hardware that should be killed (my awesome 2Mb gaphics card)

jimbobtheking · 12 Jun 2006 at 15:55

Hello!

I thought it would be a nice time to start a thread on hardware that should have been replaceed years ago, but hasn't.

This is my effort, upon replacing my lovely RAM from 256Mb to 512 i discovered that my graphics card may need updating, might get around to it soon....

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Lets see whats out there to rival this technological wonder!
J

fenderbass86 · 12 Jun 2006 at 15:58

Sli it with another 2MB card, that's 4MB!

Energize · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:00

fenderbass86 said:
Sli it with another 2MB card, that's 4MB!

Sli doesnt increase the amount of memory avalible it just splits the load

Scott Salisbury · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:01

wow and I thought I had some junk in my junk drawers.

16MB graphics card (and tv tuner) is about as old as it gets for me, oh and a 133mhz p1 and a bunch of VERY old cd drives that dont even work.

For some reason I'm collecting a lot of old 56k modems too.

jimbobtheking · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:02

I never even noticed it was getting old, it runs 1024+768 quite happily on my tft, plays films without a bother either

Stelly · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:05

I'm still using my 3dfx Voodoo right at this moment to run my second monitor

Stelly

Brizzles · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:06

What's your 3d Mark '06 score ? !

Brings back memories of my first scanner , about the size of a matress and took 2 to lift it ( Slight exaggeration ! ).

Technology is a wonderful thing.

Nice first post.

Cheers,

Mark

A.N.Other · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:08

jimbobtheking said:
I never even noticed it was getting old, it runs 1024+768 quite happily on my tft, plays films without a bother either

Try F.E.A.R. on it tbh. With the potential of 0fps, you'd be amazing

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Mattw · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:14

i was working on some old packard bell machine the other day with 1mb graphics card, was the shizzle!

markysparky · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:41

Why not go all out and get a zx spectrum

Mattw · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:42

or one of them bbc computer thingys

Explicit · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:44

fenderbass86 said:
Sli it with another 2MB card, that's 4MB!

But it's ATI

Lagmeister · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:48

Well I just found this, I have no idea what video card it is, save for having trident and quadtel written on some of the chips, oh and being an ISA connection, hardcore! Now all I have to do is find a working mobo and cpu with an ISA slot...

pinkacidbootson · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:49

Wow that trumps my ATI Rage 4MB

GAMEfreak · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:51

wow, bet you had to blow the dust off that one

markysparky · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:54

you could always sell it to a museum

KizZ · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:58

markysparky said:
you could always sell it to a museum

Ditto.

Indy500 · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:02

Could do with one of those, I have a P3 board with ISA slots...

Lagmeister · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:36

I found it in my drawer of mystery, along with some random bits of what could be really old ram. And I score, an motherboard (it has one old style keyboard connector, and thats it, now that is old skool) complete with ISA slots and a CPU and another VGA card with 5 1/2" floppy disk

edit: I didnt even know that creative ever did Graphics cards, but I have a 'Graphics Blaster', and the card above has a whopping 512 kb of memory. Unfortunately it seems that the mobo wouldnt work though, looks like the battery exploded taking some components with it but who knows, if I ever find a way...

NightmareXX · 12 Jun 2006 at 18:25

I've got an old PC thats a P100, 32MB nVidia card in PCI and a 10Mbps NIC running on an ISA slot

Oh and a 500MB and 800MB HDD. Still works