Building a 486 DOS PC! The LGR Woodgrain 486

Celebrating SEVEN contiguous years of LGR by building the "Woodgrain 486!" The idea here is to build a PC piece by piece that would fit in around 1994, using spare parts and simulated wood.
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● Specs of the finished Woodgrain 486:
66MHz AMD Am486DX2-66 CPU
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
425MB WD Caviar 2420 HDD
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
NE2000-compatible networking card
HDD/FDD VLB controller card
1.44MB Sony 3.5" diskette drive
1.2MB Chinon 5.25" floppy drive
4x Generic IDE CD-ROM drive
Woodgrain-clad generic AT tower with green turbo LED display
● BG music used is from www.epidemicsou...

[@Yepi6918]

51:37 ''Look at that, its almost playable'' This is the insight that Ubisoft developers have after finishing a game.

[@user-tm3fz7qx3s]

Like they finish it at all.

[@sorcererCermet]

yeah its the devs fault, not ubisoft for forcing games to come out before they are smoothed out

[@howaboutsomesoyfood]

Remember when you got the whole game when you bought it?

[@sorcererCermet]

@@notlNSIGHT ubisoft are also the publishers. the devs have no say in the deadlines the publishing dept sets

[@Dubcongaming]

4k Trailer = 240p Game

[@Texshy]

"He's gonna take you to the past Building outdated computers from scrap"

[@scifry3954]

"He's the Lazy Video Game Nerd"

[@Palmroxx]

He'd rather have a Buffalo hard disk, take a binary dump in his SCSI. He'd rather heat, a Compaq Presario, and a RAID... damnit, this is way too difficult, I give up.

[@nespc8271]

i wanna see LGR and avgn & mabe mike get together and play games out of character, Like how avgn and johntron did, out of charcter... sorta.

[@oldgoodrandomroutine]

Nailed!

[@deer5319]

roflmao

[@eelomaa]

Sometimes I watch this again to calm my anxiety. Thank you Clint.

[@blinddog1212]

Same same.

[@DarkTails256]

Same for me! Nothing better than to calm your stress on some computers!

[@BenState]

stress is not anxiety

[@CrypticCocktails]

Great channel for that!

[@tiagosgarage]

2024 and same!

[@JESSEQUEST]

Clint-- I can't stop going back to about 49 minutes in the video and hearing you talk about this Sim City 2000 story and hearing your genuine reaction to seeing it like you saw it all those years ago at a friends' house. SUCH good content! Thanks for this warm, authentic moment!

[@marsdeimos4301]

Calling tech support in 1994: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive A:?"

[@bluespartan076]

I cant find the any key...

[@hakbak3991]

Why is Ms. Dos in my computer? How do I get her out?

[@trs-80fanclub12]

My Cupholder wont open, it worked fine for months, but now when I press the button it wont slide open.

[@acrilly]

These days tech support calls you...

[@aidancommenting]

"If my PC has windows, then why can't I see through it??"

[@tempk490]

"extra pin that's off to the side there, being alone and sad" story of my life.

[@LGR]

It's tough being an extra pin.

[@tempk490]

all joking aside, awesome video dude. I can't wait to check out your other vids.

[@supermasterPIK]

486 has an extra pin that must be aligned

[@camelCased]

It's ok to be off to the side, alone and sad but, please, never ever be a pin. :D

[@g00gleminus96]

Don't be sad, it's Christmas! Go find some friends and eat turkey with them. Have a happy day! :D

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Basically my entire childhood revolved around how good I could get Simcity 2000 to run. I sympathize, Clint.

[@novakjovanovic7313]

My greatest achievement as a 14 year old was overclocking my amd k6-2 350mhz to 366mhz with the jumper pins on the motherboard. Fun times... (1998)

[@ChairmanMeow1]

@@novakjovanovic7313 I remember having to set pins on the mobo for clock speeds when building my first PC. Those were the days!!

[@winlover37]

SimCity 2000 tracks still get stuck in my head to this day. Landmark game

[@null7328]

Classic

[@ProtoHadron]

I played simcity 2000 on windows 7 even tho its not compatible with win 7 (2019)

[@Violant3]

it's so nice to see him happy by finally beeing able to install simcity after all these years

[@Zhedox]

1 hour of PC Bulding.... Clint, you're spoiling me

[@baronsengir187]

And you are spoiling us with your profile pic good sir.

[@Zhedox]

+SengirShowsU HE-MAN YOU ROYAL BOOB

[@Deus_Payne]

CURSE YOU HE-MAN NYAAA

[@Zhedox]

WHY DO I SURROUND MYSELF WITH BOOBS?1

[@voramok5366]

That's one of the friendliest comment sections I've ever seen.

