A Rather Unusual Computer for Office Use...

[@Sulfen]

I really like your old school enthusiasm. I'm quite a bit younger than you so it's good to learn some of the older technology from people who know.

[@Geardos1]

I approve of this computer related video.

[@MarkTheMorose]

+Geardos And I approve of this comment.

[@circletech7745]

+harry varry I approve of that like

[@realcomputerdude100]

+Mike Hall I approve of this sarcasm.

[@circletech7745]

I approve of your username

[@realcomputerdude100]

Dylan 873 I approve of this compliment. Unless it wasn't for me, then I do not approve.

[@TunsaMcHaggis]

i think the 4 pin molex gives extra power to the pci-e x16 slots for sli

[@LaithBSoul]

+Tunsafun[BSTRD] that is exactly what it is for

[@ViperJay5]

21:57, I see an HP Vectra! This was a great video!! This motherboard truly was high end and much higher end than anything I have ever owned. I noticed that the capacitor in question has actually opened up so it most likely vented completely.

[@henrykritter8172]

+uxwbill Why not replace the power supply on the Vectra?

[@Rod_Knee]

Hi Bill, I have watched many (though not all) of your KZbin videos, and would _never_ characterize any of them as "Crap". Even the videos which subject I wouldn't usually care about have been interesting and entertaining. So, +1 from me, for what it's worth.

[@ReCkLeSsErr0r]

As soon as I saw that board, i instantly knew it was a DFI Lanparty one... Thing is unique as it gets.

[@PrimeHiFi]

You have the most optimism I've ever seen in anyone. You're awesome bill... love the vids

[@Joe40oz]

Thank you Bill. Love the videos man. Haven't even watched this one yet just wanted to say how much I appreciate what you do. Sharing your love of computers is keeping me sane while low on money and saving for my own retro computer shenanigans. Cheeers fellaaaaaaa :)

[@kopboy55]

🎶 Two outlet strips are better than one 🎶

[@vwestlife]

What is the point of those front flaps that do nothing but get in the way?

[@compositeguy4696]

+vwestlife Stupidity is the answer my fine friend. the people who designed this were only thinking about (style) and not user friendlyness

[@papercut2008uk]

+vwestlife you can hide lights behind them to illuminate the front

[@slowdog294]

+vwestlife They channel incoming air and provide a modicum of protection to any external front mounted devices.

[@uxwbill]

+papercut2008uk It's times like this I'm totally glad I don't get the school of thought behind such case mods. I just can't see the utility in such an idea.

[@marcelobravo4270]

They're air flow channels. At certain speed of the fan, deploys and the CPU goes flying...

[@admiralalcatraz6080]

Classic uxwbill computer video! Got the notification to say it was posted, i went to buy snacks. It may be 4am here but never the less my hour was very well spent, Thank you.

[@ScarletPanda280]

I personally love how older motherboards had style like this tbh.

[@datashed]

I once built a system around an nForce-based planar. Lots of capability, but that machine was the biggest lemon I ever owned. Crashes, lockups, random pops through the audio circuitry--especially fun, given that machine's assigned role of recording multichannel audio nonsense--and more. It occurs to me that my board indeed had no heat dissipation facilities for the chipset, and this video along with that revelation might be a clue to the cause of much of its instability. I also had a computer whose AT form factor case was labeled DFI that ran an AMD Am486 DX4-100. That machine, however, was truly wonderful and served me in some capacity or another for the better part of a decade. Thanks once again for a fantastic video!

[@uxwbill]

Truth be told, I think the nForce chipsets as a whole were basically junk. I've got several Dell Dimension E521 systems (nForce 430 based, their first serious foray into an AMD platform) and not one of them can be said to work properly. One hangs during POST with its onboard video enabled, and the others are just periodically unstable in truly bizarre ways. Of those, one is in somewhat regular use, and it's no stranger to increasingly erratic behavior over time: sudden reboots, hard lockups, strange corruptions of the NVRAM and Windows once falling into a blue screen crash because the NMI was tripped. It'll pass any diagnostic you care to throw at it, and I don't think it can truly be said that the board is bad... In the case of that machine, the cure is simple. One good belt to the case later, all of its ills will be cured for a decently long period of time. Proof that the world is really analog and that the old tricks really are the best. None of those have any heatsink added on to the southbridge (the Northbridge/video core has one) and maybe if that had been done long ago it would have helped?

