What's your favorite old GPU?What old GPU are you using?How long have you been enjoying it?
>>109727811How old is old
>>1097278111080ti>>109727811>How long have you been enjoying it?nearly a decade and when I needed mor, I got another 1080ti. I have a 5060 16 gig and I went back to the 1080ti.
>>10972790110+ years
>>109727811My still-working-after-14-years GTX 550 Ti.Thing just refuses to die, or even make its fan rattle.Last I checked, it was in my gf's HTPC.
GeForce 2 200mxI was there, 3000 years ago. Storming the walls of Thorstadt, seeking vengeance upon Conrack for murdering my father and my fellow vikings.
>>109728006>gf2mxThat was something like my ninth video card.I'm getting old.
>>109727811i’m still running my 1050ti I bought in 2018, I stopped gayming post covid so it’s just mostly collecting dust but we had some good times
>>109727811I still got a xeon workstation with RX580 in the basement.
>>1097278111050ti will always be my most favorite of all time GPU
>>109727811Foids and GentlemenThe riva tnt2I played the shit out of that thingMostly unreal tournament at 32bit with a working zbuffer for a change
>>109727811Vega Nano was great, I really wish I could've gotten one. IIRC it didn't actually come out, but Sapphire's Vega Pulse used the same PCB and you could put custom heatsinks/waterblocks on it which were nano sized.Wish we could go back to cards like those but nowadays you need 350mm long 4 slot coolers on a 200W card for some fucking reason.
>>109728886because fuck you that's why
>>109727901pre RTX
>>109727811>What old GPU are you using?This is the oldest one I have in a working PC
>>109727811geforce 2 mx 200 or something like that>>109728006my nigga
>>109727811My favorite old cards are: *list of cards I've used*GPUs are simply hardware. They're not like monitors or mice or keyboards. They are superceded and they become obsolete. Preference for an older card is exclusively nostalgia and for poorfags.
>>109728860i had the TNT (1).i wonder if it still works.don't have any boards to test it in anymore
>>109729656>>109728860not a gpu
>>109729661"GPU" was just NVIDIA's marketing jargon for the first geforce. The term VGA was more popular then.
>>109729661Da faq are you talking, anon ?
>>109729765no T&L therefore not a GPU
This fucker right here was my first good GPU. Played OG Oblivion on max and it blew my mindI think it was about 20 years ago.
>>109729033i think I still have a 5200 LE somewhere. what a worthless gpu
>>109728860oh man I had the crappier M64
>>109728886The tiny pcb was possible largely because of the HBM.HBM on consumer cards isn't happening ever again.
>>109727811Radeon Vega 56 for 7 years
This was my dream cardnever got one :(
>>109730108Tiny PCB is possible but manufacturers think small cards=tiny dicks so they make 5050 28cm long despite PCB being 10cm. And >>109728967
>>109730233Does it really need that huge heatsink? I thought the 5050s were total garbage performance-wise.
Quick, boy wonder!
>>109729980If you don't want it put it on ebay it'll probably be me that buys it
>>109727811Still using a renewed M4000 in a used Z440. The "I need a functional pc under $500" club.
>>109730233Fucking disgusting, who drew these
>>109730343No, it only has 2 heatpipes lol. An extruded aluminum block would suffice. Huge waste of space.
>>109730644I wonder if they're just doing it because consumers expect a 'real' GPU to be that big.
>>109727811R9 Nano. I swear this could would still be viable for modern gaming if it had more than 4GB of VRAM. It only craps out when it hits the VRAM limit.
>>1097278118800gtGot renamed and sold 3 times.8800gt9800gt240gts
My favorite old card is the hd4870, first high-end card I had.My two previous ones were the x1650 pro and 9250
>>109727811GTX260. First life changing gpu for me
My first real one was a TNT2 M64 which was alright. At some point I got some Radeon 9700 and 9800SE's cheap and flashed them to pro versions and flipped them back into eBay
>>109727811My first GPU for my first PC build when I was 18 was the 8800GTS 320mb, but my most memorable older GPU was this bad boy - the R9 295X2. Having that Asetek AIO was just insane at the time (2014).
>>109727811>you know that lesson you learned with your S3 virge where you has to sacrifice something to get more performance? where you have to choose between bilinear and resolution?>Well fuck it, just crank everything up
I always thought the Kyro2 tile based rendering was pretty cool
>>109731615Modern GPUs do a weirder version of it, because it's just better.
>>109727811Kepler were the backbone of my first workstation, GTX Titan, K6000, and sometime I'd like to get an M6000. Even modern software rendering using a cpu with higher core count still comes about 15-25 seconds short of my K6000.
