Building a HUGE Retro Windows 95 PC!

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  • @haventyounoticed2409
    @haventyounoticed2409 2 місяці тому +41

    i love the energy in your videos, it's really fun and i like your sense of humor! hope to see your channel grow soon, you deserve it :)

    • @happychoice98
      @happychoice98  2 місяці тому +4

      Thank you!! that means a lot ^^

    • @LukiRudaka
      @LukiRudaka Місяць тому

      @@happychoice98 I completely agree with the other commenter there from one small creator to another ^^
      BTW, I'm certified in Device Config. + Management (COMPTIA Specialist); I wouldn't recommend using period-correct PSUs. Just don't, it's not worth it. Most of them nowadays that are used probably have either gone bad or are close to doing so, and when the crap ones go bad they often take things with them.

  • @AndrewAHayes
    @AndrewAHayes 2 місяці тому +10

    I had a massive tower like that with four hard drives and 2 CD ROM copiers in it in 1999, it was running Windows 98, with a Pentium II and 64Mb of memory and a 3D accelerator, I built it myself for gaming and work, its board and memory ended up in my MAME cabinet that I built, I ended up selling the MAME cabinet for more money than I spent on the original PC.

  • @223_Wylde
    @223_Wylde 2 місяці тому +9

    I had this exact case/listing in my watchlist for a bit, glad I got see what awaited it and to have gotten to live vicariously through your build video!

    • @littlegoobie
      @littlegoobie Місяць тому

      $180 for an old bare case. I'm sitting on a gold mine.
      I also have some Xeon servers that are bigger dinosaurs than this case. They weigh 70-80lbs. stacked with ram, hotswap drives, redundant hot swap psu's, hot swap fans that are so loud.

  • @anotherrandomguy2763
    @anotherrandomguy2763 2 місяці тому +7

    My guy you just earned a sub! I like the vibe you give off and you do one of my favorite things, building pcs! Keep it up!

  • @ScarletPanda280
    @ScarletPanda280 2 місяці тому +8

    I just found your video while in bed recovering from a dumb cold, very entertaining and will sub for sure! Keep it up!

  • @VictorNelvanaShows
    @VictorNelvanaShows 2 місяці тому +19

    Hi. Your PC looks awesome. I'm an African-American dude who likes retro PC's.

    • @Matt.Willoughby
      @Matt.Willoughby 2 місяці тому +6

      Geeks are all colours 😊

    • @JoBot__
      @JoBot__ 2 місяці тому +3

      Not quite sure how race is relevant, but cool. 👍

    • @nerdycatgamer
      @nerdycatgamer 2 місяці тому

      thanks for sharing VictorNelvanaShows

    • @mikesilver2283
      @mikesilver2283 Місяць тому

      Hello from ukrainian geek, black brother!👍🇺🇸🇺🇦

  • @quizarorobzaqu8558
    @quizarorobzaqu8558 25 днів тому +1

    Good stuff man. I make a lot of sleepers/ be a good ass case to convert. I need to rebuild my old pc software pc again…

  • @highfidelitynerd0278
    @highfidelitynerd0278 2 місяці тому +1

    I love the sound effects you put in there at 10:29. It fits the situation very well. :D

  • @slacko1971
    @slacko1971 2 місяці тому +6

    This took me back, first PC I ever built had the Athlon 800 mhz in it. Thanks for the memories.

    • @Matt.Willoughby
      @Matt.Willoughby 2 місяці тому

      That was fast enough to play GTA San Andreas though

  • @idahofur
    @idahofur 2 місяці тому +6

    When I first got into computers. Magazines like Computer shopper had articles about larger cases for more upgrades. I told customer they did not need such a large full height tower. Some listened and some did not. More than one came in and explained they should have listened. Great server cases if you need to load them up with hard drives, tape backup and cd drives for data.

  • @ALCvideoprofile
    @ALCvideoprofile 2 місяці тому +2

    This is great!
    Every time I think of Windows 95 - 98 I remember how much I miss screensavers.

  • @Fallokoch
    @Fallokoch 2 місяці тому +4

    I had a similar setup around 97-99! My dad gave me a bunch of spare PC parts and told me if I could get a computer running, I could play doom!

