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Linus' First Gaming PC Build

23 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Amazon: http://geni.us/um7
NCIX: http://bit.ly/1ez6i4K

 

Today is a very special day folks... The PC that started it all!! This is the recreation of the very first PC that Linus EVER built.

 

 

All the PAX East videos, and now another 'regular' video?

Thanks Nick!

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That motherboard ... i feel the pain when trying to find x79 motherboard which is not over 300 dollars. 

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But can it run crysis. haha. ah. the term cable management didn't exist back in the day when we crammed IDE cables in the back of the hard drives.

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So this is what got it started o-o

If computers have no doors or fences, who needs Windows and Gates?

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38 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Amazon: http://geni.us/um7
NCIX: http://bit.ly/1ez6i4K

 

Today is a very special day folks... The PC that started it all!! This is the recreation of the very first PC that Linus EVER built.

 

 

The source of what made me get so many F's in class. That's where it all started. Holy sh*t.

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That Video bought so many memories of my childhood! <3 I still have my Gateway Pentium 3 PC with 4mb of ram and a HDD of 2gb. :D it had Windows 95, Then I upgraded the ram to 8mb and added a second 2GB HDD. I also upgraded it Windows 98. <3. Ah, so many memories. 

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Great video. Probably my favourite LTT video in a while.

 

Almost identical to my first system too, except it was a XP1800. But very similar era.


I completely forgotten about setting the hard drives to master and slave, man, that brings back memories of trying to work out what to do.

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24 minutes ago, JPotze said:

But can it run crysis. haha. ah. the term cable management didn't exist back in the day when we crammed IDE cables in the back of the hard drives.

I IDE cables were such a bother...

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This video legitimately took me back to high school and working in a PC repair store back when windows ME came out (I'm old, deal with it), I hated those damn Socket A chips, and longed for them to bring back Slot A chips, those were a dream to install, but a total pain in the but for any custom cooling, we didn't do custom cooling one of the many reason that place went out business.

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ohh Linus, you had it easier than when I was in school, my first pc was a NEC 433 CD3 which came with a 486 processor to run my first experience of DOS 5 to control this nifty new thing called windows 3.1! My first pc games I ever played on it was Myst, Phantasmagoria, and The 7th Guest!  Ahhh.. those were the days when a hard drive spin ran louder than any fan you could put in a pc and games came on this magical new disk they called a CD...  Hey! I found an old ebay listing of one:http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEC-READY-433CD3-486-WITH-36MB-and-NO-HARD-DRIVE-/262224419802?hash=item3d0dcb1bda%3Ag%3A0qMAAOSw5dNWitPo&nma=true&si=P3wT6umz19YEiL5%252FunYw%252BC%252F16Wc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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My first PC was the Intel 486DX at 33MHz and like 2 or 4MB of RAM and like a 1GB HDD running MS-DOS then Windows 3.1

 

The second PC was the Intel Pentium 166MHz with MMX technology with 32MB of EDO RAM and a Quantum Fireball 2.1GB HDD and a Diamond Graphics card with 4MB of EDO burst VRAM running Windows 95b version playing Need For Speed 2

 

The third PC was the Pentium III Coppermine running at 533MHz and has like 128-256MB of SDRAM and Creative Geforce Pro GPU that uses 32MB of DDR RAM. Running Windows 98 That PC blew up on me upon bootup and died.

 

After the PC died, I swapped out to the AMD Thunderbird 1GHz running 256-512MB of SDRAM and the same Geforce GPU and play Mechwarrior 4

 

Then I got the AMD Athlon XP 2800+ CPU system and also a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with both PC running Geforce FX5200 128MB GPUs and the Maxtor 60GB, Western Digital 40GB and 250GB HDDs

 

My dad got the Core 2 Duo E7300 PC but has since changed to the AMD Opteron Quad Core PC which i got from my old workplace and swapped to the current Intel i5 4460 CPU system

 

 

As for me, I got the Core 2 Duo system but the mobo died and got another hand me down of the P45 mobo and Q6600

 

 

So now where I am

 

 

My dad got Intel I5 4460 rig which i build for him

 

and I got two LGA775 systems

 

One is Q6600

 

the other is QX6800

 

