My two creative Voodoo 2 sli with quake 2. The beginning of the end. Nothing will ever beat the feeling when opening a voodoo2 box for the first time. WITH 12MB of ram each !!!!
i hate to point you all to nexus's survey. I wanted to post it, but the bastard got there b4 me. Valve did a pretty good job and samples a sh-tload of computers. The 6600 is a CLEAR winner. Btw, when halflife 2 was out, the most popular was the geforce 4 mx 400. Sad but true. Noam
Beyond a doubt the Voodoo 2 was the card that made a gamer. SLI if you had the money. I don't know the sales figures from back then, but I do know it was the only way to play. Everything else was second rate at best.
Hercules MDA EGA VGA TSENG ET4000 S3 911/924/928/964/968/Trio64 Voodoo2 TNT/TNT2 GeForce2MX ATI 9700/9800 GeForce 6600
I was fan of Voodoo3 and wanted to get it but I end up getting Geforce 2mx which I thought was really nice card. Geforce ti 4200 because it is better than fx 5200. Iteven could match 5600NU and surprisingly it also beat 9800 pro in openGL games like COD I think.
I hope were talking about when people actually had a choice. Voodoo2 without a doubt #1 9800 is a distant second
I know there were a lot of ATI 7500s sold as well with their All-In-Wonder cards and whatnot. And the 9800 and 9600s are way up there too, had a 9800 Pro myself and it can still play games fairly well even considering it is several generations old. Still, Intel still has the greatest number of graphics accelerators on the market, even today. Although, technically their performance could very well be as a graphics decelerator, no? AMD is trying to tackle that now though with their new chipsets, and they might get a nice share before Intel goes DX10.
geforce 2 ULTRA geforce 3 ti geforce 4 ti radeon 9500 PRO rapeon 9700pro radeon 9800 geforce 6600Gt Geforce 6800GT geforce 7800GTX Geforce 8800GTX
7600gt was huge in the last year or so. 9800 pro can still play new games pretty well despite being like 5 years old or something like that. Pretty impressive. 9 series for ATI owned the FX! But for mainstreamers right now the 6600 is pretty clear.
edit that I think a lot of people HAVE a Geforce 2mx...here where i live, but even then, it shouldnt be regarded as popular since those that have it dont even know they do..(they just buy pre assembled PCs not minding whats inside the case) how can a 9800pro/xt be popular during its time when it was expensive? didnt they get popular when the x8xx and 6 series come out? hence they were popular past their prime
I think the geforce 6xxx series made nvidia what it is today. They were the first to include sm3. So most popular among gamers even today would probably be a 6xxx series card. I know there are still millions of people using these cards today. Actually the 6xxx series made the transition to sli for nvidia too.
