I Bought a Cursed "Gaming" PC...

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at a PC I bought from the bootfair, this turned in to quite the adventure, with everything from decking out Windows XP, Crysis crashing the entire system, through to high end and questionable AGP Graphics Card Upgrades, this is the longest video yet on Budget Builds, so sit down and enjoy this slightly cursed adventure. Intro - 0:00 What did we buy? - 0:13 Plugging it all in - 1:02 Turning it on for the first time - 1:25 So does it all work? - 4:31 The Specs - 5:00 The First Night of Testing: Installing Drivers, Getting it all working - 6:01 Getting there...and then getting distracted by Fallout 2 - 6:51 The Cleaning Montage - 7:30 More Drivers, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 - 8:33 Weird Network Issues - 10:28 The Benchmarks! - 11:46 Benchmark Summary - 16:16 Web Browsing, Day to Day Usage...Its Slow-er Now - 16:51 I Also Bought a GPU - 22:47 Installing the GPU and Finding a PSU - 23:27 It Now WONT Boot - 24:37 Cooking the Card, Sunny Side Up (and down) - 25:38 A Risky OS Upgrade - 25:58 It Gets Worse - 23:46 The PC Gradually becomes more and more cursed until it doesnt want to work - 27:24 The GPU would now only run with a hairdryer blowing cold air at it - 34:07 Conclusion - 34:50 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BudgetBuilds Twitter: https://twitter.com/Budget_Builds_ Specs: GPU: SIS Potato 3000 & Radeon HD2600XT (Revived from whence it came) CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ RAM: 876MB DDR400 Mhz RAM OS: Windows XP SP2, SP3, and Tiny Windows 7