I’m on a $1,500 budget - Help me purchase my first gaming PC

[SvennoJ]

HoloDust said:

SvennoJ said:

And before. I had my PC connected to my TV and CRT projector in 1997. S-Video out indeed. Half-Life on CRT projector with Dolby Surround sound was amazing!

I actually had a GPU with s-video in as well so I could play console games on my PC monitor (and have TV on in a corner of the monitor while playing RTS), although the primary reason was that the Dreamcast didn't display on my projector directly. Using my PC in between, upscaling to 800x600 then s-video out worked. Crazy Taxi on the wall, better than in the Arcade.

Let me guess, venerable Matrox Marvel G200, with that nice breakout box? I didn't have one, but my buddy had.

I had an NVidea Riva AGP card at the time. Can't remember which one though, 128 or TNT. I do remember I bought a more expensive version with S-Video in capture. Maybe the TV capture was separate, I can't remember. I know it was not on the standard card, paid extra for the video in. But it didn't have a tuner, I used my S-VHS recorder for that and my Amp, Yamaha DSP-AX1 at the time, S-VHS out.

Ah the days before HDMI took over

At one point I had most of those connections in use lol. So many cables between PC, DVD, S-VHS, Laserdisc, Projector, TV, MSX, PS1, Dreamcast, N64. I labelled them all to keep track.

I also used it to make timelapse videos. Digital camera connected to the PC with a capture program that would add a frame every time you pressed the button. So I made a little program to press that button at set intervals (sending a windows mouse click basically) to make smooth accelerating and decelerating timelapse videos of traffic, clouds and airplanes. (I happened to live on the 12th floor right under the landing route and on a clear night could see 5+ planes lined up coming in)

The benefits of living alone in a one bedroom apartment at the time, everything close together.