Here you will find videos of past tech that will (hopefully) instill a bit of nostalgia :) I am a retro enthusiast located in Canada that loves to find old tech and share the experience with everyone! If you enjoy the content - please like, subscribe to the channel and comment what types of cool retro tech you would like to see next!
Sorry to dig up an old video, but did you ever use that Asrock 970m pro motherboard? It would make an awesome vista gaming rig.. Regards David from South Africa
Awesome build! I have a very similar one: same motherboard and cpu, Voodoo 3 2000 (AGP, but seem to recall the AGP and PCI cards have similar performance), 40gb real hdd (seagate barracuda) and 256mb SDRAM. I went with an audigy 2 sound card for EAX support, great for games like half life and unreal tournament. The audigy and live! cards are pretty good for DOS games, especially when you load in a nice sound font for general MIDI, but there are a few games that have crackled PCM sound. I tried pairing my audigy with an ISA sound card to cover those edge cases but it seems to Bork my audigy when I go into pure DOS mode (even with resources disabled and no conflicts) and I have to reinstall drivers, so I’ll leave the ISA sound cards for my Pentium mmx machine…
Fantastic video, thanks man! I would love to see one of these of all of the Windows versions. I feel like you may have done 98, but XP, ME, Vista, 2000...The dream(s). EDIT: You totally have and I found them 😂
Thank you for this great video. I've been a Linux user for many years and once a Mint user too. Despite knowing the OS quite well your commentary was still informative and interesting. I could go on and on about the benefits of Linux but wont ;) That said I'd love to see more Linux content!
I have a passionate dislike of Celeron & Duron Processors etc and would always swap them out for a “Proper CPU”, That being said, I wouldn’t just bin them as there will be a use for them, I also never overclock CPUs either, I don’t see the point in trying to get more than a Pint out of a Pint pot as they say, I might consider underclocking to extend the Life of the CPU & other Components but that would be about it… Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
Another fine Video Squire! I’d like to think that some of my Comments are helpful at times especially the one on the Video where you have the P4 PC & 2 x Dual Slot 1 PC’s where the last PC was set to 230V, I’m not sure if you spotted it and feel free to mention me by name and I’m fine with that, Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
Another fine Video Sir, I believe I’ve already mentioned the Dual Slot Pentium 2 & 3 Systems that I have and still have to this day in the Video where you first Discover the System in the junky Case, I also have a Dual Socket Motherboard that has Dual Tualatin CPUs running at 1.4Ghz (Think they are PGA370 Sockets but I could be wrong) Watching the Video I noticed that the previous junky Case has a built-in proprietary IO Shield, It’s so annoying when they do that, If it was me then I would’ve taped the IO Shield that came with the Motherboard into the bottom of the Case somewhere but somewhere where it wouldn’t have caused any problems but whoever had it before probably just put it back in the Box and then binned it when they had no need for it, I’ve still got most of my old Motherboard boxes! 😂 Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
Another fine Video Squire, I had to watch the section a couple of times when you’re showing what Cards are in the System thinking that I’d missed the description of the Sound Card and you realised that you hadn’t shown that Card at: 30:30, Graphics Card’s nothing special but as long as it works then that’s the main thing, Interesting CD-Rom Drive & like the inclusion of the Left/Right Phono Sockets on the back of the IO Card, I’ve got quite a big collection of Optical Drives of different types now but not one like that, Oh btw, I pronounce it “Mayvis” regarding the Mavis Beacon Typing, Think I’ve got a copy of that somewhere, I’ve got a 286 & 486 PC but not a 386 although I’ve recently found a couple of 386 Motherboards so will hopefully get one up & running and do a Video on it at some point soon hopefully! 🙂 Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
Another fine Video Sir, System 1 at: 1:20 It’s a reasonable Case and having 4 x Bays for Optical Drives etc is always a bonus, I’ve had or have 1 or 2 Cases where you have to pop the front bezel off in order to remove the side panels, It looks like the Rear Fan would’ve been completely useless in that Case with the inclusion of the Air ducting which was built into the side panel, Did you check to make sure that the Jumper was not set to “Clear CMOS”, It’s just a thought & not sure if that was the issue? I couldn’t see them very clearly but the Capacitors near the CPU looked fine to me but I could be wrong of course, The only reason I mention it is because I’ve never had a problem with ASUS Motherboards with leaky Caps, System 2 at: 16:57, That Dell looks a little bit like my Intel Server Computer with Dual Slot 1 Processors although the bottom