Testing and Exploring a Quantex 486DX PC

Checking out this Quantex computer that I picked in LGR Thrifts Episode 47. It's a pretty neat little system with a Cyrix 486DX2-66 and a Socket 3 motherboard with PCI slots! Got a few things to tweak and upgrade but it's pretty solid as-is.

[@LGRBlerbs]

So it turns out this is a rather infamous variant of a board known as the M919! While doing some testing off camera I was wondering why I couldn't detect the on-board 256K cache through testing software, and welp. Seems the company PC Chips was doing some shady crap back in the day with fake/non-working cache chips. Not only that, but apparently there's some kind of lockout where you can't use anything but their proprietary 256K COASt module. Amazing. Luckily, modern reproductions of the M919 256K cache module exists and I ordered one. Here's a follow-up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4vRhGCtnbuoeqs

[@phreeze83]

yes, PC Chips are known for this. Otherwise pretty cool boards, but knockoff cache... what were they thinking!?

[@LGRBlerbs]

Here's a German article on the topic from 1995. Just nuts! www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Georg-Schnurer-284208.html

[@xenonkay]

Check out the traces coming from those "cache" chips on your model. They don't actually go anywhere. Which is a shame because there's no reason real cache couldn't work if the pads were actually wired up.

[@RWL2012]

The louder speaker being louder is not because it's double the wattage - that rating is an input power handling rating, so as long as the impedance is the same on both speakers the power they receive from the same amplifier should be the same. the quieter speaker sounded thinner as well, so it's possible that the cone could have detached from the coil.

[@brucewrigleysgumchewz4667]

@@RWL2012 Sounds like maybe the speaker was blown. Guess it couldn't handle all the beeps. lol

[@monkeyman767]

15:30 holy shit hearing a legit hearty laugh from Clint is the best thing

[@startedtech]

Watch the AI filter Photoshop video then, you'll love it

[@FinalManaTrigger]

@@startedtech oh yeah, that infectious laugh got me on that video too, good stuff

[@caseycu]

lol I burst out laughing a second after he did, his laugh is so contagious 😂

[@monkeyman767]

@@zontarzee Oh my god I'd never seen this it's fantastic

[@kpelt]

It was great, but it scared the cat.

[@dolphhandcreme]

This board has the well know fake-cache chips. Seems to be the famous M919 from PC Chips!

[@LGRBlerbs]

Crap! I’ve heard about that. I assume that’s why no cache is detected in certain tests. At least I can still add a COASt module, hopefully.

[@dolphhandcreme]

@@LGRBlerbs no, the Board requires special modules. They are available, but non standard. Maybe it's time for some reverse engineering.

[@timbosie112]

There is a special group on vogons that make those cache modules ( arround 300 they have make so far +- ). And indeed the infamous M919 wich is if you know its quarks a really fine board sinds other options cost atleast 200 to 300 dollars a board. I have one 1 WITH the 256 KB cache but if i put a 5V cpu in it it will fry the cache sinds it only runs @ arround 3 to 4 volts and that voltage is the same as the CPU voltage ! best option is NOT to use 5V cpu's in that board !

[@CptJistuce]

WHOO! I actually have two M919 boards from my youth. One has empty sockets to install cache in. The other has two "surface-mount chips" in the corner. There's a bunch of traces there that leave the left side of the "chips" and circle around to the right side. It is HILARIOUSLY fake.

[@pentiummmx2294]

i knew it was a PCChips M919 since i recognized the BIOS on the thrifts video. with the 486VIP text on the bios header on the bottom.

[@storm5936]

i dunno why, but I just started bursting out in laughter when you said the soundcard sounded like you had opened a portal to hell

[@Dukefazon]

It's like in the opening of Doom (2016) when the computer screen casually states "demonic invasion in progress" like it's just a regular Tuesday.

