Rebuilding My VERY FIRST Gaming PC!

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
  • Today is a very special day folks... The PC that started it all!! This is the recreation of the very first PC that I EVER built.
    Massdrop link: dro.ps/ltt-he-350
    Pricing & discussion: linustechtips.com/main/topic/...
    Support us: linustechtips.com/main/topic/7...
    Join our community forum: bit.ly/ZkLvE7
    / linustech
    / linustech
    Intro Screen Music Credit:
    Title: Laszlo - Supernova
    Video Link: • [Electro] - Laszlo - S...
    iTunes Download Link: itunes.apple.com/us/album/sup...
    Artist Link: / laszlomusic
    Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High / approachingnirvana
    Sound effects provided by www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/
  • Наука та технологія

КОМЕНТАРІ • 9 тис.

  • @Deses
    @Deses 8 років тому +9995

    DDR400? That must be a beast, we only use DDR4 nowadays.

    • @Deses
      @Deses 8 років тому +947

      kamata93 Woosh! :D

    • @badsector775
      @badsector775 8 років тому +54

      +Deses You're just trolling right?? bruh, do you even computer? Here let me send you my old A+ book from 2000 to help you with the old timer lingo.

    • @ervinasubartas7793
      @ervinasubartas7793 8 років тому +475

      +Jordan Davis
      Catch that joke! Oh no! It flew over your head, ah well :/

    • @maxbeef8
      @maxbeef8 8 років тому +102

      +Jordan Davis
      2000.....your a youngin.....
      I have my dos 6.22 upgrade book somewhere....

    • @MrDMIDOV
      @MrDMIDOV 8 років тому +68

      +Max Beef Ha! Love it when the youngins try to look cool. Back in my days, we used stones to windows, result in broken glasses, and it was fun.

  • @TGoKovenant
    @TGoKovenant 5 років тому +4590

    I built my first PC in '99. My dad had a PC build and service business. I was the first kid in school with a 1ghz processor lol.
    AMD Thunderbird 1ghz
    256MB DDR ram
    nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU with 32MB vram (I think)
    Windows ME lol
    And I remember my dad ranting about 100GB hard drives coming out soon.
    "You could never fill that up! It's unnecessary!" 😂

    • @heart4011
      @heart4011 5 років тому +346

      damn back when 100 gb of storage was to large. My mothers pc uses an old AMD cpu using an old Galax GT 610. The system runs Windows Vista btw

    • @TheSwagGuy5000
      @TheSwagGuy5000 5 років тому +180

      Glassy nowadays 500 gb is not enough

    • @aussiebattler96
      @aussiebattler96 5 років тому +278

      @@TheSwagGuy5000 dude 2tb isn't even enough

    • @nicholassprenke3353
      @nicholassprenke3353 5 років тому +23

      Good old T-bird. That was my first custom build as well

    • @wendtchr
      @wendtchr 5 років тому +44

      Literally my exact build at the same time. No idea what I was doing. Nobody in my family was or is tech savvy at all.
      I did chip the CPU... Luckily it still worked but it did give my middle school, mountain dew powered heart a cardiac arrest.

  • @woopaka
    @woopaka 4 роки тому +435

    "baby do what you did last time"
    "what's that?"
    "show me your tip magnetic drive fan"

    • @loib
      @loib 4 роки тому +24

      i showed you my tip magnetic drive please respond

  • @Arandolor
    @Arandolor 4 роки тому +1678

    "You kids have it easy" 'Points at 80 year old man watching this.

    • @munirohm2420
      @munirohm2420 4 роки тому +78

      Your 80 years old? Damn man!

    • @aliznlhaddad
      @aliznlhaddad 4 роки тому +94

      you are one cool 80 year old man!

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 4 роки тому +94

      Pls tell us story about how your generation was walking to school thru mine field and fighting bears during their 30 miles walk every day. :-D

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 4 роки тому +12

      @J D maybe somewhere in Russia or Ukraine kids still fighting with bears and walking for milk 20 km every day :-D but I am from Czech Republic, people are lazy to walk 200m without car here :-)

    • @makemugen7332
      @makemugen7332 4 роки тому +5

      Even you are some ones child but you are past childhood... I think... 😅

  • @pexunfuni
    @pexunfuni 5 років тому +763

    i love how old monitors used to slowly fade in when you turn them on :D

    • @kevinradtke3767
      @kevinradtke3767 4 роки тому +53

      I like the click when they turn off

    • @FunkVT
      @FunkVT 4 роки тому +4

      Oh god yes

    • @milky178
      @milky178 4 роки тому +26

      And the static around the screen

    • @lechoco
      @lechoco 4 роки тому +8

      @@milky178 OMG SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! I REMEMBER THIS!!

    • @JBrander
      @JBrander 4 роки тому +18

      @@kevinradtke3767 I hated the click sound when you turn off CRT monitors. It always felt like a diode just popped off and died inside or something.

  • @maxpain45678
    @maxpain45678 5 років тому +1710

    II used my high school diploma as a mouse pad.. Best use ever.

    • @RaisedbyMalcolm_
      @RaisedbyMalcolm_ 5 років тому +72

      what else are you going to use it for😂

    • @Lycoriste
      @Lycoriste 5 років тому +9

      pv_plays games who’s ass? :)))

    • @tack3132
      @tack3132 5 років тому +34

      Why would you do that? You should have looked at it as a personal accomplishment. You'll regret it one day because I don't think they'll replace it with a copy. Unless you're one of these people who gets their kicks out of debasing education, then I'll leave you to it...

    • @yusufylmaz8098
      @yusufylmaz8098 5 років тому +4

      I used my mech. engineering diploma for that

    • @violetrose4547
      @violetrose4547 5 років тому +14

      @@tack3132 Meh, it's high school. Almost everybody has completed high school

  • @blackstarnevershines
    @blackstarnevershines 3 роки тому +266

    "i put my screwdriver thru my motherboard"
    been there, done that

    • @hueyrosayaga
      @hueyrosayaga 3 роки тому +1

      Holy sh*t that must be terrifying!

    • @sarthaksaxena1186
      @sarthaksaxena1186 3 роки тому +5

      @@hueyrosayaga nah it's just that u need a good gaming chair and a piece of cardboard.

    • @7Kajun
      @7Kajun 2 роки тому

      Oh my god, that's why there's a fat hole in this motherboard i have in the cave

    • @Darenz-cg9zg
      @Darenz-cg9zg 2 роки тому +3

      That's when you get out the soldering iron and mute your phone for a few hours.

  • @motioblur
    @motioblur 4 роки тому +114

    8:17 "You kids have it easy". Laughs in punchcard.

  • @Akselmoi
    @Akselmoi 8 років тому +1583

    Now I want to see "Very First Gaming PC" builds for everyone in Linus Media Group :D

    • @THEWELLTHENPERSON
      @THEWELLTHENPERSON 8 років тому +9

      +Akselmoi yes!!!

    • @BenKuyt64
      @BenKuyt64 8 років тому +57

      +Akselmoi A lot of people would just replay the editing builds from last year.

    • @TheDyerOG
      @TheDyerOG 8 років тому +8

      +Akselmoi Loads of them had never built a PC before moving into the new office

    • @rainbowbunchie8237
      @rainbowbunchie8237 8 років тому +1

      +Akselmoi YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @kamelontti3926
      @kamelontti3926 8 років тому +15

      +Akselmoi Dennis's is a rock.

