Indeed, it is meant to be ca. 1998/Very early 1999. The CPU is the only part that doesn't quite match, being a mobile K6-2+ 550MHz underclocked to 400MHz. I'm still happy to take the extra speed boost from it though.
@fr8shaker28926 күн бұрын
Nice balanced setup! Every other piece compliments the others. Balance :)
@redgopnik2227Ай бұрын
lowkey miss having one of those dimension cases on the desk, i owe my childhood to one. theyre old enough to just look retro/stylish now too... ik i have some spare parts lying around so maybe i need to build myself something similar 😅 thanks for this
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty! I used to have a Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz Dell Dimension 2400 that I upgraded to 2GB of RAM and put a PCI nVidia GeForce 6200 in to try to stretch out its functional lifespan as far as possible LOL. It is crazy that these are even retro now, time flies.
@animejr.6951Ай бұрын
What game is that?
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Quake Live, though I've changed the config to be closer to something that pros use (all bright green Keel for enemy models, gun is not visible, and I am using vertex lighting).
@wizdom224Ай бұрын
modern pcs losing out on features that we used to have actually does suck honestly. probably in the future they'll take the front facing headphone jack too
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
My old main PC (Dell G5 5587, Core i7 8750H, GTX 1060 6GB) does not have an HDD LED and it drove me bonkers for the 4 years I used it. When the PC is loading something and it looks like it has stopped for a while, there is no indicator lamp to see if the storage is being used and that it is still loading. The only way to do that is to open task manager and see what the disk usage statistics are. I could understand the loss of CD drives as really they are technically obsolete, but not having a disk indicator lamp blows my mind.
@zeroturn7091Ай бұрын
I want to do an AliExpress build out of mine, but the depth is too shallow for a 2011 cooler. Also not having the HDD where you put your intake fan makes my eye twitch, but I get it (I put a 3060 in an Inspiron 620 case).
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Oh yeah, it sucked to find out that I couldn't install my SSD with the original mounting bracket if I installed that intake fan. I was afraid of temps rising where the case is somewhat small, so I decided to go with the weird setup I have now. That is awesome by the way, I used to have an Inspiron 620 that I put a 1050Ti in back in the day but kept the original mb with the Core i5 2310.
@zeroturn7091Ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider After a power outage my original board (620) gave up, so I put a H570M in there. I might use spacers to get a 92mm fan upfront, otherwise I'm stuck use an 80mm pendant oriented to avoid the front I/O wiring. I thought about doing a video, but I cheaped out with a white Vetroo cooler so it looks out of place. Surprisingly everything worked with no mods.
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
@@zeroturn7091 Oh yeah power surges eat PCs for breakfast :( It is really shocking how little modification a lot of these OEM cases need to put custom motherboards in them, and to put OEM motherboards in custom cases.
@arctic_voidАй бұрын
Nice build! How many hz is your display? Also you'd be surprised by how much less input delay you get at insane framerates (over 500), even if your monitor can't support it.
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty, I have a 165hz display, and the much higher framerate does really help. I have Quake maxxed out to 250FPS, reducing input delay anywhere you can is essential. I have my keyboard polling rate set to 8000hz and my mouse is set to 1000hz, in a vain attempt to compete with the awesome pros on Quake.
@hazeybluАй бұрын
Love the sleeper build
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
ty!
@mattwasnothereАй бұрын
this is sick as hell
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
ty!
@LOOTLORD605Ай бұрын
Modern Old school.
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty, my favorite way of doing things with newer PCs.
@nesyboi9421Ай бұрын
Sleeper build goes hard Only thing, you might want to make sure your thermals are good, those cases in particular are hotboxes.
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty! I have been keeping an eye on them. My CPU maxxed out at around 70C, and my GPU maxxed out to 65c give or take. Not amazing results but having both an intake and an exhaust fan seems to keep it stable. The vent on the bottom just above the USB ports does surprisingly well when an intake fan is installed.
