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Sometimes PC DREAMS DO become reality! We’ve assembled high-end gaming parts of years past to build our top tier fantasy retro desktop rig. But there are a more than a few hiccups, and maybe our Dreams will transform into nightmares. Y2K more like WHY-2K? Either way, the 2001 Dream Machine from Maximum PC is here.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro - CPU
1:00 Motherboard
1:58 RAM
3:08 Case
4:08 Why don’t they do this anymore?
5:06 The “Deathstar”
6:57 The Disk Drives
8:23 Power Supplies can be “NICE” too
9:21 GPU
10:00 Does it turn on? and also other Add-in Cards
11:40 This Monitor is SICK
12:11 This Mouse and Keyboard are NOT
13:21 This Audio Setup still holds up today.
16:47 Playing Games - this thing can push THAT much? - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Asus has noticed some dust on that 2001 motherboard. They are offering repair service for $7,600.00 and will include a new CMOS battery under warranty at no charge.
Oh my God thats funny I'm Dying over here ......#FuckAsus
Asus noticed a dead body next to that motherboard.
They offer replacement for $9 million.
If you don't accept in 12 seconds, they will return both disassembled.
hell yeah, their sub part computers fail all the time and they want you to sell yourself to repair your device.
You misspelled #Asses
Someone farted in the motherboards general direction.
$20mln!!! And not a penny less.
Linus creates a media group to obtain his Childhood dream.. almost brings a tear to one's eye
Linus creates a media group to obtain his cringe segue to his sponsor
he created a media group so his dream pc could be a tax write off
@@cheezy269UwU such a tax writeoff
no it doesn't
hundreds of people would disagree with that statement
18:27 Linus Forgets the YEAR he was born.
You were 15 in 2001 Linus.
…he might have been dropped on his head as a baby…🤔
Whoops - LS
To be fair you kinda stop thinking about it in your 30s. You got what reason to keep track of it? “I can drive!” @ 16, then “I can vote!” @ 18, and “I can drink!” @ 21. Then what? “i can rent a car? 🤷♂️”@ 25 and nothing else till you're 65 and can draw social security…. You stop thinking about it.
@@andrewdriver3318 Bro could drink at 19 ;)
@@Malohdek1 19, 21 we all waiting till 65 now 😆
20:46 “can you shoot down the chute” good to see Linus embracing his Canadian heritage of war crimes 😂
third coment about this, I'm so confused - I dont get the reference - and I think its not a funny coment to make.. but .meh. ^^
@@YuProducciones Canada during the world wars was, very innovative in the War Crimes industry. It’s a joke, because Canadians have the stereotype of being so unbelievably nice, but are also up there with Japan for requiring new Laws of War because of them. Every country’s history is built in war crimes though, so it isn’t meant to be actually derogatory towards Canadians, just “haha the nice guys used to be the really bad guys”
@@alexwolfeboy yeah, I find a nice good vibe around this coments too.. I could tell something like was the context... very interesting to know. thank you!
who cares about the Geneva Suggestions anyway 😉
It's not a war crime the first time...
20:37, sir, that's considered a warcrime
Not, if you are Canada and it's WW1 then it's a Geneva Checklist.
But who could said that was done intentionally?
its not a war crime if you win the war
it's only a warcrime if there's evidence.
Relax hes Canadian they are known for it
My Klipsch pro media speakers lasted for more than 20 years before they started making weird noises. I was able to call Klipsch and get replacement subwoofer cones from them to replace the 15 year old rotted out ones for like $30 each. That made me a life long customer, a company that actually stood behind their products. I liked them so much I repurchased them again a couple of years ago, the quality went down a little, but still better than competitors.
I still have 15 year old one that are playing to this day. For life, as long as they continue being awesome to their customers.
That's awesome. If I'm ever in the market for speakers I'd be looking at them then after reading your comment about them standing by the customer which is all too rare these days sadly.
