LGR - Building My Dream $3,588 Windows XP PC

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  • čas přidán 4. 10. 2018
  • Let's build a PC! A Windows XP gaming machine from parts circa 2007 to 2008, to be precise. This Core 2 Extreme SLI rig would've cost $3,588 if all the parts were bought new when they first released. Time to put it together and play some Crysis and 3D Pinball Space Cadet.
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  • @LGR
    @LGR  Před 5 lety +2129

    Question for those that made it through the whole build and saw the final specs:
    _What upgrades or changes would you like to see this PC receive in the future, if any?_
    As mentioned at the end I plan to upgrade the sound card and add a PhysX board, but I'd love to hear your suggestions!

    • @im.a.nickel
      @im.a.nickel Před 5 lety +165

      Get a Cooler Master HAF X case. It's from 2010, but It's looks way more time period accurate with that side fan. Also some cold cathode lighting. SLI GeForce 9800 GTX (or maybe Quad SLI 9800 GX2).

    • @Sebastian-dx9qg
      @Sebastian-dx9qg Před 5 lety +89

      I am pretty sure it was 3.5GB RAM limit for XP

    • @cheaterman49
      @cheaterman49 Před 5 lety +57

      You can actually put one more gig in there. I can't wait for the PhysX card review, I remember it from back in the day but I'm not sure if it qualifies as oddware or not :-) certainly didn't live up to the promise hehe.
      EDIT: Oh and please do tell us how much better Crysis works with your new RAM :-)

    • @blueferret21
      @blueferret21 Před 5 lety +29

      I have the original box and driver disk for the PhysX card if you need them!

    • @MrSkyl1ne
      @MrSkyl1ne Před 5 lety +23

      Auzentech X-Fi prelude soundcard and the 8800 Ultra. A logitech G15 keyboard and G5 mouse would also be nice and period correct. Maybe a badass windows XP skin and dual DVD drives (dual because that was badass back then).
      Maybe a ccfl tube at the botom of the case.

  • @LKonstantina915
    @LKonstantina915 Před 3 lety +1314

    10 years from now: So i bought a 3090 for 100$ since i couldnt afford one when it was released!

    • @maestrogringo
      @maestrogringo Před 2 lety +77

      LOL exactly, my next build in 5 years or so will have an RTX card and VR support but it'll already be outdated

    • @TH3C001
      @TH3C001 Před 2 lety +64

      Probably more like 15 years from now.

    • @informitas0117
      @informitas0117 Před 2 lety +104

      There will be no new gfx cards, the shortage will be the norm. During the water wars of the early 2060's the 3080 and 3090's will be used as "hard value" trade credits between the remaining city states.

    • @S.O.N.E
      @S.O.N.E Před 2 lety +2

      Im counting on it

    • @masternobody1896
      @masternobody1896 Před 2 lety +6

      no lgr already has rtx 3090

  • @qwertyuiopzxcfgh
    @qwertyuiopzxcfgh Před 5 lety +201

    "We're just going to pack it all in and hide it behind this pannel."
    My kind of cable management right there ^

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 Před 5 lety +9

      same here, but it's proven practical not only in terms of time saving but also in the case you want to change some parts and you don't have to unzip a thousand cable ties. yeah, best cable management imo.

    • @AGFuzzyPancake
      @AGFuzzyPancake Před 5 lety +1

      If that's not how it's intended to be done, how in the heck are you supposed to do it?!

    • @sechran
      @sechran Před 5 lety +10

      O u t o f s i g h t , o u t o f m i n d . . .

    • @crylune
      @crylune Před 2 měsíci

      I mean, I can't see it, what's the point? I never cable manage the back of my PC especially in case I wanna move stuff around. I'm the only one who looks there anyway - now if I were to build a PC for someone else, different story

  • @Stuff8522
    @Stuff8522 Před 3 lety +154

    Windows XP had a SOUNDTRACK! WHAT! I've used that OS for years, and I never heard any soundtrack.

    • @DefiantPunk0810
      @DefiantPunk0810 Před 3 lety +12

      Neither did I! But that's because Windows XP didn't have sound drivers for my setup by default, so I had to get them after all was said and done. I also never had the disk for the drivers, so yay, searching for old and unsupported parts drivers!

    • @adamkriaco3865
      @adamkriaco3865 Před 3 lety +1

      Me neither aswell

    • @luuk3213
      @luuk3213 Před 3 lety +2

      I heard it recently when setting up my virtual machine

    • @chuckanderson8144
      @chuckanderson8144 Před 3 lety +7

      The music only played just after a new user account was created and logged on for the first time. Artist is Brian Eno BTW.

    • @maggiethegamer1271
      @maggiethegamer1271 Před 3 lety +2

      @@chuckanderson8144 Nope, it was Stan LePard.

  • @emirvmendoza
    @emirvmendoza Před 3 lety +125

    5:30 I ordered Service Pack 2 through my Dad's office in 2004. The office borrowed the CD to upgrade all computers there. Haha.

  • @Vanzann
    @Vanzann Před 5 lety +234

    Seeing the Vice City & F.E.A.R. icons on a XP desktop filled me with more nostalgia than I expected.

    • @CommodoreFan64
      @CommodoreFan64 Před 5 lety +7

      Same here, and I still Play Vice City from time to time just to go around and cause chaos lol!

    • @CommodoreFan64
      @CommodoreFan64 Před 5 lety

      toilet brush I've done those, and the only thing I don't like is you can't swim, when I first played the game all those years ago on my PC I was like WTF?!? Thankfully Vice City Stories on the PS2 kind of fixed that, and GTA: SA for sure did, which I still play from time to time as well to drive around, and listen to music. GTA games always put me in a good mood when I'm having a bad/stressful day.

    • @CommodoreFan64
      @CommodoreFan64 Před 5 lety

      toilet brush One of the bad things about Vice City stories is it's only on the PS2, and PSP, and I'm not the biggest fan of using a controller with GTA games unless it's the Android versions(can't stand touch screen only controls) or China Town Wars on the DS/Android where it's built for it, and maybe it's just me, but I don't think the police are as bad in Vice City on the Android version, but they are still no cake walk either.
      Also I just rebuilt my work computer, and put Xubuntu 18.04 64bit, and was testing Steam for Linux, and Steam Play on some downtime to see what games would run, and I forgot how clunky the controls(both keyboard/mouse, and controller) are for the original the top down GTA games(I got all the games up to GTA 4 on a weekend Steam sale for $20 years back), and really took me a few minutes to get decent again lol.

