Comparing a 1992 Vs 2021 PC Build

[@Hakan89]

Hey, on the new PC turn on XMP in bios to use your RAM in full speed,not only 2133MHz , Ryzen CPUs loves high speed memory,and the integrated graphics needs RAM memory as fast as possible , thanks for the video 🥰 Btw,Nice close up shots

[@joshpayne4015]

Aaah, nostalgia, you cruel mistress. I really do think that I miss floppy drives. I know that by today's standards, they are impossibly limited in capacity, but back in the day (such as in the mid 80's as a computer science student) I could carry around my programming language compilers, program code, and data files all in the same small hard-plastic 5 1/4" floppy disc carrier and still have room for a few DOS games. Thanks for doing this video, a lot of computer enthusiasts today (read: young folks) may be unaware of how personal computing hardware has changed over the decades and this might help give them some context and appreciation for how things have evolved. What might surprise them is how careful we had to be with hard drive parameters in the BIOS setup, today it's thankfully just plug-and-play but back in the day, getting a hard drive working was almost a part-time job lol. And same care for IRQs and DMA settings of our non plug-and-play hardware and add-in cards. It was a fun hobby.

[@jackedup447]

Tbh, programming language files for the most part are still kilobytes in size. Bet you could do that today if you wanted to also bring a 3.5 inch usb floppy drive aswell but at that point you might as well just use a USB stick lmao.

[@joshallen128]

The floppy disk still exists... Just as the save icon

[@masternobody1896]

yes nostalgia 30 years of innovation

[@mima85]

I still have a floppy drive in my 4th generation i7 machine :-D Being a retrocomputing enthusiast and having a little home music studio with very old synthesizers, a floppy drive is still handy to have sometimes.

[@chupathingy5862]

386 cable management = you managed to get all the cables in there.

[@MrJest2]

I actually got good at cable management, although to be honest in those days I had a case as large as his modern one. Needed it to fit my dual full-height hard drives. At the time, I thought I was quite slick sourcing everything in black rather than the "traditional beige"... took me a bit of hunting around to find a black monitor, too. 😋

[@warrax111]

Why you need cable management when you have 5W CPU, and 2W graphic card?

[@maxtornogood]

1992: No frills beige machine with a 90's hard disk, floppy & CD-ROM drive, right up my childhood alley! 2021: No hard drives or floppies or CD-ROM drives but look at all that RGB bro!!

[@hsavietto]

OMG, that's EXACTLY the case I had for my 386 back in 1993!!!

[@digital8828]

One thing that has always impressed me is new PC's have better internal ergonomics! The car industry is going in the opposite direction.

[@davejnathan10]

Damn now that you mention it, you're right! Lol

[@Balthazare69]

I love that formula 1 "grand prix" at the end, I was playing that on commodore 64 😀😀

[@leonardoantonio8756]

The final display of Grand Prix vs F1 2021 is the cherry topping the cake! Nice nice video

[@conradtrout]

Any computer with a turbo button is obviously superior.

[@gaxiola1701]

My most nostalgic period in PCs is early 90s. I went to college with a 386/33 and upgraded the motherboard while I was there to a 486/33. Exciting times then with CD-ROMs and multimedia becoming more mainstream and ethernet cards coming down in price around the same time campus dorms got wired up to the school network. I wish I kept all that now classic hardware instead of selling / donating the pieces as I upgraded after college.

[@Blackadder75]

You can still get 80s 90s hardware on the cheap (

[@Meatpipeify]

Great video, hope you're able to find a dedicated GPU for the Ryzen system!

[@RetroSpector78]

Bough this one specifically to run / test without a dedicated GPU. The internal GPU is not half bad for casual gaming on this one. GPU prices are crazy nowadays. Have an RXT 3070 pre-built and a couple of older GTX Cards. (1060 / 960 / 750 / ...). Have some alerts on local listing for geforce and gtx just to keep an eye out for prices. Was a couple of hours late to pick up a 150 EUR gtx 1660 TI :)

[@JVHShack]

Coincidentally, I recently acquired a vintage motherboard very similar to the 386 one here. The differences between this one and mine are mine is green instead of yellow and mine has a 486SLC-33 CPU instead of the 386SX-40. Solid little board if you can get one. Great video, as always, Retrospector!

