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Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

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First post, by DosFreak

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Since we live in the darkest timeline I was wondering how many of us are managing with old video cards on new systems.
Currently playing through Days Gone around 50fps at 3840x1600 with max settings with Gsync compatible on my LGN 38GN95B. Working pretty well.

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Reply 1 of 52, by BitWrangler

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Where's the old GPU?

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Reply 2 of 52, by bloodem

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Well, this is pretty easy. Any GPU will work fine on any modern PC, as long as:
1. It's a PCI Express video card
2. it has Windows 10 drivers (although, I think forcing a Windows 7 driver might work too... sometimes).

I myself tested a GTX 285 on a modern PC and it worked perfectly (well... not perfectly, but it worked). 😀
I think nVIDIA provides Windows 10 drivers for cards starting with the 8xxx series... so pretty old.

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Reply 3 of 52, by konc

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My 750Ti strongly disagrees that your 1080 is old.
(also stuck with an LGA1155 CPU from 2011 so next upgrade will cost a lot...)

Reply 4 of 52, by bloodem

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Once you upgrade, your current one will be an awesome Windows XP retro PC, though. 😀

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Reply 5 of 52, by fosterwj03

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I just bought a used GTX 960 for my Gateway 2000 sleeper build (Core i7-11700 in a LPX-style case) at market price since I can't get a RTX 3060 for a reasonable amount. It should work much better than the integrated graphics once my PCI-E riser arrives from China.

Reply 6 of 52, by paradigital

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bloodem wrote on 2021-06-05, 14:53:
Well, this is pretty easy. Any GPU will work fine on any modern PC, as long as: 1. It's a PCI Express video card 2. it has Windo […]
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Well, this is pretty easy. Any GPU will work fine on any modern PC, as long as:
1. It's a PCI Express video card
2. it has Windows 10 drivers (although, I think forcing a Windows 7 driver might work too... sometimes).

I myself tested a GTX 285 on a modern PC and it worked perfectly (well... not perfectly, but it worked). 😀
I think nVIDIA provides Windows 10 drivers for cards starting with the 8xxx series... so pretty old.

Or indeed a PCI video card, again if there are available drivers.

I seem to recall there are Matrox Parhelia drivers for Win7, so I should be able to use my PCI-X Parhelia in a regular PCI slot in Win10.

Reply 7 of 52, by ultimate386

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My main rig, a Haswell i7, has a couple of standard PCI slots. One of these days I'll drop in my PCI Voodoo5 for giggles.

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Reply 8 of 52, by pete8475

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DosFreak wrote on 2021-06-05, 13:57:

GPU: ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti DirectX 12 STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING 11GB

Old???

I'm using a GTX980TI with 6GB of memory.

Reply 9 of 52, by The Serpent Rider

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Nvidia Fermi cards can still work somewhat decently. Can't say that for first AMD DirectX11 cards, once AMD inproduced GCN family of chips, they've fallen from grace pretty quickly. Something like Radeon 7970 still works fine.

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Reply 10 of 52, by Standard Def Steve

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That's similar to my system. I, too, run a 1080 Ti on a Zen 3 based system (Ryzen 9 5900X locked at 5GHz all-core). As much as I'd love to upgrade to a 3090, I don't really consider my 1080 Ti to be that old yet. It still plays well enough on my 3440x1440 monitor, but absolutely hates it when I bring the machine downstairs for some big screen flight simming with a 4096x2160 projector.

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Reply 11 of 52, by kjliew

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konc wrote on 2021-06-05, 15:19:

My 750Ti strongly disagrees that your 1080 is old.
(also stuck with an LGA1155 CPU from 2011 so next upgrade will cost a lot...)

It is just one's way of rubbing something to one's face by calling 1080 old. 🤣 I thought he had a RTX2070 and would probably call it old, too.

bloodem wrote on 2021-06-05, 15:27:

Once you upgrade, your current one will be an awesome Windows XP retro PC, though. 😀

The current one is already an awesome Windows 98/2K/ME/XP VM for retro Windows games for **CENSORED**

Reply 12 of 52, by adalbert

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I have 1050Ti and i7 6700k, but I guess that's an... old card on an old system? 😁 (is fine for me anyway)

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Reply 13 of 52, by debs3759

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i7 6700K and GTX 1060 here. Until last month my main PC was socket FM1 with an RX 580.

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Reply 14 of 52, by pete8475

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kjliew wrote on 2021-06-05, 17:18:

The current one is already an awesome Windows 98/2K/ME/XP VM for retro Windows games for **CENSORED**

I wonder what could possible have been censored here.

Reply 15 of 52, by mwdmeyer

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I've got a GTX 1080 (non-Ti) in my Ryzen 5600x.

I purchased the 1080 back when I got my Ryzen 1600. So about 3 years old or so.

If the 3070/3080 was available at RRP I would have upgraded, but no chance with these current prices, the 1080 still works great, and I'm mostly playing games from 2007 anyway, haha!

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Reply 16 of 52, by BitWrangler

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I feel like I may as well wait for the 9000 now though 😉

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Reply 17 of 52, by dionb

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I've run an ATi Small Wonder (CGA/Hercules) in a 12-year younger P3 system. Worked quite nicely.

Reply 18 of 52, by Bruninho

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Well, yesterday I found an old ATi Radeon X1950 Pro (512mb) buried in our old stuff. Wonder if it is still any useful. Definitely not going to use it, though.

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