Mine went about 16 years then developed a hum which probably required a capacitor change. I used the satellites with a different amp and subwoofer until one of those went soft on me just a year ago. They served me well for entertainment and proofing audio. I first tested them in Best Buy and they blew away the more expensive Bose on display for computer audio in 2003.
I still have mine that's been working without a hiccup. This whole video was a trip down memory lane.
yeah klipsch pro media speakers are the goat.
Buffer underrun while burning CDs was so annoying. I learned from that the importance of having two IDE channels, and having the HDDs on the primary channel and the CD drive on the secondary channel. That way the data wouldn't get interrupted, and would have a clean stream from channel 1 to 2. Writing across the same channel would lead to buffer underruns.
And cloning discs from one disc drive to another directly was also a big no no. Instead, clone it to a disc image on the HDD and then burn it back to a disc from there.
That's what the BurnProof drives fixed. I had the same TDK drive from this build and it absolutely worked. It was very difficult to get the buffer to run out. Best CD burner I ever owned. In a strange twist of fate, I had already worked for TDK before that helping them build a CD-R factory in the US. It was a very neat place. CD-Rs were in high demand. Shortly after building that facility, the mass producers in China ramped up and absolutely knocked the legs out from under TDK trying to sell blanks made in the US. The TDK factory also made VHS tapes for several brands. They closed the factory and tore it down, brand new CD-R machines and all. Cheap media made in China and the end of VHS really hurt TDK as a company.
@LatitudeSky I used to buy TDK, Kodak and Sony CDs. I still have a 50x spindle in a box - I just checked. 😆
my favorite thing about watching videos like this with Linus in them is how He is so completely unabashedly a nerd. he loves this stuff so much, and has so much fun with it. This PC he's building is functionally a relic and yet he's loving every second of it, especially once they start booting up old games.
1:21 "September of 2001" huh, that date does sound familiar
reminds me of that tragedy
911 reference 911 reference
@anabang1251 yea I like porsche
A tower of power
Reminds me of a moment in the fourth grade ...
15:26 Something people forget is that good audio doesn’t really go bad over time
That "childhood PC" has a more modern sound system than my current rig. If it ain't broke...
Thought the same thing when they mentioned the Sennheiser headphones. The HD600s (not the ones in the video) came out in the 90s and are still made and used today.
I use a set of DT770 Pros for my PC.
Like you say, good audio stays good.
@@NickkAtNyteI have couple pair of HD 420 they are vintage as hell but still sound amazing for an open back especially.
@@NickkAtNyte Feels like audio tech doesn't move that fast. The only difference with my AKG K702s is that the newer built ones apparently have worse build quality compared to the older Austrian ones.
stil using my now legendary logitech z5500 set
So much of this video hit me right in the feels. I was working at CompUSA back in 2001 and that allowed me to get some sweet deals on hardware like this. The only component I still have in my house today, ~22 years later, is my Logitech Z-5400 5.1 THX speakers w/ wireless satellites. Each one had a capacitor fail over the years, but they're still in full working order after some quick soldering.
RTCW!!!! Yep you can scale that game up to at least 1080p on the original engine (with INI edits), but it's been remade since too. You can also still play and sometimes even find active servers for the multiplayer sequel/expansion/standalone game called Enemy Territory. It was originally planned as an expansion but due to issues during development, they ended up releasing the multiplayer portion of the game as a standalone, free to play game.
Truly a miracle that you found a working DeathStar. I can still remember when mine died. Many brilliant MSPaintings were lost that day.
I lost two 30 gb 75gxp drives back in the day... The 60gxp fared better.
The irony is that Hitachi fixed the issues and turned the former IBM drives into superb products. There was a long time where Hitachi was the only brand I would use and HGST drives are still the only spinning drives I use.
@@LatitudeSkyI got screwed out of $450 buying 2 new-old stock 10tb helium drives last year. They lasted half a year
Fun fact: The Nintendo 64 also used Rambus RDRAM. The "jumper pak" that's included in the expansion slot out of the box is literally one of those "dummy modules" in a fancy plastic cartridge. (2:44)
whoa. Thank you for this info.
