Asus has noticed some dust on that 2001 motherboard. They are offering repair service for $7,600.00 and will include a new CMOS battery under warranty at no charge.
Asus noticed a dead body next to that motherboard. They offer replacement for $9 million. If you don't accept in 12 seconds, they will return both disassembled.
To be fair you kinda stop thinking about it in your 30s. You got what reason to keep track of it? “I can drive!” @ 16, then “I can vote!” @ 18, and “I can drink!” @ 21. Then what? “i can rent a car? 🤷♂️”@ 25 and nothing else till you're 65 and can draw social security…. You stop thinking about it.
Thought the same thing when they mentioned the Sennheiser headphones. The HD600s (not the ones in the video) came out in the 90s and are still made and used today. I use a set of DT770 Pros for my PC. Like you say, good audio stays good.
@@NickkAtNyte Feels like audio tech doesn't move that fast. The only difference with my AKG K702s is that the newer built ones apparently have worse build quality compared to the older Austrian ones.
My Klipsch pro media speakers lasted for more than 20 years before they started making weird noises. I was able to call Klipsch and get replacement subwoofer cones from them to replace the 15 year old rotted out ones for like $30 each. That made me a life long customer, a company that actually stood behind their products. I liked them so much I repurchased them again a couple of years ago, the quality went down a little, but still better than competitors.
That's awesome. If I'm ever in the market for speakers I'd be looking at them then after reading your comment about them standing by the customer which is all too rare these days sadly.
Mine went about 16 years then developed a hum which probably required a capacitor change. I used the satellites with a different amp and subwoofer until one of those went soft on me just a year ago. They served me well for entertainment and proofing audio. I first tested them in Best Buy and they blew away the more expensive Bose on display for computer audio in 2003.
my favorite thing about watching videos like this with Linus in them is how He is so completely unabashedly a nerd. he loves this stuff so much, and has so much fun with it. This PC he's building is functionally a relic and yet he's loving every second of it, especially once they start booting up old games.
The irony is that Hitachi fixed the issues and turned the former IBM drives into superb products. There was a long time where Hitachi was the only brand I would use and HGST drives are still the only spinning drives I use.
@@LatitudeSky Cheap SSDs are pretty good these days, I have an old ass 240GB SATA SSD (Kingston V300) that I bought many years ago. I think it's about 10 years old and I've hammered the snot out of it using it as a scratch drive. Even had my Windows paging file on it for years! It still reports something like 94% SSD life remaining and I still use it :)
Fun fact: The Nintendo 64 also used Rambus RDRAM. The "jumper pak" that's included in the expansion slot out of the box is literally one of those "dummy modules" in a fancy plastic cartridge. (2:44)
Wait, whaat?! That's why the N64 needed the silly jumper pak thing?! To deal with the RD RAM hardware limitation?! Thanks for this info, really cool little tidbit of gaming history here.
Rounded IDE cables paid for my house. Amazon had not become a thing yet and there were lots of local pcshops. I went around to all the local shops and offered my services. $100 to fix the computer or it was returned in the original condition for free. The rounded cables would pull out it the corners. They would give constantly changing symptoms and make it harder to troubleshoot. The first one took me two hours to find. After that, I was able to repair a machine in a little over twelve minutes. I was fixing 17-20 computers a day for three months straight. Paid off my mortgage with the money. Good times.
Dude, I remember having that Klipsch 5.1 surround playing World of Warcraft, and a dirty Rogue would make that stealth sound behind you, and it would make you jump because of the surround, because you knew the stun lock was coming. Also, watching a movie on the PC, you could hear the paper burning from a cigarette when somebody would be smoking. Or the scuff of a shoe on the floor when somebody was walking. It was legit, so crystal clear.
My mom and I were watching a horror movie with surround system. Our theater room was a room the original homeowner built as an extension and was like a really really fancy porch. In the movie a twig broke and my mom (a military vet) and me immediately grabbed something for self defense thinking there was someone outside XD
7:02 Dear Linus. In 1998 at my 30th birthday, I got a SCSI card from my colleges at work. I bought a SCSI Plextor burner for my own money. It completely eliminated the issue that you couldn't use your PC, when burning a disk and there were no issues when the buffer ran low. The SCSI board apparently had its own processor, to do all the hard work, as there was next to no load on the PC, when burning a disk. All you had to be careful with, was not overloading your harddisk, but I can't remember me having a single burn failure, after getting that combo. You should make a video about such a setup! I'm pretty sure I have either or maybe both components to this day, somewhere.
Back in the nineties me and a friend borrowed, for money, a SCSI card and external single speed CD burner. We took orders from our entire class and spent an entire weekend burning the CDs. We took turns sleeping and had rented three movies, on VHS of course, to watch. I remember one of them was Desperado and my friend waking me up saying, „this one’s hilarious“ and me waking him two hours and one finished CD later with „you were right“. Good times. And we only wasted two blank CDs , for a still painful 12 deutsch marks each.
Ah, the days of adaptec card+plextor drive. I was DTP’ing a newsletter at the time (the move from pagemaker to indesign 2.0 was so momentous for me - back when adobe wasn’t taking lessons from the galactic empire…) and would burn CD-Rs of all the working files of each issue and distribute them to two people across the country for archiving and so that if the pdfs ever needed to be reconstructed, they could do so without me if need be (that did actually come to pass some 12 years later and it actually worked!) and after I coastered 4 cd-r blanks the first month, I was off to the not-so-near fry’s. Never coastered another blank. ;) Meeeemmmorrieeeeeees…
@@mtunayucer Well, the SCSI card was around 1000 DKK or around $133. The burner itself was as expensive, as a good quality burner, so not more expensive, than any other high end product. I don't remember the price of the burner, but my guess is around $100-150.
@@beo456 My current PC lives in a new ITX case and well visible on my table. My previous PC still lives right next to the table, because the stacker is way too big. Don't know the exact number though, but it's a hell of a solid case with room for the biggest setups a mainboard could hold.
I still own "that" system. Around 2002 walked off the aircraft carrier, headed to Fry's and filled a shopping cart spending over 2000 USD. Abit TH7 raid motherboard, 1.7Ghz Pentium 4, VGA nVidia GeForce3 Ti 500, DVD Write drive, Power supply, WD drive, ram, windows 2000 OS. Put it into an aluminum briefcase for mobility on base. Bought a legit case and added Sound blaster Audigy platinum EX, Klipsh 5.1 pro media later. ...upgraded to 2.8Ghz (same motherboard with chip adapter) and water cooled since then. The Klipsh 5.1 is the only thing still in use.
GeForce 3 was too expensive for me! It was at least almost like trying to get an 'RTX 4090 or 4080! So, in October, 2001, it was a GeForce 2 MX200 32 MB for me.
I got to see the original Dream PC Falcon Northwest case for this build a couple months ago. You should have called Adam to see if you could have put it all back together!
@@YuProducciones Canada during the world wars was, very innovative in the War Crimes industry. It’s a joke, because Canadians have the stereotype of being so unbelievably nice, but are also up there with Japan for requiring new Laws of War because of them. Every country’s history is built in war crimes though, so it isn’t meant to be actually derogatory towards Canadians, just “haha the nice guys used to be the really bad guys”
@@alexwolfeboy yeah, I find a nice good vibe around this coments too.. I could tell something like was the context... very interesting to know. thank you!
I love these retro build videos, reminds me of the excitement of doing a new build back in those days. Every upgrade was always a big step from the last, and there were so many high end options to drool over that I could never afford so I'd usually settle for mid end.
you know, when you feel old? When someone talks about a (late) childhood dream computer and it has a 1.8GHz CPU. I remember overclocking the famous Celeron 300A to 450MHz and that wasn't my first one. Back when Celeron was a smaller Pentium, not something to put in a coffee machine.
my first was 5000hz. my i7 7700k reached its end trying to run cyberpunk at playable levels. at the time i bought it I spend every holiday season to that day working full-shift in a factory to afford the pc and my driving licence.
