I built my first PC in '99. My dad had a PC build and service business. I was the first kid in school with a 1ghz processor lol. AMD Thunderbird 1ghz 256MB DDR ram nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU with 32MB vram (I think) Windows ME lol And I remember my dad ranting about 100GB hard drives coming out soon. "You could never fill that up! It's unnecessary!" 😂
Literally my exact build at the same time. No idea what I was doing. Nobody in my family was or is tech savvy at all. I did chip the CPU... Luckily it still worked but it did give my middle school, mountain dew powered heart a cardiac arrest.
@J D maybe somewhere in Russia or Ukraine kids still fighting with bears and walking for milk 20 km every day :-D but I am from Czech Republic, people are lazy to walk 200m without car here :-)
4:47 my god... this takes me back. I remember the sheer panic I had when my screwdriver slipped one time when installing a new CPU cooler. I thought for sure I murdered my motherboard.
Oh man that cooler clip brought back some memories.... I was lucky enough to never get it wrong on installation, but I did have one bad experience where one entire row of tabs snapped off while I was using my computer, the cooler fell off the motherboard, took out the graphics card, and inevitably fried the processor since I never thought for a second that the massive "bang" came from inside my computer. Whoo, that was a bad day!
@@unknownperson3691 I'm wondering if i'll ever have enough storage space, 2 2TB drives, 2 512GB ssds, a 240GB boot ssd, 2 1TB drives, an 8 TB external and a pile of salvaged drives ranging from 500GB-1TB and i might be expanding again, maybe i should just learn to delete shit xP
I just found this video, and went, wait a long minute. Is that.... MY FATHERS CASE BUT GREY? I look over to my left. IT IS! LOL, he's still using it to this day. You gotta be kidding me XD
Lol. The same thing happened to me back when I watched Linus’s 2009-2019 pc video. It turns out the case he had from 2009 is the same case made by Antec my dad uses! He also is not willing to get rid of it cause he payed 200 for it 🤣
I had the same reaction. I have a black one that looks basically the same, but the internal drive bays are even better. I actually used it up until a week ago. It was my main PC case for well over a decade, hosting many motherboards, CPUs and other hardware - at least 3 power supplies, too.
My father still has that exact case. It has an i9-9900k in it now, but it still looks beautiful. He also has the lime green Chieftec Dragon case next to it with his P4 3.0 GHz that he doesn't have the heart to replace.
And Neve still uses it to power their 88D consoles' on-board computer. It's interesting to play solitaire while you're exporting a film in 5.1 surround.
Oh i wont forget my first car. but i aint restoring that bitch. gearbox was broken, nothing worked like it was supposed to. but it did have aftermarket cruise control and a heated front windshield. good ol' Ford Focus station Mk1. ditched it for another one (cus spend way to much on my winter tires which were as good as new) which did have all the features like a working gearbox, no cruise tho..
First PC I ever built was a Slot 1 Pentium 2-based Celeron at 333Mhz, Asus P2B motherboard, 64MB of RAM, 3DFX graphics card, and a massive 10.1GB hard drive, with Windows 98
It is almost funny but I can tell we are both not very young by the amount of RAM used in our first system. I went "Hardcore" with 128MB's of RAM. I had a hook up later on that got me 20GB HDD's on the cheap but my cheap 250watt power supply couldn't drive the 5 I had set up because a single 80GB or 160GB was insanely overpriced. I remember the day I got my Nvidia 8800 GTS 256MB VRAM. lol But my first laptop was the IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 3, 128MB's RAM, 4-5GB HDD and Windows 98, which I promptly upgraded to Windows 2000 and then XP!
The first PC I built was a beast! It had a Core i9-7980XE Extreme, an ASUS ROG Strix X299 MoBo, 2 Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080TI's in 2-way SLI, 128 GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 RAM, and a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe 2TB SSD + Western Digital Black 10TB HDD. And of course i put Windows 10 Pro 32/64 bit on there.
@@aussiejosh1988 Me too! The first PC I built myself anyway. Before that I was using a hand-me-down 80486 DX-2 66 MHz. The PII became obsolete FAST though, two years later I could barely run any new games on it. I'm glad that's different today!
Yea they were the good only days. I'm still running a I5 7600k at 5GHz stable and goes good with my GTX 1070. Plays all today's games in ultra settings
@@Мирич-з4е Why would anyone be running 640 x 480 in the early/mid 2000s? My CRT monitor, which I'm using right now, was made in 2004 and has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440. The lowest resolution you can select in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, is 800 x 600, unless you go into the advanced "display all modes" menu to force a lower resolution, and even then, if you select 640 x 480 it gives you a warning that your screen resolution is very low and offers to set it higher for you. The most common resolution in the early/mid 2000s was 1024 x 768 with a 17" CRT (which was the most common screen size at the time). People with a 19" CRT usually ran it at 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024. People with a 21" CRT usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 or 1920 x 1440. People who were lucky enough to have the best PC monitor ever made, i.e., a 24" Sony GDM-FW900 CRT, could run it at 2304 x 1440.
@@MaximRecoil Oh God... the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then. Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p. Nobody ia talking about your monitor resolution. And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution. Back then people were using 800x600 and 1024x768 for their desktop work. And it was the same for gaming. Nobody back then was able to run the newest games at max settings with resolution higher than 1024x768. Because the CPU's and GPU's were not that powerfull as now.
@@Мирич-з4е " the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then." No, he didn't. He simply said, "the resolution and aspect ratio of the time". "Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p." No, they didn't. A typical consumer-grade video camera in the early/mid 2000s recorded at DVD resolution, and it was interlaced (29.97 FPS), which was 720 x 480i. An example is the popular DV format which was introduced in 1995. But there was also HDV, introduced in 2003, which recorded at 720p or 1080i. In the high-end video camera market, 1080p has been around since at least the late 1990s, and even Hollywood started using them in the early 2000s. For example, the movie "Session 9" from 2001 was shot on a 1080p (24 FPS) digital video camera. Star Wars Episode II (2002) was another early movie shot on a 1080p digital video camera. " And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution." You don't know what you're talking about. I just told you that my CRT monitor from 2004 (22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron), that I'm using right now, can go to 1920 x 1440. I also told you that the Sony GDM-FW900 CRT monitor can go to 2304 x 1440: www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR There were CRT displays that could go even higher than that. For example, the Barco 909 could go to 3200 x 2560, which is approximately the same total number of pixels as "UHD", also known as "4K": www.barco.com/en/product/barcoreality-909
I can name all the components of all my pcs I had, including first one. Besides hard/optical/floppy drives, tho still remember that I had 160 gigs samsung ide thing
You are making me feel old... My first gaming computer was a 286... The first one I built was a Pentium 2, 266mhz with a voodoo 2 video card with a massive 16 mb of onboard, that's right! Onboard ram! Never before seen!
Same, old 286 on dos. Buddy had a 286 with Win 3.1. My first built rig was a 486DX. Had some unknown video card and 12MB of ram and a 300mb hd. Ran win 95 pretty nice but spent lots of compressing drives and defrags lol, those were the days. I game and watch this (and typing) on my Core2Duo atm but no money to build a new system yet. Maybe in summer when I'm mostly done building my XJ.
Sadly I remember splurging at paycheck time to buy my Cirrus Logic 5440 and buying the separate 1mb upgrade chips to pop in. It was the final piece i needed to complete my first totally new build which had a P150 that I overclocked to 166. It wasn't long after before I blew a couple of paychecks on a Voodoo rush card. It was about that time I used a cuttoff wheel to cut a large square out of the side of my case and installed plexiglass from the local hardware store and also holes in the top of the case for 80mm fans. Long before you saw any prebuilt cases like this. And don't even get me started on how high I was jumping when my 300A fired up at 450. :^)
just *chuckles* at the audio... I've been an avid watcher for years... but not looked at these old videos... nice trip down memory lane! also also.. jumpers on the drives! damn I feel old!
