What's Inside This 20-Year Old Gaming PC? || A Custard-Coloured Time Capsule!

Today we're cracking open a retro Windows 98 Gaming PC to see what's inside. I'm a total noob when it comes to really old parts, but hopefully this machine will be a great start to my future retro gaming adventures!
Thanks for watching :)

[@xSwainkx]

awkward moment when 20 years ago isn't the 90s anymore

[@gerald8573]

20 years ago was the 80s. Fuck.

[@thedungeondelver]

Shut your mouth.

[@wsketchy]

Old people, haha!!! (It's not like I'm going to be like this too in another ten years or anything. aw shite)

[@cgriggsiv]

@@gerald8573 I remember working with the 8088 and the 8086 then there was a few small amds chipsets that I worked with were talking five and a quarter floppy and 10 and 1/4 floppies before I got my hands on the three and a half floppy then the zip drives from I Omega yes I'm showing my age just about over 53 years old now I've been around the computers way too long and still around them delay

[@dingdongbells3314]

o_0 *Existential crisis intensifies*

[@iamsoldats]

Tech world: “The latest AMD GPU has 128 mb of cache and RAGE MODE!” RG in HD: “Here we have an ATI Rage 128 Fury”

[@RWL2012]

yeah when they said about Rage mode at the event it was like an El Capitan moment haha, "we'll reuse one of our names from 20 years ago and no-one will ever know"

[@da_pawz]

HaHaha good catch mate, I rem that when saw the launching of RX 6000 series, I said to myself, "RAGE??? That sounds so familiar... oh yeah ATI Rage" LoL

[@Hactarux]

I also have an ATi Rage 128! It's currently working in a retro Pentium 2 system I have built for nostalgia! I took a modern rgb case, painted it beige and used all older components with the exception of storage ( IDE to Compact Flash) and power supply!

[@eastern_european1968]

I have ATI rage 2C back home

[@gamewizard1760]

@ShadowAngel Second generation Radeon? The Radeon 9500/9700 were revolutionary when they came out. They wrecked the Nvidia GeForce FX cards. I packed away my GeForce 4 for good when they released. The 8500-9250 cards couldn't compete with the GeForce 4.

[@RandomRider570]

This PC has the future of media, called the DVD player.

[@carbonn9172]

- some guy in 1995

[@SgtPnkks]

Believe it or not I had a pc back in 97 that came with a DVD drive... The system was too slow to actually play a DVD... the included player software would only run if you set the resolution to 640x480x8bpp and DVD playback was riddled with horrible frame skipping

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@SgtPnkks You needed at least a Pentium II 350MHz for DVD's to work with Powerlink DVD. Tried it back in the day on my mom's 2nd hand Pentium II 333MHz and it only just failed to run smoothly.

[@RWL2012]

late 90s PCs with DVD-ROM drives were supposed to have hardware MPEG decompression cards to solve the problem of the CPU being too weak

[@tiagomarques7149]

i remember when even having a cd burner you would be the coolest kid on the school

[@carbonn9172]

Looks like you got a new setup, pretty nice! I like how minimalistic it looks, dunno about the plunger tho lol

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha it’s a bug catcher for spiders 😂

[@weezerfan77]

@@RandomGaminginHD hi

[@ToTheGAMES]

@@RandomGaminginHD haha sure sure sure sure sure

[@Mini-z1994]

@@RandomGaminginHD How about trying the windows xp 32 bit patch that supports beyond 4 gb ram ? also known as a pae patch ? (Sp3 needed ofc) ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10547

[@RWL2012]

RandomGaminginHD, re: Opera web browser, Windows 98 should be able to run up to Opera 10.10 (2009) specifically "out of the box" - just to let you know!

[@ConfusedStu]

Clippy was never retired. He was promoted and now runs the whole of Word, which is why Word does so many weird things compared to Excel, Outlook and the others. Want to move a photo on page 2? No problem, I'll just shuffle the table on page 14 too.

[@faolor6468]

Me: clears 1 line if text My document: I have decided to break

[@Versuffe]

Me: types in a word The document: aight imma head out

[@da_pawz]

I have good memories with Clippy, when I bored with my task in Ms Word, I would ask him to do the random animations lol

[@Agret]

@@da_pawz I remember him turning into a bike. Can't remember what else he did. I used to like the cartoon dog one.