[@Therealgdude01]

Even a video i thought would be extremely boring, you had me watching the whole thing entertained every second. You got serious talent, man.

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@r0xtar]

exactly :)

[@foxtail4358]

oh he does

[@ErizotDread]

I agree...great pacing. It was interesting the whole time. As I was growing up through the nineties, I always wanted a computer like this, but we didn't have alot of money, so I was stuck with a commodore 64. Anyway, great vid!

[@socialLjetlag]

Therealgdude01 yeah I'm finally happy with KZbin

[@jamesarmstrong3000]

I watched this 486 episode for the 7th time. I can do it until the 100th time.

[@Sithedd]

Watch it 486 times

[@SrPequenoRato]

it's just sooooo rewatchable, i can't help but play this one while i'm cleaning the house

[@legendarylinc0762]

@James Armstrong same

[@AnthroFox99]

Who's here 7 years later?

[@emrahatabay31]

👍

[@fed402_1]

yes

[@IrishRhapsody]

Yup

[@brolly562]

7 years and 6 months later....

[@PutYourQuarterUpGaming]

Still discharging

[@QuantumBraced]

This is my favorite LGR video, I've probably watched it 5 times already. I would love to see more retro builds like this from different eras (386, Pentium II, AthlonXP... etc), I think people would find them fascinating. My first/childhood PC was a 486 DX 33MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 200MB HDD, ATi Mach 32 1MB VRAM, so this build really hits home for me.

[@darthrevan2063]

QuantumBraced I sure as hell find old PCs so cool. I have an old ass dell laptop and it’s a lot of fun.

[@therealchickentender]

AthlonXP was the first complete MB up system rebuild I ever did. :D Souped up my 486 with an AMD 133mhz proc and it forever changed the course of my life. hahaha

[@gardiner_bryant]

Clint, I've been following your channel for at least six years. Your channel inspired me to start my own niche gaming channel. Your pure, unfiltered enthusiasm is infectious and refreshing. Thanks so much for doing what you do. You're one of my favorite KZbin creators, hands down, and I love your work!

[@LGR]

Thanks for watching all this time, and I'm happy to have inspired!

[@spenceduggs]

Your builds are genuinely some of the most comforting & enjoyable content on this side of the internet. Even 4 years later, this is a fave to return to from time to time :)

[@rommix0]

That and his Ninja Nanny video. He has a load of classics.

[@likeahouseonfire]

My favorite thing is seeing your PASSION and delight while building this box! I'm glad I didn't get into PC building until after ISA cards, though my first 2 machines had 3 1/2 floppies!

[@_Acala]

I like how this has a nicer BIOS interface than most windows 7, 8, and some 10 computers I've seen

[@NathanDavisVideos]

Although "some" PCs with Windows 10 (or even probably 11 now) do have a pretty nifty looking BIOS interface. Take for example MINE; it has one with an animated background!

[@TD_JR]

Newer computers exclusively use UEFI - BIOS no longer exists. Thank God. UEFI is entirely graphics driven with full support of keyboard and mouse with support for all those large capacity devices BIOS would never be able to support.

[@TD_JR]

@ThinkGamer Right... let me make a correction. BIOS is being phased out. It's taking longer than what was originally planned by Intel some 5+ years ago. Eventually, it's gone. It's just too limited in the current age and can't support some of the higher capacity drives. You'll still see older systems being sold for years where manufacturers will provide deprecated support for the BIOS they publish, but there will be a time when in the not too distant future where UEFI will be almost required to support future OS releases.

[@Name_cannot_be_blank]

@ThinkGamer its not called CMOS thats the battery save, UEFI is the thing after BIOS that has mouse support (allthough some UEFI's still call themselves BIOS, probably so you know the kind of thing they mean, but its not a BIOS), my uefi is slow and ugly, more than the extremly simple bios i used to have (it was basically white yellowish background and marked things were blue, all in text mode, but it was sooo more effective than the current uefi i have)

[@gee.g.3131]

Oh those sweet, innocent times when cable management and rgb lighting were just nullified by beautiful beige.