@maklogetrich2378Ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspidermy 3060 run the same temps as yours, so it's fine (it's a modern case with six 12 cm fans)
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
@@maklogetrich2378 Ty for letting me know! I lucked out that the airflow through this case seems to be just enough to keep what I have in it cool. I bet your PC is super quiet, when you have a lot of large fans like that you can afford to run them at lower RPMs without losing airflow. I only have an 80mm intake fan and a 92mm exhaust fan so I have to run them both at full throttle (connected by molex with no thermal control) to keep the temps stable LOL. I wouldn't say mine is at jet engine levels however you can definitely hear when it is running.
@maklogetrich2378Ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider not really quiet actually, but yes, it can run at lower speed and higher speed, but I guess for 3060 it's still fine
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
@@maklogetrich2378 Ye, they don't need a whole lot from what I've seen so far with mine. Quiet or not it sounds like you have a really nice PC :D
@banguseaterАй бұрын
run your rig, not your mouth... thats what I always say
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
I agree with that sentiment. I have my own biases, but at the end of the day it is to each his own. Newer PC designs look awesome, and people put a lot of hard work into making those builds look the way they do, it is just not my personal style :)
@banguseaterАй бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider the sleeper builds are really tight. I think I might do one with a mid 2000s gateway black case now
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
@@banguseater That sounds sick! Gateway had some cool looking PCs around that time. The towers they made are nice, have plenty of airflow through them too if I remember right.
@rainman40Ай бұрын
yes very modern SO SCRUMPTIOUS
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty, indeed LMAO
@green-dp4ozАй бұрын
hey, this actually looks so cool but i had a question. were the light and power button connectors proprietary? i wanna make a similar build, but i don't want to take apart my computer to find out it's incompatible with the case.
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty! So for this case the connectors are proprietary, but it wasn't too bad. I just unclipped the contacts from the big connector they were attached to, and put them into smaller standard connectors from another ATX case I had. The wires were very easy to trace to each LED and the power button. The front USB 2.0 ports on this PC use a standard cable. I am unable to use the audio jack on the front panel because it is an entirely proprietary connector, so I just unclipped the contacts from the little connector that plugs into the front panel USB/3.5mm PCB. All the changes I made to the case are entirely reversible, in case I ever wanted to put an old Dell motherboard back in it.
@green-dp4ozАй бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider that actually sounds really interesting! would it be possible to ask you for any help if i were to do a similar mod myself?
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
@@green-dp4oz I could make a video on it at some point if you wanted. The biggest pain about it is not breaking the little plastic clips that hold the contacts in, I usually just slide a razor blade under the plastic clip very gently and tilt up slightly to be able to pull the contact out. After that you can slide it into an empty ATX clip and it will click into place. The contact block that connects to the USB header works exactly the same way, though the contacts and clips are tiny so it is harder to do.
@green-dp4ozАй бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider sorry for the late reply, but that sounds great. if you are able to, definitely make one, i've been trying to locate a tutorial for a while now and i can't really find anyone
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
@@green-dp4oz Sounds good, I will see about making one in the next few days!
@fr8shaker289Ай бұрын
And nice pc :D
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
Ty! Using a Pentium 4 in 2024 :p
@fr8shaker289Ай бұрын
gg :))
@pcretropcworkshop8031Ай бұрын
good~
@fiveleggedspiderАй бұрын
ty!
@abighairyspider2 ай бұрын
Humiliation. Does look extra crispy
@fiveleggedspider2 ай бұрын
ty!
@abighairyspider2 ай бұрын
You found a secret area!
@0wl9992 ай бұрын
Ahhh good to see my old friend Duke Nukem. Played so many 100's of hours back in the day, a lot head to head with a high school buddy. Can still hum the main theme song in my sleep lol.😅 And of course og Doom and Wolfenstien kicked off my love for FPS games.😅
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
Very nice! That machine should play every win98 game PCI video cards are getting expensive. I look at them from time to time on ebay. Once in a while you get a few pop up for cheap. Recently I bought a “untested” riva 128 pci for like 17 dollars. Just keep checking for a fx5500
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
Ty! It's funny, the cards that would have been cheapest (as far as 2000's cards go) when they were new are now quite expensive. Also that's a great deal, I have bought a few untested or "for repair," things myself that ended up being just fine.
