Krenum
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Radeon 6870 1GB! Oh yeah, its the one I won at [H]ardforum TF2 event in Dallas 4 years ago? Maybe longer than that....
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Radeon 6870 1GB! Oh yeah, its the one I won at [H]ardforum TF2 event in Dallas 4 years ago? Maybe longer than that....
Sell that card to the miners and get another 1070 / 980Ti
So why are you guys with reasonably high class AMD fall back cards not mining them? No second rig or just couldn't bother?
I personally don't worry about a card failure, the last card I had that failed was a GeForce 4 Ti4400, and it failed well after it was replaced as my primary card and after I had put it though some serious abuse.
I usually sell when the new card comes out, and I typically get at least half my money back so it makes upgrading a lot more affordable. However, I do like having a spare around with my 750 Ti, but I bought it specifically as an extra card when I was originally waiting for the 980 to come out.Yeah I mean a lot of people don't have the luxury OR desire to keep extra crap around "just in case". But I find some people get strangely attached to their "last card" ...."I'm just going to put this baby back in the box and stash it on the shelf, just in case"
My old gigabyte Windforce GTX 460 SOC
My fallback card is a Visa. I go buy a new video card with it when the old video card dies.
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I drive 10 minutes to MicroCenter.I think it takes four days for anyone to get a delivery to me. I'm kind of jealous.
Gangsta ass 610gt nigga!
It's worse than intel integrated. It lags on aero @ 1440....
I drive 10 minutes to MicroCenter.
This is [H]ardForum. If you want a reach around you should consider going to the Anandtech forums.Now you're just rubbing it in, I at least expect a friendly finish if you're going to be that rough.
I mean I posted my actual fallback card, but I have so many bloody cards, I could fall back to pretty much anything except the tier one cards. Though I do have a couple Furys in a drawer somewhere and there's a couple 1070's downstairs but I got them covered in sawdust so I'd have to clean them... frag it. I could probably live on the GT 610 PCI indefinitely.
I actually dont have any extras. If anything breaks Ill just replace it. I also have like 4 laptops I can use.
S3 Virge
Remember when I had a voodoo .. my buddys shit beat me... edit: or did i beat him ?
LOL
http://vintage3d.org/virgemx.php#sthash.kK4dusCH.dpbs
Feast your eyes on this beast. Behold the mighty Virge VX with a massive 8MB of VRAM! I only keep this around to test stuff with, it's my only remaining PCI video card. Good enough to test POST etc, but windows? 1024x768 is the max for this bad boy. I think I was using this in 96 or 97 as my 2D card with my 3dfx monster voodoo 1 card. GL quake was awesome. The 3D on this POS was useless.
LOL, that's bloody excellent. I keep a GT 610 PCI around for the same reason.
Well to be fair, a GT 610 isn't useless, the Virge is. This thing can barely draw a desktop. If I had a GT 610 PCI card, this thing would be in the garbage. Maybe.
I've scrounged quite a few 610, 620 and a 730 out of the open box/clearance bin from Microcenter. Most for like $10-15 each. They're ok generic workstation cards.
I have a Matrox AGP card around here somewhere too, if anyone still has an AGP slot, you can have it for free just pay shipping. PM me. (edit - looked on ebay, it might be a G450, it's a dual head VGA card that probably came out of an early 2000's era workstation or server)