Home
Creators
Search Recent Missing Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Behind-the-Scenes: $34K 1996 SGI Computer Build (Patreon)

Published:
2019-02-23 02:41:18
Imported:
2026-06
Tags:
bts

Content

One of our viewers generously sent us one of the original high-end desktop computers to make a modern video on the system. The system comes from Ian over at SGI Depot, and consists of original high-end graphics hardware used commonly for the film industry, medical industry, and more. The system also has DOOM installed, Blender 2.4, and more.

We're really excited about this content and will be working on it on the main channel soon!

Files

Patreon BTS: $34K 1996 SGI Computer Build

One of our viewers generously sent us one of the original high-end desktop computers to make a modern video on the system.

Comments

Jacob Casper

Aw snap. I'm officially hype.

TheHuntress

I'm sorry but that thumbnail makes it look like Patrick has a desk light for a penis. :)

Adam Brisebois

I love vintage hardware :) My collection is quite large!

Rushi Patel

Love it, along with having vintage hardware all of my computers are basically restomods with Threadripper workstations in SGI Fuel Chassis, Gaming rigs in Octane chassis, and an HTPC in an Indy chassis.

Colby Perry

I dumpster-dove at the former SGI campus, now Google campus back in 2000 and got a bunch of Irix documentation...nothing useful even for 2000.

Colby Perry

Is Light Cycles installed on the machine? It's a fun tech-demo game.

Rick Sanchez

That is crazy cool. I used to game and build computers with my dad from 1990 to 1996, and I can say.....that is a crazy powerful machine from '93. I totally believe that system cost $35k easy. The physics demo looks light years ahead of all early '90s compute and rendering power. Wow. I love looking at early PC tech, awesome to see how far we have come, even since I was a kid.

HappyHeuristic

used to work on those as well as the origin, challenge, indigo systems. Never really used them for graphics however except to 'burn them in before production' :P SGI & Sun were the main vendors for doing large scale midrange workloads (midrange meaning not mainframe and not PC/small). If I remember correctly I think that model there is what I benched against a sun sparcstation 20 (with 150mhz cpu's/sun4m) and the sun beat it out handily in performance (non graphics). They were very well designed systems (hardware wise) both SGI & Sun and were pretty nice to work on. And yes Doom came with the purchase (from SGI) as a marketing gimick and also if you had a isdn line/high bandwidth internet you could log into SGI's Surf Zone with 3d avatars. (really low quality to today's standards)