My reaction to "PC gaming in 2001"
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Today I'm reacting to another fantastic episode of The Computer Chronicles. This one documents "everything you need to know" about building an epic gaming PC...in 2001.
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My reaction to "PC gaming in 2001"
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Bitwit
/ bitwit - Věda a technologie
"Pentium IV - That's right, we got one"
I see what u did there
That thing is going to be culturally relevant for so long they should archive it in the Library of Congress.
The Northwood was the sweet spot for P4
Yea we got one. Supa excrusive.
(๑♡⌓♡๑) Pentium 4
2020: real time ray tracing
2000: real time landscapes
2030: Real time story generation
@@Erowens98 well theres already some text based rpg games that have stories generated by what you type. So I could really see that happening but it probably only will if developers start focusing on AI rather than graphics.
2 sided leaves and everything and they move when wind blows. It was amazing.
Programmable frickin' shaders, man.
2040: real time booty smack
Bitwit: in 2001, I didn't have a gaming computer
Modern gamers: Dad, I need an RTX 3080 to run zoom
Dad: and you need Zoom for school right? ok ill buy you one.
*3090
@@michaellin7936 no?
@@fhy2972 if you can sure
would be happy with a 3060 at actual msrp at this point, even tho 330 usd for a 60 class is so much higher than it was like 5 years ago when the 1060 was 200 dollars, with inflation thats about 220 dollars. LIke bruh we're paying 70 class money for 60 class cards big rip economy. time to wait like 3 years before we've progressed far enough that I can get the 3060 or a 2070 super
When he claimed inside the case wasn't cable managed I lost it. Was managed as fuck. We just didn't stick glass panels and LED's all over the inside back then, so there were no need to hide all the cables behind the non-existent rear channels.
was thinking the same. back in the days, the connectors were all over place. Not like nowadays, where the 24 pins is located where the PSU is to be suspected. Quite often it was on the opposing side. The cases had no routing behind the back option.
Manufactoring costs were also higher. A nice shroud to cover up the the power cable and connector on the mainboards southbridge? Extra dollars, not cents! For Assembly and manufaction, not retail price! But who cared? Pcs were boxes tugged under desk. Cable managment was only important for maintanance. if you frequently swap components. back then, a year old machines was replaced entirely and sold to 2nd hand. No one was gonna crack open it again after assembly. Maybe add more storage or ram, replace gpu, if at all.
Full respect to BitWit but he was literally a child. 99% of people who were into computing from 1982 - 2004 legitimately didn't care about the "aesthetics" of anything because the parts simply weren't being built. For a long time the only thing gamers cared about was performance because we didn't have tempered glass panels. It was really companies like Razer, Alienware, and Logitech that persisted with the "gamer" theme which led to improving case aesthetics. Before 2010 I'd say most people still just had standard ass PC cases except they might not have been beige anymore.
@@I2obiNtube There really was nothing to show in the days when the motherboard was some mash up of white, brown, blue and grey. Ram was just a bare stick along with GPU also being a bare green board, and a CPU heatsink and fan was probably shit brown too. It was all about having the best parts available over anything else, I remember having this grey and blue case with purple buttons somewhere in the early 00's and that was regarded as quite fancy at the time. Case windows and lighting was way way later. Even things as simple as that Alienware PC were expensive and regarded as quite obnoxious in design.
I got into pc building around 2003-4. Had an AMD 64 3400 and ati 9800 pro. 2 GB crucial memory. My case wasn't the best, Thermaltake with plexiglass. Moved to an Antec lanboy later.
@@rudysal1429 I had almost the same exact setup! I felt really bad ass when I purchased a flat screen 19" CRT... in black.
"This looks like the most boring game ever"
How DARE you
Black and white was fun as hell ngl
B&W. Legendary!
Right? BnW was awesome. It had soo much bugs but it was a lot of fun. I bought the Geforce 3 just for that game.
I felt personally attacked when he said that.
Soo fun!
When Kyle is so stunned by having transistors be in millions in 2001, that he says gtx 3080 instead of rtx 3080.
That’s what I came in comments for, to see if anyone else noticed 😂🤣
Yep.. I noticed it too 😅
Kids today! They have no idea what it was like seeing the improvements each gen from the mid 80s to present.
So true hey. the 90`s - early 00`s were awesome.
@Big Snood playing SimFarm and Prince of Persia on floppy.
I remember the 1Ghz Athlon and being blown away, it truly was next Gen 😆
@Big Snood Playing Starcraft as a little kid was memorizing, my first RTS and first time gaming on a computer more than consoles. Even though it wasn't generating 3d graphics, the sheer amount of choices and freedom to strategies just blew me away.
