All of the LGR 486 build and upgrade videos from 2016 to 2022! Plus the latest updates and new commentary along the way, adding context and fresh info between each video. There’s also a whole new update section at the end going over the bits I haven’t covered before in other videos.
● LGR links:
https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews
https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews
● Check out the original playlist of videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjGHvNtHfPOJauZCSVShKA0G
● All background music licensed from:
http://www.epidemicsound.com
Left arrows “⬅” signify a new section for this video.
00:00:00 Introduction to the 486 Saga ⬅
00:02:13 Building the LGR Woodgrain 486 in 2016
01:08:45 Thoughts on the original build, its legacy ⬅
01:11:31 Installing a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
01:33:40 Some sound card regrets, changes ⬅
01:35:26 Installing L2 Cache
01:47:25 Turns out cache is necessary! Who knew! ⬅
01:49:11 Installing an IDE CompactFlash Interface
02:02:58 Wishing I hadn’t swapped the old HDD ⬅
02:05:22 Building the MIDI Mountain 1.0
02:24:33 Hardly used the original Mountain ⬅
02:27:29 Unboxing & Installing Windows 3.0
02:46:59 Windows 3 was more limited than assumed ⬅
02:48:17 Installing & Enjoying Windows 3.1
03:10:35 Windows 3.1 is where it’s at on a 486 ⬅
03:11:45 The 83MHz Pentium Overdrive CPU Upgrade
03:34:45 Kinda disappointed, plus it’s not a 486 ⬅
03:35:20 100MHz Intel 486 DX4 Overdrive Upgrade
03:56:56 Processor feels right and it’s a 486 again ⬅
03:59:14 Applying New Woodgrain Vinyl
04:11:17 New look is sweet but I have other options ⬅
04:13:42 Installing & Enjoying Windows 95
04:58:44 I went back to MS-DOS 6.22 and Win3.1 ⬅
04:59:45 New updates and upgrades I didn’t cover ⬅
05:06:14 This was LONG, thanks for watching! ⬅
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I made this video as a bit of filler to go up while I was out of town at Midwest Gaming Classic '23.
Shoutout to all of you who stopped by and hung out, it was a great time!
Hi clint, AWESOME videos as always, when are you posting some new thrifting videos?! Miss the thrifting videos
Thank you for this one Clint! I have enjoyed watching the woodgrain 486 evolve over time, but this compilation was a treat.
I remember the first PC my family got was a 486. We picked up a Packard Bell 486 SX 33 desktop from Best Buy in 1993. If I remember correctly, the specs were:
CPU: 486 SX 33
RAM: 4MB
HDD: 210 MB
With a 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
My mother got us the Creative Labs 2X CD drive/Sound Blaster combo bundle for Christmas that year. We added 8MB of extra RAM at one point and a 510MB HDD. There wasn't mounting space in the desktop case, so we wedged it in there using some foam. 😀
Played a lot of Doom and Quest for Glory on that machine.
LGR himself is made out woodgrain, fun fact.
Your intro sound like the 90 battle tech theme
Hi Clint, I was hoping you could help me. I have an SB Live card for a Win98 build. I originally had it in a Gateway Essentials 450 I recently had tricked out. It had excellent DOS compatibility and worked great with all of my DOS games. But I wanted to build an 'Ultimate 98' that had a lot more oomph. However, now when running the old DOS sound setup for DOS games, they either don't detect the SB Live or just outright crash. Do you think it's the MoBo? Maybe the MoBo is too new? It's a P4C800-E Deluxe.
1:47:00 what game is playing in the background?
There were a range of Evergreen Technologies overdrive chips which upgrades Pentium Era Skt7 systems to an AMD 333-400MHz equivalent (Evergreen Technologies Spectra) which included BIOS updates for the system in many cases to enable the chip to work properly. Would be incredible if you could drop one of those in! However guessing these are on an older socket than that, but they did overdrive chips for those too (AMD DX 133/166MHz, so faster than what you showed here IIRC)! They seem plentiful on eBay, would be incredible to see how far you could take the Megaluminum Monster on that era hardware!
A Pentium-era Megaluminum Woodgrain MONSTER running a Pentium 1 era board overdriven with a K2-333/366/400 would be an incredible retro project.
I remember it was a quirky beast and we needed to upgrade our Pentium system to Windows 98 for it to play nice as I dont think we had a compatible BIOS update available, but it made a completely irrelevent (come '98) Pentium 1 Era machine with 72MB of FP memory somewhat relevent again.
