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I'm on your side I just grabbed the 970 to replace my old 760 because that thing had baddd coil whine and driver issues like no tomorrow so it was essentially a brick. But I will happily pawn this 970 off in favor of a newer card when the time comes.

poor 760 D: I'm really wondering what will happen as soon as the next gen arrives. I think the 2nd hand market will explode because a lot of us are waiting for DX12 and FINALLY a decent improvement...

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poor 760 D: I'm really wondering what will happen as soon as the next gen arrives. I think the 2nd hand market will explode because a lot of us are waiting for DX12 and FINALLY a decent improvement...

At this point I have no idea what lies ahead and it seems like they might as well release a newer titan as the line up seeing how the 980 is essentially that. However if someone wants to bank on dx11 support and grab a few 2nd hand cards then that wouldn't be a bad idea.

I'm Probably at work so expect a reply either really fast or really slow :D

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I had a hand me down 650Ti, that was the weakest part of my system for a few months. Then i got a 980Ti :)

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Year 2006 I believe...

ATI something... was a 128MB card,

VRAM was the only stat that mattered at that time...

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Laptop: Nvidia 8600M GT (2008-2013) -- believe it or not, I used to run portal, portal 2, TF2 and oblivion on this

 

Desktop: AMD 7950 -- amazing card; still destroys 1080p and can even run games smoothly at 1440p with some tweaking.

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R7 260x 1 gb

Was dead impressed for 60 pound

Ran gta v 1080p on low and medium settings !!!

AMD (and proud) r7 1700 4ghz- 

also (1600) 

asus rog crosshairs vi hero x370-

MSI 980ti G6 1506mhz slix2 -

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3dFX Voodoo 2 paired with an old Matrox 2d card. Then a 16Mb Voodoo 3 2000 because SLI was balls in anything but Glide games.

32mb Diamond Stealth 3 after that because 32 BIT OH THE COLOURS!

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Radeon HD 4550. My previous (whatever it was) broke, so I had to get something to replace it..... still rocking solid on my Pentium E2180, in fact is the one I'm using to write this very post right now.

 

Also had a 6670 and recently grabbed a Gtx 970, but that's on another system. #(not)Paciently waiting for pascal before upgrading my 970.

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Also had a 6670 and recently grabbed a Gtx 970, but that's on another system. #(not)Paciently waiting for pascal before upgrading my 970.

:lol:

I'm Probably at work so expect a reply either really fast or really slow :D

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For the life of me I can't remember the exact model. It was too long ago.

 

It was before 2001. It was an ATI card. It had maybe 16Mb of video memory. 32Mb at most. (Man I feel like an old timer).

 

I bought that card to play a game with graphics no more complex than the original Diablo.

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For the life of me I can't remember the exact model. It was too long ago.

It was before 2001. It was an ATI card. It had maybe 16Mb of video memory. 32Mb at most. (Man I feel like an old timer).

I bought that card to play a game with graphics no more complex than the original Diablo.

Likely a Rage Pro or Rage 128. Great cards.

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Inno3D GeForce 2 MX with active cooling. :D

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Diamond Speedstar I think, but it was a long long time ago

Used an ISA slot for the gpu

Cpu didnt have a heatsync

ram was simm I think, if i remember right they had to be installed in pairs and the slots on the mobo were angled almost flush with the board... or was that rimm's?

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First ever gpu is nvidia riva tnt2 I cant remember if it was on my Pentium 3 (Slot1) or a bit later..

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nvidia 6600 gt used (AGP), it died after 1 year and got an AMD HD2400 one (AGP also)

The site has changed....

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The MX440 from NVIDIA, followed by the FX 5200 :D (passive cooled but I strapped an old Intel Cpu cooler on it) that bad boy still works on my moms PC :D with a P4 HT cpu

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First video card of my own was a very expensive Nvidia TNT2 Ultra 32mb, pre g-force here. Had VIVO and 3d glasses which were a bit gimmicky.

 

First PC setup that I used that made me want to game on PC was an ATI Rage Pro 8mb.

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GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB AGP 8x, Battlefield 1942, Tribes 2, PlanetSide 1, FFXI: good times!

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very first - riva tnt 32mb on my celeron 900mhz.Was Total disaster for gaming.

Next was radeon 9600 pro

Then Radeon xt 2600

 

Actually never went for high end graphic card.

 

Maybe it's about time.

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