Your first high-end GPU experiences?

[alca]

So I just found out that I'll be receiving 1070 the next month, waiting sucks.

 

In the meanwhile, I'm interested in what your guys first experiences with higher-end gpus were like?

How did it feel to run everything @ 60 fps? 

[Guest]

I don't know. Crysis 3 still not reaching that 30fps mark and neither does your 1070 at 1080p should reach 60 lol

[WereCat]

I wouldn't know. I run almost all games on 1440p at above 100FPS with GTX 1060

Ultra settings are overrated - High is what is best in my opinion.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, WereCat said:

I wouldn't know. I run almost all games on 1440p at above 100FPS with GTX 1060

Ultra settings are overrated - High is what is best in my opinion.

3 or 6gb?

[Princess Luna]

13 minutes ago, alca said:

So I just found out that I'll be receiving 1070 the next month, waiting sucks.

 

In the meanwhile, I'm interested in what your guys first experiences with higher-end gpus were like?

How did it feel to run everything @ 60 fps? 

worth a thousand words

serious though, use FXAA instead of MsAA and you might be able to do 60fps ultra on games, the 1070 is great but not thaaat much

 

[Dango]

R9 290 would be my first high end GPU. Great experience with it, perhaps the best time I ever had.

Then I replace my 2 290Xs with Titan Xs... Man, soooo many issues....

Frist Titan X from Nvidia failed when boot, so I have to RMA it. Then I wait for over 1 month and got a full refund....

 

Fast forward. When I finish my dual Titan X set up with triple monitor that I was using for long time, I fund out Nvidia's SLI and surround, compare to AMD's, are really bad.

Why my GPU need 1V at idle on desktop? Why surround order reset every time driver update? Why monitor order is different from system? And a lot frame skipping on FPS game make them unplayable.(I have tested on different platform and OS).

[WereCat]

8 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

3 or 6gb?

6

[WereCat]

4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

worth a thousand words

serious though, use FXAA instead of MsAA and you might be able to do 60fps ultra on games, the 1070 is great but not thaaat much

 

 

I actually use NVIDIA MFAA that was introduced with Maxwell ... you can enable it in NVIDIA Control Panel. It automatically overrides MSAA and it has the same visual effect with half the performance hit.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Man, all of you are making me feel old.

 

My first high end GPU was the GeForce 7800 GTX. It was finally amazing to see 3D Mark 05 run better than a slide show from my GeForce FX 5600.

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Man, all of you are making me feel old.

 

My first high end GPU was the GeForce 7800 GTX. It was finally amazing to see 3D Mark 05 run better than a slide show from my GeForce FX 5600.

 

My first high end was Voodoo 2 (I am actually not sure if it was considered high end back then but it played everything).

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, WereCat said:

I actually use NVIDIA MFAA that was introduced with Maxwell ... you can enable it in NVIDIA Control Panel. It automatically overrides MSAA and it has the same visual effect with half the performance hit.

TXAA also is decent, but I really dont mind the little blur from FXAA and it still is the less demanding AA for good enough results

[Dango]

My first real desktop is at 2012. Before that, I only have laptop to play with.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, WereCat said:

My first high end was Voodoo 2 (I am actually not sure if it was considered high end back then but it played everything).

The big long voodoo?

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

TXAA also is decent, but I really dont mind the little blur from FXAA and it still is the less demanding AA for decent enough results

 

True. Most games I play don't feature MSAA anyways so I have to opt for FXAA too.

[WereCat]

7 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

The big long voodoo?

This one.

You probably mean the one with 8 fans? That was the one that didn't officially released as 3DFX went bankrupt. That one released much later.

This one?

V5-6000

[LordofSavages]

26 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Man, all of you are making me feel old.

 

My first high end GPU was the GeForce 7800 GTX. It was finally amazing to see 3D Mark 05 run better than a slide show from my GeForce FX 5600.

*salutes* You're a veteran

[Guest]

6 hours ago, WereCat said:

This one.

You probably mean the one with 8 fans? That was the one that didn't officially released as 3DFX went bankrupt. That one released much later.

This one?

V5-6000

ye that one

[Biggerboot]

Geforce 6600, so I could play doom 3 with good frame rates.  

[Mick Naughty]

Prolly when I stepped up to a titan.

Playing with a pair of 660 ti's. If you ever seen benchmarks back then, they weren't anything to laugh at. But then Cod Ghost came out, my most favorite and best cod game ever. Playing on triple 1080 destroyed those cards, mainly vram. My late night drinking and part buying brought me to cough up the $1k to order the card.

I didn't think gaming could be so great and so flawless. I was unstoppable, even against all the cheaters to get gold and platinum in clan wars were pissed at me.

 

I have yet to top that felling of gameplay. Mainly poor optimization of games lately, even after sli 980's and my current gtx 1080 setup.

 

It was well worth the money, lasted years with quality gaming. Regret selling both of them.

[AlTech]

GTX 770 was my first high end and the only GPU experience I've ever had

[PopsicleHustler]

GTX 590. My local shop closed due to financial problems and I was lucky to get brand new gtx 590 for 300 euros. God damn it was a monster.

[Domrockt]

My first top notch GPU was an used Geforce 3 and after that a much better and more loved Geforce 4600.

[jjohnthedon1]

I was extreamly disappointed 

I went from a 260x to a 980ti

and most games looked practically the same and I thought constant 60 fps would be great but it was still blurry 

 

it want untill I went sli and 144hz gsync  that I jizzed my pants at the difference 

[Phentos]

For me it was the GTX 580.

 

Finally maxing out Crysis and getting better than cinematic framerates still ranks as one of the most satisfying moments I've had.

 

My high school friends thought Halo Reach looked amazing. But then they beheld the visual splendor that was Crysis.

 

I don't believe in selling used cards, as you just get pennies on the dollar, plus there is a certain sentimental element. So the 580 occupies a nice spot on my shelf with my 390.

[PCMasterDebater]

I remember playing Counter Strike on the GeForce 256 in 1999 then taken the big jump to the GeForce 5700 LE in 2003. The 5700 sported double the core clock and 4x the ram. Glorious days. The 5700 LE wasn't the best though. That probably came when I got the EVGA 680 classified.