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider since there’s less PCI models, they fetch for more. I have been buying untested stuff for a while now off eBay. I just looked for the free returns on every auction just incase I have to return it
@fr8shaker2893 ай бұрын
You really chose your components carefully. Thanks for the upload! Memories :)
@DavyDave13133 ай бұрын
Ah the good old days....summers with friends on some D2 cow level raids
@sneekeruk3 ай бұрын
I had the same motherboard back in the day, bought that with a p133, matrox mystique 220, gravis ultrasound max and a voodoo 1 using my student loan. the p133 would do 188mhz then I got a p166mmx off a friend that ran at 225. Whats the midi/mod plater running at the beginning with the patterns? dont think Ive ever seen that before.
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
Oh man I bet that thing flew. Pentium @ 188MHz is crazy fast, let alone having an MMX at 225 while having a Matrox card the whole time. Did you overclock by messing with the multiplier or increasing the FSB speed? Also, I was running the Tyrian setup program which has a jukebox mode where you can listen to the soundtrack. I hate to admit that I have used that mode more than I have played the game itself LOL
@mylifect3 ай бұрын
very good
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
ty!
@Rotterdam933 ай бұрын
Great retrocomputer
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
ty!
@breadbucket78123 ай бұрын
Super Cool!
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
ty!
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
Thank you for the tutorial!!! Saving this. I will be setting up my DOS/95 PC like this .
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
Yw! What are the specs of that PC if you don't mind me asking?
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider the specs on my PC are… Pentium MMX 200 Random 430VX chipset motherboard (AT) Diamond Monster RIVA 128 (PCI) 4MB Sound Blaster 16 PRO PNP 3.4GB HDD Cooler Master ATX PSU w/ ATX to AT adapter 16MB simms of memory Startech heatsink/fan combo Going to add more memory
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLLTy for sharing, I love how high-end it is. I love all old PCs, high or low end, but there is something about having a PC kitted out with all the fast, expensive parts. I bet that thing would've easily fetched at least $2,000 back in the day LOL, that is one nice PC!
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider thanks! Yes, back in the day it would have most definitely been expensive. Now it’s just some pc I bought in a bundle with 4 other PC’s that I’ve bought a few inexpensive parts for and built it up just a tad bit. I’m following you by the way. Hoping to see more videos in the future
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLLYw, and ty! I got a bundle of a lot of crazy stuff a while back, that's where a lot of my PCs now came from. I still have a few PCs I am working on, and every once in a while I either get another entire computer or get parts to build a new one, and as I get them or "finish," my existing PCs I will make videos on them.
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
Man, I’d like to know how you setup the autoexec config and ms-dos files to boot like that. I wanna do the same
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
I will make a quick video on it here soon! This process will also work on Windows 98.
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider thank you kind sir!
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLLyw! Just uploaded it.
@mOddEdLiKeHeLL3 ай бұрын
@@fiveleggedspider I’ll take a look!
@Angultra3 ай бұрын
Great memories, I had the exact same monitor back in the day.
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
Ye, this ViewSonic is a good one. 1024x768 at 85hz is my favorite desktop resolution on this monitor. It is also very nice for DOS games, I think all CRTs are better in DOS games than LCDs but LCDs definitely have a lot of advantages too.
@0wl9992 ай бұрын
Me too.
@fr8shaker2893 ай бұрын
You got it done. Nice. Thanks for sharing! :)
@TecHouseInternet3 ай бұрын
good
@fiveleggedspider3 ай бұрын
ty
@TecHouseInternet3 ай бұрын
you are good
@rallyscoot4 ай бұрын
Which version of norton tools are you using?
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
I have been using Norton Utilities 4.5 on it, mainly for Norton Speed Disk. A feature I miss in MS-DOS 3.3 that was later added to DOS is defrag. Once I started using Speed Disk, I found out that the defrag included in later versions of MS-DOS was just a rebranded Norton Speed Disk anyways LOL
@Lat3ksi4 ай бұрын
Nice shots!
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
ty!
@mcrstr4 ай бұрын
Nice video. Very warm atmosphere
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
ty!
@anycolouryoulike754 ай бұрын
Good old memories....
