0:10 The pic of my original rig actually shows an Asus GTX 680 that I borrowed from Newegg (I was an employee at the time) because my GTX 670 was still in shipping and I just couldn't wait to build the system XD The OG memory was different too (old Kingston RAM I think) but I eventually upgraded to the Corsair Vengeance modules you see in this video :) Specs of the first PC you ever built?
They're still useful! For my cousin who had approximately 0 money, I set up a rockin' i5-2500k & P67 chipset board with 12GB of ram from spare parts. He put a 1050ti on it and has a lot of fun on various games.
Comments i read: damn i still have my 2600k and gtx 670 me: *thinks about the days when i played without a gpu, intel celeron and 4gb of ram for 8 years*
i remember being super-jazzed when i finally got a computer capable of running Neverwinter Nights, which iirc required an 800mhz processor, 64mb of ram and a 32mb video card lmao. times have certainly changed
Now you should upgrade it as far as you can without swapping the motherboard :3 My 2011 rig is still going strong after giving it a 1070 and an overclocked xeon w3680 @4.4ghz to replace the i7 950. 2109 cinebench!!
The backwards compatibility of PCIe is absolutely amazing. I recently found it extremely useful to be able to use a PCIe 2 graphics card in a PCIe 4 motherboard, to prove the rest of my system was rock solid before returning my new flaky PCIe graphics card.
Scary how fast time flies. Back in the day I started with a Deschutes P2 400MHz on an Asus P2B-F, 128 MB SDRAM and a nVidia Riva TNT. I don‘t feel it‘s that long ago but if I use the calculator it says: 20 years it‘s been! Damn...:-)
< is watching someone assemble a pc in 2019 with component technology from 2011 on a Friday night...... Yup that's my life! Luv the videos Kyle, keep it up!!
I rebulit my Pentium 4 3000 + ATI X1950 GT a month ago. Hardest part was finding a genuine Windows XP, and realizing the authentication servers don't work anymore :)
This build was so much fun to watch. Seeing the difference a decade can make is amazing. You continue to be enthusiastic and educational. Thank you for the videos. My hobby is taking donated computers and restoring them. Most are outdated and i see many pcb's in need of component replacement. Once restored, I donate them to local schools. Due to covid, many families need computers for home schooling. You and a couple others are the reason I have taken on this hobby. Thank you again.
Wow, I had very similar specs in 2011: - i7 2600k - Cooler Master Hyper tx3 (OG version) - ASUS P8P67 Pro - Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz - Cooler Master GX750W - GTX 560 TI
"The very first PC I ever built!" - my first own build was 386dx 40MHz with Maxtor HDD and Gravis Ultrasound soundcard. And that was Hi-End at the time! Yeap, I'm that old ;-)
That feeling when his first custom PC was like 3 or 4 generations past your own first build... 99: Pentium II 300MHz 02: AMD Athalon XP 1500+ 08: Core 2 Quad Q6600 13: i5-3000 series 19: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Damn I'm old...
Still rocking a Fractal XL from January 2011, it's had a couple of upgrades since: 3950x (with Noctua D14), 5700XT, 64GB of RAM, 1.5TB of NVME (since today), etc... and I was still using the same PSU until earlier this year (OCZ 700ish).
You may laugh, but my last full system build for my desktop was in *drumroll* 2008. DX58SO, Core i7 920, 6 GB RAM, GTX 285, two WD Raptor-X 150 GB drives. Today it's been upgraded but not replaced: Xeon W3690, 36 GB RAM, 4x1 TB SSD in RAID 5, GTX 960, and it had a board failure 2 years ago so I threw in a P6T7 (which got me to 36 GB of RAM). Even today, it's a beast for what I normally do with it: photo editing and light gaming. Same OS install, been moved to first 256 GB SSDs and then the new RAID card.
tbh i think the 2600k is still a decent cpu for gaming not the best but still decent. a modern GPU with a 2600k and it would probably perform pretty well i think
My GRANDPA has a pc he god from work back in 2009 and he has an i7 950, 16 gigs of 1600mhz ram and a gtx 260. It still runs! He also has a 1080p 16:9 samsung monitor with 2ms respone time. Thats so crazy if we consider that he got it for reading pdfs and writing word documents! Edit: I just opened it and there is SO much dust in it, he didnt clean it for 12 years. There is a GIANT heatsink on the cpu, its like 15x15x15 cm and almost touches the side panel of the case and there are 2 front fans on the case and 1 exhaust fan on the back, there is no fan on the cpu heatsink but there is plenty of airflow (if I clean the case). It looks like an office pc from outside!
