In all honesty when I build a PC I always end up cutting my hands on the solder points on the board that it has become superstition that it needs to be done. 😂
I remember when my Dad brought home 5-6 towers from this era when I was single digits old. They were from his work and they were throwing them out. For whatever reason, he decided to grab them and bring them home for me to play with. Tinkering with them and learning stuff on dial up internet is what created my knowledge and love of PCs today.
very similar story here. dad had brought 4 towers in total from work and my brother and i played countless hours of minecraft on those old pentium 4 machines with my dad using the core 2 duo one for his web browsing. i can say for certain that at an 800x600 window a pentium 4 with intel's extreme graphics 2 and as little as 512MiB of ram it can play minecraft 1.7.10 at a steady 20-24 fps
@@alexgayer85 One of the cards I have is the awe 64 gold isa.. apparently that has wavetable built in... for whatever wavetable does.. I got it originally for my 486, but the sound it produces felt out of the place for these early 90s games and win3.11, so I got the much more expensive sb pro 2.0 installed into that pc and totally forgot about the awe card. After a long time I decided to get my other win 98 pc to work.. which of course had a dead hdd(replaced it with some 160gb drive, which I had to put in 32gb mode via a jumper.. to then create a fat 16 partition which can only 2gb, still plenty tho, lol) . I didn't have win 98 cd at hand.. but there was 95 w plus... but pc had the sb128 card. I thought win95 would be fine, but then I spent hours trying to get it to work(using winrar to split drivers to 1.44mb floppies as only means of transfer because I havent set up anything else)...I just couldn't. Drivers are meant for 98se and later. Then I remembered I have the awe64 I have put that in and it works wonderfully.
It is a time honored tradition for a computer to draw blood. It shows the joining between User and PC. The ritual of drawing blood during the build is a good sign when it comes to the "first boot bonding ritual"
Indeed it is! I once fixed a computer at work and was walking back to my office with a pencil and piece of paper. Suddenly noticed that the paper had a lot of blood on it. Look at my hand, and one finger is covered in blood. Look behind me and see a trail of tiny drops of blood on the floor... I had no idea I had cut myself. Those old metal cabinets are nasty! And the cuts are so fine that you don't always notice them.
I have never had a pre-2010s PC case that didn't slice my skin off one way or another, it got so annoying to the point that before any builds I always taped the internal edges with electric tapes.
Yup, the computer gods of old demand their blood sacrifice for the system to work properly, can't do it on purpose though, has to be accidental. I joke but only a bit... way back when things just seemingly wouldn't work right until I cut myself.
Yeah, in my first IT job we had a lot of cheap clone PCs. I was always cutting myself on their nasty, sharp edges. Then we started buying Dells. I remember being so impressed by their look, feel and design - and and how much easier they were to open and work inside. The edges were all nicely finished and curved out of harms way. The build quality was just so much better than the average clone, at the time. And they never drew blood! 😊
I love the now Basinger trademark of "I'm not showing the thermal paste use section in it's entirety" due to pricks in past comment sections, "You've used too much", or " You've used to little"...Clint knows what he's doing, now pipe down.
... and it really doesn’t matter. You almost can’t get it wrong even if you tried. :-) Gamers Nexus actually logged numbers on a lot of different paste applications. Just put some on and it’ll be fine.
@@lyianx Especially since he is not overclocking the CPU, at least not yet. Even if he was over overclocking the CPU so long as your not really trying to max out the overclocking you be fine with reasonable applications of thermal paste so long as you have a decent CPU heat sink fan. Be very precise with how much thermal paste and how it’s spread over the CPU isn’t really something you need to worry about unless your really trying to push the overclocking to extremes, like the sort of thing you see on Linus Tech Tips.
All it needs is a bit. Too much is never an issue, as it just gets squeezed out. The "pattern" doesn't matter. And it doesn't even has to be paste. I've seen videos where people tested "alternative" thermal pastes, stuff like ketchup, honey, toothpaste or hand cream. They all did better than no paste and some were surprisingly close to proper paste. So if you have no paste, and want to use the system until you can get some on monday, might as well grab something from the bathroom to get over the weekend.
Computers scare the shit out of me, and I don't understand anything this man is saying. I'm here because this is all strangely soothing. Plus I do love the aesthetics of old tech.
@@Chronz I just got a new Chromebook, and while I was in the Best Buy I was going HAM on the mechanical keyboards on display. I love this shit, even IF I don't "get" it.
My first PC (486 DX4 66Mhz) used an almost identical case (inside it is identical). After several upgrades it ended up with a Soyo Super 7, AMD K6-2 450Mhz and Voodoo 3 PCI 16MB, I still have that machine in my pocket. I keep it as a reminder of the good old days.
I mean things are somewhat uniform but theres still 20 different connectors and media types across all manufacturers plus all the propriatary shit... i think today still leaves a lot to be desired
I definitely don't miss the days when you needed several add-on cards and sometimes even your add-on cards needed add-on cards... being able to cool it all with raspberry pi heatsinks was nice though.
I built out that exact same motherboard, same CPU, and same style motherboard tray. I laughed when I saw you clip the extra standoffs because, I did the same thing. Great video, as always. Love these old builds; they bring back a ton of memories.
When I played EverQuest on that K6, all blue robes that newbie human mages wore from Qeynos was hot pink . I had a Voodoo 2 but the K6 was the reason it was turning all the robes bright ass pink.
Honestly next to that color i'd also like to see motherboard manufacturers get back to function over form instead of the opposite: crazy looking shapes for heatsinks that in the end are a lot less functional for what they should be doing, which is causing enough surface area for radiating heat out through convection. I have had to do such a stupid mod to my Gigabyte motherboard in order to keep a set of particular parts cool because the heatsink on it comes over as mainly meant to be good looking and not actually meant to press down on the hardware...
ya back when motherboards didnt have everything you needed built into the motherboard.....sound, internet, usb, had to be installed physically and then the drivers were manually installed.....building computers nowadays is a lot more simplfied....you can put one together today just by watching a youtube vid
@@K-o-R because some computers running XP didn't support it. I swear It's still in Windows 10, if any devices can't turn off by themselves for some reason 😂
@@grxgghxrpxr I would but I don't have ant AT-style motherboards, let alone ones Windows 7 will run on. The oldest compatible is a Slot 1 motherboard which Windows 7 has no problems turning off. That's in comparison to the Windows 2000 installation it came with which didn't turn off, only giving the safe to shut down screen we are talking about. Actually, on a second thought, Windows Vista and later require an ACPI motherboard and soft power off _might_ be required by ACPI.
