Video card lookback Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti and 6600/6800 series

[Billb2]

Back in the day I had an "in" with someone who had access to an Asus warehouse (legally!). and I got two two 6800 GTs, bios modded them, overclocked them, and water cooled them two weeks before they were released to the public - it was a good time!

 

[SPBHM]

Geforce 4 Ti4400 and it was fantastic. I remember back in the day you could buy a Nvidia GPU and it could still be decent after a few generations. Whereas today one generation behind Keplar can be total garbage compared to Maxwell in new games until it finally gets patched months later...

a 4400 ti 2-3 years after launch was a lot more horrible than Kepler was, things moved really fast back in the day...


I never had a 4 ti, I had a 3 ti 200 at some point, and had the 4 MXs (which were old tech, geforce 2 for the most part, but since most games were DX7 in 2002 it was kind of OK, they had fast memory and core clocks), but those were interesting days for sure,

TI 4600 was very nice, and the ti 4200 with some OC a really nice option,
but, it's difficult not to remember how much better the Radeon 9700 looked.

until the Geforce 6 appeared and it always impressed me a lot more than the X800 series, because of SM3.0 support mostly, but also the pipelines unlock on riva tuner was a lot of fun for people buying 6800 non GT/Ultra!

 

[Raduque]

I had a GeForce 3 Ti200 that was able to overclock to higher than Ti500 speeds. I also had a few various GF4 MXs, a Voodoo 4 4500 and a Voodoo 3 3000. I have had a lot of GPUs, let's see if I can remember the progression.

2xVoodoo 2 -> ATI Rage 128 (onboard chip) -> Voodoo 3 -> Savage 2000 -> GeForce 2MX -> Voodoo 4 4500 - GF4MX - Voodoo 4 4500 -> GeForce 3 Ti200 -> Radeon 9700Pro -> GeForce 7800 GS -> Radeon HD3850 -> GeForce GTX460

Keep in mind that was solely my gaming rig(s). The GTX460 was my last desktop card till I went gaming laptop with a GT730M.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Went from a 6200 le to a 6800 ultra AGP.Was quite desperate to keep my 478 based p4 based rig gaming still in late 2006.

Quickly exchanged the 6800 ultra at Frys,paid the difference for a 7800 gs and found out there wasn't any performance difference with my cpu holding back the 7800 in BF2.Frys had no more 6800 Ultra cards so i couldn't exchange it.Never restocked them either.

I loved the look of the 6800 ultra.

 

[bleucharm28]

I had the Asus GT 6600 Extreme in SLi on Asus A8N SLi Deluxe/AMD 64 Athlon 3000+

AMD was the $hit at the time.

 

[mindwreck]

I had a TI4600 that had the giant double sided Zalman heatsink, back when Zalman cooling was awesome. Ran that with a overclocked T-bird Althlon. I was a broke student back then and had to live with that while everyone was going OC mad with the Athlon XPs.


Eventually moved to a sempron 2600+ and geforce 6600 that i flashed to unlock the extra pipelines and installed a arctic cooler on it and overclocked that system within an inch of its life. The sempron was almost hitting 3ghz and destroyed my roomates FX-55.

I still have my voodoo2 in SLI buried somewhere.

Those were the days.. Budget CPU that overclocked and beat top of the line cpus and overclocking was a black art and every last mhz meant something. now its just a bump in the multiplier and you jump GHZs

 

[krumme]

Bios modded and played like 4 hours doom3 on my 6800gt. Thats all it had to do in its lifespan. Lol. Damn kids took to much time.

 

[Ancalagon44]

I built a PC back in 2007. I could have got a Ti 4200 for the same price as a Radeon 9200 (non pro), but they had no stock and so I would have had to wait. Because I was impatient, I went with the 9200.

I regretted it for years afterwards.

 

[SolMiester]

Had a Gainwood Ti4600 golden edition? that I got to play with for maybe 2mth, before I lost it during shipping from the UK.
Had a Gainwood 6600gt back here in NZ that served we well. That got donated to family need upgrade.

I never hold on to GPUs, but then again, I don't game much now I'm a engineer...

 

[nitromullet]

Back in the day I had an "in" with someone who had access to an Asus warehouse (legally!). and I got two two 6800 GTs, bios modded them, overclocked them, and water cooled them two weeks before they were released to the public - it was a good time!

I know you said you water cooled them, but the Asus 6800 series had some of the best looking stock coolers on them IMO.

 

[dook43]

There was an issue with the 6800 cards and running 64-bit Windows Vista with 4GB of RAM. The card ran fine under 32 bit XP.

Evga tech support issued me an RMA and gave me a 7800GTX. I was pretty stoked about it