GPU HISTORY
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Post your graphics card history over the years and your personal experiences
NO NVIDIA VS AMD FAGGOTRY
2005 - Nvidia 7300
2012 - Nvidia gt240 512mb
2015 - integrated graphics
Havent experienced games on high settings once in life
>>53122823
I always used integrated poorfag shit up until about 2012.
Got a 550ti, then a couple months ago, got an R9 390.
Feels good man.
H O U S E F I R E
9800 GT from unknown to 2008.
"Upgraded" to a GTX 980, it melted the PCI slot it was in on my motherboard because my case had shitty cooling / air flow.
Upgraded to a H2O loop and a bigger case, been using it since and it has delivered faithfully to this day and doesn't expose me to unhealthy amounts of additional heat.
2010: Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 PCI-E. Built for BF2
2013: ASUS Radeon HD 7750 1GB
2015: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 (67€ off ebay)
2016: Gigabyte GTX 670 (100€ 2nd hand, one of the DVI ports outputs very purple image)
pic related: size comparison from HD 7850 to GTX 670 (gtx is the big one)
>>53122879
got a friend with R9 390 that apparently bought the wrong PSU and is throttling all the time... i would have rather gone for a R9 290 if i didnt know shit about PSU (wich i dont)
Imagine 128 II
Rage 128 Pro
9500 Pro
8800 GTS
HD5870
Buying Polaris/Pascal next
>>53122823
in the modern era
>ati 9xxx on ibook G4
>ati x1600 on macbook pro
>ati 5770 on hackintosh
>nvidia gtx 660 on hackintosh
>nvidia gtx 670 on hackintosh
>intel hd5000 on macbook air
nvidias do work well on hackintoshes. Still find the 670 quite adequate for 1080p/1440p. Intel graphics are shit.
>>53122954
>Rage 128 Pro
I had something like this back in the day, forget what exactly. Matrox was around back then...
>>53122954
>old but not old enough to use legacy drivers
why are you not trying the linux drivers yet, anon
also i recently put some Rage mobility shit on my retro PC after my FX-5200 died, im pretty sure this rage thing was crap even back in the day
>>53122935
What did he buy?
I'm using a seasonic 650 and it is working fine with everything.
>>53123042
some tacens 900W... apparently the problem wasnt wattage but the amps or something. eitherway hes a lazy-ass neet who spent way too much on his PC for what he does in life(nothing)
>>53122997
It was midrange. Was back when Nvidia put out the first GeForce I believe.
>>53122935
A GPU won't throttle on behalf of the PSU. The PSU has no way of communicating with the system.
>>53123099
well the frames drop a lot for reasons i dont really know and the temps seem OK
catzilla benchmark with his R9 390 at 720p
sparkle gtx 460 768mb
sapphire radeon hd 6870
vtx3d radeon hd 7970
I'll probably get something new in a year or two
>>53123200
wait for polaris/pacal
also vulkan if ur into the whole not-sucking-microsoft's-dick thing
Hd 5450,Hd 7650m, Hd 5770, Gtx 970
>>53123156
I'd suspect a faulty PCIE slot well before a bad PSU if it's just dropping frames.
Used a Sparkle GeForce 9400 GT with a non-functional cooling fan from ~2009-2013, and that thing would get SERIOUSLY hot. I'm talking 95°C on a warm day kind of hot, since it was technically passively cooled. Upgraded that to a Galaxy GT 640 around Christmas 2013, which was alright considering I was still using an old Dell with a Core 2 Quad in it. Now using an EVGA GTX 950 SC+ ACX 2.0 that I got along with the rest of my build from this past Christmas, goes great with my Athlon X4 860K.
>>53123245 >3.5
>>53122823
GeForce4 Ti 4200
nForce 7025
Intel HD 3000 mobile
HD 6790
R9 290
~2004 ATI Rage Pro 8MB (idk)
2005 Some NVIDIA nForce 32MB (prob ASUS mb)
2005 NVIDIA GeForce 6200GT 128MB AGP (ZOGIS or ZOTAC, idk)
2006 NVIDIA GeForce 7200GS (idk)
2007 NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT (ZOGIS)
2008 NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT (ZOGIS)
2009 ATI HD5770 (XFX)
2011 NVIDIA GeForce GTX560 (EVGA)
2013 AMD HD6770 Crossfire (GTX560 on RMA) (both XFX)
2013 NVIDIA GeForce GTX650Ti Boost 1GB (from GTX560 RMA) (EVGA)
2014 AMD HD6770 (GTX650Ti Boost on RMA) (XFX)
2014 NVIDIA GeForce (2nd) GTX650Ti Boost 1GB (1st 650Ti Boost RMA) (EVGA)
2015 NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 SSC 2GB (EVGA)
From my experience every single nvidia died in my hands and I have a Tempest EVO since 2009. I also sold mine 5770 to a friend and I know that its going to make 7 years soon (april).
Also, almost picked a R9 280/285 (dual from sapphire or xfx) instead of GTX960 but prices went crazy when I bought (and sold my old gpu few days before, so I actually couldn't wait much). I don't regret gtx960 tho, fanless 30C idle is great.
2007 - nvidia 8800 gts
2011 - Saphire ATI 5830 (ruined by btc mining)
2015 - nvidia 210 ([discrete_message] :-( [/discrete_message]
1997 ATI 3D rage 2
1998 ATI 3D rage 2 + Voodoo 2 8MB
1999 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000
2001 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500
2002 Geforce 4 4200 TI
2003 Radeon 9800 Pro
2005 Geforce 7800GTX
2007 Geforce 8800GTX
2011 Radeon 6950
2012 Radeon 7970
2014 Geforce GTX970
The early cards were obviously the biggest jumps in performance, that voodoo 2 rocked my world.
