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The Screen Savers Ultimate PC 1998

heh heh funny thing is hard drives haven't improved too much. They were up to 10k rpm then, and that's still pretty fast 😛 Otherwise, fun blast from the past. Did they mention the vid card? Wonder if it was a Voodoo. I LOVED my Voodoo2. When I first saw MechWarrior playing on a 3dfx card, my mind was officially blown.
 
Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
did they ever say what videocard they used?
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Nope, but from the timeline I'm thinking that it was either a Riva 128, or a Voodoo2. Much as I like ATI, I have to admit that the Rage Pro was not really competitive in the high-end market.

ZV
 
God that tower is freakin huge. I didn't get my first pc until 1999 and it was rockin a pentium 2 400mhz and voodoo banshee.


"64 megs is all you need!"
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
god that girl is annoying.
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Yeah, I started watching Screen Savers just after Patrick replaced her. I'm pretty sure she got moved to Extended Play (now a crapified version called Xplay).

Clips like these make me sad to remember how much they ruined the show and TechTV in general. I watched it until a little after they moved "upstairs" to their loft set. Then Patrick left and I gave up on it completely and then it just went downhill from there.
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
did they ever say what videocard they used?
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Nope, but from the timeline I'm thinking that it was either a Riva 128, or a Voodoo2. Much as I like ATI, I have to admit that the Rage Pro was not really competitive in the high-end market.

ZV
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looks like there are two video cards in there, but I didn't see an SLI cable. So who knows.
 
Originally posted by: rockyct
Originally posted by: Shawn
god that girl is annoying.
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Yeah, I started watching Screen Savers just after Patrick replaced her. I'm pretty sure she got moved to Extended Play (now a crapified version called Xplay).

Clips like these make me sad to remember how much they ruined the show and TechTV in general. I watched it until a little after they moved "upstairs" to their loft set. Then Patrick left and I gave up on it completely and then it just went downhill from there.
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I never even had that channel.
 
Originally posted by: legoman666
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
did they ever say what videocard they used?
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Nope, but from the timeline I'm thinking that it was either a Riva 128, or a Voodoo2. Much as I like ATI, I have to admit that the Rage Pro was not really competitive in the high-end market.

ZV
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looks like there are two video cards in there, but I didn't see an SLI cable. So who knows.
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3 vid cards it looks like. They don't say what, but it looks like dual Voodoo2's PCI and and a 2D card (Matrox maybe?) in the AGP slot.

What's shown in the vid is a P2-300 on an Asus 440LX board with 128MBs of PC100 (probably). And yeah, they keep making a big deal about the 128 megs but hey those sticks probably cost around $500 back then. And that 9GB SCSI drive was at least $300. Voodoo2's sold for $300 each.
 
Wow, it's been a long time since I last watched the original Screen Savers, before ZDTV got taken over by cnet.

What system was everyone running back then?

I think I had a Pentium 200MMX, and eventually upgraded to a Celeron 300A/Abit mobo.
That was the last time I also had an ISA sound card, the AWE 64.




 
Originally posted by: raystorm
God that tower is freakin huge. I didn't get my first pc until 1999 and it was rockin a pentium 2 400mhz and voodoo banshee.


"64 megs is all you need!"
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Thought it was 640k? 🙂

The machine in this show rocks.

Trying to think about when I bought my P 200 Pro, 32mb ram, 4 gb hdd, etc.. etc.. think that thing ran me like 2700-2900 with shipping. Damn, those were the days.
 
dude the screensavers are the shit. I watched them on techtv probably a couple of years before it became g4 and the screensavers became AOTS, which fricking sucks(Olivia is hot thought). I actually learned about pricewatch.com on that too.
 
Ah if I only had a time machine. I'd sell the contents of my hard drive to microsoft for a few billion, and my computer to the assorted manufacturers for even more.
 
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