Zaraki Wingss well the ipc improvement for the sandy bridge was big i dont think it will be that much of a bottle neck also why i didnt say 2080ti, just want to see maybe comparisons cause this can OC to 4.7 easy
@@zarakiwingss4995 CPUs have barely gone anywhere (in gaming terms) over the last decade. Still rocking my i5 3750k- In cost effectiveness, it would still be much more worthwhile for me to upgrade my 1060 to a 1080/2080 than to replace the CPU at all.
I know late to the game,, but when I saw what the subject matter was I had to comment. On this day in 2021 I am still rocking this basically same config of a PC probably built around the same time as yours. Same motherboard Gen3, same cpu, same memory, started with a 750gb caviar black HDD and switched it to a 250gb Samsung SSD when it started making noises. Asus Geforce GTX 570, Thermaltake Black Widow 850 case which I still love. I don't play any of the newer games simply because I don't want to be disappointed and can't afford to build one to this level in todays world.
know what my brother in law had that same case. We called it Storm Tropper. Sucker did a cross country trip twice before it chose to die (or something died in it that took everything down, but he got it temp fixed before he just got a new system) and it was built like a tank.
He would have had to do an upgrade..as the only other GTX card released was the 560 TI and then near the end of 2011 the 560 TI 448 which is a 570 with laser binned off modules
@@superroboted yes, and the 570 was a 580 with laser binned off modules. The 560ti 448-core, 570, and 580 used the big GF110 chip. The regular 384-core GTX 560ti and GTX 560 used the GF114 chip.
Dude I built my first 2011 rig with the exact same processor, motherboard, SSD, CPU heatsink and power supply, I love this, there's someone else who did the same thing I did. And the 2600K is still amazing in 2020!!! I can't even believe how long it has lasted
QuantumBraced I mean, I even think at the moment gpus are at a bit of a stand still. The 2070ti and 2080ti are practically the same as their older brothers, at least in my experience.
@Bitwit wow thats crazy. I built my rig back in 2011 as well, and I immediately recognized your components. I went for a "frost" theme. White Thermaltake level10 and mostly blue components inside. I had the same mobo, ram, and processor as you too. Have since upgraded graphics cards multiple times as well. I'm still using that rig today
I have the exact same case for my first machine too and I think I had a similar motherboard from ASUS. its dusty AF with missing pcie slot covers, so it’s now been scrapped for a Lian li 011 dynamic with a 3900X system with no more spinning discs. Life is good now.
My first PC had a I5-4430, 12 gigs of crappy Samsung ram, a stock HP motherboard, and a GTX-660. I was poor, had no idea what I was doing and was out of my comfort zone. I still have it on my work bench to this day because it reminds me that no-one is good when they first try something. Everything takes practice, knowledge, and commitment. Thankfully, i have a career now so I can afford better parts and don't have to strip stuff from Craiglist and yard sale PCs.
I built my first PC on October 2011 too! It was a 21st birthday present to myself. Corsair 400R case, i5-2500k, GTX 460, 16GB value G Skill RAM, Hyper 212 cooler. Can't remember the PSU or storage drives.
I had the ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 with an i5 2500K - excellent combination and that setup is still running well today! I've been using a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H with an i7 3770K for years. Intel's CPUs and chipsets from this era were amazing. I also had a Crucial m4 128GB SSD - it was my first SSD and cost £160 new back in October 2011!
@@QuantumBraced I see your 486 DX 33 and raise you a 486 SX2 50 no maths co-processor. I could play Doom just, once I'd spent a week working out Dos memory issues. Kids today don't have a clue of the misery!!!
This was legit the PC that I built to play SWTOR in 2011! Same case, basically the same motherboard (deluxe/gen3), same cpu, same ram, almost same psu (hx1050), initially I had a single 560Ti, then two in SLI, then a 680, and now a 980Ti Hybrid. It’s time for a brand new build but maybe I can squeeze out another year out of it to wait out the ampere rtx cards. I don’t know if I have the patience to wait for intel’s 7nm cpus even if they aren’t delayed (which realistically I don’t see how they will ship in Q4 2021 but more power to them if they do).
