Finishing the Ultimate Oddware Tower! Windows Vista PC Build

[@LGR]

_To those asking about wattage:_ With everything powered on, playing an MP3 through Winamp, fans at full blast, and a cassette playing, it hovers around just 63 watts! It helps not having a GPU or spinning hard disk. The cigarette lighter is the main thing that pushes it, going up to 160 watts while warming up the lighter. twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1672316549112143872

[@dogbog99]

What a weapon this machine is

[@ragedump]

If you keep the lighter and AC, you should at least move the AC above the lighter to help cool down the plastic around the heat coils so there's no melting/fires/explosions. I'm not a smoker, but I just love the novelty of having a cigarette lighter and tray in a PC. It really ties in the whole "car dashboard as a tower" feel.

[@Jeffmetal42]

​@@ragedumpagreed!

[@djdoo]

Imon has 64bit drivers and software I use them for my Silverstone Grandia vfd case , I can send them to you if you like. Excellent built really cool well done!

[@Psycheitout]

I used to use the cigarette lighter port on mine to power a portable air pump. As well as a place at my desk to plug in my phone charger. I thought I was a genius lol. I got one charger for both my car and my desk. Jealous?

[@philtkaswahl2124]

The machine spirit of that Antec case thanks you for finally allowing it to reach the pinnacle of its potential.

[@rado78231]

Ave Deus Mechanicus!

[@PanekPL]

@@rado78231 WAAAAGH!!!

[@Sykolai]

hail the omnissiah

[@rado78231]

@@PanekPL actually my second army is a Bad Moons one. So, (ahem) WAAAAAAGH!

[@SyntheticFuture]

Hmm ultimate potential would just be CD burners top to bottom burning in parallel 🤭🤭🤭

[@Alice_leywind]

I had a thought while watching this video, and this computer is the physical embodiment of someone downloading 15 different internet explorer toolbars and having them all going at once. And I think that's wonderful.

[@davidt3563]

My toolbars got toolbars bro!!

[@Sbeas19]

The physical representation of that era.

[@Mizai]

i did that at school once on the teachers pc

[@JohnKelly2]

I just had flashbacks to working AOL Tech Support. I need to call my therapist now.

[@mcgibs]

28:58 Seeing this work of art going full tilt while dongers go by on the screen is just poetry.

[@Sir......]

................BALLS...................

[@VaporTrap]

and BALLS on the LCD screen a second or two later

[@andrascsirmaz3043]

*poopetry :) (farts...)

[@dellawrence4323]

All computers should look like this.

[@herpmcderp5707]

Also Dopefish lives!

[@hydrolisk1792]

Just so you know, LCD smartie is still being updated. It is a slow project right now, but it is still alive. I'm one of the admins still left that moderate the forums and I'm in constant contact with the program developer as I use smartie in my day to day life at the office and my private residence's infrastructure. Thank you for showing it in this video as you are a well known youtuber and you can get the word out that it is still alive :) There is MUCH MUCH more that can be done with the program with more complex setups, but that would probably be an entire video in itself. Crazy buildout by the way, I kinda want one LOL.

[@bbg09delta]

You've just made the biblically accurate angel of computing as far as I'm concerned.

[@inthegrass11]

"biblically accurate computer" is a beautiful phrase

[@BlazingDiancie]

As long as it doesnt start screaming geometrically.

[@mariopartylover10]

This is like the essence of Maximalism, Chungking Mansions, Tower of Babel, New York City billboard of computer towers. I love it.

[@PCFixer]

This thing is a mega chungus bonkers machine and I love it to bits!!!

[@JSR_]

Your Magnum Opus, good sir. I salute you. Seriously, I was enthralled with this build. I'm so geeked you got it ALL working, I adore it!

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@DarkSide3211]

ahhhh windows vista now being part of oddware. Im happy to be part of this historic moment. I remember back in the day we got a brand new family computer and it ran Vista ultimate. I was about 6 or 7 years old at the time and I just remember all the oddness it had and it's all just nostalgic

[@escapetherace1943]

vista was wretched. 7 was bliss.

[@succulent951]

​@@escapetherace19437's file explorer was a definite downgrade

[@branmo_me]

@@escapetherace1943 Vista was fine, your computer wasn't good enough to run it

[@bolttracks]

All the computers at my high school were running Vista and seeing it gives me such nostalgia too.

