Show your oldest video cards you still have.
WHY ARE YOU HOARDING EM?
not pictured (evga 770 gtx in a machine and gtx 640 in another machine.
main rig rolling 2070 and radeon rx580.
Old cards .. show em!
Austin Wood
Logan Watson
Radeon HD 4350, Radeon HD 6450 Silent, GeForce FX 5200, Quadro FX 3450
Not pictured: GeForce FX 5700, GeForce 7300 LE, and GeForce GT 710
Main computer has a GTX 960
Keeping the old cards because I like old hardware and they might come in handy if I want to soup up an old machine a bit.
Easton Wood
>FX5200
The amount of WoW I played on that thing.
Lincoln Clark
>old cards .. show em
Matthew James
Wyatt Lee
I hoard AGP cards because they're becoming rare. Some stupid zoomer will probably pay an arm and a leg for them 10 years from now.
Cooper Lopez
AMD 7970 is the oldest I have. I spilled water on it so I don't think it's worth anything.
Nolan Morgan
Stock photo because it's actually in my system, connected to my secondary (VGA) monitor.
I also have a HD5970 sitting around because muh last card that carried ATI branding.
Jeremiah Nguyen
This is a small fraction of my hoard. I think I have around 70 AGP and early PCIE cards stored in my closet.
Henry Lewis
Man I had an Asus GTS250 with that cooler, that thing was loud as all hell.
Anthony Williams
Still have these unopened
Thomas Lopez
my first ever video carad was a gtx 1070
Logan Watson
I started collecting some graphics cards with waifus on them a few years back.
I kinda stopped.
I was eyeing some old Diamond Joker series cards cuz waifus
Aaron Peterson
actually my mistake, it was Club3D joker
Jason Perez
You people are either fucking retarded collectors or just retarded. ALWAYS sell your old shit to fund your upgrade. ALWAYS. Between selling my i7-6700k setup and the credit card reward points I used to buy the parts I actually "made" money.
Christopher Taylor
>Having an Intel CPU in your main computer
>Using a credit card
Good goy.
Christopher Kelly
Just plain fucking retarded, then.
Lucas Brown
Gpus are one thing I actually sell.
Noah Rivera
Connor Perez
>Between selling my i7-6700k setup and the credit card reward points I used to buy the parts I actually "made" money.
you didn't
Adam Adams
The 5970 is the only one I actually bought because it's a piece of tech history.
The 9400GT I got for free and I keep it around because it's passively cooled, it "just werks" and my main GPU doesn't have an analog out.
My GTS250 I sold to a friend for 10 bucks, where it's still in use, and I got 100 bucks back for my 270X after I bought my 290.
James Perry
I'm I didn't buy any of the cards I have except the 960 for my main machine. All the other ones I have were either given to me for free, came in old prebuild machines I was given for free, or my parents' basement where they'd been sitting for years. The 960 is the first card I've ever bought.
>t. zoomer
You're right, that's why I'm starting to buy AGP and PCI cards now.
Logan Perry
this isnt all of them, theres way more
notable ones in my collection:
Gainward 1gb 8800GT Bliss Golden Sample
Palit 1gb 8800GT Sonic
Quadro FX 5600 (8800 ultra with 1.5gb of vram)
The Asus Radeon HD 4870x2 TOP edition was sold recently to a new owner for a fuckload of money
Duke Nuke Forever special edition GTX 560 from EVGA
EVGA Geforce4 ti 4600 ACS2
A pre-mass production Radeon x1650 pro AGP with GDDR3 instead of DDR2, it doesnt help performance at all.
MSI Radeon 9250 with the MSI logo shaped heatsink
PNY 7800GS AGP was sold as was the 7950GS (best ever made agp card, one of the last)
1.7gb Sparkle GTX 275
A lot of this stuff was sold or sent to new owners, theres still a fairly sizeable collection, i dont have much of it on display anymore as i had to downsize it.
I originally started collecting weird GPUs after i got my hands on a few rare ones i bought for the lols. Theyre interesting because a lot of the concepts for these cards existence at all are something you dont see anymore. The 1gb 8800gt's are equivalent to a modern day GTX 1060 but if you had 8gb of vram and it clocked to match a 1070. There is no reason to call it an 8800GT besides the fact that it technically isnt an 8800GTX.