[@TechTimeWithEric]

The presentation of this video was absolutely impeccable. I really enjoyed the comparison.

[@KayakTN]

In 1992, I had a 486/33 with 16 Mb of RAM and a 40 Mb hard drive running DOS 5.0. I picked up a used Compaq 486DX4/100 a few months ago and maxed out the RAM to 128 Mb and installed a 4 Gb compact flash card.

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

Yeah, I just made a post about this, cause in '92 you could definitely get 486's, a 386 would be low-spec for this time period.

[@RetroSpector78]

In 1995 my parents bought me a brand new 486dx2 66 with 4MB RAM. Crazy times in the nineties where you had lots of overlap between systems. There was a period in time where you could buy both a 286, 386 and 486 new.

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

@@RetroSpector78 The Pentium came out in 1993, so you were definitely pretty far behind in terms of specs. In 1995 you could get a Pentium 75, 100, and even 133 by the end of that year.

[@RetroSpector78]

@@JusticeGamingChannel In those days there was definitely a big difference between the start of the year and the end of the year :) Lots of innovation in short timespan, and I guess a lot of old stock people needed to get rid off.

[@Rich-qw4fm]

@@JusticeGamingChannel If I'm not mistaken Intel came out with the Pentium 60 in 1993. I still had a 286 at that time, with a mono VGA monitor and a 200MB HDD (running double space). It ran Accolade's F1 and Leisure Suit Larry, so I was happy with it.

[@mrs7195]

Wow, this really shows how much desktop computers have evolved in technology and especially internal ergonomics. I was surprised how easy the modern pc was to put together. Just snap things in place and voila basically. A long time since I've paid attention to the internals of desktop computers!

[@MrJest2]

A long time since I had to fiddle with IRQs and memory management, hard drive settings, finding the right drivers for all my components, etc. Modern systems take some of the fun out of the process of building and tuning systems. *Some* of the fun... and a lot of the frustration. 😋

[@harryshuman9637]

It's not just the ergonomics, but also the materials. In the past cases were mostly made of stamped sheet steel, instead of aluminum (let alone milled aluminum). Because of extensive use of steel, a lot of the old cases didn't survive to this day because they developed a lot of rust and got thrown out. Don't even get me started on the weight reduction and that magic pocket behind motherboard for cable management.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

@@harryshuman9637 You forgot that Steel = human blood sacrifice EVERY BLOODY TIME!

[@anomaly95]

As someone who has built, upgraded, and repaired PCs during that entire timeframe, I find it amazing what _hasn't_ changed. Motherboard still get screwed into the case, expansion cards are still expansion cards, RAM still gets plugged into the motherboard, the front panel connectors are still a pain, etc. Up until fairly recently with NVME, hard drives were just hard drives - either 3.5 or 2.5". Performance certainly has changed though!

[@jwoody8815]

That 386 board is what was refered to as "Baby-AT" I had one very simular but it was a later board with integrated IDE ATA-33 (Single channel) and Floppy interfaces, ran Windows 95 with 8mb RAM, 2x 60MB hdds and a 4x CD-ROM via the IDE channel on a Sound blaster sound card. (I was behind on the computing scene circa 1996, hand me downs and garage sale parts)

[@asanjuas]

3,5" drive from 720 to 2.88 MB in some IBM Drives , in fact the ami bios configuration supports 2.88 MB at 3.5" floppy disk

[@gennidee]

The WDAC2340 actually has a spindle speed of 3.322rpm according to the data sheet. My two WDAC2340 are being reported by SpeedSys to have a spindle speed of 3.343rpm. 5.400rpm was still far from being affordable for the normal consumer. I think the first affordable drive featuring 5.400rpm was the Seagate Barracuda if memory serves me right? Read and write speed of the WDAC2340 is between 1,5...2,0 MB/s by the way. Very neat drive, like the whole family of early Caviar drives.