  • @dogedudefx
    @dogedudefx 2 місяці тому +5

    You deserve a sub, very enjoyable content.
    Honestly I expected you to have more subs :P
    Hope everything goes well man! :D

  • @Thega74
    @Thega74 2 місяці тому +14

    babe wake up happychoice posted

  • @garfleid2773
    @garfleid2773 2 місяці тому +9

    best video so far, this tower looks AWESOME

  • @thegoathead7538
    @thegoathead7538 2 місяці тому +7

    Looks great! Recently picked up an old Lenovo T400 for like $20, and planning to dual boot it! Still need a new hard drive and battery, tho.

  • @PennPal573
    @PennPal573 2 місяці тому +2

    Really enjoyed watching this, you've got a nice and comfy presentation style! Feels like listening to a friend talking about their interests

  • @ParadoxDergASMR
    @ParadoxDergASMR 2 місяці тому +1

    I absolutely love the energy of this video! Super entertaining to watch in the background while I wrestle a Lua script xD
    I cannot wait to see your channel grow further! Your content so far has been super entertaining and I'm here for it :D
    I too some day hope to upload videos on retro computers. I have 2 original Intel 8088 processors lying around that I hope to maybe design my own computer with. I LOVE watching content on old computers like this and I really hope to some day have the money to start buying and restoring old machines and making videos about them like youtubers who have inspired me like The 8-Bit Guy, Bits und Bolts, LGR, Adrian's Digital Basement and more 💜

  • @modernrice
    @modernrice 2 місяці тому +3

    great video! one suggestion for the future is to turn off autofocus when setting up stationary camera angles. this way, you don't run the risk of focus breathing in the middle of a long cut, or the autofocus selecting the wrong thing to focus on.

  • @alexandecurty
    @alexandecurty 2 місяці тому +3

    love your chanel dude, just keep going please! i came from X

  • @GMHS_Nerd
    @GMHS_Nerd 2 місяці тому +4

    Man ive been wanting a tower like that for a bit thats a sweet build man i enjoyed your video!

  • @averyvaliant
    @averyvaliant 2 місяці тому +1

    So much nostalgia in this video it's insane
    Trinitron tube monitor? Deskstar hard drive? ATI Rage card?.....oh my. haha
    Loving the videos.

  • @giacgiac21
    @giacgiac21 2 місяці тому +3

    zOMG so cool !!!!!1!1!1!1!1!1 i hop you get more subz, your underated

  • @HalianTheProtogen
    @HalianTheProtogen 2 місяці тому +1

    4:30 That “BORN TO CORRUPT” meme fucking murdered me 🤣

  • @shaheryarmuhammadali5843
    @shaheryarmuhammadali5843 2 місяці тому +2

    Love the periodic table on the wall.

  • @MICHA3L216
    @MICHA3L216 2 місяці тому +9

    HappyChoice is back!

  • @simonfrederiksen104
    @simonfrederiksen104 2 місяці тому

    0:33 Jeez - your thing is huge!

  • @SamwiseOutdoors
    @SamwiseOutdoors 2 місяці тому +5

    It shipped from Michigan, so it's either made out of stolen catalytic converters or previously belonged to Joe Kassabian.

  • @actualhoppip
    @actualhoppip 2 місяці тому +4

    WE LOVE HAPPY CHOICE

  • @Cooper3312000
    @Cooper3312000 Місяць тому

    Growing up in the early 90's building PC's was the best part.

  • @epiclolz695
    @epiclolz695 2 місяці тому +1

    I like when youtube recommends me cool small channels

  • @789e2d
    @789e2d 2 місяці тому +1

    I was 8 minutes in before noticing that this is a brand new channel. And only because I had to double check after you repeatedly stated it. Editing and presentation are well executed. Quality video.

  • @hochhaul
    @hochhaul Місяць тому

    8:17 lmao this was the part I was looking forward to. I have vivid memories of trying to hook that spring after replacing my CPU cooler with an OC upgrade bit and sweating bullets while trying to use a huge screwdriver to push down on it. Koss was everywhere when it came to pc speakers back then!

  • @GTXDash
    @GTXDash 2 місяці тому +4

    1:06 E E. EEEEEEEEE
    If you guys haven't seen this meme, look for it. I got a good laugh out of it.