  • @TheRetroNobody
    @TheRetroNobody Před 5 lety +3883

    That CPU heat sink may lead to time travel.

    • @videopsybeam7220
      @videopsybeam7220 Před 5 lety +127

      At 7:40 the motherboard looks like a carnival with a Ferris Wheel.
      This is a compliment, of course.

    • @Demindrial
      @Demindrial Před 5 lety +24

      Scrolled down in hopes of seeing this comment already, and here it is.
      LGR actually built a time machine to 2007-2008.

    • @kilrahvp
      @kilrahvp Před 5 lety +12

      It's absolutely beautiful!

    • @paulpillau5858
      @paulpillau5858 Před 5 lety +41

      As long as you don't pump 1.21 GW of power into it while accelerating to 88 mph you'll be fine.

    • @RustyX2010
      @RustyX2010 Před 5 lety +10

      fold space like in Event Horizon!

  • @emp.splash
    @emp.splash Před 3 lety +147

    Wow, RAID 0 on two 10000 rpm hard drives. Was an absolutely outrageous thought back then.

    • @ksp1278
      @ksp1278 Před 3 lety +32

      Yep. It was. I had dual 300gb raptors on my PC build back early 2008. It was pretty close to identical to this one in terms of spec. Except I had an nforce 780 motherboard, qx9650 cpu, dual GTS 8800 512 and 8gb RAM. I put Vista on it originally, . It was crazy fast. Since then I have upgraded the GPU to a GTX 970 and it dual boots between XP and Windows 7. The hard drives still work fine after 12 years use! It can still play some modern titles on low settings, but I have a Ryzen for those games. This "beast" PC is for my older games. I LOVE IT.

  • @XanetySeven
    @XanetySeven Před 3 lety +1010

    I miss how nice XP was without all the “cloud” based bs

    • @uwu_peter
      @uwu_peter Před 3 lety +94

      pretty much the cloud based bs started with Windows 7, got way cloudier with Windows 8, and is almost only cloudy with Windows 10

    • @liberator48
      @liberator48 Před 3 lety +11

      You're just not using cloud right...

    • @LegoWormNoah101
      @LegoWormNoah101 Před 3 lety +12

      There are clouds...on the desktop X3

    • @fl570
      @fl570 Před 3 lety +14

      @@uwu_peter "almost only *overcast** with Windows 10" ;-)

    • @wut6922
      @wut6922 Před 3 lety +7

      Welcome to 2021. Where everything is online all the time.

  • @Vienna3080
    @Vienna3080 Před 4 lety +1808

    “With a roll of toilet paper for a Video card”
    Damn that’s quite valuable in today’s markets

  • @philscomputerlab
    @philscomputerlab Před 5 lety +432

    Oh my, that build ticks all the boxes! Extreme Edition, Quad Core, SLI, WD RAID. It's great seeing you branch out to XP / more modern stuff, there is whole new world out there with lots of fun!

    • @GotoTechReviewsChannel
      @GotoTechReviewsChannel Před 5 lety +17

      An LGR\Phil collab needs to happen.

    • @nerdyneedsalife8315
      @nerdyneedsalife8315 Před 5 lety +12

      What's funny is I'm 21 so while many would consider it newer, I think of XP as this ancient OS. It's just hilarious how perspectives are different just because of age.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab Před 5 lety +23

      nerdyneedsalife What I really like about Clint, is that he seems comfortable with different eras / time periods. I know plenty that are "set" on one era, and refuse to branch out. I find every era interesting and I have good memories for all of them, not just childhood :)

    • @creesch
      @creesch Před 5 lety +1

      Well It is still a bunch newer than the 80s and 90s era hardware we see here often ;)

    • @jk9554
      @jk9554 Před 5 lety

      @PhilsComputerLab "More modern stuff" just made my day :D

  • @ipoopmuffins
    @ipoopmuffins Před rokem +28

    this remains one of my favorite builds on youtube. im fascinated with SLI setups, active cooling chipsets, and odd cpu coolers for some reason.

    • @BrucifyMe
      @BrucifyMe Před 4 měsíci

      They're things you just don't see anymore. We still get the occasional whacky CPU cooler like the Thermaltake Engine 27, but nothing quite this extreme. At a certain point, with today's high end components, it's either Big Noctua Block or liquid cooling, basically nothing else.

  • @TechBuilder
    @TechBuilder Před 2 lety +34

    Core2 Extreme & 8800 Ultra SLI was the bomb when I was little :( It was just a dream for me a few years back. Was only using a pentium 4 with a 64MB gpu back at that time. 13 years later, was finally able to save up for a Ry9 5950X and RTX3070. Your vid game me so nostalgic feels during the times I could only dream of having stuff that didn't lag on the lowest settings. Thank you for this! ❤️

  • @Heru3005
    @Heru3005 Před 5 lety +377

    Seeing games and PC's from 2007/8 on a retro focused channel making me feel old af.

    • @Your_username_
      @Your_username_ Před 5 lety +10

      Cavey Möth Are SATA and PCIe outdated? When did this happen?

    • @KiLLUMiNATii
      @KiLLUMiNATii Před 5 lety +6

      Make you “feel” ? You ARE old a.f :)
      Me too 😒

    • @lashyndragon
      @lashyndragon Před 5 lety +15

      Ikr, I mean I know XP is old and no longer supported, but to consider it retro...

    • @010111010110
      @010111010110 Před 5 lety +2

      u r old

    • @jackedup447
      @jackedup447 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Your_username_ Its not really outdated, but the move to nvme drives sure does make sata 2.0 seem a little outdated. And besides we are up to like the 4th PCIe revision so PCIe 1.0 is pretty old by now I think.

  • @DONBUBRO
    @DONBUBRO Před 5 lety +78

    The heat sink is absolutely stupendous.

  • @nurk_barry
    @nurk_barry Před 2 lety +18

    XP was the OS that cemented my passion for PCs and spurred along my knowledge of Windows in general. 98 got the ball rolling as I started going y see the hood a lot on 98, but I distinctly remember being extremely happy about XP when it came out, knowing that it was the first consumer Windows that wasn’t based on Dos. To this day I think my skill set and knowledge of the inner workings of Windows was the strongest during XP. I now find myself as an IT tech once again at a corporate Job, and I’m digging into Windows 10 once again.

  • @MUSiCK9
    @MUSiCK9 Před 2 lety +83

    Couple of years later & I still absolutely adore this build, There hasn't been another pc build that made me seriously want to buy and build a pc then this

    • @zeza5000
      @zeza5000 Před rokem +2

      and this was the first video i watched from LGR.

