Tomb Raider (1996) needs this Diamond Monster 3D (Part 5)

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Bits und Bolts

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We are one step closer to run Tomb Raider (1996) on the socket 3 platform using 3D acceleration! In this video, I am going to restore a Diamond Monster 3D - an original Voodoo 3D accelerator add-on graphics card from 3Dfx.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Diamond Monster 3D issues
02:22 PCBWay
03:04 Removing solder bridges
04:12 Fix missing leg
05:11 Fixing the frame buffer chip
06:42 Disconnected memory chip
07:09 First test
08:30 Artifacts
09:06 Fix artifacting
09:20 Second test
09:46 What's next

Пікірлер: 150
@Project-Aries
@Project-Aries 5 ай бұрын
This is an example of a quality human.
@ms-dosman7722
@ms-dosman7722 5 ай бұрын
Awesome repair! Most people would have given up on this card (as did the previous owner, apparently), but you did it! Another piece of gaming history saved 😊
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Yes, I am happy that the Diamond Monster 3D is saved! Working on the next video already! The card works great!
@infinity2z3r07
@infinity2z3r07 5 ай бұрын
Not many videos of 486 systems with Voodoo 1's exist on YT. And none to my knowledge compare CPUs. Excited for your next video B&B!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Oh, you will be impressed what socket 3 is capable of doing! I am also looking forward to release next weeks video :) Thanks for watching!
@mmitanka
@mmitanka 5 ай бұрын
You've repaired more 3dfx cards than I have seen personally working ones so far😂.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
And I hope to be able to repair many more! And some day, it will be time to distribute them! I can't keep all of them!
@br0wnd
@br0wnd 5 ай бұрын
Preserving and restoring 3dfx cards is always great to see! Nice to see a card return from the dead, especially with such a skillful repair.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Koutsie
@Koutsie 5 ай бұрын
I'm so happy you're making this *series* - not missmatched videos. Thank you 🎉
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@KiziKitty
@KiziKitty 5 ай бұрын
Tseng ET 6000 + Voodoo / voodoo2 , dream combo of the 90's
@Constantin314
@Constantin314 5 ай бұрын
these thumbnails are killing it, BuB, love them, so funny
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Hehe, thanks! Glad you like them!
@napalmarsch
@napalmarsch 5 ай бұрын
always a joy to watch
@krumpetwithhoney8567
@krumpetwithhoney8567 5 ай бұрын
This little series you have made is so good! I can't wait for the next one. I never would have thought to try and play Tomb Raider on a 486. Back in the day, I was amazed that a playstation running at 33mhz (ish) could run games like that, but my friends 486 could, at best, run Hexen. The knowledge that time and experience has given us is so awesome. Also, you have an excellent repair skill ability, The future WILL thank you for your preservation of old computers
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! I enjoyed refreshing my memory and tinker with 486 CPUs and socket 3. The next video is already finished and will be released tomorrow :) It is a lot longer than my usual videos 😅
@GodzillaTeenageRiot
@GodzillaTeenageRiot 5 ай бұрын
Every soldering video is like a crime scene! So much tension (literally!) I can not appreciate your work enough. Thank you so much for this series (nice cliffhanger btw)!!! Next video intro music: 2unlimited - maximum overdrive🎉
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Haha! I am listening to the song while I am replying to your comment... Thanks watching and commenting! Really appreciate it!
@GodzillaTeenageRiot
@GodzillaTeenageRiot 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts Just awesome! Have a nice retro weekend🎶🖥️
@spavatch
@spavatch 5 ай бұрын
Seeing ‘multimedia device’ during POST is always a good sign. Lately I’ve been testing an 8 meg Monster 3D II I’ve never used before. There was nothing in the way the card looked that would make me worry. Being listed as an ‘unknown device’, however, made me suspicious from the get-go. When Windows detected it as a ‘pre-VGA legacy device’ and refused to accept original Diamond drivers I knew it would be a case of plug’n’pray rather than plug’n’play. Many blue screens, critical errors, restarts and reseatings later I thought I’d give it another close look and all of a sudden I found a spot of blueish grey patina covering at least four contacts on the PCI connector edge which I have no idea how I overlooked. A thorough cleaning with rubbing alcohol and a needle made the card finally turn into a ‘multimedia device’ and load the appropriate drivers. It works brilliantly! 😊
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Great that you managed to get the card working! And Plug 'n Pray should be trademarked :D
@Choralone422
@Choralone422 5 ай бұрын
Excellent repair! I am really jealous of your soldering skills! Looking forward to the next video with game play footage.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you! The next video is going to be interesting! I am done with the footage and charts. It was certainly interesting to see from DX-33 (yes, a CPU I didn't fix) to the AMD @ 160 MHz.
