I built my first PC in '99. My dad had a PC build and service business. I was the first kid in school with a 1ghz processor lol. AMD Thunderbird 1ghz 256MB DDR ram nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU with 32MB vram (I think) Windows ME lol And I remember my dad ranting about 100GB hard drives coming out soon. "You could never fill that up! It's unnecessary!" 😂
Literally my exact build at the same time. No idea what I was doing. Nobody in my family was or is tech savvy at all. I did chip the CPU... Luckily it still worked but it did give my middle school, mountain dew powered heart a cardiac arrest.
And Neve still uses it to power their 88D consoles' on-board computer. It's interesting to play solitaire while you're exporting a film in 5.1 surround.
@J D maybe somewhere in Russia or Ukraine kids still fighting with bears and walking for milk 20 km every day :-D but I am from Czech Republic, people are lazy to walk 200m without car here :-)
I just found this video, and went, wait a long minute. Is that.... MY FATHERS CASE BUT GREY? I look over to my left. IT IS! LOL, he's still using it to this day. You gotta be kidding me XD
Lol. The same thing happened to me back when I watched Linus’s 2009-2019 pc video. It turns out the case he had from 2009 is the same case made by Antec my dad uses! He also is not willing to get rid of it cause he payed 200 for it 🤣
I had the same reaction. I have a black one that looks basically the same, but the internal drive bays are even better. I actually used it up until a week ago. It was my main PC case for well over a decade, hosting many motherboards, CPUs and other hardware - at least 3 power supplies, too.
My father still has that exact case. It has an i9-9900k in it now, but it still looks beautiful. He also has the lime green Chieftec Dragon case next to it with his P4 3.0 GHz that he doesn't have the heart to replace.
Oh i wont forget my first car. but i aint restoring that bitch. gearbox was broken, nothing worked like it was supposed to. but it did have aftermarket cruise control and a heated front windshield. good ol' Ford Focus station Mk1. ditched it for another one (cus spend way to much on my winter tires which were as good as new) which did have all the features like a working gearbox, no cruise tho..
Our first pc had one of those green and black screens, and booted into dos and something called Norton Commander. All I remember though is playing Castle and Bricks.
You know it wasn't a decision to have convex monitor screens, right? It was necessary to keep the cathode ray the same length at each part of the screen.
@@aussiejosh1988 Me too! The first PC I built myself anyway. Before that I was using a hand-me-down 80486 DX-2 66 MHz. The PII became obsolete FAST though, two years later I could barely run any new games on it. I'm glad that's different today!
Yea they were the good only days. I'm still running a I5 7600k at 5GHz stable and goes good with my GTX 1070. Plays all today's games in ultra settings
You are making me feel old... My first gaming computer was a 286... The first one I built was a Pentium 2, 266mhz with a voodoo 2 video card with a massive 16 mb of onboard, that's right! Onboard ram! Never before seen!
Same, old 286 on dos. Buddy had a 286 with Win 3.1. My first built rig was a 486DX. Had some unknown video card and 12MB of ram and a 300mb hd. Ran win 95 pretty nice but spent lots of compressing drives and defrags lol, those were the days. I game and watch this (and typing) on my Core2Duo atm but no money to build a new system yet. Maybe in summer when I'm mostly done building my XJ.
Sadly I remember splurging at paycheck time to buy my Cirrus Logic 5440 and buying the separate 1mb upgrade chips to pop in. It was the final piece i needed to complete my first totally new build which had a P150 that I overclocked to 166. It wasn't long after before I blew a couple of paychecks on a Voodoo rush card. It was about that time I used a cuttoff wheel to cut a large square out of the side of my case and installed plexiglass from the local hardware store and also holes in the top of the case for 80mm fans. Long before you saw any prebuilt cases like this. And don't even get me started on how high I was jumping when my 300A fired up at 450. :^)
@@unknownperson3691 I'm wondering if i'll ever have enough storage space, 2 2TB drives, 2 512GB ssds, a 240GB boot ssd, 2 1TB drives, an 8 TB external and a pile of salvaged drives ranging from 500GB-1TB and i might be expanding again, maybe i should just learn to delete shit xP
I can name all the components of all my pcs I had, including first one. Besides hard/optical/floppy drives, tho still remember that I had 160 gigs samsung ide thing
+OSharraps The Ultimate Doom would easily run on this it would run on a old machine with 166Mhz CPU, onboard graphics, 16mb RAM and Windows 95 with a 60-100MB HDD
ɹʇsuuɹ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) $2000 Canadian. I checked pc park picker and it was $800 american :/ Minimum wage here in Canada is $10 and hour just like in the states, sometimes even less. I don't know how some people can live, because i live with my parents :/
4:47 my god... this takes me back. I remember the sheer panic I had when my screwdriver slipped one time when installing a new CPU cooler. I thought for sure I murdered my motherboard.
+Iscariott2 I still have nightmares of repasting on my old amd ath xp 2600+ haha. I scratched the mb and that spring on the cpu hs was such a pig to push down. Over time the plastic part where to metal clasp hooks to bloody snapped off grrrrr. My mb was the asrock k7vt2 www.asrock.com/mb/via/k7vt2/
+sneekylinux I might disagree, and here is why, when we bought Pentium 1 with 2 GB hard drive and 64 MB ram. It was already a god pc which could play any game on market, even the games with heavy 3d graphics like Need for Speed 1 and 2 without need of any other graphics card. It was Pentium 3 when things begin to get slightly complicated, our 64 MB card was the first card i ever installed on PC. But even still many games can be played without use of dedicated cards. Its was the Pentium 4 when things became complicated. And games needed powerful 3D cards to function. And then introduction of multi core processors further made difficult to choose.
+veazix Hah. Have you ever optimized your hard drive MFM formatting to your CPU and memory speeds, running the commands directly from the Hard Disk BIOS with debug tools to jump to the right memory addresses? Have you sorted out IRQ and DMA settings, soldered your own cables or messed around with the order in which to load drivers in your CONFIG.SYS ? I had custom boot floppies to run certain games.
It,s easy to forget how young Linus is.. My first pc was a second hand 468dx2 which after memory expansion could run settlers, then later a first truly self build pentium 2 350 MHz with a voodo 3dfx card.
lol! This era system was like my 4th build. My first one was with a Pentium MMX 200mhz cpu, 16mb of ram, a 4gb hard drive and a ATI 3D rage pro video card with I think 8mb of ram. Doom was a blast. Ahhh good times!