[@seanryanmetalhead]

I really enjoy your videos. You're very enthusiastic I can really tell you enjoy doing this. That makes the videos much better. :) Keep'um coming!

[@crazymd15]

great video uxwbill, I really do enjoy all off your computer videos. this one was fantastic.Love your description of parts and what some of them do. I too am a computer junkie, and love to mess with some of the older machines I have. keep up the great descriptive videos and as always,I will be watching!!

[@VieVentar]

I actually had a similar experience to this - a charity I do IT support for ran an old P4 gaming rig as their main computer till late last year. Was a fairly good system, but when its PSU burnt out for a second time it was actually cheaper to get a basic pre-built system than track down a new PSU that still supported its hardware. It's surprisingly hard to find old PSU's in the UK that aren't blown and are powerful enough to supply even an old gaming system. [edit] The reason they had it was that it was donated to them when the original owner upgraded his system - a bit more understandable with a charity than some random medical practice.

[@keepmichaellong]

Dude!!! Been a while. I know I've missed seeing your videos. Keep up the good work, brother.

[@AlphaDangerDen]

Come home from work and school, made some food, then realized I had an hour long uxwbill video in my subscription feed. Great way to end a long day haha :)

[@hardrivethrutown]

I actually really like the design of this case, really reminds me of the mid 2000s try-hard gamer aesthetic. I've been wanting to build a computer similar in specifications to this and I have found some components for it, including a slightly newer version of this case with a side air intake, and a pair of GeForce 6800 GTs for running in SLI mode. I'm still struggling to find a motherboard and CPU

[@VGA_Guy]

Windows XP and Windows 7 are the best operating systems Microsoft ever made, in my opinion.

[@Browningate]

Wow, that's quite a richly equipped motherboard, especially for the price. If the SATA interface supports native AHCI mode instead of IDE emulation mode (with no option to change it) as is the case on some motherboards, then you've truly got a winner on your hands. Great tour.

[@Browningate]

***** I have an older Foxconn board whose only SATA options are IDE compatibility and RAID. Selecting RAID mode without defining an array does appear to allow it to function.

[@Halterung01]

It's been a long time since I have been messing with Desktop PCs. This video really makes me want to build a nice PC again.

[@dosdude1]

The Apple Mac Pro has a similar way of configuring its PCI Express bus. Having 4 PCIe X16 slots, it allows you to configure, using a utility found in Mac OS X, the bandwidth allocation between the 4 PCIe slots. It is possible to run 4 graphics cards in the system, but you can only run 2 at x8 speeds, and 2 at x4 speeds.

[@retroguy74]

Hey Bill! Awesome video as usual. Not sure if someone already mentioned, but that molex connector and fdd-type power connector below the CPU are for plugging the power supply into if using more than one GPU. There are two connectors so that you can use whichever connector that happens to be available on your power supply. So if you do intend to do play around with SLI, be sure to plug in a power connector to one of these ports to ensure the system runs stable. That's a fun little system!

[@xaer0knight]

I have been yelling SMOKE TEST for days !! grrr... Having issues with my main PC. thank god for a Toshiba Halftop! i love how in-depth your videos are :)

[@TheSeanUhTron]

Ah, DFI Lanparty. Now that brings back memories.

[@DarrenRainey]

I think that 4 pin molex connector below the cpu power is to provide more power to the pcie slots I have on of them on my ASRock BTC motherboard and its around the same place

[@PeterGrillett]

Ahh.... I love your videos bill. I can watch these videos all day..

[@louisjansen3520]

I had the exact same case only in mat black and it was huge! I actually made it water cooled with cooling of the processor and graphics card. Thanks for the video!