[@yopachi]

same! :'D

[@katiemarshall8033]

I mean he definitely wasn’t wrong asjdjddj

[@deneb_tm]

Him bursting out into laughter after so nonchalantly stating that "he wouldn't be using this" is what got me

[@caseycu]

lmao same here 😂

[@McTwistedTwisties]

This was the first computer I ever used. I remember my father placing me and my twin in front of it and saying "this is the future, and you need to learn how this works." This is the computer that taught me how to read, how to spell, and how to do math.

[@MegaManNeo]

This thing is your childhood!

[@Linuxpunk81]

I had a DX2 50mhz version with this case and could never even find a picture of one until today. This makes me so happy

[@rphoenix5908]

What software in particular (if any) helped you?

[@McTwistedTwisties]

@@rphoenix5908 Ruff's Bone was the one I remember the strongest along with Math Blaster. We also had some kind of game that helped you type, but you got awards to help improve your invention? I am not really sure what it was called. Also, watching my oldest brother play Sim City 2000 was also a blast.

[@Inujake7]

"I don't have Duke 3D." Words I never would have expected Clint to say! XD

[@TheTurnipKing]

There's usually a silent "yet" on the end of that statement

[@godzg]

I busted out laughing when you loaded Jill of the Jungle!!That was catastrophically unexpected.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LGRBlerbs]

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[@KeithMickunas]

My first mail order PC was a 486-66DX from Quantex in a tower case, that happens to be the same case as LGR's Wood Grain PC. That case served me well for many years.

[@blaudrachen]

My dad bought the exact same machine for our first computer. I miss that case

[@Linuxpunk81]

Dude. I almost had a heart attack when I saw this! I had a quantex 486dx2 50mhz that had a case exactly like this! I've been looking for years on the internet just for a PICTURE of my beloved machine from hs and never found one until literally just know. I'm so happy 😊 awesome channel, I've had a shitty week but this made my day!

[@LGRBlerbs]

Wonderful! I couldn't find any photos of this either, so I'm glad to share it :)

[@mattelder1971]

I remember that motherboards with both PCI and VLB were pretty uncommon back in 95 or 96, so that's a really good find.

[@KiraSlith]

Shame about the fake cache modules though.

[@eddiehimself]

I've got a similar 486 DX-4 PC c.1995 with the same AMI WinBIOS setup. Crazy that you had a BIOS screen with mouse support back then; it wasn't until nearly 20 years later that I got my first PC that had a BIOS with mouse support!

[@mercster]

LOL I know, somehow the machines I always had never had mouse support till way late.

[@eddiehimself]

​@@lucasrem When I said "nearly 20 years later," I meant nearly 20 years after 1995, not 20 years prior to the current year. In the same way, if one said "Churchill won World War II in 1945 and died 20 years later," they don't mean that Churchill died in 2001, you absolute genius.

[@maxmuster7003]

I like to use the PS2 mouse support from the BIOS INT 0x15 AX=0xC200 - 0xC207 AMD k6-2 Socket 7 mainboard via and asus aladin chipset.

[@wijjit]

486 pc was my baby bottle. I was a teen tho... That dang pc introduced me to the internet and more! Miss you 486. You were always smarter than me.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

When the BIOS has a more advanced look than the actual operating system...

[@atreyu4ws]

Any LGR video with wholesome Clint laughter is a guaranteed day-brightener.

[@KoalaG888]

I have to agree with you - It's always cathartic listening to an LGR episode

[@theengineer-dellconagher]

this was a great one too, so contagious that it made me crack up as well

[@Leahi84]

I had a Pionex computer my dad bought for me off of QVC back in 1997-98. It was terrible, but I loved it because it was the first computer I could actually do stuff with, as the 486 I had prior was a nightmare to get anything running on.

[@Dong_Harvey]

My family had the same exact thing, I miss it, but it was nowhere as cool as the Amiga 500 that it 'replaced'

[@BaumInventions]

14:40 It sounds like the FM chip is not getting the right data from the main Chip. The FM Chip is basically controlled by 8 Datalines from the main chip... If something goes wrong there it sounds like this (and needs a reset to fix). That would explain why the Tracker Music and WAV stuff is working because that is directly coming from the main chip.

