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what's going on guys welcome back today I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane memory and rebuild the very first PC that I ever put together in 2011 October 20th 2011 I posted this picture on facebook of my brand new PC and a couple years later I disassembled it and built a new computer and the rest is kind of history but it's crazy how long ago this was I built this a year before I ever started this YouTube channel just goes to show what a long time it's been now back then this was a killer system this was considered a high end gaming PC it cost me about I'd say fourteen to fifteen hundred dollars if I remember correctly so about what a high-end gaming rig would cost these days as well but let's see what you get for fifteen hundred bucks back in old 2011 so for starters my CPU was the Intel Core i7 2670 I per threading technology giving us a total of eight threads for badass parallel computing we'll see how it performs here in 2019 though after we assemble the rig we're gonna try to boot it and see how she games with modern triple-a titles we've also got our motherboard Asus p8z 68 V Pro this is a full ATX board it's got high-end features like built-in USB 3 a cutting-edge digi+ vrm and surface mounted power and reset very fancy features for the time for memory we have an 8 gigabyte kit that's 2 by 4 gig sticks of Corsair Vengeance memory ddr3 at 1600 speed these modules were the bee's knees back in their time they had a very nice striking aesthetic we also have an asus direct cu2 GTX 670 ok this was a high end GPU back in its day of course the X 70 SKUs were a very nice sweet spot price to performance wise even back then as they are now the GPU is made on the 28 nanometer Kepler architecture and you can see from the cooler we've got a nice heat pipe and fin stack design dual fins to help dissipate the heat and a relatively open shroud that ejects heat from all sides the i/o is also very telling to the era of this card you've got two dual link DVI ports and one GMI and one displayport cooling our 2600 K is not the original hyper 212 but a hyper 212 Evo because I don't actually have the original hyper 212 Plus on hand but this is very close there are definitely more robust options for cooling something like fancy core i7 back in the day but it was definitely a good starter CPU cooler for me and being able to save some money on the cooler allowed me to spread it out into other areas that I deemed more important at the time for storage we have a one terabyte WD blue which is not the original Drive I used for my first system it was a one terabyte Seagate Barracuda but I suppose this is fairly comparable and our boot drive was the one and only crucial m4 this particular variant was the 64 gigabyte model that I probably paid well over 150 or 200 bucks for I can't really remember exactly but 64 gig SSD I was I felt very privileged and honored to have one of these to be booting off of one of these in 2011 a couple months down the road I eventually got a second one of these and put him in raid zero for a whopping 128 gigs which I still continued to boot off of shortly before learning that that's a terrible idea powering the system is the HX 750 watt unit from Corsair it's a very quiet unit semi modular design and 80-plus Silver certification you don't see silver too often these days it's either bronze or gold or you know platinum for the really high-end extreme ones but a little fun fact about the HX 750 when 80-plus initially tested it they returned a gold certification rating of 90% efficiency but it was so close to meeting the bare minimum spec for that that Corsair decided to just dump it down to an 80 plus Silver certification in order to protect the customer good guy Corsair and then finally last but certainly not least we have our chassis which is the corsair carbide series no graphite series 600 T in white when I first saw this case back in 2011 I absolutely knew it was the case for me no other chassis on the market held a flame held a candle what's the thing it doesn't matter no case in my mind came close to the looks of this case obviously a lot of other cases were competitive functionally wise airflow wise but this thing really ticked all the boxes for me we've got an acrylic side panel window notice that it's a very small window doesn't take up nearly the entire side of the case and we have tons of airflow pumping through this thing with dual 200 millimeter fans one at the front and one at the top the side panel also features two lists removable with these handy tabs it's got an integrated fan controller with a nice little dial at the front panel as well as USB 3.0 and firewire ports on the front panel innovation at its finest so that ladies and gentlemen is the lineup a part where we're dealing with from my very first PC from 2011 that we're building today here in 2019 and you know since I'll be building I'm actually gonna have wifey sauce join me in just a bit so she can help film some b-roll I may even force her to do some mounting too but on that note let's just cram all this Hardware together and see if this old Kitty can still perk the first step here is installing the CPU order of operations hasn't really changed neither has the socketing mechanism for