 

and guess what, the IDE drives from the P4 and Athlon XP are still in my current rig

 

Maxtor is still kicking and alive

 

and so is the Western Digital 40GB and 250GB

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59 minutes ago, Bicketybam said:

My first PC that I owned myself was 486 DX2-66 with 8Mb of ram, 14" CRT and 540Mb HDD.   Of course I'm an old bastard but that cost $2500AU in 1994 :)   I think calculators are faster then that now :P

we are both old bastards coz i also used the 486 DX CPU as our first PC

 

i think the price of my PC was way higher like 4 to 5 grand for the system

 

and the Pentium was like 5k range as well but breaks down a lot

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1 hour ago, Tedster said:

All the PAX East videos, and now another 'regular' video?

Thanks Nick!

We've been creating content like mad lately!!! Such a busy time.
 

I just hope you guys enjoy it :)

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2 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

We've been creating content like mad lately!!! Such a busy time.
 

I just hope you guys enjoy it :)

I at least sure am enjoying it all!

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My first PC was an Athlon XP processor too, I think it was 2800+ with 512MB of RAM, 80GB harddrive and Nvidia MX 440 GPU came with monstrosity of 17" CRT monitor.

 

It is crazy how much my parents paid for that back in 2001/2, an eye watering £2000 :o

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Man, this brings back memories. My third rig was similar to his(same monitor and CPU). Below are my first two rigs(the monitor on the left is actually hooked to my third rig, the PC on the left actually barely runs windows 98). I still keep my old PCs so no buying overpriced shit on ebay for me if I want to play on an old machine. 

 

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22 minutes ago, Progressor said:

Man, this brings back memories. My third rig was similar to his(same monitor and CPU). Below are my first two rigs(the monitor on the left is actually hooked to my third rig, the PC on the left actually barely runs windows 98). I still keep my old PCs so no buying overpriced shit on ebay for me if I want to play on an old machine. 

 

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That game must have had the awesomest theme song of any game of that era. Except maybe Ski or Die...

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Anyone else see huge compression artifacts in the video (4K)? (for example @ 4:46, on the fins)

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Are you getting weird fan behavior, speed fluctuations, and/or other issues with Link?

Are you running AIDA64, HWinfo, CAM, or HWmonitor? (ASUS suite & other monitoring software often have the same issue.)

Corsair Link has problems with some monitoring software so you may have to change some settings to get them to work smoothly.

-For AIDA64: First make sure you have the newest update installed, then, go to Preferences>Stability and make sure the "Corsair Link sensor support" box is checked and make sure the "Asetek LC sensor support" box is UNchecked.

-For HWinfo: manually disable all monitoring of the AIO sensors/components.

-For others: Disable any monitoring of Corsair AIO sensors.

That should fix the fan issue for some Corsair AIOs (H80i GT/v2, H110i GTX/H115i, H100i GTX and others made by Asetek). The problem is bad coding in Link that fights for AIO control with other programs. You can test if this worked by setting the fan speed in Link to 100%, if it doesn't fluctuate you are set and can change the curve to whatever. If that doesn't work or you're still having other issues then you probably still have a monitoring software interfering with the AIO/Link communications, find what it is and disable it.

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My very first gaming PC has a slot 1 Penitum 3 800MHz, 128MB SD-RAM, 50X CD-ROM, 56K PCI modem, WD Caviar 20GB IDE HDD,  ATX case with 230w PSU, ATi Rage XL 2MB AGP graphic card. 17" CRT monitor, HP printer, Windows Me, and basic keyboard and mouse.Upgraded the graphic card to ATI Rage 128 32MB, so I can play Need For Speed High Stakes. :D

Through out its life, I've upgraded here and there like adding more ram, a DVD-ROM, CD-Burner, etc. It served me quite well and lasted right to the point when Intel just released their dual core Pentium D.

 

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Thanks for the memories Linus... Those heatsink clips were a nightmare. I had an AMD FX chip and a GeForce 6800 agp graphics card, what a beast :)   

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I think I still have my Abit NF7-S V2 laying around here somewhere. At the time I had an Athlon XP 2400M+ (mobile chips ran cooler then the desktop versions) with a Thermalright SP97C Cooler and a Sapphire 9600XT GPU. Good times.

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