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deimos
Nov 30, 2006

Forget it man this bat is whack, it's got poobrain!
386 40MHz (Turbo of course) playing Lucasarts games, I think my first video card was a Voodoo.

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

While we're at it we might as well post our video card/display adapter history:

1994-1998: a number of S3 display adapters
1999: Voodoo 2
2001--2003: Geforce 2 MX/Geforce 4 MX
2004-2005: Radeon 9800 Pro
2006-2007: Radeon X1650 Pro
2008: Geforce 8800GT
2009-2010: GTX 275 triple kill :suicide:
2010-2011: Radeon HD 5770
2012: Radeon HD 6670 + Llano dual graphics :laffo:
2013-2015: Radeon HD 7870
2014-present: Geforce 750 Ti (secondary PC)
Present: Radeon R9 290 reference hair dryer edition

Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Mar 16, 2016

Eletriarnation
Apr 6, 2005

People don't appreciate the substance of things...
objects in space.


Oven Wrangler
2002-2004: Geforce 4 MX440 upgrade to a refurb Compaq P2 beige box that I got for $50
2004-2006: Radeon 9600 XT that came with an Alienware P4 desktop
2006-2008: Geforce 6800GS AGP (unlocked to Ultra spec) upgrade for the Alienware, ran like poo poo until I got an Arctic Cooling HSF for it; later sold on SA-Mart
2008-2011: Radeon 4850 with a new i7-920 system
2011-present: Radeon 7850 with a new i5-2500K system

I'm pretty sure I'll move up to Polaris or Pascal when they come out.

PerrineClostermann
Dec 15, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
~2003-2007: GeForce 440MX (Integrated at first, then an old external one someone tossed me)
2007-2009: Geforce 8800GT
2009-2010: Geforce 8800GT + 9800GT (Friend sold me his 9800GT for real cheap. Flashed my 8800GT into a 9800GT, used an unofficial patch for windows to enable SLI. poo poo was jaaaank, but worked)
2010-2012: ATI Radeon HD 5870m (ASUS G73jh replaced my desktop)
2012-2015: 2x AMD Radeon HD 6870 Crossfire (All dat bitcoin money)
2015-Present: Geforce GTX 760

TheShrike
Oct 30, 2010

You mechs may have copper wiring to re-route your fear of pain, but I've got nerves of steel.
2011: integrated POS on laptop
2012: 560ti
2014: R9 280x
2015-present: R9 390

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald
Unknowable lol.

xthetenth
Dec 30, 2012

Mario wasn't sure if this Jeb guy was a good influence on Yoshi.

Can't remember the card I didn't buy (an ATi), but after it:

6800 GT
8600 GTS that became an 8800 GT (512) through EVGA step up
GTX 260 core 216
GTX 560
GTX 760
GTX 970
R9 290

The 970 got pawned off on a friend who was looking for one anyway.

I'm betting on Polaris being a 380 range card and a 390 range card with Vega hitting where the Fury should've been and a step up from there. In the good case where the new stuff is better than those brackets would indicate I might snag a big Polaris crop ship, pass the 290 to a friend, and then sell the Polaris to another when Vega drops. Or something else if Pascal is really good, like 980 Ti vs Fury good.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011
1996-1998: Some really old S3 framebuffer
1998-2002: I honestly don't remember.
2002-2004: GeForce MX440 :downs:
2004-2008: GeForce FX 5600
2008-2010: Intel GMA 4500MHD
2010-2011: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
2011-2012: AMD Radeon HD 6850M
2012-2015: 2x Radeon HD 5850
2015-2016: R9 290
2016-present: R9 290X + R9 290 (got the 290X off a friend in exchange for a used Nexus 4)

No idea where I'm going next. Maybe back to Nvidia.

Sininu
Jan 8, 2014

2007 ATI Radeon 3870x2 "heater"
2011 Nvidia GT555M
2015 Nvidia GTX 970M

I haven't had many upgrades

Also I think my next upgrade will be desktop GPU inside that Alienware external enclosure since I have their laptop.