[@LGRBlerbs]

Interesting. Yet Keen 4 plays perfectly despite that! I’ve always had bizarre incompatibilities with Jill, which is why I always use it as a test. Output even changes between versions of the game!

[@xenonkay]

Jill of the Jungle is pretty infamous for having a weird sound engine that doesn't get along well with later sound cards. I get a similar unholy cacophony on a Vibra16 card and it makes the samples sound like they're being played back on an industrial rock crusher.

[@ResonantBytes]

That's what I was thinking as well. I just had a similar issue a few weeks ago with the original EGA version of Monkey Island. I tried several cards until I found out it was a software bug in the interpreter that causes this behaviour on CPUs which are too fast, like my am486dx4 100. You can still get the patch from Lucasfilm Games/Disney or.. you know, press the Turbo button to fix this particular issue :D

[@dreammfyre]

Haha, I also remember pissing off my parents before we got a dedicated sound card. King Quest V in particular and all those beep-y songs must have been very annoying when you’re trying to sleep.

[@c3pu333]

Your parents where more pc noise tolerant than mine haha, my mom would loose her marbles at the constantly repeating voice lines in warcraft 2, regardless of the volume. I swear she was like a bat, i could barely hear the game and she would scream from the other end of the house to lower the volume lol.

[@professorpenne9962]

still better then cedric rambling on

[@13Cubed]

Good ole' Cyrix. I owned a system building/IT services company from 1996-2006. In the early days, we sold many Cyrix CPUs. When they worked, they were fine, but man, the defect rate was insane. Sooo many RMAs over the years. The last chip I remember them touting was the "Jalepeno" but to my knowledge it never came out (they were acquired around that time).

[@thudtheace]

Was mostly bad board support. Never had any issues with the dozens and dozens cyrix chips we ran. But there were plenty of boards that really had bad support for the cyrix cpu's. for instance the fic VA-503+ board works perfectly with a cyrix MII with 100mhz bus while the newer fic PAG-2103 would have all sorts of issues (fpu exceptions, seg faults, etc..) with the MII chip. I still have a cx486-dx266 and an MII-300 running (linux), with longer uptimes than most nerds underwear.. Cheers!

[@Choralone422]

I absolutely love desktop PC's like this one. My first machine was a Packard Bell 486 in a desktop case similar to this one with the 3.5" floppy drive to the right of the 5.25" slots. So many good memories of computing from the early to mid 90s! I built a new Ryzen 5 3600 based PC earlier this year and searched high and low for a modern day desktop case that would work. But I couldn't find anything that would work for my build that didn't cost well over 2x as much as the Lian Li 215 case I ended up using.

[@ShadowRune]

I would definitely watch an upgrade special for this, install that cache on chip & other assorted upgrades

[@rolandkatsuragi]

14:45 Re-enactment of the UAC scientists on Mars researching wormhole technology

[@xClunky]

Boots up Jill of the Jungle: Trent Reznor stuff starts playing. Woh

[@BilisNegra]

Lol!

[@skillaxxx]

Aarrggh, need more content on this build, this is going to be the ultimate 486 retro dream machine !!!

[@ctrlaltrees]

So well equipped (well, apart from the RAM) and *so* clean inside.... Someone has put a lot of love and care into this PC! VLB and PCI on the same board, I am insanely jealous!

[@TheVanillatech]

The first PC I ever saw running, my friend had a 486-DX2-80 and he invited me over to look at something called "Doom". Had no idea what it was. Sounded cool. Pretty much changed the course of my life, that day. Ended up buying that machine from him just 4 months later and playing Alone In The Dark, Doom, The Legacy, UFO : Enemy Unknown. Never turned my Megadrive on again! I gave it to a young kid up the street that used to play football with us, his mother couldn't afford to buy him anything. He seemed happy enough! And so was I. Playing Doom till 2am before school the next day!

[@Vintersemestre00]

I have nothing to say of value, but thank you for this and all your other vids. I was in such an awful mood, but watching this helped turn my mind back around. Thanks LGR.

