Sorry couldn't finish the video but will make sure Part 2 will be ready on Wednesday :)

old hardware is so magic, look at that metallic paint, that cooler is a gem. I loved when companies tried to be weird as possible.

I love the idea of analog dials to control fan speeds, even if it's less practical for daily use than what we have now. Something about elements of direct user control is so cool.

Nice video, really takes me back. I got my first PC a couple years earlier, an Athlon XP 3000+ with a Radeon 9200SE and 2x512MB of DDR400. Yes, the 9200SE was terrible, but I had no idea what I was doing back then. I actually still have the card though, as I gave it to my father to use in his works PC, then years later when he passed and I was taking care of his estate, I found it in a drawer in his apartment, covered in dust but intact so far as I can tell. So now, my first, terrible GPU sits on a display shelf in my house. Also small correction, 939 was not the first AMD platform with dual channel support, Socket A could do it as well, though the gains were tiny. Socket 754 dropped dual channel as a cost saving measure, as it was never originally intended to be anything other than a budget/stopgap option until Socket 939 hit the mainstream.

You know what you have to do now, right? Turn the "turbine fan" into a real turbine fan.

Such underrated content. I would actually be really interested in seeing you doing work on some Legacy type PC's.

Classic power, it never gets old. Until it does, but then its a classic! Hope you're feeling better soon.

2005 feels like yesterday to me 😔. God, I'm old, my first was 1999. Was running SLI back in the days of VooDoo cards

I did something rather similar about a month ago. I built an AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ (Toledo) socket 939 system. Back in the day I had the X2 3800+ and always wanted the Toledo cores because of the 1MB of L2 Cache (as opposed to the 512KB L2 Cache on the Manchester cores). GPU wise, two GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB in SLi. Like you, I had built this system back in the day to play Battlefield 2 which was the series of games I used to always build my systems for. Nicely done :)

During that time I had a Chieftec dragon with Aerocool fan controllers in front. I love using those fan knobs!

I had DFI that time. So nice to see old stuff here..:)

Ahhhh, the golden age of gimmicky cases, fussy SLI and utterly bizarre coolers.

HAHA, that was pretty much my story in 2004. But in mine, I actually bought the two 6800 Ultras paired with a Pentium 4 3.2GHz. That was the first PC I built\bought for myself where my dad didnt give me his old parts. Worked a summer job for a while in high school to buy it.

Wow. Thanks for this upload. That "Phoeinx - AwardBIOS" at the end was a massive flashback wipe moment for me.

Just last Christmas i retired my old HTPC build - A8N32-MVP Deluxe, AMD FX-60, 4GB 3200, SATA SSD, HD4850s crossfire. Had win10 running on it. That thing had such a long useful life! And now its in display on my 'shelf of glorious PCMR parts'

Socket 939 was the golden age of overclocking for me fond memories. I've still got quite alot of 939 cpu's and boards . Including a cabye o540 stepping opteron 146 which were very sought after back in the day

Brings me back to the old days..

Ahh... NF4! Very nice seeing this. I (still) own the DFI Lan Party NF4 Expert SLi, overclocked my old 4400+ and water cooled the CPU and chipset to get rid of that pesky little fan. I used the 1st watercooling complete "kit" that Asetek produced. This was their first foray in to PC watercooling before Asetek had made any watercooling products. I still have the blocks but the pump died. I delidded the CPU and ran it naked underwater. Great memories.

Man, loving this one, always such a trip going back down memory lane, especially with computers, really makes you appreciate just what we have today and how plug n play everything is compared to back then. Hope you feel better soon and can get in some good time playing on this setup.

I foresee that der8auer will cut open that 25mm heatpipe in the future, just to satisfy his curiosity after getting bored of his legacy system 😁

Oh my God brother, you are the only other person I know that used the Titan Vanessa cooler on his first gaming OC PC, and that makes me very happy!!!

That case is absurd (and VERY 2000s), I love it!

Tbis was also my very first motherboard. My friend's dad was super jealous at tbe SLI capability. Man, takes me back :)

Socket 939, I also built my first PC in that socket (while working at a Ski resort). My board was an Abit KN8 SLi with an Athlon 64 3200+ (upgraded to a Dual core Opteron later in its life), 2GB DDR Ram and a 250GB WD Raptor HDD. That PC survived during my whole university life.