[@Unitedfitco176]

Love the videos, man! Super informative and entertaining. Signed a 22 year old computer enthusiast. Cheers!

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Ah yes, Legacy, a computer industry term for 'stuff that works'

[@lburbo23]

Found an Asus gaming rig at the local dump with a Core i7-920, 6GB DDR3 RAM, GeForce GTX260, and a 1TB hard drive. The contents revealed it was used in a restaurant, which also explained the nasty greasy brown "dust" caked all over everything. Cleaned up nicely and ran like a champ. Even came with a nice working Delta power supply.

[@renyn21]

Hello Mr. Uxwbill. It's 6am here and i can't sleep for crap so your exceptionally long video has been watched until the end. I don't have much to say but i would like to say some things others probably pointed out before and enjoy seeing someone respond to a youtube comment of mine as you did in the past. So the top-most pcie slot is a 4x the small one is 1x and 8x is just half a regular 16x. The pcie slot has very high bandwidth, a gen1 should be able to support anything there is at the moment in the matter of gpu's that translates to gen2 x8 which has the same bandwidth. It's common practice to halve the connection for multi-gpu setups in consumer grade motherboards where the chipsets/or more newer just the cpu's dont support that many lanes and other peripherals might get affected/disabled. The performance on gen2 is unaffected from 16x to 8x and gen3 doesn't even sweat it. The makers of hardware are working on a pcie gen4 standard that will only let new gpu's work in the old slots or maybe the other way i cant remmember but its many years (atleast in computer hardware years) away from now and its not required at the moment. And the molex on the board as someone else pointed out is for providing extra power to the pcie slots in case the board doesn't cut it at providing 75 watts or more if overclocking to the pcie slot, not including the external pcie power connector. I have seen such feature on newer high end boards with pcie or sata power ports on the board. The newest I've seen in the matter of molex pcie extra power port was on an rog asus z68 motherboard that had support for 4 gpu's in sli. If i were to ramble more i would say the only ones i recall to use flourescent material on the plastic connectors of the board was indeed dfi. Last dfi motherboard I've seen was an x58 with similar features. I think im done rambling and i will go to sleep. It just occured to me that this video is a month old, but I am sure you will come up with something to respond. I had to remote into my pc because the android youtube app does not allow me to edit comments as i have accidentally pressed send. I tried to type as correct as i could as i am not a native english speaker. I will go to sleep now. Cheers Mr. Uxwbill.

[@Oche76]

I really like your videos Bill, thx for sharing them.

[@cmj20002]

Check the surface mount capacitors, I have had them blow very loudly and throw flame. I can see many of them in the video.

[@uxwbill]

I too have had surface mounted (often tantalum, or "tantrum") capacitors fail violently. Not a one looked to be out of place in this system.

[@johnmay4803]

ive just started watching ur vids and i think there great! keep up the good work pal

[@paul3100]

i have that exact board bought back in 2003. entire setup was over £1300 really good reliable system and at the time i only had 2 gigs in there plenty enough for xp sp3. great video as per usual and not at all CRAP lol

[@dethklok21]

"DFI Lan Party" was the mother board i used in my first PC build. ahh this one brings back some memories.

[@TCGProductions03]

The early 2000s: when you had all matter of cheezy POST logos on gaming motherboards.

[@jimewing5959]

i had that same computer case , it has a secret compartment on the front at the bottom .that one on the bottom is a drawer

[@TheTrueVoiceOfReason]

Carter's little liver pills...

[@100SteveB]

Glad i am not the only XP fan left out here. I still use it for my main computer, i would not mind moving to Windows 7, but Microsoft in their ultimate wisdom decided to remove the option for having one monitor configured to run full screen video. With regards to the pop you heard, i also vote for that bulging cap, i can see that the case is split - that would have been the pop you heard. Nice to have a lengthy video from you, i look forward to the next one.

