Greetings, and welcome to an LGR computer thing!

Related to old computers, but this is not actually an old computer

even though it has old components inside.

This is what became known as the Lazy Green Giant,

a Windows 98 Pentium III build

that I put together last year: 2019.

And this was based on an existing project PC

that I'd used for LGR for, well,

since the beginning really.

I had always wanted to paint it,

make it sort of a dark green, dark teal.

So I finally did that,

and put all sorts of other new components in there

and just re did the whole thing and came up with this.

And originally it looked pretty cool.

I liked the idea of Plasti Dip and stuff

because I'd used it on car components and hubcaps

and things like that.

However, for this is was, it ended up being terrible.

As you can see there's bits of scuffing

that have just, you know, started peeling off.

And sure, I've resprayed it twice now,

but that ends up building up even more of a layer

of this rubberiness

that kind of conflicts with some of these things.

Like this is getting harder to press in

and the disks are like, it's just, you know,

it's adding layers of that rubbery Plasti Dip stuff.

And so yeah, it starts scuffing

and peeling off different components.

And then there's the fact that because of that rubberiness,

you're getting a build up of things like dust and hair

and grime,

and you can take a wet cloth and rub it over there

and get a good chunk of that off,

but it still builds up extremely easily

and it's very visible.

And even then, like the finish is just becoming

uneven at this point.

So yeah, screw this whole situation.

I was never particularly happy with this case anyway,

so I'm just gonna replace the case.

I mean I'm gonna keep it

but I've gotta peel off this Plasti Dip.

I'm not gonna do that today,

I just want to replace it with a better case

as well as swap out some of these components in there.

We'll get to that,

but lemme just show you the case

that we're going to be using.

Oh yeah, here we go, check this out.

This is something that I've been wanting to use

for a good while now.

I picked this up some time ago

and I've just had it in storage ever since.

This is a new old stock Lian-Li case,

the PC-60, or really the PC-62.

A little bit later.

This is like from the early to mid 2000s or something.

I believe the original case design

stems from the late 90s or thereabouts.

So yeah, we're going to be installing it in this case.

But also, I've got some components

that we're gonna be swapping out and upgrading as well.

I'm gonna be keeping a lot of the internal stuff.

The graphics card, motherboard, CPU, and RAM and all that,

and sound card,

but I'm going to replace the optical and disk drives

for a couple reasons.

For one thing, they're green now.

And like I said, I'll peel off this stuff later,

just not today.

I don't feel like doing it.

But I also just wanted to take care of

some of these other things that have been bothering me

ever since I built this.

So um. Yeah first off, got a three and a half inch 1.44

meg floppy disk drive here.

Just standard black drive.

But I am gonna be using one of these here.

This is just a regular one.

This is not, dang it.

This is a CD-ROM drive.

Well I meant to pick up a DVD-ROM from my storage,

I guess I didn't.

I know I have a couple.

Anyway, I'm gonna put a plain DVD drive in there

instead of the burner that's in there right now.

And I'm also gonna be putting in

a IBM Personal Computer

five and a quarter inch 360K floppy disk drive.

It's a new old stock one from Computer Reset

like the one that I put in my NuXT build a while back.

The floppy drive that's in here is a 1.2 meg

high density drive, and it's fine,

it's just that pretty much everything that I play in here

in terms of like floppy disk games

on a five and a quarter inch

are going to be on 360K disks like this.

And the other thing, writing.

I want to do things with writing

five and a quarter inch floppy disks on 360K,

and this just, it's not built for that,

it's not the greatest for it.

There's issues with writing 360K disks

on a 1.2 meg drive like this.

And then the other thing I'm gonna be swapping out

is in the back here.

You may remember that I put in this nice little IDE

to SD card reader instead of hard drive,

and it works great.

I really don't have many complaints about it

except for the form factor itself.

I kind of cobbled together -- well lemme just show you.

Yeah, it was on one of these brackets in the back,

but I discovered that the bracket

was kind of in the wrong spot

and it went right up against the motherboard

and I couldn't actually install it in there

so I just kind of had it dangling around.

And so what I did to combat that

later on after that video was

I sort of mangled together [laughing]

a couple different brackets

and just sorta screwed it into this one and made it work.