Ahh yes, perfect timing! Clint builds a pc as I build up a full stomach, all is right in the world. Love the content as always, awesome to see how this channel has grown so much and is getting the appreciation it deserves. Keep the nostalgia coming
@@stoneofverbosityIt couldn't possibly be that he's a fan? No, no. Of course not. That would be stupid. I mean, it's not like LGR has 1.5 million subs or anything. Also, how does that even work? By and large, people don't give a shit about others in the comments. Waterflame's channel isn't going to get a noticeable (or even notable bump) in views or subscribers for commenting on a video from a larger RUclipsr. What a stupid idea.
That's why as a collector who is very archivist minded, I like it when it happens to be rare stuff that's sealed. It's very valuable to have someone like him documenting this all in 4k60 (probably 8k someday).
It's insane, fun and creepy at the same time how much this system has in common with the system I had back in the day. Nostalgia is very big on this one for me!
The production quality of your videos is unreal, the extra attention you put into writing, filming, editing - it really shows. Great stuff as always man.
"Why did you quit from the registered version of Quake?" "Did the scary monsters frighten you? Or did Mr. Sandman tug at your little lids" "No matter"! "What is important is you love our game, and gave us your money". "Congratulations, you are probably not a thief". Games knew how to talk sass back then.
Today it's so normal... but I remember when the K7 was released, I just could not understand why I needed a different motherboard for each brand. It was a new concept, and seemed a bit unfair for the consumer.
Quake 2 needs more than Amd 300 3d-now as I remember - All Amd cpus faster than 333 neeed the k6-update (on floppy or in the c: root where you can reinstall it if you do like IE update or mediaplayer update or the directx update (i had win95 ors2.0) I never enjoyed the games on the 300 and thought it was slow For dos it was great .A game one could try (online) ( i did) ut99 -I had 20 fps in 320x200 -which made me buy a k6-2 500mgz -could play in 512x -a duron 600 solved all problems.
You if you can platform with wasd etc remeber having trouble w the old dukes or first 3 on a CompuServe deal pc that ran Payne and unreal etc so sweet but platforming with a keyboard is beyond me kudos sir idk what else to say I've like 80% super meat boy lost levels is like you enter a headspace when you are really on a roll no way I could jazz jackrabbit without my trusty Logitech transparent blue basic ps1 3rd party but hey... They don't make those ne more am homeless now and vicariously live through lgr and the like for gaming or point click games via Android oh well yeah I know Blu tooth controllers I can play earthbound and ff6/7 whatever
Do it's that is cool to install an old Windows like the old days ! Put a 3DFX inside that's mandatory ! And you will have long hours trying to pull the best graphics out of it and play them :D
Wow as a Malaysian, I am very impressed that major components of this build are made in my country. Both AMD and Intel still have their fabs here although not as important unlike 20-30 years ago.
I guess they moved to China and Taiwan and the rest of the world is certainly regretting it. We're supposed to get new fab facilities out in the Arizona desert, but that will take a while to get running.
These videos are always a weird nostalgia flashback for me. I was mildly into computers during the 90s and things like "Intel MMX" were buried so far back in my memory that hearing it again triggers a flood of recollection. I was so proud of my Compaq Presario with its "MMX Pentium" badge back then. Haven't thought about that thing in a decade or two...good times, good times.
@Blue Max I had the Win95 Upg. I didn't actually use it to upgrade though. You just feed it the Win 3.1 disk 1 for upgrade verification and it will gladly install to an empty HDD. :-)
Ah, the times when AMD processors were pin compatible with Intel... and Intel actually released newer generation processors that fit in the same socket...
Thankfully AMD does that for a long time. That's why I stick with AMD since like the K6 :) They did it again with latest Ryzens. Most mobos will run new gen after BIOS update :)
@@szponiasty Unfortunately I've heard rumors that after Zen3 they're going to another socket - this time a LGA-style one. And that's why I just built a 5900X system. :)
Last time Intel did that was sorta LGA775, where you could have some crappy Prescott Pentium 4 and a chonky Q9650 and even some modded LGA771 Xeons on the same platform. And yes, AM4 is at it's and now, and it took until 2021 and supported 4 gens of CPUs like they promised. Just like how you could upgrade AM2 -> AM2+ -> AM3 -> AM3+ by doing half steps. Because AM3+ CPUs (FX) ran in AM3, and AM3 CPUs (Phenom) also ran in AM2+
So happy to see interstate 76 running it all its glory, and someone else who loves it too. I've never had much luck getting it to work well after my win95 machine. It had a huge influence on my middle school friends and I. My first online game community, there were clubs of roaming players, banding together to wipe the floor with other groups, facing off in custom maps and game modes. Good times. Thanks LGR
5:18 some forward thinking company putting USB headers on a motherboard in 1996-7?! You never cease to amaze me with such... things, LGR! Thank you very much for weekly amazements like this!
Gotta love when companies do that amirite... This one time I had a gateway 510t and it had two SATA 1.0 ports. Needless to say I ended up taking advantage of those lol
That was the era of the switch from AT to ATX and there were AT MBs that had USB onboard. Those of course needed to have headers since the only IO port was a full DIN keyboard connector. The big issue was there wasn't a fleshed-out standard for pinout. Thankfully the connectors aren't too difficult to re-key.
@@adventureoflinkmk2 That's correct, I recently purchased an AT Socket 7, Pentium 233 MMX combo, and the motherboard had exactly that. This style of motherboard supports the "soft" off ATX stuff while working with direct mains power with an AT board. There are AT IO shields that are just the full DIN connector to let you use those boards. It's also possible to use an ATX power supply in an AT case and repurpose the reset button as a power button or jerry-rig a momentary button in an unused drive bay cover. My board also has a weird proprietary connect that has two USB 1.0 ports and a PS/2 mouse port. The connect is a 2x9 pin layout, and thankfully the manual actually included the correct pinout so I could get things up and running.
