I was too poor to afford this - Rebuilding a Dream Machine from 2001 Maximum PC
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Treat your feet with Vessi! Save 15% on your first order at http://vessi.com/LinusTechTips Check out Ridge’s Father’s Day sale at https://www.ridge.com/LINUS and enjoy up to 40% off! Sometimes PC DREAMS DO become reality! We’ve assembled high-end gaming parts of years past to build our top tier fantasy retro desktop rig. But there are a more than a few hiccups, and maybe our Dreams will transform into nightmares. Y2K more like WHY-2K? Either way, the 2001 Dream Machine from Maximum PC is here. Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1570820-i-was-too-poor-to-afford-this/ Check out Victor Bart and RETRO Machines here: https://www.youtube.com/@victorbart Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: https://lttstore.com ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: https://lmg.gg/lttfloatplane ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: https://lmg.gg/partners ► EQUIPMENT WE USE TO FILM LTT: https://lmg.gg/LTTEquipment ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: https://lmg.gg/wanset FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linustech TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@linustech Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/linustech MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712 Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI Listen on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/UxWkUw Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/ Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro – CPU 1:00 Motherboard 1:58 RAM 3:08 Case 4:08 Why don’t they do this anymore? 5:06 The “Deathstar” 6:57 The Disk Drives 8:23 Power Supplies can be “NICE” too 9:21 GPU 10:00 Does it turn on? and also other Add-in Cards 11:40 This Monitor is SICK 12:11 This Mouse and Keyboard are NOT 13:21 This Audio Setup still holds up today. 16:47 Playing Games – this thing can push THAT much?
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