[@dykodesigns]

The biggest difference that strikes me is how much more integrated modern computers are. The only expansion card I have in my modern pc is a graphics card. When it comes to audio, I don’t use the built in realtek chip, I have an audio interface. However, I still have optical drives in my system, part for nostalgic reasons but also because I still actually use them for ripping cd’s and making backups of old CD-rom games in my collection. If I had the change to improve something on computer motherboards, it would be designing a standardised front panel connector that is keyed so that only plugs in one way. This I find very noticeable difference between USB 2 headers and USB 3 headers. Those tiny pins with individual wires are a pain, if they can standardise on motherboard and case form factors, then why not on front panel connectors?

[@justsumguy2u]

It still blows my mind how FAST the pc has evolved in such a short time. There was Win95, and just 20 years later there was Win10....and of course, the radical evolution of the hardware too

[@Craneman4100w]

There was CPM, then several versions of DOS (the beginnings of Microsoft) eventually leading to Windows 3.0. etc. Win 95 was almost half way to where we are today.

[@justsumguy2u]

@@Craneman4100w I know, but I'm only interested in Win95 and up, because that's when the home pc market took off

[@peteyourdoom]

I remember the cable management on those old cases. Couple of tie straps in when you knew where everything was going to go.

[@dougjohnson4266]

1972,1982,1992,2002,2012, to 2022. Lots of changes every 10 years. Now for 2032, 2042, what do you think they will look like?

[@procta2343]

I recon PCs will get more smaller in size, Due to physical size of storage drives, Also some cases i have seen no longer have drive bays for CD and 3inch drives now, Then you got a lot of stuff going on board now, like the M.2 drives

[@wildrouseacer]

Or 2050 2100..maybe pc s will be built in your hand or pc s will be history because another things will be..who knows man..but i m very curious how pc s phones and consoles will look like in 2050 2100

[@projectartichoke]

These kids today will never know the sheer joy of setting IRQ jumpers. :)

[@angrydove4067]

Great video. In 1992 I was still into Amiga! For two more years anyway. Ram was hundreds of dollars a meg. Ah, computer memories.

[@szponiasty]

With a little driver you could format your 1.44m disks to 1.68. I don't remember how it was called, it was pretty popular in Poland in 90's. Even RAR had option to split images into 1.68 archives :)

[@RetroSpector78]

Hehe … also remember that !

[@nneeerrrd]

2m

[@stonent]

Microsoft used to distribute disks in that format especially if you had something like Windows 95 or NT on floppy. That extra 10% or so could save them a few disks per box.

[@JeffChapman]

The typical tower PC hasn't changed much in 30 years at all. Bulky, rectangular cases still hold the motherboard, the connected video card, and cables that connect to storage and peripheral ports.

[@K-sp]

Mouse, keyboard and it still runs on Windows. Back then I expected a lot more of the future of computers tbh. 😄

[@David-fp7yc]

You could still do the basic features at that time also, such as typing up documents, quickbooks, browse the internet, play games, etc. Pretty much like you said the foundations for it all haven’t changed much.

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

On another note, the CD-ROM was invented in 1984, they came to computers in the late 1980s. By 1992 they had been in computers a few years, or at least as optional multimedia kits you could purchase to upgrade your computer with.

[@RetroSpector78]

I wouldn't call them mainstream in 1992. I was browsing through lots of PC magazines (mid to end 1992) and the majority of the advertised PCs did not have cdrom drives installed. But it was definitely possible to have one installed. The one showed here (Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S I believe) was only released in 1993

[@rodhester2166]

Thank you, and now the question is what generation of home pc is your favorite. I lean towards the win98 / xp time frame.. I truly enjoyed tweaking setting for dial up internet and upgrading cards , disc drives ect. back then..