Very cool! I wish I never threw away my 3DFx setup. Built it for my kids and their friends for hours of play. My kids, now older, still like playing the older games.
I loved playing PoD as a kid. For some reason it came free with a PC that my grandmother bought, and I ended up taking the disk home with me since she didn't want it or even know what it was.
Dude, you must get this a lot but your videos are a retro-PC enthusiast’s wet dream!! Thank you for your videos and for keeping the curiosity alive. 👍👍👍
My favorite computer from my youth (After the Apple II of course!) was the AMD K6-2 350mhz with a Riva TNT GPU... Man all the best games I played on that computer I swear!
Great video as always.. I've got a socket 7 k6 out in the shed, with a voodoo 3 in it. Been meaning to bring it out and restore it for ages, this give me inspiration to do it. Goodtimes!
Brought back lots of memories with this build. I cut my teeth building and repairing socket 7 systems. I had a bunch of old machines I recycled a few years ago from this era. I got them while working as an independent PC and network repair and install tech. Anyways I salvaged a bunch of processors from them that I still have and lots of RAM too.
I was 12 when all these parts were top of the range... I would read the catalogues and dream of having a sick pc with voodoo gpu and mmx processer. The nostalgia is super brutal it grips me worse than a bearhug from Kabib Nurmagomedov
Sure but I just watched Clint switch from an Intel to an AMD CPU by changing the position of one shunt jumper. Can we have THAT compatibility feature again?
What I find the most impressive about your channel is the condition all your hardware is in. I doubt I would have the patience and perseverance to maintain electronics for such long periods of time.
This was fun, brought back great memories! My favorite 1990s build was: AMD K6-III+ OC’d to 588 mhz Nvidia Riva TNT2 2GB of ram 450w power supply Cheap full tower case
@@polomellitus166 late ‘90s. As in 99. But you might be right about the 2 GB of RAM. I know I bought 2 GB of RAM, but Either because of the windows version I had, or because the CPU cache couldn’t handle it, one gig what is the max I could use
@@marshallwilliams4054 1999 Standard amount was 64MB or 128MB of RAM, in rare Cases 256MB. No one except some Supercomputers had more than 1GB of RAM, the Boards as well as the OSs simply didn't support it. As for the PS, i bought a 300W in the year 2000 and it was considered High End back then.
i love the emotion and true passion you put in the words. thank you man. i'm happy to feel in good company when i talk to my friends about close topics
The sound card, I still have it saved. I remember my first pc from the years 1997. This video brought back many memories, thanks and greetings. La placa de sonido, aun la tengo guardada. Recuerdo de mi primera pc de los años 1997. Este video me trajo muchos recuerdos, gracias y saludos.
Glad to see the ancient Gods still require a blood sacrifice when making a computer. XD Also recently found a loose copy of POD for myself so now I can have all the fun an excitement of trying to get it to run on things.
Damn, I had that exact motherboard. I started with Cyrix 133mhz but in the end I had AMD K6 225mhz (I used 3x75mhz as that was faster) that extra cache module on the mobo, and 3DFX Voodoo Hercules that I still have today. Anyone interested in buying that in Finland with good price?
Yaaay another Clint produced video! Takes the edge of the terribly painful chronic injury I am currently suffering through. From one nerdy guy to another, thanks man :) I always appreciate the subtle tricks in your editing, as well as the clever scripting. You've been around forever I can't remember the last time I missed a video of yours. That's the seal of quality man because I have ADHDeez. Lol.
Oh this is so cool! I remember fondly my then state of the art 2mb (!) graphic card, the infamous Matrox Millennium. I added a 3dfx card later on. I was in heaven when Psygnosis Formula 1 finally had anti aliasing and a frame rate beyond imagination. Cool video, thanks a lot! 🙏
i'm amazed by how quickly programs are loading. i don't remember it being this blazing fast :O! and damn i miss voodoos. literally game changing cards.
Sounds just like me except the building computers part I had 1 but didn’t build it wish I would have tho but it was from Walmart I think lol anyway I love that old school back in the day 90,s stuff man
Reminds me of the first PC I built around 98.. K6-2 300, S3 Virge, Voodoo 2, and a SIS Socket 7 board. I went from a 486SLC2/50 to that.. What a huge jump! Saved up my allowance for months and combined that with some Christmas money. Great rig for Half Life, Counter Strike, TFC, Starcraft, Quake 2, etc. and lugged that thing to many LAN parties. Those were the days! I had that PC for a couple years and maxxed it out at a K6-2 550 before not having an AGP slot really began to hurt and I moved on to an Athlon build.
Thanks for the great content! Definitely brings back memories with my AMD k6 and playing games with matrox mystique, rendition verte, and then a voodoo banshee. Great times building PC's when I was a mere 10 year old.
I so love to see these type of build videos from you! You always make them so interesting and bring back lots of memories! Would love to see more videos like this because although there are some on RUclips that are similar but a lot of them lack the quality you have, Sir!
Big props for Interstate 76! If you run into that texture glitch, just hit escape twice and it will go away until it comes back again. Kind of annoying, but it works. I've not found a way to get rid of it completely unless I run it in D3D, but Glide looks better. Great video! Brings back memories.
my friend recently at good will "bins" found a socket 7 cpu voltage / multiplier adapter board so you can use a " newer" cpu on an older board with unsupported voltage.
You have to learn about times when games were good as history. Together we dream of microtransactions and live service dying so we can at least HAVE games again
@@AgentTasmania There are still plenty of games without those being made today, you just need to recognize that Ubisoft, Activision, and EA aren't the only companies releasing games today. Look at some indie and AA games and you'll be surprised. Not even every modern AAA game is bad either, there are still some good singleplayer ones without microtransactions being made today. Sure there is a decent amount of crap being released today but at the same time, crappy games aren't a new thing either, sure, microtransactions and live service games weren't common back then but bugs, bad performance, etc. aren't any more common than they were back then. Also "Have" isn't an acronym
Ah, NFSII SE I remember being blown away when I had a 3dfx card as well! Especially one level with the flies that splat on the screen. Good times! Great build!
