Nostalgic GPU battles!!! - Page 3

xBruce88x · Oct 14, 2012, 06:21 AM

My first PC I used wasn't a PC but a Mac... one of the first ones I think... it was monochrome I know that much. The first one I can truely say that was MINE was an old system running Windows 3.11 with a 386 and some S3 video card.

The first video card I actually bought myself was back when I was in middle school. I got a little money for helping another family member set up dial up on her PC... friggin Compuserve... I bought it from a store called ComputerSurplusOutlet.com and it was a Pine SiS 315e "3D Phantom" 32MB AGP 2x/4x card. It was a pretty decent card... blew there all my games I had at the time, well the ones my cpu could actually support. AMD K6-II 350, 128mb ram, 3gb or so hard drive, 24x cd-rom, win98se. Ran stuff like n64 and PSone emulators amazingly well. Not sure why I quit using that card. I ended up "upgrading" to a motherboard with a SiS 530 onboard and a K6-2 500mhz, then later an Intel i740.

I later got lucky and managed to buy an Athlon XP system while I was in 10th or 11th grade... I remember it was the year the demo for Half Life 2 came out, for $30. Yes... only $30. It had a "Geforce 4 MX 440 AGP 8x 64mb". Athlon XP 2500+, 256mb DDR 266, 20GB HDD, Win XP, Abit NF7-S 2.0. This was the first system I played Half Life 2 on. I later got my hands on a Radeon 7500. This card didn't have any shaders but its raw speed gave a nice fps boost (the MX didn't do shaders either). Before the system finally died, It ended up having a 160GB WD IDE drive, Win XP Pro, the Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ speeds, 1GB DDR 400, SB Audigy SE, and a Radeon 9600XT 128mb from Sapphire.

I did end up with a set of Voodoo IIs I got from a friend when I bought his Platnum Gamecube for $60

The most I ever spent was $170 for an 8600GT I bought the year they came out. At the time I had a Pentium D rig running on an AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA. It had the same ram and gpu from the athlon xp system until I got the 8600gt that is. Later I put a 9600gt in it along with 2GB ddr2 memory... skip forward and now I'm running an 8800GT. Which is both the most powerful card and probably the least expensive card i've actually spent money on... $16 for the aftermarket cooler. The 8600GT was the most i've ever spent on a gpu.

punisher186 · Oct 14, 2012, 07:16 AM

I don't have much old PC hardware. The oldest video card I have is a VisionTek Radeon 9250, I can take pictures later.

xBruce88x · Oct 14, 2012, 09:38 PM

How's this for an old "GPU"... or should I say... PPU... "Picture Processing Unit"

Quote:

Famicom technical specifications:
Ricoh 2A03 8-bit 1.79 MHz processor (MOS Technology based on the Motorola 6502 8-bit processor core)
Ricoh RP2C02G-0 8-bit, 5.32 MHz PPU (Picture Processing Unit)
2KB (16kb) on-board RAM
2KB (16kb) on-board Video RAM
PSG (programmable sound generator) Sound
256 x 240 pixel resolution

^ souce...

And a pair of Diamond Monster II's in SLI. (voodoo II)

stinger608 · Oct 14, 2012, 09:43 PM

Is that pair of Diamond Monsters yours Bruce????????

xBruce88x · Oct 14, 2012, 11:00 PM

yep. when i get my win98se rig up and going again i'll show you how well they run UT2000

I have yet a 3rd one from Canopus that has TV out. I wish I had the cables... I'd love to make and arcade type 3dfx rig. I got a voodoo III also

t_ski · Oct 15, 2012, 01:13 AM

Are those the 8MB or 12MB model? I'm thinking 12...

KieranD · Oct 15, 2012, 01:39 AM

I currently have 2 legacy rigs; an AMD K6-2 @ 500mhz with a Voodoo 3 2000 and a Cyrix 5x86 @ 100mhz (which is basically a socket 3 486 tweaked and clocked higher) with an S3 card in there. The socket 3 board has PCI so its a pretty good board for 486.

My first system was a Pentium II with an ATi Rage Pro.

I have a Geforce 4 MX and some other cards but i cant remember them off the top of my head.

Originally i wanted Voodoo 2s in SLI for my K6-2 rig but it was cheaper and easier to get a Voodoo 3, i actually broke a capacitor on the 3 3000 i have so i need to see if it can be soldered and salvaged.

xBruce88x · Oct 15, 2012, 03:39 AM

I used to have a socket 3 board that had 2 pci, 2 or 3 isa, and 2 of the VLB slots (looks like a combo of pci and isa). It had an AMD "p75" 133 that I overclocked to 150. It was fairly fast for what it was. So much in fact that it ran windows 98 SE just fine and even played Starcraft... which "required" a pentium.

