What's Inside This 20-Year Old Gaming PC? || A Custard-Coloured Time Capsule!

Today we're cracking open a retro Windows 98 Gaming PC to see what's inside. I'm a total noob when it comes to really old parts, but hopefully this machine will be a great start to my future retro gaming adventures!

Thanks for watching :)

[iamsoldats]

Tech world: “The latest AMD GPU has 128 mb of cache and RAGE MODE!”

RG in HD: “Here we have an ATI Rage 128 Fury”

[xSwainkx]

awkward moment when 20 years ago isn't the 90s anymore

[RandomRider]

This PC has the future of media, called the DVD player.

[ConfusedStu]

Clippy was never retired. He was promoted and now runs the whole of Word, which is why Word does so many weird things compared to Excel, Outlook and the others. Want to move a photo on page 2? No problem, I'll just shuffle the table on page 14 too.

[the_broly_arms]

Oh, this makes me endlessly happy! As someone who is, uh... ahem... older, it's awesome to see this relic, in all its beige and butterscotch glory!

[carbonn]

Looks like you got a new setup, pretty nice! I like how minimalistic it looks, dunno about the plunger tho lol

[RuffsTV]

Fond memories of Windows 98. Half life, counter strike, unreal tournament... 56k modems... 300 ping was pretty decent! Absolutely hated going to XP after it.

[luca]

PSU: named Apollo
Also PSU: has a Space Shuttle drawing on it
Space fans: WTF

[smalwex]

I got my first pc as a gift in 2015 and the first thing i ever bought with my own money was a 1660ti as an upgrade.

I do remember having a brick laptop my grandad made for me that was running windows 98 and would overheat and die every hour.

Good times.

[rhysholdaway]

Congratulations!!!! This is most exciting era of personal computers. Tons of variety of processors, graphics cards and sound cards to explore. 😁

[kerimo]

My first pc had Windows XP installed, and i remember playing cs1.6 and wolfenstein enemy territory on it and saying to myself "this is like the future on a screen!". Good times man <3

[BaronBoar]

My families first PC was a 386 CPU with Ms-Dos and Windows 3.11 I believe. I still have it downstairs and it still starts. I can still play the games that we have on it too.

[ProXGenGaming]

*depressed me browsing youtube*

RGH: "Hello everyone and welcome to another video."

*smiles*

[blairlohnes]

Now you're into vintage PC territory. Those are my favorite PC's. I have a couple win98 machines and I love them, they are probably my favorite two retro machines of my collection. K6-2 333, 64MB EDORAM, Sound Blaster Live, ESS Audiodrive, S3 Trio64 v2 2MB, Voodoo 1 4MB, Voodoo 2 12MB and a Pentium 3 500, 256MB SDRAM, Aureal Vortex, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB. I would recommend Quake 2 and maybe unreal to push that video card to it's limits.

[Commodore]

I remember back in 2003 when I had 2, 40GB IDE drives that "I will never need any more space"

[ali_says]

So lovely to see old gadgets, a sign of respect and calmness! ❤️

[ugh.idontwanna]

Wow, some pretty good parts in there. Decent motherboard, nicely clocked Celeron, and the most rare bit: A Maxtor drive that works.

Upgrade the graphics card and pop a Sound Blaster in there and honestly, you're flying.

[plume...]

I love these mystery machine videos, discovering what was left on the drive etc.

[salamandr-]

As an older enthusiast, who was about the age you are now when this stuff was new...it's really amusing and somehow heartwarming to see you muddle through hardware from this era. Somewhere in my brain this still counts as cutting edge, and it's really weird yet satisfying to see someone so knowledgeable in modern tech out of their element with it.

For me, this is where it all comes from. RAGE MODE! in the Radeon 6000 release, the Fury cards from a handful of years back, even Celeron probably has a more poignant meaning for me. Back then, hot off the heels of the Pentium II era, Celeron still embodied the hope of a budget CPU that overclocked like an SOB and was the budget gamer's best friend. Celeron meant "smart, but not rich" buyer.

Love the video man, would love to see more of you messing with older hardware.

[Miichi]

It's amazing how pc hardware Advances so fast, remember when the Radeon 5970 was the fastest, most expensive and top of the line card back in the day ? Well now i got it for 30 bucks on Facebook marketplace.
.. crazy