>>109731600not a gpu
>>109727811ati 9700pro, at the time it spat in nvidia's tnt2 face. but the real mvp will always be the 3dfx voodoo (1!).
I like GCN cards. I have a GTX 650 I want to like but it's just useless. No linux driver, no grunt in windows, no vram. I should pair it up with an athlon x4 845, the final bulldozer and play some games on my 1680x1050 screen.
>>109728855This. 1050TI is my favorite even though i'm on gtx1080 right now and gave away my 1050ti
>>109731929racist!
RX 480 8GB from XFX
>>109727811This thing sucked ass.
>>109728860As someone who owned this, while it was a god damn fantastic card if you got it day 1 in summer 1999 it was obsolete the moment Geforce 256 hit the market and that pissed me off. It has no T&L every single game after 2000 has T&L and whats worse most games after 2003 would simply crash or become white blue and black boxes if you didn't have it. Will Rock, Galactic Civilizations II, Battlefield 1942, No One Lives Forever 2, Command and Conquer Generals. I can't count how many times I dispaired as a kid because I got the TNT 2 in like 2000 and I coudn't get enough money to buy anything else. All the way until Radeon 9000 Pro in Summer of 2004
>>109733110Thanks for the reminder Anon. It is an experience I unfortunately have to remember from time to time.
>>109731600This thing was amazing
>>109730159Same, was a leftover card from monero mining in 2018 and lasted me right up until 9070 XT.Bad reputation, ran hot, kinda noisy, built like a tank though and never failed me, no issues on Linux either <3 great card.
luv me 290xUsed and heavily abused but she stays on the shelf, never to be sold. Check out the bend on the pcb lol.
>>109729661>>109729863>>109731929not a humanno original thought so not a human
>>109734669Nvidia says its not a gpu and they know a bit more about gpus than you do anon.
>>109734500is thing even viable if i live in a hot area? I heard it pumps out a lot of heat
>>109734925Energy in = heat out in simple terms so a 250w card is dumping that into your room no matter where you live in the world. The giant cooler is because I destroyed the original tri-x during some OCing shenanigans.
>>109727811750ti all the way.If only NoVidia faggots and Microslop streetshiters didn't abandon the drivers.
>>109727811titan x maxwell [current gpu]using since 2o19, last gpu supported analog signal
>>109733110Aye, it was an absolute piece of shit. But I still have fond memories of playing Rome TW at 20 fps on it. I almost miss the days of being a poorfag.
>>109727950I stil have my GT 530 with fan noise, it does not support UEFI so I finally got a GTX 960 for 10 €. Likely I keep it despite needing 6-Pin, the other cards I have might be sellable.I got a 1070 Strix with one defective fan for 47 but it does not even do over 95 Hz now that I have a 4K160 monitor too. Do you think I can sell it for 120 on Ebay and buy RTX 2000 or RX 5000? The replacement fan was 6 €, once it arrives the card would be as new.
>>109734981750 Ti and Kepler don't do DX12. They are so shit that a Vega/Raphael iGPU outperforms it.>>109734500I survived the first mining hype with one, definitely worthy, it runs pre 2020 in 1080p. Still lightyears beyond a 750 Ti or similar trash, just needs power. The R9 Fury I got for 30 € in 2022 was also decent, but you can't get them so cheap anymore. Its insane. The card was essentially a 980 Ti / 1070 with 4 GB.
I had quite some nice cards, but in retroperspective they now have so little performance
Upgrade path in main system was:780 Ti - 1060 3 G - 1070 - 1080 Ti - 5700 XT - 2080 Ti - 6900 XT - 7900 XTX - 9070 XT
>>109735154That 290x also happened to be a golden sample and would game at 1200mhz core. Not sure if it would still do that these days though.
>>109735180>nigger went from a 780 ti which is about the same perf as a 1060 (esp the 3gb) to an 1060 3gb
Also I owned a radeon VII that I bought on launch day solely for vidya because I am a masochist. Sold it a few years back when I got a 7900xtx and I have no regerts.