@SaraMorgan-ym6ue4 ай бұрын
CRT flicker is normal and it's fine you have it under control. at any rate
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
ty, I mainly threw that in there because it's a very fast moving sort of flicker and is very pronounced when using software that fills the screen. I think the refresh rate for VGA text mode is 70hz, and my camera's shutter speed is probably closer to 60hz as Windows 2.03 in my other video didn't flicker nearly as bad and I assume that was 640x480 @60hz.
@hughjasole30684 ай бұрын
😎 / | \ / \👌🏻 / \
@jkeelsnc4 ай бұрын
XT clones were still useful for productive purposes right into the 90’s. What a long run they had. Wow. An early version of Windows. And it was even advertised by Steve Ballmer as including Reversi. 😂
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
I think that's because in the early 90s, most 286 and 386 computers were highly expensive, and if you had enough money for a 486 around that time you were rolling in cash. I'd assume most people probably did not want to spend $1500 or more on a new computer when they had just bought their XT for $1000 a couple years prior. I can't remember how late into the 90's that companies kept making XTs, but I want to say it was all the way out to 1992 or 1993. Get a computer new from a place and it is obsolete in the box LOL. The big selling point of Reversi being there was always strange to me. That commercial is a fever dream.
@fr8shaker2894 ай бұрын
That was great! I haven't but just watched some one set it up from beginning like that , and it has been some years. Nice upload. [memories] :)
@ronniemillsap4 ай бұрын
<3
@fr8shaker2894 ай бұрын
Nice upload , and ggs :)
@blenderbeachwavesblend4 ай бұрын
How old is this.
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
There are some newer parts in it, but the CPU, video card, and hard drive as of the recording of this video are almost 30 years old.
@btubers16664 ай бұрын
This is the most relaxing video I've watched in quite a while. You should make an album called "Chonky XT Sounds." I would buy a copy. On cassette tape. And Laserdisc. Good work.
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
ty, I switched rooms so there wouldn't be as much background noise. On a side note this is why I like to use hard drives despite the chance of them failing. I feel like something would be missing from the sound of the PC if I were to use compact flash or something similar. You can't get a initialization seek that sounds that good on anything but an old HDD, or the crunching noises when the head is seeking/reading/writing data.
@Tuxon864 ай бұрын
My first PC compatible was an XT clone. I didn't have an HDD in it, just two 5¼" floppy and a green monitor. I traded it for an Atari 520ST from a friend that was starting college. I then traded the 520ST for a 286 system with an EGA card about a month later.
@fiveleggedspider4 ай бұрын
When I first got this PC, I had to use it with two floppy drives. It did originally have an HDD, but it was removed before I got it and only the Western Digital MFM controller remained. Using it with just floppy drives wasn't as bad as I expected, I was able to install DOS 3.3 and Windows 2.03 on 1.44MB floppy disks and I could have used the disks to do almost everything that I did with the HDD except for fractint as the executable for it alone is a little over 1.44MB if I remember right. I will not say that I wasn't much more happy using an HDD in it though, I have been spoiled by PCs with hard disks (oldest PC I had before this one was my 486) and going from HDD access speed on the main storage medium to floppy disk access speed was quite a shock.
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1998ish?
Indeed, it is meant to be ca. 1998/Very early 1999. The CPU is the only part that doesn't quite match, being a mobile K6-2+ 550MHz underclocked to 400MHz. I'm still happy to take the extra speed boost from it though.
Nice balanced setup! Every other piece compliments the others. Balance :)
lowkey miss having one of those dimension cases on the desk, i owe my childhood to one. theyre old enough to just look retro/stylish now too... ik i have some spare parts lying around so maybe i need to build myself something similar 😅 thanks for this
Ty! I used to have a Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz Dell Dimension 2400 that I upgraded to 2GB of RAM and put a PCI nVidia GeForce 6200 in to try to stretch out its functional lifespan as far as possible LOL. It is crazy that these are even retro now, time flies.
What game is that?
