I bought a $6 Novatech GAMING PC…

Would people like me to keep doing polls on the specs of the PCs when we get them on the channel? I found it fun to see what the guesses were

You're my 'enabler' - I can't stop buying old PC's. My latest win was a decent case, Phenom 2 X6 1035T, 16GB DDR3, 240Gb SSD, decent PSU and ASUS mobo, opt drive, Radeon HD7770 for £40.... Keep it up!!

Totally did not think of anything illegal when i saw the thumbnail

The Q6600 is what, 17 years old? Imagine being able to run Windows 2000 on a CPU from 1983!! Shows how far we've come in terms of continuity of support, backwards compatibility, instruction set etc (or how little we've progressed, depending on how you look at it). I kept an overclocked Q6600 machine as my main rig until 2018. It still works. Nice to know it could be pressed into service again in an emergency.

Damn hats off to all the peeps that guessed the q6600.

Doesnt really matter what it was....it was FIVE DOLLARS!! lmao. ANY working PC for that price is a steal!

The goat of CPUs itself: The Q6600 Interesting thing about it, as it is just a chiplet design with two Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, the cores have to communicate somehow, which they don’t do like today’s chiplet-designed processors (Infinity fabric for example) Instead they had to communicate through the North Bridge, which could lead to latency between both dies

The Q6600, quite legendary of a CPU. I’ve used it until 2019 with a Radeon HD 7850 and it was such a massive jump from what I’ve had before. Your system might be a bit slower than what I’ve had but it was such a nostalgia trip going back….thank you for sharing your experience with it ☺️

I still use a Q6600 pc to transfer videos to harddisk. I work mainly with 8mm film and my old trusty pci card gives much better image quality than the best usb video grabber. I built this pc in 2006 for this job and is still in use.

this pc truly is a budget pc, it can pretty much do anything w/o any issue. browsing? yes, gaming? also yes, you can play lots of game as long as u go tweaking some graphics setting. with only 6 bucks this is just a steal it also have the old classic core 2 quad series, they got some really good performance even in 2024 considering the age, it can probably do some light editing with somewhat acceptable performance, good old day when intel is still in their peak

My mans a pro at sniping on eBay these days

Watching you slash away at that floppy, flimsy box with a pair of blunt scissors shows all the other tech channels just how opening a box should be done, excellent stuff keep it up :)

Your videos are such a treat everytime. When you said "Q6600" I literally raised my fist a bit in the air and quietly said "Yes!" xD

Please for the love of Lord, change the thermal compound on the North bridge if you work with old 775 pcs Or go even further installing a small 40mm fan on top Core 2 quads and 771 xeons put A LOT of stress on that weak little chip Good video nonetheless Thank you mate

I watched this on my Core 2 Quad Q6600! They are still fantastic CPUs, in fact the Athlon II and Phenom II are great still today. These late 2000s CPUs still have enough power to brute force through modern bloated and unoptomized websites and software, and when you do find something optomized they are absolutely incredible.

Novatech isn't a bad PC builder. My first PC I got from Novatech and they fixed my broken laptop screen for the price of P+P on the laptop. Good company.

I love watching people record outside because the lighting is almost always immaculate xD and it's free space! Whoohooo

Scored a 780ti and a 4760k with 16gb ram from the side of the road, pc was basically still brand new, RGB and quiet as. Was like a gaming pc used in a office haha

Great video. Glad you are back!

About the later notes in the video... hoo yeah, old PCs are still so very usable for simpler tasks like web browsing, watching videos and doing office work. I picked up a ho-hum HP Pavilion around 2009 and used it up until early 2018 with zero upgrades or tweaking. And not just for browsing the web and watching YouTube, but also for DVD ripping and simple video editing. (Side-note: one of its cool little features even by today's standards was that it had one of its 5¾-inch optical drive panels populated with a multi-memory-card card reader plugged directly into one of the motherboard's USB headers.) While I ended up replacing that old Pavilion with a first-gen Ryzen in early 2018, you know what else I did around the same time? I picked up a refurbished notebook that was circa 2013, replaced its HDD with an SSD, and had plenty of fun browsing the web and watching YouTube on it. Heck, I'd still be using that ~2013 notebook as a little office/video workhorse if not for the fact that its motherboard and battery faults have gotten bad enough that it isn't even 100% reliable while plugged in.