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Graphics cards that made you go "WOW!"

Gregster said:
Switching to an 8800GT from some crappy AGP 3D Hercules card iirc and it just blew it away for me. At that time, I did a big upgrade that cost me something like £400 for a new mobo/CPU and GPU.... Times have changed a little :p
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This. I would probably say 8800GTX if I had owned one but that series of nvidia cards were awesome. Still remember playing COD4 for the first time..
 
Moving from an ATi Rage IIc 4MB AGP in a Tiny PC to a 16MB 3DFX Voodoo Banshee was mind blowing. I remember seeing SiN running in OpenGL for the first time, it was heaven, and being able to play Carmageddon II without issue too!

Nothing really has come close to that kind of WOW factor.
 
1kiwi said:
This. I would probably say 8800GTX if I had owned one but that series of nvidia cards were awesome. Still remember playing COD4 for the first time..
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We need another modern day equivalent of 8800GTX! :D

Price at £500 but with 80-100% performance increase over previous gen top-end card, not these funny business of 10-20% increase we typically see for £500+ cards these days.
 
Insomniak said:
ATI 9700 Pro without a doubt.
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After the Voodoo 1/2 - This 1000x over and i cant believe its not been otherwise mentioned. Plenty of 9800pro mentions but that came out a LONG time after and was only incremental.

The only card since the Voodoo/3D revolution that kept the performance crown for waht i think was over a year! The ATi R300 was a beast and was an incredible jump.
 
4890 from a 8800 ultra, mainly because I still got a decent price for the ultra and the 4890 didn't cost me much on top and was around 40% better.
 
There was a card that I bought that was the best bang for your buck. I think it was a ATI 9800se.

With a modded driver you could unlock 4 of the pipelines to take it to 8 in total. You could then overclock it to 9800pro levels.

Therefore 9800se>9800pro.

Card lasted me for ages and was so much cheaper than a 9800pro.

Good times.

edit: I think this could be only done on certain brands. Wonder if I bought it from overclockers back then! Looking at 10 years ago :)
 
Mana said:
There was a card that I bought that was the best bang for your buck. I think it was a ATI 9800se.

With a modded driver you could unlock 4 of the pipelines to take it to 8 in total. You could then overclock it to 9800pro levels.

Therefore 9800se>9800pro.

Card lasted me for ages and was so much cheaper than a 9800pro.

Good times.

edit: I think this could be only done on certain brands. Wonder if I bought it from overclockers back then! Looking at 10 years ago :)
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Snap! :)

I remember running Far Cry with maximum or near maximum settings. It looked marvellous. :cool:

I think my card was a Club or Powercolor one. Can't be sure though.
 
My first 3DFX Voodoo; was a great card!
Original GeForce card, was a huge bump up from the Voodoo :)
My 7990. Picked it up for £300 and totally blown away by performance.
 
and people moan about GPU prices now, 9800pro was around £500 on release iirc. Same with some of nvidia cards back then if not more.
 
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