Your Windows 98 PC build back in 2018 was one of the best videos I've ever watched... I haven't even started watching this yet and I already know it's going to be amazing! Keep it up!
My final Xp Pc was a Q6600 with an 8600, i later went to 7 on it. But my longest XP build was a athlon xp 2400+ with a geforce 5500... those were the days.
Alright now that I've finished: I actually had this Antec case back in probably 05-07! Mine was quite worse for wear but it was indeed one of the best cases I ever owned before 2010. I loved the captioned titles of the games, each one of them made me chuckle. That's also an incredibly impressive library of games to play on this beautiful machine, and they all run so much smoother than the Pentium system I had at the time ever could. I remember playing Quake 4 at 640x480 with 15-20FPS in the best performing areas and thinking it looked incredible. Never did beat that one! This was a super awesome nostalgia trip and honestly I miss this era of computing. Just the installer music alone sent me on a huge wave of nostalgia. They just don't make the experience as cool as it once was anymore. Windows XP was a huge part of my life for way more years than it should have been. Exposed me to a lot of knowledge about computing, and also how stupid I could be with one. I'll never forget tearing the registry apart to learn every bit of how it worked, watching viruses eat my computer alive because I didn't understand basic computer maintenance as a kid and also put my grubby hands on virtually any download link I could find at the time haha. Thank you Shelby, from the bottom of my heart, for this incredible video
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I may have had a bit of fun with those subtitles for the games. Quake 4 was almost in the video but I had to cut it for time(Doom 3 and Prey have the gory 00's shooters well covered), but it's worth finishing still! It feels like a more refined Doom 3 to me. I complete get all that and I'm glad to make something that can trigger those happy memories. I can tell you from a similar experience that you won't get NT/XP's nice plug'n play drivers in Windows 98 by just copying the System 32 folder...lots of good naive times were had with computers in this era!
please give this guy award, i almost fainted :D when i was his collection and what an amazing videos he has. This channel truly deserve more support !!!! Looking back at the revolt and Warcraft III big boxes he has, gives me lots of memories back.
What an amazing coincidence! 😁 That build blows mine out of water... I'm very impressed - this is actually the ULTRAXP's big brother! Glad there were no leaked caps this time, loved this video)
You just ran through my childhood here. I was lucky enough to have a crazy father who spent all of his spare money on a beast comp and I'd play it when I used to visit him on the weekends. A lot of our bonding came out of him encouraging me to keep playing Doom 3 even though I was terrified of it. He passed in 2012 and I often think about how he never got to see the games that are around now. He loved Flight Simulator and I just know he'd take out a loan to be build a PC that was able to run the latest release of it. Anyway, this was a nice trip down memory lane. Also, he had the same exact speakers. Thanks for this! Subscribed!
Gives me the feels. First PC I built was around 2000 as everything I had before then was a upgraded prebuilt. I miss this generation and how unacceptably tacky it was. Solid man.
As someone who has built a Windows 2000 Professional PC, (With slightly newer parts, While retaining some classics) This is actually amazing. We were all hoping for an XP build. And this here is the most amazing XP computer build I've ever seen. Loved every bit of it.
Highly recommend that you recap the entire ULTRA PSU, with the right parts some psu's end up being more reliable than new, and it's worth saving something so unique
I love the build. The Win XP era games are so much fun. I bought an old workstation for $120 off Amazon and put, XP and a Win 7 era video card, every game from XP era runs great on it.
I still have the XP machine I built using that exact case, back when it was newly released. I recently updated the machine by replacing the PATA disk with a 120GB SSD using a SATA to PATA interface adapter and now it boots REALLY fast. Great job on the build!
Back in the day, I used to put my optical drive in the second bay, leaving the top bay empty as an "attic" to shove all the spare power supply cables into. That's what passed for "cable management" at the time!
A Zboard would be a nice period correct keyboard, especially with the Doom 3 keyset if you can find one! I remember being so jealous of my brother when he got one
I actually tried to get a ZBoard, it was complicated to find a 2004 model that was actually new though. They were independent when they first launched but were bought out by Steelseries who added their branding to it afterwards. Then even later models changed to have the round Vista orb Windows key. So finding a true first gen ZBoard that was still unused in box was too difficult to make happen for this video unfortunately. But maybe some day I'll check it out now that I don't need to be as strict about when the parts were made.
