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NVIDIA Waves Goodbye to Their Fermi Graphics Cards

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So many good memes. Thanks Fermi. :)
 
I still have a GTX580 3GB in one of my crunching rigs, got it as a cheap refurb on ebay and it kept me entertained for years! I'm kinda tempted to install pubg and see how it runs :D
 
Junk cards, but fanboys bought em by the millions.

Congratulations. "Why does AMD suck so bad"
 
My old GTX 470 is still running in my old X58 system.
 
oxidized said:
:D

Also fermi 5xx was another beast completely from 4xx.
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For sure, no doubt the GTX 480 had a difficult birth, but the GTX 580 reigned surpreme until the 7970 came out some year and a bit and a node shrink later.
 
Xaled said:
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/graphics/fermi-card-on-stage-wasn-t-real/1/

https://semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-boards-gtc/

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I got a good laugh from that...
I could take pictures like those right now and they would look just like them...
That's actually what they look like.
Except they have two DVI ports and a mini HDMI...
It was probably an engineering sample...

I'm an AMD-ATI fan for sure but why crap on a thread about a glorious series going legacy after they got the best update possible a month or two ago?
When they were out I think I went from 4830's in cf to a HD6950 unlocked to full 6970...
I felt AMD screwed HD6xxx owners...never getting any type of DX12... Nvidia on the hand updated these cards until now...
 
I think its coming down to if you don't run the latest hardware and win-10 your not going to get support [2 years if not sooner ] its coming down to support as a service like that malware service win -10 is . you will take what they give you or you have nothing at all .

you now got to support them cause there no longer wanting to support you and you now build to fit there needs not yours . I recall back in the win-xp days how folks cried proprietary all that was ? , well you aint seen nothing yet .

you know they figured the less they got to support at any time is less workforce they got to pay to keep you supported . like todayts stuff is now just about if it not running on 10 it may not ''fully'' work anyway .

old hardware I can see in a way but you got this new stuff that now cant even replace it cause its just not supported . I see 7 and 8 going to the wayside with in a year or 2 and you will be stranded to 10 or Linux only .

like one guy said here in a post above about his 900 card lasting ? sad thing is when first released it had down to win-XP support then it was gone and only now 7 and up . good thing I got and saved the drivers that had all the xp support ahead of that ..

I hope that NVidia don't go all AMD and start seeing older games stop working case there latest drivers no longer support them [why I had to ditch AMD cards] and sad thing is new AMD cards cant ''roll back '' to older drivers that did at the time support the games [7000 series amd cards could latest cant go past 13 .12 or so . 200 series and later]
so with the 900 series cards from NVidia I can still run all I got under them [os's ,games, CRT gaming monitors , whatever ] this new stuff cant native .

I guess its the sign of the times

good luck
 
Things gotta be phased out at some point, this was one thermal mess like the 5800 then.

coonbro said:
I think its coming down to if you don't run the latest hardware and win-10 your not going to get support [2 years if not sooner ] its coming down to support as a service like that malware service win -10 is . you will take what they give you or you have nothing at all .

you now got to support them cause there no longer wanting to support you and you now build to fit there needs not yours . I recall back in the win-xp days how folks cried proprietary all that was ? , well you aint seen nothing yet .

you know they figured the less they got to support at any time is less workforce they got to pay to keep you supported . like todayts stuff is now just about if it not running on 10 it may not ''fully'' work anyway .

old hardware I can see in a way but you got this new stuff that now cant even replace it cause its just not supported . I see 7 and 8 going to the wayside with in a year or 2 and you will be stranded to 10 or Linux only .

like one guy said here in a post above about his 900 card lasting ? sad thing is when first released it had down to win-XP support then it was gone and only now 7 and up . good thing I got and saved the drivers that had all the xp support ahead of that ..

I hope that NVidia don't go all AMD and start seeing older games stop working case there latest drivers no longer support them [why I had to ditch AMD cards] and sad thing is new AMD cards cant ''roll back '' to older drivers that did at the time support the games [7000 series amd cards could latest cant go past 13 .12 or so . 200 series and later]
so with the 900 series cards from NVidia I can still run all I got under them [os's ,games, CRT gaming monitors , whatever ] this new stuff cant native .

I guess its the sign of the times

good luck
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Grab W10 LTSB.

