Welcome to another video.

Now we all make mistakes in life, and we all have our regrets.

I have to say that the most recent of mine was probably buying this.

This is a so called gaming PC that are purchased on the Facebook marketplace for just a few pounds.

And I'm told that it hasn't been turned on in quite some time.

Roughly 10 years.

No, I didn't know this until I went to pick it up.

So today I thought we'd open it up.

Take a look at what 10 years of dust probably looks like.

Try and work out the specs of this machine and see if it still fires up.

Of course, then we'll put it through its paces, test it and see what it can do in a few games, whether it's even capable of that.

So I can see from the back of the system that does have a graphics card installed by what that GPU is, I really do have no idea, along with the process, er on along with the amount of Ram before we get started, I just want to say I hope you guys don't mind this slightly longer videos recently map alone Schedule's been a bit all over the place.

I've been so busy outside off this whole YouTube thing, so everything's been a bit hectic at the moment.

So I thought, When I go two or three days without an upload, why upload a five minute video?

Because it can seem a little lazy.

So I thought, maybe longer videos.

Hopefully, they're a bit better as well if you guys like them on DDE.

Yes, I would let me know if you don't mind these longer upload or whether you want me to go back to slightly shorter videos.

But of course, not every video in the future is going to be at least 10 or 15 minutes long.

But without further ado, let's crack open his PC, see what's inside, give it a bit of a cleanup, talk about the specs and then try to game on it.

So before opening it up, I wanted to see if this thing turned on.

And while it did power up after pressing the power button, all I heard was a long, continuous beat.

I wasn't sure what this meant, so I thought it best to take it outside, opening up and remove any dust and dirt first before trying to find a solution to our no posting problem.

Externally, I think this build still looks quite good except from the white DVD R W drive, which looks a bit out of place, but we'll deal with the cosmetics later.

My initial attempt at removing the side panel failed, and I assume that maybe it was stuck in place with a decade's worth of grime.

But it turns out that it was locked shut thanks to this nifty little security system here.

Good job.

The original keys are all still included.

Otherwise, we may have never been able to open up.

Never mind.

Despite this thing sitting under someone stares for a good few years.

There wasn't as much grime around the case to deal with as I thought that may have been because most of it congregated around the CPU fan.

Just in case you're eating your breakfast or dinner, I won't show you a close up.

Okay, maybe just a little close up.

This may be why the system wasn't booting up, so I decided to strip the system down entirely and clean everything before trying again.

At least then we can get a closer look at the individual parts as well.

The first thing to do was removed the graphics card.

After pulling that out the machine, I discovered it was a Dream Force 7900 GS with a fan that was completely clogged up with filth.

The best way to clean PC components is with a can of compressed air, and the bigger parts can also be dusted with a brush.

After cleaning up the card, it was time to look into its specs.

Launching in the autumn of 2006 this a Seuss G Force 7900 GS, was aimed at the mid range market and cost 200 American dollars to buy new, placing it between the 7600 GT and the 7900 GT.

This model features of 450 megahertz core clock, 256 megabytes of DDR three V RAM and supports up to D X nine, meaning most of the latest games are a no go, but we'll see how it performs later on.

Also featured in this PC is a 320 gig hard drive, ample room back in 2006.

A creative labs SoundBlaster s B 07 30 sound card, as well as an a Seuss P five nd motherboard, which was a pretty good board back in its day.

An office support for pretty much any and all 775 CPU use, including the core.

To quote an extreme Siri's.

It even offers SL I support to and can handle up to eight gigs of DDR to Ram.

We've also got a 500 were oxygen ps you in here?

So I don't think it's a quality unit at all and was very loud when powering the PC on, though it was hard to hear over the initial beeping.

But now it was time to deal with this.

I would have spent half an hour or so happily cleaning it, but as I removed it, the wind decided to blow some of the dust into my mouth on Well, that was just it for me.

I had to deploy the dye.

Our were technique, dump it and walk away.

I hate throwing away things still work, but this was just too much, and it could be the reason our PC refused to boot instant overheating.

With heat sink off, I was able to determine the process of model, which was a court to Jiro 6600 basically a two core version of the Q 6600 this 65.

What 2.4 gigahertz process I launched in Q 306 for I believe around 300 U.

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Dollars, though I could be a little out.

Something that hadn't occurred to me until now was the sticker detail ing a model number.

