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No shot I pulled out that Exact Asus motherboard from a local e-waste bin a couple months back. Little did I know I had a real ass source engine prop on my shelf this whole time.
The wonder of standards actually being standard! Now something I want to try is finding a keyboard with a bass boost key as there is a scan code for that too in the USB hid standard for some reason.
@@oliverer3 Seriously? Wtf would that even hook in to? Like I know most onboard audio has something that wishes it were an EQ in it's properties, but... what in the how? I gotta see if I can macro that to something and find out what it does.
@@ethanpschwartz Theoretically yes, according to the USB HID spec sending a status report for page 0C and scan code E5 should request enabling bass boost. However since it's such an obscure feature the odds of it actually being implemented in the OS is probaby unlikely. Honestly, I might just try it, should have some USB HID capable microcontrollers somewhere around here...
Hilariously, the intellimouse actually was a super significant piece of gaming history with counterstrike. It was one of the most readily available optical mice with a low dpi and side buttons not to mention ergonomic form. There were enough CS players who swore by it for years, that once it got discontinued it started skyrocketing in price on the reseller market. Why is it cheap now? Well a demand for that formfactor of an optical mouse led to a new competitor entering the mouse game just to meet the desire for replacements for it. And that ladies and germs in why we now have steelseries mice.
so you're telling me thousands of people playing counterstrike had THE EXACT SAME MOUSE which was scanned into the game for use as a generic office appliance do you think valve knew and that's why they opted to use it instead of any other mouse?
@@arekrekas213 not sure if youre being sarcastic, but yeah almost definitely it was put in deliberately. Just informing because it was a context missing from the video.
@@arekrekas213 Yes. But the other thing is that microsoft mice were extremely popular in the late 90s and early 2000s. They were basically everywhere, if you used a school computer lab or office computer it'd inevitably have whatever microsoft mouse was current at the time it was delivered. I remember when that stopped being true, and you had to use Dell or HP branded mice, and jesus christ ew. The dell ones were somehow curved underneath, it was like trying to mouse grip a dildo
That was a SUPER common computer in the hl2 era. My friends little sister had this pc in the same room as our cs:s/hl2/warcraft 3 rigs. That keyboard is def before ipods had touch screen. Those keyboards were from the era when it wasn't uncommon for the only DVD player in your home to be on the family computer. That's a big part of why all the keyboards had so many media buttons
There's some part of me that was so satisfied to see the "media" button on this random 2000s keyboard open a media player on an Android phone from this decade.
Because if it ain't broke, don't change it's function. It makes sense that keyboard connectivity and function would be considered on anything that can connect a keyboard. I'd be genuinely more shocked if it didn't work.
When I was a kid my family had that exact Dell Dimension, keyboard, mouse, and monitor setup so I assumed that the game could somehow know or see what PC you were currently using and just replicate it in-game. It wasn't until I booted CS:S later on in life that I realized it was using random parts of the era and that it wasn't actually magic.
Just by odds of "popularity" I'm not surprised you had the same computer setup. The dell dimension was a very popular computer, and that keyboard and mouse were very easy to find upgrades, you could find them in tons of retailers that sold electronics or office supplies. I saw a bunch of those dimensions, keyboards and mice back in that era, but not combined!
@FerinitheBloodHusky @@Rychuxd Headphones work over the 3.5mm jack, completely different things lmao What the ones over 3.5mm do is just short the pins where the microphone would be, and nearly every media device out there knows to interpret that as a play/pause The USB keyboards with media buttons just send out some standard code for media functions
Dude we talking about keyboard😂😂😂 its actually nice to have shortcuts on it. What happened to modern keyboards some of them are actually comfortable to the wrist.
This map is probably older than most of the CS playerbase nowadays and it has barely changed since the first version. Truly the epitome of multiplayer map design. Absolutely no flaws or problems at all. 10/10.
I absolutely love that instead of just like, looking at stuff and doing smell test your first reaction was to buy a PSU and have to use a dremel and sawzall.
OHHHHH THATS WHY THE DELL WAS SO CLEAN! Previous owners also got the smell and couldn't figure out what it was, they opened it and cleaned it, smell was still there. They were most likely not that tech savvy, so they threw the whole pc away.
OR they used A TON of chemicals that dissipate in the air, and overused it in the power supply which was too low on air to dissipateit, it created a "bubble" of chemicals that just festeredfor years and when he turned it on it started leaving the power supply.
This is the first time in a decade that I've seen someone acknowledge DasBoSchitt's videos I still hear Dr.Breen screaming HAAAX whenever I scroll past GMod and CSS in my Steam library
You're forgetting, throughout this entire video, that 30 FPS was the "gaming standard" for most people in the early 2000s. 60 FPS was fast, and above that was just trying to achieve max FPS. Most monitors only had a max refresh rate of 90hz at best. 60FPS was just not what people were aiming for. Having 30 FPS on that computer on high in CS:S is exactly what you'd expect, it's textbook. Same with portal, and other Source games. That performance on that old thing is pretty crazy.
30 FPS was only the standard for consoles...most PCs with even a mainstream graphics card could hit 60fps with standard settings....aside from the most demanding games. On the PC side of things I haven't gamed under 60fps since the late 90's...unless it was a fixed framerate...but then I would just wait until someone modded it out :)
The Dimension 8300 was actually high-end. The 3D model has no floppy drive bay, and only has a single CD drive, making it a low-end model. It is probably a Dimension 4400, which was available with a Pentium 4 1.6ghz and a crappy Nvidia GF MX64 or something similar. If I'm not mistaken, there were even models with a Celeron. The Dimension 4400 is also likely because it was a popular model among computer rental companies for offices (it's cheaper to rent a desktop than to buy and maintain one, in an office building, if the PC breaks down they replace it in a matter of minutes). Perhaps the game's developers were using computers like this in the building, and that's why it was used as a model. At that time (more precisely in 2002) I had one of those, Pentium 4 1.6, 256mb, 40gb, but with a FX5200 128mb, Dell surround sound, and other accessories that were sold directly through the website through customization (DVD drive, Soundblaster audigy...) It worked well for more than 10 years (it was normally used after 10 years, even though it was a little old for the time) it died due to catastrophic failure in several capacitors, but recently I acquired another one just like it, still working, and I did a recap. Some interesting facts: Dell was criticized by a considerable number of people for using this all-plastic case, but I personally think it's excellent. At that time, it was common for people to get a slight electric shock when touching a case (especially if the paint had peeled off a little). Some people report that even if the computer was connected to a grounded outlet (perhaps due to poor or deficient grounding), the noise level of the case was also very good, it muffled the noise of the HD and the fan quite well. It had 2 front USB ports, a mic input and a headphone output on the front, which are covered by this front cover, which allows you to connect the cables and keep the cover closed, but this is terrible if you used the computer on the floor. A few years later, they gained the reputation of being slow (and they really were), but not because of bad specs, but because the capacitors failed (capacitor plague). The machine continued to work, but with a terrible ripple in the CPU and memory power supply, causing reading errors that were not critical enough to make the machine crash frequently, but at the operating system level, generated several rereading and rewriting operations. The power supply was included in the capacitor plague. The devices were mounted in their bays using green rails, which contained a soft rubber that prevented the vibration of the HD or CD drive from resonating through the case, making the computer silent (not to mention the various foams on the edges of the case to prevent vibration). It has diagnostic LEDs on the back, since most of the motherboards that these Dells used were genuine Intel motherboards. The system design is not "weird" for the sake of it. This was the beginning of the Gold Customer Care era, where customers could buy the service and, in case of problems, have a Dell technician come to their home. The weird design means that every component in this PC is easy to remove and replace (the motherboard is mounted on a plate that slides out). By removing this plate, you can put in a regular motherboard, mark the screw holes, and drill holes in the case plate to screw the screw thread holders directly into the case, so you can install any ATX board in the case.