Others that really gave me a jump were the geforce 4 and radeon 9800 and the 8800GTX which served me the longest.
HD 4000 - Series, can't remember which only that it was passive.
HD 5750 - Lying in a box, AFAIK it still works
HD 7950 - Current, feels good man
nVidia Geforce 7300LE or something like that
nVidia Geforce 8600GT
AMD Radeon HD4870
AMD Radeon HD7850
nVidia Geforce GTX 950.
that's it
2014 - a gtx 650
2014- a gtx 660
2015- a gtx 960 fell for the marketing oh its this much better
2015- sold the gtx 960 now have a amd r9 390x
>>53123449
you swimming in cash my dude
desu id be more than satisfied with a gtx 960
GeForce 2
X800
X850
GTS 250
5850
7850
7850 crossfire
R9 290x
980ti
>>53123541
lol more just spent way too much on computer stuff other than that i dont buy much, but yeah i still could work with the 960 the only game i play a lot of is CS:GO
Radeon 9700
HD5850 x2
GTX970
All have been fine so far. Picked up the 970 because I used to work at a computer store on weekends while home from school and got it for a crazy price for Canada. Also less crossfire issues, less wattage and less heat is nice. Probably going to upgrade again in 2-4 years, depending on how much gaymen I do
>>53123370
Nice
Geforce 2 mx
Radeon 9800 pro
Geforce 8800 gts
Radeon 4870
Radeon 5870m crossfire
Geforce gtx 580
Geforce gtx 670 sli
>>53123370
/voodoo/ bros know what's up.
Was the biggest jump I've ever seen.
2012-HD 6850
2014-R9 280
2016-GTX 970
>>53122823
2012 - Asus Radeon HD 6670 1GB
Nvidia FX5200
Nvidia 7300
ATI Radeon HD4850 (gainward)
ATI Radeon HD5450
Nvidia GTX 550ti (Asus directcu2)
Nvidia GTX 570 (MSI twinfrozr. Fan died, replaced with 60mm delta. Cool but loud)
Nvidia GTX 670 (MSI twinfrozr)
Nvidia GTX 980 Ti (MSI Lightning)
Bit of Nvidia bias in recent years
>>53122823
ati 9250 pci
geforce 8600 gt ddr3
ati 4890
ati 5770 (got a great deal on it and bought it just to play around with the 5000 series. good lord the drivers were pure liquid ass even by ati standards. sold it for profit later on and continued using the 4890)
gtx 660
>NO NVIDIA VS AMD FAGGOTRY
no deal. fuck amd.
Can't quite remember the order but...
S3 Virge DX
Rendition Verite V1000 (vQuake BITCHEZ!!!)
Matrox Mystique 220 (still have it w/Rainbow Runner daughterboard)
Matrox M3D (PowerVR PCX2)
Rendition Verite V2100
Diamond FireGL 2000 (can't remember the GPU)
Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 202
STB GLyder MAX II (3DLabs Permedia 2)
Matrox G200 (still have it)
Nvidia Riva128
Matrox G400 (Still have PCI dual head and AGP)
SiS 6326 AGP (bought it for $10 at the local spot, was testing under Linux)
Obsidian 3DFX Voodoo2 AGP card (used with the Matrox Mystique)
Intel i740 (pci and AGP)
S3 Savage 4 Pro+
Matrox G450 (dual head AGP card, still have it)
Nvidia TNT2 (Still have one AGP card and one on-board in my GX200)
Elsa Gloria II (Nvidia Quadro - 1st generation, still have it in an IBM 300PL P3 tower)
ATI Rage Pro (still have AGP and on-board)
ATI Radeon 7200 (still have PCI card)
ATI Radeon 7000 (still have two Sapphire 64MB PCI cards)
Geforce 2MX (still have one, owned two at one point)
Geforce FX5500 AGP (still have it)
Geforce 6200 AGP (still have it)
Geforce 8400GS (still have it)
Quadro FX1800 (still have two of them)
Radeon HD4200 (on-board in my all-in-one machine)
>>53123933
dammit... just realized I forgot the Voodoo Banshee and RivaTNT cards...
>>53123577
>sold gtx 960
>got super expensive card that crashes on his most often played game
fell for marketing indeed.
8800 GT
770 GTX
R9 390
970 GTX
HD 4850
GTX 460
HD 7870
R9 380
>>53123955
never crashes on me in CS:GO? But it does have a weird ass glitch where if i alt tab and then alt tab back to any other tab about 10 mins later the screen will just go black for about 4 seconds and then it wont do it again which is weird it scares the shit out of me when im trying to clutch
>>53123577
>that guy who has the beastest GPU possible and only plays CSGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HOLY MACCARONI, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
NVIDIA FX 5200
ATI RADEON x1800
NVIDIA GTX 275 (I'm still using this)
>>53124132
you could upgrade for a huge difference just spending 50-80€ on a second hand GPU you know that?
>>53124169
I'm well aware of that. I just don't need it. I don't really play games nowadays. The next investment will be in a CPU and I might just buy some shitgrade midrange GPU like a 260x or something.
>>53124200
>shitgrade midrange
still better than 220W for sub-par performance
high consumption graphics card are so dumb when they are outdated
>>53124113
faggot who uses a gtx 980 for csgo reporting
new games are fucking shit
>>53122823
>MSI Geforce 5700LE
Shit card, nothing but issues with it
>BFG Geforce 6600GT OC
Glad I picked it up from best buy, had to exchange four of them due to overheating. Fifth one worked like a charm for a couple years.
>EVGA 8800 GT
Good card, I -think- it was EVGA I'm not 100% sure on that. No issues with this one.
