**The End of an Era: Disassembling and Decommissioning My Old Editing Rig**

It's with a mix of nostalgia and regret that I sit down to write about the end of an era. For many years, my old editing rig has been my faithful companion, providing me with countless hours of gaming memories and video editing experiences. However, as time passes, it's become clear that this rig is no longer serving its purpose effectively. The dusty case and outdated hardware have taken their toll on the system, making it time to say goodbye.

As I began disassembling my old rig, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation. Would I be able to clean out all the dust and debris that had accumulated over the years? Would I even want to keep some of the components, now that they were no longer needed for their intended purpose? The questions swirled in my mind as I carefully removed each component, taking care not to damage any of them.

One of the first things I noticed was how dusty everything was. It seemed like every part of the rig had been covered in a thick layer of dust and grime, making it look like a fossil from another era. The case itself was particularly bad, with thick layers of dust coating every surface. I spent what felt like an eternity cleaning out each component, using compressed air and a soft brush to gently remove the debris.

As I worked, I couldn't help but think about how far video editing technology has come since my old rig was first built. The software I used to edit with is still capable of producing great results, but it's clear that this system is no longer up to par for modern-day projects. I loaded up a slow and simple project, one that I had originally intended as a benchmark for my new system, just to see how this computer would handle. The results were underwhelming, to say the least. The CPU was clearly bottlenecking, and even dropping the resolution down to 1080p didn't help much.

The real surprise came when I discovered scorch marks on the power connection going to the DVD drive. It turned out that the drive had been working despite being damaged beyond repair. This was a shock, as I had expected some parts of the system to fail completely. The fact that it was still functional, if not reliable, was unsettling.

**The Components That Will Remain**

As I worked on disassembling my old rig, I knew that I wouldn't be keeping everything. However, there were a few components that I couldn't bear to part with. My trusty Noctua fans, which have been faithful companions throughout the years, will remain in storage. I'll always need them, even if they're not currently needed for their intended purpose.

The Intel processor and motherboard, despite being outdated, will also make another appearance in a future video. They may not be the most powerful components, but they hold a certain nostalgic value that I couldn't bring myself to part with.

**A Lesson Learned**

As I looked back on my time with this rig, I realized that it's taught me an important lesson about the importance of regular maintenance and upgrades. Despite its age, my old rig had served me well for many years, but ultimately, it was time to move on. This experience has also made me appreciate just how far technology has come since my original build.

I'm glad to have had this opportunity to reflect on my experiences with this rig. It's been a wild ride, and I'll always treasure the memories and lessons learned along the way. If you've got an old computer that's seen better days, I encourage you to take a cue from me and give it some TLC. You never know what hidden gems you might discover.

**What About You?**

I'd love to hear about your own experiences with older computers. What kind of hardware did you use back in the day? Did you cable manage at all? What were some of your favorite projects or editing experiences?

Let me know in the comments below! I'm always eager to hear from fellow tech enthusiasts and learn more about our shared passion for technology.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhile perhaps not as many as some of the actual PC building focused channels here on YouTube I've made quite a few PC built over the years for my channel which means I have a lot of PC parts and computer cases eaten up very delicate amounts of space that I am running out of and so I wanted there was one in particular that I wasn't ready to get rid of until I was able to make a video on it and so that's what we're doing today this beefy boy the beefiest of boys is the first computer I ever built for YouTube explicitly or at least an iteration of it we're gonna take a look at it right after this the mud mic Wireless can boldly go where no mic has gone before this microphone can attach to any headphones requires no additional wires features very low latency a dual capsule microphone 12 hour battery life and LED indicators on the receiver so you know when you're muted and or when the battery is running low and you can basically run your entire house without ever losing a signal what more could you ask for learn more by clicking the link in the video description so this giant ridiculous case is the NZXT phantom or whisper or something I don't even 100% know that at NZXT anymore but it was the silent optimized case that was recommended to me I believe even by Linus before the define or series came out so before the define r4 or at least before that was kind of the go-to recommendation I believe it was in the XT but I can literally not find a single ounce of information about this case online anymore and haven't for ever I clearly have it sticker bombed as I always do it has a hinged front door here with 220 or 140 millimeter fans it had a front attached option for i/o and four different five and a quarter inch bays which was great because at the time I was really using optical drives I still do actually it also had this little top expansion which allowed for an eSATA port headphone microphone jack and two more USB 2.0 ports USB 3.0 was not even kept in mind for this case this is how old this is it's a dusty boy inside this monstrosity is