Lol
The PS2 also used RDRAM (a whopping 32 MB!!).
Wait, whaat?! That's why the N64 needed the silly jumper pak thing?! To deal with the RD RAM hardware limitation?! Thanks for this info, really cool little tidbit of gaming history here.
Wait... that's all that jumper Pak was??? just a dummy for the RDRAM??? Mind blown.
I love these retro build videos, reminds me of the excitement of doing a new build back in those days. Every upgrade was always a big step from the last, and there were so many high end options to drool over that I could never afford so I'd usually settle for mid end.
4:00 I really miss aluminum cases. Shame no case manufacturer bothers to make them anymore.
Dude, I remember having that Klipsch 5.1 surround playing World of Warcraft, and a dirty Rogue would make that stealth sound behind you, and it would make you jump because of the surround, because you knew the stun lock was coming. Also, watching a movie on the PC, you could hear the paper burning from a cigarette when somebody would be smoking. Or the scuff of a shoe on the floor when somebody was walking. It was legit, so crystal clear.
I still have mine in storage. I will never sell it.
My mom and I were watching a horror movie with surround system.
Our theater room was a room the original homeowner built as an extension and was like a really really fancy porch.
In the movie a twig broke and my mom (a military vet) and me immediately grabbed something for self defense thinking there was someone outside XD
i was so sad when mine got taken out by lightning. They were so amazing
@@TooMuchMiddle I'm using mine now! Also have the Klipsch Home Theater Reference speakers on my home theater system ! Great!!
Love my klipsch 2.1. $100-$150 is a steal
20:33 when the second Canadian mode kicks in
I thought of the same thing... hahaha
Never a war crime the first time... or when its digital... eh
It's never a war crime the first time.
I always bought those Maxtor drives. They seemed to last longer. Heck, I might still even have ones working in the box of Hard drives to take apart, destroy and get rid of...
I still have that case. It's hooked up to a Samsung Syncmaster 900NF 19 inch CRT monitor. Great for retro PC games and arcade emulation. Funny that it's just as desirable now as it was back then.
you know, when you feel old? When someone talks about a (late) childhood dream computer and it has a 1.8GHz CPU.
I remember overclocking the famous Celeron 300A to 450MHz and that wasn't my first one. Back when Celeron was a smaller Pentium, not something to put in a coffee machine.
My first one was 600hz and it sat in a shoebox. I started it with a screwdriver and was in (a laggy) heaven.
my first was 5000hz. my i7 7700k reached its end trying to run cyberpunk at playable levels. at the time i bought it I spend every holiday season to that day working full-shift in a factory to afford the pc and my driving licence.
I juiced it to 464mhz
I remember gaming on my dads C64, dreaming about the hot new thing: an Amiga 500…
My first computer had a Pentium Pro 180, overclocked it by just removing a jumper, 200mhz of raw fury right there.
You know what would be a cool video? The ultimate PC from 2015, or ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO
Quiet, witch! - LS
I concur
I'm still on a pc from 2015 😢 4th gen intel i7
3 gen here 😢@@ThomasWyatt-yg4sz
Rounded IDE cables paid for my house. Amazon had not become a thing yet and there were lots of local pcshops. I went around to all the local shops and offered my services. $100 to fix the computer or it was returned in the original condition for free. The rounded cables would pull out it the corners. They would give constantly changing symptoms and make it harder to troubleshoot. The first one took me two hours to find. After that, I was able to repair a machine in a little over twelve minutes. I was fixing 17-20 computers a day for three months straight. Paid off my mortgage with the money. Good times.
This was an awesome video - I remember having my dual 20gb hard drives, one game installed at a time. - lan parties with 6 crt monitors on the dining room table. Minimum 3 hours of troubleshooting to get connected to each other.. damn those were the days
7:02 Dear Linus.