half of my Intel has a Door and behind it there’s provision for 6 x Hot-Swap SCSI Hard Drives & I think I have 3 in mine, It needs some TLC actually as the last time I attempted to power it up it refused to Boot, I’ve got quite a few of those Dell Slot 1 CPUs with the chunky Heatsinks that are riveted to the CPU itself, I haven’t actually got or seen a Dual Processor Motherboard that uses Rimbus or RD-Ram Modules! The 2 x Motherboards that I have here both have 4 x RD-Ram Slots & I believe all Motherboards that use RD-Ram have 4 x Slots, I have a few of the Blanking/Spacer or Dummy Cards whatever you want to call them along with a few sticks of RD-Ram itself as well! System 3 at: 31:55, Not sure if you spotted it but the PSU installed in System 3 at: 34:04 is set to 230v, I did have an issue once in my early days with Computers when a PSU was set to 110v here in the UK and it made a spectacular bang along with some Fireworks, I’ve made sure that I have never had that issue happen again since, Not sure what would happen the other way round, Would it just not do anything being set to 230v when you plug in a Power Cable and only give it 110v and it’s not something I plan on trying anytime soon either, Some nice components in it but it’s just a shame about the Case, The Motherboard looks a bit like my Gigabyte 430 Dual Slot 1 Motherboard which has both SCSI & IDE interfaces on the Motherboard itself, It’s back in its box but I do plan on using it for one project or another at some point! Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
Im watching this after last week buying an optiplex 790 which is a few years older than this and cost £14 from ebay. Its now sitting on my home network as a pretty decent plex media server.
I am a fan of Linux Mint since version 18.1 or so. it's easy to install and gets people started on Linux with the least amount of 'configuration'. Hypnotix IPTV is Mint's software, but you can run it on just about any Linux machine, unfortunately the quality of your TV 'signal' is highly variable. Try the Movies option and EN for english movies. It works for me. good video 👍
Another good Video Squire, I did like that particular IBM design, I just felt it had a nice clean look to it, Believe I had a couple of them along with the matching Monitors, The only thing I have now that's IBM branded is IBM Thinkpad Laptops & Hard Drives if I remember correctly! Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
Nice Video Squire, I used to build lots of PC’s from the early 90’s onwards using cheap to intermediate Cases, Some of the Cheaper ones weren’t good to work with due to the very thin metalwork and you could cut yourself quite easy on some of them, System 1: 1:20 A nice System and I like the ASUS Motherboard that’s in it and they generally give you lots of Headers to attach different peripherals to, I have an ASUS IPanel I think it’s called and I’ll put that with my ASUS CUSL2 Motherboard when I get round to building it, I also like Gigabyte, ABIT & MSI Motherboards too, I quite liked the early Athlon XP CPU’s and when they were setup correctly then they were cooking (No pun intended), That’s a nice looking Nvidia 7600 GS Graphics Card at: 7:48 onwards and looks a capable Card too, System 2: 17:52 I do like some of the Socket 7 Motherboards especially those with AGP, PCI & ISA Slots plus the fact that you could use SD-Ram or 72 Pin Simms and having the AT / ATX options was nice, I’ve dismantled old knackered Hard Drives to recover the Aluminium from them as you can get a reasonable amount of Aluminium from a knackered Hard Drive, I’m surprised they left it in there, System 3: 30:02 Nice looking Case and I am fond of the Slot 1 & Slot A CPU’s, I’m sure I’ve seen that Pine PC Badge here in the UK but I could be wrong, Those SIS PCI Graphics Cards weren’t anything to write home about but they did the Job I guess, That Hard Drive did not sound happy did it! 😂 Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
that's newer than the pc i'm watching this video on, and mine is a 4th gen i5. And its my newest pc. Haven't had any luck in getting a newer pc on the cheap. And isn''t it more like 8 year old? I built my pc just over 10 years ago. All i've seen is higher priced retro that isn't really all that useful for its price (a core2duo and a pentium 4 oem and some low end laptops. Couple mystery laptops that are questionable if they even work much less are worth putting money into (one has a e-sata port and other has a single usb 3.0 port). Neither have a OEM sticker or specs (rather too worn out to read), Doesn't say windows generation either. So they're mystery laptops (one lacks battery and other probably doesn't hold a charge) Best i've seen is a 2nd gen i3 OEM but even it is probably overpriced and these are at my thrift stores (Value world and salvation army)
I'm glad you kept your D630. The Dell Latitude D630 is the tank of laptops. My company had 12 of the D630 and one D830 laptops and by the time they were retired, all 12 D630 laptops were sold working to another company. My boss kept the D830. I am a ThinkPad user and fan but I like the Dell Latitudes as well.
