Last 12 Months Been Fun?

How have the last 12 months in PC graphic cards been for you?

  • Been Fun! The point of this hobby.

    Votes: 82 70.7%

  • Yawn.......

    Votes: 34 29.3%
  • Total voters
    116
  • Poll closed .
I've been having a lot of fun with it...except for the part where I can't actually get any of the new cards. :p
 
I have never bought more than 1 video card a year before, but since last November I've bought 2 8800GTs, 1 8800GTS512, tried to buy 1 4870 (from the NewBiiz HIS-4870 fiasco), and am now looking for a good legit deal on a 4870. Then again I might just hold off for the next generation which can't be more than 3 months away at this pace. It's been a crazy year in the world of video cards.
 
Can't believe anybody voted anything but yawn. The last year? It's sucked big time. Only the last few months has it even become halfway decent. The only reason it seems exciting now is because of how bad it sucked since ATI got bought out by AMD.
 
I was running SLId 8800GTXs so prior to the GTX200/HD400s it was yawn for me also.
 
yeap, It has been a great year. And ATI finally got the fastest GPU crown again. But the most interesting price cut was the NVidia's 9800 line's price cuts. some down by almost half in one night...!!!!!

Dragon, wake-up.
 
mgulbran said:
  • 8800GT Refresh/Lower Prices
  • HD 3000 Series Not Sucking
  • GTX 200 Series Overpriced (But then lowered!!)
  • HD 4000 Series Rocking It
  • 4870X2 Rocking It

With the hectic fun lately I just wanted to remind people why they enjoy this hobby......just maybe :)

Edit: If you are gonna post a yawn.......at least tell us why!
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I posted yawn because I lack the funds to have fun. :cry:
 
yawn but not because of the cards, because of the lack of games to really push them. pushing them because of bad coding sucks (crysis)
 
Well i dont have any cash to buy any of the cards, but i still had fun looking at them come out.
 
Fun cause I got a 4870 for $250 and I'm running my games at maximum graphics settings again.
 
its been fun. i upgraded my cpu and gpu within the last 6 months so its been pretty eventful.
 
It has been good, but since crysis, there aren't any games to push the cards to their limits. Only crappy console ports.
 
xcorat said:
yeap, It has been a great year. And ATI finally got the fastest GPU crown again. But the most interesting price cut was the NVidia's 9800 line's price cuts. some down by almost half in one night...!!!!!

Dragon, wake-up.
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I am awake, just not in lala land. I'll admit the last QUARTER has been a vast improvement. The fact is the 9 months before that saw little to no improvement in either performance or price. One good quarter does not a good year make when the other 3 quarters were the most stagnant 9 months in recent if not all of computer history.

A good year is a year where ATI and nVidia are leap frogging each other on both price and performance every 3-4 months and make our wallets cry because we just can't keep up. We had a few of those good years this decade. This last year wasn't one of them.
 
A basically 40$ (counting COD4 bundle) card that can handle everything on max at my low resolution??

No way I am voting 'Yawn' with something like THAT coming out. Hell, my old 6800 was 6x as expensive at the time, and wasn't able to run as many games as well.
 
Yawn...due to the fact that there hasn't been any new games that make it worth updating to a new card :(. Hardware is pointless without software unfortunately.
 
It's been fun, though I have had no money to be able to participate in it. I have seen many other people happy. I am still stuck with my 7800gs though, AGP at that.
 
you forgot to add:

-9800GTX huge let down and the top end crown race with GX2 & X2 cards from both sides.

The last 2 months have definately been interesting.
 
My 8800 Ultra is sitting here basking in its own glory on how it can still play anything...

That being said, I see an upgrade within the next 6 months when NVIDIA has maybe gotten the monolithic GPUs out of its system.

It worked with the original G80 based cards, but the new GTX260/280 cards just don't do it for me at the price points.

I like that ATI has come back to being awesome again though.
 
It has been fun. I came here a year ago looking for advice, built my rig with a 7950GT, got an 8800 GT and am waiting for the 55nm refresh/new gpu to push the GTX 260 to $200.
 
The list of new video cards is much longer than the list of new good PC games! :eek:
Is this normal?
 
RadXge said:
The list of new video cards is much longer than the list of new good PC games! :eek:
Is this normal?
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Depends on what you consider good games.

There are tons of PC games coming: Project Origin, Empire: Total War, Starcraft 2, STALKER Clear Sky, Wolfenstein, Doom 4(coming way later on), RAGE, Quake Live, Half Life 2 EP3, Far Cry 2, Deux Ex 3, Fallout 3. And many more!
 
ATI came out of no where with the 4000 series. The first reviews I read I thought "this must be wrong, it competes with a 9800?" I was thinking it was going to be positioned against the 8800GT all along.
 
yawn just cause i really haven't felt the need to upgrade, cause my 8600gt ddr2 can play all the games I want fine
 
-Dragon- said:
Can't believe anybody voted anything but yawn. The last year? It's sucked big time. Only the last few months has it even become halfway decent. The only reason it seems exciting now is because of how bad it sucked since ATI got bought out by AMD.
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Ok, I'm missing something??? I thought ATI and AMD have always been together??? how long ago was the buy out???
 
LOL, never ever upgraded before a full year in between having my new video card. 2 in 6months first time ever. Been real fun.
 
I love that ATI snuck up and scared nvidia out of its giants slumber, prices were falling all over the place. Stores had 9800GTXs for cheaper than 8800GTSs. What fun!!!
 
Yeah, I enjoyed seeing both ATI and NVIDIA releasing 2 new generations this year, prices falling, it was all sweet and cool.
 
My favorite part was when 8800GTX finally dropped from $500-600 to $200-300 within a few months after the 8800GT was released. I got an 8800GTX for $300 in Dec. 2007 and then another one for $200 flat in Feb. 2008 for my second PC after selling both of my 7900GTX's in SLI for $100 each. What a bargain!

Oh yeah, the 3870 did suck a little bit in that it was not always so much better than my older X1900XTX when AA is turned on. I had a 3870 for a short while but was so unsatsified with it, which is why I replaced it with an 8800GTX.
 
It's been fun for me. I built my first system from scratch, and watercooled it...

Jumped from an 8600 GT, to a 9800 GX2, then stepped into a GTX 280, and baught it a waterblock too. Just my CPU and NB had been in my single loop until then.

Now I want the next Nvidia GPU released to use as my GPU, and current 280 running as a dedicated PhysX processor, or better yet, operating in true SLI mode depending if Big Bang II gives us X38 mobo guy's that option.

It's been a fun ride, and still looking foward to the next release!

GPU collecting is fun! :D
 
I think having competition back now has helped the consumer overall, everyone is a winner out of this. (or at least the consumer is)
 
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