2010 Custom Built PC Tinkering Extravaganza 

do u not wath someordinarygamer , you have been hacked buddy

In the '80s and '90s it was the norm for PC cases to come with a power supply... and sharp metal edges that could easily cut you if you weren't careful.

Good to see another computer video from you, I love me some 2000s custom-built computers, these are my jam too since I grew up with them. My Dad built a 3.2 GHz Northwood P4 machine with an Intel 865PE board back in 2004 which was cool, but my favourite year for PCs is 2006 since it was the year I started getting into building computers and it was also a big year for change with the Core 2 Duo launching as well as the GeForce 8800 series which was a big deal. I pretty much have my drool-worthy PC from that era now as my dedicated XP machine (also with XP MCE 2005) so my want for more machines from this period has been satisfied, though I should try overclocking, the E6700 and the Gigabyte 965P-DS4 board I have would do pretty well like most Conroe CPUs can. The platform I use for my current file server is also from around 2009, however it's an Intel H55 chipset LGA 1156 system with a first-generation Core i7 870. The motherboard I have actually does have both native IDE and a floppy header so maybe one day when it's no longer pulling file server duty, I'd love to stick it into a beige box case and make a 2010-era sleeper PC with a Radeon 5770 or GTX 580. Think the last boards I remember seeing with native floppy were Intel LGA 1156/1366 boards, and last with IDE were AM3+ boards for the dreaded AMD FX. My best guess for the original GPU would probably be a GeForce 9600 or a GT 220 or something similar, as it looks like it was originally single slot and due to the lower end nature of that system it kind of fits, though the Athlon IIs were still pretty decent for their price back in the day, slower than the Lynnfield i5s & i7s but still a great way to get a quad core on the cheap since Intel's cheap CPUs then were still dual-core. I'm also guessing that case came with the power supply and either the builder didn't know better or didn't care to find a higher quality one, that's usually how these firecrackers end up in these things. Seasonic or any of the rebrands of those are great. I believe the EVGA PSU in my file server is a rebranded Seasonic. Shoutout also goes to Silverstone who make quality PSUs as well which I use in my main system. I've played around with WU Restored too on a couple of VMs and it's very cool. I mostly remember v4 and v5 since we first got broadband in 2005. Our family computer (the P4 build I mentioned earlier) ran XP Pro SP2 and I remember downloading IE7 for the first time using that old version of Windows Update and being blown away by tabbed browsing lol (I hadn't heard of Firefox yet; I was 9 lol). The Windows XP update site remained exactly like this until it finally got shut down around 2019, that was the last time I remember being able to download directly from Microsoft. I believe Microsoft still hosts all the update files archived for Windows 2000 and later, they just took the sites down, so I believe WU Restored is just pulling the update files direct from Microsoft's database which is neat. Windows 9x I think is a bit hit or miss since not all the update files were archived, so if you ever find an old 9x machine that was updated back in the day it might be worth preserving the install to archive it's update files. Need to give Legacy Update a try though, both options are great though.

I agree with the Power Supply tidbit. It is the difference between a safe, slow pc and a slightly faster but dodgy computer. Good info.

Ah the Asus M2N68-AM, I had the Plus variant of this board, AM2+, with originally an X2 5000+, later upgraded to an Athlon II X2 245 (which overclocked like a BEAST to 3.9GHz) and later an X4 640, before going to an i5-2500K in 2013. I hold a soft spot in my heart for AMD's sockets 939 and AM2(+).

I really enjoyed this video! It's some fresh wind in the sea of videos on RU-vid that are so extremely overproduced and polished that they miss character. I love how the camera gently shakes when you talk, all these little blunders and some funny moments that you kept in there. It's an interesting PC. I also barely had any contact to AMD platforms before Ryzen.

Nice to see such reliability from lower end components.

Is that a Norstar 6x16 at the start of the video? That was one of the first videos I remember watching of yours way back! Cool to see you still have it (if that is what that Northern Telecom box is lol). Great video!

This reminds me a lot of my overclock Core 2 Quad Q9550 PC with a very nice gigabyte motherboard. Maybe I might try installing XP 64-bit on that one of these days. Enjoyed the video as usual!

I think they include the jumper to power up the power supply on it's own for priming a water cooling loop. That's what I thought anyways because I had one of those come with a reservoir kit I bought like 2 years ago in 2012... wait...