That machine wasn't retired until into the 2000s, but which time P3/P4 were here.
The overdrive chips were not for those who could afford an upgrade, but for those who found a reasonable price and wanted to make the system usable for that bit longer!
Really cool to see the racing games on the shelf there. Especially Rally Trophy!
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Excellent!
Got me through the work day Clint, cheers it was a nice revisit.
The MIDI mountain was one of my favorite videos ever. All that midi stuff was kind of obscure to me back then, because it seemed weird to spend a lot of money on anything better than a Soundblaster card. I did not know anyone who had any of that hardware so had no idea what I missed out on. It's weird how the Soundblaster 16 I had back in the day would be able to playback everything relevant today, but wasn't able to do so back then.
It was a freaking awesome intro! 😂
5 hours of detailed, interesting, cozy and comfy vintage LGR?? Fantastic!
Great Video. I always wondered it as I replay your videos, a reminder to watch your Blerbs.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to building a DOS to Windows 95 era demoscene box, for that first 5 years of the PC demo scene and all the amazing demos of that time. What would you build? I was thinking of going as far as a slot 1 Pentium III, but that seems a little overpowered as I’d like demos to run at accurate speeds and resolutions. Any suggestions? What was a dream PC for that time?
Finished watching the whole thing now ^^
Was worth my time.
Won’t watch 5 hours. But the keyboard looks like a IBM M-Series keyboard with Green function keys. What is that keyboard
Last year, I built a retro PC, and it had a graphics BIOS similar to your system, which was unusual for its age. Then I found a BIOS update for it, and it went to that old vintage blue screen BIOS with white text. Kind of disappointed.
the midi mountain section was… muaah, chef's kiss
Back some ten or twenty years there were a company that printed textures on computer cases. I remember that they had a huge library of primarily wood grain. So you had something like thirty or forty different wood textures to choose from. The print quality was excellent and at anything more than a foot or two you had no chance of telling that it wasn't wood.
There also was an artist who made very small series of basically one off computer cases. The side panels were usually mostly un touched, but the front bezels he remade in cast bronze. They were heavy as sin, and definitely fantasy inspired. I have no idea what he charged for one of these but they can't have been cheap.
That Dallas real time clock and CMOS memory was on everything back in the day. The lithium battery in it was said to last for ten years, but often crapped out after five, sometimes even less. I swapped out a load of those on portable computers over the years.
Another LGR masterpiece, why do you always skip through the most satisfying parts? Cleaning/peeling etc? I'd watch 5 hours of that 🙂
I miss the EDO installation technique. It was a much more satisfying click
This was great! I was looking for a long video to watch while scrubbing my bloody walls, this did not disappoint!
I am really sorry I didn't stop to say hi (the wife was on a mission at the time). I am the one that said, "Hey, it's Clint!" as we walked by you. I also yelled that I love your channel! Cheesy, I know, but I do! Glad you made it to MGC and I hope you enjoyed your time there! I'll be with a friend at the next VCF Midwest.
holy fuck dude this thing is 5 hours long? damn
Duke need Pentium 100mhz and PCI 1mb+ graphics to work nicely. Now new games works on 10years old pc, back then every 2 years U had to swap cpu,mainboard, ram, and graphic card ;/
16mb for 486 … never saw so ram rich configuration.
U have wasted so much time for such minor and useless upgrade.. and case mod just shows how 200% nerd U r.
U have launched too demanding software on this pc so many times. 486 is not good enough for w95. Pentium 75mhz + is.
U should have show some older, pre- duke software like doom heretic hexen, warcraft 2, settlers. 486 era was not pentium era.
1994 and 1996 were so diffrent software-wise.
Afterall U ended up with paint and screen savers -,- There are tons of usefull soft for dos/win3.1/95.
Worst kind of nerds – doing computer stuff for screen saver, paint and sake of making it work.
We, passionate pc users did that too BUT WE WANTED SOMETHING OUT OF IT ALWAYS! We wanted to write programms, use it to listening music, to play all those games, browse world maps, read books – everything modern pc do except 4k porn.
The first computer I ever used was running 95, and I was in 4th grade, and all I remember was I loved Oregon Trail, and the maze screensaver. On the rig we got at home later, I also got to try the demo for Alone in the Dark, as well as Wolf 3d
so this is going to be my go to sleep video for the next 2 months 😀 thanks Clint!
