I dunno about that Phil. You should understand being such a retro fanatic yourself, but I know if I saw an Altair 8800 at a friend's house I'd be all over it. Kinda defeats the purpose of a sleeper PC don't ya think?

I've seen enough of Phil's videos to know that's only half in jest. He'd do it himself if he had a good opportunity, and I'd most likely watch the build video too.

Actually, what you're looking for a ghetto pc that is secretly a crysis-slayer cdn.overclock.net/e/e9/464x337px-LL-e98a1759_funny_pictures_ghetto_computer.jpeg

+TheTurnipKing LoL!

PhilsComputerLab when I thought my Dell was a good sleeper... lol

Corristo89 Yes, build your PCs with "military grade" components! Guns, grenades, flamethrowers, jet fighters & nukes, fun for all the family!

And me? With my msi tomahawk? where is my tomahawk? : P ^^

I bought the MSI Z270 pro carbon and am still yet to recive my carbon fiber Mclaren P1 GTR.

Whatever you do, don't contact support about it, I bought the very same board and complained to support about not getting a tomahawk, next thing I see a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile making its way to my house and blowing every single thing up... except for the board and everything connected to it

can someone tell if that was a real grenade or just a prop he used for the joke?

y e s

Now do it on the actual 8080 in the Altair.

I think I prefer the notion of asking whether the computer is Tetris Complete. In short "Can you implement Tetris on it?". A surprisingly large number of systems pass. Those that fail usually fail because they either don't have enough room on screen for a full play area (10 wide by 20 high) or lack some way to repaint part of the screen. Even older, is the notion of Adventure Complete, meaning you can port the old text-adventure classic Colossal Cave Adventure to it. I suspect the Altair _would_ pass that one.

@@deneb_tm No, go for either an 8008 or 4004.

bimer2000 If that were the case I would've been disappointed.

bimer2000 Right there with you. For a moment it was like: WHAAAT!!! Tear the guts out of a poor little innocent original classic Altair 8800 and stick filthy modern PC parts inside just to play Crysis?!? Insanity! Madness!!! Triggered nerds of the Internet and KZfaq comments section! Grab your pitchforks and flaming torches! Burn the heretic! Burn it with fire! 😲 However, having then watched a few more seconds of the video, my initial horrified reaction had been negated, now that I know that it's just a perfectly good reproduction that's actually designed to do that sort of thing. So LGR, you are forgiven. This time.

Well, it does look brand new...

MrNateSPF "New" isn't always new when LGR's involved. His alchemical ways have almost magical properties when it comes to cleaning old tech up. ;-)

You're not going to have room to fit a PC motherboard inside an original Altair 8800 www.vintage-computer.com/images/8800fobinside.jpg

Are you hating videogames

This man is chaotic neutral...

Nathan Vaughan lol

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Nathan Vaughan wonders if his pc can run it. is a Ryren 3 1300x enough cpu?

John Smith The CPU is a supporting factor, the GPU is what really matters.

@@JohnSmith-xq1pz you could runa it on a i3 4300 if you wanted too. It's mostly a gpu thing not a cpu thing

Ha, appropriately enough yes.

What sorcery is this!!?!

Playing as Altaïr on Altair? Somebody stop this madman!

The fires of war consume the land

Lazy Game Reviews lol

Agreed, that'd be awesome. So would a proper back panel that allowed for I/O of both the Altair and PC!

Had the same thing (both BIOS Update and RAM "pickyness") happen once with a msi board. That's why I don't buy msi anymore...

But my gaming pc needs to be hazardous to touch or else it's not a gaming pc. All of the corners need to be spikes and all the spikes need to be corners!

He had a coaster for his booze that was woodgrain

It would be nice to see someone make 70s-inspired versions of modern devices. And I mean ones you can actually buy and use, not just stuff for the sake of being artistic (though that is a worthy goal in itself).

Thank you!

Indeed, it is a nice touch!

Agreed, very Ben Heck-ish! He likes those pop-up things in his videos too. Hell, he's like the idea of an Altair 8800 also being a modern PC too.

RockRedGenesis definitely, Ben loves smashing different systems into the same case, many people definitely know him mostly for that.

I've played PC games for 20 years and never cared for the "Gamer" specific hardware. I bought a MSI Z270 PRO that has exactly zero gaming bs but all the overclocking. PS Except Logitech gaming mice. Nothing else comes close.

Me too, I really wish some motherboards don't have any of that chessy aesthetics and names.

Even the cheap boards. Like I just have a cheap b350, but it's marketed as "gaming" like yeah ok throw some red leds and some camo patterned pcb, and I guess that makes it a gaming board

The aesthetic has been shifting with a lot of them to look powerful but sleek, being a bit more minimalist both on the hardware itself and the box. I like that for the most part, though I still do love my heatsinks to look like some sort of giant alien technology lol

Same, I feel like I am the only person who likes plain green PCBs, no RGBullshit, and doesn't need an LCD display on my cooler.

They would all quit. No matter what their job, they'd quit.

