Rejuvenating a $599 Shuttle Nettop from 2011! Sassy's Green PC 

THAT'S MY COMPUTER!!!!! I created the Green PC for Sassy's. I designed the badge myself. I am the scrawny nerd in the ads that ran on WLOS.

LGR is now covering retro things from when LGR was two years old as a channel. This is troubling, the passage of time is an existential terror.

Sassy's sounds more like a gentlemens club than a computer repair business.

Just found your channel again a week ago. My late father was a big fan of yours. So watching you again has been nice.

Intel Atom and Windows XP Media Centre 👀 Honestly though for such an underpowered chip it decodes media pretty damn well, didn’t expect to see 1080p so smooth.

It still boggles my brain to see Clint reviewing hardware that's younger than the LGR channel, but I guess that was bound to happen eventually! Great video though, and a wonderful reminder of an era of computer gaming that I remember very well.

Wow. I've never seen a computer store that looked and sounded like a gentlemen's club. That totally should have worked. RIP Sassy's.

That aquarium screensaver is honestly very good looking for how low the requirements are. Jim Sachs is very talented, indeed.

I find this sort of thing (Let's face it, this is practically Oddware) utterly fascinating. I always thought that in the future of computing, this was the direction that we would go. Smaller and smaller PCs. But here I sit with a gaming computer under my desk that weighs over 40 pounds and is bigger than a friggin' suitcase. C'est la vie.

Shame they shut down, I associate these little independent repair/sales places more with the 90s - to survive to 2018 is impressive.

Anybody wondering if this is old enough to be retro I can assure them I tried using an Intel Atom netbook in 2011 or so and it felt a decade old then.

I frequented CDO in Greenville a lot and they helped me when I was just starting out learning the ins and outs of pc building. They had a whole diy area where anyone could come in, work on their pcs, and ask for help. Really cool place, sad to see it go. 😥

Got this exact PC haha. I got it in 2014 very cheap from Amazon UK (£140). I put a slim slot load Blu-ray Burner in it and SSD. Since it has Intel QuickSync support it was/is a perfect Steam remote play/Media centre PC. Steam streaming (at least at 1080p, never tried it at 4K) was flawless. Now it's just sat in on a shelf with no use. Plus Fanless/Passive cooling as well as just looking good next to the TV! Mine has a more pleasing 'Shuttle' Branding on the sides though. That oval is an eye sore haha Mine had a Celeron J1900 CPU in it with the Quicksync support, very capable!

I think a video covering the netbook fad from back then would be neat.

Sassy's... that's a name I haven't heard in a loooooong time. Sad to hear they're not around anymore. I grew up near Asheville and we would often go into town for computer parts. They weren't as easy to get out in the country back then!

I remember the Shuttle 'cube' PCs from the early 2000s, fun fact I was in the local IT department of my school that year doing work experience and got to build several from scratch, my fingers accidentally touched one of the power supply contacts whilst it was plugged in and I felt it! Luckily the circuit breakers kicked in very quickly

I worked at WLOS during that time, was NOT expecting a total blast from the past! AND you mention CDO! MY BRAIN!

This is kind of an amazing device. I remember seeing computers like this in workplaces and they were bolted to the monitor. What a cool little device. Thanks for the video about it!

Love these small form factors! And seeing a clean install of xp on an SSD was satisfying lol

As always, great enjoyable video. So fun to see the nostalgia of winXP. That green PC was awfully cute. It prompted me to shop for a portable Blu ray player of that size hopefully minus that stand :) Thank You for the Video and your hard work!

They seemed to really want to hide that this was a Shuttle OEM Case. It looks like they took a razer free hand to remove part of the manufacturing label. They removed the section mentioning that it was a shuttle made device.

the original installation reminds me of what my parent’s computers looked like when they still used actual windows PCs. that scammy tech support head brought back memories i forgot i had

Shoutout for the Need for Speed: Porsche Unleased clip! Love that game!

This is the most relaxing channel on RU-vid.

That commercial. It's Amazing.

Wow, I've had one of these set up forever as a emulator PC for MAME with Windows 7 installed on it. It's actually still surprisingly capable, I always loved it for it's unique form factor, quiet operation, and built-in disc drive.

omg, once you booted it up it evoked memories of literally every diag and clean up I get! It is fun to get to see you cover stuff we still see in the wild!