I’m sorry I can’t use the internet because someone is on the phone. It took me 2 months to respond from AOL.
I guess you don't remember back in the early 2000s, sounds was a big thing. From computers, to home theater systems and Car setups. At least it was in my area.
Well, yeah, because just a short time before this, we were using early midi or motherboard speakers. The first time I played Doom with FM synthesis was an ear opener!
I bought sound blasters back than because integrated sound on my p4 was terrible and microphone otherwise had terrible noises
Sound Blaster Extreme AWE64
Yeah I just threw out my 2.1 altec speakers. Everyone wanted cards with 5.1.
@@RAZO45 that was in 1996 though.
I can't believe that he didn't understand how incredibly significant the audio stuff was. The fact that we don't need sound cards and weird crazy audio equipment to get a phenomenal audio experience is incredible. Audio is unbelievably important to gaming, and it's mind blowing that we can have such incredible audio experiences so effortlessly today. Kyle is either showing how young he is out how it of touch he was with technology in the early 2000's. This was truly the golden age of gaming experience increases. From graphics to audio, the jumps were amazing.
@Gareth Tucker I think sound cards are pretty dead, but that's only because modern DACs and amps are so good now. To be fair though there are definitely instances where a sound card is the better option.
@Gareth Tucker EQ can be accomplished with software and a very good external DAC/Amp can be had for around $100. I use the ifi Zen DAC that cost just over $100 and offers performance a sound card can't even touch. I was conceding that edge cases exist for the use of a sound card, but 99% of the time the investment into a sound card could be better spent elsewhere. There is a reason the sound card market is nearly dead. Even the manufacturers know that sounds cards are breathing their last breath.
2001 PC Gaming in a nutshell:
"It's like playing in Stereo!"
"Is it though...?"
We had dolby digital and dts 5.1 in 2001 lol.
You should reach out to Stuart if he's still alive and do a virtual interview on the change since then.
Mr. Cheifet is 82 years old and seems to be alive and well!
Black & White was a banger at the time, was a ton of fun! Take it back! :"O
haha i said the same thing
I was shocked when he didn't seem to be familiar with the game! It was one of my favorite games at the time. So many hours in this one.
It's still some fun today if you can get it to work.
@Big Snood I'm sure i had the cd for B&W somewhere, oh well, B&W2 it is, patching and, damn it works :P seriously it would be suited for touchscreen.
Was an excellent game. I enjoyed 2 as well but not as much
"if it's not realistic it's a waste of time"
among us and minecraft: ;-;
Minecraft RTX. End of story.
@@jstaal7879 not everyone has a 2k pc to run it tho
@@framelessly you don't need one, especially as of recently. If you want, you can run almost Raytracing shaders on Java with the recommended specs being a 1060, I believe. But if you want to talk native raytracing, you can buy a solid pc capable of native raytracong with a good monitor for about $12-1300 especially with the rtx 3060 ti
@@jstaal7879 Minecraft rtx only effects lighting. Steve's hand doesn't look any more like lifelike than in normal minecraft. Minecraft is still made out of blocks
@@PsychoticBacon19 good lighting greatly adds to the realism factor. There's obviously some mechanics which can't be 100% exactly as the would be in real life, which is true for any game, but especially with raytracing, or raytracing like shaders, that I had mentioned, you're getting to be as close as you can to realism, with the sun's light casting down on everything, and the water having waves. If you did want to get rid of the blocks issue you were mentioning, at least on Java, you're able to run the no cubes mod on top of the advanced shaders. It's definitely an expirence that I'd recommend you try if possible, though you probably won't be getting the best FPS on it.
Kyle: "GTX 3080"
Ray Tracing: It seems I was forgotten...
Lmao
did that ever not age well...
The world would be a better place if consumer ray tracing wasn't released this early
Now our PC's can't handle shaders
The RT in RTX doesn't stand for Ray Tracing, so it doesn't matter. :D
OMG Kyle doesn't know Black & White. I feel old now.
@@dreamshakejunya and some UO and original CS. Those were the days.... someone build me a time machine...
Sounds racist. I'll watch.
I'm about 4-5 years older than him. Apparently thats all it takes to differentiate humor from this to my romanced nostalgia.
Black & White is what made me get rid of my Voodoo Banshee GPU and replace it with my first Nvidia card, the GeForce 2 MX 400. That game was awesome for at least a month. Then I realized it sucked donkey balls. But at least it looked great!