Quake Live, though I've changed the config to be closer to something that pros use (all bright green Keel for enemy models, gun is not visible, and I am using vertex lighting).
modern pcs losing out on features that we used to have actually does suck honestly. probably in the future they'll take the front facing headphone jack too
My old main PC (Dell G5 5587, Core i7 8750H, GTX 1060 6GB) does not have an HDD LED and it drove me bonkers for the 4 years I used it. When the PC is loading something and it looks like it has stopped for a while, there is no indicator lamp to see if the storage is being used and that it is still loading. The only way to do that is to open task manager and see what the disk usage statistics are. I could understand the loss of CD drives as really they are technically obsolete, but not having a disk indicator lamp blows my mind.
I want to do an AliExpress build out of mine, but the depth is too shallow for a 2011 cooler. Also not having the HDD where you put your intake fan makes my eye twitch, but I get it (I put a 3060 in an Inspiron 620 case).
Oh yeah, it sucked to find out that I couldn't install my SSD with the original mounting bracket if I installed that intake fan. I was afraid of temps rising where the case is somewhat small, so I decided to go with the weird setup I have now. That is awesome by the way, I used to have an Inspiron 620 that I put a 1050Ti in back in the day but kept the original mb with the Core i5 2310.
@@fiveleggedspider After a power outage my original board (620) gave up, so I put a H570M in there. I might use spacers to get a 92mm fan upfront, otherwise I'm stuck use an 80mm pendant oriented to avoid the front I/O wiring. I thought about doing a video, but I cheaped out with a white Vetroo cooler so it looks out of place. Surprisingly everything worked with no mods.
@@zeroturn7091 Oh yeah power surges eat PCs for breakfast :( It is really shocking how little modification a lot of these OEM cases need to put custom motherboards in them, and to put OEM motherboards in custom cases.
Nice build! How many hz is your display? Also you'd be surprised by how much less input delay you get at insane framerates (over 500), even if your monitor can't support it.
Ty, I have a 165hz display, and the much higher framerate does really help. I have Quake maxxed out to 250FPS, reducing input delay anywhere you can is essential. I have my keyboard polling rate set to 8000hz and my mouse is set to 1000hz, in a vain attempt to compete with the awesome pros on Quake.
Love the sleeper build
ty!
this is sick as hell
ty!
Modern Old school.
Ty, my favorite way of doing things with newer PCs.
Sleeper build goes hard Only thing, you might want to make sure your thermals are good, those cases in particular are hotboxes.
Ty! I have been keeping an eye on them. My CPU maxxed out at around 70C, and my GPU maxxed out to 65c give or take. Not amazing results but having both an intake and an exhaust fan seems to keep it stable. The vent on the bottom just above the USB ports does surprisingly well when an intake fan is installed.
@@fiveleggedspidermy 3060 run the same temps as yours, so it's fine (it's a modern case with six 12 cm fans)
@@maklogetrich2378 Ty for letting me know! I lucked out that the airflow through this case seems to be just enough to keep what I have in it cool. I bet your PC is super quiet, when you have a lot of large fans like that you can afford to run them at lower RPMs without losing airflow. I only have an 80mm intake fan and a 92mm exhaust fan so I have to run them both at full throttle (connected by molex with no thermal control) to keep the temps stable LOL. I wouldn't say mine is at jet engine levels however you can definitely hear when it is running.
@@fiveleggedspider not really quiet actually, but yes, it can run at lower speed and higher speed, but I guess for 3060 it's still fine
@@maklogetrich2378 Ye, they don't need a whole lot from what I've seen so far with mine. Quiet or not it sounds like you have a really nice PC :D
run your rig, not your mouth... thats what I always say
I agree with that sentiment. I have my own biases, but at the end of the day it is to each his own. Newer PC designs look awesome, and people put a lot of hard work into making those builds look the way they do, it is just not my personal style :)
@@fiveleggedspider the sleeper builds are really tight. I think I might do one with a mid 2000s gateway black case now
@@banguseater That sounds sick! Gateway had some cool looking PCs around that time. The towers they made are nice, have plenty of airflow through them too if I remember right.
yes very modern SO SCRUMPTIOUS
Ty, indeed LMAO
hey, this actually looks so cool but i had a question. were the light and power button connectors proprietary? i wanna make a similar build, but i don't want to take apart my computer to find out it's incompatible with the case.
