Rebuilding My VERY FIRST Gaming PC!

Today is a very special day folks... The PC that started it all!! This is the recreation of the very first PC that I EVER built.
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[@TGoKovenant]

I built my first PC in '99. My dad had a PC build and service business. I was the first kid in school with a 1ghz processor lol. AMD Thunderbird 1ghz 256MB DDR ram nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU with 32MB vram (I think) Windows ME lol And I remember my dad ranting about 100GB hard drives coming out soon. "You could never fill that up! It's unnecessary!" 😂

[@heart4011]

damn back when 100 gb of storage was to large. My mothers pc uses an old AMD cpu using an old Galax GT 610. The system runs Windows Vista btw

[@TheSwagGuy5000]

Glassy nowadays 500 gb is not enough

[@aussiebattler96]

@@TheSwagGuy5000 dude 2tb isn't even enough

[@nicholassprenke3353]

Good old T-bird. That was my first custom build as well

[@wendtchr]

Literally my exact build at the same time. No idea what I was doing. Nobody in my family was or is tech savvy at all. I did chip the CPU... Luckily it still worked but it did give my middle school, mountain dew powered heart a cardiac arrest.

[@Deses]

DDR400? That must be a beast, we only use DDR4 nowadays.

[@Deses]

kamata93 Woosh! :D

[@badsector775]

+Deses You're just trolling right?? bruh, do you even computer? Here let me send you my old A+ book from 2000 to help you with the old timer lingo.

[@ervinasubartas7793]

+Jordan Davis Catch that joke! Oh no! It flew over your head, ah well :/

[@maxbeef8]

+Jordan Davis 2000.....your a youngin..... I have my dos 6.22 upgrade book somewhere....

[@MrDMIDOV]

+Max Beef Ha! Love it when the youngins try to look cool. Back in my days, we used stones to windows, result in broken glasses, and it was fun.

[@woopaka]

"baby do what you did last time" "what's that?" "show me your tip magnetic drive fan"

[@loib]

i showed you my tip magnetic drive please respond

[@Arandolor]

"You kids have it easy" 'Points at 80 year old man watching this.

[@munirohm2420]

Your 80 years old? Damn man!

[@aliznlhaddad]

you are one cool 80 year old man!

[@Pidalin]

Pls tell us story about how your generation was walking to school thru mine field and fighting bears during their 30 miles walk every day. :-D

[@Pidalin]

@J D maybe somewhere in Russia or Ukraine kids still fighting with bears and walking for milk 20 km every day :-D but I am from Czech Republic, people are lazy to walk 200m without car here :-)

[@makemugen7332]

Even you are some ones child but you are past childhood... I think... 😅

[@Akselmoi]

Now I want to see "Very First Gaming PC" builds for everyone in Linus Media Group :D

[@THEWELLTHENPERSON]

+Akselmoi yes!!!

[@BenKuyt64]

+Akselmoi A lot of people would just replay the editing builds from last year.

[@TheDyerOG]

+Akselmoi Loads of them had never built a PC before moving into the new office

[@rainbowbunchie8237]

+Akselmoi YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kamelontti3926]

+Akselmoi Dennis's is a rock.

[@pexunfuni]

i love how old monitors used to slowly fade in when you turn them on :D

[@kevinradtke3767]

I like the click when they turn off

[@FunkVT]

Oh god yes

[@milky178]

And the static around the screen

[@lechoco]

@@milky178 OMG SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! I REMEMBER THIS!!

[@JBrander]

@@kevinradtke3767 I hated the click sound when you turn off CRT monitors. It always felt like a diode just popped off and died inside or something.

[@blackstarnevershines]

"i put my screwdriver thru my motherboard" been there, done that

[@hueyrosayaga]

Holy sh*t that must be terrifying!

[@sarthaksaxena1186]

@@hueyrosayaga nah it's just that u need a good gaming chair and a piece of cardboard.

[@7Kajun]

Oh my god, that's why there's a fat hole in this motherboard i have in the cave

[@Darenz-cg9zg]

That's when you get out the soldering iron and mute your phone for a few hours.

[@kyleapril3258]

I just found this video, and went, wait a long minute. Is that.... MY FATHERS CASE BUT GREY? I look over to my left. IT IS! LOL, he's still using it to this day. You gotta be kidding me XD

[@chunkymilk1288]

Lol. The same thing happened to me back when I watched Linus’s 2009-2019 pc video. It turns out the case he had from 2009 is the same case made by Antec my dad uses! He also is not willing to get rid of it cause he payed 200 for it 🤣

[@TheCogitech]

I had the same reaction. I have a black one that looks basically the same, but the internal drive bays are even better. I actually used it up until a week ago. It was my main PC case for well over a decade, hosting many motherboards, CPUs and other hardware - at least 3 power supplies, too.

[@benjaidek]

@@chunkymilk1288 200 just for the case?

[@chunkymilk1288]

Yeah. The case is really heavy too. Probably at least 20 pounds if not more.

[@AtashSiah]

My father still has that exact case. It has an i9-9900k in it now, but it still looks beautiful. He also has the lime green Chieftec Dragon case next to it with his P4 3.0 GHz that he doesn't have the heart to replace.

[@maxpain45678]

II used my high school diploma as a mouse pad.. Best use ever.

[@RaisedbyMalcolm_]

what else are you going to use it for😂

[@Lycoriste]

pv_plays games who’s ass? :)))

[@tack3132]

Why would you do that? You should have looked at it as a personal accomplishment. You'll regret it one day because I don't think they'll replace it with a copy. Unless you're one of these people who gets their kicks out of debasing education, then I'll leave you to it...

[@yusufylmaz8098]

I used my mech. engineering diploma for that

[@alkaline.dreamer]

@@tack3132 Meh, it's high school. Almost everybody has completed high school

[@IntellitechStudios]

Can you believe XP just turned 15? He can start drinking next year if he moves to Jamaica!

[@Zyphen4866]

Noice.

[@3okayy]

Hes going to become watercooled

[@nicolasvillamil7523]

There is no drinking age in jamaica. You just have to be 18 to buy it.

