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Standout cards over the years?
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Soldato
HD2900XT.
It's a stand out card, but for all the wrong reasons.
Mine blew up, even with a custome cooler. Took my entire rig with it.
Soldato
This.
I paid £280 for a radeon 9700 pro a few years back...never again, it seemed like the card to have at the time though.
Now I stick to getting the best of yesterday's stuff (q6600+8800GTX in current rig)
Stand out cards for me were
Matrox Millenium
Orchid Righteous 3D (Voodoo 1)
2 x Diamond Monster II (Voodoo 2) - first SLI for me
GeForce 256
Radeon 9800
8800GTX
There's been others in between but they have been incremental improvements. These were the real game changers in one way or another for me.
Matrox Millenium
Orchid Righteous 3D (Voodoo 1)
2 x Diamond Monster II (Voodoo 2) - first SLI for me
GeForce 256
Radeon 9800
8800GTX
There's been others in between but they have been incremental improvements. These were the real game changers in one way or another for me.
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6600GT
Then the GTX480, bought mine on released day, it slaughtered my GTX260 SLI
Then the GTX480, bought mine on released day, it slaughtered my GTX260 SLI
3Dfx Voodoo 1 - epic card,especialy was in Unreal (first),never forget that feeling 
Riva TNT - no introduction needed
8800GTX - no competition from ati for how many years? LOL
even today this beast capable to run games perfectly on smaller screens (still have it,just in case)
Those 2 cards really BEST ever,period!
P.S.Spydell - my 8800GTX with stock cooler,idle~36-40C,load~60-66C (in some noname case),so your try failed
Riva TNT - no introduction needed
8800GTX - no competition from ati for how many years? LOL
even today this beast capable to run games perfectly on smaller screens (still have it,just in case)
Those 2 cards really BEST ever,period!
P.S.Spydell - my 8800GTX with stock cooler,idle~36-40C,load~60-66C (in some noname case),so your try failed
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Soldato
Well, I'm not going to go way back when, but in 'recent' history I'd say:
9700/9800 Pro - 9700 came first and blitzed the NV rivals, 9800Pro slightly refined and improved the price to perf ratio and brought it to a wider market
6600GT - Hit the perfect price point, faster than the 9800 Pro by a reasonable amount, didn't cost the earth and brought SM3 to the field. The 6800s were faster but were priced much higher.
8800GTX - faster than anything AMD had at the time, and lasted well
8800GT - bought great performance back to the mass market gamer price point
4870 - Completely changed the pricing structure all other cards could be sold for on the release date, unparallelled performance for the price. 9800GTXs had to drop about £100 overnight.
Wouldn't say there's been anything 'stand out' since.
9700/9800 Pro - 9700 came first and blitzed the NV rivals, 9800Pro slightly refined and improved the price to perf ratio and brought it to a wider market
6600GT - Hit the perfect price point, faster than the 9800 Pro by a reasonable amount, didn't cost the earth and brought SM3 to the field. The 6800s were faster but were priced much higher.
8800GTX - faster than anything AMD had at the time, and lasted well
8800GT - bought great performance back to the mass market gamer price point
4870 - Completely changed the pricing structure all other cards could be sold for on the release date, unparallelled performance for the price. 9800GTXs had to drop about £100 overnight.
Wouldn't say there's been anything 'stand out' since.
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I had a 9800 pro, cracking card.
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I had or should i say still do have one, but i also had one of these.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/ATi-Radeon-9800XT_PC-Component_review
i remember i had a 256 and a tnt (i still have them) i've had a lot of cards but the only ones that i remember failing on me is a geforce 3 ti 500 and a 8800gts, that xt above is still working.
for unkown reasons i didn't like voodoo cards.http://www.techtite.com/wwwrong/Wwwrong6.html
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Two that did it for me:
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200
Nvidia Geforce 6600GT - my first 'real' card
but they are just my personal opinions,
never owned an 8800 however I heard enough about them to know of their capabilities!
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200
Nvidia Geforce 6600GT - my first 'real' card
but they are just my personal opinions,
never owned an 8800 however I heard enough about them to know of their capabilities!
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voodoo 3 was the 1st card i bought and it really impressed me at the time. had a play on a gtx 480 soc with crysis recently.. wow!
