I Turned My $20 Laptop Into A Gaming PC... This thing is insane
Today I show you how I upgraded a $20 laptop that I bought from eBay with a NEW CPU, RAM and SSD to achieve High FPS in Minecraft! Learn how to upgrade your old / budget windows system for the best performance and get the most out of your budget gaming setup.
Laptop original specs:
HP Probook 650 G1
Intel Core i3 4000M / Intel HD Graphics 4600
4GB DDR3 RAM
128GB SSD
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oh yeah get minecraft to run on a potato
The first thing he did is literally make it become better then a potato... now it's equal to 2 potatoes. Absolutely goofy of you
The worst part is that this device equal to 2 potatoes beats my phone somehow 😭
Challenge accepted
@@user-gr4hr7fg3s send proof when you do [you never will lmao 😂]
I used a potato once and the fps is 80+ on 1.20+
I had a friend who had a laptop from 2013 or before. Even though he didn't let me optimize it much, I managed to get it to run at a playable 30-35 fps.
How is that playable ??
@@Effos Because it is
That is NOT playable 💀
@@Blackfacenoob you spoiled 100 fps brats wont get it
my laptop from 2013 doesnt run mc 1.17
Reminds me of the bad old days when I used to exclusively play the OG Skyblock in Beta on my Inspiron laptop because that was the only way I could play Minecraft at a decent 30-ish FPS. I got a job in 2013 and you can bet your ass I saved every penny to build a gaming PC.
I watched your video my luck same day the next one comes out. Pure brilliance
Hahah lucky
love that you describe things in a way that is informative to people just starting out with mods but also in a way that doesn't bore people who have been in the community.
I also noticed your comment about the lack of an FPS improvement despite your CPU upgrade. It is pretty rare to see a large FPS improvement when upgrading CPUs from the same generation. This is because you are running games on the built in IGPU which don't get much faster from I3 to I7 (at least in the same generation). Hopefully what I said makes sense I didn't proofread anything.
Also I would straight up not include the max FPS in your graphs as even you said it was completely irrelevant. Having an extra bar in the graph just makes it more cluttered and makes it harder for beginners to understand it.
bro is obsessed with the 20$ price tag
It's probably close to $100 now with all the upgrades and parts but shh
@@NotroDanare you top 10s?
20$ is 20$
@@RandomDrawinglolnah 😭
day 2 of asking people to pin my comment for no reason at alllllllll
The most shocking thing in this video to me was the amount of FPS gained going from 8GB to 16GB, especially as you said you didn’t increase Minecraft’s allocated 2GB. Well done, it’s so great making old hardware that anyone else would consider ewaste, useful and capable.
Back in 2017 I bought a Dell Latitude E6420, a Sandy Bridge laptop for study, but I stopped using it later and forgot about it. Came back to it this year, upgraded it to an i7-2630QM, 16GB RAM and 240GB SSD, and it runs 3 virtual machines I have simultaneously (Win2022, Kali and Metaspoitable2)
Uploaded on my bday, keep up the good work!
You should consider changing the OS to Windows-X Lite & try to optimise the software. In the stock version, as there are 100+ processes you may face fluctuating issue in the latest version so definitely consider optimising the OS.
really good video, thanks for the info. i might actually have the same or similiar laptop laying around on the thought of the topic so yeha might do a diy project. great idea man appreciate the effort for the vid. :)
Go for it! There is a lot of potential in these old devices with a few upgrades :)
its a great day when he uploads, interesting as always
Nice video man👍 I always watch your vids
Thanks Jacob I appreciate it
Your welcome😊
My leptop with all the optimizes run at 120 fps thanks Notrodan i learned every optimize from you
Wow this upgrade was equal to my old laptop which had 16gb ddr3 ram but it had an i7 4600u CPU which is similar to your upgraded one.
Bro makes interesting content just for us and himself. Respect to NotroDan
Dude, i appreciate all the work you had to do the appropriate upgrade in this machine. This video is very good, and I'm new to your channel. But, i have to be honest with you: to do all of this to play Minecraft only... is a little bit of a waste. There are so many good games that you could try in this setup and increase the content of your tests: Burnout Paradise, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Fallout, Call of Duty World At War, Modern Warfare (2011), PES 2013, and even emulators like PCSX2, to give you some options. Well, remains the suggestion, if it's interesting to you in the future...
