sztypettto
Junior Member
Greetings everybody !
I'm new here and this is my first post on AT. Certainly I will take the opportunity to introduce myself but let's keep that for later.
The Bottom Line at the top:
Deciding to build an old school machine (PC) as a memoir, researching for a suitable graphic card.
A Little History:
Back in 2004 I built my PC using an Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz on a Intel motherboard (D865GBF) tagging along with its 64 Mb IGP; didn't have many needs then. The board fried on me a year later [blame faulty PSU], ASUS P4R800 was a reasonable choice with a better IGP. Having a graphic card by the time BF2 came out was a must and my needs grew, so I settled with a Nvidia 6600 AGP by Inno3d. Nice card and everything until it died on me 12 months later, then I fixed myself with ATi's 3650 AGP by Force3d and again it died on me a year later. I still ponder if it was my choice of a cheap 300W PSU; although I couldnt reasonably detect. Or was the deaths the result of 60 C (load) temperatures or infact my choice of cheap low end graphic cards.
The Scenario:
The passage of the previous decade and moving on, the Pentium 4 CPU and the mb didn't even break a sweat and lasted half a decade and going. In tribute to the service of these components in a fraction of my life, I'm building a preservatory with better components from the last half (2005-2009)to honour the Desktop PC hardware from the previous decade (2000-2009). Being unsure how long will the RAM, mb, HDD, CPU or PSU last out. I'd like a suggestion on GPUs, one that would last for at least the next 5 years. The purpose is not to enter the new decade with old hardware but to operate it in rememberance.
My personal choice of the GPU is the X800XT PCIE but looking at its unavailability (I do not use 2nd hand hardware), I'm not sure if any other high end card is OpenGL compatible; 3650 wasn't, 6600 was. And fits the $100~150 price range, hoping high-end GPUs are like Intel Pentium 4 processors.
Note: I understand the world of detracting suggestions comparable to the possession of other antiquities as a collector's choice but that's not the purpose. [Read: Buy an IBM Video card from the 80s]
Sincerely,
SZ
I'm new here and this is my first post on AT. Certainly I will take the opportunity to introduce myself but let's keep that for later.
The Bottom Line at the top:
Deciding to build an old school machine (PC) as a memoir, researching for a suitable graphic card.
A Little History:
Back in 2004 I built my PC using an Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz on a Intel motherboard (D865GBF) tagging along with its 64 Mb IGP; didn't have many needs then. The board fried on me a year later [blame faulty PSU], ASUS P4R800 was a reasonable choice with a better IGP. Having a graphic card by the time BF2 came out was a must and my needs grew, so I settled with a Nvidia 6600 AGP by Inno3d. Nice card and everything until it died on me 12 months later, then I fixed myself with ATi's 3650 AGP by Force3d and again it died on me a year later. I still ponder if it was my choice of a cheap 300W PSU; although I couldnt reasonably detect. Or was the deaths the result of 60 C (load) temperatures or infact my choice of cheap low end graphic cards.
The Scenario:
The passage of the previous decade and moving on, the Pentium 4 CPU and the mb didn't even break a sweat and lasted half a decade and going. In tribute to the service of these components in a fraction of my life, I'm building a preservatory with better components from the last half (2005-2009)to honour the Desktop PC hardware from the previous decade (2000-2009). Being unsure how long will the RAM, mb, HDD, CPU or PSU last out. I'd like a suggestion on GPUs, one that would last for at least the next 5 years. The purpose is not to enter the new decade with old hardware but to operate it in rememberance.
My personal choice of the GPU is the X800XT PCIE but looking at its unavailability (I do not use 2nd hand hardware), I'm not sure if any other high end card is OpenGL compatible; 3650 wasn't, 6600 was. And fits the $100~150 price range, hoping high-end GPUs are like Intel Pentium 4 processors.
Note: I understand the world of detracting suggestions comparable to the possession of other antiquities as a collector's choice but that's not the purpose. [Read: Buy an IBM Video card from the 80s]
Sincerely,
SZ
