What's your GPU history like /g/?
I haven't been hardcore gaming on PC for long, hence the lack of GPUs on my list. Thinking about upgrading from my GTX 980 in the next couple of months and I am VERY tempted by the GTX 1080, but I'll try to wait and see what AMD can pull out of the hat. I am also looking for 10bit monitor support since I do a fair bit for paid photography as a hobby (usually about $1,500 every month or so)
2008 - ATI HD3850
2009 - 2013 College period with a laptop
2013 - GTX 760
2014 - GTX 970
I dont upgrade often. I got the 970 for 60 under list and sold my old card so the net cost for that upgrade was around 30 bucks.
>>54504541
I was hoping to sell my GTX 980 before the next gen GPUs come to market, but looks like I'll have to wait a little bit longer for the high-end Polaris GPUs to be released.
>>54504261
2009 - GTS 240
2010 - HD 5770
2012 - GTX 680
2005 - Radeon 1650xPro
2007 - 8800GT, foolishly got the gimped 256MB
2008 - GTX260 core 216
2010 - GTX580 Lightning
2012 - Free upgrade to a GTX680 Lightning (danks msi)
Misc computers I've built and sold
2008 - 4850
2009 - SLI GTX 280's I picked up for cheap
2009 - MSI 5770 HAWK
>>54504557
I'd sell it now, there's talks of dropping the Titan X's price to $549-600, sell the 980 while it's still decent.
2011 = Some shit $25 Sapphire Radeon
2011 - HIS IceQ HD 6790
2013 - Nvidia GTX750m
2015 - EVGA GTX 980 AC2.0 B-Stock
1st, 1997 - Rendition Verite.
>1998, started working at Sierra On-line.
>Sept 11 2001, everyone sent home, get rest of week off. Dot com boom...goes boom..man that was a great time. It really was.
2016 - 1080 within a few weeks.
GTX 1080 OWNER here.
I am one of the lucky few to get a sample. I have an NDA to abide by. I can only answer certain questions.
>>54504712
No 10bit support right?
>>54504591
What should he use until then? That's months away.
>>54504557
Just SLI that shit.
>>54504712
Who'd you suck off for it?
>>54504712
yeah, only proof will convince anyone of that. So nda cannot mean a pic with a postit...i mean we all seen it..so no reveal there..only that you have one.
>>54504746
I sucked off LINUS'S homey.
>>54504261
2001 - All-in-Wonder Radeion 7000 something
2005 - Radeon 9550
2007 Radeon X1300 Pro
2008 Radeon 2600 Pro
2008.5 - Radeon 3650
2009 - NVIDIA GTX 260
2013 - NVIDIA GTX 760 x 2
>>54504780
Which one?
>>54504800
The RUSKY
>>54504818
>>54504818
I had to sign an NDA
>>54504261
???? - ????
???? - TNT 2
???? - gf 4 ti 4400
???? - gf 660 gt (used)
???? - 8800 GTS (g92)
???? - gf 560 ti
2017 - ????
>>54504261
1997 - Ati Radeon AllinWonder
2001 - Ati Radeon 7000
2006 - Ati Radeon x1650 Pro
2007 - Nvidia 8800GTS
2008 - Quad SLI EVGA 9800GX2's
2010 - SLI Palit GTX 460'S
2011 - Sapphire 6950 unlocked to 6970
Haven't upgraded since. When Zen comes out I'll probably get around to it.
6850
7850
2x7850s
7950
still have 7950, no money to upgrade and won't until i get a job so whatever
2012 - MSI GTX 670 Power Edition (sold alone)
2015 - Gigabyte GTX 970 (sold with PC)
Future
2016 - GTX 1070/1080 waiting for reviews
>>54504261
>new card every year
>3 fucking cards in 2012
Got money to burn?
Ti 4200
5600 XT
8800 GT
560 Ti
>>54504261
1995 - S3 Trio 64V+ 1MB
1999 - Riva 128ZX 8MB
2000 - S3 Savage 2000 32MB
2003 - Geforce 2MX 200 32MB
2005 - Radeon 9800SE (unlocked into 9800Pro) 256Mb
2007 - Geforce 8800GTS 320MB
2009 - Geforce 9800GT 512MB (got it as a waranty replacement of 8800GTS)
2013 - Geforce GTX260 216 core 768MB
2014- Geforce GT630 2GB OEM (temp replacement)
2014 - Geforce GTX650 Ti BOOST 1GB
Will probably get a cheap-ish GTX680/770 once new gen releases
- 2005 or 2006 or 2007? dunno. radeon 9250
- 2009 gtx 295
- 2015 gtx 760
>>54504261
2003: Intel Integrated Graphic 82845G
2011: Intel HD 3000
2012: AMD Radeon HD 6850
2016(?): Nvidia GTX 1080
I'm falling for the Pascal meme.
>>54504261
2012: AMD 7770 GHz edition
2013: AMD 7990 Dual GPU
2015: Big fucking meme, went from 7990 to much weaker GTX 980 just to get HDMI 2.0 output
2015: GTX 980 Ti through EVGA step up program, redeeming the 7990 to 980 swap
2016: 980 Ti SLI
Going to upgrade to 1080 Ti SLI when it comes out :^)
Riva TNT
Kyro II
Some NVIDIA thing I can't remember
7970
>>54505403
>using the smiley with a carat nose
>>54504261
????-Some Nvidia card with Athlon Thunderbird processor
????-Some ATI card with Pentium 4
2009-GTX260 with Core2Duo
2012-HD 7870 with i5-3570K
2013-R9 290 with i7-6700K
>>54504261
Stuff I don't remember -> 7600GT -> HD4890 -> Two 6870 -> GTX480 -> Two 8GB 290X
>>54505403
>2012 first gpu
>using the carat face
are you 12 years old you little cunt?
please stop spending your black stepdad hard earned money.