[@EdgyShooter]

@@Agret He would look through a telescope on a ship, not sure what else

[@the_broly_arms]

Oh, this makes me endlessly happy! As someone who is, uh... ahem... older, it's awesome to see this relic, in all its beige and butterscotch glory!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

They never stay white haha always go yellow

[@rockstar-5934]

@@RandomGaminginHD that’s what she said

[@Miichi5]

@@rockstar-5934 dad what are you doing here

[@Uraim]

@@RandomGaminginHD yeah, i have my first keyboard, nova days im using it, doing well, little yellow keys :D

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

@@rockstar-5934 Michael Scott is that you?

[@RuffsTV]

Fond memories of Windows 98. Half life, counter strike, unreal tournament... 56k modems... 300 ping was pretty decent! Absolutely hated going to XP after it.

[@IvanOoze1990]

fond memories of ripping out the speaker on the modem card so I could surf porn at night.

[@luca7069]

PSU: named Apollo Also PSU: has a Space Shuttle drawing on it Space fans: WTF

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I thought it was quite cool haha

[@MrPGT]

@@RandomGaminginHD The point was no shuttle was called Apollo. The Apollo name was attached to the moon mission capsules. Will you be attempting to retrobright your custardy plastics on that PC?

[@stillgaming]

At least they didn't name the PSU Challenger. 😐

[@MrKillswitch88]

Rubbish brand better change it out before either the caps pop or it shorts out killing other parts.

[@CheapBastard1988]

3:07 and it's "Pentium 4 ready". Wow!

[@smalwex]

I got my first pc as a gift in 2015 and the first thing i ever bought with my own money was a 1660ti as an upgrade. I do remember having a brick laptop my grandad made for me that was running windows 98 and would overheat and die every hour. Good times.

[@Existential-Paradigm]

I have a GTX 1660 TI 6GB, those didn't come out until 2019 man and they're still wicked good high 2k/mid 4k cards.

[@ProXGenGaming619]

*depressed me browsing youtube* RGH: "Hello everyone and welcome to another video." *smiles*

[@brykit1972]

Hello everyone and welcome to another comment.

[@pugg5ter542]

*S A D*

[@iakko.4803]

Bruh I need a pc :)

[@pugg5ter542]

@@iakko.4803 why don’t you have?

[@iakko.4803]

@@pugg5ter542 nope only a laptop

[@BaronBoar]

My families first PC was a 386 CPU with Ms-Dos and Windows 3.11 I believe. I still have it downstairs and it still starts. I can still play the games that we have on it too.

[@Commodore477]

I remember back in 2003 when I had 2, 40GB IDE drives that "I will never need any more space"

[@funpunmaster9320]

Then came 95 GB sized games and 3 GB programs....

[@Alpejohn]

I remember in the 90's i had a 40mb HDD, with the size of a cd rom drive :P

[@pheelix-]

40GB? You were lucky, I was still rockin a 8GB SCSI 5-1/4 Double Bay

[@ivo3598]

@@pheelix- i had 150gb hdd back then 2002

[@Caroleeeh]

@@ivo3598 that's so much I only got a 120gb hdd for my pc

[@BrunoMoreiraTorres]

Dat 2000's cable management ❤️👌

[@AlistairBrugsch]

Flat IDE cables really did make it a chore

[@kerim0o0]

My first pc had Windows XP installed, and i remember playing cs1.6 and wolfenstein enemy territory on it and saying to myself "this is like the future on a screen!". Good times man

[@thealien_ali3382]

I sell my butt

[@kerim0o0]

@@thealien_ali3382 heh good for you

[@ali_says1]

So lovely to see old gadgets, a sign of respect and calmness! ❤️

[@superiorone2061]

Windows 98 was my very first computing experience. I remember learning how to use a computer in kindergarten for the very first time. Making my own user account, playing with Clipart in Microsoft Word, learning to type, playing around with MS Paint and so much more. I remember coming home after school and testing out what I learned on our family's Windows 98 computer. And that is where my love for computers began.😌

[@plume...]

