3Dfx or no 3Dfx?

I'm pondering to bring my machine down to put the old 3Dfx board back in, so that hardware-accelerated 3D would work again. I hate opening up this box, though; it's sitting halfway behind my desk, and, with all the hardware in it, is quite heavy; so moving it out of there to be able to take parts out of it (or put other parts in) is quite painful.

Plus, I don't usually shut it down either. Has been, like, months since I powered it off. It's been rebooted in the mean time for kernel upgrades, but that's about it; and going for a shutdown, as in, power off, makes me, err, uncomfortable.

Anyhow, my network board has been showing signs of imminent death. Maybe I'd better just wait 'till the imminent death has turned into premature death, so that I need to open it anyway; I can then do both things at once, swap the network card and replace the 3Dfx thing.

Yeah. Let's do that.