>>54504261
Nvidia all the way:
9400
210
630
970
2014-integrated intel HD graphic 4600
2014-EVGA gtx 650(borrowed)
2015- r9 390
>needing to upgrade after only a year of owning
Please no.
Dates might not be accurate but...
2002: GeForce 2 Ti
2005: 9600 Pro. Passive Sapphire model, unlocked that bitch and brought it up to 400 core. Shit played HL2 yo.
2007: X1950 Pro
2010: HD4850. Put an Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 on it, dat semi-passive cooling from front intake fan.
2012: HD7850
2009 ATI radeon 4890 CF
2011 AMD radeon 6950 CF
2012 nVidia GTX 680
2014 nVidia GTX 970 SLI (refunded these)
2015 AMD radeon r9 290 CF
Some shit ati card... Then my eyes were opened to the world of nvidia
7800gtx
Gtx280 SLI
Gtx460 SLI
Gtx580 SLI
Gtx980 SLI currently running
>>54504261
Radeonwhatit'sname
Geforce 840 GS
550 ti
660 ti
Might upgrade to a 1070 this year
>first gpu I don't remember; came bundled with halo, Jedi Academy, and like 3 other games I never played back in 2003. Shit was a fucking steal. Played cod and BFME on it
>got first laptop in 2008 with Intel graphics 4500mhd. Tried to play oblivion. I tried very, very hard. Oldblivion you saint.
>got gaymen laptop out of high school with gtx 560m, blew my fucking mind
>sell to build tower, go with sapphire 7950 in early 2013. Overclocks like a madman
>2014 thinking of upgrading but decide to crossfire. Maximum frames when working, bullshit crashing the other half of the time
>2015 Witcher 3 is upsetting me. Buy 290x on eBay for $220. Buy custom cooler for $65. Overclock. Masturbate.
Now I have what it takes to play Witcher 3 at 1080p, max settings at 60fps. I'll upgrade for 4k probably next year or the year after; skipping the 1440p meme
>>54505758
Stuff I don't remember ā 7600 GT ā HD 4890 ā HD 7950 ā GTX 970 for me
Where did it all go so wrong?
>>54504712
Texture fillrate? (GT/s)
>>54504731
Nvidia supports 10-bit (via DisplayPort only) for the GTX 9xx series and above.
>>54504261
I can't be bothered trying to remember the years but the progression was basically
Radeon 9000 -> GTS 250 -> HD 6950 > R9 270x > R9 390
>some voodoo card
>radeon 9800
>all in wonder 850
>6600 GT
>gtx570
>gtx970
>>54505121
>3 fucking cards in 2012
3 of thee SAME KIND
2012 GTX 650
Still running it with an FX 4100 to this day.
>>54505121
what kind, shit?
My very first GPU was a Voodoo Banshee that came bundled with a rail shooter and and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. I played the shit out of that game.
My next GPUs were all Geforce cards until 2010 or 2011 when I switched to an ATI HD 6780. Then came a HD 7950 and an R9 390.
My next card will be either the biggest Polaris chip or I'll wait until the end of the year and get a Vega card.
1996-1999 dunno
~1999 ATi Rage II+DVD
2000 ATi Rage II+DVD + Voodoo 2 SLi
2000 SiS 16MB PCI crap card + Voodoo 2 SLi
2001 Riva TNT2 32MB + Voodoo 2 SLi
2002 Geforce 3 64MB + Voodoo 2 SLi
2003 ATi 9200SE 128MB? Felt like 128KB
2005 7800GT 256MB
2006 8800GTX 768MB
2008 8800GTX SLi
2009 GTX260
2010 GTX480+GTX460
2012 GTX670
2013 GTX670 SLi currently in use on other PC
2014 GTX970 3.5GB
2016 Still on the GTX 3.5GB and GTX670 Sli.
I still have my Voodoo cards though.
>>54505925
Source? This is adorable. Google sucks at this. IQDB isn't cooperating either.
2008 - 8800 GT
2011 - 560 TI
2015 - R9 390
2008 - geforce 8800gts 512mb
2015 - radeon r7 240
I'll probs upgrade to a gtx970 or something, seeing as I have an i7 and decent mobo, my gpu is really lacking...
>>54506208
Looks like that friend of the main character in Kannagi.
If it is you're lucky because she's not only cute but would be one of the few I'd want to share my genes with.
IT'S A SONY
2009 - AMD HD5830
2012 - Nvidia Quadro K2000M
2016 - GTX 980, GTX 980, GTX 980, GTX 970
That's stretching it a bit though.
While it's true that I have unlimited access to all these 980s, they aren't my property, and in any case I can only plug one of them into my ThinkPad at any given time.
2003 - nvidia mx440
2005 - nvidia 6800gt
2007 - nvidia 8800gts 320mb
2008 - ati 4850
2010 - nvidia 470
2011 - nvidia 570
2011 - amd 6950 crossfire
2012 - nvidia 670
2014 - nvidia 770
2015 - nvida 970
2015 - nvidia 980 ti
my favorite cards:
>nvidia 6800gt
simply blew away the competition. ran all my games at fantastic frame rates on my 1024x1024 display i had back then.
>ati 4850
blown away by the amount of performance i got for the price.
>nvidia 980 ti
dislike the price i paid since i always strive to stay under $500 but the amount of performance it offered was hard to beat. it boosts like a champion. 1.42ghz out of the box.
Ati radon 3870x2 x2 (crossfire)
Nvidia gtx 760
Nvidia gtx 960
2007 - 8600 GTS
2008 - 8800GT
20?? - 5770, then quickly switched to GTX 460
20?? - GTX 660
20?? - GTX 770
2014 - GTX 970
Man, my memory sucks.
>>54504261
That's a lot of cards tbdesu. What percentage of their retail value do you usually manage to sell them for?