Ive turned a few of these 1.6 ghz pent 4 dells into Win98 gaming machines. You have to run the windows install with a special command. These things are crazy fast for Win98 and takes 1gb ram easily.
@@Hamzakilife2004 Sucks to suck. The guy made a lengthy yet well-formatted post with actually interesting information; a rarity for comments on this site.
I ran these games on a little Pentium 4 and a little Nvidia 2 as a kid. You can push past its limits with a little program called "3D analyzer". It basically disables whatever rendering features in a game it cannot handle. That's how I made it run Resident Evil 4 back in the day.
honestly it's kinda confusing how an early 2000s computer keyboard's weird buttons works better with an android phone than my earphones made for android phones... great video btw, I think a retro gamer having a computer like this, in 2024 would actually be kind of a treat, considering how well it's working.
I think those buttons are standardized, just like arrow keys, tab, f5 or all the normal keys. Since the keyboard shows as an usb keyboard in the os, some smart and dedicated android OS developer implemented functionality for them probably 15 years ago. The modern earphones, those show up as audio devices, not as keyboards, which means the device manufacturer has to do their own stuff to make it work. And the guy doing that is not some low-level OS programming wizard.
@@PaintsAreOp well, that's fair and I think true, altho my new phone doesn't recognize any of my earphones's buttons, nor their shitty microphones, altho the past two phones I had had them working perfectly. The LG X Style I had, altho horrible, when it's P2 slot wasn't broken, recognized any button pressed from any dubious quality earphone I'd throw into it (which was what broke it btw, a R$50[$12 back then] bad headset I bought had a bigger plug and bent the insides of the P2 thingie, breaking it)
Honestly, whenever I have to tear apart my wireless logitech keyboard for repairs, I whip out that exact keyboard model to use on my PC. I even learned to rewrite the data associated with that keyboard just so my computer reads that keyboard as "snowball"
Fun fact: that mouse icon on the Num Lock actually points to a hidden Windows feature that's been there since either Win95/98 If you -hold the Num Lock key for about 5 seconds- press Left Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock (got the shortcut wrong the first time) it'll turn your num pad into a virtual mouse. I think this was used as a fail-safe in case people in the 90s forgot to buy a mouse to use with Windows, but this feature is still present in I think every version of Windows since (haven't checked since I don't use Windows anymore)
Didn't do that for me. I'm using Windows 10 Pro. When I held NUM LOCK down for 5 seconds it brought up a Windows dialog asking if I wanted to enable Toggle Keys. That makes a tone play when you press CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK or SCROLL LOCK. Enabled Toggle Keys 'cause it sounds helpful to alert you that you've pressed a toggled modifier key, especially the CAPS LOCK one.
@@Havlock My bad, got the wrong shortcut key. I checked back in the Win98 manual and it's actually: Left Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock I was kinda close though
The setting you're talking about is called "mouse keys" and it's mostly an accessibility thing... but Oldschool Runescape players get a lot of use out of it as well.
Give me 5 secs and I can prove it... ................................................ Yep it works. Literally called "Mouse Keys", and I think there's an equivalent shortcut on linux for it
7:52 the "media" button on a crusty ~20 year old Logitech keyboard still working when connected to a modern smartphone (a type of device that didn't even exist at the time) is a great example of why I love working with computers/tech/etc., those "wtf how does that work?" moments are something else
Having a scroll wheel on your keyboard made a lot more sense when the original Intellimouse from a few years earlier than yours was literally the first time most people had even seen a scroll wheel. Lacking one back then must have felt similar to how I feel every time I have to use a mouse with no forward/back at work.
The funniest trivia I know related to the ASUS motherboard, in the HL2 computer case models they also use a ASUS Board, but it's a Pentium II. Which don't make sense with how they put the model together.
For future reference, retrobrighting doesn't require taking the thing all the way apart like that. You just have to get any electronics out to avoid spilling liquid on them and make sure all the yellowed surfaces will be exposed to the sun. Those gray pieces inside could have stayed attached. Also, now I really am wondering if any off-the-shelf motherboards will fit in that case. Because it's a pretty iconic case, if only because of its appearance in that game, and Dell did a good job of making it easy to get stuff in and out of.
Growing up I had this exact setup, the monitor and computer itself are still in my possession, I sadly don't know where the keyboard and mouse went. But this brings me back to the good old days. Absolute gaming beast it was.
A floppy shaped, thicker disk with MUCH higher density. 1.44MB vs 250MB. I bet his probably had some kind of stuck disk at one point or maybe a stuck disk now and the power to the drive is melting the writable part inside the zip disk. Like, the actual part you write data to... and that's what's causing the burnt vinyl smell. BRINGUS! Take it apart! We have to know the smell!! You can borrow 1-Grit if you need.
Never seen them in home use, but they were somewhat common in small offices back in the day. I knew one shop owner who backed up everything onto zip disks.
He got the bigboy 250mb drive, they also came in 100mb sizes. I used one on a pc to help out with the old sneaker-net method of transferring files since cd-rw's sucked.
Zip drives were actually really cool, especially in times of terrible internet speed and Windows networking being an absolute nightmare. it was that awkward period where not everyone had a CD burner yet, floppies where too small to be useful, but USB flash drives where not quite a thing yet either. except nobody actually had a zip drive, so you were fucked either way. good times.
Except zip disks were incredibly failure prone. It was common for drives to eat disks. The people that did have them hated them. My mom's office used them for a year or two before dumping them. I got to take apart one she brought home with a seized disk in it. Great in concept, bad in execution.
@@gerbalblaste They had a brief blast in the enterprise space in the mid/late 90s. Kind of a flash in the pan between the time floppies were getting cramped and the widespread adoption of USB, CD burners, and small USB flash drives.
@@gerbalblaste Honestly, I see zip drives only as a method of security at this point, because of how much of a damn joke they are, NOBODY who isn't a tech nerd can even breach em'.
Yeah before USB flash drives were a thing, they were a great option versus floppy disks. At least in the mid 90s until maybe 2003 or 04. The click of death was annoying though.
@@akosv96 I always tell myself the Skibidi Toilet generation is gonna be alright when I remember I grew up with shit like Gmod Idiot Box and TH-cam Poop.
