Ideally I'd use the Pentium III 850 + Sound Blaster Live! + TNT2 which will work very well in Windows 98, but for DOS it depends how back in time you want to go, because some games rely on CPU speed to sync the game engine speed and the Pentium III would be too much of course ( but if I'm not …

Welcome aboard! :D That's quite a sizeable collection you have there =) . If you need any tips on how to store all that or have some tips to share yourself, feel free to do so. And of course pics are always welcome as well :P What kind of projects do you have on mind? And what projects have you …

uhm, let's see VGA - TNT2 Ultra - Proper GeForce 256 (have a Quadro version) - GeForce 6800Ultra (AGP and PCIe) - GeForce3 Ti500 - GeForce FX 5900 Ultra or 5950 Ultra From ATi side I have pretty much everything I want, maybe a proper X1800XT would be nice since I only have a FireGL V7300 to cover …

OK interesting, so you mean if you discharge on a component you can "wear it" and reduce it's life drastically to days?

Hi RetroSpector78! I'm a big fan of your TY videos 😀 I agree that the issue should be related to the platform/chipset and detail settings, but could be worth checking if anything changes with the various Quake III patch versions; which one did you used?

Uhm but he said that the card(s) died after few weeks of usage, how this can be due to ESD? I mean, unless he touched them while electrostatically charged when they were running, but I guess he didn't

Welcome. Glad to read this, I thought having 10 main boards and 18 video cards might get little to much for a hobby. 😅 hehehe yes... my initial idea was to have one board for each platform/socket/generation, from socket 7 to socket 2011 then I thought that it would be better have two boards (at …

Deksor wrote on 2021-02-15, 17:42: Welcome ! By the way please take a look at UH19 in my signature, your motherboards/expansion cards might interest us 😀 Sure! I have everything in a google docs sheet, so it's easy to share in case it can be useful

malloc32 wrote on 2021-02-15, 12:17: Welcome! Doornkaat wrote on 2021-02-15, 11:15: Welcome to the forum! 😀 Thanks! Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-02-15, 14:20: Hey framebuffer ! You still owe me some benches haha hehe hey, nice to see you here ! atm I'm busy on a project with a very special GeForce2 …

Hi All, I'm a long time VOGONS reader and finally registered, so I just wanted to say hello to this nice community! This place is one of the most valuable resources for retro-computing on the Internet and I hope to be able to give my own little contribution too Among other things I'm a computer …