I Build A High-End Gaming PC From 2005 To Play My Favourite Old Game

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  • @DawidDoesTechStuff
    @DawidDoesTechStuff  หลายเดือนก่อน +437

    *Insert Dawid Grunting sound here* Damn I forgot about what a nightmare 64-bit Windows XP is.
    I used it because it was the only working ISO I could find online when I made my XP install disk a year or so ago. The process involved so much suffering that I just used the same one again for this video. Ill definitely procure a 32-bit install disk for a future video to aviod this suffering. Thanks for the suggestions.

    • @hi-friaudioman
      @hi-friaudioman หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Why not just use a VM?

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@hi-friaudioman Because this is a hardware channel.

    • @AaronTheGeek
      @AaronTheGeek หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      32 bit is the way! 64bit was stupid buggy and was never great for gaming back then because of instability.

    • @DQSpider
      @DQSpider หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I saw WinXP64 and was like TURN LEFT DAWID!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @fujinmage8201
      @fujinmage8201 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      next video idea: use ai to simulate old games like black and white on new hardware and better graphics

  • @exxor9108
    @exxor9108 หลายเดือนก่อน +1482

    I can tell you immediately why you had such trouble with drivers. You installed the 64-bit version of Windows XP. That version had relatively lackluster driver support. Would be a good idea to install the 32-bit version of Windows XP the next time around.

    • @dimancor2925
      @dimancor2925 หลายเดือนก่อน +172

      Yes, 64-bit XP is a unicorn. Do not install it, guys.

    • @dabigbadwolf5081
      @dabigbadwolf5081 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      Vista 64bit Was the first usable 64bit OS

    • @dimancor2925
      @dimancor2925 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @dabigbadwolf5081 I had 32bit vista on laptop )

    • @MediocreTCG
      @MediocreTCG หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dimancor2925 Same.

    • @folcotook3049
      @folcotook3049 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@dabigbadwolf5081 Yep, that's why I went to Vista over XP - for 64-bit support.

  • @TryboBike
    @TryboBike หลายเดือนก่อน +447

    The driver issue was probably because of 64 bit XP - which was pretty poorly supported.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@TryboBike yeah, I never used XP64, only thing I heard about it was tons of driver issues.
      Only reason you'd use it was if you needed more than 4GB of ram, which was a rarity in the era.

    • @bean420man
      @bean420man หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Yeah, I was wondering why he went with 64 bit. It was only needed for more than 4GB RAM and only the gods had more than that back then.

    • @johnathanmcdoe
      @johnathanmcdoe หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Knew he'd suffer the moment I saw the 64 bit logo. Breaks the whole build over the knee and is likely the culprit for the abysmal performance too.

    • @bco1981
      @bco1981 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Interesting, i heard the same back in the day, XP-64 was a pile of useless bits. So, some months ago, i built a XP-64 system, it has been easy and no fuzz. and haven't had a BSOD yet, running on a i7-4770k, 32gb ram GTX 960. running rock solid, Virtualbox 5.2.44 runs debian 12-64bit and windows 10 1909 perfectly fine.
      ofcourse my iso was a SP2 with basically all updates available. i do not see the issue with XP-64 as everyone at the time was screaming about. And i, at the time avoided it like the plauge.
      one challenge with XP-64 i have, most old game CD/DVD installers do not want to run for some reason. So i install games in a xp-32 VM and copy the game and regedit stuff over to the host XP-64, and the game 99% of the time, just works.

    • @thealien_ali3382
      @thealien_ali3382 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bean420manI remember on my xp machine I had 2gb ram and felt like I was awesome haha, now am on 64gb

  • @Jordy268
    @Jordy268 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Man, the amount of trouble and hours installing drivers back in the day is something i really dont miss.

  • @NumptyMcNumptyface
    @NumptyMcNumptyface หลายเดือนก่อน +201

    Akshually, that isn't a joystick connector, it's a serial port. By that time however the need for that particular standard was waning as people moved to always on internet connections and PS/2 or USB for mice.
    And I recommend using the 32 bit version of Windows XP. It's 64 bit counterpart was well known for being incredibly fiddly and cumbersome when it came to driver support. There's a reasonable chance you'd get the system working with the original graphics card and onboard audio when using the 32 bit version.

    • @MadAlPlays
      @MadAlPlays หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The A8N32 did come with a controller port back plate with 2 USB ports (I've got the A8N-E and it has the same), controller port is the nice mustard yellow thing you can see on the left when the box is opened

    • @grantsutherland203
      @grantsutherland203 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Akshually, it's a DE-9 connector. Commonly misidentified as a DB-9 connector, "Serial Port" or "COM Port".

    • @MadAlPlays
      @MadAlPlays หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@grantsutherland203 Yes and the controller port is a DA-15... (and the ASUS manual calls the backplate with the DE-9 a " Serial port module")

    • @rollingtroll
      @rollingtroll หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This. I was sure someone was ahead of me. Gameport had more pins :)

    • @KYSMO
      @KYSMO หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      True

  • @linusatari5559
    @linusatari5559 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks!

  • @philtkaswahl2124
    @philtkaswahl2124 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    "Legal shiv battle" sounds so much more interesting than "legal dispute."
    Also, that "it would be easier to find some approval from your parents" caught me while I was drinking soda, and I just barely stopped my laugh enough that it didn't go up my nose.

  • @KwikFab
    @KwikFab หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Oh man, it's been a long time since I've played B&W. I've still got my 2008 PC build I put together for Crysis that was high-end back in the day. May just have to buy this game again.
    Thanks for unlocking memories!

    • @DavidWasTakn
      @DavidWasTakn หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine a modern B&W game with todays technology. Man the potential is insane :(

  • @toufusoup
    @toufusoup หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    Lmao the second I heard this sentence at 17:44 I opened up the comments and the top 3 immediately confirmed Dawid’s predictions

    • @OvermannOnline
      @OvermannOnline หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not surprising really.
      Snappy Driver Installer Origin, which he is using at that timestamp, doesn't seem to have the driver packs downloaded and he isn't connected to the internet so it was never going work.