This is a real blast from the past. My dad actually had a Dell Dimension computer for a while, so I instantly recognized it when I stumbled upon Idiot Box back around 2010, and that ended up getting me into GMod in a similar way. The computer itself was the low-end Celeron model, but it was good enough for 2003-era web browsing. I remember reading the whole manual and exploring the entire Windows XP interactive tutorial on that thing, so I have to give it a bit of credit for my tech interests.
my friend Ben gamed on a dell dimension 4500 for years and years, well after it was even remotely viable for any modern stuff. i remember him still using it in 2009-2011, mostly bc we were all really poor at the time, and he used it to play Morrowind and World of Warcraft, which it handled admirably. it definitely didnt have the AMD specs, it was a p4 of some kind. at the time, i _also_ had an old pc (an athlon xp mobile 2600+ with a geforce 6800 gt) and mine was also aging fairly ungracefully so we played a lot of old games together. i ended up moving out of town and lost contact with him and a few years later he did just about the craziest thing you can do and drove his car onto the train tracks, at an oncoming train. obviously, car loses in that situation. i miss him dearly. he was such a kind dude, i would have been homeless if he hadn't let me live with him for that time and i don't think i ever let him know how life changing his kindness was adequately. wherever you are, ben, i really miss you and i really appreciate what you did for me. to the point I'm leaving an impossibly heavy comment on a video about the computer in cs_office, a game you didn't even like that much. phew. glad i have therapy in an hour and a half!!!! sorry not sorry for the heavy comment lmao!
@@ExperimentIVI will try to hop on tonight or tomorrow, I'm just getting settled into a new place and will _finally_ have the time. 😍 so glad our TH-cam algorithms still match hahaha
Don't use those dinky brown discs to cut metals, they'll disintegrate. Get an EZ speed clip from dremel and some metal cutting discs for it, those don't break or explode
Now you just need to build the table from the CS map, and the office area, and the room, and the building, and the... Also that red and black LTT Screwdriver looks awesome!
Listen, I'm sure this comment will get buried, but it needs to be said. Your style of humor and the editing you use to portray it work AMAZINGLY together, and I absolutely love it
Something about it just hits home really hard. It's like, if I had decided early in my life to get into video editing and content creation, I feel like this is exactly how I would have turned out.
31:00 the scroll wheel is built into the keyboard so if you were to have owned a 3-button mouse (AKA no scroll wheel), you can also have a scroll wheel.
Oh man, this was my college-era computer! By the end of it's life it wouldn't shut down properly anymore and I'd have to physically unplug it to turn it off. Also, hearing you wonder what a zip drive is made me age a thousand years.
he even got the full experience of a zip disk since it decided to kill itself.. I swear those things are alive and they love breaking right when it would be the funniest time
I love the breakdown of the textures and explaining how they shopped together the bits to look convincing. I remember back in 2013 I was analyzing these props as well. I definitely have like 4 of those Sound Blaster Cards that were pictured in there. I think the closest I've seen to a Dell Dimension of that style being able to fit a board like that is a 2003 Dell Dimension I had rebuilt and donated to a volunteer fire dept. One of my friends worked at back in 2014 that had a standard all green Dell branded Intel manufactured micro-atx motherboard in the same generation as the Asus one featured. It was a Dell Dimension 3000? Series with an Intel Celeron, 2 slots for DDR1 Ram, and 3 pci's. Stock Operating system was definitely XP. Even had the sticker on it still. So basically the same style of casing but without the big ass rim around the edge that usually hinted at flip open proprietary bullshit. I would totally be down for modifying a Dell like that to fit a regular ATX motherboard if someone brought it to me though XD EDIT: Now that I think of it these CS Office machines and monitors were being used in my schools up to one point and then they got those gridded black Optiplexes. Also the Dell keyboards sucked so much that the CS Office replaced them with those logitechs XD
35:34 TFBots (the ones with AI) weren't added to the game until 2009. The bots that were being spawned are puppet bots, which are manually controlled via other console commands.
Bro, my Grandma literally just asked if I wanted an old pc she had. Of course I said yes. It was one of these. Full of dust, I booted it with Hirens and wiped that password. Actually still works...
Fun fact! The dell dimension L series (the beige ones) motherboards are standard matx boards. Unfortunately they only support up to a 50mm tall heatsink, and up to a 6inch long gpu but you can definetly make it a sleeper. I put in a 6th gen i7
I had the Dell Dimension 4400. Maxed it out with a P4 EE and a Ti 4200 at the end of its gaming life. Was using it still in 2020 for gridcoin. Worked on so many over the years...
I stumbled on your channel by accident, and immediately fell in love with your editing and humor. I encountered the same beefy computer model on Left 4 Dead 2 and never thought that someone would make it real.
Literally had and grew up with a dell dimension. We had it up until a few years ago, but it wouldn't boot for over a decade after a cross country move. Such a throwback!!
I had one of those 3 button mouses, even a ball version. Back in the days it was perfect for Unreal Tournament - left and middle mouse buttons were used for fire and secondary fire and right button was for jumping because spacebar was not the standard and too slow to press in a fast pace shooter games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena.
my weirdest childhood memory is that my first computer legit had the same keyboard as the cs_office computers, playing gmod on it felt even more special after noticing that
If you turn on the PC in CS:SOURCE and look carefully, you can also see it uses the default DELL OEM background that would ship with the OEM install disk
Great video Bringus!! This brings back memories. I had two Dimensions back in early 2000’s. A 4300 with a GeForce 3 ti 200 that I upgraded to a GeForce 4 ti 4600 among other upgrades. That computer is long gone. The other Dimension is an 8300 with a Ati x800xt-pe and it’s in my gaming room closet right now. Just sitting in there, lurking. I should fire it up one of these days.
can agree that optical media is bad, in my experience a windows 10 install is slow as fuck to even start. (maybe it's my usb disk drive, but i don't know)
Bought my Geforce 3 ti200 128mb 22 years ago and i had it in service till 2006 always overclocked above the ti500. I've played some of these games with it but mostly Unreal Tournament. I still have it with the original box!
I see that monitor in my nightmares, back when I was in the Air Force working IT we had to swap pretty much the entire base from those exact monitors to newer ones.
I have one of these made by dell. They had a lot of options. The way the case opens is sick, I’m modernizing it. Used an angle grinder on the motherboard holder to fit none proprietary mobos on it.
18:10 - I actually remember dealing with this same problem decade or so ago. Except i remember just grabbing that area of metal covering the electrical port and just peeled it like a can opener with a pair of vice grips. Clearance achieved.
As an old tech appreciator myself, I love this, great find! Also 8:06 My Sims music detected, I can't believe there are other people out there who played these games.
Fun fact, the dell dimension 3000 is an matx system. Uses all ATX standard form factor parts. I know, because my first computer I built was an i5-8400, rx 580, EVGA 500w PSU, and ASUS matx motherboard, all in a dell dimension 3000 that I got from my great aunt, and gutted.
