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What cards have you owned?

Nutbusta

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Sorry if this has been done before but I was just trying to remember my Vid card history. Some have been lame and replaced quite quickly, others I have loved.

Often that X factor provided by:

a) How much of a bargain it was and
b) How well it OC'ed/modded

My vid card history:

Trident - not sure about specifics
Cirrus Logic VL bus - bargain performance, pre 3d (Word never looked so good ;) )
GF 2 MX - mild overclock, Q3A looked the business
GF 3 Vanilla - removed HS and AS'ed, good 30% OC
Rad 9500Pro - Loved this, 9700Pro Bios mod and great OC, CS goodness
Rad 9800Pro - 9800XT Bios mod, small OC, adaquate but a little underwhelming
GF 6800LE - Didn't unlock any extra pipe or clock too well :(
GF 6800LE - Fully unlocked, 450MHz core!, Arctic Silencer MONSTER :D
GF 6800U - bought second hand, poor clocker, sold it and went back to LE
Rad X850XT PE - Great performance despite poor OC, no SM3
GF 7900GTO - Great clock, GTX bios mod, no HDR+AA but still Lovin' it

My top 4 (why 4? because they are the ones which stand out) would be:

7900GTO, Mod/OC/Silence/Value/Performance - Has everything
Second 6800LE for being a true 6800Ultra beater (Quake 4 was yummy)
9500Pro for 90% of the performance of the 9700Pro at half the price (Great until CS:S)
GF3 for seeing me through CS until 1.6

What has been your history or favourite video card that had the elusive X-Factor?
 
fish dude, i think i asked you this before but i cant really remember what you said, but my new system may be similar to yours (except a slightly lower GHZ conroe) and just want to know how well you run your games with it, maybe could you give me a list of the games you play and the settings/fps you get?

thanks
 
Killajaz said:
There are probably a thousand threads like this.
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and?

gma 810 - used the internet and that was it
fx5950u - first custom rig, started gaming, pelted the card, then i got water over it :(
fx5200 - (stand in as ultra broke)
6800xt - unlocked to ultra, good bit of kit, lagged due to 128mb memory though
x1900xt-x - selling this card soon, bloody awesome bit of kit, clocks like hell on water and very well on air
8800gtx & 7600gt - 3 screens and powaaa! :D

laptops:
go fx5200 - mac lookalike brand, was good for basic games, starcraft
9600 - mac, ibook g4, did ut2k4, that was enough
go7900gtx 512 - overclocks like a god, clocked at desktop speeds :cool:, handles every game very well considering it drives a 19x12 screen
 
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9500 (bios flashed to pro/ 8 pipes )
Asus 9800xt (how hot did this card run! :o )
Connect 3d x800pro vivo (bios flashed to xtpe)
HIS 1900xt (bios edited far beyond xtx speeds :p )
 
S3 Trio64 or something like that 512KB/1Meg - worked perfectly back in 1995
Cirrus Logic (1MB) - as S3
Cirrus Logic (2MB) - as above, greater resolution and colour depth
ATI Rage128VR 16MB - nice little onboard for 1998, still runs CS 1.6 etc just about if tweaked, even managed to *load* (not run) HL2
Voodoo 3 3500 16MB - good little card at the time, nice and fast on games at the time
Geforce256 (32MB) - wasnt bad, but lacked features becoming commonplace like HW T&L when I got it, so it didnt last forever.
SIS Onboard gfx (64MB) - sucked big time
Radeon9550 128MB - nice little card for the price (£30)
Radeon 9600Pro 128MB - good card for what it could be had for a little while back new, plays most games on low settings, died a death when i tried to get it to run Oblivion for my brother though
Radeon 9800Pro 128MB - tied for best card I ever bought, cost me £130 when i got it on offer, and it kicked the bejeezus out of anything out at the time, got me addicted to high res gaming.
Radeon x800 Bravo 256MB - only just picked this up second hand recently for my brother, but judging from what I've seen of its performance, for the price I paid, Im very impressed (£50)
Radeon x1900xt 512MB - great card, not been in production for about a year, but will still take almost anything thrown at it, with eye candy on, with good fps, often with AA+AF and sometimes HDR

Think theres some more but I cant remember them all :)
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
Radeon x1900xt 512MB - great card, not been in production for about a year, but will still take almost anything thrown at it, with eye candy on, with good fps, often with AA+AF and sometimes HDR
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eh?

x1800, maybe, r580 is still in production.
 
GeForce 256 32mb sdram <--- Included in an Evesham PC.
Radeon 9800XT 256mb <---- The only top end card I've ever owned. fantastic performer. But the above poster is right. Boy did these run toasty :o
Radeon X800 256mb GDDR3 <---- Not a bad buy. hardly superb either. spent £140 at the time and was the best card I could buy for the money I had. Clocked in at 392mhz core, 700mhz mem, i figured it'd clock well especially with 2.0ns gddr3. Didn't really do too well clocking.

Mul
 
lay-z-boy said:
eh?

x1800, maybe, r580 is still in production.
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iirc the 512MB have been out of production for a while, and just clearing from shelves/backlog etc. The x1900 256MB is still available I think though, but they've been replaced by the x1950 revision now. Might be wrong of course, but regardless of how you look at it, its been superseded, and has been for a while now.
 
lay-z-boy said:
and?

Well I did say it's probably been done before :D
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lay-z-boy said:
and?
fx5950u - first custom rig, started gaming, pelted the card, then i got water over it :(

You must have been choked? Kudos to anyman brave enough to use a peltier though :cool:

8800gtx & 7600gt - 3 screens and powaaa! :D

Stop it man, I'm starting to get wood :eek:
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ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9600SE
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
nVidia Geforce 6800LE
nVidia Geforce 6800
nVidia Geforce 6800GT
ATI Radeon X1800XT
 
  • 8 mb Voodoo 1...got it 2nd hand for $20 when I was 16 (6 yrs ago), used it to play quake 2 on my mean Pentium 200mhz mmx, 28.8 dial up!
  • XFX 6800GS XXX Edition - Truly awesome card for the time, paid $140...excellent clocker and played quake 4 and fear very well
  • EVGA 7800GT - Bought as an upgrade from the 6800GS, there was a significant difference between the two, but I wasn't really amazed
  • EVGA 7900GT KO Superclocked (Current) - Obtained through EVGA step-up program. I've been very pleased with this card, was surprised that the difference to my 7800GT was larger than that of my 6800GS to 7800GT. Clocks extremely well
  • Plan on buying either a g80 or r600 once r600 comes out and reviews/price comparisons are made. I really want a GPU that can fold, hopefully GPU clients will be available for both nvidia and ati now that they both have quite a few pixel shaders
 
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lay-z-boy said:
eh?

x1800, maybe, r580 is still in production.
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No they aint, thats the R580+ thats in production now (x1950's), R580 (x1900's) were stopped when the x1950's were released months back, as said above all x1900's that are out there now are just the last stocks. :)
 
nvidia 5500 agp was my first ever.
nvidia 6600 gt agp was second.
ati x850xt agp was third.
nvidia 6600 Pci-e was 4th.
and now i have a nvidia 7800gtx

:)
 
We did this a couple of weeks ago :)

2MB ATi 3D Xpression (RageII chipset) PCI
12MB 3dfx Voodoo2
12MB 3dfx Voodoo2 SLI
16MB 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI
32MB GeForce2 MX AGP
64MB GeForce3 Ti 200 AGP
128MB ATi 9600XT AGP
128MB GeForce 6800nu AGP
 
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