Sorry for the long quote but I wanted the whole post intact.
I've been wanting to start a thread about these issues- but since we don't have a "General CPU" forum it seems dangerous to put it on it's own in the Intel processor forum.
But the...
so i was just about to post about this situation from something i was reading in the steam forums according to someone that this IS a degradation issue that's been happening with 12-14th gen intel cpu's. i'm going to post his first post and link...
I never had the original voodoo's couldn't afford it back then.
But now I got this...
Notice the chip part# -320
the 355-0026-320 is the 200Mhz VSA100 chip, vs the -220 166Mhz version widely used on the voodoo 4's and 5's.
Those...
Well... I'll make an assumption here:
We are of a generation of gamers who were there for the genesis of both the games and the industry. It was exciting for us wasn't it? My god the number of computers and upgrades I did to play the latest game...
I still have one of these. I've held onto it for the day I want to play the original Unreal.
Pretty sure that day isn't going to happen. But just in case.
It's the same reason I hold onto a couple of Dakota based PPC MAC prototypes.