Beautiful build, reminds me of my first!.. Speaking of the great colour schemes of old motherboards; who remembers the amazing 'DFI LANParty' boards? I listed after them in my youth! Be great to see a retro build with one at some point. Thanks for the great content as always dude!
My ole pc was built in 2007, a q6600 OC to 3.2, antec 300 case, msi p6n SLI motherboard , 500w power supply I think it was, 4g ram,750g hard drive for OS and 1tb hd for storage. I had to replace the power supply 3 years ago.Upgraded to a sound card and a somewhat updated graphics. It lasted until this year, none of the 4 SATA 2 connections on the motherboard worked anymore. Cpu is still good, ram is still good. Am now saving up to build a new amd pc.
I fondly remember various DFi LANParty boards that had UV-reactive slots on them! The good ol' days of CCFL case illumination, where the lamps' transformer would get so hot as to melt things around it.
Infamous Quiason yes. Most definitely. Imagine something that once cost 180 now cost 80, now cost 50... better buy t before it runs out. And what happens when you something that is equivalent but cheaper? Obviously buy the less expensive product. An example is RTX launch. 40% price markup from the last series launch, and nobody bought it... so what did nvidia do? Reduce the pricing by 20% of rtx AND increase the gtx by 20% so that way. When buying a gpu the rtx doesn’t look as bad if a 2060 is with 325 and a 1070 is about the same. And knowing the 70 cards is supposed to “be better” being beat by a 60 model. It looks like a steal right? And to make sure they don’t run out of stock they markup prices so they can keep stock. Since it’s harder to reapply an order on a website and it loses traction by taking it down. (That’s why on amazon you’d find things at like pot of plants for 500 usd)
I'm running a i7-2600k with 16gb of ddr3 1866 and a GTX 1080. I had a EVGA GTX 670 FTW in it previously and a new GPU breathes new life into this system. Going to do an upgrade video?
0:10 The pic of my original rig actually shows an Asus GTX 680 that I borrowed from Newegg (I was an employee at the time) because my GTX 670 was still in shipping and I just couldn't wait to build the system XD The OG memory was different too (old Kingston RAM I think) but I eventually upgraded to the Corsair Vengeance modules you see in this video :)
Specs of the first PC you ever built?
Give me your pc now or I’m going to play fortnite
Looks good
how is you comment an hour ago the video is new
Bitwit, my pc sucks.
I have an RTX 2070 with an i5 9600K.
You could see it though on my channel!
Lol
#babypaul
lol
right as i saw that i went down to the comments to see if you did 😂👍
Ahahahha
the haircut hasnt changed lol
woooooww
9:10 I think wifey is having a blast.
She wants to quit her job
wifey needs to do more vids!
She looks so dead lol
See doesn't show any interest in comouters. He should probably try and get her to start her own channel.
She is just taking her job very serious. Now we know Kyle's secret sauce to all of those camera angles.
Kyle:"oh boy, look how old it is!"
Me: Still using essentially the same build in 2019.
They're still useful! For my cousin who had approximately 0 money, I set up a rockin' i5-2500k & P67 chipset board with 12GB of ram from spare parts. He put a 1050ti on it and has a lot of fun on various games.
i wish i have your rig man....
I'm still on a 2600k, my Ryzen 3700X just arrived though :D
@@sjsh5837 can you give me that 2600k?
@@liby5958 I would but I'm sticking it in a HTPC for my sister to use.
"I may even force her to do some mounting too" ehm. okay.
Kaylee Emantsal thought the exact same myself ahahhaaha
Wife don't look to happy
Went straight to comments to see how many of these comments there was
Lol my thoughts exactly.
She may be his wife but forced mounting is never good
Lol 🤣
Wait-
when he said a gallon of thermal paste i thought of the verge
lol me too
I'm sure he did too lol
Same lol
But as a disclaimer he said "Im not gonna say any name" but i still think the guy from the verge 😂
cause it is the verge reference
8:51 when your dad tells you to hold the flashlight while he talks nonsense about his 40 years old project car
I actually laughed at this lol
Holy shit you just explained my Saturday
@@i2shadexz945 😂🤣
the rolleyes in 9:13 tho is the ultimate killer.
