can anybody remember this? crysis, oblivion, 3dmark06 good old

ned for sped on voodoo

Fucking kids these days.

>>60879811
kek, i had Voodoo 2 SLI

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>>60879784
I can do you one better.

WoW was prime with this in my Optiplex and its bizarro form factor case that didn't close all the way with this inside.

My first real gpu was an evga 9800gt. I used it for years, but eventually relented and got a 7970. I still have the gt in a box, and I can't see myself letting it go.

>>60879784
I remember saving up lunch money to afford it, in the end, in the end it took me so long and didn't have enough so bought an HD 4850

Yeah, spent $650+ and still couldn't run Crysis past 30fps unless medium settings

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This is where its at boys... The mighty Matrox Mystique 2D/3D card back in the Windows 95 days.

>>800x600 Half Life 1... The memories...

>>60879784

i remember laughing at the gay gaymer graphics on the plastic fan shroud

>it only took ten years but thank god all GPUs are Stealth Bomber now....

>>60879854
>>60879811
>git gud

Voodoo 5 with a tuner and the fuck huge capture "dongle" with the thiccc cable.
That thing earned me so much cash back in junior high since plebs couldn't into video capture from their shitty Hi8 cams.

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>>60879982
Not mine but pic related

I remember it frying
switched to radeon and never went back to amd ever since lel

>>60880005
never went back to nvidia*

You need to be 18 or older to post on this site.

Jonnes can't remember 3dfx

>>60879784
>this was the beginning of GPU gaming era
Fucking what? GPUs had been around for almost a decade by that point.

You need to be over 18 to post here.

OP should die of shame. You can't be serious, read up some history and don't make shit threads like this.

Shouldn't 15 years old boys be sleeping?

>>60880038
>>60880039
>>60880095
>over 30
>still on the 4chan

My first GPU was the GeForce4 MX440.

I was like 9 or 8. The stupid tech support installed it and forgot to install the drivers. Plus he connected the monitor cable to the motherboard.

I spent maybe some time to notice what was working bad... GPU demanding games weren't working smooth, but I usually played shit games so... didn't care

>>60880117
At least we don't make shit threads.

>>60879784
I saved it 4 times with the oven technique - was able to play GTA V - Best card in history (Before the Ultra)

>>60880117
Yeah, you should be happily married and have children by then. WTF.

I thought you're all alphas and shit.

>>60880117
Over 40, in fact. Now go to bed and never make such a stupid thread again.

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this was my first discrete 3D accellerator

>>60879856
I would've played the fuck out of half-life 2 with that.

>>60879784
>this was the beginning of GPU gaming era
Are you 12?
Ever heard of 3dfx voodoo 1?

>>60880159
i got a 7600GT PCI-E
ran FarCry and Crysis quite fine, HL2 was a piece of cake

>>60880156
>Over 40, in fact. Now go to bed and never make such a stupid thread again.
John the club
t.turned 40 last week

>>60880187
I bet half the people on 4chan are middle aged fags larping as 19 year olds

>>60880191
:3c

>>60880191
Hahaha, for the sake of nostalgia? I'm proud to be old somehow, so no need to fake my age.
The new generation is very retarded...

I will never ever ever get rid of my voodoo3.
Still have the original box too! 3DFX will live forever!

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>>60879784
I was using this bad boy up until about 1 year ago, done pretty well running most modern games on low-mid settings

>>60880273
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/voodoo-revived

>>60879784
I had 6600GT at the time.

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>2006
>the beginning of GPU gaming era

>>60879784
>tfw I remember playing Half Life 2 on a Sapphire 9800 PRO
>tfw I remember playing STALKER, Crysis, Bioshock DX10 and Witcher on a Leadtek 8800GTX

two of the most legendary gpus in gaming

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>>60879784
>this was the beginning of GPU gaming era

>>60880574
Dude, I was playing Unreal on a 166MHz Pentium MMX and a Voodoo 3 back in 1999. You probably weren't even born. I had already graduated college.

My first real 3D capable gpu was a Radeon 9600se. Before that I was too poor and relied on crappy software rendering. The Radeon was still shit and I bought a Nvidia 6800GT not too long after that.

>>60880592
Dude, I was born in '87, I remember playing Quake 3 Arena(not at launch) on a GeForce 2 MX, and I'm not even American.

