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Your favourite gpu, ever? Blast from the past..

FX5200 purely for the fact it would play Half-Life 2 quite reasonably.

Also some GPU I had many years ago (pre 2000) that I can't remember the name of, all I know is it would handle the seven islands map on total annihilation, something my friends machine couldn't do.
 
Mine would have to be my asus 800xt pe i bought from overclockers about eight years ago.nothing could touch it back then

Went from a fx5200 to a 9800 pro and then to the x800 and each time noticed a massive improvement from the previous card, i replaced it with a connect3d 1900 xtx pe also from here but the jump in performance just wasnt the same as i had expected from previos upgrades :(

currently happy with what the 7850 im running now and it will probably be a while untill i can justify spending £350 on a gpu
 
On the grounds of nostalgia I'd rather reflect on how gaming made me feel. Venturing into a virtual world with hidden dangers and the necessary tools to help me progress was exciting. So, whatever card I'm using that runs the game I'm immersed in, is my favourite GPU. If it gives me the ability to experience the game as intended then it's the game that drives me to use the GPU. As electricity and gas prices keep rising then maybe I'll buy a GTX480 and use it as a heater/gaming rig. Winner!.

danny77 said:
Mine would have to be my asus 800xt pe i bought from overclockers about eight years ago.nothing could touch it back then

Went from a fx5200 to a 9800 pro and then to the x800 and each time noticed a massive improvement from the previous card, i replaced it with a connect3d 1900 xtx pe also from here but the jump in performance just wasnt the same as i had expected from previos upgrades :(

currently happy with what the 7850 im running now and it will probably be a while untill i can justify spending £350 on a gpu
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Nearly the same route as me :D.

I went Mx420>9800Pro>X800XT PE>X1900XT>2900Pro (clocked past XT) before I joined the dark side again.
 
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A few of mine that have been the biggest boost

Helios 3D Voodoo Rush 6mb

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I had a 1mb diamond 2D card on my Pentium 166 when I got this, it allowed me to play half life and quake in propper 3D. I remember the drivers were woeful and I never got the TV out to work.

Voodoo 3 2000 PCI 16mb

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I got this beast from PC world and it was a huge boost over the rush and played newer games very well and lasted a long long time. Hampered a bit with 16bit colour.

Kyro Prophet II 4500 64mb

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This was a great card at the time. I was looking at buying a geforce 2 MX and saw this which was considerably faster and even in some cases faster than the full fat geforce 2 card thanks to it's tile based rendering. Ultimately the cards lack of T+L support and poor driver development was this cards problem but it was awesome back in the day.

Sapphire 9700 pro 128mb


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I put some money towards it and got this beast for Christmas, I think it was near £300 at the time and probably the biggest leap (at least performance wise) of any card I had used. Playing battlefield desert combat at 1600*1200 on the trusty CRT was incredible and nothing could touch this card for a long time.
 
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  1. 3Dfx Voodoo 1 (just changed the way I looked at games)
  2. nVidia 8800GT (lasted so long was insane)
  3. ATi 6990 (because it's insane and shouldn't have been made lol)
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I was going to say much the same about the Voodoo 1. Got one when I was in the US 98/99/00 - I'd just bought a racing sim called "Grand Prix Legends" on a whim and it had quickly become clear that it was a great sim but had gfx requirements way over my existing card (think I got almost acceptable frame rate - i.e. ~20fps - at something like 320x240) and when the Voodoo1 was on special offer at Fry's I bought one and relevaltion was amazing - forget what resolution I could use but it was acceptable and got the max 36fps that the game supported. Still had to have details etc turned way down .... increasing this seem to drive my PC upgrades for the next couple of years!
 
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Easy the 8800GTX / end thread.

;-)
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yes and it's the best card for surfing the web, it's still very fast indeed, unfortunately it is also God Damn Expensive.... :eek:

this card will be great 2nd hand though, because it is very tough indeed, mine was OCd far more than my 7970 and never blew once.
 
TNT2 M64 32Mb AGP 4x was the start for me, then there are:

Geforce 2 MX 32Mb
9800pro 128Mb
1800XT 256Mb
2900XT 512Mb
8800GT 512Mb
9800GX2 512Mb - My favourite has to be this I think, my first proper high end card
4830 512Mb x2 Crossfire
GTX460 1Gb
GTX660Ti 2Gb

I also remember the most disappointing card I had: FX5750 PCI-E (With AGP to PCI-E bridge Chip), It could barely run Half Life 2 smoothly.
 
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pgi947 said:
FX5200 purely for the fact it would play Half-Life 2 quite reasonably.
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Really?

I remember buying one of them for my cousin since he had no agp or pci express slot and it made a difference over his old integrated graphics but it could barely run one of the old tomb raiders smoothly. It could handle Rome total war with small unit size ok tho.

Eventually i felt sorry for him and got a new motherboard and bought my friends old x850xt pe (another favourate of mine) from him and gave my cousin that. Now that flew. Even kept up with my 7800gt at most games for a while until lack of sm3 crippled it.
 
4870 512mb

Served me well for ages and still performs solidly in most new games, I swapped it for a 6870 1gb and I wasn't that impressed by the difference.
 
i remember my old palit 8400gs super with 512mb. but had a 1gb turbocache. whatver that meant. was a piece of %£*$ but did what i wanted to do back then. also was the first gpu ever bought. so holds a special place for me. my ideal card back then (if i had the money) would have been a 9800GTX
 
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Tough one but I think my current card the 480GTX is my favourite out of all I have owned.

I bought it a while back but it still runs everything released these days.
 
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