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Darth SF
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The channel of whatever I feel like doing! Some days I feel like building something, others I feel like baking something, and maybe now and then I'll throw in some gaming or other projects. And no matter what I do, I will be maintaining a family-friendly environment so you can feel "sa-fe" watching no matter who you are or where you are! Well, some of my jokes might be dangerously bad, but we all have to deal with things like that in life, right?
This is my secondary channel, with my original account Darth Santa Fe now being strictly for my classic model railroad projects. www.youtube.com/@DarthSantaFe
This is my secondary channel, with my original account Darth Santa Fe now being strictly for my classic model railroad projects. www.youtube.com/@DarthSantaFe
The Mega PC - Part 6: Hardline Water Loop #1 and First Power On!
It's alive! And this video was created on it! I haven't decided on the graphics card yet to finish the system, but since that's a ways off with the amount I get from TH-cam, maybe I can get a good deal on the current gen cards around the end of the year (unless next gen is a crazy good value). We'll see!
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The Mega PC - Part 5: CPU, Motherboard and More!
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Getting close now! I now have an MSI Meg Z690 Ace motherboard, Core i9-13900K CPU, 32GB DDR5, a 2TB SSD and a very nice looking waterblock! It won't be long now before I can finally power things up!
Building a Gaming PC Like It's 2006!
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Timestamps! 0:00 - Intro 1:19 - Components 6:54 - The Build 27:10 - Power On! 28:40 - Installing Windows XP 33:05 - Installing and Trying the Games! 49:43 - So Many Lights! I missed playing my old PC games, so I decided to build myself a "new" PC that could actually run them! I have to say, this was probably the most fun I've had putting a PC together in a long time. The 2000's had a silly fun ...
The Mega PC - Part 4: Water Pumps and Reservoirs
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Getting the new pumps and reservoirs installed for the water cooling system now! Since this will be a dual loop system, I got two smaller reservoirs that each have their own Alphacool D5 pumps. With some adjustment, I think these will be running close to silent when it's all put together!
The Mega PC - Part 3: Asus THOR II Power Supply and a Light Show!
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And now for the power supply! I chose an Asus/Seasonic ROG THOR II 1000W unit, which is similar to the top-end Focus platform PSUs. Not only does it look amazing, have platinum efficiency and come with all sorts of extras, but it was also a really good value with a sale price at the time of $250! These apparently go on sale often, but that was about the best price that I've seen them for myself...
The Mega PC - Part 2: Radiators and More Fans
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Part 2 of the Mega PC build! For this video I'm installing a pair of 480mm radiators and eight 120mm fans! The radiators are Black Ice Nemesis 480GTS XFLOW from Hardware Labs, which are 30mm thick with an end to end inlet/outlet setup and are made from copper. The fans are Alphacool Eiszyklon Aurora LUX PRO 120mm, rated at 800 to 2,000RPM over PWM with ARGB lighting control. The fans don't have...
How to Make Sweet, Simple & Amazing Cornbread Muffins
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For this video, I'll show you how to make sweet cornbread muffins using two box mixes from Jiffy (I said "Jif" by mistake in the video, but it is Jiffy!)! These muffins are easily baked using their cornbread and golden yellow cake mixes together, and they go perfectly as a side to a BBQ meal, Thanksgiving dinner and many others!
The Mega PC - Part 1: Case & Fans
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Starting this channel off with part 1 of my new PC build! This is a project funded by ad revenue from my other TH-cam channel, and I have quite a few parts already which will be shown in future video updates. Since it is ad-funded though, there may be some lengthy delays for some of the more expensive parts. Starting off, I'm using a Thermaltake Level 20 XT with Alphacool RGB fans. It's a monst...
Awesome video - love old stuff like this - plus Zalman made some great heatsinks! Love the water speakers!
This looks AMAZING!! 🎉
Sturdy looking pc. I love it!
Those speakers are so cool! Please add a Sound Blaster card for EAX support. I like the Dell SB0770 for PCI, because it has a regular front panel audio header. If you prefer PCI-Express x1, I would go for the Sound Blaster X-Fi SB088X series.
You actually don't need the cd-rom cable when running xp
Thanks for the info!
@@Darth-SF you're welcome
the good old days of computing love this era from about 2005 up to 2012
Hello was wondering how you cut the fan hole
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:)
Every 35 year old dude sitting here watching like "yessssss". I remember playing WoW on something like this, great times. Case modding was a big thing then too, going to home depot and getting plexi cut to size for a size panel and all that. Golden age of computing.
46:30 Turn on Windows 95 compatibility mode.
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.
9:30 Bro don't use that crusty nearly 20 year old paste. You need to use a newer thermal paste.
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.
Problem is, you cant activate old Windows anymore, very annoying, even if you have working hardware.
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 have a similar lian li case from the same era. A pc-a05. I bought it brand new for a q6600 build. I was so sick of the ugly and tin can thin contemporary cases that I actually dragged it out of the basement and put my 5700x based system in it. Those cd rom covers were uptional purchases. I had to order mine separately.
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.
Don't forget to set the BIOS to run the CPU under either Intel POR or manually set the CPU's PL1 & PL2 states to one of the following PL1 125W=PL2 125W or PL1 125W=PL2 253W (preferably the former).
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind!
Fun waterjet speakers
the backplate on your motherboard has absolutely nothing to do with your VRM lol😂😂 it's literally is only for stability/flexing of the Mobo and cooling of the "Motherboard" of itself. But nothing about that backplate is doing anything to your VRM's
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.
I love this "retro" stuff it always reminds me how far we've come. Someday I will do my own Vista build
i really liked ur video one day i want to start building computers as well i have been so scared of trying i always took it to the shop for them to build
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.
nice build
Oh boy. Those Velociraptors were the fad back in the day before flash memory was invented. And of course, people often chose to ignore how loud they were or we had to make themselves feel better about the noise by showing how loud those 22,000 RPM SAS drives were.
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.
39:13 “woops someone crashed a plane in one of those towers” naw no way they did that that close 💀
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.
Hey wake up, it's 2006!
Awesome. What a nice case. Also I really like the rear fan, the sleeving kit and your custom side panel window. Reading "Like It's 2006" I was expecting a Core2Duo - but around the same time, one of my PCs also was an Athlon X64 system.
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!
Great idea! I played some but not all of those games back when I was a kid. In particular I loved Sim Copter, and was extremely frustrated by Lego Island. I'd like to do something like this myself eventually. My "unlimited space and unlimited money" version would have high-spec machines running various versions of Windows spanning 3.1 to XP (possibly excluding ME).
Damn them fans are crazy
damn good vid man. you went above and beyond with that clear side panel mod so props.
Thanks! It took a while to cut that hole into the panel, but it was worth it!
great video thanks!
Awesome video bro. Keep going. (Only one advice buy a cheap microphone because we hear you in the background) we appreciate yours videos.
Thanks! I'm sure I'll be getting one of those eventually.
• Non-modular PSU • Molex cables • DVD R/W drive • IDE cables We really have it good nowadays don't we? I also didn't know that older fan controllers look like an XLR audio interface.
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!
Looking pretty sweet so far. Love the power usage readout, I've never seen that before
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.
I think you need to add neon lights to your computer.. and a water feature.
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!
Obviously you have multiples of the talent and skill needed to install RailPro receivers in my locomotives. Right? Good luck with the new channel.
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!
Great informative PC building video! Thanks for sharing. (I built by last PC back in 2018, anticipating the new flight simulator games. This based on a good processor, a lot of RAM, and the now old, RTX 2080 video card. Still working pretty good today). All your videos are really great thanks again. Darth Santa Fe!
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.