Rebuilding My VERY FIRST Gaming PC!

Now, you may look at this somewhat eclectic pile of hardware and say what a piece of junk, but for me, e

very

thing on this table holds a

very

special place in my heart because what you're seeing is after hours of searching Craigslist. , free eBay geek, basically. to a piece my

first

gaming

rig, so if you were building a

gaming

machine on a budget when I was in high school, AMD was a very attractive option, the chips were cheaper, the boards were cheaper and this was actually the clincher for me thanks to a collaboration with Nvidia that is probably something difficult for our younger viewers to imagine, given the bitter enemies they have become since AMD's acquisition of ATI in 2006, they had integrated graphics a lot better than what you can get on an Intel chipset, which is why I think I decided on my weapon of choice, the soultech sl75 mrl, the crappier integrated graphics version of the famous FNL and fr frn2 L, whose cheap overclocking prowess was seconded only by their incredible sense of style until soultech closed just a few years later. thanks to the use of poor quality electrolytic capacitors that almost all leaked just outside the warranty period.

I mean, actually, it's a miracle. I found one of these that works. I could have replaced some other board with integrated GeForce 4 MX graphics, but to preserve. the integrity of the construction I overpaid some jerk who runs an eBay store and thought this was worth over $100 because I tweeted that I was looking for one, so his listing got a lot of views. GH Next up is my CPU, the legendary Athlon xp25 100. Also, AMD marketed this processor quite cleverly. The branding was similar to Microsoft's then-new Windows XP and used the pr model number system to compare the lower but higher frequency Athlon IPC chips to Intel's gigahertz-marketed Pentium 4 family.

It ran on 1666 MHz dual-pump. The front bus was indeed 333 MHz and featured 512 kiloby of cache with a clock speed of 1.83 GHz and was an excellent and well-known budget overclocker with an unlocked multiplier that basically allowed everyone to run at speeds above 3200 or around 2 .2 GHz. It was notably the last generation of AMD chips to use a front-end bus before they changed everything industry-wide by moving the memory controller onboard with the Athlon 64. Physically it looked very different from modern CPUs, the matrix was completely exposed with only some rubber pads around it. To prevent chipping or cracking during installation of the heatsink, you can see that this one is quite chipped, so yeah, they didn't always work very well and the pin layout on the bottom is very retro looking.

Plug A has 462 pins on the bottom. It's ridiculous. when you compare it to a modern Apu that has over 900 pins in a much smaller area and a modern Intel chip of similar size that uses LGA type contact pads instead of pins to improve durability and pin density and tightens more 2000 in approximately the same area. The pins are used for additional signaling to the motherboard and other system components for these more advanced processors. The cooling and overclocking of my 68 watt Beast was taken care of by a unique product: this is the vanc aeroflow, one of the only CPU coolers at least on the desktop.

It features a spiked magnetic drive fan. TMD fans have the advantage of being able to use more area for cooling because the center hub contains no motor, just a bearing and the tips of the fan blades actually have magnets driven by coils in the fan frame is cool huh Less cool is the fact that they vibrate like crazy and are loud and also because of AMD's mounting system in those days, putting this on sucks, so the CPU isn't really centered between these two fragile mounting clips. plastic, so the heatsink needs a cutout on one side for the retaining arm hinge on the socket and it only goes one direction, so I actually needed to like it seriously, this was the intended way to install a heatsink on those days place a screwdriver in this notch on the other side and sweat bullets while pushing it down to pull the latch over the clips and then move it slightly to lock them.

I mean, there were so many gosh that I put in. my screwdriver through my motherboard posts on the forums in those days my choice of Ram was dictated by what was cheap in North Carolina at the time, so this 512 megabyte Samsung ddr400 device I got from free geek actually still has the NCI bar label on it and it's exactly what I used, in fact it could be the exact device I had, for all I know I went with a single device even though this platform is dual channel capable To give me more room to increase my rig's capacity in the future, technically three sticks could run dual channel on this platform with one stick having twice the capacity of the other two, but it was a complicated solution and not guaranteed. that would work.