How dare you call the Chieftec Dragon case "that thing". That case is a legend!
lol, i still have one in that green... at the time it housed an AMD 64 FX proc with dual nvidia 6600GT cards
I had one of these in blue. It was an awesome case.
I just built a system in my Dragon DX-01BD. Still holding strong after all these years (and it weighs a TON)
It's a multi-mouthed alien with all its mouths frowning... just sayin'
@@SurvivalEnthusiast51 I had a blue one with a window!
Imagine if Computer Chronicles was rebooted today that would be so insane to watch RIP 1983 - 2002
It exists, it's called linus tech tips
@@agambansal902 Someone tell Linus he should buy the Computer Chronicles trademark.
It would be a show about RGB puke, getting 1500 FPS in games and some more RGB puke
1983 aw my first computer a Commodore 64
@@TensaZangetsu1200 so baby boomers will watch llt werid
2001 - Popped open your optical drive to start another game.
2020 - Having to wait for yet another game launcher to start and do its DRM check.
Progress?
Bro I bought NFS heat the other day on steam. Downloaded the bish and fired it up. Please dl origin to start. Yeah no.
Game closes. Like are you serious? If I wanted to play nfs on origin I'd go download origin. 😒
@@marlonthomas2713 Yeah and even if you have it installed already, unless you open it regularly it always needs an update. All the DRM actually drives some people to turn to piracy instead, how is that for irony?
@@Nakna_ankaN lol
don't forget the 200GB downloads before being able to start the game. With 3rd world internet speeds here in germany. thats no fun. I would rather insert a disk and be done in less than a day.
@@maYdaY1337 Wait, what? Germany, the country of der8auer, has 3rd world internet speeds? Damn...
The reason for the "Classroom Setup" is that because this was a very low budget show, they would record the whole thing in one shot. They cut as much as possible from their editing budget to keep the costs low.
Fantastic Show BTW!
26:59 that's looks like a Chieftec Dragon case - around that era it was the case that almost every gamer had - they're a relic to have now and I've recently seen one sell for close to $200.
I recently bought an Antec version for $195, it's hard to find them in good condition anymore and the one I got is like new still.
"Is this OG Dirt?"
Actually, yes it is lol. Dirt is the sucessor to the Colin McRae Rally series. It was actually called "Colin McRae Dirt" for a long time.
Hurt my soul when he said that
They renamed it after his fatal crash.
they crashed the car on arcade mode (that has damage off) and they said there was damage.... cringe
Yes
I feel really nostalgic just thinking about me driving with blue WRX on Winter map.
"This looks like the most boring game ever"... WTF!!!! B&W is one of the best games ever!!
This was my reaction.
@@ONEWONDERSHOW The game was ahead of its time.
Kyle is an idiot for saying it was boring.
@@seahawk124 different people have different interest lol
No, it sucked. Just like everything else Peter Molyneux has ever touched. Fable sucked and Black and White sucked. I was there and I played them at the time and I thought they were both overhyped trash. I guess whoever had not been reading Molyneux's lies & bullshit for months and months beforehand maybe they just got the game and thought "this is amazing!"
But for anybody who actually read the bullshit that Molyneux was claiming before the games came out, they were both an absolute fucking joke. And Fable 2 also sucks. The most overrated crap franchise of all time. Just like everything else Molyneux has done.
Black and white was buggy and went nowhere. I remember being amazed for the first few hours and then saying okay this game has no interesting gameplay and it doesn't go anywhere and I put it away and regretted that I bought it.
@@gobbledygook5000 Yikes. It was basically an unpolished sandbox, but you come off like a really freaking weird Molyneux hater. Where did that man touch you?
i grew up as a pc gamer, my dad built a lot of pc's back in the day, and now ive built him pc's, thanks dad for giving me an awesome hobby
Same here m8. My dad built pc's with his friend and he let me play games on his pc. One of them was Battlefield 1942 still playing that game in 2021
Damn kyle never heard of giants citizen kabuto or black & white? I'm only 23 and he's making me feel old! those game are 10/10 tho fr.
ikr. I cringed when he called B&W the most boring looking game...
I also really enjoyed playing Sacrifice back in the day.
@@dimitrimichaux461 noobs nowadays only know Shiny for the 'oof' sound that Roblox ripped off from Messiah...
“WinAmp: it really whips the llama's ass!”
Also you HAD to have a cool interactive winamp skin, no classic look here!
I was all about those WMP visualizations back then.
It was so cool
why winamp, kyle?
Because it really whips the llama's a$$!!!