Sapphire X550
Sapphire HD3870
Sapphire HD5770
XFX HD6870
Sapphire R9 270x
Sapphire R9 290
VEGA or maybe NAVI
>>54504261
1995 - i486 dell prebuilt with 8mb of ram
1999 - riva tnt2
2003 - i think geforece 4something ti I was step back on gens tehre
2005 - radeon 800xt
2008 - gtx 240
2011 - 560ti
2013 - 770
2015 - 390
2016 - kind of sold on vega for now
>>54506369
they usually fail before you can do that if you play the long game
but if not about 65-75%
GeForce 256, pentium3
Ti4600, 6600gt pentium 4
8600gt, 260gtx, 6870, q6600
Now I have a ps4
Dates are probably all kinds of fucked up, but:
2011: Zotac GTX 560 SE
2014: MSI GTX 760
which was then gifted to a friend when I got
2015: MSI R9 390
Went in on the 390 because I basically did a complete rebuild of my system, short of the PSU and case. Hoping to sit on my 390 for a while, so I can see how Pascal/Polaris pans out. Not planning to go beyond 1080p/single display for a while anyway.
>>54506428
Lol, my 2009 HD 4870 has yet to fail. According to the chart none of these cards are getting more than 1 year of use.
>>54506489
I have three failed cards, I abuse them in 40C summers without AC
they usually die on 3rd year
2010 - GTX 250
2011 - XFX Radeon HD 6770
2014 - GTX 970
Pre-2007 - GeForce 6XXX in the family computer
2007 - Intel HD on a Pentium D
2009 - built my first computer, 9600GSO 512mb
2011 - 560ti
2015 - 980
I'm not sure HD I'll upgrade this year or not, 1080 and even 1070 are tempting, but I kinda want to wait for Vega and 1080ti.
>>54506532
Ah, I forgot the 750ti I got in 2014 when I moved to the Ncase
2009 - 5770
2011 - MSI Twin Frozr III 6950
2015 - 770 (2nd hand)
>>54506442
>Now I have a HD 7870
ITT: AMD market share dwindling being explained
>There are retards who only buy AMD without trying out the competition because cucked
>>54504261
1998 - 3DFX Voodoo2
2003 - Nvidia GeForce 5950
2005 - Radeon X850 XT
2006 - 8800 GTS SLI
2010 - GTX 480
2012 - Radeon 7970
2015 - 290x Xfire
Out of all the cards I've owned I have to say the AMD 7970 was the best. That card just got better and better as the years went bye. And the worst card was the Nvidia 5950, I had so many issues with that damn card.
>>54506328
Huh, now that all the women are in burkas, looks like male brits have been filling in for them.
1988 - MOS Technology VIC-II
1994 - Trident TVGA8900 (512 KiB)
1997 - Matrox Mystique (2 MiB)
It gets fuzzy from there on. 3DFX, then many ATI cards.
1997: some integrated shit with my 486.
1999: S3 integrated chip
2000: Diamond Viper II I think
2001: Geforce 2 MX400 64MB
2002: Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
2006: Geforce 7900 GS 256MB
2008: Geforce 9800 GTX 512MB
2009: 3-way SLI Geforce GTX 285 1GB
2011: Crossfire Radeon 5870 2GB
2013: Geforce GTX 780 3GB
Can you guess when I got a job and started buying my own parts.
2003ish?? - fx 5600
2008 - 9800gt
2010 - HD 5750
2012 - HD 6950
2014 - GTX 970
2016 - Depends on benchmarks if I upgrade to 1080 or wait for ti.
>>54506696
>1997: some integrated shit with my 486.
>1999: S3 integrated chip
486 didn't have integrated graphics.
It was a dedicated ISA or VLB card for sure.
>>54504712
Cool, now run unigine valley extreme hd and post the score. Not a pic of it, just write it.
>>54506685
>Matrox Mystique
GOAT
>>54504261
Good thread OP. It's interesting to see that most anons have tried both Ati/AMD and Nvidia at some point in their life.
>>54504261
2011 - 540M
2012 - 7850HD
2014 gtx 560 ti
2014 gtx 660
2015 gtx 980
2015 gtx 680 + gtx 9800
2016 gtx 880m
First card was gifted from a friend for my first build, then i upgraded to a 660 because i was a broke highschooler. Then payed half with my parents senior year for a gtx 980 xmas present. I later sold it because all i played was csgo to a friend for like 400$ + a gtx 680 (same friend that gave me a free 560) then i sold that rig and moved to a laptop for college. Now i have a decent job and i really want to sell my laptop and build a new rig with just waiting for a buyer. Oh yah and 9800 was from a friend who was just going to throw it away, its always been my temporary card for when i help others build thier computers until they can pickup a better one.
>>54506809
Don't worry anon, one day you'll get a good paying job. Until then just fight on.
>>54506816
God damn, that's a lot of cards you've went through in a small span of time.
2007 - gtx 9800
2013 - 7850
probably gonna get a new pc with a 1080 in July
>>54506819
The 7850 still works fine and runs everything i play at 60fps.
So there's no need to replace it
>>54506826
Meant 8800GT for 2007*
>>54506824
Feels like a lifetime ago
>>54504261
>buying 3 different cards in one year
wtf man, do you have too much money on hand, or are you just a really terrible decision maker?
pre-2014: some Intel HD intergrated
2014-current: GT 750M
/laptopfag
Nvidia GT230
ATI 5770
Nvidia GTX 570
AMD r9 290
riva 128
voodoo 2
radeon 9600 pro
9800gt
gtx470
gtx660ti
???