[@RetroSpector78]

I really like the win98 era. 3dfx voodoo graphics, Riva TNT ,… also like early xp stuff with nvidia geforce. But computers in general interest me. Also like roaming around in GTA V recently :)

[@Blackadder75]

My favourite era is the 486 DX2 - Pentium1 era. The last days of DOS games and the first days of win95. imho games were better than because they were made for and marketed for gamers and not for everybody (aka how can we extract as much money as possible from this game)

[@bullseyestrat]

Nice video. Those old school WD hdds will outlive us. I remember back in high school in the early 2000s we had shelves of them in my electronic shop. Been using WD hard drives since and have had very good luck

[@johnpetruna8888]

This is just delightful. Then v. now, side by side. Thanks a lot. To somehow repay (or show my gratitude) for this, some quick advice: Please turn on your XMP. It's like you're driving around town in only 2nd gear.

[@Baoran]

I also have a 1992 386 I built couple years ago. It is 33Mhz 386dx though with 8MB ram and tseng labs ET4000ax video card 120MB hard drive and Sound Blaster CT1320C.

[@youp1tralala]

Please do a follow up video in 20 or 30 years. I expect the jump in storage and ram capacity to not be as drastic than 90's to 20' s: it's been 12 years now that all my PCs had 16GB RAM and I still does not need more

[@tanithis]

Would have been great if you compared prices as well.

[@wd-4053]

13:22 - well, color is definitely configurable by hitting F2 key, LOL

[@MarkTheMorose]

Yes, I always chose a sober blue background with white text, as I recall. Much easier on the eyes!

[@EightPieceBox]

That 92 PC is right in my wheelhouse. I got my 386 SX in 93. That same mini tower case seemed to be everywhere. If I didn't have that exact one it was very similar. I do miss physical power switches.

[@CraftyZanTub]

I have quite a bit of storage, only most of it now is not incased in your PC tower. I've a CD/DVD burner (external) and two external 16 terabyte hard drives. I also have two 1 terabyte hard drives for data on the go, and I have lost count of all the little thumb drives I have. I prefer to keep as little in the tower as I can, with three fans.

[@zusurs]

Very nice video, thanks as always! As quick side note, though - I believe that your Turbo button is wired the oppsite way - it should be full speed when depressed, and half-speed when preseed. As the old saying goes - tubo button works exactly the opposite what it's name suggests. On top of that - a quick question if I may. Wasn't a 4MB of RAM actually on the low end in 1992? I remember having a low-spec laptop from that era (manufcatured in 1992), and it also had a 4MB RAM module. So I would assume that a desktop PC from year 92/93 would have 8MB of RAM as a standard, no?

[@Ixeon659]

I have my 386 PC from 1992 and it has only 2 MB of RAM! So probably 4 MB was a standard

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

A 386 in general is a bit low-spec for 1992, 486's were the PC of that generation, so it's not the best representation of what was out then.

[@GuillermoFrontera]

Well, in 1997 I had a Pentium MMX with 32MB of ram and wasn't bad for the time. A friend of mine had in 1998 a Pentium 133 with just 16 Mb

[@Schule04]

What the turbo button does depends entirely on how the mainboard manufacturer implemented it. @Justice Gaming: The 386SX as shown in the video was a low end part, but a similarly clocked 386DX could be faster than a much more expensive but slower clocked 486.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@JusticeGamingChannel True, but the AMD Ryzen 5 APU is also "a bit low-spec" for 2021... compared to a Threadripper, for example. March 1992 saw the introduction of the i486DX2 as the top-dog CPU. The Am386DX-40 was about on par with an i486-25, and representative of the entry-level/mid-range at that time. The SX version only had 24-bit address lines (16MB max) and a 16-bit bus, but the internal CPU performance was similar. Some people were still using 386SX or even 286 (maybe XT?) based PCs back then. So I think it's a fair representation of what people with modest budgets were buying new.

[@Leahi84]

I really enjoyed this. Comparing retro and modern hardware is really interesting.

[@procta2343]

Its amazing isnt it, shows how things have moved on, and the mad thing is, that the 2021 machine can run virtual PC for windows 3.11 and other machines at the same time.