>2x Sparkle 9750 GT (When SLI was truly a meme)
Oddly enough, these were great. I had them for like two years before fan died on one, swapped for after market and kept on going.
>EVGA GTX 260
HOUSEFIYYYAAA this thing ran hot as fuck but was an absolute champ for a mid range card.
>EVGA GTX 560 Ti
Probably the best value card I have ever and will ever own.
>2x EVGA GTX 770 2gb
Werked great. Ran my 5760x1080 setup amazingly well.
>2x MSI R9 290X 4gb
For whatever reason, I decided I'd try AMD out after years with team green. I was never a fan boy, just was always happy with Nvidia. Nothing but issues with these. Both cards 95c ALL the time in a case with excellent cooling. Had to go full loop just to use them. Performed about the same, and often WORSE than the 770s at 5760x1080. Fine for 1080, would test at 1440p but I gave them away when I got my 980s. I don't know that I'll give AMD another shot, maybe down the road.
>2x EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 SC
Excellent cards. Still are. I got lucky with chip lotto as they overclock insanely well. 1560mhz and perfectly stable.
>2x EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid
Only had these about 3 weeks, great so far. No complaints. I had a huge discount on the hybrids ($599) so couldn't say no even though I don't like AIOs. Can always throw them into loop if pumps die but I doubt I'll run into that with EVGA... every card I have from them still works.
Over-all I've had mostly good experiences from Nvidia. I only gave AMD a shot once and it wasn't the best experience but I can't judge the company off one product.
Two 980s in living room comp for couch gaymen on 4k tv. 980 ti's are in
>>53124481
>oddly cut off post.
980 ti's are in my main comp aka render station / simulator paradise
>>53122823
ATI x550
ATI 5670 512mb
ATI 7750 1gb
GTX 750 TI 2gb
First (family) PC: Geforce 2 MX
2005: Geforce 7800 GTX (x2)
2011: Geforce 460 GTX
I would like to get something better, maybe give AMD a try.. but then again, I don't play that much anymore. VR and G-/Free-Sync sounds fun, but again, I'm not that interested in newer games.
Riva TNT2 32MB
7950GX2
9800GTX+
GTX 280
GTX 460 768MB
HD6950 2GB
R9 280
2013: 7770
2015: 970
3dfx voodoo 3 1000
forgot something AMD
gt 8800 512
GTX 750ti
I have an ~7 year old hd 4670.
I am literally living history.
Ummmm let's see:
2005-2009 shitty laptop with integrated graphics. Can't remember what the specs were.
2009-2014 another laptop running an i3 with 4gb of ram, however integrated graphics once again.
2014-2016 got my own gaming pc built with a gtx 970.
>>53122823
ATI x1300
NVIDIA 7600GT - 256 MB GDDR3
NVIDIA 8800GT - 512 MB GDDR3
AMD HD6870 - 1028 MB GDDR5
NVIDIA GTX970 4096 MB GDDR5
>>53122823
agp:
-3dfx voodoo 4 4500
-geforce 6200 256mb
-ati radeon hd 3450 512mb (played a lot with this one)
pci-e:
-ati radeon hd 5450 1gb (meh)
-actually -> nvidia 750 ti oc 2gb (pretty nice)
laptop:
-nvidia gt 610m 2gb
>>53126140
Forgot the GeForce 4
>>53122823
2011: ATi something
2011: GeForce2 MX
2012: ATi Radeon 9600 Pro
2013: ATi Radeon HD 2600 Pro
Might upgrade to an 8800GS while I'm upgrading the CPU but it's an MXM card so I also may say fuck that
9800 GT
250 GTS
760 GTX
980 Ti
>>53126175
Forgot the Quadro FX 560 between the two 2011 GPUs, that was the first card I ever bought
First build was in 2013
>760
I like it, runs everything I throw at it with acceptable performance.
2000 - Nvidia Riva TNT2
2002 - Radeon 7500
2007 - Radeon HD 4850
2011 - Radeon 6950
2013 - Radeon 7870
2016 - Radeon R9 380 oc
The years aren't accurate, it's all a blur.
>>53122823
Old bastard reporting:
1994 Cirrus Logic GD5424 (wuts a card, lol!?)
1997 NVidia Riva 128 (STB Velocity 128)
1998 NVidia Riva TNT (STB Velocity 4400)
1999 NVidia Riva TNT 2 Ultra (rekt it :( )
1999 3DFX Voodoo Banshee
2000 NVidia Geforce 2 MX
2002 NVidia Geforce 3 Ti 200
2004 NVidia Geforce FX 5600
2004 NVidia Geforce FX 5700 EP
2004 ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
2005 NVidia Geforce 6600GT AGP
2007 NVidia Geforce 7600GT
2008 NVidia Geforce 8800GTS 320MB
2008 NVidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
2009 NVidia Geforce 9800GTX+ 512MB
2011 NVidia Geforce GTX 460
2013 NVidia Geforce GTX 660 Ti 3GB OC
2015 NVidia Geforce GTX 970 "4GB"
These are just the ones I've used in my main rig, not counting the half dozen bought for retro pc's and just to collect (Voodoo 3's, a few Radeons).
>>53123096
Change that PSU ASAP
>>53122823
>Macintosh integrated
>S3 Trio64
>S3 ViRGE onboard
>ATI Rage Pro
>Intel i815 integrated
>NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV
>ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
>Intel GMA 950
>GeForce 9600GSO
>a bunch of shit, mostly Intel GMAs and Mobility Radeon 7500s
>GeForce G 210M
>Quadro 1000M
>bunch of various other shit
>Quadro 2000 + 8800 GTS
>>53122823
>integraded HD graphics(from core 2 duo)
>550ti
>570
>r9 270(returned this)
>770
>980ti(just bought)
2005 - AMD ATI X-something. I have no idea. Lost it when I donated my piece of shit PC to my school for the young kids to tinker with.
