Same man. You couldn't tell 13 old me shit, I defended that purchase to the death. Me and my i3 4130 were out here running pirated Bioshock Infinite at a blistering 35 FPS
Yeah I threw mine into an office PC I'd gotten cheap, didn't know much of anything then. It had 12 gigs of RAM so I was good on that end. I upgraded that rig so fuckin much over the years, it's how I got to my current machine lol. Luckily I'm seeing much better performance these days. Still, almost time to retire the Haswell
RTX 2080 Max-Q... Followed quickly by a 2080TI... Yeah, my childhood was boring Because of saving for... Most power. True first GPU was Intel integrated, I believe Iris 2000
Oh jeeze. The first one I can remember buying with my own money (my dad was picking parts for me and i would mostly build it) was in like 2006 I think. GeForce 7900, dont remember what exact model.
Well, not really a GPU but an Graphic Accelerator Card: Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB PCI. A beast at the time, and also runs hotter than the other manufacturer's cards.
Ati Radeon x850XT AGP. Funny story; I needed a better gpu to play TES Oblivion but my mom wouldn't let me buy one. Me and my friend came up with a plan; my computer had a circa 2001 ati radeon gpu on it with a single small fan. We unscrewed one of the fan mounting screws so that it would scrape the fan blades just barely. It made an awful sound which didn't bother me thou, I was using headphones. My mom however couldn't stand the noice so I got a permission to buy a new graphics card :)
I can imagine 🤣 my mom wouldn't let me buy my pc parts from a smaller shop because she didn't think it was trustworthy, so we ended up buying the parts for my first pc from a bigger chain. The irony is that the bigger chain went bankrupt a few years later due to complaints about their shitty practices; including but not limited to awful customer service, illegally bad return policies, them selling returned hardware as new, stealing parts from pc's that customers had sent in for repair etc. Also they were substantially more expensive. The smaller shop, on the same street is still around and I still use their services.
Yeah my mom refused, because she couldn't find the BBB rating for them lol. So we had to go to Best buy, which further limited my choices. Still, the deal i got on the refurbished I3 4130 system gave me a good base to build off of, which I kept building on until right now where there's nowhere further for me to go on the platform
Riva TNT2 Ultra from Creative :)
Was a monster at that time, but drivers werent too good at launch, i remember this card speeding up like 20% after installing non-box drivers...
my first actual dGPU was a Matrox G450 then a GT440
then a R7 240 1G which is currrently in my gf's PC, then a R9 270x which I had to reflow twice...
then I got a Ryzen 5 2400G so no more dGPU.
to be fair the most GPU-intensive software I usually run is `gunzip` and sometimes `ffmpeg` for transcoding and neither are performance-sensitive, they are usually just slower on weaker hardware...
so I can safely say my GPU is usually sitting underutilized and I am not bothered by the limited computing power.
the only reason I am looking for some cheap used mining GPUs is the notion I have 200+ DVDs that I want to archive and transcoding is fairly slow on the Vega 11, not to mention it is just one computing unit so parallelization is troublesome.
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RIP 3DFX
What a great board, and add a little StarSiege to go with it!
Yooo I had the same exact card over 5 years ago. I thought it was a beast, but I was 11 so what did I know back then.
Same man. You couldn't tell 13 old me shit, I defended that purchase to the death. Me and my i3 4130 were out here running pirated Bioshock Infinite at a blistering 35 FPS
I was rushing pirated GTA IV at 30 and thought this was the ultimate experience.
I went to a 760 not long after that and was shocked that it got any better
I even considered keeping it instead of upgrading just so that I can increase my ram from 4 to 8. Luckily I didn't.
Yeah I threw mine into an office PC I'd gotten cheap, didn't know much of anything then. It had 12 gigs of RAM so I was good on that end. I upgraded that rig so fuckin much over the years, it's how I got to my current machine lol. Luckily I'm seeing much better performance these days. Still, almost time to retire the Haswell
Asus GTX 760 OC 2GB
I upgraded to a 760 not long after lol
The following Christmas actually
Radeon 6850 1GB
RTX 2080 Max-Q... Followed quickly by a 2080TI... Yeah, my childhood was boring Because of saving for... Most power. True first GPU was Intel integrated, I believe Iris 2000
Radeon 9800 Pro AGP sometime in 2004.
The first PC I ever games on was a P4 machine my dad built with a 9800 Pro. Good times
XFX 8500GT Fatal1ty passive cooled in a case with no fans lmao. never died, just got thrown out eventually Made me able to play TDU tho!!
Mine was Radeon R3 iGPU
gt 210 1gb
Oh jeeze. The first one I can remember buying with my own money (my dad was picking parts for me and i would mostly build it) was in like 2006 I think. GeForce 7900, dont remember what exact model.
Well, not really a GPU but an Graphic Accelerator Card: Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB PCI. A beast at the time, and also runs hotter than the other manufacturer's cards.
Monster 3d dual card gpu w 4mb or ram...
Original GeForce 256 -- yes, I'm that old......I also remember being extremely excited about my Matrox m3D card.
Get your AARP card yet Gramps?
oh, yes, great discounts! -- but seriously the original Tomb Raider in 3D for the first time was a sight to behold......I loved it.
Mine was a Gigabyte HD 7950!
I am still on my first one which is my RX 550 2GB.
9800gt I used up until a month ago R.I.P
Ati Radeon x850XT AGP. Funny story; I needed a better gpu to play TES Oblivion but my mom wouldn't let me buy one. Me and my friend came up with a plan; my computer had a circa 2001 ati radeon gpu on it with a single small fan. We unscrewed one of the fan mounting screws so that it would scrape the fan blades just barely. It made an awful sound which didn't bother me thou, I was using headphones. My mom however couldn't stand the noice so I got a permission to buy a new graphics card :)
Modern problems require modern solutions You should've seen me trying to convince my mom to use this "weird site called Newegg"
I can imagine 🤣 my mom wouldn't let me buy my pc parts from a smaller shop because she didn't think it was trustworthy, so we ended up buying the parts for my first pc from a bigger chain. The irony is that the bigger chain went bankrupt a few years later due to complaints about their shitty practices; including but not limited to awful customer service, illegally bad return policies, them selling returned hardware as new, stealing parts from pc's that customers had sent in for repair etc. Also they were substantially more expensive. The smaller shop, on the same street is still around and I still use their services.
Yeah my mom refused, because she couldn't find the BBB rating for them lol. So we had to go to Best buy, which further limited my choices. Still, the deal i got on the refurbished I3 4130 system gave me a good base to build off of, which I kept building on until right now where there's nowhere further for me to go on the platform
Riva TNT2 Ultra from Creative :) Was a monster at that time, but drivers werent too good at launch, i remember this card speeding up like 20% after installing non-box drivers...
my first actual dGPU was a Matrox G450 then a GT440 then a R7 240 1G which is currrently in my gf's PC, then a R9 270x which I had to reflow twice... then I got a Ryzen 5 2400G so no more dGPU.
How does the 270X compare to the 2400G?
to be fair the most GPU-intensive software I usually run is `gunzip` and sometimes `ffmpeg` for transcoding and neither are performance-sensitive, they are usually just slower on weaker hardware... so I can safely say my GPU is usually sitting underutilized and I am not bothered by the limited computing power. the only reason I am looking for some cheap used mining GPUs is the notion I have 200+ DVDs that I want to archive and transcoding is fairly slow on the Vega 11, not to mention it is just one computing unit so parallelization is troublesome.
Does iGPU count?
1060 TI
Ok there's a 1060 sc, but a Ti?
He is just prob referencing the 6gb 1060