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[Deleted member 185158]

Very nice, the oldest that I've run is a Quadro FX 5600 (G80 1.5GB) on my AM4 system (as in specs) just fine. It wasn't painful at all, just installed the 342.01 driver and it worked fine, even under Windows 11. It's very limited in what it can do, though, the newest game i got to run was Final Fantasy IV pixel remaster and it still had text rendering problems. Surprisingly, GTA V runs, but low at 25 fps or so.

I think I have a 3DMark Cloud Gate run of it on my old C6H back when I had the 3500X CPU. Yep, here it is:

I scored 7 873 in Cloud Gate

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X, NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

It is kind of funny running these early PCIe GPUs on modern PCs, the processors and memory today are so insanely fast that you could probably max out every last bit of potential these cards could dream of doing, much more so than with high end hardware of the time.

I recently acquired a grip... a rather large grip of vintage GPUs. So many I can't even list em all. Maybe 25 cards AGP and PCIe first gen stuff. I love it.

The X600 is so slow, you could run it on anything really, it'll always be a GPU limitation on the benchmark unless there's cpu scores like 3Dmarks. Something like Aquamark, well the cpu for a card that old won't do anything for the score.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I recently acquired a grip... a rather large grip of vintage GPUs. So many I can't even list em all. Maybe 25 cards AGP and PCIe first gen stuff. I love it.

The X600 is so slow, you could run it on anything really, it'll always be a GPU limitation on the benchmark unless there's cpu scores like 3Dmarks. Something like Aquamark, well the cpu for a card that old won't do anything for the score.

I can imagine, the FX 5600 is a particularly potent version of the 8800 GTX, which was the strongest card of its time by a long shot and it still struggles very much with a modern usage pattern. You'll be limited to just basic tasks that you'd do on integrated graphics. Anyway, I imagine a 1.5 GB card back in 2006 when this card launched would be absolutely bananas to have.

I came across this card by accident more or less, I was looking at GeForce 8800 cards because I wanted to experience G80 as it was the first unified shader architecture card, basically the grandpa of the modern GPU, and it definitely impressed. I wasn't able to find an 8800 Ultra available for sale, but I realized that the Quadro existed and I actually found one in unused, new-old-stock condition and snagged it for some change at the time. It's an interesting keepsake.

 

[Deleted member 185158]

I can imagine, the FX 5600 is a particularly potent version of the 8800 GTX, which was the strongest card of its time by a long shot and it still struggles very much with a modern usage pattern. You'll be limited to just basic tasks that you'd do on integrated graphics. Anyway, I imagine a 1.5 GB card back in 2006 when this card launched would be absolutely bananas to have.

I came across this card by accident more or less, I was looking at GeForce 8800 cards because I wanted to experience G80 as it was the first unified shader architecture card, basically the grandpa of the modern GPU, and it definitely impressed. I wasn't able to find an 8800 Ultra available for sale, but I realized that the Quadro existed and I actually found one in unused, new-old-stock condition and snagged it for some change at the time. It's an interesting keepsake.

8800 Ultra, I've had 3 of them through the years. It's the hottest damn card I've ever run on air lol. Sure they say x TDP, but I think they under valued that by quite a bit actually. It's perfectly capable of melting its self!

 

[Dr. Dro]

8800 Ultra, I've had 3 of them through the years. It's the hottest damn card I've ever run on air lol. Sure they say x TDP, but I think they under valued that by quite a bit actually. It's perfectly capable of melting its self!

Part of why G80 gets so hot is that it has no power state functionality. It's something that we can take for granted very easily nowadays, but G80 has only one clock domain and that's the full performance, full voltage state even in 2D/idle desktop workload. That plus the weird cooling designs they had back then would definitely make for a toasty chip

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Part of why G80 gets so hot is that it has no power state functionality. It's something that we can take for granted very easily nowadays, but G80 has only one clock domain and that's the full performance, full voltage state even in 2D/idle desktop workload. That plus the weird cooling designs they had back then would definitely make for a toasty chip

That just goes to show how much they've improved the designs, not just the architecture, but also the firmware and cooling. And to think I used an 8800Ultra for F@H back then. What was I thinking?!?! .... Oh, it was the top dog and there wasn't better choices really. Well maybe better choices for thermals... haha.

I remember gaming 1024,768 too. Looked great compared to 800,600 lol.

 

[SystemViper]

Nice @Dr. Dro

Well today i turned 63
This is the present to myself...
Special thanks to everyone,
SV

 

[Dr. Dro]

Nice @Dr. Dro

Well today i turned 63
This is the present to myself...
Special thanks to everyone,
SV
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Sweet, and happy birthday! I hope you have a great one, man.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Happy B-day. You only 2 years older than me.

 

[Bones]

Happy Birthday!!

 

[Mussels]

I got booted from XS a long time ago. lol
Seemed some people there couldn't handle the truth. nuf said.

It was probably all the times you blew up the engine room

 

[Bones]

It was probably all the times you blew up the engine room

Or maybe no one wanted to work or even be around him because of his shirt color.....
Lightning CAN strike the same place twice you know.

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Happy belated Steve. Got a box on the way to you, enjoy the hardware and good luck!

 

[SystemViper]

Been meaning to post here for a while now, been crazy transition to fall,
will update soon

thanks
Steve / SV

 

[Mussels]

Happy belated Steve. Got a box on the way to you, enjoy the hardware and good luck!

Wait.
How many steves do we have here?
I wanna box of hardware too!

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Wait.
How many steves do we have here?
I wanna box of hardware too!

Move to USA! Then, get box o' hardwares!!

 

[Mussels]

Move to USA! Then, get box o' hardwares!!

I'll keep my box of healthcare, but i'll be sad about it

 

[SystemViper]

Closing the thread, the club is taking on a whole new vision, lots to come.
See my update here.

*** how do i lock this thread?

 

[Mussels]

*** how do i lock this thread?

Kachow