2010 - AMD Asus HD6850. Part of my first build. Died in 2014.
2014 - AMD Sapphire R9 280X Toxic.
Got drunk and bought a 2nd hand 280X Vapor-X off Ebay.
Crossfired them.
Turns out Crossfire is a heaping pile of shit.
Sold the 280X Toxic 'cus it was a noisy piece of shit
280X Vapor-X is working just fine.
Current.
X300
7600GT
9600gt (laptop)
560ti
660ti
380X
I dont even remember my first card.
It was a creative , followed by a voodoo, voodoo 2, voodoo 3
Ati rage 128, ati radeon 7000, Radeon 9800, gforce 6800, gforce 7900, AMD x 800xt , amd x1650, gtx 260, amd hd 5570, gtx 670 triple sli.
Now waiting on the gp100 launch.
I have never owned a dedicated graphics card in my life, i am 19 years old.
I just about half an hour ago started buying parts to build a fun shitposting machine
i think my choice of graphics card was a good one, it will hopefully fit on my motherboard, and maybe i can even get working drivers on noobuntu
any information or help with this kinda shit, i just got bored and started buying computer parts, tomorrow im gonna hit up resale shops to find a monitor and a shitload of cat5
Voodoo 3
Radeon 9600
Radeon 9800
X800 XT
X1800XT (made this last 5 years!)
HD 7850 OC
Damn, it makes me nostalgic as shit, thinking about those massive voodoo3 and 5 boxes at EB... by far, in my humble opinion, the BEST box art ever.
Its been okay.
>>53130625
3dfx had great box art. That face man. That face.
When the voodoo 3 was announced at Comdex I got a poster from their booth.
>>53122823
Radeon 4470
Radeon 6850
Radeon 7850
GTX 970
I don't regret a thing.
>>53129754
you just bought a dell branded 6350/5450, if thats a lga 775 machine or newer than yes it will be compatible, but you bought a low profile video card and the racket won't fit. you might as well buy one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-ATI-Dell-Radeon-HD6450-1GB-PCIE-DVI-DisplayPort-Graphics-Card-ATI-102-C26405-/191601041226?hash=item2c9c4fdf4a:g:jxoAAOSwunJWEvhh
its got dp and dvi
>>53131216
also this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-HD6350-512MB-DDR3-Full-Size-PCIe-x16-DMS59-Pin-DVI-Connector-Dell-HP-/201521381790?hash=item2eeb9c419e:g:VlYAAOSwx-9Wu6Wn
>Gigabyte Radeon 6670
>EVGA Gtx 550 ti 1gb
>EVGA Gtx 560 DS SSC
>Zotac Gtx 670
>Zotac Gtx 670 SLI
>Powercolor r9 290 pcs+
>Powercolor r9 290 pcs+ xfire
>Powercolor r9 390 pcs+ (one of the 290s died, RMA replaced with 390)
>EVGA gtx 980ti classified (current)
The 6670 was returned almost 2 weeks after buying because it sucked for the price. Returned and spent an extra $20 out of pocket for the 550 ti. The 560 was non ti and NOT worth the price or hassle. Ran hot and loud.
I've had two gpus since I started. First I had a Radeon HD 6770, since it was my first, I am really attached to it, and it really ran like a champ. then I got my 270x, and ithats great, but I'm probably going to upgrade to a 390x/490x (when it comes out)
A Bunch of shitty integrated graphics
Sapphire 7770
Sapphire 7870
Gigabyte 7970
GCN 1.0 is all I know.
>>53122823
riva tnt2 32mb
gf mx440 64mb
gf fx5500 128mb
ati 9600se 128mb
gf 7600gs 256mb
gf 9600gso 384mb
gf 9800gtx+ 512mb
gf gtx460oc 1gb
amd hd7850oc 2gb
amd hd7790oc 2gb
used to aim for highest settings possible, nowdays i just play the game with medium/low settings and be done with it. plus highend cards just heats up the room/house and polute with all kinds of noises.
inb4 into water cooling, no, don't see the advantage enough to convince me to get top tier cards.
>>53131563
oh yeah, mistaken, its not 7850, it was 7870XT. best card ive had bought at the time. sold it coz wasnt gaming much and needed money for something else.
Radeon from Dell x300 or some shit
HD 4770
HD 6850
6850 CF
GTX 770 current
>>53122823
2002 - unknown Integrated
2006 - ati x300
2008 - GMA 950
2012 - GTX 560
2014 - GTX 560ti
2014 - GTX 660
I just bought this. Did I do good guys?
7770
660
770
980ti
>>53122823
some ancient w98 era gpu
some alright gpu circa 2008
256mb amd igfx
1.7gb vram intel 4600 alright laptop igfx
r280x right now :^D
>>53122823
2012: Sapphire Radeon 6770
2015: GTX 650 OC 2GB (not TI)
Soon: something actually good
1995 - Integrated 1MB chip. I believe it was from SIS. It was ok.
2002 - S3 Trio64V+ 2MB. Freebie upgrade, Was ok.
2003 - Riva TNT. Could finally play 3D accelerated games. Shit was amazing.
2004 - Radeon 9600. Pretty ok for what I needed it for. My games ran well.
2005 - GeForce 6600GT. Better, but not significantly.
2006 - GeForce 7600GT. Old system had issues. Had to get a PCIe card for my new system.
2013 - GeForce GTX 260. Got it for cheap. Gave new life to my ageing C2D computer.