Oh man that cooler clip brought back some memories.... I was lucky enough to never get it wrong on installation, but I did have one bad experience where one entire row of tabs snapped off while I was using my computer, the cooler fell off the motherboard, took out the graphics card, and inevitably fried the processor since I never thought for a second that the massive "bang" came from inside my computer. Whoo, that was a bad day!
STEVIE G4M1NG & Vlogs nope back in the day and even until around 2009 almost all BIOSes were blue in background and most of the ones function almost the same
@@Мирич-з4е Why would anyone be running 640 x 480 in the early/mid 2000s? My CRT monitor, which I'm using right now, was made in 2004 and has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440. The lowest resolution you can select in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, is 800 x 600, unless you go into the advanced "display all modes" menu to force a lower resolution, and even then, if you select 640 x 480 it gives you a warning that your screen resolution is very low and offers to set it higher for you. The most common resolution in the early/mid 2000s was 1024 x 768 with a 17" CRT (which was the most common screen size at the time). People with a 19" CRT usually ran it at 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024. People with a 21" CRT usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 or 1920 x 1440. People who were lucky enough to have the best PC monitor ever made, i.e., a 24" Sony GDM-FW900 CRT, could run it at 2304 x 1440.
@@MaximRecoil Oh God... the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then. Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p. Nobody ia talking about your monitor resolution. And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution. Back then people were using 800x600 and 1024x768 for their desktop work. And it was the same for gaming. Nobody back then was able to run the newest games at max settings with resolution higher than 1024x768. Because the CPU's and GPU's were not that powerfull as now.
@@Мирич-з4е " the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then." No, he didn't. He simply said, "the resolution and aspect ratio of the time". "Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p." No, they didn't. A typical consumer-grade video camera in the early/mid 2000s recorded at DVD resolution, and it was interlaced (29.97 FPS), which was 720 x 480i. An example is the popular DV format which was introduced in 1995. But there was also HDV, introduced in 2003, which recorded at 720p or 1080i. In the high-end video camera market, 1080p has been around since at least the late 1990s, and even Hollywood started using them in the early 2000s. For example, the movie "Session 9" from 2001 was shot on a 1080p (24 FPS) digital video camera. Star Wars Episode II (2002) was another early movie shot on a 1080p digital video camera. " And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution." You don't know what you're talking about. I just told you that my CRT monitor from 2004 (22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron), that I'm using right now, can go to 1920 x 1440. I also told you that the Sony GDM-FW900 CRT monitor can go to 2304 x 1440: www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR There were CRT displays that could go even higher than that. For example, the Barco 909 could go to 3200 x 2560, which is approximately the same total number of pixels as "UHD", also known as "4K": www.barco.com/en/product/barcoreality-909
The other day I found a Pionex desktop PC hanging in the garbage dump. Looked like the same family PC my parents bought for WAAAY too much on QVC. There was also some Mac Quadra's and other cool stuff.
First PC I ever built was a Slot 1 Pentium 2-based Celeron at 333Mhz, Asus P2B motherboard, 64MB of RAM, 3DFX graphics card, and a massive 10.1GB hard drive, with Windows 98
It is almost funny but I can tell we are both not very young by the amount of RAM used in our first system. I went "Hardcore" with 128MB's of RAM. I had a hook up later on that got me 20GB HDD's on the cheap but my cheap 250watt power supply couldn't drive the 5 I had set up because a single 80GB or 160GB was insanely overpriced. I remember the day I got my Nvidia 8800 GTS 256MB VRAM. lol But my first laptop was the IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 3, 128MB's RAM, 4-5GB HDD and Windows 98, which I promptly upgraded to Windows 2000 and then XP!
The first PC I built was a beast! It had a Core i9-7980XE Extreme, an ASUS ROG Strix X299 MoBo, 2 Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080TI's in 2-way SLI, 128 GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 RAM, and a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe 2TB SSD + Western Digital Black 10TB HDD. And of course i put Windows 10 Pro 32/64 bit on there.
Ahh I built my first gaming PC about a year after this. 2.8GhZ P4, 1GB Ram (DDR400), Radeon 9500pro with 128MB GDDR memory, and a 120GB HD. The thing was playing Far Cry and Doom 3 pretty well.
BlazinBlaziken i have played both crysis and minesweeper and i honestly prefer minesweeper and thus dont care if my pc cant run crysis because minesweeper is replayable and you can run multiple windows of it
Groundskeeper Willie sure, when it's one drive, but when you have several and you have to start figuring out which is set up as what and there's no label on the damn thing so you don't know how to orient the jumper... I'm just saying, diagnosis was a nightmare when something wasn't working right.
My first gaming computer and also the first computer I built from parts was similar. AMD 64 3000+, 512MB RAM, Soltek black and purple motherboard (had to look cool with my case window), ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro. The original Far Cry was an amazing experience at the time.
Ok this is gonna sound wrong on so many levels but im actually watching this video on the same monitor that linus has in the video I've had it since 2008 and it's still working fine ........ Holy shit im broke!!!!
Wow... I feel really old now! My first system in 1990 (even though I had several IBM PS2's) was an Everex Step Intel 386DX-20 with 512K of RAM. Zenith EVGA monitor, the original Sound Blaster audio card, an 8GB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, two 5 1/4" 720K floppy drives. a 2400 baud modem and the tower was about 45 pounds. Initial retail price for the tower was $2500. Oh yah, and Windows 3.1...
I found one of these cases in the garbage along with FOUR other old gaming spec computers from back in the day last night! All of them had working parts. Some had dead PSUs, but they all work now! :D
I haven't gotten too much chance to look at them yet but the oldest one has a Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition motherboard and a matching purple graphics card from the same era. :]]]] The LAN Boy had a GTX 280 with a q2800 quad 2.8ghz and an overclocking board. complete with two 1TB SATA HDDs... that both work... I was like why did they throw these out
The one did have a dead PSU, but literally only the PSU. I put a 350W in and it started right up. One is a super old Dell Optiplex that's had modifications done like more fans, a new GPU, more RAM, etc. Haven't even bothered plugging it in as I have a strong hate for them because I had to deal with one that wasn't properly taken care of at my previous job.
