Building my DREAM Windows 95 Computer!

In this video I built a Windows 95 Gaming PC with a computer I found on the side of the road. In my opinion the build turned out great!
Full hardware specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium @ 166mhz
RAM: 48mb EDO
GPU: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 / ViRGE S3
Motherboard: Intel PCBA 636348-501 Socket 5 Motherboard
HDD: Quantum FIREBALL lct15 20gb
SCSI CD-ROM drive installed / Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra
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j^p^n - Bloom: • Bloom
VECTOR GRAPHICS - DESTINE: • VECTOR GRAPHICS - DESTINE
RITCHRD - YEA: • RITCHRD - YEA
RITCHRD - SEA: • RITCHRD - SEA
RITCHRD - CRY: • CRY

[@rnt45t1]

I am so happy KZbin is feeding me smaller channels now. Lovely video, absolutely love 1995 era PCs. That was when I was 8. What memories! So cool to look back and see this tech up close again.

[@BobbyAllenRoach]

THE MUSIC HAD NO RIGHT TO SLAP THIS HARD!!!! Happy New Year's Eve, man. Love that I'm closing out the year on the best nostalgic note ever!

[@Ravensfan-qx5pc]

I loved the music too! It has a nice Synthwave kinda vibe, which is perfect for a vid about a Win 95 PC!

[@DeadBaron]

Grew up on 95 and 98, started on DOS, kids these days have no idea how much of a pain it was getting games working back then lol. Soundcards, different drivers, different versions of DirectX, and all troubleshooting done likely without internet. Used to be you had a dedicated Encyclopedia program, no googling anything back then

[@karim2k]

Brings back wonderful memories, this is me back in 1996 building computers for my friends

[@Caleb-fv5fp]

What was the most powerful pc you built in 1996?

[@karim2k]

@@Caleb-fv5fp probably the light 486 dx33 and dx2 66 with an outstanding 4 megabytes of ram and astonishing 120 megabytes hard disk

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

Wow cool finding. It's nice that you gave it a second Live.

[@C0mfortCruise]

Had to sub, great video and great choice of music the whole way through!

[@superfox6264]

The your editing and content quality is actually better than much larger channels keep it up mate not that many people do old Windows content that actually has what you want

[@Ubaids_VMs]

I love retro tech and windows 95 is probably my favorite. great video! edit: the music is soooooooooo good.

[@carlosmaurokrma92]

Bro, this is the most aesthetic computers channel ever, subscribed

[@suspeh]

I love that KZbin recommend randoms videos from little known channels, good video:)

[@carlosmaurokrma92]

You are from my generation, this waws an amazing video! Loved the music!

[@jedikwon]

Wow nice find! I am in California too and it gets harder and harder to find old computers and components. If I were you I would use the machine for DOS games or pre 3D windows game only. Even with a proper 3D accelerator, you will get relatively low FPS with that CPU. Well it is just from my experience though. Anyway I really enjoyed the video!

[@dazamad]

Nice build. Wish i could locate stuff on the roadside too. My 486 build win 95 just manages

[@michaelhill6453]

Great video. Impressed.

[@ryne82a]

I love retro pcs like this. I have one that is an Windows XP computer, its so cool

[@pedroemilioguglielmo8719]

Your onboard sound chip is very compatible with DOS games. I could seed OPL2 chip right by Sound Blaster Vibra 16. Phils Lab has PNP DOS drivers that sould work perfecly. I have a Vibra 16 as a card, works fine on DOS with very old games, like 1989 Prince of Persia.

[@nutterbut1er248]

thats strait heat🔥🔥🔥

[@thedopplereffect00]

Hope you can get 3D hardware acceleration working. Keep trying and good luck!

[@edsiefker1301]

That little box was kitted out! Upgraded cache, SCSI CD-ROM, ethernet, quite the workstation way back when.

[@oldhuntersu]

Good work!

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

Very interesting, like!

[@john_ace]

The original S3 Virge is a bit picky when it comes to Direct 3D versions. DirectX 5.1 did work for me but different drivers may need different DirectX versions (version 5 is always a good start in my opinion). The Virge is also not very compatible over all and a bit slow to top it off. The bilinear texture filtering is extremely cycle-hungry and will reduce the frame rate quite a bit if activated. On the other hand, the Virge has good dos compatibility. I would use the original '325 Virge for testing S3D games or DOS only. A nvidia Riva 128 or a Matrox G200 might do the trick for 3D, both having good picture quality and speed. The ATI Rage Pro or Rage XL are balanced speed wise, have good drivers and very good Dos support.

[@K.J.S.est1994]

In the future, you should really go for a 3DFX Voodoo 1 card despite how pricy they really go online!

[@MotownBatman]

New Sub, I just found a P4 Shuttle PC, it was an overheating flop in 2k4 but was super small and sweet: Im Upgrading the MB to the Max! then attempting to MultiBoot MS-Dos 6.22 w/ Win 3.x, Win9x & Linux 32Bit...

[@mralero]

Love these videos all this stuff I grew up on when I was younger windows 95 I was really young but I remember it.

[@trumppence3834]

Do you think something like this could be used as a practical dedicated word processor? Or would it be too hard to transfer files to a modern computer?