In 1998 at my 30th birthday, I got a SCSI card from my colleges at work. I bought a SCSI Plextor burner for my own money. It completely eliminated the issue that you couldn't use your PC, when burning a disk and there were no issues when the buffer ran low. The SCSI board apparently had its own processor, to do all the hard work, as there was next to no load on the PC, when burning a disk. All you had to be careful with, was not overloading your harddisk, but I can't remember me having a single burn failure, after getting that combo.
You should make a video about such a setup! I'm pretty sure I have either or maybe both components to this day, somewhere.
Back in the nineties me and a friend borrowed, for money, a SCSI card and external single speed CD burner. We took orders from our entire class and spent an entire weekend burning the CDs. We took turns sleeping and had rented three movies, on VHS of course, to watch. I remember one of them was Desperado and my friend waking me up saying, „this one’s hilarious“ and me waking him two hours and one finished CD later with „you were right“. Good times. And we only wasted two blank CDs , for a still painful 12 deutsch marks each.
Ah, the days of adaptec card+plextor drive. I was DTP’ing a newsletter at the time (the move from pagemaker to indesign 2.0 was so momentous for me - back when adobe wasn’t taking lessons from the galactic empire…) and would burn CD-Rs of all the working files of each issue and distribute them to two people across the country for archiving and so that if the pdfs ever needed to be reconstructed, they could do so without me if need be (that did actually come to pass some 12 years later and it actually worked!) and after I coastered 4 cd-r blanks the first month, I was off to the not-so-near fry’s. Never coastered another blank. ;)
Meeeemmmorrieeeeeees…
that shit was probably many times more expensive than 2001's ide drives.
@@mtunayucer Well, the SCSI card was around 1000 DKK or around $133.
The burner itself was as expensive, as a good quality burner, so not more expensive, than any other high end product.
I don't remember the price of the burner, but my guess is around $100-150.
@@akyhne thats not too expensive i had a number in the ballpark of 500 dollars on my mind
I got to see the original Dream PC Falcon Northwest case for this build a couple months ago. You should have called Adam to see if you could have put it all back together!
I forgot about the sidewinder. Mechwarrior was my childhood with that.
the Nostalgia on this one! I think I still have that exact magazine laying around somewhere, I remember drooling over PC Mag, a trip to the grocery store would not be complete without telling mom to find me in the magazine section I'll be reading PC Magazine.
I still own "that" system. Around 2002 walked off the aircraft carrier, headed to Fry's and filled a shopping cart spending over 2000 USD. Abit TH7 raid motherboard, 1.7Ghz Pentium 4, VGA nVidia GeForce3 Ti 500, DVD Write drive, Power supply, WD drive, ram, windows 2000 OS. Put it into an aluminum briefcase for mobility on base. Bought a legit case and added Sound blaster Audigy platinum EX, Klipsh 5.1 pro media later. ...upgraded to 2.8Ghz (same motherboard with chip adapter) and water cooled since then. The Klipsh 5.1 is the only thing still in use.
GeForce 3 was too expensive for me! It was at least almost like trying to get an 'RTX 4090 or 4080! So, in October, 2001, it was a GeForce 2 MX200 32 MB for me.
Which Fry's, i gotta know
…you mean even the carrier has been decommissioned? 🤔
I miss the old Abit boards
@@Tevrudenit was probably a fry’s electronics
NGL, as someone growing up in pretty much the same era of PC gaming as people like Linus and even Jay(z), I am extremely jealous that he gets to have a job putting together old Dream PC builds. Makes me feel young again, which is simply fueled by the same envy-driven energy I had when these builds were relevant.
I mean we probably could, if anything our time may be more valuable than the money we'd need to spend. Although I am guessing we're getting at the other end of the U curve, where PC parts rapidly depreciate in value til they bottoming out and begin going up again simply due to rarity. Working CRT monitors gonna be like that.
I want a Sidewinder Joystick now....Maybe I should since I can't play MSFS 2020 properly without it?
