So the backstory for this box,
all right, I guess it's more of a crate really,
is pretty interesting.
So Intel brought me, Sevedis, and Ann Munition,
who you may or may not be familiar with,
but we'll link those guys down below,
down to do a video about their 8086 processor.
And we thought it was just kind of like
we were on a panel about PC gaming and game streaming.
And then they brought us down again
and actually surprised us with computers
that were based on sort of what we imagined
as our dream PCs.
And I was particularly surprised
because it is a formidable challenge
coming up with the PC system
for the guy who literally already has every PC system.
This is the wall of video cards.
So what did they come up with?
I guess we're about to find out, aren't we?
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Okay, so first things first,
let's get this moved somewhere a little more picturesque.
Okay, that seems better.
So there were a couple of sort of guiding things
that I had said in the video,
obviously, I love quiet systems
because in my mind,
there's just no reason to have a loud system anymore
now that cooling technology has advanced
to the point that it has.
Another thing that I mentioned
was my love of retro machines
and not retro in the sense
that they have really old hardware inside,
retro in the sense that they're kind of like,
like classic machines that have been updated.
So one of my favorite things that we've done
in the last couple of years
has actually been the sleeper series
that Alex has worked on.
Those, these are just kind of like random boxes
that we've found at the local free geek
and then converted into, you know, bang in gaming rigs.
I was gonna do all these by hand
just to like add to the suspense of the video,
but I saw how many there were.
I don't think they can handle that much suspense.
You know, the thing about the internet
is somewhere, someone is into it.
No matter what it is, somewhere,
someone is like, oh yeah,
taking out screws and putting them in.
Could watch that all day.
So what's really interesting is that
instead of going to the usual suspects,
you know, BS Mods or Lee Harrington or whoever else
in the PC modding scene,
Intel actually solicited the help of a company
that's more into like Hollywood props building
and less into computers.
And so they were basically just given the footage
of us describing our dream machines
and told to make them come to life.
Oh, uh oh.
So when we set up this space,
I actually forgot that there's a monitor
that goes with the system.
So I'm gonna go ahead and get this out of the way
as much as it pains me to do so,
because this is an amazing, amazing computer.
This is an amazing monitor right here,
which isn't to say that in spite of what it looks like,
this one is the worst gaming monitor ever.
And you'll see what I mean in a minute here.
I get such a kick out of this thing.
I've seen it before and I'm still,
like I'm laughing inside just in anticipation.
So that's it.
It's not the most practical approach
to skinning up a monitor
that I could have possibly imagined,
because as you guys might already know,
I already suspect,
yes, the front cover here does in fact
cover up the corners of the monitor.
So it's actually kind of hard to use.
And these dials, these dials don't do anything.
But this is definitely the most complete attempt
at retroizing a modern display
that I think I've ever seen.
So they're using like a high density
kind of prop foam here that they've shaped and painted.
And then they've painted the back of the display.
And what I think is a really great,
really close approximation to the kind of ugly,
greeny, browny, tan color
that you'd often find on older systems.
I don't know if that plastic was just cheaper
or if they actually thought that looked space age
or whatever, but.
So I'm sure you guys are eagerly anticipating the system now
that you've seen this.
This thing is unbelievably cool.
I mean here, actually under this very table
we're opening it on,
this is an example of why it's impossible
to send Linus a dream system.
I already have a murder box.
Like, now I should preface this
by saying that while some people are going to love this,
there are going to be others
who are actually kind of upset at what happened here.
Because the case that was chosen
for this particular retro sleeper, well,
let's just say there aren't a lot
of good condition IBM 5150s left out in the wild.
And now there's one fewer
because this is what they sent over.
And absolutely tricked out.
And you can't really call it a sleeper anymore
because of this gorgeous acrylic window on the top.
But it's a tricked out IBM 5150 chassis.
And the level of attention to detail
in this thing is unfreaking real.
I'm going to walk you guys through it here.
Before we fire it up for the first time,
we first have to appreciate one of the finest details here.