Totally had forgotten about these! I'm getting a rush of nostalgia. Another option would be the Logitech G15. First produced in 2001. I'm still using one on my main setup, purchased it second hand CIB 15 years ago or so. Still works flawlessly and feels great. The little screen still comes in handy for displaying MSI Afterburner stats and the time. Never cleaned it either, gonna be real satisfying when I finally get to it.
I had the same case back in the 2Ks. Built several systems with them. They came with handy carry straps, but no dust filters. I had UV CCFL tubes too. They turn the clear acrylics brown after a few years! Those games brought back some memories.
XP gaming builds are the most interesting thing out of all the operating systems I think XP has the most wide variety of hardware I've ever seen which isn't a bad thing makes for fun choices also because of interesting parts you can come across in this era and the fact that it was supported for a really long time.
Yup. I just bought a NOS 2001 vintage Antec PSU for my Performance case, and same thing. Zero hours on it, and it had bulging caps. Meh, I was gonna recap it anyway though. :-)
Very attractive build. XP is still so fresh in my memory and I have a period HP D530 SFF running it for occasional fun. The new filming studio is working great too. Good luck with it all.
Oh man, I distinctly remember having that MX700. I loved that mouse. That charging station was so neat back then. Awesome build. Digging the new studio! Also that wizard after the first boot… the music… Windows XP was such a huge part of my youth, so much nostalgia.
OMG can I just say I missed you this past week!? I got used to updates from the office and I kept checking for more every day. Then it hit me that I really really enjoy your delivery of information, even if it's just your daily activities - or maybe especially your daily activities. No weirdness intended.
I didn't know how to react when I saw you play Unreal Tournament 2004 in this ol' beast PC. It was one of the few games I remember playing from my childhood. I loved every second of this video. Really grateful for bringing back so many memories.
Here's how to activate windows xp: go to regedit, HK local machine, software, microsoft, windows nt, currentversion, wpa events, oobe timer. Then open the oobe timer folder and modify the oobe timer thing in it. Just spam random things in it. Then it's activated
That absolutely spin-chilling kilotonne dose of nostalgia that hits in the first frame of the video from Midtown Madness 1+2. Time to test my subwoofer again with the menu theme. Shoutout to LEGO Island, X-Wing Alliance and Rollercoaster Tycoon too!
I think I used to rock the very same copper Zalman cooler back in the day! One of the best builds I had ever run with. WinXP were excellent and highly customizable!
I loved this video as well as the 98 build you did! 98 and XP are my 2 favorite vintage versions of Windows ever! I hope to build 98 and XP retro machines soon too! I can't wait for October 25th
I had that exact same monitor back in the day. It was my first lcd and it lasted until ~2010 when I finally upgraded to my first 16x9 panel. This build was a huge nostalgia trip for me. I had an Alienware with a 3.2ghz hyper threaded P4, Radeon 9800xt, and audigy 2.
Love the build! I wish I had hardware half as good as this back then, my XP experience was on a machine with a 1.8ghz AMD Sempron and onboard graphics, a Geforce 4 MX if I remember correctly. I did try to play Doom 3 on it, it did not go well.
Oh, that Microsoft keyboard. I had one. It would drop connectivity frequently and repeat keystrokes A LOT. 😂 I imagine that having a different wireless mouse by its side makes it even more glitchy! Try the original mouse from the kit if you can. It's really not that bad.
It’s usually the usb interrupt - if it’s ps/2 you usually won’t get that problem (but could also be the old school wireless because it was pretty rough back then)
I went all out with my XP build a few years ago making it my 'end of an era' build using the newest and the best possible hardware to officially support XP. Ended up with a 4790K, a 4 gig GTX 960, Samsung 850 Evo, blah blah blah. The whole idea being to send XP off on the highest note possible and also to ensure that I could run even the latest XP games at their max settings to be able to truly see just how good games of that era could look if you had a system powerful enough to run them maxed out at the time. The irony is that it's more powerful than some entry level modern systems and some of the games I play in excess of a 1000+ FPS lol... But for games like Doom 3, Quake 4, and so forth, the engine they are built off of can actively and evenly use up to four threads. So having a multi-core platform does help especially when you max the settings out.
