Clint-- I can't stop going back to about 49 minutes in the video and hearing you talk about this Sim City 2000 story and hearing your genuine reaction to seeing it like you saw it all those years ago at a friends' house. SUCH good content! Thanks for this warm, authentic moment!
Clint, I've been following your channel for at least six years. Your channel inspired me to start my own niche gaming channel. Your pure, unfiltered enthusiasm is infectious and refreshing. Thanks so much for doing what you do. You're one of my favorite TH-cam creators, hands down, and I love your work!
I'm working on a 486 build myself. Your channel popped up in my feed and now has me reliving my childhood lol. Dealing with many of the same issues of N.O.S. parts not working after years of sitting around...and playing Jumanji USPS Edition. Finding parts is fun but I recently wandered into the local mom and pop computer store and found out they are clearing out old stuff. Walked out with 1 complete HP Athlon XP system for free, new 3.5" floppy drive, 3 new Turtle Beach PCI sound cards, 1 Cirrus Logic 2mb ISA video card, about 6 various AGP video cards, everything from generic 8mb to an ATI rage pro 128, 2 Nvidia cards, Gigabyte 256mb card and a few others, Win xp home, Win xp pro, win xp pro 64 bit, and Sierra 3d pinball. Cost me $5 for all of it. He has 2 other machines he is prepping for me and I saw he has 2 sealed MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 combo packs on the shelf that I'm going to try to pick up.
This is my favorite LGR video, I've probably watched it 5 times already. I would love to see more retro builds like this from different eras (386, Pentium II, AthlonXP... etc), I think people would find them fascinating. My first/childhood PC was a 486 DX 33MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 200MB HDD, ATi Mach 32 1MB VRAM, so this build really hits home for me.
AthlonXP was the first complete MB up system rebuild I ever did. :D Souped up my 486 with an AMD 133mhz proc and it forever changed the course of my life. hahaha
I’m in my 50’s. My first experience with computers was in the 70’s at Socorro New Mexico. I had placed 3rd in a science fair and the State invited us to spend a week up at Santa Fe for the “State Science Fair”. Anyway we were taken to different government science laboratories. Then in 85 I went to College. At my college we were introduced to IMB XT and then later the AT. While in the Navy I worked on military super computers that were thousands of times less powerful than the cell phone I hold in my hand. On leaving the Navy in 90, I worked for Apple and fell in love with how elegant the Mac design was. I have always owned a mix of PC’s and Macs. I still feel the Mac is superior in design and execution even with the problems that closed architecture and poor senior leadership..... that have plagued Apple over the years...... And yet, there was something incredibly fun and rewarding when building a IBM clone or a gaming desktop of this day. Thank you for this quick trip down memory lane.
This might be the best video on TH-cam! Brings me back to my DX4/100, which also had an AWE32 :) with a double-spin cd connected to it, and my 4-button gamepad running of its game port! 9-pin serial mouse, AT keyboard, etc... ahh... memories! I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to it from my 386 SX-16! Then again, I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to the 386 from my 8086 XT! I was amazed how the 386 had a backup battery for the RTC! No more having to enter the time and date every bootup, like I did for the XT lol! Anyway, AWESOME vid, and AWESOME PC! Entertaining, funny, and so nostalgic! Like I said, may be the best vid on the Tube! Cheers!
Although "some" PCs with Windows 10 (or even probably 11 now) do have a pretty nifty looking BIOS interface. Take for example MINE; it has one with an animated background!
Newer computers exclusively use UEFI - BIOS no longer exists. Thank God. UEFI is entirely graphics driven with full support of keyboard and mouse with support for all those large capacity devices BIOS would never be able to support.
@ThinkGamer Right... let me make a correction. BIOS is being phased out. It's taking longer than what was originally planned by Intel some 5+ years ago. Eventually, it's gone. It's just too limited in the current age and can't support some of the higher capacity drives. You'll still see older systems being sold for years where manufacturers will provide deprecated support for the BIOS they publish, but there will be a time when in the not too distant future where UEFI will be almost required to support future OS releases.
@ThinkGamer its not called CMOS thats the battery save, UEFI is the thing after BIOS that has mouse support (allthough some UEFI's still call themselves BIOS, probably so you know the kind of thing they mean, but its not a BIOS), my uefi is slow and ugly, more than the extremly simple bios i used to have (it was basically white yellowish background and marked things were blue, all in text mode, but it was sooo more effective than the current uefi i have)
That's one of the friendliest comment sections I've ever seen.
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I've enjoyed watching this way too much. I'm such a nerd. You definitely built one of the dream PCs I wish I had back then with the AWE 32 Soundblaster card and the Vesa compatible video card. Later my grandfather, who used to work for a credit union, had a Compaq Presario PC to work from home provided by the company. It was one of the first Pentiums at 100MHz and it had a sound blaster 32 card and a Vesa graphics card and a 33.6 kB modem. It had 2 partitions, one had IMB OS/2 Warp and the other had Dos Win 3.11. The Dos partition was for personal use and he let me play with it and it was amazing. A friend and I used to build our own Duke 3D maps, send them to each other using QuickLink II for Dos and then played multiplayer games on our custom built levels. What a time that was. Kids these days can't appreciate the high tech instant response stuff they have today with internet and all that.
I agree...great pacing. It was interesting the whole time. As I was growing up through the nineties, I always wanted a computer like this, but we didn't have alot of money, so I was stuck with a commodore 64. Anyway, great vid!
My favorite thing is seeing your PASSION and delight while building this box! I'm glad I didn't get into PC building until after ISA cards, though my first 2 machines had 3 1/2 floppies!
Your builds are genuinely some of the most comforting & enjoyable content on this side of the internet. Even 4 years later, this is a fave to return to from time to time :)
That intro was so sick I watched it twice. Nostalgia, man! So many good memories of my 486. My first computer was actually an Amiga 500 - and then a 386... which got upgraded to a 486... but it was that 486 that really got me into the PC life. So many hours of Scorched Earth... This video was immensely fun to watch. Those hard drive sounds! Congrats on 7 years of an awesome channel. As a side note... I've been fooling around with overclocking a Skylake build recently and I had a boot failure... and guess what logo pops up when it detects the boot failure... American Megatrends. I didn't even know they were still in business! Bullet-sweating moment aside, that red louvered triangle brought back so much nostalgia it was totally worth it.