[@froidesprit]

Can _you_ believe that the worst Windows, Vista, is turning 10 this year?

[@HarmonicaMustang]

And Neve still uses it to power their 88D consoles' on-board computer. It's interesting to play solitaire while you're exporting a film in 5.1 surround.

[@motioblur]

8:17 "You kids have it easy". Laughs in punchcard.

[@andrewstewart1464]

This is like the geek version of tracking down and restoring your first car. You never forget your first, but you sure do forget how 'good' it was!

[@mmcblk05studio]

yeah, except he didn't bother to replace capacitors on motherboard or reball chipset for it to run stable

[@michaelplus-trojan_dc8687]

Oh i wont forget my first car. but i aint restoring that bitch. gearbox was broken, nothing worked like it was supposed to. but it did have aftermarket cruise control and a heated front windshield. good ol' Ford Focus station Mk1. ditched it for another one (cus spend way to much on my winter tires which were as good as new) which did have all the features like a working gearbox, no cruise tho..

[@WebMint_]

This year is the year I finally built a computer! In 2024, I might re build it, lol.

[@MariosPotros]

Cheers

[@diamondhawk7427]

haha

[@Sp3aR007]

same

[@MrCrazyChemical]

I feel you mate... i feel you ..

[@cheesecake0126]

This was the year I built my 1st gaming pc. I forgot sooooo many things so I had to keep annoying relatives to buy me stuff

[@MusicHavenSG]

Sit back, relax, have a cuppa tea or a beer if it's more your thing.

[@davidtrollston5256]

Green ham gaming nice

[@ryanxie7554]

+MusicHaven2012 GREEN HAM GAMING

[@MusicHavenSG]

+ryan xie Yup! That's GHG Reference!

[@Jayy80_]

+MusicHaven2012=) haha you whatch ghg too!

[@Radicalglitch]

+MusicHaven2012 GHG!!

[@SkorpyoTFC]

Holy shit, not only did his original cooler have a TMD fan, he managed to find another one. Now that's some bragging rights.

[@Darikage]

my high end rig is still build inside the same case as that one, never bought a new one 😂😂

[@cheesythegamer9771]

Darikage Specs?

[@gkgameplaycz]

I use a beige case that has seen everything from 486 up

[@agiskacuri7481]

Then you have a sleeper pc

[@gkgameplaycz]

@@agiskacuri7481 and I'm proud of it, even the old floppy drive is hooked up!

[@specialman2609]

Darikage talk about airflow lol

[@Fmily]

Just throw a titan x in it.

[@gabny1000]

I'm pretty sure it would explode

[@V1VISECT6]

Not gonna work the motherboard doesn't have a PCIE slot.

[@Fmily]

Connor Murphy It's a joke bro.

[@ireallytoucansam9821]

+Fmily Just throw a hamster wheel in it.

[@stickanimatorproductions5167]

+Fmily Naa, The titan x would bottleneck the other parts.

[@JXSnWp]

4:47 my god... this takes me back. I remember the sheer panic I had when my screwdriver slipped one time when installing a new CPU cooler. I thought for sure I murdered my motherboard.

[@itsdimitriymedvedyev]

Did it work afterwards?

[@mattyfrommacc1554]

I remember the clips that were under tension with Socket A? being a nightmare and the screwdriver did plunge into the MOBO once or twice

[@rothelen]

The Tardis holding up the CPU's was my favorite part.

[@shakymctwitch8615]

Linus: "You kids had it easy" Me: (laughs in Unisys 5.25 in. floppies)

[@TotemoGaijin]

Our first pc had one of those green and black screens, and booted into dos and something called Norton Commander. All I remember though is playing Castle and Bricks.

[@Shrikyun]

i used to have a piece of paper as a mouse pad aswell, now i upgraded to a book xD

[@annonymoususer2677]

StevenSidez - selfish cat person lmao

[@takkipusa6910]

That's more expansive than a mouse pad tho :)

[@enrico9130]

StevenSidez - selfish cat person Loool

[@geebster.]

Bet its the Bible, you heathen!

[@mr.hasagi9088]

*using a mouse pad **Using a mac ***Using a book ****Using a piece of paper *****Using no mouse pad *USING THE ARROW KEYS*

[@ocean1088]

'this may look like a crappy piece of junk to you...' Runs better than my Laptop

[@jujustyles288]

Osian Vadolia I highly doubt it

[@saab35draken39]

@@jujustyles288 r/woosh

[@barrettstarr96]

CH4SM Yep

[@ritjimwamakwa2925]

@@raccoon1160 doubt it

[@saab35draken39]

@akmed calamary yeah i do

[@xamanto]

Damn the audio sure has improved in the last 8 years...

[@andreww8922]

Wow this takes me wayback. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Miss my Antec Super Lanboy and AMD Barton core CPU, good times in highschool.

[@mholden020]

Oh man that cooler clip brought back some memories.... I was lucky enough to never get it wrong on installation, but I did have one bad experience where one entire row of tabs snapped off while I was using my computer, the cooler fell off the motherboard, took out the graphics card, and inevitably fried the processor since I never thought for a second that the massive "bang" came from inside my computer. Whoo, that was a bad day!

[@sausje]

For me it was always the fact that I cut my skin open on trying to install those damn coolers >.

[@MaxPenford]

OMG I FINALY FOUND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME SETUP AS ME!!!

[@3ole2]

Lol

[@sonel0l]

wow, i have 2. jk, im on a crap lenovo laptop...

[@desertstormproductions8525]

im on a crappy lenovo laptop too

[@keplaredler6024]

+Joni Lepistö Nobody said that it's used for gaming.

[@0s0sXD]

Hahahahahaha

[@chincemagnet]

This would be a cool project for me. My first personal build was a beast. I paid to have systems built 3 times previously, but my first custom build I did was pretty sick. AMD FX62, OCZ 4GB DDR2 800, EVGA nForce 590a, BFG 8800 Ultra, BFG 800w PSU, Seagate 300 GB Barracuda HD. Eventually added another 8800 Ultra, after that things got crazy and still to this day.