NGL, as someone growing up in pretty much the same era of PC gaming as people like Linus and even Jay(z), I am extremely jealous that he gets to have a job putting together old Dream PC builds. Makes me feel young again, which is simply fueled by the same envy-driven energy I had when these builds were relevant.
I mean we probably could, if anything our time may be more valuable than the money we'd need to spend. Although I am guessing we're getting at the other end of the U curve, where PC parts rapidly depreciate in value til they bottoming out and begin going up again simply due to rarity. Working CRT monitors gonna be like that.
You should just go ahead and build the thing before the parts get rare enough to be expensive again. I have, some years ago, and now have every "dream PC" that I wanted boxed up in storage, since I'm done playing with them having scratched that itch permanently. But I built a socket A monster, a socket 478 or whatever the HT P4 was and a s939 with an AMD FX-60, and have about a pallet of video cards to pick from, including the bizarro dual GPU Asus MARS things which are actually very nice WHEN THEY WORK, which is about 50% o the time, the other half of the time only one GPU is running. And I have early SSDs like the OCZ card raid drive things that were godlike monsters back in the day. Note that I used plural there, I do in fact have more than one of those things. Full acrylic cases, monster tower cases, monster PSU's like 1250W, 1300W etc plus of course whatever the fanciest sound blasters were of that era, I don't remember the name anymore, but I have more than one of them too. Aureal Vortex too. Well, the downside is that it is, in fact, a sampling of "1 or 2 of EVERYTHING" you'd have in a fancy computer store between 2000 and 2006 or so, several cubic meters of blingified glorious PC masterrace creme de la creme. I have enough to build maybe 6-8 full systems with boxes of parts left over. - JUST DO IT -
Love that case! Still have my Lian Li aluminum case with removable MB tray, and it houses my EP45-UD3R/Q9650 build from 2009. Some things should never be chucked in the garbage. Probably explains why my main PC is still residing in a 1st Gen Cosmos case. It's a true beast, but I just keep upgrading the components over the years. Now has an Asus Z590 and i7 11700K build in it. (I only splurge on new shit every 4 or 5 years now.) Hell, I still have my first ever LCD monitor, a Samsung 151v 15", and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I seriously doubt the two Acer's I'm looking at now will last 20 years. Keep the old stuff alive, Linus, and stop trying to shoot the parachuting pilots. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The N64 used RDRAM for its memory and the Expansion Pak (the thing that came with Donkey Kong 64) was a 4MB RAM module. The "Jumper Pak" (the thing that came pre-installed in the slot the Expansion Pak goes in) was a CRIMM, or a dummy RDRAM stick required for electrical continuity. That's why you can't run it with the slot empty even though the Jumper Pak doesn't really do anything
So much of this video hit me right in the feels. I was working at CompUSA back in 2001 and that allowed me to get some sweet deals on hardware like this. The only component I still have in my house today, ~22 years later, is my Logitech Z-5400 5.1 THX speakers w/ wireless satellites. Each one had a capacitor fail over the years, but they're still in full working order after some quick soldering.
Buffer underrun while burning CDs was so annoying. I learned from that the importance of having two IDE channels, and having the HDDs on the primary channel and the CD drive on the secondary channel. That way the data wouldn't get interrupted, and would have a clean stream from channel 1 to 2. Writing across the same channel would lead to buffer underruns. And cloning discs from one disc drive to another directly was also a big no no. Instead, clone it to a disc image on the HDD and then burn it back to a disc from there.
That's what the BurnProof drives fixed. I had the same TDK drive from this build and it absolutely worked. It was very difficult to get the buffer to run out. Best CD burner I ever owned. In a strange twist of fate, I had already worked for TDK before that helping them build a CD-R factory in the US. It was a very neat place. CD-Rs were in high demand. Shortly after building that facility, the mass producers in China ramped up and absolutely knocked the legs out from under TDK trying to sell blanks made in the US. The TDK factory also made VHS tapes for several brands. They closed the factory and tore it down, brand new CD-R machines and all. Cheap media made in China and the end of VHS really hurt TDK as a company.
@@windowsuser321 Yeah and now the ease of installation completely depends on what kind of motherboard you have because some have attached IO shields which is so much easier. They could all be easy 😩
7:27 I remember using the Nero Burning Rom (that's what they called it) and seeing that buffer bar. Man does that bring back some memories. Imagine getting 3/4 of the way through the cd, and then having a buffer issue. Then the whole CD has to be thrown away, or used as a coaster.
Back with my second pc (around 1997) Easy CD Creator (4?) gave me the same level of anxiety. Oh man, that buffer bar. Taskill everything but Explorer and ECDC and hope for the best!
In my recollection, this was something I worried about but I don't remember the dreaded buffer underrun actually happening, even on a PC several years older (Win 98, about 500 MHz CPU, might have been a K6).
Oh god, seeing the back of that Deskstar and it's jumper config chart gave just me a shot of PTSD I didn't know existed. Thank god those days are over.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, in 2001 I was the MS Exchange admin for the largest bank in South Africa, I had the privilege of having access to the kind of equipment only a bank and a German OEM could have. Not having to pay retail for equipment was an amazing perk that I wish I still had!!
Hey speaking of RGB, In my pc “back in day” I had those small neon lights in my case , ahhhh the days, playing cs 1.3 , getting my skins off cs banana….glorious
And pirating "warez" off a BBS with a slow ass dial-up modem :) If a game was a couple megs it took ages to download. Cops would sometimes complain, but they did it too
I had no idea the Microsoft Sidewinder flight stick was so old. I picked one up second hand that I've used as my flight stick for years because I couldn't afford the newer sticks. It still holds up today, even if it doesn't have a lot of fancy features.
I'm using an absolutely ancient TM Cougar. Terrible pile of junk, very poorly made, it was a lot of work to restore it to the point it became useful. I think it's a quarter-century old or even more, it's a really early one. It's good for DCS World and other flight sims now, when it was new it was probably terrible.
My dad still uses his ffb Ms sidewinder, he finds old used ones and rebuilds it from parts when something breaks on it. And Crimson Skies was probably my favorite game from back then, glad to see you playing it!
man what a trip down memory lane. I think I remember reading that article and drooling over it. Also glad i kept some of my peripherals and gear from my past builds. Although sadly I mistakenly ewasted my build from 2002, was an athlon xp 1500+ build. Wish i could get it back.
The removable motherboard tray was actually amazing & I wish case makers would bring it back. Being able to install mounting hardware etc outside of the case before putting it in WITH it already attached to the motherboard tray was amazing.
That would be an I7 4790k and a Titan X Maxwell. I have it, and just yesterday played with it. Can run Hoghwards Legacy quite well with some settings on ultra and others on low.
I bought my MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 in 2002 and I'm still rocking that fine peace of technology today with MSFS. It could be a bit more precise on the X- and Y-axis, but it probably only needs some cleaning of the internal components.
man this takes me back to my mid teens all that green for boards and ram, i took about 20 years away from building to have a sort of life i built my first machine this side of the 2000's only a few years ago and needed to learn how to build again. thanks for the trip down memory lane.
You forgot a TV Adapter with the antenna port where you can connect an antenna or a cable! That was still a thing in 2001, at least in our country. My friend and I usually swap recordings of show since he have a different cable service and we burn them to a CD, then we swap CD's.