[@austinstitzel]

I love retro computers!

[@rodhester2166]

good to see you experience win95, next windows 3.11 .. lol Then you can network them all together.

[@Hakan89]

Thats beautifull

[@dobtuwu]

W i n d o w s 9 5

[@nalinux]

About the game in DirectX, are you sure your Win95 version comes with it ? IIRC, it didn't happen before win95 OSR2, so you may have to install it.

[@johnylitalo4163]

When can you do a Silicon Graphics computer with Atlas Wavefront?

[@ShrineOfLife]

hey mate its so funny and so surprising, I have this exact mainboard that i want to build my win95 pc on, so I came to your vid, its perfect for my needs! mine does not come with the onboard sound - thats ok, I got plenty of good isa soundcards, but what question bothers me a lot more it that mine came without the l2 cache memory module and they are nowhere to be found!!! how strong do you think it will impact my win95 building ENDEAVORS (thats funny, because the mainboard is an intel endeavor 1.0) when I have to go without the extra l2 cache? the cpu is an pentium 100 thank you in advance and best regards from bavaria in southern germany!

[@Ionic1k]

It most likely wont make a huge difference, you can go with out the extra l2 cache

[@NightSprinter]

I'd say keep the integrated Vibra16 audio. The FM might sound a tad different (CQM vs a real OPL3), but you'll have far better compatibility with games. Also, if you're interested in demos, there are people selling replicas of the Gravis UltraSound PnP online.

[@LS-ti6jo]

95, 98 & XP interfaces were so much better than 10 & 11. Its surprising that nobody has released a shell that emulates one of those versions that can be installed on top of 10 or 11.

[@waifuracer6516]

Dont forget windows 7! MS actually took shat they learned from 95, 98 and XP and made it even better. In my opinion windows 7 was the last windows where Microsoft actually cared. After that, its been only downhill

[@LS-ti6jo]

@@waifuracer6516 Agreed. The Indian execs who run MS now clearly want to change Window's interface to look like a cell phone. Programs are now "apps", everything has to be downloaded & saved on their clouds, etc. I guess its time to learn Linux.

[@LS-ti6jo]

@@waifuracer6516 gree totally. The difference between then and now is startling. Only thing I see that would have cause that was the flood of indian executives at MS & US IT companies. It was bad enough when MS was just copying Apple, but the new execs are clearly trying to make Windows function like cell phones. Nightmare.

[@pentiummmx2294]

i just did something like that but it is a Pentium MMX 166, 32 MB PC66 SDRAM, S3 Trio64v+, ESS ES688F, and Windows 95

[@BrianJones-wk8cx]

But wait-the glued CPU?

[@fft2020]

Win 95... The OS of the one thousand reboots

[@virgulinoferreira3472]

I did exactly this... in November 1995 :o

[@Richard.Linder]

The S3 Virge is not rellay a proper 3D card for Windows gaming. It came out before most of the Windows 3D standards even existed. So it does not properly support 3D acceleration in most Windows 3D games. Think of it more as a standard 2D graphics card. Some early games may have special patches to take advantage of it's features. But it has really limited 3D capabilities.

[@cosmickatamari]

Fun Fact: Monster Truck Madness was the first Windows 95 game I bought.

[@ching-chenhuang8119]

Anyone would say, get yourself a Voodoo 1 3D accelerator, save yourself a lot of troubles trying to work with S3 Virge display card!!

[@huffdiggler]

Should have used win 95 lite 1.5d, it would find all your drivers, take up less space and have more relevant networking

[@Copper20]

I recommend using an SD card for a drive.

[@Bytesfence]

why dont you have that much followers?

[@Ionic1k]

idk man but ill get there some day

[@Matt-hc1fi]

@@Ionic1k ^

[@FirstLast-we8cb]

Nice scsi card.

[@EvoPortal]

It just goes to show how little people know about computers these days. He didn't even install drivers on the PC. Even my sister knew to install drivers back when we have Windows 98 desktops.

[@United-States-of-America586]

Did anyone notice about these two Intel CPU 4:04

[@BALtimore2001]

Jeffrey Osborne - "Only Human" (1990)

[@kinkykane0607]

The fastest CPU that this motherboard supports is a Pentium 133MHz unless its a socket 7 motherboard then it will support a Pentium 200 non MMX. however this mobo can overclock its FSB so perhaps your Pentium 133MHz CPU is overclocked ?? :)

[@Oerg866]

easy on the volume and compression, it hurts to listen along. nice build though!

[@brugj03]

I remember what a disaster windows 95 was, glad to be rid of it. It brings back memories. Makes me be even more glad having what i have now.

[@moguus2944]

that s3 pci card is bad.

[@nalinux]

In fact, it was quite correct in this period, with great compatibility with dos games. The problem is it lacks 3D features. Excepted 3Dfx, some Ati and some Matrox, most of cards were bad for 3D :)

[@austinstitzel]

I'm gonna guess that you are a Capricorn.

[@mindless_self_indulgence]

обычный компьютер в моей стране с коррупцией

[@kenzonhundredpower]

I see a fellow Type-Moon fan, You like Fate, Sakura from Fate is Awesome, you have to play the other Type-Moon franchises as well