>>60880791
are you me?

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I remember playing BF2 on this bad boy with a Pentium 4

>>60879784
I got the 8800GT which was almost as good but in single slot.

Also, XFX were terrible.

>>60881015
Wasn't the fx5xxx series the one where Nvidia tried something new with their cards (can't remember the details) and it backfired spectacularly making that THE generation to avoid?

>>60881049

Those cards were loud as fuck.

>>60881049
i remember something like that, but not the specifics

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2365

Most people jumped in during this period because it's so good the performance and power efficiency

>>60881049
DX9a according to wikipedia, specifically Shader Model 2 stuff.

>Its weak performance in processing Shader Model 2 programs is caused by several factors. The NV3x design has less overall parallelism and calculation throughput than its competitors.[11] It is more difficult, compared to GeForce 6 and ATI Radeon R3x0, to achieve high efficiency with the architecture due to architectural weaknesses and a resulting heavy reliance on optimized pixel shader code. While the architecture was compliant overall with the DirectX 9 specification, it was optimized for performance with 16-bit shader code, which is less than the 24-bit minimum that the standard requires. When 32-bit shader code is used, the architecture's performance is severely hampered.[11] Proper instruction ordering and instruction composition of shader code is critical for making the most of the available computational resources.[11]

Basically Nvidia cheaped out on the bit width of the pipelines and the card architecture suffered as a result. And let us not forget the original nvidia screaming housefire, the FX5900

>>60881187
Ah yes that was it. I remember skipping the 5's and getting an AMD something or other with a pci-express motherboard and 6600gt from some computer show right when it came out. Shit was cash.

>>60881294
Probably an Athlon 64x2, IIRC that was right around the time when AMD was actually doing pretty good with their chips.

>>60879784
>this was the beginning of GPU gaming era
This is not Geforce256, son.

>>60881049
Yes and the FX5xxx series actually uses tech from 3dfx's unreleased GPU (they were acquired by nvidia).

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>>60881434
you mean NV1?

>>60881434
GPUs are arguably older than the Geforce256, but they were the first to use to term.

>>60881550
Isn't the NV1 just an accelerator? I believe a GPU is different.

I'm too lazy right now to double check my facts.

>>60881597
na, NV1 was an all-in-one deal, 2D, 3D, sound and gamepad

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>>60881586
Yeah we can go old school and talk about 3dfx. Glide was ahead of its time. Glquake ftw

>>60881597
GPU was just a marketing term Nvidia thought up and applied to the GeForce256 because it included hardware transform and lighting, but has stuck since then.

GPU is pretty much just synonymous with a discrete hardware accelerated video card in its most general usage.

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This delicious card.

True story: Friend of mine had this card, upgraded to a different one, and gave me this one (I was broke and needed something better). I remember looking at it and "Prototype" and something else along the lines of "not for sale" were silkscreened onto the board. The BIOS on it was a version I couldn't find anywhere else... Maybe it was a pre-production card? Friend said he got it from some dude online.

>>60881643
Looks pretty badass. What is it

>>60881625
Glide was amazing considering how well it ran and how new the tech was. I never had any problems with 3dfx cards and or the Glide API. Everything always just worked. Nvidia and ATI (now AMD) at the time were a total shit show since they relied on the early DirectX library.

>>60881666
i wonder

>>60881669
glide was basically a subset of opengl, hence GLide, not entirely new

>>60881673
Duh. Filename. I'm a stupid phone poster

>>60881643
Could be an engineering sample which do show up on eBay a lot.

>>60881666
If the image title didn't give it away, its a Geforce FX 5800, affectionately nicknamed "Dustbuster" because of that fucking loud as shit fan.

Seriously, that fan ramped up to like 77 dBA (according to Anandtech).

>>60881689
I'm curious how the guy got it since the card had been brand new to the scene when my friend first got it.

>>60881681
Maybe not but it ran like hot shit in a Teflon commode. It took a while for the industry to catch up when those Philistines at Nvidia bought them out and ruined it all

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Just got pic related form one guy at local forum. Only 2USD and it works like new.

