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🕹️ Retro Gaming — testbench 26 articles

🔥 Voodoo 5 6000 in 2026: The Card That Never Shipped, Reproduced

How 3dfx's four-chip Voodoo 5 6000 died in 2000, how zx-c64 rebuilt it on real VSA-100 silicon, and what the SpecPicks Retro Lab's reproduction card really is.

Mike Perry · 2026-09-16 · testbench · 11 min · trend 95

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  Voodoo 5 6000 Lab Method: Two Motherboards, One Dead BIOS

  Mike Perry · 2026-09-16 · 12 min · trend 92

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  Voodoo 5 6000 Benchmarks: Quake III at Five Resolutions

  Mike Perry · 2026-09-16 · 11 min · trend 89

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  Reve 2.0 Debuts at #2 for Text-to-Image: Can You Run Local Image Gen on an RTX 3060?

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 10 min · trend 88

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  Open WebUI + Ollama on an RTX 3060: The Self-Hosted ChatGPT Alternative for 2026

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 11 min · trend 87

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  Voodoo 5 6000 FSAA: The Feature That Never Engaged

  Mike Perry · 2026-09-16 · 12 min · trend 86

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  Fish Audio S2.1 Pro Is Free Until July 24 — But Can You Run TTS Locally on an RTX 3060?

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 10 min · trend 85

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  Voodoo 5 6000 Stability: Hangs, Wedges and a Bricked Board

  Mike Perry · 2026-09-16 · 12 min · trend 83

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  Best GPU for 1440p Local Image Generation in 2026: Why the RTX 3060 12GB Still Wins on Value

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 10 min · trend 82

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  Voodoo 5 6000 Verdict: What the Lab Established and Tests Next

  Mike Perry · 2026-09-16 · 13 min · trend 80

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  AMD Ryzen AI Halo ($4K) vs a $900 RTX 3060 12GB Local-LLM Build: Buy or Build?

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 9 min · trend 80

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  Kimi K3 Open Weights: What It Takes to Run It Locally

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-29 · 13 min · trend 78

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  Best Budget AM4 CPU for a 2026 AI + Gaming Build: 5800X vs 5700X vs 5600G

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 9 min · trend 78

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  GLM-5.2's 37k-Token Reasoning Outputs and What They Mean for Local Rigs

  Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 9 min · trend 78

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  Jetson Orin Nano Super for Local LLM: 7B/13B Tokens-per-Second Reality Check

  Mike Perry · 2026-05-01 · 15 min · trend 76

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  Can the RTX 3060 12GB Run Qwen3-27B Locally in 2026?

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 10 min · trend 75

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  OpenAI Just Beat Every Human at AtCoder — Can You Run a Coding LLM Locally?

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 10 min · trend 72

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  Copilot Cowork Goes Usage-Based: The Local-Rig Cost Case in 2026

  Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 9 min · trend 72

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  Replace a Dying IDE Drive With CompactFlash in a Win98 Retro PC

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 10 min · trend 70

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  Aider vs Cline vs Continue.dev for Local Coding on an RTX 3060 (2026)

  Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 9 min · trend 70

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  Self-Host Immich on a Ryzen 5 5600G Mini-PC: Power, Storage, Real Throughput

  Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 10 min · trend 68

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  Raspberry Pi 4 8GB vs Ryzen 5 5600G: Which Homelab Box Wins in 2026?

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-30 · 11 min · trend 65

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  CompactFlash as a Win98 Boot Drive: Transcend CF133 + IDE Adapter Walkthrough

  Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 9 min · trend 64

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  Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B on RTX 3060 12GB: Local LLM Throughput Guide (2026)

  Mike Perry · 2026-05-13 · 18 min · trend 0

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  3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI vs Voodoo5 5500 AGP: Win98 Performance Synthesis (2026)

  Mike Perry · 2026-05-13 · 18 min · trend 0

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  CompactFlash as an IDE Drive: Silent, Period-Correct Storage for Win98 Rigs

  Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 10 min