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I need a bigger desk...!
Hello you sad, sad individual. You could have gone to any other page in the Archipelago.
But no. You just had to come and see if I've got a better PC than you. Well, I bought
mine in September 1996 and added one thing mid-December 1997 - a Righteous 3D card.
For the technically minded, that's a Voodoo chipset onboard supporting Direct3d and
3dfx. Please note, installing such a card with
a S968 chip on your 2D card can seriously damage your sanity. It'll also damage your normally
sky high 2D resolution too, but hey... I've also swapped out my struggling 6 speed CD-ROM for
a 24 speeder. Vroom vroom. In April 1999 I made what will almost certainly be the final
upgrades to my original system, a new 4MB Virge based 2D card and an extra 16 MB of EDO RAM - my next upgrade will be a whole new system, finance permitting. Anyway, as I've gone to the trouble of putting a whole
separate page together for this, I might as well get on with it I suppose.
And assorted games, speakers, joystick, mouse, and so on. I have to say I think it's aged pretty well; 3D card is vital in the equation. I traded in my Amiga 1200 for this baby, so opted for the Pentium rather than the Cyrix as the match was less equal in 1996. All told, less than £2000 (UK pounds), and now probably about a quarter of that, I suppose. So, there you are. Last updated 31 January 2002
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