I really miss these charmingly stupid pc add in parts. I've had the Musketeer 1 in Corsair C70 case purely for the retro look for years.

10:09 Oh hi tiny LGR!

Anyone notice the PCB says "Usketeer" and not Musketeer? lol

This just reminds me. I built a PC in 04, and since I was doing a complete build I decided why not spend a few dollars more and make it look cool. So I had the window on the side but, they had these light bars back then. They burned out or broke so long ago now that I forgot about them. Can't even find pictures of them now it's weird but I remember these tubes that lit up.

I was 4 years old when this was a thing wow.

I remember seeing this in our local computer shop window and I wanted this so bad as a kid :D

Is it bad that he's Pentium I system is the same case I use today with my Cooler Master 5.25 fan controller from 2001

I have three of the Musketeer III tube amps. The VU meter on them was for the sound, so the needle would jump all over the place as the sound level increased and decreased. If you heard the needle ticking the end pin, you knew your gain was set too high. They're pretty useless and were considered quite dumb even when they came out, but it didn't stop me from buying up three of them for PC-based passthrough surround sound that ends up being over-processed from digital to analog and then back to digital again when you send it to your speakers. I'm not sure if I want to give them up yet. LGR, hit me up if you're interested in borrowing one for a video review.

I wish some kickstarter or something would make real analogue meters for computers.

I want it in black!!!!!!!

This was not a vacuum tube amplifier, instead it is called a hybrid amplifier, since most of the amplfication is done by solid state components and tube is just for decoration.

I think it is RGB, but each colour can only be on or off, which comes out to 7 colors.

the golden age of pc mods

LGR knows what details are most important for NOS pc parts, I gotta know what it smells like. There's nothing quite like the smell of new pc parts, especially new old pc stuff

I think these were to show off your machine at a LAN party or something. It's not like we had real social media to get our daily head pats. errr. I like em. Sorry. lmao I like tat.

I loved mine so much I'm putting VU Sweep Meters in the dash of my project car :-). Though in that application they flank a boost gauge. I need another Musketeer for my current desktop. Always left mine on amber so it looked like an old home theater receiver

This is the coolest thing ever. Are there still Dails like this for modern PC's?

I'm always paranoid when I order things from China that it will have lead paint or carcinogenic materials of some kind. Seeing you take apart this stuff and sniff the crap out of it with no hesitation helps me feel better. 🤣

Cousin of the circlefire

I still have one of these in an old case I built, the case is all oak and I added an oak faceplate to the meter, though I never really ended up using the VU meters as I found they impacted audio quality too much, but the HDD meter still works fine to this day.

I had a Musketeer in my CM Stacker:p

Yessss ! @8:25 the old school LGR Foods theme song. Love it

I recall lots of these things coming out in the 90s, after the MPC standards became a thing, and they were all crap and useless. The HDD indicator would work better if it functioned on the PWM principle, but that'd require actual electronics to convert the on/off signal into an analogue curve

I don't know if you can actually buy it, but I found a listing for the musketeer 3 that seems to be in stock. ibuy.com.cy/mobile/index.php?app=goods&id=1744

One day when I reach the age of 35 ish I'll be bumbling around with my hobbies and not being distant due to work.

That case and fascia were used on several items--you mention these around 3:30 - 4:00 Crazy. I remember going to Fry's I think it was, and seeing dozens of these things. Also on the old school NewEgg.

A small capacitor on the HDD meter would smoot it out. Many retro amplifiers with analog meters had capacitors to make them "slower".

13:48 ah the memories 😄

That Musketeer 3 reminds me of a board AOpen made for P4s that had a vacuum tube in the audio section. I still kinda want one of those for the novelty of it.

One of the biggest regrets i had in life was not getting a lian li pc-60. I got a lian li a couple of years ago, but it's not the same. Also lian li make garbage cases now. These days you're better off getting a fractal design case.

Those actually look really classy on that rig. I dig it.

The early 2000s was the wildwest for computer parts

to make the hdd meter work better you could put a 100uf capasitor or more on it to make it more smooth

That is really cool. I'd love that on my computer.

13:05 was that dust or an orb. You decide. In all seriousness great video.

Haha, obviously the product name refers to those flying "swords" (needles) :D

God this guy needs to lose his virginity fast

Dartagnan disliked that!

I had an Apevia I think case with 3 VU meters built into the front of the case

I brought this case second hand and use it in my modern PC, like you say in this video, such a great case easily modifiable

Why does Mr. Roger's Porno music play when he's installing the equipment?

Whoever thought having two separate volume controls for left and right can f*ck right off lol

Ah addons that were form over function. Glad to see not all that much has changed in gaming PCs over the last decade and a half or so.

CTRL + ALT + SHITFT + F7 /fuzz ENTER CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + F7 /nodamage ENTER

These devices are about as useful as a chocolate teapot mate. I think if there is another one. I'll pass on the video.

As for the front 3½ bay - vs pci LED controler: You could be out of front bays and thus be forced to use the back...

Can anyone tell me anything i should know about The Number Nine Revolution IV GPU? I have done some research on it, and it was said to be a rare card, and I have found one.

Honestly, so many of these drive bay accessories are such garbage. I'm sure plenty are NIB in garbage dumps.

As much as I love the functional minimalism and cable management of modern cases my heart still pines for the wanton impracticality of the early 2000s.

Commenters with $200 of rgb lights, rbg fans, and rgb mouse pad with a touch screen fan controler: "This is useless"

Man, it has been a long, long time since I've seen Molex connectors.

Oh man that Vaccum Tube addon is gloriously unnecessary. Want

Also I wonder if you could mod this with a capacitor to smooth the HDD LED indicator. I.e. so that it only maxes out when the LED is on all the time, and otherwise it only goes for some part. And it's really mysterious why the left VU meter is lagging...

