Ep4 Retro Gaming PC Build Series "Case Badge Mod & Beige PC Bounty Hunters"

Episode #4 of Bill's Retro Gaming PC Build & Modding Series!
Mnpctech's Bill Owen revisits Derek's PC Doodle Computer Repair Shop, 3600 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406. Visit his website here, www.pcdoodle.com
Derek has laser etched the custom PC case window that Bill made! It's now a tribute to the iconic hardware from Windows 98 and early 2000 era. Derek also shares his stealth RGB arduino lighting mod. This mod incorporates the original PC case badge from TranMicro as the switch! We play a game of Need for Speed "High Stakes" from 1999. The 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP really shows how it was the best performing video card for it's time. Next derek shares his bounty haul of vintage beige computers. Bill and Derek discover tape with actual build dates, but don't recall who made EP brand motherboards? "It was EPOX guys!"
Next Bill is invited by his friend Guido to pick-up his Gateway 2000 desktop PC he bought in 1998. The PC is in pristine condition. "It's a like a time capsule!" Guido shares all of the original Win98 software that he bought with the PC. Ever heard of the game G-POLICE or REDLINE Racer from the last 90s? Bill later remarks that he's never heard of these games, but they're a nice bonus! This is when Bill suggests the idea of "Beige PC Bounty Hunters" with a cartoon clip into. Is this a future video series for Retro PC gamers and Builders? Cashing in on finding rare Windows 98 era desktop PCs and hardware? Maybe???
Bill finally shares the first wave of your retro computer photos from 1995 - 2005 submitted from across the PC hardware community. Here are the community forums if you would like to submit and post your own photos for a future episode of Bill's retro gaming PC series, "Mod like it's 1999"
Mod Zoo Forums
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atari age forums
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bit-tech community forums
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linus tech tips forums
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ars technica forums "case cooling & fetish"
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OCAU in Australia
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OCN
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Annandtech
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HWC in Canada
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[@Doobie3010]

That first PC`s RGB switch was one of the most elegant one`s i have seen in ages,Really neat and slick idea! The other machine featured where really cool.Cheers Bill,another good one! A merry Holiday to you & yours,man!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Have a nice Holiday New year! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@user-ir2sy9ut1e]

02:19 wow! THE Beautiful PC and i like these 3dfx win98 pnntium iii light LOGO It is really Beautiful!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Thank you, I have beagle, too!

[@kanetsuxp]

I didn't know about that copper switch with arduino, cool stuff!! The pc looks amazing!!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Thank you! and Thanks for watching! have a great day! Bill at www.mnpctech.com

[@AshtonGodbout]

We need more of these mods

[@ThePckupelan]

Just recently watching your channel and the nostalgia train hits me so hard. DIY side windows, lots of accessories panel front. SUBBED

[@JBadAss98Gameing]

Just wanted to say, you’re doing a great job on these. Almost thought I was watching television. Rock on man

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Awesome post, Thank you! Bill at www.Mnpctech.com

[@jawshwaa]

Oh man, this makes me happy , the most retro thing I have left is an antec 900 with a gigabyte 775 and an 6850....one agp card survived lol... I lost all my old ide drives , old cases , psus , and all my modding tools in the camp fire in California.. but seeing stuff like this keeps me smiling, still have some i386 dx CPUs left tho

[@UltraVert]

First of all, that switch is genius! Second even tho I don't know the other games besides NFS, they all looked great.. looked like they run smooth as silk and honestly still looked FUN! I'm jealous! Lastly it brought back so many memories, first of getting to play Counter Strike at a buddy's house back in 00', I wouldn't sleep at all when I stayed over and just played all night, it blew my mind... it was like GoldenEye with 32 players (so amazing for the time!). That game eventually got me into PC's in 05', a different friend who I thought knew it all didn't know PCI-e was faster than AGP so I ended up spending a small fortune on a dinosaur to play CS Source (screw the haters Source and the community around it was awesome). From that I gained enough knowledge to build on my own and never looked back. Sadly it's all just a memory now, I don't have any parts/pictures of the original build which was: Asus P5PE-VM (this model number is burned into my brain lol) Corsair DDR2 2x1gb PNY 7600GS AGP P4 3ghz

