I mean... Crysis was just six years later....

Interestingly, have you done a video where you try to configure and upgrade a Windows 95/98 era PC? I'd love to watch that ;) :D

OMFG I REMEMBER GIANTS

World of tanks games are won with skill not money. Premium tanks: Am I a joke to you?

Did you really just slam black and white?... -*literally glances at the copy of black and white sitting on his desk* Pentium 4 was incredible

I was with it until you started talking shit on Black and White.....Jk Jk in all seriousness it is one of the greatest game series of all time and you should definitely check it out if you have never played it before.

Processor technology WAS advancing faster back then. Back when Moore's law was going strong

Black and white was actually a very desxent game even if it was somewhat flawed, certainly was more creative than a lot of games we get these days.

No clue about Black & White even tho you were in Highschool? D: dude, this game made HUGE waves back in the day!

listening to a young child not knowing black and white and how fun that shit was... you were the master of a giant fucking animal monster and you were the god about the world, deciding what happens to your world. dude, that wasn't boring at all.

My dad built my first PC back in 2001. :) 512mb of ram, Nvidia GeForce 2 graphics card, 20 GB HDD... Played, Freelancer, Kotor 2 on (lowest settings), Jedi Knight Jedi outcast 2, Mechwarrior 3 and 4, Original Warbirds, and original America's Army on that rig. x)

And now I can play quake on my raspberry pi

a sound card was considered an essential upgrade for PC gaming 20 years ago because some [if not all] on board audio solutions at the time, especially on older hardware for the era, would significantly tie up CPU & memory resources just processing sound alone, resulting in worse overall performance in game with sound enabled. On a < 1 Ghz machine with roughly around or under a gig of ram, a sound card can really make a difference. Consider that in 2001 not everyone was using top of the line, cutting edge XP machines outfitted with the latest kit; a lot of people were using older hardware, and they could've even been running an OS as old as 95. if you go back even further, you were forced to use a sound card if you wanted more than just PC speaker sound in your games at all, because on board solutions weren't standardized.

I've been enjoying all of his videos, then i came across with this. What we are today is because of these people. It is plainly ungrateful to make fun of them because THEY PAVED the way for the "MODERN" pc technology that we are all enjoying TODAY. It is all about respect.

I still have my original PC from 2001 with my 64mb GPU.

to think i was about a year old at the time.. and now... damn

I still have that geforce 3 ti 500

Imagine being able to show them an RTX 3090 (without disrupting the space time continuum) and seeing their reaction to the evolution

The guest was from Philips... they most likely wanted to talk about their speaker system, not graphic cards since they don't make any.

I remember the chameleon Benchmark. I might have it on the disc somewhere still. I think the next generation had the Zoltar benchmark, thing too. "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man."

Bruh my dad always says old cod games better me : I cant play in that resolition

Dude look at the resolution forget about graphics just look at that that's why my dad get amazed by modern graphics

this guy loves rocking the neckbeard

You talk about Gordon being in, but you didn't even say anything about him actually having hair, LOL.

Yeah, sound cars are so irrelevant there is one integrated in every desktop, workstation, gaming PC, HTPC, console, laptop and phone, from $50 to $500000.

No way, I actually had this chameleon demo on my dad's GeForce 3 system back in a day He allowed me to move the mouse around, which at age 3 was my first interaction with a pc

Hey.. Dont mess with the Chieftec case! A lot of us had ones back in the day

"Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass" ;) Anyway, I still use desktop mp3-players because streaming is not there yet, and probably never will be fully there :p Back then I still had my first NVIDIA card which was GF 2 32MB I think, some fancy Asus-model with 3D-glasses I couldn't use because they needed double the update frequency to work, that is like 100 Hz at least IIRC...

Nah it will always feel weird to have grown men talking about video games.

Giants Citizen Kabuto. That game was epic for late 90's early 2000's LAN parties..

"If this is what god does all day, I feel for the guy".. explains why 2020 happened :( got super bored

6:10 Amazing how far we have come in so many areas, but have not moved at all in terms of standard framerates.

that GeForce 3 is better than my sister's integrated graphics 🤣

Bitcoin hA mentioned. As a aside.

I loved Black & White ... I tried playing it without a graphics card though originally ... did not end well. 1 FPM

Yooo black and white was the the shit back in the day

When he claimed inside the case wasn't cable managed I lost it. Was managed as fuck. We just didn't stick glass panels and LED's all over the inside back then, so there were no need to hide all the cables behind the non-existent rear channels.

There is no gordonung...

Not better then wow

The very first computer I built in was in a knockoff Alienware green tower like that one. My housemates were none to happy that I didn't consult them on my tower choice. They were also surprised when the computer actually worked because I halfway knew what I was doing. The case did have some horrible cooling issues though. I sometimes had to run it with the side off to prevent overheating. Around the same time, one of my housemates bought an actual Alienware computer and paid at least twice what I did. We all made fun of him for it!