It's so wild to see my local news on a fairly large youtube channel. I definitely remember the commercial as well.

It's great to see something completely random like this - somebody has to preserve these devices however obscure and random they may be.

Those D525s are surprisingly good little processors. I've been running one with a board that I bought on salvage for $15 as a PfSense box for the last 6 or so years, and it just keeps going!

My favorite kind of videos. Seeing a poor machine saved both from bloat and being forever forgotten is always good to see ! ❤️

It’s amazing what they can cram into the form factor of a 100x100 VESA mount mini PC these days. I just deployed a ton of HP ProDesk 600 G6 Mini Desktops in the last couple of weeks ago in an automotive assembly plant, and I was impressed by their specs. These little guys had 10th Gen Intel Core i5’s with 8GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD, wired and wireless LAN, dual DisplayPort outputs, a couple of USB-C and a decent number of USB A ports. They looked like they had just a laptop style blower fan-but overall impressive for a 35w PC. Given the specs of our older, much chonkier ProDesk towers-those will be a much welcome upgrade, say nothing for the fact that they will take up almost zero space and won’t die a miserable heat death inside a cabinet on the floor of a manufacturing facility. The apparently make fancier EliteDesk versions, and if it weren’t for the $800-1K price tag, I’d totally consider getting one. Be on the lookout for these things in 3 years when they come off corporate leases because they’re gonna be a sick deal in the $200 range. These had a build date of 2019 on them, so presumably someone got those immediately after they were released, so there might be some hitting the secondhand market in as little as a year. Even though these things should be able to run Windows 11, I would absolutely be running Linux on them and retro gaming to my hearts content via emulation.

These Thin Clients are very good small portable Win XP 32bit gaming surprises. I own both a HP T610 and T610 Plus (PCI Expansion.) Always nice to see these pcs being tinkered with.

4:52 Look it's the EEE PEE CEE

Channel 13 out of Ashville....man that bring back memories. I grew up in the mountains on the SC side of the state line and that was literally the only OTA station we got...so till we got satellite TV latter on it was all I had to watch growing up.

I had a 1215N with the same chipset as you said, and I absolutely loved that machine. Got me through 3 years of community college with room to spare, just not so great for gaming haha. Thanks for featuring this.

Time to compile Gentoo on that little thing! Can't wait to see how it works when you finish the install in 2 years!

Sounds like the ideal work XP pc for you, Clint. Easy to install software into, quiet in general, and also compact enough to keep in your office without much hassle

Ah, I used to have that Shuttle in a pretty similar configuration and it was the ideal HTPC, completely inaudible and ran movies smoothly from Windows Home Server. It held up nicely for several years, I loved that little thing. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

You are a true history keeper!

I used to work on people's Shuttle units in the mid-late aughts and man they were cheap but efficient... but those motherboards were so picky when it came to upgrades and parts replacement. Like you experienced with that RAM upgrade.

I have a similar 'Green PC' from the windows 8 era, it's an AMD SoC all in one with Radeon HD Graphics. Used it as a home server for a while since it has USB3 ports as well as 1gig Ethernet, though a Raspberry Pi 4 soon superseded it in both performance and power draw.

It's a adorable little nettop for sure, never seen many of these before but like you said, a great media center option.

Yep, had these at university in the UK around the same time, USBs blocked by the cage & padlocked to a frame behind the monitor... Nice vid as ever :)

LGR has reached "current technology", Im still running a 2012 i5-2500K with a Radeon 7970 as my secondary PC / GFs Gaming PC, and its doing 2022 way better than id have ever imagind when I build it.

Awesome. Another video from the magnificent Clint "LGR" Basinger 💪👍😃 Let's see what it's all about. Edit. Ok, that thing looks very compact. I'd like to have that too to play some older games without taking too much space. Very neat little machine. 👍 And that Sassy's name is kinda hilarious. 😄

Have been enjoying the videos for a long time. Just wanted to say this channel is really soothing for my anxiety and love the content. You and Ashens really spark my interest in the old, retro and wacky.

Love it! I've got an Acer Revo 1600 and a Revo RL80. Fun tiny little buggers great for running old stuff without the giant desktop footprint. The RL80 stand doubles as a VESA mount for that unit. Fun stuff indeed!