  • @sneekicheeki1840
    @sneekicheeki1840 Před 4 lety +780

    Cost back then: $3,588
    Cost today: about tree fiddy

    • @thescreemregular5168
      @thescreemregular5168 Před 4 lety +27

      Your a man/woman of culture!

    • @Andytlp
      @Andytlp Před 4 lety +13

      play with it like you paid for it. A whole tree fiddy

    • @LaurentValette1234
      @LaurentValette1234 Před 3 lety +18

      Yep but still enough in 2020 for 98 % of human beens of this planet....My mother has always my DEL XPS of 2007.
      I just installed 8 GB RAM and Windows 10 with a Samsung SSD....No difference for internet surfing or office jobs with a Core i9 !

    • @crylune
      @crylune Před 3 lety +16

      @@LaurentValette1234 "Core i9" lmao ryzen gang

    • @skoda8666
      @skoda8666 Před 3 lety +11

      @@LaurentValette1234 i9? Do you mean throw money on the wind?

  • @cjbael
    @cjbael Před 4 lety +1000

    Windows XP was the best OS ever for me, worked so well, super easy to use, everything about it just felt great.

    • @niffuM4205
      @niffuM4205 Před 3 lety +46

      i remember playing sonic flash games on my moms work computer that was a windows XP. i love windows xp.

    • @mohamadariq3881
      @mohamadariq3881 Před 3 lety +16

      You're too old man

    • @vinyl.croatia
      @vinyl.croatia Před 3 lety +61

      Yes, XP was very good os, and I used it for quiet a long time, in fact, i still use it on virtualbox, but for me the best os was Windows 7, it was just easier to use than XP.

    • @DeLorean4
      @DeLorean4 Před 3 lety +14

      XP worked well for me too, but I'm one of the only people to have had a flawless experience with Windows Me and Windows 8.0. They are still my favorite OSes

    • @vinyl.croatia
      @vinyl.croatia Před 3 lety +7

      @@DeLorean4 yes, i still use windows 8.1 on my laptop and with classic shell it is very simmilar expierence with windows 7

  • @happysmash27
    @happysmash27 Před 3 lety +40

    1:28: Building ultimate systems from specific eras is fun... kind of for bragging rights. It's nice to have something top-of-the-line in its category or for its era, rather than merely something good enough to work; it's fun to be able to get a system that was once the best money could buy, for a budget that is actually affordable.

  • @cranbers
    @cranbers Před 3 lety +5

    I had this same setup in 2008! Brought back some nestalgia, thanks for the time! Love the channel.

  • @kommandokodiak6025
    @kommandokodiak6025 Před 5 lety +197

    I love how you avoided showing the thermal paste application to dodge all that drama lol

    • @switch55
      @switch55 Před 4 lety +5

      Prob put a marble-sized drop on there and went everywhere

    • @AaronD12a
      @AaronD12a Před 4 lety +1

      Heh, I noticed that too. :)

    • @Racecar564
      @Racecar564 Před 4 lety +12

      Ah yes, thermal paste application: something that, when shown to anyone, you have no idea what they're going to say...until it's too late.

    • @competetodefeat4610
      @competetodefeat4610 Před 4 lety +1

      Didn't have one side of one of the memory modules fully latched on one side though which was probably the entire memory error problem.

    • @Racecar564
      @Racecar564 Před 4 lety

      @@competetodefeat4610 Lol

  • @RiskyBRiskyB
    @RiskyBRiskyB Před 5 lety +389

    Only Clint would buy a $3.5k pc to play space cadet pinball.

    • @jigglypuff52
      @jigglypuff52 Před 5 lety +29

      3,500 back in the day. It's much cheaper to build now.

    • @JollyOldCanuck
      @JollyOldCanuck Před 5 lety +37

      He said he got it for $200 bucks, it would have cost $3500 back in the day.

    • @jope5881
      @jope5881 Před 5 lety

      true

    • @phrog.4809
      @phrog.4809 Před 5 lety

      3.5k for this, wow, I can go on Amazon right now and find parts for a RTX 2080 Ti PC under that, even a prebuilt one would be about 2.4k

    • @TheDoritoFan80
      @TheDoritoFan80 Před 5 lety +5

      @@phrog.4809 3500$ back in 2006/2007. Now 200$

  • @profibamboo
    @profibamboo Před 2 lety +7

    The Oblivion Theme gave me chills. I loved this game as a kid. Holy.

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 Před rokem

      so buy the parts and build your dream windows xp gaming machine for 200 dollars when it cost over 3500 brand new

    • @Clos93
      @Clos93 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@raven4k998or forget XP all together and just use Windows 10 and GOG. Most popular games that have compatibility issues work in Windows 10 with patches. I have a Dell Vostro pimped out with a modern 12th Gen Intel ITX board, RX 6400, 32gb of Ram. Hooked up to a Dell E770s VGA CRT from 2000. Able to play original Doom, Duke 3D, Crysis, Quake 2 remastered, UT99, Cyberpunk 2077, all on the same PC. Playing Doom Eternal on a CRT at 85hz is glorious!

  • @remakeyourself
    @remakeyourself Před 2 lety +10

    "There's something about vast rows of shining metal fins and piping that never ceases to amuse" - The man is a damn poet.

  • @therealsnow
    @therealsnow Před 5 lety +400

    So the key to having a cutting edge system on a budget is just to lag by 10yrs, sweet!

    • @LukeYount
      @LukeYount Před 5 lety +15

      Definitely, I picked up a used Dell M6400 mobile work station for 100 bucks. Its an 8lb brick and in 2008 it was one of the most expensive laptops you could buy.

    • @megadan429
      @megadan429 Před 5 lety +1

      Yep.. Just like me, therealsnow...lol

    • @005AGIMA
      @005AGIMA Před 5 lety +24

      Even now I tend to lag a year or 2 behind, in both PC gear and consoles. Seems to be a sweet spot

    • @CheapBastard1988
      @CheapBastard1988 Před 4 lety +6

      Games are cheaper as well.

    • @CeroAshura
      @CeroAshura Před 4 lety +6

      @@005AGIMA it's good to live with a little lag. By the time I buy a console, 2 generations have lept.

  • @TwinkleNZ
    @TwinkleNZ Před 5 lety +1707

    *builds $4k PC*
    *plays 3d pinball space cadet*
    Me: Wow I would get that

    • @mayravixx25
      @mayravixx25 Před 5 lety +10

      If I had the money, I'd do the same too to be honest lol

    • @Maccat
      @Maccat Před 5 lety +3

      I spent slighty more on my new tower and the day i finished building it my wife claimed it and it is now a business/ cad pc ;'-( Im still using the gaming rig i built in 2009 for this reason.... its amazing it still works being overclocked hard everyday of its life!

