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

[psychodil]

Switching my mobo from pci to an AGP slot mobo and buying what I think was a voodoo3 (could be wrong) but it made a HUGE difference.

That was my first graphics card
Back when AGP was THE big thing in the market

 

[bru]

ATi had the first dual gpu card, the Rage Fury MAXX

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You sure about that?
It could be argued that the 3dfx voodoo had 2 GPU's, one a texel processor and one a pixel processor.





Personally my favourite card was the Hercules dynamite 128 fitted with the Tseng labs et6000 chip and 2.25mb of ram, It was the first card I ever bought as all those that had come before had been given to me by my brother inlaw. Soon hooked it up with a voodoo 1 and a Intel DX4 100@150 then I was cooking

 

[Menty]

Liked these particularly

6800GS (agp) as I was able to unlock it.

Leadtek 8800GT Zalman as it was really powerful for what I played at the time but was practically silent running.

Gainward GTX275 as I never had any issues whatever (drivers etc)

Powercolor 5870 PCS+ was great but think some drivers were not good when into BFBC2


Winner Leadtek 8800GT

 

[Puppetmaster]

I went Rage? 128mb ATI > Geforce 4 MX > 6800GT > 1900 XTX > 4870 > 6950 (70) > 2x 6950 (70)

6800GT was a beast. On water I had it clocked beyond ultra speeds. Was damn fast at the time.

 

[V F]

I hated my 5870 while I had it. But I think it served me the best and I regret selling the noisy beast.

Was it the noise it produced for you to hate it? and was it a blower or centre fan?

i really loved my vanilla geforce 3, none of this ti nonsense, infact its still going strong along with its 1.4 thunderbird in my mums PC.

Elsa Gladiac 920 \o/

I still have a 1.4 Thunderbird boxed away in mint condition. Same with an XP 2200+ and 3200+. Just a shame they're horrid when it comes to HD content.

 

[BrianB]

My first card got on auction was Nvidia Gforce 440MX I think, loved that thing, Soldier of Fortune 2 like a champ. I did really like the Voodoo cards, but I didn't know much about pc's back then.

Powercolor X800 FTW also my HD 4670 lasted me a long time, with zalman cooler on it.

 

[opstrat]

2 voodoo 2 in sli.

GeForce4 MX440 SE. im sure i payed about £100 for that card the day it came out.

 

[Meaker]

Radeon 8500 clocked at 315/315

 

[LtMatt]

My current 7970 is by far my favorite card ever. The fact i can get 325mhz overclock out of the core alone makes it by far the best card ive ever owned.

 

[Mercutio]

Not JUST to be hipster but Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1. While it could only do 640x400 (gl glide) it looked AMAZING for the time. I had a demo of rogue squadron that I played endlessly on it.
Had the same relay sound you get when a box with a Xonar in turns the sound card on during windows boot every time it went active

Alternatively TNT2 ultra, was the first BIG card by nvidia and the turning point where voodoo/3dfx started dying off.

 

[Defy Belief]

Some pretty awesome cards listed, 100% agree with people saying you used to get more out of them for the money you paid due to how much gaming expanded years ago.

I wonder if in 5-10 years time we will be saying oh the 670, 7950 etc etc.

Isn't it nice to have a thread on the graphics card forum without a red vs green battle!!

 

[Freddie1980]

Righteous Orchid 3Dfx, going from VGA graphics to full on smooth 3Dfx Glide was a total game changer

+1

Looking at the replies it would appear some folk really don't know how much of a game changer this card was.

 

[SciNeT]

Diamond Viper V550, think this was a TNT chipset (nVidia?) All the previously blocky software rendered games I'd tinkered with, Quake & Unreal, came alive!

 

[DazQ87]

my two favourites were my radeon X800XT and geforce 8800GTS 640MB (BFG overclocked 2 edition!)

 

[si9973]

MSI 9800 Pro, coming from an FX5200 was heaven around about the time COD first came out.
7800GT 256MB - bought two SLI'd with Artic Cooling replacement fans.
GTX280, the last gpu I bought on release day, lasted up until 1 year ago and still going strong in a mates case.

Happy days.

 

[sketchytom]

ive only ever had ati graphics cards

radeon 9200, radeon 9550, hd2400, hd6530d, hd6550d, hd6670

my favourite has to be between the two integrated chips as these allowed me to play modern games (albeit at lower settings) at a very cheap price.

But i cannot forget the 9550 as that lasted me literally years. it played doom 3, quake 4, battlefield 2142 all smoothly and only really started acting up when i installed windows 7 as the drivers were not really compatible it seemed

 

[KraniX]

Gotta be my Voodoo 5... I loved that massive great beast.

 

[Vimes]

Righteous Orchid 3Dfx, going from VGA graphics to full on smooth 3Dfx Glide was a total game changer

Agree - I loved the clicking sound that it made as it was starting to work in a game. It was a real game changing experience for sure. Changes since then have been more incremental for me rather than the wow factor that the OR or the Diamond Monster brought to the gaming world for the PC. IIRC it was coupled with my Matrox Millennium GPU at the time.

 

[PaulyD]

FX5200, first got me into gaming so fond memory of that.

My favourite GPU though has to be the 8800GTX, beast of a card at the time and even used one when my 5970 died briefly and would still run OK

 

[FARGO]

Either the Voodoo range from my childhood or the ATI 4670 that's been in my now dead machine for ages.