A High-end Millenium Build 

Man this was great! Solid presentation, great selection of parts, it all came together very well. Hope the machine serves you well for a long time, with or without Me installed

The Sound Blaster in the thumbnail gave me instant chills.

Very nice machine. I like that you decided to give Windows ME a try and experience it for yourself instead of listening to everyone who had issues and keeping away from it. Back when i had dial up internet, my Pentium 2 with Windows 98, the OS was pretty solid, but around 1998 when i got cable internet and had to get a network card put in my computer, After the drivers were installed, Windows 98 became unstable and would often crash with the Blue screen of death. One crash corrupted the hard drive and i had to do a clean install of windows 98 again. I put up with Windows 98 for as long as i could and as soon as Windows ME was available, i did a clean install and i have never looked back. It was rock solid. For the whole time i used ME, i never installed any Windows Updates as i heard many people having issues after doing so. To this day ME is my OS of choice for any retro hardware i might come across.

Another carefully thought out and well-executed build, looking forward to seeing some more videos

Gorgeous build, 1GHz PIII hits a bit of a sweet spot for me !

Congratulations for THIS great setup

Just catching up with videos after a long summer vacation. Glad to see some content from you again, and as always, very classy hardware and video! Keep on keeping on! Coincidentally I'm building a replica of my own Windows Me computer from back in the day with AMD 1400MHz, GeForce 3 and SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum Ex. I never had any issues with Me, but I mostly used it for music production and photo editing. I don't remember it being any more unstable than Windows 98, but everything is crap compared to what came after, Windows XP! ;)

I like this build. Really good parts, that's not another dumpster found random lowend common crap. Respect.

Please, use 6.3.1.1004 drivers. You are using buggy chipset driver version.

Great Video! I was hyped for the upgrade from Win 98 SE when Win Me came out, said "meh" after a few weeks, did a clean install to Win 2000 Pro and NTFS. No regrets. 😄

Very cool build really good looking case. Thanks for the Video

Windows ME is the best win9x ...

Stunning build. I'm not particularly excited or nostalgic for ME either. I don't hate it. ME just has the vibe of a movie sequel that nobody wanted. It exists but that's all. Stability of Win NT based operating systems can't be beaten. Sure ME has some features added over Win98 but nothing that's too compelling. I like seeing older applications in these videos. Not just games. That's pretty cool. Back in the days when such applications were a big deal. I feel there is some value to make use of them even today. A retro computer in a corner is a pretty cool addition to almost any home. Especially something shiny and cool like that.

I run Project 2000 SR-1 on my Tualatin build as well! :) Nice to see someone else running it too. I love finding good software to run on my machine. I'm collecting PIII and Intel appropriate utilities. Office 2003 is good to as is Visual Studio. I'm currently working on a build of OpenXcom that will build entirely in Visual Studio 2005 on Windows XP SP3 on my Intel D815EEA2U, PIII-S 1.4GHz build. Running Intel X25-M with Startech adapter.

right down my alley! i am building one just now! but I go for a northwood celeron, it has ISA as well, and I am really keen on using this computer :D gooosh, retro hardware, its such a beautiful hobbie :D great video and thank you mate, friendly greets from bavaria in southern germany!

Hell yeah dude, glad you are back at it. Very enjoyable format and style you have. Dont worry about basic soundblaster cards they are fantastic. BTW you have done a few videos on peripherals but I noticed you havent mentioned a joystick yet, do you use one?

wow! Geforce2 ULTRA ! i reall want to collect it !

Had IT similar. Miss IT every Day.

Good result in 3Dmark 2000. I have a P3 1000 Compaq EN SFF Deskpro here that has XP but I installed a GeForce GT440 Low Profile with an adapter 😁 Crazy, it even manages the 65W card with the small power supply. The PC gets around 9000 points with your settings. The CPU can't do any more than that. But I really like your system, it's just that the prices for used GeForce 2 Ultra cards are far too high. That's why I use other options.

Nice build! With Windows ME you dont need to copy the installation files ahead of time, the installer does this during the first 10% of the installation.

It would be nice to see some Star Wars Jedi Academy gameplay 🙂

What an epic build!

8:32 You tried to install flash disk driver for 98 instead of USB 2.0 driver (maybe by mistake), WinMe has already integrated flash disk support out of the box :) Those drivers aren't designed to increase speed to 2.0 standard, rather it just adds support for removable drives in older OS. Offtopic: When I hear you, always think about Kimi Raikkonen, you are somewhat similar, maybe because language :)

Mid 2000 Athlon Thunderbird was introduced on socket A and it would have wiped floor with that P3. Socket A in 2000 had DDR and AGPx4 support. From Win Millenium I still remember how it was a really sluggish system. Way worse than 98. It was giving a feeling like no matter how fast your cpu was it would behave like celeron 300.

What a great build!

P3 and not a t-bred! First to 1Ghz? Psshhhht lol. Love it though. I do and don't miss this era of PCs.

looks slick as hl

Codename 47 ❤

I have been searching for pentium III motherboards new for years on Ebay with no luck , the only available are over $100

What gpu's recomended for a P4 1.3ghz, 1gb RDRAM? Some easy to find.

the build immediately stops being high end when you put windows ME on it lol

Do you not have any CRT monitor?

TISSIT!

I threw so many of those away.

9x on ssds have always ended bad for me.

SSD in 2000's ? bro use a 40gb hdd

ME WAS THE WORST

Man you're back, as always stunning build !

This brought back some memories, back then it appeared I was the only one in my gaming group that had no issues with ME.

Superb build! I also use ME in my P3 build, no problems so far 😅

I miss Abit. They made some incredible mobos. I still have my IP35 Pro from 2007.

Pretty nice setup, mate.... : Nice tweaked Elsa Gladiac VGA..!😅

Windows ME has the greatest opening sound of all time!! 😃

my retro computer runs Me, compaq presario 800mhz celeron with 384 ram, and a SD card as the Hard drive, works great

Hello, what video resolution did you use to test the games? Thank you.

I love this pc really nice looking I was six years old when we had our first pc in 98 had no clue on specs but it did everything we wanted, The oldest "retro" pc I have currently is my late 2000s build for games like dirt 2 and few other that wont run on modern hardware.

i loev Giants

Noctua has not yet been founded in this Windows Me era

Damn sweet and clean like always, thanks for sharing this with us!

Awesome and clean build loved it!

Super video.

Wicked smile at the end. Well done mate! Nice PC.