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Family reunion

What can I say, this year started perfectly. Santa was a little bit late – but still – it was worth waiting for. Welcome home NV16 🙂 What you can see here, is fully refurbished GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB + TV out. You can`t even imagine the time and effort I had to sacrifice to […]

Titanium strength

After completing the GeForce 3 lineup I naturally started to search for the successors. As we all know GeForce 4 family received Ti nomenclature after the very successful GeForce 2 Ti card. But this time Ti trade mark was present in all consumer desktop PC cards. Best and top-of-the line card for year 2002 was […]

Single PCB SLI is always welcomed

That was a quick deal, most of my basic principals for collecting were met. Asus product, good shape, rare and high-end level piece of equipment. That is why my collection was extended by a powerful NVIDIA`s GPU, the ENGTX590/3DIS/3GD5. It is a dual GF110 graphics card from Fermi architecture and highest model of the GTX […]

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Single PCB SLI is always welcomed

That was a quick deal, most of my basic principals for collecting were met. Asus product, good shape, rare and high-end level piece of equipment. That is why my collection was extended by a powerful NVIDIA`s GPU, the ENGTX590/3DIS/3GD5. It is a dual GF110 graphics card from Fermi architecture and highest model of the GTX […]

Filling the gap

Another occasion arised from the depths of the Internet. Very special board, first from the generation that started the division between high and low end enthusiast platforms. In other words this is the birth of the HEDT legacy. First socket 1366, X58 board from the 2008 – Republic of Gamers Rampage II Extreme. New and […]

Intel on a Rampage

Sometimes you just come across an occasion you simply can not miss . Sometimes the hardware is just like new, sometimes it has it`s original packaging. Other times the equipment found is simply amazing, very rare or delivering top performance. But if you search and trace the unique hardware for so long as myself, you […]

Socket 478 starter pack

Since the smallest part of my collection is connected to the s478 platform, i decided to gear up in terms of central processing units. At first I wanted to build a good baseline of availability in my retro storage to further fill the collection with top extreme series models which where a new family option […]

Evil Twin

What can you do, when you use on a daily basis one of the most advanced and powerful GPU available on the market but still have a constant feeling that something is missing ? Yes, you can upgrade to not one of the most, but THE most powerful GPU. But despite the price tag (due […]

Final strike !

When you`re planing to buy a high performance PC you always have many options to choose from. All in all it`s always the budget that determines the boundaries of the build. There are owners that are this lucky that they can put the budget aspect aside, and because of them hardware manufactures like Asus create […]

478 pins revolution

Period starting from 2001 and lasting through two following years brought Pentium 4 lineup up to speed. Very cold welcomed s423 platform finally received a substitute. The one who shifted to the second gear, and finally caught some grip in the performance race for the Pentium 4 was socket 478. Along with the new socket […]

Titanium strength

After completing the GeForce 3 lineup I naturally started to search for the successors. As we all know GeForce 4 family received Ti nomenclature after the very successful GeForce 2 Ti card. But this time Ti trade mark was present in all consumer desktop PC cards. Best and top-of-the line card for year 2002 was […]

New, old stock

While looking for the perfect base of a ProRetroPC model from year 1999 I`ve came across and considered a few motherboards. This year was known from the Intel`s first attempt of stepping forward and going beyond his very successful 440 family chipsets like Balboa (LX), Natoma (FX) and Seattle (BX). SLOT 1 CPU`s were at […]

To box, or not to box ?

This is the question 🙂 Please let me introduce to you, my brand new full-box sets of Asus GPU`s. One of them is awaited for the very long time TNT2 in Ultra specification. It requires a little care, but general condition is satisfactory. It is also a Deluxe version, so it couldn`t get any better […]