- Mar 20, 2000
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favorite: canopus pure3d 6 mb voodoo card. that thing got so many miles of quake and quake2 put on it
least favorite: geforce256. that thing had driver issue after driver issue. i've never dealt with a card that had more bugs. nvidia fixed most of them within a few months, and my next card was a geforce3 ti200.
least favorite: geforce256. that thing had driver issue after driver issue. i've never dealt with a card that had more bugs. nvidia fixed most of them within a few months, and my next card was a geforce3 ti200.
the 9500pro
such a beast, mines still going strong even now.
but the card i always wanted..... the Nvidia GF4 Ti4600. such a rare and expensive beast. i know it pales in comparison to today, and the 9700pro destroyed it in hi-res/AA/AF but it was a nice brute force graphics card
such a beast, mines still going strong even now.
but the card i always wanted..... the Nvidia GF4 Ti4600. such a rare and expensive beast. i know it pales in comparison to today, and the 9700pro destroyed it in hi-res/AA/AF but it was a nice brute force graphics card
I really liked my 9800 PRO. I hated to see it go. It played everything I threw at it until BF2 came along. That was a great card & there are probably a lot of people here who think it's still a great card. Definitely a classic in my book.
mooncancook
Platinum Member
- May 28, 2003
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6600gt....Leadtek flavor, also AGP. Slap a Zalman cooler on it and OC away!
Also can be volt-modded from what I hear/have read.
Least favorite FX5200...
Also can be volt-modded from what I hear/have read.
Least favorite FX5200...
happy medium
Lifer
- Jun 8, 2003
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My first card was the "Diamond Viper 4 meg" Then the 16 meg 'TNT'. They were my favorites especially when playing "Battlezone" online on my 56k flex modem.
My least favorite was the nvidea 64 meg mx420 that came with my Dell.
My least favorite was the nvidea 64 meg mx420 that came with my Dell.
Favorite of all time: Geforce 2 GTS
Close 2nd: Diamond Multimedia 3dfx Voodoo (4MB)
The Voodoo1 and GF2 rocked, and lasted for a VERY long time.
DX9 is a great time to spend alot again though, as Source, Doom3, UnrealEngine3.0 engines are all DX9.. and most games will be based on those for YEARS to come still.
I'm oblivious to this DX10 hoopla.. will be till G90 or probably its spring refresh if UnrealEngine4.0 isnt out by then (which it wont be).
So the G91 will prob be my next card after I move from DX9.
I'm considering buying a X1950 as an upgrade, and to try ATI out again these days.
Gonna wait and see how the X1950 vs GX2 price war goes for a bit.
Least favorite: Radeon 9800
Encountered tons of driver issues.. and I already had a bad experience with ATI prior but decided they prob had most of the software refined since they already supposedly had the 9700 figured out. Nope.. I had tons of issues with OGL games like Call of Duty (the error I encountered resulted a GF2MX to be faster than my spankin new 9800), and also AA/AF issues in Counterstrike in OGL mode.
Also had issues with forcing the refreshrate back when I didnt use an LCD yet.
All of these issues werent present on my NV hardware, prior or after the 9800.
Close 2nd: Diamond Multimedia 3dfx Voodoo (4MB)
The Voodoo1 and GF2 rocked, and lasted for a VERY long time.
DX9 is a great time to spend alot again though, as Source, Doom3, UnrealEngine3.0 engines are all DX9.. and most games will be based on those for YEARS to come still.
I'm oblivious to this DX10 hoopla.. will be till G90 or probably its spring refresh if UnrealEngine4.0 isnt out by then (which it wont be).
So the G91 will prob be my next card after I move from DX9.
I'm considering buying a X1950 as an upgrade, and to try ATI out again these days.
Gonna wait and see how the X1950 vs GX2 price war goes for a bit.
Least favorite: Radeon 9800
Encountered tons of driver issues.. and I already had a bad experience with ATI prior but decided they prob had most of the software refined since they already supposedly had the 9700 figured out. Nope.. I had tons of issues with OGL games like Call of Duty (the error I encountered resulted a GF2MX to be faster than my spankin new 9800), and also AA/AF issues in Counterstrike in OGL mode.