>>54506974
and soon Polaris 10. hopefully atleast 2860 shader cores. just need a fresh card since i crippled my 290 with dogecoin
No idea - GS 7300
2010(?) - GTS 450
2012 - GTX 680
Very interested in getting a 1070/80 in the near future, I figure its finally time to upgrade
>HD Graphics 1000
>HD Graphics 1100
>HD Graphics 2000
>HD Graphics 3000
>HD Graphics 4000
>HD Graphics 5000
>>54506696
>Diamond Viper II
ahh, fellow Savage-fag here (>>54505320)
>Can you guess when I got a job and started buying my own parts.
>2009: 3-way SLI Geforce GTX 285 1GB
Hmm
Voodoo 3 3000
Radeon 9800 Pro
Geforce Go 7900 GS (laptop)
GTX 460
>>54504261
Yea because shooting digitized people/monsters is so hardcore!
Grow up, there's these real things called women that are alot more fun than playing star warz.
Fucking gamer fags, go back to /g/
>>54507072
Fuck off normie.
Go back to >>>/b/
I don't upgrade often
Radeon 9250 (First computer, shitty prebuilt)
9400 GT (Hand-me-down)
560ti (Scholarship money)
980ti (Got a real job)
>>54507097
>normies on /b/
Is that what it turned into?
S3 Virge DX/GX 4mb Came with prebuilt pc
Inno3d Geforce 4 mx440 64MB First real Graphic Accelerator I purchased
Sapphire 9600 256MB DDR Lasted me a damn long time, still works. Thanks sapphire
Intel GMA 950 College Laptop days
Radeon HD 3100 integrated College Laptop days
Powercolor HD4650 512mb DDR2
Sapphire 6570 1gb DDR3 eventually upgraded to below
Sapphire 6670 1gb DDR5
A10 7850k int. GPU 2gb DDR3 @ 2133mhz
Zotac GTX 960 Amp 2gb Bought for HEVC encoder for muh chinese cartoons
2001: ATi Rage Pro 3D 8MB
2004: ATi Radeon 8500 64MB
2005: Sapphire Radeon 9800 128MB (MISTAKE 1)
2005: 3DFuzion GeForce FX5500 256MB (DAMAGE CONTROL)
2007: Sparkle GeForce 8600GT 512MB
2009: Zotac GeForce 9600GT 512MB (Mistake 2)
2010: EVGA GeForce GTS450 1GB
2012: PowerColor Radeon HD7870 GHz 2GB
2014-Today: Zotac GeForce GTX670 2GB
>Snake...had a hard life...
2001 Voodoo 3 2000AGP
2004 Ati 9600
2010 Ati HD5850
I currently have a 970, is it a good idea to wait till the price drops and then buy another one to SLI them?
>inb4 le 3.5 GB meme
Uh...
1994 - 3DFX gen1
1998 - 3DFX Banshee
...
There might have been something in between, i really can't remember
...
2004 - ATI 960 (first i built myself)
2006 - Intel graphics (had to go mobile for a while)
2008/2009 - AMD 4770
2014 - AMD R9 270
Guess i'm a cheapskate, think i might go for a higher end card soon though, either a nvidia 1070 or whatever the higher end Polaris card is.
Voodoo Banshee
Radeon 9200SE
GTX760
It was one helluva ride
>>54507139
these days there is a large population of normies there yeah, but it refreshes often because they can't handel /b/
R9 270x
GTX 970
8800
9800 gtx +
560 ti
290x (was a engineering sample and died in two weeks)
strix fury
~'99 - ??? Riva TNT2 Ultra, now that fucker was the bomb (Echelon, freelancer, UT99, Chaser, Gothic 2)
2007 - 2008 6150SE - this didn't really work out
2008 - 2009 9800GT
2008 - present HD 4850 vapor-x
4850 still going strong, never had to upgrade since I only play old(er) games if I'm playing at all.
- forgot the name but it was an amd equivalent of the gforce 3 series
- gforce 6600gt
-gforce 8800gt
- amd radeon 7850
>>54507139
/b/ is what normies think 4chan is
so that's where they go, cancerpost for like a week so they can tell their friends they were on 4chan and leave for a new busload to enter
/trash/ is a bit like oldish /b/ desu
HD3870
HD6870
GTX 760
Radeon 6550
GTX630m
GTX970m SLI
>laptop gamer
I have a question about graphics cards. I want to buy a gtx 750ti but I don't know which brand to buy, does it make a huge difference?
Either thinking of getting a second 760 for cheap on the used market and SLI them for now or biting the bullet and fully upgrading to the new series.
I need to upgrade but I have no idea where to start. I built my first pc 3 years ago and have never upgraded
What kind of GPU should I invest in? any recommendations?
I never had any problems with gigabyte. Iwas thinking about this
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn970wf3oc4gd
>>54507933
why 750 ti?
370 might be better performance.
If you need low power get the 950 without any power connectors?
Though if you need to buy an 750 ti just the cheapest one will be fine, not much difference between them anyway, or if you it to be a bit quieter get one with 2 fans
>>54504261
2005 - geforce mx 440
2009 - 9500 gt
2012 - hd 5770 vapor-x
>>54507978
I'm trying to build a budget build for a little gaming so the 750ti seems perfect
>PCI
1998 - 3dfx Voodoo2 2000
1999 - 3dfx Voodoo3 3000
>AGP
2001 - nVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200
2002 - nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200
2004 - ATi Radeon 9800 PRO
2005 - nVidia GeForce FX 5200
2006 - ATi Radeon X1600 PRO
>PCIe
2007 - nVidia 8600 GT
2009 - ATi Radeon HD 4870 512MB
2011 - AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB
2014 - nVidia GeForce GTX 980 4096MB
Dates before 2006 might not be perfectly accurate.
VIA someshit
Riva TNT2
Voodoo Banshee
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 4 MX 440
Geforce FX 5500
Geforce 8600GT
Radeon 4850
Radeon 5870
Radeon 6890
Radeon 7870
Geforce 980TI
Starting from the Pentium 4 rig I got in 2005:
2005 - Intel onboard graphics (aka fucking shit)
2006 - 128MB Radeon 9000 from dad's old rig (BOO YEAH!)
