A Pictorial History of GPUs
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Josh Weston
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For my fantastic contribution to the thread...a single entry!
My beautiful MSI r7850 Power Edition. It's the first graphics card i've ever owned, and I absolutely love it. Times have moved on now, and there are now better cards for the price - you can now pick up a 7870LE for the same price as I paid for the 7850.
Still, it clocks like hell and it plays any game I throw at it.
My beautiful MSI r7850 Power Edition. It's the first graphics card i've ever owned, and I absolutely love it. Times have moved on now, and there are now better cards for the price - you can now pick up a 7870LE for the same price as I paid for the 7850.
Still, it clocks like hell and it plays any game I throw at it.
thats all that matters, well sort of, it also has to look good, and this ticks that box!
Josh Weston
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Yeah, one of the reasons for getting the card was because the colours go so well with the GD65
barnsley
born in a.....
I've been pc gaming almost all my life. However, due to my age I've only really bought three cards with my own money.
1. A gt 520. it came with a dell inspiron. More effective than a hoover at collecting dust.
2. EVGA GTS 450. I ended up having three of these gts 450s and replacing most of my rig at the time trying to find out why they kept breaking. They kept having to be RMA'd throughout the approximate year I had them. Hateful things. I still have one running in my old rig and it's surprisingly good. It has admittedly let a bad taste in my mouth with nvidia but I try to keep my mind open
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3. xfx 7870 core. Nice card. However the build quality makes poundland flaky pastries look well built. Manged to OC to 1.1 with decent temperatures. I guess I got lucky.
-edit- I grew up with my dad's rig having a rage 128 GL. Oh the memories of my dad getting angry at it.
1. A gt 520. it came with a dell inspiron. More effective than a hoover at collecting dust.
2. EVGA GTS 450. I ended up having three of these gts 450s and replacing most of my rig at the time trying to find out why they kept breaking. They kept having to be RMA'd throughout the approximate year I had them. Hateful things. I still have one running in my old rig and it's surprisingly good. It has admittedly let a bad taste in my mouth with nvidia but I try to keep my mind open
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3. xfx 7870 core. Nice card. However the build quality makes poundland flaky pastries look well built. Manged to OC to 1.1 with decent temperatures. I guess I got lucky.
-edit- I grew up with my dad's rig having a rage 128 GL. Oh the memories of my dad getting angry at it.
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Liarma
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Well here's mine.
I built my first PC in October 2008 which consisted of a Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB DDR2 800, ASUS P5KPL-CM mobo, 500GB WD HDD but ran out of money for a GPU. After 8 months of running everything on the Intel onboard I did a week of work experience for school in a computer shop in June/July 2009. That was when I got my first real graphics card for a small discount (pretty sure I still got ripped off but I was a huge noob back then) which was a ECS 9600GT 1GB. Finally being able to play Crysis was pure bliss!
Fast forward to March 2010 and I'd finished high school and gotten a job at the local supermarket. Well that meant upgrade time and I decided to go all out and buy the best I could afford which was a Sapphire Radeon HD5870 1GB. It was a fantastic card and a MASSIVE upgrade from my 9600GT. Still my favourite card to this day.
About a year later which was about May 2011 I did a huge upgrade to Sandy Bridge and the 5870 was still serving me well, but I wanted more performance and the stock cooler wasn't exactly ideal. So I decided to get an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 5870 cooler. This allowed me to overclock the tits out of my 5870 and get even better performance.
So 2 and half years later and my 5870 while still being a great card, was really starting to show its age. After using an Arctic Cooling cooler I never wanted to go back to a reference cooler. The GTX600 series was very appealing to me as well. As I said the 5870 was great but AMD drivers were uh...brought down the experience a bit, so I figured it was time to go green again. So all that taken into account The Gigabyte GTX 670 OC was the perfect card for me. The 680 was out of the question as the 670 was $150 cheaper and arguably performed just as well. So the day I got my tax return I went down to the local PC retailer (which amazingly had the cheapest Gigabyte 670 in Australia) and picked one up.
MISC:
Also in June/July 2010 I moved across the state to start a mining job. A friend of a friend was selling his rig (XFX 8800 Ultra, Q6600, 4GB Corsair XMS2, 1TB HDD, Asus Striker Extreme 680i) and a 26" Samsung Monitor together for $500 (My current monitor to this day) So I bought it off him and gave it to my then current girlfriend as a rig for her to game on. After we broke up I swapped the 8800 with my 9600 and sold the rig, and use the 8800 as a PhysX card briefly and messed around with it a bit.
So that concludes my GPU history with a bit of story behind it, hope you guys didn't find it too boring!