I'm looking forward to your videos in 30 years when you look back fondly on ancient PC hardware like the RTX 3090 ti and reminisce about how it's crazy that we used to be impressed by such primitive visuals.
This was a nice trip down memory lane!
Well hello there.
you know it's a good video when AMD themselves comment on it
Now all we need is for 3Dfx to make a commen... oh no :(
@@MaMuSlol rip in peace
be gone, brand
It's a proper build because it received a blood sacrifice
A blood sacrifice for the god Bill Gates
If he hadn't done that, the games would probably run poorly. :D
That's how Strogg machines operate.
In all honesty when I build a PC I always end up cutting my hands on the solder points on the board that it has become superstition that it needs to be done. 😂
Blood sacrifice warranty of a working PC XD
I remember when my Dad brought home 5-6 towers from this era when I was single digits old.
They were from his work and they were throwing them out.
For whatever reason, he decided to grab them and bring them home for me to play with.
Tinkering with them and learning stuff on dial up internet is what created my knowledge and love of PCs today.
very similar story here. dad had brought 4 towers in total from work and my brother and i played countless hours of minecraft on those old pentium 4 machines with my dad using the core 2 duo one for his web browsing. i can say for certain that at an 800x600 window a pentium 4 with intel's extreme graphics 2 and as little as 512MiB of ram it can play minecraft 1.7.10 at a steady 20-24 fps
I totally forgot wavetable cards existed.
@@alexgayer85 I had a Yamaha daughterboard that had the same chips as their synthesizers.
@@alexgayer85 One of the cards I have is the awe 64 gold isa.. apparently that has wavetable built in... for whatever wavetable does..
I got it originally for my 486, but the sound it produces felt out of the place for these early 90s games and win3.11, so I got the much more expensive sb pro 2.0 installed into that pc and totally forgot about the awe card.
After a long time I decided to get my other win 98 pc to work.. which of course had a dead hdd(replaced it with some 160gb drive, which I had to put in 32gb mode via a jumper.. to then create a fat 16 partition which can only 2gb, still plenty tho, lol) . I didn't have win 98 cd at hand.. but there was 95 w plus... but pc had the sb128 card. I thought win95 would be fine, but then I spent hours trying to get it to work(using winrar to split drivers to 1.44mb floppies as only means of transfer because I havent set up anything else)...I just couldn't. Drivers are meant for 98se and later. Then I remembered I have the awe64 I have put that in and it works wonderfully.
My brother did the same. Brought home an old pc from work. Learned DOS, Win3.11 and AOL on them and from then on I was a PC nerd.
It is a time honored tradition for a computer to draw blood. It shows the joining between User and PC. The ritual of drawing blood during the build is a good sign when it comes to the "first boot bonding ritual"
FIRST BLOOD!!! -- UT99 Announcer
Indeed it is! I once fixed a computer at work and was walking back to my office with a pencil and piece of paper. Suddenly noticed that the paper had a lot of blood on it. Look at my hand, and one finger is covered in blood. Look behind me and see a trail of tiny drops of blood on the floor... I had no idea I had cut myself. Those old metal cabinets are nasty! And the cuts are so fine that you don't always notice them.
I have never had a pre-2010s PC case that didn't slice my skin off one way or another, it got so annoying to the point that before any builds I always taped the internal edges with electric tapes.
The PC gods demand a blood sacrifice!
Maybe thats why my windows 98 machine doesn't like me: I managed not to cut myself building it.
It wouldn't be a faithful retro pc building experience without cutting yourself on a case with way too sharp edges at least once... Nicely done!
Yup, the computer gods of old demand their blood sacrifice for the system to work properly, can't do it on purpose though, has to be accidental.
I joke but only a bit... way back when things just seemingly wouldn't work right until I cut myself.
It's how you distinguished computer man from mere mortals battle wounds in hands 😁
@metfan4l Thank you for all the metallica vids man ! It is nice to find you here !
Yeah, in my first IT job we had a lot of cheap clone PCs. I was always cutting myself on their nasty, sharp edges. Then we started buying Dells. I remember being so impressed by their look, feel and design - and and how much easier they were to open and work inside. The edges were all nicely finished and curved out of harms way. The build quality was just so much better than the average clone, at the time. And they never drew blood! 😊
Blood to the Blood God! Not cutting yourself during a PC build is bad omen!
I really appreciate the whole relaxed and eloquent vibe of your videos, aswell the old hardware of course.
Thank you!
@@LGR yo lgr where do you get the tomb raider II demo from?
Same, I get lost when he starts talking in jargon, but it's fine because I know the smooth jazz is keeping me safe
Today's "now I feel old": Windows 95 was a quarter of a century ago.
Windows 95 was a quarter of a century ago last year.
I still can't believe that I'm actually older than Windows 95. And I'm a millennial. Damn, I feel old.
Hell, I'm older than the internet. The first computer I ever used was a Commodore VIC-20.
Right 👍
Dude, I used a W95 pc until 2012. Pretty sure the local DMV’s and vet clinics, a couple of mechanic’s shops and so on still use them to this day.
I love the now Basinger trademark of "I'm not showing the thermal paste use section in it's entirety" due to pricks in past comment sections, "You've used too much", or " You've used to little"...Clint knows what he's doing, now pipe down.
... and it really doesn’t matter. You almost can’t get it wrong even if you tried. :-) Gamers Nexus actually logged numbers on a lot of different paste applications. Just put some on and it’ll be fine.
yeah, and those old CPU's really didnt need *that* much. As long as its not overheating when you push it, its fine.
@@lyianx Especially since he is not overclocking the CPU, at least not yet. Even if he was over overclocking the CPU so long as your not really trying to max out the overclocking you be fine with reasonable applications of thermal paste so long as you have a decent CPU heat sink fan. Be very precise with how much thermal paste and how it’s spread over the CPU isn’t really something you need to worry about unless your really trying to push the overclocking to extremes, like the sort of thing you see on Linus Tech Tips.