This brought back so many bad memories, so many wasted weekends of plugging boards in, swapping boards around, yanking boards out, fiddling with memory sticks (the creaking sound when you put them in gave me shivers), things working then suddenly locking up (it felt like getting slapped in the face), and hardware details that everyone has long forgotten like sharing IRQs. If I got 75% of stuff working in the first weekend, it was enough success that I would be able to sleep. Subsequent evenings and weekends were getting that last 25% working, which often meant breaking things that had been working. *UGH*
He'd rather have a Buffalo hard disk, take a binary dump in his SCSI. He'd rather heat, a Compaq Presario, and a RAID... damnit, this is way too difficult, I give up.
Don't even tell me, I'm messing with some socket 7 boards by the last couple of days. Couldn't quite find the exact manual on the internet, so it's been a pain in the ass to make it work with a pentium
Assuming you can find documentation it's nothing to get intimidated over. 🙂 In most cases you won't do permanent damage by having a jumper wrong. It just won't get past bios or if it does won't work right. As the other people have replied, if you can't find documentation it can be daunting but in some cases what the jumper does is printed on the board itself
I'm an engineer on a laundry plant. A lot of Industrial machinery uses these CPU modules. Which run MS-DOS They're... peculiar to manage, and to repair, restore
Crazy that this is a 6 year old video and you were around for 7 before that. Thanks for being the best and keeping the chill for so long. Lgr videos are top notch and just relaxing and entertaining. 😊
When you almost cried to the start up of SimCity 2000 I smiled widely in happiness for you man. Though one idea comes to mind, any chance you would lets play it?
So much nostalgia and weird feelings from this video... I just clicked this video to check out the specs you planned to use and then ended up watching the whole hour+ video. Thanks for the old memories.
Holy crap... I'm sitting here watching a video from 2 years ago of someone building a computer from 24 years ago.... what am I doing with my life.... (Sweet video btw)
Let me join in. ^^ Btw my first PC in '94 was a VLB system with an AMD DX2/80 sold as DX2/66, 4MB, 420MB HDD and ET4000 VLB. Tryed to get full 80Mhz out of it but I think the board didn't support it. The board also came with a 2032 BIOS battery and even had IDE connectors onboad, not needing controller cards. The layout was generally more modern than this one. Til researching what old PC to get I didn't even know that many boards came with soldered on battery chips. Thought the 2032 was common.
Actually you are learning pretty useful stuff, since anything you can assimilate and understand in some stack of the hardware can help you as an user or developer of software ;)
Same here! Coming from someone who was born in 99 it’s just crazy to think there was a time when people had less than a GB of storage for their computer. There’s just something so fascinating about learning how computers worked before I was born. Somewhat charming
I was over here yelling at the screen like "That other board has cache chips that you can raid!!". This takes me back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I keep rewatching this and it just makes me happy. I love how passionate you are clint too. How happy you are to see sim city 2k running. So awesome. Man the world needs more people like you in it man.
Don't forget the cuts and scratches all over the backs of your hands from those cases, and the tragedy of the dropped expansion slot screw that fell into the mobo and wouldn't come out.
Legit, this is one of those videos I wish I could like more than once. Very educational in my opinion. And just a plain ol chill video to hang out with. Love this build.
I know this vid is a bit older but it showed up in my feed in 2022. You literally built my first pc build back in 95. Part for part. Thank you for an amazing stroll down memory lane!
What click? I only get the annoying sensation that I seated it wrong. Like half the time it doesn't lock, it just sits there. Twenty minutes of troubleshooting that I'll never get back.
I didn't build my first PC until 2001, although I had removed the side panels from my dad's first 286 he got as a hand-me-down from work, and then later, a Gateway 2000 acquired in 1998. I remember cutting myself on the jagged, un-smoothed edges of the Inwin server case I bought and being so excited to be building that I didn't even notice I was slowly dribbling blood into my new case five minutes later. I still have that scar on my right thumb and think back to that excitement in 2001 when I glance at it. I always wondered what those extra non-molex power connectors were on my first PSU. Thanks to this video, I now know that they were the ATX precursor. A half-decade or so before my building days!
Tiago Mian My i7 920 and evga x58 sli mobo is still going strong after a decade. It's outlasted 4 GPU's, 2 PSU's and a hard drive lol. These days its relegated mainly to file server as my laptop is more powerful but it's still a half decent comp even after 10 years
Me too, it's weird because I don't like playing SimCity but find it so satisfying to watch someone else play it (especially a pro at the game like LGR) XD
The hardware part was a trip (in acid) down memory lane. How many of those tricky 486 MoBo did I install when I used to work as computer tech? How many unexplainable behaviours made me lose my temper. How many time spent figuring conflict over IRQ, or address. or DMA, OR EVEN ALL OF IT TOGETHER. How many motherboards did I go through to satisfy that customer request of a 486DX 50 (NOT DX2) to find the one who would work at that FSB speed... Eh, the good old times... that felt hardly all that good whilst we lived them. :D
Congrats on the seven years and thank you for this wonderful video, where a number of us have had a chance to relive our childhood with you. :) Keep it going man! (thumbs up) Note... Had you played Star Wars Rebel Assault on that thing (My first CD-ROM based game, I still remember my father buying the CD-Drive and the game, tagging me along) I would have had a freaking fit here at home xD Again. Thanks for your hard work. :) (Personally, I look forward to a mid-late nighties Win 98SE2 build)
Thank you. I loved every moment of this. Brings back so many memories. My first computer was a DX2-33 and upgraded to a 66. Played Duke Nukem 3D and Doom, connected to BBSes with a 2400 bps modem. Those were good times.