Have only basic know how on a PC but this was such a great video. Had a family PC from 2004 running Pentium 4 4ghz, almost all original parts I think except what I persoanlly witnessed my dad replace after the PC had a little damage from transporting was the 2gb ram and nvidia gtx 2-something. It ran almost all valve games on high, Resident Evil 5 and 6 both on medium, Skyrim on normal, League of Legends medium, Dota 2 low, Starcraft 2 low, Vindictus low, War Thunder medium and other I can't remember atm and this was used until early 2014. Good memories lol.
speaking as an old codger who's first computer was a 286 with a FREAKISH LARGE (for the time) 20MB hard drive and 640k of ram. I can tell you that the drive labelled ZIP 250 was an early back up device that enable you to back up a WHOLE 250 MB onto a single disk (the earliest zip drives were only 100MB). LUV YA WORK, I haz just subscribed.
cs_office is so near and dear to my heart. theres even videos online of people making fun of me with my squeaker voice while im gaming as a 6 year old on deathmatch servers. this was my favorite map, not really sure why, but from memories of playing with my brothers all lined up on the same desk, to wallhacking, to straight up pwning n00bz as a little kid.
That dell dimension desktop which you used in the screenshot is literally the first pre-built I ever got. Once my parents had enough money that my dad didn't scavenge from his job as an it guy for us kids. I remember playing cs on that very machine. So many hours on that, combat arms, and the swat series of games. Makes me want to get out my laptop and load up a match in swat lol
I love the nostalgia of it all. Something about that case screamed Dell to me, so I'm feeling pgood about myself. And it's always good to see xp. When you mentioned the powersupply smoking, I was thrown back to that good old office ozone smell
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No shot I pulled out that Exact Asus motherboard from a local e-waste bin a couple months back. Little did I know I had a real ass source engine prop on my shelf this whole time.
OK so can u let him barrow it or send it to him we need this to happen !!
@@wilsondavenport6939borrow?
Give it to him so we can have the ACTUAL computer
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Guys, the motherboard literally wont fit inside the case. It isnt doable.
Pressing the media on an old crusty keyboard hooked up to a smartphone actually opening a media player is crazy
The wonder of standards actually being standard!
Now something I want to try is finding a keyboard with a bass boost key as there is a scan code for that too in the USB hid standard for some reason.
@@oliverer3 Wait what. Are you telling me I could Arduino up my very own USB Bass Boost button?
@@oliverer3 Seriously? Wtf would that even hook in to? Like I know most onboard audio has something that wishes it were an EQ in it's properties, but... what in the how? I gotta see if I can macro that to something and find out what it does.
@@ethanpschwartz Theoretically yes, according to the USB HID spec sending a status report for page 0C and scan code E5 should request enabling bass boost. However since it's such an obscure feature the odds of it actually being implemented in the OS is probaby unlikely.
Honestly, I might just try it, should have some USB HID capable microcontrollers somewhere around here...
I was thinking about that. Must just run some code or something the phone can still recognize
Hilariously, the intellimouse actually was a super significant piece of gaming history with counterstrike. It was one of the most readily available optical mice with a low dpi and side buttons not to mention ergonomic form. There were enough CS players who swore by it for years, that once it got discontinued it started skyrocketing in price on the reseller market. Why is it cheap now? Well a demand for that formfactor of an optical mouse led to a new competitor entering the mouse game just to meet the desire for replacements for it. And that ladies and germs in why we now have steelseries mice.
I was good at games when I had an intellimouse, but then I got old.
I've been using intellimouse variants since the early 2000's, starting with the one in the video, all the way to the Pro Intellimouse I have today.
so you're telling me thousands of people playing counterstrike had THE EXACT SAME MOUSE which was scanned into the game for use as a generic office appliance
do you think valve knew and that's why they opted to use it instead of any other mouse?
@@arekrekas213 not sure if youre being sarcastic, but yeah almost definitely it was put in deliberately. Just informing because it was a context missing from the video.
@@arekrekas213 Yes. But the other thing is that microsoft mice were extremely popular in the late 90s and early 2000s. They were basically everywhere, if you used a school computer lab or office computer it'd inevitably have whatever microsoft mouse was current at the time it was delivered.
I remember when that stopped being true, and you had to use Dell or HP branded mice, and jesus christ ew. The dell ones were somehow curved underneath, it was like trying to mouse grip a dildo
That was a SUPER common computer in the hl2 era. My friends little sister had this pc in the same room as our cs:s/hl2/warcraft 3 rigs. That keyboard is def before ipods had touch screen. Those keyboards were from the era when it wasn't uncommon for the only DVD player in your home to be on the family computer. That's a big part of why all the keyboards had so many media buttons
I have the same computer sitting in the corner of the living room. Super common.
There's some part of me that was so satisfied to see the "media" button on this random 2000s keyboard open a media player on an Android phone from this decade.
Yeahh, its weird seeing that they implemented everything to do that. Now i wanna see what the other buttons do😂
my mouth was agape. because how did the programming work for that long 😭
Fr. Because how?? This is the true mystery.
Because if it ain't broke, don't change it's function. It makes sense that keyboard connectivity and function would be considered on anything that can connect a keyboard. I'd be genuinely more shocked if it didn't work.
Windows has HID drivers, the linux kernel from android supports HID devices, that it.
When I was a kid my family had that exact Dell Dimension, keyboard, mouse, and monitor setup so I assumed that the game could somehow know or see what PC you were currently using and just replicate it in-game. It wasn't until I booted CS:S later on in life that I realized it was using random parts of the era and that it wasn't actually magic.
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Just by odds of "popularity" I'm not surprised you had the same computer setup. The dell dimension was a very popular computer, and that keyboard and mouse were very easy to find upgrades, you could find them in tons of retailers that sold electronics or office supplies.
I saw a bunch of those dimensions, keyboards and mice back in that era, but not combined!
@@volvo09 still better than my setup
The keyboard was genuinely impressive, it had so many practical functions built into it. Crazy the media button works on an android phone
i think it does the same inputs that headphones with those buttons do
Not really becuase it's the same thing as headphones that will launch a media app for you
@FerinitheBloodHusky @@Rychuxd Headphones work over the 3.5mm jack, completely different things lmao
What the ones over 3.5mm do is just short the pins where the microphone would be, and nearly every media device out there knows to interpret that as a play/pause
The USB keyboards with media buttons just send out some standard code for media functions
Dude we talking about keyboard😂😂😂 its actually nice to have shortcuts on it. What happened to modern keyboards some of them are actually comfortable to the wrist.
I love the creative use of Source game sound effects throughout the video 💜
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This map is probably older than most of the CS playerbase nowadays and it has barely changed since the first version. Truly the epitome of multiplayer map design. Absolutely no flaws or problems at all. 10/10.
Only real players remember de_jeepathon2k
While it's a cool and legendary map, it has tons and tons of problems and is absolutely unplayable competitively. I still love it tho
@@kakup93 competitive mindset is what killed modern gaming to begin with.
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@@2stroke438 yep
These are the concequences of Half Life: Full Life Concequences
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I MUST HELP MY BROTHER TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY! -John Freeman
its time for me to live up to my family name and face full life consequences
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That Dremel disk flying off while bringus was wearing shorts in the line of fire did infact freak me out.