Sininu fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Mar 16, 2016

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
Even if you put a gun to my head, there's no way I'd be able to tell you my entire graphics card history, because I flat out don't remember what I had. It was something like.

MX440
???
HD 6670
Quadro something
HD 6870
750 Ti
Intel 4400 + FirePro M5100

Maybe it was a 6600 GT. All I know is that it was an AGP card, and I tanked all of ICC 10 on it, usually on framerates in the teens, and still somehow managed to succeed, despite a Retardin that usually held down tanking the floor and/or guarded the bottom spot on the DPS charts, and a Holy Priest that was too stupid to know what Guardian Spirit did, somehow thinking that it sacrificed themself, and not the summon.

But man, that machine was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue, using it long after it had become obsolete. I was pretty much forced to upgrade at the point that Soyo went out of business and I couldn't get drivers for my motherboard anymore. It was like, a KT400 or something like that? Jesus. I don't ever want to use the same machine that long ever again.

SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Mar 17, 2016

Ihmemies
Oct 6, 2012

Since 2008 I've had a 4850, 6950@6970 and a GTX 970.

Before I think I had a 7800gt maybe? It burned. And a Geforce4 ti4400, Geforce 256, voodoo1, some s3 crap. I don't upgrade very often.

Naffer
Oct 26, 2004

Not a good chemist

Ihmemies posted:

Since 2008 I've had a 4850, 6950@6970 and a GTX 970.

Before I think I had a 7800gt maybe? It burned. And a Geforce4 ti4400, Geforce 256, voodoo1, some s3 crap. I don't upgrade very often.

I think the 7800/8800 generations were hit with the same solder problems that doomed the early Xbox 360's and a bunch of macbooks. I had an 8800 that I bought from someone on SA-Mart that went bad. I revived it with a short bake and it lasted another year before giving up the ghost.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


2000: ASUS GeForce 256 SDR
2001: Hercules Kyro II
2002: PNY GeForce Ti4200

Laptop time
2004: Mobile Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo
2006: Radeon X1900
2007: Quadro NVS 140M

Back to desktop:
2012: Zotac GeForce 560 Ti
2014: PNY GeForce 760
2015: Gigabyte Radeon 290
2015: Gigabyte GeForce 970

Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Mar 17, 2016

MiniSune
Sep 16, 2003

Smart like Dodo!
Anyone who owned an S3 Virge knows the meaning of pain.

CGA
A slew of trident 512k and 1mb vga cards
S3 Virge 4mb
Voodoo2 12mb x 2 with the dirge handling 2d
GeForce 2mx w/ voodoos
GeForce 4400
6600gts 512mb
7950gx2
8800gts
2 x gtx 460
970

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

MiniSune posted:

Anyone who owned an S3 Virge knows the meaning of pain.

I bought a PowerVR when everyone else had a 3dfx. I'm not sure any game ever worked other than the ones packed in with it.

MechWarrior 2 PowerVR edition was bad rear end, though.

kode54
Nov 26, 2007

aka kuroshi
Fun Shoe
I tried buying a PowerVR in the 1990s at some point, but I had a magical Packard Bell desktop with integrated Cirrus Logic framebuffer chip that the BIOS would deactivate if it sniffed any video cards plugged in, even add-in video cards that didn't have their own BIOS or framebuffer or DAC. I would have had to buy a dedicated card as well as the PowerVR, or a Voodoo 1 or 2 if I ever could have afforded either back then.

So eventually, it was back to my mainstay add-in video card, a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Exxtreme, aka a 4MB Permedia 2 card.

At one point in time, I also got ahold of a Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D based card, with RDRAM onboard, and it was actually faster at being a framebuffer than the Permedia 2, but it was even worse at 3D.

The Permedia 2 was pretty bad already, since every Quake engine that used OpenGL ended up multitexturing just the lightmap over top of the textures as a solid shaded grayscale surface, which rendered games like Thief unplayable since you could see the shadows, but not whether a floor was carpeted or metal.