All it needs is a bit. Too much is never an issue, as it just gets squeezed out. The "pattern" doesn't matter. And it doesn't even has to be paste. I've seen videos where people tested "alternative" thermal pastes, stuff like ketchup, honey, toothpaste or hand cream. They all did better than no paste and some were surprisingly close to proper paste.
So if you have no paste, and want to use the system until you can get some on monday, might as well grab something from the bathroom to get over the weekend.
I can't see his last name without thinking of the actress.
Those old games sure do look amazing even on 20 year old hardware!
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25 year old hardware
We miss you.
that's 30! 20 years old hardware have already have video card
Long live Banshee!
I love how you've made a fully viable career off of reviewing and analyzing completely obsolete technology. The entertainment industry is magical.
Why yes,yes it is.
Computers scare the shit out of me, and I don't understand anything this man is saying. I'm here because this is all strangely soothing. Plus I do love the aesthetics of old tech.
to be fair he has built the closetst thing we have to a time machine. I recall going through near those exact steps when setting up my PC.
@@em_birch same here stranger
@@Chronz I just got a new Chromebook, and while I was in the Best Buy I was going HAM on the mechanical keyboards on display. I love this shit, even IF I don't "get" it.
Why do I love that case? It looks like something you'd see in a doctor's office in 1997.
My first PC (486 DX4 66Mhz) used an almost identical case (inside it is identical). After several upgrades it ended up with a Soyo Super 7, AMD K6-2 450Mhz and Voodoo 3 PCI 16MB, I still have that machine in my pocket. I keep it as a reminder of the good old days.
Watching videos of old PC builds like this make me value the uniformity of modern PC components
ide cables were the worst part of it
I mean things are somewhat uniform but theres still 20 different connectors and media types across all manufacturers plus all the propriatary shit... i think today still leaves a lot to be desired
@@JPX64Channel and jumpers
I definitely don't miss the days when you needed several add-on cards and sometimes even your add-on cards needed add-on cards...
being able to cool it all with raspberry pi heatsinks was nice though.
Question: "What are the main elements of a classic LGR video?"
Me: "Duke3D, Woodgrain, Canyon.mid and Farts/Balls."
But will it run Crysis
Cool Crab
Blood Sacrafice
the wall in the back shows cleary woodgrain. Canyon.mid plays around minute 23, duke 3d shoots around minute 30. :D
@@CTFC-GERMANY And the Woodgrain PC makes a cameo appearance.
Man, I love Fridays.
Clint makes Fridays better man.
New episodes of LGR every Friday seems so damn awesome, and it is
Me too lol
I built out that exact same motherboard, same CPU, and same style motherboard tray. I laughed when I saw you clip the extra standoffs because, I did the same thing. Great video, as always. Love these old builds; they bring back a ton of memories.
When I played EverQuest on that K6, all blue robes that newbie human mages wore from Qeynos was hot pink . I had a Voodoo 2 but the K6 was the reason it was turning all the robes bright ass pink.
Ever revisit Project 1999 Classic Everquest?
@@yopachi yes. the reset was pretty bad"
Amber PCBs NEED to make a comeback. Something about them is just so pleasing to the eyes.
I agree, Amber PCBs should make a comeback and add RGB because of course.
@@j.t.5178 the A in ARGB stands for Amber
RGB is cringe.
YES
Honestly next to that color i'd also like to see motherboard manufacturers get back to function over form instead of the opposite: crazy looking shapes for heatsinks that in the end are a lot less functional for what they should be doing, which is causing enough surface area for radiating heat out through convection.
I have had to do such a stupid mod to my Gigabyte motherboard in order to keep a set of particular parts cool because the heatsink on it comes over as mainly meant to be good looking and not actually meant to press down on the hardware...
the videos when LGR builds a PC are the best like you just click on the video, fullscreen, sit back and relax
"a quarter of a century later"
Thanks for making me feel old
lol i didn't feel old at all, i was surprised my memory is still that sharp!
ya back when motherboards didnt have everything you needed built into the motherboard.....sound, internet, usb, had to be installed physically and then the drivers were manually installed.....building computers nowadays is a lot more simplfied....you can put one together today just by watching a youtube vid
Me, being born around when this came out, feeling older than I should
I totally forgot about the "It's now safe to turn off your computer." I haven't seen that screen for probably twenty years.
Even Windows XP has one if you (for whatever insane reason) decide to install it on an AT computer.
@@K-o-R because some computers running XP didn't support it. I swear It's still in Windows 10, if any devices can't turn off by themselves for some reason 😂
@@grxgghxrpxr Windows 10 might be hard to try but there should definitely be Windows 7 compatible AT motherboards.
@@eDoc2020 do it!
@@grxgghxrpxr I would but I don't have ant AT-style motherboards, let alone ones Windows 7 will run on. The oldest compatible is a Slot 1 motherboard which Windows 7 has no problems turning off. That's in comparison to the Windows 2000 installation it came with which didn't turn off, only giving the safe to shut down screen we are talking about.
Actually, on a second thought, Windows Vista and later require an ACPI motherboard and soft power off _might_ be required by ACPI.
This was truly when I felt I had to have a gaming pc because the leap in graphics compared to console was mind blowing.
you smell
Ahh yes, perfect timing! Clint builds a pc as I build up a full stomach, all is right in the world.
Love the content as always, awesome to see how this channel has grown so much and is getting the appreciation it deserves. Keep the nostalgia coming
Wow good to find you here after just completing a community level of gd that had one of your songs))
OMG, Waterflame?
fancy seeing you here after i put beatfever on repeat for a trillion times
It's always a good day to make breakfast with LGR
@@stoneofverbosityIt couldn't possibly be that he's a fan? No, no. Of course not. That would be stupid. I mean, it's not like LGR has 1.5 million subs or anything. Also, how does that even work? By and large, people don't give a shit about others in the comments. Waterflame's channel isn't going to get a noticeable (or even notable bump) in views or subscribers for commenting on a video from a larger RUclipsr. What a stupid idea.
