Anyone else keep old GPUs forever?

[Mezzanine]

I tend to upgrade often so my old card still has considerable value and I sell them off.

That being said I wish I kept my 9800pro and X850XT.....loved those cards.

 

[Actaeon]

I don't keep any of my old cards around on purpose. I have a pair of 6950s I'm trying to sell if anyone wants them

Anyway, thinking back on some memorable purchases, this one stood out to me. My old 6800 GT from BFG (remember them? haha). I was just a teenager and saved much of my minimum wage paychecks to get one. I played Doom 3, Farcry 1, and a few other great games on it.

I remember thinking how high tech that cooler was because it had TWO fans. Look how small the fans and heatsink are compared to modern GPUs

 

[SlowSpyder]

I don't keep any of my old cards around on purpose. I have a pair of 6950s I'm trying to sell if anyone wants them

Anyway, thinking back on some memorable purchases, this one stood out to me. My old 6800 GT from BFG (remember them? haha). I was just a teenager and saved much of my minimum wage paychecks to get one. I played Doom 3, Farcry 1, and a few other great games on it.

I remember thinking how high tech that cooler was because it had TWO fans. Look how small the fans and heatsink are compared to modern GPUs

I had the same card, but the non-GT, non-Ultra. The 12 pixel pipe version, if I remember right mine was factory overclocked 25MHz, something like 325 - 350MHz in total. I was able to unlock to 16 pixel pipes and I want to say it'd hit ~380MHz. Anyway, that was it for me. Between that an my overclocked Duron and Athlon at the time, I could never leave anything at the factory settings again... there's no turning back for me (typing from a 5GHz+ FX and 1100MHz 7970). ;p

Oh yea, and I remember being slightly amazed the first time I saw the card installed, lights on a video card were new to me at the time. That blue glow with the copper... loved that card. Killed it eventually, though.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

I don't keep any of my old cards around on purpose. I have a pair of 6950s I'm trying to sell if anyone wants them

Anyway, thinking back on some memorable purchases, this one stood out to me. My old 6800 GT from BFG (remember them? haha). I was just a teenager and saved much of my minimum wage paychecks to get one. I played Doom 3, Farcry 1, and a few other great games on it.

I remember thinking how high tech that cooler was because it had TWO fans. Look how small the fans and heatsink are compared to modern GPUs

I had the same exact card! I still preferred (and prefer) my EVGA reference 6800 GT because it was a tad bit quieter. Mine died from artifacts, much like my EVGA one is now. It seems to be common for these 6800 GTs to die from artifacts and I think it may have something to do with the RAM.

 

[mojothehut]

I've kept all mine, I think they are some kinda works of art..

Voodoo 3 3500 PCI (omg Quake GL)
Geforce TNT
Geforce 2 GTS Pro
Geforce 4 ti 4200 (omg pixel shaders)
Geforce 6800 Ultra
ATi 9700 Pro (omg Doom 3 for the first time on this beast.. so beautiful)
ATi 4850
AMD 7950
Geforce 980Ti (current)

I have the GF2 GTS Pro running in a rig downstairs I use for Unreal Tournament and memories. AMD T-Bird 1.1ghz, 256mb ram, Windows ME!

 

[Zodiark1593]

I've an ATI Rage 2C sitting in my desk drawer.

 

[CP5670]

I generally put my old cards on ebay, but don't always get around to it so I have some leftovers lying around. I sold a bunch of my oldest ones to lavaheadache a while ago. I play old games a lot and used to keep at least one retro rig around for them, but over time have managed to get everything working properly on my main computer.

I had that BFG 6800GT too. That cooler was actually not very good and I think mine also died and needed a replacement at one point, but the lights and blue PCB looked way cool back then.

 

[n0x1ous]

I keep any card that was the top GPU (chip not sku) of its generation for office art. HTPC and midrange stuff I sell or re-purpose.

On the display shelf now are:

EVGA 8800GTS 640mb
BFG GTX 260 216 55nm
EVGA GTX 480
PNY GTX 780
Sapphire HD 7970
Diamond R9 290

The fury X and 980ti will eventually take their place up there as well.

 

[Face2Face]

Face2face, does that 9800 gx2 work? I wouldn't mind having another quad sli setup to mess around with. Could trade something

I'm sorry to say that it doesn't. I've tried to revive it a couple of times, only to have it get too hot then shut off.

I keep any card that was the top GPU (chip not sku) of its generation for office art. HTPC and midrange stuff I sell or re-purpose.

On the display shelf now are:

EVGA 8800GTS 640mb
BFG GTX 260 216 55nm
EVGA GTX 480
PNY GTX 780
Sapphire HD 7970
Diamond R9 290

The fury X and 980ti will eventually take their place up there as well.

Very cool. I'd like to see a picture of that shelf.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Some are collectibles to me, eg. :

Canopus Pure3D
Canopus Pure3D II
Canopus Spectra 2500
Tseng Labs ET6000
S3 Virge (don't laugh )

 

[n0x1ous]

I'm sorry to say that it doesn't. I've tried to revive it a couple of times, only to have it get too hot then shut off.