You should just go ahead and build the thing before the parts get rare enough to be expensive again. I have, some years ago, and now have every "dream PC" that I wanted boxed up in storage, since I'm done playing with them having scratched that itch permanently. But I built a socket A monster, a socket 478 or whatever the HT P4 was and a s939 with an AMD FX-60, and have about a pallet of video cards to pick from, including the bizarro dual GPU Asus MARS things which are actually very nice WHEN THEY WORK, which is about 50% o the time, the other half of the time only one GPU is running. And I have early SSDs like the OCZ card raid drive things that were godlike monsters back in the day. Note that I used plural there, I do in fact have more than one of those things. Full acrylic cases, monster tower cases, monster PSU's like 1250W, 1300W etc plus of course whatever the fanciest sound blasters were of that era, I don't remember the name anymore, but I have more than one of them too. Aureal Vortex too.
Well, the downside is that it is, in fact, a sampling of "1 or 2 of EVERYTHING" you'd have in a fancy computer store between 2000 and 2006 or so, several cubic meters of blingified glorious PC masterrace creme de la creme. I have enough to build maybe 6-8 full systems with boxes of parts left over.
- JUST DO IT -
In true canadian style, he is applying the Geneva Checklist by shooting at a pilot who has ejected >.
I still have that sidewinder in the garage! It was the best for Mechwarrior!
In good shape it’s still a few hundred bucks. I love mine even today.
Just got one for flight simming and it is great!
@@visualdarkness I STILL use mine for Elite Dangerous.
@@jaymorrison2419 I got Elite but still have to try it out!
@@jaymorrison2419 I got Elite but still need to try the game!
The N64 used RDRAM for its memory and the Expansion Pak (the thing that came with Donkey Kong 64) was a 4MB RAM module. The "Jumper Pak" (the thing that came pre-installed in the slot the Expansion Pak goes in) was a CRIMM, or a dummy RDRAM stick required for electrical continuity. That's why you can't run it with the slot empty even though the Jumper Pak doesn't really do anything
I thought the Jumper Pack was the RAM.
PS2 uses RDRAM as well 32MB of it.
@@Butterscotch_96 it's just a few resistors and capacitors
1:20
...but in September of 2001¹
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¹Better known for other things
Not relevant here.
linus not being able to afford this was the worst thing that happened during that time
What, the Noodle Incident?
20:30 Linus "War Crimes" Sebastian back at it again
20:33 Linus casually attempts a war crime
7:27 I remember using the Nero Burning Rom (that's what they called it) and seeing that buffer bar. Man does that bring back some memories. Imagine getting 3/4 of the way through the cd, and then having a buffer issue. Then the whole CD has to be thrown away, or used as a coaster.
I miss when products could have goofy dad jokes for brand names. Can we bring that back, please, tech industry?
Back with my second pc (around 1997) Easy CD Creator (4?) gave me the same level of anxiety. Oh man, that buffer bar. Taskill everything but Explorer and ECDC and hope for the best!
In my recollection, this was something I worried about but I don't remember the dreaded buffer underrun actually happening, even on a PC several years older (Win 98, about 500 MHz CPU, might have been a K6).
BURN-proof. SuperLink. Or even plain old boring "Buffer underrun protection" in Nero. Good times.
Dammit. Only today, after 20 years, I realized that "Nero Burning Rom" is supposed to be a pun with Nero burning Rome.
The golden age of gaming! No loot boxes, and no microtransactions. Just pure computing, without any shiny RGBs. I miss those times :) .
Hey speaking of RGB, In my pc “back in day” I had those small neon lights in my case , ahhhh the days, playing cs 1.3 , getting my skins off cs banana….glorious
20:32
Linus: Can i shoot down his parachute
Um sir thats a war crime
I really appreciate the edits with voice. I like to listen while driving and I used to miss the text only edits (I'm not watching my phone while I drive) so the voice edits are much better!