@@AgathaVixen At least few years later digital TV tuner cards were a thing and I wouldn't be surprised if they were already available in 2001. Many TV tuner cards also had S-Video and/or Composite input so they could be used as a capture card for a game console or VCR
I bought one of those! I forget the name, but it was buggy like crazy. Absolutly unusable. It was a nice dream at that time to have DVR in my PC when DVR itself was pretty new.
RTCW!!!! Yep you can scale that game up to at least 1080p on the original engine (with INI edits), but it's been remade since too. You can also still play and sometimes even find active servers for the multiplayer sequel/expansion/standalone game called Enemy Territory. It was originally planned as an expansion but due to issues during development, they ended up releasing the multiplayer portion of the game as a standalone, free to play game.
as a 37 year old i really loved this video. obviously i could never afford these either, but drooling over pc game magazines brought back some vivid memories. love it
Hey Linus and/or team! No idea if this gets your attention but I just had to reach out after watching this video. Especially because I HAVE this case and I'm still using it! You are absolutely right that ATX hasn't changed much. My case must be over 20 years old now and I just never saw a real reason to upgrade it. Sure, the 3.5 and 5.25 drive bays are pretty obsolete now but they are nicely hidden behind a door. And in fact, I still have a DVD burner to occasionaly burn a MP3 CD for my husband's old car stereo. And another 5.25 bay is occupied by a silent hard drive enclosure. Remember those? There are a few downsides to having an old case like this. Ventilation certainly has become more important and this case only has room for 80 mm fans. Initially I had Papst fans which were considered the very best back in the day. At least in Europe. And they held up extremely well. I only replaced them a few years ago. Not because they were not working anymore, but more as a precaution considering their age. They have been replaced by some nice Noctua fans. 2 intakes in the front, one outtake in the top and one outtake at the back. And you know what? Airflow is decent and those noctua fans at low rpm are so silent that it doesn't make much of a difference if you have 1 or 4 of them. Another downside is that the case is slimmer than modern cases. There hardly is enough room to put a good tower cooler on the CPU. I can barely close the side panel with my scythe mugen 5. The removable motherboard tray is absolutely useless nowadays. And especially videocards have been a hassle. The thick pillar on the left side of the case prevents the card from being inserted into the PCI express slot. The only way I can make it fit is by partially disssambling the case. These are the moments that I seriously consider buying a new case. But once it's in there it's fine. And realistically I only upgrade once every 2 years so it's not a big deal. This PC gets the hand-me-downs from the top of the line gaming rig of my husband. It's gonna be interesting when he gets a 5090 and I will get his current 4090. Maybe this will be the end? I will definitely try to make it work. I hate throwing away stuff that is still in working condition. And at this point it's become a matter of pride. It's funny because I was actually a bit disappointed when I first got this case. Sure, the brushed aluminum looks great. But silence has always been important to me. And before this case I had a chieftec case with thick steel panels that I lined on the inside with carpet tiles. That thing was heavy and absolutely silent. When I bought this case it didn't occur to me that aluminum would be lighter and more prone to resonate and rattle. I somewhat fixed it by using bitumen to deaden the panels. Also the door was slightly askew, I fixed that with a homemade washer. But still a small letdown for such an expensive case. So yeah, still rocking this case! It currently houses a Gigabyte B660M with a 12700K, 32 gigs of 3200 Mhz DDR4 (no real reason, just couldn't resist with ram prices), ASUS 3070 Noctua edition, Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD, a 8TB hard drive cooking in that silent enclosure and a no name DVD burner. All powered by a corsair RM850x. I put some pictures on your forum!
This was an awesome video - I remember having my dual 20gb hard drives, one game installed at a time. - lan parties with 6 crt monitors on the dining room table. Minimum 3 hours of troubleshooting to get connected to each other.. damn those were the days
I had a similar setup around that time. It was my first PC build when I was 15. Not nearly as high end but I played RTCW maxed at 1024x768 with no issue. Had the same steering wheel too, but a couple years later.
I still have that case. It's hooked up to a Samsung Syncmaster 900NF 19 inch CRT monitor. Great for retro PC games and arcade emulation. Funny that it's just as desirable now as it was back then.
Honestly, seeing linus have fun is so enjoyable, I think it'd be really fun to just have a channel/series of linus playing video games on a ton of different rigs
Man, I nostalgia’d so hard with this video. I still run into systems like this that people have had in the back of their closet for decades, and every time I convert them into retro gaming machines to relive those glory days.
the Nostalgia on this one! I think I still have that exact magazine laying around somewhere, I remember drooling over PC Mag, a trip to the grocery store would not be complete without telling mom to find me in the magazine section I'll be reading PC Magazine.
Aw dude you should've reached out to your audience. We have like a whole set of those Kipsch speakers on a shelf in the basement. And some in the attic too. Dad used to have what I now know was a- for the time- baller sound setup, but stopped using them at the old house when we renovated the basement to a home theater. (The basement was also awesome, in hindsight. Hardwood floors, an electric fireplace, huge wall-arm-mounted TV with huge space behind it to store any and all consoles and cables, with a shelf/ledge at the perfect height for controller sensors, with built-in bookshelves, a Harry Potter cupboard under the stairs to be a book-reading fort for me, and speakers built into the ceiling. My dad did almost everything himself, except the electricals, because that's something to leave to the pros.)
I didn't think I could feel so nostalgic and so attacked at the same time. 17:00 I'm pretty sure RtCW is a fairly standard Quake 3 engine game, and you already showed the numbers about how the processor alone crushed vanilla Quake 3.
1:00 - I love that you emphasize it having *hardware* overclocking controls - when at the time, it was the _software_ control that were new and amazing.
he's toggling that real old school gamer, I can't remember the game, but pilots that would parachute out, you could fly through or shoot the parachutes and it would change the sprite from a floating chute, to a crumpled one, and increase the fall rate...
In fairness I always did that in Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. I didn't know Electronic Arts was evil at the time. I am shocked at the time I wasted on that though.
I really appreciate the edits with voice. I like to listen while driving and I used to miss the text only edits (I'm not watching my phone while I drive) so the voice edits are much better!
@@buttersquids probably didn't matter too much considering that loads of people had been happy to just build a computer at all and bring it to a lan honestly. Still vividly remember all the people who just put their hardware into a coke bottle case and used that as a setup.
@@buttersquids I doubt it had the same exact parts. The socket 423 platform was really short lived but the newer socket 478 and 775 Pentium 4's were around for many years. There was still new Pentium 4's released in 2006 and the first Core2's weren't released until July. Though I guess he could have bought the parts used for cheap, but even then socket 478 would have been more likely. In 2006 I was using a Celeron 333MHz and NVIDIA Riva TNT. lol
@@buttersquids Was playing blizzard games back in the day. Hard drive failed, fan on gpu melted. Just figured being 2 to 3 years being the new stuff was ok enough back then! I do miss the magazines though!
Man, when I see people building a PC with old parts, it makes me kind of tear up. The feeling, the ambiance, the taste. Yes, the taste. That surrounds this era of PCs, especially made for gaming. It really felt like you're part of a "small" group of others who know what "true gaming" was. Dealing with "you really needed to know your stuff" to build a PC, even playing on low settings. I didn't even remember the last time I saw a "your GPU is not supported " dialog box or something like it. Heck, you had to set the jumper on a HDD for it to work, setting it to master or slave. There's also cable select. I'll just keep rambling on... I can feel this video. I won't get into dip switches.
4:20 - Part of the reason removable motherboard trays were good was because back then, it was NOT recommended to install your CPU and RAM on the board first. They had fewer layers and you could warp the board, damaging it or making it more difficult to mount. Installing it in the case first with all the standoffs gave it strength, and doing it outside the case made it far easier. Pentium 3 and Athlon XP chips were particularly susceptible because they had exposed cores as they emerged from Slot 1/Slot A and before Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 with their heatspreaders. Aftermarket heatsinks with additional mounting pressure could absolutely chip the silicon. Additionally, motherboards had far less connectivity, typically. If you wanted good audio, you were buying a SoundBlaster. LAN, upgraded USB (or USB at all depending on the age), extra parallel ports or SCSI for more printers, the list goes on. Being able to install all that first, and THEN slide it in was a godsend.
