Finishing the Ultimate Oddware Tower! Windows Vista PC Build

The LGR Oddware Tower continues! Every one of the Antec 1200 case's 5.25" drive bays are filled with weird 2000s devices and ridiculous accessories, all it needed was... everything else, ha. So I got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and a Foxconn AM2 motherboard from 2006. Let's install everything into this monster ATX PC case and get it set up – with Windows Vista!

● Here's part one of this build:

● LGR links:

● The album being played on cassette:

● All background music licensed from:

00:00 Intro to the Oddware Tower idea
01:52 The motherboard
04:14 The CPU
04:53 The SATA Disk on Module
05:41 Windows Vista, wheee
06:52 That Dynatron fan is absurd
07:51 Swapping out the cooling
10:58 3D printing to the rescue?
12:20 Installing an AM2 bracket/cooler
13:01 Sorting out the insides
14:00 Rear I/O and things
15:10 64-bit OS woes...
15:36 Everything is working!
16:12 Antec Veris Premier
20:27 Remote controlled Duke 3D
22:36 SilverStone FP54 VFD
25:04 LCD Smartie software
27:14 Plus Deck 2c cassette drive
29:19 Kingwin touchscreen fan controller
30:49 Unreal Tournament 2004 test
31:48 Upgrading the GPU?
32:55 The Tower is complete! Mostly!

#LGR #retro #computer

[philtkaswahl]

The machine spirit of that Antec case thanks you for finally allowing it to reach the pinnacle of its potential.

[mcgibs]

28:58 Seeing this work of art going full tilt while dongers go by on the screen is just poetry.

[hydrolisk]

Just so you know, LCD smartie is still being updated. It is a slow project right now, but it is still alive. I'm one of the admins still left that moderate the forums and I'm in constant contact with the program developer as I use smartie in my day to day life at the office and my private residence's infrastructure. Thank you for showing it in this video as you are a well known youtuber and you can get the word out that it is still alive :) There is MUCH MUCH more that can be done with the program with more complex setups, but that would probably be an entire video in itself. Crazy buildout by the way, I kinda want one LOL.

[DarkSide]

ahhhh windows vista now being part of oddware. Im happy to be part of this historic moment. I remember back in the day we got a brand new family computer and it ran Vista ultimate. I was about 6 or 7 years old at the time and I just remember all the oddness it had and it's all just nostalgic

[Alice_leywind]

I had a thought while watching this video, and this computer is the physical embodiment of someone downloading 15 different internet explorer toolbars and having them all going at once. And I think that's wonderful.

[mariopartylover]

This is like the essence of Maximalism, Chungking Mansions, Tower of Babel, New York City billboard of computer towers. I love it.

[JSR_]

Your Magnum Opus, good sir. I salute you.

Seriously, I was enthralled with this build. I'm so geeked you got it ALL working, I adore it!

[bbgdelta]

You've just made the biblically accurate angel of computing as far as I'm concerned.

[ledidier]

I love the way you take care to not show your thermal paste application 😂 makes me laugh more that it should 😊

[snakeplissken]

That dynatron cooler is a proper fly murdering machine. Whatever comes even remotely close gets sucked in and shredded into bits.

[HanMasho]

The second he showed that cooler off, I was thinking, "oh, that thing's going to be loud AF"... I was not wrong. In fact, it was even worse than I was expecting.

[mattpierce]

Fun stuff. AM2 was actually the second dual core platform from AMD, the first was in 2005 on Socket 939. It was memory bandwidth starved on DDR1. Also a cool thing for those who don't know - the AMD bracket Clint struggled with briefly is compatible with every (edit: mainstream) AMD platform from 2003 to 2022 - 754, 939, AM2/3/4. Allows for silly stuff like Wraith Prisms on OG Athlon 64 Clawhammers - the RGB control software even works in XP :D

[ImmaSayKOOHWIP]

I'd honestly pay anything for a computer like this. this is everything i want in a computer

[storerestore]

I remember seeing a motherboard with a vacuum tube amplifier for its on-board audio. That could be an option for this amazing build if you want oddware at its very core!

[RyanMartinez]

28:26 I would love to see how a tower like that with as many obscure music media drives as you can find (tape deck, CD/DVD/BD, MiniDisc, 8 track, mini tape, weird UMD drives, etc) would look like and work. Like a home studio do-it-all deal.

[huwhitecavebeast]

Dude I love your channel. It is so relaxing and takes me back to my childhood. You remind me a lot of some of the guys I used to hang out with growing up. I think we are around the same age, this just takes me back to when worrying about things like my pc was ll there was to worry about, and playing D&D.

[Cliffdog]

I think if you do an Oddware Tower 2.0 you should do all the Storage Weirdness that was in 5 1/4 bays from the early 90s to the 2000s.

[ayol]

I genuinely love this. With all the gauges, mix matched between digital and analog dial. It gives this PC a retro-futuristic look.

[cphrpunk]

The CPU cooler was made by Cessna, it’s designed to add 5 knots for heavy winds on takeoff on a 172. Alternate use was for sailboats when wind isn’t present.

[AaronHendu]

Vista is the perfect os for this monstrosity.