I love these mystery machine videos, discovering what was left on the drive etc.

[@FrostFire1987]

i remember as a kid in the 90's all pcs looked like this lol

[@luissuarezquintana3273]

i absolutely love your channel, i got into the pc world after watching your videos, thx for being a great help for people like me who are just learning about the pc world, keep it up!

[@rhysholdaway]

Congratulations!!!! This is most exciting era of personal computers. Tons of variety of processors, graphics cards and sound cards to explore. 😁

[@Miichi5]

It's amazing how pc hardware Advances so fast, remember when the Radeon 5970 was the fastest, most expensive and top of the line card back in the day ? Well now i got it for 30 bucks on Facebook marketplace. .. crazy

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah it’s insane, there are some great bargains on marketplace too!

[@WhiteTree97]

5970 Sapphire Toxic was my dream card

[@Miichi5]

@@WhiteTree97 it was so flashy and powerful

[@BillyBoy444]

Got a Sapphire 5970 off ebay for £25 and it still works too. Just makes me smile a bit thinking what it's original owner must have paid for it though.

[@Mini-z1994]

@@BillyBoy444 the 4 gb HD 5970 was the top end costing 1100 usd yep dual HD 5870 2 gb on a single pcb. there was also a 2 gb HD 5870 eyeinfinity that could do up too 6 monitors which was nuts. Ofc that vram doesn't do too much really due too the performance of the HD 5870 anyway for games at the time 2009 - 2010.

[@modernandretrogaming]

I'm watching it while I playing Settlers II on my Retro Windows 98 PC with Athlon XP :)

[@salamand3r-]

As an older enthusiast, who was about the age you are now when this stuff was new...it's really amusing and somehow heartwarming to see you muddle through hardware from this era. Somewhere in my brain this still counts as cutting edge, and it's really weird yet satisfying to see someone so knowledgeable in modern tech out of their element with it. For me, this is where it all comes from. RAGE MODE! in the Radeon 6000 release, the Fury cards from a handful of years back, even Celeron probably has a more poignant meaning for me. Back then, hot off the heels of the Pentium II era, Celeron still embodied the hope of a budget CPU that overclocked like an SOB and was the budget gamer's best friend. Celeron meant "smart, but not rich" buyer. Love the video man, would love to see more of you messing with older hardware.

[@Ferrarilover108]

Started my Computer life with Windows 95 and the journey to Windows 10 was nothing short of well 'a journey'. Man i was feeling nostalgic seeing that 98 logo, used to play NFS 2 SE on my 98 machine and a couple of other games i can't remember

[@wiizepods7682]

The sounds of concern while discussing about that Old power supply got me.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It got 30A on the 5V rail, that thing can power even the thickest Athlon XP.

[@ShiroR3aper]

Should've opened with; "Greetings and welcome to another RGinHD Thing.."

[@tobiasvandervoorden]

Gotta love LGR!

[@sotosmotherdick7195]

Great video, brings so many memories! Somewhere around 1994 starts my journey at pc world. My first pc was a used i486DX with DOS 7.something which was given to me by a friend of my father. I dont remember anything about the rest of it's components, but soon after came my second pc which is what I have in my heart as my first pc. It's around mid 1995, it's a Pentium 120, 8mb ram with windows 3.something which was ugraded to windows 95 when they released, no sound card and a video card that I don't remember what it was, Toshiba 8x cd drive and 1gb HDD and if i'm not wrong was upgraded about a year later to Pentium 133, 16mb ram, Hitachi 16x cd drive, 1.2 or 1.6gb HDD, Creative Sblaster audio card and a S3 or Cirus Logic video card with 1mb...and yes, it was before windows 98!

[@LeucThong]

i love this thing, my dad buy a first pc in 2003 and i usually use it play Global operation and NFS underground, very nostalgic.

[@heclanet]

20 gigs? That was crazy! I remember buying one of my first hard drives with my savings as a kid, I had only 2 gigs XD

[@warrax111]

we began on 850 MB drive. :) For DOS, it was enough, but soon in 1997, it start to be terrible, with windows 95.