Your 1st system is very similar to mine! My first build: Athlon XP 2500+ Gigabyte nForce board Radeon 9500 Pro Same LG Flattron monitor Same case (Mine was black)
You sir have nearly brought tears to my eyes. This was almost identically my first rig as well - mine was an AthlonXP 2400+, 512MB DDR 400 RAM, Gigabyte GA-7VAX1394 motherboard, with a no-name brand nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 64MB VRAM and a whopping 120GB HDD. Bought in mid 2003 when I was in high school, to replace my 10-year old 486, and completely changed my life. I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for that machine. I was in the developing world at the time and I had to save for 2 years to buy it. Those were the days...
You know it wasn't a decision to have convex monitor screens, right? It was necessary to keep the cathode ray the same length at each part of the screen.
Fearless Due to having been flooded out last Summer, my first build (also 2008) has once again become my main PC as it was way above the water line. Although, it was never retired. Just repurposed as a local server.
wow just found this video in 2020 and all i can say is THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! I know that chip (Athlon) so well! and the Vantec! Thanks for the trip down memory lane :-)
I found one of these cases in the garbage along with FOUR other old gaming spec computers from back in the day last night! All of them had working parts. Some had dead PSUs, but they all work now! :D
I haven't gotten too much chance to look at them yet but the oldest one has a Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition motherboard and a matching purple graphics card from the same era. :]]]] The LAN Boy had a GTX 280 with a q2800 quad 2.8ghz and an overclocking board. complete with two 1TB SATA HDDs... that both work... I was like why did they throw these out
The one did have a dead PSU, but literally only the PSU. I put a 350W in and it started right up. One is a super old Dell Optiplex that's had modifications done like more fans, a new GPU, more RAM, etc. Haven't even bothered plugging it in as I have a strong hate for them because I had to deal with one that wasn't properly taken care of at my previous job.
But yeah. Literally all of them except the Dell are custom aftermarket builds, no manufacturer prebuilts. It's insane. Probably one of the most interesting finds I've ever had.
My first gaming PC was a donated 486, which I still have around. It was extensively rebuilt and upgraded so I suppose it counts as a build. My 2nd personal (and primarily gaming) PC I still have bits of, like the motherboard. Built in the summer of 2001 it wasn't anything amazing, it was one of those $150 computer show combo deals, a Socket A mobo and a 750MHz Duron, it had a SiS chipset with integrated graphics which was actually half decent, it ran GTA 3 at reasonable frame rates when that came out. Hey, at least I didn't pay sales tax on that.
WOW this brought me back. Having to uninstall one game it have enough room for another, getting the jumper wrong when installing a drive, and those big ass IDE cable clogging up your case and providing an excellent surface for dust to gather. Oh and I still remember how excited I was when I got my first 17 inch fishbowl CRT, I thought it was the tits. When I got my 19 inch flatscreen CRT it blew my mind! And very nearly my back when I tried to move it. Those were the days.
Yeah I'd forgotten about master and slave and PATA cables (another name for IDE). I'd also forgotten about AGP till i got tjesr two old computers from my neighbour.
IDE cables were better than today hard sata cables and fragile connectors on HDD, I saw many broken sata connectors on HDD or MB, but I never saw broken IDE connector, if you bend pin, you can always fix it and there were better cables, not this cheapest flat version. Or you could do tuning with knife. :-)
I had a Lanboy for a while, it was my backup to my main computer (so if my main PC barfed it I could still cruise the internet). There's a fan holder at the front of the case that is made from UV activiated colour plastic. It doesn't bring back good memories for me, but memories none the less. I really loved how light it was with the aluminium build.
My first "gaming PC" that wasn't a thrown-out school 486 running Wolf3D was a budget-y build with a K6-2-450 @ 500 or 550 MHz on the venerable Super Socket 7 using an Amptron P599LMR motherboard (SiS 530 chipset), PC100 RAM, 3Dfx VooDoo 3 2000 PCI 16MB video card OC'd from 143 to 230 MHz on the GPU, some used IDE hard drives, 52x CD reader, 8x4x32x CD-RW drive, proprietary risers for the 56K modem and Ethernet ports, generic blue-and-white case and a Sparkle (FSP?) power supply. I cooled the CPU with a Thermaltake Volcano 2, which was meant for Socket 462/A but actually fits on the Socket 7 mounting lugs, too.
Lieutenant Tofu you have my eternal respect for overclocking a VooDoo 3 card. I have a vague memory of trying that with a second hand card I scored and having to mess with jumpers - am I recalling correctly?
Our first pc had one of those green and black screens, and booted into dos and something called Norton Commander. All I remember though is playing Castle and Bricks.
This would be a cool project for me. My first personal build was a beast. I paid to have systems built 3 times previously, but my first custom build I did was pretty sick. AMD FX62, OCZ 4GB DDR2 800, EVGA nForce 590a, BFG 8800 Ultra, BFG 800w PSU, Seagate 300 GB Barracuda HD. Eventually added another 8800 Ultra, after that things got crazy and still to this day.
Brings me back to my first computer (Gateway 2000 P5-75) 75mhz, win 3.1 given to me. A few years later I built "my" first computer with a Pentium ii 333mhz, a blazing fast 10k rpm 18gb scsi hard drive, 2gb ram, and a Hercules Geforce 2 - 32mb ram (no fan), win NT.
My first from the ground up build was a K7 athlon Thunderbird with an original Geforce 3, which compared to my K6-II powered compaq with Nvidia Riva TnT graphics was a revelation. My first computer was a Tandy 1000hx with Intel 8088-2 running at 7.16 or 4.77 MHz, 256kb ram, Dual 3.5 inch floppy drives, and 0 hard drive. How things have changed using a Ryzen7, 1080, Gigs or ram, and Multi terabytes of storage. While I never had the money for SCSI while it was in vogue I have my original Velocrator 10k drive which still works, was so awesome at the time, they were the NVME of their time.
I still remember my older brother messing around with code in DOS in the early 90's and watching him tinker with some of the first windows 95 / 98 builds he did ( he was around 13 at the time, was always very smart, is now an electrical engineer ) honestly I miss these years so much, building a PC just to play unreal tournament on high graphics and making his own server to host games with friends was so cool to watch and learn from, some of my fondest gaming memories are from that generation and I'll always have a soft spot for old school tech because of it. Please keep making these flashbacks to the past ❤️
ɹʇsuuɹ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) $2000 Canadian. I checked pc park picker and it was $800 american :/ Minimum wage here in Canada is $10 and hour just like in the states, sometimes even less. I don't know how some people can live, because i live with my parents :/
+Iscariott2 I still have nightmares of repasting on my old amd ath xp 2600+ haha. I scratched the mb and that spring on the cpu hs was such a pig to push down. Over time the plastic part where to metal clasp hooks to bloody snapped off grrrrr. My mb was the asrock k7vt2 www.asrock.com/mb/via/k7vt2/
+sneekylinux I might disagree, and here is why, when we bought Pentium 1 with 2 GB hard drive and 64 MB ram. It was already a god pc which could play any game on market, even the games with heavy 3d graphics like Need for Speed 1 and 2 without need of any other graphics card. It was Pentium 3 when things begin to get slightly complicated, our 64 MB card was the first card i ever installed on PC. But even still many games can be played without use of dedicated cards. Its was the Pentium 4 when things became complicated. And games needed powerful 3D cards to function. And then introduction of multi core processors further made difficult to choose.
+veazix Hah. Have you ever optimized your hard drive MFM formatting to your CPU and memory speeds, running the commands directly from the Hard Disk BIOS with debug tools to jump to the right memory addresses? Have you sorted out IRQ and DMA settings, soldered your own cables or messed around with the order in which to load drivers in your CONFIG.SYS ? I had custom boot floppies to run certain games.
Wow... I feel really old now! My first system in 1990 (even though I had several IBM PS2's) was an Everex Step Intel 386DX-20 with 512K of RAM. Zenith EVGA monitor, the original Sound Blaster audio card, an 8GB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, two 5 1/4" 720K floppy drives. a 2400 baud modem and the tower was about 45 pounds. Initial retail price for the tower was $2500. Oh yah, and Windows 3.1...
