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• I remember the first real videocard I had was a Voodoo 3 3000. Before that I was running half-life at 320... : m0nkz
• The Radeon 9700 was a beast of a card. That thing lasted me forever. : ColoradoCNC
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• Radeon 4870 Radeon 6870 GTX 970 (with 3.5GB VRAM fiasco and all) : azuvatar
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  Matrox Millenium II

  Feb 20, 2024 12:56pm PST
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  Matrox Millenium II : someWayne
  • Wow that’s a blast from the past. I think you needed one to do dual monitors back when dual monitor... : bozer
  • Had one of these and it lasted more builds than any other card I ever owned. : sukabljat
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    Matrox was king of 2D image quality for a long time : Halen
    • Their VGA output signal path was TOP FUCKING NOTCH. : Toraz Chryx
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  • It’s Voodoo 2 for me. Other than Bitboys!! 😂 : Borzoi
• 3Dfx established dominance pretty fast in the late 90s. I remember every game supporting glide by the tim... : Prozium
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    TNT and TNT2 were pretty pivotal in establishing Nvidia so you gotta figure they're up there. : ughhhhhhh
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      my Riva TNT changed my life : dopefish
      • Same. It's why I ended up visiting the Shack for the first time : Enkidu
      • My first AGP graphics card, although I'm struggling to think what brand the thing actually was. : Toraz Chryx
  • I could play quake III in 32 bit color!! : [gooie b]
  • Riva 128 with opengl drivers. Blew my fucking mind. : leadgold
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  These threads always set off my voodoo notifications. : voodooraze
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    You're all monsters. : voodooraze
    • You're right, Diamond Monster 3D was my first voodoo card. : someWayne
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  3dfx Voodoo 3 for me. DYK that it was just not for use in PCs, but I installed one in my PowerMac G3 (my... : MatthewPhillips
  • This is what replaced my 9700Pro+Voodoo2. I believe I put some old cpu heatsink on the voodoo3, and volt... : rms
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  Ti 4200 : skookum_choocher
  • These were so goddamn amazing, price/performance wise.. This and the 8800GTX would be my votes : master_disaster_17
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• Voodoo 2 is what started it for me : DM7
• ATI All in Wonder Pro. It played half life with a decent frame rate, unless you went underwater, where t... : FirstPersonCooter
• imo the IBM Color/Graphics Adapter (CGA) : jim bone
• 1080Ti : johnny rotten
• 1080 Ti easily, old school probably my TNT 2 Ultra. : valcan_s
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  CPU SIDEJACK Has to be the 2500k right? : opengl128
  • AMD Athlon64 was like a SNES game cartridge, maybe longer and put Intel on alert : azuvatar
  • If someone said it was the Q6600, I’d hear them out. Or those Celerons that hit 8GHZ. : Junktown
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    Celeron 300A @ 450 as well : EvilDolemite
    • that overclock + the TNT2 were an era unto themselves : Goncyn
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    That celeron 300 that would easily overclock to 450 maybe : judge
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      Athlon with the pencil trick too, 700-800MHz unlocked to 1000+! : EvilDolemite
      • My first major overclock : Enkidu
  • I'd argue 2600K over the 2500K : Toraz Chryx
  • 80286 : skookum_choocher
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    gotta be the original pentium: the first consumer superscalar processor. against many predictions the arc... : jim bone
    • but risc is the future! : opengl128
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      Arguably it didn't because Pentium Pro was a RISC core with a CISC interpreter on the front end It jus... : Toraz Chryx
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        yes agreed. there were a bunch of pure risc designs that thought they’d be able to compete on the... : jim bone
        • https://youtu.be/KxQKL11O2J4?si=Q2v0Vf-88iBdLvLP : jim bone
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  • AMD K6-2 350 overclocked 🤘 : [gooie b]
  • Q6600 : i38warhawk
  • 2500k was certainly the CPU that I got the most use out of, such a beast for so long. : node
  • Q6600, we had one running in the office up until last year : JohnathanDoe
  • Was the 2500k a great CPU or did it just release at the right time? Intel essentially had no competitio... : Prozium
  • Phenom X4 965 : thedude
  • The Celeron 300a was a pretty great CPU. They all clocked to 450mhz (I ran mine at 512mhz for years). Whe... : Prozium
  • Athlon XP was pretty legit. The fact AMD gave me one along with a board at an event also helped. : Conan
  • Yeah, 2500k easily for my money : Begawkiness
  • Honestly I think you'd pick either the 386 (since so much arch is still based on it) or the first AMD64 r... : Halen
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    AMD Thunderbird 1 GHz wooooo : CplBeaker
    • Or maybe my Athlon 64 : CplBeaker
