The most beautiful 486 AMD in the world ?

[@terranampire6077]

10:52 that’s the same motherboard LGR used!

[@RetroSpector78]

great minds think alike ;)

[@gilbert1975nf]

8:26 - this modem still can make a great job nowadays. Just install some retro Linux, like Slackware or Debian and you can turn this machine into a nice telephony IP center with Asterisk! Not 100% fast but functional.... This modem can act like an interface between your PC and the PSTN.

[@zrrion6the6insect6]

that case is quite the looker. Would make an incredible sleeper

[@MrBearyMcBearface]

The problem is, it looks like pc cases that are being made today. So I don't know if it would be a very convincing sleeper

[@proxy1035]

it wouldn't be a sleeper if it looks so modern make it a reverse sleeper and put in an even older system

[@proxy1035]

@@fritsfelix8423 there are adpaters for everything my dude especially with 3D printers

[@MrBearyMcBearface]

@@fritsfelix8423 I was thinking about modding an old us army surplus vietnam era ammo box into a pc case. I don't think it's ATX compatible either. However.... a few holes drilled can change this.

[@cesteres]

Designed for 2,6 Watts cpu though. Man wouldn't that be nice again

[@eddiehimself]

That's a bloody nice case design. I really like the fact that the buttons aren't just glued into the front panel so you can just take it out cleanly without worrying about the wires.

[@brambotterman7804]

I had a case like this back in the time. Think I bought it at NEVA in De Pinte. Indeed one of the most beautifull cases

[@mathewdempsey16]

I have to get a case like that, it’s absolutely beautiful!

[@RetroSpector78]

Yep, she's a looker .... one of a kind ... but apparenty there's this Taiwanese company that has a whole series of those (minitower / bigtower /desktop / ....) But not that easy to find.

[@newtonu]

@@RetroSpector78 Do you know the name of this Taiwanese company? Did the case have any model number or name? I NEED ONE!

[@polaxis842]

@@RetroSpector78 name pretty please 😱

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

It's like a NES pc

[@Hutschnur]

Watching your vids for 2 hours now. Well deserved sub :D

[@RetroSpector78]

wow ... die-hard :) Appreciate it very much .... thx for watching ....

[@manuelink64]

Sleek case desing! But, the most beautiful 486 was the AMD Am5x86-P100 (160MHz) I have the 133MHz one, love it! Love your channel!

[@RetroSpector78]

Thx a lot .. Appreciate it !

[@JenniferinIllinois]

I love that case. I remember having one with a door that covered the drives. Didn't look as cool as that one though. ;)

[@Eremon1]

In '95 that would have looked space aged! I've always loved AMD stuff and I always will. Cheers.

[@RetroSpector78]

Yeah love those AMD cpu’s and the case blew me away when I first turned it on .... still cannot believe I got this as a freebie

[@Obie327]

Very cool find RetroSpector78! I might have an Intel overdrive cpu or Cryix/Amd one laying around. I took a Packard Bell 486 25mhz SX 4 meg desktop to the extreme from 1993 all the way to 1998 with upgrades. Thanks for the content!

[@markg3506]

I love that enclosure. I have the same one at home.

[@RetroSpector78]

It's a very nice design indeed .... you don't see it all that often.

[@newtonu]

Do you know the name or model of this case? I need one for me! :)

[@markg3506]

@@newtonu No, uit's unmarked unfortunately

[@HikikomoriDev]

Really like the Classic LCD display.

[@SandsOfArrakis]

This brings back memories. 1995 was the year I bought my first PC when I turned 18. It was a Cyrix 486-DX2 80 MHz. First with 4 and later with 8 mb of RAM. That 4 mb of RAM extra costed me 250 Guilder. About 200 Euro's. Added a 6 speed CD-ROM drive and a SB compatible sound card as well. Had so much fun with that system. Tried GP2 as well. Let's just say the 486 didn't really like that game. GP2 ran awesome on my 2nd PC which was a Pentium 133 :)

[@RetroSpector78]

Hehe .. glad you enjoyed it. Also remember selling my electric guitar to pay for a 4mb memory upgrade on my 486dx2 66mhz :) The music industry might have lost a great talent back there and then :)

[@retrobaz8620]

What a lovely case and machine! Never saw anything like that

[@root3375]

I find it incredible that a 486 PC looks similar to my CURRENT PC, which also has that door with a transparent panel but instead of displaying the CPU speed displays the time, date and temperature of different components, this is completely ahead of its time!

