Putting Together My Own Retro Desktop PC

This Does Not Compute April 28, 2023
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I've worked on plenty of retro desktop computers, but for various reasons I haven't been able to keep any of them. It's about time we changed that. Sources: "TDK veloCD 24/10/40," Maximum PC, October 2001. Seagate acquires Samsung's HDD business: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2733273/seagate-completes-acquisition-of-samsung-s-hdd-business.html IBM hard drive photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_0665-30_HDD_2.jpg "WatchDog," Maximum PC, May 2005. "News Industry," Computerworld, June 10, 2002. Intel D845GEBV2 specs: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel-d845gebv2-brownville-2 00:00 - Introduction 01:47 - Checking out the case 03:48 - The motherboard and CPU 08:00 - Keeping cool 09:01 - An ominous warning 10:12 - A selection of drives 13:37 - You're probably bored by now 14:17 - Sound and video 16:05 - A GPU shootout...or not 17:58 - CaN iT pLaY cRySiS tHo? 19:24 - I found another video card. It still can't play Crysis 20:43 - The beginning, not the end ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Soundstripe (https://www.soundstripe.com) and Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).

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