@@Unknown_Genius Ever since the 3090, most modern GPU designs have gone to shit. The 1080 Ti FE was the gold standard in power and form factor and, yes, even the blower style cooler.
@@arnox4554 What does electricity costs have to do with the design? The 1080 had been quite pricey as well when it comes to electricity costs, more power requires more electricity, simple as that - still remember how people specifically didn't want a 1080 because of how much it'd cost them on their monthly bill. But at some point we gotta stop striving for more power either way, otherwise we just end up with overly power hungry hardware that barely anyone is going to buy, making it an instant piece for museums unless somehow electricity prices drops so much that it doesn't matter. Because I certainly think that once we reach 50-70 cents of electricity costs per hour played a lot of people rather start sticking to older hardware or give up gaming in general.
@@Unknown_Genius For the top-end cards, 250W two-slot was the standard for QUITE a bit, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. And 250W is the sweet spot as it easily allows use of a two-slot cooler and is light enough to prevent most GPU sag, and even back during the GTX 200 days, they had dual-GPU-in-one designs that went up to 375W for the enthusiast that wanted a better way than SLI to run two cards at once. (I mean, I still wouldn't recommend them over the single-GPU design, but there you go.)
I'm not much of a commenter, but this was a great video. Despite not being around in 2001 I still got nostalgic from some of those 2000s PC design tropes. I loved Linus' enthusiam here
Sometime in the 1980's they started making audio things that sounded as good as sound could get. And there are audio devices from before then that go for very high prices still.
OH WOW! I had that Soundcard.. I'm an audio engineer and producer these days, but I've always been obsessed with sound quality, speakers, amps etc... Back when I bought this, it was like lifting a carpet off the speakers, it made that much of a difference in sound quality from cheap on-board audio to a true external soundcard with a dedicated DAC. Loved the thing!! Great purchase,
I went to college in 1999 with a ViewSonic 21inch 1600x1200 75Hz, with a .21 dot pitch monitor that I regret ever giving away. 1600x1200 is a highly, highly underrated resolution. Can't remember the model, but I don't think any display I've owned since has come to the same level of quality. Really looking forward to microLED getting to consumer price levels!
Asus has noticed some dust on that 2001 motherboard. They are offering repair service for $7,600.00 and will include a new CMOS battery under warranty at no charge.
Oh my God thats funny I'm Dying over here ......#FuckAsus
Asus noticed a dead body next to that motherboard.
They offer replacement for $9 million.
If you don't accept in 12 seconds, they will return both disassembled.
hell yeah, their sub part computers fail all the time and they want you to sell yourself to repair your device.
You misspelled #Asses
Someone farted in the motherboards general direction.
$20mln!!! And not a penny less.
Linus creates a media group to obtain his Childhood dream.. almost brings a tear to one's eye
Linus creates a media group to obtain his cringe segue to his sponsor
he created a media group so his dream pc could be a tax write off
@@cheezy269UwU such a tax writeoff
no it doesn't
hundreds of people would disagree with that statement
18:27 Linus Forgets the YEAR he was born.
You were 15 in 2001 Linus.
…he might have been dropped on his head as a baby…🤔
Whoops - LS
To be fair you kinda stop thinking about it in your 30s. You got what reason to keep track of it? “I can drive!” @ 16, then “I can vote!” @ 18, and “I can drink!” @ 21. Then what? “i can rent a car? 🤷♂️”@ 25 and nothing else till you're 65 and can draw social security…. You stop thinking about it.
@@andrewdriver3318 Bro could drink at 19 ;)
@@Malohdek1 19, 21 we all waiting till 65 now 😆
15:26 Something people forget is that good audio doesn’t really go bad over time
That "childhood PC" has a more modern sound system than my current rig. If it ain't broke...
Thought the same thing when they mentioned the Sennheiser headphones. The HD600s (not the ones in the video) came out in the 90s and are still made and used today.
I use a set of DT770 Pros for my PC.
Like you say, good audio stays good.
@@NickkAtNyteI have couple pair of HD 420 they are vintage as hell but still sound amazing for an open back especially.
@@NickkAtNyte Feels like audio tech doesn't move that fast. The only difference with my AKG K702s is that the newer built ones apparently have worse build quality compared to the older Austrian ones.
stil using my now legendary logitech z5500 set
My Klipsch pro media speakers lasted for more than 20 years before they started making weird noises. I was able to call Klipsch and get replacement subwoofer cones from them to replace the 15 year old rotted out ones for like $30 each. That made me a life long customer, a company that actually stood behind their products. I liked them so much I repurchased them again a couple of years ago, the quality went down a little, but still better than competitors.
I still have 15 year old one that are playing to this day. For life, as long as they continue being awesome to their customers.
That's awesome. If I'm ever in the market for speakers I'd be looking at them then after reading your comment about them standing by the customer which is all too rare these days sadly.
Mine went about 16 years then developed a hum which probably required a capacitor change. I used the satellites with a different amp and subwoofer until one of those went soft on me just a year ago. They served me well for entertainment and proofing audio. I first tested them in Best Buy and they blew away the more expensive Bose on display for computer audio in 2003.
I still have mine that's been working without a hiccup. This whole video was a trip down memory lane.
yeah klipsch pro media speakers are the goat.
my favorite thing about watching videos like this with Linus in them is how He is so completely unabashedly a nerd. he loves this stuff so much, and has so much fun with it. This PC he's building is functionally a relic and yet he's loving every second of it, especially once they start booting up old games.
Truly a miracle that you found a working DeathStar. I can still remember when mine died. Many brilliant MSPaintings were lost that day.
I lost two 30 gb 75gxp drives back in the day... The 60gxp fared better.
The irony is that Hitachi fixed the issues and turned the former IBM drives into superb products. There was a long time where Hitachi was the only brand I would use and HGST drives are still the only spinning drives I use.
@@LatitudeSkyI got screwed out of $450 buying 2 new-old stock 10tb helium drives last year. They lasted half a year
@@LatitudeSky Cheap SSDs are pretty good these days, I have an old ass 240GB SATA SSD (Kingston V300) that I bought many years ago. I think it's about 10 years old and I've hammered the snot out of it using it as a scratch drive. Even had my Windows paging file on it for years! It still reports something like 94% SSD life remaining and I still use it :)
Fun fact: The Nintendo 64 also used Rambus RDRAM. The "jumper pak" that's included in the expansion slot out of the box is literally one of those "dummy modules" in a fancy plastic cartridge. (2:44)
whoa. Thank you for this info.
Lol
The PS2 also used RDRAM (a whopping 32 MB!!).
Wait, whaat?! That's why the N64 needed the silly jumper pak thing?! To deal with the RD RAM hardware limitation?! Thanks for this info, really cool little tidbit of gaming history here.
Wait... that's all that jumper Pak was??? just a dummy for the RDRAM??? Mind blown.
Rounded IDE cables paid for my house. Amazon had not become a thing yet and there were lots of local pcshops. I went around to all the local shops and offered my services. $100 to fix the computer or it was returned in the original condition for free. The rounded cables would pull out it the corners. They would give constantly changing symptoms and make it harder to troubleshoot. The first one took me two hours to find. After that, I was able to repair a machine in a little over twelve minutes. I was fixing 17-20 computers a day for three months straight. Paid off my mortgage with the money. Good times.