some pretty old hardware circa 2011 with some minor quality-of-life upgrades and about four inches of dust so before we actually power it back on I'm gonna do a little bit of cleaning not a ton I'll save that for like the part two or I clean it up and try to see if I can make it perform any better but inside here we have the AMD phenom 4 phenom x4 Edition 965 black edition processor this thing ran at like 3.0 4 gigahertz if I'm over 3.4 gigahertz if I'm remembering right quad core I believe I will double check when I get in here and then it's on a super cheapo I believe MSI replacement motherboard you see when I've originally built this rig in about 2010 I want to say I had it on a really nice gigabyte board and I had it in a hav airflow 932 case had like the big 200 millimeter fans it was loud as a jet engine and I just got sick of it cuz it was right on my desk and making my recordings basically unusable for my gameplay videos back then and I wound up switching it at some point before I switched cases though the motherboard died I don't remember what the exact problem was I probably never even figured it out but the motherboard stopped working and then when I went to full pull the CPU out of it I had like a basic cooler master cooler on it you know kind of like the hyper 212 evo these days but you know whatever that would have been back then and the AMD CPUs since they have depends on the bottom and pull out very easily when I went to take the cooler off CPU came with it I didn't twist I always recommend people twist off their coolers when they're using AMD although this might counteract the point I'm trying to make but because I've seen them get ripped out of the socket so much you have to be gentle with it but as long as you pull up fly a little bit of twisting as you're trying to remove it you can usually get it free you don't want to twist the CPU out of the socket however because you could bend the pins and what ended up happening was when I ripped the cooler out I bent the pins and so I had to buy an all-new motherboard in processor and so I ended up getting a cheapo MSI one not that MSI is a bad company but the specific motherboard was downgrading basically every way I probably got what do I got here 8 gigabytes so I've upgraded it to 32 gigabytes of ddr3 memory this is g.skill sniper at 1600 megahertz speed I actually started with Crucial Ballistix tracer Ram which had little red LED indicators that ran up it which was really cool at the time and then I since went ahead and threw on my Noctua NHD 14 that was originally in my old I forgot what the Zarya build with mm FX 95 90 in it so I've made a couple quality-of-life upgrades we have a cheapo modular ocz power supply a 1 terabyte I believe yet one terabyte WD blue hard drive in here and then like a 60 gig actually of 260 gig SSDs zip tied together in here and so this computer lasted me a very long time this computer was my main for YouTube gaming and editing computer from like if we're counting the first iterations of this from sometime in 2010 until 2014 to like midway through actually fall 2014 when I switched to my 95 90 rig so between its iterations oh by the way I've also swapped all of the fans cuz it has to like 80 mill fans in the bottom or 90 mill I swapped all of those over to Noctua fans as well trying to keep this as whisper-quiet as possible it does have sound foam eggshell padding in it but this is not very dense stuff it is purely just like eggshell stuff so it doesn't really absorb all that much but yeah this was my main PC for everything I did from 2010 ish up until late 2014 and then it became my wife's main computer from 2014 until 2016 when I finally switched over when I got my Intel sponsorship and it switched over to my 6900 kaz my rig and then for a couple years it was my buddy's only gaming PC and streaming PC and set in his floor until this and at all this time it was sitting in floors and on desks and gathering dust and never being cleaned and we're finally gonna clean it now you will notice I didn't mention the graphics card and that's cuz I cheated a little bit I ended up having to open this before I was able to record the video because I needed to take out graphics card as I took it to Dreamhack Dallas to get it signed by everyone who I met with and who came up to say hi and things like that it is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 this is an EVGA model but it is just the standard stock blower cooler but this was the one of the my first card with envy or NVIDIA GPU video encoder on it and this is kind of what accelerated my ability to make youtube videos and tutorials was getting this encoder and you know yes in about 2013 and really kind of running with it and I used this card for a lot of stuff and so when I was doing that panel on in Vinc and we were talking and one of the talking points it was super brief but was that the 600 series was the first generation within Vinc I wanted to bring it to be like yeah that's when I got started and so I took it out and cleaned it up and took it apart and read thermal paste it and got it signed it was barely functional for anybody when I when my buddy finally gave this rig back when he got his own gaming rig so I honestly don't expect it to run much but I do want to dust this out before we put it back in there and suck all that dust back up in it before we do some testing but I'm gonna get do a little minor cleanup and we're gonna see how this thing performs in 2019 honestly there isn't a ton that I can do without just getting the dust flooding this room and honestly turning it on is gonna shoot a bunch into this room anyway so we're gonna get this hooked up and powered on and just run you know some basic benchmarks try to play a couple games and then we'll do a part two where I actually like fully give this some tech yes and lovin and you know it's Ryan's Channel uh and see if we improve the performance at all because I am terrified of what's gonna happen with this all right let's see if this thing even powers on we have power ah I forgot how quiet this thing was and we're