[@Terminatedd]

When I bought my first own PC, it had Vista. You couldn't play some Valve games with is for some reason (DOD, CS, HL2) and it always gave me this legendary Vista error: "Windows Vista is searching for a solution -> Solution found! -> No solution". Still cracks me up today.

[@ledidier15042000]

I love the way you take care to not show your thermal paste application 😂 makes me laugh more that it should 😊

[@benforbes8840]

I've noticed he always hides it... what's up with that?

[@Kruton1122]

@@benforbes8840people will complain if he puts too much or too little. Everyone thinks everyone does it wrong. So it’s best to not show it.

[@benforbes8840]

@@Kruton1122 Makes sense, thanks! I remember once putting way too much on and it squeezed out over the edges over the motherboard, I felt so stupid 😅

[@volvo09]

@@benforbes8840 yeah, already answered but anyone who shows thermal paste application (and gets a lot of views) will inevitably get a zillion replies from people saying you did it wrong, to "you are using junk paste, I thought you were smarter than that" and blah blah blah... as if it's the most critical thing. It's like oil in car scenes... Just do it right... It's not going to blow up because someone's preferred brand wasn't used.

[@volvo09]

@@benforbes8840 and even though you found out what too much was, you also found out it didn't matter! It isn't going to damage anything because it's non conductive... it's just a mess, that's it. Imagine if you took internet comment advice and were pushed to buy "liquid metal" (which is conductive) by people who think thermal paste is so important... Then you would have broken something by shorting stuff out with the overflow, and it happens to people. In short, people love to armchair quarterback about the one thing they think they know :)

[@HanMasho]

The second he showed that cooler off, I was thinking, "oh, that thing's going to be loud AF"... I was not wrong. In fact, it was even worse than I was expecting.

[@ndm13]

I genuinely wonder how much of that was poor thermal adhesion though

[@Levy_Wilson]

@@ndm13 It was the fan. They are made to cool servers. They aren't made to be quiet at all.

[@nickwallette6201]

They come in different RPM ranges, and some of them aren't too bad. Especially if they're meant to be PWM'd. They CAN be quite quiet. However, they are definitely not _optimized_ for silence, with the thin-fin heatsink butted up to the bottom of a blower which then forces air out of a rectangular cavity at a relatively high velocity... Well, yeah, that's not how you do "silent."

[@frankb5728]

@@ndm13 Low profile fan and tuned for server, which is max cooling 100%, just in case.

[@DavidSGrop]

Did you not expect it to sound like a squadron of helicopters approaching over the horizon?

[@snakeplissken1754]

That dynatron cooler is a proper fly murdering machine. Whatever comes even remotely close gets sucked in and shredded into bits.

[@filanfyretracker]

just needs blue LEDs, I had a case with a blue LED front 120mm. couldnt make it a summer in an non air conditioned home without a few flies cut in half by the blue Antec fan.

[@snakeplissken1754]

@@filanfyretracker Nice one.

[@milescarter7803]

The best part is it is using the intake side of the blower, so it isn't even being particularly efficient.

[@labrat810]

@@filanfyretracker I'm suddenly reminded of my mid-00s UV-reactive PC. Opening up the house in Vegas' summer's night, definitely had bugs attracted to my (windowed) case and monitor.

[@Willster419]

Delta fan has entered the chat

[@AaronHendu]

Vista is the perfect os for this monstrosity.

[@_framedlife]

I'd have suggested 8 but it needs newer hardware

[@hemidas]

​@@_framedlifeMeh, I'd choose Vista over Win8 as well.

[@CastIronRestore]

The side widgets....I forgot about all those

[@volvo09]

​@@hemidasVista is a beautiful looking OS. I love it.

[@volvo09]

​@@CastIronRestorethat was one of my favorite things. Unfortunately a service pack took them away because there was some security vulnerability.

[@ImmaSayKOOHWIP]

I'd honestly pay anything for a computer like this. this is everything i want in a computer

[@ayol1011]

I genuinely love this. With all the gauges, mix matched between digital and analog dial. It gives this PC a retro-futuristic look.

[@erlendlundvall]

Agreed! What happened to analog gauges on PCs?? Suddenly they all disappeared, but they were really useful and looked good. My guess is that they will be trendy again in a couple of years.