When your dad tells you to hold the fleshlight
Corsair: bumps down rating from gold to silver
Corsair: i too am extraordinarily humble
Santidefelice not anymore lol their coolers and LL fans are so damn expensive
@@learjet5819 they expensive but damn are they gorgeous
Comments i read: damn i still have my 2600k and gtx 670
me: *thinks about the days when i played without a gpu, intel celeron and 4gb of ram for 8 years*
i remember being super-jazzed when i finally got a computer capable of running Neverwinter Nights, which iirc required an 800mhz processor, 64mb of ram and a 32mb video card lmao. times have certainly changed
@@AM-bo2ns yeah everything changes so fast man ...
damn i still have my 3630qm and gt 710 laptop
2c/2t pentium g4400 @ 3.30ghz
2gb gddr5 gt710
4gb ddr4 2133mhz ram
those r my specs now lol
@@aninditapaul9291 3700x 4.4 ghz
11gb gddr5 1080ti
32gb ddr4 3200mhz
those are my specs rn
i remember being absolutely thrilled about how good the Kepler cards where when i started paying attention to the PC ecosystem .
Aaron Jones ok.
ok.
ok
Ok
"wifey will join me to do some b-roll and maybe force her to do some mounting as well"
- Kyle
that's gonna cost him a couple of weeks..
Dang it you beat me to it. I rike his styre!!
PHRASING! Phrasing Kyle!
Follow that with "its gona get pasty in here!"
And let's not forget the mounting of the mammaries...
5:02 "I may even force her to do some mounting too" Careful with your words Kyle ~ it's 2019 :)
LOL, I heard something naughty too
But it's 2020 tho?
@@olivergoldvalente I want to use not so nice language but instead I'm going to ask you to look at the date of the comment
@@Asylus ayyy. Got me there
Great minds think alike
Wifeysauce 2016 : What's a 24-pin?
Wifeysauce 2019 : Your fins are bent, noob!
That was my first build too.. I still have the case
Wew
What case was it?
@@mengwaijim2718 he says it at 4:00
I have that case still. It is great.
@@zenithchan1646 what did I do? Just saying I have the same case
14:27 That board got a damn gun on it XD
Tactical Terpenes lol wth🤣
Good catch lol
its a G1 Sniper board so..
Oh that "gun" is for ultra cooling. perfect for schools
cant get more american than that
6:45 I know you want to say The Verge.
That's wut i wuz thinkin
Proper names, tools, items.... Not screwing with confidence. Haha. And no swiss army knife
His best line in that video was : "You don't want another thing that you can mess up."
When he mentioned thermal paste application, I immediately remembered Lyle’s reaction to the The Verge’s computer building guide. And I was like lol.
Sry i can't rebuild my 2600k build. I would have to turn it off and take it apart first...
same here
00f
lucky I'm on a core 2 quad rn
That was me with my 870 P55 build not too long ago.
q6600 it's just works :P
His pc from 2011 is at least 10x better than my pc in 2019.
Analyzing Male Slavery im in the process of that right now, wish me luck that they work 😀
@@riid8913 same here, just ordered my i5 3570, waiting to test it with the b75m
His pc from 2011 is at least 15x better than mine from 2020.
Ummm did you build a $30 pc????
Was your pc 3 dollars
6:45 cough *stefan etienne
❌Rebuilding my pc
✔️Rebuilding my HIGH END pc
ya
Wait, is this new youtube feature. It changes it
The more high-end his PC was, the more enthusiastic his thumbnail becomes!
I like den unliked ur comment bcoz it was on perfect 300!!😂😂
@@griffins.4001 lol
I built my first pc a couple months ago if that... UA-camrs like you inspired me actually
"Baby paul
Now you should upgrade it as far as you can without swapping the motherboard :3
My 2011 rig is still going strong after giving it a 1070 and an overclocked xeon w3680 @4.4ghz to replace the i7 950. 2109 cinebench!!
Damn. I know this is old but I have a R5 2600 non-X overclocked to 4.15ghz and it goes to 3008. Impressive, for a 1366 Xeon.
The backwards compatibility of PCIe is absolutely amazing. I recently found it extremely useful to be able to use a PCIe 2 graphics card in a PCIe 4 motherboard, to prove the rest of my system was rock solid before returning my new flaky PCIe graphics card.
And people still pay 13k for new gpu to play cs go and doom..