  • @thornstrikesback
    @thornstrikesback 2 місяці тому

    Seeing that internal PC speaker brings back lots of memories. I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D on my 386SX33 with the PC speaker.... Good times.

  • @joskalakatos1178
    @joskalakatos1178 2 місяці тому +1

    This is a real retro build...Lots of nostalgy, recognizable sound when the hard drive spins and starts booting Windows 95 or 98 system. And inside Voodoo graphics card with games like Quake, Diabo, Starcraft...

  • @Mr.MaChInIsTdUdE
    @Mr.MaChInIsTdUdE 2 місяці тому

    Nice! I am currently working on a similar project. Looking forward to seeing more.

  • @7eis
    @7eis 2 місяці тому

    Bigass cases with eatx support and larger where always really cool in my eyes. My dad ran a video production business out of a spare room in the 90ies and early 00s. He would retire his rack computers into used cases like these for us kids to enjoy. All the goodies like soundcards, USB, serial ports galore for controllers and such, network cards would fill it while the front allowed multiple optical drives, lots of legacy stuff, i/o ports and duplicates of every size floppy. Extra hdds would be jammed in for game storage. Turbo button actually did something for a while. Matrox graphics cards and good CRTs with high refresh rated got me spoiled and hating the early LCDs. Oh how times have changed

  • @itakofkarstaag
    @itakofkarstaag 2 місяці тому

    Brother you are an entertaining presenter and a creative editor. Keep on keepin' on.

  • @a_googIeuser
    @a_googIeuser 2 місяці тому +11

    Damn, this guy is too underrated. You, sir, just got a sub.

  • @MotownBatman
    @MotownBatman 2 місяці тому +2

    Damn Straight Michigan Mentioned
    New Sub; Detroit, Michigan

  • @egmccann
    @egmccann Місяць тому +1

    See, that's something I really enjoyed with PCs of this era - turning them on felt like you were going through a process... that there was "stuff going on." The monitor having that "whmmm....." as it warmed up, the PC giving all those nice, chonky, "I... LIIIIIVE!" sounds with the floppy and hard drive spinning up... *sighs* (Also... 98 > 95. I used to have a triple boot machine back in the day - on a 350 Mb HD. DOS, OS/2 and Win95. (At one point it also alternately had early Slackware or BeOS. I was pushing that 486.) I swapped out the 9600 baud modem for either a 14.4 or a 28.8. Fixed jumpers. DOS, OS/2? Update the speed in the comm software. Good to go. 95? I had to spend an hour convincing it that no, that was a modem, not a new serial mouse on Com10 and playing whack-a-mole with that... it really was "plug and pray" with 95. MUCH better in 98.)

  • @littlegoobie
    @littlegoobie Місяць тому

    8:12 anyone who was there remembers this. the end of the s7 period, the spring latches on the cpu coolers were so strong that MANY boards were killed when people speared the motherboard with a screwdriver, pliers or whatever. It was such a big problem that they actually made a tool to unlatch/latch the cooler with the least risk. Amd cpu's ran so hot that all decent aftermarket coolers whirled and whined like small jet engines. It was ridiculous. plus amd overlocking was THE thing to do.

  • @AlphaMensae1
    @AlphaMensae1 Місяць тому +1

    MikeTech mention gets a sub from me! I still have my PCs from the 90s and 2000s: 486DX4/120, Pentium 233 MMX, Athlon 900 (Thunderbird) and a Core2Duo system from Feb 2007; all are still working fine. And parlty thanks to channels like this one, I'm discovering how retro PCs are a a big thing, ans so have collected parts for systems that I never got.

  • @emperorarasaka
    @emperorarasaka Місяць тому

    This bad boy can hold your entire PC and your clothes for a week.

  • @bandiras2
    @bandiras2 2 місяці тому

    I have a similar case in the corner of my room. It was my daily driver for a decade. It also served as my handrest and mousepad holder.

