Finally. A gaming build I can beat.

4GB RAM?! Look at Mr. Fancypants over here with his mid range Vista machine. I think I was rocking an XP with 768mb RAM in 2007 🤣

That cooler is so sick

Ah, finally, some computer nostalgia for someone my age! The time of Vista was when I got into computers, but XP was a more popular OS and 7 was just around the corner so I barely got to use it 😂

thats actually disgusting i love it

Hi Dawid, watching this brought back so many nostalgic memories for me. The C2D e6300 was also my very first processor placed into an XP SP2 gaming build. This must have been around 2006/7 and at the time had an Nvidia FX5200 in it for some absolute epic beast mode gaming performance (lol) and a whopping 1GB system memory at DDR2 667mhz FTW! I worked at McDonalds on the weekends and worked in an IT apprenticeship in the week. Saved up and bought each part weekly. Playing Battlefield 2 on it, the original Farcry, Modern Warfare (Original) Call of Duty 2. (Might have some of those games mixed up in terms of dates but you get the picture) Ahh those days seem like a lifetime ago. Next PC was the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Now that was a BEAST and paired with the 8800GTS, (could never afford the GTX model) played Crysis like a boss! Ah Great times. Could talk for hours, would love to talk to you one day, keep up the great work, fun content, and keep the Mrs happy, it's really nice she involves herself and supports you. Happy building and gaming buddy! - Jake "since 1990".

i love the old tech videos, it's fun to watch. Make more.

Lol a cat peed on that case and someone cleaned it. That's a cat pee computer.

"Today I'm going to infect a PC..." -Wonder which kind of virus he'll have at hand, he's such a nice person... "...with Windows Vista." -Oh, we woke up in full Satan mode today, huh?

Ah, Vista-still have my upgrade DVD still in the box!

I remember building my first rig with vista! Had a 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, 4gb of ddr2 800, and an ATI 2600XT 256mb. Those were the days. :D

I have really come to enjoy this channel. I have one request that you only take into consideration if you ever see this. When your channel inevitably grows to the point that major manufacturers want to send you their new parts, don't just become every other boring review channel. While I understand some of it is necessary to play the game, I also really enjoy how this channel is fun and creative and not like every other channel. You and Anna both make this channel a nice balance of tech and fun without being stale. I apologize if this comes off as pandering lol.

as someone who worked with Windows Me, I can tell you Vista is absolutely fine.

This is awesome, I got almost this exact PC one Christmas it was my very first pc I built with my dad a different mobo and case but the rest is basically the same. This brought back some great memories, I’ve still got this processor and GPU but sadly the mobo died

This takes me back lol. I was so excited to get my Core 2 Quad.

I still remember the day when i first installed vista on my p4 with 1gb ram.. it was running like 15 fps on desktop without opening any software😬

oh man the shredder cooler, the golden era of air cooling

My Vista era PC was about 2009 vintage. It was an i7 920, ASUS Rampage II Gene, 12GB(6x2GB) DDR3-1333 triple channel, GTX 260. It ran well on Vista, but I upgraded to Win 7. I kept that PC for years and it eventually got a GTX 660 Ti at a midlife upgrade. It could even smoothly handle games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 with moderate mods and medium to high settings.

Definitely put that hard drive in a modern computer but also try putting a SSD in this one and see what it does.

Haha ol vista! Gotta love it :) awsome video man!!

It's nice to see a youtuber doing videos like this . All i see nowdays are high end pc videos with overclocking and 'THE BEST PC BUILD FOR NOW' . Builds like this reminds me of how i played age of empires back then . Great game btw

Modern cases are so much smarter in the way they have the components. With the power supply and hard drives on the bottom, you have all the space above for the hot components and airflow. Something older cases where like "yeah, whatever" lol.

I have the exact same 9600GT. Nice video as always, a lot more interesting than the million Windows XP retro gaming PC build videos on youtube :)

Finally a Windows Vista gaming pc I love it

A lot of people talk about vista, but forgot it has SP1 and SP2 (the sims 3 on retail release crashes if you didn't have updated to Service Pack 1 at least).

Never had an issue with vista. I always felt lucky. I have a machine almost like this that I replaced with a 500gb ssd and gtx 550ti I got at a yard sale for 20 bucks. Use it as a retro system now. Runs win7.

Love older PC builds like this!

The PS was mounted in the top so that its fan would exhaust all the hot case air. Systems weren't generating as much heat back then so it wasn't an issue.