[@BokBarber]

My parent's Quantex tower, circa 1994-5, looks almost exactly like your woodgrain tower but without the woodgrain. Same numeric display for the processor, turbo/reset button, lock, similar light configuration, and nearly the same finned accent on the right hand side. There were a couple minor differences , like the buttons on theirs doesn't angle up, but they were almost definitely the same manufacturer. I remember that coming into our house when I was five years old. My dad spent something like $5k outfitting it with a Pentium 100 processor, 32 MB of RAM, a full gig of hard drive space, 17 inch color monitor, and the very first color inkjet, the original Epson Stylus Color (a $500 printer at the time.) It dual booted OS/2, Unix and Windows 95 because my dad needed those OS's for work. We were living in the future.

[@jthorn4773]

Can't tell you how excited I get when I see LGR post a new video. Favorite channel(s) on KZbin.

[@PrimarchBentley]

Oh yeah. Muffling the sound of a PC w/ a towel, the joy of first discovering ATL0 for the modem... All essentials for the late-night computer user back in the day.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

Would love to see if the Pentium Overdrive would make a difference here with the Better Motherboard compared to the 486 overdrive.

[@Saaketti]

Yes. Especially because he has now mentioned it many times and it would be intersting to see the difference.

[@evilshiloh]

QUANTEX! The company I have worked for in IT for the past 22 years used to buy Quantex desktop computers in the Pentium 1 to Pentium 4 days. Good computers but a high failure rate on the motherboards. I replaced so many parts on those computer. Our company didn't care because we bought them with a 3 year warranty that covered parts. The bitter part was when Quantex went out of business leaving us with a lot of systems with no valid warranty. After that our company signed a contract to buy from Dell and I spent years sending failing and obsolete Quantex computers to the recycler. I couldn't wait until I never saw another Quantex.

[@NavJack27gaming]

i love that soundcard. i hope more games make that happen. please just record that whole soundtrack like that. its almost like it doesn't recognize the off notes at all. it turns some stuff into a drone noise album. amazing!

[@8ByteBrian]

I love the layout of the floppy drive, the buttons, & those speakers are amazing.

[@kristophertadlock779]

I love LGR blerbs. You always have such fun toys we get to play with.

[@UncleMikeRetro]

Well! The condition of that case is most amazing. Very nice and clean. Love the sticker action on the front 😎

[@mattpierce5009]

Nostalgia! A Cyrix DX2-80 was the first CPU I ever bought - popped it in our Micron 486 (who remembers when Micron made PCs?), upped the FSB to 40mhz, and was shocked at how much better Doom ran

[@philp3512]

My first computer was a Quantex 486DX-33 in 1993. Came with 4 MG of RAM and 80 MG hard drive and Windows 3.1. Lasted 7 years, all I did was reconfigure with 16 MG of RAM in the third year and installed Windows 95. Excellently built machine. I recommended them to so many friends and family members, and they all loved these machines. And yes, this was from a company in New jersey.

[@nidzdotnet76]

That Keen 4 brings back so many memories of early 90s computing..

[@JetScreamer_YT]

Memories! I lived close to a computer store where a lot of us would hang out. We would get together and BS. It was wonderful. The shop keeps kept a BBS. They had the best prices. They would consign for a fair price. I bought and sold from there. I was a 20 something who also owned a daily driver sleeper 1970 VW Bug. Money was always tight. Anyways, I bought tons of used stuff I may not have been able to at full price. I always loved the alternative CPU's. Hard drives and RAM cost so much. I worked on so many systems, for extra cash. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment. Even at the height of my frustration, there was passion. Hacking, as in problem solving relaxes me. I wish life were so easy to troubleshoot. But ambition and direction would take over this slacker. I stopped working on computers. This year I built my first computer in a number of years. There is so much new! Very familiar though. The improvements really renewed that enthusiasm Very Zen.

[@angieandretti]

That looks like an extremely nice 486 platform to build-up! Love the three different types of expansion slots on one motherboard! It's quite nice across-the-board :-) ... oh, and 486dx with Windows 3.1!

