My Teenage Dream PC - Ricer PC Part 1
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We've gotten pretty good at making sleepers - PC that look slow but are actually really fast... But what about a PC that looks fast and is actually slow?
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It's more than 4 YEARS LATER, and we're still waiting for part 2.
It’s almost 4 months later and we’re still waiting for someone to reply to this comment…
@@bikesandrc4387 2 weeks later WHERE THE HELLS PART 2 LINUS!
I think they stopped, because getting games on the thing is annoying due to how broken steam is for anything but Windows 10 XP
Well, that’s what happens when you try to game on an almost 15 year system
mate he meant 1-3 business days
Hoping for a Part 2 here, too
Been almost a year since they said "a couple months." Still waiting...
yeah. It sucks. We are all here saving the world together. From the privacy of our homes and they still haven't released the part 2 vid lol.
Jonathan Boring
Saving the world ? Really ?
I'm waiting for overclocking and custom water cooling . lol
Jonathan Boring linus probably dropped the hdd
Dude, I really hope they don't drop this project... It was such a nice idea
"Stay tuned" ... 2 years later they do a vlog and find the PC project gathering dust on some shelf.
Or he's going to drop it and give up
@@marcuswilson3375 😂😂😂
@@marcuswilson3375 You are almost right, like MIFoE. The fact that tech company make so much money is not quality, not even technology... Is the fact that they only increase memory and speed. All that was already obtained before the 90s. The fact is that they (Microsoft, Google, etc) discover that everything related to games can be used for war if speed and memory were keep at low levels of advance. Prices up, more easy money, and the new kids in the block get the idea of knowing, and inventing. That they believe. The truths is that they do not advance the technology, they (the kids) forgot how to think and to calculate. So anybody can go to the created plan,.- Do things that you think you know, and expend money directly to my pocket. Those are no more that a dozen people taking advantage. The future is darker that most people believe..
@@marcuswilson3375 You mean he's going to drop it, catch it with his foot, saving the machine, and breaking his foot. Linus is a foot-catcher-dropper
@@carloszayas3976 What did I just read.
Linus: "a couple of months"
Anakin: "LIAR!"
Axel didnt die tho, he gets back later in the games
If there is one thing that a 2004 ricer PC needs, is not RGB.
BUT COLD CATHODES.
"Neons"
LOL, as a vacuum tube dork, I concur.
100% this!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IDE powered cold cathodes! I used to have a fully acrylic case that had a cold cathode inside. Ridiculous. Impractical. Silly. Awesome.
Repaste the GPU
DELID THE CPU
RUN PINBALL AT 240 FPS
Oh my😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I know this was a joke, but those days CPU heatspreaders were soldered on so delidding was not a thing.
cpus were soldered back then bro.
Lap the lid!!!
But what they should actually do is custom watercooling block for it because I think there is none. When even did watercooling pc vecome thing for first time?
Linus: "I'm disappointed with this performance"
Also Linus: *Gets solid 60 fps with 2004 hardware*
On a game from 2004 on only high settings.
and Doom has default 60 fps lock so anyways....
Kur Norock Which is DOOM 3, one of the most demanding titles of its time.
yeah on a title that tried to future proof like Unreal Tournament did in the past! (so very good indeed!) they probably expected every one to play on low settings and only a few at medium and maybe only be able to play at high and ultra like 5 years later lol (that is why the Unreal "HOLY SHIT!!!!" sound played when you put every thing on maximum.
@@r92king yeah, and he couldn't achieve it on ultra settings, which is why he was disappointed in the performance.
I love how alex look at the parts of the building thinking what is this?
Because (as always) he is thrown into something, has zero clue what he is talking about and masks this fact with empty phrases :)
I love how grammar bad
@@Runitbyry I love how people are replying to this comment
@@alfredass9428 haha same
@@alfredass9428 btw your name sounds like a xbox auto generated
Delid the cpu, liquid metal it, liquid cool it, and overclock the shit out of it.