[@mik310s]

You kids had it easy my first HDD was 10MB and you needed to read a book to install it

[@firstnamelastname2328]

::SURPRISED::SHOCKED::AWE::

[@EMC2recordings]

Jumpers...

[@squarehead6452]

That "read a book" thing just spews out ok boomer

[@gwenmichigander277]

10 MEGABYTES?! Wow! That was alot back then! Nowadays, you would fill that up VERY quickly!

[@femboycyan]

@@gwenmichigander277 I mean, duh

[@azaph_yt]

Linus is younger than I thought. Was expecting a Pentium 2 or 3 build!

[@aussiejosh1988]

Good old pentium II cartridge. Use to run that in my first computer 🤣🤣

[@azaph_yt]

@@aussiejosh1988 Me too! The first PC I built myself anyway. Before that I was using a hand-me-down 80486 DX-2 66 MHz. The PII became obsolete FAST though, two years later I could barely run any new games on it. I'm glad that's different today!

[@aussiejosh1988]

Yea they were the good only days. I'm still running a I5 7600k at 5GHz stable and goes good with my GTX 1070. Plays all today's games in ultra settings

[@azaph_yt]

@@aussiejosh1988 Nice! I'm still using a FX-8350 @ 4.5 GHz and a gtx 970. Runs my games well too, though I play few recent AAA games.

[@aussiejosh1988]

@@azaph_yt I've just upgraded from 2 GTX 970 strix SLI. Great cards they are

[@ebayerr]

I still have the receipt from Best Buy from when I bought an Western Digital 80GB 8Mb cache harddrive for $175

[@xMournful3ch0x]

Now that same $175 would buy you a 6TB WD Black, or two 4TB WD Blues

[@rishabprasoon5970]

I still remember me dad coming home after buying a PC and yelling " we have to never upgrade again , cuz it has a 40 GB hard drive " .....oh boy

[@unknownperson3691]

Rishab Prasoon, in 10 years, petabyte will become the standard.( I’m still wondering how I used up 1 tb in 2 months)

[@rishabprasoon5970]

@@unknownperson3691 I have a 12 terabyte server , I filled about 9.7 TB up in a year .....

[@nathanhamman418]

@@unknownperson3691 I'm wondering if i'll ever have enough storage space, 2 2TB drives, 2 512GB ssds, a 240GB boot ssd, 2 1TB drives, an 8 TB external and a pile of salvaged drives ranging from 500GB-1TB and i might be expanding again, maybe i should just learn to delete shit xP

[@RobindenHertog]

It,s easy to forget how young Linus is.. My first pc was a second hand 468dx2 which after memory expansion could run settlers, then later a first truly self build pentium 2 350 MHz with a voodo 3dfx card.

[@dbrohrs4668]

It's easy to forget how young everyone is, My first PC was a calculator and was the size of a room.

[@tattoogeek77]

wow just found this video in 2020 and all i can say is THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! I know that chip (Athlon) so well! and the Vantec! Thanks for the trip down memory lane :-)

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

You are making me feel old... My first gaming computer was a 286... The first one I built was a Pentium 2, 266mhz with a voodoo 2 video card with a massive 16 mb of onboard, that's right! Onboard ram! Never before seen!

[@imalsoTOMATO]

the face when you can finally run quake in 60fps

[@Fesovika]

Damn, I had Voodoo2 connected to 2mb graphic card, with 200 mhz cpu and 128mb of ram.

[@CanadaBud23]

Same, old 286 on dos. Buddy had a 286 with Win 3.1. My first built rig was a 486DX. Had some unknown video card and 12MB of ram and a 300mb hd. Ran win 95 pretty nice but spent lots of compressing drives and defrags lol, those were the days. I game and watch this (and typing) on my Core2Duo atm but no money to build a new system yet. Maybe in summer when I'm mostly done building my XJ.

[@spyder000069]

Sadly I remember splurging at paycheck time to buy my Cirrus Logic 5440 and buying the separate 1mb upgrade chips to pop in. It was the final piece i needed to complete my first totally new build which had a P150 that I overclocked to 166. It wasn't long after before I blew a couple of paychecks on a Voodoo rush card. It was about that time I used a cuttoff wheel to cut a large square out of the side of my case and installed plexiglass from the local hardware store and also holes in the top of the case for 80mm fans. Long before you saw any prebuilt cases like this. And don't even get me started on how high I was jumping when my 300A fired up at 450. :^)

[@angryguineapig4323]

Mine was the tnt2.

[@RPG720]

wtf, how does Linus have DDR400?! I only have DDR4 :(

[@AlphaCore_]

It's DDR, with speed of 400. Then again, I do realize this comment is sarcastic.

[@cybercat1531]

DDR? Where I come from SDR is all the rage

[@FlaxTheSeedOne]

EEPROM anyone? No?

[@onlydream]

I still have 2 gb of ddr400 jeje it was magic !

[@cha7Li3]

Reminds me of the comment, "You only have Windows 10? I'm on Windows 95 ha!

[@mindmaze4689]

Behind every modern day PC enthusiast lies a fascinating tale. Respect!

[@walterlegere1403]

Wow... I feel really old now! My first system in 1990 (even though I had several IBM PS2's) was an Everex Step Intel 386DX-20 with 512K of RAM. Zenith EVGA monitor, the original Sound Blaster audio card, an 8GB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, two 5 1/4" 720K floppy drives. a 2400 baud modem and the tower was about 45 pounds. Initial retail price for the tower was $2500. Oh yah, and Windows 3.1...

[@Askejm]

My grandpa still thinks a 40 MB harddisk is unbelievable

[@RMSLusitania]

My mom is still thinking even how to buy an computer lol

[@TopGunCrew]

lol

[@ryze9153]

Wow lol

[@brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916]

My grandpa bought a capable gaming pc (with 12 gigs of ram and 3.2 ghz) and only uses it for email

[@newaccountwhodis4536]

@@brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916 bro he probably sends like 1,000 emails per minute you never know

[@JosephVoda]

"let's get windows xp installed on this bitch" I'm using this as my yearbook quote

[@_xima7madproxpvper83]

+Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) i think vista will be better :D

[@Vicecity420]

+Dai Vexed (Joseph Voda) dont do this you'll be marked as a nerd lol

[@hynee]

I had a Lanboy for a while, it was my backup to my main computer (so if my main PC barfed it I could still cruise the internet). There's a fan holder at the front of the case that is made from UV activiated colour plastic. It doesn't bring back good memories for me, but memories none the less. I really loved how light it was with the aluminium build.

