Building a 486 DOS PC! The LGR Woodgrain 486 

51:37 ''Look at that, its almost playable'' This is the insight that Ubisoft developers have after finishing a game.

Calling tech support in 1994: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive A:?"

"He's gonna take you to the past Building outdated computers from scrap"

Basically my entire childhood revolved around how good I could get Simcity 2000 to run. I sympathize, Clint.

"extra pin that's off to the side there, being alone and sad" story of my life.

1 hour of PC Bulding.... Clint, you're spoiling me

Clint-- I can't stop going back to about 49 minutes in the video and hearing you talk about this Sim City 2000 story and hearing your genuine reaction to seeing it like you saw it all those years ago at a friends' house. SUCH good content! Thanks for this warm, authentic moment!

it's so nice to see him happy by finally beeing able to install simcity after all these years

Even a video i thought would be extremely boring, you had me watching the whole thing entertained every second. You got serious talent, man.

Oh those sweet, innocent times when cable management and rgb lighting were just nullified by beautiful beige.

This is my favorite LGR video, I've probably watched it 5 times already. I would love to see more retro builds like this from different eras (386, Pentium II, AthlonXP... etc), I think people would find them fascinating. My first/childhood PC was a 486 DX 33MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 200MB HDD, ATi Mach 32 1MB VRAM, so this build really hits home for me.

Sometimes I watch this again to calm my anxiety. Thank you Clint.

Clint, I've been following your channel for at least six years. Your channel inspired me to start my own niche gaming channel. Your pure, unfiltered enthusiasm is infectious and refreshing. Thanks so much for doing what you do. You're one of my favorite RU-vid creators, hands down, and I love your work!

I’m in my 50’s. My first experience with computers was in the 70’s at Socorro New Mexico. I had placed 3rd in a science fair and the State invited us to spend a week up at Santa Fe for the “State Science Fair”. Anyway we were taken to different government science laboratories. Then in 85 I went to College. At my college we were introduced to IMB XT and then later the AT. While in the Navy I worked on military super computers that were thousands of times less powerful than the cell phone I hold in my hand. On leaving the Navy in 90, I worked for Apple and fell in love with how elegant the Mac design was. I have always owned a mix of PC’s and Macs. I still feel the Mac is superior in design and execution even with the problems that closed architecture and poor senior leadership..... that have plagued Apple over the years...... And yet, there was something incredibly fun and rewarding when building a IBM clone or a gaming desktop of this day. Thank you for this quick trip down memory lane.

Sometimes I think, "I want to build an old pc." Then I watch this video and remember figuring out jumpers and I'm just like "nope."

I watched this 486 episode for the 7th time. I can do it until the 100th time.

I like how this has a nicer BIOS interface than most windows 7, 8, and some 10 computers I've seen

I've enjoyed watching this way too much. I'm such a nerd. You definitely built one of the dream PCs I wish I had back then with the AWE 32 Soundblaster card and the Vesa compatible video card. Later my grandfather, who used to work for a credit union, had a Compaq Presario PC to work from home provided by the company. It was one of the first Pentiums at 100MHz and it had a sound blaster 32 card and a Vesa graphics card and a 33.6 kB modem. It had 2 partitions, one had IMB OS/2 Warp and the other had Dos Win 3.11. The Dos partition was for personal use and he let me play with it and it was amazing. A friend and I used to build our own Duke 3D maps, send them to each other using QuickLink II for Dos and then played multiplayer games on our custom built levels. What a time that was. Kids these days can't appreciate the high tech instant response stuff they have today with internet and all that.

Your builds are genuinely some of the most comforting & enjoyable content on this side of the internet. Even 4 years later, this is a fave to return to from time to time :)

My favorite thing is seeing your PASSION and delight while building this box! I'm glad I didn't get into PC building until after ISA cards, though my first 2 machines had 3 1/2 floppies!

Such a cozy video

When you almost cried to the start up of SimCity 2000 I smiled widely in happiness for you man. Though one idea comes to mind, any chance you would lets play it?

Who's here 7 years later?

Hooo-Boy... Feels just like yesterday :-) Except: 1) I was 35 then 2) Now I ain't :-/

I seem to remember a lot more swearing, being involved

This brought back so many bad memories, so many wasted weekends of plugging boards in, swapping boards around, yanking boards out, fiddling with memory sticks (the creaking sound when you put them in gave me shivers), things working then suddenly locking up (it felt like getting slapped in the face), and hardware details that everyone has long forgotten like sharing IRQs. If I got 75% of stuff working in the first weekend, it was enough success that I would be able to sleep. Subsequent evenings and weekends were getting that last 25% working, which often meant breaking things that had been working. *UGH*

LGR: "Oh, look at this! It's so cool!!!" me (with a small tear in the corner of the right eye): "Dude, it is a little cool."