My parents eventually got a PC for themselves, which my little brother took over most of his free time to play games, and I would sneak in at night and borrow the Geforce 2 MX card to use in my hand-me-down HP tower instead of the same Permedia 2 card, since the HP didn't come with any cards from the person who gave it to me. That led to many annoyed family members in the mornings that I forgot to slip the cards back into their original setup.

Later, I was able to purchase some Geforce 2 GTish thing from a local parts store, and had all the UT99 fun I could muster, instead of having to use the software rendering mode that the CPU was more than capable of handling in absence of proper 3D hardware.

In 2004, with the help of my IRC friends, and my parents again, I got a new tower with a Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB, which I eventually had to buy a third party cooler for, since the integrated fans eventually got dust clogged and died.

Then in 2009, I got a newer tower and eventually got a GeForce 9800 GTX+ Black Edition for it. That card was eventually replaced with the 9800 that my little brother originally had in his PC, since his was much quieter and still quite a performant piece of hardware. He replaced it with a GTX 460, which later died, and was replaced with another GTX 460. It also died just last year, same symptoms.

Then in 2010, I got my first laptop, with Intel HD Graphics original flavor, which is shite, but sort of useful since it's portable.

Then in 2012, I used my own saved up money to buy a new tower PC, and within a few months, managed to save up enough with a friend's help to equip it with a GTX 670, which, in 2014, I gave to my little brother, to replace the series of dead 460s. It's still going strong, presumably.

In 2013, I also acquired a Radeon R9 270X, with the intent of mining for crypto currency as well as seeing how it performed with games. It was worse off at games, but made me a small amount of crypto crap, which I have since cashed out, thank goodness.

In 2014, I got a Mac Pro with a D500, which I immediately got severe buyer's remorse over, mainly because it sucked at games, even in Boot Camp, and because they just launched the Retina 5K iMac less than a week after it arrived. I returned it to the Fruit Stand for a refund, also citing a problem it had with sleeping, where it would lock up in sleep mode with an amber light glowing out of the bottom vents, which nobody could explain to me.

I then bought a Retina 5K iMac with R9 M295X, which barely performs any different from the R9 270X, if not worse. Oh well, it has the awesome screen, it's been my main computer for the better part of 1.5 years now, and it still rocks at almost everything I do with it.

Then, on Leap Day, I bought a Strix GeForce GTX 960 4GB, which I have yet to mail the rebate documents for, not sure if I'm even going to do that. It allegedly performs worse than the GTX 670 I gave away, but it definitely beats the 270X and the M295X. It also manages to slightly edge out a R9 390 that a friend just bought, at CineBench R15's GL mode.

There's my life story, somebody please justify my existence by quoting me and replacing the whole thing with the :words: emoticon.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

01010100011010000111001
00110100101101100011011
000110010101110010
Lemme tell you about my GTX 670 that is playing the division very very well.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I'm sure you're paying for the same quality that they put into their ultra-reliable peripherals that I never hear anyone say bad things about.

But will it have internet connected cloud drivers?


My history:

1997 - 2003 - Pentium 200mz with 4mb graphics (integrated? Not sure exactly)

2003 - 2008 - Pentium 4 with integrated graphics (my parents refused to spend a cent to facilitate my gaming)

2008 - 2010 (I started working) quad Sli 9800GX2s (along with the requisite 800 dollar motherboard that was needed for Sli support, and the $2k I spent on 8gb of ddr3 ram because it had only been on the market for 3 weeks. I was dumb and newly cash rich.

2010 - 2013 (I needed a new PC because my $800 motherboard died after 2 years) Radeon 5970. One dual GPU card was able to outperform my 2 previous dual GPU cards

2013 - 2014 (my 5970 died, so I got a refund and bought a new card) Gtx 680.

2014 to present (bought a new PC, decided to buy a new GPU as well so I could sell the old PC to a friend) gtx780ti.

The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Mar 17, 2016

SlayVus
Jul 10, 2009
Grimey Drawer
Luckily for me I started gaming around the Nvidia FX series. Unluckily, the first graphics card I had was a PCI GeForce FX 5200. That could not play Tribes: Vengeance worth a drat.