So you can see, obviously this old chassis
was not designed for modern standard ATX components.
So they had to create their own acrylic back plate.
So basically the whole thing came with, check this out,
those are WAN logos cut into the the grill for the radiator.
And then also our motherboard and our GPU,
which is mounted using a PCI express riser.
The most impressive part to me though is this.
They actually integrated the original power switch.
So instead of having a chintzy little
power flippity do that on the back,
switch for the power supply.
and they redid all the internal wiring.
Have a look here.
So that it actually functions as the switch
for the back of the power supply.
So sick.
So check this out.
Not only does the original power button work
and have an LED behind it to indicate that the system's on.
So even though these floppy disk bays aren't functional,
check this out.
Drive activity is still handled
by the original LEDs.
And then these slits down the middle
are actually functioning as an intake
for cooling the graphics card.
No, it's fine.
Real flop.
Oh no, you can't.
That's cool though.
You're ruining everything, Brandon.
What, what, what?
You're supposed to talk about it on camera.
Oh.
Wow.
Okay.
Anyway, the cooling system's actually pretty ingenious.
So to keep dust from getting in,
they've got an intake here
and an intake here.
And then the whole thing just kind of blows out the top.
So they've got like, I don't know, whatever that is,
about three quarters of an inch.
The CPU.
Now this was interesting because everyone else
got 7980XEs.
And so I was kind of like, yo, I got an 8086K.
Like, what's the deal with that?
And they were like, well,
we thought the 8086K made perfect sense
given that this is an original IBM 5150 chassis,
which had the original 8086K chassis.
Which had the original 8086K chassis.
You know what we should do?
We should get Alex to look at this
and see if he thinks he can beat it.
Yeah.
So I told Intel that one of the coolest projects
I think we've done over the last little while,
or some of the coolest projects
have been the sleeper machines.
And this was kind of their take on fusing retro with new.
No, those don't do anything.
Okay.
We didn't grade the Intel level.
You can go.
So I've already found one unexpected side effect of.
Turn down brightness on the monitor.
Yeah, sure.
How's that?
Oh, that's fine.
Okay.
Just put that back on there.
So this is cool.
Because the 8086K is the highest performance
single thread processor on the market.
Check this out.
Our local steam cache is actually working
better than ever before.
So when we tested it,
we were having a hard time getting such impressive numbers
on titles that have a lot of performance.
But we actually ran into CPU bottlenecks.
But on this one,
81 megabytes per second downloading Grand Theft Auto 5
from our local cache.
That's really good for that title.
Yeah, Grand Theft Auto 5 over 80.
That single thread performance.
Goddamn.
No matter how cool your system is,
you can't get anything done when Windows decides.
Hey, how about now?
And I actually have an IBM Model M from 1980.
From 1986 that I can hook up to it here.
That looks so good.
Like so good.
Oh, well this blows.
I actually don't have my PS2 adapter here.
So disappointing.
I am not very familiar with ASRock's bio style.
Let's just go for five gigahertz full auto
and see if it manages that.
Boom.
Speed, five gigahertz.
I'll be curious to see
if that download goes even faster now.
Yup.
We just hit 85 peak.
Pretty sure that's the best we've seen so far.
All right.
So let's see how she performs.
FPS max, zero.
And we are sitting somewhere in the neighborhood
of 250 to 300 frames per second at any given moment here.
I mean, it still doesn't help me aim at anything,
but it is what it is.
Man, that's butter smooth.
So there's a TN panel.
So frankly, not the most color accurate experience ever,
but this thing's running at 144 Hertz.
Of course we expected that with like an 8086K
and a GTX 1080 TI, but man bots suck.
Oh.
Oh, they still suck.
They still suck.
I just, I own that I'm also not very good.
So that's pretty much it.
What we've got so far is the coolest retro themed
gaming system that I have ever seen.
But I really don't think this is the last
you're gonna see of this.
And I'd love to hear from you guys.
What would you like to see us do to this thing
to take it to the next level?
Please leave your comments below
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