>>109735223Absolutely, I traded my years old card for a brand new cutting edge gen with half the power draw and some money on topI could not afford better at the time but sidegrade keeps valueThe same with going from 1080 Ti to 5700 XT, I had been using the XT in my second PC for a while and knew I will upgrade, the Ti was sold for 600 before the launch and earned me 60 € for upgrading to a 2080 Ti FTW3
Upgrades for me went:6800 GT8800 GTHD 5770 (worst)GTX 465 flashed to 4701080 (best)Arc B580
i had 8800 GT for like 8 years until i utterly fried it
My upgrade pathRage Pro Turbo 8mbVoodoo 5500 AGPRadeon 9000Radeon 9700 ProRadeon X1600 Pro AGPGTX285 in SLIR9 290 4gbRTX 2060 mobileRTX Quadro A4000 8gb mobile (3070)Right now I still have the 3dfx card and the 2060 and A4000, but I also picked up an Alienware 17 r5 with a 1070 Max-Q that has seen a lot of action. I got into retro mobile computing so my current fleet isATi 2600XT MobileRadeon 7500 32mb1070 Max-QNvidia 7900 GSATi Fire GL 5250 (flashed to x1700 Pro)Quadro K2100 mobileAMD 4200back home my desktops haveVoodoo 5500 PCI MACVoodoo 3000 16mbSLI Voodoo 2's + some sort of Trident 2d cardCrossfire AMD 58007600GT SLIGTX 690 quad SLI Pic related the 7900GS I repasted, was in a Toshiba P105
>>109735983Sadly things die eventually. My Phenom 9600 had lasted my entire teenage era with a HD2400 256 MB and 2 GB RAM. At times there was 4 cm cat hair on the bottom of the PC and it would overheat, but I was careless and the thing was trash anyway, it would run 24/7 because the bootup was 4 minutes.When I finally wanted to upgrade and clean the cooler was glued on the CPU. There was a sticker on it left by HP, you can see its marks - A hint why you should not buy prebuilds. It had been there all the years, all my COD addiction, compiling custom maps, music and shitty video editing.The CPU had an afterlife being my secondary HTPC after that. With 4 GB DDR2, my GT 530 and a 120 GB SSD it was surprisingly nice running 8.1 until I could afford better. But the power draw was immense. At last it served in my cellar printer machine until it refused to boot. It gives BIOS image but hangs.
>>109736196Surprisingly I got the exact same mainboard, a Pegatron Narra3 and a Athlon X2 from a donation thread. But it does not boot. The X2 boots on my old board. Maybe one day someone gifts me another AM2 and I would try to run it again, it would not serve as anything better than a retro machine.
gtx 960 2gb
i got a used gigabyte 1050ti on 2022 (i was on high school), and oh boy, that was a great upgrade from the good ol' gt710 (<- still better than the old laptop GPU 810M), and i enjoyed it for almost four years! The only issue was just the fan cranks itself 100% 24/7 cause the controller crapped itself, but using a headphone helps a bit. And i was a dumbass because i did not realize that my 2nd gen i5 bottlenecks slightly my computer, so there's stutters on heavy gamesI also modeled a random-ass plate on last year of HS, though it's pointless because my computer's side panel is not clear.Now, i have a used (again) 3070 on a "new" computer, not as crazy of a upgrade then when i got the 1050ti, but it's pretty nice, as it makes way less noise (fan controller is not broken + 100w limit because why not, and even then, it's still more powerful)
>>109727811i really REALLY liked my HD 4870
>>109735587>HD 5770 (worst)Explain. That is the generation when AMD topped steam hw survey charts.
>>109736846ATI drivers were absolutely horrendous, I had driver timeouts constantly
It felt great when I flashed a pair of 6950 to 6970, except they could not reach 6970's clock. Free extra shaders still rock.
>>109730866This is exactly why. People have put lots of alternative coolers on these oversized pieces of shit and they can do just fine with a whole lot less. I've seen someone just punch out half the fins from a 5060Ti and the temps only increased by 2C under load. The fuckhuge coolers are marketing trash. Picrel is a 5060Ti with a AXP90-x47, it's less than 4.5" long.
>>109730499>Cadence Allegro
>>109736870at what era?I had the 5700 XT months after launch and it had severe issues but it got better quicklyIt seems these issues were always on launch>>109737115Those GPUs are tiny, but if theres space more cooling is always welcome. Just not on microdick cards like the 6500 XT. I've recently seen one that I first believed to be scam but apparantly there is really one with triple cooling. They should have reinvested the money for the cooler rather into proper VRAM.
>>1097375255060 and 5050 do not need 30cm coolers. picrel is a 18cm 5070.
>>109737525>at what era?late ATI era, 2009ish~, before the AMD merge
The 7970 was such ridiculous performance for the time, the Sapphire one I had was binned enough to be a 950MHZ card out of the box, and of you cranked the power limit all the way, it would do 1GHZ core 6000MHz effective mem easily, could've gone higher but thats what I ran stable
>>109737525>if theres space more cooling is always welcome.If you design a cooler that someone can cut in half without affecting thermal performance meaningfully, it was a only ever a waste of space.
