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Pitfall: 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 OEM BIOS

A few years back, I picked up a lot of 10 graphics cards on eBay for around $100. Most of them turned out to be junk—though they might make for interesting test subjects someday. But one card immediately stood out: a silver heatsink with the unmistakable shape of a 3dfx Voodoo 3! Of course, the lot was sold as untested – which, in eBay terms, means NOT WORKING! I really should have seen…
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Sound Banks - a software upgrade for your Sound Blaster

Owning a Sound Blaster back in the mid 90’s was probably a big deal – I wouldn’t know with my ESS AudioDrive. And although my ESS…
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Identify DRAM/Memory chips with camera

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Some time ago, a viewer of my channel sent me a broken SoundBlaster 32 PnP with the model number CT3670. This sound card seems to be special since it…

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Pitfall: 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 OEM BIOS

A few years back, I picked up a lot of 10 graphics cards on eBay for around $100. Most of them turned out to be junk—though they might…
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From time to time, we get to know that our CPUs are not bug-free. The terms ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ comes to mind.