LGR Megaluminum Monster Windows 98 PC Update

Looking for just a build list to build a retro gaming pc that can handle anything in windows 98. Do you happen to have a build list for this machine?

No ZIP or JAZ drive? 😂😂😂

Antec Super Lanboy was my favourite pc case of all time

Despite its faults, 98 was the best os microsoft ever made

what's the door on the bottom of the fro t of the case for

use the case fans as well for air flow... and maybe upgrade the vid card with a

thatcard also had a light for it build in

Lian Li was king of cases- you were bad ass if you had one. I was an idiot and sold it off with a OC'd P4 1.8GHZ running 2.4 on a simple Swiftech heatsink. I still have a Coolermaster Praetorian 730 and a Black Widow (?) case. I also have a slightly newer Lian Li case from the mid 2010's just not as nice as the one shown here.

98' was not too bad. I used 98 Lite from the longest time. Really resisted going to Windows 2000.

Saw the original before this one and I'm glad he moved the cards a bit away from the voodoo3.

Need the Coolermaster Cool Drive 4 for fan control :)

Man, I love that case! I know this is an old video (don't really expect a reply but it would be very appreciated!) I keep seeing that lovely NEC white flatscreen monitor you have... I want to find one if at all possible. Does it have a model number or some sort of name I could follow to possibly find one? If so, would be really grateful if you could let me know!

You rebuild computers like HOT RODs. You are Never Satisfied.

I'm pretty sure you can directly plug a PWM 4-pin fan into a 3-pin header without any sort of interface. The little alignment notch on the fan connector is aligned in such a way that it would cinch up to a 3-pin header even if the fourth pin isn't present.

Seeing a DVD drive and a 5.25 inch floppy drive in the same computer feels odd, but it's absolutely something I would try to do and I commend you for making it work here.
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Act like you care. Act like you don't care. It's still cooool.

Please what is the model and spec of the lcd monitor 🙏🏻

Did you forget that you may have tortured the system a few times?

I never used the PCI slot nearest the AGP slot on those VIA-based motherboards. Not for thermal reasons (although that's a very good reason) but because this PCI slot shares its IRQ with the AGP slot. Properly behaved drivers should support IRQ sharing but I never trusted that to be the case.

Ah yes, a red light for indicating things…love it

the black components ruin it

Play CALL of DUTY 1

YES!!! May you never stop doing builds & making video's. LGR Forever!!!

I'm going to be making a channel like yours clint. It will be awesome

My dad built an XP machine in the early 2000s for my family to use at home and it had the same case as this haha

"Knock on woodgrain"

Why did you choose 20MB/s SCSI instead of 100MB/s IDE/UDMA?
Fun Fact: A few weeks ago i decided to build a Win98 retro-pc. I bought some components and assembled together a nice P3 800, 512MB RAM, an ATI 9250 and a WD Velociraptor SATA disk via a SIL3512 controller (SSD didn't work), in the exact same case as you did, except mine is black. Protip: To get to the cd-rom drives simply take off the top, it's secured with four screws.
Didn't know about the IDE-SD/CF adapters before seen this video(s) of your win98 build, so i ordered one (CF) as well as an IDE/SATA adaptor

case is epic

I love the idea of getting it to run off sata.
I Installed Windows 10 32-bit on an atom single core Acer Aspire REVO R1600 with 2GB RAM for all my retro gaming needs. Did you know Windows 10 32-bit still has built-in backwards compatibility with 16-bit programs and games? Check out NTVDM if you haven't already.

The IDE to SATA thing might be a good idea for my 98 project box. I was going to go with an SD slot solution but that sounds more interesting and homogenous.

the case looks ugly!!!!

Glad you moved the soundcards away from the graphics card, I cringed a bit when I watched the previous video :D

Dude bro. Can you do Robot Odyssey or what

smells like old fonts

I'm dreaming of one of those Megaluminum cases, turning it into a pre-Windows MS-DOS 3.3H machine (8088-1). I'd finally have 5.25", 3.5", and CD-ROM all in one machine. My Vendex Headstart LX-CD didn't come with a 5.25", which at that time wasn't always convenient; my uncle had to copy a driver for something (either the printer or the hand scanner) from its original 5.25" disk to a 3.5" HD floppy.

When we upgraded to a 486, we finally had a 5.25" drive, but about the only time I used it was to transfer the Wolfenstein 3D Shareware installation disk to 3.5" floppy. Now, I'm finally reacquiring the proper boxed copies of games rather than the pack-in shovelware CD-ROM, and I need a 5.25" drive again (this was that other question I mentioned in email).

when do you do new lgr plays episodes, lots of build building but no games^^

LGR did a very smart thing by hiding his soldering... hehehe.

You could easily do an entire video on the history of fan-controllers. I remember when I first heard about them they were a mystery to me. Did I need one? Would it make things cooler? Would it make things quieter? Did my MB already have one? Is this why I kept burning out my power supplies (spoiler: no)?!?

I still use the same case now, modded it a few years ago to accept a Corsair AIO H80i!

Dude, I realize that the cloud background you have is something many people used, but if you want real nostalgia, it needs a Sarah Michelle Gellar background. Everyone I knew then had one.

I would love to see the faceplates panted a silver tbh

I LOVE that raised LGR sticker in the corner!!!

Flames on black will forever be known as Guy Fieri pattern.

Up at 2am playing old videogames, I know that feel man.
Never change Clint, you're one of the good ones. Also love the unscripted relaxed vibe.

Little Protip. Soldering the LED header on the SCSI2SD card was not necessary. Most Adaptec SCSI cards (including the one you are using) already have the LED connection on the card. If you look at the SCSI card while installed, to the right of the 50 PIN SCSI cable connector there are four pins. These are for your HDD LED activity. Your case LED cable only uses two pins, so you use two of the four....the two closest to the 50 PIN SCSI cable connector.

The benefit of using the LED header on your card is that you will get LED activity for every drive connected to the SCSI bus. Nothing wrong with using the header on the SCSI2SD mind you, but you are limited to just seeing the activity from that only....and you have to take a solder iron to that card which again was not necessary ;)

nice chassis

You can get 2.5" ide ssd drives, kingspec brand. OR ide to msata OR ide to m.2. All 44pin so you'd need an adapter to 40pin. I'd do any of those rather than flash card adapters that like to corrupt at a sneeze.

The pipe screensaver reminds me of my middle school, good times

Hey Clint! Your vids have inspired me to want to build my own retro PC from the era of my childhood, the 90's so I can play games from a time I never got to experience. Do you or anyone here in the community have a good place to point me to get started? Any tips? Do's and Don'ts? Maybe a Reddit to sub to?

Thats one sweet Lian Li case! Im using a similar looking antec case for my PIII Geforce 256 win98 PC!