Also had issues with forcing the refreshrate back when I didnt use an LCD yet.
All of these issues werent present on my NV hardware, prior or after the 9800.
Favorite:
First: Voodoo3 - just 180 bucks, lasted for many years, awesome Glide glory days (Unreal, Unreal Tournamente, Wing Commander Prophecy, Descent Freespace).
Second: 7900GTX - coolest cooler ever!!
Least Favorite: ATI Rage + and ATI Rage Pro -
The Rage + was a 3D accelerator that would not accelerate anything 3D due to lack of support from ATI in the drivers. The + had no OpenGl support. ATI changed the name from PLUS to PRO and only for the PRO produced sucky OpenGl drivers (Quake 2 days - Gamma Correction was broken - dark like a cave).
This nice move from ATI kept me away until the 9700Pro days....it was my upgrade from the Voodoo3.
First: Voodoo3 - just 180 bucks, lasted for many years, awesome Glide glory days (Unreal, Unreal Tournamente, Wing Commander Prophecy, Descent Freespace).
Second: 7900GTX - coolest cooler ever!!
Least Favorite: ATI Rage + and ATI Rage Pro -
The Rage + was a 3D accelerator that would not accelerate anything 3D due to lack of support from ATI in the drivers. The + had no OpenGl support. ATI changed the name from PLUS to PRO and only for the PRO produced sucky OpenGl drivers (Quake 2 days - Gamma Correction was broken - dark like a cave).
This nice move from ATI kept me away until the 9700Pro days....it was my upgrade from the Voodoo3.
Makaveli
Diamond Member
- Feb 8, 2002
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Radeon 9700PRO was my favourite so far, bought it a few months after it came out. Lasted me a good 3 years, before I replaced it with my Current X800XTPE. I plan to get aleast 3 years out of this one before replacing it aswell. Will be 2 years this fall.
My favorite would have to be the Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee pci I had in my first computer (still running by the way). I remember the first time I powered up the original Unreal in glide (for those that remember glide) and saw the opening cinematic circling the castle. I remember being just awed by it. It was so smooth and the reflections were amazing for the time. I think I played that the first night until my eyes were bleeding.
I say it?s my favorite because it made the most night and day difference of any graphics card I have had. Going from on board/no acceleration to having a 3d card was huge. Since I have upgraded fairly often and then new cards, while impressive, have just been slight improvements on the old so the difference wasn?t as noticeable as that first upgrade. I know new cards run circles around it but the gradual progression from banshee, voodoo 3, geforce, geforce3 and so on just weren?t as drastic as that first card. I guess it?s true what they say ?you never forget your first time?.
I say it?s my favorite because it made the most night and day difference of any graphics card I have had. Going from on board/no acceleration to having a 3d card was huge. Since I have upgraded fairly often and then new cards, while impressive, have just been slight improvements on the old so the difference wasn?t as noticeable as that first upgrade. I know new cards run circles around it but the gradual progression from banshee, voodoo 3, geforce, geforce3 and so on just weren?t as drastic as that first card. I guess it?s true what they say ?you never forget your first time?.
My favorite cards were dictated by the games they ended up running rather than the cards themselves. I have fond memories of my Voodoo 3 3000 and playing Tribes 1 in glide... Otherwise cards like the 9700 Pro were amazing because they realistically allowed IQ features (AA/AF) that were mostly gimmick up until then.
Cards I've owned: Jaton Trident Video-109 AGP 3D 9880 Blade 3d(http://db.jaton.com/VGAProductDetail.aspx?P_ID=82107-P08MBA0 this thing)
, then a Geforce 4 MX 440-SE, then a Geforce 6800non-GT 128mb AGP, then I went to a 7800GT, and finally my Current X1900XT.