[@Obie327]

I"ve seen and heard about this motherboard/system when they first came out. It's basically a 939 pci-e board (first generation I think) I had built a similar system using Asus's sli premium board with 2 gigs of ddr ram (not sure if it was called 3200?) Nvidia 6800 gt, 7600, 7800, 7900, Or even 8800 gtx series graphics card were very popular with this setup. The highest processors for 939 were FX 60, Opteron 185 with its duel cores. (2.6 ghz) That Asus computer is still running to this day with it's fx60 and 8800 gts 320 video card. (2 and half gigs of ram, windows 7) You got me thinking about those fond gaming memories back in my earlier Lan days. Thanks for the video :)

[@FIetch2002]

Uxwbill You have the exact same test monitor I've been using! A CTX S700 I think. I thought that they were quite rare because I don't often see them around. Also Your video's are not "Crap", Their great! You inspired me to get into computing. Thanks!

[@lvomotor]

When i were a kid, I once flipped that voltage selection switch on the power supply before starting the computer and heard a loud pop like the one described.

[@holton345]

Heh, you play with old Lan Party Athelon boxes. I am toiling away with recapping my old Mac SE/30. All 16 screaming fast megahertz of it. Ha-ha!! Great video.

[@jpmcnyc]

Just curious but we're you able to repurpose the tower from this computer. It's a great one for nice has build.

[@uxwbill]

There were no plans to repurpose the computer case for anything else. The parts inside still work just fine.

[@andljoy]

The PCI-e 16 slots will be directly connected to the nforce however its quite likely that there are only 16 lanes of PCI-e available so it splits it when you use both connectors , this is something that is still in use to this day.

[@thedebug3866]

That thing ran for two days straight in a hot summer with leaf smoke. Must have some pretty good fans. Then again, the large amount of fans probably helped a lot.

[@shaneybrainy13]

iMac G4 box spotted! It's the iLamp! Coolest computer ever made.

[@savingstumps]

Mine still runs pretty good. Northbridge fan sounds like a jet engine though. In fact, I came across this video looking for a new fan.

[@uxwbill]

+jason tam The fans used for this sort of thing are relatively standard. Measure the one you have now and I'm sure you can find replacements on either eBay or at a computer parts store. Replacement chipset coolers aren't terribly uncommon.

[@ramagdehz9400]

Great video, in a day I had the same chassis, motherboard of this kind was out of my reach. I love to see a video about cap replacement.

[@princessslinky8815]

that intro was a pun "hello over there"

[@arranmc182]

The extra Molex connector is for multi card GPU setups so that the PCI-E ports can deliver the full power from the slot

[@ryantoomey611]

Bad power supplies are pretty common. When I was building a gaming PC about 4 years ago I bought a Chiefmax "650W" power supply off of amazon for $25. When I booted up the PC there was a burning smell followed by loud bang, and the PC shut off.

[@supervortex8363]

dont be swade you vids are awsome,,,keep up the good work m8

[@shorty5352]

Had something similar happen to me a year ago , My boss was upgrading his computers and i decided to ask for one and got the one in his office, come to find out, It had a Core 2 Quad, GTX 460 and 8 gb of ram . All he used it for was emails and checking employees clockins. I never found a trace of any gaming but only little CAD programs when checking the programmers work.

[@DimensionDude]

If I'm not mistaken, the jumper next to the on-board speaker selects which speaker is active, either on-board on external. It varies by manufacturer...

[@DaPiV80]

it was really hard to find the drivers for that board 1,5 years ago but it was solid and really good eqiped for its time. good board and good video :)

[@darkwaterblue]

How funny, I had a few of these back in the day and like you recently picked one up, though mine is the standard Ultra-D not the SLI like yours. I feel your system may have had a previous life as it appeared to have a front drive bay PSU, these were used to daisy chain a 2nd psu just for the graphics cards in heavy systems that ran SLI configs back when suitable PSU's were not so common. Would be interesting to know how it wound up in healthcare! Edit: on investigating that is a power meter for a Coolermaster Real Power PSU from about ten years ago, must have been swapped out with the thermaljunk at some stage. Mine works great, possibly better than any I had back in the day. Bit of a collectors item now since DFI have gone the way of the Dodo. Great Vid.