  • @rizz0d
    @rizz0d หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    what a time to be playing computer games. Windows wasn't harvesting your data, you didn't have to stay connected to the internet for your games to work, all the new tech developments were actually good for the consumer, etc...

  • @enrique5167
    @enrique5167 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    The hard drive bays are in front of the fan on purpose. Don't forget that mechanical drives can get pretty hot, and back in the day it was pretty common to need 2/3/4 drives to get big enough storage. Put 4 drives there and suddenly the fan is mandatory to prevent the hard drives cooking themselves.

    • @phaztheaussiebastard
      @phaztheaussiebastard หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      one of mine ran so hot it warped the metal shield on the bottom and desoldered its power connector

    • @colestowing8695
      @colestowing8695 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      i was going to comment this. I had hard drives overheat and had to add fans for them. we take so much stuff for granted now

    • @RocotacoPerposterown
      @RocotacoPerposterown หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Amazing to see how far we have come since then. I remember needing to put in a new HDD because our old 10GB one had filled up, so we got a new MASSIVE 40GB drive.
      Now, I don't even have any mechanical drives and have 8TB of NVME storage just on the motherboard.

    • @VoldoronGaming
      @VoldoronGaming หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is exactly how I have my modern system which is an Phanteks Enthoo pro case with 2 140mm front case fans intaking air and blowing it across my hard drives.

  • @Lumilicious
    @Lumilicious หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    21:07 "i don't remember it running like this" because your period correct PC doesn't have a CRT hooked up to it. Low framerates look/feel better on a CRT, but performance was generally "bad" back in the day. I remember having 40-50fps with dips into the high 30s at 1024x768 on cs_italy in CSS when HL2 game came out. That was with a Pentium 4 3.6GHz and a Geforce 6800 (non-GT). That was the time where you really stopped using any background programs and "optimize windows" to squeeze out a couple extra fps and yeah, upgrading the CPU a couple years later (C2D e7400) fixed everything for me.

  • @pluffcrock3438
    @pluffcrock3438 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    that 100% cpu and 0% gpu smells like software rendering

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Probably because the card he's using is not a gaming card.

    • @jamesbyrd3740
      @jamesbyrd3740 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@no1DdC probably because the drivers are trash

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@jamesbyrd3740 They aren't trash, they just aren't optimized for gaming, but instead accuracy in CAD and offline rendering workloads. Different priorities.
      There are ways of turning such a card into a gaming card, but it usually involves at the very least modified drivers or at the other end of the spectrum flashing the BIOS into that of the equivalent non-gaming GPU.

    • @jamesbyrd3740
      @jamesbyrd3740 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@no1DdC Sure, unoptimized, but it should do something? if I am not mistaken, it always showed 0%gpu utilization. So either it didn't do anything or the overlay was wrong.

    • @PilotPlangy
      @PilotPlangy หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      GPU was at 66 degrees so dont think it was totally asleep

  • @Mikehud1984
    @Mikehud1984 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had that exact same motherboard! I don’t recall the other specs I had though. Thanks for the blast to the past.

  • @Jareth2001
    @Jareth2001 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    Don't use XP 64 Bit. It's 2003 in disguise. 32 Bits is the version everyone used and the one you want. All your driver problems should be gone, too.

    • @EvilTurkeySlices
      @EvilTurkeySlices หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Yeah, XP 32-bit is the way to go.

    • @user-yv2cz8oj1k
      @user-yv2cz8oj1k หลายเดือนก่อน

      You ca run it on modern systems, you just need to do the right searches.

    • @federicocatelli8785
      @federicocatelli8785 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lackluster driver support for XP 64

    • @kiki83607
      @kiki83607 หลายเดือนก่อน

      myth, probably you never used XP 64bits

    • @federicocatelli8785
      @federicocatelli8785 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kiki83607
      True I never used XP 64 but I remember some hw components (I had on my 32 bits computers) not having specific drivers for that os.

  • @sinwashereable
    @sinwashereable หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    oh my god, thank you so much for letting us know there will be a micro-center coming to Santa Clara. The Bay Area of California has been lacking a proper electronics/computer parts store for god knows how long since Fry's Electronics went out of business.

  • @thomascrum185
    @thomascrum185 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    My steam account was made on September 15th 2003 and I had so many PC's that I built I cannot remember. I was even doing case mods back then where I cut out designs on the side of my case then I would put lights inside. I know I have pictures of it somewhere!

    • @AzumiRM
      @AzumiRM 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was using winmx at that time, for my games. Winmx is where I got xp from on the day it came out

  • @johnroberts2905
    @johnroberts2905 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    @3:25 That's a serial port. Gameports had 15 pins...

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Anyone who remembers these is officially old now.

    • @brucethen
      @brucethen หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol you beat me to it.

  • @SWISS-1337
    @SWISS-1337 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I had that case! This is such a throwback. Black and White 1 & 2, red Alert 2, Yuris revenge, etc. What a time to be young.

    • @CougarCat21
      @CougarCat21 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What about C&C Generals and Zero Hour? My favs of all time!

    • @dodolurker
      @dodolurker หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had severe memberberries about that case as well! I still have it stashed away somewhere. It's a black version, but otherwise identical to the one in the video.

    • @drewnewby
      @drewnewby หลายเดือนก่อน

      @dodolurker Keep it or sell it to me. Entirely aluminum cases are unicorns at this point. I have a Coffee Lake build in the silver version.

    • @slipknottin
      @slipknottin หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had the black version of that case. I think it had blue lighting on it. I kind of miss it ha

    • @jayb2705
      @jayb2705 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Playing Red Alert 2 on networked PCs against other people was an amazing experience

  • @someguy3186
    @someguy3186 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is also how I got into retro PCs, though in my case it was to play AVP2, which also isn't available for purchase and doesn't play well with modern systems. I started with a Windows XP build, and now I have several retro builds that go all the way back to DOS.
    For an optimal XP experience, you want a newer system like a Core 2 Duo or even a Sandy/Ivy Bridge system. You don't really lose any compatibility, and you get far better performance for a MUCH cheaper price. As you found out yourself, most of the period correct stuff goes for an arm and a leg because of collectors. Meanwhile, you can find Core 2 Duo systems in the dumpster. Match it with an appropriate gpu from the same time period (most cards from about 2008 to 2012 can be had for super cheap), you can play games like Black and White 2 on modern resolutions and frame rates.

