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I’ve opened a Discord for Tormbo’s Bench. Think of it as the back room of the workshop: sharing builds, troubleshooting weird hardware: calm, technical, and retro-focused. Pull up a chair if that sounds like your thing. discord.gg/yzzyyH9qx8

TIE Fighter Collector’s CD continues Battle 7: Treachery at Ottega The Empire is getting messy… Live now: twitch.tv/tormbo #retrocomputing #dosgaming #tiefighter #retrogaming #pcgaming #starwars #vintagecomputing

AGP Chaos Lab. Pulling random GPUs from the box and testing them. Documenting each card using NSSI and building a proper archive as we go. Some of these should not work. That’s the point. twitch.tv/tormbo #retropc #retrocomputing #matrox #diamond #agp #tormbosbench

Testing VLB vs ISA, DX33 vs Pentium OverDrive on the FIC 486-GIO-VT Then building the final system with a DX4-100 on the Zida 4DPS Let’s see what actually wins twitch.tv/tormbo #retrocomputing #486 #msdos #retrogaming #pcgaming

Is there someone who can hook me up with someone who was on the #Tiefighter development team? I have questions :) #starwars #lucasarts #totallygames

New stream setup test tonight If it works… we fly Star Wars: TIE Fighter twitch.tv/tormbo Chaos guaranteed #retrocomputing #retrogaming #dosgaming #twitchstreamer #pcgaming

3 mystery PCs. No specs. No tests. We open them up and hit power for the first time. Pentium → Pentium III era… probably. Goal: bring at least ONE back to life. twitch.tv/tormbo #RetroPC #RetroComputing #PCGaming #DOS #Windows98 #TwitchStreamer #VintageComputing

Hey @PCBuildingSim have you ever considered adding real retro pc building? 486/Pentium 1,2,3 etc? Would love to see something like that

The 486 CPU Showdown has begun. DX33 Blue Lightning TI DX2-80 DX4-100 5x86-P75 Pentium OverDrive All tested with DOOM, Quake and classic benchmarks on a Socket 3 system. Who wins the 486 era? twitch.tv/tormbo #retrocomputing #486 #dosgaming #retropc #vintagecomputing

Tonight we answer an important question: Which 486 is the fastest for DOS gaming? DX33, Blue Lightning, DX2-80, DX4-100, 5x86, Pentium OverDrive. All tested live with DOOM and Quake. 486 Showdown – 22:00 CET twitch.tv/tormbo⁠� #retrocomputing #486 #dosgaming #retropc

Building a 2003 Athlon XP system… but at 16× speed. Retro PC builds, hardware testing and benchmarking live on stream every week. Watch the timelapse: youtube.com/watch?v=a_bZ2d… #retrocomputing #retropc #athlonxp #pcbuild #hardware #retrotech

Tonight we're testing a stack of Slot 1 Pentium III CPUs and benchmarking a pile of 90s PCI cards. GLQuake, Quake, Final Reality and 3DMark99. Basically a late-90s retro PC lab night. twitch.tv/tormbo #retrocomputing #pcgaming #voodoo2 #pentiumIII #retrohardware

Live at 10pm CET! Testing some Slot 1 and Socket A hardware, and maybe diving into a few PCI graphics cards if everything behaves. twitch.tv/tormbo #RetroPC #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #PCGaming #DOSGaming #RetroHardware #PCBuild #TechHistory #TwitchStreamer

The contenders have arrived. Intel DX33 IBM Blue Lightning DX2-66 TI DX2-80 AMD DX4-100 AMD 5x86-P75 Pentium OverDrive Soon they’ll face off in the ultimate 486 CPU showdown. #retrocomputing #vintagehardware #486

Quick bench test: Pentium OverDrive 83 Zida Tomato 4DPS POST success. Looks like the 486 showdown stream is happening #retrocomputing #dosgaming #retropc

Something interesting just arrived for the bench… If you know what this is, you already know where this might be going More soon. #retrocomputing #vintagepc #486 #dosgaming #retropc #pcgaming

Spent hours chasing a “dead” keyboard on my Socket 3 board. Baby-AT in a full AT case caused a tiny standoff short. Only the keyboard controller failed, board POSTed perfectly. 486 gremlins are real. #retrocomputing #486 #Socket3 #BabyAT #vintagepc

Bench prep in progress Waiting on one final piece of hardware. When it arrives… we test something properly. Old silicon. Big ambitions. Questionable jumpers. Discord gets first notice. #RetroPC #DOS #VintageComputing #TormbosBench

It's alive! I was afraid the #3dfx #voodoo2 was broken for sure. #RetroPC #VintageComputing #Glide #PCGamingHistory

Today’s retro lesson: A Voodoo2 can literally prevent your PC from POSTing… just because it doesn’t like the VGA card Matrox = nope ATI Rage = happy ET6000 = perfect 1998 problems require 1998 solutions. #3dfx #Voodoo2 #RetroPC #VintageComputing #Glide #PCGamingHistory