Nathan (PixelPipes)

@pixelpipes.bsky.social

662 Followers 42 Following

Retro computer and 3D hardware enthusiast, host and creator of the PixelPipes YouTube channel. Follow me to relive the glory days of 3D graphics! (He/Him) https://www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes

Shiny gold-colored US dollar coins, with the Cray Supercomputer logo embossed on it, and a logo representation of the CRAY-1 Supercomputer across the surface
A picture of someone's stupid face on a piece of paper that's been lit on fire
A shelf full of graphics cards on display, plus some boxed early-2000s games, figures, and other random memorabilia. The pantheon of my earliest 3D accelerators are, from left to right, the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics from Orchid, the Rendition V1000-E by Canopus, the ATI 3D Rage, and VideoLogic PowerVR PCX1 by NEC. In front of them laying almost flat is an ATI Rage Fury MAXX, and 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500.
Close up of a quad flat-packed chip on a green PCB, with silkscreen on it showing the ATI logo and 3D RAGE(TM) on the first line, followed by serial and other numeric markings underneath.
DEC PDP-8/I circa 1968, shown in a listing on eBay for $25,000. It has two large vertical panels adorning the front with a dark brown woodgrain veneer, and silver metal accents.
A hand holding a DFI MG-150 video card (yes the same DFI that would later go on to produce the popular range of LANParty series motherboards in the early 2000s) powered by the Tseng Labs ET1000-A, with a dark woodgrain table in the background
Brother CT-1050 powered on with the Windows 3.1 desktop displayed, and an About Program Manager dialog box with system info. Shows 2,576KB, or 86% system resources free.
Brother CT-1050 amber monochrome monitor, originally used with the Brother WP-3550 word processor. It's sitting on a shelf powered on with text on the screen, and a early 2000s keyboard in front of it.
A rift on Zach M. Stafford's Password comic about benchmarking with V-sync enabled
A set of four Stan Sakai-designed Ninja Turtles from NECA's new Usagi Yojimbo themed TMNT line.
A dull metallic rock shaped like a pointed tower, known as Terahertz
XCMOS setup menu with CPU clock divider options
Image of a 286 board POST screen
Image of the opening title for The Legend of Prince Valiant, a cartoon from 1991
A stick of could have been a perfectly good 30-pin SIMM but has been defiled with an absurd assortment of spindly and frustratingly fragile metal pins soldered along the edge connector by some company that probably worships evil or something.
left hand index finger with a band-aid over the middle joint
A Nintendo DS Lite, black, opened up and turned on with a screen showing the correct date, Crono Trigger in the game box, and a green battery indicator
Hellfire-Man, from Mattel's Masters of the Universe Origins action figure line, shown holding a badass electric guitar, chained spike mace, and a firey backdrop
Screenshot of a weather app showing Orlando at 25°F (-3.8889°C)
transition screen from the Computer Chronicles 1985 episode on the Amiga and Atari ST, depicting the Amiga bouncing ball demo with the caption "Battle of the Balls..."
Shelf of TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze NECA figures. Includes Super Shredder, regular Shredder, Tatsu, Tokka, Rahzar, a Foot soldier, Keno, Professor Jordan Perry, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. As well as a VHS copy of the movie, and another VHS of the behind-the-scenes special.
World's current most valuable asset
SiS Xabre 400 with a very tarnished gold colored heatsink
Robin Williams with a mustache
Fujitsu FM Towns II playing Raiden
Compaq Portable III with the error message '102-System Board Failure'
A Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card stood up on a turntable slowly rotating one direction than the other, with some colored lighting in the background
NVIDIA NV44 GPU used in the GeForce 6200 TurboCache cards, compared to a common US dime coin. The coin dwarfs the GPU die
Leadtek A250 Ultra (GeForce4 Ti4600) with a temporary replacement cooler plugged into an open test bench and running 3DMark2001SE
A Steam Machine crudely photoshopped with a concept faceplate that looks like a Connection Machine CM-1
Steam Machine with custom replacement front face plate containing an e-ink display showing hardware stats
A really bad electrolytic capacitor with the bottom complete bulged out of the body and crusty leaked electrolyte all over
Prototype of the unreleased ATI Radeon MAXX, powered on in an AGP slot
Dialog box in Windows showing a file copying speed of 186 MB/s
Dialog box in Windows showing copying speed of a file to the old motherboard RAID array at only 14.5 MB/s
Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardoid Dynamic microphone from 2014
Focusrite Scarlett Solo Gen3 mic interface, Fifine TANK6 microphone, and Fifine microphone arm mount
A Voodoo 4440H 3D accelerator card, custom designed by sdz-mods, in a shadowbox display hanging on the wall below a hand-made canvas painting of Ninja Turtles, and above a light switch.
A Voodoo 4440H 3D accelerator card, custom designed by sdz-mods, in a shadowbox display
Shelf with old graphics cards, three of which are propped up on little stands. The three propped up are (L2R) a PowerVR PCX1, 3dfx Voodoo Graphics, and Rendition Vérité 1000E. Two cards laying down in front of them are ATI’s Rage Fury MAXX, and 3DFX's Voodoo5 5500
A shelf in a glass IKEA DETOLF with a complete set of NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze movie figures, plus VHS and other accessories. L2R: Super Shredder, Tokka, Rahzar, Shredder, Michelangelo, Raphael, a Foot soldier, Keno, Donatello, Leonardo, and Professor Jordan Perry
Wall-mounted monitor with hidden Dell Optiplex Micro 3050 behind it. Table underneath with a wireless keyboard and mouse. No visible cables, hidden by sound dampening foam
A boxed and sealed copy of Tiger-Heli, a brand new 2025 release from Atari for the Atari 7800 (and modern 2600+/7800+, but who cares about that)
Old 20" 4:3 HP LCD monitor mounted to the wall with a single power cord coming out the bottom. Below is a simple rectangular desk with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Looks simple and clean