Man, i found your channel because Pizza Worm, and every time i want to get the feeling of retro and nostalgia, i come to your channel for some of that sweet sensation. I'd love to see that front of the case painted in Black, it will be like those old pong machines. Congrats for seven years of sharing the gols days of pc gaming. Greetings from Mexico
This is one of my favorite videos on this platform. Recent I got parts for a new budget pc since my crappy old laptop is on its last legs, and rewatching this makes me really appreciate not only how far we've come as far as personal computers, but also what was so great about pc making back then and now. It honestly makes me wanna build my own recreational DOS machine, if I hadn't already spent $800 for the new build.
I remember utilizing loadhigh, devicehigh, smartdrv to free up enough memory to run some games. Sometimes placement in the file affected how much memory got freed up; so annoying, but satisfying when you get what you needed. lol.
Very cool video and Interesting to see an old PC getting built in this day and age. I could clearly see the legitimate enthusiasm in this, wether it was about passion for the classic parts such as an soundcard that is bigger than modern gpus or for playing the classic games "the way they're meant to" :) Glad for you to manage to fullfill this childhood dream of yours. cheers
I just come back to watch this every once in a while. I love this build of a computer I’d have never bothered dreaming of. I always love the Sim triumph.
Just watched this whole thing and was thinking, "Man. I really need to play some SC 2000!" Inspired me to drag my old Dell laptop running Windows 2000 on it out of the closet and load it up! Like your style, LGR.
I used to be a tech building and repairing PCs around the time those boards, IO cards, cpus, memory modules, cache chips were commonly in use. Brings back a lot of memories!
It's not a "lack of money thing", it's having an eye for hardware that you need at the time which in turn will bring you to your ultimate financial goal and or project!
So happy for you. My first computet bought in 1991 for $2,200 was a 386 25mh 2mb mem with a 40 MB hard drive. I remember that Doom would not play on it. About a year later I got a 486 80mh with 16mb meme with a 750 HD. The first time I played Doom my friend and I were awe struck. We played Wolfenstine to death on the 386 and then all of a sudden there were 256 colors and stairs. No longer a flat maze. We were so amazed!. Your video brought it all back for me. Thanks Clint.
Man i grew up building these computers when i was 10 years old and got many many expieriences! First, you should check, that the Turbo LED is connected properly to check the speed. Many people only used the half speed of their computers and didn't even know!! Many Turbo-switch connectors are 3 pin with an Normally closed and an normally open side. Second, put a fan on that CPU! It doesn't say you should like on the DX4 CPU but even the DX with 33 MHz did need at least an passive cooling aluminium cooler to run properly! Duke 3D should then run normally in normal sized screen.
I agree, can't remember how many of these I've built but would be well into the high hundreds and they do need the fans. I remember when intel first released these chips and they started having heat problems, they sent out heatsink + fans for the 50's and up and plain heatsink for 33's. If you read the intel paper I'm linking the heatsink fittings start at page 80. Great video, enjoyed it. datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/486/applnots/29043606.PDF
1990s, 486, custom Autoexec.bat/Config.sys load himem.sys. Configure speakers, joystick, run Wing Commander, Falcon 3.0, MiG-29, and matches/missions over dial-up. Those were fun days. Back then I could dial-up and request books from the library for free by mail, and they were good books, great references, manuals, records, factual data and not the utterly useless fluff peddled these days. One time I returned a fantastic reference manual and regret it to this day, especially since libraries destroyed them all. The great corporate book burning was done in the 90s and nobody even noticed it. Right after Barns and Noble and Amazon began carving up the book market, and finished off the library system by corporate takeover. 80s were booming, 90s were the last gasp of information freedom, 00s were the beginning of fanatical tech-cult that fucked it all. Great video, nostalgia galore, brought me back to the days of info-freedom.
This is my favourite channel on TH-cam. An hour felt like 15 minutes! You've got some serious talent. Thank you for all the hard work you've put up in your videos.
This was the first PC I used when I was 3-4 y.o. back in 97-98, I miss those times so much, I literally learned how to write on a 486, instead of using a pen and a piece of paper, and my dad back in the days programmed it for me, using a QBasic interface, to exercise myself with basics math's operations :D
Your videos inspired me to build my own dream 486 setup I couldn’t possibly afford back then and my parents could only afford a 486sx25 which was my start into computing and I adored it anyway.
Seeing that woodgrain at the end made me make up my mind. Next time I'm building a new computer I will make my own wood case because it looks so good! It will be heavy as balls but who cares when you can have a PC of pure wood! :D
Such a legendary video! It's like the 20th time that I'm watching it. This is basically what inspired me to get into collecting and building retro PCs. Keep up the good work)
It is indeed an awesome video! Having lived through and built pcs during this era, I was starting to think it’d be cool to put one together. Then he had the floppy drives wonk out on him, the CD-ROM fail to work with the AWE32 and... I remembered all the hours I’ve already spent fighting 90’s hardware... :)
this is actually really fascinating to watch. My very first computer was (I think) a windows 95 compaq computer and I was probably about 5 years old. I was too young to really get into depth of hardware and stuff but I remember playing games on it at a very early age. Now I have my own powerhouse desktop I built myself so its somewhat interesting to see in contrast of whats stayed the same and whats different and what really made up those old machines I had as a kid.
The joy that you get building the system and running games using better hardware that you wish you had way back then is incredibly gratifying. Suck it 1993!
8 years now. I watched this entire playlist back then, but I am back for two reasons; I am also building a "new" 486 from about 934 as well. Hopefully it pulls off as well. If not, there is always 86Box Still get the tinkering vibes ;)
Man I really loved this video. Your excitement reminds me of my own and that wood panel cover... getting the cd rom to work... man this whole video was incredible
I love looking back at this kind of stuff. When I mention all the jumpers and DIP switches that used to be used to configure motherboards, my co-workers are always so intimidated by how complex it seems, yet I used to play with and configure these boards when I was 10 years old. Defiantly glad I was introduced to PC's during this era as it led to a much higher understanding of hardware.
