What was your first graphics card Yea Forums? Mine was the GeForce MX4000, I remember playing Doom 3 at 20fps with it

What was your first graphics card Yea Forums? Mine was the GeForce MX4000, I remember playing Doom 3 at 20fps with it.

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MX440, which I was using up till June '10.

when ATI still existed

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Geforce FX 5600GT 256mb.
Got my first proper PC early 2003, and did a whole year without a GPU. Said card was my first major upgrade, all for the 2004's big boys (FC1, D3, HL2...). I'd finished Halo 1 without GPU earlier, but it rendered practically w/out any sort of lighting, so seeing all the shadows and lensflares 'n shit later on was mindblowing.

3dfx Voodoo3 card. 3dfx later became nvidia

ATI Radeon 4850.
I sold pirated games to kids at school to save up for it, and regretted not buying Nvidia.

I seriously don't remember but it was an ATI
something like this

I had the same card or at least an MX4000 variant
Played tf2 with it until 2010

The first one I actually remember was a TNT Riva 2. No idea what the computer we had before that had.
I also remember Diablo 2 crashing with that piece of shit card everytime I got into the act 2 MC Hammer level. I had like a 2 minute timeframe until it happened. Fuck.

Some Nvidia Geforce 64 MB one. The first I remember the name of is an ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB

Voodoo.

Voodoo2 baby.

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Found the box for it when cleaning out my parents' house

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ati does still exist

played crysis, tf2, and left 4 dead on this thing.

also remember the infamous capacitor plague at the time? my card died from that unfortunate event.

forgot pic related.

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They got bought out by AMD and it's not the same. Their head GPU architect now works for Intel.

all this bs in the thread

why do you make things up

the indian guy is not a gpu architect, he's just a suit with an engineering degree

Radeon HD 4850

I didn't bother buying a new PSU and my PC didn't have a fan so I ended up frying my computer after like a year.

I always had OEM systems back then. The first one had a Nvidia RIVA TNT2. The second one had an ATi Radeon 9600 Pro.

GTX 770

Call me a zoomer! Do ITT

GTX 660
I'm still using it because i'm poor

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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I still use it, because upgrading would be too much of a pain in the ass to bother with.

Buy a used 970? Or a 570?

Hard to upgrade with AGP. Do you play CS Source or something?

Diablo 2 worked fine on my TNT2.

geforce gt 610

simpler times

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Think first of had some shitty onboard crap.

1st pc i bought for games had a 8800 GTX

GeForce 4 MX 440. Almost same as yours.

In due time friend, I will.
but for the time being theres a lot of emulated games I'm going to be playing for most of this year

Ati Radeon 9800 pro

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Must have been great for Half-Life 2.

made UT99 run like a dream. Was also my first PC.

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Voodoo Banshee 16mb come at me you 12mb voodoo 2 plebians

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I remember installing this bad boy and finally being able to play Combat Arms. No other feelign like it.

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Mine too, great card.

Always wanted to play PC games when I was a kid but my parents would never get me a gaming pc. So I started extremely late

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Who else had to install a mod for Oblivion that stripped away all the lighting and shadows so your slow ass pentium 4 pc could run it?

The first one in a PC that was truly mine was a Radeon 9200. I played so many games on that piece of shit up to and including TF2.

radeon 7850ti

8400GS
Ran crysis on ultralow, 720p, 20-25 fps

Don't rush things. Wait for it to die because that card still runs everything anyway.

The first time I ever bought a video card specifically for games was the eVGA e-GeForce 6800 Ultra.
I had played the BF2 demo and was sold as a PC gamer. Before that I only used emulators on PC.

forgot pic

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What you know about source engine directx 8 son

fuck

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>6 million triangles/sec.
>286 megatexels/sec.
wut

This bad boy.

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6200TC
It could run Half Life 2 with low settings and 1024x768 at 30fps.

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mine was the same one, i bought it to play nfs mw at 800x600 and around 50fps with no pixel shader. good times

>all these posts that aren't a voodoo card
Jesus I am old now

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where are my FX5200 bros?

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1GB version (which was a big mistake, I had to upgrade the next year)

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The GeForce Fx5200. That thing was a fine beast for its price, could even play the original FarCry nearly maxed out. However it was no match for Oblivion even with the poorfag mods that made all textures and lightning look like abolute shit.