Take apart the gpu, clean it, and use new thermal paste, overclock it.
Put it in a case that has both a 5 1/4 drive bay for a disk drive as well as a 3 1/2 for floppy.
I think it's only fitting to use an older style case. Raidmax?
Era-correct sound card with HD AUDIO!!!! (only the cool kids had hd audio)
And of course the most important thing is the roller ball mouse, because come on, those were the shit.
Edit: scratch the delid, I didnt realize that the chip was soldered.
For the OS, running windows 7 in "performance mode" gives a look and feel VERY similar to windows xp, and will allow for steam to be installed.
Also, for anyone wondering why they didnt "max out" the ram, they did. The CPU is only 32 bit, and thus any operating system installed must also be 32 bit. Assuming they're using a version of Windows designed for home use, this puts a hard cap of 4gb on the max ram size.
Edit 2: As the astute among you may have realized, delid may actually be a thing. Some of these P4s were able to be delidded, as not all of them actually used solder as the TIM.
An aside, yes, by "roller ball" mouse, I actually meant a "track ball" mouse. My apologies.
Some Dude I read that in Daft Punk Technologic voice..
oh god yes
The idea is to make it look modern, not era appropriate mate. Also Delid a CPU this old? You can't delid it nor should you try - it is soldered. The thermal paste between the IHS and CPU die nonsense started with Ivy Bridge.
yeah not gonna happen, Pentium 4's are soldered.
All of this and more like a backplate on the GPU, custom cooling on the GPU to overclock it even more. Add a shroud on the motherboard itself. Do everything that is possible.
4:15
Linus: "Looks like a pin is slightly bent. There is a technique for this"
Also Linus: **Slams CPU into socket**
that actually works because the pins are probably alligned, but it just needs a little push to force the pins in
the benefit of PGA
you have to wobble it in
He didn't slam it in xD, he put the lever down that holds it in place though i also thought that he slammed it hard in there.
it was a weird cut.
@@ZR-os5ry I noticed that too. Just trying to be funny and put a smile on someone's face.
You have to do the complete benchmark runs from that time. 3DMark2001, Aquamark, SuperPi... You know the drill.
everyone! chant with me!
PART 2!... PART 2!... PART 2!...
Da_Boom NO!... NO!... NO!...
@@kingo1539 why not
@@johannapennanen6238 because there wont be one
@@kingo1539 middle of 2021 is when its going to happen
PART 2!... PART 2!... PART 2!...
Someone: Shows linus a sleeper
Linus: *throws reverse card*
You should water cool it, and then overclock the GPU and CPU more.
WATERCOOL!...WATERCOOL!....WATERCOOL!!!!!
And then run a benchmark with the original F.E.A.R.
and then give it 300 watt power and finaly buy the 1000$ stand lol
Wow, you watched the video and remembered what they said they were going to do and repeated it in a comment. You hero.
Yeahh!
4:16
"There's a bit of a technique for this."
*Slams CPU into its socket*
"You just kinda have to wiggle-wobble it."
Yea... sure, ok, got it ._.
typical linus
luckily that was a jumpcut
@@ItsJustElenore The cut and the rapid movement of his arm made it look like it. Weird cut in general...
The editor had a little fun with that one.
The amount of time I spent on straightening out CPU legs.....
It's October 2020, would love to see a part 2 of this😭 doing the things you always wanted to do and couldn't to old hardware is kinda a favorate of mine
Now it’s almost 2023
@@rolux4853 Now it IS 2023.
@@crayoneater_1699 damn dude time fucking flies!
Had a nice time over Christmas 2022 not gonna lie, so turning back the clock a few months is something I wouldn’t mind.
2024
@@TheAwesomeOneXDX he actually blipped the thumbnail of this video in the most recent video, "Intel, take this back, for tax reasons".
"Uh, my grandparents?"
Linus.exe has encountered an error.