26:58 Ah... I remember those Chieftec cases. I nicknamed them "The Steel Dragons" because they were 100% steel and weighed a ton when fully loaded. No point putting in any intake fans however as Kyle pointed out the lack of airflow. Negative pressure all the way along with all the dust build up. Good times.
I still use one. I had to drill out the rivets for the 3.5" HDD mounts (which I haven't used in a decade) to make enough space for my 6900XT.
I originally built it with PC Power and Cooling silencer fans back in the early 2000's, but a couple years ago I went through and replaced them all with noctua fans, which are even quieter (mainly because they support PWM)
Oh those were GREAT days of computing, The Computer Chronicles was my FAVORITE show! Watched it for 10 years since 1994. I miss those days. My first 3d Accelerator was the Matrox Mystique with 2MB of ram! It was a great time. We had sooo much choice for 3d cards, Matrox, 3dFX, ATI, Nvidia, PowerVR, Rendition Verite, Verge3d... all with their advantages and disadvantages.. So much choice! Intel, AMD, Cyrix for a time.
Teens in the 2040: "my reaction to 3090"
meanwhile 9090s are unavailable still
Teens in 2050 remember when 8k was a thing now we got 25K resolution
Love ur burning elmo pic
@@techguy7755
8k won't even be standard for PC gaming for another 2 decades. 4K is barely manageable unless you're willing to sacrifice settings. If developers were not cunts and actually optimised games however, an RX 570 could flirt with 4K.
@@joebenson528 yeah, it’s called a joke
You actually did need sound cards back then for decent gaming sound. Motherboard audio was serverely lacking.
I can't imagine the feeling of going from the standard on motherboard to 4.1 or 5.1
Surround sound was just as important as a good 3d accelerator. And as long as you (at least) had a decent intel processor, you had no bottlenecks, so nobody really paid attention to that. Or the power supply. Or drive speed. Or memory speed.
Soundblaster cards were the shit LOL
@@joedesalvo3316 some people still use them. They're decent for driving some more low sensitivity headphones. Though if your PC has the ALC1220 codec you're more than cable of driving something like the hd600s or even hd800s.
Yeah, don't be that smug about soundcards back then. In the area of 3D sound we pretty much stagnated, didn't progress at all. There are games from that time that sound better than some games today.
Not to date myself, but Black and White was an awesome game back in the day.
19:26 "Let's look around and see if we can see some other creatures here." Proceeds to walk down a barren hill with no creatures and moves onto the next game.
"historically accurate." "not pay to win" "world of tanks" pick ONE
underrated comment
Its defenty world of tanks, cant promises the rest...Yikes
Technically, not pay2win - at least outside of Asian servers run by Asian companies. It's pay 2 progress faster I guess. There are some premium tanks that come a bit closer to pay2win than might be comfortable for some, but as someone with 9 years of playtime, you can own even the most OP of these premium/paid tanks with tanks that are 2 tiers lower and some brains.
@@erickbaka right tell that to the e25, pz2j, premium tier 5 french arty, or any tier 8 russian premium released after 2015
Can't you only have like 2 tanks at a time without buying more tank slots? So you have to get rid of old tanks in order to use new ones without buying more slots? Sucks...
the fact that this was revolutionary technology back then and how far we've come is the greatest thing to me
I wonder how it will be in 19 years from now. My biggest wishes are perfect shadow (wich ray traycing does I believe), perfect reflection (ray traycing helping a lot), no more clipping, no more aliasing (it's getting better) probably other stuff, but I would love for these 4 things to be "perfect".
@@harshlens in 19 years we will have realistic-real VR and sex robots
Rtx 3090 will be absolute garbo one day. Imagine what's in the future
@@harshlens yeah in the next 2 decades I don't even think we can even comprehend what advancements are in store.
@Lycan yeah that's true... they are ruining everything with their bs wokeness...
“It takes a big man to cry, and it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.”
-Zoltar, 2001
"Winamp, it really whips the llamas ass!"
When you feel old because BitWit has to look up that P4's were single core processors...
XD
Still have the 478 P4 1.7Ghz in my closet
But they did introduce dual channel memory and HT with the P4.
@@kaasman78 HT, yes. Dual channel, not really. Intel didn't integrate the memory controller into the CPU die until the first i7 (Nehalem). It's the motherboard chipset that had the dual-channel memory, not the processor. And Intel had some dual-channel chipsets before the P4.
I was using a Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz Prescott (released in 2004) until late 2012.
Hold up. Did Kyle say Black and White looks like the most boring game ever? Oh man, little do you know its absolutely fantastic
I still have Black and White installed and sometimes play it
I instantly felt old when I saw it. Didn’t remember it being that old but totally was like 11 or 12 when I played it. Dang.