Oh? So many BSODs in those days.. Guess some must of been due to the cables.. Never knew that
1:21 "September of 2001" huh, that date does sound familiar
reminds me of that tragedy
911 reference 911 reference
@anabang1251 yea I like porsche
A tower of power
Reminds me of a moment in the fourth grade ...
Dude, I remember having that Klipsch 5.1 surround playing World of Warcraft, and a dirty Rogue would make that stealth sound behind you, and it would make you jump because of the surround, because you knew the stun lock was coming. Also, watching a movie on the PC, you could hear the paper burning from a cigarette when somebody would be smoking. Or the scuff of a shoe on the floor when somebody was walking. It was legit, so crystal clear.
I still have mine in storage. I will never sell it.
My mom and I were watching a horror movie with surround system.
Our theater room was a room the original homeowner built as an extension and was like a really really fancy porch.
In the movie a twig broke and my mom (a military vet) and me immediately grabbed something for self defense thinking there was someone outside XD
i was so sad when mine got taken out by lightning. They were so amazing
@@TooMuchMiddle I'm using mine now! Also have the Klipsch Home Theater Reference speakers on my home theater system ! Great!!
Love my klipsch 2.1. $100-$150 is a steal
20:30 Linus "War Crimes" Sebastian back at it again
20:37, sir, that's considered a warcrime
Not, if you are Canada and it's WW1 then it's a Geneva Checklist.
But who could said that was done intentionally?
its not a war crime if you win the war
it's only a warcrime if there's evidence.
Relax hes Canadian they are known for it
7:02 Dear Linus.
In 1998 at my 30th birthday, I got a SCSI card from my colleges at work. I bought a SCSI Plextor burner for my own money. It completely eliminated the issue that you couldn't use your PC, when burning a disk and there were no issues when the buffer ran low. The SCSI board apparently had its own processor, to do all the hard work, as there was next to no load on the PC, when burning a disk. All you had to be careful with, was not overloading your harddisk, but I can't remember me having a single burn failure, after getting that combo.
You should make a video about such a setup! I'm pretty sure I have either or maybe both components to this day, somewhere.
Back in the nineties me and a friend borrowed, for money, a SCSI card and external single speed CD burner. We took orders from our entire class and spent an entire weekend burning the CDs. We took turns sleeping and had rented three movies, on VHS of course, to watch. I remember one of them was Desperado and my friend waking me up saying, „this one’s hilarious“ and me waking him two hours and one finished CD later with „you were right“. Good times. And we only wasted two blank CDs , for a still painful 12 deutsch marks each.
Ah, the days of adaptec card+plextor drive. I was DTP’ing a newsletter at the time (the move from pagemaker to indesign 2.0 was so momentous for me - back when adobe wasn’t taking lessons from the galactic empire…) and would burn CD-Rs of all the working files of each issue and distribute them to two people across the country for archiving and so that if the pdfs ever needed to be reconstructed, they could do so without me if need be (that did actually come to pass some 12 years later and it actually worked!) and after I coastered 4 cd-r blanks the first month, I was off to the not-so-near fry’s. Never coastered another blank. ;)
Meeeemmmorrieeeeeees…
that shit was probably many times more expensive than 2001's ide drives.
@@mtunayucer Well, the SCSI card was around 1000 DKK or around $133.
The burner itself was as expensive, as a good quality burner, so not more expensive, than any other high end product.
I don't remember the price of the burner, but my guess is around $100-150.
@@akyhne thats not too expensive i had a number in the ballpark of 500 dollars on my mind
I don't care what Linus says, removable motherboard tray and castor wheels is why I'm still rocking a full tower, Cooler Master Stacker 830 from 2007.
@@beo456 My current PC lives in a new ITX case and well visible on my table. My previous PC still lives right next to the table, because the stacker is way too big. Don't know the exact number though, but it's a hell of a solid case with room for the biggest setups a mainboard could hold.
20:33 when the second Canadian mode kicks in
I thought of the same thing... hahaha
Never a war crime the first time... or when its digital... eh
It's never a war crime the first time.
I still own "that" system. Around 2002 walked off the aircraft carrier, headed to Fry's and filled a shopping cart spending over 2000 USD. Abit TH7 raid motherboard, 1.7Ghz Pentium 4, VGA nVidia GeForce3 Ti 500, DVD Write drive, Power supply, WD drive, ram, windows 2000 OS. Put it into an aluminum briefcase for mobility on base. Bought a legit case and added Sound blaster Audigy platinum EX, Klipsh 5.1 pro media later. ...upgraded to 2.8Ghz (same motherboard with chip adapter) and water cooled since then. The Klipsh 5.1 is the only thing still in use.
GeForce 3 was too expensive for me! It was at least almost like trying to get an 'RTX 4090 or 4080! So, in October, 2001, it was a GeForce 2 MX200 32 MB for me.
Which Fry's, i gotta know
…you mean even the carrier has been decommissioned? 🤔
I miss the old Abit boards
@@Tevrudenit was probably a fry’s electronics
20:32
Linus: Can i shoot down his parachute
Um sir thats a war crime
I got to see the original Dream PC Falcon Northwest case for this build a couple months ago. You should have called Adam to see if you could have put it all back together!
20:46 “can you shoot down the chute” good to see Linus embracing his Canadian heritage of war crimes 😂
third coment about this, I'm so confused - I dont get the reference - and I think its not a funny coment to make.. but .meh. ^^
@@YuProducciones Canada during the world wars was, very innovative in the War Crimes industry. It’s a joke, because Canadians have the stereotype of being so unbelievably nice, but are also up there with Japan for requiring new Laws of War because of them. Every country’s history is built in war crimes though, so it isn’t meant to be actually derogatory towards Canadians, just “haha the nice guys used to be the really bad guys”
@@alexwolfeboy yeah, I find a nice good vibe around this coments too.. I could tell something like was the context... very interesting to know. thank you!
who cares about the Geneva Suggestions anyway 😉
It's not a war crime the first time...
I love these retro build videos, reminds me of the excitement of doing a new build back in those days. Every upgrade was always a big step from the last, and there were so many high end options to drool over that I could never afford so I'd usually settle for mid end.
you know, when you feel old? When someone talks about a (late) childhood dream computer and it has a 1.8GHz CPU.
I remember overclocking the famous Celeron 300A to 450MHz and that wasn't my first one. Back when Celeron was a smaller Pentium, not something to put in a coffee machine.
My first one was 600hz and it sat in a shoebox. I started it with a screwdriver and was in (a laggy) heaven.
my first was 5000hz. my i7 7700k reached its end trying to run cyberpunk at playable levels. at the time i bought it I spend every holiday season to that day working full-shift in a factory to afford the pc and my driving licence.
I juiced it to 464mhz
I remember gaming on my dads C64, dreaming about the hot new thing: an Amiga 500…
My first computer had a Pentium Pro 180, overclocked it by just removing a jumper, 200mhz of raw fury right there.
NGL, as someone growing up in pretty much the same era of PC gaming as people like Linus and even Jay(z), I am extremely jealous that he gets to have a job putting together old Dream PC builds. Makes me feel young again, which is simply fueled by the same envy-driven energy I had when these builds were relevant.
I mean we probably could, if anything our time may be more valuable than the money we'd need to spend. Although I am guessing we're getting at the other end of the U curve, where PC parts rapidly depreciate in value til they bottoming out and begin going up again simply due to rarity. Working CRT monitors gonna be like that.
I want a Sidewinder Joystick now....Maybe I should since I can't play MSFS 2020 properly without it?