That looks awesome but I wanted to ask you something, is there any chance you can provide a link to the Sassy’s Computers wallpaper that’s on the machine please?

I have an EeePC from that time (also Intel Atom of course), which actually had a discrete GPU. Not sure why I thought that was a good idea, I think I installed Linux on it and ended up playing some Minecraft. Windows 7 was indeed too slow on it, and then on Linux I had to battle the whole "nvidia gpu vs. intel igpu" thing... I think it was called "optimus" at the time.

Lowkey want to get one of these now for late 90s/early 2000s games. Thanks Clint.

Your intro to every video is truly the best on YT. I click on every video just to hear the smooth beats and keyboard sounds at the beginning.

The incompatible RAM module might be the voltage issue, e.g. 3.3V and 3.5V. I might be wrong.

Perfect for a little XFCE/LxQt Linux-install! I'd love to see the actual power consumption when it comes to some of these machines you cover, maybe invest in a Kill-a-watt?

Netbook retrospective approaching! 🤩

Getting the maximum from the minimum is always interesting! Thanks a lot for the video!

holy shit how far we have come. this thing has a 13w tdp while nowadays a mobile ryzen 7 with just two more watts of tdp has quadruple the cores and threads with boost frequencys way higher. just goes to show how much tech has improved.

With a GNU/Linux installation it could be used for basic things like browsing the internet or editing documents. With Windows XP it is only good for playing very old games. You can't do anything online with Windows XP today.

God, the commercial being peak NC is way too accurate. All of our local commercials are exactly like that even to this day.

Great work Sir

Hey Clint! Great video. Just curious: did you play HL2 via Steam, or a retail copy? Since Source got updates over the time maybe the Steam up to date version could be harder to run even on era-appropiate hardware.

When the Atom came out, I remember being amazed that Intel were actually able to beat their own record and make a processor that was even slower than a Celeron!

I LOVE the history behind this. so fun to go back!

This is awesome. I work near their last location and the Goodwill you got this from is about 5 minutes from where I live! I love that Goodwill.

Oh nice :3 setFBS has a way to overclock these. With an older ePSXe with DX6 Pete's Plugins you can play PS1 games perfectly. Just gotta have a lite Win XP and run the classic theme on it and every kind of tweak imaginable. Prince of Persia The Sands of Time should work well on this one.

DDR3 SODIMM had this annoying split that you'd have 1.5v and 1.35v modules, and they were incompatible. I don't think you can damage anything with the wrong kinda module but it sure is annoying. PC3 is the 1.5v and PC3L is the lower 1.35v spec, and it appears that one you tried to add was a PC3L module.

I'm a Buncombe County native and remember these commercials well. I love the local stuff. I think it was the Gizmondo video where you took some pics with it and I thought "gosh, those buildings look familiar" before the lightbulb went off.

There's only a handful of things that bring an instant smile to my face and a new LGR video is one of them! ❤️

Yeah LGR time

You really got to wonder what has to happen so an OS becomes infected with that much crap as if it were a grandpa-PC parody. Love that omnipresent techguy-head, though. Its almost like a desktop pet.

This little thing is precious.

Now you've gotten me interested in these slim PCs. At least the ones I'm finding on ebay are dirt cheap.

Oh no way! We used almost this exact model as an all-in-one embedded device for a work thing. Getting those Atom video drivers to work on Linux was horrendous.

Out of interest, have you ever considered trying these old Windows games using WINE on a modern Linux distribution? Just curious to know what your experiences were if you ever tried it.

I just love your channel mate! Hi from Australia!

I built a silent mini PC from a Zotac motherboard with the same D525 CPU and a really early 64GB SSD. This ran WInamp as a music server in my van, which I remotely controlled from a Bluetooth app on my Symbian phone, then later over Wifi with Android. The audio quality was far better than anything I could achieve with bluetooth or headphone out from a phone. I installed a PicoPSU which accepted 6-24v so it would run off a car battery. This little PC put up with all the vibrations, heat and humidity changes that a vehicle put it through, yet only drew 14 Watts of energy from the car battery, so it would run all day with the engine off if needed.

Did you change the thermal paste and/or pads, if it didn't throttle it wouldn't make a difference performance wise, but considering what the FLIR showed it might have been pretty toasty in there? I really enjoy videos like this.

Now this is something from 2011/12 standards.