I came across a disc a while back that Microsoft came with out in early 2004 for computers that were using dial-up although it contained all of updates up February 2004 for computers that are running Windows 98, 98 SE, and Me known as the Windows Security Updates February 2004 CD-Rom. I managed to give Legacy Update a try in Windows 2000 and Windows XP and it works just a good as the Windows Update restored site. I remember during the Windows 7 era before UEFI became a thing on the newer versions of Windows, when I had a client bring me their laptop or desktop I remember spending a whole day from installing drivers and running Windows Update while restoring their personal files back on the hard drive from doing a reinstall of Windows.

If you wanted to run the large GPU there is a solution. Story incoming. Somebody brought in the PC that was at the heart of a big fancy industrial production machine, IIRC laser welding or something. The type of thing where you spend whatever is needed to fix the PC as replacing it would require replacing the much more expensive machinery. It was built in some cheapo case and somebody used a grinder (or maybe shears, i don't remember) to notch the drive cage so the custom $1k ISA controller card would fit. You'd expect higher standards to be used when it's part of $$$$$ machinery but instead somebody does _that._

100 CAD / 68 EUR for such a PSU is a really great price! The adapter however is actually to start the PSU without the rest of the PC to fill a water cooling loop by running the pump to circulate the air out of the loop. After the loop has been filled and confirmed that there are no leaks, the rest of the components can be connected to bring the whole PC to life. That was the primary reason these plugs have been made.

if you buy a PC buzzer today, you will get a piezo hanging on a wire. that's just how they do it now.

het its my gtx 770! happy to see it even if it doesnt fit. edit: the reason why the passmark 3d score sucks is because the GPU's overheating and throttling like mad, would probably perform alot better with a more effective cooler on it, if you can find one thats compadible.

I bought a pink Sony Vaio laptop in 2009 that had 4GB DDR2 RAM and that worked for me for a few years but eventually the CPU fan failed and it kept overheating.

I know someone who recently bought a new Corsair PSU to upgrade his rig and PSU killed his entire computer. So I have trouble recommending a Corsair PSU. It might have been a very rare one off but still I'm not going to a change. The PSU I have used in PCs I built or replaced in used machine were EVGA

I also always buy SeaSonic or Be Quiet! power supplies. EVGA are also great, but I think they will vanish soon...

IO-data still makes you input a serial number to download the drivers and software for their USB capture device. It would need to be an ATSC tuner that understands digital signals, so it might not be useable anyway. BTW, a “Phenom” is a young sports prodigy and is pronounced FEE-nomm. It was the hot new chip on the block.

I still use a 2009 MacPro every day, albeit running Linux Mint. I grew tired of using Open Core on it to run modern MacOs

Do you still have that TV tuner? I would suggest trying it again now that you have the new power supply. The BIOS hardware monitor was showing 4.6-4.7v with the old one. Combined with the front panel wiring that's likely thinner than 24AWG that's low enough to cause problems.

I think you might want to repaste the GPU and make sure the pressure on the die is as even as it can be, it looks like you have a hotspot issue there. Always spread the paste on direct dies.

That's a bumer that the tuner stick does not want to work. I had a Pinnacle TV PCI (legacy) card back then in my Pentium III 1.1 GHz PC that I used until 2009. It worked really well but I think Pinnacle is the kind of cheap version of Hauppauge. It had no Stereo decoder, the sound was always mono, which I really did not like at all... Maybe you can get your hands on a Hauppauge stick! Theye worked so much better back then.

AMD Cool'n'Quiet allows the operating system to tell the CPU to set the cores to sleep. It improves idle power consumption. These days since Ryzen it's called Global C-State Control. But I only found it working on APUs, not on CPUs.

I'm using even a 4 way RAID0 in my NAS on SSDs. Because RAID1 and others with redundancy don't really bring you that much security for your data. The only thing that gives you security for your data is: Backups. Lots o' them. On multiple media types! Why is redundancy RAID not safe as people think? Because these days the tolerances between drives are minute. They've perfected manufacturing of HDDs and SSDs so well, that if you get 4 of them at once, when one fails, there's a VERY high change that the RAID rebuild will make another one fail. Remember they all have been manufactured around the same time, have been treated the same way, have been sitting in the same spot in the same conditions. That's why when one fails these days, the other ones will go as well, and that very quickly. I have seen it at work on multiple our customers. Good that they additionally made lots of backups. So all in all, you CAN use redundancy RAID for additional safety, but I think it's not really needed anymore. Do frequent backups. That's the best way to keep your data safe.

I just realised that none of your videos are about boats - so now I'm cunfused.