My Radeon HD 7950 arrived today, paid $20 bucks for it and it looks like it's barely been used.
Dropping it into the Core 2 Quad PC and downgrading the OS to relegate it as my Windows Vista time-capsule PC.
So now I'll have:
Win98 PC:
Athlon 2800+
256MB DDR 400 Ram
Radeon 9100 64MB + 2x 3dfx 12MB Voodoo 2's in SLI.
Looking at swapping the Radeon for a Geforce 4 Ti/FX once a decent one gets listed somewhere for sale, nVidia tends to work better with 3dfx voodoo in SLI.
Plus I want to get back into making my own Pixel shaders again to optimize older games, the Geforce FX is one of the better GPU's that are highly sensitive to shader performance.
Windows Vista PC:
Core 2 Quad Q9650
16GB DDR3 1600.
Radeon 7950 3GB.
Windows 7 PC:
Phenom 2 x6 1090T
32GB DDR3 1600.
Radeon RX 560 4GB.
This system I am looking at overhauling with a AMD FX 8370 for the newer SIMD instructions to play modern games like Cyberpunk 2077 without resorting to emulating those instruction sets.
And a new GPU when the Radeon RX 6000 series prices become cheap. I.E. Radeon RX 6800 XT or RX 6900 XT.
I do want another PC for Windows 3.11/DOS as well that sits in the 486/Pentium MMX era.
Who else is keeping an old PC around for old stuff?
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