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A brief history of video cards: 64 GPUs tested from the last five years

I still have my 5850. See no reason to upgrade yet!

My 840GTS was another excellent card. Especially when I overclocked it. CBA with that these days.
 
I still have my 5850. See no reason to upgrade yet!

My 840GTS was another excellent card. Especially when I overclocked it. CBA with that these days.

Ah, but the 5850s overclocked really well. I had my reference XFX at 900/1200 for 2 years and it was a trooper. I played BF3 at 1440p with it! It was just beginning to really feel its age at that res though. So out the door it went (well, into my brother's stocking for xmas:D). One of the best value pieces of kit I had in my PC though.
 
This sort of article is always fascinating. Tomshardware did one where they compared processors from a 486 to a P4, which is a similar sort of time scale. It's still available in case anybody is interested.
 
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