[@detmer87]

DFI Lanparty nf4 is the best motherboard I ever had. And I have bought Asus Rampage motherboards from 300 euros. I was very active in over clocking back in the day. Oscar Wu delivered amazing BIOSes for these motherboards, motherboard just won't compromise on stability regardless how hard you push it. In 2005 I almost had a World over clocking record in the first week of release running a Athlon 64 X2 4400+ at 3.2GHz...

[@RogerRHF]

Nice video uxwbill, thanks for the upload :)

[@nknasi]

While I do love your computer-related videos, I subscribed for your car videos. It was good to see the old swedish brick (240DL) back at Walsh Motors.

[@connorm955]

I recently bought a 2.5 inch IDE hard drive manufactured November 2006 still unopened. Not sure when they quit making them.

[@KrissBartlett]

thanks great never seen a mother board like that

[@ManiacalMichael504]

It's possible this "high performance" system was either used by the institution's graphic designer, or along with some type of medical imaging equipment to view and process the images taken from it. Probably not exactly what they needed, but was what the system builder figured they'd be able to get the most money out of. Also, nice PXE setup. I've got one and it's very convenient, although I'll have to look into what you've got set up. Mine is something I had put together myself years ago.

[@Synthematix]

i had that case in black its great, and dfi lanparty were my favourite motherboard brand

[@tough213]

wow I really like that case . what a great and unique design. this case is one that I would love to be able to find .do you know if these cases are around anymore . you are very funny and that really helps when you have a long day of work and I really enjoy your commentary and you knowledge and helpfulness

[@noelj62]

Great comeback with an adequately long video. I don't mind it being lengthy though. The current through the AC mains rectifier bridge is about 3A for the rated 500W power. Thus, the slim bridge rectifier that they used is rated at 4A which is sufficient but not quality-wise acceptable. I guess you forgot to mention the ac input huge chose transformer which will give the PSU some additional weight to it.

[@noelj62]

I meant to say chock transformer not chose (which means "a thing" in French, wonder how did it get there ;-) ). Yes it's a chock coil that acts like a filter for the mains which is a +1 for a PSU. BTW, I enjoy your videos in general (even when cars or vehicles are their theme). Thanks and have a nice day.

[@cee128d]

From the full manual: "The HDD-type and FDD-type power connectors are additional power connectors. If you are using two graphics cards, we recommend that you plug power cables from your power supply unit into the two 5v/12v power connectors. This will provide more stability to the entire system. The system board will still work even if the additional power connects are not connected." Also be sure to use a 24 pin psu, not a 20 pin or a 20 pin wih adaptor to 24ping. Causes instability and can actually damage the board. Found that out first hand as the person I bought my LanParty NF4 SLi-DR used a 20 pin and mine never worked correctly. Let me know if you still need the full manual and I'll make the PDF available to you. I'll also keep looking to see if I can find find the CD image of the driver disk. DFI seems to have shut down their Lan Party support site. I had several of their NF2, NF3, and NF4 boards over the years and still have a socket 775 Intel P35 chipset board that I am using.

[@friendlyfiregaming4601]

OH MY GOD AS SOON AS I SAW THAT DFI NB FAN I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA BE GOOD AS HELL OMG I WANT YOUR LUCK SO BADLY I still rock my old DFI 790FX board time to time for overclocking and good fun.

[@LOLZpersonok]

That AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is a little bit better than the processor in my previous main PC, which had an Athlon 64 X2 4000+. It's normally clocked at 2.1GHz, but I managed to get it running at 2.8GHz. That machine was from 2007, and I'm pretty sure its Biostar motherboard was the death of that machine. There were several bloated caps on the board, all along the CPU socket. My brother's old PC was essentially identical, and died the same way.

[@Deltaforcemember]

I always wanted one of these boards , when I got to own one of my own computers for gaming it was just as 939 was being phased out and would have loved to have found one of these.