[@mattpierce5009]

Fun stuff. AM2 was actually the second dual core platform from AMD, the first was in 2005 on Socket 939. It was memory bandwidth starved on DDR1. Also a cool thing for those who don't know - the AMD bracket Clint struggled with briefly is compatible with every (edit: mainstream) AMD platform from 2003 to 2022 - 754, 939, AM2/3/4. Allows for silly stuff like Wraith Prisms on OG Athlon 64 Clawhammers - the RGB control software even works in XP :D

[@ffwast]

I might have to do that now. Gotta love AMD's backwards compatibility.

[@dinovito]

I actually bought a dual cpu for 939 socket dont remember the speed, installed it and didnt boot, figured it was bios needed an update and since it just sits there, n I download the bios but it still never did that update😅😂😂

[@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381]

Aqua Computer do a similar thing in the opposite direction, you can get a AM4/AM5 Mounting Kit even for their first gen cuplex coolers from the early 2000s (they were founded in 2001) and Intel LGA115x/1200/1700 for their slightly later cuplex pro and evo. I doubt that these early can handle the top-end CPUs because they only got one large channel that winds around a few times but no microfins, but maybe it's still okay with a Ryzen 3/5 or Core i3/i5.

[@iYonga]

I had a Socket 939 system that was built in 2005. Used it until 2018, until we finally gave up on each other. I switched between XP and 7 all the time. It had a single core 3500+ running at 2.22 GHZ. It ran GTA 4 okay, The Sims 3 and 4 mostly fine, and my favorite games to play on it was Bully and Mirror's Edge. It made a great Windows XP gaming machine. It also had a 512 MB ATI Radeon x1600 on it.

[@chillhour6155]

I remember buying my first all white Sapphire motherboard using that chipset

[@TheRetroMess]

28:26 I would love to see how a tower like that with as many obscure music media drives as you can find (tape deck, CD/DVD/BD, MiniDisc, 8 track, mini tape, weird UMD drives, etc) would look like and work. Like a home studio do-it-all deal.

[@absalomdraconis]

Regretfully, there probably never were 8 track units for disk drives, as those were on their way out when the _original_ PC was first produced. But I bet someone could repackage an existing mechanism for a 5 1/4" bay!

[@kathrynradonich3982]

​@@absalomdraconiskinda curious how much data an 8 track would hold now 🤔 might have to do an experiment for science

[@mattlindborg5768]

Clint, you are probably my favorite channel to watch. Everyone is on social media to be heard or make money. You just want to make videos about things you like or find interesting. A breath of fresh air every time. Keep it up, and just know you are awesome.

[@smirkingrevenge6]

Amen to this.... Such a fan.

[@DimT670]

I mean hes also here to be heard and make money, how is he different from any other youtuber? He makes money of this and he supports specific causes like game preservation etc and wants to be heard about his interests and projects

[@renakunisaki]

@@DimT670 some are here to make money. Some are here to make videos, and happen to also be making money.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

The CPU cooler was made by Cessna, it’s designed to add 5 knots for heavy winds on takeoff on a 172. Alternate use was for sailboats when wind isn’t present.

[@ivanjakanov]

it's the dynatron A48G i think dynatron still sells them, actually a pretty neat copper heatsink. but yea it's a 7k rpm fan so he probably made the right choice swapping for something quieter

[@luciascarlet]

For the monitor, it would be incredible to see it connected to that weird old Alienware ultrawide that used internal projectors or something. Those are EXTREMELY rare (though there was a Linus Tech Tips video on it) so I doubt it would be very feasible, but that thing is SO strange and would truly be a perfect match for this build.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

Dude I love your channel. It is so relaxing and takes me back to my childhood. You remind me a lot of some of the guys I used to hang out with growing up. I think we are around the same age, this just takes me back to when worrying about things like my pc was ll there was to worry about, and playing D&D.

[@LGR]

Thanks, I’m glad to hear it!

[@Cliffdog01]

I think if you do an Oddware Tower 2.0 you should do all the Storage Weirdness that was in 5 1/4 bays from the early 90s to the 2000s.

[@MichaelEilers]

Make a tower of Abandoned Media Formats

[@MrDuncl]

@@apathydron LS120. I recall the noises mine made at start up were super Hi-Tech like something out of a Sci-Fi film.

[@archechme]

Man this is what we wanted for the future. This stuff is so cool. Computers nowadays are so seamless and boring.