Me thinking about what if 2000s gamers meet 2020s gamers 2000s: look we have epic Video cards 2020s: This GPU is not enough

I got my first pc when I was a teen in 03, and it had a g-force 3 in it 😂 I loved it!

Big dislike again for your video. Again, laughing at people from the past. And btw, they are in a staged class room, because this episode is about kids and gaming.

Totally cool, Kyle. Was 14 at the time and still rocking a voodoo 3.

Did he just disrespect black and white. Bro

480p makes you younger.

I still use winamp, and the visualizer is even better than it was in the 2000's.

Black and white would creepaly whisper your name once in a while if you had a common name. So it rates as scaryest game ever made.

The thing thats sad about the death of sound cards was the death of leaps in sound technology like eax. Since the sound card death its been very slow geting those kinds of things in games

2001 was about the last time i got a pre built desktop

Stewart's right. My family got our first home PC in 1998. It was a Compaq Presario with a Pentium 233 MMX, but had onboard graphics. I convinced my parents to let me upgrade it with a Voodoo Banshee. They had no interest in it, but I was able to convince them to let me open up that case. The rest is history.

4:48 wot

lmao all I can foresee is a review saying how people have to use cables to power their monitors and pc's

Lol, my childhood PC gaming consisted of the Oregon Trail and Doom on Floppy Disk!!! I had heard of GPU’s but didn’t understand exactly what they were back in 97’ and after 15 years of console gaming and finding Frankie on PC, I finally made the switch back to PC after I figured out what it was and actually did, and damn the GPU has come a LONG WAY since 2001!

AGP!!!!!!!!!!! lol Anyone else remember the fantastic speed improvement that gave?

That shirt made me laugh

You laugh about the sound, and how it isn't important; it's exactly that attitude that had people just accept the shitty 1990 sound hardware in their motherboard, which prompted Microsoft to close off low level access to sound channels; which finished off the remaining sound card business. Do you know how horrible that is? We're stuck with 90s level sound! The sound people had in 2001, let alone 2004, is better than the crap we have now. And that what they shown was just proper 5.1 channel sound... Yeah, sure, we have hardware that puts out 7.1 discreet channel sound; but how any games actually use them, for real, not just stereo duplicated, like what that guy said most of the hardware was doing at the time; like that crap in our motherboards. Do you know why DrDisrespect constantly has to complain about the sound being badly developed and he didn't get to hear people coming right up to his right/left? Because you people have been telling hardware and software developers that sound isn't important for games. So since the hardware didn't develop, neither did the software! The sound design and whether or not you can hear something or someone, is still no better than Doom 1993, if it isn't bloody well, worse! And then to think, it wasn't even EAX which Creative had already put in their cards by then that the guy was talking about; which would have been the prototype for a wave tracing sound card, which we would have had a decade ago, half of one ago at the latest. Sound wave tracing? Yes, as, in, you upload the level map, probably slightly simplified, to the sound card, which can then accurate simulate how sounds from different frequencies travel through that level; making you have accurate sound mapping and accurately hearing of enemies, or vice versa. Imagine having to check your own breathing if you have a mic open in stealth games, because otherwise the enemies will detect you. How's that for immersion? (Indeed, developers wouldn't need so much sound design; the hardware does all the hard work for the.) We have VR, and raytracing graphics cards; but our sound hardware is still 1990s level; we get thrown out of being immersed in that level of graphics because the sound is crap. "Hey, look at all that awesome City 17 in VR, this is... hey, wait a minute, shouldn't I be hearing you? ...and you, shouldn't you be hearing me; I"m not particularly stealthy; why are you just continuing to stand there." Stop with the laughing, and start buying sound cards again; bring back EAX, bring us Sound Wave Tracing!

I was playing BF 1942 on an AMD Athlon XP with a Gainward CardExpert GeForce 3 Ti200 back then LOL

That case was THE case to have in the 2000's.

Damn. I remember black and white. That's one of the first games to introduce good/evil alignment. Also, I'm pretty sure I remember kaiju battles were a thing. Or maybe that was Black and White 2... Either way that game was really fun. Got to feed people or smite them for being dicks. So good.

saying black & white looks boring as hell until you start sacrificing people, and throwing people off the island to thin the flock :). i was playing q3a on a p3 800. i usually upgraded my video card first going up to a voodoo5 5500, and then switching to ati when microsoft put out an update or service pack for win2k that disabled the 2nd gpu making unreal tournament have a crappy framerate.voodoo was bought out by nvidia, and did not make new drivers to support the 2 onboard gpu on a relatively new card. i was so pissed at nvidia due to the dropped support as my reason to going ati. i didn't switch back to nvidia until i was in a bind when my ati 9800 pro died the day of a bf 1942 match, and has to run out and grab a cheap asus gt 9800 that is still kicking around for use in a retro rig. been using nvidia ever since.

