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LGR - Finishing the Oddware Tower (Patreon)

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2023-06-21 22:32:52
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https://youtu.be/D1OEZ42yf_4

IT IS FINISHED.

More or less. There are always tweaks, swaps, and upgrades to consider.

But yeah, the main build is complete with everything working as it should! Lovely to see so many ridiculous things all working together in odd harmony. I really love that Silverstone VFD now that I've used it, and it makes me wanna get a larger display along those lines to stick in a more modern rig.

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Finishing the Ultimate Oddware Tower! Windows Vista PC Build

The LGR Oddware Tower continues! Every one of the Antec 1200 case's 5.25" drive bays are filled with weird 2000s devices, all it needed was... everything else, ha. So I got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and a Foxconn AM2 motherboard from 2006. Let's install everything into this monster ATX PC case and get it set up – with Windows Vista! ● LGR links: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● The album being played on cassette: https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/attack-of-the-petscii-robots-the-alternate-soundtrack ● All background music licensed from: http://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00 Intro to the Oddware Tower idea 01:52 The motherboard 04:14 The CPU 04:53 The SATA Disk on Module 05:41 Windows Vista, wheee 06:52 That Dynatron fan is absurd 07:51 Swapping out the cooling 10:58 3D printing to the rescue? 12:20 Installing an AM2 bracket/cooler 13:01 Sorting out the insides 14:00 Rear I/O and things 15:10 64-bit OS woes... 15:36 Everything is working! 16:12 Antec Veris Premier 20:27 Remote controlled Duke 3D 22:36 SilverStone FP54 VFD 25:04 LCD Smartie software 27:14 Plus Deck 2c cassette drive 29:19 Kingwin touchscreen fan controller 30:49 Unreal Tournament 2004 test 31:48 Upgrading the GPU? 32:55 The Tower is complete! Mostly! #LGR #retro #computer

Comments

Anonymous

"The more jarring and out of place everything looks, the better." He just like me fr

Anonymous

Nice! Good choice for OS, and hardware. Get a wird GPU in there and it's a winner! Keyboard and mouse could be one of those ergonomic media center types from the 00's. Hopefully another volume knob and and lcd 😅

Alyxx the Rat

Man what an absolute beast. And yeah, the incompatibility with drivers and stuff in 64bit Vista was probably part of its bad reputation. I have fairly good memories of Vista but it came out during that weird transitional period where stuff just wasn't entirely 64bit compatible yet, but companies really wanted to push 64bit as the next thing (rightfully so even). By the time Windows 7 launched, which was essentially just Vista with some small fixes, 64bit had become the norm and driver support was much easier without having to downgrade to 32bit like you did. Kinda the same problem as Windows Me come to think of it. Like it just came out at a weird time. I'd love to see how the system performs with a proper GPU, that integrated GPU is probably holding it back but then again, this isn't really a gaming computer as you pointed out, more just an insane hardware showpiece. A monstrosity of bay addons with no other purpose than to... well... be what it is. But gaming on it would be amazing in its own right. As far as it being so audio heavy... I mean... that's just the majority of drive bay addons, isn't it? So it kinda just represents that in a way. And the cigarette lighter HAS to be in there for the oddware flavour, even if it looks visually boring. Cause... it's a freakin cigarette lighter in a PC.

Anonymous

Personally, if you added an optical drive, I think it should be an HD DVD drive. Love the build!

LazyGameReviews
>>111373161

That'd be about the only fitting drive for this! Man I've never even *seen* an internal HD DVD drive.

Atari Fuzz

Wow... so many cables... fun video. Are any of the audio components able to split out the signal so the speakers aren't fed from the chain? Perhaps a guru 3d printer person could design a 4-5" lcd drive bay. Maybe in the style of that crt you covered a couple years ago. Combined with your remote for control it could be a self contained unit, as your planning to bring it to shows, that maybe easier setup. You could even lean into the audio part of it, perhaps by running some low res dos midi player on the lcd. Equipped with canyon.mid and the duke theme of course, and some baller speakers. Since many of the modules are throwbacks to old videos... perhaps the software side could be a throw back to some of your old midi things... Who knows maybe it could even become part of MIDI Mountain

Anonymous

This is glorious! I'm excited seeing how this came together.

SuperTekBoy

I love the Noctua fans. I have used them on all my PCs in the last 4-5 years now.

CubicleNate

I think that this is super cool. I would, PERSONALLY, see how modern you could make the underlying computer system. I think 2006 is modern enough for the main board but see what GPU you can cram in there that will make it more enjoyable to use for the games you want to play or demo out at shows. I say, make it fun and knock off any rough bits for usability. I LOVE this thing. It's absolutely fantastic. Well done!!!