>>109730233I guess it's possible for a low power card, they still make LP versions of those after all.It'd be difficult for something of the same class as the V56. The ref board for it already uses integrated fets to save space.
>>109738102
We'll never se a card like the fury nano again.
>>109738134This one? They should not have done that giant cooler, the R9 Nano had a better one.
I demand sapphire brings back the toxic branding.
>>109738478Sapphire toxic was so based, the 7970 was already a beast, but putting 6GB of ram on it means the card would stay relevant longer, people who spent a grand on a GTX 690 found themselves getting cucked by the 2GB of VRAM, meanwhile less powerful 780, 7970, Kepler Titan ended up being the better buy because of the 6GB frame buffer.
>get geforce 6200>slow chuggy framerate in cowadoody>overclock it to 6600 speeds>surprisingly takes the same clocks with zero issues>play at maximum settings at 1024x768
I wish the Geforce 10 series could work on XP.
First video card, had absolutely no idea and got properly told how shit it was once running some 3D games.
>>109730499shortest path, innit
>>109728833anon, old GPUS are like the ATI HD 5000 seriesthe RX 580 is still pretty new...
I miss HIS' IceQ design, looked great and had that shitty gimmick of glowing under UV lightHave this card lying around along with a Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X OC, if only ATI/AMD could into drivers
>>109734907>Nvidia saysHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAStop wasting my oxygen and kill yourself immediately NPC.
>>109742485Hi steve from AMDunboxed!
>>109742436I want to see modern 500W high-end cards with a fuckhuge 3 slot blower fan and thick heatsink combo. GPU dumping heat outside of the case by itself should be an option.
>>109727811Ati 4890
>>109742485Why did me pointing out correct usage of the terminology make you so angry?
>>109745069>t. Retard
>>109741540>8 years>new
>What's your favorite old GPU?i brought pic related (untested) a few months ago for $3, repasted it and was pleasantly surprised to see it work with no issues.it crashed trying to play Civ 5 which i can only assume is due to VRAM limitations.i like the old card designs with women on them.>What old GPU are you using?currently i have a E9173 in my shitbox pc paired with a ryzen 1200.it is a weird card, it has DX12, Vulkan and openGL support despite only being a budget 2017 2GB card exclusively for office pc pre-builts.>How long have you been enjoying it?4 months.it is comfy limiting yourself to old games or indies.
I gave my old pc to my father and it has 1070 FE on it and it's still doing good lol
>>109729863graphics processing unitnot "transform & lighting" unit
>>109727811I'm still using my GTX 1080. I will use this card until it dies. Best purchase I ever made.
>>109741540>pretty newIts basically a decade old lmao get real
>>109745743Thats why I wouldn't spend a lot on them. And fuck people who write stuff like "Vega 56 like RTX 2070 RX 6600" because even if the performance is the same its 3 times more aged with 3 times the power draw and no drivers.For cheap its fine, you may not enjoy new games but you can enjoy 2010s titles. I got a GTX 980 for 30 € and this 1070 "Striks" (his writing) for 47 with one defective fan.
Best card I had was the 780 GTX, could play everything I could throw at it on max settings until 2015, back when flagships only cost $500. Worst card was the 8800GTX, died a few days after the warranty expired. Pretty sure most of them died due to critical design failures.
Fan cost was 6 € and 2 weeks of waiting, but should double the value to sell on Ebay until I eventually can power the 4K160 monitor I just got.The card would suffice but sadly it has no DSC. Seems like I need a RTX 2000 for sure, they also have no DLSS, so the best you get is FSR3 with optiscalers fake DLSS. Thats likely why RTX 2000 are still so overpriced, new DLSS is a real gamechanger on lowend stuff. I would otherwise buy a 5700 XT again, but paying over 100 for a card that is just inferior is not an option. And FSR4 on RDNA1 will likely never be possible.For ultra budget I currently see nothing better than the 970, start at 15 €, twice the performance of a 1050 and the 3.5 don't matter as much as you should not expect highend performance of it. Its still superior to a 1050 Ti.Actually even the 960 is a bit faster than that, but the 2 GB hold it back.
>>109738754They pulled the same trick with the 290X near the end of its lifespan.The Vapor-X cooler was a beast too, I still have my 290 sitting around because it served me so well.
>>109747190>bolts on 8gb for lols>makes the GOAT gpu
>>109747200I miss when manufacturers did things for teh lulz. I mean nobody needed two entire full-fledged 290X cores on a single PCB covered by a gigantic triple-slot air cooler, but it sure as shit is cool that it exists.
>>109747259AMD did that themselves. No what made powercolor insane is they tried air cooling the thing as AMD's offerings were watercooled.Even for funny is powercolor did it not once, but TWICE (295x2 and then they did it with two 390's).