Cool! My first PC back then (when the Pentium 4 Prescott) was released, I bought a P4 Willamette 1.5GHz and was disappointed with it compared to our 533MHz Pentium 3 that I overclocked to 800+ MHz. That was paired with a Radeon 7000 at the time. I quickly bought a Northwood 2.4GHz processor after that but was bearable. That one was paired with a Radeon 9600Pro. This taught me that maybe Intel isn't what its so hyped to be compared to AMD. The very time Core 2 Duo was released, I quickly bought a Pentium Dual-Core E2160 and overclocked it it to 3GHz+ using an AsRock WolfDale board. The only problem I couldn't go higher was that the SATA and PCIE clocks also OCed past that and quickly corrupted your OS if you weren't careful. I paired that with a Radeon HD2600Pro. That lasted me until I tried to go to ITX in 2012 (when Sandy Bridge came out) and I was sorely disappointed with my Athlon II 840+Radeon HD4830 ITX build compared to my friend's 2500k+HD5800. Now this is the time I was sad about AMD. A year later I changed the processor to a Phenom II X4 965BE and a Radeon HD7700 GHz Edition but I was still sad to be getting some lag with Crysis 2 but eh at least I could play. A couple of years later I bought a 2500k and that changed my life! This was the time of Broadwell I think. Year later I got a RX570 ITX when the first mining boom collapsed in 2018/2019. I also OCed my 2500k to 4.5GHz to keep up with the times. When my 2500k board can only run stock last year, I just upgraded a month ago to a 5800X (a week before the 5700X launched) and it feels like I just leaped two 2500Ks in performance! Running it now in ECO mode since I need all the unnecessary heat for a little additional performance but you'd be sure I would OC the snot out of it like the 2500K I had once it starts to feel slow :)

I had that A8N SLI board when I was a kid, in my second system. I remember the chipset fan got clogged with dust, stopped spinning, and burnt the chipset. Good ol' days.

its funny to see this thing is the reason for why you do what you do, its crazy how much these kind of things can sculpt our future without us even noticing until it has been MANY MANY years.

Very fun nostalgia trip. I actually still have my Asus A8R32-MVP board and an Athlon X2 hanging around.

Oh man, the A8N, I have one of those boards in storage. It was a great board and lasted me quite a number of years.

Omg I remember this butterfly coolers, such a nostalgia trip lol

I adore the packaging of older PC hardware.

Wish you the best my man, can't wait for part 2.

Was an amazing throwback man, can't wait for the OC section on wendesday.

Exciting! that cooler is something else for sure lol. Hope you feel better soon

You have earned a subscriber, my beautiful lad. Love the video and PC.

Damn, that cooler is straaaange af. I really wanna know how well it'll perform.

This is some nice smell of the nostalgia!! Good content :)

That motherboard is a beast! My friend gave it to me for free back in 2006ish to build my first system. Glad I kept it as I have been planning a retro PC build just for this purpose as well but my arcade cabinet build is first.

@der8auer EN Socket A (462) had dual channel and was before 754. the 754 was a budget platform, hence no dual channel

Wow, flashback time, i had almost the same system (Board, CPU, RAM) also 2x Geforce 7900 GS (small difference), except the CPU Cooler (Scythe Ninja) and an Alienware Case. I loved the system. It was stable, fast and very upgradable. Grüße aus dem Süden

great video such nostalgia been trying out sli again recently aswell

LOL ahh Roman you are bringing back the nostalgia for me too !!

get well soon ! A+ video !

Vanessa, brings up memories! ❤️ I had either exactly the same or very similar model (for my Athlon XP though) Get well, man!

Get well! I can't wait to next part :)

its crazy comparing todays hardware to past. I remember my first desktop. It was an HP Pavillion, Celeron Proccessor, 700mhz, 20 GB hard drive. 64mb of RAM.

