Loved this video alot, really great stuff, narration was perfect throughout, I'd shorten the benchmarks a tad, but still surprising to see what this PC, and my childhood graphics (Intel Extreme Graphics) can do. Great work once again!
dam man i followed this guys channel from ur comment on randomgaming, you are one youtuber who is actually a nice person who gives advice to smaller dudes, nice job man.
Back in 2004-2006 when I got into PC building the Optiplex gx280's were all the rage for budget builds! All you had to do is slap in a Geforce 7800 GTX and another stick of 512mb of RAM and you could play anything at 30+fps all day for under $400 total! Miss the old days...
I found a Compaq Presario S6020WM on the curb that was very similar in specs to this PC. It has a MSI motherboard with solder points for AGP but no slot. I didn’t want to keep it original being a Celeron so I performed the following upgrades: 1. Replaced the PSU (bad caps) 2. Replaced the Celeron for a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 3. Added a 256MB PCI ATI Radeon 4. Upgraded the DDR to 1GB and it is a now a nice little XP Gaming PC that didn’t break the bank to put together. They also threw out the matching 17” CRT which works very well being nearly 15 years old!
Labib's Official Science Page could very well be the CPU too hehe, I mean I could get this PC to run Minecraft but after breaking one block it completely freeze lol
ComputerCatGaming I used MSI Afterburner and my CPU was being bottlenecked.. And its a Pentium T4400... I was thinking about upgrading but its not worth it. And besides theres a stuck screw ;-;
Labib's Official Science Page Yeah I think your better of getting a new PC too rather than upgrading your current one, I recommend getting a cheap used sandybridge i5 desktop if you're on a thight budget.
Hi All, I have my Dell 2400 as a low end XP machine. I wiped the hard drive, installed dos 6.22 on a 2gig partition and placed my favorite old dos games on it. One the rest of the hard drive i installed win XP , and it dual boots fine with the stock microsoft menu on boot up. My machine came with 1 x 512 memory stick but i replaced it with 2 x 1 gig , XP flies, but i cannot install win 95/98 on it with that much overall memory. The other option which make it retro friendly is on boot up select bios set up ( F2 maybe ) and go to CPU option and change it from normal to compatible - this i believe turns of the cache and the cpu slows down to 386dx levels, you can play the mid 80's early 90os games much better now, but XT AT games locked to the 4.77hz will be to fast , you will have to try out soft ware slow down software. Just ensure yo use a SB16 or similar PCI card for best dos sound experience. The machine is not a powerhouse, but are extremely stable and reliable
+george maragos Cool I still need to try out DOS on this thing! So far this Dell is now my main windows 98 gaming PC, after a lot of troubleshooting of hardware conflicts. And I think its very cool seeing such machines like the Dell 2400 finally being useful for something whatever it is DOS or some early 2000s gaming, though the lack of AGP is a bummer but it's a nice system for various projects. I will probably make a video on this PC once more in the future.
That Sims footage! That fire looked like arson to me, pal 😆😂 The Grim Reaper 🤣 Shockingly bad computer. Dell were often overpriced junk. Yet, SO many schools bought them by the truck load 😝
Arson?? What are you talking about? 🙃 Also well yes, it's bad but it performed miles better as a Windows 98 PC as shown in my other video, might be the drivers idk.. 😳
do you think i will get the same results on a dell dimension 3000 since its an upgrade to the dell dimension 2400? awesome vid by the way i love seeing people run games on older hardware!
I have one maxed it out with 2gb ram and use a nvidia 5200 pci graphic card. It works decent and still has windows xp even it can't go online anymore. Use it for emulation. Which does run dreamcast. It ran playstation emulator actually well.