You should just go ahead and build the thing before the parts get rare enough to be expensive again. I have, some years ago, and now have every "dream PC" that I wanted boxed up in storage, since I'm done playing with them having scratched that itch permanently. But I built a socket A monster, a socket 478 or whatever the HT P4 was and a s939 with an AMD FX-60, and have about a pallet of video cards to pick from, including the bizarro dual GPU Asus MARS things which are actually very nice WHEN THEY WORK, which is about 50% o the time, the other half of the time only one GPU is running. And I have early SSDs like the OCZ card raid drive things that were godlike monsters back in the day. Note that I used plural there, I do in fact have more than one of those things. Full acrylic cases, monster tower cases, monster PSU's like 1250W, 1300W etc plus of course whatever the fanciest sound blasters were of that era, I don't remember the name anymore, but I have more than one of them too. Aureal Vortex too.
Well, the downside is that it is, in fact, a sampling of "1 or 2 of EVERYTHING" you'd have in a fancy computer store between 2000 and 2006 or so, several cubic meters of blingified glorious PC masterrace creme de la creme. I have enough to build maybe 6-8 full systems with boxes of parts left over.
- JUST DO IT -
Love that case! Still have my Lian Li aluminum case with removable MB tray, and it houses my EP45-UD3R/Q9650 build from 2009. Some things should never be chucked in the garbage. Probably explains why my main PC is still residing in a 1st Gen Cosmos case. It's a true beast, but I just keep upgrading the components over the years. Now has an Asus Z590 and i7 11700K build in it. (I only splurge on new shit every 4 or 5 years now.) Hell, I still have my first ever LCD monitor, a Samsung 151v 15", and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I seriously doubt the two Acer's I'm looking at now will last 20 years. Keep the old stuff alive, Linus, and stop trying to shoot the parachuting pilots. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The N64 used RDRAM for its memory and the Expansion Pak (the thing that came with Donkey Kong 64) was a 4MB RAM module. The "Jumper Pak" (the thing that came pre-installed in the slot the Expansion Pak goes in) was a CRIMM, or a dummy RDRAM stick required for electrical continuity. That's why you can't run it with the slot empty even though the Jumper Pak doesn't really do anything
I thought the Jumper Pack was the RAM.
PS2 uses RDRAM as well 32MB of it.
@@Butterscotch_96 it's just a few resistors and capacitors
1:20
...but in September of 2001¹
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¹Better known for other things
Not relevant here.
linus not being able to afford this was the worst thing that happened during that time
What, the Noodle Incident?
@@arnox4554what?
🛩🏢🏢
20:55 Linus casually committing war crimes
“The Hague does not condone the use of such violent methods, so make sure there are no witnesses” ADA, Satisfactory
So much of this video hit me right in the feels. I was working at CompUSA back in 2001 and that allowed me to get some sweet deals on hardware like this. The only component I still have in my house today, ~22 years later, is my Logitech Z-5400 5.1 THX speakers w/ wireless satellites. Each one had a capacitor fail over the years, but they're still in full working order after some quick soldering.
These older builds melt my ancient heart, please do more Linus, I'll break out the hot cocoa with mini marshmallows to enjoy it!
16:12 OOHHH ITS OL'MATE SENNYY!
Buffer underrun while burning CDs was so annoying. I learned from that the importance of having two IDE channels, and having the HDDs on the primary channel and the CD drive on the secondary channel. That way the data wouldn't get interrupted, and would have a clean stream from channel 1 to 2. Writing across the same channel would lead to buffer underruns.
And cloning discs from one disc drive to another directly was also a big no no. Instead, clone it to a disc image on the HDD and then burn it back to a disc from there.
That's what the BurnProof drives fixed. I had the same TDK drive from this build and it absolutely worked. It was very difficult to get the buffer to run out. Best CD burner I ever owned. In a strange twist of fate, I had already worked for TDK before that helping them build a CD-R factory in the US. It was a very neat place. CD-Rs were in high demand. Shortly after building that facility, the mass producers in China ramped up and absolutely knocked the legs out from under TDK trying to sell blanks made in the US. The TDK factory also made VHS tapes for several brands. They closed the factory and tore it down, brand new CD-R machines and all. Cheap media made in China and the end of VHS really hurt TDK as a company.
@LatitudeSky I used to buy TDK, Kodak and Sony CDs. I still have a 50x spindle in a box - I just checked. 😆
Honestly I wish cases still had removable motherboard trays, my least favorite part of pc building is lining up the IO.
I want my motherboard tray to mount to french cleats.
@@bobspldbckwrds ooooh that would be satisfying
I hate I/O shields. I wish we could go back to when they didn't have those annoying prong things...
@@windowsuser321 Yeah and now the ease of installation completely depends on what kind of motherboard you have because some have attached IO shields which is so much easier. They could all be easy 😩
I also see it and go "Damn, free Test Bench stand." so now I'm looking at finding one lol
20:33 Linus casually attempts a war crime
He's canadian, ain't he?
7:27 I remember using the Nero Burning Rom (that's what they called it) and seeing that buffer bar. Man does that bring back some memories. Imagine getting 3/4 of the way through the cd, and then having a buffer issue. Then the whole CD has to be thrown away, or used as a coaster.
I miss when products could have goofy dad jokes for brand names. Can we bring that back, please, tech industry?
Back with my second pc (around 1997) Easy CD Creator (4?) gave me the same level of anxiety. Oh man, that buffer bar. Taskill everything but Explorer and ECDC and hope for the best!
In my recollection, this was something I worried about but I don't remember the dreaded buffer underrun actually happening, even on a PC several years older (Win 98, about 500 MHz CPU, might have been a K6).
BURN-proof. SuperLink. Or even plain old boring "Buffer underrun protection" in Nero. Good times.
Dammit. Only today, after 20 years, I realized that "Nero Burning Rom" is supposed to be a pun with Nero burning Rome.
Oh god, seeing the back of that Deskstar and it's jumper config chart gave just me a shot of PTSD I didn't know existed. Thank god those days are over.
i hated lining up molex connectors, there seemed to be always one pin that made it horrible
In true canadian style, he is applying the Geneva Checklist by shooting at a pilot who has ejected >.
this video was such a nostalgic trip; it brought back so many memories. thank you for sharing this Linus.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, in 2001 I was the MS Exchange admin for the largest bank in South Africa, I had the privilege of having access to the kind of equipment only a bank and a German OEM could have. Not having to pay retail for equipment was an amazing perk that I wish I still had!!
16:22 Aww, no Huh-Duh Six Hunge-Os by Ol' Mate SENN?
The golden age of gaming! No loot boxes, and no microtransactions. Just pure computing, without any shiny RGBs. I miss those times :) .
Hey speaking of RGB, In my pc “back in day” I had those small neon lights in my case , ahhhh the days, playing cs 1.3 , getting my skins off cs banana….glorious
No RGB, just UV reactive crap and blacklights, at least you can control the color of RGB LEDs.
And pirating "warez" off a BBS with a slow ass dial-up modem :) If a game was a couple megs it took ages to download. Cops would sometimes complain, but they did it too
I had no idea the Microsoft Sidewinder flight stick was so old. I picked one up second hand that I've used as my flight stick for years because I couldn't afford the newer sticks. It still holds up today, even if it doesn't have a lot of fancy features.
My dad still uses his.
I actually wish I still had mine.
I'm using an absolutely ancient TM Cougar. Terrible pile of junk, very poorly made, it was a lot of work to restore it to the point it became useful. I think it's a quarter-century old or even more, it's a really early one. It's good for DCS World and other flight sims now, when it was new it was probably terrible.
My dad still uses his ffb Ms sidewinder, he finds old used ones and rebuilds it from parts when something breaks on it. And Crimson Skies was probably my favorite game from back then, glad to see you playing it!