@Skracken
@Skracken 5 ай бұрын
Excellent work! You're getting amazingly good at this!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@tigheklory
@tigheklory 5 ай бұрын
Love watching the pin repair!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Taorakis
@Taorakis 5 ай бұрын
Ahh there it is! GReat to see the old Monster running. Though I wouldn't have been spoiled by seeing a moving clip of Tomb Raider, you could've left the FPS Meter off for now or something.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Hm, I quickly scrolled through the video, but I don't see the frame counter anywhere. If you're referring to the bar, this is Lara's health.
@Taorakis
@Taorakis 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts Oh no, sorry if i wasn't clear on that. I meant you could have showed us a small clip how the game runs in motion, and to not spoil the surprise on "how fluent" it actually is, you could've left the FPS counter off, and reveal the actual FPS number in the next video. :) I had to check if there was an ingame FPS Counter myself before answering, as I couldn't remember the key for it anymore. But I found it! (F2) Aaanywway, looking forward to the next Video. ;)
@Clumpfy
@Clumpfy 5 ай бұрын
Damn that brings back memories. The diamond Monster was my very first 3D addon card. I was 11 years old and used savings and the whole Christmas money :) but god damn was I happy! Playing Tomb Raider, Turok, GTA and other games with so much better Performance than before. And Turok did not work at all without the 3dfx Chip which was so saddening because I had to wait 7 Months Till I finally had the Diamond Monster. Ahhh memories :D
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I remember Turok - a game I never played due to the missing 3Dfx chip! There was a DEMO version on one of the PC Magazine CDs, but it was not working well on my PC. It must have been in software render mode - I just have not good memories about that game.
@Ryrynz2000
@Ryrynz2000 5 ай бұрын
Legend
@googleevil
@googleevil 5 ай бұрын
it is better than any TV series from Netflix :) Thank you!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Wow, thanks!
@lexluthermiester
@lexluthermiester 5 ай бұрын
You really are getting good at these kinds of repairs! Very well done indeed!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@GadgetUK164
@GadgetUK164 5 ай бұрын
Excellent job again!!!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@mesterak
@mesterak 5 ай бұрын
You have mad skills dude
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Ale.K7
@Ale.K7 5 ай бұрын
Another awesome repair :-). Looking forward to the tests!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
You and me both!
@BSzili
@BSzili 5 ай бұрын
Another video, another Voodoo saved. With these early 3D accelerators all the 3D transformations were done on the CPU, so It'll be interesting to see how each processor performs.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I am already done with the footage for next video. I certainly was surprised 😉
@rodhester2166
@rodhester2166 5 ай бұрын
Great work.. cheers.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@MIJ-Tech
@MIJ-Tech 5 ай бұрын
I enjoy seeing testing of this kind of hardware pairing. I remember experimenting years ago with a Voodoo 2, Riva TNT, and a Riva TNT2 on a Socket 3 system. IIRC, only the TNT worked fully. The system would boot with the Voodoo 2 (and the S3 Virge card it was paired with), but wouldn't produce 3D. The TNT2 wouldn't boot at all. I suspected it had to do with the PCI implementation.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Probably, those socket 3 boards were the first ones to have PCI. It is very likely that you stumbled over initial hiccups.
@krzbrew
@krzbrew 5 ай бұрын
Amazing job, once again.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thanks you!
@ausnorman8050
@ausnorman8050 5 ай бұрын
Awesome work! Louise Rossman would be proud AF ;)
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you! Louis is one of those people that inspired me to get into repair - even though I am no trained professional.
@Slawek361
@Slawek361 5 ай бұрын
What a great series! Subbed! I have a lot of 3DFXes too :D
@willNotwork126
@willNotwork126 5 ай бұрын
The AI thumbnails of Lara are brilliant
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Haha - I get very mixed replies! But I do prefer the positive ones! Thank you!
@kasimirdenhertog3516
@kasimirdenhertog3516 5 ай бұрын
I agree, makes the videos stand out too
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I need to work hard on the next video to make sure it's worth the thumbnail. Mark my words: The next thumbnail is going to be legendary!
@ted-b
@ted-b 5 ай бұрын
Awesome, another one saved!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Yes! My collection of Voodoo 1 cards is slowly getting out of hand!
