Hi All, I’m Ash.

Here’s a story for you.. as a teenager, I remember sitting in the common room at my sixth form (think college – I would have been 17 or so) bidding on a set of 72pin SIMM Ram modules on Ebay. An update for an old machine that I owned you may think, but not so. I won that RAM kit for two reasons: It was cheap and I wanted it.

Yes, my friends didn’t understand either. When that kit arrived it likely sat in a box of other parts that I had collected, some more relevant to the working machines that I had up and running but mostly just because I liked collecting bargain computer equipment.

A good few decades then passed, I always had a PC for gaming, it was generally a little behind the cutting edge but that was never a problem. I would always pick the parts that gave the best ‘bang for buck’ over splashing out on the best. Games as well would come out and they’d go straight on the wishlist, I don’t think I’ve ever paid full price for a pc game in my life.

Now I’m well into middle age, with a few kids around, yet still just as thrifty.

I felt the urge to create something. I miss the old websites, I used to be glued to TomsHardware and Anandtech back in the day but it’s not the same now, Youtube is fine but it scratches a different itch.

The old articles about these cards are disappearing also, when an article does remain, the images are no longer hosted. It’s just a little sad.

So this is where my website comes along. Perhaps someone finds themselves holding an old OEM 2600XT or an unloved ATi X1300 and wonders, how does this thing perform in games? Well, for that tiny niche, they have my website.

Sadly, I can boast of no computer engineering background or any insider-knowledge, my articles are unlikely to have any particular technical depth regarding the architecture that goes into these chips.

I am just an owner of many computer components and I would like to give each and every piece it’s own little space on the internet.

Hopefully a few people a month will find something interesting to read here.

Seeing the recorded visits fills me with fear and happiness – great that people are finding their way here but, oh god, I hope the articles are good enough and not filled with errors.

I’m sure there are plenty of mistakes but most of this stuff is usually written late in the evening after the kids are finally in bed, it’s not the best excuse, but it’s all I have!

Oh and wow, is benchmarking harder than it appears!

Thanks all, you’re very welcome here