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  1. NoCarrier
    Defender of the Crown on an EGA 16 color display, IBM 5170 AT. Every single expansion slot is filled on this machine (upgrade video on my channel if anyone is interested)
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    Who likes 486s???
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    Its a Roland mts90. It's... Weird. It's a metronome, with a built in 3.5 floppy drive and a sound canvas inside. I use it as a nice midi jukebox
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    Pentium 233 MMX with 3DFX voodoo 3 and a ton of midi gear, playing Kings Quest VI
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    Running this gpu on a 3900x/Gigabyte Aorus Master x570 setup. been fine since Nov 2020, but recently shortly after booting the screen will go blank, and fans hit 100%. If i force the Ryzen Performance power plan it works fine (over a month now, with hours and hours of gaming with no issues). Has anyone else experienced this? i normally wouldn't mind because i don't really use any of the other power plans, except i have a 3080ti coming in and I plan to sell the 3080. If it's normal, how would I communicate with the buyer? if it isn't normal, I'm afraid of risking an RMA in these days of GPU shortages thanks in advance guys!
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    I think the performance difference is marginal when you really sit down and pay attention. 6900XT is going to have higher frame rates for some titles, but will lag behind with anything using ray tracing. The drivers are still pretty new, and AMD is probably going to have an DLSS equivalent at some point. I have an Alienware 38" at the same resolution and refresh (i think same panel) and an EVGA 3080 ftw3 ultra with a mild overclock. Playing COD Cold War i can keep it pegged at 144fps with DLSS on. With the better drivers, support, and ray tracing performance personally i'd opt for the 3080. Some may disagree, but once you are over 60fps, a difference of 10-15fps isn't going to matter much.
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    So I was in your position many, many years ago. I wanted to upgrade my slow 286 to a then state of the art 486. It was hard, but I did manage to find a part time job at 14 building PCs for a local PC shop. Back then, there were lots of mom and pop computer stores unlike now. I recycled aluminum cans, I went door to door selling magazine subscriptions and greeting cards. I always wondered what I would do nowadays. A few suggestions 1) have your parents sign up for an amazon mechanical turk account, and you can do the actual work. Usually its stuff like going over product reviews, or tasks that AI can't handle very well. 2) learn how to buy and sell. Borrow some capital from your parents, scour Offerup and Craigslist for deals - like whole PCs that can be parted out, e-waste, recycled office PCs, old nintendo games and collectibles. Go to garage sales and find some good deals, and then flip everything on eBay.
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    from left to right.. HardMPU 401 adapter, IBM EGA video card, soundblaster 2.0, AST Rampage 286 plus ram expansion board, 3com 3c509 ethernet, Adaptec SCSI adapter, and a MFM controller that I'm using to drive the floppy drives. it all fits!
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    I didn't take a full IRQ inventory but I managed to get every single thing working.
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    So I managed to use all 8 slots on my IBM 286! Who wants to try their hand at identifying every card?
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    He already knows where I live.
  12. NoCarrier
    286 Bridgeboard for the Commodore Amiga. Lets you run PC/DOS based software on any amiga equipped with a Zorro slot.
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    Top row starting from the upper left.. Apple IIGS, Apple IIC, Commodore 128d, Commodore Amiga 1000 Bottom row: Atari Mega ST, Tandy 1000TL, IBM 5170 AT, clone Pentium mmx 233. The stack to the left of the far right machine is all Roland midi gear. Bottom shelf under the desk: Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000, Macintosh IIci, Atari 1040ste, Atari falcon, MSX, BM PS1 286, IBM PS1 386SX, Bottom right: old Dell with a swapped Athlon 1ghz thunderbird, and clone mini tower with a 486-DX2-66.
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    Tidied up the collection.. Lets see how many systems you can recognize
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    Agree 100% .. i generally prefer open world and simulation type games for replay value. I heard the last COD single player takes 3 hours to finish! Multiplayer is ok for 20 min at a time, but honestly I can only take so much getting sniped by 12 year olds every 3 seconds.
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