2009 - 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 (bought this baby so I could play TF2 on my shiny new Pentium Dual Core rig)
2014 - 1GB Asus Radeon HD 5770 from a friend (currently in my old Core 2 rig, which I've hackintoshed)
2015 - 1GB Gigabyte Radeon R7 250X GHz Edition (current GPU in my main desktop, an Athlon 860k)
This isn't counting all the miscellaneous cards I've had in other rigs, or any laptop GPUs.
4850>5770>6950>280x
GT 430
GT 620
GT 720
GT 930
Can't wait for the GT 1020
>>54508123
bro why?
>>54504261
"upgrade" from a 290x to a 980
what a fucking retard
>>54508123
Glad to see I'm not the only guy here who's never owned a high end GPU.
>>54508111
This guy again, what should my next card be? Should I give Nvidia a chance?
ATI Radeon 9550
nVidia GF 9600GT
nVidia GF GTX560
I dont play games that much, cs 1.6, HL2, GTA:SA, cs:go, dota2,l4d2...so those cards were enough for me. Only changed the 9600GT because it wasnt enough for CS:GO anymore and for better HW decoding of some codecs.
I will buy some high end if HL3 / L4D3 / portal3 requires it.
>>54507971
Both AMD and Nvidia release new cards this year, can you wait?
>>54508157
Yes definitely
When is the release date??
>>54508157
Is it not worth upgrading to a 970 though?
1995 - 1MB onboard graphics provided by the chipset (SIS).
2002 - Riva TNT (PCI, used)
2003 - Radeon 9600
2005 - Geforce 6600GT
2006 - Geforce 7600GT
2013 - GTX 260 (used)
2014 - GTX 660 (used)
2015 - R9 290
The GTX 660 was somewhat broken. Computer would freeze or become unstable when playing certain games.
I regret buying that R9 290. Should've bought the cheaper one from sapphire instead.
Started PC gaming in 2012 after reading about its benefits on Reddit.
2012 - GTX 470
2013 - HD 7870
2014 - GTX 750ti
2015 - GTX 970
>>54508167
Nvidia is releasing their 1070 and 1080 cards at the end of the month iirc
AMD's Polaris cards are planned for the summer (no exact date)
???
Nvidia 7600LE
9800GT blowing framerates on source engine through the roof
Random 630gt because my 9800 was getting noisey
Gtx690 Quad Sli
>>54508212
>tripfag
>plays games because of "benefits"
>buys a graphics card every year
>7870 was a side-grade
>750ti was a downgrade
Even if it's bait, there are definitely people this stupid, though.
2000-2010: whatever my Mac had
2010: GT 440
2014: gtx 770
>6 cards in 3 years, all flagship models
kids these days... just how the fuck do you justify this? i get a whole new rig ONCE every 3 years and i don't go for flagship models either
2011 - AMD 6970
2016 - Nvidia 970
2021 - AMD 70
2026 - Apple 0
>>54508185
970 is a broken hard by design. also that's barely an upgrade from what you have. fucking wait, you can play your shitty little games on high and not ultra and disable AA
fucking amazing some of you people, really
8800GT 512Mb
HD4890
HD5870 2GB
GTX 980
Kept the 5870 5.5 years, bought the 980 for 340ā¬ on sale when prices were around 450-550ā¬
199? - old 1 mb shit
200? - Radeon 9600 128 mb
200? - GTX275
201? - GT635m
>>54508301
(continued)
now that i look closer, it makes sense. you gave razer money, you dumb piece of shit
2014: GTX 750Ti
>>54508279
>how the fuck do you justify this?
by selling the old cards before they become too outdated. it's only way to stay on the bleeding edge, frequent incremental upgrades.
a new flagship every 6 months is still overkill imo though.
>>54508041
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125809&cm_re=950_oc-_-14-125-809-_-Product
Newer architecture, same price and a better choice gets 10 more fps on average in 1080p, if you cant wait for poolaris 11 that is
>>54508313
Rude, my GF bought me these heaadphones as a gift, and they are decent honestly
2005: Nvidia 8500 GT
2007: Nvidia 9800 GTX+
2008: Nvidia GTX 280
2012: Nvidia GTX 660 TI
2012: Nvidia GTX 660 Ti
2012: AMD 7970 GHZ Edition
2015: Nvidia 970 Meme edition
>>54508041
can't you see nvidia drops support of their "older" cards right away? the 750ti is an obsolete piece of shit now thanks to their drivers. pay a bit more for the 950/960 if you like being fucked in the ass by nvidia or just get an equivalent radeon
>>54504261
2006 - 2600 radeon
2010 - 6870
2014 - gtx 550 ti
I went backwards because my 6870 pooped the bed and a friend lent me the 550. I plan on building another computer soon anyway.
Forgot the exact years, so..
20XX Radeon 3650 HD
20XX Radeon 4650 HD
20XX Radeon 5770 HD
201X Radeon 7770 HD
201X Radeon 7950 HD
201X AMD something
>>54504261
1998 - Riva TNT2
2000 - Voodoo 5
2002 - Some 64MB Vram thing in an HP prebuilt
???? - Some Nvidia. It blew the fuck up
???? - GeForce 6800 something like that
2006 - GeForce 7950 GT
2009 - GeForce 210
2012 - Radeon HD 7750
2012 - Radeon HD 7950 x2 (Discarded by my friend. Literally got release 7950's for free)
2012 - Radeon HD 7970 x2 (Sold the 7950's)
2013 - Radeon HD 7970
One of my 7970's was bust cryptomining. After the GeForce 7950, I was in a valley of poorphage. My friend gave me the pair of 7950's after buying a pair of 770's. I sold the 7950's during the Bitcoin boom for 300% their worth because they were the most power efficient cards for bitcoin at the time. The 7970 was faster, but wasn't more efficient. So I barely had to pay more for the pair of 7970's new. Buttcoin difficulty creeped ,up, and now the 7950's are just regular graphics cards again. One had coil whine, so I was not even slightly against trading up. I was an idiot after learning about buttcoin, and busted one of the 7970's mining Litecoin.
