kolderman wrote on 2020-05-25, 05:29:
Oj0 wrote on 2020-05-25, 05:25:
I had quite a score this weekend. I got a Slot 1 based system (Pentium 2 400, 256MB RAM, PowerColor EvilKing 4 Voodoo4 4500) with 19” LCD and about 25 old games (including a boxed copy of Quake III Arena) for the equivalent of $40. Yes, the seller knew what he was selling.
You could have just said you got a v4 for $40. Or just got a v4 at all 😁
I know, right? 😁 The card was a massive score. Even here in South Africa you can pick up the CPUs for $2-4, and probably a complete Slot 1 system for under $20. The card would fetch at least $300 here (and it seems eBay pricing has gone mad with an unboxed APG card selling for GBP499 at the moment), but I’m pretty thrilled with everything I got. Originally I was just getting Quake III Arena but it turned out to be my best deal to date.
At first I thought the CPU/graphics card combo was a bit lopsided, with the card better suited to an Athlon 800 or something. Thinking about it, the games I intend to play at all from 97-99 so will be fine on the Pentium 2, and it means the card will have a very easy life which is good news to me.
I plan to add a second (and maybe third) IDE drive, as well as to cut a window in the side panel which will receive a piece of non-tempered glass with a massive 3dfx logo frosted/engraved/whatever you want to call it lit up by some green CCFL lights.
I’m not too sure about the board it came with, an AOpen AX6BC EZ, although the manual does have a page dedicated to overclocking a Pentium 350 so maybe it isn’t terrible xD I’d like to get a 440BX board in there but it isn’t a priority.
Bondye: Pentium II 400MHz, AOpen AX6BC EZ, 256MB PC-100, 40GB IDE HDD, PowerColor EvilKing 4 Voodoo4 4500 AGP
Daily Driver: Core i7-4790K, Gigabyte GA-Z97X Gaming5, 16GB DDR3-1600, 120GB SSD + 10.5TB SATA HDD, GeForce GTX 1050