Yeah, I remember picking up an 8500LE at Comp USA and it was a great value especially once overclocked and this was my first real kind of side-grade from a mx400, which the gf4 mx series was a tricky for the same reasons, if you got the wrong one you got a slow card. I dislike sneaky marketing like …

I don't think you will get any disagreement from anyone here that a 128-bit bus is better than a 64-bit one . What I'm curious about is how much of a cost advantage it was for a manufacturer to put fewer higher density RAM chips for a 64-bit DDR SDRAM-based 128MB card versus more lower density RAM …

I've got quite a few cards based on the R200 core. People will often tell you that the Radeon 9000/92x0 cards are close the 8500LE or 8500, and that the 9100 is spot on. Something you'll want to keep in mind is memory bandwidth. My 64-bit 128MB Radeon 9250s are dwarfed by not only my Radeon 8500, …

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i would like to get a few missing from my timeline - I have a Riva 128 and a TNT2 ultra (needs repair), Geforce 2 MX400, but then the next i have is an FX5600, 6800GT, 7950GT OC, 8800GTS, 9800GTX+ ending the original naming scheme. Geforce 1, 3 and 4 along with a TNT1 would be good to have. AFAIK …

Probably going to make a nice, long updated post of this with photos. I've made huge acquisitions since then and lots to share!

Hi, I'm listing my retro video cards here. I'd like you guys to refer me to which cards to collect at the moment from these eras and what can be had for cheap that's quite cool. Anyways, here's what I've got currently Theres a lot of generational gaps I'd love to fill, but I'd like to see what you …