mainstream Intel desktop CPUs bada-bing bada-boom there it is of course this is on LGA 1155 as opposed to the current generation of Intel Core CPUs which is rockin LGA 1151 next we can do the mammaries so we've got the same latches here not much has changed here either ddr3 I actually like ddr3 installation better because the notch is more more visibly to one side or the other eighty r4 is still offset but it's it looks a little closer to the center so I often get confused with ddr4 I haven't broken any modules yeah knock on wood but ddr3 has always been a bit more distinct with its notch which I do appreciate boom and boom of course we still have the offset slots too and for the majority of boards even back then had you install the memory sticks in a to four slot position if you were only installing two modules so there it is memory is all clear to go Alice knew the city of Cola CPU coolers were just as much of a pain in the ass to install back then as they now just pesky backplate up you know what they actually give you a tool for idiots like me try to do it by hand that tools are amazing can we got the backplate on and now we can go with some thermal paste actually I don't have any thermal paste give me a second all right it's about to get pasty in here just a pea so we'll drop this all you need boom perfect you don't need 30 gallons of thermal paste like some people not gonna say any names Geronimo all right that feels good feels like we've made contact what which bin oh yeah just a flesh wound I'm sure it won't affect things too much well you know what they say life is like an old heat sink you never know if the fins are gonna be bent I'm pretty sure that's a Forrest Gump quote drop the fan on here actually let me take this stick out it's kind of in the way and this guy still goes into our CPU fan header like so alright our z68 platform is coming together and we are ready for case installation or motherboard installation in the case the case can't really install the case all right we're gonna start off with our i/o shield that goes in very easy and of course loose we've still got like our middle standoff here that's a little bit raised for easier installation that was still a thing in 2011 believe these use the coarse thread screws uh-huh all right we got the motherboard installed no problem next we're gonna mount the power supply fan face down because we do have a dust filter for it and notice no power supply shroud no basement whatsoever and this is again a premium mid tower case power supply shrouds were just not really a thing you actually had to route them to some degree behind the motherboard tray or elsewhere and at least for me I think modular power supplies were more desirable back then because of power supply basements it's not really too difficult to hide a bunch of cables you aren't using if you've got that shroud alright so just gonna route these cables through this large grommet by the power supply very good cable management in the 600 team should have enough length to come out the other end oh that's tight okay here it is oh look at that glorious ketchup and mustard oh how I haven't missed you next up I'm going to install our SSD and mechanical hard drive and we have no shortage of options here we have four or five of the quarter inch bays which I guess won't help us that much but then we also have six drive trays that accommodate either a three and a half inch row two and a half inch drives and this is a lot more drive storage than you typically see on modern-day cases now our chassis is like the fractal designed to find our six that focus on ample drive storage but a lot of modern-day cases even the high end don't really have as many drive options particularly for five and quarter-inch drives because opt optical media has sort of gone the way of the dinosaur it has been for many years now but even for three and a half inch drives most of those have gone either behind the motherboard tray or underneath the power supply shroud where there's limited space as a focus over the years has shifted more towards a i/os and radiators and water cooling case manufacturers are keeping the front of their cases pretty much clean and open for radiator mounting and enlarged airflow now it's kind of interesting that the mounting holes for this SSD are on the sticker side which you would think would be on the other side but I guess it just goes to show that SSDs weren't really meant to be put on display back then I mean they obviously didn't have like RGB LEDs like they do now which is potentially a terrible idea on its own that's a discussion for another time but it's kind of interesting to see that there was really no thought given to how an SSD was gonna look or how it was gonna be mounted in your case from an aesthetic perspective I mean there are pretty much treated like mechanical hard drives back then not the sexy superstars that they are today all right there's one gotta love the tools design of these 600 T Drive trays and it just pops in little pegs on the side getting their Drive installed just got a wire muff front panel connectors coming in hot this is also pretty much the same as it is now we've got power and reset hard drive LED power led of course these options are gonna be determined by your particular case if you look