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Bo_Fox said:2 MB Video-VRAM (ATI), Matrox 4MB WRAM then expanded to a whopping 8 MB VRAM!!! All back then during the end of 1995... ahh.. the golden days during Doom ][, Rise of the Triad, and then Duke Nukem 3D demo in January 1996. Ahhhh.. it was the old days... when I was 16 years old.
Since there was no need for a 3-D accelerator with Quake1, which was software rendered anyway, I waited all the way until 1998 before getting a new computer. It was fun watching Quake 2 run like a slide-show at 1/2 frames per second at 1280x1024 in 1997!
With the new computer, it came with a 8MB Intel something AGP graphics card. Ran Quake 2 at nice frame rates (40-60fps at 1024x768). Didn't want Voodoo2 or Banshee because of complications. Went ahead and got ATI Rage 128 (Pro?) when it was released.. ran 32-bit color very well, better than TNT. Got another PentiumPRO 200 MHz computer with 16MB Riva TNT ($7000 PC during mid 1996 with 128 MB EDO-DRAM!)... But I quickly returned the Rage 128 when Voodoo3 3000 was first released at CompUSA in early 1999. Loved it!!! Upgraded to Voodoo3 3500 with TV tuner in 2000 and loved it! Perfect for the best online fps game of the decade--Unreal Tournament in Glide!!! It also played UltraHLE (Nintendo64 emulated games) beautifully!
Finally upgraded to Voodoo5 during mid 2001 (Twice as fast as Voodoo3) Then got GeForce4 Ti4200 in early 2002 when first released. (4x as fast as Voodoo5). I always had 2 computers so I always had the previous card along with the new one.
The next upgrade didnt come until 2 years later which was early 2004 with the Radeon 9800 PRO! I was waiting for the king Radeon 9800 to come down in price. People were so stupid with buying the GeForceFX series because it did DirectX9 only half-way right (and much slower that it had to revert to DirectX8 in games), when the 9700/9800 series already had full DirectX 9.0 support. The only thing that the FX series was better at was high quality AF (just like with ATI's recent X1xxx series), but that was only at 8X, and with more penalty than ATI's. It also was so noisy compared to the 9800.
Anyway, when I just got the 9800Pro, the X800 and 6800 series were announced right afterwards! That pissed me off, man! Because of that custom-fitted CPU heatsink on the oc'ed 9800 and the fastest Athlon XP-M, I had almost the fastest computer in the world for only a couple months.... argh! $500 sucker for the X800 XT---didn't believe in giving ATI or Nvidia $500 yet!
So I waited until the X800 XT All-In-Wonder dropped below the $350 price mark. It was one year ago. Then got a 6800 Ultra AGP for the second computer, by Leadtek with 3-way surround air cooling heatsink setup. I started hating AthlonXP's when Athlon64's kicked major butt, so ditched the motherboards and upgraded to PCI-Express. That was about 6 months ago.
So I got a new PCI-E 6800 Ultra from a Gateway computer that had silent 4-heatpipe heatsink on it! It was so fly! Overclocked to Ultra-Extreme speeds at only 55 degrees load. Also got a X1900XTX for the other computer so I could play at 1920x1200 with all games on my new 24" Dell 2405FPW. This beauty is the beast!
Now, a few weeks ago I just got a 7900GT with 512 MB of memory to replace the 6800Ultra on my "red" computer. A Zalman CPU flower heatsink ( CNPS6500-Cu ) was slapped onto the 7900GT so that I could overclock it to 7900GTX speeds at DEFAULT voltage!!! So, it's running at 650/1600 at only 65 degrees load. BEAUTIFUL!!!
Hey, before you complain.. I had much more fun typing the memories down and talking about it than just listing the video cards used. Just making a list is a lot less "moving", personally IMHO..
skeeder said:Diamon Viper TNT2 16MB -> Asus Geforce 2 MX200 64MB Ram -> FX5900XT (died) -> Sapphire 9800pro 128MB (died) -> Another 9800pro (DOA) -> Leadtek 6800GT 256MB (died) -> Asus 6800GT 256MB (I broke... ) -> eVGA 6800NU 128MB -> MSI X1900XTX 512MB
yeah, alot of dead cards, I don't OC as much as I used to now..
THRESHIN said:for you boys allergic to OC'ing, give it a shot when you want to get a new one in the near future anyways. .