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Oh boy I was so into these in the early 2000 or earlier I think. Been so long. Ok wow lot of wasted hours being anti social during high school...

This article brought back memories of total regret in certain parts of my younger life. I wasted countless nights , endless hours. When I should of instead have been out parties and observing + inspecting as many female bodies, not just any female bodies but only the bodies that fit certain criterias such as they are my age or older and they fully consent actually almost desiring and demanding that I inspect their bodies. Last but not least 100 lbs and size 24 jeans waist. Maybe I wouldn't need to set these limts perhaps back in high school most fit within this limit as this was back in the 90s and people were generally thinner.

You have to understand back then being able to upgrade the memory or to overclock, essentially trying to max out the performance of your hardware, pushing it to the limit, was like the thing to do. Ok to start the frame buffer memory on a Voodoo graphics card was relatively simple. The card had a slot for a single 1MB or 2MB DRAM chip, and adding a larger chip would increase the frame buffer memory. However, upgrading the texture memory was more complicated.

The texture memory on the Voodoo graphics cards was actually stored on a separate card called a texture expansion card (TEC). The TEC connected to the Voodoo card via a ribbon cable and added an additional 2MB of texture memory.

What made the Voodoo memory upgrade interesting was that it required a fair amount of technical knowledge and skill. Upgrading the frame buffer memory was relatively easy, but upgrading the TEC required soldering and programming skills. It was not a easy task like I thought I had mad skills back then haha.

But think 3dfx was ruthless against modding like they won't try to answer any questions if it was touched




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