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Oh my time to wow the masses: -laptop integrated poo poo -laptop dedicated slightly less poo poo -A 460 that never saw the inside of a computer -one gen late 660ti. And waiting.
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1992(4?)-1998 486-DX50 so I doubt I had a gpu. May have been updated to a Pentium at some point. 1999-2000 Pentium 3. No GPU. Counter-strike at 20 fps all day. 2000-2003 Voodoo 3 3000. Counter-Strike 120 fps all day. 2003-2005 Gaming Laptop Radeon 9800 Pro? 2005-2007 Gaming Laptop Geforce 6800 2007-2010 Gaming Laptop Geforce 7700 Go 2010-2012 Gaming Laptop Radeon 5650 Mobility 2012-2014 AMD Radeon 7850 2GB 2014-2015 Nvidia GTX 770 2015-2016 Nvidia GTX 970 ('cause Witcher 3 mainly)
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Mar 17, 2016 15:22
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I actually went from ATI Rage Pro (in some kind of Powermac), that was my first discrete card, for Unreal Tournament 1 Nvidia 260m in a gaming laptop Radeon 7950 GTX 660ti GTX 770 GTX 970 GTX 750ti GTX 980ti R9 290x RMAed into free 390x Back down to R9 290x while I wait for die shrinks I've done a lot of buying open-box at microcenter and returning them a month later for the free game / rental, sometimes I keep them and sell them with the system I build and sometimes I just swap them around. Half three open box stuff has artifacts, especially AMD side.
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Mar 17, 2016 15:23
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Got HL2 for free for buying 2600XT club. Or maybe it was the 9600 line
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Mar 17, 2016 15:49
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I vaguely remember a GeForce 2 card of some description and then a Radeon 9700 Pro.
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Mar 17, 2016 15:55
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I remember having: Pentium 166 integrated graphics (they had those right?) GeForce2 MX 200 GeForce3 Ti 600 (although I might be mixing the 600 from the Pentium III 600Mhz, we might've had a GeForce4 instead, nothing catches my eye on the wiki though) GeForce FX 5200 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 in a laptop GeForce GTX 660 GeForce GTX 970
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Mar 17, 2016 16:04
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Animal posted:$200? Now we're on the same page
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Mar 17, 2016 16:07
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As far as my main gaming machine goes... 1993(?)-1997 Unknown onboard VGA on an IBM PS/1 with a 486-SX25 (not even sure it had anything worth calling a "graphics accelerator") 1997-1999 Matrox Millenium PCI (2D acceleration woo!) 1999-2000 Rage Pro AGP 2000-2004 Rage 128 All-in-Wonder AGP 2004-2005 Radeon Mobility 9700 2005-2006 GeForce 6600GT 2006-2008 GeForce 7900GT 2008-2012 GeForce 8800GT (RMA replacement for above) 2012-2014 GeForce 550Ti (RMA replacement for above) 2014-Present GeForce 970 (x2 since early 2015) If you're looking at non-gaming then mixed in there somewhere are a Radeon HD4670 and a GeForce GT220 that I used in my old HTPC back when real-time audio over HDMI and VDPAU video decode acceleration respectively were new things, the Ion nettop that replaced said HTPC, 8600M and GT650M laptops, and an uncountable number of onboard graphics controllers that aren't worth thinking about.
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Mar 17, 2016 16:25
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1998-2003: Voodoo 2 or 3 (cursed vague childhood memories) 2004-2009: Integrated crap including various Intel chips and a Radeon Xpress 200M at one point 2009: ATI Radeon HD 4770 2011: AMD Radeon HD 6870 2013: AMD Radeon HD 7950 2014-present: AMD Radeon R9 290x I feel like the main realization coming from this cataloging is that I seem to be attracted to card manufacturers of ill repute; almost all of those are Sapphire or Powercolor cards, and they've typically ended up being loud and prone to failure. Unfortunately, they also seem to be the brands that go on sale the most.  Next card's likely to be a 980ti, I think.
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Mar 17, 2016 16:45
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Cross-Section posted:1998-2003: Voodoo 2 or 3 (cursed vague childhood memories) 
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Mar 17, 2016 16:46
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Ugh this is a hard one I dont know how you all have such good memories! II can't remember the years, but I *think* Geforce 2 or Voodoo cant remember Radeon 9800pro Radeon X1800 pro or xt or something Radeon 5850 Geforce GTX 570 Geforce GTX 970 (my favorite GPU ever) e: remember when GPU's didn't need huge fans and shrouds? 
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Mar 17, 2016 16:49
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Polaris 10's rear end end pictured 3 DP1.3, 1 HDMI2.0, 1 DVI-D, similar form factor to R9 Nano (let the Fiji die-shrink and HBM1 rumors spread). Also Polaris 11 is capable of running passively, so expect OEMs to do stupid poo poo with it yet advertise it as gaming capable. Unless it can, in which case holy poo poo.