2014 - GeForce GTX 660. Better, but I didn't notice any huge improvements until I got my current i5 and started playing more demanding games. It was slightly bugged, some games crashed.
2015 - Radeon R9 290 (Gigabyte OC version). Loudest piece of shit I've ever owned. Card is good, cooler is a piece of shit. I regret buying this version of the card.
2016-2017 - Something quiet.
2004 - GF 4 MX Integrated from Costco for 1 thousand dollariroos.
2007 - EVGA 8800 GT right after it was released, felt pretty balling until the GTX and subsequent follow up.
2011 - Gigabyte Radeon 6850 such a good card, only reason Im replacing is because I fucked up the heatsink from a move.
2016 - Thinking GF 750ti or GF 950
>>53132125
You're much better off getting a 960 unless you can get the 750Ti at a really good price.
>integrated graphics till november 2015
>used 280x I paid 125 for
>>53132225
How good is good for the 750ti??
Budget for card is either low or 150ish. 960 is too much above it.
>>53132416
Actually, the price of the 750ti has come down a lot since I last checked. The EVGA 750ti at $110 is quite a good deal. The SC version is just a pre-overclocked version, not sure if they binned the SC chips.
>>53122823
>2009
HD 5850
>2013
GTX 680
The 5850 was my first dedicated GPU, and I'm still on the 680. I only bothered with it for PC gaming.
I slowly migrated from all console games, then a mix of both, now I'm full on PC.
2008 sapphire 512mb gud
2011 gt430 couldnt run crysis
2012 gtx 660ti, perfect, made 2k with it by mining doge coins
2014 7990 loud piece of shit, may have had a little frame stutter
2016 295x2 perfect
>>53123156
Is nobody gonna say it? The fuck are you taking a picture of a screen for? Print screen motherfucker.
>>53132416
>How good is good for the 750ti?
The 750ti is a fucking steal honestly. It's not the best card, but you're getting decent performance for a little over $100.
2003 - mx440
2007 - 7300gt
2015 - 750
>>53127915
That's quite a jump between 94 and 97. I can't remember what I had in those years but late 96 or early 97 (off the top of my head), I had a DMM Monster 3D off the old Voodoo pre-Banshee - the one where you had to use a separate 2D card and pass cable (I still have two of them in my pile-o-cards).
>>53122823
had a 550ti from 2009 to 2015, got tired of being ridiculed at how old my gpu was, now i'm rocking a gtx 970
got a few more frames. can't tell much of a difference besides that.
I've got a 2gb Radeon 7670M right now, but thinking of upgrading to a laptop with a 4gb GTX 960M.
tbqh the 7670 has been a bit shit, I've had frequent driver problems with it since I got it in 2013. Anyone know what the 960M is like?
i have never owned a video card before and i'm buying a titan X on friday.
- HIS Radeon 5770x2
- EVGA 560Ti
- XFX Radeon 7950
- EVGA GTX 960
- EVGA GTX 970
2012 - Radeon 6770
2015 - GTX 650 2GB OC
Literally 20 minutes ago - Radeon R7 370X 4GB
1989 intergrated graphics
"
1995 "
1996 3dgx Voodoo 1 16Mb
"
1999 GTX 2100ti 128MB
2002 GTX 5400le 500Mb
"
2006 GTX 630 4GB (caught fire also ran the hottest of all my cards)
2009 R7 210 1GB
"
2012 R7 250 2GB
2015 R9 380 4gb
I had other video cards too but i can't remember all of them.
>>53133465
>caught fire
>2011 Intel Integrated Graphics
>2015 970M
>mfw 22 with memetops
1993~1995 some large ass work laptop for my dad that I used to play cat alley on as a toddler.
1995~2000, my father's pentium 2 desktop that couldn't play C&C generals. probably has an s3 or voodoo2 in there fucked if I know.
2000~2008, dell lattitude C610, first laptop
2008~2012, Dell xps m1530 with 8600mGtDDR3
2012~2015, built first desktop with HD 6870
2015 onwards, built another desktop with GTX 980
future upgrade? probably some second or third generation mid range 14nm GPU in the next 2~3 years because fuck burning money away on flagships.
2006 - GeForce FX 5200. First dedicated card. At least I could play some pre-2005 games and MMOs.
2009 - GeForce 9500GT. Holy shit, that card was amazing for me. Bitch ran Crysis on fucking medium/low with playable FPS.
2013, now - Radeon HD 7950. Finally, the (then) top league. AAA games and newest titles are now possible
>>53122823
First PC built around '94 with S3 Trio, switched to S3 Virge, Diamond Monster 3D added in '96 then 8MB VooDoo2 by HiS if I remember correctly. Then some RivaTNT2 32MB, GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB and finally Radeon 9600XT 128MB - shit was so cash around 2003. 6600GT 256MB in 2005, bit of a pause and then a glorious Radeon 4850 1GB DDR3 in 2009 until it burned in 2012 and got replaced by a 1GB DDR5 650Ti Boost. Currently eyeballing the 4gig 380x, waiting to see what Pascal and Polaris bring to the table.
Here is a list of all the GPU configurations I used for more than a couple of weeks at least.
-reference GTS 450
-Windforce HD 7950
-Windforce HD 7950 Crossfire
-Windforce HD 7950 and reference 7990 trifire
-reference GTX Titan
-reference GTX Titan SLI
-IceQx2 R9 290 Trifire
-IceQx2 R9 290 crossfire(took one out, too much heat)
-IceQx2 R9 290 (one died last week, my fault)
Thinking about selling the 290 I have left to a friend and getting a Fury X or 980ti. Maybe even a nano so I can use it with my eGPU setup on my T520(currently using a GTX 650 for it).