>8800 GTX
My nigga, that was THE card to own for so long

I still remember all the GPUs I had:
Geforce MX 440
Geforce FX 5200
Geforce 7600 GT
Geforce 8600 GT
Geforce 9500 GT
Geforce 9600 GT
AMD HD 6670
AMD HD 7850
Geforce GTX 560 Ti
Geforce GTX 960
Geforce GTX 1060 (currently on my PC)

will probably pick up an RTX 2060 when prices go down

Geforce 2 MX400. A piece of shit but I have fond memories of it. Trying to get portal to work on it was a fucking trip. Half Life 2 at 20 fps. Trying to get Dreamcast emulators to run Sonic Adventure 2 to no avail.

First I purchased for an upgrade Radeon 9600 Pro,got it for Doom 3 but came with HL2 as well.
The load times were awful. It was a beautiful game on my crt.

s3 virge

gtx 970, i used integrated graphics for 20 years

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Good ol' 8400 to play Team Fortress 2 with after seeing Meet the Spy
I WANNA GO BACK! LIFE WAS SO SIMPLE AND NOT A REAL LIFE THE ONION ARTICLE!

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Titán rtx on sli with nvlink
Try to keep up poorfags

First one I bought myself was the GeForce GT 430. After that it was the HD 5770 and then I took a long break from games. Now I'm on a 1070ti.

What do you do with your used cards? I've a 770 and I want to upgrade, but I was thinking of building an entirely new PC and using my current build as an HTPC, as both my mobo and CPU are pretty old.

Same here.

I was fucking stoked as a kid that the Half Life 2 Ravenholm demo would run on it.

I feel bad for you man, especially since the first card you decided to buy is such a fucking meme.

If its still selling for a good price, i sell it. Otherwise I usually do a new build and use the old one as a HTPC/emulation machine

I list them on ebay and basically sell them for free, my only request is that they cover the shipping.

An Asus R9 270x I believe

I once sold an old GPU I had lying around after I upgraded my PC and it was working perfectly, even then I told the guy who bought if he had any issues he could contact me again and I would give him a refund no problem, 3 weeks later he calls me and tells me the thing doesn't work even though it was when I sent him, being a good guy I said ok and gave him the money back and he gave me the card, turns out he managed to literally kill fry single chip of memory the card had (it was a 1GB GDDR5 card), probably tried some extreme overclock or some shit like that. Selling used computer stuff is such a headache that everything after that I literally just throw it in the trash, workiing or not.

They are all gathering dust in my closet. I just have no use for another machine and can't bother to sell them because most buyers out there are either scammers or obsessed bargainers, but I also have no heart to throw out perfectly good, if obsolete, parts.

Voodoo2, I think. That thing was great. Gave the PC N74-like graphics and came with like 4 awesome games.

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ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao

i had the same one

>build a PC in 2007
>Crysis runs like shit
>build a PC in 2018
>Crysis still runs like shit

I don't get it

voodoo

Intel integrated graphics.

trident 3d 4mb (!) runned like ass
voodoo 3 3000
geforce 2 gts
geforce 4 mx
nvidia 7900gts
ati 4770
nvidia 970
nvidia 1070

ATi does still exist. They were just bought by AMD.

8800 GTX for the first computer I bought and built myself. Had the shotty solder problem that plagued the cards, so I ended up baking it three or four times throughout its life span. Wacky fix but it worked, ended up using it until I got a 970.

That was such a piece of shit compared to the 8800 cards.

Pic related. The first gen Voodoo card. I got mine in like 98 or 99 to play Everquest.

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Graphics card in the first good computer I ever had? nvidia 6150SE. It was a piece of shit and I was heartbroken when I tried to play a 7th gen game on it, but I was finally able to play 6th gen games and games like FEAR, Portal and COD2 (poorfag until age 12) so that was enough for a while. Half Life 2 and Deathmatch blew me the fuck away
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First graphics card I bought? ATI HD3450. It was shitty too but it unlocked 7th gen on aforementioned computer.
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>the top of nvidia's mid-range segment was a piece of shit compared to what's perhaps the most groundbreaking high-tier card they ever released
You don't fucking tell me

9800 pro (from dad) 850 xt8800GT48906950R9 290GTX 1070GTX 1770 or what ever is after the 1660.

im neve going AYYY M D for video cards again.

