Building a FREE gaming PC from (mostly Apple) stuff in The Basement
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In this video I set out to build a retro Windows gaming rig, for FREE! I decide I must have enough junk laying around in The Basement to be able to build a mid 2000s Windows machine. I soon spy an unused MacPro and so begins the journey to retro windows gaming fun!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:36 MacPro info
4:36 Inside the MacPro
7:49 Is it POO!?
8:00 PCBWay kindly supported this video
8:18 Appreciating the design
10:34 Does it even work?
12:05 Windows installed… kind of
15:04 The results
19:46 How much did the FREE* gaming PC cost?
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Interesting. I know nothing here 😄but the fact that this could be done was interesting. Man, you have a lot of "gear." 😅
Awesome mac video!😁
You have the Mac Pro 3,1 which is really very slow. I am now using the dual Xeon 5690, 12 core Mac Pro 5,1 using 96 GB 1333 RAM, and an NVMe 2 x SSD on PCIe, dual boot, macOS and Windows 11 Pro. With OpenCore the dual boots work native on the machine. No Boot Camp and no emulator needed. I have Radeon RX 6800. With this I can play Red Dead Redemption 2 with all graphics on Ultra, and still get good frame rates. It will give good performance on pretty well all current games. For a 15 year old machine, that is pretty good.
Bootcamp is a pain in the butt sometimes.
You could always try and run it in compatibility mode for 98, 95 or Vista from within the properties of your game file.
Anyway, it was a fun video and seeing the process is quite fascinating. Good work.
It's always the things we think will be easy that turn out to be totally the opposite!
I to have a Macpro 2,1 flashed, still to this day running windows 10 with three 2002 apple 23inch cinema displays, LOVE IT!!!!
The reason my pc crashed and blackscreened with the fans blasting was bcs of the video drivers and the video card did not receive enough power from the psu. Maybe this is one of the reasons
Is this poop or dust? Let me poke it with my bare finger to find out!
Classic 🙂
Always fun when a seemingly simple task winds up being a week(+)-long project!
Buying a game you already own to play on modern hardware: $30
Repurposing an old machine to play your original: priceless
I love C&C Generals. There's a tool called "GenTool" that will make it work on Windows 10/11, along with some other fixes and enhancements