Scary how fast time flies. Back in the day I started with a Deschutes P2 400MHz on an Asus P2B-F, 128 MB SDRAM and a nVidia Riva TNT. I don‘t feel it‘s that long ago but if I use the calculator it says: 20 years it‘s been! Damn...:-)
haha, just found the TNT in question and the harddrive......a 13 GB maxtor 7200rpm :-)
@@BaMb1N079 Wow Maxtor, I haven't heard that brand in years. All my hard drives at the time, came from Maxtor.
Linus Tech Tips did the exact same content some hours ago.
Coincidence?
I don't think so.
Hotel?
Trivago
exactly he copied Tech Tips
Not really. Linus did an upgrade to new parts. This was rebuilding the old parts.
They're both the same person! Wake up people!
ua-cam.com/video/8px0zKRT1rk/v-deo.html
Linus' Ricer build was the inverse of this. Though he did rebuild his first gaming rig some months ago...
< is watching someone assemble a pc in 2019 with component technology from 2011 on a Friday night...... Yup that's my life! Luv the videos Kyle, keep it up!!
I rebulit my Pentium 4 3000 + ATI X1950 GT a month ago. Hardest part was finding a genuine Windows XP, and realizing the authentication servers don't work anymore :)
LMAO why bother with the license.
7:05 looks well pleased
This build was so much fun to watch. Seeing the difference a decade can make is amazing. You continue to be enthusiastic and educational. Thank you for the videos.
My hobby is taking donated computers and restoring them. Most are outdated and i see many pcb's in need of component replacement. Once restored, I donate them to local schools. Due to covid, many families need computers for home schooling. You and a couple others are the reason I have taken on this hobby. Thank you again.
Wow, I had very similar specs in 2011:
- i7 2600k
- Cooler Master Hyper tx3 (OG version)
- ASUS P8P67 Pro
- Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz
- Cooler Master GX750W
- GTX 560 TI
I'm still rocking my 2500k at 4ghz with SLI 560ti's.
9:12 lol that look : kill me please!!!!
"The very first PC I ever built!" - my first own build was 386dx 40MHz with Maxtor HDD and Gravis Ultrasound soundcard. And that was Hi-End at the time! Yeap, I'm that old ;-)
@@thomaseboland8701 The own build? Are you sure?
wooooah you mean you're like over 100?
Thank The Verge for creating a chain of events of me looking at reactions of his extremely bad PC build, leading....
Me to subscribing to you.
That feeling when his first custom PC was like 3 or 4 generations past your own first build...
99: Pentium II 300MHz
02: AMD Athalon XP 1500+
08: Core 2 Quad Q6600
13: i5-3000 series
19: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Damn I'm old...
Was planning doing the same concept on a video... Darn it!
This is awesomesauce tho Kyle. Good one! Trip down memory lane.
> "I'm not gonna name any names..."
> "GERONIMOOOO!"
Uh... What did Geronimo do?
He used 3 gallons of thermal paste!
2600k crew! Mine is still going hard today! :)
2500k with 1070ti. My cpu's dying to keep up.
@@surfermac what games do u play?
@@ZeryArtzTM currently playing pubg and Apex most of the time. Waiting for the ryzen to upgrade.
Same. I’ve seen no reason to upgrade the CPU. Regular GPU upgrades have been enough to keep up.
@surfermac its your time to shine
the wifeys eye roll at 9:11 is a mood lmao
Throw in an RX 580 and that suddenly becomes a damn good system :)
9:21 wifey be like : Please end my suffering
😂
"I may even force her to do some mounting, too."
owo
Speaking of owo, I'm surprised there were no bulging capacitors to notice.
I have i7 2600K,8GBram and gtx 1050ti and its running well
You're god damn right it is
Still rocking a Fractal XL from January 2011, it's had a couple of upgrades since: 3950x (with Noctua D14), 5700XT, 64GB of RAM, 1.5TB of NVME (since today), etc... and I was still using the same PSU until earlier this year (OCZ 700ish).
I miss my old DFI lanparty uv sli dr rig from the early 2000s with an athlon fx
The motherboard probably make people think you have 64gb ram tho... 😂
Lol
Ikr that's exactly what I thought cuz of the heatsink thingy
Does it suck now?
