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Today I'm reacting to another fantastic episode of The Computer Chronicles. This one documents "everything you need to know" about building an epic gaming PC...in 2001.
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My reaction to "PC gaming in 2001"
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My reaction to "PC gaming in 2001"
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Black and White was so fucking awesome
You know what surprised me the most but nobody else? They were screen recording too and playing games that actually don’t look that bad
How can we still barely hit 60 fps on console, hardly ANY games did on console last gen, yet in 2001 we were doing it? Lmao Also, Diablo 2 had already been out for a while at this point, Runescape came out that year, I was a huge PC gamer back then. Actually, I had already been gaming on PC since about 1994 with Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Doom, and a pc game that came with Chex Cereal lol. My Dad was a Capital Police Officer, but we had a computer business in the garage. Kind of weird I’m not a tech tuber lol. But I do want to be. I just need my studio and equipment first.
“The Geforce 3 is the latest generation graphics processor from Nvidia.” - Tony Tamasi of Nvidia, 2021
People who love to shit on soundcards in this day and age don't forget how bad - if you had it at all - onboard audio was in the late 90's and early 00's. in 2001 you actually needed one for more than just more audio I/O. If you built your own PC, which wasn't as common back then, most motherboards didn't even bother with it.
"iwas a freshmen" gah dang mee toooo
When I was a freshman in High School, there was no such thing as gaming PC's or Laptops. Hell, the PC's of the time were from IBM and Tandy, and Atari had the 800XL! The Atari 2600 was still around, the video game crash hadn't happened yet, and I was rocking a Mattel Intellivision with about 25 carts! How times have really changed!
what kind of "weak" are you that you have to make fun of shit made 20years ago? no wonder wifeysauce left you.
I remember playing that rally game when I was younger. Loved it.
4:49 rtx
I remember how it sucks to play with CD. My Starcraft had to be ran with CD in the optical drive. And it crashes because of some “scratches.”
that god like game looked like roller coaster tycoon
And if you notice the video so old that they haven't even got the catchphrase down PC
Demo complete, mind blown
well.... in 2001. games weren't really all about performance and having the highest fps and the best latency, only really few games that requires those exist and online competitive was barely non-existent, it mostly just quake and everquest. it was more about enjoyment. and what better way to enjoy games than having better looking graphics and immersing yourself in surround sound or.... better sound which is why sound was important back then. the only thing remotely close to e sport back then was probably street fighter tournaments.
thought about firing up Quake aswell... man its been years
early 2000's pop's got really into to audio and spent nearly a grand on his surround system
I thought the timestamp bar thing on my screen was RGB then I realised it was your keyboard
The obsolete chief globally rob because college extragingivally call per a capricious sky. sudden, uncovered cake
this was painful to watch, Kyle is such a noob when it comes to technology, stick to vlogs man cause you suck at this
In 20 years, someone please do a reaction to this Bitwit reaction video
Swing in a miss on this video...you ended up sounding kinda like a dick here.
Back then people still thought that only mhz/ghz mattered... Here they show the gpu as if it was just some gimmick card and only show games when talking about the cpu...
clippys going to take you to the cleaners
Oh my gosh, I spotted the old Diablo game from Blizzard on the bookshelf I played the heck out of that game using a Voodoo 3 3000 video card with a pentium II processor !
2001-2021 curency that same graphics card would cost maybe 600 dollars. So we are paying shitloads more for gpus
Any one Remember the ATI VGA Wonder XL? My first card. I owned a couple versions of 3dfx Interactive voodoos back in the day as well. My fist Nvidia card was the GFORCE 256 and have been a Nvidia Fan Boy since
Modern day racing sims can be pretty CPU heavy because of all the physics calculations having to go on. I've got a 6 core AMD 4600h and it hits like around 50 percent usage on the CPU sometimes.