[@edwardprice140]

Quantex always had the top performance specs in computer magazines, back when performance was doubling every month.

[@MrJmannik]

I had one of those Cyrix DC2-80 chips, I always loved the green heatsink, this is making me miss my old 486 from back in the day. Had a Tseng Labs ET4000/w32, a 1GB hdd, a ESS Audiodrive 1868f and 8mb of ram.

[@PsychoStreak]

Quantex. Holy wayback machine! Takes me back to the old days of Computer Shopper when it was the biggest (physically) magazine around.

[@hunketi]

Back in 1998 and 1999 I worked technical support for Quantex/Pionex/Cybermax. Quantex was the mid-range brand.

[@LonSeidman]

My very first PC had the same case as the one at 1:05 running Doom. I went from an Apple IIgs to a 386-25 with 4 megs of RAM and a 130 meg hard drive. It was a big upgrade!

[@TheReviewer63]

Hearing LGR laugh just makes me smile man 15:31

[@oliver1224]

Your video reminded me of one of the Pentium class Cyrix Processors I used to own from back in the mid 90s.. it was forever crashing & blue screening. I wound up giving it away. I'd upgraded it from an old Pentium 75... not one of my better upgrades. Great video...

[@NJRoadfan]

About Quantex. It was a sub-brand of Fountain Technologies, based out of Somerset, NJ (Franklin Township). Fountain sold machines in similar cases with their own name, but they were not that common. They also sold under the Pionex, Pionex Elite, CyberMax, and Inteva brands. The computer store I worked for back in the day sourced new Pionex Elite machines (and later budget Inteva models) from them after Leading Edge went out of business in 1995. One day in 2000, our orders started to not get fulfilled in a reasonable amount of time, and one day their phone number stopped working. Despite being a large white box builder in the state with a state govt contract, their machines are fairly rare around here. I saw far more DTK machines (also based in NJ) out in the wild. Also, surprising to see a PC Chips board in their machines (maybe it was swapped?). At least in the Socket 7/PII era they were using LuckyStar and Fordlian/Red Fox motherboards.

[@evilshiloh]

I worked for a large company in that part of South Jersey that bought a lot of Quantex computers until they went out of business.

[@BobMonkeypimp]

You kept this channel a bit of a secret. All the things I love about LGR & I only discover it a year after it started.

[@LMacNeill]

PCI slots on a 486 motherboard was a *VERY* rare thing back in the day. The PCI slot wasn't really available on consumer-grade devices until the Pentium was pretty mainstream. There were very few motherboards that were released with 486-compatible CPU sockets and PCI slots. Definitely a good find here, even with the cache issues that these motherboards had.

[@TechAmbr]

Fun! I ran a DOSBench on my MediaGXm @ 150MHz (the slowest I've been able to clock it) and its Cyrix 5x86 core turns in 85 FPS in SuperScape 3D Bench, actually fewer frames per clock than your Cx486DX2-80 here. This is a great little PC! Congrats on picking it up!

[@justin81981]

Can't wait to see what you do with this machine!

[@MrSpacelyy]

You setup the camera really well. The display doesn't look like it's recorded by a camera.

[@stefanoberli5920]

He did a video on his capturing techniques a year ago or so. But yeah, is that even a CRT?

[@St0rmcrash]

@@stefanoberli5920 The monitor he's using in this video is a Gateway LCD monitor, he did a blerb on it recently and showed finding it in the latest episode of LGR Thrifts. But yeah LGR does a really good job capturing CRT footage anyways

[@MrSpacelyy]

I didn't say what kind of display it was. It looks really crisp and high contrast. I haven't seen that often on KZbin. Sometimes in movies it looks so crisp but that's just edited in. Even if lcd would be easier because of the slower refresh, you wouldn't get it so crisp without knowing what you are doing. This is purrfect

[@brucewrigleysgumchewz4667]

You can get a decent capture of a CRT with a camera that has adjustable exposure/gain and also shutter speed. You can avoid the scrolling refresh lines this way. Also turning down the monitors brightness and contrast so the camera doesn't need to use a high shutter speed to compensate (which usually puts a very wide dimmed section on the screen from the refresh rate).