Oh god, seeing the back of that Deskstar and it's jumper config chart gave just me a shot of PTSD I didn't know existed. Thank god those days are over.
i hated lining up molex connectors, there seemed to be always one pin that made it horrible
Honestly I wish cases still had removable motherboard trays, my least favorite part of pc building is lining up the IO.
I want my motherboard tray to mount to french cleats.
@@bobspldbckwrds ooooh that would be satisfying
I hate I/O shields. I wish we could go back to when they didn't have those annoying prong things...
@@windowsuser321 Yeah and now the ease of installation completely depends on what kind of motherboard you have because some have attached IO shields which is so much easier. They could all be easy 😩
I also see it and go "Damn, free Test Bench stand." so now I'm looking at finding one lol
Having a machine like this in my teens would have blown my mind, despite it being positively ancient by today's standards.
These are my favourite types of videos you guys make!
These older builds melt my ancient heart, please do more Linus, I'll break out the hot cocoa with mini marshmallows to enjoy it!
grade 9 linus is shaking in his boot
Need to have this setup in the LAN Center. Do a couple of generational Maximum PCs different years
Its always fun playing with your dream hardware from your childhood, I'm doing so now messing around with the e5 v3/v4 platform and its so satisfying.
I had no idea the Microsoft Sidewinder flight stick was so old. I picked one up second hand that I've used as my flight stick for years because I couldn't afford the newer sticks. It still holds up today, even if it doesn't have a lot of fancy features.
My dad still uses his.
I actually wish I still had mine.
I love when you test older hardware its so important for preservation in tech. Thank you Grinus Ledia Moup!
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20:37 glad to see linus getting back to his Canadian roots.
But not too poor....
For this segue to our sponsor!!!
lol
Bro is a time traveler
thats his job not yours
how you post 3 mins ago when the video came out 30 seconds ago
I miss Maximum PC and CPU Magazine, AKA analogue TH-cam for PC builders.
this video was such a nostalgic trip; it brought back so many memories. thank you for sharing this Linus.
Removable motherboard trays were awesome. Especially the Lian Li ones that had a separate single connector for all of the power/led/reset connections. You could connect all of those annoying connectors outside the case, then it was just a single plug after inserting the tray back into the case. I also miss the aluminum cases, which used to be far easier to find than they are now.
The disconnectable front panel cable is arguably the best feature of those Lian-Li cases. On the other hand the front panel USB had a separate connector for each pin. I "fixed" that with some tape to hold the pins in the proper configuration.
Brings me back! Thank you for doing this
man what a trip down memory lane. I think I remember reading that article and drooling over it. Also glad i kept some of my peripherals and gear from my past builds. Although sadly I mistakenly ewasted my build from 2002, was an athlon xp 1500+ build. Wish i could get it back.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, in 2001 I was the MS Exchange admin for the largest bank in South Africa, I had the privilege of having access to the kind of equipment only a bank and a German OEM could have. Not having to pay retail for equipment was an amazing perk that I wish I still had!!
My dad still uses his ffb Ms sidewinder, he finds old used ones and rebuilds it from parts when something breaks on it. And Crimson Skies was probably my favorite game from back then, glad to see you playing it!
I still have a working MAME machine with a P4 1.4 oc'ed to 1.54 (motherboard doesnt go higher). It's loud but it gets the job done beautifully.
Thank you for the nostalgia trip!
Love these throwback builds! So glad you did the ffb sidewinder also!
You forgot a TV Adapter with the antenna port where you can connect an antenna or a cable! That was still a thing in 2001, at least in our country. My friend and I usually swap recordings of show since he have a different cable service and we burn them to a CD, then we swap CD's.
Sure, in that time was a cool accessory, but since the analog tv signals were turn off, all of that TV cards are useless in 2024.