I remember my brother having two of those XFX 6800GS cards in SLI. Was certainly cool at the time, and for some games it was awesome. The cooler is fantastic and was a friends choice for his Q6600 back in the day - 3.6GHz without any issues. You should absolutely get an X-Fi XtremeGamer (or XtremeMusic) sound card and an AGEIA PhysX card to make this totally pimpin'. If you want a nice gaming laptop of this vintage I can highly recommend a cheap XPS M1710 (with RGB lights!), the Precision M90 (same machine with Quadro FX equivalent graphics cards and a more serious look), or the Inspiron 9400/E1705 (same machines with lower specced GPUs available and no dock connector, although you can install the beefier graphics cards). Having a Core 2 Duo laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 display and a GeForce Go 7950 GTX for Windows XP/7 is nice. EDIT: Definitely would like to see a PhysX video - I remember the PCI cards and they're dirt cheap now. They seemed cool at the time (of course) but I never did try one of the dedicated cards.
I like seeing XP builds because at that time, I was a little guy. no way in hell I would have been able to get this hardware. but now, it's pretty cool to see.
Hot damn that's a beauty. Used to have one of those zalman coolers cooling my pentium E5200 that i was daily driving at a comfortable 4ghz (ish), worked quite well for me at the time, considering i came from a laptop with an athlon XP and 384mb's of ram
Very nice build, I really enjoyed this and your Windows 98 new old stock build! Looking forward to the next time when you're gonna do the upgrades, I hope you can recap the PSU and put that CCFL into the case :) Also on a side note, I liked how you illuminated the Doom 3 box with a flashlight in true Doom 3 style ;)
Amazing build of how it's done even playing games like Half-Life 2, Halo: CE, Far Cry, The Sims 2, GTA:SA, Doom 3 and more! Happy 20th Anniversary to Windows XP!!
Next video: Repairing the 2004 PSU. Caps are cheap and you can get high quality Japanese caps from Mouser, Digikey etc. Then do an update to this PC and fit it in with the special cables. Up-vote this comment because it needs to happen :-D
I was running the 2454 Beta back in early March 2000 and going from Windows 98 it was a complete different planet. I installed it on the same hardware as I had Windows 98 and all the drivers were installed for the first time I have ever ran Windows. This was something I had never seen before not one single driver was needed so it was a game changer in multiple configuration hardware support out of the box. I ran Windows XP until 2015 then switched all the machines to Windows 7. About 3 years ago switched to Windows 10 but still have one box running Windows XP-Windows 7 dual boot to run some older games. In my opinion Windows XP SP3 was one of the best OS Microsoft ever put out, it took years for people to finally switch to Windows 7.
I'm from India and let me tell you that in quite remote places and institutions of the country you will find windows xp still common. Our very own first PC for entire family use was a Windows xp purchased in 2004. It was a classic Zenith pc. We used that PC up until early January this year after finally selling it to scraper. The PC was used for 20 years and I'm amazed when now I think about it.
I absolutely loved everything about this video. You have gained +1 subscriber! I really appreciate your attention to detail, especially the authenticity side of things. I'm glad you installed the sound card before the OS so we got to hear the elusive XP setup theme! PS. That's a mighty fine collection of old CDs you have there on the shelf! I think I even spotted the original RCT from 1999, one of my all-time favorites!! If you were to give this setup an appraisal for the time period, how much would you say it would cost?
You sure bring back a lot of memories for me. My first computer was a Packer Bell with a 386 cpu and a 28K dial of modem. The system was running Windows 2.1 and this was at the time we that didn't have a internet as we know now. I think everyone was using AOL at the time as well. Good old DOS days.
As someome who was born in 2002 and obviously didn't get to experience early pc hardware let alone building it, this is so interesting ane cool to watch, especially since i built my very first pc about a month ago
Here's a great idea for a video How about replacing the capacitors in the PSU with solid state ones, as well as maybe checking some other hardware for similar issues and fixing them? Call it a Great Plague Cleanup or something Edit: watched the video to the end, i'm glad you decided to acknowledged the issue. Left the comment because i was kinda partially disappointed that toy just tossed the PSU aside instead of fixing it, since it looks way better than modern ones
XP is older than me (even the games you played are!), yet I still salivate over having a PC like this. I have an ME PC that, when I got it, was last used in 2005, the only problem is that it's running ME and is severely underpowered. Sick build!
those Zalman coolers were so cool! i had one on my VGA (i cant remember the ATI model, but the cooler was a VF1000), i really miss those "creative" coolers Thermaltake also had some pretty funky designs
The nostalgia here was intense! From The login screen and sound to the hardware and games! Brings back so many happy memories of my AMD 4800+ PC with SLI 7800 GT 512MB each graphics cards. Had the 10k rpm drives to and eventually the velociraptor 15k 150GB HDD and would you believe I still have it to this day and it still works. Sadly the Acer SLI deluxe motherboard had a Northbridge cooling fan that had a high failure rate, not knowing this mine eventually succumbed to the heat damage 😢 Great video though, subscribed!