LETS GOO AN UPLOAD
big fan bro
Idk if this laptop has an ethernet port but you can get an external gpu housing and connect it where the wifi card is plugged in. I've seen some tech channels try those out in the past to varying degrees of success
And if you don't have Ethernet, you can just use a USB wifi adapter.
Did you check to see if you’re using the highest mt speed ram that it supports because even a little bit more speed will definitely help improve less stuttering and better FPS
btw if u are on 1.20 u can download fabric andf some mods which improves fps a lot
Ps: If you wanna use 1.12.2/legacy Minecraft versions. Use legacy fabric, it allows java 21(using cleanroom loader), and lets you use sodium on old versions, making Minecraft run even faster than optifine will ever reach
Hmm i mean never using it but will try since on forge i using optifine with Betterfps mod
Brother can you make a vid for all the good minecraft launchers which are good with fps( not minecraft clients ). Nice and entertaining vids btw keep it up
amazing video! I'd like to see tiny11 before linux since it is better and I am thinking of going tiny11 aswell
I've done a video comparing them all here: kzhead.info/sun/Zb2aYZyKeHRvjXA/bejne.htmlsi=FJIvzI5qardvqn-h
@@NotroDan alright, thanks!
you should probably record it with a camera as a recording software will destroy half of your fps. even on a budget gaming laptop rn, obs or recording softwares gives 30 fps on most games. without recording its ofc back to 60+
Lossless scaling frame generation would be a great boost
great video!!! me potato pc for life.
Funny, I just switched to linux on *my* old laptop! So yeah, would want to see you do that!
nah after the upgrade my mind was exploded. It was crazy that it was getting 500fps it was soo smooth. The price in all most have been at least 70-50 buck depending on how much you got them. Super cool though
Do you have any suggestions for my minecraft sodium modpack problem all my mods are just fps boosting mods for 1.20.4 I made sure that they have all their dependencies and all are compatible and it worked it was supper smooth but when I exited my minecraft and hoped back in it didn't work😢 now I can only play 1.19.4 and below any suggestions to fix this bug
Thanks notro bud and will u make a video with linux
You can also try running minecraft on a linux distro like lubuntu (lightweight ubuntu)
love your videos brother....
Thank you :)
@@NotroDan Yo mate, what's the song in the beginning part?
Alot of the improvement from the ram will be the fact you went from single channel to dual channel thus giving more bandwidth to the cpu and igpu
Yeah for sure
@@NotroDan you should try a netbook with an intel atom see how much you can squeeze out of a really weak single/dual core from the late windows vista days
I just realized I was not subscribed I am subscribing right now
in the past a few laptops cpu s is upgradable. i dont list all of them but maybe the second and third generation intel i3 i5 i7 processors was upgradable.
Which recorder are you using for recording the gameplay?
I turned my laptop into a heater 70C+/158F+ while watching youtube
Maybe a heatsink update or one of these fancy cooling pads that actually do something could solve some of the thermal concerns
Yeah possibly, someone suggested liquid metal but I don't think it would work here
So one of the things about Feather is that it's literally just running a stripped down version of Chrome - it uses the Chromium Embedded Framework, which is actually VERY resource intensive. I've also been told it uses CEF for things within the game itself as well for some reason. I advise AGAINST using clients like Feather or Lunar, because the benefits they have are FAR outweighed by the cons. I HIGHLY recommend using Prism Launcher on older machines like this one instead. I run it on my admittedly overkill machine, and the highest I've EVER seen was 120MB of RAM, and 2% CPU. I will admit to having never used Feather before but other CEF apps have used around 1GB-2GB of RAM each. Will you have to do some tweaking yourself? Yes, absolutely. But on lower end machines you'll be able to dedicate MORE performance to Minecraft, and knowing Java as a programming language it could USE that. Prism plus something like Fedora Linux and I'm willing to bet you could easily surpass 200-300FPS in 1.20.4 with Sodium
Notrodan! I suggest upgrading the laptops panel to a better spec and add an external graphics card.