Of them, I loved these:
1. The X1900XT 512mb. Plays any game I have at 1600*1200 with at least 2xAA and lets me then go with 16xAF. Well, I liked it after I cleaned out the Nvidia drivers after the 7800GT. Before I was wishing I had the 7900GTX because of the stuttering, but after I used driver cleaner, the stuttering dramatically improved.
2. The Geforce 6800 128mb AGP. I loved it when I had it. Great performance from the Geforce MX 440SE. Could unlock to 16 pipes, but I would lock them back up for fear of destroying it(a fear I now see was unfounded). It was the first card that ever showed me what real gaming could be like. I did have buyer's remorse over not getting a 6800GT because I was on the Compusa site and it said something about hard drive power dongles and I went for the 6800(at newegg instead) because it said nothing about the dongles, which I found out too late were the connectors. Still was a great card, but stuttered quite a bit at 1024*768 on Far Cry with 2xaa and 4xAF, but then again, I had an Athlon XP 2600+(which was another case of buyer's remorse because I had heard of the Athlon 64s) and 512mb of ram(which probably was the cause of the stuttering).
Cards that I Liked a lot, but didn't totally love:
1. The Geforce 7800GT 256mb. This card was a great card and it would play all my games on high settings(It even played FEAR at 1600*1200 with 2xAA and 8xAF or 4xAA and 8xAF if I left all shadows off), and I really liked it. But it didn't offer the same performance boost that I had experienced from the MX440 to the 6800. It was probably also helped by the fact that I got an Athlon 64 3500+(which I will upgrade this Christmas to an X2 4200 or a 4600+ because I don't want to spend $600+ on a E6600 + mobo + 2 gigs of Kingston when I could grab a 4600+ and be done with it. Hope Buyer's remorse doesn't get me again.) and 2 gigs of ram, which helped Far Cry and Pacific Fighters(another game that stuttered HEAVILY, even more than Far Cry until I got the upgrade) tremendously. However, While I really liked the card, it cannot go into my all-time favorites. It's still in my closet as a backup for my X1900XT should I need it.
2. The Geforce 4 MX 440-SE. But the only reason I say I like it was because it was an upgrade from the Trident 9880 3d blade card that I really hated(I'll describe that later). It actually played my games unlike that 9880. However, it wouldn't run Vice City without stuttering, but I had this with a Duron 800MHZ and 256mb of ram(128mb of ram before March when I upgraded the amount of ram. Still a very good improvement over the Trident). I don't know what's to blame. It offered much better performance than the Trident 9880 3d blade and it was the biggest performance boost I'd ever seen, only rivaled by the 440-> 6800 upgrade. I really liked it at first, but once I found out it wasn't a real Geforce 4 and was a budget card and a re-named Geforce 2, basically, my opinion turned a bit sour on it. I spend days dreaming about upgrading my rig to a Pentium 4 2.0/2.4 ghz and grabbing 512mb of ram and a Radeon 9700Pro(I didn't know much about parts back then), but it looked too expensive and all the stores in my area only had FX 5200s/Radeon 9200s/9600SEs and other cards. A 512mb stick in my area at the time(2003-late 2004) went for $120+!
Didn't know about newegg at the time, but if I did and I knew that their service was good like it is, then maybe my video card history might have been different. Man, I spend DAYS dreaming about the speed of the 9700pro. I remember going from the local computer store in March of 2004 and dreaming of getting $400 to get a 9700pro(when newegg had it for $200 or so and the 6800s were coming out). I never did get the 9700pro I wanted, though. But then again, the Geforce 6800 was a nice substitute!
Now we get to the card that I really hated. The Trident 9880 3dblade.