    • @SteveDaBartender
      @SteveDaBartender Před 5 lety +3

      @@Maccat why dont you two just trade computers?

    • @amirdahan5660
      @amirdahan5660 Před 4 lety +1

      Wow that is relatable (reference to something)

    • @Itisyes22
      @Itisyes22 Před 4 lety

      *wow*

  • @rougeneon1997
    @rougeneon1997 Před 2 lety +5

    Man i TOTALLY understand wanting to use older stuff you drooled over back in the day. Im an avid "Old School Stereo" enthusiast and we often do the same thing with stereos in cars. ✌

  • @slamscaper128
    @slamscaper128 Před rokem

    It's amazing how close you came to my actual build from that time period! Brings me back. I love this!

  • @paolostrada93
    @paolostrada93 Před 4 lety +222

    So much nostalgia. Hours and hours spent on Guru3d reading articles about GPUs I could never afford.

    • @XTNDEADPLAY
      @XTNDEADPLAY Před 4 lety +1

      Paul Street what about now though?

    • @brianwong6195
      @brianwong6195 Před 4 lety +10

      Same here. For me, this was the pinnacle of watching PC hardware. Always reading and looking forward to the new GPU release even though I was never able to afford them. Then Sandy Bridge came along in 2010 and shit was stagnant for years.

    • @Andytlp
      @Andytlp Před 4 lety +4

      @@brianwong6195 Its still stagnant except for increase in core count. U can easily game on a 6 year old gpu today. gtx 970. If it was 2000 to 2006 your 2000 pc would have lasted maybe until 2002 tops. I dont mind as now you can game on stuff til they mechanically fail instead of having to replace perfectly working machines.

    • @MrSafer
      @MrSafer Před 4 lety +1

      @@XTNDEADPLAY you didn't ask me but i will tell you. For the first time i decided to buy a decent video card. Decided to go with nvidia because they have the best cards right now. They have a newish series of cards out right now, GeForce RTX i decided to get the 2080 super ~$600. In certain situations they even beat the ti! which is priced at about $1,000.

    • @HystericalHuntress
      @HystericalHuntress Před 4 lety

      ​@@Andytlp You are laughably wrong. The leaps in GPU performance over the past few years are absolutely insane, with the coming generation of hardware 4K will probably become the standard on PC. Intel and AMD both have also come a long way, AMD especially, in the CPU world. If your only reference for stagnation is 1080P gaming, that's your problem. Next gen consoles are also going to be pushing storage tech waaaay ahead. But I guess computation power skyrocketing, real time hardware raytracing, 20GB/s+ storage speeds, workstation and server CPU's going apeshit and everything else happening is 'stagnation' in your muddled brain. Also keep in mind software optimization is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was in the past, which is another huge factor.
      Your statement of hardware still being stagnant is a meme and a GTX 970 is not going to keep up worth a fuck today unless you exclusively play indie games or older AAA titles.. unless low-medium 720-900P is your go-to or you're fine with 20-30FPS. Even an RX 590 Fatboy (my old GPU before upgrading to a 5700 XT) which is a far more capable card than the 970 shows its age hard today. Just because your $300 budget machine can launch games from 2010 in 1080P 30FPS doesn't mean hardware is stagnant. You're an idiot, the age of 60FPS/1080P being the standard is dead.. you just don't realize it because you're wallet-limited I would assume. TWO fucking 970's in SLi can't even achieve Ultra 1080P 60FPS in a game like Fallout 4 which is hardly the pinnacle of demanding software.. but hey it's 'just fine' and 'future proof' by your incoherent rambling.
      Stop looking to 1080P benchmarks and you'll quickly realize the technology isn't stagnant, it's underutilized at those resolutions. Benchmark a 970 against a 5700XT / Radeon VII or a 2080 / 2080Ti in 1440P or 4K and you'll see massive gaps in performance.
      The only thing stagnant is 1080P gaming.

  • @RickinBaltimore
    @RickinBaltimore Před 5 lety +140

    PC Build? ✔️
    Relaxing smooth jazz? ✔️
    LGR Awesomeness? ✔️
    Oh yes, my day is made.

  • @osvaldosprandel2435
    @osvaldosprandel2435 Před 3 lety +14

    The perfect blend between modern and retro. Great Build.

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 Před rokem

      brings new meaning to the words can it play crysis🤣

  • @TDotHustla
    @TDotHustla Před 3 lety +1

    I only just found this channel the other day, and have been watching these videos non-stop. Great content.

  • @innawoodsman
    @innawoodsman Před 4 lety +57

    There's something about late 00s PCs that's just so aesthetically pleasing to me. I love my RGB and sleek GPU designs, but exposed, spiky PCBs and heatsinks just gills me with nostalgia.

  • @BudgetBuildsOfficial
    @BudgetBuildsOfficial Před 5 lety +766

    Haven't quite finished the video yet, but just wanted to say that the one thing about the Core2 Series and what it still has going for it is that it's *narrowly* good enough for most modern use tasks, but completely own it for retro tasks in terms of support and power.
    I've been considering an LGA775 based Retro system on it for a while, but im not too sure it's time to say goodbye to my PGA478 PC just yet.
    Now I get to enjoy the rest of the already brilliant video.

    • @brokenacoustic
      @brokenacoustic Před 5 lety +10

      My computer is an old hp workstation, this summer I upgraded the cpu to a Core2 Extreme QX6700, running windows 10 with 8gb of ram. Cant really game on it except older stuff, but the system works well enough for everything else. I do need some heatsinks on the VRMs though, they get quite a bit warmer with this cpu. (lol my disk drive is also a LightScribe)

    • @andrewhamop6665
      @andrewhamop6665 Před 5 lety

      Oh hi!

    • @ultrasom
      @ultrasom Před 5 lety +3

      >"but completely own it for retro tasks in terms of support and power. "
      orly?

    • @MarcosCodas
      @MarcosCodas Před 5 lety +2

      What's up, Hamish? Good to see you here, bud, haha.

    • @EvilTurkeySlices
      @EvilTurkeySlices Před 5 lety +4

      I love lga 775, it’s my favorite socket.

  • @raphialhebert
    @raphialhebert Před 2 lety +3

    The moment I saw you pull out that motherboard from its packaging I about died of nostalgia. I MISS this motherboard, had one up until about 2012. I also have EVGA's lower end model with the x2 PCI express lanes instead of the higher end x3 lanes. Those boards were awesome mobos for the time, and still hold up today. One of EVGA's last shining stars.

