One of the reasons why I watch this channel is all the tech jargon that I learn like "Thumb pressy thingamajiggy"

Back then having an anime character on your Graphics Card increased your speed by 425%

The scary part is in 15 years from now we will look at today’s PCs like we did with these ones...

When this video came out I still had a PC running this motherboard, just scrapped it a month ago.

You should've used the old intro for this episode. What a missed opportunity

When you realize this machine is older than half the people watching the video

When he dropped the motherboard i felt physical pain.

Damn, i just graduated from highschool back in 2009. It still does not feel that too long ago, but looking at what would have passed as a gaming computer back then really hits home how long ago that was. Time do be a cruel mistress when you reach a certain age.

I get axiety attacks when linus is holding the laptop with one hand. AND WHY DID YOU DROP THE 15 SOMETHING YEAR OLD MOTHERBOARD! THAT GAVE ME A HEARTH ATTACK

"Remember when AMD was on top??" Imo, at this point AMD doesn't care who is on top, as long as they give it to Intel as hard as they can.

It's really funny when Linus try to make his voice to be like young Linus even tho Linus voice hasn't change at all lmao

What a coincidence, the Lanboy was the case I used in my first ever build. I also watched Linus back in 2011 to learn how to build it.

Back then, the only RGB is the color of the PSU cables.

3:25 "Some of you young people might be wondering, 'Linus, why have you put the power supply on the top of the case?'" When you realize that your pc has a design from 2005.

Best part of videos like these is they age well. Like even in 10 years its cool to look at this stuff.

"Remember when the amd was on the top?" -uuh,yeah I'm remembering today

linus : *creates a old pc schools :- we will take ur entire stock

Ohh, 2005 when I considered 20 fps "smooth" and this setup was a wet dream.

Linus' reaction to Far Cry remembering it looking better is how I feel every time they show a game from my youth. I remember being in awe seeing shots of Far Cry, how realistic it looked and thinking it would be hard to outdo that... Now I play games on my phone that look better lol

Wow! This brings me way back! I did my first gaming build around 2003-2004 with a Pentium 4 2.8ghz, a Radeon 9500 pro and the same OCZ ram chips!

You should have deepfaked that episode, imagine young Linus being the host again

"Poor young Linus, he doesn't know that magic doesn't exist... YET"

I used that monitor till 2018 and i got my pc in 2017 so that was cool seeing that monitor again

Absolutely so much fun to see back in the day Far Cry. I will always thank my dad for keeping me updated with technology. Great video.

“Dead on arrival” Ok Linus, you don’t have to cover it up, we know you dropped it. 👌

So u made a commercial for a sponsor of an item 15 years after, noince

I know it is old tech, but my heart still skipped a beat when he dropped that motherboard.

God this takes me back, I hadn’t thought about Zalmon coolers until this video!

"I knew I kept all these DVI to VGA converters for a reason..." You're singing the song of my people.

Graduated in 2004. My first build was an AMD. Man they were kicking ass and taking names back then. Thanks for the memories.

It is crazy how i follow this guy :) I remember NCIX with this old videos.

Man so many memories, my 2005 build back in the day was the bomb. When he started playing, F.E.A.R it was so nostalgic. I remember buying NFS Carbon when it came out and being so amazed

When the first line of the video was, "15 years ago" Immediately my mind played "15 years ago" from Ace Combat 5 And now I'm on a feels-trip for the rest of the day.

Linus: "This PC is from 2005" me: looks at my PC looks the same...

My high-school-senior (2007) build was an ASUS P5N-E-SLI with a Q6700 on it, stock cooler, 8800 GTX, in an Antec Nine Hundred. Absolute classic! I'll send it to you if you promise to feature it before it gets scrapped. It's the only way I'd finally get rid of it because I can't bring myself to take it to the recycler.

12:32 Jedi Master Linus, the beard is perfect for an Obi Wan cosplay

This made me feel like we weren't in 2020 for 15 minutes. Felt like I was a teenager again working on old AMD athlons and Intel core 2 duos. The good old days.

You forgot Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Counter-Strike

The release of the 64 bit Athlon was the game changer

I remember them days. I was still running a K6-2 and getting ready for the Duron that made a splash in Sisandra. I had a cheap biostar board with the funky SIS chip that never turned off its internal vid and gave my ATi rage 128 all in one card a major boost. Good times! It was upgraded to an Athlon 1.333 a year later that lasted a year still kicking similar builds till it got fried in a storm. I miss them days torking off those that could afford better.

I’m so down to see more enthusiast retro stuff, they’re so interesting

"Remember when AMD was on top" Yeah, the Tiger Lake announcement reminded me of it.

