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ls3mach
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JUL 31, 11:51 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by IMSA GT:
Had to go through my old stash. Back in the AMD K6 400mhz days, this was THE gaming card, a Voodoo 3DFX.
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I don't have any of my stuff. My 2nd computer was an AMD-K62. 233Mhz overclocked to 266Mhz, I had a TV Tuner and a 56K modem. Neither of which we could afford service for (cable or internet).
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Jonesy
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AUG 01, 10:28 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by IMSA GT:
Had to go through my old stash. Back in the AMD K6 400mhz days, this was THE gaming card, a Voodoo 3DFX.
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Very cool.. Is that an original voodoo 4mb card? My first ever video card was a Voodoo 2 12meg.. Wish i still had it.
I've got a few retro PC setups. One is an old Gateway PC i bought back in 98.. 400mhz P2, 386megs of ram, a SB-16 sound card, and a Voodoo 3 (the first AGP voodoo card) .. Runs Win98SE.
Then i have an WinXP machine, with a P4-2.4ghz, and 4gigs of ram, a Sound Blaster Live Gamer sound card, and running a Geforce 4 512meg video card.
I have a Voodoo 5 card with 512megs of ram on it. But don't have a machine to put it in at the moment. Remember when you had to buy sound cards if you wanted decent sound on your PC? lol..[This message has been edited by Jonesy (edited 08-01-2022).]
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hnthomps
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AUG 01, 11:25 AM
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I can also remember a few unique incidents at the dawn of the PC age. I skipped the first few iterations and did not get involved until the 286 machine was available (at least in parts). I had to do some very long and repetitious calculations every month that were related to power production efficiency over a large power system. I managed to get my hands on one of the three or four PC in the company and did some spreadsheet development that drastically cut the calculation man-hours involved. Then we has a few other engineers start scheduling computer use reservations on a 24 hour per day basis. I was not allowed to purchase an additional computer for engineering use, but did manage to squeak through a requisition for "spare computer parts". Purely by "accident", the parts were adequate to produce a second 286 computer.
I set up a PC at home for use in my consulting business and had absolutely the latest and greatest PC components available. Ten to 20 MB hard drives were the standard at the time but my needs exceeded that capacity. After a lot of looking I saw a new machine that had twin ejectable 30 MB hard drives. If I wanted to run a different program, I just swapped to the required hard drive. Then I ran into memory issues as programs became more complex. I got an add on memory card and hand soldered 256k chips until I ran out of space. This was an improvement but I still had some memory issues until I learned about the difference in expandable versus extended memory.
Thankfully, PC have improved since those days and I can get more computing power out of my cell phone that an old IBM 360/375 computer that required an entire room and punch cards to function. I am happy that the "good old days" are gone (wrt PCs at least).
Nelson
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mmeyer86gt/gtp
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AUG 01, 11:30 AM
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it was turtle beach or the 3d sound blaster awe 64 gold [This message has been edited by mmeyer86gt/gtp (edited 08-01-2022).]
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Jonesy
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AUG 01, 01:24 PM
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Apparently even the super old retro video cards are expensive these days lol..
https://www.ebay.com/itm/27...5:g:6U4AAOSw82hiyGM8
Voodoo 2 12mb on ebay for $500... lol... I think i paid $200 for mine new back in the day..
Man i wish modern video card prices would come down.. My current duel 1080 setup works well, but i'd like to upgrade to one of those 3090's...
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A_Lonely_Potato
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AUG 01, 03:18 PM
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3090??? man im just trying to get an MSRP 3070! my 1070ti is holding up alright, but at 1440p ultrawide it showing its age. im assuming you do more on the rendering side with dual 1080s given the state of SLI
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ls3mach
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AUG 01, 04:46 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by A_Lonely_Potato:
3090??? man im just trying to get an MSRP 3070! my 1070ti is holding up alright, but at 1440p ultrawide it showing its age. im assuming you do more on the rendering side with dual 1080s given the state of SLI |
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I don't know your budget, but I saw a 3080 10GB for $600 local not long ago. It was in what I assume an Amazon returns pallet. My buddy didn't want it or I would've snatched it up. He said it was a little slow for his taste. I don't know if he was being sarcastic or not.
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Jonesy
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AUG 05, 03:10 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
I don't know your budget, but I saw a 3080 10GB for $600 local not long ago. It was in what I assume an Amazon returns pallet. My buddy didn't want it or I would've snatched it up. He said it was a little slow for his taste. I don't know if he was being sarcastic or not. |
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Yeah probably one of the many used video card that spent a few thousand hours running at full bore in some crypto mining machine. Apparently the crypto market had a bit of a bust or something and tons of miners are now flooding the market with used burnt up old video cards.. So buy used with extreme caution right now.
Slow? lol.. Well i know the 4000 series cards are about to come out. But Intel has a new line of GPU's about to hit the market fairly soon, and some of the tests on these cards have been pretty impressive, and supposed to be more affordable. Just need to get the drivers tuned up. Intel may have an uphill battler to compete with Nvidia or AMD, since they literally have decades of experience making gpu's and drivers, but i welcome any other competition if it will help bring prices of these things down to a more "affordable" level.[This message has been edited by Jonesy (edited 08-05-2022).]
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ls3mach
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AUG 05, 04:20 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Jonesy:
Yeah probably one of the many used video card that spent a few thousand hours running at full bore in some crypto mining machine. Apparently the crypto market had a bit of a bust or something and tons of miners are now flooding the market with used burnt up old video cards.. So buy used with extreme caution right now.
Slow? lol.. Well i know the 4000 series cards are about to come out. But Intel has a new line of GPU's about to hit the market fairly soon, and some of the tests on these cards have been pretty impressive, and supposed to be more affordable. Just need to get the drivers tuned up. Intel may have an uphill battler to compete with Nvidia or AMD, since they literally have decades of experience making gpu's and drivers, but i welcome any other competition if it will help bring prices of these things down to a more "affordable" level.
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This wasn't used. It was new in box. Amazon pallets are a big thing right now. He works in IT and has been a game the 2 decades we've been friends. He might have a more powerful rig. I haven't been over in a couple months. He might have just not wanted to spend $600. Who can say.
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ray b
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AUG 06, 01:07 PM
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m2. UP GRADES ARE THE BEST
they fly
and you do not need an m2. slot if you have a PCIe [video slot]
they make adapters to plug m2. into a PCIe slot
way better faster then the older SS dds
minutes ahead of spinners
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