@t_ski they're the 12mb version. I've got some old videos of them in action somewhere... i even had them running in my old AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA build a few years back. Played Descent 3 amazingly well, even downloaded a motion blur mod for UT2k. Speaking of UT2k, it ran at 300fps on a Celeron 433 dell system. I'll see if I can find some vids.

edit: oh wow... i actually found a video of me building the system lol... to bad its an old .3gp with a really low res. Damn... april of 2009 haha

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Oct 15, 2012, 03:46 AM

3dfx + Wicked GL mini driver = ultra smooth Counterstrike framerates XD

Voodoo 2 SLI would rape Riva TNT.. heck even Riva TNT 2!

stinger608 · Oct 15, 2012, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by xBruce88x

yep. when i get my win98se rig up and going again i'll show you how well they run UT2000

I have yet a 3rd one from Canopus that has TV out. I wish I had the cables... I'd love to make and arcade type 3dfx rig. I got a voodoo III also

Then why in the hell aren't you over here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=108251

With all that amazing hardware???? That is frigging awesome man!
I had a pair of the 12mb cards years ago and wish like hell I would have hung on to them.

xBruce88x · Oct 15, 2012, 04:24 AM

well i did find a video of the voodooIIs installed in my asrock system but sadly i couldn't find any video of gameplay with them. Probably got lost after 3 years of upgrading my system lol. Oh well... Gives me yet another reason to re-build my 3DFX system. If I can't find my pass-through cable I'll have to go with the voodooIII 16mb I have. I have a P-III 533 and an 800 laying around (slot) and I also have a Celeron 1400 s370 (but no mobo). If I can find the pass-through cable I know what spec i'll end up with. Win98SE (of course), 128mb sd ram, PCI ATI Rage 128 theatre, 2x voodoo IIs in SLI, 40 or 80GB HDD, and w/e optical drive i can find. I've got a few games I can run on it. Half Life 1, Blood II: The Chosen, Septerra Core, Shogo: MAD, Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal/ Tournament 2000, I think I have Quake around here somewhere, Tachyon The Fringe, Freespace 1 and 2, Red Alert, a bunch of DOS games including Extreme Assault, Descent II and III, and some other games I can't quite think of at the moment.

xenocide · Oct 15, 2012, 04:41 AM

The first computer I tinkered around with was a Gateway my parents got with a Pentium II 1GHz and like 256MB of RAM with onboard video. I upgraded it with a PNY FX5200, and added a 512MB stick of RAM, thing was awesome at the time. After that I built my first real setup:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+
1GB (2x512MB) DDR1 RAM
AMD X800

That thing was a champ for running HL2 when I built it. I also overclocked the crap out of that 2500, pretty sure I destroyed that CPU or should have since I had no knowledge of temperature thresholds and just cranked it as high as I could to get it to boot stable. Oh well, it was good times.

stinger608 · Oct 15, 2012, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xBruce88x

well i did find a video of the voodooIIs installed in my asrock system but sadly i couldn't find any video of gameplay with them. Probably got lost after 3 years of upgrading my system lol. Oh well... Gives me yet another reason to re-build my 3DFX system. If I can't find my pass-through cable I'll have to go with the voodooII 16mb I have. I have a P-III 533 and an 800 laying around (slot) and I also have a Celeron 1400 s370 (but no mobo). If I can find the pass-through cable I know what spec i'll end up with. Win98SE (of course), 128mb sd ram, PCI ATI Rage 128 theatre, 2x voodoo IIs in SLI, 40 or 80GB HDD, and w/e optical drive i can find. I've got a few games I can run on it. Half Life 1, Blood II: The Chosen, Septerra Core, Shogo: MAD, Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal/ Tournament 2000, I think I have Quake around here somewhere, Tachyon The Fringe, Freespace 1 and 2, Red Alert, a bunch of DOS games including Extreme Assault, Descent II and III, and some other games I can't quite think of at the moment.

Very awesome Bruce!!!!! Dude I can hook ya up with Quake, Quake II Heretic, Doom, Doom II, and Hexen if ya need them man.

