Now they see it.

I want to build a cz many different pieces as possible, varying in price and specifications.

I had planned on an entry level gaming build today, but due to an issue with eBay and they're magnificent clicking, collecting, I only just got those parts.

So today I thought we'd start as cheap as possible with a £1 PC throwing all practicality and sensibility out of the window.

I wanted to see what sort of super budget and likely terrible system we could come up with.

So without further ado, here goes.

Now this fella here is responsible for me blowing half the budget already.

It's a certified repaired, 500 gigabyte hard drive, and I bought it from a car boot sale for just 50 pence under the impression that and I quote, it might not work.

Excellent start, but we'll see about that later on.

I'm really into old Delpy sees at the moment, and I purchased one the other day for about £30 but that just wouldn't cut it for this sort of budget, so I had to improvise.

These are the insides of a 15 year old Dale Dimension desktop, and I was able to get them for nothing from a local PC breaker because they had come from a 40 machine.

Apparently, these slots here don't work either.

The problem with these boards is that they only fits a specific case, and the heat sink that came with it is designed to screw into set enclosure.

Of course, I don't have that.

So a couple of gnats underneath the board are essential to attach this component.

The fan, though.

Well, that just sits in this gap like So I should have really built this inside because, as I said, we don't have a case, so I'll have to reassemble it over testing before I move on.

I should mention that this motherboard bundle came with 21 gigabyte sticks of RAM and a process, sir, that, to be honest, remained unknown until I got into windows.

The good thing about a PC breakers is that they usually have multiple amounts of the thing you're looking for.

Like this power supply again.

Like the motherboard, it looks a bit strange and is intended to be used specifically with a certain case.

The good news is that after spending another 50 pence, it was mine.

Now this person doesn't know me or no over the channel, so I get no special treatment price wise.

In fact, I'm told that a lot of these older parts just end up getting thrown away at the end of the month because they are essentially obsolete.

And in a case like this, where they only fit in certain enclosures, they attract very specific buyers, which often few and far between.

I was then given an ultimatum.

I could have one of two graphics cards, and my decision was based on looks alone.

Shallow, I know, but I chose the one that offered passive calling because the quieter the better, right?

That's how I ended up with this bad boy, an 80 I something or other from the year 1500 BC.

This would prove a little problematic later on.

First we had to put our new PC together on as I did so I couldn't help but think we were just one case off reassembling on entire old del system.

Still not bad for the money.

What a mess.

In the interest of fairness, I'd like to disclose that I was allowed to take a couple of Satur cables to, so I didn't have to pay any extra for them.

The first job involved turning its own, a task made more awkward by the lack of power switch.

But shorting the motherboard pins with a screwdriver did the trick.

No, I made the mistake of installing Windows 11th of all, which meant that we couldn't install our graphics driver as no drivers were actually available.

Even Windows seven had no specific drivers for this card, which, by the way, turned out to be a radio on X 1300.

But the vista 64 bit ones worked just fine.

All I know is that speck wise we have just 256 megabytes of memory to play with on The card was released somewhere around the mid two thousands.

According to Cinna Bench, we had a core two duo, 6300 CPU.

And as you can imagine, the multicourse score wasn't brilliant, though the bottleneck was with the card as we moved on to test a couple of games are noticed, M s, I afterburner wouldn't display the GPU usage for whatever reason, but I can say with a 99% confidence that it would have been running at 100% usage most off, if not all of the time.

Looking at this footage of San Andreas and you'll notice some horrendous Stata, which I thought meant that are hard drive was indeed well busted.

But because when those had installed successfully and with reasonable speed that I was sure other factors were a play.

Sure enough, I had another game installing in the background, and the PC did not like this at all.

I guess this process used up a good majority of our two gigabytes of memory.

After that had finished, though well, I was glad to see things back to normal.

So let's see what this thing can or can't really do.