I'm working on a 486 build myself. Your channel popped up in my feed and now has me reliving my childhood lol. Dealing with many of the same issues of N.O.S. parts not working after years of sitting around...and playing Jumanji USPS Edition. Finding parts is fun but I recently wandered into the local mom and pop computer store and found out they are clearing out old stuff. Walked out with 1 complete HP Athlon XP system for free, new 3.5" floppy drive, 3 new Turtle Beach PCI sound cards, 1 Cirrus Logic 2mb ISA video card, about 6 various AGP video cards, everything from generic 8mb to an ATI rage pro 128, 2 Nvidia cards, Gigabyte 256mb card and a few others, Win xp home, Win xp pro, win xp pro 64 bit, and Sierra 3d pinball. Cost me $5 for all of it. He has 2 other machines he is prepping for me and I saw he has 2 sealed MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 combo packs on the shelf that I'm going to try to pick up.

In 20 years, I bet people are going to be building i7 PCs for nostalgia.

This might be the best video on RU-vid! Brings me back to my DX4/100, which also had an AWE32 :) with a double-spin cd connected to it, and my 4-button gamepad running of its game port! 9-pin serial mouse, AT keyboard, etc... ahh... memories! I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to it from my 386 SX-16! Then again, I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to the 386 from my 8086 XT! I was amazed how the 386 had a backup battery for the RTC! No more having to enter the time and date every bootup, like I did for the XT lol! Anyway, AWESOME vid, and AWESOME PC! Entertaining, funny, and so nostalgic! Like I said, may be the best vid on the Tube! Cheers!

You can see the joy in Clint's face. The computer ended up looking pretty good!

I feel your joy SO much coming through in this. I'm geeking out just watching. Reminds me of when I built my first machine. Love your vids. :)

Holy crap... I'm sitting here watching a video from 2 years ago of someone building a computer from 24 years ago.... what am I doing with my life.... (Sweet video btw)

I would love to see you play sim city 2000 as a series, maybe once a week or so, I dunno.

This video made me build 486 pc for Fun, made repair my old pentium 166 mhz and now i use these pc almoust as regular as my modern gaming pc. Nice!

I keep rewatching this and it just makes me happy. I love how passionate you are clint too. How happy you are to see sim city 2k running. So awesome. Man the world needs more people like you in it man.

There's absolutely nothing like that satisfying "click" when you're putting in new RAM.

I was over here yelling at the screen like "That other board has cache chips that you can raid!!". This takes me back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

So much nostalgia and weird feelings from this video... I just clicked this video to check out the specs you planned to use and then ended up watching the whole hour+ video. Thanks for the old memories.

Legit, this is one of those videos I wish I could like more than once. Very educational in my opinion. And just a plain ol chill video to hang out with. Love this build.

when I had a 486 when I was In trouble my parents would lock the computer and take the key. I would lock pick the lock with a paper clip.

*I've updated this 486 build!* Check my video adding a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g15J44xB2zU.html

hahaha love the throwback intro

Crazy that this is a 6 year old video and you were around for 7 before that. Thanks for being the best and keeping the chill for so long. Lgr videos are top notch and just relaxing and entertaining. 😊

this is officially the best RU-vid channel ever made!

Imagine building a £10k computer, With GTX Titans etc, And then putting it in this case. Nobody would ever know.

Ayyyyeee glad you all like the music! I love this dude's vidz!

Dude when you said "i just bought this at Circuit City".. it took me a split second to be like wait what? lol

The extra holes along side of the CPU were there for the Pentium Overdrive Cpu's

I am a simple man. I see an LGR video. I grab some drinks. I sit down. I enjoy

That intro was so sick I watched it twice. Nostalgia, man! So many good memories of my 486. My first computer was actually an Amiga 500 - and then a 386... which got upgraded to a 486... but it was that 486 that really got me into the PC life. So many hours of Scorched Earth... This video was immensely fun to watch. Those hard drive sounds! Congrats on 7 years of an awesome channel. As a side note... I've been fooling around with overclocking a Skylake build recently and I had a boot failure... and guess what logo pops up when it detects the boot failure... American Megatrends. I didn't even know they were still in business! Bullet-sweating moment aside, that red louvered triangle brought back so much nostalgia it was totally worth it.

Thank you. I loved every moment of this. Brings back so many memories. My first computer was a DX2-33 and upgraded to a 66. Played Duke Nukem 3D and Doom, connected to BBSes with a 2400 bps modem. Those were good times.

cool video! i only wanted to take a short look but stayed until the end. well done!

"SUCK IT 1993 ... BAM" Dude, you rock

Congrats on the seven years and thank you for this wonderful video, where a number of us have had a chance to relive our childhood with you. :) Keep it going man! (thumbs up) Note... Had you played Star Wars Rebel Assault on that thing (My first CD-ROM based game, I still remember my father buying the CD-Drive and the game, tagging me along) I would have had a freaking fit here at home xD Again. Thanks for your hard work. :) (Personally, I look forward to a mid-late nighties Win 98SE2 build)

Your positive energy helps me get through dark days. Thank you for keeping on keeping on with your passion.

The hardware part was a trip (in acid) down memory lane. How many of those tricky 486 MoBo did I install when I used to work as computer tech? How many unexplainable behaviours made me lose my temper. How many time spent figuring conflict over IRQ, or address. or DMA, OR EVEN ALL OF IT TOGETHER. How many motherboards did I go through to satisfy that customer request of a 486DX 50 (NOT DX2) to find the one who would work at that FSB speed... Eh, the good old times... that felt hardly all that good whilst we lived them. :D

Car salesman: *slaps roof of car* "This baby has so much wood grain in the interior."

