The THROWBACK Gaming PC Build

A while ago, we built in the Antec Performance 1 FT. Now, we have the Silent revision! But instead of building a "run-of-the-mill" PC inside it, we've sourced very old, nostalgic gaming hardware for a THROWBACK gaming PC build! Hope you'll enjoy!

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[PaitVideo]

Couple years back I got this cpu used for 10 dollars from an online auction. I paired it with a cheap aliexpress motherboard and now my mom uses it to do her crosswords.

[nathan_tasker]

@Greg Salazar, the issue with the build is that the x58 chipset only supports a total of 24GB of memory, in 6x 4GB sticks maximum. The system is getting hung up on the memory issue. If you swap the current kit for a set of 4GB DIMMs you will be fine. I hope this helps. As always great content.

[whitebeartigtig]

Just a note here, the ASUS X58 Sabertooth board does have USB 3.0 on the rear, but no front panel USB 3.0. This was the first generation to have USB 3.0.

Love to see old hardware being used like this though, I have a lot of nostalgia for X58, the Xeons were excellent for this platform in the later years. Just a shame you weren't able to get it working, I wish you luck with figuring it out.

[FaintRhymes]

man this takes me back. I was a freshman in college looking up old linus vids back in the day to build my first pc. I had an i7860 which was on the other platform(lga1156) i think since the i7920/930 or whatever was different. . That paired with the gtx 470 that came out that year, my pc was near top tier back in summer 2010 then. I also remember the huge debacle with hyperthreading back then and how everyone was laughing at "fake cores" or whatever. Those cpus lasted a very very long time and i still stand by my statement from over a decade ago that you were trolling to not get a quad core with hyperthreading.

That specific cpu greg has retailed at $1000 buck during release, i specifically remembered that and was going hell nah. That and my other favorite memory lane event was the following year gpu wise when the gtx 465 came out and everyone was trying to flash them into 470s, man what a time that was

[jacksonbtb]

Motherboard probably needs a bios update to support all of that ram, since its likely running an early bios. Most people at that time were using 12gb, even 24gb was kind of rare and overkill. I would try for a post using 4gb dimms and go from there

[Addeatt]

I personally appreciate the humble posting of this video. PC building is not always straightforward or easy, so seeing this video is completely understandable. Was a fun watch! EDIT: Looking forward to the fix or flop episode!!

[ScavengerFX]

It really got me when you said it was over a decade old and you were a freshman in high school. Like, when I was in school, we had 386 and 486 computers and Pentiums weren't a thing until after I graduated High School. lol

Damn I am old.

[shadowarez]

My First Extreme Build was the Intel 4960x with 32GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum ram the Asus Rampage board of the era of ivy Lake. The ram alone was $890 from NCIX the Cpu $1100 and I didn't even have a sata drive at that time. That build lasted until I built my x299 7980Xe Rig. I gave the ivy Lake build to my nephew so he could have a rig to help him stream 😂

[ArkadianMr]

X-58 was one of my favourite platforms, i still have one modded with a xeon 5660 and a radeon 590 with 24 gigs of ram, it even runs a win11 lite (spectre) version. It doesnt hold a candle to my modern pc but i still love it.

[sethbalderson]

Black, no rgb, no frills. The best kind of builds.

[AdmiralGloval]

I have an ancient throwback rig. It probably uses that referenced gigabyte motherboard. I use 2 IDE hard drives and 1 SSD. 4 IDE USB drives, DVD burner and Blu-ray player. The cpu is a FX 4170. GPU is a XFX Radeon R7 260X. And finally 12gb ddr3 ram. Thermaltake V3 black edition case.

[lewjohns]

Gosh this brings back memories! I built two computers with this motherboard, one was even a used board from Fry's which had bent pins. Got it to work, I ended up using Xeon X5690 and X5680. I remember having to update the bios using slower chips. It seemed to want to work forever! Ended up having to replace the power supplies and the fans on the CPU cooler. Gave both systems away and I know one is still working at a friends house and he does newsletters with it. Solid motherboard!

[Lauterec]

x58 was an AWESOME platform! I used an x5675 and a GTX 1080 until just a couple of years ago. I think I bought the whole system used for $150 back in 2016ish. Had quad SLI 9500 GTs! Served me well. I think the compatibility with the 6 core xeons and the triple channel memory really helped extend the life of these systems.

[johnny_rook]

Man, this brings up good memories! This babies went up to 4.5Ghz more than a decade ago! X58 was the best PC platform ever made, afaic. As for the POST problem, I bet is the memory; we used 4GB sticks at the time for a total of 24GB.

[NIXIEPIXIE]

i actually admin an X58 facebook group youd be surprised how many people still have love for this old platform

[BasedEMT]

Old tech looks better than modern tech, it just does. Even the boxes of older graphics cards were always so incredible and made you dream/wise there was a game version of it. The cooler itself looked like something out of a video game, the card looks amazing. Everything together just makes it look so great. Modern stuff is just boring with some flashy, pretty lights. The boxes are boring and just says "graphics card. Wow." in plain English. Coolers are just chunks of metal with a fan(almost identical to the stock cooler from the video actually), etc. Love the imagination we had back in the day. Nothing but cold science now.

[MaheerKibria]

That processor brings me way back. It was in the first PC I built for myself. I used it with an Asus P6T MB, 24GB of RAM. and a Radeon HD 5970. So much nostalgia even if the GPU wasn't period-accurate. I really hope you can get it up and running. But since debug LEDs weren't a thing back then it could be a serious pain in the ass. I remember getting so frustrated I ended up buying a debug board that plugged into the TPM header that would allow you to debug the post issues. I was so happy when they started adding debug LEDs and the the segmented displays with post codes.

[EvoVIIl]

My gosh, this was a throwback for me too. My first pc build was in 2011, and I didn't know much. I ended up building with an amd 1090t and I used an antec 1200 V3 and the coolermaster V8.

[nicktroller]

This brings me back to when i built my Intel i7 920 back in 2010 Asus P6X58D Premium mother board and 12 Gig triple channel memory. since I built it I am now using SSD's for storage and just put in an AIO Corsair H50. I really injoy watching Fix or Flop. Thanks

[suriariel]

Former user here with a lot of troubleshooting done on an X58 (Gigabyte G1-Guerilla) Double check the RAM and be sure it's fully seated. Remove all the memory and go one by one next. Mine had to have slot 1 populated regardless of how you wanted to configure the RAM so you could have slot 1 populated but if the module was not well seated the PC would not POST even if you had more modules installed. And from my X55 MB. It had USB3, SATA3 and PCI Express16x. It just couldn't have all 3 at the same time. So if you feel the graphics is running a little slow, check if it's running at 8x instead of 16x. I enjoy your videos so keep it up!