hello everybody and welcome to Bull technology several months ago I came across a listing on
Facebook Marketplace for 12 computer towers that was listed for thirty dollars I thought
these machines would make an interesting video topic and a great little side project so needless
to say I made the purchase so are any of these machines still actually salvageable let's find out
after meeting up with the seller and loading the machines into my car I noticed that many
of the computers were in pretty rough shape but regardless let's see what we've got at least here
on the surface so here on the top left we have one of the more interesting machines this appears
to be a more recent core I3 based desktop to its right is one of two Intel Pentium based machines
if I had to guess I would say this machine is probably about 10 years old finishing off the
top row are these two compact computers one is Adele and the other is HP both of them being
Pentium 4 systems on the bottom row here we have two larger Dell Dimension desktops these are also
Pentium 4 based machines unfortunately one of the more interesting computers to me is this slim Dell
Inspiron desktop and interestingly enough it is the only machine out out of the lot to have
originally shipped with Windows Vista the next computer is very similar to the first machine
in that it appears to be another core I3 based system and here we have two of the most useless
machines out of this lot these are two pretty old Pentium 4 based Dell Dimension desktops this next
desktop appears to be identical to the other Pentium system from above and finishing off
the lineup is this more recent Dell Optiplex overall not too shabby for thirty dollars so
now on to testing the first machine that I wanted to test was this newer core I3 system
and this computer here is definitely rougher than some of the other ones sadly we won't
be able to test out this computer yet because it doesn't feature a power supply but I just wanted
to note how absolutely filthy the interior of this case was you can even see several leaves
tucked in between the disc cages a big plus to this machine though is that it appears to have
a pretty beefy stick of g-skill rip Jaws RAM installed and this definitely might come in
handy later the next machine I wanted to test was this small form factor Dell Inspiron 30s I really
do love these older small form factor PCS and this one appeared to have all of its original
components minus the hard drive after plugging it in it roared to life and this appears to be a
775 based Intel Pentium dual core system not bad when you consider the fact that you can upgrade
this to a Core 2 Duo I think with a little bit of elbow grease this PC will clean up quite nicely
next it was time to test one of the two newer Pentium systems before powering this machine on
I decided to give it a quick vacuum because of how absolutely filthy the internals were but to
be honest it wouldn't have surprised me if this machine burst in into flames when I powered it
on but surprisingly I was able to get into the BIOS without any issues and this computer ended
up being a 2.8 gigahertz e 5500 based system again not terrible for an everyday machine unfortunately
the other pentium-based system had a broken power Inlet Jack on the power supply and given this
fault I wasn't comfortable powering it up with the original power supply but in the future I
should be able to get this machine working so now it's time to test out the other core I3 machine
it needed some Ram but thankfully I had several sticks lying around and surprisingly it booted
up with no issues at all this machine turned out to be a core I3 3225 which is still a great CPU
because this system is probably going to be the most competent machine out of the bunch I decided
to give it a deep clean and a few upgrades first of all it really needed a good clean
the motherboard assembly optical drive power supply and even front panel i o ports all
needed to be removed so I could scrub the metal housing with soap and water I also dusted off the
motherboard with a paint brush to remove the built up dust and after waiting for everything to dry
it's time for reassembly while reassembling this PC I decided to make two significant upgrades the
first was this fairly inexpensive silicon power 128 gigabyte SSD this should make the machine feel
much more responsive in day-to-day use and the second upgrade was the ram I decided to take the
g-skill ram stick from the other PC it was a four gigabyte module and reuse it in this machine after
installing Windows 10 this computer restoration was complete for the sake of time I won't show the
restoration of the Dell Inspiron sff PC but it got a similar treatment to the core I3 machine minus
the SSD so what exactly did I decide to do with all of these computers well my plan was to flip
and sell the more capable PCS and simply give away the more Antiquated and useless PCS so here's how
that's turned out I ended up selling the two very old Dell Dimension systems along with another one
I had lying around for ten dollars which isn't much but I just wanted to get rid of them the
two other compact Pentium 4 machines I bundled together for fifteen dollars and they also found
a buyer I've listed the two larger Dell Dimension systems but they haven't yet found a home and the
more capable PCS the I3 system and the Inspiron well they both found a home for eighty dollars
and forty five dollars respectively as for the rest of them well it's still a slow and
ongoing project did I earn a ton of money from these machines not really and are any of these
machines really that special again not really but I really enjoy working on old computers and
hey I I got a video out of it as well so I'd say this project was well worth my time so be sure
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