[@rockstickcomics]

Sascha G. It’s as it should be

[@mylofryett9160]

Those were the times

[@vincentschumann937]

Im a after 2k child but i have 2 beige pc's pentium 4 and d

[@travis1240]

Beige is beautiful. Rgb is irritating

[@woswasdenni1914]

thsoe where real computer

[@JovinRepairs]

I'm working on a 486 build myself. Your channel popped up in my feed and now has me reliving my childhood lol. Dealing with many of the same issues of N.O.S. parts not working after years of sitting around...and playing Jumanji USPS Edition. Finding parts is fun but I recently wandered into the local mom and pop computer store and found out they are clearing out old stuff. Walked out with 1 complete HP Athlon XP system for free, new 3.5" floppy drive, 3 new Turtle Beach PCI sound cards, 1 Cirrus Logic 2mb ISA video card, about 6 various AGP video cards, everything from generic 8mb to an ATI rage pro 128, 2 Nvidia cards, Gigabyte 256mb card and a few others, Win xp home, Win xp pro, win xp pro 64 bit, and Sierra 3d pinball. Cost me $5 for all of it. He has 2 other machines he is prepping for me and I saw he has 2 sealed MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 combo packs on the shelf that I'm going to try to pick up.

[@RogerBarraud]

Hooo-Boy... Feels just like yesterday :-) Except: 1) I was 35 then 2) Now I ain't :-/

[@davidbanan.]

Time just needs to stop some Times, Wait... Thiss video is 4 years old btw like what i remember watching this when it was new

[@so2fast4u2]

Yes You are!!! The fact that you understand and watch these videos instantly makes you 35

[@mortmortmort8908]

Sometimes I think, "I want to build an old pc." Then I watch this video and remember figuring out jumpers and I'm just like "nope."

[@joseislanio8910]

Don't even tell me, I'm messing with some socket 7 boards by the last couple of days. Couldn't quite find the exact manual on the internet, so it's been a pain in the ass to make it work with a pentium

[@joseislanio8910]

Got it kinda working with a K6 tho

[@iladelproductions8820]

@@joseislanio8910 "Kinda working" sounds like most my builds lol...i know better but my lazy side kicks in lol...

[@mattnik]

Assuming you can find documentation it's nothing to get intimidated over. 🙂 In most cases you won't do permanent damage by having a jumper wrong. It just won't get past bios or if it does won't work right. As the other people have replied, if you can't find documentation it can be daunting but in some cases what the jumper does is printed on the board itself

[@KOTYAR1]

I'm an engineer on a laundry plant. A lot of Industrial machinery uses these CPU modules. Which run MS-DOS They're... peculiar to manage, and to repair, restore

[@bret9741]

I’m in my 50’s. My first experience with computers was in the 70’s at Socorro New Mexico. I had placed 3rd in a science fair and the State invited us to spend a week up at Santa Fe for the “State Science Fair”. Anyway we were taken to different government science laboratories. Then in 85 I went to College. At my college we were introduced to IMB XT and then later the AT. While in the Navy I worked on military super computers that were thousands of times less powerful than the cell phone I hold in my hand. On leaving the Navy in 90, I worked for Apple and fell in love with how elegant the Mac design was. I have always owned a mix of PC’s and Macs. I still feel the Mac is superior in design and execution even with the problems that closed architecture and poor senior leadership..... that have plagued Apple over the years...... And yet, there was something incredibly fun and rewarding when building a IBM clone or a gaming desktop of this day. Thank you for this quick trip down memory lane.

[@speedinzosu]

Ok bo0mer

[@yamira.737]

@@speedinzosu bruh be respectful

[@spartanforce7]

Firstly, thank you for your service. Secondly, thanks for sharing this story. Gives me warm feelings.

[@ClipHub777]

@@speedinzosu just shut up dude it's not funny anymore

[@Gigatechi7]

Mac is not Superior in Design , yes they may make their product look pretty , but they don't care much about over heating with their hardware.

[@ChewyChops]

I keep rewatching this and it just makes me happy. I love how passionate you are clint too. How happy you are to see sim city 2k running. So awesome. Man the world needs more people like you in it man.

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

Dude when you said "i just bought this at Circuit City".. it took me a split second to be like wait what? lol

[@superraiden]

Such a cozy video

[@trvekvlt2391]

Top comfy

[@Skellitor301_VA]

When you almost cried to the start up of SimCity 2000 I smiled widely in happiness for you man. Though one idea comes to mind, any chance you would lets play it?

[@mockenmeyer]

Skellitor301 dude... that would be amazing

[@AlarusOne]

I feel your joy SO much coming through in this. I'm geeking out just watching. Reminds me of when I built my first machine. Love your vids. :)

[@Theogvineofthedead]

Crazy that this is a 6 year old video and you were around for 7 before that. Thanks for being the best and keeping the chill for so long. Lgr videos are top notch and just relaxing and entertaining. 😊

I've enjoyed watching this way too much. I'm such a nerd. You definitely built one of the dream PCs I wish I had back then with the AWE 32 Soundblaster card and the Vesa compatible video card. Later my grandfather, who used to work for a credit union, had a Compaq Presario PC to work from home provided by the company. It was one of the first Pentiums at 100MHz and it had a sound blaster 32 card and a Vesa graphics card and a 33.6 kB modem. It had 2 partitions, one had IMB OS/2 Warp and the other had Dos Win 3.11. The Dos partition was for personal use and he let me play with it and it was amazing. A friend and I used to build our own Duke 3D maps, send them to each other using QuickLink II for Dos and then played multiplayer games on our custom built levels. What a time that was. Kids these days can't appreciate the high tech instant response stuff they have today with internet and all that.