  • @derekbrown5420
    @derekbrown5420 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    In 2005, I bought my first custom PC from one of those old school PC shops. I remember bringing it home and the thing wouldn't work. After a couple weeks bringing it back for troubleshooting where it worked fine in their lab every time, it turned out that the problem was I using a USB mouse and keyboard and the motherboard refused to boot without something plugged into the PS/2 ports. All this to say that I'm not surprised a period accurate 2005 PC build was such a headache.
    I still have all of those parts, too. I don't know if they work, but I used the giant metal case for my current PC and I love it.

  • @ProCastify
    @ProCastify หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    At that time I remember it vividly, my mother surprised me for my birthday with a new gaming PC in 2011, as I was playing on an old and crappy Pentium 4 at the time.
    I vaguely remember the specs
    Motherboard: Was some kind of Asus with a black paint
    CPU: AMD Athlon II X3
    GPU: Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+
    RAM: 4GB (I dont know if DDR or DDR2)
    PowerSupply: KissQuiet 800W (A fucking beast)
    Case: Some kind of Black and Grey case? Probably something not so noteworthy
    Accessories: DVD-RW, Floppy
    And I ran Windows XP SP3 (Extreme Edition) which was some kind of custom Winndows thing and then siwtched to Vista
    I remember till now that I could run Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 at high settings and it completely blew my mind.
    The little kid in me will be forever gratefull to my mom
    Moms are the best.

    • @xgui4-studios
      @xgui4-studios หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      seriously???? a floppy in 2011 ??? wasnt floppy a 80's tech ???????

    • @Jalex0021
      @Jalex0021 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@xgui4-studios No, it was used pretty heavily throughout the 90's, with USB gradually taking its place from the late 90's onwards.

    • @MR_FIAT
      @MR_FIAT 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Jalex0021 USB support was still flakey in the late 90's, i still used floppy desks allot in the early 2000's, i'd say after XP was fully adopted that USB humbdrivers truly became the norm, so probably in the latter half of the early 2000's i.e. 2004/2005ish

  • @TheGoatBeats
    @TheGoatBeats หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    I still have the original copy of Black & White.
    Solid motherboard bro

    • @alexsky88749
      @alexsky88749 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you sell it to me?

    • @GrumpyWolfTech
      @GrumpyWolfTech หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      asus board, pure trash

    • @V1VISECT6
      @V1VISECT6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@GrumpyWolfTechYou tell them little dude. How was Kindergarten today?;

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem หลายเดือนก่อน

      I stil own the intel version, it was my first Ai board ! SLi, Windows Xp x64, wow !
      I own Black & White on EA CD-Rom, great game it was, Ai too !

  • @ainohautamaki2648
    @ainohautamaki2648 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Tech really does go forward, when you check what 86 Watts for GPU gets you today! Good stuff.
    Hard drive cages aren't blocking airflow, they're making hard drives get cool air. When you stack them right on top of each other in the case, they can get quite hot. (Former 10,000 RPM Raptor owners, we salute you.)

  •  หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Black & White was just incredible. Peter Molyneux was one of the greatest game designers of that era. I remember I even had a winamp plugin in which the bear creature would dance to the sound of the music playing

    • @leonefurlan137
      @leonefurlan137 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OMG, WINAMP !!!!
      (I totally forgot about that,nobody uses it anymore,but 15/20 yrs ago it was the 1st thing i install to a pc)

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @leonefurlan137 it is still my goto player

  • @pop2522
    @pop2522 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was the perfect project and video for you to do before the holidays. Happy for you!

  • @AnnaDoes
    @AnnaDoes หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    The drama!!! His hoarding saved the day so many times. 😂😂

    • @profosist
      @profosist หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      see its not a problem *smiles awkwardly*

    • @AnnaDoes
      @AnnaDoes หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@profosist 🤣😅 this video has definitely reinforced his hoarding habits.

    • @profosist
      @profosist หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnnaDoes now just gotta sort things so you can actually find them when needed :P
      Apparently the container store makes some boxes that perfectly fit the kallax shelves.

    • @jameslake7775
      @jameslake7775 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnnaDoes As a fellow tech hoarder, I both love it and hate it when I have just the part I need for exactly that reason. I'm not gonna get any better if it actually *works*.

  • @philiphansen1103
    @philiphansen1103 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This made me smile brought back a lot of memories. These were the years I built my first pc.

  • @TaylorBrauer
    @TaylorBrauer หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    hahaha omg your relief at 19:26 is so real. Very nice work Dawid and those parts def came in clutch. Congrats on another amazing video man!

    • @boburanus69
      @boburanus69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Reminds me of the day I decided to repaste my rtx 3060 and the cable connector that powers the fans... broke off at the flimsy plug. Spent a couple hours trying to fix the connection without any good micro tools, finally got it seated without issue, now I know never to unplug those connectors when I take apart that card.
      In 2005 I had a sony Vaio desktop with an MX420 in it... Played OG CoD and Day of Defeat. Great times.

    • @poeticsilence047
      @poeticsilence047 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The sound all of us make when everything was for not.

    • @TaylorBrauer
      @TaylorBrauer หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ that sounds like a nightmare. Glad to hear you were able to recover it.

  • @TheMemeBull
    @TheMemeBull หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video made me remember my first PC. My grandpa, who worked as a programmer, eventually passed down his old pc to me. The upgrades I did on it led to where I am today when it comes to games and building PCs.

  • @robindebondt4643
    @robindebondt4643 หลายเดือนก่อน +327

    Why the hell did you install the x64 version of XP, no wonder you had driver issues

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@robindebondt4643 yeah that was a mistake.
      That's exactly why it was a pain in the arse... Format it and go to the 32bit (x86) version, bet the drivers will work first try.

    • @EvilTurkeySlices
      @EvilTurkeySlices หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@volvo09the game will probably run better too.

    • @Daygunjim
      @Daygunjim หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      This 100%, 64bit operating systems back then were a complete nightmare for gaming and driver support. I'm surprised the game even launched!