But yeah. Literally all of them except the Dell are custom aftermarket builds, no manufacturer prebuilts. It's insane. Probably one of the most interesting finds I've ever had.
This would be a cool project for me. My first personal build was a beast. I paid to have systems built 3 times previously, but my first custom build I did was pretty sick. AMD FX62, OCZ 4GB DDR2 800, EVGA nForce 590a, BFG 8800 Ultra, BFG 800w PSU, Seagate 300 GB Barracuda HD. Eventually added another 8800 Ultra, after that things got crazy and still to this day.
@CrumblyIgloo Too true! I Just tested a bunch of old powersupply; I could easilly expect which held through times and which clearly didn't by the quality / brand / model.
Your 1st system is very similar to mine! My first build: Athlon XP 2500+ Gigabyte nForce board Radeon 9500 Pro Same LG Flattron monitor Same case (Mine was black)
WOW this brought me back. Having to uninstall one game it have enough room for another, getting the jumper wrong when installing a drive, and those big ass IDE cable clogging up your case and providing an excellent surface for dust to gather. Oh and I still remember how excited I was when I got my first 17 inch fishbowl CRT, I thought it was the tits. When I got my 19 inch flatscreen CRT it blew my mind! And very nearly my back when I tried to move it. Those were the days.
Yeah I'd forgotten about master and slave and PATA cables (another name for IDE). I'd also forgotten about AGP till i got tjesr two old computers from my neighbour.
IDE cables were better than today hard sata cables and fragile connectors on HDD, I saw many broken sata connectors on HDD or MB, but I never saw broken IDE connector, if you bend pin, you can always fix it and there were better cables, not this cheapest flat version. Or you could do tuning with knife. :-)
I remember when I first heard of liquid cooled PC’s, they only had a small clear window in the side of the case, I thought the computer was filled with water like an aquarium lol!!!!
I had a 80gb HD in that time and my dad wanted him to buy a 250gb HD, i said no because 80gb was way more than enough and he should spend money in something else #GoodTimes
I had a 120Gb + 20Gb HDD combo back in 2001 (*2002. - correction, just saw the manufacturing date on the drive :) ), thought I'd never fill all that space up. By the time 2003 came around I have seen the error in my ways...
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DDR400? That must be a beast, we only use DDR4 nowadays.
kamata93 Woosh! :D
+Deses You're just trolling right?? bruh, do you even computer? Here let me send you my old A+ book from 2000 to help you with the old timer lingo.
+Jordan Davis
Catch that joke! Oh no! It flew over your head, ah well :/
+Jordan Davis
2000.....your a youngin.....
I have my dos 6.22 upgrade book somewhere....
+Max Beef Ha! Love it when the youngins try to look cool. Back in my days, we used stones to windows, result in broken glasses, and it was fun.
I built my first PC in '99. My dad had a PC build and service business. I was the first kid in school with a 1ghz processor lol.
AMD Thunderbird 1ghz
256MB DDR ram
nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU with 32MB vram (I think)
Windows ME lol
And I remember my dad ranting about 100GB hard drives coming out soon.
"You could never fill that up! It's unnecessary!" 😂
damn back when 100 gb of storage was to large. My mothers pc uses an old AMD cpu using an old Galax GT 610. The system runs Windows Vista btw
Glassy nowadays 500 gb is not enough
@@TheSwagGuy5000 dude 2tb isn't even enough
Good old T-bird. That was my first custom build as well
Literally my exact build at the same time. No idea what I was doing. Nobody in my family was or is tech savvy at all.
I did chip the CPU... Luckily it still worked but it did give my middle school, mountain dew powered heart a cardiac arrest.
Can you believe XP just turned 15? He can start drinking next year if he moves to Jamaica!
Noice.
Hes going to become watercooled
There is no drinking age in jamaica. You just have to be 18 to buy it.
Can _you_ believe that the worst Windows, Vista, is turning 10 this year?
And Neve still uses it to power their 88D consoles' on-board computer. It's interesting to play solitaire while you're exporting a film in 5.1 surround.
"baby do what you did last time"
"what's that?"
"show me your tip magnetic drive fan"
i showed you my tip magnetic drive please respond
@@loibdude i think you got blocked
Just throw a titan x in it.
I'm pretty sure it would explode
Not gonna work the motherboard doesn't have a PCIE slot.
Connor Murphy It's a joke bro.
+Fmily Just throw a hamster wheel in it.
+Fmily Naa, The titan x would bottleneck the other parts.
Now I want to see "Very First Gaming PC" builds for everyone in Linus Media Group :D
+Akselmoi yes!!!
+Akselmoi A lot of people would just replay the editing builds from last year.
+Akselmoi Loads of them had never built a PC before moving into the new office
+Akselmoi YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Akselmoi Dennis's is a rock.
wtf, how does Linus have DDR400?! I only have DDR4 :(
It's DDR, with speed of 400.
Then again, I do realize this comment is sarcastic.
DDR? Where I come from SDR is all the rage
EEPROM anyone? No?
I still have 2 gb of ddr400 jeje it was magic !
Reminds me of the comment, "You only have Windows 10? I'm on Windows 95 ha!
"You kids have it easy" 'Points at 80 year old man watching this.
Your 80 years old? Damn man!
you are one cool 80 year old man!
Pls tell us story about how your generation was walking to school thru mine field and fighting bears during their 30 miles walk every day. :-D
@J D maybe somewhere in Russia or Ukraine kids still fighting with bears and walking for milk 20 km every day :-D but I am from Czech Republic, people are lazy to walk 200m without car here :-)
Even you are some ones child but you are past childhood... I think... 😅
i love how old monitors used to slowly fade in when you turn them on :D
I like the click when they turn off
Oh god yes
And the static around the screen
@@milky178 OMG SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! I REMEMBER THIS!!
@@kevinradtke3767 I hated the click sound when you turn off CRT monitors. It always felt like a diode just popped off and died inside or something.
Sit back, relax, have a cuppa tea or a beer if it's more your thing.
Green ham gaming nice
+MusicHaven2012 GREEN HAM GAMING
+ryan xie Yup! That's GHG Reference!
+MusicHaven2012=) haha you whatch ghg too!
+MusicHaven2012 GHG!!
OMG I FINALY FOUND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME SETUP AS ME!!!
Lol
wow, i have 2. jk, im on a crap lenovo laptop...
im on a crappy lenovo laptop too
+Joni Lepistö Nobody said that it's used for gaming.