>>109747259those are some uncommon fan blades
>>109747259>how much power should our gpu draw?>all of it
>>109741540is this baitdecade old tech isnt old to you?
>>1097473232016 feels like it was yesterday to menot doing this on purpose, no
>>109747288See, NVidia? It's not hard to put 4 8-pin power connectors on a GPU at all!
>>109747348just a cool 730w
>>109747374640W technically, the 730W is for the full system that draws 90W with no GPU.Or in other words, right about in line with a 5090.
>>109747389Yet i've never heard of a 295x2 melting. Quite the curiosity.
>>109747190The 8 GB definitely, because the 300 was shit and the 480 was not any better. Even the 4 GB was fine, I bought one for someone for 120 € in 2016 and he used it until this year.Kepler failed because of VRAM starvation first, lack of DX12 finalized it.>>109747288And these days 300 W are average and 600 W are possible.>>109747374Looks like my 5900X + XTX build. It went into the 800s on spikes on my power meter.>>109747338It feels modern but yet its 10 years ago.
>>109747462/g/ was very. VERY clear at the time that you'll NEVER need more than 2gb of vram at 1080p and by the time you do such cards would be obsolete. AMD slapping on 3gb on the 280x 9well, 7970) and 4gb on the 290x was them scamming users.
>>109727901It can't do DX12/Vulkan
ASUS GT 9600 512MB Silent, my first GPU. Was good until I had to run DX11 games.
>>109747288Insane. I thought there was a mistake with my new PSU when they had cables for situations like this
>>109748258you want to know why the new connector was made? it was to save space on the gpu...
I'm about to waste some money on a RX6500XT..thoughts ? It's for old stuff, 2022 tops.
>>109748343don't. get a 6600 or an older gen 5600. the 6500 is just very inconsistent even in old games.
>>109748360>6600might as well at this point, although I also considering a RTX3050. Things were so good pre 2020 besides miners
>>109748343>2022 $200 card>trades blows with $200 card from 2017 (which is a OC'd 2016 card)>64 bit>PCI-E x4Worse if you put it on older PCI-E 3.0 or 2.0 mobo.
>>109748448>6600 171%>5700XT 189%friend of mine had a 6600 and i had a 5700XT at the time (it was the blower with the dent) and from what i remember mine wasn't all that much faster
>>109748481189/171=1.10510.5% increase is not easily perceptible.
>>109748448It blows but atm >RTX3050or>>109748360the 6600, fucking kikes and their "ram apocalypse" scam
>>109748493well we did stare in a few multiplayer coop games at the exact same view with the same settings and had the exact same fps
Getting really horny for a rx 550 with 2 gigs of vramshould I indulge?
>>109748520Perhaps CPU bound, or worse, V-sync on.
These two cards were my dream cards back when I was a teenager. Sadly I was still living with my abusive dad who was also poor, so even buying a PC with my own money was impossible. Thank god I moved out, I could get this card whenever I want, but what would be the point?
>>109727811My kid has my 1070 in his computer. Still works for a surprising number of games. >The GeForce GTX 1070 remains capable of running 99% of popular PC games at 1080p10 year old card btw. Gaming graphics are a joke. They haven't progressed at all in 10 years. Just rayslop and fake frames. RDR2 still looks better than anything that's come out since. Only reason to upgrade is local ai.
>>109733109I had that card, sounded like a jet taking off every time I played a heavy game
>>109748694wasn't my first choice either but with the first mining wave hit i was happy to have it.
>>109727811This bad boy got me through soooo many hours of Everquest!
>>109748819based Voodoo3 enjoyer. picrel is the pci version it seems. voodoo branding is one of the most iconic for graphics cards.
Still using a gtx 1080 mini, might upgrade next year if rdna5 releases and it's supports itx form factor, almost got a rx9060xt but didn't seem like a substantial upgrade
>>109732210>GTX 650>No linux drivershould just work with nouveau, no? is nouveau too shit?
>>109749081>is nouveau too shit?yes. it's the microsoft display adapter driver of the linux world.
>>109749089well, it worked for me and my GT610 some years agobut I didn't play any games with it, only used it with proxmox while passing other GPUs to VMs.
>>109742536>>109745069Sorry NPCs, but the term "GPU" has existed since the 70s. Your owner stole it, redefined it, and you're now pretending it belongs to him.Thus we can determine your race (or at least your political bent) - and from that, that you shouldn't be allowed to speak.