One thing I'd recommend is trying to use an external gpu to try and get off of the integrated graphics
90% of old laptops allow you to upgrade the proccessor. You can do it for 4th gen laptop cpu's 3rd, 2nd, 1st. I have no idea if you can upgrade 5th and 6th gen though.
have you tried the gmm registry hack? it can make u add like 2gb or even 4gb of "vram" from your ram. unless it had the option from bios to set it.
I will look into that, with our upgraded RAM it could make a lot of difference
so I've got 4gb of ram ddr4 and 256gb ssd but I still get 14 fps using lunar in minecraft 1.8.9 and I cant invest for upgrades so what shuld I do?
2:05 same when i try to play any game on my lets say gaming laptop lol😂
how is the laptop worth 20 dollars if you upgrade it?
He turned it into a gaming pc not making a 20 dollar pc into gaming pc without any upgrades
he got it for that price
You can add an external GPU through the pcie slot that the Wi-Fi card is using
You should definitely try linux or atlas os on this laptop! BTW what your mic and the stand for the mic?
I was going to recommend using Linux as well, especially a lightweight distro that doesn't use up all cpu and ram on windows bloatware
linux 💀
@@YokonaraGamerScripts linux usually boost up performance on old/low end laptops because linux distros are really light so it would be a good idea ig
@@YokonaraGamerScripts Problem?
Yess that will be in the next video, I use a RODE NT-USB on a cheap boom arm from Amazon
what website did you use to find the full cpu list for the socket?
This is most likely a “notebookcheck”
Dad had an old acer Aspire desktop from 2011, 4 gbs of ddr3, intel celeron, not even i3. Got an i7 4790, and got 16 gbs of ddr3. Found little bro playing valorant at 30fps with horrible quality but was running smoothly after optimizations. Spent like 70 bucks totals on the upgrades on that old hardware.
I had the same laptop HP Pro book 650 g1 but the processor is i3 4100m. I only upgraded ram and I got 50 to 60 fps in valorant on HDD , 60 to 70 fps in Minecraft with out playing on lowest settings. and 25 to 30 fps in gta5. i also rendered videos in after effects.
1.8.9 version kinda old, released in december 9, 2015. 8265U with MX130 and 8GB DDR4 RAM give me 20-30FPS even on m.2 SATA ssd
Hey you could have gone to a i7-4712mq and could have gotten tons more performance, and it has integrated graphics as well as 4 cores and 8 threads
I would love to see these optimizations on a decent pc, Limitations spark creativity, limited Creativity without limitations is more powerful than pure creativity
Ggs Edit: also don't use feather client it's bad for FPS
which software you use to record the game in low end pc?
He uses capture card
I use a capture card that outputs the screen to my main PC where I record it
Have you tried using Windows Lite or Linux?
Hey Dan can you show me your Minecraft Settings for best fps
i have good gpu and bad cpu and mc is very lagy i mean i have 1000 fps in 1.8.9 but when i load chanks my fps drop to 0 and idk what to do
i think using mods on fabric like Sodium, Lithium, and Ferritecore would greatly increase the performance without having to put your render distance down so much
How did you get the border around the facecam
hey notro question is it okay can i get that laptop if u dont want it ?
Hey Notrodan, I have a question. Back when you used Pop OS, and I believe Mint, did you ever notice a substantial difference between Windows downloaded vs Linux (pop OS/mint), in terms of performance and stability when playing Minecraft?
I know you didnt ask me, but im a longtime linux user. And I certainly noticed a major difference between linux and windows. Linux has a slight learning curve for beginners, but once you get the basics, and can figure out your own problems its quite efficient. Fps wise i have tested on a spare laptop of mine, windows 10 i averaged 90-200 fps. Low settings. but after a linux install, on arch linux, using i3wm. i was able to get my average upto 300-700. sounds crazy that a simple change like an operating system could give you upwards to 500 or more fps. But you gotta remember that windows is incredibly bloated.