[@kokikocky4319]

That was my second pc (first was 286 hercules monochrome display with 20mb hdd :) ... You did video on that pc ...

[@idahofur]

So I had to look this up. But first I was wondering if that is how you found that machine? Things I noticed was the cd-rom and sound blaster was probably an upgrade later on. Same thing with window 3.1 I remember two things about those type of motherboards. Upgrading memory for windows 3.1 and they would make great boards to upgrade a old 8088 or 80286 clone machine. In fact I got one in my collection that somebody did that type of upgrade. I was going to say something about the case. But I can't remember when everybody started using tower cases instead of desktop cases. Also in the small town I lived in. We seemed to be about 2 years behind places in California and such. So besides being 20+ years ago. I found myself sometimes a few years of form that.

[@Martin2112]

Great video and almost perfectly aligned to match the first/last PCs I built :). I love the old machines but can't say I miss the setup, troubleshooting and stack of hardware needed to cover off each specific task you need the PC to perform!

[@NJPurling]

I didn't ever see a 5.25" floppy except in the Amstrad POS behind the counter at my local post office, (Royal Mail UK). The first PC I used was a Pentium 75 running Windows 3.11 with MS Office 4.2 at a training establishment. Apparently there was a Pentium 60. I never saw one. Were they rare on account of being the first Pentium?

[@procta2343]

the funnest thing with the two machines, both can run Microsoft word, and play games. But its really an eye opener on how things have come and gone in that time between 1992 and 2021.

[@ESDI80]

While the new build is very impressive, the older tech like your 386SX-40 was much more challenging to set up which made building PCs back in the 90s a lot more fun. The current stuff on the market looks complex, but it "just works" out of the box with minimal effort. Everything auto detects and set itself up. The 386SX-40 on the other hand, you had to under stand IRQ and DMA channels along with IO addresses to get all the hardware to co-exist. Then you had to manually load drivers into DOS to get the hardware to work. While new PCs are very impressive, I still enjoy working on vintage tech because it was always more challenging and fun to set up.

[@JARVIS1187]

God I hate that everything has LEDs on it nowadays. Everything. Everywhere! Nothing to be bought without them... I like the look of the old PCs (until mid 2000s) much more than the actual stuff.

[@TeslaTales59]

Nice video! I used to build those old ones too.

[@UNIX32]

I love comparing old and modern computers. It amazes me how things have evolved over the years. I wonder if there is a way to get both of those computers to interface with each other. You might be able to do it with the networking card and special software on the modern computer.

[@Trevorodunne]

They should bring the Turbo button back, to switch on/off the overclock you have set in bios

[@hiredgun7186]

you can do it in Ryzen master

[@smalltownMainer]

i currently have 5 8 bit computers ranging from 1980 to 86. but i would also like a machine like yours with those 3 drives.

[@YarisTex]

The CT1600 is a Sound Blasted Pro 2, not 16.

[@RetroSpector78]

Yeah saw it while it was uploading :( but didn’t have the time to fix and re-upload. Apologies for that. Hope the rest was good.

[@ackman3981]

interesting how the power supply on the table with the parts for the 2021 pc is NOT the one in the machine when he shows the cable management of it.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Thankfully the 2021 build showen in thumbnail doesn't have to be the 'case'. My machine is a very early 2000s sleek black case with blue lighting/fans throwback

[@dwaynewladyka577]

That is quite the contrast between the two computers. How times have changed. Cheers! ✌️

[@barryhood7659]

I wonder if the Ryzen system will still be running in 30 years as well as the trusty 286!

[@procta2343]

Will it have that legendary status as the 286 though? who knows.

[@joaoc_PT]

Was not expecting a removable optical drive for removable cd roms, hahaha Nice one!