    • @Shadepariah
      @Shadepariah หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      XP x64 was the ME of 2006 lmao

    • @powerfulshammy
      @powerfulshammy หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      lucky he did not install the correct version of the drivers 😂 x86

  • @scottdecker8612
    @scottdecker8612 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I gotta say, the most recent couple of vids for old school hardware are pretty great. Takes me way back! 🙌

  • @KnightOfKnights
    @KnightOfKnights หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    I have never seen anyone use Windows XP 64bit for gaming. You should have used the 32bit version, that would probably have fixed a lot of driver struggles...

    • @DawidDoesTechStuff
      @DawidDoesTechStuff  หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Yeah it was the only working ISO for XP I could find on the internet a year or so ago. I'll buy a 32-bit disk off eBay.

    • @MyFighter24
      @MyFighter24 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      please make another video to see if the game runs better now. It may be that you finally get the performance you were hoping for. I would be very interested.

    • @icoborg
      @icoborg หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DawidDoesTechStuff come onn! you need an iso?

    • @jamesbyrd3740
      @jamesbyrd3740 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DawidDoesTechStuff i bet my friend has a bunch of pirated versions on disc.

  • @Teddysaw1988
    @Teddysaw1988 หลายเดือนก่อน

    massive nostalgia hit from seeing that x1900, dunno what build i had done that in spent 10 min thinking about it, but honestly took me back to a more carefree time in my life, cheers mate keep well👍

  • @Alvin853
    @Alvin853 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I have almost the same hardware as my XP retro system... but I put it in a modern Fractal Design Pop Air case, RGB case fans, same Wraith Prism CPU cooler and sleeved cable extensions, so it looks like a fancy new PC from the outside but then you realize all the internals are from 2005... Athlon 64 X2 4400+ on a DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR, 2GB of DDR-400 and a 7800 GTX I refurbished myself (had a failed VRM MOSFET).
    It's a lot of fun to keep this old hardware alive and in a state like it would have been 20 years ago.

    • @drewnewby
      @drewnewby หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Pop Air is perfect for restomods, I usually get the Fractal Meshify series cheaper, but the CD / DVD drive support of the Pop is worth the extra.

  • @Adamas_83
    @Adamas_83 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had that same motherboard in my first ever home-built PC. I Paired it with 2x 6600GTs in SLI, an FX-55 with the classic Zalman CNPS 9700 cooler. I also bought the shiny OCZ 520 PSU, and a WD Raptor HDD and put it all in an Antec Sonata case. I immediately became the coolest dude in my dorm (or so I felt at the time). It played my game of choice, Lineage 2, completely maxed out like a champ, which was mind-blowing at the time to me. Less than a year later Core2 Duo released and made my Team Green monster kind of obsolete overnight.... but man what an awesome PC, and one I still remember fondly after all these years. It was such an awesome time period to be into PC building/gaming and all my favorite games are still from that era.

  • @37Kilo2
    @37Kilo2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    "I don't remember it running like this"
    That was my response to firing up my N64 and playing Perfect Dark with the increased textures/resolution. It was like 18FPS at best. Luckily you can go low res and use an upscaler.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Textures remain the same in high resolution mode on the N64. The game just runs at 640x222 (NTSC) or 448x268 (PAL) compared to 320x222 and 320x268 in low-res mode. Games certainly ran at weird resolutions back then, although Nintendo in particular are still using non-square pixels from time to time even today.
      I would recommend playing the Xbox 360 remaster instead. It's 1080p/60 (4K/60 on One X and Series X), with (optionally) slightly improved textures and models. It's faithful to the original and feels absolutely brilliant to play thanks to the perfect fluidity. There is also an unofficial PC port based on a decompilation of the game, which is however not finished yet (although it's pretty functional).
      If you are also interested in replaying Goldeneye, play the leaked, never officially released remaster (runs perfectly in Xemu), which very similar in terms of quality.

    • @jamesbyrd3740
      @jamesbyrd3740 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@no1DdC the gpu wasn't doing anything.

    • @Lucromis
      @Lucromis หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is why I usually appreciate older games with emulation lately and the original controller if I can. Back then the resolution and framerate were not on purpose but just limitations. Things like the art style, game design etc are all artistic choices to be appreciated. 18 FPS is not really appreciated lol. Perfect dark with HD textures and bots is like 10FPS if you are lucky.

  • @foxpopuli6982
    @foxpopuli6982 หลายเดือนก่อน

    B&W is one of the very few games I would build a retro PC for. I absolutely loved it!The wolf creature (not a starter creature) would call your followers around him, and then start breakdancing, kicking them across the map. It was great!

  • @Mother_Mercury
    @Mother_Mercury หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    In 2005 i had saved enough money as a 13 year old to build my first pc. The specs: Athlon 64 4000+, 2gb ddr1 ram, Geforce 6600GT 256mb gpu, 74gb WD raptor hdd, ASUS m-atx motherboard. I still use this pc for retro gaming, the only thing i had to replace (4 times already) is the psu.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Wow, that's bad luck with the PSU!
      My 2005 era PSU finally died 2 years ago, and it was the cheap no name one that came included with the case 😂

    • @Mother_Mercury
      @Mother_Mercury หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@volvo09 Until a few years ago I always used the PSUs that came with the case (Aopen PSUs) to keep the PC as original as possible. You can hardly find these anymore, so for 6 years now there has been a Corsair PSU in it that continues to work fine. I am already happy that the HDD still works and the SMART is still OK.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Mother_Mercury I wanted one of those raptor drives back then, but I couldn't afford it. Glad to hear you are still using it.
      Is the CPU at stock clocks?

    • @outtheredude
      @outtheredude หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Currently using a Seasonic SS-600ET with my mid-2000s Athlon 64 X2 4800+ machine. Same GPU though (an XFX variant).

    • @Mother_Mercury
      @Mother_Mercury หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@volvo09 I have never overclocked the CPU. I really don't dare to do that now because I don't know how stable the motherboard is. The Athlon 64 4000+ can hardly be overclocked if I understand correctly because it is already on the edge of what the chip can handle. The Raptor has never been a good decision to buy. the hard drive does spin at 10,000 rpm, but it is not really much faster than a 'normal hard drive' and makes a lot of noise. Only the access time is a tiny bit better. I had a 250gb 7200rpm hard drive in this pc for a while, but I didn't notice any difference in loading games.