We live dangerously in this household
I’ve got a scar from a disk snapping mid grind- right across my calf. Seeing him crouched down like that with no pants got me remembering and sweating
I absolutely love that instead of just like, looking at stuff and doing smell test your first reaction was to buy a PSU and have to use a dremel and sawzall.
OHHHHH THATS WHY THE DELL WAS SO CLEAN!
Previous owners also got the smell and couldn't figure out what it was, they opened it and cleaned it, smell was still there. They were most likely not that tech savvy, so they threw the whole pc away.
OR they used A TON of chemicals that dissipate in the air, and overused it in the power supply which was too low on air to dissipateit, it created a "bubble" of chemicals that just festeredfor years and when he turned it on it started leaving the power supply.
@@marcusbergman6116 well if you watched the video by now, the issue was a zip disk thing that was smelling bad
This is the kind of logical connections I watch cop shows and JoJo for!
@@EvilParagon4 tfw cops IRL aren't as epic as media cops...
This is the first time in a decade that I've seen someone acknowledge DasBoSchitt's videos
I still hear Dr.Breen screaming HAAAX whenever I scroll past GMod and CSS in my Steam library
Every time someone quick scopes me in cs 2 i scream HAAAX in the microphone.
HAAAX
🎶This is all i do, i sit on you🎶 everytime i load up L4D2
isn't it the guy who made the idiots of garry mod? loool
Those videos were the skibidi toilet of our childhood
You're forgetting, throughout this entire video, that 30 FPS was the "gaming standard" for most people in the early 2000s.
60 FPS was fast, and above that was just trying to achieve max FPS. Most monitors only had a max refresh rate of 90hz at best. 60FPS was just not what people were aiming for. Having 30 FPS on that computer on high in CS:S is exactly what you'd expect, it's textbook. Same with portal, and other Source games. That performance on that old thing is pretty crazy.
>human eye can't notice anything higher than 30fps
man i do not miss the gamer optimization rhetoric from back then
@@AGenericAccount this is a crazy statement, there are multiple videos showing a 30 fps vs 240 fps, major difference between them
30 FPS was only the standard for consoles...most PCs with even a mainstream graphics card could hit 60fps with standard settings....aside from the most demanding games. On the PC side of things I haven't gamed under 60fps since the late 90's...unless it was a fixed framerate...but then I would just wait until someone modded it out :)
@@AGenericAccount I must have super eyes then
@@slixca I know, that was a popular saying back then though. I'm saying that the rhetoric concerning optimization strategies back then really sucked
Me, getting panicked everytime I even slightly bump into my computer
Bringus: *SAWING THE COMPUTER*
i have my pc on the ground next to my desk and frequently use it as a footrest lmao
The Dimension 8300 was actually high-end. The 3D model has no floppy drive bay, and only has a single CD drive, making it a low-end model. It is probably a Dimension 4400, which was available with a Pentium 4 1.6ghz and a crappy Nvidia GF MX64 or something similar. If I'm not mistaken, there were even models with a Celeron.
The Dimension 4400 is also likely because it was a popular model among computer rental companies for offices (it's cheaper to rent a desktop than to buy and maintain one, in an office building, if the PC breaks down they replace it in a matter of minutes). Perhaps the game's developers were using computers like this in the building, and that's why it was used as a model.
At that time (more precisely in 2002) I had one of those, Pentium 4 1.6, 256mb, 40gb, but with a FX5200 128mb, Dell surround sound, and other accessories that were sold directly through the website through customization (DVD drive, Soundblaster audigy...) It worked well for more than 10 years (it was normally used after 10 years, even though it was a little old for the time) it died due to catastrophic failure in several capacitors, but recently I acquired another one just like it, still working, and I did a recap.
Some interesting facts:
Dell was criticized by a considerable number of people for using this all-plastic case, but I personally think it's excellent. At that time, it was common for people to get a slight electric shock when touching a case (especially if the paint had peeled off a little). Some people report that even if the computer was connected to a grounded outlet (perhaps due to poor or deficient grounding), the noise level of the case was also very good, it muffled the noise of the HD and the fan quite well.
It had 2 front USB ports, a mic input and a headphone output on the front, which are covered by this front cover, which allows you to connect the cables and keep the cover closed, but this is terrible if you used the computer on the floor.
A few years later, they gained the reputation of being slow (and they really were), but not because of bad specs, but because the capacitors failed (capacitor plague). The machine continued to work, but with a terrible ripple in the CPU and memory power supply, causing reading errors that were not critical enough to make the machine crash frequently, but at the operating system level, generated several rereading and rewriting operations. The power supply was included in the capacitor plague.
The devices were mounted in their bays using green rails, which contained a soft rubber that prevented the vibration of the HD or CD drive from resonating through the case, making the computer silent (not to mention the various foams on the edges of the case to prevent vibration).
It has diagnostic LEDs on the back, since most of the motherboards that these Dells used were genuine Intel motherboards.
The system design is not "weird" for the sake of it. This was the beginning of the Gold Customer Care era, where customers could buy the service and, in case of problems, have a Dell technician come to their home. The weird design means that every component in this PC is easy to remove and replace (the motherboard is mounted on a plate that slides out). By removing this plate, you can put in a regular motherboard, mark the screw holes, and drill holes in the case plate to screw the screw thread holders directly into the case, so you can install any ATX board in the case.
Ive turned a few of these 1.6 ghz pent 4 dells into Win98 gaming machines. You have to run the windows install with a special command. These things are crazy fast for Win98 and takes 1gb ram easily.
I ain't reading alot
@@Hamzakilife2004 Sucks to suck. The guy made a lengthy yet well-formatted post with actually interesting information; a rarity for comments on this site.
@@undvined I read it now and it's so interesting
@@Hamzakilife2004 good ending
Putting that Seasonic PSU in an old Dell has got to be like building a foundation out of gold bricks for a collapsed crack house, i love it.
Wait till you see the i7 and 3070ti in mine...
"American DankPods isn't real, he can't hurt you"
American Dankpods:
dankpods universe is real
:O
My god you're right
DANKCORE
i came to the comments to find this
Imagine relaxing in your backyard and your neighbour is just playing Counter Strike nextdoor on his lawn
I ran these games on a little Pentium 4 and a little Nvidia 2 as a kid.
You can push past its limits with a little program called "3D analyzer". It basically disables whatever rendering features in a game it cannot handle. That's how I made it run Resident Evil 4 back in the day.
Ancient Problems require ancient solutions, neat! I will try that one day thx
/qa/
honestly it's kinda confusing how an early 2000s computer keyboard's weird buttons works better with an android phone than my earphones made for android phones... great video btw, I think a retro gamer having a computer like this, in 2024 would actually be kind of a treat, considering how well it's working.
I think those buttons are standardized, just like arrow keys, tab, f5 or all the normal keys. Since the keyboard shows as an usb keyboard in the os, some smart and dedicated android OS developer implemented functionality for them probably 15 years ago.