*looks at computer next to my feet with 2500k and 670*
Eh it's okay
I have a 2500k and a 7970(it’s not my main machine, but still an awesome one)
Mine is a asus p6t deluxe v2 motherboard
A i7 990x
Original gtx titan
24gb of 1333 ddr3
1tb hard
128 ssd
Whybeare's #1 fan very odd ram count but I’m not judging
@@caillouthemesong137 triple channel mem
Whybeare's #1 fan oh wow I only have 2 dimm slots
You may laugh, but my last full system build for my desktop was in *drumroll* 2008. DX58SO, Core i7 920, 6 GB RAM, GTX 285, two WD Raptor-X 150 GB drives. Today it's been upgraded but not replaced: Xeon W3690, 36 GB RAM, 4x1 TB SSD in RAID 5, GTX 960, and it had a board failure 2 years ago so I threw in a P6T7 (which got me to 36 GB of RAM). Even today, it's a beast for what I normally do with it: photo editing and light gaming. Same OS install, been moved to first 256 GB SSDs and then the new RAID card.
I'm still running a 2600K, P8Z68-V Pro, 16GB of the shown ram with a 1080ti, still works great!
so basically 1080ti with 2600k are like some modern cpu with gtx 1070
@Mykel Hardin on 4 k it will run fine with r3 1200 too
@Mykel Hardin but on lower resolutions it will be bad just like 2600k
Hey, watching this on my i7-2600k! Waiting for the new Ryzen 3000 series.
tbh i think the 2600k is still a decent cpu for gaming not the best but still decent. a modern GPU with a 2600k and it would probably perform pretty well i think
@@taz874 Yes it is, especially if you play at 1440p or even 4k.
His wife looks so done with that eyeroll at 9:10 hahaha
Wow, this is literally the same system I had, only difference was the CPU. Had a i7 2700k...
Just yesterday I watched the old 2011 Newegg how to build a PC video with Paul and a very similar build.
My GRANDPA has a pc he god from work back in 2009 and he has an i7 950, 16 gigs of 1600mhz ram and a gtx 260. It still runs! He also has a 1080p 16:9 samsung monitor with 2ms respone time. Thats so crazy if we consider that he got it for reading pdfs and writing word documents! Edit: I just opened it and there is SO much dust in it, he didnt clean it for 12 years. There is a GIANT heatsink on the cpu, its like 15x15x15 cm and almost touches the side panel of the case and there are 2 front fans on the case and 1 exhaust fan on the back, there is no fan on the cpu heatsink but there is plenty of airflow (if I clean the case). It looks like an office pc from outside!
How about upgrade the gpu in your old pc to maybe a gtx 1070 or 2060, and compare it to the current gen to see how it holds in 2019
invulnerableguy bottlenck is quote the problem then
Zaraki Wingss well the ipc improvement for the sandy bridge was big i dont think it will be that much of a bottle neck also why i didnt say 2080ti, just want to see maybe comparisons cause this can OC to 4.7 easy
invulnerableguy it would still bottleneck, you need to get as low as a gtx 970 ti..
@@zarakiwingss4995 CPUs have barely gone anywhere (in gaming terms) over the last decade. Still rocking my i5 3750k- In cost effectiveness, it would still be much more worthwhile for me to upgrade my 1060 to a 1080/2080 than to replace the CPU at all.
@@nekrovulpes theres like no bottleneck with my 1070 ti and 2600k
It’s still better than my 2019 laptop
The same but that thing is much better xd i got a intel pentium cpu and 4gbs of ram in it that says enough.
@@dean_0407 lol same here but with gt710
@@dean_0407 dont say pentium the g4560 is a great budget
My first home pc hard drive was a Seagate ST225, it was a 20 MEG drive and it had 65ms access time...
I know late to the game,, but when I saw what the subject matter was I had to comment. On this day in 2021 I am still rocking this basically same config of a PC probably built around the same time as yours. Same motherboard Gen3, same cpu, same memory, started with a 750gb caviar black HDD and switched it to a 250gb Samsung SSD when it started making noises. Asus Geforce GTX 570, Thermaltake Black Widow 850 case which I still love. I don't play any of the newer games simply because I don't want to be disappointed and can't afford to build one to this level in todays world.
know what my brother in law had that same case. We called it Storm Tropper. Sucker did a cross country trip twice before it chose to die (or something died in it that took everything down, but he got it temp fixed before he just got a new system) and it was built like a tank.
06:46 i know that anti-static bracelet guy 😂
He not fighting static, he fighting cancer!