Waiting for Vega. I didn't wait this long not to get HBM2. This is the longest I've waited to buy a new graphics card since I started buying them
>>54508365
The 750ti is perfect if you plan on playing CS:GO exclusively at 1280X960 4:3 stretched.
I feel as if it helped me play the game that much better. My Razer Naga moved faster without mouse acceleration on.
>>54508417
absolutely retarded
>>54504261
>Pentium II on-board graphics
>Radeon 9550
>9800 GT
>XFX 7870
>Sapphire 290
The 9800 GT was some black magic shit. It could even max out Max Payne 3.
2010 - 5450, dell prebuilt, first ever pc i played games on
2012 - 6870, first self-built
2013 - upgrade to 660ti
2016 - new self-built with 970,first card ive overclocked myself
>>54508396
>7950/7970 launched in 2012 still being more than enough in 2016
these are probably the best fucking cards ever made
I've literally just went from 5770 (first GPU, 2010) to a 960.
Arguably bad timing with the 960, but it's the best card that a) is actually released b) I can afford c) Works well with hackintosh.
2005 - Geforce 6800 GT x2
2008 - Radeon 3870 x2
2009 - Radeon 4870 x2
2010 - Feb 2016 Radeon 6870 x2, got a couple unbranded engineering samples before they even hit market release from a builder and ran them for a LONG time.
Feb 2016 - Geforce 970 GTX with new PC build, plan to sell this one and upgrade when new line hits
>>54508443
>960
You just got jewed, hard.
>>54508465
at least it has a full 4GB and not 3.5 :^)
>>54504261
2003 GeForce2 MX 200
2005 GeForce4 MX 440
2009 AMD Radeon HD 4670
2013 AMD Radeon R9 270x
2016 AMD Radeon R9 380x
>>54504261
2001 riva tnt2 32MB/ mobility rage 4MB (can't recall exact names)
2004 geforce 4600 ti (asus deluxe)
2007 geforce 8600 gt (gigabyte passive silent)
2009 radeon 4850 (his iceq UV one, still used in brother's pc)
2014 r9 270x (msi gaming)
Might have made a mistake with years.
>>54508471
Because a 128-bit bus and low core clock speeds can utilize 4GB efficiently, right?
>>54508523
might as well tell nvidia to fuck right off and get a radeon
>>54508471
4gb on 128bit cool
>>54508465
I did my research. Let me know what you think I should have got instead, and I'll tell you why I didn't choose that.
>>54508319
Which brand?
>>54508544
>>54508523
Still out performed AMD's equivalent
ATI HD2400
ATI HD4890 (fantastic card)
Nvidia GTX 970
>>54508533
>>54508523
>290/390 on par with 980
If you own anything less than a 980Ti from NVIDIA you got cucked.
>>54508548
Most people on /g/ tend to go for NVIDIA because they have decent Linux/mac drivers, so I'm guessing that's why you went for a 960. I really can't think of any other reason why you'd get a 960.
>>54508548
second-hand 290/290x
>>54508603
what you wrote and price limit
>>54508603
>mac drivers
Yep
>>54508621
Considered it (although I don't normally buy used tech, paranoid about static damage). R9 3x0 doesn't work under OS X. R9 2x0 kinda-almost-sorta-mostly works, but only with workarounds and patches and hacks, and framebuffer editing is needed for multi-monitor. Just forget it. 960 just needed me to install the driver and add a single boot flag.
2004 - S3 Unichrome iGPU or some shit (family computer)
2005 - ATi Radeon Xpress 200 (2nd senpai comp)
2007 - Intel GMA 950
2010? - GT240 DDR5
2011-early 2012 - 560Ti 1GHz
2014 - R9 285
Some low power 14/16nm gpu soon since lower power
>>54508743
Fuck me sideways
MX 440 -> 9600 GT -> HD 6770 -> R9 270X -> 980 Tio
1997 - 3dfx Voodoo1
1999 - ATI Rage 128
2004 - ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
2007 - EVGA 8600 GTS
2012 - EVGA GTX 670 > held it's own until I sold it three months ago
2014 - EVGA GTX 750Ti >ITX workstation build. surprisingly competent card
2016 - MSI R9 390X > 270W TDP
2003 - Nvidia FX5200
2005 - Some random ATI card in a pre-built Dell
2008 - Nvidia 8700GT (laptop card)
2012 - GTX 580 3GB (current card)
>>54504261
First card was Geforce 8600 gt
Then I upgraded to a Radeon HD 4850
Now i currently have a Gtx 760 with an i3 3220
I'm planning on getting the 1080 soonish after release, depends what AMD cards will be like. I also want to upgrade my processor
S3 Savage 4 32mb
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon x800 Pro
Nvidia EVGA 8800GTS KO ACS 2.0 320MB
Nvidia EVGA GTX280
AMD Sapphire 5870
Nvidia EVGA GTX580
Nvidia Asus GTX770 2GB SLI
And by the end of the month, an Asus 1080 maybe.
>>54508523
>Because a 128-bit bus and low core clock speeds can utilize 4GB efficiently, right?
That's what people used to say about cards with a bus width of 128 and 256 bit 10-15 years ago too. Back then cards had 32 to 256 MB RAM. Stop looking at the bus width and look at the actual performance. Running out of memory can ruin performance a lot more than a narrower bus.
