The best thing about you and your content is that the viewer can literally tell that you are having a blast and you cannot hide the excitement when you are tinkering with tech, especially older tech. The funniest thing about it is that you have been doing this for years and yet you haven’t lost this genuine interest apart maybe from your hiatus in the past. Keep up the good work!
I stripped down an old PC that I built in 2007 a few weeks ago. Loved the sound deadening case by Antec at the time. Stipped down the innards of a few HP's in the past and tend to keep DVD drives, the odd floppy drive, hard drives, etc.. Disassembled an old Amstrad 512 laptop the other week that was shot, but kept a few buts as have 640 laptop that may well work again with the screen from the 512, and it's floppy drives. Far too much old stuff stored in boxes that the missus is constantly pressuring me to get rid of, but find it hard to part with old memories and kit that you just know still works.
i built a hackintish years ago watching your vids at the time in a g5 case - it was mac pros at the time for the power, but minis and stuff perfectly powerful now so stuff moved on, but cant see me ever building anything now, but good to watch as ever mate
I still run unraid on an inwin q500. Another really old full tower case. I currently still have 2 of these case through away many old schhol cases just recently due to selling the house i grew up in where i had saved so much old pc tech. From motherboards psu cdroms hard drives and yes many old game cases or just plain cases like this one in your video. Just an fyi i followed your channel for long time. I too have really poor eyesight. Im legally blind since birth. Keep up the great work.
Loved the video as always Tom! Makes me wonder what common things in todays PC world will become dated and collectible in the future. Maybe my collection of mid 2000s - early 2010s apple gear will become valuable. Who knows!
Excited for this. That case reminds me of a lot of PCs I built back in the day. I've been building systems since like 1992ish and had a LOT of beige cases over the years. Some of them like the super towers I wish I still had.
So nice to stumble upon your channel again after so long! I have notifications turned on but I rarely check them, to be honest. 😅 This reminded me of the time I deep cleaned my grandma’s old computer (which she is incredibly still using today! Albeit, without what we would call basic features nowadays). It’s so nice to see such an impeccable piece of technology. I’m excited to see the build later!
That bundled psu i'm certain is a rebadged FSP. The "w/ noise killer" "w/ pfc" stickers is a dead giveaway. Those were basically the go-to 300w psu back in the day, everyone and their bull put their names on them
You should take a look inside that power supply or use a psu tester before trying to use it on a pc. If it's new old stock it may be riddled with the capacitor plague era caps and it can pop easily if you try to power some hardware with it. I've seen other people unbox new old stock power supplies and they blew up in the first power on test
I knew it would be Evercase when I saw the thumbnail. I also knew it would be new old stock, as I bought cases from Evercase in 2016 that turned out to be made in 2003.
My desktop PC has an optical drive. It isn't old or anything. The CPU and that are from 2020. I just like having an optical drive. I think every PC should have one.
Awesome! excited to see the build. It's mad to think how much of this stuff must have been thrown away even in teh last few years. Used to go to the recycling place to get old hi-fi equipment years ago and they had a room stacked floor to ceiling with old PCs that would get removed every couple of weeks. Even my own collection was massive at one point until I gave it all away on Freecycle. If I'd kept it all I'd easily have had 10 grands worth at current eBay prices.
I like how the actual chassis part of their cases are more modern than the ones used in most Dell desktops, including the Alienware line lol. They've literally been using the same frame design for like 30 years.
God. This reminds me of my first few cases I used and modded back in the early 2000s. Had to have those big LED fans and a window to show off my GeForce 4 and Athlon XP
Regarding "EverCase" I bought the rubber PS2 keyboard (or "Jelly Keyboard" as I call it) in purple (of course!) which I am expecting to arrive soon...I also expect it to be comepletely horrible to type on...but useful in the BIOS, easy to store...and fun! =)
Ahh Evercase - I bought their KM4021B to use as my case for my server. It looks like an early 2000s desktop but it’s rocking an engineering sample i9-11900H (iirc?) CPU, 64GB RAM, and 4x4TB storage drives in RAIDZ1. Gotta love mixing old with new! (I uhh…didn’t fancy trying the free power supply though lol)
@@ItsMyNaturalColour The board was silly cheap on AliExpress (It was under £150, the CPU is a mobile chip bolted on a custom board by Erying) and not many people can say they have a sleeper *server* so heck, why not? 😆
I miss cases like these, nowadays cases prioritise ventilation over modularity (mainly because desktops are getting LESS efficient at full load), giving you NO options for even an optical drive. I'm lucky my Fractal Design Pop Air has two 5.25" bays on the bottom...
Nice, brand new! Definitely not something you see these days. Lots of old systems were thrown out and now they are becoming cool again. I’ve got some old systems that I’m definitely going to keep even if they seem “obsolete”. Sounds like an awesome build, I’m sure it’ll be a great setup! I will keep that in mind next time time I move something on a desk. Great video!