>>60881708
3dfx was ruining themselves quite fine before nvidia bought them
it is sad the industry went to d3d instead of just going to full opengl though

>>60879784
>tfw overclocking cards of that AGP era were simple to overclock on Apple Macs back in the days: ATis could be overclocked by setting clocks using sliders in the official ATi Mac driver(!) Nowadays shitlets piss themselves over "metal" or "egpu" memery

Reeee etc.

>>60881704
maybe his dad worked at nintendo

>>60881758
Excuse the shit structure of that sentence, I hope you understand since I'm phoneposting.

I have an old 660 ti that's been sitting in a box for a few years. I have no idea what to do with it. I tried giving it to friends with shitty PC's but they are too dumb to figure out what to do with it. What do?

>>60881792
Do some distributed computing with it or stick it up on ebay. Could probably get a good $60-70 out of it.

8800 was the entry into the new era of GPUs where every upgrade since felt stale.
It was the first card to come with the new driver control panel out of the box, designed for Vista in mind, supporting D3D 10.
You can still roll a 8800 today and feel absolutely no difference outside of 3D gaming.

>>60881973
>8800 was the entry into the new era of GPUs where every upgrade since felt stale.
Yeah but isn't that more to do with games being made for consoles rather than being PC exclusive, instead of the 8800 being that good of a GPU. Which started around when the 8880 came out (360/PS3 era).

I was too poor for a Voodoo, but I remember when I got a GeForce 256 for UT99, good times. The composite video out was great for playing DivX AVIs on my CRT TV.

>>60882036
i think it's around that point (360/ps3/8800) that game graphics really started to hit diminishing returns
10 years ago, crysis came out, and to this day it's still a pretty nice looking game
10 years before crysis, in 1997, what was cutting edge? Quake II? a world apart graphics-wise from crysis
current games look better than crysis, yes, but not to THAT degree

>>60879856
shit, didn't know this existed. I used a 5200 and later a 6200 in my pc that had agp but not pci-e. didn't know anything stronger existed from nvidia

Does Crysis challenge modern cards at all?

>>60879893
Back when MW2 meant something good.

>>60879784
it basically marked the end of 3D graphics improvement

if i was to roughly categorize them;
1st gen: raycasting engines like wolf3d/doom
2nd gen: first "true" polygonal 3d engines like quake I, end of raycasting (duke3d)
3rd gen: 3d accellerators rapidly boost graphics around the turn of the millenium
4th gen: most games move away from exclusivity, coming out on ps3/360 first or at the same time as pc, progress has been slow and gradual ever since

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>>60879784
Yes I do.

>>60880158
>32MB
Lucky you, I had a 16MB version of that SiS but with green pcb

>>60881625
I still have my two Voodoo 2 cards.

It ain't early enough unless overclocking your GPU means overclocking your entire expansion bus.

>>60879784
I had a 6800 GT, shit was fucking caSh

>>60879784
yes have one currently in my main system

>>60879854
Same. Took me so long to save up for a second one.

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>>60879784
literally the best GPU ever made

so what card i recent memory comes close to the bang for buck performance of the 8800? GTX 970 perhaps?

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I was on a ATI Radeon 9500 pro until 2009.
I lived in a trailer park and my family was poor so i got all my parts from the garbage and hand me downs.
Was rocking a Athlon XP 1800+, 1.5gb ram, ATI Radeon 9500 pro, 3x 80gb HDDs. I started getting NEETBUX so i bought a Athlon XP 3200+ and a HD 3670 AGP and ran it a few more years. Good times.

>>60883556
Still got one in my P4

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>>60883794
>GTX 970 perhaps?
Are you retarded?
The 970 was terrible value and everyone who bought it got memed by the vram issue.

The 7970/50 and R9 3/290/X are the current kings.

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>it's a "millennials get nostalgic for 2007 gaming" thread
>they weren't even born yet when Ultima VII was released
>they didn't play Sierra games in the 80s on DOS machines

>>60879784
remember 8800 GTS/GTX were the first dual slot cards from nvidia and everyone talked about these big monstrosities
now every card is monstrous, it's the standard

>>60883930
>390
>literally 290 with 8GB vram for $100+
>value
kys poojet

>>60883949
>Millennials
>they weren't even born yet when Ultima VII was released
You do realize millennials were born in the 80s and aren't 12 year olds right?

>>60883930
>The 970 was terrible value
are you some under aged faggot ? the 970 was *very* good value before the AMD price drops.