Ty! So for this case the connectors are proprietary, but it wasn't too bad. I just unclipped the contacts from the big connector they were attached to, and put them into smaller standard connectors from another ATX case I had. The wires were very easy to trace to each LED and the power button. The front USB 2.0 ports on this PC use a standard cable. I am unable to use the audio jack on the front panel because it is an entirely proprietary connector, so I just unclipped the contacts from the little connector that plugs into the front panel USB/3.5mm PCB. All the changes I made to the case are entirely reversible, in case I ever wanted to put an old Dell motherboard back in it.
@@fiveleggedspider that actually sounds really interesting! would it be possible to ask you for any help if i were to do a similar mod myself?
@@green-dp4oz I could make a video on it at some point if you wanted. The biggest pain about it is not breaking the little plastic clips that hold the contacts in, I usually just slide a razor blade under the plastic clip very gently and tilt up slightly to be able to pull the contact out. After that you can slide it into an empty ATX clip and it will click into place. The contact block that connects to the USB header works exactly the same way, though the contacts and clips are tiny so it is harder to do.
@@fiveleggedspider sorry for the late reply, but that sounds great. if you are able to, definitely make one, i've been trying to locate a tutorial for a while now and i can't really find anyone
@@green-dp4oz Sounds good, I will see about making one in the next few days!
And nice pc :D
Ty! Using a Pentium 4 in 2024 :p
gg :))
good~
ty!
Humiliation. Does look extra crispy
ty!
You found a secret area!
Ahhh good to see my old friend Duke Nukem. Played so many 100's of hours back in the day, a lot head to head with a high school buddy. Can still hum the main theme song in my sleep lol.😅 And of course og Doom and Wolfenstien kicked off my love for FPS games.😅
Very nice! That machine should play every win98 game PCI video cards are getting expensive. I look at them from time to time on ebay. Once in a while you get a few pop up for cheap. Recently I bought a “untested” riva 128 pci for like 17 dollars. Just keep checking for a fx5500
Ty! It's funny, the cards that would have been cheapest (as far as 2000's cards go) when they were new are now quite expensive. Also that's a great deal, I have bought a few untested or "for repair," things myself that ended up being just fine.
@@fiveleggedspider since there’s less PCI models, they fetch for more. I have been buying untested stuff for a while now off eBay. I just looked for the free returns on every auction just incase I have to return it
You really chose your components carefully. Thanks for the upload! Memories :)
Ah the good old days....summers with friends on some D2 cow level raids
I had the same motherboard back in the day, bought that with a p133, matrox mystique 220, gravis ultrasound max and a voodoo 1 using my student loan. the p133 would do 188mhz then I got a p166mmx off a friend that ran at 225. Whats the midi/mod plater running at the beginning with the patterns? dont think Ive ever seen that before.
Oh man I bet that thing flew. Pentium @ 188MHz is crazy fast, let alone having an MMX at 225 while having a Matrox card the whole time. Did you overclock by messing with the multiplier or increasing the FSB speed? Also, I was running the Tyrian setup program which has a jukebox mode where you can listen to the soundtrack. I hate to admit that I have used that mode more than I have played the game itself LOL
very good
ty!
Great retrocomputer
ty!
Super Cool!
ty!
Thank you for the tutorial!!! Saving this. I will be setting up my DOS/95 PC like this .
Yw! What are the specs of that PC if you don't mind me asking?
@@fiveleggedspider the specs on my PC are… Pentium MMX 200 Random 430VX chipset motherboard (AT) Diamond Monster RIVA 128 (PCI) 4MB Sound Blaster 16 PRO PNP 3.4GB HDD Cooler Master ATX PSU w/ ATX to AT adapter 16MB simms of memory Startech heatsink/fan combo Going to add more memory
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLLTy for sharing, I love how high-end it is. I love all old PCs, high or low end, but there is something about having a PC kitted out with all the fast, expensive parts. I bet that thing would've easily fetched at least $2,000 back in the day LOL, that is one nice PC!