  • @ThunderHorsePyro
    @ThunderHorsePyro Před rokem +1

    I loved this video. I can't even remember how many XP builds I've done in my life and this brought back so many good memories. I still have about seven XP cases and four of them still work. And a whole mess of parts from pre 2010. I hope I get the chance to mess around with them again.

  • @E3kHatena
    @E3kHatena Před 5 lety +385

    This video hit me with the realization that Windows 7 is rapidly approaching "retro" territory.
    Oh no.

    • @PassiveDestroyer
      @PassiveDestroyer Před 5 lety +23

      But I still use Windows 7 on a 2012 laptop/notebook!

    • @yellowcrash10
      @yellowcrash10 Před 5 lety +55

      I also use Windows 7 if I can help it. Windows 10 is abhorrent.

    • @maxx_2245
      @maxx_2245 Před 5 lety +52

      Mykel Hardin run games with safe disk DRM, not send Microsoft any usage data, not be forced into an update, be able to use software which said updates can totally fuck up out of nowhere.
      Windows 7 is a fine OS and I still use it on my PC. I don’t see any real reason to upgrade especially since I like my older games readily accessible without having to tinker with OS bullshit.

    • @perikholt3395
      @perikholt3395 Před 5 lety +36

      Non-bloated, non-spyware retro OS.

    • @thepirategamerboy12
      @thepirategamerboy12 Před 5 lety +7

      I disagree. I refuse to consider WinXP retro, either.

  • @susiemangolinie
    @susiemangolinie Před 5 lety +288

    High FPS achieved: 3846
    Lowest FPS: 1

  • @eggamyer3371
    @eggamyer3371 Před 2 lety +14

    Back in the day a setup like this was a dream to me.

  • @80s_Gamr
    @80s_Gamr Před 3 lety +1

    Man... watching those games really took me down memory lane. Thanks!

  • @stimmymayhem3201
    @stimmymayhem3201 Před 4 lety +331

    i like how you carefully edited out any shot of the CPU with the thermal paste. 100% no matter how you applied it there would be comments.

    • @nihonkokusai
      @nihonkokusai Před 3 lety +10

      why would anyone discuss that? They will find out themselves when applied wrong. I just smear it out thinly. Been doing that on my desktop and server and non issues running full tilt........

    • @audreykea7771
      @audreykea7771 Před 3 lety +43

      @@nihonkokusai it's sort of turned into a PCmasterrace pissing match where everyone has their own 'superior' method of applying paste and will readily argue with anyone who disagrees

    • @generalbash89
      @generalbash89 Před 3 lety +76

      @@audreykea7771 if isn't applied with a authentic bone caviar spoon during a full moon, you are doing it wrong.

    • @drb0mb
      @drb0mb Před 3 lety +12

      @@nihonkokusai it's basically impossible to do wrong, but it's impossible to do perfect also. and you can't even observe how well you applied it because doing so physically damages it, so it's an argument for the sake of speculating about the perfect way.

    • @jianh1989
      @jianh1989 Před 2 lety +14

      @@nihonkokusai even after thermal paste segment get edited out, somebody still comments.

  • @toshineon
    @toshineon Před 4 lety +68

    This was fun to watch. My dad had a beast Windows XP computer that he bought in early 2004 for the cool sum of $4600. I still have it around, my dad gave it to me in 2010 when it finally retired after 6 years of faithful service.

    • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
      @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 3 lety

      Nice 👍
      We had a early Pentium 4 XP desktop.I forgot the specs but I remember my mass disappointment it couldn't run the original Star Wars battle front

    • @luuk3213
      @luuk3213 Před 3 lety +1

      is that how long computers are supposed to last? I had my 2 computers from 2007(made in 2000 or 1999)-2015 and the other 2016-current, and i thought I'd get a few more years out of it

    • @fuher1313
      @fuher1313 Před 2 lety +2

      @@luuk3213 well that depends on what you´re using them for, but yes computers may last 10 plus years for school or some business.

  • @istephano2207
    @istephano2207 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for this video i enjoyed it so much, I went down memory lane straight away!

  • @Noaasd
    @Noaasd Před 3 lety +5

    Could be great to hear the sounds of the fans and the entire machine working, it's quite satisfying to enjoy what you're hearing.
    Greetings from Chile

    • @UNSCPILOT
      @UNSCPILOT Před rokem

      An series of LGR Blerbs with him just recording the sounds of his PCs, alike his IBM AT video, would be awesome

  • @Andy-rr6hz
    @Andy-rr6hz Před 5 lety +1320

    Windows XP, A man of culture I see. (sips wine)

    • @misteuraxe691
      @misteuraxe691 Před 5 lety +78

      it was such an awesome OS back in the day. too bad it's pretty useless with modern software.

    • @xplinux22
      @xplinux22 Před 5 lety +63

      *tasteful piano and violin Windows login sound plays*

    • @yellowblanka6058
      @yellowblanka6058 Před 5 lety +18

      @@misteuraxe691 - IIRC there were definitely some teething issues with XP, though it did eventually become a very solid OS.

    • @logicalphallusy2364
      @logicalphallusy2364 Před 5 lety +20

      Wine is a Windows emulator. That's the type of wine us Linux users sip on. ;)

    • @denniswoycheshen
      @denniswoycheshen Před 5 lety +6

      @Isaiah Cox yeah it's more integrated than that..... Running the programs more natively than an emulator. Steam is apparently making good strides towards plug and play windows games and programs on Linux. It's pretty interesting, although a little frustrating.

  • @redtails
    @redtails Před 4 lety +301

    I love how he never showed the thermal paste, cus it's always such a heated debate in the comments

    • @jjt171
      @jjt171 Před 4 lety +20

      well if he put the thermal pasted correctly it wouldnt be such a HEATED topic!!
      see what I did there?

    • @KeradSnake
      @KeradSnake Před 4 lety +13

      don't worry, LGR isn't The Verge

    • @iamsk8
      @iamsk8 Před 4 lety +1

      Just shut up

    • @waxy1277
      @waxy1277 Před 4 lety +10

      Your comment about thermal paste is too long. YOU DON'T NEED THAT MUCH COMMENT!! Ten Syllables is enough. Worse than The Verge.