  • @Dan-Simms
    @Dan-Simms หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow, this brings me back, my bro and I loved the Black & White series!
    Edit: I wish I could remember the specs of my PC back then... a coma wrecked my memory.

  • @samcadwallader2899
    @samcadwallader2899 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is why I keep all my old hardware and can put together an age appropriate PC going back to 1992 if required. The only issue I have is trying to game on an S3 Virge as it works just as well today as it did back then :D

  • @stuarthughes3314
    @stuarthughes3314 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have to say I very much enjoyed this video from all the suffering you went through. Feels very authentic to those of us still making and repairing retro gaming PC's from this era and earlier. What you experienced is just scratching the surface of the pain. 😂😂

  • @Corax_X
    @Corax_X หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    OMG, I used to have this (almost) exact same system! I built in that Thermaltake Tsunami Dream for over a decade! I only got rid of it when I built an i7-8700K system. LOVED that case!
    I even found my old ebay listings from 2009: I sold my FX-55 with cooler for $57, ASUS A8N32-SLI went for $81, 1GB kit of XMS went for $45. I had the 256mb Dell GPU but in SLI and ended up giving those away to a friend. My favorite part, hands down, was the LEDs on the RAM. Seeing activity live was so cool to show off at LANs lol SUCH a nostalgia trip!!!

    • @drewnewby
      @drewnewby หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I built many for customers in this case. I still have a Coffee Lake build in one.

  • @BigBossIvan
    @BigBossIvan 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This video was pretty special. It's a somewhat jarring gut punch of Nostalgia for me. It mirrors damn near exactly the last system I built before I left PC gaming to play with former friends on console with the launch of the Xbox 360 and PS3 a year later. I still remember that exact cooler with the ninja girl on my Radeon. I ended up joining the military, and after a long rollercoaster of a ride, I'm prepping to build my first gaming PC since all the way back then. Here's hoping for a Ryzen 7 series and a Radeon 9070XT as the spiritual successor so many years later. I just hope I can find other old heads to play with coming back.

  • @burrfoottopknot
    @burrfoottopknot หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Black and White has one of the best game intros for a game, great developer team in its day Lionhead studios

  • @ProtoMario
    @ProtoMario หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No mounting bracket, no problem, turn pc on its side and don't move it lol.
    It's not ideal but it does work 😂

    • @leonefurlan137
      @leonefurlan137 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also tie-wraps/cable-ties, half of all my beginner/Frankenstein style gaming pc's had coolers installed with them. If done properly they can really give a strong contact of cooler+mobo...

  • @Powerhouse1
    @Powerhouse1 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Windows XP can go up to a GTX 960 for graphics. I recently played Black and White 2 on an XP machine at 1080p with a GTX 780 and an AMD FX 6350.

    • @drewnewby
      @drewnewby หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You can go all the way up the 900 series, the 970 and up require a small driver edit. I use the 950 mostly, because even a quad C2D will bottleneck a 960.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@drewnewby Even my 2016 i5 bottlenecked a 960 at least a little bit. They do actually benefit from contemporary i7 CPUs in order to breathe freely, although at that point, you might as well go with a 10-series instead.

    • @drewnewby
      @drewnewby หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @no1DdC I know, you missed the point slightly. XP only supports up to 900 series. Ivy Bridge with a 970 is a good max XP setup though.

    • @r3tr0c0e3
      @r3tr0c0e3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      you don't need a bloody xp for this game, it works perfectly fine in w11 with compatibility mode and runs like 100fps in 1080p on an intel 770hd, whole period correct crap is beyond retardation, you have to pay me 200$ to even touch this relic, gotta be some kinda hipster movement involved with this that i don't understand

    • @jamesbyrd3740
      @jamesbyrd3740 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@r3tr0c0e3 lol I was wondering that...

  • @novaknavekey
    @novaknavekey 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I had started university and was able to buy a new laptop for my computing needs. An Acer the size of two textbooks. It ran like a dream and I still have it. Now I want to dig it out and see if it still runs. Thank you so much for the nostalgia trip

  • @tmaris
    @tmaris หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Never played Black and White but my favorite game of all time is also from Peter Molyneux. Dungeon Keeper! Which it still has an active community behind it

    • @ElDavo9000
      @ElDavo9000 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      KeeperFX changed my life

    • @rmcdudmk212
      @rmcdudmk212 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I liked both games, but I definitely put more hours into Dungeon Keeper. 👍

    • @Tabazan
      @Tabazan หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      DK2 was my favourite, I spent so many hours playing that!

    • @BiasWordSmith
      @BiasWordSmith หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mine was Myth the fallen lords. Then Eidos release Myth 2 shorthly after as games didn't take a decade to make. Real time tactic with disructable/deformable land. Perfection!

  • @TommyCrosby
    @TommyCrosby หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OMG, I remember having a ThermalTake Tsunami Dream in my Athlon 64 days. I had a DFI LanParty motherboard and UV cold cathode lights. 2005 was a great year.

  • @Imjeezus
    @Imjeezus หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I just took an older dell Optiplex office PC and an SSD and loaded Windows XP onto that. I believe XP drivers work on up to 4th gen Intel chips, getting the drivers is the hardest part but I figured it out at one point. Threw in a GT730 which is weak by today’s standards but for a windows XP computer, it’s god tier. All in, it cost me like $60.
    Runs everything AMAZINGLY. I love playing my old games like Mechwarrior 3 from time to time.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Meanwhile, I just head over to the PCGamingWiki to find solutions for older games and run them on my current system. If push comes to shove, I'll fire up a VM or PCEm.

    • @johncollins5552
      @johncollins5552 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was that 32 bit xp?

    • @Imjeezus
      @Imjeezus หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@no1DdC I’ve tried that, way more of a headache and more troubleshooting to get things working with a chance of never getting it working. My XP computer just works. If I have to spend 5+ minutes trying to get the game working, I’ll just lose motivation to play it at all lol
      Plus, just something nostalgic about slapping the disk in the drive bay, ya know?