I think I saw LGR play it, and it looked pretty fun. He smacked a cow around and murdered puny humans.
Not sure he is too young or we just too old... But most modern titles I find really boring...
@@kavamalekava6556 i know right? Everyone is so pumped for CP2077 for example and I‘m like: „meh, more like Witcher 2077“. I cant even imagine a game I‘d be willing to pay full price right now. Valorant is the only game I enjoy right now, cause it reminds me of the good old Counterstrike days (I‘ve played CS beta already back then before it even was on steam).
Black and white would creepaly whisper your name once in a while if you had a common name. So it rates as scaryest game ever made.
It's incredible how pc gaming evolved in the last 20 years I mean my new gaming rig (RTX 3060ti/Ryzen 5 3600/16gb 3200MHz cl16/500gb Nvme SSD) that I built a week ago is something in between mid range and high end pc gaming in 2001 that would've been considered super computer level now it's just a good gaming rig for recent games
yet coding and optimzation due to lazy devs has gone wayyyy worse today
it always looks so awkward when stuart walks away from the person in the first desk as they just sit there and stare forward while stuart continues behind them
They are NPCs
you can also see that he's awfully agressive and interrupts them a lot. the boomer's boomer lol
*Stewart*
World of Tanks:
Is about skill, not about how much money you throw at it.
Me: gets shot by endless "gold" rounds
Shot from a special edition tank? :P
@@thomasr7129 by special edition you mean cw rewards? Especially them.
yeah tookies are unfair asf
Historically accurate paper tanks that were never mass produced or even in many cases were never even prototypes
it's funny how he made a point of accentuating the one thing that is completely not true lol
I use to build PC and do some programing 1997-2002. Things have changed so much. I had to research a lot to build my current PC
My dad was at the forefront of watercooling around 2005-2010, he just helped me build my first PC and lots has changed for sure haha
That case was THE case to have in the 2000's.
I had one of those. It's actually a Chieftec case if i remember correctly. I had a black one.
@@niklasniklasniklas1 Chieftec and Antec both made them. They came in every color, I had Gloss Black, Silver and White in 3 separate builds in the 2000s. Thermal take also made one that was like steel and orange with orange fans all over.
I wanted that alienware so bad back then. I remember looking on the falcon site and drooling at those PCs haha.
4 pin power cables and IDE cables. brings back memories
Ah, good to see ya around these parts :)
Ayo whatcha doin here dude? Big fan btw
Aznstylez watching a tech youtuber? Insane. Big fan of your videos bruv keep up the good work.
Hope u got a vid commin up.
Fuckin' HATED IDE cables! The motherboard on my socket A motherboard required a floppy disk just to install Windows because of the SATA drivers not being included with Windows xp xD
Good times.
"Pentium 3 running at 500Mhz" "Are those IDE-Cables?"
Oh Bitwit, you're so young...
I had the same thought, glad he is taking the time to look back tho.
They could be 68-pin SCSI cables, too.
I'm younger than he is and know more about that older stuff... he just got into PC gaming reaaally late
@@DarthJane yeah. His first PC built was actually my last one .... an i7 2600K - i don't game since GTA5 and that ran well on that trusty guy.
I'm around the same age and I apparently remember alot more than he does... maybe he didn't have an older pc growing up, or he didn't realize he was a nerd until slightly later in his life.
I know you pick on these videos a lot but I am actually really impressed with them! Amazing and helpful for the time. Great stuff and wish they were still around
Black and White was an amazing game :D
2020 Music Player : Spotify
2001 Music Player : Winamp with custom skin
I always messed with the skins, my dad would get mad. 🤣
still using Winamp ;P
@@andrewmeyering7343 The good old days.
@@ZeroB4NG Same.
Nah foobar ftw
Did anyone else have a good ol' nostalgic laugh at 5:41 when the boxes for "Diablo" and "MechWarrior 2" popped up in the background?
Mechwarrior 2. First game I preorderd... so worth it, then.
Miss those big boxes.
I still have one of those Chieftec cases. I purchased one for my first gamng PC.
I’m so offended you said Black & White looked boring 😂
"He has no idea how irrelevant sound cards are in 2020" haha, yeah, who buys sound cards? *Pushes EVGA NuAudio box under the carpet*
12:53
WINAMP!
It really whips the llama's a*s.
As an old timer gamer at age 49 who started my gaming hobby with the Atari 2600 I love these classic videos!
My dad has been an it guy since before I was born and that tower in the thumbnail was my first computer(edit to be clear I have no idea what was inside it but I know that is the case)
20:36
"Is this OG Dirt"
Actually, yes it is. It literally is.