Lol My 2400 has only 1x 256 MB so you're starting off better than me already. I just got this one Donated. It's Possible there was 2x 256 MB but not sure I don't have any History on the Machine It's so slow I'm not sure it could even run Win 95 hahahaha I might throw a few parts into it just to get it operating the way it was intended but with a Win 7 Upgrad and Ram I think the HDD is 80gb
@@computercatgaming02 I also have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX And that one at least has some Potential 😂 It has the PCIE x16 plus 3 PCI slots. Sata 1,2,3,4 . 4 Ram Slots 4GB capability. 2 DVD RW Lightscribe and I think 250GB HDD. I'm no computer guy I don't know a whole lot about PCs but it's always been a Hobby of mine. Also have a old Laptop but that has too many things needing replacement and it's Win Xp . Probably 100GB HDD and less than 1gb Ram
+Dovydas 10 Too be fair it was the game's fault as I figured out in the follow up video to this one, it was locking the game frame rate way below what the PC was capable of :)
Loved this video alot, really great stuff, narration was perfect throughout, I'd shorten the benchmarks a tad, but still surprising to see what this PC, and my childhood graphics (Intel Extreme Graphics) can do. Great work once again!
Budget-Builds Official Thanks for the feedback! And also I'm excited to show you the improvements with the PCI graphic card. ;)
ComputerCatGaming: I can't wait ;D
dam man i followed this guys channel from ur comment on randomgaming, you are one youtuber who is actually a nice person who gives advice to smaller dudes, nice job man.
Epic ComputerCatGaming!! Congratulations on 300 subs!
Jason Company21 Thanks :D
ComputerCatGaming Your Welcome!
Back in 2004-2006 when I got into PC building the Optiplex gx280's were all the rage for budget builds! All you had to do is slap in a Geforce 7800 GTX and another stick of 512mb of RAM and you could play anything at 30+fps all day for under $400 total! Miss the old days...
wait a minute that midi music
bruh has been lookin thru his windows folders
I found a Compaq Presario S6020WM on the curb that was very similar in specs to this PC. It has a MSI motherboard with solder points for AGP but no slot. I didn’t want to keep it original being a Celeron so I performed the following upgrades:
1. Replaced the PSU (bad caps) 2. Replaced the Celeron for a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
3. Added a 256MB PCI ATI Radeon
4. Upgraded the DDR to 1GB and it is a now a nice little XP Gaming PC that didn’t break the bank to put together. They also threw out the matching 17” CRT which works very well being nearly 15 years old!
I have a Intel GMA 4500M and I thought it was the worst.... This is just taking the cake.....
Labib's Official Science Page yeah the Intel GMA 4500 is way superior without a doubt! ;) It can almost even run Oblivion which is a huge step.
ComputerCatGaming
Unfortunately it's still a bit too underpowered for me, I mean Minecraft made my pc crash it self so ehh...
Labib's Official Science Page could very well be the CPU too hehe, I mean I could get this PC to run Minecraft but after breaking one block it completely freeze lol
ComputerCatGaming
I used MSI Afterburner and my CPU was being bottlenecked.. And its a Pentium T4400... I was thinking about upgrading but its not worth it. And besides theres a stuck screw ;-;
Labib's Official Science Page Yeah I think your better of getting a new PC too rather than upgrading your current one, I recommend getting a cheap used sandybridge i5 desktop if you're on a thight budget.
I owned this computer back in the days. Bought Doom 3 along with it... Boy was I disappointed I got about 5 FPS only :D
Nice vid man
RienoMieno Thanks man :)
I love my dell deminsion 2400 all i had to do was add a lot of flash ram and it was runing old games perfect : )
Socket 478 is PGA, not LGA. Meaning that the pins are on the CPU itself, not the motherboard.
RWL2012 I realized that mistake afterwards, I facepalmed really hard.. either way thanks for paying attention! 👍
I have a dimension 2400 but the VGA port on the motherboard is broken i am planning on installing a geforce 6200 PCI graphics card
Hi All, I have my Dell 2400 as a low end XP machine. I wiped the hard drive, installed dos 6.22 on a 2gig partition and placed my favorite old dos games on it. One the rest of the hard drive i installed win XP , and it dual boots fine with the stock microsoft menu on boot up. My machine came with 1 x 512 memory stick but i replaced it with 2 x 1 gig , XP flies, but i cannot install win 95/98 on it with that much overall memory.