I'd love to do this myself. Shame that a lack of money is a thing.

I know this vid is a bit older but it showed up in my feed in 2022. You literally built my first pc build back in 95. Part for part. Thank you for an amazing stroll down memory lane!

Seeing that woodgrain at the end made me make up my mind. Next time I'm building a new computer I will make my own wood case because it looks so good! It will be heavy as balls but who cares when you can have a PC of pure wood! :D

Man, this takes me waaaay back. You've got yourself a new subscriber.

That was weird you unboxing a cd drive that was made 4 months before I was born.

I love that I'm actually learning about computer stuff little by little while watching these. Makes me feel like I'm doing something.

One of the best hours I have spent this year, thank you. Brought back memories

"Time to address the RAM" Ha!

But do i have to upgrade to run Half Life 2?

This brought back so many memories. Everyone should get to experience this. Building, upgrading and maintaining a machine from a pile of parts.

Nostalgia overload! This outlines how I spent a good portion of my teens and early twenties. Man I'm old. :-)

Oh man. This is so nostalgic. That messing with options etc. just for properly working machine.

I remember editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up conventional memory. loading drivers high. himem.sys noems.

i feel the same. i finally got my hand on one. i couldn't be happier. bring back old times. playing DOS games just so much fun to me

This is my favourite channel on RU-vid. An hour felt like 15 minutes! You've got some serious talent. Thank you for all the hard work you've put up in your videos.

Very cool video and Interesting to see an old PC getting built in this day and age. I could clearly see the legitimate enthusiasm in this, wether it was about passion for the classic parts such as an soundcard that is bigger than modern gpus or for playing the classic games "the way they're meant to" :) Glad for you to manage to fullfill this childhood dream of yours. cheers

Kids these days will never know the feeling of overclocking using jumpers. :)

I used to be a tech building and repairing PCs around the time those boards, IO cards, cpus, memory modules, cache chips were commonly in use. Brings back a lot of memories!

Dude, I love how happy you sounded when Sim City installed. This channel is the greatest.

I have case with real woodgrain from factory. It has keyboard lock too maybe from 1999-2003.

This is one of the best videos I've seen on RU-vid, after I dunno how many years. Thanks, Clint, really beautiful stuff.

This is one of my favorite videos on this platform. Recent I got parts for a new budget pc since my crappy old laptop is on its last legs, and rewatching this makes me really appreciate not only how far we've come as far as personal computers, but also what was so great about pc making back then and now. It honestly makes me wanna build my own recreational DOS machine, if I hadn't already spent $800 for the new build.

Its the Lazy Personal Computer! LPC

I love LGR!!

Man, i found your channel because Pizza Worm, and every time i want to get the feeling of retro and nostalgia, i come to your channel for some of that sweet sensation. I'd love to see that front of the case painted in Black, it will be like those old pong machines. Congrats for seven years of sharing the gols days of pc gaming. Greetings from Mexico

Your videos inspired me to build my own dream 486 setup I couldn’t possibly afford back then and my parents could only afford a 486sx25 which was my start into computing and I adored it anyway.

Just watched this whole thing and was thinking, "Man. I really need to play some SC 2000!" Inspired me to drag my old Dell laptop running Windows 2000 on it out of the closet and load it up! Like your style, LGR.

The joy that you get building the system and running games using better hardware that you wish you had way back then is incredibly gratifying. Suck it 1993!

Ohh, man. I Loved sim City 2000. Civilization 2 was another Thing, beneath Doom 1, Doom 2 and Wolfenstein 3D. I Loved this time...

This was the first PC I used when I was 3-4 y.o. back in 97-98, I miss those times so much, I literally learned how to write on a 486, instead of using a pen and a piece of paper, and my dad back in the days programmed it for me, using a QBasic interface, to exercise myself with basics math's operations :D

You need to put a fake turbo button on a computer that just makes it blue screen. Anyone that hits it would be really freaked out.

You'd think by now that they would have standardised the case front panel connectors for each motherboard. But no, I literally built a new PC the other day and it had those stupid front panel connectors that you have to look up in your manual to figure out the arrangement for plugging them in

46:54 that's pretty much how I sound like in the morning. Aspecially on mondays.

This brings back fond memories, I have never seen a bios like that though.

I've downloaded the intro from the description and I can attest, it's really is the coolest thing ever

34:00 LOL 😂

That windowed BIOS is amazing. That's like EFI 20 years before EFI

I just come back to watch this every once in a while. I love this build of a computer I’d have never bothered dreaming of. I always love the Sim triumph.

I have been shouting out loud "That is BAD ASS!" throughout this whole video, but that wood grain took it to the next level! Love your channel, Man!

it mad me happy seeing you make this epic old school pc working dude

Such a legendary video! It's like the 20th time that I'm watching it. This is basically what inspired me to get into collecting and building retro PCs. Keep up the good work)