My general rule for used hardware is to buy when the price is less than one standard deviation from the mean of previous sales. This typically requires some patience and luck. Voodoo 2 cards can be had for less than $30 even on ebay (and from the US) with patience. It's always best to avoid OEMs and …

Bought a poorly described Pentium III with part number A25416-001 for < $15 dollars shipped today. When it arrives with any luck it will indeed be a the elusive 1000/256/100/1.7V slot 1 of my dreams. Other hardware recently acquired include a P3B-F rev 1.04 for $52.25, ELSA Gladiac Geforce2 Ultra …

Keep only the systems with ISA slots (apart from main because I assume you need that).

If you spend any amount of time here you basically arrive at the exact same set of questions. There should be like a sticky sound card FAQ because I would wager many new people here would benefit from it. That said, wouldn't an AWE64 gold basically seal the deal for 99% of people?

Very nice. I'm also planning a build like this. SLI with 2x600E's on a P2B-F D.

This isn't really my current PC because I use other computers much more frequently. But it's certainly my fastest PC and when it comes to getting work done (long coding session), I don't hesitate to sit down at it. 2600k@4.5Ghz 32GB DDR3 Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Corsair H90 with Noctua PWM fan Sapphire …

Here's a put together example on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cubix-ERS-Fault-Toler … =item3cf986f4b4 I guess I would need a whole chassis like that.

I suppose it could be used if there were a way to deliver it power. But I think the only power source is through the board slot contacts.

Hi, I recently acquired this board inadvertently when buying two 600E chips (for a P2B-F Dual setup). I only now noticed that I don't know what this board is, what it does or whether it can be useful. It does appear to have a SECRET chipset and ES located on it, which for intel usually means …

I think this a tasteful yet not super common build to show off here. The specs are Microstar MS-5169 K6-III 400AHX Creative Blaster Banshee 16mb AWE64 CT4500 128mb PC100 Antec 250w/Antec case Win98SE DX8.1b

The problem is finding a high quality short one in my experience. I've seen a number of short ones that create those VGA artifacts (like doubling of edges, etc).

I don't think that you could simply remove a single game from my history, introduce it to me today and have it have the same effect. That said, I believe the question is similar to asking: For which games do you have the fondest memories? For me that would be something like: Duke 3D Donkey Kong …