booting into Windows that was fast it was faster than my current fan noise is picking up a little bit but it you probably can't even hear it in the video but most of that is actually just like older fans and not being optimized but like I heavily optimized this rig in terms of fan like fan quietness I've got all Noctua fans even the little 90 millimeter ones except for my power supply fan and I've even got like the fan cables like cable routed and everything's cable man is nice and neat I never did this before and so this is pretty cool go ahead and set up our video settings here all right so we're not on the latest update of Windows 10 by a long shot but that's fine we're looking at the like it's at AMD Phenom X or phenom ii x4 965 black edition three point four gigahertz boost clock obviously Clark's down a little bit four cores four threads tiny amounts of cash we've got 16 gigs of RAM I said 32 I misread the RAM sticks I was about to be concerned so 16 gigs of ram we've got the 60 gigabyte ocz boot SSD we've got a kingston hundred 20 gig SSD and then they one terabyte hard drive that I mentioned I just got it hooked up to internet so it's got all sorts of stuff to mess with here I'm just gonna we're gonna update GPU drivers and not worry too much about other updates just cuz it's not so we're not going for scientific benchmarking here and we'll go from there and even just having like a single update or run in the background as I'm trying to connect to a network share like everything is oh boy alright well we got the GPU driver updated but whenever I went to restart it just got stuck at preparing to update Windows for like an hour ain't nobody got time for that and since the point of this isn't to be on the most newest version and windows I did the thing that you're never supposed to do and I hard reset the computer but I just want to run a couple tests here I tend to want to do anything complicated this was supposed to be a fun quick side project so we're gonna run Cinebench r15 an hour 20 see what kind of scores we get compared to the other hardware I have tested over the years and we will run a couple games and I also wanted to go ahead and see how the CPU tips are doing because it's been running on the same thermal paste since 2014 ish whenever I swapped this coil around I don't honestly know when that was oh yeah we're looking at a CPU temp of 35 before t degrees on idle here that's really good it's not to a cooler I will say I have loved someone I posted this on Twitter and someone else commented on it I love the brown and silver knocked to a theme that kind of developed in this case not on purpose and knock whose air coolers just kick a lot of ass and this thing has been running forever and is still apparently rock-solid so we're gonna go ahead and run cinnamon I'm gonna do a run with like a higher process priority second but I just want to see what the cpu temps get up to first we're just gonna go ahead and run that man that was another thing Irina loved about this processor it was only four threads but it ran solid at all times and always stayed pretty cool for me I mean this is clearly mind bogging lis bogglingly slow compared to what we run these days like virtually every other computer I've tested in the past couple years would have been finished by now but for what it was at the time this was a beastly little processor and I couldn't afford the big fancy whatever Intel had at the time this was my go-to like I can afford this and afford the hardware for it we got a whopping score of 240 and said it is the third lowest score that's registered in my cinnamon cheer and honestly I don't even think either of those processors are ones I've used they're just the built-in ones so it's lower and then virtually anything else I have tested I'm gonna run it again with a higher process priority to get a better score and then we'll switch over to our 20 and see what we get but Oh oh-ho-ho just to put this in perspective that is basically ten times lower than the 9900 kay all right then well okay then by running it as real-time we gained a hundred points and knocked it up to the fourth lowest score beating out weirdly enough the i-765 hundred you in my gaming laptop I really don't know why that would be but we're at a score of 347 now onto our twenty and so far the highest that our processor has reached is forty six point eight degrees so honestly I can like dust this a little bit but I don't really need to give it any new thermal compound or anything so that's pretty cool that'll save me an extra step I'm still planning on totally disassembling it and getting rid of this case after we're done with all of the testing but knowing that I get to sort of cheat and skip that step it's pretty cool because it's not even gonna come close to thermal throttling so it's not like I have to worry about that limiting my results or anything well I'm being driven nuts because of how long that takes I got a score of 530 and again our highest temperature is 48 degrees Celsius which is not bad so I'm gonna update a couple games we're just gonna test a couple older games here and then I really need to get this moving and cleaned up because like I said I'm just being driven nuts by how slow it is and none of the games are updating can't access game servers content servers on reach of what I have internet act no internet I had internet access I don't know where my internet access went to be fair this computer has probably not been booted over like a year and a half maybe longer actually it's been it's definitely been a year and a half because it hadn't been booted prior to us moving and we moved almost a year and a half ago so oh boy alright we're loading up some call of duty 4 modern warfare multiplayer something I played a ton on this rig see how it holds up today obviously this game hasn't received any updates since Telus done this rig was used other than like mono we're very mastered but all right we've got everything maxed out 1080p 120 Hertz that's the most I really want to run out right now especially since I need to be able to record