Back when PC hardware really stood out.

Good old Logan...

You literally were a god among gods when this thing was around.

I owned one of those. Not really sure what you are trying to say. Are you talking about the graphic art on the side of the card or it's performance? I have seen better art on the side of a card and todays cards stand out more today than that card did when it launched.

It was the epitome of enthusiast graphics back then, and reigned king for such a long time.....

Just good memories :D

Are you not now?

It does not have the effect that the 8800GTX had, that is the point ;)

8800GTX was mega.

I owned a rivia TNT and a voodoo 1 with 4mb. You guys must be new.

Says who?

Geforce 3, and 4, and ATI 9700, and 9800, were better days... Those days stood out more, than what we have now. The 8800 GTX was a very powerful card for its time though.

Says history.

Name a single card to have such an effect than the 8800GTX from recent times.

The closest i can really think of was the Radeon 4870, purely from it's spectacular price/performance.

Before then the VooDoo cards were mega.

lmao logan

The ati radeon 9800 pro will forever be the greatest video card.

Ah okay, now I understand what you were trying to say and I agree. Card lasted a long time due to how it compared to consoles and how graphics weren't being pushed for awhile there.

You aren't answering the question. I say that taking the jump from 1080p'ish, to 5400x1920, is a considerable jump. What basis are you using to measure?

Talking graphics cards here lundy........ not resolutions lol.

Yeah right OP.. Maybe if you weren't an AMD peasant you would see PC hardware stands out more than ever. If you run Intel+Nvidia at least

They aren't mutually exclusive.

Such a shame, as i do run Intel+Nvidia and AMD+AMD machines lol.

Running intel+AMD right now though with 2 290's, i was on a 5850 a couple of days ago though as my GTX 480 crapped out on me.

This is my current intel rig, but a few changes, this was GTX 480 SLi on a MSI motherboard, i changed to a EVGA Z68 SLi as the board crapped out on me causing memory failure.

And i no longer have 480's.

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Bottom image: AMD rig, Full Dragon Platform, except it now has 2 7770's in crossfire making use of that motherboard.

So now the PC hardware landscape is an ocean of blandness? Got it...

@AMD655:

stood out compared to?

When a single GPU dominated for so long, even until around 2011 it could still play all latest games that used DX9/DX10 render paths, just an old dog now, but back then it was pure rocking horse bat shit fast :P

3:36 no way you should be allowed to move the turret that fast...

Anyway the setups are indeed godly but if I were investing a ton of money into a PC setup I'd hold off for a curved 4K screen. The "prison" view would get to me eventually, I don't even like a hair on the screen of my phone.

The 8800GTX was a $600 card in 2006 and early 2007. By late 2007 the 8800GT came out for $250ish and provided 90% of the same performance. The only reason why the 8800's blew all previous gpu's out of the water is because of the new standard that was introduced to gpus. The unified shader architecture, since then that standard has not changed a whole lot. Also games in general didnt push these cards because of the console base limitations and developers wanting to target as many users as they could with weaker and older hardware. It wouldnt be until direct x 11 games that started the kick start back into the gpu market. I ran 8800GT from 2007 bought another in 2008 for $100 in SLI until 2011.

@AMD655:

and it still do in 2013, what is your point? I iam sure the gpu's like the HD7970 from 2012 can do the same in 2019.

Yeah, 8800 GTX was an awesome card.

My friend got one in 2007, the performance was impressive. It lasted him until 2011, I think, when the fan died. Still, all that time, he could manage to play a lot of modern games at high settings on a 1680x1050 monitor, only thing it couldn't handle properly were the shadows, they'd always have to be turned down.

Me too and a Voodoo 3, ATI Rage Pro etc.

Yeah I can't stand that either, I'd be trying to show this setup off but all my friends would be saying "yeah but the black bars between the screens ruin it, be awesome if not for that". HAHA.

8800gt > All

No card has yet to match the price/performance of this card.

8800gtx was a $600 card at release aka over priced.

8800GTX is a beast, you could have got one in 2006 & be set this whole gen, it plays every game up until a few DX11 only titles this year

Shouldn't this be in the PC forum?

I can't believe how old school that video feels when it's only from 2007.

AMD released R290 ( the non x model ) . For $400 you get Titan like performance. What more you want ? Also 8800gtx was over $500 when launched and while a great product the one card wih a price/performance ratio that is yet to be beaten was the 8800gt

9700pro was a much bigger milestone than 8800GTX ever had, before 9700pro, Geforce 3Ti500 hold the banner -Geforce 4Ti was only a refresh in the same generation- move further back there was Geforce 2 Ultra or something lol.

but talking about milestone, 9700pro was at the top 3 if not at the absolute top.

no i will somewhat agree with TC. 8xxx series had more impact since the days when the first gpu's launched. Moving from seperate pixel/vertex shaders to unified architecture allowed for a massive jump in both performance and performance per watt in just one generation of gpu's while at the same time an 8800gt a sub $300 gpu would offer you near to top performance

9700pro was the 1st fully programmable card then, basically the foundation long before 8800, so how is it not the bigger milestone?

9700pro did considerably bigger damage to Nvidia than 8800 did to ATI back then, when 9700pro came Nvidia was the top dog, while ATI was the troubled underdog, 9700pro launched ATI to what it is today.

while 8800 was big, ATI and Nvidia were at neck to neck in that time, 8800 bumped Nvidia back slightly to the top and sat ATI back slightly below, so you see 9700pro had a much bigger impact to the whole industry.

now with that in the mind... 9700pro is basically what AMD Athlon 64 was, one product that managed their company to overtake their bigger competition and changed the whole face of industry.

8800 on the other hand is more like what Core 2 Duo was, the one that made the big dog came back to it's throne.

8800 GTX started the +185 watts flagship PC GPU with 480 mm^2 die surface area.

Radeon 9700 Pro has 218 mm^2

Current flagship PC GPUs such as AMD Radeon HD R9-290X (438mm^2) and NVIDIA GeForce Titan/780 Ti (551mm^2) roughly follows the chip size and TDP profile from NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX.

8800 GTX started the practical GpGPU with NVIDIA's CUDA.

i agree 9700 was a big milestone partly thanks to be the fisrt fully dx9 card but i still think the 8xxx series had a bigger impact. You can argue which was the biggest milestone in technology but 8800gtx also offered much more performance compared to the performance of the previous top Gpu compared to the performance increase of 9700 to the previous top end gpu

you guys need to see my updated post, 9700pro changed the face of the industry pretty much like what Athlon 64 did, while 8800GTX only comparable to Core 2 Duo series, 'restoring' the old 'order' of things in the industry.

using that fact alone it's hard to argue that 8800GTX had a bigger impact.

Back when PC really stood out?... I don't know about anyone else but but my PC already playing games on higher settings than next generation consoles on my ultrawide monitor and it being almost silent stands out to me.

i would feel really nerdy to play on something like that and also dumb on wasting so much money on something so ugly. No way i wanna play with black screen bars all over my image lol

Meh. The only time PC hardware really stood out was with the Voodoo 2 SLI when the technology was still new... not that I cared about hardware standing out.

says trolls