>>53133511
yeah the caps illteraly blew up and burned i had to throw in the sink to prevent a real lide house fire
no joke.
>>53122823
8800 Ultra
AMD 5770
AMD 5970
AMD 6970
AMD R9 290
Nvidia NVS 3100M
Going to buy a rig and buy a 380x then upgrade to polaris
>>53122823
Never knew what a GPU or graphics card was for years, and never had any problems.
Then buying new computer (~2006) and every single decent model I looked at had one along with an up-charge for it.
Got into heated debate with many a sales person about this obvious scam.
Eventually I got the cheapest one I could find.
I have checked my logs and my system has only used the thing only a few times a year, which tells me I did not really need the part anyway.
Then I got a newer computer, but this time the thing said it supported two monitors thanks to the graphics card. I got to say having a Word and Excel document open on two screens has really helped my productivity.
So now I know why my grandson wants a really powerful in the computer he is building. Bet his could add a third screen for PDF reading.
>Went to a ict class
>first build and only was for photo shoot
Titan (liquid) SLI.
Got to keep :^)
Nvidia
4300fx
6800gt
8800gtx
660gtx
Gtx 980
Ati
Mostly used for coin mining
7970 x3 (later reused in main rig)
R9270 x6
geforce 2 mx400
geforce fx5200
geforce 6600
radeon x1900gt
radeon hd4850
radeon hd6870
radeon hd7970
9800 Pro which I flashed to XT. OC'd till it viking funeral, had a zalman cooler on it when original heatsink pin broken. 2003-2006ish
EVGA 7800 GS AGP, still alive in P4 system.
2006-2009
Got a laptop with a GT220m, 9x00 rebrand? Still alive. 2009-2010
Then 2010 ASUS HD5850 TOP for new build on i7 950. Still alive, just replaced with MSI 390.
MX 440
9200
1650xt
4870
5850
>now
HD5500
I wish AMD did not buy ATI
>8800GT
>9500GT
>GTX 580
>GTX 970
>>53122823
>Nvidia GeForce 2
>Nvidia 8600GT
>Intel HD 2000M
>Nvidia GTX 570 + GTX 570
>AMD r9 290 + r9 290
>Nvidia GTX 780 TI
2002-2008 - gf mx440
2008-2010 - gigabyte gf 7600gt
2010-2013 - gigabyte gf 8600gt
2013-now - gigabyte HD 7970
Gigabyte 8800gt
Sapphire HD4890
Sapphire HD5870 2GB vapor-X
And since 1 month KFA2 GTX 980 leafblower (it was only 340€)
In order:
7300GS
8600GT
9600GT
8800GT
HD4870
GTX670
R9 280X
R9 290 Tri X
R9 290 Vapor X
HD5670 (Current)
>ITT majority milennials
well i wonder.
Riva TNT2
Radeon 9800 Pro
Another Radeon in here
A shitty Nvidia in here
2x AMD HD6950
AMD R9 290
2000ish - 2010 no fucking idea what was in my pc
2010-2012 HD6870
2012-now HD7850
Eagerly waiting for Polaris this summer. Gonna upgrade to something between 250-350 bucks.
ati 9600 pro
nvidia 6600gt
nvidia 7800gt
nvidia 9800gt
amd 6950
amd r290
I've used the same dangerden maze4 gpu waterblock on every single ones of these cards thus far.
Some radeon 9xxx card
Geforce GT 9500
GTX 470
GTX 650 Ti
Radeon HD 7970
Now:
HD4400 + GT 820m
>>53136051
Forgot GTX 760 between HD7970 and GTX 650 Ti
4200ti 128mo
6200GT 128mo
7600GS 256mo
8800GTS 320mo
HD4890 1Go
HD6950 2Go
R9 290 4Go
99: Matrox G400
04: Geforce 4 TI 4600 (boy did that baby run HL2)
05-09: The Apple MacBook Dark Ages
09: Sapphire AMD 4890 (boy did that baby overclock)
11: GTX 460 TI (Rev 2) (Still working well in my little sisters PC)
13: Gigabyte AMD 7950 (Running the Witcher 3 admirably in my wife's PC)
Late 14: MSI 970 (not been cucked yet but I hope the next gen will have less coil whine )
>>53128121
Why did you return the r9 270 anon?
riva tnt 2
geforce 2
geforce fx 5200
geforce 7600 gs
geforce 540M
Rage32 or something
GeForce 4 MMX
GeForce FX5200
ATI Radeon X1950
GeForce 8800GT (first non shit card)
GeForce GTX560Ti
GeForce GTX660Ti
GeForce GTX970
>>53122823
gf2mx (gifted)
fx5200 (returned it next day)
hd6200
6600gt
hd4770
Life of a poorfag tier 2 quake player.
Apu igpu
Gtx 750
Gtx 970
>>53122823
2009: Intel GMA 4500M (laptop)
2014: gtx 980
2015: gtx 980 *2
Went from shitty to ultra after 5 years. Waiting for oculus rift now
>>53122823
HD5670
GTX660ti
GTX680 (Which nVidia killed with a driver update, might I add)
GTX 770
R9 290x
X300
X600
6700LE
HD 3870
GT X260
HD 5850
GTX 670
GTX 670 SLI
GTX 780Ti
GTX 980Ti
Radeon HD3650
I still have it right now
>>53122823
AMD 6570
NVIDIA GTX 675M
AMD 7770
NVIDIA GTA 980
I've slowly upgraded overtime.
The 675M was actually a pretty good GPU for laptop hardware, it always performed well.
I got the 7770 for free, and it was certainly better than the 6570 I was running at the time.