Alex went red as a beetroot after saying it too lol
Funniest moment in Linus history! Lost my damn breath.
Linux.sh*
@@Visstnok I second that! I couldn't believe someone could say something so unexpectedly clever.
Doom 3 Quality adjusts VRAM load. Graphics tweaking are inside Advanced Options!!
Not complete without a Soundblaster Live with the 5 1/4" bay addon
Why not go even further and grab an X-Fi Titanium or Audigy 2 ZS?
@@solarstrike33 I got a breakout box in damn near totally new condition (just opened is all) in box and everything, but no card. Need to buy it for like $60 on ebay :(
nothing is complete without one of those.
I can’t wait for them to give the PC a makeover in only a couple of months!
I'd like to see the best PC from every year and see how they all compare.
I think they're doing that at LTX
Hey Linus, is there any chance we'll see a Part 2 before 2020?
No.
@Brady Leighton :(
@@yannisl8259 :(
@@filip479 :(
@@yannisl8259 :(
Mount the optical disc drive in the back. The evolv x supports a mini itx board in the top, so theres already a perfect sized hole.
Alex fabs a bracket, and you mount it there.
13:07 “that really sorta does bring to light-“ **screen dims**
"My grandparents"
Geniunely cracked me up.
Yeah xD
@@TinchoX xD
@@CL-gj9mf hahahaha literally the most awkward yet hilarious thing I've heard in a while
not everyone can say it
@@guyjordan8201 true dat ;)
Agp gpu,pentium 4 single core 2 ish ghz,pata,optical drive, floppy disk,mismatch pc board color
Yep thats definetly my first pc
only missing the crt. I had a 27" Plasma tv connected to a very long and thick VGA cable so i could watch my pirated 360p dragonballz .avi in bed ;-)
Would be nice to see if it'll run classic WoW when it launches. Also would be a good opportunity for a GOG promotion.
It won't go well because Classic WoW runs under the modern BFA engine -> Direct3D 12, multhithreading, new physics engine, latest LUA etc.
That would run wonderfully!
Operating System
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Processor
800 MHz or higher CPU
Video Card
32 MB 3D graphics card with hardware transform and lighting, such as GeForce 2 or better
Hard Drive Space
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
RAM
256 MB or more of RAM
Mac OS
MacOS X 10.3.5 or newer
Mac Processor
933 MHz or higher G4 or G5 processor
Mac Video Card
ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
Internet Connection
56k or higher modem with an Internet connection
@@loryon "classic" WoW ran on win xp - so it had to be DX9
Performance was just fine on a c2d machine with 2 gigs of ram and a 128MB geforce 6600GT - that's what i had
@@KenjiUmino You are talking about WoW Vanilla, not the new classic that will come out in august.
@@loryon Pretty sure BFA can run on DX9.
Blizzard has been all about supporting legacy machines by prolonging graphical upgrades as long as they could.
3:20
Me: "Don't touch the socket!!!"
Linus: *Touchie touchie touchie*
I'd love to see how much an SSD could benefit a system that old.
Sata 1 was still huge in bandwidth compared to hard drive speeds.
not that much compared to modern HDDs, those 10k RPM drives were flying compared to our 5400 storage drives. If you had that 10k drive back then, you were a god, well same for that gpu, holy moly.
@@MashupsByMandy Depends. A WD Black HDD is a lot faster than SATA 1 speeds
It wouldn't, it would in fact destroy the SSD as XP had no support for them, no TRIM or management whatsoever.
@@enigma776 with auto defragmentation disabled it would be fine.
Please play and get Frame rates (especially 0.1% lows) for :
Medal of Honour allied assault
Call of duty (original and/or united offensive)
Battlefield 1942 and the desert combat mod
Counter strike 1.6
Halo
Warcraft 3
World of warcraft classic
Gta: Vice City and San Andreas
And battlefield 2 :')
Mohaa, bf1942 and gta sa were the ones I really want to see
Something to note about GTA III,VC, and SA ,these games cannot exceed 30FPS because the game physics will be broken exceeding it. Example that I can think of right now is when you try to swim in SA. Try to compare by turning frame limiter on and off.
