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What cards have you found cool and what were naff.
Also what will happen if you could read a crystal ball..
just for fun.
I have been interested in graphics since PCs only had Green or Amber
What cards have you found cool and what were naff.
Also what will happen if you could read a crystal ball..
just for fun.
Oooh... Blimey
Some awful Trident VGA card was the first thing I had (with my Pentium 120MHz)
Then a Matrox Millenium 2 (overclocked P120 to P133 by then)
Then the Matrox + a voodoo 1 (bought a P200 MMX)
GF2 MX (first AGP card - paired with a fearsome 600MHz Celeron + VIA chipset mobo!)
GF2 GTS (P3 800MHz - ditched the VIA chipset for a i815 'b step' mobo)
GF3 Ti 200 (overclocked to Ti500 speeds... my i815 b step mobo eventually let me upgrade to a Celeron Tualatin 1100Mhz @ 1466MHz with this card too)
Radeon 8500LE (swaped it for the TI for a bit...)
Radeon 9600 non pro (it was cheap... and not much faster than the 8500LE... upgraded to an XP1700+ and nForce2 mobo by then)
Radeon 9800 SE AIW (XP1700+ running at 2.1GHz by now... sold it after a couple of months - got £90 or so IIRC)
Radeon 9800 Pro (bought when the prices dropped to ~ £120 with the £90 from the AIW... Got an XP-M 2500+ soon after... Still running around 2.3GHz to 2.4GHz depending on what I feel like...)
Have since then flashed the pro to an XT and clocked it up a bit higher than XT speeds... Have stuck an arctic cooler on it too (new version) but to be honest not that impressed with it
Next upgrade will depend a lot on what happens between now and when I can afford it ... If I had the cash today it would be a 6800GT
Last edited by malfunction; 16-12-2004 at 06:57 PM.
Voodoo3
Voodoo5
STB TNT
Geforce 2GTS
Geforce3 Ti200
ATI 9500 Pro
ATI 9700 Pro
ATI 9800 Pro
ATI 9800SE AIW softmod to Pro
3x Geforce 6800GT
ATI X800 Pro VIVO =>XT PE
nVidia TNT2
nVidia Geforce2 MX400
ATi Radeon 9600
Hmm, short list!
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
256k CirrusLogic card
4mb S3 Virge 3d
4mb Trident AGP card
8 mb STB agp card
16mb Creative Voodoo Banshee
12mb Voodoo2
Another Voodoo2 sli in config with the banshee
16mb Voodoo3 3500 + the 2 v2's
Voodoo5 (5500?) agp only changed to the gf4 cos the v5 would not play BF1942
Albatron GF4 TI4200 (clocked well past ti4600 speeds i loved this card !)
ATI 9500Pro
ATI 9600XT
ATI 9800Pro
Next upgrade ? dunno tbh the 6600gt's look like good value, but then the x800xl has just be launched so i might if i flog enuff get that instead
sis something (not onboard)
ati 9200se
nfsu2, cod UO, and nba 2005 smooooth
only ever had a few,
intel 810 thing 8mb
matrox 16mb thing
geforce 4 mx420 64mb (pci)
radeon 9700 pro 128mb
the joys of the gfx
Trident
Voodoo
Voodoo 2 12MB
Matrox mystique 8MB
Geforce 256 16MB
Matrox G200
Geforce 3 ti200 32MB
Geforce 4 ti4200 64MB
Radeon 9700 np 128MB
Radeon 9800 pro 128MB
The old cards were bad my first real "Ha ha" graphics card apart from hercules card etc was a cirrus logic VESA local Bus with 486 CPU , then diamond stealth 3D 2000 Video funny thing was no 3D I could find...
i then splashed out on a Matrox Millenium II without much research I saw no difference from the 3D 2000 the d-sub video output was very good quality for my crt screen, this is what Matrox was for really. Now have a Radion 9800 pro flashed as XT and have just started playing X2 The Threat, it seems to be the first 3D I can play without getting Dizzy quickly ! Apex you seem to have gone a similar way, along with many I suppose. None of the bad ones where cheap I remember geting my VL Bus
cirrus for £60 a lot 10 years ago.
It is exciting now, just need the cash to keep playing.
Trident
Matrox mystique 4MB
Hercules Thriller 8MB & 2x Voodoo 2 12MB SLI
Voodoo 3
Nvidia Geforce DDR
Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS
Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 128
ATI Rad 9800Pro
Nvidia 6800GT
ati xpert98
Voodoo 3 3000
Voodoo 3 3500 (free cos my first card broke)
GeForce 2 mx
GeForce 4 ti4200 128mb
ati 9700
thats about it
Matrox Mystique 220 4MB
Killed it with a failed BIOS flash, so I upgraded...
Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI
Radeon 9000
Radeon 9600 Pro
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Diamond Viper V550 - TNT
Gainward GeForce 2 Pro Golden Sample
Sapphire Radeon 9700 non-pro.
A very short list indeed...
Matrox something or other
Voodoo 3 3000
Radeon 9600 Pro
Geforce 6800
HEXUS|iMc
Rage Pro Turbo II 8Mb
GeForce 2 MX 64Mb
GeForce 4 Ti4600 128Mb - failed just below a year and MicroDirect replaced it with a... yes that's right, a GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 256 Mb, the bastards.
Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb
To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.
ati rage on board pile of pap
m64 32mb (Riva tnt)
mx200
mx 440
gforce3 ti200
ti4600
fx5800 ultra
rad 9700 pro
rad9800pro
x800xt pe
oh and an m64 in there somewhere lol
Last edited by bouncin; 18-02-2005 at 10:08 PM.
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