This thing could probably run circles around even the most powerful mainframe computers of that time, much less a microcomputer!

@@wta1518 I'm pretty sure it's more powerful than the entire world's computing capacity at the time.

Totally, I want to use the PC with the Altair as a terminal!

You're thinkin' too small man. Snoop the Altair's buses and use the PC as a video card. Watch for writes to an area of ram and use it as a buffer to create a screen image in a PC window. There's a whole bunch of ways you can do that:

Your motherboard already has a serial port

I'm not talking about that. Every modern motherboard has a serial port, usually near the USB3 header. Check the motherboard's website. You could even use that port to program an Arduino with a chip like the MAX3232 to convert it to TTL logic

Search for: "serial pci port brackets" on Google Images, you should find the pinout

I like watching twitch sometimes ppl making PC. Before that, I scared to even try. Clint shows the beauty of old tech and new in this episode. But this is one of the reasons I like watching his videos. Came for the sims reviews stayed for this.

Eh, Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed, and Linus all have some pretty good tutorials for it.

Zip ties holding a floppy power button, velcro holding the PSU, a spliced power cord, a closed box with almost no ventilation, no real storage (128GB goes quick) ... I can keep going... He earned his channel name in this one. He at least drilled holes for the motherboard standoffs. I suppose he could have just velcro'd that down as well... This was sub-Verge-tier PC building, so don't use it as a tutorial. As a lazy guy throwing parts loosely in a box, it's fine, but this is a horrible example of how to do anything.

you mean r. the precursor to rgb.

@@runvnc208 ah yes, the virtual boy color. so gaming

Revegelance lgr just said "in with the new, into the old"

That sounds like my retro gaming pc. A Ryzen 3 1300x inside a Antec Sonata II case.

Ello, he needed to buy another cpu to update the bios, boi

then what cpu would he use for his main system?

Well, there is a such thing as returning stuff..

Thank you!

Silly names for processors seems to be a common thing in the x86 space. Pentium, Itanium (technically not x86, but still a silly name), Core iWhatever, Athlon, Phenom, they've both been doing it for ages. Doubly so for their numerous codenames. Way too many to list.

He's got a point about a lot of computer stuff sounding like it's made for 14-year-olds, though :D

12 now

A house is a large percentage air until you put stuff inside it.

@@mluca1221 but you and your family are not going to live inside that box...

@@mluca1221 It's actually the plot of the house what is expensive. House price is about 50% of the whole house price, since the other 50% is generally the plot of land.

And 0,1% metal

Oooh that might be a solid upgrade since I really did want something way smaller. Thanks!

as long as your GPU does not require extra power from the PSU you can get away with running one from a Pico PSU, and even a lower end AMD R7 card with 2GB of ram would be a big step up from the INTEL graphics. Hell I use to run 2 EVGA 9500GT 1GB cards in SLI that required no extra CPU power, and ran Crysis at 1680 x 1050 on medium settings with 58-62 FPS.

Nah it's new PC into a modern case that was designed to resemble an old piece of technology. At least he isn't ruining a genuine Altair.

Yeah because an original mint Altair will cost you $20G+

Nah, recently, some people patched it to run at up to 4 fps.

Thanks! Haha 88000, I like that.

Lazy Game Reviews more like 888000

liverush24 I need one lol

yea,,,waste money much?

probably just didn't want to use the first stick he got lmfao

+Lost Evesy Well, after that much whiskey it probably made sense....

It was single channel, and crap ram. Better he swapped it regardless.

You know he could just return it right

Pretty sure he put the grenade on the top himself, I don't think it actually ships with that. It was sitting on top of the motherboard itself, not packaged in a way that wouldn't damage the motherboard during shipping

Duh, though there was that mobo recently that had a heatsink shaped like a gun that got stuck in customs. But yeah that was obviously LGR being funny, my bad.

Christian Gerefalk Eh. Customs had no problem whatsoever with the replica bullet I got with Red Steel 2 in the UK. Firearms are basically illegal in the UK, and very heavily restricted in the destination country, but costoms didn't give a shit about a fake bullet. You never can say for sure with stuff like this. XD Meanwhile, a security person at an airport once mistook a pack of batteries in my bag for a row of shotgun shells. XD

KuraIthys About 40 years ago, foreign TSA agents overlooked a toy grenade, allowing the guy onboard. He and a few friends used it to hijack the plane in one of the most infamous terrorist incidents of the decade. The plane was named "Landshut" which should get your search going.

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My 1060 3gb is still going strong

You can build one. It is basically a metal box. I think other people sell these kind of cases empty

This. Can't believe he didn't think of that.

He might have chosen to go with Windows for the software support.

he also wanted to use Linux and might switch to it

I heard that in the beginning, I was just reinforcing that statement. openSUSE Linux is my jam, I'll never go back to Windows but I am also not a huge gamer.

Microsoft BASIC, 1975, Microsoft Windows 10, 2017. Still Microsoft after all these decades. Sort of makes sense.

I personally prefer PCLinuxOS Mate edition myself.

Are you in the Netherlands?