TNT2
9250
8800GT
4770
260X
now on a 5770
Tseng ET6000 (1997)
Nvidia Riva 128 (1998)
Long gap where I mostly used laptops and/or onboard graphics
Nvidia 8800GT (2008)
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (2011)
Nvidia GTX 960 (2015)
>>53122823
Radeon X300 SE
Radeon X1950 Pro
Geforce 8800 GT
Radeon HD 4870
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
>inb4 amd fag
>>53122823
>Matrox 400
>PX9800
>GTX560ti
>GTX980ti
~2000 - Riva TNT2
2001 - GeForce2 MX200
2003 - FX5600 Ultra
2005 - Sapphire X1600 Pro AGP
2007 - BFG 8800GT
2009 - MSI HD5770 Hawk
2010 - 2xMSI GTX460 Cyclone
2012 - 2xGigabyte HD7970 Windforce
2015 - EVGA GTX460 SE (Above cards died thanks to hose on CLC rupturing, lel)
2016 - EVGA GTX980 Ti FTW
8600 GTS
HD 2400
HD 4890 (based card that lasted me for many years)
GTX 970
>various integrated stuff for years
>got an oem gtx 660 pretty cheap
cooler is a bit loud, but meh
2008 AMD integrated laptop gpu, can't even remember the name
2012 NVidia integrated n630a. In motherboard.
2014 AMD R7 260X on first custom build I made for myself. It turned out problematic
2016 potentially R9 380
>>53139126
>980 Ti
Typical cuck taking it up the ass from njewdia
>>53139164
>3.5 XD
I haven't owned a computer with a dedicated (discrete memory) graphics card since the iBook G4. In the 90s I had "graphics cards" (RivaTNT level shit) in some desktops only because integrated graphics didn't exist.
For the light PC gaming I do (adventure games, walking simulators) modern integrated graphics is capable enough. If there was an affordable slick eGPU option for mug MBP I'd think about it, but I'll stick to (Sony/Nintendo) consoles for the no-fuss and better variety of games.
2000-Some 3dfx voodoo card
2012-GTX 560
2015- r9 270x after 560 ded
2016?-Maybe 390 or polaris
>>53139977
...current (rMBP) had Haswell HD5xxx graphics. Very noticeably faster than the HD4xxx in my previous Ivy Bridge rMBP. So long as you turn off AA I find I can play most games I've tried at acceptable frame-rates with higher graphics settings (I'd rather get less frames and keep the effects/quality, since I only play slow games).
Never tried to play any 3D games on the C2D MacbookI had before that. About all I remember of the Intel graphics is they had really good driver support in Linux.
>>53139895
Spotted the AMD poorfag
No computer till 18
2011 - First Laptop integrated GMA 4500M
2012 - Second Latop Nvdia GTX 560m 2gb
2014 - Desktop Nvidia GTX 980
>>53139895
Had the chips fallen any differently, you could be saying the same if I'd gone with the 390X or the joke that is the Fury/X. The reality is that nvidia is making better cards, so stifle your poor ass self and buy your second rate cards in peace.
2000 - Some 512mb Nvidia card , cant remember the model.
2010 - Radeon HD 5870 1gb
2016 - R9 390
Basically upgraded to a new rig in 2010 , everything had been running smoothly for a while and my new 390 is getting mad framedrops even on low setting. I dont even know what to think anymore. 850w psu and i7 930 shouldnt throttle my GPU.
I've heard other people saying I should use clock blocker to prevent down clocking but using it caused my temps to skyrocket. Also if I dont use framerate limit the whole damn computer shuts down when I enter a game.
>>53140308
You should upgrade your processor
>>53122893
>One is longer
>One is wider
Which one is bigger?
Also
Geforce 8800 ultrq (got it cheap from a friend who had bought a newer gpu, also the gpu of my first own pc)
Gtx 260 (first gpu I bought myself after doing research)
Gtx 570
Gtx 670
Gtx 970 (inb4 3.5)
3Dfx Voodoo
ATI Rage 128
nVidia Riva TNT2
nVidia cards I forgot the name of and not in my mail history
Radeon X1950 Pro
Radeon HD 4350
Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate
Radeon HD 5450
Radeon HD 5770
Radeon R5 230
Went nVidia to AMD because of Linux drivers. I burned through a few.
>>53136571
>amd
That's why
>>53140342
It never reaches 100% during gameplay and the online consensus on the 930 is that it shouldnt throttle my GPU. Running @ 3.4 OC'd , I can get it up to 3.8 if I really wanted to.
I really think my PSU has lived its life out. I was having issues with my computer randomly shutting down during gameplay prior to changing the GPU .
S3/Virge in my 486-later-a-Pentium-133 -setup
TNT2 in my next Pentium 3 PC
Geforce 2 MX 400 in my Athlon XP setup
Geforce 4 TI 4200, with zalman passive cooler
After that It got out of hand.
I've since had:
>6800LE,unlocked almost to a GT
>a few 7900GT's, all had a ram failure at some point
>Palit 8600GTS, voltmodded and made a few 3Dmark records.
>8800GTX TRI SLI for loltesting
>Radeon 3870x2, had to biosmod it myself because ATI hadn't made them well and drivers wouldn't help yet, 2D clocks were sticking
>three 4870's, two 4890's, three 4870x2's; played with crossfire for the first time
>GTX 480 SLI in the legendary beige mATX case
>GTX 470 TRI SLI in an antec 300
>GTX 580 DCII, GTX 580 Matrix and two GTX 580's with Arctic Acceleros
>GTX 680 DCII, sold it pretty quick
>a 5870, a 5970 and three ASUS ARES cards, basically a 5970 with 5870 speeds, broke all three ARES cards lol
And now I have two GTX 770's, one watercooled with a Kuhler 650 + Kraken G10 and the other a Gainward Phantom model.