That keyboard issue is still present in most laptops, even my "gaming" laptop. Granted it's only with the trackpad, but how have we not fixed that yet?
For laptops, it a sort of palm rejection when typing. So it should be solved by just turning of this setting. Noticed this on my laptop and immediately searched through every setting to get rid of that “feature.”
I come to this again time to time , this one's my second comment 1 year later. This video is art. I always think it's awesome to , if you can affort have like an entire room dedicated to this stuff , imagine going that room , no internet , no social media or anything. Just play the game and enjoy the old times without being distracted in middle , it's like a therapy or art in a sense .
Ever since Windows XP is no longer supported, I've stopped using Windows and I switched to Linux Mint, and I continue running Windows XP in VirtualBox! Of course it is not the same experience since it cannot connect the same way with all the peripherals, but at least I still can use many software from the Windows 2000-XP era! Great video!
I wanna cry so much I miss the early 90s and 2000s..
It's crazy how good a game from 2004 still looks today! Doom 3 is just amazing.
Your Windows 98 PC build back in 2018 was one of the best videos I've ever watched... I haven't even started watching this yet and I already know it's going to be amazing! Keep it up!
This videos is a classic
Can't wait for vista in 2026 and 7 in 2029 lol.
@@sennthemanwin98 Same!! Hahahaha
probably newer systems wont allow the older OS. Its the old mischief of microsoft. Windows 7 can also be used on 2007 onward models @@sennthemanwin98
Up next: All New Windows 7 20th Anniversary Build in 2029
wait... was Windows 7 just released yesterday?
we need the windows vista 20th anniversary build in 2027 first
Vista bro
@@kozekistudio no we don't
@@jackcphelpsYes we do, fucker
Even managed a 13:37 runtime! That's some elite editing. XD
Haha! He'll find what he needs there for the activation side of things. ;-)
@Weenie Hut Jr's It's a old way of saying elite, spelled out leet but with numbers
If it was 10:25, it would represent the month and day too.
Wow, that LEET timestamp.
@Ladioz Old Internet slang for "Elite" I think it's roots go back to the 1995 movie Hackers, so "1337" -> LEET -> Elite -> Elite Hacker.
My final Xp Pc was a Q6600 with an 8600, i later went to 7 on it. But my longest XP build was a athlon xp 2400+ with a geforce 5500... those were the days.
Alright now that I've finished:
I actually had this Antec case back in probably 05-07! Mine was quite worse for wear but it was indeed one of the best cases I ever owned before 2010.
I loved the captioned titles of the games, each one of them made me chuckle. That's also an incredibly impressive library of games to play on this beautiful machine, and they all run so much smoother than the Pentium system I had at the time ever could. I remember playing Quake 4 at 640x480 with 15-20FPS in the best performing areas and thinking it looked incredible. Never did beat that one!
This was a super awesome nostalgia trip and honestly I miss this era of computing. Just the installer music alone sent me on a huge wave of nostalgia. They just don't make the experience as cool as it once was anymore. Windows XP was a huge part of my life for way more years than it should have been. Exposed me to a lot of knowledge about computing, and also how stupid I could be with one. I'll never forget tearing the registry apart to learn every bit of how it worked, watching viruses eat my computer alive because I didn't understand basic computer maintenance as a kid and also put my grubby hands on virtually any download link I could find at the time haha.
Thank you Shelby, from the bottom of my heart, for this incredible video
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I may have had a bit of fun with those subtitles for the games. Quake 4 was almost in the video but I had to cut it for time(Doom 3 and Prey have the gory 00's shooters well covered), but it's worth finishing still! It feels like a more refined Doom 3 to me.
I complete get all that and I'm glad to make something that can trigger those happy memories. I can tell you from a similar experience that you won't get NT/XP's nice plug'n play drivers in Windows 98 by just copying the System 32 folder...lots of good naive times were had with computers in this era!
@@TechTangents8:07 Most important thing in this entire video: Did you notice that it’s always been “Daylight SAVING time” now? Mandela Effect.
please give this guy award, i almost fainted :D when i was his collection and what an amazing videos he has. This channel truly deserve more support !!!! Looking back at the revolt and Warcraft III big boxes he has, gives me lots of memories back.