Love these throwback builds! So glad you did the ffb sidewinder also!
man what a trip down memory lane. I think I remember reading that article and drooling over it. Also glad i kept some of my peripherals and gear from my past builds. Although sadly I mistakenly ewasted my build from 2002, was an athlon xp 1500+ build. Wish i could get it back.
The removable motherboard tray was actually amazing & I wish case makers would bring it back. Being able to install mounting hardware etc outside of the case before putting it in WITH it already attached to the motherboard tray was amazing.
I love when you test older hardware its so important for preservation in tech. Thank you Grinus Ledia Moup!
grade 9 linus is shaking in his boot
4:00 I really miss aluminum cases. Shame no case manufacturer bothers to make them anymore.
I loved reading Maximum PC back in the day and the Dream Machine issues were always a treat. Would be cool to see more videos exploring their builds.
You know what would be a cool video? The ultimate PC from 2015, or ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO
Quiet, witch! - LS
I concur
I'm still on a pc from 2015 😢 4th gen intel i7
3 gen here 😢@@ThomasWyatt-yg4sz
That would be an I7 4790k and a Titan X Maxwell. I have it, and just yesterday played with it. Can run Hoghwards Legacy quite well with some settings on ultra and others on low.
I bought my MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 in 2002 and I'm still rocking that fine peace of technology today with MSFS. It could be a bit more precise on the X- and Y-axis, but it probably only needs some cleaning of the internal components.
man this takes me back to my mid teens all that green for boards and ram, i took about 20 years away from building to have a sort of life i built my first machine this side of the 2000's only a few years ago and needed to learn how to build again. thanks for the trip down memory lane.
You forgot a TV Adapter with the antenna port where you can connect an antenna or a cable! That was still a thing in 2001, at least in our country. My friend and I usually swap recordings of show since he have a different cable service and we burn them to a CD, then we swap CD's.
Sure, in that time was a cool accessory, but since the analog tv signals were turn off, all of that TV cards are useless in 2024.
@@AgathaVixen At least few years later digital TV tuner cards were a thing and I wouldn't be surprised if they were already available in 2001. Many TV tuner cards also had S-Video and/or Composite input so they could be used as a capture card for a game console or VCR
I bought one of those! I forget the name, but it was buggy like crazy. Absolutly unusable. It was a nice dream at that time to have DVR in my PC when DVR itself was pretty new.
Bruh. Audio on PCs back then is STILL more useful than today...
RTCW!!!! Yep you can scale that game up to at least 1080p on the original engine (with INI edits), but it's been remade since too. You can also still play and sometimes even find active servers for the multiplayer sequel/expansion/standalone game called Enemy Territory. It was originally planned as an expansion but due to issues during development, they ended up releasing the multiplayer portion of the game as a standalone, free to play game.
Helllll yeah I love these kind of videos (going over your staffs old tech dreams)
or when he looks at some wierd looking motherboards/cpus etc :D
as a 37 year old i really loved this video. obviously i could never afford these either, but drooling over pc game magazines brought back some vivid memories. love it
There is something special about building with top of the line old components in modern days
But not too poor....
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Bro is a time traveler
thats his job not yours
how you post 3 mins ago when the video came out 30 seconds ago
I miss Maximum PC and CPU Magazine, AKA analogue RUclips for PC builders.
Hey Linus and/or team! No idea if this gets your attention but I just had to reach out after watching this video. Especially because I HAVE this case and I'm still using it! You are absolutely right that ATX hasn't changed much. My case must be over 20 years old now and I just never saw a real reason to upgrade it. Sure, the 3.5 and 5.25 drive bays are pretty obsolete now but they are nicely hidden behind a door. And in fact, I still have a DVD burner to occasionaly burn a MP3 CD for my husband's old car stereo. And another 5.25 bay is occupied by a silent hard drive enclosure. Remember those?
There are a few downsides to having an old case like this. Ventilation certainly has become more important and this case only has room for 80 mm fans. Initially I had Papst fans which were considered the very best back in the day. At least in Europe. And they held up extremely well. I only replaced them a few years ago. Not because they were not working anymore, but more as a precaution considering their age. They have been replaced by some nice Noctua fans. 2 intakes in the front, one outtake in the top and one outtake at the back. And you know what? Airflow is decent and those noctua fans at low rpm are so silent that it doesn't make much of a difference if you have 1 or 4 of them.
Another downside is that the case is slimmer than modern cases. There hardly is enough room to put a good tower cooler on the CPU. I can barely close the side panel with my scythe mugen 5. The removable motherboard tray is absolutely useless nowadays. And especially videocards have been a hassle. The thick pillar on the left side of the case prevents the card from being inserted into the PCI express slot. The only way I can make it fit is by partially disssambling the case. These are the moments that I seriously consider buying a new case. But once it's in there it's fine. And realistically I only upgrade once every 2 years so it's not a big deal. This PC gets the hand-me-downs from the top of the line gaming rig of my husband. It's gonna be interesting when he gets a 5090 and I will get his current 4090. Maybe this will be the end? I will definitely try to make it work. I hate throwing away stuff that is still in working condition. And at this point it's become a matter of pride.
It's funny because I was actually a bit disappointed when I first got this case. Sure, the brushed aluminum looks great. But silence has always been important to me. And before this case I had a chieftec case with thick steel panels that I lined on the inside with carpet tiles. That thing was heavy and absolutely silent. When I bought this case it didn't occur to me that aluminum would be lighter and more prone to resonate and rattle. I somewhat fixed it by using bitumen to deaden the panels. Also the door was slightly askew, I fixed that with a homemade washer. But still a small letdown for such an expensive case.
So yeah, still rocking this case! It currently houses a Gigabyte B660M with a 12700K, 32 gigs of 3200 Mhz DDR4 (no real reason, just couldn't resist with ram prices), ASUS 3070 Noctua edition, Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD, a 8TB hard drive cooking in that silent enclosure and a no name DVD burner. All powered by a corsair RM850x. I put some pictures on your forum!
4:30 why the actual hell do they not do that anymore? that should be STANDARD
Lian Li does it on some of their models. I have 1
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This was an awesome video - I remember having my dual 20gb hard drives, one game installed at a time. - lan parties with 6 crt monitors on the dining room table. Minimum 3 hours of troubleshooting to get connected to each other.. damn those were the days
I had a similar setup around that time. It was my first PC build when I was 15. Not nearly as high end but I played RTCW maxed at 1024x768 with no issue. Had the same steering wheel too, but a couple years later.
I still have that case. It's hooked up to a Samsung Syncmaster 900NF 19 inch CRT monitor. Great for retro PC games and arcade emulation. Funny that it's just as desirable now as it was back then.
Honestly, seeing linus have fun is so enjoyable, I think it'd be really fun to just have a channel/series of linus playing video games on a ton of different rigs
I still use a Lian-li Pc V2120, with a removable motherboard tray. It's an outstanding case. Need modern inputs? That's what bay adapters are for 😍
Man, I nostalgia’d so hard with this video. I still run into systems like this that people have had in the back of their closet for decades, and every time I convert them into retro gaming machines to relive those glory days.
the Nostalgia on this one! I think I still have that exact magazine laying around somewhere, I remember drooling over PC Mag, a trip to the grocery store would not be complete without telling mom to find me in the magazine section I'll be reading PC Magazine.
Having worked in a computer store back then, this video brings back a lot of memories
One of my favourite LTT videos in a while. Thanks Team!
Aw dude you should've reached out to your audience. We have like a whole set of those Kipsch speakers on a shelf in the basement. And some in the attic too.
Dad used to have what I now know was a- for the time- baller sound setup, but stopped using them at the old house when we renovated the basement to a home theater.