[@MaartenvanHeek]

We also get older, there's still a market for modding but I guess nowadays it's mostly led and window cases, not these oddities stuffed together :) I had a manual fan controller on my previous build, but replaced it 2 years ago in the same case and just plugged the fans in the motherboard. It's a nice gimmick to be able to control fans manually, but not more than that (for me)

[@IvorySoul696]

Not really. This stuff disappeared for a reason. It’s dumb and mostly useless. It’s here for a small niche crowd like us, but no one will run out to buy 5.25” nonsense anymore. Even I didn’t back in the day.

[@AnimexBoy7]

@@IvorySoul696 Nah man... I need a massive high resolution touch screen in the front panel of my case showing all kinds of things and controls

[@alpham777]

I know it's why I love peoples cyberdeck builds. Is a regular laptop more functional sure but a briefcase capable of satellite hacking is way fucking cooler lol.

[@zerocal76]

OP never said this old tech was better. It is cooler. Plus most tech today can't even be seen. I rarely use flash drives anymore. Soon we won't even have devices, just glasses or contacts!!

[@Rainmanthereal]

Really impressive build right here folks. My love for display screen is now fullfill. The cassette deck just made me went nuts actually. I didn't know such things even existed since we were all starting using CD's. Then I did quick search on google and just realized that you've already talked about that a almost a year age! WOW !!!!

[@storerestore]

I remember seeing a motherboard with a vacuum tube amplifier for its on-board audio. That could be an option for this amazing build if you want oddware at its very core!

[@aaron5222]

That's cool

[@CorvodaPop]

This is the most beautiful tower I've ever seen. The mishmash of colors, shapes, the interconnectedness of it all. Segmented displays, dot matrix displays, analog guages with RGB lights. Music and news, digital and cassette, a cigarette lighter???? I could only dream of owning this thing.

[@gblargg]

The cigarette lighter and ashtray is the best part.

[@kevink1575]

20:10 The Search for The Farts

[@VBTMYT]

The moment you apply thermal compound is expertly hidden by editing so as not to cause a rumpus down here; well done LGR

[@Herrikias]

I hope you'll set the tower up in it's own place, where it can act as a shrine where all other oddware can gather and bask in its glow.

[@richardestes6499]

Definitely needs an oddware keyboard and mouse, even if they're ones you've already covered.

[@Jeffmetal42]

Absolutely! I'd even suggest an odd monitor. Let's just make it as strange as humanly possible!

[@Chepakishui]

Maybe something like a Logitech G19 Keyboard? Or one of those typewriter keyboards?

[@mrb692]

It’s gotta be the burgermouse!

[@succulent951]

think there was a keyboard - possibly logitech(?) - that had a Sideshow display at the top!

[@succulent951]

@@Chepakishui yes! those were the logitech keyboards supported sideshow! maybe starting with the g13

[@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera]

That is definitely most crazy pc build's I have ever seen. This really screams a mix of late 90's and early to mid 2000's stuff. Pretty neat and that is definitely something that you don't see that often.

[@djbs65]

OH MY GOD! I totally had that Antec double bay display. Holy cow, such nostalgia. I remember wanting a volume knob for watching media on a projector. Man, you always end up throwing me down memory lane! Keep it up, love your content!

[@smashthings1]

Loving the rich, vibrant colours in your videos. That oddware tower is seriously epic!

[@ChortleChortle]

The Antec 1200 is such a legendary case. Caught me off guard seeing a thumbnail for someone filling the bays with a bunch of weird devices - around the same time this video came out I built a machine in a 1200 with as many different 5.25" external media drives as I could find. Glad I'm not the only one who still appreciates cases with lots of bays!

[@mattkcraig]

This is one of the coolest builds I've ever seen on KZbin and I've been watching tech videos since they started. I spent hrs back in the day looking through catalogs for cool stuff to put in my cases and I've wanted every single one you used in this build.

[@TroutButter]

I miss Aero Glass in Windows. I also preferred the taskbar in Vista over 7 and 10. I think the cig lighter thing needs a woodgrain skin on the ash tray part, or maybe the whole thing. There's something about woodgrain and cigs that just go together...somehow. I really love that vacuum tube thing.

[@nerdyneedsalife8315]

The cigarettes and woodgrain go well together because when woodgrain was popular, people were still smoking inside. I wouldn't know, I was born in the late 90s

[@user2C47]

I wish there was a decent aero theme for KDE, so I could have the looks of Windows Vista/7 but the functionality of modern Linux.