I built my first PC in 2006 as a christmas/birthday present from my parents. For $1,080 it had

4 x 512MB DDR2-667 ($58 ea.)
WD Caviar 250GB ($70)
AMD 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Dual Core ($180)
2 x EVGA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB ($130 ea.)
Plus other lovely stuff.

I upgraded to an EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX in like January or February after it came out, 2007.

Christmas of 2008 parents bought me a Powercolor HD 4870 X2(Yes the dual GPU variant).

In 2010, I traded it on HardForum for a GTX 460. It was a equivalent power and performed better in some games.

2011 rolled around and I wanted MORE! Upgraded to a GTX 460 SLI setup.

In 2013, I sold off my GTX 460s and bought a GTX 680. Man was this thing awesome. Boy did it's value tank though 18 months later when the GTX 900 series released. I paid $360 used for this card, later sold it for $160.

11/19/2014 - I bought myself an MSI GTX 970 Golden Edition. Along with upgrading to a 4790k. September of last year I sold off my GTX 970 and purchased myself a brand spanking new GALAX GTX 980 Ti HOF. In the future, I do plan on purchasing the new Nvidia card when it releases as long as it is actually a good performance increase over the Ti.

Edit: Oh, I tried buying a second Zotac 970 from someone here on the forums for SLI. However, Zotac's cards didn't play nice in SLI at ALL with other card makers. So I gave the Zotac 970 to my dad.

japtor
Oct 28, 2005
I think I had a Rage 128 back in the 90s for my PowerMac, then Radeon 9600 in a later one. And I think ATI of some sort in two other Mac laptops.

Since then I've just had Mac minis: GMA 950, Nvidia 9400M (IGP back when they had a chipset license), and hanging on with Radeon 6630M. I bought a PC case a while back to start a build but have been too lazy and cheap, I think my plan was to get a midrange Polaris or Pascal GPU whenever those come out.

Dogen
May 5, 2002

Bury my body down by the highwayside, so that my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride
The first card I remember getting specifically was a matrox millennium so's I could play Simcity 2000 with 256 colors.

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I started with a PCI Quadro2 MXR which was basically some flavor of Geforce2 MX. That thing crushed Diablo II and ran HL1+mods nicely.

Then I went to a Geforce4 Ti 4200, my first AGP card which blew my mind when running GTA3 for the first time.

The WoW beta prompted me to get a Radeon 9700 Pro.

Then I got hot deal on a 6800 Ultra. It was a refurb, but had a waterblock on it, so it was marked down to an insane degree and I couldn't resist. Slapped a fan on it and saved like $300 off retail. For such a ludicrously expensive card, I used it mostly for WoW and Day of Defeat Source. It eventually died in a lightning strike and was replaced by a X850XT which was really a lateral replacement

I moved to a PCI-E motherboard and got a cheapo HD 3650, since I felt like I just needed something "good enough" and it was, but I got a deal on a second one and I put it in Crossfire, which worked decently enough, believe it or not.

Then I got a HD4850 and ran that forever, eventually Crossfiring it as well with a friends old one.

I got a used GTX 580 (3GB!)and really didn't do anything with it, and now is in GPU purgatory in my wife's computer rendering Minecraft and Netflix until the end of time.

Now I'm on a GTX 970 that crushes Diablo II and HL1+mods nicely.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT
Hmmm let's see if I can remember them correctly:

1997 - Diamond Stealth 2 S220
1998-99 - Voodoo 2
2000-01 - GeForce 3 Ti500
2002 - GeForce 4 Ti4400
2003-04 - Radeon 9600 Pro
2005 - GeForce 6600 GT
2006 - GeForce 7800 GTX
2007-08 - GeForce 8800 GTS
2009 - GeForce 9800 GTX
2010 - GeForce GTX 465 (first one card, then later SLI)
2011-12 - Radeon HD 6970
2013-14 - GeForce GTX 770
2015-present - GeForce GTX 970

Anything outside that was usually swapping cards for spares I kept (still have both the GTX 465 cards for some reason) and most of them I either sold or passed on to my dad or friends who needed one. Probably hold onto the 970 for a bit longer to see how the next AMD/NV series cards are before upgrading again :)

Animal
Apr 8, 2003

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

Pretty expensive pcie slot

The Razer Core is an awesome deal if you think about it.

