my friend's brother thought mine was a blow-up doll. 'is that a blow up doll? albatron g-force 6800GT edition?'
Man that sure brings back memories. The ones around this era (Nvidia 6xxx and 7xxx) are the most memorable for me by far.
I also remember going to a store and looking at the shelves back in 2004 and seeing some 9800 Pro and XT boxes with a Half-Life 2 coupon (anybody else remember this?). I'm pretty sure they carried that coupon over to the X series once they got released. I used to drool for the 9800 Pro and XT so hard.
I had the misfortune of owning both a Celeron 2.4 and an FX 5600 XT, two gigantic POS that somebody else set up for me since I was way too young. I grabbed a second hand Northwood 2.8 and a Gainward 7600GS AGP Golden Sample, which brings me to my next point.
That Gainward card kicked ass! Here's the box:
and here's the card itself
which had a very unique design. Looking at it now I cringe at the thought of the fan speeding up .
This box brings back so many memories, I was so excited when I was buying this card, it was the first GPU I ever bought with my own money.
Turns out, I made the right choice, the Golden Sample part used GDDR3 memory, much like the 7600GT, unlike most cards that went with the cheaper but far slower DDR2. I managed to clock this baby up to 7600GT or very close at least, played a lot of Elder Scrolls Oblivion that week :biggrin:.