[@ericparent7794]

This might be the best video on KZbin! Brings me back to my DX4/100, which also had an AWE32 :) with a double-spin cd connected to it, and my 4-button gamepad running of its game port! 9-pin serial mouse, AT keyboard, etc... ahh... memories! I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to it from my 386 SX-16! Then again, I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to the 386 from my 8086 XT! I was amazed how the 386 had a backup battery for the RTC! No more having to enter the time and date every bootup, like I did for the XT lol! Anyway, AWESOME vid, and AWESOME PC! Entertaining, funny, and so nostalgic! Like I said, may be the best vid on the Tube! Cheers!

[@LGR]

Thanks Eric, I'm glad you enjoyed and got a good nostalgia buzz!

[@DiggyDax92]

Legit, this is one of those videos I wish I could like more than once. Very educational in my opinion. And just a plain ol chill video to hang out with. Love this build.

[@ellie_is_jellie]

i like re-watching it a bunch...believe this is my 5th time

[@dora3743]

Your positive energy helps me get through dark days. Thank you for keeping on keeping on with your passion.

[@scottlarson1548]

This brought back so many bad memories, so many wasted weekends of plugging boards in, swapping boards around, yanking boards out, fiddling with memory sticks (the creaking sound when you put them in gave me shivers), things working then suddenly locking up (it felt like getting slapped in the face), and hardware details that everyone has long forgotten like sharing IRQs. If I got 75% of stuff working in the first weekend, it was enough success that I would be able to sleep. Subsequent evenings and weekends were getting that last 25% working, which often meant breaking things that had been working. *UGH*

[@Nitro_0999]

And that's why consoles are king

[@GuybrushThriftweed]

Sure they are......

[@Pendragon213]

I miss the old homecomputers

[@h2oaddict28]

@@Nitro_0999 they are great at doing one specific thing very poorly

[@Nitro_0999]

@@h2oaddict28 I dissagree

[@ronalddaenen834]

This video made me build 486 pc for Fun, made repair my old pentium 166 mhz and now i use these pc almoust as regular as my modern gaming pc. Nice!

[@sonjeow]

I know this vid is a bit older but it showed up in my feed in 2022. You literally built my first pc build back in 95. Part for part. Thank you for an amazing stroll down memory lane!

[@ChrisArkwright]

Thank you. I loved every moment of this. Brings back so many memories. My first computer was a DX2-33 and upgraded to a 66. Played Duke Nukem 3D and Doom, connected to BBSes with a 2400 bps modem. Those were good times.

[@derghiarrinde]

LGR: "Oh, look at this! It's so cool!!!" me (with a small tear in the corner of the right eye): "Dude, it is a little cool."

[@Bjerrk]

I reacted the exact same way! :)

[@yomanos]

You can see the joy in Clint's face. The computer ended up looking pretty good!

[@em_birch]

I love that I'm actually learning about computer stuff little by little while watching these. Makes me feel like I'm doing something.

[@kidigus]

This brought back so many memories. Everyone should get to experience this. Building, upgrading and maintaining a machine from a pile of parts.

[@TheSilent333]

I was over here yelling at the screen like "That other board has cache chips that you can raid!!". This takes me back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@xRawlins]

So much nostalgia and weird feelings from this video... I just clicked this video to check out the specs you planned to use and then ended up watching the whole hour+ video. Thanks for the old memories.

[@MaxReckless99]

i feel the same. i finally got my hand on one. i couldn't be happier. bring back old times. playing DOS games just so much fun to me

[@thekungachunga4578]

This is one of my favorite videos on this platform. Recent I got parts for a new budget pc since my crappy old laptop is on its last legs, and rewatching this makes me really appreciate not only how far we've come as far as personal computers, but also what was so great about pc making back then and now. It honestly makes me wanna build my own recreational DOS machine, if I hadn't already spent $800 for the new build.

