well, but that remains to be seen...
If you need a faster way to find drivers, use 3dp chip, it's free. If you need to install the network drivers first, use 3dp net. Those two programs have saved my butt a lot of times
The GMA 950 was what was in my Compaq Mini 110c-1105DX (2009) if I'm not mistaken.
you could delete the hdd password using ATAPWD in Hiren's Boot CD/USB 15.2
Wow!! That's so old but still it is very cool to see