@@AgathaVixen At least few years later digital TV tuner cards were a thing and I wouldn't be surprised if they were already available in 2001. Many TV tuner cards also had S-Video and/or Composite input so they could be used as a capture card for a game console or VCR
I bought one of those! I forget the name, but it was buggy like crazy. Absolutly unusable. It was a nice dream at that time to have DVR in my PC when DVR itself was pretty new.
Linus making me feel real old discussing the 64mb video card. I can still remember my excitement over the upgrade from the 16mb card I had to a top of the line 32mb card. That and all of the parts he discusses here were upgrades that are many generations later than the PC I was running at that time. I did own that joystick and a very similar racing wheel. I'm pretty sure I've still got them in a box in the attic.
I Love this retro computers videos, congrats!!
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Lfmao
This
There is something special about building with top of the line old components in modern days
My PC Power & Cooling 1000W Power Supply from the era of this build is still running 24/7 in a home server. Those things were built to NEVER DIE.
Helllll yeah I love these kind of videos (going over your staffs old tech dreams)
or when he looks at some wierd looking motherboards/cpus etc :D
My: I used to be poor now. I am still poor
me too now im a professional poor selling poor items to other fellow poors.
good ole PoorCess auto
Oh man, this took me down memory lane. the rounded IDE cables, not screwing in the CD drives on the "other" side, brown motherboards, PCI cards for EVERYTHING... from 2002 I was working at a PC store, and got to play with all that sort of stuff, and them RAMBUS hot surface warnings are no joke.
Good times, hits in the nostalgia feels pretty hard. I also used to drool over the Maximum PC mag top tier gaming PCs.
I am currently watching this video with the audio piped to my Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 setup that I have had for many years. They are STILL amazing.
I loved reading Maximum PC back in the day and the Dream Machine issues were always a treat. Would be cool to see more videos exploring their builds.
man this takes me back to my mid teens all that green for boards and ram, i took about 20 years away from building to have a sort of life i built my first machine this side of the 2000's only a few years ago and needed to learn how to build again. thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Man, when I see people building a PC with old parts, it makes me kind of tear up. The feeling, the ambiance, the taste. Yes, the taste. That surrounds this era of PCs, especially made for gaming. It really felt like you're part of a "small" group of others who know what "true gaming" was.
Dealing with "you really needed to know your stuff" to build a PC, even playing on low settings. I didn't even remember the last time I saw a "your GPU is not supported " dialog box or something like it. Heck, you had to set the jumper on a HDD for it to work, setting it to master or slave. There's also cable select.
I'll just keep rambling on...
I can feel this video.
I won't get into dip switches.
So many memories. There was something magic about PCs back in the day.
I had a similar setup around that time. It was my first PC build when I was 15. Not nearly as high end but I played RTCW maxed at 1024x768 with no issue. Had the same steering wheel too, but a couple years later.
Having worked in a computer store back then, this video brings back a lot of memories
9:03 yeah!
When you broke out the sidewinder joystick a ton of buried memories flooded back to me!
Man, I nostalgia’d so hard with this video. I still run into systems like this that people have had in the back of their closet for decades, and every time I convert them into retro gaming machines to relive those glory days.
"where's his parachute? He's dead." weird, a Canadian trying to commit war crimes?? Who'd have seen that coming?
he's toggling that real old school gamer, I can't remember the game, but pilots that would parachute out, you could fly through or shoot the parachutes and it would change the sprite from a floating chute, to a crumpled one, and increase the fall rate...
In fairness I always did that in Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. I didn't know Electronic Arts was evil at the time. I am shocked at the time I wasted on that though.
That logitech stearing wheel is the same as mine ! I bought mine on facebook marketplace for pretty cheap because i didnt wanna spend too much for a wheel but it still works perfectly to this day
Love that case! Still have my Lian Li aluminum case with removable MB tray, and it houses my EP45-UD3R/Q9650 build from 2009. Some things should never be chucked in the garbage. Probably explains why my main PC is still residing in a 1st Gen Cosmos case. It's a true beast, but I just keep upgrading the components over the years. Now has an Asus Z590 and i7 11700K build in it. (I only splurge on new shit every 4 or 5 years now.) Hell, I still have my first ever LCD monitor, a Samsung 151v 15", and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I seriously doubt the two Acer's I'm looking at now will last 20 years. Keep the old stuff alive, Linus, and stop trying to shoot the parachuting pilots. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I built this exact computer back in like 2006 lol. Prices had dropped. My pc case was yellow though. Great throwback to the good ole days!