let's go find a server can I just say there's still a lot of people playing this game holy crap that's because the mono or ferry master PC port was a big flop I enjoyed it on ps4 but apparently like it got dropped immediately on PC and so there's still pretty good audience in the PC version of Auto warfare just normal however keep in mind some of the servers kind of faked their player count a bit there we go free-for-all on creek here we go apparently there's another update to this game that isn't distributed through Steam that I don't have at the moment so we're just running with this I don't have any classes on this PC oh that's fine this mouse is super sensitive we are running at the full frame rate cap of 90s though so that is spawn protection I thought I was saying spectating this might be a hardcore server but everyone dude who kept killing me seemed to be hiding in a corner alright we're not doing too bad like it's holding the 90 91 frame rate cap this is a really good gaming experience for a game that I still play today and what's so happily play like on this Hardware today and again this rig is mostly quieter than my current PC granted it has like one one-hundredth of the capability as we just saw but nope tried to do the little streak yeah why is it I'm sitting around this isn't how we played call to do for back in the day we ran ran and Gantt we ran again yeah this is hardcore they're dying from one bullet although there's a radar and stuff so maybe damages just tweak totally bonkers yeah uh-huh come on doctor come on all right so clearly games of this era ran pretty well in this hardware like I don't ever remember have any major complaints about game performance at all in this machine even with the 660 which is obviously a pretty old card like graphics power was really rock-solid at this point in the sixties 660 was an incredible value for gaming budget this game does have a very stupid 120 hooker not hunter 20 90 FPS cap on it so I want to throw one more game on it that might be able to actually utilize our full refresh right here just to see how it holds up obviously this one won't be hard to run either all right it takes way too long to update these games so I'm just gonna play one more here actually we could play two more because one of them doesn't need an update but let's check out Team Fortress 2 real fast here which needs an update after it just said it was finished updating impressive cinematics 24 frames per second alright so I'm just turning everything up to the highest possible setting because again this is an older dx9 game doesn't really it's not gonna be hard to run but this is something again I would have played a crap ton of at the time I had this computer I joined and lose immediately video games never change alright we are running 120 to 140 fps here on this map 100 780 so depending on the area like we're running between 120 and 200 FPS just fine no problem free time is pretty good I'm not feeling any crazy micro stutter or anything I think feels fine everyone I'm like rocket jumping like their little hitches but not I mean little bumps on the graph but not actual hitches I don't know where anybody else is running really smooth on my end they've completely changed tf2 Sui I have a a lot of this I don't recognize at all it's really bizarre doesn't even feel like tf2 should feel IMO hey let's go I am playing without sound here but that's fine ah it's a speed hello how did he not die he didn't even take damage what hello yeah well you get the idea for the time it ran ridiculously well I could barely fit the stock to a kohler in here but it kept it ridiculously cool overtime hell up it's my editing rig for many years lots of great gaming memories on this rig but it's super dusty and it's time to disassemble and decommissioning let's eaten up too much space and I'm really not gonna use this case anymore moving forward it's very dated I'm gonna keep on to the right here hang on to the rest the hardware just in case cuz I may find other uses toot for it or return to it at some point but I don't think we're gonna this already took way too long so I don't think we're really gonna do a part 2 I'm just gonna get this dusted out and get all the parts cleaned up and store it away I also loaded up my beefy x264 slow is pointless project that I kind of used as a ridiculous DaVinci Resolve benchmark just to see how this computer would handle for my modern-day video editing sending it to 4k making sure everything set up properly just opening the project and loading in footage and just processing what's there took like 5 to 10 minutes of a hundred percent CPU usage before the software would do anything and then once it did get loaded up and stuff playing it back it clearly just wasn't doing it even dropping the project down to 1080p it was still really not able to do much of anything so rip this computer for editing purposes these days between the ancient and old GPU you know lower tier GPU since resolve is very GPU reliant and the fact that this quad core processor was clearly bottlenecking everything there was just no hope I also forgot to mention that whenever I turn off this computer at least for a while the power supply fan and LED keeps going and I don't know if it needs to cool it to a certain degree or if it's trying to like burn off excess power it even because it still keeps going after I flip off the power switches like it it's like it keeps going until it runs out of power which is just a really weird quirk of the system so I went ahead and took it outside got it taken apart and dust it out and I was planning on keeping most of the components went ahead and kept the nhd 14 or D 15 even though I don't have any spare mounting hardware for it at this point knock - it does have a form where you can request additional mounting hardware if you have proof of purchase and things like that but that's specifically for a m4 I don't have you know all the extra back plates or clamps for any of the Intel CPUs or anything like that so that's unfortunate but I kept it cleaned off the fans cuz I'll always use