The modern earphones, those show up as audio devices, not as keyboards, which means the device manufacturer has to do their own stuff to make it work. And the guy doing that is not some low-level OS programming wizard.
@@PaintsAreOp well, that's fair and I think true, altho my new phone doesn't recognize any of my earphones's buttons, nor their shitty microphones, altho the past two phones I had had them working perfectly. The LG X Style I had, altho horrible, when it's P2 slot wasn't broken, recognized any button pressed from any dubious quality earphone I'd throw into it (which was what broke it btw, a R$50[$12 back then] bad headset I bought had a bigger plug and bent the insides of the P2 thingie, breaking it)
pretty sure it's the actual headphone jack on your phone that is lacking the input for the earphone buttons. Ran into that once.
Honestly, whenever I have to tear apart my wireless logitech keyboard for repairs, I whip out that exact keyboard model to use on my PC. I even learned to rewrite the data associated with that keyboard just so my computer reads that keyboard as "snowball"
Fun fact: that mouse icon on the Num Lock actually points to a hidden Windows feature that's been there since either Win95/98
If you -hold the Num Lock key for about 5 seconds- press Left Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock (got the shortcut wrong the first time) it'll turn your num pad into a virtual mouse. I think this was used as a fail-safe in case people in the 90s forgot to buy a mouse to use with Windows, but this feature is still present in I think every version of Windows since (haven't checked since I don't use Windows anymore)
can confirm is real on windows 11
Didn't do that for me. I'm using Windows 10 Pro. When I held NUM LOCK down for 5 seconds it brought up a Windows dialog asking if I wanted to enable Toggle Keys. That makes a tone play when you press CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK or SCROLL LOCK. Enabled Toggle Keys 'cause it sounds helpful to alert you that you've pressed a toggled modifier key, especially the CAPS LOCK one.
@@Havlock
My bad, got the wrong shortcut key. I checked back in the Win98 manual and it's actually:
Left Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock
I was kinda close though
The setting you're talking about is called "mouse keys" and it's mostly an accessibility thing... but Oldschool Runescape players get a lot of use out of it as well.
Give me 5 secs and I can prove it...
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Yep it works. Literally called "Mouse Keys", and I think there's an equivalent shortcut on linux for it
7:52 the "media" button on a crusty ~20 year old Logitech keyboard still working when connected to a modern smartphone (a type of device that didn't even exist at the time) is a great example of why I love working with computers/tech/etc., those "wtf how does that work?" moments are something else
Having a scroll wheel on your keyboard made a lot more sense when the original Intellimouse from a few years earlier than yours was literally the first time most people had even seen a scroll wheel. Lacking one back then must have felt similar to how I feel every time I have to use a mouse with no forward/back at work.
The funniest trivia I know related to the ASUS motherboard, in the HL2 computer case models they also use a ASUS Board, but it's a Pentium II. Which don't make sense with how they put the model together.
also there is a cd drive that is also asus
The fact that you grew up watching gmod videos explains so much about this channel
First detailed texture I've ever seen when I first played video games and my curiosity is finally answered, thanks!
Damn you kids get younger and younger, I've done support for this machines at my first job and they where decent back in 2006.
you died inside when he called a zip disk reader boomer tech, didn't you?
This channel makes me feel so old sometimes.
It’s always those rotten meddling kids
@@kvn_la fr, and I'm about the same age as Jon
boomer goes 5 seconds without mentioning a job he had 20 years ago (impossible challenge)
It's wild to me that a media button on a 20 year old keyboard opened the media player on your PHONE. Backwards compatibility is really something.
Gotta say, I'm only 6 minutes into the video and just wanted to comment that your sound design, or rather sound placement, is phenomenal. I love it.
Fr. I have headphones on and it sounds great
old media keyboards are unexplainably charming to me
For future reference, retrobrighting doesn't require taking the thing all the way apart like that. You just have to get any electronics out to avoid spilling liquid on them and make sure all the yellowed surfaces will be exposed to the sun. Those gray pieces inside could have stayed attached.
Also, now I really am wondering if any off-the-shelf motherboards will fit in that case. Because it's a pretty iconic case, if only because of its appearance in that game, and Dell did a good job of making it easy to get stuff in and out of.
Growing up I had this exact setup, the monitor and computer itself are still in my possession, I sadly don't know where the keyboard and mouse went. But this brings me back to the good old days. Absolute gaming beast it was.
Does the zip drive smell?
a ZIP was basically a big floppy disk. i recommend looking it up, there's some interesting history in there.
A floppy shaped, thicker disk with MUCH higher density. 1.44MB vs 250MB. I bet his probably had some kind of stuck disk at one point or maybe a stuck disk now and the power to the drive is melting the writable part inside the zip disk. Like, the actual part you write data to... and that's what's causing the burnt vinyl smell. BRINGUS! Take it apart! We have to know the smell!! You can borrow 1-Grit if you need.
Never seen them in home use, but they were somewhat common in small offices back in the day. I knew one shop owner who backed up everything onto zip disks.
He got the bigboy 250mb drive, they also came in 100mb sizes. I used one on a pc to help out with the old sneaker-net method of transferring files since cd-rw's sucked.
CRD did a great video
@@crazyidiot5309 I was kinda hoping he was gonna take it apart and see what was happening but nope 😅
I still have one of these! It was my first computer when i was like 7. It was a great christmas that year.
Me too
This just got me rewatching the Gmod Idiot Box - that series is a real time capsule showing what TH-cam was like back then. Man I feel old
Zip drives were actually really cool, especially in times of terrible internet speed and Windows networking being an absolute nightmare. it was that awkward period where not everyone had a CD burner yet, floppies where too small to be useful, but USB flash drives where not quite a thing yet either.
except nobody actually had a zip drive, so you were fucked either way. good times.
Except zip disks were incredibly failure prone. It was common for drives to eat disks.
The people that did have them hated them. My mom's office used them for a year or two before dumping them. I got to take apart one she brought home with a seized disk in it.
Great in concept, bad in execution.
@@gerbalblaste They had a brief blast in the enterprise space in the mid/late 90s. Kind of a flash in the pan between the time floppies were getting cramped and the widespread adoption of USB, CD burners, and small USB flash drives.
@@gerbalblaste Honestly, I see zip drives only as a method of security at this point, because of how much of a damn joke they are, NOBODY who isn't a tech nerd can even breach em'.
My dad's computer that looks like this has one,they used them for backuos and never had a problem.
Yeah before USB flash drives were a thing, they were a great option versus floppy disks. At least in the mid 90s until maybe 2003 or 04. The click of death was annoying though.
oh my god, gmod idiot box is a CLASSIC
@@FishyBoi1337 very true
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax
indeed
OG brainrot
@@akosv96 I always tell myself the Skibidi Toilet generation is gonna be alright when I remember I grew up with shit like Gmod Idiot Box and TH-cam Poop.