[@tripylsd]

Where do you find these treasures? Beautiful. In my country, Spain, these old computers are hard to find in second hand market and very very expensive

[@RetroSpector78]

The best ones you find by accident... when I actively search for something I hardly find anything. But sometimes I stumble upon one thing that leads to another. This one was just sitting in someones garage where I was to pick up a commodore pc and she just gave this 486 to me. So for sure lots of luck involved.

[@hypergl6974]

@@RetroSpector78 does the plastics have any writing on the inside? Do you happen to came across the name of the manufacturer of this case?

[@peterilling1627]

Love the old days. We used to repair hard drives in a clean room. My favorite processors have always been AMD. Still using Amd now using a Opteron 8 core cpu socket AM3+. Love your videos, keep up the great work. Never liked new tech I am old school all the way.

[@reptilez13]

Hey inverted motherboards especially in modern PCS make for fantastic airflow LOL look at the06 I think? Or The Cooler Master HAFX? I think one of those are inverted

[@VICTORYOVERNEPTUNE]

That case is brilliant

[@andheeid]

16:27 i remembered that i have to overclocked my amd 486 dx4 100 to 166 mhz (33x5) just to play mp3 44khz 128kb smoothly... i'm using more modern board that already have pci slot but still have vlb slot with UMC chipset..

[@viktor.madarasz]

Ok that case is beautiful

[@RetroSpector78]

Indeed ... passed it along to a fellow retro enthousiast who has an entire collection of these specific cases. Was sad to see it go but got a great replacement that will be featured here soon. Don't forget to subscribe / like and support the channel. Lots more content coming your way ....

[@ClanTeamKill3r]

nicest 486 pc case I've ever seen, very jealous and now I want one, and thank jebus it had a cr2032 and not a varda battery

[@RetroSpector78]

Hehe .... yeah a really nice case ... passed it along to a fellow collector who specifically collects these. Great thing about retro computers and collecting is that you come into contact with people with very specific interests to share stuff with.

[@ClanTeamKill3r]

@@RetroSpector78 wow, didn't expect a reply, specially one that fast. just found your channel today and am loving your content, great production quality, watching all of your back catalog, am actually watching the upgrade video right now, I'm now a subscriber, keep up the awesome work

[@RetroSpector78]

@@ClanTeamKill3r hehe .... cool ... I will ... lots of cool stuff coming. Feel free to help spread he word cause I could use some extra subscribers :) Very difficult for a small channel to get noticed ... How did you end up finding the channel if I may ask ?

[@ClanTeamKill3r]

@@RetroSpector78 stumbled across your 286 from hell video while watching another retro pc vid, and yea its slow starting out, my suggestion is getting new retro hardware like the xt to ide card or the parallel port adlib card and do some videos on those since people look for that stuff. but really just stick to it, you have great content and this awesome retro community will eventually sniff out good content like yours

[@alexanderalfonsson5874]

That is one Beautiful 486!

[@gbclab]

I had AMD 486 DX-4 120 MHz back in the 1996....great Memories

[@JamesPotts]

I want one of those cases so much!

[@wishusknight3009]

It has a very 70's mainframe look to it. I love it! That unpopulated connector on the controler board for the virus thingy, was just a rom and nothing more. It would act as an extended option rom and perform some various tasks during post. It functioned similar to a scsi option rom latching int 13. It was a way to provide a somewhat lower level form of virus protection, but it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. It also caused many cards with option roms to freak out and not work when installed, such as any DPT scsi board or some earlier sasi boards.

[@38911bytefree]

Love the case. Pretty unusual. I had a 486 long ago with the Texas Instruments DX4 100 CPU, qith lovely colorfull lettering on it. A coworker happen to be sort of cpu collector and I gave it to him once I was done with the system at this era.

[@bundesautobahn7]

Did the processor also get the fan and heatsink it said it'd require? Also, I love when before the POST, the Trident BIOS appears, it makes me feel nostalgic because my first GPU on my old 286 from almost 30 years ago was equipped with a 512k Trident TVGA card.

[@RetroSpector78]

It did ... and yeah the Trident VGA splash screen is pretty iconic.... think lots of people saw that one back in the day :)

[@retros4168]

thats a damn nice case but there is another one around which is freaking awesome! maybe I can find a picture of it anywhere

[@30MinuteGamer]

great video! That PC looks very nice. I love the styling on it.

[@RetroSpector78]

Thx ... was really lucky to have stumbled upon this one. I was there to pick up a commodore pc when all of a sudden we ended up in the garage where I saw this one. It was going to go to he dumpster so managed to save it luckily.