*First of all, its a port replicator that supports USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, USB 3, and Ethernet. Dell sells you that alone for $300.
*It has a small form factor 500w PSU. Assuming its a good one, that's around $100.

(You've already hit the discounted $400 price if you buy a Razer Blade laptop.)

*Small proprietary pseudo-motherboard to interface the PCI-E to the port replicator. It's not "just an expensive PCI-E slot". It passes through ALL the peripherals you would plug into a gaming rig, but it goes both ways, it can use the external GPU to drive the display on the laptop itself or whatever external screen you plug into the Core, seamlessly. And it does all of this with one single cable plugged out to your laptop, that also happens to charge it.
*The industrial design is top notch. I mean, superb. Look at YouTube videos. I wanna get one just to pull that handle and pop the internals out because they made it slick as gently caress.
*R&D. They are the first ones out the door with functional, eGPU compliant device, and they deserve props for taking the leap to move the industry forward.

$500 is VERY reasonable for being first to the market. $400 is pretty much giving it away at cost. When they get some competition and the economies of scale catch up, they should reach the $300 price point. At which point it will be irresistible to a lot of people who don't care to build gaming rigs anymore. I have had a rMBP for three years and I don't feel I need to upgrade it for maybe another three. If I could have an external GPU, I don't even need a gaming rig. The Razer Core is eGPU compliant, so it should work with any laptop that has USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 and has an OS and drivers that play nicely with hot-plugging GPUs. The thought of using this on the next Macbook Pro booted to Windows 10 makes me salivate uncontrollably. I can come home and plug one single USB-C cable that will charge my laptop and have it run a state of the art GPU, G-Sync external display, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. :getin:

Animal fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Mar 17, 2016

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald

Animal posted:

The Razer Core is an awesome deal if you think about it.

*First of all, its a port replicator that supports USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, USB 3, and Ethernet. Dell sells you that alone for $300.
*It has a small form factor 500w PSU. Assuming its a good one, that's around $100.

(You've already hit the discounted $400 price if you buy a Razer Blade laptop.)

*Small proprietary pseudo-motherboard to interface the PCI-E to the port replicator. It's not "just an expensive PCI-E slot". It passes through ALL the peripherals you would plug into a gaming rig, but it goes both ways, it can use the external GPU to drive the display on the laptop itself or whatever external screen you plug into the Core, seamlessly. And it does all of this with one single cable plugged out to your laptop, that also happens to charge it.
*The industrial design is top notch. I mean, superb. Look at YouTube videos. I wanna get one just to pull that handle and pop the internals out because they made it slick as gently caress.
*R&D. They are the first ones out the door with functional, eGPU compliant device, and they deserve props for taking the leap to move the industry forward.

$500 is VERY reasonable for being first to the market. $400 is pretty much giving it away at cost. When they get some competition and the economies of scale catch up, they should reach the $300 price point. At which point it will be irresistible to a lot of people who don't care to build gaming rigs anymore. I have had a rMBP for three years and I don't feel I need to upgrade it for maybe another three. If I could have an external GPU, I don't even need a gaming rig. The Razer Core is eGPU compliant, so it should work with any laptop that has USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 and has an OS and drivers that play nicely with hot-plugging GPUs. The thought of using this on the next Macbook Pro booted to Windows 10 makes me salivate uncontrollably. I can come home and plug one single USB-C cable that will charge my laptop and have it run a state of the art GPU, G-Sync external display, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. :getin:

But ... Its still effectively a $500 pcie slot...

Animal
Apr 8, 2003

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

But ... Its still effectively a $500 pcie slot...

You are wrong.