This is a real blast from the past. My dad actually had a Dell Dimension computer for a while, so I instantly recognized it when I stumbled upon Idiot Box back around 2010, and that ended up getting me into GMod in a similar way. The computer itself was the low-end Celeron model, but it was good enough for 2003-era web browsing. I remember reading the whole manual and exploring the entire Windows XP interactive tutorial on that thing, so I have to give it a bit of credit for my tech interests.
18:40 Okay but can we talk about how that transition roll into BFG division is just one of the most perfect things ever?
I like how office still looks so similar in cs2 that the map looks indistinguishable if you squint
@@Psythik have you actually compared a CS2 updated map to CSGO? you are hating for no reason
@@Psythik it's funny how almost everything you just said was wrong
@@Psythik
They literally added new maps to the game like a month ago. & plan on adding new game modes after adding in older ones & play testing them.
@@Psythik my time isn't worth arguing with you and neither is yours.
Came for the cs source pc stayed for the windows xp key
This.
@@crazyidiot5309 Is what the dream feels like.
Say what now
@@railworksamerica He literally reads off his CD Key on screen so whoever wants it can have it. lol
VCFQD-V9FX9-46WVH-K3CD4-4J3JM
40:28 terrorists win
Lol. 😂
my friend Ben gamed on a dell dimension 4500 for years and years, well after it was even remotely viable for any modern stuff. i remember him still using it in 2009-2011, mostly bc we were all really poor at the time, and he used it to play Morrowind and World of Warcraft, which it handled admirably. it definitely didnt have the AMD specs, it was a p4 of some kind. at the time, i _also_ had an old pc (an athlon xp mobile 2600+ with a geforce 6800 gt) and mine was also aging fairly ungracefully so we played a lot of old games together. i ended up moving out of town and lost contact with him and a few years later he did just about the craziest thing you can do and drove his car onto the train tracks, at an oncoming train. obviously, car loses in that situation.
i miss him dearly. he was such a kind dude, i would have been homeless if he hadn't let me live with him for that time and i don't think i ever let him know how life changing his kindness was adequately. wherever you are, ben, i really miss you and i really appreciate what you did for me. to the point I'm leaving an impossibly heavy comment on a video about the computer in cs_office, a game you didn't even like that much. phew. glad i have therapy in an hour and a half!!!! sorry not sorry for the heavy comment lmao!
didn’t expect to see you here. sorry about your friend, friend. 🫂
@@ExperimentIVoh hi! sorry I still haven't reinstalled discord, life has been _HAPPENING_ lately. miss you a ton!
@@ExperimentIVI will try to hop on tonight or tomorrow, I'm just getting settled into a new place and will _finally_ have the time. 😍 so glad our TH-cam algorithms still match hahaha
@@elen5871 haha yeah! so funny. thank you bringus studios 🫡
Don't use those dinky brown discs to cut metals, they'll disintegrate.
Get an EZ speed clip from dremel and some metal cutting discs for it, those don't break or explode
ok but HANDHELD BAND SAW GO BRRRRRR
@@orangeaurora Yes but it is quite hazardous
Now you just need to build the table from the CS map, and the office area, and the room, and the building, and the... Also that red and black LTT Screwdriver looks awesome!
Don't forget the hostages!
As someone who is owned and repaired PCS of that era a quick snippy snip with some tin snips would have made that hole bigger in no time.
Listen, I'm sure this comment will get buried, but it needs to be said. Your style of humor and the editing you use to portray it work AMAZINGLY together, and I absolutely love it
Agreed
It did not.
Something about it just hits home really hard. It's like, if I had decided early in my life to get into video editing and content creation, I feel like this is exactly how I would have turned out.
I couldn't agree more, his humour is so much of what i like. also i am sure he will definitely see this comment so don't worry
I don’t know why but I damn near pissed myself laughing at the fact that the dimension was rejecting that motherboard Nope nope nope nope
31:00 the scroll wheel is built into the keyboard so if you were to have owned a 3-button mouse (AKA no scroll wheel), you can also have a scroll wheel.
What a cursed setup
Or if you had no mouse at all and use mouse keys (LAlt+LShift+NumLock)
@wilko2 Now that sounds cursed! I have never tried navigating windows or the internet without a mouse and can't imagine it being fun.
Hit tab! @@martincoburn6522
the small offset and the image wrapping around in the the monitor is just >chef's kiss
Now that I've played tf2 a good amount, I love the tf2 and source references in your editing.
I grew up with that keyboard! My dad still uses it to work on servers for his work. So happy to see someone enjoy that funky thing as much as I do!
2:10
We purchased a Dell Dimension 3600 PC in early 2003 which was our first ever home computer and we still have it stored away today! :)
Oh man, this was my college-era computer! By the end of it's life it wouldn't shut down properly anymore and I'd have to physically unplug it to turn it off. Also, hearing you wonder what a zip drive is made me age a thousand years.
he even got the full experience of a zip disk since it decided to kill itself.. I swear those things are alive and they love breaking right when it would be the funniest time
Is it weird that I'm like 20 years old and I know exactly what a zip drive is?
@@papasivir4241 ur 20 u should know its cringe to do the," You know im this age"
comment
@@papasivir4241 I'm 16 and I know all about this stuff and I have for multiple years. The point is, information is not bound to age.
@@JoBot__ yeah, especially in the age of the Internet it's very easy to learn about anything that you have an interest in.
My first PC I built was out of a dell dimension with a microATX board. The standoffs actually lined up perfectly.
I love the breakdown of the textures and explaining how they shopped together the bits to look convincing. I remember back in 2013 I was analyzing these props as well. I definitely have like 4 of those Sound Blaster Cards that were pictured in there. I think the closest I've seen to a Dell Dimension of that style being able to fit a board like that is a 2003 Dell Dimension I had rebuilt and donated to a volunteer fire dept. One of my friends worked at back in 2014 that had a standard all green Dell branded Intel manufactured micro-atx motherboard in the same generation as the Asus one featured. It was a Dell Dimension 3000? Series with an Intel Celeron, 2 slots for DDR1 Ram, and 3 pci's. Stock Operating system was definitely XP. Even had the sticker on it still. So basically the same style of casing but without the big ass rim around the edge that usually hinted at flip open proprietary bullshit. I would totally be down for modifying a Dell like that to fit a regular ATX motherboard if someone brought it to me though XD
EDIT: Now that I think of it these CS Office machines and monitors were being used in my schools up to one point and then they got those gridded black Optiplexes. Also the Dell keyboards sucked so much that the CS Office replaced them with those logitechs XD
You are giving me throwbacks to my first IT job as a PC repair tech back in the late ‘00s. Worked on and sold a ton of those old clamshell Dells.
35:34 TFBots (the ones with AI) weren't added to the game until 2009. The bots that were being spawned are puppet bots, which are manually controlled via other console commands.
Plese what (other console commands means?
This was one of the most genuinely entertaining videos I have seen in a while
Bro, my Grandma literally just asked if I wanted an old pc she had. Of course I said yes. It was one of these. Full of dust, I booted it with Hirens and wiped that password. Actually still works...
Fun fact!