Workaround for getting steam games to work in description? I don't see it

I like how he took out 2 of the pcie slot things for a single slot gpu

I still have that hdd STILL WORKS TODAY and i have used it lots

I had that motherboard with initially an e8400 and an 8600GTS, but I was a baller so I had 1TB hard drives for both Windows Vista and Mac OS X Lion and 8GB of Corsair XMS2 1066. The processor would happily overclock to 3.42 without any voltage and 4.3 with some voltage (I wanna say 1.42 but I don't remember). CPU cooled with a CM Hyper212. Worked well at the time but I wanted more, more more, so I added the q9650 with an OC to 3.7, swapped the Hyper212 to a CM V8, added SSDs for booting, and upgraded my video card from the 8600GTS to a Radeon 5750 to a Radeon 6870 and later upgraded to a GTX780 (they had to be Mac OS compatible was the only rule with video cards). For being what it was (midrange board meant for office work), that motherboard wasn't really that bad. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

😂 I actually had that case! I had an atec before it that was from the days of "you can have any color you want so long as it's beige". So I was geeked to have a black case... And USB's up front! I was king! 😂 I remember the power supply (antec mighta been 300watt) would get so hot it'd shut down. My roommate and I drilled it apart flipped it upside down flipped the bays and riveted it all back together so the power supply was on the bottom... Of course this put the board upside down and always opened the wrong side when I needed to... Our other roommate came home and asked why we didn't just cut a hole in the top 🤦‍♂️ 😂

"Successfully infected with Windows Vista" haha

What a beautiful 4k 60fps beast

"I am going to infect it with Windows Vista...” Love it!

I...was a big fan of Vista. I like the look and feel and my system performed well using it with an Athlon X2 (something in the middle), 4GB DDRII 800, and a 7900GS.

Vista was an infection? Oh yes, I remember now - right you are, carry on then!

I still have a music production PC with Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. I love and hate the thing. It's got a Core-2-Quad 2.41GHZ CPU, 4GB of RAM, a Radeon HD5850 GPU, and a 240GB SSD. It's WAYYYYY faster than gaming in Vista ever was, just because of the SSD. It's a BEAST of a relic, and it's actually a serviceable modern machine.

When you rewind this hard, it feels like my skin recedes back with the tech

in the legendary story they said he could never do it, But to everyone's surprise he did it and admitted he did it, He vista'd his life for us! ♥

I had good laptop in vista times and I really remember it really nicely, I remember being super happy with how the sytem looked

I love how you said infect it with windows vista lol. An old friend of mine is obsessed with vista and thinks it's the best lol.

Hey Dawid interesting video. I used to have a p45 gigabyte chipset with E8600. Later on upgraded to a Q9650 when chips were cheaper. Used for many years then sold it to friend who used it for many years more with a GTX 660. There is ddr3 support for these 775 socket motherboards as well. (hybrid models) Brings back memories seeing this video. My first Intel from Conroe was E6750 with a gigabyte P35 chipset. (I know that one is still running today)

My build for University had an Athlon 64 and a 8600GT. Felt like a monster back in the day haha

This old tech always interests me. It's well before my times of getting into PC building. I started when the RX 580 was a thing and that was my first GPU. My cat loves my pc just like yours too lmao. She rubs her face all over the area around the exhaust fan.

That motherboard takes me back to the first PC build I ever did. The thing caught on fire a few years later... good times.

At last, a pc I can asser my dominance over

My first rig was similar to this. A small company prebuilt with an e6750 and 8600gt 256mb with 2gb ddr2 667. Hard drive was definitely a limiting factor. It ran cod 4 at 1440x900 decent settings nicely, great times playing that instead of studying!

Love the cat :3

Already at 73k , wow this channel is growing FAST!!!!

Why didn't you try an SSD in the system. That might have been interesting!

I only recently found this channel. I stayed because of things like "This hard drive is the PC equivalent of polio" Funniest shit ive heard in awhile.

I'm pretty sure the Geneva convention considers installing Vista in 2020 a crime against humanity. Idea for a video: evolution on case tendencies (psu location, ventilation holes, drive cages, etc.)

That cooler though WOW.

Most older computers didn't have an exhaust fan and instead used the power supply as the exhaust because most of the components didn't get hot enough to merit it usually Until the GHZ & core count races began

that is a nice looking case.

That hard drive is the pc equivalent of polio got me .Those old drives used to do all kinds of crazy stuff.

you have the best intro music, I must say

That GPU sag lol

I've had success with baking relatively old GPUs back into life in the past. Its not advisable, but a brief stint in the oven can reflow old solder joints. I sprayed mine down with 70% alcohol solution and washed it thoroughly and then cooked it for 7-8 minutes.

