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Jabberwocky79 Coolest part for me was seeing the exact Antec case that I installed multiple GPUs in over the span of 15 years. I both loved and hated that case. It was such a pain in the butt to disassemble lol Reply
Roland Of Gilead That is pretty cool 🙂 I couldn't afford the GTX back then, and not even the 8800GTS 640. So, i waited and waited, and got my hands on the 512 GTS which was a beast, at least for my machines. I loved that card so much. It really made games shine. Reply
80251 $599 of 2006 dollars is equivalent to over a $1000 today. I couldn't afford any top tier Nvidia videocards back then and ATI was my go-to. 2006 was the year AMD bought out ATI. Reply
emike09 The 8800 really was a massive upgrade and major architecture shift. Took a while for developers to start fully taking advantage of shader cores instead of pixel pipelines. Impressive that the technology still exists in all modern GPUs, with RT/PT and DLSS being the next big architecture change. Had an 8800 GTS 320MB! It barely ran Crysis at 720p, but it could run it! Reply
alan.campbell99 Back when they were a consumer tech company rather than whatever tf they are now. Reply
vinay2070 8800GT 512MB was my first high end GPU that I could afford back then. I had just gotten into my first job and I bought it. Was very happy with its performance. At the same time changed from 17" CRT to 22" LCD. Both together, along with newly released Crysis was the most memorable gaming moments of my life. All because I had the Time, Money and most importantly, the interest and stress free environment to enjoy a game! Miss those days for sure 🙂 No AI, No netflix, No social media, No large corporates trying to eff you. Just me, friends and gaming. Reply
SkyBill40 I still have my MSI 8800 GTS 640 in a box. It was such a killer card for the time. Reply
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