[@misterthegeoff9767]

I remember getting a 4.2GB drive as an upgrade to go with my 1GB drive and having to format it with 2 2.1GB partitions just so Windows 95 could address the damn thing.

[@heclanet]

@@misterthegeoff9767 hahaha yes, it was Fat 16 XD

[@nostrum6410]

i had a 2GB drive and i had to install a 1.6 GB game

[@warrax111]

@@nostrum6410 hehe, we had it same. We moved to 1.7 GB drive, but still in 2000 we had it. Then, Diablo II came out, and you know... eighter full install 1.5 GB, or minimal install 430 MB. We had to go for minimal, and it swapped CD every second, and lagged game. Still took up 1/4 of disk.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

My recommendations: 1) Find a copy of 98 Second Edition 2) Install the Unofficial Service Pack 3) Find a Mozilla-based browser like K-Meleon 4) Add a 2nd HDD, put the swap file on it 5) Maybe try dual-booting Debian Linux 6) For a quick benchmark, run the maze screensaver with ALL FRACTALS 7) Check eBay for an IDE-to-CompactFlash adapter

[@Eppopower]

@RandomGaminginHD These are some really good tips. (Not sure about 5 tho)

[@outtheredude]

Also, install DirectX 9.0c (December 2006). ;-)

[@patrik_x86]

I usually avoid the Unofficial service packs - They can introduce a lot of bugs and issues to an already unstable operating system.

[@mr.sowhat3796]

NO WAY THIS COULD NOT HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME I will tell you if it works out but this is just amazing thanks for the video!!!

[@benwhitford5703]

The microphone quality is so much better, good job keep up the good work man

[@MGSmegafan]

The 90s was the best decade ever!. I honestly wish I can back in time and re-live it again!

[@turbofanlover]

Agreed. The 21st Century just hasn't been nearly as good, so far.

[@turbofanlover]

@Michaels Carport More conveniences don't make this a better time, overall, IMO. I'd go back to the 90s (or 80s) in a heartbeat if that were possible...and love it. But hey...to each their own, right. :)

[@turbofanlover]

@Michaels Carport Easy access to information via the net is the main thing that I suspect that I would miss. Other than that...meh. Still would be totally worth it. I just have to keep working on that time machine. ;)

[@turbofanlover]

@Michaels Carport Well, once I get my time machine perfected, I'll let you know. ;)

[@tomweyts]

put those internals in a RGB case mate! for some more FPS in doom XD

[@ravipeiris4388]

Writing from California: Appreciate your review. Please do more videos like these as I believe it gives everyone perspective on the evolution and pacing of computer innovation. My first operating system was Windows 98 and thus like a lost love, has a special place in my heart. However, when a new mistress (aka: Windows XP) came along, I forgot about Windows 98/ME.

[@leosvids1297]

Bringing me back to the good old days

[@doodemog]

I used to build all my own pcs back in the 1990s, wouldn’t have a clue how to build one now

[@MR_FIAT]

its allot easier now.

[@SkitzoYT]

same lol, I remember I had this cd titled how to build a computer

[@AlistairBrugsch]

It's much the same, just without 90% of the configuration conflict headaches.

[@IvanOoze1990]

Nothings changed.

[@livingthedream915]

now let's see you get a pc preinstalled with windows 3.1

[@Andy6h1l]

He should use Windows 98 as his daily OS

[@CheapBastard1988]

I threw a 386 powered PC with Windows 3.1 in the garbage 10 years ago. Still own our old 486 in parts though (case was gigantic) but that already had upgraded to Windows 95.

[@Tom2404]

@@CheapBastard1988 I have a 386DX PC with a DX 20 I believe and a spare motherboard with a DX 25. I also have a spare board with a 386SX, but that one doesn't work anymore. I also have a 486, a spare 486 AT motherboard that fits the case and a spare 486 motherboard with an unusual form factor that I plan to sell in the near future. My most interesting DOS pc is an original Socket 4 Pentium @60MHz. AT cases are kind of rare now because most people threw them away due to their massive size and only kept the parts inside.