I built my first PC in October 2008 which consisted of a Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB DDR2 800, ASUS P5KPL-CM mobo, 500GB WD HDD but ran out of money for a GPU. After 8 months of running everything on the Intel onboard I did a week of work experience for school in a computer shop in June/July 2009. That was when I got my first real graphics card for a small discount (pretty sure I still got ripped off but I was a huge noob back then) which was a ECS 9600GT 1GB. Finally being able to play Crysis was pure bliss!
Fast forward to March 2010 and I'd finished high school and gotten a job at the local supermarket. Well that meant upgrade time and I decided to go all out and buy the best I could afford which was a Sapphire Radeon HD5870 1GB. It was a fantastic card and a MASSIVE upgrade from my 9600GT. Still my favourite card to this day.
About a year later which was about May 2011 I did a huge upgrade to Sandy Bridge and the 5870 was still serving me well, but I wanted more performance and the stock cooler wasn't exactly ideal. So I decided to get an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 5870 cooler. This allowed me to overclock the tits out of my 5870 and get even better performance.
So 2 and half years later and my 5870 while still being a great card, was really starting to show its age. After using an Arctic Cooling cooler I never wanted to go back to a reference cooler. The GTX600 series was very appealing to me as well. As I said the 5870 was great but AMD drivers were uh...brought down the experience a bit, so I figured it was time to go green again. So all that taken into account The Gigabyte GTX 670 OC was the perfect card for me. The 680 was out of the question as the 670 was $150 cheaper and arguably performed just as well. So the day I got my tax return I went down to the local PC retailer (which amazingly had the cheapest Gigabyte 670 in Australia) and picked one up.
MISC:
Also in June/July 2010 I moved across the state to start a mining job. A friend of a friend was selling his rig (XFX 8800 Ultra, Q6600, 4GB Corsair XMS2, 1TB HDD, Asus Striker Extreme 680i) and a 26" Samsung Monitor together for $500 (My current monitor to this day) So I bought it off him and gave it to my then current girlfriend as a rig for her to game on. After we broke up I swapped the 8800 with my 9600 and sold the rig, and use the 8800 as a PhysX card briefly and messed around with it a bit.
So that concludes my GPU history with a bit of story behind it, hope you guys didn't find it too boring!
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SieB
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For gaming I was a filthy Console peasant until 2009, so my GPU history starts from there.
My first GPU was an ASUS 4850
After that I upgraded to an Asus DCU 6850 on release October 2010
Next after my 6850 died I gave Nvidia a try and grabbed a Asus DCU 460
And finally I now have my Asus DCUII TOP 7950.
By the way, did I mention I like Asus GPUs? :lol:
My first GPU was an ASUS 4850
After that I upgraded to an Asus DCU 6850 on release October 2010
Next after my 6850 died I gave Nvidia a try and grabbed a Asus DCU 460
And finally I now have my Asus DCUII TOP 7950.
By the way, did I mention I like Asus GPUs? :lol:
alienware
Banned
I've had a thing for MSI since the 480 Lightning. Before that I didn't really care about who made my cards as long as the warranty was OK
I love the new Twin Frozr (Josh) and I so nearly went with 670 TF but the first batch were really bad and could barely hold their stock clocks so I went with my Jetstream.
Never had a Palit card before and the warranty is a bit iffy but thankfully I've had no issues yet. They're only stock cards under the epic cooler any way.
I love the new Twin Frozr (Josh) and I so nearly went with 670 TF but the first batch were really bad and could barely hold their stock clocks so I went with my Jetstream.
Never had a Palit card before and the warranty is a bit iffy but thankfully I've had no issues yet. They're only stock cards under the epic cooler any way.
yassarikhan786
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My GPU history:
ATI 4350:
And currently, a Gigabyte 580:
I had the 4350 for a couple of years and the 580 has been running solidly for nearly two years now.
ATI 4350:
And currently, a Gigabyte 580:
I had the 4350 for a couple of years and the 580 has been running solidly for nearly two years now.
Josh Weston
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Forum user AlienALX has created a great thread in which to share your past and present GPUs with others. Get ready for a trip down memory lane, lads.
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TechnoProdigy
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XFX 5770 1GB
Asus DirectCU II TOP 7950
EVGA GTX 670 FTW
Asus DirectCU II TOP 7950
EVGA GTX 670 FTW
driftingforlife
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My list:
9600GT > Gainward GTX275 > Pailt GTX470 > Pailt+Inno3D GTX470 SLI > MSI GTX680 Lightning SLI.