Ok this is gonna sound wrong on so many levels but im actually watching this video on the same monitor that linus has in the video I've had it since 2008 and it's still working fine ........ Holy shit im broke!!!!
It,s easy to forget how young Linus is.. My first pc was a second hand 468dx2 which after memory expansion could run settlers, then later a first truly self build pentium 2 350 MHz with a voodo 3dfx card.
I learned all I know about computers from rebuilding Pentium 3 systems, so for me the whole IDE cable system with Master/Slave configurations and jumper pins was normal. If you wanted to get all high-end and fancy, you could even use the 80-wire IDE cables that supposedly helped reduce electromagnetic interference compared to the regular 40-wire cables.
+PooPipeBoy Same here man. Assembly now vs then is so much faster IMO. Easy heatsink mounting, no master/slave jumpers to do, everything is one unified set of plugs instead of 40 or 80 pin IDE, actual cable management... times have really changed.
+Jötunn Yup telling bios how large your hard drive was -otherwise you couldn't utilise it all ! C H & S Cylinders Heads and Sectors and a pencil/pen to calculate it. SX-25 was my first gaming PC in Taiwan for argfffrgprrrg the game where it went thru echelons of time from cavemen throwing spears to tanks to spacecraft ?? can anyone help me? [i want to say populous but that was bullfrog? and later.]
My First PC has 2 80-Pin cables, Running to 3 CD/CD-RW-DVD/DVD-RAM Drive's & a 40GB HDD. Somehow ungodly it still works perfectly after almost 17 years. No clue how, not even a BSOD hardly in it's lifetime. Orignal PSU, Processor, orignal AMD stock fan, Everything is retro (SO MANY SLAVE & MASTER SWITCHES with all these drives lol)
This was a very cool throw back that reminds me of my first PC also. I too had an AMD Athlon XP 2500+! It was an awesome CPU and great overclocker. Other components were an ASRock K7S41GX mobo, an ATi Radeon 9550, and a WD 80GB IDE hard drive. I don't remember what I had for a PSU and RAM.
Recap the motherboard asap if you don't want the capacitor plague to claim it. It's probably only still working because it sat in a box for ten years. Actually, knowing you Linus, have someone else recap the motherboard for you, and film them doing it.
The other day I found a Pionex desktop PC hanging in the garbage dump. Looked like the same family PC my parents bought for WAAAY too much on QVC. There was also some Mac Quadra's and other cool stuff.
Right in the feels. I often think about the Gateway I had that got passed down to me back in the day. Upgrading RAM, and power supply was a fun time thanks to your old NCIX videos back in the day. Miss that boot up sound from the old windows days though.
Groundskeeper Willie sure, when it's one drive, but when you have several and you have to start figuring out which is set up as what and there's no label on the damn thing so you don't know how to orient the jumper... I'm just saying, diagnosis was a nightmare when something wasn't working right.
Your first gaming rig is what I upgraded to. I started with an eMonster 600 with a modded bios and a slot to socket converter with a Tualatin Core Celeron @1.3Ghz and a GForce 4 Ti running on Windows 2000 Pro. Probably the most stable machine I've ever had. That AMD XP 2500 was awesome just change the FSB and it was immediately an XP 3200. I also had a Shuttle AN35n Ultra nforce 2 board it was a beast.
Lol my first build, well guess my age, was a 286 IBM clone. My first computer experience was a Commodore 64 was upgraded to the 128. The days of typing commands. Load"title",8,1 and then run. If you had 128 you type go 64 for c64 mode. Oh boy I remember 3.5 floppies debuting and replacing 5 1/4. I miss basic. Aww those were the days you truly were intimate with your pc. Oh and go make a a sandwich while you wait for loading . no internet
I miss basic sometimes too, mine was for z-80s. With sometimes the venerable 8" whopping 1.2 meg rather than the puny 5 1/4" i grew to accept later. Not that my basic programs, copied mostly, with some alterations, would ever fill 1.2 meg 8" floppy.
My Commodore 64 is still my favorite computer I've ever owned. I remember modding it with a JiffyDOS chip wired to a switch to disable the chip if something wouldn't work. I eventually added a 128 and ran a BBS out in Phoenix for a year. Pre-internet good times.
lol! This era system was like my 4th build. My first one was with a Pentium MMX 200mhz cpu, 16mb of ram, a 4gb hard drive and a ATI 3D rage pro video card with I think 8mb of ram. Doom was a blast. Ahhh good times!
My first PC was a college graduation present from my grandmother in 1995. I received it a few months before I started law school. It was an Everex (has anyone heard of them?) with a 486 66mhz CPU, a 420 MB hard drive, and 8 MB of ram running Windows 3.1. I upgraded to Windows 95 at some point. I can't imagine going through law school without a computer. Some years ago I donated the PC to the Salvation Army. I wish I had it now. I would reinstall Windows 3.1 and I think it would be fun to play with.
Awwww, you're a cute little baby. My AthlonFX was my **10th!** gaming PC. I'm on my 16th now. Unless you've done proper tuning of the formatting of your MFM hard disk to optimize performance with your CPU and bus speeds, and other things like IRQ settings, you've had it easy in the plug-n-play era of PCs. And I consider myself a rookie compared to the old beards who started Pre-PC, when often a soldering iron was needed to hook things up.
+RogerWilco ok cousin Roger we get it! Yeah PCs are butter to build now,and that's a good thing. Makes for cheaper computers and can be easily repaired.
I had that lanboy case lol, it came with straps so you would carry it to "lan parties". All aluminum and so much lighter than all the stamped steel ones I had before.
@@hakont.4960 yes. Two of my modern systems actually use m.2 SSDs as boot drives. I still remember fighting with an old commodore 80286 to get into its bios without having the floppy disk. That model did not allow bios access at post without an error or a special floppy disk. I Also have an old ISA card with a harddrive attached that do not require any cables.
The first PC I actually built (during Hallowe'en in 2003!) was also Athlon XP based, but on a DFI Lan party board (which is too flaky to use, although I still have it). I still have (and love) the Chieftec case I used for it as well, I'll be putting a new Ryzen system in it soon.
DDR400? That must be a beast, we only use DDR4 nowadays.
kamata93 Woosh! :D
+Deses You're just trolling right?? bruh, do you even computer? Here let me send you my old A+ book from 2000 to help you with the old timer lingo.
+Jordan Davis
Catch that joke! Oh no! It flew over your head, ah well :/
+Jordan Davis
2000.....your a youngin.....
I have my dos 6.22 upgrade book somewhere....
+Max Beef Ha! Love it when the youngins try to look cool. Back in my days, we used stones to windows, result in broken glasses, and it was fun.
I built my first PC in '99. My dad had a PC build and service business. I was the first kid in school with a 1ghz processor lol.
AMD Thunderbird 1ghz
256MB DDR ram
nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU with 32MB vram (I think)
Windows ME lol
And I remember my dad ranting about 100GB hard drives coming out soon.
"You could never fill that up! It's unnecessary!" 😂
damn back when 100 gb of storage was to large. My mothers pc uses an old AMD cpu using an old Galax GT 610. The system runs Windows Vista btw
Glassy nowadays 500 gb is not enough
@@TheSwagGuy5000 dude 2tb isn't even enough
Good old T-bird. That was my first custom build as well
Literally my exact build at the same time. No idea what I was doing. Nobody in my family was or is tech savvy at all.
I did chip the CPU... Luckily it still worked but it did give my middle school, mountain dew powered heart a cardiac arrest.
i love how old monitors used to slowly fade in when you turn them on :D
I like the click when they turn off
Oh god yes
And the static around the screen
@@milky178 OMG SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! I REMEMBER THIS!!
@@kevinradtke3767 I hated the click sound when you turn off CRT monitors. It always felt like a diode just popped off and died inside or something.
"baby do what you did last time"
"what's that?"
"show me your tip magnetic drive fan"
i showed you my tip magnetic drive please respond
@@loibdude i think you got blocked
@@1tgb4yb25ub5ub i think he got blocked
Just throw a titan x in it.
I'm pretty sure it would explode
Not gonna work the motherboard doesn't have a PCIE slot.