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  I know it’s lame to pick a recent card, but the 10GB 3080 was better and cheaper than I expected, e... : Junktown
  • Radeon 9500 to 9700 I think : CplBeaker
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  Canopus Pure 3D : rick
  • I had one of these and paid the premium for the 6mb : whistletits
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• for GPU longevity it's got to be the 1080Ti, released in early 2017 and it's still usefully fast _now_ (a... : Toraz Chryx
• Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP with the Giant Purple Sperm Cell of Death https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/com... : Schnapple
• Personal greatest, it was the NVIDIA RIVA TNT and then then GeForce (as stupid as this name was and still... : railchu
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  Riva TNT It was the first time a competitor really was able to challenge 3dfx and the Voodoo cards, an... : paulatreus
  • And we finally got to this idea of being able to use a single card for 2D and 3D. No more 3D accelerator.... : rosewood
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    I wouldn't go too hard on Glide -- it's not like Direct3D existed yet, and 3dfx cards did accelerate Open... : ThomW
    • Yeah, my point was more that Glide was proprietary and locked into a single manufacturer, not that 3dfx r : paulatreus
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    I consider 9700 and 9800 PROs to be roughly the same card : EvilDolemite
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  Voodoo 2 blew me away. Q2 and Unreal. : Don Koharski
  • those reflections! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26I-Pw-yPJ4 : missing_spaceship
• Rendition Vérité V1000 : chuck577
• 9700 pro I think takes that spot. I also remember Nvidia's answer of the 6800 Ultra being a huge upgrade... : atom519
• I still have my 1080TI, so, that. : Moonbase Commander
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  3080 Incredibly fast for the time + MSRP---and it effectively broke the GPU market (forever?). So ... : digweed014
  • Wish it has more vram, less than 1080ti is a war crime :( : Milleh
• All I know is I miss those AMD commercials where they talked shit about Nvidia https://youtu.be/eH6Xay... : baconisgod
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• Nvidia FX 5800 : Dolemite
• GeForce DDR and GTX 1080 : Serpico74
• 1080Ti : i38warhawk
• Rad 9700 Pro got me through many years. : uebersoldat
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  Whichever first ran glQuake with the transparent water : AssGoblin
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    That would have been a Voodoo card. For us Riva plebs, you needed a vispatch to get transparent water wor... : Enkidu
    • you had to re-vis the maps for GLQuake also you could have the water appear transparent without doing ... : Toraz Chryx
• Monster II SLI it changed the game : whistletits
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• 9700 Pro for sure : JohnathanDoe
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• best card is whatever just came out after you just purchased yours and for a lower price! : iwonthelottery
• It's got to be the Voodoo1 for me. It did 3D like nothing before it, at least not that I had experienced... : demoncleaner
• I've had a good time with all of my graphics cards. The only downers were budget cards that I picked u... : dopeman
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  Wasn't there a 5600 something or other that like, EVERYONE had ? : Disarray
  • No, that was your mother that everyone had. : rosewood
• 1080ti : sarcaz
• 9700 Pro would be my pick. What a fucking card. Runner up would be the 1080ti. : funnynamehere
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• https://cdn.hardforum.com/data/attachment-files/2022/12/785724_Azg1uKH79lVUDgrosU1UQYibBtrEJRi4jwxa86E_kO... : gmd
• gtx 970 needs to be mentioned more. Card is still capable of 1080p gaming to this day. : PointlesS76
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• For me it's probably Voodoo2, but that's probably only because I never owned a Voodoo1 : Sludgehead
• Man, when I went from software graphics to a Voodoo2 (or maybe 3?) and fired up Microsoft Combat Flight S... : noobja
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  So many great cards, hard to pick a winner. Personally, Voodoo1 made my jaw drop the most. After that i... : Halen
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    Agreed. Voodoo 2 was a decent step up, but the Voodoo 1 changed everything. : ThomW
    • Yeah i went from a Voodoo 1 to Voodoo 2 SLI and i'd still put the 1 way ahead in terms of wow factor. : Arsenal
• Voodoo 2 by far. But also GeForce 1. : ajvitaly
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  Rendition Verite 2200 8mb : AxeMan808
  • It was the BetaMax of the video card wars. : AxeMan808
• Voodoo 3 for me. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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• Voodoo 2 was eye melting : BigT
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• My top 3: Voodoo 3 2000 PCI - My first upgrade from on-board graphics. PCI because my Sony VAIO didn't ... : CplBeaker
• 1080ti : Milleh
• Glaze3D by Bitboys Oy : ThrillKill
• The Voodoo2 set the stage and seeing hardware acceleration in Quake 2 for the first time is a core memory... : fleabug
• Radeon HD5770 GTX 1080 is GOAT : Rice-Rocketeer