  • @Fmily
    @Fmily 8 років тому +3053

    Just throw a titan x in it.

    • @gabny1000
      @gabny1000 8 років тому +247

      I'm pretty sure it would explode

    • @V1VISECT6
      @V1VISECT6 8 років тому +171

      Not gonna work the motherboard doesn't have a PCIE slot.

    • @Fmily
      @Fmily 8 років тому +251

      Connor Murphy It's a joke bro.

    • @ireallytoucansam9821
      @ireallytoucansam9821 8 років тому +57

      +Fmily Just throw a hamster wheel in it.

    • @stickanimatorproductions5167
      @stickanimatorproductions5167 8 років тому +65

      +Fmily Naa, The titan x would bottleneck the other parts.

  • @kyleapril3258
    @kyleapril3258 4 роки тому +358

    I just found this video, and went, wait a long minute. Is that.... MY FATHERS CASE BUT GREY? I look over to my left. IT IS! LOL, he's still using it to this day. You gotta be kidding me XD

    • @chunkymilk1288
      @chunkymilk1288 3 роки тому +25

      Lol. The same thing happened to me back when I watched Linus’s 2009-2019 pc video. It turns out the case he had from 2009 is the same case made by Antec my dad uses! He also is not willing to get rid of it cause he payed 200 for it 🤣

    • @TheCogitech
      @TheCogitech 3 роки тому +3

      I had the same reaction. I have a black one that looks basically the same, but the internal drive bays are even better. I actually used it up until a week ago. It was my main PC case for well over a decade, hosting many motherboards, CPUs and other hardware - at least 3 power supplies, too.

    • @benja.test123
      @benja.test123 3 роки тому +3

      @@chunkymilk1288 200 just for the case?

    • @chunkymilk1288
      @chunkymilk1288 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah. The case is really heavy too. Probably at least 20 pounds if not more.

    • @AtashSiah
      @AtashSiah 3 роки тому +1

      My father still has that exact case. It has an i9-9900k in it now, but it still looks beautiful. He also has the lime green Chieftec Dragon case next to it with his P4 3.0 GHz that he doesn't have the heart to replace.

  • @andrewstewart1464
    @andrewstewart1464 4 роки тому +66

    This is like the geek version of tracking down and restoring your first car. You never forget your first, but you sure do forget how 'good' it was!

    • @mmcblk05studio
      @mmcblk05studio 10 місяців тому

      yeah, except he didn't bother to replace capacitors on motherboard or reball chipset for it to run stable

    • @michaelplus-trojan_dc8687
      @michaelplus-trojan_dc8687 9 місяців тому

      Oh i wont forget my first car. but i aint restoring that bitch. gearbox was broken, nothing worked like it was supposed to. but it did have aftermarket cruise control and a heated front windshield. good ol' Ford Focus station Mk1. ditched it for another one (cus spend way to much on my winter tires which were as good as new) which did have all the features like a working gearbox, no cruise tho..

  • @IntellitechStudios
    @IntellitechStudios 7 років тому +531

    Can you believe XP just turned 15? He can start drinking next year if he moves to Jamaica!

    • @Zyphen4866
      @Zyphen4866 7 років тому +6

      Noice.

    • @grapezzzz19
      @grapezzzz19 7 років тому +20

      Hes going to become watercooled

    • @nicolasvillamil7523
      @nicolasvillamil7523 7 років тому +4

      There is no drinking age in jamaica. You just have to be 18 to buy it.

    • @froidesprit
      @froidesprit 7 років тому

      Can _you_ believe that the worst Windows, Vista, is turning 10 this year?

    • @HarmonicaMustang
      @HarmonicaMustang 7 років тому

      And Neve still uses it to power their 88D consoles' on-board computer. It's interesting to play solitaire while you're exporting a film in 5.1 surround.

  • @WebMint_
    @WebMint_ 8 років тому +443

    This year is the year I finally built a computer! In 2024, I might re build it, lol.

    • @MariosPotros
      @MariosPotros 8 років тому +6

      Cheers

    • @diamondhawk7427
      @diamondhawk7427 8 років тому +1

      haha

    • @Sp3aR007
      @Sp3aR007 7 років тому +1

      same

    • @MrCrazyChemical
      @MrCrazyChemical 7 років тому +1

      I feel you mate... i feel you ..

    • @cheesecake0126
      @cheesecake0126 7 років тому +1

      This was the year I built my 1st gaming pc. I forgot sooooo many things so I had to keep annoying relatives to buy me stuff

  • @SkorpyoTFC
    @SkorpyoTFC 4 роки тому +30

    Holy shit, not only did his original cooler have a TMD fan, he managed to find another one. Now that's some bragging rights.

  • @rothelen
    @rothelen 4 роки тому +51

    The Tardis holding up the CPU's was my favorite part.

  • @MusicHavenSG
    @MusicHavenSG 8 років тому +545

    Sit back, relax, have a cuppa tea or a beer if it's more your thing.

    • @davidtrollston5256
      @davidtrollston5256 8 років тому +15

      Green ham gaming nice

    • @ryanxie7554
      @ryanxie7554 8 років тому +22

      +MusicHaven2012 GREEN HAM GAMING

    • @MusicHavenSG
      @MusicHavenSG 8 років тому +10

      +ryan xie Yup! That's GHG Reference!

    • @Jayy80_
      @Jayy80_ 8 років тому +3

      +MusicHaven2012=) haha you whatch ghg too!

    • @Radicalglitch
      @Radicalglitch 8 років тому +3

      +MusicHaven2012 GHG!!

  • @JXSnWp
    @JXSnWp 5 років тому +70

    4:47 my god... this takes me back. I remember the sheer panic I had when my screwdriver slipped one time when installing a new CPU cooler. I thought for sure I murdered my motherboard.

    • @itsdimitriymedvedyev
      @itsdimitriymedvedyev 4 роки тому

      Did it work afterwards?

    • @mattyfrommacc1554
      @mattyfrommacc1554 2 роки тому

      I remember the clips that were under tension with Socket A? being a nightmare and the screwdriver did plunge into the MOBO once or twice

  • @Darikage
    @Darikage 4 роки тому +176

    my high end rig is still build inside the same case as that one, never bought a new one 😂😂

    • @cheesythegamer9771
      @cheesythegamer9771 4 роки тому +1

      Darikage Specs?

    • @gkgameplaycz
      @gkgameplaycz 3 роки тому +8

      I use a beige case that has seen everything from 486 up

    • @agiskacuri7481
      @agiskacuri7481 3 роки тому +8

      Then you have a sleeper pc

    • @gkgameplaycz
      @gkgameplaycz 3 роки тому +4

      @@agiskacuri7481 and I'm proud of it, even the old floppy drive is hooked up!

    • @specialman2609
      @specialman2609 3 роки тому +2

      Darikage talk about airflow lol

  • @xamanto
    @xamanto 17 днів тому +11

    Damn the audio sure has improved in the last 8 years...

  • @RPG720
    @RPG720 7 років тому +312

    wtf, how does Linus have DDR400?! I only have DDR4 :(

    • @AlphaCore_
      @AlphaCore_ 7 років тому +136

      It's DDR, with speed of 400.
      Then again, I do realize this comment is sarcastic.

    • @cybercat1531
      @cybercat1531 7 років тому +17

      DDR? Where I come from SDR is all the rage

    • @FlaxTheSeedOne
      @FlaxTheSeedOne 7 років тому +5

      EEPROM anyone? No?

