Those were probably the worst cards Nvidia ever made. I probably would have switched to ATI if I had owned those too.Agreed! Still sporting a crossfire of those cards and nuking BF3 on ultra!
I myself have very fond memories of my GeForce FX 5200, 8600 GT and MSI 9800 GTX+ (when I bought that card, I thought that that cooler was THE beast).
Then I made the leap to ATI (now AMD) 5870 and never looked back.
Ya the fx 5200 and 8600GT were very horrible cards to my knowlage and due to my ownership of the 9800GTX+ which is a re branded and "slightly" OCed 8800GTX they sucked and were expensive hot and loud to boot.Those were probably the worst cards Nvidia ever made. I probably would have switched to ATI if I had owned those too.
Those were probably the worst cards Nvidia ever made. I probably would have switched to ATI if I had owned those too.
GTX 460 1GB
Voodoo 2
Radeon 9700 PRO
GTX 8800
The Voodoo 5 6000 never made it to market, due to a severe bug resulting in data corruption on the AGP bus on certain boards, and was limited to AGP 2x. It was thus incompatible with the then-new Pentium 4 motherboards. Later tests proved that the Voodoo 5 6000 outperformed not only the GeForce 2 GTS and ATI Radeon 7200, but also the faster GeForce 2 Ultra and Radeon 7500. In some cases it was shown to compete well with the GeForce 3, trading performance places with the card on various tests.[12] However, the prohibitively high production cost of the card, particularly the 4 chip setup, external power supply and 128 MB of VRAM (a very large amount at the time), would have likely hampered its competitiveness.
Were those not the rude and crude 9800 GX2 LOL those were a very rough card.I've always had a special place in my heart for the GX2 cards
Don't know about the 9700 Pro or Voodoo cards but the 9600GT was a junker.Riva TNT
GeForce 2 MX
9700 Pro
Voodoo 2 SLi
8800GT/X
GeForce 2 MX purely because they were cheap & everywhere. Honourable mention for the 9600GT, GTX 460, 5770 & 5870.
The 9600GT was fast for its specs and cheap.Don't know about the 9700 Pro or Voodoo cards but the 9600GT was a junker.
I guess if the price was right however I was never really blown away by even the 8800GT or the 8000GTX or the 9800GTX+ so anything less to me would have been not worth it specially cause I was gaming @ 1080P back in those days. I guess thats more or less my own personal experience and opinion more than anything but none of the cards back then have the staying power of the more modern cards such as the nvidia 4xx series and radeon 58xx series.The 9600GT was fast for its specs and cheap.
I heard those punch-cards have pretty good graphicsBuncha youngsters.
Hercules Graphics.
The compute oriented GF100 cards (GTX 480, 470, 465) were power consuming beasts, but GF104 was actually a very sensible mid-range option.Wasn't the 4 series generally Nvidias messed up attempt at striking back at AMD's 5 series? They came out much later, were marginally faster, much hotter, power inefficient and louder... The 560 would be a much "worthier"chouice, don't you think?
Buncha youngsters.
Hercules Graphics.
IBM EGA
IBM VGA
IBM 8414
S3 770
Voodoo Graphics
TNT 2
Geforce
ATI 9700
Nvidia 6800
Nvidia 8800
ATI 4000 Series
The first four weren't 3D...
And how could one not mention Matrox Millennium?! Best 2D on the desktop for 21" users.
Tseng was also quite good in the 90s. VESA Local Bus, baby!
Wasn't the 4 series generally Nvidias messed up attempt at striking back at AMD's 5 series? They came out much later, were marginally faster, much hotter, power inefficient and louder... The 560 would be a much "worthier"chouice, don't you think?
GTX 460 was/is one of Nvidias best cards they ever made period.Nah, the gtx 460 was the refresh of Fermi and really took it to another level.
How about the Matrox Parhelia? It never really got much traction but the concept was good, (3 monitors on a single card) and wasn't until recent years that it was revisited and implemented on a wider, more successful scale.
They missed their mark to cover both grounds - professional 2D with 3D. The Ti 4600 annihilated it in 3D.
It was an interesting card for sure but expensive and everyone just forgot about it and last time I checked, Matrox as well. :'(
AMD and nvidia have a lock on the market and we will never see any other real competition unless that competition is in part owned by AMD or nvidia which is a real dam shame IMHO.Yeah, I know. It was Matrox's half hearted attempt into getting into the gaming segment and while it was somewhat competitive with ATI/nVidia when it first came out, which I believe was in the GeForce 3 era, it wasn't long before the GF 4's came out and completely destroyed it and Matrox never bothered to pursue that segment again.