's been stale lately, mite get a 980ti soon.
Pic related.
>>53140584
Aand I forgot, had a 7950 briefly, a 5750 to hold me over an upgrade, a 9800GTX+ and a 8800GT for physX testing, and a few 8800GTS's.
7200GS
8600GT
GTX 465 (SLI)
HD 7870
R9 390
pretty standard
>>53140706
Hows the 390 ? are you too getting massive frame drops in non gpu intensive games ?
6600gt -> 8600gs -> 4870 -> 6950 -> 970
waiting for amd to put out an actually competitive card instead of endless rebrands before i switch back
Lets see, I don't remember my first Pentium MMX GPU so I guess it was some iGP crap.
Geforce 2 MX200
ATI 9600SE
ATI 4850
AMD 7730
AMD R9 390.
>>53140706
Mine is the Asus Strix card. It's pretty good. Fans are pretty much silent. Doesn't overclock well, I can only get like another 40hz on the core. I'm guessing its just my luck.
For gaming at 1440p 144hz I'm satisfied. I love freesync
I've never had frame drops in non intensive games, nor have I heard about it before. I mainly play old games as well.
>Geforce 2 something
>Radeon x1600
>HD 4670
>GTX 780m
>GTX 980ti
>>53124034
probably never crashes because you have shaders set below high. Also I have a gtx 950 and got that same bug when i first bought the game. Verifying game cache integrity fixed it for me.
>>53140867
thats odd. My old 5850 could run csgo without any frame drops on high settings , this new card stutters on low everytime something that draws more power comes in the screen. I've had crashes when something was supposed to explode in a game.
I guess ill have to toy around with clock blocker until I get something working.
2005: Sapphire 9600XT
2006/2007: Cant remember.
2008: 8800GT
2012-Yesterday: Sapphire HD7870
This is so fucking sad that my 7870 got fucked up, it met all my need even after 3 years. Now i have to wait half a year for a fucking Polaris!
>>53141216
I wouldnt wait. Unless you plan on gaming at 4k or believe that you actually need to pay a higher price for last gen hardware that sells under a new name , you should go for a crossfire setup with 2 r9 380s , which is both cheaper and faster than a single 390 , if you can somehow manage the temps.
all various integrated until 2012
gtx 640
gtx 750 ti
gtx 970
gtx 980ti
gtx 970
>>53141216
>Now i have to wait half a year for a fucking Polaris!
In all my experience from buying a GPU, purchasing newborn next gen card is always retarded.
In the next year they will released a perfected version of said first gen and you will be sorry for not waiting another year.
Unless you got money to throw around then be my guess.
>ATI X600 kek
>GForce 8800GT
>Intel HD shit3000
>GTX 750 Ti Windforce 2GB
>Waiting for pascal/housefire
>>53141412
>>53141362
But i think i can wait man. I've completed like 2 or 3 games in 3 years. I`m procrastinating so hard even tho video games is one of my main hobbies. I can manage to live with integrated intel hd but i will miss high quality animes with mADVR. I just don`t want to buy rebranded 7870 (X370) which i've lost and also pay more money for it.
Hmm...
Rage 128 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon 3870
Radeon 4870
Radeon 6870
Nvidia 680 because 6870 crapped out
AMD R9 290x
AMD R9 Fury X
Yeah, I guess I'm and AMD Fag.
>>53141483
Then buy a 960.
I just bought a 390 last month, not regretting a single dime of it.
I doubt my feeling changed even if pascal or polaris came out.
>>53141507
Correction 2 R9 Fury X's, because Hurr durr crossfire for 5% of the games it actually works in.
>>53122823
2000- Nvidia Riva TnT 2 64 mb
2013 - Amd Radeon
2015 nvidia geforce gt 740 2gd ddr 5
>>53141483
I guess just wait then. Im just saying $400 isnt bad at all for a crossfire setup. I paid around 300 for my single r9 390 , two 380s would outperform my setup in every possible aspect.
>>53141573
>>53141536
The problem is i`m from Russia. Over three years prices on tech got literally doubled and i don`t want to pay lots of money for the same shit i had. So guess i will wait and hope for better prices in the future (it wont happen). Thanks for the suggestion tho guys!
>>53122823
1- Some Trident shit I don't even remember.
I played Doom 1 & 2, Heretic, Epic Pinball and a few other games for 486.
2- Another card I don't remember the name, but this time on my Pentium 166mhz
Played mostly Megarace 1 & 2, Quake 1 & 2, Duke Nukem 3D
3- SIS 530 teached me to hate onboard graphics.
I played mostly Unreal and Unreal Tournament
Radeon 980 pro made me have a lot of fun
GTA SA and Doom 3 were some of my first games with this motherfucker. I loved it! It also was my first video card in linux to have any real support.
Radeon HD 3870 more of the same, wich was good.
I really got into TES IV: Oblivion with this beast. It got dropped out of official support some years ago and I was screwed both in Windows and Linux. At least AMD's open source drivers are OK.
Nvidia 980 TI - I decided to jump over the fence to get a really powerful card this time. Currently I'm mostly playing some stuff I didn't have the chance to play years ago. Nothing really new that uses it's full power yet. The closest I got was with Serious Sam 3 on Linux and Killing Floor 2 on Windows.
>>53141826
Canadian here , I know that feel son. I had to pay 100$ in import taxes on a OSVR HMD that already cost 450 maplebux.
Blows my mind that the government can make money off me spending money , but politics arent supposed to make sense , right ?
>>53141901