    • @runninggames771
      @runninggames771 Před 4 lety

      It was probably pre-applied

  • @MarioHerreraTJ
    @MarioHerreraTJ Před 2 lety +2

    Cool video man. Lot's of good memories from the time I ran XP and made my own custom XP installations. My first gaming PC build by me, was a AMD 1.1 gigahertz Thunderbird with an Nvidia TNT graphics card. Good times

  • @gabeferreira1609
    @gabeferreira1609 Před 2 lety +3

    Microsoft Windows XP is my favorite operating system in the world. I have a computer at my house that runs windows xp. I also would wish to have a windows xp gaming PC too! Great video man! Love it!

  • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
    @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 5 lety +67

    Windows XP the windows that refuses to die!

    • @NoNant55
      @NoNant55 Před 5 lety +5

      no joke, I've only been XP-free since this april

    • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
      @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 5 lety +5

      @@NoNant55Won't ever be XP free Even if my XP laptop dies I have virtual clone of the hard drive to play with lol.

    • @DrAnGeber
      @DrAnGeber Před 5 lety +5

      I had XP until 2013. What a great OS

    • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
      @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 5 lety +4

      @@DrAnGeber Yup it is.

    • @PistigriloXP
      @PistigriloXP Před 5 lety +3

      I love Windows XP!

  • @thevirtualnomad7269
    @thevirtualnomad7269 Před 5 lety +47

    *startup sound intensifies*

  • @k6004203
    @k6004203 Před 3 lety

    tons of memories pop out from this video, awesome work!!!

  • @splatink
    @splatink Před rokem +3

    Something about building an old-new monster pc looked so good. Modern PC cases miss front panel bays, no CD Drive, no cool sound cards with front panel bays. Their HDD mounts are crap, an afterthought most of the time, since they assume most will use SSDs anyways.
    Also those 10K RPM drives look so cool, shame we don't have such things and are stuck with generic 7200RPM HDDs, sure their performance is similar and they are new and quiet but something about 10K rpm makes me want 10 of them!
    Old cases really looked after comfort. Easy to use and well built hard drive cages, lots of modularity for installing DVD drives, and everything else. Modern cases are total crap and are basically only look good (and provide decent airflow at least). Out of all the PC parts I bought, my biggest regret is the NZXT H510. No front mesh (sure it might not make a huge difference in temperatures but its an improvement), stupid AIO mount (said it supports 280mm but only supports 240mm AIOs, ended up hammering the mount to make it fit). And everything is really tight.

  • @TheCupRamen
    @TheCupRamen Před 4 lety +475

    This windows XP PC is better then my main PC

  • @devinself2104
    @devinself2104 Před 2 lety +2

    That was fun, thank you for doing this!

  • @badrolix
    @badrolix Před 3 lety +166

    The best foreign channel about retro computers. They love him in Russia!

  • @formdusktilldeath
    @formdusktilldeath Před 5 lety +200

    But does it run... oh it does. I see myself out now...

    • @roborobo8370
      @roborobo8370 Před 5 lety +10

      does it run pong. its very unoptimized and very slow on my pc

    • @baragonkunfan94thesecondar60
      @baragonkunfan94thesecondar60 Před 5 lety

      Odenta yes do you seriously run the computer that ran tennis for two and that space game from the 60’s

    • @obamascock2169
      @obamascock2169 Před 4 lety

      @@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60 Pong and Spacewar

  • @hungryhungryhummer
    @hungryhungryhummer Před 5 lety +778

    The reason your pc wasn’t booting with 2 sticks is because you have them in the wrong slots. Often motherboards won’t boot with the wrong slots. With only 2 slots you use the second and fourth ones from the cpu socket. Plz like this so he sees it.

    • @rager7709
      @rager7709 Před 5 lety +18

      DarthSmartt I can confirm this on my motherboard I had to do this

    • @goreobsessed2308
      @goreobsessed2308 Před 5 lety +11

      It's true I learned it the hard way why I couldn't tell you use 2nd and forth slot it will help

    • @TheCubsOnly
      @TheCubsOnly Před 5 lety +82

      This only applies to some motherboards. Read the manual to see where your sticks go, it varies by manufacturer.

    • @royalkiller2
      @royalkiller2 Před 5 lety +30

      Actually it looked like he forgot to clip the ramm all the way in the first time. You can clearly see the clip isn’t lined up with the empty slots.

    • @CreativeTimelapses2hondamax
      @CreativeTimelapses2hondamax Před 5 lety +2

      nah, im pretty sure its the first and third slots

  • @heir2n018
    @heir2n018 Před 3 lety +1

    Oh man, there's something about watching these videos thats just nostalgic in a mid 2000s sort of way. This stuff takes me back

  • @neo6289
    @neo6289 Před 7 měsíci

    i love your retro pc build videos looking forward to the next!!

  • @kngkeeper
    @kngkeeper Před 5 lety +58

    I totally think that cooling looks excessive... That's why I love it

    • @1310up
      @1310up Před 5 lety +2

      Cool your computer, destroy your enemy!

    • @sjarken3979
      @sjarken3979 Před 5 lety +3

      Its not optimal when it comes to airflow, but it does looks cool, also he placed a fan directly behind the cooler so i think it will be just fine.

    • @TheAdatto
      @TheAdatto Před 5 lety

      Is a great cooler. Liked the Zalman coolers too in that era

    • @Jamie-kg8ig
      @Jamie-kg8ig Před 5 lety

      Looks like a jet engine, which makes it really cool.

  • @segaboy9894
    @segaboy9894 Před 5 lety +514

    All this hardware is ancient, but somehow feels far too modern for this channel.😂

    • @flintwestwood5920
      @flintwestwood5920 Před 5 lety +24

      Agree. 21st century tech just doesn't create the same sense of nostalgia as the good stuff from the 90s and before.

    • @zohan174
      @zohan174 Před 5 lety +7

      Flint Westwood uhh this hardware was from around 2007 lmao

    • @segaboy9894
      @segaboy9894 Před 5 lety +18

      @@zohan174 you must not watch a lot of LGR... 😂 The bulk of things on here is from 1993-1997

    • @AE86ofMtAkina
      @AE86ofMtAkina Před 5 lety +7

      My pc still has a Core 2 Quad lol

    • @weirdmindofesh
      @weirdmindofesh Před 5 lety +1

      Hell, I'm working on an XP gaming machine now, and it seems too new for things...

  • @frazerbrennan9245
    @frazerbrennan9245 Před 2 lety +5

    As a fellow wearer of spectacles. I appreciate how clean you keep them.

  • @the1ucidone
    @the1ucidone Před 3 lety

    I must have watched this one video about a hundred times. Sometimes I fall asleep to it just to relax. I love it so much.