What an amazing coincidence! 😁
That build blows mine out of water... I'm very impressed - this is actually the ULTRAXP's big brother! Glad there were no leaked caps this time, loved this video)
Nice to see you here Enderman, I appreciate both your and his channel uwu
oh hi
You were the first to make that kind of video and he copied it!!!11
@@SearInMinecraft Well. LGR did it too years ago... So...
ikr i saw that vid
You just ran through my childhood here. I was lucky enough to have a crazy father who spent all of his spare money on a beast comp and I'd play it when I used to visit him on the weekends. A lot of our bonding came out of him encouraging me to keep playing Doom 3 even though I was terrified of it. He passed in 2012 and I often think about how he never got to see the games that are around now. He loved Flight Simulator and I just know he'd take out a loan to be build a PC that was able to run the latest release of it. Anyway, this was a nice trip down memory lane. Also, he had the same exact speakers. Thanks for this! Subscribed!
Gives me the feels. First PC I built was around 2000 as everything I had before then was a upgraded prebuilt. I miss this generation and how unacceptably tacky it was. Solid man.
Several years ago, I owned that very same Sony DVD+-R drive. Loved it. Had very little trouble burning discs with it!!
I get strong nostalgia pangs seeing the XP installation....so many fresh installations! New office looks to be working out great too!
Loved. XP was a fantastic OS !!
Windows 10 is ok but I miss. X P
As someone who has built a Windows 2000 Professional PC, (With slightly newer parts, While retaining some classics) This is actually amazing. We were all hoping for an XP build. And this here is the most amazing XP computer build I've ever seen. Loved every bit of it.
Highly recommend that you recap the entire ULTRA PSU, with the right parts some psu's end up being more reliable than new, and it's worth saving something so unique
SO MUCH THIS! That deserves a video all on it's own PERFECT for the new office and the channel
Yes please recap and make a video on it!
The fact they all need recapping makes it ultra rare
I love the build. The Win XP era games are so much fun. I bought an old workstation for $120 off Amazon and put, XP and a Win 7 era video card, every game from XP era runs great on it.
I still have the XP machine I built using that exact case, back when it was newly released. I recently updated the machine by replacing the PATA disk with a 120GB SSD using a SATA to PATA interface adapter and now it boots REALLY fast. Great job on the build!
you the master of ancient computer sir , all part hardware is extremely rare
Back in the day, I used to put my optical drive in the second bay, leaving the top bay empty as an "attic" to shove all the spare power supply cables into. That's what passed for "cable management" at the time!
Wow! That Antec case looks pretty nice honestly! And it's quite a nice surprise that Antec's been around for that long.
A Zboard would be a nice period correct keyboard, especially with the Doom 3 keyset if you can find one! I remember being so jealous of my brother when he got one
I actually tried to get a ZBoard, it was complicated to find a 2004 model that was actually new though. They were independent when they first launched but were bought out by Steelseries who added their branding to it afterwards. Then even later models changed to have the round Vista orb Windows key. So finding a true first gen ZBoard that was still unused in box was too difficult to make happen for this video unfortunately. But maybe some day I'll check it out now that I don't need to be as strict about when the parts were made.
They are crap as well - a Logitech G15 is far more apt.
I have a zboard but it's falling apart :(
YEAH!!!! I havent thought about those in years!
Totally had forgotten about these! I'm getting a rush of nostalgia. Another option would be the Logitech G15. First produced in 2001. I'm still using one on my main setup, purchased it second hand CIB 15 years ago or so. Still works flawlessly and feels great. The little screen still comes in handy for displaying MSI Afterburner stats and the time. Never cleaned it either, gonna be real satisfying when I finally get to it.
09:11 Even today Windows XP Startup Sound gives Goosebumps
Remembers me of my Childhood First PC
Haha, had to setup an XP machine a few months ago, found that phone activation service thingy and worked perfectly for me too.
That XP sound really brings me to tears. Such fond memories.
I had the same case back in the 2Ks. Built several systems with them. They came with handy carry straps, but no dust filters. I had UV CCFL tubes too. They turn the clear acrylics brown after a few years! Those games brought back some memories.
Now overclock it.
And play gta v
Now install a quantum particle accelerator in it.
Then run crysis on it
Time to burn that cpu😂
GTA 6 😂 when it comes out get GTA 6 for it 😅
XP gaming builds are the most interesting thing out of all the operating systems I think XP has the most wide variety of hardware I've ever seen which isn't a bad thing makes for fun choices also because of interesting parts you can come across in this era and the fact that it was supported for a really long time.