  • @HalianTheProtogen
    @HalianTheProtogen 2 місяці тому +1

    13:49 No, Focus FK-2001. :D

  • @chip1gray
    @chip1gray 2 місяці тому +1

    Quick question, what do you keep in the top half?
    I subbed you bud, love watching people enjoy the hobby. I have been into retro computers for 15 years now. use to think I was the only one in the world interested in this stuff. I was buying voodoo cards for £5-10 UK whenever I wanted one for a build, never thought of stockpiling the things seeing as they were so cheap haha. Anyway LGR came and made the hobby what it is today then retro machines built communities on FB and YT and now I love to watch people building coom machines like yours.

  • @Star_squirrel
    @Star_squirrel 2 місяці тому +3

    You did not test it before you put on the side panel

  • @DeltaTenNZ
    @DeltaTenNZ 2 місяці тому +6

    Epic Ed is epic. Also agreed on Windows 95 being a great OS. Lots of great memories from my post-MS DOS and Windows 3.1 days. Either way enjoyed your video, presentation style, and the humour sprinkled throughout. Also as a sorta unrelated aside, Windows 98 was kinda cool too 👍(Don't know how I felt about Windows ME that came after it/Before Windows XP however.)

  • @samwalker7567
    @samwalker7567 2 місяці тому +2

    Did I miss something? POSTed with 256MB of RAM but Windows only showing 128?

    • @happychoice98
      @happychoice98  2 місяці тому +3

      @@samwalker7567 i noticed that as well, my guess is i bumped into a stick when messing with the IDE jumpers and knocked it out of its seat. I reseated both sticks after filming and got the full memory back!

  • @tj_2701
    @tj_2701 Місяць тому

    Entertaining video, I had fun watching it and will have to see what other videos you have. 👍👍👍👍

  • @Ghost_PM11
    @Ghost_PM11 2 місяці тому +1

    Power supplies were supposed to be replaced monthly in the 90s if I remember correctly

  • @cpunto
    @cpunto Місяць тому

    Oh that's a 5 dvd burner setup right there, gotta make some money in school break time.

  • @Montgomerygolfgator
    @Montgomerygolfgator 2 місяці тому +1

    Hard disks from the 90s are in a bit of a sour spot. They're made from more specialized parts than ones from the 80s, which bearings and stepper motors for an RLL drive are probably still made for completely different purposes. They're also reaching the age where they can up and die for pretty much any reason. I mean, the span of time between now and 1995 is the same as 1995 and 1966. Long-ass, plenty of time for parts to seize and chemical reactions to happen.
    What you could do, is get a sata caddy in one of the drive bays and put an IDE to SATA adapter onto the caddy receiver. You lose the clicks, but even the cheapest worst quality SATA SSDs will more than saturate the IDE bus. Careful partitioning and Grub4dos, and you could put a dozen OSes on one disk, while also being able to pop it into your modern computer if needed.
    Or you could just get a sd2ide i guess haha.

  • @Flea-Flicker
    @Flea-Flicker Місяць тому

    If the company is still in business, send the warranty card in. The novelty alone will get their attention, maybe get some free stuff.

  • @procta2343
    @procta2343 2 місяці тому

    I love large towers, when i was studying computers 20 years ago, i built a large tower for server role, so i could use the drive bays for extra storage at the time. years later i rebuilt my large tower PC, with a nice large case, Lian 90 or something in sliver. it weighs about a ton, and that was before i stacked it full of HDDs. You could go one better with this one, and get a large IDE cable and move the CD rom drive to the top of the case. Also i think support for windows 95 was still around for this era too, due to the fact it was still used in offices and schools right up till the early 2003. Also i think the pentium 3 is the best for the old school stuff i found, as you still can get ISA onboard still. But the P4 i think that was dropped and SATA was popping up.

  • @technoir2584
    @technoir2584 2 місяці тому

    I always wanted to find a massive 90's tower and build a modern gaming pc. Like a sleeper PC.

  • @wakcedout
    @wakcedout 2 місяці тому

    Damn sata cables have made wiring things up so much easier. Watching this reminds me of how clunky ide cables were.
    I say as I wouldn’t mind building a 2006ish era high end xp pc to play my old games.

