erek
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I made it in after a John Carmack quote.
Most I ever spent on a video card. It did also last me the longest (7 years), though.I remember my 9700 Pro. Man those were the days.
I had a Radeon 7500 and then got the 9700 Pro.I thought the 8500 was a great card. Probably ATi's first really good card. I originally bought a 8500 64GB but returned and exchanged it for a GF3 ti200 (funny how the naming changed over the years), because the drivers sucked. 6 months later I got a 8500 128GB and it was great. It was the beginning of ATi competing hard and its great driver development lead directly into the 9000 series jugernaut! Had great TV-out which was important for me back in the day. That card lasted me forever and later lived on for so long as a media center GPU for old CRT video out.
Man GeForce FX...what a colossal eff up that was.Half life 2 was a huge killer app for the 9800xt. Geforce 5800s weren't doing shit
That's the truth!! I had my 9700 Pro and the first game I played was MOHAA!I remember my 9700 Pro. Man those were the days.
I had a 9800 pro paired with an Athlon XP 2100+, 1GB DDR400 and (much missed) Abit NF7-S 2.0. Oh boy! MOHAA was the game to play indeed. That card lasted me 7 years of intense, daily gaming.That's the truth!! I had my 9700 Pro and the first game I played was MOHAA!
very cool building! I guess now this building has an AMD logo slapped on it?
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Also I like how he show a pic of a Kubota tractor and is like, yeah that same Kubota lol!
I had a 9800 pro paired with an Athlon XP 2100+, 1GB DDR400 and (much missed) Abit NF7-S 2.0. Oh boy! MOHAA was the game to play indeed. That card lasted me 7 years of intense, daily gaming.
Tell you what is funny, even in 2019 when HardOCP ended, samples that came from Markam, still said "ATI" on the return address label for FedEX/UPS. Guess someone never changed it on the account. I pointed it out to people at AMD for years. Maybe it is changed now, dunno.I guess now this building has an AMD logo slapped on it?
I grew up in Unionville, close to there, drove by it all the time over the years way back then!
NVIDIA had their share of hacks and cheats over the years...The 3dmark driver shenanigans didnt help either
That board was a clocking beast but dayym that north bridge was blistering hot. Finally found a miniature heat pipe cooler for mine a year or so after touching it the first time.Thats pretty close to what my system at the time was same 9800 pro and an Abit NF7-S, AlthonXP 2500+M and 1.5 GB DDR 400.
I had a (noisy) fan on mine too. There was no point for getting that expensive mobo without overclocking, so I kept the Athlon running at FSB 400 MHz, 1:1 with the DDR400 memory and a fan blowing sideways into the open case.That board was a clocking beast but dayym that north bridge was blistering hot. Finally found a miniature heat pipe cooler for mine a year or so after touching it the first time.
That was right around the same time as the acquisition. Looking up release dates, the x1950 Pro came out Oct 17, 2006 and the AMD acquisition of ATI finalized on Oct 25, 2006.I think the last ATI card I had was the Gecube X1950Pro AGP, I can't recall if AMD had acquired ATI at that time.
That board was a clocking beast but dayym that north bridge was blistering hot. Finally found a miniature heat pipe cooler for mine a year or so after touching it the first time.
This. I can still remember how much I was in awe of the visual quality that the card’s FP16 pipeline enabled on tech demos. Oh my… and it got performance to boot, nothing quite like it since.My 9700 pro remains my favorite graphics adapter of all time.
I have bought quite a few graphics cards between the voodoo1 and the 9700pro, may have bought a few after. For the life of me can't remember which ones, though.This. I can still remember how much I was in awe of the visual quality that the card’s FP16 pipeline enabled on tech demos. Oh my… and it got performance to boot, nothing quite like it since.
Interestingly, I was hoping that the RTX cards from nVidia would get me just as excited with the outlook for global illumination in real time, but I never got the same warm fuzzy feeling again like with the 9700 Pro.
That was my favorite card of all time.I remember my 9700 Pro. Man those were the days.