>>109748532Come on guys I need help or else I'll wake up in the middle of the night and impulse buy it from aliexpress
>>109727811i really really need my VGA outputfuck hynix btw
>>109749378anon, you can just use a decent DAC, you know...
>>109749442le lowest latency possible but actually i don't really want to be restrained by DAC possibly being dogshit or not having enough bandwidthif it works, it works
>>109747432ive heard of maybe 5 or 6 instances of 8-pins melting over the last 15 years in contrast to the same 5 or 6 12vhpwr cables melting every 2 weeks
>>109749522true but there was a list of known-good models, some of them might be slightly more capable than your gpu's DACi only meant to say that you shouldn't be afraid of upgrading, you can still use your crt just fine
>>109731565I went from a Radeon 9250, Sempron 2300+, 1GB DDR, 40GB Maxtor PATA drive in my first PC to a HD 4850, Phenom II X4 940, 4GB DDR2, 1TB Samsung HDD, then HD 5850 1GB soon after. I will never experience such a jump in computing power again.
>>109735180>7900 XTX - 9070 XTWhy? The XTX is better.
>>109750028nta but i also did the same. i bought one (used) for very cheap as an upgrade from my 4070 but it was kinda too big as it ran too hot and used too much power. i sold it for a good price and bought a new 9070xt with that money.
>>109750019Now imagine jumping from a Commodore 64, to a 486SX-33, to a AMD K6-2 450, to an Athlon X2 5600+.
>>109732210The 470 branch should work right? Or did a kernel/xorg update break it?
is the RX580 considered old yet? incredible card that just continued to get better. one of the best value gpus ever especially because there were a million cheap used ones after the crypto mining fad
Still have a 1050ti in a HP elite boxed up, was my gateway into PC gaming as it blew my mind you could just slap that card in anything and not need external power. Idk if it counts in this thread but I've been slowly working on a Xeon/GTX1660ti dell precision trying to figure out cooling on it since it definitely is still a very capable PC that I plan to hook up to my TV. The CPU on it runs warm and Dell put all their engineering into cooling the ram and nothing else for some reason.
>>109749542When it starts getting caught on camera on a regular basis it's pretty hard to deny that there's an issue.
>>109752465There are kids who were in elementary school when the RX580 launched that are now adults with college degrees. Yes, it's old.
>>109747113>Pretty sure most of them died due to critical design failures.I would blame failures on them being from the early RoHS era where lead-free solder was even shittier than it is now.
>>109751562I went from C64 + NES bootleg to a Megadrive to a AMD K6-2 266 + Riva128, upgraded it to 450 + GF2MX, then jumped on an Athlon XP 1600 or so, upgraded it a bunch of times until hitting the Athlon 64 X2. Then a Core 2 Duo, then a 3570k. Then a Ryzen 3600 -> 5600g -> 8600g.3570k was the first time I didn't overclock but undervolt the chip, and 5600g was the first time I stopped using a dGPU. I just wish AMD released upgraded APUs, having one decent new chip every 5 years is pain, enough to make me consider getting a 5060.
>>109750028>>109750090XTX was week 1 MBA with hotspot issue cooking at 115° usually it had texture issues in the end and I got full refundBasically free GPU for 2 years and 400 € on topAlso half the power draw the 5900 + XTX system reached 800 W regularily shutting down my Seasonic TX-650 so I got a GX-1300 instead
>>109756926Tell me more about the "bootleg" part.I've always found the strange/unlicensed/grey machines far more interesting than a breadbin C64, Mega Drive, K6-2 etc. that were first-party and made by the millions.
is $1200 a good deal for a used rtx 3090 that was only used for gaming and watching videos?
>>109727936>I have a 5060 16 gig and I went back to the 1080tiBased.Why though? Your 5060 Ti uses less power.i went from the 1080 Ti to a 5080 last year finally, which is overkill, but it's nice.
>>109735154>750 Ti and Kepler don't do DX12. They are so shit that a Vega/Raphael iGPU outperforms it.The point is that any dx12 game requires so much computing power that even if 750ti could run a dx12 game the fps would be below enjoyer's 24 frames anyway. So 750ti is like 1060ti but in dx11 league
>>109759493The real magic of DX12 on these older cards is actually on the cpu side - tools like dgvoodoo2 and dxvk can really help cpu throughput which in turn lets those older gpus sing in a way they never did.
>>109749378>>109749378Maaaan. I forked out for this thing back in the day I still remember the coil whine every time I booted up DayZ mod on Arma2 after uni. Had good times with it, but it was a little underwhelming (bottlenecked on bf3). Replaced it with my 1080ti which lasted me 8.5 years til i got the 5080.