[@yosef79]

This was a very cool throw back that reminds me of my first PC also. I too had an AMD Athlon XP 2500+! It was an awesome CPU and great overclocker. Other components were an ASRock K7S41GX mobo, an ATi Radeon 9550, and a WD 80GB IDE hard drive. I don't remember what I had for a PSU and RAM.

[@silverphysicscsgo1670]

I BET YO ASSS. this will break my budget

[@wonderbread2764]

Hahaha

[@BenjiNaesenTV]

+Silver Physics | CS:GO Nice logo.

[@silverphysicscsgo1670]

lol... :D thanks man... nice logo too

[@bclark7113]

$130 mobo? yep.

[@techpoint5249]

+Silver Physics | CS:GO Know what your talking about trying to render a 1:44 video on my Celeron laptop and it is taking like 2 hours

[@Ottomeme]

Of course it can't run minecraft. I think you need at least 1.5 GB of dedotated WAM

[@azziyt888]

that's for a server though

[@SpeedyMarioPony75]

wam? lol

[@eden1738]

called a joke

[@es_for1]

You ok there?

[@moomooproductions8735]

WAM???

[@evanq5478]

The other day I found a Pionex desktop PC hanging in the garbage dump. Looked like the same family PC my parents bought for WAAAY too much on QVC. There was also some Mac Quadra's and other cool stuff.

[@CraigTinson2015]

just *chuckles* at the audio... I've been an avid watcher for years... but not looked at these old videos... nice trip down memory lane! also also.. jumpers on the drives! damn I feel old!

[@techyescity]

That is a great USED PC you got there ;)

[@bigboykldaudiosounds3756]

Holy Shit your here

[@dionmiller8547]

+Tech YES City DUNICRON!

[@ArthurDNB]

+Tech YES City LOVE YOUR CHANNEL MAN!

[@MrHaikal15]

+Tech YES City OMG OMG ITS YOU XD Please answer my question at your 70$ csgo potato vid pls? :3

[@DaddyBleach]

+Retroez first you then everyone replying to the ghg reference whats next druaga1

[@samreyy]

What a blast from the past! My first gaming rig had an AMD 3200+, NVIDIA 6600GT 256mb and duel channel DDR 512mb of RAM. What a beast.

[@kenthinson2980]

Yours was better then mine. I had 348mb ram and a GeForce 5200

[@eclipsetech8336]

@@kenthinson2980 I had a 512 MB and 9800gt

[@evon8779]

Dude that is legit my old pc. It still runs to this day and I play old games on it regularly

[@xyzxyzxyz2138]

@@imran5373 hi can you be in stock for 5 minutes

[@xTurtleOW]

my first one i built myself was 3570k and 7970 ghz edition 8gb ram

[@little_fluffy_clouds]

My first PC was a 486SX. I loved that thing and played lots of flight simulators, eventually upgrading with an Intel Overdrive chip in order to get an FPU that accelerated 3D calculations. During lockdown, I put together what would have been my dream PC in 1999, using parts from eBay. Dual 800 MHz P-III processors, 512 MB RAM, Matrox G400 Max AGP graphics card, SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold Adaptec SCSI with an Iomega Jaz drive and a compact flash to IDE adapter as the boot drive. It runs completely stable and lets me relive the operating systems, games and apps of those days. A worthy project to scratch that nostalgia itch, especially because not all software and operating systems from that era runs correctly under emulation on a modern computer. It is great fun playing with BeOS, OPENSTEP and Windows 2000 Pro again.

[@AMDRMConfiguration]

Linus : My pc can't run minecraft LowSpecGamer : this is time for config montage

[@MusicHavenSG]

So sit back, grab a cup of tea, or a beer if it's more your thing, and come along for the ride.

[@leons6906]

Wait, wrong channel!

[@SteveDice21]

And GHGTV just released a fairly modern PC build. What is life?!

[@phantomlobotomy1157]

Wrong channel, fam.

[@kingtyranius2207]

Love this comment!

[@rdablock]

GHG

[@kwanwoopark6360]

Little did I dream that Linus would say, "Can it run Minecraft?"

[@saulrocha7749]

It's "will it run minecraft" lol xD

[@Cam275YT]

It's what I look for in every one of these types of videos (also in his 16K rig video)

[@canyonstinky7817]

no it cant run minecraft

[@xinsertid9095]

BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS

[@atwilight]

I was about to comment this on a year old video....

[@dank_productions94]

I still remember my older brother messing around with code in DOS in the early 90's and watching him tinker with some of the first windows 95 / 98 builds he did ( he was around 13 at the time, was always very smart, is now an electrical engineer ) honestly I miss these years so much, building a PC just to play unreal tournament on high graphics and making his own server to host games with friends was so cool to watch and learn from, some of my fondest gaming memories are from that generation and I'll always have a soft spot for old school tech because of it. Please keep making these flashbacks to the past ❤️

[@usernamunavailiable]

My first was close, I used a Athlon XP 2800+ and an Abit motherboard. The second PC I built a few months later I used the LanBoy case. I can’t say for sure but it may have been the first PC case I painted. It was a USMC 1st Mar Div theme. I know it was the first one I etched the side panel (a M1 Abrams tank).

[@bsg2621]

heh at least this beast can run Minesweeper Ultra 1000fps, my Quad - Titan XP I7 6950X can't even fucking run the BIOS

[@buttersquids]

BSG Try installing memory before using your pc

[@aziz01200]

people who don't know a thing about computer are scratching their heads right now.

[@buttersquids]

BSG It's called a jokr

[@Gilaric]

BSG 4 Way sli?

[@TheRguru1]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[@spartan23456789]

i'm mostly amazed he managed to remember all the parts he had...