up here we've got our internal 20-pin USB 3.0 header which is a fantastic feature to have on an Intel motherboard in 2011 all we need to do is connect the front panel connector from our case whoa whoa what's going on here that's not a 25th connector that is a USB 3.0 type-a plug and the reason for that is because motherboards back then when this case came out very few motherboards actually had an internal 20 pin header for USB 3 so case manufacturers just put a type-a plug and figure that people could use it as a pass-through basically run it to the back of their case plug it into one of their USB 3 ports at the rear of their case and utilize the front panel USB 3.0 that way I think in the past what I did was I actually had USB 3.0 adapter with a female type-a plug on one end and a 20 pin header on the other and I think I stashed it under under one of these drive cages or something like that but for now I guess we'll just route this as a crappy pass through well pop this out right through there and we'll plug it into the back oh it doesn't reach it's not long enough okay let's see if we can reroute this so that it actually reaches all right let's see if it reaches now and it looks like it's just barely gonna make it boom so essentially we've just sacrificed one of our two USB 3.0 ports just so we can have one at the front I feel like we're blazing through this because we're already on GPU installation which is our last component of the build and GPU installation hasn't really changed we've got your expansion slot covers that you got to remove and you've still got your full-size PCI Express slots but the same locking mechanism now there it is oh you know what this just reminds me I just remembered that this GPU has a wicked sag at least it did back then I'm sure it's gotten even worse now I guess we'll see once we put the system upright make sure these are tight I'm not sure how much that's gonna help with the sag through to the other side so our GTX 670 has two 6-pin power plugs no problemo for our 750 watt unit you just see how how loose the graphics card is oh my goodness oh my girl she's flexible boys and you go so quick look behind the motherboard tray you can see that it's pretty familiar actually we've got rubber grommets and large CPU cooler cut out these are all things that were pretty standard on high-end chassis back then you also have tie-down points for cable management you can see I'm using one right here last thing to note is that I didn't really show it but I've connected all the fans we've got those two 200 millimeter fans as well as a 120 at the rear this is actually not the stock fan it's an Arctic cooling that I installed maybe a year or so after I built the system initially that's aftermarket but we're pretty much done so let's go ahead and fire it up and see what she's made of not much has changed about PC building in general you could probably follow a tutorial from five six maybe even seven years ago on how to build a PC and be 90 percent totally clear there's maybe a couple differences here and there for the most part it's remained largely unchanged honestly I think the two biggest changes between this generation of PC building versus now is one RGB and it's really refreshing I gotta say to not see an ounce of unicorn vomit upon first boot and this build actually helped me realize that one of the things I missed most about the pre RGB era was that manufacturers often made their parts distinct colors for example we have a light blue motherboard with very defined light blue heat sinks and we have that same treatment of blue on our memory modules which pairs beautifully with the motherboard without the help or reliance of any LEDs and it was really nice back then when you actually had a selection of different coloured components as opposed to all of them being black or gray or silver some color neutral tone with just a bunch of LEDs crammed into it because at the end of the day I think there's a certain aesthetic that colored paint gives off that LEDs just can't emulate and vice versa right LEDs have their own appeal but I do miss the days of old when the components themselves were a bit more colorful and I think the second major change here is performance I mean just seeing those results in Doom it was surprisingly lackluster yeah I think it just goes to show that we've really come a long way in just seven or eight years it's easy to forget that because you have these incremental improvements generation over generation but when you take a step back and look at that string of improvements over a longer period of time you really get a sense for how much faster the hardware has become and obviously games are looking crispier than ever and are more demanding to run than they ever have been so obviously the hardware needs to scale in order to meet those needs that was it that's that's it this is my first PC my first PC build again so guys thank you very much for tuning in if you enjoyed this video toss a like on it before you go get subscribe for more tech stuff coming at you really soon feel free to check out the merchandise store where we sell mugs shirts pint glasses hoodies all kinds stuff other things you might find interesting but till next time thanks for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video