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What was hot ten years ago today? NVIDIA thought 3D was the hot ticket, AMD had doubled its market share and Intel's Itanium was struggling. I love our Ten Years Ago Today button. :D

Got some of the Stereo 3D glasses you've been dying to use with your GeForce based video card?? O.K. we don't either...but in case you do, they are available for download now on the NVIDIA driver page. Just pick your OS and look for Detonator 3D Stereo Driver.
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I seem to recall everyone using Athlon XP's and rocking Geforce 3 GPU's

Everything changed a year later though. Pentium 4 Northwood and Radeon 9700.
 
ahh the good old days when my p3 and geforece 2 didnt seem so old, or maybe i didnt know any better...
 
I personally miss when nVIDIA's drivers were called Detonators. Maybe it's hard for me to let go, but still. :-(
 
I love our Ten Years Ago Today button. :D
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me too! heartflowers to the genius that came up w/that brilliancy - best single change in page layout seen around here since [H]'s inception
 
pseudo22 said:
I personally miss when nVIDIA's drivers were called Detonators. Maybe it's hard for me to let go, but still. :-(
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Loved that name!! Cause I'm TNT, dynamite, TNT, and Ill win the fight...
 
Lol I remember people talking about that Soyo board in my programming class. And agreed on that Detonator comment - it sounded extra bold and dangerous haha.
 
SonicTron said:
I seem to recall everyone using Athlon XP's and rocking Geforce 3 GPU's
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Yep, at that time (or maybe slightly thereafter, I can't remember) I was on an Athlon XP 1800+ on an ABIT Nforce2 board and a Geforce 3 TI500.

SonicTron said:
Everything changed a year later though. Pentium 4 Northwood and Radeon 9700.
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Well, I stuck with this system until I got a Socket 754 Athlon 64 and a GeForce 6800GT a couple of years later.

I couldn't bring myself to buy a Pentium 4, even after Northwood came out, and the first few generations of ATI GPU's were so poor in comparison to Nvidia's offerings at the time that I was scared away from trying them for a long time. It wasn't until ~2 years ago I dared to try my first radeon (a fanless 5750, I had fallen out of gaming and didn't think I needed the fastest anymore, but I was wrong). I was eventually turned off by its drivers compared to Nvidia, and its poor linux support and went back to Nvidia only a few months later when I got a GTX470. For my current build I had read that Linux support through the open source driver had improved, and I had heard of RadeonPro, so I gave the 6970's a try based primarily on their much better bang for the buck than GTX580's.
 
I recall when Nvidias Nforce2 chipset came out and it was considered the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone loved it.

Only a few years later, Nforce chipsets sucked compared to Intel and AMD's own chipsets.
 
I hadthe Soyo Dragon Ultra KT-333 if I recall correctly. One of the best boards I ever bought. It came with everything at a time when it was rare a board came with more than a backplate, small booklet and CD.
 
jstnomega said:
from the Soyo Dragon Mobo review link: (page 2 of 5)



http://www.slcentral.com/reviews/hardware/motherboards/soyo/k7vdragonplus/

that kind of perspective is perversely enjoyable :)
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I had that board for about 3 months until I got fed up with it and threw it in the trash. That was the only one time I didn't get an ASUS board. The Soyo K7V Dragon was constantly crashing and blue-screening on me.

I bought it because I wanted to do a case mod - cut my own case window and all that - and I need something that looks good looking into the window. The Soyo Dragons were a beauty back when boards were either green or brown.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I feel sad that 10 years ago didn't feel like that long ago :(
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Hahah how many "old" guys are posting in this thread? *Raises hand*
I guess that's the mantra of time flies when you're (working full-time and not in college anymore)
 
:( All i wanted back then was a 9800 pro. Back then i was still able to run a 233MHz windows 95 on the net with no problems.
 
Mav451 said:
Hahah how many "old" guys are posting in this thread? *Raises hand*
I guess that's the mantra of time flies when you're (working full-time and not in college anymore)
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Time is perverse; the older you get and less of it you have, the faster it seems to go. That's bullshit, it should be backwards! :mad:
 
Mav451 said:
Hahah how many "old" guys are posting in this thread? *Raises hand*
I guess that's the mantra of time flies when you're (working full-time and not in college anymore)
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It is true. The older I get the faster time flies by. Back in college it felt like I had my Duron 650 Mhz forever before I upgraded to a Thunderbird 1200 Mhz. (I even replaced my motherboard so I could run at 133(266)Mhz rather than 100(200). Then it felt like forever before I upgraded to my Athlon XP 1800+.

In reality the Duron 650 was released in June 2000,(I picked mine up in September 2001) the Tbird 1200 was launched in October 2000 (I think I got it in January 2001 after saving up working over break) and the XP 1800+ was launched in October 2001. I pretty much got that one at launch.

So from Duron 650 to Athlon 1800+ was about a year for me, but it felt MUCH MUCH longer. Today I blink and a year goes by.

I live in perpetual fear I am going to wake up one day and be 85 years old and wonder what the hell happened :p

So, yeah. What do you consider old? I'll be 32 in January. I've been building my own rigs and overclocking since I was ~12 in 1992.
 
I'm one of the youngest guys in my engineering firm. When I tell them I'm still in my 20's, they give me the "Oh you're still a baby" (stop complaining) kind of dismissive wave. Heh heh.
 
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