Just found this, sure takes me back. My first IBM compatible PC was an Escom 486 DX2 66. Windows 3.11 for work groups. First game I played was a demo of the original tomb raider. It sure looked impressive even though it wasn't full screen, in order to produce a reasonable frame rate. Think it had 4 meg of ram, no cd and no sound card. Love the wood grain
51:37 ''Look at that, its almost playable''
This is the insight that Ubisoft developers have after finishing a game.
Like they finish it at all.
yeah its the devs fault, not ubisoft for forcing games to come out before they are smoothed out
Remember when you got the whole game when you bought it?
@@notlNSIGHT ubisoft are also the publishers. the devs have no say in the deadlines the publishing dept sets
4k Trailer = 240p Game
Clint-- I can't stop going back to about 49 minutes in the video and hearing you talk about this Sim City 2000 story and hearing your genuine reaction to seeing it like you saw it all those years ago at a friends' house. SUCH good content! Thanks for this warm, authentic moment!
Clint, I've been following your channel for at least six years. Your channel inspired me to start my own niche gaming channel. Your pure, unfiltered enthusiasm is infectious and refreshing. Thanks so much for doing what you do. You're one of my favorite TH-cam creators, hands down, and I love your work!
Thanks for watching all this time, and I'm happy to have inspired!
I'm working on a 486 build myself. Your channel popped up in my feed and now has me reliving my childhood lol. Dealing with many of the same issues of N.O.S. parts not working after years of sitting around...and playing Jumanji USPS Edition. Finding parts is fun but I recently wandered into the local mom and pop computer store and found out they are clearing out old stuff. Walked out with 1 complete HP Athlon XP system for free, new 3.5" floppy drive, 3 new Turtle Beach PCI sound cards, 1 Cirrus Logic 2mb ISA video card, about 6 various AGP video cards, everything from generic 8mb to an ATI rage pro 128, 2 Nvidia cards, Gigabyte 256mb card and a few others, Win xp home, Win xp pro, win xp pro 64 bit, and Sierra 3d pinball. Cost me $5 for all of it. He has 2 other machines he is prepping for me and I saw he has 2 sealed MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 combo packs on the shelf that I'm going to try to pick up.
This is my favorite LGR video, I've probably watched it 5 times already. I would love to see more retro builds like this from different eras (386, Pentium II, AthlonXP... etc), I think people would find them fascinating. My first/childhood PC was a 486 DX 33MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 200MB HDD, ATi Mach 32 1MB VRAM, so this build really hits home for me.
QuantumBraced I sure as hell find old PCs so cool. I have an old ass dell laptop and it’s a lot of fun.
AthlonXP was the first complete MB up system rebuild I ever did. :D Souped up my 486 with an AMD 133mhz proc and it forever changed the course of my life. hahaha
I’m in my 50’s. My first experience with computers was in the 70’s at Socorro New Mexico. I had placed 3rd in a science fair and the State invited us to spend a week up at Santa Fe for the “State Science Fair”. Anyway we were taken to different government science laboratories. Then in 85 I went to College. At my college we were introduced to IMB XT and then later the AT. While in the Navy I worked on military super computers that were thousands of times less powerful than the cell phone I hold in my hand. On leaving the Navy in 90, I worked for Apple and fell in love with how elegant the Mac design was. I have always owned a mix of PC’s and Macs. I still feel the Mac is superior in design and execution even with the problems that closed architecture and poor senior leadership..... that have plagued Apple over the years...... And yet, there was something incredibly fun and rewarding when building a IBM clone or a gaming desktop of this day. Thank you for this quick trip down memory lane.
Ok bo0mer
@@speedinzosu bruh be respectful
Firstly, thank you for your service. Secondly, thanks for sharing this story. Gives me warm feelings.
@@speedinzosu just shut up dude it's not funny anymore
@@Gigatechi7 or updating, or repairing
Basically my entire childhood revolved around how good I could get Simcity 2000 to run. I sympathize, Clint.
My greatest achievement as a 14 year old was overclocking my amd k6-2 350mhz to 366mhz with the jumper pins on the motherboard. Fun times... (1998)
@@novakjovanovic7313 I remember having to set pins on the mobo for clock speeds when building my first PC. Those were the days!!
SimCity 2000 tracks still get stuck in my head to this day. Landmark game
Classic
I played simcity 2000 on windows 7 even tho its not compatible with win 7 (2019)
Sometimes I watch this again to calm my anxiety. Thank you Clint.
Same same.
Same for me! Nothing better than to calm your stress on some computers!
stress is not anxiety
Great channel for that!
2024 and same!
Oh those sweet, innocent times when cable management and rgb lighting were just nullified by beautiful beige.
Sascha G. It’s as it should be
Those were the times
Im a after 2k child but i have 2 beige pc's pentium 4 and d
Beige is beautiful. Rgb is irritating
thsoe where real computer
This might be the best video on TH-cam! Brings me back to my DX4/100, which also had an AWE32 :) with a double-spin cd connected to it, and my 4-button gamepad running of its game port! 9-pin serial mouse, AT keyboard, etc... ahh... memories! I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to it from my 386 SX-16! Then again, I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to the 386 from my 8086 XT! I was amazed how the 386 had a backup battery for the RTC! No more having to enter the time and date every bootup, like I did for the XT lol! Anyway, AWESOME vid, and AWESOME PC! Entertaining, funny, and so nostalgic! Like I said, may be the best vid on the Tube! Cheers!
Thanks Eric, I'm glad you enjoyed and got a good nostalgia buzz!
I like how this has a nicer BIOS interface than most windows 7, 8, and some 10 computers I've seen
Although "some" PCs with Windows 10 (or even probably 11 now) do have a pretty nifty looking BIOS interface. Take for example MINE; it has one with an animated background!
Newer computers exclusively use UEFI - BIOS no longer exists. Thank God. UEFI is entirely graphics driven with full support of keyboard and mouse with support for all those large capacity devices BIOS would never be able to support.
@ThinkGamer Right... let me make a correction. BIOS is being phased out. It's taking longer than what was originally planned by Intel some 5+ years ago.
Eventually, it's gone. It's just too limited in the current age and can't support some of the higher capacity drives.