HMS Boromir
Jul 16, 2011

by Lowtax
1999-2004 Christ, who knows what was in that thing. All I remember is it had an AMD K6.
2004-2010 FX 5200
I might be forgetting a stopgap here but I promise it was just as disappointing as the rest of the list.
2010-2015 9400 GT
2015-now GTX 750 Ti

My parents did not have a lot of money or technical know-how and I only recently acquired one of the two.

HMS Boromir fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Mar 17, 2016

Gucci Loafers
May 20, 2006

Ask yourself, do you really want to talk to pair of really nice gaudy shoes?


Animal posted:

The Razer Core is an awesome deal if you think about it.

*First of all, its a port replicator that supports USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, USB 3, and Ethernet. Dell sells you that alone for $300.
*It has a small form factor 500w PSU. Assuming its a good one, that's around $100.

(You've already hit the discounted $400 price if you buy a Razer Blade laptop.)

*Small proprietary pseudo-motherboard to interface the PCI-E to the port replicator. It's not "just an expensive PCI-E slot". It passes through ALL the peripherals you would plug into a gaming rig, but it goes both ways, it can use the external GPU to drive the display on the laptop itself or whatever external screen you plug into the Core, seamlessly. And it does all of this with one single cable plugged out to your laptop, that also happens to charge it.
*The industrial design is top notch. I mean, superb. Look at YouTube videos. I wanna get one just to pull that handle and pop the internals out because they made it slick as gently caress.
*R&D. They are the first ones out the door with functional, eGPU compliant device, and they deserve props for taking the leap to move the industry forward.

$500 is VERY reasonable for being first to the market. $400 is pretty much giving it away at cost. When they get some competition and the economies of scale catch up, they should reach the $300 price point. At which point it will be irresistible to a lot of people who don't care to build gaming rigs anymore. I have had a rMBP for three years and I don't feel I need to upgrade it for maybe another three. If I could have an external GPU, I don't even need a gaming rig. The Razer Core is eGPU compliant, so it should work with any laptop that has USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 and has an OS and drivers that play nicely with hot-plugging GPUs. The thought of using this on the next Macbook Pro booted to Windows 10 makes me salivate uncontrollably. I can come home and plug one single USB-C cable that will charge my laptop and have it run a state of the art GPU, G-Sync external display, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. :getin:

Does OS X even support this at all today?

xthetenth
Dec 30, 2012

Mario wasn't sure if this Jeb guy was a good influence on Yoshi.

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

But ... Its still effectively a $500 pcie slot...

If that's all you use it for. Considering what I paid for a Surface dock that's a breakout box to just a bunch of ports and that I consider it totally worth it? I see his point. It is a great docking station for a laptop, which means going from being mobile to setting it on the desk, plugging in one cable and going on your sweet desktop peripherals.

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald

Animal posted:

You are wrong.

Its a slot you plug into a computer that allows you to use a video card. No matter how complex it is or how much it costs, that is what it is :confused:. I'm not even saying its bad, a $500 pcie slot can be very useful :v:

PerrineClostermann
Dec 15, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

Its a slot you plug into a computer that allows you to use a video card. No matter how complex it is or how much it costs, that is what it is :confused:. I'm not even saying its bad, a $500 pcie slot can be very useful :v:

A computer is just a box that lets you type poo poo out onto paper. It's a loving typewriter, why are people spending so much on them?

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
Well, he isn't saying it's too expensive from what I can tell? Just that it's a $500 pcie slot. Because that's exactly what it is. Well, a $300 pcie slot if you also want a docking station I guess, docking station prices today can be a bit silly.

japtor
Oct 28, 2005

Tab8715 posted:

Does OS X even support this at all today?
Support is such a strong word.

(no)

OS X can (afaik...with the help of some hacking), but Apple doesn't :v:

xthetenth
Dec 30, 2012

Mario wasn't sure if this Jeb guy was a good influence on Yoshi.

Truga posted:

Well, he isn't saying it's too expensive from what I can tell? Just that it's a $500 pcie slot. Because that's exactly what it is. Well, a $300 pcie slot if you also want a docking station I guess, docking station prices today can be a bit silly.

