Remembering the Old

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by Netgamer, Apr 22, 2008.

  1. CorNeLL

    CorNeLL Master Guru

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    Bad experience with a TNT2 M64 John? too bad i had this card and i totally loved it, i was able to play Half Life and Unreal Tournament maxed out! it gave me beautiful graphics and amazing FPS compared to the sh!tty SiS 620 IGP i had those days.
     
  2. John

    John Ancient Guru

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    Yes. I had to use one temporarily (borrowed one from a local computer store) for a few weeks while I waited for a new Geforce 2 to arrive, as my Voodoo 4 4500 card refused to work properly in my (then) new motherboard. The M64 was a huge step down from the awesome Voodoo card and had crap IQ in comparison. The Geforce 2 kicked ass though!
     
  3. Crossfire

    Crossfire Ancient Guru

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    You wanna f**king bet?!

    I'll pop it in sometime and get a screenshot to proove.

    ... If I can find it :3eyes:
     
  4. SirLink

    SirLink Ancient Guru

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    Don't have to be so hostile... Relax! :p
     

  5. Postalisback

    Postalisback Ancient Guru

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    I had a Vanta which was 16MB, so I would believe him that there was an 8MB version of the TNT2, considering the Vanta is built off the same chipset I believe.
     
  6. Mannerheim

    Mannerheim Ancient Guru

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    Heres crap for u xD
    SO SLOW.

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  7. Mannerheim

    Mannerheim Ancient Guru

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    Here is my second computer VGA ( S3 Virge 4MB ) / BS16 ( ISA ) and LAN.

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    Its yyber fast computer with 80MB edoram 60ns. and SIS chipset

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  8. fclage

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    There's a quick way to end this 8MB / 16MB / 32MB / 64MB doubt of that card.
    Just post the specification of the memory chips (the numbers and letters on top of the memory) -I couldn't decipher them from the snapshot you took.

    From the snapshot, you have 2 memory chips. One on the left and the other on top of the GPU.

    Each memory chip should have 2 or 3 lines of sequence of numbers and letters (they should have both the same reference).
    Please post them here EXACTLY as they are printed (spaces and everything) and we'll try to interpret them.

    // FCLage
     
  9. Dublin_Gunner

    Dublin_Gunner Ancient Guru

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    Yes there were.

    As John stated, there were 8mb TNT2 Vanta cards
     
  10. Netgamer

    Netgamer Ancient Guru

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    WOW i never imagined people still has 8 -64 mb cards they still use
     

  11. grunger

    grunger Ancient Guru

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    S3 Virge 3 - I think thats the first '3d' card i owned.
    Then a SIS 6326 - rubbish
    and then a Matrox Millenium G200 8MB - still in use
    Then a few Voodoos
    2 TNTs
    Geforce 2/MX
    Geforce 4/MX
    Geforce Ti4200 (Still in use)
    and onwards......

    but i owned plently of 2d cards before that - anyone remember #9 cards (Number9) or VESA slots (like ISA, but longer)
     
  12. LadiesMan32

    LadiesMan32 Guest

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    im new so i have no clue on how to attach a photo but my fav card was a BFG 7600GS OC 512mb AGP. man i miss that thing, i enjoyed it more than my 8800gt to be honest lol
     
  13. Dublin_Gunner

    Dublin_Gunner Ancient Guru

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    Certainly remember VESA slots. Had a 386SX 16 with one, and a 486 board with one too. I actually have a 486 board (by Shuttle) which has 2 or 3 ISA slots, no VESA
     
  14. tinonaama

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    The first card I remember having was the Diamond Monster 3D II... I think that's what it was... I am looking at this review at Guru and the box is the same.. Slick car there... I don't remember there being a game bundle though?

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  15. Netgamer

    Netgamer Ancient Guru

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    Ahhhh, all these old cards bring back the HL and Duke Nukem Days
     

  16. klambre

    klambre Ancient Guru

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    Bump

    Mega-huge sound card, like 9800GTX, the first one from Creative ?

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  17. Postalisback

    Postalisback Ancient Guru

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    Some nice stuff in this thread, I miss the 3DFX Voodoo Banshee I used to have, that card was great, playing Tomb Raider Chronicles at 640x480/800x600 so smooth, great times :)
     
  18. ShadowWolf555

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    I used to love this card :roll:

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    Sorry about the dual DVI :bash:
     
  19. SaberJ2X

    SaberJ2X Ancient Guru

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    wow, I'm gonna contribute to this thread since it makes me remember all those marvelous times

    First off....

    S3 Virge GX/2 4MB
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    it was a pile of **** made games run slower

    Guillemot TNT2 16MB 166Mhz edition
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    never worked in my PC

    Creative TNT2 32MB
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    Best art box ever...

    SiS Xabre 200 64MB
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    Biggest POS I've owned... slower than the mighty TNT2

    GF2 MX400 64MB
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    very good performance increase over the TNT2

    Asus Geforce FX 5600 128MB
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    Still working to this moment :D, but quickly replaced by...

    Leadtek A350 LX MyVIVO 128MB
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    Ran fine here up too 108c :p

    around this time I collected a piece of gaming history.... which is
    Obsidian X-24, single PCI SLI
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    sold it then for 280$

    eVGA 6800GT 256MB, and a copper heatsink I won
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    whyyyy did you die on meeeeeee.....

    then I got the 7800GT and finally the 8800GTX....
     
  20. Postalisback

    Postalisback Ancient Guru

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    Used to have one of those, except I must've had a reference model, since it had no cooling and was full-size.
     
  21. klambre

    klambre Ancient Guru

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    You guys are very modern ;)

    OAK technology, chip OTI077.

    16 Bits on ISA slot with 1024KB of VRAM, type DRAM :

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