  • @linuxmint9223
    @linuxmint9223 Місяць тому

    This one is really cool. I myself usually play some old games such as Halo, Jazz Rabbit on windows 98, im from Sweden

  • @bookshelffury
    @bookshelffury 2 місяці тому

    I like the half life collision sounds lol

  • @anonymousidea9119
    @anonymousidea9119 2 місяці тому +2

    now use it as new wave furniture

  • @guerreiropro21
    @guerreiropro21 2 місяці тому +2

    I subscribed

  • @JessicaFEREM
    @JessicaFEREM 2 місяці тому +1

    if there's something to gleam about koss, it's either excellent sound for a good price, or absolute e-waste. there's no in between, and even some of their good stuff is e-waste simply because they use cheap components and don't build them to last.

  • @lucaspIs
    @lucaspIs 2 місяці тому +1

    thank you liquid LGR

  • @JayBitTheGamer
    @JayBitTheGamer 2 місяці тому

    18:08 I think the EE means.. Electrical engineering
    A branch of engineering that studies the use of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism in the design, application, and study of equipment, devices, and systems.

  • @eftalanquest
    @eftalanquest 2 місяці тому

    this looks like the noname white label case that's standing under a desk behind me right now but not quite

  • @redleader6442
    @redleader6442 2 місяці тому

    C-E on the side of the case. A C and a dash. Easy mistake to make. Also, fun fact: The WD Expert you picked was actually made by IBM and rebadged when they worked with WD in a short lived joint venture.

  • @GenerationPixel
    @GenerationPixel 2 місяці тому

    That, my friend, is a sexy rig 👏

  • @arutezza
    @arutezza 2 місяці тому +1

    ive got a huge old thermaltake htpc case sitting in storage i need to do something with, i love these stupidly big cases, has such a prescense

  • @dynamibyte
    @dynamibyte 2 місяці тому

    Nice video! Hope to see more!

  • @richwater296
    @richwater296 2 місяці тому

    those amd things got really hot and smoke came out when they overheated, sometimes kills the thing too

  • @burtongibson9695
    @burtongibson9695 2 місяці тому

    Totally forgot about those horrible ribbon cables and sometimes you'd mount the hard drive upside down (or was that just me) and then you'd have to either remount it it figure out how to turn the cable plug upside down if it was a second drive.
    As soon as the power button didnt work, my first thought was "check the switch on the psu" 😂😂

  • @crash.override
    @crash.override 2 місяці тому

    I'd love to connect an IDESATA adapter + modern SSD, and see to what extent the HDD was holding back the system's speed.

  • @lttbriantheelectrician
    @lttbriantheelectrician 2 місяці тому +1

    Well, firstly is that IBM system you use for OS/2 Warp 4 a PC350 by chance? I have a PC350 and it looks identical and is also a Pentium 166. I've also got a PC365 that is one of my favorite systems, its a dual socket 8 (Pentium Pro), though it currently just has a single 200mhz 256k P-Pro in it.
    An Athlon 800 is definitely overkill for Windows 95 but that said it's certainly a light weight OS for one. The downside however is 95 is limited to I think DirectX 7 or 8 whereas 98/98SE/ME etc can go up to DirectX 9c. Whether or not this is an issue for you though depends entirely on the software you plan on running on it. Personally I usually run 95 on fast 486's, Pentium 1's and Pentium II's or slower super socket 7 systems. That case is awesome though! That style came in quite a few forms... I have a few myself that are styled the same but have only 2 or 3 5-1/4" drive bays but they oddly enough don't have the "EE" on the side.
    Windows 95 is what our first computer ran, and what I grew up on until pretty much highschool. The nostalgia is strong lol the startup sound always gets me. I prefer it in most cases over 98 or 98SE; I tend to either run 95, or on faster machines go straight to 2000. I also just started messing with NT4, and that is an adventure all on it's own.
    Great video! I look forward to catching your next build!

  • @JohnSmith-iu8cj
    @JohnSmith-iu8cj Місяць тому

    What’s that crazy thing under the monitor with those orange buttons?

  • @Matt.Willoughby
    @Matt.Willoughby 2 місяці тому

    Our PC at home in the early/mid 90's had windows 3.1 and a 100MB HDD which was huge at the time 😂 my first MP3 player had 16MB of space, whoch wasn't enough even then in like 2001

  • @MimiWhiskers
    @MimiWhiskers 2 місяці тому

    Hopefully, that zip drive isn’t suffering the click of death. The 100s are notorious for that issue.