Its so weird seeing this stuff in hi-def and not just in foggy memories
That's why as a collector who is very archivist minded, I like it when it happens to be rare stuff that's sealed. It's very valuable to have someone like him documenting this all in 4k60 (probably 8k someday).
Without dial up.you can describe the struggle..but they will never understand
seeing pcs being put together is almost terapeutic
It's insane, fun and creepy at the same time how much this system has in common with the system I had back in the day.
Nostalgia is very big on this one for me!
Me too :-)
The production quality of your videos is unreal, the extra attention you put into writing, filming, editing - it really shows. Great stuff as always man.
Thanks!
My man stopped being 'Lazy' at around the second year of his career. These are high effort game reviews.
"Why did you quit from the registered version of Quake?"
"Did the scary monsters frighten you? Or did Mr. Sandman tug at your little lids"
"No matter"!
"What is important is you love our game, and gave us your money".
"Congratulations, you are probably not a thief".
Games knew how to talk sass back then.
I respect games that still have good sas
Damn that beautiful golden motherboard reflection on pristine 4K. It is mesmerizing!
Imagine being able to swap Intel for AMD in the same motherboard nowadays...
Today it's so normal... but I remember when the K7 was released, I just could not understand why I needed a different motherboard for each brand. It was a new concept, and seemed a bit unfair for the consumer.
I wish we had the PCI express connection for CPUs like the intel II did
I mean.... you can swap the CPUs and get them in there. They just wont..... you know.... run :D
@@alberthorn180 good one
@@alberthorn180 Yep, the intel CPUs have no legs, and the AMD CPUs lose their legs.
Ahh... that starting screen with Energy Star logo brings back memories and that brick labirynth screensaver - it was my favorite one.
What a trip! I have a Socket 7 system that I've been trying to get time to build up for a while. I think this was the push I needed :)
Hi
Quake 2 needs more than Amd 300 3d-now as I remember - All Amd cpus faster than 333 neeed the k6-update (on floppy or in the c: root where you can reinstall it if you do like IE update or mediaplayer update or the directx update (i had win95 ors2.0) I never enjoyed the games on the 300 and thought it was slow For dos it was great .A game one could try (online) ( i did) ut99 -I had 20 fps in 320x200 -which made me buy a k6-2 500mgz -could play in 512x -a duron 600 solved all problems.
Do yourself a favour and put a slot one motherboard in it.
You if you can platform with wasd etc remeber having trouble w the old dukes or first 3 on a CompuServe deal pc that ran Payne and unreal etc so sweet but platforming with a keyboard is beyond me kudos sir idk what else to say I've like 80% super meat boy lost levels is like you enter a headspace when you are really on a roll no way I could jazz jackrabbit without my trusty Logitech transparent blue basic ps1 3rd party but hey... They don't make those ne more am homeless now and vicariously live through lgr and the like for gaming or point click games via Android oh well yeah I know Blu tooth controllers I can play earthbound and ff6/7 whatever
Do it's that is cool to install an old Windows like the old days ! Put a 3DFX inside that's mandatory ! And you will have long hours trying to pull the best graphics out of it and play them :D
Wow as a Malaysian, I am very impressed that major components of this build are made in my country. Both AMD and Intel still have their fabs here although not as important unlike 20-30 years ago.
I guess they moved to China and Taiwan and the rest of the world is certainly regretting it. We're supposed to get new fab facilities out in the Arizona desert, but that will take a while to get running.
Malaysia makes Intel CPUs right?
@@ranjanbiswas3233 Both, Actually Malaysia is a good place for semiconductor business.
@@ranjanbiswas3233 in the past. Now they all come from china
Mine made in ireland
Ah the K6 was the hearth of my lovely third pc and I76....the feels!
Watching any LGR video whether or not the content is interesting to me is always just comfortable and cozy. Always a welcoming video format
These videos are always a weird nostalgia flashback for me. I was mildly into computers during the 90s and things like "Intel MMX" were buried so far back in my memory that hearing it again triggers a flood of recollection. I was so proud of my Compaq Presario with its "MMX Pentium" badge back then. Haven't thought about that thing in a decade or two...good times, good times.
i still use a socket 7/win 98 machine, similar to this one just to get my sim city fix & still use a soundblaster joystick port for midi programming
Man, the nostalgia in this one was real! Feels like forever ago. Awesome video!
"a quarter century later"
JESUS CHRIST
Yup, right in the feels
My sympathies to everyone else who got Win95 on launch year.
just wait when we talk about it 25 yrs from now
Imagine a RUclipsr in 2100 picked this up, it would be a meme. lol
@Blue Max I had the Win95 Upg. I didn't actually use it to upgrade though. You just feed it the Win 3.1 disk 1 for upgrade verification and it will gladly install to an empty HDD. :-)
Ah, the times when AMD processors were pin compatible with Intel... and Intel actually released newer generation processors that fit in the same socket...
Thankfully AMD does that for a long time. That's why I stick with AMD since like the K6 :) They did it again with latest Ryzens. Most mobos will run new gen after BIOS update :)
@@szponiasty THIS IS RYZEN!!
**kicks Intel down a pit**
@@szponiasty Unfortunately I've heard rumors that after Zen3 they're going to another socket - this time a LGA-style one. And that's why I just built a 5900X system. :)
Last time Intel did that was sorta LGA775, where you could have some crappy Prescott Pentium 4 and a chonky Q9650 and even some modded LGA771 Xeons on the same platform.
And yes, AM4 is at it's and now, and it took until 2021 and supported 4 gens of CPUs like they promised. Just like how you could upgrade AM2 -> AM2+ -> AM3 -> AM3+ by doing half steps. Because AM3+ CPUs (FX) ran in AM3, and AM3 CPUs (Phenom) also ran in AM2+
@@HappyBeezerStudios am3+ couldn’t run on AM3, but am3 could run on am3+. Also AM3 can run on am2 and am2+.