[@nichderjeniche]

Yes also liked the look of vista

[@Qcom]

LCD Smartie was and still is a great little program. I still have a 20x2 LCD in a box that I used back when my cable co allowed me to use a cable card to record to my pc. being able to see what tv show was recording without having to wait for the monitor to come on was great. Plus you can draw little doodles with it on the screens. Sad it hasn't been updated for years.

[@pavlovsky0]

I still have cable cards. It’s rare now. I’m like that only one still using them. FCC mandate saves me

[@NightWolfx03]

I'm still using LCDSmartie today on Win10 :3

[@user2C47]

I've got a cable card too, but it's for the ancient analog camera attached to my drone.

[@GabrielOnuris]

I don't get excited for a pc case like this in decades. I mean, the aesthetics here are perfect, just... Perfect, can't say more than this.

[@ryanvandoren1519]

Let's hear some more.

[@javierjones]

So entertaining, so well-made. Your care to build and fix every detail is something i appreciate. That is a deliciously odd pc to keep. Thank you.

[@faronsquare]

Dude, all those bay addons are awesome! The cassette player and analog VU meters look great. Being old enough to have messed with a lot of this stuff, I know how long it must have taken to get it all working like that.

[@nukedathlonman]

It's an awesomely wonderful and odd way to show off the oddware - I dig it. 🙂 The 5.25" bay needs to come back. 🙂

[@TigonIII]

I am currently upgrading my PC and was still using my tower case from 2008 (really should have gotten a new case sooner), but it was actually a little depressing seeing that 5.25" bays are a thing of the past. I was hoping that at least some case manufacturers would maybe find new innovative ways to include at least one 5.25" bay, but I ended up going with the Phanteks Enthoo Pro Tempered Glass, as Phanteks has some nice cases and quite a few have 5.25" drive bays.

[@nukedathlonman]

@@TigonIII My case isn't that old (from 2016), but it def does not appear I'll be able to move off of it due to the lack of 5.25 bays (I need my card reader, and don't want on floating around my desk).

[@bananieldiamonds1921]

When Children are in the early developmental state, its important for them to see and interact with many things. that Pc would stick in any childs brain forever, and shape their personality in more ways than are understood.

[@ethanpschwartz]

I kind of like, the in the midst of all the blinkenlights and chaos, just a plain black ashtray. It's the punchline of the whole build.

[@catfish552]

It's... glorious. The only suggestion I have is making a sign that you can have next to the tower when you set it up at shows, to point out what each of the components is. Maybe even linking individual videos for the parts that have them.

[@jb31842]

with printed QR codes!

[@daddiodan6846]

I love this. It brings me back to the 00s when I would browse through Xoxide's offerings to find the coolest bay devices to incorporate into my builds. There were always so many wild double drive sized gauge style monitors to choose from. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@Gatorade69]

Can't forget the Cold Cathode lights.

[@CoryMT]

I love how smoothly you hid the thermal paste application! Regarding the drive bays, I personally would not want to see a heavy focus on audio, but I would love to see the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum like front panel in it. I think that would be better than all those VU meters. I agree that the cigarette lighter one is a bit bland.

[@benforbes8840]

Why does he hide the thermal paste application?

[@storm5936]

I remember the first new home PC we got was a Vista machine otherwise we had an old 9x machine (can't remember if it was 5 or 8). So yes, vista is awkward & not great but nostalgia means I will always have a soft spot for it

[@welcometohellproductions7773]

same, my grandparents had one, they don't have it any more tho.

[@ember9361]

my mom's vista laptop used to shock me when it got too hot playing sims 3 lol

[@volvo09]

Vista was ahead of its time. It was a wonderful OS. It was the hot running, and low powered hardware of the era that gave it a bad reputation.

[@TheEtherealRabbit]

I had the pre-release vista leak, which weirdly, was a better OS. Whilst there was stability issues, the lack of bloatware meant I found it really snappy on the Athlon XP1800+ and Ati Radeon9800 I ran it on.

[@WOE_SC]

Man, I absolutely love the tone and writting for these videos, soothing, full of knowledge and history, Thanks LGR. Keep doing the great work that you do.

[@PCarDriver87]

It's so beautiful to look at. I love it. You are like a mad scientist with excellent taste. (And that Duke Nuke impression was legit).