Yes, very much. Why?

Here in the US it all depends on what part of the country you are in, and where you are ordering from I'm not too far from Clint down one state about 4 to 5 hours drive, and if we order from a site like Newegg.com they have 3 warehouses one in City of Industry California, Memphis TN, and Edison, NJ, and depending on what you order, and what is in stock will determine which one they ship from, so for me, & Clint if it comes from California it can be as much as 10 days, but coming from, Memphis turn around time(if you don't order on a weekend) can be as little as 3 days, and Edison as little as 4-5 days. But I've also have ordered items off eBay from California that have been here as fast as 3 days before so depends on where you order, where you live, when you order, and how and who they use for shipping. edit: shipping in the US has gotten way better as I can remember back in the late 90's ordering PC parts from places online like MCMelectronics, and sometimes it would take over 3 weeks to get an order for a single item like a sound card being shipped with USPS(US postal service).

Makes perfect sense, obviously. I'd expected big companies like NewEgg to have more warehouses divided over the country. At least one in every state. I can understand it takes that long if there's only so little warehouses in such a massive country. I'm from 1984 and shipping here has always been about the same. It probably just got worse now that everyone is ordering over the internet. We don't really have anything like "USPS" anymore, it's all privatized companies. DHL, DPD, UPS and PostNL which is an abbreviation for PostNetherLands but has actually been owned by TPG and TNT before. Not sure who owns it now, pretty sure it's a private thing too.

Not true ! My country is tiny as well to but wait time is usaly is very long.

That was an idiotic Catch-22 situation.

Same thing has been done on AMD boards before as well, like with AM3/AM3+ , and FM2/FM2+ boards as they where out for a good while, and AMD released some new chips using the same sockets to extend the life of Piledirver and my my FM2+ MSI I board I had to keep my old chip in, apply the update, and then install my the new APU which is an AMD AMD A-10 6800B(almost the same performance as the 6800K at 1/2 the cost). So it's all on Clint with this one, as he should have done his homework, and gotten a used working CPU for cheap, and done the update first.

It's because that's a Skylake era board (6th Gen / 100 series board) used with a Kaby Lake chip (7th Gen / launched with the 200 series boards but compatible with 100 series with a BIOS update). Forwards compatible boards will ALWAYS require a BIOS update to use new chips for technological reasons impossible to avoid (new CPU's = new microcode; no way around that with x86). I'm sorry, but next time don't be stupid. It's people like you that are why Intel doesn't do forwards compatible boards AT ALL anymore. You want to use new chips, you need to get a new board, ALWAYS. AMD thank freaking God still does, but with the release of Ryzen 2nd Gen recently there have been many people complaining like yourself, despite the fact AMD will freaking ship you an old loaner CPU to update your AM4 300 series board to be compatible for FREE. This is why we can't have nice things -_- ... (That being said, I'm ALL in favor of all boards adopting CPU-less BIOS updating abilities, but as for now, that's limited to only the extremely high end ASUS boards). That being said, Clint had no need to buy that second chip. He could have quickly and easily used his i7-6700K from his main machine to update the board with instead. Honestly have no idea why he went that route tbh.

Well, Ryzen APU's didn't exist at his time

oh I just noticed the date! Lol, I'd still go with a cheap GPU over integrated myself. Never know when a friend wants to game with you :P @@echinox2460

Be careful with Gigabyte too, the locked versions of the motherboards are a pain in the ass.

Dan R. Yeah I've had both MSI and Gigabyte before and had both of them die very quick, weird deaths from seemingly nothing. After that I went back to Asus for my main rig and for my secondary rig which is a Ryzen system, I went out on a limb and tried AsRock and it seems to be working well

c0d3r3d // cleanycloth it's probably on low and 720p (or lower). But still impressive for integrated graphics.

No.... No they haven't.... Check out AMD's Ryzen-G (Raven Ridge) with it's Vega iGPU if you want to see what real integrated graphics can do. Intel's crap has COMPLETELY stalled out (iGPU tech hasn't changed at all since Skylake). It's been able to play Crysis this well (poorly at super low res) for years now, but never any better.

That is how the dotcom bubble burst. You better be careful with those skills.

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It can. Excellently, in fact.

OH HO HO,i saw what you did there :(

Minimum settings at 1024x768 at about 40fps

Depends on the case and the bells, whistles, lights and fans that come with it. Or in this case (pun intended) it comes with an entire vintage computer. Though I *really* wonder why the Altair was so big *and* had a fan to begin with...I don't think the native components would be running hot enough to need *that* much airspace and airflow...or did actual Altairs have more in there than these clones?

The original Altair had the case nearly full of boards. Doesn't help it being from 1975. Here's a Wikipedia article on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

Yeah it might be so simple for todays standard but as for 1975 it was obviously a hot new thing. The clone does a favor on making this things simplier and you can have more things going on on them.

I'm watchin' it with socks ONLY

I wanted some, but my feet are too big :(

Wait, you use them on your feet?

I ordered his socks but I never got them :(

Glen Rea, same. :(