I had two of them, used. Got one in 2007 and it was bad, at first seemed fine, then got corrupted screen when not even in Windows! Then a corrupted BIOS screen! I was so fast to chuck it!
No alcohol bath could save it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were bull solder joints.
The second one: I don't know, but I got it some years later, IIRC, but didn't get a chance to test it before bad caps struck on my Asus A7N8X-X that was made in 2004. (In 2007, in fact, it didn't even look like it was going to have bad caps at all!) They still looked good in the early-2010s, IIRC. They bulged when sitting!
Does that usually happen with Radeon 9800s? It identified as a Radeon 9800 Pro in Windows, didn't look like fake bull at all. Nothing like the stunning amount of fakes that I see now!
Less than 10 FPS, or a somewhat more than 10 FPS, reminds me of something I would expect with Need For Speed II on my family's Pentium 133 with SiS onboard graphics, which of course, can't touch a Voodoo! Would be lucky to get 13-15 FPS! That's >not< a typo, I was playing some Need For Speed II in the late-1990s. If it's slow there, no way can it be a III champion!
If not worse than that!
Even in 1997 and 1998, looks like the Windows gamers would look at me like I have an early 486!
(or a very-early Pentium)
Well, I did only have a 486 SX 25 MHz in my bedroom at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center (July 5, 1994 (13) to November 11, 2002 (22) ) (mixed-need schooling, both normal and severely-disabled) in 1998 and 1999.
I would have to get on the group home's PC to get stuff off the internet, just to even get needed essentials on to the stand-alone 486 in my bedroom.
There was no internet allowed in the bedrooms. The same was true for my Athlon T-bird builds in 2001 and 2002!
So, I had higher chances of getting corrupted files every now and then.
A disk error is the meme of a floppy disk, remember, people!
My family's PC from 1997 to late-2000, was the most powerful PC, besides the ones on the campus that I sometimes could hop on.