Yeah, given the prices of docking stations I think there must be some actual expense to making the drat things. I guess they're basically a really big active adaptor which goes a long way to explaining the pricing.

EmpyreanFlux
Mar 1, 2013

The AUDACITY! The IMPUDENCE! The unabated NERVE!
2003-2004: GeForce 3 Ti 500
2004-2006: Radeon 9700 Pro
2006-2008: Radeon HD 2600 XT
2008-2009: Geforce 9600 GT
2009-2012: Radeon HD 5770
2012-2014: Radeon HD 7850
2014-2015: Geforce GTX 760
2015-Present: Radeon R9 290X

I'm not sure what I was thinking with the 7850 to 760 switch.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
A quick question, the latest nvidia driver 364.51 08/03/2016. Is it ok too install? I heard there were problems some where but didn't look into it.

JnnyThndrs
May 29, 2001

HERE ARE THE FUCKING TOWELS
Lessee here.....I always had two PC's, "old faithful" to do actual work(UT99 & TF2) with, and "bleeding edge" to try new OS's and hardware out. So they'll be some overlap on video cards:

2000-2002: OG Radeon AIW and GeForce2MX
2002-2004: Radeon 8500 and GeForce4 4400ti
2004-2006: Radeon 9800 AIW and SLI GeForce 7850GT's
2007-2009: Radeon800XT AIW and GeForce 8800GTX
2009-2011: Radeon HD4780 and GeForce450GTX
2011-2013: Radeon HD6950 and Radeon HD7850
2014-2015: Radeon HD7950 and GeForce 780
2016: GeForce GTX980ti

There's also a few GeForce cards I bought used for my Hackintosh, notably a GTX570 and 580, that I still have.

Wow. That's a lot of money, but at least I didn't spend it on floozies and dope.

Animal
Apr 8, 2003

Truga posted:

Well, he isn't saying it's too expensive from what I can tell? Just that it's a $500 pcie slot. Because that's exactly what it is. Well, a $300 pcie slot if you also want a docking station I guess, docking station prices today can be a bit silly.

$200? Try $300 just for the Thunderbolt 3 port replicator w/ 240w power. Port replicators are not just extensions for your ports they are active adapters. So if we wanna be glib, this thing is a $500 PCI-E slot with a $300 port replicator and $100 PSU thrown in for free.

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And video cards are just $300-$500 hunks of silicon for playing games and doing stuff that your smartphone can do anyways. Not saying they are bad, but their price is a bit silly, right? :v:

Animal fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Mar 17, 2016

Seamonster
Apr 30, 2007

IMMER SIEGREICH
Oh man its been a long journey...

Some Diamond 4MB card that didn't have 3d acceleration
Rage Fury Pro 32 MB
Geforce 2 MX 440 64 MB
Radeon 7500 Pro 64MB
Radeon 9600 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro (R300 is loving legendary and made my poo poo PSU catch fire)
Radeon X800XT AIW that was severely CPU bottlenecked
Radeon X850XT so finally on PCI-E but the cooler on it eventually broke and the PCB was warped so I got a cheap secondhand
GeForce 9600GT while waiting for the
Radeon 4870 which, along with a 1920x1200 monitor I blew half a paycheck on
Radeon 6870 and then later added another one to CF
Radeon 270X 4GB which was probably a bad buy but at least I've since handed it down to my broke rear end student brother
Radeon 390

I have also never owned a laptop that didn't have dedicated graphics:

Geforce 9300M GS
Geforce 525M
Geforce 750M DDR5

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track day bro!
Feb 17, 2005

#essereFerrari
Grimey Drawer
I cant remember the exact years I had most of these, I think the rage pro was 98 possibly?

ATI Rage Pro
Matrox G400 Only had one monitor though :downs:
Riva TNT2 Ultra
???? I had something in my old Athlon XP 2800 system but god knows what
ATi X1600 Pro (gifted by a friend)
AMD 6870
GTX 970 - Current Pc
R9 290 - Second Pc

I'm probably going to give the 970 to a friend to replace his 660ti which is a bit long in the tooth so I'm looking forward to see whats going to come out this year.

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