  • @Sask3187
    @Sask3187 Місяць тому

    Ah yes old Athlon CPU's, have one of them and you dont need any Space heater to keep your home warm during winter times.

  • @danthompsett2894
    @danthompsett2894 2 місяці тому

    Bending PIins back on a CPU is a hella lot easier than trying to bend back LGA socket pins that a microscopic and lay in a particular spring loaded way, the mounting pressure on the pins of older hardware is alot better than newer stuff, i bet the cpu doesnt get stuck to the heatsink with that socket. judging thermal paste on those cpu's is a piece of cake, as its just a small die, so literally a small grain of compound is enough.

  • @null13336
    @null13336 2 місяці тому

    this is the most butifl thing ive ever sawed

  • @TrizziEhgan
    @TrizziEhgan 2 місяці тому

    i'd definitely beat myself for this setup

  • @aspen3718
    @aspen3718 2 місяці тому

    i like this this is good
    edit: wait, what goes in the whole top section?

  • @theopenrift
    @theopenrift 2 місяці тому

    So what made you want to run Win95 on this instead of Win98? Those specs seem more befitting of the latter if you ask me.

  • @deanster3435
    @deanster3435 Місяць тому

    Bro got the Gondola Tower frfr

  • @miasma82
    @miasma82 Місяць тому

    That's one big boy 😲

  • @waize
    @waize 2 місяці тому

    Fan noise is faulty sleeve bearings, mainly on psu fan since you lubricated the cpu fan.

  • @danthompsett2894
    @danthompsett2894 2 місяці тому +1

    CPU cooler looks puny, yeah Socket A mounting is scarey lots of pressure with a flatbade screwdriver that if you slip with all that pressure you risk smashing a tiny component on the board.

  • @nicktech540
    @nicktech540 2 місяці тому

    Dude that thing is huuge!

  • @EternalSaber
    @EternalSaber 2 місяці тому

    Ok. I gotta ask! What is the name of this case? I want one!

  • @PicklesJasken
    @PicklesJasken 2 місяці тому

    If that case is built similar to one I own then im 99% sure the motherboard tray can come out as one part, as it looks from the back you can undo 2 screws, and I think 1 or 2 inside the case and it pulls out.

    • @PicklesJasken
      @PicklesJasken 2 місяці тому

      Also the case itself looks to be based off of cases build by UK manufacturer DAN, If you look up Dan technology computers one single image shows up with a mid tower case that looks similar, I was looking through old UK pc magazines and found a photo of a Full tower that looked almost similar to this case. there not the exact same but pretty damn close.

  • @Slowdr
    @Slowdr 2 місяці тому

    Could you use an SSD with and IDE to SATA adapter?

  • @dimension4700
    @dimension4700 2 місяці тому

    im planning on building a modern gaming pc with a case just like that lol

  • @issynonomicaword
    @issynonomicaword 2 місяці тому

    i- that’s a *skyscraper,* dude

  • @danthompsett2894
    @danthompsett2894 2 місяці тому

    YEP The Vintage American Ebay Market comes at Heavy Premuim, try persuading someone from the UK to spend £100 on an old Tower Case like that one and they will laugh in your face and offer you a £20 note.

  • @nerdycatgamer
    @nerdycatgamer 2 місяці тому

    big chungus computer

  • @neooccisor8272
    @neooccisor8272 2 місяці тому

    Funny computer the long way

  • @actualpiskov
    @actualpiskov 2 місяці тому

    John Windows95 posting!!

  • @LavenderRebellin
    @LavenderRebellin 2 місяці тому

    Eed the full tower rises!

  • @yttriumblue
    @yttriumblue 2 місяці тому +2

    are you the guy from twitter

    • @happychoice98
      @happychoice98  2 місяці тому +2

      yes but some day i hope to graduate to “the guy from youtube”

    • @yttriumblue
      @yttriumblue 2 місяці тому

      @ me too man, me too

    • @iraitsjffskts
      @iraitsjffskts 2 місяці тому

      are you the guy from basename (laugh please)​@@happychoice98