@theoriginalrecycler
@theoriginalrecycler 5 ай бұрын
I ran tomb raider on a 486 dx2 66, I don’t recall the board specifics but it had 16 mb ram and 4 x multiplier for the dx4 100, sound blaster awe, CD-ROM 2x. It came with 8 megs of ram and a citrus logic gld 54xx, then I went thru a number of matrox cards and end on a millennium. The ram upgrade for 8 mb was £399.00, 1994 I think ish. I went thru most brands of 3d addon cards and miro capture cards, I still have god knows how many win-tv cards. Somewhere behind my chair in the junk pile that is my shed sits a Corsair tower with an sli motherboard and. Matched pair of 8800 GTS cards and the holy grail, the sli bridge connector. Happy days
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Wow, expensive memory! But this is how it was. High end gear was expensive! I remember upgrading my 486 with a CD drive too. But it was a lot later. My parents got me a 4x drive. And with my Pentium Ii 350 much later, I got one of those IDE CD burners (OTI Socrates 2x 2x 6x, if I'm not mistaken).
@theoriginalrecycler
@theoriginalrecycler 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts I was a masters student and self financed my computer requirements. But nevertheless love the channel can’t wait to see more.
@pierrekuchmann3944
@pierrekuchmann3944 5 ай бұрын
Very nice channel! I like it a lot
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@r4z4m4t4z
@r4z4m4t4z 5 ай бұрын
awesomoe efforts again, nice video. humuruos the missing pin was stuck soldered onto another chip.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@3dfxvoodoocards6
@3dfxvoodoocards6 5 ай бұрын
Interesting video, like!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@thejeffchen
@thejeffchen 5 ай бұрын
Nice work! If you have access to 3D printing, you can print the shell I designed for this card so it's well-protected from future mishaps!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I have seen the shells you create for those cards - they are amazing! I still haven't had the time to get into 3D printing. One day maybe...
@laurdy
@laurdy 5 ай бұрын
You might find that the Cyrix 5x86 is faster with a 3DFX Voodoo due to it's better FPU
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
😉
@colonthree
@colonthree 5 ай бұрын
Yessss, I need this series in my life. UwU)
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Hehe - we are getting close to the finale.
@DefenderOfBoston-yo2tl
@DefenderOfBoston-yo2tl 5 ай бұрын
Another irreplaceable piece of history restored to working order, go Alex! 👏 Can't wait for the next video, it'll be really interesting to see how well the Voodoo 1 can stretch its repaired legs on Socket 3. Can it get anywhere near its potential or will the system still be bottlenecked somewhere else? Time to place your bets! 😄 Here's mine: A good experience with the faster CPUs, but quite a ways off from running at full (Voodoo 1) speed. Might just be able to touch that 30 FPS cap for Tomb Raider, might take the beefier Pentium Overdrive FPU @ 100 MHz though. Pleeeease don't fry the 5x86 though, cool it with a TEC if you have one at hand!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Hello 😊. I am done with footage and the Cyrix survived! I have 4 of those CPUs, however, only one was able to run at 120 MHz! I also had to increase the voltage slightly. The other three CPUs exhibit very weird behaviour at 120 MHz. And the Voodoo 1 did its job well! No issues from the card to go through all the benchmarks! Let's see if you're right in the next video 😉. Thanks for watching!
@micb3rd
@micb3rd 5 ай бұрын
Great, looking forward to the next video. I'm interested to see how much the card is CPU limited or not CPU limited by the various CPUs.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
There is a wide variety of CPUs of different types. It will be interesting. We have AMD, Cyrix, and Intel. I also added a DX-33 for fun... ☺️
@ctiborkoza8944
@ctiborkoza8944 5 ай бұрын
Nice Joob Broo 😉
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Thank you 😊
@thomasandrews9355
@thomasandrews9355 5 ай бұрын
I recently received video card from a customer for a Mac 7100. It had gotten damaged at some point in its life. I told myself don’t touch the pins…I touched the pins. They were so weak two broke. Thankfully they broke cleanly to where I could solder new kynar wire to them. But yeah, ugly vs broken
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
😂 Haha, I can imagine that situation...
@enilenis
@enilenis 5 ай бұрын
Tried removing a DX5 SMD package using hot air from a rare Gainbery 133MHz CPU and ended up destroying it. So I can quite understand your decision not to use the same method. It does destroy old chips, even if you do it right. For preservation, these days I am more likely to underclock than overclock, just to stress my parts the least.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I totally understand... Each piece I restore on this channel has a story. I try to find a balance between interesting content, but also preserve as much old hardware as possible.