I bought three (3) 8800 cards IN SAME YEAR (2007) and all 3 melted within weeks of use so I switched to ATI for a long time. Not even joking.

>tfw you enjoyed games more with that shit that i do now with modern hardware that can run games at 100 FPS

I mean, even when you take the price-performance ratio into account, the 8800 GT blew everything away. 8600 was a huge step down for just a wee lower price.

>tfw could have got the 1950 XTX back in the day
>mom apparently had gambling problem
>spend all my money because i had a joint bank account "just in case"

The first one in the house was a 1MB VESA card. The first one I got for my own PC was a Voodoo2 12MB. Played Half Life at 15-25FPS.

VOODOO 2 BITCH

hivemind

Geforce 2 MX 200

If we don't count the onboard RAGE graphics I had in my Pentium 2 box.

*Deprecates your card*

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Sometimes I wonder if putting that old system back together will somehow make me find that feeling again.

>just a wee lower price.
If you were lucky enough to be born or live in a decent country then sure. In third world shitholes those price differences between mid/high-range consumer stuff are blown way out of proportion.

This thing. Complete trash when it came to 3D. It came bundled with a Matrox Power VR which was pretty okay if the devs bothered to support the appropriate API. Which, unfortunately, almost never happened.

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Fuck men... Good times

I remember my voodoo2 in my... Hp? It wasn't hewlett Packard... I think it was an hp or gateway

Playing fucking Half life

Banshee here.

what was that one game that chugged and you just knew it was time to upgrade

>F.E.A.R

First one I personally owned was a Radeon 9500 pro

For me personally it was a Radeon x550.

My dad had an Nvidia GeForce 2, though.

I don't remember the piece of shit very well but it was likely the same as yours OP

>tfw remembering back when i didnt care about graphics or FPS
>tfw played BF2 at like 1024x768 at 40 something FPS

I can't remember my first graphic card anymore.
But my first ever self build/part decides PC, i used 750-ti.
It's such a great budget card that carried me through a good 3-4 years until i decided to switch it off for 1070 now.

And Bioware and Half Life 3 still exist kek

It's been a year since I bought it

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>still making shit up and telling stories to other anonymous liars

first gaming PC case?
current case?
fractical design meshify

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1. some intergrated shit
2. ATi Radeon 7600 64MB
3. Ati 9600 256MB
4. Nvidia 8800 GTX
5. Nvidia 660Ti
7. Nvidia 1060

Diamond Viper v770

Riva TNT, added SLI Voodoo2 to that computer later. Shit was SO cash.

The only thing I remember about it was that it was 8 mb and probably an ATI.

I am an idiot and also was a literal child at the time.

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>gamer cases

cringe

Geforce 4 MX 420
Half Life 2 ran ok on 800x600. I actually never played that much PC games for some reason, I just emulated consoles

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Geforce MX440 in my first proper computer, a HP desktop.

a 1050 3gb

Geforce 4 Ti4200
Played MoH:AA, UT2003, and half-life 2 decently enough.

i wish they still had cool box arts

kek the fuck is that box art

GeForce 8600 GT

Up to this point, my computers were mainly laptops, not counting a family computer from when I was 14 and under. As such, I didn't have the space for a dedicated Graphics Card and paid no attention to it.
I recently got the urge to build up a workstation for myself, and grabbed a refurbished business computer as a base to work with, since those served me really well for my laptops. I'm super tight on cash, and I was mainly going to use the computer to do illustration and other graphics work, so I opted for an MSi R7 240.

I later found out how it's the worst card ever and is bad at everything. But I didn't mind, since none of the games I play are triple A, because Integrated Cards don't play nice with them. Yeah, I can't play CoD at 1080p, but I can run Ys Orgin at 60+ fps, and I'm happy with that.

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280X Double Diffusion.
I built that PC 5 years ago. Replaced the GPU 2 years ago with a 1060 6GB. Night and day difference.

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Mine was mx4000 too then i got 8600 gt and then an GTS 450 and now I'm using 1060 6gb which i will definitely keep for couple more years

I wish more games these days would use exclusively the GPU that way we would only have to buy a new GPU every time we wanted to upgrade instead of having to build a whole new PC.

