Oldest graphic card still be used for gaming?

Nevakonaza · 15 Mar 2020 at 08:53

Grim5 said:
A friend is still using their 8800gt

what does he/she use it for playing if anything?

my 8800GT died back in the day,dont know if it was GPU needed reballing or memory failed,i remember quite a few back then started artifacting like crazy,thats around the time people started baking them in the oven i think

drakulton · 15 Mar 2020 at 11:37

7900GX2 running in my XP box. (ear defenders recommended)

subbytna · 15 Mar 2020 at 12:21

Gtx560ti in daughters pc for minecraft

bakes0310 · 15 Mar 2020 at 17:17

Evga 1080 hybrid, hopefully will last me for another 3 years. Main games I play is total war series, luckily the Devs are quite lazy and just improve their old engine lol

Granther has a Titan black to play solitaire.

BigBANGtheory · 15 Mar 2020 at 17:56

Can’t beat a good ole AGP graphics card

OldKitMan · 14 May 2020 at 11:57

put a 7870 in my son's PC which I built recently, as I'd replaced my 7870 with a 580 recently and he was running a 3200G I thought the 7870 would give a little bit more performance which it seems to do.

7870 despite only having 2GB RAM seems capable of still doing a job in 2020 at 1080p.

Aretak · 14 May 2020 at 14:34

I have a GTX 690 in a secondary system. It doesn't get used that often though, since it's a lot of heat and noise for the performance (even in games that support SLI).

Geekazoid · 14 May 2020 at 16:05

I got a G-Force 6600gt AGP socket card running in an old system of mine.... oldest card I have

melmac · 14 May 2020 at 17:33

My brother is still using an 8800 GTS 320 paired with a core 2 duo CPU (E6600)

chemb · 14 May 2020 at 18:07

Fluffybob said:
GTX780 in my nephews Pc still managing ok at 1080p

Still rocking one here, albeit with 16gb ram, i7-8700k. Plays RDR2 and DCS fine at 1080p. Due to replace it though...

BubbySoup · 14 May 2020 at 19:50

Sister-in-law is still using my old 6950. She plays mostly adventure games

SDK^ · 30 May 2020 at 19:21

I have an NVIDA 1050 in my all-in-one and it still runs Fortnite at 3440x1440 at 70-90 FPS with medium settings.

Jimbo · 30 May 2020 at 19:38

Was using a 7970 3 gig in my secondary pc paired with 16gig of Crucial Ballistix sport and I5 4670 and was running pretty good at 1080p. Just bought a Saphire nitro+RX570 8gig off the members market and performance is awesome rips through 1080 gaming and was very pleased to see it handling mad max at 1440p high settings no problems. This setup may be enough to put me off upgrading to another Ryzen or i5 setup.

EdwardTeach · 30 May 2020 at 19:45

I am using an amd 390. It works fine for most games at 1440. Iirc it is roughly a 970 equivalent, anything of roughly that level should be fine as long you aren't aiming for 4k as they exceed what is in the current consolesb(bar the one x).

oweneades · 30 May 2020 at 23:01

6800 Ultra / X850XT PE used in my retro XP bench builds.

Gerard · 30 May 2020 at 23:47

7900 series is still apparently a reasonably good performer despite being nearly a decade old.

kazuya1337 · 30 May 2020 at 23:54

Voodoo 3000 3DFX

RenoRanes007 · 31 May 2020 at 01:13

I'm still using a GeForce GTX690.

Scania · 31 May 2020 at 09:25

subbytna said:
Gtx560ti in daughters pc for minecraft

Got one sat in my second rig I use(d) for Battlefield 4 sessions at a mates house, handles it absolutely fine @1080p.

BUDFORCE · 31 May 2020 at 11:18

BubbySoup said:
Sister-in-law is still using my old 6950. She plays mostly adventure games

Thing is, a 6950 is still even today a reasonable card. You can play Fallout 4 for example on medium settings on that. It'll run any of the recent battlefield games etc with medium to low settings.

I'd say even today you'd be ok on most games, all be it on low settings and not expect a million frames per second.