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Imjeezus Which XP computer just works. Mine certainly didn't back in the day. It was more stable than ME, but that was about it.
      As for slapping the disc into the drive - I very much disliked this back then and habitually created and mounted images of most CDs and DVDs I had.

  • @SPKRFRKRMPLS
    @SPKRFRKRMPLS 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    honestly just building your dream pc from the early years sounds like a fun project, i just may have to do this now

  • @StefanMArndt
    @StefanMArndt หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    LOL! This was the typical experience building your own PC back in the early 2000s. So much bending over backwards to get things to work and drivers to install. It took hours and hours. It was glorious.
    Nowadays, things just work, and well, it is more glorious.

    • @C4nn15
      @C4nn15 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, seems AMD still hasn't got the drivers right :).

    • @justjoe5373
      @justjoe5373 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@C4nn15And Intel is trying to get some CIA contracts with their spontaneously combusting CPUs. Meanwhile AMD gave up on high end and nVidia gave up on putting VRAM on cards because who needs VRAM anyways?

    • @Dj-Mccullough
      @Dj-Mccullough หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've built pcs since the 90's. Windows 95 was way way way worse than xp to get drivers working. Up was rather easy to deal with.

    • @r3tr0c0e3
      @r3tr0c0e3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      tf are you on about, the only hassle was to reinstall/update drivers where you need it to clean them, other than that maintaining and building a system was easier than ever, i must have build thousands of these relics back in the day when i worked at the shop, now it's timing this and rgb that and hundred bios settings to get most of your system, bloody ridiculous

  • @andrewgeorgelang
    @andrewgeorgelang หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    23 minutes of pure awesomeness

  • @WirrWicht
    @WirrWicht หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Windows XP x64 Edition? Has anyone seriously used it? And a AMD X2 CPU would have been still period correct, released in may before B&W2...

    • @nukers1234
      @nukers1234 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I did, only way to get more than 4gb ram on XP to work. Was a baller already back then with a Pentium D. But Darwin should have waited to 2007 and gone for a c2q6600 😅

    • @Lucromis
      @Lucromis หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah 2004-2005 era was a transition period but anyone still using single core CPUs was quickly screwed. Athlon 64 X2 4200+ or something would have been way better. The GPU drivers are not optimized for games, and it is a shame that ati card did not work. It probably would have with 32bit WinXP. This was PC gaming back then. One tiny mistake and lots of troubleshooting.

    • @henrikbrolin5687
      @henrikbrolin5687 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i try it and get back to 32-bit after it not go fix bug and after that MS close 64-bit Xp os.. =(
      so sade thye close down it and dont realse fix and start build up vista crap call longhorn... =/

  • @drewnewby
    @drewnewby หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No matter what, I keep a build in the silver Thermaltake Tsunami. Of the dozen here, even older builds like C2D and Athlon are in newer cases like Fractal Mesh, etc., but I have a Coffee Lake setup in this case. I will never give it up, peak aluminum, even if it requires some mods for a modern PC.

  • @cinnabarsin4288
    @cinnabarsin4288 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Small tip for Thingiverse: When it fails to make the zip it will usually let you click the individual files in the list to download them unzipped still.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or just use a different web browser. I'm keeping three or four different browsers around, just in case.

    • @stevethepocket
      @stevethepocket หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@no1DdC I doubt any browser would be broken in a way that prevents a website's backend from working right.

  • @scottmccarthy1274
    @scottmccarthy1274 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved Black and White - it was such an amazing jump forward for AI! Thanks for another great video.

  • @gamerperson2007
    @gamerperson2007 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Oh man, what a trip. I had an Athlon 64 CPU and I was encouraged by Tiger Direct to use XP 64-bit edition, and that was the most horrid experience. Redo video with x32 edition.

  • @DoomGuy9001-MK4
    @DoomGuy9001-MK4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is taken me back.
    I had this exact case but in black. This hardware I grew up with when I first starting learning how to build a PC.

  • @neongenesis2979
    @neongenesis2979 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Going for period correct and uses a Wraith cooler. Drop a GT 710 in there and an SSD, and use 32bit XP. Mind Blown. Good video!

    • @wemartin12
      @wemartin12 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As he said the Canada Post strike has meant he hasn't received some of the period correct components he bought.

  • @bitemykrank1970
    @bitemykrank1970 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You paid out an extraordinary amount of money for this system to play B&W 1 and 2. I play BOTH games on a HP SFF quad core I got free from the tip. I added a low profile HD6350 for 512MB of video and the box had 8GB RAM in it already, but as I'm using the 32bit XP I only have the 3.5GB the fat32 sytem allows. It runs both games perfectly, no stutters, no frame drops and crystal clear images. Total cost of my PC -- $3.50 for a new CR2020 for motherboard, the rest came from junk boxes in my store room. It might not be period correct, but it was ONE HELL OF A LOT cheaper than your machine for the same if not even better result.

  • @ChengTeoh
    @ChengTeoh หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I'm shocked using duct tape wasn't your "brilliant idea" ... very disappointed, lol.

  • @MrSpiderpig1979
    @MrSpiderpig1979 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I distinctly remember building a similar system just to play Overlord, I ran it on an Nvidia 5700, a P4 cpu and 256mb of ram. seeing this has made wanna go back and play it again. Thank you Dawid

  • @an3k
    @an3k หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I can't remember what CPU I had but I bought Battlefield 2 and couldn't play it, because my graphics card wasn't able to do Hardware T&L, which was some fancy light and shadow stuff. Because of that I bought two 7800GTX (stock cooler ones) and LOVED playing Battlefield 2.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน

      How long did these beasts remain capable of playing the latest games at the settings you wanted?

    • @an3k
      @an3k หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@no1DdC If I remember correctly up until a GTX295.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@an3k Four years, give or take, is a pretty good run, especially back then. Was the SLI experience as buggy and frustrating as I've heard it to be?

