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I totally forgot about that disc swap mod. So cool that that one has it!

I am just mesmerized by this video! Thanks for great work, it is just a pleasure to watch it, thanks again Ambrosia :)

i wish you made a bracket to mount the pci cards, this is the one big issue i have with this test bench.

i would like to see more mediaGX videos you definitely know your bizarre x86 bazaar haha

I worked at circuit city from 2000-2001 and it was when 3dfx got bought out that I got my first voodoo3 PCI card. It worked great but I didn't keep it very long before upgrading to a Radeon in 03. I have had a few more voodoo cards over the last 2 years but have sold them in retro gaming systems to other enthusiasts. Now I rely on 3dfx emulation and some of the fastest Nvidia agp cards that run in win98. Works great!

GeForce 6 series had broken performance with Oblivion for whatever reasons. Proportionally worse versus ATi cards than in most other games. It COULD support SM3.0 and Oblivion's new HDR Rendering but it overwhelmed the card and tanked its performance. Even with HDR disabled the X800 series totally outperformed it. 7800 vs X1800 was a closer race in this game and it was still a supremely demanding benchmark for them.

hi I love collecting 3dfx. I own about twenty examples, all functioning within computers of that era. I also have the Renditions, a PowerVR PCX2, the Permedia 2 and of course the old Virge and Matrox Mystique. A truly fantastic period full of innovations, that of the pioneers of 3D linked to video games. What I call the fascinating era of patches. Thanks for this video, I really appreciated it.❤

S3 Trio 3D AGP 4MB works fine with S3 MeTaL - Unreal Tournament - try it yourself and make a video... will be glad to see it - love

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For uefi boot you have to create the efi Partition and copy the content of the usb Sticks efi partition there

Haiku Gui scales with the Font sizes, so leave the resolution and make the fonts bigger under Preferences. You have to reboot for all gui elements to adapt to the new font sizes, unfortunatly

There are updates for Rollcage and Deathmatch (Rollcage 2) available online that are "remastered" by one of the original "coders" for the two games, he has taken the games to whole new level and allowed their use on more modern operating systems! :)

Right on! My first 3D accelerator was also a Banshee, Quantum 3D PCI version in my new recently acquired Celeron 266. Worked my tail off doing shitty jobs at 14 years old, but I managed to finally snag one online using my 28,800kbps dial-up and rents cc 😂

What is Amber's RGB code in HEX format?

Nicely cursed and very silly.

We have two refurb optiplex machines running here right now. The machines are ancient but a little TLC and sdd and they're maxed out on CPU and RAM and a discrete video card and they actually do mostly function as needed.

Is it running with the 180w stock PSU?

I have about the same challenge to build a gaming PC for my daughter. Can pick up a pre build Ryzen 2400G with 16gb ddr4 and a 1tb drive for €70 and an rx580 8gb for €35. Pissing my pants for the deals which can be made with people who just want to get rid of stuff asap...

As a non-AAA gamer who was already buying used RX 570 for <100 dollars over 5 years ago, I'm convinced they have been one of the best value, longest lasting graphics cards ever. There's no shortage of acclaimed games coming out even now which were designed and run on lesser graphics hardware, e.g. in the emulation scene.

Great video!! That was fast with integrated graphics was impressive,I ran those benchmarks millions of times back then with an Athlone 64 3500+ and asus 6800gt and was half in half digits... you always tease us with some voodoo cards here and there on your working desk 😂

Very cool! Love the Optiplex and how the GPU perfectly fit lol

3dmark 03! That's giving me serious nostalgia about the first PC I built! Athlon XP 2400+Radeon 9600SE

@1:30 good example of "do as I say, not as I do" lol. The biggest problem I've seen with those, is when cheaper ones try to feed 12v neg to the 5v neg line. Those always fail! Also, unfortunately my oem acer/gateway gets all drive power through motherboard voltage regulation. My "current" rig isn't current at all lol. I5 4th gen. I hate the setup for the way it handles power for pcie... Limits to under 50w regardless of card.

Long time user of such deathdapters here: The most important thing to look for in these kinds of adapters is are the connectors molded or crimped? These are molded connectors, as they heat up the plastic softens in them allowing the pins to potentially move around due to vibration and make contact that's how they catch fire. You want to find crimped connector versions of this kind of thing if you actually plan on using it.

It's good to know flaky bone stock hardware is legal for this challenge.

Just like in extreme OCing, as long as you get the benchmarks run!

Ah the RX500 series! 50% coil whine, 50% raster throughput :D

Right, I need to finalize my build(s), I did have a $100 category, but then landed another pile of junk which can hit the $50 category - or drive the $100 category GPU with more CPU power

These SATA Power Connectors are a fire hazard. Avoid them if you can. We had some firewalls burning up because of oxydation on these connectors to the inbuilt SSD. It gets so hot that it can burn holes into steel sheets. And thinking about these connectors feeding a grafics card... No!