Thank you!! I was really shocked to see that beige cases were now ‘cool’ again, I knew some of the really old stuff is but even the crusty Dells are expensive!
If it doesn't work are you going to put a Firework inside it? ;-) Seriously Noctua fans in their beige & brown would look good inside if the stock fans are too loud, also a Zip drive would be a somewhat useful slot filler, along with maybe a spring loaded plastic storage drawer, or old school audio interface. This is a cool project, though I wouldn't sacrifice that white gaming rig to do it. (That's just me) Thanks for the video.
@@magnusvideos8430 hahaha good memory 😉 Great ideas. I’m filming the build as we speak, episode one should be out really soon. Luckily this will be a completely separate system, the white gaming rig remains intact and is in place as my main gaming rig in the living room. This will be an ‘office’ PC of sorts. Stay tuned and thanks for the comment!
@@ItsMyNaturalColour I have to say thanks for the link to the "EverCase" site, it gave me a chuckle as it reminded me of the "Little Tartan Drummer Girl" sketch from the comedy show "Absolutely". 😆 Thanks again for the videos. 😃
Keyboard update!...It's really, really bad. It only worked on one of the two PCs I tried it with, and feels absolutely hideous to type on. Lol, It's like typing on bubble-wrap whilst wearing disposable plastic gloves, and it does not feel hard wearing at all. Avoid these keyboards. =(
The best thing about you and your content is that the viewer can literally tell that you are having a blast and you cannot hide the excitement when you are tinkering with tech, especially older tech. The funniest thing about it is that you have been doing this for years and yet you haven’t lost this genuine interest apart maybe from your hiatus in the past. Keep up the good work!
@@DesktopChronicles thank you so much !
The older you get, the more exciting the thought of buying furniture gets.
This is true, at a certain point in life you start to enjoy researching furniture.
I stripped down an old PC that I built in 2007 a few weeks ago. Loved the sound deadening case by Antec at the time. Stipped down the innards of a few HP's in the past and tend to keep DVD drives, the odd floppy drive, hard drives, etc.. Disassembled an old Amstrad 512 laptop the other week that was shot, but kept a few buts as have 640 laptop that may well work again with the screen from the 512, and it's floppy drives.
Far too much old stuff stored in boxes that the missus is constantly pressuring me to get rid of, but find it hard to part with old memories and kit that you just know still works.
Loving these consistent uploads Tom!!!
Thank you... so am I, great fun!
i built a hackintish years ago watching your vids at the time in a g5 case - it was mac pros at the time for the power, but minis and stuff perfectly powerful now so stuff moved on, but cant see me ever building anything now, but good to watch as ever mate
Loving this video Tom, Makes me want to dig my old beige case that looks like a old nokia that I have in the loft lol
I still run unraid on an inwin q500. Another really old full tower case. I currently still have 2 of these case through away many old schhol cases just recently due to selling the house i grew up in where i had saved so much old pc tech. From motherboards psu cdroms hard drives and yes many old game cases or just plain cases like this one in your video.
Just an fyi i followed your channel for long time. I too have really poor eyesight. Im legally blind since birth.
Keep up the great work.
Loved the video as always Tom! Makes me wonder what common things in todays PC world will become dated and collectible in the future. Maybe my collection of mid 2000s - early 2010s apple gear will become valuable. Who knows!
11:20 andddd the scratches on the desk says hello haha
Excited for this. That case reminds me of a lot of PCs I built back in the day. I've been building systems since like 1992ish and had a LOT of beige cases over the years. Some of them like the super towers I wish I still had.
So nice to stumble upon your channel again after so long! I have notifications turned on but I rarely check them, to be honest. 😅 This reminded me of the time I deep cleaned my grandma’s old computer (which she is incredibly still using today! Albeit, without what we would call basic features nowadays). It’s so nice to see such an impeccable piece of technology. I’m excited to see the build later!
That bundled psu i'm certain is a rebadged FSP. The "w/ noise killer" "w/ pfc" stickers is a dead giveaway. Those were basically the go-to 300w psu back in the day, everyone and their bull put their names on them
I got a case from there. Wanted to build a sleeper PC.
Cheers Tom, just what I was looking for, dug a few old motherboards out last week and wanted to build a retro system 😊
You should take a look inside that power supply or use a psu tester before trying to use it on a pc. If it's new old stock it may be riddled with the capacitor plague era caps and it can pop easily if you try to power some hardware with it. I've seen other people unbox new old stock power supplies and they blew up in the first power on test
The build quality appears to be good.
I knew it would be Evercase when I saw the thumbnail.
I also knew it would be new old stock, as I bought cases from Evercase in 2016 that turned out to be made in 2003.
My desktop PC has an optical drive. It isn't old or anything. The CPU and that are from 2020. I just like having an optical drive. I think every PC should have one.