And it doesn't really, it was just a quick fix.

You know, I never intended this to be permanent.

And because it's a project box,

I really didn't care about aesthetics too much.

But I've begun to care, dang it.

So I don't wanna use this anymore.

I was thinking about just going to this

front loading three and a half inch drive bay

CF adapter instead,

and, I mean this would work great,

but I just don't wanna use Compact Flash cards anymore.

And unfortunately I cannot find any SD to IDE adapters

that go in the front like this.

I mean I could make a custom bay

if I had a 3D printer or something,

but you know, or Dremel something.

I don't know, I tried Dremeling something out

and I was not happy with my results.

So I found this instead.

What we've got right here is an SD card to SCSI adapter

instead of IDE.

Same basic idea, but it's a front loading one,

and it has a black three and a half inch drive bay

bezel right here.

So front loading SD card

instead of having to go to the back.

And then it's also got a little Micro USB there

for something, I don't know.

But anyway, I think this'll work great.

Now I already have a SCSI card in there,

so hopefully it's just a matter of hooking up

that 50-pin cable and making it work.

And then finally, the last thing that I wanna do.

This is totally optional, but I wanna try it.

Is I wanna put one of these babies in there.

This is a Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold card.

Yes indeed.

I've never used one of these models.

I've used some of the later ones,

but this is the one I picked up,

I don't even know when.

Doesn't matter, it's just a cool card.

You got RCA out and everything.

But it gives me more compatibility for DOS games and OPL3.

I mean you know, so what I have in here

is the Aureal Vortex 2 card.

And that has some pretty decent actually DOS emulation

for things like FM synth AdLib compatibility.

And the Sound Blaster is supported actually pretty good,

but there's a lot of my favorite games,

especially share ware games

that don't work so well with that.

So I'm thinking if I can set it up properly

and I need to make sure there's no conflicts

then I can get both of these inserted in there.

Whether or not I can use them both at the same time,

I don't know,

but at least have them both in there

and disable one or the other depending on my needs.

So anyway, that's what we're gonna do.

Let's put this all together

and I don't know, play some games or something.

You know, LGR stuff.

I'm excited.

[lounge music]

[box slicing noises]

Hmm, got some thingies here.

Check this out, aluminum PC cases

"designed for high performance PC system."

Okay, what's on the other side.

So they had aluminum bezels even for CD and DVD-ROMS

to match your cases.

Aluminum mouse pads.

Some well illustrated installation stuff.

Very clearly labeled, good grief.

Check out that breakdown schematic.

That is awesome.

[laughing]

That is so much deeper than I thought it would be.

Oh, that's what I said.

Whatever man, I'm committed at this point.

Oh dude.

Back it up, get it all in the frame.

Look at that, that is seriously well put together.

They've even kind of smoothed out these edges.

All right, so oh man, that comes off very easy.

A lot easier than the other case I'm currently using.

Dude.

Got some components and things.

Yeah dude, look at that.

Even got little protective plasticky bits here again,

to make sure you don't scrape yourself on those sharp edges.

Let's see what's in here.

All right, got an I/O shield,

whole lot of screws and rubber stand offs.

Various adapter cables.

What are these?

Oh, fan control.

This is definitely overkill for this computer,

but there we go, look at all these.

Three Noctua fans.

Well those are a little bit different looking

than more modern Noctuas, that's for sure.

Don't have any of that signature tan and brown going on,

but either way, good to have these.

Something else I'd like to give a shout here,

this whole motherboard tray, I/O section,

I think comes right out.

Oh yeah.

Very convenient.

The case that I'm replacing

does have a slide out back portion for the motherboard

but this is, I don't know, a little different.

That's really awesome.

I'm gonna put it together I guess on here

and then slide it all into place.

That, I like this already.

Oh yeah.

Well, let's go ahead and get everything out of this one,

well, all the components that I wanna keep anyway,

and put it in here

and get Windows 98 going with some games.

Yeah, it's disassembly time!

[synthy disassembly music]

And there we go, an empty case once again.

Well, mostly.

We're leaving those in there

cuz I don't know what I'm gonna do with this.

Something, someday.

Yeah.