  • @matteocristini6221
    @matteocristini6221 Před 5 lety +49

    LGR makes a video about DOS and windows 95 - I can't remember those I'm still young
    LGR makes a video about windows XP - heck I'm getting old

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi Před 5 lety

      still using XP now. fuck everyone.
      nice to know if anything happens I could apparently make a new, better one for not a lotta cash.

    • @AGFuzzyPancake
      @AGFuzzyPancake Před 5 lety +1

      I was born in 1994 but my parents kept their Windows 95 machine until at least 2003, so I remember it... for being a POS. My brother, sister, and myself literally danced and sang on Christmas day when we opened a Windows XP machine.

    • @Wesuwius
      @Wesuwius Před 5 lety +3

      Welcome to the club boyo. Except i started with commodore 64 :P

    • @itstheweirdguy
      @itstheweirdguy Před 5 lety

      @@KairuHakubi I don't use XP because I refuse to use insecure and unsupported OS and software. You should be using GNU/Linux if you have this attitude. You can even run 32 bit Windows 10 and run a lot of old apps still, just as well as Win 7 in most cases ;)

  • @user-fs4st2eb4l
    @user-fs4st2eb4l Před 5 lety +135

    He made me like him instantly... Started with 'greetings', instead of god damn 'hey guys' and moderate, gentle voice is so good

    • @myolgiden
      @myolgiden Před 5 lety +2

      잠시만요

    • @alpasel3003
      @alpasel3003 Před 5 lety +19

      It's a shame that people sometimes don't know how to react with their audience on youtube, I used to watch gaming videos for commentators some are in Arabic and others in English, and i can say it's a wide spread problem, they all start their videos talking fast and loud, so fast it's like they're running out of time, also, some of them use intros that can go for up to 10-20 seconds, come on I already know the chanel i don't need to see its name flipping on the screen with that annoying free music.

    • @Austin.D
      @Austin.D Před 5 lety +2

      Ok

    • @megapimpsword
      @megapimpsword Před 5 lety +3

      Hey austin, this is guys.

    • @Neo1HFS
      @Neo1HFS Před 5 lety

      Content Creator: "Greetings..." :)
      Me: "Hello" :)
      vs.
      Content Creator: "What is up? It's your boy..." XD
      Me: "I am 100% sure you couldn't care less about "what is up /how are we doing today"... and you are not my boy/pal/homie etc." :l

  • @Alkatross
    @Alkatross Před 3 lety +17

    What a trip down memory lane. Makes me want to put my xp machine back together. The only game missing was Painkiller

  • @Danefrak
    @Danefrak Před 5 měsíci +1

    I felt when that cable didnt plug into that motherboard with how everything was setup, more than ive felt anything in over a decade of watching CZcams videos. Thanks for this amazing video. I had to leave a comment right after seeing that

  • @montmn
    @montmn Před 5 lety +52

    This dude should do voice overs. I could hear him voicing How It's Made or something.

  • @Finchnz
    @Finchnz Před 5 lety +310

    lol, this is the first time I realised that windows xp install had a sound track.

    • @mycophobia
      @mycophobia Před 5 lety +44

      the first hundred times I reinstalled XP I had to install sound drivers after, but then that 101st time when I had gotten a new natively supported sound card I was like "whoa"

    • @Amber57499
      @Amber57499 Před 5 lety +5

      Me too, everytime I installed Windows XP I spent about 6 hours trying to find the audio driver because my sound card never had native support

    • @tomazmatko7243
      @tomazmatko7243 Před 4 lety +17

      I installed xp so many times i memorized the 25 characters long key code, but found out about the music just now.

    • @MacCanma
      @MacCanma Před 4 lety

      holy crap i never knew that 😅🤔

    • @dreded7961
      @dreded7961 Před 4 lety +4

      dont feel bad, I installed XP 1000's and 1000's of times(ran a very busy computer shop at the time) and I didnt even know that as we never plugged in speakers until final testing.

  • @DarkSide3211
    @DarkSide3211 Před 3 lety +23

    1:06 I never knew or even ever have seen a CPU cooler that looked like that. pretty dope

  • @jeremyusbourne6289
    @jeremyusbourne6289 Před 3 lety

    Love it Clint! Looks amazing

  • @Dark.Shingo
    @Dark.Shingo Před 5 lety +23

    -And now I'll install Windows XP...
    *BSOD*
    -So everything goes as planned...

  • @rtas
    @rtas Před 5 lety +25

    ah, the memories of the windows xp installation theme

  • @theRavePants
    @theRavePants Před 3 lety +3

    Rewatching this and I like how instead of just putting a floppy drive in there you went through all the steps of creating a custom ISO for XP. That's gold. 🤣🤣

  • @satina1169
    @satina1169 Před 2 lety +11

    Just recently replayed the first FEAR games & had a blast. Sad they don't make games like this anymore.

  • @ntrg3248
    @ntrg3248 Před 5 lety +62

    Life is pointless without Windows XP pinball

    • @stevef6392
      @stevef6392 Před 5 lety +1

      I remember it being there in 98!

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane Před 5 lety

      Indeed. Why not install a copy on your modern Windows?
      www.groovypost.com/howto/windows-7-3d-pinball-space-cadet-game/

  • @BobofWOGGLE
    @BobofWOGGLE Před 5 lety +606

    That editing didn't fool me, I know you used the _wrong_ amount of thermal paste.

    • @GazelleEdge
      @GazelleEdge Před 5 lety +11

      No, LGR used the right amout of thermal paste

    • @TheBrokenLife
      @TheBrokenLife Před 5 lety +100

      I knew he didn't show it, or his technique, just so he wouldn't have 10,000 comments complaining about it. haha

    • @nathanhamman418
      @nathanhamman418 Před 5 lety +25

      Gotta use about a tube and a half or its not enough

    • @catherineholmes8423
      @catherineholmes8423 Před 5 lety +13

      A pea sized drop it the middle is more than enough

    • @VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan
      @VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan Před 5 lety +10

      Haha, I was pretty aware about the cut too. I was asking myself "is he showing it?" - "Nope".
      Greetings

  • @raineyjayy
    @raineyjayy Před 4 měsíci

    So cool. Glad you got to build your dream!

  • @kaylanwade3392
    @kaylanwade3392 Před 4 měsíci

    Thanks for covering this era sir!

  • @CaesarBest
    @CaesarBest Před 5 lety +182

    You didn't even use a swiss army knife

    • @MAIcrosoft
      @MAIcrosoft Před 5 lety +22

      No allen wrench or tweezers either :D

    • @Kepe
      @Kepe Před 5 lety +26

      But how on earth did he manage to install the CPU without a CPU installation bracket thingy and such a small amount of thermal paste??? :D

    • @thecchrist777cc6
      @thecchrist777cc6 Před 5 lety +9

      How did he get it to boot if his RAM isnt next to each other?