[@slowdog294]

I have the black version of this Thermaltake Armor case. It contains a rather large Intel Xeon X3360 based system built on an ABIT IP35E board with 8GB of Kingston 800MHz RAM booting from a Kingston V300 SSD into Windows 7 Pro 64bit SP1. Video is on an AMD Firepro W2100 2GB workstation graphics solution. It is a content creation workstation in my office.

[@TheWhiteWolfDog]

uxwbill, your videos are super interesting. You shouldn't pay attention to haters they are trolls looking for attention. You should continue to make more because I am becoming quite the fan of your videos, maybe one day we will meet and discuss all these machines that make our lives much more interesting. Thank you uxwbill

[@DrexLock]

I had a similar board in the very first PC I ever built from scratch (LanParty RDX200). It served me well for a 4 years or so and a friend of mine for another 2 before they finally retired it. It was a really solid board but near the end it would turn itself on of its own accord, even after swapping the case, PSU and as much board troubleshooting as I could muster at the time I could never figure out where its sense of sentience came from.

[@RetroPCUser]

I just looked up that board, and it's a Socket 939 board that's the predecessor of the AM2 and later boards hence Dual and Triple Core CPUs. Also, you can use that computer as a pfSense firewall since it has dual LAN ports, which is a great feature for enthusiasts back in the mid 2000's. If my dad had that board back then, plus a dual core CPU, his friends and myself would've been jealous, especially with built-in FireWire instead of purchasing a $30 FireWire and USB 2.0 PCI card.

[@IrishandBritishNinja]

WinVistaUser2 AAA

[@WOSArchives]

Ahh PXE. One of the best things that ever happened to me was me successfully setting up Windows Deployment Services on my server running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials edition. That made installing Windows *MUCH* more convenient since all I need to install, say, Windows 7 to one of my machines that supports PXE is a network cable and maybe my WRT54G set up to be a network bridge to install Windows, without having to make install media.

[@vincent5837]

Another good video. Don't worry about those negative comments. If they are calling your videos crap then that means they are crap.

[@rumjar1986]

I like your videos. I know you probably don't worry about the negative comments, but don't let them get to you. I let some bad comments get to me and I've not made many videos lately. Anyway. keep them awesome vids coming.

[@kalloggs40]

Mate I would love to visit you and stay for 2 weeks, use and play some of those old computers, you should offer holiday packages, much better than visiting a museum

[@retroman3075]

The DFI Lanparty boards were the absolute best boards you could get for the 939 socket AMD CPUs. I never had the opportunity to own one (I had a MSI k8n Neo 4 and an Abit fatal1ty), but have taken part in modding and overclocking these with Opteron and FX dual core CPUs. The four pin molex on the board is for pci-e cards that do not have there own power molex and draw power from the board.

[@XodiumLabs]

I think 1GB was definitely considered "high end" back in those days for RAM. I remember my MacBook Pro that was bought in late 2006 (which was a $2000 machine, even!) only had 1GB. Plenty enough to drive Vista when I had the beta installed. That machine in particular I think maxed out at 2GB of RAM (I know the Core Duo MacBooks at the time did), so 1GB was a pretty decent chunk of memory. I also had a Dimension of some vintage or another back then, and that thing FLEW on 512MB of RAM and Windows XP Home.

[@chkbrk]

Judging by the specs, with a little more RAM this could be a very competent video editing machine, especially with that CPU upgrade.

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

Perhaps it ended up in the office when it was superseded in the person's home? My boss bought himself a new gaming rig, and he brought his old one in to the office and used it for a year or so. It was this huge aluminum case with a Plexiglas window and red cold cathode lights. It had some crazy graphics card that cost something like $500 at the time he bought it. Definitely not your typical office machine, that's for sure!

[@uxwbill]

All of the computers at the location in question were massively overconfigured, and built around the same time frame. It's my guess that either money was no object or the overconfiguration was an effort to stave off obsolescence for just a little while longer.