>>109759509Personally I do not see magic - you just outsource gpu job to cpu. And get on top latency issues and gain heavy dependence on ram.
>>109759266>is $1200 a good deal for a used rtx 3090 that was only used for gaming and watching videos?Unless you need the memory, compare the price of a 5070, which slightly outperforms the 3090 for gaming at 1080p and at 4K, generally, is new, and sucks less power.
I have a 1070ti with a freshly applied arctic mx-4 thermal paste. I dont know how to deal with hardware stuff so the guy who sold me the pc did that for me. I've now learned a lot more about pcs since I got a remotely even for gaming one. is it really true that thermal pastes have to be constantly replaced (like every 6-12 months) once it no longer has the stock paste, or is that only an issue on newer cards like rtx 3070? I've read it draws way more power so its more of an issue, but I'd like to know if that's objectively true. also, weirdly enough, most people who complain about thermal paste often say to get a pad like ptm7950, overclock their gpus, or are from countries like phillippines. not saying this with ill intent just a trend i've noticed lol.
>>109759728> is it really true that thermal pastes have to be constantly replaced (like every 6-12 months) No that is bullshit. Most thermal paste has a lifespan measured in years and the stuff that doesn't you'd know as you'd be purchasing and applying it yourself.>often say to get a pad like ptm7950,PTM7950 and equivalent products exist to solve a problem discrete gpus don't really run into.
>>109759493It means not opening while a Vega 7 APU can do so any play at 1124x resolution with nearly 60 FPS thanks to framegen, which made the difference between getting the Darktide event done and not back then. 750 Ti is so weak that a modern iGPU is likely better.
>>109730085The M64 and the TNT2 are actually the same thing. Or more specifically, a TNT2 with shitty memory bandwidth is an M64. The silicone is the same.
>>109736196>BIOS image but hangsprobably not the CPU anon, it's probably the BIOS chip. Have it reflashed with the latest horsepaste and it should be fine unless mobo is leaking piss
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>>109727811my EVGA GTX 960 4GB I guess. Was pretty comfy while it lasted but it was lacking in raw compute so it had to go.
>>109763312Are you sure? I have an identical board from a donation thread that is also the Pegatron Narra3. The Athlon X2 runs on both. I have replaced this ancient shit with a 1155 bundle ages ago because the X2 struggles even at opening PDFs. But the Phenom would do great nostalgia and probably make a decent retro system. I've played AOE I disc version on it years ago and even still have the old 500 GB from my HP prebuild with the ORIGINAL Windows Vista 32-Bit from my teenage era installed on it.
>>109748448>RX 570 equals RX 6500 XTlmao AMD I always buy your gpus because loonix but c'mon
>>109763492PCIe x4 on anything below PCIe 4.0 will do that.
>>109763477Sure? no :) but its still more likely than not. reason why is flash memory of BIOS generally lasts about 10-20 years depending on manufacturer, so it always dies eventually, but more importantly it never just dies, it gets corrupted. So any microcode required for the later (X4) CPUs generally gets corrupted and it would be loading that right after the splash screen. If you had a spare CPU of the exact same type, and that did/didn't work, that would solve it. But another thing to definitely try is to use the X2 to go into the BIOS and increase Vcore voltage (or maybe it was some other voltage, can't remember, ask an AI because this is a known thing), then save changes and reboot with the X4 installed and see if it now passes the BIOS. They can need this after a few years but will stay stable afterwards. Basically the min voltage they run at is +0.1V after 1 year, +0.1V after 3 years, +0.1V after 10 years, +0.1V after 25 years, etc, i.e. non-linear. So it isn't a huge problem so long as you have a spare CPU
>>109763477Also really wanna play AoE now off a fucking disk -___-;
>>1097278111080 Ti GOAT & still in use for almost a decade750 Ti retro gaming & still in use for more than a decadeI use my 1080 Ti on my main PCs and I have a machine with a 750 Ti for retro gamingRT might be nice, but what I have works and will work for a long time
>>109727811It was the best GPU purchase I ever made. It was my first real GPU and gaming has never been as good.
>>109747200Imagine if they'd done the same with a Vega FE core on a Nitro card
>>109766209Well to a point that is what the radeon VII is.