Lol that shirt!! Love it.

Giants Citzens Kabuto was the my favorite game growing up. British people doing British things. Conquering everything.

Meanwhile in 2080 lookin at 2020 3000 dollsr gaming pc with 32 gb ram only while there 800 dollar has 64 pentsbytes of ram and 272529 pentabytes of storage

Lol "do you remember desktop mp3 players?"... Bitch I still use winamp. Fuck Spotify.

ooo I remember Black & White... I actually wanted to buy that as a kid but I didn't have enough money :(

Is it me or does Kyle look like he hasn’t slept in a week

The funniest part is that I had the sound card they are talking about installed in my old computer that I built in 2003 for Black & White plus other games of the time.

Oh those were GREAT days of computing, The Computer Chronicles was my FAVORITE show! Watched it for 10 years since 1994. I miss those days. My first 3d Accelerator was the Matrox Mystique with 2MB of ram! It was a great time. We had sooo much choice for 3d cards, Matrox, 3dFX, ATI, Nvidia, PowerVR, Rendition Verite, Verge3d... all with their advantages and disadvantages.. So much choice! Intel, AMD, Cyrix for a time.

Where's the logic in asking where's the logic when your premise is to compare 20 year difference tech and software.

27:55 fortnite where we dropping boys

dude you're older than me. how long have you been pc gaming? a lot of racing games were demanding back in the day.

10 % of comments: actual $h1t 90% of comments: OmI gOd KyLe sAiD bLaCk AnD wHiTe Is BaD!!!

Actually sound was pretty important back then. Kyle you need to watch a bit of LGR and get an appricitation for how much we have progressed in sound tech that its a complete non-issue now. The sound card you had could vastly change how your game sounded. So much so that what you may know of some familiar sounding game songs could be unrecognizable due to the sound card you were using. I know now a days sound isn't even a thought but in the early 2000s and 90s, it was extremely important. Hell some games just may have no sound due to incompatibility with your card.

What's that keyboard model?

20:37 back when dirt was colin mcrae's rally, had lots of fun with it

No ok me gonna anything about Kyle saying a Rtx 3090 is about $699

steward: the next most important thing for gaming is sound cpu: am I a joke to you

Black and White!, Forsaken! kick ass games!!

Did it bother anyone else he put the cd face down? No, just me..ok.

18:00 in the background there’s a Logitech wheel and I’m still playing on one of those. It’s great!

Wow if you think about it. This is around the time Halo came out.

Racing games can be very very hardware intensive. Assetto Corsa Competizione in VR has used up to 16gb of VRAM. All the AI drivers take up a ton of CPU usage, rendering all those cars uses a ton of resources. I don't know about most demanding but they are certainly demanding especially in VR or triple 1440p screens.

This was the year I switched my Amigas to PC, ah the memories.

19:37 Forget GTA 6. That game was, what I saw in Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020!!! Mic drop. 😆

Imagine putting these games on low settings 😳

i had the antec version of that alienware case. boy does that bring back memories

Big Time MEGA Bass doe 😳

$399 in 2001 is around $598 today after inflation.

You are so wrong about sound cards.

In 2001 good sound cards where actually important LOL

what's our stuff gonna look like 20 years from now?

Good lord I feel old...I remember when GeForce 3 was THE SHIT and if you owned one (which I never did) you were the cool guy on the block.

Kyle calling Black and White boring breaks my heart.

Did he say that a rtx 3080 is $699, the best I could find was $980

yo the sound card and 5.1 surround sound was the thing back in 2001 lol I remember having a 5.1 Logitech system in the early 2000s and man I love it .. it made watching movies better on pc, gaming and a whole lot of other stuff like music as digital music was a thing MP3 players was a thing it was a booming year of sound dude.

actually having a good sound system on ur pc back in those days where very much a must as back then most of the graphics was based of the card cpus in that time where all exciting it was mainly roughly the same for awhile cpu got a lot better in the last 15 years or so this is nearly 20 years ago dude so yeah cpu is important but having a good cpu back then was mainly the top reason for gaming and also having a good sound system was a thing man... this is not far off ..

"Will Smith" don't look like Will Smith at all...

dude I grew up with the late 80s like Atari and NES stuff and the 90s with the 16 bit era and PSX pc gaming in 2001 was very advanced and was exciting times when I was in my 20s dude good ol' days I mean its nice where I was born in the era of all it beginning and just growing up with the technology as the technology was growing with me :)

hahah is that for opensuse :P