Now, as I'm sure you're probably aware, if you spend just £1 on a PC build, you know, exactly going to get a stellar performance, and you can quite clearly see that here this thing is definitely suited to older games, especially because of the graphics cards.

Direct Tex nine Limitation.

If older games is your thing now, boy, is this build for you now everyone's gonna be able to get something for a similar Pricey is just patience and a little bit of luck.

But here duty San Andreas run fine.

Very high settings, I might add, with 1024 by 768 resolution on an average frame rate of 45.

Very surprising.

You can see the frame right nicely even itself out after we know only adjusted the resolution but waited for the PC to install something else in the background.

Now you'll have to forgive the very poor game play here.

But I never did quite figure out how to, uh, play Tony Hawk games with a keyboard and mouse here.

Tony Hawk's Underground.

The original runs with a very smooth and solid 60 frames per second.

Most of the time again, I really don't know how you're supposed to play this without a controller, So the footage here is just me.

So over skating around the old neighborhood a little bit falling off a couple of times, as you would imagine.

But I can safely say that the frame rate should remain steady throughout any level that you decide to play.

And if you're into skating games, sports games in general, then Tony Hawks Underground really is one of the best in the Siri's, In my opinion on it will run fine on an old £1 PC build such as this one.

So that should be good to know.

For all of you Tony Hawk fans out there, the same can be said for the original Max Payne game.

Now 10 80 p resolution was used here on we crank this settings all the way up.

Now I can't quite remember.

But I believe this game released in 2000 and one or 2000 and two.

I know the sequel came out the following year, but here, 60 frames per second around the game will run absolutely flawlessly on a system sector.

Is this one the x 1380 I.

GPU is certainly the bottleneck throughout today's testing.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to get it to show up in the m s.

I afterburner statistics in the top left corner, but unfortunately, there wasn't even an option for the check box in the program itself.

I don't know if it's because the card is direct, Tex nine though I'm pretty sure I've tested it just fine on older cards before, so this is something I'll have to look into.

As I said, though the frame rate is up there, the CPU usage is up there to Andi.

I can assure you that the GPU was running 100% usage throughout, most off today.

Now, when half Life two was released, it was certainly a game that could push older hardware to its limits.

As you can see here, the CPU both core one in court to a maxed out 100% and the game was virtually unplayable with the high or very high settings.

Once we drop things down to medium, there were the frame rate shot up, and we achieved more than 60 F.

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On most occasions.

There will be some drops here and there, as you would imagine.

But this game, even today, still holds up pretty well.

I believe in terms of graphics, and it certainly was a revolutionary title at the time.

That still well worth a play even in 2018.

I mean, 2019.

You know, you can get it on steam pretty cheap these days, and I certainly think it's worth the investment because it's probably one of the best games ever made.

Now I decided to be a little more daring with our final game tested today.

This is, of course, the original Bio Shock, which released in 2000 and seven.

I believe it's seen a re master since then, though, some would debate as to whether the remastered version of the game actually looks any better than the original.

When you turn the settings way up, I think the lighting is a little bit different, but it's totally up to you as to what one you want to play.

I can imagine the older game runs a little better because I think the physics effects are 30 frames per second, as opposed to the newer Games 60.

But all I can say is with this hold where set up here, we have to turn things down to 6 40 by 4 80 resolution on Dhe adjusted all of the graphic setting so that they were on low.

BioShock is probably one of my favorite games of all time, and I can say that without even having played all the way through it, it should also run on pretty old hardware.

In fact, I believe it made its way to IOS at one point.

Whether it's still on the market or no, I don't know.

But the graphics card is certainly the main factor holding us back here.

1/4 Juro 6300 should still have no problem with a game like this.

Just bear in mind that our graphics card couldn't quite cut it, though it will run on direct text.

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That being said, there we have it.

Today's build was not what I plan to do, and I'm sure it's not a video that you guys plan to see.

We built a PC that would run.

It could run a few games to thank you as a ways.