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

I loved my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro back in the day. It was the first time I spent serious amounts of cash on a graphics card (and in fact it was the last top of the range graphics card I have bought, since then I have gone with the second or third best in the current range).

I remember being amazed with the amount of graphics RAM it had as my computer at the time only had 1GB of RAM and the graphics card had 512MB. In hindsight the graphics card was way overpowered for the CPU I had so I didn't really get the full advantage of it but I do remember playing Forsaken and thinking that it had the best graphics I had ever seen.
 
Biggest gain I think I can remember was going from a Cyrix P150+ with a S3virgeDxGx 4mb card to a Pentium 2 450 with an ATI expert@work 8mb and dual 3DFX Voodoo 2 12mb cards.

Next big step was a Voodoo 3 3000.

longest lasting cards have been Gainward Geforce 4 Titanium 4600 golden sample and an ATI X1900 XTX both of which I got when released and lasted very well while maintaining good performance.
 
Hitman_Leon said:
longest lasting cards have been Gainward Geforce 4 Titanium 4600 golden sample and an ATI X1900 XTX both of which I got when released and lasted very well while maintaining good performance.
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Really?!

I also bought a GF4 Ti4600 on release, and it was the "worst" card I've owned in over 15 years as far as longevity is concerned. Just a few months later the ATI 9700pro was released, and it absolutely wiped the floor with my shiny new GPU!
 
Hmmm, the original 3D Accellerators were amazing, but I was a little young to really fully appreciate them/have the cash to (that said I think I still have a load of old S3/Cirrus Logic etc cards floating somewhere), so my award has to go to my old 9800Pro.

Staggering card for the performance it brought to the table for the cost; the 9700Pro was the real innovator, but it came at a higher price whereas the 9800Pro brought it to the wider gaming masses. In some ways I'd say (the 97/9800 were a bigger step than the 8800GTX).


After this I'd say my X1900XT, it was a very impressive card when it came out; and lasted me well until I shot right up to a 4870, which again was amazing in terms of price performance.

Also have fond memories of a Geforce256.
 
Forgot to add, I "borrowed" a friends pair of 8800 GTX's, remember running every benchmark possible at the time and no lag at all. I felt upset when I had to give them back, was running an X850 XT at the time.
 
I had what i think was a 5500 agp ati card can't be sure, but it turned out to not be too good for me, so i got a 6800 i think it was.

Probably first best card i had was my two 8800gtx cards, first time i'd spent serious money on two gpu's.
 
Best ever - 8800GTX - served me 4 years !!
started with cards which names i cant remember with 286 pc's :D
but real difference for me made 3Dfx Voodoo (first one,original) with 4mb memory,playing Unreal (also first one) on it was something i never forget..brilliant memories..
would like to get some old pc parts and build pc with 3Dfx to play old games :)
 
Mercutio said:
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.
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I went Matrox Mystique with Righteous 1, then upped to Righteous 2.

I still have a voodoo 3 card somewhere. Had a TNT 2 ultra as well, but killed it :(
 
Favourite card would probably be my old ATi 9800se that could be soft modded to 9800 pro as it lasted me so well and performed excellently.

One that will always stick in my memory would have to be my Leadtek Ti4600 (twin fan with heatsink that covered the entire card, front and back) as it was the biggest PC purchase I had made to go into my Uni PC.
 
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