Re: Most rare and most common 3DFX cards in existence?

Posted on 2018-01-02, 13:14

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Fortunately, it's reference design card from 3dfx, so regarding the AGP slot, I'm good. I must say tho, the prices these days for 3dfx cards in general are quite unfriendly. On the other side, I understand it, since they are part of retro gaming history, and number of cards on market will only …

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Re: Most rare and most common 3DFX cards in existence?

Posted on 2018-01-02, 11:28

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Wow, I had to be quite lucky then. I wanted to buy some Voodoo3 PCI (since I don't have AGP 2x slot on board), but they were either not available or outrageously overpriced here on eBay. And then I found out, that Voodoo4 was AGP 4x compatible, and there was one card on German eBay available in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-01, 15:37

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I bought it few days ago, but I was outside of civilization, so couldn't post about it. But yeah, for some inexplicable reason, I really wanted to buy some 3dfx card. And somehow, on German eBay, there was Voodoo4 4500 on auction, so I tried and I won it. Wasn't somebody from here bidding on it as …

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Re: Confused with AGP Speeds and Voltage

Posted on 2018-01-01, 07:28

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FFXIhealer: I was thinking about one thing. How do you connect card to the monitor? With VGA, DVI or something else like adapter?

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Re: What monitor do you use?

Posted on 2017-12-31, 12:44

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So far I have 20" LCD LG L2000CN-SF with 1600x1200 resolution. It was my previous monitor, which I used long after wide screens was widely adopted by market. Since I replace this monitor at the end of 2013, nobody was interested in buying it from me, so I stashed it away. And now, when I build my " …

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Re: Confused with AGP Speeds and Voltage

Posted on 2017-12-30, 12:38

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My Radeon 9550 (AGP 4x/8x card) works perfectly fine, if not severely under-powered for a Windows XP gaming system (hence why I wanted either a 9800 Pro/XT or the X700 series card). If I was on your place, I would be looking for 9800 Pro with R350 chip. Cards with R360 chips have same key on AGP …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2017-12-28, 19:43

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That's right! Your turn now.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2017-12-28, 15:42

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Alright, let's try this.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2017-12-28, 15:19

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Is it Rolling Ronny?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-25, 19:56

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When it comes to buying stuff for "odd socket" builds buying motherboard + CPU bundles with coolers and mounting kits already included makes morse sense for sure. Yeah, this is the reason, why I went for LGA775 recently. I know it's not very retro, but at least cooling solutions are so much more …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2017-12-25, 12:50

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What?? Boxed Voodoo5 5500 AGP sold for 481€ in an auction: https://www.ebay.de/itm/3dfx-Voodoo-5-5500-AGP-Grafikkarte-mit-Original-Karton/292372978350 Still better then Voodoo3 3000 PCI for 420€... https://www.ebay.com/itm/3DFX-Voodoo-3-3000-16MB-PCI-incl-original-box-and-manuals-Top-condition/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-21, 18:46

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Yeah, that's bad. All of my recent retro staff was well packed, but GPU in kitchen towel beats everything 🤣

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-21, 10:59

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agent_x007 wrote: ...and no DDR4 needed. Yeah, this was the reason, why I went for Skylake (and keep old DDR3L RAM modules) in my current main PC, when I was upgrading early this year. I do plan to go to Ryzen in the future, but not before RAM prices will drop at least a little bit.

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Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2017-12-19, 20:04

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Non-standard positioning of connectors on motherboards, and therefore often horrible experience of doing cable management (or even just trying to reach certain devices).

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win98/XP build

Posted on 2017-12-19, 15:40

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Cant believe you missed out on AGP though! although, I only moved up to PCI express 2 years ago. Yeah, what can I say? I vent from Voodoo 3 PCI (and I have that card some time after the launch, when AGP was already well established) to notebook, since I was traveling a lot for my girlfriend into …

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Re: Any Socket A mobos that have a PCI-E graphics slot?

Posted on 2017-12-18, 06:40

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There are a few late Socket 478 with PCIe support. Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots

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Re: Hunting for a 775 motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-13, 18:31

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Hi MII-333. I bought ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 for my "retro" overkill PC for 25$ include shipping. VIA chipset probably isn't best, but it completely supports Windows 98 (Windows XP obviously too), and it supports probably every LGA 775 CPU with FSB up to 1066MT/s (so even Core2Quad Q6x00, Wolfdale …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-10, 15:07

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martin939 wrote: ASUS M3A32-MVP-Deluxe-Wifi/AP. Second one is not so retro but couldn't resist it. It has those fancy RAM heatsinks, the fastest AM2 CPU (x2 6400BE) and the WiFi antenna on it. This is, what I called proper heat sinks, not that X299 "RGB-lid-block-of-aluminium" joke...

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Re: Program detect it's running inside DOSBox?

Posted on 2017-12-09, 20:25

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Could you please re-upload it, if you have it (the original upload is down)?

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2017-12-09, 18:22

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This was just test runs, will do complete runs, once I finish installation and configuration of whole build. Intel Q6600, 2GB RAM, ATi Radeon 9500 (stock, Catalyst 7.11) https://srandista.kirril.com/PC/4pipelines.png ...and same build, just with softmodded 9500@9700 https://srandista.kirril.com/PC/ …

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