You'll still see older systems being sold for years where manufacturers will provide deprecated support for the BIOS they publish, but there will be a time when in the not too distant future where UEFI will be almost required to support future OS releases.
@ThinkGamer its not called CMOS thats the battery save, UEFI is the thing after BIOS that has mouse support (allthough some UEFI's still call themselves BIOS, probably so you know the kind of thing they mean, but its not a BIOS), my uefi is slow and ugly, more than the extremly simple bios i used to have (it was basically white yellowish background and marked things were blue, all in text mode, but it was sooo more effective than the current uefi i have)
it's so nice to see him happy by finally beeing able to install simcity after all these years
1 hour of PC Bulding....
Clint, you're spoiling me
And you are spoiling us with your profile pic good sir.
+SengirShowsU HE-MAN YOU ROYAL BOOB
CURSE YOU HE-MAN NYAAA
WHY DO I SURROUND MYSELF WITH BOOBS?1
That's one of the friendliest comment sections I've ever seen.
I've enjoyed watching this way too much. I'm such a nerd.
You definitely built one of the dream PCs I wish I had back then with the AWE 32 Soundblaster card and the Vesa compatible video card.
Later my grandfather, who used to work for a credit union, had a Compaq Presario PC to work from home provided by the company. It was one of the first Pentiums at 100MHz and it had a sound blaster 32 card and a Vesa graphics card and a 33.6 kB modem. It had 2 partitions, one had IMB OS/2 Warp and the other had Dos Win 3.11. The Dos partition was for personal use and he let me play with it and it was amazing. A friend and I used to build our own Duke 3D maps, send them to each other using QuickLink II for Dos and then played multiplayer games on our custom built levels. What a time that was.
Kids these days can't appreciate the high tech instant response stuff they have today with internet and all that.
Even a video i thought would be extremely boring, you had me watching the whole thing entertained every second. You got serious talent, man.
Thank you!
exactly :)
oh he does
I agree...great pacing. It was interesting the whole time. As I was growing up through the nineties, I always wanted a computer like this, but we didn't have alot of money, so I was stuck with a commodore 64. Anyway, great vid!
Therealgdude01 yeah I'm finally happy with TH-cam
My favorite thing is seeing your PASSION and delight while building this box! I'm glad I didn't get into PC building until after ISA cards, though my first 2 machines had 3 1/2 floppies!
"extra pin that's off to the side there, being alone and sad"
story of my life.
It's tough being an extra pin.
all joking aside, awesome video dude. I can't wait to check out your other vids.
486 has an extra pin that must be aligned
It's ok to be off to the side, alone and sad but, please, never ever be a pin. :D
Don't be sad, it's Christmas! Go find some friends and eat turkey with them. Have a happy day! :D
Calling tech support in 1994:
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive A:?"
I cant find the any key...
Why is Ms. Dos in my computer? How do I get her out?
My Cupholder wont open, it worked fine for months, but now when I press the button it wont slide open.
These days tech support calls you...
"If my PC has windows, then why can't I see through it??"
Your builds are genuinely some of the most comforting & enjoyable content on this side of the internet. Even 4 years later, this is a fave to return to from time to time :)
That and his Ninja Nanny video. He has a load of classics.
I watched this 486 episode for the 7th time. I can do it until the 100th time.
Watch it 486 times
it's just sooooo rewatchable, i can't help but play this one while i'm cleaning the house
@James Armstrong same
That intro was so sick I watched it twice.
Nostalgia, man! So many good memories of my 486. My first computer was actually an Amiga 500 - and then a 386... which got upgraded to a 486... but it was that 486 that really got me into the PC life. So many hours of Scorched Earth...
This video was immensely fun to watch. Those hard drive sounds!
Congrats on 7 years of an awesome channel.
As a side note... I've been fooling around with overclocking a Skylake build recently and I had a boot failure... and guess what logo pops up when it detects the boot failure... American Megatrends. I didn't even know they were still in business! Bullet-sweating moment aside, that red louvered triangle brought back so much nostalgia it was totally worth it.
This brought back so many bad memories, so many wasted weekends of plugging boards in, swapping boards around, yanking boards out, fiddling with memory sticks (the creaking sound when you put them in gave me shivers), things working then suddenly locking up (it felt like getting slapped in the face), and hardware details that everyone has long forgotten like sharing IRQs. If I got 75% of stuff working in the first weekend, it was enough success that I would be able to sleep. Subsequent evenings and weekends were getting that last 25% working, which often meant breaking things that had been working. *UGH*
And that's why consoles are king
Sure they are......
I miss the old homecomputers
@@Nitro_0999 they are great at doing one specific thing very poorly
@@h2oaddict I dissagree
"He's gonna take you to the past
Building outdated computers from scrap"
"He's the Lazy Video Game Nerd"
He'd rather have a Buffalo hard disk, take a binary dump in his SCSI. He'd rather heat, a Compaq Presario, and a RAID... damnit, this is way too difficult, I give up.
i wanna see LGR and avgn & mabe mike get together and play games out of character, Like how avgn and johntron did, out of charcter... sorta.
Nailed!
roflmao
Hooo-Boy... Feels just like yesterday :-)
Except:
1) I was 35 then
2) Now I ain't
:-/
Time just needs to stop some Times, Wait... Thiss video is 4 years old btw like what i remember watching this when it was new
Yes You are!!! The fact that you understand and watch these videos instantly makes you 35
Sometimes I think, "I want to build an old pc." Then I watch this video and remember figuring out jumpers and I'm just like "nope."
Don't even tell me, I'm messing with some socket 7 boards by the last couple of days. Couldn't quite find the exact manual on the internet, so it's been a pain in the ass to make it work with a pentium
Got it kinda working with a K6 tho
@@joseislanio8910 "Kinda working" sounds like most my builds lol...i know better but my lazy side kicks in lol...
Assuming you can find documentation it's nothing to get intimidated over. 🙂 In most cases you won't do permanent damage by having a jumper wrong. It just won't get past bios or if it does won't work right.