Noctua fans and everything so I'll always have a need for them but the one surprise that wound up with me throwing away some of the components in here as I found scorch marks on the pass a two power connection going to the DVD drive the back of the DVD drive is like scorched up and melted the weird part is it was still working it was still functional completely functional as far as I could tell I've been put in a disc and tested it but there was no way I was going to trust that anymore nor the power supply that did it because this wasn't some weird you know cheap because I've done this before even in a video cheap molex to SATA adapter that exploded this was the power supply direct peripheral SATA power connection to the drive it that's kind of concerning you're scary there was probably a big dust ball or animal fur piece or something on it but oh boy but that was the only real surprise but that meant I didn't get to keep the DVD drive nor the power supply but I do have the motherboard and processor that will be making another appearance in a future video and yep thanks so much for watching this kind of weird video just meant to be like a nostalgia deep dive into the old computer I had here what did your computer bills look like from 2010 to 2011 did you cable manage at all what kind of hardware were you rocking let me know in the comment section down below I originally got the first 965 for Christmas which started this whole original build in the previous case and stuff and then like I said I ended up killing them and having to rebuy new ones anyway but then once I realized how terrible a decision the 932 HAF 932 case was I switched to this in the XD one oh yeah let me know what you think in the comment section down below hit the like button subscribe for more tech education come over to our floatplane channel where you can get early access to videos and behind the scenes content for a monthly subscription it's kind of like patreon kind of like fan funding stuff ran by Luke from - tech to tech tips really cool platform go check it out I'll see you in the next onewhile perhaps not as many as some of the actual PC building focused channels here on YouTube I've made quite a few PC built over the years for my channel which means I have a lot of PC parts and computer cases eaten up very delicate amounts of space that I am running out of and so I wanted there was one in particular that I wasn't ready to get rid of until I was able to make a video on it and so that's what we're doing today this beefy boy the beefiest of boys is the first computer I ever built for YouTube explicitly or at least an iteration of it we're gonna take a look at it right after this the mud mic Wireless can boldly go where no mic has gone before this microphone can attach to any headphones requires no additional wires features very low latency a dual capsule microphone 12 hour battery life and LED indicators on the receiver so you know when you're muted and or when the battery is running low and you can basically run your entire house without ever losing a signal what more could you ask for learn more by clicking the link in the video description so this giant ridiculous case is the NZXT phantom or whisper or something I don't even 100% know that at NZXT anymore but it was the silent optimized case that was recommended to me I believe even by Linus before the define or series came out so before the define r4 or at least before that was kind of the go-to recommendation I believe it was in the XT but I can literally not find a single ounce of information about this case online anymore and haven't for ever I clearly have it sticker bombed as I always do it has a hinged front door here with 220 or 140 millimeter fans it had a front attached option for i/o and four different five and a quarter inch bays which was great because at the time I was really using optical drives I still do actually it also had this little top expansion which allowed for an eSATA port headphone microphone jack and two more USB 2.0 ports USB 3.0 was not even kept in mind for this case this is how old this is it's a dusty boy inside this monstrosity is some pretty old hardware circa 2011 with some minor quality-of-life upgrades and about four inches of dust so before we actually power it back on I'm gonna do a little bit of cleaning not a ton I'll save that for like the part two or I clean it up and try to see if I can make it perform any better but inside here we have the AMD phenom 4 phenom x4 Edition 965 black edition processor this thing ran at like 3.0 4 gigahertz if I'm over 3.4 gigahertz if I'm remembering right quad core I believe I will double check when I get in here and then it's on a super cheapo I believe MSI replacement motherboard you see when I've originally built this rig in about 2010 I want to say I had it on a really nice gigabyte board and I had it in a hav airflow 932 case had like the big 200 millimeter fans it was loud as a jet engine and I just got sick of it cuz it was right on my desk and making my recordings basically unusable for my gameplay videos back then and I wound up switching it at some point before I switched cases though the motherboard died I don't remember what the exact problem was I probably never even figured it out but the motherboard stopped working and then when I went to full pull the CPU out of it I had like a basic cooler master cooler on it you know kind of like the hyper 212 evo these days but you know whatever that would have been back then and the AMD CPUs since they have depends on the bottom and pull out very easily when I went to take the cooler off CPU came with it I didn't twist I always recommend people twist off their coolers when they're using AMD although this might counteract the point I'm trying to make but because I've seen them get ripped out of the socket so much you have to be gentle with it but as long as you pull up fly a little bit of twisting as you're trying to remove it you can usually get it free you don't want to twist the CPU out of the socket however because you could bend the pins and what ended up happening