[@lmulligan6969]

Holy crap... I'm sitting here watching a video from 2 years ago of someone building a computer from 24 years ago.... what am I doing with my life.... (Sweet video btw)

[@moomah5929]

Let me join in. ^^ Btw my first PC in '94 was a VLB system with an AMD DX2/80 sold as DX2/66, 4MB, 420MB HDD and ET4000 VLB. Tryed to get full 80Mhz out of it but I think the board didn't support it. The board also came with a 2032 BIOS battery and even had IDE connectors onboad, not needing controller cards. The layout was generally more modern than this one. Til researching what old PC to get I didn't even know that many boards came with soldered on battery chips. Thought the 2032 was common.

[@magalhaes-andre]

Actually you are learning pretty useful stuff, since anything you can assimilate and understand in some stack of the hardware can help you as an user or developer of software ;)

[@justintantiongloc6987]

You're using your time wisely is what you're doing! :)

[@killerkitten7534]

Same here! Coming from someone who was born in 99 it’s just crazy to think there was a time when people had less than a GB of storage for their computer. There’s just something so fascinating about learning how computers worked before I was born. Somewhat charming

[@Roshan_420]

@@killerkitten7534 1998 here lol I agree Grew up with XP

[@LordKerry]

I seem to remember a lot more swearing, being involved

[@TheOtherBill]

Don't forget the cuts and scratches all over the backs of your hands from those cases, and the tragedy of the dropped expansion slot screw that fell into the mobo and wouldn't come out.

[@vikomx9099]

And back paín, Those mofos were huge and heavy

[@Raven-fu1zz]

The best part is when the power sockets weren't labeled and you spend 3 hours trying to figure it out with the manual

[@fr33kSh0w2012]

@@TheOtherBill Yes and not to forget dropping the case as you go to put it on your desk and the chiropractor bills.

[@JasonZakrajsek]

Unnecessary comma.

[@KOTYAR1]

I've downloaded the intro from the description and I can attest, it's really is the coolest thing ever

[@binarysun_]

Your videos inspired me to build my own dream 486 setup I couldn’t possibly afford back then and my parents could only afford a 486sx25 which was my start into computing and I adored it anyway.

[@NickG40]

In 20 years, I bet people are going to be building i7 PCs for nostalgia.

[@rainbowsnsheep]

Nick Gregory Or rather, they'll be nostalgic for user replaceable parts

[@user-vz4bo1en8x]

First gen i7's are kinda rare, since most 1366 motherboards are dead today, like those old nvidia based Athlon's.

[@pilsplease7561]

not really ive got at least 40

[@nodrogstacey7813]

Tiago Mian My i7 920 and evga x58 sli mobo is still going strong after a decade. It's outlasted 4 GPU's, 2 PSU's and a hard drive lol. These days its relegated mainly to file server as my laptop is more powerful but it's still a half decent comp even after 10 years

[@NVE]

my athlon xp 1800+ machine from 2002 is still running to this day

[@ryanpeters6216]

when I had a 486 when I was In trouble my parents would lock the computer and take the key. I would lock pick the lock with a paper clip.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Ryan Peters but now it uses screwdriver

[@andresz1606]

My parents would take the power cable instead, but I quickly found a spare cable to play sim city 2000 countless hours.

[@Egon1982]

@Ryan Peters i used to unplug lock (grey wire) from mobo ;) and later on my dad was taking cpu out xD

[@michelecaronti]

This was the first PC I used when I was 3-4 y.o. back in 97-98, I miss those times so much, I literally learned how to write on a 486, instead of using a pen and a piece of paper, and my dad back in the days programmed it for me, using a QBasic interface, to exercise myself with basics math's operations :D

[@thomasjensen1590]

This brings back fond memories, I have never seen a bios like that though.

[@ScientistDog]

Cool video! It brings me so many memories! My dad bought an AMD 486 DX4 100MHz when I was 6 y.o., that was my first PC, and I was a PC gamer since, consoles were for the poor ones xD. I don't remember the first motherboard, since it broke the first year, but the second one was newer, with PCI and the cache was in a slot (similar to an AGP near the CPU). Also it has the disk controller and serial/parallel port integrated on the mobo. I don't remember exactly the VGA VESA card, but it was made by S3 (the chip at least, it has been my key chain for more than 10 years!) with 1MB vRAM, and then we added a Sound Blaster 16 with a CDRom 2 years later, it was the heaven playing Doom with real sound instead of the PCSpeaker! I also remember playing with those jumpers, I overclocked it to 133MHz, but I also tried 120MHz (with 40MHz bus) and 100MHz (with 50MHz bus) and those were faster, since the RAM and cached work faster. Then it died from electromigration (because overheating, since the fan broke and my friend who I lent it didn't realized). The video was faulty too, they image got lots of artifacts when I was using the sound, and every time I turn the computer on it was a mess for one hour until it got warm!. I remember using your the MSDos Scandisk to "heat" the computer every morning, so I could use in 10 minutes instead. Ohh, good times, I got nostalgic :,)

[@IDPhotoMan]

There's absolutely nothing like that satisfying "click" when you're putting in new RAM.

