The Free PC

[Music] this is a 5cent coin and it's the least amount of money that you can physically hold in Australia but what if I told you you can get a fully functioning PC infinitely cheaper meet the free PC so yeah when I said fully working PC I of course didn't mention that it would be any good this NE lithic HP was found by a maid of mine a while back after it been thrown into the metal scrap pile at our local dump seemingly then it was beyond the ew section this event explains the state that this computer was in when I acquired it dirty scratched and dented with missing parts and just has the general look that it had been recently hit many times with a big stick upon testing it I found that it booted up into a corrupted Windows 7 install so with the computer tested and working I took it outside and pulled it apart dusting off the old motherboard and hosing the case and cooler I then loaded it up with a fresh install of Windows 7 [Music] should we draw a face on it yeah artist uh okay the sticker on the side of the computer revealed that it had a Pentium 4 641 inside a single core CPU running at 3.2 GHz at least it's got hyperthreading half a GB of ddr2 which I found out was wrong and it had in fact been upgraded to 1.5 GB of ddr2 it has a 160 GB hard drive and the extremely powerful and very much sought after Intel GMA 950 graphics card oh yeah we're talking some serious power today well before we find out if this [ __ ] meanderthal of a piece can actually play games we have to see if this [ __ ] endel of the PC can even run Windows 7 device device manager not responsing we're dealing with a very very powerful computer here tonight boys um let's do the internet test one minute later I have clicks launch a few moments later there it goes two very boring minutes later Jesus Christ I just much much much later YouTu one eternity later please you get the idea so yeah it genuinely took around 5 minutes to load a YouTube video and once it actually did load it couldn't even do 144p video in minimized mode without dropping over a third of the frames intensive web browsing doesn't work very well on this computer but the basic sides did work okay so let's see how much performance you get for the price of nothing the first game we tested was The Sims 3 we rented at 800x 600 with all the low settings selected when paused it could get up to 21 frames per second but as soon as you hit play the frame rate dipped quite dramatically bringing our average FPS down to a meas 16 but could dip as low as 8 or 9 frames per second when zooming in and out rapidly or moving the camera you could drop the resolution down to 640x480 but it doesn't really improve performance that much and the 800x 600 definitely looked a lot nicer 48 was the next game and in a 640x480 resolution with all the settings slammed down as low as they would go the game never left 30 frames per second the game had no real stuttering that I noticed but I was too busy to notice that messing around with the controls of this game I don't have a single clue how to play this game so just just look at the FPS counter don't look at whatever the hell's going on right now I'm literally Christian Ronaldo the next game I tried was Crisis but that just crashed every single time nope never mind I can try BioShock 2 which also just crashed every time well that's a problem since steam stopped supporting Windows 7 and now no longer opens on it I can't play any more games on this operating system oh does that mean it's Windows XP time [Music] [Music] Windows XP installation went without problem although I was a bit of a dbus and uh made the thing do a full format instead of just a quick format so it took literally 2 hours that's 2 hours I'm never getting back but eventually we were in the Des top once Windows XP was set up we got to running some games the first of which was Battlefield 1942 which we ran in 800x 600 with the medium settings selected while playing through this game the average FPS hovered around the 50 FPS Mark in simpler areas the FPS could reach as high as 65 but that was when there was very little going on and no vegetation on screen in this scene here while this tank is mounting this Barb Wire Fence where there are lots of trees on the scene and a small fight is happening you can see the frame rate is dipping to around the 30 FPS Mark still overall quite playable game and my cameraman and I had a little bit too much fun with this some random journalist bridge I what is next up cuz I'm out of games again we have big bites custom play golf golf game was run at 720p with all of the lowest settings selected we achieved an average of 25 FPS lows to 23 and highs to 31 overall the game was fairly playable if you actually understood what to do which I didn't so would I recommend this computer well it's only real use was playing old games on Windows XP and you could easily find something with more power than this for a couple of dollars or free in ew but it was reliable and I guess it did just fine in the ancient games you can theoretically put some Fork of Linux onto this thing and get something that resembles a computer out of it but I couldn't be will to do that so this is where I'll end it thanks for watching the video means a lot that we've hit 100 subscribers big thanks to Austin the cam CER man he's edited a bloopers reel for this video and will be linked in the description sorry the video is out a bit late the next one's going to be out a bit late too as I'm going to be overseas for a month so expect the next video to come out around August sometime anyway this has been primitive PCS good night

Channel: Primitive PCs

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Length: 7min 53sec (473 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 30 2024