ATI brand (GPUs, chipsets, graphics cards) to be retired
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I know, im just being nostalgic like the OP
Well, in that case, I miss my 512KB Oak Technology VGA Graphics card.
I think it's a great idea. Hopefully it will put a dent in the budget laptop/netbook market and make it possible to still get quality GPU power.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know they're planing on keeping the red boards? nVidia has the market on the green.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know they're planing on keeping the red boards? nVidia has the market on the green.
I know, im just being nostalgic like the OP
Well, in that case, I miss my 512KB Oak Technology VGA Graphics card.
Reading that review for the KYRO made me nostalgic. I used to have a GeForce 2 MX400!
Well, in that case, I miss my 512KB Oak Technology VGA Graphics card.
Well, I still have my one of my old Trident VGA cards (PCI, 1 meg) as on occasion, it has come in useful when one of the more advanced cards (or the slot for it) has gone wrong. I'd miss that if I didn't have it
I know, im just being nostalgic like the OP
Well, in that case, I miss my 512KB Oak Technology VGA Graphics card.
Reading that review for the KYRO made me nostalgic. I used to have a GeForce 2 MX400!
First 3D card I ever bought was a Diamond Voodoo Monster--a secondary and 3D-only card. I remember I bought it specifically so I could play Star Trek Armada with 3D acceleration.
First 3D card I ever bought was a Diamond Voodoo Monster--a secondary and 3D-only card. I remember I bought it specifically so I could play Star Trek Armada with 3D acceleration.
That's a bit of a mismatch, the Monster 3D 1 came out in 1996 and was 4 years old when Armada came out! The Voodoo3, which did both 2D and 3D was out in 1999.
I had both a Monster 3D 1 and later a 2. The former came with a Glide version of Mechwarrior 2 and the latter a Glide version of Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. It was perhaps one of the best things ever.
I remember running GLQuake for the first time and being blown away that you could see through the water!
First 3D card I ever bought was a Diamond Voodoo Monster--a secondary and 3D-only card. I remember I bought it specifically so I could play Star Trek Armada with 3D acceleration.
That's a bit of a mismatch, the Monster 3D 1 came out in 1996 and was 4 years old when Armada came out! The Voodoo3, which did both 2D and 3D was out in 1999.
I had both a Monster 3D 1 and later a 2. The former came with a Glide version of Mechwarrior 2 and the latter a Glide version of Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. It was perhaps one of the best things ever.
I remember running GLQuake for the first time and being blown away that you could see through the water!
I was a broke college kid with a 187MHz Pentium (yes, 187MHz) cobbled together out of whatever I could get my hands on.
Yeah, 3DFX was the shit back then. Opened up great 3D acceleration to a lot of gamers for the first time that didn't sacrifice performance.
My first card was a Voodoo3. I had been playing X-Wing Alliance for a month before I got it and the difference was staggering.
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I know, im just being nostalgic like the OP
Well, in that case, I miss my 512KB Oak Technology VGA Graphics card.
Reading that review for the KYRO made me nostalgic. I used to have a GeForce 2 MX400!
I still have one laying about somewhere in a box.
Well, in that case, I miss my 512KB Oak Technology VGA Graphics card.
Well, I still have my one of my old Trident VGA cards (PCI, 1 meg) as on occasion, it has come in useful when one of the more advanced cards (or the slot for it) has gone wrong. I'd miss that if I didn't have it
PCI, eh? None of that fancy stuff for me, ISA all the way. You haven't lived until you've played "Commander Keen" on a 13" EGA monitor.
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The cool thing about Fusion is that it should work out significantly cheaper than to buy a dedicated CPU and video card offering equivalent performance. Video cards feature so much dedicated RAM because they're hanging off the comparatively slothful and distant PCI-E bus. Under Fusion the GPU should be able to hit up system RAM without much of a performance hit. So most of the costs associated with the traditional video card arrangement (beyond the GPU itself, obviously) simply disappear. And of course, trading CPU cores for GPU cores is still pretty much a non-issue from a gaming perspective.
PCI, eh? None of that fancy stuff for me, ISA all the way. You haven't lived until you've played "Commander Keen" on a 13" EGA monitor.
My very first card was an ISA, but it went on me while still under guarantee. The engineer came out to have a look at it and didn't have one to swap, so stuck the PCI one he had in its place.
I wasn't going to complain
I think I also still have my twin voodoo 2's around and my Matrox G400 too. (On the chip side, the oddest one is probably a Pentium 83mhz that would slot in a 486 chip slot which I got for Wing Commander 4)
You know, I might be nostalgic about old computer games, but I find it hard to pine for ancient hardware. ISA can suck a fat one. The EGA palette was pitiful, to say nothing of CGA.
ISA can suck a fat one. The EGA palette was pitiful, to say nothing of CGA.
I purchased my first 3D card so I could play Descent:Freespace. I loved it. I think it was a 3dFx Voodo 3 although I can't swear to it.
Has ATI always been AMD ?
I ask because I used to have major issues with both ATI graphics & AMD CPU's.
This was in the late 90's, so I hope they got better, but I never went back to either "brand" since.
It's been Intel & nVidia for me.
I ask because I used to have major issues with both ATI graphics & AMD CPU's.
This was in the late 90's, so I hope they got better, but I never went back to either "brand" since.
It's been Intel & nVidia for me.
No, AMD bought them a couple years ago, I think. ATI was its own company for quite a long time. They used to have seriously shit drivers, but have improved quite a bit in recent years.