[@WalrusFPGA]

It's aliiiiive! Great work getting this setup and the dedication to re-install vista 32-bit for the full Ultimate Oddware experience! That audio chain is wild 😂 Playing Duke Nukem 3D with that remote was an unexpected bonus here, and just the kind of wonky experiments I love the most (Experimentation with unique input devices.) Thanks as always for the entertainment & have a great summer!

[@MindReader_PEI]

That Silverstone display showing a headline for the Titanic sub incident is so oddly fitting for something such as this Oddware Tower

[@KingHydros-pu1el]

Then it being immediate cut off with GREETINGS FARTS is the best part

[@QubaMichalski]

I was really rooting for Windows ME, but remembering the rounded corner box of Vista changed my mind. Great choice!

[@nucflashevent]

5:45 -- I don't care what anyone thinks, I **liked** Windows Vista! It came out around the same time I bought my first x86 PC (I was a Mac person and upgraded from a heavily upgraded G4 to a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1) and while I honestly didn't have much use for Windows at the time, I was so enamored with the fact I *could* run Windows if I wanted to I immediately invested in a copy of Windows Vista. Maybe it's because it was my first "real" Windows install (I'd messed around with XP elsewhere, but nothing serious) but I thought it was a very good release. The one thing I will say is the first Vista Service Pack fixed a LLOOTT of issues (not the least of which allowed Vista to recognize the entirety of the 8 GB of RAM I had installed in my Mac Pro at the time).

[@SynchronizorVideos]

I quite liked Vista too, and I had used DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98SE, and XP previously. Though tough on resources, the fancy presentation with the see-through window borders felt very classy and futuristic at the time, and I still think it's visually a better-looking interface than any later versions of Windows.

[@reconbbs360]

So nostalgic seeing a AM2 build. First computer I ever built had a 4400x2 in it. I recall getting 4gb of ram when Vista came out. Never really had an issue with Vista because of that.

[@ashir555]

I never had an issue with Vista back then. But, then again, I had 8 GB of RAM.

[@xoutofgum]

Such a comfy episode thanks LGR for spreading some nostalgia from the golden age.

[@GuestZer0]

"Mismatched tower of nonsense"? Sounds like my kind of PC. All we need next is a dual monitor setup.

[@pgknippel]

Only 2 monitors? Nobody likes a quitter!

[@ndm13]

Dual vertical monitors for extra chaos

[@glitch1299]

Dual one monitor 4:3 CRT and one 16:9 LCD.

[@hordeofzombine]

Triple monitors. 4x3 LCD in the middle, mismatched CRTs on the sides.

[@M4uritius]

Set them both sides of the tower :)

[@MrNateDD]

Carrying that into a LAN party would turn some heads

[@camotech1314]

This is the most audio centric PC I've ever seen!! 😮

[@guardiane]

I would have gone crazy with my tower as well if I had access to all these gadgets. Sadly, my towers were always so generic and boring...I did buy a fancy tower once with a door on the front panel. On the door were a bunch of gages and meters for audio and fan speed, etc. But every motherboard I ever put in there was always missing 1 or 2 components for those gages to be functional...plus the door was ultimately annoying and blocked any fans on the actual front panel. Nowadays, I just have "gaming" tower with RGB fans on the front...OoooOOOOOoooOOO... I see keep the Oddware Tower as it is and just periodically make update videos where you try different gadgets here and there. I'm always up for these sorts of hardware videos. Keep'em coming.

[@rougenaxela]

At first, I was thinking "Ah, that's a reasonably good powerhouse of a machine for that era", and then you mention Vista, and and it all makes sense.

[@kathrynradonich3982]

Had an Athlon 64 x2 4800+ in 2006 and that computer was amazing. Never had any issues when i upgraded it from XP MCE 2005 to Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Played so much Oblivion on that system. Thanks for the fun memories 😁

[@WindmillGS]

You *could* make that Kingwin fan controller fit better with some 3D printed support bracket. You've got black filament so it should blend in pretty well.

[@RogueAgent007]

I asked for this a very long time ago. Thank you, kind sir.

[@edwardelgar]

Fun Video! Around 2004 I built a bunch of custom PCs with similar orange Foxconn motherboards. We installed Lindows, a Linux distro that mimicked the Windows UI. The boards were ideal since Linux had support for the VIA chipsets and Realtek Ethernet and audio.

