What went wrong?

>>59397130
Northbridge became integrated into the CPU, making 3rd party chipsets obsolete.

>>59397130
But it was fine?

>>59397319
That's not nForce logo

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>>59397130
This went wrong.

>>59397130
>>59397319
Wait, I had a brain fart, you're asking about the FX cards not the nForce.

The FX cards ran hot and loud, buggy DX9 support, and weren't faster than AMD's card of the time. In fact the FX series was barely better than the GF4 that it was supposed to replace.

>>59397331
>But it was fine?

What are you talking about it was a disaster in Direct X 9

>>59397355

ATI 9700,9800 PRO were legendary cards.

Also if I remember correctly I think you could flash the 9500 to a 9700

>>59397367
Only issue was that Valve botched the release of HL2 and it got delayed by a year, which hurt AMD as they were really selling people on how well it was supposed to run that game and had all the latest DX effects. It was supposed to come in a bundle as well.

>>59397130
They weren't fast enough.

>>59397130
Because the ex-3DFX employees absorbed by Nvidia did not deliver.

I had a 5200 ULTRA I am still butt mad about purchasing that pile of garbage

>>59397423
Uhh the FX cards are GeForce 5, a long-ass time passed since the 3DFx acquisition.

Honestly, the reason FX was remembered to be so shit was in relation to how good series 4 and 6 were. 4400 Ti? Awesome. 6800? Fucking legend.

>>59397435
lol, it was basically a Geforce 2 with DirectX9.

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>>59397554

And I purchased it to replace a guess what, Geforce 2 MX400

>>59397130
My stocks quadrupled with them last year, hope it goes wrong again

>>59397435
>>59397554

pops bought me one to run FFXI when it first came out in 2003. it was gud4me

>>59397130

It could barely into DX9.

I had an FX5600. It was shit.

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>>59397130
My FX 5200 is brilliant
DELET THIS

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>>59397570
I myself had a Geforce 4MX 440 (If I remember it properly). Half Life 2 looked like this pretty often.

I had a shitty Celeron processor back then, and it took about 2-3 minutes to load a new level. Ah, good old times when hardware mattered.

>>59397699
Yeah that's how Half Life 2 looked on my Pentium 4 1.6hz Willamette,512mb ram fx 5200.

>>59397716
>housefire cpu
>housefire gpu
were you retarded or something?

>>59397130
FX 5500 was my first graphic card, run ubuntu marvelous.

>>59398369
It was a different time

>>59397716
Gotta love the days when i used my GF4 Ti4200

>>59397699
>Geforce 4MX 440
I had one kek

What a piece of shit, couldn't even run AA2.3

my fx5200 still works

>>59397130
My dad bought me one for Half-Life 2. It didn't run so good, but I was happy anyway.

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This piece of shit(PCI fx5200) was my teenage years on a Pentium 4 dell prebuilt with a missing AGP slot. I did every trick I could find to try and get games to run at acceptable frame rates.

>>59397130

40mm 5000rpm fans making the card sound like a chainsaw in full load