was when I ripped the cooler out I bent the pins and so I had to buy an all-new motherboard in processor and so I ended up getting a cheapo MSI one not that MSI is a bad company but the specific motherboard was downgrading basically every way I probably got what do I got here 8 gigabytes so I've upgraded it to 32 gigabytes of ddr3 memory this is g.skill sniper at 1600 megahertz speed I actually started with Crucial Ballistix tracer Ram which had little red LED indicators that ran up it which was really cool at the time and then I since went ahead and threw on my Noctua NHD 14 that was originally in my old I forgot what the Zarya build with mm FX 95 90 in it so I've made a couple quality-of-life upgrades we have a cheapo modular ocz power supply a 1 terabyte I believe yet one terabyte WD blue hard drive in here and then like a 60 gig actually of 260 gig SSDs zip tied together in here and so this computer lasted me a very long time this computer was my main for YouTube gaming and editing computer from like if we're counting the first iterations of this from sometime in 2010 until 2014 to like midway through actually fall 2014 when I switched to my 95 90 rig so between its iterations oh by the way I've also swapped all of the fans cuz it has to like 80 mill fans in the bottom or 90 mill I swapped all of those over to Noctua fans as well trying to keep this as whisper-quiet as possible it does have sound foam eggshell padding in it but this is not very dense stuff it is purely just like eggshell stuff so it doesn't really absorb all that much but yeah this was my main PC for everything I did from 2010 ish up until late 2014 and then it became my wife's main computer from 2014 until 2016 when I finally switched over when I got my Intel sponsorship and it switched over to my 6900 kaz my rig and then for a couple years it was my buddy's only gaming PC and streaming PC and set in his floor until this and at all this time it was sitting in floors and on desks and gathering dust and never being cleaned and we're finally gonna clean it now you will notice I didn't mention the graphics card and that's cuz I cheated a little bit I ended up having to open this before I was able to record the video because I needed to take out graphics card as I took it to Dreamhack Dallas to get it signed by everyone who I met with and who came up to say hi and things like that it is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 this is an EVGA model but it is just the standard stock blower cooler but this was the one of the my first card with envy or NVIDIA GPU video encoder on it and this is kind of what accelerated my ability to make youtube videos and tutorials was getting this encoder and you know yes in about 2013 and really kind of running with it and I used this card for a lot of stuff and so when I was doing that panel on in Vinc and we were talking and one of the talking points it was super brief but was that the 600 series was the first generation within Vinc I wanted to bring it to be like yeah that's when I got started and so I took it out and cleaned it up and took it apart and read thermal paste it and got it signed it was barely functional for anybody when I when my buddy finally gave this rig back when he got his own gaming rig so I honestly don't expect it to run much but I do want to dust this out before we put it back in there and suck all that dust back up in it before we do some testing but I'm gonna get do a little minor cleanup and we're gonna see how this thing performs in 2019 honestly there isn't a ton that I can do without just getting the dust flooding this room and honestly turning it on is gonna shoot a bunch into this room anyway so we're gonna get this hooked up and powered on and just run you know some basic benchmarks try to play a couple games and then we'll do a part two where I actually like fully give this some tech yes and lovin and you know it's Ryan's Channel uh and see if we improve the performance at all because I am terrified of what's gonna happen with this all right let's see if this thing even powers on we have power ah I forgot how quiet this thing was and we're booting into Windows that was fast it was faster than my current fan noise is picking up a little bit but it you probably can't even hear it in the video but most of that is actually just like older fans and not being optimized but like I heavily optimized this rig in terms of fan like fan quietness I've got all Noctua fans even the little 90 millimeter ones except for my power supply fan and I've even got like the fan cables like cable routed and everything's cable man is nice and neat I never did this before and so this is pretty cool go ahead and set up our video settings here all right so we're not on the latest update of Windows 10 by a long shot but that's fine we're looking at the like it's at AMD Phenom X or phenom ii x4 965 black edition three point four gigahertz boost clock obviously Clark's down a little bit four cores four threads tiny amounts of cash we've got 16 gigs of RAM I said 32 I misread the RAM sticks I was about to be concerned so 16 gigs of ram we've got the 60 gigabyte ocz boot SSD we've got a kingston hundred 20 gig SSD and then they one terabyte hard drive that I mentioned I just got it hooked up to internet so it's got all sorts of stuff to mess with here I'm just gonna we're gonna update GPU drivers and not worry too much about other updates just cuz it's not so we're not going for scientific benchmarking here and we'll go from there and even just having like a single update or run in the background as I'm trying to connect to a network share like everything is oh boy alright well we got the GPU driver updated but whenever I went to restart it just got stuck at preparing to update Windows for like an hour ain't nobody got time for that and since the point of this isn't to be on the most newest version and windows I did the thing that you're never supposed to do and I hard reset the computer but I just want to run a couple tests here I tend to want to do anything complicated this was supposed to be a fun