    • @an3k
      @an3k หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@no1DdC The cards got really hot but couldn't handle the heat well enough.
      At that times, SLI was hell, yes. And back then it often introduced micro-stutter.
      Shortly before nVIDIA officially ended SLI it was at its pinnacle and delivered nearly twice the performance, given the game engine is using it correctly. See Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

  • @thefumexxl
    @thefumexxl หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is hitting me deep in the nostalgia. ALl these labels and form factors are my teenage years in full swing haha

  • @Moodoo20
    @Moodoo20 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Pretty sure I played with 10FPS and was like "WOW SUCH GREAT GAMEPLAY"

    • @DavidWasTakn
      @DavidWasTakn หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did the same, also with command and conquer back in the day. Man I miss those times so much.

  • @dotxyn
    @dotxyn 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Back in 2006, I also had a Tsunami Dream, X1900XTX, 939 motherboard, but with an Opteron 148. It's great seeing these types of builds.

  • @TheMacksterz
    @TheMacksterz หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    oh boy, here to watch the funny tech man early

  • @johnodevilliers4118
    @johnodevilliers4118 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This really hit the nostalgia button.
    2005-2006 was a wild time for PC building, AM2 and DDR2 was around the corner in 2005 and dual core was becoming a thing with AMD X2. We were still moving from AGP to PCI-E, so many pitfalls and incompatibilities. At least you seemed to have a SP3 Win XP, old XP SP1 you had to install SATA drivers via a stiffy before you could install Win XP. 64 bit was still a newish thing, so it wasn't well supported and really didn't matter then as you were not exactly using more than 4GB of RAM, hehe.
    I remember the PC I build back in 2005 had the following specs, also had this cool X-Mod case (a Chinese knock off probably), kinda looked like the Apple G5 Desktop.
    CPU: AMD Athlon X2 4200+
    RAM: 1 GB DDR 400
    GPU: NVidia 6800GTS
    MOBO: Some ASUS board with the 939 chipset
    But really can feel your pain with setting up everything when drivers just don't want to play along. Had that recently with my new 7900XT, Adrenalin just doesn't play well with my PC. When it is installed can't use Fan Control or MSI Afterburner. Eventually just did plain driver install without Adrenalin and all is well (2 weeks later of troubleshooting).

  • @lonvaleroso5526
    @lonvaleroso5526 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    you may have forgotten to install the motherboard drivers first. install motherboard driver>install gpu driver>install audio driver (if mobo driver did not install it yet) should be the order when dealing with older OSes

    • @SilvaDreams
      @SilvaDreams หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well there is also the issue of the XP 64bit, notoriously bad driver support on that OS. Had he used the 32bit XP the graphics card would have functioned.

  • @wild_running
    @wild_running หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoyed that one Dawid! Never heard of Black and White. But loved your journey in this vid!

  • @ChrisPelletier73
    @ChrisPelletier73 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2:14 giggity

  • @danmar007
    @danmar007 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the music and humour on this channel. I still have my 2007 PC.

  • @MarkSalterSaltyTalk
    @MarkSalterSaltyTalk หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Loads of fun ... But, you kinda shot yourself in the foot with the 64bit XP. Go with a 32bit install and that ATI will work like a champ.

  • @trev8591
    @trev8591 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, that brings back some memories! I loved that game! Moved onto Tropico when that came out.

  • @EvilTurkeySlices
    @EvilTurkeySlices หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The FX 4400 isn’t the Quadro equivalent of the 7800 GTX, it’s the Quadro equivalent of the 6800 gt. It’s much slower than the 7800 GTX.

  • @1127batkinson
    @1127batkinson หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was nostalgic for sure. Favorite game from that era for me was Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Built my first system to play it.

  • @ChrisDupres
    @ChrisDupres หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hey Dawid, the fans in the front of those cases weren't really for general airflow, they were to cool the hard drives in that bay. How our needs have changed, eh?

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anyone who has ever built a NAS can tell you that a stack of hard drives will still create a lot of heat. It's just that you won't find them in most PCs anymore.

  • @BorisYonchev
    @BorisYonchev 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    in 2005 I was 2 years old sadly. But I started with a ps2 and got my first pc around 2017 or 2018. My dad used to build pcs but he stopped when I was born. He always talks about some of the parts you used haha. Great video!

  • @homelessEh
    @homelessEh หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    3:28 thats a serial port not a game port bruv

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh หลายเดือนก่อน

      so many socket 939 cpus laying around..

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      tmk 939 am2 am2+ am3 am3+ am4 all use the same bracket..i would not be suprised of am5 uses it too.

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      if the 3d print lacks integrity. you could try the acetone vapor bath and let the plastic meld to gather a little better. increase its stregnth. and make it shiny in the process.

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh หลายเดือนก่อน

      feeling validated that fx7000 was absolute dog water

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      pretty sure theres a bunch of dual core 939's that arent the rare and ill concieved single core fx debacles. id have Given you for no money all the 939 single and dual cores i have just literally collecting dust in a box.

  • @sgaford
    @sgaford 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In 2005/6 I remember making my own dungeons in Morrowind on a EMachines T6212, then in 2007 getting a job with a security company that had a ton of spare parts that they were prepping to throw out, including a AOpen SocketLGA 775 Motherboard, and a Prescott P4, which were amazing upgrades for a cash-strapped person like myself.

  • @TheGalifrey
    @TheGalifrey หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Dawid, those bays didn't block airflow, they needed airflow back then as they got damned hot!

  • @ShadyHero
    @ShadyHero หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh damn thats a nice ass case. My dad is still running his Thermaltake Shark from 2004(mostly because I insisted he did so)
    he used to have a Phenom II X4 965, 16gb of 1866mhz DDR3 and a GTX 760, now he has a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 64gb of 5200mhz (i couldn't get it to post with anything more than 5200mhz, even tho it's XMP is 6600) and an RTX 4070 Super. temps are phenomenal too, it's using an icegiant prosiphon elite.

  • @Raintiger88
    @Raintiger88 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First build video I was genuinely excited to watch.

  • @CleanPhilWanted
    @CleanPhilWanted หลายเดือนก่อน

    I totally just found my old copy of black and white a couple weeks ago at my parents house! Loved that game.

  • @mk1s
    @mk1s หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always love your work Dawid, such a great character. Keep doing tech stuff!