Wow, how did it hold up by then? PC tech was moving super quickly then right?
@@buttersquids probably didn't matter too much considering that loads of people had been happy to just build a computer at all and bring it to a lan honestly.
Still vividly remember all the people who just put their hardware into a coke bottle case and used that as a setup.
@@buttersquids I doubt it had the same exact parts. The socket 423 platform was really short lived but the newer socket 478 and 775 Pentium 4's were around for many years. There was still new Pentium 4's released in 2006 and the first Core2's weren't released until July.
Though I guess he could have bought the parts used for cheap, but even then socket 478 would have been more likely.
In 2006 I was using a Celeron 333MHz and NVIDIA Riva TNT. lol
@@Pasi123 In 2006= It was an Asus A7N8X-X with an Athlon XP Barton 3000+ with 512 MB of PC2700 DDR1 SDRAM.
@@buttersquids Was playing blizzard games back in the day. Hard drive failed, fan on gpu melted. Just figured being 2 to 3 years being the new stuff was ok enough back then! I do miss the magazines though!
I used the sidewinder force feedback 2 as my daily driver for flight sims up until very very recently (as in months). It's one of the best joysticks ever made, in my opinion.
I think more TH-camrs should try to make these types of videos. I've gotten so sick of youngsters who weren't around 20+ years ago complaining about the pricing of gaming PC builds. It's ALWAYS been an expensive hobby. Where the bulk of the money goes has just flip flopped over time. But all in, you're looking generally at 4K-5K to build a top end PC just as you were looking at 20+ years ago. And even more. I really got into PC building a few years prior to the vintage of this build and guess what? Pricing was the same if not a bit higher in mid-late '90s
Wow blast from the past I actually had that setup.. I laughed when reading the mobo manual and see under memory installation, " insert rd ram in the rimm slot"
I still use a Lian-li Pc V2120, with a removable motherboard tray. It's an outstanding case. Need modern inputs? That's what bay adapters are for 😍
Buffer overflow was the bane of my existence ripping CDs. 💿
Buffer made you suffer huh? Me to... meeee to.
linus's ability to seamlessly promote the sponser and their website in every video is unmatched
Linus needed this. He NEEDED this.
I too remember drooling ovr the insane power of the Maximum PC build.
One of my favourite LTT videos in a while. Thanks Team!
Having read Maximum PC as a kid I'd actually be down for a series of this. Just building the dream pc through the years!
I went to college in 1999 with a ViewSonic 21inch 1600x1200 75Hz, with a .21 dot pitch monitor that I regret ever giving away. 1600x1200 is a highly, highly underrated resolution. Can't remember the model, but I don't think any display I've owned since has come to the same level of quality. Really looking forward to microLED getting to consumer price levels!
16:43 They’re made in Ireland just like you 😊
Awesome, please do more if you can.
Brings back some memories. Still got some equipment from that era in my collection.
My dad got the Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 when it was new. I still have it on my desk and use it when I need to fly a plane or helicopter in games. The force feedback is awesome!
I didn't think I could feel so nostalgic and so attacked at the same time.
17:00 I'm pretty sure RtCW is a fairly standard Quake 3 engine game, and you already showed the numbers about how the processor alone crushed vanilla Quake 3.
Was going to say it's based on quake engine 3, but you beat me to it. Not that impressive indeed.
I bet it impressed him because he tried that game on weaker hardware back in the day
LOL this coment , i don't know ... its funny hahaha this first sentence
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@@KokoroKatsura For some reason, I got a lot of 2000s forum nostalgia from this post.