So happy to see interstate 76 running it all its glory, and someone else who loves it too. I've never had much luck getting it to work well after my win95 machine. It had a huge influence on my middle school friends and I. My first online game community, there were clubs of roaming players, banding together to wipe the floor with other groups, facing off in custom maps and game modes. Good times.
Thanks LGR
This brings back a lot of memories from the mid 90's when I was working in a PC shop.
5:18 some forward thinking company putting USB headers on a motherboard in 1996-7?! You never cease to amaze me with such... things, LGR! Thank you very much for weekly amazements like this!
Gotta love when companies do that amirite... This one time I had a gateway 510t and it had two SATA 1.0 ports. Needless to say I ended up taking advantage of those lol
There were Asus motherboards back in the day, then there was everybody else. They were always worth spending the few extra dollars for.
That was the era of the switch from AT to ATX and there were AT MBs that had USB onboard. Those of course needed to have headers since the only IO port was a full DIN keyboard connector. The big issue was there wasn't a fleshed-out standard for pinout. Thankfully the connectors aren't too difficult to re-key.
@@SScorpio0 I've even seen motherboards in that crossover era have both AT and ATX mains connectors... I believe my AMD k6 board has one
@@adventureoflinkmk2 That's correct, I recently purchased an AT Socket 7, Pentium 233 MMX combo, and the motherboard had exactly that. This style of motherboard supports the "soft" off ATX stuff while working with direct mains power with an AT board.
There are AT IO shields that are just the full DIN connector to let you use those boards. It's also possible to use an ATX power supply in an AT case and repurpose the reset button as a power button or jerry-rig a momentary button in an unused drive bay cover.
My board also has a weird proprietary connect that has two USB 1.0 ports and a PS/2 mouse port. The connect is a 2x9 pin layout, and thankfully the manual actually included the correct pinout so I could get things up and running.
you, the 8 bit guy, techmoan and all of this old computers youtubers are my favourite youtubers so good job
These kind of builds take me to a special nostalgic place and fill me with hapiness. Thank you and greetings from Portugal!
ah, the memories! POD was my first 3dfx game that I've played. I think it came bundled with the card. What a pleasure to see this again this way!
Very cool! I wish I never threw away my 3DFx setup. Built it for my kids and their friends for hours of play. My kids, now older, still like playing the older games.
I loved playing PoD as a kid.
For some reason it came free with a PC that my grandmother bought, and I ended up taking the disk home with me since she didn't want it or even know what it was.
Dude, you must get this a lot but your videos are a retro-PC enthusiast’s wet dream!! Thank you for your videos and for keeping the curiosity alive. 👍👍👍
Omg that Canopus Pure 3D box... brings back a lot of memories. Thanks LGR :D
My favorite computer from my youth (After the Apple II of course!) was the AMD K6-2 350mhz with a Riva TNT GPU... Man all the best games I played on that computer I swear!
That takes me back. My first true modern computer was an HP Pavilion that had an AMD K6-2 300 Mhz processor. Before that, I had a 386 16 Mhz.
Great video as always.. I've got a socket 7 k6 out in the shed, with a voodoo 3 in it. Been meaning to bring it out and restore it for ages, this give me inspiration to do it. Goodtimes!
Fealing really down today. But still got a mental retro kick from one of your especially loved video categories. Thanks for making my day, Clint!
Love these videos so much! Reminds me of being a teenager and putting random parts from one PC to another! Thanks for the trip mayne!
Brought back lots of memories with this build. I cut my teeth building and repairing socket 7 systems. I had a bunch of old machines I recycled a few years ago from this era. I got them while working as an independent PC and network repair and install tech. Anyways I salvaged a bunch of processors from them that I still have and lots of RAM too.
I was 12 when all these parts were top of the range... I would read the catalogues and dream of having a sick pc with voodoo gpu and mmx processer. The nostalgia is super brutal it grips me worse than a bearhug from Kabib Nurmagomedov
"And after he built his childhood dream computer, he was never heard from again..."
Watching LGR build old PCs make me realize how nice it is to have cable managed cases, expansion ports built into motherboards and SATA.
OH MY GOD INTERSTATE 76
what an absolutely legendary game
First pc I ever built was a socket 7. This one brings back memories.
This man's good at pod
Aye my favorite poketuber, did you see the bs drama on Twitter about Central poke leaks? 🤣
@@Silphion I did a video on it
Holy shit my nostalgia.
Plus no awful Alan Walker dubstep intro before he started gaming. :) I respect this man.
I love this game's soundtrack, art and lore. Wish there was more games like it!
Really makes you appreciate just how _compatible_ everything is nowadays.
Nothing compatible for windows 7
@@REALLYrandomforya Windows 7 isn't nowadays
R.I.P. Windows 7 Intel chipset drivers.
Or any drivers.
@@uncleurda8101 but I still use it because I am potato
Sure but I just watched Clint switch from an Intel to an AMD CPU by changing the position of one shunt jumper. Can we have THAT compatibility feature again?
What I find the most impressive about your channel is the condition all your hardware is in. I doubt I would have the patience and perseverance to maintain electronics for such long periods of time.
This was fun, brought back great memories!
My favorite 1990s build was:
AMD K6-III+ OC’d to 588 mhz
Nvidia Riva TNT2
2GB of ram
450w power supply
Cheap full tower case
late, late 90's :)
450W? -->Highly unlikely. 2GB of RAM? -->NEVER!
@@polomellitus166 late ‘90s. As in 99. But you might be right about the 2 GB of RAM. I know I bought 2 GB of RAM, but Either because of the windows version I had, or because the CPU cache couldn’t handle it, one gig what is the max I could use
@@marshallwilliams4054 1999 Standard amount was 64MB or 128MB of RAM, in rare Cases 256MB. No one except some Supercomputers had more than 1GB of RAM, the Boards as well as the OSs simply didn't support it. As for the PS, i bought a 300W in the year 2000 and it was considered High End back then.
@@polomellitus166 Windows 98 cannot support more than 128MB RAM efficiently, and Windows 98se cannot support more than 256MB.
i love the emotion and true passion you put in the words.
thank you man. i'm happy to feel in good company when i talk to my friends about close topics
The sound card, I still have it saved. I remember my first pc from the years 1997. This video brought back many memories, thanks and greetings.