What about crysis for lols?:')
Get an old version of any editing software and try rendering a video filmed with a camera from that era or something similar and look at the render times and stuff!
It's been over a year now and we're all still waiting for part 2
needs a Kenwood 72x cdrom
a Sound Blaster Audigy card
some cold cathode tubes
5 1/4 bay fan controller hub with obnoxious dials
water-cool it with a fish tank pump and old clamp style tubing into a 5 1/4" reservoir.
oh and some UV reactive cable sleaving and many different colors.
What maintains compatibility for 15 years?
3.5 headphone jack beat you there... oh, wait
USB type A.... coaxial tv cables.... Car Lug-Nuts. 1/4th inch audio cables for guitars. hell the guitar strings themselves... need I go on?
Electric sockets.
compatibility as in having a 4 pin still being able to split of to work for 20pin boards....
@@tommytomthms5 I think we can restrict it to computer tech in this context, right?
people !
WE NEED A SOUNDBLASTER! AND AN IDE OPITCAL DVD AND CD (two different drives) 😤😤😤
Arauka Nizimo the kaspersky one with the pig squeal bro ;)
UV BLUE COOLANT OR GTFO
Damn these comments 😭
@Arauka Nizimo Norton Internet Security saved my ass when I was a complete PC noob back in 2007 - 2008 and went with a friend to a lan-house and made the retarded idea of plugging a flash drive to it.
AVG 7.5 let everything wreck havoc inside that Win XP of a dumb teenager but Norton cleaned it for me, yay!
Gravis Ultrasound - or maybe Roland MT-32 (for the elite who had money to show).
"Name something else that has maintained intercompatibility for 15 years"
"Uhhh my grandparents"
That had me dead on the floor 😂
I owned that exact same setup back in 2006
Pentium 4 2.4GHz @ 3.2GHz, GTX 6800 Ultra, WD Raptor 10k rpm
Nobody:
Linustechtips after successfully building a computer for the 99999th time: AYYYYYYYYYYY
bahahahaha
There are typically a few fails in there too
Literally every pc builder after every build
After that, press del del del del del ... del del del del del
Real pro
"My grandparents"
Never change haha
Lol
It was a great line lol
I laughed way to hard at that
@@RyanDeMarco Sounds like you did
Linus face after he said that just made the cake
It's almost 5 YEARS LATER, and we're still waiting for part 2.
In the same era I was a big AMD/ATI fan and my build would have looked like this.
CPU - AMD Mobile 2500+
GPU - ATI 9800 PRO
MOBO - DFI Lanparty Nforce 2 Chipset
RAM - 2x 4BG Crutail Ballistix Tracer
HDD - 2x WD Raptor 10k RPM in RAID 0
The 9800pro was a beast. It shat all over nvidia when it came out.
Some companies are really good about keeping old drivers and software available. Creative still has stuff as old as Sound Blaster 1.5 drivers up for download.
It's not like it's a huge effort. The only thing they need is to give a fuck.
bargh70 Drivers for old system like Wind3.1, 95, 98, XP are generally not that big in size so there’s no excuse with hard drive/SSD sizes these days for not keeping old archives around, so long as the company still exists (or whomever acquired their IP). Also, there are a lot of third-party sites that keep old archives of drivers for companies no longer around, often uploaded off of old floppies or CD-ROM driver disks by users.
i'm still rocking a SB-LIVE so.. obligatory "KX-DRIVER" comment.
Overclocking
Watercooling (The Chiller)
RGB
Cable Modding
Run Battlefield 2
Fin
remember, that it's never too late to upload part 2...
5:58 "A CD player? I think you mean an optical drive." I'm actually dying xD
Damn new generation doesn't even know what a friggin' DVD is anymore let alone a CD!