Man, that antec case is BEAUTIFUL. I have one, and I really wish I could find a seller who has the mounting hardware for the 5.25” bays, because it has four.

imagine coming back after 18 years from 2005 and seeing modern computers, you'd never cease to be amazed

Linus: Look at this ancient case, power supply, cpu, motherboard, and graphics card Me: haha yea those suck now Linus: Look at this ancient logitech g15 keyboard Me: (looks down at my logitech G15 keyboard) *cries*

3:26 I thought Linus dropped it and I had a little heart attack

I started building PC's about 1997. Did some manual program building in the same timeframe. I didn't see a install disc till 2000-2001. Stopped building around 2004. I had a lot of reading to do to build a PC 1 yrs ago. So much stuff and hands down better. Thanks for the help Linus. Your videos helped me so I didn't have to read everything lol lost my patience after my 2nd deployment.

It's crazy to think about this computer, I assumed it to be like some old school 90's computer. But then I remembered my PC from 2005 and how we still used dial up internet. Man we've come far

Back when Asus slogan was the amazing "Rock Solid, Heart Touching."

Who else got terrified when he dropped the motherboard (and was immediately relieved when he explained why)?

I only knew about the power supply mount on the top because I built up a rig for my brother in a 2006 gateway case. Surprisingly, it supported a micro atx board.

the a8n sli was my favourite build growing up, had so many great memories wit htaht exact board

Can't get over how everything is looking so clean.

Young Linus: "Dont forget to bring a towel"

9:46 Now I know why they didn't make glass panels in cases back then

This brings back memories! I used to own a S939 single core and then an X2 as well, it was a 3800 that I overclocked from 2.0 to 2.7 Ghz for years with no issues. I can't remember what video card I had though. It would eat Oblivion and UT2004 back then!

New vid idea: Remember when intel was on top

More hair Linus, is more better

this is like a suprisingly good seasonic advert

6:00 OCZ! Love it.

I love how Linus brings up NCIX once in a while, especially considering NCIX went out of bussiness, while Linus is doing so good. It just feels good you know? Somehow wholesome. I love it.

Explaining to viewers that PSU's used to be at the top of the case, made me feel sooooOOoooo old.

I had almost the exact same setup in ~2006. Don't think I had the fancy gold OCZ ram though. I thought that zalman cooler was so awesome. Lower end asus mobo, same gfx card. Believe I got my first SATA drive around then I remember being blown away by the tiny cables and plugs. And ofc I ordered green UV cables and sleeved the PSU to match.

that syncmaster was the screen my family computer had back in 2007-2008

Almost shed a tear when he whipped out the ASUS motherboard. I still have my Q6600 running on P5N32E-SLI motherboard, which I think is almost identical to the AMD version shown in the video. The long heatsink you see there is actually required and the motherboard heats up to insane temps, like 90 degrees just idling. This PC still works and I have 8800GT in it. Oh, the days of Gainward Golden Sample series :) Oh, and those shiny OCZ sticks? Yep, got those too. 2x2gigs, still works.

It ain't a Linus video without him dropping some piece of tech, only to have it miraculously not break.

This hit the nostalgia hard, especially the OCZ components. My uncle worked for OCZ and I was running them from pre DDR days (Intel value PC133 anyone?) up until their demise. Shout outs to the bleeding edge forum and their OCZ support. Still remember pushing my 4800x2 to a 50% OC under dry ice (first one I managed to kill after a few runs by letting it cool down too much before getting it loaded). Was pretty disappointed not seeing a DFI mobo, that was the go to at the time. Also remember my dual opteron 265 build and thinking I was the hottest thing around with 4 cores. Then moving to the core 2 duo e6600, would have to dig through my old screenshots to see what I was running it at under phase change. /end nostalgia dump

Watching this bought back some nostalgia building my pc in 2005, AMD Athlon 3700+(In Aus this is all i could get my hands on, let alone one of those fancy X2s and they were expensive), Nvidia 7800GT black and lime green pcb, the same OCZ ram as this build which I loved the heat spreaders as well, a DFI Lanparty Ultra, which with a little workaround you could bridge a connector on the north bridge(? i think) to accept SLI, which I never got a second 7800GT to need to anyway and an Antec P180 case that actually had the power supply seperated in a section along the bottom of the case, my friends thought i was mad buying it, but I seemed like the best design for airflow and cooling in my mind. Oh and a G5 mouse and an old clickey keyboard I carried over for years from the 90s.

Linus: "Empty hard drive bays are where we used to put the extra cables back in the day". Me: Looking sideways at the bird nest currently peeking out of my hard drive bays.

yes i remember today

That Unreal Tournament 2004 hit me hard in the memories

Back in the era i regularly built new PCs. My last full build was 2010 with an AMD 1100T BE on an GB UD7 990FXA with an ATI 6670 GPU. Yes i still remember exactly as it was a big deal to me at the time. Still have that PC in the shed to browse and play music ect when im out there tinkering. Just can't let it go as my last full build. These days i just partial build meaning upgrade parts as they become obsolete.