I wonder what that mystery LDV07 IC is. Nothing to be found on the internet about it. The bigger IC is a LM324N quad op amp.

You can't really read the numbers using the red light. I think I like the lighter blue the most, green looked pretty clear and good as well

The audio VU meters are doing the Night at the Roxbury head bob.

Fuuu, that is cool

This is just peak 2004 aesthetic.

Dang you're a fast unscrewer!

I like how it doesn't look pretty inside nobody did that in the old days haha

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but you're using an SD card(w/ a SCSI adapter) for your main drive right? It's possible that the very sharp on/off reading of flash storage like an SD card is why the meter is going up and down so fast. If you feel like it, try testing the meter with Win98 installed on a regular HDD, and see if that makes a difference. Would be interested in knowing the results, even if you don't make a whole vid about it.

Looking at the inside of your Lian Li I just now realize that my pretty expensive intertech case which I had in the 2000s must have been a Lian Li. It had a different, more expensive looking face plate, 2× 80mm out blowing fans, 2× 92mm fans in front of the HDD cage. A fan at the top and more childish stuff a twenty something at that time would dream about… like an Aerocool 2 bay LCD fan control, of course. Good old times when modders and enthusiasts soldered most crazy LED lights themselves. In the past years I started covering all excessive lights with black tape. :-)

hey, i just figured out what my family's first computer was when i was around 5 or 6, it was an old DOS with windows 3.11 loaded on it and it was an old compudyne, can't remember what cpu it had but i remember it was a model that had a green triangle below the power button. the only game we could play was rodents revenge because we did not have a mouse and you could not find a seriel mouse anymore in my area. man i miss that computer

maybe adjusting the pots on the inside might fix the delay and sensitivity too?

i love these types of things, i want to get a big massive fan controller set or something like that

Can someone please tell me where Clint gets his chill jazz music? I want the LGR soundtrack.

Pietro Gagliardi

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I think they're all NLdron Audio Library tracks. I've heard the song that starts at 4:07 in other channels (DankPods uses it to compare headphones)

Make a review of the sims 4 star wars

I have played this game that he's playing I can't think of the name of it what is the name of the game you're playing with the car

It is actually pretty nice of them to include that back slot color knob. If you only had 1 floppy slot and needed it you'd be out of luck. I appreciate the thought CoolerMaster

You could slap a capacitor on that HDD meter to slow the needle rebound down. That would give it a more "I'm doing something productive" look. LOL!

Will you ever review old classic gem games?

When are you uploading the Sims 4 Star Wars review?😁😁😁😁😁😁

15:30 ..tell me I wasn't the only one who was very pleased and got to dancing right away! ;) .. chick 🧲 boys. Hold my beer....

those were the days. I used to have have a similar one, but in my car, with the middle meter showing the battery voltage. There was a time where anything with analogue meters just looks cool.

Having separate volume sliders for left and right channels would trigger me to obsess over keeping them at the same level.

Next time, PLEASE consider showing and commenting the red arrows movement with non-red highlight :) honestly I only saw the arrows when you'd started toying with colour change button

“Just passing things through” ...reminds me of Office Space when they have the job review scenes 😅

what about the know/potentiometer inside it? could that fix its insensitivity?

I could see if the hdd led vu meter had some form of built in math so that each tick of the light added something to the display, and it was constantly subtracting down to 0. That way it'd spike up and fall down in a more organic faction instead of being all or nothing. I'm not sure why they'd split volume controls between left and right though. That would annoy the ever loving shit out of me.

i like them! not for any serious use (its useless) but its so aesthetic! i'd put one in my modern rig just for a giggle!

Wait for The Sims 4 Star Wars Batuu Review hehe

Is it a bad thing that I still use an original ibm model m from 1990 as my daily keyboard in 2020?

Plz lgr I Know the pack is dog shit but please review it also I wan't you thoughtz on the sims are you burned out and are you excited for paralives and are you done with the sims

A hell of a lot nicer then that thermaltake crap

Red needles with red lights? Yeah, right. Very ez to see.

you wouldn't pay $50 dollars back in 2004, neither would I, I hope it cost less in 2020!

7:36 - typo on the board?!? "USKETEER II"?

Midtown Madness 2 FTW!!!

I still have this sucker but in black!!

Before the days of "gamer grade" hardware...

Can't wait for your review on the new Sims 4 star wars pack😂😂

You may already know but there’s a new dlc for the Sims 4 and it’s Star Wars themed here we go again.

Will LGR have the courage to review The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu? Stay tuned to find out.

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I think he’s not going to review it, which tells you how bad it is. However he has donated to the patreon of upcoming life sim game, paralives - which looks leaps and bounds better than the hot trash that is The Sims 4

While it looks gimmick with all it’s fancy colors, but it’s not something you would look at the whole time, it’s not that you would testing things with it contstandly, In fact you will still spend more time watching to your monitor then watching those spinning meters, but if you have roomates, you can watch those glowing meters once in a while while you do your work on the pc. So in general it’s not worth the whole installing process, i rather would have an external one with very huge huge huge meters on it to make it look more appealing.

CoolerMaster are so shit these days. Even their thermal compound is outdone by standard grey goo, I never buy their stuff any more.

Wonder what other products that pcb was used in seeing as it has a lot of marked but unpopulated areas on it

L and R needles don't sync possibly because the discrete BJTs used to drive the coils are generic models and they don't match.

Cooler master mice are fantastic, theyre no joke and they put in real design into them. Theyre better than razor mice both in software and hardware and quickly approaching logitech

2004 fifty bucks for an un useful gimmicky meters. There was a reason I never bought any of these bay "utility" items.

Im just waiting for youKNOWwHAt