The Dirt series is a continuation of the Colin McRae Rally series.
Dirt 3 was when they stopped using the Colin McRae name.
RIP Colin McRae
*literally* used wrong once again.
@@joebenson528 how is it wrong?
Which comment was the og one
@@joebenson528 wow, I bet you're fun to hang out with
4:48 ahh yes, we love the GTX 3080.
Bruh you and me are the only person who noticed that
I noticed it too
Many games back then used a different control scheme to what we know as standard now. Many used the numpad, or a combination of ws heck just go play the original quake, the control scheme is not wasd.. Strafing also often was not a thing you could do you had to press and hold a key to turn and not look and strafe with the mouse like you do now.
2001 i was 14/15 I remember playing several of the games mentioned on this with a Riva TNT card... I was one of those kids who convinced there parents to buy a gaming pc...
Well, this was a walk through the years I got into computers. I remember drooling over the Geforce 3 while still being limited to a Voodoo card in a PCI slot. And you are right. It was WAY more exciting. I remember where I was when I learned the 1ghz barrier had been broken.
I wanted that first generation of Alienware PC so much back in those days.
Remember when Falcon Northwest was a competitor to Alienware from boot magazine later maximumpc?
@@timothygibney5656 Falcon Northwest is still around and still high end as ever
I was learning to walk so I didn't have much interest.
@@warframehunter7298 jI was already out of highschool, and in the workforce learning to turn wrenches by day as a heavy equipment repair person working for a site prep landscape company, and at night was running my own side business fixing computers for people.
@@timothygibney5656 I had completely forgotten they existed until now. I remember seeing them in Best Buys sunday newpaper filler ads
Not knowing that audio was the sheeeeit in late '90 and early '00 is sheer ignorance.
Also, that audio card set in motion future advancements in onboard audio.
Truly bad takes throughout.
What ever happened to positional audio?
@@darxustech2883 You need a sound card to do ot properly....still...
This was really fun! You should do more of these.
"Matches are won with skill, not money" *Laughs in E25 and Defender*
6:45 That sir was no Ambulance.
That sounds like the 2000s are coming back from the past with their crazy sound effects.
Im 40 and remember this like it was just yesterday.
Same.
Respect
Yup was on my 3rd or 4th GPU by the time this stuff came out.
Same. And actually this was pretty frustrating time, because technology got better so fast that last weeks fastest computer could be today a mediocre computer. The updating cycle was too fast :D If you had a year old computer it would be a dinosaurus compared to new ones.
Same
10:30 I'm pretty sure I remember buying a new game (possibly Diablo or Starcraft?), getting home, installing it and then getting a message from the game telling me my sound card was too old. And then I had to go out and spend money on a newer sound card just to be able to play the game. Sound cards were legitimately a major consideration back then.
by the way, this was an EXCELLENT show. This is wayyyy before anything like youtube to get reviews or know what the latest tech that is out. They had everyone out because it was a live tv show. So there wasn't time to set things up. Ok, editing again. SOUND was HUGE. Nowadays sound chips are standard on boards. But this tech was cutting edge back then for normal PC's. It wasn't easy to do. CPU's could not drive it. When the AC97 became standard, that is what made sound cards obsolete.
The skeleton of that Chameleon has so much more detail than NPCs in games I’ve seen today. It looks like a stick figure today.
No reason to have such a detailed complex rig for a small character you'll be looking at from a long distance. It is only practical for animated films, and complex CG applications not a video game where good real time performance is key.
@@TheftTv I know XD
When Alienware used just a re-painted Chieftec case. My first build was in that case, P4 2.66 and a Radeon 9700 Pro.
Mine had an Athlon XP 2800+, and a Geforce FX5900 Ultra. And, of course, a Sound blaster Audigy 2 with the fancy external box.
I also got a P4 2.66 with gt210 as my 2nd on 2010 PC my 1st is P3 2008. I know they were old at that time but in my country technology is so pricy back then.
man that radeon was so good back in the days... i got the 9800 pro which was so good shit too (which an aftermarket zalman cooler with heatpipe)
@@geraldbantolino3475 Wow, that was later. I think I built it in 2002, but I had the original Northwood 2.66. I guess yours was the refreshed Prescott one from a few years later since it could be paired with a GT 210 on PCIe.
@@paalpet There was some 478 mobos with PCIe so it could be a Northwood or Prescott. But it could also be a Pentium 4 505, 505J or 506 which are 64-bit Prescott's for the newer 775 socket
I played Giants when it was released! Amazing game - if you ever do a retro games feature you should check this out - massive openworld landscapes, rocket boosters, guns, and a great sense of humour.