[@hypergl6974]

@@RetroSpector78 is there any model stamped on the inside of the plastics? Any marking or brand?

[@DJLKM1]

I Really want one of those cases. Very worthy of being retrobrighted, Wish i could find one like that for my 486 or k6 system to go in :)

[@cesteres]

You can run fixed point fft. No idea how and if it was implemented back in the days. Quake did use floating points also I guess.

[@mikes989]

ohh!!! I have exactly that same motherboard. The CPU is an AMD Am5x86 133MHz. I put it away about 25 years ago, in functional condition. A few months ago I wanted to rebuild my two old PCs (the other is a Pentium MMX, also put away working) but I haven't been able to get them working again. Now doing the same with a Super Socket 7 system.

[@con2botonesnadamas433]

I like when things are restored to their glory times. Are you planning covering newer era systems (like socket 7 and slot 1/A era ones) in the future?

[@RetroSpector78]

have lots of stuff here to cover still, and first / second gen pentiums is definitely on the todo list. Any excuse to dust off the voodoo cards :)

[@robwebnoid5763]

A rear case fan at the bottom is not good, it just kicks up more dust off the floor/desk that floats down in between power ups. Or it's just waiting to invite water in case of a flood if it was sitting on floor instead of on a counter.

[@ronelferink6098]

I had this PC at my work in 1996.It was branded as a Sky wich was a common brand in these days,But it didn't last very long.It broke down just two years later.It had Win95 installed.

[@TheGlitchyMario]

Ya know, this might be the most beautiful COMPUTER ever (that’s not made by apple) New PC’s usually go overboard with unnecessary RGB. This one just looks cool.

[@fradd182]

i thought that VLB would have been obsolete in 95\96 and that PCI already took over at that time.

[@RetroSpector78]

fradd It was a tipping point. I remember getting my first pc in 1995 (486dx2 66) and it was also VLB. Lots of them were. Some had pci in 1995 but I think it became more mainstream in 1996.

[@fradd182]

@@RetroSpector78 Thanks.

[@TheHondaTuner]

Damn i want to put modern Hardware into that case :D Its beautiful and not even that huge

[@RetroSpector78]

Never built a sleeper PC ... don't you start putting ideas in my head :)

[@TheHondaTuner]

@@RetroSpector78 haha i think the term is funny. as a carguy its weird because its way diffferent then a sleeper car. i think about it more like having a room just to live in the 90s but modern system for work. sadly old os are not that usable because of to old browser even tho i have a second 2000 themed xp pc mainly for gamign and music but it can do youtube

[@Zagroseckt]

@@RetroSpector78 it's not a sleeper untill your doing it trully hidden.

[@DxDeksor]

You should add plastic standoffs in the holes of the board (those that don't go through the metal frame) so your board doesn't flex when you install expansion cards. You can also improve the cable management a lot by inspiring you from Retro machines' 286 build video ^^

[@RetroSpector78]

Thx for the tips... will check them out... don’t seem to have these plastic or metalic standoffs anymore. Only picked up this retro think recently and was decades ago since I was last working on computers. Got rid of a lot my stuff back in the day. Who would have known.... :)

[@DxDeksor]

@@RetroSpector78 These plastic standoffs can still be found nowadays ^^

[@erichkohl9317]

Gorgeous old PC. That's a keeper. (Personally I loved that BIOS design...) ;-)

[@Artemis-zl5cs]

This thing looks like what a "futuristic" pc would look like in the 80's! Lovely little pc here.

[@hypergl6974]

Had this exact tower case, got it from my uncle. But during the early 90s, i had a 386DX in a case that had the same design but it was a desktop (horizontal) one. Still trying to find a photo of it, while we were playing some sick pc speaker ear bleeding games! :)

[@hypergl6974]

@RetroSpector78 Just a month ago got this exact case back after 20+ years without after I got rid of it. At that time it had a AMD K6-2 based system. The one I got now has a P75 system, all original and barely used. It was stored in a warehouse and it still got the original labels and stickers. Inside is mint. Every component is listed on the sticker on the back. I will leave it as it is. Not the most powerfull system but who cares, it's a time capsule that needs to be preserved. Maybe some day I will make a video about it, been thinking for years now that I should start my own video channel about my collection (20+ complete systems, from spectrum, atari, c64,... to P4's) :) Anyway, still looking for the desktop variant of this case. We had it as our first home pc, with a 386DX 40MHz.

