Dave's Garage

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This week on the channel +786K views this week

Dave's Garage builds new RAM for a vintage PDP-11

AI helps design the memory card, but getting it working takes a careful hunt through the FPGA's internal routing.

Channel: Dave's Garage · Story of November 3, 2026

This week on the channel +520K views this week

The man who wrote Task Manager breaks a PC four ways, and TMOG finds the culprit

Ten days after it went up, Dave Plummer's look at why a slow computer fools the usual diagnosis has passed half a million views, on a week …

Channel: Dave's Garage · Story of October 4, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

RAM is Expensive - So I Made My Own!

Video published

November 2, 2026

Video views so far

298,159

Video views, pace per day

7,671

Views on its first day

148,380

YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
AI Plays Robotron 2084 at Incredible Skill Level - November…	November 4, 2026	1:20 short	39,791	1,004	22,906	821	149
RAM is Expensive - So I Made My Own!	November 2, 2026	17:26	298,159	7,671	148,380	8,536	642
What Would Happen?	October 26, 2026	15:42	684,222	1,009	234,488	10,753	1,749
I Tested AI Cloning… and It’s Way Worse Than You Think!	October 14, 2026	20:51	762,535	3,716	359,684	23,681	6,272
My Computer is now 4× Faster! That’s Why It Won’t Boot...	October 4, 2026	20:49	153,969	105	-	4,393	345
Why Your Computer Is Slow — Task Manager Can't Tell You, bu…	September 24, 2026	15:46	858,397	286	-	24,449	2,685
As a Microsoft Engineer, This Is the AI Agent Story That Sc…	September 15, 2026	18:44	1,117,123	415	-	19,249	2,085
Reliable Isn’t Always Better: TCP vs UDP	August 27, 2026	11:27	139,583	35	-	4,549	275
Ethernet Explained so well that even YOU can Understand it!	August 7, 2026	23:27	191,102	231	-	9,950	718
CANBUS – Networking so simple, even YOU can understand it!	July 20, 2026	23:07	605,315	1,394	-	30,512	1,750
The Controversial Flock Cameras Tracking Every Car — Full B…	July 13, 2026	22:50	272,102	109	-	12,645	2,517
The Challenge: Can we build Notepad in 3K in assembly lang…	June 29, 2026	20:15	341,151	85	-	17,943	1,953
The Secret RGB LED Features I Hid in this 1970 Lincoln Cont…	June 25, 2026	22:21	42,497	14	-	3,391	370
Microsoft's Secret 90s Weapon That Made Windows Fast	June 17, 2026	18:08	148,360	406	-	9,360	832
Hidden Code: How Slot Machines Actually Work - The Computer…	June 13, 2026	18:24	541,686	617	-	17,656	1,956

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

31.9 in the category: 7.5

comments per 1,000 views

3.9 in the category: 0.5

a video's usual first day on this channel

138,126 views

short vs long

1 short (up to 3 minutes), 14 long
average views per short video: 39,791
average views per long video: 439,728

YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Dave Plummer explains Deepseek R1	January 28, 2025	10:07	2,438,271
Inside Task Manager with Dave Plummer, the Original Author	June 8, 2023	18:21	2,222,048
Dave Plummer explains the CrowdStrike IT Outage - Retired W…	July 21, 2024	13:40	2,194,746
Dave Plummer Explains Why do Computers get Slower with Age?…	May 13, 2022	15:58	2,004,618
Why You Need a Pocket Router: Hotels, Airports, Airplanes, …	February 3, 2024	14:15	1,480,018

YouTube: Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Learn C in 60 Seconds	June 5, 2023	0:59	799,544
Microsoft Layoffs: 9000 workers let go, 14000 H1B visas re…	July 10, 2025	1:35	168,288
Dave's Marriage Advice	August 18, 2025	0:40	139,561
Why is there a Dollar Bill on the Board?	June 5, 2023	0:49	125,704
The First Microsoft Product of All Time	July 30, 2023	0:47	96,546