Windows XP build part 2 - The hardware and lighting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2022
- In part 2 of the recreation Windows XP build it's time to have a look at the hardware, build it in to the case and install some old school case lighting.
Part 1 - creating the case, is here: • Windows XP build part ... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Brings back memories having to get over a thousand pcs with win 7. When I used to work for a foot doctor.
Great Parts Selection and a Great Video Thanks
Thanks!
This build is really coming along well. You've done a great job piecing together a very nice tribute to your old PC. I'm very much looking forward to part 3.
Thank you!
I love it. I used to have this exact motherboard with a 2400+ @2.4ghz on water. The POST speech reporter absolutely would talk over the audio out. It'll even do it on a successful POST, not just errors. If I recall, it says something like "Power on self test completed. Now booting into operating system"
Thats a nice OC out of that chip, do you remember what water block you were using? I need to have more of a play around with the POST reporter, I think it's the only motherboard I have with this sort of thing on it.
Ahh! The Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. What a board it was!
I had that board in my PC back then, with the complimentary WiFi (b) card.
The only flaw of the board was the lack of power. It lacked a 12V P4 connector and only had a 20 pin ATX power connector. By this time, I’d expect more from Asus.
I used the same CPU cooler, and eventually replaced it by a CNPS-7000cu-LED (iirc). It cooled considerably better. Especially when using an Athlon XP-m 2400+, clocked like a 3700+!!
I had an ATI Radeon X800Pro 256MB, flashed with a Gigabyte BIOS, so the extra pipelines, shaders and clocks were unlocked.
It was an absolute beast of a machine!
I’m loving this video so far!
A 12v power connector would have been nice to see, especially since it was the higher power Athlons that were the first to needed them IIRC. Interesting that the all copper version of the cooler performed considerably better. I'm definitely going to be doing some overclocking on it in the future, so it will be interesting to see if it holds the CPU back. (Not that I expect much more from this CPU anyway!)
I had forgot about the ATI cards that could be flashed into the higher models, thats a 'memory unlocked' moment for me! The specs on your machine sound awesome.
That case is incredibly cool
They definitely have a certain something about them!
Wow looks good love it never had any lights on mine
Thanks, if I remember correctly the window on the original case was quite dark, so if you didn't have lights in it, you couldn't see much of the insides anyway!
Wow 👌 been waiting for this great content
Cool
Man I adore old custom pc builds but compare the most of them, this one is just beautiful!
I adore how subtle the lighting is too. The lights inside the case fades out near the top and the front case has those little bars that looks like lava lamps, I think I just love how this pc looks in general! Can't wait for part three!
Thank you! I like the look of of the cold cathode light too, its a nice even spread and quite a soft light. LEDs are cool, but as you say, I'm not sure they would have suited a retro build like this.
Oh man, that takes me back to my XP build, I'm gonna have to recreate that now! Thanks for unlocking some old school PC mod memories :D
Glad you enjoyed it!
As much as I watch new PC builds I was curious when I came across this video so thought I'd give it a watch and I don't regret it at all. Lovely build looks so nice
Thank you!
no apologies in saying this, but a PC build can be a work of art - at least to the audience of appreciative PC tech geeks - very nice outcome!
wow am your 700th subscriber, its a great honor, hope you get big so you remember me
Haha, thank you!
In xp after installing the Os u can allign the partitions on the ssd for longer lifetime. There is a nice video around from Phil's Computer Lab. I think he uses mini tool partition wizard for that.
Phil does a lot of excelent retro videos and you are correct about the one for aligning the partitions for maximum SSD life. The video is here for anyone who wants to take a look: th-cam.com/video/SdNG7YImRQQ/w-d-xo.html
Love this series, can't wait to see it running games. I'd recommend getting a sata dock that goes in expansion card alots. That way you can swap SSDs for other OSs and ease of adding files
Nice suggestion, I wonder if I could find something either in silver or that I could hide behind the existing drive bay cover.
there was a big thing back then in the mid 90s of color matched computer components. There was a web site back then that sold color matched components like optical drives, floppy drives, keyboard and mice, speakers and PC cases and moitors. They came in five or six different colors. Silver, black, purple, blue, and a lime green color. You could have made a whole color matching computer set up from that site.
Do you remember the name of the website, I'd love to see if it is on the wayback machine. I remember some manufacturers including different colour fronts with their CD/DVD drives so you could match them to your case.
@@RetroSuperhighway No, I don't remember the name of the site. I do remember seeing a full page add for the website in a computer magazine I used to buy back then. I think it was either PC World or PC Magazine.