[@frankwankerl7021]

Conrad Vogel no have you ever put in cpu cpu chips? Those are soooo much better

[@NinjaContravaniaManX]

Not with DDR4 where only 1 side clicks...

[@thesandman8885]

@@NinjaContravaniaManX on my mobo its the same wit ddr3

[@aidancommenting]

What click? I only get the annoying sensation that I seated it wrong. Like half the time it doesn't lock, it just sits there. Twenty minutes of troubleshooting that I'll never get back.

[@casachezdoom2588]

I used to be a tech building and repairing PCs around the time those boards, IO cards, cpus, memory modules, cache chips were commonly in use. Brings back a lot of memories!

[@dragicianryudo595]

I just come back to watch this every once in a while. I love this build of a computer I’d have never bothered dreaming of. I always love the Sim triumph.

[@Snolferd]

I would love to see you play sim city 2000 as a series, maybe once a week or so, I dunno.

[@Snolferd]

That woodgrain does look pretty awesome :O

[@2002adelutza]

Me too, it's weird because I don't like playing SimCity but find it so satisfying to watch someone else play it (especially a pro at the game like LGR) XD

[@LGR]

*I've updated this 486 build!* Check my video adding a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKYe2dqradlsLc

[@q5sys]

Update it again and drop in that 100mhz DX4... you know you want to!

[@Nocito87]

Hey Clint ! I really love this video, you've build a great machine, but PLEASE add some L2-cache and do some "waitstate & timings tuning" in the BIOS setup. Then run Duke 3D again & enjoy :) Thing is that your memory throughput is at its lowest without L2-cache. Just run some benchmarks before and after upgrading, you'll see. Definitely worth it !

[@mrbigmouth502]

I second this. I remember watching this a while ago and wondering when he was going to put in the cache chips.

[@user-pd6eu8jf9y]

Thank you,good video,большое спасибо,видео доставило много удовольствия,с удовольствием посмотрел от начала до конца,хоть я не понимаю языка,я отлично понимаю то что происходит на видео,russian

[@stevenbenson9976]

Hey clint. Just wondering why you have the association of woodgrain with the early 90s? I've always associated it with the late 70s very early 80s (atari)

[@RiggityWRECKED]

Bro. I've re-watched this video probably a hundred times. It's such a vibe.

[@frontier9]

I never realized the extent of my nostalgia until this ...

[@AndrewHulshultOfficial]

Ayyyyeee glad you all like the music! I love this dude's vidz!

[@LGR]

Thanks so much for the track, man!

[@AndrewHulshultOfficial]

Thanks for thinking of me when you wanted it remade!

[@88ights]

Hey good job of that music!

[@dhoffnun]

That intro was so sick I watched it twice. Nostalgia, man! So many good memories of my 486. My first computer was actually an Amiga 500 - and then a 386... which got upgraded to a 486... but it was that 486 that really got me into the PC life. So many hours of Scorched Earth... This video was immensely fun to watch. Those hard drive sounds! Congrats on 7 years of an awesome channel. As a side note... I've been fooling around with overclocking a Skylake build recently and I had a boot failure... and guess what logo pops up when it detects the boot failure... American Megatrends. I didn't even know they were still in business! Bullet-sweating moment aside, that red louvered triangle brought back so much nostalgia it was totally worth it.

[@DadoBax_Videogames]

34:00 LOL 😂

[@_caracalla_]

thats becuse of clock battery, right?

[@52HzWhaleMusic]

"I've named this one farts" classic config file name

[@guilhermehsn7522]

this is officially the best KZbin channel ever made!

[@LGR]

Hehe, well thanks!

[@TheAubuc]

Second

[@yaomicqui]

cool video! i only wanted to take a short look but stayed until the end. well done!

[@LGR]

Excellent, thanks!