@cybcarr
@cybcarr 5 ай бұрын
finally! :D
@jpmacunha
@jpmacunha 5 ай бұрын
Do you have a PowerVR PCX2 chip card? Like the Matrox m3d? Would love to see how it performs with a socket 3 system :)
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I don't think I have one of those. I have to go through my retro collection and catalogue things. Since my recent discovery that I have a scrapyard nearby, I am a bit behind on sorting through the stuff I find there...
@DerKlemm-Crafter
@DerKlemm-Crafter 5 ай бұрын
I'm surprised everytime I see your soldering skills! I can't even solder "normal" parts Well :D
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I am sure if you sit and practice a few times, things will get a lot easier. A microscope helps a lot to see more details and to get a feeling how flux and solder behave when they are heated. Just the extra detail and magnification plays a big part in the entire soldering process. But I am happy you enjoy the videos and I hope to be able to make many more!
@DerKlemm-Crafter
@DerKlemm-Crafter 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts thanks for your answer! Yes, I will practice a little more in the future. I'm Always Happy to Watch New Videos!
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Try to get good flux! Your skill improves immediately by a factor of 10!
@DerKlemm-Crafter
@DerKlemm-Crafter 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts interesting, thanks for letting me know!
@NaoPb
@NaoPb 5 ай бұрын
Good job. And interesting to learn of using flux with the wick. I'll surely be doing that in the future. P.S.: I did not see what wick you're using in the description. Could you share which one you use?
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I added the links to the description. I am using TOWOT Solder Wick which works quite well.
@joaoc_PT
@joaoc_PT 5 ай бұрын
Another 3dfx "soul" saved! (GTA2)
@xephorce
@xephorce 5 ай бұрын
i have this cards sound card brother. The Diamond Monster sound mx300 with the spdif daughter card. might have to part ways with it.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Nice! I hope you will find a good home for it!
@gaborszucs8935
@gaborszucs8935 5 ай бұрын
Hey BuB! Cant wait for the next video (again 😂 ). The big 486 (more like socket 3 actually) showdown... :D what motherboard are you using here?
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I am using a Soyo SY-4SAW. It may not be the fastest - and it is limited to FPM memory. I hope to find an EDO capable board with a good BIOS to tune timings of memory and cache. A project for the future :)
@gaborszucs8935
@gaborszucs8935 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts i found that your mobo uses the IMI464 clock chip. Its right next to where the jumpers are for setting the fsb. It appears to me that the S0 and S1 pins are connected to the two jumpers and S2 is most likely permanently connected to high. If you lift it off (or likely theres a resistor somewhere and you take that off) and leave the two jumpers in 50mhz mode it should make it 60mhz. In case you want to try it in 3x60mhz for the ADZ. I found the pinout on vogons. Whatever may end up doing though, double check first if the info i gave you is correct, and do anything at your own risk. :)
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
There is a jumper spot that is permanently connected with a small wire. I will check it and maybe do another mod video of this board. With the clock chip, I have two potential modifications for this board. I am curious if the AMD CPU would work at 180. 200 is not working, no matter what I'm trying.
@briantaylor3031
@briantaylor3031 5 ай бұрын
Not a huge fan of the AI thumbnails. It may just be because I'm focused heavily on the content but I preferred the picture of the device and some text side of things.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
The Voodoo and side text is still there ;) Soon, the AI pictures will stop. There is no need to have Lara on thumbnails once this series finishes.
@boydpukalo8980
@boydpukalo8980 5 ай бұрын
Impressive though wouldnt it have been much cleaner to remove the damaged chips and solder new chips in their place? How long will those mangled legs last?
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
The pins were good except for the one that broke in that corner. I had a bad feeling about it from the beginning, but I hoped it would last. Surprisingly, the other pins were a lot better even though they look bad. Of course, those pins will never be like before, but replacing a working 3Dfx chip would require me to take it from another card. I don't have one that is unrecoverable and could serve as a donor.
@alexbinder
@alexbinder 5 ай бұрын
Looking forward for the next video, and how about Socket 3 and Voodoo 2 SLI next ? Or a Voodoo 3? But guessing the CPU is for certain the bottle neck there.
@nalinux
@nalinux 5 ай бұрын
A friend of mine tried a Voodoo 1 with a 484 DX 100. With Quake 1, it was very slow, even with a small image (with borders). So I suppose V2 SLI will have the same problem.