  • @Nurofaen
    @Nurofaen หลายเดือนก่อน

    Holy shit as soon as I saw the motherboard I knew we were in for a treat. I had that motherboard and I still have the box upstairs, I built my first pc for Oblivion!

    • @Nurofaen
      @Nurofaen หลายเดือนก่อน

      OK and the CPU is the same too! Omg I'm sure I have these components still in that OG build in the loft. Obviously it's derelict now, having gone through at least 4 more systems since but wow. Blast from the past. I need to check the graphics card too now, I certainly had a nvidia 256mb one...

  • @heckintech
    @heckintech 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I deeply miss the 1995-2005 computing days. Things were so exciting back then. In this approximate era, I was rocking an AMD Athlon XP 3000+, and it absolutely SLAPPED. I still have it, the motherboard with CPU, RAM and Heatsink is framed on the wall in a nice shadowbox dealie. AARRT. I should hook it up and take it for a spin again!

  • @craigbomer8962
    @craigbomer8962 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I first got into computer gaming in 2007. I had a co-worker talk me into trying World Of Warcraft. I dove in about 6 months before the launch of Wrath Of The Lich King. I started out playing it on a cheap Acer laptop running Windows 7. I "upgraded" a few years later to a desktop I built with an AMD A10-5800K APU.

  • @xthatwhiteguyx
    @xthatwhiteguyx หลายเดือนก่อน

    I missed out during that period. From 2000-2012, I only purchased HP and Gateway PC's and customized them. Never got to experience the full PC build, until 2013. This was like a glimpse into what could have been (assuming, at the time, we wouldn't have those broken hardware and driver issues lol).
    That said, I LOVED my HP's.

  • @mattj1341
    @mattj1341 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Peak excitement when the 3D printed mounted bracket didn't explode right away, honestly that was gold

  • @Belnick6666
    @Belnick6666 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Impressed he did not get the blaster worm, 30 seconds after connecting to internet :P

  • @spinkey4842
    @spinkey4842 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    man, your sub count is getting up there, can't believe i found your channel at 40 / 50k. make sure the episode for 1 milli is gona be epic!!

  • @lorduggae
    @lorduggae หลายเดือนก่อน

    That Thermaltake Tsunami case really takes me back! My first ever custom built PC was in that case, the black version with blue LEDs

  • @joshuastedford1670
    @joshuastedford1670 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I became a PC enthusiast in the 2020's, so I love getting insight into how the hardware space used to be. Great video!
    In 2005, I was almost certainly playing Knights Of The Old Republic 2, or Need For Speed Underground 2 on Xbox (likely followed by Pimp My Ride 📺)

  • @toothy
    @toothy หลายเดือนก่อน

    Videos like this are my favorite

  • @Psaurus81
    @Psaurus81 หลายเดือนก่อน

    THat brings back memories, although I did wince a bit when you said "when I was a kid".My system, in my mid 20s, was an Athlon 64 3700+ in an Epox 9npa+ SLi motherboard with 512MB of RAM and two GeForce 6800s. I later replaced the two GPUs with a single ATi Radeon 2900XT and the CPU with an Opteron 175.
    I agree with the rest of the comments that your driver issues are probably XP 64 related. Awesome video. Thanks for the nostalgia.

  • @marchismo8514
    @marchismo8514 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember those days, looking back it was my peak PC gamer phase, in my early 20's. I had the Intel Core 2 Duo with a Geforce 8800 GTX, which had 768MB VRAM! It was a beast. I loved playing Black and White, and other games like Spore and Bioshock.

  • @VanBourner
    @VanBourner หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Heck yeah I was. And my system was so bad that HL2 was only a pipe dream, the best I could run was GTA 2. It was a Pentium 2 450MHz, S3Trio vantage and crisp 256MBs of SDR RAM. My HDD had lower capacity than a DVD (4.2GB). This is why I love OG Fallouts so much.
    Then I got a new computer in 2008. A laptop with dedicated GPU. It was subsidised by school program, as Czech Republic really needed IT people, and we paid about 15% of the market value. It was a Dell Vostro 1510, not exceptional in any way BUT it had dedicated 8600 GS and Core2Duo at 1.8GHz (that was socketed). I still have this laptop. Upgraded it out the wazoo, it has 4GBs of RAM (used to have 1), 256GB SSD (used to ship with 80GB HDD, then got an upgrade when it failed and Dell only stocked 500GB HDDs) and a 2.4GHz core2Duo. This laptop had an arduous life with me, it could run Mass Effect 3 at like 20FPS so that was fun. But it was constantly RMAd. And before someone goes with "average Dell experience" - I was the only one who had issues at the school. The warranty covered my entire 4 years at the school but due to health (got mono because I was o e of the cool kids who smoked and sometimes not just tobacco so getting foreign saliva in my mouth was common through that method, sadly only that method) I had to repeat last year. The cool part is, I gamed the socks of the laptop in the last year of warranty and the CPU failed. The laws in Czech Republic back then were that replacement product or money back have to be given if there are 3 same failures or 5 different ones, and the new product gets a new warranty that has to be same as you got eith the old one. The laws no longer work this way but they used to. This was the fifth failure. Dell could not give me the money back since I did not pay the full price, government did and they were in that case prohibited from giving me the money (could be subsidy fraud). So they had to give me a new laptop but the issue was that they no longer made a Vostro 1510 with dedicated GPU, so they had to grab a laptop with dedicated GPU in similar price range. That ended up being e6520 with i7 and nvidia NVS 4200M. A unicorn of a laptop that is mere impossible to find today (and I still have it) and was about triple the original price of my Vostro. And the kicker? They let me keep the Vostro too, they just took the faulty CPU. Three months later a friend of mine sold me her Sony Vaio laptop that was dead (and had the aforementioned 2.4GHz CPU) for couple of grams of weed. The new Dell had no issues whatsoever. It now rocks a 1TB SSD and 8GB of RAM. The vostro also since then had no issues whatsoever. So for about $250 I got two laptops that basically were my gaming systems until 2016 when I got my first well paying job and built a Xeon E5 1650 v4/GTX1080 combo (that my employer gave me some money for as I did work from home ever since) that I had as my main PC until recently.
    I find it hilarious that I bought HL2 on release and kept it for 4 years until I could play it.