Connor Murphy It's a joke bro.
+Fmily Just throw a hamster wheel in it.
+Fmily Naa, The titan x would bottleneck the other parts.
Now I want to see "Very First Gaming PC" builds for everyone in Linus Media Group :D
+Akselmoi yes!!!
+Akselmoi A lot of people would just replay the editing builds from last year.
+Akselmoi Loads of them had never built a PC before moving into the new office
+Akselmoi YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Akselmoi Dennis's is a rock.
"You kids have it easy" 'Points at 80 year old man watching this.
Your 80 years old? Damn man!
you are one cool 80 year old man!
Pls tell us story about how your generation was walking to school thru mine field and fighting bears during their 30 miles walk every day. :-D
@J D maybe somewhere in Russia or Ukraine kids still fighting with bears and walking for milk 20 km every day :-D but I am from Czech Republic, people are lazy to walk 200m without car here :-)
Even you are some ones child but you are past childhood... I think... 😅
"i put my screwdriver thru my motherboard"
been there, done that
Holy sh*t that must be terrifying!
@@hueyrosayaga nah it's just that u need a good gaming chair and a piece of cardboard.
Oh my god, that's why there's a fat hole in this motherboard i have in the cave
That's when you get out the soldering iron and mute your phone for a few hours.
4:47 my god... this takes me back. I remember the sheer panic I had when my screwdriver slipped one time when installing a new CPU cooler. I thought for sure I murdered my motherboard.
Did it work afterwards?
I remember the clips that were under tension with Socket A? being a nightmare and the screwdriver did plunge into the MOBO once or twice
Oh man that cooler clip brought back some memories.... I was lucky enough to never get it wrong on installation, but I did have one bad experience where one entire row of tabs snapped off while I was using my computer, the cooler fell off the motherboard, took out the graphics card, and inevitably fried the processor since I never thought for a second that the massive "bang" came from inside my computer. Whoo, that was a bad day!
For me it was always the fact that I cut my skin open on trying to install those damn coolers >.
I still have the receipt from Best Buy from when I bought an Western Digital 80GB 8Mb cache harddrive for $175
Now that same $175 would buy you a 6TB WD Black, or two 4TB WD Blues
I still remember me dad coming home after buying a PC and yelling " we have to never upgrade again , cuz it has a 40 GB hard drive " .....oh boy
Rishab Prasoon, in 10 years, petabyte will become the standard.( I’m still wondering how I used up 1 tb in 2 months)
@@unknownperson3691 I have a 12 terabyte server , I filled about 9.7 TB up in a year .....
@@unknownperson3691 I'm wondering if i'll ever have enough storage space, 2 2TB drives, 2 512GB ssds, a 240GB boot ssd, 2 1TB drives, an 8 TB external and a pile of salvaged drives ranging from 500GB-1TB and i might be expanding again, maybe i should just learn to delete shit xP
I just found this video, and went, wait a long minute. Is that.... MY FATHERS CASE BUT GREY? I look over to my left. IT IS! LOL, he's still using it to this day. You gotta be kidding me XD
Lol. The same thing happened to me back when I watched Linus’s 2009-2019 pc video. It turns out the case he had from 2009 is the same case made by Antec my dad uses! He also is not willing to get rid of it cause he payed 200 for it 🤣
I had the same reaction. I have a black one that looks basically the same, but the internal drive bays are even better. I actually used it up until a week ago. It was my main PC case for well over a decade, hosting many motherboards, CPUs and other hardware - at least 3 power supplies, too.
@@chunkymilk1288 200 just for the case?
Yeah. The case is really heavy too. Probably at least 20 pounds if not more.
My father still has that exact case. It has an i9-9900k in it now, but it still looks beautiful. He also has the lime green Chieftec Dragon case next to it with his P4 3.0 GHz that he doesn't have the heart to replace.
What a blast from the past!
My first gaming rig had an AMD 3200+, NVIDIA 6600GT 256mb and duel channel DDR 512mb of RAM. What a beast.
@Kent Hinson I had a 512 MB and 9800gt
Dude that is legit my old pc. It still runs to this day and I play old games on it regularly
@@imran5373 hi can you be in stock for 5 minutes
my first one i built myself was 3570k and 7970 ghz edition 8gb ram
Can you believe XP just turned 15? He can start drinking next year if he moves to Jamaica!
Noice.
Hes going to become watercooled
There is no drinking age in jamaica. You just have to be 18 to buy it.
Can _you_ believe that the worst Windows, Vista, is turning 10 this year?
And Neve still uses it to power their 88D consoles' on-board computer. It's interesting to play solitaire while you're exporting a film in 5.1 surround.
This year is the year I finally built a computer! In 2024, I might re build it, lol.
Cheers
haha
same
I feel you mate... i feel you ..
This was the year I built my 1st gaming pc. I forgot sooooo many things so I had to keep annoying relatives to buy me stuff
8:17 "You kids have it easy". Laughs in punchcard.
i used to have a piece of paper as a mouse pad aswell, now i upgraded to a book xD
StevenSidez - selfish cat person lmao
That's more expansive than a mouse pad tho :)
StevenSidez - selfish cat person Loool
Bet its the Bible, you heathen!
*using a mouse pad
**Using a mac
***Using a book
****Using a piece of paper
*****Using no mouse pad
*USING THE ARROW KEYS*
My grandpa still thinks a 40 MB harddisk is unbelievable
My mom is still thinking even how to buy an computer lol
lol
Wow lol
My grandpa bought a capable gaming pc (with 12 gigs of ram and 3.2 ghz) and only uses it for email
@@brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916 bro he probably sends like 1,000 emails per minute you never know
Sit back, relax, have a cuppa tea or a beer if it's more your thing.
Green ham gaming nice
+MusicHaven2012 GREEN HAM GAMING
+ryan xie Yup! That's GHG Reference!
+MusicHaven2012=) haha you whatch ghg too!
+MusicHaven2012 GHG!!
This is like the geek version of tracking down and restoring your first car. You never forget your first, but you sure do forget how 'good' it was!
yeah, except he didn't bother to replace capacitors on motherboard or reball chipset for it to run stable
Oh i wont forget my first car. but i aint restoring that bitch. gearbox was broken, nothing worked like it was supposed to. but it did have aftermarket cruise control and a heated front windshield. good ol' Ford Focus station Mk1. ditched it for another one (cus spend way to much on my winter tires which were as good as new) which did have all the features like a working gearbox, no cruise tho..
First PC I ever built was a Slot 1 Pentium 2-based Celeron at 333Mhz, Asus P2B motherboard, 64MB of RAM, 3DFX graphics card, and a massive 10.1GB hard drive, with Windows 98
It is almost funny but I can tell we are both not very young by the amount of RAM used in our first system. I went "Hardcore" with 128MB's of RAM. I had a hook up later on that got me 20GB HDD's on the cheap but my cheap 250watt power supply couldn't drive the 5 I had set up because a single 80GB or 160GB was insanely overpriced. I remember the day I got my Nvidia 8800 GTS 256MB VRAM. lol But my first laptop was the IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 3, 128MB's RAM, 4-5GB HDD and Windows 98, which I promptly upgraded to Windows 2000 and then XP!
massive 10.1gb yah
if u are a good person just open steam -community .com/?ref=G4trP6K (remove the spaces
I'm the hundredth like
The first PC I built was a beast! It had a Core i9-7980XE Extreme, an ASUS ROG Strix X299 MoBo, 2 Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080TI's in 2-way SLI, 128 GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 RAM, and a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe 2TB SSD + Western Digital Black 10TB HDD. And of course i put Windows 10 Pro 32/64 bit on there.
'this may look like a crappy piece of junk to you...' Runs better than my Laptop
Osian Vadolia I highly doubt it
@@jujustyles288 r/woosh
CH4SM Yep
@@raccoon1160 doubt it
@akmed calamary yeah i do
Linus is younger than I thought. Was expecting a Pentium 2 or 3 build!
Good old pentium II cartridge. Use to run that in my first computer 🤣🤣
@@aussiejosh1988 Me too! The first PC I built myself anyway. Before that I was using a hand-me-down 80486 DX-2 66 MHz.