La placa de sonido, aun la tengo guardada. Recuerdo de mi primera pc de los años 1997. Este video me trajo muchos recuerdos, gracias y saludos.
So much memories. Had a teary eye. Thanks LGR. I appreciate you so much
13:04 The blood sacrifice has been paid. This build has been blessed by the PC Gods.
'97 software era was my favourite. I still play Total Annihilation today.
The color, the shapes, what a beauty! And I really liked the computer as well.
Glad to see the ancient Gods still require a blood sacrifice when making a computer. XD Also recently found a loose copy of POD for myself so now I can have all the fun an excitement of trying to get it to run on things.
13:14 all 90s computer cases require a blood sacrifice.
This computer needs a name and a quirk beyond it being just a Socket 7 machine. The case was a little pedestrian for LGR. It needs some character!
Hah, Interstate ‘76. What a brilliant game that was
What a brilliant soundtrack!
One of my all time favs. Dominated in multiplayer.
Damn, I had that exact motherboard. I started with Cyrix 133mhz but in the end I had AMD K6 225mhz (I used 3x75mhz as that was faster) that extra cache module on the mobo, and 3DFX Voodoo Hercules that I still have today. Anyone interested in buying that in Finland with good price?
Yaaay another Clint produced video! Takes the edge of the terribly painful chronic injury I am currently suffering through. From one nerdy guy to another, thanks man :) I always appreciate the subtle tricks in your editing, as well as the clever scripting. You've been around forever I can't remember the last time I missed a video of yours.
That's the seal of quality man because I have ADHDeez. Lol.
"I gotta fevah...and the only cure is more Windows 95!" - LGR
My first socket 7 was a Windows 98...seems like to me that socket 7 lasted longer than any other CPU.
Oh this is so cool! I remember fondly my then state of the art 2mb (!) graphic card, the infamous Matrox Millennium. I added a 3dfx card later on. I was in heaven when Psygnosis Formula 1 finally had anti aliasing and a frame rate beyond imagination. Cool video, thanks a lot! 🙏
Man broke out the ruler and measuring tape for the windows and amd stickers, love it and your passion.
47min LGR video about socket7 and 3dfx? I clicked so fast that I may have broke some physics law, or the mouse, probably
Heh, just like snipers on eBay when any 3dfx card goes up for sale still in the box and sealed.
i'm amazed by how quickly programs are loading. i don't remember it being this blazing fast :O! and damn i miss voodoos. literally game changing cards.
Amazing, this take my mind to the past when i was having my first computer a Celeron 300mhz windows 95 and 32mb ram, harddisk 3.2gb and S3 Virge 2mb
This tech was when I first started building computers as a teenager, and my heart was fully in this watching the whole time. Nice!!!!!
Sounds just like me except the building computers part I had 1 but didn’t build it wish I would have tho but it was from Walmart I think lol anyway I love that old school back in the day 90,s stuff man
come for the tech talk, stay for the nostalgia and glee. Love you LGR.
Reminds me of the first PC I built around 98.. K6-2 300, S3 Virge, Voodoo 2, and a SIS Socket 7 board. I went from a 486SLC2/50 to that.. What a huge jump! Saved up my allowance for months and combined that with some Christmas money. Great rig for Half Life, Counter Strike, TFC, Starcraft, Quake 2, etc. and lugged that thing to many LAN parties. Those were the days! I had that PC for a couple years and maxxed it out at a K6-2 550 before not having an AGP slot really began to hurt and I moved on to an Athlon build.
Love your enthusiasm, and the background music!
"...making it a true pleasure to work with, *a quarter century later* "
that hurts, ya know...
Thanks for the great content! Definitely brings back memories with my AMD k6 and playing games with matrox mystique, rendition verte, and then a voodoo banshee. Great times building PC's when I was a mere 10 year old.
I so love to see these type of build videos from you! You always make them so interesting and bring back lots of memories! Would love to see more videos like this because although there are some on RUclips that are similar but a lot of them lack the quality you have, Sir!
20:24 - god bless you, Brian Eno.
he made the startup sound?
Always love to see all the old massive components back then, so many parts to add on!
When you finished the main game and going for side quests.
Ha! Exactly
Big props for Interstate 76! If you run into that texture glitch, just hit escape twice and it will go away until it comes back again. Kind of annoying, but it works. I've not found a way to get rid of it completely unless I run it in D3D, but Glide looks better. Great video! Brings back memories.
I can't really understand why I find your vids so entertaining and fun, Thank you for your awesome work!!!
my friend recently at good will "bins" found a socket 7 cpu voltage / multiplier adapter board so you can use a " newer" cpu on an older board with unsupported voltage.
Im only 16 and i love this type of thing! Even though none of my friends really understand computers...
Very cultured person here.
Im 15 and like this stuff too
You sure they are your friends tho?
You have to learn about times when games were good as history. Together we dream of microtransactions and live service dying so we can at least HAVE games again
@@AgentTasmania There are still plenty of games without those being made today, you just need to recognize that Ubisoft, Activision, and EA aren't the only companies releasing games today. Look at some indie and AA games and you'll be surprised. Not even every modern AAA game is bad either, there are still some good singleplayer ones without microtransactions being made today. Sure there is a decent amount of crap being released today but at the same time, crappy games aren't a new thing either, sure, microtransactions and live service games weren't common back then but bugs, bad performance, etc. aren't any more common than they were back then. Also "Have" isn't an acronym
I had that same acer aspire in black with the matching monitor and phone. Still probably my favorite pc lol
Ah, NFSII SE I remember being blown away when I had a 3dfx card as well! Especially one level with the flies that splat on the screen. Good times! Great build!
Pod was clearly the game they re-skinned for STAR WARS Episode I: Racer
I'm looking forward to your videos in 30 years when you look back fondly on ancient PC hardware like the RTX 3090 ti and reminisce about how it's crazy that we used to be impressed by such primitive visuals.
2019: Hahah look at this relic.
2021: I wonder whether it's in stock anywhere.