[@PuffyRainbowCloud]

He has a whole video on the main channel about how he films CRTs so well. It's worth a watch.

[@creepingnet]

Holy cow, I remember that system. Back in 2002, when I started messing with this stuff, one of my bandmates/friends at the time got one of these. His had the same case but an older 486 Socket 1 motherboard in it , but with a DX-33. I always liked the case design on those. Used to spend hours blowing each other to smithereens in Tank Wars on that thing.

[@IRWPD]

Happy to see this computer you got from that convention.

[@stevencarlson5422]

cant wait till the next update video on this pc, when its upgraded what a neat find of a computer

[@AtheistJr]

I've literally never seen a bad video by Clint.

[@TheDarrenSR]

Ahh those were the days Clint , I have been through all those type of desktop cases before I jumped to a tower cases of 90's that was awesome & those were the days, but my 1st desktop case was desktop flip top with 2 solver push in latches / button with metal hinges on both sides that would lock as you lift the top up to work inside your pc.

[@Tipsukka]

I've come to like these Blerbs videos better than the main channel, probably because of the relaxed style. Not that I don't watch all videos of the main channel too. Thanks for the videos, Clint!

[@BurstingVeins1]

This was super neat, I've never seen that version of the American Megatrends BIOS management. I've only seen the classic dual pane lists view BIOS as far back as I can remember.

[@aserta]

Drinking game around how many times Clint slaps that brochure!

[@Zontar82]

i'm dying already from alcohol poisoning

[@Scurge237]

Lol

[@reedreinfeld3737]

I was already drinking a lot before I started watching this video * BROCHURE SLAP * 🤣🤣

[@harz426]

So glad someone else noticed that! 🤣

[@whimsicalcellbooster]

😍😍😍 Loved that epic pinball so much and it’s sounds.

[@8KilgoreTrout4]

This channel is candy for my soul

[@aner_bda]

Definitely a nostalgic looking case. A+ find.

[@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera]

Sweet. This is going to be a nostalgic Memory Lane my friend this is going to be enjoyable to watch specially with the all mighty DOOM and other ms dos games of course.

[@teppest111]

a Birch wood grain veneer would cool on this system. Can't wait for full video and then a upgrade video for this machine .

[@extantpedant1481]

Ferrari Testarossa / Ford Probe ... same same 😄

[@erinwiebe7026]

The case is different, but it reminds me a lot of my AMD 486DX-2 80 self build when I worked at a local computer store back in the day. That place helped kickstart my career in IT. :)

[@TheLevitatingChin]

You lucked out big time with that motherboard. All three bus standards is rare. Great pickup!

[@stockicide]

That sound card reveal was hilarious!

[@AllboroLCD]

My uncle had a quantex P133 machine growing up. Quantex was an upscale brand too! Had all quality components, MAG Innovision monitor, Matrox Mystique gpu etc etc.

[@cajintexas7751]

1:11 That Gateway brings back some memories.

[@Sexyshawnlxix]

This was my exact first computer. Came with Windows 3.11. I promptly messed it up and my uncle taught me how to reformat and re -install. Used it with AOL and had lots of fun. Used it until 99ish.

[@BuckyKat9999]

Great video! My first ever "Real" PC (had and Amiga 500 before it) was a Packard Bell 486 SX2-66, with 8 MB of RAM. My friend had a DX4-100, i was forever jealous! Great machine and me and my friends would make our own deathmatch DOOM levels in DEU2, and play then at LAN parties. We were totally the cool kids :-D.

[@frenkie1983]

those old games brought back memories, still have all of them, i just play them on DosBox now.

[@vonhapen1]

Man, i laughed so hard on that sound issue and how you tried to shut it down, but it just won't... 😂

[@50shadesofbeige88]

I love Quantex! I have the full tower and the MT from a year or so later. I've never seen this particular one before.