@@fiveleggedspider thanks! Yes, back in the day it would have most definitely been expensive. Now it’s just some pc I bought in a bundle with 4 other PC’s that I’ve bought a few inexpensive parts for and built it up just a tad bit. I’m following you by the way. Hoping to see more videos in the future
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLLYw, and ty! I got a bundle of a lot of crazy stuff a while back, that's where a lot of my PCs now came from. I still have a few PCs I am working on, and every once in a while I either get another entire computer or get parts to build a new one, and as I get them or "finish," my existing PCs I will make videos on them.
Man, I’d like to know how you setup the autoexec config and ms-dos files to boot like that. I wanna do the same
I will make a quick video on it here soon! This process will also work on Windows 98.
@@fiveleggedspider thank you kind sir!
@@mOddEdLiKeHeLLyw! Just uploaded it.
@@fiveleggedspider I’ll take a look!
Great memories, I had the exact same monitor back in the day.
Ye, this ViewSonic is a good one. 1024x768 at 85hz is my favorite desktop resolution on this monitor. It is also very nice for DOS games, I think all CRTs are better in DOS games than LCDs but LCDs definitely have a lot of advantages too.
Me too.
You got it done. Nice. Thanks for sharing! :)
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Which version of norton tools are you using?
I have been using Norton Utilities 4.5 on it, mainly for Norton Speed Disk. A feature I miss in MS-DOS 3.3 that was later added to DOS is defrag. Once I started using Speed Disk, I found out that the defrag included in later versions of MS-DOS was just a rebranded Norton Speed Disk anyways LOL
Nice shots!
ty!
Nice video. Very warm atmosphere
ty!
Good old memories....
CRT flicker is normal and it's fine you have it under control. at any rate
ty, I mainly threw that in there because it's a very fast moving sort of flicker and is very pronounced when using software that fills the screen. I think the refresh rate for VGA text mode is 70hz, and my camera's shutter speed is probably closer to 60hz as Windows 2.03 in my other video didn't flicker nearly as bad and I assume that was 640x480 @60hz.
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XT clones were still useful for productive purposes right into the 90’s. What a long run they had. Wow. An early version of Windows. And it was even advertised by Steve Ballmer as including Reversi. 😂
I think that's because in the early 90s, most 286 and 386 computers were highly expensive, and if you had enough money for a 486 around that time you were rolling in cash. I'd assume most people probably did not want to spend $1500 or more on a new computer when they had just bought their XT for $1000 a couple years prior. I can't remember how late into the 90's that companies kept making XTs, but I want to say it was all the way out to 1992 or 1993. Get a computer new from a place and it is obsolete in the box LOL. The big selling point of Reversi being there was always strange to me. That commercial is a fever dream.
That was great! I haven't but just watched some one set it up from beginning like that , and it has been some years. Nice upload. [memories] :)
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Nice upload , and ggs :)
How old is this.
There are some newer parts in it, but the CPU, video card, and hard drive as of the recording of this video are almost 30 years old.
This is the most relaxing video I've watched in quite a while. You should make an album called "Chonky XT Sounds." I would buy a copy. On cassette tape. And Laserdisc. Good work.
ty, I switched rooms so there wouldn't be as much background noise. On a side note this is why I like to use hard drives despite the chance of them failing. I feel like something would be missing from the sound of the PC if I were to use compact flash or something similar. You can't get a initialization seek that sounds that good on anything but an old HDD, or the crunching noises when the head is seeking/reading/writing data.
My first PC compatible was an XT clone. I didn't have an HDD in it, just two 5¼" floppy and a green monitor. I traded it for an Atari 520ST from a friend that was starting college. I then traded the 520ST for a 286 system with an EGA card about a month later.
When I first got this PC, I had to use it with two floppy drives. It did originally have an HDD, but it was removed before I got it and only the Western Digital MFM controller remained. Using it with just floppy drives wasn't as bad as I expected, I was able to install DOS 3.3 and Windows 2.03 on 1.44MB floppy disks and I could have used the disks to do almost everything that I did with the HDD except for fractint as the executable for it alone is a little over 1.44MB if I remember right. I will not say that I wasn't much more happy using an HDD in it though, I have been spoiled by PCs with hard disks (oldest PC I had before this one was my 486) and going from HDD access speed on the main storage medium to floppy disk access speed was quite a shock.
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