Gotta love those old Molex connectors, they were sometimes a pig to remove from HDDs. Also remember splitting each cable on the ribbon IDE cables out and zip tieing them together to make them more round - then they came out with pre-rounded ones. CCFL tubes too. Ah, those were the days.. lol
*intro in WoT ad* “Wins are purely based on skill, not money” is the funniest joke I’ve heard all day
Let's hope next reaction video will be him playing wot.
kyle: Wins are purely based on skill, not money
me as someone who played ~25000 matches in WoT: yes but actually no
In theory everything important can be obtained for free in practice a free player won't be able to afford the competitive premium ammo playing a low pen/high repair cost tier X tank like the E100 for more than a couple matches before having to grind credits.
Only way it's actually free is if you're in a really good (at least top 100) clan that has constant +30% credit booster running and large cw gold payouts.
@@megapro125 I agree. But a Full gold noob vs a unicum with standard ammo gets rekt 99 out of 100. Experience and map+tank knowledge is much mor important than $$$ (PS: played up until 1.0-ish and have 8k matches + 1 CW Tier )
2:14 I still use winamp and haven't found an alternative lmfao... it really whoops the llama's ass though.
Truth!
I can hear the startup in my head.
BitWit: "WinAmp..."
Me: (Sighs) *Nostalgia.* All is well with the world. And I'm sixteen years old again torrenting everything I can get my hands on.
that case is actually an chieftec server case, i still have 3 of those laying arround somewhere in my storage, except they are grey/black ish.
Black and white was a really nice 'game' back then. It was more like a tamagotchi - but a really beautiful one.
Was made by Peter Molyneux if I remember correct. Same person that created/started Fable series.
You never played it in multiplayer then.
Black and white was an amazing game back then
It was an awesome game
i think bit is taking sound cards and speakers for granted xD sound cards are still basically used just ending up being planted into the motherboards of today and you have to admit some great sound in an immersive game *chefs kiss*.
Back when you feel the weight of the trackball in your hands..
They still make trackballs and they are still superior.
I remember when WASD wasn’t a normal thing... that’s what the arrow keys were for.
WASD goes waaaay back. That's how you navigated in the vi editor which came out in 1976. Back in those days most keyboards did not have arrow keys, that's how WASD came about.
@@ChristopherHailey vi used to be WASD? huh... wait, that gives me a thought
what if gaming was HJKL?
@@OninDynamics Half Life 1 even had WSDA on default as the secondary move keys. I remember my brother, who was a very good CS 1.6 player preaching to me why I should use WSDA instead of the arrow keys in Half Life, hell I could reload and run at the same time!
But tbh I think every game that required a mouse used WSDA already. You simply can't use the arrow keys, use your additional keys AND the mouse at the same time! (oh btw note, a scroll wheel was uncommon back in the day, so switching weapons also happened with the 1-9 keys). WSDA is just a perfect placement on the keyboard. Hell even people who have their mouse at the left side don't use the arrow keys, but the numpad instead (or apparently some Home, end, Delete and Page down) so they can hit other keys more effectively.
I always had WASD on my keyboard, but myself and 90% of people i knew only used the arrow keys lol
@@thundereagle4130 WASD did exist well before that point in time, but it wasn't super popular. My first heavy interactions with WASD was probably mid 90's with Descent/Doom/Duke Nukem. Descent being fully 3-d, and me not having a joystick - I remapped it to a two handed keyboard setup. I won a lot of lan party matches with that setup. Funny enough, I was running onboard sound and it wasn't backwards compatible. So I didn't have sound either. It really honked off the guy who insisted he was super competitive with the game when I kept kicking his butt, with a keyboard and no sound.
Lost some respect for you Kyle when you called Black & White "boring". Someone clearly never played one of the greatest games of that generation.
A literal GOTY, by Peter Molyneux (still a leading figure in PC gaming) with crazy hype for serval years...
Kyle is over 30. He should know better.
clearly not a real gamer ;)
His name is not Nathan, haha what a jackass having a name "Kyle" and not "Nathan", he's clearly not worth respecting.
I have no respect for you, disrespecting someone for not having the same experiences you had. Do you truly believe respect comes from having played a specific game title? Even if you want to consider him an "expert" of gaming for some weird ass reason, no expert knows everything. No master knows everything. But he's not a master, he's a guy who makes computers and jokes on youtube.