[@puppyguitar]

14:40 I’m really digging your new lo-fi synth noise project, Clint

[@evdjj3j]

I worked at a local computer shop in the 90's and we sold Pionex Elite systems. As soon as I saw your video I thought to myself Quantex is also known as Pionex before I even started watching the video. It seems like I remember our systems coming from GA but I may be remembering wrong. I do remember them using Biostar motherboards.

[@VintageModernRemixes]

Always love testing out any PC speaker with some Duke!

[@BlackEpyon]

I'd certainly have picked the machine up. Comtex used the same chassis, and there were quite a few Comtex machines in my childhood.

[@nightbirdds]

That sound card was amazing. You have got to sample some of that stuff.

[@LGRBlerbs]

I just might, it’s a beautifully terrible noise.

[@nilswegner2881]

@@k4hvdq9tj92 it might actually be Just as simple as some corroded traces. The communication between the Sound cards processor and the opl chip is broken at some Point. That explaims why Wave Sound works but adlib OPL doesn't.

[@delusionnnnn]

Swap that sound card out? No way, you should record that Jill of the Jungle music output. That sounds menacing and awesome, far better than MIDI.

[@jerazm]

And now it shows your video when I search for "Quantex 486DX". That feels much better.

[@Fractal_blip]

These old comps are so cool

[@JW86SH]

I'm really looking forward to a main channel follow up of this PC.

[@johneymute]

That awesome music in that pinball game really sounds like 80’s, while doom on a 486 runs and plays much better then doom on snes ,and that closer look inside this 486 pc was the best part😁

[@sturkrazee288]

Nice find looks like it's got a lot of creature comforts to play around with on that board

[@SandsOfArrakis]

The Cyrix 486 DX/2 80 MHz was the CPU in our very first PC :) It lasted a long time till I finally replaced it with a Pentium 133 a few years later. :) Edit : I love the name of the CD-RW driver :D BURNBABY.

[@mattparker9726]

this is such a cool PC. I hope to see at least an hour long vod of you tinkering! Maybe it's own series. Like the ULTIMATE XTREEME 486 build. I dunno how much more 90s you can get without a mohawk.

[@fensoxx]

Hey man you don’t do enough of these sleeves rolled up get into the case vids. Love em, thanks.

[@FreihEitner]

I so desperately want a modern ATX ventilated horizontal desktop case for my PC. That looks sweet.

[@UNSCPILOT]

Agreed, it'd be nice to have some variaty of cases especially with some of the retro configurations, and more colors, dare I say even beige because everything being black these days is an annoying eyesore to me

[@FreihEitner]

@@UNSCPILOT Every device being black or dark gray, every case having a side panel window, every device being loaded with RGB LEDs -- it would just be nice to have the option of a modern but classic style desktop case.

[@MadMac5]

Oof, the Vibra16's FM synthesis is absolutely BRUTAL. That makes the no-name Vortex card you used a little while ago sound like a Sound Blaster 2.0! ;)

[@DM01710]

Thats an error sound & the laughing i love it!

[@DuckReconMajor]

That "Intel Inside" sticker inspires nostalgia like nothing else

[@madprophetus]

This is the kind of machine I was building at the start of my career. I got into the workforce right on the cusp of 386DX and 486.

[@chronos1157]

OMG, it's the case (at least) of my very first (not counting the TI 99/4A) home computer!! It had a 486 SX/25 in it, which would match the SX label on your case.

[@HeadsetGuy]

I've been waiting for this!

[@allluckyseven]

5:17 - Man, I always loved that BIOS. So user friendly.

[@aleksandrbmelnikov]

That is the same desktop case used for every flea-market-special PC of early 90s. 80486SX, SIS chipset, 4MB RAM, Cirrus Logic VGA, and 320-512MB HD (already stuffed with shareware). And naturally, they all slapped their own name badge on case.

[@Nickword1]

Very beautiful setup!

[@dormcat]

Got a P2-400 from Quantex with exactly the same case as in the ad at 2:41 in 1999. I like those simple design with no fancy additives e.g. a bulging plastic flat panel covering up most of the FDD and additional cover for CD/DVD. Hated to see it closed down in 2000.