[@kevprograms]

Jaydn W If you're like me, I document all progress that happens in my life. All achievements I can call my own.

[@kyle857]

UnMask3d That's kind of crazy. I like it!

[@Mr_Moktoosai]

Actually I pretty well remember my first Gaming PC. Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz, Segate HDD 80 GB, Samsung DDR 512 mb, GeForce MX440, Microlab case, Samsung CD-Drive, Microlab speakers, Samsung flat CRT 17 inch. I don't remember the motherboard, but I'm sure it was Gigabyte. Nostalgia.

[@urbancampfire7253]

I remember every pc i've had since my first Intel 486Dx 66mhz back in 93-94, when i was 11 years old. I'm 34 now.

[@H0ttabych]

I can name all the components of all my pcs I had, including first one. Besides hard/optical/floppy drives, tho still remember that I had 160 gigs samsung ide thing

[@ferretchief]

This video makes me feel so friggin' old. Thanks Linus.

[@EmpathVibe]

Right in the feels. I often think about the Gateway I had that got passed down to me back in the day. Upgrading RAM, and power supply was a fun time thanks to your old NCIX videos back in the day. Miss that boot up sound from the old windows days though.

[@windowsxp8320]

I'm glad I was your first choice ;)

[@ziyaadjamil4404]

Windows XP yay it's the Windows xp

[@mrtuffguy2769]

LOL

[@senorpotato8657]

Hell yeah!

[@IntellitechStudios]

Windows XP I love you. 😙 #2019

[@mini_disc]

Rip Windows XP

[@MushroomKidable]

Looks like that golden MSI anniversary motherboard..........

[@farn0153]

Yup

[@DrMelon-cg3zw]

+MushroomKid That was MSI

[@cuddlebearkills9339]

+Farnomat |-/

[@mackenziekinz467]

+Farnomat tøp is life

[@TheActualTed]

Looks like the PC I use...

[@lifewithlesliecanada]

I had that exact case! I think that was one of my first two cases I had. Back when we use to put out our junk on the curb, someone put their whole PC out on the curb one sunny day, and I swooped that up.

[@dustinhornsby3684]

Your first gaming rig is what I upgraded to. I started with an eMonster 600 with a modded bios and a slot to socket converter with a Tualatin Core Celeron @1.3Ghz and a GForce 4 Ti running on Windows 2000 Pro. Probably the most stable machine I've ever had. That AMD XP 2500 was awesome just change the FSB and it was immediately an XP 3200. I also had a Shuttle AN35n Ultra nforce 2 board it was a beast.

[@rwdplz1]

First PC I ever built was a Slot 1 Pentium 2-based Celeron at 333Mhz, Asus P2B motherboard, 64MB of RAM, 3DFX graphics card, and a massive 10.1GB hard drive, with Windows 98

[@nateo200]

It is almost funny but I can tell we are both not very young by the amount of RAM used in our first system. I went "Hardcore" with 128MB's of RAM. I had a hook up later on that got me 20GB HDD's on the cheap but my cheap 250watt power supply couldn't drive the 5 I had set up because a single 80GB or 160GB was insanely overpriced. I remember the day I got my Nvidia 8800 GTS 256MB VRAM. lol But my first laptop was the IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 3, 128MB's RAM, 4-5GB HDD and Windows 98, which I promptly upgraded to Windows 2000 and then XP!

[@mochageico]

massive 10.1gb yah

[@videossatisfatorios6988]

if u are a good person just open steam -community .com/?ref=G4trP6K (remove the spaces

[@rebeccabenton5565]

I'm the hundredth like

[@LOLMAN9538]

The first PC I built was a beast! It had a Core i9-7980XE Extreme, an ASUS ROG Strix X299 MoBo, 2 Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080TI's in 2-way SLI, 128 GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 RAM, and a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe 2TB SSD + Western Digital Black 10TB HDD. And of course i put Windows 10 Pro 32/64 bit on there.

[@QuantumBraced]

You sir have nearly brought tears to my eyes. This was almost identically my first rig as well - mine was an AthlonXP 2400+, 512MB DDR 400 RAM, Gigabyte GA-7VAX1394 motherboard, with a no-name brand nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 64MB VRAM and a whopping 120GB HDD. Bought in mid 2003 when I was in high school, to replace my 10-year old 486, and completely changed my life. I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for that machine. I was in the developing world at the time and I had to save for 2 years to buy it. Those were the days...

[@GreekSouljah]

+QuantumBraced I had the same CPU & motherboard only difference is that I had 512MB DDR 333 Ram and TI4200 Graphics card :P

[@russellwilliams7589]

I had that lanboy case lol, it came with straps so you would carry it to "lan parties". All aluminum and so much lighter than all the stamped steel ones I had before.

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

My first PC was a college graduation present from my grandmother in 1995. I received it a few months before I started law school. It was an Everex (has anyone heard of them?) with a 486 66mhz CPU, a 420 MB hard drive, and 8 MB of ram running Windows 3.1. I upgraded to Windows 95 at some point. I can't imagine going through law school without a computer. Some years ago I donated the PC to the Salvation Army. I wish I had it now. I would reinstall Windows 3.1 and I think it would be fun to play with.

[@KittenoftheBroccoli]

**Googles to see if Neopets still exists**

[@gergeoux]

lol same.

[@keplaredler6024]

i'm pretty dure it still does. But it's going to be a ghost town.

[@jamesgizmo1999]

yeah the ios app is super popular actually

[@fenderguitargod1]

what about webkins?

[@xxDannyn714xx]

webkinz is still around. I tried to log in the other day and it told me to come back the next day since my account was archived

[@Sudoku404]

Does Anyone think that the vantic cpu cooler looks like something from fallout 4

[@theobaldsjacob]

+SwiftTail lol

[@justusburgess9131]

+SwiftTail DUDE! It totally does!! hahaha

[@seanorion7106]

That was my very first thought, it looks awesome!

