Building a 1996 Dual Pentium Pro NT Workstation PC!

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• LG

  @LGR · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Lemme know your ideas for upgrades and things to test/tweak on this build! Lots of potential here.

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• LO

  @lostuser6410 · 2 years ago

  Wheels AND a door?!?!? It’s practically a car!!!

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• JO

  @jordanbranscombe · 2 years ago

  &quot;this is not a gaming system&quot;<br><br><b>proceeds to install and play games</b>

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• CA

  @cancrdancr · 2 years ago

  The taller the case the more powerful the computer.

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• SH

  @ShredderN64Alt · 2 years ago

  Blocking out the thermal paste at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_so2nUob1Y&amp;t=1015">16:55</a> is a brilliant move. This man is a master of avoiding controversy.

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• PA

  @palindromicbob · 2 years ago

  I love the use of &quot;Too Hot for TV&quot; to avoid the ridiculous debates on how to apply thermal paste.

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• JM

  @jmickeyd53 · 2 years ago

  The reason keen was so slow is the NT4 fully buffered VGA ram access, so instead of writing to the video card the dos app writes to a ram buffer and then NT writes it out to video. This was done to fully isolate dos apps. It&apos;s also why the sound blaster doesn&apos;t work.

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• EN

  @enihi · 2 years ago

  That talking BIOS is really something

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• DA

  @davenpro · 2 years ago (edited)

  Glad to see my donation (motherboard, CPU&apos;s, RAM) went to good use! &nbsp;Looking forward to seeing the future video covering Windows NT!

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• TO

  @Tom-Bomb · 2 years ago

  My older brother was a 3D animator and his first PC that he built specifically for work had dual Pentium II’s and man was that thing a beast! (By like 1996 standards lol). <br><br>He then went on to do some work for Zeiss the optics company and he did the 3D for the Pixar logo with the jumping lamp. Unfortunately tho, his life was cut short and he passed away in 1998 but man I’ll nvr forget what a crazy machine that was back in the day and def something he was rly proud of.

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• RE

  @rexchan6131 · 2 years ago

  This really touched me, because many retro enthusiasts usually focus on the 9x series and XP, but NT 4.0 is often overlooked. It has the same appearance as Windows 95, which leads many to mistakenly believe that it works the same way. However, once you actually use it, you realize they&apos;re completely different. Just dealing with the drivers and software support separately for 95 and NT 4.0 is enough to drive you crazy. When you get into NT 4.0, you&apos;ll discover an interface that&apos;s deep and complex, clearly designed for engineers without any &quot;dummy mode.&quot; But for hardcore enthusiasts, this makes it even more fascinating to dig into. Keep up the good work!

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• RO

  @ross-carlson · 2 years ago

  I started my career building an NT 4.0 server and a number of workstations - the amount of times I yelled at my monitor during this &quot;don&apos;t worry, it&apos;ll detected the 2nd processor&quot;, &quot;yup, 2GB was the limit&quot;, &quot;don&apos;t worry it&apos;ll convert to NTFS&quot;, etc. was SO MUCH FUN. Thanks for the GREAT blast from my past!

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