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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Sunday, July 22, 2012 12:46 PM (permalink)

lowe0

Probably the Riva TNT, or maybe the GeForce 256.

had them too

they felt well in AGP cards era

other video upgrades I remember, was trading my 275 SLI (zero overclockability) + 260 for physx for a single 570 card (with nice overclocks), oh man! I was happy that I had so much better performance with a single card than when using all of those 3 cards at once (pulling a lot of power with mediocre results)

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Sunday, July 22, 2012 9:10 PM (permalink)

I don't know if it was the video card or the cpu or both but my favorite upgrade was from a AMD X2/BFG 6800 GT to a i7-920/BFG GTX 280.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Monday, July 23, 2012 8:13 AM (permalink)

My favorite moment was probably the rig I built when I was 15. Dropped two BFG 7800GTX's in SLI with one of AMD's first dual core X2 procs, and for a moment I had one of the best 3dmark '03 scores in the world. Just behind a guy with the same setup on Ln2.

These classys are pretty enjoyable as well, but I haven't had the time I want to really dig into them and do some tweaking and benching.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Monday, July 23, 2012 8:37 AM (permalink)

Prob going from a bfg 5900 to a 8800GT. But my sli'd 670's are about the same, comming from a single 560ti.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Monday, July 23, 2012 8:44 AM (permalink)

I had an opportunity to trade my 2x 7800gt's into a build I was making for a friend for more than enough to buy a 7950 gx2. I still have the 7950 gx2. I love how ridiculous that card is. They just 'glued' 2 PCB's together and called it a day.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Monday, July 23, 2012 8:55 AM (permalink)

I think going from a Radeon 9250 to a GTX 285 was my best moment.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Monday, July 23, 2012 9:11 AM (permalink)

My biggest upgrade was going from a laptop with integrated Intel i830M graphics to a 7900GT (which I believe was an EVGA, ironically enough). Now, part of that could have been that I also went from a single core Celeron at 1.2GHz to a dual core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ at 2GHz with 4 times the amount of RAM (512MB to 2GB), but still.

I've never had a video upgrade as major as that since.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Friday, July 27, 2012 8:04 PM (permalink)

Original 3DFX Voodoo PCI card because it was so revolutionary. It was so awesome, it made me spend $600 on two Voodoo 2 PCI cards in my first SLI setup.

After that, Radeon All-In-Wonder 9700 (because it was facinating)

BFG GTX 285 (because it was so fast and cool)

Galaxy GTX 465 SLI ( because it SLI scaled like nothing ever seen before)

After those products, all other upgrades GTX580 SLI and GTX 670 FTW seem incremental rather than revolutionary.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Friday, July 27, 2012 9:37 PM (permalink)

I've got more than 1:
1- getting my first Voodoo 3 3000
2- getting my first GeForce 256
3- enjoy the 2x570 Sli(with my first Classy)
4- Owning the 680 now!

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Friday, July 27, 2012 11:21 PM (permalink)

Heh well my originate from my first computer which just had a simple onboard graphics (cant remember which chip set) to a dedicated Voodoo card awesome (castle Wolfienstien!).

Then 7900 GTX! to 8800 GTX really nice improvement grabbed a second even better one 8800 died. From there 470 :-) got another one :-) 470, one died!

Ultimately to 3 670's Whahoo!

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Friday, July 27, 2012 11:40 PM (permalink)

I cannot recall which one, but it is when I realized that the competition had been reduced to such a degree, that there was only 2 choices for GPU manufacturers. I thought that my decisions may have helped other companies stay in the game, but it was not to be. I wonder often what might have happened with 1 or 2 more companies in the mix. I extremely happy with my GTX 680 SC Sig, but what if...

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Saturday, July 28, 2012 6:38 AM (permalink)

Adding the HC waterblocks to my 680s and watching the temperature go from 55*C under load to 33*C under load and dead silent. Wish I'd gone full WC earlier.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Saturday, July 28, 2012 6:58 AM (permalink)

Going from onboard video to a GeForce 6800 Ultra.

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:35 AM (permalink)

7900 GTX to 8800 GTX. Huge jump in performance. The 8800 architecture lasted clear up to the gts 250. Amazing series for Nvidia. I also really loved TRI-SLI 280s as I could play Crysis maxed when it was first out!

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Re:What has been your favorite video card upgrade moment? Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:32 PM (permalink)

4mb VRAM S3 Virge PCI to 3DFX Voodoo 1 (Canopus 6MB version)
No other gaming upgrade I've made has even come close to this.

Edit:
Distant second was 3DFX Voodoo 3 to Asus GeForce 256 (32-bit color gaming ftw)

Really every upgrade since the Radeon 9800 Pro has seemed incremental to me although some of the increments have been a lot bigger then others, in particular GeForce 6800GT to Radeon X1900XTX ... Oblivion went from slide-show to smooth as silk!

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