Custom 90's Retro PCs - Saved!

In this video we will explore three Custom 90's and early 2000's Retro PCs saved from the E-Waste pile! We will go over each system and see if they will post. What hardware surprises will we find in these systems? What goes wrong?? Let's find out...

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[QuaaludeCharlie]

Thank you for rescuing these important PC's :) QC

[usernotfound-hv]

That Athlon XP system is really nice and that 512mb AGP card is actually pretty rare and expensive even today because it's one of the best cards you could have on AGP. That whole system is a really awesome find

[Pulverrostmannen]

I like the first case, it has a retro-futuristic look to it. kinda timeless in a way. My first personal own AMD computer actually was the 2000+. The performance for the time was average to be true. I had this CPU paired with a Soltek motherboard and a FX5200 at first. But I was unlucky and the Capacitor plague strike my motherboard within a year of use and I had to send it in for repair. I got a refurbished board that was actually older than the one I sent in return and it had a huge splash of solder on the bottom left by the person who re-cap it. I saw it however and removed the pool of solder prior to installation. I used the computer for almost one more year and I got struck by Capacitor plague another time but this was on the GPU instead, A cap had swelled up and shorted out and a chip on the GPU had been on fire for a while before everything died. the GPU was wasted completely, the chip had white ashes around it and smelled like really strong magic smoke. when I tried to replace the GPU I found out that the AGP slot had been damaged on the motherboard as well due to the shorted GPU and it would not function properly.

I had to make the choice to replace the whole internals of the computer and ended up buying an Asrock K7VT4A-PRO and then paired it with an AMD XP3000+ instead and a GF6600 256MB and 512mb of DDR Ram, I still went with Win98 at this build but the difference in performance was insane and everything was faster and better, I actually still have this stuff today and it still works. But later even the power supply suffered from the Capacitor plague but I repaired that one instead.

This story was actually the biggest event for me to learn about the value of good capacitors and how the Capacitor plague came to the surface.

[PiercedJedi]

back in the day I had that exact same motherboard (Asus A7V8X with Athlon XP 2100+ CPU if I recall correctly) I really wish I had kept all my old tech....

[DuranMedine]

The Pentium II AT system would be perfect for Windows 95 all you need is a nice sound card and a hard drive and it would be ready for games.

[branscombe_]

49:10 very fun man, thanks for the tour of these systems!!

[branscombe_]

15:00 wow brilliant find, ready to rock!

yeah Bliss is bliss, really eh!

There is a short 15 minute documentary on YouTube about the man who took the photo, and after 20 years goes back and revisits the same spot. I recommend it.

[AJComputerServicesUK]

Nice Video Squire, I used to build lots of PC’s from the early 90’s onwards using cheap to intermediate Cases, Some of the Cheaper ones weren’t good to work with due to the very thin metalwork and you could cut yourself quite easy on some of them, System 1: 1:20 A nice System and I like the ASUS Motherboard that’s in it and they generally give you lots of Headers to attach different peripherals to, I have an ASUS IPanel I think it’s called and I’ll put that with my ASUS CUSL2 Motherboard when I get round to building it, I also like Gigabyte, ABIT & MSI Motherboards too, I quite liked the early Athlon XP CPU’s and when they were setup correctly then they were cooking (No pun intended), That’s a nice looking Nvidia 7600 GS Graphics Card at: 7:48 onwards and looks a capable Card too, System 2: 17:52 I do like some of the Socket 7 Motherboards especially those with AGP, PCI & ISA Slots plus the fact that you could use SD-Ram or 72 Pin Simms and having the AT / ATX options was nice, I’ve dismantled old knackered Hard Drives to recover the Aluminium from them as you can get a reasonable amount of Aluminium from a knackered Hard Drive, I’m surprised they left it in there, System 3: 30:02 Nice looking Case and I am fond of the Slot 1 & Slot A CPU’s, I’m sure I’ve seen that Pine PC Badge here in the UK but I could be wrong, Those SIS PCI Graphics Cards weren’t anything to write home about but they did the Job I guess, That Hard Drive did not sound happy did it! 😂 Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧

[gentuxable]

The middle one is so iconic for me, I've seen that design on so many systems. They were sold in different sizes and I have two like this in my collection but mine are ATX not Baby-AT, thus a bit wider to fit the PSU sideways, the groove with the LEDs continues along the 5.25 inch drives to the top and the Power button is at the top of the case to the right of the optical drive. They made good use of the additional space, bringing the buttons closer to the user having the PC under the desk. Only thing I don't like about them is the cheap power button on ATX that sometimes does not work right i.e. turning the system only momentarily on or turn it right back on again when you wanted to force shutdown, making the drives unnecessarily spin up again. This happens to both of them so looks like the switches are flaky.

[chrisrudi]

The last PC was certainly designed as a pure office system, as you can see from the graphics card, which was already outdated when the system came out. The CPU isn't exactly a burner either. But the case is spacious. Very nice and exciting video, I'm already looking forward to the next one.

[BRBTechTalk]

1:42 I like the look of that one too.
45:54 I heard all kinds of HDD noises over the years but I have never heard one that noisy. I am very surprised it booted making all that noise.

[Frank_]

If you press Ctrl and the F1 key in those old bioses it'll give more advanced settings to play with. This is handy for tweaking things, thanks for the video :)

[medallish]

I worked in a PC store in the early 2000's my favorite cases to work on would be chenbro, at least out of our more common cases, Chieftech made some awesome cases too of course, but pricey, and my favorite case I still have for my retro build is the coolermaster wavemaster <3.

Lucky find with the video card, these cards were really good for mid-range cards back then.

[marquesdlr]

Nice little systems! First one has the lateral covers swapped out, so the 'ventilated' cover goes on the other side with the holes pointing to the bottom.

These generic cases were very common back then (at least in Spain, but I suggest worlwide). I can recognize the layout of the rear and the side covers but never seen this strange front before xD

Thanks for your videos! Really love them

[ToniHiltunen]

Thank you of your great retro PC video, and those systems have a lot of potential to play good old games of their era.

[jasmijndekkers]

These computers are nice builds. Nice to see. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

[laurencejohnson]

All three posted so that's a good start.!👍👍 Happy fettling.

[blaster-vvso]

the athlon xp 200plus cpu sytem was my first computer with a less powerful graphics card and I played many game with friends. medal of honor allied assault, battlefield 1942, homeworld empire earth StarCraft played well also. I was also able to play the original left for dead and half life 2.

[FeArhsma]

Man that was really cool! I remember the good old days getting into computer gaming with my Dad on the old 386 Doom, links 386, stunts, sky roads, Return to Castle Wolfenstein 3D and Jill of the jungle, man those were the days. The best part they didn't take up 50 GB of hard drive space for a game. God Bless my friend and have a good one.

[georgez]

Three more Nice Systems. I like that Athlon XP system and another Slot One Nice Thanks for the video