The PII became obsolete FAST though, two years later I could barely run any new games on it. I'm glad that's different today!
Yea they were the good only days. I'm still running a I5 7600k at 5GHz stable and goes good with my GTX 1070. Plays all today's games in ultra settings
@@aussiejosh1988 Nice! I'm still using a FX-8350 @ 4.5 GHz and a gtx 970. Runs my games well too, though I play few recent AAA games.
@@highly_elusive I've just upgraded from 2 GTX 970 strix SLI. Great cards they are
The Tardis holding up the CPU's was my favorite part.
Should’ve recorded in the resolution and aspect ratio of the time to give a little ascetic feel
So, 1920 x 1440 then?
@@MaximRecoil No, 640 x 480.
@@Мирич-з4е Why would anyone be running 640 x 480 in the early/mid 2000s? My CRT monitor, which I'm using right now, was made in 2004 and has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440. The lowest resolution you can select in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, is 800 x 600, unless you go into the advanced "display all modes" menu to force a lower resolution, and even then, if you select 640 x 480 it gives you a warning that your screen resolution is very low and offers to set it higher for you.
The most common resolution in the early/mid 2000s was 1024 x 768 with a 17" CRT (which was the most common screen size at the time). People with a 19" CRT usually ran it at 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024. People with a 21" CRT usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 or 1920 x 1440. People who were lucky enough to have the best PC monitor ever made, i.e., a 24" Sony GDM-FW900 CRT, could run it at 2304 x 1440.
@@MaximRecoil Oh God... the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then. Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p. Nobody ia talking about your monitor resolution. And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution. Back then people were using 800x600 and 1024x768 for their desktop work. And it was the same for gaming. Nobody back then was able to run the newest games at max settings with resolution higher than 1024x768. Because the CPU's and GPU's were not that powerfull as now.
@@Мирич-з4е " the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then."
No, he didn't. He simply said, "the resolution and aspect ratio of the time".
"Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p."
No, they didn't. A typical consumer-grade video camera in the early/mid 2000s recorded at DVD resolution, and it was interlaced (29.97 FPS), which was 720 x 480i. An example is the popular DV format which was introduced in 1995. But there was also HDV, introduced in 2003, which recorded at 720p or 1080i. In the high-end video camera market, 1080p has been around since at least the late 1990s, and even Hollywood started using them in the early 2000s. For example, the movie "Session 9" from 2001 was shot on a 1080p (24 FPS) digital video camera. Star Wars Episode II (2002) was another early movie shot on a 1080p digital video camera.
" And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution."
You don't know what you're talking about. I just told you that my CRT monitor from 2004 (22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron), that I'm using right now, can go to 1920 x 1440. I also told you that the Sony GDM-FW900 CRT monitor can go to 2304 x 1440:
www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR
There were CRT displays that could go even higher than that. For example, the Barco 909 could go to 3200 x 2560, which is approximately the same total number of pixels as "UHD", also known as "4K":
www.barco.com/en/product/barcoreality-909
i'm mostly amazed he managed to remember all the parts he had...
Jaydn W If you're like me, I document all progress that happens in my life. All achievements I can call my own.
UnMask3d That's kind of crazy. I like it!
Actually I pretty well remember my first Gaming PC. Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz, Segate HDD 80 GB, Samsung DDR 512 mb, GeForce MX440, Microlab case, Samsung CD-Drive, Microlab speakers, Samsung flat CRT 17 inch. I don't remember the motherboard, but I'm sure it was Gigabyte. Nostalgia.
I remember every pc i've had since my first Intel 486Dx 66mhz back in 93-94, when i was 11 years old. I'm 34 now.
I can name all the components of all my pcs I had, including first one. Besides hard/optical/floppy drives, tho still remember that I had 160 gigs samsung ide thing
Of course it can't run minecraft. I think you need at least 1.5 GB of dedotated WAM
that's for a server though
wam? lol
called a joke
You ok there?
WAM???
Holy shit, not only did his original cooler have a TMD fan, he managed to find another one. Now that's some bragging rights.
OMG I FINALY FOUND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME SETUP AS ME!!!
Lol
wow, i have 2. jk, im on a crap lenovo laptop...
im on a crappy lenovo laptop too
+Joni Lepistö Nobody said that it's used for gaming.
Hahahahahaha
That is a great USED PC you got there ;)
Holy Shit your here
+Tech YES City DUNICRON!
+Tech YES City LOVE YOUR CHANNEL MAN!
+Tech YES City OMG OMG ITS YOU XD Please answer my question at your 70$ csgo potato vid pls? :3
+Retroez first you then everyone replying to the ghg reference whats next druaga1
3:21 look at the contacts on the LGA2011-3 chip. its like glitching
+DeadNullermand yeah thats wierd
+DeadNullermand Just video compression artifacts.
+DeadNullermand happens also when he installs the amd fan, look at the cpu-cooling block cutouts.. Horrible ^^
+DeadNullermand RUclips video compression.
+Wojtek Kiraga Don't think so. Seems more likely it's on LTT's end.
RUclips just recommended me this 8 year old video.. excited to watch it!
You are making me feel old... My first gaming computer was a 286... The first one I built was a Pentium 2, 266mhz with a voodoo 2 video card with a massive 16 mb of onboard, that's right! Onboard ram! Never before seen!
the face when you can finally run quake in 60fps
Damn, I had Voodoo2 connected to 2mb graphic card, with 200 mhz cpu and 128mb of ram.
Same, old 286 on dos. Buddy had a 286 with Win 3.1. My first built rig was a 486DX. Had some unknown video card and 12MB of ram and a 300mb hd. Ran win 95 pretty nice but spent lots of compressing drives and defrags lol, those were the days. I game and watch this (and typing) on my Core2Duo atm but no money to build a new system yet. Maybe in summer when I'm mostly done building my XJ.
Sadly I remember splurging at paycheck time to buy my Cirrus Logic 5440 and buying the separate 1mb upgrade chips to pop in. It was the final piece i needed to complete my first totally new build which had a P150 that I overclocked to 166. It wasn't long after before I blew a couple of paychecks on a Voodoo rush card. It was about that time I used a cuttoff wheel to cut a large square out of the side of my case and installed plexiglass from the local hardware store and also holes in the top of the case for 80mm fans. Long before you saw any prebuilt cases like this. And don't even get me started on how high I was jumping when my 300A fired up at 450. :^)
Mine was the tnt2.
Little did I dream that Linus would say, "Can it run Minecraft?"
It's "will it run minecraft" lol xD
It's what I look for in every one of these types of videos (also in his 16K rig video)
no it cant run minecraft
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS
I was about to comment this on a year old video....
wtf, how does Linus have DDR400?! I only have DDR4 :(
It's DDR, with speed of 400.
Then again, I do realize this comment is sarcastic.
DDR? Where I come from SDR is all the rage
EEPROM anyone? No?
I still have 2 gb of ddr400 jeje it was magic !
Reminds me of the comment, "You only have Windows 10? I'm on Windows 95 ha!
just *chuckles* at the audio... I've been an avid watcher for years... but not looked at these old videos... nice trip down memory lane! also also.. jumpers on the drives! damn I feel old!
Your 1st system is very similar to mine!
My first build:
Athlon XP 2500+
Gigabyte nForce board
Radeon 9500 Pro
Same LG Flattron monitor
Same case (Mine was black)
Same for me (running at FSB 400 like almost every 2500+ at this time), except 9600 pro, 9500 pro was a very good deal, too late for me :(
Gray, everything is gray! The rose gold color of the past! :D
You sir have nearly brought tears to my eyes. This was almost identically my first rig as well - mine was an AthlonXP 2400+, 512MB DDR 400 RAM, Gigabyte GA-7VAX1394 motherboard, with a no-name brand nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 64MB VRAM and a whopping 120GB HDD. Bought in mid 2003 when I was in high school, to replace my 10-year old 486, and completely changed my life. I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for that machine. I was in the developing world at the time and I had to save for 2 years to buy it. Those were the days...
