RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-01-06, 19:55:

songoffall wrote on 2025-01-06, 19:38:

Funnily enough, I just realized this Voodoo3 3000 is the second high end graphics card I've ever owned - the first being a GeForce 8800GT from back then which I still have, a beautiful card with great performance.

8800 series were great. Too good infact. Left ATI in the dust, and caused nVidia to do very little to improve for a while.

Yup. I think the newest game I played on it was Skyrim, and I had to go into the ini files and tweak some stuff to make the game look even better than the highest settings, like tree self-shadowing, because 8800GT could take it. Then I had a bunch of midrange cards again, GT660, GT960, GT1650 - this one I'm using at the moment.

And in other news, I guess there's something wrong with the motherboard after all, and it affects the BIOS update system. With completely different and known good RAM, I tried to update the BIOS again, and once again that bricked the motherboard. So I'll have to do the EEPROM flashing song and dance once again. Merde.