As the other people have replied, if you can't find documentation it can be daunting but in some cases what the jumper does is printed on the board itself
I'm an engineer on a laundry plant. A lot of Industrial machinery uses these CPU modules. Which run MS-DOS
They're... peculiar to manage, and to repair, restore
This video made me build 486 pc for Fun, made repair my old pentium 166 mhz and now i use these pc almoust as regular as my modern gaming pc. Nice!
You can see the joy in Clint's face. The computer ended up looking pretty good!
Crazy that this is a 6 year old video and you were around for 7 before that. Thanks for being the best and keeping the chill for so long. Lgr videos are top notch and just relaxing and entertaining. 😊
When you almost cried to the start up of SimCity 2000 I smiled widely in happiness for you man. Though one idea comes to mind, any chance you would lets play it?
Skellitor301 dude... that would be amazing
So much nostalgia and weird feelings from this video...
I just clicked this video to check out the specs you planned to use and then ended up watching the whole hour+ video. Thanks for the old memories.
Holy crap... I'm sitting here watching a video from 2 years ago of someone building a computer from 24 years ago.... what am I doing with my life....
(Sweet video btw)
Let me join in. ^^
Btw my first PC in '94 was a VLB system with an AMD DX2/80 sold as DX2/66, 4MB, 420MB HDD and ET4000 VLB. Tryed to get full 80Mhz out of it but I think the board didn't support it. The board also came with a 2032 BIOS battery and even had IDE connectors onboad, not needing controller cards. The layout was generally more modern than this one.
Til researching what old PC to get I didn't even know that many boards came with soldered on battery chips. Thought the 2032 was common.
Actually you are learning pretty useful stuff, since anything you can assimilate and understand in some stack of the hardware can help you as an user or developer of software ;)
You're using your time wisely is what you're doing! :)
Same here!
Coming from someone who was born in 99 it’s just crazy to think there was a time when people had less than a GB of storage for their computer. There’s just something so fascinating about learning how computers worked before I was born. Somewhat charming
@@killerkitten7534 1998 here lol I agree
Grew up with XP
I feel your joy SO much coming through in this. I'm geeking out just watching. Reminds me of when I built my first machine. Love your vids. :)
I was over here yelling at the screen like "That other board has cache chips that you can raid!!". This takes me back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I keep rewatching this and it just makes me happy. I love how passionate you are clint too. How happy you are to see sim city 2k running. So awesome. Man the world needs more people like you in it man.
I seem to remember a lot more swearing, being involved
Don't forget the cuts and scratches all over the backs of your hands from those cases, and the tragedy of the dropped expansion slot screw that fell into the mobo and wouldn't come out.
And back paín, Those mofos were huge and heavy
The best part is when the power sockets weren't labeled and you spend 3 hours trying to figure it out with the manual
@@TheOtherBill Yes and not to forget dropping the case as you go to put it on your desk and the chiropractor bills.
Unnecessary comma.
Legit, this is one of those videos I wish I could like more than once. Very educational in my opinion. And just a plain ol chill video to hang out with. Love this build.
i like re-watching it a bunch...believe this is my 5th time
when I had a 486 when I was In trouble my parents would lock the computer and take the key. I would lock pick the lock with a paper clip.
Ryan Peters but now it uses screwdriver
My parents would take the power cable instead, but I quickly found a spare cable to play sim city 2000 countless hours.
@Ryan Peters i used to unplug lock (grey wire) from mobo ;) and later on my dad was taking cpu out xD
I know this vid is a bit older but it showed up in my feed in 2022. You literally built my first pc build back in 95. Part for part. Thank you for an amazing stroll down memory lane!
There's absolutely nothing like that satisfying "click" when you're putting in new RAM.
Conrad Vogel no have you ever put in cpu cpu chips? Those are soooo much better
Not with DDR4 where only 1 side clicks...
@@NinjaContravaniaManX on my mobo its the same wit ddr3
What click? I only get the annoying sensation that I seated it wrong. Like half the time it doesn't lock, it just sits there. Twenty minutes of troubleshooting that I'll never get back.
I didn't build my first PC until 2001, although I had removed the side panels from my dad's first 286 he got as a hand-me-down from work, and then later, a Gateway 2000 acquired in 1998. I remember cutting myself on the jagged, un-smoothed edges of the Inwin server case I bought and being so excited to be building that I didn't even notice I was slowly dribbling blood into my new case five minutes later. I still have that scar on my right thumb and think back to that excitement in 2001 when I glance at it.
I always wondered what those extra non-molex power connectors were on my first PSU. Thanks to this video, I now know that they were the ATX precursor. A half-decade or so before my building days!
Such a cozy video
Top comfy
The extra holes along side of the CPU were there for the Pentium Overdrive Cpu's
In 20 years, I bet people are going to be building i7 PCs for nostalgia.
Nick Gregory Or rather, they'll be nostalgic for user replaceable parts
First gen i7's are kinda rare, since most 1366 motherboards are dead today, like those old nvidia based Athlon's.
not really ive got at least 40
Tiago Mian My i7 920 and evga x58 sli mobo is still going strong after a decade. It's outlasted 4 GPU's, 2 PSU's and a hard drive lol. These days its relegated mainly to file server as my laptop is more powerful but it's still a half decent comp even after 10 years
my athlon xp 1800+ machine from 2002 is still running to this day
This brought back so many memories. Everyone should get to experience this. Building, upgrading and maintaining a machine from a pile of parts.
Ayyyyeee glad you all like the music! I love this dude's vidz!
Thanks so much for the track, man!
Thanks for thinking of me when you wanted it remade!
Hey good job of that music!
LGR: "Oh, look at this! It's so cool!!!"
me (with a small tear in the corner of the right eye): "Dude, it is a little cool."
I reacted the exact same way! :)
I would love to see you play sim city 2000 as a series, maybe once a week or so, I dunno.
That woodgrain does look pretty awesome :O
Me too, it's weird because I don't like playing SimCity but find it so satisfying to watch someone else play it (especially a pro at the game like LGR) XD
I love that I'm actually learning about computer stuff little by little while watching these. Makes me feel like I'm doing something.
this is officially the best TH-cam channel ever made!