A few weeks ago I put together a micro ATX "Vista Premium" rig with the parts I had laying around and I've got surprised about how well that thing works! Asus P5E-VM HDMI Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6GHz (9x400MHz) 2x2 GB Mushking Essentials DDR2-800 XFX Geforce 9800 GT 512MB WD Scorpio Black 160GB 7200 2.5" HDD Coolermaster Masterlite 3 mATX case LG DVD-ROM 400W EPS12 PSU Long story short: this thing is way faster than the Athlon XP rig I had in 2007...

my uncle gave me a super similar system as this to play around with! it has an E2200 but other than that it has all the same components!

For systems of this era the heat problem with the top mounted power supply wasn’t a big issue. It wasn’t until the early 2010’s where it started to be an issue with cards such as the GTX 280 and GTX 480. On another I’ve recently built a Vista gaming pc with an e8600 core 2 duo, 8gb of DDR3, an Asus P5K3 Deluxe, and it currently has a 9600 GT from XFX.

My 'old' 2005 PC that I quite happily ran (but used for friends to use when I built my new one in 2016), until I think the PSU gave up the ghost, and yet to fit a spare one to see if that was the cause. I was happy with it running Vista 64bit (which I actually liked, and everyone hated), for the internet and playing games, old ones, and the new(to me) World of Tanks, and rarely had any problems with it, and like I say, I only stopped running it daily when until it broke I, but still had my 'new' one to use. I really must fit a spare PSU into it, but never seem to get around to it, so it is just sitting on the floor in my 'man cave' collecting dust along with its monitor. It still have the discs for 32/64bit Vista Home, and want to try to install it again, but worried about drivers for it, as it would be running on my Gigabyte G1 Gaming motherboard, i7 6700K cpu, 16GB memory, GF GTX 980Ti, and SSD's, and M.2 Samsung Pro Nvme drives.

My first ever PC was a P3 running at 533Mhz IIRC - Holy hell we've come a long way since those days!

Windows 98 with 256 Mb of RAM was a rocket at that time, Windows XP with 1 or better with 2 Gb of RAM was another rocket and with Windows Vista 64bit (4 Gb of RAM, Intel Q8300 and AMD 3850 with 265 Mb) I played Crysis, Darksiders, and whole series of Assassins Creed. With this last configuration, I used Windows 8.0 and 8.1 for a while and after that, I used Windows 10. Greetings from Norway

Few coworkers and I did a throwback vista rig build a few months ago. Coworker did a "high-mid" vista rig with a Q6600 and a 9800 GTX. I did a "High end" build with a launch i7 965 EE with a fat zalman copper cooler, intel Dx58so board with triple channel memory (horizontal layout), GTX 285, a WD velociraptor C drive and a WD Black D drive.

I actually used to love Vista. Never had an issue with it. Especially after the service packs were released.

what i remember from the old days of winxp gaming was you needed to reinstall xp around 1-3 times a yaer so it became fast again..^^

Something no one says. "The great thing is that it's a dual core."

PSU on top makes sense once you consider that for a while the power draw of PCs was much lower and often the PSU fan was the only exhaust fan on the whole thing.

Im soon building a similar system for vista gaming, this video was good It was probably unstable due to the ram, when you change the fsb the ram speed changes too, so i suggest putting the dram multiplier to the lowest setting and try to match its default speed

that cooler is sick

I use Windows vista on a Dell XPS 720 but I decided not to use a HDD, instead I use a SSD plugged into a Dell Perc SAS controller and it works really well.

I still have that case and rock it!!! i have a directional heat sink on my cpu, that blows it at the rear fan! so hopefully not too much is washed through the power supply

I had 2 8600GT's running in SLI! :D

I used to run the 6300 @ 3.5GHz 24/7 for years air-cooled. LEGENDARY

G'day Dawid, I have a PC for Windows XP, I use it for converting Cassettes & Records to MP3, VHS to MP4, plus I also have a Scanner that does an awesome job scanning 35mm film & slides that only runs on XP also, I love knowing that parts so old are still doing an Awesome Job & are not Landfill just because there are newer ones available, I made it from hardware that was taken from PCs I upgraded for other people so it cost me nothing to build 😁, it has a Q9650@3.6GHz, 4GB DDR2@800MHz, Gigabyte G33M & GTX260SOC, IDE Lightscribe DVD Burner, 250GB & 1TB Spinning Disc Drives, Coolermaster 120MM AIO & I use my original 17" CRT screen from my P4 XP PC (XP is also activated with this original Key), I also use it to play some old games which are on Disc like C&C Generals & Zoo Tycoon as my new gaming PC doesn't have a DVD drive & I still enjoy these games, My next Retro Build is a roughly 2012 Beast, So far I have got a i7-2700K, Gigabyte Z68 & GTX680SOC Windforce 5, I was looking at going HEDT for CPU but here in Australia decent motherboards are ridiculously expensive where as you can still find a bargain with LGA1155

nice build. Case looks similar inside to my antec 300 gaming. Which is a very tight case for a 1080. Reminds me when i first got the pc 2 years back with a core 2 quad and 4gb ddr2 before i gave it the sleeper internals. i had to suffer slow speeds like that and boy it wasn't fun

vista had memory problems without service pack update . was great after updating sp

I kind of wish Hard Drives had some form of integrated speaker that would play elevator music every time it was struggling to load something.