[@JHA854]

It would've looked good in Luke's Scrapyard wars build

[@mainstreammonkey1847]

It sounds more like something from it

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

The first PC I actually built (during Hallowe'en in 2003!) was also Athlon XP based, but on a DFI Lan party board (which is too flaky to use, although I still have it). I still have (and love) the Chieftec case I used for it as well, I'll be putting a new Ryzen system in it soon.

[@pjsonpiano]

I remember those magnetic tip fan coolers. I had one because my fan randomly died on my box AMD cooler and in my innocence, I thought it would be less prone to failure. Fortunately, mine was buried in an Enermax Server Full Tower case made of 1mm steel construction and had like 6 80mm cooling fans in it so I couldn't really hear the CPU cooler.

[@Stupranos]

Should’ve recorded in the resolution and aspect ratio of the time to give a little ascetic feel

[@MaximRecoil]

So, 1920 x 1440 then?

[@user-bv8wr3vw4x]

@@MaximRecoil No, 640 x 480.

[@MaximRecoil]

@@user-bv8wr3vw4x Why would anyone be running 640 x 480 in the early/mid 2000s? My CRT monitor, which I'm using right now, was made in 2004 and has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1440. The lowest resolution you can select in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, is 800 x 600, unless you go into the advanced "display all modes" menu to force a lower resolution, and even then, if you select 640 x 480 it gives you a warning that your screen resolution is very low and offers to set it higher for you. The most common resolution in the early/mid 2000s was 1024 x 768 with a 17" CRT (which was the most common screen size at the time). People with a 19" CRT usually ran it at 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024. People with a 21" CRT usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 or 1920 x 1440. People who were lucky enough to have the best PC monitor ever made, i.e., a 24" Sony GDM-FW900 CRT, could run it at 2304 x 1440.

[@user-bv8wr3vw4x]

@@MaximRecoil Oh God... the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then. Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p. Nobody ia talking about your monitor resolution. And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution. Back then people were using 800x600 and 1024x768 for their desktop work. And it was the same for gaming. Nobody back then was able to run the newest games at max settings with resolution higher than 1024x768. Because the CPU's and GPU's were not that powerfull as now.

[@MaximRecoil]

​@@user-bv8wr3vw4x " the guy say the video to be filmed like the videos back then." No, he didn't. He simply said, "the resolution and aspect ratio of the time". "Cameras back then were recording at 640x480p." No, they didn't. A typical consumer-grade video camera in the early/mid 2000s recorded at DVD resolution, and it was interlaced (29.97 FPS), which was 720 x 480i. An example is the popular DV format which was introduced in 1995. But there was also HDV, introduced in 2003, which recorded at 720p or 1080i. In the high-end video camera market, 1080p has been around since at least the late 1990s, and even Hollywood started using them in the early 2000s. For example, the movie "Session 9" from 2001 was shot on a 1080p (24 FPS) digital video camera. Star Wars Episode II (2002) was another early movie shot on a 1080p digital video camera. " And even that CRT's can be put at that resolution." You don't know what you're talking about. I just told you that my CRT monitor from 2004 (22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron), that I'm using right now, can go to 1920 x 1440. I also told you that the Sony GDM-FW900 CRT monitor can go to 2304 x 1440: www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR There were CRT displays that could go even higher than that. For example, the Barco 909 could go to 3200 x 2560, which is approximately the same total number of pixels as "UHD", also known as "4K": www.barco.com/en/product/barcoreality-909

[@KohGuanTsin]

There had always been curved monitors. Just that its curved the wrong way.

[@kyle857]

2017 Koh Guan Tsin Even the modern ones suck. They are a solution in search of a problem.

[@Milamberinx]

You know it wasn't a decision to have convex monitor screens, right? It was necessary to keep the cathode ray the same length at each part of the screen.

[@kilianfunke8974]

Man nostalgia! At least you had an optical mouse on your first rig. Remember those with the ball, which you had to get out every couple weeks and clean... YUKS And the beige vs black XD I remember having to compromise on that as well.

[@tj71520]

My first brand new mouse was a targa ps/2 ball mouse

[@lunra]

My first gaming computer and also the first computer I built from parts was similar. AMD 64 3000+, 512MB RAM, Soltek black and purple motherboard (had to look cool with my case window), ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro. The original Far Cry was an amazing experience at the time.

[@MattsPaddock]

Gray, everything is gray! The rose gold color of the past! :D

[@brentgoeller8257]

Wow, your sound quality has improved in the last 3 years. Nobodies gonna read this but o well.

[@marcoklepsky]

I no-joke had to check the comment date in this. It was pretty surprising, to say the least.

[@PERK-30]

I love you brent

[@mishal321]

No

[@brentgoeller8257]

@@mishal321 yes

[@Wahid_on_youtobe]

@@brentgoeller8257 :v

[@TheJasonleong1996]

2:36 Hey, a Malaysian product :D Well assemble that is.

[@syahmisyahiran9850]

Yeah bro many qualities computer components and electronics are assembled in Malaysia 😁😁😁

[@minh1071]

Assembled in malaysia cuz its cheap

[@paulv1498]

I remember when I first heard of liquid cooled PC’s, they only had a small clear window in the side of the case, I thought the computer was filled with water like an aquarium lol!!!!

[@WTFBOOMDOOM]

Haha! :)

[@IscariottActual]

Ugh the flashbacks at that heat sink latching.

[@ZuhirZuu]

+Iscariott2 I got bloody on unmounting EDORAM

[@IscariottActual]

Never dealt with EDORAM, but I did slice 3 of my fingers open dealing with the old razor wire I/O panels.

[@PinkGirl2242]

+Iscariott2 I still have nightmares of repasting on my old amd ath xp 2600+ haha. I scratched the mb and that spring on the cpu hs was such a pig to push down. Over time the plastic part where to metal clasp hooks to bloody snapped off grrrrr. My mb was the asrock k7vt2 www.asrock.com/mb/via/k7vt2/

[@full-metal_jacob5858]

+Iscariott2 Its looked so archeaic... what year would this be in?

[@chriswho12345]

+Iscariott2 Dusted out an old computer running XP, was worried I'd break a pin.

