space heaters. ;)
You should get some of those shadow boxes for them.. I used these for my collection:
https://www.containerstore.com/s/office/craft-hobby/ballqube-race-car-display-cube/12d?productId=10001594
I prop them up with little stands...
TRADED FOR A 16GB ARC A770. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
What it says - I want to sell this immense slab of an RTX 3070. It is in good working order and a stalwart, capable performer. I’d like $290 shipped within the continental U.S. This was never mined...
Looking to sell an old Apple iMac 27". The thought crossed my mind to convert this thing to a standalone monitor, but I just don't have the time and desire for a project like that right now.
Model A1319 (Late 2009)
Intel i7 860 (Quad-core...
I'm pretty sure I remember finding some planetary alignment of multiple rebates on a 260 right after it got discounted and I got it for like $200 or something silly.
I might have even found the deal on these forums
Served me well
I’m pulling for Intel at this point - AMD’s GPU development may have been intractably stunted by their starvation days, and their software team just hasn’t been able to scale to broad competitiveness. I’m not downplaying how good their hardware...
If you’ve ever been “fortunate” enough to crack open an E1.L (Ruler) cartridge then you are met with a long ass board just slathered in memory chips and controllers.
If it’s multiple logical drives you would be hard pressed to know where one...
is that the large wave of blind rage going around for a single sub-point on a list of several areas on an optional set of guidelines that says something like "Consider if they [female characters] have exaggerated proportions?" oh yeah that's...
Quoting, because I had an MSI-manufactured one that I flat-out adored. Within its limits the card was rock solid, and I loved running all my old games with angle-independent anisotropic filtering and antialiasing forced on. I think I sold it...
I think the rumor was that Nvidia had proposed their own version of DX9, while ATI did as well. Nvidia was confident that Microsoft would go with theirs, but because of the problems with the Xbox and Nvidia never giving Microsoft a break, they...
Man I remember being a broke kid when these were around and I could only afford a shitty PCI FX 5500 256MB. It wasn't great, but the games I ran were playable, and it pulled long hours in the cheap Compaq that housed it until it eventually died...
The "reason" you use things like FAT/vFAT/ExFAT is for compatibility. You're not going to just plugin a ZFS "whatever" into "something" and have it automatically understood.
Even in the case of typical computer OS's, ZFS isn't necessarily...
I remember them getting into some hot trouble for bypassing intended rendering methods/applications with 3dMark. IIRC, this is what started the whole "Approved Driver" program or whatever it was called.
The benchmark called for rendering an...
Much respect for evangelizing your preferred filesystem, and if it works for your use case I'm happy to hear it. ZFS is an interesting choice here, and I'd like to hear about how its capabilities stack up versus NTFS on flash storage, especially...
I’m not sure the DX7 path used bump mapping either, but the DX6 path definitely didn’t. DX6 also forced downsampled textures and I’m pretty sure dynamic lights were borked. There are videos on YouTube of various older cards struggling to manage...
Yeah… Half-Life 2’s method of rendering was tied to the mat_dxlevel parameter, which dictated a number of parameters tied to the feature set associated with each tier of support. At release originally I believe it was “70,” for DirectX 7 hardware...
If memory serves me correctly, ATI drivers were shit but because they were locking away features for newer cards. Omega driver guys at the time were putting in those features for older ATI cards, which did push ATI to also include them into...
nVidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
“Bizarrely, GeForce FX 5800 Ultra cards now fetch decent prices among collectors, thanks to their rarity and the story that surrounded them at the time. If you were unlucky enough to buy one and still have it lurking...