Cool now review fallout 2 and theif 2
Clint, you should check out "Norton Commander" by Men I Trust
Plays SimCity for 2 minutes…. quits. FUCK YOU 1993!
I really enjoyed watching this whole saga through; especially the midi/MT-32 part and the Win 95 bit (my fav operating system!).
Woodgrain is all you need.
I watched through this over several days 🙂 It brings back a lot of childhood memories for me and especially the things that I wanted to try out back then, like the Pentium overdrive chips. I had a Packard Bell with 486 Dx2-66 with Windows 3.11. All the games and upgrades you try out are many of the things I often wondered about as well. Keep up the great work. I've been watching every Saturday for like 10 years or so.
1:01:00 Good to see Clint has better foresight with developing the infrastructure of his city.
The front-mounted CF-IDE adapter is a thing that wound up in my oldie build. Mostly so I could easily swap cards to turn it from a reasonable Win98 machine to a DOS6.22 powerhouse.
I found I didn't like the compromises that entailed, and am setting up a dedicated 486 box so my DOS games aren't running on a 500-MHz processor and my Win9x games aren't being tied to an ISA soundcard.
LGR Duke 3:29:05
This is the greatest video on Youtube. Thankj you Clint, the computer i talked to you about should be to you soon!
The game I haven't been able to get the correct sound for since I was a kid is Tongue of the Fatman. Not the best game, but the music was great with an original Sound Blaster.
We had a Packard Bell Pentium 75 with Win 3.11 on it that we bought in 1995 just before win95 came out.
We had a 1.275 GB Drive in there…. We upgraded to 24mb ram and a Pentium 100 and chucked WIn98 on it just because I asked as it was a requirement for me to play Starcraft.
My parents still IIRC have some of the paperwork for that machine.
It was our second computer and a big step up from the Tandy 1000 SX we had before that.
Haha PGA168 and here I am on an LGA 1700 I5 13600k How far we have come in terms of number of pins
an Increase of 1532 pins
Even 25 years after playing the Demo of load runner on my WIn98 (Formerly 13.11) Packard Bell That main level song still invades my thoughts sometimes at random when I am cleaning house etc… Its as bad as the Theme from Bubble Bobble or the Main level theme of Kickle Cubicle.
When you played Laggy NFS 2 I was like "I'm Lance Boyle and if you were me that's who you'd be" for some reason just because I spent so many formative hours on my Packard bell playign MegaRace and for some reason Need for Speed reminded me of that.
Actually, Recently I updated my PC from an old I74790 to a 13600k.. and I ALMOST forgot to back up my Starcraft Maps folder that has been with me Since my Packard Bell
"Priscilla" (Named for the SC2K4win 95 Cheat and P for Pentium)
That maps folder has been with me across Priscilla, Maximillian James Von Stoker (My WinXp Toshiba Laptop), Isaac Benjamin Maxwell (My Thinkpad R60), Dimitri Alexeievich Maxim Nicholayev (DAMN) (My First personal build XP Pro X64 E8400, 8gb DDR2, From 2008), Koi (Hand me down I74790 from the wife), and now into Project Duskmantle (13600k) so I would have hated to lose all those custom maps I spent hours as a teenager making.
It moved from the 1.275gb HDD Priscilla had, On through the drives of the others onto the Barracuda of Dimitri which thankfully It got backed up and saved before those two drives bricked themselves, Onto Dimitris Caviar Blacks, Into Koi onto the Caviar Green he had in addition to the moved Caviar Blacks from Dimitri, and then Now onto the NVME of Project Duskmantle (which also does still contain the 2 Caviar blacks and Caviar green as 4TB additional storage.
I remember UNINSTALLING games from Priscilla such that I could expand this maps folder even further.
I put this on as background sound In between calls when I am at work on night shift, because I am allowed (as long as I do it on my personal computer) to listen to whatever I want while I pound out tech support emails as long as I am ready to take a call as soon as one comes. so its as easy as pressing pause and do the call. and I can process a lot of email while Clint's smooth voice keeps me awake.
Speaking of SimCity 2000, what is your thoughts on the SNES port? I tried it on keyboard through an emulator and it played pretty bad so I'm not entirely sure how it plays using an official SNES controller since I don't officially own the game
I DO DICLAIUH, I HEREBY CLAIM THE DIRECTRUH
"Eh it's the lazy way out…" Well this is Lazy Game Reviews. 😂
You sure got a lot of mileage out that old machine – it's definitely a foundation of your channel.