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First Founders Edition GPU

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What was the first series with GeForce Founders Edition GPUs? If it's older than the GTX 900 series, can you post pics? Thanks.

 

Edit: I did some more searching and fugured out that the first GeForce series with founders edition or reference edition in the founders edition style is the GTX 600 series with a single fan in the middle.

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1 minute ago, Sauron said:

I do believe it was the 1000 series, before then they were just called "reference" cards.

No, there were 900 series fe cards, and I think I've seen pics from earlier series, I'm mostly wondering how early those pics were from.

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8 minutes ago, MightyMishka said:

No, there were 900 series fe cards, and I think I've seen pics from earlier series, I'm mostly wondering how early those pics were from.

oh, you're right... could be one of these then?

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Founders was 10 series. That’s when the name started. That is a fact. 

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10 hours ago, MightyMishka said:

Yeah, a 700 series. I was also seeing pics from a titan z, I did some more research (a google search)

 

Those were not 'Founder's Edition' cards.

That was just the nVidia reference PCB and GPU cooler.

 

If you consider that as 'Founder's Edition' then that goes back to even the GTX 480...

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Or go back in time even more.... here is a GeForce 8800 GTX reference / "Founder's Edition"

Blast from the Past – Episode 1 NVIDIA 8800 GTX | Glob3trotters

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On 3/25/2021 at 11:28 AM, -rascal- said:

 

Those were not 'Founder's Edition' cards.

That was just the nVidia reference PCB and GPU cooler.

 

If you consider that as 'Founder's Edition' then that goes back to even the GTX 480...

image.jpeg.8fd7160aed0a6a9118715ba10f62dd2c.jpeg

 

Or go back in time even more.... here is a GeForce 8800 GTX reference / "Founder's Edition"

Blast from the Past – Episode 1 NVIDIA 8800 GTX | Glob3trotters

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