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...
IBM hard drive photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"WatchDog," Maximum PC, May 2005.
"News Industry," Computerworld, June 10, 2002.
Intel D845GEBV2 specs: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/...

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

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Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bo....