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For me the stand out cards I have owned were
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2
Ti 4200
X1950XT
X4870 CF
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2
Ti 4200
X1950XT
X4870 CF
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been using 8800gt sli'd for the past 4 years, still coping ok..definitely had my value for money out of them
Soldato
9700/9800 Pro
6800 GT
8800GTX
GTX 460
Best stand out for ALL the wrong reasons??.....
FX 5800 Ultra....AKA the 'Dyson' Police and electricity providers thought people using these were powering marajuana farms and the noise was enough to drown out the sound of a low flying jet Oh.....and the performance was cack Thankfully, a lot has been learned since those days.
I had the GLH (Goes Like Hell) edition of that with the 1.1ns memory on it. Came in a MASSIVE red cowling with red LED fans. It went like STINK and due to the tighter RAM timings and OC'd GPU, it was faster than pretty much every 6800 Ultra card on the market.
6800 GT
8800GTX
GTX 460
Best stand out for ALL the wrong reasons??.....
FX 5800 Ultra....AKA the 'Dyson'
Police and electricity providers thought people using these were powering marajuana farms and the noise was enough to drown out the sound of a low flying jet Oh.....and the performance was cack Thankfully, a lot has been learned since those days.I had the GLH (Goes Like Hell) edition of that with the 1.1ns memory on it. Came in a MASSIVE red cowling with red LED fans. It went like STINK and due to the tighter RAM timings and OC'd GPU, it was faster than pretty much every 6800 Ultra card on the market.
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Three most standout cards are clearly the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics, ATI 9700pro and Nvidia 8800gtx IMO:
Voodoo1: First proper 3d card that made gaming at 512x384 feasible, good range of game support (glide/d3d/miniGL).
9700pro: First dx9 card, outstanding performance, no idea why the 9800pro gets so much love considering it was nowhere near as revolutionary and game out a while later
8800GTX: First 'proper' dx10 card i.e. giving decent performance, very good allrounder due to 0.75GB VRAM, people who got one in late 2006 could get away with using it for a good 3 years
Honorable mentions to GTX280 (price fell very rapidly making it a snip at ~£240, again an excellent allrounder due to fast bus, 1GB VRAM etc, no weaknesses, it lasted me longer than any other gfx card) and Geforce DDR (seemed a bit pricey to me at the time but having DDR memory gave it a massive boost, would leave gf2mxs in its wake).
As for Secret Window's list, it's hard to take it seriously when it list ATI Rage series. The only semi-plausible card for gaming was the Rage Fury MAXX, a dual-gpu card which was still slower than Geforce.
Voodoo1: First proper 3d card that made gaming at 512x384 feasible, good range of game support (glide/d3d/miniGL).
9700pro: First dx9 card, outstanding performance, no idea why the 9800pro gets so much love considering it was nowhere near as revolutionary and game out a while later
8800GTX: First 'proper' dx10 card i.e. giving decent performance, very good allrounder due to 0.75GB VRAM, people who got one in late 2006 could get away with using it for a good 3 years
Honorable mentions to GTX280 (price fell very rapidly making it a snip at ~£240, again an excellent allrounder due to fast bus, 1GB VRAM etc, no weaknesses, it lasted me longer than any other gfx card) and Geforce DDR (seemed a bit pricey to me at the time but having DDR memory gave it a massive boost, would leave gf2mxs in its wake).
As for Secret Window's list, it's hard to take it seriously when it list ATI Rage series. The only semi-plausible card for gaming was the Rage Fury MAXX, a dual-gpu card which was still slower than Geforce.
9800 pro but daddy of all time....wait for it...
8800Gtx. this card not only blew the competition away, it buried it.
Just pure win. Yes it ran hot and loud but did not matter when it was eating games for fun.
A single card was better than some of the newer offerings from nvidia and ati and sli gave a lot of newer cards a run for their money. Simply outstanding.
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8800Gtx. this card not only blew the competition away, it buried it.
Just pure win. Yes it ran hot and loud but did not matter when it was eating games for fun.
A single card was better than some of the newer offerings from nvidia and ati and sli gave a lot of newer cards a run for their money. Simply outstanding.
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8800gt/gts/gtx were phenomenal cards.
after that the 4850/4870 for their pricing, never has the term bang for buck been used so much in a period of time.
after that the 4850/4870 for their pricing, never has the term bang for buck been used so much in a period of time.