The other option which make it retro friendly is on boot up select bios set up ( F2 maybe ) and go to CPU option and change it from normal to compatible - this i believe turns of the cache and the cpu slows down to 386dx levels, you can play the mid 80's early 90os games much better now, but XT AT games locked to the 4.77hz will be to fast , you will have to try out soft ware slow down software. Just ensure yo use a SB16 or similar PCI card for best dos sound experience.
The machine is not a powerhouse, but are extremely stable and reliable
+george maragos Cool I still need to try out DOS on this thing!
So far this Dell is now my main windows 98 gaming PC, after a lot of troubleshooting of hardware conflicts.
And I think its very cool seeing such machines like the Dell 2400 finally being useful for something whatever it is DOS or some early 2000s gaming, though the lack of AGP is a bummer but it's a nice system for various projects.
I will probably make a video on this PC once more in the future.
That Sims footage! That fire looked like arson to me, pal 😆😂
The Grim Reaper 🤣
Shockingly bad computer. Dell were often overpriced junk. Yet, SO many schools bought them by the truck load 😝
Arson?? What are you talking about? 🙃
Also well yes, it's bad but it performed miles better as a Windows 98 PC as shown in my other video, might be the drivers idk.. 😳
do you think i will get the same results on a dell dimension 3000 since its an upgrade to the dell dimension 2400? awesome vid by the way i love seeing people run games on older hardware!
Yo ComputerCatGaming. Im That Sly Cooper The Thief From Amino. I gived you shout out from My sly cooper video
I got my friends one that is the exact same I installed a power supply and I'm gonna test it tomorrow
soldier a GTX 850m to the board and add a Core2quad I'd bet it would preform better then ,but what pc I gpu is it
Jake Nuts lol wish that was possible. xD and you will have to wait a while to find out. :P
I have one maxed it out with 2gb ram and use a nvidia 5200 pci graphic card. It works decent and still has windows xp even it can't go online anymore. Use it for emulation. Which does run dreamcast. It ran playstation emulator actually well.
Damn that computer is old af
Theta 117 It's not very impressive for it's age either. Though that will change with the better PCI graphics card. :P
ComputerCatGaming you sure the celeron won't bottleneck a latest gen CPU
Theta 117 Do you mean gpu? Well I'm not going with a modern card but its something from its time so it's something the celeron can handle.
ComputerCatGaming yeah I meant GPU
Lol
My 2400 has only 1x 256 MB so you're starting off better than me already.
I just got this one Donated.
It's Possible there was 2x 256 MB but not sure
I don't have any History on the Machine
It's so slow I'm not sure it could even run Win 95 hahahaha
I might throw a few parts into it just to get it operating the way it was intended but with a Win 7 Upgrad and Ram
I think the HDD is 80gb
It runs Win 9x quite well actually after solving all the compability problems ;)
@@computercatgaming02 I also have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX
And that one at least has some Potential 😂
It has the PCIE x16 plus 3 PCI slots.
Sata 1,2,3,4 . 4 Ram Slots 4GB capability.
2 DVD RW Lightscribe and I think 250GB HDD.
I'm no computer guy I don't know a whole lot about PCs but it's always been a Hobby of mine.
Also have a old Laptop but that has too many things needing replacement and it's Win Xp .
Probably 100GB HDD and less than 1gb Ram
@@RobPGamerVaper The Compaq Presario SR2180NX has a Pentium D right?
@@computercatgaming02 yes it's Pentium D 820. Dual Core 2.8 GHz
Socket 775 Bus 800MHz.
Asus Leonite Motherboard.
@@RobPGamerVaper I think I got that CPU laying around in my CPU box
Original GTA can't even play original that good what the heck
+Dovydas 10 Too be fair it was the game's fault as I figured out in the follow up video to this one, it was locking the game frame rate way below what the PC was capable of :)
Also thanks for subscribing, there will be a new video coming soon so stay tuned!
@@computercatgaming02 Ok! And you have 512subs and the ram is 512mb.
lol, i game bf1 on dat computar.
About 10-15 FPS lower than my current laptop