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Most aesthetically appealing Video Cards of All Time?

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kram182 said:
You getting it? It has RGB and looks like a Tron bike. All for just over $5k. Vroom!

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T4rd said:
Still like the look of my old X1900XTX.

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I would throw it in my PC now just to see if I could get it working on Win10 and see how it handles new games, hah.. but no DVI or DVI to HDMI/DP adapters that I can find for my monitor. That card ran BF2 and FEAR maxed out pretty well though for sure at 1280x1024.
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Even if the card doesn't work, the fan noise will scare up some FPS! I can still remember that fan noise...
 
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Agent_N said:
Starseige: Tribes. That is a game I have not heard of in a long, long time!
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I'm hoping one day somebody brings back the OG game and has it available for all platforms (consoles + PCs) with full KBM support. I've been through many a sequel or 'spiritual sequel' for the original, but all have simplified the game or tried to make it a modern experience (read: extraction shooter). Well, except for Tribes 2 (especially Tribes 2 classic) - that was a solid sequel.

I just want somebody to relaunch the game, modernize it a bit, and make it available on everything (like what Bethesda has done for Quake).
 
SeymourGore said:
I'm hoping one day somebody brings back the OG game and has it available for all platforms (consoles + PCs) with full KBM support. I've been through many a sequel or 'spiritual sequel' for the original, but all have simplified the game or tried to make it a modern experience (read: extraction shooter). Well, except for Tribes 2 (especially Tribes 2 classic) - that was a solid sequel.

I just want somebody to relaunch the game, modernize it a bit, and make it available on everything (like what Bethesda has done for Quake).
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Hi-Rez or whatever the guy calls his other studios has tried it multiple times.

Tribes 3 had a beta a year or so ago then got abandoned. Tribes Ascend was something like 2012 but didn't last long.

Tribes has the same problem as every other arena FPS. They're too skill based to become mainstream. That genre peaked in the late 90s / early 2000s. People want more to their games now. Hardcore arena FPS never make it beyond niche anymore.
 
sharknice said:
Hi-Rez or whatever the guy calls his other studios has tried it multiple times.

Tribes 3 had a beta a year or so ago then got abandoned. Tribes Ascend was something like 2012 but didn't last long.

Tribes has the same problem as every other arena FPS. They're too skill based to become mainstream. That genre peaked in the late 90s / early 2000s. People want more to their games now. Hardcore arena FPS never make it beyond niche anymore.
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Yar, and I mostly agree with this. The one thing, though, is that the OG two games had a very strong 'base building/vehicle' mechanic that the sequels/spiritual successors never really got back to (either simplified the base building or focused on highly skilled "LT" gameplay). I always thought with the advent of survival games or PUBG/Fortnite style crafting/inventory systems - there could be a market for a game of OG Starsiege: Tribes complexity.
 
I'm like LEGO Batman meaning I only work with black and very, very dark grey. So I like the non-RGB all black aesthetics cards of the RTX 50xx series from MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, etc.

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sharknice said:
Hi-Rez or whatever the guy calls his other studios has tried it multiple times.

Tribes 3 had a beta a year or so ago then got abandoned. Tribes Ascend was something like 2012 but didn't last long.

Tribes has the same problem as every other arena FPS. They're too skill based to become mainstream. That genre peaked in the late 90s / early 2000s. People want more to their games now. Hardcore arena FPS never make it beyond niche anymore.
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SeymourGore said:
Yar, and I mostly agree with this. The one thing, though, is that the OG two games had a very strong 'base building/vehicle' mechanic that the sequels/spiritual successors never really got back to (either simplified the base building or focused on highly skilled "LT" gameplay). I always thought with the advent of survival games or PUBG/Fortnite style crafting/inventory systems - there could be a market for a game of OG Starsiege: Tribes complexity.
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Guy named Erez started a studio (Hi-rez) in the 00's and bought the Tribes, Starsiege, Earthsiege, etc IP. Anyway, I followed the news for a while being a big fan of all the old games. The whole thing was weird in that the guy clearly had some attachment to the IP, but had zero interest in making a Tribes game that looked or played anything like the old, successful ones. Hi-rez craps out mediocre free-to-play games as vehicles for micro-transactions, the quality of everything is pretty much what you'd expect. Tribes Ascend started out promising, but they never did bases, vehicles were bare-bones, IIRC some classes and weapons were pay-to-win gated and Hi-rez then dumped the whole thing after they realized it wasn't going to be a micro-transaction payday. Tribes 3 was an even lazier cash grab attempt. It was just arena team fights and CTF - no vehicles, no bases - a bunch of default shaders and assets from Unreal engine and they tried to sell half-assed procedural generated skin textures.

Not holding my breath for a new Tribes game to ever happen, at least no so long as that studio holds the IP. If we ever get a spiritual successor to Tribes 2, it will be under another name/IP and from an indie studio. There was one that looked promising called Midair but they made most of the same dumb mistakes as Hi-rez between Tribes Ascend and Tribes 3. Midair (now Midair 2?), dropped base building and vehicles and became more of a high-speed, skiing arena shooter that no one asked for or wanted (like Tribes 3).

Base building, vehicles, and classes in a team-based FPS with CTF. That's the formula. Just do that, make it fun, and it could print money.

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Another shout out to the X800XT AIW, that card was awesome looking - probably the first GPU I owned where you could tell the engineers really cared what the finished card looked like.

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I actually really like the 4090 Strix design, I should have bought the evangelion one to match my 3090, oh well lol.

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The eva one is ugly af and somehow works at the same time:

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Honourable mention to the 3090 eva card too which I did get (for 1300...literally $1k less than the 4090 version)

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Great nostalgia up in this thread!

I think my favorite not listed here so far was the HIS 3870 (and 3850), I had one of each in 512mb - flashed the 3850 into a 3870, used pencil graphite to overvolt the gpu and memory for a bigger OC, and crossfired both on a DFI CFX3200. Overclocking back then was fun! Those HIS cards GLOWED when the UV cathodes were on

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The DFI yellow plastic (and orange on future models) glowed with UV. And crucial ballstix tracers had LEDs, but ran super hot so zip-tying some 60mm blue fans kept them alive and well. Fun times! I put a gpu cooler on the chipset too for more lights lol
 
rhkcommander959 said:
Great nostalgia up in this thread!

I think my favorite not listed here so far was the HIS 3870 (and 3850), I had one of each in 512mb - flashed the 3850 into a 3870, used pencil graphite to overvolt the gpu and memory for a bigger OC, and crossfired both on a DFI CFX3200. Overclocking back then was fun! Those HIS cards GLOWED when the UV cathodes were on

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Same here HIS was my go to card back in the AGP days. I have an X1950, a 3850 just like yours, a sapphire 3850, and MSI 3850. Those kept all my AGP systems going for a bit longer, and I ended up getting a XFX 4650 before I finally got a 775 system.
 
rhkcommander959 said:
Great nostalgia up in this thread!

I think my favorite not listed here so far was the HIS 3870 (and 3850), I had one of each in 512mb - flashed the 3850 into a 3870, used pencil graphite to overvolt the gpu and memory for a bigger OC, and crossfired both on a DFI CFX3200. Overclocking back then was fun! Those HIS cards GLOWED when the UV cathodes were on

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I had the 4870 ice version of that card. It looked nice, but it was loud as hell!
 
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