Pro tip next time you try this, use GOG games! Their installers work even on my Windows XP machine (with the added benefit that I can install them from USB so I don't have to connect Windows XP to the internet) and they don't require Steam running in the background and hogging up precious low-end resources.

When are you going to build the $329 budget gaming pc?

Windows vista is the best operating system ever

Oh man, in 2007 I was STILL rocking an early Windows XP PC from late 2001. It had a 1.5GHz Willamette CPU, DFI NB32-SC mobo, 1x 256MB PC133 SDRAM, ATI Rage 128 Ultra 32MB AGP and a 20GB WD HDD. #LivingTheDream In 2008 I upgraded to a 24" iMac (8,1), which was a night and day difference in performance. Still got it. Right now I'm near the end of building a Win XP-era retro gaming PC. It's more like an upgrade of my old machine with a 3 GHz Prescott 478 CPU (SL7E4), Zalman CNPS9500 LED cooler, Gigabyte GA-8I865GME mobo, 2x 1GB DDR400, Palit GeForce 7600 GT 256MB AGP and a 160GB Hitachi HD. I just need to get a PSU (I thinking a Thermaltake Smart BX1 series), maybe a new case, and I'm done!

Nice build. Still have my similar spec build from that period. GA-EP35DS-3P, E8400 CPU, 2x2gb DDR2, sata HDD and DVD burner, 8800gt PCI-E graphics and Antek SLK1650B case.

keep up king!

Great job as always Dawid. Vista on an SSD is actually decent, might want to try that when you've got free time. Or go to XP. We love XP.

kitty seems to like the vista build 7:43

Holy shit, I built a core 2 quad system in that case back in 2010 to play BFBC2! (and I still have it around somewhere lol)

I always liked Vista. We bought a brand new PC that year with an Athlon x4 635 and 6gb ram. Ran smooth as butter. Everyone i knew complaining about Vista was rocking a P4 and 2gb ram. I certainly do think 7 is better, as well as the best OS ever made, but i never had a reason to dislike Vista. Fun fact, our previous PC which we replaced, had Windows ME, which i also liked and never understood the hate for. I didn't have any DOS stuff to worry about backwards compatibility for though.

I'm currently using the following from around the same era, but fully upgraded: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 (Yorkfield) 3.0GHz CPU Gigabyte EP35-DS3R motherboard 8GB (4x2GB) G.Skill DDR2 1000 memory 2GB EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC PCI-E graphics Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090 PCI audio 128GB SanDisk X400 128GB boot SATA SSD (with XP Pro SP3 32-bit) 256GB SanDisk X400 256GB boot SATA SSD (with 8.1 Pro 64-bit & Classic Shell) 1TB & 2TB Western Digital Black games & data SATA HDDs Cooler Master Elite 370 midi tower case Scythe Kaze Master KM01-BK fan controller with VF display (Awesome He-Man like name too!) Anidees AI Halo Cosmic Blue 140mm & 120mm LED ring fans BeQuiet! Shadow Rock LP CPU cooler (775 compatible) EVGA SuperNova 550 G2 PSU Still a nice little daily driver, even in the year 2020 A.D., that's also great for retro gaming.

I love core 2 computers of that time my favorite era of computing

That cooler is pretty damn awesome looking

Flash forward a year. It's 2021 and the world is still in rough shape. The only thing that can save it is Dawid making a Windows ME gaming PC.

You've convinced me (although I've wanted to badly for a LONG TIME) to rebuild/buy/upgrade a Vista PC. I used to have this (first 'built' PC): - Raidmax Sagitta 1 Case (BEST EVER FOR ITS TIME, EXCLUDING ALIENWARE!) - Pentium E5200 - GIGABYTE (unknown) MB - Unknown first NVIDIA (underperforming 8000-series?) GPU, then later SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X HD 5770 - Corsair Dominator 4GB 2x2G DDR2 800Mhz - Unknown SATA HDD (160/250/320GB most likely) - Raidmax (included) 320/500W(?) PSU * Windows Vista (from Beta to SP2), then Windows 7

I know late to this party but Vista get's a crapton more reliable after SP1 is applied. Also get's quite a bit faster too.

I've always liked that case

I loved Vista :)