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Red Squirrel
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Is it bad that I have a GeForce 8600 GT in my main machine, with an Athlon X2? LOL. Yeah I need to upgrade some time.
I think before that I had an ATI 7000 series card, I forget the exact model. The others I don't really remember. I would often move the video card between PCs as I built, and come to think of it, I've only been through like 3ish PCs since 2000, when we got our first family computer and I got into computers. I don't upgrade very often.
I think before that I had an ATI 7000 series card, I forget the exact model. The others I don't really remember. I would often move the video card between PCs as I built, and come to think of it, I've only been through like 3ish PCs since 2000, when we got our first family computer and I got into computers. I don't upgrade very often.
S3 Virge GX2 4MB AGP
Voodoo2 12MB x 2 (Still have these cards)
Voodoo Banshee 8MB
Chaintech GeForce2 MX200 (Gutless pile of crap)
MSI GeForce2 GTS 32MB (One hell of an overclocker)
ATI Radeon 8500 LE 128MB (Bought it for Doom III)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW 128MB
Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO^2 PCI-E flashed to X850 XT 256MB
ATI Radeon X1950XT 256MB
eVGA 8800 GTX 768MB
Diamond Radeon HD3850's in CrossFire (returned due to lack of performance)
Diamond Radeon HD4850's in CrossFire (again, lack of performance - returned)
XFX 9800 GX2 1GB
GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB
GeForce GTX 485M 2GB
Voodoo2 12MB x 2 (Still have these cards)
Voodoo Banshee 8MB
Chaintech GeForce2 MX200 (Gutless pile of crap)
MSI GeForce2 GTS 32MB (One hell of an overclocker)
ATI Radeon 8500 LE 128MB (Bought it for Doom III)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW 128MB
Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO^2 PCI-E flashed to X850 XT 256MB
ATI Radeon X1950XT 256MB
eVGA 8800 GTX 768MB
Diamond Radeon HD3850's in CrossFire (returned due to lack of performance)
Diamond Radeon HD4850's in CrossFire (again, lack of performance - returned)
XFX 9800 GX2 1GB
GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB
GeForce GTX 485M 2GB
wra18th
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My first card was some ISA thing from Jaton. Had a whole 512K of memory. I was running Windows 3.1 and Wolfenstien 3D was too much for it. Never thought I'd fill my 60MB Conner hard drive.
Oh man I remember being so excited that my dad bought me first video card it all started with:
S3 Savage 3D
geForce 3 200ti
geForce 4 4600ti
geForce 5200FX
Radeon 9800Pro
Radeon X1950XT
GeForce 8800GTS
GeForce 8800GTS(SLI'd with the one above)
Radeon 6950 2GB (Shaders unlocked to 6970)
Now I'm debating buying another Radeon 6950 2GB risking that it might not unlock or waiting a month or two and just buying a 7000 series and selling my 6950 to my kid brother. Decisions decisions.
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.8Ghz
Koolance CPU-350
Asus P5E Deluxe
4GB (2x2GB) OCZ Reaper 1600 DDR2
Radeon 6950 2GB (Unlocked Shaders)
SAMSUNG S27A950D 1200x1080@120hz
Intel 120GB 320 SSD
2x WD 2TB BLACK RAID 1
Modified Antec TwleveHundred
PC Power & Cooling 1k Watt PSU
S3 Savage 3D
geForce 3 200ti
geForce 4 4600ti
geForce 5200FX
Radeon 9800Pro
Radeon X1950XT
GeForce 8800GTS
GeForce 8800GTS(SLI'd with the one above)
Radeon 6950 2GB (Shaders unlocked to 6970)
Now I'm debating buying another Radeon 6950 2GB risking that it might not unlock or waiting a month or two and just buying a 7000 series and selling my 6950 to my kid brother. Decisions decisions.
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.8Ghz
Koolance CPU-350
Asus P5E Deluxe
4GB (2x2GB) OCZ Reaper 1600 DDR2
Radeon 6950 2GB (Unlocked Shaders)
SAMSUNG S27A950D 1200x1080@120hz
Intel 120GB 320 SSD
2x WD 2TB BLACK RAID 1
Modified Antec TwleveHundred
PC Power & Cooling 1k Watt PSU
I don't know what the first video card I ever used was, but I can tell you it was in a computer that had an 8088 processor and it only displayed 4 colors. You had to manually boot the system with a 5 1/4" floppy and type in the autoexec.bat commands. I remember my parents got me some educational video games and they literally took like 5 minutes to load.
Imagine the upgrade when my dad bought a new PC with a 486 processor and an ATI ISA video card that could display 256 colors! Loaded my educational video game programs instantly! Wow! Later this video card proved to be a limiting factor when I could not play Zork Nemesis because it could not display more than 256 colors. Zork Nemesis required 16-bit color to run. I tried every method of getting it to work but it just wouldn't fly.
Probably the "best" video card I ever had was the original 3dfx voodoo followed by the voodoo2. I think the 3dfx was the first card I bought with my own money. Those were the days though, when all you needed was the 3dfx card and never had to worry about performance in games ever again. Maximum detail everything and everything ran great! You were either in the big leagues with a 3dfx card and using Glide for everything or you had crappy 3D software rendering.
Imagine the upgrade when my dad bought a new PC with a 486 processor and an ATI ISA video card that could display 256 colors! Loaded my educational video game programs instantly! Wow! Later this video card proved to be a limiting factor when I could not play Zork Nemesis because it could not display more than 256 colors. Zork Nemesis required 16-bit color to run. I tried every method of getting it to work but it just wouldn't fly.
Probably the "best" video card I ever had was the original 3dfx voodoo followed by the voodoo2. I think the 3dfx was the first card I bought with my own money. Those were the days though, when all you needed was the 3dfx card and never had to worry about performance in games ever again. Maximum detail everything and everything ran great! You were either in the big leagues with a 3dfx card and using Glide for everything or you had crappy 3D software rendering.
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Radeon 9600 SE - Used temperately until I saved up the $300 for my 9800 Pro. Still use it in my HTPC.
Radeon 9800 Pro - Great card. Played battlefield 1942 pretty well.
GeForce 6600 GT - First PCI-Express card I owned.
GeForce 7600 GT - Bought for my brother's 939 machine.
GeForce 7900 GS - Another great card. Stuck on a giant fanless heatpipe setup. Was the fastest card that I owned which worked with Nvidia's original 3D Stereo Vision software. It was a beat... Could run the old CS:S at > 90FPS on max settings back in the day.. Someday I'd like to buy two 7900 GT's and SLI them to build another 3D Stereo machine.
GeForce 8800 GT - My brother's current videocard.
Nvidia 260 GTX - My current videocard. Was a major step up from the old 7900 GS I was running. Since the update, I can run CS:S at ~250 fps and 1080P. Good enough for me.
Radeon 9800 Pro - Great card. Played battlefield 1942 pretty well.
GeForce 6600 GT - First PCI-Express card I owned.
GeForce 7600 GT - Bought for my brother's 939 machine.
GeForce 7900 GS - Another great card. Stuck on a giant fanless heatpipe setup. Was the fastest card that I owned which worked with Nvidia's original 3D Stereo Vision software. It was a beat... Could run the old CS:S at > 90FPS on max settings back in the day.. Someday I'd like to buy two 7900 GT's and SLI them to build another 3D Stereo machine.
GeForce 8800 GT - My brother's current videocard.
Nvidia 260 GTX - My current videocard. Was a major step up from the old 7900 GS I was running. Since the update, I can run CS:S at ~250 fps and 1080P. Good enough for me.
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