    • @onlydream
      @onlydream 7 років тому +2

      I still have 2 gb of ddr400 jeje it was magic !

    • @cha7Li3
      @cha7Li3 7 років тому +14

      Reminds me of the comment, "You only have Windows 10? I'm on Windows 95 ha!

  • @MaxPenford
    @MaxPenford 8 років тому +339

    OMG I FINALY FOUND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME SETUP AS ME!!!

    • @3ole2
      @3ole2 8 років тому +1

      Lol

    • @sonel0l
      @sonel0l 8 років тому +1

      wow, i have 2. jk, im on a crap lenovo laptop...

    • @desertstormproductions8525
      @desertstormproductions8525 8 років тому +1

      im on a crappy lenovo laptop too

    • @keplaredler6024
      @keplaredler6024 7 років тому +1

      +Joni Lepistö Nobody said that it's used for gaming.

    • @0s0sXD
      @0s0sXD 7 років тому

      Hahahahahaha

  • @shakymctwitch8615
    @shakymctwitch8615 4 роки тому +37

    Linus: "You kids had it easy" Me: (laughs in Unisys 5.25 in. floppies)

    • @TotemoGaijin
      @TotemoGaijin 4 роки тому +5

      Our first pc had one of those green and black screens, and booted into dos and something called Norton Commander. All I remember though is playing Castle and Bricks.

  • @mik310s
    @mik310s 4 роки тому +79

    You kids had it easy my first HDD was 10MB and you needed to read a book to install it

  • @terryfuldsgaming7995
    @terryfuldsgaming7995 7 років тому +174

    You are making me feel old... My first gaming computer was a 286... The first one I built was a Pentium 2, 266mhz with a voodoo 2 video card with a massive 16 mb of onboard, that's right! Onboard ram! Never before seen!

    • @imalsoTOMATO
      @imalsoTOMATO 7 років тому +27

      the face when you can finally run quake in 60fps

    • @Fesovika
      @Fesovika 7 років тому +2

      Damn, I had Voodoo2 connected to 2mb graphic card, with 200 mhz cpu and 128mb of ram.

    • @CanadaBud23
      @CanadaBud23 7 років тому

      Same, old 286 on dos. Buddy had a 286 with Win 3.1. My first built rig was a 486DX. Had some unknown video card and 12MB of ram and a 300mb hd. Ran win 95 pretty nice but spent lots of compressing drives and defrags lol, those were the days. I game and watch this (and typing) on my Core2Duo atm but no money to build a new system yet. Maybe in summer when I'm mostly done building my XJ.

    • @spyder000069
      @spyder000069 7 років тому +3

      Sadly I remember splurging at paycheck time to buy my Cirrus Logic 5440 and buying the separate 1mb upgrade chips to pop in. It was the final piece i needed to complete my first totally new build which had a P150 that I overclocked to 166. It wasn't long after before I blew a couple of paychecks on a Voodoo rush card. It was about that time I used a cuttoff wheel to cut a large square out of the side of my case and installed plexiglass from the local hardware store and also holes in the top of the case for 80mm fans. Long before you saw any prebuilt cases like this. And don't even get me started on how high I was jumping when my 300A fired up at 450. :^)

    • @angryguineapig4323
      @angryguineapig4323 7 років тому +2

      Mine was the tnt2.

  • @Shrikyun
    @Shrikyun 6 років тому +1035

    i used to have a piece of paper as a mouse pad aswell, now i upgraded to a book xD

    • @annonymoususer2677
      @annonymoususer2677 6 років тому +3

      StevenSidez - selfish cat person lmao

    • @takkipusa6910
      @takkipusa6910 6 років тому +57

      That's more expansive than a mouse pad tho :)

    • @enrico9130
      @enrico9130 6 років тому

      StevenSidez - selfish cat person Loool

    • @geebster.
      @geebster. 6 років тому +3

      Bet its the Bible, you heathen!

    • @mr.hasagi9088
      @mr.hasagi9088 6 років тому +42

      *using a mouse pad
      **Using a mac
      ***Using a book
      ****Using a piece of paper
      *****Using no mouse pad
      *USING THE ARROW KEYS*

  • @mindmaze4689
    @mindmaze4689 2 роки тому +6

    Behind every modern day PC enthusiast lies a fascinating tale. Respect!

  • @hynee
    @hynee 4 роки тому +1

    I had a Lanboy for a while, it was my backup to my main computer (so if my main PC barfed it I could still cruise the internet). There's a fan holder at the front of the case that is made from UV activiated colour plastic. It doesn't bring back good memories for me, but memories none the less. I really loved how light it was with the aluminium build.

  • @windowsxp8320
    @windowsxp8320 7 років тому +132

    I'm glad I was your first choice ;)

  • @Askejm
    @Askejm 6 років тому +1615

    My grandpa still thinks a 40 MB harddisk is unbelievable

    • @RMSLusitania
      @RMSLusitania 5 років тому +59

      My mom is still thinking even how to buy an computer lol

    • @TopGunCrew
      @TopGunCrew 5 років тому +1

      lol

    • @ryze9153
      @ryze9153 5 років тому +1

      Wow lol

    • @brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916
      @brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916 5 років тому +139

      My grandpa bought a capable gaming pc (with 12 gigs of ram and 3.2 ghz) and only uses it for email

    • @newaccountwhodis4536
      @newaccountwhodis4536 5 років тому +167

      @@brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916 bro he probably sends like 1,000 emails per minute you never know

  • @yosef79
    @yosef79 4 роки тому +3

    This was a very cool throw back that reminds me of my first PC also. I too had an AMD Athlon XP 2500+! It was an awesome CPU and great overclocker. Other components were an ASRock K7S41GX mobo, an ATi Radeon 9550, and a WD 80GB IDE hard drive. I don't remember what I had for a PSU and RAM.

  • @walterlegere1403
    @walterlegere1403 4 роки тому +3

    Wow... I feel really old now! My first system in 1990 (even though I had several IBM PS2's) was an Everex Step Intel 386DX-20 with 512K of RAM. Zenith EVGA monitor, the original Sound Blaster audio card, an 8GB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, two 5 1/4" 720K floppy drives. a 2400 baud modem and the tower was about 45 pounds. Initial retail price for the tower was $2500. Oh yah, and Windows 3.1...

  • @silverphysicscsgo1670
    @silverphysicscsgo1670 8 років тому +234

    I BET YO ASSS. this will break my budget

    • @wonderbread2764
      @wonderbread2764 8 років тому

      Hahaha

    • @BenjiNaesenTV
      @BenjiNaesenTV 8 років тому

      +Silver Physics | CS:GO Nice logo.

    • @silverphysicscsgo1670
      @silverphysicscsgo1670 8 років тому

      lol... :D thanks man... nice logo too

    • @bclark7113
      @bclark7113 8 років тому +3

      $130 mobo? yep.

    • @techpoint5249
      @techpoint5249 8 років тому

      +Silver Physics | CS:GO Know what your talking about trying to render a 1:44 video on my Celeron laptop and it is taking like 2 hours

  • @mholden020
    @mholden020 7 років тому +35

    Oh man that cooler clip brought back some memories.... I was lucky enough to never get it wrong on installation, but I did have one bad experience where one entire row of tabs snapped off while I was using my computer, the cooler fell off the motherboard, took out the graphics card, and inevitably fried the processor since I never thought for a second that the massive "bang" came from inside my computer. Whoo, that was a bad day!