at one point you talked about nVidia being really good about driver updates etc. we have to update all our servers at work from Ubuntu 20.04 (the version that came out in 2020) to 22.04 (came out in 2022) because of compatibility with the GPU drivers... now I'm not sure if this is strictly a compatibility with the version of Ubuntu, or the underlying Linux Kernel, I know you can upgrade the kernel, but maybe that's the problem, the newest kernel that can be on 18.04 isn't compatible with nvidia drivers anymore???? more work for me regardless of the reason...
I bought Aspire M1201 in 2009. It cost about 400 euros. It was with Athlon 4050e (2,1Ghz 2 cores) and 3 gig of memory. Rest of the parts was same what you have. I chanced cpu first to Phenom x3 then to Athlon 5050. The computer is still functional but I planed to replace motherboard to X99 and Xeon from Aliexpress.
Subscribed! Your video put a smile on my face, watching a proponent of old hardware and saving these systems from the landfill and you installing Linux Mint as a first time Linux user, was like watching a kid opening and exploring a cool present on Xmas day! 8) My daily driver is a circa 2013 Dell Optiplex 7010 with an i5-3470 and 16GB Ram. I do have an old Radeon GPU in it that I don't recall what it is atm. I watch RU-vid, plex and other apps with it. Spotify works great. I pay my bills and email and many other basic things with this box. No muss, no fuss. No built in key logging or spyware. Just casual computing. I just dug out the olde Fujitsu laptop with a Pentium 4 (circa 2006). My first Linux Mint experience in 2013. I'm going to find a low intensity Distro for it and see what happens. Tomorrow, I have an old beast arriving - a Dell 7020 full tower, with an i5-4590 I picked up on Ebay for $39 + $30 shipping. I might make it into a moderate gaming computer, or something. Gonna have fun with it, all the same! My collection grows! With Linux, these old beasts still rock for general use. Moderate gaming can still be done on these things with logical upgrades. Cheers!
2:00 I am using 15 year old computers with SSD drives and maxing out the RAM, I have several and they work fine. All the BS with the multi threading and multiple cores is marketing BS, they have hit the limit for how "fast" computers go as they can't increase the frequency of the processors.
Definitely depends on the end user and what the use case is for these systems. Some older business models were certainly upgradable and are still in use today.
There should be screws holding it to the chassis. You need to remove everything in the way first (cables, drives, caddys, ventilation etc). It should come out fairly easily.
I'll have to take a look at one and get a better idea. There may be some documentation online. Dell is really good at maintaining that material on their website - just enter the service tag number on your label.
@@TheRetroRecall Ooohhh, I see, in the video it looks like you just slide it out of the case, not screws required. But I will have to remove it from the small sheet because I have to replace caps. Never done it before, so Im hesitant to do so.
Usually a small 'spludger' tool can get it and release the clips if they aren't accessible from the inside. It's been a while since I did this restoration, I'd have to go back and look :)
i'd say stick with Mint, you can learn a lot by staying and hopping around, but if you're impressed with the install experience on Mint, you'll only be frustrated with the inferior experience of everything else ^-^ i personally use Zorin OS, but even in very user friendly distros like it, it just has so many more quirks than Mint.
my favorite semi modern generation of pcs is haswell , its still descent in performance and it can run 5 different windows operating systems natively without having to modify anything xp,vista,7,8.1 and 10 i guess 6 if you count vanilla windows 8 lol but who ever does , even though skylake is down to only running 7, 8.1 and 10 natively i still can't believe he wanted to trash that pc , the current market defintely is one persons trash is another ones treasure
@@TheRetroRecall Same here in the States. Apple computers are hard to find and when I do find them, they are usually expensive. Two months ago, I got a 2014 Mac mini and a first gen Apple Magic Mouse for only $5 for both which is a lucky find!
@@TheRetroRecall Indeed! All I had to do is replace the slow hard drive with an SSD, install MacOS 12 (the latest it officially supports) and it works great with modern internet. The Magic Mouse works with my M2 MacBook Air.