>>109766228VII is a slightly cut down V64 with double the memory channels and chips on a die shrink, but a 16GB V64 still would've been a compute monster to this day
>>109764948Do you think the BIOS chip is the reason? I've had a X4 940 and a 975 later, the AM2+ worked well despite being "AMD processor model unknown" but the 975 would only work on 800 MHz. Still a wonder it booted at all. The board has zero overclocking or any capabilities beside changing the time and boot priority.AOE I was before the DE, these days I wouldn't want to play the old anymore. You have nostalgic memories about it, but once you actually do it you realize how shitty it was. No unit queue, worst pathfinding ever and many other issues. Even playing AOE II HD (which is essentially AoC just tied to Steam) felt weird after 5000h of AOE II DE. And 50 / 75 population limit was also hell. Back then my only workaround was to play MP against AI to get 200 at the cost of not being able to save.But I definitely want to play Sub Culture and POD again. For the latter there is also some voodoo FX thing that makes those effects run on normal GPUs. My thought was to make a secondary shit PC only for that and use the VGA monitor from the cellar with it. These games unfortunately do not run in Win10. But otherwise I play them just on my regular 2026 PC. Fear 1 for example scales amazingly well in 4K, its main issue is low FPS when you have a high refresh rate mouse, but there is a fix. Another one I played a while ago was King Kong, the Kong missions crash unfortunately but the rest worked after years of trying, don't bother with disc version because the securom will ruin your system. You need either Windows XP or a cracked version. But the game was worth it, despite the shitty graphics the atmosphere is still good, why don't they remaster these games? Graphics are generally a shock at first but you get quickly used to it, especially if you had played it as a child.
>>109731592I still want this
>>109761843>60 FPS thanks to framegenI would rather prefer teared unstable 20fps over ai-slopped 60.
>>109727811>What's your favorite old GPU?My old SLI VooDoo 2 setup. Felt like a monster at the time.>What old GPU are you using?1080ti>How long have you been enjoying it?Since about a year after it was released.
>>109730233If you look at the other side, most of these massive cards are mostly all heatsink. The card itself is not that big.
>>109759728Depends on the paste. MX-4 will last for years, dedicated overclocking pastes will dry out in a span of weeks/months.
I know this is only partially related to the thread but does anyone here collect old GPUs and if so how do you store them without the original boxes?>>109732210GCN 1 is great for multiboot systems.I'm not sure why Nvidia didn't bother open-sourcing any drivers for Pascal and earlier, missed opportunity to breathe new life into old cards.>>109733110I gotta get one with a PCI connector for a mini-ITX Windows 98 build, I snagged an MX4000 but it's about the same as my mobo's onboard SiS Mirage graphics.
>>109768813You don't want to do that. PCI bottlenecked the crap out of even the shittiest GeForces.Go AGP, or you might as well stick with an S3 ViRGE.
>>109748543I had this card : the r9 290X. Pure banger, I remember sometimes my 500W power supply wouldn't handle it and my pc would just turn off lmao
Radeon 9800 PRO still the greatest
>>109730866>>109737115>>109730644This is a waste of space but the compromise is perhaps worth it if you wanted an almost fanless PC. I imagine those fans barely ever spin.I don't own one but I like that amd and nvidia have 8GB cards that simply support all the newest vulkan, opengl versions.They for sure are the endgame card for the people who only want to play games from "when games were good."I'm not sure about this but for linux gamers the newer vulkan versions these cards support might mean that you can use the open-source drivers in stead of the closed-source ones. And Proton probably runs better on these newer cards than on older cards with the same performance and same size vram. Because of the Vulkan support.Recently I had to find a patch because the nvidia drivers for my gtx760 (2013) were no longer supported in the 7.0 linux kernel my distro was upgrading to. And I was upgrading my distro because it was complaining that support was ending. This 760 sits in my moms PC that she leaves running all day. The screen sleeps automatically of course.I could see myself getting an amd rx7600 (2023) or something like it. Not likely upgrading past 1080p any time soon.
>>109770430the meta for linux gayming is to just get AMD, it just works
8800 gt9600 gtGTX 560tiGTX 770GTX 970GTX 1080tiand to a lesser extent RTX3090.All of these had extremely good price-performance and pushed the envelope of what was possible at the time.
>>109769465As much as I would like to use an AGP card, the system I'm building has no AGP slot because it uses a mini ITX motherboard, so I guess I'll stick with the MX4000 I already have.
>>109774359Are you using one of those Via boards? If so the CPUs on those are weak enough that it shouldn't really matter anyway.
>>109774482I'm using an Intel D201GLY, it's got a Celeron M 215 and an SiS chipset.
>>109727811titan x is pretty epic is has 12gb vram and supports win xp 10 year old card and companies still releasing with this amonut of vram kek
>>109748076These are worthless though, you want Polaris/Pascal at the very least
>>109775528>you want Polaris/Pascal at the very leastcan confirm, I can do everything with Polaris>loonix support check>win7/10/11 support check>old vidya support check>minecraft support checkdaily driving one and really don't need anything else, heck I even have Navi 22