This indicates that this machine is a pre built assembled by a company called Mesh who are based in London, and they're still trading today.

After researching, I found a hex ISS review of a similar SPECT system that would have cost just over £1000 about $1300 today and even one itself a good value of old.

So with everything cleaned up, the system reassembled on the DVD drive, professionally painted or blasted with a rattle can by myself.

It was time to see what this mid range the high end system that hasn't seen any action in years, could do.

If, of course, it wanted to turn on well, it turns out that it did.

I was a little skeptical that just cleaning the dust out would fix it.

But it goes to show just how important regular cleaning and maintenance of your PC is.

Why this thing was bought then only used for a year or so.

I don't know.

But from what I understand, the previous owner I picked this up from was King to upgrade very regularly because they had left most of their old fire was behind.

I decided to completely wipe and install Windows seven instead, especially since the Vista version installed was 32 bit.

With that done, let's see what it can do in its otherwise unmodified state when it comes to gaming.

So because this is an older system, it won't bear with the handle new releases, especially given the direct external in graphics cold.

I started off with a relatively easy to run title Minecraft here.

I switched the graphics too fast and reduce the view distance and render chunks.

Unfortunately, while the game seemed to be recording a respectable average frame rate, you can probably see that it's plagued with stutter, which made it rather unplayable.

This occurred no matter the resolution or in game settings and may have been primarily down to the single two gigabytes stick of RAM installed as neither the CPU or GP You were running a full load throughout my 15 minute playtime duty.

San Andreas ran well like this every single time I started the game, it's simply froze at the Opening Options menu and jam the whole system up, believing me to resort to either control or delete or just holding the power button in until it switched off.

Either way, San Andreas refused to work on this PC.

This system has essentially sort of acted as a time capsule over the last few years, keeping these older components locked inside and preserving a look at what a mid range gaming system used to look like.

In C.

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Cho, I was able to get the game running with at least 30 frames per second by reducing the settings all the way, and I mean all the way.

6 40 by 4 80 Resolution was the best option here.

With the advanced graphical options set to their lowest again, there was some stutter, actually, on second thoughts.

When I say some stutter, I meant it terrific amount of static because there really was quite a lot off frame drops and freezes here and there.

But fortunately, I'm terrible at this game, so I wasn't extremely put off by the frame drops.

The original Mafia also ran quite well with the low quality preset enabled at 7 20 p.

As you can see, we've got the distance fog unable to for the best results.

But this man has solid 60 frames per second throughout, which was a result I was pretty happy with on one that meant we could probably have afforded to turn a few things up here and there, maybe even being able to set the resolution to 10 80 p.

The same applied to another slightly older title.

The elder scrolls Morrow wind an absolute classic in the Siri's.

This still runs quite differently, varying from hardware to hardware, for example, I've used worst systems that have performed better on better systems that have performed worse.

But at 1024 by 768 here, with any sliders turned up to around medium, we were able to maintain a pretty consistent frame, right?

Also, by some miracle, we were able to run 20 thirteen's Tomb Raider.

Sure, I had to reduce everything to low settings and use 800 by 600 resolution.

But the game did run, even if, in some cases a lot of the scenery was missing or graphical artifacts decided to clog up the screen and totally distract from the action.

Never mind.

No, because this title I expected to massively fail really surprised me.

But can it run?

Crisis are here, you ask.

Well, low settings.

Yes, it certainly can.

The opening level with 7 20 p ran with about 45 frames per second with a mixture of low and medium settings.

So while it didn't look that great, it ran fine most of the time.

But remember, I did say most as you make your way further into the jungle and eventually come across some of the later levels with more enemies and on screen action, the game will slow down a bit and dropped to the mid to low twenties, and it will really be quite hard to play among all the stutter and frame jobs that you're likely be experiencing on a combination of this CPU and GPU as well as that Two Gigs of Ram Crisis never did really run well on a lot of older systems.

Hence the whole Can it run crisis thing over?

Although we've resuscitated this PC, we've brought it back from the dead.

It was once a dust clogged gray for old components, but now we've managed to clean it up, firing at once more, install a brand new fresh operating system on it, and that, honestly, is a great feeling.

If you take something old and broken, refurbish it, get it going again, especially when it's a system like this that because of the motherboard, does present a few upgrade options as well.

So, guys, there we have it.

Who knows how long this PC would have continued to sit under?

Someone stares if I hadn't have rescued it.

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