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Does anyone remember the days of the Geforce 256

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perillo34

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I remember my freshman year in highschool, or senior not sure, but how amazing the geforce 256 was and all of the hype about it, now look at us, same $hit different hardware, I wonder if anyone is still running one, or did it only come in pci. LOL those were the days.
 
I remember buying a TNT2 Ultra in the Geforce 256 days because that was all I could afford. 😛

And it was still $150 then....:frown:

This was late 1999 or early 2000, I think. I was also a freshman in high school at the time.
 
Yes, there was all this hype about it being the first true GPU, and making the CPU not as much of a factor. Because they said it would do all of the video work, or course this was wrong.

 
GF256? That's so new. I remember S3 Vision 800/900 series, and the Trident/Cirrus Logic ones ISA/VLB ones with 256KB memory 😉
 
Originally posted by: Goi
GF256? That's so new. I remember S3 Vision 800/900 series, and the Trident/Cirrus Logic ones ISA/VLB ones with 256KB memory 😉
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LOL roger that. I remember when my friend got a Cirrus Logic 1MB VLB video card and we played Doom on his 486DX/66 all night. 😀
 
Ya, I had twin Diamond Monster VooDoo II's (12mb each) in SLI mode on our PII 266 MMX, I remember my wife and I wigging out at the first time I left the prisoner ship in Unreal. As we used to Quake II, anything other than brown on more brown just blew us away.
 
Originally posted by: SirOmega
Ya, I had twin Diamond Monster VooDoo II's (12mb each) in SLI mode on our PII 266 MMX, I remember my wife and I wigging out at the first time I left the prisoner ship in Unreal. As we used to Quake II, anything other than brown on more brown just blew us away.
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Unreal is still easily one of my favorite games of all time. :thumbsup:

Oh, and welcome to the forums! 🙂
 
i remember "upgrading" my Rage Fury 32 for this POS and saying, it's 'faster' but the Image Quality is crap.😛

:roll:
 
remember? its still running in my sisters machine.

Nephews use it mostly, it runs bob the builder and thomas the tank engine just fine.

Wonder how long before the 6800gt winds up in a box covered in crayon marks..
 
I upgraded from a V3 2k to a GF DDR, and held onto it until after the release of the GF3 Ti200. Only had the GF3 for a few months before I left for the military though. 🙁
 
Heheh,

I still have a functioning "STB Velocity 4400 Riva TNT 16Mb"..... remember STB ??, that company that was later bought by Diamond. Its running on an Abit BH6 and P2-400 @ 450 circa 1999

Still does Need for Speed High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed very well.

I must say that I was an "early adopter" with the TNT, can't remember which online store I picked it, remember that on those days the first versions of the TNT had a bunch of problems.

Now a curveball........ remember the Rendition Verité ???? I played the first Tomb Raider with one of those.
 
I just had my ASUS V6800 DELUXE (GeForce 256 DDR with 32mb SGRAM) in my Athlon64 system about 2 weeks ago! It was in my rig for about a week, while I waited for a replacement VGA Silencer Rev.3 to arrive. It worked fine... in 2D 😉 I did try a 3D game, Call of Duty UO, but it was too jerky to play .... duh! Looked like crap, too.

Just so you know, I had my Geforce1 card from June 2000 to June 2004. Yes, really...!


 
My first video card in my newly built P166MMX was a Diamond Stealth S220 PCI 4mb using Rendition V2100 chipset. Boy, how nice the graphics! Late I added in a Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo1) to play those games under Glide - had the best of both worlds.

For those who don't recall, you could run Rendition with 24bit color, something 3DFx and most others couldn't do. Remember how we had to run some games in 16bit color because our systems weren't powerful enough to run at 24 or 32bit color?

Jeez, those were the days, eh?
 
Still have my pair of SLI Voodoo2s. I think those brought me through Quake2.

I also have a Voodoo1 although for the heck of it I can't remember what machine I used it in and for what game.
 
I breifly had a 256SDR version, then sold it fast just when the DDRvers hit the market. Then bought the DDR vers , used from the AT F/S forum of course 🙂 paid $215 used for it.




 
Heheh,,

I knew some of you would remember the Rendition Verité Series. Indeed it was amazing the change in graphics quality when I first played Need for Speed III with 3D Acceleration. I could't believe my eyes. :laugh:

It's a shame how a sexy company like 3dFX went belly up in such a short time because of bad decisions of their executives team, after having the 3D world in their hands. I remember reading an interview with 3dFX CEO and he said that in one year they were going to have an intel-like "3dFX Inside" sticker on most computers in the world.... go figure!!.

Anyway.... that's why there are "Smart CEO's" and "Dumb CEO's"..... the 3dFX guys were unable to stand a single round with nVidia once the latter rose up to the 3D graphics crown. Then ATI, who was left biting the dust for a longtime only making money because of the cheapo OEM market, put their act together and released the first Radeon chip.... today the market is more or less on a 50-50 fashion and we have the power of choice.

BTW....

I think Rendition was bought by Micron back in 1998, and they stopped supporting the product in 99.

3dFX bought STB in early 99

Nvidia bought 3dFX in 2000

S3 bought Diamond in mid 99 (btw... where the hell is S3 today ?)

And I think they all are secretly owned by Bill Gates...... heheheheheh:Q

Quanta
 
S3 is owned by VIA now and are mostly found as the onboard graphics cards on VIA chipset motherboards. From some benchmarks I ran it performs between a GF2 MX and a GF4 MX
 
Rendition supposedly had a TNT killer in their hands with their RRedline V3300. Remember their FOTW? It was degisned with dual pipelines with 32bpp precision, dual monitor support, dual independent 64bit memory bus(2x64bit), hardware MPEG decoding, 32MB memory support, and 24bit Z-buffer. Too bad Micron bought then and crushed the project.
 
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