quick side project so we're gonna run Cinebench r15 an hour 20 see what kind of scores we get compared to the other hardware I have tested over the years and we will run a couple games and I also wanted to go ahead and see how the CPU tips are doing because it's been running on the same thermal paste since 2014 ish whenever I swapped this coil around I don't honestly know when that was oh yeah we're looking at a CPU temp of 35 before t degrees on idle here that's really good it's not to a cooler I will say I have loved someone I posted this on Twitter and someone else commented on it I love the brown and silver knocked to a theme that kind of developed in this case not on purpose and knock whose air coolers just kick a lot of ass and this thing has been running forever and is still apparently rock-solid so we're gonna go ahead and run cinnamon I'm gonna do a run with like a higher process priority second but I just want to see what the cpu temps get up to first we're just gonna go ahead and run that man that was another thing Irina loved about this processor it was only four threads but it ran solid at all times and always stayed pretty cool for me I mean this is clearly mind bogging lis bogglingly slow compared to what we run these days like virtually every other computer I've tested in the past couple years would have been finished by now but for what it was at the time this was a beastly little processor and I couldn't afford the big fancy whatever Intel had at the time this was my go-to like I can afford this and afford the hardware for it we got a whopping score of 240 and said it is the third lowest score that's registered in my cinnamon cheer and honestly I don't even think either of those processors are ones I've used they're just the built-in ones so it's lower and then virtually anything else I have tested I'm gonna run it again with a higher process priority to get a better score and then we'll switch over to our 20 and see what we get but Oh oh-ho-ho just to put this in perspective that is basically ten times lower than the 9900 kay all right then well okay then by running it as real-time we gained a hundred points and knocked it up to the fourth lowest score beating out weirdly enough the i-765 hundred you in my gaming laptop I really don't know why that would be but we're at a score of 347 now onto our twenty and so far the highest that our processor has reached is forty six point eight degrees so honestly I can like dust this a little bit but I don't really need to give it any new thermal compound or anything so that's pretty cool that'll save me an extra step I'm still planning on totally disassembling it and getting rid of this case after we're done with all of the testing but knowing that I get to sort of cheat and skip that step it's pretty cool because it's not even gonna come close to thermal throttling so it's not like I have to worry about that limiting my results or anything well I'm being driven nuts because of how long that takes I got a score of 530 and again our highest temperature is 48 degrees Celsius which is not bad so I'm gonna update a couple games we're just gonna test a couple older games here and then I really need to get this moving and cleaned up because like I said I'm just being driven nuts by how slow it is and none of the games are updating can't access game servers content servers on reach of what I have internet act no internet I had internet access I don't know where my internet access went to be fair this computer has probably not been booted over like a year and a half maybe longer actually it's been it's definitely been a year and a half because it hadn't been booted prior to us moving and we moved almost a year and a half ago so oh boy alright we're loading up some call of duty 4 modern warfare multiplayer something I played a ton on this rig see how it holds up today obviously this game hasn't received any updates since Telus done this rig was used other than like mono we're very mastered but all right we've got everything maxed out 1080p 120 Hertz that's the most I really want to run out right now especially since I need to be able to record let's go find a server can I just say there's still a lot of people playing this game holy crap that's because the mono or ferry master PC port was a big flop I enjoyed it on ps4 but apparently like it got dropped immediately on PC and so there's still pretty good audience in the PC version of Auto warfare just normal however keep in mind some of the servers kind of faked their player count a bit there we go free-for-all on creek here we go apparently there's another update to this game that isn't distributed through Steam that I don't have at the moment so we're just running with this I don't have any classes on this PC oh that's fine this mouse is super sensitive we are running at the full frame rate cap of 90s though so that is spawn protection I thought I was saying spectating this might be a hardcore server but everyone dude who kept killing me seemed to be hiding in a corner alright we're not doing too bad like it's holding the 90 91 frame rate cap this is a really good gaming experience for a game that I still play today and what's so happily play like on this Hardware today and again this rig is mostly quieter than my current PC granted it has like one one-hundredth of the capability as we just saw but nope tried to do the little streak yeah why is it I'm sitting around this isn't how we played call to do for back in the day we ran ran and Gantt we ran again yeah this is hardcore they're dying from one bullet although there's a radar and stuff so maybe damages just tweak totally bonkers yeah uh-huh come on doctor come on all right so clearly games of this era ran pretty well in this hardware like I don't ever remember have any major complaints about game performance at all in this machine even with the 660 which is obviously a pretty old card like graphics power was really rock-solid at this point in the sixties 660 was an incredible value for gaming budget this game does have a very stupid 120 hooker not hunter 20 90 FPS cap