The dell dimension L series (the beige ones) motherboards are standard matx boards. Unfortunately they only support up to a 50mm tall heatsink, and up to a 6inch long gpu but you can definetly make it a sleeper. I put in a 6th gen i7
I've had that exact mouse for dang near 20 years and it still works great
like a cockroach it's harder for it to be dead, than it is to be alive.
I had the Dell Dimension 4400. Maxed it out with a P4 EE and a Ti 4200 at the end of its gaming life. Was using it still in 2020 for gridcoin. Worked on so many over the years...
its amazing how much your able to push computers to play slightly modern games
i love when bringus studios said its bringlin time and bringled everywhere
😭
Their bringle connects us all.
Theres a reason he has a goon gone
@@broodjebamibal he bringus connection
@@broodjebamibalBrignle
I stumbled on your channel by accident, and immediately fell in love with your editing and humor.
I encountered the same beefy computer model on Left 4 Dead 2 and never thought that someone would make it real.
Literally had and grew up with a dell dimension. We had it up until a few years ago, but it wouldn't boot for over a decade after a cross country move. Such a throwback!!
DasBoschitt, truly one of the most memorable Gmodders.
Shame how now we're stuck with the HL2 NPC Toilet Head channel
Dafuqboom will never achieve the greatness that dasboschitt did
get you"OLD GOOD NEW BAD WAH WAH WAH"ahh out of here😭🙏
@@chips_lol9537 nah I don’t think I will
Look at the way you type, you must be pretty young and have all skibidi toilet episodes memorized! @@chips_lol9537
@@chips_lol9537pls make more comments like dis it funni
The fact that i immediately knew the keyboard and mouse though having never owned either made me proud, nostalgic, and sad at the same time
Weeb
Get out of initial d before it's too late
I love how he went through all of this pain and suffering just for CS. Honestly sounds like something I’d do.
I love watching archaic devices still function even now
Also hello proto
I had one of those 3 button mouses, even a ball version. Back in the days it was perfect for Unreal Tournament - left and middle mouse buttons were used for fire and secondary fire and right button was for jumping because spacebar was not the standard and too slow to press in a fast pace shooter games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena.
I literally searched the video tittle a few years ago and nothing popped up , now i can die in peace
15:44 the bonzi buddy in russian caught me off guard lol
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@@FuzzyQue.found you..
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The russian bonzi made me laugh real hard not gonna lie
my weirdest childhood memory is that my first computer legit had the same keyboard as the cs_office computers, playing gmod on it felt even more special after noticing that
If you turn on the PC in CS:SOURCE and look carefully, you can also see it uses the default DELL OEM background that would ship with the OEM install disk
25:15 I never thought of seeing a Mouse getting Bukkake'd in my life
Great video Bringus!!
This brings back memories. I had two Dimensions back in early 2000’s. A 4300 with a GeForce 3 ti 200 that I upgraded to a GeForce 4 ti 4600 among other upgrades. That computer is long gone. The other Dimension is an 8300 with a Ati x800xt-pe and it’s in my gaming room closet right now. Just sitting in there, lurking. I should fire it up one of these days.
“Optical media BAD” - words of a wise bringus
The Xbox 360 store shutting off would beg to differ.
Optical media is awesome
@imitt12 you don’t install your Xbox from a CD do you?
can agree that optical media is bad, in my experience a windows 10 install is slow as fuck to even start. (maybe it's my usb disk drive, but i don't know)
Just HD DVD is bad
Bought my Geforce 3 ti200 128mb 22 years ago and i had it in service till 2006 always overclocked above the ti500. I've played some of these games with it but mostly Unreal Tournament. I still have it with the original box!
Immaculate from every angle. Camera work, editing, sound design all awesome for what I thought was a small niche of topic I've followed my whole life.
I see that monitor in my nightmares, back when I was in the Air Force working IT we had to swap pretty much the entire base from those exact monitors to newer ones.
The 2007FPs still seem to be running strong in many places :D
I have one of these made by dell. They had a lot of options. The way the case opens is sick, I’m modernizing it. Used an angle grinder on the motherboard holder to fit none proprietary mobos on it.
18:10 - I actually remember dealing with this same problem decade or so ago. Except i remember just grabbing that area of metal covering the electrical port and just peeled it like a can opener with a pair of vice grips. Clearance achieved.
As an old tech appreciator myself, I love this, great find!
Also 8:06 My Sims music detected, I can't believe there are other people out there who played these games.
Hey I played it... just from a blockbuster rental back in the cretatious period so I don't remember any of the music... or much of it at all
this is somehow the best video ive ever watched on youtube for a year pls do something similar to this anytime in the next decade
Fun fact, the dell dimension 3000 is an matx system. Uses all ATX standard form factor parts. I know, because my first computer I built was an i5-8400, rx 580, EVGA 500w PSU, and ASUS matx motherboard, all in a dell dimension 3000 that I got from my great aunt, and gutted.
Have only basic know how on a PC but this was such a great video. Had a family PC from 2004 running Pentium 4 4ghz, almost all original parts I think except what I persoanlly witnessed my dad replace after the PC had a little damage from transporting was the 2gb ram and nvidia gtx 2-something. It ran almost all valve games on high, Resident Evil 5 and 6 both on medium, Skyrim on normal, League of Legends medium, Dota 2 low, Starcraft 2 low, Vindictus low, War Thunder medium and other I can't remember atm and this was used until early 2014. Good memories lol.
That standard relocation coupon edit really made my day, thank you now I will be happy for the evening
27:20
Neighbors: "Is it worth it...? Do we really need to live here? How desperate are we?"
I know it was a throwaway joke but i need to see the GameCube in an air fryer.
speaking as an old codger who's first computer was a 286 with a FREAKISH LARGE (for the time) 20MB hard drive and 640k of ram. I can tell you that the drive labelled ZIP 250 was an early back up device that enable you to back up a WHOLE 250 MB onto a single disk (the earliest zip drives were only 100MB). LUV YA WORK, I haz just subscribed.
cs_office is so near and dear to my heart. theres even videos online of people making fun of me with my squeaker voice while im gaming as a 6 year old on deathmatch servers. this was my favorite map, not really sure why, but from memories of playing with my brothers all lined up on the same desk, to wallhacking, to straight up pwning n00bz as a little kid.
The editing is truly immaculate
Secretly hoping for a part 2 with the actual asus motherboard horribly frankensteined into the case one day
I just found your channel, after watching 3 videos, I have decided to binge watch your content for the forseeable future, thanks for existing
The comuter looks like the old dell dimension 4700 i used to have, good machine
That dell dimension desktop which you used in the screenshot is literally the first pre-built I ever got. Once my parents had enough money that my dad didn't scavenge from his job as an it guy for us kids. I remember playing cs on that very machine. So many hours on that, combat arms, and the swat series of games. Makes me want to get out my laptop and load up a match in swat lol
I love the nostalgia of it all. Something about that case screamed Dell to me, so I'm feeling pgood about myself. And it's always good to see xp. When you mentioned the powersupply smoking, I was thrown back to that good old office ozone smell
4:00 thanks for the surprise texture archeology. i know its not the point of the video but that is always super interesting to see