It's funny that you post this now. I was just thinking the same thing about some of the games I used to play in grade school. BF Vietnam in particular hates modern OS's. Went to my local Goodwill and found a Dell Inspiron 531 for $10. Upgraded it with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 120GB SSD, XFX (Yes XFX used to sell Nvidia cards) Geforce GTX260, and a modern Corsair 450W PSU. Installed WXP and W7 in dual boot and have been having the time of my life playing BF Vietnam, BF2, BF1942, Star Wars: Empire at War + Forces of Corruption, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds + Clone Campaigns, and a few others. Yea some of these games are available on Steam or GOG, but it's different playing it on period correct hardware. In grade school I had a Sony Vaio prebuilt with an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and an Nvidia 8500GT (Upgraded from a 6150LE). This runs a little better than it did :) At some point I want to build the PC I always dreamed of having at the time; Antec Lanboy II case, AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, ASUS Crosshair III (Maybe it was the IV), 16GB RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD6990 (I have a 7990 but it died recently).

Just began watching.... Daaamn that case is already crazy

this is exciting, i might build my 1st pc aswell now, even thought my 1st pc is from 2008/09 and luckly i remember everything i had

Rona Catching up With Every1 These Days , Get Better soon Brudda

Love these throwback videos! I still have my DFI NF4 SLI-DR kit from the same time period, but I need to re-cap it. some of the 17-year-old capacitors have bulged over the years =\ but that board was sweet! took some ddr to ddr 678 back then and had a really good HTT clock capability which was needed for my Opteron 165 CCBBE 0610DPMW

In 2005 I was rocking a Barton 2500+ occed to 3200+ via FSB, and a glorious Ati Radeon 9700, good times.

I realy love retro pc! Great video, its great to see those high end components of 2000-2010 . Specialy the time whan 6800 ultra come out and Amd athlon 939 socket. First pci expres x16 gpu links and so on. That period was one of the great entusiastic period to become pc entusiast. Now everything is expensive, we dont see so much great pc games like those times , now kids are more interested on smart phones than pc and so on. I remember whan i go from nvidia fx 5200 to nvidia 6600 gt was night and day deference and prices was like 200$ for gpu . I miss those times .

wow I built this exact ish system back around the same time.I used same case but black version an ABIT NF7-S v2 MB and a Athlon Thoroughbred XP 2800+ DDR400!

I miss my 939 Setup! I had 8800GS in SLI for Battlefield 2! Funny how our systems were so close

Get better soon!

Very nice!

Indeed SLI was the bomb back then. 2x 6600GT were on my system for a good amount of time. And then came the 8800GT which was effing awesome in SLI.

ive been playing tons of red alert 2 lately. its dangerously addictive

Jeez, flashbacks. I had the same MB and dual Asus 7800GTs. In fact I still have them.

Sleeper build.. just came into mind when I saw the case..

That case! You could fit a Der8auer in that thing.

3:10 ..... EMOTIONAL DAMAGE !

Brings back memories. I had a 3800+ X2 and dual 7800GT's in SLI. I was even using the same motherboard. I remember that card to change the top PCIe slot from x16 to x8, my friends now days found it hard to believe such a clunky system for changing the PCIe layout was necessary haha I built mine to play Counter Strike: Source!

That cooler looks so cool XD

Nice cliffhanger lol

stay safe and strong, get well soon xoxo

quite an unusual build, I am curious how well does that 25mm heatpipe does

great vid! brings back the memories. re: dual-channel, NForce chipset boards did support 128-bit DDR with Socket A / 462. It was a big feature for them that Nvidia pitched to gamers and NV chipset Athlon boards were good performers, tho they were plagued by stability and audio issues (something that IIRC never really went away with NV chipsets) I had an NForce 2-400 board and it was very nice for gaming with an Athlon XP 3200+ and an overclocked and heatsink-modded GeForce 6600GT until Pentium D and GeForce 7 came out and I too scraped together my money as a youth to go all in on Dual-core, DDR2, PCIe, and SATA all at once. The later Socket 754 boards did not support Dual-channel as AMD saw that platform as a more budget/mainstream entry point for Athlon 64 and wanted people to go to Socket 940 which was originally the Opteron / Enthusiast / HEDT platform. 754 flopped because it was intentionally limited in memory and connectivity / expansion capability and was relatively quickly replaced with the Socket 939 we all remember and love while 940 continued with Opteron and some HEDT Athlons as it retained multi-socket SMP capability

What a cliffhanger! Anyway, get better soon, I like me some nostalgia :)

i worked in a PC shop back then, the A8N SLI Deluxe was a great motherboard besides the terrible chipset fans. it was so common asus ended up shipping a box of replacements to save on warranty costs/time so we could just swap them in the shop without having to go through an RMA.