20XX (it was a pr* built) AMD HD 5750
2016 MSI R9 390
2016(?) i might buy the 1070
Literally poorfag:
2007-2011: Nvidia GeForce 6150
2011-2012: HD Graphics 3000
2013-2014: Pentium Ivy Bridge HD Graphics
2014-2015: HD Graphics 3000
2016 to now: HD Graphics 4000
gt 440...
im poor
>>54504261
Some RAGE card I can't remember because I was like 9 - Probably floating around in a box somewhere
FX5200 - Gave to a friend
8600GT - Using now since 8800 started overheating
8800GT - Awaiting new thermal paste, can't use
I'm too jewish to upgrade :(
>>54504261
2003 Radeon 9800xt
2014 Gtx970 sli
Returned them though and now I'm waiting for the 1080.
2010 - 5870 x2 sli
2012 - GTX 670
2015 - GTX 980ti
>>54504261
2013 - EVGA GTX 750Ti
gonna upgrade soon because i just built a i7-6700 system.
>>54504261
i feel like a fucking moron for "upgrading" from R9 290 to GTX 970
the 290 is probably the best card i've ever owned
>>54504261
2001 - GeForce 4MX
2006 - Radeon 9600 Pro
2008 - 2012 - some shitty desktop to play WoW on + xbox 360
2013 - GT 730m
2014 - GTX 870m
2015 - r9 390 + GTX 860m
1998-2002 - Fuck if I know what was on those shitty Windows 95/98 machines
2002-2008 - Some sort of integrated graphics on my P4 Gateway. Was sufficient for The Sims, RollerCoaster Tycoon, and Java Applets.
2008-2013 - GeForce 6800 GT. Hardly ran Minecraft.
2013-2014 - Integrated from my Q6600 Dell.
Brief period in 2013 - GeForce 660
2014-Present GeForce 720
Should I just off myself?
>AMD
https://youtu.be/8lTGk0R12gs
8800 GT for life
>>54509892
It's a great card but... for life?
>ATI x1550
>HD 4650
>HD 5670
>HD 7870 Tahiti
>R9 280
nVidia 6600GTX
nVidia Quadro FX 3700
AMD 5850
AMD 280X
next upgrade will either be GTX 1080 or a vega card
Probably going to miss some or get some wrong but here goes.
Voodoo 2
ATi Rage 128
ATi Radeon all in wonder (died)
ATi Radeon 7200 (ram died)
ATi Radeon 9800 (died)
ATi Xpress 200m (constant overheating)
Nvidia Geforce 9600m (finally saw the light)
Nvidia NVS 5400m
Nvidia GTX 750 Ti
>>54504261
So you went from..
6950 to
7950 to
670 to
680 to
680 to
290x to
680
you fucking ultranigger jewass mega faggot
>>54504261
2005-2009 some terrible radeon with 30x30mm passive heatsink
2009-2012 gts 4xx
2012-2013 unknown
2013-2014 radeon 7770
2014-2016 gtx 760
>>54509707
You really should
>>54510069
>6950 to
>7950 to
>670 to
>680 to
>680 to
>290x to
>980
Fix'd it for you. And why are you so booty blasted anyway?
2004? GeForce 6600 GTX
2008 GeForce 9600 GT
2011 GeForce GTX 560 Ti
>>54504261
2007 - 7300 LE
2009 - 9400 GT
2013 - GTX 550
2015 - GTX 970
S3 Trio64
Savage 3D
Geforce 256
Geforce 5200 FX
Geforece 7600 GT
GTX 9800
GTX 960
>>54504261
Desktop
1999 TNT2
2004 Intel GMA abomination
2007 8800GTS SLI
2010 HD5870
2015 GTX960 SLI
Laptop
2004 Whatever a PowerBook G4 used
2007 8400M GS
2010 GTX460M
2013 Intel HD4000
/g/ - Gaymen
>>54504261
2005?: 8800 something
2008?: some low end ati-card
2010?: 550ti
until this point i was fine with playing games on low-medium settings and i would only upgrade once games wouldnt run above 30fps anymore.
2014: 660ti
games became more and more boring and were only playable because of the nice graphics.
2015: 390
now i have a great computer, but not enough time to play all those new games...
i miss the old days
That I can remember:
2008 - FX 5900 Ultra
2011 - HD 5770
2013 - HD 6970
2016 - HD 7970
Everything except for the 5770 was a hand-me-down from my Dad. Before 2008 I just used the family computer which had ridiculously old videocards.
>>54504261
great thread a bunch of posts with random listed off gpus
2001 - GeForce 2 MX400
2003 - GeForce FX5200
2006 - Radeon 9600 Pro
2006 - GeForce 6600GT
2008 - GeForce 9600GT
2011 - GeForce 9600GT SLI
2012 - Radeon HD7950
>>54509707
I'm curious. Why did you do it, was it the price for the 970?
>>54509314
Cards in the mid 2000's had 256-bit buses? What did you have back then, a fucking Quadro?
>>54511541
Because he's an AMDshill who has no idea what he's talking about and has probably never owned a 970 in his life (or any graphics card).
>R9 290
>buggy as fuck, drivers are shit, can't even keep pace with a GTX 780 without going full housefire
>GTX 970
>cooler, quieter, faster, and better driver support than anything AMD has to offer at the price point
Yeah, he's a shill alright. Probably Pajeet in the AMD marketing department.
2008 - 8600 GT
2010 - 9800 GT
2011 - HD 6770
2014 - GTX 750Ti
>>54507411
>Geforce 2 GTS
My fucking negro.
What ever happened to single slot cards?
Riva TNT
Riva tnt2
GeForce fx 5200
GeForce 7950gt
GeForce 8600 gtm
GeForce 640 gtm
Or something like that.
2000-Diamond Viper V770 AGP
2004-Stop Gaming
2012-AMD MSI 7950HDx2
2016-No need to upgrade but maybe Vega.