    • @sausje
      @sausje 6 років тому

      For me it was always the fact that I cut my skin open on trying to install those damn coolers >.

  • @RobindenHertog
    @RobindenHertog 4 роки тому +2

    It,s easy to forget how young Linus is.. My first pc was a second hand 468dx2 which after memory expansion could run settlers, then later a first truly self build pentium 2 350 MHz with a voodo 3dfx card.

    • @dbrohrs4668
      @dbrohrs4668 4 роки тому +1

      It's easy to forget how young everyone is, My first PC was a calculator and was the size of a room.

  • @tattoogeek77
    @tattoogeek77 3 роки тому +1

    wow just found this video in 2020 and all i can say is THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! I know that chip (Athlon) so well! and the Vantec! Thanks for the trip down memory lane :-)

  • @azaph_gaming
    @azaph_gaming 5 років тому +593

    Linus is younger than I thought. Was expecting a Pentium 2 or 3 build!

    • @aussiejosh1988
      @aussiejosh1988 5 років тому +46

      Good old pentium II cartridge. Use to run that in my first computer 🤣🤣

    • @azaph_gaming
      @azaph_gaming 5 років тому +19

      @@aussiejosh1988 Me too! The first PC I built myself anyway. Before that I was using a hand-me-down 80486 DX-2 66 MHz.
      The PII became obsolete FAST though, two years later I could barely run any new games on it. I'm glad that's different today!

    • @aussiejosh1988
      @aussiejosh1988 5 років тому +5

      Yea they were the good only days. I'm still running a I5 7600k at 5GHz stable and goes good with my GTX 1070. Plays all today's games in ultra settings

    • @azaph_gaming
      @azaph_gaming 5 років тому +8

      @@aussiejosh1988 Nice! I'm still using a FX-8350 @ 4.5 GHz and a gtx 970. Runs my games well too, though I play few recent AAA games.

    • @aussiejosh1988
      @aussiejosh1988 5 років тому

      @@azaph_gaming I've just upgraded from 2 GTX 970 strix SLI. Great cards they are

  • @MushroomKidable
    @MushroomKidable 8 років тому +174

    Looks like that golden MSI anniversary motherboard..........

  • @evanq5478
    @evanq5478 Рік тому +6

    The other day I found a Pionex desktop PC hanging in the garbage dump. Looked like the same family PC my parents bought for WAAAY too much on QVC. There was also some Mac Quadra's and other cool stuff.

  • @EmpathVibe
    @EmpathVibe 4 роки тому +1

    Right in the feels. I often think about the Gateway I had that got passed down to me back in the day. Upgrading RAM, and power supply was a fun time thanks to your old NCIX videos back in the day. Miss that boot up sound from the old windows days though.

  • @ocean1088
    @ocean1088 5 років тому +875

    'this may look like a crappy piece of junk to you...' Runs better than my Laptop

  • @MusicHavenSG
    @MusicHavenSG 7 років тому +168

    So sit back, grab a cup of tea, or a beer if it's more your thing, and come along for the ride.

  • @ferretchief
    @ferretchief 4 роки тому +7

    This video makes me feel so friggin' old. Thanks Linus.

  • @CraigTinson2015
    @CraigTinson2015 17 днів тому +1

    just *chuckles* at the audio... I've been an avid watcher for years... but not looked at these old videos... nice trip down memory lane! also also.. jumpers on the drives! damn I feel old!

  • @Ottomeme
    @Ottomeme 7 років тому +1336

    Of course it can't run minecraft. I think you need at least 1.5 GB of dedotated WAM

  • @JosephVoda
    @JosephVoda 8 років тому +77

    "let's get windows xp installed on this bitch" I'm using this as my yearbook quote

    • @_xima7madproxpvper83
      @_xima7madproxpvper83 8 років тому

      +Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) i think vista will be better :D

    • @Vicecity420
      @Vicecity420 8 років тому

      +Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) dont do this you'll be marked as a nerd lol

  • @AMDRMConfiguration
    @AMDRMConfiguration 4 роки тому +2

    Linus : My pc can't run minecraft
    LowSpecGamer : this is time for config montage

  • @dank_productions94
    @dank_productions94 Рік тому

    I still remember my older brother messing around with code in DOS in the early 90's and watching him tinker with some of the first windows 95 / 98 builds he did ( he was around 13 at the time, was always very smart, is now an electrical engineer ) honestly I miss these years so much, building a PC just to play unreal tournament on high graphics and making his own server to host games with friends was so cool to watch and learn from, some of my fondest gaming memories are from that generation and I'll always have a soft spot for old school tech because of it. Please keep making these flashbacks to the past ❤️

  • @spartan23456789
    @spartan23456789 6 років тому +412

    i'm mostly amazed he managed to remember all the parts he had...

    • @kevprograms
      @kevprograms 6 років тому +50

      Jaydn W If you're like me, I document all progress that happens in my life. All achievements I can call my own.

    • @kyle857
      @kyle857 6 років тому +17

      UnMask3d That's kind of crazy. I like it!

    • @Mr_Moktoosai
      @Mr_Moktoosai 6 років тому +29

      Actually I pretty well remember my first Gaming PC. Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz, Segate HDD 80 GB, Samsung DDR 512 mb, GeForce MX440, Microlab case, Samsung CD-Drive, Microlab speakers, Samsung flat CRT 17 inch. I don't remember the motherboard, but I'm sure it was Gigabyte. Nostalgia.

    • @urbancampfire7253
      @urbancampfire7253 6 років тому +5

      I remember every pc i've had since my first Intel 486Dx 66mhz back in 93-94, when i was 11 years old. I'm 34 now.

    • @H0ttabych
      @H0ttabych 6 років тому +1

      I can name all the components of all my pcs I had, including first one. Besides hard/optical/floppy drives, tho still remember that I had 160 gigs samsung ide thing

  • @ebayerr
    @ebayerr 5 років тому +222

    I still have the receipt from Best Buy from when I bought an Western Digital 80GB 8Mb cache harddrive for $175

    • @xMournful3ch0x
      @xMournful3ch0x 5 років тому +24

      Now that same $175 would buy you a 6TB WD Black, or two 4TB WD Blues

    • @rishabprasoon5970
      @rishabprasoon5970 5 років тому +31

      I still remember me dad coming home after buying a PC and yelling " we have to never upgrade again , cuz it has a 40 GB hard drive " .....oh boy

    • @unknownperson3691
      @unknownperson3691 5 років тому +7

      Rishab Prasoon, in 10 years, petabyte will become the standard.( I’m still wondering how I used up 1 tb in 2 months)

    • @rishabprasoon5970
      @rishabprasoon5970 5 років тому +5

      @@unknownperson3691 I have a 12 terabyte server , I filled about 9.7 TB up in a year .....

    • @nathanhamman418
      @nathanhamman418 5 років тому +4

      @@unknownperson3691 I'm wondering if i'll ever have enough storage space, 2 2TB drives, 2 512GB ssds, a 240GB boot ssd, 2 1TB drives, an 8 TB external and a pile of salvaged drives ranging from 500GB-1TB and i might be expanding again, maybe i should just learn to delete shit xP

  • @dustinhornsby3684
    @dustinhornsby3684 4 роки тому +1

    Your first gaming rig is what I upgraded to. I started with an eMonster 600 with a modded bios and a slot to socket converter with a Tualatin Core Celeron @1.3Ghz
    and a GForce 4 Ti running on Windows 2000 Pro. Probably the most stable machine I've ever had. That AMD XP 2500 was awesome just change the FSB and it was immediately
    an XP 3200. I also had a Shuttle AN35n Ultra nforce 2 board it was a beast.