[@madson-web]

Beautiful machines there

[@retro-futuristicengineer]

Very nice comparison. It gets even crazier when you go back a little more in time. When I built my X99 platform Xeon two years ago and put in the 4x8GB RAM sticks, I actually had a short thought that I am currently putting in more than 1000x the capacity of RAM that my first computer I owned in the late 80s had as a hard drive. My Sanyo 286 actually came with a 30MB hard drive. The NVMe in my current PC is capable of transferring the whole content of the hard drive of my first PC 120x per second. The cute the SIMM modules loo compared to the massive DDR4 sticks (where half of the size comes from the RGB stuff), imagine having 16GB in 1990s technology with 1MB SIMMs. This is MASSIVE! The BIOS: Ah, the 386 AMI BIOS. Childhood memories that live on in one of my retro PCs. But what always makes me smile is when people say that you can make out if you have a BIOS or UEFI based on graphical user interface. Then I look at the text based UEFI of my Dell Ryzen 5 laptop and the AMI WinBIOS of my VLB 486 and just smile :-) But the current gaming/workstation UEFIs look super-fancy, that's true. The Mitsumi CD-ROM is great. Was my first CD-ROM, too, and I still have one. And no retro boot process is perfect without memory test ticks and floppy drive seeks. But two nice computers. One period-appropriate 90s system, the components fit well together, and one very nice speedy modern system.

[@johnstancliff7328]

oh what memories. I had the same setup back in the 90's and how things have changed! and the neat thing about it is that I stayed with AMD all the way. they have always been a good platform to go with... and now at the end of 2021, I'm getting ready to move up to the AM4 platform.... OMG! how times have changed! Thank you so much for the memories and the great comparison between the ages! its funny, back in the 90's those old AT systems were just as fast as what we have now based on the technology of the time... 40 Mhz was lightening fast for us and then we all got the speed demon and just had to have the fastest machine money could buy.... well, thats how thing are now.... absolutely loved this video! THANK YOU!

[@bertnijhof5413]

I did built my 1st PC in 1993, a 486DX66 with 8MB of RAM; a 300MB HDD, a CD, a 10Mbps Coax Ethernet and two floppies 5.25" and 3.5". I did built my 2nd PC in 2019, a Ryzen 3 2200G with 16GB of DDR4; a 512GB nvme-SSD; 500GB + 1TB HDDs and 1Gbps Ethernet. In between I bought a new cheap 686 from Cyrix and a lot of off-lease PCs. The last two off-lease PCs were: - a 2003 Pentium 4 HT (1C2T; 3.0GHz) used from ~2009 to 2014 with 2GB DDR; 250GB IDE HDD; 1 Gbps Ethernet; - a 2008 Phenom II X4 (4 x 3.2GHz) used from 2014 to 2019 with 8GB DDR2; 128GB SSD + 2 HDDs (500GB + 1TB) and 1 Gbps Ethernet. Originally the 2008 PC came with a Phenom X3 (3 x 2.3Ghz); 4GB of DDR2 and a slow 80GB HDD. I still have the 486 PC in my cabinet and the last time I tried it in 2014, it still worked. Once per week for ~1 hour I use the Pentium 4 with 4 leftover HDDs in total 1.21TB as backup server for my desktop.

[@airfixer9461]

Nice review and a trip down memory lane ;-)

[@gamerwrecchris344]

Hey man the 8 bit guy and lgr do have good virus series but I really enjoyed watching you with the stoner virus are you going to do anymore on it?

[@JordanWeyh]

Why use the stock cooler? I see a hyper 212 evo v2 in the intro shot? I've had 3 of the fans on those AMD coolers lock up after a few months in use, on a 1600, a 2600 and a 3600, now i got a NH U12 for the my 5600x and its so much cooler and quieter now.

[@shan2752]

Your sound card is a CT 1600, which is a Sound Blaster Pro 2, not a Sound Blaster 16. It’s a better sound card than the SB 16.

[@itstheweirdguy]

I'ved upgraded a couple laptops and refurb desktops with the Kingston kc2500, the 250 was on sale a while ago. Nice drive! Really good stuff. Kingston makes really good SSD's, the cheap A400 SATA drive is one of the most reliable I've ever seen, and I've sold a bunch of them, even though the A400 is slow it's a runner. I've sold so many A400's and never had one go bad, I've had more samsungs and crucials be bad.

