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    Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    The company's fastest GTX 980 and, no, this isn't an April fool's day joke.
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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    20th anniversary of what?
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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    20th anniversary of what?
    1995

    It's not an ASUS anniversary (late 80s?) and Nvidia was founded in 1993 so it's not that either.

    Edit: 20 years since their first graphics card, from a site that put a bit more effort in to the story
    Last edited by virtuo; 01-04-2015 at 04:21 PM.

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    20th anniversary of what?
    Since the first ASUS graphics card I believe.

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    The next question is what was ASUS 1st graphics card?

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    ASUS 3DExPlorer V3000 is the first one I can find that's Asus branded. It's a Riva 128 variant. They (Asus) claim that it added x-ray vision to 3D gaming.

    Personally, I was using a Verge at the time, and jumped ship immediately to 3dfx when they became available in '97, and really don't recall much about the early days of Asus. Back then, it really wasn't considered 'safe' yet to deal with 'foreign' companies, many of which were doing a lot of copyright/patent rip-offs, and doing it in a very poor manner.
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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    Very nice design.

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    This card would go lovely with Asus' gold and black mother boards. Someone should do a (really unique) gold/black build...maybe I should...yay, more ways to spend money!

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    I've got one of the asus black and gold motherboards....i have my eye on this now :/ where to buy?

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    Quote Originally Posted by GuidoLS View Post
    ASUS 3DExPlorer V3000 is the first one I can find that's Asus branded. It's a Riva 128 variant. They (Asus) claim that it added x-ray vision to 3D gaming.

    Personally, I was using a Verge at the time, and jumped ship immediately to 3dfx when they became available in '97, and really don't recall much about the early days of Asus. Back then, it really wasn't considered 'safe' yet to deal with 'foreign' companies, many of which were doing a lot of copyright/patent rip-offs, and doing it in a very poor manner.
    The "x-ray" 3D was a driver that caused a lot of issues for quite a few years. There's some pretty infamous counterstrike video's where someone can clearly see through walls (single bullet headset through a wall that would take about half the map to get to the other side of).
    3DFX were still way ahead until the riva tnt2 ultra then it was all about nvidia. ATI came a bit later to the 3D party (rather than using voodoo based pass through boards to provide 3D, kinda like physX which we'd all been using till then) and it started down the current paths to AMD/Nvidia.

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    how many times will repackage the same 980 and call it a 980 lol does it do 4k full settings no then its pointless and boring

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    Re: Asus unveils GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU

    Idiot edition. Its a depressing time to be an enthusiast but,but l33t gamerz PC masterz race with lights and bling and stuff.

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