  • @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis
    @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis 3 роки тому +1

    The first PC I actually built (during Hallowe'en in 2003!) was also Athlon XP based, but on a DFI Lan party board (which is too flaky to use, although I still have it). I still have (and love) the Chieftec case I used for it as well, I'll be putting a new Ryzen system in it soon.

  • @bsg2621
    @bsg2621 7 років тому +826

    heh at least this beast can run Minesweeper Ultra 1000fps, my Quad - Titan XP I7 6950X can't even fucking run the BIOS

    • @buttersquids
      @buttersquids 7 років тому +61

      BSG Try installing memory before using your pc

    • @aziz01200
      @aziz01200 7 років тому +43

      people who don't know a thing about computer are scratching their heads right now.

    • @buttersquids
      @buttersquids 7 років тому +11

      BSG
      It's called a jokr

    • @Gilaric
      @Gilaric 7 років тому +11

      BSG 4 Way sli?

    • @TheRguru1
      @TheRguru1 7 років тому +37

      Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  • @kwanwoopark6360
    @kwanwoopark6360 7 років тому +270

    Little did I dream that Linus would say, "Can it run Minecraft?"

    • @saulrocha7749
      @saulrocha7749 6 років тому +5

      It's "will it run minecraft" lol xD

    • @Cam275YT
      @Cam275YT 6 років тому

      It's what I look for in every one of these types of videos (also in his 16K rig video)

    • @canyonstinky7817
      @canyonstinky7817 6 років тому

      no it cant run minecraft

    • @xinsertid9095
      @xinsertid9095 6 років тому +4

      BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS

    • @atwilight
      @atwilight 6 років тому +2

      I was about to comment this on a year old video....

  • @russellwilliams7589
    @russellwilliams7589 4 роки тому +2

    I had that lanboy case lol, it came with straps so you would carry it to "lan parties". All aluminum and so much lighter than all the stamped steel ones I had before.

  • @usernamunavailiable
    @usernamunavailiable 4 роки тому +1

    My first was close, I used a Athlon XP 2800+ and an Abit motherboard. The second PC I built a few months later I used the LanBoy case. I can’t say for sure but it may have been the first PC case I painted. It was a USMC 1st Mar Div theme. I know it was the first one I etched the side panel (a M1 Abrams tank).

  • @KittenoftheBroccoli
    @KittenoftheBroccoli 8 років тому +166

    **Googles to see if Neopets still exists**

    • @gergeoux
      @gergeoux 8 років тому

      lol same.

    • @keplaredler6024
      @keplaredler6024 7 років тому +1

      i'm pretty dure it still does. But it's going to be a ghost town.

    • @jamesgizmo1999
      @jamesgizmo1999 7 років тому

      yeah the ios app is super popular actually

    • @fenderguitargod1
      @fenderguitargod1 7 років тому

      what about webkins?

    • @xxDannyn714xx
      @xxDannyn714xx 7 років тому +13

      webkinz is still around. I tried to log in the other day and it told me to come back the next day since my account was archived

  • @samreyy
    @samreyy 5 років тому +88

    What a blast from the past!
    My first gaming rig had an AMD 3200+, NVIDIA 6600GT 256mb and duel channel DDR 512mb of RAM. What a beast.

    • @kenthinson2980
      @kenthinson2980 5 років тому +3

      Yours was better then mine. I had 348mb ram and a GeForce 5200

    • @eclipsetech8336
      @eclipsetech8336 4 роки тому +3

      @@kenthinson2980 I had a 512 MB and 9800gt

    • @evon8779
      @evon8779 4 роки тому +2

      Dude that is legit my old pc. It still runs to this day and I play old games on it regularly

    • @xyzxyzxyz2138
      @xyzxyzxyz2138 3 роки тому +2

      @@imran5373 hi can you be in stock for 5 minutes

    • @xTurtleOW
      @xTurtleOW Рік тому

      my first one i built myself was 3570k and 7970 ghz edition 8gb ram

  • @TheJasonleong1996
    @TheJasonleong1996 4 роки тому +34

    2:36
    Hey, a Malaysian product :D
    Well assemble that is.

    • @syahmisyahiran9850
      @syahmisyahiran9850 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah bro many qualities computer components and electronics are assembled in Malaysia 😁😁😁

    • @minh1071
      @minh1071 3 роки тому +2

      Assembled in malaysia cuz its cheap

  • @chincemagnet
    @chincemagnet 3 роки тому +1

    This would be a cool project for me. My first personal build was a beast. I paid to have systems built 3 times previously, but my first custom build I did was pretty sick. AMD FX62, OCZ 4GB DDR2 800, EVGA nForce 590a, BFG 8800 Ultra, BFG 800w PSU, Seagate 300 GB Barracuda HD. Eventually added another 8800 Ultra, after that things got crazy and still to this day.

  • @IscariottActual
    @IscariottActual 8 років тому +85

    Ugh the flashbacks at that heat sink latching.

    • @ZuhirZuu
      @ZuhirZuu 8 років тому +4

      +Iscariott2 I got bloody on unmounting EDORAM

    • @IscariottActual
      @IscariottActual 8 років тому +2

      Never dealt with EDORAM, but I did slice 3 of my fingers open dealing with the old razor wire I/O panels.

    • @PinkGirl2242
      @PinkGirl2242 8 років тому

      +Iscariott2 I still have nightmares of repasting on my old amd ath xp 2600+ haha. I scratched the mb and that spring on the cpu hs was such a pig to push down. Over time the plastic part where to metal clasp hooks to bloody snapped off grrrrr. My mb was the asrock k7vt2
      www.asrock.com/mb/via/k7vt2/

    • @full-metal_jacob5858
      @full-metal_jacob5858 8 років тому

      +Iscariott2 Its looked so archeaic... what year would this be in?

    • @chriswho12345
      @chriswho12345 8 років тому

      +Iscariott2 Dusted out an old computer running XP, was worried I'd break a pin.

  • @MattsPaddock
    @MattsPaddock 8 років тому +39

    Gray, everything is gray! The rose gold color of the past! :D

  • @lifewithlesliecanada
    @lifewithlesliecanada 17 днів тому +1

    I had that exact case! I think that was one of my first two cases I had. Back when we use to put out our junk on the curb, someone put their whole PC out on the curb one sunny day, and I swooped that up.

  • @welcometoronsworld6589
    @welcometoronsworld6589 3 роки тому

    I love this video you brought back some memories when I build my first PC when socket 370 motherboards was around.

  • @StaelTek
    @StaelTek 8 років тому +103

    3:21 look at the contacts on the LGA2011-3 chip. its like glitching

    • @RubyIsBored
      @RubyIsBored 8 років тому

      +DeadNullermand yeah thats wierd

    • @adaniel2929
      @adaniel2929 8 років тому +21

      +DeadNullermand Just video compression artifacts.

    • @cookie1138
      @cookie1138 8 років тому +6

      +DeadNullermand happens also when he installs the amd fan, look at the cpu-cooling block cutouts.. Horrible ^^

    • @wiertara1337
      @wiertara1337 8 років тому +3

      +DeadNullermand UA-cam video compression.

    • @goeiecool9999
      @goeiecool9999 8 років тому +2

      +Wojtek Kiraga Don't think so. Seems more likely it's on LTT's end.