Hahahahahaha
"i put my screwdriver thru my motherboard"
been there, done that
Holy sh*t that must be terrifying!
@@hueyrosayaga nah it's just that u need a good gaming chair and a piece of cardboard.
Oh my god, that's why there's a fat hole in this motherboard i have in the cave
That's when you get out the soldering iron and mute your phone for a few hours.
I BET YO ASSS. this will break my budget
Hahaha
+Silver Physics | CS:GO Nice logo.
lol... :D thanks man... nice logo too
$130 mobo? yep.
+Silver Physics | CS:GO Know what your talking about trying to render a 1:44 video on my Celeron laptop and it is taking like 2 hours
This year is the year I finally built a computer! In 2024, I might re build it, lol.
Cheers
haha
same
I feel you mate... i feel you ..
This was the year I built my 1st gaming pc. I forgot sooooo many things so I had to keep annoying relatives to buy me stuff
Of course it can't run minecraft. I think you need at least 1.5 GB of dedotated WAM
that's for a server though
wam? lol
called a joke
You ok there?
WAM???
I just found this video, and went, wait a long minute. Is that.... MY FATHERS CASE BUT GREY? I look over to my left. IT IS! LOL, he's still using it to this day. You gotta be kidding me XD
Lol. The same thing happened to me back when I watched Linus’s 2009-2019 pc video. It turns out the case he had from 2009 is the same case made by Antec my dad uses! He also is not willing to get rid of it cause he payed 200 for it 🤣
I had the same reaction. I have a black one that looks basically the same, but the internal drive bays are even better. I actually used it up until a week ago. It was my main PC case for well over a decade, hosting many motherboards, CPUs and other hardware - at least 3 power supplies, too.
@@chunkymilk1288 200 just for the case?
Yeah. The case is really heavy too. Probably at least 20 pounds if not more.
My father still has that exact case. It has an i9-9900k in it now, but it still looks beautiful. He also has the lime green Chieftec Dragon case next to it with his P4 3.0 GHz that he doesn't have the heart to replace.
heh at least this beast can run Minesweeper Ultra 1000fps, my Quad - Titan XP I7 6950X can't even fucking run the BIOS
BSG Try installing memory before using your pc
people who don't know a thing about computer are scratching their heads right now.
BSG
It's called a jokr
BSG 4 Way sli?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
aaaaaahhhhhh the old master and slave drive days. Nowadays if you say "Master and Slave Drive", people just think your being racist.
+jeevesme Agree
+jeevesme XD
Racist
Agree xD
lol
Exactly!
it's funny to think modern smart phones are better then this
even way better :D
Modern "Stick-Computer" are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better.
Maybe even my calculator is more powerful.
Not really but still :))
Mr_BeatsFTW Gaming nah hdds bigger
Mr_BeatsFTW Gaming Asus Zenfone 3 ZS570KL.
8:17 "You kids have it easy". Laughs in punchcard.
*My modern gaming PC looks worse than this...*
gaming pc?
Does Anyone think that the vantic cpu cooler looks like something from fallout 4
+SwiftTail lol
+SwiftTail DUDE! It totally does!! hahaha
That was my very first thought, it looks awesome!
It would've looked good in Luke's Scrapyard wars build
It sounds more like something from it
**Googles to see if Neopets still exists**
lol same.
i'm pretty dure it still does. But it's going to be a ghost town.
yeah the ios app is super popular actually
what about webkins?
webkinz is still around. I tried to log in the other day and it told me to come back the next day since my account was archived
You kids had it easy my first HDD was 10MB and you needed to read a book to install it
::SURPRISED::SHOCKED::AWE::
Jumpers...
That "read a book" thing just spews out ok boomer
10 MEGABYTES?! Wow! That was alot back then! Nowadays, you would fill that up VERY quickly!
@@gwenmichigander277 I mean, duh
i used to have a piece of paper as a mouse pad aswell, now i upgraded to a book xD
StevenSidez - selfish cat person lmao
That's more expansive than a mouse pad tho :)
StevenSidez - selfish cat person Loool
Bet its the Bible, you heathen!
*using a mouse pad
**Using a mac
***Using a book
****Using a piece of paper
*****Using no mouse pad
*USING THE ARROW KEYS*
My grandpa still thinks a 40 MB harddisk is unbelievable
My mom is still thinking even how to buy an computer lol
lol
Wow lol
My grandpa bought a capable gaming pc (with 12 gigs of ram and 3.2 ghz) and only uses it for email
@@brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916 bro he probably sends like 1,000 emails per minute you never know
Looks like that golden MSI anniversary motherboard..........
Yup
+MushroomKid That was MSI
+Farnomat |-/
+Farnomat tøp is life
Looks like the PC I use...
my high end rig is still build inside the same case as that one, never bought a new one 😂😂
Darikage Specs?
I use a beige case that has seen everything from 486 up
Then you have a sleeper pc
@@agiskacuri7481 and I'm proud of it, even the old floppy drive is hooked up!
Darikage talk about airflow lol
"let's get windows xp installed on this bitch" I'm using this as my yearbook quote
+Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) i think vista will be better :D
+Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) dont do this you'll be marked as a nerd lol
That is a great USED PC you got there ;)
Holy Shit your here
+Tech YES City DUNICRON!
+Tech YES City LOVE YOUR CHANNEL MAN!
+Tech YES City OMG OMG ITS YOU XD Please answer my question at your 70$ csgo potato vid pls? :3
+Retroez first you then everyone replying to the ghg reference whats next druaga1
'this may look like a crappy piece of junk to you...' Runs better than my Laptop
Osian Vadolia I highly doubt it
@@jujustyles288 r/woosh
CH4SM Yep
@@raccoon1160 doubt it
@akmed calamary yeah i do
This is like the geek version of tracking down and restoring your first car. You never forget your first, but you sure do forget how 'good' it was!
yeah, except he didn't bother to replace capacitors on motherboard or reball chipset for it to run stable
Oh i wont forget my first car. but i aint restoring that bitch. gearbox was broken, nothing worked like it was supposed to. but it did have aftermarket cruise control and a heated front windshield. good ol' Ford Focus station Mk1. ditched it for another one (cus spend way to much on my winter tires which were as good as new) which did have all the features like a working gearbox, no cruise tho..
