I've always loved these cases with the Light pillars with the bubbles in them! I saw a video with them a couple years ago and found one in not the best shape a year or two ago. Great video!
I bought it at a computer show because it was different from the usual beige boxes. I was willing to buy all the internal components online but I wanted to see the tower in person to get a real feel of size and quality. They can make anything look amazing in an online picture but when you get it it doesn't look as nice.
Wow. It is still working.. Mine is dead 10 years ago.. It was my first pc build back in 2002. It was a intel pentium 4 cpu with two 64Mb sdRAM memory and a 20Gig HDD harddrive. And a dialup internet connection.😅 Very proud of that build. It made me the coolest kid in my place..
What shocked me with building this computer is that once it was all together it actually worked flawlessly right from the beginning and over time proved to be a stable and reliable system.
My first homebuilt was in that case! It was Intel though. A few years newer than yours. It had a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. It was the absolute cheapest (and also coincidentally the worst performing) Dualcore processor I could get. 512MB DDR2 And by the time I retired her she had 3 DVD burners, 2 3 inch harddisks and an external 80GB usb2.0 harddisk
I would have gone Intel but I was really building this computer on a budget of almost nothing so I had to cheap out. The fact that it still works after over 20 years shows that although it was cheap it was stable/dependable. It was still a huge upgrade from what I was using before.
@@tallboyyyy Absolutely, a real trooper too! My first "my own" PC was a K6-2 like yours before your first custom rig here and can attest as well that it was a painful and slow rig to run winxp.
@@ldobehardcore I never tried upgrading the operating system in my K6/2. It was Windows 98 it's whole life. That system would still work too except the hard drive locked up.
The original system has a K6/2? You can bet that system _MEGAHURT!_ Those chips were awful, I had a Pentium II that could run rings around it. Same when they came out with the Athlon processor, which many mispronounced as "Athalon". "Buy me! I'm AMD! I'm not just 2100, I'm 2100 PLUS!" "What's the plus?" "It adds 20 more horsepower, like the ricers putting a new radio in their car!" Ugh... Recording streaming media...well probably not anymore; meaning the machine wouldn't connect to those sites and work the way it used to. However, you can still get away with doing that, even with a cheapie onboard sound card. If it won't allow you to due to copyright issues/DRM, or the drivers are just terrible, you can plug the speaker output into the microphone jack with a short cable. Yes, it's going to have to go analog and then back to digital but over 6 inches of cable I don't think there's going to be any problem with that. Plus, if you don't tell anyone, no one will be the wiser, should you decide to share that somewhere, someplace where Neal is not involved and the RIAA hasn't raided yet. Lots of faens. Yep, we kinda all did that back in the day. And yes, they sounded like jet engines. Or you could buy a computer from Dell, as opposed to a computer from hell, and it would be quiet enough for a library. As far as the heat they put out, that's what Athlon stands for--Attempting (To) Heat Large Office Now. Love that USB Hub thing, they numbered the ports like it makes any difference. That was a cute feature. The lights on the front actually aren't bad. Not surprised that it has FireWire port knockouts, and that a USB port broke, not to mention that the door doesn't stay up anymore. Hard drive bearings sound a little noisy. But they generally keep running for a long time like that. I don't know how old the drive in my doorbell server is, but it's only 10GB or so, something like that, and it's got noisy bearings and has been running for countless years like that. Lot of time capsule stuff on there. I never used LimeWire, I used a lesser-known one called BearShare and it was almost as good as Napster before that got all crapped up with viruses and whatnot, and then of course was taken offline. I remember, and in fact had WinMX installed for a time. "So good and sugar-free...TaB!" Yes, I remember that commercial! I wasn't able to get that Flash file to play, nor was I able to convert it. To preserve it, there are VGA capture devices, but it's almost like an analog to digital process. In fact, it actually is, since VGA is analog, but besides that, you'd have to play each file in real time while capturing, then edit to split it up, or record each as a separate clip. Then, you'd probably still want to crop the image in the video editor so you get just the file without the taskbar and any other stuff that might be on the screen. It can be done, it's just time-consuming, like converting any analog stuff to digital.
The K6/2 system was OK for a first system. I was on dial-up so nothing happened quickly anyway. It wasn't until years later when I bought my house and upgraded to cable internet that I could really see how this computer was a huge bottleneck. This new system was a huge upgrade. I remember the very first time I went online with it when I first opened the browser the page loaded and displayed instantly instead of having to wait for each section to load and display. I was pleasantly shocked at how fast it was in comparison. I used a lot of services back in the wild west days of file sharing. Napster, WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, AudioGalaxy(The best of them all!), a few bit torrent sites which always sucked. I remember one time hearing that during the heyday of file sharing a female artist who went by one name and who's music was in "Vogue" at the time released a bunch of fake files of one of her current songs. If you downloaded one all it would be is her saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing" and then several minutes of silence. Well I wanted that audio for a system sound on my computer so I downloaded whatever song it was maybe 20 times and kept getting the song which I kept deleting because I didn't want that before I finally found her fake version. I used the features of the sound card to re-record just her statement as a wav file and added it to my system sounds so any time I did something wrong instead of Windows usual BONK sound effect it would say What the Fuck... I used to routinely change all the sounds on my computers. I'd change windows startup and shut down sounds. I remember my shutdown sound used to be Porky Pig saying Th th th that's all folks with the looney tunes music(titled The Merry-Go_Round Broke Down) in the background. My startup sound was this even though it was really long. ua-cam.com/video/rg3FLwW0a18/v-deo.html
that computer tower is AWESOME. the case is sick. nice vid dood
@@DaMindMonkey Thanks.