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, I think even a single Voodoo 2 will be bored in a socket 3 system. We will see in the next video how performance scales with different CPUs. I will start from a DX-33 😉
@tony359
@tony359 5 ай бұрын
There is no badly scraped QFP IC which can beat BuB :)
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
For a 3Dfx card, I try extra hard!!
@bjoernhallandsen5287
@bjoernhallandsen5287 5 ай бұрын
Gibt es das auch deutsch?
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Leider mache ich meine Videos nur auf Englisch. Vielleicht helfen dir automatische Untertitel die auf Deutsch uebersetzen?
@djpirtu2
@djpirtu2 5 ай бұрын
...and after that Am5x86 you need to try Pentium Overdrive 83 😅
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Yes, it will definitely come. Still waiting for the fan to arrive.
@SobieRobie
@SobieRobie 5 ай бұрын
Another success! It becomes borring :P
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Hehe... I have other hardware I am not yet able to fix. Don't know what is wrong with it, but haven't given up hope. HDDs were the opposite - none of them worked :)
@SobieRobie
@SobieRobie 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts HDDs is a lost cause from a start ;)
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
100% - not worth the time finding 1 in 100 drives...
@PROSTO4Tabal
@PROSTO4Tabal 5 ай бұрын
your channel should be named pin master lol
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Haha :) Yeah... I didn't know I will end up here when I started this KZfaq thing 😉
@graealex
@graealex 5 ай бұрын
Let's talk about that thumbnail. Good lord heavens... what was the AI prompt?
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Haha :) That was quite easy: I need a picture of Lara Croft with a soldering iron working on a graphic card. Of course, I had to use some Photoshop skills to turn it into the final thumbnail and put the Diamond Monster 3D in there, but I am happy with the result.
@squeeeb
@squeeeb 5 ай бұрын
#savethevoodoos
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
ABSOLUTELY!
@B24Fox
@B24Fox 5 ай бұрын
The link for the Flux isn't working :( Great videos BTW !
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Hi, are you sure? I checked the link and it opened the correct page. Maybe try again.
@B24Fox
@B24Fox 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts Ok, so turns out it doesn't like me being in Romania :( Connected with TOR browser as from being from a few different countries, and out of the few, only Norway & USA worked... I'm gonna search for the AMTECH stuff from a different seller... although I know there are A LOT of fake ones. And yours seemed to do a really good job (so probably genuine).
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I bought mine a couple of years ago - and yes, it is past its expiry date. It still works very well. I posted the link and store I purchased it from originally. However, I have no control over them changing the product over time. I soon have to order a new batch though.
@B24Fox
@B24Fox 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts Dunno where my comment/reply went (or if you got to read it), but what I was saying was that it turns out the link/seller is country dependent. Thanks for the good info! I will look for another seller with a lot of good reviews :)
@orektez
@orektez 5 ай бұрын
bet the previous person gave up after that leg broke off
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Haha, true! It was right around the corner where the pins were loose.
@LetsPlayKeldeo
@LetsPlayKeldeo 5 ай бұрын
I dont know how to feel about the AI Thumbnail
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Maybe wait for the next thumbnail and let me know?
@chriswendschlag1856
@chriswendschlag1856 4 ай бұрын
Thats a pretty trashed ic. They def have quality issues soldering. Just jumper to the pin.
@ruxandy
@ruxandy 5 ай бұрын
Nice video, but those AI thumbnails are cringe AF. 🙂
@NaoPb
@NaoPb 5 ай бұрын
This one actually made me laugh. Lara Croft soldering a massive Voodoo card LOL 😄
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
Ah, sorry. There will be two more of those :)
@ruxandy
@ruxandy 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts, it's OK, keep them coming! 😁
@infinity2z3r07
@infinity2z3r07 5 ай бұрын
hey don't be the no fun police
@ruxandy
@ruxandy 5 ай бұрын
​@@infinity2z3r07, hey, learn to use punctuation marks! (this is me being the "no fun police" yet again)
@jddeluxe2242
@jddeluxe2242 5 ай бұрын
Which AI program do you use to make your thumbnails? 👍
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I used Microsoft Copilot - and some rudimentary Photoshop skills.
@jddeluxe2242
@jddeluxe2242 5 ай бұрын
@@bitsundbolts thanks, they look really good!
@vermillion4971
@vermillion4971 4 ай бұрын
why are you talking so weirdly
@pr0fanator
@pr0fanator 5 ай бұрын
To much of granulation. Once more and unsub... For now, thumbs down
@bitsundbolts
@bitsundbolts 5 ай бұрын
I'm sorry that the video didn't meet your expectations. You can always change your mind later. Thank you
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