So sit back, grab a cup of tea, or a beer if it's more your thing, and come along for the ride.
Wait, wrong channel!
And GHGTV just released a fairly modern PC build. What is life?!
Wrong channel, fam.
Love this comment!
GHG
Linus: "You kids had it easy" Me: (laughs in Unisys 5.25 in. floppies)
Our first pc had one of those green and black screens, and booted into dos and something called Norton Commander. All I remember though is playing Castle and Bricks.
There had always been curved monitors. Just that its curved the wrong way.
2017 Koh Guan Tsin Even the modern ones suck. They are a solution in search of a problem.
You know it wasn't a decision to have convex monitor screens, right? It was necessary to keep the cathode ray the same length at each part of the screen.
Linus is younger than I thought. Was expecting a Pentium 2 or 3 build!
Good old pentium II cartridge. Use to run that in my first computer 🤣🤣
@@aussiejosh1988 Me too! The first PC I built myself anyway. Before that I was using a hand-me-down 80486 DX-2 66 MHz.
The PII became obsolete FAST though, two years later I could barely run any new games on it. I'm glad that's different today!
Yea they were the good only days. I'm still running a I5 7600k at 5GHz stable and goes good with my GTX 1070. Plays all today's games in ultra settings
@@aussiejosh1988 Nice! I'm still using a FX-8350 @ 4.5 GHz and a gtx 970. Runs my games well too, though I play few recent AAA games.
@@azaph_yt I've just upgraded from 2 GTX 970 strix SLI. Great cards they are
You are making me feel old... My first gaming computer was a 286... The first one I built was a Pentium 2, 266mhz with a voodoo 2 video card with a massive 16 mb of onboard, that's right! Onboard ram! Never before seen!
the face when you can finally run quake in 60fps
Damn, I had Voodoo2 connected to 2mb graphic card, with 200 mhz cpu and 128mb of ram.
Same, old 286 on dos. Buddy had a 286 with Win 3.1. My first built rig was a 486DX. Had some unknown video card and 12MB of ram and a 300mb hd. Ran win 95 pretty nice but spent lots of compressing drives and defrags lol, those were the days. I game and watch this (and typing) on my Core2Duo atm but no money to build a new system yet. Maybe in summer when I'm mostly done building my XJ.
Sadly I remember splurging at paycheck time to buy my Cirrus Logic 5440 and buying the separate 1mb upgrade chips to pop in. It was the final piece i needed to complete my first totally new build which had a P150 that I overclocked to 166. It wasn't long after before I blew a couple of paychecks on a Voodoo rush card. It was about that time I used a cuttoff wheel to cut a large square out of the side of my case and installed plexiglass from the local hardware store and also holes in the top of the case for 80mm fans. Long before you saw any prebuilt cases like this. And don't even get me started on how high I was jumping when my 300A fired up at 450. :^)
Mine was the tnt2.
Holy shit, not only did his original cooler have a TMD fan, he managed to find another one. Now that's some bragging rights.
I use the exact same mousepad
Well, mine has "Low budget mousepad" written on it.
+Steve Dice hehehehe i
BBကားး
I use a large, thick piece of cloth folded in half. It has decent tracking, actually.
best thing you can customize it :D draw shit on it :D
I still have the receipt from Best Buy from when I bought an Western Digital 80GB 8Mb cache harddrive for $175
Now that same $175 would buy you a 6TB WD Black, or two 4TB WD Blues
I still remember me dad coming home after buying a PC and yelling " we have to never upgrade again , cuz it has a 40 GB hard drive " .....oh boy
Rishab Prasoon, in 10 years, petabyte will become the standard.( I’m still wondering how I used up 1 tb in 2 months)
@@unknownperson3691 I have a 12 terabyte server , I filled about 9.7 TB up in a year .....
@@unknownperson3691 I'm wondering if i'll ever have enough storage space, 2 2TB drives, 2 512GB ssds, a 240GB boot ssd, 2 1TB drives, an 8 TB external and a pile of salvaged drives ranging from 500GB-1TB and i might be expanding again, maybe i should just learn to delete shit xP
i'm mostly amazed he managed to remember all the parts he had...
Jaydn W If you're like me, I document all progress that happens in my life. All achievements I can call my own.
UnMask3d That's kind of crazy. I like it!
Actually I pretty well remember my first Gaming PC. Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz, Segate HDD 80 GB, Samsung DDR 512 mb, GeForce MX440, Microlab case, Samsung CD-Drive, Microlab speakers, Samsung flat CRT 17 inch. I don't remember the motherboard, but I'm sure it was Gigabyte. Nostalgia.
I remember every pc i've had since my first Intel 486Dx 66mhz back in 93-94, when i was 11 years old. I'm 34 now.
I can name all the components of all my pcs I had, including first one. Besides hard/optical/floppy drives, tho still remember that I had 160 gigs samsung ide thing
Damn the audio sure has improved in the last 8 years...
but can it run DOOM ?... the old one...
+walter sajtos 1.8 GHz 32Mb RAM - YES. it can run doom. my 486sx 33Mhz 4Mb RAM ran Doom.
+OSharraps The Ultimate Doom would easily run on this it would run on a old machine with 166Mhz CPU, onboard graphics, 16mb RAM and Windows 95 with a 60-100MB HDD
i played doom3 on a xp2000 with videocard so yeah. I also managed to run gears of war at 120x 240 at 5fps
Had to upgrade my ram back in the day. Only had 2mb of ram. Upgraded to 4mb for a small cost of 200$ lol. 486dx 33mhz Packard bell 40mb hard drive.
+OSharraps My ibook g4 can run doom lol
I'm on a binge watching all of Linus's Videos while waiting for FedEx to deliver the rest of the parts for my new pc.
When ya got the money it's fun huh
+CoolRainbow Rainbow What?
u just did a $2000 and it isn't even that good a build :/
You overpayed like crazy, i got a 1070 and an i7 6700K for cheaper.
ɹʇsuuɹ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) $2000 Canadian. I checked pc park picker and it was $800 american :/ Minimum wage here in Canada is $10 and hour just like in the states, sometimes even less. I don't know how some people can live, because i live with my parents :/
I'm glad I was your first choice ;)
Windows XP yay it's the Windows xp
LOL
Hell yeah!
Windows XP I love you. 😙 #2019
Rip Windows XP
The Tardis holding up the CPU's was my favorite part.