[@StaelTek]

3:21 look at the contacts on the LGA2011-3 chip. its like glitching

[@RubyIsBored]

+DeadNullermand yeah thats wierd

[@adaniel2929]

+DeadNullermand Just video compression artifacts.

[@cookie1138]

+DeadNullermand happens also when he installs the amd fan, look at the cpu-cooling block cutouts.. Horrible ^^

[@wiertara1337]

+DeadNullermand KZbin video compression.

[@goeiecool9999]

+Wojtek Kiraga Don't think so. Seems more likely it's on LTT's end.

[@juju990000]

@Linus You also had it pretty easy. You didnt need to set jumpers for CPU busfrequenzy and multiplyer. There were way more difficult ways to build a system. Even the fact, that the busspeed also changed the speed of your PCI and AGP slots. You should try a 486DX system or kind of that.

[@700gsteak]

Jumpers are awesome if you o/c cause once u set the jumpers its fixed forever even if the battery runs out. Never really got the jumper hate. Even with stuff like soundcards, you werent at the mercy of plug and pray.

[@Afterburner]

LOL on slave drive jumpers - I ran Primos 9955 and similar minicomputers where the disk drives were 315mb platters with chassis sizes approximating that of a classic washing machine. And we had to address the drives in octal addresses so we would, for example, issue a "boot 14114" command to boot the system after editing a config file with all the octal addresses (called "pdevs" in Prime Computer terms) with all the pdevs of the data drives and how we addressed them in the OS lookup tables. I miss those old machines... they were a lot of fun to work with.

[@Rutious4]

The intro is like "Some may call this junk... Me, I call them treasures."

[@fatmax2195]

This PC is Linuses golden claw!

[@cryo_life]

It's considered junk to me, this garbage isn't worth using.

[@applejuice3160]

It’s faster than my pc

[@femboycyan]

@@cryo_life duh, this was long ago.

[@prestonlo3937]

@@femboycyan Then it is no treasure. IT IS JUNK!

[@SteveDice21]

I use the exact same mousepad

[@SteveDice21]

Well, mine has "Low budget mousepad" written on it.

[@silvenkovich7352]

+Steve Dice hehehehe i

[@uzavanauzavana]

BBကားး

[@janeisnotokay3284]

I use a large, thick piece of cloth folded in half. It has decent tracking, actually.

[@Chomakot]

best thing you can customize it :D draw shit on it :D

[@margyoan97]

For me, retro PC's and retro tech is the best... Compatibility is guaranteed and there's nothing like reliving the sights and sounds of years past.... To a time where everything felt so new, so exciting. Love it.

[@BoyJorgey]

I remember having this kind of setup around 2004-2006..those were the good ol'days when great MMORPGs were 2GB games

[@ShitboxXx360]

Umm, where are the RGB illuminated RAM sticks????!!

[@zeno8402]

-_-

[@DecibelAlex]

there were no RGB illuminated ram sticks back then

[@epsilon9596]

Krithika S wHAts A SaRCaSm??

[@WilliamCrego]

suprised no one could tell its a joke

[@jackdiller9087]

I found one of these cases in the garbage along with FOUR other old gaming spec computers from back in the day last night! All of them had working parts. Some had dead PSUs, but they all work now! :D

[@andresmoreno7782]

HOLY CRAP BOY, what specs???

[@jackdiller9087]

I haven't gotten too much chance to look at them yet but the oldest one has a Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition motherboard and a matching purple graphics card from the same era. :]]]] The LAN Boy had a GTX 280 with a q2800 quad 2.8ghz and an overclocking board. complete with two 1TB SATA HDDs... that both work... I was like why did they throw these out

[@jackdiller9087]

The one did have a dead PSU, but literally only the PSU. I put a 350W in and it started right up. One is a super old Dell Optiplex that's had modifications done like more fans, a new GPU, more RAM, etc. Haven't even bothered plugging it in as I have a strong hate for them because I had to deal with one that wasn't properly taken care of at my previous job.

[@jackdiller9087]

But yeah. Literally all of them except the Dell are custom aftermarket builds, no manufacturer prebuilts. It's insane. Probably one of the most interesting finds I've ever had.

[@bsg2621]

damn

[@D34th0f4LL]

My first PC was a Pentium MMX 166, 24MB RAM, ATI Rage, 4GB HDD, 16x CD ROM, Windows 98SE. I inherited it from my cousin in 2001 when I was 11 and I was so impressed to play Worms World Party, Carmageddon and Destruction Derby on it. My first true gaming PC came along in 2003, I got a new PC for Christmas consisting of an Athlon XP 2600+, MSI KT4A-V Motherboard, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, GeForce FX5600, 16x DVD ROM, DVD Writer, 17" TFT Screen and Windows XP. Upgraded it to 1GB RAM and a GeForce 6600GT a year or two later.

[@DJSekuHusky]

Hah, for a time I had that case. Mine was black and I think made of steel but without the clear window. Found it when our university was tossing out old hardware. I think it had a Netburst CPU in it and I swapped in a Core 2 Quad Maximus II Formula system and sold it to a buddy of mine. Right after I sold it, I found yet another vintage case at the same university dumpster. That Lian Li PC 601 is now running a Core i7 975 Extreme in a P6T motherboard I had left over. Paired with a GTX 980 Ti as well. It still sees daily use. That one does have a vented clear window pulled from a Lian Li PC 60 Plus. I'm 30 and my first "gaming" PC was a Commodore Amiga 1000, with me building my first P54C when I was 11 (2001) using only Goodwill-sourced parts, parental-funding, and one of those "How computers work" magazines they sold at Books a Million. The real struggle was not having internet til 2005.

[@jayrx12]

I'm on a binge watching all of Linus's Videos while waiting for FedEx to deliver the rest of the parts for my new pc.

[@CoolRainbowRainbow]

When ya got the money it's fun huh

[@jayrx12]

+CoolRainbow Rainbow What?

[@TrollermanSixtysevan]

u just did a $2000 and it isn't even that good a build :/

[@bigballerbillionaire]

You overpayed like crazy, i got a 1070 and an i7 6700K for cheaper.

