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hey what's up guys Kyle here with awesomesauce Network so I was planning on doing a regular video this week but something happened to the point where I was like okay I have to put that video on hold and I have to talk about this I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a video on it so I was out to lunch earlier today with my mother and on the way when we got back to her house my neighbor came out of his house I guess my mom's neighbor came out and he was like hey cow but I heard you know a thing or two about computers and then he was like well I've got a computer problem and I was wondering if you take a look at it so I went over to his place briefly check out his computer and it's just a total wreck it's probably I don't know when he got it but the the model of computer itself it's an HP a six zero three zero and if you want to look that up but it started I think it came out released in 2007 so it's a potentially he's been using it for good eight years I don't quote me on that though I'm not sure exactly what year he got it at any rate he said that there were tons of popups and he's you know he thinks that there might be viruses on it which I'm almost confident under person confident at this point that there are probably even worse things than that on his computer so I decided to take it off of his hands and bring it home with me to do some magic with it here it is right there it's nice little HP kept it in pretty good shape actually uh visually it's not terrible to look at and even going inside it doesn't look too bad actually let me turn the system towards the window so you get some natural lighting in there there we go cable management could be much improved there are no intake fans you're pretty much reliant on whatever cooling this this little cooler master AMD cooler is doing and that being exhausted by the single yellow fan right there in the back as well as the power supply up here which is just sucking in more hot air and blowing it out the back there really quickly here's here's a look at the specs I've got the system powered up right now it's a run AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual-core processor so at least he's got two cores in there it's not too bad I bet once I do a clean install of Windows here it should be running just fine it's a 4800 plus 2.5 gigahertz 2 gigs of RAM yes you can see there's two sticks right there just two of them there is room for two more so you can get a total of 4 gigs but that's pretty much the mechs we'll be able to get because this the hard drive is running Windows Vista 32-bit so for we're pretty much stuck with 4 gigs for now I wish I could slot some memory in for him I do have some spare ddr3 dimms on me right now that I wouldn't mind parting with he could probably use them much more than I can but these are this is a ddr2 board there yeah so we're talking last generation all the things we got a 320 gig I think that's a WD caviar drive right there it says only driving the system but we will be wiping that because at first I was like well you know how bad is it maybe he's exaggerating things oh oh it's bad it's bad check this out first off got a three got a 3.0 in Windows Experience Index now you guys remember Windows Experience Index when that was a thing but I pulled up task manager here and this is seriously just from turning the computer on I haven't started running any problems or any programs I'm sorry and we're already seeing like spikes up to 99% CPU usage at times so this is this is serious like right there 99 right there to the point where like I can't even move the mouse cursor you can also see 1.3 of the 2 gigabytes of ram is being used currently and this is just what what I would consider idling but obviously it's not just idling because there are background programs that are just running unbeknownst to him my neighbor and you can even tell from down here look at these freaking icons his icon tray is just littered with junk any what is this live weather bug driver restores trying to connect some some things or trying to hack into your computer that's that's what that means oh god oh god what's it doing so I think right now the next step is to go into his folders try to find his pictures and other important documents and basically just back those up onto an external hard drive so that he doesn't lose them once I do a clean install and then at that point I'm just gonna revamp this system I'm going to I don't know if I'm gonna have to gut the whole thing but I'm definitely going to dust it out and maybe do some rewiring make it look nice and pretty because you know that's how we roll and that should be pretty much it so sit back relax and enjoy this I guess this PC makeover that I'm about to do you you all right so here is the revamped system sitting all nice and pretty in my room oh yeah you can see it looks a much cleaner it wasn't terribly dirty to begin with it was actually a lot cleaner to begin with than I thought it would be but there was still tons of goop I just nicked myself with Finn there were still tons of dust buildup of course on the bottom and just resting on top of all the other components I pretty much deep clean this entire thing I didn't stab him uh the board or the power supply or the hard drive or anything like that but I did take off the the exhaust fan as well as the CPU cooler as you guys probably could tell from the time-lapse and I deep-clean that the crap out of both of those things because there was just quite a bit of dust buildup on them and I just want to make sure that it wasn't impeding any performance just apart from dusting I did try to tidy up the cable management as best I could of course that's easier said than done when you're talking about a non modular power supply as well as no space whatsoever behind the motherboard tray to do any cable routing so that's why you can see here all the cables are just kind of hanging out in the only compartment of this chassis of course dealing with the IV cable is virtually impossible there's just no great way to route that but I think I did a fairly good job considering all things considered I kind of tried to tidy up the CPU for pen CPU cable right there as well as the fan cable I'm really happy with how how clean the heatsink turned out it just looks it looks brand new in fact this whole system almost could probably pass for brand new just because I did a pretty good job cleaning it but apart from that I did do a clean install of Windows 8.1 when we turn the aperture up here so you can actually see what I'm talking about here it is running I've got a YouTube video open that's playing right now for EP as well as WordPad these are the only two applications I have running right now because I feel like this this is my best guess at the typical workload that my neighbor will be utilizing on his system at any given at any given moment he's not a power user whatsoever he's a very very basic user he's an older guy he's not a tech he's not tech savvy or anything like that so he's not gonna be doing too much on this system other than probably have a couple of these simple applications open so that said we've got about 35% CPU usage which is better than what we were seeing at so called idling before I went in and fix things up just because there was so much malware and viruses running in the background but I you do still see the CPU spike up to 99% just just at certain moments when the video is playing which just you know this is an old this is an old-ass system and if I were to make any recommendations hold on let me turn the aperture back down so you can see again if I were to make any recommendations for my neighbor to upgrade I'd probably just suggest getting like a you know more current gen FM 2 plus CPU that way you can take advantage of ddr3 memory possibly get more than 2 gigs in there you know maybe a Kaveri APU would work out pretty nicely for his needs but hopefully he will notice a huge a huge difference in terms of speed with this new system I shouldn't say new but this revamp system and hopefully it makes him happy that's what it's all about so that's gonna conclude for now guys I know this was a really impromptu video I didn't really plan it too much it's very kind of haphazardly thrown together but hopefully you guys still got a kick out of it I really enjoy tinkering with this sort of thing so hopefully you enjoy watching it thank you guys for watching feel free to toss me like on the video if you liked it or if you like this type of vlogedy stuff and I think that's pretty much it subscribe to the channel if you haven't already thank you all for watching and I'll see you all in the next video you