[@BilisNegra]

Old machines are so sweet and interesting because nostalgia, but I feel we're lucky in this day and age that we can build very competent systems for cheaper than we used to, that won't become obsolete as fast as 90's machines used to on top of that. Of course, there's this problem with graphics cards prices in the last couple of years, but other than that it's a great time for computing.Also because you can get crazy value with second hand stuff, too!

[@Ramdileo_sys]

The 2021 machine still have a PS2 connector??.. that was surprising for me.. I thought they would have abandoned that connector a long time ago ..

[@alexanderunknown8605]

just big LIKE for the RETRO, hell yeah!

[@MrJest2]

I'm feeling wistfully nostalgic watching this. it's hard to believe it's been 30 years. I still remember the thrill of upgrading my 286-16Mhz system to a 486-33Mhz, with an all new motherboard and new RAM to go with it. Cost me a bit less than it would have normally, due to the fact I worked for a computer component reseller at the time and got my parts at cost. In some ways, however, I've still got the "same" machine - it merely evolved over time, an upgrade here, an upgrade there... although obviously I've got nothing left of the original but some data. I do have most of my personal and work email still in my database from 1992 onward, however. Some 20GB just of email alone... Memories... *sigh*...

[@jackedup447]

I'm kinda curious, what was the last PC build you were running?

[@RetroSpector78]

Must have been an i5 750. Switched to Apple laptops in 2011 (software development) and never looked at pc’s until I started this channel. And only because I bought an old Cyrix 6x86 and Pentium 100MHz :)

[@appwraith]

I do miss the character style BIOSes. These new graphical UEFI shells seem so unnecessary...

[@simontay4851]

I much prefer the old style BIOS. Just the settings and nothing else. No stupid distracting graphics or bloat. You can set all the options very quickly with the keyboard.

[@davinp]

Computer technology has come a long way since 1992. In the fall of 1992, I was a freshman in high school and in computer class they had HP PCs with DOS. We don't use floppy disks anymore like we did back then, instead we use USB sticks. Even CD ROMs aren't used much anymore as we download software from the internet

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

grew up with late 80s and 90s computers, but i don't miss them lol i love how technlogy evoled and today computers are awesome!

[@seangraham2879]

Love your video man very educational I love learning new things keep up the great content

[@tassdesu]

What games are you running at 15:50 ?

[@kcinplatinumgaming2598]

takes me back.. just shows how far tech has gone from even the 8 bit days.. to now having machines with 128 cores .. well to the public.. lets see what happens when quantum computers come along!

[@beefstickswellington1203]

Now compare 60's computing hardware with 90's and the 90's hardware will look Godlike too I miss the days of Commander Keen

[@Rouxenator]

A fair compare would be between a new Biostar A10N-9630E and a Biostar AM386 DX-40

[@RuruFIN]

Loved the ending when both machines had a F1 game with a Ferrari :)

[@fnglert]

The thing that struck me was the size difference between the towers.

[@sgkonfetti]

Please upgrade the 80386sx with a math-copro !

[@bellaspielt8839]

Hi, one question, how much was the 2021 pc in total Us$? Because i am searching for a New pc under 1.000€ (or US $) and i wanted to know how much Was this setup. Thanks a bunch!

[@RetroSpector78]

The new setup was just under 600 EUR brand new. But you get far better price-performance ratio with a second hand machine with an affordable card like a gtx 970 or 1060.

[@RetroSpector78]

Also bought a complete i5 / 16gb / ssd / 24inch monitor / gtx 1060 for 350EUR. If you just want to do some basic 1080p gaming you don’t need to spend crazy amounts

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

A 386 in 1992 is a bit low-spec to be honest, you could get 486's during this time, and might have been a better representation of the best computer for 1992?

[@RetroSpector78]

It all depends on your budget / need. If you browse through mid 1992 PC magazines you'l find plenty of advertisements for 386 sx systems being sold.