[@expecttheunexpected4817]

the same here :)

[@platytux95]

Such a legendary video! It's like the 20th time that I'm watching it. This is basically what inspired me to get into collecting and building retro PCs. Keep up the good work)

[@Khabster]

It is indeed an awesome video! Having lived through and built pcs during this era, I was starting to think it’d be cool to put one together. Then he had the floppy drives wonk out on him, the CD-ROM fail to work with the AWE32 and... I remembered all the hours I’ve already spent fighting 90’s hardware... :)

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

Back in 1991-92 I got my first computer for christmas, it was a 486 66Mhz Compaq Presario 12Mb RAM beast. I had it for quite a few years and the RAM was replaced so I had 32Mb, funnily the CD drive ended up having more space than the harddrive which was at something like 80Mb if I remember correctly, so the CD-drive had a larger "capacity". It's christmas eve, dad has gone out to buy the newspaper and santa has just swung by to pass along gifts, my cousin who was studying to become a computer programmer instantly regretted his life choices when his parents volunteered him to set it all up for 7 year old me, spending all evening swapping disks installing DOS, windows 3.0 and setting up bios etc. instead of just having a nice time with the rest of the family. I played so much "Tie Fighter" on that thing...

[@janwitkowsky8787]

Congrats on the seven years and thank you for this wonderful video, where a number of us have had a chance to relive our childhood with you. :) Keep it going man! (thumbs up) Note... Had you played Star Wars Rebel Assault on that thing (My first CD-ROM based game, I still remember my father buying the CD-Drive and the game, tagging me along) I would have had a freaking fit here at home xD Again. Thanks for your hard work. :) (Personally, I look forward to a mid-late nighties Win 98SE2 build)

[@janwitkowsky8787]

Oh yeah. Seeing the Logitech First Mouse, brought a tear to my eye.

[@johncovil1252]

This was my childhood in video form

[@brokenacoustic]

I was having flashbacks to being 13-14 again when he started talking about the nightmare that was sorting out IRQ and DMA conflicts. Great video!

[@purpleneons]

I saw you like a year ago under a different video :P

[@CPPRODUCTIONS1001]

I am a simple man. I see an LGR video. I grab some drinks. I sit down. I enjoy

[@LGR]

Cheers!

[@CPPRODUCTIONS1001]

Lazy Game Reviews Cheers!

[@pokanebongani6362]

Me to lol.

[@topgun9666]

This brings back so many memories! Building my first 386 PC from my dad's spare parts after he upgraded to a 486.

[@LewisR09]

Dont think I have ever seen Clint so happy in a video. Very nice to see real passion at the end of this project!

[@cyrollan]

486 processors bring so many people joy 😹

[@obsoletegeek]

hahaha love the throwback intro

[@thetoraj]

Right? So much memories!

[@natekates]

intro music........

[@matekiss5764]

@@thetoraj jó

[@justahungarianguy]

@@matekiss5764 helló! Magyar vagy?

[@ianthefifth7790]

Car salesman: *slaps roof of car* "This baby has so much wood grain in the interior."

[@wetplant1748]

LGR: "HERES $100,000 GOODBYE"

[@cyruscuckler3495]

Sold! To the man with all the old computers!

[@brittislove]

Man I really loved this video. Your excitement reminds me of my own and that wood panel cover... getting the cd rom to work... man this whole video was incredible

[@smarttseluvka]

14 years now, seven years since seven years. keep up the good vids

[@MrEd-qg8td]

The extra holes along side of the CPU were there for the Pentium Overdrive Cpu's

[@IneptOrange]

Imagine building a £10k computer, With GTX Titans etc, And then putting it in this case. Nobody would ever know.

[@XxAndrewklep9xX]

IneptOrange u

[@Coolkidkarateman]

IneptOrange undercover supercomputer

[@rivercress1042]

I did that with a rig once. had my fx-6300 setup in a dell dimension tower yeah, those from mid 2000s with P4 and 512MB RAM

[@cooldd463]

I used to have my pc in a dell xps t450 case from 1998, but thermals were terrible and I wanted an r9 fury, so I had to switch to a more modern case

[@sauldownbadman876]

CyanideSurprise you think Gtx titans are supercomputers lol

[@AnthonyLoPrimo]

If I had tools and the workspace available, I'd love to actually try to piece together a metal/wood case. Not just vinyl but actual wood elements.

[@kungfujesus9951]

Your joy and passion while building this is infectious and inspirational. Thanks so much for this great video and all the other excellent content.

[@dancingdroid]

Seeing that woodgrain at the end made me make up my mind. Next time I'm building a new computer I will make my own wood case because it looks so good! It will be heavy as balls but who cares when you can have a PC of pure wood! :D

[@aaronphelps9591]

Make a video of it or something. I would absolutely love to see it.

[@maxfreedman5786]

cool, but make sure u dont run ur pc too hot!