Makes me feel old (or just... not dumb) at 25...
Around 2004, it should be a DVD-ROM/CD-RW
It’s been so long that people have forgotten their names.
How painfully aware it makes me that I am older then Linus when I watched this video and my response was, huh that is a lot more modern then I was expecting..
IKR. The first overclocked PC I built was a Celeron II 600 running at 900Mhz with a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP. Before that it was hand me down parts from friends
I hear ya. My Dream PC back in the day was a Pentium MMX 233MHz with dual Voodoo 2 cards. If I go all the way back the Dream PC would be adding a floppy drive to my C=64.
I know I was hoping he would break out a Thunderbird 1ghz and a pencil XD stick a dragon orb on it or something XD
Same here, my first overclocked build was a Pentium 120 @133.
Someone needs to send them an Amiga
The front panel audio header is above the gameport header with the two blue jumpers still installed
That means this board only does AC97. But yeah, one strange thing about modern cases is that most still supports AC97, with the audio header conveniently splitting into both HDA and AC97 connectors.
I thought AC97 was from 1997 xD
Claudio Lluberes 1996 actually. But it actually lasted quite a bit until 2006ish when HD Audio started taking over iirc. I remember buying a A8N-SLI which had a HD Audio compatible chip, but the lower end cases at the time still only came with AC97 connectors.
That HDD is definitely the coolest HDD I've ever seen. Shame that the project has been abandoned.
Real men had an Athlon 64 and the GeForce 6800 Ultra.
Honk Honkler damn straight! I got way better FPS in Doom 3 too.
64x2 4400 + 8800GTS here... I swear they worked better back the too, its all gone sketchy with win10
look at this meme lord jankens.
3200 and 4200 4gb geil ram powercolor 800xt pe his 3850agp plus a gigantic 1kg cooler zalman on cpu made from copper...fun times
@@mattpowell8369 i still have that set-up ( 64x2 4400 + 8800GTS) in a rig in the closet. it worked great til windows 10 screwed everything up.
A compoment that has remained backwards compatible for years?
Try the actual PCI bracket... that, to my knowledge, hasn't changed since the days of NUBUS(Pre-dating ISA)
usb/firewire/pci/sata etc etc
The RCA audio connector.
Ok boomer
USB-A! 20+ years of backwards compatibility!
@Nomen Nescio you are correct, there's a good 6 or 7 year gap between the two.
The bracket that holds either, however, remains.
For a CRT just drop by an Ewaste depot/drop off point. CRT's for days. Nabbed a basically brand new looking Samsung Syncmaster 997df dynaflat 19" a couple of months back, works like a charm for my retro build. max res of 1920 x 1440, not that you'd ever want to use that in gaming on a system that old. 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 sweet spot.
honestly touched when linus let alex turn it on. you could tell this was his wet dream of a pc yet he still gave the honor of pushing the button to someone else
Don't forget a creative sound blaster preferably a Fx-i
I feel like the Audigy line would be more accurate for that time (2004). The X-Fi (I think that's what you meant?) was released in 2005 so it is too new for his High School 2004 build. If you meant the Audigy FX line that is WAY too new.
@@Tw3akst3r You're really hung up on the 1 year difference. It's no big deal. (Which Linus said in the video, wasn't a hard limit.) I think you know that we meant ANY sound blaster with a 5¼" control.
@@xenonram Just staying true to what he said but not a big deal, whatever he wants he should do, no skin off my back.
Go with a audigy 2zs. Great sound
ANY UPDATES ON THIS? NEED PART 2!! Love yall.