  • @techyescity
    @techyescity 8 років тому +2057

    That is a great USED PC you got there ;)

    • @bigboykldaudiosounds3756
      @bigboykldaudiosounds3756 8 років тому +35

      Holy Shit your here

    • @dionmiller8547
      @dionmiller8547 8 років тому +8

      +Tech YES City DUNICRON!

    • @ArthurDNB
      @ArthurDNB 8 років тому +6

      +Tech YES City LOVE YOUR CHANNEL MAN!

    • @MrHaikal15
      @MrHaikal15 8 років тому +5

      +Tech YES City OMG OMG ITS YOU XD Please answer my question at your 70$ csgo potato vid pls? :3

    • @DaddyBleach
      @DaddyBleach 8 років тому +2

      +Retroez first you then everyone replying to the ghg reference whats next druaga1

  • @juju990000
    @juju990000 4 роки тому +1

    @Linus You also had it pretty easy. You didnt need to set jumpers for CPU busfrequenzy and multiplyer. There were way more difficult ways to build a system. Even the fact, that the busspeed also changed the speed of your PCI and AGP slots. You should try a 486DX system or kind of that.

    • @700gsteak
      @700gsteak 2 роки тому

      Jumpers are awesome if you o/c cause once u set the jumpers its fixed forever even if the battery runs out. Never really got the jumper hate. Even with stuff like soundcards, you werent at the mercy of plug and pray.

  • @Northern_
    @Northern_ 4 роки тому +1

    I reused my Antec Super Lanboy (the one with the "tool tray") from my first build circa 2005 in the PC I built last fall. It was originally very similar to this...

  • @SteveDice21
    @SteveDice21 8 років тому +148

    I use the exact same mousepad

    • @SteveDice21
      @SteveDice21 8 років тому +17

      Well, mine has "Low budget mousepad" written on it.

    • @silvenkovich7352
      @silvenkovich7352 8 років тому +1

      +Steve Dice hehehehe i

    • @uzavanauzavana
      @uzavanauzavana 8 років тому

      BBကားး

    • @janeisnotokay3284
      @janeisnotokay3284 8 років тому

      I use a large, thick piece of cloth folded in half. It has decent tracking, actually.

    • @Chomakot
      @Chomakot 7 років тому

      best thing you can customize it :D draw shit on it :D

  • @KohGuanTsin
    @KohGuanTsin 6 років тому +214

    There had always been curved monitors. Just that its curved the wrong way.

    • @kyle857
      @kyle857 5 років тому +6

      2017 Koh Guan Tsin Even the modern ones suck. They are a solution in search of a problem.

    • @Milamberinx
      @Milamberinx 5 років тому +7

      You know it wasn't a decision to have convex monitor screens, right? It was necessary to keep the cathode ray the same length at each part of the screen.

  • @Afterburner
    @Afterburner 4 роки тому

    LOL on slave drive jumpers - I ran Primos 9955 and similar minicomputers where the disk drives were 315mb platters with chassis sizes approximating that of a classic washing machine. And we had to address the drives in octal addresses so we would, for example, issue a "boot 14114" command to boot the system after editing a config file with all the octal addresses (called "pdevs" in Prime Computer terms) with all the pdevs of the data drives and how we addressed them in the OS lookup tables. I miss those old machines... they were a lot of fun to work with.

  • @kilianfunke8974
    @kilianfunke8974 4 роки тому +2

    Man nostalgia! At least you had an optical mouse on your first rig. Remember those with the ball, which you had to get out every couple weeks and clean... YUKS
    And the beige vs black XD I remember having to compromise on that as well.

    • @tj71520
      @tj71520 4 роки тому

      My first brand new mouse was a targa ps/2 ball mouse

  • @rwdplz1
    @rwdplz1 7 років тому +284

    First PC I ever built was a Slot 1 Pentium 2-based Celeron at 333Mhz, Asus P2B motherboard, 64MB of RAM, 3DFX graphics card, and a massive 10.1GB hard drive, with Windows 98

    • @nateo200
      @nateo200 6 років тому +15

      It is almost funny but I can tell we are both not very young by the amount of RAM used in our first system. I went "Hardcore" with 128MB's of RAM. I had a hook up later on that got me 20GB HDD's on the cheap but my cheap 250watt power supply couldn't drive the 5 I had set up because a single 80GB or 160GB was insanely overpriced. I remember the day I got my Nvidia 8800 GTS 256MB VRAM. lol But my first laptop was the IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 3, 128MB's RAM, 4-5GB HDD and Windows 98, which I promptly upgraded to Windows 2000 and then XP!

    • @mochageico
      @mochageico 6 років тому +4

      massive 10.1gb yah

    • @videossatisfatorios6988
      @videossatisfatorios6988 6 років тому

      if u are a good person just open steam -community .com/?ref=G4trP6K (remove the spaces

    • @rebeccabenton5565
      @rebeccabenton5565 6 років тому +1

      I'm the hundredth like

    • @LOLMAN9538
      @LOLMAN9538 6 років тому +7

      The first PC I built was a beast! It had a Core i9-7980XE Extreme, an ASUS ROG Strix X299 MoBo, 2 Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080TI's in 2-way SLI, 128 GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 RAM, and a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe 2TB SSD + Western Digital Black 10TB HDD. And of course i put Windows 10 Pro 32/64 bit on there.

  • @Stupranos
    @Stupranos 6 років тому +186

    Should’ve recorded in the resolution and aspect ratio of the time to give a little ascetic feel

    • @MaximRecoil
      @MaximRecoil 5 років тому +2

      So, 1920 x 1440 then?

    • @user-bv8wr3vw4x
      @user-bv8wr3vw4x 5 років тому +1

      @@MaximRecoil No, 640 x 480.

    • @MaximRecoil
      @MaximRecoil 5 років тому

      @@user-bv8wr3vw4x Why would anyone be running 640 x 480 in the early/mid 2000s? My CRT monitor, which I'm using right now, was made in 2004 and has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440. The lowest resolution you can select in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, is 800 x 600, unless you go into the advanced "display all modes" menu to force a lower resolution, and even then, if you select 640 x 480 it gives you a warning that your screen resolution is very low and offers to set it higher for you.
      The most common resolution in the early/mid 2000s was 1024 x 768 with a 17" CRT (which was the most common screen size at the time). People with a 19" CRT usually ran it at 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024. People with a 21" CRT usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 or 1920 x 1440. People who were lucky enough to have the best PC monitor ever made, i.e., a 24" Sony GDM-FW900 CRT, could run it at 2304 x 1440.

    • @user-bv8wr3vw4x
      @user-bv8wr3vw4x 5 років тому +2

      @@MaximRecoil Oh God... the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then. Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p. Nobody ia talking about your monitor resolution. And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution. Back then people were using 800x600 and 1024x768 for their desktop work. And it was the same for gaming. Nobody back then was able to run the newest games at max settings with resolution higher than 1024x768. Because the CPU's and GPU's were not that powerfull as now.