I've watched your Windows 98 PC bud in 2018 and was excited when I saw you did the same to Windows XP, first OS I ever used
Had no clue caps could leak just out of old age without actually being used.
The plague caps can do that. You can look at them with love and they will still burst out.
Yup. I just bought a NOS 2001 vintage Antec PSU for my Performance case, and same thing. Zero hours on it, and it had bulging caps. Meh, I was gonna recap it anyway though. :-)
They deteriorated from environmental atmosphere
It can be a real problem with older hardware. Especially when combined with the batteries leaking. The content of both being very corrosive.
That Problem is very common with every original Xbox.
This is my favourite video on your channel. And one of the favourites on youtube. Thank you, friend.
Very attractive build. XP is still so fresh in my memory and I have a period HP D530 SFF running it for occasional fun. The new filming studio is working great too. Good luck with it all.
That was so nice to watch. thanks!
Oh man, I distinctly remember having that MX700. I loved that mouse. That charging station was so neat back then. Awesome build. Digging the new studio! Also that wizard after the first boot… the music… Windows XP was such a huge part of my youth, so much nostalgia.
I had one too - it was a revelation after using lower resolution mice. But boy did it eat through rechargeable batteries.
The windows 98 and XP builds were super interesting to see. Thanks a million!!
OMG can I just say I missed you this past week!? I got used to updates from the office and I kept checking for more every day. Then it hit me that I really really enjoy your delivery of information, even if it's just your daily activities - or maybe especially your daily activities. No weirdness intended.
my first custom build was in this case, Sold it stupidly and spent months hunting for it a few years later. I still love it❤
Do a cap mod to the old power supply to make it work again! That would be a fun video to see.
I agree. I really want to see that power supply work
ye he should replace the caps and then use it
Not too difficult to replace these old caps. That would be the first thing I would do!
I for one am on board (get it?) with that idea, get that unique modular power supply up and running
I didn't know how to react when I saw you play Unreal Tournament 2004 in this ol' beast PC. It was one of the few games I remember playing from my childhood. I loved every second of this video. Really grateful for bringing back so many memories.
Here's how to activate windows xp: go to regedit, HK local machine, software, microsoft, windows nt, currentversion, wpa events, oobe timer. Then open the oobe timer folder and modify the oobe timer thing in it. Just spam random things in it. Then it's activated
Do windows 7 Build
This hit me right in the nostalgias. Yes, plural.
Couldn't have said it better.
That absolutely spin-chilling kilotonne dose of nostalgia that hits in the first frame of the video from Midtown Madness 1+2. Time to test my subwoofer again with the menu theme.
Shoutout to LEGO Island, X-Wing Alliance and Rollercoaster Tycoon too!
A joystick episode with Flight Sim X to really tax it would be interesting, lots of fun flight games around this period
I love the little captions you put for each game.
Boy, the first full video in the new space is killer! Well done! Production quality is great!
I think I used to rock the very same copper Zalman cooler back in the day!
One of the best builds I had ever run with.
WinXP were excellent and highly customizable!
I loved this video as well as the 98 build you did! 98 and XP are my 2 favorite vintage versions of Windows ever! I hope to build 98 and XP retro machines soon too! I can't wait for October 25th
That Prey Graphics is incredible. That gun man I am in awe.
Always love it when an anniversary build comes out, well done sir!!!
i love coming back to seeing this video honestly i didnt get into pc gaming until later, seeing these nostalgic builds are awesome!
Great video Shelby. Looking forward to seeing that PSU with the reactive cables getting repaired.
and that matching case
I had that exact same monitor back in the day. It was my first lcd and it lasted until ~2010 when I finally upgraded to my first 16x9 panel. This build was a huge nostalgia trip for me. I had an Alienware with a 3.2ghz hyper threaded P4, Radeon 9800xt, and audigy 2.
Love the build! I wish I had hardware half as good as this back then, my XP experience was on a machine with a 1.8ghz AMD Sempron and onboard graphics, a Geforce 4 MX if I remember correctly. I did try to play Doom 3 on it, it did not go well.
I really wanted that drive setup back in the day. A freind was running it and it was super fast for the time.
Damn, that pc looks fantastic.
Really miss these kind of pc cases.
Same
Good old LAN-party cases
yep me too
I actually got something similar looking. Damn i miss old cases
i know this is a bit of a necropost, but funnily enough i have the exact case lmao
My builds around that time always had that exact Zalman cooler, and whatever $99 Intel motherboard was available. Nice nostalgia trip.
Welp, I'm gettin' old XD.