    • @SarkarMotion
      @SarkarMotion Před 5 lety +5

      And the power supply fan wasn't even throttling
      Get that unforgettable verge video up at my channel!

    • @mindaugas49ccm
      @mindaugas49ccm Před 5 lety +10

      And his power supply I mean BRICK did-int zinc short circuit with the system.

  • @MsStandart
    @MsStandart Před 5 lety +30

    This CPU cooler is a monster!

  • @jdwrdl
    @jdwrdl Před 11 dny

    This sounds awesome! I would have LOVED a windows XP machine like that back in the day!!!

  • @NateGreensides
    @NateGreensides Před 3 lety +1

    The nostalgic XP setup/install and music tho!

  • @DiggOlive
    @DiggOlive Před 4 lety +19

    I forgot about the Windows XP setup music!!!! So chill

  • @philipjfrys
    @philipjfrys Před 5 lety +43

    Oh that windows XP loading screen is so nostalgic

  • @evilstrawberrystudios890
    @evilstrawberrystudios890 Před 3 lety +3

    This video made me want to build my own XP gaming machine, Thank you.

  • @twokei2
    @twokei2 Před 3 lety +1

    even you build this way back 2018, its still a dreams come true!

  • @Aggrofool
    @Aggrofool Před 5 lety +89

    I spent a fortune on Q6600 + 8800GTX in 2007, and Crysis still fuggin chugged FML

    • @phaolo6
      @phaolo6 Před 5 lety +11

      Well, Crysis is just a badly optimized game, despite what the meme assumes :P

    • @Rathori
      @Rathori Před 5 lety +6

      Hey, I had pretty much the same setup back then, with 8 gigs of RAM :) Ran Crysis at ~25 FPS maxed out.

    • @mrsquishyboots
      @mrsquishyboots Před 5 lety +1

      My first build was in 2008. 7750 black edition athlon dual core. 2.6ghz oc to 3.1 lol. And a lowly ati 4850 512mb.

    • @Kepe
      @Kepe Před 5 lety +3

      I had a Q6600 + 8800 GTX as well. And yeah, I think Crysis needed medium settings to get 60 fps.

    • @111455
      @111455 Před 5 lety +1

      i had a athlon X2 6000+ and a 4850 single slot, you had it better than me till 2010 when i got me a i7 920 and a GTX275

  • @megafonebrad
    @megafonebrad Před 5 lety +28

    Wow! This is actually pretty awesome. I actually also just about finished building a "Retro" 2007-ish Gaming PC That my best friend and I would have had wet dreams about back when we were in school. As my family was pretty poor, I only ever had very old scrapped machines I tried to make the most out of. Essentially the strongest PC I had in high school was a 450Mhz Pentium 2 pared with a ATI Radeon 7000 64MB Graphics Card. I mean, if I could go back in time now and give myself this Retro PC I built now, I'm pretty sure I would have burst into tears. So today, I'm living the dream for my past self. This one's for you high-school me.

  • @Gareth820617
    @Gareth820617 Před 3 lety

    !!! I've never heard that windows xp installation music! over all the years and countless installations...how have i missed this crucial part of my childhood!

  • @megatron1877
    @megatron1877 Před 3 lety

    Dude I really love your channel:)

  • @digital_underground
    @digital_underground Před 4 lety +55

    Dude, that fan looked like a scaled down model of part of the Even Horizon ship.

  • @Xanderfied
    @Xanderfied Před 5 lety +126

    Best part of this video, editing that cuts out his method of applying thermal paste. Thank God. Arguments avoided over one of the dumbest things ever. Btw I have the exact same case in storage. Haha

    • @mrouw
      @mrouw Před 5 lety +12

      That's exactly what I thought when it came to it. Bulled dodged like a pro.

    • @kanonenfutter8433
      @kanonenfutter8433 Před 5 lety

      Nooo. I wanted to see :(

    • @NathanChisholm041
      @NathanChisholm041 Před 5 lety

      Your meant to apply it like your icing a cake!!

  • @feral7094
    @feral7094 Před rokem

    I have so much nostalgia with windows xp and early 2000s games like oblivion, crysis. I did grow up with old pcs and playing dos games but my teen years playing unreal goty, cs 1.6 and diablo 2 plus much more online with friends were such good times. Ah to be young again

  • @highlifejay3211
    @highlifejay3211 Před 2 lety +1

    Everytime i see windows xp my heart drops and i get thrown right back to my childhood. I remember first playing minecraft on a potato xp machine and falling in love. Both minecraft and xp will forever have a place in my heart. Not to mention paint, many hours i will never get back.

  • @minishthe2nd563
    @minishthe2nd563 Před 5 lety +111

    *puts everything on high settings* Some guy: HO-LY SHIT

    • @westomopresto
      @westomopresto Před 5 lety +6

      that HOLY SHIT from UT games always gets me laughing

    • @goqwertygo
      @goqwertygo Před 5 lety +5

      I played the he'll out of this Tetris PSP homebrew game every time you cleared a Tetris it played the same HOLY SHIT sound. And now I finally know where it came from 😂

  • @EposVox
    @EposVox Před 5 lety +83

    Ayyyy this is my kind of thing. Good stuff, man.

    • @LGR
      @LGR  Před 5 lety +14

      Happy to hear it, thanks!

  • @MIHAO
    @MIHAO Před 3 lety +7

    "Holy shit.." my reaction exactly when you started putting those components in

  • @80s_Gamr
    @80s_Gamr Před 3 lety +20

    Windows XP... the first OS that actually had a user-friendly installation interface. Pretty much the most stable OS they made too. They had to pry it from my cold dead PC.

    • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
      @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 3 lety +4

      You could run XP on a machine without internet/Ethernet

    • @eqanahmad1298
      @eqanahmad1298 Před 3 lety +1

      Why not install a linux distro on it??

    • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
      @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 3 lety +3

      @@eqanahmad1298 And abandon XP!? That's... that's crazy talk!

    • @pokeguy_
      @pokeguy_ Před 3 lety

      @@JohnSmith-xq1pz or just don't be dumb and don't visit dodgy websites and use an up-to-date web browser

    • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
      @JohnSmith-xq1pz Před 3 lety

      @@pokeguy_ Or just don't use outdated OS's online and give the next wannacry a chance to happen...
      And you can get a virus from not legitimate sites can get compromised too. Or like wannacry just having a outdated OS connected to the internet a worm or hacker activity seeking such systems out can find it.