>I wish more games these days would use exclusively the GPU
That sounds awful and rife for exploitation. Can you imagine the price inflation?

i kinda want a android 18 themed case for some reason
maybe through in some cheelai stickers

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Should I just wait for the next gen of gpus if I want to do 1440p/144hz?

depends on game and what CPU you have

Riva TNT2, move over zoomers.

Was planning to mainly play mmos and I wanted to wait for next gen gpus because my cpu is junk.

was thinking of going from a i5 3470 and 1050 to a 980 and a ryzen2600
good idea? wouldn't be upgrading again for at least 5 years

Prior to the year 2000 my uncle had built me a shitty windows 95 desktop computer that ran Duke 3D and Doom. I have no clue what or if it had a graphics card but I do know it had an Intel 486 DX2 66 processor with 4MB of Ram and a Soundblaster card for audio..

When my parents actually bought a computer in the year 2000, it was an HP Pavilion with an NVIDIA VANTA card. Couldn't run WoW or anything super fancy but at least it let me play WC3 and Diablo 2.

Pic related.

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That kind of ridiculous box art was common in the early days of graphics cards.

Nextgen is right around the corner. A 980 wouldn't be enough

MX440. Piece of shit couldn't run a lot of games past 2004 because they were always asking for shaders which this card didn't have.

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Amazed with the range of games this badboy can handle. Even the ones that are supposed to be above the minimum requirements.

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this card was everything to me back in like 2010

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Diamond Viper V770, a Riva TNT2 card with 32MB of VRAM. It ran Tribes and Counter Strike really well.

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A 1080.

only made my computer last year, and it was a budget build so I got this 2GB card. currently rocking a 4GB Zotac mini one now but i'm keeping the 2GB one as it was very lightly used and to have as a fallback incase my zotac somehow shits the bed

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not even a ti? budget is 750 bux

what can you even run on a 1030? it's like half a 1050 and that only runs med-low

I was always a sonyshart, now I bought a 580 4gb and Im having a blast, I love playing total war games

Voodoo 3 3500 (from parents)
Some unknown ati/amd card that was cheap
GTX 480
R9 390 Sapphire (currently)
You can tell i like house fires.

>What was your first graphics card Yea Forums?
Mine was a Voodoo2 from 1998. Good times.

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nvidia 6600 gt. this was like 2005ish.

don't really have many games to begin with, but i could just barely run wildlands on it on super potato mode. it was still fun and playable at least

Are you people seriously so young you can remember your first graphics card?

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why did they stop putting 2 GPUs on one card?

fuck imagine 2 1660s on one card

You can't? It's a momentous enough for most people when they finally get a graphics card that turns their computer into a gaming PC that they remember the name.
Diminishing returns vs price

I think it would be harder for pc ports to be made

Doesnt explain why the removed sli

I don't remember, I do recall getting shit FPS playing Baldur's Gate 1 in the Lagfinity engine.

I can barely remember what I had before the 960. Maybe I just have goldfish memory but I cannot remember my first graphics card at all.

I had PCs before 3D accelerators. It's easy to remember the graphics cards.

my 8800gtx got up to like 116 degrees celcius in that fur benchmarking software

it worked fine though, let it run for hours, literally no issues

A GeForce FX 5500. It was my Dawn of War machine. Moving from consoles to pc was heavenly.

Matrox Mistake

S3 Virge.
>Got a new rig with ATI Rage Pro when Half Life came out
>Upgraded to twin Diamond Voodoo 2 cards in SLI when couldn't play Unreal
>Got out of video card rat race forever

my first was Chaintech Geforce4 Ti 4600. man I miss that thing.

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It was nice for the first 30 minutes until it bursted in fire for not buying the heatsinks

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What is this meme card user?

me neither. I think it was nvidia maybe

RIVA TNT2 M64

GF2 MX400

FX5500 in 2005 when i was 8, could barely run GTA San Andreas and RE4

it's a joke, a mashup of every important 3D card from 1999

Radeon 9250 I think, soon replaced by a 9550 which was awesome and I still have it, then HD 3650 AGP which was the first upgrade part I bought with my own money

As a poorfag, I'm still remember the time I pirated and emulated Zelda 64 on my Pentium III with NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 in 2004. What a good time to live!

If only it were that easy.

My first card

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I had a matrox G400 and then later upgraded to a geforce mx440. life was good.

my second card

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I will rebuild my old PC and run win xp on it

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3Dfx era = pure golden age of PC gaming. You can't deny it.