+QuantumBraced I had the same CPU & motherboard only difference is that I had 512MB DDR 333 Ram and TI4200 Graphics card :P
Behind every modern day PC enthusiast lies a fascinating tale. Respect!
There had always been curved monitors. Just that its curved the wrong way.
2017 Koh Guan Tsin Even the modern ones suck. They are a solution in search of a problem.
You know it wasn't a decision to have convex monitor screens, right? It was necessary to keep the cathode ray the same length at each part of the screen.
I'm glad I was your first choice ;)
Windows XP yay it's the Windows xp
LOL
Hell yeah!
Windows XP I love you. 😙 #2019
Rip Windows XP
My first build was done for me by my father wayy back in 2008.
I still use it to this day.
Now I'm upgrading to a Ryzen 7 1700x build.
I still use a Geforce gtx 7600 gt . . .
Fearless
Due to having been flooded out last Summer, my first build (also 2008) has once again become my main PC as it was way above the water line. Although, it was never retired. Just repurposed as a local server.
My first build was from 2008 as well. Still using the case and PSU. Swapped out most components last year.
my first build was around Linus', but I was ballin' with a dedicated GPU and sound card lol
gapple2 oof
wow just found this video in 2020 and all i can say is THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! I know that chip (Athlon) so well! and the Vantec! Thanks for the trip down memory lane :-)
So sit back, grab a cup of tea, or a beer if it's more your thing, and come along for the ride.
Wait, wrong channel!
And GHGTV just released a fairly modern PC build. What is life?!
Wrong channel, fam.
Love this comment!
GHG
I found one of these cases in the garbage along with FOUR other old gaming spec computers from back in the day last night! All of them had working parts. Some had dead PSUs, but they all work now! :D
HOLY CRAP BOY, what specs???
I haven't gotten too much chance to look at them yet but the oldest one has a Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition motherboard and a matching purple graphics card from the same era. :]]]]
The LAN Boy had a GTX 280 with a q2800 quad 2.8ghz and an overclocking board. complete with two 1TB SATA HDDs... that both work... I was like why did they throw these out
The one did have a dead PSU, but literally only the PSU. I put a 350W in and it started right up. One is a super old Dell Optiplex that's had modifications done like more fans, a new GPU, more RAM, etc. Haven't even bothered plugging it in as I have a strong hate for them because I had to deal with one that wasn't properly taken care of at my previous job.
But yeah. Literally all of them except the Dell are custom aftermarket builds, no manufacturer prebuilts. It's insane. Probably one of the most interesting finds I've ever had.
damn
I BET YO ASSS. this will break my budget
Hahaha
+Silver Physics | CS:GO Nice logo.
lol... :D thanks man... nice logo too
$130 mobo? yep.
+Silver Physics | CS:GO Know what your talking about trying to render a 1:44 video on my Celeron laptop and it is taking like 2 hours
my high end rig is still build inside the same case as that one, never bought a new one 😂😂
Darikage Specs?
I use a beige case that has seen everything from 486 up
Then you have a sleeper pc
@@agiskacuri7481 and I'm proud of it, even the old floppy drive is hooked up!
Darikage talk about airflow lol
My first gaming PC was a donated 486, which I still have around. It was extensively rebuilt and upgraded so I suppose it counts as a build. My 2nd personal (and primarily gaming) PC I still have bits of, like the motherboard. Built in the summer of 2001 it wasn't anything amazing, it was one of those $150 computer show combo deals, a Socket A mobo and a 750MHz Duron, it had a SiS chipset with integrated graphics which was actually half decent, it ran GTA 3 at reasonable frame rates when that came out. Hey, at least I didn't pay sales tax on that.
Looks like that golden MSI anniversary motherboard..........
Yup
+MushroomKid That was MSI
+Farnomat |-/
+Farnomat tøp is life
Looks like the PC I use...
WOW this brought me back. Having to uninstall one game it have enough room for another, getting the jumper wrong when installing a drive, and those big ass IDE cable clogging up your case and providing an excellent surface for dust to gather. Oh and I still remember how excited I was when I got my first 17 inch fishbowl CRT, I thought it was the tits. When I got my 19 inch flatscreen CRT it blew my mind! And very nearly my back when I tried to move it.
Those were the days.
K
Yeah I'd forgotten about master and slave and PATA cables (another name for IDE). I'd also forgotten about AGP till i got tjesr two old computers from my neighbour.
I still have to uninstall one game to install another. I remember when i thought it would be impossible to fill 1TB now I wish I had 4TB or more.
K
IDE cables were better than today hard sata cables and fragile connectors on HDD, I saw many broken sata connectors on HDD or MB, but I never saw broken IDE connector, if you bend pin, you can always fix it and there were better cables, not this cheapest flat version. Or you could do tuning with knife. :-)
I had a Lanboy for a while, it was my backup to my main computer (so if my main PC barfed it I could still cruise the internet). There's a fan holder at the front of the case that is made from UV activiated colour plastic. It doesn't bring back good memories for me, but memories none the less. I really loved how light it was with the aluminium build.
My first "gaming PC" that wasn't a thrown-out school 486 running Wolf3D was a budget-y build with a K6-2-450 @ 500 or 550 MHz on the venerable Super Socket 7 using an Amptron P599LMR motherboard (SiS 530 chipset), PC100 RAM, 3Dfx VooDoo 3 2000 PCI 16MB video card OC'd from 143 to 230 MHz on the GPU, some used IDE hard drives, 52x CD reader, 8x4x32x CD-RW drive, proprietary risers for the 56K modem and Ethernet ports, generic blue-and-white case and a Sparkle (FSP?) power supply. I cooled the CPU with a Thermaltake Volcano 2, which was meant for Socket 462/A but actually fits on the Socket 7 mounting lugs, too.
Lieutenant Tofu you have my eternal respect for overclocking a VooDoo 3 card. I have a vague memory of trying that with a second hand card I scored and having to mess with jumpers - am I recalling correctly?
Wow, your sound quality has improved in the last 3 years. Nobodies gonna read this but o well.
I no-joke had to check the comment date in this. It was pretty surprising, to say the least.
I love you brent
No
@@mishal321 yes
@@brentgoeller8257 :v
**Googles to see if Neopets still exists**
lol same.
i'm pretty dure it still does. But it's going to be a ghost town.
yeah the ios app is super popular actually
what about webkins?
webkinz is still around. I tried to log in the other day and it told me to come back the next day since my account was archived
What a youtube reccomendation. A fascinating look st old hardware
Humble beginnings...
Gigantic endings
Wise words my friend
You earned my like
Well thats gay
Wow this takes me wayback. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Miss my Antec Super Lanboy and AMD Barton core CPU, good times in highschool.
4:46 has some weird aliasing going on there.
Also at 3:25 on the LGA cpu
I thought my monitor was going bonkers. Turns out it's just the video. Whew...
Moire is happening because they are shooing in 8k and resampling plus youtube compression.
@@CaveyMoth Me too xD
Woah
Linus: "You kids had it easy" Me: (laughs in Unisys 5.25 in. floppies)
Our first pc had one of those green and black screens, and booted into dos and something called Norton Commander. All I remember though is playing Castle and Bricks.
The intro is like "Some may call this junk... Me, I call them treasures."
This PC is Linuses golden claw!
It's considered junk to me, this garbage isn't worth using.
It’s faster than my pc
@@cryo_life duh, this was long ago.
@@femboycyan Then it is no treasure. IT IS JUNK!
heh at least this beast can run Minesweeper Ultra 1000fps, my Quad - Titan XP I7 6950X can't even fucking run the BIOS
BSG Try installing memory before using your pc
people who don't know a thing about computer are scratching their heads right now.
BSG
It's called a jokr
BSG 4 Way sli?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I use the exact same mousepad
Well, mine has "Low budget mousepad" written on it.
