Recent content by Halon

Well… other than the hallmark reputation of being Nvidia’s biggest faceplant release so far, the FX series did support a few things later cards didn't that were useful for specific legacy 3D tasks. It was the last line of cards that supported palettized textures, table fog, and other features...

Bump for a killer deal.

It’s somewhere between a 1050 Ti and an RX 570 in general, has a hell of a video encoder and generally modern feature set, and has the option of running without a PCIe connector, though the models that have one are certainly faster under sustained heavy load. The Linux drivers have shaped up...

Ah, yeah, I remember the Volaris. I was in touch with someone in their U.S. office and had the opportunity to beta test drivers on hardware they'd have provided me free of charge, but I passed on the opportunity after an extended family member passed away and I was trying to finish my undergrad...

If you run them all at once in the same room do your eardrums explode or does it herald the apocalypse

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 on. I have positive Heat under FreonTrip. Let me...

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 team has been or the improvements they’ve worked...

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 around the time PCI Express became standard, but I...

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 since the latter's Master File Table is a...

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 the game; the Kyro II and Voodoo5 6000 struggle for...

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 like the original Radeons and GeForce256-Geforce2...

Jesus, people really will pay through the nose to feel like it's the year 2000 again, even for a second. I remember a time when these were less valuable than the PCI model because so many AGP implementations of the time were trash.

This list is super approximate and doesn't factor in the various "well, that's cheap, guess I'll throw it into the spare rig" experiments I conducted over the years... Matrox Mystique (original 170MHz RAMDAC, 2MB RAM, later upgraded to 4MB! Shame it didn't have mipmapping, bilinear filtering...

Free bump - if I was in the market for any of this right now, I’d snap it up. Heck, that Threadripper is still tempting me.

Free bump - the A380 is a cute, capable little card within its limits.