[@Fr_Dae]

Or just Lubuntu (lxde + lubuntu preinstalled) same, but safe and supported

[@VieVentar]

You could get the visuliser on that display, with the tape drive. Winamp has a line in plugin, you can have winamp muted while "Playing" the line in and it should run the spectrum analyser for you.

[@erebostd]

12:00 if you want to use PLA(+) you should think about using Annealing. It’s really easy to do and can strengthen your prints quite a bit, adding more heat resistance to it 😁👍

[@AmaroqStarwind]

I instead recommend PVB filament, so that you can smooth it with isopropyl then burn it out to do an investment casting of zamak alloy.

[@colinstu]

OMFG… LCDsmartie… I remember building a HTPC for my dad in like 2007, and it had a screen that was controlled by that / had to set it up. Have not thought about that in forever.

[@kurtm5004]

I recently brought back to life a system I built in 2009 that has almost as many front panel do-dads. I leaned less toward the audio side and more toward the complete fan control aspect including; 4 fan controllers to manage the 20-some fans in the full tower case, 3 drawers, 2 intake bays with 3 fans each, and a full atomic clock. Of course this was all built unironically, not for the hilarity, but for the full control and monitoring of every cubic inch of space as it own individual heat zone.

[@FeelingShred]

we need video footage of that 🤣👍

[@Redmage913]

That CPU cooler is adorable. I have a similar one, the Antec A30 Pro, from which I removed the fan and attached an AMD Stealth fan for PWM support. So quiet, and more than capable of the 65-95 watts my i7-2600 consumes. Vista was an excellent choice for this beautiful hodge-podge. Thank you for the video!

[@ShreddedShredder0]

I used to try to populate the drive bays as well. I'm personally a fan of fan controls on the front. Also front I/O and memory card reader combos.

[@RWSCOTT]

love it! needs an e-z-bake oven, tho. 😁

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

I'd love to have that Antec case and fill it with hot swappable HDD modules for a diy NAS

[@jackaofdp]

Those days were the peak of Desktop modding, I've had so much fun with dyi air coolers and overclock. Ty for the nostalgia!

[@apocalyptosoldier5527]

I saw that exact cigarette lighter in a pc in a pawn shop earlier this year and had no idea if it was a homemade solution or actual product, nice to have some confirmation

[@JohnKelly2]

You definitely need one of those ergo split keyboards. The ones with the left and right side keys split into separate keyboards. Or maybe a vertical chording keyboard.

[@martinsear5470]

Damn dude, seeing this up and running took me all the way back to my PC World days. We sold so much of this stuff back then.🤣

[@evilspoons]

I think an optical drive for the express purpose of playing music CDs would be a good plan. You do have a tape deck, after all. Maybe try to find something weird like a slot loader, or at the very least those ones that have full CD playback functions independent of the system. Alternately you could go for an internal MiniDisc drive.

[@MrDuncl]

A slot loading CD changer would be ideal for its oddness.

[@CAR912b]

Or some kind of multi-disc changer for extra odd-ness.

[@bluetapevideo]

I had an Antec Twelve Hundred as my main case until 2021. Thing was a beast with just two optical drives and some fans. Glad to see it reaching its full potential here.

[@testbenchdude]

Needs cold cathode tubes. Rings for the fans and bars for that sweet, early 2000's aesthetic. Multiple light-up switches for them installed on a font panel blank.

[@bng0072]

I built my Win 11 work PC in a 1U server case mounted in the rack using a similar cooler. I can hear it kick up from the other room when I put the PC under a load.

[@runaway9098]

If you're making a vista computer, i think you should use a vista era gpu, something from the ATI HD3000 series or geforce 8 series, if you have it.

[@MichaelEilers]

I un ironically used Vista when it came out, and I found it was totally functional and useful on appropriate hardware, and had enough back compatibility to use my entire Windows CE development suite; it even was a halfway decent Web server for our internal documents. I didn’t try to make a gaming rig with it but it doesn’t deserve the reputation of being useless. Now, Windows 8, on the other hand….

[@OP4455OP]

HD 4870 and 8800GTX is a best room heater, 2x6pin in 2008

[@FeelingShred]

my 2009 ATI Mobility Radeon 4650 (laptop improvised model before laptop gpu's became a thing...) could run games launched up to 2015 or later in High settings... reached 90 C degrees real fast though... undervolting worked miracles

[@FeelingShred]

things were on a different level of quality and future proofing 😥

[@FeelingShred]

correction: ATI Mobility Radeon HD4650 👍

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Even this motherboard has a 24-pin power connector. Was 20 pins EVER a thing? 😨

[@Dreams_Of_Lavender]

I've got boards from 1998 and 2001 that have 20-pin connectors. I'm not exactly sure when the switch to 24 pin was made.