    • @MaximRecoil
      @MaximRecoil 5 років тому

      ​@@user-bv8wr3vw4x " the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then."
      No, he didn't. He simply said, "the resolution and aspect ratio of the time".
      "Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p."
      No, they didn't. A typical consumer-grade video camera in the early/mid 2000s recorded at DVD resolution, and it was interlaced (29.97 FPS), which was 720 x 480i. An example is the popular DV format which was introduced in 1995. But there was also HDV, introduced in 2003, which recorded at 720p or 1080i. In the high-end video camera market, 1080p has been around since at least the late 1990s, and even Hollywood started using them in the early 2000s. For example, the movie "Session 9" from 2001 was shot on a 1080p (24 FPS) digital video camera. Star Wars Episode II (2002) was another early movie shot on a 1080p digital video camera.
      " And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution."
      You don't know what you're talking about. I just told you that my CRT monitor from 2004 (22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron), that I'm using right now, can go to 1920 x 1440. I also told you that the Sony GDM-FW900 CRT monitor can go to 2304 x 1440:
      www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR
      There were CRT displays that could go even higher than that. For example, the Barco 909 could go to 3200 x 2560, which is approximately the same total number of pixels as "UHD", also known as "4K":
      www.barco.com/en/product/barcoreality-909

  • @little_fluffy_clouds
    @little_fluffy_clouds 2 роки тому

    My first PC was a 486SX. I loved that thing and played lots of flight simulators, eventually upgrading with an Intel Overdrive chip in order to get an FPU that accelerated 3D calculations.
    During lockdown, I put together what would have been my dream PC in 1999, using parts from eBay. Dual 800 MHz P-III processors, 512 MB RAM, Matrox G400 Max AGP graphics card, SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold Adaptec SCSI with an Iomega Jaz drive and a compact flash to IDE adapter as the boot drive. It runs completely stable and lets me relive the operating systems, games and apps of those days.
    A worthy project to scratch that nostalgia itch, especially because not all software and operating systems from that era runs correctly under emulation on a modern computer. It is great fun playing with BeOS, OPENSTEP and Windows 2000 Pro again.

  • @pjsonpiano
    @pjsonpiano 4 роки тому +1

    I remember those magnetic tip fan coolers. I had one because my fan randomly died on my box AMD cooler and in my innocence, I thought it would be less prone to failure. Fortunately, mine was buried in an Enermax Server Full Tower case made of 1mm steel construction and had like 6 80mm cooling fans in it so I couldn't really hear the CPU cooler.

  • @bill5197
    @bill5197 7 років тому +15

    Thanks for reviewing my rig Linus.

  • @Sudoku404
    @Sudoku404 8 років тому +171

    Does Anyone think that the vantic cpu cooler looks like something from fallout 4

    • @theobaldsjacob
      @theobaldsjacob 8 років тому

      +SwiftTail lol

    • @justusburgess9131
      @justusburgess9131 8 років тому

      +SwiftTail DUDE! It totally does!! hahaha

    • @seanorion7106
      @seanorion7106 8 років тому

      That was my very first thought, it looks awesome!

    • @JHA854
      @JHA854 8 років тому +1

      It would've looked good in Luke's Scrapyard wars build

    • @mainstreammonkey1847
      @mainstreammonkey1847 8 років тому

      It sounds more like something from it

  • @luigiredparrot
    @luigiredparrot 3 роки тому

    It's fun, I didn't see this video !
    I had the same 2500+ because running at FSB400 it was near a 3200+ for a good price.
    I loved these Athlon XP !
    I used on it 2x Samsung 80 GB in Raid0 to get better loading times.
    Thanks @linustechtips for this video !

  • @icecubez130
    @icecubez130 4 роки тому

    had the same processor and heat-sink fan for my first build but I went with an Epox motherboard, Enermax power supply, crucial memory, LG optical drive, and a frozencpu.com case. loved that desktop! wish i kept it....

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced 8 років тому +8

    You sir have nearly brought tears to my eyes. This was almost identically my first rig as well - mine was an AthlonXP 2400+, 512MB DDR 400 RAM, Gigabyte GA-7VAX1394 motherboard, with a no-name brand nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 64MB VRAM and a whopping 120GB HDD. Bought in mid 2003 when I was in high school, to replace my 10-year old 486, and completely changed my life. I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for that machine. I was in the developing world at the time and I had to save for 2 years to buy it. Those were the days...

    • @GreekSouljah
      @GreekSouljah 8 років тому +2

      +QuantumBraced I had the same CPU & motherboard only difference is that I had 512MB DDR 333 Ram and TI4200 Graphics card :P

  • @jayrx12
    @jayrx12 8 років тому +59

    I'm on a binge watching all of Linus's Videos while waiting for FedEx to deliver the rest of the parts for my new pc.

    • @CoolRainbowRainbow
      @CoolRainbowRainbow 8 років тому +1

      When ya got the money it's fun huh

    • @jayrx12
      @jayrx12 8 років тому

      +CoolRainbow Rainbow What?

    • @TrollermanSixtysevan
      @TrollermanSixtysevan 7 років тому

      u just did a $2000 and it isn't even that good a build :/

    • @bigballerbillionaire
      @bigballerbillionaire 7 років тому

      You overpayed like crazy, i got a 1070 and an i7 6700K for cheaper.

    • @TrollermanSixtysevan
      @TrollermanSixtysevan 7 років тому

      ɹʇsuuɹ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) $2000 Canadian. I checked pc park picker and it was $800 american :/ Minimum wage here in Canada is $10 and hour just like in the states, sometimes even less. I don't know how some people can live, because i live with my parents :/

  • @DukeFavre
    @DukeFavre 4 роки тому +3

    I still own one of that LG monitor. Amazing.

  • @zoommair
    @zoommair 4 роки тому +1

    Man, this really takes me back

  • @sneekylinux
    @sneekylinux 8 років тому +76

    lol, so true mate, the kids have it so easy today.....nice

    • @sph0rk
      @sph0rk 8 років тому

      ikr

    • @veazix
      @veazix 8 років тому +6

      +sneekylinux We may have some things easier, but some things have certainly gotten harder. Especially with all the marketing mumbo jumbo.

    • @adkn
      @adkn 8 років тому

      +sneekylinux I might disagree, and here is why, when we bought Pentium 1 with 2 GB hard drive and 64 MB ram. It was already a god pc which could play any game on market, even the games with heavy 3d graphics like Need for Speed 1 and 2 without need of any other graphics card.
      It was Pentium 3 when things begin to get slightly complicated, our 64 MB card was the first card i ever installed on PC. But even still many games can be played without use of dedicated cards.
      Its was the Pentium 4 when things became complicated. And games needed powerful 3D cards to function. And then introduction of multi core processors further made difficult to choose.

    • @rogerwilco2
      @rogerwilco2 8 років тому +3

      +veazix Hah. Have you ever optimized your hard drive MFM formatting to your CPU and memory speeds, running the commands directly from the Hard Disk BIOS with debug tools to jump to the right memory addresses?
      Have you sorted out IRQ and DMA settings, soldered your own cables or messed around with the order in which to load drivers in your CONFIG.SYS ? I had custom boot floppies to run certain games.

    • @veazix
      @veazix 8 років тому +1

      RogerWilco I'm sure we could go back and forth about difficult experiences for days. But my point still stands.

  • @Rutious4
    @Rutious4 5 років тому +42

    The intro is like "Some may call this junk... Me, I call them treasures."

    • @fatmax2195
      @fatmax2195 5 років тому +3

      This PC is Linuses golden claw!

    • @cryo_life
      @cryo_life 4 роки тому

      It's considered junk to me, this garbage isn't worth using.

    • @applejuice3160
      @applejuice3160 3 роки тому

      It’s faster than my pc

    • @femboycyan
      @femboycyan 3 роки тому

      @@cryo_life duh, this was long ago.

