@ mOBSCENE
Glad it is all coming together for you man, and yeah, your performance is finally getting to be where it should. If you can, you should also run some Quake 2 or Half Life test just to double check your performance increase.
In regards to that one auction link, I was watching that auction sliderider but decided not to bother 🤣. I have had my own dilemmas lately Voodoo wise though.
Issue 1: Won a STB Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card for around 7 bucks. Sellers sends me a STB TNT1 instead. Yeah, they look similar sorta, but still what a huge letdown and such a dumb mistake. Seller told me to keep the card and refunded me. Seller had a V3 in stock still, for sale for around 11 bucks or so, but didn't want to get the TNT back and send it to me evidently. Oh well, whatever, crappy seller #1 it seems.
Issue 2: I had won a Voodoo 5 agp off a guy for about 30 bucks or so, and I attached a note specifically with the payment info to make sure to get tracking, etc, and send it to me after its shipped. Then I sent a extra message requesting such just to be sure. After a couple of days he marks the item as shipped, but no tracking... I ask him for the tracking info, to which he is slow to reply back about.
What does the guy do? He informs me he sent it via Priority Mail without tracking, and zero insurance. He did ship it at least, as he sent a pic of the postal receipt at least. Regardless of that, he did not take the extra steps needed to make sure the item arrived. And he didn't pay for/print shipping via paypal, so for all I know he fudged the address and it went somewhere else. Who knows. After waiting 9 days, with no item in hand, I inform him I need to go ahead and chalk it up as lost, get a refund so I can go searching elsewhere for another card.
Guy replies back the next day with a 2 message long pissy rant about how I was probably ripping him off, etc, and that he was going to refund me. Instead of issuing a direct refund, he just sends a payment back to me listed as "refund", so paypal takes fees out of it. So in the end, did not get his item, and ended up short a couple bucks or so, and time wasted.
Issue 3. Won a Voodoo 3 3k AGP for a buck. Shipping listed as about 4 bucks, so I send a message to the seller letting them know I want to get DC on it, and to send a revised invoice tacking on the extra shipping cost, that I would be fine paying it. Seller replies back stating they messed up, shipped it out already even though I had not paid yet, no tracking, and to just pay them when it arrives.... We will see how this one turns out as it has only been a few days 🤣.
On the plus side. Trip yesterday afternoon to Goodwill clearance center turned up a couple of decked out Slot 1 based towers, a brown boxed AIW Rage 128 with cables, and 🤣 at this one, a boxed Voodoo 5 AGP. 😮 Still need to test the stuff out, so got my fingers crossed on the AIW and Voodoo 5. If the V5 works fine it will go into the system the Banshee I have was in, as I have already moved the Banshee to a HP Athlon 850 mhz machine I have up for sale. 🤑