Building A Windows 7 Gaming PC in 2021

Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
Prep-Work - 1:31
The PC - 2:46
Upgrades - 4:12
Display - 6:34
Installing Windows - 7:54
Accessories - 9:34
Benchmarks - 10:50
Benchmark Conclusions - 16:49
Windows 7 - 18:38
Outro - 19:32

Game footage taken from:
Mirrors Edge | 2008 | PC
Need For Speed Underground | 2003 | PC
F.E.A.R. | 2005 | PC
Far Cry 2 | 2008 | PC
Quake IV | 2005 | PC

[EpicTyphlosionTV]

Maybe you could do a followup once you get a good graphics card?

[AleksandrBekhtin]

I'm watching this video on Windows XP that my parents bought back in 2003

[InsanityPrevails]

This unfortunately happens way too many times... Only when a YouTuber has stopped uploading do their videos get a wider reach... I hope this YouTuber is still there, reading these comments, and ends up feeling like they want to post again c:

[Antepithesis]

really underrated channel if u ask me, thumbs up

[ciberkid]

I was either in the 4th grade when Windows 7 came out and when I got my very first personal laptop from my parents that Christmas, it had Windows 7. Coming from our family pc that had Windows XP, 7 felt so magical! The fact that it can be considered retro now feels so weird lmao

[choppergirl]

Still using Windows 7 in 2023 as my daily driver!

[voodoovinny]

For a retro Windows 7 gaming pc, I would NOT install all of the Windows 7 Updates as they make the response of the pc extremely slow for some reason. I am thinking we need to make special videos of retro XP and retro 7 gaming pc which updates to install, which to ignore, and which to block.

[MarkDaGardna]

This was an excellent video and I feel the same about Windows 7 also. It is my favorite OS!

[SUCRA]

Great video and great build! I love this sort of build, I've done a couple of windows 7 builds, they are cool! The 730 is surprisingly bad, but I'm glad you figured out the issue in quake 4, it was scary how slow it was haha. Great video, thanks for putting it out.

[computingwithcoffee]

My dad started a YouTube channel with my mom. He created a intro video and was very excited to show me. For context my dad was a wedding/school/company videographer. But that was years ago so he has had some video experience. Anyways he shows me his intro video and I said I like it it looks retro. Because it looks like his videos from 15 years ago. Anyways this upset him so much he bought the entire adobe sweet, something he swore on his grave he'd never buy but he had pirated older versions. He's created a much more modern one now.
Just thought I'd share this story when I read retro.

[JustJacob]

I love the recent trend of era accurate setups!
Because as great as it is to upgrade older games to be on modern hardware, there’s always something special using the authentic tech the was made at that time.
It adds to the experience!

[edwineriksson]

Windows 7 will ALWAYS be the BEST operating system that microsoft ever released!

[almightyarchive]

thanks for this video! i got my first desktop and chose for it to be a windows 7 pc :) really helps me get a footing on where to start this project! thank youuuu~

[rn]

Watching this from my AMD & Nvidia Windows 7 machine with a X-Fi Titanium.
However, I have a Ryzen 7 2700X (Looking to hop up to the 5800X), and GTX 970.

Also, that BIOS and driver installer looks significantly better than the BIOSes and driver installers on most modern boards imo

[cirkulx]

My machine is Vista-7 era (2008) but I think they just wanted to make it cheap but it runs really well in Windows 7 and 8.1 (and 8!)

[lennym]

This video is good BUT what if you could get any parts you wanted, what would you get so that windows 7 can run without problems???

[darkprinc]

Earlier this year I put together a dual boot WinXP/Win7 machine. I already had the tower, motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU so I was able to save a fair bit of money. It's an old DDR2 board so I just bought an extra bit of RAM to fill up all the slots, a power supply, a DVD drive, a floppy drive (because why not?) and a hard drive.

The rig has an E4600 Core2 Duo @ 2.4GHz, 7GB RAM (somehow one of my 4 sticks is actually only 1GB, not sure how I never noticed that before) and it has a Radeon HD 6850 1GB MSI Cyclone edition. The motherboard is Zotac branded, so it has an Nvidia chipset and integrated graphics (Geforce 9300).

[gall-]

I had that mouse back in 2013/2014, I loved it

[agdgdgwngo]

I miss my win 7 rig. I built it for a friend in like 2010 and bought it off his years later, for £40. Nice Lian li case was worth at least twice that used. I upgraded it heavily with a Phenom 1090t, 8gb of corsair ram an SSD, 1tb hard drive and 750ti. Also set up a dual boot with XP. Spans these 2 eras pretty well and maxed out everything I wanted to play. I dunno if 7 still supports Steam but if it does I'd be willing to build something like that again.

[majorpayne]

Interesting. I also have a retro WIndows 98 and XP.
I think it's time to build also a Windows 7 retro PC.