4:47 my god... this takes me back. I remember the sheer panic I had when my screwdriver slipped one time when installing a new CPU cooler. I thought for sure I murdered my motherboard.
Did it work afterwards?
I remember the clips that were under tension with Socket A? being a nightmare and the screwdriver did plunge into the MOBO once or twice
Ugh the flashbacks at that heat sink latching.
+Iscariott2 I got bloody on unmounting EDORAM
Never dealt with EDORAM, but I did slice 3 of my fingers open dealing with the old razor wire I/O panels.
+Iscariott2 I still have nightmares of repasting on my old amd ath xp 2600+ haha. I scratched the mb and that spring on the cpu hs was such a pig to push down. Over time the plastic part where to metal clasp hooks to bloody snapped off grrrrr. My mb was the asrock k7vt2
www.asrock.com/mb/via/k7vt2/
+Iscariott2 Its looked so archeaic... what year would this be in?
+Iscariott2 Dusted out an old computer running XP, was worried I'd break a pin.
lol, so true mate, the kids have it so easy today.....nice
ikr
+sneekylinux We may have some things easier, but some things have certainly gotten harder. Especially with all the marketing mumbo jumbo.
+sneekylinux I might disagree, and here is why, when we bought Pentium 1 with 2 GB hard drive and 64 MB ram. It was already a god pc which could play any game on market, even the games with heavy 3d graphics like Need for Speed 1 and 2 without need of any other graphics card.
It was Pentium 3 when things begin to get slightly complicated, our 64 MB card was the first card i ever installed on PC. But even still many games can be played without use of dedicated cards.
Its was the Pentium 4 when things became complicated. And games needed powerful 3D cards to function. And then introduction of multi core processors further made difficult to choose.
+veazix Hah. Have you ever optimized your hard drive MFM formatting to your CPU and memory speeds, running the commands directly from the Hard Disk BIOS with debug tools to jump to the right memory addresses?
Have you sorted out IRQ and DMA settings, soldered your own cables or messed around with the order in which to load drivers in your CONFIG.SYS ? I had custom boot floppies to run certain games.
RogerWilco I'm sure we could go back and forth about difficult experiences for days. But my point still stands.
2:36
Hey, a Malaysian product :D
Well assemble that is.
Yeah bro many qualities computer components and electronics are assembled in Malaysia 😁😁😁
Assembled in malaysia cuz its cheap
3:21 look at the contacts on the LGA2011-3 chip. its like glitching
+DeadNullermand yeah thats wierd
+DeadNullermand Just video compression artifacts.
+DeadNullermand happens also when he installs the amd fan, look at the cpu-cooling block cutouts.. Horrible ^^
+DeadNullermand TH-cam video compression.
+Wojtek Kiraga Don't think so. Seems more likely it's on LTT's end.
Little did I dream that Linus would say, "Can it run Minecraft?"
It's "will it run minecraft" lol xD
It's what I look for in every one of these types of videos (also in his 16K rig video)
no it cant run minecraft
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS
I was about to comment this on a year old video....
Linus botted his subs
jay 2016
Lol
LinusBotTips
I'm a bot sooo....
+Kyle your not a bot because you show signs that you are human
+matthew beaudin Linus is good i love him i'm totally not a bot
People watching in 2024
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no pc partpicker link?
+Ayush Dabral lol
+Rory Ange he should be trolling
Can it run notepad
No
Nope.
It can actually put a rocket on the moon.
@@abcdefg9613 they used to run trans-lunar orbital calculations on tape readers lil
Back when "cable management" meant getting them plugged into the right place...
It,s easy to forget how young Linus is.. My first pc was a second hand 468dx2 which after memory expansion could run settlers, then later a first truly self build pentium 2 350 MHz with a voodo 3dfx card.
It's easy to forget how young everyone is, My first PC was a calculator and was the size of a room.
lol! This era system was like my 4th build. My first one was with a Pentium MMX 200mhz cpu, 16mb of ram, a 4gb hard drive and a ATI 3D rage pro video card with I think 8mb of ram. Doom was a blast. Ahhh good times!
You sir made a strange choice choosing ATI over 3DFX in the 90's.
What can I say. At the time ATI was what I could afford.
+vaxick was there a big difference between playing doom on "ultra" and "low-medium"? XDDDDDD
+iDerekMC XD
16mb ram, what a beast hahaha
Gray, everything is gray! The rose gold color of the past! :D
My Neopets are dead...
Linus : My pc can't run minecraft
LowSpecGamer : this is time for config montage
Oh man that cooler clip brought back some memories.... I was lucky enough to never get it wrong on installation, but I did have one bad experience where one entire row of tabs snapped off while I was using my computer, the cooler fell off the motherboard, took out the graphics card, and inevitably fried the processor since I never thought for a second that the massive "bang" came from inside my computer. Whoo, that was a bad day!
For me it was always the fact that I cut my skin open on trying to install those damn coolers >.
Brand new windows XP. Oh dear god
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Windows XP was new when my dad was 11.
+Evastron Yeah. Linus even clarified it was new 'then'
Ik lol. Just hard to think of Windows XP being "new". My "new" during my childhood was Vista and it was a huge step up from XP
Your dad was born in 1990?
Wtf this bios is the same as of my actual PC
Frankerzed you have the same motherboard then :D
STEVIE G4M1NG & Vlogs that's not a good thing tho lol
STEVIE G4M1NG & Vlogs nope back in the day and even until around 2009 almost all BIOSes were blue in background and most of the ones function almost the same
that was certainly AMI bios
Best Trap Music HD my 800$ "gaming laptop" from 3 years ago with a gt 610m and i7 3610qm still has a blue bios like that..
Behind every modern day PC enthusiast lies a fascinating tale. Respect!
What a blast from the past!
My first gaming rig had an AMD 3200+, NVIDIA 6600GT 256mb and duel channel DDR 512mb of RAM. What a beast.
Yours was better then mine. I had 348mb ram and a GeForce 5200
@@kenthinson2980 I had a 512 MB and 9800gt
Dude that is legit my old pc. It still runs to this day and I play old games on it regularly
@@imran5373 hi can you be in stock for 5 minutes
my first one i built myself was 3570k and 7970 ghz edition 8gb ram
Should’ve recorded in the resolution and aspect ratio of the time to give a little ascetic feel
So, 1920 x 1440 then?