[@CheapSushi]

I saw an Intel NUC with a wood top, looked amazing: www.techpowerup.com/gallery/4133/13_0_547.jpg

[@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer]

The hardware part was a trip (in acid) down memory lane. How many of those tricky 486 MoBo did I install when I used to work as computer tech? How many unexplainable behaviours made me lose my temper. How many time spent figuring conflict over IRQ, or address. or DMA, OR EVEN ALL OF IT TOGETHER. How many motherboards did I go through to satisfy that customer request of a 486DX 50 (NOT DX2) to find the one who would work at that FSB speed... Eh, the good old times... that felt hardly all that good whilst we lived them. :D

[@_Xentropy_]

As someone who grew up in the 90s and upgraded our home PCs many times (386, then 100mhz Celeron) this made me happy and nostaglic. I'm so glad I found this channel. Keep up the great work!

[@FDCAFOK]

Love watching these videos, brings back memories. I remember upgrading to a 486DX4 -100, 4mb memory & boasting to my work mate. Thank you for the video.

[@audixas1]

I'd love to do this myself. Shame that a lack of money is a thing.

[@OsmosisHD]

Well, pay a visit to a scrapyard. I found a complete DX2 years back in a container. I took it with me for 3$

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Osmosis at my school found 3dfx vga card

[@Dhendo7]

Bitelaserkhalif *cringes* how.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

do it one thing at a time man

[@RizzleRye]

It's not a "lack of money thing", it's having an eye for hardware that you need at the time which in turn will bring you to your ultimate financial goal and or project!

[@braindeadmm6]

One of the best hours I have spent this year, thank you. Brought back memories

[@dmhendricks]

Nice woody! I love letting these long videos loop while I'm at work. The nostalgia makes it a little more bearable.

[@Collinormous]

I love looking back at this kind of stuff. When I mention all the jumpers and DIP switches that used to be used to configure motherboards, my co-workers are always so intimidated by how complex it seems, yet I used to play with and configure these boards when I was 10 years old. Defiantly glad I was introduced to PC's during this era as it led to a much higher understanding of hardware.

[@icanrunat3200mhz]

"Time to address the RAM" Ha!

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

I always was under the impression these needed all slots to be used, was impressed by seeing him just put 2 modules in there without problems.

[@MartynMc]

That was weird you unboxing a cd drive that was made 4 months before I was born.

[@Ropetupa]

noily I am not sure if LGR has time machine, but Techmoan at least has one!

[@vengeance1701]

Pshhh, infant. I was 14 in 1994. *humor intended by this comment*

[@meganutHUGE]

welp im 14

[@5punkybob]

I'm 34 and the oldest computer I can remember is my dad's 486dx that I used to play "microprose grand prix" on. After that he upgraded to this and that and I'll never forget when he first got a cd drive (same as this video) and it was "A whole newww wwoorrllddd!" When we moved away from the coast dad said I could sell the old boat and keep the money for a computer for myself. Intel celeron 2 something with 256mb ram and a tnt2 pro graphics card and windows 98se! Man playing half life, starcraft, bf1942 and NFS Porsche in 1024x768 with my mates (man we learnt a LOT about networking back then) was some of the best days of my life.

[@avecoi]

this is the best example of evergreen content imo, the whole channel is about vintage tech anyway so no matter how old the videos get they dont lose any value since they deliver the same experience in the end lol

[@Schooner316]

Nostalgia overload! This outlines how I spent a good portion of my teens and early twenties. Man I'm old. :-)

[@wrathi]

This is my favourite channel on KZbin. An hour felt like 15 minutes! You've got some serious talent. Thank you for all the hard work you've put up in your videos.

[@jenkins80526]

That was just great! This video brings me back to your channel again and again. How great is it to be able to have wood grain stick on!

[@stevenrun34]

I had to come back and witness the birth of a legend

[@ssbj144]

Very cool video and Interesting to see an old PC getting built in this day and age. I could clearly see the legitimate enthusiasm in this, wether it was about passion for the classic parts such as an soundcard that is bigger than modern gpus or for playing the classic games "the way they're meant to" :) Glad for you to manage to fullfill this childhood dream of yours. cheers

[@Actawesomeamv]

Dude, I love how happy you sounded when Sim City installed. This channel is the greatest.

[@LGR]

Thanks :)

[@observantowl5568]

And all those parts were expensive as hell at the time. When I built my first computer in the early 90's, I had to eat hot dogs the rest of the month.

[@fr33kSh0w2012]

what's so bad with hotdogs? at least it wasn't plain RICE!

[@sorcererCermet]

@@fr33kSh0w2012 whats bad about plain rice?!

[@fr33kSh0w2012]

@@sorcererCermet It's tasteless.

[@sorcererCermet]

@@fr33kSh0w2012 you gotta try jasmine tho. nice subtle sweetness completely plain

[@fr33kSh0w2012]

@@sorcererCermet I see, OK.