1998 High-End Gaming PC Build & Benchmark ( Early Slot 1 and 440BX )

This one was the most challenging project we've done up until now.
But, as you probably guess, time traveling ain't easy.

Check this certified time traveler if you want to see more of the Voodoo cards:

Music Used: Koi-discovery - Cyborg Travel

Parts List:
CPU: Intel Pentium II 450MHz
MB: Chaintech CT-6BTA3
RAM: 4 x 128MB SDR 100MHz
GPU: Asus nVidia Riva TNT 16MB

[MyJapaneseLife]

My first PC was Compaq Presario 7360 with AMD K6-2 processor and 64MB RAM in year 2000. It was a gift from one of my relations because my family was poor and feeding duty was already hard for my parent. It is not the best one even at its time but has opened my eyes and gave me a whole new future. Before that I couldn't even imagine what a "mouse" is.
Now I'm working in IT industry and can easily buy the most expensive PC. Still remember every memory of that old PC, and never forget their kindness.

[PrzeszczepiX]

512MB of RAM is astronomical amount for the 1998, back then typically computers had 16 or 32MB. 64MB was considered as high-end.

[Stinger]

There was a small computer store about a 45 minute drive away from where I lived back then that sold complete systems along with individual parts you could select to build. At that time, I think what I got help putting together was a PII 350, Soundblaster AWE 64, Diamond Monster - Voodoo II (3dfx and opengl), Riva TNT (Direct 3D), 128 MB SDRam, maybe a 32X CD-Rom or maybe a CD burner and maybe a 750MB or 1GB HDD - running Win98 SE. Back then, it wasn't so much about settings, but my mindset was that 640x480 was low, 800x600 was medium and 1024x768 was high. Over the next 2 years, we ended up with a couple upgrades like moving to the PII 400, replacing both graphics cards with a single Voodoo 3 3500 and a 19" flat-panel monitor that could run 1600x1200 @ 85Hz.

[meme_thief]

I find this really fascinating, it just shows how 1998 gaming was on its peak plus the old hardware is very much alive! like your videos

[burnitdwn]

I loved the 440bx era. I bought a BH6 and a celeron 300a, and then a few years later, when I bought myself a celeron 533 I bought a second BH6 and gave my little brother the 300a.

That 300a overclocked to 464 performed better than a stock PII 450 in games, though people often were able to clock the 450 higher.

I only ran a Voodoo 1 card at that time, but was mostly playing the "Total Annihilation" RTS which didn't really need 3d acceleration.

[emaldon]

Great vid! Was quite a nostalgia trip remembering my own days with the first couple family computers we had and was able to upgrade things here and there for better gaming. The hardware you got was pretty clean too, good finds.

[damazywlodarczyk]

Late 90s was brutal for gaming hardware, in 3-5 years your pc was completely unusable.

[abhijeetsinghchauhan]

You have only 2K subs? I was watching the video and thought it is some big channel because of the production quality. Keep up the good work man

[sczullkjengker]

When watching your videos, it feels like I live in the 90s and it feels like YouTube and video making was a thing back then.

[kevorkyijan]

Still using a I7 4770k after upgrading from Pentium90 to Athlon FX ...and from 3dfx voodoo2 to GTX 260 to GTX770 x2 SLI to AMD Radeon Sapphire RX 7600XT 16Gb.
My PC story❤

[Carnemann]

I Fell my 12 years old interior kid again, thank you very much!!

[Tressie]

I remember my very first build in the 2000s, it was a Pentium III @650 MHz with a Voodoo 3 with 16 MB and 128 MB of RAM, then I upgraded to 248 I believe and a GeForce MX with 64 MB VRAM, best times ever 🥲

[fireshorts]

I remember when I first got into PC gaming, the geforce 4 Ti cards were top of the line. The Ti 4600 in particular was an absolute beast of a GPU, with 128mb of DDR RAM on it. ATI didn't really have anything to compete with it until the Radeon 8500/9700 Pro (which were also amazing cards)

[cranbers]

Ah those were the days. My first computer was in 1997 at 16 years old bought myself for 2k.. pentium 166 with a 2gb hard drive, 16 MB of ram. This was my second computer Pentium 2 450mhz with 32mb of ram and a 10 gb hard drive? I can't quite remember. But back then speed of the cdrom and having a 56k modem and 64mb of ram was bragging rights. Amazing what 25+ years have done with computer tech. My PC right now has 32GB's of ram, 4.2ghz processor with 8 cores and a GPU with 16gb of memory... And yeah our iPhone and android phone's can run circles around what those giant board did back then.. What will the next 25 years bring?

[BalancedSpirit]

God this takes me back. As a high school graduation present I got my very first “gaming rig.” Mobo was an Asus P2L97 with a Pentium II 333 and an ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP. The mobo only had a 440LX chipset, but eventually I got a Celeron 433 and OCed the mobo to 83 MHz, making the Celeron run at 541 Mhz, then I got Voodoo2 SLI. It was a pretty sweet rig after I upgraded it. Lots of fun playing UT, Q3 and Serious Sam.

[zomblog]

CREATIVE AUDIO! Hell yea! I got a Soundblaster with the DAC in my current build!

[O.Shawabkeh]

Excellent and entertaining video.
Our PIII 450 ran well Quake II in software.

[Funkymix]

Very interesting. Thank you very much for this work!

[STEELFOX]

I have this exact combination in the past!! was a beast!!! some later batches of Pentium 2 300mhz are overclock-able to 450mhz changing fsb from 100 to 133mhz.

[thegrrambino]

such a good interesting video, and your voice is epic