Ive got a lot of other hardware too thats a bit odd. TMD fan based coolers, TEC based coolers, motherboards with PCIe and AGP that support Q6600's and DDR1/2 at the same time, old super high end socket 478 stuff, an ultra x-connect modular psu from 2004 in its box, etc
James Robinson
pic related
not an old GPU, but its my favorite piece in my collection
i just love the concept
>some suit calls in a meeting at Ultra
>"retards keep cutting up their power supplies and making custom molex adapters and painting shit chrome"
>"how do we capitalize off of it"
>UV
>GREEN
>METALLIC GLOSSY TITANIUM
>WINDOWS AND LED FANS
>M O D U L A R C A B L E S
and just like that, ultra was 10 years ahead of the game
Jayden Fisher
>ALWAYS sell your old shit to fund your upgrade. ALWAYS.
eh, maybe with video cards, but with mobos, CPUs, and RAM I've just kept them in service when I upgraded. That way I don't have one machine that I do everything on and if it has problems I'm fucked. It's nice having a separate desktop, gaming machine, NAS, server, and router. Side effect of this is that I keep shit long enough that it's not worth anything second-hand anyway. How much would you pay for a dual-core 65nm Pentium on a P45 board? Thought so. It's running my NAS and resilvering a shonky drive right now.
Cooper Bennett
some particularly desirable old cards are worth a lot of money and are worth holding onto
obviously dont buy old gpus with the "sit on gold" mentality, but ive sold a few rare variants of G80 and G92 cards i got on ebay for cheap for way more than i paid for them
these days it doesnt matter much
if youre upgrading from fermi refresh or kepler or something your card isnt worth much, better to keep it around for the lols than sell a 750ti for 40 bucks
Brody Phillips
I have two MDA XTs but I guess the oldest standalone card I have would probably be an ATI VIP.
Levi Carter
If I wanted to I could go into the basement and dig up the Hercules card from the xt I have stored down there. But I don't want to put in the effort.
Ryan Turner
>Hoarders show your useless shit! Ah, do you need a shovel?
Ryan White
>Metal parts on the case that don't seem to be grounded
Is that even legal?
Jaxon Perez
>GTX550ti
>GTX660
>GTX950
Not worth selling now, just keeping incase something breaks
Camden Torres
Those are some big chips!
Matthew Moore
I'm hoarding a couple of these until people start getting more inclined to buy them. It's an odd situation where they're really hard to find at the moment yet nobody wants to pay more than 40$ for one.
Charles Davis
Cooper Barnes
You can still buy that exact model of HD6450 new as an R5 230 - I believe it's an identical card except for the box.
Aaron Gonzalez
Cool idea nice thread.
Jackson Thompson
>no cards with boobs on them
ah, a man of culture
Justin Diaz
I think I still have a matrox parhelia 512 somewhere.
Christian Hernandez
Blake Nelson
Top: Prolink nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB
Bottom: ASUS ATi Radeon 9600 SE 128MB
In retrospect, the Ti 4200 was pretty comfy. However I was trying to use it to play 2007 era games in an era where DirectX 10 was on the scene. Alas, it had to go.
The Radeon 9600 Slow Edition can do DX9 and has adequate support for OpenGL 2, however it is gimped by its 64 bit memory interface. r300 Linux drivers keep it usable in 2019 for daily tasks.
Kayden Watson
>for you
Jayden Morales
Only ever upgraded video cards every 4-5 years but I dont think any of them will ever top the dramatic performace leap going from a geforce 4 mx card to this fucking beast.
Tyler Harris
Christopher Ross
oh, and forgot these ones
Jace Nguyen
I got an almost new FX5950 ultra for almost nothing
Apparently collectors pay hundreds for this crap on ebay
Benjamin Butler
Why is it packaged like that?
Elijah Perry
Why do some cards have to look so autismic
Connor Edwards
Camden Johnson
John King
My favorite!
Joshua Lopez
>Acumos AVGA1, now THAT was a good GPU
But seriously, this thing isn't bad at all for a 286
Elijah Ramirez
Because it's from a local public collection.
Ethan Morgan
Nathan Smith
Jonathan Fisher
Logan Mitchell
GeForce 256
Cooper Hill
this is fine.
Jace Reyes
What are you using them for?
Aiden Thomas
everything.