"15 years ago, 2005" O W

"Linus is putting the power supply at the top of the case, has he gone mad?" Both my PC cases are still like that, I swapped everything besides the cases over the years, thermals are still quite good...

5:00 I have a very similar board, A8N-SLI Deluxe

2:55 The subtitles just say "[MAN]

6:04 I'm so old that I remember some old-school overclocking could get those timings down to 2-2-2-5

I remember it was 2006. I had an AMD CPU in my PC. I don´t remember the name but it was the first PC that owned for myself. I was really proud because I saved a lot of my money I got from my parents (I was 14 years old at that point). A friend of mine introduced me to an online game called Cabal Online. I loved it and we played nearly everday until he stopped. I kept playing it anyway. Anyway at some point I checked the graphics setting and saw that it was only running on medium settings. I cranked it up and the game started to stutter a lot. Back in the days I knew nothing about PCs. I searched the internet for ways to improve my FPS. A dedicated graphics card was too expensive but a CPU Uprade would give me better performance because the integrated graphics was better and more Cores (Dual-Core instead of Single-Core). Like I said I knew nothing about PC but I found out that a new CPU has to fit in the same socket as the previous one. I didn´t bother about thermals or power delivery or thermal paste. I went to my local PC part store and bought the new CPU I wanted. Got back home and wanted to install the new thing. I ripped of the old cooler (literally) out of it´s place without detaching it. It was a mess. I was a little bit more careful with the CPU. At least with detaching it. Now to the new CPU. I didn´t knew it needs to get in in the right orientation. So I pushed it in the socket as hard as it could even though it doesn´t really fit, pushed the little arm on the socket as hard as I could and put back the cooler without new thermal paste and was surprised that my PC didn´t turn on. After turning off my PC I opened the case and realized that I destroyed my CPU. The pins were bent. I destroyed my new CPU. I started crying. But it gets even worse. In pure sorrow I did the same exact thing with my original CPU and destroyed it as well. It was a dark day in my live. I couldnt played online anymre, I destroyed my first PC. It was horrible. This story came back to my mind when I watched this video. Sorry for this sad and long post but I wanted to share it with you guys.

The thing I love about this video is that I had that motherboard, case and CPU as my first gaming rig!

My very first PC in 2010 had an Antec Lansing Lanboy Airtower with mesh metal sides, and suspension mounted HDD's. I don't want the hardware so much back, but I want the case back to make a modern build.

I built my first PC in 2003. AMD was definitely on top then. The specs were: AthlonXP 2400+ 2GHz (amazing price/performance) Gigabyte GA-7VAX board 512MB DDR RAM GeForce FX 5200 128MB (terrible card) Maxtor 120GB HDD (huge for the time) and of course a CD-RW and DVD-ROM combo drive. All of this for $500. An Intel build of equivalent performance was $100 more. You need to adjust for inflation of course.

The best is when he goes back in time... mocks the past Linus voice.. then present Linus begins speaking... no change.

My uncle has the same mouse and he is using it for at least 6-7 years and mouse still works fine(all buttons work). Mouse is right now connected to tv in living room and is used for youtube and netflix mostly.

I had this exact same built, same everything except mine was in a cooler master stacker 832

Sees G15. Look at my G15. "You gonna live forever, old friend!"

can we just appreciate how much better linus looks with a beard.

God dang this video suddenly popped up and made me dig up my ancient g15 that was resting peacefully in the attic for the feals

0:32 He's wearing socks and sandals at the same time, he's a monster

"Back in those days, PSU went to the top of the case." Me looking at my PSU-top-case.

3:21 I still have the power supply up and a fan down there it is a relatively new case too

your channel is really cool. it also helped me build my first gamming pc which I am using right now thank you for helping me :)

Lol, this is almost the same as my current build.

Seeing linus drop the motherboard with all the history he just described has caused me physical pain 4:39

I still have my first build from 2008 ish and my build sheets i put together from the 2008 build and a 2004 planned build. I still use that computer and a new one I building this year on a triple monitor setup with dual monitor setup being shared via a KVM switch. Also have 3 extra video cards I bought to upgrade it. Dual Nvidia Quadro FX to run SLI and a Radeon X1900XT.

This is so similar to my build. I had an Opteron 175 and two 6800GTs. An Epox 9nPA+ SLi motherboard. A Dynex case from Best Buy. It wiped the floor with Battlefield 2.

While you do look like Shaggy, you actually talk like Scooby Doo

"You know what else you take for granted?" I was 100% sure he was going to do a sponsor segue right there

i work at micro center, and walking back into the warehouse checking out the "Destroy Cart" is really freaking cool. Anything that someone signs off to us for recycling we bring back there and put on a truck for it to get shipped to the underworld and we get some good gems in there. 150w dell pc power supplies, 2.0ghz single core intel chips. fucking glorious. tl;dr fucking around with old ass broken PCs is fun

Super cool video. It got me all nostalgic and all

8:50 - woops, that already came out!