@@MaximRecoil No, 640 x 480.
@@Мирич-з4е Why would anyone be running 640 x 480 in the early/mid 2000s? My CRT monitor, which I'm using right now, was made in 2004 and has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440. The lowest resolution you can select in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, is 800 x 600, unless you go into the advanced "display all modes" menu to force a lower resolution, and even then, if you select 640 x 480 it gives you a warning that your screen resolution is very low and offers to set it higher for you.
The most common resolution in the early/mid 2000s was 1024 x 768 with a 17" CRT (which was the most common screen size at the time). People with a 19" CRT usually ran it at 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024. People with a 21" CRT usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 or 1920 x 1440. People who were lucky enough to have the best PC monitor ever made, i.e., a 24" Sony GDM-FW900 CRT, could run it at 2304 x 1440.
@@MaximRecoil Oh God... the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then. Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p. Nobody ia talking about your monitor resolution. And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution. Back then people were using 800x600 and 1024x768 for their desktop work. And it was the same for gaming. Nobody back then was able to run the newest games at max settings with resolution higher than 1024x768. Because the CPU's and GPU's were not that powerfull as now.
@@Мирич-з4е " the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then."
No, he didn't. He simply said, "the resolution and aspect ratio of the time".
"Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p."
No, they didn't. A typical consumer-grade video camera in the early/mid 2000s recorded at DVD resolution, and it was interlaced (29.97 FPS), which was 720 x 480i. An example is the popular DV format which was introduced in 1995. But there was also HDV, introduced in 2003, which recorded at 720p or 1080i. In the high-end video camera market, 1080p has been around since at least the late 1990s, and even Hollywood started using them in the early 2000s. For example, the movie "Session 9" from 2001 was shot on a 1080p (24 FPS) digital video camera. Star Wars Episode II (2002) was another early movie shot on a 1080p digital video camera.
" And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution."
You don't know what you're talking about. I just told you that my CRT monitor from 2004 (22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron), that I'm using right now, can go to 1920 x 1440. I also told you that the Sony GDM-FW900 CRT monitor can go to 2304 x 1440:
www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR
There were CRT displays that could go even higher than that. For example, the Barco 909 could go to 3200 x 2560, which is approximately the same total number of pixels as "UHD", also known as "4K":
www.barco.com/en/product/barcoreality-909
i cant believe my pentium dual core e2280 2ghz, 2gb ram and geforce 8600 gt runs somewhat decent games
mrMR well that's the power of intel
The other day I found a Pionex desktop PC hanging in the garbage dump. Looked like the same family PC my parents bought for WAAAY too much on QVC. There was also some Mac Quadra's and other cool stuff.
how is this supposed to be a *gaming* pc? well i guess back then minesweeper was a good gaming experience
***** i can't, on mobile when you comment your comment dosent show up for some reason
Be An Hero why did you get triggered kid?
yeah,my GTX 1080 would beat that.
You see dumbfuck kid their was alot of good games back then.
Quakeguy. Kid? And i know, i played cs 1.6 on a potato when it came out
I would love a episode like ''Linus spends a week with a CRT monitor.''
First PC I ever built was a Slot 1 Pentium 2-based Celeron at 333Mhz, Asus P2B motherboard, 64MB of RAM, 3DFX graphics card, and a massive 10.1GB hard drive, with Windows 98
It is almost funny but I can tell we are both not very young by the amount of RAM used in our first system. I went "Hardcore" with 128MB's of RAM. I had a hook up later on that got me 20GB HDD's on the cheap but my cheap 250watt power supply couldn't drive the 5 I had set up because a single 80GB or 160GB was insanely overpriced. I remember the day I got my Nvidia 8800 GTS 256MB VRAM. lol But my first laptop was the IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 3, 128MB's RAM, 4-5GB HDD and Windows 98, which I promptly upgraded to Windows 2000 and then XP!
massive 10.1gb yah
if u are a good person just open steam -community .com/?ref=G4trP6K (remove the spaces
I'm the hundredth like
The first PC I built was a beast! It had a Core i9-7980XE Extreme, an ASUS ROG Strix X299 MoBo, 2 Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080TI's in 2-way SLI, 128 GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 RAM, and a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe 2TB SSD + Western Digital Black 10TB HDD. And of course i put Windows 10 Pro 32/64 bit on there.
Ahh I built my first gaming PC about a year after this. 2.8GhZ P4, 1GB Ram (DDR400), Radeon 9500pro with 128MB GDDR memory, and a 120GB HD. The thing was playing Far Cry and Doom 3 pretty well.
Wow, your sound quality has improved in the last 3 years. Nobodies gonna read this but o well.
I no-joke had to check the comment date in this. It was pretty surprising, to say the least.
I love you brent
No
@@mishal321 yes
@@brentgoeller8257 :v
can it run Crysis??
comedy
lol
PorkFreeGaming ofcourse! But can it run minesweeper?
BlazinBlaziken
that's the real question
BlazinBlaziken i have played both crysis and minesweeper and i honestly prefer minesweeper and thus dont care if my pc cant run crysis because minesweeper is replayable and you can run multiple windows of it
Yes at 4K and 60fps
Oh wow, I forgot about the IDE Master/Slave configuration nightmare. I do NOT miss these days.
Groundskeeper Willie sure, when it's one drive, but when you have several and you have to start figuring out which is set up as what and there's no label on the damn thing so you don't know how to orient the jumper... I'm just saying, diagnosis was a nightmare when something wasn't working right.
tell that to someone who has never used one before....
Elad Avron actually kind of useful. I've had to do so much Jerry rigging to my computer to get it too set a hard drive to boot.
That shit was easy.
AMD *2020: Demonically laughs
Should i feel bad that my BIOS is literally the exact same as that?
no
Alessia Aikley yes
My BIOS looks exactly like that to
mine is also not yet UEFI so...
+facelessninetytwo My PII's Bios chip is an EEPROM and it has a sticker that says that.
What is this, Green Ham Gaming? Go back to making the 50 Titan XP build, Linus.
You may need an extra comma so that Linus is more easily distuingishable.
+Grammar Nazi No. #77 to the concentration u go!!1
Adolf Hitler
You are, my Führer, but I would recommend adding another period at the end of your sentence.
NEIN
Grammar Nazi #77 Fuck.
That CPU fan looks like it's lived through a nuclear war.