Cool, I'll do some digging and see what I can find.
Great video! Spray all connectors/moving parts/contacts with plastic safe lanolin oil for corrosion protection and easy plugging/ unplugging! IDE connectors also!
Thats a great tip, thanks for passing it on!
Oh wow, straight down memory lane! I used to build a rig with these cathode lights and the backpanel switch myself, about 300 years ago orso. 😄 Good times, good times. No cable management, but LOOK AT IT GLOWING, MOM! xD Fast forward and I went down that road again, now with RGB, whoa 😄
Haha, yep, there is only so much you can do with the big old cables, so may as well well make the look pretty with the lights!
I have the same Asus Geforce4 ti 4600. Its a ASUS V8460 Ultra With a bleu orange (tiny) round cooler. I also fitted mine with a better cooler. But have also kept the original on the side. Those all have purple pcb.
back during this time, the mobile barton 2500+ was known as a great overclocker. its the one that i overclocked alot. This is the motheroboard i used back then also
The 2500+ is legendary
I loved the Mobile Athlon cpus, so much overclocking headroom on them in general. I wonder if anyone has a collection of all the GOAT CPUs for overclocking from throughout the years.
Hello, mister hand! Cool videos!
You are missing the cable for front usbs and audio, also a x4 hardrive bay that slides in on the rails where the speaker is.
You've got leds out in the bubble tubes as well two top and two at the bottom they display different colours for a two colour effect. Great video now waiting for the Xp install, thank you 😊
Ah, I thought there might be something go where the speaker is, but since my original case didn't have anything there, I'm not too bothered about it. (It would look nice and shiny next to the cold cathode tube though!)
While I did have an Athlon XP back in 2003 when I first tried windows XP, that is an 98/ME compatible hardware era. Far older, far more likely to present problems than a more modern machine. I have a retro XP machine that is the last hardware to officially have drivers for windows xp: An h67 motherboard and a 3770 ivy bridge with a GTX 970. Yes, the 970 is still a capable card for modern games while having official drivers for winodws XP. And I even dual boot to windows 10 with it.
Thats a really long time you can cover with that set of hardware to go all the way from Win XP to Win 10! Nice going!
2:46 you might be interested in a Lian-Li fan controller. The blue backlight of the display and brushed aluminum would definitely compliment the build.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check them out.
This almost what i use back in 03. Athlon Xp 2500+ o/c @ 3200+, GF4 Ti 4200 o/c @ 4600 and an Audidgy 2 ZS.... So much memory from that time... :)
Good times, and some great games from that period to play on the hardware too!
A Scythe Kaze Master fan controller with VFD display in silver would be a great fit for that case. I use the glossy black version myself with my Cooler Master Elite 370 case for my Q9650 XP build. ;-)
That fan controller looks sweet! Thanks for the tip, I need to go looking on eBay.
The case and stickers of that PSU look exactly like those made by FSP Fortron/Source. It's certainly a rebrand. I found those FSP PSUs to be very reliable.
Thanks for the info, I'll have a look and see what I can find out!
i guess the gpu is a Creative 3D Blaster 4 Titanium 4600 (Geforce 4 Ti 4600) with custom zalman cooler and additional blue heatsinks on the ram chips
11:09
Had same exact motherboard with athlon 3200+ barton.
Beast of motherboard, paired with Ati 9600pro and 1GB of ram.
I think i had it from 2004-2007, switched couple of cards started with MX440, 9600pro ended with 7600GS 256MB.
And total of 2 GB of DDR.
I remember also your OG case it was generic chinese case it was very popular in my country,
My was knock off of Alienware case.
Later switched it with ThermalTake Xaser III behemoth of case
Those specs sound awesome, I bet that had no problems running the games of the time! And the Xaser case, thats a name I have not heard for a long time, They looked fantastic, IIRC they even had little feel that rotated outwards on the bottom like on a full tower case because they were so big.
@@RetroSuperhighway
Happy New Year !
Yeah for the time it was awesome build.
Xaser lasted from Athlon XP, Dual Core, And Q6600 builds.
Case is build like a tank, solid aluminium.
I got one smaller Xaser Lan fire, for my athlon XP build but sadly motherboard died.
Happy New Year to you too!
Ah so the Xaser Lan Fire was a mid tower version of the full sized Xaser case? Just had a look at some pictures and it still looks like a beast.
this setup is older than me
I have a very similar build project. Same mobo and CPU. Unfortunately it keeps freezing shortly after boot. I've got to run some tests one of these days. Hoping it's a memory issue and not bad caps.