@@ivyish I definitely see your point here. I've actually made it a challenge for myself, for over the next month, I'm forcing myself to use Linux pop OS, instead of Windows. So I formatted my SSD, wiped my entire windows install, and decided to switch to Linux with no windows on it, that way I'm not dual booting. I'm on day two, trying to learn about five commands per day, and get used to it. So far, I learned how to get applications, using the sudo get-apt command, I've learned how to install updates, and have learned how to move files into a different directory via commands in Terminal. It's getting a little easier every time, but I want to get to that stage or point eventually, where I'm also able to optimize Linux further, I just don't know and don't want to do that yet, as I'm not entirely familiar with the operating system, and don't want to accidentally destroy something.
is a intel i5-4300M good for minecraft?
notrodan be looking mad handsome recently
Thank you XD
T ake out youre wifi card and connect an adapter that make us be able to connect a gpu ... u will also need a psu to also power it
how to run minecraft on a bad computer: 1. make it better
2.sell your kindey
@@naufalislim2217 3. optimise it to the point where you can barely use windows properly anymore
I advise you to use AtlasOS to boost your in-game fps
Why not installing Windows X lite instead Linux ?
You should make a video about minecraft on rectify 11
external GPU?
A good way to get a potato pc to run well is by using Atlas OS
Next add a dedicated graphics card.
Nevermind, but upgrade improves the fps. Without the upgrades main fps visible on this laptop . Also I have 18$ desktop 2gb ram gives total 500fps (highest) 256vram
i have a 2009 0r 2008 dell inspiron laptop which runs minecraft 1.8.9 perfectly when optimized it has 4gb ram and intel i5 and integrated grapics
Notrodan you're my favorite KZheadr
Wow thank you! :)
Bro pls make how to run Minecraft Java edition on core 2 duo, without graphics card, 2gb ram pc
bro that looks exactly like my laptop
why u not using hp probook 4540s
I owned Asus K55V laptop. It had upgrateble CPU.)
Ok
i thought when it said "gaming pc" you gonna add external gpu, customize it, or add some weird stuff. im kinda disappoint tho but keep going with your content bro. note : also when you upgrade it, its not all about fps
I don't think it's possible to add a GPU to it unless I try solder one onto the board, maybe an eGPU could work. The title was just a different way of saying: I upgraded my $20 Laptop in the style of a Gaming PC - CPU, RAM, SSD etc
@@NotroDan it possible actually to add egpu, if there is wifi card at motherboard then you can add egpu through wifi port but you have to sacrifice the wifi system
Ssd does not improve performance. I think it just makes the system more responsive instantly you boot but i used windows on a hdd and it worked fine
If minetest had this kind of support it could run on a decade old android
notro dan pls make a video about fox os its very good and i want your opinion on it
I was surprised when a Pentium 4 2.8ghz of mine averaged 30 fps at 6 chunks in cmpack 1.8.8
me also using a core i7 4th gen cpu in my daily driver with garuda linux lol
how ddo you get that fps when the monitor is 60hz? im curious
I set the framerate to unlimited to go above 60
Did you know that a 2011 MacBook Pro can play Minecraft full render distance on 1.15 and newer
bro need to swtich from windows to linux (ubuntu) and will get a massive fps increase maybe about a hundred stutter free fps or so
u can try overclocking the cpu but I doubt it's going to give u more fps maybe 2-5 frames more
Yeah I don't see much point
what happend to the uhc server for cracked players
Omg he fixed my ancient laptop!
You might be able to upgrade the gpu as well, if it is soddered you can still add a better one
I might break out my soldiering iron and see what I can do
But the problem is how much you invested in upgrading on that laptop???? Is it even worth it?????
bro how are you getting 500 frames on 2 cores
Can you test lenovo old laptop pls
wow still better than my laptop i have a Celeron hp pavilion 250 g3
Extra steps: Use 1.19.2(best version for optimization) fabric with sodium + every optimization mod. Then use a Jvm like Java 21 oracle graalvm + Zgc and 12gb(Don't put all the ram, java likes overhead). Use liquid metal instead of thermal paste for better cooling. Extra extra steps: Modify the laptop case to have extra fans Change the battery/power supply to allow faster cpu options . Or just get a desktop at this point
Liquid metal is dangerous for laptops that do not have a cooling system designed for liquid metal. This usually leads to a short circuit, which can seriously damage the laptop. Since liquid metal leaks out over time from under cooling systems that were not designed for liquid metal.
Did you use optifine?