Fyi NV dropped support for NF2 chipsets for Win Vista/7 for AGP GART when those rigs were fully capable of running Win 7 32, so NV isn't innocent as you claim they are.
 
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jmcslob said:
I got a good laugh from that...
I could take pictures like those right now and they would look just like them...
That's actually what they look like.
Except they have two DVI ports and a mini HDMI...
It was probably an engineering sample...

I'm an AMD-ATI fan for sure but why crap on a thread about a glorious series going legacy after they got the best update possible a month or two ago?
When they were out I think I went from 4830's in cf to a HD6950 unlocked to full 6970...
I felt AMD screwed HD6xxx owners...never getting any type of DX12... Nvidia on the hand updated these cards until now...
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New drivers don't increase perf on old cards. After several years there's little if any bug fixing to be done. Cards from that generation are unusable. The only reason 6900 series is around was from mining.
 
TheGuruStud said:
New drivers don't increase perf on old cards. After several years there's little if any bug fixing to be done. Cards from that generation are unusable. The only reason 6900 series is around was from mining.
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Right...but they did continue to add new features...whether they are capable??? eh they still did it.
https://www.techpowerup.com/234835/nvidia-adds-directx-12-support-to-geforce-fermi-architecture
I ran Time Spy with a G4400 and a GTX470....Sure it only scored 722 but it finished it...and isn't that whats most important?...It's not whether you win or lose it's that you can actually play the game...lol
It was a horrible slide show to watch but the... audio stayed clean.
 
jmcslob said:
Right...but they did continue to add new features...whether they are capable??? eh they still did it.
https://www.techpowerup.com/234835/nvidia-adds-directx-12-support-to-geforce-fermi-architecture
I ran Time Spy with a G4400 and a GTX470....Sure it only scored 722 but it finished it...and isn't that whats most important?...It's not whether you win or lose it's that you can actually play the game...lol
It was a horrible slide show to watch but the... audio stayed clean.
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You mean Nvidia fake dx12? Lol
 
I miss my Gainward GeForce GTX 460 768MB GS already. I don't miss that single fan cooler though. This was my first proper GPU after I got cucked with going with this GeForce 2 MX->4 MX->5200 FX->7200GS, I had pretty much all of the worst cheapest graphics cards for years... Boy was it a struggle to run anything. But finally when I got the GTX 460 I could play Resident Evil 5 with highest settings. Good memories with that card. It will forever have a place.

It's the card that let me run Skyrim at decent settings. A game that I put 2700+ hours into (but who is counting). Now I have GTX 1060 6GB, time has just slipped away, especially on those long gaming hours. The 460 pretty much led me from my teenager years to young adulthood.

If I ever have kids, I wonder what their memories will be like (probably sitting all day on the phone and looking at depressive and edgy memes if those still going to exist :laugh:). Somehow, the 460 makes me feel nostalgic, it's been 7 years.
 
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Phhhhhhhhtttttt!
 
I had a GTX480 and a GTX470, both dead last year. I sort of miss them.... i might buy a GTX570 on Ebay or something, just for the lulz.
 
Poll lacks option "I'm using AMD/ATI card".
 
Despite all of the hate from the AMD crowd, my GTX 480 was a great card and served me well, for many years. I'm sure someone is still playing it to this day, wherever it is.
 
Not sure about the hate. Fermi has some really good cards. The GTX 580, which I owned was a top performer for awhile, and fixed most of the heat and power abuse that the GTX 480 had.

And the GTX 460 may have been one of the best midrange cards made, especially the 1gb model. They ran extremely cool, and overclocked extremely well. 2 of them in SLI was what SLI was always advertised to be: tons of flagship level performance for half the price.
 
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AlienIsGOD said:
your OG statement was about nvidia and using scientists names for overrated products, not once did you single out Fermi so next to be clear in waht you are referring to or you will end up looking the fool. The link you posted dont even have relevance to the OG statement you made even....nice try troll :nutkick:
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i tried to point out the Hype that was made about Fermi even before it was released. I insist Fermi was extremely overrated and it sold out just with help of the dumb fans

the real good deal was 6xx series. especially the 680. i am still using it and never regret buying it.

And for the "long" support yout claim you got. nvidia changed the single price of top single gpu gfx card from 400$ to 1000$. (now it is 2000$ or 3000$ maybe?) so when they get overpaid that much i think that they should support cards not only for 8 years but for life time.
 
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