Gold Leader
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Hello everyone, I'm Gold Leader from the EVGA & 2CPU forums which sadly have been closed down, 2CPU on September 05, 2020 and EVGA on February 06, 2025, for me this is quite a loss as I had a ton of friends at EVGA forums , almost the entire staff, the things I did there were mainly Retro PC topics, graphics card collection threads and GPU breakdown & maintenance guides for 3dfx, ATiAMD & NVIDIA graphics cards and many other things my aircraft models and what ever else.
Also I am owner of the official x-3dfx community at Facebook, , we also used to have a forum which we had from 1999 - 2006, we as in the x-3dfx staff and me included.
We had around 250.870 members in that timeline, most people came and left ya know how it all goes.
in 2006 the forum got hacked and taken down for 3 years we lost a lot of data, this was very abrupt and out of the blue, in 2009 the forums returned and well not many was left over, Reid Campbell gave BOingball & I the IP of 3dfx.com back in 19999 and we built x-3dfx.com from that, after the 2006 disaster the forum was rebuilt in3 years time and reopened in March of 2009 I believe this was, roughly 40a 50 aka a handful of members came back, in 2011 we migrated to Facebook, I was really against the idea, but the majority had it and yea ya know social media took over there it all went to.
Around May 07 of 2013 they made me owner ,as that the original owner became a father and yea I kept the place always active so they chose me to take lead and well we started with 40 people at the x-3dfx FB site in2011 and now we are just under 1100 people and there is always some activity as well, so hey it's not all grey and dark in the end, right.
Alongside retro & modern computers I also collect diecast metal scale 1:200 Boeing 747 models, some of you from EVGA forums seen a few go by I am sure of it.
On February 23, 2025 my dad & I will go to the Amsterdam Aviation Collectors Fair, there I will hunt down some B747models from All Nippon Airways & Lufthansa, this is the largest Aircraft modeling fair in the world 6 rooms and around 363 tables good for 120K+ Models., O-plenty of choice and I will hold a DA.C forums meet and greet as well, always fun it's like a fair and convention in one.
If this is in the wrong section My bad for that, I could not find a General off topic section for introductions, a thing we did at EVGA, 2CPU and x-3dfx for that matter.
Here all my PC's as of how it looks like at the moment 7 systems currently always trying to build more hah!
And here the models:
And the countless of graphics cards I had in my past can all be seen here:
www.3dfx.ch
They have been sorted per graphics chip maker.
Here my vintage Star Wars/G.I.Joe collection that hangs above the computers via curtain rails and 25lb nylon fishing line:
Gold Squadron
Raven Squadron
Here a view of Gold & Raven Squads
Dagger Squadron
Here my Descent/Freespace Collection which is the largest of these game types known in the world:
Here the Freespace items:
Here how I store it, to protect it from the sun's deadly UV rays:
sadly due to multiple depressions I have let go from a lot of them, now I am trying to rebuild some of it, to what is even feasible, sadly like the new gen market , the retro market is also packed by scalping sellers driving up the prices to abysmal amounts, that to which is not of need as this only hurts the 3dfx and retro communities in it's whole, at x-3dfx we are fully against these motives, this hobby has to be enjoyable for all classes and not just the rich and greedy.
My entire apartment is one massive man cave , the advantage of living alone rofl, but yea there you have it really.
Also I am owner of the official x-3dfx community at Facebook, , we also used to have a forum which we had from 1999 - 2006, we as in the x-3dfx staff and me included.
We had around 250.870 members in that timeline, most people came and left ya know how it all goes.
in 2006 the forum got hacked and taken down for 3 years we lost a lot of data, this was very abrupt and out of the blue, in 2009 the forums returned and well not many was left over, Reid Campbell gave BOingball & I the IP of 3dfx.com back in 19999 and we built x-3dfx.com from that, after the 2006 disaster the forum was rebuilt in3 years time and reopened in March of 2009 I believe this was, roughly 40a 50 aka a handful of members came back, in 2011 we migrated to Facebook, I was really against the idea, but the majority had it and yea ya know social media took over there it all went to.
Around May 07 of 2013 they made me owner ,as that the original owner became a father and yea I kept the place always active so they chose me to take lead and well we started with 40 people at the x-3dfx FB site in2011 and now we are just under 1100 people and there is always some activity as well, so hey it's not all grey and dark in the end, right.
Alongside retro & modern computers I also collect diecast metal scale 1:200 Boeing 747 models, some of you from EVGA forums seen a few go by I am sure of it.
On February 23, 2025 my dad & I will go to the Amsterdam Aviation Collectors Fair, there I will hunt down some B747models from All Nippon Airways & Lufthansa, this is the largest Aircraft modeling fair in the world 6 rooms and around 363 tables good for 120K+ Models., O-plenty of choice and I will hold a DA.C forums meet and greet as well, always fun it's like a fair and convention in one.
If this is in the wrong section My bad for that, I could not find a General off topic section for introductions, a thing we did at EVGA, 2CPU and x-3dfx for that matter.
Here all my PC's as of how it looks like at the moment 7 systems currently always trying to build more hah!
And here the models:
And the countless of graphics cards I had in my past can all be seen here:
My Previous VGA cards
Here my vintage Star Wars/G.I.Joe collection that hangs above the computers via curtain rails and 25lb nylon fishing line:
Gold Squadron
Raven Squadron
Here a view of Gold & Raven Squads
Dagger Squadron
Here my Descent/Freespace Collection which is the largest of these game types known in the world:
Here the Freespace items:
Here how I store it, to protect it from the sun's deadly UV rays:
sadly due to multiple depressions I have let go from a lot of them, now I am trying to rebuild some of it, to what is even feasible, sadly like the new gen market , the retro market is also packed by scalping sellers driving up the prices to abysmal amounts, that to which is not of need as this only hurts the 3dfx and retro communities in it's whole, at x-3dfx we are fully against these motives, this hobby has to be enjoyable for all classes and not just the rich and greedy.
My entire apartment is one massive man cave , the advantage of living alone rofl, but yea there you have it really.
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