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@Tom2404 The 486 actually fits inside an ATX case but I don't really have a use for it. The 386 was in a small form factor case. I got the 386 for free from my high school because they gave them away to computer club members. But those 386's were branded with "PTT Telecom" which used to be the name of the national phone company. I had fun with it though but it took up too much space. I still have my old Pentium 4 with Geforce 4 Ti4200 gaming PC but it's stored in the (well isolated and dry) shed. I tend to be looking at new hardware for the last few years but I'd like to repurpose hardware which is no longer used in my gaming rig. I'm thinking of making a watercooled home server (remote accessible VM's, TV server and storage) out of my current X370 motherboard and 3900XT in about two years. I was pretty pissed AMD decided not to support Zen3 on X370 but if they didn't support Zen2 like they did I would have already replaced the motherboard with something else (probably Intel) while it can now serve another two years bringing the total to 5 years in a gaming PC and I'll have my old 1600X as a backup CPU for my server. I like having high end hardware but I hate seeing it end up in a dumpster but if I no longer want it and nobody else either (like the 386) you kind of have to.

[@kiro253]

Me who exist in this world in 2002: What actual fuck are these people talking about????

[@RobNSomerset]

Need to see more of this for sure!

[@GabiFish]

Welcome to the world of "retro gaming PC". I have bought some time ago an HP Vectra 420 DT with an Pentium 4 at 2.0 ghz and 512 MB RAM. I have upgrade it to am Nvidia fx 5600 from Nvidia Vanta, and put and SB audigy 2 for sound. I having a blast with it.

[@jlmpc8733]

what 15 views? lol, how early am i? nice vid as always

[@unforgettable31]

You haven't even watched it yet...

[@jlmpc8733]

@@unforgettable31 i was almost half through, and finished it now and liked every single bit of it :D

[@Mandrag0ras]

Try and see if it's possible to give it new life with a Linux OS.

[@Abaduaber]

Glad you've finally covered that dark but shiny area :)

[@christophbenkoe512]

4MB! extra RAM for my 1995 Pentium 75 running Windows 95. But my earliest was swapping the family TV for a real computer monitor in the mid 80s and a floppy disk drive - good times. Keep up the great work, truly enjoy watching your show.

[@0101_root]

Hope everybody is having a good day.

[@alfiew80]

this just got uploaded while I was watching an old rghd vid

[@YosefMetal]

This is really cool, thanks for the great video!

[@millermonsterair]

when we are in the early 90's through to about 2004, thats where i spent most of my time in pc stuff. i even was the one who repaired alot of the school pcs back then too.the first pc that was mine was an old IBM PS/2. i liked it, but about a year later, i got ahold of a Texas Instruments Ti-99 because i had access to a ton of games for it. then, i got a Tandy 1000. loved that pc so much. played so many awesome games with it....after that, around 1995 or so, my uncle and i put together a pc with parts he had laying around, for me. then, we were excited af when we were able to install windows 95 on it. then, windows 98 after about a year of running 95 since 98 just came out. the pc my uncle and i built back then had a pretty sweet sound card in it and the video card was epic for its time. i dont remember the names of either, but i know they were really good and i could play anything i could get ahold of.

[@WorldJustice5]

You could make a sleeper build with that case!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah might spray it all white again too

[@Gassit]

@@RandomGaminginHD Don't spray it, retrobright it.

[@conkerman01]

Haha. I'm looking at getting an old beige case for a build. Must have turbo button.

[@GeminiWoods]

@@RandomGaminginHD Hydrogen peroxide bath. Let sit submerged for 24 hours along with some UV light. Yellow will be completely gone. Edit: Doesn't have to be sunlight. Can get UV light strips on Amazon pretty cheap.

[@EdgyShooter]

"everyone who helped identify it on Twitter" *Card had name printed on the back* 😉

[@jaredmoore8093]

Most of your videos have been great but for some reason this one stands out. I think it stood as more candid and cared about considering benchmarks weren't exactly the focus today. A great watch overall

[@datboi4925]

Im in the same boat as you! I built my first pc at 13 and i had pc's as a kid but i didnt knoe much about them. I wish i knew more about the early to late 90's tech as its so cool and inovative for its times.

