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I'm Sitting Here Looking at my Abandoned GeForce 3 Ti500

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Retired:
Dell Geforce 3 ti200
3dFX Voodoo2 12mb
Palit GF4 4200ti
Sapphire 9600 Pro

I just pulled an MSI 5900 out of storage to pop into my workbench rig. I'm wanting to retire that and upgrade to a 7600GT. Not easy to find in AGP flavor though.
 
send me your old geforce 3. im still on a radeon 8500le... which works well .. problem is the fan is dying on it
 
LOL, I'm not getting rid of it anytime soon. It's going to be my emergency spare for now. Having extra parts is always a good thing for trouble shooting and replacing parts in a pinch.
 
Originally posted by: leftyman
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: leftyman
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: leftyman
I gave up on thre upgrade race. I was always behind.
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I'm not racing anyone but game developers. I upgraded because of slowdowns in Halflife2. My GeForce 5900 just couldn't cut it at the resolutions I wanted to play at.
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I gave up on the games too 🙁
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I can't do that. It allows me to kill and maim people in a virtual world instead of doing it in the real world. 😉
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I wanted to stay married 😉
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My wife encourages my gaming. 🙂
 
heh. I still have my old Geforce3 Ti200 along with the original box it came in, games it came with, and its manuals/literature. I even have the anti-static bag it came in. I also have my old Athlon 4 1400 + ECS K7S5a in the ECS box + manuals. I figure no one would want to buy old parts like these...so i just hold on to em
 
I have a box in the attic that I throw all my old video cards in. I figure someday, some of them will be museum-worthy. Occasionally, I will pull one out to replace a family member/friend's broken down card. I still have:
AGP: G200, V3 2000, Rage128 Pro, Radeon7500, Ti4200(dead fan)
PCI: Unidentified Trident card, 2 Matrox Millenium, MX420
Given away: PCI AIW card, i740, Rage Pro, TNT, TNT2, GF256, GF2, MX440
Still installed: Radeon 9100, 9800NP

This is pretty much all accumulated over 10+ years or so. It may seem like I spent a lot of money but in reality, I generally didn't buy any of these until they were, at most, the lower end of mainstream and probably didn't pay more than $40-50 for any of them. The three exceptions were the AIW card (~$100), V3 2000 (~$100?) and the 9800NP ($120-ish). The Ti4200 I got in trade for a MB and some RAM I had lying around after a bud upgraded to a 9800XT. My longest running cards were the Ti4200 (3yrs - fan died & replaced with the 9100 as I was too lazy to replace fan) & the 9800NP 3yrs and counting). So, there's my life story. 😛
 
No sorry. I have no emotional attachement to a graphics card...

Koing
 
when i upgrade my comp i usually put the old parts in another case and sell it to some idiot for about how much my new comp costs
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Ifrit
Originally posted by: Koing
No sorry. I have no emotional attachement to a graphics card...

Koing
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Not to the card... but to the money I spent on the card when it was the latest and greatest.
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sunk cost. time to move on and spend more on the latest & greatest.
 
My Gf3 ti200 is still in the upgrade chain, but my Geforce2MX is sitting in a baggie now. That was my first non-sucky gaming card.
 
Now that I think about it, I've never upgraded anything. I added extra RAM and HD in my first computer, I added a CD burner to my second one and a Wifi Card to my third one, and I've replaced faulty parts, but I've never actually taken out a part, and put in a newer, better one.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: NuroMancer
Originally posted by: Amused
Everytime I buy a new video card for my main machine, I transfer the old one to my secondary machine, and so on down the line to 4 machines. This time, the left over card is a GeForce 3 Ti500. A Gainward Golden Sample, as a matter of fact.

I remember buying this card when it first came out. It was the fastest thing out there. Now it's abandoned.

How sad. It was once worth so much, not only in dollars, but I coveted the hell out of this thing when I bought it new.

Anyone else ever get sad over something like this?
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Yah, I had to do this a while ago with a RIVA TNT card.

It was my first high end gaming card 🙁
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I have a TNT and a couple Voodoo 2s sitting in a box in my closet. I got the Voodoos just so I could play Unreal at 1024x768. MAN, that was the single most impressive moment I had in gaming.

I feel your pain. 🙁
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Damm, I remember the first VooDoo2 cards...WOW...8 whole megabytes of video RAM!!...Quake2 REALLY rocked!! Still have that old Diamond Multimedia Voodoo2 card...in the Sony Vaio 200 Mhz (original) Pentium computer we let our grandson use...
I have an old Gateway in the closet, (well, MOST of it anyway) that has the Riva TNT 16 Mb card in it...AND a Geforce Ti2-400 in a box somewhere...what a waste of $$$...🙁
 
I haven't fired up my 27GB Quantum Fireball Plus in over two years. Man that thing was a tank, took so much abuse and just kept right on chugging along. My first separately bought hard drive.
 
Instead of having obsolete vid cards sitting around, I have them in obsolete systems, like someday I might get around to playing the games I never got around too..

my voodoo5 is in my Celeron 550@850 box. I even have my old Rendition card running, that was great for something, maybe the original Papyrus Nascar Racing ?

I even have a Tseng 4000 in a Windows 3.1 system. 🙂 Hard to remember how to use it though. Extended ram, Expanded ram, different config.sys and autoexec.bat files for different games, the good old days.

 
Originally posted by: Amused
Everytime I buy a new video card for my main machine, I transfer the old one to my secondary machine, and so on down the line to 4 machines. This time, the left over card is a GeForce 3 Ti500. A Gainward Golden Sample, as a matter of fact.

I remember buying this card when it first came out. It was the fastest thing out there. Now it's abandoned.

How sad. It was once worth so much, not only in dollars, but I coveted the hell out of this thing when I bought it new.

Anyone else ever get sad over something like this?
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hell i just replaced an MSI GF3 Ti500 with a 9550SE... this thing blows!!! i'm switching back to my sweet Ti500 whenever i have time to swap...
 
i remember when i ditched my tnt2....id kept it around for years as a spare because id been so happy to get it all those years ago
 
Originally posted by: NuroMancer
Originally posted by: Amused
Everytime I buy a new video card for my main machine, I transfer the old one to my secondary machine, and so on down the line to 4 machines. This time, the left over card is a GeForce 3 Ti500. A Gainward Golden Sample, as a matter of fact.

I remember buying this card when it first came out. It was the fastest thing out there. Now it's abandoned.

How sad. It was once worth so much, not only in dollars, but I coveted the hell out of this thing when I bought it new.

Anyone else ever get sad over something like this?
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Yah, I had to do this a while ago with a RIVA TNT card.

It was my first high end gaming card 🙁
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I've got you beat : 3dfx VOODOO 3 3500 ... with VIVO. I loved all of it, including the retail box.
 
Originally posted by: NuroMancer
Originally posted by: Amused
Everytime I buy a new video card for my main machine, I transfer the old one to my secondary machine, and so on down the line to 4 machines. This time, the left over card is a GeForce 3 Ti500. A Gainward Golden Sample, as a matter of fact.

I remember buying this card when it first came out. It was the fastest thing out there. Now it's abandoned.

How sad. It was once worth so much, not only in dollars, but I coveted the hell out of this thing when I bought it new.

Anyone else ever get sad over something like this?
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Yah, I had to do this a while ago with a RIVA TNT card.

It was my first high end gaming card 🙁
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Oh behold the RIVA! That was my first gaming card.
 
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