The 970 at the time of release ($330) was better than the 290 ($400) and was pretty even with the 290x ($500)

>"AMD would have to cut R9 290X’s priceby nearly $200 to be performance competitive, and even then they can’t come close to matching NVIDIA’s big edge in power consumption. "

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>>60883963
>still performed better than the 970 for less money
>can be had used for only 20$ more than a 290

kys

>>60883930
The R9 2/390/X are a bit too much of a house fire to be the GTX8800 of our day. Combined with throttling problems on the early cards (290X). The 970 is a better card if you can get past 0.5GB of ram being slower.

The 7970 is more of a GTX8800 tier card if you bought one new back then. The GTX680 has aged badly.

>>60883949
I'm not saying it was better than actual old school DOS gaming, but 2007 era was pretty good with the cards available and the games that came out then. It was a pretty good time to be a gamer.

>>60884095
>power consumption meme
>implying prices didn't stabilize quickly
>3.5 + .5
>DX12 "support"

>>60884126
The 8800 Ultra was a house fire m8.
Also nobody bought reference cards.

>>60884150
ebay prices still put the 970 significantly cheaper (~$90 average sold price gap) between it and the 290x
Even shitty ass 290 gpus seem to be selling for more than the 970 on ebay

its your money, you buy what you want mang

>>60884183
Ebay prices on the 970 have fallen because the 970's performance compared to it's competitors has fallen. The 970 aged very poorly.

>>60884177
>Also nobody bought reference cards.
There were more reference cards sold than non-reference cards. They were perpetually out of stock for at least six months and the price skyrocketed due to cryptocurrency mining. Most of the cards you will see on the used market are reference.

>>60879784
It can run GTA V better than old gen consoles

>>60884235
>Most of the cards you will see on the used market are reference
Cryptoniggers dont coun't. Those same people bought reference RX 480s.

>>60880191
How can you LARP on the Internet?

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>>60879784
I brought this.

the 8800gtx was too much the 8600gt didn't seem strong enough. If only I waited for the 8800gt. pos died on me.

>>60884183
There is a cryptocurrency bubble that started again a few weeks ago and the 290X are all going for ~$300-$350 now. Before this they were at parity with the 970 or less for a used card.
>>60884220
>The 970 aged very poorly.
Wrong. Its all bitcoin.

>>60884258
>Also nobody bought reference cards.
>More reference cards sold than non-reference
>These sold cards don't count
Okay there m8.

>>60880156
kek what a failure

>>60884413
>calling other people failures for posting on 4chan while posting on 4chan

>>60882359

No, but it's really CPU limited

my latest pc purchase of a gtx1080ti gave the the confidence I never had before to download and play crysis on ultra.

and good lord that 10 year old game has better graphics than the majority of pc shooters today. the attention to detail is frankly unbelievable I can't understand why they even made it when most people couldn't see it with their pc's

>>60884512
what does that mean? I can interpret it both ways, to mean that it works fine with lower end cpu's, and also that it limits your choice in cpu's because you need a higher end processor

>>60884665
Its been years since I've played it but I remember it not scaling well past 2 cores. So you can take from that the framerate is probably limited by your CPUs IPC and clockspeed.

>>60884452
At least I'm not a complete failure.

>>60886149
>Projecting your NEETdom this hard
You do realize you can shit post while working? A lot of people in IT also work from home.

You also need to be over 18 to post here.

>>60886248
I'm 23, I'm on law school and I have a girlfriend. I might not be your average Chad or your average channer but I'm far from NEET or from being a failure. You can keep projecting tho

>>60884266
My 8600gt burned while playing WoW

>>60879784
>beginning of GPU gaming era
2006 was somewhere around when i stopped caring about videogames. How on earth is that a 'beginning"? lol

>>60879784
I think this is even better than my current Geforce 210.

Quick question, from what Nvidia gpu will bottlenecking occur on core 2 duo E4500 while running on PCIe 1.1 x4

>>60886347
>You can keep projecting tho
>Gives list of life achievements on anonymous image board to prove worth
Dat insecurity tho

>>60879784
Ohh please, it was UT and the Voodoo 3 3000 lil kid

>>60886499
Thanks. Keep shitposting grandpa

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I only recently upgraded from my 9800

>>60886566
I don't think the Voodoo 3 was the first GPU even.