Would run frigging awesome on that man!!!!!!!!

laptop servis · Oct 20, 2012, 08:16 AM

Which i bought as my first agp video card that had 3d acceleration , i used to play quake 2 online and it gave quite solid quality for the small amount of money , i also finished half life using that same card and it gave me a real 3d exerience .

http://www.vintage3d.org/i740.php

eidairaman1 · Oct 20, 2012, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xenocide

The first computer I tinkered around with was a Gateway my parents got with a Pentium II 1GHz and like 256MB of RAM with onboard video. I upgraded it with a PNY FX5200, and added a 512MB stick of RAM, thing was awesome at the time. After that I built my first real setup:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+
1GB (2x512MB) DDR1 RAM
AMD X800

That thing was a champ for running HL2 when I built it. I also overclocked the crap out of that 2500, pretty sure I destroyed that CPU or should have since I had no knowledge of temperature thresholds and just cranked it as high as I could to get it to boot stable. Oh well, it was good times.

with right cooling the chips could handle 2-2.3 Volts

punisher186 · Oct 22, 2012, 06:18 PM

As promised, here is the photo of my somewhat old video card.

Capitan Harlock · Oct 22, 2012, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by punisher186

As promised, here is the photo of my somewhat old video card.

http://img.techpowerup.org/121022/fk.jpg

ati radeon 9250 xd

punisher186 · Oct 22, 2012, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Capitan Harlock

ati radeon 9250 xd

Yup. Only nine years old.

JNUKZ · Oct 22, 2012, 08:44 PM

I think i still have a Pentium III 1Ghz and athlon 64 3200+. My previous pc had a Nvidia 4200Ti 128MB

blibba · Oct 22, 2012, 08:56 PM

I was fairly clueless about PC hardware until I ended up buying a 6600LE for the original World of Warcraft. That was the start of a slippery slope, both for gaming addiction and PC hardware obsession :P

ViperXTR · Oct 22, 2012, 10:13 PM

quotin myself hehe...
didnt have pics for:
Sis 6215 2MB
Intel 82810 IGP
GeForce FX 5900 XT
ichill GeForce 8600GT (that clocks beyond GTS lol)

a GeForce 6600GT, facing down tho D: (paired with an AthlonXP 2500+ oc'd)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ViperXTR

old cards, not high end enough lol
(TNT2 M64, Radeon 9200, and a Matrox card i forgot the exact model if its G200/G300)

I guess this one is a little high end? Not old enough tho

UbErN00b · Oct 22, 2012, 10:36 PM

List of GPU's bought over the last 10 years:

Inno3D Savage 2000 64MB
Geforce MX400 64MB
Geforce Ti 4200
Geforce Ti 4600
Geforce FX 5200
Geforce FX 5700
Radeon 9800SE > pro modded
Radeon X1600pro
Radeon X1950pro
Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 4890
HD 5770 CrossfireX
GTX 470
GTX 570
HD 7950

eidairaman1 · Oct 22, 2012, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laptop servis

...

damn 3 posts and he gets banned already

=ID10T LMAO!

Quote:

Originally Posted by UbErN00b

List of GPU's bought over the last 10 years:

Inno3D Savage 2000 64MB
Geforce MX400 64MB
Geforce Ti 4200
Geforce Ti 4600
Geforce FX 5200
Geforce FX 5700
Radeon 9800SE > pro modded
Radeon X1600pro
Radeon X1950pro
Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 4890
HD 5770 CrossfireX
GTX 470
GTX 570
HD 7950

So i guess the 1950 u had was AGP or PEG?

UbErN00b · Oct 22, 2012, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

damn 3 posts and he gets banned already

=ID10T LMAO!

So i guess the 1950 u had was AGP or PEG?

AGP

Guess that's a new GPU every 9 months.

eidairaman1 · Oct 22, 2012, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UbErN00b

AGP

Guess that's a new GPU every 9 months.

nice thats whats in my sig rig

Oct 14, 2012, 06:21 AM	#51
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Oct 14, 2012, 11:00 PM	#55
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Oct 15, 2012, 03:39 AM	#58
xBruce88x Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Winder, GA, USA Posts: 2,218 (1.70/day) Thanks: 652 Thanked 506 Times in 401 Posts System Specs	I used to have a socket 3 board that had 2 pci, 2 or 3 isa, and 2 of the VLB slots (looks like a combo of pci and isa). It had an AMD "p75" 133 that I overclocked to 150. It was fairly fast for what it was. So much in fact that it ran windows 98 SE just fine and even played Starcraft... which "required" a pentium. @t_ski they're the 12mb version. I've got some old videos of them in action somewhere... i even had them running in my old AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA build a few years back. Played Descent 3 amazingly well, even downloaded a motion blur mod for UT2k. Speaking of UT2k, it ran at 300fps on a Celeron 433 dell system. I'll see if I can find some vids. edit: oh wow... i actually found a video of me building the system lol... to bad its an old .3gp with a really low res. Damn... april of 2009 haha __________________ Last edited by xBruce88x; Oct 15, 2012 at 03:46 AM.