[@rodrigo4379]

we used to have a celeron something something that was clocked at 1.7ghz i think. It had 512 of ram. The cpu fan had a really interesting noise that i never heard again, but it was like a metallic bearing. It was the stock intel cooller like that one. I played soo much runescape omg

[@Hactarux]

A 1.7ghz Celeron? Sounds like a williamette based processor! The same as the first generation of Pentium 4 with half the cache!

[@rodrigo4379]

@@Hactarux I think it was around 2002 that my parents bought it. Makes sense?

[@Hactarux]

@@rodrigo4379 Yes! That is almost perfect timing for that cpu! ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27172/intel-celeron-processor-1-70-ghz-128k-cache-400-mhz-fsb.html

[@rodrigo4379]

@@Hactarux yes 1.75V is that one! Thanks for sharing this.

[@bootcampassistant3301]

“Hello everyone and welcome to another video”. The statement that makes my shorts wet.

[@minionhastie5729]

Your just weird get check for something

[@UncleSilverGaming]

This PC deserves its own series.

[@ugh.idontwanna]

Wow, some pretty good parts in there. Decent motherboard, nicely clocked Celeron, and the most rare bit: A Maxtor drive that works. Upgrade the graphics card and pop a Sound Blaster in there and honestly, you're flying.

[@tomstech4390]

Back when people used "compact disks" and "hard disk drives".

[@haseenabadshah5381]

discs"*

[@supercool_saiyan5670]

People still use hard disk drives for cheap mass storage

[@MuchWhittering]

People still use SSDs.

[@dihydrogenmonoxidecontainm6064]

Even though i'm not first, i'm still glad that i saw it earlier than almost everybody.

[@Checker201lol]

Outta 10 pc KZbinrs I watch regularly, 2 don't make retro PC videos. You and ltt. Now you also started it. Nice! Keep on going:)

[@sskills5781]

Love to grab knowledge from random old pc.. which I never heard of😅 ... love your videos ❤️

[@jbritain]

“Modern versions of operating systems aren’t supported”

[@Andy6h1l]

Yeah, and? Anyone who watched the vid will hear RGinHD say it

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Oh man I meant browsers 😂

[@jbritain]

@@RandomGaminginHD Thought so

[@TheSynrgy1987]

Some early versions of Oprah work though so i guess you could have a chat with it

[@Tom2404]

Windows 7 will work on this PC

[@dcikaruga]

Anyone old enough to remember Civilization running on Windows 3.1?

[@michaelwenek76]

Dude how about running in DOS?

[@dcikaruga]

@@michaelwenek76 How about it running on the Commodore Amiga? Dang, I'm getting old.

[@michaelwenek76]

@@dcikaruga Damn indeed. However how about running it in your first PC you ever bought, a Tandy TL1000 (10 Mhz 286, 768 KB RAM, 20 MB HDD) with DOS 3.3 and the only other game you had at the same time was Starflight 2? And you bought that computer when you were 21 because that was when you could afford it yourself? And you maxed out the new Radio Shack credit card you opened just to buy it? And at this point in your life you wished you still had it for "feels"? Now feel old 😢

[@dcikaruga]

@@michaelwenek76 A 286 in the late 80's must of cost you about £1000 or so, that must of stung your wallet.

[@sshep86]

I remember the abacus.

[@dipak002]

I remember, back in 2001 when I had my first computer. It was powered by Pentium 3 and 256 MB of RAM on Windows 98. RTCW, if I remember was the first id title I played and I was completely blown away by the game. I would wish you may include RTCW in your retro PC videos.

[@turbofanlover]

My first PC was a Zenith, back in 1986. Got it for engineering school. Good times, good times. :)

[@Tar3oZ]

cpu: core 2 due 2.2ghz (idk what's the whole name) gpu: the igpu in the cpu after 2 years i bought a GeForce 210 ram: 2gb of ddr2 motherboard: a foxconn lga 775 (idk what the full name) psu: idk lol storage: 160 hdd and and a cd dvd drive case: just a pieces of metal and some usb and audio and power/restart buttons

[@KingSteven77]

We have similar specs: Intel Core 2 Duo e6650 2.33ghz 2gb ram ddr2 Q35 Express family chipset (GMA 3100) 256 HARD DRIVE CD DRIVE Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit

[@Tar3oZ]

@@KingSteven77 lol yeah

[@KingSteven77]

@@Tar3oZ what games do you play on that pc

[@Tar3oZ]

@@KingSteven77 the first game was cs 1.6 then gta vice city and a lot of old games

[@KingSteven77]

Oh I play Counter Strike Source GTA SA Minecraft + optifine Among US Gta 3 Gta Vice City And other old games

[@vladimirpepe375]

Yes I’m early!