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

@@RetroSpector78 I would have emphasized that in the video then, you should have mentioned the 1992 computer represents an entry-level or midrange computer, not the high-end of what you could get at the time.

[@Pasi123]

@@JusticeGamingChannel The 2021 system is entry-level/midrange too

[@nneeerrrd]

In other news, that 3com card is 10 Megabits, not megabytes

[@TGWLEAD]

It's really 1992 case? I thought it's Pentium (or 486DX4) era cases from 1996+ like my first Pentium 100 PC.

[@2412dr]

it’s worth noting that at the time the beige tower would be seen not just in a home environment but also in the office however the 2021 tower is a rare sight in today's offices where thin clients have taken over

[@igors_lv]

New PCs also need video cards, to play some games, you know ;) And load XMP profile for memory, it runs at base speed 2133, if you have not done that already.

[@RetroTechChris]

What a great idea for a video. Love it!

[@rallyscoot]

Thats not a Sound blaster 16. But an Sound blaster PRO (version 2)

[@fula5]

Yo tuve una muy parecida, pero era AMI dx 60-40 4MB HD Seagate 130MB CDRom Mitsumi con Caddy. 1X pero el Windows 3.11 es de 1993 no 1992. MSDos 6.22 y Norton Comander. Very Thanks for remember. Comparándola con un I9 no ha cambiado tanto, porque el Software es la diferencia. Thanks.

[@revoltosotintan]

Ahora tienen leds por todos lados

[@BilisNegra]

12:36 "It's been 15 years since I have used a brand new PC". Wait, what have you been editing on then? 🤔. Ok, I get you meant a desktop. Or maybe you've been using second hand, but reasonably modern/capable parts lately, which is also an interesting way to go?

[@RetroSpector78]

I use a MacBook :)

[@jeffm2787]

I'm running a Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG with a 3950X, 32GB RAM and a 2080TI with a full custom water cooled solution with three radiators. It's getting to be a bit dated now, but the new stuff just blows away the old stuff. I can run with the fans off most of the time and near silent when pushing it. While I miss the old days I know I would miss the current stuff more.

[@thedutchgulcher4750]

Good video, but please enable XMP in the bios so ram runs at it's full speed of 3200mhz.

[@RetroSpector78]

I did but it wasn’t in the footage here as I was just installing it. As you might have guess this is not meant to be an indepth ryzen video as there are plenty of others who do a far better job than me :) just thought it was interesting to compare old and new.

[@RetroSpector78]

Notice also how the PSU changed as the Corsair died on me after exactly 1 day. Really bizarre. From one moment to the next I wasn’t able to start the machine anymore. No smoke , explosion, warning, drama. I turned off the machine and afterwards couldn’t turn it on anymore.

[@kasimirdenhertog3516]

@@RetroSpector78 are you going to investigate the issue or just send it back? Happened to me a while ago too, with a very expensive Seasonic PSU. The unit had a faulty current/voltage protector which worked the first time around but after that kept tripping.

[@fhwolthuis]

Great comparison 😁👌

[@notneb82]

Rather surprised to see a DVI port on the Ryzen board.

[@techalyzer]

As an IT guy, I feel that computers have been going backwards for a while now. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Also, those were the times when THINGS JUST WORKED, which sadly, isn't a thing now anymore.

[@mdamaged]

No rear exhaust fan triggers me.

[@RetroSpector78]

Yeah I forgot to order one and a lot of footage was already filmed …however in the last 30 seconds of the video you can see a white LED exhaust fan shining bright :)

[@mdamaged]

@@RetroSpector78 Whew, I can sleep tonite now!

[@benefactr1840]

Those old cases were vampires! They loved to cut your fingers and hands up.

[@xavierdury8793]

That's a Sound Blaster Pro 2 (not a Sound Blaster 16) in the 386. Otherwise, nice video!

[@mrbendawg]

I'm confused. How is a 386 1992? 486s were clearly out, and the SX model, even its 33mhz varient in 1992 was cheap and just as capable as a 386.