[@TrollermanSixtysevan]

ɹʇsuuɹ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) $2000 Canadian. I checked pc park picker and it was $800 american :/ Minimum wage here in Canada is $10 and hour just like in the states, sometimes even less. I don't know how some people can live, because i live with my parents :/

[@MelonSquash]

it's funny to think modern smart phones are better then this

[@alexanderkopke2420]

even way better :D

[@motiveminute01]

Modern "Stick-Computer" are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better.

[@lancelindlelee7256]

Maybe even my calculator is more powerful. Not really but still :))

[@JamesCelestial92]

Mr_BeatsFTW Gaming nah hdds bigger

[@richarde98]

Mr_BeatsFTW Gaming Asus Zenfone 3 ZS570KL.

[@thomasjensen1590]

My first gaming pc was an amiga 500 running at 7 MHz with OCS graphics. Then a 286, 386, 486, pentium and pentium 2... the pentium 2 rig had my first serious 3d card, a riva tnt, then a k6-2 with a tnt 2. then an athlon with geforce 2, Then pentium 4, then various laptops, then an AIO, then returning to desktops with en i7 6700k and now a ryzen 5 2600. My athlon got an aftermarket zalman flower cooler at a later date. My athlon had 2 x 40 GB seagates drives in raid 0 and a beige case. It still lives in my retrolab.

[@ssj4david]

Ahh I built my first gaming PC about a year after this. 2.8GhZ P4, 1GB Ram (DDR400), Radeon 9500pro with 128MB GDDR memory, and a 120GB HD. The thing was playing Far Cry and Doom 3 pretty well.

[@Merjia]

WOW this brought me back. Having to uninstall one game it have enough room for another, getting the jumper wrong when installing a drive, and those big ass IDE cable clogging up your case and providing an excellent surface for dust to gather. Oh and I still remember how excited I was when I got my first 17 inch fishbowl CRT, I thought it was the tits. When I got my 19 inch flatscreen CRT it blew my mind! And very nearly my back when I tried to move it. Those were the days.

[@DylanHunter07]

K

[@leylandlynxvlog]

Yeah I'd forgotten about master and slave and PATA cables (another name for IDE). I'd also forgotten about AGP till i got tjesr two old computers from my neighbour.

[@leylandlynxvlog]

I still have to uninstall one game to install another. I remember when i thought it would be impossible to fill 1TB now I wish I had 4TB or more.

[@4skintim962]

K

[@Pidalin]

IDE cables were better than today hard sata cables and fragile connectors on HDD, I saw many broken sata connectors on HDD or MB, but I never saw broken IDE connector, if you bend pin, you can always fix it and there were better cables, not this cheapest flat version. Or you could do tuning with knife. :-)

[@fearless3433]

My first build was done for me by my father wayy back in 2008. I still use it to this day. Now I'm upgrading to a Ryzen 7 1700x build.

[@gapple222]

I still use a Geforce gtx 7600 gt . . .

[@DrFruikenstein]

Fearless Due to having been flooded out last Summer, my first build (also 2008) has once again become my main PC as it was way above the water line. Although, it was never retired. Just repurposed as a local server.

[@imadecoy.]

My first build was from 2008 as well. Still using the case and PSU. Swapped out most components last year.

[@Capnsensible80]

my first build was around Linus', but I was ballin' with a dedicated GPU and sound card lol

[@aucool7869]

gapple2 oof

[@wakcedout]

This is old but yea, adding drives is way easier now than it was back then. In fact I remember trying once to add a drive and after fucking up I don’t remember how many times I just gave up on it lol. Fast forward to now and it’s just plug in the sata cables, format and boom done. Plug and play really as come a long way.

[@hcli6901]

I remember my first PC used for gaming... actually it was not built by me but by my uncle. It had 16 mbs of RAM running a Pentium at a whopping 200 Mhz which was an year later upgraded to 233. I still remember the good old days playing Megarace, Normality and Duke Nukem 3D.

[@jeevesme]

aaaaaahhhhhh the old master and slave drive days. Nowadays if you say "Master and Slave Drive", people just think your being racist.

[@Fosi94]

+jeevesme Agree

[@electricsymmetric7963]

+jeevesme XD

[@timhosken8310]

Racist

[@ryankeke3271]

Agree xD

[@andymath89]

lol Exactly!

[@Ambious]

Oh wow, I forgot about the IDE Master/Slave configuration nightmare. I do NOT miss these days.

[@Ambious]

Groundskeeper Willie sure, when it's one drive, but when you have several and you have to start figuring out which is set up as what and there's no label on the damn thing so you don't know how to orient the jumper... I'm just saying, diagnosis was a nightmare when something wasn't working right.

[@xperrosinsangrex]

tell that to someone who has never used one before....

[@notjacob2589]

Elad Avron actually kind of useful. I've had to do so much Jerry rigging to my computer to get it too set a hard drive to boot.

[@CanadaBud23]

That shit was easy.

[@Northern_]

I reused my Antec Super Lanboy (the one with the "tool tray") from my first build circa 2005 in the PC I built last fall. It was originally very similar to this...

[@nojsanger1]

I used to game on my Dad's 386' / 486's PC's when I was a teenager, he used to get somehow from work! Ha! I can remember having to change the sound drivers for each game I played! This was also accompanied by my ZX spectrum with the tape loader! Can remember getting quite frustrated when the tape data got misread and had to load a game which probably took like 20 minutes on some games! So much has changed! I only started building my first PC in my late 30s a mix of new and secondhand components! I passed some of this PC down to my Son to build his, and now he's rocking a i5 7600K (O/clocked) with a 1650 Super it works for him playing Minecraft, Fortnite, Terratech etc.

[@ecleveland1]

My brother and I got a Commodore 64 when they came out and then an Apple IIe. We couldn't afford a floppy drive for the Apple so we used to stay up typing in code from gamming magazines so we could play a game. One of them was something like frogger but with a rabbit instead of a frog. We would play a game until we got tired of it and shutdown the computer erasing all the code then pick another one to type in. It took us days to type it in because we couldn't type and just hen pecked the keyboard. for the Apple so we used to stay up typing in code from gamming magazines so we could play a game. Good times for sure.