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Mar 17, 2016 16:51
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FaustianQ posted:Polaris 10's rear end end pictured Fiji die shrink sounds interesting. drat thing literally fries itself in its 28nm incarnation 
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Mar 17, 2016 16:56
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:A PNY 980ti I'm guessing Huh, upon googling, it actually seems like they get less of a bad rap than they used to, but yeeeeah I'm probably gonna stick with EVGA or MSI cards for the immediate future.
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Mar 17, 2016 17:03
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Even Hawaii die shrinks would be nice @ $200 and around 150-175 watts. We already know of its staying power for DX12 and the existing 8GB board designs from 390s would only speed production. Also, because gently caress 28nm and gently caress 1080p cards costing over $300 new.
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Mar 17, 2016 17:11
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Cross-Section posted:Huh, upon googling, it actually seems like they get less of a bad rap than they used to, but yeeeeah I'm probably gonna stick with EVGA or MSI cards for the immediate future. PNY has no transferable warranty either which is poo poo.
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Mar 17, 2016 17:20
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Think we'll see any wood screws this time around?
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Without looking it up: Pentium 166 integrated graphics Some kind of 3DFX card from one of the now long-dead companies Nvidia FX 5600, a poo poo-tastic mid-range card that I gleefully replaced with an ATI 9800 Pro Some ridiculously hot and lound NVIDIA Laptop card Intel mobile HD graphics (the original) Nvidia 710m Current: Intel HD 530, keeping me humming along on low settings till I get the Ti edition of whatever Nvidia's flagship card is. PS. yeah I've going to be doing some serious tea-leaf reading over the Pascal release to see if there'll even be a Ti edition. I'm finally in a position to be able to buy the best (barring the ridiculous vanity top-shelf cards) and I'm happy to wait for the best to be available.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:The start-of-year demonstration where Nvidia famously showed Maxwell as part of their Drive PX prototype had AMD showing their "small" Polaris that was basically a performance equivalent to a 280x running at ~65w board power, 88w system power total, and a 280x still isn't too bad these days. That was also an engineering sample, so if AMD is claiming passive cooling functionality for mobile then there has to be an incarnation of it running sub 30W, maybe a cutdown P11 can do this. The reason Fiji die shrinks are becoming rumor is in theory a 232mm2 chip should provide ample room to put eight 1GB HBM1 stacks down. I mean poo poo, if Fury did so poorly and SK-Hynix has a ton of these HBM1 chips laying around and/or is still producing it, why not roll the tech onto a likely more successful chip? Seamonster posted:Even Hawaii die shrinks would be nice @ $200 and around 150-175 watts. We already know of its staying power for DX12 and the existing 8GB board designs from 390s would only speed production. Also, because gently caress 28nm and gently caress 1080p cards costing over $300 new. Wouldn't this still be considered a "new" chip though? Raja said only 2 new chips this year, likely demarcated into 450/460 and 470/480, so this likely has a lot to do with semantic fuckery if it happens, maybe to screw with Nvidia.
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I don't remember the exact order of the early cards but I had: Canopus Pure 3d - Voodoo 1 with 6mb ram and Svideo out! Matrox M3D - PowerVR Kyro II - More PowerVR with Tile Based rendering. Radeon 9800pro GTX275 GTX970 I remember that Unreal looked AMAZING on that M3D card.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:25
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Man, the Canopus Pure 3D was a kickass Voodoo card. 6mb!  RIP Canopus.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:55
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9800 GTX 660 TI, warrantied out for a 760 970
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Mar 17, 2016 21:21
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Not being a computer buff, I think we had: a 386 a pentium1 voodoo banshee some kind of nvidia hand-me-down from my brother bought in '07 I've been watching this guys videos. He seems to really know his stuff without fanboying. I link it because he actually has me thinking AMD has an edge moving into the next gen of cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7VCOgMZ9I
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Mar 17, 2016 21:27
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Gerard Butler's nerd cousin ya feckin weapon
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Mar 17, 2016 21:34
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Purgatory Glory posted:Not being a computer buff, I think we had: I hope so
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Purgatory Glory posted:I've been watching this guys videos. He seems to really know his stuff without fanboying. I link it because he actually has me thinking AMD has an edge moving into the next gen of cards: tl;dw but AMD is potentially in a good place for the next generation. Their cards do really well on DX12 so far - not just AOTS, Fury X is beating 980 Ti and 380 is beating 960 on Gears Of War Ultimate Edition - plus they've got Async Compute capability, which Maxwell does not (and probably never will). They already have a working arch using HBM, and they've demoed engineering samples of their next-gen chips (not HBM). Also, they're partnered with Samsung, who is truly a one-stop shop for electronics (or literally anything else from shipyards to appliances to building construction) - you can literally go from a pile of sand to finished boxed boards entirely in-house with Samsung if you want, and they have a huge amount of expertise building their own electronics. That's a huge advantage vs just having a GPU-die fab and having to go outside for wafers/memory/integration. Like, I would actually love to see Samsung buy out AMD because they could give Intel a serious race for its money, but that would trip the killswitch on AMD's x86 license, so a tacit partnership is OK. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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Mar 17, 2016 23:50
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Paul MaudDib posted:Like, I would actually love to see Samsung buy out AMD because they could give Intel a serious race for its money, but that would trip the killswitch on AMD's x86 license, so a tacit partnership is OK. Intel also loses AMD-x64 licensing rights as well. So if an acquisition did happen, they would literally have to renegotiate a new licensing deal. If my understanding of the situation is correct. Which had been started MULTIPLE times in this thread what would happen, but I'm too lazy to find it when phone posting.