Cold cathode (green fluorescent tubes if water cooled), unnecessary coolers (side panel fan, hdd cooler), 21'' screen (deeper than wide), wobbly LAN cable with broken hook, "5.1" headset with bass rumbling, Logitech MX500. And run some more of the old games, it just triggers your memory.
my dream PC was an AMD Barthon 3200+ on Abit NF7. back then it was beyond my financial reach, so I settled for an Barthon 2600+ on Epox 8RDA3i if I remember correctly. the rest of the money went in 512MB Ram, some 128MB graphic card and a nice 80GB HDD.
Wait a min, 150 bucks for that motherboard?
I got one laying in my closet, would have given it away for free. o.o
I think I do too, LOL
That mean i can have it? Lol
I've got one as well. Looks like it's a good time to sell.
I had one too but sold for 20€ :(
sold mine for 250 hehe
My biggest suggestion: plug the fan in lmao
yooo that's my current pc(without the upgrade)
edit: it's not my pc guys chill
looool sad :(
Oooooooooof
I have a pentium 4 dell optiplex gx270 in my closet. It barely can do anything, i put a custom geforce 210 graphics card with a pci to pcie adapter. The sad thing is that the windows 7 desktop gadgets would eat like 20% of the CPU, at idle. It can play 720p youtube videos but barely, if there is anything going on in the background it will interrupt the playback.
I still have a PC that's a year or so newer with an AMD CPU, but it's now used for media playback in my room
fake
The Aopen AX4B-533 Tube would make for a fascinating ricer build.
It's key selling points:
-Black pcb in a world of green and tan
-Fancy huge "audiophile" capacitors
-Vaccum tube on the audio output stage -Routed through substandard onboard audio
I've seen actual vomit that was less barf-colored than that motherboard.
That is why at that time modders used to spraypaint their pcbs, be it the mainboard, gfx, whatever card. Spraypaint white with green cold cathodes was my thing back then.
Linus exposed the compatible power supplies, next gen we'll be getting new motherboard connections for power, RIP.
Really ?
@@Xenoray1 yes, really.
new AMD TR3 needs a new spec?
@@kenlarge5154 why ? maybe intel but why tr3..
@@Xenoray1 i thought i saw something about this on GN i think. cant seem to find it now so maybe im wrong
7:10 Alex is laughing his arse off holding in “your mom” joke because Linus is his boss.
Almost 4 years later and no part 2
Almost 5 years now
My Teenage Dream PC from 2004 was:
DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR + Athlon 64 4000+ with 6800 ultra and this Intel setup would be destroyed...
Please, I would like to see Chronicles of Riddick (the game) on this machine
Indeed, I'm pretty sure Athlon 64 was easily ahead then, from memory the P4 was pretty disappointing and ran very hot. Intel also released much higher clocked cpus at the end of 2004.
Pentium 4 570 / 570J3.8GHz / 800FSB / 1MB L2 / 1 core / Socket 775
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.46GHz3.46GHz / 1066FSB / 2MB L3 / 1 core / Socket 775. It seems the Athlon 64 was a lot better, even at a much lower clock:
www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Athlon-64-FX-55-vs-Intel-Pentium-4-3.46GHz/59vs1078
@@DoubleMonoLR
AMD was already x64, so yeah, AMD were ahead of the game.
Good old DFI....
@@ilokikoval x64 was basically still useless for gaming in 2004 though, since to actually make use of it you'd have to run XP-64 which was a driver nightmare. AMD chips were still the better option though, regardless. Intel wasn't the smart choice again until the Core 2 line came out in 2006.
When's part 2 coming out? I've been dying for part 2! Also is scrapyard wars ever coming back?
They've been working on one for a while now. Haven't you watch TechLinked?
Erich Ng no cuz I can’t keep up with it😂but thx for telling me man!
Did you die?
@@ErimlRGG surprisingly not but I wished they made part 2
@@rchnl-ov4zq We all do. Nothing more disappointing than rewatching an old series thinking "glad I don't have to wait" and realizing there was no finale
RGB improves CPU frequency by 13,37% minimum
True
I hope you're joking, because It's 30% minimum jeez, N u can OC the rgb light so It's 50% performance gain
Idion its actually go from 2 miles per hour to 45 kilos per second
Red LEDs add 20 horsepower to fans.
