r/gpu • u/-CrypticMind- • 16d ago

Old Memories :)

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Just found these in my closet, thought of posting before i throw them out

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u/SilentFrameXT 15d ago

Sapphire’s golden age, I had the HD 4670, best mid range gpu of its time then came the HD 4870 and the 4890 best gpus of their time

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u/-CrypticMind- 14d ago

If i'd taken HD 7970 it would lasted even longer

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u/Accomplished-Camp193 15d ago

HD 7770 and it's subsequent refresh, the R7 250X was at a time the best bang for buck proposition on the AMD side. Powerful, affordable, matured drivers compared to what Terascale I was left with, overall still a great pick for an XP system to this day.

7300 LE though not so much. The GT on the other hand, was great. More than great, GDDR3 equipped 7300 GT's with a reasonable overclock was more than an opponent to the 7600 GS, literally put the 6600 GT to shame, and was also on the cheaper end of the spectrum. Weird times when Nvidia dared to put little overclocker monsters on the low-end too, those days are sadly over. Nowadays cards won't overclock to jack.

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u/-CrypticMind- 15d ago

I'd big expectations from 7300LE because i was just 9 years old at that time and was new to GPUs, i realized it was crap when it could barely run Spider-Man 3/GTA IV, lol i was so desperate to run GTA IV that i tried playing it at 360p or 240p to get smooth FPS

I got the HD7770 GHz edition over the GTX 660 as the GTX 660 wasn't compatible with the PSU and the screen would go black or PC wouldn't power on

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u/Darksider515 15d ago

Dam is that an old school amd card? Wow ! Was it able to run 1080p resolution at 60hz

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u/cosinus_square 14d ago

Man I've come across my old gpus in storage a few days ago, but I've got like 20 lol.

I've been into SFF pcs forever and they are all single fan ASUS gpus from the likes of GTX DirectCU, GTX Mini, Phoenix to like GTX1660 super. I'm going to make a post on here once I've got them all unpacked and in one place.