The power supply case is where I really have to take a moment to thank Free Geek. guys we did this collaboration with to connect me, even Antech didn't have an original earth guy buried in the catacombs and I couldn't find one of these. It took those guys about two weeks to find one and set it aside for me, thanks. Guys, the original land boy before they tarnished the name with this nonsense was the bomb, it was made of aluminum, very cool for the time, it was affordable, it included not only a power supply, but this was a big deal, especially then a decent 350W power supply. with blue LED lighting and while it may have literally had no room for cable management or even front panel audio, it did have a removable 3 and 1/2 inch for easy installation of hard drive and floppy disk.

Easy install sleds for the optical drive and a side panel window to display the aftermarket 80mm blue LED fan I bought on an Impulse like two weeks later at London Drugs, officially my

first

expensive computer mod component to drives, my original gaming rig repurposed the floppy drive and CD burner I got somewhat used from my uncle's Pentium machine, this is not an insignificant part of the reason front doors were so all the rage back then At the time, black disk drives were not that common and were even more expensive than their beige counterparts, yes, friends, The optical drive was as expensive as it was essential in those days for the hard drive, although you couldn't carry an old one if you wanted one better speed and have enough storage to install more than one CD-based game at a time, so 80 gigs with an 8m cache or 120 gigs with a 2meg cache cost about the same.

I finally settled for the 880, trusting that that was more than I would need for a long time and feeling that the extra performance would be more worthwhile units. It sure used to be harder to install, by the way, 80 pin versus 40 pin IDE cables, master and slave jumpers, you kids have it easy for the rest of the machine. I'm using close approximations to the components I had at the time, my CRT. it wasn't a flat screen and yes little kids we called it a flat screen because the piece of glass on the front was flat instead of curved, we knew it was still big and heavy and in fact it used to have a slightly different keyboard and mouse .

Upgrading about a year later to a wireless MX Duo, but the only thing that's exactly the same here is that the mouse pad is too cheap to buy a real mouse pad. I used a piece of paper to overcome the tracking issues on my computer desktop and BTW it worked great, you just have to replace it from time to time, so we broke off the script portion of this video to give you the Moment of Truth. True when pressing the power button after, of course, turning on the power supply. Oh, you heard that advice. magnetic disk fan and your music appears on the screen, it is alive after the XP 1.1 GHz, okay, we can go and change it manually.

You can see 32 megabytes of shared memory. The hard drive is not detected. I'll diagnose it later, maybe a bad IDE. cable removes dandruff settings and there we are, let's install some windows xp on this right so then with the system running the only question left out will be run minecraft and the answer is surprisingly no after overpaying for that stupid motherboard, it turns out that the system is not stable enough to do anything more than install Windows and look at the desktop, not entirely unexpected, but disappointing, so if you are not familiar with the massive crash, the concept It's pretty simple, they have a huge community of enthusiasts and I can't say computer enthusiasts or knife enthusiasts or audio enthusiasts because there are all these different enthusiasts and they basically say, "Hey, there's a really cool product that we would like." Can you go to the manufacturer or an authorized reseller and tell them?

Hey you know? We're all willing to buy it if you could, yeah, just do something about the price. Mass drop requires buyers and sellers and makes volume deals so everyone gets a good deal, the manufacturer sells a lot and the buyers get a lower price. It's cool and you can see it at the link in the video description, but recently they've branched out a bit and started working with manufacturers to make special editions of their products for mass release only and of course special pricing is included like Well, this time they worked with hi-fi experts to bring back the H300 with a special MD or massive drop flash, so in their previous life solely under the hi-fi expert, these entry-level headphones were priced around $300 and the new one is very similar to the old H 300 but with an updated and lighter build, a more neutral sound signature and an all-black appearance compared to the silver and black of the previous generations, without However, the most important change they have made is to reduce the price to a very real level. 99 legit low, so all you have to do to check them out is head to the giveaway. lt- he-350 i don't expect you to remember that, check out the link in the video description thanks for watching guys, if this video sucks you know what to do, but if it was an amazing trip down Nostalgia Lane, subscribe. that Like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop on Amazon by purchasing a cool t-shirt like this or with a direct monthly contribution, you can find the Amazon links and the t-shirt up there, by the way, now that you're done After doing all those things, you're probably wondering, what should I watch next?

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