I’ve rebuilt simile built and repaired on my channel with ASUs A8N-SLI now running windows 10 x86! Socket 939 yep !

A couple of years back I fixed my A8N-SLI Premium by changing six (6) bad caps. I also installed an ASUS 8600GTS and an SBLIVE 24bit sound card. Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with the AMD stock AM3 cooler (from Phenom II X4 - yes the cooler can be installed on socket 939), and 3GB RAM. It's satisfying to fix by yourself old pc hardware and build a retro PC. I also have build a much older retro PC, a long time ago (it's stored somewhere in the house).

I can't even remember what configuration i had back then. Maybe an Athlon XP ? So, i would really want more of this type of content, new-retro PC hardware or whatever you want to call it :)

Battlefield 1942, Warcraft 3 and Red Alert 2 were all my favourite games back then too! lol Except i first played some of those on Socket A Athlon systems.. Which, by the way, were what came before Socket 939... Socket 754 was a "cheaper" single channel DDR memory version of 939 lol

Very funny video to see :) I also used all my time saving up for the damn 6800ultra sli setup :D

So /that's/ where that screwdriver came from! Actually mine looks different to yours. But this video reminded me. A really decent screwdriver, with good slightly magnetic tool steel on the end (perhaps it used to be more magnetic once upon a time?). I use it all the time when I don't want to mess with any fancy screwdriver features.

You caught a cold from Vanessa, that cooler is so big you caught a cold from it

My first build was aswell on s939. I had a very limited budget tho, only a AMD 3200+, was looking to replace this to an Opteron later. But s939 was discontinued really short after. Also didnt have any money for a GPU really until a couple years later, when a EVGA GTX 260 Superclocked was installed. Great video, thanks! :)

So glad to see your tastes have improved. What a fugly case. Holy edit: I had that same motherboard, the chipset fans on those were horrible and died like after a few months. Asus came out with an improved heatpipe cooler in later revisions.

Should have use one of those retro zalman cooler which I love hahaha

AMD had dual channel back in the Socket 462 days, I had an A-BIT NF-7S motherboard paired with an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ back in 2006 and it had DDR - 266 Dual Channel Mode ram with 2x 256 mb modules. I miss that machine it was so pretty.

I miss the old days, I always had the DFI boards back then.

This is so cool! I was also a big fan of Athlon64 and Opteron and I still have my Opteron 244 cpu's from 2003 plus later 265's and still have 280's in a retro server for retro lans. I would love to see a FX-51 build. Never had one but that was the ultimate x86 CPU's at the time!

Get well DB....🙏

14 year old me from the naughties said "You HAVE TO! Brushless mod that turbine fan" ❤ get well soon brother.

I had this case back then around 2004-2006 yep black edition case thermaltake.

always liked this channel took me years to actually subscribe, i think top three tech tubers LTT, JTC, then you, then Gamers Nexus

i still have my very old pc with amd x2 4000+ cpu in it,crysis1 was the reason the pc was made in the first place and it was amazing to game on it...medium-high settings.Those were the days....

You're awesome 😎 i put the q8200 on a DDR3 mobo from Acer with the 570. That epic case

I can confirm that I have dual chanell (DDR1) with an A7N8X Deluxe with Atholon XP and socket 462, checked in the manual

My first shop build was a Phenom 1, 2x 4GB Kingston memory, with twin 3870's. And a flashy liquid cooling system from Thermal Take (BigWater 120) all in a colossal super tower I got for free.

These old motherboards and the colors look soo good, i wish they launch today's motherboard with "retro" version of them 🥲

This video makes me feel old

Ahh, this is great. I really want to go and build my first system from 2013 where I had an rgb psu and dual 640 gpu

I can still remember the day I bought ABIT IC7 MAX3 motherboard and P4 3GHz and some shit expensive 2x512 or 2x 1GB Corsair; I think I spent over 2k euro in 2003 :DD Such memories

I have the same memory kit if you want it, it's the silver version of this twinx kit. It is yours if you pay the shipping from New Zealand.

derbauer 4 the win !!!!!!!

that 9800 and Vanessa is so cool loking.

I1m seriously in love with protective fan grills. My current build does not need it as they are in pull configuration. Because flexible loop it is better to have access to the radiators. Using bitfenix pro which is almost like the silverstone "air guide" fans.