Oct 15, 2012, 03:46 AM	#59
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Oct 15, 2012, 04:24 AM	#61
xBruce88x Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Winder, GA, USA Posts: 2,218 (1.70/day) Thanks: 652 Thanked 506 Times in 401 Posts System Specs	well i did find a video of the voodooIIs installed in my asrock system but sadly i couldn't find any video of gameplay with them. Probably got lost after 3 years of upgrading my system lol. Oh well... Gives me yet another reason to re-build my 3DFX system. If I can't find my pass-through cable I'll have to go with the voodooIII 16mb I have. I have a P-III 533 and an 800 laying around (slot) and I also have a Celeron 1400 s370 (but no mobo). If I can find the pass-through cable I know what spec i'll end up with. Win98SE (of course), 128mb sd ram, PCI ATI Rage 128 theatre, 2x voodoo IIs in SLI, 40 or 80GB HDD, and w/e optical drive i can find. I've got a few games I can run on it. Half Life 1, Blood II: The Chosen, Septerra Core, Shogo: MAD, Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal/ Tournament 2000, I think I have Quake around here somewhere, Tachyon The Fringe, Freespace 1 and 2, Red Alert, a bunch of DOS games including Extreme Assault, Descent II and III, and some other games I can't quite think of at the moment. __________________ Last edited by xBruce88x; Oct 15, 2012 at 05:37 AM.

Oct 15, 2012, 04:41 AM	#62
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Hard Disk:	WD Caviar Black 1TB
Optical Drive:	ASUS DRW-24B1ST
CRT/LCD Model:	Acer GD235HZbid 120hz LCD
Case:	Rosewill Destroyer Mid-Tower
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	Corsair 650W 650-TX
Software:	Windows 7 Professional

Oct 20, 2012, 08:16 AM	#64
laptop servis Banned Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 3 (0.01/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	you`ve forgotten intel`s I740 Which i bought as my first agp video card that had 3d acceleration , i used to play quake 2 online and it gave quite solid quality for the small amount of money , i also finished half life using that same card and it gave me a real 3d exerience . http://www.vintage3d.org/i740.php

System Name:	BS03/04
Processor:	AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ 2.2GHz 1.5V
Motherboard:	DFI LanParty NFII Ultra-B Bios (TicTac 3D Fire R2)
Cooling:	4 Antec 80mm, TR SI-97 Adapted TT Big Typhoon Fan 120MM
Memory:	2GB Mushkin Redline 4000 @ 200 MHz 2.5V
Video Card:	Sapphire R1950Pro 512MB AGP 1.5V
Hard Disk:	250 & 400 GB Seagate Baracuda 10 SATA
Optical Drive:	2x Samsung Multiformat Rewritable Drives
CRT/LCD Model:	NEC Multisync LCD 1700V
Case:	Antec SX830 EATX Case
Sound Card:	Creative Labs SB XFi Xtreme Music & SB PCI 512
PSU:	Antec NEO HE 500 Watt
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium
Benchmarks:	Win 7 Eval. CPU 3.9 Ram 4.5 Graphics 6.0 HD 5.7

Oct 22, 2012, 06:18 PM	#66
punisher186 Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 77 (0.10/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 39 Times in 18 Posts System Specs	As promised, here is the photo of my somewhat old video card.

Processor:	intel core 2 quad q9400 @ 3.2 ghz
Motherboard:	MSI P45 Neo-F socket lga 775
Cooling:	Thermalright Archon +Ty 140mm\|2 front-1top-1rear-1bottom
Memory:	8gb ddr2 Kingstone 800mhz @960mhz
Video Card:	xfx hd 6950 1gb xxx edition dual fan oc 900/1450 v1.100
Hard Disk:	seagate barracuda 7200rpm 2tb sata + western digital caviar green 1tb sata
Optical Drive:	external dvd burner lg double layer
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus ML229h 21"5 1920x1080
Case:	Fractal design Arc midi
Sound Card:	realtek hd integrated + 5.1 BHT1100 BLUESKY,Corsair Vengeance 1500 usb,Creative live 24 external usb
PSU:	Thermaltake toughpower xt 775watt modular
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Oct 22, 2012, 08:44 PM	#69
JNUKZ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Portugal Posts: 133 (0.62/day) Thanks: 66 Thanked 85 Times in 42 Posts System Specs	I think i still have a Pentium III 1Ghz and athlon 64 3200+. My previous pc had a Nvidia 4200Ti 128MB

