Occasionally I'll buy a PC just because it's cheap with no real use or purpose for it.

Today's example of that was this del g X to 80 system an old PC that nobody wanted.

With a low starting bid and seemingly no interest, I swooped in and possibly saved it from a life of the dump.

The description was also very limited, with no indication as to the specs inside.

So you can probably tell there's no rise in seven within this thing's walls.

She's a sturdy old girl, though, but what's inside and what can we do with it?

Naturally, the first thing to do was crack it open.

At this point during filming, I was still none the wiser, as I hadn't even tested it before, taking it outside to the studio, opening it up and inside lady aging components crammed into this thing's solid L chassis with the smell of dust leaking out into the atmosphere, the more I lifted the lid.

These old things were built with reliability and longevity in mind for use in office and small business environments.

On closer inspection, two sticks of 512 megabytes.

DDR to memory sat behind the old school blower style stocked cooler, which made me hope for an ex P installation.

When I fired it up above the memory, sat mounted a 40 gigabyte Satur hard drive.

It's crazy to think this once large capacity could now be consumed by a single game, though you don't have to worry about that with a PC like this, these components are powered by a custom form factor 160.

What power supply?

So despite there actually being a PC, I express slots on the motherboard.

Not many cards would run comfortably.

But then came the moment of truth.

The power up, the PC in which I've taken to nicknaming the beast fired straight up into the BIOS to reveal a 2.8 gigahertz Pentium four, the 32 bit processor with hyper threading.

Unlike the earlier CPU models, the 32 bit architecture will prove itself a further limitation.

Though I also confirmed the speed, type and amount of memory and insured all the drives were functioning correctly before exiting the BIOS to reveal the good old X p splash screen shortly before hearing the pure, nostalgic and heavenly jingle.

Many of US X P users became accustomed to boot up time.

24 seconds.

It took another five minutes before the Abbas recognized my keyboard and mouse on automatically installed them, meaning I could then uninstall everything the previous owner had jammed it up with.

Once it's warmed up, it's a lot lot smooth, and it's jammed again, giving it a few seconds to catch up.

The machine then felt snappier than ever.

So what's he like to use?

Well, the first thing I did was open up some of the programs I used as a child before my score got Internet.

That, of course, was M s paint.

As you can see, I'm still somewhat of a master of the arts, creating this bad boy in just under a couple of minutes.

I also tried a couple of things that I've become accustomed to as an adult and using everyday life, but quickly realized the immediate limitations of the now obsolete ex Pos, which combined with the aforementioned 32 bit process that doesn't give this thing the best fighting chance.

Thankfully, Windows X P really made advances in the way we connected our devices to a PC and setting up my WiFi USB dongle was a disk less process, meaning I was up and running on this thing.

They called the World Wide Web.

In minutes it was here.

I stuck with the traditional yet commonly mocked Internet Explorer to catch up on some World Cup news, though by the time the Web page loaded, Iceland had already equalized against Argentina, nearly sending the live blogged I was reading into a catastrophic meltdown as it tried to auto update.

In all seriousness, though, while some sites downright refused to work, it wasn't a terrible overall experience.

And once you've installed a different browser, it wouldn't be bad.

It'll most of the time sites were ready to read, albeit with missing images.

And after using this thing for a couple of hours, I wasn't left stressed out with clumps of hair in my hand, like some of you may think.

And for general basic usage, this thing will still do all right on ex pe.

But you have to remember this arrest is now totally unsupported, and I can't imagine the system would be as quick on Vista or seven moving on and you may think trying to game on a Pentium four PC with just eight megabytes of onboard video memory would be crazy.

Impossible or maybe even insane.

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?

But rest assured, there are many classics that it can handle to name a few need for speed underground.

Ronit 30 F.

P.

S most of the time at 6 40 by 4 80 on the lowest settings with that frame rate dropping MAWR in intense races.

Duty Vice City, one of the best in the series, also played well at the same resolution, albeit with a few drops here and there.

But not often did it did below 30.

This is how I remember it looking on the PlayStation two, and I never complained about that, so I can't complain about this.

The original half life also ran at a solid 60 frames per second.

Know by this time the system was starting to get very vocal.

The phone was practically screaming.

At May, the Pentium four's always did run hot before unplugging it in considering upgrade plans, I gave editing ago Photoshopping Premiere pro and No goes here, but who needs them when I had Window's moviemaker.

This is where I got my first taste of constant creation.

And it's amazing how fluency it performs even on this hardware.

I'd love to say I made this video with it, but I'd be lying.

I tell you what, Maybe next time I'll do just that.

So there we have it.

Instead of buying a vending machine coffee.

I spent the money on something better, depending on your opinion, of course.

Nonetheless, after what I'd estimate is at least 15 years of service, this old girl is still going very strong.

I invite you guys to follow along on this journey off the Dell OptiPlex.

We're gonna be doing a few different things to it.

I'm going to even be trying to ah, perhaps fit some sort of custom.

Walter.

Call it too.

It just for a laugh.

I've never had any experience with anything like that in the past, but will try all sorts of different things with this aging machine.

After all, we haven't got much to lose considering the price I paid for it.

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