Hello. Love the videos. Wow IGP has come a long way. I love doing this stuff. Take a boring dell and give it some video horsepower. A+ 😊😊😊

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Hello Amber, hey with a soldering iron you can add as much female molex or SATA power connectors as necessary to cover the requirements of that 6/8 PIN VGA power connector... Right?

Thanks for your video, im upgrading from a Ryzen 3600 to a 5700X3D. I mainly want stable VR support and rhe Ryzen 3600 can be pretty hit or miss.

that's a fucking sick ass glass, great video

Excellent avatar

yea furmark on this gen of ATI card has bug which prevents thermal emergency shutdown in this gen and the one followig furmark can kill your card if your not careful ive got one card to run happy and stable up to 125C and it esd def on purpose and not cause i started furmark and then got distracted and left the room wink wink lol

I literally threw my GUS MAX (pristine contition) in the garbage around the year 2000 because it seemed absolutely useless at the time. 🤣 I do like this cheap GUS alternative, might buy the PicoGUS myself. Just built a retro PC with a custom Soundblaster 1.5 clone with the original OPL2 FM chip (Adlib was my first soundcard and I wanted to have 100% accurate representation of the FM chip). But the GUS also has a very special place in my heart. I got these as presents from my dad back in the day and he often secretly installed them and let them play music on loop when I was at school. The first time I came home and realized music was playing from my PC I cried with joy, best day of my life. Thanks dad for all the wonders you brought in to my life!

Picked one up for my AGP rig a month ago - though my best AGP is a 2.8GHz P4 - and the card is possibly rarer, Asus AH3650 silent - yep, with a BIG passive cooler - and boxed!

"The thermal conductivity of thermal paste is not great." What the heck else are you going to use? It's been around for decades, it must be good for something.

Thank you, I will try to print this 👍

@TechAmbr, Dumb question... Have you ever considered making a test bench that will fit certain laptop motherboards? I find that on eBay, certain laptop boards are very inexpensive and are nearly as effective as some desktop boards.

Sad I missed it, I’ll be free next week though, see you then!

Ah Oct 30th, now a dilemma, a multiple dilemma, got a bundle of bits for something else and they would make a <50$ build with more CPU / less GPU, Or slot the better GPU for the <$100... Maybe hammering the <50$ will be more fun... good thing aesthetics isn't a score as the case of these is a wreck - a wreck that had a BD-Rewriter in it that nobody spotted (Going in my main system)

Do you have any 3d slicing benchmarks? Most of my workload will be slicing files into gcode for 3dprinter.

Socket AM3/AM3+ is PCIe2.0, not 3.0. Well, at least my Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3-R5 is 2.0......

Most SIS 530 boards came with 1mb L2 cache and were great price-to-performance options. This particular one was bad due to having no L2 cache which is was incredibly important for the SIS530 since it had limited memory bandwidth. Back in 2000 I bought a PCCHIPS SIS 530 with 1mb L2 cache and K6-2 500mhz, integrated audio and video and it was a really great deal for $125. 800x600 video resolution was the norm back then and the integrated video handled 2D just fine.

Catching this on the replay! My oldest kid gets my hand-me-downs when I upgrade (which isn't often). When Covid first ramped up I did a little bit of a budget bang-for-buck (for me) build with a ryzen 5 and 1050. I gave the kid my phenom workhorse and gtx750 and they had zero complaints until they ran into a game that needed the sse or whatever they're called instruction set. So then I got an FX-8350 and stuffed into it and then things were fine again until they wanted to play Elden ring with some friends. This gave me an excuse to upgrade to a 3060 and I gave them my 1050 and they are ok again. They are still whining a bit and probably get harassed a bit by peers but I've told them if they want anything other than my surplus they'll need to pony up the cash so I think they are ok for a bit. :-) No doubt about it though, it is a meter spinning space heater! Enjoyed it the stream replay.

I think it's ironic that many bulldozer systems have fallen prey to bulldozers... at landfills that is

I thought lots about Bulldozer versus Intel in 2012, and went with Bulldozer because I figured two real cores with some shared resources are better than one core with hyperthreading. It seems performance of Bulldozer has improved with toolchain optimizations more than Sandy Bridge, and Sandy Bridge slowed down TONS from Spectre, Meltdown and others, so perhaps a Bulldozer for compiling wasn't a bad idea. I still have it and run it. Interestingly, the motherboards can take up to 64 gigs, which is what I have, and I run Akkoma, SearXNG, qemu with various VMs, llama and more on it. I think I've gotten my money's worth from it :)

Hi, I would like to buy the card and support the project, but may I know if it’s possible for this card to emulate opl 3 and Soundblaster 16 in the future?