Hehe, well thanks!
Second
The hardware part was a trip (in acid) down memory lane. How many of those tricky 486 MoBo did I install when I used to work as computer tech? How many unexplainable behaviours made me lose my temper. How many time spent figuring conflict over IRQ, or address. or DMA, OR EVEN ALL OF IT TOGETHER. How many motherboards did I go through to satisfy that customer request of a 486DX 50 (NOT DX2) to find the one who would work at that FSB speed...
Eh, the good old times... that felt hardly all that good whilst we lived them. :D
Congrats on the seven years and thank you for this wonderful video, where a number of us have had a chance to relive our childhood with you. :)
Keep it going man! (thumbs up)
Note... Had you played Star Wars Rebel Assault on that thing (My first CD-ROM based game, I still remember my father buying the CD-Drive and the game, tagging me along) I would have had a freaking fit here at home xD
Again.
Thanks for your hard work. :)
(Personally, I look forward to a mid-late nighties Win 98SE2 build)
Oh yeah.
Seeing the Logitech First Mouse, brought a tear to my eye.
This was my childhood in video form
I was having flashbacks to being 13-14 again when he started talking about the nightmare that was sorting out IRQ and DMA conflicts. Great video!
I saw you like a year ago under a different video :P
Thank you. I loved every moment of this. Brings back so many memories. My first computer was a DX2-33 and upgraded to a 66. Played Duke Nukem 3D and Doom, connected to BBSes with a 2400 bps modem. Those were good times.
Oh man. This is so nostalgic. That messing with options etc. just for properly working machine.
Ohh, man. I Loved sim City 2000. Civilization 2 was another Thing, beneath Doom 1, Doom 2 and Wolfenstein 3D. I Loved this time...
Dude when you said "i just bought this at Circuit City".. it took me a split second to be like wait what? lol
14 years now, seven years since seven years. keep up the good vids
Your positive energy helps me get through dark days. Thank you for keeping on keeping on with your passion.
i feel the same. i finally got my hand on one. i couldn't be happier. bring back old times. playing DOS games just so much fun to me
Man, i found your channel because Pizza Worm, and every time i want to get the feeling of retro and nostalgia, i come to your channel for some of that sweet sensation. I'd love to see that front of the case painted in Black, it will be like those old pong machines.
Congrats for seven years of sharing the gols days of pc gaming. Greetings from Mexico
Thanks for sticking around!
This is one of my favorite videos on this platform. Recent I got parts for a new budget pc since my crappy old laptop is on its last legs, and rewatching this makes me really appreciate not only how far we've come as far as personal computers, but also what was so great about pc making back then and now. It honestly makes me wanna build my own recreational DOS machine, if I hadn't already spent $800 for the new build.
I remember editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up conventional memory. loading drivers high. himem.sys noems.
I NEVER want to go back to those days. Getting DOS games to run in the right memory configurations? I'll stick with DOS box.
I remember utilizing loadhigh, devicehigh, smartdrv to free up enough memory to run some games. Sometimes placement in the file affected how much memory got freed up; so annoying, but satisfying when you get what you needed. lol.
YUP, I hated HATED that then the games said limited music would play anyway
ALSO boot disks Fuck that shit!
I use to make boot disks all the time to load up my CD ROM drives mouse and sound ect
@@troymeredith521 DOS 6.22 had "Memmaker" and it was glorius. Still needed some detail work, but it DID help a lot.
Man, this takes me waaaay back. You've got yourself a new subscriber.
Very cool video and Interesting to see an old PC getting built in this day and age. I could clearly see the legitimate enthusiasm in this, wether it was about passion for the classic parts such as an soundcard that is bigger than modern gpus or for playing the classic games "the way they're meant to" :)
Glad for you to manage to fullfill this childhood dream of yours.
cheers
I just come back to watch this every once in a while. I love this build of a computer I’d have never bothered dreaming of.
I always love the Sim triumph.
Nostalgia overload! This outlines how I spent a good portion of my teens and early twenties. Man I'm old. :-)
Just watched this whole thing and was thinking, "Man. I really need to play some SC 2000!" Inspired me to drag my old Dell laptop running Windows 2000 on it out of the closet and load it up! Like your style, LGR.
I've downloaded the intro from the description and I can attest, it's really is the coolest thing ever
I used to be a tech building and repairing PCs around the time those boards, IO cards, cpus, memory modules, cache chips were commonly in use. Brings back a lot of memories!
Dude, I love how happy you sounded when Sim City installed. This channel is the greatest.
Thanks :)
This is one of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam, after I dunno how many years. Thanks, Clint, really beautiful stuff.
I'd love to do this myself. Shame that a lack of money is a thing.
Well, pay a visit to a scrapyard. I found a complete DX2 years back in a container.
I took it with me for 3$
Osmosis at my school found 3dfx vga card
Bitelaserkhalif *cringes* how.
do it one thing at a time man
It's not a "lack of money thing", it's having an eye for hardware that you need at the time which in turn will bring you to your ultimate financial goal and or project!
So happy for you. My first computet bought in 1991 for $2,200 was a 386 25mh 2mb mem with a 40 MB hard drive. I remember that Doom would not play on it. About a year later I got a 486 80mh with 16mb meme with a 750 HD. The first time I played Doom my friend and I were awe struck. We played Wolfenstine to death on the 386 and then all of a sudden there were 256 colors and stairs. No longer a flat maze. We were so amazed!. Your video brought it all back for me. Thanks Clint.
Man i grew up building these computers when i was 10 years old and got many many expieriences!
First, you should check, that the Turbo LED is connected properly to check the speed. Many people only used the half speed of their computers and didn't even know!! Many Turbo-switch connectors are 3 pin with an Normally closed and an normally open side.
Second, put a fan on that CPU! It doesn't say you should like on the DX4 CPU but even the DX with 33 MHz did need at least an passive cooling aluminium cooler to run properly!
Duke 3D should then run normally in normal sized screen.
I agree, can't remember how many of these I've built but would be well into the high hundreds and they do need the fans. I remember when intel first released these chips and they started having heat problems, they sent out heatsink + fans for the 50's and up and plain heatsink for 33's.