System Name:	NUK Little Machine
Processor:	Pentium G850 > I5 3570k
Motherboard:	AsRock Z77 PRO3
Cooling:	Intel Stock > TR True Spirit 140
Memory:	8Gb Kingston 1600MHz
Video Card:	MSI HD7770
Hard Disk:	WD blue 500gb
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus VW222U/Samsung BX2235
Case:	CoolerMaster K350
Sound Card:	OnBoard
PSU:	Corsair CX430 V2
Software:	Windows 7 64Bits

Oct 22, 2012, 08:56 PM	#70
blibba Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 777 (0.59/day) Thanks: 109 Thanked 167 Times in 113 Posts System Specs	I was fairly clueless about PC hardware until I ended up buying a 6600LE for the original World of Warcraft. That was the start of a slippery slope, both for gaming addiction and PC hardware obsession :P __________________ Heatware. eBay feedback.

System Name:	The one under the desk / The one next to the table / The one in the corner
Processor:	Xeon X3430@3.6GHZ / Pentium D 820 / Sempron 2800+
Motherboard:	Gigabyte P55M-UD4 / Biostar tp35d2-a7 / Abit NV8
Cooling:	AC Freezer Xtreme / AC Alpine 7 Pro / Generic+80mm
Memory:	8GB Kingston DRR3-1600 9-9-9-27 / 3GB DDR2-667 generic / 1GB DDR-400
Video Card:	GTX 460 (@800MHZ) with T'right HR-03 / HD2600XT IceQ Turbo 512MB / 8500GT
Hard Disk:	Kingston V200 128GB, WD6400AAKS, 2Maxtor Diamondmax 21 250GB / 4WD 80GB / Seagate 160GB
Optical Drive:	Sometimes.
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 2343BW / Acer P193W / Generic 17"
Case:	C'M' Silencio 550 / C'M' 330 Elite / Sometimes
Sound Card:	No.
PSU:	Thermaltake Toughpower XT 675W / Antec 430W / Dell 210W
Software:	Windows 7 Ult x64
Benchmarks:	Nah.

System Name:	TeraUltima 7 \| Ultima 7
Processor:	Intel Core i3 2100 3.1Ghz Dual Core HT \| AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ @2.7Ghz
Motherboard:	ASRock Z68 Pro3-M mATX\| ASRock ALiveNF7G-720pHD 2.0 mATX
Cooling:	DeepCool Ice Berg Pro "Black Edition" \| Stock AMD AM2 Cooler
Memory:	G.Skill RipJaws 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz CL8 \| 2GB Kingston 667Mhz Ram
Video Card:	Palit GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB \| GeForce 7050 PV IGP 128MB HM
Hard Disk:	1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA3 AHCI\| 80GB Maxtor IDE
Optical Drive:	ASUS DVD MultiWriter SATA w/ LightScribe \| None
CRT/LCD Model:	LG Flatron L1753S 17" LCD Monitor \| 15" Generic CRT Monitor
Case:	Aerocool PGS VS-9 Mid Tower Casing \| ATX Mars 722-2 ATX Casing
Sound Card:	Onboard Realtek ALC892 7.1 HD Audio \| Onboard Realtek ALC662 5.1 HD Audio
PSU:	OCZ Stealth X Stream II 600W \| Generic 550W ATX PSU
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1 \| Windows 7 Home Premium
Benchmarks:	http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/ViperXtreme/pics/PRIPYAT.jpg

Oct 22, 2012, 10:36 PM	#72
UbErN00b Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ingerland Posts: 222 (0.85/day) Thanks: 36 Thanked 46 Times in 35 Posts System Specs	List of GPU's bought over the last 10 years: Inno3D Savage 2000 64MB Geforce MX400 64MB Geforce Ti 4200 Geforce Ti 4600 Geforce FX 5200 Geforce FX 5700 Radeon 9800SE > pro modded Radeon X1600pro Radeon X1950pro Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB Radeon HD 4850 Radeon HD 4890 HD 5770 CrossfireX GTX 470 GTX 570 HD 7950

System Name:	le me gaming and porn rig!!
Processor:	2500k
Motherboard:	GA-Z68X-UD3-b3
Cooling:	Air baby!
Memory:	8GB 2000mhz dual channel
Video Card:	Sapphire Vapor X HD 7950 3GB
Hard Disk:	Corsair Force 3 240GB & 2TB HDD
Optical Drive:	N/A
CRT/LCD Model:	Catleap 1440p ;)
Case:	CM Storm Sniper
Sound Card:	HUD-MX1 headphone amp/DAC
PSU:	Corsair TX750

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