9600GT > Gainward GTX275 > Pailt GTX470 > Pailt+Inno3D GTX470 SLI > MSI GTX680 Lightning SLI.
remember300
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All the reports ive seen a 770 will compare to a 680... still speculation but im saving up so at the end of the month if they come out ill be throwing my money at the 780.
Hello well I dont have any old Graphics Cards as I have only been gaming on pc for just over a Year now.
For my first setup I had a XFX Radeon HD5950 1GB I cant find a picture anywhere for it.
Then Upgraded to a Asus 6950 Direct CUII 2GB
Then I bought my first Nvidia Card bought 2 Asus GTX680's as I had to wait atleast 6weeks to get my hands on a 690 cba to wait lol.
Then I sold 1 of my 680's because they were bottlenecking with my CPU (X6 1090T) left me with 1.
But now I'm not sure if I should get another 680 or buy a 780 as I have heard they are coming out on the 23rd may and my Bday is on the 26th of may hehe,I know it's not much but that's my GPU list.
MrKambo
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first card i remember having was a Rightous 3DFX
used that for ages and ages, on a old school pentinum machine think it was running 266MHz, this was days of Doom and Quake, omg 3DFX Quake :wub:
Ran this for a while then upgraded to a ATi X850XT
what a beast!! this is was teamed up with my Pentinum II i think, running at 666MHz
Then came my Pentinum 4 machine, fudging horrible processor, shit was so hot didnt need heating, but that was teamed up with a ATi x1950 Pro
Then after i got rid of this, i became a console man for a few years...
Until
8800GT
I was running AMD CPU's here, Athlon thing...i think...might have been sempron, cant quite remember, but this took gaming to a whole new level for me
next came the ATi 4870
Then i think it was the nVidia GTX275
Shortly after i decided i wanted the ATi 5870
Which was few weeks later sold to someone i used to game online with in Scotland for ATi 5770 Crossfire
why i couldnt tell you, im sure i had a good reason
Then i stopped gaming and sold off the rigs
Which brings us to today..
ATi 7970 Crossfire
Thats my history in GPU's worth mentioning, ive have had many other GPU's not worth mentioning
used that for ages and ages, on a old school pentinum machine think it was running 266MHz, this was days of Doom and Quake, omg 3DFX Quake :wub:
Ran this for a while then upgraded to a ATi X850XT
what a beast!! this is was teamed up with my Pentinum II i think, running at 666MHz
Then came my Pentinum 4 machine, fudging horrible processor, shit was so hot didnt need heating, but that was teamed up with a ATi x1950 Pro
Then after i got rid of this, i became a console man for a few years...
Until
8800GT
I was running AMD CPU's here, Athlon thing...i think...might have been sempron, cant quite remember, but this took gaming to a whole new level for me
next came the ATi 4870
Then i think it was the nVidia GTX275
Which was few weeks later sold to someone i used to game online with in Scotland for ATi 5770 Crossfire
why i couldnt tell you, im sure i had a good reason
Then i stopped gaming and sold off the rigs
Which brings us to today..
ATi 7970 Crossfire
Thats my history in GPU's worth mentioning, ive have had many other GPU's not worth mentioning
Dark NighT
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My first card was the Diamond stealth 3d 2000
Along with a 3DFX Voodoo 1
From there i went to a Nvidia Geforce 2MX
Then onto a Matrox G450 agp
Then i got myself a Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Next one was a Nvidia Geforce FX 5600
From that i went to the uber impressing Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra
Then onto a Gainward Geforce 7800GS+ Bliss agp
Then i briefly had this 7900GS since i moved over to Pci-e
Followed by a Geforge 8800GTX
Which not to much later got a brother for some good SLI cooking, the heat in the case fried the south bridge
Then i followed up with 2 XFX Geforce GTX 280's
And finally i am currently using 2 MSi Geforce GTX 570 Twinfrozr OC cards, they are in there for 2 years now, and wont be replaced untill the nvidia 800 series comes round.
Pretty good history, loved the 6800 ultra, it was so good at the time.
Great entry's as well, great thread.
Along with a 3DFX Voodoo 1
From there i went to a Nvidia Geforce 2MX
Then onto a Matrox G450 agp
Then i got myself a Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Next one was a Nvidia Geforce FX 5600
From that i went to the uber impressing Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra
Then onto a Gainward Geforce 7800GS+ Bliss agp
Then i briefly had this 7900GS since i moved over to Pci-e
Followed by a Geforge 8800GTX
Which not to much later got a brother for some good SLI cooking, the heat in the case fried the south bridge
Then i followed up with 2 XFX Geforce GTX 280's
And finally i am currently using 2 MSi Geforce GTX 570 Twinfrozr OC cards, they are in there for 2 years now, and wont be replaced untill the nvidia 800 series comes round.