+Steve Dice hehehehe i
BBကားး
I use a large, thick piece of cloth folded in half. It has decent tracking, actually.
best thing you can customize it :D draw shit on it :D
This would be a cool project for me. My first personal build was a beast. I paid to have systems built 3 times previously, but my first custom build I did was pretty sick. AMD FX62, OCZ 4GB DDR2 800, EVGA nForce 590a, BFG 8800 Ultra, BFG 800w PSU, Seagate 300 GB Barracuda HD. Eventually added another 8800 Ultra, after that things got crazy and still to this day.
"let's get windows xp installed on this bitch" I'm using this as my yearbook quote
+Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) i think vista will be better :D
+Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) dont do this you'll be marked as a nerd lol
Brings me back to my first computer (Gateway 2000 P5-75) 75mhz, win 3.1 given to me.
A few years later I built "my" first computer with a Pentium ii 333mhz, a blazing fast 10k rpm 18gb scsi hard drive, 2gb ram, and a Hercules Geforce 2 - 32mb ram (no fan), win NT.
Mark Brown 10k rpm? Even modern drives are only 7.2k.
SCSI drives went all the way up to 15k rpm! Stupidly fast in an era before SATA.
ktfjulien Actually yes, 10k drives have existed for many years.
My first from the ground up build was a K7 athlon Thunderbird with an original Geforce 3, which compared to my K6-II powered compaq with Nvidia Riva TnT graphics was a revelation. My first computer was a Tandy 1000hx with Intel 8088-2 running at 7.16 or 4.77 MHz, 256kb ram, Dual 3.5 inch floppy drives, and 0 hard drive. How things have changed using a Ryzen7, 1080, Gigs or ram, and Multi terabytes of storage. While I never had the money for SCSI while it was in vogue I have my original Velocrator 10k drive which still works, was so awesome at the time, they were the NVME of their time.
SCSI was some high level shit, i was stuck a few years with my 8GB IDE drive.
In your first video with freegeek (little computer shop of horrors) you can see this exact lanboy (probably) just above tarrons head at 5:54.
I still remember my older brother messing around with code in DOS in the early 90's and watching him tinker with some of the first windows 95 / 98 builds he did ( he was around 13 at the time, was always very smart, is now an electrical engineer ) honestly I miss these years so much, building a PC just to play unreal tournament on high graphics and making his own server to host games with friends was so cool to watch and learn from, some of my fondest gaming memories are from that generation and I'll always have a soft spot for old school tech because of it. Please keep making these flashbacks to the past ❤️
I'm on a binge watching all of Linus's Videos while waiting for FedEx to deliver the rest of the parts for my new pc.
When ya got the money it's fun huh
+CoolRainbow Rainbow What?
u just did a $2000 and it isn't even that good a build :/
You overpayed like crazy, i got a 1070 and an i7 6700K for cheaper.
ɹʇsuuɹ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) $2000 Canadian. I checked pc park picker and it was $800 american :/ Minimum wage here in Canada is $10 and hour just like in the states, sometimes even less. I don't know how some people can live, because i live with my parents :/
Ugh the flashbacks at that heat sink latching.
+Iscariott2 I got bloody on unmounting EDORAM
Never dealt with EDORAM, but I did slice 3 of my fingers open dealing with the old razor wire I/O panels.
+Iscariott2 I still have nightmares of repasting on my old amd ath xp 2600+ haha. I scratched the mb and that spring on the cpu hs was such a pig to push down. Over time the plastic part where to metal clasp hooks to bloody snapped off grrrrr. My mb was the asrock k7vt2
www.asrock.com/mb/via/k7vt2/
+Iscariott2 Its looked so archeaic... what year would this be in?
+Iscariott2 Dusted out an old computer running XP, was worried I'd break a pin.
lol, so true mate, the kids have it so easy today.....nice
ikr
+sneekylinux We may have some things easier, but some things have certainly gotten harder. Especially with all the marketing mumbo jumbo.
+sneekylinux I might disagree, and here is why, when we bought Pentium 1 with 2 GB hard drive and 64 MB ram. It was already a god pc which could play any game on market, even the games with heavy 3d graphics like Need for Speed 1 and 2 without need of any other graphics card.
It was Pentium 3 when things begin to get slightly complicated, our 64 MB card was the first card i ever installed on PC. But even still many games can be played without use of dedicated cards.
Its was the Pentium 4 when things became complicated. And games needed powerful 3D cards to function. And then introduction of multi core processors further made difficult to choose.
+veazix Hah. Have you ever optimized your hard drive MFM formatting to your CPU and memory speeds, running the commands directly from the Hard Disk BIOS with debug tools to jump to the right memory addresses?
Have you sorted out IRQ and DMA settings, soldered your own cables or messed around with the order in which to load drivers in your CONFIG.SYS ? I had custom boot floppies to run certain games.
RogerWilco I'm sure we could go back and forth about difficult experiences for days. But my point still stands.
Wow... I feel really old now! My first system in 1990 (even though I had several IBM PS2's) was an Everex Step Intel 386DX-20 with 512K of RAM. Zenith EVGA monitor, the original Sound Blaster audio card, an 8GB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, two 5 1/4" 720K floppy drives. a 2400 baud modem and the tower was about 45 pounds. Initial retail price for the tower was $2500. Oh yah, and Windows 3.1...
Does Anyone think that the vantic cpu cooler looks like something from fallout 4
+SwiftTail lol
+SwiftTail DUDE! It totally does!! hahaha
That was my very first thought, it looks awesome!
It would've looked good in Luke's Scrapyard wars build
It sounds more like something from it
Ok this is gonna sound wrong on so many levels but im actually watching this video on the same monitor that linus has in the video I've had it since 2008 and it's still working fine ........ Holy shit im broke!!!!
"cries in poor college student"
Nah, call yourself a semi-pro esportler and brag about your 0.005 ms response time and 160 Hz refresh rate.
Thats scary
get a cheap lcd off you ebay... ANYTHING!
CRT is more A E S T H E T I C (and T H I C C)
Thanks for reviewing my rig Linus.
It,s easy to forget how young Linus is.. My first pc was a second hand 468dx2 which after memory expansion could run settlers, then later a first truly self build pentium 2 350 MHz with a voodo 3dfx card.
It's easy to forget how young everyone is, My first PC was a calculator and was the size of a room.
I learned all I know about computers from rebuilding Pentium 3 systems, so for me the whole IDE cable system with Master/Slave configurations and jumper pins was normal.
If you wanted to get all high-end and fancy, you could even use the 80-wire IDE cables that supposedly helped reduce electromagnetic interference compared to the regular 40-wire cables.
Damn
+PooPipeBoy Same here man. Assembly now vs then is so much faster IMO. Easy heatsink mounting, no master/slave jumpers to do, everything is one unified set of plugs instead of 40 or 80 pin IDE, actual cable management... times have really changed.
+Jötunn Yup telling bios how large your hard drive was -otherwise you couldn't utilise it all ! C H & S Cylinders Heads and Sectors and a pencil/pen to calculate it. SX-25 was my first gaming PC in Taiwan for argfffrgprrrg the game where it went thru echelons of time from cavemen throwing spears to tanks to spacecraft ?? can anyone help me? [i want to say populous but that was bullfrog? and later.]
My first and current computer uses sata, Sata power and data transfer system.
My First PC has 2 80-Pin cables, Running to 3 CD/CD-RW-DVD/DVD-RAM Drive's & a 40GB HDD. Somehow ungodly it still works perfectly after almost 17 years. No clue how, not even a BSOD hardly in it's lifetime. Orignal PSU, Processor, orignal AMD stock fan, Everything is retro (SO MANY SLAVE & MASTER SWITCHES with all these drives lol)
This video makes me feel so friggin' old. Thanks Linus.
This was a very cool throw back that reminds me of my first PC also. I too had an AMD Athlon XP 2500+! It was an awesome CPU and great overclocker. Other components were an ASRock K7S41GX mobo, an ATi Radeon 9550, and a WD 80GB IDE hard drive. I don't remember what I had for a PSU and RAM.
You kids had it easy my first HDD was 10MB and you needed to read a book to install it
::SURPRISED::SHOCKED::AWE::
Jumpers...