Haha one day we will look at the 3090 in the same way
PC gaming in 2001 was cool because your basic family computer could still play pretty much anything out at the time. I didn't even build a computer specifically for gaming until 2005 or 2006 or something. Before then I'd just use our HP, or Acer, or Compaq, or whichever family computer we had at that specific time.(That green Acer was the coolest, lol. Compaq was the worst)
@Troll weeb Not really. At the time, if you wanted to play something like Battlefield Vietnam, or Battlefield 2, or any of the Source engined games, you really needed a purpose built machine to get it to run. Especially Stuff running Source. Half-Life 2 was a huge step above basically everything when it came out. It was like the Cyber Punk of the day, except it wasn't rushed trash. Battlefield 2 was actually what I built my first rig to be able to play because our family computer couldn't run it(or anything made using the Source engine.)
Yeah it was like that until like 2010
As a college student in the early 2000s, I would say the driving factor was my age range. The best connections online were T1 connections, and only universities really had them, so gaming made sense for us. I still remember being hooked on Starsiege:Tribes, and voodoo cards were all the rage.
I was a senior this year. I remember that chameleon demo. Anyone remember the shiny clock demo (i think it was ati)
Where tf are you getting 3080 for 699?
I hope this is the gordon mah ung episode where he said "pride in your ride" when talking about fancy for the time alienware cases edit* this is the one yesssss this show was cofounded with Gary Kildall if you dont know that is he is the man who couldve been bill gates had he not gone flying..... It also completely destroyed him its literally movie material
Top of the line GPU at 400$ is pretty based. An no it's nowhere close to a 700$ one you doofus.
I remember when I was 11 my dad got me my first alien ware I’m 32 now that’s when dell didn’t own them and they were good
That nVidia GPU from 2001 is $597.29 in todays money after you account for inflation. So, you could say that the price is right on the newer ones I guess... I mean I don't like it, but it is what it is I guess.
@3:34 he looks younger in 2001 then in 1993.
28:00 no they got RTX ????
Gordon sounds the exactly same 😱
19:19 its realistic lighting RTX : .........
2001 : CPU speed 2019 : AMD hold my cores
Don't know why but this video is making me cry
I was 0.2 years old at that point and now I feel fucking old
2:26 the guy in green looks familiar
*Why did ya forget inflation? GPUs are obviously (for the most part) cheaper than they were in 2001.
You have to remember that most computers from around 2001 and before didn't even have an audio card (having any kind of "multimedia" was a marketing point and introduced a premium in the computer's price). That's why they spent a lot of time talking about audio. Nowadays no one cares about audio because every computer comes with "good enough" audio cards.
I’m so offended you said Black & White looked boring 😂
On the real im trying to put some hours on sacrifice. Tbh i may have and have now forgotten 😆
😆 only 80s kids no why he is sleeping he was a carnival fortune teller a mechanical bust so its actually accurate for him to sleep. Super cool though
They're Molex connectors...
PC Gamer guy in 2001: our game looks hyper realistic SGI computers: here, hold my beer
Google chrome would be the death of their gaming PC lol...
When that video was filmed, Pentium 4s were Northwood architecture. Netburst was 4 years off. Northwood pentium 4s were horrid even by 2001 standards. people stuck with P3s until Netburst was released.
In 2001 you had a Northwood pentium 4...The CPU was pretty much a lost cause man :D
Average salary 1993: $27,000 yr, average in 2020: 32k... Laughing stops.
This whole video is an abortion. Worst jokes ever.
Does anyone else notice when he says they don't have the keyboard and mouse they're just stashed next to the pc.
kinda dissapointed the amazing retro stuff in the background is blurred out. i think i saw diablo back there
Another 10 years people are going to watch this cringe-worthy video with the same enthusiasm as you are! 😉
when they cared enough for pc games to be 'optimized'
3080 is 699? is he in a parallel universe
Woooof. $399 in 2001 is a little under $600 in 2021. RTX 3080 FE MSRP for $700 ($800 for AIB's).