This build perfectly exemplifies the era I grew up in, great stuff!
Man the build quality of that XFX 6800GS was nuts! Amazing video!
When I touch my butt with my finger I smell poo, is this normal?
Oh, that Microsoft keyboard. I had one. It would drop connectivity frequently and repeat keystrokes A LOT. 😂 I imagine that having a different wireless mouse by its side makes it even more glitchy!
Try the original mouse from the kit if you can. It's really not that bad.
It’s usually the usb interrupt - if it’s ps/2 you usually won’t get that problem (but could also be the old school wireless because it was pretty rough back then)
Those were the best days, and LAN parties too!!!
I love videos like this, I get excited even for old builds like this, can't wait for the next one!
The good old days... I remember playing UT 2003 and 2004.
I went all out with my XP build a few years ago making it my 'end of an era' build using the newest and the best possible hardware to officially support XP. Ended up with a 4790K, a 4 gig GTX 960, Samsung 850 Evo, blah blah blah. The whole idea being to send XP off on the highest note possible and also to ensure that I could run even the latest XP games at their max settings to be able to truly see just how good games of that era could look if you had a system powerful enough to run them maxed out at the time. The irony is that it's more powerful than some entry level modern systems and some of the games I play in excess of a 1000+ FPS lol... But for games like Doom 3, Quake 4, and so forth, the engine they are built off of can actively and evenly use up to four threads. So having a multi-core platform does help especially when you max the settings out.
4 gig graphics for windows xp? thats pretty hardcore ngl
I watch this at least once a month purely for nostalgia from golden age of PC gaming. Great upload!
I remember my brother having two of those XFX 6800GS cards in SLI. Was certainly cool at the time, and for some games it was awesome. The cooler is fantastic and was a friends choice for his Q6600 back in the day - 3.6GHz without any issues. You should absolutely get an X-Fi XtremeGamer (or XtremeMusic) sound card and an AGEIA PhysX card to make this totally pimpin'.
If you want a nice gaming laptop of this vintage I can highly recommend a cheap XPS M1710 (with RGB lights!), the Precision M90 (same machine with Quadro FX equivalent graphics cards and a more serious look), or the Inspiron 9400/E1705 (same machines with lower specced GPUs available and no dock connector, although you can install the beefier graphics cards). Having a Core 2 Duo laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 display and a GeForce Go 7950 GTX for Windows XP/7 is nice.
EDIT: Definitely would like to see a PhysX video - I remember the PCI cards and they're dirt cheap now. They seemed cool at the time (of course) but I never did try one of the dedicated cards.
All the parts have so much color to them, and the boxes are also very beautiful
Calling it now. This is gonna be a popular video (relatively speaking). I love old-new builds like this! Thank you!
I like seeing XP builds because at that time, I was a little guy. no way in hell I would have been able to get this hardware. but now, it's pretty cool to see.
Same bro!
That glow tho ❤
1:37 important detail for the case ,, the knife edge that cuts you , a very real reality building pcs at the time
I have feeling the 13:37 length wasn’t coincidental.
Hot damn that's a beauty. Used to have one of those zalman coolers cooling my pentium E5200 that i was daily driving at a comfortable 4ghz (ish), worked quite well for me at the time, considering i came from a laptop with an athlon XP and 384mb's of ram
Very nice build, I really enjoyed this and your Windows 98 new old stock build! Looking forward to the next time when you're gonna do the upgrades, I hope you can recap the PSU and put that CCFL into the case :) Also on a side note, I liked how you illuminated the Doom 3 box with a flashlight in true Doom 3 style ;)
Amazing build of how it's done even playing games like Half-Life 2, Halo: CE, Far Cry, The Sims 2, GTA:SA, Doom 3 and more! Happy 20th Anniversary to Windows XP!!
Next video: Repairing the 2004 PSU. Caps are cheap and you can get high quality Japanese caps from Mouser, Digikey etc. Then do an update to this PC and fit it in with the special cables. Up-vote this comment because it needs to happen :-D
I was running the 2454 Beta back in early March 2000 and going from Windows 98 it was a complete different planet. I installed it on the same hardware as I had Windows 98 and all the drivers were installed for the first time I have ever ran Windows. This was something I had never seen before not one single driver was needed so it was a game changer in multiple configuration hardware support out of the box. I ran Windows XP until 2015 then switched all the machines to Windows 7. About 3 years ago switched to Windows 10 but still have one box running Windows XP-Windows 7 dual boot to run some older games. In my opinion Windows XP SP3 was one of the best OS Microsoft ever put out, it took years for people to finally switch to Windows 7.