Pretty good history, loved the 6800 ultra, it was so good at the time.
Great entry's as well, great thread.
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seumasbeathan
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My entry
#1
HD 5570
Paid £60 for this :L This was when I genuinely had no idea what I was doing, infact because the system memory was DDR2 I even thought that the graphics card would have to be DDR2 also. I had just bought a £40 Dell Optiplex thing on ebay as a starter PC, hence the low profile card.
I actually ended up frying the thing :L
#2
My brother kindly donated a M-ATX and as I now needed a new card I was able to get a real card I picked up a lovely HD 5770 from a forum my brother went on, £50 - Bargain.
I loved this card, one of the best I have ever owned for the price/performance.
#3
The performance of the 5770 was good but it just didn't cut it for all the new games, BF3 etc. So I had a look on here and picked up a 5850, I can't actually remember who from or what the cost was but I'm pretty sure it was a good deal.
I absolutely loved this card, it was phenomenal. Miles better performance than the 5770, almost silent, and never went above 65c. I got a good few months use out of this but then I decided I needed an upgrade.
#4
For the upgrade I picked up an XFX 5870 from another forum member and put it in crossfire with the 5850.
Performance was great and the 5870 was pretty cool and quiet.
#5
I needed some money for stuff and ended up selling both of the cards. About a month later I had a bit of money spare again and used it to buy a 6870. It was a Poweroclor PCS+ model like the 5850, and like the 5850 was great.
I used this card for a pretty long time and I was actually thinking of buying another for crossfire, until I won the competition.
#6
I was very lucky and ended up winning the Custom Corsair Competition, with this rig came the Asus GTX 670 DCUII
I was blown away by the performance compared tot he 6870, withe the 6870 I struggled to get playable fps on BF3 on high, now I can play on Ultra at 100+ fps. Not only if performance amazing but it is dead silent and I have never seen it go above 70c.
#1
HD 5570
Paid £60 for this :L This was when I genuinely had no idea what I was doing, infact because the system memory was DDR2 I even thought that the graphics card would have to be DDR2 also. I had just bought a £40 Dell Optiplex thing on ebay as a starter PC, hence the low profile card.
I actually ended up frying the thing :L
#2
My brother kindly donated a M-ATX and as I now needed a new card I was able to get a real card
I picked up a lovely HD 5770 from a forum my brother went on, £50 - Bargain.
I loved this card, one of the best I have ever owned for the price/performance.
#3
The performance of the 5770 was good but it just didn't cut it for all the new games, BF3 etc. So I had a look on here and picked up a 5850, I can't actually remember who from or what the cost was but I'm pretty sure it was a good deal.
I absolutely loved this card, it was phenomenal. Miles better performance than the 5770, almost silent, and never went above 65c. I got a good few months use out of this but then I decided I needed an upgrade.
#4
For the upgrade I picked up an XFX 5870 from another forum member and put it in crossfire with the 5850.
Performance was great and the 5870 was pretty cool and quiet.
#5
I needed some money for stuff and ended up selling both of the cards. About a month later I had a bit of money spare again and used it to buy a 6870. It was a Poweroclor PCS+ model like the 5850, and like the 5850 was great.
I used this card for a pretty long time and I was actually thinking of buying another for crossfire, until I won the competition.
#6
I was very lucky and ended up winning the Custom Corsair Competition, with this rig came the Asus GTX 670 DCUII
I was blown away by the performance compared tot he 6870, withe the 6870 I struggled to get playable fps on BF3 on high, now I can play on Ultra at 100+ fps. Not only if performance amazing but it is dead silent and I have never seen it go above 70c.
AverageNinja
Average Penis Too
My first and current GPU:
An NVidia GeForce FX5200 128Mb manufactured by ASUS:
Yes, I know...
An NVidia GeForce FX5200 128Mb manufactured by ASUS:
Yes, I know...
Graphics history
My PC enthusiasm obligates me to take part in this graphics card history forum.
It all started with the ATi Radeon HD 2400 PRO, which continues to operate to this day. This card came with the very first "gaming" grade system I bought and very soon, it occurred to that I was very quickly moving into a realm of gaming for which I required an enormous graphics overhaul.
That's when this, Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX came into the picture. At the time, it was the best thing since sliced bread. Suddenly I could run all my games at great graphical settings, and I was blown away by the performance this card had to offer.
Then one day, I purchased another and configured them in SLI. I wish I hadn't. It created much more problems than it solved, especially in regards to heat, texture glitches, and power demand. My PSU subsequently exploded one day during an online game with these two cards.