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SlayVus posted:Intel also loses AMD-x64 licensing rights as well. So if an acquisition did happen, they would literally have to renegotiate a new licensing deal. No, it only terminates the rights of the purchased party.
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Mar 18, 2016 00:18
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Godspeed 980 Ti Hybrid on SA-Mart 
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Paul MaudDib posted:tl;dw but AMD is potentially in a good place for the next generation. Their cards do really well on DX12 so far - not just AOTS, Fury X is beating 980 Ti and 380 is beating 960 on Gears Of War Ultimate Edition - plus they've got Async Compute capability, which Maxwell does not (and probably never will). They already have a working arch using HBM, and they've demoed engineering samples of their next-gen chips (not HBM). Also, they're partnered with Samsung, who is truly a one-stop shop for electronics (or literally anything else from shipyards to appliances to building construction) - you can literally go from a pile of sand to finished boxed boards entirely in-house with Samsung if you want, and they have a huge amount of expertise building their own electronics. That's a huge advantage vs just having a GPU-die fab and having to go outside for wafers/memory/integration.     (courtesy OC3D: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gear_of_war_ultimate_edition_performance_retest_-_the_game_has_been_fixed/)
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Why are they capping frame rate? Does the game force it?
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Subjunctive posted:Why are they capping frame rate? Does the game force it? http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/tim-sweeney-to-microsoft-universal-windows-platform-can-should-must-and-will-die/ http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/02/microsoft-needs-to-stop-forcing-console-like-restrictions-on-windows-store-pc-games/
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Windows Store PC Games. Good, something I will never have to worry about because I'm never going to buy something from there.
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Another joyous advantage of UWP games, you can't stream them using any sort of desktop capture software, so I hope you haven't made a poor decision like I have, in making your primary 5K monitor a full desktop computer that doesn't support any sort of display input, and never will. Hmm, maybe I should sell this desktop Mac and buy some other desktop Mac that actually supports external displays. Or not. kode54 fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Hello welcome to the brave new world of Universal Windows Platform where the rules are: no mods, forced V-sync, no SLI or Crossfire support (for now), etc. Yawn. http://anandtech.com/show/10154/gdc-2016-tearing-freesyncgsync-support-coming-to-windows-uwp-apps They're working on adding tearing, freesync and gsync support.
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But I don't want tearing.
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xthetenth posted:Yawn. UWP is still pure trash, everything encrypted to hell and back, no moding and so on. They want to turn the PC into a Xbox with a keyboard and mouse, if they get any significant adoption of this poo poo I expect they will start charging monthly and yearly fees just to access basic things like multiplayer.
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kuroshi posted:Another joyous advantage of UWP games, you can't stream them using any sort of desktop capture software, so I hope you haven't made a poor decision like I have, in making your primary 5K monitor a full desktop computer that doesn't support any sort of display input, and never will. I am sorry, I can't parse this post. What does the lack of streaming have to do with your AIO computer not having any sort of external input?
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I stream video form a Windows tower to my AIO PC, which is apparently incompatible with that UWP crap.
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Stanley Pain posted:Windows Store PC Games. Good, something I will never have to worry about because I'm never going to buy something from there. Here's the rub: Microsoft wants to move everyone and everything to UWP, and deprecate Win32. In short, UWP is supposed to allow Microsoft to compile a program once and have it run on everything. But there are so many layers of abstraction, security, and state switching required, yes that's right, REQUIRED that when the entire point of PC gaming is to run as leanly as possible to squeeze every last drop out of your hardware, UWP's overhead is completely unacceptable. Reposting a relevent video explaining UWP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJF-T8-qXUM&t=3128s
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