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how much would it be worth today?

$930.45

That's price inflation. Right now, I am not sure about its market value. Since it is extremely rare, I bet its price could be higher than $300.

I hope you kept it

Radeon 9000 pro

Still have the mouse pad from the shop I got it from 16 years ago.

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Yes, I am, but in the future, I have to sell it because I want to live in a minimalist house.

Voodoo 2. Just one, no sli. I'm pretty sure I still have it somewhere.

I miss seeing this picture on Yea Forums.

Well to be more accurate Nvidia was one of 3DFX's main competitors in the early days. Voodoo vs TNT was a thing until the Geforce series and the Voodoo 4/5 series came around. 3DFX couldn't keep up in performance and features. They folded, more as a result of management than one gen of bad technology doing them in. Nvidia was able to swoop in and buy up their remains.

My first card was an S3 VIRGE, which got replaced with a Riva TNT, followed by a Voodoo 3, followed by a Geforce 256, and after that I was on the Nvidia treadmill till GCN 1 came out (got a 7950) now I have a Vega 56 for that awesome RadV driver.

>It's on the carpet

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I have one of those(from HIS) but I'm something of a GPU hoarder

cant remember the last time i actually used a graphic card, but i think it was a ati radeaon, dont know which though.

>GTX 550
>GTX 660ti
>GTX 770
>GTX 1080ti

I stopped buying every generation because it was just too pricy. Went big on my latest PC Build about 2yrs ago now so that I wouldn't have to upgrade for a few years. I'll probs wait for the RTX21XX or w/e is the next gen before upgrading.

First graphics card? If we're talking 3d accelerations, then the Voodoo 1, back when they weren't discrete self-contained cards. Had to plug your VGA-out into it, then plug your Voodoo to your monitor.

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Hercules. I remember having to run a TSR program to emulate CGA on it.

>show psx fag my voodoo running tomb raider
>he literally pisses his pants
>asks his parents for a pc
I did a good deed that day

>tomb raider
Are you sure it was piss?

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tfw you didnt get to experience the crazy graphical leaps with graphics cards there were obsolete the moment you bought them

This right here

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What killed the makers of the Voodoo cards?

>gts 8400 (falling for the 1gb vram)
>HD 6670
>r7 260x
>1070
>1070 sli
>1080ti hybrid
>titan v
>??? Idk if upgrade to next titan or get a 3sli titan v

Two of these mother fuckers.

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A radeon 9550, which was literally just an underclocked 9600. By the time I got rid of it I'd tied fans to both sides with string and overclocked it from 325mhz to 470mhz.

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Mismanagement, they tried to milk their architecture for too long, over-extended themselves at a bad time and fell victim to a minority shareholder coup that resulted in them getting bought out.

mx440

Darn. So there are only like, 2 card manfuacters that really exist anymore, right?

>going from an MX440 to a Radeon 9700

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I remember all my Graphics cards
MX 440
FX 5700
GTX 285
GTX 590
GTX 780ti
Now I'm eyeing up an RTX 2080

Qualcomm, ARM, PowerVR, and Intel still make chipsets. Maybe some others in specialised industrial applications.

Intel would be the only one making viable desktop GPUs, and they're all integrated.

There's 3 GPU makers. Ironically we don't talk about the #1 GPU maker much here because their hardware is utterly incapable of playing games.

Still, the majority of the market these days is for SOCs, and Intel even though they're behind AMD's SOC in every performance category currently has a lot of inertia and is still the biggest GPU maker. Intel has been trying to soften Nvidia up for acquisition for years now, and long term Nvidia is fucked. As soon as SOC chips are fast enough to eat into the mainstream gaming segment where most of the money is to be made. High-end cars grab headlines and mindshare, but its usually the *50 and *60 series cars that usually earns Nvidia the most in the PC market.

Sounds complicated. But I have been wondering if its time to upgrade my gpu or cpu. Currently running a gtx 980 ti and an i7-6700k. It plays anything I want, but I wonder how many years they have left.

ATI x1800xl.

I probably used other cards like 3dfx, but I would've been to casual to know what they were at the time. x1800 is the first card I bought on my own pc.