Very cool. I'd like to see a picture of that shelf.

I'll snap one tonight for you!

In the meantime I have a few oldies on my display shelf at work to tide you over.

2 XFX 8800 GTS 320 (1 naked, 1 fully clothed)
naked XFX 7950 GT

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[moonbogg]

What about donating it to poor gamers on these boards? Better someone uses them they them rotting in a box. I am sure someone would love 670 level of performance from their old GTX450/HD5670.

My ass is pretty poor after buying all the crap in my sig and I need to fund a Skylake-E build. Maybe I better sell them, but if I don't, how would I go about finding someone to donate them to?

 

[Leyawiin]

I have a couple GTX 670's that I haven't bothered to sell yet. Probably get about $50.00 each. Not worth the effort to box them up really.

You should be able to get $80-$90 for those (maybe a bit more). Seems worth the trouble to sell them.

 

[Tuna-Fish]

True true!

I keep confusing it with my Q9550!

It always fascinates me how much longer cpus last over gpus.

They didn't use to last any longer, but the performance gain has been comparatively pretty bad since Core 2.

 

[moonbogg]

You should be able to get $80-$90 for those (maybe a bit more). Seems worth the trouble to sell them.

Yeah I just realized that. They are EVGA FTW models so I will hopefully get $100 each. Def worth it. Money will go toward Skylake-E build OR I'LL JUST WASTE IT ON SOME OTHER CRAP FIRST.

 

[MagickMan]

Still have my original Hercules monochrome card, and every card since, packed away in a closet (or in use, if it's still current).

 

[poofyhairguy]

My Voodoo 2 is my oldest card. I didn't really game for a decade so there is a gap.

 

[john3850]

Early GPUs that I kept
3dfx 4meg Diamond the best
3dfx Voodoo2 12 MB x2 STB
3dfx Voodoo3 3500
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

GF 7900 sli until Evga sent a 7950 rma which cant do sli with a 7900.
GeForce 7950 GX2 Evga useless card
GeForce 8800gtx

Ati 9700
Ati 9800
Ati Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition second best
Ati 4890 HIS

 

[HurleyBird]

I typically keep the 2nd newest as a backup, and then donate cards that are older than that to friends/family.

 

[lavaheadache]

Early GPUs that I kept
3dfx 4meg Diamond the best
3dfx Voodoo2 12 MB x2 STB
3dfx Voodoo3 3500
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

GF 7900 sli until Evga sent a 7950 rma which cant do sli with a 7900.
GeForce 7950 GX2 Evga useless card
GeForce 8800gtx

Ati 9700
Ati 9800
Ati Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition second best
Ati 4890 HIS

That x800xt pe is a rare card. What is your address and what day's aren't you home? =P

 

[frozentundra123456]

I just threw away a bunch of old cards. Wish I hadn't because now I need one with a VGA out for my TV.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That x800xt pe is a rare card. What is your address and what day's aren't you home? =P

I wish I had kept my NV-1 card. Yes, the first video card / GPU (though they weren't called that back then) that they had ever made. The one that almost bankrupted the company, because it turned out not to be DirectX API compatible. (It used quads, rather than tris.)

 

[SimianR]

I don't know what it is, but I find it difficult to sell off old graphics cards. The ones that can't be repurposed or are too old to play games I just keep in a box under my workbench. I'm certainly no hoarder, but when it comes to GPUs, I make an exception.

Off the top of my head, in no particular order, I still have my:

ATI Fury Maxx
NVIDIA Geforce 256 DDR
ATI AIW X800
ATI HD3850
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT (softmod to Quadro FX 3500, still in use for an old Windows XP CAD system)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
NVIDIA GTX 470 (still in service)
ATI HD6870 (just retired)

I take that back, I did sell off a couple classics when I was strapped for cash - I deeply regret selling my Voodoo card, but I don't regret selling my Matrox G400 at all. I also recall having a TNT, a Rage card, and a GeForce 3 at one time, but I'm not sure where those are...

I keep thinking that I'm going to build an old DOS gaming machine or Windows 98 machine, but never do.

You should try to get that ATI Fury Maxx working again. I remember back in the day people saying it was hard to get that card working even then But that when it did work it worked pretty well. Run some Quake 3 benchmarks on Windows 98 :thumbsup:

 

[therealnickdanger]

You should try to get that ATI Fury Maxx working again. I remember back in the day people saying it was hard to get that card working even then But that when it did work it worked pretty well. Run some Quake 3 benchmarks on Windows 98 :thumbsup:

All I remember about that Maxx is that it came with Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed and being underwhelmed.

 

[jardows]

Some are collectibles to me, eg. :

S3 Virge (don't laugh )

I thought I'd be the only one!

Still have my original Hercules monochrome card,

You win!