By this point, I had become armed with considerably more knowledge of the graphics card market, and so put it to the test, and was I far from disappointed. Miraculously, I managed to sell the PC system running the 8800s as it had reached the end of the upgrade potential line and I used the proceeds to build a new system. That's when I obtained this little wonder, the Gainward GeForce GT 640.
I found that during gameplay with this card, I was able to run my games on equal, if not higher settings than the 8800s and still achieve playable framerates. I felt like a complete fool after spending so much money on large clunky cards to possess power equal to what was bundled into this little marvel.
This is where things suffered a falter. I found a Sparkle Guru GeForce GTX 580 card being sold for an extremely low price, and it was not until I received and tested the card that I found it did not at all function. Of course I was far from happy at this as the seller would not accept a return, and would not refund me for the faulty device.
It wasn't about to get better, I was stupid enough to continue my search for a bargain and soon came across one of these; an Asus GeForce GTX 480. Believe it or not, this card did actually function, though only for time periods anywhere between 1-2 hours before the card spontaneously cut out and my system shut down. I tried everything to resolve this, but to no avail. In the end, I sold the card on to someone who likely knows more about graphics cards on the PCB level than me.
We now come to the present day, in which I am in possession of a Gainward GeForce GTX 570, which is without a doubt the best card I have yet owned.
It performs outstandingly well in games on the market, even today. In regards to appearance and design, I've yet to own a card that is able to maintain lower temperatures while under stress than this behemoth. The precedent was set for Gainward being one of, if not my most favourite vendor for graphics cards, as the cards from them have yet to trouble me in any way, or have a severe falter in terms of performance.
My plans for future upgrade consist of being set on upgrading to an MSi GeForce GTX 680 Lightning Xtreme Edition this summer of 2013, and given how rare and valuable this card is, it may prove beneficial to me into 2014 when I may or may not look into a further upgrade to Maxwell, in Nvidia's soon to come GeForce GTX 800 lineup.
My PC enthusiasm obligates me to take part in this graphics card history forum.
It all started with the ATi Radeon HD 2400 PRO, which continues to operate to this day. This card came with the very first "gaming" grade system I bought and very soon, it occurred to that I was very quickly moving into a realm of gaming for which I required an enormous graphics overhaul.
That's when this, Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX came into the picture. At the time, it was the best thing since sliced bread. Suddenly I could run all my games at great graphical settings, and I was blown away by the performance this card had to offer.
Then one day, I purchased another and configured them in SLI. I wish I hadn't. It created much more problems than it solved, especially in regards to heat, texture glitches, and power demand. My PSU subsequently exploded one day during an online game with these two cards.
By this point, I had become armed with considerably more knowledge of the graphics card market, and so put it to the test, and was I far from disappointed. Miraculously, I managed to sell the PC system running the 8800s as it had reached the end of the upgrade potential line and I used the proceeds to build a new system. That's when I obtained this little wonder, the Gainward GeForce GT 640.
I found that during gameplay with this card, I was able to run my games on equal, if not higher settings than the 8800s and still achieve playable framerates. I felt like a complete fool after spending so much money on large clunky cards to possess power equal to what was bundled into this little marvel.
This is where things suffered a falter. I found a Sparkle Guru GeForce GTX 580 card being sold for an extremely low price, and it was not until I received and tested the card that I found it did not at all function. Of course I was far from happy at this as the seller would not accept a return, and would not refund me for the faulty device.
It wasn't about to get better, I was stupid enough to continue my search for a bargain and soon came across one of these; an Asus GeForce GTX 480. Believe it or not, this card did actually function, though only for time periods anywhere between 1-2 hours before the card spontaneously cut out and my system shut down. I tried everything to resolve this, but to no avail. In the end, I sold the card on to someone who likely knows more about graphics cards on the PCB level than me.
We now come to the present day, in which I am in possession of a Gainward GeForce GTX 570, which is without a doubt the best card I have yet owned.
It performs outstandingly well in games on the market, even today. In regards to appearance and design, I've yet to own a card that is able to maintain lower temperatures while under stress than this behemoth. The precedent was set for Gainward being one of, if not my most favourite vendor for graphics cards, as the cards from them have yet to trouble me in any way, or have a severe falter in terms of performance.
My plans for future upgrade consist of being set on upgrading to an MSi GeForce GTX 680 Lightning Xtreme Edition this summer of 2013, and given how rare and valuable this card is, it may prove beneficial to me into 2014 when I may or may not look into a further upgrade to Maxwell, in Nvidia's soon to come GeForce GTX 800 lineup.
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