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"-$200 pci SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum Fatality with live drive - Could have just got regular SB card instead of that stupid large ribbon cable that attached the card to the front drive and that killed airflow in my case to the point that I removed the live drive part. Could have gotten the Sound card alone on sale for $78. Replaced not to far down the line with a PCI Express model. "
This sound card with front-end combo is great! I have owned it for 6 years and it's still working very well. Optical Fiber, rca, midi, 5.25mm input and output VERY handy for plugging in synth keyboards, surround sound units, high-grade headphones, etc.
You must have had a mid or lower size case of putting the front-end hindered airflow. My cpu has always stayed around 45-55 with the panel on and I have an NZXT Guardian full ATX.
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"Voodoo 5.
3DFX went out of business soon after launch. No further driver support, or developer support. Great hardware that nothing took advantage of.
If I remember correct, it was at least $300. The performance that would buy today.... "
Are you on crack?
3DFX ruled the graphics world for years. I remember them making video cards around the time of Doom. They were one of the (possibly THE) first to allow you to daisy-chain 2 cards together via a ribbon cable (first incarnation of SLI/Xfire).
Any one else here remember how friggin great Quake 2 ran on GLIDE?
Surprisingly I have had little regrettable purchases, I usually do wayyyy more than nescessary research on something before purchasing it. But no one is immune......
-Windows Millenium (ONLY SINGULAR THING that was good in that OS was the introduction of System Restore)
-Windows Vista x86+x64 combo the day it released (PLUS Paid the extra $15 and ordered the x86 cd install set)
Lesson Learned: Get every 2nd Microsoft OS (Win95v2, Win98SE, XP, 7)
-Socket 939 Athlon64 then 4 months later Socket AM2 came out with the dual-core FX cpu's -_-*
-Early adopter of Blackberry Torch 9800 (can't multi-task at all, at least the 9830 can)
Lesson Learned: ALWAYS get the 2nd hardware version (revision 1 or 2)
-Impulse-buying of a few under $20 games I've played little (Red Dead Redemption, HAWX2), or have known glitches in them *cough*MLB2K9*cough*
-An RCA discman (huge, heavy, HORRIBLE quality sound, went back to Sony and haven't stopped since, f*** iCrap)
-ANY type of audio cable attached to 2 ends from Radio Shack [The Source]. Audio patch, extention, dongle splitter, etc, NEXXTECH = S***TECH. If you get one of those types of items from there, GET THE WARRANTY. I bought the $5 warranty on my 12' 3.5 audio extention cable and have exchanged it roughly 7 times since purchase (February 2010)
Probably more but taking too long to try to remember them