>>54504261
2011 - 6990
2013 - 7970
>>54504261
Amd 1.5mb, don't remember model, was from 80s
GeForce 2 fx
Riva tnt
6600gt
8800gtx
8400gts when the 8800 died
Gtx 260
Gtx 480
Gtx 660ti
Those were main rig, I had random other ones in other computers.
>>54511624
My GT 710 is a single slot card. It even comes with a half-sized slot adapter
>>54504261
Pre 2007 or so - Onboard
2007 or so - HD 2400 XT 512 MB
2011-12 or so - 550 Ti
2013 - 650 Ti BOOST
November 2014 - 970
Next Upgrade - Same time as I get a decently priced 1440p monitor
>>54511593
It's amazing that I asked him the question but you chimed in and called him an idiot because in his opinion he said the 290 was his best card. You really need to check your priorities and emotional attachment to a pcb board. People are allowed to like and buy what ever they like. When you mature you will understand this concept better. Try to be a better person and embrace other people opinions anon. I wish you well.
PS: Look at my 7950's you butthurt faggot!
>tfw my current card (5970) is older than most people's first card in this thread
damn kids, they're all alike
>>54504261
Why did you downgrade from the 7950 to the 680?
Why did you downgrade from the 290x to the 980?
Why do you upgrade every year, what's the point?
>>54511845
>tfw this baby's still going strong
Galaxy 9600 GT, 1GB (I think)
Powercolor 7850 HD, 2 GB
Sapphire R9 390, 8 GB
gtx460-
6950-
r9 290-
980ti-
2005~ shitty laptop
2010~ another shitty laptop
2014~ a mac
late 2014 finally sold the fucking laptop and build my own PC with a 750ti gigabyte.
Now the standard is almost 1440p, so I'll probably wait until 4K is the new standard to upgrade. Thought maybe the next year or the other.
>>54511845
Still running a 2009 HD4870 here m8.
7970 and 290 were both bought used
my next card will probably be a 1070 or 490
2012 - GTX 760
Still going stong for me. Only game I can't max is TW3 but I can get close enough to High settings when OC'ing so idegaf.
>>54504261
GTX8800
HD6970 (so fucking loud that I actually went ahead and bought an aftermarket cooler for it)
280X
440mx
Ti 4200
9700pro died
6600gt
8800gt
3850
5850
770gt
I don't play much anymore
>>54511567
I'm too late with my reply now probably.
But yeah. Cards like the Radeon 9700 had a 256 bit bus. Lower end cards like the 9500 had a 128 bit bus.
>>54508572
>960 outperforming 280X/380
kek
What planet?
Radeon x600
9600gt
Intel hd 3000 (lol)
Gtx 750ti
geforce 2 gts
radfeon 9500 pro
geforce 7800 gt
radeon 6790 (not 6970, but the really low end card)
radeon 280x (x3, for mining)
radeon 290x (x2, from RMA process of the 3x 280x not being able to undervolt, when mining turned bad)
I bought pic related from ikea and just routed all my cables through there, now I literally have 0 cables on the floor and it looks clean (unless you peak under the desk at the cable management thingy which is a mess). Feels good
8400 GS
GTX 260
HD 6870
GTX 670
>>54514030
wrong thread
>>54513969
>Intel hd 3000 (lol)
That chip is pretty annoying. It has this bug where it messes up large pictures, and it can ruin the EDID when you connect PC monitors using displayport. The EDID looks as if your monitor is a TV. Those issues have been worked around with software now, but seeing messed up pictures on websites was pretty annoying.
Never seen those issues with other intel graphics chips.
2011 - Shitty passively cooled ATI card because I didn't know anything better than "it has 1 GB!".
2012 - GTX 460 768Mb superclock edition. $100 on eBay and it worked pretty damn well. No housefires either.
Early 2014 - 750Ti. Wasn't too bad but I was a bit bitter when MFAA wasn't enabled even though this card was "Maxwell".
Late 2015 - R9 380 4GB. Runs pretty well and I want to try >muh dx12. I suspect it's actually heating my bedroom but it could just be the seasons.
>>54514030
Damn I need that
>>54504261
Ran a 8800GTS for close to ten years.
Upgraded to a 680 when it finally died.
Laptop
2009- ATI Rage Mobility Thing
2011- Nvidia Quadro NVS 110
2013- Nvidia Quadro NVS 135
2015- Nvidia Quadro NVS 4000
Desktop
2002- Nvidia Geforce Thing
2004- ATI Radeon X Thing (OEM)
2006- Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT (OEM)
2008- ATI Radeon HD 4350 (OEM)
2015- EVGA Geforce GTX 750 TI SC
Used Cards From The $5 Bin
2016- MSI Geforce 6200 TC
2016- Gigabyte Geforce 9500 GT
2016- MSI Radeon HD 5450
Rate and Hate
pre - 2001 - Old IBM thinkpad with whatever that had it in it
2001-2005 - NVidia RIVA TNT2 MOTHERFUCKER
2005-2006 - Intel GMA 950
2006-2008 - ATi Radeon X1300 PRO
2008-2012 - ATi Radeon 4670
2012-2013 - NVidia GTX 650
2013-Present - AMD Radeon HD 7950
Later this Year - GTX 1080
Some 64mb vga card
Some 128mb vga card
Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family
IntelĀ® HD Graphics 530
I don't game.
Will probably pick up polaris or vega anyway.
2012-now 7870
>5 years
>7 graphics cards
feels like youre doing something wrong
Don't remember for sure until
2008 HD4850 512mb
2010 HD5770
2015 GTX 970
2002 - nVidia geForce 6800GT
2012 - XFX Radeon HD 7870 2GB
>>54504261
First of all, what's with all of the side-grades? Hope you got good prices when you sold the old cards.
Radeon 9250
GeForce 7600GT
8800m GTX
HD5770
GTX760
Probably going to wait for the new AMD cards to come out and either grab a used card or wait until Polaris/Pascal is up on the used market.