That "read a book" thing just spews out ok boomer
10 MEGABYTES?! Wow! That was alot back then! Nowadays, you would fill that up VERY quickly!
@@gwenmichigander277 I mean, duh
Back when "cable management" meant getting them plugged into the right place...
Recap the motherboard asap if you don't want the capacitor plague to claim it. It's probably only still working because it sat in a box for ten years.
Actually, knowing you Linus, have someone else recap the motherboard for you, and film them doing it.
The other day I found a Pionex desktop PC hanging in the garbage dump. Looked like the same family PC my parents bought for WAAAY too much on QVC. There was also some Mac Quadra's and other cool stuff.
Right in the feels. I often think about the Gateway I had that got passed down to me back in the day. Upgrading RAM, and power supply was a fun time thanks to your old NCIX videos back in the day. Miss that boot up sound from the old windows days though.
Can it run notepad
No
Nope.
It can actually put a rocket on the moon.
@@abcdefg9613 they used to run trans-lunar orbital calculations on tape readers lil
Oh wow, I forgot about the IDE Master/Slave configuration nightmare. I do NOT miss these days.
Groundskeeper Willie sure, when it's one drive, but when you have several and you have to start figuring out which is set up as what and there's no label on the damn thing so you don't know how to orient the jumper... I'm just saying, diagnosis was a nightmare when something wasn't working right.
tell that to someone who has never used one before....
Elad Avron actually kind of useful. I've had to do so much Jerry rigging to my computer to get it too set a hard drive to boot.
That shit was easy.
3:23 wtf is happening with the left one's pins...
RUclips compression. It's the same reason if there's ever snow or confetti in a video RUclips loses its shit
@@noahpaulette1490 idk cause it also happens at 4:40, It seems like Premiere is freaking out on them lol
weeb
Not pins pads smh
@@bochaltwoo no that's compression
Your first gaming rig is what I upgraded to. I started with an eMonster 600 with a modded bios and a slot to socket converter with a Tualatin Core Celeron @1.3Ghz
and a GForce 4 Ti running on Windows 2000 Pro. Probably the most stable machine I've ever had. That AMD XP 2500 was awesome just change the FSB and it was immediately
an XP 3200. I also had a Shuttle AN35n Ultra nforce 2 board it was a beast.
Lol my first build, well guess my age, was a 286 IBM clone. My first computer experience was a Commodore 64 was upgraded to the 128. The days of typing commands. Load"title",8,1 and then run. If you had 128 you type go 64 for c64 mode. Oh boy I remember 3.5 floppies debuting and replacing 5 1/4. I miss basic. Aww those were the days you truly were intimate with your pc. Oh and go make a a sandwich while you wait for loading . no internet
I miss basic sometimes too, mine was for z-80s. With sometimes the venerable 8" whopping 1.2 meg rather than the puny 5 1/4" i grew to accept later. Not that my basic programs, copied mostly, with some alterations, would ever fill 1.2 meg 8" floppy.
My Commodore 64 is still my favorite computer I've ever owned. I remember modding it with a JiffyDOS chip wired to a switch to disable the chip if something wouldn't work. I eventually added a 128 and ran a BBS out in Phoenix for a year. Pre-internet good times.
51?
Acorn Electron, then BBC Model B with dual 40 Track Single Sided 5.25" floppy drives...
Ok boomer
I would love a episode like ''Linus spends a week with a CRT monitor.''
lol! This era system was like my 4th build. My first one was with a Pentium MMX 200mhz cpu, 16mb of ram, a 4gb hard drive and a ATI 3D rage pro video card with I think 8mb of ram. Doom was a blast. Ahhh good times!
You sir made a strange choice choosing ATI over 3DFX in the 90's.
What can I say. At the time ATI was what I could afford.
+vaxick was there a big difference between playing doom on "ultra" and "low-medium"? XDDDDDD
+iDerekMC XD
16mb ram, what a beast hahaha
My first PC was a college graduation present from my grandmother in 1995. I received it a few months before I started law school. It was an Everex (has anyone heard of them?) with a 486 66mhz CPU, a 420 MB hard drive, and 8 MB of ram running Windows 3.1. I upgraded to Windows 95 at some point. I can't imagine going through law school without a computer. Some years ago I donated the PC to the Salvation Army. I wish I had it now. I would reinstall Windows 3.1 and I think it would be fun to play with.
this is so nostalgic!
So bad it didn't run anything, you could've installed Age of Empires or something vintage like that!
Awwww, you're a cute little baby. My AthlonFX was my **10th!** gaming PC. I'm on my 16th now.
Unless you've done proper tuning of the formatting of your MFM hard disk to optimize performance with your CPU and bus speeds, and other things like IRQ settings, you've had it easy in the plug-n-play era of PCs.
And I consider myself a rookie compared to the old beards who started Pre-PC, when often a soldering iron was needed to hook things up.
+RogerWilco
1) V20 8 MHz CPU, 640 kB RAM, 10 MB HD, video wasn't MDA or Hercules, but some custom Philips
2) 286 20 Mhz, 2 MB RAM, ATI Wonder+, 40 MB HD, Covox I built myself for sound
3) 386 40 MHz, 4 MB RAM, same ATI Wonder+, 160 MB HD, Logitech Soundman Games 2
4) 486 DX-2 66MHz, 8 MB RAM, Vesa Local Bus ATI Mach64 4MB, 400MB HD, Logitech Soundman Games 16
5) P166+ 133MHz, 16 MB RAM, PCI S3 Virge 4MB, 4GB HD, Soundblaster AWE32
6) K6 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, AGP SIS 6326 video card, Soundblaster AWE32
7) Duron 700Mhz, 128 MB RAM, AGP GeForce 2, 10 GB HD
8) K7 1.4 GHz, 256 MB, RAM, AGP GeForce 4, 24 GB HD
9) PentiumIV 3,06 GHz, 512 MB RAM, AGP GeForceFX 5600, 40 GB HD
10) AthlonFX 2,6 GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 8600GT 64MB, 80 GB HD
10a) Celeron laptop, X1600 64MB, 1 GB RAM.
11) Athlon64 X2 3,0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 9600GT 128 MB, 160 GB HD
11a) Core duo laptop 2,2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT 64MB, 120 MB HD
12) PhenomII X4 955 3,2 GHZ, 4GB RAM, ATI 4870 512 MB, 160 GB HD
13) i7 2,8 GHz, 8 GB RAM, ATI 6770 1 GB, 750 GB HD
14) i7 3,4 GHz, 32 GB RAM, GeForce 980 4 GB, 1 TB HD, 256 GB SSD.
+RogerWilco I didnt get into the game until the P166 era lol back in the 90's , Very nice list! ahhh how technology evolved/evolving
+RogerWilco ok cousin Roger we get it! Yeah PCs are butter to build now,and that's a good thing. Makes for cheaper computers and can be easily repaired.
THE NOSTALGIA LEVEL IS OVER 9000
I had that lanboy case lol, it came with straps so you would carry it to "lan parties". All aluminum and so much lighter than all the stamped steel ones I had before.
I feel so good that I'm old enough to have witnessed all of this....
It was an amazing time back then
That CPU fan looks like it's lived through a nuclear war.
IronShredd "cooling the cpus makes me wish for a nuclear winter."
Well ain't that a kick in the head.
Some one needs a platinum chip to be cooled.
do terminals even have fans lol
lol mad linus(mad max)
7:48 ah, the good old IDE cables, everything was so chunky back then, now everything is so slim and delicate.
Later came rounded pata cables then finally the small sata cables
@@tj71520 And now we have m.2 SSD's that don't even need cables.
@@hakont.4960 yes. Two of my modern systems actually use m.2 SSDs as boot drives. I still remember fighting with an old commodore 80286 to get into its bios without having the floppy disk. That model did not allow bios access at post without an error or a special floppy disk. I Also have an old ISA card with a harddrive attached that do not require any cables.
The first PC I actually built (during Hallowe'en in 2003!) was also Athlon XP based, but on a DFI Lan party board (which is too flaky to use, although I still have it). I still have (and love) the Chieftec case I used for it as well, I'll be putting a new Ryzen system in it soon.