I HATED THE TRIDENT 9880. The reason I hated it? It wouldn't run ANY games I had decently and sometimes wouldn't run the games at all! Games would also crash to the desktop(Rogue Squadron 3d and B-17 Flying Fortress the mighty 8th), probably either due to the 9880 or because of Windows ME. I blame the 9880. Even simple games like Star Wars: Force Commander and Red Ace Squadron ran at a nice 1-2 frames a second at 640*480/800*600 resolution and low details. Red Ace Squadron was basically white ground with a little(and I mean little) color and was horrible on the card. Other games(and I'm talking 1998-1999 games) would have to be run in software mode in order to get a better framerate than 10FPS. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault gave me OpenGL subsystem errors on this card. I get angry even thinking about that card. I wish I still had it, because I would get a sledge hammer out. Thats how badly I hated this card. Makes even an FX5200 look great in comparison.:|
, then a Geforce 4 MX 440-SE, then a Geforce 6800non-GT 128mb AGP, then I went to a 7800GT, and finally my Current X1900XT.
Of them, I loved these:
1. The X1900XT 512mb. Plays any game I have at 1600*1200 with at least 2xAA and lets me then go with 16xAF. Well, I liked it after I cleaned out the Nvidia drivers after the 7800GT. Before I was wishing I had the 7900GTX because of the stuttering, but after I used driver cleaner, the stuttering dramatically improved.
2. The Geforce 6800 128mb AGP. I loved it when I had it. Great performance from the Geforce MX 440SE. Could unlock to 16 pipes, but I would lock them back up for fear of destroying it(a fear I now see was unfounded). It was the first card that ever showed me what real gaming could be like. I did have buyer's remorse over not getting a 6800GT because I was on the Compusa site and it said something about hard drive power dongles and I went for the 6800(at newegg instead) because it said nothing about the dongles, which I found out too late were the connectors. Still was a great card, but stuttered quite a bit at 1024*768 on Far Cry with 2xaa and 4xAF, but then again, I had an Athlon XP 2600+(which was another case of buyer's remorse because I had heard of the Athlon 64s) and 512mb of ram(which probably was the cause of the stuttering).
Cards that I Liked a lot, but didn't totally love:
1. The Geforce 7800GT 256mb. This card was a great card and it would play all my games on high settings(It even played FEAR at 1600*1200 with 2xAA and 8xAF or 4xAA and 8xAF if I left all shadows off), and I really liked it. But it didn't offer the same performance boost that I had experienced from the MX440 to the 6800. It was probably also helped by the fact that I got an Athlon 64 3500+(which I will upgrade this Christmas to an X2 4200 or a 4600+ because I don't want to spend $600+ on a E6600 + mobo + 2 gigs of Kingston when I could grab a 4600+ and be done with it. Hope Buyer's remorse doesn't get me again.) and 2 gigs of ram, which helped Far Cry and Pacific Fighters(another game that stuttered HEAVILY, even more than Far Cry until I got the upgrade) tremendously. However, While I really liked the card, it cannot go into my all-time favorites. It's still in my closet as a backup for my X1900XT should I need it.
2. The Geforce 4 MX 440-SE. But the only reason I say I like it was because it was an upgrade from the Trident 9880 3d blade card that I really hated(I'll describe that later). It actually played my games unlike that 9880. However, it wouldn't run Vice City without stuttering, but I had this with a Duron 800MHZ and 256mb of ram(128mb of ram before March when I upgraded the amount of ram. Still a very good improvement over the Trident). I don't know what's to blame. It offered much better performance than the Trident 9880 3d blade and it was the biggest performance boost I'd ever seen, only rivaled by the 440-> 6800 upgrade. I really liked it at first, but once I found out it wasn't a real Geforce 4 and was a budget card and a re-named Geforce 2, basically, my opinion turned a bit sour on it. I spend days dreaming about upgrading my rig to a Pentium 4 2.0/2.4 ghz and grabbing 512mb of ram and a Radeon 9700Pro(I didn't know much about parts back then), but it looked too expensive and all the stores in my area only had FX 5200s/Radeon 9200s/9600SEs and other cards. A 512mb stick in my area at the time(2003-late 2004) went for $120+!
Didn't know about newegg at the time, but if I did and I knew that their service was good like it is, then maybe my video card history might have been different. Man, I spend DAYS dreaming about the speed of the 9700pro. I remember going from the local computer store in March of 2004 and dreaming of getting $400 to get a 9700pro(when newegg had it for $200 or so and the 6800s were coming out). I never did get the 9700pro I wanted, though.