@@kaldo_kaldo For being a guy who watches "a guy who makes computers and jokes on youtube", you are taking this way too seriously friend.
Also, note my language: I did not disrespect Kyle. I did not say I've lost all respect for Kyle. I did not say Kyle is not worth respecting. Don't put your words in my mouth. I said I've lost some respect for him.
He may be just "a guy" (and yes, he would certainly be considered an expert in gaming in a certain respect due to his trade being the building of GAMING PCS), but that doesn't excuse someone from just blowing off something simply because he's never played it. You don't have to have played a game to be aware of it. It is nearly on the level of calling Starcraft, Diablo, Half-Life, etc boring for having seen one small clip from non-engaging gameplay.
And yes, I realize this response is me taking this too seriously as I put it, but I'm only treating you as you have treated me.
Have to agree.
BitWit, you should've included the Phillips speaker segment, yes the soundcard came around the dawn of better on-board audio, but the speakers were something special being flat panel speakers, I still have mine, it still sounds great too.
27:19 I had that case from the Alienware PC, if you managed to drag that to a LAN party you would get looks, but they would be staring at your huge arms! That case weighed an absolute TON. Even empty it was heavy to lift. After stacking it with drives I could hardly move the thing. Im pretty sure it was made of cast iron.
I see, Crysis hadn't come out yet, GPUs didn’t need 8 Gigs of VRAM.
Even then it still killed them. It wasn't the game that killed cards. It's the asinine decision to use an engine that renders the entire, massive level, regardless of how far away something is from you. In most games things are loaded based on distance. It only loads what you can actually see. Crysis said fuck that and gave every GPU a heart attack.
Most games still had a software renderar so you didn't even need a GPU
@@fracturedraptor7846 I play Crysis from time to time and there's some very noticeable object popping and LOD changes going on based on the distance to the player. I seriously doubt that was patched in and It's very noticeable on the lowest settings.
So, what the hell are you talking about?
Black & White is the most awesome game I ever played! I just had a flash back to my youth. Played nearly all the other games, too. Man I did game a lot when I was young... :D
Lol, my childhood PC gaming consisted of the Oregon Trail and Doom on Floppy Disk!!! I had heard of GPU’s but didn’t understand exactly what they were back in 97’ and after 15 years of console gaming and finding Frankie on PC, I finally made the switch back to PC after I figured out what it was and actually did, and damn the GPU has come a LONG WAY since 2001!
Totally cool, Kyle. Was 14 at the time and still rocking a voodoo 3.
Atheists playing god simulators was one of the funniest pre-memes of the early 2000s
Not sure why this is a meme tbh. Atheists believe god is make believe, a make believe god in a game fits right in with their beliefs. Are you saying an atheist can't enjoy any work of fiction that has a god in it? Please.
@@mambamentalityripkobe9083 probably
Black&White is a timeless classic.
Kyle, if you want an idea for a video in the future, maybe consider contacting Mr. Cheifet? Seems like the man is elderly, but still with us! Would be awesome to get his take on how computing has changed in recent times compared to back then. While he wasn't a true techie, he did have a lot of interactions with technology through the ages, and it would be cool to hear his take on this era of computing.
I still have my chieftec dragon case and the box, in blue, complete with floppy drive, partial clear side panel with a 80mm side intake and ide ribbon cables with a P4 in it and Geforce card with XP running on it. Man the hours playing half life and team fortress classic. First pc I built and still runs great
I forgot Will Smith got his start writing for gaming magazines before Fresh Prince.
1.7 Ghz was blazing fast back in 2001. I remember my family having a 200 Mhz computer when Red Alert 2 came out in 2000. Max Payne's recommended system reqs were 700 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, 32MB GPU.
RA2 might be my fav CnC game. I loved to fortify(?) and get my infantry up to veteran status.
I love games
I love life
My friends dad had that alienware setup and several others at their house. They would do LAN parties every weekend.back in 2003 I never knew about online multiplayer before this. They were all military retirees and played fps games and all had cool names like Bear-wholf or Whisper on teamspeak. battlefield 1942 was the first pc game I ever played and I was hooked ever since.
"I was a freshman in high school when this came out..." Same. Thanks for making me feel old :P
Nice profil picture. A bit upside down maybe, but great anyway.
30% react
70% shit talk
100% stereo gaming
That makes 200% 😐
@@wyskami o rly
"This is actually GTA 6 with RTX off" - Literally started choking on the food I was eating from laughing so hard.....
I remember playing that rally game when I was younger. Loved it.
Interestingly, have you done a video where you try to configure and upgrade a Windows 95/98 era PC? I'd love to watch that ;) :D