When I was Linus' age the Cooler Master V8 was a dream cooler for your sweet lga 775 and and the kids with the baracuda drives were gaming hard. 4 gigs of DDR2 @800mhz and an 8800GTS and you could run Oblivion at 45+fps. at 1024x768.
Water cool CPU and GPU, Add RGB for extra performance.
Need to build a dual cpu server board XP system. With graphics sound etc
Circa 2000 to 2004
AMD socket F?
OMG, you even picked a DEMO - version of Doom? "sniffle" That brings up so much memorys, a DEMO disc, those were the days...
Please make part 2! I was devastated when I reached the end of the video and found out it never came out. I got into custom PCs only a couple years later than Linus, so I want to see what sort of 2005 shenanigans they can put in there. I need some EL wire, some cold-cathode tubes, UV-reactive spray painted motherboards, edge-lit etched acrylic windows, raid 1 HDDs with windows to see the synchronized arms... There's so much "cool" stuff from this era that we don't see anymore, because you can just go out and buy almost any mod you want. (Which isn't bad, but it takes some of the charm out of it.)
I have the same combo, 2.4ghz northwood + Asus P4P8X, love the retro vids!
Watercool it. Find/make custom blocks for the CPU and graphics card and overclock it like you talked about in the beginning!
@@abwerio88 watercooling is kind of an aesthetic though. It'd be a good way to go forward with the overclocking Linus kept talking about
I watercooled my old P4 northwood 3.2 back in the day with an asetek waterchill kit. dunking the pump in a bucket of water to fill and bleed the loop with the pump running off 240v
I'm really happy that you've done this, mid 2000's PCs are my absolute favorite PCs to build. I'm still trying to work out how to make my dream Windows XP PC like LGR did.
I don't understand why he'd go with a Pentium 4 though.. even hyper threaded they couldn't come close to what the Athlon's were doing. I believe that was around the time Intel was violating the law by paying OEMs to use their Pentium 4s instead because they were so trash.
It's cool how terms like sleeper and ricer transfer from car enthusiast to pc enthuaists
Ive always loved seeing people enjoying their hobbys and sharing their knowledge
Overclock! Liquid cool! Push that CPU/GPU to its max.
YES!!!
phase change: ua-cam.com/video/oTViyq9vRAM/v-deo.html
And liquid metal
Nobody:
GOG.com:DID SOMEONE SAY DRM-FREE GAMES?
Got a few pirated games from torrent sites that turned out to be gog installers
@@butilikepizzatho4851 fbi open up
Nobody? More like fuck yeah!
Had the same chip and board. Man it was a beast. Playing Act of War at a LAN and dropping 16 nukes at once with no lag while watching all the other players pc's beg for mercy :D
3 years later and still waiting for part 2
"There's a bit of a technique to it..." *JAMS IT IN*
Home brew water cooling. I remember having to cludge everything, pumps, tubing homemade reservoir. We also would take heater cores from certain cars. Yes I"m that old.
"That really does sort of bring to light an issue with all these online DRM solutions. Like any game that I bought on Steam in the Windows XP days what I just can't play it?" This is my issue too! I feel left out. I'm on Windows 3.1
Lol! That's what my mom's old Gateway 2000 pc shipped with before she got the Windows 95 upgrade in the mail. She said she didn't like Windows 3.1. I think it's similar to Mac OS and some Linux Desktop Environments.
@@gwenmichigander277 My parents used to have a Gateway computer lol! It came in a box that looked like it had cow skin on it. It also came with an America Online CD which I used for a soda coaster :)
I'm 37 years old and I've never cared about how PC looks. But that raptor x hard drive it is so beautiful. Whenever my hard drives fail I always take them apart and admire the beauty and precision of the machining.
When the graphics card were called GeForce and not GTX/RTX or the brand, good ol' times.