World of Tanks most certainly IS pay to win, if you aren't using premium, you are at a massive disadvantage. Don't lie ffs.
2001 most important thing, sound 2021 sound is watered down and who cares. Most people are using 2.0 speakers from the monitor. True 7.1 is only a thing with high end motherboards and most people won't install a sound card on lower end motherboard even they still sell them. I have a Asus DX 7.1 that allows external decoding of DTS and Dolby Digital for watching movies. It's still worth the investment. Oh, and for prologic most onboard only decode 16bit at 48.000KHz While sound cards have SPDIF and decode 24bit at 192,000KHz. There is a difference in the crispness of the sound with a sound card's filtering on the analog side of things. Most of the time, people will use the GPUs sound output today unless using a external decoder. Again, 2.0.
Back then i played 60fps at Half Life and Counter strike, only todays cosole can reach that 60 fps mark ! :D
12:51 What's wrong with desktop MP3 players?
Yup, Winamp's visualizer is the best, and MS Media player's is very shitty comparing with winamp's.
15:51 did it crash🤣🤣
The day windows xp was released
This guy is seriously unfunny. Very cringe sir.
You can see how powerful our Pentium 4 processors are if you just look at some of our fraudulent benchmark scores 😂
stop pausing it every 7 secs. annoying af
@bitwit I remember running an old celery processor when the pentium 3 "slot cpu's" came out and wishing i could get one, and i dont even wanna talk about how pissed i was when 3dfx chit da bed!
Is that a map of The Elder Scrolls II behind the sound card guy??
Low-key, I keep a Pentium 4 HT/HD 3850 PC because of stuff like this (I know it's a little newer but still p4) sometimes it just feels nice playing games on the hardware it was meant too
I've got the case in the Thumbnail but in black
I dont think so
No money u say
My core does 1.6 ghz
RIP Colin McRrae
You are right with computer technology being way more exciting today. But not only because there was more advancement, but primarily because there was CHOICE. An nearly unlimited amount of potions for anything you could care about. Also it was about things that really count, like: performance and configuration, but not about bullshit like 'looks'. Also the technology was more robust and more productive. I'd take a 4:3 notebook built like back then over that shitty chintzy 16:9 toys without any hesitation.
The reason for the massive upgrade from a CPU speed boost was due to the fact that they were single core and pretty slow. That single core was driving the entire machines hardware and OS. The IPC was also pretty poor back then so even a modest clock speed increase could boost performance significantly. It's also the reason overclocking was such a big thing then compared to now, a free '50mhz' overclock on a CPU could mean a dozen or more FPS in games and cutting seconds from load times something akin to 10-15% performance uplift for free. These days a 3-500 MHz overclock sees very little performance boosts usually.
Can't believe he didn't have a gaming pc in 2001? I had one and internet in '94
This guy thinks the 90s was ten years ago
Sound cards are not irrelevant in 2020. Onboard Audio still sucks and sounds anemic.
That shirt😄
Damn. I remember when I got 256mb graphics card in 2004 and it was a monster. And then one year later we had 512mb. And like one year later 1gb. And 1 year later 2gb xD The change is so faaaaaaast
"RTX 3080 $699." This didn't age well
Some one is gonna laugh at u in 2050 2021 the most important rgb Lol 😆 2050, gamers ,what were they thinking?
Hey I love ur t shirt very funny 😄 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can't wait on year 2041's "how to build rgb pc back on 2021" reaction video
Black and White was an awesome PC game.
Ok, you've probably have worn that shirt a billion times but I love it.
He's like the Kevin Spacey of computers
watching this on a 1440p monitor....
The "Those wrinkles are paid actors" made me subscribed! LMAO
So is it common knowledge that 7.1 surround sounds like actual garbage on most headsets.
It's weird watching you live through NV1 and early Geforce cards as I did. LMAO
I LOVED Black and White when it came out!