[@zeronecker5576]

Btw, the Molex connector is for the video card get another power source if there is 2 card running SLi so they don't draw too much power form the 24 pin and burning it up.

[@unknown17418]

i got a really high bip sound on my Acer laptop. when booting up. what Can it be?

[@uxwbill]

I don't know. You might check the BIOS setup utility and its event logging facility if there is one, to see if any errors have been recorded.

[@Stjaernljus]

on the topic of pci express slots, yes they generally half the speed if put into multi gpu use and it usually dont impact preformance due to the high bandwidth of pci express. also on the topic of the nForce chipset i have delt with computers where it actually has physically separated from the board(and with a tap of a screwdriver handle fallen off) due to overheating.

[@shackwrrr]

That cap definitely looks to be the one that produced the Pop. The aluminum is torn at the shear lines and that would take quite a bit of force.

[@ashleycox432]

Reminds me of my last PC before i switched entirely to Mac. The case (an Antec 302) wasn't as flashy, but it did have a total of 11 fans (9 in the case, 2 on the cooler), a motherboard designed for gaming and speed and a few completely pointless drive bay accessories. No floppy drive, though I believe it did have a single PS/2 port.

[@ziggieice]

the molex on the board is for overclocking video cards

[@Gmoney6422]

Where can you still find those 750 watt sun workstation power supplys?

[@uxwbill]

They are actually 550 watt power supplies. If you're lucky, sometimes they still show up on eBay. Don't pay too much. The seller who had them available in lots of ten has long since run out to the best of my knowledge.

[@Gmoney6422]

what are they called?

[@RetroPCUser]

I used to have a Super Socket 7 motherboard manufactured by DFI in the 1990s to March 2009. It was a DFI P5BV3+ Rev. B+ and it had an AMD K6-2/300 processor in it, 576MB SD-RAM PC-100/133 (max back then was 768MB I believe). Now that was a PC.

[@RetroPCUser]

***** I just looked up that board, and 1GB RAM was the max back in the late 1990s. Found one on eBay for about $43 + s&h

[@thatcomputerguy3593]

Great video, keep them coming. ;-)

[@cyberlion6411]

hey man ur vids rock don't listen to him. haters hate on all videos not only yours so don't listen to them, don't worry about what people say. do what you love to do and your channel will grow

[@dtgoodwin]

The upper PCI-E slot is physically an x4, the lower is an x1. There certainly aren't many x4 cards, they are mostly relegated to IO/RAID controllers and network cards. Many systems only have x2 electrical or even x1. Isn't it a relief that modern motherboards do all the PCI Express lane configuration internally? I remember working with these early boards that used jumpers. Boards still have a single x16 connection from the CPU with those getting split into two x8 lanes if both upper x16 slots are in use. There are 4 other lanes from the chipset and sometimes those can be routed to different slots depending upon usage. Half the board would be jumpers with all the different possibilities.

[@fruitfulrevolt]

Cool video! Thanks for making it! :)

[@hugehappygrin]

From listening to you talk, I believe that the KZbin content creator Haldamer lives in your area. Same inflection, and word usage. I'm not a trained linguist, but I can speak with a Cockney(UK) accent after listening to it for 10 minutes. I live in SE Colorado.

[@jaywalt1311]

Gotta love that +5v wire woven into the heatsink, haha!

[@Samspianopage]

I actually still have my rig. An updated Thermaltake Armor case which is the successor to what you have there. I also had a NF4 Motherboard back in the day. An ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe one of the best regarded boards in 2005/6 with all the gear high-end stuff had it for a few years great times. High-end Nvidia graphics and Craative Soundcard. Yet I too had the cheap generic 400W PSU of my PCs case your right it's amazing just how much folk spend on their nice stuff only to short change themselves on the PSU and alot of crucial things. I too miss XP even though it wasn't without it's problems it was probably the most stable and mature OS Microsoft ever made next to 2000 (had both and can vouch for that), never had too many issues with XP except stupid things I did myself, then again I didn't have manyissues with Vista, 7 or my current 8.1 either but I still have fond recollections of XP.