Someone's building new windows xp computers, someone is still fixing them which are used 24/7 from 2006...
I'm from India and let me tell you that in quite remote places and institutions of the country you will find windows xp still common. Our very own first PC for entire family use was a Windows xp purchased in 2004. It was a classic Zenith pc. We used that PC up until early January this year after finally selling it to scraper. The PC was used for 20 years and I'm amazed when now I think about it.
I absolutely loved everything about this video. You have gained +1 subscriber! I really appreciate your attention to detail, especially the authenticity side of things. I'm glad you installed the sound card before the OS so we got to hear the elusive XP setup theme! PS. That's a mighty fine collection of old CDs you have there on the shelf! I think I even spotted the original RCT from 1999, one of my all-time favorites!! If you were to give this setup an appraisal for the time period, how much would you say it would cost?
You sure bring back a lot of memories for me. My first computer was a Packer Bell with a 386 cpu and a 28K dial of modem. The system was running Windows 2.1 and this was at the time we that didn't have a internet as we know now. I think everyone was using AOL at the time as well. Good old DOS days.
9:12 that hit me right in the nostalgia 😍
As someome who was born in 2002 and obviously didn't get to experience early pc hardware let alone building it, this is so interesting ane cool to watch, especially since i built my very first pc about a month ago
0:36 Hah, the lighting you used for Doom 3 is straight out of Doom 3!
I did an XP build last week for a friend (to play his old games), using an intel i3 and SATA HDD drives. It boots up way way faster than I remember.
I love win xp it’s my favourite os still today
I just found the same case sealed in box for a retro XP build. Went with abit IC7, P4 Northwood, Radeon 9800 Pro, Corsair BH5. Fun old build!!
Here's a great idea for a video
How about replacing the capacitors in the PSU with solid state ones, as well as maybe checking some other hardware for similar issues and fixing them? Call it a Great Plague Cleanup or something
Edit: watched the video to the end, i'm glad you decided to acknowledged the issue. Left the comment because i was kinda partially disappointed that toy just tossed the PSU aside instead of fixing it, since it looks way better than modern ones
XP is older than me (even the games you played are!), yet I still salivate over having a PC like this. I have an ME PC that, when I got it, was last used in 2005, the only problem is that it's running ME and is severely underpowered. Sick build!
those Zalman coolers were so cool! i had one on my VGA (i cant remember the ATI model, but the cooler was a VF1000), i really miss those "creative" coolers Thermaltake also had some pretty funky designs
@@rockapartie that cooler came with little aluminium heatsinks for the vram chips, these days vrm were something that we didn't even know
The nostalgia here was intense! From
The login screen and sound to the hardware and games!
Brings back so many happy memories of my AMD 4800+ PC with SLI 7800 GT 512MB each graphics cards. Had the 10k rpm drives to and eventually the velociraptor 15k 150GB HDD and would you believe I still have it to this day and it still works.
Sadly the Acer SLI deluxe motherboard had a Northbridge cooling fan that had a high failure rate, not knowing this mine eventually succumbed to the heat damage 😢
Great video though, subscribed!
That keyboard issue is still present in most laptops, even my "gaming" laptop. Granted it's only with the trackpad, but how have we not fixed that yet?
For laptops, it a sort of palm rejection when typing. So it should be solved by just turning of this setting. Noticed this on my laptop and immediately searched through every setting to get rid of that “feature.”
This brings so much nostalgia. I really wish those times came back, man...
Would’ve been fitting to see GTA 3 on here, since it’s also in its 20th anniversary
I come to this again time to time , this one's my second comment 1 year later. This video is art. I always think it's awesome to , if you can affort have like an entire room dedicated to this stuff , imagine going that room , no internet , no social media or anything. Just play the game and enjoy the old times without being distracted in middle , it's like a therapy or art in a sense .
That case is SWEEEET!
And that Zalman cooler is such a classic touch.
Ever since Windows XP is no longer supported, I've stopped using Windows and I switched to Linux Mint, and I continue running Windows XP in VirtualBox! Of course it is not the same experience since it cannot connect the same way with all the peripherals, but at least I still can use many software from the Windows 2000-XP era! Great video!
13:37 playtime … sweeeet leet
That is very period correct and makes me feel feelings. Windows XP might not have been the most exciting OS, but it sure as hell was rich in quality.
When will we get more office-videos?!
The XP era was a golden one for PC games.