Ah yes another calm lgr video is what i needed to start my weekend

Thanks for this video. I just came in to a Shuttle XS35 v3. It helped me to upgrade it. It originally had 4GB of RAM but it works with older 8GB of DDR3 at 1.5V (2X4GB). Mine came with Windows 10 Pro installed on a 120GB SSD drive. I removed the Wifi card to replace it with a combined USB dongle for Bluetooth and 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Wifi. I installed it on my TV to view movies from Tubi and Pluto. In the DVD drive bay, I installed a 500GB HHD drive I had on hand.

Wait…is 2011 retro now? I’m getting old…

Sir I think I have watched every video you have released for the last year... They have all been gold.

I have an Acer Aspire One KAV60/D150 from 2009. it has an Intel Atom 1.60GHZ single core, and I usually use it for hobby stuff lately. Upgraded mine too with a 60GB SSD, 2GB RAM, and I installed Xubuntu on it. Runs great!

As always, great video Clint!!. Nice and quiet, and only $2, not bad!

I loved my Shuttle SN95G5 rocking a Athlon 64 3500+ and a X800 XT PE, dragged that to many lans, was great making the trip from the car in one go.

Thank you for uploading those wallpapers. You rule

2:35 So that's what Mr Clean was doing before he got into cleaning products - clean pcs!

There is something about these videos that gives me goose bumps!!

Hey, recently found a netbook with basically the same hardware! Cool to see it packed into a tiny desktop.

I didn't have the same one but had an acer revo nettop, was a dual core atom with 2gb ram, started with windows 2000 but then got a new pc and so it got repurposed as a linux machine which used to play unreal tournament 2004 nicely enough, then repurposed again into a Linux server which ran home file server, web server, teamspeak server, irc server, vpn server, minidlna server, thing was A beast, was being used up till about a year ago when I moved and now have something bigger. Loved it and still have it sat right next to me too. love this vid thankyou ♥♥♥

That's awesome I live over in NC in the triangle and man that is peak Ashville award 😁 LOVE IT

I live here and I remember those places very well glad Asheville is on this show 😎

Awesome video

The first PC I bought with my own money was from a local place here in central Florida called Cheap Guys Computers. They had several stores and I loved going to their Orlando store all the time. They changed their name to Smart Guys Computers and they're down to only one location now which is in Sanford.

That's awesome! Perfect little XP PC.

It's very sad that iconic companies such as Sassy are no longer in business. Great video as ever.

Still have my two old shuttle XPCs tucked away: my first home built PC - the SB75G2 (being captivated by SFF ever since), and second my SX48P2 deluxe ultimate. This would become my first watercooling project - and one that it pains me to say, I never fully finished, despite still having all the parts. It was hard to WC back in 2008, and in SFF for a first timer it was crazy. Custom northbridge and vrm coolers, lapping cpu's, learning about not mixing copper and aluminum and galvanic corrosion, finding a solution for an external rad, buying custom pumps from xpc w/c forums, importing niche parts to the UK from the US... good times man. I ended up with something like this: - GPU - the Koolance VID-428 waterblock for my GTX 280xxx which looked beautiful - CPU - the Koolance CPU-340 as it was literally the only thing to fit Shuttles non-standard mounting holes when rotated 90' - NB - the Thermaltake Extreme CL-C0034 - RES - Swiftech MCRES-Micro Reservoir - PUMP - Swiftech MCP350 with custom pump top (thanks to someone on the old Sudhian forums I think) - RAD - Thermaltake Big Water 745 (I only had the external 240mm rad, not the kit, cant remember where I got this from- still looks amazing imo) / Tygon tubing, Feser One UV cooling fluid in black (still unused) If any of this sounds interesting to you hit me up.

I've got a few of these around, or at least used to. A local organization has/had them everywhere, so every time they bring Ewaste into where I work, they'res a few in there.

Holy shit Clint, you just unlocked a memory with that Hyperbole clip. Thanks!

Place I used to work had rows of semi-cubes set up with Lenovo Thin PCs - they were used for the data entry temps to do their jobs. ThinkCentre, I think they were, or something like it. Set up in 2015 or 2016 or so - it was essentially pulling a PDF or TIF file over, you'd type what was required, hit save and do it all over again. Had about 20 of these in a room along with a big ol' scanner and some server stuff for the DBs. Place got HOT too, with all those machines running.