Oldest graphic card still be used for gaming?

Old Man · 9 Mar 2020 at 14:36

OK, what are the oldest cards people are still using for gaming?

I have my gtx 1060 6gb oc, so not very old....

It'd be interesting to see what people are still using and say for medium gaming where games like Total Warhammer 2 is played, so not too intensive.

MG42Maniac · 9 Mar 2020 at 14:41

I've got a GTX 1060 in my laptop, paired with an i7 8750H. If I turn the graphics down to High with a splash of medium it runs totally fine. I am sure if I connected it to my 1440P G Sync monitor it would melt though!!

Drizmod · 9 Mar 2020 at 14:49

Have a HD 7950 in an old i7 system. Can still get around 60 fps on medium to high settings depending on game

Armageus · 9 Mar 2020 at 14:57

My Kids are using 7870 and GTX670, still working great for Games like Fortnite, CSGo, World of Tanks etc.

Andrew_McP · 9 Mar 2020 at 15:22

Remove the bells and whistles which only add the last layer of polish to graphics, run at 1080p, and just about any decent card from the last decade will probably do the job.

I do all my gaming these days on a laptop with a weedy 960M chipset. It's absolutely fine for most things I've run recently... Metal Gear Solid V, Destiny 2, Doom 2016, Far Cry 5, and so on.

I paid £400 for a vanilla 1070 for my desktop during peak bitcoin fever. I think it's had about ten hours' use, just for VR. Worst upgrade ever. No, actually that would be the DDR2 RAM fever I got back in the Athlon days, when reading here managed to persuade me I was missing out on some miraculous overclocking sweet spot.

I wasn't.

I do fantasise about a huge, widescreen monitor and a bank of the latest cards to power it, but I don't do sim racing any more and rarely fire up a flight sim, so I don't run anything which would make the most of it even if I had the disposable cash. Which I definitely don't these days.

schumi84 · 9 Mar 2020 at 15:55

I'm still running my ATi 5870 1GB which is able to cope reasonably well for what I use it for at 1080p

I briefly had an RX 480 8GB but couldn't justify it at the time so got rid.

I'm going to go for one of the new AMD offerings at some point when I have the disposable income, when that'll be is anyone's guess.

arc@css · 9 Mar 2020 at 15:56

The one in my sig, a 980Ti, so not that lowly in terms of performance. However, I do quite a bit of recording so performance is king, thus often I'll lower some demanding settings so that the gameplay is smoother and responsive. I'm quite confident that the previous card I used, a 7970, would suffice for a majority of the games I run/record. That was a fantastic card - as is the current one.

Fluffybob · 10 Mar 2020 at 11:11

GTX780 in my nephews Pc still managing ok at 1080p

Phixsator · 10 Mar 2020 at 11:21

I have a laptop with HD6330 mobile GPU from ATI. My God is it horrible

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chroniclard · 10 Mar 2020 at 11:29

I actually have the oldest card in the house, 1080. Kids have 1070Ti's.....need grunt for minecraft and roblox.

Bug One · 10 Mar 2020 at 11:30

My son was using a GTX 760 in his PC until recently - ran Fortnite and Minecraft fine.

cheesyboy · 10 Mar 2020 at 11:46

My son's PC has a GTS 250!

He just uses it for minecraft, Sonic racing, Goat simulator and some more 2d stuff.

hornetstinger · 10 Mar 2020 at 12:02

I've got cga graphics cards somewhere

Morfinel · 10 Mar 2020 at 12:03

RX 580 but few years back I remember using GTX 285 which was amazing and I only paid £40 for it.

Armageus · 10 Mar 2020 at 12:10

hornetstinger said:
I've got cga graphics cards somewhere

Still actually in use?

Phil2008 · 10 Mar 2020 at 13:30

I was still using my r9 290 up until a few weeks ago, I would have kept it longer as it ran all my games I play smoothly, but it was getting hot for some reason and I couldn't solve the problem.

Chrisc · 10 Mar 2020 at 13:56

My son is using an RX470 which is still fine. My dads rig which he hasnt used for a while is rocking a first gen i7 and a 660ti.

SonicSW20 · 10 Mar 2020 at 13:58

My old 390X still powered through modern games pretty reasonably for an old card. Don't have to play everything on High / Ultra to have a great experience.

Firestar_3x · 10 Mar 2020 at 14:17

My release day X800XT, around 15 years old now, clearly not in my main machines (1080ti and 2080ti).

hominid · 10 Mar 2020 at 15:46

I still have a AMD 7950 that I use on occasion, for it's age it still does very well in the games I play.