I think you got you gpu's mixed up Kyle the gtx 670 only released 2012 I think you had the gtx 570
He would have had to do an upgrade..as the only other GTX card released was the 560 TI and then near the end of 2011 the 560 TI 448 which is a 570 with laser binned off modules
Correct, he messed up on this one :P
@@superroboted yes, and the 570 was a 580 with laser binned off modules. The 560ti 448-core, 570, and 580 used the big GF110 chip. The regular 384-core GTX 560ti and GTX 560 used the GF114 chip.
Up next Paul rebuilds his first gaming PC...then Jay lol
1. Linus
2. Bitwit
3. ?
4. ?
Etc...
Dude I built my first 2011 rig with the exact same processor, motherboard, SSD, CPU heatsink and power supply, I love this, there's someone else who did the same thing I did. And the 2600K is still amazing in 2020!!! I can't even believe how long it has lasted
i like the retro music in the background to put the cherry on top for this somewhat retro build
That feeling when your still running the Asus p8z68 v pro and the i7 2600k......
Feeling like a veteran
I have exactly that...
Love your jokes man, they made me laugh in many instances where they shouldn't.
Also props to wifeysauce to filming
This really shows how much Moore's Law has slowed down in everything but GPUs.
QuantumBraced I mean, I even think at the moment gpus are at a bit of a stand still. The 2070ti and 2080ti are practically the same as their older brothers, at least in my experience.
Samuel Neff oh, I was moreso referring to the performance anyways. Thanks for the heads up.
It's true. I am running the mighty Q9650 and it holds together pretty damn well in modern titles.
i still have my 2012 high end PC running fine, it isnt my main pc nowadays but it still working (mainly for some light games)
@Bitwit wow thats crazy. I built my rig back in 2011 as well, and I immediately recognized your components. I went for a "frost" theme. White Thermaltake level10 and mostly blue components inside. I had the same mobo, ram, and processor as you too. Have since upgraded graphics cards multiple times as well. I'm still using that rig today
back in 2011: looking at these beautifull PCB's
now in 2019: eeeew cover that PCB please it burns!!!
"rebuild the very first PC I build", damn... I would have to raid LGR's house to be able to do that :x
Kyle ''You can't really install the case''
NZXT -Hold my beer.
@Maemo haha, oops autocorrection.
I have the exact same case for my first machine too and I think I had a similar motherboard from ASUS. its dusty AF with missing pcie slot covers, so it’s now been scrapped for a Lian li 011 dynamic with a 3900X system with no more spinning discs. Life is good now.
My first PC had a I5-4430, 12 gigs of crappy Samsung ram, a stock HP motherboard, and a GTX-660. I was poor, had no idea what I was doing and was out of my comfort zone. I still have it on my work bench to this day because it reminds me that no-one is good when they first try something. Everything takes practice, knowledge, and commitment. Thankfully, i have a career now so I can afford better parts and don't have to strip stuff from Craiglist and yard sale PCs.
Woohoo absolutely loved the video! Keep up the great work and am really enjoying your content :D
i love how into it wifey sauce was looking!! same way my partner does too when i talk about pc's, the brain switches off... :P
wifey sauce?? WTF????? also shes SO UGLY... what is wrong with you nerds
@@bofasofa9399 what are you on about buddy? No one even mentioned her appearance, and even if they did, why be such as arsehole?
"I may even force her to do some mounting too"... "Let's cram in all the hardware and see if this kitty can still purr" 😂
I built my first PC on October 2011 too! It was a 21st birthday present to myself. Corsair 400R case, i5-2500k, GTX 460, 16GB value G Skill RAM, Hyper 212 cooler. Can't remember the PSU or storage drives.
I had the ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 with an i5 2500K - excellent combination and that setup is still running well today! I've been using a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H with an i7 3770K for years. Intel's CPUs and chipsets from this era were amazing.
I also had a Crucial m4 128GB SSD - it was my first SSD and cost £160 new back in October 2011!
Kyle: "Optical media has gone to the way of the dinosaur"
Me: looks down to the case and tries to calm down crying dinosaur aged optical drive.
Optical drive on deck to the death of me!
No optical drive = not many games for me
"The very first PC I ever built!" - my 486 dx4/100 would like to know your location.
I had a dx4 100 overdrive chip, so expensive and slow!!!!
I see your 486 DX 100 and I raise you a 486 DX 33.
