Do You Remember AGP?

[timtheman678]

Does anybody remember the old AGP cards? I used to really love those cards. In my old computer I had a Nvidia FX 5600. Those card didn't have heatsinks or anything. And they were really durable, they can even run minecraft and be somewhat playable. This isn't a question, it is just a statement which takes you back to the days when computing power was limited. Does anyone else remember the time where you got that high end video card on Christmas day? Those were great times. Merry Christmas.

Tim

 

[swifty_morgan]

6800gt here. last one I owned. first was a kyroII.

 

[giantbucket]

I remember buying a SoundBlaster PCI512 sound card for unknown reasons, and I did at one point buy a Diamond card but can't recall if it was ATI or nVid, but it WAS the AGP interface! before this year, the most high-end thing I bought (for its time) was a Pentium2-300, which was the second-highest speed of the time (highest was the 333). it was a prebuilt HP Pavilion. oh, then I went super-fast with an Adaptec SCSI card for my HP slide scanner (35mm film stuff), which did an insane 2400dpi!!!!! and since SCSI was awesome, I bought a Yamaha cd burner with a SCSI interface.

 

[CepheiA]

The first computer i built 10 years ago, which is sitting beside me, has a GeForce 6800 inside of it.

Happy Holidays.

 

[stormworm]

Don't remember model, but still have nvidia card with 32mb RAM in old PC.

 

[ingtar33]

have an hd 3850 still chugging along... loud as a hairdryer... but still good to go.

 

[pauls3743]

Remember?

Still have a Pentium3 1.4GHz with 1GB 133MHz ram and Geforce 3 Ti 200 64mb ready to go. Still have a Voodoo 3 16Mb kicking about somewhere as well. But the big question is, do you remember the older graphics cards which ran on the PCI bus like the Voodoo 2's, or the earlier Banshee?

 

[giantbucket]

the REAL question is - do you remember having to decide between amber monitors or green monitors? this is pre-CGA, circa 1984, when hooking up to an XT. hard drives? ha! Floppy drive A: and B: is all you had. 5-1/4" stuff that didn't really fit anywhere. sure, there were 8" but not for home use...

 

[Z1NONLY]

the REAL question is - do you remember having to decide between amber monitors or green monitors? this is pre-CGA, circa 1984, when hooking up to an XT. hard drives? ha! Floppy drive A: and B: is all you had. 5-1/4" stuff that didn't really fit anywhere. sure, there were 8" but not for home use...

I had a TI 99 IIRC and I had a couple friends with Commodore 64's. Also used some apple II-e's in school.

 

[smeezekitty]

Sure. do you remember the days before hardware 3d acceleration?
I collect old machines especially 486 era

 

[giantbucket]

the REAL question is - do you remember having to decide between amber monitors or green monitors? this is pre-CGA, circa 1984, when hooking up to an XT. hard drives? ha! Floppy drive A: and B: is all you had. 5-1/4" stuff that didn't really fit anywhere. sure, there were 8" but not for home use...

I had a TI 99 IIRC and I had a couple friends with Commodore 64's. Also used some apple II-e's in school.

first time I ever saw or used a computer was in grade 3, something called a logo or a turtle. I think it was made by apple.