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Oldest graphic card still be used for gaming?

Been Running a HD7950 on an i5 4690k for a good while.

The GPU itself still holds its own @ 1080p. At worst you may have to drop certain games to medium.

The issue I'm now facing is the RAM - 16GB (2x4GB + 1X8GB) of mismatched DDR3 @ 666mhz just doesn't cut it.

Upgrading to an X570 Mag Tomahawk, Ryzen 3600, and 16gb DDR4 3600mhz RAM as soon as the Mobo drops in June.

Was going to pair an RX5700 with the above. However will settle with 1080p till the next GPU release and make the jump to 1440p then.
 
a geforce 970gtx wsa still good, even on VR, i changed to a 5700xt recently but the drivers.....tempted to put the 970 back in
 
LanDi said:
a geforce 970gtx wsa still good, even on VR, i changed to a 5700xt recently but the drivers.....tempted to put the 970 back in
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Also went from a 2GB GTX 960 to 5600 XT last week, GTX 960 went in other machine than had a GT 710 in it before. Was pretty happy with the GTX 960, core overclocks to 1530 pretty comfortable, just needed to turn few details down in most games and ran ok.

Haven't found the AMD drivers too problematic, found forcing the card to full boost via profiles helped old games a lot, can turn details up to max at 1080p, doesn't feel like a 5 year jump to me though, image quality seems better.

Came from a HD6850 to GTX 960 and that jump felt much larger.
 
Friend of mine is still using a Radeon 7850.

I'm impressed some people are still making use of AGP cards. :D

I think mattyfc must win the award for being a forum the longest without actually posting. Waiting eleven years before making your first post is pretty impressive. :D
 
I've got a RX 470 in my desktop, so not particularly old. The CPU on the other hand is a 2500K - still does everything I need it to do, think the most demanding game I've got is Hitman 2.

Despite hardly ever using it for gaming I've got a 1060 in my laptop. Half the time it gets used to watch telly in the bath.
 
Marsman said:
Friend of mine is still using a Radeon 7850.

I'm impressed some people are still making use of AGP cards. :D

I think mattyfc must win the award for being a forum the longest without actually posting. Waiting eleven years before making your first post is pretty impressive. :D
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Been around longer than that as well, bought an AGP Gainward 7800gs from here in around 2005. Not sure why never posted before.

I have an AGP passively cooled 6800 vanilla around somewhere with massive copper block on it, not in use at the moment though. Was in an htpc originally.
 
Old Man said:
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.
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2070 super around 9 months old.

I still play Cs go which can run on a 750ti no issues but it's the other games I need the power for.
 
I'm using a 980ti in my main build (until the 3000 series launches) but I still sometimes fire up an old PC I have with an Nvidia 5900 XT in it from 17 years ago.
 
Both my boys are using 280x xfire setups

only thing they play on pc is gtaV and fortnite though
 
All my graphics cards cascade down through my other computers at home:
  • I have on my own PC an Nvidia 2060 (DCS World, ARMA 3, RDR2)
  • My son on his home PC has an Nvidia 1060 (ARMA 3, RDR2, GTA V)
  • My son on his university PC has an AMD 7070 (ARMA 3, GTA V)
  • My wife and daughter share a PC with an AMD 5770 (no longer used for gaming)
 
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