Awesome! excited to see the build. It's mad to think how much of this stuff must have been thrown away even in teh last few years. Used to go to the recycling place to get old hi-fi equipment years ago and they had a room stacked floor to ceiling with old PCs that would get removed every couple of weeks. Even my own collection was massive at one point until I gave it all away on Freecycle. If I'd kept it all I'd easily have had 10 grands worth at current eBay prices.
Tom, I used to love your channel.
I like how the actual chassis part of their cases are more modern than the ones used in most Dell desktops, including the Alienware line lol. They've literally been using the same frame design for like 30 years.
Haha definitely! I was very surprised how ‘not rubbish’ the inside of this thing was.
Reminds me of the cases where Windows 98 were preinstalled back in the day. So sick! I hope you find that interesting!
Absolutely!!
God. This reminds me of my first few cases I used and modded back in the early 2000s. Had to have those big LED fans and a window to show off my GeForce 4 and Athlon XP
I got a Pentium 4 tower on Ebay to put my Ryzen rig into. I also put the Pentium 4 innards into a cheapy modern case :)
Regarding "EverCase" I bought the rubber PS2 keyboard (or "Jelly Keyboard" as I call it) in purple (of course!) which I am expecting to arrive soon...I also expect it to be comepletely horrible to type on...but useful in the BIOS, easy to store...and fun! =)
Ahh Evercase - I bought their KM4021B to use as my case for my server. It looks like an early 2000s desktop but it’s rocking an engineering sample i9-11900H (iirc?) CPU, 64GB RAM, and 4x4TB storage drives in RAIDZ1. Gotta love mixing old with new!
(I uhh…didn’t fancy trying the free power supply though lol)
That is absolutely sick. Nice one!
@@ItsMyNaturalColour The board was silly cheap on AliExpress (It was under £150, the CPU is a mobile chip bolted on a custom board by Erying) and not many people can say they have a sleeper *server* so heck, why not? 😆
AWH THIS IS AWESOME!!!!
19:55 Did you say "Fireball"??? 👀 Smoke test indeed... 😀
Edit: Ah, "bull"... either way it's funny.
I miss cases like these, nowadays cases prioritise ventilation over modularity (mainly because desktops are getting LESS efficient at full load), giving you NO options for even an optical drive. I'm lucky my Fractal Design Pop Air has two 5.25" bays on the bottom...
Nice, brand new! Definitely not something you see these days. Lots of old systems were thrown out and now they are becoming cool again. I’ve got some old systems that I’m definitely going to keep even if they seem “obsolete”. Sounds like an awesome build, I’m sure it’ll be a great setup! I will keep that in mind next time time I move something on a desk. Great video!
Thank you!! I was really shocked to see that beige cases were now ‘cool’ again, I knew some of the really old stuff is but even the crusty Dells are expensive!
What’s old becomes new again, the key is to hold on to it if you want to have it. Otherwise they can become surprisingly expensive!
Oooh… a sound blaster live 5.25” bay front panel would look really good in there…
I've been keeping an eye out for one, a beige one of course, hopefully one will pop up!!
Wow, that let my trusty decade old MacPro 5.1 really shine in comparison. Why don’t you start a new MP5.1 Project?
If it doesn't work are you going to put a Firework inside it? ;-) Seriously Noctua fans in their beige & brown would look good inside if the stock fans are too loud, also a Zip drive would be a somewhat useful slot filler, along with maybe a spring loaded plastic storage drawer, or old school audio interface. This is a cool project, though I wouldn't sacrifice that white gaming rig to do it. (That's just me) Thanks for the video.
@@magnusvideos8430 hahaha good memory 😉
Great ideas. I’m filming the build as we speak, episode one should be out really soon. Luckily this will be a completely separate system, the white gaming rig remains intact and is in place as my main gaming rig in the living room. This will be an ‘office’ PC of sorts. Stay tuned and thanks for the comment!
@@ItsMyNaturalColour I have to say thanks for the link to the "EverCase" site, it gave me a chuckle as it reminded me of the "Little Tartan Drummer Girl" sketch from the comedy show "Absolutely". 😆 Thanks again for the videos. 😃
Awesome video
Im using an old HP Brio case with intel i7 14700f and i have the original win98 system running through PCEM on it
Very very cool!
lol other chsnnels "retrobrite ftw"... tom.. "yup, garden, beige the dupa out of it"
16:21 + The moment you bend the noses… 😢
id give it 5 5.25 hdd's bigfoot tx
Over $200 to ship to the US. Ouch.
Keyboard update!...It's really, really bad. It only worked on one of the two PCs I tried it with, and feels absolutely hideous to type on. Lol, It's like typing on bubble-wrap whilst wearing disposable plastic gloves, and it does not feel hard wearing at all. Avoid these keyboards. =(