I've always loved these cases with the Light pillars with the bubbles in them! I saw a video with them a couple years ago and found one in not the best shape a year or two ago. Great video!
I bought it at a computer show because it was different from the usual beige boxes. I was willing to buy all the internal components online but I wanted to see the tower in person to get a real feel of size and quality. They can make anything look amazing in an online picture but when you get it it doesn't look as nice.
Wow. It is still working.. Mine is dead 10 years ago.. It was my first pc build back in 2002. It was a intel pentium 4 cpu with two 64Mb sdRAM memory and a 20Gig HDD harddrive. And a dialup internet connection.😅
Very proud of that build. It made me the coolest kid in my place..
What shocked me with building this computer is that once it was all together it actually worked flawlessly right from the beginning and over time proved to be a stable and reliable system.
brings back memories, my first had windows 95 and as time went on my dad helped my upgrade as time went on.
My first homebuilt was in that case!
It was Intel though. A few years newer than yours. It had a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. It was the absolute cheapest (and also coincidentally the worst performing) Dualcore processor I could get.
512MB DDR2
And by the time I retired her she had 3 DVD burners, 2 3 inch harddisks and an external 80GB usb2.0 harddisk
I would have gone Intel but I was really building this computer on a budget of almost nothing so I had to cheap out. The fact that it still works after over 20 years shows that although it was cheap it was stable/dependable. It was still a huge upgrade from what I was using before.
@@tallboyyyy Absolutely, a real trooper too!
My first "my own" PC was a K6-2 like yours before your first custom rig here and can attest as well that it was a painful and slow rig to run winxp.
@@ldobehardcore I never tried upgrading the operating system in my K6/2. It was Windows 98 it's whole life. That system would still work too except the hard drive locked up.
what case is that?
The original system has a K6/2? You can bet that system _MEGAHURT!_ Those chips were awful, I had a Pentium II that could run rings around it. Same when they came out with the Athlon processor, which many mispronounced as "Athalon". "Buy me! I'm AMD! I'm not just 2100, I'm 2100 PLUS!" "What's the plus?" "It adds 20 more horsepower, like the ricers putting a new radio in their car!" Ugh...
Recording streaming media...well probably not anymore; meaning the machine wouldn't connect to those sites and work the way it used to. However, you can still get away with doing that, even with a cheapie onboard sound card. If it won't allow you to due to copyright issues/DRM, or the drivers are just terrible, you can plug the speaker output into the microphone jack with a short cable. Yes, it's going to have to go analog and then back to digital but over 6 inches of cable I don't think there's going to be any problem with that. Plus, if you don't tell anyone, no one will be the wiser, should you decide to share that somewhere, someplace where Neal is not involved and the RIAA hasn't raided yet.
Lots of faens. Yep, we kinda all did that back in the day. And yes, they sounded like jet engines. Or you could buy a computer from Dell, as opposed to a computer from hell, and it would be quiet enough for a library. As far as the heat they put out, that's what Athlon stands for--Attempting (To) Heat Large Office Now.
Love that USB Hub thing, they numbered the ports like it makes any difference. That was a cute feature. The lights on the front actually aren't bad. Not surprised that it has FireWire port knockouts, and that a USB port broke, not to mention that the door doesn't stay up anymore. Hard drive bearings sound a little noisy. But they generally keep running for a long time like that. I don't know how old the drive in my doorbell server is, but it's only 10GB or so, something like that, and it's got noisy bearings and has been running for countless years like that.
Lot of time capsule stuff on there. I never used LimeWire, I used a lesser-known one called BearShare and it was almost as good as Napster before that got all crapped up with viruses and whatnot, and then of course was taken offline. I remember, and in fact had WinMX installed for a time.
"So good and sugar-free...TaB!" Yes, I remember that commercial!
I wasn't able to get that Flash file to play, nor was I able to convert it. To preserve it, there are VGA capture devices, but it's almost like an analog to digital process. In fact, it actually is, since VGA is analog, but besides that, you'd have to play each file in real time while capturing, then edit to split it up, or record each as a separate clip. Then, you'd probably still want to crop the image in the video editor so you get just the file without the taskbar and any other stuff that might be on the screen. It can be done, it's just time-consuming, like converting any analog stuff to digital.
The K6/2 system was OK for a first system. I was on dial-up so nothing happened quickly anyway. It wasn't until years later when I bought my house and upgraded to cable internet that I could really see how this computer was a huge bottleneck. This new system was a huge upgrade. I remember the very first time I went online with it when I first opened the browser the page loaded and displayed instantly instead of having to wait for each section to load and display. I was pleasantly shocked at how fast it was in comparison.
I used a lot of services back in the wild west days of file sharing. Napster, WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, AudioGalaxy(The best of them all!), a few bit torrent sites which always sucked. I remember one time hearing that during the heyday of file sharing a female artist who went by one name and who's music was in "Vogue" at the time released a bunch of fake files of one of her current songs. If you downloaded one all it would be is her saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing" and then several minutes of silence. Well I wanted that audio for a system sound on my computer so I downloaded whatever song it was maybe 20 times and kept getting the song which I kept deleting because I didn't want that before I finally found her fake version. I used the features of the sound card to re-record just her statement as a wav file and added it to my system sounds so any time I did something wrong instead of Windows usual BONK sound effect it would say What the Fuck...
I used to routinely change all the sounds on my computers. I'd change windows startup and shut down sounds. I remember my shutdown sound used to be Porky Pig saying Th th th that's all folks with the looney tunes music(titled The Merry-Go_Round Broke Down) in the background. My startup sound was this even though it was really long. ua-cam.com/video/rg3FLwW0a18/v-deo.html