IronShredd "cooling the cpus makes me wish for a nuclear winter."
Well ain't that a kick in the head.
Some one needs a platinum chip to be cooled.
do terminals even have fans lol
lol mad linus(mad max)
My first gaming computer and also the first computer I built from parts was similar. AMD 64 3000+, 512MB RAM, Soltek black and purple motherboard (had to look cool with my case window), ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro. The original Far Cry was an amazing experience at the time.
Humble beginnings...
Gigantic endings
Wise words my friend
You earned my like
Well thats gay
Ok this is gonna sound wrong on so many levels but im actually watching this video on the same monitor that linus has in the video I've had it since 2008 and it's still working fine ........ Holy shit im broke!!!!
"cries in poor college student"
Nah, call yourself a semi-pro esportler and brag about your 0.005 ms response time and 160 Hz refresh rate.
Thats scary
get a cheap lcd off you ebay... ANYTHING!
CRT is more A E S T H E T I C (and T H I C C)
Now make it rgb
fuck RGB shit
RGB is ugly
Mad_Cat bet u cant afford it
wow people wtf
@@ayandas438 Implying that RGB is expensive somehow?
Wow... I feel really old now! My first system in 1990 (even though I had several IBM PS2's) was an Everex Step Intel 386DX-20 with 512K of RAM. Zenith EVGA monitor, the original Sound Blaster audio card, an 8GB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, two 5 1/4" 720K floppy drives. a 2400 baud modem and the tower was about 45 pounds. Initial retail price for the tower was $2500. Oh yah, and Windows 3.1...
I found one of these cases in the garbage along with FOUR other old gaming spec computers from back in the day last night! All of them had working parts. Some had dead PSUs, but they all work now! :D
HOLY CRAP BOY, what specs???
I haven't gotten too much chance to look at them yet but the oldest one has a Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition motherboard and a matching purple graphics card from the same era. :]]]]
The LAN Boy had a GTX 280 with a q2800 quad 2.8ghz and an overclocking board. complete with two 1TB SATA HDDs... that both work... I was like why did they throw these out
The one did have a dead PSU, but literally only the PSU. I put a 350W in and it started right up. One is a super old Dell Optiplex that's had modifications done like more fans, a new GPU, more RAM, etc. Haven't even bothered plugging it in as I have a strong hate for them because I had to deal with one that wasn't properly taken care of at my previous job.
But yeah. Literally all of them except the Dell are custom aftermarket builds, no manufacturer prebuilts. It's insane. Probably one of the most interesting finds I've ever had.
damn
The intro is like "Some may call this junk... Me, I call them treasures."
This PC is Linuses golden claw!
It's considered junk to me, this garbage isn't worth using.
It’s faster than my pc
@@cryo_life duh, this was long ago.
@@femboycyan Then it is no treasure. IT IS JUNK!
"What a piece of junk!"
To which you should have replied, "She'll make .5 past light speed!"
Missed opportunity.
Brian M very missed opportunity
Super missed opportunity
So badly missed that it overshot Ep 4 and arrived in Ep 7...
nerd
It made the kessel run in 12 parsecs.
This would be a cool project for me. My first personal build was a beast. I paid to have systems built 3 times previously, but my first custom build I did was pretty sick. AMD FX62, OCZ 4GB DDR2 800, EVGA nForce 590a, BFG 8800 Ultra, BFG 800w PSU, Seagate 300 GB Barracuda HD. Eventually added another 8800 Ultra, after that things got crazy and still to this day.
Can it run pong
Fuck off
learn to take a joke man not cry
BeanJohnAlzahrani rule 34
I still remember playing cs 1.6 and dota (OG) on my 512 MB ram intel pentium and windows xp
#Memories
cs go 1.6?
Evgen Vla He's a time traveller!
Evgen Vla yes 1.6
it's not called Csgo 1.6.. haha its just csgo or cs 1.6 :)
Falloutandmore yh whag i meant to say my B
I once tried to startup an old pc.
The power supply exploded from the inside...
D:
Hahhh hah lol, thats funny thank you
@CrumblyIgloo
Too true!
I Just tested a bunch of old powersupply; I could easilly expect which held through times and which clearly didn't by the quality / brand / model.
This is why i'm scared of really old computers
LumiYT It’s pretty rare.
This video makes me feel so friggin' old. Thanks Linus.
Your 1st system is very similar to mine!
My first build:
Athlon XP 2500+
Gigabyte nForce board
Radeon 9500 Pro
Same LG Flattron monitor
Same case (Mine was black)
Same for me (running at FSB 400 like almost every 2500+ at this time), except 9600 pro, 9500 pro was a very good deal, too late for me :(
WOW this brought me back. Having to uninstall one game it have enough room for another, getting the jumper wrong when installing a drive, and those big ass IDE cable clogging up your case and providing an excellent surface for dust to gather. Oh and I still remember how excited I was when I got my first 17 inch fishbowl CRT, I thought it was the tits. When I got my 19 inch flatscreen CRT it blew my mind! And very nearly my back when I tried to move it.
Those were the days.
K
Yeah I'd forgotten about master and slave and PATA cables (another name for IDE). I'd also forgotten about AGP till i got tjesr two old computers from my neighbour.
I still have to uninstall one game to install another. I remember when i thought it would be impossible to fill 1TB now I wish I had 4TB or more.
K
IDE cables were better than today hard sata cables and fragile connectors on HDD, I saw many broken sata connectors on HDD or MB, but I never saw broken IDE connector, if you bend pin, you can always fix it and there were better cables, not this cheapest flat version. Or you could do tuning with knife. :-)
In your first video with freegeek (little computer shop of horrors) you can see this exact lanboy (probably) just above tarrons head at 5:54.
I remember when I first heard of liquid cooled PC’s, they only had a small clear window in the side of the case, I thought the computer was filled with water like an aquarium lol!!!!
Haha! :)
i like this pc already, it doesnt run minecraft :)
H S Seems legit.Well at least you dont have shitty cancerous kids breaking your eardrums
:)
I had a 80gb HD in that time and my dad wanted him to buy a 250gb HD, i said no because 80gb was way more than enough and he should spend money in something else #GoodTimes
I had a 120Gb + 20Gb HDD combo back in 2001 (*2002. - correction, just saw the manufacturing date on the drive :) ), thought I'd never fill all that space up. By the time 2003 came around I have seen the error in my ways...