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Thanks for the info!

@@Darth-SF you're welcome

I used a 3" hole saw with a power drill. To make sure the saw didn't damage the acrylic, I made sure that it was only barely touching the sheet as it turned, and it eventually cut through and I sanded the edges smooth with some fine grit sandpaper. Took some patience, but the results were good!

@@Darth-SF forgot to thank you. Appreciate it:)

I did try that off camera, which is how I at least got environmental sounds in the last clip, but I think it is sound driver compatibility. I’ve had the game running on Windows 10 (with graphics problems unfortunately) with a Xonar card and modern drivers with no sound issues, so I’m going to try a cheap Sound Blaster sometime and see if that works.

I wasn’t going to, but it’s in surprisingly good usable condition since it was in a sealed packet. Thermal tests were all good too, so there’s not much reason to not use it for now.

Yes you can. It least you could a year or so ago the last time I needed to. Its just you have to do it by phone. Its an automated system.

u can u have to do it by phone

I saw when looking for info on the case that they were usually sold without the CD flip-down covers. I assume mine had them because it was a custom order case instead of stock Lian Li.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind!

There are thermal pads between the plate and the board, located underneath the VRMs. Since the VRMs are SMT components, they directly contact the PC board and will quickly heat up this area of the board when under a heavy processing load. The top heatsinks of course do the majority of the work, but having the backplate act as a heat spreader with contact focused in this area helps to cool the board, and in turn the VRMs above. This also helps to reduce heating/cooling strain on the solder joints, which is one of the biggest killers of poorly cooled PC boards in laptops, game consoles and some cheaper prebuilt desktops.

As long as you’re not doing extra customizations and such, building a PC is actually pretty easy! Sockets, cables and components are made to fit only one way to the correct places, so if you can build a puzzle and turn a screw, you can build a PC.

The one I put in is surprisingly quiet, even comparing to some old 5,400 and 7,200RPM drives I have. I'm sure they improved them quite a bit over early versions though, so it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those were on the noisy side.

Yeah, the programming wasn't exactly perfect. A friend who also had this game mistakenly put an airport and tall buildings right next to each other, and we'd hear a crash about every minute! And yet somehow, it never caused any problems for the city.

Some of the parts like that came from old computers my family was no longer using to save on costs. I probably would've gotten something like a Core 2 Duo if I was buying all the parts, but that single core Athlon 64 works surprisingly fast in a Windows XP system!

Thanks! It took a while to cut that hole into the panel, but it was worth it!

Thanks! I'm sure I'll be getting one of those eventually.

There was a lot of design creativity back then! Just remembering Logisys, you could get a full acrylic case with bubble-jet light tubes and all other LED accessories to stick around, and then power it all with an acrylic housed PSU that would last for about a month because the components were so bad. Sunbeam had a lot of the same kind of stuff, and they went out of business about the same time too.

You forgot about setting drives as slaves / masters using those tiny blue things!

Thanks! I think these THOR units are some of the only ones that have that readout built in. It'll be interesting to see just how much power the completed system uses.

The fans are full RGB and I’m considering Lian-Li Strimer cables. As for cooling, I’m going for a dual custom loop system!

Yes, I think I can handle installing those if you ever need. I can’t test them, but I can at least get everything wired!

Thanks! My hope here is to make a PC with high-end parts to last at least 10 years, and it’ll allow me to do better 4K editing than the current PC. That GP20 review I did recently on my main channel had layered 4K shots, and half the time I couldn’t even tell how things would actually turn out because the PC simply couldn’t handle it well.

You have great multiple, designing, and troubleshooting skills! I'm sure you'll be able to future-proof your new computer for quite a while at least.