[@tOSdude]

The Optiplex GX 260 used a 20-pin connector, as did most 90's ATX devices I believe.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@Dreams_Of_Lavender 20 pin connectors seem to have been used for a very small period of time, considering PSU's have accommodated for them for decades.

[@drosera88]

This reminds me of mid-2000's Internet Explorer with a whole bunch of those third party toolbars installed taking up space in the browser.

[@RXP91]

That graphic EQ display reminds me so much of my dad’s hobby of car stereos. I still remember picking out the stereo & loving the screen and playing with all the EQ settings

[@DesignRevolutionary]

This is freaking cool. A glorious celebration of excessive peripherals I didn't know I didn't need. (But now do, ironically)

[@kunai1362]

Perfectly absurd and I love it

[@Mini-z1994]

Adding in a single slot nvidia 9600 gt would probably pair up with the processor pretty well, or maybe a hd 4670 from ati's lineup ca 2008 - 2009. *ah forgot edits removes that*

[@LGR]

Yeah I was thinking an ATi since I really do that

[@slytheraccoon1]

​@@LGRreally do what

[@rado78231]

@@LGR like really, really do that!

[@yunietpiloto4425]

Man what a throw back...the dream PC of many 15 years ago...nice video!

[@shartbearer]

This is the coolest pc build I've ever seen in my life. No modern seamless tech can touch this masterpiece

[@usptact]

The tower we all didn’t dream but wanted to have 😄

[@GeekmanCA]

Hey Clint! That weird CPU fan is called a blower and is endemic in rackmount servers. As you can see from the arrow, it's designed to move air rapidly from the front of a rack to the back. It's also highly variable depending on CPU load, and - as you might imagine for something that spent its life in a server rack - noise was a least concern. Back in the day the company I worked at learned the hard way that rackmount servers needed to be inside an enclosure when they were on-site in a shared office environment... 😅

[@al3k]

Absolutely pure awesomeness. :) ❤

[@performa9523]

I cannot wait to see this awesome thing at VCFMW! See you there!

[@LGR]

Aw yeah, looking forward to getting it out into the wild there!

[@camelazo]

New generations don`t understand this beauty!!

[@nitroxinfinity]

You have a cassette deck in there, of course you also need a cd player!!!

[@FeelingShred]

how else would we be able to play Interstate 76 🤣🤣🚗🏎

[@FeelingShred]

or the CD Audio track on POD Gold 🔥

[@krazylegswp]

ive mentioned it before but it would be awesome to see a "hifi" audio tower build subwoofer speakers vus etc ive followed all the oddware builds till now its unfortunate that the speaker drivers are probably worn out and the tube amp thing is a bit strange and dissapointing but still the idea of a full hifi audio vibe in a tower would be cool

[@FeelingShred]

with real EQ buttons, EQ is a necessity

[@kagesong]

Well, by this point I've noticed the LTT screwdriver is LGR approved. I see that thing popping up on a lot of channels just being used, no mentioned or anything. Pretty neat. Seems like they really nailed the product.

[@Zamorakphat]

Really hoping for a Clint-Linus crossover video, the later stuff Clint covers would be right on track for the stuff Linus grew up with.

[@kagesong]

@@Zamorakphat I think that would be a great idea. Have you gone to the forums with it? Linus likes to be pressured in the forums. His favorite pass-time, I'm told.

[@jamesthomson7634]

You could use anti reflective screen protector for that first one. This is the coolest PC i've ever seen!!

[@BrooksSligh]

Hilarious stack there! When I bought my current eWaste tower from my local State Surplus Warehouse, a Dell Optiplex 7050MT, I was surprised to find a 5.25" bay on the front & was asking myself "What does a person put in a five-and-a-quarter bay in the year of our Luigi 2023?" Some great options here. I think that is probably the skinniest RAM I've ever seen & I've installed SIMMs in a Tandy 1000 & a Soundblaster Goldfinch. Those disk-on-module deals are hilarious.

[@mysticmarble94]

Making such machine is prolly a war crime 🤭🤭🤭