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I had a super socket 7 board with the new agp slot. When I upgraded my pci S3 trio graphics card to a Voodoo3 3000 I was stunned by the graphics change.
 
My god man, 1.21 gigawatts was to much. We've gone back... in time.

But yes I remember the S3 trio. It was good for its time but the Voodoo was way ahead.
 
I was really impressed with my Geforce2 MX400 from some kind of S3 card. Next biggest leap was probably Geforce4 MX to Radeon 9700.
 
One negative about my gigabyte board was it did not have any ISA slots, which was probably a positive, but I had to ditch my massive Soundblaster card.
 
I went from software rendering in Halflife and Counter Strike to a Radeon 7200 DDR, this allowed 640x480 to turn into 1024x768 gaming. My gawd....
 
My first PC was a Pentium MMX back in 98, but my first great graphics change was going by the Gma 4500MHD(from a 2009 notebook) to HD7770->GTX670 this year. I Basically jumped from Valkyrie Profile 2(PS2) graphics to Crysis 3 max settings.
 
I recall the Rvia TNT 2 I believe, which was a huge upgrade in graphics from before with directX 8 and much faster than what I previously had, which I do not recall and the visual increases were huge while I played Everquest.

The next huge upgrade was my ATI 9800 Pro and DirectX 9.0c (If I recall correctly). This brought huge increases in water detail in games like Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Far Cry.

My next huge upgrade in visuals came with my GTX 470 in 3D Vision (it was supported prior to the 470, but that is when I got it).

Those are probably the most memorable upgrades.
 
I went from an S3 Virge to a just released G-Force I bought for most of a paycheck at a mall vid game store way back when. Wife almost killed me but Quake2 was awesome...
Man that was like 15 years ago.
 
GeForce 2 GTS DDR. Can't remember what I was using before, but the GTS was one sweet card.

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I can't decide, going from a 386 with a graphics card with half a MB that could just about run SVGA (not used that term in years) to a PII 350 with an ATI Expert@work that couldn't even properly do D3D didn't exactly blow me away until I put in a Voodoo card in.

Next big step up was from a TNT2 Vanta to a fully fledged geforce 3, along with a 1400 Thunderbird, got about 10 times the performance.

My 6600GT was impresive for the time but upgrading to a 9800GTX+ just blew me away, first massively parallel card I had. I don't think i'll ever have as huge a jump as this.
 
What about a more recent upgrade. I upgraded from an amd hd 4650 to an nvidia gtx 660ti. From barely playeble bf3 at 1280*720 to be able to max it out on 1920*1080. How's that for a upgrade🙂
 
1. Upgrading from my Matrox Mystique (without bilinear filtering capability) to a Maxi Gamer 3DFX 4MB, and running Motoracer, Tomb Raider 1 and GL-Quake with 30+ FPS max details!

2. Going from a Geforce 2 MX to a Geforce 3Ti 500. That card ran everything at max for two years in 32bit colour.

3. From my FX5600 Ultra, which I was sure would be a killer card, upgrading to a 6800XT AGP and using Rivatuner to unlock the extra Pixel Pipes / Vertex Shaders (in 3DMark 2003, I went from 2400 ish to 11000). I replayed Doom 3 and went from 640x480 and low details to 1024x768 and high details still with double the FPS ^^
 
vanillatech said:
3. From my FX5600 Ultra, which I was sure would be a killer card, upgrading to a 6800XT AGP and using Rivatuner to unlock the extra Pixel Pipes / Vertex Shaders (in 3DMark 2003, I went from 2400 ish to 11000). I replayed Doom 3 and went from 640x480 and low details to 1024x768 and high details still with double the FPS ^^
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I remember spanning my swap file across 2 drives so I could run this game at full detail, (1024x768, must have been using a 5700) made all the difference for me.
 
Deders said:
I remember spanning my swap file across 2 drives so I could run this game at full detail, (1024x768, must have been using a 5700) made all the difference for me.
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It was such an awe inspiring game, both visually at atmospherically. But it did take it's toll on the hardware. You really did need a 3Ghz P4 or any Athlon 64 with a top end card to get the most out of it. I remember reading a GIANT F.A.Q which listed hundreds of tweaks you could add to the config file in an effort to smooth things out. Some worked quite well... but I knew it was time to bin that 5600 Ultra and get something with a bit more ooomph :biggrin:
 
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