RADeon 9k
spent half an hour walking in water in morrowind

it was janky as hell

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Wait at least until AMD brings their new cards out in a few months. If you generally keep your cards longer they're a better buy.
I have a 6700k as well, and while its falling behind its not entirely obsolete yet. I may build a new system when the 3000 series Ryzen chips come out, but I'm likely to wait another year or more until I can do an all AMD build for 4k freesync.

Sounds like a plan, wonder if my mobo could handle them its almost 4 years old.

Pretty much any CPU upgrade, especially between vendors is going to require swapping out the main board and the system memory as well.

Well unless the ryzen is a godsend I think I will stick with intel. But still I dont think a MSI Z170A GAMING M7. Is up to snuff when it comes to the newer stuff.

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VooDoo 3500 TV/AGP. It had a built in TV tuner and you could watch/record TV with it. Fun times.

>As soon as SOC chips are fast enough
Well, they won't, because of two reasons. One is HBM2 is too expensive and they've hit a memory wall to go much past where we are now, and two, if ray-tracing becomes more popular then integrated is sent into the dark ages.

I was sitting on the can a few days ago and began wondering if they made software that could benchmark your PC and identify bottlenecks in different applications (gaming, 3D rendering, calculations, etc). It would be pretty cool to help identify what to upgrade first.

I was so proud of this thing. I saved forever to buy it. Not my first by a longshot, but I was sure it was the future.

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Voodoo3 was the fucking SHIT

No fuckin' idea. First PC we ever had came with a whopping 133mz processor and 1 - 2mb of video memory. Couldn't even play Red Alert 2.

They have no choice but to force ray tracing now. People that know computers, and know what's worth investing in, also know that ray tracing is NOT worth the amount of money/components required to make it happen. The priority should have always been on 1080p@60fps, then 1440p@120fps, then 4k@120fps ...

I have no idea why the fuck they keep trying to use marketing buzz words instead of making what is actually needed. I don't give a fuck about ray tracing. Drop that shit and give me a 4k/200mhz+ card engineered specifically FOR that, then worry about your gimmicks after you've handled the basic necessities.

Nvidia is holding back so much it's not even funny. They could have released Ampere right now with a large die straight off, but since tons of people are skipping Turing they know they can make a nice incremental increase, and save the full potential of 7nm for Geforce 40.

That was my first GPU as well. Such a huge pile of shit.

Canopus Vodoo2, I think it was one of the Vodoo2's that had 12 MB of RAM, not the normal 8 MB

Surprised to see it already mentioned, but I used this too for a time because it was cheap and could fit inside a HP Pavillion. For 50 bucks it was adequate enough for turning an office computer into something that could at least run games. I don't regret it.

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>Voodoo3 was the fucking SHIT
Not really. It really performed better than other GPUs on the most games. The problem is that it is old and has fewer features than its rivals. Those "features" were somewhat useless at that time. The modern example of this is "ray tracing" - most games don't support it yet.

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Are IGPs valid?
If so, some sillicon integrated systems crap that ran Duke Nukem PM at sub 10 fps.
Otherwise, a VGA ATI HD2600 I think.

TRUE LIFETIME WARRANTY

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A GT 610.
Until then I really was not bothered abou graphix because I played AoE II and old games and had consoles.
Nowadays every friend I have apparently needs to build a 2500€ to play Hearthstone, CS:GO and LoL.

i got into the game pretty late, i had a shitty 2013 laptop and got my first pc built late august 2018 after being a consolefage my entire life. got started off with an MSI 1060 6GB. I cant go back. ive seen what consistent 60fps looks like.

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Whatever chipset was on Pentium 3 (800mhz).
Played on that shit for 3 years. Then got a real GPU (Radeon HD4850).
After that broke down in 5 years, bought a used Radeon HD5670. That shit would reboot my pc if I tried playing modern games, so I was stuck with dota 2 and pre 2013 games. Those were the years I missed out on all modern gaming.
Then finally 4 years later I got a GTX 1050t and played all the games I missed.

This must have been the most popular Elder Scrolls Oblivion card.

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you cant run tf2 with an 8400 anymore

rip

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Some Orchid card back when you still needed both a 2D AND 3D card/accelerator installed at the same time, because the early gen 3D GFX cards didn't do 2D graphics

zoomers wont know about this

I don't think that's possible because I was playing Oblivion with a Geforce 4

9600 GT could max it, maybe even do light modding. I remember everyone talking about it on on forums.