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Graphics cards that made you go "WOW!"

Uhtred said:
The ATI 8500le was my first 'proper' graphics card. Before that I had a TNT2 which was terrible. Counterstrike was so, SO much better after the upgrade, it was a massive leap.
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I upgraded to that card after my Voodoo 5. It gave a pretty nice boost to performance; Morrowind became quite playable than compared to before.
 
5870 at the time was a huge jump for me and a card that lasted years , well still is going just only in my media centre no gaming for it these days.
I will say it was loud at 100% fan :)
 
triss said:
5870 at the time was a huge jump for me and a card that lasted years , well still is going just only in my media centre no gaming for it these days.
I will say it was loud at 100% fan :)
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I killed my 5870 putting a waterblock on it :(
That's when I upgraded to GTX570 SLI. I'd have thought 5870 -> 570 SLI would've given me enough of a performance jump for a WOW, but that upgrade doesn't really stand out for me. Maybe the 5870 was handling everything I was doing well enough that despite the performance boost it didn't really get used. This was before I bothered with Benchmark (I think).
 
The three standouts for me are:

3DFX Voodoo: The first 3D accelerator and OMG what a difference it made.

Radeon 9700 Pro: The first time in the 3D age that ATi had been number one, and how, this beast exploded onto the scene in style.

GeForce 8800GTX: Seeing these stand up to Crysis while everything else was blown away like a nuclear wind was crazy, nothing has provided the industry with such a jump since.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I killed my 5870 putting a waterblock on it :(
That's when I upgraded to GTX570 SLI. I'd have thought 5870 -> 570 SLI would've given me enough of a performance jump for a WOW, but that upgrade doesn't really stand out for me. Maybe the 5870 was handling everything I was doing well enough that despite the performance boost it didn't really get used. This was before I bothered with Benchmark (I think).
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Ouch sorry GMi feel your pain, i was running my core for a few months when i got at at 1k odd artifact in a game but was pretty rare its why my fan were at 100% , then i realised it really only gave a few extra fps so why both and set it back nearer stock
 
Uhtred said:
The ATI 8500le was my first 'proper' graphics card. Before that I had a TNT2 which was terrible.
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The TNT2 was a very good card, worthy of being listed here in it's own right, my guess is you got it when they were quite dated and being sold as entry cards, something that also happened to the ATi 8500 as well but it got renamed as the 9100.
 
Another vote for a 3dfx Voodoo card. it was such a game changer at the time. Seeing transparency in Quake 2 with the Glide API was just mind boggling!
 
My last graphics card before the 660Ti was a 9600, so that was quite the leap. I was impressed at how well it ran games at 1080p. Great card.


My 280X at the moment isn't particularly special, but I do like to look of it (It's the MSI gaming edition one) and the whole box and presentation is really quite nice. That impressed me.
 
Posting benchmarks on here of my 7970 cards proved it was the biggest jump in quite a while, accused of cheating no less on more than one occasion.

The party lasted until the Titan came out.
 
My first time in SLI with the 8800GTX x2. Scaling wasn't that great back then but It gave me an awesome FPS in Elder Scrolls Oblivion (maxed) anyway.

Then an upgrade to the GTX580 was a nice jump.

Finally, last month, I jumped to a GTX780.
 
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