[@BackWithTheBoom]

Ahhh 98, the sound of the 98 intro, i have that sound launched via task planner when my win 10 omen boots, love it.

[@anonymous_1850]

Love your videos man....I surely love em!!!!

[@Jason777123]

You've gotta try Half-Life!

[@bournes9845]

Found one and it just needs a gpu, similar age

[@bournes9845]

I have an old gpu that needs tested though

[@FusionC6]

@@bournes9845 I have a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16mb, and a Nvidia TNT2 Pro 32MB at home to tinker with. :D

[@bournes9845]

Nice

[@heckintech]

What a lovely find! :D This video warmed me to my core

[@cybercery5271]

I forgot this channel existed Good to be back

[@dijjidog]

Bitwit: 10 year old pc RandomGamingInHD: pff don't make me laugh

[@DumbArse]

I was fine until the name ATI came up, then all the damn time spent installing and troubleshooting drivers just hit me at once.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah a lot of people have mentioned stuff like that to me on Twitter, I had no idea so many people had issues with ati and Windows 98

[@armorgeddon]

@@RandomGaminginHD The problem often sat in front of the monitor though ;-) I never had problems running Rage 128 and Radeon 9600 Pro in those days. Though with the latter you were better off using the so called Omega drivers, which were modded drivers, since they gave you some main options which were also well explained to configure the hardware to work properly with your mainboard. If I remember correctly with the original Radeon drivers those options were only accessible via registry.

[@sanody555]

Its awesome it's like a reminder of my childhood

[@maxeluy]

Looking forward for that series!

[@jackthelad9933]

Damn, that made me feel old. Love your work!

[@RealRed01]

My family had one of these old 90's pc. I played doom 98 all the time when I could. Lol Good video

[@Clugmuffer]

The first thing I bought when I started working in 1998 were parts for my own PC. 440BX mobo, Pentium 2-350 & an Nvidia Riva TNT. Before that I had the leftover trickle-down PC from the older brothers. And I still own it. If I ever try it again, I'll be sure to make a video about it.

[@BrokenVideoProductions]

Sweet. Please keep doing retro PC like this. The first PC I could afford to buy was a 486DX2 66MHz, from Cyrix I recall, with some VLB graphics and the then super expensive SoundBlaster card with CD-rom package included. A whopping 4MB of ram and 460KB HD and Windows 3.11 for workgroups that I bought for $3000 in 1993. The stamp size videos of birds flapping their wings in Encarta was mind blowing at the time. It later got upgraded to 16MB ram, Windows 95 and 28.8Kbit modem that brought me Internet access in 1997. Back in those days Usenet had way more contents than WWW so that's where I spent my days.

[@Miksalot]

The first piece of hardware I bought for a PC was ~1992 when I bought a Sound Blaster Pro for my 386 SX16. I was just completely amazed at actual synthesized music instead of different tones of beep. I paid something like $250 or so for it and I was damn proud to own it.

[@BaldBlokeOnABoat]

That's some proper 90s cable management!

[@OrionIsDaBest777]

One of my favorite games to play on Windows 98 was Rendezvous with Rama. Hope to hear that Windows Start sound in the next video. I remember the first upgrade my dad did to our pc was buy us a translucent blue keyboard. So 2000s!