    • @prestonlo3937
      @prestonlo3937 2 роки тому

      @@femboycyan Then it is no treasure. IT IS JUNK!

  • @chicagobrazil
    @chicagobrazil 4 роки тому

    Amazing part is I just used some old hardware to run my Hassio home assistant set up ON THAT SAME CASE.

  • @lunra
    @lunra 3 роки тому +1

    My first gaming computer and also the first computer I built from parts was similar. AMD 64 3000+, 512MB RAM, Soltek black and purple motherboard (had to look cool with my case window), ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro. The original Far Cry was an amazing experience at the time.

  • @ShitboxXx360
    @ShitboxXx360 7 років тому +63

    Umm, where are the RGB illuminated RAM sticks????!!

    • @zeno8402
      @zeno8402 6 років тому

      -_-

    • @DecibelAlex
      @DecibelAlex 6 років тому +1

      there were no RGB illuminated ram sticks back then

    • @epsilon9596
      @epsilon9596 6 років тому

      Krithika S wHAts A SaRCaSm??

    • @WilliamCrego
      @WilliamCrego 6 років тому

      suprised no one could tell its a joke

  • @jackdiller9087
    @jackdiller9087 8 років тому +52

    I found one of these cases in the garbage along with FOUR other old gaming spec computers from back in the day last night! All of them had working parts. Some had dead PSUs, but they all work now! :D

    • @andresmoreno7782
      @andresmoreno7782 8 років тому +2

      HOLY CRAP BOY, what specs???

    • @jackdiller9087
      @jackdiller9087 8 років тому

      I haven't gotten too much chance to look at them yet but the oldest one has a Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition motherboard and a matching purple graphics card from the same era. :]]]]
      The LAN Boy had a GTX 280 with a q2800 quad 2.8ghz and an overclocking board. complete with two 1TB SATA HDDs... that both work... I was like why did they throw these out

    • @jackdiller9087
      @jackdiller9087 8 років тому

      The one did have a dead PSU, but literally only the PSU. I put a 350W in and it started right up. One is a super old Dell Optiplex that's had modifications done like more fans, a new GPU, more RAM, etc. Haven't even bothered plugging it in as I have a strong hate for them because I had to deal with one that wasn't properly taken care of at my previous job.

    • @jackdiller9087
      @jackdiller9087 8 років тому

      But yeah. Literally all of them except the Dell are custom aftermarket builds, no manufacturer prebuilts. It's insane. Probably one of the most interesting finds I've ever had.

    • @bsg2621
      @bsg2621 7 років тому

      damn

  • @MR_kindman69
    @MR_kindman69 20 днів тому +2

    I just thought this was 2024 Linus until I saw "8 years ago"

  • @paulv1498
    @paulv1498 3 роки тому +2

    I remember when I first heard of liquid cooled PC’s, they only had a small clear window in the side of the case, I thought the computer was filled with water like an aquarium lol!!!!

  • @Ambious
    @Ambious 7 років тому +22

    Oh wow, I forgot about the IDE Master/Slave configuration nightmare. I do NOT miss these days.

    • @Ktmzqw
      @Ktmzqw 7 років тому +1

      Elad Avron nightmare? It's just a jumper

    • @Ambious
      @Ambious 7 років тому +2

      Groundskeeper Willie sure, when it's one drive, but when you have several and you have to start figuring out which is set up as what and there's no label on the damn thing so you don't know how to orient the jumper... I'm just saying, diagnosis was a nightmare when something wasn't working right.

    • @xperrosinsangrex
      @xperrosinsangrex 7 років тому

      tell that to someone who has never used one before....

    • @notjacob2589
      @notjacob2589 7 років тому

      Elad Avron actually kind of useful. I've had to do so much Jerry rigging to my computer to get it too set a hard drive to boot.

    • @CanadaBud23
      @CanadaBud23 6 років тому

      That shit was easy.

  • @MelonSquash
    @MelonSquash 7 років тому +96

    it's funny to think modern smart phones are better then this

    • @alexanderkopke2420
      @alexanderkopke2420 7 років тому +11

      even way better :D

    • @motiveminute01
      @motiveminute01 7 років тому +4

      Modern "Stick-Computer" are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better.

    • @lancelindlelee7256
      @lancelindlelee7256 7 років тому +1

      Maybe even my calculator is more powerful.
      Not really but still :))

    • @JamesCelestial92
      @JamesCelestial92 7 років тому

      Mr_BeatsFTW Gaming nah hdds bigger

    • @richarde98
      @richarde98 7 років тому

      Mr_BeatsFTW Gaming Asus Zenfone 3 ZS570KL.

  • @michaelmcchesney6645
    @michaelmcchesney6645 4 роки тому +1

    My first PC was a college graduation present from my grandmother in 1995. I received it a few months before I started law school. It was an Everex (has anyone heard of them?) with a 486 66mhz CPU, a 420 MB hard drive, and 8 MB of ram running Windows 3.1. I upgraded to Windows 95 at some point. I can't imagine going through law school without a computer. Some years ago I donated the PC to the Salvation Army. I wish I had it now. I would reinstall Windows 3.1 and I think it would be fun to play with.

  • @margyoan97
    @margyoan97 4 роки тому

    For me, retro PC's and retro tech is the best... Compatibility is guaranteed and there's nothing like reliving the sights and sounds of years past.... To a time where everything felt so new, so exciting.
    Love it.

  • @rabidwallaby84
    @rabidwallaby84 5 років тому +37

    Your 1st system is very similar to mine!
    My first build:
    Athlon XP 2500+
    Gigabyte nForce board
    Radeon 9500 Pro
    Same LG Flattron monitor
    Same case (Mine was black)

    • @djibey
      @djibey 4 роки тому

      Same for me (running at FSB 400 like almost every 2500+ at this time), except 9600 pro, 9500 pro was a very good deal, too late for me :(

  • @fearless3433
    @fearless3433 6 років тому +164

    My first build was done for me by my father wayy back in 2008.
    I still use it to this day.
    Now I'm upgrading to a Ryzen 7 1700x build.

    • @gapple222
      @gapple222 6 років тому +6

      I still use a Geforce gtx 7600 gt . . .

    • @DrFruikenstein
      @DrFruikenstein 6 років тому +6

      Fearless
      Due to having been flooded out last Summer, my first build (also 2008) has once again become my main PC as it was way above the water line. Although, it was never retired. Just repurposed as a local server.

    • @imadecoy.
      @imadecoy. 6 років тому +1

      My first build was from 2008 as well. Still using the case and PSU. Swapped out most components last year.

    • @Capnsensible80
      @Capnsensible80 6 років тому +1

      my first build was around Linus', but I was ballin' with a dedicated GPU and sound card lol

    • @aucool7869
      @aucool7869 6 років тому +1

      gapple2 oof

  • @eclipsegst9419
    @eclipsegst9419 4 роки тому

    To anyone reading this who was in the know back then- Do you remember a brand of case that used a logo that looked like 3 diamonds overlapped? i bought this old half-stripped gaming pc for 20 bucks with some sort of pentium dual core lga775. the case has no id tags left but has that triple diamond logo stamped into the base and the hdd brackets. its from before the clear side days, it has a fan mount on the door. just curious what it is. im going to stick a sandy bridge and rx480 in it for some budget balling.

  • @The0714Flash
    @The0714Flash 4 роки тому +3

    I have still have my Antec LanBoy and I also have the carrying strap for it...