I had the GeForce 2 MX400 64mb. That was such a beast GPU!
GeForce 256 was good too
I had a 6800gt back then , pentuim 4 and 1.5 GB ram I used it back when I was in University for Cad work
Nah bro, it's either VooDoo or it's DooDoo
@@morrisseyroo haha Voodoo was way too expensive though. these were times when we used newspapers as mousepads my man. U took what you got.
I'd recommend installing Command and Conquer: Renegade, if you can find it. And get the latest official and unofficial game patches. Then try playing the single player campaign. Because it's fun. And because it's from approximately the same time period as your hardware.
I suppose you could try playing online, too. But, you'll need to do some research, to find a game server finding service, asI can't remember the name of one right now. The in-game one isn't supported anymore.
As the lead developer for the unofficial patch for C&C Renegade, I 100% agree with this idea.
I remember owning an OCZ kit like that - spending $125 per 1GB DIMM. 2-2-2-5 timings if i remember correctly.
Had the same mobo too, man this is like memory lane.
ok mr moneybags /s
so about the part 2?
You need one of the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy/X-Fi cards with the control module that mounts in a 5¼" bay, and the remote control. I have one around somewhere, and it was so overkill but I loved effing around with it when I was a kid.
But it would mean traveling to the future since he said 2004 in the video and this came out around a year later in 2005.
@@Tw3akst3r There were several Audigy, Live!, Live! Drive IR, etc cards/5.25" controls modules that came out WAY before 2004/2005. (I got mine around 2000)
@@xenonram Yeah, just depending on the exact model though some were released in 2005.
Livestream a cinebench r20 single-thread-benchmark :D would be interesting how long it will take to finish :D:D
Last time I was this early Intel still ruled the CPU market
Well technically..
Still is, probably for few months
That means today?
@@bebekdragon7604 1 month, my friend
2004 Athlon ruled.
4 years and still waiting for part 2
Suggestion: install 2 promise controllers and the hacked RAID 5 drivers for XP to build a HUMOUNGOUS 1 TB array for your Kazaa collection
A cinabench r15 run,
I'm fairly certain anything can beat my celeron n2840 which got a measly score of 66,
N-ninja i bet my raspberry pi could beat that :)
The moment Linus said 'High School' and '2004' I felt damned damned old.
Also, "my grandparents" made me laugh out loud. Cheers Alex :)
Yeah graduated in 97 myself feel damn old...one of my colleagues was born the year I graduated high school, that one stung a little...
I only started high school in 2004. But my dream PC year is 2002. It was the year I got my first desktop PC, and despite receiving an older build of the day I really got into it. 2002 was also the year of the legendary radeon 9700 pro. I had a picture of one on my wall back then. 2.5 years later in Jan 2005 I finally got a new PC, but ended up getting only a radeon 9550, which is much slower than a 9700 pro. So my dream is to build the ultimate July 2002 build!
Alex: "my grandparents"
Me: "i'm dying"
I’m surprised there aren’t more comments about it lol
Let's see Windows Vista installed on that + some Crysis gameplay
Logical next steps 😜
Nah crysis was made for the 8000 series cards
@@BAGG8BAGG ohhhhh shoot. glad someone fixed the timeline there then
I guess this wouldn't be able to run Windows 10.
I'm pretty sure Crysis would make this melt down into its individual elements.
@@sburton015 I really don't think so.
You should just use a case where you can put a CD Drive, Define R6 for example.
exact reason I bought an R6 for my new build, got to have my optical for all my old stuff still. Great looking case to boot.
Now i see how young is Linus :) My first PC build by me in 1998 was AMD K6-266Mhz/32Mram/4GB HDD with ATI All-in-Wonder Pro video-capture card (4M-ram) and learn video editing in Adobe Premiere 4.2 and later in 5.1. Looong time ago...
Been over a year since they said "a couple months." Still waiting...