[@doskungen]

Hello Retrospector78 can you please tell me the manufacturer/model of this case (if you know)? I remember wanting this specific case so much for a computer of mine back in the day but it never happened. I had AOpen cases and some Inwin cases as I remember but this I never got 🙂

[@henson2k]

I used to play Dark Forces and Dream Web on exactly this DX4-100 tower!

[@RetroSpector78]

yeah .... an AMD or Intel DX4 is a great platform. I got into computers with a DX2-66Mhz and would have loved this as an upgrade path.

[@Nietzman]

Oh shit I grew up using the exact same cage. Could it have been a Dutch design?

[@MrGencyExit64]

Reminds me a little of the NeXT Cube aesthetically.

[@olepigeon]

That is such a gorgeous case. :D I literally went, "Whoa!" when the segmented display came up. That is so cool. This case really needs an ENCOM case badge from TRON. You can find them on eBay. :) Out of curiosity, can you set segment jumpers for the MHz part as well? Or just the speed part?

[@razorkill8522]

Very cool case... i never seen this before

[@SrWolf90]

Hello, I want to ask you one thing, I have a similar box but in SFF format, it has the same turbo display, do you know what the pinouts are? The jumper position to set it to 100MHz? I can't find data on this display: '(.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

I just found my old Am5x83-133 Linux system. Gonna test the power supply this weekend.

[@RetroSpector78]

Good for you !

[@wskinnyodden]

Btw, I once had that same graphics card, what I did was scrounge memory chips from old 286's and XT's then expanded the cards RAM to 2Mb hehe (Finding the correct size ones was hard, but in those days I had access to a considerable number of old spares from my computer repair part-time job)

[@HuntersMoon78]

CPU coolers went from being tiny to insanely huge with equally huge fans.

[@stvpls]

modem can stil be used just dial a dial up provider

[@Synthematix]

The yellowing would really bug me though, id have to spray it beige or bleach the plastic

[@zsombor_99]

Wow!! This is a good looking case!! 😏 The only negative thing is the back of the case is not ATX or mini-ATX yet, so it can't hold a Win98 motherboard with standard IO shield, I say...

[@pentiummmx2294]

Acer VI15G, same board as what LGR has in his woodgrain 486

[@mikes989]

I have exactly that same motherboard. The CPU is an AMD Am5x86 133MHz. I put it away about 25 years ago, in functional condition. A few months ago I wanted to rebuild my two old PCs (the other is a Pentium MMX, also put away working) but I haven't been able to get them working again. Now doing the same with a Super Socket 7 system.

[@rootbeer666]

I have an am486DX4 myself as well, my machine came with a Biostar board though, what it does have is 8 memory slots, but lacks VLB or PCI. I never got the CPU to work above 100MHz, or least it refuses to show it at boot anyway. I tried setting the bus to 40MHz and letting it multiply by 3 to get 120MHz, but that didn't work and it just showed 100MHz still. Normally it's 33MHz * 3. For some reason 28MB is the most RAM I could get the board to recognize, won't detect full 32MB. Back when this was my primary personal computer (I got it as a donation in 2000 when I was 12), I ran Windows NT 4.0 on it, honestly not sure why. It was a lot worse at running games than Windows 95 or 98 would have been, but I could always dual boot into DOS, so that's what I did. Anyway, I think it played Quake kind of okay though from what I recall I might have had to turn off sound. VLB or PCI would have helped there I'm sure.

[@keenhauberk]

What you don't understand in: "Heatsink and Fan required" printed on CPU? I had a headsink even on my 486 SX 33 in the past...

[@IkarusKommt]

It doesn't seem the insides of the case are cooled well.

[@viktor.madarasz]

that case is beautiful

[@dogdive]

I know this video is old, but… I would argue that a modem is still quite useable. If you have a cable modem for your home internet and you have phone service bundled, you can just plug right in and use it just like back in the day. There are many dialup BBSs in operation around the country and with VOIP there is no long distance. I know I would have died for that in 1985.

[@surferdude4487]

Back in the day we used the Trident video cards because they were cheap, not because they were good. The so-called speed indicator was a set of LEDs that were set with jumpers. They had nothing to do with the actual CPU clock speed.

[@fgm1197]

dx4 100 my dream machine back then. if i remember correctly this thing came out (and became affordably) around the time they released the first pentium 586 the s-class 486. and then dropped rapidly in price.

