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gamerk316 Ha, fun times. Those of us on a budget had to live with the FX5500 instead :/ Although tbf, coming from a GeForce 2 MX 400, I thought it was the bomb at the time. Reply
M0rtis Oooh my first personal PC (non family common PC) had a Leadtek FX 5600. It worked pretty well but died in a year and a half only to be replaced by an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro which also only lasted long enough for my first playthrough of Oblivion. Knowing what I know now, maybe my shitty PSU was killing them off early. Reply
Notton If you want to see the other faces of the PC. I can't believe Shuttle still hosts these images. https://archive.shuttle.eu/2004/en/print_sn45g_duskndawn.htm Ah, that's nostalgic. The legendary? Shuttle SN45G. I never realized or may have forgotten they sold special editions of that case. nforce 1/2 were the chipsets that set AMD free from the death grip VIA KT266/333/400 chipsets had. You could reliably run them and suffer far fewer crashes, especially when overclocking. I think it was nforce2 which was one of the first where FSB could be run asynchronus to CPU clocks, making overclocking easier. As if that wasn't enough, you no longer needed a lead pencil to short some contacts on the CPU substrate for a fully unlocked CPU clock multipler. The sound quality, while no match for a soundblaster, was a huge improvement for onboard. The Nvidia drivers and software were far superior compared to VIA. SATA was just introduced, and you no longer had to play cable-origami with IDE ribbon cables for your HDD (Though SATA optical remained a rare beast for a while longer). Braided and detachable cables were not a thing that came stock, but the mod scene was just picking up on neatly organizing cables. RGB was not called RGB. Instead it was a single color neon CFL tube running off of a 15kVAC inverter integrated into a manual fan speed controller. There was no tempered glass, instead it was all transparent plastic… (If you want to see what that looked like… they show up in the movie Stealth (2005)) Geforce FX5950 was the fix for the infamous "Dust Buster" FX5800 Ultra. Both nvidia cards couldn't quite keep up to the ATI 9800 XT and 9700 Pro, respectively, at which point nvidia pulled some image quality optimizations shenanigans to try and win back the crown. Reply
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