(The basement was also awesome, in hindsight. Hardwood floors, an electric fireplace, huge wall-arm-mounted TV with huge space behind it to store any and all consoles and cables, with a shelf/ledge at the perfect height for controller sensors, with built-in bookshelves, a Harry Potter cupboard under the stairs to be a book-reading fort for me, and speakers built into the ceiling. My dad did almost everything himself, except the electricals, because that's something to leave to the pros.)
My: I used to be poor now. I am still poor
me too now im a professional poor selling poor items to other fellow poors.
good ole PoorCess auto
I didn't think I could feel so nostalgic and so attacked at the same time.
17:00 I'm pretty sure RtCW is a fairly standard Quake 3 engine game, and you already showed the numbers about how the processor alone crushed vanilla Quake 3.
Was going to say it's based on quake engine 3, but you beat me to it. Not that impressive indeed.
I bet it impressed him because he tried that game on weaker hardware back in the day
LOL this coment , i don't know ... its funny hahaha this first sentence
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@@KokoroKatsura For some reason, I got a lot of 2000s forum nostalgia from this post.
1:00 - I love that you emphasize it having *hardware* overclocking controls - when at the time, it was the _software_ control that were new and amazing.
Buffer overflow was the bane of my existence ripping CDs. 💿
"where's his parachute? He's dead." weird, a Canadian trying to commit war crimes?? Who'd have seen that coming?
he's toggling that real old school gamer, I can't remember the game, but pilots that would parachute out, you could fly through or shoot the parachutes and it would change the sprite from a floating chute, to a crumpled one, and increase the fall rate...
In fairness I always did that in Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. I didn't know Electronic Arts was evil at the time. I am shocked at the time I wasted on that though.
Having a machine like this in my teens would have blown my mind, despite it being positively ancient by today's standards.
I too remember drooling ovr the insane power of the Maximum PC build.
I really appreciate the edits with voice. I like to listen while driving and I used to miss the text only edits (I'm not watching my phone while I drive) so the voice edits are much better!
Its always fun playing with your dream hardware from your childhood, I'm doing so now messing around with the e5 v3/v4 platform and its so satisfying.
I built this exact computer back in like 2006 lol. Prices had dropped. My pc case was yellow though. Great throwback to the good ole days!
Wow, how did it hold up by then? PC tech was moving super quickly then right?
@@buttersquids probably didn't matter too much considering that loads of people had been happy to just build a computer at all and bring it to a lan honestly.
Still vividly remember all the people who just put their hardware into a coke bottle case and used that as a setup.
@@buttersquids I doubt it had the same exact parts. The socket 423 platform was really short lived but the newer socket 478 and 775 Pentium 4's were around for many years. There was still new Pentium 4's released in 2006 and the first Core2's weren't released until July.
Though I guess he could have bought the parts used for cheap, but even then socket 478 would have been more likely.
In 2006 I was using a Celeron 333MHz and NVIDIA Riva TNT. lol
@@Pasi123 In 2006= It was an Asus A7N8X-X with an Athlon XP Barton 3000+ with 512 MB of PC2700 DDR1 SDRAM.
@@buttersquids Was playing blizzard games back in the day. Hard drive failed, fan on gpu melted. Just figured being 2 to 3 years being the new stuff was ok enough back then! I do miss the magazines though!
16:43 They’re made in Ireland just like you 😊
Man, when I see people building a PC with old parts, it makes me kind of tear up. The feeling, the ambiance, the taste. Yes, the taste. That surrounds this era of PCs, especially made for gaming. It really felt like you're part of a "small" group of others who know what "true gaming" was.
Dealing with "you really needed to know your stuff" to build a PC, even playing on low settings. I didn't even remember the last time I saw a "your GPU is not supported " dialog box or something like it. Heck, you had to set the jumper on a HDD for it to work, setting it to master or slave. There's also cable select.
I'll just keep rambling on...
I can feel this video.
I won't get into dip switches.
If prices of pentium 4 systems go up after this video, i'll eat an a4 paper sheet
September 2001 = Linus builds his dream tower.
20:37 glad to see linus getting back to his Canadian roots.
I still have that sidewinder in the garage! It was the best for Mechwarrior!
In good shape it’s still a few hundred bucks. I love mine even today.
Just got one for flight simming and it is great!
@@visualdarkness I STILL use mine for Elite Dangerous.
@@jaymorrison2419 I got Elite but still have to try it out!
@@jaymorrison2419 I got Elite but still need to try the game!
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4:20 - Part of the reason removable motherboard trays were good was because back then, it was NOT recommended to install your CPU and RAM on the board first. They had fewer layers and you could warp the board, damaging it or making it more difficult to mount. Installing it in the case first with all the standoffs gave it strength, and doing it outside the case made it far easier.
Pentium 3 and Athlon XP chips were particularly susceptible because they had exposed cores as they emerged from Slot 1/Slot A and before Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 with their heatspreaders. Aftermarket heatsinks with additional mounting pressure could absolutely chip the silicon.
Additionally, motherboards had far less connectivity, typically. If you wanted good audio, you were buying a SoundBlaster. LAN, upgraded USB (or USB at all depending on the age), extra parallel ports or SCSI for more printers, the list goes on. Being able to install all that first, and THEN slide it in was a godsend.
Then: "UNLIMITED POWER!"
Now: "look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."
True, only sad part is the electricity bill nowadays compared to then, lol
@@Unknown_Genius Ever since the 3090, most modern GPU designs have gone to shit. The 1080 Ti FE was the gold standard in power and form factor and, yes, even the blower style cooler.
@@arnox4554 What does electricity costs have to do with the design?
The 1080 had been quite pricey as well when it comes to electricity costs, more power requires more electricity, simple as that - still remember how people specifically didn't want a 1080 because of how much it'd cost them on their monthly bill.
But at some point we gotta stop striving for more power either way, otherwise we just end up with overly power hungry hardware that barely anyone is going to buy, making it an instant piece for museums unless somehow electricity prices drops so much that it doesn't matter. Because I certainly think that once we reach 50-70 cents of electricity costs per hour played a lot of people rather start sticking to older hardware or give up gaming in general.
@@Unknown_Genius For the top-end cards, 250W two-slot was the standard for QUITE a bit, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. And 250W is the sweet spot as it easily allows use of a two-slot cooler and is light enough to prevent most GPU sag, and even back during the GTX 200 days, they had dual-GPU-in-one designs that went up to 375W for the enthusiast that wanted a better way than SLI to run two cards at once. (I mean, I still wouldn't recommend them over the single-GPU design, but there you go.)
That initial boot "beep" sent chills down my spine... good stuff man, good stuff.
I'm not much of a commenter, but this was a great video. Despite not being around in 2001 I still got nostalgic from some of those 2000s PC design tropes. I loved Linus' enthusiam here
Linus going bankrupt in his 9th grade arc affording this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Two in the front, one in the back" - Linus, 2024 @3:37
Man I love Sennheiser HD580 Precision ❤
so true
Same, it's my best headphone by far.
Sometime in the 1980's they started making audio things that sounded as good as sound could get.
And there are audio devices from before then that go for very high prices still.
linus's ability to seamlessly promote the sponser and their website in every video is unmatched
20:42 Canadians casually wondering why they can't commit war crimes...
OH WOW! I had that Soundcard..
I'm an audio engineer and producer these days, but I've always been obsessed with sound quality, speakers, amps etc... Back when I bought this, it was like lifting a carpet off the speakers, it made that much of a difference in sound quality from cheap on-board audio to a true external soundcard with a dedicated DAC. Loved the thing!! Great purchase,
I went to college in 1999 with a ViewSonic 21inch 1600x1200 75Hz, with a .21 dot pitch monitor that I regret ever giving away. 1600x1200 is a highly, highly underrated resolution. Can't remember the model, but I don't think any display I've owned since has come to the same level of quality. Really looking forward to microLED getting to consumer price levels!