[@kcinplatinumgaming2598]

ha ha looking at the board there was no dual memory channel rules lol ... I seen them cases but only worked on newer versions later on mainly around the Windows XP time.. actually it looks similar to a server cases but in a mini form factor a lot of companies like that case layout mainly DELL / IBM & COMPAQ were notorious to have the mother board and power supply in different locations .. good video interesting as per usual my friend .. in fact some of the cheaper end computer companies that made gaming computers such as TIME computers ect were using similar cases later on around the early Pentiums pre-486 era too .. but yes nice case .. like say reminds me of a server case???!!! or is it just me lol

[@geertkroezinga6003]

This is actually the computer I ordered in 1995, just about the same config. They upgraded me to a Pentium 60 for a little more money. I bought it from Planhold Computers in Amsterdam. I would love to get my hands on a case like this again!!!! If anyone knows what model it is.... Please let me know.

[@kristoferstoll587]

BTX Case?

[@the_holy_forestfairy]

Speechless...

[@bertmaes8150]

Whow nice to see Ihad the same case with p75 mhz so nice

[@RicardoRamosRetrocomputacao]

I also have a case from that time that is very beautiful and different, it's a Pentium 1 233mhz mmx + voodoo gfx, but its design reminds a real gamer machine, the front of the machine has features that reminds of a descent ii ship. I think I will also make a video showing it

[@typingcat]

Tree volts?

[@dovic2293]

he is saying 3 but his accent makes it sound like he is saying tree xD

[@ninja011]

Does anyone know the make and model of that case?

[@bertr6741]

anyone knows what happened to SiS chip?

[@2dfx]

They are still in business, they make touch screen controllers and SSD controllers now.

[@craigedwardjensen6382]

I think this is the same motherboard that lgr used in his 486 build

[@RetroSpector78]

Great minds think alike ;)

[@ASHILTINEC]

"Keyboard error Press F1 to RESUME" logic???

[@pavelageev231]

Logic is: if the keyboard error was detected by a mistake (which sometimes happens), or you can fix the error on the fly (for example by disabling 'Key lock' feature) you can then press F1 and proceed.

[@angrydove4067]

That case may have inspired BTX, way ahead of its time.

[@QuantumBraced]

Do we know the motherboard brand/model? It looks like ASUS to me.

[@bennysnod4928]

did you say walk true

[@bubblegumgun3292]

heck yeah i still buy that

[@AdamScott77]

I need about Tree Fitty Volts.

[@Zagroseckt]

i want that case.. i love front doors and my poor case has lived through 6 computers and is showing it's ware and tear :)

[@thepwnlyfrodor]

Anyone know who makes the case? I have one just like it but taller.

[@RetroSpector78]

It seems to be a bit of a mystery ... some think it is a Taiwanese brand but nobody seems to know the name. I passed this one along to a friend who collects these type of cases and he also has lots of variants like this but also does not know the brand unfortunately.

[@kerrypeterstevens]

Your Video "Volume" keeps going up & down = drives me crazy :-(

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

4:20 cooking with retrospector

[@JordiSantos79]

Foxen?

[@cyberp0et]

"Could you be The most beautiful AMD in the world" (Prince)

[@fnjesusfreak]

AMD 486DX5/133 for the win, though.

[@RetroSpector78]

Yeah .. have an AMD am5x86 p75 (133) that I still need to try

[@fnjesusfreak]

@@RetroSpector78 I used to have one. Wish I still did, but my Pentium/133 will make do.

[@succuvamp_anna]

Looks like the same motherboard in LGRs 486

[@DrJackJeckyl]

**sniffs** Ahhhh yes! The particular tang of 90's urine cases!

[@timcat1004]

Still no CPU fan wtf?

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

You have a dutch copy of Grand Prix 2 :p

[@justice83]

Just the way this this guy pronounces '3' as tree, but otherwise does not sound Irish. Triggers me every time.

[@foxdavion6865]

Those drooping expansion boards terrify me.

[@RuruFIN]

Ah, so the molex connectors in motherboards of that era WAS for CPU fans just like I thought. :D

[@JosephAlanMeador]

That is one sexy 486!

[@LucaBlightOfHighland]

Looks like a modern lian li case

[@Evil.Turkey]

Yes it looks like you put the back upside down

[@intel386DX]

I love AMI GUI setups, much better then today's shitty lagging guis. This case is fantastic and befirore it's time they somehow knew that the power supplys will be on the bottom in the cases :) !BTW you need to retrobrite it :)

[@wskinnyodden]

Enable 32Bit mode on bios, c'mon, you have a VLB HDD controller!