Modern PC upgrades are a joy whose cost is far more financial than laborious: graphics cards cost as much as London houses now, but they’re much easier to slot into your PC and for Windows to recognise them than they once were. There’s a lot to love about slinging in a fresh GPU in 2024 and watching your framerates soar – but it can’t compare to how utterly transformative a new graphics card was in the early days of 3D.
Let me set the scene: it’s the summer of 2000. Most people are busy listening to for a year now with my Voodoo 2 and it’s been like I’m peering at it through a periscope smeared in lip balm. Enough is enough. It’s time to put into motion a plan I’ve been hatching for some time, using the wisdom printed in PC Gamer’s hardware section and various components from its many mail order ads. I’m going to build a new PC from scratch.
