@3bdo_
Being outside doesn’t stop me from watching even if it makes me look…special
@keulloe
The 840T has two disabled cores. With some luck, you can unlock it to a penta or hexa core.
@Armadurapersonal
i use a core2duo thinkpad x200 pretty regularly, it's amazing how capable these old machines are with maxed ram and an ssd
@FlyboyHelosim
Realistically, you're not going to be running Windows 10 and modern games on a DDR2 era system. You'd buy it absolutely to replace parts in, or even build from scratch, a retro system.
@SeralyneYT
That pagefile must be doing god's work - honestly instead of buying DDR2 RAM at this point, it's almost worth considering some way of perhaps using PCIe Gen 4 SSDs at this point. We're talking same peak transfer rates lmao
@SuperWeirdPCs
LGA 775 and AM2 sockets are still perfectly good for browsing web and creating your presentation or a document. It can even game for the most games till 2016-2017. I'm to this day still love em and use em. And the DDR3 systems sometimes costs more than the DDR4 system in my region. And the DDR2 systems cost hilariously low. I can do the 10-15$ fully working 775 PC with the GPU. And it seems perfectly good and valuable for such a price.
@brendonlaucheekeong636
I went to service centre and showed them my Kingston DDR 2 1066mhz 2x2gb hyper X with lifetime warranty and they refunded me 33.5 SGD dollars.
@big-ts-tech-corner
I believe another part of the reason why this DDR2 era stuff is getting expensive is because its starting to see itself lumped in with the "muh vintage gaming!!! retro hardware!!!" era of things. A lot of people are wanting to make dream systems from that era (I mean hey, myself included!) so we can run our games that, at that time, we had to patiently endure at 800x600 30FPS, but now we can run them at max settings and high resolutions to fill in some stupid void that we have :)
@mrmerlin6287
I'm in my mid 30s. I feel a lot of sentimental feelings towards this era of hardware as I probably did most of my gaming during this time period.
@bafon
There's ALOT of industrial equipment that uses ddr2 or even older systems, while it doesn't make sense to the ordinary consumer there's actually a market for old hardware like this. Imagine you have a 250 000$ industrial machine controlled by a ddr2 phenom system, which fails because the motherboard degraded and shorted out. It is way cheaper to replace the motherboard even if the "price" is higher than newer stuff, simply because the other option is to replace the whole 250 000$ unit.
@hushus10021971
Unfortunately in countrys like Denmark people think everything from a computer is GOLD or DIAMONDS... The prizes are WAY to high for old items My "old" system still runs AMD Phenom II 965 BE
@LughtMon
4 years ago I was using some kind of Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD and nvidia Quadro 600 GPU. It wasn't good, but it taught me to be patient. I was recording videos, editing videos, I learned photoshop on it, music production, even some gaming. I managed to change options, so the system will run at it's best. But sure, it was crap and I don't want to go back anymore.
@LinuxKnuckleHead
I remember paying almost $350 for a 1.2 Gig hard drive... and $250 for a 16 Meg ATI All in Wonder card... Those were the days. Ram was like 4 Meg was huge. Those were the days. As long as it played Doom and/or Quake you were golden.
@Mwapaca
Those old computers would still be usable if only they weren't so power hungry.
@DarkDragonEWA
I don't think it's even a supply issue, DDR2 era stuff just seems stupidly expensive for no reason. I've bought older DDR era parts and even old 486 stuff for less. It's like a few people listed the stuff at inflated prices and everybody just does the same trying to match what they see the other stuff listed at.
@maladamedialabs4214
I'm not a big gamer so an appropriate DDR2 system works fine for every day use. An Optiplex 745 with 8 gigs of fast DDR2, fully updated BIOS and a Q6600 is just fine for puttering around on the Internet. Of course, I run Linux (either Xubuntu or Mint) so I'm working with an OS with less bloat in it.
@paulpickett4522
Lol. I just learned about your channel today while researching DDR3 RAM options and watching your most recent video on it, and low-and-behold behold your next video inspired by it (DDR2) was posted just earlier today. X)
@troubledpickle5986
My favorite channel I swear, just watched ur catalog yesterday
@pamus6242
Had a 1090T + 1600Mhz DDR3 with 650ti boost. Ran 4k video and games flawless. Over a decade ago! The 1090T had a better architecture than Bulldozer but on a 45nm versus the bulldozers 32.
@giovaanflores7019