[@JimmysTheBestCop]

I remember when I got my first trinitron monitor and it was as deep as the computer desk. Like a long surfboard lol. My late 1990's video game series was Commandos. Then Baldurs Gate Series and the other blackisle games and of course Fallout. The X-Wing series was a very popular 90's pc series as well from early 90s to late. Think X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter was around 97/98 even had multiplayer. 1st multiplayer LAN game I played was Marathon on the Mac haha. 1st Dos multiplayer lan game was Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. 1st real multiplayer was Quake on Windows 95 rocking a T1 internet connection. Think the 1st black case I ever seen was on a Dell Dimension might have had a little grey/silver in it then they converted their corporate line over to black so all of their optiplex pizza boxes.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Cool! I recall seeing a black Antec SOHO full tower in 1999 in Directron advertisement in MaximumPC'. thanks for the tip and watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@dernubenfrieken5765]

"Somebody put a different board in this" Yeah... sorry. Was working on it and never switched the case badge out! Hope you guys like the Pentium MMX board, I thought the integrated chipsets on that were pretty interesting. Glad you guys liked the cases.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

haha, that made it interesting! ! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@matthewshaw3845]

This is so cool. Brings me back!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Awesome! Thanks for watching! Bill at www.mnpctech.com

[@user-ir2sy9ut1e]

02:22 it is good and beautiful ultmate 1999 voodoo pc!!!

[@MarceloTezza]

You gave me a very nice ideia with this touch to ajust colors and brightness!! THanks I love your content

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Thats awesome! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@slowrps13]

What I learnt the hard way, old cases are sharp as fuck.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Yes, they real cheap ones were deadly, find INWIN or Chenbro cases, those were nice! B @ mnpctech.com/

[@DarDarBinks1986]

I want one of those beige boxes now, to make a sleeper PC out of! Even better, if I were to mod the floppy drive into a SD card reader, with the disk acting as a caddy.

[@RetroBerner]

Nice, I thought I lost all my old PC pics, but I found some of them on overclockersclub, since they integrated all the DFI-Street Forums data when they shut down. I wouldn't have bothered to look if you hadn't reminded me with your series, thanks man!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

I caught those, Thank you!!! I have to get some other video series uploaded before I can do next video in this series, so estimating maybe mid January? maybe sooner, but Holiday break makes it difficult, thanks again Steve

[@RetroBerner]

Sounds good, maybe just slow down the slideshow speed a little, this one was a bit fast

[@sayresyDevino]

By 2001 I had built quite a few PC's and unfortunately high temps was never an issue. You needed a ton of money to buy the premium builds. Lol I used to have a house full of fellow nerds every Tues eve for "GAMES NIGHT". Doom and Unreal tournament were always the top pics..

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Yes, builds cost fortune back then, consider a decent case like a cheiftec/chenming dragon was at least $149, if it was on sale, today, the gpu and liquid cooling components consume most of my budget, but you can get really decent cases for $60, thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@BillyBuerger]

I like the Sun workstation by Hi-Fi Man. I have a SparcStation 20 that I want to build a sleeper PC in some time. But right now, I'm working on some plans for an IBM Model 8580 Sleeper. Got a lot of measurements and parts to make in order to make things fit in this monster.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

that would be epic! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@feeterican]

Once I got my first black case back in 2002 I cut a window out on the side using a hand nibbler (took almost 6 hours) I sprayed my monitor semi flat black and picked up a black KB/M.

[@RetroBerner]

I learned bout the nibbler from Bill back in the day, still got mine too. That thing made me bleed on a few occasions, right in that spot between the thumb and index finger LOL

[@feeterican]

@@RetroBerner lol same here and I also got some nasty blisters on top of my drumming blisters. I used a Dremel on my second case window cut out. so much faster and easier.

