LGR - Building a Pointy Pentium Pyramid PC (Patreon)
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https://youtu.be/RemzAqFoXrc
Ahh yet another video that evolved far beyond its original scope and turned into something completely unintentional. I hoped to have this finished a week ago but here we are, haha.
This all began as a silly impulse purchase that I figured would make for a fun, quick little Blerbs video. Just saying like "hey, I got this pyramid PC case, here's what it looks like" kind of thing. So I recorded the unboxing, was more impressed by the case than I thought I would be, and decided to at least put some spare parts inside...
But then my ambitions got the better of me and before I knew it, I'd decided to do a full build centered around one of those business/industrial motherboards that combine new and legacy hardware together, with my goal being to see if Win9x or XP would still work with this odd combination of old and new tech. Sort of a follow-up to my Ryzen MS-DOS video from a few years back...
Well, after a couple days failing to get that going, I said "screw it" and moved onto Ubuntu. Which resulted in the legacy hardware side of things not cooperating how I'd hoped, leading me to remove most of the old hardware and rely on the new hardware, defeating half the purpose of the building. Which got me thinking "welp, may as well try out some Windows to Linux compatibility options," and that turned into several days of screwing around with Wine and Lutris and Proton and before I knew it, it was Tuesday...
Combine all this with a last-minute trip out of town over the weekend, and a few afternoons over in storage digging up other PCI cards that didn't make it into the final video, and yeah. This is where things ended up! Hours upon hours of footage that didn't really connect at all. Perhaps I should've said "THIS IS ENOUGH" at some point along the way but instead I edited it all together into a half hour ramble. As a result, this video is kind of all over the place, heh. I'm not sure if the end result is anything to write home about, but hopefully the journey along the way is entertaining enough.
If nothing else, I have a ridiculous pyramid now.