on it so I want to throw one more game on it that might be able to actually utilize our full refresh right here just to see how it holds up obviously this one won't be hard to run either all right it takes way too long to update these games so I'm just gonna play one more here actually we could play two more because one of them doesn't need an update but let's check out Team Fortress 2 real fast here which needs an update after it just said it was finished updating impressive cinematics 24 frames per second alright so I'm just turning everything up to the highest possible setting because again this is an older dx9 game doesn't really it's not gonna be hard to run but this is something again I would have played a crap ton of at the time I had this computer I joined and lose immediately video games never change alright we are running 120 to 140 fps here on this map 100 780 so depending on the area like we're running between 120 and 200 FPS just fine no problem free time is pretty good I'm not feeling any crazy micro stutter or anything I think feels fine everyone I'm like rocket jumping like their little hitches but not I mean little bumps on the graph but not actual hitches I don't know where anybody else is running really smooth on my end they've completely changed tf2 Sui I have a a lot of this I don't recognize at all it's really bizarre doesn't even feel like tf2 should feel IMO hey let's go I am playing without sound here but that's fine ah it's a speed hello how did he not die he didn't even take damage what hello yeah well you get the idea for the time it ran ridiculously well I could barely fit the stock to a kohler in here but it kept it ridiculously cool overtime hell up it's my editing rig for many years lots of great gaming memories on this rig but it's super dusty and it's time to disassemble and decommissioning let's eaten up too much space and I'm really not gonna use this case anymore moving forward it's very dated I'm gonna keep on to the right here hang on to the rest the hardware just in case cuz I may find other uses toot for it or return to it at some point but I don't think we're gonna this already took way too long so I don't think we're really gonna do a part 2 I'm just gonna get this dusted out and get all the parts cleaned up and store it away I also loaded up my beefy x264 slow is pointless project that I kind of used as a ridiculous DaVinci Resolve benchmark just to see how this computer would handle for my modern-day video editing sending it to 4k making sure everything set up properly just opening the project and loading in footage and just processing what's there took like 5 to 10 minutes of a hundred percent CPU usage before the software would do anything and then once it did get loaded up and stuff playing it back it clearly just wasn't doing it even dropping the project down to 1080p it was still really not able to do much of anything so rip this computer for editing purposes these days between the ancient and old GPU you know lower tier GPU since resolve is very GPU reliant and the fact that this quad core processor was clearly bottlenecking everything there was just no hope I also forgot to mention that whenever I turn off this computer at least for a while the power supply fan and LED keeps going and I don't know if it needs to cool it to a certain degree or if it's trying to like burn off excess power it even because it still keeps going after I flip off the power switches like it it's like it keeps going until it runs out of power which is just a really weird quirk of the system so I went ahead and took it outside got it taken apart and dust it out and I was planning on keeping most of the components went ahead and kept the nhd 14 or D 15 even though I don't have any spare mounting hardware for it at this point knock - it does have a form where you can request additional mounting hardware if you have proof of purchase and things like that but that's specifically for a m4 I don't have you know all the extra back plates or clamps for any of the Intel CPUs or anything like that so that's unfortunate but I kept it cleaned off the fans cuz I'll always use Noctua fans and everything so I'll always have a need for them but the one surprise that wound up with me throwing away some of the components in here as I found scorch marks on the pass a two power connection going to the DVD drive the back of the DVD drive is like scorched up and melted the weird part is it was still working it was still functional completely functional as far as I could tell I've been put in a disc and tested it but there was no way I was going to trust that anymore nor the power supply that did it because this wasn't some weird you know cheap because I've done this before even in a video cheap molex to SATA adapter that exploded this was the power supply direct peripheral SATA power connection to the drive it that's kind of concerning you're scary there was probably a big dust ball or animal fur piece or something on it but oh boy but that was the only real surprise but that meant I didn't get to keep the DVD drive nor the power supply but I do have the motherboard and processor that will be making another appearance in a future video and yep thanks so much for watching this kind of weird video just meant to be like a nostalgia deep dive into the old computer I had here what did your computer bills look like from 2010 to 2011 did you cable manage at all what kind of hardware were you rocking let me know in the comment section down below I originally got the first 965 for Christmas which started this whole original build in the previous case and stuff and then like I said I ended up killing them and having to rebuy new ones anyway but then once I realized how terrible a decision the 932 HAF 932 case was I switched to this in the XD one oh yeah let me know what you think in the comment section down below hit the like button subscribe for more tech education come over to our floatplane channel where you can get early access to videos and behind the scenes content for 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