[@RetroBerner]

Yeah, that was a lesson quickly learned for me too LOL

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

OMFG, that was dedication to MODDING! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@feeterican]

@@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods lol glad you saw my comment. I got a bit smarter moddding the second case. I used a Dremel and only took 20 minutes lol. Back then I didn't see many people do that and my friends at work thought I was crazy but after it was finished, they ended up doing the same thing. Also my friend and I here at work (company we work for) were making the LED dislplays for the Good Year Blimp and someone messed up a whackton of blue LEDs sanded the lenses instead of the PCB lol. My friend and I snagged them up and used them every were we could. I put them in my PC (power and HDD lights), my dashboard in my car, made light strips. It was a fun time for modding what ever we could. Then a few years later every PC out there had blue lights.

[@CommodoreFan64]

Nice, I'm still looking for a case for a Dell dimension 4600 rebuild/upgrade as the case was damaged really bad when I found it at the recycle drop off, but sadly I don't have any photos of my old builds from back the day, as being a high school kid I did not think to record those memories on film or even my early digital camera.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

Understood, and have you setup Ebay for notification under that search? You never know, one may pop up! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods Yes I have, but have not seen what I want yet

[@saturnGEEK]

@@CommodoreFan64 I've got about half a dozen of those machines that I've been trying to get rid of for years. In decent condition. Cannot guarantee the machine will start, but the cases are in good condition.

[@tomaszskrzypczak163]

Could someone describe how to make and install in case those LED badges?

[@cee128d]

Seeing this makes me regret selling my old DFI LanParty Socket A motherboard. Putting that in my old beige Antec SX 1040 case with it's original Antec PP412X psu (both of which I still have). Mod in a side window, add some UV reactive fans and rounded cables, some UV lights, and whatever other beige accessorizes I can scrounge up and be back in the early 2000s.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

that was a nice rig! now is good time to re-consider building a retro PC, before the trend gains more momentum and prices start rising for old hardware, thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@jellydiablo8573]

Where did you get these old PCs from 1998 to 2001and with the hard drives how!? That's amazing I'm an old pc lover as well but I never modded my own old PC but I have a lot (30) old computers I want to mod and make my old computers into gaming computers but I don't know how do you think you could make a tutorial on how to mod your old pc and make it more powerful

[@Ralvy]

Where can i buy cases like that

[@Whatness]

Are you interested in the "sleeper PC" thing, or is this geared to mainly just original hardware? Cool vid regardless. I still play NFS 4 lol. For me it was the last good game in the series. EA killed the modding support after that release, which effectively killed my interest in it.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

I'm going to use the $50 Chenbro case from my Ep3 for sleeper build, I will list the Gateway "as is" with all of it's software on Ebay, prbably after new years, just to see what it sells for, thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@poldelepel]

What is the "Punch Drunk Sports"-video doing in the "retro gaming pc" play list? :/

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

that was weird, fixed! thanks for the tip and watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@basherzman1471]

How did you put the side window in there?? That's cool on a beige box!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

here is guide, kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWmyk52ledB5Z5Y&lc=UgxRlld_G14eCFjzM614AaABAg

[@1337svj]

I've been wanting to do that with a beige case, pcdoodle will do custom ones for others?

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

always worth asking them, thanks for watching!

[@RetroPCGamers]

www.RetroPCGamers.com is updated with the latest episode now! :D Great series! Also shared video to the Facebook Group.

[@MosquitoMade]

All those forum links and none to the zoo? Tsk Tsk ;-)

[@SrtRacerBoy]

They engraved those logo's too far to the right. 9:37, Whats the is that middle tower called, It has that purple oval power/reset buttons on it, and I really need to find one.

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

We didnt see a name on it, sorry! thanks for the tip and watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@-EnD-ci7su]

yo whats the pc called ( case )

[@poldelepel]

What about sleeper pc's? Is it killing the original spec'd retro pc? Or do you do you think it has it's place?

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

they have their place too, we hope to build a Sleeper as well! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@Xray64]

What game is that at 0:08?

[@DioDurant]

turbo turbo

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

YES, thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@osgeld]

AMD Thunderbird or nothin!

[@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods]

that was the cpu in my first build! thanks for watching, B @ mnpctech.com/

[@osgeld]

@@Mnpctech_Giveaway_PC_Mods thanks for making me feel even older, my first build was a 386SX/25 :p

[@Synthematix]

dont slag off the athlon, they destroyed any intel chip in this era.