@@QuantumBraced I see your 486 DX 33 and raise you a 486 SX2 50 no maths co-processor. I could play Doom just, once I'd spent a week working out Dos memory issues. Kids today don't have a clue of the misery!!!
@@alanhaigh9682 I agree, because PCs are much cheaper, and Moore's Law has slowed down a lot.
@@alanhaigh9682 QEMM and custom DOS Boot disk brotherhood repraSENT!
I spy with my lil' eye a PSU from the golden era of Corsair :)
I still have a tx750w psu from corsair its "sli approved"
This was legit the PC that I built to play SWTOR in 2011!
Same case, basically the same motherboard (deluxe/gen3), same cpu, same ram, almost same psu (hx1050), initially I had a single 560Ti, then two in SLI, then a 680, and now a 980Ti Hybrid. It’s time for a brand new build but maybe I can squeeze out another year out of it to wait out the ampere rtx cards. I don’t know if I have the patience to wait for intel’s 7nm cpus even if they aren’t delayed (which realistically I don’t see how they will ship in Q4 2021 but more power to them if they do).
Beautiful build, reminds me of my first!.. Speaking of the great colour schemes of old motherboards; who remembers the amazing 'DFI LANParty' boards? I listed after them in my youth! Be great to see a retro build with one at some point.
Thanks for the great content as always dude!
I saw one in an uxwbill video. It was just an office PC!
I still got a 2500K and a GTX 970, started off with 560Ti...yeah, modern titles don't play well...
so 2011 is apparently retro now ...well dang!
8:51 Your wife looks so interested
I had the same Corsair case! Still have it in a storage closet. And still running my 2500k with a gtx 960 for now. Will be upgrading soon.
My ole pc was built in 2007, a q6600 OC to 3.2, antec 300 case, msi p6n SLI motherboard , 500w power supply I think it was, 4g ram,750g hard drive for OS and 1tb hd for storage. I had to replace the power supply 3 years ago.Upgraded to a sound card and a somewhat updated graphics. It lasted until this year, none of the 4 SATA 2 connections on the motherboard worked anymore. Cpu is still good, ram is still good. Am now saving up to build a new amd pc.
is it just me, or does his wife look sleep-deprived?
From all that mounting that kyle mentioned!!
poptarts she looks miserable I think she should stay away from the videos
Haha and more "Verge" references. Love it Kyle. You are hilarious man, great content always!
*force her to do some mounting*
Did you think i'd not catch that?!
I'm still rocking my FM2 system with a 1050. Havnt upgraded in years! Ordered new parts yesterday!
I fondly remember various DFi LANParty boards that had UV-reactive slots on them! The good ol' days of CCFL case illumination, where the lamps' transformer would get so hot as to melt things around it.
damn everyone be revamping their builds around this time of year before summer hardware prices skyrocket
I'm not really aware but why are hardware prices skyrocketing?
Infamous Quiason three words. Ryzen 3rd generation
@@taeher683 how will it cost prices to skyrocket? Will there be some shortage or something? If you don't mind me asking.
Infamous Quiason yes. Most definitely. Imagine something that once cost 180 now cost 80, now cost 50... better buy t before it runs out. And what happens when you something that is equivalent but cheaper? Obviously buy the less expensive product. An example is RTX launch. 40% price markup from the last series launch, and nobody bought it... so what did nvidia do? Reduce the pricing by 20% of rtx AND increase the gtx by 20% so that way. When buying a gpu the rtx doesn’t look as bad if a 2060 is with 325 and a 1070 is about the same. And knowing the 70 cards is supposed to “be better” being beat by a 60 model. It looks like a steal right? And to make sure they don’t run out of stock they markup prices so they can keep stock. Since it’s harder to reapply an order on a website and it loses traction by taking it down. (That’s why on amazon you’d find things at like pot of plants for 500 usd)
@@taeher683 o I see. Ty.
12:19 actually killed me
I thought that the heatsink on the left side of the CPU socket was built in ram. Don't even question why I thought ram was built in 😂😅
that direct cu2s was top notch quality, shroud made from really thick metal! nowadays even premium products sometimes feels cheap
I'm running a i7-2600k with 16gb of ddr3 1866 and a GTX 1080. I had a EVGA GTX 670 FTW in it previously and a new GPU breathes new life into this system. Going to do an upgrade video?
6:41 I think we all know who he's talking about