If you read the intel paper I'm linking the heatsink fittings start at page 80.
Great video, enjoyed it.
datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/486/applnots/29043606.PDF
1990s, 486, custom Autoexec.bat/Config.sys load himem.sys. Configure speakers, joystick, run Wing Commander, Falcon 3.0, MiG-29, and matches/missions over dial-up. Those were fun days.
Back then I could dial-up and request books from the library for free by mail, and they were good books, great references, manuals, records, factual data and not the utterly useless fluff peddled these days.
One time I returned a fantastic reference manual and regret it to this day, especially since libraries destroyed them all. The great corporate book burning was done in the 90s and nobody even noticed it. Right after Barns and Noble and Amazon began carving up the book market, and finished off the library system by corporate takeover.
80s were booming, 90s were the last gasp of information freedom, 00s were the beginning of fanatical tech-cult that fucked it all.
Great video, nostalgia galore, brought me back to the days of info-freedom.
This is my favourite channel on TH-cam. An hour felt like 15 minutes! You've got some serious talent. Thank you for all the hard work you've put up in your videos.
This was the first PC I used when I was 3-4 y.o. back in 97-98, I miss those times so much, I literally learned how to write on a 486, instead of using a pen and a piece of paper, and my dad back in the days programmed it for me, using a QBasic interface, to exercise myself with basics math's operations :D
hahaha love the throwback intro
Right? So much memories!
intro music........
@@thetoraj jó
@@matekiss5764 helló! Magyar vagy?
cool video! i only wanted to take a short look but stayed until the end. well done!
Excellent, thanks!
the same here :)
This brings back fond memories, I have never seen a bios like that though.
Your videos inspired me to build my own dream 486 setup I couldn’t possibly afford back then and my parents could only afford a 486sx25 which was my start into computing and I adored it anyway.
I have case with real woodgrain from factory. It has keyboard lock too maybe from 1999-2003.
I'd love to see it! Have any photos or model numbers I could look up?
aijaa.com/xk4q5G There isnt any brand or name. Its from 478 socket era and really wellmade and tough case
What a funky case. Incredibly cool, thanks for sharing :)
Build a crazy sleep rig in it with the 1080 mini and an i7 or something
Its too big for that .... If LGR wants to pay the transportation i can send it to him :)
Seeing that woodgrain at the end made me make up my mind. Next time I'm building a new computer I will make my own wood case because it looks so good!
It will be heavy as balls but who cares when you can have a PC of pure wood! :D
Make a video of it or something. I would absolutely love to see it.
cool, but make sure u dont run ur pc too hot!
I saw an Intel NUC with a wood top, looked amazing: www.techpowerup.com/gallery/4133/13_0_547.jpg
One of the best hours I have spent this year, thank you. Brought back memories
Dont think I have ever seen Clint so happy in a video. Very nice to see real passion at the end of this project!
486 processors bring so many people joy 😹
If I had tools and the workspace available, I'd love to actually try to piece together a metal/wood case. Not just vinyl but actual wood elements.
Such a legendary video! It's like the 20th time that I'm watching it. This is basically what inspired me to get into collecting and building retro PCs. Keep up the good work)
It is indeed an awesome video! Having lived through and built pcs during this era, I was starting to think it’d be cool to put one together. Then he had the floppy drives wonk out on him, the CD-ROM fail to work with the AWE32 and... I remembered all the hours I’ve already spent fighting 90’s hardware... :)
this is actually really fascinating to watch. My very first computer was (I think) a windows 95 compaq computer and I was probably about 5 years old. I was too young to really get into depth of hardware and stuff but I remember playing games on it at a very early age. Now I have my own powerhouse desktop I built myself so its somewhat interesting to see in contrast of whats stayed the same and whats different and what really made up those old machines I had as a kid.
This brings back so many memories! Building my first 386 PC from my dad's spare parts after he upgraded to a 486.
"SUCK IT 1993 ... BAM"
Dude, you rock
It's been a while since I've watched an hour long video on TH-cam. Didn't even notice it was that long! Good job sir and great build!
Thank you!
The joy that you get building the system and running games using better hardware that you wish you had way back then is incredibly gratifying.
Suck it 1993!
8 years now. I watched this entire playlist back then, but I am back for two reasons; I am also building a "new" 486 from about 934 as well. Hopefully it pulls off as well. If not, there is always 86Box Still get the tinkering vibes ;)
Kids these days will never know the feeling of overclocking using jumpers. :)
Jumpers and dip switches are where it's at. ☺
I'm 16, so I don't know if I qualify as a kid, but I'm going to attempt building a 486 too!
or setting the lans, the sectors, and the heads in the hard drive.
Oh, fuck... that sent me over a memories trip
@@donskiver Too right that!
it mad me happy seeing you make this epic old school pc working dude
Man I really loved this video. Your excitement reminds me of my own and that wood panel cover... getting the cd rom to work... man this whole video was incredible
I love looking back at this kind of stuff. When I mention all the jumpers and DIP switches that used to be used to configure motherboards, my co-workers are always so intimidated by how complex it seems, yet I used to play with and configure these boards when I was 10 years old. Defiantly glad I was introduced to PC's during this era as it led to a much higher understanding of hardware.
I have been shouting out loud "That is BAD ASS!" throughout this whole video, but that wood grain took it to the next level! Love your channel, Man!
He should have a sub Milestone video called wood grain reviews where he talks about wood graim
That was weird you unboxing a cd drive that was made 4 months before I was born.
noily
I am not sure if LGR has time machine, but Techmoan at least has one!
Pshhh, infant. I was 14 in 1994. *humor intended by this comment*
welp im 14
Just found this, sure takes me back. My first IBM compatible PC was an Escom 486 DX2 66. Windows 3.11 for work groups.
First game I played was a demo of the original tomb raider.
It sure looked impressive even though it wasn't full screen, in order to produce a reasonable frame rate.
Think it had 4 meg of ram, no cd and no sound card.
Love the wood grain
Could it play mp3 or vcd?