>>60886419
my 2900XT died in mount hyjal

My first GPU was a SHITTY PCI Nvidia card by PNY with 512 mb of vram. I bought it at Staples for 65 dollars and it went into my low profile Dell Optiplex (the one that looked like an Xbox 360 but black and gray) and then I proceeded to use RivaTuner to overclock it till the tiny blower was screaming like a jet airliner, spewing intense heat into the case mingling with the burning air off of the 3.0 GHz P4 HT Prescott (also screaming like a jet airliner, as was the factory power supply), running at 86+° C.
And all of this got me a CINEMATIC 7-42 FPS in Oblivion with stutter and at 800x600 with extremely tweaked settings and performance mods.

What a time that was, and mind you, I was poor, and that was 2011.

>>60879811
this

or riva tnt for medal of honor allied assault

>>60886645
Nvidia coined the term "GPU" with their early GeForce cards. At the time it was derided as just some marketing/branding drivel - just another game for a graphics chipset.

If you define GPU as that, just another term for a graphics chip, yeah, those have been around for a lot longer. (some early-80s machines had a whole separate CPU dedicated to graphics and display control) If you define GPU as a graphics add-in board that's programmable, you can place the "first GPU" line pretty much anywhere up to 2007ish, depending on how general-purpose you want the programmability to be. People were tricking special-purpose GPUs into doing general computation by the early-2000s, by writing graphics and shader programs that made no sense as graphics and shader programs. By 2008 or so we had the beginnings of CUDA and OpenCL and stuff like that, and it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that a GPU was a general-purpose computational device, albeit one optimized for much different things than an ordinary CPU.

>>60886787
just another *name for a graphics chipset.

>>60886787
This pretty much. We called them 3D accelerators when they were standalone, or video cards with 3D acceleration/3D capable once they started combining 2/3D on single cards.

>>60879893
THIS!!!

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The only old GPU I kept

>>60883960
>were the first dual slot cards from nvidia
Hownew.ru

>>60879784
>this was the beginning of GPU gaming era
I'll have whatever he's having.

>>60879856
>AGP
Press F to pay respects.

When will GPUs become efficient enough again so over half of the materials wont have to be for cooling anymore?

>>60888004
Never, as long as you can make GPU faster by simply throwing more hardware.

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My PC ran with this up until last year when I finally upgraded my system.

>>60888014
This. It's become accepted and the norm, we can't go back. If you want a less bulky card you'll have to settle for below top tier performance.

Pic related, Galax Katana is the closet thing you'll find today to what you are probably looking for and even then it's rare oddity. And the 1070 chip is probably going to be held back a great deal by GPU Boost looking at this cooling solution.

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>>60888066
FUCK

Here it is actually.

>>60880191
>I bet half the people on 4chan are middle aged fags larping as 12 year old girls

>I had a dream...
>-literally who

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>>60879893
I HAD THE SAME CARD, THESE FEELS

>>60881049

When I bought my first PC in 2004, I did the moronic decision of asking a friend who worked at some tech store to build me a good gaming PC for my budget. Basically ripped me off hard and the GPU was a 5200FX. Shame on me for not doing my research and thinking "yeah this is okay cool".

>>60887768
Is dat sum 7800GTX?

My friend and I both had one of those back in like 2006. One night he brought his machine over and we had a mini-LAN, and then we stuck both of our cards in my nForce 4 SLI board and benched it in Doom 3. Shit was so cache

>>60880005

The 8800 was a really good card but I remember somehow a tendency to kill itself.
I used the oven resoldering method once, and it worked on mine.
Then some 8 months later it did went to shit again, but had some money to spare and did get a 560Ti and a new monitor.

I also remember some meme conspiracy about drivers that fried those 8800 on purpose to force a change as they were so good that had too much "life" still on them

>>60884142

2007/08 was the time when games started going full brown and bloom and generally shitty.

>>60888119
Yep GTX 7800 512mb version

>>60888194
2007 was when the Burning Crusade came out though. That was pretty good.

>>60888291
It was also the year of C&C3 and Supreme Commander.

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8800GT was the best perf/value card to come out to this day.
Was rocking one for many years with my dual core athlon.
Best gaming was had with this one.