[@tiagomarques7149]

Welcome to the family i started about 3 years ago and now i have 4 or 5 windows 98 machines, my fav is my pentium mmx with a Matrox Millenium and a sound blaster 16 from 97, wish i could have a Voodoo 1 but theyre getting to much expensive due to the collector factor, if you want to learn more you should check LGR, he's the guru of retro pcs here on youtube

[@TR1PLE_6]

7:11 - I see Worms. What an absolute classic that is! That must've cost like £20 back then. Now I see it regularly go on sale for 99p.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I remember playing it years ago briefly. I tried again today and had no idea what I was doing 😂

[@Brownie2k2001]

Aaaah this brings back memories. Although, my first PC was a 486SX 25mhz, 2MB Ram (or was it less, i can't remember) with Windows 3.1. In fact, it didn't even have a CD-ROM drive, Sound Card or dedicated graphics! Still, i loved that thing!

[@bennybignuts388]

Good vid, takes be back to the good old days of hidden&dangerous and half life ,classic games.

[@ganon1028]

Lemmings, Worms and Doom.... man that takes me back

[@computer1up]

The first ever component I got for my PC was when I got gifted a Pentium D 2.8GHz machine with a gig of RAM and a 40GB HDD. I went to the local computer store with my mum and went to buy a "video card". There were several options that I could choose from, the only two I remember were an MSI GT210 a and a Club3D Radeon HD 6450 Noiseless Edition (guess which I went for haha), a whopping €45 later and I could now play the Minecraft beta on my PC. Man, 11 year old me was so excited. I still have to remind myself that there's people born after the year 2000. '98 FTW

[@quatz1981]

My first PC was back in 1993 when i was 12, a 486 66 mhz with 4mb ram, later upgraded to 16mb, 2x CD Drive, 260mb hard drive with Windows 3.1 installed. It was a beast at the time and i loved it.

[@burgertim7878]

I just re-bought my very first PC...or at least the same model. Originally bought at Aldi in April of 1999. Pentium II 400 MHz 128 MB RAM (originally came with 64) Nvidia Riva TNT (onboard) Soundblaster 64 (also onboard) Intel SR440BX Mainboard and I'm loving it, really brought back some memories.

[@doooooods]

Awesome case for a sleeper build!

[@therealfirstone]

My first PC was around 1998. It was a Pentium II 300mhz, 64mb ram, 6gb hdd. With time I upgraded the ram to 96mb, the hdd to 10gb and I bought a CD Writer, a printer, a scanner, etc. My first games were Tomb Raider and Half Life once I bought my first video card which I believe was a Voodoo 8mg. I hope I'm right about the details. Thanks for sharing, I enjoy your videos a lot.

[@neilbateman7039]

My first self build PC GPU back in 1999/2000 was a Rage Fury Maxx which was essentially 2* Rage 128 squeezed on the same board. It was a beast paired with a Slot A 700Mhz Thunderbird. HAppy days.

[@05milmachine90]

This is one of my favorite eras. I build an AMD Thunderbird 1ghz machine around Y2K and it was a beast for its time. I ran Rage 128 pro graphics

[@blairlohnes8103]

Now you're into vintage PC territory. Those are my favorite PC's. I have a couple win98 machines and I love them, they are probably my favorite two retro machines of my collection. K6-2 333, 64MB EDORAM, Sound Blaster Live, ESS Audiodrive, S3 Trio64 v2 2MB, Voodoo 1 4MB, Voodoo 2 12MB and a Pentium 3 500, 256MB SDRAM, Aureal Vortex, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB. I would recommend Quake 2 and maybe unreal to push that video card to it's limits.

[@RWL2012]

I don't understand the obsession with Windows 98 in the retro scene, I have 95 on one and 98 on another! Nice specs there :)

[@Teksers]

People complain about GPU sag but man look at that PSU sag. Good video as always, keep up the good work.

[@ct1660]

When I had my XPS T500 retro gaming PC, I used KernelEx to run a slightly newer version of Opera, which at the time, could handle the modern web a bit better. There is also the generic mass storage drivers which will allow you to use modern USB drives without any major issues. I do recommend getting a USB 2.0 card.

[@kennyj4366]

My wife and I bought a socket 370 (State of the art at the time) and were blown away by the performance. Sure wish we would have kept that old system.

[@TsjuunTze]

Im getting old! I remember my "SLI" setup. used a Voodoo2 (3D !ONLY!) with the onboard graphics for 2D. Good days....