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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)

Who likes 486s???

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

Pentium 233 MMX with 3DFX voodoo 3 and a ton of midi gear, playing Kings Quest VI

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!

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.

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.

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!

I didn't take a full IRQ inventory but I managed to get every single thing working.

So I managed to use all 8 slots on my IBM 286! Who wants to try their hand at identifying every card?

He already knows where I live.

286 Bridgeboard for the Commodore Amiga. Lets you run PC/DOS based software on any amiga equipped with a Zorro slot.

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.

Tidied up the collection.. Lets see how many systems you can recognize

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.

yep stardew valley is great. Its sad that a lot of my gaming time is star dew valley and Simcity 4 (RIP maxis)

I honestly think VR is the path to the future of gaming. It's too bad I get violent nausea after 3 minutes of putting on a vr headset

Ok pull up a chair and bear with me for a moment... *puts on reading glasses and tosses a log in the fireplace*.. I'm going to ramble for a bit. I remember my first PC gaming experience as a kid. The original BattleZone on a 4 color CGA display. It was the most amazing thing i had ever seen, having never owned a console or gaming machine prior to that. Imagine how impressed I was when i first saw games in 16 color EGA. With dithering there were *gasp* so many colors on the screen. I played a ton of the Sierra Online adventure games and they looked totally different with 16 colors. It wasn't until the late 80s that we got MCGA .. 256 colors. It was amazing how photo-realistic a 320x200x256 color 100kb GIF looked. I remember playing the original Doom and Quake. The rudimentary 3D graphics (no 3D hardware at the time, it was all done on the CPU) were next level. Until I got my first 3DFX card...an original Monster 3D with a pass through cable from your 2D video card. The original Tomb Raider with real 30fps 3D was just amazing. Fast forward to 2000-2010.. 3D came a long way, as you saw the progression of GPUs and consoles until you got to the PS3. Don't get me wrong.. games look FANTASTIC now. But I remember what a huge leap it was going from the PS2 to the PS3. Similarly going from Half Life to Half Life 2. It seems to me thought that there isn't quite so much innovation these days, and the wow factor is really started to level off. Recently, I picked up a 3080 and started playing COD Cold War. Aside from some better RTX lighting reflections, it looks and feels like previous COD games (some would argue not as good as MW). I mean, yeah with gsync, and a large 120hz ultrawide, 10 year old me would have been blown away. It does help with the experience and increases the feeling of immersion... But is it that much more impressive than say, the last few Far Cry games or even the original Crysis? I've found myself sitting around with an $800 GPU in my machine, and more excited about overclocking and benchmarking rather than playing games on it. I look through the catalogs on Steam, Epic, and Origin for hours and can't find a single game I'm willing to invest money (and more importantly TIME) into playing on this new hardware. The same goes for consoles. I was looking at some AC Valhalla footage from a PS5 vs a PS4 .. yeah the textures look better.. but when you're actively playing the game, you really don't notice. With a few exceptions, pretty much every game from the last 5 years feels almost exactly the same. I saw Linus's video on the new xbox series X running Doom Eternal. Yeah it's buttery smooth and somehow they manage to have enough independently moving and flashing objects on the screen at once to give you an epileptic seizure, but it doesn't seem like a huge improvement over Doom 2016, visually and gameplay wise. To be honest, the last game in the last decade that I felt was truly groundbreaking in terms of gameplay, story telling, and graphics was the Witcher 3. I'm looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 whenever it comes out, and hope it'll keep me busy for a bit.

newly made case badges for some retro projects. I've got way more machines then I'd ever use at this point.

ouch. for what i want on cablemods, im looking at spending $200+ usd. thats about what a new PSU costs. ugh

I have a corsair ax1200 (not ax1200i).. I'm confused as not all corsair power supplies use the same type of cables. Just looking for something with a halfway decent color selection. Thanks in advance

So I have the same GPU, and the same RAM on the way (just waiting for a 5900x)... do you have any tips on tweaking the RAM to run at those speeds? (some bios screenshots would be super helpful) thanks!

thanks for the feedback. I ended up getting 2x16gb Crucial ballistix 3600-C16 in.. gasp.. red.. for $170. I guess can't be too picky because lots of stuff is out of stock. I figure it'll help max out my current setup, and when i go 5900x it won't hold things back TOO bad.. not like my current 3000-16 kit i THINK they have micron chips, so maybe if I really wanted to I can relax the timings a bit and push 3800mhz from this RAM?

Current setup is 3900x + 32gb DDR4-3000-C16 and EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra. I game at 3440x1440 So i was running GTAV benchmarks and clocked the RAM to 3200 1.35v (it wasn't entirely stable but it did complete the benchmarks) and i was noticing 10% gains across the board. This corsair kit has Hynix chips, so no good for OC. 1. If going from 3000 to 3200 gave me 10% fps gains, what would 3200 to 3600 give me (anyone care to approximate?) 2. how much of a gain will there be going from 3600 to 4000 if I upgrade to 5900x? I'm having a hard time deciding, because there is a HUGE price difference.. 2x16 DDR4-3200-C16 latency 10ns $135 USD 2x16 DDR4-3600-C18 latency 10ns $145 USD 2x16 DDR4-3600-C16 latency 8.89ns $150 USD 4x8 DDR4-4000-C18 latency 9ns $300 USD in the absence of hard numbers, can anyone share their anecdotal evidence so I can at least get an idea before I buy? I'm leaning towards 3600-C16 as the sweetspot for my 3900x, would that still hold true for 5900x? thanks guys!

I was fortunate enough to get a 3080 ftw3 yesterday through EVGA from their queue. I'm wondering if my current setup is leaving anything on the table? *edit* I'm gaming on a 120hz 3440x1440 gsync display. upgrading from a 1080ti which is a little long in the tooth Realistically, what % fps increases do you think I would realize with a 5900x and DDR4-3600-CL16? Single digits perhaps? or more? thanks in advance!