What's your GPU history?

[SoldierScar]

What GPUs did you ever own (including laptop chips)?
Here is my road so far, i also add the year i bought it:

2009 - My first laptop ever - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 256MB
2013 - My second laptop - NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 2GB
2016 - My first real gaming pc - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
2019 - GPU upgrade - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB
2020 - GPU upgrade - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

Share your road, also happy new year!

[xSOSxHawkens]

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I still have a functional DFi LanParty nForce Nf4 Ultra Socket 939 booting with an Athlon 64x2 4800+ and 4GB of DDR400 (~3.2gb addresable due to chipset limit not x86 limit).

Wouldn't mind seeing pictures of it, and please tell me it's got that Zalman circular aftermarket fan that was all the craze back then. The days before large tower heatsink coolers for CPUs.

I wish I had the zalman, but its actually rocking a Prism Max :) s939 uses the same retention method, so any modern AM* cooler using the clip method will still work for legacy builds. Just nothing with through holds or back plates, as s939 is two hole only. And nothing *insane* in weight, as the two extra holes added were to add to weight bearing limits lol.

Considering a Prism Max/Prime is comparable to a Hyper 212, and is rated for fairly high TDP uses (in terms of a stock cooler) its about comparable to the high end units of the time anyways.

I dont have pics, but I can try and get some for you, in the mean time, heres a validated FireStrike run a socket 939 build!

https://www.3dmark.com/fs/18483722

Might be one of the only modern 3dmark runs validated on a DFi LanParty motherboard (fully ID'd as a DFI LP nF4)...

[Illusion of Progress]

Amazing how some of this new stuff sometimes has methods to work on stuff as LGA775 or even socket 939 which is very old now. It was the Core 2 that got Intel up to AMD (sort of how Ryzen now got AMD up to Intel) but since Sandy Bridge, there was that big stagnation era. CPUs and platforms had staying power so I guess that's why.

Shame they're not around anymore. Just goes to show that in a saturated market, even a quality brand can fall. Just looked them up and they had a nice looking board as late the LGA775/X48 chipset days, so I wonder what kept me away from them when I went for Asus with my Maximus Formula (the original, before we had these "gamer" and "roman numerals" added on, haha). You didn't really see people recommending them post socket 939 days come to think of it, so you might have one their last boards from when they were the thing to have, so to speak.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

sis 620 - first pc from 2000
mobile intel graphics 4 - laptop from 2007
amd radeon hd 7310 desktop from 2012
gtx 960 - gtx 1060 desktop 2015
gtx 1050 - vega 8 laptop from 2020