Interesting, I've some memory issues too that I'll cover in part 3. Hopefully yours is only that, it's much easier to fix than bad caps!
You should be able to run a single drive on the RAID chip no problem. Granted, my MSI K7N2G has a Promise controller, and you will still need the drivers on a floppy when installing Windows, but I'm running SATA just fine as the only boot drive
Thanks for confirming that!
50:00 I'll bet the voltage drops below the operating voltage of the tachometer circuitry.
Yeah I reckon you are right, it seems to been right on the limit of triggering it though most of the speed range. I ought to test it with a hand held tacho to check.
I hope there was thermal paste on the cpu cooler.
Yep, some of the generic stuff that comes with Noctua coolers.
I still got Cooler Master Musketeers laying around new sealed. Model: LLC-U02 im willing to sell. Next to HDD Transfer Rack ICY DOCK Bodyguard 525 to fit a standard 5.25″ expansion bay.
Thanks for letting me know, but unless you are in the UK then shipping would probably be prohibitively expensive?
@@RetroSuperhighway Im from the Netherlands. Postage is like €15 orso. Both expansions are from 2003. The Icy Bodyguard 525 has 2 fans to cool a hdd and 3 hardware temperature sensors to place in the pc. The cooler master musketeer lets you control 1 extra fan, has a sound meter (gets connected to the sound card) and 1 hardware temperature sensor to measure temps on stuff like cpu, gpu, north bridge, ram etc and both can display it.
if you flap a copper flex membrane, you have both the cooler and the near solid state fan in same package
yes the egyptian style flap
meh why do you still have clock multipliers then
this is still the current gen style processor, from 2000s
the multi-head cd-reader
takes a long time to put something in speech output format
Pretty sure that's a PNY GF4 as I have one myself with the std cooler (labelled PNY) but as I looked at mine I realised that 8872 No at the top/frt of the card also refers to an MSI MS-8872 model number so I wonder if they were MSI made boards for PNY, I also have another Creative GF card that also has an MSI model number, so yeah could be either I guess. 👍
Thanks for the suggestion! The PNY ti4600 looks a good match too. I wonder if one of two companies, either Creative or PNY (or maybe even a third party), made them for both themselves and the other company and just badged the ones that were not for them.
@@RetroSuperhighway for sure that is a PNY Verto video card. Creative sold them as part of OEM bundle to system integrator (Dell, et c) for higher end media PCs with TV tuner and capture breakout option, while PNY sold the retail version. Dell Dimension 8000 and 9000 series i think, with the "Creative Audio Console" and option for front panel controller.
Thanks the for the clarification, I think that pretty much confirms it!
I owned a motherboard with the same exact color as your gpu back in the day and it was made by ECS.
Do you recall if it was for AMD or Intel CPUs?
It was for intel@@RetroSuperhighway
i still say windows xp is still the best os
Still in my top 3 for sure!
well done. a slot load drive, thats for my ps3. giving up the dual use cup holder isnt worth it the fanciness.
and that purple pcb looks great
I like the purple PCB, I don't recall seeing much other hardware around at the time that was purple?
@@RetroSuperhighway ECS made some nice purple mainboards (K7S5A) but aside from that, I can’t think of any 🤷🏻♂️
Ahhh, thats a nice looking motherboard. Great suggestion, purple souncard anyone? :)
all purple build may be possible. i have one of the many variants of that case, no fancy led on the front edges l;ike yours but it does have an lcd screen encircled by the power/reset/activity lights in the front. there are wires from the lcd panel but no idea what they connected to.
hey, so i dont know if youtube bugged out and deleted my comment, or if you just turned comments with links up for review until it can be properly displayed in the comments section, but after a few months of digging through the internet to find what the case is, i think i've finally found it
it is a Verre v770 plexiglass side window silver case, and it looks almost an exact match from your images and descriptions you gave apart from the lighting on the front panel.
i would love to send the images and link to where i found it, but i fear that my comment will just get deleted, so if you want more info from my search, i'll just link my twitter handle in the reply of this comment
@WindowsMemph98
TH-cam seems to have a bad habit of either not showing or just deleting comments from time to time and I'm not aware of anything that the video poster can do about it. Thats a great shout on the case model and I've got your twitter handle thanks, I'll give you shout on there.
TH-cam will almost always delete comments containing links to external websites, that’s just how it is here I’m afraid.
No Pentium 4? What! a sad build xd need more power hungry beast like the Pentium d extreme
I was just recreating the build I had back in 2002, but I do have a couple of P4 CPUs. I ought to do a build while it is still winter to warm the place up a bit :)