I Bought a Cursed 'Gaming' PC...

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at a PC I bought from the bootfair, this turned in to quite the adventure, with everything from decking out Windows XP, Crysis crashing the entire system, through to high end and questionable AGP Graphics Card Upgrades, this is the longest video yet on Budget Builds, so sit down and enjoy this slightly cursed adventure.

Intro - 0:00
What did we buy? - 0:13
Plugging it all in - 1:02
Turning it on for the first time - 1:25
So does it all work? - 4:31
The Specs - 5:00
The First Night of Testing: Installing Drivers, Getting it all working - 6:01
Getting there...and then getting distracted by Fallout 2 - 6:51
The Cleaning Montage - 7:30
More Drivers, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 - 8:33
Weird Network Issues - 10:28
The Benchmarks! - 11:46
Benchmark Summary - 16:16
Web Browsing, Day to Day Usage...Its Slow-er Now - 16:51
I Also Bought a GPU - 22:47
Installing the GPU and Finding a PSU - 23:27
It Now WONT Boot - 24:37
Cooking the Card, Sunny Side Up (and down) - 25:38
A Risky OS Upgrade - 25:58
It Gets Worse - 23:46
The PC Gradually becomes more and more cursed until it doesnt want to work - 27:24
The GPU would now only run with a hairdryer blowing cold air at it - 34:07
Conclusion - 34:50

Specs:
GPU: SIS Potato 3000 & Radeon HD2600XT (Revived from whence it came)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
RAM: 876MB DDR400 Mhz RAM
OS: Windows XP SP2, SP3, and Tiny Windows 7

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BudgetBuildsOfficial

In the 7 years I’ve been watching this channel, mr budget guy has gone from living in a house, to the woods, to a car, a shed, homeless and now a trailer. This is my favourite YouTube channel of all time

pokepokepoke

This is INSANE, not only are we getting such frequent videos again, but also my request for a gaming PC video is here!
Thanks man! I was so worried that this channel was dying, but I can see that it is having a revival period now, which makes me very happy!
Wish you all the best man, from Poland!

MiSt

Comfy, cozy LGR for tea sippers. Bless you, bud.

Sir_punchwood

The horror of finding out your computer contains SiS devices. I completely forgot about them, "thanks" for bringing the memories back xD

astrojunkey

For the AGP cards, check the capacitors, been able to revive a few cards because it was the capacitors that were on their way out, not the dyes themselves.

calebpace

9:47 > weird middle child - Service Pack 2

You mean, the exact WinXP version most of users actually spent time with?
SP3 came out unexpectedly only a year before Win7, and 7 years into XP's lifecycle, it's not like SP2 was unusable on relevant machines before that.

funtaril

I love to look back at old hardware and see what we used years ago.

dimancor

The Athlon 64s were awesome compared to the Prescott P4s. This one is unfortunately paired with awful SiS chipset. Maybe that Radeon 9700 Pro from the mystery box would be a better GPU fit.

vojtechadame

If you were a gamer back then you had an Athlon 64, they absolutely DESTROYED the Pentium 4. I used to do lan parties back then and almost everyone had amd64 cpus. I had a P4 and thought it was amazing until a friend of mine showed me his pc with an Athlon 64 that curb stomped my P4. I shortly after switched to AMD and didn't look back until the core 2 duo. For that time era I think you should get a 9800 pro, or 6600gt.

GrumpyWolfTech

Those PXP chips are little house fires, I actually burnt my finger on one once.

Jamasen

An AGP card with the six-pin connector from the PCIe spec? That's cursed.

sammoore

This looks like the exact same PC my friend used to have back in the day. I used to visit home and we would play GTA VC NFS MW and GTA 3 on it for entire day. Good old days. This reignited alot of old fond memories

divyamthakur

Really puts into perspective how much we take for granted the common amenities of modern, fast computing. This video tells a story all too common back in the day. This troubleshooting process WAS computing back then. If you had a PC that wasn't top of the line, this was the adventure you embarked on whenever you decided you wanted to play a new game or do anything beyond its basic functionality. I feel in equal parts nostalgic and traumatized. Thanks, I guess.

SNLS

1st rule of thumb: NEVER connect a flash drive to a system with a pre-installed OS! I always wipe the partitions with read-only media, then proceed to install a CLEAN OS. That flash drive could potentially have been infected with virus/malware, that you would then connect to your day to day PC and ruin it.
That being said, love these low budget PC reviews!

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