But then again, the Geforce 6800 was a nice substitute!Now we get to the card that I really hated. The Trident 9880 3dblade.
I HATED THE TRIDENT 9880. The reason I hated it? It wouldn't run ANY games I had decently and sometimes wouldn't run the games at all! Games would also crash to the desktop(Rogue Squadron 3d and B-17 Flying Fortress the mighty 8th), probably either due to the 9880 or because of Windows ME. I blame the 9880. Even simple games like Star Wars: Force Commander and Red Ace Squadron ran at a nice 1-2 frames a second at 640*480/800*600 resolution and low details. Red Ace Squadron was basically white ground with a little(and I mean little) color and was horrible on the card. Other games(and I'm talking 1998-1999 games) would have to be run in software mode in order to get a better framerate than 10FPS. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault gave me OpenGL subsystem errors on this card. I get angry even thinking about that card. I wish I still had it, because I would get a sledge hammer out. Thats how badly I hated this card. Makes even an FX5200 look great in comparison.:|
Like most my current card(s) is my favorite. X1900XT's.
As far as my "best upgrade", that would be the 9700 Pro. So, so much better than anything else out at the time, and a huge leap forward.
Least favorite, my FX 5900NU. Fell flat on its face when pushed, and had horrible AA. It did have great AF though, but took a serious hit when applied. And it died on me, the only card ever to do so. Other than a watercooling mishap...
As far as my "best upgrade", that would be the 9700 Pro. So, so much better than anything else out at the time, and a huge leap forward.
Least favorite, my FX 5900NU. Fell flat on its face when pushed, and had horrible AA. It did have great AF though, but took a serious hit when applied. And it died on me, the only card ever to do so. Other than a watercooling mishap...
This list here is for nostalgia's sake. I've owned all these cards:
Speedstar Pro 2MB
NV1 - My first PCI card
Voodoo2 12 MB
Savage4 32 MB
Radeon LE 32MB
Radeon 7500
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9500
Geforce3
Geforce3 Ti 200
Georce3 Ti 500
Radeon 9700
Geforce4 4200
Radeon 9800 Pro
x700 pro
X1900GT
Like a few others my favorite was the Radeon 9500 256-bit softmod to 9700. Absolutely rocked my world. Actually it still does. It is playing BF2 in my son's computer as we speak!
Least favorite was the S3 Savage 4 - that card sucked my nuts.
Speedstar Pro 2MB
NV1 - My first PCI card
Voodoo2 12 MB
Savage4 32 MB
Radeon LE 32MB
Radeon 7500
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9500
Geforce3
Geforce3 Ti 200
Georce3 Ti 500
Radeon 9700
Geforce4 4200
Radeon 9800 Pro
x700 pro
X1900GT
Like a few others my favorite was the Radeon 9500 256-bit softmod to 9700. Absolutely rocked my world. Actually it still does. It is playing BF2 in my son's computer as we speak!
Least favorite was the S3 Savage 4 - that card sucked my nuts.
Huh! interesting.... I have one of these laying around, I may bench it against a 9800 pro in Doom 3.....
although honestly, it was my least favorite card. I got the "inno3d" brand, since they were the first on the market with the Ti200. Holy cheap-azundo. turning the resolution up beyond 1024*768 resulted in blurry text - and I don't think it was the monitor.....
My favorite would also be my Geforce 3, still going strong in the family computer. It's not a Ti, it's a Hercules from the original batch of releases. I've really not had a dog yet
flexy
Diamond Member
- Sep 28, 2001
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tell me about it...actually i got a NoPro from ebay (as far as i remember)..and the flashable NP's were extremely in demand.
I put an arctic cooler on it, looked great. Oh..of course the first thing i did (before i installed the drivers) was to flash it to a Pro
And now i regret i sold it since my GF's desktop only has some S3 whatever and this card would be great (video output etc...)...TRENDING THREADS
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